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Devour tours1/16/2024 It is actually referred to as the “Sistine Chapel of the Early Renaissance.” While not a Florence museum, it is influential, important, and among the top of our list of recommendations. If the chapel was located inside the Vatican Museums, it would likely see millions of visitors per year as the Sistine Chapel does. The chapel is named for the silk merchant financially responsible for its creation, Felice Brancacci. While it is definitely not a museum, the Brancacci Chapel is the kind of place you walk into and immediately understand you are somewhere important. The stop includes admission to the Da Vinci Museums and, finally, a stop in Piazzale Michelangelo for the best view of Florence. Da means “from”, so you could call him Leonardo from Vinci if you want. Pisa is only a 4-hour stop so our trip includes a visit to Vinci. If you want to streamline the day, we have a great day trip from Florence to Pisa that includes transportation and tickets. You’ll have to reserve tickets a few weeks in advance if you want to climb the tower, which is something I recommend doing. If you’re just going to the tower, the train is the best option, and you can take a taxi from the train station to the tower. The tower takes its name after its hometown, Pisa, which is just over an hour from Florence by train and car. The tower leans 5.5 degrees or about 15 feet, according to Britannica, and thanks to some restoration projects in 1999, it will hopefully never fall. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a beautiful structure that would likely be famous even if the foundation had been poured correctly, but the fact that it was built incorrectly makes it a must-see. There is a very fine grate over the water system, and if the coin falls through, it brings good fortune. You should put a coin in the boar’s mouth and let it roll off its tongue into the water below. Rubbing the boar’s nose has very little to do with the tradition but is now almost obligatory to get the boar ready for what is next. Luckily, I am Italian and know the story well. I’ve read extensively online, and many writers cover the superstition incorrectly. For such a small monument, it is hard to believe, but amongst locals, this is a top Florence attraction. The fountain was very popular and, like many fountains, it has been surrounded by superstition. The Medici Family procured the Roman marble copy in the 17th century, and they, or another family, commissioned Pietro Tacca to create a bronze copy of the statue and turn it into a fountain. They would make marble statue copies of the Greek bronze statues, often melting the bronze to make weapons. The Romans were superior warriors, and when they conquered Greece, they underwent Hellenization, which basically means they started to act more like the sophisticated and artistic Greeks. The Greeks liked creating statues out of bronze and were undoubtedly superior to the Romans when it came to creating art. Il Porcellino in Mercato Nuovo is a bronze copy of a bronze copy of a Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze statue of a wild boar. Florence Walking Tour with Statue of David.Tuscany Wine Tour from Florence To Siena and Chianti.Florence in a Day Combo Tour with David and Uffizi.Florence Local Food Tour in Santo Spirito.Complete Florence Duomo Tour with Dome Climb.Tuscany Wine Tour by Vespa from Florence.In this guide, discover the top things to do in Florence with links to other useful content that will not only further inspire you but help you plan and reserve tickets for your visit. Taking a guided tour is often the easiest way to experience a bit of everything in a city like Florence.Ī good mix of fun activities will make your trip that much better. The birthplace of the Renaissance has a lot to offer visitors, from magnificent artworks to impressive architecture, rich history, beautiful countryside, and delicious food and wine.
