![]() They’ve been building playsets since 1993 and claim to be the first ready to assemble playset company. Gorilla’s mission is to make playsets that reflect quality, durability, simplicity, and affordability. If you want a say in the design of your playset with a vast amount of features, the Mountaineer is for you. However, we recommend organizing parts before getting started, as it may take a bit longer if not done. Similar to other standard-sized playsets, the average assembly time is 6-8 hours. Choose from five options that vary from canopies to treehouses. Add-ons may take up a bit of extra space as well.įor aesthetics, pick a roof that is most appealing to you. The Mountaineer sits at 20’W x 11’H x 14’6″D for those of us with a bit more yard real estate to spare. These add-ons add additional safety measures and hiding spots for the kids. If that’s not enough, there are a few add-ons available. But long gone are the days they argue over a turn at a slide because this playset comes with the Alpine Wave Slide™ as well.Īlongside the slides, this playset comes with a rock wall with climbing rope, a safe entry ladder, a deluxe rope ladder, two belt swings, a trapeze swing, a built-in picnic table, a sandbox, tic-tac-toe Panel, steering wheel, and a play telescope. Your kids and their friends will immediately run to the Extreme Tube Slide II™ when they see the Mountaineer. ![]() The Nantucket II is great for those who are looking for a treehouse/playground feel that will last for many years of play to come. A pro tip from one customer – separate and label the screws/bolts/hardware to make assembly easier. The Nantucket II is estimated to come together in 6-8 hours. Not to mention this cedar resists rot, decay, and insect damage. The wooden pieces are pre-cut, pre-sanded, pre-stained, and ready to assemble in your backyard. This premium cedar wood playset is as easy as it gets when it comes to prep. Other features include two swing belts with plastisol coated chains, a trapeze bar with rings, Alpine Wave Slide™, safe entry ladder with flat wooden steps, rock wall with climbing rope, sandbox, steering wheel, telescope, and a tic-tac-toe panel. The tongue & groove wood roof features sunbursts, dormers, and a chimney, while the play deck showcases windows with working palladian style shutters. The Nantucket II has all of the elements your kids want with a homey touch to it.
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![]() PRO TIP: Sign up to receive daily queries from reporters and writers all over the country through Help a Reporter Out (HARO) I’ve gotten a lot of coverage for myself and clients using this service! The media kit then can be tailored to publicizing the book, or our newsworthy and interesting topic or area of expertise. ![]() We’re actively looking for interviews, either with targeted pitches or responding to media queries. Most of the time, we make media kits when we have a specific offering we want to promote, like a new book. One less thing on your plate! Yessss! What goes into a media kit? And you can have a team member help set up interviews and get you some publicity. Plus, once you have a media kit, it’s easy to update as your expertise increases. Sometimes we have to do that in life-it’s unavoidable-but running a business is stressful enough without having to re-create the wheel every time someone wants to interview you. Having one sets you apart from other potential sources and guests who are winging it and making it up as they go. You’re actually more attractive as an interview guest because you’ve already done the work for the host you’ll see what I mean in a minute. But, having one shows that you’re thoughtful, experienced and prepared. You don’t *need* a media kit to get interviewed by the media or to be a guest on a podcast. A good media kit includes interview questions and answers that you’ve tailored to fit your subject and get your message across. Unlike a job interview designed to blindside you with questions (“Where do you see yourself in give years?”), you’re in the driver’s seat with the questions. In this case we’re talking about an interview with the press on TV, radio, magazines or newspapers, or non-traditional media like podcasts. It tells a little bit about you, your expertise and any media experience you have. ![]() What is a media kit?įor our purposes, we’re talking about a digital media kit-a pdf document that lives on your website and that can be easily emailed in a pitch to the media.