![]() Essentially, it’s a horseshoe-shaped layer of rigid TPU plastic embedded between the midsole foam and the outsole, which keeps your foot from rolling too far inward during your stride. Often abbreviated “LEP,” the Linear Energy Push is the latest evolution of Adidas’ Torsion System, a stability feature that debuted back in 1988. Better yet, the very firm Boost cushioning is well-suited to low-impact activities like walking, where you aren’t moving as fast and putting as much stress on your feet and joints. Some feel they’re too heavy and too firm–they certainly don’t have the soft, pillowy feel of trainers like the Hoka Bondi or New Balance 1080.īut if you prefer a firmer shoe–maybe you’re used to running in Under Armour or Reebok kicks–the Ultraboost could work well for you. Runners have mixed opinions on the Ultraboost brand. What to Consider When Shopping for Adidas Ultraboost Running ShoesĪdidas releases a new lineup of Ultraboost shoes every year, which include casual sneakers (even sandals) and shoes designed specifically for running. ![]() I’ve written more about running shoes than any other category, and I have firsthand experience running in models from a range of brands, including Adidas. The Expert: I have tested running and outdoor gear for years, both as an editor at Runner’s World and as a freelance reviewer for InsideHook, Men’s Journal, and other outlets.
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![]() Additionally, I think that spending a month exploring your imagination is truly one of the best things you can do." Tackling a large creative project, you never feel more alive than when you set a goal that's slightly bigger than yourself and then nail it. "I think for most people it just feels really great. "It's always been a delightful moment when I've explained this to strangers," says Baty, the executive director of The Office of Letters and Light - the charitable organisation through which NaNoWriMo is run. But with no tangible rewards beyond this, what exactly is the point? People who successfully complete the challenge are listed as official winners and can collect a certificate. Uploading verifies the word count (you can scramble the document beforehand if you're worried about putting your manuscript into a stranger's hands). Participants must sign up to the website, and upload their work before midnight on November 30. ![]() The main aim is to produce 50,000 words - the equivalent of 175 pages - of a novel in 30 days. Otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo was started by the San Francisco native Chris Baty in the summer of 1999. Zaineb al Hassani talks to the organiser and some of the participantsĪs the clock struck midnight on Sunday tens of thousands of people began a journey into the creative unknown, all participants in the increasingly popular annual event known as NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, a US-based initiative that sees would-be authors around the world pledge to complete a 50,000-word work in 30 days. ![]() This is your future success against a real opponent. ![]() You get a first-class online training session with a professional trainer. ![]() You can see the trajectory of the blows, prepare them and make the necessary adjustments in the force and direction of the blow, or just hit the ball and hope for luck or your thinking skills. You can play full screen, to any music, create any in-Terriers, together or with a computer that keeps a clear score. The computer gives you a fantastic online opportunity to play your favorite game at any time, anywhere, and at any moment. And now it is not necessary to have tables, balls and a cue. There are many variations of the game – almost every country has come up with their own versions with their own characteristics. With the development of technologies and the appearance of new materials, pool games gets wide opportunities and an army of fans. A little historical note: documented statements about the game of Billiards by Queen Mary of Scotland, Mary Stuart, on the eve of her death, and her request to the Archbishop of Glasgow to find a suitable place for the table after her death. Gradually, it became popular, but the weight and high cost of the main equipment (billiard table) prevented the spread of Billiards among people as a hobby. But from birth, it was considered a game for the privileged level of society. It is only known that it, like chess, is very ancient and its homeland is considered to be Asia: China or India, the debates continue. It is impossible to determine the exact time when the game of Billiards appeared. Billiards is now a popular game all over the world and is the subject of international Amateur and professional competitions. It is a combination of intellectual play and controlled physical strength. The eye-measure, accuracy of the cue hitting the ball, geometrically sharp trajectories of their movement and unpredictable crashes, and tactics designed for several steps forward - all this is Billiards. One of the most interesting and exciting sports is Billiards. On paper, the favoring of a proposed deal bodes exceptionally well for the VGX crypto and the broader blockchain ecosystem. VGX Crypto Still Has a Challenging Road Ahead In addition, he said the SEC should not have waited until the last minute to raise a concrete concern. ![]() However, Wiles did not find the argument persuasive, stating that the regulatory agency failed to present any concrete evidence. Per Reuters, “SEC attorney William Uptegrove told Wiles at a hearing last week that SEC investigators believe Binance.US is operating an unregistered securities exchange.” Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Inherently, this development represents a blow to the U.S. Still, he indicated that he was in favor of approving the deal. To be sure, the judge noted that he must work through the confirmation order. Overall, the deal features a value of over $1 billion. At the time, the news agency noted that “rypto lenders such as Voyager boomed in the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing depositors with high interest rates and easy access to loans rarely offered by traditional banks.” Unfortunately, the combination of a sector slump and the implosion of two major tokens hurt the digital asset space.įast forward to March 7, CoinDesk reported that Michael Wiles, a bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of New York, overruled various objections directed against Binance.US’ bid to acquire the bankrupt lender’s assets. However, many challenges remain for both Voyager and the broader blockchain industry.įor context, Reuters reported in July 2022 that Voyager filed for bankruptcy. ![]() In turn, this led to a dramatic spike in the price of the VGX ( VGX-USD ) crypto. Binance.US cleared a legal hurdle in its bid to acquire Voyager’s assets. Amid a severe credibility crisis in the cryptocurrency space, bankrupt digital asset lender Voyager Digital (OTCMKTS: VYGVQ) received a critical lifeline. Police arrived on the scene and pulled Scott out of the car before it burst into flames. ![]() The car swerved off the highway, skidded over 300 feet, and crashed into a tree. One night, Scott was driving alone on the George Washington Parkway near McLean, Virginia when he apparently lost control of his car. He spent the summer working as a student intern for the Republican Senate Policy Committee on Capitol Hill. In 1982, Meese’s son Scott was a sophomore at Princeton. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images) Meese, along with former Secretaries of State James Baker III and Warren Christopher and other members of the commission released their findings and recommendations on the war powers of the president and Congress. Meese’s Son Died in a Car Crash When He Was 19 Years Oldįormer US Attorney General Edwin Meese III, member of the National War Powers Commission listens during a phone call prior to a press conference on Jon Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He said that Meese was “at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.”Ĥ. Prosecutors believed that Meese was the middleman between Wallach and the Reagan administration, who helped make sure that Wedtech got the contracts.īut the prosecution could never prove that there was a link, and so Meese was never formally charged.Īt the end of the trial, the prosecution said it was ridiculous to say that Meese and Wallach’s friendship hadn’t helped Wedtech get the contracts. ![]() Wallach was charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Wedtech Corporation, a Bronx military contractor, in return for helping them get military contracts from the Reagan administration. ![]() Robert Wallach was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 for allegedly selling influence with the government. Meese was allegedly implicated - although never charged - in a high profile corruption and racketeering trial that centered around a Bronx military contractor. Meese and others from the Reagan administration And, the latest software is available in just one click.įurthermore, AXIS S2224 features an integrated PoE switch. It includes everything you need to keep your system updated and maintained, all from one centralized place. The integrated AXIS recorder toolbox features an intuitive wizard, making it easy to set up hostname, network settings, and date and time setting. With outstanding usability, AXIS Camera Station S2224 Appliance is designed for fast installation and setup. For extra security, AXIS S2224 includes multiple RAID-configured hard drives for increased performance and storage capacity providing even more reliable data storage, with built-in protection against data loss in the event of drive failure. The operating system is stored on a Solid-State Drive (SSD) meaning system start-up is fast, and the operating system will not be affected in the event of failure of the recording storage hard drives. 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Flexible storage options including RAIDĪXIS Camera Station S2224 Appliance is an all-in-one recording solution with integrated PoE switch designed to deliver reliable high-definition surveillance.All-in-one solution with integrated PoE switch.All-in-one recorder with integrated 24 channel PoE switch for high-definition surveillance ![]() One challenge Mike and Caroline said they faced with their business, like many others, was the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. "Alchemy's" roof during construction (left) and the 12-foot slide being installed (right). ![]() They said "Alchemy" cost about $300,000 to build.