![]() ![]() May this be the start of some good things to come. Thank you to the community, the developers and the people that supported brought this into high definition so that I can enjoy a past experience with some modern conveniences. Frank Klepacki and the Tiberian Sons are great. The star however of this game is the music. Act of War: Direct Action Act of War: Direct Action is a geopolitical thriller. ![]() Here are eight great real-time strategy games like C&C. Most games mentioned in this article share a few traits with the original RTS game, including gameplay, plot, and tactical features. From the upgrading of the original installation sequences to the AI path finding issues this is true to what the original Command and Conquer and Red Alert games were with some much-needed graphics and UI improvements. Quite a few Command-and-Conquer -like games have been released for the PC. This is a classic game with some of its original faults improved so that you can enjoy the original experience and tap into the nostalgia. Could EA ruin this again with their greed and corporate culture and modern micro transaction monetization? Luckily the producer, Jim Vassella in charge of this did not and he stayed in contact with the community and understood what we wanted. C&C 4 was so bad that I have yet to finish the game to this day! It was thus with suspicion that I approached this C&C Tiberian Dawn remaster. Later years I ran 7 consecutive gaming competitions with Command & Conquer & Battle for Middle Earth at the South African RAGE (Really Awesome Gaming Expo). I still long for just that type of game-play, music, atmosphere. Supported every Command and Conquer game since. Got home, hardly greeted my parents, installed Command & Conquer and played through the night until I could not keep my eyes open anymore. On the plane back to South Africa I read the manual over and over. Begging and convincing my sister that we should scrape every penny together to buy Command & Conquer (she still teases me to this day - I chose a game rather than explore London more). A game I played, and we could not buy in South Africa. In the window is this new game from the creators of Dune. When in London I walked down Oxford street and walk past this massive music and game store. About Command & Conquer Remastered Collection PC Command & Conquer and Red Alert defined the RTS genre 25 years ago and are now both fully remastered in 4k by. Flying to Europe for the first time to travel the Netherlands, France, Belgium and England on a 4-week trip. TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL WITH SOME LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS: Graphics Remaster 10 (looks great) Video Remaster 6 (It is a shame they did not have TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL WITH SOME LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS: Graphics Remaster 10 (looks great) Video Remaster 6 (It is a shame they did not have the original videos) Music Remaster 10 (This is just amazing!) Gameplay Remaster 9 (Good old C&C fun with a new interface, only AI path could be better) Extra Content 9 (Great extra content that I have not seen, played or listened to) Final Score 8.8 (Worth the money and great fun with a big dose of nostalgia) To understand my excitement, you have to put yourself in my shoes, As a white 16 year old South African coming out of the apartheid years in isolation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nobody wants diversity of school buildings. In 2022, it will be getting a new gym, five new classrooms and upgraded security on an additional, 5,000-square-foot floor. Millennium High School, in downtown Manhattan, is 32 percent white, with 1 percent of students English learners. More like DOE-given.Įven as Redwood was struggling to literally keep its lights on, NYC School Chancellor Richard Carranza was proudly posing for pictures at Millennium High School, one of those icky screened schools that he believes are immoral (now that his daughter has graduated from one). Please correct me if I’m wrong, but this seems to suggest that things like qualified teachers and well-maintained buildings (i.e., working lights and a minimum of roaches) are the exclusive, God-given right of “rich” schools? Integration could be a way to address disparities in both resources and academic achievement: Studies that show that attending diverse schools can help boost learning for all kinds of students and provide more access to resources like qualified teachers, and well-maintained buildings. “How can that be possible, while we sit here and discuss diversity?”