![]() Federal law prohibits a state from changing time zones without a statute passed by Congress or the secretary of transportation issuing regulations. Why are we changing our clocks if the law was approved by the Florida Legislature?Įven though the law was passed by all of the Florida lawmakers, it still needs to get congressional approval before it becomes law. We still have to change our clocks this November. And all of Florida moves into the same Time Zone (half of the panhandle is currently on a different timezone). This means, no more time changes for Floridians! No more setting our clocks back an hour every fall. In March, the bill was passed by the Florida Senate and signed by Florida’s Governor, Rick Scott, to change the law effective July 1, 2018, keeping Florida in Daylight Savings time permanently. The Senate bill included merging the panhandle into a single timezone with the rest of Florida. ![]() The Sunshine Protection Act was proposed in two bills in the Florida state legislature. House of Representatives HB1013 and Senate State Bill 858, which was approved by the Florida Senate Community Affairs Committee in January 2018 by a vote of 6-0. Florida lawmakers agreed by an overwhelming majority. To have that extra hour of sunshine makes all the difference for those who want to spend some time outdoors after work or have time for activities with their kids or pets. Daylight Saving is the time when it stays lighter later, which almost every Floridian loves. Florida passed a law to keep Daylight Saving permanently, however, it still is not law.įlorida legislature passed a law in 2018 to do away with Daylight Saving clock changes twice a year and stay permanently on Daylight Saving Time this year.
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![]() Australopithecus anamensis, found in Kenya, is the most ape-like and oldest of the australopithecines, dating to between 4.2-million and 3.9-million years ago. Remains of other early species of Australopithecus have been found in East Africa.Īustralopithecus afarensis, which lived between 3.6-million and 3-million years ago, has been found at Laetoli in Tanzania, where footprint trails of Australopithecus were uncovered in 1978, and at Hadar in Ethiopia, including the famous Lucy skeleton discovered in 1973. Other hominid remains dating to a similar time have also been recovered from the Jacovec Cavern at Sterkfontein.Īustralopithecus has also been found at Makapans Valley in South Africa’s Limpopo Province, which is part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. The species to which the skeleton belongs will only be determined when it has been completely extracted from the rock in which it lies embedded. “Little Foot”, which is still being excavated from Sterkfontein Member 2, is one of the oldest australopithecines ever found, dating to between 4.1-million and 3.3-million years old, according to palaeomagnetic evidence and cosmogenic isotope dating. He observed the same features in Sts 71, and suggested these, plus some other large-toothed hominids from Sterkfontein and the Makapans Valley, represent another Australopithecus which lived at the same time as Australopithecus africanus. Palaeoanthropologist Professor Ron Clarke has argued that Stw 252 appears very different from Australopithecus africanus in that it has much larger teeth, a flatter upper face, a thinner brow region and a differently shaped braincase. These include several specimens, such as Stw 252, and Sts 71, discovered by Broom and his colleague, John Robinson, in 1947. These include the lesser known cranial specimens Sts 17 and Sts 52, and a partial skeleton, Sts 14, found in 1947, which had a complete pelvis that affirmed that Australopithecus was bipedal, or walked upright.īut there are other australopithecines discovered at the Sterkfontein Caves and at Makapans Valley, about 300 km (480 mi) from Sterkfontein, near Mokopane in Limpopo Province, which may not be Australopithecus africanus. ![]() Sts 5 (Mrs Ples), which he discovered in 1947, and many other specimens found in Sterkfontein Member 4, also belong to this species. The first adult specimen of an Australopethicus was discovered in 1936 at Sterkfontein by palaeontologist and director of the Transvaal Museum, Dr Robert Broom. It may not be flagged as such, but this is a dangerous moment, because while you’ll continually swap out your pets, once you’ve chosen a relic you can never change it. You start by choosing a class, a pet, and a magical relic. On your own the robot and tank are likely to be your best bets, although the game’s pretty good at letting you get away with any of the four as a solo endeavour. The character classes offer you a Dusk Mage, who uses light and dark magical attacks the Forged, which is a robot that fires hot coals from a hatch in its chest the tanky Railmaster who attacks with a giant mallet and the long range Sharpshooter. Exploring feels good, even if the overworld is a strictly linear corridor of dungeons and locations, a feature lightly obscured by frequent meanderings and dead ends.