Trust me, you have never, ever seen a wizard school like this. Thrilling and sexy, funny and shocking, deeply moving and very, very magical. Hand this to fans of Rowell, Harry Potter, love stories, and magic." - School Library Journal (starred review) ![]() "With rock-solid worldbuilding, a sweet and believable romance subplot, and satisfying ending, Carry On is a monumentally enjoyable reading experience. "Stock up on copies-this one begs to be reread." - Booklist (starred review) on Carry On "The funny, wised-up dialogue, the tumultuous, sweet, and sexy love story- is grade-A Rowell.almost impossible to put down." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Carry On " Carry On is the fantasy book I didn’t know I’d been waiting for for years.Rowell’s mystery, magic, and political intrigue is the sexiest love story I’ve read in a long time." -Julie Beck, for The Atlantic "Full of heart and humor, this fantastical tale is a worthy addition to the wizarding-school genre." - People Magazine on Carry On It’s as if Rowell turned the Harry Potter books inside out, and is showing us the marvelous, subversive stuffing inside." - Time Magazine on Carry On "It’s a brilliantly addictive, genuinely romantic story about teenagers who can’t be neatly sorted into houses, coping with stress and loss and the confusion of just trying to be who they are. The story is loosely inspired by the Harry Potter series and is a spinoff from Rowells other novel titled. The book features a gay romance between the protagonist Simon and his nemesis Tyrannus 'Baz' Basilton Grimm-Pitch. The story follows the final year of schooling for Simon Snow at Watford, a magical school in England. ![]() It's a powerful, politically minded allegory about sexual, ethnic and class identity - with a heady shot of teenage lust." - New York Times Book Review on Carry On Carry On is a young adult fantasy novel written by Rainbow Rowell. "Rowell imbues her magic with awe and spectacle. Carefully plotted, the book is a classic page-turner right to the open ending which, o frabjous day, promises a sequel to the sequel! One can hardly wait." - Booklist (Starred Review) on Wayward Son "At last! A sequel to Carry On.every fine as fine as the first.overall excellence of a book in which every vista pleases and every character delights.
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![]() This will allow you to buy 80 Premium Gold Packs, but it is usually worth waiting for Promo Packs to be released in the store before spending FIFA Points. ![]() You can buy bundles of FIFA Points together, with 12,000 Points costing £79.99/$99.99. Many people spend their own hard-earned cash to purchase FIFA Points on the store and open packs. How much real money would you need to spend to get 100m coins on FIFA? ![]() If you trade for 10 hours a day at this sort of profit, it will take 200 days to be able to afford the ultimate Ultimate Team. Many successful FIFA traders can make tens of thousands of coins every day and this process can earn you millions if you make the right investments.Įven still, if you are an excellent trader and make 50,000 coins every hour from flipping cards and monitoring the market, it will still take 2,000 hours to earn 100m coins. Trading is one of the best ways to make coins in FIFA 21, but it also requires you to put a lot of hours into buying and selling players or items on the transfer market. How long would it take to earn 100m coins through trading? If you played FIFA 21 all day, every day to reach 22,222 hours of gameplay, it will take 926 days and the rest of the world will already be playing FIFA 24. To earn 100m playing only matches, you will need to play over 22,222 hours of FIFA 21. Each game takes around 20 minutes when including load times, celebrations, replays and so on. That estimate includes weekly rewards from Squad Battles and Division Rivals, as well as Weekend League and the sales from players earned through reward packs.Īt 1,500 coins per game, you would need to play 66,667 games. Most people win as many games as they lose, so taking this into account, the average number of coins earned from each game is around 1,500 coins. ![]() Playing matches in FIFA 21 is not a great way to earn coins, unless you are unbeatable and can finish with 30 or more wins every weekend in FUT Champions. How many FUT games do you need to play to earn 100m coins?Īs you would imagine, 100m coins is a lot of coins! However, even if you lower your budget, a team filled with players rated 94 or higher will still set you back a pretty penny. Team of the Year players are more affordable, with both Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe costing less than 8 million coins. Obviously, depending on your playing style, which players you include in your dream team will vary, but most people will choose the game's highest-rated players, including Icon Pele and Icon Diego Maradona.īoth of these players cost over 7 million coins in the game, but some others such as Ronaldo and Paolo Maldini cost over 10 million coins each across the PlayStation, Xbox and PC markets. The best team in FIFA Ultimate Team costs around 100 million coins to purchase. How much does the best team cost in Ultimate Team?
