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Sultry drfone12/14/2023 Insurgency: Sandstorm finally has a console release date, over a year after the game's initial, fairly buggy PC release. The delay comes due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the studio is looking into the possibility of a PS5 and Xbox Series X release. The game, which focuses on realism and teamwork, stripping the UI back to the essentials, will release for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 25, 2020. You can see the console release date announcement trailer below, which shows off the gritty combat. The game has greatly benefitted from a host of new maps, operators, weapons, and mods that have come out since its official release in 2012. It's a primarily competitive game, featuring multiple online modes where you fight against other players. There's also a co-op mode, Checkpoint, where players team up to fight AI and complete objectives. The game has been praised for its audio design, which aims for heightened realism and more intense battle noises. The game is playable at PAX East over the weekend of February 28 to March 2, if you're in Boston. This is good news, since The Last of Us Part II demo won't be there and companies like CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corporation have also pulled out over fears sparked by the coronavirus. The console version of Insurgency: Sandstorm was meant to release in 2018, but evidently those plans fell through. If you're after a different shooter to kill time until Insurgency: Sandstorm releases on consoles, here's our list of the best shooters of 2019.
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M1 portfolio12/13/2023 Whenever your account makes new trades with auto-invest, the algorithm identifies slices that are most relatively underweight and puts money in those first. You have the option to turn auto-invest off and make manual orders if you would prefer.ĭynamic Rebalancing - With M1's Dynamic Rebalancing, every trade with new cash in your portfolio pushes you closer to the target percentages you set. Portfolios can have a total of 100 Slices.Īuto-Invest – When this function is on and your cash balance exceeds $25, M1 will invest the funds automatically into the portfolio using the dynamic rebalancing method. Slice – A slice can be an individual stock or a Pie. Expert pies are built by M1 and can also be added to your portfolio. Make your custom pie under the Research tab and set your target weights percentages. Pie – A Pie is a group of stocks. Pies can be used to organize your portfolio and your investment strategy. Add custom 'my pies' and expert pies to organize your stocks, each Pie is a Slice in your Portfolio. Portfolio - Your portfolio is made up of slices. This is shown in the Invest tab of your account. M1 Invest allows you to open a Individual/Joint Brokerage Account, Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, Custodial Account, Crypto Account, and/or Trust Account and invest your money intelligently. M1 Plus allows you to make the most of your M1 experience with exclusive features and rewards that help you earn more, access more, and receive more perks and discounts. Users are often ‘rejected’ because of a security freeze, a typo with their biographic information, or they are between the age of 18-23 and do not have a credit history. M1 needs a government ID and utility bill as verification documents. Īccount rejected – Any newly opened account can be ‘rejected’ which means additional documentation is needed before it can be activated. This can take the form of a mandatory or voluntary corporate action. Mutual funds and options - Mutual funds and options trading are not supported on M1.Īll securities available to be included in your portfolio must be listed on either the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ.Ĭorporate action- A corporate action occurs when a company makes a decision affecting shareholders and results in a significant change to a company's stock. To learn more, please visit FINRA's website on exchange-traded funds. Unlike mutual funds, ETF shares trade like stocks on stock exchanges and can be bought or sold throughout the trading day at fluctuating prices. Like mutual funds, ETFs are pooled investment funds that offer investors an interest in professionally managed and diversified portfolios of investments. įunds - An exchange-traded fund (ETF), is a security that tracks an index, a commodity, a set of bonds, or a basket of assets.ĮTFs blend aspects of mutual funds and stocks. To learn more about stocks, please visit FINRA's website. Your return on investment depends on the performance of that company. Stocks - Shares in the ownership of a company that represent a claim to the company's earnings and assets. If you’re new to M1, be sure to check out our intro webinar that breaks down all you need to know about using your account. Here’s a list to familiarize you with the terms you’ll find when using M1 Finance.
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Flamingo hotel santa rosa reviews12/13/2023 I can’t help but think these positive reviews are friends and family of the owners.Ĭomplimentary Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel. Given their IG page vs the reality of this place. We are trying to figure out why we drove here given there’s no pool and the entire purpose was to have a pool day. in our freezing room, we have to open and close the door to the outside EVERY 10 MINUTES to have the heating work? The front desk had someone come to the room and he said it’s motion sensor activated and will only stay on for 10 min. Oh and the heater in our room is broken and it’s absolutely freezing. It’s trying to be cool but the attitude at the front desk, lack of transparency and dated rooms make it an overall disappointment. It’s a motel 6 with a paint job and some urban outfitters decorations behind the bed. and there’s no pool? Asked if we could cancel due to this and they just said “no”. We just checked in and when I asked where the pool was they seemed annoyed at my question and said “the pool is closed for renovations” - what? I just paid a few hundred dollars BECAUSE of the photos you continue to post of your pool every week. They said it was walkable from all rooms. I called last night to ask if the pool area was central to all the rooms or if we’d need to drive. We wanted a weekend away in the wine country to relax in the sun by the pool. I read reads and looked at their social media photos before booking.
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Instagram downloader photo12/13/2023 You’ll be taken to the Instagram site to sign in and start the download. Once you receive the email, click 'Download Data'. To get started you'll need to request a download link either via the Instagram website or the app. It might not be very practical if you just one to download one image that you uploaded recently, but it's not a bad option if you want to save a whole load of old photos that you've accidentally deleted from your phone. This “official” way to download your stuff was introduced due to privacy concerns following controversies at parent company Facebook (now Meta) to give people more ownership of their data. That includes all the photos and videos that you’ve uploaded as posts or stories as well as a lot of other things you might not want, such as details of your comments and likes. The one option Instagram has is to let you to download your account’s entire history in one massive package. There is no native method to download Instagram photos from your account one by one. You should always ask permission and give credit where due. Some of the methods below will allow you to download Instagram photos from other people's accounts. If you download Instagram photos, please respect image ownership. How to download Instagram photos to a PC or Mac We also have a beginner Instagram Reels tutorial, if you've yet to get up to speed on the ins and outs of Instagram's video content format, and we have a guide on how to sell on Instagram if you're thinking of using the platform for a creative business.
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Rocket league discord trading servers12/13/2023 □ Rocket League - Members: 572,000 / Language: English □ TEAMS.gg - Members: 19,000 / Language: EnglishĪn algorithm that lets you find your ideal teammates in Rocket League, yeah F**K Solo Queue. Paying isn't even an option anywhere on the site. Good luck! If you need any help use the #help channel on our discord or shoot us an email. And.let's be honest, the swiping on those apps is exhausting, our discovery page will eliminate the tedious process of scrolling through endless player catalogs, and posting on forums or various discord servers.Īll you have to do is connect with a player, sent a message, and start playing. So it kind of works like Tinder, but for finding Rocket League teammates and it's not a dating site. Going to the discovery page will show you a list of potential teammates that you can connect with, once connected you can message them via the website and start playing together! 1× Our algorithm will do the search work for you. You can either type that you're looking to play now or be a chad by signing up for teams and using the website to have this automated and find players that are in your region, match your skill, etc. Use this channel to post here if you're looking for a group or duo to play Rocket League with now. (This helps us keep our discord server free from spammers, annoying bots, etc.) Note: to be eligible to join, you must have a verified phone number on your discord account and it is required that your account is at least older than one day. Select your role, in this case ''Rocket League'' (We have other games as well Valorant, CS:GO, Apex, and Fortnite).Use the teams.gg invite URL: discord.gg/teamsgg.If you're new to using Discord for Rocket League LFG, don't worry - it's easy to get started. The Rocket League LFG Discord we recommend is TEAMS.gg (of course □) That's why many Rocket League players use Discord to find games and connect with other players. It's easy to use and has a wide range of features that make it perfect for gaming communities. □The Best Rocket League Discord Server in 2022ĭiscord is one of the most popular chat platforms among gamers. We at TEAMS.gg, don't allow skin trading on any of our platforms and would recommend to only use official channels to obtain your skins. Rocket League Skins Buy / Sell and TradingĪll I can say, be very wary of skin trading on external websites, or via discord servers. These are Rocket League discord servers setup to act as an platform for infleuncers think of Rocket League Streamers and or Youtubers like for example SunlessKhan to interact with their fans more directly. The name speaks for itself, the official rocket league discord server is developer-run and is a reliable way to find accurate information about coming changes and interact with the developer team of Psyonix. LFG in Rocket League means "Looking For Group or Looking For Game." So if you're eager to find some teammates to play with, than this should be the type of Rocket League discord server to join. Trading (Skin trading, market analysis).Generally there are 4 types of Rocket League Discord servers: So, what types of Rocket League Discord Servers are there? Rocket League's community, though smaller than that of some other e-sport titles, continues to grow and become more engaged with the game developers than ever before.There is no one size-fits all answer to this question, as the best Rocket League Discord will heavily depend on your personal preferences and needs. r/RocketLeague moderator PurePsykosis created the Discord server in early 2016, and seems truly proud to have it named the official Discord Server of Rocket League. Subreddits naturally gravitate towards the service as an extension of their Reddit presence since it allows for more instantaneous and personal communication than Reddit has to offer. Discord has even recently made steps towards cross-platform support, allowing for new methods of gaming collaboration. The trade channels even feature trading "middle-men" and an extensive reputation system to ensure that trades happen fairly.ĭiscord is often the de facto platform for video gaming communities since it offers text, voice, and video chat along with great tools for organization and moderation of each server. The server also has active trading channels for each platform, which allow for players to hunt down rare items to complete their look.
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Minnesota senator and former snl writer12/13/2023 “Except for me, I think they’re all bitches.” “And without even looking, you can bet that President Trump called out Al Franken and not Roy Moore, who’s accused of way worse by the way, but Franken is a liberal and Trump and Moore are conservatives, and in this country everybody has to pick a side,” Che said. And that led to others criticizing Trump for largely keeping quiet regarding the allegations of sexual abuse against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.Ĭriticisms that “Weekend Update” host, Michael Che, pointed out. It also led to President Trump blasting Franken on Twitter, which opened up Trump to scrutiny over the past accusations of sexual assault that have been levied against him. This led the Minnesota senator to issue an apology. “Pretty hard to be like, ‘Oh, c’mon he didn’t know any better, he was only 55,'” Jost added.įranken, who is a former “SNL” writer and performer, was accused by Tweeden, a female radio news anchor, on Thursday. Jost then noted that the photo was taken before Franken ran for public office, but was taken after he was “a sophomore in high school.” “Now, I know this photo looks bad, but remember it also is bad.” Tour by Leann Tweeden, who posted this photo of Franken apparently groping her breasts while she was asleep,” said Colin Jost, co-host of “Weekend Update” pointing to the photo of Franken and Tweeden. “Senator Al Franken is being accused of sexual misconduct on a 2006 U.S.O. “Saturday Night Live” took on Senator - and former SNLer - Al Franken on Saturday night after a woman said he groped and kissed her without her consent.
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Oil-free products are generally preferable as well, but be sure to read the ingredients listing. Inspired by the finest fabrics, this award-winning, medium coverage and lightweight foundation was designed to correct and unify the complexion for instantly glowing skin. Both of these ingredients can trigger reactions in the skin that exacerbate blemishes and oiliness. Her advice for those looking for a foundation that won’t contribute to acne is to avoid fragrance and denatured alcohol. Terms like non-comedogenic and oil-free are great starting points, but as Desiree Stordahl, the skincare research and education manager at Paula’s Choice, points out, these claims aren’t regulated, so it’s important to do further research and understand your personal acne triggers. Oil-free, the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation has a thick, gel-like texture, which feels very smooth and light. It’s difficult to make blanket statements about pore-clogging ingredients because the reality is that everyone’s skin is different. This way, you won’t end up with a thick, heavy base all over. The Luminous Silk Foundation is ideal for both oily and dry skin (it combats oiliness and provides hydration) and gives excellent coverage without piling. If you want more coverage in places, spot-apply using your finger or a precision blending brush. Our advice is to use a little bit of product, focusing on the center of the face and working outwards. To find out, I put this legendary foundation to the test. If you're drier or prefer something more luminous, go for the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation or the Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear Care & Glow Foundation. But in general, if you have oily, acne-prone skin, opting for a lightweight, matte foundation, like the Bobbi Brown Skin Long-Wear Weightless Foundation SPF 15 is best. Armani Luminous Silk foundation claims to be a lightweight liquid foundation that achieves a radiant, silky finish. The right coverage and finish ultimately comes down to your personal preference. This one is the most talked about Armani foundation and one of the most popular high-end foundations in general. What to Look for When Buying Foundation for Acne-Prone Skin Coverage and Finish This feels lightweight and the effect is seamless. It’s very fluid with a light to medium coverage that could be easily layered and blended. This isn’t a matte finish foundation but it’s on the dewy luminous side as what its name suggests. Desiree Stordahl is the skincare research and education manager at Paula’s Choice. The award-winning Luminous Silk Foundation by Giorgio Armani Beauty (1.0z: 64, 0.6: oz 42).Michael Brown is a celebrity makeup artist and expert based in Sydney, Australia, who has worked on countless photoshoots, campaigns, red carpet looks, and magazine covers throughout his 20-year career.
