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As it starts to melt add the thinly sliced onion and season with a pinch of Killer Hogs Steak Rub. Place an iron skillet on the hot side of the grill and add 2 Tablespoons of butter. Slice one vidalia sweet onion super thin. This is when I break out the cast iron skillet and grill some thin onion. Once the chops are ready remove them from the grill and rest for 5-7 minutes. Don’t walk away and it should take about 8 total minutes to on the grill. You’ll want to stay with these thin chops because it’s easy to burn them. If the grill gets too hot you have the cool side to move the chops to slow it down. After flipping start basting each chop with Killer Hogs The BBQ Sauce.Ĭontinue to flip and baste each side every couple of minutes until both sides are char grilled and sticky. The goal here is to sear/char the thin chops without over cooking them. Place the chops over the hot zone of the grill and cook for 1 1/2 – 2 minutes before flipping. ![]() You can substitute your favorite bbq seasoning here if you wish. Season each chop with a good dose of Killer Hogs The BBQ Rub followed by a light coat of Killer Hogs Steak Rub for texture. Place the cooking grate over the coals and allow the grill to come up to 450-500 degrees. When the coals are good and hot pour them to one side of the grill creating a two zone cooking environment. Repeat these steps for all four chops.įire up a charcoal grill with Royal Oak briquettes. Use a meat mallet or heavy rolling pin to pound the chop out flat. Place the bag on the cutting board and lay the tenderized chop between the layers of the split bag. ![]() Next take a gallon size zip top bag and split each side down the seam. Press the butterflied chop out flat on a cutting board and hit it with a jacquard meat tenderizer… This step makes it extra tender. You want the chops about 2” thick to start.īutterfly each chop with a sharp knife taking care not to cut the chop all the way in half. ![]() I start with extra thick boneless pork chops cut from the center section of a pork loin roast. This recipe is great for a quick grilling session during the hot summer months – and this recipe makes one delicious Chargrilled Pork Chop Sandwich. Print Recipe Chargrilled Pork Chop Sandwich Recipe. ![]() Photos exist to be looked at and enjoyed. An IT8-Target is used with our IT8 Calibration process in SilverFast Ai Studio to generate an individual highly precise ICC-profile. It is possible to undergo further fine-tuning with an individual profile. Due to SilverFast’s color management ability, scanned images remain consistent in quality regardless of output device.Įvery SilverFast Version comes fully equipped with a generic color profile for your scanner. It plays the role of a translator, translating between scanner and output device. ![]() Color AccuracyĪ color profile (ICC) helps scanners reproduce colors accurately. Multi-Exposure, a feature that increases the Dynamic Range of the scanner, is unnecessary for reflective photos and is thus not available in the SilverFast Software, while in reflective mode. The complete Dynamic Range of reflective originals can be captured with a single scan. But what is the key to high-quality scanning? Dynamic Range The necessary resolution can be reached by almost every scanner. ![]() In most cases, the appropriate scan resolution for a photo print is of secondary importance and no challenge for the hardware. This allows for the quick and effective scanning of large image archives. Interpolation can in turn decrease the sharpness of an image and should thus be avoided.Īn image with a relatively low resolution is advantageous because of its quick processing time and comparatively small data size. A higher resolution means that the software is able to calculate additional image points that are not present in the original image. Ultimately, a higher resolution does not always guarantee increased image detail. A resolution of 600 dpi is only required now-and-again by the odd exception. This is due to the fact that in most cases all image details are already recognized with 300 dpi. When increasing image size, it makes little sense to significantly increase image resolution as well. If you want to print your images later, just enter the desired output size and SilverFast will automatically calculate the optimal required scanner resolution. For an image equal in both size and detail, a resolution of 300 dpi is recommended. Photos usually have a resolution between 150 dpi and 600 dpi. Working with high resolution, especially when scanning photos, is not always necessary. Now, let’s take a look at what to keep an eye on, especially when dealing with the high-quality scanning of photos, instant camera images and other reflective originals. A small tip: family photos can be scanned to create a beautiful picture album, an absolute eyecatcher and always a great present. Whether working with black & white or color images, it is amazing to witness, the high-quality restoration of decade-old photos. It is also possible to restore blown out and even scratched images and then print them out in their new form. Digitalization preserves image quality, keeping the image intact and providing access to countless copies of the original image. On the other hand, polaroid photos wear out rather quickly, edges become frayed, tears and creases occur, photos become unattractive.