Here is a snapshot of historic Modified Funds from Operations (or MFFO) growth: Here is a snapshot of historic revenue growth: The REIT has a broad range of alternative exit strategies - selling a new home, a finished lot or land to be developed.Īs noted above, UDF was once a non-traded REIT so unlike a traditional IPO, proposed UDF investors can assess the company's track record of revenue and earnings growth. The value proposition is unique in that this REIT is the only platform that is focused exclusively on single family residential finance. UDF provides an investment alternative to regional banks and homebuilders for investors to participate in the continuing U.S. UDF's differentiated business model is now an attractive public REIT alternative and one in which I have a strong interest to become a shareholder. Notwithstanding the improving trends and strong fundamentals in housing, local and regional banks remain unable or unwilling to significantly increase lending to developers and homebuilders. The remaining exposure (1%) is in Florida.Īccording to FDIC data, during the housing recession, banks significantly reduced their portfolios of construction and development loans and have only recently begun to increase their construction and development lending. Most (99%) of the company's loans are in Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth (67%), Austin (13%), San Antonio (9%), and Houston (9%). UDF's loan portfolio consist of development loans (66%), finished lots (19%), homebuilder credit lines (11%), ad reimbursement notes (4%). The company currently has no credit defaults in its portfolio. The company's average loan duration is 33 months and with an average loan-to-value of 85%. UDF has 120 loans in its portfolio (as of the listing) with a portfolio size of $544.8 million. ![]() UDF targets the largest US markets where single family building permits are the strongest.Īccordingly, UDF focuses on the Top 20 CBSAs with the highest housing permit volumes. Here is a snapshot of the company's target loan markets: To address these needs, UDF loan offerings range from equity and land asset holdings to mezzanine and debtor-in-possession financing to secured first lien loans, giving the company the flexibility and agility to structure and quickly execute effective transactions. ![]() UDF operate in select markets across the country where capital requirements inherent in land acquisition and development and the scarcity of favorable financing options present a desirable solution to builders and developers. UDF commenced its capital formation as a non-traded REIT, one of 6 public REIT products incubated on RSC Capital's (RSCC) wholesale/retail broker-dealer platform. The Grapevine, Texas-based REIT provides financing for acquisition and development of land in supply constrained markets by providing loans to developers and homebuilders for finished lots, as well as homebuilder lines of credit for construction of single-family homes. UDF is a mortgage REIT with a differentiated model that provides debt and equity capital solutions to leading developers and home-builders. Shares remained flat on the second day of trading and closed at $19.60. On the first day of trading, UDF opened trading at $21.04 with around 212,000 share traded. ![]() The company started a tender offer to purchase up to $35 million in value of common shares for a purchase price of $20.50 per share, net to the seller in cash. On June 4 United Development Funding IV ( NASDAQ: UDF) listed its common shares on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol UDF.
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![]() Which by now I'm finding intensely frustrating. I have yet to get more than a room or 2 beyond the main locked doors on the 1st level. If I didn't really like the game, I wouldn't have put in this amount of time for what is merely practice for the actual game, which is the dungeon. I routinely beat the novice arena now and sometimes the expert arena. I'd say that's probably split about 60%-40% arena to dungeon. Still a noob, yes, but I've been here in the forums a while and Steam says I've played Exanima 23 hours. OK, I think I've been around here long enough now not to be dismissed as a completely uninformed noob. I'm not hating on the game, I'm giving what I consider is probably a fairly common opinion of Exanima, FWIW to the devs. But repect the right of folks to have opinions different from yours. You opinion is almost certainly different, which is cool. Then I saw a zombie wielding my weapon of choice from the arena, the two-handed axe, and started a needless fight with him.ġ5 seconds afterwards, I lay dead on the ground.This is my opinion. Still trying to find my way back to the beginning, I avoided needless fights and tried to make sense of my surroundings. I don't know if my attacker won and lost his aggressive feelings for me after slaying his kin, or if he got served justice after his pal got tired of his carelessness.