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Joseph fink worth9/19/2023 We both landed early on at the idea of a Faceless Old Woman life story. Mostly starting by talking about it, discussing ideas that excite us. The same creative process as everything we do. Example: Hello.Įxplanation of our link flairs Join our /r/bookclub Don't forget /new! Filter by Flair AMA Weekly Thread Mod PostĪma Check out this week's Thread Calendar Spoiler tags cover spoilers with black bars that reveal spoilers when a cursor hovers over them They are written as: >!spoiler!Any user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned.Any comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Any post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.The Complete AMA Schedule Related Subreddits: Discussion Genres Images Writing eBooks Authors Books/Series Other Links: Follow our official Twitter for updates on AMAs and the day's most popular posts! Spoiler Policy: Weekly FAQ Thread September 03 2023: What is your favorite quote from a book? Weekly Recommendation Thread: September 08, 2023 Genre Discussion: What Books Hooked You on Reading: September 2023 Literature of the World: Literature of Zambia: September 2023 What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: September 04, 2023 Please report any comment that does not follow the rules and remember that mods have the final say. You can ask in our Weekly Recommendation Thread, consult our Suggested Reading or What to Read page, or post in /r/suggestmeabook. We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Hungry Season by Lisa M.
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Unity point dermatology9/19/2023 UnityPoint Clinic is a physician-led, nonprofit health care organization offering comprehensive services in primary care, walk-in care and specialty care. Come be an essential part of our core purpose-to improve the health of the people and communities we serve. Commitment to our team has earned us recognition as a Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare 2022 by Becker’s Healthcare and among America’s Best Employers By State in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. If not, various freezing, surgical and laser treatments can remove warts.UnityPoint Clinic is actively recruiting for a Dermatologist to join our new multi-specialty building in Waukee, IA.Ĭhoose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. If they hurt or bother you, or if they multiply, we can remove them. In children, warts often go away on their own. These can appear on your fingers, soles of your feet, or places you shave frequently. Warts are growths on your skin caused by an infection with Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV. Quincy Medical Group’s fellowship trained Mohs Surgeon, Sumul Gandhi, MD, FAAD can treat your skin cancer right here at home. Another type of skin cancer, melanoma, is more dangerous but less common. They usually form on the head, face, neck, hands, and arms. The two most common types are basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. It most often affects middle-aged and older adults. Rosacea is most common in women and people with fair skin. Rosacea is a long-term disease that affects your skin and sometimes your eyes. It is important to see a dermatologist to determine the cause of the rash in order to treat it correctly. Rashes are a symptom of many different medical problems. Some rashes can also lead to blisters or patches of raw skin. Many rashes are itchy, red, painful, and irritated. RashesĪ rash is an area of irritated or swollen skin. We use phototherapy, including the Xtrac Laser, as a treatment option for eczema. You usually get the patches on your elbows, knees, scalp, back, face, palms, and feet, but they can show up on other parts of your body. Psoriasis is a skin disease that causes itchy or sore patches of thick, red skin with silvery scales. Click here for additional information on Narrowband UVB and Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). Our department offers phototherapy to treat numerous skin conditions. Getting a yearly mole check by a dermatologist can help detect skin cancer early. It is important to monitor the appearance of your moles and watch for new ones. They happen when pigment cells in the skin, called melanocytes, grow in clusters. Scratching the skin can cause it to turn red, and to swell and itch even more. Most types cause dry, itchy skin and rashes on the face, inside the elbows and behind the knees, and on the hands and feet. Skin allergies or reactions to irritating substances or chemicals can cause contact dermatitis, EczemaĮczema is a term for several different types of skin swelling. Contact DermatitisĬontact dermatitis is a condition in which the skin becomes red, sore, or inflamed after direct contact with a substance. Anyone can get acne, but it is common in teenagers and young adults. Most pimples form on the face, neck, back, chest, and shoulders. When hair follicles under your skin clog up they can cause pimples. AcneĪcne is a common skin disease that causes pimples. Our providers have extensive backgrounds and expertise in dermatology to provide you with the highest level of care available. We specialize in dermatological problems such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, and skin cancer. Dermatologists see patients of all ages and treat medical conditions of the hair, skin, and nails. Anna Levin, and Jim Wheeler, PA-C provide a full range of dermatology for the entire family. Quincy Medical Group’s medical dermatologists, Dr.
