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Abell shall not be responsible for failing to execute such bids or errors relating to the execution of such bids. ![]() Pre-Auction Bids: Bids which are submitted to Abell prior to the auction may, at the discretion of Abell, be executed for the convenience of the bidders. Lot fees and handling fees will be deducted from the gross sales proceeds.ĥ. Abell reserves the right to re-sell any item purchased and left in our warehouse for over 30 days. For items purchased at our weekly auctions, Abell will charge a storage fee of the greater of $25.00 per lot per day or 10% per item left in our warehouse over 10 days (plus a handling fee of $75). Storage Fees: Without exception for all merchandise left on the premises, Abell will charge a storage fee of the greater of $50 per lot per day or 10% of selling price, plus handling a fee of $150 if left over fifteen (15) days past the date of sale for items purchased at our Quarterly fine art and antique auctions. 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The successful bidder will be personally responsible to pay the hammer price plus a Buyer's Premium of twenty five (25) percent of the gross hammer price, plus applicable sales tax. DO NOT BID ON ANY LOT UNLESS YOU HAVE PERSONALLY INSPECTED IT TO DETERMINE ITS PROVENANCE, CONDITION, SIZE AND WHETHER OR NOT IT HAS BEEN REPAIRED OR RESTORED.Ģ.ěidding at Auction: The highest bidder recognized by the auctioneer will be the purchaser. As Is: All lots are sold As Is and without recourse and neither Abell nor the consignor makes any warranties or representations, express or implied, with respect to such lots. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.īy bidding at an Abell Auction Company auction, you hereby agree to be bound by the following:ġ. ![]() Abells shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. By participating in the auction, buyer affirmatively represents and acknowledges that he or she has read and understood the terms and conditions of sale set forth herein, and agrees to be bound by the same.Īny condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. This Auction is presented by Abell Auction and Live Auctioneers and is conducted under these Terms and Conditions as well as applicable state and local law. Please contact Abell directly for questions regarding shipping and payment of purchases. NO EXCEPTIONSĭue to the "stay-in-place" mandate, Abell will be on limited operating hours. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR ON LINE BIDDINGĪLL JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS METALS TO BE PAID BY WIRE TRANSFER ONLY. ![]() The 448-bit encryption has a private key option, showing that it's almost impossible for someone to hack into your files and take them from you. The service has an unlimited amount of storage, meaning that you shouldn't have to worry about the size of your files or the number of files being uploaded to the servers. As for my top three choices, CrashPlan offers triple destination protection, so you're not just relying on a cloud backup, but also a physical hard drive. Upon starting my research, I decided to test around 10 of the more popular cloud backup solutions, allowing for me to whittle it down to the more promising options. ![]() Files created by some of those software and apps that you may have to reinstall (for example a CRM probably has thousands of customer interactions you would like to save.).Some of the files you are able to online backup include: Keep in mind that full system backups are generally not available, so if your computer gets fried you will most likely have to reinstall the operating system and whatever applications you had installed. It depends on the service, but many of them allow scheduled backups along with fast file transfer speeds. All of the data transfers are encrypted so that no one can access them but you. When you signup for one of these services your files become connected to the company's servers. Therefore, when you end up staring at a busted hard drive or a hacked computer, all you have to do is restore the files from your backup. Not to mention, this person comes to your home every day or month to see if you'd like to protect anything else.Ī cloud backup is like a digital version of that, where you specify the files you would like to backup on your computer or hard drive, and a service schedules backups so you don't even know it's happening. It's more secure, and you don't have to do any of the work yourself. The best real world comparison I can come up with is a situation where someone you trust comes to your house, grabs all of your most precious items and puts them in a safety deposit box. You're doing the work to put it into that storage, and you're trusting a company to keep it safe for you. In short, the majority of stuff you put in storage can be replaced. This is similar to a storage facility with all the junk from your kid's freshman dorm room. Typically, people use storage for items they may access later, but maybe they're not that important. Therefore, you have to make the move yourself, and the files either have to be moved or copied over. What's the difference? Well, storage requires you to take the items you have on your local computer or hard drive