![]() ![]() To find the best stand mixers, we put top stand mixers through their paces. This guide was first put together by former Reviewed editor, and some of the older mixer models included in this guide were reviewed by former Reviewed Cooking Editor Cassidy Olsen and Erin Fife, a Reviewed contributor. When I rented my first apartment, I graduated to a stand mixer and became an expert at baking everything from chocolate chip cookies to flourless cakes to sourdough bread. As a teenager, I stirred up boxed cake mixes with a wooden spoon. My passion for home baking jump-started my career. Before that, I cooked and baked professionally in New York City restaurants for seven years. Hi, I'm Sharon Franke, and I’ve been reviewing kitchen equipment for more than three decades. This mixer is available in silver, black, or blue. A handle on top gives you a good grip when you move it around. And every single piece can go in the dishwasher. ![]() The speed dial turns smoothly and is well marked with large numbers. ![]() There’s a guide on the top of the mixer that prompts you to choose different speeds depending on which mixing task you’re planning to use. The tilt mechanism is well marked and easy to press. The Hamilton Beach is not exceptionally sturdy and its head bobbed a bit when we kneaded dough for two loaves of dough (the max recommended by the company) but this lightweight machine is easy to lift if you want to keep it stashed away when you’re not using it.Īlso, you simply can’t beat the ease of use of this machine. In fact, of all the stand mixers we tested, it created the loftiest egg whites in the fastest time. While it’s not a statement piece for your kitchen, it gets the job done every bit as well as much pricier models and sometimes even better. There’s a lot to love about the Hamilton Beach Seven Speed Mixer. ![]()
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![]() HENDRICKCARS.COM IS HOME: Larson and the No. He posted a heat race win and dash victory before leading the opening 18 laps of the main event. ![]() On Wednesday night, he finished second in a rescheduled High Limit Racing Sprint Car Series event at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania. Rod Cox is currently filling in for Teague, who is week-to-week as he rehabs an injury.īIRTHDAY RACE: Larson, who hails from Elk Grove, California, will turn 31 years old on Monday, July 31, following the race at Richmond.ĮXTRACURRICULAR: In addition to his full-time Cup Series schedule, Larson often races dirt during the week. Barnette (tire carrier), Brandon Harder (fueler), Brandon Johnson (jackman) and Calvin Teague (rear-tire changer). 5’s pit crew consists of Blaine Anderson (front-tire changer), R.J. The team’s 9.281-second performance on lap 93 in last month’s race at Nashville Superspeedway ranks as the second-fastest four-tire stop in the series this season. 5 pit crew stands third in the Cup Series in average four-tire pit stop time (11.110 seconds). This year, he ranks fourth in both laps run in the top five (2,078) and laps run in the top 10 (3,280).įOUR TIRES FAST: After 21 points-paying races in 2023, the No. Larson has led 622 laps in 2023, good for third-best in the series behind Byron (810) and Martin Truex Jr. After taking the second stage at Pocono Raceway on Sunday, he now has 45 career stage wins, which is third-most amongst all Cup drivers. UP FRONT: Larson, the 2021 Cup champion, has earned two wins and a series-best nine top-five finishes this season. In his most-recent 10 races, he has posted two poles, three victories and six top-fives on short tracks. In Larson’s first 38 (of 48 total) short-track starts, he earned one pole position, one win and six top-five finishes. The last driver to win three straight paved short-track races was Rusty Wallace in 1993. SHORT-TRACK SUCCESS: In 2023, Larson has won every Cup Series race held on a pavement short track: the points-paying events at Richmond Raceway and Martinsville Speedway and the non-points NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. He is also one of only five drivers to lead at least 100 laps at the 0.75-mile venue since the start of 2022. ![]() Over the last three Richmond races, Larson has posted the second-most laps run inside the top five (622) behind only teammate William Byron (648). The 30-year-old driver has earned two wins, four top-five finishes and eight top-10s in 17 NASCAR Cup Series starts at the Virginia short track. RICHMOND REPEAT: On Sunday, Kyle Larson will seek his second Richmond Raceway win of 2023 after going to victory lane there in April. ![]() ![]() Giving a gift or treating yourself to a little something special? Coach Outlet has you covered with refined men's accessories, fashion-forward men's clothing and more at great prices. We also have canvas pieces and styles featuring bold graphics and eye-catching colors (you really can't go wrong). Reach for a structured briefcase or a ready-for-anything backpack to hold laptops and tablets up to 16 inches, notebooks and other workday essentials. Our men's leather bags are a popular choice for heading to the office. Shopping for a men's work bag? Coach Outlet has just the thing to streamline that commute (in the most stylish of ways). ![]() You'll also find plenty of larger travel bags for men that will keep everything from clothing and footwear to technology secure while on the way to your destination. 