![]() Theme: Each theme answer is a type of promise Arghhhh!) I hear “ NO CAP!” said a lot in school (at least I did two years ago… I think it’s going the way of “Lit!” and phasing out), but I’ve never heard of Lil Tjay.Įnrique Henestroza Anguiano’s USA Today crossword, “Promise Me This” - Sophia’s recap (Update: Someone just texted me to note that I still spelled it wrong. ![]() NO CAP and my inability to master the spelling of PAPAU New Guinea (no matter how often I see it) was a source of struggle for me. The two nits I have with the theme, noted above, do not detract from a great solve experience here. It’s these types of themes that got me hooked on crosswords to begin with, and I think Universal is a perfect venue to be publishing one like this, which is easily grokked but is likely to give new solvers a solid AHA moment. It’s using “Coming back” when “Comeback” is part of another theme answer ( SNAPPY YPPANS). On the rebound. The words ON THE are literally “roubounding.” This one is my favorite of the bunch, despite the bit of inelegance in the clue’s wording. Snappy comeback. The word SNAPPY literally “comes back.” I’m more likely to hear “Amazon!” echoed back. If I yelled “ AMAZON!” into a canyon, I don’t think I’d hear “NO ZAMA!” echoed back. Amazon Echo. The word AMAZON is literally “echoed” in the answer. The word BLACK is literally “mirrored” in the answer. THEME: Phrases that are literally represented when a word in the phrase is both forward and backward. Paul Coulter’s Universal Crossword, “It Goes Both Ways”- Jim Q’s write-up Other nice pieces of fill: cafe au LAIT, ROTI (instead of NAAN like I expected – as long as we’re adding more types of Indian bread to the crossword, can I request POORI next?), MORALISM, SNAKE OIL, and SEMI-NUDE. TAYLOR Swift also has a song called “ THE MAN“, but I like this one better. It’s not a rebus, though, just some indicators as to which LADY, RATE, CLASS, PARTY, and LAUGH is selected in each of the clues, leading to the final phrases. 62A: Ha-ha chortle → tee-hee ← - LAST LAUGH.52A: Housewarming masquerade → tailgate ← - THIRD PARTY.36A: Art → Calculus ← Spanish - MIDDLE CLASS.I spent FAR too long trying to figure out some sort of weird rebus thing going on with the theme clues of today’s puzzle: ![]() Ori Brian’s New York Times crossword-Ben’s review There’s an Unagi brand of E-SCOOTERS? Does the E stand for “eel”? With the Z in place, I initially went with UTZ. Nothing else made me pause very long and I had a smooth solve from start to finish. E-SCOOTERS was a surprise, but I don’t have a problem with it if that’s what they’re popularly called, which it seems they are. Still, I enjoyed the construction and uncovering each entry, especially the final one, LASER MOUSE.Īs usual, Evan fills the grid with strong entries like RALLY CAP, TOUR BUS, SPIRITUAL, NUDISTS, and ESTELLE Costanza. And when I uncovered the revealer, I was not surprised since I happen to know Evan has a particular interest in National Parks and because I lived in Texas for a time (though I never made it west to BIG BEND. I caught on to this pretty quickly since the cluing seemed unusually straightforward for a Thursday.
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![]() Photo by Thomson Safaris guest, Neil Rabinowitzįemales will stay with the pride their entire lives, but males are ejected when they start to grow their manes, around two years of age. ![]() ![]() Overall, somewhere between 60 and 70% of the cubs will die within their first year, and even fewer-about 1 in 8, or 12.5%-live to adulthood (lions mature around two years old).īut another major killer of lion cubs is even crueler than starvation: it’s other lions. Injury, teething, and disease can also carry off young cubs. If she stayed with the pride to give birth, a lioness’s milk would likely never make it to her own young. That explains part of the reason lions go into hiding when giving birth lionesses will allow any cub in the pride to suckle (they group-mother the cubs), and older cubs are as hungry for mother’s milk as brand-new-babies. And once cubs have returned to the pride, when food is scarce, they often go unfed, meaning they regularly starve. A female lion has only four teats, so litters larger than four generally won’t all survive. Part of that is just the harshness of life in the wild many lion cubs starve, both in infancy and beyond. The odds are already stacked against a female lion bringing a cub to term though pregnancies last just three and a half months, and female lions can go into estrus (a period of fertility) at any time of the year, it’s estimated that a female must copulate, on average, 3,000 times for each cub that survives past a year. Why all the secrecy? It’s simple: survival. Once a female lion realizes she’s going into labor, she’ll sneak away from the pride and hide herself in a secret lair, where she’ll give birth to a litter of 2-6 cubs and stay with them for around three months. Lions, though, are notoriously secretive, if not about their pregnancies, than at least about giving birth. We’ve all heard of someone trying to hide a pregnancy the entire period-drama genre would implode without the trope.