![]() While this elegant color scheme works for winter weddings, it’s also one of the easiest to translate into the home. ![]() Touches of gold, and clean-lined furniture will keep this from veering to the girlish side. Then start layering in colors - tutu-pink walls (we like Sweet Bianca), a coral side table and cushions in your color palette. Start with a neutral base, anchoring the sunny colors with a cream rug and sofa. If your nuptial buzzwords are fresh, feminine and springy, this is the wedding color palette for you.ĭo try this at home. It’ll be as unforgettable as your special day. For the backdrop, paint the wall burgundy - try Bordeaux. Try a luscious velvet couch and ottoman, dark wood floors (stain them if they’re not dark already) and a floral mural. It’s equally dramatic at home, and unapologetically so. Burgundy and Blackįor fall or winter, burgundy and black create the set for a dramatic wedding. Use rich purple for lamp shades and pillows, and choose ones with a luxury look and feel for this regal color. Then layer in neutral furniture and rugs - chocolate is a yummy choice. To bring home this look, paint the walls a rich, sage green, like PPG’s Silver Laurel. This pretty combination flatters bridal parties and living spaces, equally. This soft palette calls for romantic, rustic accents and swirls of sensual fabric.īring it to life in a bedroom with pale, blue-gray walls and layers of bedding. Ground it with navy and cream, and bring the pink in with flowers and accents. So why not carry the love of that palette into your life together? Here are popular wedding color palettes translated into beautiful ideas for home decor and paint colors. Everything down to the wedding color palette is a reflection of the relationship.
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![]() I've never felt quite so empowered in an action game, like a musical superhuman. That's where those head nods came in as I tap tap tap tap.īut when all this lines up with the music, it just feels awesome. In later levels I found myself surrounded by enemies, the screen a riot of colour, no way to button bash, and left overwhelmed. Bosses aren't so much about learning attack patterns but rhythmic patterns that require perfect parrying through call and response, testing memory and feel for syncopation. I did find later bosses to be a touch frustrating. Get it right and a bright perfect pops up in the score. It's like I'm improvising over the soundtrack, alongside cartoon thuds and booms and explosive effects that had me non-stop grinning. Every action is accompanied by a guitar lick, a cheer, a hand clap, or a shout. Further options include an on-screen metronome, colour-blind indicators, and customisation of your pulsing cat companion.Īll of this is delivered with exuberant feedback. Its immediacy is gratifying, but levels gradually add in new moves for an ensemble that's tough to master. Bonus points and damage are awarded when buttons are tapped exactly on the beat, but even if players are slightly off the animation still occurs in rhythm. There's no other way to play.Īlong with its relentless rhythm, Hi-Fi Rush really excels in its accessibility. Gameplay becomes music attacks become crotchets and minims combos are musical phrases.Īnd so I sit at the TV. Then there are special attacks that expend the reverb gauge: hit, hit, smack before launching into a diving guitar thrash that feels oh so good. Light attacks take one beat and heavy attacks take two, while a pause between attacks becomes a launching combo and beat hits reward correct timing with powerful strikes. Where other character action games have a sort of rhythmic flow to combat, Hi-Fi Rush makes that explicit. ![]() Players can move and jump freely, but every step is in time to the beat, as is every attack, dodge, and parry. In practice, the addition of rhythm can sometimes be either too heavily structured, restraining you, or too loose and lacking impact. ![]() It's hardly the first time that rhythm has been applied to gameplay, but it still comes with risks. The visuals of Hi-Fi Rush may evoke Sunset Overdrive for many, but really the game is a silly cartoon Devil May Cry set to music that answers the question: what if Iron Man's heart was an iPod? One look at the trailer was enough to have me running to the console to play it immediately - I'm a sucker for a music game. Tango Gameworks kept Hi-Fi Rush as a complete surprise until its announcement at last week's Xbox Developer_Direct. Everything fizzes and bops in time, enemies pop in a whiz and a bang, and the beat pulses through your fingertips. Hi-Fi Rush thrives on these sorts of moments. It proves the power of licensed music, whether that's a mournful Linda Ronstadt song in the midst of a post-apocalypse, or a young hero with a metal guitar smacking some