![]() This way, your flamingo can spread their foliage like wings and produce enough blooms for more aesthetic beauty. A well-radiated indoor area or a semi-shaded area outside are ideal. However, avoid direct radiation that can scorch their leaves. Thus, consider keeping them in an environment not deprived of sunshine. One of the basic needs of this small houseplant is partial sunlight. While thinking about temperature, have the right amount of radiation in mind for your plant. ![]() Know that flamingo flowers are quite sensitive to temperature, so keep them far away from windows, entrances, heating, and cooling vents that can suddenly expose them to breeze or chilly weather. Or create an indoor setting that would prevent your houseplant from being confronted by drafts and abrupt changes in temperature. One of the best things you can do to make your anthurium flamingo comfortable is to keep it indoors. Thus, you’ll be preventing your flamingo plants from stunted growth and leave discoloration. Besides, at night, the temperature above 50 degrees Fahrenheit would be just perfect. Right Temperature and RadiationĪnthurium flamingo is a soft and delicate plant, so it thrives well in a warm environment with daytime temperature within the range of 70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit (21 to 29 degrees Celsius). ![]() Shake the combination well around the roots of the plant by so doing, you’ll be avoiding air pockets that can cause root drying. For instance, try doing more watering in the summer than during the rainy season.įurthermore, this flower, renowned for bursting with life, will remain healthy or come back alive if you plant it in a coarse and dry combination of perlite, moss, peat, and pine bark in equal proportion. Therefore, the flamingo flower within the comfort of your home expects you to water its potting mixture in the right proportion.Ĭonsider factors like the weather and climate of your area, size of your plant, and season of the year, when deciding on the watering frequency for your flamingo plant. Although they enjoy abundant rain while on trees, their roots, which are found outside the soil, ensure that they’re not drenched in water. Also, a soggy potting mixture may prevent the root of your plant from taking in oxygen, thereby causing root rot and depriving it of the required energy it needs to bloom.įlamingo flowers are tropical rainforest plants and are epiphytic, so just like your bromeliads and orchids, they grow on trees and have their preferred environment. A poorly drained potting mixture would hinder the plant’s soil from draining as fast as it should during irrigation. Without the right potting mixture, your anthurium flamingo is as good as dead. Here are a few ways to make your flamingo flower bloom all year. So the solution is to find out and practice the best ways to make your flamingo flower bloom again every three months. ![]() However, these reasons could be summed up into one sentence: lack of proper care. You may find your palette-shaped flower not blooming for many reasons. This begs the question: Why Is My Anthurium (Flamingo Flower) Not Flowering? However, there are chances that it may yield healthy-looking foliage but end up not flowering. The ornamental flamingo flower, otherwise known as Anthurium, has an all-year-round flowering season. Hence, a gardener seems to worry once they notice their flamingo flower drooping rather than blooming. Not too many flowers have the privilege of brandishing some of the distinctive qualities of flamingo flowers: glamorous, waxy, and luminous red spathes and glossy dark-green leaves.
