![]() With almost continuous combat in the area, the precise number of battles forming the Isonzo campaign is debatable. Number of battles Īustro-Hungarian supply line over the Vršič Pass. More than 30,000 casualties were ethnic Slovenes, the majority of them being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army, while Slovene civilian inhabitants from the Gorizia and Gradisca region also suffered in many thousands because they were resettled in refugee camps where Slovene refugees were treated as state enemies by Italians, and some thousands died of malnutrition in Italian refugee camps. Austro-Hungarian losses, while by no means as numerous, were nevertheless high at around 200,000 (of an overall total of around 1.2 million casualties). Half of the entire Italian war death total-some 300,000 of 600,000-were suffered along the Soča (Isonzo). In the south (along the coastal zone) geographic peculiarities, including an array of ridges and valleys, also gave an advantage to the Austro-Hungarian defenders.Īustrian troops crossing the Isonzo, November 1917ĭespite the huge effort and resources poured into the continuing Isonzo struggle, the results were invariably disappointing and without real tactical merit, particularly given the geographical difficulties that were inherent in the campaign.Ĭumulative casualties of the numerous battles of the Isonzo were enormous. He was well aware that the river was prone to flooding-and indeed there were record rainfalls during 1914–1918.įurther, when attacking further north the Italian army was faced with something of a dilemma: in order to cross the Isonzo safely it needed to neutralise the Austro-Hungarian defenders on the mountains above, yet to neutralise these forces the Italian forces needed first to cross the river-an obstacle that the Italians never succeeded in overcoming. However he also believed that the Italian army could strike further north and bypass the mountains on either side of the river so as to come at the Austro-Hungarian forces from the rear.Ĭadorna had not expected operations in the Isonzo sector to be easy. Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna judged that Italian gains (from Gorizia to Trieste) were most feasible at the coastal plain east of the lower end of the Soča (Isonzo). The Austro-Hungarians had fortified the mountains ahead of the Italians' entry into the war on. With the rest of the mountainous 400-mile (640 km) length of the Front being almost everywhere dominated by Austro-Hungarian forces, the Soča (Isonzo) was the only practical area for Italian military operations during the war. Italian troops did not reach the port of Trieste, the Italian General Luigi Cadorna's initial target, until after the Armistice. The corridor is also known as the "Ljubljana Gate".īy the autumn of 1915 one mile had been won by Italian troops, and by October 1917 a few Austro-Hungarian mountains and some square miles of land had changed hands several times. The sixty-mile long Soča River at the time ran entirely inside Austria-Hungary in parallel to the border with Italy, from the Vršič and Predil passes in the Julian Alps to the Adriatic Sea, widening dramatically a few kilometers north of Gorizia, thus opening a narrow corridor between Northern Italy and Central Europe, which goes through the Vipava Valley and the relatively low north-eastern edge of the Karst Plateau to Inner Carniola and Ljubljana. Remains of Kluže, an Austro-Hungarian fortification between Bovec and Log pod Mangrtom Īs a result, the Austro-Hungarians were forced to move some of their forces from the Eastern Front and a war in the mountains around the Isonzo River began. The area between the northernmost part of the Adriatic Sea and the sources of the Isonzo River thus became the scene of twelve successive battles. Italian commander Luigi Cadorna, a staunch proponent of the frontal assault who claimed the Western Front proved the ineffectiveness of machine guns, initially planned breaking onto the Slovenian plateau, taking Ljubljana and threatening Vienna. In April 1915, in the secret Treaty of London, Italy was promised by the Allies some of the territories of Austro-Hungarian Empire which were mainly inhabited by ethnic Slovenes and Austrian Germans. 3 Primary sector for Italian operations.
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![]() ![]() The result was always the same: The RadRover 5 just powered through, the front fork soaking up hits, the wide fenders repelling the detritus thrown off by the tires, the strong motor clawing up hills or speeding down bike lanes. My teenage son and myself pointed the Big 5 (as we came to call it) at every kind of alt-surface we could find: gravel roads pocked with mud puddles (super fun), fields of deep grass, a BMX track, muddy forest trails, gravel byways, and even a bit of snow (we initially received the bike in February). Nothing left to do except put it to the test. But it still had that “I can go anywhere and up/down/over just about anything” attitude like my big Zookie. ![]() It’s similar to my Suzuki DR650 dual-sport motorcycle, except not quite as powerful and 350 pounds lighter. Roberson PhotographyĪdditionally, since I’m