Question: Han Solo took the Millennium Falcon on a shortcut through space to make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Now that you've got all of that *useful* 's time to do the Problem of the Week! May the Force be with you! I mean, it wouldn't be as cool if he did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs and 3 lightyears and 4 trillion miles. He wouldn't be Han Solo if he didn't fudge the numbers a little to be even more amazing. So, armed with a superior nav computer, Han Solo took the Millennium Falcon (under threat of an exploding cargo and Imperial ships chasing him) on a Kessel Run that was only 12 parsecs long! The Kessel Run, which we could just call a generic route that got you from Kessel to past the Imperial blockade, and not an actual path, was usually 18 parsecs. This created the Kessel Run - the inherent danger of the Maw kept the Imperial ships away, making smuggling possible for the gutsy and foolhardy. These Imperial star destroyers were big - too big to get too close to the Maw, a cluster of black holes that were close to the planet Kessel and at the center of the Akkadese Maelstrom. The "safer" routes to Kessel were guarded by Imperial blockades. The Kessel Run was a hyperspace route within a maelstrom that smugglers used to smuggle the illicit substances mined on Kessel. It can travel shorter, and therefore more hazardous routes, while in hyperspace. The Millennium Falcon's nav computer lets the Falcon travel shorter distances (less zigzagging) to get to its destination faster. But, the Millennium Falcon got a major navigation computer upgrade, making it the most superior nav computer, making the Millennium Falcon the fastest ship in the galaxy. Ships probably have to zig zag to their destination, making complicated calculations the entire way. This makes distance a big factor in how quickly a ship can make it from point A to point B. ![]() The further you're going, the more likely you are to collide. The first thing we need to understand is that ship in the Star Wars universe are not able to travel in a straight line when they go into hyperspace - it's too risky because they're highly likely to collide with celestial objects. Until you take more Star Wars space physics into account. Which leads you to the conclusion that Han Solo is bragging about how his ship did a smuggling run over a shorter distance than other ships do? This never really made sense. In fact, one parsec is equal to 3.26 lightyears (also a unit of distance). But what is a parsec? A parsec is a unit of distance, not time.
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![]() you could substitute plain greek yogurt or sour cream instead of vanilla greek yogurt. Using a regular cake mix made with sugar will add additional calories. You could also use a regular cake mix with sugar, as long as the box is similarly sized (15.25 - 16 oz). Sugar-Free Yellow Cake Mix - I normally use the Pillsbury brand (made with Splenda), but any other similarly-sized box of sugar-free yellow or white cake mix would work for this recipe.You can also freeze expiring bananas and thaw them to use in banana bread. ![]() The inside should be soft (but not black or rotting). Ideally, your bananas should be fairly covered in brown spots. You absolutely don't want the bananas to have any green on them or be yellow with few brown spots. In general, riper is better! Ripe bananas will be softer and sweeter. 1 box Pillsbury sugar-free yellow cake mix (16 oz).1.5 cups mashed bananas (about 3-4 ripe bananas).Aim for thinner slices about ½" thick to get similar serving sizes as calculated in the nutritional information (found in the recipe card). You can also reduce the calories in banana bread by closely watching the slice size. The combination of nonfat greek yogurt, mashed banana, and eggs helps hold the bread together with very little oil and fat. Reducing the fat - this recipe has no butter or oil, making it overall very low in fat.The only sugar in this recipe is from the bananas themselves (and a trace amount in the yogurt and eggs) Reducing the sugar - because this recipe uses a boxed sugar-free cake mix as the base, it does not have nearly as much sugar as the typical banana bread.To make healthier banana bread with fewer calories, this recipe has less sugar and less fat than traditional banana bread: Everyone in your family will love this skinny banana bread! Jump to: You can even add in chocolate chips to make it extra kid-friendly. Slice it up in ½" thick pieces for only about 100 calories per slice! A splash of vanilla extract and a touch of ground cinnamon add extra flavor. ![]() Greek yogurt and a couple of eggs bring it all together without adding any extra fat or sugar. This easy recipe starts off with 3 ripe bananas and a box of yellow sugar-free cake mix. This low-calorie banana bread cuts the calories, fat, and sugar while still being incredibly moist and delicious! You won't miss all those extra calories once you try this healthy banana bread. ![]() Their respective Spiria found hosts in various people over the next two millennia, with them continuing their conflict down the generations.