10/12/2023 0 Comments Lockdown transformers idw![]() Immediately, Kup was separated from them, but Thunderclash ordered that the young Autobot was on his own while the team found proper cover. After leaving their ship's wreck behind them, the four Autobots were suddenly attacked by a fleet of Skyraiders led by Banzai-Tron. Thunderclash shot Landshark down quickly, reminding him at length that, as Autobots, it didn't matter how many Decepticons there were or how hopeless the situation was-all that mattered was the cargo they were sent after. Though Landshark managed the landing with no casualties, the wiseass old mech began sowing seeds of uncertainty and fear. Indeed, the Decepticons were waiting for the Eight Track when it arrived, and the Eight Track was forced to make a crash landing. Since Decepticons were suspected, Thunderclash's team was ordered to retrieve the ship's precious cargo before the enemy could get their hands on it. An important cargo hauler, the Van De Graaff, was shot down by persons unknown over the planet Beta-Nine. One such recruit, a young Autobot named Kup, was on board the Eight Track when the ship was hailed by Commander Magnum of Autobot High Command. Thunderclash's profile in Club magazine #40 His quick and powerful mind and the ease with which he commanded respect made him an ideal mentor for new recruits. Thunderclash often drilled the mechs under his command in the ways of battle, even though his ship, the Eight Track, was stationed on the outer rim of the galaxy. On his way to his superior officer's quarters, he found the officer murdered, and came to grips as to why his training had been so extreme to prevent the same fate from befalling himself. ![]() He had difficulty putting up with his drill instructors barking orders at him all day long, and nearly resigned from the military, only for fate to intervene once more. After a daring rescue in which he safely freed all seven of his comrades from enemy hands, Thunderclash enlisted into the military. Nine million years ago, Thunderclash was originally a merchant, until his ship was taken hostage by the Fright and Bones Decepticon vessel.
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10/12/2023 0 Comments Andy ngo powells![]() Those who protested Powell's sale of Ngo's book attained some level of success. Prior to the release of Ngo's book, one of a number of masked individuals protesting the sale of Unmasked outside popular Portland bookstore Powell's stated that it was an example of “active fascism.” They went on to contrast such a brand of fascism with that of Hitler's Mein Kampf, which, they conceded, holds historical worth. But as Ngo explains, “what is defined as fascism is left wide open” (pg. Ngo's journalistic ubiquity is on display in Unmasked, which offers his firsthand account of numerous democratically deviant acts committed in the name of opposing what their participants hold to be fascism. Ngo's book describes the movement's mid-twentieth century European origin, its germination in Portland and the broader United States, to its establishment of so-called “autonomous zones” which law enforcement has been restricted from entering in major American cities like Seattle. The book provides an in-depth look at the far-left “antifascist” movement whose constituency advocates for the abolition of capitalism, police, and the United States of America itself. In my home city of Portland, Oregon, mobs have attempted to stop the sale of local journalist Andy Ngo's new book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. Tocqueville's words disturbingly seem to lack salience in America's body politic some 180 years after they were written. Tocqueville stressed the usefulness of a free press to act as a defense of oppressed members of a community through their ability to appeal to a national, or perhaps global, audience. However, it would take the recognition of certain liberties of its citizens for America to establish a system of political equality lest the freedom of minorities be trammeled by an overzealous majority. In examining Tocqueville's influential work Democracy in America, I realized America's early European settlers idealized political equality as many Americans do in the current age. 10, but sought to differentiate such potentially repressive democracy from the character of American democracy as I conceptualized it. I already learned to have a healthy fear of tyrannical majorities that tend to arise from pure democracies after studying James Madison's Federalist No. In between my separate stints of studying political science in community college and university, I developed a desire to gain a greater understanding of my own country's political system. ![]() Yet combinations of private American citizens have attempted to stifle the dissemination of information compiled by certain journalists in order to achieve antidemocratic aims. Without the ability for journalists' thoughts and writings to be freely circulated, individuals in democratic nations may be isolated in their opinions. Nineteenth-century political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville declared a free press to be the most indispensable element of a functioning liberal democracy. In Defense of American Democracy: Andy Ngo's New Book, Cowbells at Portland State, and Scaring Powell's Bookstore by Brandon Smith, guest contributor, June 15, 2021 (posted by Mary Grabar) 10/12/2023 0 Comments 7 days to die seeds a19![]() Now villages spawn on mountains and are connected one another by roads.Īdded option to generate multiple worlds at once.