I’ve been blessed to visit beautiful places in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and I met amazing people along the way. Traveling, learning languages, and discovering new cultures have always been passions of mine. I’d always dreamed of becoming a published writer, although life and its surprises often got in the way. In high school, I began sharing my tales with my classmates, who started asking me for more. I learned at an early age that fantasizing about fictional characters and places beat doing math homework any day. Good plot descriptions and character development. Her eyes are opened as to who her father really is. They develop a hot and steamy relationship, a partnership, and have fun together. Even though he’s kidnapped her, they can’t resist each other. Two very different people from different backgrounds unexpectedly connect. BUY LINKS:Ī fast-paced romance with a bit of suspense. But her plan backfires and soon she realizes that seducing the enemy comes with a hefty price…loving the enemy simply isn’t an option. Desperate to find a way out of the lush Brazilian jungle, she decides there’s only way to disarm the enemy-seduce him. Emanuel’s plans will hurt her and ruin her mother’s legacy-and that she can’t allow. Her sexy captor is feeding her lies about her father that she refuses to swallow. Fundraiser and socialite Erika Lancaster can’t believe she’s been kidnapped. Only he gets more than he bargained for with the tempting-and frustrating-woman. Sick of having every attempt at exposing Silas shut down, Emanuel wants to honor a promise he made, and takes from his opponent what matters most-his beautiful daughter Erika. Brazilian Capture by Carmen Falcone The Brazilians Entangled Publishing, LLC (May 22, 2017)įinancier turned activist Emanuel Duarte has promised he would find the one witness who can testify against real estate developer Silas Lancaster.
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![]() His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. SECRETS - There are things in the house waiting to be revealed. Bulb Boy: One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening. ![]() Watch the story unfold in animated clouds. And don't forget to save your Grandpa-raffin and Mothdog from the frightening darkness. Solve puzzles, defeat wicked monsters and reveal bulby's abilities to unfold a twisted tale. Relive Bulb Boy's childhood memories to uncover the mystery of the story.īUBBLE SPEECH - No dialogue, just bubble speech. Bulb Boy is an award winning horror adventure about a boy with a glowing head (alright, it's a bulb.) inspired by Machinarium and Gobliiins. PLAYABLE FLASHBACKS - Play as other family characters. Not only does your head light up and allows you to survive electrical shocks, but it can also be unscrewed for use in strange places. Defeat the evil in all its forms and bring the light back.īULB'S TALENTS - Being a boy that is a bulb comes with many talents. And don't forget to save your Grandpa-raffin and Mothdog from the frightening darkness.ĭEFEAT THE MONSTERS -Explore the Bulb house, that is full of frightening creatures. ![]() Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves. Bulb Boy is an intuitive horror adventure about a boy with a glowing head (alright, it's a bulb.) inspired by Machinarium and Gobliiins. One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. ![]() ![]() The more damage you deal, the more damage the mark will deal which makes it a potent assassination tool. ![]() After a short duration, the mark triggers which deals base damage plus a portion of all damage dealt while the mark was active. Shadow Slash’s damage stacks unlike in LoL PC which just increases its slow amount so you can also deal a lot of damage with this ability with enough practice.ĭeath Mark targets an enemy champion and marks them. Shadow Slash does not interrupt your auto attack pattern so it does not matter if you use it before or after your auto attacks. Shadow Slash is a melee AoE ability that damages and slows enemies near Zed and his shadows.Įach enemy champion hit with Shadow Slash reduces 2nd, Living Shadows, cooldown by two seconds. This restriction does not apply to the shadow produces by his ultimate. Zed cannot switch places to his shadow if he is too far away from it. It turns a different color when it is nearing its expiration. Since Living Shadow is your main source of mobility, do not use it offensively if you are not aware of the enemy jungler’s position.Īrrows appear beneath Zed which only he can see. You can potentially kill the enemy carry in the midst of the enemy team and return safely if executed well. Re-tapping the ability button will switch you with your shadow the moment it arrives at its target location.Ī better way to use it for escaping is by casting it towards the opposite direction you are running to which gives you the option to switch to it if the enemy over commits on following you.