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Calories in tangerine1/16/2024 Much of it is lost in the juicing process, so unless you've got one of the best blenders on hand, you're better off sticking to a whole fruit. 100g of Tangerine (Mandarin) has total calories 42 kilocalories, protein 0.6 g., carbohydrate 9 g. Orange juice without pulp contains much less fibre than juice without pulp, which in turn contains less fibre than an actual orange. Tangerines are a richer source of vitamin A, while oranges offer more vitamin C and fiber per serving. 2 medium mandarins (176g) Calories per serving. Bottom Line Tangerines and oranges are both members of the citrus family. Then there's the matter of fibre content, as a report from Harvard University found, an increased intake in fibre helps with weight loss. Nutritional Info from the WebMD Ingredients Guide Serving Size 1 Each (88 g) Calories 47 Daily Value Total Fat 0 g 0 Saturated Fat 0 g 0 Trans Fat 0 g Cholesterol 0 mg 0 Sodium 2 mg 0. Try Halos for a replenishing snack that puts some pep in your step. Personalized health review for Tangerine / Mandarin: 47 calories, nutrition grade (A), problematic ingredients, and more. With a 250ml glass containing over twice the calories of a single orange, pasteurised orange juice is condensed, containing much more sugar than the fruit in which it comes from. However, don't start guzzling cartons of orange juice just yet: one big problem with orange juice's weight loss credentials is in its sugar content. It found pasteurised orange juice actually contained more of some beneficial chemicals, while also packing the same amount of vitamin C as whole oranges. To find out, research published in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry studied differently processed oranges and orange juices. (Image credit: Getty) Whole oranges vs orange juice: The facts
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Cabin fever whiskey sour1/16/2024 If you wish to sell or purchase products, please refer to the Whiskybase Market. We do not allow the sale and/or purchase of products between members through the Service, e.g. You shall be notified of the deactivation, suspension, or termination via the email address linked to your account. We reserve the right to immediately and without prior notice deactivate, suspend and/or terminate your account if you do not abide by the Terms, if you act unlawful, if you do not act or use the Service in good faith, or if you cause any harm whatsoever to the Service, to other Members, to other persons or to us. If you cancel your subscription, your account will be automatically closed. To terminate your account, login to your account, go to the “settings page”, and follow the termination instructions]. We do not provide back-ups of your Contributions. If you terminate your account, you will no longer have access to the Service and your Contributions (specified below), if any. You may terminate your account at any time. You shall not authorize any others to use or access your account. You have the obligation to keep your login credentials confidential. We may terminate or temporarily suspend your account to protect you, ourselves or our partners from (suspected) identity theft or other (suspected) fraudulent (e.g. You are not allowed to create multiple accounts. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide to us in relation to your account, and for updating it where necessary. You are responsible for all activities through your account. Please read our Privacy Statement for more information on our use and processing of your personal information. Additional personal information may be provided by you if you wish to do so. You must create an account to be able to use our Service where the following personal information is required: username, a valid email address, country of residence and a password. We shall make reasonable efforts to inform you of any unavailability due to maintenance or updates. Without prejudice to the section Liability below, the Service may be temporarily unavailable during maintenance, updates, etc. Further, you shall not circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections, decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble the Service and any software related to or used in or by the Service. bottle information, descriptions, ratings, retail and secondary market price observations, values, etc., (d) the right to license, use, sell, archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, perform, publish, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use of the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, the License does not include (a) the right to resell or use the Service commercially (unless explicitly allowed under the applicable subscription plan), (b) the right to make the Service publicly available or use for public display, (c) any downloading, duplicating, or copying, collection and use of any contents of the Services, e.g. We grant to registered Members a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to access and use the Service and to view its contents (“License”). The Service and your account are for your personal use only and may not be shared with any third parties. You acknowledge that the Service is protected by copyrights and database rights. By using the Service, and by creating an account you represent, warrant and confirm that you are of legal age. We have the right to ask you to provide proof of your age and/or to provide further identification to prevent underage usage and/or for any other legal or legitimate purpose. If no such law exists in a Member’s country of residence, the Member has to be over 21 years old to use the Service. We do not sell, nor does the Service provide any option to buy, any alcoholic products.Įach and every Member must be of legal drinking age in its country of residence to be allowed to use the Service. bottle facts, market-indices, market values and prices) on (mostly) whisky and allows Members to add information to the platform. Our Service is an online platform which provides Members with information (e.g. These General Terms and Conditions (“Terms”), as well as our Privacy Statement (“ Privacy Statement”), apply to your (“you”, “Member”) use of the Service (which includes visits to the Whiskybase websites).īy using our website(s) and registering for the Service, you expressly confirm acknowledgment and acceptance of the Terms and agree to be bound by them. (“Whiskybase”, “we” or “us”, company details below) offers a whisky enthusiasts online platform that provides its members access to the most comprehensive, transparent and trusted resource of whisky bottles and allows and stimulates its members to contribute information about whisky bottles to the platform (“Service”).
