![]() PlayerPrefs are stored somewhere on your device, separate from your project. You can use PlayerPrefs to store a player’s preferences between sessions, such as quality settings, audio volume or other non-essential data. saving & loading game data, collision handlers, object pools, and more. However, they’re useful, so we’ll discuss them. a list of curated opensource Unity packages for future proof Game Developers. In the end I might have 20000 images stored locally on the disk and at any moment I could need to display 50 of them on the screen. PlayerPrefs are not made to save game states. I can do the file loading/saving on a separate thread (thanks to UniThread), but EncodeToPNG and LoadImage are not threadsafe and thus still block the main thread causing my app to hang until their execution is done. ![]() Try that with 20 large files at once and your app will hang for a few seconds. Works, but the problem with this approach is that it's a bit slow to access multiple images, because I have to do File.ReadAllBytes(filepath), and then turn it into a Texture2D via Texture2D.LoadImage(data) before I can display it. How you organize data in your Unity project affects how Unity serializes that data, which can have a significant impact on the performance of your project. I get the images from our webserver via and store them via File.WriteAllBytes(filepath, data) Serialization is the automatic process of transforming data structures or GameObject states into a format that Unity can store and reconstruct later. It is as I suspected and as you say: the asset with default data is a. If you are not familiar, ScriptableObjects are a simple way to manage data in your game. Instantiate prefab in Unity by name You can reference the prefab game object and. You will use Scriptable Objects to manage the items in the game. ![]() The 2D Sci-Fi Weapons Pack is on the Unity Asset Store and can be imported through the usual workflow. I'm working on a project where I need to store a lot of images on the client. Go to the releases tab and download the Unity package to import it in. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Earlier this month, Lisa de Moraes reported former CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras joined WJLA, D.C.’s ABC7 affiliate. Grow is the second big new acquisition by local weather teams. “aaaaahhhhhh I can’t wait! DC is the new Philly :-),” she posted to Twitter today. Grow seems excited about the opportunity to work in Washington. ![]() Likewise, she has been deriving prominent part of her net worth from working as a meteorologist. Erica Grow is an American meteorologist working at AccuWeather Network in Austin, Texas where she serves as the Broadcaster Manager. She brings more than ten years of Top 10 market experience to this role, including four years as an on-camera meteorologist. Grow in the year 1980 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Early life and education Erica Grow was born as Erica A. She is currently working at WNBC-TV based in New York City. The radio station WHP580 (out of Harrisburg, Pa.), where she provided forecasts, writes:Īs a kid growing up in the Lehigh Valley, Erica used to wander outside in the middle of a snowstorm, yardstick in hand, trying to make accurate snowfall measurements. Erica has worked in numerous different companies in a short span of time. Erica Grow is the Broadcaster Manager for the AccuWeather Network. Content Erica Grow is an American meteorologist and a television reporter, who is best known for her work with KMID-TV. Her interest in weather was fueled by snowstorms as a child. Early in the week, it appeared that Isaac’s remnants might give us a messy Labor Day weekend, but as the week wore on and the storm remained nearly stationary, it became obvious that this was not going to happen. The slowly-meandering of Tropical Storm Isaac has made it difficult for our forecast models to predict its next move. She shows off her writing and meteorological chops in freshly posted article on Isaac’s possible effects on New England this weekend. Grow graduated from Penn State in 2002 with a degree in meteorology. Link: Eric Grow WPLR radio interview upon arriving in New Haven (video) Prior to the position in New Haven, Grow had worked in Philadelphia as a weekend meteorologist from 2007 to 2009 at the ABC affiliate (6 Action News where, strangely, her bio still appears) as well as in Harrisburg, and Odessa, TX (in 2003). Erica comes from D.C.’s WUSA-TV, where she was the weekend morning meteorologist. congratulates its clients on their recent successes: Erica Grow joins New York O & O WNBC-TV as weekend evening meteorologist. “While I had planned to stay in Connecticut longer, Washington D.C. Octo/ Scott Jones Eatman Media Services, Inc. “My hours were cut back to part-time at WTNH and the new job is a full-time one,” Grow told the Hartford Courant. Since joining the channel, Amelia has been forecasting the weather on NBC’s News4, NBC, and 103.5 WTOP Radio. Currently, she