![]() (If yours has one, I would use the rear feed tray as opposed to the bottom paper cassette. Put a few envelopes in your printer’s paper tray. If you followed the instructions, this part should be easy. Otherwise, you can search Google to find mail merge instructions based on your software version and operating system. I know from experience that it only takes about 20 minutes to copy 100+ envelopes, which is about how long it would take you to troubleshoot mail merge. If you’re not familiar with mail merge, the simplest thing to do is just copy and paste your addresses by hand. Keep doing this until you’ve filled in all the pages of your envelope template. Scroll to page 2 and click in the upper left hand corner of the page. If you make too many, it’ll bog down your Word doc and you’ll have trouble with it freezing and crashing.) ![]() (I recommend creating no more than 25 pages per document. Click approximately 15-20 times to add more pages. Hit End on your keyboard (this will add the blank pages after the existing page). You should see a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the page. Then click anywhere on the white page that’s not inside a text box. To copy your page, click in the gray margin outside the page. Once you have your template looking exactly how you like it, you’ll want to duplicate the pages so you can print several at once. When it’s time to print, you’ll print the front side of your envelopes first, then flip them over and print the back side. If you’d prefer to put it on the back, follow the same steps to create a second template in a brand new document. Or you can head to dafont or Font Squirrel to look at other free options.Ī note on return addresses: In this example I put the return address on the front of the envelope for simplicity’s sake. Here are a few of our favorite calligraphy fonts: Ideally, you might want to choose 1-2 fonts that match your wedding invitations so everything looks uniform. I think envelopes look best with a combination of calligraphy, sans serif and serif fonts. One of the reasons we don’t use the “envelope” functionality already in Word is because this way allows us to use custom fonts, graphics and layouts. calligraphy names get a box, while serif addresses get a separate box). I prefer to create one text box for each style of text (ie. Once you’ve added your first text box, just click on the outer edge so there’s a solid black line around it, then hit Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to duplicate it. To remove the black outline around the text box, click on the text box and go to Format > Shape Outline > No Outline. Draw a text box in the center of your document, making sure to leave plenty of room in for postage stamps and a return address at the top. Enter the size of your envelope in the Width and Height fields and click OK. Go to Page Layout > Size > More Paper Sizes. Create a Word documentĬreate a Word document that’s the exact same size as your envelopes: If you don’t know what size envelopes you need, this handy chart can help you choose the right ones. If you can’t find that info on the packaging, just break out a ruler and measure.įor our invitations, we recommend A7 envelopes which are 5.25″x7.25” but this could vary depending on the size of your invites. Hopefully you’ve figured this out already, but you need to know exactly how big your envelopes are (in inches or centimeters) with the flap closed. ![]() ![]() Although it’s fine for business printing, it’s definitely not what you want for wedding envelopes or fancy stationery.įor that, we need to get a little creative. While most word processing software gives you an “envelope” option, I’ve found that it’s usually bulky and basic looking. If done correctly, printing your own envelopes should be exactly like printing a piece of paper. Just follow this tutorial and you’ll never have to address another envelope by hand for as long as you both shall live. Run off as many copies as you need, then re-purpose that baby to work for thank you notes, holiday cards, you name it. At $3+ an envelope, why not put your credit card away and make an envelope template (or snag our A7 envelope template for free!) that you can print at home. I hate to say it, especially since I’ve been known to dabble in calligraphy a time or two, but hiring a professional calligrapher to address your wedding invitations is such a waste of money. Wondering where to buy envelopes? We love Cards and Pockets. To download the calligraphy font we used (you’ll need this to make your envelopes look exactly like ours), scroll down to the bottom of this post and follow the links. ![]() To snag our free A7 envelope template for use in Microsoft Word, just click here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Employers will have to comply with state and local directives, which will guide when and how to reopen. A current trend we are seeing is that states are reopening in phases. This will vary based on the employer’s location and industry. General Questions: When and How to Resume Business Operations When will employers be able to reopen physical locations? Other Considerations for “Big Box” and All “Brick and Mortar” Retailersĭisclaimer: Because requirements at the federal, state, and local level are constantly changing, employers should monitor developments, and consult counsel for advice based on their specific circumstances.Clothing Stores and Specialty Retailers.Practical Realities: Employee Benefits Considerations.Practical Realities: Union Considerations.Practical Realities: Employer Tenant/Landlord Considerations.Practical Realities: Disability Related Inquiries and Medical Exams.Practical