Well, they have their rostrums that they can use in captivity to trigger a keyboard, but in the wild they do not normally touch strange objects. And unlike chimpanzees, dolphins don't have primate-like appendages to touch a keyboard. Dolphins, like chimpanzees, don't have the ability to produce detailed human words like Alex. Specially trained service dogs can now use bite plates and other mouth-able devices to communicate back to their humans in some detail (FIDO project).īut how do you create a tool that is dolphin friendly? It is difficult and no doubt one of the reasons that we haven't had much progress using these tools with dolphins, the interfaces simply have not been very dolphin friendly. Alex, the African Grey Parrot, could both see objects and use English words to communicate (since parrots have the vocal ability to mimic words). Chimpanzee researchers used a physical keyboard to represent words that allowed Kanzi to see visual images and trigger the keyboard by touching. The hallmark of referential communication is to talk about, or refer to, something out of time or space by labeling it. We also know that dolphins can learn to associate sounds (whistles) with objects. Fabienne Delfour, created a few basic artificial sounds, specifically whistles (outside of the dolphins natural repertoire) to label a few play objects (Sargassum – a natural play toy, scarf, and rope – toys that humans bring in the water).įrom past studies we know that dolphins can easily mimic whistles, both in captivity and sometimes spontaneously in the wild. Denise Herzing and with the help of colleagues Dr. The Wild Dolphin Project, under the direction of Dr. CHAT receives sounds via two hydrophones, and produces sounds through an underwater speaker. Thad Starner and his team at Georgia Tech. CHAT Research CHAT: Is It A Dolphin Translator Or An Interface?ĬHAT (Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry) is an underwater computer designed by Dr.
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Seeing the Legion crossed with Batman Beyond is always a kick, not to mention the sheer storytelling possibilities in what Brainiac 5, Mon-El, Naomi, and Kamandi might find in the amalgamation of a Leviathan/“Command D” stronghold.īut the answer is that they ultimately find nothing, and this is very much indicative of League vs. There, we watched the immortal Rose Forrest (of “and the Thorn”) age forward in time through many of DC’s notable futuristic landscapes, and here we visit those again as elements of the Legion’s past. It’s also a nice callback to the Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium miniseries that kicked all of this off. Legion is in good company at the point in which members of the two teams are partnered up and spread throughout time, evoking any number of previous superhero team-ups. Bendis' Legion moved at a slow pace, to its detriment, but we can see there was plenty material to mine. Not any of this did we know about Gold Lantern through the 12 issues of the regular series, and one imagines Bendis had equally interesting origins for Monster Boy, the new Doctor Fate, and so on. The second issue origin of Gold Lantern Kala Lour is fantastic - beholden no doubt to the tropes of Green Lantern origins, but providing significant detail about Lour, including that he comes from a planet where half the population is blind, he was a school teacher, and he’s something of a pacifist. Legion that Bendis could have made a long go of his Legion of Super-Heroes series. It’s clearer than ever coming out of League vs. Legion story just under the surface here, that the book sometimes ducks its more interesting storylines for something that emerges as simply rote. But frustratingly there feels a greater League vs. Also artist Scott Godlewski is spot-on, with a hint of rounded cartoony-ness that reminds of the ye olde Legionnaires series. There is a perfectly workable story here, with a couple impressive cameos, and indeed Bendis brings his Legion run to something of a close with callbacks to the beginning of the series. We can all intuit reasons, of course - given regime changes at DC, whatever JLvLSH was meant to be, it likely ceased to be that after a good part of it was already planned - but it remains that given the potential scope for this book, League/Legion ultimately feels too small. Legion of Super-Heroes is that very lack of connection. But among stumbling blocks for Brian Michael Bendis' Justice League vs. I have perhaps too often decried DC Comics perpetual event machine, in which the purpose of every crisis (and their numerous pricey tie-ins) is simply to lead to the next, and the next. 