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Github for desktop9/19/2023 " Get started with GitHub documentation".For more information, see the following articles. You might find it helpful to have a basic understanding of Git and GitHub before getting started with GitHub Desktop. You will be able to use GitHub Desktop to collaborate on projects and connect to remote repositories after working through this guide. This guide will help you get started with GitHub Desktop by setting up the application, authenticating your account, configuring basic settings, and introducing the fundamentals of managing projects with GitHub Desktop. You can push to, pull from, and clone remote repositories with GitHub Desktop, and use collaborative tools such as attributing commits and creating pull requests. You can use GitHub Desktop to complete most Git commands from your desktop with visual confirmation of changes. GitHub Desktop encourages you and your team to collaborate using best practices with Git and GitHub. Usually commercial software or games are produced for sale or to serve a commercial purpose.GitHub Desktop is an application that enables you to interact with GitHub using a GUI instead of the command line or a web browser. Even though, most trial software products are only time-limited some also have feature limitations. After that trial period (usually 15 to 90 days) the user can decide whether to buy the software or not. Trial software allows the user to evaluate the software for a limited amount of time. Demos are usually not time-limited (like Trial software) but the functionality is limited. In some cases, all the functionality is disabled until the license is purchased. Demoĭemo programs have a limited functionality for free, but charge for an advanced set of features or for the removal of advertisements from the program's interfaces. In some cases, ads may be show to the users. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Also Available: Download GitHub Desktop for Macįreeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. NET Framework 4.0 in order to be installed and GitHub account. We've made it easy to try out remote branches, create new local branches, and publish branches to share with others." Note: Requires Microsoft. Powerfully simple branching "Branching is one of Git's best features. Want to pull down a repository from ? Check out the button on the website. Clone repositories in one click When you add repositories to Git Hub Desktop for Windows, it automatically matches them up with any organizations you belong to. It notifies you to know when you have changes you haven't pushed or there are new changes on the app you haven't pulled down. Synchronize branches The sync button pushes your changes to the tool and pulls down other's changes in one operation. Enter the summary and description, then commit. Craft the perfect commit View a diff of your uncommitted changes, and form the perfect commit by selecting the files-or even the specific lines-that make up a change. Just select the current branch to switch branches or create a new one. Branch off Branches are essential to proposing changes and reviewing code on the program-and they’re always available in the top left corner of the repository view. If you’re starting a new project, use the repository drop-down menu to create a new repository, or clone an existing one directly from. Features and Highlights Start a project You’ll find all the projects you’re working on listed in the sidebar. But those things are only great after you've pushed your code to the app. Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki: all awesome features that make sharing easier. GitHub Desktop allows developers to synchronize branches, clone repositories, and more. GitHub Desktop is a seamless way to contribute to projects on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise.