Īs of Friday, the property is available to rent on Airbnb for a nightly rate of $396.ĭuring the building phase, Mike and Caroline said they used the mountain's sloping terrain to their advantage. "And then they come into the tent and find the slide."Ĭaroline added that they wanted the Airbnb to look "solely like a tent" outside.Ĭaroline and Mike said it takes them six to eight months to build a fully equipped treehouse, but that time varies depending on the project. "We thought, how cool would it be to have a tent sitting there and people pull up and think, what in the world is going on here?" he said of building the underground home. The couple wanted to create an unexpected entrance for the underground home, so they settled on a camping tent. Mike told Insider they were inspired to build " Alchemy" during a Pinterest search when they stumbled upon a photo of an underground bunker. Treehouses of Serenity built "Alchemy" (pictured), an Airbnb hidden beneath a camping tent. ![]() The Parrishes began building "Alchemy" in August 2021 and officially opened it to Airbnb guests in February 2022. The couple later appeared on season two of DIY Network's "The Treehouse Guys" and built their first treehouse, "Sanctuary." They completed their newest addition, "Alchemy," an underground house with a hidden slide, this February. "And at that point, the thought was just traditional treehouses, but it's evolved from there." "We started talking about it in 2015," Caroline, 45, said. "We were sitting around watching 'Treehouse Masters' one night and Caroline said, 'Why don't we try an Airbnb treehouse because it's Asheville and it's such a cool little town?'" Mike, 65, told Insider. They've built seven properties so far - including the whimsical " Wizard's Hollow" and " The Perch" that's an elevated treehouse - on land they initially didn't know what to do with, they told Insider. The Parrishes launched their company, Treehouses of Serenity, which builds unique travel destinations along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2016. Their most recent addition, called Alchemy, was finished in February and provides Harry Potter-inspired delights from the very moment of arrival.Caroline Parrish (left) and Mike Parrish (right) of Asheville, North Carolina. Delighting in creating themed rentals, such as their Hobbit hole-inspired offering called Dragon’s Knoll, the pair also invested in the enduring trend of Potter-themed places. North Carolina couple Mike and Caroline Parrish started their company, Treehouses of Serenity, in 2016, with the goal to create unique and whimsical travel destinations in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Adventurous wizards with their minds on the mountains, however, should look no further than Asheville, North Carolina, where a new Harry Potter-themed Airbnb awaits, as reported by the Daily Mail. Fan-friendly rentals of this nature have been popping up all over the world, including, recently, a house in Yorkshire suitable for Slytherins and a haven for Gryffindors in Manila. After a long day of travel, it is essential to have a relaxing and suitably magical place to hang up one’s cloak. ![]() If the compiler finds no value being returned on reaching the end of the function definition the compiler will complain with a warning message: control reaches end of non-void function. ↑ The main() routine is declared as returning an integer.However the overall structure remains the same The current version is a bit more complicated. ↑ Shown code is from an earlier version.If it can't find it it will fail with an error message like (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main. ↑ The linker will search for this function within the source files.Each new sketch will start with the standard template: The ingredient to our cappucino is quite close and is revealed by first thing you'll see when starting a new sketch in the Arduino IDE. This makes us a nice cappuccino, but what if what we need is an espresso? ![]() In principle Arduino adds a lot of milk and sugar to the μController it is based on. In many cases this is perfectly fine but there are certain situations where it is important to understand these compromises and their ways around it (on the compromise of ease of use). In case of the Arduino and Wiring language framework this specifically means we compromise memory space and execution speed for ease of programming. When we advance in our explorations at some point it is important to realise that making things easier usually means making compromises on other levels. In this section we will go a bit further and see what all these elements are hiding from us. You also got introduced to the Wiring language framework Arduino implemented for their hardware platforms and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Arduino adapted from the Processing project. It did this by creating a hardware platform (development board) based on the Atmel AVR 8- and 32-bit family of μControllers. The documentation, including installation instructions, configuration instructions, and developer information can be found in the Ardublockly GitHub repository Wiki.In the About Arduino page you could read that Arduino is in principle an attempt to make physical computing easier accessible for the average user. Configure Ardublockly to locate the Arduino IDE following these instructions.Run Ardublockly as defined in your installation method.Install the Arduino IDE version 1.6 or higher.It also needs the Arduino IDE version 1.6 or higher. This will work on Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Installation instructions for developers can be found in this Github repository Wiki. There is a packaged version for Windows that runs as a stand-alone executable and can be downloaded from the Ardublockly repository releases page. Online DemosĪ demo of the current state of Ardublockly can be found in the following two links (to load the code into an Arduino requires Ardublockly to be executed locally): Ardublockly (with responsive design) A to-do list can be found in the TODO.md file.