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Best Naturals 100% Pure Taurine Powderīest Naturals makes a powder-form taurine powder, though this brand is not as well-established as some of the other powder-based manufacturers. The one advantage it does have is that it comes in a plastic tub, which is slightly less messy than a resealable plastic bag. Nutricost makes a bulk powder form of taurine, but compared to other options on the market, it comes in a smaller size, making it less convenient for DIY energy drink mixers and others who want to make their own blends. It’s a pure and reliable supplement if you are looking for a lower dose of taurine. It has 500 mg of taurine per capsule, using vegetable cellulose as the capsule material and with vegetable derived stearic acid as a binder. This definitely applies to their taurine supplement. Solgar makes basic supplements with no frills or unnecessary additives. 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![]() ![]() This feature has been common in games for as long as one can remember and can help improve your gaming experience by getting rid of screen tearing in general. #2- Enabling / Disabling V-SyncĪnother method about screen tearing that we can tell you is by enabling or disabling the vertical sync or V-Sync. That will eliminate screen tearing at any given resolution, and you will be able to enjoy the game without any obvious visual artifacts, which in all honesty, can be a nuisance to deal with. Just find the one that corresponds to the max refresh rate of the monitor, and set it there. If that does not solve it, most games do offer the choice to select between various frame rates. That way, your GPU could have some issues keeping up with rendering at a higher resolution and might start rendering a single frame at a time rather than multiple frames. If you are running the game at a lower resolution, try increasing it. When you are trying to fix screen tearing, one of the first things that you could try doing is changing the resolution. Now that you know how it happens, it should not take a long to sort this. For starters, when you are looking at screen tearing, there are multiple issues to fix. How To Fix Screen Tearing?įixing screen tearing has become a lot simpler than it used to be back in the day. To fix this, almost all the games have a technology called V-Sync, it is a handy function that locks the frame rate of the game to the maximum refresh rate of your monitor, so it never crosses it and prevents screen tearing altogether. When this happens, parts of two frames are drawn to the display at once, and this creates a tear between the two frames in the form of horizontal lines or lines across the screen. To put it in the simplest of terms, screen tearing mainly occurs when the frame rate exceeds the refresh rate of your monitor. ![]() Honestly, the explanation that I gave above is enough for most people, but in the modern-day and age where technology has improved to an incredible extent, the more information you have, the better. So, now we know what screen tearing is, the next step is to start looking at what causes it. This results in a strange mix of images or torn screens, and while some people manage to completely overlook that it is even happening, some of us are observant of it. It will leave the older image and start processing the newer one. The monitor does not render the image right away, and it ends up receiving a new image from the GPU when it is still in the process of rendering the image that it was supposed to display before. Most simply, screen tearing takes place when the monitor is out of sync with your graphics card. Understanding screen tearing is not that difficult. It occurs in displays, in general.įrom the technical point of view, screen tearing happens when the display shows images from multiple frames at once, but there are visible tears in the screen or the image that is being displayed. Question 5: Can a bad GPU cause screen tear? What Is Screen Tearing?īelieve it or not, screen tearing is a lot more common than you might think. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time, the photograph would emerge from the camera and require no further manipulation-one could simply hold it and watch it develop in the light before your eyes. In 1968, with Polaroid now established as one of Kodak’s top corporate customers, Land showed Kodak executives the prototype for a new generation of Polaroid film, seeking its help with its commercialization. ![]() It helped with the transition of Polaroid’s technology from the laboratory to a manufacturing facility, and produced the negative components Polaroid incorporated into each of its one-step films. ![]() Through the following decades, Kodak continued to work with Polaroid on each new one-step film that it developed, from sepia to black-and-white, and then to color. When Polaroid finally had a product ready for commercialization, it was Kodak to whom Land turned for help in the manufacture of its film. Ironically, it would be the patent system that Land would one day have to rely on in order to save his company. It was in this anti-patent environment that the patent struggle between Polaroid and Kodak over instant photography