![]() ![]() I don’t have to gather more courage and look for someone else. When he flashes me a charming grin, I think I have my pick for the night.Ī small wave of relief floods me. Curly hair falls over his forehead and he’s wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to expose his forearms. I climb onto one of the chairs and sit at the bar, in direct view of the bartender, whose name tag reads Simon. ![]() Since Black Moon is a high-end bar, I came a bit early so that I can get in quickly. Not even the small details as to which bar I’ll go to. With a deep breath, I make my way through the tables and try not to lose the confidence I’ve been building for days and planned for weeks. My hand turns clammy and I bring it up, resting it on my chest to calm both its shaking and my heartbeat. ![]() They’re digging into my skull and trying to pull out my true identity-the one that should, under no circumstances, be revealed. The decor is black and dark brown and the lights are dim, giving the patrons privacy and a sense of anonymity. The place has a classy, comfortable atmosphere that I’m drawn to the moment I walk in. Judging by the trouble I found with their firewalls, I’d say they’re good enough. Truth is, I’m absolutely not an expert on these things, but I did my research and also hacked into their system to get an idea of their security measures and the people who come here. It took me so much effort to leave home and come here, which is why my trip has got to bring results. It’s called Black Moon and is situated at the end of a backstreet in New Jersey. So the fact that I’m in a bar is a miracle that should be engraved in history. Friends? What are those? Clubs and bars? Yeah, they’re not an option. I wasn’t even allowed to adopt the normal American lifestyle. Although I was born in the States and have lived here my entire life, my origins will never change. It probably has to do with my Russian genes. Normal people hate the cold, but I find solace in it. With each move, I feel the soothing coldness of the pendent against my bare back. I improvised and used a dainty chain to attach the straps together at the back and hooking my lucky butterfly motif to it-the only thing my mom left me before she also disappeared to a different place than the one I’ll be going to. I’m wearing it now, the red dress that falls amply to mid-thigh and bares half of my back. We’re not even allowed to buy such things.īut I did. Good girls like me definitely don’t dress in provocative red dresses that show more cleavage than it hides. We’re just valuable stock to be used when the opportunity arises. We’re taught to always keep our legs closed, our hearts sealed, and our brains dormant. Good girls like me don’t think about fucking or doing it with a complete stranger. I just need to cross it off my bucket list before I disappear. You can find the complete playlist on Spotify. Knox Van Doren might have a charming smile, but a true villain lurks beneath it all.Īnd like any villain, he’ll use my sin against me.Īnastasia – Slash & Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators Little did I know I’m not, in fact, responsible.īecause the stranger I left in bed? Yeah, he’s not a stranger after all. Of course, I left first thing in the morning because I’m a responsible adult.Īn adult who has a new job that I need in order to keep my double life a secret. I’m not the type who has one night stands.Ī couple of drinks and a sinful British accent later and I’m in bed with a stranger. Sign up to Rina Kent’s Newsletter for news about future releases and an exclusive gift. This book isn’t dark as the rest of my books, but it’s filled with a lot of angst and an epic clash of many characters. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. Empire of Sin Copyright © 2022 by Rina Kent ![]()
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![]() ![]() The public notice, Leech Lake Reservation Business Council resolution and map of affected waters is available on the Leech Lake Division of Resource Management website at. Experience new adventures - try your hand at fishing for walleye on a renowned Minnesota lake. Welcome to Leech Lake - Moores Lodge, a northern Minnesota family resort with great fishing for walleye, musky, northern pike, crappie, bass and panfish. and 41.7 acres, it's home to a couple species of fish, including brook trout and rainbow trout. Leech Lake Reservation waters containing wild rice beds will open to all hunters on the State’s regular season opening date on September 24, 2022. The Leech Lake area is a land full of stories and rich history. Leech Lake is a freshwater highland lake located in Yakima County, Washington. With 195 miles of shoreline and 112,835 acres to explore. That resolution remains in effect today and will continue to be enforced for the duration of the early teal season. Leech Lake is known for offering the best Walleye fishing and Muskie fishing in the Midwest. Steve Nosbisch Guide Service Serving the area of Leech Lake, Cass Lake, and Bemidji, MN. Walleye, Muskie, Multi Species Fishing Guide. It is southeast of Bemidji, located mainly within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and completely within the Chippewa National Forest. During peak season, manoomin harvesters actively harvest this Ojibwe food staple from sunrise to sunset in non-motorized canoes.