![]() ![]() There’s a set of timed ‘Art of War’ challenges. The nine campaigns are now 24, for a total of 136 single-player missions - Microsoft reckons that’s 200 hours, but I think they’re being modest. The post-Conquerors roster of 18 civs is now up to 35. For those like me, who last played in AoE2’s heyday, the game’s put on a lot of weight. The Definitive Edition bundles together everything from these expansions, as well as 2000’s Conquerors, and a brand new expansion, The Last Khans, too. This was The Forgotten, and it was followed up by two more Forgotten Empires expansions - 2015’s African Kingdoms, and 2016’s Rise of the Rajas. Microsoft, already working on 2013’s HD re-release of AoE2, liked what they saw, and offered to make the team’s work official, as the HD version of the game’s first expansion. One thing led to another, things got out of hand, and soon a full-blown, fan-made expansion was in the works. The team that would become Definitive Edition developers Forgotten Empires started work in 2011, coalescing from separate community efforts to crack the problem of adding new civs to the game, and to improve its AI. Those who really knew what they were doing, and had modding chops besides, could work wonders. This is due in part to the game’s absolute belter of a scenario editor (returning in this edition, of course), which made the creation of new stuff accessible to just about anyone. ![]() While the king of RTS games still doesn’t have a successor, he’s looking bloody good in his old age.Īs someone who stopped playing AoE2 regularly in the mid-2000s, I’m astonished at just how much happened to the game after I thought the party was over. Bravo then to former modders Forgotten Empires, who tinkered with the game they loved long enough to inherit it, and yet never went too far. Altering the formula of a classic is always a risk - and in Ensemble Studios’ case, it was one that didn’t pay off. While its early-2000s successors, Age of Mythology and Age Of Empires 3, were both good games, they suffered from their attempts to innovate on a proven formula. Make no mistake: this is much more of a compilation job than it is any kind of reimagining.īut then, crucially, there’s also nothing added that dilutes the success of the original, either. Still, virtually every design decision its quality rests on was made twenty years ago, and what few changes have been to its inner workings are fairly conservative. And with the release of Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, it’s… well, it’s still that. Developer: Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked WitchĪge Of Empires 2 is, as far as I’m concerned, the greatest real-time strategy game of all time.
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“To say you can't look at someone who's smiling and applauding for you? It was hard. “We were personalities,” Terry Johnson, a former member of The Flamingos, said in Rolling Stone. Racially segregated seating for a concert presented by vocalist Paul Robeson on July 16th, 1943 at Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois. However, when concerts were “integrated” - which technically consisted of white and black attendees sitting on opposite sides of the venue and being sectioned off by ropes - the black performers were told to make eye contact with the black attendees only. In Southern cities, these performers were obligated to perform twice per tour stop - first for a white audience and then for a black audience. They couldn’t stay in the hotels of the cities they performed in. Both are prevalent in virtually all aspects of society, which made this especially challenging for black musicians - particularly during the Jim Crow era.ĭespite having the liberty to perform around the country, prominent black acts during those years were still treated like second-class citizens. Unfortunately, racism and prejudice are two unsightly patches interwoven in America’s tapestry. “This was the beginning of my awareness,” Knight said on Behind The Music. The other two restaurants no longer operate.The show’s other winners refused to pose with Knight because of the color of her skin. The parties settled the lawsuit in January on undisclosed terms, court records indicate. Hankerson’s tax lawyer declined to comment to CNN at the time. She formally ended the agreement in July 2016, one month after Georgia Department of Revenue agents executed search warrants at the restaurants and a corporate office in an attempt to arrest Hankerson in a tax and theft investigation. ![]() ![]() Hankerson denied the claims and said his mother did not have the mental capacity to terminate their agreement. Knight’s federal lawsuit alleges mismanagement led to declining revenues. Two more restaurants opened in the suburbs as the original intown location drew crowds of tourists and locals who would wait hours for fried chicken and waffles. She and her son entered into an agreement in 1999 allowing him to use her name and likeness in his restaurants in exchange for monthly royalties, according to her lawsuit. Knight was born in Atlanta and lives in Nevada. Hankerson and his lawyer did not immediately respond Wednesday to requests for comment. She said the owner was in the process of updating signage and the website logo, but she said she did not know when the changes would take effect. General manager Tammy Caldwell confirmed that the new name was officially in place. The restaurant passed an inspection on Tuesday under the same name. ![]() The online menu still offers the “Midnight Train” – “Southern fried jumbo chicken wings and one Original waffle” – named for Knight’s hit “Midnight Train to Georgia.”