If she can pass their three rites of membership, mastering their proper form of magic, she’ll be able to secretly bury her forbidden magic forever.īut becoming the perfect debutante is a lot harder than Quell imagined, especially when there’s more than tutoring happening with Jordan, her brooding mentor and- assassin in training. To hide from the assassin hunting her, and keep her mother out of harm’s way, Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante society of magical social elites called the Order that she never knew existed. She and her mother have fled from city to city, in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through Quell’s veins. Here’s how the publisher describes the story.ġ7-year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. To protect herself and her mother, she reluctantly agrees to attend a magical finishing school and join a group of elite debutantes by completing a series of challenges that will, in theory at least, help her learn to master her powers. Elle-author of the Wings of Ebony duology-is rich and lush, the story of a girl who has lived her entire life running from the assassins tracking the dangerous dark magic in her veins. Mixing magic, forbidden love, and catty competition at an elite boarding school, with a dash of dark academia on top and a heroine who’s just looking for a place to belong, the story may occasionally tread familiar ground, but it certainly does it in style. As YA fantasies go, House of Marionne has a little bit of everything, in proportions that make you wonder just how delicious the final product might be.
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For most uses I can imagine, that brightness will far outweigh its larger size and mediocre image quality. Its image doesn't look great, but it's significantly brighter. For the most part I think the best option for most people looking for something extremely portable is the P6X. It's watchable for sure, but not more so than the P6X and P8 with their respective flaws. It largely negates the improvements made in the other aspects of the picture. The contrast ratio though is just really, really bad. The resolution, color "accuracy" and image processing, are all solid building blocks of a good image. There are so many aspects to the P7 Plus that are huge improvements over other projectors in its size and price. The P7 Plus on location at June Lake, Calif. Can you watch an episode of your favorite show projected on the side of a tent? Yeah, definitely. Since I doubt most people will be using this on a 100-inch glossy white screen, the lack of a contrast ratio maybe isn't a huge deal. It's gray and flat for sure, but the ultimate goal of any display is to let you watch things on it, and you can certainly do that. Surprisingly, the poor contrast of the P7 Plus doesn't render it unwatchable. That projector looked terrible in countless ways, however, so it still wasn't worth comparing here. The previous "winner" for that title was the $59 Elephas JingHuier, which had nearly three times better contrast numbers. As I said in the intro, it's literally the lowest contrast ratio I've ever measured. The P7 Plus looks flat and as a result, looks dimmer than it actually is. (That's not a typo.) For comparison, the P6X was 210:1 and the P8 was 558:1. The P8 and P6X aren't exactly contrast ratio champions, but they look like it when compared to the P7 Plus. This brings us to the main issue: The P7 Plus looks very washed out. The credit-card style remote isn't easy to navigate in the dark. It is visually much sharper than either of the others, with far less noticeable pixels. I'm not going to turn down 1080p in a projector, but given the limited lumens and how small an image you'll be creating the extra pixels are probably overkill. The P7 Plus, logically, looks far more detailed too. That goes a long way towards usefulness for a lot of people, despite its picture quality shortcomings. The P6X, however, blows them both away by a lot. So the image has more fully white pixels, appearing brighter even though the image quality overall suffers. To put that another way, things that are nearly white are "crushed" to be completely white. The P8's penchant for crushing the highlights makes it appear brighter than it is. Lips look like everyone's wearing particularly vibrant lipstick, for example.ĭespite its lumen claims, the P8 is a touch brighter than the P7 Plus by a few lumens. Don't get me wrong, it's not at all accurate, it's just close enough that you can look at it and not think the settings are messed up. The P7 Plus gets so many things right - the colors are somewhat accurate, especially for the sub-$500 portable set, and skin tones look human! Grass looks vegetative! I've seen far more expensive projectors look significantly less accurate. The P7 Plus isn't very bright, made worse by its mediocre contrast ratio. The P8 has some chonky pixels, badly crushed whites and even in the warm color mode, is quite cool. The colors of the P6X are wildly inaccurate and the video processing is wonky. This is going to sound like I'm damning the P7 Plus with faint praise, but it has the least things wrong with its image in this group. The P8 is even cheaper, but also dimmer and even lower resolution than the P6X. The P6X is basically the same price and has a brighter image, but lower resolution. Which is all to say, I don't plan on doing this single-company face-off again, but for now, these