11/19/2023 0 Comments Pride of lions another tomorrow![]() This was indeed a special event as the only other people that had been allowed downstairs since the cub’s birth were the cast and crew from the Chronicles of Narnia movie. On one of these trips, I was given the unique privilege to go down into the bunker where the lion cages are to visit. Well, let’s just say that I’ve been quite a number of times and there are so many fabulous captures of these noble creatures at play. Knowing that they would stay small for only so long, another photo field trip was in order. It didn’t take long for me to become completely addicted to visiting and photographing the cubs. Harassing not only each other, but also their moms and dad the cubs played hard. The jubilance of the cubs didn’t disappoint. Within a week I was back down to visit the cubs once more in hopes of some better photographs. All of my photos were underexposed as I really didn’t know what I was doing. I must confess though, that this first outing to visit the lion cubs was a complete photographic disaster. ![]() ![]() Twelve o-clock hit and the large metal door slowly raised and the little cubs and their parents came bounding out ready to play. Scheduling a field trip January 2011 with my brand-new Canon 60d, my friend and I stumbled across the lion den and the awaiting crowd for the daily turnout of the full pride. Two sisters, Shera and Nababiep are Luke’s lovely ladies who generously provided seven healthy cubs in late summer of 2010. and his large pride of seven beautiful cubs. Meet King Luke, king of the jungle at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
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11/19/2023 0 Comments Best drill![]() The bare tool weighs 4.6 pounds and measures 8.0 inches across the head. Sweetening the deal, there’s kickback control, an innovative leveling feature, and it’s ready for a Connected Module if you want to add smart capabilities.Īll that performance is packed into a well-built housing that’s pretty beefy. 2200 RPM in high gear and 1330 in-lbs of torque in low gear set the stage while 30000 BPM helps you power through concrete drilling. Thanks to advanced battery and brushless motor technology, Bosch is joining the high-torque cordless drill group and its highest-performing model is the GBS 18V-1330C hammer drill. More Cordless Drill Recommendations From Brands We Trust Best Bosch Cordless Drill – 18V ProFactor GSB 18V-1330C Price: $329.00 kit with an 8.0Ah battery and charger Even though it doesn’t quite reach the same power level as the FlexVolt Advantage, you don’t need DeWalt’s most advanced batteries to run it. Excellent with a 5.0Ah battery, it steps up to a higher performance level if you use an 8.0Ah battery or higher. However, it’s the Power Detect DCD998 that we prefer. If you don’t mind some extra weight, the FlexVolt Advantage DCD999 takes your game to a new level when you use a FlexVolt battery but is perfectly happy with any 20V Max pack. If you’re a 20V Max 5.0Ah all-day everyday kind of person, the DCD996 is your best bet. DeWalt has three major high-performance drills and which one is the best for you depends on how you like to work and which batteries you use. ![]() Milwaukee and Flex take up our top two spots, but we’ve already talked about them and we’re making room for another outstanding option. Best 18V/20V Max Cordless Drill DeWalt 20V Max Power Detect Hammer Drill DCD998 For example, Makita’s 40V max XGT is a 10-cell system, operating at 40 maximum volts and 36 nominal volts. We’re also seeing a resurgence in higher voltage systems. Whether they design the tool for more runtime or more power, the extra cell really does offer an advantage. They run at 24 maximum volts and 21.6 nominal volts. Hilti’s 22V, Kobalt’s 24V, and Flex’s 24V are all 6-cell systems. That said, there are some brands that really do have more power. ![]() They both operate on 5-cell systems that combine to make 20V max when they’re at a full charge state and settle into an 18V nominal state once you use them a bit. When it comes to the creme de la creme, are you looking for the best 18V cordless drill or the best 20V cordless drill? Yes!ġ8V tools and 20V tools have the same voltage. Price $199.00 bare, $299.00 kit with two 5.0Ah batteries and a chargerīuy at Lowe’s The Best 18V Cordless Drill is the Best 20V Cordless Drill If you don’t need the hammer drill function, look for the drill driver version as model 2903. Want even more? Milwaukee’s One-Key customized controls, tracking, inventory management, and security features are on the 2906 model. In fact, this model earned our top pick as the best lightweight drill for heavy-duty use as well. Most importantly, Milwaukee makes its improvement while maintaining its compact 6.9-inch head length and with only a negligible increase in weight. ![]() The 4th generation also includes kickback control for the first time. The 2100 RPM top speed is an increase of 100 RPM and the hammer rate is 1000 BPM higher at 33000 BPM. It picks up 200 in-lbs of torque, now sitting at 1400 in-lbs. The performance picks up some ground across all three major categories. Milwaukee’s M18 Fuel hammer drill earns our recommendation as the best cordless drill overall thanks to improvements in its 4th generation model. 