![]() ![]() If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, May 28. Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is: If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. Love those PetMorons! Thank you for sharing your pets with us. Mitten's sister, Marble, was even prettier, but sadly passed away at age 3 from heart failure.īless the animals and all the people who love them! Here's Mitten, deciding what she wants to eat next. The house has been oddly lacking since our last cat died in December of last year (RIP, Sparks Dawntreader!) I probably won't have the doggeh of my dreams but cats are fantastically great also. Rae is playful, a joy for our family of 5. She's slimmed down now that she's out of caged 'foster cat' life. She's living up to her name, which means queen in Spanish. She turned 1 on May 19th she's been with us since mid-March when she was 10 months old. (Competition dogs are seldom house dogs, took a while to house break him 'old dog/new trick', he still won't eat people food unless I hold the plate, not even steak or gravy)Ī frustrated dog lover married to the ultimate CatMan, I've not sent pet pics before. I made a house dog that hunts out of him, spoiled him rotten. He had been retired and put up for sale when the guy heard that Dixiee had died(at 18yo).he offered to give Blue back to me, gratis, rather than sell him to someone else. Dixiee had it and threw pups that carried it). Champion to Dixxee, wanted all of the females and 2nd pick of the males, he was trying to get that "Straight Tail", breeders have been trying to get it genetically consistent in these dogs for nearly 80 years. He is a gooood dog, had been one of my Dixiee's pups, sold to a major breeder/field trial competitor/Assoc President(He had asked to breed his Nat. So great to have people help get him back to you. Won't climb the stairs to the bed he used to sleep on, won't even go into the TV room to sit with the old man on the couch. He is fattening back up some, but won't go up and down the stairs anymore.he'll go out cruise around the 1/2acre fenced yard, sleep under a bush, but when he comes back in won't go any further than the carpet mat in the mud room. Several people volunteered to run legs of the trip to bring him home.Neighbor across the road, from Africa, drove me to the state line to meet them Hiked between 12-20 miles a day through the boonies, and under the full moon with coyotes howling/yipping, following me through the dark being "Illinois" couldn't even carry a gun.after a week finally gave up.got a uhaul and a car trailer, gathered up my 92yo Dad, the other dog, and drove the 449 miles home.ġ0 days Later though, FOUND! Near skeletal, scared, burr encrusted, footsore, no collar.NRSFTA wrote the tale up in our monthly Magazine. Old, nearly blind, nearly deaf, 15yo Blue disappeared, into an area too rough, steep, broken up to even get a horse into. 19 miles from the nearest gas station, 30 from the nearest tow truck. In the middle of a 13,000acre wildlife/wilderness area. ![]() ![]() THEN.timing belt broke on the 4runner, 4 cam impingement motor, sooo.toast. Weather turned to total crap, horses slipping falling on the ice and snow when they weren't stuck up to their bellies in mud(like Literally having to stand up on the ground to get UP out of the saddle) 6 degrees at night, low teens with strong winds in the day. Went to western Illinois beginning of last month for the Red Setter National Championship, worst week ever. Reminder: For current events and politics, the Thread before the Gardening Thread (a couple of threads below) is almost always an Open Thread.Ĭourtesy of PMRich (mostly a lurker now, but I at least lurk every day) Ask someone for a treat, kick back and enjoy the world of animals. ![]() Good afternoon and welcome to this weekly respite from most of the outside "civilized" world - the Ace of Spades Pet Thread. ![]()
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![]() This marks the 67th year for the beloved and historic celebration of Scottish ancestry and heritage, with the popular festival once again bringing a wee bit o. And the weekend’s biggest shindig? That would be the Saturday evening Ceilidh, a music- and dance-filled party that’ll make you want to kick up your kilts. The long and storied tradition that is the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games returns to MacRae Meadows on Thursday, July 6, continuing through Sunday, July 9, 2023. If your idea of a fair is more based around food, drink, and revelry, there will be vendors aplenty selling imported goods and cooking up a storm of traditional Scottish food, plus two separate pubs, a Celtic arts showcase, an ancestry-based Avenue of the Clans, and even a stage combat troupe that uses real steel weapons. ![]() The grounds will also host the likes of other judged competitions, including