![]() ![]() Pfft! I mean, come on! This is a “Mad Max” movie, for God’s sake, whose very raison d’etre is achieving excitement through stunts that actually put human life at risk - or at least give us the impression that’s what they’re doing – and not through simple camera trickery - and even worse, in this case, not particularly convincing trickery). ![]() The first follows our Mad-man Max, he of few words, on a mission to reclaim his vehicle, stolen in the opening moments by makeshift plane-flying Jedediah (Bruce Spence, with the actor in a slightly confusing return from the previous entry – a different character but with pretty much the exact same comedy relief description, as likeably sneaky pilot) and his son (Adam Cockburn) from where it ended up, namely, the barbaric Wild West-style outpost known as Bartertown (and right out of the gate, with the very first lazily executed action piece of Jedediah jumping from the plane to land easily in a seated position on the vehicle below… the first red flag was raised. The episodic narrative of “Thunderdome” is broken into three distinct sequences. The tale of “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson, whose growing maturity as a full-fledged screen presence over the two films couldn’t have been more in synch with the character) would have been, right there and then, forever and satisfactorily complete a modern cinematic legend achieved.Īnd sitting down and taking in Beyond Thunderdome for the first time since its release (and promptly mostly forgetting it), I came to the conclusion that my misgivings about a continuation were… well… pretty right on. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985)Īs I wrote in my recent musings on The Road Warrior (aka, “Mad Max 2”), the second in the high-flying, adrenaline-fueled post-apocalyptic road saga we all know and love (or should love… at least the first two entries… hint, hint), I had the distinct impression as that film concluded (and as I pontificated on about, post-screening, to barely listening ex-wife and daughter) that this should have been where it all ended with the first entry introducing us to the dedicated road cop and transforming him into vengeance-seeking shadow of a human (due to loving wife and child being brutally killed by marauding biker gang), the second the tale of the reclamation of his humanity (saving a small community of last survivors along the way), with all of it concluding in near-perfection on that final image of our leather-clad, reluctant hero, alone amongst the fire of the wreckage-strewn highway, fading away into the ethereal embers of a child’s memory, directly on into legend and lore… and that would be it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On the front side of the cabin, there’s a stone patio that leads to a fire pit and gas grill, which is shared with the Maple Spring Cabin next door. The cabin has a great back deck where guests can kick back and relax with a glass of wine on the rocker or swing. Wi-Fi is included if you need to stay connected during your stay, and there are window AC units to keep the cabin cool during warmer months. The kitchen area has a fridge, sink, small cooktop, and microwave as well as a table for two. There’s also a full-size bath with a tiled shower and double vanity. The living area has a gas fireplace and smart TV that can be enjoyed from the couch and chair or your king-sized bed. When you step inside, you’ll be welcomed to a pleasantly decorated space with just the right amount of flair. It’s located less than 7 miles from Sugar Mountain Resort and Appalachian Ski Mountain, so it’s also a great home base if you’re visiting Boone to do some skiing. This cozy Valle Cruis cabin rental was designed especially for couples looking to enjoy some well-deserved time together. READ MORE: The 15 Best Fairs in North Carolina to Visit 1 BR Cabin Rentals in Boone NC Little River’s Honeymoon Cabin (Sleeps 4).(Arranged by number of bedrooms and distance to Downtown Boone) READ MORE: 20 Best Things to Do in Boone NC (Blue Ridge Parkway MM 291.8) Whether you’re planning a romantic getaway for two or a big family vacation, read on to find the perfect Boone cabin rental for your next trip to the North Carolina High Country! To help you find the best one for you, we’ve compiled a list of the best cabin rentals in Boone NC, with options ranging from one to four-plus bedrooms. Whatever sort of adventure you may be looking for, there are plenty of cabin rentals nearby to choose from when you visit Boone. Many people also visit this area to go fly fishing, canoeing, whitewater rafting, ziplining, cut their own Christmas trees, and enjoy the High Country’s myriad restaurants and breweries. Three of North Carolina’s best ski resorts (Appalachian Ski Mountain, Beech Mountain Resort, and Sugar Mountain Resort) are located within 30 minutes of Boone. Located about 85 miles northeast of Asheville, Boone NC is a popular mountain town that’s packed full of outdoor activities and attractions.