He turned back on a side street, circling around toward his home. But now these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance. He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town.ĥ During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarabbeetles, a faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions. In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time. The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass. He stumbled over a particularly uneven section of sidewalk. Eight-thirty P.M.? Time for a dozen assorted murders? A quiz? A revue? A comedian falling off the stage? Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house? He hesitated, but went on when nothing more happened. What is it now? he asked the houses, noticing his wrist watch. If he closed his eyes and stood very still, frozen, he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles, and only dry river beds, the streets, for company. What s up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7, Channel 9? Where are the cowboys rushing, and do I see the United States Cavalry over the next hill to the rescue?Ĥ The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry. Hello, in there, he whispered to every house on every side as he moved. He listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction, and whistled a cold quiet whistle between his teeth, occasionally picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern in the infrequent lamplights as he went on, smelling its rusty smell. There was a good crystal frost in the air it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside you could feel the cold light going on and off, all the branches filled with invisible snow. On this particular evening he began his journey in a westerly direction, toward the hidden sea. For long ago he had wisely changed to sneakers when strolling at night, because the dogs in intermittent squads would parallel his journey with barkings if he wore hard heels, and lights might click on and faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure, himself, in the early November evening. Leonard Mead would pause, cock his head, listen, look, and march on, his feet making no noise on the lumpy walk. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.ģ Sudden gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomblike building was still open. Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference he was alone in this world of A.D. The Pedestrian To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. I will let the reader read it and enjoy it. And, of course, credit to the great master Ray Bradbury for providing this work of art for our inspiration and pleasure.Ģ Full Text Here is the full text of the masterpiece. Credit to the wonderful people at Mother Earth News for posting it where a smuck like myself can read it within China. At one time, I must have had five books containing this story. Cost is no object when it comes to these masterpieces. When ever I find one, I certainly snatch it up. It is very difficult to come across Ray Bradbury books in China. Lat- er, when I left the United States, and moved to China, I had to leave my treasured books behind. Introduction For years I had amassed a well worn, and dusty collection of Ray Bradbury paperbacks that I would pick up and read for pleasure and inspiration. Ray Bradbury is one of my personal heroes and his writings greatly influenced me in ways that I am only just now beginning to understand. All rights reserved.1 The Pedestrian (Full Text) by Ray Bradbury This story was copyrighted in 1951 by Ray Bradbury, and presented here under Article 22 of China s Copyright Law.
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(Your own internal albums have no logo.) This way I could play all three possibilities (internal, Qobuz, Tidal) via the Roon Remote App on my iPad, and when checking the signal path on Roon, it mentions which of. Tidal for choice of some US centric music. Qobuz album covers have a small circular Qobuz logo on their left top corner just as Tidal has its small logo there for its albums. Everything is now available in at least CD quality: 16-bit resolution and a sampling rate of 44.1kHz (a bit rate of 1,411Kbps). The Musical Instrument as National Archive: A Case Study of the Kazakh Qyl-qobuz. Qobuz is good for European content including EPs and the edge on classical, but main advantage is overall SQ it offers PCM (lossless) SQ performance options upto 192/24 and increasingly new content at baseline definition of 44.1/24 and 48/24. Qobuz has long been the market leader in streaming quality. Review: Tanya Tagaq, 'Retribution.' NPR Music: First Listen. Tidal is good for their playlists, US urban type media and Jazz, and if you have limited and baseline/legacy lossless PCM requirements (they only offer 44.1/16), or you want MQA processed media. I did provide feedback to Tidal questioning their lack of lossless hidef or new basic resolution formats such as lossless 44.1/24 and 48/24 and whether they had plans to make it available… I never even got a reply… so I assumed they are not that interested in customers who want full SQ performance, so I closed the account. Fidelity Review of RS150 RS201E Review from What HiFi France List New post. I ran both side by side for a while, and curated through