![]() The $70 per year version offers Office for a single person, while the $100 per year subscription offers Office for up to six people. Microsoft 365 Home subscriptions are meant to be shared among multiple people. You’ll need a paid subscription to get document-editing capabilities an iPad Pro or newer 10.2-inch iPads. In practice, this means Word, Excel, and PowerPoint offer a full experience for free on the iPad Mini and older 9.7-inch iPads. On an iPad or Android tablet, these apps will only let you create and edit documents if you have a “device with a screen size smaller than 10.1 inches.” On a larger tablet, you can install these apps to view documents, but you’ll need a paid subscription to create and edit them. On an iPhone or Android phone, you can download the Office mobile apps to open, create, and edit documents for free. Microsoft’s Office apps are free on smartphones, too. Try the Mobile Apps on Phones and Small iPads Check with your educational institution-or at least look on its website-for more details. You’ll be offered a free download if it’s available to you through your school’s plan.Įven if a university or college doesn’t participate, it may offer Microsoft Office at a reduced cost to students and teachers through its bookstore. To find out if your school participates, head to the Office 365 Education website, and enter your school email address. Many educational institutions pay for Office 365 plans, allowing students and teachers to download the software for free. You might be able to take advantage of both offers for two months of free Microsoft Office access. Microsoft also offers free 30-day evaluations of Office 365 ProPlus, which is intended for businesses. They’ll each get access to the apps via their Microsoft account, and will have their own 1TB of storage for a combined 6TB of storage. ![]() You can share it with up to five other people. You’ll get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and 1TB of storage in OneDrive. This trial will give you full access to a Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) Home plan. ![]() You’ll also get access to the full versions of the apps on other platforms, including larger iPads. You can continue using Office for the rest of your free month after canceling.Īfter joining the trial, you can download full versions of these Microsoft Office applications for Windows PCs and Macs. However, you can cancel your subscription at any time-even right after signing up-to ensure you won’t get billed. You will have to provide a credit card to sign up for the trial, and it will automatically renew after the month. To find this offer, head to Microsoft’s Try Office for free website, and sign up for the trial. If you just need Microsoft Office for a short period of time, you can sign up for a one-month free trial. But they do offer surprisingly powerful Office applications, and they’re completely free. These applications aren’t quite as full featured as the classic Office desktop applications for Windows and Mac, and you can’t access them offline. Office’s web applications have some limitations. It will be uploaded to your Microsoft account’s free OneDrive storage, and you can open it in the associated application. You can also drag and drop a file from your computer onto the page. Click an application icon-like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint-to open the web version of that application. To access these free web apps, just head to and sign in with a free Microsoft account. You can open and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents right in your browser. ![]() The web-based versions of Office are simplified and won’t work offline, but they still offer a powerful editing experience. Whether you’re using a Windows 10 PC, Mac, or Chromebook, you can use Microsoft Office for free in a web browser. ![]() ![]() If Heaven's Neighbors is an example of his film making fingerprint, then Ghost Town was clearly not in his hands. So I cannot say for certain how much of an impact Kennedy had on the movie, but judging by the end product it wasn't much. Dean Teaster/West was the other co-director as well as being involved in the story as well as producing. ![]() And on Ghost Town he was only co-director. To be honest, Heaven's, according to the credits was written and directed by Kennedy. And it lacked that special touch that brought you in to the world that was created through the lens. The storyline suffers from horrible editing. The plot and characters are incredibly hard to follow. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for Ghost Town. Heaven's was a beautifully crafted story that tugged at your heart and stayed with you, rumbling around in the back of your mind for weeks. So naturally I kept my eyes open for anything Jeff Kennedy is associated with. I fell in love with the story Heaven's Neighors quite a while ago. By DJ Perry, Screenwriter "Ghost Town the movie" Being a lover of the western genre I think that we have told a story that will entertain many generations of people and with the re-opening of the "Ghost Town In The Sky" theme park we look forward to bright future built upon the past. This film builds on a regional theme where conflict was often fought over family honor versus land as often depicted in westerns due to the gold rushes and land acquisitions and expansions. This movie may well be the birth of a sub genre of the western known as "The Eastern." With a slight romantic edge this movie is chalked full of messages about love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption and sacrifice. These settlers were full of rich traditions and a true grit that allowed them to survive and thrive during the rugged 1800's period of US History often shown in western films. 