īut in a failed health inspection report on Monday, first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the name listed at the restaurant’s address was The World Famous Chicken & Waffles. An employee answered the phone using the name Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles. She demanded that he stop using her name and likeness in the restaurants, which serve traditional Southern fare, citing declining success and Hankerson’s ongoing legal troubles.Īs of Wednesday afternoon, the Peachtree Street location’s signage bore the same name it had when it opened in 1999 with star-studded fanfare. The Grammy-winning artist filed a lawsuit in August 2016 against son Shanga Hankerson, owner of the three Atlanta-area restaurants. The end of an era has come for an Atlanta dining institution.Īfter a heated legal dispute, legendary soul singer Gladys Knight’s name is no longer connected to the last of her three namesake restaurants, Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles. ![]() ![]() Other early "instant dialers" dating back to 1972 also included punched card machines and magnetic tape machines. The capability for speed dial historically dates at least as far back as the Number One Electronic Switching System (1ESS) in 1965. Most mobile phones have a contact list feature which provides similar abilities although most have an instant call button which only requires one click. The numbers are programmed by the subscriber through the standard telephone dial, and speed dial calls are placed by dialing simply the digit and waiting a few seconds on a standard rotary dial phone and an older 10 key Touch Tone phone, or by dialing the number and the # key to instantly connect the call on a modern 12 key Touch Tone phone. Speed dialing is also available via Custom Calling features from the Telephone Company's Central Office. The speed dial numbers are usually accessed by pressing a pre-determined key or keys on the phone, followed by a one or two-digit code which the user assigns to each number however for ease of use, on many systems a call may be placed by pressing and holding one key on the numeric keypad. In most cases, the user stores these numbers in the phone's memory for future use. This function is particularly useful for phone users who dial certain numbers on a regular basis. Speed dial is a function available on many telephone systems allowing the user to place a call by pressing a reduced number of keys. JSTOR ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]() “But I finally came to the conclusion that if I could grow an $11-million company, I could run an $11-million company.” Bypassing regret and taking a risk In shock, Blashack Strahan grabbed a pack of graham crackers and a slab of Land O’ Lakes butter, lathering each cracker and sticking them in her mouth. She got up from her computer, walked to the kitchen and stood in a corner nook between the stove and refrigerator. 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That weekend, Blashack Strahan sold about a third of her average annual profit in two days.Īs she was paging through an entrepreneur magazine one night, Blashack Strahan noticed the cover highlighted those who became millionaires before turning 40, and one of the featured businesses became successful by hosting home parties. ![]() She brought five themed gift baskets along with seven individual products separate from the collections that people could taste. After closing her store, Blashack Strahan was asked to bring her baskets to Alexandria’s annual Holiday Crafters' Tour. She started selling gift baskets and hosted open house tasting events for the holidays. By age 23, she owned Jill’s Grill in her hometown. Buttering up an ideaĪs a dairy farmer’s daughter, Blashack Strahan said she didn’t have big dreams, but she was determined. 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![]() That is Muse can quantify our mind waves. When neurons fire we could work out the strength of frequencies and relate to conditions of thoughts. They create a change from the field when a high number of neurons fire in precisely the specific same time, and that may be quantified from beyond the head. With sending impulses, the neurons in our brain communicate. This might be useful.