![]() “This is something we’ve been studying and we think it’s going to be able to benefit many of our customers and pull many new customers as well.” “We think the demand is there,” Weaver said. Its stops will include downtown San Bernardino, downtown Riverside, the Riverside La Sierra Metrolink station, the Village at Orange, Disneyland, the Anaheim Convention Center and a transit center near Angel Stadium. Meanwhile, the agency will add a new commuter route in January 2018 offering weekday and weekend express service between San Bernardino and Anaheim. RTA is also considering a second RapidLink line from Riverside to Perris along the 215 Freeway, though a start date has not yet been determined, Weaver said. The service’s annual price tag will be $1.1 million and funded by federal and local dollars, he said. The start-up cost for the buses and stops is $11.6 million and is paid for through federal, state and local funding sources, Weaver said. The bus stops will feature shelters, benches and solar-powered lights. The 16 buses purchased for RapidLink will run on compressed natural gas, offer free Wi-Fi and USB chargers and include bike racks just as its regular buses do. “I think that would be pretty good,” he said. The route draws a mix of riders, including many students and city employees, he said.ĭamian Turner, 20, a UC Riverside student who sometimes uses RTA buses, said faster service will help students who live off campus and rely on them for transportation. The new service will supplement Route 1, which RTA will continue to run, Weaver said. Riders can track buses in real time with the BusWatch app at For example, the maximum travel time from UC Riverside to the Galleria at Tyler - which now takes about an hour - would be 38 minutes in the morning and 41 minutes in the afternoon, Weaver said. Fares will be $1.50 per ride - the same as other routes. The buses will make 14 stops from Riverside to Corona, including popular destinations such as Riverside City College, Riverside Plaza, the Galleria at Tyler and Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Riverside.īuses will run every 15 minutes, Monday through Friday, from 5:30 a.m. Bus stops specifically for the line will be added, but RapidLink won’t have its own designated bus lanes. Like sbX, the Riverside Transit Agency buses will have their own RapidLink logo and color scheme. The RapidLink line will be the Inland area’s second rapid transit bus route and follows the launch in 2014 of Omnitrans’ sbX line that goes from San Bernardino to Loma Linda. Next year, it will start a commuter bus line from San Bernardino to Orange County that will use the new 91 Freeway toll lanes through Corona. It’s one of the agency’s two new programs aimed at easing travel. ![]() The Riverside Transit Agency already runs other long-distance commuter buses, but this would be its first along a shorter route with its own distinct bus stops. 28 and take people from UC Riverside through downtown to the Metrolink station in Corona with fewer stops than regular buses. The new express bus service, dubbed RapidLink, will start Aug. New buses set to roll this summer should get riders from Riverside to Corona - one of the region’s most heavily traveled routes - 30 percent faster. UCR participates in the UC Permit Reciprocity program so if you have a parking permit from another UC campus you can park at UCR free of charge. Visit the UCR Transportation and Parking Services website for more information. ![]()
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![]() TRAVEL THROUGH SPACESolar system simulator. Learn the internal structure of any celestial body, the average distance from the sun, explore planets positions, mass, density, orbital velocity, visit the gallery of space photos, find interesting astronomy facts. Exploration of our Solar system model is easy with Solar Walk 2.3D MODEL OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM TO EXPLORE PLANETSPlanetarium 3D app provides general and detailed info about Solar system planets and moons, satellites, dwarfs, asteroids and stars. CELESTIAL EVENT CALENDAR & ASTRONOMY EVENTSTo explore space in details use the celestial event calendar that includes various astronomy events (solar, lunar eclipse, the moon phases), and events related to space exploration (launching of satellites, etc). Explore space and learn more about the exploration of our Solar system. 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As a major, you can focus more on rhetoric, human communication, or mass communication based on your interests and career goals - although you do need to take some courses in each area. an advanced coursework in three major areas of the discipline (rhetorical, mass communication or media, and interpersonal) and.introductory theory and research courses.Combine it with another major and our program provides you with marketable communication skills for just about any career! How Does the Communication Studies Program at R-MC Work? The program is also designed to prepare you for graduate work in communication and can help you prepare for other graduate programs, such as law school, public administration, or student services. They also pursue careers in many aspects of media, such as journalism, publication, and broadcasting. Majors pursue careers in areas such as public relations, marketing, human resources, corporate training, and event management. ![]() Communication Studies as a discipline uses a variety of methods to explore human communication and considers a variety of contexts in which it occurs, such as co-worker relationships, cross-cultural interactions, or political campaigns.