![]() The game features two unlockable difficulty modes. some skills are only available during melee combat, some during long-range combat, and some when the player is blocking. Players' skills are attached to their melee weapon, their long-range weapon, and their defensive stance i.e. Once a character has leveled up, they get three points to spend on their stats (strength, will, stamina and dexterity), and one skill point to use in their skill tree. A character will level up when enough experience points have been gained. However, the player is limited in the number of times they can summon him, and he can be summoned only when the player is in an outdoors location.Ĭharacters gain experience by defeating enemies and completing quests. The eagle can target a single foe for a large amount of damage. Another aspect of combat is the player's ability to summon a Great Eagle to aid them. Players may also revive fallen allies if the player character dies, the player must wait to be revived by an AI ally. During a single-player game, players may issue orders to their AI companions ordering them to either seek out enemies and attack or stay near the player character and defend. Players can also perform critical strikes when a yellow indicator appears over the head of an enemy a heavy attack will produce a critical strike, which are extra-strong attacks that often kill the enemy with a single hit. She can also create potions from alchemy ingredients collected in the field, and her special ability allows her to find secret passages marked with hidden elven glyphs.Īll characters have a light and a heavy attack, and all three can roll, block and sprint. Her skills are built around offensive and defensive spell casting. Her staff also serves as her long-range weapon. Andriel uses a staff and a shield, or a staff and a single-handed weapon. He can detect fissures and weakness in walls and rocks, smashing them open to find money, items, and gems. His skills are built around melee combat. Farin uses two-handed heavy weapons such as axes, a single-handed weapon, and a shield, or a crossbow. His abilities allow him to follow the tracks of other Rangers to secret stashes of items and weapons. Eradan uses the following combinations of arms: a bow, a two-handed sword, a sword, and shield, or two single-handed weapons. ![]() Each character has its own weaponry and abilities. However, they can switch at the end of each level, or by loading a previously saved game and selecting a different character. When the player begins any level they must choose one of the three to control. The game features three playable characters Eradan (a Ranger), Farin (a Dwarf), and Andriel (an Elf). War in the North is an action role-playing hack and slash game played from a third-person perspective. If it wasn't for the game's graphics, combat and connection to the Lord of the Rings franchise, I would've given it a failing score.Works on: Windows (XP, VISTA, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11) Its just not a very good game, and I cannot recommend you buy it. It goes from easy, to insanely hard, to easy. ![]() Instead of placing visible barriers, you will constantly hit invisible walls when playing. There is no character development (there doesn't need to be, but in this case, it couldn't hurt), barely any unique story, and the coding is sub par. The english characters of the franchise are voiced by American voice actors, which I find to be unacceptable. It started off strong, with great graphics and good combat. But, I was very disappointed with this game. My dad got me any and all the Lord of the Rings video games out there, and let me tell you, I loved all of em. My dad got me any and all the Lord of the Rings video games out there, and let me tell you, I Growing up, I was a huge Lord of the Rings fan. Growing up, I was a huge Lord of the Rings fan. This game will please LOTR fans, but unfortunately it will not make any new LOTR fans. I payed $20 for the game, and I feel like I got what I payed for out of it, but no more. I had no issues with bugs like some of the other guys. I actually found some of the voice acting pretty lame at times, but it was average on the whole, I suppose. The three playable characters have different play styles which can accommodate most players But it's still just a hack&slash. Equipment management is pretty lacking, with a rather unfriendly equipment interface.The game play is a classic hack&slash with little variation. That being said, the story is very linear, and the same should be said about the levels. Accurate and interesting LOTR lore is what kept me wanting to play. This game is great for RPG'ers that love getting into the nitty-gritty when it comes to learning about other characters and lore of the game.
