![]() Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Plan, Portland, OR Leimert, Walter H, Company, Leimert Square Plan, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA Kerry, A.S., Sr., House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA Highlands Neighborhood Residential Plan, Shoreline, WA Garrett House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA ![]() McGilvra, House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Colman Park, Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Green Lake Community Center, Green Lake Preliminary Plan, Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Interlaken Park, Interlaken, Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Lakeview Park, Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Mount Baker Park, Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, West Seattle Playground, West Seattle, WAĬity of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Woodland Park Preliminary Plan, Seattle, WAĬity of Spokane, Board of Park Commissioners, Olmsted Master Plan for Spokane, Spokane, WAĬlarke, Charles H., House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WAĭunn, Arthur and Jeanette, Summer House and Gardens, Broadview, Seattle, WA While the firm was headquartered in Brookline, MA, the Olmsteds operated a busy West Coast Office in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, during the 1920s.Īgen, John B., House #2, Broadview, Seattle, WAĪlaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Manufactures Building, Seattle, WAĪlaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Site Plan, Seattle, WAīlack, C.H., House, Queen Anne, Seattle, WAīurke, Thomas and Caroline E. In addition, the Olmsted Brothers also designed remarkable park systems for Cleveland, OH, Utica, NY, and Union County, NJ. ![]() They also designed the campuses of the University of Washington and Oregon State University as well as the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, WA. The Olmsted Brothers, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., (1870-1957) and John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920), may have been the most important urban park planners of the next century, designing preserves across the United States, including a string of them in Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, and Spokane, WA. This highly influential landscape architecture firm succeeded that of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), the greatest American landscape architect of the 19th century. James Frederick Dawson, Percival Gallagher, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., John Charles Olmsted
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![]() ![]() Hugaraka note A scene of Uraraka grabbing onto ◊ the (fake) missile in Episode 7 has prompted people to edit that pose into various pictures.Though, considering how they both attempted (and in one case, succeeded) in grooming their kids, he isn't actually that great a dad.) note This spawned from a moment in Chapter 89 where All For One assured Shigaraki that he would do better next time instead of scolding him for his failure. Even All For One is a better father than Endeavor.It's been edited in a number of ways and used as a reaction GIF. ( Epileptic Flashing Lights warning) note In the first episode of the anime, there's a flashback to Midoriya rocking his head in anticipation while his mother starts up a video of All Might. This even includes in the middle of a Heroic BSoD as a moment of levity. SHOOOOTOOOO!!!! note Endeavor shouting Shoto's name on occasion.Besides characters creating energy or mass from nothing, there's ones like Manga's Comic or Cathleen's New Order which are outright reality warpers and might as well be magic. While he means that quirks have limits and drawbacks, such as Shoto overusing his ice giving him hypothermia, fans have had fun poking fun at the idea due to how quirks blatantly violate physics. Quirks aren't magic! Explanation During his fight against Shoto, Izuku states the aforementioned line while thinking how quirks are fully biological in nature.Noteworthy to point that those are four of the most popular pairings of the fandom. In the Sports Festival Tournament, even Uraraka did it. ![]() During the Sports Festival, Iida also declared his rivalry. Then Todoroki declared his rivalry right before the Sports Festival. note Spawned from the fact that many characters seem to want to be a rival to Midoriya. "Clench your asshole super tight and scream ] from the bottom of your heart!!!" note All Might's instruction to Midoriya on how to use the power of One For All.He later brings it up again with All Might after fighting Stain, complete with contorting his face into a perfect replica of All Might's and dropping his voice to match his. Instead, All Might plucks a hair off his head and tells Midoriya to eat it (as seen in the page image), much to Midoriya's horror and disgust. Eat this! note When Midoriya is about be given One For All, he expects some kind of incredible Super-Empowering ceremony.Further mutations and successor memes, if any.]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.] Explanation Like this. Please add entries in the following format: Because My Hero Academia is one of the most popular manga and anime series in recent history, expect the series to spawn a massive amount of memes. ![]() ![]() And sometimes the losses have been quite dramatic. Large company stocks as a group, for example, have lost money on average about one out of every three years. The volatility of stocks makes them a very risky investment in the short term. Stocks hit home runs, but also strike out. As an asset category, stocks are a portfolio’s “heavy hitter,” offering the greatest potential for growth. Stocks have historically had the greatest risk and highest returns among the three major asset categories. Let’s take a closer look at the characteristics of the three major asset categories. Treasury securities.