![]() Subsequently, the few automakers that are making them are going above and beyond to make them as deluxe as possible. The minivan segment is a very competitive one, however, with just a handful of options in the market. If you're looking for a vehicle that will get you and your family around town and to your vacation destinations comfortably, safely, and in decent style, then the Honda Odyssey is certainly worth considering. Finally, low-speed follow, pedestrian emergency braking, and traffic sign recognition assists have been added to the standard selection of safety features. There is now also a Rear Seat Reminder system that cautions the driver to check the rear and third-row seating as soon as the car is turned off. Honda has also done some work on the Odyssey's second-row seats so that they can now fold down almost completely flat to improve cargo hauling capabilities. Premium paint colors Platinum White Pearl, Deep Scarlet Pearl, Pacific Pewter Metallic, and Forest Mist Metallic are added to the 2021 palette. ![]() ![]() The Touring trim now comes with 19-inch wheels and the Elite trim gets newly designed Shark Grey 19-inch alloy wheels. Its front fascia has been redesigned with new LED headlights, a blacked-out grille, and restyled lower bumper and fog light housings. To keep the Odyssey competitive and to make it an attractive competing offer to the Chrysler Pacifica, Honda applied some extensive exterior enhancements and cabin improvements to the minivan for the 2021 model year. Today, the Odyssey positions itself well against its core competitors, the Chrysler Pacifica and Toyota Sienna. Honda has made a determined effort to keep the Odyssey avant-garde and ambitious in the very niche and highly competitive class by modernizing its aesthetic, refining its cabin, and upgrading its tech and features year on year. With this powertrain, the Odyssey minivan benefits from sturdy, reliable, and thrifty performance, even with all seven or eight of its seats occupied, while boasting a decent enough towing capacity. Under its hood is a vigorous 3.5-liter 6-cylinder motor dialed to deliver up to 280 horsepower and 262 lb-ft of torque to the Odyssey's front-wheel drivetrain. Now, more than a decade later and five generations in, the 2021 Honda Odyssey still offers all of those qualities and more, and is one of very few minivans still on the market. The first Honda Odyssey debuted in the USA all the way back in 2008 - offering American families a virtuous, comfortable, safe, and reliable form of daily transport.
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![]() ![]() With a few clicks, we’ll create a connection from GitHub to Snowflake, and Airbyte will take care to keep the pipeline running and always up-to-date. We’ll start by using Airbyte’s GitHub connector to pull data into Snowflake. Ready to go? Let's get started! Step 1 - Populate GitHub source data in Snowflake using Airbyte As an added bonus, we’ll be able to see exactly what SQL the LLM is creating - so we can better understand what actions it is performing and we can learn SQL a little better in the process. We’ll show how this new and novel approach can be used to answer real-world questions like "Who has opened the largest number of issues this month?" without writing any SQL and without requiring us to use a dedicated vector store. The LLM will automatically scan the tables metadata to get column and table names so that it can create valid SQL for our specific data model. The LLM will generate SQL to answer our natural language question and then run the SQL and return the result. ![]() Now, with LLMs and with new libraries like LlamaIndex, we can use natural language to interact with our data - without SQL expertise and without needing to learn or memorize database schemas ourselves. Even if you are an expert in SQL, you can’t write queries until you’ve learned the data model and learning each new data model takes up valuable time. Even for practitioners well-versed in SQL, there’s always a learning curve associated with learning new new tables and data models. Querying databases and data warehouses has traditionally required the questioner to have a high proficiency in SQL. Why Chat-to-SQL interfaces are so powerful Airbyte makes this fast, easy, and secure by streamlining authentication to GitHub and Snowflake and tracking tokens securely so we don’t have to worry about a separate credential management system. ![]() We’ll use Airbyte to set up a production data pipeline, which feeds data incrementally from GitHub into Snowflake on our chosen frequency: daily, weekly, or even hourly. Unlike similar “bring-your-own-data” projects, we won’t need to calculate embeddings or use an external vectorstore database. We’ll ask questions in plain english, and the AI model will write and run SQL queries to answer our questions. In this post, we’ll show how to chat with your SQL data warehouse using LlamaIndex. It would be nearly impossible - and terribly efficient - to try to answer these questions with pre-formed text documents and vector-based document retrieval. But what if you want to query data that’s already in a SQL database - or what if you have tabular data that doesn’t make sense to write into a dedicated vectorstore?