Aa made to move barbie12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() "The movie has reached critical mass in a way that most movies don't really do anymore, especially in the age of streaming, when media is so fragmented," said Rupture Studio's Welch. The marketing blitz surrounding the "Barbie" theatrical release has been highly successful in putting the movie, and the eponymous Mattel doll, at the forefront of public consciousness. While Barbie has long had iconic status, there is no question the brand is in the midst of a resurgence. "The demand for these rooms exceeded our expectations," said Venus Lye, director of sales and marketing for the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, adding that the accommodations have also contributed to "a substantial boost in social media engagement." ![]() Targeted at children ages 4 to 11, it included Barbie-themed cabins as well as a variety of Barbie-inspired activities.Īnd in Malaysia, the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur opened an entire floor of 14 Barbie-themed rooms in late 2021. Royal Caribbean International in 2012 partnered with Mattel to bring a "Barbie Experience" aboard its ships. The DreamHouse actually debuted on the platform in 2019 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Barbie brand.Ī Barbie-inspired suite debuted at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas back in 2009 and at the Hilton Buenos Aires in 2014. The Curtis is among several travel brands that have offered Barbie-themed rooms over the years.Ĭhief among the Barbie-inspired stays has been Airbnb's bright-pink Barbie's Malibu DreamHouse vacation rental, which briefly reopened for reservations to commemorate the movie's rollout. "Barbie is cross-generational," Raudenbush said. It's also been a hit across a variety of age demographics. ![]() Lizzie Raudenbush, general manager and chief happiness officer for the Curtis, said the hotel's Barbie-inspired accommodation has always been in demand, proving particularly popular for special occasions like birthday or bachelorette parties. The Curtis, a 336-room Denver hotel known for pop culture-inspired themed rooms, has paid tribute to Barbie with a "hyper-themed" Big Hair accommodation since opening in 2007.Īmid the current Barbie craze, the Curtis is promoting a new "Come on Barbie, Let's Go Party!" package that includes a stay in the Big Hair room a Barbie beauty bar stocked with makeup brushes, a cream face mask pack and an eyelash curler a complimentary Pink Corvette Martini at the hotel's restaurant and bar and a Barbie-inspired music playlist. The one-bedroom accommodation is outfitted in plenty of pink and Barbie theming, with Barbie fans also granted access to special programming, including a terrace "pinknic." In Colombia, the Hilton Bogota Corferias unveiled what it says is the city's first Barbie-themed hotel suite, available for bookings through July 2024. The Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas hosted a Barbie "Dream Hotel" takeover this week, illuminating the property's 438-foot tower and six pools with pink light and launching a variety of themed activations, including Barbie-inspired cocktails. ![]() The Dream will also be hosting a Barbie-inspired party on July 29, inviting guests to walk a pink carpet upon arrival, with entertainment that includes a Barbie and Ken burlesque performance and costume contest. The sugar-rimmed concoctions include the Malibu Barbie Pink - made with coconut rum, grenadine and pineapple, cranberry and orange juices - and the Barbielicious, which blends vodka, pink lemonade and lemon-lime soda. Uniworld Boutique River Cruise CollectionĪt the Dream South Beach Miami, guests can enjoy special Barbie-themed cocktails all summer.If you can't stand the heat, go on a river ship One advisor told me that the nice thing about river cruises and the extreme heat waves in Europe is that travelers always have.Travel-related stress, deconstructed A survey explores why couples find their significant others to be so damn annoying when they vacation together.Finding the WOW factor in Portugal A new cultural district in Porto is a must for wine lovers.American enforces its addendum An AA lawsuit against a consolidator gives us important information about the airline's positions. ![]()
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Las vegas weather averages by month12/15/2023 ![]() Special notes about specific holidays, conventions and events have been noted below. Nonetheless, the influx of people during these special events should be accounted for in travel plans. The public is usually not welcome to participate. All conventions listed here draw at least 30,000 people (and sometimes upwards of 120,000 people). People who visit Las Vegas during any holiday or convention should note that hotel rates are likely to increase and lines will be longer at restaurants and nightclubs. Nonetheless, Las Vegas is a thriving city year round. When you travel to Las Vegas, you can count on clear skies and relatively decent weather, though summers can be very hot.