robots. Without spoiling too much, it's the kind of level where you're approaching the big bad boss and all your friends are with you and the music hits this euphoric high at just the right moment. Whirring is one of a handful of licensed tracks used in the game, accompanying a late-game climactic level. Availability: Out now on PC ( Steam), Xbox Series X/S (Game Pass). ![]() And that's how I feel about Hi-Fi Rush as I struggle to put my enjoyment into words. The song is, perhaps, about not being able to express emotions in words, the music taking over all feeling for an almost seven minute long crescendo. "Turn the dial on my words, I can feel they fall short," sings frontwoman Rhiannon Bryan before the band takes over and the guitars escalate to a rapturous peak. I've been listening to a lot of The Joy Formidable recently, namely the Welsh band's 2008 hit Whirring. Vibrant and self-assured, Hi-Fi rush happily embraces the 00s' cheese - and is all the better for it. ![]() But we are all part of something incredibly special." It doesn't come along very often, once in a career maybe. "For once, I might be speechless," launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told her team at Kennedy Space Center, after they had sent the rocket on its way. Rocket Ranch guests came from all over the US - states like Colorado and Alabama - and the world, including Canada, France and Germany.Space NASA is set to return to the moon. Otherwise, the only way to access "The Outpost" is by a small pontoon boat in the Rio Grande River. Guests had to arrive by bus on Wednesday evening because the surrounding roads were blocked off ahead of the launch to keep people out of the area. "I voluntarily assume all risks associated with viewing rocket launches on Rocket Ranch property, including the risk of physical and emotional harm," the waiver reads. The viewing site was so close to the pad that patrons had to sign waivers. He hired caterers, checked in the guests that set up tents on free patches of land and reserved buses that trucked the Rocket Ranch guests to a viewing site called "The Outpost." It lies just 3.8 miles from the launch pad. Some of them, engineers in their day job, speculated about the valve issue that plagued Monday's launch attempt.Īnthony Gomez, a managing partner at the ranch, was the ringleader of the festivities. When CNN visited on Tuesday ahead of the launch, guests were hanging out in the communal on-site cabin, watching a YouTube channel that streams a view of Starship 24/7. They gathered at a place aptly named Rocket Ranch - which was created for SpaceX aficionados.Īnd the camping site - which is just 20 minutes from the launch pad near Boca Chica Beach - is frequented by hobbyists who follow every Starship development with fervid enthusiasm. ET, but exploded midair a few moments later. Most of the public at today's launch watched from South Padre Island, which lies about five miles away from the launch site across the water.īut one group of hardcore fans got a bit closer to see the rocket, which took off from a launch pad on the southern coast of Texas on Thursday at 9:28 a.m. ![]() Spectators are seen at "The Outpost," a Starship viewing location set up by the local Rocket Ranch, near Boca Chica beach in Texas. I think it matters, you know, to other kids around the world and to all the creative people that it is artists who are going to fly around the moon," he said. "I felt like so many things I had to overcome in my life prepared me for being here and being part of this and carry the weight the way it is. "That's when I realized how alive this machine is and how intense it is and will be when we actually strap ourselves in and leave the planet - which is in itself an absurd thought."Īnother future crew member, Yemi Akinyemi Dele, said he has no qualms about going on a future flight. Many of us - I think - we're ready to scramble," he said. He said members of the Dear Moon crew were invited to get an up-close look at the rocket shortly after the scrubbed launch attempt. What did give him a "feeling of intensity" was visiting the rocket shortly after the scrubbed launch attempt on Monday. He understood it was an early fight test and he was essentially watching a prototype take flight. Iliya added that watching the rocket explode today didn't give him any extra nerves for his future spaceflight. "It was just this feeling of joy and energy running through the crowd and through the people." "This wave of sound just smashed into my body, and I could feel it and I could hear it and I thought: 'Am I really going inside that machine?' It was absolutely wild," Iliya told CNN. Today's test flight only sought to get to near orbital speeds and make a partial lap of the planet. More than a dozen launches - carrying nothing but propellant - may be required to give a single Starship lunar lander enough fuel to traverse the 238,900-mile (384,500-kilometer) void between the Earth and the moon.