![]() MHPD investigators never charged the suspect with any drug crimes, only sex offenses, but that didn't prevent the department from eventually collecting more than $45,000 of the seized money in 2020 through what's called the Equitable Sharing Program, according to records. Unbeknownst to them, investigators seized the cash and partnered with a federal agency to apply for asset forfeiture, citing probable cause of illicit drug activity. The victim's family and their attorney said, at the time, an officer assured them the money would be available to one day pursue in a civil suit and in the years after, continued telling them the money remained held in property…. Records show when MHPD investigated the sex abuse case in July 2019, they found suspected marijuana, drug paraphernalia and cash inside the suspect's home. The now-17-year-old teenage victim's family filed a civil suit against Gomez-Saldana shortly after and secured a consent order for $69,130 to be turned over to her. Saldana pleaded guilty to multiple sex crimes years later in 2023 and is currently serving a prison sentence. The case is a stunning example of the misplaced priorities and perverse incentives that asset forfeiture creates for police-and of how the federal government allows state and local police to evade reforms to stop forfeiture abuse.Īs originally reported by local news outlet WCNC Charlotte, the Mint Hill Police Department (MHPD) investigated Mario Alberto Gomez-Saldana II for sexual abuse in 2019. Despite a judge's order, she will get nothing. The local police department had already seized the cash through civil asset forfeiture, and it was already gone. ![]() A North Carolina teenager was hoping to get her life back on track after a state judge ordered a man who sexually abused her to pay her $69,000. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An inevitable drawback of piezoelectric stack actuators is that there are highly vulnerable to tensile and lateral forces ( Fleming and Leang, 2014). The estimated total displacement of actuator is Δ l = NVd 33, where N is the number of piezoelectric layers, V is the driving voltage, and d 33 is the piezoelectric coefficient. All piezoelectric layers are poled in the direction of their thickness. There are bonded mechanically in series, and connected electrically in parallel as shown in Figure 2. These actuators are constructed by bonding multiple layers of piezoelectric material together. Piezoelectric stack actuators have been widely used in high-speed nanopositioning due to its ability to provide ultra-fast responses, fine movement, and high pushing force ( Physik Instrumente, 2016). All the above advantages enable the design of compact, light, and fast nanopositioners that capable of providing smooth and repeatable motion to fulfill the requirement of nanoscale applications. As a result, the overall mass of flexure-guided nanopositioner is significantly reduced compared to its rigid-link counterparts. Flexure-guided mechanisms can be machined from a monolithic (single piece) material via wire electrical-discharge-machining (wire-EDM) and no assembly of links and joints is required. The absence of moving and sliding joints provides a considerable advantage to eliminate problems due to wear, backlash, friction, and the need for lubrication. Flexures replace traditional joints, such as bearings and rollers, in rigid-link mechanisms. Example of a flexure-guided nanopositioner is shown in Figure 1. Flexure-guided systems exploit the advantages of compliant mechanisms ( Howell, 2001 Lobontiu et al., 2001 Lobontiu and Garcia, 2003 Yong et al., 2008), where a flexible element acts like a linear spring and deforms elastically to offer repeatable and accurate fine motions ( Lobontiu, 2003, 2015 Yong et al., 2012). Nanopositioners with the ability to provide sub-nanometer resolution and high-speed motion have became a vital component in applications, such as scanning probe microscopy ( Schitter et al., 2007 Ando, 2012 Yong and Moheimani, 2015 Yong and Fleming, 2016), alignment of fiber optics ( Wang et al., 2007), nano-indentation ( Bhushan, 1999 Miyahara et al., 1999), nano-fabrication ( Wiesauer and Springholz, 2000 Vicary and Miles, 2009), cavity ring-down spectroscopy in optical applications ( Berden et al., 2000 Debecker et al., 2005), micro-gripper ( Noveanu et al., 2015 Xu, 2015 Liu and Xu, 2016), and beam steering systems ( Gorman et al., 2003).įlexures have played an important role in high-speed nanopositioning systems. The ever-increasing demand for high speed and high precision in nanotechnology applications has increased the use of nanopositioning systems in the field. This article surveys key challenges in existing preload techniques in the context of high-speed nanopositioning designs, and explores how these challenges can be overcome. To protect the piezoelectric actuator, preload is often applied to compensate for these inertial forces. During high-speed operations, excessive inertia force due to the effective mass of nanopositioning system could potentially damage the actuator. ![]() However, these actuators are highly sensitive to tensile and lateral forces. High-speed nanopositioning devices are commonly driven by compact and stiff piezoelectric stack actuators. These systems are capable of providing motions with sub-nanometer resolution over a positioning bandwidth of a few kilohertz or more. Recent development in high-speed nanotechnology applications, such as scanning probe microscopy and nanofabrication, has increased interest on the advancement of high-bandwidth flexure-guided nanopositioning systems. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia. ![]() ![]() Save / Auto Saveīy default, VS Code requires an explicit action to save your changes to disk, ⌘S (Windows, Linux Ctrl+S). In addition, one can also disable Column Selection mode from the Status bar. This global toggle is also accessible via the Selection > Column Selection Mode menu item. ![]() Once this mode is entered, as indicated in the Status bar, the mouse gestures and the arrow keys will create a column selection by default. The user setting Editor: Column Selection controls this feature. You can edit your keybindings.json to bind them to something more familiar if you want. ⇧PageUp (Windows Ctrl+Shift+Alt+PageUp, Linux ) ⇧PageDown (Windows Ctrl+Shift+Alt+PageDown, Linux ) ⇧→ (Windows Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Right, Linux ) There are also default key bindings for column selection on macOS and Windows, but not on Linux. Note: This changes to Shift+Ctrl/Cmd when using Ctrl/Cmd as multi-cursor modifier. Place the cursor in one corner and then hold Shift+Alt while dragging to the opposite corner: Here's an example of expanding the selection with ⌃⇧⌘→ (Windows, Linux Shift+Alt+Right): Trigger it with ⌃⇧⌘← (Windows, Linux Shift+Alt+Left) and ⌃⇧⌘→ (Windows, Linux Shift+Alt+Right). Quickly shrink or expand the current selection. For example, when the setting is ctrlCmd, multiple cursors can be added with Ctrl/Cmd+Click, and opening links or going to definition can be invoked with Alt+Click. The Go to Definition and Open Link gestures will also respect this setting and adapt such that they do not conflict. There's also a menu item Use Ctrl+Click for Multi-Cursor in the Selection menu to quickly toggle this setting.
![]() ![]() Initially, critics were shocked they did not know how Carey would fare as an entertainer, as she had previously only been viewed as a pop star. After the success of Carey's previous effort, " Music Box", there was speculation of a new project in the works however it was not until October 1994, only one month before the album's release, that Billboard announced Carey would be releasing a holiday album for the Christmas season. She expressed her belief in God and her connection between music and spirituality, and felt the album was finally a way to portray her mysticism into music. Since her rise to fame in 1990, Carey has claimed to be a religious person. "Merry Christmas" has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling Christmas album of all time. In Japan, Merry Christmas has sold over 2,500,000 copies and is the second best-selling album of all time by a non-Asian artist, behind only Carey's other album, " Number 1's. The album has sold 5,120,000 copies in the United States as of Octoaccording to Nielsen SoundScan and has been certified 5x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 5 million copies in the United States. Merry Christmas was released at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey's career, between " Music Box" and " Daydream." The album produced the worldwide classic single, " All I Want For Christmas is You" which became the best-selling holiday ringtone in the U.S. Singles were released from the album, being sent to different radio stations for promotional purposes. Critics praised Carey's uplifting and flavored vocals, as well as her skilled songwriting alongside Afanasieff. After its release, the album received generally positive reviews and became a worldwide success. The album features instrumentation from keyboards, bass guitars, drums, percussion and heavy backing vocals. The album contains a contemporary holiday theme, and featured "authentic, gospel-flavored background vocals." Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey's interpretations of the covered material. The album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Released: 3 November 1994 Merry Christmas is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by Mariah Carey that was released on October 28, 1994, on Columbia Records. ![]() ![]() ![]() On January 14, 2022, it was discovered that Voiceverse NFT, a company that Baker announced his partnership with, had stolen voice lines generated from 15.ai as part of their marketing campaign without permission. In April 2020, due to an apparent disagreement on the future direction of the show, Baker left to start his own series. In May 2018, Baker and voice actor Nolan North began hosting the weekly YouTube series Retro Replay. He is one of the few actors to have portrayed Batman ( Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Lego Dimensions, Batman: The Telltale Series and Batman: The Enemy Within), the Joker ( Batman: Arkham Origins), and the three major iterations of Robin ( Tim Drake in Batman: Arkham City, Dick Grayson (as Nightwing) in Injustice: Gods Among Us and Jason Todd (as Red Hood and the main antagonist) in Batman: Arkham Knight). He also voiced Ace (Experiment 262) in the English dub of the anime Stitch! He was listed on Entertainment Weekly 's in their best of 2013 issue for best breakout actor in the video game industry for his performances in The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and as the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins. In 2011, Baker became