![]() The White Sox concluded a 6-4 homestead against three playoff hopefuls. Reliever David Robertson (5-3) pitched a scoreless inning to earn the victory. The Indians scored only on Jose Ramirez's sacrifice fly despite a single, three walks and two wild pitches. Saturday update: Both teams won, so the Giants division lead remains two.įriday update: San Francisco won and LA lost, which moves the Giants to two games up on the Dodgers.Chicago starter James Shields labored through a 33-pitch third but avoided major damage. The Giants are a game up on the Dodgers so this race isn’t ending anytime soon. Louis, and Cincinnati all won, so the Brewers magic number dropped by one to four. The Brewers magic number dropped to three.įriday update: Milwaukee, St. Louis is currently one game up on Cincinnati, with it being two games in the loss column. Milwaukee’s magic number is 5, so they can clinch this weekend. Saturday update: Atlanta lost and Philadelphia won, so the Braves division lead is down to one game.įriday update: Atlanta lost and Philadelphia won, which cut the Braves lead to two games. The series between these two September 28-30 could decide the division title. NL East Weekend series scheduleĪtlanta has a long way to go to clinch the NL East, leading by three heading into their weekend series. Saturday update: Houston lost and Oakland won, so the Astros magic number did not move.įriday update: Houston, Oakland, and Seattle all won, so Houston’s magic number is down to nine. The A’s are one game up on the Mariners and have gone back and forth with them the back half of the summer. Houston’s magic number is 10 over Oakland and 9 over Seattle. Saturday update: Chicago lost and Cleveland won, so the White Sox magic number did not move.įriday update: Chicago won and Cleveland lost, which dropped their magic number to five. However, if they sweep and Cleveland gets swept, the White Sox would be in position to clinch no worse than a tie with two weeks remaining. ![]() AL Central Weekend series scheduleĬhicago’s magic number is seven, which means they cannot clinch the division this weekend. The Rays magic number did not change.įriday update: Tampa, Boston, and New York all won while Toronto lost. Saturday update: Tampa and Toronto lost while Boston and New York won. The Rays magic number is 8 over Toronto and 7 over Boston and New York. Toronto and Boston are tied at 8.5 games back heading into Friday, while the Yankees are a half game back of the two of them. The wild card races will go into the final weekend, but in the meantime, here’s a look at what this weekend’s schedule means across the divisions. We’ve started tracking magic numbers for teams looking to clinch playoff berths and division titles. Meanwhile, the Braves have a three-game lead on the Phillies heading into weekend. The Giants and Dodgers are both on track for 100+ wins, and will likely be competing for the NL West title into the final weekend. ![]() The tight races are in the NL West and East. The Brewers and White Sox both have double digit leads in their respective divisions while the Astros and Rays could clinch their divisions later next week. ![]() With just over two weeks remaining in the regular season, most of the division races are just about locked up. The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers have each clinched a playoff spot and the Milwaukee Brewers could join them this weekend if things fall the right way. We’re halfway through the month of September and the playoff race is heating up.
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![]() It is a from-the-ground-up modernization, with enough familiar elements to instantly excite old fans of The Incredible Machine and enough modern touches to fuel the imaginations of gamers who have never touched the original. Also in the spirit of sharing, Contraption Maker features built in gameplay recording and the developers are working on cooperative gameplay as well.Įven the barebones alpha version of the game makes it clear that Contraption Maker is more than just a simple reskinning of an old but popular title. Steam Workshop integration means that you can create puzzles, mods, and backgrounds to share with your fellow tinkerers. There’s also the Maker Lab, a sandbox environment where you’ll have all of the game’s many parts at your disposal to craft the machine of your dreams. And if the original Incredible Machine’s dozens of puzzles are anything to go by, we can expect a similarly generous offering from the developers themselves once the engine is finalized for the retail release.Įven then, solving puzzles is only a part of the fun in Contraption Maker. That doesn’t mean the Early Access isn’t worth checking out, though an active community has already emerged, and there are over 200 user-created puzzles available for download from Steam Workshop. ![]() The game is in a state of constant refinement, and it would be a waste to craft a large selection of puzzles only to have the solutions rendered completely useless by an engine update. Your contraption can go from incredible to obsolete with only a small change to the physics calculations.