įortunately, photo digitalization is quite simple. On the one hand, the advantage of polaroid photos is evident: immediately printed photos are instantly accessible, enabling photographers to immediately share their photos with others. Since 2015, instant camera sales have significantly increased. Instant image photography has been enjoying a comeback for some time now. ![]() “A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.” ~ Jacqueline Novogratz.Now who wants that?” ~ Mathew Woodring Strover “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work.“Teamwork makes the dream work.” ~ Bang Gae.“Bad attitudes will ruin your team.”~ Terry Bradshaw.“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”~ Mike Schmoker.“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant.“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” ~ Edwin Land.“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” ~ Michael Jordan.“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one.“When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” ~ Marissa Mayer.“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” ~ Napoleon Hill.“Teamwork endow with great learning opportunities.” ~ Invajy.The strength of each member is the team.”~ Phil Jackson “The strength of the team is each individual member.“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”~ Simon Mainwaring.“A leader must inspire or his team will expire”~ Orrin Woodward.“Success is best when it’s shared.”~ Howard Schulz.“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”~ Reid Hoffman.“Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.” ~ Byron Pulsifer.“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ~ Harry S.“Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.”~ Cameron Russell.I believe change can only come through collaboration.” ~ Alain de Botton “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” ~ Kurt Koffka.“Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.” ~ Vaclav Smil.“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” ~ Amy Poelher.“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” ~ James Cash Penney.“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford.If you want to go far, go together.” ~ African ProverbĪlso Read : How to deal with difficult people? Teamwork Quotes to Inspire Collaboration ![]() “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~ Isaac Newton.“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” ~ John D.And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” ~ Patrick Lencioni “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ~ Henry Ford.“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ~ Vince Lombardi.You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” ~ Babe Ruth “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes.Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” ~ Becka Schoettle.“Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller.“None of us is as smart as all of us.” ~ Ken Blanchard.“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” ~ Russel Honore.“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” ~ Malcolm Forbes.It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” ~ H.E. ![]()
![]() In 2011, the airline suspended a pilot who inadvertently broadcasted a profane rant about the flight attendants over the radio frequency used by air traffic controllers. This isn't the first time a Southwest pilot has been caught making inappropriate comments. "This situation was an isolated incident involving a single Employee and not representative of the nearly 60,000 hardworking, respectful People of Southwest Airlines." "Our corporate Culture is built on a tenet of treating others with concern and dignity and the comments are inconsistent with the professional behavior and overall respect that we require from our Employees," a spokesman for the airline said in a statement. The airline said they are handling the matter internally. "You don't have balls unless you're f****** rolling coal man, g*ddamnit."