Ĭast living shadow in a safe location before committing to an all-in so you can kill an enemy with your ultimate then return to safety in a blink of an eye. Living Shadow is mainly used offensively to multiple your other basic abilities. Living Shadow also grants the passive ability to restore his energy when his ability strikes the same enemy twice. During this duration, Zed can reactivate the ability to switch places with the shadow. Living Shadow allows Zed’s shadow to dash forward and remain in place for a short duration. You can use Razor Shuriken twice in combination with Living Shadow before the shadow dissipates in the late game which can catch the enemy off guard. Use it to snipe down the enemy as they recall under the tower. Some enemies will underestimate your range with the shadow’s shuriken throw. Yes, it will deal less damage but it is hitting two birds with one stone. When facing a ranged enemy in the lane, do not hesitate to use the shurikens to last hit the minions and try to hit the enemy champion as well. Razor Shuriken is Zed’s main source of damage as multiple shurikens deal a serious amount of damage.Įach Shuriken has a separate counter for the Keystone Rune Electrocute which makes it easy to proc it with Zed when trading. ![]() The shurikens deal damage separately but it deals more damage to the first target it hits. Zed and his shadows throw their shuriken which deals damage to enemies in its path. Make sure to last at least one auto-attack when trading and going for an all-in because your passive contributes a large amount of damage to your combos. Zed’s passive gives you a good chance to steal jungle monsters or drakes using a simple ability + basic attack combo because of the passive’s damage output. It has an internal ten seconds cooldown for each enemy hit.Ĭontempt for the Weak helps with your last hitting in the early game as the bonus damage applies to all enemies: Minions, jungle monsters, epic monsters, and champions. The damage dealt is based on the enemy’s maximum health. Zed deals bonus magic damage on enemies with below half health. ![]() Please scroll down and view the FREE Carfax report that reflects all timely maintenances, the Carfax report also suggest this car has a market value of over $6,800.00. (866) 522-7936 2417 Evarts Street Washington District of Columbia 20018 ? 2004 Nissan Pathfinder LE Platinum Vehicle Information VIN: JN8DR09Y84W905044 Stock: D0227175 Mileage: 149,406 Color: Glacier Pearl Trans: 4-Speed Automatic Engine: 3.5L V6 24V MPG: 15 City / 19 Highway Drivetrain: 4WD ? Description You are looking at a ONE-OWNER, Non-Smoker, 2004 Nissan 4X4 Pathfinder LE, Platinum Edition! This is a well maintained truck. Nissan won’t say.M Street Auto Sales T/A Platinum Capital Group, Llc. It may be built offthe same platform as the next generation Pathfinder. With a base price of $30,359 on the current Pathfinder, you have to wonder howluxurious and how high-priced the exotic Infiniti will be. Nissan’s Infiniti division has a new luxury sport-utility coming for 1997. The only added cost is $390 for freight, a much morerespectable and less profit-motivated charge than you get from the domestic automakers. Our test model also came with a rubber surface running board, which was slippery when wet. The sunroof is a nice touch because most sport-utilities lack one in favor of places to store garage door opener/sunglasses holder in the roof. ![]() Standard equipment includes power brakes and steering, steel-belted radial tires, luggage rack, privacy glass, bodyside pinstripes, AM/FM cassette with eight speakers and compact disc player, air conditioning, leather seating surfaces, heated seats, power windows/locks, power liftgate/window release, reclining front/rear seats, cruise control, split foldaway rear seats, electric rear window defroster, leather wrapped steering wheel, intermittent wipers, carpeted floor mats, side-door guard beams, child safety rear locks and flipup sunroof. highway fuel economy rating is disappointing. Welcome to the real world.Īs for the current version, the 3-liter, 153-horsepower, V-6 provides adequate power with 4-speed automatic but the 15 mile-per-gallon city/18 m.p.g. The ’96 will have larger dimensions, more modern styling, dual air bags andfour-wheel ABS. Sport-utilities in recent years have gotten wider and roomier with carlike ride and handling. When a segment is hot, every vehicle in it shares the wealth. Pathfinder enjoys success because sport-utilities are the hottest vehicle in the market. ![]() To get an idea of what those buyers want in 1996, we test-drove a Pathfinder LE 4WD to learn what they get in 1995-no air bags, anti-lock brakesonly on the rear wheels, styling so outdated the Willys Jeep looks nice in comparison, narrow dimensions that cramp leg and shoulder room, a rear seat sadly lacking in occupant space and a design that requires rear-seat passengers to crawl over a wheelwell to enter or exit, which means you could spend a great deal of your winter at the cleaners refurbishing the soiled duds. ![]() Late this year or early next, the next generation Pathfinder will wend its way to market, a vehicle that promises to be more in keeping with the tastes of the American buyer, Nissan says. Time to bid adieu, so long, farewell and thanks for the memories to the Nissan Pathfinder-at least to the current version that was designed and developed, built and marketed with the Japanese market, and not the U.S. Search with machine learning outperforms basic keyword search. Older technologies like Lucene that entirely rely on index matching typically need an army of people writing business rules to make up for an endless set of deficiencies. AI search technology provides a faster, automated feedback loop to improve search result ordering to maximize business goals such as purchases or engagement. To improve relevancy and results, language embeddings (vectors) and