įollowing announcement of the new, experimental season in 2021, the Leech Lake Reservation Business Committee, under the advisement of the LLBO Natural Resource Advisory Committee, enacted a resolution closing all rice beds on the Leech Lake Reservation to early season hunters. Guide on Leech Lake, Cass Lake, Lake Bemidji and surrounding area. Leech Lake is a lake located in north central Minnesota, United States. This is a beautiful area and a spectacular lake. He’s been doing this for many years and is an expert at what he does. The traditional Manoomin harvest takes place each year beginning in late August and lasts three to four weeks depending on conditions. Leech Lake is Minnesotas third largest body of water and is home of the Pillager Band of Ojibwe and the Dakota Sioux. Leech is big and Ted’s boat can get you anywhere fast and comfortable. CASS LAKE- The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Division of Resource Management issued public notice today that Manoomin (wild rice) waters within the exterior boundaries of the Leech Lake Reservation will be closed to hunters participating in the MN DNR’s early teal and goose seasons.įirst enacted in 2001 and set to last up to three years, the early teal season is set to take place from September 3-7 in 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() What I like most about Jitsi is that it is free and frictionless anyone can start a meeting in no time by visiting, and users are good to go with no need for registration or installation. ![]() You can also build your own Jitsi server and host it on-premises or on a virtual private server, such as a Digital Ocean Droplet. You can set a password to secure your video-chat room and protect it against intruders, and it also supports live-streaming over YouTube. Jitsi is secure and scalable and supports advanced video-routing concepts such as simulcast and bandwidth estimation, as well as typical capabilities like audio, recording, screen-sharing, and dial-in features. Jitsi began with Jitsi Desktop and has evolved into multiple projects, including Jitsi Meet, Jitsi Videobridge, jibri, and libjitsi, with source code published for each on GitHub. Jitsi is a complete, open source, multi-platform, and WebRTC-compliant videoconferencing tool. In times like these, when in-person meetings aren't an option, video chat is the best alternative. Sometimes text chat isn't enough, and you need to talk to someone face-to-face. If you want to participate in open source software and communities, IRC is the option to get started. Given its age, why should you still be on IRC? For one reason, it remains the home for many of the free and open source projects we depend on. If you want a more feature-rich application than a standard IRC client, you can connect to IRC with Riot.im. But your choice of IRC client is completely your decision. Your IRC handle or nickname is what allows people to find you, so it must be unique. If a channel name starts with a #, you can assume it to be official, whereas chat rooms that begin with # are unofficial and usually casual. It allows you to have conversations with multiple people in an open channel or chat with someone privately one-on-one. Although it's one of the oldest forms of electronic communication, it remains popular among many well-known software projects. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a real-time, text-based form of communication. You can also download Rocket.Chat for your mobile device and use it on the go. The things I like the most about Rocket.Chat are its ability to be customized according to user requirements and that it uses machine learning to do automatic, real-time message translation between users. It is constantly evolving with new features and improvements. Many open source projects use Rocket.Chat as their official communication platform. Rocket.Chat is completely free, and its source code is available on GitHub. You can download it onto your server, whether it's an on-premises server or a virtual private server on a public cloud. Rocket.Chat is free and open source, but what makes it unique is its self-hosted chat system. You can also send direct messages to people who are logged in share documents, links, photos, videos, and GIFs make video calls and send audio messages without leaving the platform. Rocket.Chat is a comprehensive communication platform that classifies channels as public (open to anyone who joins) or private (invitation-only) rooms. We’ll create a “Chat” function that is parent to a bunch of other functions for dealing with Chat-related stuff. We’re going to get a little Object Oriented with our