Clarisse or something about us movie review12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() The flight from what is commonly agreed upon as reality is more prominent now than ever after the past two and a half years have shown everybody how fragile the construct of a global normal really is. This is the portrait of a lady with a Leerstelle, an aperture that produces a surplus. There is a trompe l'oeil effect to various encounters and a strong will at work. We all live with ghosts and those who leave may not have left at all. The house was built in 1722 and the car is from 1978, but grief, pain, and invention are not so easy to pin down as they hold us tight. In a marvellous feat of cross-cutting, we see her husband Marc getting rid of her stuff on the bathroom shelves.Ĭlarisse puts her head in the fish ice at the market and collapses while her son screams at home “You threw away mom! You threw her perfume away!” With the woman alone in her new life and the family without her, past and present are not what they seem. She scolds a father (Sylvain Micard) about how he treats his kid (Siméon Micard). She is elsewhere and explains in German in a harbour a boat and a rope to a group of tourists. For a second I did not recognise her as Clarisse. ![]() ![]() Clarisse, found in incessant motion, displays the struggle between what is wanted, what is there, and what is no longer there.Ī woman in a bar has drinks. “We have gained reality and lost a dream” is how Robert Musil put it in The Man Without Qualities and the struggle between science and sorcery remains complicated. The dead are with us like sand carried home from the beach, not like ice melted off distant glaciers. Mostly we are alone in this endeavour and sometimes love breaks through. Even the present is always filtered through a dotted veil of mourning, a grid or sieve of experience. There is no immunity to anticipating the future with the help of the past and the dreams at night with their fresh openings into what is possible. How much in our life really happens in our heads? We shape the past and order it in neatly stacked drawers or folders of narrative, speckled with colourful meaning. Mathieu Amalric’s momentous direction and the phenomenal performance by Vicky Krieps bestow upon Hold Me Tight the sensorial acuteness to abduct us straight to the place where, providentially or not, poignant life decisions are being forged and the creations of new realities begin when the world around seems to collapse. On the fridge is the shopping list: bread, wine, cheese, eggs, artichokes. At home, her family does family things and Lucie wears her mother’s dressing gown. It was cold and early in the morning when she drove off. Clarisse talks to a girlfriend (Aurélia Petit) at a gas station. ![]() You could also call it the colours of blood, depending on how much water has been mixed in. Shot by ( César Award winner for Xavier Giannoli’s Lost Illusions) Christophe Beaucarne ( Amalric’s The Blue Room and Lumière winner for Barbara) the film is tinged in shades of coral - from the tablecloth to Clarisse’s fluffy sweater, to the rust and the car. What could her husband Marc (Arieh Worthalter) want? Daughter Lucie (Juliette Benveniste) wants a piano, son Paul (Aurèle Grzesik) wants a treehouse. “I’m sick of being little,” says one of her two children. Mathieu Amalric’s penetrating Hold Me Tight (Serre Moi Fort), based on the play Je Reviens De Loin by Claudine Galéa, begins cryptically with a woman, Clarisse ( Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Best Performance winner Vicky Krieps for Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, screening in this year’s New York Film Festival), turning over polaroids of her family life displayed on a table in a kind of makeshift memory game. ![]() Chomsky universal grammar theory12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() However, there are two publications in particular that are seen as instrumental to the development of the modern study of SLA: (1) Corder's 1967 essay The Significance of Learners' Errors, and (2) Selinker's 1972 article Interlanguage. ![]() Acknowledging the contributions of each perspective and the interdisciplinarity between each field, more and more second language researchers are now trying to have a bigger lens on examining the complexities of second language acquisition.Īs second-language acquisition began as an interdisciplinary field, it is hard to pin down a precise starting date. While the orientation of each research strand is distinct, they are in common in that they can guide us to find helpful condition to facilitate successful language learning. These multiple fields in second-language acquisition can be grouped as four major research strands: (a) linguistic dimensions of SLA, (b) cognitive (but not linguistic) dimensions of SLA, (c) socio-cultural dimensions of SLA, and (d) instructional dimensions of SLA. The field of second-language acquisition involves various contributions, such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and education. The main purpose of theories of second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. ![]() Microsoft