Our state overall has been doing much better than many others from a Covid transmission perspective, so things have been reopening. Bucket List & To-Do’s Take a couple of local nice-weather day trips We’re blessed to live about an hour away from Mystic, one of my favorite places in Connecticut. I hope the warm weather continuing will help me get into reading. I’m finding that working from home, for some reason, makes me read LESS and not more. While my reading has been shit, I usually can count on my nice porch to bring my reading mojo back. I write similar posts every year, where I share the items on my summertime bucket list and the summery or beach-setting books I hope to read. I purchased this Productivity Planner based on the block scheduling system she has, which I talk about Productivity Planner I linked a lot of videos by Jordan Page (Fun Cheap or Free) and while I don’t think I love her from a personal perspective (feel free to do your own research), I think a lot of the tips and methods make sense. This is my current planner for events (lol – what are events?) or appointments. You can read my detailed review from when I first got this HERE. I will admit that I don’t currently use the to-do lists as much or the daily page planning, but I do sometimes! I just have a lot of planners and find that I don’t keep this tab open on my computer screen like I used to when working in the office? Not sure why. Personal Planning Artful Agenda I still use my Artful Agenda, as it syncs up all of my digital calendars and keeps them in one place. I have a lot of planners this year because I personally found that I need to keep things separate in order to be successful. I always love sharing my planner setup for the year! I did still use my planners last year, for the most part – I know 2020 was a bizarre year to try to plan but I usually need SOMETHING to physically or digitally keep track of things, even if it’s just monitoring daily to-dos for work or blogging. I need a helmet and then I’ll be good to go! 4. Use my roller skates I bought skates a year ago and have been generally too afraid to use them after I fell in the house lol. If it’s not raining and not a million degrees, I need to enjoy my porch while I can! 3. Read on the porch/outside every nice day I know this is a big-sounding goal (“every day”) but it’s pretty reasonable as long as I’m home! I can take my lunch outside with the pup and read or sit on the porch after work to read a chapter or two. I love reading under an umbrella and now I have some decent bathing suits too! 2. I hope Chris and I manage to go a few times (especially in Maine – we’re hoping to get back up there during the Fourth of July holiday weekend). ![]() Go to the beach more than once I’m not huge on the beach usually but I had a great time last summer going with some of my aunts, cousins, and sister. Bring on the beach reads! Summer TBR Summery Review Copies & Upcoming Releases Backlist Summer Stories Summer Plans & Bucket List 1. Then, you can refer people too □.I used to write these all the time and got back into it last year, so here we are again with a somewhat similar post! I really am hoping to read some good seasonal stories this year because I failed with last summer’s TBR. It’s perfect!Ĭheck it out and use my code RA41437! They have a free trial and if you decide you want it, I get a little toward my next year’s planner. It syncs all my calendars, has lists…omg, the lists…weekly views, monthly goals. I’ve used it exclusively since the summer. This will allow my husband to add things to our family calendar, my staff planners to add weddings and events, and my assistant to access and see when I am available. It was a digital planner that synced ALL my calendars AND it had an app for my phone. Of course, you can’t do anything without being tracked so one day as I was scrolling my Facebook feed a sponsored ad showed up. I began my search for the solution for the perfect planner. As a wedding planner and mom, dates and deadlines are essential knowledge. So, this presented a problem with keeping track of everything. And another problem was that I could accidentally misplace or forget a paper planner, whereas I NEVER forget my phone. Sometimes I need my bag for work also, so I will add my computer and that is all I can fit and sometimes…actually many times. ![]() Like seriously, I have a giant mom bag that holds more than I need, but when I don’t have my kids with me, I only carry a wallet, phone and key. My problem was that I hate carrying a purse. From little rinky purse calendars to big ol’ appointment planners, I ❤LOVE❤PLANNERS! I am a planner that loves planners! I will check out paper planners every single time I walk by any in a store. Its 2020 Planner time and I wanted to share with you what I use.