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Be brave stay wild9/19/2023 The red wolf once roamed from central Texas to southern Iowa and as far northeast as Long Island, New York. That’s roughly half of the world’s total known wild red wolf population. His bushy red-and-grey beard lends him an uncanny resemblance to his quarry. “Based on the radio telemetry, there are six red wolves hunkered down in there,” says Madison, motioning to a patch of brush between two cleared farm fields. Faint beeps emanate from a radio in his left hand as he slowly swivels from side to side. On a recent visit to Alligator River, Madison parks his truck beside a canal, climbs out and hoists an H-shaped antenna into the air. “The red wolf, it’s ours,” Sutherland says. “They don’t belong here!” a woman shouted at agency staff during a recent public meeting on the program.Īdd to that a widespread mistrust of government and the road ahead looks long and perilous for “America’s wolf.” But allies like Akin and Sutherland say they have to try. The red wolf is seen by some as competition, and a threat to a way of life on a fragile landscape already imperiled by climate change. Out here, farming and leasing land to hunters are big business. And the passage of 36 years seems to have done little to soften locals’ hearts toward the apex predator. “And we can do it again.”īut the effort depends heavily on cooperation from private landowners. “It was done once before,” says Joe Madison, North Carolina manager for the Red Wolf Recovery Program. According to a draft, the agency proposes spending a quarter billion dollars over the next 50 years to rebuild and expand the wild wolf population. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to release an updated recovery plan for the red wolf. “It was the first time that a large carnivore had been returned to the wild after being driven extinct, anywhere in the world.”īut the wild population is now back to the brink of oblivion, decimated by gunshots, vehicle strikes, suspected poisonings and, some have argued, government neglect.įor the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. “The red wolf program was a tremendous conservation success,” says Ron Sutherland, a biologist with the Wildlands Network. Over the next quarter century, it became a poster child for the Endangered Species Act and a model for efforts to bring back other species. Once declared extinct in the wild, Canis rufus - the only wolf species found solely in the United States - was reintroduced in the late 1980s on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, just across the sound from eastern North Carolina’s famed Outer Banks. In a way, the anecdote sums up the plight of this uniquely American species. “I wouldn’t shoot a squirrel in the stomach if I was hungry,” he says. “Because if it dies near you, and they come out and find the collar, they can arrest you.”Īkin is a hunter and the walls of his country house are lined with photos of the animals he’s killed. “If I see one of those wolves with a collar on, I’m going to shoot it in the gut, so it runs off and dies," Akin says the neighbor told him. The endangered wolves are equipped with bright orange radio collars to help locals distinguish the federally protected species from invasive, prolific coyotes. He was chatting with a neighbor about efforts to protect and grow the area’s red wolf population. ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C.
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Minetest mods animals9/19/2023 What I’ve explained so far indicates that a high-level mod like mobs redo assumes many things by the time it is loaded. Reduce the number of assumptions regarding names of accessors. Even then, they may not want all of the behaviors in your mod, so if you put your registrations in a separate mod, users can choose whether to use the behaviors your programmed or just your nodes/craftitems. You can give them free choice by depending on a mod that offers definitions (registrations) rather than behaviors. You don’t have to make them use behaviors from some other mod. If this article applies to you, someone is already going to use your mod. Let people choose how their project behaves. The headings below show why this is better. Then mods don’t have to depend on your specific mobs mod and assume which materials are present. You can change your mobs mod to depend on the animalmaterials mod or a mod like it (mods like default and basic_materials use the same idea, being low-level mods which primarily define materials for use by other mods). I can’t guarantee anyone else will care about this modpack in particular due to being tied to mobf, but I also plan to make mobf optional in other mods in this modpack (even making it optional forces it to be a high-level mod, but that is probably ok for mods in the animalmaterials modpack other than the animalmaterials mod). My fork based on this antum branch will be useful to what I’m doing. Core devs are even encouraging mods not to depend on default. With minetest_game planned to not ship with minetest anymore and people to fork it, mods such as basic_materials and possibly even animalmaterials will become more important for the reasons above. minetest.override_item is useful in those cases from their end since those high-level mods personalize behavior as players and server owners wish. Therefore, the better way to integrate the mods listed in this commit are to make them utilize a common low-level mod (animalmaterials). Every time you add a dependency, that mod and mods that mod requires can no longer utilize animalmaterials, because they must load before it. I don’t know if you care about this mod anymore, but this commit and 00fd6a5 defeat the single advantage of animalmaterials: to be a low-level dependency that other mobs mods and various mods can utilize to help them integrate with each other and not register duplicate craftitems. I commented on the related commits (f6fc55b and 00fd6a5) as follows, which is also the TLDR version of this article: AntumMT’s antum branch had added the “mobs” dependency. My fork is a fork of AntumMT’s fork of sapier’s animalmaterials modpack. For example, the Minetest cooking mod depends on animalmaterials and doesn’t have to depend on any specific mobs mod. The purpose of a low-level module (such as a low-level minetest mod that primarily provides registrations) is to define things that multiple other modules can use (In game modding, mod is short for modification rather than module, but the principle applies to both). The animalmaterials modpack is an excellent case study on the general Computer Science topic of why definitions should be in a module that is separate from the behaviors. I started to write a long “ readme” for why I forked animalmaterials in 2021 (about 4 years after it was abandoned) and it became this article. This is not as important in true object-oriented programming (OOP) languages like C#, but in Lua or even C++ there is still an issue of order-of-definition. Have you ever wondered why there are so many circular dependencies in your project? Maybe you’ve made reusable code in your project and made everything into components (or at least a good number of them, like Drupal 9 tried to do better than previous versions), but the order in which dependencies should be determined is unclear.
