![]() There are also other courses such as speed building, number row, symbols, and the 10-key Number Pad. The touch typing course consists of 14 lessons. It is also accompanied by additional material such as speed building, symbols, etc. ![]() Within four hours, you will have mastered core skills. It enables you to type as fluently as you speak. You’ll not only learn to touch-type but double your typing speed. Typing Trainer is a 100% online and free web resource that helps you learn the touch-type method. – Create your profile and track your progress. – Free online typing speed test to track your typing speed. – Unlimited number of teachers and students can benefit. – They continually update the features and programs. – The teacher portal is a free platform where teachers can grade, track, and check students’ progress. ![]() – Suitable for students of all skill levels. – Gamified learning enhances the learning process. Check out our take on Best Entrepreneurship Courses. Classes are available in English or Spanish. It even gives you the freedom to create your own lessons for cross-curricular reinforcement. The lessons have been designed in the form of games, which keep the students engaged. Experts have created the curriculum for students of all skill levels. Build your skills in a fun and interactive way. The lessons are divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This is a free platform designed for students, teachers, and educators. – On completing levels, get badges and awards. – Interactive games, videos, and challenges make the process enjoyable. – The program is highly accessible to anyone with a browser and keyboard. – You can view your previous performances again. – They are a Google for Education Partner. – Learn correct hand posture on every key. They have more lesson plans such as typing for kids, animated story typing series, etc. Millions of students, thousands of school districts and teachers, have used this program and benefited from it. It is completely free ,and you do not even need to create an account, but a profile will help you save your progress. All you need to do is spend a few minutes every day. Keep practicing until you get five stars on each lesson. You can start learning anywhere and at any time while improving your skills. This is a one-stop program for learning touch typing in a fun and interactive way.
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![]() Earth, or "Stark" as it is known in the game, is a world of science existing in Balance with its "Twin World" of magic, Arcadia, split off and separated from it by the impassable Divide twelve millennia ago. In the mythology of the series, Earth is one of countless worlds in the multiverse, created from the primordial Storytime by the dreaming of a being known as Lux, the First Dreamer. The palette of Stark, a cyberpunk future Earth (above), sharply contrasts that of the fantasy-inspired Arcadia (below) An in-game journal, akin to April Ryan's diary in TLJ, keeps track of the recent plot developments. The game additionally displays a special "The balance has shifted" icon to warn players before plot-relevant choices, even when playing offline. These statistics are stored in a shared global database for all platforms. An optional, online-only " social" feature allows players to discover (either before, or after making the choice) which options other players (and their Facebook friends in particular ) picked in these situations. Īlthough the game features a linear plot with a set outcome, the players have to make many choices throughout the game that have far-reaching impact on the later story events (but not the ending). There is no combat or stealth gameplay in Dreamfall Chapters. The on-screen interface is hidden by default to improve the immersion. Dialogue with NPCs and dialogue puzzles comprise about half of the gameplay time. The gameplay focus is on the exploration of the environments and the story and on solving puzzles. While the game supports game controllers, it was optimized for the PC. ![]() Interactive characters and objects are highlighted on the screen, allowing the player to interact with them using the mouse and context menus. The player steers playable characters from an over-the-shoulder third-person view, using either the WASD keys and mouselook or a gamepad. An example of the choice-making mechanic: Kian considers using torture in an interrogation, while the player is informed how many other players made this choice The locations themselves change slightly as the story progresses to reflect the passage of time. While not a completely open world, the game contains several free-roaming exploration levels, such as Europolis and Marcuria, and rewards players for exploring the levels and finding secrets. It features large 3D environments, as opposed to 2D backgrounds in The Longest Journey and smaller 3D locations in Dreamfall. The publisher Deep Silver released the game on consoles in 2017 to mixed reviews.ĭreamfall Chapters was originally developed on the Unity 4 game engine, but was retroactively upgraded to Unity 5 before the release of Book Four. Its development was crowd-funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $1.5 million, with additional funding provided by the Norwegian Film Institute. Funcom, the owners of The Longest Journey IP, had licensed the rights to develop the next installment out to Tørnquist's studio. ![]() The writers described the narrative theme of the game as "chapters of life".ĭreamfall Chapters was developed by Red Thread Games, an independent studio founded by Ragnar Tørnquist, who wrote and directed the previous two games. Although Zoë managed to disrupt the conspirators' plans, she was betrayed and left in a coma at the end of Dreamfall, and has to find her purpose in life again in Chapters. Chapters takes place in 2220 CE and continues the story of Dreamfall, whose protagonist Zoë Castillo had uncovered a criminal conspiracy that aimed to enslave both Stark and Arcadia by stealing their residents' dreams. The Longest Journey series is set in two parallel universes: Stark, a cyberpunk future Earth, and Arcadia, its magical fantasy counterpart. The updated "Final Cut" version was released on physical media for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on, and the Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux versions on 21 July 2017. The game was released for PC in five episodes between 21 October 2014 and 17 June 2016. It is a sequel to the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic 3D adventure game with emphasis on character interaction, exploration of the game world, and puzzle solving. ![]() Chrome allows me to flawlessly sync my bookmarks across all my devices eg, iPad, iPhone, laptop the Chrome bookmarking feature is light years ahead of iOS Firefox // But all is not perfect in Chrome Land. But iOS Firefox is so hilariously flawed, I just had to switch to iOS Chrome (referred to simply as Chrome from here on out). Just wanting to post my two cents since everyone else is doing the same, lol □.