įor many financial goals, investing in a mix of stocks, bonds, and cash can be a good strategy. While the SEC cannot recommend any particular investment product, you should know that a vast array of investment products exists - including stocks and stock mutual funds, corporate and municipal bonds, bond mutual funds, lifecycle funds, exchange-traded funds, money market funds, and U.S. On the other hand, investing solely in cash investments may be appropriate for short-term financial goals. If you have a financial goal with a long time horizon, you are likely to make more money by carefully investing in asset categories with greater risk, like stocks or bonds, rather than restricting your investments to assets with less risk, like cash equivalents. The reward for taking on risk is the potential for a greater investment return. If you intend to purchase securities - such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds - it’s important that you understand before you invest that you could lose some or all of your money. All investments involve some degree of risk. You’ve probably heard the phrase “no pain, no gain” - those words come close to summing up the relationship between risk and reward. When it comes to investing, risk and reward are inextricably entwined. In the words of the famous saying, conservative investors keep a “bird in the hand,” while aggressive investors seek “two in the bush.” Risk versus Reward A conservative investor, or one with a low-risk tolerance, tends to favor investments that will preserve his or her original investment. An aggressive investor, or one with a high-risk tolerance, is more likely to risk losing money in order to get better results. Risk tolerance is your ability and willingness to lose some or all of your original investment in exchange for greater potential returns. By contrast, an investor saving up for a teenager’s college education would likely take on less risk because he or she has a shorter time horizon. An investor with a longer time horizon may feel more comfortable taking on a riskier, or more volatile, investment because he or she can wait out slow economic cycles and the inevitable ups and downs of our markets. Your time horizon is the expected number of months, years, or decades you will be investing to achieve a particular financial goal. The asset allocation that works best for you at any given point in your life will depend largely on your time horizon and your ability to tolerate risk. The process of determining which mix of assets to hold in your portfolio is a very personal one. Asset Allocation 101Īsset allocation involves dividing an investment portfolio among different asset categories, such as stocks, bonds, and cash. Let’s begin by looking at asset allocation. ![]() This publication will cover those topics more fully and will also discuss the importance of rebalancing from time to time. If that makes sense, you’ve got a great start on understanding asset allocation and diversification. By selling both items - in other words, by diversifying the product line - the vendor can reduce the risk of losing money on any given day. And when it’s sunny, the reverse is true. Street vendors know that when it’s raining, it’s easier to sell umbrellas but harder to sell sunglasses. After all, when would a person buy both items at the same time? Probably never - and that’s the point. How did you learn them? Through ordinary, real-life experiences that have nothing to do with the stock market.įor example, have you ever noticed that street vendors often sell seemingly unrelated products - such as umbrellas and sunglasses? Initially, that may seem odd. Required Minimum Distribution CalculatorĮven if you are new to investing, you may already know some of the most fundamental principles of sound investing.Investment Professional Background Check.Working with an Investment Professional.Five Questions to Ask Before You Invest. ![]() Children may need help from an adult to hold the ball to avoid it being dropped onto their feet.Ensure that the correct weight of bowling ball is selected.Children should not be permitted to play with bowling balls on the ball return.Bowling balls should be allowed to stop rolling on the ball return before they are handled to prevent fingers being caught between the bowling ball that is being returned and other stationary balls on the rack. The bowling ball is returned to the bowler via the ball return.Children must be supervised at all times.Contact a member of staff at the reception, if you have any problems whilst bowling.Hands must NEVER be placed into the ball return machinery.NEVER go beyond the foul line to retrieve balls, etc.Take care when walking up or down the steps within Kingpins building.ĮQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION/BALLS STUCK ON LANES AND BALL RETURNS.If you notice a spillage of any kind, please notify a member staff who will be able to deal with the spillage straight away. We carry out cleaning and inspections checks in all areas of the building including the toilets regularly.Lanes surfaces could be slippery, due to a coat of oil across each lane. You must not step over the foul line – this is the black line at the start of a lane.We offer suitable shoes to all guests, should you require these on the day Suitable shoes must be worn when bowling.The significant hazards that we have identified at Kingpins is detailed below: HAZARDS Our team are always on hand to explain how to bowl, including ball selection, safety on the lanes as well as practical information to help our customers enjoy their bowling. It is very important that those who are bringing others to Kingpins whether they would be children, the disabled or those who do have learning disabilities to conduct an appropriate risk assessment to ensure that the activity is suitable for them. This will include all guests from adults, children, the elderly and those with learning or physical disabilities. Our main aim to all our guests on their visit, is to provide a safe environment to be able to enjoy themselves at all times. Kingpins Risk Assessment for all our guests ![]() In consultation with our customer, we decided a proof of concept (PoC) with specific success criteria would be the next step. Our variables were data types (structured, unstructured), data scale, and frequency (volume, variety, and velocity of data). To build a production migration strategy, it was important for us to perform qualitative and quantitative analysis using variables. This challenge was aggravated by queries related to business operations that tripled the execution time. It also led to a six-fold increase in the user load.Īs a result, the customer’s hourly ETL jobs took more time to execute than the SLA for the business. The need for real-time data increased the workload on the cluster by about 100x, mostly from complex operations. In some cases, they used machine learning (ML) to generate predictive outcomes. They needed the data for reporting, historical data, and periodic analysis. It gathered information from different systems, including marketing, sales, supply chain, production, manufacturing, and human resources.ĭuring the last few years before they began their migration, the customer’s business units had to access the data in real-time. Our customer’s data warehouse served as a central source of information and data analytics platform for the entire company. How the Customer Used Oracle Data Warehouse In this post, we explain how we selected the optimal migration process for the customer’s needs, and how we carried it out. We also tripled the performance for dependent business processes and reports. The result of our efforts was a 30 percent lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for the customer’s data platform on AWS. Mactores is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner with the AWS Data & Analytics Competency. Mactores Cognition worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to migrate the customer from Oracle to their MPP data platform. By alleviating ETL performance challenges and improving query execution time, they hoped an MPP data platform would result in faster business operations. ![]() And, to control the ETL process, they had to continuously purchase hardware every quarter.īecause of these factors, the customer decided to migrate to a cloud-based Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data platform. To accommodate the volume of incremental data, the data warehouse team had no choice but to breach the ETL service-level agreement (SLA) defined by the business. To sustain the size of their operations, they had to scale their infrastructure up to 1,500 cores and 20 TB. The company’s operations included extract, transfer, and load (ETL) operations and business processes. Over the next 10 years, the application portfolio scaled, bringing the data volumes up to 512 TB, supporting more than 5,000 business processes. By Nandan Umarji, COO and VP of Engineering at Mactores Cognitionīy Anil Patel, Data Engineer at Mactores Cognitionīy Sanjay Nighojkar, Manager, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSĪ large manufacturing company faced many challenges with their Oracle data warehouse, which was deployed on-premises in 2009 with about 120 GB of data. On the Search results page, you may see the following: To search by keyword, at the top of the page, in the Search Download Center search box, type the word or words you wish to search for.To search more specifically for a product or download, on the menu bar displayed near the top of the page, click a menu name and then click a product or download.To find products and downloads, in the navigation bar that appears across the center of the Download Center home page, click an icon.If you would like to search for specific downloads, start by using one of these methods. ![]() If you would like Microsoft to scan your computer and recommend updates, please see the preceding question. Items available as free downloads are linked to details pages, where you can learn more about them and initiate downloads. For your convenience, items available for purchase are linked directly to Microsoft Store. I hope Redstone 3 will bring improvements in this area.The Microsoft Download Center has recently been revised to better serve you as a one-stop shop for products available for purchase, in addition to products and downloads available for free. A new item also appears in the downloads panel, but progress won't move until you select "save" or "run" from the pop up, although the download will actually progress…Chrome opens up some panel at the bottom of the Chrome's window which has two advatanges: – it's outside of your tab so doesn't hide the content you may be reading – it's global to the Chrome window, so you may continue browsing another tab and still see your download progress at a glanceIt's this kind of details that make people prefer Chrome over Edge. That's really too bad Edge doesn't use any of Windows 10 methods to monitor download progress: – an app may show a progress bar on the taskbar icons to show progress: Edge doesn't use it (Chrome does) – an app can now show a progress bar in the action center: Edge doesn't use it eitherInstead you have some alien popup that shows at the bottom of the Edge tab, *on top of your webpage's* so potentially hidding content. Note: Clearing this list does not remove the downloaded files from your PC. Your downloads appear in the pane in reverse chronological order (with the most recent download at the top).