![]() “They said ‘we have a baby for you but she is very sick from head to toe. The drugs had also caused Natalie serious health problems, so the Youngs were told to prepare for a lifetime of doctor’s visits. The baby had barely been fed after her birth and by 6 weeks of age she was three pounds below her birth weight. Shelley said they were told that Natalie was born to a mother who was a daily crystal meth user. 19, 2000 - just six weeks after Valdivia had filed the paperwork to have baby Natalie put into foster care - the Youngs got the call they’d been waiting for. ![]() County officials warned them that all of the young children who would be eligible for adoption through the program would be “drug babies,” born to addicted mothers with potentially lifelong health issues. After a plan to adopt a baby from China fell through, the couple - then living in La Mesa - signed up for foster-to-adopt classes through San Diego County’s foster care program. Shelley and Jeff Young already had a naturally born 5-year-old daughter, but when they realized they couldn’t have a second child they decided to go the adoption route in 2000. “It changed my whole life and I wanted to change other people’s lives in the same way.” A slim chance of health “I grew up knowing that police officers were there to help and do good, and I knew I wanted to be in law enforcement so I could help people the way he helped me,” she said. By the time she was 8 years old, she knew she wanted to follow in this unknown officer’s footsteps someday. Natalie said that from the time she was old enough to ask her parents where she came from, they told her the story of her rescue by a police officer. On this one time where you do get to find out, it’s incredible to know that it worked out, and that this time this little girl grew up in a loving home with amazing parents and you got to be a little part of that,” he said. “You hope for the best, but it’s something you just accept. “You make the best decision you can, you hope you wrote a good report and you hope the system is going to work. But he never knew how important that decision was until six weeks ago. ![]() So, with the support of his fellow officers and a juvenile detective, Valdivia decided to file the paperwork that would forever change the life trajectory of the baby who became Natalie Young. Valdivia had never taken a child into protective custody before, but he feared that if he left the baby with her mother that day, she wouldn’t have survived. The house was also filthy and there was no more than six ounces of baby food in the kitchen. The mom admitted the pipe was hers and she showed physical signs of having recently used the drug. Inside one room, he found a dangerously underweight and sickly 6-week-old baby girl, along with her teenage mother and a used methamphetamine pipe. But what he found inside the house would haunt his thoughts for decades. That was routine duty for young officers like Valdivia, who was in his mid-20s and just four years out of the police academy. 2, 2000, Escondido police officer Jeff Valdivia was called in to help with the arrest of a parole violator at a known drug house in south Escondido.
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– $5 per piece for paints, glazing and firingĬall or come in to reserve your very own Party in a Box! * Five 16oz bottles of paint, extra bottles are available for $5 per bottle ![]() Places to take your Party in a Box: Vacations ~ Troop Meetings ~ Kids’ Corner at special events ~ Classrooms ~ Slumber Parties ~ Day Care Centers ~ Staff Retreats ~ Family Reunions…anywhere you can think of! Who says you can’t take it with you? Just pick out your pieces & paints, we’ll pack the box and you are ready to party anywhere and anytime! Your finished pieces will be bagged and ready for pickup one week from the day you drop them back off at our studio. There will be a fee of $100 for each extra half hour after the initial 2 hours. If you would like to have a private party on a weekday or Sunday evenings, we would offer you 20% discount on the rental fee. A deposit of $200 is required to rent the entire studio for your party. Please contact the studio for available dates and details at 73. The $250 per hour rental fee does not include the ceramic items. This package will allow you to rent our entire studio for a private party, corporate, or fundraising events. Minimum 25 painters are required, maximum 60 people. A custom painted commemorative plate for the guest of honor is included in this package. PRIVATE PARTY PACKAGE – $250 per hour(minimum of 2 hours required) plus $20 per painter.