There's young Orlando Gardiner, who compensates for a crippling illness by being the baddest barbarian on the net. There's a ton of other storylines going on in there as well. And it may hold the secret to what has afflicted her brother. It is the Otherland, a playground for the obscenely wealthy. With the assistance of her student, a Bushman named !Xabbu, Renie uncovers an amazing virtual world, something that puts the best virtual reality to shame. Something shut him down, and Renie was determined to find out. Renie's brother, Stephen, engaged in the usual mischief that any kid with access to his own virtual universe might do, and finally got caught. And you can do it in full sense-surround 3D. Here, depending on your equipment, you can live in a virtual world that is more vibrant and exciting than anything the real world can offer. The only clue she has is that the outbreaks of these comas coincide with the availability of access to the Net - a virtual reality internet that is what Second Life dreams of becoming. He, like many other children around the world, has gone into an inexplicable coma, the causes of which defy medical science. Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in South Africa, has a brother in the hospital. It begins with the children in a near-future world. It's a series of grand scope, amazing scale and great imagination, well worthy of your time. Similar in size and scope, anyway - four giant tomes chock full of all things awesome. This is one of Tad Williams' "economy-sized manuscripts," similar to his fantasy classic Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. I can't think of any other series that I've done that with. Let me just start by saying this: the first time I finished this series, I immediately went back and started reading it again. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: One should not forget that Williams is one of the before internet hype era bestselling authors, with 17 million copies sold, who seems to have been a bit forgotten, but this and Memory, sorrow, and thorn, also getting better with each part, should be on one's radar because it frees from searching new brain food for several weeks. And it stays so vivid, I´ve read it years ago and just by looking at the beautiful covers, I remember so many details, so many proofs of how ingenious he is at transporting lasting imaginations into the reader´s minds.Īlthough some might find it too big, wordy, and excessive, it´s also everything else than easy to enter, one has to invest the time it takes to read a shorter novel to get into the story because there is much exposition needed, but it´s so worth it and gets better with each part of the series. It would interest me if it would have been a bigger hit in a pure middle age fantasy setting, if conventions are really so mighty that they reduce the chance of success for experimentations.Īnd it has everything, predicting some already real and coming technological inventions, although other authors did the same before, a lack of net neutrality with corporations and rich tycoons controlling everything and fewer chances for normal people to participate at the same level, a teeny plotline, a digital second world, time travel, and many small stories executed in subplots like sidequests, make it a pearl for the ones who are a bit overeaten of and fed up with conventional, pure fantasy or sci-fi. Science Fantasy isn´t everyone´s favorite, this might be, besides the length and complexity of many plotlines, one of the reasons why this series hasn´t the same status as works of similar quality by Simmons, Martin, Erikson, and others. and especially the ones who gave the fantasy sci-fi crossover genre a new hype such as Mievielle, Hamilton, etc. He puts so many details, extra plotlines, secondary characters, and worldbuilding into his creations that he can be named in one line with Sanderson, Martin, Erikson, etc. He is one of the possibly most unknown and underrated master fantasy authors, having created 2 series, this one and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn that made him a living legend. William's style reminded me a bit of Neil Gaiman, just expanded to the ultimate maximum possible. I have the suspicion that the inventors of the cyber and post cyber genre names just wanted to pimp, because there is not so much difference. A very complex, unique series, mixing up different genres, never boring because of Williams´ talent and feeling for language, it describes one of the possible, awaiting futures, making dystopian cyberpunk seem empty in contrast to this rich, colorful, postcyberpunk worldbuilding.
