![]() The media backlash was so vociferous, the embarrassed Mozeliak and Marmol backed off and put Contreras back at catcher. How is it even possible to be this dopey? The Cardinals spent $87.5 million free-agent dollars on Contreras - only to quickly turn on him after realizing Contreras wasn’t up to Yadier Molina’s level defensively. It was a gutless, cheapjack move that subjected Contreras to unwarranted attention and humiliation. “Contreras is not going to be catching for a foreseeable timetable,” Mozeliak said at the time. And they even planned to rotate Contreras into the mix at left field before realizing the stupidity of adding another player to the outfield logjam. I suppose Mikolas thinks we’ve all forgotten how Cardinals pitchers back-stabbed Contreras early in the season, whining about his work behind the plate so much that manager Oli Marmol and president of baseball operations John Mozeliak bounced Contreras from the catcher spot after 26 games to make him DH. He’s my catcher, and I consider him a really good friend now.” You also have to appreciate the irony of Mikolas saying “in any circumstance, I’ve got Willson’s back. That cushion was more than enough for their starting pitcher Justin Steele, who owned the Cardinals (again) by giving up one run in six innings. The next four-batter sequence went like this: single, walk, bases-loaded walk, and two-run double. Dakota Hudson was rushed into the game, and wasn’t ready. Happ was on first base, giving the Cubs a chance to get on the board. He was ejected after throwing 14 pitches, forcing the Cardinals to lean on a raggedy bullpen for the final 25 outs. Mikolas didn’t help his team at all Thursday. In their dugout, the Cubs laughed about it. Happ wasn’t in any physical pain after Mikolas found Happ’s padded area on the second pitch. If honor-code vengeance was the motive, then what exactly did this accomplish? Happ wasn’t rattled by the jaw-level first pitch. Moreover, it wasn’t smart to put Happ on base with a gratuitous hit-by-pitch. But he did just that with the hip shot, doubling up on a point he’d already made to Happ. Everyone on both sides understood the meaning behind the sequence There was no need to create and force more drama. But even then, the symbolic admonishment was sufficient. If Mikolas meant to hit Happ with the first zoom-in pitch – only to miss – that’s the pitcher’s fault. I’m not sure why anyone thinks it’s OK for Mikolas to get two free shots at Happ. And while I agree with critics who say the umpiring crew should have issued a warning after the first missive delivered by Mikolas, I don’t fault them for expelling Mikolas from the game. But rather than move on, Mikolas plunked Happ on the outer rump on the next pitch. In baseball this is traditionally known as a purpose pitch, and Happ understood. Mikolas didn’t like what happened to Contreras, and made the undeniable point to Happ. When play resumed, Mikolas threw a pitch up-and-in and close to Happ’s head. Mandatory Credit: Joe Puetz-USA TODAY Sports Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Miles Mikolas (39) after Mikolas hits Chicago Cubs left fielder Ian Happ (not pictured) in the first inning at Busch Stadium. Louis, Missouri, USA Home plate umpire Ryan Additon (67) throws out St. Contreras forgave Happ with the hug, and the unfortunate episode should have ended right there. So it was just a scary moment.”Īccidents happen in baseball. “We texted a little bit after the game, and he’s doing all right. “We’re good friends and have a lot of love for him, so to see him go down and be bleeding from the head, it’s obviously a scary moment,” Happ told reporters after the game. And as Contreras began to leave the field, he paused to hug Happ. Happ near home plate and watched Contreras being tended to by St. Happ and Contreras played together for the Cubs from 2017 through 2022 and still have a strong relationship. To be clear, Happ had no intention to harm his friend and former teammate. The blow knocked the bloodied Contreras out in the first inning, only three batters into Thursday’s 10-3 rout by the Cubs. We can call Happ careless for failing to control his follow-through after taking a big swing-and-miss that opened a laceration on the side of the catcher’s head. Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas may have been trying to do the right thing, at least in his mind, by sticking up for teammate Willson Contreras after the catcher was skulled on a backswing by Cubs hitter Ian Happ. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After all, many of the discrete tasks involved in project closeout are fairly straightforward. You might be wondering why project closeout needs to be managed. Why Does Project Closeout Need to be Managed? This is referred to as a punch list or closeout punch list and requires coordination between the project manager, general contractor, and any required subcontractors. Any changes that need to be completed prior to the owner taking over must also be done during this time. ![]() This includes cleaning up any remnants leftover from construction, organizing documentation for the project and turning it over, and walking the owner through building operation and maintenance to ensure that the turnover goes smoothly. In summary, project closeout is the process of making a project ready to turn over to the client. All financial documentation for the project must also be organized and provided to the owner. All documentation detailing each stage of the project, including what each entity involved in the project has completed and in some cases, their correspondence must be provided to the owner. Project closeout also includes handing over relevant documentation to the owner. Returning equipment, disposing of waste, and removing temporary buildings and infrastructure are all components of project closeout. Closing out a project also involves cleaning up the actual job site. This means ensuring that all work has been completed according to contractual obligations and that the quality of the work matches project requirements. One aspect of construction project closeout is making the job-site ready for the new owner to take over. You’ll have equipment rentals, temporary utilities, subcontractors, waste management, material staging to coordinate along with all of the general contractor staff. ![]() Construction project closeout is a complex process that requires taking a moment to consider construction projects in general.