įrom Blue Ridge Parkway road trips and beloved hiking trails to enjoying the area’s many fun festivals and art galleries, Boone offers a little something for everyone. ![]() ![]() There is hope that de los Cobos, who was born in the central Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the border with Texas, can draw other Mexicans to Chicago. The Fire missed a chance to advance to the MLS Cup last fall when they lost on penalty kicks to eventual champion Real Salt Lake. ![]() ![]() With all these problems, he did a good job in El Salvador.Īs the Fire's fifth coach, it will be more of matter of advancing the course rather than changing the course, as in El Salvador. "No coach could handle the situation that this guy lived as coach of the national team in El Salvador," Polanco said. That served as a springboard to the country's national team, which hadn't reached the final stage of World Cup qualifying since 1998 - and hadn't kept the same coach for more than two seasons since Pipo Rodriguez retired after leading La Azul to its World Cup berth in 1982.Įl Salvador didn't make it back under de los Cobos but it did make the hexagonal stage of qualifying for the first time since 1998, beating Mexico and playing the United States to a tie. ![]() ![]() The activated carbon element can reduce some chemical contaminates like herbicides, pesticides, and other volatile organic compounds, but will not protect you from high chemical concentrations or heavy metal contamination. The hollow fiber membrane within the MSR Thru-Link has a pore size of 0.2 microns and is effective in removing bacteria and protozoa along with other small particulates, but is not effective in removing viruses. The initial dry weight of the filter is 2.5 ounces, but after the initial use I have found that my drained filter weighs about 4.1 ounces depending on the amount of water retained within the filter elements. The MSR Thru-Link is 7-1/2 inches long and approximately 1-5/8 inches in diameter at its widest point. Military for over ten years I doubt it will have any problem surviving normal handling and being packed away in your pack. The plastic housing seems very robust and given that it has been in use by the U.S. The filter itself has a translucent housing which is nice as it enables you to see if there is a build-up of debris in the housing and if a cleaning is in order. ![]() The fittings that are included will work with any bladder that utilizes tubbing with a 1/4-inch inner diameter. ![]() The filter I received was a pre-production version and MSR confirmed that all final production packaging will included both a male and female barb fitting which will enable the user to modify the drinking tube of just about any existing hydration bladder so that it will accept the quick disconnect fittings on the ends of the Thru-Link filter. Included in the package I received are the items shown below and consisted of the Thru-Link filter with two male barb fittings. The filter I received for testing was a pre-production item so this packaging was not the final version. The MSR Thru-Link water filter comes packaged as shown in the picture below. The physical packaging of the Thru-Link filter is unique in that it includes fittings at each end of the filter that allows it to be quickly installed or removed from a typical hydration bladder.īeing an in-line filter design, the integration of the MSR Thru-Link filter to a water bladder supports a “scoop and go” approach where in use you would fill your bladder with an unfiltered water source and then your water would be filtered real time as you drink from the bladder through the MSR Thru-Link filter installed along the drinking tube of the bladder. ![]() The Thru-Link is a two-stage design consisting of a hollow fiber membrane to remove pathogens and other small particulates combined with an activated carbon element that reduces chemicals, tastes, and odors. While the Thru-Link filter is new to the commercial market as of spring 2020, MSR has been supplying this filter design to the U.S. ![]() ![]() This isn’t ideal but in a pinch will save you some stress. Save the Excel Sheet as a web page and links will work. Now when you save as Adobe PDF, your links will remain active: Don’t have Adobe Acrobat? Paste into blank Word document, then copy all values (not the whole table, just the column) Back in Excel, select the original column values, and paste the new values copied from Word in their place The Excel will save this sheet on your desired. Free Excel to PDF Converter is a helpful, free to use utility program. Step 3 Please enter the name of the PDF that you want to save it with. To get just the hyperlinks from our formula, we can copy values from Excel and paste into Word, then copy from Word and paste back into Excel (keeping source formatting). Convert your spreadsheets to PDF fast and free. Printing to PDF will require that your hyperlinks are properly written before conversion (http… or https…). ![]() If you’re using the hyperlink formula, as seen below, we’ll need to do some manipulation to our sheet first. You can also use the Acrobat tab in the ribbon and click “Create PDF”. Just drag and drop a workbook or upload an Excel document from your saved folders. Fast Excel to PDF conversion Convert from Excel to a new PDF in a matter of seconds. Download the converted worksheet or sign in to share your converted file. Once you converted a document to PDF you. Use Adobe Acrobat online services to convert any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file into a PDF document. ![]() ![]() To do this, open the Excel document and then click on the File tab. Just use the Acrobat add-in to save as Adobe PDF.