Īlthough the game is once again playable in four-player co-op it’s perfectly viable in single player. Even the bosses are cute and multi-coloured, their explosive attacks lighting up the charming isometric scenery. ![]() Its colour palette is brighter and sparklier than most dungeon crawlers, with enemies that look and sound like tiny, fun little cartoons rather than terrifying monsters. Torchlight 3 looks, sounds, and – superficially at least – plays much like its predecessors. Unfortunately, shortly after that developer, Runic Games shut down, leaving the third instalment to a brand new team. ![]() The first outing was a mid-budget Diablo clone with a more light-hearted approach and the same loot loving heart, while Torchlight 2, which came out at the same time as Diablo 3, actually managed to be considerably better and more complete than its inspiration at launch. ![]() The Torchlight franchise has had a strange history. The indie alternative to Diablo, that beat Blizzard at its own game, gets a new sequel with some new ideas about how to advance the genre. Torchlight 3 – new sequel, new problems (pic: Perfect World) Some tables drop both sides and some attach to the wall and drop only one side, so your choice is merely based in preference. To explore options for drop-leaf tables, read Top 5 Drop-Leaf Table Styles for Small Spaces. You can also use the larger space for extra kitchen prep, to work from home, or to practice your favorite hand-crafting hobby. To learn about additional benefits and to help you choose your extendable table, read FAQs About Butterfly Leaf Tables.ĭrop-Leaf Tables: A drop-leaf table has a similar function to an expandable table, but many drop-leafs downsize to a width of just a few inches, making it easy to push fully out of the way when not in use. But that’s not the only advantage of an extendable table. An expandable table comes with leaves that extend a small table for a the-more-the-merrier get-together. Extendable and drop-leaf tables are just the ticket to easily manipulate your furniture into fitting your day-by-day needs.Įxtendable Tables: Just because you have a small dining space doesn’t mean you don’t like to entertain. Extendable and drop-leaf tables are a great option that are a little more adaptable to your space. Small-space living usually means getting creative with storage and multi-purpose or space-saving furniture. Generally you’ll need at least 12 inches between the seat of the chair and the underside of the table. To learn how to measure for the right dining table height, read Tips on Buying Kitchen Tables. If you are not buying your tall table in a set, it is essential to check the height of the chairs against your table, as bar-height and counter-height tables are easily confused. These tables - which are also called pub tables - are 40” to 42” tall. Generally these tables are round, so revisit the chart above to find the best size for your needs.īar-Height Tables: The only real difference between bar-height and counter-height tables is, well, the height. There are two choices when it comes to taller tables: counter-height and bar-height.Ĭounter-Height Tables: Counter-height tables - which are also known as bistro tables - are often sold as outdoor furniture, but they work in small spaces inside too. Plus a higher table draws the eye up, creating an illusion that they are taking up less space. ![]() ![]() The great thing about a taller table is that the added height lets the table double as a prep space, which is a major advantage in a small kitchen. ![]() In addition to New York State income taxes, residents of New York City are also subject to New York City income taxes. Instead, taxpayers can claim a standard deduction based on their filing status: Additionally, New York State does not allow itemized deductions. ![]() It's important to note that New York State income tax rates apply to both earned income (such as wages, salaries, and tips) and unearned income (such as interest, dividends, and capital gains). There are currently nine tax brackets in New York State, with rates ranging from 4% to 10.9% for the 2022 tax year, that vary based on filing status. New York State has a progressive income tax system, which means that the more income you earn, the higher your tax rate. This guide provides an overview of New York State and New York City income taxes, including tax brackets and an