![]() ![]() I had a lot of fun building monkey gyms by hand though, trying to mimic the beautiful levels found throughout the career mode, even if the rotation and movement tools can be a little fiddly when combined with camera angle oddities. ![]() If you don't want to be that creative, you can let someone else do it for you. There is a raft of beautiful habitat, exhibit and other designs that the more talented Planet Zoo aficionados have put together that you can literally just drop into your zoo as prefab-additions. Thankfully, when it comes to the actual building, the community already has your back. Coming into Chapter 4 in Career Mode, or attempting to dive into any of the other modes, with no guidance whatsoever feels like Frontier has taken the training wheels off and thrown them into the sea, which is a bit of a system shock after the first three level's helpful step-by-step tutorials. Planet Zoo is game that – despite the effort to explain more about its systems through natural play – would benefit from having way more tutorials, especially when it comes to tips and tricks to keep your zoo's finances in the black. Much like Frontier’s other theme park world, Planet Coaster, this sim wowed me with a huge amount of customization. There are heatmaps to make things a little easier, but it's a complicated feat that keeps you on your toes at the best of times, and ridiculously infuriated at its worst. In that way, Planet Zoo even makes poor business decisions fun. The early levels do well to teach you about how to build habitats, and how to keep your animals happy and healthy, but don't do much to tell you about how to make a financially stable business, which as you can imagine is quite the task. It certainly does a better job than its forebearer at introducing the basics, but when, in the fourth chapter of the career mode it throws you onto a blank canvas plot of earth and tells you to build a zoo from scratch and make money, it feels like a step too far, too soon. The aim with career mode is to introduce you to all the core elements of Planet Zoo's gameplay before being let loose on the more creative, freeform modes, moving you from tutorial to tutorial in a way that the team's previous game – Planet Coaster – struggled to do. Challenge mode takes those Career levels and adds a never-ending string of challenges (as the name implies), and Sandbox mode lets you build without limits, while Franchise mode lets you create a series of connected zoos that span the globe. The career mode takes you on a worldwide tour across 12 levels, putting you at the heart of a dramatic story as it asks you to complete a variety of different objectives to proceed. There are four game modes on offer, which, when combined, create more content that you might ever be able to play. There’s also a welcome offline mode with the full economy enabled, and a sandbox mode that gives you unlimited money, which is great if you want to terraform your perfect landscape as a starting point before opening a zoo there.It's a complicated process, and Planet Zoo has a steep learning curve as a result, but the more you play, the easier it becomes to understand – to a point, at least. Franchise Mode is where I spent most of my time, in which you can build a multi-zoo franchise online and your Conservation Credits conveniently carry over from one to another and you can trade animals with other players. Menagerie of ModesĪside from a story mode with charming voice acting that does a decent job of teaching you important mechanics little by little, Planet Zoo has all the modes I’d expect. There’s no way to acquire grants or anything for having a good conservation program, so investing entirely into these expensive animals will still mean you have to make cuts to staff and sell a bunch of hats like a ruthless capitalist or your important environmental work will get shut down. My only disappointment with this system is that Conservation Credits can’t keep the lights on. Available sandbox scenery, animals etc could be imported into planetC and rides coasters etc into planetZ. ago A merging/co-opting of game would be nice. Doing so can also earn you Conservation Credits, which are sometimes the only way to acquire particularly rare specimens. Planet Coaster vs Planet Zoo 68 Related Topics Planet Coaster Business simulation game Gaming 38 comments Best Add a Comment CtotheVizza 4 yr. This score gives your zoo a bonus to popularity and guest happiness for housing and breeding endangered species, releasing good specimens back into the wild, and putting up informational displays and audio speakers to educate your guests. My favorite new feature is the Conservation Rating. ![]() On the economic side, Planet Zoo has a well-balanced set of income sources and expenses to consider. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Contains core hours (during which you must be at work) which are established on fewer than 10 workdays during each biweekly pay period.There are 5 types of flexible work schedules: But that doesn’t mean you can come and go at any time you work out a schedule with your supervisor and adhere to the schedule.įlexible schedules all have two things in common: core hours, during which you and all others in your unit must be at work and flexible times bands which are the times you can vary to arrive and depart from work. Flexible SchedulesĪs the name implies, flexible schedules are more flexible. The advantage is that you will have extra days off. In every case, you will work a total of 80 hours during each biweekly pay period. 4-10 in which you work 4 10-hour days each week of the pay period and have an extra day of each week.5-4/9 in which you work 8 9-hour days and 1 8-hour day in the pay period and get an extra day off.There are several ways in which a compressed schedule can work. Once established, your schedule does not change. These schedules are fixed there’s no flexibility about when you report to work and leave each day. Credit hours are another element of flexible schedules. There are two types of alternative work schedules: compressed and flexible.