Modeled after the Scalinata di Spagna in Rome, Tacoma’s Spanish Steps were constructed in 1916 to connect a streetcar line on Broadway with City Hall on Commerce Street. Frère Champney, a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Ĭlimbing the hillside adjacent to the building is a stairway called the Spanish Steps. The Elks Temple was built in the second Renaissance Revival style in 1915-16 when fraternal organizations were an important part of the community and had the money to build beautiful buildings such as this one. Get 15% off room rates with a Spanish Ballroom ticket purchase must mention at time of booking, must verify ticket at check in for discount. Whether your port of call is the Old Hangout, the Spanish Bar, Doc’s or the Spanish Ballroom, you’ll find handcrafted cocktails, tales from home and afar, cozy hideaways and untold fun. Travel your last flight to seven, where guestrooms overlook the lush indoor atrium and give you an eye-level view of the light display like no other. From there it’s on up to the sixth floor guestrooms and a spectacular overhead array of lights, lamps and chandeliers. Once you’ve refueled for the rest of your journey, continue to the diminutive fifth floor – if you can find it. On the fourth floor stop for a celebratory meal (you’re halfway to the top!) in McMenamins Pub where expansive views of Puget Sound’s Commencement Bay and the marina at Foss Waterway dominate the east-facing windows. Take the scenic route up the Spanish Steps to the Spanish Bar and Ballroom on the second floor before wending your way to Doc’s, a third floor games bar overlooking the ballroom pause on the nearby mezzanine overlooking Puget Sound. We wanted to see how much fun we could pack into seven floors, so we started with a McMenamins Brewery, the Bottle Shop & Brewery Tasting Room, and The Old Hangout on the ground floor, and worked our way up. Wherever you are in Elks Temple, you’ll find the comforts of your favorite neighborhood pub and a world of adventure. Threads of art, history and elements of the local community are woven into the structure. From the Old Hangout, a bar reminiscent of world travels, to the Spanish Ballroom, a grand space hosting live music, you’ll find entertainment at every turn. The 1916 Elks Temple has been restored and reimagined into a vibrant gathering place for out-of-town guests and locals alike. Roam, explore, embark on an adventure…discover Elks Temple! Tiki Tuesdays in the Old Hangout – Discounts on signature tiki cocktails and pu pu platters Staying with us? Please notify the front desk prior to arrival if you will be bringing a pet.As has always been our policy, service animals are admitted with their owners regardless of time or stay.The owners agree to be present or remove their pets from the room during housekeeping service or while any hotel staff is present in the room.If your pet creates a disturbance or becomes aggressive to any guest or other person in the hotel, the owner agrees to remove the pet promptly from the hotel upon request unless a mutually acceptable compromise can be met.Dogs are allowed in designated food or beverage areas only.Dogs must not be left unattended by their owners while in the hotel.Pets must be on leashes or in crates while they are in any public or common places within the hotel.We have a few rules, to ensure the comfort and safety of all our guests, be they human, furry, fuzzy or scaled: We understand that you don’t always want to leave home without your furry friend so our hotels are pet friendly.
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![]() The latest Scarlett mic preamp features a more even gain structure, so you can accurately set your levels, and the instrument input has also been completely redesigned with greater headroom to handle seriously hot guitar pick-ups. The Scarlett range also now operates at sample rates all the way up to 192kHz, and the input channels have evolved too. New metal gain controls and a sleeker red metal chassis underscore its improved industrial design, built to go anywhere. New super-low latency* will bring confidence to your performance, letting you record and monitor with software effects in real time. The second generation Scarlett range is packed full of upgrades. ![]() With further MIDI connectivity, you can also integrate your favourite hardware synths with your DAW. Two discrete headphone outputs let you send separate headphone mixes to two artists, or an engineer and artist, while two balanced jack outputs let you connect to your professional studio monitors. 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Manufacturer's Description Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (2nd Gen) Audio Recording Interface with Pro Tools First (B-STOCK) “A lot more show bookers are booking kings, so we’re starting to even out a little bit,” he explains. He wants to see drag kings on an equal footing with the queens. In Glasgow, Dorian T Fisk is at the forefront of a burgeoning Scottish scene, and has been running his Shut Up and King workshops since the start of the pandemic. On the Manchester circuit, Mark Anthony is putting a male spin on burlesque, known as “boylesque”. In Cardiff, there is Justin Drag in Bristol, Oliver Assets and Fluxx Wyldly front the Brizzle Boyz drag king night and, in Birmingham, Christian Gay and Victor Velvet have created drag night Kings ‘N’ Things. There is Brighton’s Sammy Silver, Newcastle’s Baron LaVey and, in Bournemouth, two kings who are surely among the best-named in the country: Dandy Issues and Well Hung Parliament. Outside the capital, drag kings are also enjoying success. “It was very important to me when I was figuring out my queerness, as a way of tapping into the masculinity that I had