introduction to income tax credits that residents may be eligible for. ![]() It's important for residents and those considering moving to the state or city to understand the income tax system to effectively manage their finances, in addition to federal income tax obligations. As one of the most populous states and cities in the United States, New York State and New York City have some of the highest income tax rates in the country. ![]() $50 bonus rewards typically issued within 30 business days after DPA or DBC open date. $50 in bonus rewards for Dell Rewards Members who open a new Dell Preferred Account (DPA), or Dell Business Credit (DBC) account on or after. Offers and rewards subject to change without notice, not combinable with all other offers. Not valid for resellers and/or online auctions. Expedited Delivery not available on certain TVs, monitors, batteries and adapters, and is available in Continental (except Alaska) U.S. Outlet purchases do not qualify for rewards. Total rewards earned may not exceed $2,000 within a 3-month period. Check My Account for your most up-to-date reward balance. “Current rewards balance” amount may not reflect the most recent transactions. Rewards expire in 90 days (except where prohibited by law). 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The cost of the remote ATC tower at London City Airport was around £20m. As a result, services for passengers continue to run as they usually would and by introducing this technology issues such as repairs, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and roof water ingress are removed from the equation. With this technology, it is possible to build the digital tower while running ATC services from the existing tower. The images can also be augmented with operational data, such as radar tags. In addition to this, the air traffic control towers include object tracking, geo-fencing, and HD zoom. The use of this technology has various safety benefits, such as viewing tools that improve the situational awareness of air traffic controllers, as they will need to spend less time looking at different screens. The tower is accessible through the swipe of a card, while airlocks prevent tailgating. The London City Airport digital tower’s mast includes 4km of signal cabling between the equipment rooms and the camera platform. The digital ATC tower covers all operations to and from London City and some of the air traffic control assets are located there. Operational data is then transferred to a custom-built digital tower operations room at the National Air Traffic Services’ (NATS) ATC centre in Swanwick. A panoramic moving image is formed by 14 HD screens, creating a view of the entire airport. The controllers use images that are created by 16 HD cameras, which manage air traffic remotely. ![]() ![]() ![]() The digital tower incorporates three different positions – the ground controller, the air controller, and the coordinator. “This investment in smart infrastructure will help us meet future growth in passenger demand, improve air traffic management and give us enhanced capability as aviation bounces back from the pandemic.” How does the tower work? Alison FitzGerald, COO at London City Airport. “We are immensely proud to become the first major international airport to adopt this pioneering technology,” says. Swap in different fruits. No strawberry or mango? No problem! Try swapping in frozen pineapple, berries, peaches, or any combination of frozen fruits!.Try a different tequila. I usually use blanco tequila but I’ve really started to come around to reposado and añejo tequilas.I’m really partial to the strawberry-mango combination, but here are some ways to switch it up! ![]() You can omit the salt completely or do a mix of salt and sugar if you prefer a salty-sweet rim. I am 100% a salt or tajin on the rim of a margarita kind of gal. Use your favorite tequila here! I am partial to blanco tequila and my favorite brand is Casamigos tequila, but honestly I also really like the tequila from Trader Joe’s for a budget friendly option. The bulk of the freezing for this margarita comes from the fruit (no one wants a watery marg), but we do add a little ice in at the end so the drink is nice and thick. You will definitely need a blender for this recipe. This yields a really smooth, frozen margarita that isn’t too boozy.