But for every predictably roaring anthem there’s a spare, inventively arranged tune, such as “With or Without You,” a rock & roll bolero that builds from a soothing beginning to a resounding climax. U2’s sonic trademarks are here: the monumental angst of Bono’s voice, the driving pulse of Adam Clayton’s bass and Larry Mullen Jr.’s drums and the careening wail of the Edge’s guitar. On the new album, U2 retains Eno and Lanois, brings back Lillywhite to mix four songs and weds the diverse textures of The Unforgettable Fire to fully formed songs, many of them as aggressive as the hits on War. The title befits a record that concerns itself with resilience in the face of utter social and political desolation, a record steeped in religious imagery. A Mormon legend claims that their early settlers called the Joshua tree “the praying plant” and thought its gnarled branches suggested the Old Testament prophet Joshua pointing the way to the Promised Land. But in its musical toughness and strong-willed spirituality, the album lives up to its namesake: a hardy, twisted tree that grows in the rocky deserts of the American Southwest. The Joshua Tree is U2’s most varied, subtle and accessible album, although it doesn’t contain any sure-fire smash hits. That’s not to say that this record is either a flagrantly commercial move or another Born in the U.S.A. For a band that’s always specialized in inspirational, larger-than-life gestures - a band utterly determined to be Important - The Joshua Tree could be the big one, and that’s precisely what it sounds like. Now, it seems, U2 is poised to rise from the level of mere platinum groups to the more rarefied air above. Its last album, The Unforgettable Fire, contained “Pride (In the Name of Love),” its biggest-selling single ever, and last year the band was the musical heart of Amnesty International’s Conspiracy of Hope tour. The stakes are enormous, and U2 knows it.
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![]() Marra had refused to conduct the hand count because it was illegal.Īfter Marra quit, the Republicans on the board voted to give her duties to Recorder David Stevens, an elected Republican, prompting a lawsuit from the attorney general. They then refused to certify the election results, forcing a judge to step in again.īartelsmeyer, who was previously the elections director in a smaller Arizona county, replaces Lisa Marra, a respected elections director before she recently resigned from the nonpartisan position after five years. The two Republicans on the board, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, tried to have the ballots hand-counted in last year’s midterm election, which a judge said was illegal. The hiring of Bartelsmeyer is the latest controversial decision by the conservative majority in the southeastern Arizona county of 125,000 people, which voted for Trump over Joe Biden in 2020 by nearly 20 percentage points. The two Republicans on the three-member Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted to hire Bob Bartelsmeyer, who shared memes on his personal Facebook page supporting Trump’s claims of fraud and promoting the lie that Dominion voting machines manipulated the outcome.įox News last week agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to settle a defamation case, after the network repeatedly aired the bogus voting machine claims after the 2020 election. ![]() PHOENIX (AP) - A rural Arizona county where leaders have embraced voting machine conspiracies on Tuesday hired an elections director who has promoted the false claims that voter fraud cost former President Donald Trump reelection in 2020. ![]() Most beakers are accurate to within ~10%. Most also have a tiny spout (or beak) to enable pouring, as seen in. These marks are not intended for obtaining a precise measurement of volume (a graduated cylinder or a volumetric flask would be a more appropriate instrument for such a task), but rather an estimation. A beaker is typically a cylindrical container with a flat bottom used in lab equipment. For instance, a 250 mL beaker might be marked with lines to indicate 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 mL of volume. Alternatively, a beaker may be covered with another larger beaker that has been inverted, though a watch glass is preferable.