JavaScript. The two most important areas are the textarea with the id of “sendie” and the chat-area div. The double-divs thing going on with the chat-wrap and chat-area is just to pull off the totally unnecessary (but cool) double border effect in the chat area. Even what you are looking at above is 50% unrelated to the specific functionality of this tutorial. If you want to take this and run with it and make it more full featured, be our guest! Basic HTML Structure It’s just a fun demo and totally workable in a number of situations. You can’t see all the current members of the chat. ![]() People can potentially have the same name. What it isn’t is the World’s Most Full-Featured Chat Room. This tutorial covers all kinds of interesting things and interesting technology and the end result is definitely a chat room.
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The shapes of the stones, oval and smooth, are the most basic units to appear in much of the work in the exhibition, especially as they are cemented into our familiar keystone or coral rock. When presented with the idea of using oolite as the focus of an exhibition, each one considered the stone from a different perspective related to their own memories and practice and to a new historical and ecological view of their surroundings that they may have taken for granted, but now merit artistic consideration. This collective exhibition includes the work of an eclectic group of 12 artists working in South Florida, upon a foundation of oolite. For artists in South Florida looking for inspiration in their own distinctive environment, it is ecological, geological, available, and always interesting. It is a distinctive feature of building facades, stairways, and patio flooring that ages to reveal a natural patina formed over the vestiges of fossils, coral, shells and small bits of marine life. It is a coral limestone (also called keystone) consisting of the calcareous skeletons of corals often cemented by calcium carbonate, with a few spherical inclusions (oolites). In Florida, coral rock is a variation of oolite and our most familiar building material and the foundation of our landscape. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word for egg. According to the dictionary, oolite or oölite (egg stone) is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. South Florida is mainly composed of oolitic limestone, which was formed when shallow seas covered the area between periods of glaciation and deposits of limestone were consolidated and eroded during later exposure above the ocean surface. JESSIE LAINO | GABRIELA NOELLE | WILLIAM OSORIO | ARTURO RODRÍGUEZĬÉSAR TRASOBARES | TREK6 | TONY VAZQUEZ-FIGUEROA | SINUHE VEGA NEGRIN The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No.JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY | JENNIFER BASILE | TIM BUWALDA | ROBERT DEYOUNG Great and inferior oolite limestones, and sandy beds 18 The bowl is, like other early fonts, rather tub-shaped, made of coarse-grained oolite, a Cotswold district stone, covered with uncommon ornamentation.īell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire He gives a very interesting coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise beneath the oolite then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and the lias underlaying all. ![]() ![]() Woodhall water comes from the “inferior oolite” which comprises the Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Northampton sand, the lowest layer of the oolite, and lying immediately above the upper lias. The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys. ![]() ![]() Strang says he used natural materials to build the home, including oolite, a rock that came from the site itself. ![]() ![]() If you have not used Methyl-Life® products before, please consider ordering one bottle to start before making larger orders. Methyl-Life® cannot be held liable for adverse reactions or negative side effects that you think are the result of one of our products. We're all different and listening closely to how your body responds will give you the best outcomes long term.īefore purchasing any of our products, Methyl-Life® recommends that you talk with a healthcare professional if you have any questions. 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Methyl-Life® is delighted to bring you an innovative product called Mega SporeBiotic™. Extremely Effective Probiotic - Includes 5 unique strains that will actually make it to your intestine ![]() ![]() ![]() I have seen vague claims about how NISQ could be used for fast optimization or even for AI training. But despite a constant drumbeat of NISQ hype coming from various quantum computing startups, the commercialization potential is far from clear. Using NISQ is surely an excellent new fundamental research idea-it could help physics research in fundamental areas such as quantum dynamics. Other NISQ triumphs are recent experiments simulating random quantum circuits, again a highly specialized task of no commercial value whatsoever. It also did not reveal anything about the fundamental physics of time crystals. The experiment was an impressive showcase of electronic control techniques, but it showed no computing advantage over conventional computers, which can readily simulate time crystals with a similar number of virtual qubits. I am not sure what this object is: How noisy? How many qubits? Why is this a computer? What worthy problems can such a NISQ machine solve?