However, if we don't get 5 tricks, we're in trouble. This means if my partner and I bid 5, then get 7 tricks, our total score for that round will come to 52. Additional tricks (overtricks) are only worth one point apiece. If you get exactly 5, you win 10x your bid, so 50 points. If you bid 5, you want to get at least 5. So we've already talked about how the goal is to get the number of tricks that you and your partner bid. The winner of each trick leads on the next.Īfter the first spade has been played, then spades are "broken." Scoring If no spades are played, the highest card wins of the suit that was played first. So even if someone plays the Ace of diamonds, and I play the 2 of spades, I win that trick if no other spades are played. If someone plays a spade, that spade trumps all other cards EXCEPT for higher spades. If you do not have the same suit, you can play any card of any suit! The card must be of the same suit as the person who started (in this case, the person to the left of the dealer). Then, again in clockwise, each player lays down a card (trick) face up. It can be any heart, diamond or club, but no spades. Playing SpadesĪfter all of the bidding is done, the player to the dealers left begins by playing any card EXCEPT for a spade. There's also a penalty for bidding nil and getting 1 or more tricks. Why would anyone do that though? Well, there's a huge bonus if you can bid nil and succeed. This is basically a player trying NOT to win any tricks. Billy and Sarah's goal is to win at least 5 tricks based on their bids (4+1), Terrance and Beyonce will attempt to win at least 7 (4+3).Īs mentioned previously, a bid of zero is also called a nil bid. A bid of zero or "nil" is another strategy we'll talk about shortly. But be smart and remember that it's very difficult to get all or even half of the tricks. Bidding then continues clockwise around the table. The first player to bid is the person to the left of the dealer. This is the number of tricks that team has to win in order to get a positive score. The teams then add together the total number of bids. Before each round of Spades begins, each player will bid (or guess) how many tricks they will take. Biddingīidding is simply guessing how many "tricks" you can take. The dealer will deal out all of the cards so each player will end up with 13 to start. The goal is to accumulate points, and the first to 500 points wins. You are on the same team as the person across from you and the same goes for the other two. Once the score is tallied after each hand, another deal begins.In a typical game, there are four players and two team. Once 10 sandbags are reached, the team looses 100 points and starts over with 0 sandbags again. When either of these are not met, the team will get -100 and -200 points respectively. If a nil is bid and met, the team gets an additional 100 points. If a bid is not met, each trick in the bid is worth -10 points. If the bid for a team is met, each trick counts 10 points, with any additional tricks (sandbags) worth 1 point. Once the full hand has been played, the game is scored. Spades cannot lead a trick until they have been broken in another trick or if that is the only suit the lead player has left in their hand. The winner of the trick leads the next trick. If a trick contains a spade, the highest spade wins. If a trick is played without a spade, the highest lead suit card takes the trick. Moving clockwise, each player plays a card to follow suit, unless they do not have the suit, in which they can play any card in their hand. The Spades game begins gameplay with the player to the left of the dealer, who can play any card other than a Spade. The payout will be higher if you achieve it, but the loss even greater if you don't - so bid this at your own risk! Teams must reach the total number of tricks they have bid together in order to get a positive score. If you bid a Blind Nil, you must bid a 0 without seeing your cards. The table then enters into the bidding phase where they estimate the number of tricks they can take with the hand they have been dealt. Spades is a game of trumps, where all spades are the best cards in the game and will beat all other suits.Įach hand begins with all 52 cards being dealt to the players. The version of 24/7 Spades is the most popular and is played with four Spades players in a team format, where players across the table are considered teammates. Spades is played with a basic set of 52 cards and card value ranks from 2, the lowest, to Ace, the highest. Spades is a casual card game developed in the 1930's in the USA.