… “Practically everything in the building that the students in ALL three schools use is broken, damaged or in disrepair with no signs of ever being repaired or replaced,” she wrote. She begged for help fixing the school’s auditorium lights, which were dark ahead of a student holiday show, and complained of roaches infesting the gym. Lorraine Reid, the PTA president of Redwood Middle School in Jamaica, recently wrote a desperate letter shared widely across District 28. The issues they were meant to address, however, aren’t going anywhere. In response to the intense pushback, the Community Education Council announced a delay in the public workshops scheduled to commence in January. And that families would be expected to fight for them. ![]() To many parents, the DOE was making it quite clear that educational resources are limited. Could it be that white students aren’t the magic cure-all they’ve been touted to be? That some schools can survive perfectly fine with just a sprinkling of them?) (It’s interesting to note that the second-highest-performing middle school in the district, Young Women’s Leadership School, Queens, is 41 percent black, 39 percent Asian and only 3 percent white. The Department of Education has engaged the consulting firm WXY Studio, which advised Brooklyn’s District 15 on making admissions at all middle schools unscreened, to work with District 28 on its integration plan.Ĭommunity meetings have been contentious, with parents arguing loudly over diluting school quality, busing 11-year-olds for long distances and the implication that the only way for students in the southern sector to get a good education is to head north. Lowest-scoring Redwood Middle School, which is 65 percent black, posts 22 percent of students testing at grade level in English and only 14 percent in math. While the district is quite diverse, the majority of white students attend middle schools in the northern end, while the majority of black students attend in the southern portion.įor example, the district’s top-ranked middle school (out of 13), Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School, with 25 percent black students, reports almost 90 percent of its population performing at grade level on state math and English Language Arts tests. In 2020, NYC’s school diversity battle came to Queens’s District 28. The New York City borough of Queens was declared the most racially and ethnically diverse of all large counties - those with over 1 million residents - in the United States in 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Start with your white base layer (again). Mira makes a very very light pink for the heel and toes of her Vans as she wants to add some creative flavor. We suggest working with your brushes on paper before committing to your canvas shoes. Notice Mira starts to use a different tone when painting around the shoelace holes.Īs you practice more, you’ll become more comfortable with various brushes in different situations. Adding tones to your design adds depth and taste.Īs we’ve said before. Then, Mira makes a lighter mint color by adding more white. Once the edges of your section are outlined, you can fill it in fully. Don’t bleed one section into another unless it is intended. This makes it very elementary in that your goal is to stay within the lines when you paint. Step 3: Paint the edges with your prepared base color Notice here, Mira is mixing for a lighter teal color. Acrylic leather paint can work on multiple surfaces including canvas. Note: As you can see, Mira is using Angelus acrylic leather paint. ![]() After that, you might mix colors to come up with a unique base like seen below. Most people will start with a white base layer. This is particularly true for your base color. On every pair of shoes you paint, you’ll want to start with the lightest color paint and work darker. To be safe, we advise taking the laces out at the beginning. With a steady hand, you can skip this step but there is no worse feeling than lightly getting your laces with paint. Taking the laces out of the shoes is precautionary. One thing is sure, acrylic paint works the best. Whether you want our favorite (Angelus Acrylic paint) or glitter paint for shoes, the options are out there. When it comes to what paint to use on shoes, there are dozens of options. Acrylic paint (Angelus is our favorite).So, are you ready to learn how to paint shoes? Let’s start with the basics. If you would like to peek through her Etsy shop, we highly recommend it! We could spend hours making these tutorials, but thankfully, we have help! Mira Byler was one of our inspirations as we got started on our journey. Our favorite part about DIY shoes paint is that it is so much fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() The answer? It’s not so hard!Īnyone can paint shoes whether it’s leather or how to paint canvas shoes. Provenance Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between September and November 1886 after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Mesdag Museum, The Hague, 1926 given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931 transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962 agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962 given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.Many are starting to wonder the difficulty of how to paint shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rev Live Captions will automatically join your Meeting soon after, and all Meeting participants will see a red “LIVE” indicator in the upper left corner of the Zoom window. ![]() Start a Zoom Meeting as the Zoom Host.Disabling other live streaming services at the account level is not required to use Rev Live Captions, but may be useful to prevent unwanted interference. ![]() Note: Zoom allows only one live streaming service for any given meeting. Leave the “specific instructions” input box blank. Then, click the check box next to “Custom Live Streaming Service”.