11/19/2023 0 Comments Snake up tilt hitboxIf two actual swords clank, such as Link and Marth's blades, a more realistic "ting" sound is heard. This collision is signified by a white "bubble", and in Melee, a distinct "ting" sound, as if swords are clanging, is also heard. When two ground attack hitboxes overlap, they will clank. As such, the majority of standard attacks, aerials, special attacks, and projectiles contain hitboxes with normal priority. Normal priority describes the set of rules that apply to normal attack hitboxes, that is, any attack hitbox that does not have a special property such as transcendent or trample. Mario's Fireball colliding with Sonic's neutral attack in Super Smash Bros. The term "priority" is often informally used to describe a move's general ability to beat other moves, due to factors such as its damage output, hitbox position, attack speed, non-vulnerable hurtboxes, or other properties. ![]() In addition, an attack that clanks is still dangerous to bystanders until rebound begins, even if it was entirely outprioritized by the opposing attack. For example, if one hitbox clanks with an enemy attack, the entire move clanks, regardless of how many other hitboxes would not have clanked. While the effects of priority are calculated based on individual hitboxes, the results are applied to the attacker as a whole. Certain hitboxes are also marked as being "cannot clank" or "cannot rebound", affecting their ability to cancel out (and be cancelled out by) opposing moves. The most common exception is aerial attacks, which usually can clank with projectiles, but not with ground attacks or other aerials, and cannot rebound at all. If one attack is much stronger than the other, it wins outright, and more often than not will continue on to strike the enemy stuck rebounding. If the attacks are roughly equal in strength - the difference in damage is 9% or less - then both characters rebound from the impact and pause for a moment before they can do anything else. Most commonly, when the hitboxes of two characters' attacks collide with each other, they clank, freezing both in place for a moment. Priority is the system that governs how opposing attacks interact with each other in the Super Smash Bros. ![]() The white "bubble" between Kirby and Pikachu's attacks indicates that two hitboxes have collided. 11/18/2023 0 Comments Amelie morgan ethnicity![]() Grace scores a career-best 9.975 on beam to finish with a career high 39.775 in the all-around! She scored a 9.90 or better on all four events (including a 9.950 or better on three) and recorded a career-high 9.975 on beam.Īlexa, play "Grace McCallum's Career Night" □️ McCallum was simply outstanding, the best she has been in a Utah leotard. No single routine won the competition for Utah, but there was a singular gymnast who stood out among the rest, even as her teammates had some of their best performances of the year. Hopefully it pays dividends down the road.” Defining moment “For them at home to go 198 and then two days later go 197.950, to have near mirror performances in terms of scores and in general. “From a fortitude standpoint, like we say in gymnastics or any sport, you want to get that mental toughness, and I think this (stretch) was a good prescription for the athletes,” Farden said. Perhaps most importantly, though, was the postseason preparation. ![]() Now that the rankings are based on National Qualifying Score (NQS), Utah’s score was good enough to move it from No. The Red Rocks had near season-best outings on balance beam, floor and vault, and the final team score was Utah’s best road score of the year. □ /H6fOsZj4vu- Utah Gymnastics February 22, 2022 Should’ve, could’ve, would’ve for that 198, but overall pleased.”įreshman Grace McCallum had the best all-around performance of her collegiate career with a 39.775, while seniors Sydney Soloski and Alexia Burch had standout showings on floor exercise and vault, respectively, picking up event wins.Īnother STICK and it's a career high 9.95 for Grace McCallum‼️ “Pleased with the overall performance of the night,” Utah head coach Tom Farden said. Last Friday, Utah recorded a season-high score of 198 in its win over Oregon State, and on Monday night, the Red Rocks were nearly as great, defeating Washington 197.950 to 197.275. Meets so close to each another provide Utah the opportunity to test both its physical and mental preparedness for what is to come. In both postseason competitions, meets occur on back-to-back days, so while the Friday-Monday meet combination doesn’t exactly mimic that experience, it does serve as a decent approximation. Vault - Alexia Burch (Utah), Grace McCallum (Utah) 9.950 Uneven bars - Geneva Thompson (Washington) 9.925 ![]() Team scores - Utah 197.950 Washington 197.275Īll-around - Grace McCallum (Utah) 39.775īalance beam - Grace McCallum (Utah) 9.975įloor exercise - Sydney Soloski (Utah) 9.975 11/18/2023 0 Comments Challenger skat pack logo![]() It’s quite interesting.