also a motorcycle guy, I appreciated the stability it had while riding. The front fork features a lockout for a more solid ride on city streets. But give the phat ride idea a more mountain bike-like stance and add in an electric motor, especially a stout 750-watt plant, and everything changes. Riding a friend’s regular (non-powered) “fat bike” a couple of years ago confirmed my suspicions: it was slow, heavy, ungainly, and tiring to ride. MORE FROM FORBES Smart, Funky, Expensive And A Hoot To Ride, GoCycle's G3 Electric Bicycle Is Loaded With Good Ideas By Bill Robersonīut truthfully, I’ve always had a bit of scorn for what I thought of as those silly super-fat-tired bike-things that seemed more like a rolling bicycle fashion statements than practical transportation. I’m also a fairly typical taco-and-burger-loving big guy at 6 foot 1, 225 pounds, so I appreciated the RadRover 5’s larger overall profile: It fit me perfectly. I’m in Oregon, so not unsurprisingly for early March, it began to rain as I buttoned up adjusting the bike to my size. It arrived partially assembled and after half an hour with a few common tools, I had the front wheel on, the fat fenders in place, the rear rack attached, lights connected, seat adjusted and the battery topped up. At a base 69 pounds, it’s big, heavy, and built like Mike Tyson in his prime. The Rad Rover 5 is not some lightweight miracle. There are a lot of trails and forested parks near where I live, and the RadRover 5 made walking the. Extra batteries to extend your ride cost $545. The battery is modular and rides in a carrier where a water bottle usually sits, and can be quickly locked or unlocked with a key to be swapped out. A 7.7-pound 48V, 14 Ah (672 Wh) battery with Samsung 35E cells powers the motor and electrics, and Rad says it’s good for 800 charging cycles and between 25 and 45-ish miles of range depending on use. It can also be set to blink but still goes solid when you hit the brakes. If the bike is powered on, the rear brake light activates, a feature every bike should have in my opinion. ![]() The headlight needs to be brighter and the light pattern is a square, so maybe a rethink is needed there. There’s an LED headlight, and a rear LED taillight with a brake light that also relocates into the optional rear rack that came with my bike. Roberson PhotographyĪ small control pod for turning on the power, adjusting assist levels and toggling display options is on the left bar, as is a bike bell. The LCD display might be simple but that's a good thing. She is like in trance, “moaning” and “creeping on the floor” like crazy people. When she can finally be free, it is seen as a mad woman “I had to creep over him every time”, here the use of the “I” is also important but most importantly, what her state represents. When the protagonist can finally express herself without repression, is when she is free “here I can creep smoothly on the floor”, in this quotation the use of the word “I” represents a lot, she can finally make her own decisions by herself. Reaching the end of the story, the topics of what women were allowed to do is challenged. The protagonist of the story is acting as a criticism to society through these acts. ![]() Women were so utterly underappreciated that they did not have a voice in their own homes. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” this can be clearly seen. Women at the late nineteenth century suffered from being underappreciated and did not have a voice in society. Then, John does not take seriously what her wife says about the wallpaper, “He laughs at me so about this wallpaper”, he does not care what the narrator says. Then, her husband is not the only one that does not let her write John’s sister in law does not let her write too, she is hired as a housekeeper. A further evidence of this is when the woman doesn’t like her room and says “But John would not hear of it, she feels her husband won’t consider her opinion. The protagonist of the story represents and carries almost all the features women were expected to have at the late nineteenth century.Īlso, the woman at that time didn’t have the same rights as men. Also, at that time science was very important so the narrator thinks that her husband is always right, “What is one to do?”, this is when she is talking about what her husband tells her and that she does not agree with it but she feels he is right because of his profession. Her husband did not allow the narrator to write because he thinks it is worst for her, “he hates to have me write a word” the protagonist cannot write in front of her husband. The protagonist of this story could not write because of her illness that was a nervous depression, this was what his husband, John, told her. Secondly, the woman in the late nineteenth century could not express themselves or do things like writing or going out of their houses alone. Throughout the entire story, the author makes a critic to the society, but indirectly, using metonymy.