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During his retreat from Union troops into Texas, he made a stand on Apat Albuquerque and fought the Battle of Albuquerque against a detachment of Union soldiers commanded by Colonel Edward R. Richardson, traveling to California via coach, passed through Albuquerque in late October 1859-its population was 3,000 at the time-and described it as "one of the richest and pleasantest towns, with a Spanish cathedral and other buildings more than two hundred years old." ĭuring the Civil War, Albuquerque was occupied for a month in February 1862 by Confederate troops under General Henry Hopkins Sibley, who soon afterwards advanced with his main body into northern New Mexico. In Beyond the Mississippi (1867), Albert D. Īfter the New Mexico Territory became a part of the United States, Albuquerque had a federal garrison and quartermaster depot, the Post of Albuquerque, from 1846 to 1867. Built in 1793, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city. On the north side of Old Town Plaza is San Felipe de Neri Church. Historically it was sometimes referred to as "La Placita" ( Little Plaza in Spanish). It is referred to as " Old Town Albuquerque" or simply "Old Town". This central plaza area has been preserved and is open to the public as a cultural area and center of commerce. The town of Alburquerque was built in the traditional Spanish villa pattern: a central plaza surrounded by government buildings, homes, and a church. Īfter 1821, Mexico also had a military presence there. Albuquerque was a farming and shepherding community and strategically located trading and military outpost along the Camino Real, for the other already established for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area, such as Barelas, Corrales, Isleta Pueblo, Los Ranchos, and Sandia Pueblo. In 1706, Albuquerque was founded as a villa of Nuevo México, New SpainĪlbuquerque was founded in 1706 as an outpost as La Villa de Alburquerque by Francisco Cuervo y Valdés in the provincial kingdom of Santa Fe de Nuevo México and named after the Viceroy Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th duke of Alburquerque, which is from a town in Spain. The Navajo, Apache, and Comanche peoples were also likely to have set camps in the Albuquerque area, as there is evidence of trade and cultural exchange among the different Native American groups going back centuries before European arrival. Two Tiwa pueblos lie specifically on the outskirts of the present-day city, both of which have been continuously inhabited for many centuries: Sandia Pueblo, which was founded in the 14th century, and the Pueblo of Isleta, for which written records go back to the early 17th century, when it was chosen as the site of the San Agustín de la Isleta Mission, a Catholic mission. Of these, 12 or 13 were densely clustered near present-day Bernalillo and the remainder were spread out to the south. By the 1500s, there were around 20 Tiwa pueblos along a 60-mile (97 km) stretch of river from present-day Algodones to the Rio Puerco confluence south of Belen. The Tanoan and Keresan peoples had lived along the Rio Grande for centuries before European settlers arrived in what is now Albuquerque. Petroglyphs carved into basalt in the western part of the city bear testimony to an early Native American presence in the area, now preserved in the Petroglyph National Monument. The city is home to the University of New Mexico, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the Gathering of Nations, the New Mexico State Fair, and a diverse restaurant scene, which features both New Mexican and global cuisine. Īlbuquerque is a hub for technology and media companies, historic landmarks, and the fine arts. The Albuquerque metropolitan area had 916,528 residents in 2020, and forms part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523. According to the 2020 census, Albuquerque had 564,559 residents, making it the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth largest in the Southwest. Located in the Albuquerque Basin, the city is flanked by the Sandia Mountains to the east and the West Mesa to the west, with the Rio Grande and bosque flowing north-to-south through the middle of the city. In 2006 the city celebrated its 300th anniversary. Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in 1706 as La Villa de Alburquerque by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. Albuquerque ( / ˈ æ l b ə ˌ k ɜːr k i/ ( listen) AL-bə-kur-kee Spanish: ), abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. If you see something that doesn’t look right, Contact Us.