īefore SpaceX can even hash out that process, it'll also need to learn to put Starship into orbit in the first place. The sheer mass of the vehicle will force the company to refuel the spacecraft while it's still in Earth's orbit. Before that mission can take off, however, SpaceX has to prove that Starship can make it to the moon. NASA tapped SpaceX's Starship to serve as a lunar lander, ferrying astronauts from a separate spacecraft down to the lunar surface for the Artemis III mission, which is currently scheduled for as early as 2025. Before Starship can complete its first grand mission or host astronauts, SpaceX has significant technological questions to hash out. This test flight was a small step in a grand project. Onlookers watch as SpaceX's Starship take off near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday, April 20. 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The following diagram illustrates this reference architecture.ĭescription of the illustration open-source-data-lakehouse.png The data which is present in theĭata lake can either be processed and loaded to the data warehouse, or it can be readĭirectly from the data lake for advanced analytics. DataĬan be sent to the data lake or to the data warehouse. Recommended best practices, and Terraform automation to deploy an open-source data lakehouseĪ data lakehouse can store and aggregate enterprise application data. This architecture introduces a platform topology, component overview, ![]() It does seem though that most (not all of course) of their customers are happy enough with the mainstream services streamed using AP / CC, and at the qualities those transmit at. Yes the conclusion is about right - B&O should support better the higher quality music services, especially when it counts 30 and 60k pound speakers amongst its range. I hope this helps! I certainly learned a lot. I remain shocked B&O does not design its software to allow for best possible sound quality in this manner. If B&O natively supported TIDAL, using Airplay (2) would be unnecessary and the best sound possible would be available. Thus, for the BL17, 18, 20, the highest quality music cannot be streamed via Airplay (2) and is capped at 96/24 on the RCA, Toslink and Powerlink connections. Something like a Bluesound Node 2i supports TIDAL natively and can output over Toslink at 96/24 or over RCA at full 192/24 but since my BL17 cannot process such a high resolution anyway, I will just use the Toslink connections. To play music at max resolution and bitrate, I must use a streamer that has native support for TIDAL (or Qobuz, etc) and does not require me to use Airplay (2). Since BeoSound Core does not natively support TIDAL, I must send TIDAL music from my iOS device to the Core via Airplay (2) and Airplay (2) will downconvert my TIDAL MQA music. BL50 and 90 can accommodate 192/24, which is full MQA resolution. In hopes this helps someone else on the forum with a similar question, I shall explain what my research has shown me.īeolab 17, 18 and 20 can only deal with 96/24 at most. (Also a plug for suggesting B&O incorporate native support for TIDAL and Qobuz in their app!) Can anyone confirm? Can Airplay (2) stream the hi-rez music from TIDAL in the best quality possible and can the Core process such a feed via AirPlay (2)? Thank you! I wonder if I am getting the best quality audio possible over Airplay (2). Unfortunately, the B&O app does not have native support for TIDAL as it does for, for example, Spotify so using only my iOS devices and the gear mentioned, this is the only way I know of to get TIDAL to my Core. I have the app set to stream Master quality audio over WiFi. I open the TIDAL app on my iPhone or iPad and then connect to my BeoSound Core via Airplay (2). To listen to MQA-quality music I stream from TIDAL Hifi. John at B&O Manchester is totally right-the 17s are underrated such great bass!). I have a BeoSound Core driving a pair of Beolab 17s (which I love, by the way. I’ve been lurking on the forum for a long time but this is my first post. The area of a piece of art that is designed to draw the viewer’s attention. Master how to draw the human body with this guide to figure drawing. Usually used in architecture and scale drawings. Iris van Herpen is a designer that I would like to look into further as she takes a very different and interesting approach which create such stunning results. A drawing of the front, side and rear of a structure. This accumulates to really innovative and unique garments, made using technological processes such as 3d printing and laser cutting. She takes a concept such as water and explores this and translates it to fashion. In the 1920s, the