įile –> Save as Adobe PDF –> Convert to PDF. PDF convert to excel (or PCC) is a free PDF change editor that is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android. Another way to convert Excel to PDF is to use the Adobe Acrobat software. If you do have Adobe, it’s quite simple unless you’re using the HYPERLINK() formula (see below). If you don’t have it, please skip down to the bottom of this post to the “Don’t have Adobe Acrobat?” section. To be able to maintain hyperlinks you will need Adobe Acrobat. If you have hyperlinks in your excel files and need to save your file as a PDF, you’ve probably run into the error in which your hyperlinks in the PDF output are inactive. ![]() ![]() But if they’re still in business that’s probably where our next local dim sum meal will be. We never went back mostly because the rest of the experience was not very exciting (almost no one else there, a small selection). We quite liked our couple of meals there a few years ago (though I only wrote up one). That leaves A&L Chinese in Inver Grove Heights. And unless someone whose experience I have good reason to trust tells me that Mandarin Kitchen has improved dramatically, we’re not going back there either*. In the past we’ve paid more here than we would at far better places in L.A and that always stung a little extra. The only “good” thing I can say about this is that it only set us back about $19/head (counting our brats as one person) with tax and tip. Terrible food deserves terrible photographs and here are my phone camera’s offerings. In the category of disaster fell the chicken feet (utterly flabby), the congee (watery), the beancurd rolls (sickly sweet), the seaweed salad (also overly sweet) and pretty much all the other dumplings (stuck either to the steamers or to each other congealed wrappers dry or all of the above). The pan-fried turnip cakes weren’t a disaster either (though they were also not very good). Into this category fell the steamed tripe (which was piping hot), the shrimp and pork shiu mai and the sticky rice in lotus leaf. We got a wide range of things-sticking mostly to the steamed end of things-and only a few were acceptable. Unfortunate, because by the time most carts got there, the things they carried had become congealed and dry and also because not everything seemed to get there. They have three dining rooms and, unfortunately, we got seated in the largest one at the front. We got there at about 11 am and it took about half an hour to get a table for six (you can get a sense of the scrum from the pictures below). I am sorry to say that not only did our opinion of Twin Cities dim sum not improve from the experience but our opinion of Yangtze also took a hit.ĭespite the weather, they were packed. And we were hoping that maybe in the time since our last visit things had in fact improved. Well, my parents were recently in town and since, as I’ve said before, even fourth rate American dim sum is better than what’s available in Delhi, we made the drive (in pouring rain). (Our last meal at Mandarin Kitchen was atrocious.) But it’s not like we like Yangtze enough to make the near two hour round-trip trek unless we have guests who really want to go. ![]() And that best dim sum here, in our opinion then, was at Yangtze. Not only was it not on par in 2014 with dim sum in Denver more than 10 years ago but compared to that in cities in the US with significant Chinese populations, the best dim sum here seemed fourth rate. ![]() There’s a tendency among a subset of Twin Cities foodies and journalists to inflate the state of the local food scene and I took issue then with the notion that dim sum in the Twin Cities deserved high praise. I wrote up dim sum at Yangtze a few years ago in my first post on dim sum in the Twin Cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Searching for games similar to Homeworld Remastered Collection can be a good transition that may help you discover new franchises and new playing styles. We hear your struggle and decided to create this page. However, just because you’re fed up with Homeworld Remastered Collection doesn’t mean you are ready to try a completely new type of gameplay or genre. We either reach every single achievement, explore every single corner of the map, or get tired of the game trying. Good things in this world come to an end, even the longest, most replayable installments. In your case, you started looking for games like Homeworld Remastered Collection and found a perfect source. Sometimes we just can’t get enough of certain titles, even after we finish them through and through. They weren't able to make it work technically, and when we started talking about Homeworld 3, we were inspired by that idea, but were also inspired by what we were doing on Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.What games to play if you like Homeworld Remastered Collection? "This idea of space terrain and this idea of these massive large-scale megaliths that a player could interact