His capture of Death is akin to a Saturday Morning Cartoon: Clean, colorful, yet dark and grey. While I enjoy his work, I don’t quite get the overwhelming praise it garners. The end result makes for one of Gaiman’s darkest stories. They feel safe from Death’s clutches, but she’ll always be outside, waiting all the same. Behind this door, if it could be opened, one would find a men and women frozen in a single day, reliving an unabashed series of vulgarities and vices for eternity. Overlapping his story is Death’s story: A part of her rests outside a door barred to time. He’s remembering his visits as a child, his brush with the eternally-beautiful Death then, and his frequent brushes as a soldier now. The narration carries the melancholic musings of an American soldier on leave in Venice. To some extent, it’s a retread of other Death stories filtered through the tragedy of 9/11. It’s a nice idea, but certain members of the Endless aren’t exactly known for their character, and some of these stories subsequently don’t do much to change that.ĭeath’s story, ‘ Death & Venice,’ makes for a good character to start with, but I found her story a little too dark. Some aren’t even stories, but descriptions, ideas, atmospheres. Each of its seven stories are quick snapshots into the Endless’ everyday, and each one sticks around just long enough to give some insight into individual personalities. Like Gaiman’s other short story collections, Endless Nights has its share of ups and downs.
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The next 5–8 years will see a massive proliferation of solutions built to support the massive infrastructural needs of direct consumer healthcare payments. We think this is just the tip of the iceberg. Other recent healthcare payments exits include Global Payments’ $700 million acquisition of AdvancedMD in 2018, UnitedHealth’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Equian in 2019, and Change Healthcare’s $888 million IPO in 2018. The market opportunity isn’t lost on investors and industry players, as seen in the entry of giants like JPMorgan with its more than $500 million acquisition of InstaMed, a legacy payment platform, in 2018. We are a passionate, innovative team comprised of payments, healthcare and technology experts with a mission to capitalize on the acceleration and digital transformation of a fully integrated payment and software experience for our clients.Yet, the market still lacks scalable and patient-centric solutions for saving, financing, and paying. Sphere is a Waud Capital Partners private equity portfolio company. Qgiv, a leading digital fundraising platform offering nonprofits a platform designed to increase online donations and payments.Health iPASS, a fully integrated suite of patient engagement software solutions to streamline the patient experience while driving patient payment yield.TrustCommerce, the leading healthcare gateway and merchant processing provider with native EHR integrations at large integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and acute care facilities.Our integrated software and payments suite helps organizations increase payment collection while delivering best in class security, compliance instruments, and a single payment stack standardized for reporting and reconciliation. Sphere provides fundraising software solutions and tools to 5,000 nonprofits in the US and Canada. Sphere is trusted by more than a third of the 100 largest health systems in the US and thousands of independent medical providers across the country to facilitate and drive secure payments by being highly integrated into our clients' workflows, patient billing systems, and electronic health records. While Sphere was founded in 2017, we offer strategic benefits to our partners and customers of three businesses that have been established for over 20 years. Sphere is a cloud-based, vertically integrated software and payments technology company serving a variety of complex end markets with an established market leading presence in the healthcare and non-profit sectors. Book My Doc will be formally launched at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Conference August 9-13 in Las Vegas.įind more details about Book My Doc and Sphere's other end-to-end patient payments solutions on display at HIMSS21 here. "This newest piece of the patient engagement puzzle is an enormous value-add for our clients and prospects."īook My Doc is available now to both new and existing Health iPASS clients, either as a stand-alone solution or as part of the existing Health iPASS platform. We are very proud to deliver an end-to-end tool that simplifies so many processes for patients and providers," remarked Rajesh Voddiraju, Group President at Health iPASS, Inc. "The addition of Book My Doc to the Health iPASS platform allows us to provide a one-stop shop to our clients. Practice staff can easily set up providers and pre-loaded screeners with just a few clicks, as well as view and manage all appointments from one screen. Once the patient has begun the scheduling process, they are matched with a provider based on insurance type, specialty, and reason for visit. HIMSS21 attendees can preview Book My Doc at Sphere Booth 4071.