īack to our story. So please, feel free to read up on that stuff, as I did. That said, the Challenger has an interesting backstory, as it was originally built on a modified platform and shared some Mercedes-Benz DNA because it was in development during the Daimler-Chrysler era. Originally, I was going to run through the Challenger’s history, which goes back to concept sketches first shown in 2005 but changed my mind because it’s ancient history, and the car we have now is what matters. The one shown here is a Shakedown Special Editon, which is the first of the Last Calls. ![]() A production variant of that car is expected to go on sale next year.īut in the meantime, Dodge is ensuring the current third-gen Challenger will go out with a bang thanks to the release of seven “Last Call” special editions. Like all automotive marques, Dodge’s future is electric, and they’ve indicated as much with the reveal of the Charger Daytona SRT, a pure electric concept first shown last summer. I’m not going to say those were my exact thoughts when I, for the last time, picked up a Challenger press car for a week’s worth of fun recently, but it was close enough.Īs you may have heard, 2023 marks the end of production for the Dodge Challenger, along with its sedan stablemates, the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300. Logic and common sense are tossed out the window and it’s time to go for a rip! Quit tying so hard.īut then you clunk its heavy driver’s side door shut, get comfortable in its bathtub environs, fire up one of its massive V8s, such as the 6.4-litre (392 cubic inch) HEMI, and the chortling of its deep bass exhaust fills the cabin – and your brain stem – with intense feelings of, “oh yeah!” and you forget how fundamentally absurd this car is. Ok dude, we get it – you’re the Captain America of muscle cars. Slab-sided, with tiny windows, massive wheels, and a long hood, but also little round headlights like eyes peeking out from under a pulled-down ballcap that say, “what are you looking at?”Įven among muscle car rivals from Ford and GM, the Dodge Challenger is the most out there, perhaps flexing a little too hard, leaning into its own prodigious power and badassery a bit too much, and reveling it its horsepower king status for a bit too long. This car is anachronism, and it has been that way since its inception. 11/18/2023 0 Comments Ax throwing joplin mo![]() We are looking for a Front End Associate to join our team and provide excellent customer service. The ideal candidate will have experience in retail, customer service, and cash handling. Responsibilities include greeting customers, assisting with product selection, providing accurate information about products, ringing up purchases, and maintaining the cleanliness of the store. Enchanting Eureka Springs Scavenger Hunt.Answer customer inquiries and provide accurate information.Greet customers and provide excellent customer service.The successful candidate will have strong communication skills, an outgoing personality, and a commitment to providing exceptional customer service. Take a break from throwing and enoy a beer on the patio near one of the fire pits, or shake things up with a game of cornhole or ping-pong. Maintain a clean and organized work area. Process payments and returns in a timely manner.Assist with stocking shelves, organizing merchandise, and other tasks as needed.This is a good bar to stop and have a cold one.friendly staff and patrons. Operate the cash register and other store equipment.PITTSBURG, Kan.–Michelle Fowler and her husband opened Main Street Axe Company in Pittsburg a year ago.The success of that location has inspired them to open a second location in Joplin. Half-Day Private Guided Mountain Bike Tour in Bentonville. “Clients are coming out from the Joplin area and we thought ‘Why not expand?'” Fowler explained. form at first because let's face it it's much more fun to ask throw if your axe actually sticks in. 7837 Gateway DrIve Neosho, Missouri 64850. Main Street Axe Company, Pittsburg, Kansas. There is a ramp at the JOPLIN Candy House and it is lots of fun to look around the store. 