the voice of Siris, the hero of Chair Entertainment's blockbuster mobile game series Infinity Blade, and in 2014 he was the voice of Talion, the protagonist of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which earned a rating of 9.3 on IGN. He reprised the role in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. He then worked on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, playing Nathan Drake's older brother Sam. He was nominated for both of these roles at VGX 2013, winning for The Last of Us. Both games earned critical acclaim, gaining scores over 90% on GameRankings and Metacritic, and widespread commercial success. That was kind of my first snowball effect." His most notable roles came in 2013, when he provided the voice of Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite and the voice and motion capture of Joel in The Last of Us. In an interview with The Griff, he said, "It was starting to become necessary for actors to become involved, so I got into that and it was literally stumbling from one job into the next. īaker's career in the video game industry began when he voiced Matt Baker in the tactical shooter series Brothers in Arms. He then moved to Los Angeles and began working on Marvel-based animated series, providing the voice of various characters in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, as well as Hawkeye and Loki in Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble. He went on to work in dubbing anime such as Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, and the Funimation dub of One Piece. He was recruited by Christopher Sabat to do voice-over work at Funimation for the English adaptation of the anime Case Closed. In early 2022, Baker was the subject of controversy due to his partnership with an NFT company that had been revealed to have plagiarized voice lines generated from 15.ai, an artificial intelligence text-to-speech project developed by an MIT student, as part of their marketing campaign.Ĭareer Acting Baker in January 2011īaker began his voice acting career doing radio commercials in Dallas. He then released the solo album Sitting in the Fire (2014) before he and his backing band changed their name to Window to the Abbey and released the album Moving Around Bias (2017). He was previously the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Tripp Fontaine, with whom he released an album titled Random Thoughts on a Paper Napkin (2004). Troy Baker currently holds the record for the most acting nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards, with 5 between 20.īaker has also voiced Batman, The Joker, Hawkeye, and Loki in various media, and has provided voices for a number of English dubs of anime, including Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto: Shippuden, Code Geass, and Soul Eater. Baker is known for his video game roles, including Joel Miller in The Last of Us franchise, Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite (2013), Samuel "Sam" Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016) and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (2017), Rhys Strongfork in Tales from the Borderlands (2014), Snow Villiers in Final Fantasy XIII (2010), Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4 (2008), Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding (2019), and Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014) and Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2017). Troy Baker (born April 1, 1976) is an American actor and musician. ![]() ![]() ![]() While using this boost, it’ll look like your rocket car is spewing out popcorn out of the back. This code will unlock the popcorn rocket boost animation for your vehicle in Rocket League.
![]() ![]() The DAW control is great since you can scroll through tracks with the arrow buttons unlike being locked to 8 faders and sometimes banking over doesn’t register with a DAW when you midi map it. Thanks Robert, it’s definitely a bummer to throw away so much with Maschine in Midi mode, but I guess there is no “all in one” devices for our needs.Īre you using Logic or Ableton for your DAW or are you using another option? Because as good as the Launchpad is, I think it also only shines if you use it with logic or ableton because of all the DAW control which makes life easier for other daily tasks, and the chord/scale modes can be a creative tool outside of a piano key layout. To illustrate, the launchpad with all those sounds mapped feels a bit like this drumkit: I prefer 16 pads and get the variation out of my playing instead of all of those pads. It’s easier to miss a note and there’s too much choice in a way. What I do not like as much about the launchpad is that the pads are smaller and there are so many of them that intuitive drumming is actually harder. The maschine in midi mode does not really make use of the screens either, so in that sense the launchpad is a better deal. I do think the big maschine mk3 has an audio interface on board though…so you should be able to use it for that.