![]() What I learned was the entire family serves, and when a loved one is wounded, sick or injured, their lives get turned upside down." "I didn't want to run the foundation and be ignorant about for the sake of just running it. "I've never served, so this was something I had to reconcile," Fisher said. "I love that Fisher House has become so important to me personally and to the families," he said. While his work with the foundation began as a desire to continue a legacy, Fisher said it's now his life. "I think Uncle Zachary knew what he was doing when he sent me there because I immediately got involved in it," he recalled. Taking on the family legacy, the younger Fisher became CEO of the foundation after dedicating a house at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. He volunteered to build the first couple of Fisher Houses for military patients and their families. She told the developer and architect that some service members were sleeping in their vehicles because they couldn't afford a hotel during lengthy outpatient care. In 1990, Zachary Fisher got a call from Pauline Trost, wife of the then-chief of naval operations. Ken Fisher, Fisher House Foundation's chairman and CEO, said his uncle, Zachary Fisher, built the first of the Fisher Houses. Dutton expects to return home to Kingsport, Tennessee, when his medical treatment is completed in August. It's the military connections that make it home for us," he said. It's more than just a facility it's also a community. "It provides a little comfort because you're going through the same thing, and being able to support each other is another benefit you wouldn't get in a hotel. The foundation works with DOD's three military surgeons general and the VA to decide where the houses are most needed, based - in large part - on the number of service members and veterans in the area. A Fisher House for service members operates at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. ![]() It will be the first VA Fisher House in Kentucky. The Lexington house will accommodate 16 veterans and their families in nearly 15,000 square feet of living space. It's the only Fisher House that supports another country's service members. It's a special partnership between the Fisher House Foundation, Helping Our Heroes Foundation and University Hospitals Birmingham Charity. There's also a Fisher House UK at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. The houses provide up to 5,840 nights of lodging, saving veterans and service members more than $640,000 annually, according to the foundation. Located at major military and Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, VA Fisher Houses outnumber Defense Department houses 50 to 41.
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![]() TANK SUIT: A sleeveless one-piece swimsuit that has straps over the shoulder. ONE SHOULDER: A swimsuit that has only one shoulder strap, or support, creating an asymmetrical design. (Also called a Cut-Away Swimsuit)īIKINI: A woman’s two-piece swimsuit: a top, or a bra and a bottom, or panty. Today, it actually refers to a woman’s one-piece swimsuit with cutouts on the sides and/or front. ![]() MONOKINI: The old school term, “monokini,” meant a one-piece swimsuit that exposed the breasts. ONE-PIECE SWIMSUIT: A piece of woman’s clothing, like a leotard, that covers the torso in one piece and is meant for swimming or sunbathing. Here is a list of swimwear terminology that should help. These names come under the headline of “swimwear terminology” and I hope to clear up any questions or doubts about “what’s what” in the world of swimwear today. In our fashion world of today, we no longer call these articles of clothing “bathing suits.” The category is now called swimwear and there is an entire family of different names and silhouettes. Top movie stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress helped popularize this new style of swimwear but it didn’t catch on in western countries until the mid 1960s. Additionally, in 1946, Jacques Heim, the French fashion designer, along with Reard, have been credited with this “new” phenomenon in, of course, PARIS. And then, fast forward through the 18th century to the modern bikini that was popularized by Louis Reard, a French engineer. Well, it happens to be the ancient Roman Villa Romana del Casale (286-305 AD) in Sicily and it contains one of the earliest known illustrations of a bikini. Stop and think for a moment where the first bathing suits were seen. 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Pierre's teaching position at the Sorbonne was given to Marie. Tragically, Pierre was killed three years later in an accident while crossing a street in a rainstorm. For their work on radioactivity, the Curies were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics. This led to the discoveries of the elements polonium and radium, but it took four more years of processing tons of ore under oppressive conditions to isolate enough of each element to determine its chemical properties. She concluded that the ore contained, in addition to uranium, new elements that were also radioactive. After chemical extraction of uranium from the ore, Marie noted the residual material to be more "active" than the pure uranium. Although the phenomenon was discovered by Henri Becquerel, the term radioactivity was coined by Marie. Together, they began investigating the phenomenon of radioactivity recently discovered in uranium ore. However, shortly after his marriage to Marie in 1895, Pierre subjugated his research to her interests. He had also made important investigations into the phenomenon of magnetism including the identification of a temperature, the curie point, above which a material's magnetic properties disappear. ![]() In 1880, he and his brother Jacques had discovered piezoelectricity whereby physical pressure applied to a crystal resulted in the creation of an electric potential. The lab notebooks used by the Curies are too highly contaminated to be safely handled today.