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Red shelf mod sims 41/15/2024 If it doesn’t, please let me know and I’ll remove even more. I’ve removed some slots, but there are still 130 to play with. : Updated to fix the crashing introduced by the pre-University patch. You can only have ONE in your game at a time. : Added a second version that *does* disappear when walls are down (labelled ‘Walls Down’). : Updated so it no longer disappears when walls are down. And thank you to for this handy dandy blender cheat sheet, which reminded me how to do the simplest of things I’d forgotten. With thanks to and who helped me work out pathing issues. You can find it at the beginning of the shelf category, it costs nothing, and you’ll need to enable moo to use all the slots. Sims will walk right through it and still use any surface it’s embedded in. The shelf is nice and chunky and also sticks out just a little further than a counter, making it easy to move it around and to select it to change the swatch from red to invisible. It’s deep enough to cover a kitchen counter or the top of a fridge, and you can of course use it to set items at a particular height before dragging them off (holding down alt) and placing them wherever you want. NOTES: This won’t work if you want to clutter a table in the middle of a room whatever you want to clutter must be near a wall as the shelf acts like, well… a shelf. two versions: one hides when the walls are dropped (wall down version), the other doesn’t – you can only have ONE in your game at a time.ĪLTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD.make the OMSP work like a shelf, moving up and down the wall smoothly with the alt key so as to fine tune the placement.a large, deep OMSP with plenty of small, medium and large slots so I can clutter a whole space in one go. I decided to make myself an OMSP shelf to kill two birds with one stone: I LOVE clutter, but I hate having to use lots of individual OMSPs, and sometimes they (and the 9 & 0 keys) never quite reach the right height.
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With SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition’s all new U-Drive-It feature, you can accept missions for the betterment of your citizens, or cause mayhem in your city as you drive the streets, ply the waters, or fly through the clouds in vehicles you pilot. Allow congestion to get out of hand, and watch the car wrecks pile up! And, Mayor, you may be causing some of those crashes. You now have the ability to build increasingly complex and varied transportation networks-providing your city with arteries of commerce and productivity. If they can’t get a job, they move out of the city altogether! In the ideal city, your Sims work hard, die peacefully at a ripe old age, and pass the torch to the next generation.Īh, so you want even more direct contact with the lifeblood of your city? You are hard to please, Mayor, but the answer is here. If they live near a source of unchecked pollution, they get sick. Choose what they drive, which routes they use to get to work, and where they live. Not content with just passersby? Want even more impact on your Sims’ lives? Import your favorite Sims from The Sims ™ to live in your city! If you haven’t created your own Sims, we’ve provided some individuals for you to direct and follow as they go about their lives. If you are a really outgoing Mayor, you can interview passing Sims on the streets to get their views. With SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, your Sims can contact you directly with their thoughts and feelings about your administration. You know in which corner of your city crime is at its worst, where the best-educated Sims live, and which roads are most congested. Your city statisticians work tirelessly to provide you with data, graphs, and reports that keep your finger on your city’s pulse. How will you know if you are succeeding as Mayor? You have a myriad of information at your fingertips. If you get too frustrated with events, you can always unleash meteor showers upon your land. It can be quite a challenge, but don’t worry. Whether you use your creativity to develop independent cities, or prefer to offer your Sims a larger view on life through interdependent communities, you must make your world a prosperous and desirable place for your citizens to live. With SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, you can even interconnect the two cities to trade jobs, goods, and services. You may create a mountain aerie of high-tech industry, or a bustling urban manufacturing center. You’d like a certain Sim to commute to work on a pogo stick? Thy will be done. SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition gives you power that extends from the god-like creation of mountainscapes to the adjustment of funding levels at a local elementary school. Taking on missions that have you hurtling down highways in a tank? Whether you tend to the godlike or mortal, SimCity ™ 4 Deluxe Edition offers infinite opportunities for you to create (or destroy) the metropolis of your dreams! Have fun!ĭo you have the empire-building skills to develop a metropolis of soaring skyscrapers or the aesthetic sensibilities to create a city that delights the eye? Do you enjoy tinkering with an entire world-widening a river bed there, increasing a tax rate here-to see the effects on the inhabitants under your sway? Or do you want to get down and dirty with The Sims in your streets, Features new to SimCity4 Rush Hour are designated in the manual. So don’t rush out and buy Rush Hour if you have SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, and if you’ve already bought SimCity4 Rush Hour, don’t buy the Deluxe Edition-you already have it! This manual is included with BOTH products. SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition = SimCity 4 + SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack For those of you who are mathematically minded. NOTE TO BUYERS OF SIMCITY 4 RUSH HOUR EXPANSION PACKĪlready own SimCity 4? When you install the SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack, the process will automatically reconfigure and update your version of SimCity 4 so that it offers the same gameplay as SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition. PLAY OPTIONS.ĪDDITIONAL CITY VIEW OPTIONS. REFERENCE GUIDE SIMCITY 4 DELUXE EDITION. STAR WARS-TIE FIGHTER-COLLECTORS CD-ROM.STAR WARS-KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC II.
