![]() ![]() A media room allows you to enjoy the content before you without the distractions of other sounds or sights, from clattering in the kitchen to whatever is walking past the windows. To take your enjoyment of movies, shows, and console video game play up to the next level, you have to have a dedicated space for viewing or playing. That can make a big difference on a camping trip that encounters any kind of delays that could leave the kids feeling restless. ![]() Ultimately, though, it was hard to deny the supremacy of the Optoma CinemaX P1 4K, which probably has the best built-in speaker system of any projector I've ever reviewed, along with some of the deepest blacks and most naturalistic images I've encountered.Ī little farther down the list you'll find some very capable options for a bit less money, one of the coolest of which is the ViewSonic M1+, which boasts a battery that can outlast the average seen in most portable projectors to the tune of several hours. The BenQ HT3550 Home Theater is a great example of a model that's been upgraded to include true 4K performance. A lot of cheap projectors out there will put "4K" in their titles knowing full well that it only means they can process a 4K input fast enough to project it in whatever resolution (usually 1080p) the projector actually offers. We're seeing a few more 4K models available this time around, for example, and by that we mean true 4K, not just models with 4K inputs. In a fast-moving category like this one, it's no surprise to see that 100 percent of the models included on our last list have either been upgraded by new versions from their companies, or have had other products come out that beat them out in specifications. The Anker Nebula Solar is our favorite portable model at the moment, and the Vankyo V600 comes in as one of the best options for those who really don't want to spend much. Meanwhile, the Epson Home Cinema 2250 is relatively well priced, although it's limited to a 1080p output. The Epson EpiqVision LS500 is widely viewed as one of the best on the market, but it's not very economical for most people. The Optoma UHD50X is one of the top options for the money, but the Optoma UHD30 is so much less expensive that it's just about neck and neck in terms of price to performance ratio. There are more high-quality projectors to choose from than ever, but a couple brands definitely stand out above the rest right now.
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I cannot find any dictionaries that list this usage of the word "kite," at all. Yet where this meaning of "kite" came from is a mystery to me. And since medical requests in jails and prisons are made frequently, the word "kite" is an everyday word. It is used in jails and prisons, state and federal facilities, and both adult and juvenile facilities. The word "kite" is recognized all over the country from the Deep South to New England and the West Coast. ![]() It would be hard to exaggerate how common this term is. In my experience, usage of the slang term "kite" is almost universal in correctional facilities. "Kite" can also be a verb, as in: "I kited medical but haven't seen the doctor yet." "Kite" can be a noun, as in: "Fill out this kite." But if you hear someone refer to a specific make, a Cadillac, it's referencing a coffee with cream and lots of sugar. If you’re a fish, you’ll want to see if you can find a car that’s a good fit. A car in prison slang refers to a group of imprisoned people who exert heavy influence over various activities. ![]() No, people who are incarcerated do not have access to automobiles. Green’s dates its use as far back as 1918. Pruno refers to moonshine made by fermenting bread, water, and fruit or fruit peelings in a bag and then hiding it-sometimes in a toilet. The phrase got national recognition with the publication of Pete Earley’s The Hothouse: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison in 1992. When a person who is incarcerated gets upset and starts to destroy fixtures like toilets or sinks, they’re dubbed a porcelain termite. If you’re only in for a year, then you’re doing a bullet. If you have a life sentence without parole, you’ve got all day and a night. txking/iStock via Getty ImagesĬaught a life sentence? You’re in prison all day, a term used by those incarcerated in Australia as far back as 1910. Kiteīeing here 'all day' doesn't sound so bad. The term may have originated with the military, when enlisted men worried that a Jody would sweep their loved ones off their feet while they were away. When someone hooks up with an imprisoned person’s wife or girlfriend, they’re known as a Jody. Officials became suspicious when they noticed marijuana odor coming from his cell. One inmate in Lake County Correctional Facility in Florida managed to keister a cell phone as well as an MP3 player (and headphones), some marijuana, tobacco, and $140 in cash in 2011. While one would think a cavity search would negate any keistering, it is possible to shove contraband deep enough to be missed during an inspection. When someone who is incarcerated has a prohibited item and no place to hide it, they might keister (or keester) it, inserting it into their rear for safe-keeping. It is the outward proof that the poor guy who wears it has no friends.” 