Even as of October 2018, all we have are “we’ll possibly have a release by this time” and “we’re currently working on that feature”, but it’s been in production for 6 years now and we’re no closer to an actual release than we were when we found out about the game. Every year players get their hopes up for Peria Chronicles, only to be left. Original post published on FreeMMOStation.Players have, for the most part, however, been left in the dark with regards to the release of the game. In this specific case, we’ll probably know in a couple of years, when Peria Chronicles launches to much fanfare/is officially canceled (delete as appropriate). Peria Chronicles may be one more in a long line of games that fail to fulfill their promises, which ultimately begs the following question: are we, the players, asking too much, or are the developers simply aiming for more than they can possibly deliver? Through the years, I’ve grown weary of game announcements that seem to tick all the right boxes, and then some. Building intricate homes, sculpting and moulding the terrain, and collecting Kirana and throwing them at whatever got in my way, if the combat system was up to scratch. When something of this ilk happens, it is usually a sign that one of two things is happening: either the game is going through a reboot or streamlining process, or it is purely going to be quietly abandoned on the grounds of unsurpassable technical difficulties.Īs a huge fan of MMOs and particularly of those where I can spend most of my time tending to things and exploring the locations instead of fighting, I could see myself spending quite some time in Peria Chronicles’ charming and customizable world. It was no easy task for sure but given the feature-packed nature of such a game and, to some extent, its revolutionary core, there was a strong possibility that these challenges would arise.įrom alluring concept to big question mark, Peria Chronicles is now emanating this deafening silence, as if those obstacles have turned into insurmountable tasks. In the meantime, a few official reports popped up mentioning “unexpected challenges” and “obstacles” that the team had to face, and fortunately surpassed. Showing too much ambition can be a double-edged sword, and I’m categorically certain that Sony Online would agree with me on this, as they have the EverQuest Next code remnants sitting somewhere in a dusty server room to prove it.Īfter its hyped G-Star 2016 showing, Peria Chronicles has missed the two following editions of the Korean game show. While developer ThingSoft has the support and financial backing of South Korean giant Nexon, such a game either comes from the minds of indisputable development geniuses or utterly naïve designers. In hindsight, Peria Chronicles just seems too far-reaching in its scope, perhaps even beyond what can possibly be done by most current developers, bar one or two exceptions – but I’m not naming names. Apart from the fact that this was set in an actual 3D battlefield, filled to the brim with visual effects and all kinds of flourishes.Īnd it was so beautiful! The artistic anime style was so inspired, sometimes very reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, only more medieval-fantasy inspired. This leads to the combat part of the game where you control your character and summon your Kirana to attack, pretty much in a collectible card game kind of way. The comparisons to Minecraft aren’t overstated, but this was a block-less, brave new world just waiting for your mouse pointer.īut wait, there’s more! Besides generating your own quests and dungeons, you could collect these creatures called Kirana – let’s just say that they are the Pokémon of Peria Chronicles. Moreover, you could use the built-in editor to create your own contraptions, ranging from simple door mechanisms to gigantic and fully functional Tetris machines. Here is a game that doesn’t shy away from customizable terrain and town building with a player-based social and economic system to support those towns. Peria Chronicles was every anime fan’s dream come true, served with a sizeable dose of sandbox MMORPG goodness on the side. But real life had to come barging in – obviously. For once, it didn’t feel like a case of a studio biting off more than it could chew there was a sense of genuine, almost palpable excitement, in ways that very few games ever manage to convey. It looked too good to be true, and it had more depth than most MMOs combined. The moment that Peria Chronicles was announced, I felt overwhelmed by its promises and ambition.
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It provides excellent coverage from 120 to 60 yards and gives you a variety of options for chipping, pitching and bunker play. This wedge setup restores the 4º difference between clubs that we, as golfers, are used to. Your wedges don’t have to match each other, although if they do it does provide a little more consistency.īelow we’ll cover some options: The players wedge setup – 52, 56, 60º wedges Your wedges do not have to match your irons so can be bought individually. Some sets will also come with a sand wedge, however, these sand wedges are often bulky and lack the control required for chipping and pitching.įor this reason, most golfers will benefit from buying one of the following wedge setups as they look to master their short game and maximise scoring. All golfers can keep their standard set of irons up to a pitching wedge. What are the best wedges to have in your bag?