and upload them into the cloud. However, they're considered cloud storage services, not cloud backups. Yes, these services are mighty handy, and free at that. What would you say? Maybe Google Drive or Dropbox? Or maybe this is an interaction between you and your significant other about old movies, personal files and pictures of the kids. Let's say your boss, or a partner, walks over to you and asks if you could recommend a way to store all of the company files. Companies also store sensitive information in those files, or customer records that must be held onto for legal and custom service purposes. Lots of the files might have sentimental value or they might actually contain information that could put your financial security at risk. The short version goes like this: You have tons of files on your computer, some personal, others for business. But that begs the question: What is a cloud backup service and who is it for? Before delving into all of the details, it would be prudent to understand how an average cloud backup affects your life or your company. ![]() After that, we have Backblaze, then followed by the ever so sleek and minimal Carbonite service. ![]() After an extensive review spread over many weeks, we feel that CrashPlan is the best online backup service at the moment as it has the strongest all-around tool-set compared to all other cloud backup services. ![]() The app also includes adding a signature to your “painting.” The extra features don’t stop after the painting styles are applied. Brushstroke allows users to choose a color palette too. Many apps lock the colors in using the original painting style. It helps create more variations through texture. You can choose the painting style, but you can also select the canvas types. It has one of the best selection of tools to customize that photo-to-painting look. But you get more exclusive content and an ad-free app with a subscription.īrushstroke is one of the most full-featured apps dedicated to digital painting. PicsArt is free to download and use for both iOS and Android. That also means PicsArt isn’t as easy to navigate as other apps with more limited choices. The app has other editing options if you don’t want to go the painting route. ![]() Unlike Prisma, PicsArt is more than a one-trick pony. The Effects gallery inside PicsArt contains many different options for turning a photo into a sketch or painting. If you want only part of your image to look like a painting, PicsArt has a more advanced photo edit. PicsArt is one of the biggest apps on this list! On the flip side, this app takes up more space on your phone. That means fewer apps clogging up your home screen because this one app can do the job of a few. Users can access filters and sliders, mix photos, and paint on effects. Picsart is like a sort of mobile Photoshop. There are adjustments for exposure, contrast, and sharpness. There’s a set of sliders in the app for photo editing. These are often based on well-known styles of artists like Picasso, Munch, and Salvador Dali.īesides applying the filter, the app also allows users to adjust the results. Prisma now has more than 300 painting styles to apply to images. But for full access to all the features, you must use a paid subscription. It’s free on both iOS and Android, which has helped build the app’s popularity. It popularized painterly photos in the first place. Prisma is one of the most well-known and full-featured apps for turning photos into paintings. Unfortunately, it’s only available for iPads and iPhones. So the option to save these edits makes a huge difference! I also like how you can save presets! I can spend hours fiddling with photo editing tools. I’m a fan of how simple it is to get photos from your camera roll and transform them into a work of art. The program will automatically transform your image into a higher resolution when making its edits. You can also fine-tune the image in these presets, in a simple way or a more advanced approach.Īpart from being an excellent app to turn photos into paintings, Tangled FX also is great for upscaling small photos. They transform your photographs in just a few clicks. You can choose from 16 different visual styles in this picture to painting app. ![]() But Tangled FX brings a digital art aesthetic to your images. Many other apps mimic classical painting styles. Tangled FX is an excellent photo to painting app that produces remarkable results. It also means you can pick the perfect backdrop to make your subject stand out. It’s a welcome feature because it amplifies the difference between a painting and a photograph. Instead, you get a slider that changes its “intensity.”Ī unique feature that you do get is a cutout and background remover. You don’t get much of a tool selection when it comes to modifying the details of the artwork. GoArt gives you a straightforward method to take your image from your camera roll and turn it into a piece of art. This app has a range of styles-from pop art to oil painting-that allow you to turn photos into your favorite ones. It uses AI technology to create art based on various artistic filters. GoArt is a great app by Fotor to turn photos into paintings. With that in mind, here are some of the best apps that change a picture to painting. That’s why many apps require an internet or data connection to connect with a cloud that stores its AI. ![]() Some also add painting styles to videos too.