Rarely have I experienced such fast and accurate support. In case of ambiguities or questions, the support is fast - "very fast"! -) Anytime from everywhere I can access the web file, put it on my server, vary it, save it in different versions etc. It is a super experience based on the Wysiwyg principle and it works.įast, easy and very clear. I have known Sparkle for years and have worked with it from time to time.īut since the current version 4 I am just thrilled! Without naming all the manufacturers and thus criticizing them., the selection of web design programs is very clear.Īnd the all courted Wordpress is not really user friendly. Without HTML knowledge there is little or nothing possible for many applications. I have been creating websites for years - both for my own use and on commission.
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![]() ![]() (formerly Aviall) to procure ExxonMobil aviation lubricants across its entire fleet. SPRING, Texas – ExxonMobil announced today that Mesa Airlines signed a 5-year contract with Boeing Distribution Inc. The contract with ExxonMobil allows Mesa Airlines to simplify its supply chain, achieve more efficient operations, and avoid fluctuation in prices over time.Mesa Airlines is a regional air carrier headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona that provides scheduled passenger service to over 100 cities.Mesa Airlines has signed a 5-year contract with Boeing and ExxonMobil to use Mobil Jet™ Oil II and Mobil™ HyJet™ IV-Aplus for its fleet of over 160 aircraft.To learn more about Sky Fleet and Enno Games, please visit and. Sky Fleet will launch on Steam in Q3 2021.įounded in 2020 by Daniel Phillips and headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, Enno Games specializes in innovative multiplayer games on PC. Upgrade your ship by buying ever-more-powerful weapons!.Enjoy a perfect mix of in-depth base building and tower defense mechanics.Play online any way you like – co-op or PvP!.Attack enemy bases with your team – targeting the enemy’s drones for maximum damage.Harvest Duraphyte to upgrade your ships and Uridium to build most buildings.Create your very own floating city and defend it from attackers by building turrets!.Got all the Duraphyte in the world? Arm yourself to the teeth and go after the enemy base! Duraphyte must be mined from Duraphyte islands by building an extractor building. Uridium and Duraphyte will allow you to build buildings and upgrade your ship with life-saving weapons (in that order). You can’t fend the drones off in combat – but turrets are beautiful things … and they sure love to shoot down drones! ![]() Early on, your ship will simply not be enough. Power Generators are essential – since they’ll power the whole city!Īfter you’ve gathered resources and built your city, drones will begin attacking in waves.Shield Generators will protect your buildings.Farms help you gather resources more quickly.Ammo Factories will keep everyone’s ammo supply full.In Sky Fleet, you and your fleet of blimps try to defend your homeland against invading drones by teaming up with other players to gather resources and build the ultimate, impenetrable Cloud City: Please visit Sky Fleet’s Steam page to join the Playtest: Side Shields: Creates side shields that block bullets. Ammo Maker: Generate ammo – and never run out!.Hollow Point: Bullets cause extra damage.Heal Allies: Heals nearby ships and buildings.Bug fixes and lots of little improvements!.Hotkeys are now available for building structures and more.Two new ships – Frigate and Destroyer – can be bought at the armory.The playtest is open to anyone with a Steam account. PDT – and ends Monday, April 19 at 11:59 p.m. The Sky Fleet Playtest starts today – Thursday, April 15 at 10:00 a.m. If you’ve been wanting to check out this highly anticipated co-op shooter, tower defense and base-building game, the wait is finally over □ The latest Steam Playtest for Sky Fleet is now live! Want to play Sky Fleet? Steam Playtest starts NOW ![]() Artists like Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung depicted them naked. The explicit implications of staff riding, and the sexual nature of witches in images throughout the Renaissance, are difficult to ignore. "A lot of it we can't trust as descriptions of social reality at all," Zika told LiveScience. Modern knowledge of witches often comes from manuals written by inquisitors, ecclesiastical judges and testimony by accused witches - much of it produced under duress or torture, Zika explained. ![]() Sources from the era when fears about witchcraft peaked are unreliable and biased, noted Charles Zika, a professor at the University of Melbourne, who has written about the imagery of witchcraft. It's hard to know whether or not witches actually did the deeds they were rumored to have done (like mounting hallucinogen-laced wooden staffs in their covens). And what better applicator than a wooden staff? According to legend, witches used herbs with psychoactive properties like henbane in their potions, or "flying ointments." Some historical accounts suggest witches applied these ointments to their nether regions. Ingesting henbane, which is rich in powerful alkaloids, can cause hallucinations (if it doesn't kill you first). The story - full of sex, drugs and Christian inquisitors - starts with poisonous plants like black henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger), sometimes called stinking nightshade. But few likely know the murky tale of how witches came to be associated with those familiar household objects. 