![]() ![]() O元5621W Page_number_confidence 92.98 Pages 230 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210810103655 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 346 Scandate 20210805064253 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781583226988 Tts_version 4. First published as Birth of a Writer in Essence (May 1989) and collected in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1996). It won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Science Fiction Chronicle awards and is widely regarded as one of her greatest works. ![]() Butler’s shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA, 2021), pages 72531. 5,097 ratings699 reviews Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is Octavia E. Butler also concentrates on the understanding of slavery with the focus on relations of. Her short stories appear infrequently, but are well. In her story, the author discusses how different the world can be in the future. Butler sold her first novel in 1976, and has subsequently emerged as one of the foremost novelists of her generation with such critically well-received books as Pattermaster, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Kindred, Wild Seed, Clay's Ark, Dawn, and Imago. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:01:02 Boxid IA40203823 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The morality of any type of relationships can be discussed as one of the topics in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, the fiction short story that was first published in 1984. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It should be mentioned that Codeweavers contributes immensely to the Wine project, so supporting Crossover via a license supports wine, which in turn makes projects like Bottles possible.įrom the Codeweavers website - The Wine Project: Although I haven’t used Bottles as much compared to Crossover, I still have high hopes for its future. I’ve had few issues with the application and I’ve rarely had issues installing software. Right now, however, Crossover has worked for me more. This will also help develop their current bottle templates database, which personally I think is the way to go. With it being opensource, it’s development will be much faster and more widely supported sooner (with native support, snaps, flatpaks, etc). They have their own extensive database which directly works with their application to setup a bottle quick and easy(Bottles has this but it is very limited). Crossover on the other hand has been out and available for many years with stable support for most Linux distros. Their approach to dependencies and options within settings makes it easy to setup a bottle whether for an application or a game. Especially as a solid alternative to Crossover with better support for games. Bottles is still early in development, but looks very promising. I’ve used both (and still use both) and find there are pros and cons (at least for the moment). Proton Database - Unofficial database of Proton compatibilityĬrossOver - Third party utility (commercial) WINE App Database - Official WINE application database Official WINE website - Official WINE website General WINE posts, please use r/winehq.Anything outside the realm of WINE Gaming.Posts related to using WINE to play games.This subreddit is for the discussion of using WINE to play video games. ![]() Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. The quartz-wm window manager included with the XQuartz distribution uses the Apple Public Source License Version 2.Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. The X.Org software components’ licenses are discussed on the Please re-install the latest XQuartz X11 release for Leopard after installing a system software update to OS X 10.5.x Leopard.Īn XQuartz installation consists of many individual pieces of software which have various licenses. Because of this, you may experience conflicts after doing a Software Update from Apple. Since the XQuartz X11 package clobbers Apple's X11.app, their software update will clobber the XQuartz X11 package. OS X Software Updates have included some of the work done by the XQuartz project, but for various reasons, Apple cannot ship the latest and greatest version offered by the XQuartz site. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7. ![]() The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS. ![]() ![]() "This last weekend I drove my MS up to LA (from San Diego) and back, and stopped at 3 different superchargers during that round trip," the posting began. If stickers are your thing, owners are supplied with an adhesive mount for its law-abiding customers.īut as many Tesla owner forums bemoaned - and many other luxury car forums echoed - that front license plate really "ruins the look of the car." As for whether most new Tesla owners would ever willingly apply an adhesive glue to their new baby, even for the sake of avoiding a fix-it ticket, one can look no further than a recent posting on a Tesla forum, which estimated that 80 percent of the Teslas at superchargers have no front plates. ![]() "But if it's just for thirty-five or a hundred bucks, is it even worth it to go and drill a hole on the car?"