Ĭurrently tested under Windows with Python 2.7 and 3.4 and in Linux and MacOS X with Python 2.7. Compatible with a wide range of official Arduino BoardsĪrdublockly is still under development and a few features are not yet implemented.Generate Arduino code with visual drag-and-drop blocks.This is all packaged in a self contained executable: The "ArdublocklyServer" Python package initialises a local server to be able to compile and load the Arduino code using the Arduino IDE. It is based on Google's Blockly, which has been forked to generate Arduino code. Ardublockly is a visual programming editor for Arduino. ![]() Many US historians would point to President Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian democracy ideal as a counternarrative. As historian Edward B Baptist noted in a Vox interview in 2019, the 19th century was the period “when you see the US go from being a colonial, primarily agricultural economy to being the second biggest industrial power in the world”. Add to that the many accounts that bankers in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston held, assets that enabled loans for more whites to buy more land and more enslaved Black people.Īnd add to that the venture capital necessary to build textile mills in New England, for shipping ventures to sell and trade tobacco, rice, and cotton to mill owners in Britain. Add to this the wealth and power produced from land speculation and the buying and selling of humans from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. There was the capital generated from owning land and slaves. Plantation slavery was truly an American ideal, and not just a Southern one. By the 1850s, plantation slavery existed in Kansas and threatened to exist in New Mexico and Arizona. Then, in annexing Texas, and eventually, taking all of the Southwestern US from Mexico. Soon after, in Missouri and Florida, with the support of the US Army and killers of Indigenous people like eventual seventh US president, Andrew Jackson. First in Kentucky and Tennessee, then, after the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812, in Alabama and Mississippi. As the new US murdered its way to more land, these men repeated the patterns that grew cash-crop plantation life into the America’s economic engine. Between white vigilantism, law enforcement, and unbridled capitalism, the violence of this first American Dream is very much embedded in everything the US is in 2021.Īmericans willfully forget that millions of white men lustfully stalked this first American Dream before, during, and after the US became a nation-state. Plantation slavery was a system of policing Black bodies and movements, of rape and torture, for profit and perverse pleasure. It contained all the racist, misogynistic, classist, and narcissistic elements synonymous with American dreaming. It included taking the land and the lives of Indigenous Americans, kidnapping and enslaving Africans, codifying African women’s wombs into property, and growing tobacco, cotton, indigo, and sugarcane as cash crops. ![]() Make no mistake, the first American Dream was plantation slavery, or wealth American style. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 As vote nears, ‘horrific racism’ mars Australian Voice referendum campaign list 2 of 4 ‘They’re going to come at you’: Paola Egonu on racism and volleyball list 3 of 4 Paola Egonu: Volleyball Star and Advocate for Change list 4 of 4 US sues Tesla over alleged ‘pervasive racial’ abuse against Black workers end of list ![]() E-commerce platforms which promote small businesses, such as Depop and Etsy, grew by offering vintage, homemade, or resold clothing from individual sellers. ![]() Marketing strategies involving third parties, particularly influencers and celebrities, have become prominent tactics. In the 2020s, many companies, including current fashion giants such as Shein and Shekou, have been using social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram as a marketing tool. Early in the decade, several publications noted the shortened trend and nostalgia cycle in 2020s fashion. They have been largely inspired by styles of the early to mid-2000s, late 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, and 1960s. The fashions of the 2020s represent a departure from 2010s fashion and feature a nostalgia for older aesthetics. Science and technology PoliticsĢ021: Natalie Biden wearing a matching cloth COVID-19 mask at the inauguration of Joe Biden, her grandfather. 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