Roon… and it was Tidal that I ceased because of some limited content that I wanted but mainly because of limited SQ performance options… even with a DAC that could do full decode of MQA processed media. However on baseline PCM (44.1/16) for the same master I concur Qobuz and Tidal sound the same … funnily enough no doubt because you are receiving the same media from both… articles about album reviews and artist biographies, world music news. From my perspective Tidal has the best playlists, but the gaps in the Tidal European catalogue compared to Qobuz was irritating but not a show stopper, and indeed there were gaps the other way round too, but less fir me, but the major lack of true hidef on Tidal holds back its overall SQ, even new releases on 44.1/24 or 48/24 were decimated down to 44.1/16 on Tidal… really disappointing for the music recording lover. Qobuz is a music streaming platform that provides services that allow users to. Sharing pictures or videos with friends is as easy as the click of a button, Bradshaw added. The Spore Creature Creator lets players create their own creatures, take them on a test drive, snap pictures, and make movies of them. Creatures made in the Spore Creature Creator can also be imported into the full Spore game, allowing players to populate their own galaxies when the game ships worldwide later this year. The trial version features 25 per cent of the creature-making parts from Spore and lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creatures. The full version of the Spore Creature Creator can be had for Dh39,99 at retail stores or by visiting A free trial version of the Spore Creature Creator is also available today at the site. Remember that there will most likely be several copies of the same creatures when. Take the contents of the old Creature Folder and dump them into the new Creature Folder. There is no fixed style when it comes to playing Spore. Now if you have used the Creature Creator before buying the game you should have made a copy of the 'My Spore Creations folder and put it some else under another name. What stands out most in this title is the fact that it covers all sorts of genres. The Spore Creature Creator is a stand-alone product and creativity toy box where players create their own unique creatures, bring them to life with entertaining animations, and share them online with friends around the world. The limitless gameplay Spore offers come in the form of trying new creations. The Sporepedia is an extraordinarily vast online destination where people worldwide can search for and share Spore creations, comment on other player’s designs, check out celebrity creature creations and much more.Īnyone can download their own copy of the Spore Creature Creator or check out hundreds of thousands of amazing creations from around the world in the Sporepedia™ at The millionth creature was created by user “FlamingChidori” and was named, “Sapiusgeenus” - a two-legged green creature that the creator described as “one of my favorites so far,” Bradshaw observed. “I’m amazed at the creations I see getting uploaded to the Sporepedia, whether it’s a realistic looking bird or animal, a 10-eyed alien, or something completely bizarre and unexpected like a creature that looks like a motorcycle, it’s clear that people have an innate desire to be creative, and we’re thrilled to help them express themselves.” “Maxis is excited, humbled and inspired by the explosion of creativity that we’ve seen with the Spore Creature Creator online,” said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. The internet has been invaded by walking pears, giant dragons, impossible-to-describe aliens and everything in between!, said an excited Maxis official. Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio, on Thursday announced that fans have created and shared more than one million creatures using the Spore™ Creature Creator in the first week of availability. I love them all, especially the "BEATS" algo which always makes my drum hits snappier and shorter. Usually a visible grid appears over the track spectrum. But honestly, it's like specific tracks that have problems, some songs sound great time stretched.įor creative use however, the warp modes are awesome. This feature will find beats in the music so you can assign them to certain sound, effects and songs. I feel like Ableton has a lot of trouble with Tracks that have a lot of vocals, especially Rap. 2020 DDJ-SX2/SZ/SRT v6.7.0 - mapping for Traktor Pro 3+2 - DJ Estrela TO. most of the time I can brush it off since I'm DJ'ing mostly House and my set usually lives in the 125-130 BPM world, But I remember when it became super apparent was when someone that has never even DJ'd or even touched a DAW told me the song sounded funny, and once I paid attention he was absolutely right. Traktor Pro 2 Vs Serato Dj Cual Es Mejor. Otherwise it starts to sound "artifacty" and weird. it's so fun and intuitive, but only if I stay within the OG bpm of the songs. Like I said in the OP, I love using Ableton for writing music and DJ'ing. That's kind of what my question was about. It can be used with turntables, DJ media players and controllers. A lot has changed in digital DJing since then, and today Serato’s latest app is called Serato DJ Pro (and Serato DJ Lite for beginners). Its first was called Serato Scratch Live