![]() what are my plans for this, the pinnacle of Toyota's automotive prowess? Well, to begin with, I'm sorting out a basic (read: cheap but reasonably effective) sound system. somewhere!).Īnd here she is showing off here insides. A tacho is also an addition I think I will require, to allow me to keep tabs on the fearsome 4K lest it slip from it's incredibly narrow powerband (I am yet to find said powerband, someone once told me it was actually there. GO TOYOTA! Steering is controlled via a premium public-transport issue steering wheel, which at some point will also be binned in favour of something less crap. Note the brushed alumnium trim on the dash - now we know where Audi got the idea's for the TT from. all 5! 5 presets!) preset is tuned into Radio Hauraki. the only acceptable facet of said audio is that EVERY (yes. Unfortunately 1981's idea of an audio system is not by any means acceptable. albeit with added dirt from years of ferrying round Joe and Jolene average in the course of their daily chores. the rich, enveloping white velour/vinyl and maroon interior. Inside the KPimp showcases the very feature's that contribute to it's name. She runs a very sweet K40 gearbox, great for round town work, sadly not-so-great for open road stuff as it's noisy and generally crap. Soon to receive a freer flowing exhaust courtesy of a parts car I've scored. the 4K-U also has a stronger bottom end (or so I read) than garden variety 4K's. Due mostly I would think to the heron-head combustion chamber design, the higher compression and so forth. however this is also the most powerful of the carbied 4K engines with a reputed 74hp. Motovation is provided by the perennial 4K pushrod engine, in the case of the KPimp it's a 4K-U, U being the designation for Jap emissions package. all $490 dollars worth of cult-classic Jap RWD Econohatch. Known colloquially (at our place at least!) as the KPimp. the much vaunted 1981 Toyota Starlet KP61 Lisse (a spec level I assume, from what I can gather she was the top-spec KP61 in it's day!).
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In this article, we’ve chosen one of the most common versions of Euchre played in the United States, though it should be noted that there are other ways of playing the game. *NOTE: Rules for Euchre will vary according to region, and the house rules of the establishment where the game is being played. Under normal circumstances, one round of Euchre should take approximately half an hour or less to complete. If a team scores ten points first in a round, that team wins the game. The goal of the game is to win the trick by playing the high card in each round, and to win more tricks than the other team. How To Play EuchreĮuchre is a very social game considered to belong to the “trick-taking” genre, along with hearts and spades. Keep reading to learn what you need to know about this classic card game that’s been passed down for generations by Euchre lovers all over the world, and why it’s an enjoyable pastime, perfect for playing with family and friends. 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If you’ve never heard of the game before, you might be surprised to learn that Euchre is one of the world’s oldest and most popular card games with roots dating back to 18th century Europe. ![]() We rented bikes - and a bike trailer for our little one - at Curry Village. You can take on a shorter segment, of course. The 12-mile bike trail is a completely flat, circular loop, so it’s very hard to get lost (thisĬoming from someone who gets lost in her own neighborhood). Later in the week, we ventured out on two wheels to explore Yosemite Valley, where you’ll find the more famous landmarks you probably know from Ansel Adams photos. Getting around via bike is the best way to see them all without spending precious time waiting for the shuttle bus or stuck in traffic, which is formidable through the summer (and delightfully absent in the fall). Yosemite’s less crowded waterfall hikes, and there were many times when it felt like it was just us, the rocks and the water. We encountered plenty of friendly hikers like these, but this trail is considered one of If your experience is anything like ours, just about every hiker you pass will delight that they found the baby that belongs to the stroller and comment on the fact that it is still there. Once the trail grows rocky and steep, just park the stroller on the side of the trail, out of the way, so it’s not a hindrance for others. Hiking with a baby or toddler? The first half-mile or so of the hike is so flat and smooth, you can use a stroller. “Wow!” he shouted every half hour or so, as we passed a burst of flowers, a colorful cluster of butterflies or one of the many glimpses of the waterfall. Wildflowers-and the butterflies they attract-add an extra dimension of beauty. Wapama Falls spills under a footbridge and over boulders before cascading into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The trail runs along the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, where the views of dazzling blue water and stunning, rugged rocks add to the adventure. On our first full day at Yosemite, we tackled a challenging 5-mile hike (harder when you’re ![]() This cadence worked really well for us - something for parents and grandparents to consider if you want to experience the wonders of the park, while not ticking off your tiny dictators. Our goal: One big adventure each morning, followed by lunch and naptime - and then pool time and a relaxing dinner at our resort just outside the park, Rush Creek Lodge and Spa near the Big Oak Flat entrance to the park, with easy access to Hetch Hetchy. On our last waterfall-seeking adventure, my husband and I were traveling with our then-18-month-old son, so we kept our expectations low about how much we could get done with a toddler in tow. Here’s where to stay and what to do, including a few tips for those traveling with rambunctious tots. (Lucky us!) 