![]() The original Pac-Man had been a culture-shaking success in 1981 – an arcade game so popular that it's still the highest-grossing video game of all-time, entirely due to the sheer avalanche of quarters shoved into its coin slots over 30 years ago. The video game industry's first leading lady was created out of impatience. ![]() The moment must be emotionally impactful somehow: did it amuse, surprise, scare, sadden, anger, or excite us?.Can be a moment from a level, but not an entire level start to finish.A single scene, sequence of scenes, obstacle, or turning point that can be clearly identified and defined.Has the moment become definitive of the game or gaming as a whole in some way?įor the purposes of this list, we defined a moment as:.Is the moment iconic, or does it hold some historical significance in games?.How much did the moment impact us? Did it make us genuinely feel something? (This was most important.). ![]() We judged each moment on the following criteria: No matter the genre or platform, there are an endless number of memories to be made in the world of games.īut which video game moments are the most unforgettable to us? Iconic? Impactful? IGN decided to find out. Games have surprised us, scared us, challenged us, and rewarded us. They’ve taken us to grand new worlds, introduced us to unforgettable characters, and let us carve out a role for ourselves in each extraordinary adventure. We did some of the initial digging and research work for you, so that you can now focus on creating a killer game for users of all ages.Video games have captured our imaginations since the medium’s earliest years. Understanding the needs and desires of your target audience, as well as their current mindset, makes it ten times easier to deliver a product that will sell. Good basic game play mechanics – Some users cited that they did not in fact mind repetition, so long as there were “good basic game play mechanics.” These mechanics were typically described as features that were really able to connect players to the challenges they are presented with, and the ability to solve them. They also go a bit easier on the gamer by not demanding constant concentration at every given moment.ĥ. The structure of such games allows for varied levels of intensity with the occasional break from time to time. But games that could be “broken down into reasonably sized chunks” were great for sinking into. Bite sized segments–many players explained that complicated games with drawn out learningĬurves were hard to sink into. Integrated features that contribute to the feeling include the ability to explore new areas, achieve new things, and most importantly, that “it is their own skills that contributed to the sense of progression.”Ĥ. Progression – players stressed the importance of feeling like they are progressing in a game and that the gaming experience isn’t a static one. Examples of customizable features users mentioned include: changing story bits, unique content, a changing flow and room for player creativity.ģ. Replayability– this term was often used by gamers to describe games that “with a few minor tweaks (to the game) it’s a completely different experience.” Meaning, the game didn’t become boring, even when replayed over and over again, due to the gamer’s ability to personalize or change a variety of in-game features. Regardless of whether the gamer’s preference was for a short-term or long-term incentive, the element of positive reinforcement repeatedly arose as an integral part of what makes for a good gaming experience with increased user-sink time.Ģ. Others preferred working toward the “rewarding feeling” they cited receiving when achieving a long term goal. Some preferred frequent short-term rewards, constantly reinforcing a sense of accomplishment and moving the game along. ![]() Rewards – most gamers mentioned the aspect of rewards. When questioned about the feelings that arose from their favorite ‘sink’ games, gamers across the board agreed they like to sink into “fun core games,” “a game that is worth my time,” “more of what I already like,”and in instances of games with in-app purchases, games that provide “a good return on my money”.īut what are the elements that contribute to those feelings leading up to the sink?ġ. Much has been said on this topic by game researchers, but we decided to seek out answers from the gamers themselves The ultimate goal of just about all game developers is to create a game with maximum “user- sink time”, which means gamers will pick up their devices, begin playing, and not bother coming up for air again until a few weeks later.
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![]() Harry Black and the Tiger (1958) as Christian Tanner.The Young Lions (1958) as Margaret Freemantle.No Down Payment (1957) as Betty Kreitzer.Oh Men! Oh Women! (1957) as Myra Hagerman.Flight to Hong Kong (1956) as Pamela Vincent.World in My Corner (1956) as Dorothy Mallinson.Captain Lightfoot (1955) as Aga Doherty.The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) as Meg.Magnificent Obsession (1954) as Joyce Phillips.It Came from Outer Space (1953) as Ellen Fields.Prince of Pirates (1953) as Countess Nita Orde.When Worlds Collide (1951) as Joyce Hendron.The First Legion (1951) as Terry Gilmartin.In the 1975 film Shampoo, the hairdresser portrayed by Warren Beatty, when seeking a bank loan and asked if he has any references, replies “I do Barbara Rush”. She is the aunt of actress Carolyn Hennesy.