4,385 likes 37 talking about this 1,876 were here. The company gives people 21 and older the chance to try something new and throw an axe. ![]() When Fowler tried it for the first time on a vacation trip with her friends, she wanted others to experience it, too. Axe is a primarily Axe throwing focused company, but it will not be the first place in Joplin to offer the growing trend. “It’s so surprisingly fun that I knew other people would enjoy it and it’s been really rewarding and satisfying to show our community a fun time,” Fowler added. El Guapos Cigar Lounge provides the option as well. Get the latest local and national headlines straight to your email for free: Sign up here. Visitors can also enjoy playing skee-ball and ping pong and try several craft beers. Fowler wants her company to be just more than axe throwing - she wants to give the community a new local place to hang out and have some good old-fashioned fun. It’s simple, whoever scores more points, wins the duel. “A lot of us ended up driving half an hour, an hour, sometimes even two hours away to go do something fun for a day, so it seemed like a great opportunity to bring something fun to our community,” said Fowler. Either competed solo or as a team, and the event gave participants a fun and competitive challenge. 11/18/2023 0 Comments Mini metro 2The only problem is that I don't have access to the game source code so I can't know some of the very important details of the game. It would seem that the only way how I could refine solutions for the normal game mode would be to test them on accurate simulations of the game. The algorithm should be able to tell the user which of the items will maximize their metro plan efficiency better.Īt this point I will have an algorithm that produces working solution leading to high scores in the endless mode of the game where the passengers don't overcrowd the stations (which in normal mode would cause the game to terminate) and where it is possible to redesign the metro plan at any point from the bottom up. They can be tunnels, new lines (up to the maximum line limit), trains and train cars. There are certain times when the game allows users to choose one new addition to their inventory from given options. I will not consider tunnels and interchanges at this point. This is because there are usually multiple stations denoted by the same symbol and passengers don't care at which specific station they finish their journey - as long as the station has passenger's symbol.įinally I will introduce optimization of train and train car counts on each line, their timing and direction - to minimize the average time it takes to get from one station to another. I will add this new constraint to my algorithm.Īfter that I will attempt to minimize the distance between any two types of stations. This adds the issue of passengers not being able to reach a destination that lies on a different line that doesn't intersect with the line they're currently on. Then I will try to minimize sum of distances of multiple lines. At the beginning I will try to only minimize total distance of one line. it is also not known if passengers can get lost and travel forever.īefore trying to solve the game with all its nuances I will first attempt to intuitively solve parts of the problem that lead to the most robust solution. it is not known whether the passengers are able to decide their path based on its travel time or whether they choose first available train that will shorten distance between the passenger and their destination. passengers appear intelligent - they are capable of switching lines (if those lines intersect) to get to destinations that are not situated on the line(s) that their origin stations have available. ![]() distribution of passenger destinations at individual stations (may be completely random).distribution of passengers across station(may be completely random).distribution of stations on map by their symbol (may be completely random).distribution of stations by their symbol (squares, triangles and circles are much more common than stars, crosses, droplets).how fast new passengers arrive to their initial stations. ![]() What the metro designer may be able to infer: number of passengers waiting at a station and their individual destinations (denoted by a list station symbols).each station is marked on map by a symbol.location of stations and their distances between each other.What is available to the metro designer explicitly: the design results in as few congestions as possible. ![]()
11/18/2023 0 Comments Captin phillips streamHanks visited the real Captain Phillips in preparation, and the film was based on his personal account. Knowing that what happens actually took place, it only adds to the drama. Capitaine Phillips streaming VF en haute qualit HD 720, Full HD 1080, UHD 4K en ligne sans limte de temps. Most of the movie was filmed on a real ship over 60 days, which helps create constant thrills over two hours. Regarder Film Capitaine Phillips (2013) en streaming VF/VOSTFR Complet Gratuit sur votre Smartphone iOS (iPhone, iPad) et Android. Constant tension Bourne director Paul Greengrass is known for his dramatic documentary-style filmmaking, which works perfectly for the terrifying situation of being hijacked. ![]() Screen Time: Dallas Buyers Club, Taylor Swift and RoboCopĪbdi has got the plaudits, but fellow pirates Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdirahman and Mahat M Ali are also brilliant, as are crew members Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky and Corey Johnson.