serves at NBC’s StormTeam 4 in Washington, DC as a meteorologist. Grow is leaving a gig at the ABC affiliate in New Haven, WTNH. Amelia Draper Bio Wiki Amelia Draper is a popular American meteorologist. ![]() ![]() Last week I was singing the praises of Colomé Bonarda (€26 and I also recommend Bonardas from Alta Vista (Mitchell & Son €22), Kaiken (€19 Independents) and most others. Bonarda is Argentina’s second grape and deserves to be better known as it ripens easier and has generous fruits. Mostly we buy Malbec but Argentina also grows good Cabernet, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and some unique grapes including Torrontés and Bonarda. Ireland imports only 2% of its wine from Argentina but that figure is growing. The warm days ripen the grapes and cool night temperatures preserve fruit and acidity and increase the terpenes (aroma/flavour molecules) and polyphenols in the grapes, thickening the skins and adding flavour and complexity. Grapes grown at altitude (and there are lots of very high vineyards) are often the most interesting in Argentina. “We are trying to make leaner wines, not as overpowering but at the same time very focused and working a lot in layers and length,” Vignoni said during a Zoom tasting earlier this year.Argentina does not have many coastal vineyards so if they need cooler temperatures for Pinot Noir or Sauvignon they go up the mountains. 8) shows how Paul Hobbs and winemaker Andres Vignoni fine-tune their wines with more linearity and definition with their new vineyard in Los Arboles. Viña Cobos Malbec Los Arboles Valle de Uco Chañares Estate 2018 (No. 4) speaks the same language as Zuccardi’s other offerings and is consistently a cerebral malbec showing depth, layers, precision and polish. Zuccardi Malbec Valle de Uco Paraje Altamira Finca Piedra Infinita 2018 (No. 3) is a stunning red from Agrelo of Lujan de Cuyo highlighted by its precision, ultra-fine tannins and energy. Susana Balbo Wines Malbec Agrelo Nosotros Single Vineyard Nómade 2017 (No. Other than Catena Zapata and Matervini, all our top malbecs this year are illustrations of various terroirs that have stood out in Mendoza. ![]() Despite a tiny volume of production, it’s a wine that shows real character with unfathomable depth, intensity and austere minerality. 11), for example, comes from El Challao of Las Heras, which is a new hillside area near Mendoza city where vines thrive on the ancient, colluvial soils rich in limestone and weathered basalt. His Matervini Malbec Mendoza El Challao-Las Heras Piedras Viejas 2019 (No. “Instead, it makes silky, cherry-driven malbec… if the soil is suited to darker, denser malbec, we will also go with it, and the result will be good.”Īchaval has good reason to believe that there is still more to come from malbec in his country. “The soil in Gualtallary doesn’t want to make heavy malbec,” Santiago Achaval of Matervini said during a zoom call interview this year. Judicious winemakers also thrust refinement, delicate austerity and layers into the limelight, with many of them referring to it as the “Burgundy approach” to malbec – something feasible in cooler, higher appellations like Gualtallary, where making fine wine is only viable in a climate barely warm enough to fully ripen the grapes. While malbec continues to rule the world of Argentine reds, the country has come a long way in making wines showing subtle nuances among different appellations, vineyards or even smaller blocks. Around 60 percent of whole-cluster fermentation also helps add a tactile seduction to the wine. 6 on our list, with its fruit coming from a five-hectare Fortuna Terrae (“Land of Luck”) parcel, where deeper alluvial and aeolian soil tops the limestone and rocks, rendering depth and freshness to the fruit. One of their top malbecs, Catena Zapata Malbec Mendoza Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae 2019, ranks No. A thin layer of flor, or yeast, also adds a unique saline smack to the wine during the aging process.Ĭatena winemaker Alejandro Vigil told us that Catena has been studying the terroir closely for 25 years in their Grand Cru-like Adrianna Vineyard in Gualtallary, seeking the unique expression of each block for their malbecs and chardonnays. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a genuinely unique and terroir-transparent chardonnay that rivals the best from Burgundy, expressing an exotically ripe yet mineral character with a sensual texture, as if transmitting the tangy energy of the chalky, calcareous soils rich in marine deposits to the nose and the palate. The Catena Zapata Chardonnay Mendoza Adrianna Vineyard White Bones 2019 is the No. One of our favorite whites in the world comes from the Catena family, in the Andean foothills of Mendoza. 52) and Matias Riccitelli Malbec Cabernet Franc Mendoza Riccitelli & Father 2018 (No. 28) Susana Balbo’s BenMarco Valle de Uco Gualtallary Expresivo 2019 (No. 16), a joint project by Marcelo Pelleriti and the Argentine musician Pedro Aznar Michelini i Mufatto Tupungato GY 2019 (No. Scroll down the list below to see Mendoza’s success with the grape duo, including Abremundos Mendoza Octava Alta Blend 2017 (No. ![]() ![]() Hourly workers also don’t qualify and still accrue PTO.