![]() Even for these fine highlights I used a fairly large brush – the Wargamer: Character brush. The Metal was highlighted first with WP: Plate Mail Metal… ![]() Please note, the WP: Quickshade Red Tone Ink is not available until autumn 2013. The flesh was given a wash with WP: Quickshade Red Tone Ink a dark reddish tone – darker than your every day typical red ink, designed to give a solid shade with one coat. I applied my Quickshade Ink mix using my trusted Regiment brush once more. To any readers unfamiliar with The Army Painter Warpaints Quickshade Dark Tone Ink, it is very similar to GW Badab Black a strong black ink. By mixing Soft Tone Ink in the black Dark Tone Ink I made the wash slightly more transparent without weakening the ink by thinning it with water. Any mistakes made in the basecoat stages were touched up using the WP: Gun Metal paint, which is 100% match to the Colour Primer spray.Īll bar the flesh areas, was painted in a 50/50 mixture of WP: Quickshade Dark Tone Ink and WP: Quickshade Soft Tone Ink. WP: Dragon Red for the laser, WP: Daemonic Yellow and WP: Matt Black for the industrial stripes – that simply needs to go on any Iron Warrior miniature, WP: Greenskin and WP: Ultramarine Blue for the wires. The last bit of details were painted using the smaller Wargamer: Character Brush. The loincloth was painted WP: Matt Black. The trick is to paint with a combination of speed and precision –you want the Gun Metal primer to be left as it is, saving precious painting time. The rims of the armour and some of the tubes were painted WP: Weapon Bronze, still using the Regiment brush. By sticking to a fairly large brush, you’ll speed up your painting no end. At this stage I only use a Wargamer: Regiment brush (roughly equivalent to a size 1 or 2 brush). Once the Colour Primer had dried, I basecoated the fleshy areas with WP: Tanned Flesh. Follow the guidelines on the spray closely. The Colour Primer is a combined primer and acrylic colour spray in one, meaning you only have to give the model one coat. I primed the model using the Colour Primer: Gun Metal, a dark metal undercoat perfect for my Terrorizer – who will be part of my 40K Chaos Iron Warrior Obliterator squad. The bath ensures your Colour Primer spray sticks to miniature. Next I washed the resin mini in soapy water to remove the release oily agent used in the casting process. The resin cast from Hitech Miniatures was nice and crisp and needed little extra preparation. WP: Quickshade Purple Tone Ink (out autumn 2013)Īfter cleaning the resin bits using my Precision Hobby Knife I glued the parts using Superglue. WP: Quickshade Green Tone Ink (out autumn 2013) WP: Quickshade Red Tone Ink (out autumn 2013) A little inside teaser, if you like…Ĭolour Primer: Gun Metal (out autumn 2013) Since I'm surrounded by the stuff, I used only Army Painter Wargamer Brushes and Warpaints – including the new coloured Quickshade Inks and the Colour Primer Gun Metal which are to be released autumn 2013. ![]() In this step-by-step article I’ll demonstrate how to paint a Terrorizer from Hitech Miniatures to a good tournament gaming standard, spending a little over 1 hour of painting time on the model. As the name hints we are all about getting your armies painted quickly and on the battlefield gaming. My name is Jonas Faering – one of the owners of The Army Painter.
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The goal of our paper is to provide a menu that researchers can choose from to improve inference in financial economics. We propose a general and flexible procedure for testing multiple hypotheses about sequential (or streaming) data that simultaneously controls both the false discovery rate (FDR) and false nondiscovery rate (FNR) under minimal assumptions about the data streams which may differ in distribution, dimen. we laid out one sequential procedure of choosing the hypothesis and the test. Sequential Tests of Multiple Hypotheses Controlling False Discovery and Nondiscovery Rates. We provide simulation evidence on the relative performance of different methods across a variety of testing environments. Multiple testing and false discovery rates are then presented as derived. Our paper provides a guide to various multiple testing methods and details a number of applications. Importantly, for example, in a simple regression model where, say, five variables are tested, a t-statistic of 2.0 is not enough to establish significance - because five variables were tried. However, there are numerous other applications that do not get as much attention. Online multiple testing considers the setting in which a sequence. Factor selection is another glaring case. Online multiple hypothesis testing (package) (vignette) (shiny app, FDR) (shiny app, FWER). Multiple testing methods are designed to control for luck. Many beat their benchmarks purely by luck. One high profile example is the identification of investment managers that outperform. SAGE.In almost every area of empirical finance, researchers are confronted with multiple tests. We expect 5 of the features with FDR corrected p-values. Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences. The false discovery rate is the proportion of false positives among all those declared positive. (2006), Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Wiley. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 31st ed. rates controlled in MHT procedure are the False Discovery Rate (FDR) and the. However, with the B-H correction, they are considered significant in other words, you would reject the null hypothesis for those values. The problem of multiple hypothesis testing can be represented as a Markov. The bolded p-value (for Children) is the highest p-value that is also smaller than the critical value. For instance, column 4 for item 1 is calculated as (1/25) *. Column 4 shows the calculation for the critical value with a false discovery rate of 25% (Step 3). The list of p-values was ordered (Step 1) and then ranked (Step 2) in column 3. Compare your original p-values to the critical B-H from Step 3 find the largest p value that is smaller than the critical value.Īs an example, the following list of data shows a partial list of results from 25 tests with their p-values in column 2.Q = the false discovery rate (a percentage, chosen by you).Via the fake helper, factories have access to the Faker PHP library. ![]() Calculate each individual p-value’s Benjamini-Hochberg critical value, using the formula (i/m)Q, where: When testing your application or seeding your database, you may need to insert a.For example, the smallest has a rank of 1, the second smallest has a rank of 2. Put the individual p-values in ascending order.How to Run the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure However, running the B-H procedure will decrease the number of false positives. There’s not a lot you can do to avoid this: when you run statistical tests, a fraction will always be false positives. If you ran 100 statistical tests at the 5% alpha level, roughly 5% of results would report as false positives. Your null hypothesis is that the patients are free of disease and your alternate is that they do have the disease. But it’s only a probability–many times, true null hypotheses are thrown out just because of the randomness of results.Ī concrete example: Let’s say you have a group of 100 patients who you know are free of a certain disease. In other words, if you get a p-value of 5%, it’s highly unlikely that your null hypothesis is not true and should be thrown out. In other words, the B-H Procedure helps you to avoid Type I errors (false positives).Ī p-value of 5% means that there’s only a 5% chance that you would get your observed result if the null hypothesis were true. The Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure is a powerful tool that decreases the false discovery rate.Īdjusting the rate helps to control for the fact that sometimes small p-values (less than 5%) happen by chance, which could lead you to incorrectly reject the true null hypotheses. Post Hoc Tests > Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure What is the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure? Do not set over 1 if you are not sure what you do. For lower server performance like "Space Central Europe" 20 can be 1 script run per second.įloat SimSpeed=1f // Simulation Speed, can be lower then displayed.įloat GyroMult=1f // Gyro values multyplier. For UPS=60 (Simulation speed = 1) 60 means 1 run/second, 20 - 3 runs per second. Int Clock=20 // This is system clock var determining how frequently navigation script will be executed. String ShipName="Harvester5" // Ship Name, should be the same as beacon. There are some constants in the begining of "PBHrvNav" programmable block: Here comes alpha version of mining robot adopted for using on remote servers. Just need a bit more testing with system clock. In next update i will try to make it useful on remote servers. Took about 8 hours for 2 drones to do that. Some changes in script to make it more universal for use in upcoming 4 and 2 drills versions.ġ00 shafts mined in auto mode without stucks and crit damage. Large Thrusters replaced with small thrusters, cause they're more reliable.ģ. No more explosions while docking/undocking.Ģ. Just try to experiment and comment what you think.ġ. Recompile and launch "PBNavComp" programmable block. Include it in group "UThrusts", "DThrusts", "LThrusts", "RThrusts", accordingly to it's direction ("LThrusts" for thruster which moves ship left and so on)Ĥ. ![]() Try lock/unlock landing gears 2-3 times before remember connector to check If gears will or not blow up.ī) Using Large thrusters on sides of mining ship is not a really good idea, but I'm testing this drone on server with thruster limit per ship, so i can not use small thrusters. Include it in group "LandGears", so script can find it.ģ. I' put these landing gears to avoid connector crashing, but it seems, that exploding connector was replaced with exploding landing gears. Optimal trajectory and speed will come later.