![]() ![]() To incorporate listening Your Story Hour in your home or school routine, consider the following ideas: If you are intent on incorporating Bible History or character lessons into the lives of your children, Your Story Hour would be an excellent investment. Using Your Story Hour in your home and/or school The company operates on donations from generous people like you.Your Story Hour is still broadcast from radio stations around the country.A children’s magazine, Clubhouse, can be viewed online or printed and is full of fun for your kids. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This Standard establishes dimensions for LPG fuel cylinders used on powered industrial trucks.ĪNSI/ITSDF B56.11.8 – 2019, Safety Standard for Seat Belt (Lap-Type) Anchorage Systems for Powered Industrial Trucks EFFECTIVE 08/12/20 It applies to internal combustion engine powered and electric high lift, counterbalanced, sit-down rider industrial trucks up to and including 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) capacity.ĪNSI/ITSDF B56.11.7-2020, Liquid Propane Gas (LPG) Fuel Cylinders (Horizontal or Vertical) Mounting - Liquid Withdrawal - For Powered Industrial Trucks EFFECTIVE This Standard establishes the conditions, procedures, equipment, and acceptability criteria for evaluating visibility from powered industrial trucks. The test procedures set forth in this Standard provide the basis for determining the contribution powered industrial trucks make to the overall sound level of a selected work area.ĪNSI/ITSDF B56.11.6 – 2019, Evaluation of Visibility from Powered Industrial Trucks EFFECTIVE 08/12/20 It provides test procedures for measuring both operator and bystander exposure to sound produced by the trucks. It excludes earthmoving machinery, industrial cranes, and vehicles intended primarily for use on public roads. ![]() This Standard establishes the conditions, test procedures, environment, and instrumentation for the determination and reporting of the A-weighted sound pressure level of electric battery and internal combustion engine powered, low lift, high lift, and rough terrain industrial trucks. The scope of this Standard encompasses standards relative to hook-type fork carriers and the attaching elements of fork arms and load handling attachments for forklift trucks, in relation to manufacturers rated capacities of trucks up to and including 11,000 kg (24,000 lb).ĪNSI/ITSDF B56.11.5 – 2018, Measurements of Sound Emitted by Low Lift, High Lift and Rough Terrain Powered Industrial Vehicles This standard establishes dimensional standards and load capacity criteria for double race or bi-level swivel and rigid industrial casters in order to provide for the overall interchangeability of a complete caster.ĪNSI/ITSDF B56.11.4 – 2018, Hook-Type Forks and Fork Carriers for Powered Industrial Forklift Trucks EFFECTIVE 3/7/14 ANSI/ITSDF B56.11.1 – 2018, Double Race or Bi-Level Swivel and Rigid Industrial Casters EFFECTIVE ![]() ![]() ![]() Morion, eager to lead the charge himself, departed to face King Hyacinth personally without the newly awakened Emblem Ring, despite Diamant's warning that King Hyacinth will likely not reciprocate his father's sense of honor.ĭiamant's concerns proved true as King Hyacinth, using the power of the Ring of the Lady of the Plains, incapacitated King Morion and took him to Destinea Cathedral with the intention of using his sovereign blood to feed the Fell Dragon Sombron to partially restore his powers. Though she is defeated, a messenger informs King Morion that Elusia's army was approaching the Brodia-Elusia boarder headed by Elusia's King Hyacinth himself. Despite plans to hold a feast, Brodia Castle is attacked by Elusia's Crown Princess, Ivy. Alear awakens the Ring of the Young Lion containing Emblem Roy. Despite his displeasure at his father personally greeting the Divine Dragon and leaving the safety of the castle, Diamant warmly welcomed Alear and willingly gave them the Emblem Ring Brodia was safeguarding. When news arrived in Brodia that Firene had requested assistance to fight against Elusia and that the recently awakened Divine Dragon Alear would arrive with them, Diamant was the first to welcome the Divine Dragon and their entourage at Brodia Castle when his younger brother Alcryst returned. Diamant spent much of his childhood receiving the best education and training for when he would eventually succeed his father as King of Brodia. ![]() And through his uncle, the Grand Duke, also a cousin to Citrinne. 3.1.2.2 Fell Xenologue 6: Seven Braceletsĭiamant is the Crown Prince of Brodia, the eldest son of its current king, Morion, and older brother to Prince Alcryst. ![]() ![]() My progress through each Desperados 3 mission demanded more frequent reloading than a single-shot rifle, as I continued to repeatedly botch each enemy encounter until I could come up with an effective plan to attack the guards at the right time, in the right order, using the most appropriate abilities of my team. Despite being a game about cowboys, Desperados 3 is not so much about being quick on the draw as it is about being quick on the quicksave, and it’s self-aware of its reliance on this system to the point that an obnoxious quicksave reminder prompt appears in the middle of the screen should you forget to register your progress for longer than a minute. ![]() That leads to heck of a lot of trial and error should you wish to make your way through each mission