![]() And I'm always thinking about not myself in the way that I cook – I'm thinking about the person that is going to cook this food. And I mean, we've together we've written literally thousands, if not more, tens of thousands of recipes. Rick Martinez: I think that is an example of a very inconsiderate recipe writer, frankly.Ĭarla Lalli Music: Yeah, it's terrible advice. I think whoever wrote that recipe has never actually cooked minced garlic in high heat or their version of high heat is our version of medium low. ![]() So I just, I'm trying to figure out how do you cook garlic without it burning when it's in bigger slices, it doesn't do this, but when it's minced or finely chopped, it just always seems to burn. ![]() My question is recipes – or some recipes – ask to saute minced garlic at high heat in oil, and it always burns. Rick Martinez: Oh my god, this is making me so hungry and we haven't even gotten to our questions.Ĭaller 1: Hi, I love this. So then it was like, hello, like mocha gianduja in my face. And for the first time in my life, I like mixed the Nutella basically is what it is, into my cup of coffee with milk.Ĭarla Lalli Music: And then I was like, Why is this the first time I've done this?Ĭarla Lalli Music: I love Café Mocha and I love hazelnut, and I love gianduja ice cream. So I like open the cabinet up that gianduja, basically jumped out of the cabinet onto a spoon. I was making a coffee at home in the aero press and in the cupboard, I happened to have a jar of really good gianduja from Christmas that's been sitting there. So I'm smuggling in about 10 kilos next time I go to New York.Ĭarla Lalli Music: OK, I will clear space in the pantry.Ĭarla Lalli Music: So this week I had one of those like your chocolate's in my peanut butter, no your peanut butter is in my chocolate. And I I just remember thinking Carla would absolutely love these. And last night, I made some confit, spring onions, garlic and lemon yum and basically dumped those in with the beans. And so when you cook them, the flavor is incredible. And then later on, like, right now, they're dried, but they're like always less than a year old. So like in late summer, they're greenish yellow and they're fresh. And they're just grown all over this area. There's a bean called mayacoba, which is a really beautiful, yellow kind of meaty bean. Rick Martinez: What I found in traveling through Mexico is that every town, every region has its own like, special bean. Rick Martinez: OK, so I thought about you this week because I made beans. But before we get into all of that, Rick, tell me, what's good? Rick Martinez: OK, it's not that deep and it's not that dark, but it is a kitchen nightmare story.Ĭarla Lalli Music: Like I said, one of Rick's deepest, darkest secrets. Rick Martinez: And now we're doing it here on Borderline Salty, the show where we take your calls, boost your confidence and make you a better, smarter, happier cook just like us.Ĭarla Lalli Music: Today will weigh in on cooking from memory, chicken livers and hear one of Rick's deepest, darkest secrets. Rick and I have been solving and laughing our way through food problems together for more than a decade in test kitchens, in videos and at magazines. I'm also a cookbook author, professional cook. Rick Martinez: Hi, I'm Rick Martinez, I am a cookbook author and salsa dancing queen, and I'm currently eating my way around Mexico.Ĭarla Lalli Music: And I'm Carla Lalli Music. If you can’t get enough of our hosts – we don’t blame you! Check out Carla's cookbooks here and find links to her YouTube channel, Patreon, and Instagram at You can pre-order Rick’s upcoming cookbook here, watch the companion 'Mi Cocina' video series here, and find all of his socials at EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION The pair also embrace the importance of trying (or re-trying) new foods with the segment “No, Thank You, Please”.Īs always, we’d love to hear about your cooking conundrums at 833-433-FOOD (3663).įind us on Instagram full episode transcripts and more about the podcast on our website borderlinesalty.fm. On this episode of Borderline Salty, hosts Rick Martinez and Carla Lalli Music dig into cooking from memory, chicken livers, and a total kitchen nightmare. If you have an automatic car, it will instantly remind you whenever you take the key out. The perfect way to avoid this is to read your car owner’s manual. Hence, your car isn’t cooperating with you. It is frustrating, especially if you get to work or get to your destination as quickly as possible. Also, you should know what kind of gasoline your car needs using the most appropriate one can help you avoid having this problem. You can inspect