![]() ![]() ![]() Using trip planner apps and tools like the ones mentioned can make it so simple and so rewarding once you reach your vacation destination at Mark Twain Lake Jellystone Park™. You can plan your journey right in the app, adding up to seven waypoints for free or 150. Trip planning can seem a bit stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. Roadtrippers is one of the most practical and popular road trip planning apps out there. So RVers can get routing right on their phone or tablet. Plus, RV Trip Wizard seamlessly integrates its trips into its accompanying RV Life-RV Safe GPS App. In addition, it customizes RV safe routes to the height & weight of your RV and steers away from potential RV speed bumps like low clearances, steep grades, and propane restrictions. RV Trip Wizard helps users locate RV parks, overnight parking options, fuel stops, rest areas, dump stations, points of interest, and more. What a great resource to help stay on top of your road trip budget and take advantage of the best gasoline deals in your area, wherever you might be! RV Trip Wizardįor those seeking an RV-friendly trip planning tool, consider the web-based trip planner RV Trip Wizard. Plus, when you join the free savings program, Pay with GasBuddy, you get a discount on every gallon of gas or diesel pumped. Our computer route planner placed us on Interstates 64 and 70 in the East and Midwest and. Diving into a podcast or listening to an audiobook is the road trip equivalent of an airplane movie. So, initial plans were to travel from Virginia to San Francisco. GasBuddy covers 150,000+ stations in North America and is one of the highest-rated trip planner apps focused on gas savings. Route Planner can optimize your route so you spend less time driving and more time doing. While looking out the window longingly for hours upon hours is one way to pass the time, you’re likely going to want a bit of entertainment for the road. The free app provides real-time price information, so you know exactly where to get the best deal. And if you do, rest assured you're in great hands.Locate fuel stations along your route with GasBuddy. ![]() You don’t have to make reservations with us but you can always ask our team for a quote. ![]() You can use any of the services available on Triptile or add your own. Our app allows users to observe and compare multiple route options, compare forecasts, and ensure that your trip itinerary meets all the needs for your road trips. Triptile is the perfect tool for you to plan a trip not only to European countries such as Italy, France and Spain but also outside of Europe to places in Scandinavia, Asia, Oceania, Alaska and virtually anywhere. All of the travel inventory is supplied by Firebird Tours, one of the leading travel companies for Europe. The best part, however, is that with Triptile you can plan your next vacation in a matter of minutes, not weeks. Today Triptile allows all users to connect any hubs in any European country and many countries around the world while providing you with recommendations for the best hotels, activities, and transportation to use during the trip. Top Routes Appalachian Trail Georgia - Maine Take the Appalachian Trail challenge for some of the US’ best scenery. Download these road trip ideas and plot your way across and around this amazing country, whether its just the two of you, or a family road trip with kids. Originally, Triptile was developed by Firebird Tours® as a tool for travel professionals so they could build custom multi-destination trips to anywhere in Europe. Dive into our top West Coast, East Coast and Southern USA road trips. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you’re looking for something a bit more realistic, this JavaScript-powered flickering flame is a good choice. It not only has the legitimate look of a lit candle wick, there is a full screen luminescence as well. See the Pen Flame in the wind by Blake Bowen Hot Logo However, the movement may need to be slowed down for effective use on a website. When we think of fire effects, our first thought may be of an overwhelming visual. But subtlety can also be quite effective, as is the case with this animated logo. See the Pen Oak Stave : SVG Logo Animation by DroidPinkman Game Over? Here, the effect adds a touch of modernity to the retro-styled composition. Much like fire effects, 8-bit graphics seem to have found a permanent home on the web. Their simple, pixelated look is both fun and a great reminder of classic video games. This snippet shows both of the effects coming together in glorious harmony. ![]() At first glance, a line of fire fades out. See the Pen Bitfire □ by J Scott Smith Flying Through Space Then you realize that the flames are also attached to cursor movements. It’s hard to believe that this flame-tinged sky effect was crafted with just HTML and CSS. See the Pen CSS wormhole by Indrek Paas It’s Bubbly But it shows what’s possible with a seamless background and some movement. Rather, it seems