Īnyway, I survived and got to listen to my enemies fighting each other. I'm not racist, but all zombies look the same. I walked toward the place of their bout, and found the survivor patrolling the hallways, ignoring me. When I heard one of them go down, I awaited battle, but nothing came. So I once again ran off, stopped within earshot of their battle, dropped the torch on the ground and put my character in battle ready stance. ![]() When I did, they caught up with me, but I noticed that the second zombie was actually ignoring me and only attacking the first one. I ran in a state of panic, trying to get enough distance between us for me to open the inventory and switch the torch with the sledgehammer. One of them was aggroed and tried to hit me, but missed and hit the other guy. Trying to find myself back to the locked door in the beginning, I accidently ran into two zombies. This one time I actually managed to make the greatsword-guy bleed! He murderized me shortly afterwards, of course. Dead Mathias: Cloth Shirt, Cloth Trouser, Waistcoat, Leather Boots, LetterĪt some point I did stop writing down locations of "crap" weapons. Couldn't open from twin monster side, blocked? Door hidden behind barrel, couldn't open (barricade?). Cloth Tunic, Leather Boots, Cloth Trousers Naiss Mechanism Workings, Note to Darrin Resentment for Thaven, Life of Linus Fendrick A couple of weapons are also hidden inside barrels or just hang on the wall and are therefore quite easy to miss. Light-sources are rather rare, most of the time you will throw down the torch to get some vision while you handle the enemies with a twohanded metal bar or a makeshift shield/axe. The other issue is actually seeing your opponent. The two biggest issues early on when starting the "story mode" will be that your enemies are undead, which means that they behave a little differently and more recklessly than the opponents that you trained against in the arena (which is a great way to get a handle on the combat itself). ![]() Getting swarmed is one of the easiest ways to get flanked though and without any decent equipment you will be taking critical damage rather quickly. ![]() Chairs and barrels are easy to trip over during combat, and one overhead attack usually takes care of enemies that have fallen to the ground. Simple one on one situations can be a clusterfuck already while it is entirely possible to contain multiple enemies by fighting in doorways or close to objects that can get in the way. It largely depends on your grasp of the combat controls. ![]() As a result, here, we will introduce a paid yet perfect Spotify music downloader for you. The output audio quality could be lossy and there are limited output formats to choose from. But it can’t be denied that free solutions always feature some unexpected drawbacks. There are plenty of free alternatives to Spotify™ & Deezer™ Music Downloader, such as Spotiload Spotify VK Downloader, Spotdl, and more. And in this section, we will focus on the best alternative to download music from Spotify for free. Spotify Deezer Music Downloader Alternative – for Spotify Musicīecause Spotify ✪ Deezer Music Downloader does not work stably, sometimes it will break unexpectedly, and even you can’t find the Download link to use it, here we will cover the best Spotify Deezer Music Downloader alternative tools. You can start the download process by clicking it. There is a Download button next to each song, allowing you to download Spotify music online. Once found, please tap the items on Spotify Web Player. You can search for music and playlists that you’d like to download. Free or premium accounts are both available. It requires you to authorize Spotify access with your Spotify name and password. Please click on the icon, you will be taken into Spotify Web Player. After the installation is successful, a small icon is displayed on the toolbar in the upper right corner of Chrome. Add the Spotify Deezer Music Downloader Chrome extension to your Chrome browser. Here, we show you how to download music from Spotify to computers as an example. If you manage to find it, you can refer to the following tutorial to learn how to use Spotify and Deezer Music Downloader. How to Use Spotify Deezer Music Downloader If you can’t find it via the original name, please give the other two titles a try. Remarkably, it is now also known as Music Downloader – Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, and Music Saver or DZR Music Downloader – saver for Spotify. Recently, users have started to experience Spotify and Deezer Music downloaders not working properly again. With its bright and simple user interface, it can download music from Spotify, Deezer, and SoundCloud with ease. It didn’t make a spectacular comeback until a few months ago. In fact, it stopped operating a long time ago. To know it more carefully, let’s take a look at the development history of Spotify & Deezer Music Downloader. As the name suggests, it can not only download Spotify music but also Deezer songs. Spotify Deezer Music Downloader is one of the popular Chrome extensions that have the