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Farming simulator 19 for ps41/15/2024 I get that they are an independent studio and that this is on a console but look at The Hunter Call of the Wild for an example on console. The Game environment looks like a PS3 or Xbox 360 game. I wish they would have used a better engine to make the game. You can also landscape and "paint" the terrain which is very nice also glad for the more realistic weeds during growing. PROS are I'm glad they now have John Deere and now you can preview your tractor or vehicle before changing the paint or adding special tires. It does not even give you the name of the crops in the menu just a picture, kinda hard to figure the difference in a beet and a potato which both are white color in the menu, hard to tell the difference between wheat and barley also with no name under the picture. menu is not as good as the previous game. Every time I need to figure something out I need to go to YouTube to see how things work and I've played the previous games. Also there is a small tutorial at the beginning of the game just like FS17 and other tutorials but not as helpful as the many YouTube videos. I get that it's supposedly California on the coast but most Americans consider the mid-west location for farming. It's cool you can walk inside the house but it is filled with.surf boards.yeah I know farmers and they don't surf. This farm house is very trashy looking with paint chipping and a trashy looking interior It needs a remodel from Joanna Gains! Fortnite has better looking houses than this. What reason do I have to keep my $60,000 barn just to look at when I could use that money for farm equipment? FS17 and FS15 had beautiful farm houses which made you feel successful. I can't even use my barn for storage it's just a cosmetic barn for $60,000. The buildings on the farm they start you out with are junky looking and have no use whatsoever. A trash pile in the middle of my farm land, a trailer home near my farm with a tarp on the roof, a spanish church on the hill that has a busted out wall and tarps on the roof it's like I'm in Fallout 76 or something. I was looking forward to this game but I don't understand what they are doing. I played over 200 hours of FS17 and many hours of FS15 and really enjoyed it. I was looking forward I have been very disappointed with FS19. Farming Simulator 19 will feature new American and European environments in which to develop and expand your farm and will introduce many exciting new farming activities, including new machinery and crops with cotton and oat! Tend to your livestock of pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens - or ride your horse for the first time, letting you explore in a brand-new way the vast land around your farm.
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Install net nanny version 71/15/2024 Everything is hosted online, so no matter how many computers your family uses, you can keep track of everything from one place. Configuring Net Nanny is straightforward, thanks to its simple interface. Finally, if you want to try Net Nanny for free before buying, select “Try for Free” under the green “Buy Now” button on .Īfter installing Net Nanny, you can log in from any computer to change its settings or monitor activity. Next, you’ll need to agree to the terms of service and choose a password for your account. Installing Net Nanny is easy - download it, enter your email address to create a Net Nanny login, and follow the on-screen prompts. Net Nanny is the parental control software that lets you filter what websites your children can visit, block apps or games they shouldn’t be using, keep them off social media sites, and so on. For example, you can create custom lists of approved or blocked keywords and change the default settings for each category on the content filtering list. One amazing feature of the Net app is its customizable filtering options. In addition, it has a list of adult-oriented sites built in that you can turn on with the click of a button. Parents can block websites that they don’t want their kids to visit using Net Nanny’s web filtering capabilities. It also logs activity, so parents know what their kids are doing online and sends alerts when suspicious behavior occurs. The Net Nanny Windows and Mac OS program works by blocking access to websites that contain certain keywords or fall into specific categories like pornography, gambling, violence, and hate speech. This iPhone parental control app can be used by any parent that wants to monitor their kids’ internet activities. It also offers features like location monitoring and social media tracking. If Net Nanny’s de-activated, there will be an icon with a “slash” through it.Net Nanny is a parental control software designed to monitor a child’s internet use and protect them from harmful content. If Net Nanny v5 is active on your computer, you will have an icon in the lower right hand corner near the system time and it will be yellow.