been told I wasn’t allowed to.” “Without doing drag king-ing I wouldn’t have realised that I’m non-binary as quickly,” he explains. In December he performed in a Dick Whittington drag pantomime in the West End of London. Since then, Jangles – his name inspired by the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson – has been making waves. “Drag kings are just lovely, so supportive, always gassing you up, always showing up for you,” says Beau Jangles, who started performing as a drag king after going to a workshop run by Pecs in 2018. Other top names in the capital include Prinx Silver, Don One, Oedipussi Rex, Izzy Aman, Christian Adore and the drag king collective Pecs. In London, LGBTQ+ venues – including the Glory, She Soho, Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Phoenix Arts Club – are increasingly hosting drag-king-specific events, such as annual battle Man Up, showcase Kings of Clubs, and drag king cabaret BOiBox (run by All and his wife Apple Derrieres). So we have to find a way to make masculinity not only entertaining, but not toxic, and show people what healthy masculinity can look like.” “But, drag kings, we work with masculinity, which is toxic and boring and gross. ![]() “With the art of being a drag queen, you get feminine energy, which is beautiful and elegant,” he says. This, however, can be a difficult task, explains drag king Chiyo, who describes himself as a “professional hustler”. ![]() “The message is much more about nutritious masculinity and looking at how positive that can be for all of society,” says All. Tonight’s event, an open mic for drag kings, is sold out – as was the launch event for new drag king collective KingDom, in the same venue the night before.Īrmed with swagger, charm and – at times – gyrating hips, drag kings seek to do anything from dismantling the patriarchy and toxic masculinity, often by taking on male stereotypes, to covering mental health, sexuality and gender identity. “There are far more of us now, and we are smashing down doors left, right and centre,” he says. ![]() Since starting out in Southampton in 2008, All is now part of a thriving scene of drag kings across the UK. ![]() Update April 4, 2017: Added a section detailing how the responsive image system in WordPress 4.4+ works, and how WordPress custom image sizes interact with this system. I really love being able to set custom image sizes in WordPress. The power and flexibility this system opens up for building beautiful, easy-to-administer, performant websites is hard to overstate. The newly launched WPShout theme, for example, has two featured image sizes: the large one (here at the top of this post), and a smaller one halfway down the homepage. We also use custom image sizes to make sure that the images in our post bodies aren’t unnecessarily large for the space they’re occupying. Supermind Platforms, Inc is a content and data-enabled technology company building trusted access points to mental wellness and psychedelic medicine, starting with, to scale awareness, destigmization, consumer education and patient enrollment in psychedelic-assisted therapy. That’s a lot of image-sizing complexity, and WordPress just handles it all for us, straight out of the box. If you’re looking to learn WordPress development, we’ve written the best guide to it out there: With that pep talk, let’s see how you can use WordPress custom image sizes as well! Imagine if we were doing all the resizing and optimizing ourselves, in something like Photoshop-it would just about eat our business. Get Up and Running Now A Very Quick Guide to WordPress Image SizingĮvery time you upload an image, WordPress generates a resized version of the image for each registered custom image size.Įvery time you upload an image to your WordPress site, WordPress automatically generates a resized version of that image for every custom image size that your theme (and parent theme, if you’re on a child theme) has registered. In your WordPress filesystem, which is where those image files live, that looks like this:ĭo you see the power of this? You retain the original image you uploaded-which in this case is over 1MB, too huge to use on the site. But you can also use automatically generated, resized and cropped versions of that same image across your site. ![]() The image will fit into the spaces it should fit into, and not be a larger file than it ought to be-and WordPress takes care of it all automatically. ![]() One special case is the featured image, a single image that you set to be the “official representative” of the post it’s attached to. Since point G is traveling in a horizontal circle at constant velocity we have centripetal acceleration. So we only need to consider the second and third equation. ![]() Since point G is traveling in a horizontal circle at constant velocity we have no tangential acceleration, so a GX = 0, and F GX = 0. M x is the moment acting in the local x-direction, at point G M y is the moment acting in the local y-direction, at point G M z is the moment acting in the local z-direction, at point G F GX is the force acting in the global X-direction, at point G F GY is the force acting in the global Y-direction, at point G F GZ is the force acting in the global Z-direction, at point GĪ GX is the acceleration of point G in the global X-directionĪ GY is the acceleration of point G in the global Y-directionĪ GZ is the acceleration of point G in the global Z-direction Note that a local xyz axes is defined as shown, and is attached to the wheel so that it moves with the wheel, and has origin at point G. A free-body diagram of the wheel (isolated from the rod) is given below. Let's analyze the forces and moments acting on the wheel, due to contact with the rod. To learn more about it visit