![]() It was a struggle not having internet at home, worked a lot out of my truck. But I do wonder on all the things I'm missing out but saving sure makes me high.Ģ020 into 2021 during the pandemic was a year of remote work. I am 15 years into my career and have made some significant progress in my life. I'm saving for a better tomorrow, hoping to make the leap to another freer state. I want to own land, but not be called a landowner, and a cabin, not hooked to electrical grid, farm, raise pigs for food and burn my own trash. Or maybe going bigger? Or smaller? Five dollar gas sucks. What is next? I've thought about going carless for a while to save money and reduce pollution. Big Red's Dual Battery Setup for Camp Power, Video Tour and Diagram. Match NY SWIS Codes to FIPS Codes and GEOID □□ Big Red □□īig Red - Photos and Videos of my lifted truck with its camper shell. Properties in Albany Pine Bush Study Area, Excel Files: Various Tax Rolls, Find coordinates and political districts, Look Up State Tax Records and a Script for Processing RPTL 1520 PDFs. WMS and ArcMap Services - Downloadable CSV file listing services used on the blog.Ģ022 US Census Population Estimates - Red states, south continue to gain population.Ģ020 Cartogram of State Population □ □ Property Taxes □□ NY Building Footprints - Where to find on the internet for making maps. GDAL Opens E00 Files - Most open source programs nowadays can open common geospatial formats. Use ArcPullR to Get Geospatial Data - Super easy way to connect to get GIS data in R from government servers. Interactive Maps of NY Census - Explore and download KML files.Ĭharts and Interactive Diagrams - From population to pollution control.Īndy Arthur GitHub - Git my R and Python scripts used to make maps and diagrams. NYS Statewide Snowmobile Trail System - State trails on public and private lands. State Truck Trails Over A Half Mile - Dirt roads to explore in the backcountry. Lakes with DEC Contour Maps - A KMZ Map links to Contour Maps for Fishing. ![]() Parking and Access to Trout Streams - An interactive, downloadable KMZ Map. By WMU 2017, 2016Ģ016 -2019 Deer and Buck Harvest by Town - KMZ Spreadsheet with FIPS codes for making your own calculations. Wildlife Management Units (Deer) - KMZ Map shows the WMU boundaries. More Trailways with KMZ files including the Albany County Rail Trail, Black Diamond Trail, Catharine Valley Trail, Catskill Scenic Trail, Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Rail Trail, Genesee Valley Trail. Bicycle Trails and "Blackie" My Mountain Bikeįinally bought a mountain bike, after chewing over a mountain vs commuter bike.Įmpire Trail - KMZ and Interactive Map. Why I'm thinking about a 50 mile hike this summer, and camping in Black River/Western Adirondacks. DCNR Motorized Campsites and the Monongahela National Forest West Virginia. Overview of Camping Areas in the Catskills, Green Mountains, Southern Adirondacks, Central Adirondacks, Northern Adirondacks, Allegheny National Forest and Penna. Piseco-Powley Road - Campsite Listing, Maps and photos of 15 mile dirt road with camping.īurnt-Rossman Forest, Cattaraugus County, East Branch Sacandaga River, Finger Lakes National Forest, Madison County, Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virigina.Ĭampsite Coordinates for Bog River Flow / Lows Lake, Lake Lila, Oswegathie River, Nine-Corner Lake, Pharaoh Lake Wilderness, Saranac River Campsites, Stillwater Lake, Schoharie County, and Sugar Hill State Forest. Moose River Plains - Campsite Listing, Maps and photos of state's largest free camping area. Get latest GIS Data from state Web Services. Links to various NY State Land Websites □. ![]() You can Bulk Download New & Old USGS Topograpic Maps. Google Spreadsheet with Roadside, Primitive and Pay CampsitesĮxplore the Finger Lakes Trail, Long Path, Northville-Placid Trail and Long Trail/Appalachian in Vermont.Ĭatskill Park Mountain Peaks, Hudson Valley & Long Island Peaks, Peaks Over 3000 ft Elevation, Highest Peaks in Adirondacks, Interactive Map of All Named Summits in NYS, Blaze Colors in Catskill Park, Trailhead Parking Coordinates and Addresses in the Catskills.īrowse USGS Topo Quads as PDF □ by State Lands or County. List of NYS DEC Firetowers with map coordinates and more information. List of NYS DEC Lean-Tos with map coordinates. Interactive maps with backcountry and roadside camping: New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia & Vermont. Skip to Content □□ Our Public Lands □□ ![]()
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Lossy compression can considerably lessen an image's file size by eliminating unimportant, repetitive data. Here are the distinctions between the two. losslessĬompressing images involves two methods: lossy and lossless. ![]() ![]() "We've not seen any shift from UPS to FedEx as people get more and more concerned over the potential strike," Micheal McDonagh, president of AFS Logistics' parcel business, told CBS MoneyWatch, an observation that was confirmed by Bill Sullivan, executive vice president for advocacy at the American Trucking Associations.įedEx executives said in the company's most recent investor call that, while it was "having a lot of great conversations with legacy UPS customers," it has yet to see an influx of new business.Ī 10-day strike at UPS would cost the U.S. AFS Logistics, which tracks the shipping industry, said UPS customers have not switched to other carriers, as might be expected if they were bracing for a work stoppage. UPS is girding for a possible strike by training non-union employees at the company to work in warehouses.