Īccording to SFGate, the pilot works for Southwest Airlines. "F****** weirdos, probably driving around in f****** Hyundais, f****** roads and s*** that go slow as f***." "F*** this place, g*ddamn liberal f****." The hard-to-decipher audio, which can be found at LiveATC, captures the pilot saying things like Fck this place, goddamn liberal fucks. In a 40-minute clip of the audio feed, which is archived online at Live ATC, the pilot can be heard making several expletive-laden comments. Ma03:56 PM Southwest Airlines confirmed that a pilot ranted about California 's Bay Area, calling its residents 'f- weirdos.' The remarks, which were caught on a website that. Mineta San Jose International Airport’s air traffic control. Audio of the pilot's comments was flagged by Twitter user according to travel site One Mile at a Time. In an expletive-filled rant, a Southwest pilot was caught on a hot mic complaining about liberals and the Bay Area over the Norman Y. Why can airlines and charter operations do this but you cant. I thought I was in Chicago, which was party-land.An airline pilot at San Jose Airport was caught on a hot mic making a series of profane remarks against the people who live in the Bay Area. his employee, and most of the flying would be single-pilot IFR. SAN FRANCISCO An expletive-filled rant from a Southwest Airlines pilot about 'liberal fs' in the San Francisco Bay Area was caught on a hot mic while preparing to depart for a flight. SFGate reported that the pilot is a Southwest employee. In an expletive-filled rant, a Southwest pilot was caught on a hot mic complaining about liberals and the Bay Area over the Norman Y. He added that the agency reported the incident to the airline. The unidentified pilot was heard on a radio frequency at. Eleven (expletive) over the top (expletive), (expletive) homosexuals and a granny," the pilot said. 'FAA regulations prohibit airline pilots from talking about subjects that are unrelated to safely conducting their flight while taxiing and while flying below 10,000 feet altitude,' FAA spokesperson Ian Gregor said a statement. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - A Southwest Airlines pilot was caught on a hot mic making an expletive-filled rant against the Bay Area. A potty-mouthed Southwest pilot who inadvertently broadcast an epithet-laced assessment of the Silicon Valley area, some of its liberal residents and their driving preferences is being dealt with internally by the airline, a spokesman said on Thursday. "There's 12 flight attendants, individual, never the same flight attendant twice. Profane Hot Mic Rant Lands Southwest Pilot In Hot Water. ![]() On a flight from Austin to San Diego, the pilot first complained about flight attendants he worked with in Chicago. CT on March 25 and was broadcast over the Houston air traffic control radio frequency, blocking communication between air traffic controllers and other pilots for more than two minutes. The conversation took place at about 7:30 a.m. Houston TV station KPRC obtained a recording of the audio in which the pilot bashed gays, women, "grannies" and overweight people. According to travel site One Mile At A Time, two weeks ago a hot mic incident was recorded over the Mineta San Jose International Airport’s air traffic control scanner that caught a pilot. J- A Southwest Airlines pilot was suspended without pay after his cockpit microphone became stuck open and an obscenity-laced rant about the physical attributes of flight attendants was broadcast across the entire Texas airspace. ![]() In 2007, Watson took a day off from college to show up unannounced at the main building of Deep South Wrestling (DSW), then a developmental territory of WWE, and apply for a job as a wrestler coincidentally, his future New Day partner Kofi Kingston (then using the ringname "Kofi Nahaje Kingston") was working in the ring the exact moment he arrived, marking the first meeting between the two. In 2006, Creed won NWA's Most Popular Wrestler, voted for by the NWA fans. The pair had one of the longest title reigns in the promotion's history after defeating Justice Served (Jason Justice and Mike Free) in Cornelia, Georgia on April 7, 2007. ĭuring his time in NWA Anarchy, Creed was part of a tag team called Awesome Attraction with Hayden Young. While in the Greenville, South Carolina-based World Wrestling Council, he developed his Austin Creed gimmick, which is based heavily on the character Apollo Creed from the Rocky series. ![]() While attending Furman University, Watson began training for a career in professional wrestling and, in 2005, began wrestling part-time with Rob Adonis' Ultimate Christian Wrestling promotion. Professional wrestling career Early years (2005–2007) He graduated with a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Later that year, he began studying psychology and philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Sprayberry High School but there are also rumors that he graduated at Pebblebrook High School instead in 2004. He was also a host on the G4 television network, which covers video games, following its revival in 2020 until its end in 2022. Since 2015, Watson, as Austin Creed, has hosted a gaming YouTube channel titled UpUpDownDown, where he invites fellow WWE performers, gaming personalities, friends, and guests to play games. With his NXT Tag Team Championship win in 2022, Woods also became a Tag Team Triple Crown Champion. In October 2021, Woods became the 22nd winner of the King of the Ring tournament and briefly went by the name of King Woods. New Day's second reign with the Raw Tag Team Championship was the longest tag team title reign of any male tag team championship in WWE history until that record was broken in February 2021. In 2014, Woods formed The New Day alongside Big E and Kofi Kingston, and has since become a record seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion, four-time Raw Tag Team Champion, and one-time NXT Tag Team Champion, making him an overall 12-time tag team champion in WWE. FCW was later closed and rebranded as NXT, where Woods worked until he was called up to the main roster in 2013. After signing with WWE in 2010, he was assigned to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Xavier Woods. Watson previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Consequences Creed, and was a one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as The Lethal Consequences. Watson also makes public appearances outside of wrestling under the name Austin Creed. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Xavier Woods and is part of The New Day. All rights reserved.Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information / Your California Privacy Rights are applicable to you. ^ Back to Top ^ © 2023 ESPN Internet Ventures. The channel involves Woods gaming with WWE colleagues and friendsįeatured on ESPN as part of an E:60 special called "Behind the Curtain" highlighting the lives of a few NXT performers Started up a YouTube channel called 'UpUpDownDown' in 2015. He is currently in pursuit of his PhD from Capella University Graduate of Furman University and has a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy. 12, 2020 (Traded with The Street Profits following 2020 WWE Draft, on Monday Night Raw) Two-time WWE Raw tag team champion (with Kofi Kingston) first win on Oct. Seven-time WWE SmackDown tag team champion (with Big E and Kofi Kingston) first win on J(Battleground) Two-time WWE tag team champion (with Big E and Kofi Kingston first win on Ap(Extreme Rules) Signature moves: Honor Roll, Lost in the Woods, Shining Wizard, UpUpDwnDwn, Midnight HourĬatchphrase: "We are your W-W-E Tag Team Champions", "New.Day Rocks!"Ĭollege: Furman University/Capella University You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() When using BlueStacks, you can play Android games while still making use of your regular PC input devices. Relax and play at a smooth frame rate in the resolution of your choice. The app player can decrease RAM usage by as much as 50% while still supporting resolutions up to UHD 2160p. 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A perfect app for video calls and team chat! ![]() Received: ApAccepted: DecemPublished: December 17, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Yoo et al. PLoS ONE 16(12):Įditor: Manuel Spitschan, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM The algorithm we developed here can be used as an effective remedy for the confounding effects of BPR on pupillometry.Ĭitation: Yoo K, Ahn J, Lee S-H (2021) The confounding effects of eye blinking on pupillometry, and their remedy. Our findings call for attention to the presence and confounding nature of BPR in pupillometry. By building a statistical model of how the confounding effects of eye blinking occur, we proposed a probabilistic-inference algorithm of de-confounding raw pupillary measurements and showed that the proposed algorithm selectively removed BPR and enhanced the statistical power of pupillometry experiments. Then, we demonstrated how the dependency of eye blinking on cognitive factors could confound, via BPR, the pupillary responses that are supposed to reflect the cognitive states of interest. We set out to characterize the basic properties of this “blink-locked pupillary response (BPR),” including the shape and magnitude of BPR and their variability across subjects and blinks, as the first step of studying the confounding nature of eye blinking. ![]() Eye blinking can be a factor because it frequently occurs in a manner dependent on many cognitive components and induces a pulse-like pupillary change consisting of constriction and dilation with substantive magnitude and length. Despite this growing popularity of pupillometry, the methodological understanding of pupillometry is limited, especially regarding potential factors that may threaten pupillary measurements’ validity. ![]() Pupillometry, thanks to its strong relationship with cognitive factors and recent advancements in measuring techniques, has become popular among cognitive or neural scientists as a tool for studying the physiological processes involved in mental or neural processes. ![]() Just agree with the prompts until it’s saved in the user’s home directory. This is a hidden file, so you might get various prompts asking you to confirm, etc depending on your system. sqliterc to the user’s home directory, and SQLite will use it each time it connects.įor example, if the user’s home directory is /Users/bart, then you would place it inside that directory, so that it’s located at /Users/bart/.sqliterc. sqliterc file.