īook My Doc extends the set of the offerings of the Health iPASS platform, which now simplifies every step of the patient journey from scheduling appointments, to digital patient intake, through final payment.īook My Doc allows healthcare providers to quickly link from their website to the intuitive self-scheduling tool. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Sphere, a leading provider of end-to-end integrated payments and security software, announced today the launch of a new self-scheduling tool called Book My Doc available with the Health iPASS revenue cycle management and patient engagement platform. Along the way, players experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it. Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open-world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions. The story of former outlaw, John Marston, Red Dead Redemption takes players on a great adventure across the American frontier. ĭeveloped by Rockstar San Diego, as a follow up to the 2004 hit game Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age. When it’s ready, they can invite anyone within the LittleBigPlanet community to come and explore their patch – or can go and explore everybody else's. Players can make their world as open or as secretive to explore as they like. Creativity is part of the gameplay experience and playing is part of the creative experience. There’s no complicated level editor all of these skills can be learned by simply playing the game. As soon as players begin their creative skills will grow and they will soon be ready to start creating and modifying their surroundings – the first step to sharing them with the whole community.Characters have the power to move anything in this glued and stitched-together 3D landscape they have the power to design, shape and build both objects and entire locations for others to view and play. There are places to explore, creative resources to collect and puzzles to solve – all requiring a combination of brains and collaborative teamwork. The LittleBigPlanet experience starts with players learning about their character’s powers to interact physically with the environment. In LittleBigPlanet Players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots – and use their character's amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via the Playstation Network. People will be pulled in to buy randomly.īut why would you fight to get hotel tickets through Comic-Con? The deals for hotels made through Comic-Con are the best you will be able to get in terms of their price. This sale will typically be held in April and will be set as a virtual waiting room with participants waiting to be pulled in to purchase accommodation. Hotels will be a lot harder to book during this second sale and you’ll also have a harder time getting badges for the event. Getting an early bird booking won’t be very challenging because people don’t fight each other for these tickets, but getting a general sale ticket will be a lot harder. The Early Bird sale will usually be followed by a second sale, which will offer hotel rooms all around San Diego, even in the downtown area. Unfortunately, this particular sale won’t include any downtown hotels. Keep in mind that these tickets, although way cheaper than the market value, will be nonrefundable. Throughout this sale, you will be able to book hotel rooms in the Mission Valley and San Diego airport areas for somewhere around $180 and $270. If you’re smart enough to look for hotel rooms for Comic-Con in late March, you will stumble upon the Comic Con Early Bird hotel sale. So what about those two sales provided by Comic Con? Comic Con Early Bird Hotel Sale If you miss these sales, you are only left with renting a hotel room on the open market, which will be considerably more expensive. For people that don’t know this, Comic Con features two separate hotel sales with considerably better rates than anything else available during those few days. The cheapest alternative would be to just book a hotel through Comic-Con. This is one of the costs that you won’t be able to escape unless you choose to spend just one night at the conference or you have another alternative for accommodation. The cost of a few nights spent in a hotel in San Diego during Comic Con will leave most people stunned, especially the first-time goers. This is one of the biggest expenses you will face while going to the Comic Con. Most people will usually go for the three days of the main Comic-Con event, for a cost of around $180, but if you don’t want to miss anything, then the cost of