īeakers are often graduated, that is, marked on the side with lines indicating the volume contained. However, when in use, beakers may be covered by a watch glass to prevent contamination or loss of the contents, but allowing venting via the spout. The presence of a spout means that the beaker cannot have a lid. These beakers usually do not have a flat scale. Flat beakers (C) are often called "crystallizers" because most are used to perform crystallization, but they are also often used as a vessel for use in hot-bath heating. These are sometimes called Berzelius beakers, after Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and are mostly used for titration. "Tall-form" (B) beakers have a height about twice their diameter. Low form beakers are likely to be used in some way when performing a chemical experiment. These are the most universal character and are used for various purposes-from preparing solutions and decanting supernatant fluids to holding waste fluids prior to disposal to performing simple reactions. ![]() The common low form with a spout was devised by John Joseph Griffin and is therefore sometimes called a Griffin beaker. Standard or "low-form" (A) beakers typically have a height about 1.4 times the diameter. In one of the “clandestine” meetups, Shohatee sent a cab to the girl’s house to pick her up and then take her back home hours later, the docs say. Shohatee, who met the teen on the job, solicited photos from the girl on Snapchat and asked her if she “would be down to have sex” in early 2016, the documents say.Īfter the social-media exchange, the cop, who was 38 at the time, had the 15-year-old girl over to his apartment late at night at least twice between November 2015 and May 2016, according to the ruling. The two officers could not be reached for comment, and their lawyers did not return calls. Lawsuit portrays a culture of rape, sodomy and sexual harassment at the NYPD The NYPD began posting the outcomes of their internal trials earlier this year following a related court battle. The accusations were never before made public. Neither officer was ever criminally charged, with the case falling apart after the teen refused to continue to cooperate with investigators, said a spokesman for the DA’s office. The judge, Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Trials Paul Gamble, recommended dismissing both cops after finding them guilty of the encounters and other internal misconduct charges in a 41-page ruling that forcefully rejected the officers’ narrative.īoth cops had denied the allegations and remained on the force at full pay until they were fired March 25, three weeks after Gamble’s ruling - and four years after the allegations were reported to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, according to disciplinary and payroll records. Sanad Musallam and Yaser Shohatee were fired from the NYPD over alleged sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old girl. Musallam and Shohatee, now 34 and 41, respectively, separately raped her amid dozens of phone chats and hundreds of text exchanges, which included “sexually explicit” photos, between 20, the records claim. Then-Officers Sanad Musallam and Yaser Shohatee “targeted’’ the girl, who was 15 at the time and a member of the NYPD’s Explorers program, according to the disciplinary documents. The officers’ “shocking professional and sexual misconduct” included behavior from one of them that “would cause any responsible adult, let alone a parent, to recoil in horror,” the NYPD judge wrote in a scathing ruling made public last week. Two NYPD cops raped a vulnerable teen member of the police youth program, cruelly taking advantage of the underage girl to “satisfy their depraved interests,” an internal department judge has ruled. ![]() In rush to charge Daniel Penny, Bragg again showed he’s on Team Crime NYC family has ‘become closer’ following death of mom in hit-and-run last Mother’s Day Three men slashed at Queens subway station in violent altercation Angela is excited to see where her first job will take her as she loves traveling and exploring new places.Woman found stabbed to death in NYC apartment was mom of two, homeless services officer She is anxious and eager to finally pursue her dream of becoming a television news reporter. Angela’s career as a student reporter is winding down as she is graduating from college this month. Angela’s most recent investigations include the California State University’s budget mismanagement and the controversy around federally-approved Xenon headlights blinding drivers.Īngela was awarded the first-place title from the BEA for her in-depth investigation about how social trends are shaping what young girls think is “sexy” to wear. Angela also examined San Francisco’s food, oil and grease ordinance, which brought a lot of attention to the city’s annual $3.5 million sewer problem, and the possibility of restaurants having to expand their kitchens to install the right grease-trap equipment. She investigated the Four Loko drink after several High School students around the nation became hospitalized, and right before the drink’s contents came under fire by state and federal agencies. Angela was also heavily involved in public speaking during her teen years, having hosted several youth-outreach events and conferences for Lowell High School.Īngela has a passion for breaking stories and covering big news both for radio and TV. In the eighth grade, Angela went on to lead the Current Events segment for her Academic Decathlon team. Her dream of becoming a reporter began when she was only six-Angela used to watch the news religiously alongside her father who inspired her to become involved in local, national and international matters. ![]() Angela Musallam is a reporter for SFSU’s State of Events.