Įvery construction project has a multitude of moving parts, and this is especially true during the physical construction stage. This phase occurs after physical construction has been completed, but before the project is actually turned over to the owner. What is Construction Project Closeout?Ĭonstruction project closeout is the final phase of a construction project and a vital part of construction management services. We’ll explore the project management closeout process and look at the role that a project manager has in navigating project closeout. In order to help project owners get a better sense of the importance of the post-construction phase of a project, this article will provide a broad overview of construction project closeout management. In many cases, the project closeout phase can make or break an otherwise successful construction project. Most people outside of the construction industry understandably have little knowledge of what construction project closeout is or why it is important.Ĭonstruction project closeout is often overlooked as an essential component of the construction process. If you are contemplating securing the services of a construction project manager, then you may have seen project closeout offered as a service. ![]() ![]() ![]() They inhibit the operator’s ability to interpret the car’s state and capacities through a healthy feedback loop of action and information. Power steering, electronic fuel injection, anti-lock braking systems, and, yes, automatic transmissions obstruct the “natural bonds between action and perception,” Crawford writes. But modern automotive technology tends to inhibit that sensation. As a rider must sense the horse’s gait, so must a driver grok the engine’s torque. To move the tool is to move the self.Ĭrawford argues that this cognitive enhancement is possible only when you can interpret the components of the tool you’re operating. In his 2020 book, Why We Drive, Crawford argues that a device becomes a prosthetic. The driver “becomes one” with the machine, as we say. ![]() ![]() Humans develop tools that assist in locomotion, such as domesticated horses and carriages and bicycles and cars-and then extend their awareness to those tools. According to the business consultant turned motorcycle repairman turned best-selling author Matthew Crawford, attending to that sense is not just an affectation. You can push-start a manual if the battery dies, so you’re less likely to get stuck somewhere and you can use the stick more easily for engine braking, which can reduce wear and make descending hills easier and safer.īut the manual transmission’s chief appeal derives from the feeling it imparts to the driver: a sense, whether real or imagined, that he or she is in control. It’s cheaper to buy (or at least it used to be), and it once had lower operation and maintenance costs. A manual car is also less likely to be stolen if fewer people know how to drive it. Shifting gears yourself isn’t just a source of pleasure, its advocates have said, or a way to hone your driving. Car and Driver ran a “ Save the Manuals” campaign in 2010, insisting that drivers who “learned to operate the entire car” would enjoy driving more and do it better. For years, the stick’s decline has been publicly lamented. Stick shifts have long been a niche market in the U.S. There are rumors that Mercedes-Benz plans to retire manuals entirely by the end of next year, all around the world, in a decision driven partly by electrification Volkswagen is said to be dropping its own by 2030, and other brands are sure to follow. ![]() Electric cars, which now account for more than 5 percent of car sales, don’t even have gearboxes. Among the hundreds of new car models for sale in the United States this year, only about 30 can be purchased with a manual transmission. In 2000, more than 15 percent of new and used cars sold by the auto retailer CarMax came with stick shifts by 2020, that figure had dropped to 2.4 percent. When it comes time to replace my current car, I probably won’t be able to get another like it. That’s why I’ve driven stick shifts for the past 20 years. I love the feeling that I am operating my car, not just driving it. But despite the inconvenience, I love a manual transmission. And when I’m at the wheel, I can’t hold a cold, delicious slushie in one hand, at least not safely. My wife can’t drive my car, which limits our transit options. Clutching and shifting in bumper-to-bumper traffic wears you out. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. ![]() ![]() Think you’ll use your benefits often? Prioritize plans with lower out-of-pocket maximums and higher monthly premiums. See how many plans are available to you based on your location.Įnter your preferred hospital network information to further narrow your list of plan options.Įnter your preferred physician information to refine your list of plan options again.Įnter the prescription drug(s)-and doses-you currently take to see which drug formularies will give you the most cost-effective coverage of your medications. 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![]() This is using a Mouse action and a handful of Bangs. Find that meter, and add a couple of lines. We are going to add a couple more features to our clock, so we can touch again on using Action options and Bangs in your skins.