the Drum Corps Championship, pipe bands, as well as individual competitors. If you’re all about sports and feats of strength, the Enumclaw Expo Center has you covered with the North American Scottish Athletics Championship, which includes both amateur and elite athletes chucking very heavy items (open stone, sheaf toss, hammers, and cabers) as far or as high as they can, with winners becoming North American champions in their respective class. The sixth oldest Scottish festival in the United States, the Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association (SSHGA) has been “bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 75 years,” and they have plenty in store for those who want to be whisked away to the Highlands. That army of bagpipes you’re hearing in the distance? No, it’s not a beautiful dream it’s the annual Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games & Clan Gathering! So put on your tartan, ready your stomach for some fine Scottish ale and meat pies, and head down to Enumclaw. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: this post was written by a human, not an AI. I wrote this post to have a place to send our new ChatGPT users when they ask why it isn’t work, but hopefully also it serves as a warning to others - you absolutely can not trust the output of ChatGPT to be truthful, Whether that answer is truthful does not seem to matter in the slightest. All suggestions are welcome.ĬhatGPT is doing exactly what its makers intended - producing a coherent, believable answer. Unfortunately it’s not really clear how to solve this. With ChatGPT the problem is several orders of magnitude bigger. ![]() Bad tutorial videos got us a handful of frustrated sign-ups. The other key difference is the sheer scale of the problem. 3 Steps to Do a Free Reverse Phone Lookup with USPhoneSearch With USPhoneSearch, performing a comprehensive reverse number lookup is totally free Simply follow the three easy steps. It seems though that we haven’t yet fully internalized this when it comes to AI in general or ChatGPT specifically. The key difference is that humans have learned to be sceptical when getting advice from other humans, for example via a video coding tutorial. You may be wondering “Why would ChatGPT ‘think’ they offer this service?” No doubt it’s due to the faulty YouTube tutorials people have made where they seem to claim we can do this, as we covered previously. We’re now getting support requests every single day asking us “Why is it not working?”. For us, and for the users who sign up believing we can offer this service. The situation is hugely frustrating for everyone. Looking at ChatGPT’s well formulated answer, it’s understandable people believe (complete with python code you can cut and paste) as you can see in this screenshot. Indeed, it is a not a service we are technically capable of providing.Īnd yet ChatGPT has absolutely no problem recommending us for this service It is not a service we have ever provided, nor a service we have any plans to provide. It seems ChatGPT is wrongly recommending us for “reverse phone number lookup” - ie the ability to determine the location of a mobile phone solely based on the number. “Not cool at all”Īs we dug into this it became clear most of of these new ChatGPT users were tying to use our geocoding API for an entirely different purpose. A few answered with some varient of “it didn’t work”, which of course alarmed us. We reached out to some of these users and asked why they had stopped. Very different from the behaviour of other free trial signups. Many of these new users seemed to use the free trial of our geocoding API for just a handful of API requests and then stopped completely. Over the last eight weeks this initial trickle of new sign-ups has become a steady flow.īut then something weird happened. Some new OpenCage users were starting to answer “ChatGPT” when we asked them how they had heard of us during the sign-up flow for our geocoding API. In January, as the new AI queston and answer service became more and more popular, we noticed something interesting. Like everyone else when ChatGPT launched a few months ago we dove in and ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also recommend using a tone Enhancing product with this like our Tone Enhancer, Ĭomplete the look with any of our other hair styling products. To avoid breakage and over-drying, limit use to no more than once between hair washes and use a leave in conditioner. 