![]() ![]() To make sure you know the difference, here are screenshots (sorry for bad quality) of the Dunes Sinkhole. The egg can be found next to the glowing plant between the two large thermal vents. The Dunes Sinkhole is very close to a reaper leviathan, and it has two large thermal vents inside it, surrounded by several small vents. Lots of people think that the Dunes Sinkhole is the same as the Dunes Crater. The egg location is the dunes sinkhole, NOT the dunes impact crater. This one is a bit tricky. I can assure you that the egg is still there in full release, it’s just really hard to find screenshots. This is also where you’ll find the Orange Tablet, which you will need to access the location of egg 3 in the Lost River.įootnote: I know that in the above screenshot it says it’s from early access 2017. One cuddle fish egg can be found in the Degasi Base in the Deep Grand Reef. Keep updated on the latest PC Gaming news by following GameWatcher on Twitter, checking out our videos on YouTube, giving us a like on Facebook, and joining us on Discord.Spoiler alert for how to access a precursor cache facility in the Lost River. If you plan on exploring its follow-up, Below Zero, here are some of its own console commands and cheats. ![]() Subnautica is out now on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. ![]() kill - Kills and respawns you back at the lifepod.instagib - Kill any creature in one hit.bobthebuilder - Grants the effects of the nocost, unlock all, fastbuild, fastgrow, fasthatch, and radiation commands also adds a Habitat Builder, Scanner, Survival Knife and a Repair Tool to your inventory.goto (name) - Teleport to specified location.biome (name) - Teleport to specified biome.exosuitarms - Grants all Prawn Suit arms.exosuitupgrades - Grants all Prawn Suit modules.seamothupgrades - Grants all Seamoth modules.vehicleupgrades - Grants all common vehicle modules.fastbuild - Enables instant building of modules with the habitat builder.filterfast - Reduces water filtering time.lldetach - Removes all lava larvae from vehicles.restoreship - Restores the Aurora to its initial form while turning on radiation.explodeship - Explodes the Aurora's Drive Core.countdownship - Starts countdown for the explosion of the Aurora's drive core.spawn (name) (#) - Spawns the specified number or the specified item/creature/object in front of you.item (name) (#) - Adds the specified number or the specified item to your inventory.infect (#) - Infects player and creatures in specified range with the Kharaa Bacterium.cure (#) - Cures player and creatures in specified range of the Kharaa Bacterium.filtersalt - Every Water Filtration Machine on the map instantly Salt.filterwater - Every Water Filtration Machine on the map instantly crafts a Large Filtered Water.schedule - Brings up list of upcoming events alongside the time until they happen.unlock (name) - Unlocks specified blueprint.noenergy - Toggles power usage for vehicles, tools, and seabases.nosurvival - Removes food/water requirements and sustenance from items.nocost - Removes building and crafting costs.Read on below for some of the more useful ones you can play around with. ![]() Remember to ignore brackets when entering the Subnautica console commands and cheats. While you shouldn't have to remove the circle every time you play, you will need to press F3 order to activate console commands and cheats in Subnautica. You should now be able to access the console, which spawns on the lower left corner of the screen, by pressing the tilde (`) key. Press F8 to gain control of your mouse cursor, remove the white circle next to Disable Console by left-clicking on it, then press F8 again. This opens a menu on the upper left side of the screen. Activating Subnautica's console commands and cheats first requires you to press F3 while in-game. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The extent of the success and lasting importance of Aster’s film – even a mere five years later, doesn’t lie solely in the hands of the impact on the genre as a whole. Even as recently as last year, a moderately budgeted wide studio horror release, Smile, tried to get in on the fun, with its tone and stylistic choices seemingly borrowing from what is slowly becoming the norm. And in the time since its release, there’ve been more films that echo the sentiments Aster had implemented in this film. Hereditary felt like a defining statement on where horror had been leading up to, with the previous films of the 2010s and their grief-based indie horror (a movement I’ve written about before). Fans appreciated the film’s commitment to subverting tired tropes of horror and its ability to instill genuine terror that wasn’t the result of a trite series of ineffective jump scares or unappealing CG creatures/demons/etc. It felt like a much-needed breath of fresh air for horror, as it seemed to reignite something. On June 8th, 2018, Ari Aster’s debut feature film, Hereditary hit theaters and, much like the head of a young girl in anaphylactic shock to a telephone pole, made a massive impact (sorry) with audiences and fans of the genre. I can’t help but feel like the shift has something to do with a film that came