and it was released in the mid-2000s. I actually didn't know about the Z plane algo. Serato is a company that makes digital DJ software. Hey guys, just wanna say thanks for actually replying to my post, I didn't really know what to expect since I am very new to the community But then again, letting people win certainly does give them more incentive to buy more games. The fact that the cheat code is still active is kind of funny since it’s easy to think that the programmers would have done their best to eliminate it and keep the gaming experience fair. In Contra however it simply meant that you didn’t have to worry about dying so much unless you had a habit of doing it every minute or so. After all, it’s hard to use an attack that draws blood when the code hasn’t been input to allow that program to run. In Mortal Kombat if the code was enabled then it was no holds barred, but if it wasn’t then a lot of the attacks and fatalities simply weren’t possible. I certainly never came close to completing it as a kid, and I certainly won’t come close to completing it (with 3 lives) as an adult. In Gradius the player’s ship would be decked out with every possible power-up available, while in Contra it would give you extra lives. What was unknown at first however was how the code would affect gameplay. Far beyond the NES games that showed violence but little else, Mortal Kombat could show the action without the blood, but when the code was punched in scarlet rivers began to run. It’s gone through its variations but if you think about it, the blood code for Mortal Kombat could even give thanks to the Contra/Konami Code for its existence. The cheat code is still around too, since nothing this good is bound to be kept a secret for long and once people learn something like this they tend to covet it and hang onto it for a while. Having 30 lives to count on however would be a humongous boon to any gamer that wanted to get further into the game without having to worry about dying on every level multiple times and having to start over. I can recall that Contra was kind of a tough game until you got used to it and one stray bullet could ruin your entire game. This proves that cheat codes have been around a lot longer than some people think. Thankfully for the rest of us he forgot to erase the code when the game was shipped out to the masses, and by the time anyone noticed it the code had already been spread far and wide. If you want you can thank Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the developer who installed the code when he couldn’t beat the game Gradius while attempting to format it from the arcade to the NES. There have been other variations of the code made throughout the years since Contra was released but it’s stayed more or less the same ever since. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start was all you had to remember and the world of the NES was essentially yours. The Game Boy Advance port also had a password system, though more complex than the Game Boy version.Do you recall playing Contra and learning the Konami Code that was created to give you an instant 30 lives? Well it turns out that code was never supposed to be a part of the game, but of course those of us that learned the code know how that one went. These are codes for the 2002 game known as F5F5: Stage 5 with Flamethrower, extra lives and bombs.Unlike the original version, the Game Boy port had a password system allowing you to start at any level. These are codes for the 1994 game known as This works only in the Japanese version ( Contra Spirits). If done correctly, you will hear a noise and be taken to the Sound Check Mode, where you can listen to any of the game's sound effects and music. Super C (NES) Entering the code( A B Start ) before the title screen appears, gives the player 10 lives in US version of the. On the title screen, press, , -, and (the Dragon Punch command: ) in one smooth motion. Jump to Contra series - The Konami Code is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video. If done correctly, you will hear an alien shriek and you can now choose which stage to the begin the game at. On the title screen, press, -, , and (the Hurricane Kick command: ) in one smooth motion. If done correctly, you will hear the death scream of your character and you will begin the game with thirty lives. On the title screen, press, -, , and (the Hadoken command: ) in one smooth motion. These are codes for the 1992 game known as 1.3 Sound Check Mode (Japanese version). 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By this version of the browser is always the first one in touch with the latest features and capabilities.Ĭhrome Canary can be installed alongside the stable Google Chrome browser.Ĭhrome Canary has the following characteristics: Choose Wrench menu > Options (Windows and Linux) or Chrome > Preferences (Mac), go to the Under the Hood tab, and check Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google. If your using windows then you can go to msconfig.exe -> services (tab) and just check the checkbox for 'Google Update Service (gupdate)' and 'Google Update Service (gupdatem)' and click Apply. When the new features are sufficiently tested, then these will be just added to the stable version of Google Chrome. Its probably not auto updating because of your OS settings, the 'Google Update Service' will have to be running in the background. This version of the Chrome browser is updated daily. Through this program the latest features added. Canary is a special unstable version of the Chrome browser. When the new features are sufficiently tested, then these will be just added to the stable version of. This browser is mainly used by developers to get acquainted with the latest features that Google's browser is going to add.