Īs of May 1997, Rush lived in the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California. The latter is a journalist with Fox News. Rush has two children, Christopher Hunter (with Hunter) and Claudia Cowan (with Cowan). Rush married sculptor Jim Gruzalski in 1970 after they met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert. She married publicist Warren Cowan in 1959, but they divorced in 1969. Rush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950 they divorced in 1955. In 2007, she played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden on the series 7th Heaven. She has continued to make guest appearances on television. ![]() In 1989, Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M'Lynn. In 1998, she was featured in an episode titled "Balance of Nature" on the television series The Outer Limits. She was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. In 1976, Rush played the role of Ann Sommers/Chris Stewart, the mother of female sci-fi action character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman.Īfter appearing in the 1980 disco-themed Can't Stop the Music, Rush returned to television work. She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman. In the 1967 Western drama Hombre, she played a rich, younger, condescending wife of a thief - and ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake. Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack's gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne. 1967, she guest-starred on the series Custer. In 1965, she appeared in a two-part episode of The Fugitive titled "Landscape with Running Figures" as Marie Gérard, wife of police detective Lt. In 1962–1963, she appeared three times as Lizzie Hogan on Saints and Sinners. In 1962, she guest-starred as Linda Kinkcaid in the episode "Make Me a Place" on The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. She later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children. She began working on television in the 1950s. In 1970, she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats and brought her one-woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984. Rush began her career on stage, and it has always been a part of her professional life. She was the love interest of reluctant soldier Dean Martin in the war story The Young Lions and of ambitious lawyer Paul Newman in The Young Philadelphians. Rush starred as the wife of James Mason in the acclaimed 1956 drama Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher's use of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family. In 1954, she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space. In 1952, she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In 1951, she co-starred in the classic George Pal sci-fi film When Worlds Collide. She made her screen debut in 1950's The Goldbergs. Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She started her careers at the university's theatre program there. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948. She grew up in Santa Barbara, California. Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company. QuickTime Player is also a universal binary, it will run on Intel (i386) or 64bit Intel (x86_64). Firefox is a universal binary, so it would run on 10.5 on a G5 (ppc) or Intel (i386). The actual 10.6.3 QuickTime Player is 34mb, of which roughly 9mb goes to 18 localizations, 2.4mb to Help content, 19mb for the actual “application”, and I think the rest is basically the user interface (buttons/icons/widgets…).įor comparison, Firefox 3.6.0 is 35mb with only one localization (US English). One thing to keep in mind, Apple uses universal binaries: However, software updaters will generally only download what’s necessary which will be smaller than the maximum size if you’re using a more current version of the system. Service packs are cumulative, in that they generally let you update from any previous base version. And since I happen to know that a bunch of the printer drivers cause crashes in certain apps, I’d love for people to be given updated drivers that don’t crash….Īctually MS service packs can easily be >100mb. ![]() I think my OS X 10.6.3 has >1.5gb of printer drivers, and given that one of the things listed as updated was printer drivers, it could easily be the case that a large portion of the download is replacements for those. Also keep in mind that while it happens to fix a certain number of vulnerabilities, that isn’t *all* it does: īecause of the way Apple works, it can make a core change to a private API which results in changes to all of its system apps which use that private API, which can easily result in fairly large updates (I’m not sure how often this happens or if it actually did happen here).Ī large portion of any OS these days is printer drivers. 