![]() To provide greater scalability and flexibility to their customers, Loxone offers three Miniservers: the Miniserver, the Miniserver Compact, and the Miniserver Go. Every action starts from here and every data from the sensors comes back here. ![]() It is worth mentioning that if you are using the Generation 1 of Miniserver, the Remote Connet is not available in the configuration dialog. The Loxone Miniserver is the system's brain for home and building automation. The access is then encrypted, supporting IPv4 and IPv6. Create a new user in the Loxone Miniserver (using the Loxone Config application) to which you only give read and write rights to all required variables. Enter the IP address or host name and HTTP port (80 by default) of your Loxone Miniserver. The latter part of the website address is the serial number of your Loxone Miniserver. Install this adapter via ioBroker Admin: Open instance config dialog. Once you are finished, press the " Apply and send to Miniserver" button, after which the Loxone Miniserver will reboot itself.Ī short time after the reboot, the Miniserver can be reached from the Internet according to the following scheme. If you want to enable the remote Miniserver configuration via the Loxone Config software, please enable the following at the bottom of the window (as shown in the previous picture) - " Allow this Miniserver to be configured remotely with Loxone Config over the internet". ![]() When you are using Remote access via Remote Connect, the " Loxone Cloud DNS" and " Use Loxone Certificate" options in the Security tab are automatically enabled for you. With a new decade comes a new generation of the Miniserver (Pre-order by March 31 for additional 10 discount as a Loxone Partner). Connect the motion signal of the sensor (BM) with one of the digital inputs I1 bis. Navigate to the Configure Miniserver button and activate the Remote Connect portion, as shown in the picture below. Bewegungssignal an den digitalen Eingang anschlieen. You need to start up the Loxone Config software and connect to the Miniserver. Assuming that the initial setup is performed and a secure password for the user/users is already defined, we can move on to the remote access setup. ![]() There is a good story here, but again: just too much. Like the mechanics there's a scattershot 'didn't know where to stop' feel to the plotting. It isn't easy to die but if you do you'll have to retread entire chunks. ![]() You can't save manually and so just have to hope the background auto-saving will be close behind you. The checkpointing and saving is also pretty bad. Except I couldn't pick anything up until I went back to the start, triggered the initial step and then went back to the thing I was just at. Another time I died at the end of a level and, knowing what to do, went straight to the stuff I needed. I solved what I thought was a good puzzle but wasn't able to complete it until the game walked me, step by step, through dialogue for each part of the puzzle in turn. It's a game that isn't prepared to be played any way other than intended and sometimes has to point really hard at what that intent is. One stealth section let me die repeatedly until a prompt finally appeared to tell me I should use a mechanic that had never been a part of stealth before. ![]() In one single section, an arrow appears over your head to tell you where to look. Spectral butterflies appear to lead you around. Sometimes it feels like some things have been added to fix some of these issues. Death or escape are the only resolutions and you don't know which one is coming until it happens. 'Press the right stick to hold your breath' the game explains at one point without ever clarifying when and how this might help. He's basically invisible most of the time and there's no clear indication of when he can see you or when you're in danger. (At one point I had to electrocute him to get past which I don't really think is how ghosts work.) These moments also lack as much threat as they do narrative purpose. Either because he rocks up for no clear reason, or because you have to solve some arbitrary puzzle to progress. These Maw sections are often big non sequitur moments. It strips the fun out of exploring when you realize finding something boils down to when you're meant to, not when you actually do. There's rarely much agency as a player - the gameplay doesn't serve the story, but rather controls it, using object picking puzzles and treasure hunts to meter it out. This odd structure of objects only becoming relevant when you find them in the right order is a constant theme: gameplay and puzzles acting to fence you