![]() Although it wasn't an easy road to success, the "yes" that Ebony gave to herself to pursue her dreams would act as a far greater force to combat the "no's" that crossed her path. The actress made her television debut playing in Masters of None's iconic Thanksgiving episode, along with noteworthy roles in Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Amazon's Hunters, and Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk. It was the ugly cry too! But it really opened the door for everything since."Įverything that has followed in her career is more than deserving of her outpour of gratitude. She was super encouraging of me venturing out to see if the performing arts was something that I could do for the rest of my life." Ebony playfully admits, "Thank God for that breakdown. The journey to follow her pursuits led to university where she studied journalism, a suitable major for anyone who enjoys "being in other people's shoes." Although she was performing well in her studies, it wasn't long before Ebony reached a breaking point, where something was telling her, " T his is not where I'm supposed to be." Taking heed to that nudge, she knew that if she continued on this path, she would be costing herself peace of mind, "I remember breaking down crying to my mom. Photographer Joe Hernandez, Stylist Angelina Scantlebury, MUA Veronica Gaona Courtesy of Ebony Obsidian But I think that it was definitely supposed to happen, that it was destined to happen. "I never saw as a career that it has so beautifully become. Although she grew up with a shy and introverted personality, she found her voice by embodying the narratives of the characters she'd play, "Acting gave me a way to hide behind other people and hide behind someone who wasn't me." In that hiding, what came to be revealed was an inherent gift for the performing arts that lived within her all along. Either way, there are some instances, like that of Ebony Obsidian, actress and star of the BET series, Tyler Perry's Sistas, that proves just how far one's gifts can take them when they're walking in divine purpose.Ĭoming of age, Ebony found herself to be a natural storyteller, drawn to the truth and humanity within others. Maybe it's fate, or simply the collision of refined skills meeting opportunity and preparation. Beyond natural ability and innate talent, it's not too far-fetched to attribute our great success to the divine forces that guide our pursuits.
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![]() For the purpose of this guide, the folder is named M圜ity and is located in D:\CitySampleSource\M圜ity.Ĭopy the content located in D:\CitySampleSource\Small_City\houdini to the M圜ity folder. This folder will also contain duplicated parts of the files included with the "CitySample_HoudiniSource.zip" so that you don't inadvertently overwrite them if you create additional cities using Houdini.Ĭreate a new folder in your CitySampleSource folder to store the data for your city. In this step, you will create a new folder to store city data from Houdini generated throughout this guide. hda (Houdini Digital Asset) files from the folder path you specified in this section. Expand the Operator Type Libraries > Scanned Asset Library Directories to view them, they are located at the bottom where you should see a listing of. You can view them from the main menu under Asset > Asset Manager. Once Houdini starts, when you open the Asset Manager, you should see a list of Sample Houdini Operators. Windows defaults to using backslashes (). Also, it is important to use forward slashes (/) in the folder path like the example above. HOUDINI_PATH = D:/CitySampleSource/Small_City/houdini &īe sure to replace the file path with the one you used while extracting the Houdini source files. ![]() In your Windows system's Documents folder located in C:\Users\Documents\houdini18.5, open the file named houdini.env with a text editor.Īt the bottom of the houdini.env file, add the following new line: The file path should look like D:\CitySampleSource\Small_City. Once extracted, a folder named Small_City is added. The remainder of this guide assumes you are using a similarly named and placed folder path.Įxtract the content of CitySample_HoudiniFiles.zip file to your folder. For the purposes of this guide, the save location used is D:\CitySampleSource. It contains the Houdini source files required to complete this guide.Ĭreate a new folder to save the source files to. In the root directory where your City Sample project is saved, locate the CitySample_HoudiniFiles.zip file. You also need to specify and create some directories used later in this guide to store data for your city. While Unreal Engine and Houdini support Mac and Linux, the workflows and source files have not been tested with those systems and we cannot guarantee they will work as intended.īefore you can effectively use Houdini to start generating your city, you first need to set up a few things on your computer, including extracting the source files needed to complete this guide. The workflow and files used in this guide work with the Windows 10 operating system. This guide assumes you have working knowledge of Houdini and using its tools. Refer to the City Sample Recommended System Specifications.ĭownload the City Sample Unreal Engine 5 project through the Epic Games Launcher. For bigger cities, you can expect to use from 5 to 10 GB of space. You need to run Houdini once to generate the startup files necessary for the Required Houdini Project Setup.Īt least 2 gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space to extract the data and generate small-sized cities. We recommend you use version 18.5.532 since it's the version used to develop the City Sample project. Generate all the necessary data which can be exported and ready for import into Unreal Engine 5. Specify zones and define the silhouette of your city.Ĭreate a road network that supports a freeway system. Setup the basis for your city shape, size, and layout. Setup and configure Houdini with the provided source files. This guide is part one of a two-part series that walks you through the process of creating your own city with a road network and freeway system in Houdini Engine using Epic-developed tools.