![]() ![]() It feels very accurate here.Īddams Family is the definitive 90s pinball table. The right bat flipper is one of the hardest to clock in all of pinball. ![]() This is the best translation of Addams Family I’ve played that’s not designed specifically for high-end digital tables. Oscar expects a full table-mode will jump to MASTERPIECE, and Angela thinks if a table mode makes it easier to shoot the Swamp, she’ll jump to MASTERPIECE as well. Backhands are still a bit too hard, but otherwise, this has pretty dang solid physics. Pinball FX isn’t a perfect platform by any means. Oscar really didn’t like the floaty physics of that build. My father agrees with me, which is why he’s awarded Addams Family GREAT, a jump over his score of GOOD for the Pinball Arcade version. While it does feel like a gotcha, I’ve always felt that it’s a gotcha in service to the table’s risk/reward balance. Yea, they’ll absolutely screw you sometimes, but, so the does the arcade table. My congratulations to them for NAILING it, as you can now easily overpower them with a trapped shot if you know the right angles for the Seance and Multiball. I’ve been wondering how Zen Studios would handle it for a while now. Sorry, Sis, but your strategy is boring.Ĭhristopher Lloyd needs them big bucks, so he’s once again absent from the table. I’ve never been good at shooting it to begin with and prefer to work the doors for my score. I prefer to shoot manually anyway, so it didn’t bother me. The left bat flipper desperately needs fixing. It’s why Dash, who would inclined to rate Addams Family MASTERPIECE, dropped his score all the way down to GOOD. Angela’s strategy of charging up the swamp shot and grinding-up her score (apparently the same strategy used by tournament players) was thrown out the door. It’s a significantly more difficult shot to make in Pinball FX. In Pro mode, the table is so steep and the ball moves so fast that the flipper doesn’t even shoot automatically. In Classic mode, I started ignoring the auto flipper and took to firing the ball myself. ![]() It seems to be most accurate if you play in “Arcade” mode, which has a larger ball and feels more like Pinball Arcade. But, the Pinball FX version is an especially poor shot. Yea, a real build isn’t completely accurate either. Angela dropped her ranking based on how bad the Thing Flips is at shooting. She awarded that build Masterpiece status, while I said it was Great. The big news is that Angela and myself flipped our previous rankings from the standard Pinball Arcade build. We’ve also reviewed the standard Pinball Arcade build. This is the version of Pinball FX that works on PlayStation, Xbox, and Epic Games (standard non-table view only), and will be updated when the full team’s scores are in. Of course, that’s a premium priced build designed specifically for those with full-fledged digital tables. And, what better table to experiment with this format than Addams Family? We’ve already reviewed the Arcooda version, which we awarded straight Masterpiece rankings for. This is a quick look at the tables as the Vice Family plays them. So, I’ve come up with the concept of a Hurry-Up Review. I also have to wait for my team to put their scores in. With over one-hundred tables at launch, I have a lot of work to do to get Pinball FX’s content up. ![]()
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![]() This method is perfect for when you have delicate areas you wish to extract, such as hair or areas that need a softer selection. It will maintain each of your objects as a separate layer, retaining transparency. From this window you can use the quick selection tool, refine edge tool, brush tool, lasso tool, and many adjustments to allow you to really refine that selection. The native format for photopaint is CPT and this is the recommended format for saving your work. The next method involves going to the menu “Select” and then choosing “Select & Mask”. This is a great method as it allows you to use the paint brush and and get in to areas you want to select, adjust your brush size and get those intricate details as well. Use black to paint areas you want to be excluded and white for area you want to be included. You will notice your image take on a red hue and now you can use your brush tool to paint areas into our out of your selection. The first way to do this, while your selection is active, is to go into Quick Mask mode by pressing the shortcut ‘Q’. This is a perfect time to refine your selections with a mask. Corel programs: Paint Shop Pro X6 Paint Shop Pro X8 Location: Canton Paradise. Sketch, draw, and paint on a blank canvas using realistic Natural-Media brushes or simply transform photos into impressive works of art with powerful artificial intelligence or cloning tools. There are often little areas of pixels that you just can’t seem to include, or even really complex areas of color and value that make it hard to use the above tools with no further adjustments. New to digital art Try Painter® Essentials, the fun and uncomplicated painting software for beginners. Ok, let’s say you have a selection but there’s still a little bit of fine tuning needed. It works in the same manner when you want to cut a figure out of a relatively white background. This tool is great as you can paint what you want to mask out – for example in the image below I painted the dark blue area with the Quick Selection tool. You can change the size of the brush, and add and subtract areas of the selection. The quick selection tool works like a brush tool. In the image below I simply used the Magic Wand tool to select the pink colors. Raster-based image editors, such as PaintShop Pro, Corel Painter. Just select the background layer and do: CTRL+A.and then do. will clear the layer If you actually want to completely get rid