Īdded no-preview option to make generation faster.Īdded check when creating cities. Improved village generation (now smoother)Īdded option for all custom sizes 5K,6K,7K.Īdded button to increase and decrease number of generationsĪdded Rtree data structure for cities towns and villages locations ![]() Now cities spawn at whatever height the terrain underneath isĪdded cities map import: you can now draw cities on a file and KG will generate cities accordinglyĪdded zoning map import: you can mask zones on a png file and KG will use that to generate poisīiomes are now slightly larger with larger mapsĪdded support for 8-bit heightmaps importĪdded compatibility with Darkness Falls (to be verified) Sharper edges, rougher terrain.Īdded dynamic elevation for cities. Optimizations for smoothing world around pois This is usefull if you want to use the cities map only to restrict some areas from the generation, but you still want KingGen to generate the cities.Īdded label to identify game version (for compatibility)Īdded key bindings: "enter" to start generation, "escape" to stop generation, "escape" when not generating to close the editor, "tab" to switch to advanged settings and back Improved road generation (still work in progress, however large worlds, like 16K, should be faster to generate now)Īdded option to load pre generated world into editorĪdded button to open generated worlds folderĪdded option for traders in the wildernessĪdded option to control grid size of cities, towns and villages individuallyĪdded option to control number of cities, towns and villages individuallyĪdded forced generation of cities if imported cities map is empty. Preview now appears in editor after beign generated from tool Improved terrain roughness option (now terrain can be truly flat or more rouugh than before)Īdded "POIs mode" for debugging prefabs (all pois are placed in a flat world)Īdded option to view and save the default vanilla POIs listĪdded tag "required" to the POIs list (a required POI is guaranteed to be placed in the world)Īdded tag "unique" to the POIs list (a uniquePOI cannot be placed more than once in the whole world)Īdded feedback when there is a problem in the POIs listĪdded custom POIs zones support (zones are districts of a hub)Īdded custom hubs support (hubs are clusters of buildings like cities, towns or villages)įixed bug with preview generator and water levelĪdded community heightmaps download button Improved visibility of community heightmaps POIs are now in the center of the map and the spawn point is always at 0,0.Īdded option to check before writing over existing worldsĪdded snow to maps that have no mountains You can now search individual POIs by name and see where they are located Stats contain how many times each hub and each POI have been placedĪdded search bar to preview. ![]() POI prioritization: POIs that have never been placed are more likely to be placed next, POIs that have already been placed a lot, are less likely to be placed againĬhanged POI's required and unique into min and max, which give more advanced control over the placementĪdded stats file to the world and to the preview. ![]() Improved error messages related to POIs list Users can now change the default generation of cities, towns and villages POIs names are case insensitive to detect trader, oldwest and wasteland POIsĪdded default hubs to POIs list. Old POIs lists are no longer compatible with this version. Help the development of this mod with a small paypal donationĮdited Septemby KingSlayerGM (see edit history) You can expect even better results on a gaming pc. This table summarizes KingGen’s performance on a laptop. It is several times faster than vanilla generation thanks to its parallelized algorithm that takes advantage of all your cpu cores. If you are a mod owner and want to make KG and your mods compatible, please reach out for customized help. This means that no two lakes look the same, nor two mountains. KingGen is purely noise based, no stamps are used. The generation is faster than vanilla, even on old machines.īiomes are randomly placed, no repetitiveness. The generated worlds are beautiful, with natural landscapes and large cities. You have to copy it into 7 Days to Die’s worlds folder, usually: “%appdata%\Roaming\7 Days to Die\GeneratedWorlds” KingGen will create a folder containing the world. This is the official webpage of KingGen, a tool to generate beautiful maps for 7 Days to Die.Ĭhoose your preferences and click “Generate world”. Random World Generation for 7 Days to Die 10/11/2023 0 Comments Binaural headphones tchad blake uses![]() During the production of the album, the band encountered hindrances such as singer Eddie Vedder's writer's block. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous album, Yield, Pearl Jam took a short break before reconvening toward the end of 1999 to begin work on a new album. For several tracks, Blake took his microphones out in a boat on the underground lake that fills much of the mine, and the resulting sound is difficult to describe and well worth hearing. Binaural is the sixth studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released May 16, 2000, through Epic Records. Levin alternates between electric and upright bass and the Chapman Stick (a 12-stringed instrument designed to be played simultaneously as a bass and as a guitar) Marotta spends most of his time on subdued ethnic percussion instruments, focusing primarily on a set of handcrafted drums from Taos, NM Gorn plays clarinet and saxophone, but makes his most affecting sound on the Indian bansuri flute. The resulting music is, as one might expect, haunting, beautiful and prodigiously reverberant. To record this album, the three set up recording equipment (with the expert help of engineer Tchad Blake) in the cavernous Widow Jane Mine in upstate New York. ![]() The instruments featured on this album include Chapman Stick, NS electric upright bass, various reed and East Indian flute instruments, a range of percussion instruments and even a short passage of squeezebox played by Jerry Marotta.