Īs for the mk3 vs the launchpad. For me personally the feel and responsiveness of the pads make it so that I still stick with it. It is true that you’re throwing away 75% of what it can do. My personal opinion at this time is that using the big Maschine mk3 in midi mode only is the best for my studio workflow. Thanks in advance if you took the time to read this book and offer some help! ![]() ![]() Is there any way I can make my Maschine work for me? Or is the LaunchPad just the better option for my circumstance? The Launchpad Pro is quite a bit less expensive but you’re loosing a lot. I can’t decide what’s going to be best for my situation and I don’t know how both of them feel because I’ve only ever played the Maschine. SO, if anyone can be of some help that would be really appreciated. But I already have the 61SL MK3 from Novation which does all of that, just not on a pad based controller layout that can sit directly beside my Laptop. It will be good for playing in drums (with lots of velocity tweaking afterwards…) useful chord functions, 4 track sequencer, controlling logic etc. No expansions, No screens with plugin controls, No Maschine software if I ever want to use it, also it’s literally just a MIDI controller with no other software benefits, No interface onboard and there’s No fixed velocity option!! So now I’ve considered buying a Launchpad, it has good integration with Logic and better integration with Ableton, but there’s a lot of trade offs… I would be 90% MIDI mode with Logic and 10% Maschine software… I’d literally be using it backwards considering the whole point of Maschine is to use the Maschine software together with the Hardware 90% of the time and then 10% in MIDI mode when you want some extra control in another DAW. My last resort was to keep my Maschine, predominantly use it as a MIDI controller (Midi Mode) and then whenever I want to use some of Maschine’s nice features like the expansions, sampler models, and quick drum programming, I would just open Maschine, build the part up quickly and import the audio into Logic.īut that feels like a waste of money to me. I tried using Maschine as a plugin in Logic and that’s a complete dread, I did just order the new 14” M1 Pro 10 core so maybe that will be easier on the CPU to run them at the same time, but still… the non synced transport controls and running a DAW inside a DAW, with stupid routing and cramped GUI is fundamentally not working for me. Maschine is also not great for recording audio and arranging audio clips either. And I can’t start projects in Maschine and then import all the files into another DAW because I never start wth drums, it’s always guitar, rhodes or synths recorded first, then drums and bass. My workflow is already established in Logic and Ableton, and after using I for a bit I’m just not prepared to switch to Maschine software. I wanted a controller for drums that would be a good addition to my workflow, and any other features are a bonus! I record live guitars, bass, synths and a Rhodes MK1 in my studio. ![]() Hey guys, not a “what to buy” post, because I already decided on the Maschine MK3, but after a few weeks with it I hate it, or I hate the workflow for production. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gradually-too gradually, as the author strings out hundreds of pages of Hogwarts-style pranks, classroom mishaps and competitions both academic and romantic-it becomes clear that the placement wasn’t a mistake at all. When it happens to sweet, Disney princess–like Sophie and her friend Agatha, plain of features, sour of disposition and low of self-esteem, they are both horrified to discover that they’ve been dropped not where they expect but at Evil and at Good respectively. Those who survive to graduate become major or minor characters in fairy tales. 11-13)Ĭhainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied.Įvery four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school. Though Wilkinson barely sketches in the historical setting, and mishandles the plot-dropping one scary pursuer abruptly and setting up a climactic battle with another by having Danzi commit a seriously against-type betrayal-she throws an engrossing barrage of challenges and reversals of fortune at her trio of well-drawn travelers, and all three acquit themselves well. ![]() Not quite alone: readers will figure out long before she does what the Dragon Stone really is. Repeatedly getting each other out of scrapes along the way, Ping develops a great attachment to her terse, grumpy companion, while discovering within herself both latent magical powers and the resourcefulness to carry on when, at journey’s end, Danzi and Hua leave her alone. Fugitives from a remote Imperial Palace, Ping, furry Hua and frail Long Danzi, last of the Emperor’s captive dragons, set out for the ocean, carrying a “Dragon Stone” with which Danzi is strangely obsessed. In this award-winning but uneven import, a young slave, her pet rat and a very old dragon flee across the ancient empire of the Han. ![]() ![]() ![]() The long-term goal of the agreement is to reduce costs and increase scalability while achieving strong reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial operations. In fact, ExxonMobil is exploring options to conduct a pilot test of next-generation fuel cell carbon capture solutions at one of its operating sites. 6, 2019 with the purpose of optimizing the core technology, overall process integration and large-scale deployment of carbon capture solutions. This carbon capture technology agreement was announced by the companies on Nov. In fact, it was this deal that saved FuelCell from bankruptcy. The reason for the issuance of equity is that the company already has high leverage and a high debt-equity ratio, but given the fact that it is not far away from breaking even, I think the future fundraises by the company should be limited.