more liquid-like (or maybe even a tad like a ghost). Still, this would be a great fit for sites that rely more on illustrations to tell their story. See the Pen Simple CSS-only Fire Animation by Satrio Yamanda Time Stands Still The movements are subtle and, despite the uniqueness of the look, still recognizable. Having a full-width background of raging orange and yellow flames could be a little too intense. See the Pen Fire by Michal Burning up the Web A still photo of flames sits in the background, while hundreds of tiny particles act as sparks, dancing their way around them. Sure, the use of fire effects isn’t appropriate for every website. But there are a number of potential use cases. Sites that focus on specific topics such as camping, the outdoors or even scary stories could be a fit. You might even see it implemented on the official site of the next big action movie. More than that, though, is how these effects represent advancements in technology. Pixelstick fire and flames software#įor instance, some of the pure CSS examples in our collection may have required powerful software to replicate just a few years ago. Then consider just how intricate these effects are when paired with the right JavaScript library. Want to see more hot examples? Check out our CodePen collection.Pixelstick meet Fujifilm… now lets create! So, while fire may be among the most ancient things in our world, we might also use it to judge our present. While we were on our photo tour of Venice Carnival, Bobbi Lane and I had a great opportunity to test out a prototype of Fujifilm’s new medium format camera, the GFX. For now, I’d like to introduce you to the Pixelstick! I had been planing to create some images using the amazing Pixelstick, a very cool, programable light painting device, and Venice Carnival was the perfect setting for creative play! You can see more about the Fujifilm GFX in my previous blog post here. The Pixelstick is a linear array of LED lights in a hand holdable, spinning, configuration. The assembled Pixelstick is 73″ long with 200 LED lights arranged along its length. A handle is configured such that the “stick” can spin around the handle, allowing for interesting light painting effects. ![]() The intensity, and color of each of 200 lights is controlled through a timed application of a bitmap image-sort of like a flatbed scanner in reverse. You can feed literally any image into the Pixelstick, and then “paint” the image into a dark scene by waving the Pixelstick through the scene. Pixelstick supplies a set of default graphic images built-in, with a number of other pre-formatted images available for download from their website. ![]() ![]() ![]() To get the full path to the file you want to transfer, enter the “pwd” command on the CLI of the remote server while the file is in your current directory. It’ll either be 22 (the default port), or it’ll be given to you when you order your VPS from your hosting provider. Learn more about basic PuTTY commands.Īs for the port number, you’ll need to know which SSH server port your VPS listens to. 3 I have been using the following scp command: SET cfolderc:tempcurrentdate scp -r :/opt/logs/test.log cfoldertestK1B.log The problem with the above is that it keeps asking for a password. You should already have the login credentials when you connect to the server using PuTTY, or some other tool, so we won’t go into it here.
![]() Multiple corporations vie for money and power by taking control of different colored disks through clean trades or bloody acquisitions. ![]() Please follow on Twitter for updates to the game's content and feature set. The game is currently in an extended and indefinite Early Access period so please do not purchase Sub Rosa without watching gameplay or doing a modest amount of research into the game. Sub Rosa is a multiplayer first-person shooter about tense deals, double-crosses, and the occasional high-speed car chase. Suggestions on gameplay mechanics, game modes, and specific additions to the game will be ignored wholesale.” “The community will be consulted for technical and gameplay bugs but the direction of the game design will be at the sole discretion of The Management Team. How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “There has been no final determination in price or a price increase by The Management Team at this time.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? “The game currently has the core mechanics in place and several game modes to select from in a multiplayer environment including World Mode, Round Mode, and Eliminator Mode.” What is the current state of the Early Access version? “Sub Rosa will likely expand with new modes of play and actions for players to do within the game world while the city and elements within continue to be refined.