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Do you say checkmate in chess1/15/2024 Even in this age, many people have called out to return to this same rule. If it steps over onto the squares marked with red circles, it will be captured on the next move.Īncient versions of chess like as Shatranj announce the player who leads to a stalemate as the winner. This is because the Black King has no legal squares to move to. It’s Black to move and the game is stalemated (draw). This happens frequently in the endgame, when there are not many pieces on the board/ Stalemate is a draw in normal chess, however, there are different chess variants, historical as well as modern, in which stalemate is not considered as a draw. A stalemate ends the chess game and the result is a draw. Stalemate is a situation in chess where in, the king is not in check and the chess player cannot make a legal move. There are six ways in which a game of chess can end up in a draw, which are Perpetual check, insufficient mating material, Repetition of moves, fifty move rule, draw by agreement and last but not least, and the one we will focus on in this article, the stalemate! With lots of practice, one can learn some very interesting and effective strategies like the Ruy Lopezand the Sicilian defense, but it also has a steep learning curve for beginners so it is important to prepare for failure and figure out ways to put the game into a drawn state when ones sees the possibility of losing. It’s checkmate! Don’t stink at chess by going stale!Ĭhess is a riveting but a complicated game. Unfortunately the Black King has no legal squares to escape the threat nor pieces to defend it. The White Queen is threatening to capture the Black King. Black can easily defend the attack by moving his Knight to the d7 square as indicated with the red arrow. The white bishop is threatening to capture the Black king as indicated with the green arrow. You are supposed to say, “checkmate” and signify that the game is over. No matter where the king is moved, he is always in danger. On the other hand, a checkmate is one where the game is over. The opponent must then move his or her king to safety. This is wrong, as your opponent needs to be warned about the impeding danger. Initially, beginners will not make this call and decide to take down the opponent’s king. This is the sign that the king needs to be moved to a safe spot. You have to warn the opponent by saying check. You have challenged the king and there is a chance for the king to move to another space. A check is when the opponent’s king is in danger. It is safe to say that the check precedes the checkmate. These are two different terms and are not to be confused with each other. It is obvious that “check” and “check mate” are not the same thing. It is important that beginners understand the difference between check and checkmate.
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Setting tire size on cateye enduro 81/15/2024 Please note that the tire size is indicated on the side, most of the times. Use the chart below as reference for tire circumference. (28 1 12 and 28 1.50 are not the exact sizes.) Cateye Tire Size Chart: Circumference Reference Inch-based labels show the width in a decimal (26 1.75) or as a fraction (26 1 34), and although these size identifications can be mathematically equal, they can also refer to different size tires that are not interchangeable. However, the ISO standard notation uses the diameter of the wheel bead seat in millimeters, followed by the inflated tire width in millimeters.Īlthough these size identifications can be mathematically equal, they can also refer to different size tires that are not interchangeable. Traditional size schemes use the inflated tire’s outer diameter (measured in inches or millimeters). A uniform method was required as cycling became increasingly worldwide. The exact size of the bike tire might be found with different numerals in various countries. Initially, there were a variety of measurement techniques, with each nation that produced bicycles having its marking system.
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Pickle flutter valve1/15/2024 Airway inflammation may cause increased thick mucus secretions which can narrow the airways increasing the resistance to the airflow. Patients suffering from COPD may show pathologic changes not only in the large but also in the small airways, which are defined as less than 2mm in diameter. This limitation is usually progressive and associated with an abnormal inflammatory response of the lungs to noxious particles or gases. Condition or diseaseĭevice: Flutter valve exercises Device: Flutter Sham exercises Device: Flutter and bronchodilator exercisesĬhronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. This will give to investigators an insight into the relationship between airway inflammation and small airway function. In addition, because COPD is characterised by inflammation, the investigators would also like to measure a gas the patients blow out, nitric oxide (NO) the levels of which reflect airway inflammation. The main objective of this study is to compare the effect of a flutter or a sham device on small airways damage using impulse oscillometry (IOS), a non-invasive method that, contrary to other common blowing tests, measures small airway resistance during normal breathing. In this study the investigators hypothesise that because the flutter helps clear the airways from the excessive thick mucus produced by COPD patients, these patients may find it easier to breathe and have lower resistance to moving air in and out of their lungs. However, spirometry assesses the damage of larger airways but not small airways, also known as the "silent zone" which, crucially, are specifically damaged in COPD. Standard blowing tests, like spirometry, where patients blow forcedly into a machine, have previously been used to investigate the efficacy of flutter devices. These vibrations are thought to mobilise airway secretions facilitating their clearance and improving breathing. The flutter is a simple and small device shaped like a pipe that creates a positive expiratory pressure (PEP) and high frequency oscillation when the expired air passes through it. The disease affects not only the large central airways but also the small, more peripheral airways deeper into the lung, defined as less than 2 mm in diameter.īesides medical treatment, physiotherapy plays a major role in treatment and various methods have been suggested to remove airway of secretions.
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