badges for all of the event days will set you back around $250. This means that the cost of the Comic Con tickets will eventually depend on how many days of event you’ll want to attend. Furthermore, all children aged 13 to 17, as well as seniors over 60 years old will benefit from a discounted rate. If you have any kids below 12 years old and you want to take them with you, you should know that there is no entrance fee or ticket required for any children 12 or below. You can also attend the Sunday events, for a separate fee of $40. This night will be followed by another three main days of Comic Con conference, that last from Thursday to Saturday, each costing around $60. This cost will be split over a few nights: The Comic Con Preview Night, which is Wednesday night, will have an entry cost of around $50. We’ll start off by saying that you should expect a cost per ticket (you will actually receive a badge and not a ticket) of about $180 to $250. If you think you don’t need any of the expenses for either accommodation or to get to the event or whatever, then just subtract these costs from the overall expense. One thing you should keep in mind while reading this whole article: This article is written for someone that comes from out of town, especially for the event. You might also like our articles on the cost of tickets for the Oscars, Met Gala, or the Grammys. Inside this article, you will find a lot of valuable information on how much you will pay for Comic Con tickets, but for other expenses related to the event as well. All of these make Comic-Con a pretty considerable investment. You should also think about other expenses like the costs to travel, of coming from far away, the cost of food for two to three days, hotel accommodation, and even renting a car, if needed. Getting a Comic-Con ticket/badge won’t be the only expense you should take into account when considering the costs of attending this event. Not only the number of members has grown year after year, but also the costs of attending the event. It first started off as a small gathering but slowly raised to 130,000 attendees and badge holders yearly. This conference is held all around the world but the main even is held once a year in San Diego. Comic Con has slowly become one of the biggest, most popular conventions organized in the US.
Nissan Navara Black Edition A-IVI has made a great impression with a modern, powerful and sporting exterior design, set against the elegant black color background. Nissan Vietnam officially introduces the new premium version of this pickup truck called Nissan Navara Black Edition A-IVI, which has remarkable improvements both in design and technology, allowing car owners to confidently express their driving spirit and distinctive personality. Inheriting the Nissan legacy of 80 years in developing the 12th generation pickup trucks for more than 180 countries, the Nissan Navara boasts powerful drive performance, modern design and versatile movement on all road conditions. Enhancing a sleek and stylish design together with advanced technologies on this new variant, Nissan Vietnam expresses utmost commitment of meeting the needs of demanding Vietnamese customers with high-quality products. VIETNAM – Nissan Vietnam Co., Ltd (NVL) today officially launched new variant Navara Black Edition A-IVI in Vietnam market. GIIAS - GAIKINDO Indonesia International Auto Show.I was going to go buy a new battery, but I am glad that my dealer changed it under warranty. My old battery started the car perfectly fine, but the total charge was too low and was making the electroncs in the car act up. I am wondering if there was a bad batch of batteries that were put into a few mustangs? I also noticed that my 2019 seat motor sounded "weak" as it was trying to move the seat back (in comparison to my '15&'17), but today with the new battery the seat motor sounded just like the 15/17 seats. The easy entry/exit worked perfectly on my 15&17, but the 2019 never worked properly since I picked up my car (dec 5tt, 2020) until today. The service writer said that the tech told him to tell me that he thinks the easy entry/exit problem was also based on the bad battery, but if the seat does not work, return the car. The seat moved all the way back to the memory position! Pressed in the clutch (full pedal pressure) and hit the start button (with foot still on clutch). I was annoyed and thought I'd have to go show them that the seat does not return when engine is turning. They replaced the battery and the door handle touch sensor seems to be working fine now.Īs for the easy entry/exit, the tech had already replaced the battery, so he reported, "no problem found". The service writer said that the tech explained to him regarding the passenger side door handle not locking/unlocking. The tech reported that the battery reported 45% charge. The report said it was registering 440 CCA (the battery is supposed to be 590CCA). I dropped the car off at the dealer and asked them to look at the two problems.