Īs a result, the early alpha version of Contraption Maker contains just a handful of puzzles. But with over 100 objects in the game so far, there are also subtleties that can make you rethink your entire machine design. Some of it is obvious a bowling ball falls faster, hits harder, and weighs more than a basketball. ![]() Even at this early stage in development, the work that has gone in to crafting the physics engine is very apparent. “Get the ball into the box” sounds simple enough, but it quickly becomes a compelling challenge when you have to determine which arrangement of conveyor belts, trampolines, and platforms you’ll need to move the ball from point A to point B.īecause success relies on interactions between objects and gravity, the physics are core to the Contraption Maker experience. Armed with an arsenal of parts including balloons, pinball flippers, bowling balls, pipes, cannons, and more, players are tasked with building extravagant machines to carry out seemingly simple tasks. As in the original, the meat of the Contraption Maker experience is the puzzles. The Incredible Machine was released in 1993, and racked up several awards for its innovative mechanics and physics simulations. The team behind the original game is back to bring us a modern toolset to tinker with, and it looks promising so far. The title proved incredibly popular, and spawned a series whose most recent iteration is Contraption Maker, a spiritual successor developed by Spotkin. Thirty years after the release of that board game, the same “build a complicated machine to carry out a simple task” mechanics arrived on PC in the form of a puzzle game called The Incredible Machine. ![]() But that didn’t mean it wasn’t enjoyable the tinkering was half of the fun anyway. Marbles would roll off of the board, or reach their destination with too little momentum to trigger the next action. Remember the board game Mouse Trap? You’d spend 20 minutes piecing together a needlessly complex Rube Goldberg mouse trap, only to watch all of your hard work undo itself in a few short seconds. ![]() V5.x has been reported not to work on some older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup. Since we are uncertain of the impact of this change, older version has been included just in case. Latest V5.22 has the note in version history "Removed missing test tracks check". UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs)ĭata Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs) XOSL-OW (Extended Operating System Loader)Ĭhange Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs) Intel Processor Identification Utility (P4 and above) Intel Processor Frequency ID (P3 and below) The Linux version which is included in UBCD is at V1.00. Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0. Tools currently included with the Ultimate Boot CD are: The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory. When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.
Sunshine Makers is being accused of violating California business and consumer protection laws, breaching their warranties to consumers, and profiting from unjust enrichment. The Simple Green cleaner toxic class action lawsuit seeks to represent a nationwide Class, as well as a California subclass, of consumers who purchased the products under the impression they were non-toxic. ![]() “Through its unlawful conduct, Defendant obtains an unfair competitive advantage in the household cleaning market and unfairly profits from consumers’ desire for products that are not harmful to humans, animals, and the environment,” argues the Simple Green toxic class action lawsuit. The “broad and unqualified non-toxic claims, such as the ones present on the Products, would even more strongly convey such a meaning” and violate FTC guidelines, contends the Simple Green cleaner toxic class action lawsuit. If the product does not pose a risk to humans, but does to the environment, use of these terms to describe the product would be considered deceptive, concludes the FTC. The guidelines specifically address “non-toxic” claims, notes the complaint, restricting the use of the term in a way that would be deceptive to reasonable consumers.Īs an example, the FTC guidance states that a cleaning product that labeled as “essentially non-toxic” or “practically non-toxic” conveys to the consumer that the product “does not pose any risk to humans or the environment, including household pets.” The Federal Trade Commission issued “Green Guidelines” in response to concerns about fraudulent claims by cleaning product companies, points out the plaintiff. “In response to consumers’ desire for safe and non-toxic cleaning products, many companies ‘greenwash’ their products by deceptively claiming that their cleaning products are safe when, in fact, they contain ingredients that are harmful to humans, animals, and/or the environment,” states the complaint. “Labeling the Products as ‘Non-Toxic’ or ‘Non-Toxic Formula’ when they contain any ingredients that can be harmful to humans, animals, and/or the environment is wholly misleading and deceptive,” alleges the Simple Green cleaner class action lawsuit. ![]() She says there is no way that average consumers, who don’t have a sophisticated understanding of how chemicals used in household cleaners work, would know that Simple Green cleaners contain ingredients that can be toxic. She says that she relied on claims on the packaging that the cleaner was non-toxic when deciding to make her purchase. Moran claims she purchased Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner in California in 2019. ![]() The Simple Green toxic class action lawsuit alleges that “in spite of their labeling, the Products actually contain, in varying combinations, ingredients that are harmful to humans, animals, and/or the environment, including but not limited to alcohol ethoxylates, sodium carbonate, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone, surfactants, sodium chloride, sodium laureth sulfate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, butane, propane, sodium hydroxide, and cocamidopropyl betaine.”