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Leah sends Carver upstairs to sweep the rooms one more time and warns Daryl not to anger Carver. Carver suspects that Daryl is up to something and confronts him. He offers to track Maggie's group outside. Daryl notices a trap door under a rug and quietly slides the rug over the door. Leah finds some wet, bloody bandages, indicating someone was recently there. Connie flees into the basement stairway and slams the door behind her. A feral human scrambles toward her on all fours. Someone slams a door behind her, cutting her off from Virgil. Connie refuses to stay in the house and leaves the room. He wonders if Connie was hallucinating due to her lack of sleep. Virgil checks the medicine cabinet and doesn't see anything. Kelly finds Connie's abandoned camp in the woods. Leah orders them to search the entire town. ![]() The Reapers burst into the supply depot and search the house. Maggie, looking through a gap in the window boards, sees the wire swaying. When they go towards the house, Daryl quietly shakes a drooping power cable to warn Maggie of their arrival. She races back to Virgil and tells him they're not alone.ĭaryl, Leah, Carver, and a crew of Reapers approach the supply depot. She opens a medicine cabinet and sees a wild eye staring back at her through a slot in the wall. Pope dispatches Leah to scout the location with a crew of Reapers.Ĭonnie searches the house. Frost finally reveals the location of the supply depot. Daryl chops off one of Frost's fingers and again demands to know the location of his friends. Daryl puts Frost in a chokehold and orders him to give up his friends' location, but he refuses. Carver secretly draws and conceals his pistol. With Carver getting no results, Pope orders Daryl to take a turn interrogating Frost. When Pope asks whether the torture bothers Daryl, he replies that he's done worse. Pope and Daryl watch from outside the room. In Meridian, Carver tortures Frost and demands to know where his people are. Virgil reminds Connie that she hasn't slept in days and urges her to sleep, but Connie worries that the house is unsafe. Virgil tells Connie that the house is empty, but Connie shakes her head. Virgil searches the house while Connie waits in the den. Kelly gallops down a road on horseback to find Connie on her own. Magna notices that Kelly has gone missing. Walkers swarm the front door.īack at Alexandria, Carol and Aaron argue about a strategy for finding Connie. Connie forces the front door open, and they hide inside. They race up to a large house, but the door is secure. They sense something approaching and run. Virgil suggests they seek refuge in a nearby house, but Connie insists they keep running. Kelly leaves Alexandria in search of Connie.Ĭonnie and Virgil flee from something in the woods. Pope tests Daryl's loyalty to the Reapers with a conflicting mission. Escaping from walkers, Connie and Virgil hide in a house occupied by mysterious creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weapons and tools which are consistently held in the correct hands regardless of which side you face. Ambidextrous Sprite: Asymmetrical clothing is mirrored, depending on which direction the player is facing.All-Natural Gem Polish: The diamonds you can find at great depths in each planet are even described as "beautifully cut".Alien Sky: Particularly during night on a planet, the player can usually see the other planets in the subsystem.Most of them will attempt to shoot at the player. On lower-risk planets (i.e., peaceful ones like Garden or Forest biomes) these are generally limited to the odd ruins of a stone or wooden house, but on more dangerous planets such as those with a Toxic or Scorched biome the background picture makes it pretty clear this planet used to have a pretty advanced civilization until the climate went to hell. Many planets bear the ruins of previous inhabitants.The game begins with you barely escaping the destruction of Earth by a giant tentacle monster from space.And as if that wasn't enough, it also increases its speed relative to how much fuel you're carrying! In fact, the only way to remove the Erichus Ghost from a moon is to terraform the entire moon, but that is no easy task. ![]() There's also the tiny matter of the fact that it is completely invincible. It will constantly advance on you, and has a corrosive aura that kills you in seconds if you get too close. The Erichus Ghost begins to hound you the second you mine a single bit of fuel from a moon. There's even a gun that shoots tentacles! Meanwhile, grenade launchers can shoot rounds that resemble Mario's fireball, cluster bouncing grenades, and even mice and pigs. Abnormal Ammo: Uncommon and rarer guns can shoot bullets with special effects, such as ricocheting shots, piercing shots, bullets that split into two shortly after leaving the barrel, and (for legendary guns only) Sticky Bomb bullets that attach to solid blocks and explode when an enemy touches them.There's one guaranteed on every starting planet. They're filled with aliens not native to the planet's surface and often filled with plenty of useful items stored away. Abandoned Mine: A possible randomly generated area on planets.It seems sometimes the Apex Miniknog take their experiments too far. Abandoned Laboratory: A possible randomly generated area on planets.The game receives semi-regular content updates and bugfixes, with the 1.4 Bounty Hunter update as the final update as of June 2019. Additional features may be added via the communities suggestion system as free post release content.