ġ,982 years later, Lithia and Creed were using the bodies of Iola Hearts and Emperor Zirconia, respectively. A repentant Lithia attempted to prevent Creed from rescuing Fluora, but ended up separating their Spiria from their bodies. Horrified at what had been done, Fluora shut down Gardenia and used herself as a seal to prevent its reactivation. When Gardenia was activated, it went out of control and absorbs the Spiria of everyone on Minera, causing the entire planet and its population to calcify. These Soma wielders, known as Somatics, are also capable of entering someone's Spir Maze and purge them of despir, the disease that xerom cause in people's Spiria. Factions among the Minerans who did not approve of the use of the Organicans gifted those with strong Spiria with weapons known as Soma. While Creed and Lithia saw Gardenia as a means of ending conflict on their world and the Organicans as suitable test subjects, Fluora was opposed to their plan. The xerom were the creation of Creed Graphite, and the Spodumene sisters, Lithia and Fluora, with their living core being Gardenia. ![]() The xerom were sent to Organica by the people of Minera, the planet later known as the White Moon. Two thousand years prior to the main events of the story, the planet of Organica was attacked by xerom, monsters that eat individuals' Spiria, the crystalline essence of a person's heart and emotions. Differences between the versions are noted below when relevant. While Tales of Hearts R for PlayStation Vita heavily rewrites and sometimes even removes many cutscenes, important overarching plot points are seldom changed. The main difference is that in the original Tales of Hearts for Nintendo DS, Gall Gruner is not present, and Chalcedony Akerman is a non-playable character who is incapacitated after the group gains their airship. The overall plot for both versions of the game are nearly identical. The game eventually received a remake for the PlayStation Vita which acts as a "re-imagination" of several concepts of the original game, eliminating the CG cutscenes but converting the entire game to use 3D-rendered models while introducing other significant gameplay changes, titled Tales of Hearts R ( テイルズ オブ ハーツ R, Teiruzu obu Haatsu R ?). ![]() The theme song, "Eien no Ashita" ( 永遠の明日 ?, "Eternal Tomorrow") is performed by Deen, who previously performed the opening theme of Tales of Destiny. The game uses 2D sprites and 3D backgrounds, and it represents the first entry in the series to use CG models for characters during cutscenes. The game's characteristic genre is " A Meeting Between Hearts RPG" ( 心と出会うRPG, Kokoro to deau RPG ?). Tales of Hearts ( テイルズ オブ ハーツ, Teiruzu obu Haatsu ?) is the eleventh Mothership Title in the Tales series, originally released for the Nintendo DS in two versions, an " Anime Movie Edition" ( アニメムービーエディション, Animemuubiiedishon ?) using the animation produced by Production I.G., and a " CG Movie Edition" ( CGムービーエディション, CG Muubiiedishon ?) using computer-generated 3D model cutscenes produced by Shirogumi. ![]() ![]() ![]() A List of 7 Best Fan Control Apps for Mac in 2023 It’s crucial to remember that Mac devices’ fans are helpful for controlling system temperature and power. The internal fans’ speeds can be effectively managed with the aid of fan control apps. 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Or to manually uninstall follow these instructions: You can download and run the uninstall script, you will be required to enter your administrator password.Īfter deleting these files, or running the uninstall script you will want to power down your iMac completely and restart it to remove any remaining HDD Fan Control settings. To remove HDD Fan Control Monitor from the status bar and prevent it from re-launching when you next login simply click on the Temperature / Fan speed in the status bar, make sure "Launch at Login" is not checked then click Quit. It is only used to display current temperature and fan speed to the user and check for updates, this is not needed for HDD Fan Control to continue to work. What you see in the status bar is a separate application called HDD Fan Control Monitor. HDD Fan Control is a system process that starts when Mac OS X loads and runs till shutdown. Can I remove HDD Fan Control from the Status Bar / Menu Bar? If you purchased before this, simply use the Contact Us form including as many details as possible about your order and we will create a license for you. Since version 2.0 of HDD Fan Control we have required licensing. I purchased HDD Fan Control before version 2.0 and