technology began. Yet the patent system sailed in rough seas for years to come. From then on, Land was dubbed “Champion of Patents.” General Electric’s general patent counsel called it “the most impressive and significant statement on this subject that has been made in many years.” The text, in its entirety, was published in the Harvard Business Review, and many corporations distributed copies to their executives. The patent community received Land’s speech enthusiastically. Without the protection of the patent system, young scientific entrepreneurs cannot be counted on to develop the rest. Only a handful of these will be explored by large corporations, leaving many areas untouched. There are a thousand new fields ready to be opened. It should be the role of our patent system to bring encouragement, a sense of reward, and a stimulus to prompt publication to men in applied science. Land accepted the challenge, presenting an impassioned defense of and rationale for the patent system, in particular its vital importance to the small corporation and the young scientific entrepreneur: In an attempt to counter the negative view of the patent system, the Boston Patent Law Association invited Land to address its 1959 annual dinner, an event that would include the elite of the field, along with a host of federal judges. The Patent Office issued fewer patents and declared more patents invalid and thus unenforceable when challenged in court. As a result, an anti-patent attitude arose in the courts and in Congress that persisted into the 1970s. In this era, patents began to be seen as part of the problem, as a means for large corporations to amass monopolies in their fields. The emergence of huge and powerful American companies brought with it the anti-monopoly fears that led to the development of antitrust law. While the patent system certainly contributed to the progress of technology through the Industrial Revolution, attitudes toward the system began to change in the early decades of the 20th century. The patent system changed this, secured to the inventor for a limited time exclusive use of his inventions, and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in discovery and production of new and useful things. inventors behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison’s associates.īefore any man might instantly use what another man had invented, so that the inventor had no special advantage from his invention. When he died in 1991, Land had 535 patents in his name, third on the list of U.S. He would then go on to become one of the most prolific inventors in history. This early patent protection allowed Land to successfully commercialize his invention and build a large company by keeping competitors at bay. Through a friend he was introduced to Donald Brown, a young patent attorney who would secure a patent on Land’s new material. Today, plastic polarizers are found in everything from car windshields to LCD screens.īut before showing polaroid to anyone, Land sought legal protection. He successfully embedded tiny crystals into a thin plastic sheet and named his invention “polaroid.” Land’s polaroid would become ubiquitous technology, of course: Eastman Kodak used it for camera lenses. The teenage Land developed a more useful material to polarize light. The process of polarization-removing glare from bright light-had until then always required large pieces of crystal rock. He had to finish his experiments on an invention he thought had tremendous commercial potential: the plastic polarizer. In 1928, a 19-year-old Edwin Land, who would later become the father of instant photography and the founder of Polaroid, dropped out of Harvard before the end of his freshman year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The very dramatic slopes of Mount Celestia. It was thought to be the ultimate goal of the inhabitants of Celestia to ascend the layers one by one in order to reach Chronias, where their souls would join with the essence of the plane itself. Many religions made this level the home of their lawful good deities, believing any lesser realms were merely to accommodate less worthy souls. The legends said that Chronias was so good and lawful that it glowed of its own accord and any who entered had all evil and neutrality burned out of them, leaving them inherently good, if they survived. Little was known of its structure because nothing was ever recorded by the few who had visited and returned. The topmost and final layer of Celestia, Chronias was called the Illuminated Heaven. ![]() Uroboros, the Gates of Wisdom, the airborne realm of Jazirian of the couatl, floated above the mountainside of Solania. It was the location of the giant Soul Forges, which Moradin was said to use to temper the spirits of his people. In the Great Wheel cosmology, a vast dwarven mansion called Erackinor was located on the slopes of Solania, where the dwarven deity Moradin made his domain, with his wife Berronar Truesilver. Many pilgrims came questing to the roof of this layer in the hopes of finding answers to life's persistent questions. Many of the slopes were rich in precious ores and minerals and were mined by populations of dwarves that resided there. The peaks were home to numerous holy shrines, including monasteries and magnificent cathedrals controlled by demigods. Its