Īs you improve as a player you will want to consider creating a custom wedge set up to optimise your scoring. Never fear, below we’ll show you how best to solve this problem and build a great wedge setup for your game. The result – manufacturers created a new club to sell golfers called a ‘gap wedge’… However, modern sets have pushed all their iron lofts down, resulting in longer distances but leaving a real problem when hitting shots from within 120 yards of the green.Ī modern pitching wedge is just 45 – 48º (historically 50 – 51º) meaning most golfers now have a 2-3 club gap between their PW and SW. Historically, each iron in a set was separated by 4-5º of loft, with a sand wedge having 56º and each club having 4-5º less loft as you move down to a 3-iron. The typical wedge gapping problem for golfers Approach wedge is used more in the US, but you will hear ‘gap wedge’ and ‘approach wedge’ used interchangeably. Again, these range in loft from 50 – 52º. What is an Approach Wedge?Īn approach wedge is another name for a gap wedge or g wedge. As this extra loft reduces the number of situations the club becomes useful. You can purchase lob wedges ranging from 60 – 64º of loft, I personally would not advise buying a lob wedge with more than 60º. What degree is a Lob Wedge?Ī lob wedge has a loft of 60º – 64º. They can be a very useful club for hitting high lofted chips and can also be used to hit out of bunkers. They don’t come as standard but can be bought as an optional extra. A lob wedge is the most lofted club a golfer can buy. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had stirred the papers thoroughly with his hand. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, held the black box securely on the stool until Mr. The black box grew shabbier each year by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything’s being done. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers said, “Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?,” there was a hesitation before two men, Mr. The villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool, and when Mr. Graves, followed him, carrying a three-legged stool, and the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr. When he arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers, and he waved and called, “Little late today, folks.” The postmaster, Mr. He was a round-faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him, because he had no children and his wife was a scold. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities. The lottery was conducted-as were the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program-by Mr. His father spoke up sharply, and Bobby came quickly and took his place between his father and his oldest brother. Bobby Martin ducked under his mother’s grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones. Soon the women, standing by their husbands, began to call to their children, and the children came reluctantly, having to be called four or five times. They greeted one another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their husbands. The women, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed. Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys, and the very small children rolled in the dust or clung to the hands of their older brothers or sisters. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-the villagers pronounced this name “Dellacroy”-eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took only about two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner. The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. Of course, the nature and design of tiling varied, as they evolved and adapted to match each of these cultures and traditions. From there, tessellation found its place in the art of many civilizations, from the Egyptians, Persians, Romans and Greeks to the Byzantines, Arabs, the Japanese, Chinese and the Moors. Origin of tessellation can be traced back to 4,000 years BC, when the Sumerians used clay tiles to compose decoration features in their homes and temples. In fact, the very word “tessellation” comes from Latin tessellātus, meaning “of small square stones” made of stone, clay or glass, and from Greek τέσσερα - tessera, meaning “four”, both alluding to the fact that the first tilings were made from square tiles, as the easiest shapes from which to create a pattern.Īn example of a semi regular tessellationīecause of their characteristics and decorative aesthetics, tessellations were used in art and architecture alike, providing coverings for walls, pavements and ceilings of many facilities. Although it derives from a clear set of rules based on mathematical shapes and calculations - a fact which might give out the impression that there is no space for creativity - tessellations have been widely accepted in a great number of cultures, and are employed in many spheres of life such as design and art.Īlso known as tiling, the process of creating a tessellation can be based on a regular, semiregular geometric or non-geometric shape or tile, which are then all lined up next to each other as basic elements checkered to assemble larger complex construction. Do you know what is the definition of tessellation and what does it take to create one? When a geometric shape is repeated over and over again, covering a plane of tiles without any gaps or overlaps, it results in a tessellation - a mosaic pattern of a mesmerizing visual effect. What feline could resist taking a peek at something so quiet, still, and non-threatening? Cats may be drawn to paper lying on the floor in large simply because it’s a new object for them to inspect and “discover.” Since paper on the floor is often something that’s new and doesn’t particularly belong, it’s no wonder it attracts cats in the first place. Cats are naturally curious, and are drawn to new things.