Keep in mind that although we’re using a circle as example here, the same applies to other shapes that you can find in the toolbox Aligning objectsĬreate two circles. and a last one named “Stroke style”, which enables you to choose the properties of the stroke, such as width, for example.“Stroke paint”, which you can use to choose the color of the object border.“Fill”, which you can use to change the fill color of your object.A small window should open on the right, with 3 tabs: By holding Shift the circle will be centered on the point you first clicked, instead of this point being the corner of the bounding box.Īfter creating your object, right click on it and go to “Fill and Stroke”. While dragging, keep the Ctrl key pressed to create a circle instead of a ellipse. Once the tool is selected, click and drag onto the screen to create your circle. If for some reason you cannot see the toolbox bar, go to View > Show/Hide > Toolbox. To do this, use the “circle” tool, found in the toolbox to the left side of the window. Basic shapesįirst, let’s create a circle to represent our embryo. It may vary slightly depending on whether you use a Linux, OS X or Windows version, but the same tools are available in all versions. The Inkscape window should look somewhat like the above. Remember the embryo from the Introduction to GIMP tutorial ? It was this image:įor the purposes of this tutorial, we wish to create a schematic of the embryo image, and to explain its main structures. If the distinction between vectors and raster images is a little blurry, check out this LibLab tutorial about image formats. It’s different from GIMP, since the latter is mostly designed to manipulate raster images. Our end result turned out pretty good! Hopefully some of these techniques will “shed some light” on your designs.Inkscape is a programme dedicated to vector manipulation, which makes it a generic tool to create all sorts of figures, from logos to diagrams. We learned a lot about blending certain colors and using some pretty advanced gradients to create some realistic lighting. With everything else in place, you should have ended up with a cool scene with pretty accurate, realistic lighting! Position the shadow object under the droplet (again, you can use Align and Distribute).įinally, apply that same radial gradient we’ve been using, position it like I have it below, and you should have a neat looking shadow for the droplet.įor a final touch, I added a really small white stroke on the droplet to highlight it some more. Then just put them in position, select them, and Path > Difference to get our shadow object. To do this, let’s duplicate the droplet again and flip it vertically. Now we need to add a shadow to our droplet. You should have something like this so far. Apply the same radial gradient we used for the droplet and position it like I have it below.įinally, apply a 10px Blur to blend it in some more. You’ll end up with a perfect sliver to use as a glare. Now just place them on top one another like I have them below, select them both, and head up to Path > Difference. To create a glare for our droplet, duplicate the droplet and stretch one out as I have it below. You’ll want colors similar to the light source since this is a reflection, so I’ll just list what I ended up using below. We need to add a radial gradient to this droplet, but the colors will be a bit tricky. Now edit those nodes into a droplet shape, such as below. Go ahead and draw an ellipse like I have below. Now that we have a light source, we should add a subject to receive this light - such as a water droplet. Also, instead of just white, let’s do a radial gradient with white in the center, but then fades out to a complete transparency on the outside. Grab your Polygon tool and draw a star with 12 Corners and a 0.110 Spoke ratio. Let’s do another circle at 105px by 105px, white, and a 20px Blur.įinally, let’s add some flare. Position it over the orange circle also (use Object > Align and Distribute to be precise). Next, draw another perfect circle at about 125px by 125px, give it a yellow color, and apply a 20px Blur. Disabling JavaScript will mean many websites simply won’t work in your web browser anymore. Note: Do not get Java confused with JavaScript! JavaScript is an essential component for most browsers that enables it to display certain elements properly and is completely different to Java despite the confusingly similar name. Note that Java 6 does not officially work with OS X 10.12 Sierra although some users have had success with it so it may work and it seems to depend on the specific app you need it for. If you run into problems during installation, you’ll need to disable Rootless SIP protection in OS X (see above). To install the update, you must quit any Java applications that are running and then simply download and double click on the Jave 6 update file and the update will automatically install. This package is exclusively intended for support of legacy software and installs the same deprecated version of Java 6 included in the 5 releases. Java for OS X 2015-001 installs the legacy Java 6 runtime for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and OS X 10.7 Lion. In the release notes for the Java 6 update, Apple states: This is a special update from Apple which allows the outdated Java 6 to safely run on your Mac. If you’re having problems running Java 6 on your Mac in El Capitan then you simply need to install Apple’s legacy Java 6 OS X 2015-001 update. It’s because some applications, games and websites still only work with Java 6. Examples of people that may still need Java 6 are those trying to access some government sites, some online games and Android programmers that require Java 6 to develop Android apps on Mac. Or the Java applet crashes with an error message such as:Ĭom.: (.) Service exited with abnormal code: 1 If you find that Java apps or applets will either refuse to run or open briefly before crashing giving you an error message such as “This application requires the legacy Java SE 6 runtime which is unavailable for this version of OS X”: Note: You will have to deactivate SIP when new updates for Java are released as Java will not update while SIP is enabled.