into a path so you can receive a tour in the way the guide intended. A few minutes later I found some arbitrary object that then created a breadcrumb trail to all the areas I'd previously discovered with the objects I couldn't touch before, now able to trigger sequential pieces of a story reward. At one point I entered and explored a room, wandering between a series of clearly important areas - tables covered with items and so on - that were inert, and apparently contained nothing of use. There's a big lack of freedom to what you're actually able to do. While there are some good puzzles, there's often a sparsity of things to interact with, making progress a simple job of matching up what little you're given, in the order you're meant to. We'll be sure to let you know know when an official releae date is announced.It's a very controlling experience too. The Medium is set to be released at some point in Holiday 2020. There's some room for flexibility when it comes to the GPU though. It is also highly recommended you play with headphones. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 2070/ AMD Radeon™ 5700XTīloober notes that regardless of which levels of detail you're targeting, it is recommended you install the game to an SSD.Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ R9 390X (or equivalent with 4 GB VRAM). ![]() This is by no means an exhaustive list, but there are a few that stand out: PDFelement and other apps from Wondershare.OmniGraffle and other apps from OmniGroup.Groove and other apps from apogeedigital.Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, Blackmagic Design. ![]() Audio Hyjack and other apps from Rogue Amoeba.This website to see if the app you use is listed. There are lots of other apps that have been optimised for the M1 chip. World of Warcraft for the new M1 processor in November 2020.īlizzard has a long tradition of optimising its games for macOS. It’s also better than an Intel MacBook running Premiere Pro 15.4, which takes almost 10 seconds to edit the minute of video material, and a Windows computer with the RTX-3090 graphics card – which takes six seconds.īlizzard was the first gaming company to release a title optimised for the new Mac models when it adapted With version 15.4 this time is reduced to three seconds. In our tests, prior to the update an M1 MacBook running Premiere Pro 15.1 needed 11 seconds to edit one minute of video material. In particular the functions that use Apple’s Neural Engine benefited from the port to the ARM version. Speed tests of the beta version had already shown amazing results: In some cases, Adobe’s software ran up to 80 percent faster on an M1 Mac than the same version on an Intel computer. This will force the Intel version to launch.Īdobe’s video editing software can run natively on the M1 Macs. You’ll see various options – tick or check the ‘Open in Rosetta’ box.Right-click on the app icon and choose Get Info.Go to Applications folders on your Mac and locate the Photoshop icon. ![]() Defect depth is estimated only by signal amplitude (signal amplitude and phase values if defect is ID in nature) Difficulty of interpretation if different defect types are present (OD pitting and baffle cutting) areas of inadequate saturation near and under the tube sheets (up to 0.500” from tube sheet for Carbon Steel tubing) areas of inadequate saturation or false indication near and under support plates or tube sheets (up to 0.500” from support plates or tube sheet for Sea-Cure, SS-400 series, Duplex S/S) areas of inadequate saturation (up to 1.250” from the ends of a tube) wall thickness (depending on OD and magnetic permeability of inspected tube) Currently, for carbon steel tubing:ġ.000” OD – up to 0.120” Wall (0.134” for fin-fan tubing) Report includes color-coded tube sheet maps so that problem areas can be immediately identified Preliminary report is issued immediately after testing is completed Cleanliness requirements are less stringent than for IRIS (providing that 75 – 85% Fill Factor Probe can propagate through the tubes) If defect type is known in advance, defect sizing is more accurate the defect areas can be detected regardless Multiple frequencies allow mixing capability to be utilized to suppress unwanted signals and / or noise Cracks (circumferential and longitudinal) can be detected Hand pull average speed (30 – 50 tubes per hour) High speed air assist technique (60 – 100 tubes per hour) Defects near and / or under support plates can be detected (for Carbon Steel tubing only) Suitable for internal / external corrosion detection (can differentiate between ID & OD defects) Suitable for fin-fan (air cooler) tubing
