The Ontario rink revealed the additions of second Patrick Janssen and lead Scott Chadwick.Įpping, Camm and Janssen played together for a number of years, highlighted by a 9-2 round robin performance at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina.Įpping added veteran front enders Laing and Craig Savill after that season, leaving Janssen without a team. Welcome (back) in the second position! returning as Vice (he’s on Instagram & Twitter now… go give him a follow □)Īnd our skipper #newsquad #teamepping /W8VQfi1lX2 Great cottage weekend with the new squad! ☀️□ "I am thrilled to get to play at the highest level again, it's what I love to do." "I am really excited for a new role and challenge with a group of guys that share the same vision," said Moulding. The 39-year-old Moulding was in the middle of a messy breakup with Team Bottcher last winter, but is ready to move forward with Team Horgan. "It is where I got my start and this is exactly where I want to take my next step forward." "It is great to be back competing in Northern Ontario again," said Horgan. Horgan led an Ontario rink to the Tim Hortons Curling Trials this past season. Moulding will call the game and throw third stone while Tanner Horgan will throw the final two stones. "Our team of Tanner Horgan, Darren Moulding, Jacob Horgan and Colin Hodgson was built with the objective of competing at the highest level of the sport - working towards representing our province at the Brier, and representing our country at the World level within the next four years," the team said in a release. □ Fourth: Tanner Horgan ( Skip: Darren Moulding ( Second: Jacob Horgan ( Lead: Colin Hodgson ( us on FB & Twitter Read more below ⬇️ #FearTheMoose /gZ1sEFdtEo Meet the BRAND NEW Team Horgan Curling! □ Fry and Laing have been teammates for the past three campaigns on Ontario's Team John Epping.īeuk, 39, has made two Brier appearances in his career. The Brandon, Man., native has spent the past two decades curling in the prairie province, most recently with Reid Carruthers, Derek Samagalski and Colin Hodgson.įry, 44, was born in Winnipeg and won the 2013 Brier as well as the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics as a member of Brad Jacobs' rink. Laing, 43, is a three-time Brier and world champion in addition to finishing fourth at the 2018 Olympics with Team Kevin Koe. McEwen has seven Brier appearances under his belt, including five as a representative of Manitoba. The 42-year-old longtime skip announced a new team on Friday, featuring Ryan Fry at third, Jonathan Beuk at second and Brent Laing at lead. McEwen will be the team's import as the other three members live in the province. Lead: huge thank you to our title partner for the help to announce our new squad! We’re pumped to have you on the team □□ He didn't report to training camp, so we can hope his recovery is going well and he can be a solid piece for another team later in the season.The wait is finally over! We’re so excited to announce Team McEwen. He just started running in early October, but his $9mill guarantee this season is dead salary until we move him on. We're at 15 player contracts (Joe, JRE and Wiggins all non-guaranteed) but what I am still in the dark about is what's going on with Oladipo. Not much change to the assumed starters and our rotation players, but I like many others predict: The team look ready to step into finals this year. The up tick to our rebounding and defensive play will be noticeable and on the offensive end gives Shai and Giddey more space to use. It's going to be exciting watching the emergence of Chet and Jalen as our 4&5 combo. then we're into Round 1 vs Bulls in Chicago on 26th. A couple games left to finish off the pre-season.
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Heat naturally rises, so you need to circulate the hot air from the hot spots to the cool spots for a much more uniform and consistent temperature and better hatch results. This problem can be significantly reduced by installing a circulated air fan kit into you incubator. This temperature variation has a significant impact on your hatch rates. Specially designed to move only as much air as necessary to keep the incubator temperature consistentįull color installation instructions for an easy installationīacked by the Incubator Warehouse TWO YEAR HASSLE FREE GUARANTEEĭid you know that at any given time the temperature in your Little Giant still air incubator can vary by up to 5 degrees from the top and bottom and from the center to the corners? In addition, you get variation from the thermostat cycling the heating unit on and off. Tested & proven for the Little Giant Incubator to increase hatch rates Highlights of the Incubator Warehouse Circulated Air Fan Kit for the Little Giant 9300 The direction the air flows and the positioning of the fan inside your incubator is critical to maintaining a consistent temperature throughout the incubator. Many people have come to check on their eggs only to find them cooked because the fan caused the incubator to overheat. If you get too powerful of a fan it can OVERHEAT your incubator. Almost all the fans on the market are designed to move as much air as possible. The only reason that an incubator needs the fan is to keep the temperature more consistent (like in nature). Think about it, in nature there isn't a fan blowing on eggs. Too much air circulation is BAD for eggs (it will dry them out). There are a few things that you need to keep in mind: Putting a fan inside your incubator is a great way to increase hatch rates, but it is not just as simple as buying a PC fan or a cheap fan kit. The HumidiKit is also