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? Currently the game is planned to remain in a public Early Access period indefinitely until The Management Team deem it final and their work complete.” “Sub Rosa is unique in that the game has been in Early Access for years now, albeit hidden from the store and relying on word of mouth to build a small but motivated community of fans around the world. Early Access gives an opportunity to tinker with many facets of the game in an attempt to better the experience for everyone.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access? This requires a great deal of iteration and testing with how a growing numbers of players understand and react to the possibilities laid out before them in Sub Rosa. “Sub Rosa is an experimental online multiplayer FPS with a focus on orchestrating deals and coordinating a team of players to increase their wealth and perceived status in the game. ![]() ![]() More important, I think, are the books I would not compare it to. What other book might you compare A Clash of Kings to and why? I would recommend this recording of this book, but be aware of what you're getting yourself into beforehand. Nonetheless, the writing is strong enough that a careful listener can work around the narration. With Hodor the failure is less distracting, since he only says one word anyway, but Yoren is consistently annoying and hard on the ear in every scene. Also worth mention are his terrible performances as Hodor the stableboy and Yoren the black brother. Dotrice and an absolute failure to grasp the character. ![]() His most distracting and consistent failures come with two of the most important characters, Tyrion Lannister (who is given to sound like a shamefully caricatured leprechaun) and Lord Varys, whose sloppy annunciation and unmstakeable lisp are a shame to Mr. He miserably fails at voicing literally every female character in the book, especially Brienne of Tarth and Mellisandre, and he manages to butcher most of the younger characters, including Theon Greyjoy and Bran Stark. That being said, the list of characters who are nearly destroyed by his flamboyant voicing is long and unfortunate. ![]() Similarly, the voice he uses to narrate the general text itself is deliberate and clear. Some characters, mainly the older male characters, are given excellent voices. That being said, Dotrice's narration is, to say the least, a mixed bag. Nonetheless, if you're here for more of what you got in "A Game of Thrones", you'll find plenty. His use of different perspectives to tell the story is refreshing, but there are certain characters that it seems should be added to that list who remain absent, while some characters can grow simply tiresome at times. The writing is strong, but the pace of the story is at once somehow quick, drawing the ear to the next page, and painfully slow. Martin's series is grand and ambitious in its scope, and that is simultaneously its blessing and its curse. What did you like best about A Clash of Kings? What did you like least? I'm excited about the series and will be more than ready to move on after book 3. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Then he snaps you out of it like being awakened from a sleep by a power saw in your bedroom. You find yourself lost in the story till it comes time to narrate a female part. His voice is excellent for reading the back story. That said Roy has the perfect amount of drama. It's getting quite old and it's very disappointing. The remainder of male characters sound like grumpy Leprechauns. But! his females all sound like toothless old crones in pirate movies. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Roy Dotrice? ![]() Will he stay humble? It seems like a question Tyrion would ask himeself. He's coming up in the world and doing big things. Obvious underdog, bullied his whole life. Would you listen to A Clash of Kings again? Why? ![]() ![]() ![]() Your task is to complete the implementation of src/components/ShowHide/index.js. If the Lastname is being displayed, it should be hidden. You could style these yourself however you like, and everything would still work just fine. When the Show/Hide Lastname button is clicked, If the Lastname is being hidden, it should be displayed. The rest of the CSS simply adds a border to our div (the border is hidden by the display rule, but becomes visible later) and fancied up our show/hide anchors by putting down/up arrows next to them and replacing the standard underline with a dotted border. The only truly important style is the “display: none ” rule on our. I’m technically doing far more styling than is necessary here, mostly for aesthetic purposes. Now that we have our XHTML in place, let’s put together our default CSS. Our JavaScript will use that single variable to do the rest of the work. It’s also important to note that we’re calling our JavaScript using the “onclick” call, and passing it the name of our hidden div. The class names have no relationship to the JavaScript whatsoever, and could really be whatever you wanted them to be. This is a trick I’m using to simplify our JavaScript, as you’ll see later on down the road, so I suggest doing something similar. You’ll notice in