your power relay, idle speed, ignition switch, and spark plugs if this issue happens to you. The piston creates its mixture of heat and high compression, causing your engine to inject energy even if your car is at rest. The diesel engine has a pump that produces a small amount of diesel fuel to each engine cylinder. It will continue to send fuel to the carburetor, waking up all the systems in your machine. Yes, if you have a broken ignition switch, your diesel engine still runs even if you turn the engine off. Diesel Engine Runs After Ignition Switched Off It will help if a professional checks these parts before going into more serious problems. It could be the causes of using the wrong gasoline, having broken spark plugs, or an unresponsive ignition switch. Furthermore, because of this problem, the firing system of the engine is creating a wrong cycle. The sending of power inside it is not regular because no system can stop the energy from flowing throughout the fuses to the car.īroken ignition will result in this kind of problem. Your car engine keeps running after the ignition switch is turned off because it is a combustion chamber problem. The Car Keeps Running After The Ignition Is Turned Off It is why even if your car is experiencing minor issues inside its engine, never be reluctant to get checked by a mechanic so that you will not end up paying more damages. It is quite a big problem if fuses aren’t working correctly because your car will not work as well. Unresponsive fuses are also the cause why you can’t turn off your engine. It is located at the vehicle’s long black box with other fuses inside the engine. The relay needs to be changed if this happens. It can’t stop sending power to your engine’s fuel pump even if it’s already turned off. The second reason why your engine can’t stop running is because of a stuck fuel pump relay. It is not a job for owners because you might damage the car engine more. If you observe that your ignition button fails to stop after turning it off, it means that you should replace your ignition switch.Ī professional car mechanic should do the replacement of the ignition switch. ![]() If your car has this kind of issue, there are a few steps that you should take to figure out what is going on and what are the possible ways to fix it.īelow are the typical problems that cause your car engine to keep running even after removing your key from the ignition or pressing the stop button. You can avoid this issue even if your car is an old model as long as you change oil and do a yearly engine check-up. Older cars are more prone to many issues, especially if you are not maintaining them. Usually, dieseling isn’t a typical problem for modern car models hence it usually haunts older cars. It occurs when your engine combustion chambers are hot enough to light the residual fuels that enter the engine. ![]() Hence, if the engine still fails to stop, instead it keeps on doing leaping compulsion your car is experiencing dieseling. Either your car ignition or power switch needs to be changed. ![]() If this is the case, you have an electrical problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. If you observe that your machine continues to run even if you turn it off, the ignition and fuel system aren’t shutting down. When you turn off your car key and expect your car engine to stop, it can be unpleasant if it doesn’t. ![]() For example, the hegemonic discourses regarding the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism has been somewhat abandoned over the last decades and exchanged for a different narrative, which underscores creative industries, the ‘new’ knowledge economy, and ‘new’ capitalism along with it, within different schools of thought (i.e. ![]() While the pairing of language and work as a phenomenon to be studied isn’t really all that new (Boutet 2012 Hiss 2017), theories of economic and labor-market developments continue to transform. ![]() Indeed, different ways of thinking about and tackling research on language and work are approached through distinct epistemological lenses acquired through researchers’ own disciplinary training, beliefs systems and ideological biases together with the sociohistorical structures and context that shape each study’s setting. Recent trends and future directions within the field of language policy that are concerned with both ontological and epistemological elements (Pérez-Milans and Tollefson 2018: 728) such as the saliency of employing critical approaches, ethnography and addressing ethical issues in contemporary LPP through researchers’ reflexivity are addressed in this special issue. This line of argumentation has not gone unquestioned