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While it is a relatively standard procedure, there are different types of hysterectomy depending on why your doctor recommended it in the first place. It is ideal if you have cancer of the ovaries, uterus and cervical cancer, or endometriosis.Īnother reason for this procedure could be childbirth complications that cause abnormal vaginal bleeding.Ī hysterectomy is usually performed as a last result when all other types of medication and interventions do not work. 2) Will My Stomach Shrink After Hysterectomy? What Is a Hysterectomy?Ī hysterectomy is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of a woman’s uterus. ![]() So there’s the three of them always there, only one will come out at certain times. That weak housewife, who Maladie hated so much. And also at the same time, there’s the element of Sarah living in Maladie. She reveled playing that game so close to the establishment, so close to Frank Mundi and the people who were actually out to get her. And I guess putting Maladie together, the challenge was because, within Maladie, there’s always a want to become like a socialite, a higher class woman in Victorian London. And so when Effie came around, it was joy. So it was great to put everything together because I realized that Maladie was always one step ahead of the game, always one step ahead of everybody else in the show, and probably one of the only honest characters within the show, too. So we very much lived script to script, rather than us having a backlog of six scripts to entertain us. And in that sense, I think they make her mad… Maladie knows what she’s saying, but I don’t think a lot of other people really follow what she’s saying.Īnd then with regards to Effie, that came out of the blue, I guess, when we got scripts through. And she enters the asylum and she’s with these women spouting this information, but nobody’s there to listen to her. She sees a spark in the sky and she doesn’t know what it is. Was she already insane before she entered the asylum? Or was it her husband maybe poisoning her with mercury just to put her into the asylum for a while? So in that sense, all these questions kind of were answered, because I think by the time she gets into the asylum, she thinks that she’s seen God. So it was about myself building a backstory. And the gift was that you saw Sarah, who was Maladie before Maladie, pre-asylum. TheWrap: How early on did you know that you would be playing Maladie/Sarah and Effie Boyle?Īmy Manson: When I first got the role of Maladie, I understood that there was a huge backstory that I had to undertake and I had to understand why she behaves the way she behaves. And while Mundi was figuring this out, viewers watched Maladie laugh as she striped off her Effie costume in the madness around her on the streets. These clues led Mundi to conclude the truth and write in “Effie Boyle” as the name of his Jane Doe. ![]() He then started to remember comments Effie made about the body in the photo wearing a stylish coat similar to hers and her impassioned op-ed declaring the injustice of Maladie’s hanging. Mundi went back to his office to inspect the photos of the unidentified dead body that he found in the series premiere. That reveal came “Usual Suspects”-style, when Mundi became confused by the missing toes on the feet of the hanged “Maladie” during the chaos that had ensued when Maladie’s plan to electrocute the onlookers at her hanging was set in motion just after her death. So that means Maladie has been impersonating Effie ever since just before Clara, disguised as Maladie, was arrested by Detective Frank Mundi (Ben Chaplin) on last week’s episode. Well, we thought Maladie was hanged - but we now know that woman was actually her missing-toed acolyte Clara (Sylvie Briggs). Yes, the HBO fantasy series created by Joss Whedon pulled a fast one on viewers with tonight’s hour, titled “Hanged.” It ended with journalist Effie Boyle peeling off a wig, makeup and a body suit to reveal Maladie, just minutes after Maladie was hanged in the center of Victorian London. While Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) spent the better part of Sunday’s “The Nevers” fighting over whether to follow through with their intricate plan to find the mysterious Galanthi or risk their shot at fulfilling that mission by instead saving the villainous Maladie (Amy Manson) from her public execution, Maladie was busy saving herself. (Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of HBO’s “The Nevers.”) CGI and a fake IMDb credit helped HBO drama pull off that three-character twist ![]() His practical work has been across the areas of dance-on-screen (artistic and documentary) live and mediated performance teaching and facilitating film-making and a variety of youth projects. His academic work has included investigating the use of hypertext techniques in the analysis of dance. He currently specializes in moderating and facilitating community film and media training for non-standard learners.ĭeveril is an expert in leading, documenting and assessing movement and video-based projects, especially those in school environments or with teachers and young people (mixed abilities). From studying Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway in the early 1990s, Deveril has moved through the fields of dance, new media and filmmaking as practitioner, teacher and researcher. A professional film maker and performer as well as trained philosopher, he has a diverse background and range of skills. He also leads the core research cluster on Performance Technologies. Full schedule here.ĭeveril is the co-convenor of the SMARTlab PhD Programme, and the incumbent co-convenor of the new SMARTlab MA in Creative Technology Innovation. This workshops is part of our Learn Something Share Something Do Something week of free workshops and classes. All skill levels, beginners and experts welcome.Ĭinema Room, Downstairs, Seomra Spraoi, Belvedere Court, Dublin 1 Scenes: putting it down onto the page (20 mins hands-on)Īnyone interested in script writing, drama, or writing for radio. Script basics: Action, Dialogue, Sluglines (10 mins plus 5 mins hands-on)ģ.Ĝharacter intros: how to describe your characters (5 mins plus 5 mins hands-on)Ĥ.Ğxpressing actions (10 mins plus 5 mins hands-on)ĥ. Intro: how to use CeltX (10 mins plus 5 mins hands-on)Ģ. ![]() This will introduce wannabe scriptwriters to the free version of CeltX and work through some basic writing tips.ġ. ![]() Lecture-dem, hands-on trialling, leading to a one or two page script! The software allows online collaboration and automatically formats scripts into a variety of specific formats, including screenplay and BBC radio. CeltX is a free open source solution for scriptwriting for radio, stage and screen. ![]() These are some serious words to live by right here, so let me put you on game to a couple of my favorites: 5) Never give credit. I’d be remiss not to mention Biggie’s Ten Crack Commandments. Shockingly easy, but I guess I can’t really argue with him. Travis Scott’s like-minded three-step SDP regiment : to truly enjoy life, you need to smoke some, drink some, and pop one. Pusha T, Ye, and A$AP Rocky’s MPA attitude : the only things you need are money, pussy, and alcohol. The type of takes that list the things that one needs to be doing are dime a dozen, but I will take this opportunity to provide a few of such shit takes that are present in the music world: Really, anything from those rise -and- grind Instagram pages that worship Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and (curiously) Idris Elba deserves to be placed here, but this is the most deliriously stupid. You need only five hobbies : One to make money, one to keep you in shape, one to stay creative, one to build knowledge, and one to grow your mindset. While we’re at it, keep your Topster with shit like King Crimson, Rubber Soul, Blond, and Late Registration to yourself, too. You don’t have to maintain your listening-head sensibilities at every turn you should just enjoy the things that you enjoy. If you think it’s good, then it’s good to you, and that ’s that about that. Yeah, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s still pretty damn good.įuck out of here! If you like something, just say you like it you don’t have to qualify shit. Speak your truth, yeah, but make sure your truth has a bit of oomph! behind it. Sometimes, people really just say shit for the sake of saying shit. Whereas hot takes should never be spoken aloud, shit takes need to be voiced, simply because they need to be shut down swiftly and firmly. What’s worse, is that we also have the shit take : the less-than-half-baked little brother of the hot take. Once your “hot take” has been thoroughly cooked in your brain oven, let it rest until the juices are fully locked in, then hit me with it and we’ll see where it goes. Sometimes, inner musings are supposed to remain just that: thoughts plunking around your thick skull. A true hot take would be so well-considered and fully formed that it wouldn’t seem “hot” it would just be truth. I love being a contrarian, but this take simply makes no sense. I love wearing my various pairs of clogs, but am I going to replace my shoes with them? Hell no. Īt its core, a hot take (as internet heads use it) is a stupid opinion. They’re comfy, they can be dressed up or dressed down, and you can wear them in any weather. It’s a pain in the ass! And at what cost? With clogs, you can do damn near anything. Some situations call for a boot, some situations call for a sneaker, some call for a dress shoe. With shoes, you need to pick and choose for comfort and