out five Junes ago. It geared toward a new direction in storytelling and filmmaking that set the tone for what was ahead. Nevertheless, looking back now – it feels as though horror was at the precipice of a massive shift. ![]() There’s a new addition to the Insidious franchise out now, and. ![]() Now, just as we’re barely halfway through 2023, horror fans are eager to witness the next chapter in The Exorcist franchise, spearheaded by the Pineapple Express folks. Films like Mandy and Luca Guadagino’s Suspiria were on the horizon. We’d finally gotten a sequel to The Strangers, though horror had been cycling through its latest in a seemingly long series of those Insidious flicks. Horror fans were eager to witness the next chapter in the beloved Halloween saga, spearheaded by the Pineapple Express folks. The world was certainly in a much different place. Let’s take a moment today to celebrate this performance, which was one of the last times that Cobain made a televised appearance.Ģ018 honestly feels like a whole lifetime ago. The CD release, which came out after the suicide of Cobain, has been widely acclaimed and incredibly well received, selling millions of copies and earning a Grammy in 1996. Trying to play something after that would only do the performance a disservice. Cobain refused to do an encore, and rightfully so. The show ended with a cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”, which has been highlighted for its intensity, its power, and its incredible performances. Additionally, he asked the show’s producer to decorate the stage like a funeral, wanting black candles, lilies, and even a crystal chandelier. However, he appeared on set the next day, although he apparently was suffering from drug withdrawals and was quite morose. In fact, the day before he was adamant that it wasn’t going to happen. For example, frontman Kurt Cobain almost didn’t show up. According to Wiki, they were hoping for more popular names of the time, like Pearl Jam or Tori Amos.Īnd while the show came out looking pretty damn solid, there were some rather dark undertones that the public didn’t see. ![]() To say that the producers of the show were less than thrilled with these cover choices was an understatement. Nirvana, not surprisingly, decided to use the opportunity to play only a few of their major hits and filled the rest of their set with lesser known originals and covers from groups such as David Bowie, Meat Puppets, The Vaselines, and more. Their performance aired on December 16th, 1993, exactly 22 years ago today. On November 18th, 1993, Nirvana did a session with MTV’s “Unplugged”, a running series that brought musicians in to perform some of their greatest hits acoustically. ![]() ![]() Part 1 of You’s latest adventure-Part 2 premieres next month-arrived on its streaming service just a month and a half after Glass Onion, the second film to star Daniel Craig as a modern-day, southern-fried Hercule Poirot. “I’m in a whodunit-the lowest form of literature.” Being a reader, Joe is self-aware enough to see exactly what has befallen him. It’s up to Joe to find the real killer among the victim’s social set, which includes an aristocrat, an art gallerist, and the proprietor of a Soho House–like club. But just as Joe settles into life as a humble professor, courtesy of a stolen identity, his posh colleague turns up dead in his flat. ![]() ![]() Having burned all his bridges in America, serial killer Joe Goldberg has decamped for the U.K., which should be nirvana (you know, the opposite of Anavrin) for a former bookstore clerk who once followed his crush to a Charles Dickens festival. After that reveal, Season 3 was a twisted riff on Desperate Housewives with some Silicon Valley satire to add local color.įor Season 4, You relocates to London-and becomes an Agatha Christie–style whodunit in the process. To avoid that trap, Season 2 switched coasts and flipped the script, unmasking its love interest as a crazed killer in her own right. To simply repeat this plot would risk reveling in gendered violence over time, You could echo its antihero’s bias rather than undermine his many delusions. In its first season, the Lifetime-turned-Netflix hit was a thriller about an obsessive romantic who stalks, courts, and eventually kills his prey. (Oh, and you may be surprised to see David Suchet in one of them!)įor more movie and television show recommendations, visit the page on my site: TV and Movies.Every year, You becomes a new show. I was going to write entries about each of Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot movies and started that with an entry about his portrayal of Hercule in Evil Under the Sun ( “Evil Under the Sun” – Poirot Comes to Life in Peter Ustinov’s 1982 Portrayal), but instead I’ve decided to simply list the movies and tell you that they are definitely a change of pace from the David Suchet’s Hercule Poirot movies. The sets were realistic-looking, right down to the smallest details. The costume department seemed to almost have themes for the different movies. These movies spared no expense > the movies were filmed in the locations in which the Agatha Christie novels were set: movie #1 – Egypt, movie #2 – Mallorca and Spain, movies #3 & 4 – England, movie #5 – Mexico, and movie #6 – Israel, Italy, and England.