Įach painter may chose a ceramic item valued up to $20. PARTIES OVER 25 PAINTERS WILL REQUIRE A PRIVATE PARTY TO BETTER ACCOMMODATE YOU. *One ceramic item per painter, valued up to $15 (you may choose a more expensive item and simply pay the difference) SILVER PACKAGE – $20 Per painter+tax/minimum of 10 painters There will be an additional $50 charge for each half hour after the 2 hours. *A custom painted commemorative Birthday plate for the guest of honorĪ $100 deposit is required at the time of booking which will be applied towards your total balance. *Dedicated party host that will help you from start to finish *Use of our paints, stencils, stamps, and other materials *One ceramic item per painter, valued up to $20 (you may choose a more expensive item and simply pay the difference) Please contact our party specialist for information on all our party packages at 73, or email us at PACKAGE – $25 per painter+tax/minimum of 8 painters. ![]() We have several party packages to choose from. Painting and creating, celebrating with your family and friends. Our packages include all the great elements you will need to throw a super party. ![]() WE ARE ALL FIRED UP ABOUT OUR PARTY PACKAGES!!!!! ![]() ![]() “I Know You” began picking up on TikTok slowly starting in late Spring and reached a boiling point at the top of July. Released on her self-titled 2017 album, “I Know You” is being used to accompany a myriad of different types of videos, but it has been particularly popular for creators to share photos juxtaposing themselves as children versus now, while typing out the lyrics on screen: “I’ll quiet down if it’s what you want / I understand I’m not the only one / for you.” Now, “I Know You,” a previously little-known song from Webster’s back catalog, is spiking on TikTok. Last summer, Billboard reported that two versions of the singer-songwriter’s “Kingston” were trending among TikTok viewers, giving her a 92% gain in streams over about a seven week period, according to Luminate. – JASON LISPHUTZįaye Webster Once Again the Definition of Indie Viralityįaye Webster has gone viral once again. 1 single earlier this year with “Like Crazy,” Jung Kook is probably just a few days away from having his highest-charting single as a lead artist. We’ll know early next week just how high “Seven” can debut, but after his BTS group mate Jimin scored a solo No. Produced by Watt and Cirkut, “Seven” sports a shuffling beat, surprisingly explicit hook (“You know night aftеr night / I’ll be f–kin’ you right / Seven days a week,” Jung Kook sings) and combination of pop and rap that could work well at top 40 radio (with the song’s clean edit, of course). Meanwhile, “Seven” earned over 34,000 in digital sales on Friday, and added another 32,000 digital copies from Saturday to Monday – with more sales expected from the set’s CD single, which is currently listed as “sold out” on the official BTS webstore. That number dipped over the weekend, but was still comfortably clocking over 2.5 million daily streams through Monday, accruing 13.7 million total streams in its first four days of release. on-demand streams that day, according to Luminate. The rhythmic pop single got off to a scorching streaming start upon its release last Friday (July 14), with 5.11 million U.S. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, early indications are that “Seven,” the BTS member’s new collaboration with Latto, will climb even higher. After Jung Kook made a solo pop splash last year alongside Charlie Puth with “Left & Right,” which peaked at No. ![]() In addition to these puzzle elements, the player can explore the open environments to find computer terminals that include additional narrative and further puzzles, as well as signs from previous adventurers in the world in the form of QR codes left as graffiti on various walls, and holograms that once collected play audio recordings. The player can also request "messengers" during puzzles, which are androids similar to themselves, (though not physically present), that once awakened can provide a one-time hint for the puzzle. While it is necessary to collect all the sigils to complete the game properly, the game's world structure, featuring three main worlds that act as hubs and a centralized area that connects these three, allows the player to leave puzzles for later and try other puzzles. Special star sigils can be found by unique solutions to some puzzles, allowing the player to access additional puzzles. Once the sigils for a given door or system have been obtained, they must then use the sigils to assemble a tiling puzzle to unlock that system. The player's progress through the game is limited by doors or other security systems that require the collection of a number of specific sigil pieces. Later, the player gains access to a device that can create a time recording of their actions, such that they can then interact with this recording to complete tasks, such as having the clone stand atop a switch to keep it activated for some time. Boxes let the player climb to higher levels or to block the path of drones, among other factors, and large fans that can launch the player or other objects across the puzzle. Portable crystalline refractors allow the player to activate light-based switches. As the player collects sigils and completes more puzzles, new puzzle elements become available. Drones and turrets can be disabled using portable jammer units, which can also disable force-field walls that block the player's path. These include computer-controlled drones that will detonate if they are too close to the player, killing them, and wall-mounted turrets that will shoot down the player