Ī recent laboratory experiment at Google has observed some predicted aspects of quantum dynamics (dubbed “time crystals”) using 20 noisy superconducting qubits. The great difficulty in getting rid of decoherence has led to the impressive acronym NISQ for “noisy intermediate scale quantum” computer-for the idea that small collections of noisy physical qubits could do something useful and better than a classical computer can. Physicists are smart as we all know (disclosure: I am a physicist), and some physicists are also very good at coming up with substantive-sounding acronyms that stick. ![]() It is unclear whether extensive quantum error correction or topological quantum computing (or something else, like a hybrid between the two) will be the eventual winner. But it turns out that developing topological quantum-computing hardware is also a huge challenge. There are in fact ideas, and I played some role in developing the theories for these ideas, for bypassing quantum error correction by using far-more-stable qubits, in an approach called topological quantum computing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this, they continue to offer personal plans with an interesting array of features – take a look at what I made of their software below. They released an API in 2014, and new projects seem to be focusing on technological developments more than customer experience. Today, the company is still recovering from the ensuing drop in popularity, and appear to be shifting their gaze towards the b2b market. This was a popular approach that gained them subscribers and favourable reviews, but they hit a stumbling block in 2014 when they scrapped the unlimited storage plan, and bumped up their prices considerably. Missouri-based company Bitcasa started out in 2011 as a new player in online storage solutions, and was notable for offering unlimited storage for $10/month. Should any of these options appeal to you, Bitcasa accepts payment from most major credit cards. The Basic plan isn’t bad either – offering more than the usual 2 – 3GB of free space, although going Pro is likely to put a strain on the average wallet. Premium subscribers get a good deal out of this, with plenty of space for a fairly reasonable charge, even if it’s at the higher end of average. Premium customers pay $10 per month for 1TB of data, while Pro users have to fork out an eye-watering $99 per month for the privilege of 10TB. ![]() As well as applying to new customers, this change has also been rolled out for existing users.*** ***April 2016 update: Bitcasa has recently scrapped its free account in favour of a 60-day free trial. Premium and Pro subscribers can utilise larger amounts of storage space, as well as having access to file sharing capabilities, enhanced customer support and HD streaming. Price Plansįor those looking to backup a small selection of files, Bitcasa’s Basic plan offers 5GB of storage free of charge. You can read a detailed review below or sign up now. Simple and intuitive to use, it boasts some better-than-average security features and file sharing options, and is a straightforward way to store files online. You can read our IDrive review to find out more about Bitcasa’s recommended alternative, or look into some more options by checking out our lists of the 5 Best Cloud Storage Providers for Windows and Mac, 2016.Īlthough still suffering from the drop in popularity that followed their controversial price hike in 2014, Bitcasa’s software is fundamentally very good. In anticipation of the closure, they have partnered with IDrive, who are offering discounts (for a limited time only) to any users wishing to transfer their data from Bitcasa Drive. For more information on the closure and how to retrieve your files, you can check out Bitcasa’s Help Center, or contact their Support team directly. The decision has been made so that Bitcasa can focus primarily on their platform business, and will affect all users. A free limited beta should go online soon.Bitcasa Drive is closing its doors, with all user accounts and data to be removed on May 20th at 11:59 PST. There's no word on when the service will launch but people who wish to beta test Bitcasa can sign up at the company's web site. The service also allows users to share any data on the servers with family and friends.