īesides the wonderful actor, Peter Ustinov, these six movies featured top-notch, big name guest stars of the times: Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Mia Farrow, James Mason, Roddy McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, the list simply goes on and on. Peter Ustinov starred in six Hercule Poirot movies: It doesn’t get much better than that! But if you’re in the mood to experience a different take on Poirot, be sure to check out Peter Ustinov’s portrayal. ![]() This generation is familiar with David Suchet’s excellent portrayal of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. Move over David Suchet! Peter Ustinov also starred in a series of movies based on Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The band made a cameo appearance performing the song in the Richard Rush film Psych-Out. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week ending November 25, 1967. The Uni Records subsidiary of MCA picked up the record for national distribution, and the single was re-released in May 1967 with "Incense and Peppermints" as the A-side. The band was not impressed by songwriter John Carter's singing, so Slay chose Greg Munford, a 16-year-old friend of the band who was from another group called Shapes of Sound, to sing lead on the track. The song was initially released as a B-side by Thee Sixpence on All American Records, owned by Bill Holmes, the band's manager and producer. The first and most famous Strawberry Alarm Clock single was "Incense and Peppermints", produced by Frank Slay. The post-Strawberry Alarm Clock incarnation broke up before any success was realized. There were probably 10 songs in all that were recorded but Bunnell stated that both masters were stolen. ![]() There were two recording sessions with some of these personnel, one with Dave Hassinger at the Recording Factory and one with Bill Lazarus at Sunset Sound. However, according to Bunnell, many Strawberry Alarm Clock songs came from the band he had formed previously with Seol, Bartek, Randy Zacuto, Fred Schwartz, and Criss Jay, which performed under the names Waterfyrd Traene (pre-Strawberry Alarm Clock), Public Bubble (during Strawberry Alarm Clock), and Buffington Rhodes (post-Strawberry Alarm Clock). The inception of Strawberry Alarm Clock aside from Thee Sixpence is not well documented, largely because none of the latter band's recordings (subsequently lost) were released. Seol eventually brought in songwriters Bunnell and Steve Bartek, who participated in the writing and recording of Strawberry Alarm Clock's first album. Randy Seol (drums, vibes, percussion, vocals) and Mark Weitz ( keyboards, vocals) joined to replace the departing Gunnels, Rabe, and Luciano just as the name change to Strawberry Alarm Clock was occurring. Categorized as acid rock, psychedelic pop and sunshine pop, they charted five songs, including two Top 40 hits.Ĭareer 1966–1967: Formation and early success Ī history of the band written by George Bunnell stated that "The Strawberry Alarm Clock came about by parts of two bands, Thee Sixpence and Waterfyrd Traene, morphing into one." The group originally named Thee Sixpence initially consisted of Ed King (lead guitar, vocals), Michael Luciano ( vocals), Lee Freeman ( rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals), Gary Lovetro (bass), Steve Rabe ( guitar, vocals), and Gene Gunnels ( drums). They are best known for their 1967 hit single " Incense and Peppermints". But there was a real group there, with members who had played for a long time on the Southern California band scene, who were proficient on their instruments and who sang well and generated four whole LPs of which at least three were worth hearing more than once.Strawberry Alarm Clock is a psychedelic rock band formed in 1967 with origins in Glendale, California, a city about ten miles north of downtown Los Angeles. ![]() Their name is as well known to anyone who lived through the late-'60s psychedelic era as that of almost any group one would care to mention, mostly out of its sheer, silly trippiness as a name and their one major hit, "Incense and Peppermints," which today is virtually the tonal equivalent of a Summer of Love flashback. Strawberry Alarm Clock occupies a peculiar niche in the history of '60s rock. The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s unique sound-full of beautiful, day-glo pop surrounding jagged, fuzzy guitars and organs, among other garage-rock influences-is all presented as originally issued! Their smash “Incense and Peppermints,” which reached #1 in late 1967 and remained in the Billboard pop chart for 16 weeks, is included on The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock, and ’60s psych gold “Love Me Again,” “Sea Shell,” “Barefoot in Baltimore,” “Sit With the Guru,” and many more-all mastered from the stereo UNI reels in definitive 180 gram editions! The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock is a vintage collection that includes key tracks from all four of the band’s albums-“Incense and Peppermints” among them-plus the rarely heard non-LP