![]() It doesn’t help that the Challenger Edition is not exactly an ideal way to jump into the game. Not bad in any particular way, but also not particularly memorable. Maybe the story might get better later on, but what I saw of it was just… adequate. The Challenger Edition does not include the full campaign, but it does have the opening cutscene and a lengthy, story-heavy tutorial. And nothing else about the game really stands out, either. Personally when I want this style of combat I’d more likely continue my seemingly never-ending playthrough of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. There are a lot of other games offering this style of combat with equal or greater quality. Still, the combat doesn’t really feel like enough to sell the game on its own. You can lean into this playstyle with your build if you like, with a valorplate that increases soulshatter buildup and a passive skill that adds a destructive AoE to soulshatter kills. Each of your hits builds up a soulshatter charge, visible on the enemy’s health bar, and hitting them with a heavy attacks consumes the charge to, uh, shatter their soul, dealing high damage. ![]() The highlight of Godfall‘s combat for me was the unique “soulshatter” system. On the other hand, when things do go right, taking down enemies can be quite satisfying. There’s too many cases where I need to twist my hands into a knot as I hold down one button to change the functionality of another. Godfall is not even close to the worst offender I’ve seen in this area, but the control scheme falls just short of intuitive on a keyboard and mouse. The PC controls also suffer a bit from being clearly designed for a controller first. Block and dodging every hit is possible when facing only one foe, but less so when facing seven. It’s especially frustrating in a game that frequently throws large squads of enemies at you, leading you to be surrounded on all sides. This is also one of those games where pretty much any hit by an enemy will stagger, knock back, or knock down your character, which isn’t a design I’m overly fond of. Some enemies can be truly obnoxious, such as one type with shields that seemed almost unkillable even on the rare occasions I managed to out-maneuver them and hit their unshielded sides. There’s also a skill tree that unlocks various new combo abilities and other means to cleave your way through the endless enemy hordes. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a modern third-person action game: light and heavy attacks, blocking, parrying, dodging, and the occasional special ability with a cooldown. The combat, for example, is mostly good, but not really good enough to carry the game. ![]() It’s one of those frustrating games that seems to have all the right ingredients for greatness but just never quite comes together. Unfortunately, beyond those rich inspirations and a very unique and striking art style, Godfall doesn’t do a whole lot to set itself apart from the pack. Even if this game isn’t officially set in Roshar, there is definite appeal in donning Shardvalorplate, grabbing definitely-not-a-Shardblade, and playing as “for legal purposes not Dalinar Kholin.” ![]() I’m not as big a fan of Stormlight as a lot of people I know, but it does have a lot of neat ideas and has huge potential as a video game setting. It would not be unfair to say this is effectively “Shardbearer: The Game,” and that’s probably the coolest thing about it. Godfall is heavily inspired by (but not officially affiliated with) Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives novels. Otherwise, it’s exactly the loot-grinding, action-oriented gameplay you’d expect from any other looter shooter. In place of robotic bodies, players don enchanted “valorplate.” In place of guns, the emphasis is on melee combat, with weapons taking the form of swords, polearms, and war hammers. Godfall is a “looter slasher” in the vein of games of like Warframe and Anthem, but with a fantasy twist. My chance to try the game without financial risk came at last. Normally retailing for $14.99 USD, the Challenger Edition was offered as a temporary freebie on PlayStation Plus and the Epic Store. I didn’t want to take a chance on a game from a new franchise with a triple-A price tag without some way to try it first, but the idea intrigued me.Įnter the new Challenger Edition, a funky not-quite-demo that boosts you to max level and grants you access to Godfall’s endgame modes… but not its story campaign. I’ve been keeping one eye on Godfall for a while.
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![]() Gives player night vision when attacking. There is a random chance of filling the hunger bar by 4 points whenever a block is mined. Provides extra air when mining underwater. Zombies drop cooked steak instead of rotten meat when killed. Increases the number of items dropped when mining coal or diamond. Equivalent to a Bane of Arthropods enchant. Increases the damage when attacking spiders. Mobs float upwards when attacked and take fall damage. The table below lists all effects as of version 5.0.5.