īut usually, that someone is human, not feline. ![]() ![]() Each chat room has an introductory info box that you can view before you go in. Most players opt for pre-made rooms, and a visit to the ‘Chat Rooms’ page shows you those. With the ‘Chat Now’ option, your character sits in “Buckstars Coffee” and waits for the system to spawn another player. The app opens up to your homepage, with your avatar on the left and a grid with all of the things you can do on the right like ‘Chat Now’, ‘Get Matched’, ‘Shop’ and ‘Friends’. For the desktop app, Windows 7 or later with at least 512 mb of RAM free is required. ![]() There’s also the option to sign up through Facebook if you don’t want to use your email.Īt this point, you’re prompted to download the desktop or mobile app to continue. After the avatar has been created, enter a name for the avatar, your name and email address and your account is created. As for clothing, there were around 50 different pieces to choose from including tops, bottoms, and shoes. The range from plain everyday ponytails to hip asymmetrical bobs to voluminous curls. The hairstyles came in natural colors as well as neon pinks, reds, blues, and purples. Maneuvering the character while designing was clunky, and it was difficult to see what hairstyles and accessories like earrings looked like from the side because the character focuses on the user during the turn instead of looking straight ahead. The user starts off with only eight different skin shades to choose from and nine “heads”, or premade features. It makes a feel just like you’re there, ensuring you’re immersed in the experience from minute one.ĭownload IMVU now to experience a different type of messenger.Avatar creation is relatively simple. You can create and enter chatrooms, a 3D room where each character is placed in various locations. ![]() You can communicate with anyone from anywhere, regardless of age, skill level, or location. The best thing about this app is that it’s accessible to everyone, so it doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or someone who’s been using messengers like this one for years. You can choose customization options from here, as you can select your clothing, pick your make-up, and add accessories. First, you’ll have to create your 3D avatar, which adds some fun to everything. Then, when you log in, you’ll see that this messenger is easy to use yet very different from anything you’ve ever used. You’ll first need an account to start using this application, although you can also use a third-party account to sign in – you can use your Facebook account, Google account, or even Yahoo account if you have one. When you start using IMVU, you’ll notice that it’s not that different from the rest of the messengers at first glance. You can create ease of use, which puts it near the top of messengers. It takes chatting to a whole different level with its 3D animations. IMVU is a personalized messenger that enables you to communicate online with friends and colleagues in a more personalized and interesting manner. But this application does a very good job at this. It might be hard to stand out in the crowd of these messengers, especially when the competition is so stiff. Nowadays, many communication managers and applications will help you communicate with friends or associates. It helps you create effective and affordable communication and craft your own 3D animated characters to make things fun. ![]() IMVU is a popular communication application that’s accessible to a variety of users. ![]() ![]() Wood continues to manage the artist via his new company, Radius Music. Modern and Wood formed Modernwood Management, and managed Heap until 2006, when Modernwood was dissolved. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at 18 to independent record label Almo Sounds. After school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.