covered by the IncubatorWarehouse Two-Year IncuCare Warranty so you can purchase with confidence. This unit comes ready to install into your incubator simply place the probes from the HumidiKit inside the incubator, insert the hose into a vent hole, fill the water bottle, and connect to power. To extend the life of your humidiKit we recommend using distilled water. The humidifier also comes with a one liter bottle which typically needs to be filled once a week for most desktop incubators. The humidifier is designed to gently provide instant humidity and fresh air directly inside the incubator for an accurate humidity range. The integrated digital hygrostat that measures and controls the humidity is fully adjustable so you can achieve the humidity range that is right for your eggs. This system is designed to instantly deliver accurate humidity to most incubators. We are proud to introduce the HumidiKit automatic humidity system for egg incubators. These hassles include the need to frequently fill the water reservoirs or not being able to maintain the desired humidity. I would not buy this item again now that I've seen it.One of the common hassles with incubation is maintaining the humidity inside the incubator. I've used it once, and it hasn't broken yet, but even though I handle it ver y carefully, I feel as though it's just a matter of time before this thing breaks. I loaded it up with 28 duck eggs (it's supposed to handle 41) & it felt like it was going to break from the weight of the eggs. Apart from the motor, everything is built of a lightweight & brittle-feeling plastic. With shipping & the exchange rate, this item ended up costing me about CA$120, but after seeing the build quality I would say it's worth about CA$30 at the most, so I'm not too impressed with the item. I chose this egg turner partly because I thought it was made in the USA (which I tend to equate with good quality items), but it turned out to be made in China like most of the others. I thought I was going to break it just taking it out of the box. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!' - Ross Jeffery ( Juniper, Tome ) 'With darkly poetic prose and chilling stories that peel back layers of skin to reveal a beating, bloody heart, Eric LaRocca is the clear literary heir of Clive Barker.' - Tyler Jones ( Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room ) LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity.' - Hailey Piper ( The Worm and His Kings ) ' Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror.' - Max Booth III ( We Need to Do Something ) 'Part Dennis Cooper's The Sluts, part David Cronenberg's The Brood. You have been warned.' - John Skipp ( The Light at the End ) This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker. A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. What starts as sweetly genteel swiftly descends into everything that's brutalizingly ugly about the abusive master/slave dynamic. 'When broken people do broken things - especially in the name of love - we all get broken, too. 'A startling affair.I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.' - Josh Malerman ( Bird Box, Inspection ) What have you done today to deserve your eyes? For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones.Ī whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.Ī couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm.Īnd a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.įrom Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices. That’s me.Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. It ended where it should have kept going. I think if Eric had pushed the creative Armageddon into a second week and doubled the number of grisly events, each getting nastier, this could have been a solid three. But people, you shouldn’t read and eat anyway. It was a trifle nauseating in places, and I most people shouldn’t read this while eating lunch. This was like a 3.5 on a scale of 1 to 10. There are some verrrry gruesome books and stories out there, not to mention movies. No disrespect to Eric LaRocca but maybe they doesn’t get out much. I quite literally pushed myself to dangerous areas of my mind during those five days of creative Armageddon. The author in their note at the end says they wrote this inĪ nightmarish fever dream of inspiration, an arduous ordeal of painstaking creativity. This is all about a slave/mistress relationship and I got to say that the main plot development took a lot of swallowing, which if you have read this already, you will know what I mean.įifth, level of gruesomeness/horror/disturbingness. This is a guess, for all I know Pamela is beating on salamanders on every other page.įourth, plot. Only probably, I haven’t read Pamela and there is no possible way I will ever read Pamela, I would say it’s unlikely that Pamela was ever forced to bash a salamander to death. In those days they wrote with quill pens made out of ducks and probably used ducks blood for ink, I don’t know, I’m no expert, don’t quote me. That’s like 2000 pages and all in letters. So it’s just like Pamela by Samuel what’s his name written in 1730 or thereabouts. It’s in epistolatory form, emails and instant messaging transcripts (it’s the year 2000). Well, this is a teensy novelette, you can read it in like minus ten minutes. The spring brings more water and nutrients, while the fall adds colorful leaves to the river. Rivers may not change in the same way as lakes in the spring and fall, but they do go through their own transformations throughout the year. But if the river is slow and has sand, the mixing may not be as strong. If the river is steep or has rocks, it can make the water mix more. The freezing and thawing of the water help mix everything up and make sure the animals have enough oxygen even under the ice.