Ĥ. Information page about the biographical action movie Captain Phillips (starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman and more) on Netflix UK. He is genuinely menacing and commands the screen whenever he appears. It is quite possibly the best cinematic debut for a non-child actor ever. Go to to see the video catalog in United States. The film begins with Captain Richard Phillips and his crew embarking on a routine voyage from Oman to Mombasa. ![]() Tom Hanks Interview The Real Captain Phillips. Captain Phillips Tom Hanks & Paul Greengrass European Premiere Interview. Starring Tom Hanks as the titular character, the movie follows the story of the hijacking of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates. Paul Greengrass Interview Captain Phillips European Premiere. It has one of the best screen debuts of all timeīarkhad Abdi was deservedly nominated for an Oscar for playing pirate Muse. Captain Phillips is a riveting, action-packed drama based on true events that occurred in 2009. You will be rooting for him from start to finish, and he should've been nominated for an Oscar.Ģ. Captain Phillips Jason Bourne The Forever Purge. ![]() Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman. Four Somali pirates hijack a cargo ship and hold the captain hostage, setting the stage for an explosive confrontation with the U.S. Hanks is awesome in what is possibly his best dramatic role since 2002's Road To Perdition. Psychologische en spannende films, onopgeloste moorden en bizarre plottwist. Unavailable on an ad-supported plan due to licensing restrictions. Tom Hanks gives his best performance in years 11/18/2023 0 Comments Datediff athena awsThese functions are powerful tools for manipulating and analyzing time series data in Amazon Athena/Presto. ConclusionĬalculating time difference in Amazon Athena/Presto is straightforward once you understand the key functions like date_diff() and extract(). This will calculate the time difference in seconds and minutes from the TIME or DATE column time_data. ![]() SELECT ( extract ( minute FROM time_data ) * 60 + extract ( second FROM time_data )) as time_diff_seconds, extract ( minute FROM time_data ) as time_diff_minutes FROM your_table Here’s how to calculate the time difference: Now, let’s dive into how to calculate time difference in seconds and minutes.Ĭonsider a dataset with start_time and end_time column values in TIMESTAMP format. extract(field FROM source)Ĭalculating Time Difference in Seconds or Minutes ![]() The extract() function allows you to extract fields such as year, month, day, hour, minute, second from a date or time value. Here’s the syntax: date_diff(unit, timestamp1, timestamp2) It can be used to calculate the difference in various units like second, minute, hour, day, etc. The date_diff() function in Presto returns the difference between two dates, times, or timestamps. For calculating time difference, the key functions we will use are date_diff() and extract(). Presto provides a wide range of date and time functions to manipulate data. This article will guide you on how to calculate time difference in seconds and minutes using Amazon Athena/Presto. For data scientists and software engineers dealing with time series data, calculating time difference is a frequent requirement. So I really do actually need to create the table from the logs in the S3 bucket, and sort the date format out right at that point.| Miscellaneous How to Calculate Time Difference in Amazon Athena/PrestoĪmazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service, leverages Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to analyze data in Amazon S3. The connector also won't connect to Athena views, since I thought about making a view out of the table, and fixing the datatype there. And this cannot be based on my computed column where we are in a pucka timestamp format. My problem is that the Google Data Studio to AWS Athena connector selects the most recent data within a window that you specify, using an Athena table column that you specify. I am also able to cast the time field from text into a datetime format that Google Data Studio is happy with, and so I can query based on proper timestamps. I found an open source connector, which works a treat, and I am able to connect to the alb logs table. But my problem is complicated by the fact that I'm plugging into Athena from another system, namely Google Data Studio. This is great advice, and the queries listed above do work well when I need to query directly against the Athena table. Output: # "date_name","date_column","Todays_Date","difference" As mentioned above, you can achieve it using from_iso8601_timestamp. Select date_parse(lineitem_usagestartdate,'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Z') as lineitem_usagestartdateįor now, my preference would be to use date_parse for date-sensitive queries instead of modifying incoming Cost and Usage data. One alternative is to use