2. Green’s Dictionary of Slang dates the term’s published use back to 1933, when the memoir Limey: An Englishman Joins the Gangs by James Spenser was published: “The fish uniform is the pauper’s badge in San Quentin. While it could refer to their fresh status-as in fresh fish-it might also stem from the smelly, cheap ink once used to stamp an inmate’s booking numbers on their uniform. When a person convicted of a crime first arrives in prison, they’re designated a fish. Check out 19 slang terms that make up felonious discourse behind bars. Devising new twists on language and communication is a necessity. Linguist Julie Coleman told PBS News Hour that prison is virtually ideal for new slang to flourish: People are stuck in one place and talking, often hoping to avoid detection by eavesdropping guards. ![]() Many euphemisms exist for a state or federal prison stay-and once inside, inmates have to adopt a whole new jargon to navigate incarcerated life. ![]() Really the only two qualities I liked about this hotel was the bed was nice and the front desk staff my first night was very friendly. Why can’t people do the right thing? I just hope that this same thing doesn’t happen to the person that has my $5 nail file.… Yes, it’s only a $5 nail fine…BUT…it was given to me by my best friend right before she passed away in January 2019 with Coronavirus. Manager stated that if they find it, he would call us back. No call back, so we made a call at 7:10, explained what had happened. The gentleman on the phone stated that he was new and would tell the manager, which would be in at 7am. We were on the road, less than 1 hour, and called the front desk to ask if they could go into the room and retrieve my $5 nail file. I packed up and we left after handing in the hotel key. We needed to leave very early to get on the road for a 9 hour long drive (didn’t get a lot of sleep). I meant to pick it up right away, but got busy trying to get ready. I took a shower and noticed that my $5 nail file was laying on the floor (under my bag that was sitting on the luggage chair & next to the safe). Unbelievable how people are in today’s world. These folks should learn what customer service is, but i doubt by their looks and snide remarks(They thought we couldnt hear) i bet they wont. After a call to Hilton home service line, and Hiltons call to the hotel, we had our charges reversed and a new booking at a different property. The fact that they authorized it with confirmation was irrelevant. ![]() Front staff dug in their heels and refused based on "Policy says no changes /no refunds. the booking was non refund/no changes which we were ready to accept if they had said no, but they said they would and sent us a confirmation for our stay. We have an email with the name of the person who authorized it, they knew her by name, and still refused to honot their commitment. upon arrival, the front desk said we were a day late, the reservation was cancelled and the room charged. ![]() The staff at the hotel said she would authorized a manual change in the system for our stay. immediately called 3rd party site to attempt to change. 5 min after booking, realized date was off by one day. We had a 1 night reservation from a 3rd party site.
Is it hopeless to use mkfs.fat for this and i always have to use boschs or dd, then use the windows fdisk for this? Can you think of any linux alternative that can support the CHS at (1023/255/63) max scheme of the patch and calculate those parameters easily while outputting a formatted ready to use image file? 'logical sector size is 512' appears to map to 'bytes per sector'īut i believe 'sectors per cylinder', 'heads per cylinder' don't map to '32 sectors per track', '64 heads'Īnd who knows what 'cylinder count' maps to. I'm _pretty sure_ that those properties don't map to imgmount -size parameters without calculation. ![]() ![]() I'm using it like this -C to create the file, -F32 to create a fat32 (it might be that this is a different thing and i should always use -F16 even when i want the max 8gb img that patched dosbox supports?), -v for verbose (to get the -size parameters) and the expression at the end is the number of blocks on the image for 50 mb on host (which will be different on usable mb on guest, because the filesystem doesn't use 100% of the file space for free space and the definition of megabyte changed over time from base 2 to base 10, now a 'mb' is 1000 bytes, while before it was 1024):Ĭopy code to clipboard 1 $ mkfs.vfat -C -F32 -v a.img $(( (50 * 1000) ))ģ a.img has 64 heads and 32 sectors per track,Ħ using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 100000 sectors Ĩ filesystem has 2 32-bit FATs and 1 sector per cluster.ĩ FAT size is 769 sectors, and provides 98430 clusters.