įuelCell Energy struck a $60 million deal Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) in 2019, which resulted in a higher level of activity under the carbon capture program. FuelCell Energy looks to gain access to more capital for scaling up, hence the $75 million issue. Also, cash and equivalents have nearly doubled this year. There was also a reasonable effort in terms of cost control, which is why we see the size of the negative bottom-line reducing rapidly. The management has focused on accelerating revenue growth largely through Generation, Service and Advanced Technology. This was a significant improvement over the $2.06 per share loss reported in the same quarter of 2019. With the operations scaling up, the company is slowly approaching its break-even, as it reported a net loss of $14.8 million this quarter, or 7 cents per share, which was on par with the analyst consensus estimate. In 2019, FuelCell Energies was operating on a gross loss, but now it has managed to generate a positive gross margin. This is the result of the strengthening unit economics. ![]() The company's operating loss of $8.1 million is less than half of the $17.6 million operating loss in the prior-year quarter. This increase of 105% also ensured that the company beat analyst consensus estimates of $15.55 million by more than 20%. The company reported revenue of $18.9 million, more than double the reported revenue from the corresponding quarter of 2019. FuelCell employs close to 300 people and has its headquarters in Danbury, Connecticut.įuelCell Energy recently reported earnings for its fiscal second quarter of 2020. The company has its core business in the U.S., followed by South Korea, the UK and Germany. Its SureSource power plants generate electricity and usable heat and cater to a wide variety of industries such as data centers and communication, educational institutions, healthcare services, industrials, wastewater treatment and hospitality. The company's core product line, called SureSource, is based on carbonate fuel cell technology in various configurations, including on-site power, utility grid support, distributed hydrogen and micro-grid as well as multi-megawatt applications. Its core offerings work towards the efficient conversion of chemical energy in fuels into electricity through a series of chemical reactions. Click here to check it out.įuelCell Energy is engaged in the designing, manufacturing, sale, installation, operation and servicing of stationary fuel cell power plants for distributed power generation. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Signs with FCEL. However, the future outlook of the company is bright, potentially making it a compelling investment opportunity in my view. ![]() As it readies itself to issue an additional $75 million worth of stock, the price is falling because of the expected dilution. (NASDAQ:FCEL) will be back in the limelight.įuelCell Energy is one of the oldest clean energy companies, and it managed to deliver an excellent quarterly result even in the lockdown situation. It only appears to be a matter of time before this comes back to focus, which is when companies like FuelCell Energy Inc. ![]() As the world continues to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, one highly promising sector that has been put on the backburner by the investor community is the green energy space. ![]() ![]() ![]() They provided information on why it’s important for babies to play, what milestones 9-month-olds are working toward and what toys are best for 9-month-olds. To compile a list of the best toys for 9-month-olds, I used my own experience, researched the best baby toys and I reached out to four baby experts. I’ve also researched, tested and reviewed countless baby toys as a product review writer. With three kids under the age of 5, I’ve spent years using baby toys at home. How We Chose The Best Toys For 9-Month-Olds ![]() This article is regularly reviewed and updated. She also relied heavily on her background in education when selecting products for this guide. She spent hours researching, talking to experts, playing with toys and collaborating with the Forbes Vetted baby and kids gear editor, Rose Gordon Sala. The author of this piece, Alicia Betz, drew on her own experience as a mom to three and product reviewer specializing in parenting to select the toys for this story. The experts also helped answer some of the most commonly asked questions about toys for 9-month-olds.Īs parents, we also used our firsthand experience to select toys and gifts that our own children have liked. Victoria Regan, pediatrician, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston Marielle Marquez, pediatric occupational therapist and founder of Thrive Little and pediatric physical therapist Kaitlin Rickerd, PT DPT. Germain, vice president and medical director of Children's Physicians and Urgent Care at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska Dr. I also interviewed several experts for this story: Dr. When it comes to recommending products in the parenting category, we always take safety in consideration, making sure that the products we’ve selected follow safe age recommendations, for example. Forbes has extensive experience reviewing and testing baby and kids toys and gear, including everything from swaddles to swing sets. ![]() |
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