the code above that all of our IDs are fairly similar. Technically you could just use the IDs the set that CSS as well, but if you wanted more than one hidden section on your page, that could get messy. I’m then using the classes to set our “default” CSS. The IDs are used by our JavaScript to locate and style the items appropriately. ![]() ![]() There are three things of importance here: the “show” anchor, the “hide” anchor, and our “hidden” div. We’ll start with structuring our XHTML appropriately. ![]() ![]() ![]() These versions also offer optional perpetual licensing, allowing your company to own the software permanently without requiring an annual subscription/maintenance fee. Please note that network licensing is only available with DraftSight Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. ![]() DraftSight Professional and Premium, by contrast, do not allow sharing of licenses in the same way. Network licensing allows anyone and everyone on your team to leverage DraftSight when they need to, making it easier than ever to design and collaborate in 2D. Network licensing makes this possible by storing licenses on a server and distributing licenses as needed by users. It is likely that DraftSight licenses are shared between many users. Therefore, designers may use the program rather infrequently. Network LicensingĭraftSight is often used as a collaboration tool, rather than as a company’s primary design application. Note that PDF Import is only available in DraftSight Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Then, use the PDF command found in the Import tab of the ribbon. If you are importing an entire drawing, you will want to begin with a blank DraftSight document. So long as your PDF is not “flat” (meaning the geometry, letters and numbers are saved within the PDF, and it is not simply a picture in PDF format) the Import PDF command can be used to make quick work out of converting a PDF into an editable DWG. Trying to recreate geometry represented in a PDF in order to turn it into an editable DWG/DXF is one of the most tedious jobs one can face and, in most cases, it is unnecessary. To get started, check out the DraftSight API Help Documentation. Options are unlimited with the DraftSight API. You might also use the API to integrate DraftSight with an ERP system, for example, or develop your own custom menus and toolbars. This is not a native function within DraftSight but you can invoke the API to create one. Perhaps you would like to import a batch of PDFs from a specific folder at a certain time of day every day. ![]() Several programming languages are supported, including LISP, C++, C#, VB.NET and JavaScript for maximum flexibility.īut even non-programmers should know of the API’s existence. While they may take a bit of practice to learn, the power of constraints make them worth learning.ĭraftSight’s API (application programming interface) can be used to automate many common processes within the software and allows you to create your own add-ins. In the before and after photo shown below, several geometric and dimensional constraints were added to the design and D2 was changed from 10 to 12 (using a simple double-click), automatically lengthening the required entities while keeping everything else intact. If you would like to turn these off, click the Options button (pictured above) and use the Hide All function or selectively choose the constraint types to hide.ĭimensional constraints function differently from traditional dimensions in that they directly control the size of the entity. ![]() You may notice the icons that appear indicating the type of constraints present in the design. Don’t forget, you can use the Enter key to repeat your last used command for a fast application of constraints.Īdditionally, coincident relations are very important for keeping entities connected during future changes. Once activated, select the entity or entities to apply the constraint to, and in just a few clicks you will have a more robust design that can easily be changed without any extra work. The handles will control the visibility state of the dynamic block just as they did in AutoCAD, making it exceptionally easy to swap between different variants. Simply insert the dynamic block, specify position/size/rotation and then select the block to view the configuration handles. All versions of DraftSight allow you to insert, view and configure existing dynamic blocks from AutoCAD, while DraftSight Premium and Enterprise Plus also allow those blocks to be edited. Understandably, many DraftSight users are AutoCAD veterans and often have libraries full of dynamic blocks created with AutoCAD that they would like to reuse. If preferred, the pattern can be double-clicked or the EDITPATTERN command can be used to adjust the pattern options using the original dialog. Click and drag the second handle to dynamically modify instance spacing, and then click and drag the third handle toward the source geometry to remove pattern instances or away