Heading south, you’ll find the Pondside Cave. These will create decently powerful weapons for the Great Sky Island. Definitely take these guys out to obtain more materials for fusion. You’ll encounter a lot of Zonai Soldier Constructs, which you can quickly eliminate with your Fused weapons. Once you’ve finished the In-isa Shrine, head east. South of the shrine, you’ll find the Archaic Tunic. This shrine will teach you the basics of Fusing weapons, but if you’re stuck on the puzzle, our In-Isa Shrine solution page can help you solve it. This includes weapons with special effects, or to even increase their overall durability. The In-Isa Shrine the Fuse ability, which allows you to slap ingredients and weapons together to make more powerful weapons. Once you’ve reached the shore, head to up the steps to the next shrine. Get ready to hop on and take the journey across. Attach a sail and drag your raft to the edge of the lake. Kill the Zonai Soldier Constructs and keep heading south until you find some logs and two sails next to another stone ax.Ĭut down a tree and assemble three logs together. There are several methods that’ll get you there, but however you go, make sure to pick some stamina bulbs on your way. Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygonįrom here, head south toward the lake. This will hold them in place, which will allow you to cross safely. Place the logs in the crevices along the broken bridge. Cut down two logs and fuse them together to make a makeshift bridge. You’re going to need this to make some logs. Go forward and take the stone ax from the tree stump. If you feel like you haven’t attached anything properly, use the right stick to break the construction apart and reconnect it in a way that fits. You can do this by either connecting some planks on a platform just below you, or through a more creative method by attaching a hook to a plank and riding this makeshift platform down a rail. Using your newfound ability will allow you to get to the next section of the island. Once you’ve left the Ukouh Shrine, continue westward. For help with its puzzles, you can read our Ukouh Shrine solution page can show how to solve it. The puzzles here will have you utilizing this ability to cross otherwise impassable obstacles to progress and to obtain treasures. The Ukouh Shrine gives you the Ultrahand ability, which allows you to connect items together. Head down the path and to the set of stairs leading to your first shrine. From the Temple of Time head west on your map. Rauru will point you in the general direction, but there is a specific order Tears of the Kingdom wants you to follow. You’ll need to unlock the three blessings on the island in order to open the door. Unfortunately, you can’t enter the Temple just yet. Once you’re at the island, keep going north and you’ll make it to the steps of the Temple of Time. Keep in mind that making the leap will lock you into this archipelago, so you’ll want to thoroughly explore and scour for resources before moving on, and maybe grab some apples from the nearby tree for cooking. Go to the area with the stone gates and dive to the islands below. Head north toward the massive structure, and speak to the Steward Constructs along the way, who provide helpful hints and tutorials. The Temple of Time is impossible to miss. Again, you’ll speak to Rauru, who will point you in the direction of the Temple of Time. You’ll need to make another jump into a large, oval-shaped pool full of lily pads. (Pro tip: If you see his ghost apparition appear, it generally means you’re going in the right direction.) Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via PolygonĪfter following Rauru through a series of linear tunnels, hang right after you’ve taken a pretty deep plunge into a small pool of water and you’ll be outside. Leave the room to trigger another series of cutscenes introducing Rauru, your ghastly guide for this segment of the game. After a series of cutscenes, you, as Link, will awaken in a room full of roots. If something is in the pros list it means the other app doesn't have the feature Being so popular and having so much funding for the app shows they don't really plan on listening to their customers anytime soon (but I hope they prove me wrong). I want to note that GN has had specific suggestions like the ability to record lectures for literally 5-8 years and other suggestions that they have not implemented. but Notability caught up on some of the most important complaints people had when comparing to GoodNotes. When I started making this list, there were many things I anticipated on saying GoodNotes has that Notability doesn't. Neither one is better than the other, but with my preference of note taking GN is not my first choice anymore. I find my notes to look a lot more "bulky" and stoic than flowy and "artsy" in GN and more flowy in Notability. Overall, I find GoodNotes to be more aesthetic but less practical as a college student. I'm a visual learner who draws diagrams for most things and likes using a more "flowy" note-style than bullet points. someone who has to do a yearly payment.Ībout me: I am a sophomore in college (year 2) taking Anatomy & Physiology w/ Lab, Neurobiology w/ Lab, Sociology, and Philosophy. Note: I don't have the premium version of Notability, my sister bought it before you needed to subscribe so I got to download it for free and this may impact how I see it vs. This is definitely one of the biggest things to consider. The first thing to note is Notability does cost more (yearly payment), vs. I wanted to make this because there is always so many popups of which platform to use, and opinions vary a lot without giving much explanation. I have been using GoodNotes a long longer, so there may be some discrepancy (I overall feel more comfortable on GoodNotes because it's more familiar to me) but after playing around with Notability a lot and using it for majority of my classes, I feel like I can speak pretty confidently on both apps. Hello everyone! I have been using GoodNotes and Notability and wanted to answer any questions people may have and give my opinions as a STEM major with a humanities minor. I argue that while western states like the UK rightly recognise problems of uncertainty and 'non-linearity' in international life, they also show too much confidence