Ĭhrome Canary is a free web browser offered by Google. This version of the Chrome browser is updated daily. Want to see what we were working on yesterday Canary will be released automatically almost every night to keep you up to date on. Chrome Canary is an unstable version of the Google Chrome web browser. 5235.0 (Free Download) - Mobile App for Android - Google LLC - Latest Version 2022 - Updated - Free. They can be used for purposes such as driving an undergravel filter, or for basic aquarium water circulation, they are economical, fairly inexpensive, and can be beneficial to the health of your aquarium in many ways. Powerheads are electrical units with motors that are sealed to allow them to be submerged. In fact, these animals require fast water movement in order to thrive. The first reason is that many saltwater tank inhabitants including corals are used to rapid water movements. Water movement is important in the saltwater tank for a variety of reasons. So a nano wavemaker for a 15-gallon reef tank needs a 300 GPH powerhead to be adequate (20 x 15 = 300). Powerheads/wavemakers for reef tanks should be able to turnover 20 times the tank’s capacity every hour. rivers they live in may be still in some cases but they have flow too. The myth that arowana does not need current is just that, MYTH. Jebao wavemaker flow reduction – 25 gallon reef tank – YouTube Does arowana need Wave Maker? Wavemaker (plural wavemakers) (physics) An oscillating device that creates reproducible waves in a liquid. And you don’t need any air pump just to produce strong current. So Oscar fish like current and your filter should be able to produce strong current in your tank. Do Oscars like current?ĭo Oscar fish like current? In the wild, Oscar fish mostly found in the Amazon basin in the areas where there is a strong current. The double headed wavemaker is only suitable for tanks 250-400 litres in size and the quad wavemaker is suitable for tanks 300 litres or more in size. What size wavemaker do I need for a 400 Litre tank? The reason for using current flow or wavemake by ppl is mainly for breaking up fights among comm’s. Do arowana like strong current?Īro don’t like strong current flow tank, this will make them stress and unstable. So I got the wavemaker to agitate the bottom and it works great. Literally, immediately after a water change and vacuuming, the substrate is covered with debris. I recently purchased a wavemaker for my goldfish tank because without one, too much waste settles at the bottom of the tank too quickly. Learn how to Use the Wave Maker to Get Beyonce-Like Waves! – YouTube Are wavemakers good for goldfish? Where should a circulation pump be placed in an aquarium? So you should emulate the same and keep the current at very minimum in your tank. In the wild, Angelfish live in very slow-moving water. Do angelfish like current?Īngelfish don’t like current. Substantial current: You don’t need a powerhead if your external filter provides strong enough outflow to create a substantial current. Small tank: You don’t need a powerhead if your tank is under two feet. The most simple way to increase O2 and help aerate water in a fish tank is to slowly pour water from a height.ĭo I need a powerhead for my freshwater tank? The good news is that goldfish are adaptable, so don’t overthink it! Provide gentle currents that your goldfish have the ability to get out of if they want to. Goldfish are happiest in environments with gentle currents since these most closely duplicate their natural environment. That means if you have a 20 gallon tank, shoot for a wavemaker that is capable of at least 200 gph, but preferably up to 1,000! Do goldfish like current? What size wavemaker do I need for a 20 gallon tank? But some fish like goldfish or bettas don’t like any current at all. Aquarium Wave Maker Position – (Better than Bubbles) – YouTube Do tropical fish like Wave Makers?Īfrican Cichlids like my guys love a good current, and a wave maker actually helps in reducing aggression by keeping them busy and actively swimming around instead of expelling all their energy onto another fish. Vendors:įish Cheeks: Seafood-focused Thai fare, like the Noho original. In the morning, only a few stalls will sell coffee, juices, smoothies, and breakfast fare, with everything else opening at 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., or until midnight on Friday and Saturday. NYC’s Time Out Market is open daily from 8 a.m. Plus, it aims to open in Dubai in 2020, in London in 2021, and in Prague in 2022. The company has already debuted similar food markets in Lisbon and Miami, and has plans to expand to Boston, Chicago, and Montreal this year. The Time Out Market joins Cecconi’s, Miami import Sugarcane, and Vinegar Hill House offshoot VHH Foods, now located within the West Elm store, at the Empire Stores complex. Other promising vendors include Mexican cantina