ability to download music from various streaming music sites online. Introduction to Spotify Deezer Music Downloader & How to Use Spotify & Deezer Music Downloader Introduction ![]() ![]() Spotify Deezer Music Downloader Alternative – for SoundCloud and Deezer Spotify Deezer Music Downloader Alternative – for Spotify Music Introduction to Spotify Deezer Music Downloader & How to Use Nevertheless, if you only wish to convert and download Spotify songs to commonly used formats, this app works as advertised. Although, it does not offer much in terms of output options. Moreover, it lets you download them for offline streaming. The app converts your songs quickly without losing their original quality. Overall, AMusicSoft Spotify Music Converter is a tool that you can use to grab music from Spotify. Listen offline without a premium subscription However, note that it has limited output options. Unlike free Spotify downloaders, this app supports batch conversion. Then, select the output format and destination folder and click the convert button. Once the app detects your Spotify app, you can start building your download list by dragging your songs from the music app to AMusicSoft Spotify Music Converter's window. Not only that, but it also keeps the ID3 tags and metadata for easy organization. The app removes the DRM protection of each track, allowing you to play them on any media player. With this, you can conveniently download songs, albums, playlists, and even podcasts from the music app. Luckily there are apps that can do that.ĪMusicSoft Spotify Music Converter is a high-speed converter, offering 5x conversion speed while keeping 100% original song quality. Downloading the tracks also proved to be difficult since the songs come with DRM protection. However, although its premium version allows offline streaming, you can only do so from the app. With its millions of songs, it is no wonder a lot of people opt to subscribe to its services. Spotify is arguably one of the most popular music streaming platforms today. What does AMusicSoft Spotify Music Converter do? ![]() ![]() When selecting a diffraction grating for a Raman spectrometer there are four main considerations: spectral resolution, spectral range, blaze wavelength, and excitation wavelength.įigure 2: Ramacle ® software in measurement set up, highlighting ease of grating selection. Ramacle ® will then display the spectral range achievable with this grating and excitation laser both in wavenumber and wavelength. After selection, the grating turret will automatically move to the selected grating meaning there is no need for the user to manually exchange gratings. The gratings can be selected by the user from a drop-down menu in the Ramacle ® software, Figure 2, on the RM5 and RMS1000. To operate with multiple laser lines the spectrographs of the RM5 and RMS1000 can host up to five diffraction gratings so that a grating best suited for the laser’s wavelength and the users’ requirements. The RM5 Raman Microscope can host up to three lasers, and the RMS1000 Raman Microscope up to five with the option of additional external lasers. When analysing samples by Raman spectroscopy multiple excitation sources may be required to cover the users range of samples, for example, lasers in the UV, visible, or NIR regions. All Raman spectrometers will require at least one diffraction grating and will frequently be configured to contain more than one to allow the user optimum grating selection for their samples and excitation wavelength(s).įigure 1: Edinburgh Instruments RMS1000 (left) and RM5 (right) Raman Microscopes. In a Raman spectrometer diffraction gratings are used to separate the constituent wavelengths of the collected Raman scatter onto different pixels of the CCD camera for detection. In the figures below the grating dispersion curves are shown for the AvaSpec-2048.A diffraction grating is used to separate polychromatic light into its constituent wavelengths. When looking at the grating efficiency curves, please realize that the total system efficiency will be a combination of fiber transmission, grating and mirror efficiency, detector and coatings sensitivities. In the figures below their efficiency curves are shown. The spectral range to select in Table 2 depends on the starting wavelength of the grating and the number of lines/mm the higher the wavelength, the bigger the dispersion and the smaller the range to select. Table 2 illustrates how to read the grating selection table. Similarly, a higher resolution over a wide range can be achieved by using a dual or triple spectrometer.