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Fellow player on the Fenoxo forum pointed out that Adobe changed the save data location on hard drive, but that I still had to manually move my old saves for them to work. Couldn't figure out for the life of me why old saves weren't showing up in game, though new ones were at least in game. Noticed something was off when all my saves for Corruption of Champions and one of the mods for it seemed to be missing from in-game, but the files were still where they were last. Must have been to do with some patch Adobe did last month that jacked up save data for various flash games, including this one it seems. I always play flash games offline when such is available, but I think I've figured out what happened. I rarely get messages about save problems, most of the time you just need to update your flash player to fix this, but if doesnt work you can also try to download the game and play it from your computer, let me know if you still cannot save after doing this. Also, Ep 14 didn't even create a save folder at all, despite saving and trying to load the same way. Again, to confirm that they should be working, I ran a new game on Ep 13, saved, closed my browser, then opened it again and loaded the save without issue. I checked the save locations on hardrive and only found an 0Kb size SXX file. Tried both Firefox and Chrome, running on Win7, and no issue in previous episodes. Sacredferro Wrote:Are saves not working for Ep 14 and 15? Cannot get saves to load on either. Be sure to capitalize the language code when adding it to your survey. Qtip: Your language codes must be capitalized in order to function properly. The newly constructed link will look like this: To create a survey link for each language, copy the anonymous link and append “ ?Q_Language=” to the end, followed by the appropriate language code from the table below. This can be useful if you are posting your survey to a website that caters to multiple languages. If you are distributing your survey anonymously, you can still specify each participant’s language by creating a different survey link for each language. In the language column of your contact list, you’ll insert the appropriate language code for each participant, as outlined in the Available Language Codes section below. If you know your participants’ preferred languages ahead of time, you can upload this information as part of your contact list, in a column titled Language. Surveys taken on the above web browser will load in Brazilian Portuguese, if a Brazilian Portuguese translation is available. A child element is provided for each language downloaded. In XML, an element is provided for each item to be translated. XML can be opened in your preferred text editor and will have the following layout: The elements in the PhraseID column should not be modified from their original format. In these files, a row is provided for each item to be translated, with a column for the language downloaded. Unicode Text (Excel) and Unicode CSV both have the following layout in Excel: Make no changes on the third step and select Finish.Select Tab as the delimiter on the second step.Wait until a Text Import Wizard appears, then select Delimited.Select the file you’ve just downloaded. Depending on your version of Excel, you may need to view all file types, as highlighted below, before your file will appear.Select Open from the File menu of Excel. This step may appear differently depending on the version of Excel you are using.Follow the steps below to properly open the file in Excel. Qtip: Unicode Text (Excel) will open in a text editor by default. Select the language(s) you’d like to add.Navigate to the Translations tab in the survey builder.This section covers how to manually add a survey translation. Changing the survey language will change the way the survey editor displays the survey questions. In addition, some languages like Arabic or Hebrew are read from right to left. However, you can change your survey’s language using the dropdown under Base language. This only occurs when other language translations are available.īy default, surveys use the language specified in your account settings for any default messages that may appear to respondents as they are taking your survey. If your base survey language is set to English, but you write your survey in Spanish, respondents will have to choose English from the language dropdown menu to view the survey in Spanish. Qtip: It’s best practice to ensure that the base survey language is the language your survey is initially written in. Of course these are general talks and to see real performance changes and compression ratios, one have to try those algorithms with his/her own data. Because of that hadoop applications prefer LZO, a real-time fast compression library, to ZLIB variants. Large capacity disks are far cheaper than fast storage solutions (think SSDs) so it is better for a compression algorithm being faster than being able to give higher compression ratios. If the infrastructure starves on disk capacity but has no performance problems it may be logical to use an algorithm that give huge compression ratios, losing some time on CPU but that’s usually not the case. It is simply trading IO load for CPU load. On the other hand we now need to uncompress that data so we use some CPU cycles. By using some sort of compression we reduce the size of our data achieving faster reads. Hadoop workloads i know about are generally data-intensive, thus making the data reads a bottleneck in overall application performance. Considering hadoop clusters almost always work on commodity machines, the reason for that is simple to explain: disks are slow. HBase documentation and several posts in hbase-user mailing list tell that using some form of compression for storing data may lead to an increase