if they get too close if the player dies this way, they are reset to the start of the specific puzzle. The puzzles require the player to collect tetromino-shaped " sigils" by navigating enclosed areas and overcoming obstacles within them. ![]() These environments interlock greenery, desert, and stone ruins with futuristic technology. The player takes the role of a robot with a seemingly human consciousness as they explore a number of environments that include over 120 puzzles. The Talos Principle is a narrative-based puzzle game, played from a first- or third-person perspective. Other names taken from mythology and religion and used in the game include Elohim, Gehenna, Samsara, and Uriel. It takes its name from Talos of Greek mythology, a giant mechanical man who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. The game features a philosophical storyline. A DLC entitled Road to Gehenna was released on 23 July 2015. Virtual reality-enabled versions for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were released on 18 October 2017. It was released for Android in May 2015, for PlayStation 4 in October 2015, for iOS in October 2017, for Xbox One in August 2018, and Nintendo Switch in December 2019. It was simultaneously released on Linux, OS X and Windows in December 2014. Kyratzes also spoke in depth about the studio's efforts to give its big, dumb shooter a more engaging narrative bent (which was actually the point of the interview) that you can read all about here.The Talos Principle is a 2014 puzzle video game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. There's no word on when The Talos Principle 2 might be out, but Croteam's next game, Serious Sam 4, arrives on Steam and GOG on September 24. And I don't even mean us, the writers, although we worked our asses off too, but the programming, the art, all of that, oh God. If people understood how much work goes into this, it's so frightening, it's so insane how much work goes into this. It's very challenging in other ways, but the technical aspect of it, of course, when you don't have thousands of enemies running around all the time and have to deal with guns and god knows what, it's all a bit easier," he said. He also said the studio is looking forward to The Talos Principle 2, "because it's a lot easier to do than Sam." ![]() There's something you don't see every day. Wenn, dann entweder Reise- oder Geschichtsreportagen oder meine Lieblingsfilme, die ich schon zig Mal gesehen habe. Ich meine, daß sonst nur Dreck zu sehen war. Gamer wrote Wieso, war da was mit 'nem K70? Sonst war gestern abend auch nix Gescheites im Fernsehen It really grates me that Murray and Aykroyd alike are fully on board with that piece of crap, at least Rick Moranis has enough dignity not to appear in it. Picture posted from the set: Link to "mike962ġ000 times better than the remake. I have the original 1985 VHS edition of Ghostbusters. "Who are you going to call.GHOST BUSTERS!!! ![]() The 1959 Cadillac Ambulance is nice! Link to "oldcarfan This appears to be because they couldn't get any police car models in that scale and so just painted ordinary coupes in NYPD blue and added lights to the tops. Interesting info: the scale model police cars used for the Staft Puft sequence are all coupes. Lots of Ecto-1 models out there now! Link to "Kooshmeister I just heard the really sad news that Harold Ramis has just passed away I know stronghold likes to put such pictures up, but I think the only real thumbnail that should be kept is the title one. 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What to Expect from Your Texas Driving Test All that’s left is passing your behind-the-wheel and vision exams at the DPS. Once you pass your adult drivers education course, you’ll have fulfilled the written DPS exam requirement. You could study the Texas drivers manual on your own, or you can increase your chances of passing by taking a Texas adult drivers ed online course. ![]() ![]() If you’re over the age of 25, you’ll want to prepare for the written exam before you head to the DPS. For drivers 18-24, you must bring proof of completion of your Texas adult drivers ed course on test day. If you’re a teen and you already have your Texas drivers permit, you can schedule your behind-the-wheel test at the DPS once you pass your 16th birthday and you’ve had your license for 6 months. There are some Texas driving test requirements, you’ll have to meet before you can take the driving test depending on your age. In addition, every driver must pass a behind-the-wheel skills exam as well as a vision test before obtaining their license. All new drivers in Texas are required to pass a written exam covering road signs, driving laws, and penalties. Make sure you’re 100% prepared for what you’ll be facing when you schedule your drivers license appointment. Are you prepared? We’ll help you get behind the wheel with our Texas driving test guide. ![]() Before you hit the open roads in Texas, you’ll need to pass the driving test to earn your new drivers license. Under the hood, the edit timeline playback engine has been “hugely improved”, which should smooth playback on lower-powered systems where a project cannot be played back in real time. Other changes: performance improvements, new formats supported and better remote monitoring We don’t cover audio or video editing on CG Channel, but you can find a full list of the changes to both toolsets via the links at the foot of this story. Workflow improvements include the option to specify the intervals at which timeline backups will be created on a per-timeline basis, and metadata panel support for marker subsclips.