įor each spectrometer type a grating selection table is shown in the spectrometer platform section. Then master and slave(s) have different gratings. In order to cover a broader range, a dual or triple beam spectrometer can be chosen. Sometimes the specified usable range of a grating is larger than the range that can be projected on the detector. Further the user needs to indicate what wavelength range needs to reach the detector. The fiber optic spectrometer comes with a permanently installed grating that must be specified by the user. Gratings produced from laser constructed interference patterns and a photolithographic process are known as holographic gratings. The ruled gratings are physically formed into a reflective surface with a diamond on a ruling machine. You could get the car with a variety of other engines at the time including a 5.8-liter V-8, a 4.9-liter V-8, and a 4.6-liter inline-6. Meanwhile, whatever was available with the Ford Torino could also be ordered for the Ranchero, including the 7.0-liter Ram Air Cobra Jet engine that was distinguishable since it came with a cut-through hood which allowed the hood scoop to see the light.ġ970 was also the first year that the Ranchero received its own badging, identifying it as either a 'Ranchero' or a 'Ranchero GT'. It was positioned as a top-of-the-line trim level. You could get a Ranchero Squire for the first time in 1970. It had a shallow-pointed grille up front while the overall body shape was, as in the case of the 1970 El Camino, influenced by the coke bottle shape, very influential at the time. For the boxy '68-'69 look, the Ranchero went to a raunchy, razor-sharp, design for 1970. It became quite popular which is why Chevrolet responded with the El Camino which quickly overshadowed Ford's Ranchero.įor 1970, the Ranchero was restyled again. It combined the looks of a sedan with the practicality of a light pick-up truck. The Ranchero was the first American postwar coupe utility vehicle. ![]() In any case, most 427s were rated at 460 pound-feet of torque.ġ970 Chevrolet El Camino SS Competition Ford Ranchero Officially, no 427 had such an output in period, so it's either a mistake on their part or a modified unit. Mecum says this 472-powered El Camino is making a whopping 550 horsepower. It was an iron block with aluminum heads that was rated at 430 horsepower. In 1970, only the Corvette ZL1 was available with a 427. The 427 was most often found under the hoods of high-performance Corvettes or Camaros. This El Camino, though, is a little bit special. Above it was only the 7.4-liter unit which put out 450 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque. The 396 developed in excess of 360 horsepower at the time. The 6.6-liter V-8 was still sold as the 396 (6.4-liter). The 3.8-liter and 4.1-liter inline engines were the choice of those that actually put their El Caminos to work although quite a few needed an extra punch and chose one of the V-8 options. The El Camino was available with a choice of inline-6 and V-8 engines during the four-year span of the third generation. One of the optional extras that could be added to the SS package was the addition of functional hood pins which this car has. The center panel of the tailgate is also painted in black. This example comes with the D88 stripe package which gave the car a sporty look thanks to the two wide stripes - with black outlines - that stretch back to the windshield. The orange indicators are incorporated in the chromed bumper and are positioned directly below the headlights. The bulky front bumper covers the entire lower part of the front fascia. The round headlights, which sit inside chromed sockets, are located on either side of the two-piece horizontally-mounted grille. ![]() Up front, the El Camino sports the four-headlight setup you'll find on the Chevelle. To make things easier in the production phase, the El Camino has as long a wheelbase as standard 4-door Chevelle Malibu, although it's slightly longer due to the longer rear overhang. That's why the El Camino received the same boxy body for 1970, at least up until the A-pillar. The El Camino, though opinions vary, remains an iconic piece of American automotive history and beloved by many.Basically, the El Camino followed suit in the Chevelle's footsteps when it came to looks. GM actually shut down El Camino production for a few years after the 1960 sales slump before reviving the car/truck in 1964, which is why you’ll notice the missing years in the Ride Guide graphic below.įor us, we are especially fond of the 1959-60 first-gen Elco, based on the Chevy Brookwood wagon. The El Camino has been built on several GM platforms, including the A-body and B-body, but the sales figures indicate the 1960 model was among the least popular. It has been featured in auto magazines and blogs, i ncluding OnAllCylinders, and depending on the model year AND build style, has either been the butt of jokes or the objects of our automotive affection since John F. The distinctive Elco has a look all its own. Is it a car? A truck? Who can tell? And does it even matter? The Chevrolet El Caminowasn’t the first American “coupe utility pickup” vehicle -the Ford Ranchero beat it by two years -but it’s probably the most famous. ![]() Commercially their games have not been as successful as their critical reception, with Housemarque citing its financial struggles as a reason to moving away from their original output. Housemarque's games have been well-received by gaming publications for their visual style, playability and action. The game's critical and commercial success was followed by Sony's acquisition of Housemarque in June 2021. In 2020, the studio announced a new title published by Sony as their first AAA game, Returnal. ![]() The studio shifted focus on bigger budget titles as well as live-service games. ![]() Among those titles are Dead Nation, Resogun, Alienation and Matterfall.