singles “Desiree” and “Starting Out the Day,” now on 180 gram vinyl. Reissue of 1969 album with original sleeve art. Dirtnap Color Vinyl: Green Noise Exclusives ![]() ![]() ![]() □ Doom-scrolling : This is the situation you will find yourself in when you have been scrolling through the web, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network for minutes or even hours, not knowing what you have been searching for in the first place. Passive Search or Casual Browsing can lead to some struggles. For professionals, learning how to browse the web casually and how to search it passively can be extremely helpful in finding the appropriate information quickly and efficiently. However, it can be difficult to find the right information without knowing how to search for it effectively. The web is a vast and ever-growing resource for information. One of the most popular ways to use the internet is through a passive web search, which allows users to find information without actively seeking it out. ![]() There is no doubt that the internet has revolutionized the way we live and work. ![]() Thinking of a complete process of going from idea to research to development to sharing and ultimately getting feedback on the finished product or service, the first step that leads to this process is Casual Browsing or Passive Search. Developing these products and services involves certain kinds of steps. □ Connecting with others and getting feedback : Once the research findings are published, connecting with the readers and field experts to improve on the ideas and build relationshipsĪs Peter Drucker already wrote in his book The Landmarks of Tomorrow, knowledge workers spend a serious amount of time developing products and services while using their theoretical and analytical knowledge. □ Sharing with the world : Sharing the research findings with the larger team or the entire internet □️ Organizing research : Saving the hypothesis and corresponding research in a format that is easy to read, refer to, and search □ Conducting active research : Setting up a hypothesis and working to prove/disprove various items in the list basis desk research, user research, and connecting with experts in the field ✅ Setting a plan and managing tasks : Deciding an objective, breaking down the plan into smaller tasks, and setting the timeline (aka your friendly neighborhood PM) □ Casual Browsing/ Passive research : Passively scrolling through your favorite feeds and articles to find inspiration (and with no intent to search for specific data) Those Figjam skills came in handy ( get the full resolution image here Substack auto compresses images)Įach has its own dedicated section and apps below: In this article, we will be breaking down the entire journey of a knowledge worker to understand the needs and the flow and recommend a handful of apps that you’d require in an average week □. And we often get asked about our favorite apps. Philipp ( )and I have been product geeks for a long time. While the Google/Microsoft suite is priced at $10-15/user/month, a stack comprised of Notion, Airtable, Figma (including Figjam), Slack can cost $40+/user/month on top. Of Okta’s Office 365 customers, 76% had one or more apps that are duplicative of a Microsoft app. □ Piling costs : An Okta report found that the average customer in 2018 had 80 installed work apps, an increase from 50 apps in 2015. It seems like an afterthought and not a core experience. □ Apps that don’t play well together : Yes, you can embed a Miro board in Notion, but the experience is subpar. And this has accelerated during the pandemic. Zoom calls now frequently involve users just switching screens from Notion to PowerPoint to Figma to some form of a spreadsheet. □ An overstocked toolbox : The last few years have seen an explosion in productivity tools – making work more complicated. There is no single place that curates the best resources they would need during an average week. One common problem both of these groups face today is the lack of curation of tools across their user journey. Are laggards still using the ‘I Am Rich’ app ? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Checkpoints remember which cheats are enabled or disabled. Cheats vary from graphical filters to gameplay differences. After entering a level, go to menu -> Options -> Cheats. The shutdown will allow the publisher's teams to "focus on future Call of Duty content, including the current Warzone free-to-play experience," with the release of Warzone Mobile also imminent.You will get this screen after completing the last level and exiting to the Main menu - Game OverĪfter beating the game, you have the option to use cheats. Activision has announced that the original Warzone, now known as Warzone Caldera, will be discontinued in September.According to the company, the possibility of Microsoft making Activision's titles exclusives would have a significant impact on Sony's revenue in years to come. Sony has revealed that Call of Duty generated approximately $800 million in 2021 on PlayStation platforms alone, with worldwide revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.The reasoning behind the removal is that it was seen