Īs a Tesla rep was quick to point out when queried for this article, the company does officially offer a front license plate solution. "I think if they made a heftier fine, people would ," Pour later added. So I mean, to them the looks are more important than getting some small ticket." It's kind of just a game of cat and mouse, I guess you could say, where the fine is just so small that someone who can afford a sixty, seventy thousand dollar car, paying a is anywhere from around 30 to 100 dollars. "But a lot of people opt not to put it on," Pour said, "and the majority of Teslas I see rarely have the front license plate. But as Pour pointed out, if you can afford a luxury vehicle like a Tesla or Porsche, it might be easier to just shrug it off and eat the fine to preserve the beauty of your car. The ticket, ahem, gifted to my vehicle was approximately a $100 fix-it ticket - which is painful, but nothing like the cost of a speeding ticket. "And ever since then, I think Tesla is the car right now that everyone's trying to imitate because they're so popular, everyone's following suit and it's becoming more and more mainstream, in my opinion." "I think around 2016 is when it started to really take off," Pour said. "They tend not to put the front license plates on, even though it is a law in California."įor Pour, he estimated that the trend for cars to not prominently come with a front license plate mount began in 2016, under Tesla's reign of popularity, with its smooth front. "The shift has been, in my opinion, it's been a lot of the luxury cars where people are very concerned about the looks of the car: There are a lot of newer like Teslas, BMWs, Porsches, Jaguars where they have this very nice front end, big front end where they really want to show it off," Pour said. And as he sees it, a number of the cars without front license plates tend to be the pricier cars on the market. ![]() Sean Pour is a co-founder of SellMax, a national car-buying service based in San Diego, and he's seen a lot of the car body trends since the company's founding in 1990. Instead, it seems that newer car owners are faced with either aggressive-looking front grilles, or seamless, smooth and curvy fronts as part of its design - see: newer Lexus vehicles or Teslas as examples - and no obvious solutions on how to attach the front plate yourself. The head-scratching problem? On this newer vehicle, there isn't an obvious place to attach the plate, like the pre-drilled license plate holders of older cars. Procured, no less, while parked in a San Francisco parking garage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Special mention should be made for one of the elements that works incredibly well in Highlander, and that's the wonderful song score by Laugh out loud decision to have the bad guy do acrobatics to get away, making for an uncommonly amusing fight sequence that is funny instead of But just as soon as you're sure that Mulcahy has a good hand on the directorial reins, we get some appallingly bad fightĬhoreography, including the ludicrious first showdown between MacLeod and a nemesis in a parking garage. The opening flyby of the wrestling arena is amazing, and gorgeous crane shots of ancient Scotland are similarly The transition sequences and several of the establishing shots for various segmentsĪre handled amazingly well. Mulcahy's work here, like the film in total, is uneven at best. Hyperbolic performance, which has him doing everything from destroying an ancient Scottish castle to licking a contemporary priest's hand while inĪ New York City Catholic cathedral. Other electric performance is the over the top turn by Clancy Brown, as the proto-punk villain Victor Kruger. Performance is flat and lacking the tormented energy it really needs to make this character come fully alive. Lambert has turned in some excellent performances in his native French tongue (notably Subway), but here his Lambert is undeniably charismatic, in a caveman-esque sort of way, and perhaps it's unfair to lambast him too badly, as he was still not anythingĬlose to fluent in English when this film was made (as Mulcahy discusses in his commentary), but soulful eyes and a hulking physique do not a Part of Highlander's problem, as it was with his previous film Greystoke, is the Neanderthal presence of star Christopher Lambert. Often just lying there like a decapitated immortal. Connery hams it up, to be sure,īut his performance is like a lightning bolt of energy in a film that otherwise lurches and halts from sequence to sequence, some working, others Quickly from a seemingly mortal wound, and then to school him in the art of what being an immortal really means. ![]() The film is also helped immensely by the colorful (both literally andįiguratively) cameo of Sean Connery, who shows up about halfway through the enterprise to explain to MacLeod (Lambert) why he has recovered so Highlander's trips back and forth from 16th century Scotland to "present day" New York City account for some of the film's narrative sweepĪnd help to at least partially ameliorate the often laugh out loud dialogue. AĬlose-up of star Christopher Lambert's face morphs into a wall poster of the Mona Lisa, odd to say the least, but visually arresting. A segue from beneath an icy stream up to the air gets us to two different time periods hundreds of years apart. Highlander does have some things going for it, including some great transitions between time periods which Mulcahy serves up with someĪt times astonishing ingenuity. Not aged very well at all, with wooden performances, oddly (and at times badly) staged action sequences, and lots and lots of big 1980s hair. With a legion of fans, most of whom were probably pretty young when the film was initially released in 1986, and who thrilled to its comic bookĪmbience filled with immortal Scotsmen (and other nationalities) and less than immortal dialogue and action. Somehow, against some formidable odds and initial critical disdain for the effort, Highlander has gone on to achieve considerable cult ![]() ![]() Mulcahy has had an at best spotty feature film career,Īfter having helped found and develop the then nascent form of the music video (he indeed directed the iconic "Video Killed the Radio Star"), and Larger scheme