Įarly work as musician (including work with Acacia)Īfter being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Mickey Modern took to Rondor Music. She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and subsequently two percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang. Heap did not get along well with the music teacher at her boarding school, so she principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production (on Atari computers). By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs. ![]() Heap's mother (an art therapist) and her father (a construction rock retailer) separated when she was twelve. She attended Friends School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heap played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened." Biography Early life I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. She has stated "Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mum or my dad. Heap states that her song lyrics come from personal experience, but are not straightforwardly confessional. She also mixes ambient sound into her music (such as the sound of a frying pan in use cooking food, in the background of her song "My Secret Friend") and has commented that "certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important." Heap extensively uses manipulated electronic sounds as an integral part of her music. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. I like to breathe my own life into these sounds, and I do try to keep the 'air' in the music. ![]() I would record live drums, and then I would spend a day editing them to take the life out of them. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. As a guest player and collaborator she has played rock ( Jeff Beck), hip-hop (Urban Species) and theatre/film music. Musical and songwriting styleįor her solo work, as well as her work with Frou Frou and Acacia, Heap plays heavily produced and arranged pop incorporating elements of rock, dance and electronica. ![]() She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is the 2009 Ellipse, a North American chart success that earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. Imogen Jennifer Heap ( / m d n h i p / born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering) is an English singer-songwriter and composer. ![]() ![]() ![]() OpenDrive is a comprehensive cloud storage tool that allows you to synchronize files and access them from anywhere in the world. The basic (free) plan allows you to store up to 5GB of files, which is enough for documents and photos, but won't last you long if you're considering uploading movies or video games. 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From there, you can comfortably manage your information, just like you would with any normal folder on your machine. Once you've installed the application on your computer, a virtual hard drive will appear in 'My Computer'. Go to Tools tab, then click Check When it prompt to make a choice, select Scan. Your Windows and device specifications - You can find them by going to go to Settings > 'System' > 'About'. Open ThisPC, then right-click on the E: drive and select Properties. You'll be able to open, modify, and save files from any computer with total confidence and security. Model of your computer - For example: 'HP Spectre X360 14-EA0023DX'. OpenDrive is an application that enables you to store files in the cloud for easy sharing and synchronizing between computers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lastly, press play, and enjoy artist you love, playing the songs you want to hear. 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![]() ![]() 5 car this 997 benefits from an updated PCM with Nav, Bluetooth and AUX inputs as well as Sports Chrono Plus, Park Assist, PASM, Dual zone climate and the all important rear wind deflector. The heated sports seats provide excellent support, with ample cushioning for those longer drives, they present very well with just some minor wear to the drivers bolster to note.Īmidst the lovely surfaces, plenty of tech resides to continue the refined feel. The hood is starting to show some very minor cosmetic signs of wear, however it functions perfectly and sits free from any holes or tears.Ĭontinuing the tonal scheme a combination of black leather and aluminium trim adorns the cabin of this Turbo. The paintwork presents beautifully, consistent and rich throughout with just a couple of carefully touched in stone chips to note.įinished in black a deep chin spoiler, side skirts and rear Turbo badge perfectly contrast the bright finish, as does the black soft top which neatly folds into place at the press of a button. 5 TURBO // SPORTS CHRONO PLUSĪrctic Silver Metallic, 19? Diamond Cut Alloys, Ceramic Composite Brakes (PCCB), Tiptronic S, Black Leather Heated Sport Seats, Sport Chrono Package Plus, PCM, Sat Nav, Bluetooth, Aux Input, CD, BOSE Surround Sound, Park Assist, Leather Steering Wheel, Extended Navigation Module, Rain Sensors, Xenon Lights, Damper Control (PASM), Dual Zone Climate Control, Black Soft Top, Electric Windows, Electric Mirrors, Auto Dim Rear View Mirrorįinished in a glistening coat of Arctic Silver Metallic the wide-body curves of the 997 Turbo feel somewhat refined from the previous generation. Or simply they haven't changed the AWD software since 2014.