Ī media kit is kind of like a resume. Towards the end of this article I’m going to give you a free resource with step-by-step instructions to make your media kit. Sound good? Let’s get going and get you a media kit! You more than likely have 70 percent of what you’ll need for your media kit, it’s just a matter of setting aside a few hours (if that) to put it all together. Land more interviews with traditional press and online media Īll of which can translate into more visits to your website, more potential clients and more opportunities for you to do what you do best.Most business owners, authors, speakers and entrepreneurs need a media kit, and most don’t have one because they don’t know how to make a media kit. In Sumerian mythology, An is the god of the sky/firmament, whereas Enlil (literally, “Lord of Wind” ) is the god of what happens between the ground (controlled by En.Ki, “Lord of the Earth”) and the firmament. This belief in a solid firmament was standard among the people of the ANE, who distinguished between the “atmosphere” in which we live and the solid sky above. ![]() Ĭultural legends describing the dome are abundant enough to include arrows being shot into the firmament and lodging there (Japan, Native America, Chuckchee), adventurers climbing up to the sky (India), people climbing up through a hole in the firmament (Navaho) or tumbling down through one (Seneca), and heroes sailing a ship to the place where the sky meets the earth (Buriat), and where the firmament is so low that ship masts can end up scraping it. This understanding is so ubiquitous that some anthropologists consider it a “general human belief.” As Paul Seely, a Bible scholar who works on the intersection of ANE literature and science, writes: Apart from a scientific education, it is just too natural for people to think of the sky as something solid. ![]() This barrier is dome shaped, since we see the heavens above curving into the horizon and meeting the flat earth. Water doesn’t fall on us because something is holding it up, and that something is transparent, since we can see the blue hue of the liquid behind it. The sky is blue because it is full of water, like the sea. It is best understood as a product of the pre-scientific mind, attempting to make sense of what it sees and offering an intuitive, though factually incorrect, account. The idea of the sky above us as a solid structure is shared by almost all pre-modern human cultures. ![]() The idea of a firmament is entirely contradictory to modern planetary science yet there God is, in our Torah, spending all of creation day number two fashioning it. Gen 1:6 God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, that it may separate water from water." 1:7 God made the firmament, and it separated the water which was below the firmament from the water which was above the firmament. If you can entertain this notion, and feel yourself underneath this massive curved wall of heaven, straining under the weight of the rainwater it holds back, then you are living on the earth our sages knew, for this is the world, the universe, of which the Bible conceived: בראשית א:ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם. This is what the Bible is describing when it refers to הָרָקִיעַ, traditionally rendered in English Bibles as “the firmament” (from the Latin firmamentum meaning “support”). ![]() Only try and picture it as a connecting point between two solids: a flat plate like earth, and a rigid dome like an upside down bowl that vaults it, blue as ocean, from the vast stores of water it contains. If you are unfamiliar with the firmament, then imagine for a moment the horizon, where the earth appears to meet with the sky. Of all the vexing problems modern cosmology poses for the first chapter of Genesis, such as the insufficient biblical timeline of 6 days (as opposed to billions of years) until the appearance of humans, or vegetative bloom before the sun and photosynthesis, the most acute for me is God’s creation of the firmament (רקיע rakia) on the second day. ![]() They were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. ![]() The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). These were composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. The Four Seasons ( Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. ![]() La disposition des rimes dans les tarcets est generalement: ccd/eed (ou ede). la disposition des rimes dans les quatrains suit presque toujours le schema: abba/abba. Poeme compose de 14 vers, divisees en deux quatrains (stropes de 4 vers) et deux tarcets (strophes de 3 vers). Le dernier vers de la premiere strophe revient comme un refrain a la fin des trois strophes suivantesįorme fixe. Le poeme se termine par une demi strophe ou envoi, en forme de dedicace adressee a un "Prince". Poeme de quatre strophes construit sur trois ou quatre rimes.Les trois premiers strophes ont le meme nombre de vers, le meme metre et les memes rimes. Le premier vers est repris deux fois en refrainįorme fixe. Poeme bref (9 -15 vers) compose de trois strophes et construit sur deux rimes. Not following the traditional rules regarding length of lines and arrangement of rhymes but retaining the syllabic bases of meter (example: La fontaine)įorme fixe. When it ends with a final accented vowel or consonne (felicite - clarte) Finally, the Chorus stood still to chant the epode, the final section of the ode, which used a new metrical. The Chorus’s movement back to its original side was accompanied by the antistrophe. When it ends with an e muet (trone - jaune) In Greek drama, the strophe (turning) signified the first section of a choral ode, and was recited by the Chorus as it moved across the stage. When lines have the same final vowel and two or more elements, one of which must be the consonne d'appui which precedes the vowel (recente - puissante) When lines have the same final vowel and one other element, before or after (longs - violons) When lines only have in common the same final vowel (bon - ton) Nowadays it is also often used