from it to add instances. Click and drag the first handle to reposition the entire pattern as a group. Once created, you will find that clicking any of the pattern entities selects all of the instances and additional handles become available. ![]() ![]() There are around 930 species of microbats. Microbats (Suborder Microchiroptera) Lesser horseshoe bats – members of the microbat suborder Microchiroptera – at roost. Yinpterochiroptera contains the megabats and five families that were previously considered to be microbats Yangochiroptera is home to the remaining microbats. Modern bat classification has two suborders: Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera. Traditionally, the order Chiroptera has been divided into two main groups: microbats (suborder Microchiroptera), and megabats (suborder Megachiroptera).Īlthough we use the traditional bat orders of microbats and megabats on this page, recent molecular evidence suggests that some microbats are more closely-related to megabats than they are to other microbats. Paleontologists will have to find more fossils, particularly those dated between 50 and 66 million years ago, if they wish to solve this mystery. The fossil gives few clues about how, or when, the forelimbs of bats first became adapted as wings. The species is believed to have hunted using echolocation, just like modern microbats (see below). At the end of each of its first wing fingers was a claw. Icaronycteris index had a wingspan of 37 centimeters (15 in). Photo: Andrew Savedra (cropped / resized by ) / CC BY-SA It has been dated to the early Eocene, and thought to have lived approximately 52.2 million years ago. A complete fossil of this early bat was found in the Green River formation of Wyoming. The oldest-known bat species is Icaronycteris index. Not much is known about their evolutionary history and how an early, four-legged terrestrial mammal evolved wings and the ability to fly. ![]() There is therefore relatively little fossil evidence of early bats. Although these diseases are not naturally passed directly to humans from bats, they may originate in areas where bats and other types of animal are kept in close proximity to each other and subsequently handled or consumed by humans.īat skeletons are small and light, and as a result do not fossilize easily. In recent times, bats have been implicated in the spread of diseases such as SARS. There are more than 1,100 living bat species together they represent almost 20 percent of all known mammal species.īats fulfil many important ecological roles, including pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and consuming vast numbers of insects. Mexican free-tailed bat.īats are found in most habitats apart from extreme deserts and polar regions, and are a familiar sight in many urban areas. Instead, their wings consist of a thin membrane stretched between the bones of the arms, elongated fingers, and legs. The name Chiroptera is derived from the Greek words “cheir” and “pteron”, meaning “hand” and “wing”.Īlthough their wings function in a similar way to those of birds, bats don’t have feathers. ![]() They are the only mammals capable of true, flapping flight. On this page you’ll find a complete introduction to the lives and behavior of these unique animals…īat Facts Page Index Mexican free tail bats leaving their cave at dusk.īats are winged, flying mammals in the order Chiroptera. Representing an incredible 20% of all mammal species, bats are the world’s only flying mammals. It's something I have been interested since started to play with Substance Painter and I've seen it be used in many other 3D applications.Bat facts: fun facts on bats, including bat characteristics, behavior, diet and ecology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Video A click on the play button or the game icon loads third-party content. Categories in which Bartender is included: Arcade Skill Physics Bartender Walkthrough If you need help playing Bartender, check out our Bartender walkthrough video. Play fullscreen Add to My games Save to desktop Play the game GAMAVERSE. Play as Miguelita, a professional bartender, and help her serve the best cocktails at the wedding of her cousin Carlos. The better you perform, the better rated you become, and you earn more money in return since a good bartender will always get lots of tips. Bartender is playable online as an HTML5 game, therefore no download is necessary. Bartender 2 is a great cocktail mixing game and you can play it online and for free Have you ever been on the other side of the bar With Bartender 2, your dreams of being an expert on cocktails will come true. Bartender: The Wedding is a puzzle game to test your bartending skills at mixing all sorts of alcoholic beverages. In front of you there is the whole bar with everything you would need to make it, so click on the items correctly, mix them together, and finish the drink in time to advance to the next client, as customers are always waiting. ![]() To be a Bartender, even an online one, means to know how to make all the celeb mixes, meaning signature cocktails and drinks that have remained popular and requested by clients for decades and maybe even more, and this is what you attempt to make right now with yet another one of our best bartender games online! Bartender: The Celebs Mix, a new challenge!