do not have a license, can I get one? We do not currently have a time frame for this. We are still hard at work developing the Windows version, and will be releasing a Beta version when we are confident it is working well enough to release for Beta. ![]() We are investigating making it compatible with all Macs but because most other Macs only have fans to cool the entire system the control algorithm would have to take into account all sensors etc, and would effectively be taking over the cooling of the entire Mac. Unfortunately HDD Fan Control is only designed for the iMac, and it will not control the fans correctly on a MacBook or Mac Mini. Does HDD Fan Control work on a MacBook/Mac Mini The iMac still cannot read temperature signals from its temperature sensor so will still report this during the test. Yes it does, HDD Fan Control will use the iMac’s calculated internal temperature to keep your drive cool and the fan quiet. Does this work with all SSD’s even those that do not provide temperature data over S.M.A.R.T? The default settings are OK for most drives, but we would suggest checking your drive temperature range and setting the temperatures so that the fan would be spinning at 6000rpm before the drives max operating temperature. Yes, this is typical of the temperature sensor issue. I have replaced my Hard Drive and after some time the Fan gets louder, but resetting fixes it for a while, do I need HDD Fan Control? HDD Fan Control will read the drive's temperature and set the fan to an appropriate speed, and the noise will stop. This is exactly what HDD Fan Control was created for, that noise is the HDD Fan turning at 6000rpm, it does this as it cannot determine your HDD Temperature. I replaced my Hard Drive in my iMac and I now have a loud noise like a fan, will HDD Fan Control Help For more help and support with HDD Fan Control please check Support Does this work with all HDD’s? ![]() Yes! PDF has native support for including fax data. One problem is that many JPEG 2000 decoders are not as optimized as others, which means that the images might decompress slower, especially on mobile platforms. This format never caught on with consumers, but it might still make sense to recompress the images in your PDF to JPEG 2000, as it does make the file smaller. For example, JPEG 2000 images can be lossless or lossy and achieve great compression rates in both modes. ![]() They are not widely used but offer many advantages over both JPEG and PNG. Since PDF version 1.4, JPEG 2000 images have also been supported. The downside is that the image size is going to be much bigger. ![]() It allows you to losslessly compress images and retain all the information of the image. Outside of PDF, this is usually known as LZW compression. Flateįlate is a compression algorithm that basically works like TIFF and PNG. As mentioned above, the negative part about JPEG is that it is lossy, so it isn’t ideal for anything that includes text, like a screenshot or a photo of a receipt. This is great, because it really does compress down quite a bit and saves you a lot of size in the file. PDF supports some, but not all of the common image formats. For screenshots, for example, PNG is usually used, as it does not introduce any artifacts into the text. For example, there are lossy formats (like JPEG), which do not retain 100 percent of the information but work great for pictures, and there are lossless formats (like PNG) that retain all the information but don’t compress nearly as well as a JPEG image.ĭepending on what you’re sharing, either format might be appropriate. There must always be a balance between decompression speed, size, and artifacts. As a result, people came up with various compression algorithms to make this amount smaller. For example, storing a 1024x768 image without compression would result in around 2.3 MB of data. If we were to store pixels as they are, it would take up quite a lot of space. Image compression is a technique for efficiently compressing pixel data. This blog post will go into several, but not all, image formats supported by PDF. PDF documents have support for several different image formats, but as always, there are a few surprises. 