Īccess the Houdini Source files to create your own city. The City Sample uses the data generated from Houdini to populate assets, drive simulations for artificial intelligence, traffic, and audio, and much more. The City Sample project is a technical demonstration of how you can use procedurally generated data from SideFX's Houdini Engine in Unreal Engine 5 to create a working simulated world. Step 11 - Generate the City Caches and Export Data Step 10 - Adjust the Cityscape and Buildings Volume Step 9 - Create a Freeway Connection to the City Step 8 - Assemble Your Inputs in the City Processor Step 7 - Drawing the Freeway Path Through the City Step 6 - Draw City Zone and Adjust Cityscape Step 3 - Starting the City Creation Process by Defining the City Shape ![]() Step 2 - Creating a Directory for Your City ![]() Ukulele, Meat Hook, Sticky bomb (I swear this was total before), runald's band, kjaro's band, and brilliant behemoth also all hopped over from the additive to total (multiplying based) according to the patch notes. Hey uh, real quick fyi, that patch notes quote saying missiles changed from additive to total to be multiplying based? The next two items listed to also make these changes after that are also the ukelele and the meathook, ironically. So missle is the only item left that can just increase damage this way. Since you can't chain crits anymore, that means ukelele and meathook can't do this effect where the damage keeps going up. Missles seem like the go to damage item now. Originally posted by Cacomistle:I think this gets into the OP's question. But you need the missle to get a chance for the 1 shot. Like that basically means about a 1% chance of 1 shotting a boss, a bit under an 17% chance to do significant damage but not 1 shot, and about an 82% chance of dealing totally meh damage (well specifically with those 2 items). Hitting something like capacitor into missle into kjaros would be 3000 + 9000+ 45000 wouldn't it? I haven't tried them out, but I imagine capacitor and preon are super rng items, where a couple procs could be the difference between 1 shot and 0 damage. I think this gets into the OP's question. The more damage items are added that base themselves on your damage and also themselves are capable of proccing, the stronger sticky gets. ![]() Obviously the odds of that chain going all the way, and thus a significant portion of your DPS, is going to go up the more stickies you have.
![]() Religious and psychological opinion said that children should not be coddled or indulged but required severe discipline to grow up (“spare the rod, spoil the child”).Īs recently as the 1960s, the kindly Dr. In addition, Freudian psychology privileged the marriage bed and claimed that babies would be harmed if they were exposed to parents’ sexuality. Over time, other Western trends converged with that decree: Rising affluence and the value on independence and individualism made separate bedrooms fashionable. So the church ordered that babies should sleep in a separate cradle until the age of three. ![]() Historical records from northern Europe show that Catholic priests heard confessions from destitute women who had “overlain” onto their newborns, suffocating them in a desperate attempt to limit their family size-they just couldn’t support another child. But all of them slept within sensory range of their babies.Ībout 500 years ago, Western societies diverged from the rest of the world regarding family sleep, McKenna explains. The particular arrangements varied-some parents slept nestled with their babies on the same bed, mat, or rug others placed their babies in a hammock or basket within arms’ reach still others placed them in a “sidecar” arrangement next to the adult bed. How did sleep become so controversial?įor most of human history, McKenna writes, parents slept close to their babies for their safety and protection, as well as for parents’ own ease of breastfeeding and sleeping. “Separately,” say the pediatricians, while McKenna and his colleagues say, “Together, but safely.” McKenna’s easy-to-read book offers important insights about how cosleeping can be made safe and what kind of benefits it might promote for children’s development and parents’ well-being. McKenna’s conclusions, supported by research from other anthropologists and developmental scientists over the last 30 years, have thrown him into direct conflict with the American Academy of Pediatrics over recommendations about where babies should sleep. ![]() He has devoted his career to understanding what happens to babies and their caregivers when they sleep together versus apart. McKenna is director emeritus of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions. McKenna, in many of his 150 scientific articles on children’s sleep. But our beliefs and decisions about children’s sleep are more a reflection of the culture we live in than the scientific evidence for what’s best for children, says anthropologist James J. I didn’t really think about if for a long time, but then eventually I thought about the idea of a man having a relationship with an entity like that, a really fully formed consciousness. A good decade ago, he became fascinated with a kind of instant messenger service, where you could have “conversations” with a computer program, though it quickly “devolved to where you could tell it was just parroting things it had heard before, and it wasn’t intelligent. ![]() Her is set in a Los Angeles that’s about five minutes into the future, its computer technology just a hair more advanced than our own, and when its trailer hit last summer, the shorthand for its plot in most quarters ( including this one) was something along the lines of “guy falls in love with Siri.” But in talking to press after Saturday’s media screening, Jonze (who both writes and directs) said the spark came much earlier than that. Early on, as he pours his soul out to her, he utters one of the movie’s key lines: “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation with my computer.” But he does, and he falls in love with her as well. And sure enough, Samantha, the voice (provided by Scarlett Johansson) that purrs from his desktop and smartphone, is bright, and funny, and wonderful - everything he can no longer imagine in a partner. He is, in short, the perfect audience for OS1, the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system “It’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness,” boast the ads. ![]() His wife is divorcing him, his job is depressing, and he lives a life of crushing solitude. ![]() When we meet Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), the hero of Spike Jonze’s exquisite new film Her (which closed the New York Film Festival last weekend), he is a reservoir of melancholy. ![]() Take the pita bread, apply some oil or butter and fry it from one side, flip it, fold it like a taco shell, and cook it from both sides until golden in color.
