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Less warming is expected under a lower emissions future (the coldest end-of-century projections being about 2☏ warmer than the historical average green shading) and more warming under a higher emissions future (the hottest end-of-century projections being about 12☏ warmer than the hottest year in the historical record red shading). Historically unprecedented warming is projected during this century. Observed temperatures are generally within the envelope of model simulations of the historical period (gray shading). Shading indicates the range of annual temperatures from the set of models. Temperatures in Wisconsin (orange line) have risen more than 2☏ since the beginning of the 20th century. Projected changes for 2006–2100 are from global climate models for two possible futures: one in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase (higher emissions) and another in which greenhouse gas emissions increase at a slower rate (lower emissions). 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The wound channel was the diameter of the bullet with no expansion. Several years ago I started out with hornady 220 RNSPs and had results (not great, but I never lost a deer since I was using a rest out of a box stand and put them through the lungs or heart). The longer the bullet, the faster the twist required.įOR HUNTING: Right now I'm set on the SMKs as they are just barely stable (given the appropriate twist v/s weight) and will tumble causing a wound channel similar to a broadhead. The SMK design requires a longer bullet to achieve the same weight. To shoot a SMK type design, I have to drop down to the 190s to get stable departure from the bore. However, a 220 SMK will not be stable enough and strike the baffels in the can on the same barrel. For comparison, I can shoot 220 RNSPs out of my 1/10 barrel and stack them into the same hole at 100 in the absense of wind. With that said I've found that SMKs can be just as accurate as long as you have the proper twist rate. Just crony it with a goal of 1050 to get the max energy and remain below the transsonic range.įOR PUNCHING PAPER: Round nose bullets (or anything shaped like a tear drop) has been proven to be the most stable in subsonic flight. If you follow protocol of working loads down instead of the traditional up, you won't stick a bullet in the bore. A sub load won't harm a barrel, it's creating far less pressure than a hot load. My harbinger (GAP/SH build from a few years ago) loves 10.5 gr of TB with 200SMKs. 11 grains (some rifles will need a little less or a little more depending on barrel length) and you'll have a consisitent, accurate load for any 1/10 twist rifle. Stuff a 200 SMK or greater round nose design in there with approx. 15 grains will completely fill a 308 case. TrailBoss is a very bulky powder designed for cowboy action shooting. 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The dimensions of 5.36 m 2.03 m 1.43 m (LxWxH) were relatively modest for a pickup, but the Chevrolet El Camino was no ordinary pack donkey. On the body side, inspiration was drawn from the Impala sedan (absolutely identical down to the B-pillar), which didn't even do without the fashionable tail fins. The two-door station wagon Chevrolet Brookwood served as a platform, with only a slightly modified chassis. The coupe pickup El Camino was based on the '59 Chevrolet models of the time. In 1959 the time had finally come, the first Chevrolet with the Spanish name "El Camino" (in English: "the road") saw the light of day and was ultimately considered the answer to the Ranchero from Ford that had been introduced two years earlier. At GM, the idea of such a sedan pickup had been on the table since 1952, but it was never implemented. It must have been particularly annoying for GM (General Motors) when their arch-rival Ford beat them here with their Ranchero (coupé pickup). ![]() While the Cameo was a truck in every respect, it already offered many elements typical of a passenger car - such as two-tone paint, a smooth V-8 engine, automatic transmission, a relatively luxurious interior, and power assistance. Then, in the mid-1955s, the manufacturer brought out the Chevy Pickup Cameo Carrier(a more luxurious truck model within the 3100 Series/Task Force) which eventually paved the way for the Chevrolet El Camino. And indeed, Chevy already had such a model in its range in the 1920s, which followed the trend that followed (mid-1930s) – on truck platforms to go over - but had to give way. The basic idea of turning a passenger car into a commercial vehicle is almost as old as the automobile itself. Unlike a regular pickup, the El Camino was built on a two-door station wagon platform that integrated the cab and truck bed into the body. ![]() The El Camino was a pickup-style passenger car that combined the dramatic styling of Chevrolet cars of the time with a Half-Ton pickup. The Chevrolet El Camino (Gen.1) is a coupe utility vehicle that was produced and marketed from 1959 to 1960. Since the early 1970s, an identical sister model was sold by the General Motors brand GMC under the name Sprint, later as the Caballero.Ĭhevrolet El Camino - 1st Generation (1959-1960) The name comes from Spanish and means "the way". Excellent gears with excellent quality and value.now in stock and available at Denny's Driveshafts.The Chevrolet El Camino was an open-bed pickup truck produced by the American car manufacturer General Motors under the Chevrolet marque from 1958 to 1960 and again from 1964 to 1987. Quiet running and easy to set up makes these gears perfect for your car. 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To avoid serious adverse consequences, practitioners should quickly identify and actively deal with adverse vascular events, especially intravascular embolization 8. Complications classified as severe or permanent are mainly caused by vascular compromise, which may be induced by partial or complete vascular occlusion caused by the intravascular injection of filler 7. Severe or permanent complications include skin necrosis, vision loss, and blepharoptosis 6. Mild or transient complications related to filler injection include swelling, edema, erythema, skin paraesthesia, and local infection. Although the incidence of complications is low and most adverse events are mild, the increase in the number of procedures has led to an increase in the number of complications 2, 3, 4, 5. Research has shown that from 2000 to 2017, soft tissue filling surgery increased by 300% in the United States 2. The injection of fillers for soft tissue augmentation is a rapidly developing treatment 1. Early-stage warm compress after intravascular PMMA injection is conducive to recanalization of vascular embolization and reducing tissue necrosis. At 7 days after intravascular injection, the vessels in the cold compress and control groups were still embolized while the percentage of recanalization in the warm compress group was 47.4% (P < 0.000). One day after intravascular injection, warm compress can reduce intravascular embolization and reduce the incidence of tissue necrosis. In the early stage of vascular embolization, warm compress can immediately promote vascular dilatation, blood circulation and partial blood flow recovery. The vascular recanalization and other related indexes were observed at 30 min, 1 day, and 7 days after injection, and the tissue necrosis was analyzed at 7 days. Warm compress and cold compress treatment were performed respectively. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) was slowly injected into the central ear artery (CEA) to cause vascular embolism. Thirty rabbit’s sixty ears were randomly divided into warm compress group, cold compress group, and control group. The purpose of this study is to construct an intravascular injection embolism model and observe the effectiveness of warm and cold compress through a randomized, controlled trial. The treatment strategies for intravascular embolization caused by injection include warm compress application, but the exact beneficial effects of this therapy have not been confirmed. Elsevier, 2019.Injection of fillers for soft tissue augmentation can lead to a variety of complications, among which vascular occlusion caused by intravascular injection of filler will induce severe or permanent damage. Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing (7th Edition). Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn (5th Edition). The effect of intermittent local heat and cold on labor pain and child birth outcome. Ganji Z, Shirvani MA, Rezaei-Ahari F, Danesh M. The effect of localized heat and cold therapy on pain intensity, duration of phases of labor, and birth outcomes among primiparous females: A randomized, controlled trial. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. Elsevier, 2016.Ĭommittee Opinion: Immersion in water during labor and delivery. Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing (6th Edition). Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing (8th Edition). ![]() ![]() So the more consistent way to make a living playing Hearthstone might not be to head for the top of the tournaments, but instead focus on building up an audience eager to watch you play. The best players will learn to manage the randomness but that still hasn’t stopped tournaments being decided on a roll of the virtual dice. One popular card has a 1.5% chance of wiping the board clean another has a 400% swing in the amount of damage it will randomly do on the board. What’s more, even if you are really, really (really) good, the game itself is fairly open to punishing amounts of random chance. Unlike other head-to-head sports such as tennis, for example, there’s not really a championship circuit. Fail to win that, and you have to wait another year for your chance at the big money. ![]() But only one person can win that, and the rewards decline precipitously as you get further down the ranking.Īnd unlike physical sports, there’s only really one Hearthstone tournament to consider: the official, Blizzard-run world championships. Sure, the world championship has a grand prize of $100,000 – a nice income for any job, particularly video games. It’s just how the game works.”īut Reynad also introduced me to another thing to consider when it came to striding out as a pro player: winning tournaments is not actually a good way to make a living. Once you hit it, you have the same odds of winning as anyone else. It’s very easy to hit that skill ceiling in Hearthstone. “If … you’re playing several hours a day, you’re pretty much gonna be at the same skill level as most people playing the game at a professional level. “Hearthstone’s just a very low skill-cap game,” he told me. And I was buoyed in that decision after I spoke to Andrey Yanyuk, better known as Reynad, one of the most successful professional Hearthstone players. Photograph: Alex Hern/Blizzardīut I wasn’t going to let my quest to be a pro gamer be deterred by a little thing like not being very good at Hearthstone. And secondly … what’s the highest rank you’ve ever reached?” It was 15. He said there were two problems with the idea – neither of which were that I’m not actually particularly good at Hearthstone. I play an awful lot of video games, so who’s to say I can’t win a lot?Īs it turns out, my editor, for one. Win the regional qualifiers and you get invited to the world championships win those and a $100,000 prize is yours.Īll you have to do is win an awful lot of video games. Get enough points, and an invitation to the regional qualifiers can come your way. Moreover, simply reaching that tier brings you a step towards qualifying for the world championships the higher you rank, the more points you get on your scorecard. There, your ranking stops being equivalent to your tier (rank one players being best, and rank 25 being worst), and becomes your actual place in the cohort of the best players in the world. ![]() Rise high enough in the ranks and you hit the Legend rank. The game offers a ranked play mode, which randomly pits players against each other, winning and losing ranks as they play. But in the background is a second motivation, one that can take over alarmingly easily. He declined to estimate how much he had spent on the game when I asked.Ĭasual players such as me often focus on playing the game to maximise the amount of in-game currency that they earn. ![]() One player I know, an executive at a London-based startup, only plays using decks made from “golden” cards, a purely cosmetic difference that costs two to 10 times as much as the normal cards. Their player base grows quickly because the barrier to entry is almost non-existent, and yet the amount of money they can pull in from the most dedicated players (“whales”) is usually far in excess of the £40-£60 a traditional game can charge as a one-off fee. ![]() That’s not surprising: free-to-play games can, if they take off, be extraordinary earners. The game’s creators haven’t disclosed quite how valuable it is to them, but one recent study suggested it brought in around $20m (£14m) a month for the company. ![]() |
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