in their capacity to anticipate and prevent problems 'upstream', thus implicitly exempting themselves from the chaos they see in the external environment. My forthcoming article in the European Journal of International Security, 2016. Whether or not Strategy for Chaos improves the score for joint endeavour readers must judge for themselves. An unsurprising result of these parallel déformations professionelles is that the literature of the RMA debate contains some conceptually intriguing social science, and quite solid beginnings in historical study, but the twain scarcely meet and hardly ever in the same piece of work. For their part, historians typically are far better at writing narrative and analysing unique happenings than they are at genuinely comparative scholarship. Inevitably, social scientists tend to be relatively weak when they boldly go into the zone of historical case studies. Social scientists and the theories they invent betray the reverse tendency: no less characteristically they reveal a rush, historians would say a premature rush, to find more general meaning in particular behaviours. As the text below comments at suitable junctures, historians and the history they discover characteristically reveal a pull to singularisation, towards seeing events as being unique both in themselves and in context. One of the purposes of this new book series is to encourage the publication of studies which make an honest and tolerably successful effort to achieve synergy between the two broad disciplines. Quite aside from the problem of contributors who have barely hidden service or industrial interests colouring their arguments, even scholars notably competent as theorydeveloping social scientists or as archival historians are apt to underperform when they wander off their usual patch. The recent American RMA debate generated much more noise than illumination. A polity requires such professionalism, as Germany demonstrated negatively and repeatedly, but it requires also that the professionals charged with the making of policy and strategy should be educated in relevant historical contexts. Meanwhile, seriously misleading beliefs of a social scientific, technological, and historical kind are commonplace among officials and politicians whose professionalism centres around manipulation of a policy process. Social-scientific errors are committed by historians, while historical howlers abound in briefings by social scientists and technocrats. The debate over revolutions in military affairs (RMAs), the Big American Defence Debate of the 1990s, amply rewards the collector of errors. Social scientists and historians are wont to compete energetically to demonstrate to each other that they are to be trusted neither when playing at home in their supposedly professional field, nor, far less, when they play away on the road on the other field of dreams. To that end, the work treats its duty to theory building and to respect for historical data with equal gravity and, sometimes, scepticism. 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Another mission intended to support the Aurora program is a Phobos sample return mission. That initial vision called for rover in 2009 and later a Mars sample-return mission. ĮxoMars begun in 2001 as part of the ESA Aurora program for the human exploration of Mars. Originally conceived as a rover with a stationary ground station, ExoMars was planned to launch in 2011 aboard a Russian Soyuz Fregat rocket. Originally, the ExoMars concept consisted of a large robotic rover being part of ESA's Aurora Programme as a Flagship mission and was approved by the European Space Agency ministers in December 2005. Since its inception, ExoMars has gone through several phases of planning with various proposals for landers, orbiters, launch vehicles, and international cooperation planning, such as the defunct 2009 Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) with the United States. ESA expects that a restart of the mission, using a new non-Russian landing platform, is unlikely to launch before 2028. On 17 March 2022, ESA suspended the mission due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The second mission operations and communications would have been led by ALTEC's Rover Control Centre in Italy. The rover would also include some Roscosmos built instruments. In June 2023, a Roscosmos lander named Kazachok ("little Cossack", referring to a folk dance), was due to deliver the ESA Rosalind Franklin rover to the Martian surface. The landing was designed to test new key technologies to safely deliver the subsequent rover mission. The Schiaparelli experimental lander separated from TGO on 16 October and was maneuvered to land in Meridiani Planum, but it crashed on the surface of Mars. The TGO features four instruments and will also act as a communications relay satellite. TGO entered Mars orbit on 19 October 2016 and proceeded to map the sources of methane ( CH 4) and other trace gases present in the Martian atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a test stationary lander called Schiaparelli were launched on 14 March 2016. On 12 March 2020, it was announced that the second mission was being delayed to 2022 as a result of problems with the parachutes, which could not be resolved in time for the launch window. The second part of the programme was planned to launch in July 2020, when the Kazachok lander would have delivered the Rosalind Franklin rover on the surface, supporting a science mission that was expected to last into 2022 or beyond. The orbiter is operational but the lander crashed on the planet's surface. The first part of the programme is a mission launched in 2016 that placed the Trace Gas Orbiter into Mars orbit and released the Schiaparelli EDM lander. The goals of ExoMars are to search for signs of past life on Mars, investigate how the Martian water and geochemical environment varies, investigate atmospheric trace gases and their sources and by doing so demonstrate the technologies for a future Mars sample-return mission. Trace Gas Orbiter: 7 years, 2 months and 2 days (in progress)ĮxoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). Artist's illustration of ExoMars's Trace Gas Orbiter (left), Schiaparelli lander (middle), and rover (right) |
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