Although they have different physical attacks they have the same psychokinetic powers, which eventually emerges as being integral to the story. The first thing you must do is decide whether to play as Yuito or Kasane. Their job is to confronts and kills the Others deadly creatures that are apparently invading the Tokyo-like city of Suoh from another dimension. Set in a very Japanese parallel universe, it follows the fortunes of Yuito Sumeragi and Kasane Randall, two young cadets graduating to the OSF, a sort of psionic police force. It feels like a natural evolution from previous anime games that Bandai Namco has release, and I prefer it to many of their anime adaptations, partly because it feels like a game that could be an anime, rather than the other way around.Scarlet Nexus’ storyline is a wild slice of sci-fi that lurches in some deliciously improbable directions, yet contains calming character-bonding interludes that have the feel of a soap opera and bring a welcome sense of ebb and flow. My time with Scarlet Nexus has left me really curious about it, and certainly a lot more excited than I was before going hands-on with it. Well, I actually don’t know if you’re gonna have romance in this game, so we should assume it’s just making bonds, but we all know how anime games and relationships usually work.Īs you can tell, there are a lot of systems in place here, and given that I only played the first three hours or so, there is going to be plenty more to come. Sometimes that’s going to be via gifts, sometimes it’s going to be via special missions, but the aim is always the same try and date people. That’s right, you’re gonna have the chance to build up your social links with all of these characters to become stronger. These abilities get stronger if you have a better bond with those who originally own the abilities, which leads to one of the other systems. This means you can infuse your weapon with fire damage, or go invisible, or see the unseen. ![]() ![]() You eventually get the ability to add other abilities to yours too thanks to a weird mindlink system. It’s not as complicated as Devil May Cry, for example, but it does have a similar veneer of stylish action to it, which means you generally feel like an absolute badass as you mix and match your attacks to disperse the Others in front of you. I actually really enjoyed the fights overall. It doesn’t sound all that complicated, but more and more layers were added to it throughout my time with the game, and there were clearly a few more things to come later on, based on the skill trees. The fighting is a little different depending on your character, but the basics have you using a mix of weak and strong weapon attacks interspersed with your psychokinetic powers, which will have you yeeting bikes and other scenery at weird monsters. Most of your interactions are going to be running around, talking to people, and then fighting Others. It’s a bit like you’re venturing into dungeons all over the place, but they don’t all feel like dungeons, from what I played. Also they eat human brains.Īnyway, enough of the setting, as fascinating as it is, and onto the gameplay. Scarlet Nexus takes place in relatively contained open-ish areas situated on a gigantic world map that you fast travel around. One of the first enemies you come across is a vase with legs and high heels for some reason, and you’ll fight against gigantic primates with rusted metal for arms and cannons on their back, among other oddities. They’re not going to sound it when I describe them in a second, but they’re all rather unnerving. Others are the collective name for the monsters you’ll face, all of which have some really cool designs. Also, it seems to be commonplace for Others to invade the city, the battles to fight them back seeing things like cars getting thrown at them. That feels inconvenient to me, but needs must, I guess. That definitely seems pretty bad, but maybe that’s just me. This means that the media operates via drones they send all over the place, and even that the things you see in real life can be censored to protect your mental health. You’ve then got the world outside of your squad, which has digital stuff all over the place, including (it seems) chips in everyone’s brains. ![]() In fact, the one adult in your little posse is a complete oddity. ![]() For starters, everyone who fights is young, and they’re kept young by using “Growth stunting hormones”, presumably because this somehow makes them more powerful. Alongside everything being a bit more digital than normal and the world being invaded by mutated monsters, there are the telltale signs that Scarlet Nexus might just have some darker undercurrents.
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Imagine your ideal digital asset backup setup.How are you currently backing up your digital photos, video files, and/or file libraries/catalogs? Do you have a backup system that uses attached drives, a local network, the cloud, or offline storage media? Does it work well for you?.To contribute, please answer the following two questions in the comments below or send an email to Please comment or email your response by December 22, 2017. How could the cloud work better for you?.What’s the biggest impediment to working in the way you’d really like to?.What software and/or hardware currently works for you?.What’s different about how you work in the field (or traveling) versus how you work in a studio (or at home)?. ![]() Did you have a catalog or record of the media that you’ve archived that you use to search and retrieve media?.Do you back up or archive to the cloud?.Do you use the cloud for media you’re actively working on?.Are you using direct-attached