Ĭats love checking out new objects in the room: whether the new stimuli is seen, felt, heard, or sometimes even tasted. Why? Cats seem very content to sit and lie on paper even when humans are not paying attention to them so on to another theory. While this explanation may be part of the paper-love equation, I don’t think it can be the whole story. When it comes to snagging attention, cats know us all too well. If you’ve spent considerable amount of time interacting with a paper you just laid on the floor, sitting on that paper could well be a similar attention-grabbing technique.Īnd even if you weren’t paying very much attention to that piece of paper at all, let’s be honest, a cat sitting or laying down all cute on a letter or a bill on the floor is almost always guaranteed to grab some from us anyway – generating an “aww” or two, a petting, or even a rush to our phones for a quickie picture. Typing away at the computer for some time? Your cat may decide you’ve spent way too much time paying attention to that silly keyboard under your human paws and plop himself right on top of it. And often, they know just how to get it from us. There’s no question about it, cats really do love attention. Cats like attention, and sitting on paper often gets them it. Theories That May Explain Why Cats Like to Sit & Lay on Paper 1. Let me know in the comments which theories you feel are better or worse than the others. Some of these theories may be off base, others less so, but I feel confident you’ll find at least a few that will strike you as likely to be true. Theories are all we have, but we’ve developed enough that I think, combined, they do a good job at explaining away this feline obsession. It fits in well with eccentric feline behaviours like: sleeping pretty much all day long, kneading things and even people with their paws, hell even purring itself is odd enough to classify when you really think about it.Ī definite answer stating exactly why cats like to sit and lay down on paper is unfortunately not on the table quite yet. While the sanity of our house cats is up for debate, there’s no denying that this obsession with paper is just another one of those cat quirks we humans often find ourselves mystified by. What about loose leaves of the stuff seem to call out to cats, not only grabbing their attention, but basically filling them with the uncontrollable urge to physically be atop that paper? Are all of our cats insane? Why on earth do cats like paper so much? What makes cats essentially obsess over it? All this fuss over paper you randomly placed on the floor moments ago. Seconds pass, and deciding you’re probably okay with him being there (else you would’ve moved him by now), he decides to full on flop, lying down for yet another cat nap. Out of nowhere your cat, who had been half-in half-out of sleep, dozing off in his comfy spot by the window, checks you out.Ī second later, he stretches, waltzes on over, a look of determination in his eyes, reaches the paper and places a single paw, then another, and finally plops himself right down on top of your pages. You’re filing a phone bill, reading a letter, or taking your essay out of the printer, and just so happen to place the pages on the floor. As cat owners, we’ve nearly all had it happen to us. The initial cost of a time clock varies, but can sometimes be expensive. Excellent customer service from product provider.Payroll integration or compatibility with other accounting software.We’ve listed some of the most important elements that a time clock should have: Typically, users-to-be look at the method of sign-in, features, and software compatibility. But before rushing to market, you must first identify your business’s needs. It’s obvious that you’ll be searching to find a time clock that fulfills your business needs. But before investing, what should small business owners be looking for? What to look for in a time clock This is why small business owners are left with little choice but to implement this change.Ī time clock will significantly boost your productivity and improve employee engagement. But primarily, it will ensure that you save money. A time clock will guarantee precision and help to eliminate human error or even fraud. Many believe timesheets are seriously flawed with inaccuracy, inflexibility and are very time-consuming. Manual transcription is costing businesses tens of thousands a year. The American Payroll Association (APA) calculated that it takes as long as 6 minutes to review a single employee timesheet. With the swipe of a card, use of a pin number, or fingerprint biometrics, your workforce can punch in and out of shifts in an instant. It gives you the capacity to track and monitor when and where your employees are at all times. Using time-tracking software in small businesses can help to save time, money, and effort. Managing your employees’ time and attendance can be a challenging task, but it doesn’t need to be. However, the integration of a time clock can help to ease your worries. This can be especially difficult if many of them work at different locations. As a business owner, there aren’t