the vector derivative page. Note that the terms dJ/dt and dK/dt (given above) are calculated using vector differentiation. The angular acceleration of the rod, with respect to ground, is zero since w r is constant and does not change direction. The angular velocity of the rod, with respect to ground, is The angular acceleration of the wheel, with respect to ground, is The angular velocity of the wheel, with respect to ground, is I, J, and K are defined as unit vectors pointing along the positive X, Y, and Z axis respectively. The global XYZ axes is fixed to ground and has origin at P. Where g is the acceleration due to gravity, point G is the center of mass of the wheel, and point P is the pivot location at the base. The general schematic for analyzing the physics is shown below. We will hence determine the equation of motion for the gyroscope. So now that we have an intuitive "feel" for the physics, we can analyze it in full using a mathematical approach. This can result in some interesting physics, such as a gyroscope not falling over due to gravity as it precesses. This may seem counter-intuitive, but the lesson here is that the acceleration of an object can act in a direction that is very different from the direction of motion. The acceleration of the particle is towards the center of the circle (centripetal acceleration), which is perpendicular to the velocity of the particle (tangent to the circle). This is the most basic explanation behind the gyroscope physics.Īs an analogy, consider a particle moving around in a circle at a constant velocity. In other words, due to the nature of the kinematics, the particles in the wheel experience acceleration in such a way that the force of gravity is able to maintain the angle θ of the gyroscope as it precesses. The force of gravity pulling down on the gyroscope creates the necessary clockwise torque M. Therefore a clockwise torque M is needed to sustain these forces. Due to Newton’s second law, this means that a net force F 1 must act on the particles in the top half of the wheel, and a net force F 2 must act on the particles in the bottom half of the wheel. ![]() The question is, why doesn't the gyroscope fall down due to gravity?!ĭue to the combined rotation w s and w p, the particles in the top half of the spinning wheel experience a component of acceleration a 1 normal to the wheel (with distribution as shown in the figure below), and the particles in the bottom half of the wheel experience a component of acceleration a 2 normal to the wheel in the opposite direction (with distribution as shown). Θ is the angle between the vertical and the rod (a constant)Īs the wheel spins at a rate w s, the gyroscope precesses at a rate w p about the pivot at the base (with θ constant). W p is the constant rate of precession, in radians/second W s is the constant rate of spin of the wheel, in radians/second To start off, let's illustrate a typical gyroscope using a schematic as shown below. Therefore, the physics of gyroscopes can be applied directly to a spinning top. Check out the video below of a toy gyroscope in action.Īs you've probably noticed, a gyroscope can behave very similar to a spinning top. But as it turns out, there is a fairly straightforward way of understanding the physics of gyroscopes without using a lot of math.īut before I get into the details of that, it's a good idea to see how a gyroscope works (if you haven't already). ![]() When people see a spinning gyroscope precessing about an axis, the question is inevitably asked why that happens, since it goes against intuition. Gyroscope physics is one of the most difficult concepts to understand in simple terms. ![]() "It's wonderful Christian fellowship," Lucas says,Īdding that the subject of denominations never comes up. They share a passion for traveling to state and national The house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked," Lucas says, Testament as a kind of mission statement. Members coast to coast have adopted a passage from the Old All belong to a nationalĪssociation with chapters in locations from California to Maine. Member churches in Baltimore and 92 in the state. The Interdenominational Church Ushers Association of Maryland now includes 32 Sharp Street, Ames and Enon churches remain in operation. Persuading them to form the State of Maryland United Ushers. Street United Methodist, Ames United Methodist and Enon Baptist - in 1915, He assembled the leaders of three Baltimore churches - Sharp Sorrell probably never imagined such things, but he Graves, a member of Perkins Square Baptist Church and 17-year ushering veteran. Prayer, our heads are bowed but we keep our eyes open," says Sylvia One that unfolded in Charleston, S.C., last month when a man entered a blackĬhurch during a Bible study and shot nine people to death. Invade the world of worship, from petty thefts to stunning tragedies like the The job carries additional weight in an era when crime can God even created the first usher organization, she adds,Ĭhoosing one tribe, the Levites, to care for the tabernacles of Moses' day. Men, just as John the Baptist ushered in Jesus' ministry." The children of Israel out of Egypt? And the star of Bethlehem guided the wise "Didn't he usher in light and call it day? Didn't Moses usher "We consider God the first usher in the universe," Several framed portraits of the founders, reeling off the men's beliefs as Reservoir Hill, Lucas recently met with fellow usher Sandra Arnette below Running through the Old and New Testaments: ushering.