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In this HDR Projects review, we compare the software to the previous version, see how it has improved, and consider whether it’s worth the investment. The program includes a large range of improvements, new tools, and features. ![]() It has a slick, modern interface combined with many different tools that help enhancing the dynamic range of images within Photoshop. The capable program merges the bracketing exposure images and uses tone mapping to establish a photo fit. HDR Projects 8 Professional is the latest version of this powerful HDR software from Franzis. Another new photo merger and HDR editor, Hydra comes packed with different features that aim to make the process of creating HDR images much easier. This is done using a state-of-the-art algorithm that makes this one of the most powerful HDR engines on the market. HDR projects 4 professional does the work for you. The first involves taking at least three identical photos with different exposure settings and combining them as a single image.Įclipse HDR recovers the details of each photo, over-exposed or under-exposed, and merges them to produce the best version of the image. To achieve this, HDR editors combine multiple versions of the same photo with different levels of exposure in order to create a single final photo that will bring out the best tones and light in each part of the imageĮclipse HDR features two HDR processing techniques for your photos: HDR (high dynamic range) editing is a technique for obtaining a larger "dynamic range" for your image, in other words a way to obtain the best possible ratio between light and dark. This is why HDR editing was invented, to bring photos taken with your camera closer to the image seen by the human eye, resulting in incredibly realistic-looking photos. If that doesn’t help and your projects also look off (bad color, lousy contrast, etc.) on the majority of HDR TVs and displays then look at your files using Quicktime's Movie Inspector and make sure your movies have been stored with the right bit depth and metadata (see the screenshot above) to turn on the HDR modes of HDR TVs. This difference can become even more noticeable when taking a picture of a scene with strong light contrasts, such as a sunset. This is because it is very difficult for a camera to reproduce exactly the same colours and light that we can see with our own eyes. When you take a photo, the final result is sometimes quite different from what you saw with the naked eye. ![]() (This will sort of run the servers in the background, so you will still be able to access each server when you need to, regardless of what else you are doing on your linux machine. STEP 2B - Using the screen function to run multiple servers Ln -s /home/username/quake3 /home/username/ffa1 enter the following line in the command prompt to create a symbolic link of your quake 3 directory:.However, this is a good system to use, since you can name the folders, ffa1, ffa2, ctf1, ctf2, and on down the line depending on how many servers you are planning on running on a single machine.) You can name the folders whatever you want. In the example above we have named the new folder ffa1, for a free for all deathmatch server. (This is similar to a shortcut in windows, it will create a virtual folder of the original files. This is valuable for users who have a T1/T3, or have collocated servers running on dedicated bandwidth. To run multiple servers on a single linux machine, without making extra installation directories, takes a few more steps. (Otherwise users will not be able to connect to your server.)Īt this point the server should be up and running on your Linux PC. Note: Make sure you have the port the server is running on forwarded in your router! q3ded +set dedicated 2 +set net_port 27960 +exec ffa1.cfg to run the server enter the following command:.make sure you select /home/username/quake3/ as the install dir.enter the following command and hit enter:.open a new command prompt and navigate to /home/username/.Download the Pointrelease 1.16n: CLICK HERE.Download a config file for the type of server you want, and place it in your baseq3 directory.Uncompress the Dreamcast Mappack, and place the files into your baseq3 directory.Download the Dreamcast Mappack from Fileplanet: CLICK HERE.Download segapak.pk3 and put it into your baseq3 directory: CLICK HERE.STEP 2A - Downloading DC related pak files copy the "pak0.pk3" file to the baseq3 directory.Put the Quake 3 Arena install disc into your PC.within the quake3 directory make another directory named "baseq3".create a directory named "quake3" where you want the server to run from (for example: /home/username/quake3). ![]() ![]() Adaptational Wimp: In the web series, Teachers seemed to have total control over everything the puppets did during their lessons, and any attempt by the puppets to interfere with their plans tended to be swiftly and severely punished.This gets a possible justification in "Electricity", which hints that the versions from the web series were Killed Offscreen at some point and replaced with new versions with different