īeginning with 2017, Housemarque shifted away from arcade shooters due to the genre's little commercial success. Since 2007, the studio has been primarily collaborating with Sony Interactive Entertainment to produce titles exclusive to the company's PlayStation consoles. Prior to 2020, Housemarque was best known for its focus on arcade and twin-stick shooters, having developed Super Stardust series, based on the Stardust games the company's predecessors developed. It is the oldest existing game developer in Finland, and a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment, operating under PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1995 as a result of a merger between Bloodhouse and Terramarque, which were originally founded in 1993. Housemarque Oy is a Finnish game developer based in Helsinki, Finland. ![]() ![]() ^ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 1 February 2021".^ "In Focus: Sabrina Carpenter's Birthday Show at Terminal 5 - NYS Music".^ "Sabrina Carpenter honors trans youth during Hulu exclusive performance at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards". ![]() ^ "Chika, Rebecca Black, Sabrina Carpenter to Perform at GLAAD Media Awards".^ "Sabrina Carpenter Performs 'Skin' and Says There's No Drama Behind it on 'Late Late Show': Watch"."Sabrina Carpenter Weathers the Storm With 'Sabrina' Actor in 'Skin' Video". ^ "Sabrina Carpenter Releases Music Video For Latest Single 'Skin' ".^ a b "Five Burning Questions: Sabrina Carpenter's 'Skin' Answer Song Debuts at No.^ a b "Sabrina Carpenter Gets Drenched Again While Performing 'Skin' "."Sabrina Carpenter Denies Writing 'Skin' as a 'Diss Track' About Olivia Rodrigo: 'The Song Isn't Calling Out One Single Person' ". "Sabrina Carpenter 'Skin' Lyrics About Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett". "Sabrina Carpenter Addresses 'Drivers License' Drama in New Song, 'Skin' ". "Sabrina Carpenter Addresses Olivia Rodrigo Drama on New Song 'Skin': 'Don't Drive Yourself Insane' ". ^ "Key, BPM of Skin By Sabrina Carpenter"."Sabrina Carpenter New Song 'Skin', Lyrics Explained". ^ "Sabrina Carpenter Drops Provocative New Song 'Skin' "."Sabrina Carpenter Drops Drama-Inspired Single 'Skin' ". Release history Release dates and formats for "Skin" Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Ryan McMahon – production, songwriting, programming, record engineeringĬharts Chart performance for "Skin"īelgium ( Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) ĭominican Republic Anglo ( Monitor Latino).Sabrina Carpenter – lead vocals, songwriting, background vocals.On May 11, 2023, Carpenter performed the song during the second night in New York of leg two of the Emails I Can't Send Tour. During this performance, Carpenter sang in front of a montage of videos with transgender youth appearing behind her, "sending a powerful message of love and acceptance to the trans community". She also performed the song at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards. Live performances Ĭarpenter performed the song live on The Late Late Show with James Corden. The 3-minute long music video features an appearance by Gavin Leatherwood, who plays Carpenter's love interest. The music video for "Skin" was directed by Jason Lester and released on February 1, 2021. Furthermore, the song reached number 12 in Ireland and the top 30 in the United Kingdom. The song also marked Carpenter's first Hot 100 entry with her previous singles " Thumbs" and " Why" charting on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 at numbers 1 and 21 respectively. The week of its release, "Skin" debuted at 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it the highest debut on the chart for the week. "People will make a narrative out of something always and I think this was like a really interesting song for people to kind of misinterpret and make into something that it wasn’t really supposed to be in the first place." Commercial performance Carpenter has since denied the claim that the song is a diss track, explaining that it isn't "calling out one single person". Several publications suggested the lyrics are centered around the highly publicized " love triangle" between Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, posing as a response to Rodrigo's single " Drivers License", as the track was released only two weeks after Rodrigo's single had come out. It uses compound time 12Ĥ everywhere else with a chord progression of Em-D-G-B-C-D. "Skin" is composed in the key of G major, and has a tempo of 106 BPM. McMahon also handled the song's production. It was written by Carpenter, Tia Scola and Ryan McMahon. "Skin" is a synth-pop ballad with a length of two minutes and fifty seven seconds. It was written by Carpenter, Tia Scola and its producer Ryan McMahon. It was initially released as the lead single from Carpenter's fifth studio album Emails I Can't Send (2022) but it was ultimately not included on the album. The song marks her first release with Island after previously being signed to Hollywood Records since 2014. It was released through Island Records on January 22, 2021. " Skin" is a song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter. ![]() This might be one reason the item system really comes into play in Hexen. You just have to be able to remember where you explored and the doorways that hadn’t opened before.