Ī )Landing gear exidetally explodes while undocking drone. If floating objects set to 256, sometimes floating stones block drone and it gets stuck. Of cause, this drone still needs many improvements, it has very "dirty & raw" scripting and does not handle most of exceptions. Maybe, in next update i'll fix most of issues and this will be useful for multiplayer too. You can also try to use it in multiplayer, but it won't work reliably. Important: Base or ship, to which drone drops off ore, must have some containers included in "BaseCargo" group. If you change ownership of drone, don't forget to recompile all programming blocks. You can copy/paste it to your own world, or make blueprint. Than you can go to second asteroid and set drone to auto-mining mode. You can bind it to any free connector on your base or even to connector of red ship, floating nearby. This function is called by bot navigation script, while mining. Pause can be called from cockpit "3" or by pressing button under ship connector.ĭ) Throw out stone. Get out of cockpit, drone will now do everything on its own.Ĭ) Pause - this function simply pauses drone auto mode and returns control to pilot. ![]() Drone starts aligning and mining automatically after that.ĥ. Align your ship in front of asteroid (stay approximately 50 m from asteroid surface), using camera "1" or external view.Ĥ. This function can be called from front remote control.ģ. Unlock and disconnect, now drone will return to this connector.ī) Set drilling grid - It sets entry point and angles for your mining. Use non-deforming blocks for this like glass orĥ. It means, base connector should be surrounded by some blocks to make landing gears lock possible. Base connector "sucking force" is high enough to brake small ship connector exidentally after every 5-10 dockings, to avoid this drone locks landing gears first and only than turns connector on. These gears are supposed to prevent permanent connector crashing while drone is docking. You must place your drone almost ideally coaxially to base connector to lock all 4 of them. This step can be tricky, because i've placed 4 landing gears around connector and they all should be locked before you connect. Dock to connector, using camera (pres "1") or external view ("V"). This function can be called from rear remote control.ģ. It is not for piloting actually, cause you see nothing from cockpit.Ī) Remember connector - You can set connector, you're docked to as your drone base connector, to which it will return to drop off ore. It still has merge block, which can be used for carrying drone with other ship. It is not more divided in drone and carrier, it's all in one ship, and this is much more easy to use. This version has some improvements, making it available for use in your own worlds. This is the third version of automated mining drone, programmed with ingame scripting. ![]() The First cheat is a trainer file and comes from Mrantifun. Now if you are planning to buy the game or have already bought the game and want to have to get some enhanced experience by using cheats. the game revolves around Elex a mysterious limited resource which can power machines, give magic power and shape a different form of life. you would fight with other faction for survival and power struggle. Players in the game will be to choose from one of the three factions available in the game. this leads to conflict with albs and hence becomes a traitor to them. but after a jet crash the protagonist starts losing Elex powers and for the first time feels human emotions. The protagonist is a former member of the Albs, who consume ELEX to rid themselves of emotions and enable them to make decisions based on cold logic alone. it is an action role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world with a mix of medieval and science fantasy scene. When the mod is not running, even though they are not physically removed.Developers Piranha Bytes and Publisher THQ Nordic have recently released their latest game titled Elex. Please note that the MWMod Map Pack may "hide" or "overwrite" some of your installed custom maps even Modern Warfare is a multiplayer only mod. Integrated Air & Missile Defense with Patriot, Iron Dome and S-300 systems providing defense from enemy ballistic missiles, rocket artillery and air attacks.Ĭurrent version: 6.0 - development ongoing.Launch ballistic missiles & cruise missiles using TA purchased launchers. ![]() Challenging, but rewarding gameplay for attack helicopters, combined with heavy firepower on attack options.Increased realism for armor, with enhanced details for Main Battle Tanks and Infantry Fighting Vehicles providing support.Improved infantry combat and enhanced anti-tank attack options for infantry.JTAC infantry can call for air support from overflying aircraft. Flying aircraft units (non-playable) on station to provide air support for in-game players.Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) permits infantry to lase targets and provide terminal guidance for supported guided munitions. ![]() ![]()