ĭrummer Jerry Marotta and bassist Tony Levin are both best known for their work as members of Peter Gabriel's band Steve Gorn is less famous, but legendary in woodwind circles as a virtuoso player of various ethnic flutes and a regular collaborator with avant-garde flute maestro Robert Dick. The recording technique makes the album very enjoyable when listening with headphones. Found this interview from SOS from 1997 in which he mentions pretty much all the same things: TCHAD BLAKE: Binaural Excitement Also discovered thru that interview that he engineered a couple of my favorite records (Crowded Houses 1st and 2nd albums). Join Grammy-winning mixer Tchad Blake for an exclusive webinar during which he will go over his mixing approach and philosophy and answer all questions you may have about his workflow and techniques. The album was recorded inside the Widow Jane Mine in the Catskill Mountains, New York by Tchad Blake using a binaural microphone setup. Mr Blake hasnt changed his ways much in the last couple decades. ![]() From the Caves of the Iron Mountain is a music album by Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta and Steve Gorn released in 1997 on Papa Bear Records. 10/11/2023 0 Comments Combo cleaner mac premium![]() Drag and droop the dmg file into your app folder.Now make sure that you have Turned off your internet connection.First of all extract the zip file you have downloaded.Combo Cleaner is able to scan external hard drives for duplicate and unwanted files.With just one click, you will be able to clean app cache, downloads, app logs, trash, and other old files. 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They can leap forward when others are still working their way through a problem. Oftentimes, bravery is a spur-of-the-moment emotion that leaves little time to think your actions and consequences through. It is something that cannot really be thought through. Bravery is taking a risk to give something of yourself in order to make life easier for another.Ībove all, bravery is instinctual. ![]() Firemen are brave when they rush into a building to save someone trapped inside. Teachers are brave when they give up their own time to improve their teaching. Mothers are brave when they give up sleep in order to comfort their child. The lead character states that “selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.” Bravery is when you put yourself in danger to help or protect another. The book Divergent by Veronica Roth describes bravery as being the ultimate selfless action. Being brave is ignoring fear for a moment and carrying on.īravery is also closely tied to selflessness. However, others understand that “bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway,” as Laurell K Hamilton said. To some, this is a foreign concept that prevents them from trying new things. Or perhaps they are willing to go ahead despite the butterflies in their stomachs. Many people skydive, do public speaking, ask questions, or enter relationships not because they are unafraid but because they are willing to overcome this fear. But being brave and being fearless are two different things. They believe that bravery is the same as being without fear. Many people hold a common misconception about bravery. What makes one person brave and another not? How can the word bravery be defined? Then again, bravery might be the most difficult word to comprehend. However, other concepts are more difficult to interpret. ![]() A rose is a rose and a nose is a nose after all. ![]() Some things are easy to understand and describe. 10/11/2023 0 Comments Defcon warning system nuclear![]() In contrast to earlier generations of nuclear reactors that employed or removed carbon to slow or quicken the pace of the nuclear reaction in the reactor as required, the nuclear fuel in the Pele micro-reactor is reduced to small particles that have each been individually coated in layers of carbon to limits the potential energy release. Potential applications of the Project Pele reactor include isolated environments, including islands or the arctic. To enable rapid transport and use, designs for the reactor must allow operation within three days of delivery, and it must be able to remove the reactor safely within seven days. Six hours later, at 09:13 EST, the Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System detected the first four missile launches and the United States went to DEFCON. Project Pele, begun in 2022, seeks to construct an 'inherently safe' nuclear micro-reactor within 5 years, with the intention of producing one to five MegaWatts of electricity for a minimum of three years of full-power operation, according to a DoD release from April 2022. The public should make their own evaluations and not rely on the. ![]() It is not affiliated with any government agency and does not represent the alert status of any military branch. ![]() The US Department of Defence (DoD) announced 13 September that it had awarded a contract to X-Energy for work on a design for a transportable nuclear micro-reactor as a part of the Strategic Capabilities Office’s (SCO) Project Pele, with an outcome expected to have “significant geopolitical implications for the United States” according to SCO director Jay Dryer. The DEFCON Warning System is a private intelligence organization which has monitored and assessed nuclear threats by national entities since 1984. 