Ĭommunication Studies also instills in students strong communication skills, inclu ding but not limited to: maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships conducting productive group work giving effective presentations orchestrating public campaigns writing clearly and concisely understanding different cultural perspectives managing conflict constructively, and providing effective leadership Why Communication Studies?Ĭommunication Studies is a strong liberal arts major that opens the door to a wide array of careers. ![]() Strategically placing a WhatsApp chat button on your website prompts your customer to talk to you. 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You can chat with your leads and customers in real-time using WhatsApp. What better way to talk to your customer than their preferred instant messaging app - WhatsApp! ![]() Can you use WhatsApp for Live Chat?Ĭustomers want to be attended to and they want to be attended to right now. That’s why, you want to provide a live chat like experience. That’s where having a WhatsApp chat widget beats the WhatsApp chat button.Īfterall, leads do need that tiny, but impactful little push to turn into a customer. It’s a no-brainer that a CTA button drives customers to take immediate action. the chat box automatically opens and prompts your customer to have a chat with you. It works on top of a chat button by unlocking an additional option i.e. What is a WhatsApp Widget?Ī WhatsApp chat widget is similar to a WhatsApp chat button. These chats reflect on your WhatsApp business account - giving your customers an easy communication channel and you, a reputation of good customer support and much more. But customers want to communicate using channels that are convenient to them - like instant messaging apps.Ī WhatsApp button is essentially a chat button using which your customers can connect with you instantly on WhatsApp. All they need to do is click on the chat button placed on your website and chat away. But I can live without this option or just use my phone for sending pics.A chat button allows your website visitors and potential customers to connect with you without leaving your website. Please, please, please dear developers, fix this issue! It was working just fine in the previous version…Īlso, I cannot send pictures using the FreeChat app as the drag-and-drop option just wouldn’t work. This makes it really annoying when watching a movie or a show while the app is running in the background. There’s no way to silence the app on my mac!!! Even when disabling the “play sound for notification” in my notification settings in the systems preferences the app still makes “blip” whenever I get a message. However, since the last update I have one major problem. Connecting it to your phone is pretty easy and once the connection is established it’s pretty reliable and easy to reconnect in case it’s needed. I actually prefer using whatsapp in this way instead of using it on my phone. It’s easy to use and allows you to use your computer keyboard to write whatsapp messages instead of typing on the tiny phone keyboard. I use the app for a couple of month and really like it. ![]() By the end of the game, your Cyborg deck is going to have a bunch of Batman gear and combat moves, super-powers ascribed to Superman and the Flash, and maybe even some iconic location like Arkham Asylum … little of which feels much like Cyborg’s particular experience. While you might begin the game as Wonder Woman or Green Lantern, your sense of identity is going to take a beating, as you will have soon built a deck full of all sorts of heroes - both your own guy, and everyone else, too. First, you get to be a superhero! The game comes with the usual JLA stalwarts to select from, and each character has a little advantage, such as the speedy Flash (who gets to draw more cards), Batman with his bonus for equipment cards, Superman with his benefit for playing multiple super-powers … it is a small thing, but a welcome bit of theme, and if it doesn’t feel especially Aquamany to let me put cards I captured this turn directly atop my deck, well, at least they tried. I like deck-building and I like DC comics, so even just respraying Dominion with a coat of Batman paint would be a win.Ĭalling the DC game a respray is an injustice, though, as there are a few innovations on display here that allow the game to stand on its own. None of those things should be considered liabilities - indeed, they may be virtues - just as saying that at heart the DC game is a traditional deck-builder should not be construed as criticism. ![]() ![]() It’s also easier to set up and pack down the game occupies a smaller footprint on your table and its scope is a bit less ambitious than its Marvel cousin. The DC Heroes Deck-Building Game is the simpler of the two designs, and not just in terms of complexity. Most importantly - both games are great fun to play! Both are loaded with art from contemporary comic books and faithfully represent the heroes, villains, and accoutrements of their respective superhero universes. Both games are relatively quick to play, and easy to understand (particularly if you’ve played a deck-builder before). Where to begin? The games are broadly similar - in each you represent a hero or heroes, and your deck lets you fine-tune your abilities and capture villains cards that are out to give you grief. The superheroes arrived in 2012, thanks to the games under consideration here today, and more to the point, they arrived at Longbox Graveyard Secret HQ over the holidays, prompting this comparative review! With Dominion the new hotness, it was only a matter of time before “Deck-Building” would blossom as a genre, and before long you could delve dungeons, fight demons, and build space empires using the form. You Might Also Like: The Best Superhero Game You’ve Never Heard Of - Capes & Cowls Most deck-builders don’t have a lot of direct player interaction, lending them an aspect of “mutual solitaire,” but that’s ok - it’s fun to while away an hour with friends, semi-competitively trying to solve whatever puzzle the current selection of cards offers, and tallying up the score more to measure how each of you did against the game than each other. They’re easy to explain, and fast to play - your turn comes around in a flash - and it is rare that you complete a game without wanting to play one more. As new cards are purchased, they go into your deck, and each new hand provides new opportunities for combos and synergies that let you better manipulate the game and box out your opponents.