įor example, what if we want to ask arbitrary historical questions of how many GitHub issues have been created in the Airbyte repo, how many PRs have been merged, and who was the most active contributor over all time? Pre-calculated embeddings would not be able to answer these questions, since they rely upon aggregations that are dynamic in nature and whose answers are changing constantly. These vector stores are well-suited for storing unstructured text data. There are some great guides out there on how to create long-term memory for AI applications using embedding-based vector stores like ChromaDB or Pinecone. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.” ~ Criss Jami “ What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. “ They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.” ~ Pandora Poikilos You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.” ~ Shannon L. ![]() “ Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. “ Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.“ ~ Korean Proverb They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.” ~ Blake Lively People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. “ Words spoken can never be recalled.” ~ Wentworth Dillon “ Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant “ Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.” ~ Proverb “ Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.” ~ Unknown “Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.” ~ Joyce Meyer Rumors, secrets, lies, comments and whispers behind your back… Do they sting you as much as they do me? I recently had a hurtful event happen in my life that reminded me what I already knew: gossip is a nasty disease, a poison that kills relationships. When I thought about putting together a list of quotes that will make you rethink gossip, I was thinking more about the fact that we sometimes get unwillingly involved in gossip because we don’t want to hurt feelings, say no, and decline the unsolicited information. ![]() ![]() As a reader of The Positive Mom blog, I highly doubt that you are a gossiper. ![]() The users can easily produce eye-catching layouts for online publications and magazines without any trouble. A variety of enhancements and many new features make it a stable and reliable application. It has a straightforward and user-friendly interface that allows the users to perform all the operations without any hard effort. 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![]() And one of the keys in what we do is we get to feel like we are extending beyond that human body, that human limitation, and we are touching something divine in what we do, if we’re lucky-or at least we’re reaching for it. And if I had had to miss a show for Angels in America for whatever reason-which, thankfully, I didn’t-I would have considered myself a failure or weak or all that negative self-talk, which is an unfair judgment, because there’s something so powerful about owning-ĪG: Yeah, flexing your limitation. Probably most of the issue is, I think, that people who work at that kind of level are harder on themselves than anyone else. I keep thinking about Simone Biles and the news she made at the Olympics, which I thought was one of the most inspiring things I’ve seen in a while: for a kind of superhuman athlete to own their humanity, own their limits, and stand in self-ownership and self-love with a very hard decision, where they could be perceived as being by themselves. But at the same time, your human body is like, The last thing I wanna do is get on that stage. ![]() I’m thinking about something like doing Angels in America onstage for a year and a half, and you can’t help but surrender to the theater gods and that character and the ideas in the story and the story itself, because all you want to do when you wake up every morning is serve the audience and serve that story for them on a plate. And that’s a great thing, and it’s a gift, but there’s a wound in that as well, as you’re kind of alluding to. There’s lots of practices I have, but the other problem is that I love what I do so much, but it can take me over. It usually takes me a couple of weeks to come back to a more languid, natural, not-so-adrenalized rhythm. ![]() It’s shifting rhythms, that’s the hard thing. And, to be honest, for me, it’s nature, it’s the ocean, it’s surfing, it’s basketball. I have great friends, I have a great family, and I have interests outside of what I do, thank god. I’m lucky to have great people in my life. I think the trickiest part is just coming back to a level of real relaxation and ease in between working. And one thing will work for a while and then it won’t work anymore you have to find another practice to keep you centered. There’s no getting there in terms of finding that balance. How do you approach that?ĪNDREW GARFIELD: It’s a good question that I’m always asking myself. ![]() THE BELIEVER: Something I was thinking about when I was preparing for this conversation and reviewing your body of work was how either healthy or unhealthy people must be to do what you do, because it seems to require, on top of everything else, so much physical, mental, and psychic endurance. We spoke on the phone one night after he’d wrapped shooting for the day: he was in a car on his way home, and I was sitting at my best friend’s dining table. In 20, he starred in three films: Mainstream, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and tick, tick… Boom!