valleys were enveloped in mist, fog, and strange scents. Solania, the fourth layer, had a sky that glowed like burnished silver and was called the Electrum Heaven, or sometimes the Crystal Heaven. ![]() Lunia was the location of a number of godly realms, including Tyr's secondary realm of the Court. The starlit night of Lunia, surrounded by the Silver Sea. Travelers merely had to touch a block to activate the portal. Black granite blocks veined with gold led to Arcadia, white granite blocks with veins of silver led to the Twin Paradises, and red granite blocks flecked with blue took you to Concordant Opposition. Also in the surf of Lunia were the portals to the Twin Paradises, Arcadia, and Concordant Opposition which were large, permanent, free-standing blocks of finished stone. Descriptions of the citadels varied among travelers leading cosmologists to theorize that there were many of these mountain islands. The adjacent beach belonged to an island with a majestic mountain decorated with grand citadels made from polished white stone. The dark, starry Silver Sea was full of many good aquatic beings, including celestial whales and sea elves. The sky above Lunia was perpetually dark, filled with beautiful constellations of silver stars bright enough to illuminate the base of the mountain. The color pools of the Astral Plane would deposit visitors in the surf of a vast ocean, the Silver Sea, full of clean, fresh water that had the properties of holy water. The sky of Lunia was a nighttime sky filled with stars that illuminated the layer with a silver glow. Known as the Silver Heaven, Lunia was the first layer travelers encountered. Lunia Ĭelestia's first (bottommost) layer shared borders with the neighboring planes of the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia and the Twin Paradises of Bytopia travel was possible between Celestia and these planes at certain locations. The sky of each layer had its own hue which softly bathed everything in gentle shades of luminance. 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Celestia was home to numerous celestial creatures including various types of archons, the petitioners of this plane. All aspects of Celestia were beautiful and perfect it was where the souls of many creatures of lawful good alignment went to after death. Celestia was the ultimate in law and good. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is important that you get the longest battery life possible to make it worth your purchase. The longest battery life you will find is around 20 hours on some high end Bluetooth Wireless Portable Speakers. Some will be better for certain music genres while others might not. If you are looking for a Bluetooth Wireless Portable Speaker that you can keep in your bedroom, office, or entertainment room without sacrificing sound quality, then this speaker will perform well.ĭifferent Bluetooth Wireless Portable Speakers have different sound qualities. 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![]() ![]() In all, there are one million potential civilisation builds in Humankind, and it is absolutely thrilling.Īt times, it's almost more puzzle game than 4X, giving it a distinctly different flavour to Civilization. Onscreen, that can mean having Japanese pagodas nestling right up to Mayan pyramids and Italian opera houses. Yes, there are several different technological ages to play through, but the most tantalising aspect of Humankind is how you can graft different cultures together to accumulate all manner of different perks and effects. But Humankind is so much more than just a riff on Sid Meier's classic strategy franchise. Where can I buy it? Steam, Epic Games StoreĪs soon as Amplitude announced their big historical 4X game, it was inevitable that comparisons would be drawn to the Civilization series. Our video ranking doesn't match this written list exactly, all told, but they're all games we'd recommend playing in a heartbeat. You can also check out our readers' favourite strategy games of all time as well.įinally, we've selected some of our top strategy highlights in the video above, too, if you prefer lists with a bit more audio visual flair. If nothing else, it gives you a good excuse to tell us all about it in the comments below. And if your favourite doesn't make the cut, please know it was number 51. ![]() A handful of strategy games here do involve a bit of building, but there's no football management or spaghetti junctions. In our list, we've mainly focused on strategy games about commanding troops of some kind, so if it's settlement or colony sim games you're after, then have a read of our best management games list. Here are our 50 best strategy games for 2023. You'll find 30-year-old classics nestled right up against recent favourites here, so whether you're to the genre or want to dig deep for some hidden gems, we've got you covered. We like to take a broad view here at RPS, and every game listed below is something we firmly believe that you could love and play today. Our list of the best strategy games on PC covers the lot of them. Strategy games is an enormous genre in PC gaming, with real-time, turn-based, 4X and tactics games all flying the same flag to stake their claim as the one true best strategy game. ![]() |
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