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To my knowledge, Deathloop is the only game that lets you play as a space alien. If you really want to have a great new game, you have to be willing to make some big, radical changes, and I’m glad they stuck to the game they made. ![]() However, the mechanics could have been way more flexible, and the rules could have been made less restrictive. The game was pretty easy to learn, and I had a lot of fun. It was a neat idea, but it could have gone a lot further. Its like a game where you just have to change your moves, or the game itself, or the rules for how to play. I remember thinking how cool, and how freeing, it was to see the game mechanics being changed on my turn and how much easier it made everything for me to play. ![]() I think that it’s a real shame, because I did really enjoy the game. There’s no other game that allows this kind of flexibility. It’s a neat idea, but I always felt like the players were a little too “fussy” about their game. This is the first game which I’ve played where the rules are changed on your turn. One of the best parts of the game is that it allows you to change the rules to suit your level of skill, which makes for a ton of fun. It was a very large room, so I had to make a way to get there. I remember the first time I got to play a space billiards game. The game itself was like nothing I had ever seen before, and because of this, I watched it with a lot of wonder. My parents had the “family room” as a regular, everyday occurrence, so I was always there when the game was played. I was born in the late 60’s and have always been fascinated with the art of space billiards. ![]() They also should have treated me with respect as I treated them. A shame, as they were capable of making some good pizzas and still might if they would actually listen to customer preferences and get the crust right. ![]() I left, and after cutting off the crust, was able to salvage some of what was edible. A moment later he told me to leave, take the burnt pizzas and never return. At first he offered to remake the most badly overcooked / burnt pizza. I pointed out to the new owner that the pizzas were burnt and showed him the crust. I got there in 15 min and the pizzas were being boxed. The last time they told me the pizzas would be ready in 25 minutes. I finally would go early to pick up so that I cold ask them to take the pizzas out of the oven before they were overdone. I would ask him to make light brown crust as they had for years, with mixed results. for a light brown crust) The Pizzas began to be overcooked, with burnt, blackened crusts. All of a sudden when ordering the man taking the order would argue with me about how the pizzas had to be made to his specifications, not ours. 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![]() (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) What we should take from this story is not that a woman may have once acted as a President but why over 100 years later no woman has done since.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivers remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020, after being declared the winners of the presidential election. She certainly exercised some power but never had the authority of a president in her own right. Whether Edith Wilson could be called America’s first female President is debatable. The greatest irony being that woman only won the right to vote in 1920 in America yet in 1919, a woman was essentially in charge. Wilson managed to keep the ship of state afloat.’ This is a remarkable achievement given she had less than two years of formal education and prior to her life in the White House, had no discernible interest or experience in politics. Appel, ‘by deferring to her cabinet officers and tackling a handful of high priority issues, Mrs. While ‘not up to the task of administering the nation singlehandedly,’ writes medical historian Jacob M. ![]() For instance, she successfully pushed for the removal of Secretary of State Robert Lansing after he conducted a series of Cabinet meetings without the President. ![]() Despite her claims about not making any decisions on her own, there are indications that she acted independently. The only decision that was mine was what was important and what was not, and the very important decision of when to present matters to my husband.’ Even as a conduit to the President, Edith Wilson would have had a lot of power whether she recognised it or not. ’From there, Edith Wilson would act as the president's proxy and the run the White House, and by extension the country, by extolling access to the president,’ writes William Hazelgrove writes in Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson.Įdith’s view of her self-described 'stewardship' was a lot more modest, stressing, ‘I, myself, never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs. Convinced that her husband’s recovery depended on him retaining the presidency, she tried to keep his illness secret from the public and limited his access to his doctor and few close associates. In October 1919, a stroke left Wilson bedridden and partially paralyzed. To free up the White House gardener for war work she let sheep graze on the White House Lawn which according to the White House Historical Assocation 'saved manpower by cutting the grass and earned $52,823 for the Red Cross through an auction of their wool'. To support the troops, she set up a Red Cross sewing group that made pyjamas and wool hats for soldiers serving overseas (Wilson led America into WW1 in 1917). She established meatless Mondays, and wheatless Wednesdays in the White House to support the federal rationing effort. ![]() To quell these rumours, Edith insisted that they defer the wedding by a year and the couple married on December 18, 1915, at Edith’s home in Washington, D.C.