especially by scholars exploring the political economy of language through a Marxist or quasi-Marxist perspective (Holborow 2015, 2018 Block 2018). Much of this work has been influenced by the dominant neoliberal narrative of commodification which marketizes everything (Holborow 2018: 58) and has coopted just about everyone (Pennycook in press). Two of these processes pertain to individuals’ increased mobility for economic reasons and the massive shift of tertiary work being dispersed on the global level, where workers’ language skills and their ostensible commodification have been regarded as a central tool of the new global economy (Cameron 2000, 2005 Heller 2003, 2010 Duchêne 2009 Urciuoli and LaDousa 2013 Muth and Del Percio 2018 among others). ![]() This means that we are faced with not necessarily new challenges, but varying degrees, speeds, and shifts of existing social processes connected to different political, economic, and cultural systems. The perspective taken in this issue is that while globalization and transnational interdependencies (Vertovec 2009) are not new, they have and continue to affect the rise of a new globalized economy and thus a ‘new’, international division of labor (Lutz 2011), which, among other corollaries, affects how socio-cultural practices, one of which is language, is being utilized, conceptualized, practiced and managed in innovative and different ways by both employers and employees in various workplace contexts globally.Īdopting a transformationalist perspective of globalization means acknowledging that we live in an already globalized world where national boundaries are becoming more permeable (Coupland 2013) based on particular interests of certain nation-states. Historically oriented scholars may advocate that what we are experiencing today in terms of globalizing forces and transnational migration is nothing new (Kellner 2002). Within this context, language as a resource-whether symbolic, interactional, material or ideological-flows, changes and is used by specific and often very powerful social agents to manage individuals in their daily workplaces. Currently, we are residing in what Elliott and Urry have termed ‘the golden age of mobility’ where “massive social changes are implicated in the ever-increasing movement of people, things, capital, information and ideas around the globe” ( 2010: ix). Against the backdrop of global mobilities-the unprecedented circulation of people and socio-cultural practices-this special issue of Language Policy centers on the latest conditions of language policy, planning and practices taking place in diverse ‘blue-collar’ workplaces around the world as a result of postmodern economies that have witnessed an expansion of precarious working conditions (Standing 2011 Serwe in press). If requested, I will add the method for Linux. p is for the random letters and numbers from the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. g is for the port number you set for the new instance. This is the password.Įdit the 'Target' line of the BOINC2 Shortcut to include the new port # and new password (this the random letters and numbers). Example: BOINC2Ĭopy the random letters and numbers from gui_rpc_auth.cfg. Rename this to the instance of BOINC made. Next is to hook this instance to the BOINC Manager.Ĭonnecting BOINC Manager to the new instance: Now, you have another instance of BOINC running. This will start another instance of BOINC which can now be setup to download and run more WUs to bunker with. "c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" -allow_multiple_clients -redirectio -detach_console -gui_rpc_port 31418 -dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC2 ![]() Next, creat a batch file in the new BOINC folder. Steps to setup another instance of BOINC for bunker technique:įirst, create a new folder in C:\ProgramDataĮdit the cc_config.xml file to include the allow_multiple_clients option. Note: this technique is not useful on projects with quorum 2. This can allow a team to take a higher spot at the end before other teams can react. Usually can be seen when a team shows low output in one or two disciplines then all of a sudden a large amount of points are dumped on one project as the end date nears. The technique is even used near the end of discipline dates to gain last minute advantages as well. Once the discipline start date hits, the WUs are then off loaded from the client allowing a large amount of points to be gained at the start. The advantage of this technique is to hold many WUs that are crunch ahead of time before a discipline (BOINC project) start date occurs. The following is a technique referred to as bunkering in the Pent.