in IO performance. This post is about a recent research which tries to increase IO performance for our MapReduce jobs. Although i am not able to discuss details further than what writes on my linkedin profile, i try to talk about general findings which may help others trying to achive similar goals. Now and then, i talk about our usage of HBase and MapReduce. To read the full story, click the Athens Messenger logo below. “Knowing that things could change and be different in a split second.” “I think the biggest thing that we’re going to take away from this and continue is to be prepared for any emergency,” Seckinger said. Having spent a year implementing new protocols and services to help respond to the pandemic, the hospital is now looking toward the future-but associates won’t forget the lessons they learned. “They are just unbelievable caregivers,” Seckinger told Athens Messenger editor Kaitlin Thorne. “I owe a debt of gratitude and so does the community.” The commitment and resilience of the hospital’s associates played a major role in O’Bleness’ ability to weather the storm. As the pandemic worsened, O’Bleness was able to quickly respond to the changing landscape in southeast Ohio, adding new safety measures, testing services, therapies and vaccination clinics and intentionally focusing its attention on associate wellbeing. The article explores the hospital’s challenges and highlights how a dedicated staff, strong community partnerships and the OhioHealth system helped them care for the community throughout the past year. Gail Schnitzers story in The Athens Messenger said someone broke the. Recently, the Athens Messenger spoke to Mark Seckinger, president of OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital, about how the regional hospital was able to adapt and thrive throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A new library had been built, and the building had been standing vacant for about a year. This includes large city hospitals as well as smaller community hospitals. The COVID-19 pandemic was challenging for hospitals across the country. However, square-cut brushes don’t provide as much control when painting into corners, up to adjacent surfaces, or along narrow edges or surfaces. 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However the dyeing system comes with the limitation of supporting only 4 colors per piece of armor (every piece has its own map, so for example the 4 colors used on the top piece doesn’t need to be the same 4 that is used in the helmet, or bottom piece). For example in cases where the armor covers the waist both the bottom and top part of the armor needs to have a proper finish in the area where the split goes, so neither looks unfinished/not plausible on their own, in addition to looking good together.Īll the armor and clothing colors in Conan Exiles are completely customizable through the dyeing system. Leaving any parts below the hands and/or forearms seam as bare skin is totally fine, as long as the forearms seam is covered.įeet pieces can either stop below or at the feet seam, or it HAS to extend all the way up to the seam between legs and bottom (again because of the tucking system) Just as with the hands, it is totally fine to leave some of the feet as bare skin.Īs every piece of the armor can be worn alone, or paired with pieces from any other armor set in game it is important that every piece works individually. Hand pieces can either stop below or at the seam between hands and forearms, or it HAS to extend up to the seam between the forearms and top, this is in order to work with the tucked mesh system in Conan Exiles. Bottom pieces may stretch all the way down to the feet, but can be shorter. Top pieces should not extend lover than the border between top and bottom.Ī thing to keep in mind when designing long sleeved top pieces it that there will be a tucked mesh that is cut off at the top of the forearm seam, therefore you should avoid any details that would look bad when cut in half in this area.īottom pieces can start at or below the border between top and bottom, but should never extend above the top border. Top pieces can extend all the way down to the wrist area, right past the hands seam. Top pieces can extend up to the head seam, but should not go much higher up the neck. All armor and clothing pieces in the game can be worn interchangeably across sets, therefore the designs need to conform to these 5 sections.Īll head pieces should stop roughly at the seam between head and top, although it can extend a bit down, just keep in mind that it might clip through excising top pieces with a lot of detail in the shoulder area. The range of breast sizes in Conan Exiles:Ĭonan Exiles equipment is broken up into 5 parts – Head, Top, Bottom, Hands and Feet. This can be solved by designing a separate female top piece. The female breasts are scalable in game, and therefore any amount of intricate detail in that area will cause a lot of distortion. One example is if you want the male chest to be bare (showing nipples), then the female chest needs to be covered somehow:Īnother example is when the male version has a lot of detail in the chest area. Keep this in mind, and design separate female pieces when necessary. In most cases the female model is just a fitted version of the male model, but in some cases that is not the best solution. breasts and booties can be pushed into more desirable shapes, waistlines can be tightened in and feet and toes can be pushed into shape, all to achieve a more flattering silhouette. With this in mind always make sure to prioritize the back view, and make sure the back design is just as interesting as the front!