įirstly, metonymically means a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of an object or concept for that of another to which it is related. That is why we can claim that this character metonymically represents women in Victorian society, since metonymy is a figure. ![]() This is a characteristic of many women in the Victorian society. She is a victim of the repressing society in which she lived in. ![]() ![]() She is not only a victim because of her husband’s apathy of her illness. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the protagonist is shown as a victim. “The woman of the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” metonymically represents the woman at the late nineteenth century” How far do you agree with this statement? Explain. This is the second version of our essay, hope you like it □ I published mine, and then Ceci made some corrections and suggested some tips on writing conclusions. Then, we had to publish our essays on our blogs. For our literature class our teacher, Cecilia Lasa, asked us to think an essay statement based on the short story we’ve been reading, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ![]() This gravitational potential energy changes into motion energy as the ball falls. They both start with gravitational potential energy ("height energy") when they are held up high. When the ball bounces, the floor pushes up on the ball to make it go up again.įor the swing, the push and pull of an arm makes it move, and gravity is pulling down on the arm - you can feel it.Įnergy and momentum in a double ball bounceīounce a basketball or a tennis ball. ![]() ![]() The force of gravity will pull the ball down to make it fall or bounce. The students' hands will provide the force to make the balls spin, roll or slide. The students are instructed to move the balls in various ways, to make them move through various motions: spin, roll, slide, lift, fall, bounce, swing.ĭiscuss where the force comes from (the "push or pull") that made the ball do each motion. Use movies of astronauts walking on the Moon, throwing a discus, jumping, and more from “Activity I - Exploration: Is there any gravity on the Moon?” as conversation-starters about whether or not there is gravity on the Moon.Use the balls to learn about different kinds of motion. How Much Would you Weigh on Distant Planets? (These steps are also described in the Children's Guide.) Extension The Moon’s smaller force of gravity offers opportunities for fun! This simulates Earth’s greater force of gravity pulling on the ball more than the Moon’s smaller force of gravity. Summarize that the Moon ball bounced higher and for longer than the Earth ball. Compare observations and connect them to the “real world.” Prompt the children to use their experiences bouncing the balls to decide whether Olympic athletes would be able to jump higher or not as high on the Moon as on Earth.Ĥ. Invite each participant to drop (or gently throw) the “Earth” and “Moon” balls from shoulder height and observe what happens.ģ. Explain that the Earth ball will simulate how a ball bounces on Earth and the other will simulate how a ball bounces on the Moon. ![]() Test how a ball bounces on the Moon compared with on the Earth. Encourage the participants to first predict which ball would bounce higher: a ball dropped on the Earth or on the Moon.Ģ.Use the Explore! Health in Space Discussion Guide to draw participants into the activity and frame the activity with the main message: Astronauts - and kids! - need to rest, relax, and have fun.Help the children learn each other’s names (if they don’t know each other already). Provide the balls and Follow the Bouncing Ball Children's Guide in a bag or bin, or place them at a table so that participants can access them.With a permanent marker, label the low-bounce ball "Earth" and the high-bounce ball "Moon.".Review the Follow the Bouncing Ball Facilitator Background Information and Explore! Health in Space Discussion Guide.Test them to make sure! You may substitute other pairs of balls for high-bounce and jacks balls, as long as they bounce at noticeably different heights. Follow the Bouncing Ball Children's Guide.Explore! Health in Space Discussion Guide.Follow the Bouncing Ball Facilitator Background Information.Astronauts experienced less gravity on the Moon, so dropping a ball on the Moon would cause it to bounce much higher than on Earth.Astronauts - and kids! - need to rest, relax, and have fun.Station, presented in combination with related activitiesĭemonstration by facilitator What's the Point? Families or other mixed-age groups, including children as young as 4 years old with assistance from an older child, teen, or adult.They simulate the experiment by dropping high- and regular-bounce balls from their shoulder height. Space Stations - Follow the Bouncing Ball! OverviewĬhildren predict whether a ball on Earth or a ball on the Moon bounces higher when dropped (or thrown at the floor) and why. ![]() If there was a stronger correlation from one year to the next, the dots would be a much tighter fit around the trend line. ![]() The data points for each team and season are widely dispersed along the trend line when comparing records from Year N to Year N+1. Without further ado, scroll below to explore scores of scatterplots!