![]() The players’ associations released a joint statement pleading for his induction: “Curt Flood’s historic challenge of the reserve clause a half century ago transcended baseball. The letter was supported by players’ associations representing the MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and NFL. He and 101 Congressmen signed a letter in February 2020 urging the BBWAA to induct Flood to the Hall. Trone organized a bipartisan and bicameral coalition to foster Flood’s induction. It’s about time we all come together to recognize these distinctly American actions and induct Curt Flood into the Hall of Fame.” “Curt Flood changed the game of baseball when he courageously spoke truth to power in the name of what was right,” said Congressman David Trone, a Maryland Democrat. “Flood sacrificed his own career so players after him could have free agency, leaving one of the biggest impacts on the game to this day. In 2020, Flood even had congressional support. The Golden Days committee is responsible for selecting worthy candidates from between 19. ![]() Then, in 2021, he was considered by the Golden Days Era, one of four Era Committees that consider players who have been retired for more than 15 seasons. He was made a candidate for the Hall thrice more - in 2003, 20 - by the Veterans Committee. The threshold for admittance is 75%.įlood was removed from the ballot in 1996 and died in 1997. I just assumed that a quarter-century after his death, the most consequential figure in the history of sports labor law and one of the best players of his generation would have been a shoo-in for the Baseball Hall of Fame.īut after appearing on the ballot for a full 15 seasons, Flood never received more than just over 15% of votes. I assumed Major League Baseball and, more importantly, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America would do right by Flood. In 2019, Cole led the American League in ERA, strikeouts and colorful stories about the man he owes an unpayable professional debt. As John Buck would say, excuse my language, ‘Get your f-ing book reports ready, kids. “I hope everyone has that conversation about Curt Flood on the bus. “I just think it’s so important that players know the other sacrifices that players made in order to keep the integrity of the game where it is,” Cole said. So, on the occasion of signing of one of the richest contracts in baseball history, a white guy from Newport Beach, California, told anyone who would listen how much he admired a Black man from Oakland. I want everybody to know, because challenging the reserve clause was one of the first stepping stones to ultimately the system we have today, which I believe brings out the most competitive - you know, genuine competitiveness - that we have in baseball.”įlood is not only a man Cole has come to admire but also a historic figure to whom he owes a debt of gratitude. ![]() “‘Tell me about Curt Flood! Why is he so important?’ “One of his favorite things was he would call you up to the front of the bus after a few pops, and he would get in your face, and he would ask you, ‘Who’s Curt Flood?’” Cole recalled of Buck. 18, 2019, shortly after signing his nine-year, $324 million contract to pitch for the New York Yankees, Gerrit Cole stood at a podium at Yankee Stadium and thanked Curt Flood.Ĭole told the assembled media at his introductory news conference that he first learned who Flood was as a rookie while riding the team bus with then- Pirates teammate John Buck. Curt Flood fought for free agency, changed pro sports
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![]() It also will increase water conservation efforts statewide. Ensuring that customers who take advantage of water rebate programs are not taxed on the value of those programs is smart and fair policy, especially for low-income customers. WaterNow Alliance: “These cost-effective incentives will inspire much-needed participation throughout the current drought and are especially important for lower-income households who cannot afford to face additional tax liability,” said WaterNow Alliance Executive Director Cynthia Koehler.Ĭal Water: “We applaud Governor Newsom’s signature on AB 2142. Given the state’s longer and drier periods of drought, we need to provide residents with every incentive we can to save water,” said CalWEP Co-Executive Director Tia Fleming. Media contact: Heather Engel, ACWA Director of Communications, 91Ĭalifornia Water Efficiency Partnership: “Taxing water efficient rebates is a disincentive for Californians to participate in these programs. 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I applaud Governor Newsom for his leadership on climate resiliency and thank him for signing this important bill.”Ī news release from the governor’s office can be found here.Ĭalifornia law already permanently exempted rebates for water efficient toilets and clothes washers, as well as certain plumbing for recycled water and energy conservation, from both personal and corporate taxes. “Consumer rebates are a proven, cost-effective tool for reducing outdoor water footprint and rewarding Californians who do their part to conserve water and adapt to our changing climate. “With climate change exacerbating California’s severe droughts, extreme heat surges, and extended wildfire seasons, investment in water efficiency is critical and necessary,” Assemblymember Gabriel said. It was supported by a large coalition of other associations, local water agencies and municipal leaders who offer customer rebate programs as a proven, cost-effective tool for reducing water use and promoting water conservation. The bill, by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills), was sponsored by the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), California Water Efficiency Partnership (CalWEP) and WaterNow Alliance. 