Ī compressed schedule involves longer but fewer work days, so that you can complete a full 80 hours during each biweekly pay period in less than 10 work days.Ī flexible schedule includes a variety of options, all involving certain core hours during which everyone must be present, coupled with flexible arrival and departure times. If your unit is on a compressed schedule, and that causes a hardship for you, you can ask to be exempted from the schedule.Alternative work schedules are established for entire groups of employees individuals can’t request and work alternative schedules unless they have been approved for their operating unit as a whole.So if you want to change your work schedule or work an AWS, always check with your supervisor! AWS Essentials Finally, even if your Operating Unit offers AWS, your actual work schedule is at the discretion of your supervisor. Many offer some or all of the options described on this page, while others may choose not to offer them at all if such schedules are determined to have a bad effect on productivity, service to the public, or cost. The availability of AWS varies by Operating Unit. ![]() ![]() If you would like more flexibility schedule and/or the opportunity to get an extra day for personal errands and activities, an Alternative Work Schedule might be for you! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually unusual to come across an NPC that isn’t entirely surrounded by player characters and, this, mixed with a high number of monsters in certain areas makes for an often cluttered screen. You’re In My Way – Broken Realm is either incredibly popular or just badly laid out. If you’re playing this game, you know what you’re getting. In the video I say it can feel a bit like a stress buster, a no-brain-needed style of play that lets you feel like you’re moving on without much or any effort, so it’s not really a bad thing, but I can’t stretch the metaphor into it being a good thing either. You’ll be clicking on people’s names in the quest description, clicking on enemies to begin battle and not much else. You’re not even going to be reading what it is you’re doing for the most part. ![]() You’re not going to be thinking through strategies as you play, you’re not going to even be thinking too much when you assign points to your character’s stats. Let’s Autopath – The biggest fault of this game is that it doesn’t really require anything on the part of the player. Not a selling point for the vast majority, but those looking for mounts and pets will not be disappointed. Although the advantages of having access to these are little more than “you do more damage” and “you move faster,” it makes it feel no less fun to actually have them. Pets and Mounts – From a purely shallow view point, the fact that you get access to pets and mounts very early in the game will be a plus for many people. No, it’s in the way that the play interacts with the world that is less than visually stunning. You can’t knock the art design itself and the team behind designing the worlds should be fairly proud. Statues look statuesque and forested areas look almost painted. For somebody with a tight data budget, R2 Games should definitely be top of your to-play list, and Broken Realm is the best of the R2 Games titles.Īrt Design – While it has its flaws (as we’ll discuss further down this list), Broken Realm is a pretty looking game. If you have an R2 Games account (or Facebook, Google, Twitter accounts), you can have first-time access in around ten seconds flat. Is Broken Realm worth looking into, or are you better off taking your free-to-play time elsewhere? We took a look to find out.Įasy Access – Broken Realm is free-to-play and it takes no time at all to get into a server. Unfortunately, the opposite is true as well. If you loved Crystal Saga/Wartune, there’s no reason to think you won’t love Broken Realm. That’ll either be a good thing or a bad thing, because Broken Realm doesn’t seem to have pushed things on an awful lot. If you’ve played those games (or have seen our reviews), you’ll know pretty much what to expect. Broken Realm is a browser-based MMORPG from the people that brought you Wartune and Crystal Saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or you can try CCcleaner instead of Add/Remove programs to remove all the Nvidia traces. You will probably be able to get by just uninstalling all the drivers and such with driver sweeper. Please guide Me on this and any other information which is required to resolve this. When I m trying to uninstall it is showing error messege as "Unable to unistall it - No NIVIDIA device found" and then it aborts the application and it is not allowing to unistall it for which I guess NVIDIA graphic card is required to unistall it.Ĭan anyone help Me how to unistall these 2 drivers because I want install a ATI Graphic card this time. ![]() Now problem is I have uninstalled all NVIDIA display driver but not able to unistall Nvidia System Monitor and Performance monitor drivers from ADD/Remove tab. I removed My graphic card and again fixed it but still it is not detecting a card which I guess it is dead now. all were disappeared and was not detecting My graphic card. When I clicked on NVIDIA control panel it was only showing information and rest all menus like, system monitor, permormance monitor, 3D settings etc. Disconnected My display cable and connected it to onboard display unit and their it was working find but when I connect it back to graphic card there is not dispaly. Again restarted My PC, Windows start up sound came but there was no display at all. Restarted My PC and again started playing game it worked for 5-10 mins and after tht entire monitor was switched off automatically and it started showing msg as "Power Saving Mode" this time system was not hanged and it was working but there was no display. ![]() I was playing