31 will be carrying broomsticks or besoms. Many of the pointy-hatted sorcerers who roam the streets this Oct. 1 costume for adults, according to the National Retail Federation's 2013 Halloween survey. Among the throngs of this year's trick-or-treaters, hundreds of Americans will be dressed as Miley Cyrus or a minion from "Despicable Me," but more will go with a fail-safe getup. ![]() Seward wrote the proclamation that read in part: ![]() President Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day in 1863, to be celebrated on November 26 - the final Thursday of the month. The holiday would remain inconsistent for decades. It read in part: “Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of thee States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.” In 1789, New Jersey congressman Elias Boudinot proposed that the House and Senate jointly ask President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for “the many signal favors of Almighty God.” Washington then created the first U.S. The Continental-Confederation Congress, the legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, issued several “national days of prayer, humiliation, and thanksgiving.” This would eventually manifest itself in the established American observances of Thanksgiving and the National Day of Prayer today. George Washington, leader of the revolutionary forces, proclaimed a Thanksgiving in December 1777 as a victory celebration honoring the defeat of the British at Saratoga. The feast was cooked by the four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World, along with young daughters and other servants.ĭuring the war, the Continental Congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each year, each time recommending to the executives of the various states the observance of these days in their states. The gathering included 50 people who were on the Mayflower (all who remained of the 100 who had landed) and 90 Native Americans. They celebrated at Plymouth for three days after their first harvest in 1621. It wasn’t until a decade later that the Plymouth settlers, known as Pilgrims, arrived in the New World. Thanksgivings also took place in what became the Commonwealth of Virginia as early as 1607, with the first permanent settlement of Jamestown holding a Thanksgiving in 1610. ![]() With animal rights activists standing nearby, the president quipped that "this fine tom turkey…will not end up on anyone's dinner table, not this guy-he's granted a presidential pardon as of right now." The rest, as they say, is history.This story doesn’t necessarily start with Pilgrims.Įvidence shows that Spanish explorers and settlers held thanksgiving services during the late 1500s in what is now Florida and New Mexico. In 1989, following this tradition, the first official turkey "pardon" was granted by George H.W. It continued under the administrations of Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. It was intended, perhaps, as a peace offering by the poultry industry after egg growers sent crates of live chickens to the White House labeled "Hens for Harry," an act of protest against the president's short-lived encouragement of "poultry-less Thursdays." And though the Truman Library & Museum disputes that he was the first to "pardon" a presidential turkey, a murky tradition of presidents receiving-but not eating-turkeys began. Truman who became the first to receive one from the Poultry and Egg National Board and the National Turkey Federation in 1947. presidents receiving turkeys as gifts can be traced back to the 1870s, but it was Harry S. Bush's presidential "pardon" of a turkey was a joke of sorts. Just a few examples of how I use command line apps beyond their app launcher functionality. If you prefer a more UI-focused approach with more bells and whistles, TextExpander or PhraseExpress may be more up your alley. It may not be for everyone because it involves editing a YAML file to add your snippets, but I like the feature-set - including the ability to set the cursor wherever I want in the phrase. Instead, I just map them to text shortcuts using an app like Espanso on both my Windows and Mac computers. I prefer to avoid bothering with the extra step of finding and opening that document to be able to do the copy-paste. Most folks I know either type these out or have them in a note or document somewhere on their computer for quick copy/paste access. Things like email IDs (way too many in my case), phone numbers, addresses, ID card numbers, and so on are all examples of text snippets you will need often. That’s where text expansion apps come into play. Snippets And MoreĬopy-pasting multiple items is great, but you don’t always want to do that round-trip for commonly used text. There are fancier options, like Paste on the Mac, but I personally prefer open-source tools and the ones above get the job done just fine without any compromise. The Ditto popup window showing my clipboard history. On Mac, I use Clipy for pretty much the same set of reasons. ![]() It is easy, no-nonsense, and plug-n-play on Windows, but with a fair bit of customization available under the hood. For me, the primary clipboard manager I use is an open-source one called Ditto. There are dozens of great clipboard managers out there, so it really comes down to the way you work and hence what features you prefer. Given how much we copy-paste on any given day, the ability to copy multiple items from one source and then paste them one after another without going back and forth can make a huge difference. If there’s one trick in here that saves me more time in