three make the most sense given the current state of projectors. The ones with batteries also typically wildly underperform those without. Even the better options have some serious flaws. This far under $500 there's not much I've found that's particularly noteworthy. When selecting the projectors to compare to the product under test, I try to keep the price and performance - and ideally both - close enough that the comparison makes sense. A rare, perhaps unprecedented, single-company comparison. Well, this is different: Three AAXA projectors head-to-head-to-head. From left to right: The AAXA P6X, P7 Plus and P8. To see the RamBox® firsthand, simply drop in for a test drive! Our team is here to help you choose the truck and features that are perfect for your lifestyle, so be sure to contact us online or to call the Glenn E. When you need even more length for special items, though, simply drop the tailgate and toss the available bed extender on to add even more cargo space to the equation. 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Many viewers felt Bristowe didn’t deserve the win over Schulman and mainly got the honor thanks to support from Bachelor Nation fans. The show has hosted two competitions per season since winter of 2006 (summer of 2005 was a one-off). On Thursday, Dancing With the Stars history was made with the announcement that the dancer and social media personality JoJo Siwa would be the first contestant on the ABC program to compete. Nev Schulman and Jenna Johnson put on some of the best performances of Dancing with the Stars Season 29 but were stunned in the finale when Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev ended up with the Mirror Ball trophy instead. Dancing with the Stars is a US reality show where celebrities duke it out on the ballroom dance floor, assisted by their professional dancer partners. There was incredible buzz over JoJo Siwa and pro dancer partner Jenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy winning this year’s Dancing With the Stars competition as it would have been the first time a same-sex. And it kind of just ruined the whole magical season that I had. We were so close, and I feel like, when we ended up getting second and lost, I was so devastated, and a little bit bitter, I'm not going to lie. 'You get to love who you want to love, but also, you get to dance with. Shes experimented with gowns that have sheer panels, plunging necklines, and more. But shes also worn some daring looks, especially while on 'Dancing With the Stars' this year. JoJo Siwa is widely known for wearing sparkles and oversized bows with every outfit. Yeah, getting second was not fun for sure. Dance Moms alum JoJo Siwa is one of the first celebs confirmed to compete for mirrorball glory on Dancing with the Stars. JoJo Siwa in New York City on November 23, 2021. We got on the topic of her upset loss in Season 29 with Nev Schulman to Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev, and Johnson admitted the defeat left her “a little bit bitter,” considering the season she had. Rumba dance-off / "That's The Way Love Goes"Īrgentine Tango / "Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)"Ĭontemporary / "Before You Go (Piano Version)"ġ Due to Derek Hough's absence in Week Three due to a possible COVID-19 exposure, only three judges judged in Week Three.Ģ Due to Derek Hough's absence in Week Ten for testing positive for COVID-19, score was given by guest judge Julianne Hough filling in for Derek Hough.I spoke to Jenna Johnson a couple of weeks ago ahead of Dancing with the Stars Season 30’s semi-finals, back when her hope of making the finale with JoJo Siwa wasn’t guaranteed. Viennese Waltz / "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes"įoxtrot / "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)" Jojo Siwas dances while on Dancing with the Stars Season 30. They placed 2nd.Īrgentine Tango / ".Baby One More Time" Siwa also serves as creative director and executive producer of the upcoming series "Siwa's Dance Pop Revolution" on Peacock. Next, Siwa will star in and executive produce "The J Team", a new live-action musical premiering on Paramount+. Dancing With the Stars premiere recap: JoJo Siwa makes history and takes first place Watch some of the nights most talked about performances. A consumer products powerhouse, her famous JoJo Siwa bow has sold more than 80 million bows globally to date. In 2020, she was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. JoJo Siwa wasnt the only one making Dancing With the Stars history When it was announced in 2021 that pansexual Gen Z icon JoJo Siwa was cast in the 30th season of ABCs popular, beloved. Siwa has over 60.5 million followers on social media and over 3.6 billion views on YouTube. JoJo Siwa is a global superstar, singer, television and film star, bestselling author and social media sensation. Still, it could be a long time before FedNow is used for such purposes, according to analysts, since it remains unclear if the Fed or others will develop services such as fraud detection, dispute resolution or other risk-management offerings for the system. Large merchants have long bristled at the fees they’re charged by card networks such as Visa Inc. have heralded the Fed’s move to develop FedNow, which they hope would one day allow them to take direct bank payments from customers, rather than relying on credit cards, as well as better handle