īlending. Ultimately you are looking for about 2.5-3 cups frozen fruits for the amount of alcohol in this recipe. As I mentioned above, you can really substitute in different fruits based on your tastes. How to make Frozen Strawberry-Mango Margaritasįruit. If you’re like me and you want a quality frozen margarita with fresh ingredients, make these frozen strawberry-mango margaritas! ![]() The perfect margarita that’s not too sweet with lots of fresh fruit flavor, and zip from fresh lime juice. These frozen strawberry-mango margaritas are the perfect margarita recipe for any occasion. Phylogenetic affinity with Asian taxa supports transcontinental interchange as the means by which iconic biotas of the terminal Cretaceous were established in NA. intrepidus ranks among the smallest Cretaceous tyrannosauroids, restricting the window for rapid mass increases preceding the appearance of colossal eutyrannosaurs. With a ~ 1.2-m limb length and 78 kg mass, M. nov.-is represented by a hind limb from an individual nearing skeletal maturity at 6–7 years. Here we report discovery of the oldest Cretaceous NA tyrannosauroid, extending the lineage by ~15 million years. To date, eco-evolutionary dynamics in the ascent of tyrannosauroids to top predator roles have been obscured by a 70-million-year gap in the North American (NA) record. “Diminutive, fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record”Īuthors: Lindsay Zanno, Terry Gates, Aurore Canoville, Haviv Avrahami, North Carolina State University Peter Makovicky, Field Musem Ryan Tucker, Stellenbosch University Lecturer Terry Gates, postdoctoral research scholar Aurore Canoville and graduate student Haviv Avrahami from NC State, as well as the Field Museum’s Peter Makovicky and Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University, contributed to the work. The research appears in Communications Biology, and was supported in part by Canyonlands Natural History Association. ![]() “ Moros signals the establishment of the iconic Late Cretaceous ecosystems of North America.” rex and its famous contemporaries such as Triceratops may be among our most beloved cultural icons, but we owe their existence to their intrepid ancestors who migrated here from Asia at least 30 million years prior,” Zanno says. ![]() When the scientists placed Moros within the family tree of tyrannosaurs they discovered that its closest relatives were from Asia. rex’s lineage on the North American continent. The bones of Moros also revealed the origin of T. “We now know it took them less than 15 million years to rise to power.” “Although the earliest Cretaceous tyrannosaurs were small, their predatory specializations meant that they were primed to take advantage of new opportunities when warming temperatures, rising sea-level and shrinking ranges restructured ecosystems at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous,” Zanno says. It could easily have run down prey, while avoiding confrontation with the top predators of the day. “These adaptations, together with advanced sensory capabilities, are the mark of a formidable predator. “ Moros was lightweight and exceptionally fast,” Zanno says. Zanno estimates that the Moros was over seven years old when it died, and that it was nearly full-grown.īut don’t let the size fool you. Moros is tiny by comparison – standing only three or four feet tall at the hip, about the size of a modern mule deer. In fact, the lower leg bones of Moros were discovered in the same area where Zanno had previously found Siats meekerorum, a giant meat-eating carcharodontosaur that lived during the same period. A decade spent hunting for dinosaur remains within rocks deposited at the dawn of the Late Cretaceous finally yielded teeth and a hind limb from the new tyrannosaur. That’s exactly what Zanno and her team did. “The only way to attack this problem was to get out there and find more data on these rare animals.” “When and how quickly tyrannosaurs went from wallflower to prom king has been vexing paleontologists for a long time,” says Zanno. The fossil record between these time periods has been a blank slate, preventing scientists from piecing together the story behind the ascent of tyrannosaurs in North America. ![]() By the Cretaceous – around 81 million years ago – North American tyrannosaurs had become the enormous, iconic apex predators we know and love. Medium-sized, primitive tyrannosaurs have been found in North America dating from the Jurassic (around 150 million years ago). “Early in their evolution, tyrannosaurs hunted in the shadows of archaic lineages such as allosaurs that were already established at the top of the food chain.” “With a lethal combination of bone-crunching bite forces, stereoscopic vision, rapid growth rates, and colossal size, tyrant dinosaurs reigned uncontested for 15 million years leading up to the end-Cretaceous extinction – but it wasn’t always that way,” says Lindsay Zanno, paleontologist at North Carolina State University, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research. ![]() Redshift XPU, which lets users render a hybrid, with both the CPU and GPU simultaneously.The