drives, NAS (Network-Attached Storage), or offline storage for your media?.Whether you’re an amateur or a professional, your experiences are valuable and will help us understand how to provide the best cloud component of a digital asset management solution. To get started, we’d love to hear from you about how you’re managing your photos and videos. ![]() Tell Us Both Your Current Solution and Your Dream Solution We want to make our cloud services as useful as possible for photographers and videographers. We have a bit of cred in this field, as we currently have hundreds of petabytes of digital media files in our data centers from users of Backblaze Backup and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. We’d like to open a dialog with professionals and serious amateurs to learn more about what you’re doing, what you’d like to do, and how Backblaze might fit into that solution. Yes, there are a number of solutions out there, and some users have created combinations of hardware, software, and services to meet their needs, but we have met few who claim to be satisfied with their solution for digital asset management (DAM), or expect that they will be using the same solution in just a year or two. If you have spent any time, as we have, talking to photographers and videographers about how they back up and archive their digital photos and videos, then you know that there’s no one answer or solution that users have discovered to meet their needs.īased on what we’ve heard, visual media artists are still searching for the best combination of software, hardware, and cloud storage to preserve their media, and to be able to search, retrieve, and reuse that media as easily as possible. ![]() Then 84-year tables were introduced in Rome by Augustalis near the end of the 3rd century. The earliest known Roman tables were devised in 222 by Hippolytus of Rome based on eight-year cycles. Thereafter, the computus would be the procedure of determining the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March. In 395, Theophilus published a table of future dates for Easter, validating the Alexandrian criteria. By the time of the First Council of Nicaea, the Church of Alexandria had designated 21 March as an ecclesiastical date for the equinox, irrespective of actual astronomical observation. To do so, it was necessary to identify the first full moon following the March equinox. Consequently, they decided to separate the dating of Easter from the Hebrew calendar. Later the Jews adopted the Metonic cycle to predict future intercalations.Ī possible consequence of this intercalation is that 14 Nisan may occur before the equinox, which some third-century Christians considered unacceptable, although this cannot happen in the fixed calendar currently in use. The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar one and does not have a simple relationship with the Christian calendars: it resynchronizes with the solar year by intercalating a leap month every two or three years, before the lunar new year on 1 Nisan. Additionally, by the 2nd century, many Christians had chosen to observe Easter only on a Sunday. Nisan is the first month of spring in the northern hemisphere, with the 14th corresponding to a full moon. In the Hebrew calendar, Passover occurs on the 14th day of Nisan. See also: Easter controversy and List of dates for EasterĮaster commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, which is believed to have occurred on the third day (inclusive) after Passover. It was the drift of 21 March from the observed equinox that led to the Gregorian reform of the calendar, to bring them back into line. For this reason, the Catholic Church and Protestant churches (which follow the Gregorian calendar) celebrate Easter on a different date from that of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (which follow the Julian calendar). The calculations produce different results depending on whether the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar is used. In The Reckoning of Time (725), Bede uses computus as a general term for any sort of calculation, although he refers to the Easter cycles of Theophilus as a "Paschal computus." By the end of the 8th century, computus came to refer specifically to the calculation of time. Additionally, the church wished to eliminate dependencies on the Hebrew calendar, by deriving the date for Easter directly from the March equinox. By the early third century, however, communications in the Roman Empire had deteriorated to the point that the church put great value in a system that would allow the clergy to determine the date for themselves, independently yet consistently. It was originally feasible for the entire Christian Church to receive the date of Easter each year through an annual announcement by the Pope. The complexity of the algorithm arises because of the desire to associate the date of Easter with the date of the Jewish feast of Passover which, Christians believe, is when Jesus was crucified. Determining this date in advance requires a correlation between the lunar months and the solar year, while also accounting for the month, date, and weekday of the Julian or Gregorian calendar. ![]() Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the March equinox). A calendar of the dates of Easter, for the years 532–632, marble, in the Museum of Ravenna Cathedral, Italy.