Realities: Sick Leave Considerations.Practical Realities: Employee, Applicant, Vendor and Customer Health Screenings and Other Health Considerations.Practical Realities: Environmental and Physical Considerations.General Questions: When and How to Resume Business Operations. ![]() ![]() This information has been updated as of June 1, 2020. Because the COVID-19 pandemic is a fluid situation and highly dependent on jurisdiction- and sector-specific considerations, we anticipate that additional guidance will be coming from the federal, state and local governments as plans to allow businesses to open are developed in the coming days and weeks. This Question and Answer Guide describes a number of COVID-19 employment and return-to-work considerations. What are the various considerations employers must keep in mind when reopening their physical work locations? Miller, Brooke RazorĪs government authorities look to implement business reopening measures, employers are now planning to move employees back into the workplace as state and local stay-at-home orders expire and other COVID-19 business restrictions expire or are modified. Authors: Lynne Anne Anderson, Jeffrey S. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Perhaps they should rethink the rule of forcing actors to stick mostly to the old scripts and allow a bit more in-the-moment improvisation. ![]() The performers need room to bring more to their roles than a snarky take on old sitcom punchlines. The previous one, in which John Amos got a bit lost playing a different character in the Good Times recreation, was particularly tough to sit through.īut Hart and Wayans have shown the way to move these specials beyond questionable exercises in nostalgia. ![]() How to move beyond an exercise in nostalgiaīefore that Diff'frent Strokes episode, I was ready to write an essay begging Kimmel and ABC to stop doing these projects. ![]() In particular, Flashdance star Jennifer Beals and Fresh Prince of Bel Air co-star Alfonso Ribeiro appeared in several sidesplitting, retro-style commercials for a string of products including Heinz ketchup and Jack in the Box restaurants that felt like old school Saturday Night Live ad satires (created by a production company/marketing agency co-founded by movie star Ryan Reynolds). Often, I found myself enjoying the commercials more than the episodes, because several of them were filmed in a retro style hearkening back to the late '70s/early '80s when these episodes first aired. ("I'll be there for you," in a nod to Friends.) But Hart's last line – "How come Vernon always smell like weed?" – was also spot-on, and a great callback to Snoop's character. Each episode also featured a new final line – the Facts of Life quip spoken by Jennifer Aniston, wasn't very memorable and was partially covered by applause. Will Arnett, playing a thickheaded suitor to Blair in the Facts of Life episode, offered a brief ad lib while speaking to Jon Stewart that scored better than most of the scripted punchlines (Stewart was playing Carl, a geek who also liked Blair). Indeed, the best moments of the night came when stars broke character briefly or found a way to bring new interpretations to old material. And the night's best bit of surprise stunt casting – rapper Snoop Dogg as Willis' friend Vernon – was inspired, mostly because Snoop is a much better comic actor than many realize. ("Even though he looks 45, he's just 8," Wayans deadpanned about Hart's Arnold in one moment). Here Are the Surreal Retro Ads That Ran During the Diff’rent Strokes, Facts of Life Reboot Ryan Reynolds Maximum Effort revived the 80s with Jack in the Box, Kraft and more, while ABC created. Damon Wayans, taking over Todd Bridges's role as Arnold's brother Willis, was another surprise, setting up Hart's punchlines as a consummate straight man before landing his own sly jokes. Hart wrung out every bit of physical comedy he could manage, pretending to struggle while climbing down from a bunk bed and copying Coleman's distinctive gait. Drummond – you felt the absurdity of the casting bring new laughs. Watching a bearded Hart, running around the stage in a superhero outfit, jumping into the arms of John Lithgow – playing Arnold's wealthy adoptive father Mr. Before Ansible can do this, you must have all servers in Atlanta listed in a group called in your inventory, and you must have working SSH credentials for each machine in that group.Kevin Hart in 'Live in front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.'Ĭasting for maximum humor, rather than mimicry You can use an ad hoc task to call the command module and reboot all web servers in Atlanta, 10 at a time. The default module for the ansible command-line utility is the module. TheyĪchieve a form of idempotence by checking the current state before they begin and doing nothing unless the current state is different from the specified final state. ad hoc tasks, like playbooks, use a declarative model,Ĭalculating and executing the actions required to reach a specified final state. You can use any Ansible module in an ad hoc task. Use cases for ad hoc tasks Īd hoc tasks can be used to reboot servers, copy files, manage packages and users, and much more. You can learn more about patterns and modules on other pages. The -a option accepts options either through the key=value syntax or a JSON string starting with for more complex option structure. Controlling how Ansible behaves: precedence rules.Virtualization and Containerization Guides.Protecting sensitive data with Ansible vault. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you miss the notification, swipe left from the browser’s screen to open the menu and select downloads. Just tap the download notification to prompt install. It’s easiest to install the apps one at a time as they download. Just make sure to install them in the order they are listed below. The easiest way is to use the Fire tablet’s silk web browser. ![]() Now it’s time to download 4 separate apk app files. Go to Settings > Security > Enable Apps from Unknown Sources (this will prompt a warning message-that’s normal). How to Install Google Play on 2017 Fire Tablets in 5 Minutes (Video) You can do it all from the Fire tablet itself, no computer or rooting required. Basically all you have to do is sideload a few apps and install them. You can even get the entire Google Play Store on some devices.īelow are super easy directions showing you how to install the Google Play Store on Amazon’s Fire tablets. With a little tweaking, though, you can run any Android app on them. Kindle Fire tablets are some of the best, cheapest Android tablets around, but they’re limited to Amazon’s app store, which is more than lacking compared to the thousands of apps available on the Google Play Store. He loves long walks on virtual beaches, playing worker placement board games with inconsequential themes, and spending time with his family and menagerie of pets and plants.Very Simple Steps to Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire If you're looking for him after hours, he's probably four search queries and twenty obscenities deep in a DIY project or entranced by the limitless exploration possibilities of some open-world game or another. While his days of steering students toward greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on in his work at How-To Geek. In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five-paragraph essays. In 2023, he assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief. In 2022, he returned to How-To Geek to focus on one of his biggest tech passions: smart home and home automation. In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy. With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. ![]() After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. ![]() Joe brings that same passion to How-To Geek. If something piques his interest, he will dive into it headfirst and try to learn as much as possible. Outside of technology, Joe is an avid DIYer, runner, and food enthusiast. After several years of jailbreaking and heavily modifying an iPod Touch, he moved on to his first smartphone, the HTC DROID Eris. He got his start in the industry covering Windows Phone on a small blog, and later moved to Phandroid where he covered Android news, reviewed devices, wrote tutorials, created YouTube videos, and hosted a podcast.įrom smartphones to Bluetooth earbuds to Z-Wave switches, Joe is interested in all kinds of technology. He has written thousands of articles, hundreds of tutorials, and dozens of reviews.īefore joining How-To Geek, Joe worked at XDA-Developers as Managing Editor and covered news from the Google ecosystem. Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Triton is slightly larger than Pluto, has a very similar internal density and bulk composition, and has the same low-temperature volatiles frozen on its surface. Pluto is unlikely to be a copy of Triton, but some of the same types of features may be present. Tidal heating has likely melted the interior of Triton, producing the volcanoes, fractures and other geological features that Voyager saw on that bitterly cold, icy surface. Although both bodies originated in the outer solar system, Triton was captured by Neptune and has undergone a radically different thermal history than Pluto. Among the improvements on the map are updates to the accuracy of feature locations, sharpening of feature details by removing some of the blurring effects of the camera, and improved color processing.Īlthough Triton is a moon of a planet and Pluto is a dwarf planet, Triton serves as a preview of sorts for the upcoming Pluto encounter. The production of the new Triton map was inspired by anticipation of NASA’s New Horizons encounter with Pluto, coming up a little under a year from now. Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/Lunar & Planetary Institute Paul Schenk, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used Voyager data to construct this video recreating that exciting encounter. The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, on August 25, 1989. The rest of the surface was either in darkness or seen as blurry markings. Because of the speed of Voyager’s visit and the slow rotation of Triton, only one hemisphere was seen clearly at close distance. In 1989, most of the northern hemisphere was in darkness and unseen by Voyager. ![]() Voyager’s “eyes” saw in colors slightly different from human eyes, and this map was produced using orange, green and blue filter images. The colors have been enhanced to bring out contrast but are a close approximation to Triton’s natural colors. The new Triton map has a resolution of 1,970 feet (600 meters) per pixel. The map, produced by Paul Schenk, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, has also been used to make a movie recreating that historic Voyager encounter, which took place 25 years ago, on August 25, 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton has been “restored” and used to construct the best-ever global color map of that strange moon. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. The Lunar and Planetary Institute used Voyager’s 1989 historic footage of Neptune’s moon Triton to construct the best-ever global color map of the strange moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lunar & Planetary Institute This map has a resolution of 1,970 feet (600 meters) per pixel. Paul Schenk, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used Voyager data to construct the best-ever global color map of Triton. The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, in the summer of 1989. ![]() ![]() ![]() The flight jacket went through many specification updates including the removal of the oxygen tab, snap tabs and epaulets, along with the USAF logo as the jacket was eventually adopted by the Navy and other branches of the armed forces. This genuine astronaut flight jacket also boasts an Alpha signature utility. Air Force which is why the USAF insignia was put on the sleeve. Outerwear doesn’t get much cooler than our classic MA-1 NASA astronaut flight jacket This NASA bomber jacket features the 100th Space Shuttle Mission and American flag patches to show your space age support finished with an enzyme wash effect. Initially the bomber was only used by the U.S. The L-2B flight jacket was introduced in the early 1950s for use in light temperature zones (50 to 86 degrees F). Being one of our most iconic jackets, this NASA lightweight L-2B features the NASA Meatball patch on the left breast and 100th Space Shuttle Flight patch on the right breast, topped off with a U.S. Pleather Biker Jacket ZAR499.99 RT Casual Bomber Jacket ZAR329.99 Oakridge Bomber Jacket ZAR399.99 RT Casual Turtle Neck Knit ZAR229.99 Oakridge Formal Crew Neck Knit ZAR200 Oakridge Bomber Jacket ZAR299.99 RT Casual Denim Jacket ZAR379. ![]() Alpha Industries took their popular MA-1 NASA and created a lightweight version. ![]() ![]() ![]() The following boat ramps at Lake Travis remain closed as of Tuesday because of low lake levels, according to the LCRA: By the following evening, the elevation was back up to 644.77 feet. 22, just before another round of storms rolled through the region. 18, the water elevation at Lake Travis has been slipping from around 644.7 feet to about 644.5 feet on the morning of Aug. Since storms soaked Central Texas on Aug. However, the recent rainfall appeared to slow the rate of decline because the level was still about 644.6 feet a week ago. The water elevation at Mansfield Dam, which forms the lake, was about 644.37 feet above mean sea level, which is not only about 20 feet below the historical average for August but also about 2.6 feet lower than a month ago. Lake Travis, the popular aquatic playground that's also a community water source, was considered filled to only 51% of its capacity, LCRA data show. An acre-foot is the amount of water it takes to cover an acre a foot deep. As of Tuesday afternoon, that number was down to about 1.11 million acre-feet. Here's a list of more impressive statsĪccording to the LCRA, which manages the Highland Lakes for hydroelectricity and flood control, the volume of water stored in the reservoir lakes, Travis and Buchanan, at full would be about 2 million acre-feet. The parched soils in Central Texas have soaked up much of August's precipitation, but some runoff has been able to feed the region's critical water sources, such as the Hill Country watersheds that feed the Highland Lakes west of Austin and underground aquifers.Īustin just had rainiest day of year. 2.33 inches near Dripping Springs in northern Hays County.2.64 inches on Cedar Creek south of Bastrop in southern Bastrop County.2.83 inches southwest of Wyldwood in Bastrop County.3.32 inches southwest of Lockhart in northern Caldwell County.3.43 inches near Round Mountain in northern Blanco County.3.37 inches at Cortana Shores on Lake Austin in central Travis County.4.09 inches near Burnet in central Burnet County.4.23 inches near Harwood in Caldwell County.4.81 inches northwest of Georgetown in northern Williamson County.As of Wednesday, some of the highest rainfall totals included: On Tuesday, gauges monitored by the Lower Colorado River Authority and the National Weather Service showed some parts of the Austin metro area receiving more than 4 inches of rainfall. LCRA already has reliable and stable technology in place to display their own gauge data.Mother Nature blessed Austin with more rain than normal earlier this month and again on Tuesday, so how is that affecting the Highland Lakes along the Colorado River, which Central Texas uses for fun and as critical water sources?Īlthough the volume of water stored in the lakes has been decreasing for months, prompting local authorities to enact light restrictions on water use, the rate of decline has slowed since the recent rainfall. The City of Austin’s Watershed Protection Department has been using a combination of city, United States Geological Survey (USGS) and LCRA gauges to monitor rainfall and flood levels in order to protect the public from flooding and to close low water crossings since the 1980s. It is our hope that this web site can help the public monitor flooding conditions, so that they can take the appropriate steps to protect themselves, their families and their neighbors.” “With our propensity for flooding, I can’t stress how important it is for everyone to be aware of their surroundings. “We’re in the heart of flash flood alley, here in Austin,” said Joe Pantalion, P.E., the director of the Watershed Protection Department. ![]() The city is paying the LCRA to host and maintain the website, which will eventually include other critical information during flooding such as the creek “stage” - how high the water in a creek has risen at the gauge site. ![]() ![]() ![]() You simply need to paste the magnet link or torrent file into the WebTor website, and it will start playing. WebTor.io is a torrent streaming service that works directly in your web browser, without needing to download the file to your Android phone or tablet. Method 2: Stream Torrents Online Using WebTor WebTor – Torrent Streaming Service If you want an app that is as good looking as feature-rich it is, then download BitLord from the Google Play Store. It is a powerful bittorrent client with a built in video player for almost instantly playing torrents (audio and video formats). With this app, you can easily stream torrented movies on your Android phone or tablet. It has a clean and easy-to-use interface and supports various video formats. BitLord Stream Torrent Files with BitLordīitLord is another popular torrent streaming app for Android. This is how you can easily play torrent files on Android.