Įstimated Crustal Abundance: 9×10 -7 milligrams per kilogramĮstimated Oceanic Abundance: 8.By the time he met Marie Sklodowska, Pierre Curie had already established an impressive reputation. Radium is about one million times more active than uranium. A single gram of radium-226 will produce 0.000l milliliters of radon a day. Radium is used to produce radon, a radioactive gas used to treat some types of cancer. A mixture of radium and beryllium will emit neutrons and is used as a neutron source. Radium had been used to make self-luminous paints for watches, aircraft instrument dials and other instrumentation, but has largely been replaced by cobalt-60, a less dangerous radioactive source. It is equal to the number of atoms in a one gram sample of radium-226 that will decay in one second, or 37,000,000,000 decays per second. The Curie, a unit used to describe the activity of a radioactive substance, is based on radium-226. It decays into radon-222 through alpha decay or into lead-212 by ejecting a carbon-14 nucleus. Radium's most stable isotope, radium-226, has a half-life of about 1600 years. Today, radium can be obtained as a byproduct of refining uranium and is usually sold as radium chloride (RaCl 2) or radium bromide (RaBr 2) and not as a pure material. One ton of uranium ore contains only about 0.14 grams of radium. Curie needed to refine several tons of pitchblende in order to obtain tiny amounts of radium and polonium, another radioactive element discovered by Curie. She reasoned that pitchblende must contain at least one other radioactive element. ![]() ![]() Marie Curie obtained radium from pitchblende, a material that contains uranium, after noticing that unrefined pitchblende was more radioactive than the uranium that was separated from it. ![]() Radium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska Curie, a Polish chemist, and Pierre Curie, a French chemist, in 1898. On the bottom of that same earcup are a series of buttons and wheels that let you adjust the volume and toggle different sound modes, depending on how you set up the headset in the accompanying Audio Hub phone app. The rest of the headset is exactly what you got with the Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2, including a clear, loud, flip-down microphone that hides neatly inside the left earcup when you don’t need it. The bronze goes all the way around the ear cups and also coats the adjustable steel headband, so the more you open the adjustment, the more bronze you’ll see. ![]() It’s not a classic color combo, but it works: the bronze pops and shines without feeling flashy. The Max comes in either the original black or the new dark blue design with bronze accents. As a mark of how comfy it was, I fell asleep while listening to podcasts late at night with the headset on, and only woke up several hours later. Like with any headset, after an extended gaming session I was conscious of the band against the top of my head, but it was never sore, and slight adjustments relieved any minor discomfort. The earcups are unchanged here, which is a good thing, and the extra padding around the headband makes it comfy to wear it for hours. Our review of the original headset noted how comfy it was, and how the roomy earcups never irritated or overheated your ears. The last big selling point of the Max is some extra padding around the steel headband, which is also slightly larger than with the original Gen 2. I took it on a weekend away knowing, gloriously, that I could leave the charger behind, saving space in my bag. It stood up to that claim in my testing: after two weeks using it on and off, adding up to more than 25 hours of sound time, I was hovering at about 50% battery. The base Gen 2 lasted roughly 20 hours per charge, but the Max will last more than 40 hours, according to Turtle Beach, which is longer than all but one of the headsets on our best wireless headset list. ![]() The second big selling point of the Max is battery life. Granted, the original 700 Gen 2 had the same feature, but with the Max you can do it with both your PlayStation and Xbox in back-to-back sessions, if you really wanted. I played a long, grinding session of Elden Ring on my PS5 while listening to a podcast, with the game sound just high enough to hear an enemy charging up behind me. Probably my favorite thing about the Max is that you can keep it paired with your phone while connected to your PlayStation, Xbox, or docked Nintendo Switch via the dongle. It will also pair with your phone for podcasts, music, films, or games. It’s reassuring knowing that whenever you want to change consoles, your headset will oblige with no hassle. Once again, the connection was instant, consistent, and lag-free. That's mildly annoying, and shows that this is a headset designed for people that play on multiple platforms.įor every other platform – I tested it with my Nintendo Switch in handheld mode and the Steam Deck – the Max pairs directly via Bluetooth. Note that the Xbox version of the original Gen 2 connected straight to the console without a dongle, so If you’re solely an Xbox gamer, the Max asks you to keep track of an additional gadget. It uses a 2.4GHz wireless connection, and during testing with my PS5 it paired instantly every time, including the first time I tried it. For PC, a docked Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation (it works with the Xbox Series X, Series S, One X, One S, and both PS5 and PS4) you pair the headset with a dongle that plugs into a USB slot. ![]() The Max pairs with consoles in one of two ways. Let’s start with those new features, beginning with compatibility across all consoles – which is surprisingly rare in wireless headsets. Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 Max – Design & Features ![]() The few times it does I can easily bring the keyboard back with the UI iPadOS 15 provides. I rarely turn it off due to the annoyance of needing to switch it back to iPad mode, but it sleeps fairly quickly so it doesn’t stay connected when I take my iPad away from my desk. The RK84 seems to last about 2 weeks with RGB effects on. I tend not to care enough to change it so I’ve left it set to default and I’m happy. FN + Right Arrow or FN + Left Arrow increases or decreases the backlight blink speed.FN + Up Arrow or FN + Down Arrow increases or decreases the brightness.FN + Home cycles through the preset backlight modes. ![]() Luckily these are also accessible from the keyboard by using the FN key. If you’re into RGB stuff, the RK84 I got does have full RGB lighting and you could even program it via their software if you wanted. It looked like there were light options and macro stuff, but I never tried it. Once I realize I couldn’t change CTRL to CMD in the software I gave up on the other options. Yes you can get access to the software if you do this but you’ll have to directly map your keyboard to the virtual machine and even then the Royal Kludge software doesn’t allow you to permanently change any of the keys to Apple specific ones.Īll you’ve got is the Apple mode that is access by pressing FN + S. Now, what about installing Parallels and then installing Windows (or ARM Windows for M1 users). If you want to reprogram the keyboard to use with your iPad, you’re going to need Windows and the stock software to do it. That means it won’t help anyone with an iPad because you can’t install drivers. Unfortunately this doesn’t reprogram the keyboard, it installs a macOS driver which monitors keystrokes and changes what the operating system thinks they do. If you look around online you’ll be told to use Karabiner Elements to remap keys as you want. Now we come to the next issue with an RK keyboard for Apple users…they software they provide to program your keyboard is Windows only. To use Play/Pause or Volume keys you’ll still need to press FN. It doesn’t flip function keys so that they can be used primarily as media keys. If you put it in iPadOS mode but power the keyboard off it doesn’t remember the setting so every time I power the keyboard down I have to remember to press FN + S to get it to be back in iPadOS mode.Īnother issue with iPad mode is that it only switches the ⌥ and ⌘ keys so that they’re setup how iPadOS expects. You can do this by pressing FN + S and here is where my first problem is with this keyboard. Once you got your keyboard connected it’s time to look at getting it in macOS/iPadOS mode. For something I’d even think about USB 2.0 for, I’ll just use AirDrop or let the file sync via iCloud. Most of the data I need to transfer is huge video files or lots of photos which leaves me feeling that USB 2.0 ports are wasted space. The advantage to this mode is that the keyboard has dual USB 2.0 ports on it. It also can connect via USB with a USB C connector on the keyboard end. I tested it and it works but I don’t have anything else to say because I don’t use it. To put it in dongle mode flip the keyboard over flip the bottom switch to G. If you want to skip bluetooth it also has a 2.4Ghz USB A dongle. I found it paired fast and doesn’t have any latency for my standard office use. By pressing and holding FN + Q/W/E you can choose which profile you’re going to pair with. Connect RK84 to your iPadįor Bluetooth pairing you have three different profiles you can use. Not terrible, but I’ll stick with my cables from Kraken if I’m going to use a wired keyboard. The cable is typical cheap for an inexpensive keyboard. Then you get the keyboard and a USB C -> A cable. There are a few extra switches if one dies on you. The RK84 comes with a dual key cap puller and switch puller so you can swap out either the keycaps or the switches. ![]() As far as I can tell RK uses their own branded switches. I got the white version with a Tactile Blue switch that is MX compatible. The RK84 is a hotswappable wireless keyboard. I spent a bit of time looking and ended up purchasing a RK84 from Amazon to replace it. Then it stopped being reliable with it’s wireless connection, and to stream from my iPad I need it to work wirelessly. For a number of months I was using the Anne Pro 2 as the keyboard for my iPad Pro while it was at my desk. ![]() On exchanges, traders submit orders that specify either the highest price at which they’re willing to buy the cryptocurrency, or the lowest price at which they’re willing to sell. Depending on the exchange, cryptocurrencies can be traded against other cryptocurrencies (for example BTC/ETH) or against fiat currencies like USD or EUR (for example BTC/USD). This way, we can determine an average price that reflects cryptocurrency market conditions as accurately as possible.Ĭryptocurrency exchanges provide markets where cryptocurrencies are bought and sold 24/7. In the case of Bitcoin, as long as you control the private key necessary to transact with your BTC, you can send your BTC to anyone in the world for any reason.Ĭrypto prices are calculated by averaging cryptocurrency exchange rates on different cryptocurrency trading platforms. A cryptocurrency wallet is software that manages private and public keys. In order to send and receive a cryptocurrency, you need a cryptocurrency wallet. Proof-of-Work coins use mining, while Proof-of-Stake coins use staking to achieve consensus about the state of the ledger. The two major categories of cryptocurrencies are Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake. While all cryptocurrencies leverage cryptographic methods to some extent (hence the name), we can now find a number of different cryptocurrency designs that all have their own strengths and weaknesses. However, not all cryptocurrencies work in the same way. With permissionless cryptocurrencies, a node can be operated by anyone, provided they have the necessary technical knowledge, computer hardware and bandwidth. Cryptocurrency works through networks of nodes that are constantly communicating with each other to stay updated about the current state of the ledger. ![]() After studying a Sheet, you’ll be assigned Cards that test you on the information you just reviewed. ![]() It’s interactive, such that you can toggle keywords and phrases to practice active recall. With Memm, you are first presented a Sheet, which includes condensed, well organized, and high yield information that you need to know for the MCAT. While Memm is reasonably priced, it’s hard to beat free, so the winner in this round is Anki. Memm also offers a free 7-day trial, after which pricing is based on the subscription length purchased. Memm is an online study tool that doesn’t require installation of any additional software – it’s optimized to work smoothly and seamlessly in your web browser, whether on your computer, phone, or any device with a modern web browser. You can also download pre-made decks for free, which are decks of flashcards created by other premeds studying for the MCAT. Creating cards is free to do – it simply requires a large amount of time and effort. This just provides you access to the actual spaced repetition software, without any of the MCAT related content. If you’re on a tighter budget, you can always opt to use the web app interface on your phone, although this may be laggy, less customizable, and less robust than buying the dedicated Anki iOS app. On iOS, you must pay a one time fee of $25 to install the app. Anki is an application you must download to use on your computer, with both macOS or Windows being supported. There’s a minimal learning curve, and the flashcards are comprehensive and follow best practices. There are no plugins to install, no flashcards to make, and no confusing interface between the user and studying for the MCAT. Memm, on the other hand, addresses the spaced repetition barriers to entry. These factors result in minimal or even negative value from using Anki, causing students to drop spaced repetition altogether. Reasons for poor flashcards are wide-ranging, such as making too many cards, or putting too much information on cards, or not testing discrete information. 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By LaToya Ferguson Octo 4:40pm Images courtesy of IFC Comedy Reviews Baroness Von Sketch Show Tonight, Canadian import Baroness von Sketch Show returns to IFC for its fourth. The show's third season started in September 2018, and CBC renewed the show for a fourth season, that began airing shows in October 2019. Metacritic TV Reviews, Baroness von Sketch Show - Season 5, The Canadian sketch comedy series features an all-female cast that includes Aurora Browne. CBC just announced the TV show will premiere its fifth and final season this fall. The four also serve as executive producers of the show.ĬBC renewed the show for a second season, which aired in 2017. The all-woman, all-Canadian series stars Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, and Jennifer Whalen, and heads back to IFC on Wednesday, October 30 at midnight. Baroness Von Sketch Show is coming to an end. ![]() Produced by Frantic Films, the series is an all-female comedy series starring Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen. Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen star in this series that takes a comedic look at our narcissistic contemporary culture. It debuted on CBC Television on June 14, 2016. ![]() Canadian TV series or program Baroness von Sketch Showīaroness von Sketch Show is a Canadian television sketch comedy series. And because people complained about it a high speed gathering function was added for the sequels. This is because you need all of it, and it really does take the odd half hour for this to get done on some levels. And finally in Homeworld there is a powerful compulsion to remain in each zone until every last resource has been gathered by your slow moving harvesters. Secondly, I have also identified a graphical bug which causes the occasional star to stick on the left edge of the view after it should have disappeared off screen. But still I can see it being a bit overwhelming for many people. It is hard in all the right ways though, and doesn`t cheat you. Even once the relatively tricky procedure of learning how to control your fleet in 3D is done with, the campaign is just unbelievably hard. However for people unaccustomed to RTS games Homeworld will be very tough to get to grips with beyond the first couple of levels. If any negatives can be found they are negligible. On top of this resources are tight as a drum, and you`ll happily fly for ten minutes each way just to pick up a single grain of space dust if you have to. Needless to say this is pretty hard to accomplish. The single best feature of the game for me is the fact that all your forces carry on between missions, giving you a chance to plan out your fleet from the start as well as a powerful urge not to lose any ships. At every turn you feel as if you really are way out in space, and some of the scenarios are breathtaking and feel really lethal. And on top of the spectacular pacing of the story comes great visuals, tremendous sound and tough as nails tactics. The single player campaign is on my list of essential sci fi literature along with Alien, Star Wars and Starcraft. ![]() Even replaying this amazing game more than a decade later it is still unsurpassed as far as game play, graphics and sound is concerned. Even replaying this amazing Half RTS, half space aquarium, Homeworld is one of the few essential titles any strategy fan needs to have played. Half RTS, half space aquarium, Homeworld is one of the few essential titles any strategy fan needs to have played. |
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