date_parse in SQL statements that involve date operations. This is feasible, however I'd like to stay away as much as possible from altering incoming data since this will have an impact on other components that use CUR data and the code in this repo. If I declare the column as either DATE or TIMESTAMP, I get the following error when executing a query that uses that column: "HIVE_BAD_DATA: Error parsing field value '' for field 6: For input string: """Ī way around this issue would be to modify the text in incoming Cost and Usage records, such that timestamp columns can be parsed by Athena. Athena supports the followingįormats: TINYINT, SMALLINT, INT, BIGINT, BOOLEAN, DOUBLE ,STRING, TIMESTAMP, DECIMAL, DATE (not supported for PARQUET file_format) and VARCHAR.ĭate columns in the AWS Cost and Usage report come in the following format: '', which is not recognized by Athena when creating a table. I looked at some options and did some testing regarding this issue. 11/18/2023 0 Comments Best hands headset for iphoneThere are also several different sizes of tips included so you can tailor your headphones to your own preference. If some background noise during phone calls doesn’t bother you, this shouldn’t be a problem, but it’s something to consider if your primary use of these headphones would be for something requiring no disturbances.Īfter using these headphones for a full month, we found them to be so comfortable that we often forget we're wearing them. However, during the phone test, the person on the other end of our call could hear outside sounds. When listening to music at a low level, the active noise-canceling concealed all outside sounds, including the decibel tests with a baby screaming, a siren, subway sounds, and more. ![]() The sound quality isn’t as good during phone calls and it takes a few moments to turn them off and on.įor a pair of noise-canceling headphones at such an accessible price, we were impressed with the excellent sound projected from the Anker Soundcore Life P3 during testing. The Details: Up to 20 hours battery life | Up to 33 feet bluetooth range | Android and iOS Additionally, they're comfortable to wear, but when we moved around a bit, they didn’t feel as secure as some of the other headphones we tested. They're simple and easy to set up, but users will need to download the Bose app to take advantage of the headphones’ full functionality. Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa can work with these Bose headphones to allow hands-free assistance for answering texts or changing music selections. The right earcup has touch sensors to adjust the sound level and noise-canceling presets as well as power the headphones on and off. We wore these on a five-hour flight, and they were comfortable the whole time. Even after six months of use, we found these to have the best noise cancellation capabilities of any headphones we tested.Īlong with the great noise cancellation quality, we also love how slim the case is - those two qualities seem ideal for commuting to the office. There are 11 levels of passive and active noise-canceling on this Bose model, and when we used the headphones at the highest setting, we couldn’t even hear ourselves voice talking. ![]() Most notably, these headphones blocked almost all outside sound with their active noise-canceling feature turned on. The Bose Noise Canceling Headphones 700 earned the top spot on our list for the best noise-canceling headphones with superior performance across all of our testing categories. ![]() They didn't feel as secure on the head as other headphones we tested. If over-the-ear headphones aren’t your style preference, we also have versatile earbud recommendations as well as verdicts on the best multi-use and budget options. On top of that, they are exceptionally comfortable to wear and are easy to set up and use. These tried-and-true wireless headphones blew us away with the ability to silence any fracas with their active noise-canceling. The best noise-canceling headphones we tested are the Bose Noise Canceling Headphones 700. We listened to a series of noises at different frequencies, such as a screaming baby, an airplane cabin, and a siren, to discover which headphones truly have the most ear-saving power. We then also tested all of these headphones out in the real-world to guarantee the best results to guide you while you shop. We performed a series of tests that evaluated ease of use, functionality, comfort, and, of course, sound quality. In our New York City lab, we tested 27 pairs of noise-canceling headphones from the industry’s leading brands, including Apple, Samsung, and Jabra. ![]() Whether you can’t get enough of music, podcasts, or audiobooks, a pair of the best noise-canceling headphones can significantly improve the quality of your listening experience - especially if you’re traveling on a plane, commuting on a busy route, or working amid an abundance of background noise. |
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