Įdith Wilson became First Lady in 1915 and like most First Ladies, her role was to set an example to the American people. Not only were Wilson and Edith accused of having an affair while the former Mrs Wilson was still alive, one lurid rumour, went so far to claim that Wilson had murdered his first wife to remarry. Such was the speed of the courtship that when the engagement was announced, the Washington rumour mill went into overdrive. Wilson first met Edith at a tea party in March 1915 and by May, Wilson had proposed marriage. His first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson had died from kidney disease in 1914, just two years into his first term. Woodrow Wilson had been elected as the Democratic candidate for President in 1912 on his New Freedom platform that espoused tariff, business and banking reform. Her first marriage had brought her to Washington D.C where she would meet the President, Woodrow Wilson, who would later become her second husband. Read more about: History of America Surprising family links of US PresidentsĮdith’s first husband, Norman Galt, a prominent jeweller had died in 1908, leaving her both financially secure and independent and free to remarry. ![]() Unlike iTunes, however, you can determine which tracks go on which CDs, as well as apply Audio Units filters to your tracks. Like iTunes, it lets you add as many tracks as you want for burning and breaks them into the number of CDs needed to do so. One new audio feature is called Audio CD Spanning. ![]() (My iMac with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GS graphics isn’t supported.) The speed benefits should be similar to using the $100Įlgato Turbo.264 HD ( ) USB stick (and in case you were wondering, you can’t use both at the same time).Īlso, you can now schedule video conversions for a later time when converting video from unprotected DVDs, you can include any of the subtitles from the DVD burned into your exported video you can play back HD content burned on standard DVDs (the HD/BD plug-in, required for HD authoring on standard or Blu-ray discs, is still a $20 add on, or comes as part of Toast 11 Pro) and you now have the ability to add manual chapter marks as well as better control over the trimming of clips. If your Mac supports it, a Use VideoBoost Acceleration option will show up in the Player Setup window. The VideoBoost feature can speed up H.264 video encoding using supported Nvidia graphics.Ī new feature called VideoBoost can take advantage of the GPU in some newer Nvidia graphics chips/cards to speed up H.264 video conversion. ![]() But (presumably to ensure compatibility) you can’t change the settings for the Internet video presets for YouTube, Facebook, or Vimeo. This could be useful if you want to convert video that will look good on all your particular Apple devices, say. But since I typically combine multiple clips into one movie and edit them together with transition in iMovie, I don’t expect I’ll be using Toast to upload my videos anyway.Īt the same time, you can now create custom video profiles, tweaked from one of the built-in presets. Roxio says it plans to bump the data rates up in an update. That’s because iMovie uses twice the data rate (and produces videos with twice the file size) as Toast’s Vimeo preset. However, the big problem for me was that the quality of the video it created (even at the High quality setting) wasn’t as good as the version that iMovie made from the same footage. While the process wasn’t as smooth as using iMovie-for example, the Title field was blank even though I’d already given my video a name in Toast-it did take me directly to the video page on Vimeo when it was finished uploading (a nice touch). You can also have Toast publish directly to online services and even tweet the link to the video-I added a 720p video shot with my iPhone into Toast, trimmed it, and uploaded it directly to my Vimeo account. Toast 11 expands its video format support, adding presets for the iPhone 4, Android phones, Windows Media Video, DivX Plus HD, and MKV, as well as Internet-specific presets for YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and F4V Flash video. ![]() The new UI makes it easier to choose a category, incorporates the Media Browser, and adds useful burning settings to the main window. To start with, there’s now a Tutorials section that includes screencast videos (and links to step-by-step PDFs) walking you through several common tasks. New user interfaceĪlthough Toast has always had a lot of power, it wasn’t always easy to figure out how to make everything work. What that means is no more logins and downloading huge disc images to make sure your apps are up to date. Sparkle update-checking and -installing framework (and those that don’t have options to help you find updates as well). Toast and many of the included apps now take advantage of the With Toast 11, that pain is a thing of the past. I’ve always found this process to be annoying and needlessly complicated. In the past, any time there was an update to Toast and/or its bundled apps, you’d have to log into the Roxio site, download a disc image with the entire suite of apps (even if nothing changed in the majority of them), and then replace your Toast folder with the updated folder. 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