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Hogwarts legacy switch9/19/2023 Hogwarts Legacy launches February 10 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X, April 4 for PS4 and Xbox One, and July 25 for Switch. Fans that want a guaranteed smooth experience with Hogwarts Legacy will want to consider picking up the PC, PS5, or Xbox Series X version of the game instead if they have the means. Embark on a journey through familiar and new. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Perhaps the Hogwarts Legacy release date delay for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One versions of the game will allow it to avoid having too many issues with fast-traveling and load times, but that remains to be seen. Summary: LIVE THE UNWRITTEN - Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. However, it's hard to see how it's going to accomplish this without making some serious concessions, whether that includes a graphics downgrade or some other change. It's entirely possible that the ports of Hogwarts Legacy on older consoles will run perfectly fine. The Switch version of the title didn’t seem to get confirmation of its release date, but, if you go to the Amazon page for Hogwarts Legacy, you’ll see that it says it’ll release on March 10. Now, that doesn't mean that the load times in Hogwarts Legacy are guaranteed to be a problem when the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One versions of the game launch later in 2023. This isn't a big deal on PS5 and Xbox Series X hardware because of their lightning-fast load times, but it could prove to be a huge problem when the game comes to PS4, Switch, and Xbox One later this year. Every time one fast-travels in Hogwarts Legacy, it triggers a loading screen. Hogwarts Legacy has dozens of fast-travel points and players often need to zip from one to the other to talk to different characters and reach areas to progress quests. Hogwarts Legacy is designed in a way that encourages players to fast-travel frequently. Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts. The versions of Hogwarts Legacy coming to older hardware are going to have a major obstacle ahead of them: the load times. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. RELATED: Hogwarts Legacy Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Players on PC Days Ahead of Its Full Release Because of the delay, PS4 and Xbox One gamers have to wait until April 4 to play Hogwarts Legacy, while those on Switch have to wait all the way until July 25 to get their hands on the game. This way, the developers could focus on ensuring that all versions of the game lived up to expectations. The original plan was for all versions of Hogwarts Legacy to release on the same day, but then the decision was made to delay the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One versions of the open world Harry Potter game. Hogwarts Legacy reviews have been largely positive, with the game available to play now in early access and enjoying its full release on PC and next-gen platforms beginning February 10. 3-Day Early Access (starting February 7)Īdditionally, the PS4 and PS5 versions of Hogwarts Legacy come with the Haunted Hogsmeade Shop Quest, exclusive to the platforms for 1 year.Hogwarts Legacy is enjoying a great deal of praise when it comes to the PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X versions of the game, but the upcoming PS4, Switch, and Xbox One versions may struggle due to outdated hardware.Dark Arts Pack (Dark Arts Cosmetic Set, Thestral Mount, Dark Arts Battle Arena).The digital deluxe edition comes with the game, plus the following digital items: After a lengthy video earlier today during Sonys State of Play. Hogwarts Legacy Digital Deluxe Edition - OUT NOW The new Hogwarts Legacy game inspired by the famous Harry Potter book and movie series is apparently coming to the Nintendo Switch. The best deal so far is at Best Buy, where you'll get a free $10 gift card for preordering on any platform. THE latest Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, is already out for modern consoles and PC, but older console owners will have to wait a little longer. There's only one edition of Hogwarts Legacy, and this is it. Get it at Xbox Store (digital) - $59.99.You play as a custom-created Hogwarts student in the century before the events in the Harry Potter books and movies. Get it at Xbox Store (digital) - $69.99 Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG set in the 1800s.
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