Īs a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus ( Latin for 'computation'). ![]() are rolled up into the idea of the True Game, where the Talented Gamesmen vie against each other to impose their will on their surroundings. All the actions we think of as wars, plots, schemes, covert action, etc. The society is a sort of mediaeval feudal culture, with Talented people, called Gamesmen, ruling over unTalented folk, called Pawns. ![]() These Talents are rigidly classified and chronicled, with eleven pure Talents, and thousands of combinations between the eleven. The books tell of a world where people have various (for want of a better word) superpowers, that they call Talents. You don’t have to read all three trilogies to get a good story each book stands alone, and each trilogy stands alone, but they do build on each other to tell a deeper, broader story together. It was actually the first trilogy written, and the first one I read, but The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped comes first chronologically in the story. Here’s how it breaks down: The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshapedįrom what I can tell, only the middle trilogy is currently in print, and it’s in a collected volume called The True Game. Tepper’s True Game books, a trilogy of trilogies. ![]() Specifically, I want to talk about how the experience of reading them was very different this time around, thanks to a comment made by an acquaintance of mine. Today, I want to talk about a series of books that I just re-read. I want to shorten them, but sometimes I just don’t have much interesting to say, and why bore you? I’m going to stop apologizing for long dry spells between posts. It can get the most out of your creative skill and the ability to find a way to strengthen your towers despite facing all odds. Apart from empowering your team of heroes, chart out killer strategies that can outwit enemies.Įpic battle aside, I enjoy building, upgrading, selling, and repairing towers in the Castle Creeps. To stay at the forefront, recruit and level up your heroes so that they can defend your kingdom from mighty ogres and savage goblins. The game is about solidifying your defenses and then going your all out to save the kingdom from the massive attack of enemies. It’s the fantasy-driven gameplay that has fascinated me the most in Castle Creeps. Install: iOS and Android (free, offers in-app purchases) 7. Vehicles from the USA, the USSR, Germany.When you decompose the comets, you will receive special items that are converted into energy by the spaceship. In this game, your ultimate task is to green the entire planet by decomposing the comets. Should you wish to try out a little different tower defense game, Green the Planet could be worth giving a shot. Install: iOS and Android (free, offers in-app purchases) 3. 50 thrilling levels with a survival mode.Using the coins, you can unlock power-ups to boost your game and the chance of dominating the battle. Featuring more than 45 types of plants and over 25 types of zombies each with its own special skills, it has also got the variety to keep boredom at bay.Īlong the way, you need to collect coins and grab as many achievements as possible as they can keep you ahead of the game. While the gameplay is quite simple, you would enjoy playing it thanks to the see-saw battle between zombie-zapping plants and the adamant zombies. Plenty of great storage options as well, including an in-floor ski locker that is nearly 14 inches deep and 8 feet long. Other options include a ski/tow pylon and the snap-in MarineMat cockpit flooring that doubles as an accent color that ties in well with the vinyl seats.įrom a safety standpoint we appreciate the deep freeboard as well as the stainless steel grab rails found throughout. ![]() The orange exterior stripe gives this boat some personality with more options available to help customize it and make it your own. One of the few options included on this specific fiberglass deck boat is the exterior upgrade that allows you to add a pop of color to the gel coat. Not a lot of bells and whistles as tested, but there is room for the captain to upgrade to a GPS map or fish finder if desired. With the helm console molded in, the dash has a clean look to it with chrome bezel gauges, lighted rocker switches, a USB port and a Jensen stereo unit. You can board from the water at either end, thanks to the two telescoping ladders that reach 3 feet, 9 inches below deck for easy access and the eVA Soft Touch Traction Mat is soft on your bare feet. However, what we really like about this particular model is on the trailer it will fit in most 20-foot garages. Besides the 17-foot version we tested, the lineup also includes 19-, 21- and 23-foot floorplans in this outboard series. ![]() And unlike unicorns, family-friendly boats in the $30K range really do exist.ĭesigned to come in as a budget-friendly model, the new series from Starcraft truly hits the mark. Affordability never looked so good! For those in search of an all-purpose boat with room for 12 – minus the hefty price tag – the SVX 171 OB may be what you’ve been longing for. ![]() Set default firewall rules with UFW: # ufw default deny # echo 'traccar ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/designated # echo '/swap none swap defaults 0 0' > /etc/fstabĬreate a normal user named traccar with sudo privileges: # useradd -ms /bin/bash traccar Log in to your server instance as root from an SSH terminal, and then perform basic tasks as follows to harden the system.Ĭreate a swap file: # fallocate -l 2g /swap Perform Basic Tasks on the Server Instance See detailed instructions on managing DNS through Vultr in this Vultr tutorial. To ease public access, you need to set up DNS records through your domain hosting service provider, pointing domain names (an apex domain name and one or more subdomain names) to the IPv4 address of your server.