įurther, alleges the complaint, some ingredients are “potential human carcinogens.” This is not Skyrim shrunken down for your phone or tablet. This is a large world to quest around in, and there are a ton of legitimate RPG elements from full-scale games. In fact, some of the slower weapons are downright tedious to use because of this. Some single-presses are detected as long-presses (which blocks instead of attacks). The attack/block button behaves oddly as well. Ravensword: Shadowlands is an immersive action-RPG for Android and iOS platforms, developed by Crescent Moon Games.The controls get the job done, but even with the sensitivity turned up I feel like turning around is too slow. #Ravensword shadowlands xperia play for android It’s a three-dimensional mobile game and it follows up on the previous Ravensword title, The Fallen King. While the company doesn’t say much about the game’s storyline, it isn’t shy about talking about its features. Among the many features listed in the game include the ability to switch between first-person and third-person play, “ragdoll” physics, hundreds of different items, a wide variety of weapons to choose from, “pets” such as flying mounts, horses, lock-picking mechanics, and the usual “tons of” loot and a plethora of enemy types that supposedly include prehistoric creatures. Like its predecessor, this game could take some time to learn, and the things you learn in the tutorial might not be enough once you consider the bigger picture. And that’s why our list of Ravensword: Shadowlands tips, cheats and strategies might be able to help you more, as we go beyond what’s covered in the tutorial and fill you in on what you need to do to be successful in the game. Health in Ravensword: Shadowlands regenerates automatically, but it could take quite a while to get your character’s health back up to 100 percent. Also consider that there are so many enemies to deal with along the way, many of which could take you by surprise. That said, you’ll want to stock up on health potions. If you don’t have enough energy, you wouldn’t be able to successfully string together moves for a combo.īut don’t overlook your energy potions, which are equally important, if not more important. ![]() That also leaves your hero more vulnerable to attacks and more susceptible to damage. Aside from health and energy potions, you could also stock up on restoration potions, which refill both health and energy at the same time. One of the drawbacks of this game is that it doesn’t specify a potion’s color once you assign it to one of the four available slots. That makes it very easy to mistake a health potion for energy, or vice versa. What you’ll want to do here is to play it by memory recall. ![]() Yes, it could be tricky, but one technique you can try is to allocate the first two slots for health and the last two slots for energy, or the other way around, depending on how comfortable you are. You can even alternate health and energy potions in the four slots, just as long as you easily remember which slot belongs to which potion. Gold isn’t exactly the easiest resource to score in Ravensword: Shadowlands. But the game does have several non-playing characters (NPCs) who will be more than happy to talk business with you and buy items you no longer need. ![]() Don’t Be Shy To Have Some Junk In Reserve It may be worthless food like rat meat or lower-level swords and clubs if you’ve got some unwanted items, go ahead and sell them to earn yourself some gold. This tip ties in to the earlier one, as it’s also a good idea to have enough useless items in reserve at all times. ![]() For example, you can slaughter some animals while making your way from quest to quest you won’t need the meat once it’s all said and done, but you can always sell it at a later time. It goes without saying that you have to equip your hero with a sword/weapon and some armor. That sword allows heroes to attack and also to defend themselves, while the armor protects them from damage. But you can make your hero’s weapons and armor more effective by imbuing them with loot items such as runes and rings. Doing so would improve the stats of your equipment, and also add some special abilities, such as doubling the damage or allowing for elemental attacks. It’s good practice to view your inventory on a regular basis by tapping the backpack icon, so you know what you can use at any given time. #Ravensword shadowlands xperia play crackĬrack Open The BarrelsĪnother way you can get more gold in this game is to smash some barrels open while traveling to the next quest. The gold you earn may not be much, but then again, it’s better than nothing at all, right? 7.