Ģ. You can hit the ‘Play’ button to start streaming! Your torrent file will begin downloading now.It could be in one of the popular video formats. In most cases, look for the biggest video file. Once completed, hit the ‘Stream’ button to begin the streaming process. The app will now fetch details of this torrent file.Tap the + button and select “Add from URL or magnet”. If not that, copy the magnet URL of the torrent. In our tutorial, we used a torrent movie file of Avengers: Endgame. Go to a torrent tracker and find your favorite movie, TV show or any video file you want to stream. ![]() Download and install xTorrent from the Google Play Store.Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how you can use this app to watch torrent movies and music videos on your Android device: How to Watch Torrents on Android with xTorrent xTorrent streams the torrents at maximum bandwidth of your internet connection, which means you don’t have to wait.įor best results we recommend you to choose torrents with more seeds and peers. You can search for new torrent files directly from your Android devices, or you can stream movies or other files with a direct URL or magnet link. XTorrent is a free torrent player Android app that allows you to stream torrent files. xTorrent Stream Torrent on Android with xTorrent Willis has indicated she plans to announce charges in August.1. The order invited the newly appointed judges to arrange a courtroom in Fulton County “if necessary,” so it is still unclear where any future hearings on the case will be held. The circuit judge ordered that the judges in Georgia’s 7th District, which covers northwest Georgia, will now preside over the Trump vs. The Georgia Supreme Court said in a five-page opinion that Trump hadn’t demonstrated the “extraordinary circumstances” that would require their intervention to block state prosecutors from ever using that material in any future criminal or civil proceedings.Īdditionally, an Atlanta Judicial Circuit judge has ordered Fulton County Superior Court judges, including McBurney, to recuse themselves from overseeing attempts by Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe. Trump’s Georgia legal team filed a petition last week, asking the court to throw out the evidence collected during investigation, to disqualify Willis and to remove Judge Robert McBurney from presiding over the case.Įarlier this week, the Georgia Supreme Court dismissed a similar bid from Trump. “The District Attorney personally retweeted requests for followers and campaign donations which referenced her prosecution of this investigation,” Trump’s attorneys argued in the lengthy petition. In the filing, Trump’s lawyers argue that due to Willis’ “conflict of interest” as a political candidate, she should not be allowed to continue to pursue the case. The district attorney’s office declined to comment. CNN has previously reported that Willis is considering bringing racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. In a new, 650-page filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Trump’s lawyers stepped up attacks on Willis, a Democrat. Former President Donald Trump’s legal team in Georgia is continuing its efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her 2020 election interference investigation, as possible indictments in the state loom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Steam will take care of the issue for players if there are any problems with the documents by replacing them with suitable ones. Use this to check the integrity of Borderland GOTY’s game files and see if they’ve been damaged or not. The platform has a handy feature available to all which allows them to scan individual games on the system bought through Steam to check if there are any issues with their files. There is an easy way to fix this if you play the game through Steam. This could be happening in this specific case with users, hence why the initialization error is occurring. It doesn’t take a computer expert to know that anything remotely wrong with the documents of a program will cause said program to falter while launching, resulting in errors such as the one currently being discussed. The error message won’t appear any longer.