įor now, most businesses for which UPS is a vital lifeline still expect a strike to be averted, according to industry observers. The current UPS contract expires July 31. "Is UPS willing to take $2.8 billion in profit and give it to the part-timers - profit that was generated by us, by the rank and file? We need to exert as much power as we can and fight for as much as we can." Members of the Writers Guild of America join UPS Teamsters during a rally ahead of possible UPS strike, in Los Angeles on July 19, 2023. "This contract is about respect," he said. Despite the financial risks, he still thinks it's worth pushing for higher pay long-term. For him, that would provide a weekly check of about $350, just under half his usual earnings. In the even of a work stoppage, workers would get strike pay totaling five times their union membership dues, Negrete said. If we do strike, we need to be prepared." "I've been telling members to save as well. "Probably around September, I said, you know what, if I need to take out money for an emergency I will, but I'm not going to touch it," he told CBS MoneyWatch. Jose Francisco Negrete, a part-time package sorter and 25-year veteran at UPS in Anaheim, California, said he started saving last year, putting away $55 with every paycheck. The Teamsters have been holding practice pickets for months in preparation for a strike and, since last fall, have encouraged members to put money aside so they have a financial cushion in case of a walkout. Strikes up 50% in 2022, with workers exerting leverage in tight labor market.UPS workers vote to strike, setting stage for biggest walkout since 1959.Day a paid holiday and installing air conditioning and heat shields in delivery trucks, where summer temperatures often shoot above 110 degrees. ![]() The labor talks, while fitful, have succeeded in resolving some issues, including making Martin Luther King, Jr. "We are prepared to increase our industry-leading pay and benefits, but need to work quickly to finalize a fair deal that provides certainty for our customers, our employees and businesses across the country," UPS said in a statement on Wednesday. CEO Carol Tomé made $18.9 million that year, down from $27 million the year before. The median UPS employee made $52,000 last year, according to the company's securities filings. UPS workers hold a practice picket on July 19, 2023, in Los Angeles ahead of an August 1 deadline for an agreement on a labor contract and to avert a strike that could lead to billions of dollars in economic losses.įull-time workers at UPS, most of whom are delivery truck drivers, can make $95,000 a year or more, but they represent a minority of the workforce and face their own challenges, such as often brutal heat on the job. "I don't think it's asking anything crazy to have equal pay, doing the same jobs as full-timers inside the building," Flynn said. ![]() While neither the union nor UPS have disclosed the latest pay proposals on the bargaining table, some workers are pushing for starting pay of $25 an hour - the same amount they were making in 1983 when adjusting for inflation. However, many part-timers say that their starting pay is far below what full-time UPS workers make for doing the same job. ![]() (However, under a recent executive order addressing federal contractors, UPS must pay at least $16.20.) The company notes that part-timers make an average of $20 an hour after 30 days on the job, while enjoying the same health care and pension benefits as full-time workers. Under the current contract, part-time workers at UPS start at $15.50 an hour. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Cruz is being briefed by Joe and establishing an antagonistic personal dynamic with her that may yet – and I’m going to go out on a limb here, as only the first episode was made available for review – evolve into a relationship of mutual respect. Raargh! Marines are the best! American exceptionalism lives! This is Top Gun, but without planes! Mission Impossible, but with girls! Jacqueline Ryan, if Jack Ryan is an immediately identifiable enough spy thriller brand for that joke to work. “I have no life, sir,” she replies, and he – and I suspect a large proportion of the audience at home – responds immediately: “You do now.” Is that an endeavour you wish to pursue?” She could be one of the rare few who makes a difference individually rather than as part of the mighty marine machine, but she will have to give up the life she knew and walk away. After that she is called into her superior’s office and manages to answer with a straight face the question: “We are strong. We know she is good because we have seen her scoring off even the male charts for physical prowess in training, and acing all the mental tests. Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), who literally crashed through a recruitment office door when running from her abusive boyfriend, and discovered her calling. As luck would have it, there is a perfect candidate coming up through the ranks. Joe must now recruit a new woman for the team. Nicole Kidman as Kaitlyn Meade in Special Ops: Lioness. Kidman is kept largely in shadow, but whether this is to increase the sense of mystery about her, or because, when we do see her, it is clear that her face is now the product of an extraordinary set of choices for anyone whose livelihood might be said to depend upon the convincing expression of human emotion, I do not know. ![]() She is duly hauled in for a debriefing, where her boss (Kidman) stands up for her because girl power. We are introduced to Joe as she orders a strike on a compound in which one of her team has just been discovered by Islamic State, and is about to face a brutal death at their hands long before an extraction mission can be mounted. Her Lionesses are an undercover all-female unit dedicated to befriending the wives, girlfriends or daughters of high-value terrorist targets and then either getting them to betray the CIA’s wanted men, or simply gathering enough intel from the laydeez that the undercover marine can do it herself. She is also a wife – to a supportive husband, Neil (Dave Annable) – and a mother of two, only the eldest of whom hates her, so she is doing very well. 