as "very visually jarring" to legitimate players, as it could "trip up" if they spotted someone stuck in place randomly in the middle of nowhere. It could also change keybindings, aiming sensitivity, and analog controls in-game. The system was designed to slow and eventually stop cheaters' physical movements in-game, leaving them vulnerable to other players. ![]() The team also revealed in the update that another mitigation, "Quicksand," has been removed from Ricochet's arsenal.The reasoning for the new mitigation is described as the "first but foundational step in one of many efforts to combat what the community refers to as 'non-rage' hackers." These "non-rage" cheaters use the software to appear legitimate while gaining an unfair advantage in terms of player information, with the hallucinations leading them to self-identify as cheaters when it would be difficult to spot otherwise.To appear as realistic as possible, the decoys are not AI but instead mimic the movement of another player within the game while also providing the cheater with information that would also be attached to every other legitimate player, making them almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The "Hallucinations," or decoy characters, are placed within the games of those suspected of cheating and can only be detected by external software. With the anti-cheat system update and the release of Season 4, a brand new mitigation has appeared, this time creating "fake players" to catch those using aimbot and other wall hacks.Instead of directly banning them, these methods are used to collect data about the software being used to cheat while making it difficult for those cheating to harm other players so that the Ricochet team can improve anti-cheat before banning accounts. Aside from outright account bans, the developer has once again provided some insight into the decision to use "mitigations" to make cheaters' lives in-game more difficult, such as taking away their weapons and making players invisible to hacks. Activision has detailed the improvements it is making to COD's anti-cheat systems in a new progress report to combat the ongoing issue that plagues both MWII and Warzone.Activision has announced that several improvements are being made to Call of Duty’s (COD) Ricochet anti-cheat to help detect in-game cheaters across Modern Warfare II and Warzone, including the introduction of decoy "hallucinations." ![]() ![]() This plant is low-maintenance and not bothered by deer or rabbits. Grow it in clusters for a noteworthy display, or pair it with showy perennial flowers for a dramatic contrast.īlue Oat Grass blooms in mid-summer but it’s the clump of grassy leaves that are the main attraction. Blue Oat Grass is an attractive ornamental grass that grows into large clumps of graceful silvery blue-green foliage. Ornamental grasses can add a nice contrast to the perennial garden, rock garden, or home landscape. Scientific Name: Helictotrichon sempervirens Blue Oat Grass This incredibly beautiful ornamental grass produces tufts of silvery blue-green foliage. If the plants are leaning or falling over, stake them upright during the blooming period. Because they are tall, erect plants, the full blooms may cause them to become top heavy. They need full sun in order to reliably bloom. Flowers bloom from mid to late summer and attract butterflies and other pollinators, as well as birds.īlazing Star grows well in moist, well-drained, fertile soils. Blazing Star is a tall, upright perennial with thin leaves that extend up the stem, ending in a distinct spike of showy, feathery, purple blooms. This native wildflower is a winner for a wildlife garden, butterfly garden, or prairie landscape. ![]() Geographic Origin: Eastern United States.Blazing Star Blazing Star prefers to grow in well-drained, moist soils in full sun. In ideal growing conditions, plants will stay fairly compact and moundlike and will burst into full bloom each summer. Flowers are very showy with dark red-orange centers, surrounded by bicolor orange and yellow petals. They may need a bit of watering until they get established in a new location, but after that will tolerate some dry soil and drought.īlanket Flowers bloom throughout the summer months and attract butterflies and other pollinators. ‘Arizona Sun’ Blanket Flowers are low-maintenance perennials that grow well in average, well-drained soil and full sun. There are several species of Gaillardia, each with variations in blooms and growing requirements. Geographic Origin: North and South America.Scientific Name: Gaillardia ‘Arizona Sun’ Blanket Flower Blanket Flowers are gorgeous perennials with deep red-orange flowers that make a great bright accent in your flower garden. Each cultivar has a unique name and flower color, but all have similar growth habits and requirements. Iris will spread over time and can be divided every few years to prevent overcrowding. The flowers are large, showy, fragrant, and make excellent cut flowers. Iris flowers come in a wide variety of colors and bloom in the spring. Iris rhizomes are readily available for planting in the spring or fall, and once established, require very little maintenance. ![]() ![]() Iris flowers are popular and easily recognized. Geographic Origin: Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean.Bearded Iris Bearded Iris blooms with large fragrant flowers of various colors. They attract a variety of pollinators and make a good plant for a woodland garden, cottage garden, or along a border. Blooming in the summer months, flowers are typically pink, with a soft, feathery appearance. ![]() There are several Astilbe cultivars, all with similar growing requirements, and all resistant to rabbits and deer.