10.4.11 and 10.5.9 whereas Microsoft rarely passes SP6. The release was 10.6.3, and yes, roughly, the y in 10.x.y is similar to Windows x SP y, except that Apple ends up having e.g. ![]() But, isn’t this the type of bloat that other vendors get slammed for? Or does Apple get a pass? Again, I’m asking serious questions! May be none of it is an issue and I’m just a thunderhead. Not to mention taking up hard drive space, which isn’t really an issue these days with the size of hard drives. ![]() Getting back to the size of the updates, I said yuck because due to their size, it takes longer to download them and I’m assuming longer to install. Is that only an issue when they’re installed on Windows systems and not for Mac OS? May be I’m making a bad assumption based on limited knowledge. Not to mention the security issues either one brings to the table. QuickTime alone is bloat, so is Java (Both are included in Mac OS X). I don’t want all that junk installed on my base OS. Why are the “Update packages” so large? Are they like service packs versus other vendors typical smaller monthly updates? If they are like service packs, why are they so large in comparision to other software vendors service packs? Is it because they contain updates for so many apps? If so, I don’t like that because it’s bloat. The energy industry boasts that fracking is a “bridge” to renewable energies, but a 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found that shale gas development could end up crowding out alternative energies. to date) or in the millions of miles of pipelines that crisscross this country. Moreover, no technology can guarantee long-term safety decades into the future when it comes to well casings (there are hundreds of thousands of frack wells in the U.S. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found leakage rates of 2.3% to 17% of annual production at gas and oil fields in California, Colorado, and Utah. (A Cornell University study that established this in 2011 has been reconfirmed since.) Methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2) and an ecological nightmare due to its potential for dangerous leaks.Īs fracking spreads, it drives natural gas prices down, spurring greater consumer use, and so more fracking.Īccording to former Mobil Oil executive Lou Allstadt, the greatest danger of fracking is the methane it adds to the atmosphere through leaks from wells, pipelines, and other associated infrastructure. The industry’s global-warming footprint is actually greater than that of coal. It also helps to fuel the floods, hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, and ever-hotter summers that are engulfing the planet. Though we may not know it, fracked gas increasingly fuels our stoves and furnaces. Gas fracked from shale formations goes by several names (“unconventional gas,” “natural gas,” “shale gas”), but whatever it’s called, it’s mainly methane. ![]() Suddenly, I’m in the crosshairs of the fracking industry, too. The expanded Algonquin would carry unconventional gas-gas extracted from deep rock formations like shale-into Massachusetts from the great Marcellus formation that sprawls along the Appalachian basin from West Virginia to New York. ![]() Under Massachusetts, where I live, lie no methane- or oil-rich shale deposits, so there’s no drilling.īut this past September, I learned that Spectra Energy, one of the largest natural gas infrastructure companies in North America, had proposed changes in a pipeline it owns, the Algonquin, which runs from Texas into my hometown, Boston. But until recently I’d always felt at a remove from the dangers they face: contaminated water wells, poisoned air, sick and dying animals, industry-related illnesses. Some of the people I’ve met have become friends. My interviewees live in Pennsylvania’s shale-gas fields among Wisconsin’s hills, where corporations have been mining silica, an essential fracking ingredient and in New York, where one of the most powerful grassroots movements in the state’s long history of dissent has become ground zero for anti-fracking activism across the country. “Fracking”-high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which extracts oil and methane from deep shale-has become my beat. Utah State Parks authorities are conducting a criminal investigation, and the Emery County Attorney's Office also is reviewing the incident to determine if charges should be filed.Or the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where people live. We look forward to doing everything we can to make it right and move on." "We've always supported the Boy Scouts and if that's what they feel is best, we support that decision," Hall said. Both men are from Highland, Utah, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. They had been troop leaders for a few years, Hall said, and hope to continue to be involved in organization in the future using what happened as a teaching point. ![]() Hall said they found out about losing their Boy Scouts positions Monday morning. They were leading a group of teenage Boy Scouts on a trip when it happened. They said the rock formation was loose and they feared it was dangerous. Taylor and his two companions can then be seen cheering, high-fiving and dancing. Hall and Taylor came under fire last week after posting a video on Facebook where Taylor can be seen wedging himself between a formation and a boulder to knock a large rock off the formation's top. ![]() The central Utah park is dotted with thousands of the eerie, mushroom-shaped sandstone formations. The rock formation they toppled over is about 170 million years old, Utah State Parks spokesman Eugene Swalberg said. 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![]() Recessed LEDs around three sides of the ceiling make it appear to float, independent of the walls. The ceiling is a stretched, translucent PVC fabric with LEDs above, so it creates an even glow across the entire room. ![]() For flooring, Jameson used a synthetic epoxy often found on ships because it is seamless and resists germs and organic compounds. On a third wall, a cross or plus sign composed of the same materials serves as a logo for Sherber + Rad and draws customers to a reception table. “I like the tension between the precision of the glass shelves and the irregularity of the bark,” says Jameson. Because bark is an inert material, it does not have to be treated or sealed.īronze-colored glass shelves with mirror-glass backs are attached to two walls in a crisp pattern of horizontal bands and vertical stripes. Some of the bark still has lichen attached or knots where branches had been. Variations in color, texture, and width show that nature is not uniform and enhance the visual appeal of the space. Jameson lined the walls here with the thick bark of 40 poplar trees, unrolled vertically to create the impression of a flattened forest. Noëlle Sherber, the dermatologist, or her husband, Dr. ![]() Most visitors enter through a storefront retail space where they can buy skin-care products and speak with employees who can explain the items or set up appointments with either Dr. “The project is about layering-both spatially and in terms of textures and materials,” says Jameson. ![]() The back of the property may very well be at the end of another street separated by a wall. In our area properties often run perpendicular to the street, so a house with the address of 125 Main St very often is behind the house facing the street with the address of 123, or a row of townhouses beginning with 117 and ending in the back of the property with 125. The app has a GPS attached which automatically inserts your location as the pick up address. I intend to look for another company for my future trips, or rely on one of the ride-share companies. One bad driver can really hurt the reputation of a good company. I can understand how challenging it can be to find reliable help for that hour of the morning. Both reservations that week were for 4am pickup. A few days later, I received a call and email after I went to bed to tell me they had to cancel my reservation for the next morning - I saw the messages when I awoke the next morning, making it challenging to find an alternative on short notice. The dispatcher tried for about half an hour trying to get me a driver before I resorted to a ride-share for my ride to the San Diego airport. My app showed a map but not the location of my driver. Despite text and email confirmations within two hours of my paid pickup time, I received a call from the dispatcher one minute before pickup asking if I heard from the driver. I booked two more times in Sep 2019, both online (not this app), and no driver showed. I chose this company because Super Shuttle (my standard option for years) did not have an economical rides available. I booked online the first time and had a great driver and a great ride. I’ll be very hesitant to use Prime Time again. There needs to be an alternative to Uber and Lyft. The cost was very competitive-especially since UBER/LYFT are gouging the rider and shorting the driver. It’s a shame- the drivers who work for Prime Time that we spoke with who were waiting to pick up other riders were very nice and helpful. And considering how poorly designed LAX’s pick up system is, there is no surprise that there are issues in the airport - save for taxi cabs. They did cancel our reservation very quickly and refunded us. After multiple requests to just wait we found another ride home. ![]() The apps chat function customer service could not tell us more than to wait- no follow up. The driver for our return trip from airport, cancel without contacting us, 10 minutes before arrival. The reliability of car pick up and customer support are horrible.ĭriver for ride to airport was 25 minutes early, called to find out where we were, if we were ready, and why we weren’t ready. ![]() London makes a great starting point for your European itinerary. We’re going to start your European adventure with 3 days in London. If you’d prefer to focus on one country, take a look at our two week UK itinerary, and our 10 day Italy itinerary for some inspiration. The destinations on this itinerary are all cities, so this trip is aimed more towards those of you looking to explore the cities, which are all full of cultural highlights, fantastic restaurants, and plenty of photo-worthy sights!īut if have your eye more on smaller towns, secondary cities, and rural locations, this might not be the best itinerary for you. We think these cover some of the top highlights of Europe. This two week itinerary has you visiting four European countries and five cities. Further Reading for your Trip to Europe.Book accommodation and transportation in advance.Practical Advice for Travelling in Europe.Hopefully this guide will give you everything you need to know to plan your own perfect European adventure, and of course, we’re always happy to answer your questions in the comments. ![]() Tips about currency, what to pack, where to stay, how to get around and other considerations. For example, with 10 days in Europe, you could clip off a day or two in some of the cities, and maybe even skip one of the cities to make it a more comfortable experience.Īs well as the itinerary, we’re also going to share everything you need to know to help you plan the perfect European trip. The trip as outlined is for 14 days in Europe, but you could make it longer or shorter depending on how much time you have. It’s not overly rushed as we think you will get more from your experience if you focus on a few major locations rather than trying to see everything in one go. This itinerary is aimed at those of you visiting Europe for the first time, or those of you looking for an easy itinerary to follow that covers some of the major highlights of Western Europe. These include many of our favourite destinations that we’ve visited multiple times over. This Europe itinerary will take you to many of the highlights that we think first time visitors to Europe will want to see and explore for themselves. Are you visiting Europe and looking for the perfect itinerary? Well, you’re in the right place! We’ve travelled extensively in Europe, and based on our experiences, we’ve put together a detailed 2 week Europe itinerary to help you plan. 83-84 Windows Mail, 357 universality of, 199 Windows Media Center. Also, by checking the capabilities of the Windows Media Center session (for example, if the Capabilities.IsConsole property is false and the Capabilities.IsVideoAllowed property is true), you can determine whether the user is running in a Windows Media Center Extender session and, if so, instruct the user to return to the computer to complete the task. 573 saving desktop configuration as theme, 139 DirectX Diagnostic Tool output as. The popup gives you a click option for alternatives to the EPG, but the link it takes you to is a nothing link for generic guide troubleshooting (I got the same. On the Windows Media Center PC, the dialog box provides a third button, Open Website in Browser.īased on the return value, your application should provide the user with appropriate instructions on how to proceed with the operation. Ive recently received a popup on my Windows Media Center home screen stating that the Electronic Program Guide will not be available after January 2020. On the Extender, the dialog box contains the Cancel and Save Link To Desktop buttons. The dialog box contains either two or three buttons, depending on whether the user is using a Windows Media Center Extender. This method allows your application to guide the user to a traditional "two-foot" web browser to perform an operation such as downloading and installing an executable or ActiveX component or filling out forms that require a lot of typing. The user clicked the Save Link To Desktop button. The user clicked the Open Website in Browser button. It can be any of the following values: Value Syntax MediaCenter.CreateDesktopShortcut(Ī String that contains the title of the shortcut to add to the Windows Media Center desktop.Ī String that contains the URL used to invoke the operation from the user's default web browser.Ī Number ( long) that indicates the user's response to the dialog box. Depending on the user's response, the method can begin the operation immediately by switching control to the user's default web browser, or it can create a shortcut in the Windows Media Center Links folder on the desktop of the Windows Media Center PC, allowing the user to perform the operation at a later time. Displays a dialog box explaining that the user has invoked an operation that must be performed from the web browser on the Windows Media Center PC, and not from within the Windows Media Center shell. ![]() Therefore, it can be administered by either consuming these natural products or intaking nutraceutical pills. It can be found in some plants, fruits, and derivatives, such as red wine. Plants containing resveratrol have been used effectively in traditional medicine for over 2000 years. Properties of Resveratrol: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies about Metabolism, Bioavailability, and Biological Effects in Animal Models and Humans The findings indicated that establishing the correlation between the dielectric properties and biological activities of human hepatic tissue is of great significance for promoting the role of dielectric properties in biological science, particularly in human biology. Highly significant correlations were found between conductivity, resistivity and the ex vivo time (p < 0.05) as well as conductivity and the cell morphology (p < 0.05). The dielectric properties measured at low frequencies (i.e. <1 MHz) were more sensitive than those measured at high frequencies in reflecting the biological activity of ex vivo tissue. Relative permittivity and ex vivo time were not closely correlated (p > 0.05). Conductivity, complex resistivity, and NA exhibited opposing changes 1 h after isolation. ![]() Cell morphologies, including nucleus area (NA) and alteration rate of intercellular area (ICAR), were analyzed as indicators of biological activities. The dielectric properties of 26 cases of normal human hepatic tissue at 10 Hz to 100 MHz were measured from 15 min after isolation to 24 h at 37 Â☌ with 90% humidity. This study investigated the potential correlation between the dielectric properties and biological activities of human hepatic tissue with prolonged ex vivo time through correlation and regression analyses. Wang, Hang You, Fusheng Fu, Feng Dong, Xiuzhen Shi, Xuetao He, Yong Yang, Min Yan, Qingguoĭielectric properties are vital biophysical features of biological tissues, and biological activity is an index to ascertain the active state of tissues. International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Correlation between the dielectric properties and biological activities of human ex vivo hepatic tissue |
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