īeta was released on December 4th, 2013 for all who preordered the game, and the final game was released on July 22nd, 2016. Each race has a bit of lore attached to it and will tie in to the primary storyline.The game is singleplayer or multi-player capable and will have the possibility of other modes of play added in at a later date. Players may choose one of the playable races for their characters: the Apex, the Avians, the Humans, the Hylotl, the Floran, the Glitch, or the Novakid. Or as some like to say Terraria IN SPACE! It is developed by Chucklefish, an indie game company started by Finn "Tiy" Brice of Terraria fame along with several new faces. Take Terraria and give it a more Science Fiction based focus with space travel and you have Starbound. invoked Not to be confused with a Classic Mac game that lets you conquer planets to get more ships and destroy opposing races, nor with a Lucky Star fic aiming to parody EarthBound. Starbound is a Wide-Open Sandbox Scifi Adventure game. From there, you must visit procedurally generated planets to research technology, meet new people, explore, and save the universe. As you jump into a barely functioning space ship to escape, you find yourself hopelessly lost in a sea of stars. The universe is waiting.After waking up late and nearly missing your own graduation to officially become a member of the Terrene Protectorate, disaster strikes when a mysterious entity simply known as The Ruin begins destroying Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() This origin, whether in Ancient China or Babylon, has been used throughout history and is continued to be used as a convenient calculator for commercial transactions. Abacus: Historical SignificanceĪs commercial transactions became more complicated, a calculating tool was essential to make quick calculations and avoid errors. It helps ensure quick calculations when working with large numbers and makes the calculation process visible to both buyer and seller or teacher and student. This counting frame allows individuals to track, add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers easily. You can then push additional beads from the bottom or, if available, from the top to count up to nine in that place value. Pushing one bead from the top row to the center counts as five. Many designs have four or five beads on a bottom row, with one to five beads on the top row. ![]() Starting either with the tens place or a decimal place, increasing from right to left. The idea of this counting frame is that each rod represents a sequential place value. Ancient devices used marble or stone parts. Most abacuses are made of a frame with wood rods and beads. It’s a fairly straightforward calculator that is still used in many countries in schools or markets for counting. The woman in this illustration is Typus Arithmeticae, considered the “muse of arithmeti.” Abacus: How It Workedĭespite its long history and unknown inventor, the abacus has worked basically the same way throughout the centuries. ![]() ![]() IEDs may use artillery shells or conventional high-explosive charges as their explosive load as well as homemade explosives. The sophistication of an IED depends on the training of the designer and the tools and materials available. Some groups, however, have been known to produce sophisticated devices constructed with components scavenged from conventional munitions and standard consumer electronics components, such as mobile phones, consumer-grade two-way radios, washing machine timers, pagers, or garage door openers. ![]() IEDs made by inexperienced designers or with substandard materials may fail to detonate, and in some cases, they detonate on either the maker or the placer of the device. In some cases, multiple IEDs are wired together in a daisy chain to attack a convoy of vehicles spread out along a roadway. ![]() IEDs are triggered by various methods, including remote control, infrared or magnetic triggers, pressure-sensitive bars or trip wires (victim-operated). This combination of injuries has been given the name "Dismounted Complex Blast Injury" and is thought to be the worst survivable injury ever seen in war. These injuries were reported in BMJ Open to be far worse with IEDs than with landmines resulting in multiple limb amputations and lower body mutilation. In the conflicts of the 21st century, anti-personnel improvised explosive devices (IED) have partially replaced conventional or military landmines as the source of injury