Īlso, you only get four weapons throughout the game but each character class gets their own four. ![]() People grew to hate key card hunting in Doom, and on top of that Hexen adds puzzles where hitting a switch in one area opens a door in a completely different area without always directly telling you. Each area is basically a puzzle, and puzzles can be frustrating. It makes the game world feel bigger and more connected, but it might have also exacerbated the flaws in older FPSs that eventually led people to embrace more linear games. I think that design choice completes a sort of “dungeon crawler” feel Hexen goes for without it actually being an RPG. If you’ve played the Turok games on N64 (or the recent remasters), each “episode” is sort of like a mini Turok game - you get to the next hub by finding a bunch of keys and occasionally solving a puzzle. Instead of progressing linearly through small individual levels, you explore back and forth through them, connected by a series of hubs, each one representing what would be an “episode” in a Doom game. Hexen: Beyond Heretic, is the first game out of these old FPSs I’ve played that really plays around with the conventions of the genre in that time period. That’s pretty much the one hint at the turn the sequel would take. The one major difference in Heretic overall is it incorporates an item system very much like the one Duke Nukem 3D more famously uses. One important difference with the crossbow compared to Doom’s shotgun is it’s middle “bullet” always shoots straight forward and maintains its damage at range, becoming something of a weak rocket launcher. In just about all other aspects Heretic is another collection of good Doom levels with a different (and maybe more colorful) visual style. At that point I immediately realized the crossbow was this game’s shotgun, and from there I just slid back into my Doom mindset. Eventually I got some gauntlets that just shoot out close-range electric shocks that stun enemies until they die, which I realized was equivalent to Doom’s chainsaw. Eventually I got some kind of magic crossbow and struggled to figure out how to properly use it - it shoots a spread of three (I think) medium-powered magic blasts. At first I approached it like an action-adventure game or an RPG because I was playing as an elf using a magic staff to shoot at bats and golems. Heretic is mostly just Doom with a fantasy coat of paint. Raven’s Serpent games back in the 90’s however tried to take this to another level, standing on the boundary between FPS and action-adventure game. The only modern attempt to revive the old FPS style that understands this is the 2016 DOOM game. Having played enough of these games though I think a more important difference is the focus on exploration the oldest FPSs had. When people talk about ancient FPSs they usually talk about being able to carry 12 weapons and having to strafe all the time, and those are clearly big differences from only carrying two weapons and constantly taking cover in more recent games. In my journey through old first person shooters, these two feel like an interesting milestone in FPS design. Last but not least, those interested can download the Texture Pack from here.I’ve been on these games for the last few months but I recently finished the first two parts of Raven Software’s “Serpent Riders” series, Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic. In order to showcase the visual improvements, the modder has also shared some comparison screenshots between the vanilla and the new AI-enhanced textures that you can find below. Run gzdoom.exe and select “Hexen: Beyond Heretic (HEXEN)”.Add file HEXEN.WAD into root directory gzDOOM.Unzipped mod and add file hexen_esrgan.pk3 into root directory gzDOOM.Open file gzdoom-%username%.ini with text editor.Below you can find an installation guide for gzDOOM. In order to install this texture pack, you will need gzDOOM, zDOOM, Zandorum or other extended Doom engine. The modder has improved around 1000 textures and the end results are amazing. And today, I’m happy to report that this AI-enhanced ESRGAN HD texture pack is available for download.