"As they dug through piles of books, watched movies and spoke with Philadelphians far and wide, along with more than 1,000 kids, they found a common thread…a special creature…whose ancestors had been a part of the city’s history from the start.When George Washington crossed the Delaware, a blue tail was wagging in the boat.When our nation’s forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, a blue paw was found on the scroll.A blue mouth dragged Ben Franklin to safety after he was struck by lightning and discovered electricity.A furry blue flash ran alongside Rocky Balboa, and put two paws in the air when he reached the top of the Art Museum steps.There were tiny teeth marks in the paper Wilt Chamberlain held for the cameras after his historic 100-point game.Blue paws were seen pacing behind the Sixers bench in the days of Dr. Here is the 76ers’ explanation as to how they decided to go with Franklin as their mascot: The team decided to have a “kids-only Chief Design Team” lead the search for a new mascot. Philadelphia’s mascot is Franklin, a blue dog who the team introduced back in 2015. But the name itself was chosen by a contest winner, Walt Stahlberg, after the Syracuse Nationals were moved to Philadelphia. Why are they called the 76ers?Īccording to the 76ers’ team website, the name 76ers came from the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which was penned and signed in 1776. They received the fourth-seed in the Eastern Conference bracket of the NBA Playoffs, and have to take on the Toronto Raptors.įor those wondering how Philadelphia’s NBA team received their name and what their mascot is, we have you covered. ![]() The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to win their first NBA championship since 1983, when they swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals. Here is why the team is called the 76ers. The Philadelphia 76ers face off against the Toronto Raptors in the first-round of the NBA Playoffs.
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![]() Data frames are very powerful tools for data storage, not only in Python but also in R. DataFrame Why Should a Data Frame Be Converted Into Parquet?Īs you may know, a data frame is the most important and frequently used data structures of the Pandas library. In the following line, we are printing this data frame using print(). This dictionary is then converted to a Data Frame with the help of a method- pd.DataFrame(). The values corresponding to these keys are enclosed in square brackets. ![]() Next, we create a data dictionary with two keys: Height and Weight. In the first line, we import the Pandas library in our environment with its standard alias name-pd. Let us take a quick look at the explanation. The code for creating a data frame with the help of a dictionary is shown below. Check out this post on how to filter a data frame.Ī simple example of creating a data frame is given below. What is a Data Frame?Ī data frame is a 2D table structure that stores values in rows and columns.Ī data frame may have thousands of rows of data, of which only a few would be useful. Parquet files are self-describing, making them easy to work with using processing tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Impala, etc. Storing data in the Parquet file might also reduce the internal input-output operations of your system and reduce complexity.Īlso, unlike CSV, a parquet format supports nested data structures and is well-compatible with Apache Arrow tables. When stored in a columnar structure, the data becomes easy to query. So what is the use of columnar storage, you may ask? Well, when the data (complex and large) is stored in a column-wise structure rather than in rows, it allows for more efficient compression and encoding of the data. It is mainly used for big data processing as it can efficiently process and manipulate large, complex data. Parquet is a storage format based on columnar storage of data. The to_parquet of the Pandas library is a method that reads a DataFrame and writes it to a parquet format.īefore learning more about the to_parquet method, let us dig deep into what a Parquet format is and why we should use Parquet. ![]() I then spend time working on the grass in the foreground building up the texture and details. I add further details into the pine trees and I am using lighter tones with each pass. I will be saving my lightest values un til the end of the painting. As I build up the details in the trees, grass and sky I had lighter layers of paint. I have kept all of my colours a little one the darker side so I have plenty of room to add lighter colours and tones as I work through the painting. I have found the 3/8” and 1/4” dagger brushes to be very useful for painting tree foliage as you can get a variety of marks that communicate dense tree foliages and pine needles. My brushes begin to get small as I start getting into details. I work on the trees in the background as well as the main stand of trees in the foreground. I am essentially using the same general colour combinations that I was using during the blocking in stage. Once the painting is dry I can begin adding details. The blocking in stage should serve as a solid foundation for the painting. I also make sure that the colours and values are working and that an atmospheric depth is being created in the painting.