![]() We can directly touch the feet of the Lord. It will lead to many small shrines of various bhaktas, then towards Lord Panduranga. We can have this mukha darshan any time without standing in the queue.įor padha darshan (to touch the Lotus feet of the Lord), there is an entrance which leads to the queue complex outside the temple. This posture reflects His pastimes in Pandharpur. He stands on a brick, with His hands resting on His hips. After climbing a few steps, we can see the slightly smiling, blackish-complexioned deity of Sri Vitthala, who is three and a half feet tall. Then a small shrine for Garuda and Hanuman. Next is a small hall where bhajans are performed. A small Ganesh shrine is present inside the temple as the first shrine. Pilgrims will first pray to the devotees and then enter the temple. The samadhi of Namadev and Chockamela is located at the entrance. The main entrance of Lord Vittala’s Temple is facing towards the Chandrabhaga or Bhima river. The black stone temple hosts the five-thousand-year-old self-manifested Deity of Lord Vitthala. The Pandurangashtakam stotra, a hymn attributed to Adi Shankaracharya of the 8th century, indicates that Vithoba worship might have already existed at an early date.Ī stone inscription dated 1237, found on an overhead beam of the present Vithoba temple, mentions that the Hoysala king Someshvara donated a village for the expense of the bhoga (food offering) for “Vitthala” In particular, several alternative theories have been proposed regarding the earliest stages, as well as the point at which he came to be recognized as a distinct deity. Reconstruction of the historical development of Vithoba worship has been much debated. His hands are placed on his hips and the expression of this posture shows that he is enjoying the bhajans of his devotees. The specialty of this temple is the position in which Lord Vittal is found. “Ba” is used to denote “father” in Marathi. The reason behind the brick will be explained later in this article. Another interpretation is that the word “Vitthala” is said to be derived from the Marathi word “Vit”, meaning brick. He is the shape of knowledge or the deity of knowledge. The “Vi” in Lord Vithoba’s name denotes knowledge and “Thoba” denotes shape. There is a short street that links this ghata to the eastern gate of the Vitthala temple. For the devotees of Vitthala, this river is as holy as the Ganges.Īlong the riverbank are fourteen ghatas, or bathing places. Because of the way the river bends as it reaches Pandharpur, it is known as the Candrabhaga (“crescent moon”). Some call it bhu-vaikuntha, “the spiritual world on earth.” Others call it Dakshina Dvaraka, the Dvaraka of the South. It is impossible to trace the original forms from which these derivatives have been evolved. It is referred to in ancient texts by various names such as Pandhari, Pandurangapur, Phaganipur, Pundarik Kshetra. Pandharpur is a large town on the banks of Bhima river, or Chandrabhaga as it is locally known. The tabview-skin.css file builds upon the tabview-core.css file, adding borders, color information and other skin specific styling. This snippet from tabview-core.css shows the selectors and style properties you will need to override in order to customize tab spacing and padding: We recommend overriding these in a separate file to simplify integrating with YUI updates. Overriding these allows you to customize TabView for your own needs. In the meantime you can get to the title. The fix for this might be to allow users of p:tab to specify a titleId and contentId separately. Cyan and red are just sample colors to check where the background color is getting applied against each property. some of the comments here are old, so I am going to share the current tab properties that appear to be working for me (nativescript 3.2.0) 22. delete platforms nodemodules hooks folders. ![]() the accentColor modifier works ok for changing the icon selected color, but I can not get the background color to change. How to do that you could review in the below described steps. I intend to style in such a manner that the entire grid becomes dark. Default TabView comes in light grey background color. The id that you specify in a p:tab actually goes to the div, not the li. As visible, the portion between the content and the tabview is white in color. The li is used for the title and the div is used for the content. LVTABVIEWPARTBGSCRL does not exist, exists: LVTABVIEWPARTBGSCRLLABLE and LVTABVIEWPARTBG. Nothing more than a form with 5 basic rows. When switching tabs you will see the blue background of the TabView before the expected view is drawn. KammutierSpule December 9, 2020, 1:47pm 3. I've set the background of the tabview to blue to illustrate the problem. In general, it’s best to assume object parts only work with that object unless otherwise specified. The tabview-core.css file includes foundational styling that controls tab orientation and basic layout, including margin between tabs and padding inside of tabs. A p:tab component results in two parent elements: a li and a div. I think the correct part to use is LVTABVIEWPARTBGSCRL. NET Maui: Microsoft Reactor is running a series of free in person and livestream events exploring this new cross-platform framework for mobile development. Additionally, I edited my original post to show that a white line also appears at the left of the TabView when it is contained inside another item with a non-white background. In order to customize the TabView skin, we recommend using the raw source files as a reference. Still, there's a thin white line below the y and the empty area at the right of the last tab should have another color. The stylesheet used for other TabView examples is a minified version of the tabview-core.css and tabview-skin.css files. Those items even have more properties to customize. If we look a little bit closer, we see that we have a TabView at the root and inside of the you’ll need to use TabViewItem. Skinning the YUI TabView widget is done using CSS. Placement top or bottom, background color, specify a height, enable an indicator and give it a color. Tab Three Content Customizing TabView Skin The background of the other tabs