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![]() They’re also struggling with their grim backstories, with that of bespectacled gunslinger Percy de Rolo (Taliesin Jaffe) taking center stage in the first handful of episodes. Vox Machina is the name of the eponymous group of mercs at the center of the show’s story, a down-on-their-luck crew of murder hobos whose immediate concerns include an astronomical bar tab and poor local reputation. (Nothing! Let it fly!) The Legend of Vox Machina takes the setting and characters from the Critical Role show, removes the inconvenience of dice, movement restrictions, and spell slot limitations, and turns it into a proudly R-rated cartoon. If, like me, you believe it should be less about overblown lore and more about the feeling of getting together with a bunch of your pals to mainline pizza and crack jokes while you collaborate on how to best the monsters in a friend’s bespoke adventure (that is peppered with references to whatever books or movies they’ve just watched), then The Legend of Vox Machina’s first six episodes available for review (out of 12) could serve as a proof of concept for that approach.Ĭritical Role is an “actual play” experience, a web show (or oftentimes a podcast) which gives the viewer a tableside seat as a group of people play through a tabletop roleplaying game, complete with all the nail biting over what to do when the group encounters a door, and delays when one of the participants needs to look up what you need to roll to use magic missile. ![]() I’ve pondered the challenges of adapting something like D&D to a film or TV format before. ![]() While the show doesn’t have any official connection with the game, Critical Role-the web show the characters and world are based on-is transparently grounded in the storytelling of the tabletop roleplaying game that game master Matt Mercer is running, and the characters his group of professional voice actor pals are portraying. It’s amid conversations exactly like these within the wider consumer and fan base of tabletop gaming that Amazon Prime Video’s The Legend of Vox Machina arrives, just as D&D’s corporate owners are also making moves to bring the property back to the big screen. (This is all a world away from the controversies the pastime contended with when it first came out.) That’s not how it is in real life, right?”ĭungeons & Dragons comes from a lot of things, some of them deeply problematic, and it has diverged from them so fundamentally in its nearly 50 years that the entire industry and the many people who enjoy the hobby are in the midst of reexamining basically everything about it. “It’s not a good thing to say all people of a certain culture are evil. One kid who seemed like he’d read a lot of the books and knew all sorts of stuff about the game’s decades of lore paused on the option to create a dark elf and acted confused, because they’re supposed to all be evil. This involved walking them through the hundreds of pages of character creation options, trying to figure out what they wanted to play, and why it probably shouldn’t be six paladins. Before the pandemic hosed it completely, I was running a Dungeons & Dragons game at a local game store aimed specifically at introducing tweens to the game. ![]() The idea that using a mobile device, especially before bed, might be detrimental to sleep is not new. When taking on an exercise routine, it can be difficult to know where to start. However, it may be a good idea not to exercise too close to a person’s bedtime, as that may actually disrupt sleep. One 2017 meta-analysis found 29 studies that concluded that exercising may be able to improve the quality or the duration of sleep.Īnother 2021 study found that exercising for 60 minutes 4-5 times a week for a period of 8-12 weeks can significantly improve primary insomnia, which is the difficulty in falling or staying asleep. Physical exercise has a positive impact on sleep quality. However, try to avoid this, as it can adversely affect a healthful sleep cycle. One study found that college students who napped at least three times per week and those who napped for longer than 2 hours each time had lower sleep quality than their peers who did not.Īfter a poor night’s sleep, it is tempting to take a long nap. ![]() Taking naps during the daytime, particularly those that last longer than 2 hours, can also disrupt the circadian rhythm. Keeping the room as dark as possible when going to bed might help bring on sleep. Keep the lights offĬues such as light also influence the circadian rhythm, which helps the brain and body judge when it is nighttime. Learn more about the best time to sleep and wake up here. Going to bed at the same time every night helps the body clock predict when to induce sleep. This is heavily influenced by a biological clock that releases hormones to induce sleep or wakefulness. A primary function of the circadian rhythm is to determine whether the body is ready for sleep or not. The circadian rhythm is a selection of behavioral, physical, and mental changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. However, these irregular sleeping patterns could interfere with sleep because they interrupt the body’s circadian rhythm. Going to bed at different times every night is a common habit for many people. Some are long-term lifestyle changes, while others are short-term solutions to try at the moment. When this happens, a person can try using the tips below. Many people living with insomnia can lie in bed wondering how to fall asleep. ![]() YorkshireLive has launched a WhatsApp community and anyone who joins will get the latest breaking news and top stories sent direct to their phone. He added: "The owners of the park are very proud people and do not like asking for help, but given what is potentially at stake I hope the skatepark community can come together and assist where possible by making any kind of contribution to help us all in lowering this financial burden." ![]() This park encourages family and community spirit, and nobody rides alone." He said: "This park is a second home for many of our customers to come and unwind after school, after work, after life's stresses at home. Michael contacted YorkshireLive and said the facility is "more than just a skatepark" because it helps get people off the streets and away from causing trouble or getting involved in crime. One of skatepark's part-time staff members is Michael Robinson who has set up Go Fund Me page to help the business raise £10,000 to pay the bill. It is so stressful we are having sleepless nights." "If we don't get help we are going to have to close the business which is very sad as people are going to lose their jobs which is heartbreaking. Mags on Ramps Skatepark, Halifax (Image: YorkshireLive) |
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