Assassin's Creed game and all of sudden entire system hanged but sound was going on in the background. I am having NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT which is giving problem now. ![]() ![]() ![]() Version 1.6 was released in November 2017, introducing performance improvements and alternative GUI display mode. The application began branching out to other platforms in November 2016, when it first launched for Microsoft Windows. With version 1.5 in October 2016, the application received multiple new features, including symbols, constraints, asset management and text styles. In December 2015, version 1.4 then introduced new features for managing artboards and printing. Version 1.2, released in April 2015, introduced new tools and features, such as a corner tool and a pixel-alignment mode for GUI design tasks. At that time, Serif's vector graphics application for Windows was DrawPlus however, following the release of Affinity Designer for Windows, this product has now been discontinued. The first version was released in October 2014, making it the first of the Affinity apps to be released by Serif (and their first macOS release). ![]() It was developed entirely from scratch for this operating system, allowing it to leverage core native technologies such as OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch, and Core Graphics. Development Īffinity Designer began as a vector graphics editor solely for macOS. It supports the RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK and Grayscale color models, along with PANTONE color swatches and an end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC color management, and 16-bit per channel editing. Īffinity Designer provides non-destructive editing features across unlimited layers, with pan and zoom at 60 fps, and real-time views for effects and transformations. Īffinity Designer's core functions include vector pen and shape-drawing tools, support for custom vector and raster brushes (including the ability to import Adobe Photoshop (ABR) brushes), dynamic symbols, stroke stabilization, text style management, and vector/pixel export options. The application can also import data from some Adobe FreeHand files (specifically versions 10 and MX). It has been described as an Adobe Illustrator alternative, and is compatible with common graphics file formats, including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) formats. Affinity Designer is available for purchase directly from the company website and in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the Microsoft Store.Īffinity Designer serves as a successor to Serif's own DrawPlus software, which the company discontinued in August 2017 in order to focus on the Affinity product range. It is part of the "Affinity trinity" alongside Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, RussianĪffinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iPadOS, and Microsoft Windows. ![]() ![]() ![]() To enable one or more of these connections, select the appropriate check boxes. You might see a security warning message asking if you want to connect your local disk drives, local ports, or smart card to the remote computer.Depending on the policies of your network, local serial port mapping might be disabled for some or all remote connections.For more information about DYMO printers, go to the DYMO website.DYMO does not directly support Windows Terminal Services.However, if set up correctly, a DYMO printer can print jobs that are sent through a VPN or a local network. For example, a DYMO printer will not print jobs sent through the web. A DYMO printer cannot print a job sent from an outside network. You cannot use a DYMO printer in all Terminal Services or cloud computing environments.Eyefinity does not support the use of any other DYMO equipment. The instructions in this topic pertain only to the DYMO LabelWriter 450/450 Turbo or LabelWriter 550/550 Turbo printer.DYMO LabelWriter 450/450 Turbo label printer.DYMO LabelWriter 550/550 Turbo label printer.OfficeMate/ExamWRITER supports the following DYMO equipment:.So, I'm working again, and I'll probably live with the Dymo LabelWriter for yet another year. Not sure about that app design choice, but now that I know, I can work with it. For some reason, you can't choose your label size from what appears to be a popup in the lower right of the main window. It will give you a chance to design a new label, including choosing a label size. It took me a couple of minutes to discover this nugget: To change labels, you have to click the "New" button. So far, this version of Dymo Connect for the Mac seems to do everything that the old Dymo Label app could do. Immediately, the software found the LabelWriter. I unplugged the USB cable from the Mac and plugged it back in. It didn't want to find the LabelWriter 450 Turbo that was connected to it. I actually installed the software from the package a second time after the terminal components installed.Īfter that, the app came up. That was a first for me on a software install. So, it installed a couple of components into the Mac system from the terminal. I hesitated, but in the end, I gave it the keys to the kingdom. It installed, then it opened a terminal window and wanted to install some components from there. I went directly to Dymo's website, and downloaded Dymo Connect for the MAC there. I've got Dymo Connect for the Mac working with Ventura to an acceptable level on a M2 MacBook Air. If I can be of further assistance, please reply to this email directly. If you have already installed a label printer, disconnect the USB cable from your computer before running the installer and reconnect the cable when the software installer instructs you to. You MUST be able to modify files in the System folder to install and configure a LabelWriter printer. Note: The printer must be DISCONNECTED when running the installation.