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Method 2: Remove kabocha skin after cooking Then you can easily cut them into small pieces. Lay each wedge on its flat side, and slice the peel off. In most recipes, you will want to remove the skin first before cooking. Method 1: Peel kabocha skin before cooking However, if you want to show that beautiful orange color in your recipe, you have to remove the rind as the dark green kabocha skin will not keep the beautiful orange flesh color. Many Japanese kabocha recipes such as kabocha tempura and simmered kabocha require it to keep the skin on. If you decide to remove it, read the next section before you cut into cubes or slices. Decide if you want to remove the (edible) rind for your recipe. Step 7: Cut the wedges into cubes or slicesĭepending on your recipe, you may need to cut the wedges into cubes or slices. You can also cut the halves in half first before slicing into smaller wedges. Then slice the halves into 4-6 wedges depending on your recipe. Using a large spoon, remove the seeds and pith from the core of the kabocha squash. Stick the very sharp knife in the middle and work around the outside until you can cut it into two parts. If you are slicing the whole kabocha, remove the stem first using a large spoon. When you microwave, step aside to keep an eye on it. I had never experienced this personally, but it’s good to know this could happen. *Disclaimer: Thanks to the commenter Lauren, we learned that a spark may come out from microwaving kabocha. Now if your kabocha is bigger than your microwave or you don’t own a microwave, you can either cut the whole kabocha with a large and heavy sharp knife, or you can wrap the kabocha in aluminum foil and bake in the oven at 400 ✯ (200 ✬) for 15 minutes. If you are curious to try, I can’t guarantee what will happen. Let’s say it won’t happen unless you microwave it for like 10 minutes, which I’ve never done before. But it’s good to remember 2 to 4 minutes as your starting point.Īnd if you’re like my son, you might be wondering if the kabocha squash would explode by microwaving. The microwave cooking time varies depending on the size of your kabocha, how soft you want your kabocha to be (some recipes require kabocha to be more raw than others), and your maximum microwave wattage. You might have already known this, but microwaving* a kabocha really helps. Step 2: Microwave kabocha If you microwave half of kabocha, remove the seeds first. Now wash the kabocha squash and dry before moving on to the next step. It’s always good to invest in one high-quality, all-purpose chef knife (instead of buying a fancy set of knives). That means a dull knife can be more dangerous than a sharp knife. The edge of the knife bites the object precisely while a dull knife may slip and lose control. When you use a sharp knife, a lesser force is required to make a cut on the squash. The most important tip to cut a kabocha squash is to get a large sharp knife. How to Cut a Kabocha Squash Step 1: Pick your knife You can store the whole uncut kabocha in a cool, dry, dark place for up to 1-2 months. You can store it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days or in the freezer for a month. If you are not using the entire kabocha squash, make sure to remove the seeds and pith from cut kabocha before wrapping with plastic wrap. If you’re looking for a substitute for kabocha squash, you can use acorn or buttercup squash as they both have edible green skin and sweet orange flesh. And choose ones that feel heavy for their size (usually about 2-4 lbs). Some faint stripes, bumps, or blemishes on the skin are fine. When picking out the perfect kabocha squash, the two most important factors to consider are color and weight.Ĭhoose kabocha that has a firm, deep-colored green rind. Kabocha is grown year-round, but they are best in the late summer to late fall. Japanese moms would make sure their kids eat it, and no excuse is acceptable. It has beta carotene, vitamins, iron, and all the healthy goodness. Kabocha is used in many Japanese recipes in which it is stewed, deep-fried into tempura, or even used in desserts. The green outer skin may look deceptively hard, but it is edible. Its rich texture and flavor are akin to a sweet potato and a pumpkin combined. Amongst the many squash varieties, kabocha probably tastes the sweetest. ![]() Kabocha squash, also known as Japanese pumpkin, has a thin but firm green skin and bright vivid orange flesh. |
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