the most literal sense than all others, it is the ability to access my clipboard history. (Maybe a topic for another time.) Superpowered Clipboards I’ve been on both sides of the fence over the years, but now I prefer the non-Apple ecosystems for several reasons we won’t need to get into here. I know that a designer who prefers Windows and Android over a Mac and an iPhone is a rarity. Note: The article is for designers of all levels working on both Windows and Mac platforms. On the smartphone side, I’m primarily an Android user, but I’ll try to include a few iOS-specific tips as and wherever possible. On the desktop front, I switch between my primary Windows computer and a MacBook regularly, so I’ll cover tools on both operating systems. We will look at how to improve your day-to-day tasks and the tools that can help you with them. Here I’ll share some of my favorite ways to do things faster, better, and probably more fun. :) (Image source: Wikipedia/ Public Domain) ( Large preview) (And I started when MS DOS was a thing, so that’s a very long time!) Yes, I am that years old. This is probably why I’m obsessed with productivity - finding ways to do things faster and evaluating tools that improve my workflow has been my passion for as long as I’ve used computers in my life. ![]() As knowledge workers that push pixels on our screens all day, for us, every second saved by working faster is that much more time to do the things that we love, be that spending time with friends and family or simply squeezing in that one more project for the month. There is a multitude of ways to do anything on a computer - and some are faster than others. In this article, Ashish Bogawat shares some of his favorite ways how to boost productivity and do things faster by using efficient tools and workflows. And for us designers, every second saved by working faster is that much more time to do the things that we love. ![]() There are many ways of working on a computer - but some are faster than others. You can outperform your opponent on defense and keep getting some damage with your goblin barrel. It’s also recommended by the one and only KashmanTV. Give the decks a try and you’ll have an easy time climbing up the ranks, guaranteed!īait the zap and send your goblin barrel. It is not sorted in a particular order either, so you can choose the one that fits your card levels. I gathered a list of the top 10 decks that are just too powerful to play without.įear not, the list has a wide variety of cards. Are you curious about the possible combos you can make with the newly unlocked cards? I’ve got you covered. Abalde finished as the top-rated player (20) as the team clinched a 21-point victory while giving a rest to other big names like Deck and Musa ahead of another three-game week (86-65, min.40).Hooray! You finally reached arena 4. ![]() Ndiaye was simply sublime, posting 14 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 recovery and 4 fouls received for a PIR of 15 in almost 20 minutes on court. It was a real team performance, with six players in double digits for PIR, but the real standout performer was the 18-year-old. Chus Mateo's team rounded off the third quarter with a 26-13 run to make all but certain of the result (64-41). In total, 20 of Madrid's 26 in the quarter, as Hezonja made the play of the game with a reverse slam. Up top, Causeur and Sergio Rodríguez delivered an offensive exhibition. Chus Mateo's team refused to let fatigue get the better of them, maintaining their defensive levels with total dominance on the rebound, forcing error after error from the opposition as they failed to keep up. Madrid had done the hard work now - but this was the third game at the WiZink Center in less than seven days and the legs could have gone. His stunning display, his best in our colours, saw the team extend their streak to 27-13 in the quarter and go into the break 10 up (38-28, min. The forward really took the game to the opposition with eight points almost in a row, including two triples, just at the start of the second quarter to open a huge run. The academy graduate picked up where his teammate left off and filled in ably for Tavares, smashing an amazing seven minutes: 10 points without a miss, two rebounds, four fouls received and a PIR of 15. They stepped things up at the back and began to purr in offense. The two players took to the court and played a crucial rule in turning things around as the team upped the intensity. Both performed brilliantly in the first period despite a poor run near the basket (11-15, min. ![]() Without Tavares, a late absentee, nor Yabusele, Poirier and Cornelie made up the inside duo. ![]() Madrid did gradually begin to build up a rhythm thanks to their superiority on the rebound. It took the team a while to work their way into the game with poor accuracy near the hoop and the Bilbao outfit made the most of seven madridista turnovers in the first quarter to take the initiative and surprise the home side at 9-15 with nine minutes gone. Abalde (14 and 20), Causeur (16 and 13) and Sergio Rodríguez (8 and 12) were also top performers in a second win inside 72 hours. Ndiaye delivered his best madridista display with a stunning 14 points and 15 PIR in 19:48 minutes). Real Madrid close out the week with another league win, their eighth on the bounce, and nineteenth in total, to remain top of the table with 22 games played. Our team got the better of Surne Bilbao Basket at the WiZink Center following an impressive spell over the second and third quarters and a decisive 53-26 run. ![]() Piranesi Drawings reveals the quality and lasting impact of the pen and chalk studies by a remarkably talented draftsman, as demonstrated by the superb collection at the British Museum. In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support the sublimity of my ideas. 