Month: November 2022

JANESVILLE, Wis. (WMTV) – More than 1.2 million lights glow during the Rotary Botanical Gardens 2022 Holiday Light Show in Janesville.

NBC15 Sports Director Mike Jacques helped kick off the holiday tradition by serving as the official lights ambassador for the show.

The display is celebrating its 26th year with themed light displays and family-friendly animations.

Attendees can stroll through the garden from Nov. 25-27, Dec. 1-4, Dec. 8-11, Dec. 15-23 and Dec. 26-30. Guests can wander through the twinkling displays from 4:30 pm to 9 pm

The Holiday Light Show at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville.
The Holiday Light Show at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville.(NBC15)

All tickets for the show must be purchased online. It costs $12 for those ages 13+ and $5 for children ages 3-12. It’s free for those ages 2 and under.

The show is held at the Rotary Botanical Gardens, located at 1455 Palmer Drive in Janesville.

Also starting Friday, those interested can

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After this journey with Epic Games, I started to create fewer ArchViz scenes and focus more on gaming and environments. It makes me tell a story in a cinematic way, creating my compositions and drawing on my photoreal and lighting experience.

Make your Archviz come to life with Reallusion ActorCore scanned people.

The difference from other scanned people is that this one is fully rigged for facial and body motion. For this scene, I wanted to create a sunset scenario with a house party going on. The house model is from Evermotion and was modified a bit before I imported it into Unreal Engine using Datasmith.

All interior furniture and props are modeled with 3ds Max and Quixel materials. Trees were created using Speedtree. The water reflections give the scene more realism using Lumen for GI, and Reflections helps achieve that also with Unreal Engine 5.

Populating your scenes using

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As the Garden City players were introduced for Friday’s Long Island Class II championship game, all of them knew they would be staring down the biggest challenge of their season: a Bellport team loaded with hard-hitting athletes, capable of game-changing plays and motivated to defeat a Trojans team that beat them for the 2021 title.

What they didn’t realize was that they also would need to overcome themselves. And they did that too.

Garden City turned the ball over four times, but senior Stevie Finnell and the Trojans’ defense never let that become the story. Finnell capped his high school football career with his finest game and the Trojans were exceptional in not allowing Bellport to cash in on a single miscue as Garden City rolled to a 28-0 victory at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium.

Finnell gained 346 yards on 17 carries and scored all four Garden City touchdowns on huge

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Content courtesy of Pembina

National Adaptation Strategy

Earlier in May, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that public consultation would begin on Canada’s first ever National Adaptation Strategy, which aims to “advance a shared vision for climate resilience in Canada.” Provinces like British Columbia are also doing important work on this front.

Federal and provincial governments could make the biggest impact by making a major investment in improving Canada’s existing housing stock. This could be accomplished by providing funding and incentives to renovate a third of our country’s buildings to net-zero emissions by 2030, and developing a plan for the remaining stock to meet a 100% net-zero target before 2050.

Replacing old furnaces with efficient heat pumps can both capture heat and provide cooling. Replacing windows, adding insulation and bringing in more fresh air also makes residents safer and more comfortable as we face increasingly frequent heat waves and

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Leafy vegetables at Ullr’s Garden appear black under LED lights due to most plants’ total absorption of blue and red-colored wavelengths. Butterhead lettuce varieties are sold from Ullr’s with their roots still attached. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)

The lettuce is blooming nicely on the rollaway walls.

According to the farmer’s iPad, the calibrated nutrients are flowing smoothly and accurately through the tubes.

It’s 30 degrees outside, but there’s a tantalizing garden of tangy, restaurant-ready produce inside this cozy, pristine shipping container.

Somewhere behind and among the pawn shops and the gas stations and the used tire traders and the body shops along South Broadway, on a former used car lot on Acoma Street, a couple of snazzy high-tech containers are parked to start an urban farming revolution .

Ullr’s Garden, launched a few months ago by a couple of brothers who wanted to save the

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