ġ1 Volume ID is a3b9dbe6, no volume label. It normally requires creating the image (with dd or boschs or something else), then imgmounting it in dosbox 'raw' with the -size parameters (which are hard to get), then run windows (possibly in another drive) or a bootdisk, and fdisk it with or without being vfat (in windows 95), creating the partition and finally rebooting and formatting to see the empty space and drive letter.Īnyway i thought i could use mkfs.fat to remove the need for fdisk and that first windows boot, but i need help to translate the created image properties to a usable 'size' for imgmount. Assume dosbox is patched with the 'small' patches for large hd images without imgmake (which wouldn't solve the fdisk requirement, which is what i really want to get rid of). ![]() So, i'm trying to make instructions to make it easier for 'normal users' to use dosbox to run windows 95 games in linux (yes yes heretical i know).Īnyway, a major complexity of this process is creating new image files and attaching them to windows as readable. ![]() They can be found all over North America, including Missouri. The Sharp-shinned Hawk is the smallest hawk in Canada and the United States. Learn more about the Red-shouldered hawk here. The biggest threat to this species is the clearing of wooded areas where they nest and breed. The population of Red-shouldered hawks has increased over the last 50 years in their range. Red-shouldered Hawks will commonly re-use the same nest year after year. They are known for living and nesting in wooded areas and forests. They eat mostly small mammals, other birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The Red-shouldered hawk is a year-round resident to southeastern Missouri, and much of the eastern half of the United States. Learn more about the Red-tailed Hawk here. Red-tailed Hawks are most active during the day or early morning and are commonly seen soaring above looking for prey with their amazing vision or perched along the roadside on telephone poles. These large hawks live in Missouri and most of North America all year long. This number accounts for about 90% of the global Red-tailed Hawk population. Red-tailed Hawks are the most common hawks around with almost 2 million nesting hawks in North America. Wanna know a little bit about where you can see them in Missouri and what they look like? Those species are the Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Northern Harrier and the Swainson’s Hawk. When it comes to hawks in Missouri, there are 9 different species that you may encounter. It can be a chore to search the internet trying to find what species of hawks live in your state. ![]() Raptors of all types are very interesting to me and I enjoy writing about them so I’ve been trying to cover as many states as possible recently. How many species can be found in the state, and a little bit about each one. In this article we’ll discuss hawks in Missouri. Due to different states having different climates and food sources for the various species, each state may have it’s own collection of hawks that live there at various times of the year. Depending on who you ask, there are up to 25 different species of hawks in the United States. ![]() It didn’t take long for it to become what is essentially a shadow of what it used to be. They didn’t completely rebuild the game, but it felt like with every patch, there was one less thing that made Realm special. Unfortunately, since 2018, the company behind Realm, Hi Rez began trying to mimic the successes of Fortnite instead of sticking to a unique path. They were both trying to cash in on the success of PUBG, and ultimately Fortnite won this race. I remember playing both games during the summer of 2018, and while I preferred Fortnite at the time, Realm Royale still had some charm that was undeniable. Regardless of the unique portions of this title, Realm Royale really feels like it fell apart after the release of Fortnite. You still have to rely on forging items and defending your position while they’re being made, which takes skill rather than pure luck. However, this definitely leads me to the point that the game is well balanced around abilities. ![]() Despite the fact that these were fun abilities overall, I didn’t find myself leaning on them too often – I’d often resort to gearing up with legendary weapons/runes/armor. Using these powers, the game involves some different aspects of strategizing and optimizing your loadouts. This can range from ‘flight’ using slinging spells, to deploying turrets, to even becoming invisible for a short time to surprise the opposition. ![]() Depending on the champion you’ve chosen, there are different abilities to wield that give you an edge over your enemies. Most notably, it is set in a world that is based on magic and fantasy that adds a few new elements to play around with. For Realm Royale, this is still mostly true, although there are some primary differences that set it apart from competitors. The main idea of a battle royale game is to find decent weapons (usually through luck), have a bit of third person shooting skills, and hoping you don’t get jumped from behind while outrunning the enclosing circle. ![]() Van Sickle, the current version of