were a lighter gray. snippet 2 gave me a gray background on the selected tab. The background of the other tabs were white. This snippet includes all of the styling applied to the default TabView orientation ("top"): \begingroup snippet 1 gave me a black background on the selected tab. Please send me any reference code or links. ![]() We recommend overriding these in a separate file to simplify integrating with YUI updates. User353937 posted I want to change selected tab background color like attached image. the accentColor modifier works ok for changing the icon selected color, but I can not get the background. ![]() Overriding these allows you to customize TabView for your own needs. Default TabView comes in light grey background color. The tabview-core.css file includes foundational styling that controls tab orientation and basic layout, including margin between tabs and padding inside of tabs. In order to customize the TabView skin, we recommend using the raw source files as a reference. HeaderStyle - specifies the style of the entire header area (border, background color etc.) HeaderItemStyle - specifies the style of the individual header items (font, text color etc. The stylesheet used for other TabView examples is a minified version of the tabview-core.css and tabview-skin.css files. In addition, TabView provides the listed below styling properties for modifying its elements - header, TabView items and content area. Skinning the YUI TabView widget is done using CSS. ![]() Tweetattacks Pro 2.6.2.0 portable keycode generator. 6304 - Super Mp3 Recorder Pro 6.2 key generator. The Ultimate Trance Essentials Pack Volume 2 is a collection of wav samples to work with. The first release features the latest dubstep, trance, electro samples. follow one of the most successful trance sample packs on the market. Dave Parkinson Trance Essentials Volume 2. follow one of the most successful trance sample packs on the market.ĭave Parkinson Trance Essentials. 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Verisimilitude is a key attribute in The Kite Runner. It's a forceful and moving portrayal and, if any acting nominations emerge from The Kite Runner, Ershadi would be the most likely. From an acting perspective, the standout is Homayon Ershadi, whose interpretation of Baba humanizes and softens the character from his counterpart in the book. Khailid Abdalla was one of the terrorists in United 93 and Shaun Toub has provided supporting portrayals in a number of movies and TV programs. The older performers have more substantive resumes, although many will be unfamiliar to U.S. That's one thing that differentiates it from many high profile motion pictures working with similar themes.įor the most part, the young actors are working on their first project in front of the camera, and their performances are without awkwardness or artifice. The Kite Runner is a well-told story, not an exercise in manipulation. The movie is not littered with perfect victims - every character harbors shades of gray - and sentiment is kept to a minimum. Guilt and redemption are universal themes, and they are handled in a manner that even cynics will find compelling. It doesn't demand a leap of faith to accept these characters and their circumstances, and the emotional journey of Amir is something that, at its core, is easily related to. One of the great strengths of The Kite Runner is that it doesn't fake or sugarcoat anything. What he learns when he arrives not only shakes the steady foundations of his sense of family but forces him to undertake a risky mission as a way of repaying his debt to Hassan, who never once blamed Amir for turning his back. Amir is initially reluctant but eventually agrees. ![]() He receives a call from an old friend, Rahim Kahn (Shaun Toub), who urges him to return to Afghanistan. More than 20 years later, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) is a newly-minted author living in California with his wife, Soraya (Atossa Leoni). Later, he seeks to relieve the guilt not by seeking forgiveness but by acting deceitfully to get Hassan dismissed from his father's service. Baba's concerns are proven valid when Amir sees an act of violence perpetrated on Hassan by local bullies, but does not act. Hassan, however, will not back down despite his diminutive size. He sees in Amir a child who will not stand up for himself or what is right. However, Amir's father, Baba (Homayon Ershadi), is concerned about his son. Boyhood friends Amir (Zekeria Ebrahimi) and Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) are inseparable despite their class differences - Amir is the son of a wealthy landowner and Hassan is the son of a servant. The film begins in the era before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. By setting this in pre-9/11 Afghanistan, the production provides the viewer with a gut-level perspective of how repressive the Taliban was. Would that all of us were provided with such a chance… (Although, to be fair, most of our iniquities pale in comparison with those displayed in The Kite Runner.) The film shows the amazing capacity human beings have both to harm and to heal. It's about a boy who commits a terrible injustice but is given an opportunity as a man to redress his sins in a direct way. ( The Kite Runner, it should be mentioned, will be in the running in several categories.)Īs the many who have read the book are aware, this is a tale of betrayal, cowardice, and redemption. The Kite Runner touches the heart and the mind - something increasingly rare in any movie not made with the express intention of winning Oscars. Time constraints have forced some changes and contractions but, on the whole, it's hard to imagine a more effective and affecting adaptation. In the case of The Kite Runner, director Marc Forster and screenwriter David Benioff have taken pains to provide the best screen representation possible of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel. When a movie is made based on a book that millions of people have read, the first question asked often pertains to the faithfulness of the resultant cinematic product to its written inspiration. |
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