of the actual background layer toggle the little eye icon. You will also notice icons at the top that allow you to Add, Subtract, and Intersect the selection. In computer graphics and digital photography, a raster graphic represents a two-dimensional. It’s one of those that is often forgotten as there are newer selection tools that may seem more intuitive, however the Magic Wand tool has some features that allow you to adjust what you are selecting, such as tolerance, sample size, and the new Select and Mask feature. The Magic Wand tool is one of the oldest tools in Photoshop, and makes selections based on tone and color. ![]() If you have a design with large areas of solid color, or a design that has sharp distinctions between colors, the first two methods you might want to try are the Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools. ![]() ![]() Winston Niles Rumfoord is a Gigantanormous, Hobbit-blowing, Douchasaurus Rex (or if you prefer the proper latin phrase Giganticus, SamwiseGamgeeus, Douchbaggius Maximus) andĥ. Vonnegut had a rock hard MAD on the size of a Dyson Sphere against Organized Religion Ĥ. In the hands of a master, literature can be both incredibly entertaining and soul-piercingly deep ģ. ![]() Kurt Vonnegut was a brilliantly insightful GENIUS whose brain waves were ever so slightly out of phase with our universe making complete comprehension of his work by the rest of us impossible Ģ. I have read a lot of Kurt Vonnegut’s books and I think Sirens of Titan was the book that formed the template, the engineering blueprint, for what would become.ĥ THINGS I KNOW I learned from reading Sirens of Titanġ. Kurt Vonnegut, when he wrote Sirens of Titan, was 37 Earth years old, he was 6 feet 2 inches tall and had curly brown hair that his mother, Edith Lieber, called chestnut. But … for the body of work that would come, that great canon of literature that would inspire and entertain and provoke thought from generations of readers, the vanguard was Sirens of Titan. Player Piano was an excellent story, a fine work of science fiction literature written by a man with much world experience and wisdom. Player Piano may have been the first book published by Kurt Vonnegut, but Sirens of Titan was the first Vonnegut book. In fact, interestingly, aspects of several works in Vonnegut’s bibliography can be detected, including Galápagosand Slapstick or Lonesome No More!. Other aspects of this novel are fairly representative of the later work that many people regard as his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five. Some aspects of his brilliant short story Harrison Bergeron, which was published in 1961, are revealed in the pages of Sirens. Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut’s second published novel, was released in 1959. I’m not sure if he is a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, but he should be and he should produce and direct the film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Sirens of Titan. One of my favorite film directors is Wes Anderson. The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) Debs) and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene V. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope. ![]() This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which would make him a millionaire. ![]() His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. He attributed his unadorned writing style to his reporting work. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. Army and serving in World War II.Īfter the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003. Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the drug has decreased transfusion frequency, then continuing treatment would be beneficial in terms of avoiding prolonged clinic visits for transfusions and decreasing utilization of a limited blood supply. If patients are currently taking luspatercept, there are no theoretical reasons to stop treatment. No data are available to date on luspatercept and COVID-19. Luspatercept has been approved for adults with transfusion dependent beta thalassemia and has been shown to significantly reduce transfusion burden in this population. What about treatment with the recently approved disease-modifying drug luspatercept during the COVID-19 pandemic? Patients should be reminded that adherence to the iron chelation dose and schedule recommended by their thalassemia care provider will reduce organ injury and thalassemia complications. Many comorbidities in thalassemia are related to iron overload. If a patient becomes symptomatic, particularly with moderate to severe disease, then interruption of iron chelation is advisable, with ongoing communication between the treating physicians and the hematologist. If a patient is exposed but asymptomatic there is no reason to interrupt iron chelation. No data are available regarding iron chelation and susceptibility to COVID-19 or severity of infection. Should thalassemia patients continue iron chelation if they are exposed to or have confirmed COVID-19 disease? Clinical sites and blood banks should develop contingency plans for adjusting transfusion regimens and obtaining appropriate donor units for individuals with alloimmunization in the event a significant shortage develops. Hematologists and other thalassemia care providers should continue to follow local and national developments related to possible blood shortages related to COVID-19. Clinics and infusion centers should offer patients the safest possible environment for receiving transfusions, in areas free of COVID-19 patients or those being screened for respiratory symptoms and providing health care personnel protective equipment. It is advisable to maintain the individual’s chronic transfusion regimen. Should any changes in transfusion schedules or thresholds be made in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?