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I originally ordered a four pack of the ankle socks in January 2016 in turquoise blue. Still look good! February 2017 When Will I Order Again? That’s a lot of warm, happy feet! They also volunteer weekly in the shelters handing out their socks and interacting with the communities. They’ve donated one pair of socks for every pair purchased since its inception, totally over 25,000,000 pairs. Bombas, whose mantra is “bee better,” lives and breathes its brand. As someone who interacts with homeless every day while I walk the sidewalks, trails, and streets of Denver and the beautiful cities of my nomadlife, I see this need first-hand, and I’m grateful Bombas sees it, too. What’s the best part of this sock? For every pair of socks that Bombas sells, they donate a pair to homeless shelters. When the founder of Bombas read that socks were the number one most-requested item at homeless shelters, he put his might to the test and came up with a solution. We’ve also seen people experiencing homelessness all around the world. Homelessness is a tough problem around the world and in every city in the U.S. Socks for Folks Experiencing Homelessness Nary a blister has ever appeared while hiking or walking through the streets of Denver in my Bombas. In addition, the curl is just thick enough to discourage sand and pebbles from sneaking in during my trail walks. A soft curl protects the back of my heel from the rear lip of my shoe. The second best part of this sock is certainly the neck. (By the way, since I wrote this article originally, I’ve worn the calfs at least 100 times and I still love them.) And I now wear the Quarter Socks and love them just as much. I love that they have arch support, a seamless toe, and a cushioned foot-bed that’s kept my heels happy. The heel stays put, never riding up or slipping down. The toe box comfortably houses my digits without rubbing across my toe knuckles. The toe has stayed true as well, not losing its shape nor shredding its seam. Not too tight, not loose, they are the perfect fit with their hive-like arch support. Since I don’t wear the calfs that often, this review is strictly about the ankle socks. I have two types of pairs, the Bombas ankle and the Bombas calfs. Since my first pair, I now have many others, but I keep coming back to them! Even as I trek around Europe and South America in my nomadlife, Bombas are in my pack. They are as true and fit as the first day I got them, despite over 100 200 300 wearings and washings. Although I’ve moved from Merrills to Keens for shoes, and I’ve since adopted Korkers for ice traction, the one constant for the past year two three years has been my Bombas. I loved them from the start for their giving-back attitude.Īs an urban hiker and walking traveler, I expect a lot from my feet and their footwear. I first saw the socks on a Shark Tank episode where all but one shark, Damon John, rejected the company. But I put my Bombas to the test for a year two years three years, and here’s my Bombas sock review. Bombas Socks Product Review After FIVE YEARS! Like No OtherĪs with any new product, it’s easy to write a positive review once you use it the first time. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within Apache OpenOffice. 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" Sean and I just completed our yearly physicals about 3 weeks ago and we were both in good health. There is no cause of death and an autopsy will be performed. After coming home from work last night I found Sean unresponsive on the floor, I administered CPR with the assistance of the 911 operator and he was taken to a local hospital via ambulance. "I'm still trying to put together the events of the last 24 hours. For those I couldn't reach to tell you myself I'm sorry. Some of you in the inner circle I was able to reach via phone last night and this morning to try to let you know what happened before it spread across social media. As many of you now know, my husband Sean passed away last night. He's also stood up for artists in the community at least once.Sean Reinert's husband has issued a statement on the influential drummer's passing, saying that "the lives of Sean's close friends and family have just been shattered." This extends not only to him discussing what he's learning during streams, but he also encourages other artists to chime in with their own experiences and/or advice to help them improve. Jerod shows a lot of respect for artists in his community, especially since he himself is learning how to draw.When he uploads a cover to YouTube, Jerod always puts a link to not only the original video, but the channel that made the video as well, even if said channel only ever made one or two videos, or if he was just playing a song from a video game that the channel simply uploaded.While he got a lot of love and support from his viewers, two people teaming up to commission Matt Hill, the voice of Edd from Ed, Edd n Eddy, to record a special message for Jerod's upcoming birthday deserves a special mention. During early 2021, Jerod lost his pet snake and held a stream to celebrate his life.After his cover of Andy's Neighbourhood from Toy Story 2, Jerod saw a comment from a suicidal fan, and tried to give them hope, saying that he hopes things get better for them.When someone opens up about a matter that's making them sad, expect the entire chat to be filled with nothing but heart emotes directed at that person for about ten seconds. 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