Īudio: Fairlight improvements and better support for external database applicationsĪudio artists get support for edit and mix groups in DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight toolset, support for nesting VCAs, and the option to stream from external database applications like Soundminer. The software can now automatically sort clips by type (dialogue, effects or music), and can also automatically transcribe dialogue, and generate text captions in a new subtitle track. Video editors using Studio get a number of new AI-based tools for working with the audio in media clips. Video editing: new AI-based tools for categorising, transcribing and captioning media clips In addition, DaVinci Resolve now automatically creates the inputs and outputs required by Resolve FX effects plugins, removing the need to drag plugins as independent FX nodes. Other workflow improvements include the option to override color management settings on a per-timeline basis, and to copy color grades to all of the angles within multicam shots when flattening multicam clips. The files can be relinked via a Missing LUTs tab in the LUT gallery. Rather than interrupting playback with a warning dialog, missing LUTs are now shown via an overlay at the bottom of the screen. The 18.5 updates also improve DaVinci Resolve’s handling of projects with missing LUTs. Grading: support for annotations in the color viewer, plus a lot of workflow improvementsĬolorists can also now add their own marker overlays and annotations to footage in the color viewer, making it possible for supervisors to flag up parts of a sequence that need adjusting. Studio’s existing Super Scale feature for up-resing video gets a new 2x Enhanced mode for “extremely high quality 2x output”, with manual controls to adjust noise reduction and images sharpness. Light intensity information is placed in the alpha channel for use with any of Resolve’s existing grading tools. With it, artists can add virtual direction, point or spot lights to a shot, and adjust their colour, surface softness and specularity, as shown at 23:40 in the video at the top of the story. Grading: new AI-based relighting system and improved AI video upscalingĬolorists and effects artists using Studio get Relight, a new AI-based shot relighting system. In addition, DaVinci Resolve Studio’s native AI depth map generator is now available inside Fusion. ![]() Multi-merge makes it possible to composite shots using a layer-based workflow as well as the node-based workflow available in Fusion, Resolve’s 3D compositing environment. Other new features relevant to visual effects work include Multi-merge, a new tool for managing multiple foreground sources as a composited layer stack, shown at 22:10 in the video at the top of the story. There is also a basic set of tools for manipulating, relighting and rendering imported USD assets: you can find a complete list in this forum post. VFX artists working in movie pipelines based around the Universal Scene Description format get the option to import USD and USDZ files, including geometry, materials, lights, cameras and animation. VFX: initial support for USD workflows and new Multi-merge tool for layer-based compositing The Studio edition also gets new AI-based video editing tools, including AI-based audio categorisation, transcription and captioning. Originally posted on 17 April 2023 for the beta, and updated for the final release.īlackmagic Design has released its latest updates to DaVinci Resolve, its free colour grading, editing and post-production software, and DaVinci Resolve Studio, its $295 commercial edition.ĭaVinci Resolve 18.5 is a major update, adding initial support for USD-based workflows in both editions of the software, plus a new AI-based relighting toolset and improved AI-based video upscaling in Studio. Coverage of Da Vinci Resolve 18.5 starts at 16:05. ![]() Blackmagic Design’s product updates for NAB 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is incredibly rare for a show that won the biggest Tony of the night to close within the year after winning, but given the state of Broadway right now (I mean, “Phantom of the Opera” is closing in February after 36 YEARS) then I can’t say it’s a total surprise. (I was smart and bought tickets the week before the Tony’s because I knew once it won, they’d be impossible to get.) It was announced this week that the show would be closing in January 2023. After reading about the show when it first opened, I knew I had to see it during our family trip to New York City this summer. This year, it won Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards, and they were so deserved. Because the whole show takes place in Usher’s head, the other actors play Thoughts 1-6, who act out not only his thoughts, but the people in his life, including his family (who he has named after characters from “The Lion King,” the show where he works as an usher.)