Īt present there is no evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be transmitted through donated blood. ![]() ![]() Splenectomized patients who develop fever should be evaluated for possible bacterial infection and should receive antibiotics to cover secondary bacterial infections. ![]() Splenectomy is not known to increase the general risk of viral infection or severe viral disease, but no specific data exists for SARS-CoV-2. 2022 97:E75-E78) showing a fivefold increase in age-standardized lethality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. 1 The number of infected thalassemia patients was lower than expected, likely due to earlier and more vigilant self-isolation compared to the general population. An update of Italian data has been recently published ( Am J Hematol. Nonetheless, outcomes were recently reported from a small cohort of Italian patients followed in the northern part of Italy, where the pandemic has been the most widespread, showing most experienced relatively mild to moderate COVID-19 disease. Thus, it seems possible that there could be an increased risk of more severe COVID-19 disease in some patients. Thalassemia patients, especially young adults/adults, have a chronic condition which may be associated with several co-morbidities linked to the underlying disease as well as complications of chronic transfusions, including heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and diabetes. Note: Please review ASH's disclaimer regarding the use of the following information.Īre patients with thalassemia more susceptible to serious COVID-19 disease? Does splenectomy confer a higher risk? Input from Maria Cappellini, MD Antonio Piga, MD Janet Kwiatkowski, MD and Alexis Thompson, MD. 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![]() ![]() With series cells it greater when the load R is higher than ESR, the higher V/R produces a higher current. ( As shown above, for short circuit current, it is twice.)īut otherwise, when the load is equal to battery ESR, the current is the same. Yes, parallel batteries "can" supply twice the current when the load is less than the ESR of the battery. Simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Conclusion The short circuit test, Isc is momentary.Mismatch increases towards end of life so the weakest cell fails 1st.The series batteries are fresh and have same capacity in mAh before loading.The parallel voltages are matched before putting in parallel. ![]()
![]() ![]() He added: “For the past 19 months, like many other travel businesses, Truly Travel has been severely impacted financially by the ongoing challenges of the pandemic including: large amounts of refunds processed for customers, redundancies, and more recently the CMA investigation and court action against the company.” We are currently working with the company to support all their existing customers.” Gary Lewis, chief executive of the Travel Network Group, said: “We can confirm that Truly Travel and Alpha Holidays are no longer members of Travel Trust Association. UK Civil Aviation Authority October 29, 2021 ![]() Truly Travel Ltd (trading as Teletext Holidays) no longer holds an ATOL licence.Ĭonsumers impacted by this news should seek support from the Travel Trust Association: ![]() The company, which as of October 19 owed £1.2 million in refunds and had paid back £10.8 million since Covid struck, says it is ‘disappointed’ in the regulator’s legal action. Truly Travel’s Teletext Holidays brand is subject to legal action from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over parent company Truly Holdings’ failure to pay refunds on cancelled package holidays. The move comes after the September 2021 Atol renewal process, which enabled Truly Travel’s bookings to be re-contracted. Truly Travel no longer holds an Atol licence, the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed. The TTA, part of The Travel Network Group, will look after and fulfil the firms’ Atol-protected bookings through TTA Travel. The Travel Trust Association (TAA) has announced that Teletext Holidays parent Truly Travel Ltd, and Alpha Holidays Ltd (trading as ) have left the group having had their membership closed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although we did not discuss how to fix all of the errors independently, I strongly believe you can take it from there as you have known what the error message. In this article, you have learned how to debug common json_encode() error and how to get them fixed. To fix it, I introduced `JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE`: echo( json_encode(, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE) ) Conclusion This error happens if the result contains mixed encoding characters. Now, I see the error!: Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded So I placed the code after the json_encode(…) function: echo json_last_error_msg() // Print out the error if any die() // halt the script It was not memory related.Īfter much trial and error, I decided to see what json_encode is complaining about if any. I went ahead to increase my memory limit but that did not help. But if I LIMIT the result to like 100 records, I get the JSON printed out but any record I fetch above 100 shows empty.