Īnd fitting an extensive artificial intelligence (AI) program on a small device is challenging. The apps also differ in the number and quality of painting styles. Some apps work best for landscapes and still life. The Best Apps to Turn a Photo Into a Painting Middle-age suits Rabbit well, as it suited Updike well. (However, Too Far To Go does the same thing, though not to the same length.)Īs for Rabbit is Rich itself, the voice here has mellowed as the character has matured. This is probably the best thing about the Rabbit books. I now understand some of the enthusiasm many feel for the Rabbit series, and I am also starting to see how enjoyable it is to follow a single set of characters - a family, an ever-shifting gang of friends, a very funny son who keeps crashing cars into things - over the course of several decades. I’ve now read it and completely agree that this is the best one so far, much better than Rabbit Run or the confused Rabbit Redux. With that said: I got a lot of feedback the last time I wrote something like this, and more than one Updike fan said I shouldn’t judge the Rabbit foursome on the basis of the first two, but must read the third volume, Rabbit is Rich. But the novels should never be the entry point for Updike’s career. For some early Updike, read Of The Farm and a few short stories for later Updike, try Gertrude and Claudius, and at some point take a break with Nicholson Baker’s U and I. If you want to discover John Updike and haven’t yet, I suggest you read Couples first, and then Too Far To Go, followed by any of those bricks of collected criticism, Odd Jobs or Hugging the Shore or any other, it doesn’t matter which, that you can pick up in a used bookstore cheap. So is John Updike in these four books, and the experiment produces interesting results, but no masterpiece. Updike’s voice flies in other books - when Piet Hanema watches a woman walk by a church, when Richard Maple stares up at a falling Boston skyscraper. Updike’s prose will follow his character’s thought patterns in any book, of course, and Rabbit’s thoughts are stubby, ungrammatical, tepid. The greatest problem, though, is the absence of Updike’s soaring voice. His political views and opinions are earthy, humorous in the same way that Archie Bunker’s were, but ultimately there is always the sense that Updike is studying this Suburban Man, this Joe the Plumber, as a social prototype. Rabbit Angstrom is a small town basketball former-hotshot, people-smart but not book-smart, with no aspirations that can’t be satisfied in a kitchen or a bedroom. Updike was famous for his “impersonation” novels - the Bech books, Brazil, Terrorist - and I insist (though I seem to be alone in this opinion) that the Rabbit books were among his impersonation novels. Updike’s gracefully high-minded intellect was his single greatest gift as a writer, but he was deliberately subverting his intellect in these books, and that’s too great a loss. In fact, I believe Updike adopted a deliberately dull voice when writing as Rabbit Angstrom. But I object to the idea that they are his masterpiece because I’m worried people who’ve never read Updike will pick up Rabbit Run and give up on him forever after reading twenty pages of that chewy, stale narrative. I would never deny other readers the right to crow about their favorites, and I do think these books have some value. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.I’ve been peeved, and I’ve said so, about the high percentage of John Updike memorial articles citing his Rabbit novels (1960’s Rabbit Run, 1971’s Rabbit Redux, 1981’s Rabbit is Rich, 1990’s Rabbit at Rest) as his masterpiece. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life. "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom. ![]() ![]() "Updikes choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. $3,000.00 Item Number: 121353įirst editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. ![]() Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit At Rest Licks of Love. ![]() Here at MOTR we have been providing our frozen drink mixes, margarita mixes ,daiquiri mixes and beverage concentrates since 1998. Call for custom Pricing.įrozen Drink Mixes is our business too. Margarita On The Run lease machines are for the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex only. 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This will prevent emotional triggers from setting in. Avoid the same junk-food fix each time.Develop the habit of not eating at all for one movie every month.Three hours is a long time to stay away from food, and this can lead to a binge attack. Eat a healthy meal before you arrive at the multiplex.So if you want to avoid eating junk food at the movies, you must exercise meal control. You do the math: At 5 minutes a piece, you could easily gorge on four samosas, take in 1,600 calories and 100g of fat in the 20 minutes it takes for the brain to tell you that you are full. From the moment you start eating anything, the brain takes 20 minutes to signal satiety, to tell you that you are full and to stop eating. Also, since it takes less time to chew it, you do not feel satiated and want to eat more. A fibre-free samosa is just half the size of your palm but has as many as 400 calories and 25g of cholesterol-generating saturated fat. A typical dal-roti-subzi-and-salad meal is fibre rich, fills up a 12-inch plate and, at 500 calories, it takes up much more chewing time than compact junk food. Junk foods such as samosas and burgers are compact, pack in a lot of calories per bite and are devoid of natural fibre. Ideally an adult should not have more than 3 teaspoons of sugar throughout the day. At 450ml, a medium cola tumbler has around 180 calories, i.e., 12 teaspoons of sugar. What does a multiplex hog’s regular order look like?