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![]() The Definition of Ready should support that and should not impose too many rules on the product owner and the team, as Stefan Roock explains in Definition of Ready: A double edged sword: At the same time, it helps the team even more as team-members no longer wait endlessly for blockers to get resolved during Sprint.Īgile intends that business people and developers work together daily and use face 2 face communication as much as possible. ![]() Working towards “Readiness of the stories” helps the Product Owner in a tremendous way in organizing herself better. Shrikant mentioned the benefits that the Definition of ready can bring: ![]() For some stories, Product Owner takes a note of unanswered questions and park those stories for further analysis. This process continues during entire duration of the session for other stories as well. Team then estimates the user-story in story points. The product owner and the team work together to first define the user story and then do the planning:Īs user-story becomes clear and team doesn’t have any unanswered question or blocker remaining, the story is considered READY. Simply put, any user-story coming inside Sprint backlog has to be READY and any user-story moving out of Sprint must be DONE. In the blog post improve sprint throughput with “definition of ready” Shrikant Vashishtha explains how the Definition of Ready can be used to solve the problem of teams working on half baked stories. Reduce “requirements churn" in development.Reduce pressure on the team to commit to estimates before stories are “Ready”.Keep the team accountable to each other.Help the team identify when the product owner or another team member becomes overwhelmed.Ensure that product backlog items have been thought through “just enough”.What are the benefits that a properly structured DoR can bring to teams? Alan has listed them: While the DoR can be used for multiple artifacts and activities (Product Backlog, Sprint Review, etc), for new teams I prefer to start with a DoR for backlog item readiness, which introduces the concept into planning preparation, an important part of the work stream. While the value of the Definition of Done (DoD) and Team Working Agreement have long been understood by serious agile teams, in my experience, the Definition of Ready (DoR) is one of the least utilized, yet more powerful tools an agile team can employ. He explains how the Definition of Ready can be used to check the quality of the user stories before bringing them into the planning game: But what about the user stories that a team receives from their product owner? Teams can check the quality of the user stories using a Definition of Ready.Īlan Bustamante wrote a blog post about defining ready, an essential practice for increasing your agile team's planning productivity. Many teams use the Definition of Done to check if a user story is finished and the product is ready to be delivered. If the player lets a zombie reach the house on those versions, the "GAME OVER" dialog box will appear immediately, and "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS" cutscene and text will not be shown thus only the game over music is played, and the "NOOOOO!" scream and biting sound will not be heard (similar to Last Stand, I, Zombie Endless, Vasebreaker Endless, and Zombiquarium).Now, almost 22 years later, Plants vs Zombies is still a very popular game. Since then, numerous Plants vs Zombies sequels, franchises, and spin-offs have been created to entertain players from around the world. ![]() Zombies 2 where if the player completes a level without completing the objective, it will cause the loss of a level. Posted on SeptemPlants vs Zombies first came out in 2009, and it quickly became a crowd-favorite in many countries. Multiplier drops when not defeating zombies or plants are destroyed" of Plants vs. The iOS and Android version of the mini-game is similar to the objectives "Produce at least (X) sun", "Defeat (X) zombies in (Y) seconds" since the 1.7 update, and "Survive and beat (X) pts.The Icon in the PC version is used in the hidden minigame Air Raid.In where the minigame is renamed to " Future Star Leads the Future".This is the only free minigame in Plants vs. ![]()
Naunyn and Schreiber (1881) understood the relationship between increased ICP with pupil dilation and decreased pulse frequency and blood pressure, warning not to decrease the latter. Probably confusing irritation (epileptic head turning to the other side with pupil dilation) and lesion effects, he suggested a cortical area responsible for oculomotor phenomena, indicating what is now known as the frontal eye field. He distinguished the extent of pressure increase and its duration. In 1880, von Bergmann emphasized the significance of the ipsilateral dilation in experiments as well as in clinical cases. Pagenstecher in 1871 extended knowledge by meticulously studying consecutive pupil phenomena with increasing pressure. Asymmetrical dilation could not always be attributed to increased ICP, but to an oculomotor nerve lesion. Along with bradycardia and motor and respiratory effects, he noticed wide pupils were usually present in a comatose state. Von Leyden's 1866 animal experiments, in which he increased CSF volume by injecting protein solutions intracranially, was the first observation in which the association between fixed dilated pupils and increased ICP was established. Realizing the unreliability of the pupil sign, Hutchinson in 1867–1868 tried to reason in which cases trepanation would be advisable. Bright demonstrated to have some knowledge of the pupil sign (clinical observations). He described dilated pupils in clinical cases without referring to the effect of light. ![]() Cooper experimented with intracranial pressure (ICP) in a dog in the 1830s, but did not mention the pupils. Medical and neurological textbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries were reviewed to investigate when and how this information percolated through neurological and neurosurgical practices. ![]() ![]() Starting from Kocher's standard review in 1901, the authors studied German, English, and French texts for historical information. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of ideas about the nature and mechanism of the fixed dilated pupil, paying particular attention to experimental conditions and clinical observations in the 19th century. ![]() It's also about the troupes that have been together for years and grown into rich ensembles, about Austin improvisers whose reputations have grown in the international improv community and are in demand as teachers and performers around the world, about the individuals who have built the theatres where improvisers have honed their skills, and about an open community of improvisers who support and encourage one another. Oh, and the audiences to fill those 1,800 shows.īut that growth isn't only about numbers. And even once improv did take root here, it took more than a decade for the number of homegrown troupes to hit the double digits.