īefore they even did any work, they checked the battery and they said the battery failed test (car starts perfectly fine). When the engine is on and alternator is turning, the battery posts register 14.6V, so alternator was working fine. This was weird because I had just driven the car for 4 hours. The person said that the battery is healthy, but just needed a charge as it was registering 70%. I took the car to Autozone and asked if they could test the battery. The passenger side door handle's touch sensor to lock/unlock the car is inoperative (sporatically).Īs suggested in this forum, I did put a voltmeter on the battery and measured resting voltage. The easy entry/exit would pull the seat back on engine off, but on engine on, the seat does not return to memorized position.Ģ. But as the BBFC stresses, there's barely any gameplay alternatives in Manhunt 2 outside of the sadistic slaying, making such entertainment even more morally unnerving. Not nice on paper, granted, but perhaps little different to any gore-hungry movie fan seeking out the 'Uncut Version' of their favourite flick on DVD. Manhunt 2's gameplay focus (and appeal) lies upon the stalking and killing of villains, where not only are you required to carry out such atrocities, you're encouraged to do it in such a skilful manner that comes the reward of extra horrific deaths. In movies, you're the voyeur, in the former, you're the player. Inevitably the BBFC's concerns crawl back to that complex, age-old passivity versus interactivity argument. And let's not forget who our victims supposedly are in Manhunt 2, either. Call it a photo-realism thing, or the fact that such accounts were being perpetrated on emotionally more developed and humanistic characters (both very significant factors), but while I was disturbed by the brutal raping of The Hills Have Eyes remake, and the spine severing of Wolf Creek, I don't ever recall wincing at Manhunt 2's violence once. However, if it's the grimace-provoking gore and relentless sadism that has ruffled the BBFC, then consider that the impact of watching the likes of The Devil's Rejects and Hostel were (for me personally, at least) far more powerful and repellent than the executions in Manhunt 2. It all seemed to point to one resounding fact - that Rockstar must surely have cocked up somewhere on a spectacularly grand scale. This, the normally liberating BBFC, who were passing torture scenes on innocent victims in movieland, and had yet to viciously waggle a finger at a video game since Carmageddon in the late '90s. Just two days prior to my visit, the BBFC had famously denied Rockstar's 'stalk 'n slash' sequel an age rating, condemning it for "unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone". Oh sorry, let me introduce you to the world of Manhunt 2 by the way. And blood, conspiring with those great schlocky sound effects, was rampant in full glorious flow. Soon I was being treated to some tastier, more stylised set pieces as villains were multi-punctured in iron maidens and winched to the ceiling on giant, two-pronged hooks. Up ahead, flashing on a giant screen, gentle-looking amnesiac Daniel Lamb (a twisted joke, surely?) was smashing in some stranger's head (presumably, a bad person) with a heavy slab from a toilet system while taking a pee.Ĭrrraacckkk (or it could've been more of a crrrrunnnchhh - either way, there were some pretty gratifying sound effects going on there that suggested this wasn't some lazy-arsed robbing of the BBC sound library). Now let's take a small jaunt back to the previous week, perched on the tip of a black, leather sofa, as I was, in Rockstar's cosy office in London's billionaire playground of Chelsea. Another day in the age of the sado-horror flick. Limb amputation, bloody scalping and wide-awake brain surgery, all orchestrated on whiter-than-white victims by deranged, dribbling killers, whose mockery of classic genre convention saw them not only kick shit in such hideous fashion, but get away with the whole damn thing too. Like its demented follow-up The Devil's Rejects, it was a crass lesson in subversive terror, spooning out the splatter in big, thick globs. Last week's routine trawl of the DVD trade-in dug up a £2.50 copy of Rob Zombie's horror film debut House Of 1000 Corpses. Every location of Planet fitness provides 24/7 access to all members. Planet Fitness is the best option among gyms that are open 24 hours. 