![]() This is a magical moment to see her like this.” To see how many people it took to get her to this point puts everything in perspective. She has overcome everything and exceeded our expectations for where she would be at this point. “I know how much of a struggle this has been for her. It’s incredible.”įor Levine, this reunion was the first time he had seen Curiel since she gave birth to Leah. This is the first time they’ve done something like this for us. “I’ve been with the Highway Patrol for 27 years. “We didn’t think we’d ever see her alive again,” CHP Flight Officer Shaun Bouyea said bewildered as he looked at Curiel holding Leah. Leah was the star of the event however, being passed around from police officer, to H-30 team member, to CHP officer, to nurse, to doctor. ![]() The team then gathered for photos with the family. Curiel thanked them profusely for their efforts in giving her a second shot at life. “This is why we do what we do,” remarked Castillo.Ĭuriel’s surgeons, Levine and Robert Jacoby then approached the family. This was the first time Castillo had seen Curiel since her hospital stay. From a mom to a mom, from a female to a female, I wanted her to know it was going to be ok.” To be able to have this reunion is such a blessing. In emergency medicine, you don’t get the full picture all the time. “I knew she was gonna live, although we didn’t know if we were going to be able to save her legs. “I’ve been doing this for 22 years,” said Castillo. Castillo said she refused to leave her side, due to Curiel’s concern over her baby’s safety.ĭespite Castillo being in full protective gear due to COVID-19, Curiel still remembered her caring eyes. Curiel cried even harder as Castillo grabbed her face.Ĭuriel said she remembers Castillo holding her face just like that, telling her she was going to be ok.ĭuring Curiel’s hospital stay, Castillo stayed at the head of her bed to watch over her breathing. Next came her respiratory therapist, Annie Castillo. ![]() She repeatedly thanked them for saving her life and her baby’s life that day. Tears began flowing as Curiel remarked that she remembered their faces. Seeing the faces of those who helped her while she was in peril was incredibly emotional for her. Curiel was shocked to see the H-30 team, who she was not expecting to be there. But, she was walking and her team stood, amazed.Įach doctor, nurse and first responder took turns walking up to Curiel, reintroducing themselves. The scars on Curiel’s legs were visible below the hemline of her royal blue dress. Police, CHP, doctors, surgeons, nurses and helicopter pilots gathered for an emotional meetup. Levine walked in with a bouquet of flowers and a stuffed animal.Īs the group anxiously held up their phones to record video and take photos, in walked Curiel with her partner, who was pushing baby Leah in her stroller. In a conference room at Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center, chairs lined the perimeter of the room. On Tuesday, Curiel, Zepeda and their daughter were able to have a reunion with all of the surgeons, doctors, nurses and first responders who were there during Curiel’s darkest moments. In November of 2022, Curiel and Armando Zepeda welcomed their baby girl, Leah Tamara. Through an abundance of resilience and strength, Curiel began walking again, a feat her care team believed would never be possible. She received physical therapy and constant care for three months. The most important thing on her mind was that her baby had survived.Ĭuriel was later discharged to Kaiser’s home health team. Ultimately, her legs were saved.Ĭuriel then began a 40-day stay at the Kaiser. Over the course of three weeks, Curiel had seven additional surgeries to close her wounds and repair muscles using muscle flaps. So, a few days later, Curiel had to undergo a second 10-hour long surgery. Major veins and arteries needed to be repaired and reconnected, which was not done in the initial surgery. He was initially shocked that she was even conscious. Vascular surgeon Michael Levine said her first surgery took 10 hours and they were unsure if they would be able to save her legs. Her first surgery required two vascular surgeons and a trauma surgeon. The emergency room trauma team acted immediately upon Curiel’s arrival at Kaiser, administering a massive blood transfusion and then rushing her to the operating room. These first responders who are also fathers and mothers wanted nothing more then to save them both. First responders recall Curiel repeatedly telling them she was pregnant and to please save her baby. |
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