![]() ![]() Not only do your birds benefit from the health advantages of being outdoors, but this is the ultimate ventilation system. For those with space enough in their yard, an outdoor aviary is the ideal solution.It also works twice as hard and will need more frequent filter replacement. I choose to run mine in the same room as my cockatoos because it eliminates the mess in that room. You can select to keep it in the room with your dusty bird to catch dander as it is shed, or you can keep it in the room with your macaw to catch the dander that escapes into that room. It has been running 24/7 now for several years and I have only great things to say this product. Mist the cage bottom 2-3 times a day with water to help keep the dander in place in between liner changes. The wind created will force the dander that has settled on the cage bottom into the air. Birds often flap their wings vigorously in the cages for exercise. Use a spray bottle to mist the cage liner.Brooms and the sweeping motion will send particulates up into the air. Use a vacuum cleaner with a flitration system to clean the floor and surrounding areas. This is yet another good reason to use paper cage liners instead. If you are using wood chips or other popular litter, frequent changing can become expensive. The more often you bathe your bird, the more dust that will rinse down the drain and the less that will enter the environment. Bathe your dusty birds frequently! Powder down dust that is not shed onto the ground and into the air is spread throughout the feathers during preening creating a water-resistancey.To further protect your macaw, follow these precautions: However, powder down dust will insinute itself into every crack and crevice and will travel through your home’s air system with ease. ![]() If you own a macaw AND a dusty old world bird, it is recommended that you keep them housed in separate rooms. The cockatoo is very loving and needy but t. I have a Molucan cockatoo and a Harlequin Macaw and their personalities are as different as night and day. At this point, however, your bird is very ill and may have developed other issues resulted from the low oxygenation of cells. Answer (1 of 6): The answers are all correct, both are parrots just different species is all and theres thousands of different species out there. Of the macaws, the blue and gold macaw has shown itself to be most at risk.Īn initial indication of an arising problem is wheezing, which is followed by coughing and difficulty breathing as disease progresses. Macaws are very sensitive to airborn particulates and more easily develop respiratory issues and pulmonary disease with continued exposure to powder down dust. Over recent years, veterinarians started to discover that serious, life threatening diseases were developing in macaws who shared living quarters with a dusty, Old World bird. Of my 5 birds, 4 are of the dusty variety. Anyone who owns one or more of these birds will attest to the intensity of the mess they create. Three very popular parrot species that produce powder down are the african grey, the cockatoo and the cockatiel. The keratin sheaths that surround these emerging feathers break down into a fine, powdery substance that is more pervasive in the home and air space than the granular dander that is produced by New World species. One of the hybrids resembled Major Mitchell’s while the resembled Galah cockatoo.One of those differences is that some Old World species produce powder down feathers. Someone who bred Major Mitchell’s cockatoo and Galah cockatoo shared these images showing how their hybrids looked different from each other. 2 – Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo and Galah Cockatoo Hybrids It is smaller than a Sulphur cockatoo but greater than a Galah cockatoo. It looks similar to both species, it has a color pattern similar to Galah but shape similar to the Sulphur cockatoo. It is a hybrid of Galah Cockatoo and Sulphur Crested cockatoo. This hybrid is one of the rarest species on the Planet.
![]() ![]() ![]() Note that the browser may not do the best job of guarding your privacy and data. The free UC Browser for Android wants to be much more than a web browser, looking to be your one-stop for news you're interested in - from cricket scores to local weather. Lots of ads: A frequent complaint in Google Play reviews for the browser is the app is overrun with ads. The web browser was restored to the store later in the year. Google pulled the browser from its Play Store in the fall of 2017 for not being in line with its policies, the company said. One security group, in particular identified "a series of major security and privacy issues in the English language and Chinese language editions of the Android version of UC Browser." May not be protecting your data and privacy: Several security firms and universities report the UC Browser may be leaking your data and otherwise violating your privacy. ![]() Throwback to when a search engine was also a home page: The browser offers a wealth of customization that lets you set up the browser to display helpful information, from live cricket scores and news to a daily horoscope.įocus on video: The browser categorizes video to help you browse through clips with ease and even lets you pop out the video player so you can keep browsing as a video plays. ★Night Mode: Switch to night mode on UC Browser to read more comfortably at night.