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Define wasted energy12/13/2023 This waste heat must be discarded by transferring it to a heat sink. After the process of heating a gas to increase its pressure to drive a piston, there is always some leftover heat in the gas that cannot be used to do any additional work. One thing the Second Law dictates is that it is impossible to convert heat energy to mechanical energy with 100% efficiency, according to Britannica. For instance, any device with movable parts (such as a car engine with a belt-driven power generator) produces friction that converts mechanical energy to heat the heat is generally unusable. It is impossible to convert heat energy to mechanical energy with 100% efficiency. This has often been summarized as, "You can't unscramble an egg." According to Wolfram, Boltzmann realized around 1876 that the reason for this is that there must be many more disordered states for a system than there are ordered states therefore random interactions will inevitably lead to greater disorder. However, the warm gas will never spontaneously separate itself into hot and cold gas, meaning that the process of mixing hot and cold gases is irreversible. The result of this is that when hot gas and cold gas are placed together in a container, you eventually end up with warm gas, according to Georgia State University. With large quantities of gas, the speeds of individual molecules tend over time to form a normal or Gaussian distribution, sometimes depicted as a "bell curve," around the average speed. This approach also led to the conclusion that while collisions between individual molecules are completely reversible, i.e., they work the same when played forward or backward, that's not the case for a large quantity of gas. The process taken as a whole results in a net increase in disorder. Crystals are more orderly than salt molecules in solution however, vaporized water is much more disorderly than liquid water. In another example, crystals can form from a salt solution as the water is evaporated. Even when order is increased in a specific location, for example by the self-assembly of molecules to form a living organism, when you take the entire system including the environment into account, there is always a net increase in entropy. Mitra explained that all processes result in an increase in entropy. "At a very microscopic level, it simply says that if you have a system that is isolated, any natural process in that system progresses in the direction of increasing disorder, or entropy, of the system." "There are a number of ways to state the Second Law," Mitra told Live Science. Saibal Mitra, a professor of physics at Missouri State University, finds the Second Law to be the most interesting of the four laws of thermodynamics.
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High entropy alloys12/13/2023 Dimple-like morphology corresponding to ductile fracture mode has been observed on the fracture surfaces, with crack initiation sites on the inclusions phases.A schematic Illustration of Structural-controlled Pt-high-entropy-alloy (Pt-HEA) Model Catalyst Synthesis. The structure of the samples consisted of single-phase FCC high entropy solid solution of extremely fine-twinned grains and oxide inclusions inherited from the original powder feedstock. The feedstock powder and corresponding bulk material microstructure, elemental and phase composition, and mechanical properties were investigated by scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), X-ray diffraction (XRD), aswell as impulse excitation of vibration, Vickers microhardness and tensile and bend strength tests, respectively. The tensile properties of a bulk material produced by a combination of MA+SPS are characterized for the first time. For the alloy production, a combination of mechanical alloying (MA) process in a planetary ball mill and spark plasma sintering (SPS) for powder densification was utilized. The present work is focused on synthesis and mechanical properties evaluation of non-equiatomic Ni1,5Co1,5CrFeTi0,5, ductile single phase high entropy alloy (HEA) with excellent mechanical properties (bend strength Rmb = 2593 MPa, tensile strength Rm = 1384 MPa, tensile elongation to fracture of 4.01%, and elastic modulus of 216 GPa) surpassing those of traditional as-cast HEA. Due to the very favorable mechanical properties of some of these HEAs, and to the fact that most can be processed by conventional means, we anticipate that they will find extensive utilization in many future structural applications. We also discuss high-entropy ceramics and more complex systems having more than one phase. We review the principal mechanical properties of these alloys with emphasis on the CrCoNi-based systems and their nano-/micro-structural features. The slower diffusion rates resulting from the multi-element environment contribute to the excellent intermediate-temperature performance. This is much higher than that for conventional alloys and suggests superior ballistic properties. The critical shear strain for the onset of adiabatic shear band formation is ~7 for the Cantor alloy. The fracture toughness of some of the CoCrNi-based alloys is on the order of, and can even exceed, 200 MPa.m1/2, with yield strengths that range from 200 MPa to close to 1000 MPa, depending on a number of intrinsic parameters including grain size. The enhanced work-hardening ability in these face-centered cubic HEAs, which is maintained up to tensile strains of ~0.5 and at low temperatures, in combination with the high frictional forces on dislocations and a propensity for twinning, leads to outstandingly high fracture toughness values and resistance to localization of deformation and shear-band formation under dynamic loading. The original concept, of utilizing the high entropy of mixing to develop stable multi-element alloys, has produced extraordinary mechanical properties in specific HEAs, mainly CrCoNi-based alloys, associated with their continuous work-hardening rate that is sustained to large plastic strains. One of the earliest HEAs was the equiatomic CrMnFeCoNi “Cantor” alloy, which has been one of the most studied, but HEAs now encompass a broad class of metallic and ceramic systems based on the same design principle. High-entropy alloys (HEAs), also known as multi-principal element alloys or multi-component alloys, have been the subject of numerous investigations since they were first described in 2004. |