Īt this stage of the painting I ask myself if everything is working so far and if I am happy I will let the painting dry so I can proceed to the next stage which is modelling and adding details. When I complete the blocking-in stage of the painting I want to make sure that the tonal dynamic is working in the painting. I can increase the saturation by mixing in a little phthalo green. I then make the value lighter by adding titanium white. I mix the green of the grass with a combination of ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow, a little cadmium orange and a tiny amount of quinacridone crimson. Trees are often some of the darkest values in the landscape whereas grass is much lighter. The green of the grass in the foreground is light in value and lighter than the pine trees. I can also vary the hue by adding in a little burnt sienna. I round off the colour with cadmium orange and quinacridone crimson. I then increase the saturation by adding cadmium yellow to the mix which also makes the value lighter. To mix this green I start with yellow oxide and ultramarine blue. The pine trees in the foreground are darker in value and more saturated. ![]() I then round off the mixture with quinacridone crimson to add a red element in the mix. To do this I mix ultramarine blue with yellow oxide to start with and then some titanium white. In general greens can be desaturated by adding a colour opposite and / or using low chroma colours. The green in the distant hills is desaturated so I need to mix a low chroma green otherwise it won’t recede in the painting. I paint the shadows areas in the fields and distant hills. I mixed this with a combination of ultramarine blue, yellow oxide and burnt sienna. The shadows in the group of trees in the foreground are the darkest value in the painting. The colour for the mid ground trees which are also in shadow was mixed with a combination of ultramarine blue, yellow oxide, burnt sienna, quinacridone crimson and titanium white. ![]() I use the same colour mixture for the trees on the distant hills but I darken the value by using less titanium white in my mix. For this I mix a combination of ultramarine blue, burnt sienna which takes out some of the saturation in the blue, quinacridone crimson which adds a violet tint and then I lighten the value with titanium white. I begin painting the lightest of my shadows first which are in the clouds. By doing this it’ll be much easier to achieve atmospheric perspective in the painting and get the saturation of my colours correct. Once I have sketched out my composition I begin blocking-in the painting and I start by painting all of my shadows and dark values first. I am using Liquin as a medium to thin the paint, it also has the advantage of speeding up the drying time. I sketch out the composition using a No.2 round brush with burnt sienna mixed with Liquin Original (Liquin). ![]() The burnt sienna adds vibrancy to the painting. I am painting on a 16” x 20” Belgian linen stretcher that I toned with a layer of burnt sienna. Here is a list of the brushes I used in this painting: I painted this artwork using oil paint and the colours I used in this painting are as follows: Centred objects form a displeasing static within a composition and should be avoided. I have made sure that the trees are of different shapes and sizes as well as making sure they are not in the centre of the composition. This landscape painting features a ‘group mass’ composition where the stand of trees is the main focal area of the painting. (Conceptually, I think that could interact with the Harbor in a really nice way.) Maybe then going Commercial could be useful as another counter option to turtling (assuming Shiro continues to buff towers/Guardian, which I hope they do). It'd be cute if there was some way to connect lighthouse production to scouting/total number of tiles discovered. As long as that's the case, they might be kinda hosed as a clan. Raven *needs* to be worse at the 802 rush if they're going to be given bonuses to Great Trades. Over-tuning Raven would make the "build-order problem" 1000x worse if spending on Great Trades became empirically better than spending on Warband. Commercial victory is only interesting in PvP if it remains somewhat interactive and it's only interactive if you're forced to choose between spending on defense and investing in Great Trades. The existence of Raven makes the metagame very unstable. Steam News Twitter Facebook Instagram Store. Discord General Console Discord Adopt a Villager Official Steam Group Wiki & Steam Forums. Having problems on which flair to assign? Northgard Beginners Guide Top Streamers.Įntertainment VOD Discussion Join the community. You should also check the Shiro Games FAQ.