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Players participate in simulated jobs in a job museum run by robots resembling floating CRT computer monitors with faces. Some of the game’s humor comes from puns and other forms of word play: as an auto mechanic, one of the nine varieties of tires the player can give customers resembles a chocolate-covered doughnut with sprinkles as a play on the informal term “donut tires” often used to describe compact spare tires that are generally unsuitable for driving long distances as a chef, the player is instructed to bake a cake for an underage customer’s birthday party, and one of the ingredients is a flower, which sounds phonetically similar to “flour.” The instructor also continually comments on the human nature of the jobs being at odds with the efficiency of robots, the obsolescence of humans in general, and at one point references an event called “the human uprising of 2027”. Much of the game’s humor comes from both stereotypical and exaggerated situations in the jobs performed: as a chef, the player is asked to bribe a food critic and navigate around the particular allergies of an underage customer having a birthday (however, the game doesn’t punish you if you don’t) as a car mechanic, the boss instructs the player to sabotage cars or strip a car for parts. A sequel, Vacation Simulator, was released in 2019. Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives is a virtual reality simulation video game developed and published by Owlchemy Labs for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Oculus Quest in which players participate in comical approximations of real-world jobs. Work the never-ending night shift with Infinite Overtime mode!. 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Yes, the defense isn’t great, but it’s not like he was drafted, signed, and re-signed to win Selke Trophies. Stamkos is at the stage of his career where he’s not going to be mentioned in the same breath as the top players in the league, but he is still extremely effective at scoring goals.Īs you can see, he still ranks in the 90th percentile for offense in the league. The 84 points was third on the team while only Brayden Point scored more goals than he did. Stamkos wasn’t the best player on the team last year, but he was still among the best. Stamkos averaged almost 30 seconds more at 5v5 and 20 seconds more on the power play than he had in the previous season (his penalty kill time was down, though). Stamkos’ solid play and Coach Cooper’s need to rely on the top two lines for offense contributed to that increase. The 19:01 ice time was his highest average since 2015-16 and 30 seconds more than he averaged in 2021-22. Not only was he healthy, he was on the ice a lot. It was, however, the second season in a row that he appeared in 81 games which was good to see for a player that has had more than his fair share of injuries throughout his career. The goal-scoring droughts cost him a shot at back-to-back 40 goal seasons, something he hasn’t done since the three-season stretch in 2009-2012 when he went 51, 45, 60. The 84 points is the seventh best offensive season of his career and the eleventh time he’s averaged more than a point a game for an entire season. He still ended up with a respectable 34-goal, 50-assist season as a 32-year-old. Insanely hot stretches followed by cold streaks where they can’t buy a goal. That is the life of a goal-scorer, though. It wasn’t all rosy, though as The Captain also mixed in a couple of slumps, including a 10-game goalless stretch following that hot start to the season, and a 2-goals-in-14 games stretch in late December that carried into the new year. There was also a 14-game point streak during November and December. It was the most productive stretch of the season, though he added a 6-goal-in-4-games stretch in late January. Stamkos came out on fire as he opened up the season with a 5-game goal streak where he scored 7 times. He also added a trophy, the Mark Messier Leadership Award, becoming the first Lightning player to win the award in its 11-year history. Not a bad collection of game pucks to add the mantle for the future hall of famer. Steven Stamkos was the Milestone Man in 2022-23 as he hit three big career markers: 1000 games played, 500 goals, and 1000 points. While the footwork was impressive, it was the stickwork in tight, where avoided Larsson’s attempt to lift his stick was the best part of the play. Martin Jones did all he could to make the first stop, but Stammer is able to poke the rebound up and over him for the goal. He took the pass on his forehand and skated backwards through the crease and twisted to get the shot off. The one-touch pass found Stamkos alone in front of the net, but he wasn’t in prime one-timer position. He found Victor Hedman for the all-important cross-ice pass and Hedman knew what he was going to do with the puck before it hit his stick. Anthony Cirelli was first to the loose puck and maintained possession after a stick check. It started with not one, but two Seattle turnovers – first in the neutral zone, and then Adam Larsson’s pass that ate Vince Dunn alive in the defensive zone. Heck, goal 501 was prettier than number 500.Īs for the goal we choose, it was goal number 497, (only 48 people have scored that many in the NHL) and it was, in our humble opinion, Stamkos’ best goal of the year. Alex Killorn did all the work and Stammer just had to stand there and knock it in. You could also say it was the easiest goal of the year for him. Stamkos? Sure, you could make that argument. Shouldn’t a milestone goal like that, something only 47 humans have every accomplished be the goal of the year for Mr. Steven Stamkos skates backward and sticks with the puck before burying his own rebound, making it a 6-1 game in the 3rd To create the shadow, I use a shield and a dagger stroke aimed right at the edge of the template. Our source is from above so the top portions of the bevel will be highlighted and the bottom shadowed. Since it is transparent a little bit of overspray is not a problem.