ĭYMO Label v.8 requires that you have Mac OS "Administrator" level permissions to install a printer. Once the software is downloaded, run the DLS8Setup.dmg file and follow the steps on the screen. To download and install the latest DLS on your Mac, please click HERE. Address Books are usually stored in the Documents folder on your Mac. If you are upgrading to Version 8 of the DYMO Label Software and currently have an earlier version, we suggest you back up your DLS Address Book prior to installing this software. Our Software developers are working tirelessly to ensure to make it compatible with all computer's operating System.įollowing are the steps to install the latest DYMO Label Software (DLS): In regards to your case, I am sorry to inform you that our DYMO Connect Software and DYMO Label Software is not compatible with the Mac Operating System 13 (Ventura). Oh yeah, and this took almost 10 days to get those 2 email responses from them. Then after just having said it didn't work on Ventura, they told me how to install what they had just said would not work. Then they wrote back and told me it wouldn't work with Ventura but they were "working tirelessly" to update it. Then when it didn't work, they admitted it wouldn't work with Ventura. I contacted Dymo customer service and even after telling them I was using Ventura, they told me to install Dymo Connect. ![]() ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. 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Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. ![]() If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stratified analysis showed that the performance was not affected by different scanners or slice thicknesses. DCA showed that the model would obtain more benefit when the threshold probability was between 30% and 90% in the test set. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test showed that the P value was > 0.05, indicating good calibration, and the calibration curves showed good agreement between the classifications and actual observations. ![]() Result: Among the six machine learning methods, the logistic regression model with the eight strongest features showed a significant association with mediastinal LN status and the satisfactory diagnostic performance for distinguishing malignant LNs from benign LNs. Stratified analysis was performed for different scanners and slice thicknesses. ![]() Decision curve analysis (DCA) was used to assess the clinical usefulness of the logistic regression model in both the training and test sets. Calibration curves and Hosmer-Lemeshow tests were used to assess the calibration degree. The performance of the model was assessed and compared to that of five other machine learning algorithms (support vector machine, naive Bayes, random forest, decision tree, K-nearest neighbor) using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. A model was fitted to associate mediastinal LN malignancy with selected features. Multivariate logistic regression was performed with the backward stepwise elimination. Feature selection was performed with least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) binary logistic regression. Radiomics features were extracted from the region of interest (ROI) delineated on venous-phase CT imaging of LN. Method: In total, 201 pathologically confirmed mediastinal LNs from 129 patients were enrolled and assigned to training and test sets. Purpose: To establish and validate a radiomics model to estimate the malignancy of mediastinal lymph nodes (LNs) based on contrast-enhanced CT imaging. 2Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.1Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.Mengshi Dong 1, Gang Hou 2, Shu Li 1, Nan Li 1, Lina Zhang 1* and Ke Xu 1* ![]() ![]() ![]() If you don't, there isn't much I can say that will be helpful. This isn't how I put it to them, but it's how I said it to myself. But when the moment came, I decided to say no. ![]() I liked everything I learned about the people and their ministry. As I investigated further, I found that they take very good care of the people who work for them. I met the people, liked them very much, and was very impressed by what they were doing. I was once approached by a Christian ministry asking if I would consider a particular position in their organization. But living by faith means no guarantees and no certainty about the future. There's nothing wrong with those desires. You want to grow old and die with your family around you? So do I. You want to rise in your profession? So do I. Abraham truly didn't know where he was going, didn't know how he would get there, didn't know how long it would take, and didn't even know for sure how he would know he was there when he got there. When God calls, there are no guarantees about tomorrow. Once he left the walls of Ur, he was on his own, following God's call into the unknown. When Abraham left Ur, he burned his bridges behind him. More than that, it meant risking his health and his future on a vague promise from an unseen God to lead him to "a land that I will show you" ( Genesis 12:1). Why would anyone want to leave Ur? Obeying God's call meant giving up his friends, his career, his traditions, his home, his position, his influence, and his country. No doubt many of Abraham's friends thought he was crazy. People from outlying areas moved to Ur because they wanted to be part of that great city. It was a center of mathematics, astronomy, commerce and philosophy. Archaeologists tell us that in Abraham's day perhaps 250,000 people lived there. There is only one way to describe Ur of the Chaldees. And he went out, not knowing where he was going" ( Hebrews 11:8). "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. Truth #1: Living by faith means accepting God's call without knowing where it will lead. So what does it mean to live by faith in an uncertain world? What God says will change his life - and ultimately alter the course of world history. It is at precisely this moment that God speaks to him - clearly, definitely, unmistakably. Certainly they have no reason to complain. He is a prosperous, middle-aged man, successful by any human standard. No doubt he and his wife Sarah worshiped the moon-god Sin. When we meet him in the Bible, he is living 4,000 years ago in a far-off place called Ur of the Chaldees - on the banks of the Euphrates River, not far from the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Let's begin with some brief facts about Abraham. And it clearly shows us that obeying God doesn't always work out the way we think it will. It tells us what he did more importantly, it tells us why he did it. Hebrews 11:8-10 tells how he obeyed God's call at great personal sacrifice. Our focus in this message is on the man we often call "Father Abraham." In the Bible he stands as the preeminent example of a man who lived by faith. What they did, they did by faith.