machine learning should be core to every search project. The days of relying on simple reverse index ranking algorithms are gone. This is fine for projects such as log analysis because logs don’t change (it’s one of the reasons that Elasticsearch is focused on this use case with its ELK stack) but less so for use cases like e-commerce search with data that changes frequently. Periodically the memory buffer fills up, the difference is reconciled and all the files with any changes get merged and rewritten out to disk. So if you make a small change to an item, it basically stores a flag to say that is deleted and creates an entire new record in memory. This slows down queries as it needs to run the search, then check the differential for changes on the way out. Whenever a record changes in your database, Lucene will store the new value, but it still hangs onto the old value. Lucene has several key deficiencies that will become more apparent in time: Other new search competitors have entered the market, too, further pushing Lucene to the side. We built Sajari because we felt Lucene couldn’t deliver on our key goals, which were based around fully real-time data updates and complex machine learning based retrieval. (However, due to recent licensing changes, it is questionable whether Elasticsearch remains open source.) Both Solr and Elasticsearch are Apache open source projects as well and benefit from a large community of developers. They also allow Lucene to scale to very large datasets as a distributed system (something Lucene lacks). Both of these Lucene derivatives are essentially full-featured wrappers that have hidden Lucene’s libraries behind more powerful and easier to implement APIs. In fact, it was the lack of some of the basic search features that allowed two newer projects, Solr and Elasticsearch, to flourish. ![]() But if you need something more full-featured and modern, there are similar options. ![]() Enterprises may like that it’s written in Java, too, for tying into legacy projects. If you’re looking for a free, open source library and SDK to build search, Lucene is not a bad choice. What it lacks can be found in the many public libraries that fill in missing functionality such as crawling. Lucene’s core libraries offer just about everything you need to build a search application. With its exceptional documentation and large community, Lucene remains a search workhorse. Lucene builds an inverted index of your data for full text information retrieval - essentially it indexes your data by keyword - and provides libraries for features such as typo tolerance, sorting, ranking, and much more. The Lucene open source software project was first released in 1999 and later added to the Apache Foundation in 2005. ![]() In Islamic theology, the purpose of da‘wah is to invite people, Muslims and non-Muslims, to understand the worship of God as expressed in the Qur'an and the sunnah of Muhammad and to inform them about Muhammad. The Isma'ili da'wa encompassed extra- and intra-ummatic forms and blended both theology and politics. Moreover, for the Isma'ilis, da'wa was a state priority. Isma'ilis, in many ways, can be seen as the pioneers of the organized Muslim missionary activities: their highly institutionalized and sophisticated da'wa structure has hardly been repeated until today. Da'wa as a truly missionary activity, albeit still within the Muslim Umma, appeared in the form of the Isma'ili da'wa of the 9th through 13th centuries. However, the 'Abbasid da'wa ceased as soon as the 'Abbasids were in power-a fact that attests to its political nature. ![]() Da'wa came into wider usage almost a hundred years after Muhammad's death, in the wake of 'Abbasid propaganda against the then ruling Umayyad clan in the 720s. Post-Muhammad Īfter Muhammad's death in 632, from the available historical evidence, it appears that after Muhammad's death Muslims did not immediately embark upon da'wa activities-during and after the rapid conquests of the Byzantine and Persian lands, they ventured little if at all to preach to local non-Muslims. ![]() He was sent to Yathrib (now Medina) to teach the people the doctrines of Islam and give them guidance. Mus`ab ibn `Umair was the first Muslim envoy in September 621. This is mentioned in the Sunni Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari, 5:59:628. ĭuring the Expedition of Khalid ibn al-Walid (Banu Jadhimah) in January 630, Muhammad sent Khalid ibn Walid to invite the Banu Jadhimah tribe to Islam. 70 Muslims were killed during this expedition. Then during the Expedition of Bir Maona in July 625 Muhammad sent some missionaries at the request of some men from the Banu Amir tribe, but the Muslims were again killed in revenge for the assassination of Khalid bin Sufyan by Muhammad's followers. A number of missionaries were killed in this expedition, either eight or, according to another account, ten. Some men came to Muhammad and requested that Muhammad send instructors to teach them Islam, but the men were bribed by the two tribes of Khuzaymah, who wanted revenge for the assassination of Khalid bin Sufyan (Chief of the Banu Lahyan tribe) by Muhammad's followers. Main article: List of expeditions of Muhammadĭuring the Expedition of Al Raji in 625, Muhammad sent some men as missionaries to various different tribes. Thus, when used in the first centuries of Islam, it usually referred to that message and was sometimes used interchangeably with sharī‘a and dīn.