īut for directors and above, across departments – in HR, marketing, nursing, lab, radiology, long-term care, clinic staff – vacation days were no longer finite. Doctors, for example, have their own time-off rules. Because Avera is a care provider, there are different time-off strategies that need to be used depending on the worker, Enebo said. Then, in July of 2017, the new policy went live. The Sioux Falls-based health care group took the leap in 2016 and then spent months in transition as Avera workers cashed out the last of their last accrued PTO balances, some of it held and rolled over from years of saving. Leaders in Avera’s human resources and finance offices started rethinking the health care system’s time-off polices after learning that other health care groups and companies were finding success by taking away accrued PTO hours. Unlimited PTO has been rolled out by a number of larger employers across the United States, who forego the standard accrual-based time-off approach for a vacation policy that is more open-ended and relies on employees to complete their duties and then rewards them by not clocking their vacation. When I’m on vacation I’m still connected by a laptop I took with me, by my cell phone people are calling me on.” “But also, technology has really blurred time off from really being time off. “What inspired us to be able to offer it at that executive level was not only seeing others were looking at doing it,” said Kim Enebo, vice president of talent and rewards for Avera’s human resources department. There is no need when there is no cap on vacation days – at least for director-level and above positions.Īvera Health is part of a growing number of employers across the United States that have stopped tracking vacation time for certain employees and replaced old policies with what’s typically referred to as unlimited paid time off (PTO). Vacation days aren’t as precious as they once were for some Avera Health employees, who no longer are hoarding their paid time off. ![]() ![]() ![]() This will be super useful if you snap the perfect photo except for that one stubborn frowning face. There’s also an impressive new facial feature adjustment tool that easily lets you change squinting eyes or upset faces into bright smiles with open eyes. Frame Creator: A new way to create your own custom frames to complement your favorite photos and they can be added to the existing frame library.This new guided edit adds a motion blur behind your subject to creat e the dramatic effect. Speed Pan: Don’t know how to or weren’t able to catch the perfect speed-pan action shot? No problem.Tap into multiple templates and themes to choose one that suits your style. Effects Collage : get artistic by adding multiple effects to a single photo.Painterly teaches you how to paint an effect over your subject and then add textures and color themes -perfect for sharing on social media or as a printed keepsake. Painterly: Convert your photos into unique works of art.It’s great for anyone creating collages, scrapbook pages, cards, signs, and more. Photo Text: Now you can easily transform any photo into cool visual text and add an embossed look and drop shadows to really make it pop.Here’s how Adobe describes each new guided edit: This brings the total number of guided edits to 45 with the new guided edits including photo text, painterly, effects collage, speed pan, and frame creator. Photoshop Elements 15, Adobe’s lightweight but powerful photo editor, adds five new guided edits that take you step-by-step to improve your photos. Finally, Organizer 15 includes an upgraded Instant Fix feature that lets you batch edit photos using the one-click method. Organization is also improved with smart tags like sunset or dog that are automatically applied to photos. Mac users will benefit from enhanced search features that let you combine places, events, and popular subjects to locate the right photos. The new Elements 15 apps start with Adobe Elements Organizer 15, which now features a touch enabled Organizer and Quick Edit mode for touch screen PCs. ![]() ![]() Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 lets you adjust facial expressionsĪdobe is releasing Photoshop Elements 15 and Premiere Elements 15 today, and this year’s release includes of plenty of powerful new tools that make advanced photo and video editing more approachable. ![]() ![]() ![]() If your health care provider offers a procedure using a dermal filler that is much cheaper than similar procedures using FDA-approved dermal fillers, or if a product has labeling that looks strange or different than usual, beware.” The horror stories are out there, including people who have experienced cysts, scars, and even near-loss of their lips after messing around with these DIY kits. Vials should