Īfter much back-and-forth about whether we could make this interview happen, I found myself on the East Coast for work while he was filming in Calgary, Canada, for the miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, based on the book of the same title by Jon Krakauer. After studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he proceeded to perform on both stage and screen with some of the most admired filmmakers and actors of our time, winning him a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, as well as nominations for Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. That recording helped sustain me through the first difficult year of the COVID-19 pandemic I quickly found the rest of his work.Īndrew Garfield was born in Los Angeles in August 1983, though he was raised in Surrey, England, by his Jewish-American father and English mother. His thoughtfulness in engaging with tough questions about commercialism and art led me to seek out the National Theatre proshot of Angels in America, in which he plays Prior Walter. I first became interested in Andrew Garfield and his work not from his starring role in the two big-budget Amazing Spider-Man films (2012, 2014), nor from his famous laptop-smashing scene in David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), but from a conversation between him and Amy Adams from Variety Studio’s Actors on Actors series. ![]() Scary Skeleton and Pumpkin Tattoo via Instagram The little boy as well as the pumpkin he wears on his head are quite identical, almost related to cartoon-themed tattoos. Halloween Pumpkin Head Tattoo via InstagramĪmong simple pumpkin tattoos, this cute little pumpkin tattoo design comes down to a simplistic kid wearing a little Jack o’ Lantern on top of his head! Inked in straight, smooth black and white lines with bright and so stunningly perfect dots, this pumpkin tattoo is ideal to be inked on the arm or legs. The rimless mug, also rimmed in a pale green color and surrounded by leaves, this mug has a spooky Pumpkin Jack o’ Lantern vibe, along with the purplish mauve smoky bottom and flawless dot work that steals the show. The only bright lights come out of the pumpkin’s eyes, which look like two small light bulbs. Featuring a coffee or tea cup that is obviously shaped like a pumpkin, with steaming hot brown drinks and two sticks of KitKat chocolate, this tattoo is a classic mix of Halloween and deliciousness together. The Jack o’ Lantern Pumpkin Coffee Tattoo via InstagramĪmong cartoon themed pumpkin tattoos, this kawaii themed pumpkin tattoo design is surely a cutie. The bright colors chosen in yellow, orange, pink, black, and the impeccable gradients in white and dotwork are brilliantly highlighted. The shading of the ghost’s body is particularly noteworthy. The cute little ghost with his octopus head and holding a little pink heart is ready to steal the show! This pumpkin tattoo design specializes in intricate detailing and inking. This might be the cutest among the pumpkin tattoos so far! This pumpkin tattoo features a crescent moon, a smiling little ghost, the little bat and finally the cutest little jack o lantern cut pumpkin in the shape of a cat: because a black cat is often symbolic of evil. The cute ghost and pumpkin cat tattoo via Instagram ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the addition of more background objects represents the consistency of the whole festival, including tricks and treats, food, and links. The bright dotwork that surely required heavy doses of pink, white, yellow and orange dots, and is truly an art. Decorated in the background, more rose petals and candy sticks add the essence of the festival. This beautiful pumpkin wrist tattoo design shapes the pumpkin cut out with the leaves almost like a cat, with the leaves functioning as ears and a large bright pink flower acting as its headband. The Adorable Jack o’ Lantern Tattoo via Instagram ![]() This tattoo design is a classic symbol of celebrating culinary delights and sharing and bonding at festivals. The ink colors chosen are boldly inked, with cute undertones, and offer a simple cartoon-themed Halloween. With a plethora of chocolates, lollipops and candies, and an added background of deep black cobwebs behind the jar, this adorable tattoo is a great way to honor the fun side of the party for the kids. This tattoo leaves no doubt about the inking! The Trick or Treat Carved Pumpkin Tattoo via InstagramĪfter a year-long wait to trick or treat, the classic candy hunt is also back! This simple and cute pumpkin arm tattoo depicts this candy collection jar. The beautiful shades, especially on the purple diamond seal and the white bubbles and background, make it look almost realistic and the size makes it perfect for the arm or legs. Deeply influenced by body art, these arm tattoos not only feature the pumpkin in a mischievous smile, but also a bouquet of pale green hued leaves and bats, filled in with deep black ink. This beautifully spooky evil pumpkin tattoo features the carved pumpkin kept as a reddish yellow centerpiece inside a glass bottle full of orange potion.