ĭa‘wah is also described as the duty to "actively encourage fellow Muslims in the pursuance of greater piety in all aspects of their lives", a definition which has become central to contemporary Islamic thought. When used in the Qur'an, it generally refers to Allah's invitation to live according to His will. In sura (chapter) 30:25, for example, it denotes the call to the dead to rise on the Day of Judgment. The term da'wah has other senses in the Qur'an. A Muslim who practices da‘wah, either as a religious worker or in a volunteer community effort, is called a dā‘ī ( داعي, plural du‘āh دعاة ).Ī dā‘ī, is a person who invites people to understand and accept Islam through dialogue and other techniques, may be regarded as a missionary inviting people to the faith, prayer and manner of Islamic life. Grammatically, the word represents a gerund of a verb with the triconsonantal root d-ʕ-w دعو meaning variously "to summon" or "to invite". Da‘wah literally means "issuing a summons" or "making an invitation". The calibration and stacking process will magically remove most (if not all of the noise). Reducing noise and improving signal is why amateur astrophotographers need to take multiple image exposures to create a beautiful image. The histogram on your camera allows you to confirm your exposure, f-stop, and ISO settings are appropriate (not clipping data).ĭon’t let a noisy sub-exposure scare you. Using dark calibration frames and dithering will take care of the noise during the pre-processing stages of your image. If the data is within the middle or right side of the histogram, chances are your ISO setting will be just fine. Monitor the histogram to ensure you are not clipping data in the highlights or shadows, and zoom in to see the balance of signal and noise in a single exposure. To get an idea of the effectiveness of this setting, take a few long-exposure images (1-3-minutes in length) at ISO 1600 and inspect the results. Here is a simple graphic I created that you can use as a benchmark to start taking images of the night sky on a stationary tripod or small star tracker: This is often the “sweet spot” for modern digital cameras, and it is my most used ISO setting for deep-sky and nightscape astrophotography. If you’re just looking for the best ISO to use on your DSLR camera for astrophotography, start with ISO 1600. Is there really more noise in the high ISO image, or was it hidden? The Best ISO for Astrophotography: Adjust the brightness of the photo in the low ISO image so that it matches the high ISO version. If you really want to see the noise comparison of your DSLR or mirrorless camera, compare 2 exposures shot with the same aperture and exposure lengths, at high and low ISO settings. Some cameras are ISO invariant, meaning that the noise levels are the same no matter which ISO is used. While a higher ISO will produce a brighter image out of the camera by amplifying the sensor’s signal, photographs taken in low light situations (like astrophotography) using a high ISO setting will appear to have more noise in a single exposure.įor this reason, many amateur astrophotographers (myself included) prefer to take a longer exposure using a lower ISO, to compensate for the lack in brightness and create a higher quality image. If you are a beginner astrophotographer and new to photography in general, it is important to understand what ISO is and how it affects your astrophotography images.Īn example of how ISO affects the brightness of an image straight out of the camera. If you are new to astrophotography but have a daytime photography background, you likely already know what ISO is and the role it plays in the photography world. ![]() In this article, I’ll do my best to provide an overview of the information that you can apply during your next astrophotography session. The power of image stacking and the signal-to-noise ratio at work (click to enlarge). No matter which ISO setting you use for astrophotography, stacking a series of exposures is the best way to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and the image quality overall. If you are looking to brighten your single exposure image without using a longer exposure or a wider aperture, you can try increasing the ISO setting.īoosting the ISO setting of your camera in a low light photo taken at night may seem to drastically degrade the quality of your image (with grainy noise), but the truth is that it is not as much of a factor as you may think after several exposures have been collected. The image above illustrates how an image of the same exposure length and aperture looks using different ISO settings. If you have your heart set on understanding the complex history of ISO in photography, this article by Richard Wright is an eye-opener. The answers to these questions are much more technical than you may wish (or need) to understand. What is ISO, and how does it affect your astrophotography images? It’s one of the first astrophotography camera settings newcomers to the hobby ask me about.