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Online, though, in part because it’s much easier to ascertain somebody’s views than it is the subtleties of their character, we construct our social circles around shared (and strictly policed) beliefs. ![]() In the analogue world, goodnatured people of different ideological bents intermingle perfectly fine. Elsewhere, inexplicably popular “trad” Twitter accounts like “the Cultural Tutor” repeat their one tiresome schtick: that everything humans have produced since about 1910 just flat-out sucks.Įvidently, the internet is a large part of the problem. Disenfranchised teenage boys get to look up to Andrew Tate, a man I’ve never seen smile. It seems mostly to be men at various stages of nervous breakdowns staring stony-faced into TV cameras, warning us about “The Regime” or “The Machine” coming to force fried insects down our throats. Oh, and that’s before the tiresome pedants burst out from behind the bushes to inform you that, ackshually, St George was Turkish, or love is just your neurones fizzing, or every charming cultural tradition you ever cared about is just an arbitrary, worthless invention.Īlternative media isn’t much better. They’re joined by the red-faced talk radio hosts getting endlessly exasperated with the small-town dunces phoning in. It boasts the permanently frowning Jordan Peterson and faux-macho grifters whose only idea of fun is a “joy-by-numbers” routine seemingly designed just to wind up the libs – “honey, can you take a photo of me holding this raw steak and cigar?” In the middle are “sensible” centrists from the Financial Times or Economist who just wish people would stop being so damn irrational and look at the stats. We all know the “social justice” left is plagued by interaction-by-algorithm bots like Robin DiAngelo, but the other side fields an equally dour team of anti-woke critics. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Far more important, ultimately, is a much more basic divide that cuts through all groups: that between the joyful and the humourless. None of these supposedly unbridgeable binaries actually matter. ![]() My anger, I realised, was heterodox, sparked by the woke and anti-woke, left and right, conservative and progressive, religious and atheist alike – a seemingly scattershot set of individuals. But when I started drawing Venn diagrams in my mind to distinguish those people who annoy me, I couldn’t find a consistent overlap. ![]() Instead, I thought, if I could simply figure out which Twitter subcultures really irked me, I could cut them from my timeline once and for all. My immediate reaction was to get off social media altogether, but I’m too vain for that. Somewhere between the Remainer lawyers, cartoon frogs, and Greek statues chastising me for not building gothic cathedrals any more, I suddenly realised I’d just completely lost the will to live. But one morning last week, cheerfully doomscrolling away, something inside me suddenly snapped. It’s a lifestyle hack shared by tens of thousands across the country, which goes some way to explaining why our public discourse is in such a tremendous state right now. Until recently my days generally started with the same basic wellness routine: wake up, open Twitter and allow my mind to enter into a higher state of all-encompassing rage. ![]() ![]() As it reflects the imaginations, emotions, and mental states of those within it, the Dark Place appears differently to each of those who encounter it. Through its connection to the real world, the powers of the Dark Place have the capability of turning creative works into reality. The Dark Place is a realm influenced by the mind, wherein creative acts of imagination have immense and nearly uncontrollable power. Alan Wake describes it as "conceptual and subjective," flowing rather than being solid. The Dark Place is a surreal and dreamlike dimension which undergoes constant shifts and modulations. Currently, both Zane and Wake are trapped within the Dark Place, having written themselves out of reality to prevent the Dark Presence from spreading. It was thwarted on three occasions, first by Thomas Zane, then by the Old Gods of Asgard, and most recently by Alan Wake. The Dark Presence is one such entity, which took advantage of writers and artists and attempted to use them to write itself into existence and take over the world. Over the centuries, entities from the Dark Place have attempted to enter the universe, influencing the reality surrounding Bright Falls. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dark Place's origins are unknown, though it appears to have always existed, connected to the real world through Cauldron Lake in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, among other places. ![]() ![]() Deep neural networks (DNNs) that have many hidden layers and are trained using new methods have been shown to outperform GMMs on a variety of speech recognition benchmarks, sometimes by a large margin. An alternative way to evaluate the fit is to use a feed-forward neural network that takes several frames of coefficients as input and produces posterior probabilities over HMM states as output. Most current speech recognition systems use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to deal with the temporal variability of speech and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to determine how well each state of each HMM fits a frame or a short window of frames of coefficients that represents the acoustic input. read more read lessĪbstract: Most current