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This includes all crops sold at Pierre’s store, but also includes elusive crops such as Ancient Fruit (the seeds for which are acquired after digging up an Ancient Seed and donating it to the museum, or occasionally from Seed Makers), Sweet Gem Berries (acquired from the Traveling Cart), or any crops exclusive to Ginger Island. The purpose of a Greenhouse is virtually identical to its use in the real world in-game, it can be used to grow any crops you’d like outside the constraints of seasonal requirements. Either method will make the Greenhouse usable once again, and you can begin to plan what crops you’d like to grow inside it. You’ll also want to save gold star parsnips, melons, corn, or pumpkins any time you find them you’ll need five of each of three of these choices to complete the Quality Crops bundle in the pantry. If you choose the community center route, you’ll want to start building coops and barns early in your playthrough in order to save up to acquire more difficult animals like ducks and sheep in order to gather the products they produce. Alternatively, it can be repaired by purchasing a Joja Community Development Project for 35,000g. How to Fix a Greenhouseįixing the Greenhouse can be achieved by completing the Pantry bundles in the Community Center by gathering various crops and animal products. Patience will be a virtue in this effort, as it will likely take the better part of one in-game year to do so. Your farm will be equipped with a Greenhouse the moment you start your game, but it will take time to repair it before you can put it to use. Fear not, farmers today, we’re going to show you how to build the perfect Greenhouse to suit your needs. Or, perhaps you’ve got it all spruced up and back into fighting shape, but you can’t puzzle out what to grow and how to grow it. Ever since you first walked out the front door of your grandfather’s farmhouse to start your new life in Stardew Valley, you’ve probably wondered what to make of the dilapidated Greenhouse on your property. Disney with the Magic Mirror on the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition DVD introduction. This is the last appearance of the Mirror in the film Whether the slave within is free following the Queen's death, whether the Mirror is broken, or whether it simply remains unharmed in the castle is unclear like the Huntsman and the Raven, the Mirror is a minor character and is primarily used as a way of advancing the story of the Evil Queen. Though the Queen at first believes the spirit to be incorrect, she is told that she holds the heart of a pig and that Snow White still lives, in the Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. The evening following Snow White's introduction to the Seven Dwarfs, the Queen again consults the Mirror, presenting it with what she believes to be Snow White's heart. The Queen then orders her Huntsman to kill Snow White. When the Queen angrily asks for the girl's name the spirit describes her, making it obvious to the Queen that Snow White is the one being referred to. When asked who the fairest of all is, for the first time the spirit replies that, while the Queen is beautiful, a fairer being exists. The first scene of the film reveals that the Mirror hangs in the Queen's private chamber she walks to the mirror and summons the slave within, who appears amid smoke and fire. However, fearing that her stepdaughter, Snow White, may one day become more beautiful than she, the Queen dresses the girl in rags and forces her to work as a scullery maid in the Queen's Castle. The film's introduction (told in the form of a book) informs the audience that the Queen consults the Magic Mirror every morning, demanding to know who is fairest of all as long as the Slave in the Mirror answers that the Queen is the fairest, she is content, knowing that the Mirror never lies. The Magic Mirror appearing before the Evil Queen. Reitherman animated the Mirror nine times before he and Walt Disney were satisfied.Īppearances Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs This, symmetry, to an extent, was lost in the final film, as special effects, including smoke, fire, and ripples, distort the features. In order to make the face completely symmetrical, for each extreme pose, Reitherman drew one-half of the face, folded the animation paper in half, and traced the other half. In order to produce the Slave in the Magic Mirror's 'weird voice', actor Moroni Olsen spoke his lines with his head in a frame covered with old drumheads.Īnimator Wolfgang Reitherman found the task of animating the Magic Mirror difficult, particularly as the animator favored animating characters such as Goofy, who expresses himself by moving his entire body the face in the mirror does not move about and has no pupils, so Reitherman was only able to animate its eye and mouth shapes to accompany the dialogue. He does not hesitate to tell the truth to the Queen when it is revealed that Snow White was still alive. Whilst he is antagonistic on various occasions, he is not intentionally evil, as he is forced to obey the Evil Queen due to being her slave. Not much is known about the mirror except that his sole purpose is to serve whoever may own him at the time.
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