Ĭauses an explosion when the attacked entity is on fire. In addition to tool modifiers above, some elements add special effects to the Polytool. The following table lists the damage and speed modifiers for each of the relevant elements. Without any modifications, the Polytool has +8 Attack Damage, and 8 speed points each for the pickaxe (which tracks two separate statistics for ore mining and stone mining speeds), shovel, and axe functionalities. All active elements are shown revolving around the Polytool in the GUI. While in the configuration GUI, you can place a full stack of an element (64 atoms) in the upper-left slot to upgrade the tool with that element and apply its effects however, there is no way to remove elements from the tool once they're applied. The Polytool is used in the same way as any Minecraft tool: left-click is used to attack, chop, dig, and mine, and right-click opens the configuration GUI. ![]() Polytool Configuration GUI with hydrogen, sulfur, ruthenium, and rhodium modifiers. The Polytool is crafted by placing a 4 full stacks of Carbon Nanotubes into the Chemical Synthesis Machine configured so that the top-center, left-center, right-center, and bottom-center slots each have a full stack. When the same scene is captured from two different points of view, it gives an illusion of depth to the user. These two images are captured using a twin lens camera system. On the other hand, a stereo image consists of two images (left and right) representing a scene from two different points of view that are horizontally displaced. Such a system is time consuming and difficult for amateur photographers to generate 360° panoramic images. Most of the existing methods for generating mono panoramas require a lot of user input to achieve better quality results. It cannot provide depth information to the user. A mono panorama has the same view for both left and right eye. Nowadays, most of the 360° panorama contents available on the Internet are mono panorama contents. Although these embedded visual sensor-based approaches are more robust, efficient, and cost-effective for panorama generation, the quality of the panoramas generated using these embedded approaches usually suffer from stitching artifacts such as geometric error (structural error) and photometric error (color distortion).Ī massive amount of work has been done in the area of mono panorama generation where the images, captured from different angles of view with different image acquisition kits, are stitched to create a wider field of view image. Such techniques first estimate camera motion by continuous tracking of the camera while capturing images from the surroundings and stitch the images using the projected plane of the previously taken image. The third technique creates panoramas using an embedded panoramic generation system with resource-constrained devices such as mobile cameras or low-power, hand-held visual sensors. The images are then stitched together using feature-based stitching algorithms. To use this technique for panorama generation, the positioning of cameras must be set carefully with sufficient overlapping regions between adjacent cameras. The second technique generates panoramas from the images captured by multiple cameras placed in a circular rig. However, the panorama generated using this approach usually has low resolution. The first technique for panorama generation uses a single camera that projects the scene from the surroundings through a reflection in a mirror. In order to create panoramic images, there are three different techniques. Moreover, it is a suitable technique to cover wide surveillance areas such as airports, big utility stores, and banks, etc., using 360° video surveillance systems. Panoramic images have a promising future in virtual tourism, parking assistance, medical image analysis and digital cities. The generation of 360° videos requires knowledge of different fields such as image processing, computer graphics, computer vision, virtual reality, and smart city surveillance. These researchers are contributing to different aspects of 360° videos such as quality enhancement, resolution, and different image acquisition kits to capture 360° videos. Giant video and search engine servers have started to support 360° videos, thereby attracting many researchers. With the rising popularity of virtual reality, 360° panorama generation has become a hot research area. Furthermore, we compared our proposed system with existing mono and stereo contents generation systems in both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, and the comparative measurements obtained verified the effectiveness of our system compared to existing mono and stereo generation systems. We also developed stitching software that generates both mono and stereo panoramas using a single image stitching pipeline where the panorama generated by our proposed system is automatically straightened without visible seams. For stereo panorama generation, we propose a lightweight, cost-effective visual sensor kit that uses only three cameras to cover 360° of the surroundings. The hardware of our proposed image acquisition system is configured in such way that no user input is required to stitch multiple images. For mono panorama generation, we present a drone-mounted image acquisition sensor kit that consists of six cameras placed in a circular fashion with optimal overlapping gap. In this paper, we propose an economical 360° panorama generation system that generates both mono and stereo panoramas. However, these systems are equipped with expensive image sensor networks where multiple cameras are mounted in a circular rig with specific overlapping gaps. Recently, several 360° panorama generation systems have demonstrated reasonable quality generated panoramas. Also, easy access to different visual sensor kits and easily deployable image acquisition devices have played a vital role in the growth of interest in this area by the research community. In recent years, 360° videos have gained the attention of researchers due to their versatility and applications in real-world problems. ![]() The perfect gift for little PJ Masks fans to play out their own imaginative hero adventures.