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In Arena, the first minigame, player characters attempt to survive through several waves of enemies, or fight each other. Įach version of the game features two minigames. The prices in the Insane Store were lowered in the remastered edition. Beating the game unlocks Insane Mode, where enemies and bosses are ten times stronger and allows access to the Insane Store, where player can buy powerful but expensive weapons and animal orbs. The player can also pick up sandwiches in battle, which turn the player character into a muscular version of themselves, increasing attack power and opening certain doors. The player can find animal companions for their character that may assist in battle, improve the character's attributes, or provide another special ability such as fruits from defeated foes. Numerous weapons can be found in the game, each that have various effects to the character's attributes when equipped. The character's magic level is also tracked by a meter and regenerates over time. Progress is tracked for each of the playable characters separately. Certain level advances also grant new combination attacks. Each level gained allows the player to allocate points towards the character's four basic combat attributes. Ĭharacters gain experience points by damaging foes which allow the character to level up. In single player mode, this ends the stage however, in cooperative multiplayer other players may attempt to revive the downed character. Red Knight can create lighting bolts, Green Knight attacks with poison clouds) and a health meter that, if drained from enemy attacks, will cause the character to fall in battle. Each character has a unique magical ability (e.g. In each stage, the player can use melee and combination attacks. The game progression in terms of what stages are unlocked is defined by the player who is furthest along, although some levels require all players to have unlocked them before proceeding to them however, each player character will gain experience points and acquire wealth, weapons, and animal orbs independently as they progress with the rest of the party. Ĭastle Crashers supports cooperative gameplay for up to four players, either locally or online. Arena stages can be unlocked where the player character can take on challenges to unlock additional characters such as the villager. The map also displays shops where the player character can buy items and weapons using coins gained from defeated foes, bosses, and chests. After completing a stage, the player has the choice to revisit it or to move to another stage. After selecting a character, the player then selects a starting stage through an overworld map. This version later released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on September 17, 2019.Ĭastle Crashers features four player gameplay and a unique cartoon art style.Ĭastle Crashers is a side-scrolling hack-and-slash that incorporates a small number of role-playing video game elements. The remastered version features higher quality textures, uncapped frame-rate, performance improvements, and an additional mini-game. On June 15, 2015, The Behemoth announced Castle Crashers Remastered, a remastered version of the game for Xbox One, while the Steam version received it in the form of a free update. Four knights are charged by the king to rescue the princesses, recover the crystal, and bring the wizard to justice. ![]() The game is set in a fictional medieval universe in which a dark wizard steals a mystical crystal and captures four princesses. A Microsoft Windows version, exclusive to Steam, was announced on August 16, 2012. 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While SSPX loyalists love to cite Pope Francis' indult as "proof" the SSPX cannot be in schism, recall that the Orthodox Church also has faculties to witness marriages and hear confessions, yet no Catholic would claim the Orthodox Church is not in schism. Thus the 2009 motu proprio declaring the SSPX to have "no canonical status" remains in force and has never changed. Those who wished to return to full communion with the Church were required to have their marriages convalidated.įor the benefit of such Catholics, the pope offered the indult for SSPX clergy to validly preside over marriages - in order to prevent the grave problem of Catholics entering into invalid (therefore sinful) unions. Many Catholics are unaware that marriages witnessed in the SSPX before the indult resulted in thousands of invalid marriages. The benefit was provided explicitly for the good of the faithful in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, and not for the benefit of the SSPX. This has never been formally changed by the Holy See, in spite of Pope Francis' recent indults allowing the Society to witness marriages or hear confessions. The SSPX has no canonical status in the Church and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry. The SSPX is not in full communion with the Church and is invited by the Church to rediscover this path.