with. "They showed this feature and they ended up cutting it later," McGuire said. The camera swings in close alongside fighters and bombers, detailing an almost Star Wars-style trench run on the final objective, turrets blazing away in defiance of the attacking waves of enemy ships. That 21-year-old demo reel, still available on YouTube in various places, shows an assault on a large orbital structure much like the one seen in this week's trailer. "One of the things we were heavily inspired by," McGuire said in an interview with Polygon, "was one of the ideas that they had originally for Homeworld 2 back in - this would have been like 2001." But, to hear Blackbird Interactive's chief creative officer Rory McGuire tell it, it's actually more like Homeworld the way I imagined it. This is Homeworld the way I remember it, with its signature three-dimensional space combat lighting up the darkness on my computer screen. ![]() Polygon played the level shown in that video - remotely, mind you, and without the final bits of graphical flourish like ray tracing - but the experience was nonetheless stunning. And what really comes through for me is space.Ī new trailer for Homeworld 3 arrived on Tuesday, showing spacecraft large and small duking it out over the wreckage of massive orbital structures. It's as though the faff of the old games has been tidied away - but not sacrificed - to enable the exciting parts of the formula to come through. And it's fun.Īnd those two words "it's fun" are crucial to what Homeworld 3 is about. They are not dumb: they won't fly into walls and scenery if you leave them unattended. They will make trench-runs on their own with only a simple instruction - trench-runs! They'll fly through huge engine shafts of colossal wrecks on their own - peekaboo! They'll even use nearby cover automatically while preparing for another attack run. No fussy controls govern it your cursor shows how ships will interact with a piece of scenery and then they do. I'm over here - no not really, I'm over here! And I've played Homeworld 3 for about an hour and the idea really works. They can handle this big idea of using space wreckage as cover to hide behind, fly through, sneak around - use it like a theatrical set you can play tricks on your opponents with. Computers just couldn't handle it at the time.īut now they can. ![]() And actually, to hear Rob Cunningham tell it in our interview below - he who helped dream up Homeworld and co-founded Relic, and now leads Blackbird, the studio making Homeworld 3 - this game is actually what they always wanted Homeworld 2 to be. It's the real-time strategy series you remember and, probably, what you want it to be now. Homeworld is back: that's Homeworld 3 in a nutshell. ![]() ![]() ![]() MuseScore supports a variety of file formats for importing and exporting scores.įor importing, MuseScore opens files in the following formats:įor exporting, MuseScore exports files in the following formats: Which File Formats Does MuseScore Support? ![]() Additionally, it is possible to convert an MP3 or WAV file into sheet music full walkthrough by using MuseScore or one of the other software programs. Other than MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, Dorico, Audacity, or AnthemScore also creates sheet music. It typically consists of a musical notation and lyrics, if the piece has any, written on a staff, which is a set of five lines and four spaces that represent different pitches. Sheet music is a written representation of music. The software is useful for ear training and getting used to music theory for beginners. The subscribers of the software are mainly songwriters. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. MuseScore also includes a built-in synthesizer and a range of sound fonts that can be used to play back the music. It includes support for common music symbols and notation, a wide range of templates and layouts, and the ability to export to various file formats. It provides a wide range of features for creating and editing music notation. MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software that allows users to create, edit, and share sheet music. Here’s how to transcribe audio with MuseScore! What is MuseScore? It’s open source, cross-platform, and in multiple languages. Free sheet music creation, playback, and printing. ![]() ![]() Then it's almost smooth, and you have a tiny bit of screen tearing (not really tearing but it looks like it a bit) fixed 1 cm on the bottom of your screen (more like a tiny line when you move around). ![]() The solution i have found acceptable for myself is to set gettickcount to 1 and set my monitor refreshrate to 50Hz, and my Fps cap (in stutter remover ini file, NOT in ENB or AMD settings !!) to 60Fps, If you disable the gettickcount, the camera will never go out of alignment but you get microstutter. It is most likely a Gamebryo fault, so you'd have to device a workaround for that, as in, control the position of the camera, someone like the guy from enhanced camera could probably make that happen in a fose plugin, or you might be able to edit the animations and remove the camera positioning from the animation or something like that.