Ī serving of nachos with salsa and cheese dip, and a cola tumbler, before the interval popcorn and coffee right after the interval, with perhaps a samosa or a vegetable burger.Įven if you had just half a tub of butter popcorn (a large tub of butter popcorn gives you as many as 1,000 calories, 78g of fat, out of which 45g is saturated, cholesterol- generating type of fat) and a medium cola tumbler (450ml approx.) throughout, your calorie intake would be about 800 of the ugliest calories. To nibble at popcorn or nachos and savour crepes on occasion is fine but munching mindlessly through a movie could well put you on the track to becoming the fourth idiot. They compel you to eat, and when you don’t, you have a nagging feeling that the experience is not complete. It appears that the growing spread of junk food at multiplexes has successfully generated a new emotional trigger, one which says that if you are at the movies, then you should be eating.Įmotional triggers to eating are the toughest to break. Even a medium-sized cola tumbler is as good as a large portion and popcorn comes in enormous tubs. And there is nothing regular about serving sizes at multiplexes. Mouth-watering aromas of caramel, cheese and butter popcorn, brownies, nachos drizzled with cheese, hot-off-the-pan crepes, “healthy" corn made unhealthy with heaps of butter beckon you to hog even before you settle down to watch the movie. Multiplexes have opened up new and compelling opportunities for junk-food feasting. If you answered yes to even one question, you need help. Do you spend as much or more on your junk food fix than you do on the movie ticket? Junk it: Half a tub of popcorn and a large cola have 800 calories.ģ. (0012, 0062) Patient Identity Removed CS: 'Yes' Returns: The converted image, as a Base64-encoded string. autoThreshold - If true, automatically sets the lower and upper threshold levels. connectorMessage - The connector message to retrieve merged DICOM data for. These can be used to order the slices correctly and calculate interpolated intersection slices. Image Type: 0008 0008 - might tell you if it is a mosaic Anat: DERIVEDPRIMARYOTHER Func. Also all other series are getting loaded. Non-DICOM tags are found in proprietary Siemens fields. ![]() The compression level parameter is not supported. The compressors supported include JPEG2000 (default), and JPEG. 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We’d wager most people that have been able to score a 768 or even a 384 in Threes would be able to do the same using the fabled “corner strategy”. We wanted players to be able to play Threes over many months, if not years. Something we noticed about this kind of system early on (that you'll see hidden in the emails below). And obviously, Threes is the reason 2048 exists.īut why is Threes better? It’s better for us, for our goals. We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it. Others rifled off that they thought 2048 was a better game than Threes. Especially when people called Threes, a game we poured over for nearly a year and a half, a clone of 2048. It’s all in good fun, at least we’d like to think so, but try as our logical brains might, we still got the same “cloning feeling". It’s freely available and open source, allows swipes so it can be played on the phone and has spawned many variants since, including our personal favorite: Numberwang 2048. Since, the game has grown in popularity after a posting on Hacker News on March 10th. A game system identical to 1024 with one tweak, it removed the stones. This last feature was likely a choice the developer made based on the fact that the game was too easy. There are “stones” in the grid that never move. Swiping up, down, left or right moves the cards the full distance possible. ![]() The sliding is there, the doubling of cards, the merging, even the art is extremely similar. We know how to deal with a clone, and likely, so do you.įirst, it started on iOS with a game called 1024 released 21 days after Threes (February 27th). But it’s the not-really-clone sort of games, the rip-offs, that have popped up that have our feelings puzzled. With Greg being part of the Ridiculous Fishing team, we’re not shy about calling a clone a clone, and believe us, there’s no shortage of straight-up clones out there, especially on Android. Duh.īut there’s another side of that daze that we wish to talk about. It’s still hard to address the world’s response with something beyond a wide-eyed daze but essentially we couldn’t be more thrilled. Basically, we hoped it’d do better than Puzzlejuice. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny. It’s been a weird and awesome couple of months. |