īut in the past 10 years, improv's expansion locally has been explosive, turning Austin into a Spindletop of "yes, and" – a boomtown boasting four theatres showcasing improv year-round, all offering performances and classes, plus an institute providing personal education and corporate training (put them together and you have what's jokingly called the "Five Families of Austin improv") nationally recognized festivals and, between the theatres and fests, 1,800 improv performances annually. Until the mid-Eighties, the capital of Texas hadn't much use for improvisation, preferring its humor from stand-up comics and sketch troupes like Esther's Follies. Talk about an unlikely place for a crowd to gather. They combine and collaborate in scores of troupes, as varied in style and hard to track as local bands, and every few months, they congregate in festivals so well-established that they draw improvisers here from across the nation. They present dozens of different shows weekly, everything from short-form competitions to long-form narratives based on literary and film genres to stories for kids narrated by a dog (with an actual dog onstage). Several hundred are said to be active at present, and you can find them making instant theatre across the city seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. They are improvisers, and Austin is overrun with them. They are adepts of spontaneity, practitioners of the unpredictable. They set out with no preconceived direction for their tale, no destination or path to move along they just pull character, narrative, emotion, and, yes, pratfalls and punch lines out of thin air as they go. With no more than a simple suggestion – say, an unlikely place for a crowd to gather, like a broccoli farm or the bottom of the sea – these artists can spin a story as elaborate as one of Scheherazade's, with vivid characters, winding plots, and sudden surprises. ![]() Satisfied with the continuous integration of the floor from outdoors to indoors.” - Greg Wright Architects / SITE Interior Design. “The wonder of Quartz Carpet is the seamless finish that can be created. 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The episode introduced his terminally ill, cryogenically frozen wife Nora, which explained his obsession with ice and need to build a criminal empire to raise research funds. Freeze's origin in " Heart of Ice", an episode by writer Paul Dini. Nearly 30 years later, a television adaptation of Batman revitalized him once again. Zero, he was renamed and popularized by the 1960s Batman television series, in which he was played by three different actors ( George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach). Freeze is a rogue scientist whose design for an "ice gun" backfires when he inadvertently spills cryogenic chemicals on himself, resulting in him needing sub-zero temperatures to survive. ![]() In the Pre- Crisis continuity, it is explained that Mr. Otto Schivel", but the name never carried over to the comic books. Freeze and portrayed Batman addressing him as " Dr. Zero in the comics, but the producers of the 1960s Batman television series renamed him Mr. From the time of his first appearance in 1959, the character was portrayed as one of many "joke" villains cast as stock enemies of Batman. Freeze made his first appearance in Batman #121 (February 1959), and was created by Dave Wood, Sheldon Moldoff and Bob Kane. Michael Ansara, Clancy Brown, Maurice LaMarche, and others have provided his voice in media ranging from animation to video games. The character has been adapted in various media incarnations, having been portrayed in live-action by George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach in the 1960s Batman television series, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and Nathan Darrow in the Fox crime drama Gotham. Fries turns to crime to find a cure for his wife's illness through any means necessary, which often puts him into conflict with Batman. The accident drastically lowered his body temperature to sub-zero levels, forcing him to wear a cryogenic suit in order to survive. Victor Fries, a cryogenics expert in Gotham City who was caught in a laboratory mishap whilst attempting to cure his terminally ill wife, Nora. ![]() Freeze into becoming one of Batman's most enduring enemies belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. Dini's depiction of the character as a tragic villain popularized Mr. ![]() Freeze" and, years later, received a revamped origin story based on the one conceived by writer Paul Dini for Batman: The Animated Series. Created by Dave Wood, Sheldon Moldoff and Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Batman #121 (February 1959) as the ice-based criminal Mr. Freeze ( Victor Fries) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Variant cover art of Batman - One Bad Day: Mister Freeze #1 (November 2022). ![]() Plus, they have an in-house master sommelier, meaning you can find the perfect wine pairings for whatever dish you choose. Either way, youre going to get excellent cuts of meat, prepared masterfully, and seasoned with distinctly Mediterranean flavors. If you wanted larger plates, go for the pork shoulder or pork belly. Their roasted bone marrow is an absolute must-try, as is the pork liver pate. However, if you really want to experience the best pork preparations in the city, this is the place to go. Thats why its so impressive that Flacos Tacos has risen above the rest in order to be named our favorite taco place around the Hancock Center. ![]() I’m a local Chicago girl, and this is a prime spot to enjoy!”Īlso Check: Paying Tickets Online Chicago Best Tacos Flacos Tacosĭespite being far north of the border, Chicago is earning a reputation for amazing Mexican food. 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The observation deck elevators in the John Hancock Center, were manufactured by Otis, and travel 96 floors at a top speed of 1,800 ft/min. Including its two antennas, the John Hancock Center has a height of 1,500 feet, making it the fourth highest building in Chicago and the thirty-third tallest building in the world when measured to pinnacle height. Its first resident was Ray Heckla, the original building engineer, responsible for the residential floors from 44 to 92. The owner went bankrupt, which resulted in John Hancock taking over the project, which retained the original design, architect, engineer and main contractor. This forced the owner to stop development until the engineering problem could be resolved, and resulted in a credit crunch. The engineers were getting the same soil settlements after the first 20 stories had been built as they expected for the entire 99 stories. Construction of the tower was interrupted in 1967 due to a flaw that was discovered in an innovative engineering method used to pour concrete in stages. History Of The John Hancock Centerįinanced by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, the building was originally conceived to be the world’s second tallest building. So, if youre looking for a taste of the country and overly generous portions, you cant go wrong with this brunch hotspot. |
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