ĭimensions L x W x H: 24.8 x 13.3 x 18. When all three playsets are stacked together, the PJ Masks will transform at the same time – just like in the show. Namesakes: Fictional character Amaya in the Disney Junior show PJ Masks Peak Popularity: Amiya joined the list of popular baby girl names in 2000. Kids can collect all three Transforming Figure Playsets to build their own PJ Masks Transforming Headquarters. Contents 1 Background 1.1 Personality 1.2 Physical appearance 1. She sometimes can be sporty and sometimes rushes into doing something too quickly. She wears a red costume designed after owls. Amaya Rose Brimley is the only female and also the middle of the PJ Masks. She is the only female member of the PJ Masks. ![]() One PJ Masks 3" Daytime Character Figure. Amaya, also known as Owlette, is the deuteragonist of Disney Junior show PJ Masks.Kids will love to watch their favorite character turn into their favorite PJ Masks hero with the press of a button. Place Amaya on the platform and Owlette in the elevator. With the push of a button, kids can watch Amaya turn into Owlette! Just place the 3" Amaya and Owlette figures on either side of the transforming figure set and press the button on top to watch Amaya become Owlette. The PJ Masks Transforming Figure Set includes one poseable Amaya daytime character figure, one poseable nighttime Owlette figure and one transforming playset. Transforming play stands are stackable - collect all three to create a PJ Masks transforming tower!. ![]()
Then use rule 3 at every iteration to figure out which disk to move. First, use rules 1 and 2 to figure out which direction every disk moves in. ![]() Using these rules, it's easy to write an iterative solution. If you start at all 0s, then you're done when you get to all 1s. The energy you consume to perform such a move is the distance traveled by the moved mini-tower. You are allowed to move a tower whose base is a disk of size k only on top of the disk with size k+1 (which may be the top of another mini-tower). then at each step, the highest bit that changes corresponds to the largest disk that moves. Your goal is to make a tower with all n discs, consuming as little energy as possible in the process. If you count in binary with a bit for each disk: 000 001 010 011 100. The robot, in a ‘Wizard of Oz’ setting, provided instructions and prompts during dynamic testing to children when they had to solve 3 D Tower of Hanoi puzzles. You start with all 1s, and replace every 2nd 1 with a 2. Let's name the pegs A, B, and C, and let's number the disks from 1, the smallest disk, to n n n n, the largest disk. Rule 3 determines the pattern of which disk moves. You are given a set of three pegs and n n n n disks, with each disk a different size. RULE 3: Always move the biggest disk you can, in its proper direction. You want the largest disk to move only once, so that one determines the direction of all the other disks. What is a plain English explanation of 'Big O' notation Related. This makes it easy to figure out which way the first move goes. Time complexity of tower of hanoi with 4 pegs ,similarly for 5 pegs it will be O(2(n/3)). A sequenceof words u of A is said to convergeto the innite sequence (an)n0 on A if the length of the largest prex of u that coincides with the prex of (an)n0 of the same length tends to innity with. Just a reminder that the RSD titles will go live online from 8pm on Monday 24th April - These are limited to one copy per customer. The set A equipped with concatenation is called the free monoid generated by A. Otherwise they move in the same direction. The Tower of Hanoi and Finite Automata 5 by gluing them in order. Hanoi Towers Big Oh Recursion Data Structures and Algorithms CS 244 Brent M. It also means that if the you have an even number of disks, then the largest and smallest move in opposite directions. That means that if disk 1 (the smallest) moves clockwise, then 1, 3, 5, 7. This lesson is about the Towers of Hanoi problem, a classic famous problem involving recursive thinking to reduce what appears to be a very large and difficu. ![]() RULE 2: Alternate disks move in opposite directions. ![]() kaya3 at 11:44 Add a comment 1 Answer Sorted by: 0 You have incorrectly calculated the time complexity. There is no meaningful 'best' or 'worst' case to consider, because there is only one 'case' for each input size. RULE 1: A single disk will move in only one direction - clockwise or counter-clockwise. The towers of Hanoi algorithm only has n as its input, and is deterministic. Now, each time you move a disk, it's going to move either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Here's a different way to understand how the disks move in a Towers of Hanoi solution, that makes it easy to write an iterative solution:Īrrange the pegs in a triangle like this: A C The iterative solution is often more efficient, but requires a deeper insight. Essa lista inclui somente desenvolvedores notáveis com jogos notáveis.When a problem has both recursive and iterative solutions, the recursive solution is usually easier to formulate and understand. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zĭesenvolvedores Legenda AtivoĮxistem milhares de estúdios independentes de desenvolvimento de jogos eletrônicos que ou publicam seus próprios títulos, ou entram em acordos de co-desenvolvimento ou licenciamento com publicadoras. Use (and explain) spatial and temporal complexity concepts, along with the mathematical tools used to describe them (big-Oh/Omega/Theta notations and.Os independentes retém controle operacional sob suas organizações e processos. Lista de desenvolvedoras de jogos eletrônicos independentes, indivíduos únicos ou equipes pequenas que produzem jogos indie, e que não possuem o financiamento equivalente de uma publicadora de jogos eletrônicos, ou que não fazem parte de um grupo de publicadoras. Disable firewall and running anti-virus software.Tip: if you are using an older or low end video card on Windows (64-bit), please download iTunes 12.8 for Windows (64-bit – for older video cards). Generally speaking, this page will automatically detect your system type and give a correct iTunes installer. Select the right architecture (32 or 64-bit) for Windows.Clear your browser cache and visit the page: to download the latest version of iTunes.Click Start, type "Services.msc" and press "ENTER" -> Double-click Windows Installer -> Set the Startup type of Windows Installer to Manual -> Click Start to start the service. ITunes won't install on Windows 7 error may occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Check whether the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Disconnect all Apple devices with Windows and restart your computer. ITunes (if you had installed iTunes before but failed to update it on Windows, you should uninstall the former installation at first) > Apple Software Update > Apple Mobile Device Support > Bonjor > Apple Application Support 32-bit > Apple Application Support 64-bit Open Control Panel and find iTunes related software components and uninstall them in order. Uninstall all Apple components on Windows ![]() If you can't install iTunes on Windows successfully but receive he error codes "HRESULT: 0x80073715" or "error 2", please follow the steps to re-install iTunes on Windows 7/8/10/11. For example iTunes 10.x requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to function, if you have a prior version iTunes 10.x will not work, which has disappointed users as iPhone 4 requires iTunes 10+ to allow for syncing if you have an OS prior to 10.Click to see complete iTunes errors and fixes > How to Fix "iTunes Won't Install on Windows 7/8/10/11" There have been a number of complaints from users concerning the fact latest versions of iTunes fail to work with certain old versions of the Mac OS. All versions later than 7.3.2 no longer support Windows 2000 only support for XP/Vista/7. ITunes 4.0 up to 7.3.2 compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. Leading up to the release of version 10.5.3.3 in 2012 we saw support for latest versions of the iPhone and the newly emerged iPad which included Wi-Fi Syncing and much improvements to the iTunes store providing application and book downloads. Consequently in version 7.7 the iPhone and iPod touch were enabled to act as remotes for wireless iTunes control. Leading up to iTunes 8.0 we saw support for Apple TV and newly emerging devices such as the iPhone. Video playback support was introduced in version 4.8 but was much later improved in iTunes 7.x, along with major GUI changes and better iPod syncing. The music store, later renamed to the iTunes store arrived in iTunes 4.0. Version 3.0 also came with audiobook support. iTunes 3.0 saw the introduction of the Smart Playlist which is a clever tool that organizes music suited to your taste i.e. iTunes 2.0 was the first version to support the original iPod. A few months later version 1.1 was released, bundled with Mac OS X v10.0 it included updates to the visual effects, support for more CD burners, stability/performance improvements and multi-lingual support. purchased the SoundJam MP application in 2000 which was an mp3 player for Mac in the early days and was redeveloped to include CD burning and a simplified UI the app was renamed to iTunes with the version 1.0 release in January 2001. iTunes also includes backup tools, podcasts and TV show subscriptions and 24/7 access to the iTunes Store where you can purchase a whole range of latest digital media.Īpple, Inc. Your playlists and libraries to synchronize with your Apple devices such as iPod, iPhone and iPad. ![]() It can be used to download and play digital music and videos providing excellent content management which allows you to organize ITunes is a free media player application available for both Mac and PC. ITunes 8.0.0.35 Download Now Released: Size: 64.00 MB Downloads: 190,285 Rating: Tested: Free from spyware, adware and viruses Select Version of iTunes to Download for FREE! Software Version ![]() However, the penguins take over the ship and the four friends are washed up on the shores of Madagascar. His friends, Alex the Lion, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippopotamus flag him down, but as they're about to take him back to the zoo, police officers appear in all directions, tranquilize the animals, and send them on a ship to Kenya. He escapes the Central Park Zoo, in which he lives, and makes a dash for the wild. His friends try to give him a great birthday, but somehow, Marty wants more. The movie opens on Marty’s 10th birthday (middle-aged for a zebra). In reality, no zebras share the same exact pattern of stripes. He is voiced by Thomas Stanley (in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) and Amir O'Neil as a child (in Madagascar: A Little Wild) and Chris Rock as an adult.