įor the October #SWDchallenge I'm sharing a scatterplot that I recently created to illustrate the lack of consistency in the NFL from one season to the next. Do you have ideas on what you’d like it to be? Leave a comment with your thoughts! Until then, check out the #SWDchallenge page for the archives of previous months' challenges and submissions. The next monthly challenge will be announced on November 1 and will run through midnight PST on October 8th. png) to and we'll work to include any late entries this week (just a reminder that tweeting on its own isn't enough-we unfortunately don't have time to scrape Twitter for entries, so emailing is the sure way to get your creations included). If you tweeted or thought you submitted one but but don't see it here, email your submission (including your graph attached as. To everyone who submitted examples: THANK YOU for taking the time to create and share your work! The makeovers are posted below in alphabetical order by first name. I love hearing that people are using the challenge to practice new tools, or to try something in one they know that they haven’t done before. There was an impressive variety of tools used this month: Excel, Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, R (ggplot2 and more), Plotly, Inkscape, and Illustrator. Luida’s whimsical flower-like pies, which plot relative happiness, simply made me happy to look at and explore. Simon used clearly labeled shaded bands to help us understand how the data points in the scatterplot relate to each other and to help with interpretation. included summary frequency distributions (“marginal histograms”) to summarize and lend additional understanding of the data. In terms of specific interesting design choices that stood out to me, I liked Jeremy & Sarah’s tails that put the focus on the 2020 expectation, but provided the context of wealth and age in 1995. Frans’ “Hidden Gems” plots nearly 18,000 data points, making accessible through thoughtful color and words, inviting us to explore the small multiple view. To highlight a couple nice overall designs that caught my eye: Alex packed in a ton of data in his bubblegraph view of birth and death rates by country. I appreciate the steps that many took to make their scatterplots accessible for exploration: clear titling, reference lines, and in some cases dividing the plot into halves or quadrants. While some computed correlations or added trendlines, others used the scatterplot to illustrate the lack of relationship between dimensions. That said, a couple who did employ smart focusing tactics via color and words to highlight specific takeaways include Dennis with his firefighter response times in the Netherlands and James’ impact of the change of a call center script. ![]() There were relatively fewer takeaway titles or prominent stories highlighted in the various visuals, perhaps because scatterplots simply seem to lend themselves to being explored. I was excited to see a handful of people layer on the additional dimension of time in a connected scatterplot: Antonio visualized 400 Italian names in an artful view that invites exploration, Bosley clearly depicted home runs by hits over the decades, RJ illustrated that people are going to the movies relatively less but watching comic films relatively more (check out his tilted axes to help orient us reading time left to right), and Tiago helps us understand misery in Portugal by political party (it’s definitely worth the scroll down to see it!). Forty-seven people accepted, creating and sharing their work! Topics ranged from the light-hearted Star Wars, superheroes, and conversation topics between two friends, to more serious things like immunization, alcohol consumption, income, life satisfaction and diabetes. This month’s challenge was to make a scatterplot. ![]() ListsĪre you one of those people who love writing lists? So make sure you have your notebook with you all the time so you can jot down your ideas quickly to save them. In that case, you can’t predict what will inspire you.Īnd if you’re not carrying a notebook with you at that time, it could mean the loss of a precious tidbit of inspiration required to finish that banner you’re designing or that last chapter you couldn’t think of the perfect ending to. ![]() Suppose your work involves a lot of creativity, like mine, where you constantly need to develop unique ideas to make your daily project stand out (e.g., if you’re in advertising, writing, or designing). And it’s really helped me remember events, people, and things. I usually record whatever I’ve done during the day in my journal. Just take a couple of minutes to yourself and write down what you did that day.Īnd you get to keep a little memory of that day for the rest of your life. ![]() And it’s a great way to reflect on life when you get home. This is by far the most popular thing people do when they get a notebook. For more information, please read my entire Privacy Policy here. If you do decide to purchase something, I will make a commission at no extra cost to you. If you can’t decide on what to write in your notebook, here are 41 ideas that will get your creative juices flowing! They are not only comfortable to write in but are also portable and have a little pouch to put in all your little bits of paper you don’t want to get lost. Opening a blank notebook to write in can be awfully exciting.