enough hours in the day to keep track of your employees’ every movement. It’s no secret that running a small business can take a lot of time and energy. I might like it better than the studio version only because it isn’t my favorite track off that album and they gave it some life and some balls. Then the band goes into another ballad and this one had orchestration and had Philip Ashley on piano with the song “Every Time I Look At You” which is also from ‘Revenge’. It was so long you could’ve gone up and gotten another beer and come back and he’d still be singing it. I think it is Paul’s best performance of the night and that note he holds at the end is killer. Then Paul really digs deep and gives it his all on the ballad “I Still Love You” from ‘Creatures of the Night’. Side 3 kicks with another very obscure track as they perform “See You Tonight” from Gene’s solo album which is like…WTF!!…but so cool. They really turned it up a notch on this one. To finish off the first disc you get “Rock Bottom” which I really loved the opening instrumental piece to that. They played “A World Without Heroes” and Gene nailed it even if it was a little rough around the edges but that is what is great about live. Then the band did a song from ‘Music from The Elder’ which I think caught everyone off guard. Side 2 kicks off with the ‘Revenge’ song “Domino” and then they pull out “Sure Know Something” from ‘Dynasty’ which is a much better choice than “I Was Made for Loving You”. Side 1 ends with “Do You Love Me” which is a song I do love from Paul and is only okay here. I can’t remember the last time this song got played by the band live. That is followed up by the rarely heard Gene ballad “Goin’ Blind” which was a wow to me. The album kicks off with the somewhat breezy “Comin’ Home” and then you get the bass thumping “Plaster Caster” with Gene on vocals. They were “Hard Luck Woman” that Paul actually sang, “Heaven’s On Fire”, “Spit”, “C’mon And Love Me” and even a country version of “God of Thunder”. The band played for around 3 hours that night as they did reshoot some songs and there are several that didn’t show up on the album but are on the DVD. They did a lot of lesser known songs and songs they rarely, if ever played. It is really nice and it is below…Īnd below is the back cover and it has 16 marvelous tracks and what is really cool is what the band played. It consists of numerous snapshots of that evening both of the show and candid behind the scene shots. The set also comes with a full size poster. In reading one of many Kiss books I have over the years, the reason for the lack of Gatefold was the label went cheap and didn’t think there was money to be made at the extra cost of a Gatefold…oh they are so wrong. Mine is on 180-Gram vinyl and is a double LP, but sadly the band missed out on doing a Gatefold. The version I have was part of the 40th Anniversary Re-Issues of the Kiss albums. Let us talk about the Vinyl copy I have since that is what I am reviewing. I have the vinyl and the Kissology DVD’s which includes the show plus some behind the scenes video. Thankfully it was captured on video for MTV, an album and even released on DVD. And to make it even cooler, the final songs of the night, Eric and Bruce came back out and all 6 members and former members played together for the very first time. I remember watching it and getting chills up and down my arm. Totally awesome!! The crowd went nuts and so did I. The crowd was treated to songs by both Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. And for the “Big” part, the band would bring out two very special guest. The band, which consisted of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Bruce Kulick at the time, would come out and do a full acoustic set. In typical Kiss fashion, they had to do it big and let me tell you, they did. Well, around that time MTV came a calling and asked if they wanted to do an episode of MTV Unplugged and the band agreed. Kiss started to play lesser known songs at the audience requests and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. They would even get some special guests to join them and one time Peter Criss showed up and jumped on stage with them. Kiss would go play these and they were all done as acoustic performances. In 1995, the band set out and did these Convention Tours as around this time, Kiss Konventions had started popping up. And with this review, still no studio album. They have been putting out product as we have reviewed it, but yet no studio album. It had been several years since ‘Revenge’. But enough of that garbage, let us get back to the Kisstory. But it was recorded for MTV so didn’t know the right way to label this post. I stuck with ‘Unplugged’ as that is what it says on the spine of the vinyl cover. Welcome back to Kiss Review Series and this time around we will discuss the album ‘Unplugged’ or is it ‘MTV Unplugged’, I wasn’t really sure. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood.Īs a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. It Didn’t Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited-that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains-but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the fieldĭepression. At the recent opening of our local Herenboederij, I couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the sense of community that I felt among the members. Perhaps just as important for the local community farm is its contribution to the resilience of the community. In contrast, intensive agriculture, which often relies on monoculture, heightens the risk of crop failure and strains the supporting ecosystem. Diverse plant species provide a natural defense against pests, disease, and extreme weather events. By maintaining a variety of crops, farmers create a resilient ecosystem that can better withstand the uncertainties of climate change. What I find particularly valuable are the additional environmental and societal benefits that community farming can deliveĬommunity farming places a strong emphasis on preserving biodiversity and promoting soil health and fertility. While intensive agriculture focuses on maximizing yields through technological advancements, the value of community farming, with its time-tested practices and emphasis on sustainability, is certainly appealing. The debate between old-fashioned community farming and intensive agriculture has gained prominence. BenefitsĬommunity farming of this sort is not new, but its resurgence can be partially attributed to heightened uncertainty resulting from climate change and its potential impact on the food security of many. Recently, I joined a local “Herenboederij” (a Dutch farm cooperative in which the members are the owners and the harvest is distributed among them) where together with about 250 other families of all sorts and sizes we are seeking to address the increasing need for connection and responsibility towards our food supply, or at least part of it. However, these are often quite “low-tech”. I also try to take steps in my personal life to do the same. Given the University of Twente's high-tech focus, this involves in many cases identifying opportunities for new technologies to facilitate a societal transition that both mitigates and adapts to the changing climate. In this first issue, Cheryl de Boer talks about the importance of community farming.Īs part of my “day job”, I am establishing connections among individuals at the University of Twente to help us better contribute to addressing the climate challenge. In this weekly series, UT researchers share their personal reflections on current events and trends that impact our daily lives, exploring their implications for resilience. As an academic institution we have a role to play in strengthening the resilience of the social, technological and environmental systems that support us. Recognising the urgent need to respond to rapid societal and environmental change, resilience is one of the University of Twente’s spearheads. The last sentence is very important in the above definition “Customer is responsible for that use and for ensuring that these terms and the terms and conditions of Customer’s volume licensing agreement are met by that use.” In the above definition, “customer” is you. It allows you (a service provider) the right to use Azure as a datacenter provider. Customer is responsible for that use and for ensuring that these terms and the terms and conditions of Customer’s volume licensing agreement are met by that use.” (April, 2017) Customer may permit third parties to access and use the Microsoft Azure Services in connection with the use of that Customer Solution. Hosting Exception “Customer may create and maintain a Customer Solution and, despite anything to the contrary in Customer’s volume licensing agreement, combine Microsoft Azure Services with Customer Data owned or licensed by Customer or a third party, to create a Customer Solution using the Microsoft Azure Service and the Customer Data together. In short, pay attention to which users are assigned a license and if/when they no longer need the service. Most Microsoft products cannot be reassigned on a short-term basis, that’s why Microsoft has the use right called license mobility. When Customer reassigns an SL from one device or user to another, Customer must block access and remove any related software from the former device or from the former user’s device.” (April, 2017 OST) Reassignment of an SL for any other purpose must be permanent. Customer may reassign an SL on a short-term basis to cover a user’s absence or the unavailability of a device that is out of service. Except as permitted in this paragraph or in the Online Service-specific Terms, Customer may not reassign an SL on a short-term basis (i.e., within 90 days of the last assignment). “Most, but not all, SLs may be reassigned. Although your legal team should review the document in its entirety, below are some of the highlights I think you will find relevant and are often overlooked. Basically the OST defines how you may consume online services through Microsoft. It is now called OST pronounced OAST when speaking to Microsoft. What is the Microsoft Online Services Terms? First starters, it used to be called Microsoft Online Services Use Rights or MOLSUR for short (or long). In this article, we will review the Microsoft Online Services Terms. On this website, we are not that concerned about the benefits, all we care about is the licensing. There’s a lot of benefits to moving to Azure, I’ll let your Microsoft account team review them with you. The new website is it’s designed to be a collaborative platform that includes a forum to ask and answer licensing questions, document library, and licensing articles. Article update (April, 2018 ) We created a new website called MSCloudlicensing to help SPLA and CSP partners understand the different program options and use rights available to them. |
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