174950 Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing first state of four (Robison) Dimensions: Sheet: 24 13/16 x 19 1/2 in. Curator and author Sarah Vowles establishes a clear relationship between his drawings and prints, discusses the involvement of studio hands in his late works, and examines how his style as a draftsman evolved. Piranesi drawings reveals the quality and lasting impact of the work of this remarkably influential artist. Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 17201778 Rome) Publisher: Giovanni Bouchard (French, ca. While many studies are concerned with Piranesi’s activities as a printmaker, this beautifully illustrated book examines new dimensions of his art by focusing on his drawings. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this volume explores Piranesi’s celebrated skill as a draftsman. ![]() The Lobkowicz Collections, housed at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, contains a group of twenty-six of his engravings. The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted home city of Rome and for his extraordinary flights of spatial fancy, such as Le Carceri (“Prisons”). Throughout his lifetime, Piranesi created numerous prints depicting the Eternal City these were widely collected by gentlemen on the Grand Tour. A new exploration of Piranesi’s work as a draftsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum. Signing their respective contributions individually, the authors begin in classic detective fashion by going through Piranesi’s wastepaper basket it turns out over sixty Piranesi drawings survive ‘on paper that has some form of printing on it’ and are immediately rewarded with the discovery of a ‘lost’ book. ![]() The three Skottles Grills in the photo is for demonstrating the adjustable legs. Only one Skottle Grill comes with each kit. The grill is fabricated in the USA and comes per-seasoned so it can be used immediately. ![]() Using just a few tools, with minimal practice, you'll be carving perfect ribs. ![]() Essentially, it is a designed-for-skottle grill with a sturdy, light-weight body. The Skottle is a modern take on the ancient spirit kettle. The TemboTusk Skottle can be used to cook anything at home or while camping, tailgating at a game or just to get you out of the kitchen and outdoors! Mountain State Overland team cook, Jamie, assembles an easy and quick deli-style pizza using a Tembo Tusk Skottle. Tembo Tusk Skottle Accessory Kit is an inovative new system of cooking accessories for the barbecuing enthusiast. You can now carry and store the Skottle Grill in one package.Įverthing you need to order in one place.ģ: One 10,000 BTU Kovea Scout burner and includes a propane gas adapter The bag will include straps on the outside of the bag to slot the shorter legs into. The BlueRidge Overland Gear Carry Bag has also been improved. Brands DECKED Hi-Lift Factor 55 Maxtrax Rotopax Raceline Wheels Tembotusk. The stove has enough power to handle windy weather. Jeep Tire Carriers for Wrangler 2007-2018 Jeep Wrangler JK Accessories & Parts. The Kovea stove has excellent low and high flame control with a push button flame starter. Using just a few tools, with minimal practice, youll be carving perfect ribs in no time. An outstanding quality stove from South Korea. Tembo Tusk Skottle Accessory Kit is an inovative new system of cooking accessories for the barbecuing enthusiast. We are upgrading the current stove to include the Kovea Scout Stove. Do you watch a lot of camping, overlanding or outdoor videos Have you had a desire to get into adventure camping but think you need thousands of dollars wor. The second area of improvement will be in the stove burner that will be standard with every Kit. Each leg will have a hard stop at 29 inches and 36 inches and fine adjustment for uneven ground. The legs will collapse down to 20 inches making them easier to carry and store. The Glacier Camp Stove is a Isobutane/propane fuel canister stove. The cooking pan has not changed, however, the all American made Skottle Grill will have new Adjustable legs. The new Adjustable Leg Skottle Grill Kit is an improvement over the the original Kit in a number of ways. ![]() Mercury formed Queen with Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, and EMI Records in the U.K. ![]() I don’t recommend it for anyone.”įreddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on Septemin Zanzibar, and grew up there as well as in India before moving to England in his late teenage years. I just had to be really cognizant of when to work out and when to crash diet. I bulked up for that first week and immediately had to drop muscle and weight and go into shooting young Freddie, who is very scrawny. But at the same time, I was on a very specific diet. There were days when I found myself laying on my back trying to just absorb as much air as possible. “Well, it’s highly impossible to do that. “I didn’t really want to bulk up, per se - I just wanted to get my body into a place where I could do a 22-minute concert over and over for five days and not be out of breath,” he explained. To truly become Mercury, he had to add muscle, but mainly he needed to be in prime condition to do a concert set with the same energy Mercury exhibited some 33 years ago.