ĭid I lose you? It’s more fun than I’ve made it seem, honest! Simply put, in a deck-builder, players start with a small and inefficient deck of cards, and score points by playing those cards to buy progressively more complex and expensive cards from a face-up display. The form exploded on the gaming market with Donald X. Namely, what the heck is a deck-building game? … but first, for those of you who aren’t game geeks, I should address the elephant in the room. Upper Deck’s Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game and Cryptozoic’s on-the-nose named DC Comics Deck-Building Game are both … eh … deck-building games, both released in 2012, and both casting players in the role of superheroes fighting super villains for glory and high scores! That’s right, it’s DC vs. Last time, I lauded a game that’s harder to find than Bigfoot riding a unicorn - but this time I offer up not one but two games that you can find right now! Once every hundred issues or so I like to run a superhero-related game review here at Longbox Graveyard. His victory on Sunday in the 50m was sealed by a big margin on 0.48 seconds over France's Florent Manaudou, with Bruno Fratus of Brazil taking bronze. "It is an honour because I know I've worked so hard for it." 'Really special moment' for Dresselĭressel, 24, had arrived in Tokyo chasing six gold medals but a silver for the Americans in the mixed relay on Saturday ended his chances.īut he did win all the others, taking the 100m and 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly, as well as helping the United States to gold in the 4x100m free and 4x100m medley. "I look at the athletes who have come before me and been so impressed with what they have done and been inspired by what they have done, but I've never really looked at the stats of medal counts," McKeon said. The only woman to have achieved the feat in any other sport is Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952.Īmerican Phelps holds the swimming record of eight medals won at a single Games, doing so at Athens 2004 and in Beijing four years later. That gold medal meant McKeon joined Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi as the only swimmers to win seven medals at a single Olympics. She was soon back in the pool for the medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg as veteran Cate Campbell's brilliant final leg pushed the United States into silver. Having already won the 100m freestyle, she added the 50m on Sunday, with Swede Sarah Sjoestroem taking silver and defending champion Pernille Blume of Denmark getting the bronze. McKeon, 27, will leave Tokyo with four gold medals - two in the individual sprints and two relays. Dressel joins Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi, and Eric Heiden in that category.American Caeleb Dressel, meanwhile, powered to victory in the 50m freestyle and swam an inspired butterfly leg in the men's medley relay to finish with five gold medals.Ĭompatriot Robert Finke completed the distance double, mustering a late surge to win the 1,500m freestyle to add to his 800m gold. swimmer belonged to Dressel, who became the fifth American to ever win five gold medals in one Olympics over the last 50 years. ![]() Individually, the biggest accomplishment for a U.S. American men would round things out with a victory in their 4x100 medley relay, preserving a perfect 15-of-15 record in the event with a team consisting of Dressel, Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, and Zach Apple. In a thrilling finish to the men's 1,500 meter freestyle, Bobby Finke made a remarkable charge in the final length to go from third to first, passing both Germany's Florian Wellbrock and Ukraine's Myhailo Romanchukto take the gold medal. Australia also won the women's 50-meter freestyle, with Emma McKeon also taking gold in that event. Weitzel narrowly lost to Australia's Kate Campbell, who was able to claim one of two victories by Australian athletes. The women's 4x100 medley relay would also see Team USA earn a medal, but it wasn't quite the one Abbey Weitzel was seeking. 48 margin of victory over France's Florent Manaudou was the largest in the event's history. Standing with the most to gain among the Americans was Caeleb Dressel, who had the opportunity to earn a total of five gold medals for himself through the men's 50-meter freestyle and 4x100 medley relay.ĭressel got things started off right for the U.S., setting a new Olympic record in the 50-meter freestyle to win the gold medal. Saturday's Olympic swimming finals included the 50-meter freestyle for both men and women, the men's 1,500-meter freestyle, and men and women's 4x100-meter medley relays. ![]() And on the event's way out, Team USA made quite a splash to put an exclamation mark on their aquatic endeavors. ![]() After an exciting week full of highlights for the United States, Saturday marked the last day of swimming at the Tokyo Olympics. |