Įach client will tell you what mix they want, but only through name, so click on the bartender to see the shapes of the bottles you need to mix, as well as other ingredients such as fruits, ice, and other components that can appear in a cocktail. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, some patient advocates say these programs can lead to delays for patients in accessing medications while applications are processed - and sometimes unexpected bills for consumers. The strategies are mostly being used in self-insured employer health plans, which are governed by federal laws that give broad flexibility to employers in designing health benefits. “We’re seeing it in every state at this point,” said Becky Burns, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at the Bleeding and Clotting Disorders Institute in Peoria, Illinois, a federally funded hemophilia treatment center. Then, the outside vendor helps patients provide the financial and other information needed to apply for free medication from drugmakers through charity programs intended for uninsured patients. In the other approach, employers don’t bother naming drugs nonessential they simply drop coverage for specific drugs or classes of drugs. That assistance can vary widely and be as much as $20,000 a year for some drugs. The employer must still cover part of the cost of the drug, but the amount is reduced by the amount of copay assistance that is accessed. Workers who agree enroll in drugmaker financial assistance programs meant to cover the drug copays, and the vendor monitoring the effort aims to capture the maximum amount the drugmaker provides annually, according to a lawsuit filed in May by drugmaker Johnson & Johnson against SaveOnSP, which is based in Elma, New York. The employer or hired vendor then raises the copay required of the worker, often sharply, but offers to substantially cut or eliminate that copay if the patient participates in the new effort. In one approach, insurers or employers continue to cover the drugs but designate them as “nonessential,” which allows the health plans to bypass annual limits set by the Affordable Care Act on how much patients can pay in out-of-pocket costs for drugs. There are also smaller vendors, like SHARx and Payer Matrix, some of which work directly with employers. Both are used mainly by self-insured employers that hire vendors, like SaveOnSP, which then work with the employers’ pharmacy benefit managers, such as Express Scripts/Cigna, to implement the strategy. Two versions of the new strategy are in play. Subscribe to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing. Workers who rely on the drugs may feel pressured to change insurers or jobs, Klein said. Some advocates fear the new strategies could be “a way to weed out those with costly health care needs,” said Rachel Klein, deputy executive director of the AIDS Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group. Patient advocates say the term “nonessential” stresses patients out even though it doesn’t mean the drugs - often called “specialty” drugs because of their high prices or the way they are made - are unnecessary. And patients are, again, caught in the middle. It’s the latest twist in a long-running dispute between the drug industry and insurers over which group is more to blame for rising costs to patients. But some benefit brokers and companies like SaveOnSP say they can help trim employers’ spending on insurance - which, they say, could be the difference between an employer offering coverage to workers or not. Drugmakers object, saying the money was intended primarily for patients. Now, though, employers, or the vendors and insurers they hire specifically to oversee such efforts, are seeking that money to offset their own costs. Those employers are tapping into dollars provided through programs they have previously criticized: patient financial assistance initiatives set up by drugmakers, which some benefit managers have complained encourage patients to stay on expensive brand-name drugs when less expensive options might be available. Sutton had unwittingly become part of a strategy that employers are using to deal with the high cost of drugs prescribed to treat conditions such as arthritis, psoriasis, cancer, and hemophilia. She added that “every single FDA-approved medication for juvenile arthritis” was on the list of nonessential benefits. “It really gave us no choice,” said Sutton, of Woodinville, Washington. The July 2021 letter said the family could either participate in a new effort overseen by a company called SaveOnSP and get the drug free of charge or be saddled with a monthly copayment that could top $1,000. ![]() |