īeen testing stuff for a few days, FNV and FO3's Stutter remover suffer from the same problem, when (in the older version) bFi圆4Hertz = 1 or (in the latest version) GetTickCount = 1, the camera starts to drop IF your FPS is the same as your monitor's refreshrate, if they differ, the camera stays aligned at all times. It isn't related to stutter remover, cause if you limit your fps with other software then stutter remover, it works fine too. It looks to me like the animations are not completely played out and blend into the next iteration too early, but i also know that when it starts you only have to aim and move your mouse up and down and you see it drop down pixel by pixel with every move you make, and it only stops when you limit your fps again below 60, i tested it with ENB limiter, cause you can enable disable that while playing.Īlso, if you play for a while without limiter, after a while in first person you get smaller and smaller, but if you then go into 3rd person you see that the player's scale is ok, it's just that the first person camera has dropped. So making sure the FPS never reaches 60 fps would ensure it won't happen, someone said 54 fps limiter, but 56 is also good, cause every limiter has a slight variance in framerate, so if you'd set it to 58, it would occasionally touch 60 fps, and then it can happen again. What i also know is that when Bethesda's gamebryo engine goes above 60 fps, you are going to get nasty bugs in the game, every single Bethesda Gamebryo game does it. I have no solution as of yet, but i do know that the camera slowly shifts up or down (mostly down) and it seems related to the aiming animations, cause they hold camera position info for the guns. I still had a solid 60.0fps from ENBoost but still had the drift.Īny ideas? Is this mysterious 54fps backed up by something solid? Edited Januby DanielCoffey Since I knew that ENBoost also had a FPS lock, I disabled the FPS Manager of the Stutter Remover completely (bManageFPS = 0) in the hope this would resolve the issue but it did not. I have seen folks say to either disable Stutter Remover or lower its framerate lock to 54fps (which seems an unusual and somewhat arbitrary number to choose). Anecdotal evidence suggested it was something to do with the framerate lock in the Stutter Remover. The short term solution appears to be to un-equip and re-equip the weapon in the PipBoy then the sighting issue is resolved for a little while longer. ![]() Rarely the gun model drifts down but more often it drifts up. The issue is that over time, the aiming point of a weapon when sighted drifts away from the true aiming point, often to the point where it obstructs what you are shooting at. ![]() ![]() I am having the issue of Iron Sights drifting from true over time as I play (not the hand sway that you can adjust in Gun Oil) and I wondered if there was a definitive way of dealing with it? ![]() ![]() Idk where this idea that certain festivals only bring real ravers and other festivals bring non ravers came from, there’s literally non ravers or new people to the scene at every festival, obviously hard summer is different but all the other insomniac. BOO! San Francisco ( October 28 – 29) #BOOSF:īOO! in San Francisco, CA, takes place Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Tickets are available now. Every event is going to have non ravers and pickpockets. BOO! Dallas ( October 21 – 22) #BOOTX:īOO! in Dallas, TX, takes place Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, at South Side Ballroom. ![]() 30, and will feature a lineup of of more than 65 dance music artists across four. The monstrous, spine-tingling lineups for each BOO! celebration are here below: Insomniac’s BOO! Festival 2015 via Facebook BOO! Phoenix ( October 15) #BOOAZ:īOO! in Phoenix, AZ, takes place Saturday, October 15, at Rawhide. Escape Halloween will return to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino on Friday, Oct. With such great success that Insomniac’s original Halloween massive ESCAPE has seen over the years, it comes without surprise that Insomniac has just announced that their newest Halloween festival BOO! will not only return to the Bay Area for Halloween 2016, but will also see an expansion to two new cities as well. Insomniac Events brings Halloween festival BOO! 2016 to Arizona and Texas BOO! 2016 Festival Lineups Headliners enjoyed monstrously massive music, dancing under the Halloween moon at this enchanting, costumed bash. Phone thief organized crime is constant and the surround area outside the venue is shady af. BOO! traveled to the opposite side of the country in 2015, finding a new home at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. 19 Actually-Yo-Momma 15 days ago Solid lineup but holy smokes i cannot stress enough how sketch NOS center area is. In 2016, the festival kept the name Escape: Psycho Circus. ![]() For those not familiar with Insomniac’s 2nd Halloween music festival, BOO! debuted the ghoulish affair in the Big Apple, New York City back in 2014. Escape Halloween 2016 Edit Escape Halloween 2016 Promoted By Insomniac Events Member Of Escape Halloween Contents 1 Lineup 1.1 Friday, October 28 1. The lineup included Adam Auburn, Eric Prydz, Joris Voorn, and Paul Van Dyk amongst many others. ![]() |