casually to mean a stanza. When lines end with the same accented vowel (example : ame - sable) Originally, a 'verse' meant a single line of poetry, like the French 'vers'. When the idea is continued in a second run-on line When two vowels are pronounced and counted (example: tu es) Le cesure divdes the alexandrin into two hemistiches Pause after 6th syllable in an alexandrin. ![]() But be that as it may, the installation process itself was straightforward, although my 500 MHz TiBook with OS X 10.3 (an oldie but a goodie) required a few hard slaps on the case above the CD-ROM drive before the disk would mount. Frankly, this is absurd, and I wish the company’s lawyers would get a life. And apparently my wife isn’t allowed to use the software on the TiBook, according to the above. Shortly before submitting this review, I had Photoshop CS2 running on both of my computers and nothing blew up, nor did anyone unpleasant bust down my door. Allowing others to use a second copy of the software violates the product license agreement.Ĭall me dense, but I have no idea what they mean by not using both copies simultaneously. While the activation process supports installing and activating Adobe software on two machines, the usage of the product on the second computer is restricted to the user who licensed the software. The Adobe product license agreement allows the primary user to install the product on a primary computer and also on a home or laptop computer for his or her use, provided that the two copies are not used simultaneously. The activation process supports installation on two machines. According to Adobe’s activation FAQ page (my emphasis): Frankly, the details of the activation process left me confused. In the past, you could buy the app and install it on all your computers (or any machine for that matter), but the new version only works on the user’s primary and secondary computers. Color me stupendously grateful regardless, of course, but I won’t be addressing the integration features in this review.)Īt $599 for the standalone version, piracy has always been a problem for Adobe, but the company has gone out of its way to save you from yourself by requiring activation - not the same thing as registration - within 30 days of installation. ( This reviewer was slated to receive the full suite, but “only†the Photoshop component showed up. Photoshop CS2 is available alone or as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Version Cue CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional in the Premium Edition. It may take a while to get rolling, but once you do, you’ll kill for a chance to have your very own copy. That said, if you have any kind of visual project in mind and a modicum of talent, there’s hardly anything you can’t do. I ought to know: I’ve had access to the software for a long time and still don’t know what all the tools are for – the latest version, Adobe Photoshop CS2, has even more. For most of us though, running a full-bore image-editing app is like driving a Ferrari in the back yard. But Photoshop does way more than that, so much so that without it, most designers would curl up and die. I normally use Photoshop for creating Web graphics or sexing up photos – no shifting required, in other words. In fact, if Photoshop were a car, I’d be the one driving it cross-country in first gear. ![]() The reason this is called an “everyman’s†review is that I’m less than an expert. Audio and MIDI tracks run horizontally along the top part, while the lower portion is given over to a pane in which different tabs can be selected to inspect various details of the work in progress. Conceptually, it's a close cousin to programs like Apple's GarageBand and Sony's Acid, and it employs a similar multi‑pane, single‑window user interface. Briefly, it provides multitrack audio and MIDI recording and sequencing, with integrated tools for working easily with sampled audio loops in different keys and at different tempos. The current version of Mixcraft, unsurprisingly, retains all the features that characterised the previous versions. ![]() Support for Windows 98, ME, NT and 2000 has, quite understandably, been dropped. At present, a 1GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM are the least you'll need, in a machine running Windows XP, Vista or 7. As is the way of these things, the minimum system requirements have crept steadily upwards with each new release. Mixcraft is available for PCs running Windows only. (I'd personally recommend the download version, as the pace of development is such that it's likely the first thing you'll be prompted to do after installing from disc is connect to the Internet and download the latest update.) Boxed versions are also available, for slightly more. This may be thanks in part to the vagaries of the exchange rate, but even so, it represents a pretty good deal. Registration costs $74.95, which at the time of writing is just slightly under £50 - approximately the same as version 4.1 would have cost a buyer in the UK on its initial release. So, as the program reaches version 5.0, does Mixcraft still live up to Acoustica's motto that "Software should be easy to use”? Previously In SOSĪs with previous versions, Mixcraft is available to download from and runs as a