refunds. A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment. Citigroup plans to join FedNow in the coming months, according to the people. “Given the rapid pace of innovation in this space, our participation will help us learn, grow and better serve our customers as a result.” ‘Very enthusiastic’īank of America is “very enthusiastic” about the future of faster payments in the US and will provide clients with a “robust set” of services, a spokesman said in an emailed statement. “Expanding the reach of real time payments will give people the ability to make payments across the country in a matter of seconds,” said Takis Georgakopoulos, global head of JPMorgan’s payments business. While others, including Citigroup and Bank of America Corp., have been discussing the development of the network with the Fed, they won’t be among the first to join the new system, according to people with knowledge of both banks’ work on the matter. JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are among the biggest US banks that have been performing final trial runs on the service in recent weeks as they readied their systems to support FedNow. More than a dozen service providers, such as Jack Henry & Associates Inc., which provides technology to thousands of regional lenders around the country, are also ready to support the new service. The Fed said that 35 banks and credit unions, as well as the US Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, are ready to support payments on FedNow. The Fed didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the post. The Bank Policy Institute, a trade group representing US lenders, said in a post on its website this week that it’s received anecdotal reports that banks are receiving pressure through regulators’ supervisory processes to join and use FedNow. It comes more than a century after the agency helped establish Fedwire, the world’s first wire-transfer system, and almost 50 years after the Fed supported the development of ACH. “The banks were thinking, ‘Am I going to spend another investment that’s very similar to what I would have to do with RTP? Or wait and see?’”įor the central bank, FedNow will operate alongside other networks the Fed already offers to banks. “There was a lot of confusion in the marketplace when the Fed said, ‘We’re also going to build the exact same thing,’” Rusiru Gunasena, senior vice president of the RTP Network for The Clearing House, said in an interview. Instead, they’ll have to rely on their banks and credit unions to give them access through their mobile apps or websites. “Over time, as more banks choose to use this new tool, the benefits to individuals and businesses will include enabling a person to immediately receive a paycheck, or a company to instantly access funds when an invoice is paid.”Ĭonsumers and businesses won’t have direct access to the new system. “The Federal Reserve built the FedNow service to help make everyday payments over the coming years faster and more convenient,” Chairman Jerome Powell said in a statement Thursday. At the time, the central bank’s move was seen as a major rebuff to an intense Wall Street lobbying campaign because the system competes with a similar, private network formed by the biggest US banks. The new network is a long time coming, with the Fed in 2019 announcing plans to create the system. So far, about 50 institutions have completed the formal testing and certification needed to send or receive payments on the new network, the central bank said. The new system, called FedNow, will allow eligible banks with accounts at the Federal Reserve to send money instantly starting Thursday. The Federal Reserve debuted a new payments system designed to speed up the movement of money among banks around the US, the central bank’s first new network in decades. By Jenny Surane and Katherine Doherty | Bloomberg "Ruth McGinnis Twice Defeats Ralph Greenleaf," wrote the Allentown, Pennsylvania. Other headlines also show that she didn't require an introduction. "Miss Ruth McGinnis Shows Top Form to Beat Lenhart," ran a headline the next day. The women in the audience clapped as she pocketed ten balls, one after the other, leaving Lenhart in the dust. In 1936, Recreation Academy in New Brunswick, New Jersey, put up a special grandstand, and a crowd gathered to watch McGinnis take on local legend Jack Lenhart. The program was called "Better Billiards" and the sponsor, the National Billiard Association of America, paid for McGinnis to visit well-established halls to give a brief talk about pool, do some trick shots, and then take on the local champion. She logged close to 28,000 miles a season touring the country as part of an industry movement to paint pool as wholesome, says Dyer. Women faced harassment and struggled to find mentors.