Īstilbe have both attractive foliage and showy flowers. Leaves may die back in the summer months if they receive too much sun, but as long as the roots are kept moist, they should regrow again the following spring. Plant it in a shade garden garden with rich, moist soil. This low-maintenance perennial grows best with a bit of shade. Geographic Origin: Asia, North American.Astilbe Astilbe is a gorgeous perennial that produces showy fluffy flowers that attract a lot of pollinators to your garden. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The government's failure to provide evidence, after nearly a full year of violating the Charter freedoms of Albertans, is a disgrace. When the Alberta Government argued at a Macourt hearing that Pastor Coates should remain in jail for another eight weeks pending his trial in May, Crown prosecutor Karen Thorsrud presented no evidence that full churches pose any threat to public health. What became more apparent with time is the massive harm that lockdowns inflict: deaths from cancelled surgeries and delayed surgeries deaths from cancer because of delayed MRIs and CT scans deaths from drug overdoses and suicides unemployment poverty isolation and loneliness leading to stress, anxiety, and depression children told to live in fear, deprived of sports, recreation and healthy social interactions and massive new debt that our children and grandchildren must repay.īacked by science and called by God, Grace Life and its pastors have displayed the courage to hold full church services since July of 2020, in the face of weekly harassment and intimidation by Jason Kenney's ever-growing army of health inspectors. Further, once a virus is out and about, it cannot be stopped by destroying the economy, by forcing people to reduce their social interactions to a two-dimensional computer screen, or by closing houses of worship.Īs we progressed through 2020, the government restrictions on our freedom to move, travel, associate, assemble and worship made less and less sense. ![]() Twelve months later, the data and statistics from governments around the world tell us that COVID warrants only a small fraction of the fear we ascribe to it. Like most people, Pastor Coates and his church complied fully with health orders in March of 2020, when the world was terrorized by the fearmongering predictions of Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. Why not focus our efforts on protecting the vulnerable 10 percent, and do so without harming the physical, mental, emotional, social and financial well-being of the entire population? Moreover, Covid's survival rate is 99.7 percent, and this virus poses no threat to roughly 90 percent of people. Restricting the rights and freedoms of the entire population for 12 months (and counting), and preventing millions of people from earning a livelihood, has never been tried in human history as a way to beat a virus. We're told that government policies are "scientific" but when you ask to see the science, none is provided. I've repeatedly asked the Alberta government to produce the science that would support the notion that asymptomatic people are dangerous spreaders, but to no avail. This is confirmed by a separate, smaller meta-analysis. The politicians' belief in asymptomatic spread is unfounded.Ī meta-analysis of 54 studies from around the world, published by the National Library of Medicine found that within households (which lack the safeguards applied by restaurants, businesses and churches) symptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 18 percent of instances, while asymptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 0.7 percent of instances. Hence the laws mandating masks and prohibiting normal and healthy social interactions between people. Unless the Justice Centre secures his release from prison prior to trial, Pastor Coates will spend a total of eleven weeks in jail for a provincial infraction that is not punishable by jail time.