to dismounted (pedestrian) soldiers and civilians. Īntipersonnel IEDs typically also contain fragmentation-generating objects such as nails, ball bearings or even small rocks to cause wounds at greater distances than blast pressure alone could. IEDs are extremely diverse in design and may contain many types of initiators, detonators, penetrators, and explosive loads. An IED designed for use against armoured targets such as personnel carriers or tanks will be designed for armour penetration, by using a shaped charge that creates an explosively formed penetrator. Īn IED has five components: a switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery). An HME lab refers to a Homemade Explosive Lab, or the physical location where the devices are crafted. IEDs may incorporate military or commercially sourced explosives, and often combine both types, or they may otherwise be made with homemade explosives (HME). In some cases, IEDs are used to distract, disrupt, or delay an opposing force, facilitating another type of attack. X-ray of a suitcase showing a pipe bomb and a laptopĪn IED is a bomb fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy or incapacitate personnel or vehicles. ![]() IEDs were also used frequently by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War, and by Ambazonian separatists in the ongoing Anglophone Crisis. They were also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and caused over 66% of coalition casualties in the 2001–2021 Afghanistan War. In the Iraq War (2003–2011), insurgents used IEDs extensively against U.S.-led forces and, by the end of 2007, IEDs were responsible for approximately 63% of coalition deaths in Iraq. IEDs are generally utilized in terrorist operations or in asymmetric unconventional warfare by insurgent guerrillas or commando forces in a theatre of operations. The term "IED" was coined by the British Army during the Northern Ireland conflict to refer to booby traps made by the IRA, and entered common use in the U.S. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade bombs. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. An improvised explosive device ( IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. ![]() ![]() ![]() These records may be used by the department to verify eligibility for UI benefits or for potential future audits of your business. Date hired, rehired, or returned to work after temporary layoff and the date and reasons job was lost.Reasonable cash value paid in any medium other than cash.Total hours worked each week, if less than full time.Largest number of workers employed each calendar week of the periodįor each individual employed during the period:.Department of Employment and WorkforceĮach employer must preserve the following records for five years. Please mail paper quarterly reports and payments to the below address. Due dates for each quarter are listed below. Plant a tree Give to a forest in need in their memory Debra Dew Tallulah 65, 05-Nov, Beckwith Golden Gate Funeral Home. If you choose to file by paper, it is important to leave sufficient time at the end of the quarter for timely processing. If theres a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops cant protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to. If you need to correct information on a submitted report, using the SUITS online portal is the most convenient and fastest way to make adjustments. Adjustments can only be made for the most recent 16 quarters. Instructions for completing your Wage Report. If you have less than 100 employees, and are unable to file and pay online, you may submit paper forms and payments to DEW. We realize that online filing is not a realistic expectation for every employer. All monies paid before any deductions for such items as lodging, union dues, employee payments to pension or benefit funds, Social Security tax and approved IRS premiums on group insurance.įor questions about whether specific types of payments are considered wages, you can log into your SUITS portal to communicate with a DEW representative. ![]() Dismissal wages, which do not represent the worker’s interest in a pension fund.Expense allowances, which are not regularly and reasonably segregated.Monies paid for time lost due to sickness or accident, unless paid out of benefit funds or other special accounts.Reasonable compensation for services provided, including K-1 distributions.The cash value of all payments in any medium other than cash.All payments made for personal service, including bonuses and commissions paid to all workers of all ranks, including corporate officers.The following are examples of wages that should be included in your report: If you do not have an account number and need to register for an account with DEW, please create an account here. 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