Īlso, the shape of the riverbed can change how the water moves. In colder places, where rivers can freeze, the mixing of water layers is stronger. The changes in rivers can be affected by different things like the weather and the shape of the land. This process helps bring oxygen to all the parts of the river, which is necessary for the plants and animals to survive. The bottom layer, which has lots of nutrients, rises to the top, while the cold water stays at the bottom. This cold water sinks down to the bottom, pushing the warmer water up. River turnover means that the water mixes up in the river, which is important for the animals and plants living there.ĭuring winter, the top layer of the river gets colder because of the low temperatures. While rivers don’t have the same turnover as lakes, they do have a process called river turnover during the colder months. It is like the river is wearing colorful autumn clothes. This can change the way the river looks and provide food for the animals that live there. The leaves fall off the trees and get carried by the wind and rain into the rivers. In the fall, rivers change again as the trees around them prepare for winter. This brings fresh nutrients and mud into the rivers, which helps plants and animals living there. In the spring, when snow melts and it rains more, rivers can get higher and flow faster. In the spring and fall, rivers do experience interesting changes, but not exactly like lakes. Many things can affect rivers, like rainfall, temperature, and the shape of the riverbed. Unlike lakes, which are still bodies of water, rivers are always moving, pushed by gravity and the shape of the land they flow through. To understand river changes, we need to know the basics of how rivers work. Rivers have always fascinated people as they flow through the earth, but have you ever wondered if they go through changes similar to lakes in the spring and fall? In this simple read, we will explore the dynamics of river changes and understand how they transform throughout the year. “Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. “Life doesn’t happen in chapter – at least, not regular ones.” – explaining in a 2008 interview why Discworld books don’t have chapters Or is that just a myth Terry Pratchett - It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die Death. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. “It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” – A Hat Full of Sky (2004) Terence David John 'Terry' Pratchett, OBE ( 28 April 1948 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Imagination, not intelligence, made us human. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – A Hat Full of Sky (2004) The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. And the people there see you differently, too. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. “So much universe, and so little time.” – The Last Hero (2001) “Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.” – foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy by David Pringle (1998) “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” – foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy by David Pringle (1998) That is true, it’s called Life.” – The Last Continent (1998) “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. Favorite line from a book: It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That’s what people remember.” – Lords and Ladies (1992) “If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Reaper Man (1991) “Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.” – Good Omens (1990) “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” – Truckers (1990) “Death isn’t cruel, merely terribly, terribly good at his job.” – Sourcery (1988) Stories of imagination tend to upset those. “The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.” – Equal Rites (1987) It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. 'Then, I don't want to go on living.' 'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. Life flashing before my eyes Web9th track off Mens Needs, Womans Needs, Whatever, thanks for watching :) Web25. 'I know the time will come when words will fail me,' he said. “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” – The Light Fantastic (1986) In 2011's Choosing to Die documentary, Sir Terry argued that he should be allowed to choose the timing of his death, not the government. As the world mourns the loss of fantasy author Terry Pratchett, who died Thursday at the age of 66 after a battle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, here are some of his witty and memorable quotes. The Company also issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 10,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, with an initial exercise price of $1.10 per share (subject to adjustments), and such warrants are not exercisable until six months after issuance. On April 21, 2023, Stronghold completed the transaction contemplated under the securities purchase agreements with an institutional investor and its chairman and chief executive officer, Greg Beard, to sell an aggregate of 10,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”) and share equivalents (the “Private Placement”). Stronghold continues to vigilantly manage its exposure to counterparties exposed to the cryptocurrency and technology sectors. These opportunities exceed the capacity of our existing infrastructure, and we continue to evaluate ways to deploy the approximately 25 megawatts (“MW”) of end-to-end data center equipment that we own and hold in inventory.”