personalities. Adaptational Nice Guy: Tony, Colin, and Lamp, three of the villains from the web series, have minor roles in the show, but all of them appear to be friends of the puppets in this version.He's mean to Yellow Guy, used to bite him severely, kills a piece of bread and his clone without good reason, and casually mentions having forged documents that may have led to many deaths. Adaptational Jerkass: Although none of the characters do much of anything bad in the original, Duck is certainly an example of this in the TV series.The Channel 4 series contains examples of: Stepford Suburbia: Judging by the teaser for the TV series pilot, Clayhill seems to have this going on.Implying that they may be in another Lotus-Eater Machine. However, the final shot has everyone spontaneously gushing out their mindless love for fizzy milk, to the confusion of the main trio. The Key to the City is stopped by Yellow Guy and Red Guy, Duck apologizes for his Control Freak nature, and the town is restored back to normal. Bittersweet Ending: The pilot's ending edges between this and a Happy Ending.The end of the pilot ends with Yellow Guy's apparent 48th birthday party. However, Yellow Guy spends most of his party being upset, because everyone is too distracted by the mayor's disappearance and Duck slowly turning into a Control Freak. Birthday Episode: The pilot takes place on Yellow Guy's 38th birthday.Art Shift: Much of the Security Song, sung by a key-shaped teacher is animated in the style of a rubberhose cartoon.As the series goes on, some of them even begin to question just how real the world they're living in is. But things inevitably take a turn for the worse and weirder, and they often find themselves trapped in a living nightmare. Every episode features a new edutainment character, usually a talking object, that arrives to teach them a valuable life lesson about an important topic. Much like the web series, the story follows three nameless puppets, referred to as Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck. However, the creators felt that it was too much of a thematic departure and contained topical references that could make it an Unintentional Period Piece when the series was picked up by Channel 4, Becky, Joe, and Baker scrapped the pilot and went for a setting and storyline more in line with the original. The scope was expanded to an entire town called Clayhill, with a larger cast of supporting characters to match, which Becky analogized to South Park. A pilot episode was produced from 2016 to 2018, titled "Wakey Wakey", and it premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Originally, the series was to be produced by Super Deluxe, Conaco, and Blink Industries. Its first season aired on Channel 4's streaming service All 4 on September 23rd, 2022, and aired on Channel 4 from September 30th to October 14th. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a British Horror Comedy TV series by Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry, adapted from the 2011 web series of the same name. With the new communicator, professional security and automation providers will cut install time and simplify operations as they streamline their takeover business. “The BAT-Connect combines the latest cellular, Ethernet and Wi-Fi technologies into one device, delivering the most innovative and versatile communicator in the industry.” “Our progressive partners are seeking efficient and cost-effective solutions to take over legacy systems that require an upgrade,” said Brian McLaughlin, CEO of Alula. Because BAT-Connect uses IP as its first form of communication with cell as an optional backup, it doesn’t have the same vulnerability to sunsets as cell-only communicators. Upgrading aging security systems will enable dealers to increase recurring monthly revenue and retain more accounts. Powered by the encrypted, lightning-fast Alula network, system control is delivered instantly to the smart devices that customers already use and love. The product was awarded a New Product Showcase Award in the Residential and Monitoring Solutions category at ISC West.īeyond solving the looming problem of the CDMA network sunset, the intuitive BAT-Connect device smartly bridges intrusion security, video and automation with the Alula iOS or Android App to give security professionals a path to instantly modernize their customers’ experience. PAUL, MN – AP–Alula, the leader in smart security and automation systems for professional installers and the award-winning inventors of the Connect+ Platform, announced today the release of the BAT-Connect Communicator, a device that easily upgrades legacy security platforms and modernizes the mobile experience. ![]() ![]() I removed the vest out on the road, choosing the jacket for protection. It didn't flow enough air through the vest to get any significant cooling, and it wasn't too long before the humidity in the jacket was oppressive. There are also three vents at the back - across the shoulders and down beside each shoulder blade. The jacket has vents at the wrists, across the shoulders and down the upper arms, across the chest, and beside the waist. I tried it while wearing the vented leather jacket I usually wear out on the road. Some more discrete, others more racing.I bought an evaporative vest a couple of years ago when I had an Indian cruiser with a large slab windshield. Just as we saw for the Challenger suit, (its predecessor) it could become one of the best selling suits. ![]() Let’s wind up this analysis: this Alpinestars GP Force Professional suit, and its 2 piece version, are a great option and should be taken into account as it has a superb quality-price ratio. Two more reasons to make it even clearer: this is a very comfortable suit. Everything you need to feel like a Pro.