ĭon't forget to assign a flair to your submission afterwards! Please take consideration of the Subreddit FAQ before posting. Read before posting.ĭo not hesitate to post your comments, info, screenshots, stories, videos and so on! Every contribution is welcome as long as it respects Reddit's rules. ![]() The game is developed by Shiro Games, an independant french studio particularly known for the Evoland series. Northgard is a real-time strategy game set in a Norse mythologic universe. Always up to date Northgard Patch Notes thread - PC What is Northgard? ![]() Simulator takes Realistic battles, forces you into a commander's hatch view without any markers of teammates (Meaning you have to know if that is a Russian tank or a German tank.) Pro tip: If it's green/olive, it's Russian. ![]() If you're playing Realistic you might as well play Simulator. Realistic in War Thunder is Arcade without the aiming assistance and enhanced damage. tl dr HEAT is basically launching molten lava that lasts for a milisecond inside the tankĪrcade in War Thunder is a more realistic WoT. If it doesn't hit anything immediately after entry it just dissipates. After it goes through the armour, that's it. HEAT is better for destroying ammo and killing crew (theoretically) as it is a hot jet of copper burning through the armour. If it doesn't hit anything critical (ammo, engine, crewmembers etc) it does pretty much nothing. War Thunder logic: It's much more complicated than that.ĪPCR just punches a small hole, nothing else. WoT logic: Whatever has the best penetration wins! (APCR and HEAT) A HUGE change I would like to see would be the option to queue in realistic-mechanics-only mode or something, a mode that is realism or simulator battles, but does not have historical accuracy (German and Russian tanks fight German and Russian tanks like on Arcade), so that queuing can be improved. Add internal cabin views so that we can have an actual simulator battle mode. Likewise sim-battles become realism battles. Some things Gaijin could do could include adding more tanks (pretty simple), turn the current realism mode into the arcade mode, and scrap the current arcade mode. It needs to become better than World of Tanks, not just because it will make War Thunder great, but it will also be more incentive for Wargaming to make World of Tanks even better. However, World of Tanks also has hundreds and hundreds of tanks to choose from, while the choices currently in War Thunder are limiting (and only because the USSR and Germany are the only nations with tanks ATM), and the variety of tanks surely is a feature. The tanks in War Thunder also feel like tanks, rather than toy models I got from Memoir '44 the board game. ![]() APCR and HEAT have huge drawbacks to their advantages, whilst in World of Tanks APCR and HEAT are generally better than AP in almost any situation. Right now, I think World of Tanks has better gameplay, but in War Thunder there is no feeling of being "spammed" by someting. Realism mode just seems like it is what the Arcade mode SHOULD be.Įach game is good in its own respect. Arcade mode is MORE arcady than World of Tanks (sure, no hit points, but you got an aim marker that indicates EXACTLY where your shot will land, not a recticule). I mean, yeah, the realism on War Thunder is fun.assuming you get into a game in the first place. If you attack the cap you tend to be allone against 3-4 others on other team while the rest of your team camps and then when you tell them what needs to be done you get the "STFU noob I killed 5 tanks you killed only one" treatment while the enemy is 3 capping us to another loss.Īt the moment, I feel War Thunder is lagging behind World of Tanks for ground combat. If you sit back and rack up kills you look good on your teams list but you tend to fight away from any meaningful area. I managed to have a respectable 56% win rate over 10.000 games playing solo most of the time in WoT and I carried teams on my own on many ocasions but it's pretty much impossible to carry teams on your own in WT. Previous experience with WoT helps with WT but not a lot. If you can get 3-4 people on a team with some fast medium tanks who know what needs to be done it's easy but when you land on a team where you are the only one going after the objective it becomes frustrating as hell. The problem with that is that most people are simply sitting back and sniping completely ignoring the objectives. ![]() Then you get modes where you fight over 3 different flags where objective is to cap and hold and let the enemy victory points bleeed out basically. The downside with simulation is that not many people play it and you have to wait a while for battles. It's still early to judge them but only playable mode right now seems to be simulation because you have to account for shelldrop and not everyone can take out your gun with first shot by putting a projectile straight through your barel from 500 meters away like they can in arcade mode. WT has much better air battles than WoWP but ground combat is way behind WoT. ![]() I would even