Īs of May 8, 2023, Stronghold’s liquidity was approximately $8.0 million, comprising $7.4 million in cash plus 22 Bitcoin, and the Company had approximately $59.6 million of principal amount of debt outstanding. We see an opportunity-rich environment, both in the secondary, distressed miner market, as well as in the hosting market, where we are gaining traction with our differentiated agreement structure. “Since consensually returning approximately 26,000 miners to our previous lender starting in August 2022, we have grown hash rate capacity by approximately 2.2 EH/s, with incremental spend of approximately $15 million, and eliminated approximately $67 million of debt. “We have only a few thousand slots left at our fully developed, energized data centers to reach our target hash rate capacity of 4 EH/s, and we are focused on the rapid deployment of our recent order of 5,000 MicroBT M50 miners and the 4,000 miners associated with the recently announced Canaan Bitcoin Mining Agreement, 2,000 of which are already on site,” said Greg Beard, chairman and chief executive officer of Stronghold. Previously announced substantial deleveraging efforts have resulted in approximately $59.6 million of principal amount of debt outstanding and approximately $51.5 million of net debt (calculated as the principal amount of debt outstanding less cash and Bitcoin) as of May 8, 2023įirst quarter 2023 revenue of $17.3 million, net loss of $46.7 million, and non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA loss of $3.9 million (see reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures) (“Canaan”), whereby Stronghold will operate 4,000 Bitcoin miners supplied by Canaan at the Company’s wholly owned Panther Creek plantĪchieved objective of $45 to $50 per megawatt hour (“MWh”) net cost of power in March 2023 and expects that the net cost of power will average between $40 and $50 per MWh over the course of 2023, which the Company estimates corresponds to a cost per Bitcoin of approximately $10,000 to $14,000, assuming latest-generation miners and a network hash rate of 320 EH/s Signed “Canaan Bitcoin Mining Agreement”, adding ~400 PH/s of hash rate capacity – two-year hosting agreement with Cantaloupe Digital LLC, a subsidiary of Canaan, Inc. Recent Operational and Financial HighlightsĪccelerating hash rate guidance – we now expect to achieve hash rate capacity of approximately 4 EH/s by the end of the third quarter of 2023, which would beat our prior guidance of year-end 2023Ĭompleted $10 million private placement and subsequent purchase of 5,000 MicroBT Whatsminer M50 Bitcoin miners, adding ~600 PH/s of hash rate capacity – $9 million invested by an institutional investor and $1 million invested by the Company’s chairman and chief executive officer, Greg Beard (NASDAQ: SDIG) (“Stronghold”, the “Company”, or “we”) today announced financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2023 and provided an operational update: NEW YORK, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. I spend most of my time hanging out with both of them and building the character that way.” What did they tell you about your character to prepare you for the role?Įma Horvath: “Just the scripts, really, and the relationship is pretty clear between her, Isildur, and her father. Here’s what Ema Horvath and Sara Zwangobani had to say about their journeys to Middle-earth. In addition to the packed Hall H panel, the cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power participated in red carpet interviews. And while Hobbits weren’t around during the Second Age, their ancestors the Harfoots are represented by new characters including Marigold Brandyfoot, played by Sara Zwangobani. Among the new characters is Isildur’s sister Eärien, played by Ema Horvath. The epic fantasy features some familiar characters from Tolkien’s writings, along with new characters created just for the show. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The series takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events that transpired in J.R.R. The panel was moderated by Tolkien superfan Stephen Colbert and included the debut of clips and the official trailer, as well as details on what viewers can expect when they tune in on September 2nd. Payne and Patrick McKay – to the Hall H stage. Prime Video’s much-anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power made its San Diego Comic-Con debut on July 22, 2022, bringing 21 cast members – plus series creators/showrunners J.D. Markella Kavenagh, Sara Zwangobani, Dylan Smith, and Megan Richards in Prime Video’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Anteriorly we can see the paired lumps representing the pyramids which are separated by the anterior median fissure. Some features are seen in all three cross sections. The medulla becomes open when the central canal opens into the fourth ventricle (see Fig. This distinction is made based on whether the CSF-containing cavities are surrounded by the medulla (closed medulla) or not (open medulla). The medulla itself is typically divided into two regions: the open and the closed medulla.