įirst, let's add the ability to toggle the display of the time between 12-hour and 24-hour when we hover the mouse over the meter. Congratulations! Nice looking clock skin. Save and refresh the skin to see the changes. Then we can use the Text option with %1 %2, %3 to display each of the three measure values, including adding a hard coded comma for formatting. Since we want to use the value of three different measures in this meter, we use the MeasureName option to define all three measures as being bound to this meter. Īs you can see, there is a different approach to binding measures to meters in the meter above. Save and refresh the skin to see the changes.Ĭontinue creating the meters at the bottom of your skin, to display the information from the various measures. So, we are "overriding" the FontColor=255,245,207,255 option we set in the MeterStyle, by specifically setting FontColor=255,231,135,255 for this meter. For this meter, we are aligning the right-most edge at the X position of 204.In addition, we want this meter to have a different color. In the previous meter, we aligned the meter so the right-most edge was at the X position of 165 in the skin. You will see why as we continue with the layout. In this case, we are going to right-align all of our meters. One of these is the StringAlign option, which will allow us to align the text in the meter based on the X and Y options for the meter. Now, if you look above, you will see that in the MeterStyle section we have defined many format options for our string meters that we want to share with the meters rather than repeating them in each one. Note that we are using the MeasureName=MeasureSeconds option to bind this meter to the appropriate measure. Head back down to the bottom of your skin and add this new meter. Let's start with the first one, so we can look at a new meter positioning concept. Now, start building meters to display all these different measure values. Go back up to just under our section and add some new measures. We are going to use various elements of the system time in different meters in our skin, so let's create some more measures to gather different types of information. You can also right-click the skin to change other skin options as desired. Rainmeter will remember the position any time you load this skin in the future. From the Manage dialog, find the Clock.ini entry in the list and click on the Load button on the upper right.ĭrag the skin anywhere on the screen you like. So let's load our new skin and take a look at where we stand. ![]() What that means is that this meter will display the value returned by the measure on each Update. The key to using measures and meters together is using the MeasureName option to "bind" the measure to the meter. This way we won't have to repeat them in every meter we create. First, we are going to use the MeterStyle option by creating a section to set up some common string formatting options. So let's add a meter to display this value we obtained with our measure. We are using a format of "hour in 12 hour time:minutes" for this measure. ĭo check out the manual entry for the Time measure to see how that Format option is used to obtain the time information you want. Now let's add our first Measure, in this case a Time measure to retrieve information about the system time from your computer. In addition, we will be using some more features of the String meter and dip our toes a little deeper into using action options and Bangs in your skin.įirst, as we did in our earlier tutorial, let's add the section to control the Update speed of the skin. Measures are used to obtain some information in Rainmeter, from your computer's system, text files, web sites, and other sources. This tutorial will introduce using Measures in a skin. Don't load the skin just yet, we need to add some code first. ![]() This will open the new skin file in your default text editor. Find Clock.ini in the list, right-click it and say "Edit". Click on the Refresh all button on the bottom left, and you should see your new Tutorials / Clock config in the list. Now, left-click the Rainmeter icon in the Windows notification area on your taskbar, to open the Manage dialog. In Windows explorer, you can simply right-click in the folder and say "New / Text document". In that Tutorials\Clock folder, create a new empty text file. Under Skins\Tutorials\ create a new folder called Clock. We are going to add a new folder under that one to create our new skin. In the previous tutorial, you should have already created a folder under Skins called Tutorials. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: While old-school Crazy Taxi fans may be turned off by City Ru$h‘s lack of an open world (although it’s present in spirit, especially if you play with a controller) and its free-to-play nature, it’s a fun little game that finds the perfect balance between the “endless runner” genre’s pick-up-and-play mentality and classic arcade-y challenge, thus deserving to be checked out by both casuals, hardcore gamers that seek short bursts of fun and fans of the series who still clamor for a proper comeback.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. These objectives are extremely hard to accomplish from the get-go, though, so it’s advised to upgrade your cab before you tackle them, but to do so you need money and to get money you must play other missions (or you could, y’know, purchase it), so yes, in the end it really it all bogs down to making crrrrrrazy money, just like old times.