painter Piet Mondrian helped lay the foundation for what would become a fully-realized. Minimalism, or the art of distilling a complex idea or subject into its simplest visual form, has evolved through the decades. We looked at the work of Iris Van Herpen. These six artists share their favorite illustrations and top tips for creating successful minimalist work. We finally linked the ideas of conceptual arts from fashion. This is because this kind of controversial art gets publicised more and so I feel affects people’s perception of art in general. The way that I would describe conceptual art is – what I think people who don’t know about or study art think art is. ![]() We talked about if it fitted with the definition of ‘art’ and how the simplest of items get sold for large amounts of money and if this is just. We discussed conceptual art more in our seminar session. Conceptual art is less about the physicality of the art and more about the idea that it represents. The general idea is that artists dematerialised art so that it couldn’t be brought or sold or take up room in galleries. This is the most controversial definition of art and challenges traditional art. I feel that this type of minimalist art doesn’t follow the normal art process and that much on the work is decided before the piece is started.Īnd finally, conceptual art. This mean that the shape of the canvas determined the composition of the painting. I feel that it is much more brutal looking and has a more rigidly considered look, an example of this being the idea of deductive structure. The idea of minimalism is that it rejects self-expression. He ensured the images were exactly the same as “then the more the meaning goes away and the better you feel.” I feel that art like this acted to desensitise people from the more violent events happening in society and is an example of the wider uses of art. I found the meaning behind his repeated photograph images the most interesting. After this much of his work was based on events such as death and car accidents, his works having links to death, the media and consumerism. ![]() ![]() In the 1950s he started out by creating art and illustrations for vouge and harpers bazar. Roushenburg – “pop art is the work in the gap between art and life” Andy Warhol is obviously one of the most well-known pop artists. I found this lecture quite hard to follow but I did take some useful information. This lecture was based on pop, conceptual and minimalist art. ![]() Both wanting to become the opposite of their closest family member, Yao and Huansong try to support each other while remaining independent, but miscommunications haunt their relationship. Such are some of the characters caught up in the nexus of fate. Synopsis: Wu Renyao, a young motorcyclist performing stunts on a dock, with his clumsy father, Wu Renteng, who's barely visited him over the years Zhou Huansong, a restaurant waitress dreaming of living in a big city, with her dramatic but earnest brother, Zhou Huange. Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies: CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated, with involvement from production, theatrical distribution, linear movie channel and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services.Cast: Liu Hao-Ran, Shen Teng, Liu Hao-Cun, Andrew Yin Zheng, Zhou Qi, Qiao Shan, Feng Shao Feng, Wang Yan Lin, Zhang You Hao, Zack Gao, Huang Xiao Ming, Jordan Chan, Alex Man, Estelle Wu In June 2016, the service launched in Indonesia, partnering with market leader Telkom Indonesia, and in Singapore, partnering with the market’s leading pay TV and telecommunication service provider, StarHub. In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service made its pilot launch in Taiwan. Through our passion for movies and the belief in co-creation, internally and together with local leading operator’s partnership – we made it a mission to provide the ultimate content offering tailored for each market’s unique needs and deliver superior user experience that will be cherished by movie lovers universally. Instead of adopting major international players’ one ‘offer-fits-all’ strategy, we at CATCHPLAY with years of experience and passion for content, believes and embraces the importance of individual market’s unique needs and preference of content. In 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition to become Asia’s largest movie content service provider. Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies – CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated – with involvement from production, distribution, linear movie channel operation and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services. This was followed by expanded partnerships with Telkomsel, Indosat and First Media, and in Singapore, collaboration with the market’s leading telecommunication operator, StarHub. In June 2016, the service platform launched in Indonesia, collaborating with market leaders IndiHome, Telkom Indonesia. ![]() In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service platform made its pilot launch in Taiwan in partnerships with major telecommunication operators and device manufacturers. In addition to content aggregation, in 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition of becoming the leading premium content service provider for movie lovers in Asia. Today, we are the largest provider for premium movie content in Taiwan, aggregating content from Hollywood studios including Disney, Warner Bros., NBC Universal and Paramount in addition to having a wide selection of international independent films and leading local productions for distribution on major operators’ digital platforms. Today, CATCHPLAY continues to look into investment and co-production opportunities internationally and in Asia targeting particularly Chinese-speaking territories and South East Asia following our recent expansion footprints.ĬATCHPLAY started placing significant emphasis on the development of digital movie content years before the others did in Taiwan. In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. ![]() In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. Blood pressure, plasma inflammatory cytokine levels and blood glucose were also considered. The BBB integrity and neuroinflammation were analyzed with semi-quantitative immunofluorescent microscopy. Male C57BL/6J mice were maintained on water (control), Mother TM (ED), sugar-free Mother TM (sfED), or Coca Cola TM soft drink (SD) for 13 weeks. This study investigated the effects of chronic ingestion of energy drinks on blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and neuroinflammation. Chronic ingestion of energy drinks may potentially regulate vascular risk factors. 3School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, AustraliaĮnergy drinks containing significant quantities of caffeine and sugar are increasingly consumed, particularly by adolescents and young adults.2Curtin Medical School, Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.1Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.West Lawn, Pa.Liam Graneri 1,2 Virginie Lam 1,3 Zachary D'Alonzo 1,2 Michael Nesbit 1,2 John C. 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![]() If you decide to escort him out of town and you preemptively attack magisters before this dialogue box appears, as soon as you are victorious Higba immediately becomes hostile, forcing you to reload or kill him. Whilst escorting Higba, each time you run into magisters a choice will be avilable to you, either turn him in or defend him. If you travel by Waypoint or by teleporter pyramid, Higba will remain behind. Note: In the original release, it was possible to finish the quest instantly, by travelling to a Waypoint outside of town. This exploit has been removed in the definitive release. ![]() This will result in you having to fight and kill him. Once he is safe, he will tell you that he suspects the cook at the tavern has something to do with the missing Magisters, and the quest will be closed.Īlternatively, the other choice is to turn him in to a Magister. Kannox can be locked aswell for safe measure. Magister Carver can be locked in conversation at the top of the stairs, and Magister Varland up near the pathway/road directly infront of the fish factory. Speak to it for an Acid Spores Scroll and some other rewards, one of which is a Rune.Īnother method, if you have a party of 4, Is to use each of your characters to engage in conversation with the patrolling magisters to lock them in position, whilst leaving 1 party member free to lead Higba to safety. After doing so, he will re-enter his barrel. You can use your mini-map to track where the Magisters are, and use the sneaking ability to escape.Īn easy method is to lead him to the west side of the port and use the Teleport skill to send him to the other side of the river. If you decide to help him escape, you need to escort him outside Driftwood without been caught by the Magisters. ![]() The Magisters are on a manhunt for him due to his involvement with explosives, the primary reason for the suspicions directed towards him. If you talk to Higba, he will plead for you to help him escape Driftwood. Higba will whisper to you as you get close to him. You will find him hiding in a fish barrel in a corner of a storage room at the southeast end of the fishery. Strange Cargo is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II , Act II.Īfter initiating the Missing Magisters quest, Magister Carver will task you to find Higba, the primary suspect of the missing Magisters. |
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