remote desktop mac no sound12/15/2023 ![]() Laptop (Win 10 1903) remoting into a Desktop (Win 10 1809) I have had the same issue with 2 other laptops/desktops (I not tried remoting into a VM to test that aspect) The local (laptop) speakers and mic work fine on the remote machine as desired. With the same laptop and same settings as above I can remote into a VM (Win 10 1909) and I see remote audio is selected as output and remote audio is selected as input. On the remote desktop, in Windows 10 settings, I see the remote audio is selected as output, but it has no input devices found. Remote Desktop connection settings: Play on this computer, record from this computer are both checked. The microphone is an integrated mic in my laptop. To start the session with the Terminal Server or Remote PC double click on the Microsoft Remote Desktop icon.I am trying to pull in the microphone from a local machine (Win 10 1909) to a remote machine (a physical desktop-Win 10 1903).When you are finished configuring your remote desktop, click the red close button at the top left of the dialog box and your new remote desktop will be added.Click the “+” button, choose a name for the folder, and input the folder’s path to have it available. You can choose a local folder here to be available on your remote session. ![]() “ Swap mouse buttons” will allow you to use left click commands with a right-click Mac mouse. Clicking the box next to “ Connect to admin session” will allow you to connect to an administrator session on a Windows server, and “ Forward printing devices” will make your local printers available during your remote desktop session. With the “ Sound” drop-down, for example, you can choose where you want any sound to play. Click on Session tab to configure peripheral devices for your remote desktop.You can leave it default or change it as you like. Resolution, color and full screen mode are all personal preference on how you launch the Remote Desktop in you machine. Enter the Gateway information if necessary provided by your Network Admin. This is your domain login to the terminal server or remote computer. Enter the Credentials (User name and Password). Next field is the PC name or the IP Address, enter the correct information provided by your network admin. This has no bearing on the connection itself. ![]()
Tot cat12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() CLARE FOGES: I was so thrilled to get an OBE for advising David Cameron… but I didn't deserve it.Police hunt for 'slim man with yellow teeth' who approached people with babies and removed their dummies. ![]() The Chase's Paul Sinha, 53, reveals he fears 'time is running out' as a stand-up comic amid his battle with Parkinson's disease.Tinder for the NHS! Health chiefs will match patients with hospitals with shorter waits further from home in bid to clear record Covid backlogs.it's not healthy, it won't save the planet, and it tastes like burnt dog food, says food industry expert JOANNA BLYTHMAN, as sales of plant-based burgers collapse No wonder people are turning their noses up at fake meat.My social drinking has cost me £57,000 over 15 years and you’re probably spending a small fortune too.The 30-something women who have NEVER had a boyfriend - and they all blame modern dating culture.Saudi Arabia have raided Europe’s elite, tempting Cristiano Ronaldo and England's captain with mindblowing offers… but it is not just football in their sights as they target Olympics and boxing in a bid to keep a young population entertained.BBC is accused of bias after Nick Robinson wrongly claims Lee Anderson suggested asylum seekers should 'F-off home' when he actually said 'they should f*** off back to France'. ![]()
Delaney nootka meaning12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Zilpha and Delaney finally show concrete evidence of their romantic, incestuous relationship. The doctor that stitched up Delaney seems merciless, willing to unstitch Delaney for answers. He was thwarted, to the East India Company’s disbelief, and Delaney was supposed to be kept alive, putting the Company into a greater dilemma. The question of the identity of the hired killer was revealed, as well as the motive: he was hired by the East India Company. He is concluded to be a cannibal, another allusion to the title, Taboo, and a possible connection to his time in Africa. In the third episode of Taboo, James Delaney is revealed to have bitten the Malay’s heart and killed him. Delaney realizes that the government will come for Lorna because of her crime, as part of a plot to control Delaney. She attacks the Duke, and is later saved by Delaney. However, at the destination she is forced to the home of a government official. Lorna goes off to the theater to act, and after she is swept up by a carriage, apparently by a fan. At her home, Zilpha is subject to a violent episode by Thorne, enraged that Zilpha is unable to produce a child. ![]() Zilpha kisses Delaney as an ultimatum to make him stop seeing her, but he still refuses. Later, Delaney and Zilpha meet in an empty church for a romantic reunion. In his office, Delaney