without alerting the guards and having them call in reinforcements. Since every guard is dutifully watching another guard’s back, you’ll almost always be caught in the act if you simply sneak up to stab a lookout from behind. ![]() Red Dead RepetitionDesperados 3’s automated assaults don’t make life too easy, though, because pulling off such graceful cowboy-killing choreography still requires a lot of rehearsals. Plotting and executing a synchronised attack from all angles so that multiple enemies are taken out and disposed of to clear an area of threats in one fell swoop without raising an alarm is consistently satisfying to perform. Desperados 3 improves on that concept with some welcome extra features such as the ability to chain together a series of moves, like killing an enemy and then carrying and concealing their body, all in one action. These individual skills are typically best used in tandem, such as using Hector to lay down a bear trap behind some bushes and then getting the coquettish Kate to lure them into its gaping maw.Īll of the action plays out in real-time (this is not an XCOM-style game) but like developer Mimimi Games’ previous stealth-’em-up, 2016’s Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, it features the ability to pause the action and plot out a sequence of moves for your squad before executing them all at once to make complex simultaneous action possible. Cooper can toss coins to startle horses into kicking guards unconscious, Doc McCoy’s rifle can snipe enemies from afar, Hector’s shotgun blast can take out closely gathered troops all at once, and Kate can don a seductive disguise in order to divert an enemy’s gaze. The Magnificent FiveEach member of your bloodthirsty brigade has their own specific skills and tools, and much of Desperados 3 is spent hiding in bushes for several minutes at a time trying to decide exactly which combination of them is required to systematically snuff out each area full of enemies. Although it admittedly seems a little odd when these back-and-forths continue even when the characters are separated by large stretches of the map, almost as though they’ve been outfitted with walkie talkies by a time-traveling Doc Brown. An early mission sees two characters make a bet to see who can claim the most scalps, and then with each subsequent kill you can hear them call out their running tallies like Gimli and Legolas in Lord of the Rings, which is just one of numerous nice little touches. Their contextual banter as you make your way through each murderous mission really helps to define their individual personalities, making for an outlaw gang I was consistently happy to be at the reigns of. ![]() The plot may be more stock standard than an unmodified Winchester, but what makes the 30-hour journey of Desperados 3’s campaign so captivating is the camaraderie shared between its five playable characters. It’s a violent tour through a series of vibrant and wonderfully detailed frontier settings. Desperados 3’s campaign serves as an origin story for main protagonist John Cooper, who stars in yet another tale of bitter revenge that spills its first blood on the rocks of Colorado and leaves a trail all the way down to the dustiest depths of New Mexico. It matters not, though, since Desperados 3 is a prequel to the original game and thus any prior knowledge of its plot or characters isn’t necessary for newcomers looking to saddle up. It’s entirely possible you’re not familiar with the Desperados series, considering the last instalment of the previously PC-only franchise – Desperados 2: Cooper’s Revenge – was released 14 years ago. ![]() ![]() Competitors battle it out to be the first to cross the finish line on a set that is rigged to explode. Split/ Second is an action-packed racing game that is set in a reality TV show.
![]() ![]() ![]() As mentioned, Witch Queen was one of the most well-regarded additions the game has seen, and it has continued to evolve in the year since. The last number of years has been an upward trajectory for Destiny 2. In recent years, it feels like Bungie has become free to make the Destiny it always wanted. A shift for the better if the current state of Destiny is anything to go off of. Destiny, and Bungie, have gone through a dramatic shift in the last decade. The unadulterated science fiction of Destiny has always been there, but much of it was buried or pushed aside in the name of mass appeal. How long will it take you to beat the Destiny 2 Lightfall campaign? Find out here.So much has changed that we have begun to use their proper name, the Eliksni, instead. Coming into Lightfall, the Cabal is split into the Empire under Empress Caiatl, an ally of ours, and the Shadow Legion, under the deposed Emperor, now Disciple of the Witness, Callus.Ī collective of alien beings we once referred to as the Fallen are split between the various houses, many are still opposed to us, but some have become our closest allies. In the nearly 9 years since, the boundaries have shifted considerably. Halo fans playing Destiny for the first time in 2014 would have found the various alien races to shoot at familiar, not at all unlike the Covenant. As time moves on, alliances change and what was once an unknowable enemy is now a close friend. Marathon and Halo both begin as tales of humans fighting against an unknown alien force, only to later learn the nuances of these alien beings. Bungie has a history of playing with certain sci-fi concepts again and again. Now, hundreds of years later, round two has finally begun.