īut 0-60 is something never used to prove itself except for drag racing which isn't for an suv so it almost never matters.FOR SALE PORSCHE 911 (997) TURBO CAB // FACTORY PCCB // GEN 1. I suppose Porsche has done this, to protect other models of becoming inferior in terms of launch acceleration 0-60 time. ![]() ![]() 4 seconds to 60 mph, but they've made the awd software to bog down once it senses a little slip.Įven a Macan Turbo tuned to 580 hp bogs down on initial launch. If it would let the car keep the rpms on initial launch, it would be a lot faster maybe. The only LC difference of sport plus is higher rpm from the standard 4k rpm to 5k rpm, does make a difference but then the macan's awd system doesn't really let the wheels spin on acceleration. If you press on the brakes hard enough it will activate hold, once that is on, you just have to floor the gas and it will rev to 4k then you release the brakes. Sport plus can be retrofitted after delivery.Īll macans already have launch control. However, it would be a bummer if I can't take advantage of the SPORT PLUS settings. I don't forsee myself using Launch Control much so that wasn't a big factor. Can this be added later on after delivery?.Does this mean I will not have access to the following features?.Expansion of Porsche Stability Management (PSM) by a SPORT mode.Activation of launch control in SPORT PLUS mode.SPORT Response Button with performance-oriented settings for engine and transmission at the touch of a button (20 second duration).Individual mode for a personalized selection of vehicle sport settings.SPORT PLUS mode with performance-oriented settings for engine, gearbox, and chassis.Mode switch on the steering wheel to select the driving modes Normal, SPORT, SPORT PLUS, and Individual.I somehow overlooked the features of the Sport Chrono Package on my 2022 GTS Build. 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Filing date Publication date Application filed by Loyd Ray Card, Helen Joyce Card filed Critical Loyd Ray Card Priority to US10/165,826 priority Critical patent/US6669270B1/en Application granted granted Critical Publication of US6669270B1 publication Critical patent/US6669270B1/en Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical Status Expired - Fee Related legal-status Critical Current Links Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.) Expired - Fee Related Application number US10/165,826 Inventor Loyd Ray Card Helen Joyce Card Original Assignee Loyd Ray Card Helen Joyce Card Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Wind Deflectors be installed DIY by a competant person following our instructions, or we can arrange on-site installation for you.- Google Patents US6669270B1 - Truck wind deflectorĭownload PDF Info Publication number US6669270B1 US6669270B1 US10/165,826 US16582602A US6669270B1 US 6669270 B1 US6669270 B1 US 6669270B1 US 16582602 A US16582602 A US 16582602A US 6669270 B1 US6669270 B1 US 6669270B1 Authority US United States Prior art keywords deflector airfoil truck bed sidewall Prior art date Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. We also custom build to suit particular applications and have many other unusual sizes available too numerous to list here, so please phone or email us if you don't see what you need on this page. The dimensions and prices of our most popular wind deflectors are detailed below. ![]() The fitment of wind deflectors and spoilers to caravans and trailers is also very popular. 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For those reasons, we recommend buying the fastest graphics card with a single GPU and as much on-board memory as you can afford. ![]() In addition, Lumion will only be able to use half of the on-board memory (RAM) of cards with multiple GPUs. Examples: Nvidia GTX Titan X, Nvidia GTX 980 Ti MULTIPLE GRAPHICS CARDS (SLI) AND GRAPHICS CARDS WITH MORE THAN 1 GPU Multiple graphics cards (in SLI configuration) or a graphics card with more than 1 GPU such as the Nvidia GTX 790 will not give you a performance boost in Lumion. a super detailed city, airport or stadium) Minimum 10,000 PassMark points and 6GB dedicated graphics card memory (RAM). Examples: Nvidia GTX Titan, Quadro K6000. a large park or part of a city) Minimum 8,000 PassMark points and 6GB dedicated graphics card memory (RAM). Examples: Nvidia GTX 960, Nvidia Quadro K5200, AMD Radeon R9 290 or faster. a moderately detailed office complex) Minimum 6,000 PassMark points and 4GB dedicated graphics card memory (RAM). 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