Īt one point in the first movie, Alex says he's black with white stripes, which is true for all zebras, as he has 30 black, and only 29 white, but this was partly due to the fact that Alex had to give an explanation as to why he was licking Marty, as he thought he was the steak in his dream.Īlso often Marty mentions that he is black with white stripes, although, in the herd of zebras, very few zebras have their exact stripes pattern. At one point in the movie, Alex says he's black with white stripes, as he has 30 black, and only 29 white, but this was partly due to the fact that Alex had to give an explanation as to why he was licking Marty, as he thought he was the steak in his dream. Marty decided, then, that he must travel to the wild, for at least a short time, never having seen the wild. In the beginning, Marty lived a life of comfort in the zoo, but comfort led to boredom and Marty soon saw that his tenth birthday came and went and with that, his life was halfway in. He is a zebra who lived at the Central Park Zoo, and a best friend of Alex. Marty also appears as a minor character Penguins of Madagascar movie and a central protagonist in the online prequel series Madagascar: A Little Wild. He is the deuteragonist of Madagascar and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and the tritagonist of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Smith made headlines recently when he slapped Rock who was hosting the Academy Awards after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith's appearance.Īlong with the spoof video, the YouTuber admitted he couldn't resist creating the scene and tweeted: "I had to do it.Marty the Zebra is the deuteragonist of the Madagascar franchise. "Oh wow," Marty's face mimes Rock's dazed reaction. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter ![]() Using the audio from the actual clip, Oscar can be seen walking up to Marty - who is laughing awkwardly - before the fish smack him in the face with his fin, before walking back off stage as Smith did. ![]() In an animated crossover no one expected, YouTuber Lolathon ( created an animated version of the scene, with Smith replaced as his character Oscar the comical fish from the 2004 film Shark's Tale, while Rock is his character from Madagascar (2005), the excitable zebra Marty. From comedic parodies to being given the remix treatment, the internet has certainly been creative when it comes to covering Will Smith's now-infamous smack on Chris Rock at this year's Oscars - but now it has been reimagined as two of Smith's and Rock's most iconic characters. ![]() Here’s a closer look at these factors: Factor #1 – the type of work they do However, virtual assistant costs largely depend on factors like: A freelance virtual assistant can charge anywhere between $1 to over $100 per hour! If you hire them as employees, you can expect to pay them an average salary of around $75000 per year. There’s no standard rate for part-time or full-time virtual assistant services. If you’re looking to hire a freelancer, you can use a freelance site like Upwork or Fiverr. Most virtual assistants are independent contractors or freelancers, but some agencies provide virtual assistants. You can find many types of virtual assistants (e.g., administrative assistants) at different rates. ![]() Depending on your preferences and needs, you can use a virtual assistant service for administration, accounting, scheduling, etc. How to calculate the cost of a virtual assistantīefore we dive into ‘how much is a virtual assistant,’ let’s look at exactly what they do.Ī virtual assistant job entails providing online services to companies and entrepreneurs. We’ll also cover some of the most trusted payment methods you can use to pay them for their work. To help you out, this article will break down the key factors that affect virtual assistant costs. While virtual assistant costs vary, it’s easy to find a virtual assistant that fits your budget for a large enterprise or a small business. Whether you’re a small business owner looking to improve your workflow, or a larger company looking for administrative assistance, it’s important to calculate the cost of a VA. ![]() How much is a virtual assistant going to cost me? Want to hire a virtual assistant but not sure if you have the budget?Ī major concern for most business owners looking to outsource their activities is: ![]() Indeed, precipitation out to sea around these parts is only about 20 or 25 inches per year. Over the open ocean around Maui, the trade winds aren’t generally forced upward by anything to produce much in the way of clouds and rainfall. ![]() So in an air mass that’s shoved up in altitude, water vapor will condense into clouds and, possibly, into precipitation. It involves a little Atmospheric Science 101-but only a little, we promise! Air forced upward cools down, and cooler air can’t hold as much moisture. OK, here’s an extremely simplified explanation of the general effect of those trade winds on Maui’s weather. These breezes stem from a major area of high pressure known as the Pacific High (or Pacific Anticyclone). The major influence on Maui’s weather (and that of the rest of the Hawaiian Islands) is the northeasterly airflow of the trade winds. Let’s dig into