Īll of them had moments when they must have wondered, "What did I do wrong?" Yet God considered each of them worthy of mention in this great chapter. The men and women whose stories are told in this particular chapter differ in every way but one. Stories that encompass murder, natural catastrophe, family treachery, physical weakness, failed dreams, missed opportunities, sibling rivalry, and military conquest. ![]() ![]() Different people, different stories, widely separated in time and space. The names written there are like a biblical hall of fame: Abel. Hebrews 11 offers us a long list of men and women who obeyed God even when things didn't always work out they way they expected. The good news is the membership includes every major Bible hero. The bad new is, we're all a member of that club at one time or another. What club is that? The International Fellowship of Faith-Walkers Who Feel Like Failures. There are a lot of things that might be said at this point, but perhaps this one needs to be mentioned first. That's a hard truth to accept, especially when you're the one in the middle of the mess, after you've done what you thought was the will of God. Or maybe they did, but their current troubles are not proof that they were wrong in the first place. The truth is, it's entirely possible that this person did nothing wrong. That's a natural question to ask when life rewards your courage with nothing but trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() True to her origins, Bayonetta is a fighter who thrives on combos: her default combo string is the longest out of any other characters', and her moves are designed to easily flow one into another. She was added to the game alongside Corrin on February 3rd, 2016. She was apparently the number one most requested character in Europe and within the top five in the United States - among "negotiable and realizable characters" note Presumably meaning characters that actually had a reasonable chance of being licensed for the game the true Smash Ballot winner was later revealed to be Sora, who found his way into the next game., she averaged out to be the most requested worldwide. After several months of taking votes, the ballot closed in October, and Bayonetta was announced on Decemas the ballot winner. website allowed fans to vote for characters they wished to appear as DLC. Starting on April 1st, 2015, a ballot on the official Super Smash Bros. Now, she brings her signature combo-heavy fighting style to Smash Bros., showing Nintendo's greatest how a witch does things. Bayonetta is an Umbra Witch who lost her memories after awaking from a 500-year slumber in a coffin at the bottom of a lake, fighting against hordes of angels in order to discover the truth about her past. The eponymous star of the Sega-owned, PlatinumGames-developed Stylish Action Beat 'em Up series. ![]() Strangely, in Smash 4, if Bayonetta uses After Burner Kick immediately after being released from Confusion, she can immediately use it again, even if it doesn't hit an opponent or if Bayonetta herself gets hit." Oh! Another angel? Must've missed one.This is the first special move to change its name when used in the air, followed by Min Min's ARMS Jump / ARM Hook.Names in other languages Heel Slide Language These are the variations:Īfter Burner Kick as shown by the Move List in Ultimate. Special Move customization was added in Super Smash Bros. Another kick is possible if it connects midair. Slides across the ground (or diagonally in the air) with a speedy kick. In Ultimate, the second After Burner Kick also cannot be used if the first one is shielded. ![]() When the first After Burner Kick connects, the second one can only be activated within a window of 60 frames (one second) after the first one ends, encouraging quick usage of it for combos. Getting hit in the air recovers an After Burner Kick, allowing Bayonetta to add it to her recovery again along with another Witch Twist. Both variants can be comboed into each other, and various other combos can be done, such as forward aerial out of the After Burner Kick. Using a Hadoken-style input often makes this easier. If down is pressed before performing the move, Bayonetta does a diagonal diving kick instead that bounces off opponents. She will fly diagonally upwards with a kick, and can be performed twice in the air if the first attack hits an opponent. When using her side special in the air, Bayonetta will preform After Burner Kick. The attack also features aesthetic variations: the trails emitted are blue if Bayonetta's default costume is used, or red if her "A Witch With No Memories" alternate costume is used. If she only attacks with a sliding kick, she can bait and punish air dodge opponents with a timed, charged smash attack. Like most of her attacks, if the button is held, she will fire her guns to deal extra damage, but if the button is held longer, she will finish with a flip kick that knocks her opponent into the air, allowing her to follow up with one of her various aerial moves. Heel Slide is Bayonetta's side special when used on the ground, where she will attack with a sliding kick. ![]() |