įor example, if you are hosting the apex domain name on Vultr, set up DNS records as follows to point and to the IPv4 address of your server in the DNS tab of the Vultr control panel: Entry #1 Say its public IPv4 address is 203.0.113.100.Ī registered domain name for public access. PrerequisitesĪ fresh Vultr Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server instance with at least 2GB of memory. This tutorial explains how to set up a Traccar server on a Vultr Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server instance in a production environment. Providing detailed device location history, map routes, and reports as required. ![]() Sending alerts via the web, email, and Short Message Service (SMS) when abnormal conditions are detected, and Tracking various types of GPS devices in real-time, Traccar is a free and open-source Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking system that is capable of: ![]() The fluid of bone & dense connective tissue is significant because it contains about 15 of the total body water. The cytosol also contains large amounts of macromolecules that can alter how molecules behave, through macromolecular crowding. The fluid compartment called the blood volume is interesting in that it is a composite compartment containing ECF (plasma) and ICF (red cell water). The concentrations of ions, such as sodium and potassium, are generally lower in the cytosol compared to the extracellular fluid these differences in ion levels are important in processes such as osmoregulation and signal transduction. The diagram in Figure 2.1 gives a schematic view of three compartments. ![]() The intracellular fluid compartment contains the fluid that is present in the cytoplasm of all cells of the body. Figure 2.5 : Representative fluid compartment model, showing membrane surface. Similar to salt-mixing problem models, which describe the flow of fluids from one. As shown in other figures for men and women, body fluids are located in two main compartments: intracellular fluid (ICF) compartment and extracellular fluid (ECF) compartment. Although water forms the large majority of the cytosol, it mainly functions as a fluid medium for intracellular signaling (signal transduction ) within the cell, and plays a role in determining cell size and shape. Although, an important tool in cardiac research, the ECG itself does. The cytosol is a complex mixture of substances dissolved in water. The cytosol includes dissolved molecules and water. The cytosol: The cytosol (11) is the fluid within the plasma membrane of a cell and contains the organelles. The contents of a eukaryotic cell within the cell membrane, excluding the cell nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles (e.g., mitochondria, plastides, lumen of endoplasmic reticulum, etc.), is referred to as the cytoplasm. For example, the mitochondrial matrix separates the mitochondrion into compartments. ![]() It is separated into compartments by membranes that encircle the various organelles of the cell. Fluid can also move between compartments along an osmotic gradient. Hydrostatic pressure is the force exerted by a fluid against a wall and causes movement of fluid between compartments. The intracellular fluid of the cytosol or intracellular fluid (or cytoplasm ) is the fluid found inside cells. If the cytosol becomes too dilute due to water intake by cells, cell membranes can be damaged, and the cell can burst. The major body-fluid compartments includ: intracellular fluid and extracellular fluid (plasma, interstitial fluid, and transcellular fluid). ![]() Vanilla SimCity 4 has a built-in day-night cycle, but many users - myself included - find it much too subtle.Ĭreated by SimFox as the name implies, this Day&Nite mod makes the changes in natural light more noticeable, darkening substantially at night and looking even brighter and more vivid during the day. It doesn’t entirely remove crime from the simulation, but it makes it considerably more manageable. The Crime Doesn’t Pay mod can almost eliminate crime in a big city with just a couple of small, community-run police stations. Well thanks to RaphaelNinja, you can keep them free as a bird. ![]() But some of you would rather let your Sims roam free, rather than throw them in jail after a few bad decisions. We’ve already covered the authoritarian wet dream that is the massive Police Headquarters. Keep in mind that this change goes a bit beyond the aesthetic and into functionality, so be sure to check out the usage instructions for more information. Well, this allows you to design realistic suburbs and other similar residential areas. With this Cul-de-sac mod by creator Quirlix, any cut-off streets will end in an aesthetically-pleasing cul-de-sac. Real-life cities and suburban areas are filled with cut-off two-way streets that lead nowhere in particular, and cities in SimCity 4 are no different. It even has a built-in jail, diminishing the need for a dedicated structure.īuild a couple of these, and you’ll turn an average town into a crime-less dystopia with a police patrol behind every corner.īig Brother is watching. These massive Police Headquarters by modder JoeRG will solve the issue by covering a colossal radius that’s enough for most megalopolises. One of the most difficult-to-deal-with issues you’ll almost always run into as your city grows is criminality, requiring you to build a police station every two blocks if you wish to retake peace from the hands of wrongdoers. With a sort of bio-industrial design that brings together the sober concrete with the lush greens of nature. With it, your industry-heavy city will have no trouble continuing its growth without its inhabitants having to wear masks to work. It’ll appear listed under “parks”, but no park can give you the level of air cleanliness that this monument to human engineering can. ![]() Air Purification PlantĪlso by Sim151 comes another environmentally-friendly structure - the Air Purification Plant. And it even creates more jobs for any environmentally-conscious Sims who don’t want to work in polluting industries. The Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant by creator Sim151 is one of them, helping you diminish the environmental impact of your sprawling industrialist metropolis while also occupying less space than your average Water Purification lot. There are countless buildings and lots online that can improve your city building experience.