Īsides, we don’t want to forget a detail that we won’t find in the top of the range suits, but that you’re going to appreciate: the waterproof inner pocket.Ī couple of details more: in the two versions we have an extendable part with a zip on the calf for greater comfort and the collar is made of 3D fabric. Without forgetting the aerodynamic hump for superb, high speed, aerodynamic performance. Similarly, bear in mind that it allows for the integration of the Nucleon KR-R back protector via the practical Alpinestars snap button system. Same for the accordion stretch leather panels and the pre-curved sleeves, a must for all racing gear worth its salt.Īs regards the protections, (an important subject being as it’s a suit we’ll use for riding at high speeds), we have Bio-Armor protections on the shoulders and elbows, GP-R protections on the knees, replaceable Alpinestars PU Sport sliders on the knees and internal GHP Lite reinforcements on the inside of the shoulders. It allows you great freedom of movement thanks to the stretch fabric panels on the sleeves, crotch and chest. Also, it has perforated panels for greater ventilation. This is a very comfortable suit, made of premium leather, 1.3mm thick for great abrasion resistance. As for the rest, there’s little difference. The jacket and the pants of the 2 piece version are joined via a practical zip, which in this version has been redesigned. It allows for great performance on the bike, more freedom of movement and, why not: it allows you to go to the loo more comfortably. On the other hand, the 2 piece is much more versatile. Having said that, the two versions have their strong points: the one piece suit is devised for giving your all on the bike, ideal for fans of doing laps around the track. For those that understand, we’ll mention that it’s the successor of the Alpinestars Challenger model, a suit that has become a bestseller. In your head it’ll be like: Which should I buy? A 1 piece or a 2 piece one?Īlpinestars gives you a choice with this GP Force suit, as we have its “professional” one piece version, and another 2 piece option. We’ll analyse it in depth.Īs we said at the start: It can be difficult to know how to choose your motorcycle suit. Motorcycle suit, 1 or 2 pieces ? Alpinestars GP Force, features ConclusionĬhoosing your next suit can be a real brain ache? Which do I buy? Will I get it right? In this post we want to analyse one of the latest novelties: the Alpinestars GP Force suit, a motorcycle suit with a superb quality-price ratio and with two options: 1 or 2 pieces. ![]()
![]() Give the beveled edge a coat of shiny silver acrylic paint for more added realism. This will give the blade more depth, and make it look "used". Once the blade is dry, mix a small amount of silver acrylic craft paint with a small drop of black, and dry brush streaks perpendicular to the edge of the blade. Flip the blade and repeat for the other side. Give the primer at least an hour or two to dry and then spray a couple coats of silver paint. Wait for it to dry, then flip it over and repeat for the other side. Give the blade a few good coats of brown or rust colored primer. Wrench, pliers or other tool with a blunt metal edge.Spray paint (silver and tan or light brown).Test fit the blade into the shaft and remove more material as necessary until you get a good snug fit. Then use a small chisel and rasp if necessary to clean it up. Use a jigsaw, scroll saw, coping saw, or whatever works to safely remove the material between the two holes. It may be difficult to drill the holes straight through the center using only a hand drill. If you have access to a drill press, that would be ideal for this. Then use a ½” bit, or a bit the same size as your blade width to drill out the pilot holes. Measure and mark out where you want the blade to penetrate the shaft, then drill small pilot holes on each end and make sure they are centered. We don’t exactly want this to look like a square piece of lumber when it’s finished. I hope you didn’t put the sander away because now you are going to need it to smooth out the entire shaft. And since our Grimm Reaper actor will be 8 feet tall (on stilts), I had to splice the 2” x 2” with another to extend it an additional foot and a half. Where I live, I couldn’t find any 2” x 2” ‘s longer than 8 feet. You can make your scythe as long as you want. They might even sell it cheap, so be sure to ask for a discount. ![]() Go to your local lumber yard and select the most bowed 2” x 2” you can find.