Īlso Read: Why Do the Golden Globes Think 'A Star Is Born' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Are Dramas, Not Musicals? ![]() ![]() Robot,” the 37-year-old actor is thin - frail, even - and he shuffles through scenes unassumingly. Shooting that performance, which actually became the final sequence in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, also required Malek to change his physique. He said, ‘If it’s planned, then it’s boring.'” We spent copious hours trying to figure out all the moves–and you know Freddie is a spontaneous human being in every aspect of his life. “ was the first thing we shot,” Malek said as he sat, relaxed, in a wooden chair, dressed in a black leather jacket, white t-shirt and navy creepers. With the help of movement coach Polly Bennett, Malek committed Mercury’s moves to memory for the film’s shot-by-shot re-creation. “But you know, I just put my nose down and gave it my all.”Īnd he started with Live Aid, the 1985 charity concert that included a Queen set that has since been dubbed one of the greatest live performances of all time. Robot,’ of all things, that I could play Freddie Mercury is beyond me,” he said. “Where the producers got the idea from ‘Mr. Malek wasn’t a dancer or singer, and he’d never played piano before taking the job in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Instead, he was an actor best known for playing a depressed hacker on an oddball USA Network series. On a Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, between stacks of colorful album covers by the Beatles, Elvis Presley, David Bowie and many more, Rami Malek demonstrated the moves that helped him bring legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury back to life in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Assuming Mercury’s iconic stance, thrusting his arm forward into that familiar full-power fist pump and then segueing into a stomping tap dance that he likened to “squashing worms on the pavement,” Malek proved that even in a cramped record-store aisle, he had those iconic Mercury moves down. Mercury responded with a cutting little jab of his own: “I called him Simon Ferocious or something, and he didn’t like it at all,” the singer said in an 80s-era interview.This story first appeared in Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. “You’re Freddie Mercury, aren’t you? You’re bringing ballet to the masses,” he sneered, according to May Vicious was referring to a previous quote Mercury had given in the press. Per an old interview with Brian May, Vicious made the first remark. Draw whatever symbolism you like about two bands on opposing ends of a shifting genre working under the same roof, but this much was simple: Vicious wasn’t a fan. Queen was working on News of the World, while the Pistols were working on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. It was 1977, and Queen and the Sex Pistols, the burgeoning faces of punk rock, were all under one roof at Wessex Sound Studios in North London. Freddie Mercury wasn’t notorious for feuding with other artists, but he did make an exception for Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. ![]() Change the type, font, color, size and other text attributes.Type and edit text: Text tool (combines distortable text and text in box), Text on Path tool, Text in Shape tool.Simplify Paths for your current needs by removing the excessive number of points on it.The Path Width tool allows you to use an intuitive variable stroke with no need to define the width of the stroke manually.Edit paths and shapes they form using the Knife, Scissors and Eraser tools.Convert points to corner points and smooth points.Add, remove and arrange the anchor points.Execute full range of operations with Layers: Duplicate, Merge, Lock, Hide.Set blending mode: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Lighten, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity.Export sheets as separate documents in supported file formats.Adjust the orientation and size of any sheet individually.Store multiple artworks in one document.The iOS/iPadOS workspace allows to freely rotate canvas and supports all native Apple gestures, thus providing for a seamless experience.Use one of the available view modes: Outline Preview, Pixel Preview, or Retina Preview.Use guides, smart guides, guides from path, grid and rulers *.Use the app with all panels in attached or detached modes in the Mac version.Fusion tool offers you a totally different approach to creating vector objects based on combining multiple objects into one.Create user custom libraries to add your vector objects of choice.Vector shape libraries contain a large number of vector objects.Transform shapes: Free Transform, Symmetrical Distortion, Free Distortion.Draw and edit paths: Pen, Draw (combines Pencil and Brush), Width, Gradient, Path Width, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line, Arc.Select and modify objects: Move, Selection, Lasso, Eyedropper, Scissors, Eraser, Knife, Free Transform.Use more than 30 tools for selecting, drawing, editing and typing. ![]() Thanks to the zipped storage format оf document (amdc), you can save your graphics in different cloud storages without data loss.Freely exchange graphics with other apps in vector and raster file formats.Export the entire document, a sheet or a selection.Save your work in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, EPS * or PDF file formats.Save vector graphics as SVG and PDF files.Supported raster file formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG and HEIC.Supported vector file formats: SVG, EPS, PDF and AI. |