Alta Calidad and Fort Greene Middle Eastern favorite Miss Ada. The three bars will have beer, wine, and cocktails, a couple of which were created by Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Jimenez ( Ghost Donkey) and Takuma Watanabe ( Angel’s Share). The rest will be housed on the fifth floor, including the four remaining concepts, another full bar, and a rooftop area overlooking the East River. On the ground floor, 17 stalls will share the space with two full bars and communal-style seating. The 21,000-square-foot market will take up two floors at Dumbo’s Empire Stores at 55 Water Street. Newly announced vendors include a classic American stall from James Beard Award-winning chef David Burke Mexican food from chef Ivy Stark (Dos Caminos, Amalia), her second concept at the market and the Fish Cheeks outpost. It’s a roster of vendors meant to “represent the city” chosen by Times Out New York magazine’s editorial team, market CEO Didier Souillat previously told Eater. Among those vendors are a few New York City standouts, such as Thai favorite Fish Cheeks, popular pizzeria Juliana’s, babka gem Breads Bakery, and pancake hit Clinton St. Dumbo food hall Time Out Market opens today with 21 local vendors adding a whole new layer of dining options to the Brooklyn waterfront. Still, with plenty of patience, many are sure to be reasonably engaged, and thoroughly entertained, thanks to the film's always working to keep things lively. There's so much value to the concept of this film, and the execution does a lot of things very well, but whenever it gets the chance, this melodrama tries your patience, with conventions, cheese, superficialities and, of course, excess, until the final product falls short of, not simply what it could have been, but rewarding. This film manages to keep itself pretty busy throughout its course of two-and-a-half hours, so it's never bland, but it might end up finding too much to do, until it loses a sense of progression and conflict at times, or simply wears the audience down when it goes backed by such superficial handlings of material. I certainly prefer the war segments to the overwrought romance segments, but it doesn't seem as though this film can ever escape overt romanticism that tests believability through manufactures conflicts and overblown melodramatics which cause momentum to fall, though not without help from overblown structuring. The glaring missteps in dialogue within Ben Hecht's script are but heights in its gross Hollywood misguidance, because among the tropes hit by this film time and again is Hollywood superficialities and dated dramatic sensibilities, which take the guts out of this promising drama, and make the histrionics harder to embrace in the context of this narrative. Really, I can't see this film doing a great amount of justice to Hemingway's story, because if nothing else defuses the momentum of this melodrama, it's all of the cheesiness, reflected partly in some lame comic relief, and largely in dialogue that ranges from flat to admittedly unbelievably bad, and whose missteps are recurrent throughout the film, aggravating you and trying your patience, while superficializing the depths of this conceptually heavier subject matter. I was expecting this to be something of a formulaic Hollywood war drama, and sure enough, throughout this sprawling affair, nearly nothing new occurs, leaving predictability to set in, even if you're not already familiar with Ernest Hemingway's classic material. Man, this film is cheesy that it might have added to the rumors regarding Hudson's sexuality, but hey, at least it's entertaining, even though it isn't exactly unique. Man, with "Giant", and then this film, Hudson was really getting into sprawling romantic epics towards the end of the '50s, probably because he wanted to spend as much time as he could showing himself with a woman. That was probably not great for Selznick's marriage to Jennifer Jones, because she shouldn't be in this film with Clark Gable on the brain, seeing as how even Rock Hudson, alone, is more than a few stones above Selznick. I don't know if epic filmmaking was that big of trait for the producer, but you know that they're trying to get you to think of "Gone with the Wind" with this film. Now, with that said, you can leave it to Selznick to take something that was once made into 85-minute-long pseudo-filler, and turn it into a two-and-a-half-hour-long epic. Seriously though, Selznick is back to produce yet another high-scale and romantic war melodrama, although, compared to "Gone with the Wind", this film is about as long as, well, the adaptation of this Ernest Hemingway classic that they made back in 1932. Selznick was "Gone with the Wind", and now he's finally getting around to bidding "A Farewell to Arms". The 1996 film In Love and War, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in the events prior to his writing of A Farewell to Arms.First, David O. The novel has been adapted a number of times, initially for the stage in 1930 as a film in 1932 and again in 1957, and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The book became his first best-seller, and has been called "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I." Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable stature. The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. |