![]() Built in the first years of the 18th century, the history of Blenheim Palace is colorful and its most-known for being the ancestral home of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. ![]() Located in the Oxfordshire countryside, Blenheim Palace is one of the most enormous palaces and significant buildings in the United Kingdom. It is not only an old manor, but it is also a national monument and a mausoleum. We should all be so lucky.Blenheim Palace is one of the unique buildings in the United Kingdom. ![]() Later generations of worshippers added legends about his birth to the ever-growing pile of Churchill mythology. So if Winston Churchill was in a rush to be born and start making his mark in the world, it wasn’t obvious from the circumstances of his birth. There was plenty of time to gently slide the cloaks, coats, and feather boas out from under Lady Churchill as the guests departed the dance the previous night. So the birth wasn’t immediate, dramatic, or especially problematic (if you leave aside the twenty-fours of labor pains). But it was a normal bedroom at Blenheim Palace, not a closet or ladies’ room.īut labor went on for over twenty-four hours, and young Winston was born at 1:30am on November 30th, 1874. That’s where the “cloakroom” story probably started. She was taken to the nearest bedroom, which was being used that night to store the cloaks and coats of the dance guests. Family members carried her from the dance floor and servants called for doctors. Relatively early on that evening, and perhaps while she was in the middle of an actual dance, she went into labor. Despite being seven- (or perhaps nine-) months pregnant, Lady Churchill attended a dance there on 28 November 1874. But this is a family show and we’ll leave that issue to your Buzzkilling imaginations. Scholarly opinion differs on the question of whether Winston Churchill was born prematurely, or whether his mother was already two months preggers when she married his father. It was obvious that the birth was imminent, so she was hustled out of the ballroom into the adjoining cloakroom, where young Winston was born within minutes.įirst things first.
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![]() ![]() (There’s a path to the right of the gravel road that leads to the Mt Pisgah campground follow the road, not the trail.) The hike climbs steadily, wandering through swaths of tall wildflowers and thickets of wild blueberries. The hike trails around the metal gate blocking the gravel road, immediately beginning its ascent to the summit. Park off the Parkway and don’t block the metal gate.) (Compared to other popular hikes on the Parkway, like Black Balsam Knob and the uber-popular Graveyard Fields waterfalls, the hike’s understated trailhead is easy to miss. The hike departs from a grassy parking area just off the Blue Ridge Parkway at MP 409.6 ( view maps and driving directions), several miles south of Mt Pisgah. And with 360-degree sweeping views of the surrounding Pisgah National Forest, it’s a perfect place to catch a gorgeous sunrise or sunset near Asheville. ![]() This trail scores a fantastic, million-dollar-view off the Parkway, but on a relatively short and easy hike. In warmer months, the route to the summit travels through wildflowers and wild blueberries, making the hike as scenic as the final destination. The 1.5 mile, round-trip hike follows the gravel FS 450 road to the mountain’s summit, a relatively gentle but nearly continuous climb from the trailhead. And, thanks to the historic, 70-foot-tall steel fire lookout tower at the mountain’s summit, the views are even better: a short climb up the tower reveals incredible panoramas of the nearby peaks of Looking Glass Rock, Mt Pisgah and Cold Mountain.Ībove: views from the historic fire lookout tower are simply stunning, especially at sunrise The oddly-named but easily-accessed Fryingpan Mountain is no exception: rising roughly 350 feet from a trailhead on the Parkway, the views from the mountain’s summit are sweeping and broad. South of Asheville, the Blue Ridge Parkway meanders through some exceptionally stunning landscapes. ![]() ![]()
![]() McKay originally auditioned for Saturday Night Live to be an onscreen performer, but did not make the cut. He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's ImprovOlympic, where he was a member of the improv group, The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn, Miles Stroth, and Ali Farahnakian, as well as Child's Play Touring Theatre. He described it as "settling with an imaginary degree". ![]() McKay dropped out of Temple a semester-and-a-half before he was set to earn his bachelor's degree. He then attended Pennsylvania State University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he majored in English. He attended Great Valley High School in Malvern, where he graduated in 1986. When McKay was seven his parents divorced. McKay was born in Denver and was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts and later Malvern, Pennsylvania by a mother who was a waitress, Sarah, and a musician father. In 2022, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for his latest work on the apocalyptic comedy film Don't Look Up. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. McKay and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For this film, McKay was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. ![]() The Big Short was his first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. McKay began venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions. Following his departure from SNL, he rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. McKay began his career as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. ![]() Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. ![]() Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of each team only facing competition within their own division, they are moving back to full travel and interdivisional action, making the Leafs’ task much more difficult in the regular season. The NHL will be back to normal for their 2021-22 season. "It's obviously been disappointing,” Tavares said, “but you know how challenging it is, this level, this league, year in and year out, and many teams before us have faced their own adversity, their own challenges, their own doubts - whether that's externally or internally - and that's what makes competing and winning the Stanley Cup so special: really not knowing truly what it takes to get there until you get there, and trying to understand that part of it." ![]() "For me, it was nice to just kind of get back out and work on some things I wanted to work on," Tavares said, "come off the injury and be on the ice a lot, get a good feel for my game and build from there with a good group of guys."ĭuring the 56-game shortened NHL season, Tavares was able to score 19 goals and 50 points, good for third on the Leafs, while appearing in every single regular-season game for his hometown team.Įven though he was unable to see Toronto move on to the second round for the first time since 2004, the captain understands that this is just something some teams will have to traverse through to get to that next level. The Leafs captain needed to be stretchered off the ice and did not return for the rest of the series, but was luckily able to get back to some minor training just one week after the injury occurred.īefore camp opens, the 30-year-old centre has been doing some informal training with his teammates. Tavares was on the other end of Canadiens winger Corey Perry’s knee, in an extremely unfortunate on-ice accident during the first period of Game 1. The support from the hockey community has been tremendous." So it's been a good offseason and I'm doing great. Really fortunate it wasn't anything much more than the incident and really came out of the hospital doing really well ever since, and didn't really have any hiccups or any issues. "It's been a great offseason for myself from a health standpoint," Tavares said, "but even more so, I think just continue to get back to work and try to get better and recover well. 915 save percentage in four playoff games last season.The Toronto Maple Leafs are still suffering from their postseason misfortune, but they at least got some good news this week.Ĭaptain John Tavares appeared on NHL Network this Thursday and said he is “doing fantastic” in his recovery process after a concussion and gruesome knee injury suffered in the playoffs last spring, and expects himself to be ready for training camp in mid-September. 932 save percentage in seven regular-season games and 1-2 with a 2.43 GAA and. The Maple Leafs also have Joseph Woll, who was 6-1-0 with a 2.16 GAA and. 898 save percentage in nine playoff games last season. 919 save percentage and four shutouts in 42 regular-season games and 4-4 with a 3.13 GAA and. 1 goalie after being awarded a one-year, $3.55 million contract in arbitration July 23. Ilya Samsonov will return as Toronto's No. 921 save percentage and six shutouts in 51 Stanley Cup Playoff games and won the Cup with the Penguins in 20. 910 save percentage and 15 shutouts in 272 games with the Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins. Video: HL Tonight crew discusses Matt Murray's Injury He also missed time because of injuries to his adductor muscle and ankle. 903 save percentage and one shutout in 26 games for the Maple Leafs last season. The 29-year-old was 14-8-2 with a 3.01 goals-against average. Murray fell backwards and hit his head on the ice after a collision with Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond. The goalie last played April 2 when he sustained a head injury during a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. This is a very special title should be reserved for gay men who have put in years of effort while educating themselves on how to be masters of their craft.The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. So gay men everywhere, please, for the love of all that is good, please stop calling yourself a power bottom when you aren’t. ![]() And so what if you can sit on a giant toy! That doesn’t mean you are one either! Just because you rode a guy for 20 minutes doesn’t entitle you to claim the label. What really pisses me off is running into guys on hookup apps like Grindr and Scruff who claim they are power bottoms when they simply aren’t. One of the big ones is never making the mistake of referring to our man holes with effeminate terms.Īnother one is understanding the importance of thorough douching! On a related note, a true – and I mean absolutely true power bottom knows all about the things that turn off guys who are tops. Related: Gay bottom diet and digestive health ![]() This means we’ve educated ourselves about digestive health, allowing us to do our thing without worry. Instead, it’s about the pounders ability to jump into action at a moment’s notice, allowing someone like me to be equally ready. This way of thinking takes years to develop and has nothing to do with the top’s size or girth. Not the other way around.Īs mentioned earlier, a gay man who identifies as a power bottom has adopted a mindset. Here, I am talking about a high degree of self-esteem and self-worth. To be this type of bottom, it means you have personal POWER. Remember, it’s not about the number of guys we can take but instead, our ability to be ready and last for the long term. I hate when gay men think this but apparently, many do. Sure, I suppose if you hypnotize one of us, we could turn into some freakish zombie bottom but in the real world, that’s not been my experience.įinally, not all guys like me who are power bottoms are slutty. I don’t know if that myth came from videos or an urban legend but it’s crap.