10/11/2023 0 Comments Spike shooter energy![]() I’m afraid to get up from my desk for fear that I may say something untoward and embarrass myself in front of my coworkers. If you’re an experienced traveller though, just be aware. In the hands of a lesser being, I could see this stuff causing trouble. I drank it five hours ago and I’m still cooked. I just realized that I’m pretty effing cooked right now. With that in mind, please don’t take Spike Shoo….aww screw it. ![]() Also, my steering wheel turns to liquid and I have to pull over for a while so I can argue with myself over federal monetary policy, David Lynch films, and whether or not I could pull off flat-front pants. Intense negotiations ensue until we can strike a deal, the terms of which usually involve me promising to give up at least one of my vices, and the little bastard finally relents. When I drink Redline (which is–I’ll admit–periodically), a mischievous leprechaun suddenly appears and kidnaps my stereo then jumps around the inside of my car, taunting me with the promise of the kind of sweet relief that can only come from that fantastic note. When I drank the Spike Shooter, I was driving and I got the urge to turn the music up really loud. I guess I want to compare it to Redline because of the reputation so let me put it this way: I forgot about the Yohimbine until I reread the can. I also notice a big pump if I drink something with Yohimbe before a workout. I’ll get a really strong shivery sensation, like having goosebumps for an hour straight or something. Drinks with Yohimbine are usually kind of unique too. Usually the more engineered bodybuilder kinds of drinks give me a more subtle rush. Spike is potent, but I feel really anxious right now. It’s feels like more of a normal (albeit strong as hell) energy drink while Redline is some crazy stuff for, like, athletes and superpeople. Spike Shooter is kind of a different animal though. It’s got strange chemicals in it that make you feel all tingly and invincible. Redline is certainly a glorious, magical elixir, but it is not a toy. Make no mistake though this is no Redline. It’s pretty sweet and it goes down easy, plus it’s only 8 oz. My fingers are a bit shaky.Īs far as taste and color go, think of a slightly more carbonated Redline. Not out of control good, but good enough that I’m just going to go ahead and ask you all right now to excuse any typos or grammatical errors. Quickly, because I’m under the influence, I had a Spike Shooter this morning and I’m feeling pretty good. ![]() There was a possibility to cultivate a sisterhood worth a deeper look. ![]() The match ended in a draw, and the two women embraced one another, only to meet again and work together to defeat Mars, who had kidnapped Nubia when she was a baby and brainwashed her. The superhero genre is at its best when we imagine what good and harm humanity can do in worlds in which aliens from space grow up to be their adopted home world’s most excellent protector and a billionaire playboy plays vigilante at night.īut back to Nubia, who doesn’t win the battle, even though she had Diana dead to rights. Comics have always been a medium I felt did that well and is one of the reasons I have such an undying love for the medium. Why wouldn’t there be other women of all shades welcomed and given a second chance to live on an island where the limitations of Man’s World were nearly nonexistent? And I say nearly because the island’s demographic at the time was very reflective of Man’s World’s thinking of what type of women are deemed worthy enough for that kind of escape, and that’s a limitation.Īs a storyteller, that’s all intriguing to me-the chance to explore ideologies and challenge them in fictional settings. After all, it’s supposed to be a paradise, a haven for women who need refuge from a world that can be exceptionally cruel to anyone who isn’t a cishet white male. Rick James would be proud.īut what Nubia did at that moment, to me at least, was open the door to Themyscira to women who didn’t look like Diana. She pretty much invited herself into someone’s home, kept her shoes on, and sat on their couch with muddy feet. How could you not love this character who showed up with armor and silk press ready to battle for the Wonder Woman title from whoever stood in her way? (That just so happened to be Diana Prince of Themyscira.) It was confidence and audacity for me. 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I would say that I was shocked when I learned this, but that wouldn’t be true. Unlike Storm, Vixen, Monica Rambeau, Misty Knight, Amanda Waller, Bumblebee and Rocket, I soon learned she didn’t have nearly as many appearances in comics as I assumed, given how sizable her fan base was-still is and growing. Nubia is one of those characters I remember hearing a lot about when I was younger and just getting into comics. 10/11/2023 0 Comments Biscuit book amazon![]() These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chef’s expertise into your kitchen, along with advice on how to “mix it up” with over 200 customizable variations-in short, exactly what you’d expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats. 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