210 Likes, 4 Comments - Ghost Town Brewing (ghosttownbrewing) on Instagram: Scumbag is for all the heroes eating Hot Pockets alone on Thanksgiving, just like last year. The movie paints a picture of this beautiful mountain region that was settled by the overseas Celtic people. This movie was created to offset many of the "Hillbilly" stereotypes often depicted with this area. Dean Teaster reprises the role of "Digger" made famous by his father. Former "Ghost Town Gunfighters" Robert Bradley once known as "The Apache Kid," Herbert Cowboy Coward "GrandPappy," and Harry Valentine "The Golden Voice of Ghost Town" play pivotal roles in the film as does Alaska Presley who was one of the original park founders. Many of the original actors have returned for roles in the film. This story combines actual family facts of the Teaster family fictionalized into a story that encompasses the best elements of the staged gunfights performed by the Legendary "Ghost Town Gunfighters" throughout the years at the park. The theme park was a large piece of the childhood happiness for Dean's family and many families since its opening in 1961. native Dean Teaster's tribute to his father Robert Doyle Teaster and "Ghost Town In The Sky" theme park. Dean Teaster's GHOST TOWN "The Movie", is a unique "Eastern" Western. ![]() I've used the plate functions in RISA to do FEA of glass handrails and cantilevered concrete stairs, its very easy to set those up though I've never tried them in STAAD. I have not used either for modal analysis or pushover analysis, we use Etabs for that usually. I think it was better for modeling the joint offsets and handling the enormous size of the model. We had to use Staad for that project, it was a client mandated thing. Later in my career, we got a contract to design some conveyor belts that, unlike buildings, were more like huge pieces of machinery. It sounds like a lot of work but all those steps go very quick using a combination of the graphic input and the table/spreadsheets. At first that seemed like an unnecessary step. Then you have to define load cases, then input the loads, then define load combinations. In order to analyze a simple span beam in RISA, you have to draw the member and input the size, boundary conditions, etc. ![]() Then I started using RISA because it was what my new company used and I totally stopped using STAAD. Out of college i was very quick with the text input version of Staad, their graphic input module was pretty new at the time. Both programs can work well for both types of analysis but RISA definitely feels much simpler to me. as well as a wide range of sizes from the very small to the very large. If I need to build a very complicated model, I would use Staad. In the recent release of RISA-3D version 13, the Cold-Formed Steel code for the. I will also use it for a complicated structure as well. I'll even use it on a simple span beam that has non-uniform loading, especially if I want to check deflection. ![]() Its pretty quick to build and view all the inputs to make sure they look as you'd like them to. I like RISA better for a quick check on a multi-span beam. The AskEngineers Q2 thru Q4 2020 Salary SurveyĢ020 List of engineers willing to be interviewedĢ019 List of engineers willing to be interviewed Limit the use of engineering jokes.Ĭall for Engineers: Tell us about your job! (16 July 2020) No low-effort one-liner comments, memes, or off-topic replies. Answers must contain an explanation using engineering logic, and assertions of fact must be supported by links to credible sources.īe substantive. Racism, sexism, or any other form of bigotry will not be tolerated.ĭon't answer if you aren't knowledgeable. All users are expected to behave with courtesy. Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, and Computer are reserved for technical questions only.Ĭareer must be used for all questions on career advice, salary, job market, etc.ĭiscussion can be used for general questions that apply to multiple disciplines, including some workplace topics.īe respectful to other users. Remember to flair your post.Īvoid questions that can easily be answered by searching on the internet. Post titles must be a question about engineering and provide context - be specific. Call for Engineers: Tell us about your job! (2020) New to AskEngineers? Read our subreddit rules and FAQ page before posting! Topic Filters ⇨ Exclude All Career Posts ![]() ![]() ![]() Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater-and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed-channeling their spirits, she claimed. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played.Įleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divin The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today.Īudiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon-and she gave them their money’s worth. The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. ![]() This feature can also mask out specific areas of component images and includes histogram clipping to adjust the displayed tonal range.I've been using Photoimpact 13 for many years, and it has worked fine under many versions of Windows, including Windows 10 until just recently. PhotoImpact updates its High Dynamic Range feature, which combines multiple exposures into a single image to brighten dark areas and darken lights in high-contrast photos it now compensates for movement between the bracketed original shots. The Browse manager displays EXIF information (camera and photo metadata), and there are several new filters specifically for digital photos, including improved Remove Red Eye, Touch Up, and Reduce Noise. Version 10.0 beefs up digital camera support with a wizard for downloading images from your digicam. PhotoImpact is equally at home with bitmap, vector, and text objects, and it has a full range of tools for assembling surprisingly complex documents. Of course, if you dislike the panels or want to maximize screen space, you can always close them and use the plain-vanilla menus and toolbars to adjust every aspect of your photo. Finally, EasyPalette also holds a nice selection of templates for instantly creating Web pages, slide shows, business cards, posters, and CD covers. If you switch to the Library by clicking a button at the top of the palette, you can drop in shapes, outlines, paths, masks, and images. ![]() The Galleries view lets you add a brain-bending number of special effects, including photo frames, fills, lighting, animation, text, deformations, and touch-up. There are two main views in EasyPalette: Galleries and Libraries. You can customize all the settings for each effect. We think this visual thumbnail approach is clever and especially appropriate for casual users and those who love to experiment. All effects may be easily fine-tuned by right-clicking it and adjusting the settings. To apply an effect or add an object, just double-click or drag the thumbnail onto the image. For example, if you choose Special Effects, it shows Engraving and Finger Paint among the options. When you select an entry, it shows the available choices as thumbnails to the right of the tree. The EasyPalette panel displays a neat tree structure of available items. You can save any command sequence in a macro to use again. This last panel is especially useful for repetitive work, as it holds common tasks and a history of all editing changes you've applied to an image. On the right side of the display is the hub of the interface: a set of panels for managing layers and documents, applying effects, and accessing Quick Commands. Arrayed along the top of the display are bars for changing tool settings and managing files.Īlthough the interface looks cluttered, it's configurable and easy to master. A standard toolbar on the left holds buttons for manipulating and adjusting images. Fortunately, they are logically arranged. When you load the program, you'll see what seems like a bazillion buttons and bars on the display. The UI is totally configurable customizing is just a matter of dragging buttons and toolbars around the screen, docking, or letting them float, depending on how you work. Ulead has fluffed up version 10.0's interface with dockable toolbars and panels, while retaining the unusual (and clever) visual thumbnails for applying effects. And three new selection tools make it easier to work with specific area of an image: Smart Lasso, which draws a selection border around complex objects Extract Object, to isolate an image element from a background and Match Background Color, for seamlessly merging an extracted element back into the image. For starters, there are photo frames, 17 new effects filters (Pen and Ink, Cartoon, and Engraving, to name just a few), and a new touch-up tool for subtly removing image defects. With version 10.0, Ulead adds a broad range of handy new features. Ulead PhotoImpact 10.0 is your basic terrific image editor. Having authority is not the same as being an authority. It’s draining, it’s demoralizing, it’s frightening-not always, but it can feel that way when we’re deep in the middle of it.Īppearances are deceiving. Doesn’t that count for something? The answer is no. I just spent four hours talking about this. Talking-listening to ourselves talk, performing foran audience-is almost like therapy. Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. Talking and doing fight for the same resources. In fact, many valuable endeavors we undertake are painfully difficult, whether it’s coding a new startup or mastering a craft. Sitting there, staring, mad at yourself, mad at the material because it doesn’t seem good enough and you don’t seem good enough. Writing, like so many creative acts, is hard. One might say that the ability to evaluate one’s own ability is the most important skill of all.ĭetachment is a sort of natural ego antidote.įacts are better than dreams, as Churchill put it. What replaces ego is humility, yes-but rock-hard humility and confidence.Īs Irving Berlin put it, “Talent is only the starting point.” The question is: Will you be able to make the most of it? Or will you be your own worst enemy? When we remove ego, we’re left with what is real. We can’t take or receive feedback if we are incapable of or uninterested in hearing from outside sources. We can’t improve the world if we don’t understand it or ourselves. We think something else is to blame for our problems (most often, other people). The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.The first principle is that you must not fool yourself-and you are the easiest person to fool.- RICHARD FEYNMAN In an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion, the battle against ego must be fought on many fronts. ![]() Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.” Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well. ![]() We meet fascinating figures such as George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who all reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. At every stage, ego holds us back.Įgo Is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. “While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” -from the prologue The instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller ![]() Them having retconned Kagami wanting to be an NBA player is also an appreciated touch, it filled in Seeing them as normal, chill teens was pretty refreshing. The best part of the movie was seeing how the Generation of Miracles were no longer bloodthirsty psychopaths who'd stab someone with scissors. Just to get it out of the way: it's fair to call it a finale because it calls itself last game, as opposed to its manga counterpart that just called itself extra game, which was much more harder to be harsh on it for that reason. Last Game is a failure of a finale to the series. It's been a long wait to see this movie, but after watching it I can confirm that Kuroko no Basket: The Last Game is everything I hoped it would be and more. The ending is sort of open and emotionally wrenching, I gave a spoiler warning but I absolutely do not want to spoil this ending, but it was bittersweet but still absolutely perfect. Although I think 20 minutes for the introduction to Jabberwock was not necessary and it could have been done in less time, however there was never a point where I wanted to speed up the film to get to "the good stuff". The fact that there was also less focus on isolation play and every single character was assisting others showed that the Generation of Miracles has grown, because they stopped operating as a team when they were at Teiko.Īside from the game itself, I think the buildup and the ending were also substantial and necessary. Kise and Akashi get major focus in this game and honestly although everyone held their own, they are by far the MVPs of this game. Each of them gets adequate screentime and it truly feels like that nobody got shafted in this film which is something I thought the manga didn't do correctly as I was visably mad at Kagami and Aomine's misuse in the Extra Game manga but the get plenty of shine here. This movie is a love letter to Kagami and The Generation of Miracles. But this film is not about Jabberwock, it never was. But that's what makes them so easily detestable, I fucking HATE all of them, especially Nash and Nash's competence on the court and ability as a captain on par with Akashi just makes his horribleness even more infuriating. I don't think characters could be any more racist, basic or agenda driven than Jabberwock. The plot is pretty basic, a foreign team steamroll the D Team and basically disrespect the entire Japanese race and their athletic ability. Also the Engrish is fucking hilarious, classic KnB Engrish. Huge props to all of the Seiyuu's who voice the Generation of Miracles but specific props to Jason Silver's awesomely hammy performance as well as Hiroshi Kamiya for displaying Akashi's struggle with his identity and his weaknesses as a leader and overcoming that all in the span of the film. However the best thing about this movie by far is the voice performances. The insert songs by Granrodeo and Kensho Ono (especially the latter) are in sync perfectly with the action on screen, Kensho Ono's "Against The Wind" might be one of the most tonally relevant insert songs I've ever heard. The sound mixing is great, as there are certain moments like when they zoom in on Midorima's remote or whenever Akashi or Nash use the Emperor/Belial Eye that fit perfectly. Sound in The Last Game is stellar, the traditional blend of electric and metal in the OST from the series stays strong bringing pure tension to every scene. There are a lot of dynamic camera angles used especially when it comes to high level plays, characters' bodies move especially fluid when they are doing streetball like maneuvers. ![]() There are some still frames present, but these are edited well enough that they do not become an issue. The visual effects for this movie are fantastic, usage of "The Zone" and "Perfect Copy" have never looked so crisp and a lot of the plays that are used are animated brilliantly. The art of The Last Game is slightly different than the TV series with less notable shading and a lighter color palette, character designs look a lot sleeker and a lot of the Generation of Miracles members have had subtle changes to their appearances like Murasakibara's even longer hair or Midorima's combover. ![]() Considering that they decide to show The Last Game in movie format, time constraints were definitely one of my concerns, especially since the manga was extremely text heavy and was being published monthly,īut The Last Game delivered me the perfect last hurrah for the franchise that leaves me more content than even the TV series ending which I thought was stellar. I knew everything that would happen as I have read the manga previously, so this movie delivering what I want was more a question of adaptation than a question of the content itself. I love Kuroko no Basket, a lot, it's had a large personal effect on my life, and I've been waiting for the past 2 years for this movie as my most anticipated piece of media. |
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