Īt the Baltimore unit headquarters, a brownstone in Seeking common ground, they settled on a theme they saw Sorrell, found themselves wrestling with a question: Why did the majorĪfrican-American Christian denominations have so little to do with each other? That, in the late 1800s, three devout men from this region chose to reachĮlijah Hamilton and Charles Dorsey, African MethodistĮpiscopalians from Philadelphia, and a friend, a Baltimore Baptist named Henry Segregated hour in America is 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. The lead usher takes a position up front and places a fistĪt the small of her back. Worshipers' needs throughout the service so can focus on God's word.Īt Grace one recent Sunday, Lucas and five others greetĪrriving worshipers with hugs and "good mornings." As gospel musicīegins to resound, they create a line and march down an aisle, leading the "They set a tone of reverence with their friendliness. "Ushers are the 'doorkeepers' Scripture tells us about," Those who work with members say that at a time when church attendance isĭeclining in the U.S., its mission retains a powerful resonance. The Maryland chapter, one of 28 in America, turns 100 this To manage crowd movement, or even indicate an emergency in the making. Ushers association and school - one that still grills its students onĮverything from greeting techniques to a complex set of hand signals with which Where three African-American churches set aside their differences to create an ![]() The organization has its roots in early-1900s Baltimore, Has preserved and passed along a "universal method" of church Nation who have been trained and certified by the National United Church UshersĪssociation of America, a historically black education and service group that … “one of about 400 people in Maryland and 15,000 in the Thanks to the publisher of this embedded YouTube video.Ĭlick the "Black Church Procession" tag for more pancocojams posts on this subject.įrom "Ushers History: Ushers serve as 'doorkeepers' to worship" by Jonathan M. The content of this post is presented for historical and cultural purposes.Īll copyrights remain with their owners. That article excerpt also includes a section on the ushers' Grand March. Part III showcases a video of a Church Ushers Grand March and showcases an article excerpt about the roles of the Black Church ushers. Part II presents theories about why African American ushers wear gloves as part of their usher attire.Ĭlick for Part III of this pancocojams series. This post showcases a video of Black church ushers and presents excerpts from three articles about African American church ushers.Ĭlick for Part II of this pancocojams series. This is Part I of a pancocojams series on African American church ushers. Heights, Maryland help create the mood for worship. The menĪnd women who serve as ushers at Hemingway Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church in District Some highly trained ushers who are much more than church doorkeepers. 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Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks. We've documented 10 accessibility features for Controls in Bayonetta which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 5 weeks ago. Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Bayonetta accessibility 6 weeks ago. It stands out for how outrageous outfits, extravagant action, and hyper-stylised fights combine with the joy of precise shooting and tough-as-nails combat to make for an exciting challenge. As you play, you attack enemies with oversized weapons and supernatural powers. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.Bayonetta is a fighting game where you use fantastical guns and outlandish attacks to defeat hordes of enemies in bombastic combat. This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. ![]() Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Reading but it also has features in Difficulty, Getting Started, Visual, Audio and Navigation to reduce unintended barriers. ![]() ![]() We've documented 22 accessibility features for Bayonetta, including Control Assists, Select Difficulty, No Button Combos, No Holds and Play Without Hearing. ![]() You can omit the raw jalapeño for a less spicy result. Spice level: I like to use 1-2 large chili peppers and one jalapeño, which makes a pretty spicy soup. Jump to Recipe Instant Pot Black Bean Soup is a delicious, easy-to-make vegetarian soup filled with awesome flavors and healthy ingredients.This adds a lot to the texture and really disperses the flavors into every bite! Texture: I like to use an immersion blender to blend about half of the soup.My favorites are diced jalapeño peppers or hot sauce, Greek yogurt or vegan sour cream, cilantro, corn for extra crunch, diced avocado Topping ideas: This soup is flavorful on it's own, but no good soup is complete without toppings. Add the zucchini, salsas, broth, onion, bell pepper, cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, cayenne, and tomato paste to the inner pot of the pressure cooker stir.This adds a lot to the texture and really disperses the flavors into every bite!Īfter blending add in the corn and lime juice. ![]() I like to use an immersion blender to blend about half of the soup. This will take anywhere from 2-3 hours, depending on the age of your beans and how long they soaked. Cover, leaving a small gap for some steam to escape, and simmer until the black beans are tender.Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer over medium-low heat. Using the Sauté setting, cook the veggies for 2-3 minutes, or until translucent. Add in the vegetable broth and drained soaked black beans. First, add the Red Onion, Garlic, and diced Cilantro Stems into the Instant Pot with a splash of Water. Sauté for 30 seconds, stirring frequently to prevent burning. ![]() Add the cumin, chili powder, smoked paprika, chili pepper and adobo sauce.
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