28 signed AB 2142, which will reinstate the California personal tax exemption for turf replacement rebates and help incentivize participation in these important water saving programs. ![]() Tax Exemption Will Incentivize Participation in Turf Replacement Rebate Programs ![]() She and the Bride engage in a knife fight, which is interrupted when Vernita's young daughter arrives home. The Bride goes to the home of Vernita Green, a former Deadly Viper who now leads a normal suburban life. She takes the hospital worker's truck and gets herself back in shape, vowing to kill Bill and the other Deadly Vipers. She kills a man who intends to rape her and a hospital worker who has been selling her body while she was comatose. The Bride awakens after four years and is horrified to discover she is no longer pregnant. Bill aborts the mission, considering it dishonorable to kill her while she is defenseless. In the hospital, Elle Driver, one of the Deadly Vipers, prepares to assassinate her via lethal injection. As the Bride lies wounded, she tells Bill he is the father of her unborn child, just as he shoots her in the head. The Deadly Vipers, led by Bill, attack the chapel, shooting everyone. In 1999, the Bride, a former member of the Deadly Viper assassination squad, is rehearsing her marriage at a chapel in El Paso, Texas. ![]() It received positive reviews and grossed over $180 million worldwide on a $30 million budget, achieving the highest-grossing opening weekend of a Tarantino film to that point. Kill Bill was theatrically released in the United States on October 10, 2003. They were planned as a single release, which Tarantino split into two films to avoid having to cut scenes. Volume 1 is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to the 1973 film Lady Snowblood, grindhouse cinema, martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation and spaghetti Westerns. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza. Fox) and their leader, Bill ( David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who swears revenge on a group of assassins ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Once disengaged, you can click the green tick to close the dialogue and the enchanter will remain with arms crossed. Instead, push the escape key and you will disengage from the enchanter while keeping the dialogue open. and adds new enchantments!") - do NOT click the green tick to close the dialogue. There is a way to keep the enchanter where he is even once you've done business: When the successful enchant dialogue pops up ("The enchanter performs the ancient rites on the.(On PS4 & Xbox, enchanters remain persistent) However, clicking an enchanter and placing an item in its inventory to see the price, or paying him to disenchant the item, will not make him disappear. It is possible to talk to them again before they leave the area. After doing business with a wandering enchanter, they will begin to walk away and will eventually disappear.Only specialist enchanters have a chance to do powerful enchantments the Master and Grand Master enchanters don't. According to the 1.12 patch notes, powerful enchantments have an approximately 20% chance of occurring, and they are about 50% better than normal. Wandering enchanters are capable of performing powerful enchantments.Wandering enchanters have a random chance of appearing in certain spots in the overworld or in dungeons.The item's original stats will not change. If you wish to free up an item's enchantment slots, you may pay an enchanter to remove all its existing enchantments. There is no chance of accidentally wiping enchantments.Each enchantment costs gold, and the cost scales based on item quality, enchanting NPC, and the number of enchantments on the item.Some enchanters specialize in certain types of enchantments. A basic enchanter appears in each town, but more powerful enchanters can be found elsewhere. There are multiple enchanter NPCs in the world.For example, an enchanter with a maximum of 2 enchantments can only add an enchantment to an item that currently has fewer than 2 enchantments on it.Each enchanter has a maximum number of enchantments they can add to any item. ![]() Each item can only hold a limited number of enchantments, in addition to its original stats. ![]() Instead, a few minutes after the login screen hit the monitor output the RDP session connected. Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Installed Working Via RDP Had we not had the TinyPilot, and given several minutes passing, we may have assumed that the upgrade failed. The system booted into Windows 11 and actually took a few minutes where RDP connection requests were not accepted after the login screen was presented to the monitor output of the system. We are focusing on the remote desktop experience installing over RDP here, but the TinyPilot gave us a bit more information on what was happening. Microsoft Windows 11 Pro TinyPilot Backup IKVM 2 Also, since we know many folks that have been hit by Windows 7 to Windows 10 or other upgrades previously, we had a TinyPilot Voyager iKVM installed on the unit, “just in case”. Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Ready For RestartĪt this point, we hit restart. We then got the notification that a restart was required to finish the upgrade. Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Installing Via RDP Session 25 Percent Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Downloading Via RDP SessionĪfter it was downloaded, it started to install. All we had to do was to download it via Windows Update. The system came with Windows 10 Pro installed, and the upgrade to Windows 11 Pro was free. On the newly setup Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Tiny Gen2 we had the notification that the Windows 11 upgrade was available. Upgrading Microsoft Windows 10 to Windows 11 Remotely Using Remote Desktop RDP Specifically we wanted to upgrade a Project TinyMiniMicro node to Windows 11 Pro to see how that process worked over an RDP session. ![]() Since we had an extra Windows 10 Pro Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Tiny Gen2 that was being configured for another purpose, we wanted to give this a try. If something went wrong, one could be stuck with a non-functioning system that one cannot get back into. In years past, upgrading the OS using remote desktop protocol or RDP has always been scary. At STH, we know a lot of our readers have Project TinyMiniMicro desktops and other machines with Windows 10 Pro. ![]() Then switch the button on the toolbar to Fill and choose the other gradient.