![]() Includes photographs and film of the Celilo Falls fishery. The Center tells the story of the Gorge’s Indian tribes, Lewis and Clark and other explorers, and early settlers at the end of the Oregon Trail. Point of Interest: Columbia Gorge Discovery Center View the remains of an Indian Shaker Church, other weathered buildings and fishing platforms along the river near the Shilo Inn. To reach the Lone Pine sales area located in The Dalles, Oregon, take I-84 to exit 87. The Dalles, Oregon (Lone Pine sales area) Fort Cascades is about five miles west of the Bridge of the Gods on Highway 14. Underwater salmon viewing is at the same facility. Excavated items are displayed at the Washington Shore Visitor Complex. Several miles east, Cathlakaheckit, another Cascade village, was excavated then destroyed in 1979 to make way for Bonneville Dam’s second powerhouse. Descendants of the various Chinook peoples are today members of the Warm Springs, Yakama, Grand Ronde and other tribes. Army wrestled control from the Cascade Indians. Over a decade before Lewis and Clark visited theses villages, a smallpox epidemic killed about half the Chinook peoples. Cascade Indians and other Chinookan-speaking peoples lived in cedar plank homes in small villages along the Columbia from the mouth upstream to The Dalles. Upstream was a prime fishing area, the Great Cascades, a series of spectacular rapids flooded by Bonneville Dam in 1937. The site includes a 1.5-mile hiking trail that passes a Cascade village site and one of three nearby military forts. Point of Interest: Fort Cascades National Historic Site Raines fishing access site, about one mile west of the Bridge of the Gods. Go past the Bonneville Dam Visitor Center to the Ft. Rains, Washingtonįrom Vancouver, take Highway 14 east toward the Bonneville Dam. The two were competing for the affection of another mountain, now Sleeping Beauty, west of Mount Adams. ![]() The toll bridge is named for an Indian legend that tells how a natural land bridge spanning the river was destroyed by the volcanic eruptions of two powerful warriors, Mount Adams and Mount Hood. On both sides of the river near the Bridge of the Gods are places to stop and see Indian fishers dipnetting from their traditional wooden platforms or scaffolds. Over the bank sales locations at Cascade Locks include the parking lot at Char Burger, under the Bridge of the Gods, Cascade Locks Marine Park and “Indian Camp.” Look for signs indicating salmon sales. The Umatilla tribal member-owned Brigham Fish Market (681 WaNaPa St, Cascade Locks, 54) sells fresh Columbia River-caught salmon and other fish in season and packaged fish and other food items throughout the year. Fresh Indian-caught salmon is sometimes available at farmers markets in Portland and other communities along the Columbia River. Days, times and salmon availability vary. Following are river locations where the public can buy fresh salmon in season. ![]() You can follow along on getting started in its installation guide.Upon making a save available for co-op, you'll be given the option to choose how the game's economy changes when more players are added to the game. It lets you set up different profiles for easily swapping between mod groups, checks for updates, and incompatibility. The open-source project is still in open beta but is already very familiar if you've used a community mod manager for other games. In 2022, the open-source mod manager Stardrop is definitely one of the easiest ways to manage big groups of mods. You can then run Stardew Valley with SMAPI. Content Patcher can be unzipped into Stardew Valley's "mods" folder in the same location dictated above. Many current Stardew Valley mods are compatible with Content Patcher, a tool which loads a whole host of mods without changing the XNB files, making install and uninstall easier, as well as reducing the likelihood of conflicts between mods. SMAPI does check for mod conflicts and updates, but if you want a really familiar feeling mod managing tool then you'll want to use Stardrop too. You can download the latest version of SMAPI from its website and find a pretty thorough walkthrough on how to install it (and keep your Steam achievements enabled while using it) over on the Stardew Valley wiki. This is a community-made API that is frequently being updated and allows you to use DLL mods. Mods that make more complex changes may require the "Stardew Modding API", or SMAPI for short. If you want to install quite a few mods, or switch back and forth between different groups of mods for different save files, the Stardrop mod manager is the handiest way to do so in 2022. ![]() Some mods might require some important foundational mods like SMAPI below. If you only want a couple handy mods, make sure to check the installation instructions and dependencies and then toss them in your mods folder. ![]() If you're playing through Steam, the default location is "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley". Many are installed just by placing the downloaded files in the "Mods" folder in your Stardew Valley directory. (Image credit: PeacefulEnd)Īdding mods to Stardew Valley can be very straightforward if there are only a couple you want to use. The open-source Stardrop mod manager interface. Since there isn't any official mod support, there's a good chance that mods will stop working or need a reinstall after updates. Don't forget one important thing to note though, before jumping in: Stardew Valley does still get updates. You can root around yourself on the Nexus Mods page or the Stardew Valley Mod forum, both of which get amazing new creations all the time.