įrom here, you can select a download to open that file, remove individual downloads from the list, or clear all downloads. To view your downloads with Edge, open the Hub and then select the Downloads button. This is handy because some of those downloads may be located in other folders. While you can always open the Downloads folder in File Explorer, Edge also keeps track of all of your downloaded files. After the download is completed, the notification will change to display Run, Open Folder, and View Downloads options.Ĭancel. Available as a hidden option under Save, Save As lets you choose a non-standard download location, like your desktop, instead. After the download is completed, the notification will change to display Run, Open Folder, and View Downloads options. If you select this option, the file will be saved to your default download location, which is the Downloads folder in your user profile by default. ![]() No copy of the downloaded file is left on your PC if you choose this option. The file is downloaded and is either opened (if it is a document or other data file) or executed when the download is complete. These options have changed somewhat with the Creators Update. ![]() When you do trigger a download, a notification will appear at the bottom of the Edge window. It does not draw a line between any races, religions, or ways of life - it gives space and respect to everybody. Tolerant: While some other numbers are strictly focused on black and white, the number 9 sees the infinite shades of grey between. Leading by example, the 9 shows how to handle hardship with grace and understanding, inspiring others to do the same. It is now in a position to awaken others to their own higher self. These first-hand experiences make it especially understanding of others who are struggling and willing to provide valuable support.įind out if the number 9 shows up in your chart with a FREE Numerology reading » Strengths of the number 9Īwakening: Through life experience, the number 9 in Numerology has learned the value and magnitude of its inner wisdom. The 9 in Numerology has gone through its fair share of hardship and is wiser, stronger, and more aware as a result. It is compassionate, kind, and intent on putting its efforts toward creating the greatest good. It absorbs answers from a spiritual source, then delivers them to us in the real world. The 9 in Numerology acts as an usher in this process of transition or transformation, guiding and empowering us with its wisdom. Think of it more in a cyclical sense it's about the ending of one cycle and the potential it creates for another cycle to begin. The energy of the number 9 represents completion, but not finality. What is the definition of 9 in Numerology? The number 9, the very last of these numbers, has been on a long journey, and now shines its light of love and divine wisdom into the world. ![]() The energy and meaning of each of these numbers is different, so whether we see them in our Numerology charts or wonder why they keep reappearing in our lives, it's important to know what they mean so we can understand the messages they are sending us. ![]() The numbers 1-9 are very important to the science of Numerology. ![]() It is thought that flamingos have lived in Sardinia since Pliny (23-79 AD) because he mentions the birds in his Naturalis Historia. ![]() Pink flamingos have lived in Sardinia for generations, to the point that Sardinian folk calls them “Sa Genti Arrubia” which in dialect means “red people”. Pink flamingos in Sardinia are a beautiful natural attraction that you can encounter with great ease all over the island, the most recommended location is the Chia lagoon, a protected natural reserve near Forte Village Resort. The possibility of seeing and photographing something so beautiful transports us to a dream come true and enriches our souls. The pink plumage of the birds combines perfectly with the blues of the sea and the sky. However, the panorama of Sardinia is so beautiful and rich, nature takes over. Seeing a flock of flying flamingos, although very exciting, is not a common experience. The image of a flock of pink flamingos in flight against the blue skies of Sardinia or dancing on the water with their slender golden legs is itself worth a trip to this amazing island. It was a great jumping off the point for Sonoma County, and I recommend you give it a try if you are in the area.By fortevillagemag 10 February 2019 10652 Views Pink flamingos are among the most beautiful creatures to see and photograph for birdwatchers and those passionate about nature. I was impressed with my choice of the Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa while in Santa Rosa. The hotel has a fantastic health club that you can use as well, which has weights, yoga classes, and a lap pool for swimming. There was also a lovely patio that overlooked the pool and the center area of the hotel. There was a smaller room connected to it with a king size bed and the attached bathroom. The room featured a large living area with a couch and TV. The hotel just went through a massive multi-million dollar renovation, and you can see that in the style of the rooms. It is fun to see the sculptures, and exploring Peanuts history in Santa Rosa is an excellent way to spend a day. The hotel lobby also has a couple of Peanuts sculptures since the home base of Peanuts is in Santa Rosa (read more about that here). The lobby of the hotel has images of famous Hollywood actors hanging out by the pool in the ’50s and ’60s, as well as a newspaper article from when the hotel opened. ![]() ![]() It was a nice touch, especially on cold winter nights. I liked that they had enclosed breezeways that you could walk through to get to each part of the hotel. The hotel is in the shape of a circle, with rooms in different buildings around the circle and a big pool in the center. You can’t miss it as there is a giant neon flamingo sign that beckons you in. The Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa is on the corner of 4th St and Farmers Lane.
Perhaps the closest recent analog to “Midnight Special,” “Looper” not only boasts a similar melding of independent and genre film sensibilities, but it also places at its center a somewhat ambivalent, super-powered child, whose parents will do anything to protect him. Aside from keeping it to younger, prepubescent kids (so no “ Carrie“) and excluding comic-book or young adult-based movies in which the child may develop his/her superpowers at a young age (like “ Superman,” or “ Harry Potter,” for example), our only guideline is that the films should be at least watchable (a surprising number are not) and should in some way hinge on the contradiction that is a child with distinctly un-childlike abilities and skills. READ MORE: The 30 Best Horror Films of the 1990sĪnticipating the release of “Midnight Special,” we’ve taken a moment to highlight 15 other examples of supernaturally powered children from the better films on the subject. ‘Adventure Time’ Is Slowly Going Off the Air, And Everyone’s Moving On This puts his parents and their collaborators in the terrifying position of having to protect something they do not understand: they cannot even know if he is a force for good or evil, only that he is a force, he is in danger and he is their son. This theme crops up again in this week’s “ Midnight Special” from director Jeff Nichols ( our review here), in which the boy in question, the son of Kirsten Dunst and Michael Shannon‘s characters, has immense resources of potentially destructive, potentially Messianic powers that he is barely able to control. ![]() It’s a concept that Hollywood has exploited time and again, sometimes for comic but more often for dramatic or horrific purposes. So the idea of the child endowed with unnatural powers that render him or her less than innocent, good, or obedient is fundamentally unsettling. We have such deeply-set assumptions about children and childhood - innocence, powerlessness, fundamental “goodness” - that any challenge to those notions is often met with incredulity or defensiveness. ![]() Together with the 59 original portraits and the 9 variations from my IWD:EE Portrait Variations mod, this should hopefully let you find something you like for your characters. There are now 132 portraits in this collection. So if anyone is looking for portraits for specific race/class/gender combinations, let me know so I can try to prioritize them. This is the source image I worked with.Īlso, I now have a whole bunch of promising pics that I found online but haven't gotten around to process yet. It is a very cool painting though, so if someone has good google skills, please help me find a higher-resolution version of it. So I may remove it again from the collection if I decide that it looks too bad in-game. The resolution of that last one (Wi06) is actually too low, especially for the "size N" portrait which zooms in on the face. from the " Photoshopped variations" component of my IWD:EE Portrait Variations mod.įollowing a suggestion by I added a few portaits cropped from concept art by Justin Sweet (who also painted many of the original portraits for the Icewind Dale games):Īdded three more portraits cropped from Justin Sweet's art: Ba03, Ba04, Wi05Īnd three from Vance Kovacs' art: Pa02, Dr05, Wi06 (Click a thumbnail to open its high-resolution version.)Īlso shown for completeness, even though they're not included: The following 6 posts show thumbnails of all the included portraits. ![]() (Alternatively, click the Download button at the end of each post below, or get them from my Yandex.Disk or box). See the included readme files for details.ĭownload them by clicking the filenames in the table above. The third is an alternate version for the side-bar, corresponding to the " Zoomed in side-bar portraits" component of my IWD:EE Portrait Variations mod. The first two are the normal character record screen and side-bar versions, cropped like the original portraits. ![]() I merely turned them into IWD style portraits by cropping them and applying some post-processing.įor each portrait, three files are included. Please note that I did not paint these portraits - they are pictures which I found online, painted by various artists (see the Spoiler boxes below). This collection tries to remedy that by adding more portraits for all the classes and races officially supported by the game, using a similar style as the built-in ones. That's more than most games but due to the large number of possible character build combinations (class + race + gender), any given build doesn't have a lot of suitable portraits to choose from. Real-world cultures and ethnicities (Vikings, Black people) Characters from other games (BG1, BG2, PST) Canonical classes and races (Fighter, Paladin, Barbarian. It is part of the following set of portrait collections: This is a collection of additional portraits for Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, which fit in with the original portraits that come with the game. |
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