Īnd after a couple of minutes, increasingly frustrating as you don’t know what to write in it. Then you get home and realize you have a pile of notebooks lying around. Do you love buying notebooks because they always catch your eye? ![]() This mod lets you experience the intensity of being chased by the undead. Sometimes, what you need is a game mode that’s different and unique from the ones in Insurgency: Sandstorm. You can set your magazines and ammo count to any value, so go nuts. This mutator allows you to override the number of magazines you can carry for your primary, secondary, and underbarrel attachments. It also removes the cooldown at every round start because who needs those, right?ĭo you just want to let rip and go hard on that trigger without worrying about getting low on ammo? Fear not, because the More Ammo Mutator is here for you. With this, you can set up position anywhere you want and destroy an entire wave of enemies.Īs the name suggests, More Fire Support means more fire support! This mod allows you to increase the number of fire support at your disposal. This mod removes the annoying restricted areas that prevent you from firing any of your weapons and using your equipment. It may seem like a small, insignificant detail, but this mod can add up to player immersion and allow players to see their cosmetics. ![]() It allows you to see your legs in first person. So today, we took some of the best mods that you should definitely try out if you're looking to spice up your gaming experience.ĭoes it bother you that whenever you look down in-game, you can’t see your legs? Well, luckily, this mod got you covered. ![]() There are so many options to choose from when selecting a mod to try out. Take your Insurgency: Sandstorm experience to a whole new level with these mods!Ĭustom maps, game-changing mutators, and some crazy custom game modes, you can find all that thanks to the modding community of Insurgency: Sandstorm. ![]() Meanwhile, in Britain the game of Black Maria, with its additional penalty cards in the suit of spades, emerged in 1939 and, both it and another offshoot, Omnibus Hearts, are "sufficiently different and popular to justify descriptions as separate games." ![]() Today this feature is a common element of modern Black Lady. The slam is known as "shooting the moon" first appeared in Britain in 1939 in a variant of Hearts called Hitting the Moon. In the 1920s, the J ♦ variation (ten positive points) was introduced, and sometime later the scoring was reversed so that penalty points were expressed as positive instead of negative. To begin with, Black Lady did not have the option of "shooting the moon" that came later. This new variant has since become the standard game of the Hearts group in America where it is often, somewhat confusingly, called "Hearts". In 1909, the Q ♠ was added as the highest penalty card in a variant called either Discard Hearts, after the new feature of passing unwanted cards to other players after the deal, or Black Lady, after the nickname for the Q ♠. The second scoring scheme was: Ace 5, King 4, Queen 3, Jack 2 and all pips 1 chip each. The first was the precursor to Spot Hearts whereby the cards of the heart suit cost the following in chips: Ace 14, King 13, Queen 12, Jack 11 and pip cards their face value. Two scoring variants were mentioned under the name 'Double or Eagle Game'. The basic format has changed little since. It was a no-trump, trick-taking game for four players using a full pack of cards, the aim being to avoid taking any hearts in tricks. It described Hearts as "a most pleasant game, highly provocative of laughter". Hearts itself emerged in the United States during the 1880s, The Standard Hoyle of 1887 reporting that it had only been played there for "the last five years" and was "probably of German origin". A similar game called "Four Jacks" centred around avoiding any trick containing a Jack, which were worth one penalty point, and J ♠ worth two. In this game, a penalty point was awarded for each trick won, plus additional points for taking J ♥ or Q ♥ in tricks. The game of Hearts probably originated with Reversis, which became popular around 1750 in Spain. The original game of Hearts is still current, but has been overtaken in popularity by Black Lady in the United States and Black Maria in Great Britain. The game is a member of the Whist group of trick-taking games (which also includes Bridge and Spades), but is unusual among Whist variants in that it is a trick-avoidance game players avoid winning certain penalty cards in tricks, usually by avoiding winning tricks altogether. It was first recorded in America in the 1880s and has many variants, some of which are also referred to as "Hearts" especially the games of Black Lady and Black Maria. ![]() Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although most variations can accommodate between three and six players. Notes: Hearts, while not trump, award one penalty point each, hence the game's name. 52-card (51 or 54 for 3 or 6 players, 50 for 5) |
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