those so you can figure out the best time to come to the glorious Valley Isle! Basic Sketch of Maui’s Weather ![]() That said, there are some interesting (if comparatively modest) seasonal differences in Maui’s weather. Even considered against many other tropical locales, Maui (and the rest of Hawaii) are appealing given the quite low incidence of hurricanes here. It’s hard to go wrong here in terms of the weather, especially compared with most of mainland North America. Maui enjoys a wonderful tropical climate with year-round warmth moderated by the vast Pacific that surrounds the Hawaiian Islands. ![]() of oil after oil spills and has helped save many, many animals. ![]() (Dawn will not sicken your animal it is used on wildlife to clean their skin/feathers/fur etc. But it’s better than having a sick animal. And the cat most likely won’t like a bath. But after that incident we did use Dawn and it killed every single flea and my cat was still healthy. I truly hope no one else’s pet has to go through such a horrific experience – as it nearly killed my cat and broke my heart to see him like that.Īs for Dawn: it may cause dryness, I don’t know, or flakiness of the skin. Most of them seem to care more about their sales of the product than the life of your animal, sadly. Some vets out there do know (and tell) the truth. I will never use another commercial flea product again (whether it’s vet-recommended or not). It also “ate” a hole in my cat’s neck where I put the original application of the product – and the hole refused to heal for weeks… bleeding and weeping – as if it had literally burned into his skin (which it had). That was the only vet I talked to who knew the scoop on just how many pets had died or were sickened by this horrible product. I even ran into a VET who, when I quizzed her about the effects of this poison (Advantage) said she would personally NEVER recommend Advantage to any animal. Even bathing once weekly, you should still have pretty good flea-control for a month. If the pet has had Frontline applied, that skin oil will contain the flea-killing chemicals. Even without lotion, the skin will put out another layer of oil from the little glands in the hair follicles. ![]() You know how dry your own skin feels when you get out of the shower in the wintertime - you’ve stripped off the oil layer and there’s nothing to hold the moisture in your skin. Certainly you can scrub it off with soap and water. The excess wicks down into the oil glands in the hair follicles. When you apply it, it distributes through the skin oil, spreading over the entire body. Fipronil is oil-soluble, not water-soluble. Unlike the aforementioned products, it really lasts a month for most pets, and it survives bathing. Like the aforementioned products, you apply the contents of one pre-measured tube to the pet’s skin, putting it under the hair. Īt KVC, we’ve had better luck with Frontline Plus (Merial’s fipronil). Now they don’t seem like quite so much of a bargain. If you use these products, you probably need to use them once per week, not once per month. Worse, though they say you can use them once per month, they don’t mention that these particular chemicals degrade rapidly in the open air and sunlight. They are also water-soluble, so a bath eliminates the product. The over-the-counter products you can buy at Wal-Mart are either pyrethrin or permethrin. If you’re bathing three times per month (much less three times per day), this is not a good product for you to use once per month. The dog is now "Advantage-free" and unprotected as far as fleas go. ![]() The first bath will take half of the product and the next bath takes the rest. It does last for a month, unless… Scrubbing with soap and water takes it right off. A simple wetting, like getting caught in the rain, does not remove them. The chemical forms tiny crystals that stick to the hair and skin and kill fleas (and their eggs) on contact. It spreads over the entire body when you squirt the little tube on the back. Now Adantage (Bayer’s imidocloprid) is a good product. You need to examine that patient’s entire lifestyle. This is one of those times that points up why it is so important to take a complete history when looking at the dog’s problem. He certainly gets several baths per month. "How often do you bathe him? Bathing removes the Advantage pretty quickly you know." Turns out, this dog likes to roll in nasty things (imagine that!) and sometimes is bathed more than once in a single day. Examination revealed that the dog had many fleas present. Today we had a lady who felt that her dog must have multiple allergy problems requiring lots of cortisone, because she had the fleas under control - she was using Advantage every month. Unfortunately, this only works if the product really stays on the pet for the whole month, if that’s what you’re expecting it to do. When they return to the flea-cocoon-infested area, and pick up new fleas (within seconds), the new fleas die before they start the cycle over again. This is why having a flea-control product that stays on the pet for one month is so great. Once they develop into a new flea, they can remain dormant for months in your yard, carpet, upholstery, etcetera. Each flea lays hundreds of eggs each weak, and they fall off into the environment. The point is that most of the flea’s life cycle takes place OFF the animal in the environment. I’d go through the whole flea life cycle, but these folks have done a lovely job for you. |