īut I’ll focus on a few simple structures with the potential to completely change the game. And if you like SimCity 4, you’ll be glad you did. Keep in mind that most of these mods are hosted on sites that require you to register, but it’s always easy and free. Here I want to share the best mods that are genuinely essential for an updated and improved SC4 experience. You could begin by installing some fixes and you could spend hours picking new buildings to bring into your simulation, but that’ll only take you so far. ♦ Make sure you have Enable CC/Mods and Script Mods Allowed enabled in your Game Options. ♦ Keep them in the same folder, no more than ONE sub-folder deep inside your Mods folder. Move the.package and.ts4script files to your Mods folder (located in Documents Electronic Arts The Sims 4). In this episode of my series, I expand the urbanized ‘downtown’ area of Solitude up to the industrial port.To see a list of the main mods I use, with some li. SimCity 4 Realism Mod 3.0 Part 1 Version 3.0 59,989 Downloads This mod adds fences to all low density residential lots (all wealth types) to build more realistic suburbs. SimCity 4 Realism Mod 3.0 Part 1 Welcome to Simtropolis! A community dedicated to the SimCity series, Cities: Skylines and other city-building games. Links to the mods would help too:) thank you. I have NAM mod but i want more to make it very realistic eg. Still, a vibrant modding community has released enough updates for SC4 to stand proud among modern city-builders. Since this first came out in 2003, it isn’t exactly the most sophisticated game compared to more recent titles. Nowadays, the city-building genre is more successful than ever thanks to games like Cities: Skylines, but few can match the charm of the classics like SimCity 4. ![]() The Code is supplemented by eight (8) International Standards, including the Prohibited List that is updated at least annually.Īlthough GAMMA is not yet a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, GAMMA strives to align itself with WADA so as to implement an effective and Code-compliant anti-doping program for mixed martial arts. The World Anti-Doping Code (Code) is the core document that harmonizes anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within sport organizations around the world. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the independent international body responsible for harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries. Simply put, everybody involved in GAMMA must respect the World Anti-Doping Code and may be liable for committing an Anti-Doping Rule Violation. National and International Federation administrators, officials, and sample collection staff may also be liable for their conduct under the World Anti-Doping Code. However, the remaining seven types of ADRVs apply to both the athletes and the Athlete Support Personnel, such as coaches therapists, or anyone else working with the athlete. The first four Anti-Doping Rule Violations on the above list apply only to athletes since they refer to the obligation not to take banned substances and the obligation to submit to testing. Discourage or Retaliate other Persons from reporting relevant Anti-Doping information to the authorities. Prohibited association with sanctioned Athlete Support Personnelġ1. Administering or attempting to administer a prohibited substance or method to an athleteġ0. ![]() Trafficking a prohibited substance or methodĨ. Possession of a prohibited substance or methodħ. Tampering with any part of the doping control processĦ. Failure to file athlete whereabouts information & missed testsĥ. Refusal to submit to sample collection after being notifiedĤ. Use or attempted use of a prohibited substance or methodģ. Presence of a prohibited substance in an athlete’s sampleĢ. In fact, there are 11 Anti-Doping Rule Violations:ġ. However, it’s not just a positive test that can result in a sanction. Most commonly, this means a presence of a prohibited substance in an athlete’s sample collected during Doping Control. The GAMMA Anti-Doping Rules can be found here.Īccording to the World Anti-Doping Code and the GAMMA Anti-Doping Rules, doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs). ![]() They also apply to Athletes, Athlete Support Personnel, and other Persons (including Sports Manager), each of whom is deemed, as a condition of his/her membership, accreditation, and/or participation of the sport, have agreed to be bound by these Anti-Doping Rules. The GAMMA Anti-doping rules shall apply to GAMMA and to our World Championships, Continental Championships, Promotional Championships, and to each of its National Federation Members. It is how we play true.Īnti-Doping Rules like Competition Rules, are sport rules governing the conditions under which sport is played. ![]() It is the essence of Olympism – the pursuit of human excellence through the dedicated perfection of each person’s natural talents. GAMMA believes in a doping-free sport and anti-doping programmes seek to preserve the spirit of sport. |
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