Ī Couple of Things That I Need the Item had/did: A feature to add notes sessions, and then read them is certainly wanted by the program. When that occurs tap the screen and I want to open my eyes. At times, in periods the relationship falls, and doesn’t pick up independently. This is useful for people for much more, doing meditation, and I’ve read it is very likely to find this info by installing the Muse SDK and syncing your headband. Us Head And Neck Soft Tissue Cpt CodeĬhoice to see raw information (wave signs ), rather than just the weather and sound. We get access of it being a diversion, which it incorporates in our clinic. Doing the meditation whilst having a look demonstrated powerful than doing so closed. I noticed when using the Muse, once I had been using the”performance mindset”, my meditation wouldn’t be calm compared to when I simply forgot about the apparatus and dived in my own clinic. In 2014, it won the User Experience Award Silver Prize for Best Next-Generation Experience.Do not go with the competition feelings. Muse was nominated in 2019 in the 23rd Annual Webby Awards presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) for Best in Apps, Mobile, and Voice: Connected Products & Wearables. Research projects utilizing Muse include understanding how decisions are made, measuring brain responses to cognitive task and different types of emotional or educational content, managing pain, detecting lapses in sustained attention, and determining how brain activity is impacted by age (Garten, A., n.d. MUSE reports reaching hundreds of thousands of users and being in over 200 research institutes worldwide, including MIT, Harvard, The Mayo Clinic, and Walter Reed Hospital. ![]() The Muse Research Tools available directly through InteraXon provide similar educational opportunities to work with raw EEG data. The original Muse headband works with the EEG 101 app-a free and open-source software currently available for Android devices-that helps students experientially understand the neuroscientific basis for how EEG technology works and the types of related data that can be visually represented. Muse 2, the most recent model, has additional features that track heart rate, breath rate, and posture. The app generates graphs and charts that allow users to review results and track progress. The Muse Meditation app works with the headset via Bluetooth, transmitting brainwave information to the user’s smartphone or tablet. If the sensors detect calmness, a user will hear calm nature sounds if the sensors detect restlessness, a user will hear stormy weather as encouragement to return to a calmer, more focused frame of mind. Seven electroencephalogram (EEG) headset sensors detect and measure the brain’s electrical activity during meditation and the app deciphers the data. Muse is a product of InteraXon Inc., a brain-sensing technology company launched in 2014 by co-founders Ariel Garten (psychotherapist), Chris Aimone (product developer), and Trevor Coleman (product designer). It is intended to develop sustained undistracted attention and promote calmness and relaxation. Muse is a neurofeedback-based app and wireless headset that offers “technology enhanced meditation” for the user through immediate audio feedback about their brain state. ![]() ![]() Who are Amazon’s subsidiaries, you ask? Well did you know that Amazon owns, Zappos, Twitch, IMDb and Whole Foods Market among about 40 others companies?Īlthough the connection between your interactions with these companies and your Amazon file might not be as direct, it does exist. Information from third-party delivery companies.Your credit history from credit bureaus as part of their fraud prevention.The third type of information Amazon collects on you is what they receive from 3rd-party companies.Įxamples of this external data would be stuff like: ![]() Now Amazon has said in their privacy policy that they are not in the business of selling this data to anybody else, so you don’t really have to worry about that.īut the kind of profile they’re able to build on us is alarming and it’s one of many reasons why regulators are trying to break up big tech companies. Every scroll and click you make on the website.Log of every record of motion on your Ring doorbell log.Recordings of every request made of Alexa.Your IP address, which provides your general location.The device you’re using (iOS, Android, mobile, desktop, etc.).I mean, sure, it makes sense that they track what kind of products you’re looking to buy, but they also track metadata such as: The second type of information Amazon collects, which I’ll call your metadata, is a bit shadier. They’re literally just storing the troves of information you’re giving them. The point here is that Amazon isn’t doing anything underhanded here. They haven’t stolen that data or taken it without your knowledge. Obviously, in order for us to make purchases and have them delivered, providing this kind of data is necessary. We browse their website, use their apps, purchase products, give them our credit card info, address for delivery and so on. 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