be properly labeled and sealed. ALWAYS work with a licensed health care provider who uses FDA-approved products for treatments. They may be fake, contaminated, or harmful. ![]() If blindness by way of hair gel isn’t enough to sway you, the Federal Drug Administration has some choice words: “NEVER buy dermal fillers on the Internet. When injected, these substances can cause allergic reactions, infections, and the death of skin cells.” Still feeling a YOLO DIY? “Another risk is that improper injection technique can lead not only to swelling and lumpiness, but also more serious side effects such as death of skin cells, and embolism leading to blindness.” What exactly are the risks of home filler kits? According to Harvard Medical School, “One risk is that fillers purchased online can contain a variety of non-sterile substances, such as hair gel. Self-piercing is one thing, but selling a product to inject sounds medical to me, cosmetics.” “To do that, it is my understanding you need a license. “It is hard for me to think the FDA would allow the selling of a device that pierces the skin,” Sheffield told VICE. He is not only a third-generation physician with over 20 years of surgical experience, but an expert at focusing “on facial aesthetic surgery minimally invasive and non-surgical ways of facial rejuvenation.” So, basically, he’s someone who should be capable of sniffing out any sus marketing and hyaluronic danger.įor starters, Sheffield points out that the kits are not the same thing as visiting your friendly local Juvederm injector. We decided to ask someone who actually knows what they’re talking about, so we contacted Robert Sheffield, MD Plastic Surgery of SB Aesthetics in Santa Barbara, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more blocks you break, the higher your score will be. In this game, players will control a ball to break multicolored blocks covering a part of the playing field. do that thing that Welch did too, and then milk our wallets for all they're worth with oodles of level packs. Magic Ball is a free 3D Arkanoid breakout-style game developed by Dream Dale and published by Alawar Entertainment. You could make something that is truly the first of its kind. I know what you're working on here is intended to be simple and a nostalgia piece, but I just felt compelled to suggest bringing the genre in a new direction as well. ![]() Again, super creative and a nice example of good production values combined with some new game mechanics that simply haven't been attempted before. It's a Pinball game with some RPG mixed in. But then I suggest also looking at WizOrb (super creative and also on discount right now!), Shatter (beautiful game), Ionball 2, EM: Shader Attack, and Simple Ball: Extended Edition. Although I do wish he'd "stoop" to putting his game on Steam.Īnyway, look at Welch's game for more inspiration if you like. You can see this has been done extensively. I mean, when it comes to Arkanoid clones, take a look at Super DX-Ball by BlitWise: ![]() Are those public domain? Just curious.Īnyway, while playing this, some ideas came to me about new features, or new games and then I gave up on that line of thought because what it comes down to is this: This is a good learning project, but I hope you push this in a new direction. It really does bring me back to the Megaball days, and the icons are even the same. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Well, I think this is a fine start. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. 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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: Seumas McNally’s fan-favourite DX-Ball 2 has been re-mastered for modern PCs while retaining all of the classic brick-breaking action and unique graphic style of the late 90’s original. Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. After more than 5 million downloads, the king of break-out games is back in a special 20th Anniversary Edition. ![]() ![]() Prior to the pandemic, there was always a linear relationship between Amazon’s online retail sales growth and its industrial leasing activity, typically averaging 15% to 20% growth annually. 1 The pandemic then fueled an extraordinary rise in e-commerce as consumer shopping habits pivoted. Amazon duly responded with a rampant expansion of its warehouse footprint. In an attempt to control its own delivery network and amass an empire to rival the most dominant logistics companies, Amazon leased an eye-popping 127 million square feet in 2020. This was followed by a further 106 million square feet in 2021. ![]() The company effectively doubled its entire 25-year footprint in the space of two years. 2 If Amazon’s first two decades in business sparked a revival of the modern warehouse sector, that 24-month period gave a glimpse into a golden age. While this growth was stratospheric, it was perhaps also rational given the company’s ambition to build an unrivaled logistics system capable of delivering same-day packages to consumers across the U.S. It is clear that such a rate of change in warehouse leasing in such a short space of time was never going to be repeated.