go as far as to say I kind of enjoyed it, to a certain degree. The actors did a pretty good job overall, and it isn’t outrightly a bad movie. ![]() I won’t lie, I struggled for quite a while on what to write about Songbird. All their plans turn upside down when Sara’s grandmother gets the virus, and the Department of Sanitation comes to their house to take them away to the Q-Zone. They keep their relationship afloat with the hope that one day they will be able to be together and escape the city (and seemingly an abundance of FaceTime calls). Sara is in lockdown with her grandmother, but Nico somehow has one of the very rare immunity bracelets and is working as a delivery boy in the outside world. The story follows a few different families and the struggles they are facing with the pandemic, but focuses mainly on the love story between Nico (KJ Apa) and Sara (Sofia Carson). ![]() It’s noted in the film that those who go in pretty much never come out. Those who are infected with the virus are taken to a space called the “Q-Zone”, presumably standing for quarantine zone, which resembles very much like a concentration camp atmosphere. The virus COVID-23 is rampant, and this time, it’s also airborne. Los Angeles is in a full lockdown, in which nobody can leave their homes without getting shot on the spot, aside from a handful of people who have something called an “immunity bracelet”. Songbird, for those of you who don’t know, is about a group of various individuals living amid a pandemic some time in a futuristic world. Identification of fine-grained minerals such as clays and mixed layer clays that are difficult to determine opticallyĮ: This email address is being protected from spambots.Characterization of crystalline materials.NCESS primarily uses the facility in geological application, few which are in Environmental Studies, mineral identification and genesis, stratigraphic analysis and in mineral-resource assessments. The XRD facility at NCESS, commissioned in 2006, consists of a PANalytical 3 kW X’pert PRO X-ray diffractometer. Due to this versatility XRD finds wide range of applications in geology, material science, environmental science, chemistry, forensic science, pharmaceutical industry and others. to study how c depends on the base pair composition and sequence. The same approach may be used for X-ray diffraction studies of different kinds of B-DNA molecules, e.g. Wavelength of laser radiation : 632.8 nm. Distance between the spring and the screen : D 8.25 m. In addition, strain analysis and determination of the degree of crystallization can also be assessed. Subsequent analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns validated these estimates and provided a more accurate value for c (Figure 5). From the theory of diffraction, knowing the spacing, the minor and the major, we know how to calculate the linear dimensions of the obstacles that caused the diffraction. XRD helps in identifying different phases with identical compositions with finer details of the crystal structure, such as the state of atomic “order”. example of X-ray diffraction is the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA in 1953 by an international team of scientists working at England’s Cavendish LaboratoryAmerican. This helps us in understanding details of the crystal structure for the substance. The process is called X-ray diffraction, and it involves the interference of X-rays to produce patterns that can be analyzed for information about the. Atomic-level spacing within the crystal lattice of the specimen can be obtained by the results. XRD measures the intensities of a reflected X-Ray beam from a small area. Determination of unknown solids is critical to various geological applications. X-ray diffraction is most widely used for the identification of unknown crystalline materials (e.g. X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a rapid analytical technique primarily used for phase identification of a crystalline material and can provide information on unit cell dimensions. ![]() ![]() The functionality of FreeHand includes flexibility of the application in the wide design environment, catering to the output needs of both traditional image reproduction methods and to contemporary print and digital media with its page-layout capabilities and text attribute controls. Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia Freehand and Aldus Freehand) is mainly used by professional graphic designers.Flash uses Actionscript for OOP, and has full XML functionality through E4X support. The most important of these tools are vector lines and fills with bitmap-like selectable areas, simple modification of curves via the "selection" or the control points/handles through "direct selection" tools. Adobe Flash (formerly a Macromedia product) has straightforward vector editing tools that make it easier for designers and illustrators to use.On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that Fireworks would be phased out. Some support for exporting to SVG is available via a free Export extension. Fireworks can also open FWPNG/PNG, PSD, AI, EPS, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF file formats, and save/export to FWPNG/PNG, PSD, AI (v.8), FXG (v.2.0), JPG, GIF, PDF, SWF and some others. Fireworks can manage the PSD and AI file formats which enables it to be integrated with other Adobe apps. The Fireworks editable PNG file format is not supported by other Adobe products. It is easier to learn than other products and can produce complex vector artwork. Adobe Fireworks has a competitive price, but its features can seem limited in comparison with other products. The native Fireworks file format is editable PNG (FWPNG or PNG). This means it is mostly used for screen design. Fireworks supports RGB color scheme and has no CMYK support. Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) is a vector editor with bitmap editing capabilities with its main purpose being the creation of graphics for Web and screen.This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up-to-date. See the article on each editor for further information. The tables in this article compare general and technical information for a number of vector graphics editors. ![]() Another important factor is the application's support of various vector and bitmap image formats for import and export. Some programs are more suitable for artistic work while others are better for technical drawings. Potential users of these editors will make a comparison of vector graphics editors based on factors such as the availability for the user's platform, the software license, the feature set, the merits of the user interface (UI) and the focus of the program. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī number of vector graphics editors exist for various platforms. ![]()
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Please review the following basic rules that govern your use of our site. This site is provided by as a service to our customers. ![]() “It all goes into the same bank account,” Jerrier says. He hasn’t seen a dip in sales since Thunderbird Pies opened last year. Jerrier says he wasn’t worried about putting two pizza places right next to each other because they offer different styles and experiences. But they had enough room for a counter, some tables and their ice cream concept, Cow Tipping Creamery. Originally, they expected the restaurant to offer only delivery and takeout. After some back-and-forth, Jerrier took the spot. The brewery next door was moving, leaving the space open. So as pandemic-related restrictions loosened, the landlord of Cane Rosso’s White Rock location approached Jerrier with a deal. As they increased the supply, the demand followed. Thunderbird Pies launched as a ghost kitchen with only about 30 pizzas available each day. The sauce is poured on top after the pizza is baked. Once they attracted a fanbase, they found a restaurant space in Deep Ellum and founded the first Cane Rosso in 2011.ĭetroit-style pizza is crispy on the bottom, lighter in the middle, heavy on toppings and has a caramelized cheese crust around the edge. ![]() He named the pop-up Cane Rosso after his vizslas, which have red fur. ![]() In 2010, Jerrier took his mobile wood-burning pizza oven to do pop-ups at Times Ten Cellars and the old Chocolate Angel at Preston-Forest. At first he was terrible, he says, but he eventually improved. And that’s when Jerrier got a wood-burning oven and started experimenting with making pizza. Jerrier and his family moved to Lucas, Texas, and had a lot of space in the backyard. And after that trip, I became obsessed with how am I going to make this pizza at home.” “And I was living near New York at the time, so everyone was like, ‘Oh you’re going to hate the pizza up there in Italy.’ But I just fell in love with it. “That was the first time I ever really had true, Italian, wood-burning pizza,” Jerrier says. So after their nuptials, Jerrier and Karen Smith headed to Europe for a 14-day cruise around France and Italy. But GE Capital only allowed employees to bring spouses on trips, not fiancees or other partners. With recipes and technique from World Pizza Champion, Lee Hunzinger, and execution and logistics from Chef Jeff Bekavac, Thunderbird Pies is here to deliver Detroit-style pies to Dallas-Fort Worth.It was 1995, and the company Jerrier worked for, GE Capital, awarded him the trip because of his contributions to the business. With takeout and delivery being the only viable source of business during a global pandemic, Thunderbird Pies launched as a delivery-only Detroit-style pizza joint based in North Dallas and has quickly expanded to Fort Worth. Address: 3501 Hulen St., Fort Worth, TX 76107Ībout: ADVERSITY BREEDS INNOVATION!! Corona times gave the culinary team behind two of Texas’ most acclaimed pizzerias (Cane Rosso & Zoli’s Pizza), time to experiment with a style of pizza that they knew and loved from some of their favorite pizza joints in the US, but didn’t have easy access to in Dallas, TX. |
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