Īt first, I thought it might be a memory issue (but 164 records is not that much □). The result was empty, nothing was printed out. In the last part of the code, I encode the array of courses to JSON then print out the result. In the code above, I’m fetching all the courses that are in the `courses` table that is about 164 records. Below is my complete code: $courses = $db = new mysqli(HOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD, DATABASE) if ($db->connect_error) echo( json_encode() ) die() I was working with a result which I fetched from the database that I converted to JSON. I encountered this error personally which prompted me to write this article. This is one of the common error you will face especially if you are fetching your data from a database. Fixing “Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded” error Here is the list of errors you might encounter: If what was printed out is - “No errors”, then there is nothing wrong with the data. echo json_last_error_msg() // Print out the error if any die() // halt the script Add the below code in your code after the json_encode() function that you have. The first step in solving a problem is to first know what the problem really is.įirst, let’s see if there is any error from json_encode. In this article, I will discuss how you can fix a `json_encode` function that returns an empty result or throws an error. If there is any string padding surrounding your JSON string, jsondecode will return NULL. json_encode is a PHP function that converts an array to JSON format. If you are building a RESTful API in PHP, then you are most likely using the json_encode function. How I fixed PHP json_encode() returning empty result ![]() ![]() ![]() Some scientists believe that the multiverse has only 10 dimensions while others put that number at 11. The ninth dimension lays bare all the universal laws of physics and the conditions of each individual universe. This dimension is a plane of all the possible pasts and futures for each universe, stretching infinitely. That is, they were not born from the Big Bang. The seventh dimension is the start of this, where we encounter new universes which have a different beginning from ours. In the seventh dimension up through the ninth, we currently have the possibility of new universes with new physical forces of nature and different laws of gravity and light. The sixth dimension is a whole plane of new worlds that would let you see all possible futures, presents, and pasts with, again, the same start as our universe. In the fifth dimension there would be a new world that would let us see the similarities and differences between our world and this new one, existing in the same position and having the same start as our planet, i.e. The dimensions here on out really deal with possibilities. These dimensions are curled in on themselves in a process known as compactification. These are imperceptible to us, researchers think, because they exist on a subatomic level. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.įrom here on we start to look at the higher dimensions. Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but… it can’t run backwards. Remember how the third dimension is space without time? Well now we officially have space time. Time helps plot an object’s location in the universe and also adds a way for the third dimension to change. The fourth dimension is not a spacial one but it consists instead of time. You can think of this dimension as space without time. It contains volume and the ability to obtain cross sections from objects. This is the dimension in which we see the world. ![]() Imagine any flat figure, like a triangle. There is no depth and no height, only a width. Here, I try to simplify the ten dimensions of string theory.Ī line linking two points. This splitting apart of a universe bubble is one possibility of what might have resulted in the Big Bang. Yes, the multiverse, where universes are bubbles that sometimes come together or split apart. Physicists think but cannot yet prove that there are up to 11 dimensions in the multiverse. Actually, string theory, which tries to reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics (the laws of the very big with the very small), only functions if we believe there are much more than the four dimensions we’re used to. We are those fish and those higher dimensions are the new environments we can’t see. This is the scenario physicists think we’re in. Nevertheless, there is a completely new environment outside of your line of sight - one where animals don’t need water to breathe and flowers bloom in a far more arid world. You live your life thinking that this underwater world is all there is because it’s all that you can see. The sunlight comes in, dimmer and refracted, through the water. String theory has already had a big impact on pure mathematics, cosmology (the study of the universe), and the way particle physicists interpret experiments, by suggesting new approaches and possibilities to explore.What if you were living in a pond? You are a fish with eyes on either side of your head and all you are familiar with is the underwater world of sediment and vegetation and other fish swimming next to you. Practitioners are optimistic that string theory will eventually make predictions that can be experimentally tested. The study of string theory has also led to the concept of supersymmetry, which would double the number of elementary particles. String theory also requires six or seven extra dimensions of space, and it contains ways of relating large extra dimensions to small ones. String theory not only embraces gravity but requires it. Previous attempts to unify physics have had trouble incorporating gravity with the other forces. It has since developed into something much more ambitious: an approach to the construction of a complete unified theory of all fundamental particles and forces. String theory originated as an attempt to describe the interactions of particles such as protons. What we perceive as particles are actually vibrations in loops of string, each with its own characteristic frequency. String theory proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional “strings” rather than point-like particles. ![]() |