ĭestiny is a work of deep science fiction that began quite simply and has been peeling away layers, one by one, for years. We knew that thing to be the Darkness, and that the Traveller sacrificed much of itself to fight it back. The short version is that many years ago, something came to Earth and nearly ended everything. To get everyone up to speed, Destiny and Destiny 2 have been building toward a conflict since the very beginning. All new weapons in Destiny 2 Lightfall.Lightfall was going to be huge - because it had to be. We know there is more to come, yet somehow it felt like everything has been leading to this. This leads us to Lightfall, the penultimate annual chapter of Destiny as we know it. ![]() The last year of Destiny 2 has been quite the upswing, the Witch Queen expansion and the following year of seasonal content hit a new stride for the game that had never been achieved before. We have watched it grow and iterate, we have seen the ups and the downs. Since then, Destiny has been ours for nearly a decade. The scope of the game that they were proposing was massive, an ambition that only a studio with a history like Bungie could hope to live up to. You want it to be great, you know it can be, but you understand it better than most and have experienced all of the highs and the lows.Ībout ten years ago, Bungie introduced the world to their new story, one that they projected would carry them at least a decade into the future. When you have dedicated a decent chunk of your life to a single game, or a single hobby, it is hard not to feel a mixture of cynicism and optimism about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() To access these features, users will need to pay for a $4.99/month Plex Pass subscription. That includes the AI-powered Sonic Sage playlist builder, plus downloads, and artist and album mix builders. However, with the shift to make the app free, Plexamp will keep its more advanced features exclusive to its paying subscribers. In addition to Library Radio, a feature used to rediscover your music, users can create playlists with Plexamp to match their current mood: like “brooding, cathartic, confident, intense, playful, poignant, swaggering, and wistful,” the company says.Īnother feature, Decade Radio, lets users play tracks from a given decade, while Time Travel Radio lets you discover older tracks from your library. The app also includes gapless playback, loudness leveling, and smooth transitions between tracks, among other things. Now, Plex says the Plexamp app will become free, allowing users to play tracks from their own library or the TIDAL music streaming service with high-quality audio and support for lossless audio. However, after its expansion from desktop to mobile, Plexamp was only available to subscribers. The project was first launched in 2017 as Plex’s own spin on the classic Winamp media player app, offering visualizations to accompany your tunes, tools for programming mixes, and more recently, a ChatGPT-powered “Sonic Sage” feature that builds unique playlists from users’ music libraries. ![]() ![]() Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is now free, the company announced today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Head page and T donates its tail page(s). ![]() 15 - COMPOUND_HEAD A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.Ī compound page with order 2 takes the form of “HTTT”, where H donates its The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.Īn order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag 10 - BUDDY a free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head by undergoing read/write IO 7 - SLAB page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator Short descriptions to the page flags ¶ 0 - LOCKED page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the Times each page is mapped, indexed by PFN. This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of Precisely which pages are mapped (or in swap) and comparing mappedĮfficient users of this interface will use /proc/pid/maps toĭetermine which areas of memory are actually mapped and llseek to If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains anĮncoding of the swap file number and the page’s offset into the ![]() Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability. Starting fromĤ.2 the PFN field is zeroed if the user does not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN. In 4.0 and 4.1 opens by unprivileged fail with -EPERM. Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs. Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5).Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2).Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if presentĭocumentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst). ![]() ![]() ![]() In one example, the author contends that at root, the malaise of depression is the loss of our own story and the effectiveness of talk therapy is in helping us to rebuild our own personal narratives. However, unlike some other reviewers, I particularly enjoyed the sections on brain science and the role story plays in our dreams, in mental illness and in the development of human culture. The book does drag in parts and significant sections consist of summaries of materials covered in more depth in other books. This is Gottschall's premise and he makes his case pretty convincingly. If you stop to think about it, stories are the framework around which we build our understanding of reality-whether the stories revolve around history, religion, myth, nationality, science, gaming, drama, fiction or our own lives. I think most people interested in books and psychology will enjoy it. The book starts slowly but picks up in energy and interest as it goes along. The narrator is OK, but I wonder why he felt he had to deliver some quotes in quite bizarre accents. ![]() We long for patterns and reasons - can conspiracy theories be far behind? I especially enjoyed the discussion about ways in which new technologies are changing how we tell and experience stories - from so-called "reality" shows to interactive and role-playing computer games. Gottschall also alerts us to reasons why we should be aware that this tendency also opens us up to the possibility of misinterpreting and being manipulated. From ancient fire circles to books to radio and movies to TV sets, headphones, and computers, "story is the glue of human social life." This short listen may not bring to light any really new concepts, but it offers interesting examples of how we use stories for education, entertainment, and reassurance that there is meaning in life. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us. Most successful stories are moral - they teach us how to live, whether explicitly or implicitly, and bind us together around common values. But as Gottschall shows in this remarkable book, stories can also change the world for the better. National myths can also be terribly dangerous: Hitler's ambitions were partly fueled by a story. It makes us vulnerable to conspiracy theories, advertisements, and narratives about ourselves that are more "truthy" than true. Of course, our story instinct has a darker side. Did you know that the more absorbed you are in a story, the more it changes your behavior? That all children act out the same kinds of stories, whether they grow up in a slum or a suburb? That people who read more fiction are more empathetic? Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival.ĭrawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems - just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The developers do, however, warn: "Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.14 is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is not recommended for everyday use." Woo-hoo! And I really like one of the slogans the developers use: "Change your OS, not your software!" The ultimate goal of ReactOS is to allow you to remove Windows and install ReactOS without the end user noticing the change." The developers continue to get us excited by saying, "Additionally, the look and feel of the Windows operating system is used, such that people accustomed to the familiar user interface of Windows would find using ReactOS straightforward. This will allow your Windows applications and drivers to run as they would on your Windows system." The developers explain that the main goal "is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible with Windows. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture." Interesting, but the story gets better: "Written completely from scratch, aims to follow the Windows-NT architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. One of the comments highlighted a FOSS project that could make it irrelevant whether or not Microsoft makes the code available, ReactOS, an operating system "based on the design of Windows XP/2003." I suggested that because XP and Office 2003 are still useful and relevant to so many people, Microsoft should do the right thing and release the source code to both as open source, and a lively discussion in the online article's comment section ensued. Your mileage may vary.Īnother followup is for something I wrote about in my Backspin column, the scheduled demise of Microsoft's support for Windows XP and Office 2003 on April 9, 2014. Even so, now that I've compared Microsoft's OS X RDP client to the free, open source (FOSS) alternative I wrote about, CoRD, I much prefer the latter - it produces a better looking rendition of the remote desktop. I usually believe vendors when they say something doesn't work (but often I don't believe the opposite), but maybe I should rethink that rule. ![]() I checked this out and, indeed, Keith is correct RDP 2.1.1 does indeed work, but how foolish of me to believe Microsoft because on its Web site it warns: "Note Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac (version 2.1.1) is not intended for use with Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) or later." Pretty much the same thing is written twice more on the download page.Ĭlick to see: Reader Keith Rinaldo's OS X 10.7 desktop running Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 which Microsoft says doesn't work I have been using RDP 2.1 since I installed OS X 10.7.0, through all iterations up to my current OS X 10.7.3 (awaiting a reboot to install 10.7.4) and RDP Client 2.1.1." Reader Keith Rinaldo wrote to tell me, "I can confirm that Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 works perfectly fine on OS X 10.7. A few weeks ago I wrote about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and noted that "Microsoft's RDP client, Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 doesn't support OS X 10.7 or later.". ![]() |
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