Ĭreated by modder ‘gmh4589’, this Texture Pack takes advantage of AI Neural Networks in order to improve the resolution of textures by up to 4 times. Last month, we informed you about a HD Texture Pack that was under development for Hexen. ![]() They do not crease, are not damaged during transportation for hundreds of kilometers. ![]() Thanks to the dense skin, fresh tomatoes are stored in a cool room until the end of January. The advantages of the Vernissage line include: Tomatoes of an unusual color look original in a jar, especially if fruits of different colors are laid in it. From such an area, an average of 14 kg of tomatoes is harvested. The first tomato ripens 2 months after the growing season and has a round shape, pink stripes, dense skin, sweet taste, pleasant acidity.Ħ fruits are tied in 1 bunch, no more than 4 bushes are planted per square meter. To prevent them from growing, they remove stepchildren, leaving not all the stems, but only two or three of them that are tied to the trellis. Bushes of tomatoes stretch to a height of 1.5 m, so their top is cut off. Also, an indeterminate variety which is very productive up until the frost comes if taken care of. This heirloom tomato originates from Ukraine and has a sweet, smoky flavor and a unique stripy. 2.25 3.00 Black Vernissage Tomato A mid-season heirloom plant with regular leaves. The variety feels normal in the greenhouse. Black Vernissage tomatoes are a unique and unusual species. The indeterminate plant is grown in fields, summer cottages in Moldova, Ukraine, in the southern regions of Russia. Tomato Black Vernissage is appreciated not only for the original coloring of the fruit but also. Variety featuresĪll tomatoes of the Vernissage series have beautiful fruits of different colors. Black Vernissage Tomato Seeds Price for Package of 10 seeds. Vernissage pink surprises with productivity. The fruits are tied in bunches, each of 6 tomatoes weighs from 60 to 85 g. The bush reaches a height of one and a half meters. He created the pink variety of Spirits by crossing the Chinese velvet with the Moravian miracle. Tomato is highly appreciated for its taste. In 2012, for a black-yellow striped fruit, Ruslan received an award. The variety was bred by Ruslan Dukhov, who lives and crosses different cultures in the village of Mishurin horn, which is located in the outback of the Dnipropetrovsk region.Ī line of tomatoes The breeder created a whole series of Vernissage tomatoes. Plants are typically very productive and are very adaptive for a long season of growing. Tomato Black Vernissage is appreciated not only for the original coloring of the fruit but also for the fact that it contains a small percentage of purines, which cause allergies in many people. Black Vernissage Tomato - 75 days - An extremely rich and tasty variety that can be used for fresh eating, salads, drying or making sauces. Black Vernissage Tomato Seeds Price for Package of 10 seeds. That seems explicit enough in the notoriously homophobic letter he wrote to the Home Secretary when asking to be let out of jail. We all sense that there were more Wildes than one in this man: did he want to destroy them all, and, if not, which did he want to destroy? An answerable question at least partially: at times, he wished to destroy Wilde the homosexual. André Gide would tell us it was a self-destructive streak in Wilde, but this proposition only raises a more complex issue. That he was himself aware of the danger involved is shown in, for example, the way he toned down the obvious gay references in The Picture of Dorian Gray when, after magazine publication, it was revised as a book. Long before Ellmann, it was clear that Oscar tended, if not exactly to mention the unmentionable, at least to give unmistakable hints. The simplest element in a complex of forces here is the compulsion to confess. It is a matter of the pressures behind the writing, and the fact that they all have to do with the author’s homosexuality. For this “second point” is not anything Wilde mentions or discusses. But the new biographies make a second point even more interesting and far-reaching. What our recent biographers have been showing is that, in his stories and in his plays, Oscar Wilde was constantly, even amazingly, injecting oblique references to his own person and that of his friends and lovers. At the time, Oscar the polemicist was telling critics and readers not to look for the author in any literary work but only for an objective creation. On this point two subsequent biographers-Gary Schmidgall (1994) and Barbara Belford (2000)-have supplemented Ellmann’s account and, it could be said, corrected it. ![]() Which might not much matter, except that in the work of Oscar’s full maturity (1885–1895), a homosexual dynamic is omnipresent, even when it might at first seem totally absent. Re-reading Ellmann today, I can’t help feeling that in so generously accepting Wilde’s homosexuality, Ellmann had also put it on one side or, in the jargon of today, “marginalized” it. Reading Richard Ellmann’s biography of Oscar Wilde a dozen years ago, I rejoiced that someone had moved sex from the center of Wilde’s life in order to present him instead as a great Irish writer. |