Van Sycklin - the name my Dutch ancestors brought to America in 1652 - was far too easy a target for the slew of Popsicle, icicle, and pickle jokes that followed me from the elementary school jungle gym to the sleek, locker-lined halls of middle school. If the nicknames Hannah-banana and Hanna-Barbera rolled off my adolescent back (in the ’80s, my peers and I kept company with Scooby-Doo, Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and the Smurfs on Saturday mornings), my surname made me want to slink from sight. Growing up, my name led to relentless teasing on the playground. My daughter’s chief concern, that the question could be awkward, evaporated when I flipped the script and showed her how easily a simple answer could spark meaningful conversation - the kind in which I wish someone had engaged me several decades ago. I paused for a moment, before nailing my response: “How about something simple, like, ‘My mom has her birth name, and I have my dad’s name,” I suggested before audibly exhaling at the ease of my answer. “I mean, I don’t always want to tell everyone about Cora or you and Dad,” she added, understandably. We were sitting around the dining room table, debriefing after a day at school, when the question came. The conversation in my house started with a really simple question: “What do I tell my friends when they want to know why we don’t have the same last name?” my then 14-year-old asked out of the blue. Turns out, my daughters associated the name change with their little sister’s death and parents’ subsequent divorce, and they were embarrassed - which is why I’ve placed lots of scaffolding around this super-important choice, not obligation, that myriad women face each day. So I slowly transitioned from my married surname, to a hyphenated surname, to my birth name - in a scant 24 months - which, I later learned, did not sit so well with some. As an English teacher I could have embraced Shakespeare’s stance: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.” But I wasn’t going for the 400-year-old attitude suggesting names are simply labels and do not hold worth or meaning. Minikits and Deadpool bricks (which provide power-ups and additional functionality) are also collectibles. Gold bricks can be obtained while exploring Manhattan, completing side missions and story mode levels, unlocking extra characters and bonus levels, and collecting Characters and Vehicles to gain different costumes and cars in Manhattankens. ![]() Other characters become accessible as you progress through the game, and others as you gather Gold Bricks. Each one has a plot narrated by Deadpool.Īt first, the only playable characters are Iron Man and Hulk, who Spider-Man eventually joins. You can enter Marvel-related buildings in New York. ![]() The game’s hub - containing well-known Marvel locations such as the Marvel HQ - and a series of self-contained story mode stages set beyond Earth in Asgard, Bifrost, and Asteroid M. The game universe consists of Manhattan as an explorable open world. 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Make sure you hold the cone in place long enough for the glue to stick. Use your choice of adhesive to secure the cone. Hold one of the quarter circles with the point at the top and wrap it around to form a cone. You can make four cones with each paper circle. Open the circle and cut the circle into quarters by following the crease lines. then fold it in half again, and crease it again. Fold the circle into four by first folding it in half then creasing it. Start by tracing your circular template onto the piece of paper then cut the circle out. ![]() You can also use any decorative paper that you already have or you can decorate plain paper before you start. You can make these project trees of any size. Start your tree with a simple paper cone which you can then decorate as simple and elegant or as elaborate as you want it to be. Here is how you can make another Christmas tree from paper:Ī dinner plate or any round object that you can use to create a circle template.Ĭraft glue or a hot glue gun with a glue stick. Paper Christmas trees are beautiful, easy to make, and fun to decorate. You don’t have to buy very expensive materials to make yourself a Christmas tree which can be just as beautiful and can provide the needed holiday atmosphere in your home. There you have it… a 3D Christmas tree!ĭownload “christmas tree template 40” (3 MB)Īnother way to make Christmas trees from paper Carefully cut two slits on opposite sides of the trunk for where you want to place the Christmas tree, then gently slide the tree inside the toilet paper roll. Paint a toilet paper roll brown and let it dry before cutting it down to size for the Christmas tree’s trunk. Use colors that are always associated with the holidays – red, green, and white. Decorate your tree with balls, stars, pompoms, gold twine, and anything else you want to add. Placing just the cardstock into the paper roll won’t make the tree stand straight. You add this board to make the tree sturdier.
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