Īrmor and clothing can to some degree displace the soft tissues and movable parts of the body. Conan Exiles is played in third person view, so the players spend a lot of time looking at the back of their characters. The secret is in identifying the individual phases within the overall Jupiter process. Understanding these six Jupiter phases is also the key to understanding one of the more hidden secret of Jupiter. Each individual phase of the six Jupiter phases represents a distinct stage of sequential development. The Full Grand Sextile pattern consists of six planets, each separated by a 60° phase within the entire cycle of 360° (6 x 60°=360°). The second pattern, the Double Sextile, also know as a Partial Grand Sextile, holds the magic of Jupiter and the frequency of six (6) embedded within its astrological section. This generative process explains why life cannot exist without love. One of the mysteries of “Love” is the process whereby Love can be generated, concentrated into something that is cherished, and then distributed to others. These three fundamental cornerstones are: the generation of power, the concentration of power, and the distribution of power. This (3) sided trine can be understood through working with its three elements, or sides of the triangle, which represent three fundamental areas of life. The first pattern of the Kite Pattern utilizes the power of the Grand Trine. The planet Venus, with its vibration of (3), holds a tremendous amount of energy that translates directly into that we experience as “Love.” In general, this Venus-type of energy is harmonious, with a balancing element that inspires that which is full of beauty, esthetic form, and attracting to itself a vision of a greater life. The Grand Trine pattern holds the overall energy of the planet Venus, which corresponds to the astro-numerology of three (3). It’s rare for this many planets to be located at these exact positions in the zodiac.Įach aspect within the Kite contributes to a specific principle of the over all formation. The main point to take away from this section is that an astrology Kite is uncommon. These consists of the Moon, Jupiter, North Node, Venus, Mercury, and Pluto. In our example, the astrology chart for Winter Solstice 2015 has a total of six astrological points. This pattern can contain as few planets as four. When all of these aspects are perfectly aligned, they form the Kite. The third and final pattern is an opposition, in which two planets are approximately 180° from each other.Two of these planets are separated by approximately 120.° The third planet is located at their mid-point, and forms two separate angles of 60°. The second pattern is a double sextile, a partial grand sextile consisting of three planets.The grand trine is special within its own right and is considered a major astrology pattern. The first pattern is a grand trine, consisting of three planets approximately 120° from each other.These angles are formed by the individual planets that create the pattern. The key patterns of the Kite are composed of three types of astrological aspects or angles. An appropriate question to ask at this point is whether or not what is really happening is true “Fate,” or something else? I would assert that in order to understand the meaning of the Kite and answer this question about Fate, we first need to breakdown the meaning of the pattern by examining the three individual components of the formation. Combined, these key patterns and the basic root meanings of the different planets involved, activate key astrological principles.īecause of the Kite’s unusual power, its energy is often experienced as fate. This correlation with fate and destiny results from the combination of geometric relationships formed between its three distinct astrological patterns working together. It also has a traditional association with fate and/or destiny. The Kite Pattern is much more than a recognizable shape. Intermediate astrologers will be able to recognize and relate to the concepts and pure principle approach presented here. What follows is a presentation on the structure and fundamental meaning of the astrology Kite pattern. When we look back in time and reflect on the current timeline of humanity, will the astrology historians label this era as global fate or an exercise in free will? Will this December 2015 Kite pattern be recognized as a major astrological marker and a turning point in 21st century history? Time will tell. My prediction is that astrologer’s will look back to the date of Dec 21st, 2015, and see this very astrology Kite pattern as a major signifier in world events. The inspiration for this article stems from the upcoming Kite formation that’s occurring at the exact moment of the 2015 Winter Solstice. The most intriguing of the geometric astrology patterns is called the “Astrology Kite Pattern ” or the “Astrology Kite Formation.” This pattern’s most distinctive feature is its actual shape that outlines a simple kite. Yet their cracks and booms offer a stark reminder of winter’s power. Unlike earthquakes, frost quakes are not potentially deadly-though they might shake your house and rattle your dishes, they won’t destroy buildings. The resulting release of energy cracks the earth and causes an explosive “boom!”