īitcasa plans to offer a free version of its service when it goes live, although it won't have unlimited data storage. That means that if you lose your Internet connection for some reason, you will still be able to work with the cached file. If you use a particular file on your PC a lot, the data is saved on your local hard drive as a cache file. ![]() The service also uses encrypted servers, so they don't actually know what kinds of files you are saving to the cloud. In other words, when you save a file on your PC, it is automatically saved to the Bitcasa cloud servers. Instead of moving your files to the service via drag and drop, Bitcasa uses your PC hard drive as a cache. According to a story at TechCrunch it's aiming to revolutionize how PC users think about and use their local hard drive combined with its cloud serviceīitcasa will offer users a way to store an unlimited amount of data on its cloud-based servers for a measly $10 a month. This week at the TechCrunch Disrupt start up conference in San Francisco a new company called Bitcasa revealed itself. Microsoft offers up that kind of service with Skydrive while Dropbox offers a way to share files with others via an online interface. ![]() Cloud-based storage of data files is nothing new. ![]() ![]() ![]() As I said, I will be very surprised if it is not still Off.Īhhhhhh, in going back to my images SOME of my jpegs i used the art settings and those are the ones that are zoomed in. Is it On or Off? If you set it Off, then set that Art filter and go into Shooting Menu 1 again. Try this: Go into Shooting Menu 1 and look for Digital Tele-converter. But I would be surprised if it is that much different. Your Pen F is a bit different than my E-M1 in that Art Filters are set by a dedicated dial. In my camera it is an independent setting - it can be set in Shooting Menu 1 BTW. I don't believe the Digital Tele-converter (as Olympus calls it ) is part of any Art Filter. i wonder if we can modify the pre-installed art settings to disable the digital zoom One benefit to shooting RAW+JPG in case you change your mind later and want to recover the original.Īhhhhhh, in going back to my images SOME of my jpegs i used the art settings and those are the ones that are zoomed in. Only the JPGs generated by the camera will have the effect applied while the RAW file will show the full sensor data with no effect. This is also true of other camera effects such as shooting Black & White, using the Keystone effect, etc. ![]() When you shoot RAW+JPEG and use digital zoom, the RAW files contain the full image plus the zoom information, so that some RAW processors - like Olympus Viewer 3 or Capture One - will show the full image with a frame around the zoomed area. That function can be assigned to a button, and if you do, the button becomes a flip flop that alternates between normal and zoomed state. It looks like you activated "digital tele converter". Going from left to right, images are jpeg first then raw but when i look at them in the Filmstrip panel the jpeg versions are zoomed in (cropped) but the raw is wide and more "full frame". i always shoot raw + jpeg on my Pen F and load them both into Lightroom. Ok, this is the craziest thing and it's driving me nuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Genesis gives players their first look at the world of Darksiders before the events of the original game, as well as introduces the Horseman Strife. The third Darksiders game changes a lot from its combat to its progression in comparison to its predecessors. Fury relies on whips and magic in combat. Players take control of Fury, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from a third-person perspective. War and Strife must hunt down these masters, gather information, and ultimately fight their way through a tangled, demonic conspiracy that threatens to forever upset the Balance and unravel all of creation.ĭarksiders: Genesis is an action/adventure that tears its way through hordes of demons, angels, and everything in-between on its way to Hell and back with guns blazing and swords swinging. Darksiders III is an Action role-playing hack and slash game. Still reeling from the events on Eden, War and Strife have been given a new assignment - Lucifer, the enigmatic and deceptive demon king, has been plotting to upset the Balance by granting power to master demons throughout Hell. What followed was a bloody battle on Eden where the Horsemen, obeying the will of the Council, annihilated the Nephilim. However, this power came at a tragic cost: the Horsemen were ordered to use their newfound strength to wipe out the rest of their kind. Carrying out their orders are the Horsemen, Nephilim (powerful beings spawned from the unnatural union of angels and demons) who have pledged themselves to the Council and been granted immense power. Demons prepare their final assault, and the Horsemen, and their Human companion Hope, must ride out to stop them.From the dawn of creation, the council has maintained the Balance across existence. Humanity recovers, slowly but surely within the safety of their bastions, but stirrings in the wastelands warn that the storm is not yet over.
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