Įven without mods, Stardew Valley is definitely one of the best laptop games to pick for your low-spec machine. If you want to make a pastel flower paradise, scrap together a platoon of robots to tend your crops, switch over to anime character portraits, or you just want some reminders of when to plant a crop, this list is ready to be your guide. So, regardless of how you want to renovate your farm: the Stardew Valley modding community has your back. Games like Stardew Valley: More life sims The company also introduced three additional EVs (the VF 5, VF 6 and VF 7) at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. VinFast unveiled the two new models at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Nov 2021, which were co-designed with Italian firm Pininfarina.The two electric SUVs will first go on sale in Europe, in the second half of the year, but are scheduled to reach the U.S. VinFast plans to launch global showrooms in the US, Canada and Europe, which is one of the reasons the company is looking to build a factory in the U.S. VinFast completed construction of the factory and developed its first three car models in just 21 months. VinFast already owns a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam that will have the capacity to produce 950,000 EVs per year by 2026. VinFast currently builds EVs in its home country of Vietnam, including e-scooters, electric buses and electric cars, along with charging stations and other green energy solutions. The company has already established global operations in the US, Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The company says its strongly committed to a sustainable future of smart electric mobility. VinFast launched its VF e34 compact electric SUV for the Vietnamese market in 2021. The company is targeting global electric vehicle sales of 42,000 this year. VinFast said prices for its VF8 electric SUV will start from $41,000 in the U.S. Global vehicles slated to be produced in North Carolina include the VinFast VF 9, a 7-passenger fully-electric Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), along with the VF8, a smaller 5-passenger, mid-size SUV. "I'm so pleased that VinFast has decided to launch their North America manufacturing operations from our state, and we'll work hard to make sure they find the skilled workforce they'll need to grow and thrive in North Carolina." "Automotive assembly plants are incredible engines for economic growth, due to the positive ripple effects they create across a region's economy," said North Carolina Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders, when the plans were announced in late March. Last week the company said it signed a preliminary deal to initially invest $2 billion to build the North Carolina factory to make electric buses, sport utility vehicles and batteries for electric vehicles. It will be one option to fund the construction of the multi-billion dollar factory in North Carolina, as well fund its U.S. ![]() VinFast's Chief Executive Le Thi Thu Thuy told reporters on the sidelines of an event showcasing the company's new VF8 battery-powered SUV that its IPO is planned for the second half of this year. VinFast has not yet determined the IPO size and price range. "There needs to be a window to get the IPO done and it could easily take a couple of months." ![]() "VinFast is moving ahead with its plans but the timing of the IPO is very much open," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. North Carolina's Economic Investment Committee voted to approve an incentive package worth a total of more than $850 million for VinFast's automotive and electric battery assembly factory in Chatham County, NC.Īccording to Reuters, a source familiar with the company's plans said VinFast would probably look to raise about $2 billion from its IPO. The company is investing up to $4 billion in the plant to build its electric vehicles in the U.S. The plans come after VinFast signed an MoU to build its electric vehicle factory in North Carolina. ![]() The plans were first reported by Reuters. On Thursday, its Singapore-based holding company filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with U.S. Vietnamese electric vehicle startup VinFast has big plans for expansion outside of its home country. ![]() Our sensory systems (e.g., touch, smell, sound, sight) automatically process and translate input into meaningful information however, individuals with impaired nervous systems experience and use sensory inputs differently. Sensory inputs are the first way we interact with and understand the world around us. Nervous system overload and sensory processingĭifficulties with sensory processing can trigger nervous system overload. Recovery time for meltdowns can last up to 20 minutes or more after removing the stressor. Once individuals have reached that state, they cannot usually respond to standard behavioral calming cues or techniques. The reaction is involuntary and cannot be controlled as intense emotions take over, and tension build-up is released via stimming, repetitive movements, zoning out, screaming, crying, stomping, etc. Meltdowns are not behavioral responses and generally aren’t used to attain a specific outcome. ![]() They are the physical manifestation of neurobiological chaos caused by a perceived threat to life. Outbursts generally stop after the desired outcome, so recovery is nearly instant.Ĭontrastingly, meltdowns are involuntary responses to a nervous system overload. Tantrums happen deliberately, and the individual maintains control of their body and mind the entire time. It is a learned behavioral response used to attain the desired outcome (e.g. ![]() A tantrum is an emotional outburst with a specific goal or function. |
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