Ĭontaining on with the stereotypes, power bottoms can be submissive but that doesn’t mean they are totally submissive. Nothing pisses me off more than a top thinking he can do whatever he wants to me because the guy thinks I’m impervious to pain, you know?Īnd hate to break it to you but not all of us are hooked on crystal meth, causing us to get “tina d*ck”. It DOES hurt if you just jam it in or suddenly yank it out. For some stupid reason, a lot of gay tops have it in their mind that power bottoms don’t feel pain. Perhaps the worst stereotype associated with this bit of lingo relates to physical pain. It does mean that we prefer to riding a guy and doing so for long periods of time. Just because we like to bend over doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t top. That’s because being a power bottom isn’t so much about the activity but instead, about the mindset. ![]() I’ve had friends say that power bottoms are bigtime selfish whores. This myth can be traced to harmful stereotypes about gay men – pure and simple. I would argue that guys who mostly or exclusively bottom are perhaps some of the most masculine guys on the planet. While I can’t list them all, here are some of the biggies.Ī lot of people see to think that guys like me who power bottom are “queens” or “big girls”. Let’s first dispense with some of the common myths that are often associated with being a power bottom. Power bottoms are ready to take it day or night and commonly like to skip a lot of foreplay and get right down to business. Power bottoms tend to last longer in the sack when the top is confident during intense jack-hammering (read between the lines). You can last for extended periods of time without having to take breaks. If you are a true power bottom, you are gay man who has a huge appetite for being penetrated by another guy (or guys). ![]() ![]() ![]() However taking into account the efficiency of the DC/DC at low currents, the current into the USB isolator will be even higher (43% higher assuming 70% efficiency).Īctually, I did some measurements with a Recom RKZ 0505S. The TS431 can handle this easily and the 75Ohm resistor is a 0.125W type, so 40mA are still OK (P=I 2R so 40mA*40mA*75 = 0.12W). So without any load (apart from the 5mA though the LED), the current drained could be as high as 40mA for a 2W type. So this is not a typical linear regulator approach.Īctually the current drained by the shunt regulator in an open load condition pretty much depends on the behavior of the DC/DC at low currents.įor a worst case assumption, let's assume a 10% scenario. It's important to note that the higher the load current, the closer the output voltage of the DC/DC gets to 5V. So with a current of 40mA and a voltage drop of 3.25V, this results in As a rule of thumb, the voltage drop on this resistor should be the desired voltage minus 2V at the expected maximum current. To limit the current through the shunt regulator, a serial resistor is needed. With a 22k and 20k resistor, it can be set to 5.25V ![]() It has an internal 2.5V reference and the output voltage can be configured with two resistors. Since Zener diodes are temperature dependent, not very precise and you can't get them for any voltage, a shunt regulator TS431CX is used. So the idea is to sink the current only when the output voltage exceeds 5.25V (maximum USB VBUS voltage). One idea would be to permanently sink 10% on the DC/DC output but firstly this would be a waste of energy and secondly this would also reduce the maximum current the slave could use. Without load or at very low load current, the specified 5V output might be exceeded by up to 100% - depending on the specific device. 40mA for a 2W device and a 400mA maximum continuous load current. ![]() Typically an isolated DC/DC only keeps its specified output voltage with a minimum of 10% load. Now this would be straightforward if these DC/DC converter modules would be regulated, but they usually aren't. To be able to supply the USB device, an isolated 5V to 5V 2W DC/DC converter is added which is able to deliver 400mA at 5V. It supports low (1.5MBit/s) and full (12Mbit/s) speed and can withstand a voltage difference of 2500V (rms) for one minute.įor transient voltage protection, TVS diode arrays are added at the input and the output in addition to the typical serial resistors. The decision regarding the isolator was pretty much straightforward, as the ADUM3160 digital isolator from Analog Devices is more or less the only easily available solution. The idea was to create a relatively cheap (material cost around 20€) and simple USB isolator which fits into a small and cheap off-the-shelf case and which is able to supply a slave directly. Typically, you need to connect a power supply on the USB slave side (behind the isolation barrier), which is not very handy. ![]() Also most of them can't supply a connected USB device. So there are good reasons to use an USB isolator - it's just that they are usually quite expensive. if a catastrophic short circuit happens in the measurement device, this could damage the PC. it can be necessary for measurement devices to use some potential in a circuit as reference instead of the common ground.īesides, the direct connection of 5V and GND lines between an USB device and your PC is also problematic in case of electrical faults of the USB device.Į.g. There are scenarios where this is not desired, e.g. So even if the USB device has an isolated power supply and would be isolated from ground, this isolation is bypassed by the USB connection. On a desktop PC, the GND signals of the USB ports are usually on the GND level of the electrical installation in your building. USB Isolator USB Isolator 2.5kV USB2.0 Isolator with 400mA supply and full speed (12Mbit/s) support Introduction ![]() |
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