That will make it too limiting for power users with umpteen sources, but that’s sort of the point. Like the Beam, the Amp is intended for quite simple systems with only a couple of sources that are connected directly to the TV, with the audio then being stripped out and sent to the Amp via HDMI ARC. There’s almost no setup required, and the result is a seamlessly integrated AV system. Plug the Amp into your TV and HDMI-CEC will be used so that the two become interoperable: the Amp will automatically switch to TV sound whenever you turn on your TV, and your telly’s remote will change the Amp’s volume, for example. It’s perhaps the latter that’s most interesting, because it means you can add a sub to an Amp-based system without the need to fork out for Sonos’s own, expensive, wireless Sub.īut yet more interesting and useful is the addition of an HDMI socket that gives the Amp all of the TV-partnering features of the dinky Sonos Beam soundbar. You get a pair of speaker terminals, of course, two ethernet sockets (the amp can act as an ethernet bridge for other devices, should you require), a stereo analogue input, and a subwoofer output. Predictably, the rear of the Amp is where you’ll find its connections, which are almost identical to those of the Connect:Amp. You won’t hear it in action, either, thanks to a chimney-like design that passively keeps the densely-packed innards cool and quiet. Only available in matte black and with just three, touch-sensitive ‘buttons’ on the front (play/pause and two that are context-sensitive, but usually used for changing volume), it blends in incredibly well. Sonos products have always been intentionally inconspicuous in design, but the Amp is the stealthiest yet. We can’t imagine many non-audiophile buyers finding themselves with the need or desire to stack Amps, but it’s an option all the same. These same conversations have lead to the Amp being stackable, so that a tower of them can be created and hidden in a central location, with speaker cables snaking into various rooms of the house. The new dimensions are apparently borne of conversations that Sonos has been having with custom installers, who’ve long used the Connect:Amp in customer setups, despite that never really having been its intended use. In terms of volume it’s very marginally the smaller of the two, but its proportions are markedly different, with its shorter, deeper and slightly wider design making it better suited to placement on a hi-fi rack or being hidden out of sight. The Amp’s appearance is at once more serious and more svelte than that of the Connect:Amp. Some top free disk benchmark software and solutions to increase hard drive speed in Windows 10/8/7 are also attached. The lower the latency, the better.How do I test my hard drive speed? What is a good hard drive speed? How do I check my SSD speed Windows 10? This post provides an easy, fast and free way to help you measure hard drive and SSD performance in Windows 10/8/7. Latency (ns, ms) – Latency measures how long it takes for an IO operation to go from beginning to end. In general, the higher the IOPS, the better. This is a much more effective way of testing SSDs which can perform hundreds of thousands of input/output operations per second when working with smaller files such as those that are just 4K and 8K in size. IOPS – As throughput measures the speed at which data is transferred, IOPS measures the input and output operations per second. HDDs for example can perform well when it’s allowed to ramp up speed and access data sequentially, but falls on its face when asked to access small files in a random order. However, when measuring throughput, it’s also important to figure out what file size is being transferred. As a result, generally speaking the higher the throughput speed, the better. Throughput – Throughput is the measure of speed at which data is transferred and is generally measured in KB/s, MB/s or GB/s. So now that you’ve run the benchmark and have the numbers in hand, what the heck do they all mean? Well, be sure to check out our article on understanding storage benchmarks to learn more. Although the interface for the utility isn’t as user friendly as any of the other utilities in our list, Iometer makes up for this with its is ability to be configured for a wide variety of workloads as well as more in-depth testing and reporting capabilities.ĭownload Iometer Understanding HDD and SSD Benchmarks Originally developed by Intel and announced at Intel Developer Forum in 1998, Iometer has quickly become one of the most popular storage testing utilities in the industry. To help you test the performance of your HDD or SSD, here’s five of the best free tools for testing storage performance. Do you have the proper drivers installed? Do you have the proper motherboard chipsets drivers installed? Do you have your SATA SSD connected to the right SATA port? These are all questions that can be answered with some simple performance testing. For those who own a SSD or have experienced what it’s like to use one, you’ll know that slow storage can easily drag down an entire system even if your system features the latest and greatest Intel Core i7 processor with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM.Īs such, testing the performance of your HDD or SSD has become more important than ever not only to figure out if your new drive is actually performing as advertised, but also to diagnose any issues that may prevent the drive from performing at its peak. With the increasing prevalence of SSDs in the market, the importance of the storage subsystem has really returned to the spotlight as SSDs have highlighted the effects of having slow storage. However, one of the most important components is actually the HDD or the SSD inside as it’s the device that’s responsible for storing all your data such as the operating system, applications, games, and more. When we think about a PC in general, most of us give a lot of weight to the CPU, RAM, and GPU when it comes to discussing performance. |
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