gets a visit from Thorne Geary, claiming that he wants to sell ship insurance. Back at his house, Lorna Bow demands possession of half of Delaney’s home, as the legal widow of Horace Delaney, and Delaney agrees to let her live with him and Brace. Delaney pays him to give him information. Delaney visits a brothel of men dressed as women, and identifies one man who works for the East India Company. However, the Company refuses, not willing to risk its important business dealings. The king’s officer, after receiving a letter asking for the monopoly on sea otter pelts from Delaney, visits the king’s enemy, the East India Company, in order to give the monopoly to Delaney from the Company. Delaney visits his mother’s grave, once again begging the question of the meaning of the enigmatic symbol. He questions Brace, knowing that he has all the answers about his mother. He sees a strange symbol on the wall, which matches the tattoo on the back of his neck. After meeting her, Delaney hallucinates about a strange, filthy woman, and peels off the boards covering the fireplace. Winter takes note of the tattoo on the back of Delaney’s neck. She offers his rightfully-earned silver tooth, but he lets her keep it. Still, Delaney boards up his house, and meets Winter again in the basement. The East India Company, thus, realizes that it is in their best interest to keep Delaney alive rather, Delaney’s biggest threat is the U.S. Delaney draws up a will with Thoyt, as a clever way to avoid death Delaney’s will leaves Nootka Sound and all of his belonging to the United States government. At the docks, Delaney and Brace meet Atticus, who provides Delaney with weapons and takes him to Thoyt. Delaney admitted that he didn’t want money for Nootka Sound, but he wanted a monopoly on the tea trade with China, and would trade Nootka with any country that would give him the monopoly. Delaney, shaking from pain, is interrogated by Dumbarton, who threatens to hurt Delaney if he didn’t give him answers. James Delaney is alive, and is stitched up by Dr. Winter orders the other children to saw off the man’s silver-tooth, as they wonder if the scavengers had taken the man’s heart from his body. The episode begins with a close-up on a dead body. ![]() Day r survival specialist12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() However on Rottnest Island, with a shorter breeding season,Quokkas usually only give birth to one offspring per year. On the mainland, female Quokkas are able to produce about seventeen offspring over a lifetime, with two joeys being born each year. They are able to breed from about eighteen months of age. Quokkas,on average, can live for about ten years. Joeys are usually weaned by eight months of age. After the joey leaves the pouch it will continue to feed at its mother's teets for an extra two months or so. The young will remain in the pouch for about six months. Female Quokkas give birth to a single young about a month after mating. On the mainland, the Quokka appears to be able to breed all year round but the breeding season on Rottnest Island is shorter (from January to August). Quokkas are known to suffer from muscular dystrophy and have been employed in medical research in that area. They are able to climb trees to reach a food source. Their movements resemble a bounding gait interspersed with hopping. However, they can survive for long periods without food or water.During the day they will shelter in areas of dense vegetation.Among the dense vegetation, Quokkas will create paths and trails for use as runways for feeding or escaping predators. Quokkas are most active at night feeding alone or in small bands. On Rottnest Island their diet is primarily succulents and to a lesser extent the leaves of wattles. Quokkas show a distinct preference for new young growth. The seasonal variation on the availability of food sources is linked to the fresh growth associated with fires. ![]() Quokkas are plant eaters or herbivores.In fact they can be described as browsing herbivores who favour various grasses and leaves, the most popular being plants from the Thomasia species. Their presence on the mainland has declined severely in the twentieth century to the extent that they are only found in small groups in bushland surrounding Perth including Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Torndirrup National Park, Mt Manypeaks National Park and the Stirling Range National Park. Restricted to the south west region of Western Australia, Quokkas are found on the mainland as well as on Rottnest Island (near Perth) and Bald Island (near Albany). Their success on Bald Island is probably due to their finding suitable food sources and the lack of predators. This tendency points to the Quokka being a habitat specialist with a preference for areas that have been burned in the last ten years.They are however, present on Bald Island even though there has been a low frequency of fires there. Here Quokkas occupy a wide range of semi-arid areas. Quokkas prefer a warm climate but are adapted to the seasonal variations on Rottnest Island. Mainland populations tend to be clustered around dense streamside vegetation but can also be found in shrubland and heath areas, particularly around swamps. In contrast, the hair on the feet extends to cover its claws. Its facial features consist of a naked nose on a short, broad face with rounded furry ears.The tail is relatively short and mostly devoid of hair. The island is now known as Rottnest Island.