feature‑limited demo unless a registration code is purchased. New features are, generally speaking, to be welcomed - but for an application whose greatest strengths are, arguably, ease of use and affordability, there's a danger that a lengthening feature list might alienate the very audience it hopes to attract, especially if it's accompanied by a swelling price tag. The developer's change log contains an extensive list of bug‑fixes (some large, most small) since version 4.1, the last to be reviewed in SOS, and records the introduction of some significant new features, too. It's a couple of years since Acoustica's Mixcraft last made an appearance in these pages, and development has continued steadily during that period. ![]() But has it retained its trademark ease of use? Acoustica's affordable DAW has acquired some significant new features, including video support, score editing and a fully fledged mixer. ![]() The Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Prof. Lack of data protection: Federal government should close Facebook fan page In the Sir Apfelot newsreel for calendar week 8 of 2023 you will find the following reports, among others: Federal government should delete Facebook fan page, Post wants to adjust delivery speed, verification hooks are now also subject to a fee on Facebook and Instagram, beta versions of iOS only for members of the developer Programs, more RAM in iPhone 15 Pro, and more. Among other things, the following reports are included: the federal government is to delete the Facebook page, Swiss Post is considering new shipping models, fee-based verification hooks are now also available on Facebook and Instagram, iOS betas only for members of the developer program, rumors about the iPhone 15 Pro and more. Of course, today's Friday includes a new Sir Apfelot newsreel! This time I'll show you which Apple and tech news I particularly noticed in calendar week 8 of 2023. But until then you will get a lot of posts presented here in the blog. " With Luminar Flex, photographers can continue to use the master software of their choice and at the same time use the unique editing functions of Luminar such as Accent AI-Filter or the AI Sky Enhancer." ![]() For this reason, Luminar is now available in two different versions“Said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum. " Luminar 3 is leading the way as an all-in-one management and image editing solution for photographers - that's why we want it to be accessible to everyone. If you want to get into this world of post-processing photos, you no longer have to familiarize yourself with completely new software. The software includes powerful filters and photo editing options that many photographers use on a daily basis as part of their post-processing workflow. The Luminar app from Skylum has won the “Best Imaging Software” award from the TIPA Awards and the “Best Software Plugin” award from the Lucie Technical Awards. Sir Apfelot recommendation: Clean up your Mac hard drive with CleanMyMac Luminar Flex - Alex Tsepko on the new Skylum offer ![]() However, for maximum gaming enjoyment, we strongly recommend using a USB joystick that you simply plug into the USB port of your computer. You can control this game easily by using the keyboard of your PC (see the table next to the game). To date, the game library for this console contains nearly 1,000 original games. At the time of its greatest fame, more than 30 million units of this console were sold for about $ 200 a piece. It was the first console that used removable memory modules with games. This version of Donkey Kong was designed for Atari 2600, which was commercially very successful video game console of second generation produced by Atari from 1977 to 1992. įind digital download of this game on GOG or Steam. īuy original game or Atari 2600 console on or. More details about this game can be found on .įind this game on video server or. The player typically receives three lives with a bonus awarded for the first 7,000 points, although this can be modified via the game's built in DIP switches. Points are awarded for finishing screens leaping over obstacles destroying objects with a hammer power-up collecting items such as hats, parasols, and purses (apparently belonging to the Lady/Pauline) and completing other tasks. In addition to presenting the goal of saving the Lady, the game also gives the player a score. Winning the game requires patience and the ability to accurately time Jumpman's ascent. Competitive video gamers and referees stress the game's high level of difficulty compared to other classic arcade games. In contrast to Space Panic, however, Donkey Kong was the first platform game to feature jumping, introducing the need to jump between gaps and over obstacles or approaching enemies, setting the template for the platform genre. Donkey Kong is one of the most important titles from the Golden Age of Video Arcade Games, and became one of the most popular arcade games of all time.ĭonkey Kong is one of the earliest examples of the platform game genre it is sometimes said to be the first platform game, although it was preceded by Space Panic. The hero and ape later became two of Nintendo's most popular and recognizable characters. In the game, Jumpman (since renamed Mario) must rescue a damsel in distress, Lady (now named Pauline), from a giant ape named Donkey Kong (who would later become Cranky Kong). It is an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. This game can be played also in a versions for Atari 7800, NES and DOS.