Ĭreate your shadows and highlights according you your light source and keep it consistent. For this piece we have chosen to use a transparent purple mixed in black. Time to start bevelling! Using a loose hand shield we will create the edge of the bevel based upon where the light source is. In this picture you can see that the artwork on the top of the tank is done and you get an idea of where we are heading with the tutorial.ģ. Once that is finished, the first thing we will weed out is the contour cut or the bevel, on the tribal art.Ī contour cut of 1/8″ gives you an area to work with that is easy to control, and you can shade on the darker side without getting color all over the place.Ģ. This is a quick purple perl sprayed through a fishnet stocking. For added depth and design, we have chosen to add a background texture inside the “framework” of the tribal. Once the bike is in black, We are ready to start the artwork. Black covers very well over a silver ground coat.ġ. This way is just cleaner and less troublesome. Spaying black then the silver graphics always seems to end up contaminating the black with silver overspray. There are a couple reasons why we like to do it this way. For this project, we first painted the bike silver, then applied the graphics. Once the shape was finessed, an 1/8″ contour was added and the file printed. The tribal graphics were created in CorelDRAW. The following technique is a really simple way to go about it. We have had a lot of requests for a How To on beveled tribal graphics. Many years ago I switched to an alternative shareware file manager which was a vast improvement in every respect over Explorer. Worse, it lacks several obviously important features. Windows Explorer has never been particularly well-designed it’s dorky and awkward to use. I could get it doing moderately complicated file-management tasks in a very short period of time. It does have an awful lot of features but because it's so well designed, users can just ignore features they don't need at the moment and/or don't want to bother learning about. That documentation, by the way, is excellent: thorough without being overwhelming, designed to facilitate access to particular topics, and there is even an extensive manual one can download in PDF from the site. 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Navigating folders using multiple windows can be a nightmare, but if you’re running out of patience, it’s time to make the switch to a Windows Explorer replacement called XYplorer Free. The author of the second book was a dick too. Bottom line Kulklinski was nearly totally full of shit and the one poster got it right, he built his lies on a few truths. Anyhow, there are a few other places I have said stuff online. Yes I'm who I say I am, no, this is not to be "cool", how that would be from being a dude who got murdered kid is beyond me. If anybody sees this and has a question I'll answer if I see it. Not the type of thing a "mafia hitman" engages in. Not him, clearly somebody he knew though. Kulklinski (we didn't know who he was then, but he looked the same as he did when he came to prominence) had followed us when we went out, it took a decade to realize that, and had once approached my mother for a "light" at her job, 2 days later a man threw gasoline on her as she came home from work. Robert Prongay was my father, it is all bullshit, Kulklinski rented a garage in front of the one my father was murdered in, so he knew him. Just looking for an article and found this. After he got attention for the more grounded stories, he starts making up even more fanciful stories. I think he spent time in prison reading up on unsolved cases and the mob and decided to claim he was involved in all of them. This is the pattern for Kuklinski's stories: he takes something real, exaggerates it, and then injects himself into it. He then took this story about an unhinged icecream truck guy and then spun a fanciful story and weaves himself into it. I don't think he ever actually met the guy. He either read about Prongay's case in the newspapers at the time and remembered it or read about it later. My take is that Kuklinski wasn't that creative when he was making up his stories. The bombing was also reported but I haven't found a source for it yet. I found a newspaper article from 1984 reporting how he was shot dead and says that he was about to go on trial for planting bombs at his ex-wife's house and threatening to kill them. Turns out, there really was a guy named Robert Prongay in New Jersey, born 1945 and died 1984. Kuklinski says they had a falling out when Prongay wanted him to kill his ex-wife.Ī lot of people think this is a complete tall tale, and the idea of an assassin driving an ice-cream truck is something out of a bad movie. Kuklinski claimed he would use the truck for cover and store bodies in it. Kuklinski talks about meeting another ace assassin who used an icecream truck and for cover, was an expert in explosives and cyanide. 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