Įssentially the Quokka looks very much like other wallabies.It has short, very coarse and thick grey-brown fur over most of the body with lighter parts underneath. He named the island Rottenest ('rat nest') in honour of this sighting. His first sighting of the Quokka was on an island off the mouth of the Swan River. The Quokka, Setonix brachyurus, was described by early Dutch explorer, Willem de Vlamingh, 'as a kind of rat as big as a common cat'. This marsupial has the ability to climb trees. The Quokka is one of the smallest wallabies. ![]() Thunderbird car 1970 for sale12/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Phone: com Terms & Conditions Terms Of Sale: By placing a bid on this vehicle you are entering into a legal and binding contract to purchase the above-described vehicle. during and after the sale! Give us a chance with your next classic purchase and you'll know why there's Mershon's. so if there is anything that we could be doing better. In addition we are very proud to have earned the right to say that we have one of the best names in the business. collectible and most rapidly appreciating classics in existence. 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Original C Code Dark Ivy Green Metallic paint with an Ivy Green Vinyl Roof over an all original 1GA Code Dark Ivy Green Cloth/Vinyl Bucket Seats. 10 Engine: 429 Fuel: Gasoline Transmission: Automatic Title: Clear VIN: 0Y84N122410 Vehicle Description 1970 Ford Thunderbird - Only 57k Original Miles! its original 429 V8 with Matching Numbers paired to the C-6 Select Shift Cruise-O-Matic Automatic Transmission. ![]() Exterior Color: Green Interior Color: Green Stock Number: 8515 Mileage: Exempt - 57. ![]() Galatic science polytool12/14/2023 ![]() The spiral arms are regions of high density of interstellar gas and dust where giant stars continue to form and live very brief lives before recycling their metal-enriched gas back into the “empty space” of the interstellar medium. Much smaller black holes are scattered throughout the galaxy. The galactic center is a supermassive black hole. Population I stars are concentrated in the younger thin disk, but are also found in the bulge. ![]() Population II stars are found in a nearly spherical stellar halo, a central bulge and a thin disk. The galaxy includes a distribution of stars and intragalactic medium. The diagram identifies the primary features of the Milky Way galaxy not counting the massive nearly spherical dark matter halo that has three times the diameter and nearly 30 times the volume of the stellar halo shown in the diagram. All images of the disk and spiral arms are diagrams or drawings by artists based on detailed observations within the galaxy from our location.ĮdgeonphotographofMilkyWayseenfromNevadashowinglocalterrainatbottomofimage NASA image published by TBD The Milky Way Galaxy that we see in the sky at night is a view from our location within the thin disk inside the galaxy. A linear timeline best depicts this domain. Heat transport may involve thermal conduction, convection, and radiation. Transformations of energy and matter in the interior of stars involve gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear forces. The 12 billion year history of the Milky Way Galaxy involves the formation and evolution of dark matter halos, a stellar halo, a stellar bulge, a thick disk, a thin disk with spiral arms, a supermassive black hole, and interstellar medium. This webpage is still under construction. You cannot see disks of the galaxy from inside the disk. Taboch, C., Genaim, S., Codish, M.Artist's conception of the Milky Way Galaxy and our location within it. Technical Report SR-93-18 (SFB), SEKI University of Kaiserslautern (1993) Steinbach, J.: On the complexity of simplification orderings. (ed.) Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Steinbach, J.: Proving polynomials positive. (eds.) 6th International Workshop on Termination (WLPE’03), pp. Serebrenik, A., De Schreye, D.: Hasta-La-Vista: Termination analyser for logic programs. 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Workshop on Logic Programming, pp. Journal of Automated Reasoning (2005)ĭe Koninck, L., Schrijvers, T., Demoen, B.: INCLP(R) - Interval-based nonlinear constraint logic programming over the reals. ![]() Springer, Heidelberg (1991)Ĭontejean, E., Marché, C., Tomás, A.P., Urbain, X.: Mechanically proving termination using polynomial interpretations. Springer, Heidelberg (1990)īossi, A., Cocco, N., Fabris, M.: Proving termination of logic programs by exploiting term properties. (ed.) Proceedings Symposium in Computational Logic, pp. The termination problems database (2006), viewed march 2006Īpt, K.R., Pedreschi, D.: Studies in pure prolog: Termination. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |