![]() The pilot was showcased this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “The insights that CGM and this program provide can drive significant value to both patients and care providers in helping to better manage diabetes.” “Dexcom is thrilled to work with UnitedHealthcare to bring this program to people living with diabetes,” Steve Pacelli, Dexcom’s EVP of strategy and corporate development, added. “Continuous glucose monitoring can be a game changer for people enrolled in our Medicare Advantage plans, as the data can be translated into personalized information that can be acted upon in real time.” “With more than 27 million people nationwide living with Type II diabetes there is urgent need to address this epidemic in new ways,” Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, said in prepared remarks. Participating in the program also gives people access to personalized diabetes coaching and an activity tracker, the companies reported this week. ![]() People using UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage plan are eligible to use Dexcom’s mobile continuous glucose monitoring system to track their blood sugar levels. UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) and Dexcom (NSDQ: DXCM) are joining forces to launch an individualized glucose management pilot program to help people with Type II diabetes manage their condition in real-time using wearable tech. 17 to include confirmation of Fitbit’s participation.
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If you decide to try this no-bake No-Churn Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream, I hope you enjoy it and let me know how it goes! Enjoy. What to make with leftover puree?Īny left over pureed raspberries make a delicious topping for a Cheesecake or even for topping a Cake or why not skip the syrup and use them over pancakes? I then swirled it through the ice cream combination and stuck it in the freezer. I pureed the raspberries then poured it through a sieve to remove the seeds. I was never too convinced about no-churn ice cream until I made it and tried it myself, now we can never get enough! It’s fast and easy and really creamy with no ice crystals!Īnd this No Churn Fresh Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream was so fast and easy, and only four ingredients. Cover the loaf pan in either plastic wrap or place in a large ziplock bag and freeze at least 3- 5 hours until frozen or even overnight.Then pour approximately 6 tablespoons of the puree over the mixture and swirl with a knife to combine. Whip the cream until stiff peaks form, add a little whipped cream to the vanilla/sweetened condensed milk mixture to make it easier to combine, then fold in the rest of the whipped cream mixture.Pour through a sieve into a clean bowl, discard seeds. In a small bowl whisk together sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, set aside.In the blender add raspberries and blend until pureed. ![]() Use a knife or spatula to swirl the peanut butter into the ice cream. Turn the first batch of ice cream out into a container and drizzle with half the peanut butter. No Churn Fresh Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream When the ice cream is just about set up, soften cup of the remaining peanut butter in a saucepan or microwave just until it is thin and pourable.Here are some other Delicious No Churn Ice Cream Recipes you may enjoy!. ![]() Ridge Counts for Whorls: Even if the little finger has a whorl, the ridge counting value is evaluated not ridge. And given the uniqueness and accessibility of fingerprints, the process of using fingerprint identification technology is easy and effective for enhancing the security protocols you have in place. As you can see, there are several types of fingerprints. No loops in either of the little fingers: Whorls are used and preference should be given to the right little finger. Tented Arch: The arch lies in the center ridges and does not show a continuous arch. The time required to build a model is 262, 55, and 28 seconds for GoogleNet, ResNet, and AlexNet, respectively. Rule 2: Right Little finger has no loop: Ridge count values are taken from the left little fingers. The obtained result shows that the accuracy for classification is 100%, 75%, and 43.75% for GoogleNet, ResNet, and AlexNet, respectively. The proposed model was implemented and tested using MATLAB based on the FVC2004 dataset. In this paper, we propose a classification and matching fingerprint model, and the classification classifies fingerprints into three main categories (arch, loop, and whorl) based on a pattern mathematical model using GoogleNet, AlexNet, and ResNet Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture and matching techniques based on bifurcation minutiae extraction. Fingerprint classification enables this objective to be accomplished by splitting fingerprints into several categories, but it still poses some difficulties because of the wide intraclass variations and the limited interclass variations since most fingerprint datasets are not categories. ![]() It is important to reduce the time consumption during the comparison process in automated fingerprint identification systems when dealing with a large database. The fingerprint is one of the most important biometrics that can be easily captured in an uncontrolled environment without human cooperation. ![]() This eliminates identity recognition manual work and enables automated processing. Biometric based access control is becoming increasingly popular in the current era because of its simplicity and user-friendliness. ![]() Brown Bag is open to all seniors with a maximum income of $2445.96 for individuals and $3311.54 for couples monthly and requires an application. The program is designed to supplement food budgets and allow seniors to maintain a healthy, independent lifestyle. Anyone is welcome to come to any of these sites and pick up groceries free of charge there is no sign-up or registration process necessary.īrown Bag provides two bags of groceries and fresh produce each month to seniors facing food insecurity in Santa Barbara County. Mobile Food Pantry brings distributions of nutritional staples like rice, beans, canned goods, bread, protein items, and fresh produce to low-income neighborhoods throughout Santa Barbara County. Anyone is welcome to come to any of these sites and pick up groceries free of charge there is no sign-up or registration process necessary. Mobile Farmers’ Markets bring distributions of fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income neighborhoods throughout Santa Barbara County. Click here for information on prepared meals. Our distribution sites include our Mobile Farmers’ Markets, Mobile Food Pantries, and Brown Bag programs. The Foodbank and our partner programs regularly host food distributions of fresh produce and staple groceries throughout the county. Haga clic aquí para descargar la lista en inglés y español. Use the Google map below to find the site nearest you, or scroll down to a complete list by city.Ĭlick here to download the list in English and Spanish. we work with partner agencies all over the county to make food distributions as local and accessible as possible. We have over 50 active food distribution sites in order to meet the growing community need in the wake of COVID-19. Looking for more information about Senior Grocery Delivery? Please DIAL 80 for senior home delivery and other immediate information. "This really demonstrates how easy it is for misinformation to spread," said Fisch-Friedman, who is 27. ![]() She originally thought the answer was “wind power.” The controversy began Sunday night after the Times posted the Monday crossword online and Molly Fisch-Friedman, an analyst at the environmental group Climate Nexus, solved the puzzle and began fuming about 47 across.įisch-Friedman, who has been doing crosswords since she was in middle school in New Jersey, was incredulous that the Times would imply that coal is an environmentally friendly energy source. “The fact that that filtered down to something like The New York Times crossword puzzle is an example of how these approaches by industry are ultimately successful at influencing our discussions and approach toward climate,” Hastings-Simon said in an interview. Sara Hastings-Simon, a University of Calgary physicist and Times crossword aficionado, said there was “such a violent reaction” to the crossword clue because promises of “clean coal” have been used “as this delay tactic, as a way to say we don’t need to do anything else” to address climate change. The Times’ backtracking shows the fading acceptance in the Biden years of the once-popular phrase “clean coal.” The Energy Department has abolished the Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management established under President Trump, who romanced about “beautiful, clean coal.” And the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity recently changed its name to America’s Power. ![]() “For the Times to actually embrace coal is a mortal sin - and I’m Catholic.” “They got pounded by their base,” former coal lobbyist Fred Palmer said in an interview. ![]() It’s also a minor humiliation for Will Shortz, the legendary New York Times puzzle editor who, according to the puzzle constructor, changed her original clue and inserted the error over her objection. Airflow over those Great Lakes can cause an unexpected amount of snow to fall in Newberry. Meteorologist Karl Bohnak said Lake Superior is only about 35% frozen over as of this week, and Lake Michigan isn’t frozen over, either. Though the snowfall this winter doesn’t exceed the norm, it has been difficult to predict. “That frequently happens in the Newberry area, and across the whole U.P., especially the north half.” “If you’re under one of those narrow bands of snow, it can be like a wall of snow or a curtain of snow,” Salzwedel said. Jim Salzwedel, NOAA observation program leader in Marquette, said the lakes create bands of snow that function like roads to direct snow right onto Newberry at times. The snow that’s landing on us is coming from Lake Superior and sometimes Lake Michigan, Michels said. It’s also not matching up with the pre-season Farmer’s Almanac prediction, which called for a warmer, wetter winter. “It might seem like it’s been a more harsh winter than it has been.” “I think what’s striking a lot of people is the fact that last year was pretty low for snowfall totals, and quieter than normal,” he said. That’s what has made this year look excessively snowy, he said. “The last couple winters we’ve had have been very different. “This is actually kind of a normal winter,” said Greg Michels, meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Marquette. Though it seems like this is more snow than we’ve had for decades, it’s not. Easing through intersections requires a slow roll and a careful peek. Stop signs appear to be held up solely by snow. Business signs, like at the Secretary of State office, are buried. I think that will happen and it will happen sooner than it did last year.Last week’s shock-and-awe snowfall came during an already very snowy winter in the Tahquamenon area. So, don’t be surprised if it gets cold and snowy here. February was also 6 degrees colder than average. Seventy-one percent of our snowfall last winter fell in those four weeks. Then, from January 31-February 27, we had 32.7″ of snow. What did La Nina produce last winter? We had a record low snowfall total in Grand Rapids through Jan. You can see the La Nina – the relatively cold water along the Equator west of S. Air coming off the Gulf of Mexico pushes north and brings quite warm and humid air into the Central U.S., feeding the storm systems that spawned tornadoes and severe thunderstorms as far north as SE Minnesota. The water in the Gulf of Mexico and water off the East Coast are warmer than average. Blue is areas where the water temperature is cooler than average and yellow, orange and red indicate where the water temperature is warmer than average. The map above shows the sea surface water temperature difference from average. We may touch 40 on Monday, but no 50s or 60s, so they should be able to open up soon. Lower Michigan (Bittersweet, Cannonsburg, Swiss Valley, Timber Ridge, etc.) should be able to make snow this week. Lots of snow here and a little blue sky to brighten up the day. ![]() They should be able to make snow most or even all nights this week and should be in good shape for the Christmas to New Year’s period. They got the power back on and have been making snow. This is Caberfae, just west of Cadillac – a lot of people there skiing and boarding. Lower Michigan and Upper Michigan were in full swing on Saturday. Marie has picked up 44.2″ and that’s 9.3″ above average. Alpena has had 22.6″ of snow so far this winter and that’s 6.0″ above average. There were a couple times when we had snow inland and either rain or a mix at the lake because the lake added enough warmth to the air to give those areas more rain and less snow. ![]() You can see there has been less snow at Lake Michigan with Holland and Muskegon getting only 6.5″ so far this winter. Also, it’s been warmer than average – December is running 4.0° warmer than average, so our precipitation has been more rain than snow. We have had 0.90″ less precipitation since November 1. Grand Rapids added 0.9″ of snow on Saturday, bringing the season snowfall to 14.0″. Once they've done that, it's on to Shrek, because memes. Somebody once told me that if you put a character creation suite or editor into a game the first thing people will make is a penis. It's hardly the normal body type, but that didn't matter to twitter user CisnaBalandor, who created a genius Cait Sith look: Shrek Cait Sith (Final Fantasy)įinal Fantasy 7's Cait Sith seems like the sort of character who should be theoretically impossible to make in a character creation system like that in SoulCalibur 6 - after all, Cait Sith is a tiny robot cat riding on top of a giant plush moogle. In the meantime, however, you could add to the Witcher lore on display in the game by creating Ciri - who of course shares some abilities with Geralt, so it's only right she also has his move set, as on this creation by DeithWX. Speaking of guest characters, SoulCalibur 6 did a really good job getting The Witcher's Geralt, and fingers crossed they find someone to be equally as special for the DLC guest. Link has never returned to the series since and it's barely been back to Nintendo platforms (but come on, Namco, the time is now for an enhanced SC2 port on Switch), but you can re-live the SoulCalibur 2 dream with this Link, created by crispynoodall. SoulCalibur is of course famous for its use of guest characters, and by far and away the most significant and famous guest character - to video game fans, at least - is when Nintendo allowed Bandai Namco to make use of Link from The Legend of Zelda in SoulCalibur 2. He has the scythe because that move set contains a finisher that involves him snapping his fingers. Being in the biggest movie of all time means he is of course on the brain for nerds everywhere, and Flousn90 on reddit decided to make him happen in SoulCalibur. ![]() ![]() Thanos is of course no stranger to fighting games, having most recently made an appearance in the fatally flawed but also quite enjoyable Marvel vs Capcom Infinite. Here's some of our faves: Thanos (Marvel Comics) The SoulCalibur Creation reddit has been instrumental in putting this page together, so much credit to them. Thus here we are - here today to run down not all-original creations, but instead some of the sometimes stunningly accurate and sometimes uncanny and weird player attempts to recreate classic characters you might be familiar with. Lizardman with a massive knob is still hilarious, but we figured it was also worth demonstrating that SoulCalibur 6's create-a-soul mode was actually capable of creating some awesome, memorable customs that don't involve dicks. We reported on one of our favourite SoulCalibur 6 character creations last week, when players started using an innocuous group of items to create enormous dongs to add them to characters in order to troll online. SoulCalibur 6's character creator is one of the coolest, most open-ended parts of the new fighter - and fans are having an absolute ball with it. You play Eric Simmons, a world-famous mountaineer, whose younger brother Frank has been reported lost whilst attempting to climb the foreboding Chomolonzo mountain. With a story heavy on Buddhist philosophies, a combat system that requires prayer gestures and plenty of other oddities, it's certainly unlike anything on this or any other console, but is there a good reason for that? was less enthusiastic, referring to the controls as "infuriating" and the finale as "laughably pretentious.Cursed Mountain, like its ghostly enemies, came out of nowhere to surprise us: a bona fide adult game, where the phrase doesn't equate to gratuitous swearing, gore and nudity, designed exclusively for Wii. Blast Magazine said that the "story, setting and atmosphere are the keys to Cursed Mountain" while "the controls or pacing frustrate you a bit". N-Zone gave praise to the game's pacing and atmosphere, with criticism aimed at the game's sometimes sluggish controls. The Wii version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Frank dies, and Eric makes his final goodbyes for Frank before he is to be buried along with the Terma, before Eric soberly descents back down the mountain.Ĭursed Mountain was a collaborative development effort by 16 companies consisting of 236 people in 17 unique locations in 14 different countries. Frank decides to pass through the Bardo into reincarnation rather than return to life, hoping that he makes better use of his next life. Salvaging climbing gear from base camp and oxygen tanks from the other stranded and dead climbing parties, Eric makes it to the top of Chomolonzo and finds Frank. Eric defeats Bennett using the Third Eye. Bennett kills Mingma and Paul, and is revealed by Eric to be a demon disguised as a man. Frank decided to climb Chomolonzo without completing the rituals, cursing their climb. The final ritual required Mingma and Frank to have sexual intercourse, but Mingma was unable to go through with it because she had fallen in love with Paul. Frank was undergoing tantric rituals with Mingma- the apprentice of the high priestess Jomo Menmo. Once Eric reaches the base camp for Bennett and his climbers, he finds Frank's climbing partner, Paul. Frank is trapped in the Bardo, unable to live or die, and the ghosts that have been rampaging the mountain escaped from the Bardo once Frank opened it. Eric learns that Frank found and activated the Terma and has unwittingly used it to pass into the Bardo- a purgatory between life, the afterlife, and reincarnation. Eric finds himself being attacked by ghosts and the monk Thod-Pa shows Eric how to use the Third Eye: a technique that allows Eric to see and battle the ghosts. The myths of the Sherpas indicate the Terma is the key to immortality.Įric proceeds through a series of villages and monasteries at the base of the mountain, all of which are abandoned. Eric's brother Frank went missing on Chomolonzo after being sent by Edward Bennett, a wealthy expedition organiser, to retrieve the Terma: a mythical artifact recently revealed to be atop the mountain. The mountain is inhabited by Sherpas, who practice a subset of Buddhism and believe the mountain to be a Goddess. Mountineer Eric Simmons is called to climb Chomolonzo- a mountain in the Himalayas that has never been summited and is steeped in folklore. The storyline of the game is heavily influenced by Buddhism and Tibetan folklore. The entire course of the game takes place on a mountain in the Himalayas named Chomolonzo, which the natives call "the Sacred One". ![]() The game also makes use of other features of the Wii Remote, such as its built-in speaker.Ĭursed Mountain is set in the late 1980s, due to the lack of technology available in the time period. The player must stun the enemies and make gestures with the Wii Remote to free their souls. A Microsoft Windows version of the game was released on February 5, 2010, in Europe.Ĭombat primarily consists of encounters with the angry souls of monks and climbers who are trapped in Bardo, a spiritual realm in between this life and the next. The game focuses on a mountaineer searching for his lost brother in the Himalayas. It was released on August 25, 2009, in North America. Cursed Mountain is a survival horror action-adventure video game for the Wii developed by Sproing Interactive Media, in collaboration with, and published by Deep Silver Vienna. Myranda - Seahaven, Windsword Garrison - Promoter: Windsword.Kraal - Desolate Wilds (43,15) - Promoter: Warmonger.Monshan - Navea Delta (90,45) - Promoter: Warden.Hedwig - Navea Delta (85,47) - Promoter: Shield Guard. ![]()
An electric current is constantly running in a loop through each section. So you put signals along the track that tell drivers to slow down or stop when the track ahead of them is occupied.Īll track on the New York subway (and on most American rail) is broken into sections, here about 1,000 feet long. The basic idea is that you don’t want trains to run into each other. Habersham is using it to explain how they work. ![]() It basically is a toy, except that it’s hooked up to real signals. It looks like a toy next to the full-sized track. I’m watching Wynton Habersham, the vice president and chief officer of Service Delivery, play with a model train. I’m there one morning in early October, one stop on the road to answer what I thought would be a simple question: Why don’t we know where all the trains are? This is where the MTA teaches its staff to operate the subway’s switches and signals, which look like simple traffic lights but turn out to be key components of one of the earliest and most complex manmade information-processing systems in existence. There is a whole world down there: a warren of rooms and equipment, including a working section of track about 20 yards long, that comprise the subway system’s Signal School. But going inside is like stumbling into the Keebler tree. It looks like the door to a small office or break room. There is a locked door just below the southwest entrance to the 14th Street A/C/E station. How could it cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take nearly a decade just to figure out where they are and report that information to the public? Really: How? Trains are huge objects that move in one dimension. But we live in a world with cars that can drive themselves. It is easy to take for granted that governments move slowly, particularly on large infrastructure projects, particularly when those projects involve software. (The A division already has them.) That would make them about nine years overdue. The best estimates today are that countdown clocks that tell you when the next train is coming will arrive on the so-called B division of the New York subway system in 2020. It’s hard to say what, exactly, but something important seems to have gone wrong when the tracking apparatus for subway cars is worse than it is for pizzas. This is both infuriating to riders who want to be able to plan their commutes-spend those extra ten minutes at home, or forego the subway altogether if there’s a long delay-and a symbol of a broader failure. ![]() Today, for the F train-along with the G, the A, B, C, D, E, J, M, N, Q, R, and Z-the best the system can say is that the train will get there when it gets there. The signal-tower operators don’t know there’s no one in the Rail Control Center who could tell you, because the F isn’t hooked up to the Rail Control Center. They wait for as long as it takes, for as long as their patience will allow, because in 2015 there is no app, no screen, not even a scratchy voice over a PA system that can tell them when the train is actually going to arrive.īut here’s the truly crazy thing: The only people who know exactly where that train is are on the train itself. ![]() When you spot the F rolling down the bridge, you have just enough time to run inside to catch it. Carroll Street is one of the rare New York subway stations whose trains are boarded underground but where you can stand outside to see them coming. They are, as it turns out, waiting for the F train. But you look in the general direction they’re all looking and there’s nothing there. They stand still in ones and twos, clearly strangers to one another, mostly quiet, as though they’d stopped on their way to work to take note of some spectacular disaster in the sky. There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance. |