Īmazon’s % of U.S. Source: Janus Henderson Investors, BofA Global Research. “Industrial REITS: AMZN news is not new information Industrial is a buying opportunity,”. In 2020, Amazon comprised 14% of overall U.S. industrial leasing, falling sharply to 5.2% in 2021. Year to date, the company’s share of leasing has fallen to just 3.3%, back to levels seen in 2018. Industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) CEOs and leasing brokers have long considered waning leasing demand from Amazon to be old news, claiming that it had been anticipated and penciled into future forecasts. Indeed, REITs gave some indication of their expectations for earnings in 2022 after Amazon’s announcement, providing visibility for their outlooks that was inclusive of a slowdown. It will be important to watch the increasingly uncertain macroeconomic environment closely and monitor whether other users are also looking to sublease space or cease expansion. Could Amazon be the canary in the coal mine for a broader slowdown in industrial demand? It’s possible, though so far there are no signs of it.Īs for Amazon’s immediate intentions, sensationalist headlines that Amazon is canceling leases requires some clarification. ![]() ![]() ![]() You no longer have to crawl in the trunk to grab it! Who knew an off-road-friendly vehicle could be so civilized? This is a genius feature and makes loading and unloading a little easier, especially if you have heavy luggage or a small bag in the corner you can’t reach. You can load it up and then push it back in until it locks. With a flip of a switch, the floor unlocks and easily slides out. When loading up the trunk, I discovered there was a sliding cargo floor. Yes, you’ll have to stop at the pump pretty regularly-but I’d say it’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make for a car that can handle the rigors of the daily errands, the commute, and the camping trip. We loaded up the SUV with two adults and two kids, plus all our luggage and fishing gear, and we still had plenty of room to relax on the drive. Anyone who road trips on a regular basis!Īlthough the gas mileage may not be the best feature of the vehicle, there is plenty of legroom for long rides.Those who need cargo and passenger space.Those not worried about getting great gas mileage.Adventure seekers who want to go off-roading, but go in style and comfort. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Holtzman, PhD Hogg Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Past President, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, The University of Texas, Austin Readers of the Inkblot Personality Test: Understanding the Unconscious Mind will gain a meaningful classical perspective and understanding of the three clinical instruments of projective psychology that have benefitted many mental health and psychotherapy practitioners and clients. It certainly should stimulate new research throughout the world. I am greatly impressed by the extent to which psychology has matured in India during the past several decades the current book is much overdue as a significant contribution to the study of personality, psychodiagnosis and mental health. Los Angeles | London | New Delhi | Singapore | Washington DC | Melbourne Advance Praise The authors have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date book on inkblot tests as the most important projective techniques for assessing personality. ![]() SAGE remains majority-owned by our founder, and after Sara’s lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures our continued independence. Today, we publish over 900 journals, including those of more than 400 learned societies, more than 800 new books per year, and a growing range of library products including archives, data, case studies, reports, and video. INKBL T Personality Test Understanding the Unconscious Mind BANKEY LAL DUBEY PADMAKALI BANERJEE ANAND DUBEY SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative and high-quality research and teaching content. Cassell Acknowledgements Part I Theoretical Base of Inkblot Tests Introduction Hermann Rorschach Artist and Creator of Inkblot Test Historical Development of Inkblot Techniques Theoretical Postulates of Inkblot Tests Studies on Rorschach, Holtzman and Somatic Inkblot Tests Administration and Scoring of Rorschach Test Administration, Scoring and Interpretation of Holtzman Inkblot Test Administration and Scoring of Somatic Inkblot Test Part II: Test Results and Guidelines Quantitative and Indices Based Interpretation of Rorschach Test Indian Norms and Diagnostic Indicators Part III: Application of Inkblot Tests in Industry and Clinical Setups Application of Inkblot Tests in Business Organization Interpretation of Inkblot Responses-Case Studies Appendix: Images of SIS-I, SIS-II and Somatic Imagery Test Bibliography Index Citation preview ![]() |