įor help & feedback, please contact our help center (open in UC).One of the most-downloaded web browsers in the Google Play Store, the free UC Browser for Android includes data-saving and video-watching tools as well as live cricket updates and news. UC Browser always finds the way to increase your network speed. ★Facebook Mode: This unique feature speeds up Facebook regardless of your network condition. Incognito mode makes your browsing and watching experience perfectly private and secret. ★Incognito Mode: Browsing without leaving any history, cookies, caches, etc. ★Smooth Video playing: With the self-developed video player and unique technology, UC Browser provides you with an excellent video playback experience. It helps you visit webpages Ad-Free on your android devices. ★Ad Block: Ad block functionality blocks different forms of ads that affect your browsing experience. The more you browse, the more data you can save with UC Browser. ★Data Saving: UC Browser compresses data, speeds up navigation and helps you save a lot of cellular data traffic. You can enjoy listening to the videos when you are doing other things with the phone. ★Video Playing in Background: Videos can be played in the background easily with just one tap. ★Small Window Mode: Our small window mode enables the video window to be moved apart from the webpage, and hanged on top of the screen, while you expect to chat with friends, shop online or participate in other activities without video watching interruption. You can even enjoy the fun of watching unfinished videos without waiting until the download completes. It takes less time to download videos in UC Browser. ![]() If any disconnection or interruption occurs, UC Browser can continue downloading from the breakpoint. ★Fast Download: Our servers speed up and stabilize downloads. ★Upgraded Web Browsing Experience: The most recent version uses our unique self-developed U4 engine that performs 20% improvement in web connection, standard support, video watching experience, personal information security, stability, and storage management in comparison with our old versions. With the unique self-developed U4 engine and video player, UC Browser can provide you with a smooth experience no matter you are surfing, visiting websites, downloading files or watching videos. It is designed for an easy and excellent browsing experience. UC Browser is a fast, smart and secure web browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also know that a ton of Far Cry fans hate this entry in the series. I know this argument has probably been made before. This is a category that contains Far Cry 2 all by itself. Which leads me to the third category, and, in my opinion, the most rewarding and open-ended type of Far Cry game. For as much as those games eschew the traditional narrative structure, and in the case of Primal, the traditional way the player interacts with the world, neither strays too far from the basic mission structure, rewards, and feedback loops defined by Far Cry 3. I would also include Far Cry Primal and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in this latter category. This is the Far Cry most people recognize and flock to, the more open-ended first-person shooter that sees you as an everyman, (and always a man) dropped into an unfamiliar location in order to save someone or to set something right (or even as a byproduct of a thrill-seeking vacation, as is the case with Far Cry 3), only to be jettisoned into some sort of local upheaval and left to cull the tumult by any means necessary. This includes Far Cry 3 and every game after that, presumably including the upcoming Far Cry 6 (at least based on what I’ve seen so far). And that brings me to the second type of Far Cry game, which is very much what most people currently consider a Far Cry game to be nowadays. ![]() This was a fine stretch of games in its own right, but it by no means represents the formula we identify as Far Cry today. ![]() In this category I include all of the earlier games that adhered to the template or story structure of the original game, such as the Far Cry Instincts and Far Cry Predator titles. There is the old-school category, which includes the original Far Cry, the game that in so many ways set the template for the future of the franchise (which allegedly sprung from a tech demo called X-Isle: Dinosaur Island before a full-fledged Far Cry game would be commissioned). The way I see it, there are three types of Far Cry games. And for as much as Far Cry: Blood Dragon appeared to deliver a drastically different take on the formula, aside from the aesthetic overhaul, at its core it was still very much a traditional Far Cry game, albeit in a smaller, more self-contained, 1980s neon-fueled fever dream way. Of course, entries have built upon those that came before them, like Far Cry 3 adding “RPG lite” skill trees or Far Cry 4 adding new traversal tools like the grappling hook.įar Cry Primal is most notably the largest departure for the series, doing away with traditional gun-based FPS gameplay and turning the back the clock to prehistoric times (it did reuse the Far Cry 4 map, so there’s that). It’s one of those series where each entry is mostly the same in its DNA and execution, just slightly re-branded with differing locals and despots. I have played some version of every Far Cry game to date. ![]() ![]() This update brings a number of security fixes to the platform for all macOS users. March 8, 2021: Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.2.3Īpple has released the latest version of macOS Big Sur, 11.2.3. ![]() There are also updates to the About This Mac window, and autoplay is now an option in Apple Music. This update adds new sorting options for Reminders, as well as the option to use stereo HomePods as a default audio source. April 26, 2021: Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.3Īpple has released the latest version of macOS Big Sur, 11.3. This update adds security fixes to macOS. May 3, 2021: Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.3.1Īpple has released the latest version of macOS Big Sur, 11.3.1. This update adds support for paid subscriptions in the Podcasts app and fixes several bugs. May 24, 2021: Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.4Īpple has released the latest version of macOS Big Sur, 11.4.
![]() ![]() They can be used for all sorts of activities, from playing catch to practicing your shooting skills. They can be found for under $10, making them an affordable option for families on a budget. They’re gentle enough for toddlers, but challenging enough for older kids and adults.
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