utility. You are only saying that because clogs and mules are in right now. That’s right-I’m clogs only from here on out! In fact, I’m never wearing shoes with heels on them ever again. To learn how do all this, and more, read the ebook! Some of our moments of LaunchBar zen: We could go on forever with our favorite examples: pasting the third item back from the clipboard history, moving a file into a deeply nested folder, creating calendar events and reminders, skipping to the next track in iTunes, running Terminal commands, looking up terms in Wikipedia, counting the characters in selected text, typing emoji, tweeting a quote from an article, finding your uncle’s phone number, and so on. ![]() One example is to employ superpower #5, Instant Send, to add a book to iBooks: select an EPUB file (like Take Control of LaunchBar!) in the Finder, hold down the key you use to invoke LaunchBar for an extra second to select the file on the bar, type IB to select iBooks, and press Return to send the EPUB file to iBooks. (LaunchBar doesn’t require predefined abbreviations instead, it adapts to you!) This method of accessing an app uses the Abbreviation Search, superpower #1.Įxample 2: Once you’ve become accustomed to the ease of accessing any app, you can apply abbreviation search to other tasks and begin to unleash more superpowers. Just invoke LaunchBar (with a keyboard shortcut of your choosing), type a quick abbreviation - whatever seems natural to you - and press Return (or, take the express route with LaunchBar’s handy Instant Open.) In the image below, LaunchBar has found iBooks in response to seeing the letters IB, and pressing Return opens iBooks. Consider two examples:Įxample 1: The most beloved LaunchBar function is to access apps quickly - especially apps that you don’t keep in the Dock. Deep thanks goes to Christian, Johannes, Manfred, and Norbert, who went the extra mile and helped us learn that LaunchBar does more than we’d imagined, despite years of daily use. This ebook was created in collaboration with Objective Development, the company that makes LaunchBar. Once selected, you could select a group of files and then move them all to a different folder, tag each one, or send them as email attachments.ĭon’t worry about remembering all this - a one-page cheat sheet will jog your memory until LaunchBar has worked its way into your fingertips. ![]() New in LaunchBar 6.1, staging lets you select and work on multiple items at once in LaunchBar, even if they are not located in the same LaunchBar results list. Instant Send is the fastest way to put a selected file or bit of text on the bar, ready to open in another app, move to a folder, send to a Google search, calculate a result, look up in Dictionary, and more. Want to open a PDF in PDFpen rather than Preview? Attach a document to a new email message? Tag a file? Skype a contact? You can send anything on LaunchBar’s bar to another app, folder, action, or service. Too many results in a list to browse? Try a sub-search, which is an abbreviation search limited to a list of search results. You can browse folders, recent documents for an app, clipboard history, snippets, tags, and more. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. LaunchBar is smart (so the abbreviation doesn’t have to be obvious) and learns from what you type (in case it guessed wrong the first time).īrowsing. The primary way you select things in LaunchBar is by typing a few letters associated with the item you want to find. (Don’t miss how LaunchBar comes to the rescue of ordinary citizens in our “Joy of Take” comic.)Ībbreviation search. To help you develop a mental map of all that LaunchBar can do, author Kirk McElhearn explains LaunchBar in the context of its six superpowers - key LaunchBar techniques that no Mac user should be without. Learn how to use LaunchBar, from Objective Development, to carry out nearly any Mac task more efficiently. In the meantime, unless we receive a lot of feedback suggesting that customers want an update badly enough to pay for it, it’s unlikely that we’ll put the time and effort into doing one. For years we had assumed that if and when LaunchBar had a major new release, we’d update the book at that time…but that hasn’t happened and we don’t know if or when it will. In theory, the book could be tweaked to account for the revisions to LaunchBar and newer versions of macOS. It still functions more or less as described, though it has some newer features too. ![]() LaunchBar 6 has had a bunch of minor updates, but no major ones, in the last eight years. ![]() Located only two blocks from the beach, and right in the heart. ![]() Adjacent to dining and shopping destination Metlox Plaza (a former pottery factory that produced the ceramic sign for Pantages Theater in Hollywood), Shade Hotel is an upscale property conveniently located within walking distance of. With upscale dining, shopping, and sightseeing all within a close distance, Shade guarantees you an unforgettable stay. Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach aims to keep you cool while having fun in or out of the sun. Made in the Shade In the summer of 2005, downtown Manhattan Beach’s first hotel opened its doors to the picturesque beachfront community in Southern California. Shade Hotel Manhattan Beach Heated rooftop plunge pool Lounge chairs (first come, first serve) Poolside service with food and drinks available for purchase. Stemming from owner and restaurateur Michael Zislis' visionary take on personal service, allow our staff to ensure your experience is nothing less than stellar. With its ideal Southern California location, guests can enjoy scenic drives to The Staples Center and downtown LA Live, partake in movie magic back lot tours at Raleigh Studios, and see the beautifully expansive Pacific Ocean by walking down to the Manhattan Beach Pier or The Strand. It's the perfect destination to enjoy a sunny beachside vacation, treat your hardworking staff to a functional business meeting, throw the wedding or event of your dreams, and experience the thriving South Bay surf cities.Ĭondé Nast Traveler listed Shade as the #6 reason to visit LA, and Manhattan Beach as LA's newest hip corner. Shade Hotel Manhattan Beach Welcome to Shade, Manhattan Beach's only luxury boutique hotel, located 15 minutes from LAX and two blocks from the beach. SBL (Society of Biblical Literature): SBL fonts: SBL Hebrew, SBL Greek, SBL BibLit.However, they make the insertion of diacritics much easier. SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics): SIL Ezra (Hebrew) Charis, Doulos, Gentium (3 fonts using multilingual Latin-based alphabets, useful for transliteration) I generally use Gentium Plus. Font download (True Type Font file, v1.0 Build 001, released 9/6/13) Keyboard Drivers (version 1.1, released 12/23/14) Transliteration keyboard for Windows Transliteration keyboard for macOS Installation of the keyboard is not necessary to use the font.Tyndale House, Cambridge: Unicode Font Kit (uses Cardo). ![]() Unicode Texts: from Tyndale House (MT, LXX, GNT). Offered by World ORT, a Jewish educational site. Online bar/bat mitvah tutor – here you can hear the Hebrew text sung. All significant Hebrew words (or in the NT the Hebrew words lying behind the Greek ones) are transliterated rather than translated into English, so as to enhance recognition of significant words, themes and ideas. Phillip Goble of Artists for Israel International. /rebates/3fid3d026title3dTyndale7eUnicode7eFont7eKit&252fcompany252flibraries252fsoftware252fdetail. Orthodox Jewish Bible (pdf) – translated by Dr. Abraham Schmuelof (1913-1994): one mp3 file per chapter (formerly hosted by Audio Scriptures International, then by Academy of Ancient Languages, now by Mechon Mamre). Helpful Internet ResourcesĪudio files – the Hebrew Bible, read in Sephardic pronunciation by Fr. Hebrew 101: The first-year Hebrew class at PBCC 2008-09. Hebrew Verb Charts – a pdf document containing four charts: The Strong Verb, The Stem System, Verb Forms, Mechanical Parsing. If you have any questions please contact Bernard Bell. Gale Tools - Cite Always refer to the print style guide for complete citation formats and descriptions.Venue: PBCC Library & Zoom (hybrid class).Gale eBooks - Searching for Information.Citing Articles Always refer to the print style guide for complete citation formats and descriptions.Credo Reference: What To Do When Your Topic is too Broad.Credo Reference: Synthesizing Research.Credo Reference: How to Find Relevant Sources.Credo Reference: How to Avoid Bias in Your Searches.LIBBI-203NUR Tutorial 2 - CINAHL and MEDLINE (Spring 2023)Ĭontents: Access and select nursing databases Create search expressions with Boolean operators Evaluate and refine search results Use the EBSCO citation tool for APA citations.įor more database tutorials see Minute and Tutorial Videos: Database Tutorials or use the "more" link on the Database List.LIBBI-203NUR Tutorial 1 - Getting Started with Nursing Research (Spring 2023)Ĭontents: Nursing Databases - Access and Selection Key Terms Boolean Operators Search Expressions CINAHL Complete Database MEDLINE with Full Text Database APA Citations a "Certificate of Completion," if needed.APA Style Reference Citations with business citation examplesĬontents: Module #1 is an introduction to the LIBBIs and to the Library Website Module #2 covers books and ebooks Module #3 includes reference databases and starting your research. ![]() If you are required to complete a tutorial, an option is provided for you to get a "Certificate of Completion" to upload to you course D2L drop box. The tutorials are slides with embedded content, including videos, exercises, images, web pages, and more. Almost all word processors now support unicode - with. the Cardo Unicode font by David Parry - an excellent font for Greek & Hebrew. simple look-alike and sound-alike key positions (see layouts) instructions for customising the keyboards if you want to change the layout. ORU Library tutorials are self-paced interactive learning tools. Unicode fonts are now becoming standard, and they are easy to use with the free Tyndale Unicode Font Kit. keyboards for easily typing Biblical Hebrew, Greek and Transliteration. ![]() Meet with a librarian to discuss your specific research needs.Librarians will respond to email questions during normal hours.WorldCat (FirstSearch) opens new window. ![]() And munch away I did it’s pretty amazing how quickly I could tear through 10 packs. So I was allowed to keep my storybook in my room and munch away a roll at a time while gabbing on the phone or pretending to do homework. For some reason my parents didn’t really think of Life Savers as candy. Truly the gift that keeps on giving.īut wait, there’s more. And if all that sweet lifesaving goodness weren’t enough, the ten rolls of candy included a story inside the book, like Frosty or a short story about making Christmas bright or decorating the tree. Better hustle on down to the store toot sweet.If my brother and I were sharing a roll, it was always either exciting or disappointing to see what flavor came up next once you popped one out! Exciting: red, disappointing: green (don’t misunderstand, I still ate it, I was just a little less excited about the prospect). We can thus envision that when the next energy crunch comes, an adequate supply of Life Savers will be as important to survival as MasterCard is today. For instance, I have here an unpublished paper by researcher Patricia Nakache that is somewhat grandly entitled, “The Life Saver: A New Energy Source?” It contains the fascinating news that if you connect a Life Saver to a neon tube with wires and bash it (the Life Saver) with a hammer, the neon tube will flash. Some of these are more imaginative than others. The effect was first described in 17th-century Italy, and since then it’s been discussed in numerous papers and articles. I should point out that even without the wintergreen flavoring, virtually all crystal sugar candy, including peppermint Life Savers, will emit some visible light when crushed, although it’s usually pretty faint. Clearly the planners in the Pentagon weren’t the first to be obsessed with high-tech gimcracks. This then emits the fairly bright blue light you see. Step Three: The UV radiation is absorbed by the wintergreen flavoring, methyl salicylate. When the free electrons strike the nitrogen molecules, they cause the latter to emit invisible ultraviolet radiation, along with a faint visible glow. Step Two: Meanwhile, as the sugar crystals disintegrate, nitrogen molecules from the air attach themselves to the fractured surfaces. In what amounts to a subatomic game of musical chairs, the free electrons dash around madly trying to find a new home. As a result, the atoms in which the electrons were formerly embedded become positively charged. Step One: When you shatter the sugar crystals with your teeth, electrons (which are negatively charged) break free. Wintergreen sparking, it’s believed, is actually a three-step process. ![]() (Another example of TL is the spark you get when you tear the piece of tape off the end of a roll of photographic film.) Most students of the modern Life Saver classify sparking as a type of triboluminescence, which occurs when something is crushed or torn, the something in this case being the hard crystalline sugar that Life Savers contain. However, theoretical considerations lead us to believe that even under the most favorable conditions the sparks from the peppermints would not be very bright. Our failure in the latter department may perhaps be attributed to the fact that the peppermint Life Savers we had on hand were unbelievably ancient, and had consequently absorbed considerable moisture, which is said to inhibit sparking. Having completed our labors, we have arrived at the following conclusions: (1) wintergreen Life Savers will indeed produce spectacular if somewhat pint-sized clouds of blue flame when mashed vigorously between the molars. Accordingly, I have conducted a rigorous program of experiments, aided by the Straight Dope Kamikaze Research (“we laugh at death”) & Display Advertising Battalion, which will do anything if it will get them out of actually having to work for an hour. It is all very well for a layman to take her brother’s word on things like this, Dona, but professionals such as myself insist on checking out the situation firsthand. |
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