Īnother reason why an issue such as this one might occur is related to corrupted files. exe file for the game should be here somewhere, so just locate it within the folder and run it as administrator. Now just find the Borderlands GOTY enhanced edition folder here. Within this folder, go to Steamapps and click on the folder that says common. If players use Steam, then this location will obviously be in the Steam folder. To do this, the only thing you’ll be needing is the exact location of where the Borderlands.exe file is stored on your computer. All that players have to do is launch the game directly rather than using other applications to do so. ![]() It is a commonly encountered problem which can easily be fixed in the simplest of ways. This issue can sometimes be directly related to the launcher players are using to start Borderlands GOTY enhanced edition. How to Fix Borderlands GOTY Enhanced Initialization Error? Here’s how to solve this error in the easiest as well as most effective ways. The Borderlands GOTY Enhanced initialization error is one of them. While the game itself is quite fun for any fan of the franchise to visit, there are some problems with it which are encountered every now and then. This featured the same game at its core with only some polishing changes made to the graphics and gameplay so that they’d be better suited to today’s standards. To make things even better though, a Borderlands GOTY Enhanced edition came out around the original’s 10 th year anniversary. Despite being well over a decade old by now, the first game itself holds up quite well. There are only a few mainline Borderlands games, and each of them are great in their own way. One unique thing in particular about Borderlands compared to most of the other famous first person shooter franchises out there is that this one doesn’t have that many entries in it. Borderlands goty enhanced initialization errorīorderlands is a very popular first person shooter franchise that most gamers are familiar with, even those that haven’t actually played the game themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may also wish to purchase from either Amazon or Blackwell’s. Try checking the availability of this book at your school or local library or explore second hand bookshops and websites. If you’re interested in any type of science and want to read about something you’ll never normally cover at school, give this book a go. The book only assumes a very basic level of understanding of genetics and should be pretty accessible from even GCSE Science. It’s really weird and interesting to realise that all this is going on around you – and it’s something pretty different to what I learned in standard Biology at school.Ĭarl Zimmer is quite a famous science writer who has a real gift for making complex subjects both easy to understand and truly fascinating to read about, and I’d certainly recommend his work to anyone looking for an introduction to a topic – the bibliography and footnotes are great places to look for other sources of information. ![]() You’ll also get a good treatment of the human immune system and how parasites exploit its quirks. The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E.He describes different physical scales as well – from parasites as tiny as a virus to those as big as the cuckoo bird or guinea worm. A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine Granta Magazine The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. Zimmer explains how the creatures have both affected us on evolutionary timescales – ranging from malaria encouraging sickle cell anemia to creating a species of fly that has coexisted with its parasites for so long that it cannot reproduce without them – and on more recent, economic timescales – like using parasitic wasps to reduce pests on cassava crops in Africa. In 2004, Zimmer launched 'The Loom,' a blog about science that has been hosted over the years by Discover and National Geographic. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. ![]() The pages are packed with really interesting facts about the parasites that cause both human and animal diseases, and the profound impacts that parasites have had on all parts of life. Carl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. I was never particularly interested in biology and am quite squeamish naturally, but this is the one book that made me consider being a parasitologist! I first read it when I was about 17, and have been spouting malaria facts ever since. Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.This book has a slightly scary-looking dark cover with a picture of some kind of microscopic flea, but don’t let that or the topic of parasitic diseases put you off! It’s a fascinating read, tying together many topics in biology like evolution and the immune system, and it is written in a style that makes the rather obscure discipline of parasitology truly interesting. And we still have too many books in the house, so more sales will be in the offing. ![]() If we run out of these books, remember that the paperback and Kindle editions are still in print, and I have plenty of other autographed books to buy. You can find out more about the book on at, or check out this review from Anthony Doerr in the Boston Globe, in which he calls it “quietly revolutionary.” In my biography of this scrutinized germ, I explore the origin of life, our inner ecology, and the search for life on other planets. That would be our gastrointestinal lodger, Escherichia coli, the little bug that helped build modern biology and launch the entire biotechnology industry. But rather than try to take on all of life on Earth, I chose one species–the one that we know best of all. It’s out of print, but between now and next Tuesday, it’s available for ten dollars from my Amazon store.Īgain, here’s a quick description of Microcosm: In the book, I tilt at one of my favorite windmills–the definition of life. And so ( voice turning crazy), here’s the next deal: we’ve got 8 autographed copies of the British hardback edition of Microcosm: E. There were a few cries of “Arg!” later on Facebook and Twitter, to which I responded that I still needed to deal with more books in advance of our house renovation. Last week I announced that I had 17 autographed copies of the US hardback edition of Microcosm, and in 85 minutes you folks cleared me out. ![]() |
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