![]() But they also spend most their time on four legs – keeping their leg muscles from developing even more impressive strength. Gorillas have shorter legs, limiting the range of motion – make that lift easier. Here’s a spirited discussion on a gorillas prospects for being a bench press champion. World Record for Heaviest Bench Press (Male) Strongest Man: 885 lb (401.5 kg) by Blaine Sumner.But let’s just have fun and go with it anyway. Bench Press: Gorilla vs Manīecause of their disproportionate arm/leg length ratio, they are not really built for this type of competition. Here’s how a gorilla would do with some common lifts used to measure human strength. ![]() For a proper comparison, we would need to compare two individuals of equal size and training. Limitations: Gorillas don’t have training in lifting or fighting. How much stronger is a gorilla than a human? At least 6X stronger than a human, everything else being equal. Let me know in the comments what you think! In this post, I’ve accumulated a collection of facts and some assumptions to get the conversation started. There is a surprising absence of real data on the strength of a gorilla. This post is a combination of facts and conjecture. And no one has fought a gorilla against a bear (thankfully). They haven’t competed in strong man (ape) competitions. No one really knows how strong a gorilla is. Range: Eastern Africa (Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo)īut before we get started, I want to make one thing clear.Adult male gorillas are known as silverbacks. Color: Black (adult males have a silver “saddle” on their back).Bite Strength: 1,300 PSI (stronger than a great white shark or lion).Strength compared to humans: 6 times human strength (estimated).Strength: 10 times body weight (estimated).If we take an average weight of a 400 lb (181 kg) for an adult male mountain gorilla, that means that it could hypothetically lift upwards of 4,000 lb (1,810 kg)! Gorilla Strength, Size, and Speed Summary But the most common statistic that I can find states a gorilla’s strength at 10 times their body weight. Many sites claim that a gorilla can lift anywhere from 4 to 27 times their body weight. Gorillas strength is about 10 times their body weight. Gorilla Strength, Size, and Speed SummaryĮpic Guide to Gorilla Strength How Strong is a Gorilla?. Tips for caring for your Waterford Crystal. Patience, skill, and artistry had wrought a triumph at Waterford crystal. Marquis by Waterford Crystal 'Markham' Set of 4 Goblet Glasses from Italy. Murano Glass and Turquoise Millefiori Goto Tumblers from Italy. Kate Spade New York 'Grace Avenue' Set of 2 Toasting Flute. Reminiscent of the patterns created by a winter's first frost, this collection features intricate cuts and delicate motifs in full-lead crystal that will glisten and shine brightly in the warmth of your home. Waterford Crystal 'Winter Wonders' Rose Double Old-Fashioned Glass. Celebrate the beauty of nature with the Midnight Frost Collection, the first in Waterford's 6-year series, Winter Wonders. Once more, it is the customary gift for royalty and heads of state. Set of 6 Silver Plate Personalized Mint Julep Cups. In a few short years Waterford Crystal reclaimed its pride of place. They recruited a small band of hand - picked artists, and under the guidance of these masters, young apprentices learned the intricacies of the art of crysta l. But when Irish independence rekindled a passion for Irish arts in the 1940s and 1950s, a group of businessmen resolved to bring back to life the industry that had made the city of Waterford famous. and delicate swans turned everything in a fifteen-foot radius into a winter wonderland, including the two men's faces. This great tradition lay dormant for a hundred years. Waterford Crystal 'Winter Wonders' Rose Double Old-Fashioned Glass. And it radiated a distinctive, silvery white brilliance, which Waterford Crystal's artists enhanced with deeply - cut ornamentation that gave the finished pieces a vivacious, traditional Waterford crystal sparkle. It felt soft and warm to the touch yet possessed strength and durability known only to Waterford crystal. ![]() ![]() They had in hand the old secrets of mingling minerals and glass to create Waterford crystal of beautiful and mysterious qualities. When the brothers George and William Penrose founded the Waterford Glass House in 1783, they made a bold promise - to make Waterford crystal in "as fine a quality as any in Europe in the most elegant style." And in all of Ireland, no hands have been more patient, more meticulous, or more blessed with the elusive powers of art than the hands of Waterford crystal's craftsmen. Add the pinnacle of festive ambience to your home with the Winter Wonders Mastercraft collection. We’ve blown out the ceiling and restored the rink’s original dome. It is one of the great traditions in the realm of art, a tradition founded on patient and meticulous hand craftsmanship.The skill of Irish hands is only part of the story - there is also an uncanny power in those hands to impart something magical to glass. At Rolladium, our classic roller rink has a whole new vibe. ![]() Cashs of Ireland is the largest independent Waterford Crystal retailer in the U.S.įor centuries the Irish have been supreme artists in glass. |
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