ĭoes it really increase the camera’s sensitivity to light at the expense of introducing more noise? Is it better to shoot more short exposures using a high ISO than less long exposures with a lower ISO? Make sure that ALL your friends do the same thing as well, it’s client side so please have them follow the same steps. DON’T click on it, but if it says that then it has been successfully installed. Below that it should say “remove client lua”. Query port (used to communicate with Steam) Service/Application: barotrauma External Port: The port you have selected for your server (27016 by. It should say LUA for Barotrauma followed by some numbers. Service/Application: barotrauma External Port: The port you have selected for your server (27015 by default) Internal Port: The port you have selected for your server (27015 by default) Protocol: UDP. Conclusion if a connection was made in step 3: computer works fine, issue is with network. Connect to server 127.0.0.1:14242 (Do not change IP//Port should be the same as step one) 4. Once you restart your game, in the top left of the MAIN MENU. Open second barotrauma game FROM SAME COMPUTER. There should be a pop up, if you see that pop up restart your game. For the sake of my sanity, I will skip steps 1 and 2, and move straight to how to install steam. When you’re in the lobby press F3 and the console should open up, type in “install_cl_lua” and press enter. 4) Login to steam using steamcmd to download Barotrauma with your own Steam ID and then login as anonymous to steam using steamcmd to download Barotrauma Dedicated Server 5) Create a script to run your server 6) Edit server files 7) Enjoy playing. Click on it and select the “LUA for barotrauma” one and launch the server. The github version that you had in the post is for dedicated servers, which is what we DONT wanna use.Īfter downloading and enabling the mod, click host server and below password there should be an option for “server executable”. So for the LUA mod there are specific instructions on how to install it properly.įirst, download and enable the mod. Server hosts ahoy Weve now got Barotraumas dedicated server available as a separate app that can be installed and run using SteamCMD in anonymous mode. I just need clear instructions what to do in which order. Should my crewmates also install these modes or if they are server-side, they would automatically gain all benefits? I don't understand about client-side and server-side. Should i enable them in some specific order? Do i need to do something else? Like from this guide ? ![]() I've subscribed to Lua and performance fix. Maybe there are more monsters on maps, maybe out sub has accumulated to much stuff. I occasionally drop to 5 FPS at the beginning of the mission and practically have to skip that or rehost. One of the guys suddenly had like 2 FPS in the middle of the mission, the other guy just constantly disconnects when we dock or undock and has to reconnect. Refer to the Example Configuration below and change the respective settings where you need to do so in order to configure your. Select the 'Text Editor' option next to 'serversettings.xml'. Open the 'Configuration Files' section from your control panel. I'm on Mac, everyone else is on PC.įPS has been dropping lately. It's easy to configure your Pingperfect Barotrauma Server. So, me and my friends are playing the campaign with several mods. ![]() This competition is going to be fierce, but well worth it in the end.Īnd, as always, I’m Joshua Casper here for Loopcloud and I’ll see you in the next video. I highly suggest clicking that link in the description and getting started today. Now, I’m ready to drag and drop these stems into my DAW and keep the momentum going full-speed ahead. I actually made the beginning to my remix by using the original acapella and nothing one-shots from the exclusive loop pack right in the Loopcloud app by looping and using Loopcloud’s built-in effects… The contest is from December 1st through the 18th,Īll genres are accepted and, another quick note, because we’ve teamed up with Absolut on this, you will need to be 21+.Ĭlick the link in the video description to get the original acapella, the Loopcloud app, an exclusive gigabyte of Loopcloud loops hand-picked for this contest and the full contest details… everything you need to get started making your remix today. So, it’s definitely worth taking a crack at this remix contest!! That’s a lot of great gear, software and additional prizes. A Solid State Logic SSL2+ USB Audio Interface.A Roland JU-06A Boutique Series Juno Sound Module.A Personalized bottle from Absolut Vodka.A Bundle of Plugins featuring Scaler 2, BigKick, StereoSavage, Radio and CarbonElectra from Plugin Boutique as well as Bass Master and KHORDS from Loopmasters.On top of all the goodies I’m about to tell you about, the winning track will be played during the Beatport’s NYE Live stream to a massive crowd! Remix the NY House anthem “President House” by Roland Clark at a chance to win a global release on the seminal house and garage label King Street Sounds and a prize package worth over $5k. Vodka, Plugin Boutique, and Loopmasters among others to amass an insane prize package. We’ve once again teamed up with Beatport – the number one online music store for electronic music – Absolut. Hey, What’s up everybody? Joshua Casper here with Loopcloud to let you know that we’re bringing you another massive remix competition. **NOTE** Must be 21 to be Eligible to Enter & Win Fixed streamer mode option that(was not working properly).Added missing game actions fixing the game’s unresponsiveness.Added protection against potential crashes.Fixed the gamepad isn’t detected by the game before any movement or action will be conducted using a keyboard or mouse. ![]()
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