įor example, open a blank text file and enter the following. To save yourself from having to re-enter the above commands every time you connect to SQLite, you can enter them into a. Persist the Column SettingsĪs mentioned, every time you open a new terminal window to connect to SQLite, queries will revert to SQLite’s default format (pipe-separated list). separator ", " to output the results as a comma separated list. In case you’re wondering, yes, you can use. separator dot command, just in case you’d previously changed the separator. '.header on' command You may have noticed the we have use '.header on' and '.mode column' commands before the SELECT Statement '.header on' command is used to display the output table header '.mode column' command '. Or if you want to reset the current terminal window to use the default settings, you can always just use the following. SQLite will use its default settings in this case. a pipe-separated list with no column headers), you can simply open a new terminal window and run your commands from there. ![]() If you need to briefly reset the output to use the SQLite default (i.e. Therefore, I set that column to 16 (which is how many characters the third product uses). In my case, this works fine for the first and third columns, but not for the second column. Specifying 0 sets the column to the greater of three numbers 10, the width of the header, and the width of the first row of data. Using a value of 0 actually makes the column self-adjusting (to a certain point). You may be wondering why I set the first and third columns to zero? Here’s how we can fix the previous example so that the third product isn’t truncated.width 0 16 0 width dot command to set the columns to a specific width. Data that is too wide to fit in a column is truncated. This is because it’s wider than the column’s width.īy default, each column is between 1 and 10 characters wide, depending on the column header name and the width of the first column of data. You might notice that in the previous example, one of the product names has been truncated. If you need to return it to the default format, you can use. mode column to format the results as a column.mode column To add the column names to each column use. So there’s not column headers and it’s displayed as a pipe-separated list. The Default OutputĪs an example, here’s how the SQLite command line interface outputs query results by default: SELECT * FROM Products You might have noticed that the results don’t include the column names, which can make your results confusing if you’re trying to read them, especially if the query returned many columns.įortunately, there’s an easy way to format the output so that it’s displayed as a column with column headers. By default, when you connect to the SQLite command line shell and run a query, the result is returned as a pipe separated list. ![]() ![]() You have your Houdini posters, straightjackets, standard Victorian style props that you've probably seen in other Houdini themed rooms. Once you're in the puzzly part, the room turns more into a standard Houdini escape room (dont worry, only your group will be in the room). The actress was great, and the acting combined with the special effects and set completely immersed you into the story and made you feel like you were actually performing a seance rather than doing a Houdini themed room. Keep in mind that the owners are theatre people - these isnt your standard game master who are only in character for the 2 minute introduction and leave immediately, the actress is fully in character and you'll get to interact with them for an extended period of time during portions of your experience (no puzzles are involved in these interactions so socially awkward people dont have to worry). This paysoff spectacularly, and these actress sequences are really what make the room. Even the waiver signing is integrated into the immersion of the room, which gives you an idea for how far the company goes to make you feel immersed. All of these rooms are 10/10s for different reasons, and for strange bird, that reason is having the best integrated story in an escape room that I've ever seenįrom the minute you enter the building, you feel like you arent in an escape room lobby, but rather looking for the madame for the seance. The Man From Beyond - 10/10 (One of the top 5 rooms in the United states).Įscape room ratings tend to be inflated so a 10/10 doesnt mean much, but out of all the rooms I've done, the only other rooms to get this rating from me are storykeeper in Seattle, lab rat in Los Angeles, and (mayne) cutthroat cavern/tomb of anubis in new Orleans. Luckily for us, it worked out, as I can easily say that this is one of the best rooms I've ever done. ![]() After those other rooms proved to be fairly underwhelming, the entire trip hinged on this one room being good. And so we decided to plan a weekend trip to Houston from the west coast just for this one room - and we booked a few other well regarded ones in the area. Strange bird caught our eye as one of the best rooms in the United states according to TERPECA, and was the only room in the US weve yet to do in the top 20. I've done over 100 escape rooms across the United states (New Orleans, Los angeles, the bay area), and travel to cities specifically to do highly rated escape rooms. |
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