Īre health orders scientific? The Alberta government–and governments around the world–continue to restrict our rights and freedoms based on their belief that healthy, asymptomatic people are significant spreaders of COVID. He was arrested in mid-February for failing to comply with Jason Kenney's unscientific and unconstitutional health orders that restrict the freedom of Pastor Coates and his Grace Life Church to worship God as God calls them to worship. As I write this column, Pastor James Coates is still in the Edmonton Remand Centre awaiting his trial on May 3-5. ![]() ![]() ![]() The AlumiConn lug uses compression screws and can feature up to three ports, making wiring pigtails an easier process. It can be installed by anybody with common electrical knowledge. The AlumiConn lug would only cost you as low as $2.70 per connection. Although cheap, the COPALUM Crimp is a difficult option for people outside of COPALUM’s service area. These technicians may not be readily available based on where you live. One key disadvantage of the COPALUM crimp is that it can only be installed by a certified COPALUM technician. The COPALUM Crimp will cost between $12-$15 per wire. Although your wiring problems would surely be fixed, it is not the most practical solution for most people. The rewiring project could cost you $15,000 for a 2,100 square foot home. Add in another $1,000-$2,000 worth of copper along with the cost of a permit from your local government. If a new electrical panel is required, that could cost anywhere between $1,000-$3,000. While this is the most in-depth fix to a wiring issue, the cost for an electrician to rewire your home can run between $200-$500 per receptacle and switch depending on the region you live in. The problem is that aluminum wire failures happen slowly over an extended period of time, so it’s easy to miss the signs that issues are occurring.Īccording to the CPSC, rewiring your entire home or building would be the most thorough and permanent solution. Here are warning signals that indicate that you could have wiring problems. For this reason, many homes have already replaced their "AL" wires with copper wires. The overheating of your wiring could eventually lead to an electrical fire. As you continue to add appliances and electronics to your home, you exponentially increase the chance for your aluminum wiring to overheat. This means that more aluminum is required to support the same electricity as copper wiring. This was a hazardous situation.ĪLUMINUM WIRE REPAIR, WE PERMANENTLY REPAIR THE HAZARDS OF ALUMINUM WIRING!Ĭall us today for your aluminum wiring electrical safety inspection.The danger of aluminum material is that it is less conductive than copper. These splices were found outside of an approved electrical box and the surrounding insulation which was in contact also showed signs of over heating. These burned splices shown below were found in the attic in a home in the Montbello section of Denver in October of 2005. In addition to the severely burned wires and wirenuts, the box and transformer also showed significant signs of heat damage. These burned-up red and purple wirenuts at left were found at the furnace connection also at a home in the Southmoor section of Denver. The neutral wire bundle is completely fused together due to the heat damage. The damage done to the wirenuts and the amount of heat present is clearly obvious. These pictures are close ups of the burned up purple wirenuts after they were removed from the master bedroom switch. The wirenut contained 3 aluminum and 1 copper wire and operated a bath light that was working fine and not flickering. This picture is of a switch box found in a master bedroom in the Southmoor section of Denver in July 2004 clearly shows a burned Purple Wirenut on the neutral wires. ![]() However, being that this wirenut is filled with a flammable oxide-inhibitor and the manufacturer has stated that this wirenut is NOT INTENDED FOR A COMPLETE HOME RETROFIT, ( ) we believe it is best to leave aluminum wiring alone until such a time as it can be permanently repaired via re-wiring or COPALUM crimping.Ĭlick on any image below to enlarge that image. Accordingly, from what we have seen in the field, we agree with the Commission staff and can validate the laboratory testing in believing that this method of repair does not solve the problem of overheating present in aluminum branch circuits.Īt best we consider the proper application of Purple Wirenuts a temporary repair. In CPSC-sponsored laboratory testing, some brands of twist-on connectors have performed very poorly. The Commission staff has evaluated the effectiveness of “pigtailing” as a repair. ![]() The most often suggested unacceptable repair (“pigtailing”) involves attaching a short piece of copper wire to the aluminum wire with a twist-on connector sometimes called a wire nut (IDEAL Purple #65) the copper wire is connected to the switch, wall outlet or other termination device. While these repair methods are less expensive than COPALUM crimp connectors, we agree with the CPSC that these repairs are considered unacceptable and “does not solve the problem of overheating present in aluminum branch circuits.” Burned Purple (Ideal #65) Wirenuts found in the fieldĬAUTION: Many electricians, who are not COPALUM certified, recommend other repair methods. ![]() ![]() ![]() In rare cases, installation on Windows can fail with this error message: "Key not valid for use in specified state".They can be installed as extensions using Tools->Extension Manager. Dictionaries for Spell Check are temporarily only included in complete localized Installers and not in Language packs ( Issue 124423). ![]() Please report the problem to the developer of the extension. This is because of the change of AOO from a 32-bit to a 64-bit application on MacOSX.
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