speech recognition systems use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to deal with the temporal variability of speech and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to determine how well each state of each HMM fits a frame or a short window of frames of coefficients that represents the acoustic input. CS theory asserts that one can recover certain signals and images from far fewer samples or measurements than traditional methods use. This article surveys the theory of compressive sampling, also known as compressed sensing or CS, a novel sensing/sampling paradigm that goes against the common wisdom in data acquisition. In the field of data conversion, standard analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology implements the usual quantized Shannon representation - the signal is uniformly sampled at or above the Nyquist rate. ![]() Conventional approaches to sampling signals or images follow Shannon's theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (Nyquist rate). In the field of data conversion, standard analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology implements the usual quantized Shannon representation - the. ![]() Abstract: Conventional approaches to sampling signals or images follow Shannon's theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (Nyquist rate). ![]() ![]() This eliminates the need for password recovery software installation. 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It’s good if you want a short play session where you feel like you can make decent progress when you don’t have a lot of time to spare. While the timer will ultimately get longer than what we see in the demo, I imagine it won’t be expanding so much from five minutes that individual sessions out in the wilderness start to last like an hour or something. This is the typical roguelite structure condensed into a micro form five minutes or so of fighting and harvesting before a brief pop back into the tower to rewind, craft a couple of things, and then head out to do it all again. I mean minutes quite literally – in the beginning your journeys into the harsh wilderness will be on a five real-life minute timer until you collect the tools needed to upgrade your time machine and extend the timer. In the tower is a machine that rolls back time before the end of the world – each time you go back, you have a few minutes to explore and get new materials before you have to return back before being caught up in the end of the world yourself. The game has a roguelite structure where you explore the world outside of the tower in short runs. The wizard’s tower serves as a permanent base where you can plant furniture without worry of it moving around – but out in the dangerous world destroyed by chaos, no structure you build will last between visits. Guns, bullets, potions, and facilities or furniture can all be crafted, with the latter being placable in the environment with the help of your world building gun. Destroying things in the environment like trees or abandoned structures or furniture provides materials that you can then use to craft. Wizard with a Gun begins with a short tutorial in which you learn the basics of shooting and crafting. You do this by rebuilding a wizard’s tower complete with all the crafting stations and magical ephemera needed to shoot Cthulhu in the face. As seemingly the last remaining wizard, you must turn back the clock and undo the damage in an effort to restore the world to normal. Introduced during Devolver’s Summer Games Fest presentation with a lovely musical animatic, Wizard with a Gun tells the story of a world destroyed by the eldritch forces of chaos. The world is crumbling around you.Have you ever been redecorating your home and thought “this would be so much easier if I could just shoot everything?” This appears to be the gameplay premise of Devolver Digital’s Wizard with a Gun, a game about…well, about wizards with guns. That’s right: all of your worst fears about video game reviews being paid for are accurate. This article is sponsored by Devolver Digital. If people think that our game Wizard with a Gun can’t possibly live up to the premise of that title, I hope they reconsider the simple pleasure of embodying a wizard who has somehow obtained a gun.”Īt press time, Galvanic Games was reportedly working on a followup game to their upcoming release titled Wizard with Two Guns. “Why is everyone trying so hard with these crazy premises? ‘Uhhh what if there was an elden ring?’ Bro just take an already-cool thing and add a second already-cool thing. Give a wizard a gun,” said a developer at Galvanic Games. “Everyone always talks about how hard it is to come up with a good idea for a video game. I’m gonna buy it and play it, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve been hurt too many times to get my hopes up for something.”Īccording to the developers of Wizard with a Gun, the title was a big part of the decision-making process. You think I’m stupid? It’s 2022 and I know way better than to get this excited for something. “And then I go on Steam and see that Wizard with a Gun is an online co-op sandbox survival game? And it’s published by Devolver? Come on, man. It’s like calling your game Really Cool Action Sequences or calling your game This Video Game Will Have Sex With You,” said gamer Ed Lester. Because that title is so appealing as a concept that there’s no way for the game to reach that potential. “If you call your game Wizard with a Gun, you’re asking for trouble. SEATTLE - Gamers around the world have reacted to the upcoming Devolver Digital and Galvanic Games co-op survival sandbox Wizard with a Gun with worry that no gameplay could possibly live up to such a title. ![]() |
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