īut McGinnis, a rare left-hander, found work shooting pool anyway. "In the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, and up until the ’50s, pool rooms were almost exclusively a male domain, associated with men behaving badly," says Dyer. Lower-end pool halls had become magnets for seediness, where unemployed men whiled hours away. McGinnis studied to become a physical education teacher, but when she graduated from Stroudsburg Teachers' College in 1932, the Great Depression was ravaging America. "To run a hundred balls is like the milestone for a straight pool player. "In addition to playing 'like a man.' which was a compliment in those days, she ran hundreds of balls," says Kenniston. National and world title-holder Mary Kenniston has met people over the years who knew McGinnis. "When was 10 or so she ran a 47," says Dyer, "and most pool players that can find their way around a pool table are never going to run a 47 in their entire lives, let alone at age 10, just to put that into context." If she sinks 14 balls in a row or "runs a 14," she can use the 15th to start into another rack and continue shooting. (Today, if you walk into an American bar with pool tables, patrons are likely playing 8-ball.) In straight pool, the player calls what ball she will try for-stripes or solids doesn't matter. McGinnis' game, popular in the 1930s, was straight pool, which is what Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason play in the iconic film The Hustler. You could find plenty of stories about Ruth McGinnis and other pool players in the New York Times." Mike Shamos of the Billiard Archive But during McGinnis' age this was not the case. "Now the sport is relegated to bars and play in leagues, but most prominent pool players nowadays-their names are not household words. "You have to understand that pool back in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s was in a very different space in this country than it is now," says pool historian and author R. That was just an average day at the tables for McGinnis, who triumphed in the male enclave of the pool room, earning her the nickname "The Queen of Billiards." Born in 1910, she started playing in her family's Honesdale, Pennsylvania, barbershop at 7 years old: her father kept two pool tables for waiting customers, and a soapbox for tiny Ruth to stand on. The manager teased that he should borrow a bowling ball from the alley next door and paint a big 8 on it, so the men stood a chance. McGinnis played a straightforward game, not chatting or joking with anyone as she played, the balls clacking cleanly as she cleared the table. The men tried to act nonchalant, but as they watched McGinnis dispatch their friends one after another, they shifted nervously from foot to foot. One January day in 1938, a slight, wide-eyed woman named Ruth McGinnis walked into the Arcadia, a pool hall in Washington, D.C, where six of the district’s most accomplished players waited to play her. I did this over and over again, with chunky sweaters, stacks of towels, my entire sock drawer, and every jacket I owned (which, I learned that day, was a few too many). It was like magic: Out went the air in the bag and, with it, my agita. Watching that bag compress was mesmerizing and oddly soothing for the first time in weeks, I unclenched my jaw and pulled my shoulders down from my ears as I watched the bag shrink. The SpaceSaver bags also come with a handheld pump, a much slower option but helpful if you don’t own a vac. Once I filled the bag, I used my Shark vacuum (also a Wirecutter pick) to suck the air out-it was easier to do than I expected. Filling one of the biggest bags with the bulkiest items, I stacked blankets, pillows, and spare sheets one on top of another. The variety 12-pack comes with three bags in four sizes: small, medium, large, and jumbo. I couldn’t have fit standard cardboard boxes in my tiny Honda Civic-but a few vacuum-sealed plastic bags that shrank to nearly 60% of their original size might work. The day my SpaceSaver bags arrived was the day I efficiently packed my dread away. Primarily recommended as a seasonal storage option (more on that in a sec), SpaceSaver bags work just as well if you’re prepping for a move and need to stuff a lot into a space not designed to hold much. I was spiraling downward and close to tears when I turned to Wirecutter for advice and found my saving grace: SpaceSaver vacuum storage bags, conveniently on sale for $29 at the time (which is the same deal we’re seeing today for a variety 12-pack). When I found myself staring down at the contents of my closet a year ago before moving from Queens, New York, to Denver, I certainly didn’t think so. Is there any situation more stressful, more daunting? You own way more than you thought was possible, and you’re kind of a pack rat, so you probably won’t get rid of any of it-but you somehow need to fit all your stuff into one midsize sedan before you hightail it out of the city and head west. 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What are they?Įxtreme E will closely work with scientific committees present in all five regions. While this championship of eye-catching electric SUVs will be capable of demonstrating monstrous racing power across harsh terrains and dreadful climates, it will shine a light on some key concerns. Veloce Razing & X44 from the United Kingdom.Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina– 11 th to 12 th Decemberīesides that, as the development of more teams is in place for later seasons, the current teams include:.Santarem, Para, Brazil– 23 rd to 24 th October.Kangerlussuaq, Russell Glacier, Greenland– 28 th to 29 th August.Sharaan, Al-‘Ula, Saudi Arabia– 3 rd to 4 th April.Similarly, the calendar for the races in each round is as follows: Did you know that as a “green” racing event, The Extreme E championship’s five rounds are across five different environments? Prominently, Glacier (Argentina), Arctic (Greenland), Desert (Saudi Arabia), Amazon (Brazil), and Coastal (Senegal). The Extreme E will commence the inauguration of its first-ever championship racing even in the early months of 2021, prominently, starting from 3 rd April 2021. The planet’s environmental issues will now attract greater attention from a majority of automotive fans as the event’s regions hint towards damage surrounding climate concerns. What’s more, Extreme E promotes the world’s first and leading gender-equal racing platform. The global voyage is set to showcase the epic futuristic technology in off-road racing with electric SUVs that are capable of keeping emissions to the lowest. The races will also be streamed lived on the BBC, with renowned motorsport anchors Jennie Gow and Andrew Coley providing commentary from a studio in London.Are you a fan of car racing? Perhaps even the off-road series? If so, you’ll be excited to hear about Extreme E! It’s the new racing series featuring completely electric SUVs! Extreme E is pushing the automotive industry to come up with better technological changes for future road and automobile development. These will be presented by Layla Anna-Lee. Half-an-hour in length, each will focus on ‘behind-the-scenes’ elements such as equality, electrification and environmental sustainability. This package will also include the creation of 20 magazine-style shows. Glacier X-Prix - 11/12 December 2021 - Tierra del Fuego, Argentina How can I watch Extreme E?Įxtreme E has secured a one-year deal for each race to be broadcast live on Sky Sports. Amazon X-Prix - 23/24 October 2021 - Santarem, Para, Brazilĥ. Artic X-Prix - 28/29 August 2021 - Kangerlussauq, GreenlandĤ. Ocean X-Prix - 29/ - Lac Rose, Dakar, Senegalģ. Desert X-Prix - 3/4 April 2021 - Wadi Rum, AlUla, Saudi ArabiaĢ. The former cargo vessel has undergone an 18-month, multi-million-pound refit to reduce its emissions.ġ. The cars will be shipped to each event aboard the RMS St Helena. Various elements of the car’s design, namely the front bumper and grille, can be modified to resemble road cars should a team partner with an automotive manufacturer. Meanwhile, Continental is the sole tyre supplier courtesy of its chunky Cross Contact compound. The 4.4-metre long and 2.3-metre-wide Odyssey will be stopped by six-piston Alcon brakes. This and the mid-mounted motor will provide a power output of 400kw – equivalent to 550bhp – to propel the 1650kg machine from 0 to 62mph in 4.5 seconds. The niobium-reinforced steel alloy tubular frame has been built by French firm Spark Racing Technology, which has been continually responsible for the construction of the Formula E cars.ĭespite an initial deal with McLaren Applied, it has since been announced that Williams Advanced Engineering will produce the battery for the Extreme E car. Sebastien Loeb – nine-time World Rally championĪll teams will run a standardised Odyssey 21 E-SUV, although the powertrain technology will be opened up to development in later years. Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has made his first step into team ownership with the creation of X44, which will advance opportunities for BAME engineers.Ĭristina Gutierrez – runner-up in the All-Terrain Spanish Rally Championship Stephane Sarrazin – sportscar veteran and part-time World Rally driver Jamie Chadwick – inaugural W Series champion Double Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne and Formula 1 design guru Adrian Newey are part of the set-up that has taken the Veloce Esports operation into real-world motorsport. Maybe I just didn't get damaged enough, but I never noticed any cosmetic changes on the 360. (Anyone remember the Shiny Everything Period on the original Xbox? Even rocks shimmered in pitch black darkness.) Also, there are several moments when Lara is covered in dirt and bruised after sustaining damage, but the 360 version doesn't show that. No dripping in the 360 version, but she does get shinier. For instance, when Lara pulls herself out of the water, she drips. The 360 version has a lot more polish to it, with some fantastic lighting effects, but the Xbox version actually features some details the 360 doesn't. Lara's character model is practically identical in both versions, but the backgrounds are where the main difference is. I have both the Xbox360 and Xbox versions of the game (and I'm getting the 'Cube version as soon as it hits the shelves) and I can honestly say they both look stunning. Purists of the series were glad to see that the Angel of Darkness Grip Bar is nowhere to be found-if you want to hang Lara off a ledge and go eat lunch, she'll wait patiently until you get back. "Damn," you say to yourself, "that was COOL!" Speaking of COOL!, Lara may be practically superhuman but she still has that damned Breath Bar. The lesser difficulty is all but forgotten though, when you send Lara jumping and swinging across a room without stopping once. I must concur-if I can beat it anyone can. This results in a game that anyone can play-a game that many people consider way too easy. The emphasis in this game is on making the action look good, and not difficult to pull off. (I liked it, but it is pretty darn terrible.) Gone are the days of precision positioning for jumps, and welcome to the new era of "That's close enough I guess I'll grab it." There were several occasions where my jumps were way off but Lara obliged me anyway. As everybody and his grandma knows, the Tomb Raider franchise was rapidly heading down the drain and Angel of Darkness had the distinct odor of sewage about it. However, I beat this game and that's one of the reasons I love it so much. 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