įrost quakes typically occur at night, when the temperature drop is most severe. When the pressure becomes too much, the ground suddenly breaks under the stress. Hoosiers across the state experienced one in 2021, when a 3.8 magnitude earthquake near Montezuma caused shakes that could be felt from Muncie to Mishawaka. As the groundwater freezes, it expands, pushing and stressing and straining the nearby rock and soil. Like a cork that stops up fizzy champagne, the ice entraps the freezing groundwater below. The 'frost quake' weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice. A crust of ice forms at the soil’s surface. Cryoseisms, also known as 'frost quakes' or 'ice quakes,' may have been the reason loud booms and banging sounds were reported in the Chicago area, where brutally cold, below-zero wind chills have taken over. Then, the temperature drops quickly to sub-zero. The key ingredient? As their name implies, the catalyst of a frost quake is cold-sudden, bone-chilling cold.įirst, water saturates the ground, perhaps from the melt of a recent snowfall. Instead, frost quakes start with a simple mixture of water and ground. There are no tectonic plates, fault lines, or volcanoes involved. Unlike earthquakes, however, they are not true tectonic events. Like an earthquake, a frost quake causes the ground to jolt and shake, producing seismic waves and even splitting stone. reports from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Vermont and Maine. (KSNT) The StormTrack Weather Team at Nexstar’s KSNT created a graphic to help explain the process that causes these frost quakes. In scientific terms, you’ve just experienced a cryoseism. (searching for the terms ice quake and frostquake on Wikipedia are redirected. Whoa! Was that an earthquake? An explosion from a mining accident? Maybe the apocalypse? If you felt something shaking in central Indiana Thursday afternoon, no, it wasnt all the summer construction. They are mostly observed during the coldest parts of the night, right around the pre-dawn hours.In the stillness of a chilly winter’s night, a “boom” echoes through the air, and a crack gashes the ground at your feet. Explore: Forestparkgolfcourse is a website that writes about many topics of interest to you, its a blog that shares knowledge and insights useful to everyone in many fields. with Michigan, as well as southern Indiana and western Ohio. While it hasn’t been cold long enough for a deep soil freeze a few feet in the ground, certainly with the amount of saturation that occurred could have lead to some of these smaller “frost quake” scenarios on a smaller scale.įrost quakes are not commonly reported with damage or injuries. Frost quakes, also known as cryoseisms, are a natural phenomenon that occurs when. That’s plenty cold enough for a “flash freeze”, meaning all of that previously mentioned moisture froze quickly. However, an ice quake leaves them stranded high above Earths floor, left to. Overnight lows from Saturday night to Sunday morning fell to the single digits in and around Delaware County. A wedding party takes to the Alps for a beautiful day of sky-scraping adventure. The second ingredient would be extreme could. Bidding: Our on-line auctions move quickly If you are interested in an. Add to that some of the sleet, freezing rain and rain this past Saturday, and that leads to a very saturated ground. Any debt collection or dispute proceedings will be heard in Harrison County, Indiana. Much of that melted through the week, so there was plenty of moisture in the ground. All promotional dates subject to change, as the Quakes continue to plan promotions to be added in the future. Remember, Muncie reported over 8″ of snow from the Jan. While there were no extreme temperatures swings from the end of the week into the weekend, we did have two things that could have led to some of these minor frost quakes. Many of our reports came out of Delaware county and surrounding areas over the weekend. While there isn’t hard evidence, there is a decent possibility that these noises were called by a phenomenon called cryoseisms, also known as “frost quakes.”Īccording to, a frost quake is “a natural phenomenon that occurs when extremely cold temperatures lead to sudden deep freezing of the ground, after it has been saturated with water.” When this occurs, the sudden freeze will cause underground ice to expand, causing soil and rock to crack, which will produce these “booms”, and in more extreme cases, shakes. INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Several WISH-TV viewers reached out over the weekend over concerns of what they called loud “pops” or “booms” Saturday night and early Sunday morning. |