Īfter winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2020, A Strange Loop opened on Broadway on Apafter beginning previews on my birthday, April 14. The name comes from an actual scientific concept, but also a Liz Phair song. Jackson, it’s about Usher (played by Jaquel Spivey), a fat, queer Black playwright writing a musical about a fat, queer Black playwright, writing a musical about…you get the point. With those words, you’re thrust into the world of the musical A Strange Loop. “How many minutes ‘til the end of intermission?” The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]() These kits when completed, have very limited range of motion which renders them almost not poseable. The basic kits of the late 1980s (routinely re-released by Bandai, with some exceptions) require cement and paint. Since the first Gunpla release, there has been a constant improvement in quality design, material and manufacturing technique by Bandai. Other scales include 1:200, 1:48, and the SD series. The kits range in different scales with the most popular scales being: 1:144 (approx 13 cm tall), 1:100 (approx 16–19 cm tall) and 1:60 (approx 30 cm tall). Smaller or lower grade kits often require paint to give the model a finished appearance. All Gunpla are supplied with stickers and sometimes decals to apply extra colors and markings as seen in the show, movies, manga or video games. The cover image on the box, or box art, is usually done by an illustrator with a picture illustration of the subject mecha design in action. Gunpla kits consist of several trays of parts or "runners" that either snap-fit (most post-1990 models) or require glue (older models prior to 1990) to put together. The first Gunpla kits were sold in 1980 in Japan. Gunpla are manufactured by Bandai in Japan, or China, which has an exclusive license in manufacturing and marketing the kits around the world. ![]() Gunpla gallery showing various grades and scales. 15 Bootleg Gunpla (pirated Gundam model kits).11.1 Action figures and completed models.10.11 Yokohama Walking Gundam Model Series. ![]() ![]() Many more big game showcases and streams are still to come this summer, so make sure you stay up to date with our summer games stream schedule. Not E3 2022 is in full-swing - see everything in our E3 2022 hub, as well as our complete round-up of everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2022. Whether it will also support local or online co-op like Swords Of Ditto does remains to be seen, though.Īlas, The Plucky Squire isn't due out on Steam until 2023, but in the meantime, why not stick it on your wishlist, eh? The Plucky Squire parece ser una aventura interesante, ya que podrás saltar directamente de las encantadoras páginas de un libro infantil al mundo real, que viene con su propio conjunto de. We don't see them in the trailer, but the artwork suggests we'll get a wizard with a paintbrush (someone get Chicory on the phone), and a goblin pal who seems to be wielding a pair of drumsticks. Devolver Digital has revealed The Plucky Squire, an action-adventure game that follows a storybook character as he explores. Jot will be joined by a handful of friends on his journey, too. Something circular and conducive to side-scrolling shoot 'em up-ing anyhow. Devolver Digital has revealed The Plucky Squire, an action-adventure game that follows a storybook character as he explores beyond the confines of his book. Or maybe it's this world's version of Lego. It looks like he'll be able to jump into all manner of other objects round the room, too, including a mug and what appears to be a big plastic chocolates tub. What starts out looking like a cute 2D Zelda-like set inside a children's storybook suddenly transforms into a Toy Story-esque romp where your little squire goes clambering around said child's little bedroom. ![]() Honestly, I didn't see that 2D-3D twist coming at all. 1 The Plucky Squire Official Reveal Trailer - Coming 2023 Jump between 2D and 3D worlds in this charming action adventure - solving puzzles, boxing badgers, flying with a jetpack, and. There's sword-fighting, Punch-Out!!-style boxing, top-down adventuring, sides-crolling sh'umping. In fact, I reckon it might just be every single game in one, going by that trailer. Made by Jonathan Biddle of Ditto fame and former Game Freak artist James Turner (who worked on Pokemon Sword and Shield) who have banded together to form new studio All Possible Futures, The Plucky Squire is a gorgeous blend of 2D cell-shading and stunning 3D playroom environments. See what I mean in the reveal trailer below. Well, isn't this a lovely surprise? Arguably the highlight from Devolver's Countdown To Marketing stream this evening, The Plucky Squire is the next game from the creator of Swords Of Ditto - and it looks an absolute peach. |
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