ĭonkey Kong is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. If you prefere to use Java applet emulator, please follow this link. Super Onion Boy is also a game like Mario, inspired by the earliest titles in the Mario franchise.This Atari game is emulated by JavaScript only. You can’t discount the fun of playing Mario games, which is why there are so many games inspired by Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom he so often frequents.įor an experience similar to the incredibly successful Super Mario 64, check out Kogama Super Mario N64. You can enjoy Super Mario Run for the classic Mario experience, or check out Unfair Mario if you want to play the game with a cruel twist.įor a more literal interpretation of Mario arcade games, check out Mario Invaders for a riveting combination of space invaders gameplay and Mario characters. Even now, the simplicity of a 2D platformer is as popular as ever. Mario is a man who’s been with us since the dawn of modern video gaming. The games in this section feature Mario in all kinds of crazy situations, from running and driving to fighting intense brawls in Super Smash Flash, a game featuring Luigi, Wario, and other legendary Nintendo characters. If you don’t have these consoles, you can play free Mario games on your PC or mobile device. If you have a Nintendo Switch or 3Ds, you can enjoy retro video games like Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros, and Mario Kart. These classic platform games paved the way for the platform genre and a range of modern titles. Since the initial release of Mario on Nintendo, Mario and his bro Luigi have attained legendary status in the gaming world. Often he's on a mission to rescue the damsel in distress, Princess Peach. Help the legendary Italian plumber and mushroom addict Mario on his adventure through a world full of pipes, gold coins, boxes, and naughty Goombas. rmd file, find this section: This is a YML config for RMarkdown. It is very easy to import those in RMarkdown. One of the packages that your example is using generates errors when using it in R Markdown to generate Word or HTML output but works fine when creating PDF. How to import LaTeX packages in RMarkdown If you have worked with LaTeX before, you probably used lots of packages, like amsmath or enumitem. Some LaTeX packages work in all the various output formats for R Markdown and some don't. Did it create the file with the table that you expected? On my system it did. Now click the dropdown next to KNIT at the top of the window and choose Knit to PDF. Strictly speaking the hyphens before the \usepackage lines are not necessary. Third, paste Yarnabrina's code in to your new R Markdown document. 6.1 Add LaTeX code to the preamble 6.2 Pandoc options for LaTeX output 6.3 Add logo to title page 6.4 Include additional LaTeX packages 6.5 Control the placement of figures 6.6 LaTeX sub-figures 6.7 Render documents containing Unicode characters 6.8 Generate a LaTeX fragment 6. TinyTeX is a lightweight, portable, cross-platform, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution. Under File, you chose New file, and then R Markdown document? Try that now to start a new file. The rmarkdown package helps you create dynamic analysis documents that combine code, rendered output (such as figures), and prose. The knitr package for R plays a vital role because it has the procedures that make this an R markdown document, rather than just a. A normal R code file is created with an R extension. Second, are you entering your code in an R Markdown document? An R Markdown document is created with an RMD extension. I was going to post this in the latex exchagne, but I can produce latex. I've tried searching the internet for omxenc.dfu and uenc.dfu files, but it turned up nothing. It is also a great place to get help, once you have created a reproducible example that illustrates your problem. Stack Overflow is a great source of answers to common rmarkdown questions. ![]() It seems to be a font encoding which is missing. The RStudio community is a friendly place to ask any questions about rmarkdown and the R Markdown family of packages. Member yihui commented on BTW, if you have the log file (e.g., test.log ), it might be helpful if I can take a look at it. both from CRAN), you may add a code chunk with options (tinytex.verbose TRUE), and see if it gives you more information about the error. When I try to produce a new rmarkdown document and output to pdf, it fails. If you install.packages (c ('rmarkdown', 'tinytex')) (i.e. In RStudio, go to your packages list, and check to make sure R Markdown is there. I have the latest Miktex, R, rmarkdown, rstudio. No offense meant by these questions:įirst, do you have the R Markdown package installed in your R environment? I assume since you are posting on the RStudio community forum, you do. ![]() I don't want to assume anything, but I like to verify some things that may be overlooked when troubleshooting. |
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