īay City, the new home to your crazy driving antics, is rendered in a goofy cel-shaded style that not only guarantees that the game runs in most devices but also complements the series’ trademark wackiness perfectly, and the three new licensed songs only add to the insane atmosphere and gameplay, even though your passengers’ destinations still are ersatzes of famous North-American landmarks/franchises with groan-inducing punny names. City Ru$h is a first in the series as due to its mission-based nature there is an actual objective besides making money, and that is completing the multiple tasks given by the original games’ cabbies (who now own their own taxi companies), that often revolve around a short, silly story and the one-time customers involved. After a long period of the typical Sonic-milking with some nice oddities like The House Of The Dead Overkill: The Lost Reels spread in-between, Sega finally decided to do The Right Thing and resurrect Crazy Taxi for this new, already over-saturated market with Crazy Taxi City Ru$h, a free-to-play mission-based quasi-endless-runner designed by series creator Kenji Kanno himself along with the company’s own mobile-centric division, Hardlight.ĭon’t be fooled by the game’s extensive use of usual freemium elements like recharge times, daily missions, bonus-granting character customization (or in this case, taxi pimping) and timed events, though, because under this dreaded hood lies raw, classic Crazy Taxi action with all the tricks and, well, craziness that made the older games so memorable, except with simplified controls and limited movement. With the rise of free-to-play mobile gaming, the popularity of short, arcade-y games made to be played in short bursts suddenly skyrocketed once again, prompting several industry old-timers to join the party started by small independent teams. Like any mobile game, both versions also suffer from bad controls. The generic music unworthy of a Crazy Taxi game does the rest. Unfortunately, the game distinctively lacks speed and verticality, making it ultimately boring. Gena is not in this version, leaving three playable characters, which here symbolize the difficulty settings. It is mostly based on the first game, too, but it takes place in a new town and adds the Crazy Jump from Crazy Taxi 2. More unique is the other game, which translates the classic Crazy Taxi gameplay onto a flat plane, viewed in 1/4 top-down view. The music only consists of two midis that try to emulate the style of the artists that made its big brother so intense, but they’re much too short and thus get on your nerves fast. ![]() The first version is just another downgrade from the first arcade game, which runs about as choppy as Catch a Ride on GBA, but in contrast to the version on Nintendo’s handheld, here the cars are full 3D polygonal models, too. It was just a question of time, and in 2009 Crazy Taxi got finally ported over to cell phones – twice. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some on LinkedIn chasing the numbers game, while others are far more strategic. As of this publication, LinkedIn caps your total number of “first-level” connections to 30,000 people, but that number could possibly grow. There are millions of LinkedIn users across the world, with thousands more joining every day. These will be tedious, but you will want what LinkedIn refers to as an “All-Star Profile.” This will rank you high in searches.īefore I dive into this final section, just note that these are just my opinions and observations. Once you are done with this, be sure to complete all the other sections of your profile. You don’t want a group photo to just be displayed from the stomach down… I would caution from using pictures with people, as this photo scales and displays very differently depending on the device being used. My best recommendation here is to go with something that mentions where your work, like a company logo. This is the picture that goes behind your profile picture. The next key photo that many people forget about is your profile cover photo, or banner. Avoid using filters from other social media platforms Some other “no-go” items with the profile picture: Bottom line, use the “dress for the job you want” mindset. For some, this could be more casual, but others will need something more formal. Wear clothes that you would wear to work or in front of a client. I recommend looking straight at the camera, but some people like an angled look with their chin off to one side. Smile, and make eye contact with the camera. Don’t do full body, but some people do like only having their face show. Crop the photo to include your full head down to an area between your waist and shoulders. Try and use a plain and bright background. Using the camera available on most modern smart phones, you can easily take a good LinkedIn profile picture at your own house, or place of work. You need to have a professional looking photo, but it doesn’t need to be shot by a professional. Instead, they just pull the best looking photo off their Facebook and hope for the best. This is a huge stumbling block for many, mainly because some people these days do not have a professional headshot. The first thing anyone will notice, and really the first thing anyone expects to see, is your Profile Picture. Use the Experience section as a holding place for resume bullet points Have a professional looking profile picture and banner photoģ. In order to boost your LinkedIn profile and experience, let’s focus on the following areas:ġ. I cover a lot, but it is well worth the read. I have used this platform to truly advance my professional career, and I want to pass along this LinkedIn Toolkit to anyone seeking better results on the platform. If you are a business professional, or someone who likes to network and make money, you need to master this platform quickly and get in on all the action.įor some reason though, LinkedIn can be very intimidating, especially for those who are young and just starting out. 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