rendering can be in CPU mode or in hybrid mode, which uses both CPU and GPU, without the need for a separate Redshift product subscription. ![]() GPU/CPU: As of the 3.5 release in April 2022, users can now render with Redshift inside Cinema 4D. The new loop option for Maxon Noise Procedurals allows artists to set up seamless and satisfying animated effects quickly. Artists employing the industry’s most powerful biased renderer can now take advantage of select AMD Radeon™ PRO graphics cards’ GPU-accelerated rendering. ![]() Redshift – The DetailsĬurrent release: 3.5.16 (2023.03) – 14 June 2023ĪMD GPU support is now available (in public beta) for Redshift 3.5.15. In fact, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and integrates with industry-standard CG applications. In other words, Redshift is tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size. Redshift is a powerful GPU-accelerated renderer, built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering. Redshift is the world’s first fully GPU-accelerated, biased renderer. Price: Starting at $466.80 for V-Ray Solo. License Options: Purchase a single V-Ray license to access all V-Ray integrations, including 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, and Unreal. Undoubtedly, you will save time and create your best work with tech from Chaos. Roberto Blake gives a great overview of whether you should choose GPU or CPU rendering.īuilt for artists, designers & jacks-of-all-trades, our 3D rendering software helps you visualize anything imaginable. GPU vs CPU Video Rendering and Video Editing Many renderers are hybrid and use both the CPU and GPU. Some 3D renderers will utilize the GPU instead of the CPU, which can mean faster renders, but the downside is that GPUs are limited to the amount of VRAM or video memory. In contrast, a GPU is composed of hundreds of cores that can handle thousands of threads simultaneously.” To sum it up, a quote I came across from Kevin Krewell from Nvidia explains it well: “Architecturally, the CPU is composed of just a few cores with lots of cache memory that can handle a few software threads at a time. The GPU is designed for parallel processing so they can work with a lot of data at once. The CPU is based on single cores so it works on one bit of data at a time. A graphics processing unit, or GPU, is there to render 3D graphics and to help the CPU perform its calculations. ![]() And the Cinema 4D Take System lets you save and manage multiple versions of a scene in a single file!Ĭompatibility: macOS 10.15.Think of the central processing unit, or CPU, as the brain and control center of your computer. Cinema 4D offers numerous options for working non-destructively: parametric modeling, procedural shaders, textures and more. PROCEDURAL WORKFLOWS Stay flexible from beginning to end! Staying flexible for last-minute changes is important no matter which project you’re working on. POWERFUL HELP SYSTEM Any questions about a specific function can be quickly answered by right-clicking on it and jumping straight to the integrated software documentation. Our free service packs, which are released on a regular basis, further optimize Cinema 4D and let us rapidly respond to changes in operating systems and drivers! All new features and functions are thoroughly put through their paces by our QA and beta testers before being released. STABILITY Cinema 4D’s stability is renowned throughout the 3D community and beyond. The Cinema 4D layout can also be easily customized to precisely fit a user’s needs and saved for later use. This is why we make sure from the start that new functions work intuitively and are exactly where users will expect to find them. INTUITIVE INTERFACE Cinema 4D is a pillar in our users’ everyday workflow. Countless tutorials and a global, highly-skilled community play an important role in bringing beginners to a professional level of use. And it never ceases to amaze professional users just how easy Cinema 4D is to use. Cinema 4D’s legendary reliability also makes it the perfect application for demanding, fast-paced 3D production, and a range of attractively priced software packages is available to fit any artist’s needs.ĮASE OF USE Getting started in the world of 3D is a blast when you can quickly create great-looking results! Cinema 4D’s intuitive and easy to understand operation and logically arranged interface makes it easy for beginners to jump right in and take control. Beginners and seasoned professionals alike can take advantage of Cinema 4D’s wide range of tools and features to quickly achieve stunning results. Easy to learn and extremely powerful: Cinema 4D is the perfect package for all 3D artists who want to achieve breathtaking results fast and hassle-free. |