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We have a card-information bot in this subreddit which can fetch How to identify what set a card is from.Roundup of other Magic-related subreddits and sites.Playing Magic during the coronavirus pandemic.No posts that are just pictures of cards.Buy/sell/trade in the consolidated thread.No sexually explicit content or violence/disturbing imagery.The rules listed in this sidebar are a brief summary meant to give youĪ general idea of our subreddit rules. ![]() Lastly, the motion path on the thumb will need to be reduced slightly, as it’ll be pressing down a little too far. ![]() You’ll need to re-insert the audio clip as otherwise the animation won’t run past the first second. ![]() You’ll see that all of the elements have pasted in smaller than in the original. Once slide is made smaller, open up the presentation you were wanting the countdown timer to appear smaller in, select all of the elements on the countdown timer slide, copy them and paste them into the other presentation. To do this click on the design tab, then page setup, make sure when you custom adjust the screen, the width and height are in the same ration as before (otherwise the objects will stretch/compress). You need to adjust the slide size of the countdown timer presentation. There is a work around, but it’s a little tricky. I’m afraid that as you’ve noticed, grouping the objects will lose the animations. Really glad you like the countdown timer, it was fun to create in some spare time one afternoon. Let us know if you have any other ideas you’d like to see us create similar effects with! If you still want your countdown timer fix, have a look at this tutorial to make a countdown timer with a scrolling background. Click the link to download the PowerPoint file:ġ minute countdown timer – hand and stopwatch To see how just how far you can take this effect in PowerPoint, we have developed a more advanced 1 minute countdown timer – hand and stopwatch, this includes numbers and a ticking second hand counting down from 60 seconds. We’ve created a short video showing how to carry out the exercise below: ![]() You can now think of ways to bring the timer to life, using PowerPoint objects to make it look more like a clock, or whatever device you think would work well. You now have (a very basic) 1 minute countdown timer. Then to the right, change the duration of the animation to last 60 seconds (rather than the default 2). Once you’ve selected the animation, along the top ribbon you can click on Effect options, changing the rotation to clockwise. So now you need to select the grouped lines, and animate them with the spin option. Place this line at the end of the first line, group the two of them together and then make one of them 100% transparent. In order avoid this issue regarding the centre point of rotation you will need to create another line, the same length of the initial line. This is where our PowerPoint trick comes into play. The first issue is that you can’t simply rotate the second hand as a single object, the animation assumes that the centre point of rotation is at the mid-point of the line. So the simplest way of creating your own countdown timer is by creating a second hand and then rotating it using the ‘spin’ animation. Okay so maybe a countdown timer isn’t the most exciting thing to make, however in the creation of a timer we can demonstrate a really neat trick you can apply to help make objects move and animate in more interesting ways, with the use of transparency. Here at BrightCarbon we couldn’t hold out any longer and we’ve decided to share the secret! Read on and become part of a very exclusive group… I know you’ve all been thinking it – how on earth do I create a countdown timer in PowerPoint? It’s one of life’s great mysteries, baffling great minds for generations. ![]() ![]() RS offer high-end professional quality connectors in the following types Solder, crimp and clampCable mount, chassis mount, panel mount and PCB mountGold plated, Nickel plated, tin-plated and silver plated. While HDMI has taken over for analog audio in most cases, youll still see analog RCA audio cables fairly often. The white connector carries the left (or mono) signal, while the red connector carries the right signal. ![]() The most common colours areRed for audio rightWhite for audio leftYellow for videoWhat are the different types of Phono / RCA connector?RCA / Phono plugs and sockets are available in a range of mounting styles, termination types platings and finishes suiting every audio application. 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This traditional game originated toward the end of the 18th century, apparently in the Baltic region of Europe and possibly as a form of fortune-telling. Well, in that case, solitaire card games are the thing you’re looking for.īut, everyone needs a solitaire app or two in their pocket to kill those boring office hours. ![]() It is also true that most people have a keen interest in cards.ĭoes it ever happen to you that you want to play a card game but no opponents can be found? At that time games can be a kind of good help at that moment. Often we have to face a situation where time becomes boring and monotonous. This can be configured under settings.Challenge Your Brain with Online Solitaire You can move a tableau card onto the foundations: You can do this manually or let it happen automatically.Move one or more cards from one tableau to another: You can move one or several cards from one tableau to another if the rank of the first card in the pile is one higher than the tableau you're moving to and the color is opposite of the card being moved.Move a card from the foundation back to the tableau: If need be, you can move a card from the foundation back onto the tableau.Move a card from waste to a tableau: You can move a card from the waste to the foundation if the card's rank and suit are correct.Move a card from waste to a foundation: You can move a card from the waste to the foundation if the card's rank and its suit are correct.The amount can be configured under settings. Move cards from stock to waste: You can flip either one or three cards from the stock to the waste.To get to move cards to the foundations, the player can use the following moves: Each foundation has one suit, and cards must be placed on the foundation in order (ace, one, two, etc.). The foundation piles are ordered by suit and rank. The foundation: Where you'll try to move all your cards to.The waste: To which cards from the stock will be moved.The stock: From where you'll draw cards.The tableau: On which most of the game will be placed.The game's goal is to move all cards to the foundation piles. It consists of 11 steps, complete with illustrations and a video tutorial. If you're new to the game, read through our thorough guide on how to play Solitaire. If you're familiar with the game, it should give you the refresher you want. The last update occurred on December 7, 2023.įor those who've played the game before, we've created a concise summary of the Solitaire rules. 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