Ģ. ![]() The excommunications have been lifted, but the canonical status of the SSPX remains unchanged.ġ. Hence such disobedience - which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy - constitutes a schismatic act. In itself, this act was one of disobedience to the Roman Pontiff in a very grave matter and of supreme importance for the unity of the Church, such as is the ordination of bishops whereby the apostolic succession is sacramentally perpetuated. The SSPX bishops were excommunicated and their illicit consecrations defined as schismatic in the motu proprio Ecclesia Deiissued July 2, 1988: However, the doctrinal questions obviously remain and until they are clarified the Society has no canonical status in the Church and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry. (emphasis added) Pius X" to rediscover the path to full communion with the Church. As I explained in my Letter to the Catholic Bishops of last 10 March, the remission of the excommunication was a measure taken in the context of ecclesiastical discipline to free the individuals from the burden of conscience constituted by the most serious of ecclesiastical penalties. ![]() With this decision I intended to remove an impediment that might have jeopardized the opening of a door to dialogue and thereby to invite the Bishops and the "Society of St. In the same spirit and with the same commitment to encouraging the resolution of all fractures and divisions in the Church and to healing a wound in the ecclesial fabric that was more and more painfully felt, I wished to remit the excommunication of the four Bishops illicitly ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre. 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WeChat is an example of, for lack of a better word, a super-app. But now all of a sudden, some of the features they’ve developed are so amazing that Western apps are trying to copy them.Īnd the greatest example of this is WeChat. PART III: The Chinese Swamp Monster Leaves the Pondģ.1 But things have started to shift, in the sense that before, no one outside of the lagoon really cared about the swamp monsters. 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Video Title: How China Is Changing Your Internet Transcript How China Is Changing Your Internet What was once known as the land of cheap rip-offs may now offer a glimpse of the future - and American companies are taking notice. “He is renowned in China’s tech scene as an artist and philosopher, as well as for his fierce mission against anything that degrades user experience,” Connie Chan, an investor at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, recently wrote of Mr. Zhang is famous for his perfectionist pursuit of a well-designed service. Zuckerberg may have a lot else to learn from Allen Zhang, the creator of WeChat. To make Facebook a private messaging product, Mr. One sign that Facebook has been thinking about payments is its work on a new crypto coin that is meant to let people send money to contacts on their messaging systems. So to be more like WeChat, the Silicon Valley company could have to acquire banking and payment licenses in many countries. Its users can buy everything from bonds and insurance to money market funds through the app.įacebook lacks such a payments system. More than 100 million customers have purchased WeChat’s personal finance products, which managed over 500 billion yuan, or $74 billion, by the end of last September, Tencent has said. People also use WeChat Pay to transfer money and to buy personal finance products. WeChat Pay itself has 900 million monthly active users. Because payments is already tied into the messaging service, people can easily order meal deliveries, book hotels, hail ride-sharing cars and pay their bills. On WeChat, those services are underpinned by its mobile payments system, WeChat Pay. Zuckerberg can pull all those features off with Facebook. “It is the uber utility of business and life. “WeChat has shown definitively that private messaging, especially the small groups, is the future,” said Jeffrey Towson, a professor of investment at Peking University. WeChat gets a commission from many of these services. It has a mobile payments system that has been widely adopted in China, which allows people to shop, play games, pay utility bills and order meal deliveries all from within the app. That’s because WeChat isn’t dependent on advertising for making money. While Facebook users constantly see ads in their News Feeds, WeChat users only see one or two ads a day in their Moment feeds. Users can also form groups of as many as 500 people on WeChat to discuss and debate the issues of the day. Instead, it is a reality in China through a messaging app called WeChat.ĭeveloped by the Chinese internet giant Tencent in 2011, WeChat lets people message each other via one-on-one texts, audio or video calls. 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