of things, this particular Wikipedia quote might be termed relatively accurate. (and its sequel, though he disowned that film after its release), does indeed seem to like fast cuts, tracking shots and, yes, glowing lights, so in the Much like John Ford, most of you are probably thinking. Misinformation, are occasional nuggets like this opening description in the Russell Mulcahy article: His work is easily recognized by his use ofĬuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights. There, scattered amongst the misspellings, grammar fiascoes, and outright If you're ever feeling down and depressed, head on over to Wikipedia. This review repeatsĪppropriate information from my now (appropriately?) ancient 2010 review of the Heirs assigns have been putting out any number of versions of the film over the course of several years, and are now offering "new, improved" 4Kīoth standard and SteelBook packaging. "There can be only one" evidently does not refer to home video releases of Highlander, because Lionsgate and its international Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 16, 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() But plug-in clocks are easier to maintain since you don’t have to worry about replacing batteries or remembering to charge them before your workout. Gym clocks can either be battery-powered, rechargeable, or plug-in.īattery-powered and rechargeable clocks are the most convenient since you can move them around more easily, and they won’t take up outlet space that you may also need for fans or heaters. Plug-In vs Battery-Powered or Rechargeable Gym Clocks What you decide to do with your gym clock will depend on how much free wall space you have, whether or not you need to plug it in (as I’ll discuss below), and whether or not you want the option to take your gym clock outside on occasion. Some brands also sell mounting stands separately. ![]() Many gym clocks are designed to be mounted to a wall, but there are some that you can leave on a shelf. You’ll need to consider whether or not you need an expensive gym clock with all the bells and whistles or if a simpler, inexpensive option will be sufficient for you. The more expensive options on the market will typically have more features, but some of them may not be important to you. Plug-in vs battery-powered or rechargeable gym clocksĪs with most pieces of equipment that you add to a gym, price is one of the first things to consider when buying a gym clock.What to Consider When Buying a Gym Clock: 4 Factorsįour things to consider when buying a gym clock are: In this article, I’ll share my findings on all of the gym clocks I’ve tested to help you decide which one is best for your gym. I’ve been using the GymNext Flex Timer in my garage gym for a couple of months now, along with some other timers that all have a unique set of features. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to discover more classic and savory rice dishes, we recommend you try this quick and easy chicken and rice recipe, along with a Beans and Rice recipe, a homemade Mexican rice recipe or this Fried Rice With Egg recipe. Fewer dishes and a quick-cooking method? Sign us up! Perfect for last-minute suppers, this recipe is easy to clean up and lets your oven do most of the work. Add broth and seasoning packet, whisking until combined. Place uncooked rice in the prepared dish. Once ready, this cheesy broccoli and rice treasure will serve up to 6 guests. Spray an 8- or 9-inch square baking dish with cooking spray. The addition of our Minute® Instant White Rice helps bind these ingredients together while keeping your cooking time to a minimum. Ready in less than an hour, this casserole combines a cup of cheese dip with cream of mushroom soup, broccoli florets and sautéed onions. Cozy up to this dish in the colder months and let its veggie-packed power help you beat the winter chills. The ultimate comfort food, this hearty casserole makes our list of top comforting rice recipes. Made with condensed cream of mushroom soup, it’s no surprise that this dish is as deliciously-comforting as it gets. Stir in the broccoli, and cook until no longer frozen, about 5 minutes. Add the onion, and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Cook and stir until the cheese sauce is melted. Spray a 9 by 13 inch casserole dish with cooking spray. Stir in the milk, soup, cheese sauce and rice. Step 2 Stir the broccoli in the skillet and cook until tender-crisp. Add the onion and cook until tender-crisp. ![]() I love that it is delicious enough for a holiday meal.This Broccoli Rice Casserole recipe is a quintessential, creamy side dish that’s perfect for dinner, an office potluck or a holiday meal. While the oven is heating, heat the butter in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. To make this a quicker meal, use frozen vegetables. 'You can add mashed potatoes to the bottom of the glass pan before baking. 'A retro 50s favorite dish my mom made all the time,' says Lela. Best Rice Brocolli Casserole from Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole We Love this Ve arian. View Recipe This retro, family-approved ground beef casserole is topped with fresh biscuits and baked to a beautiful golden-brown finish. ![]() I’m sure your own grandmother made you cheese broccoli rice casserole at one point or another. Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole We Love this Ve arian. Evenly spread the rice mixture in a 2-quart casserole dish or 9'x13' pan. Mix 2 cups cooked rice with 1 cup of the above mixture. ![]() This is another recipe, like the Baked Brussel Sprouts Casserole and the Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies, that I found in my grandmother’s church cookbook. Broccoli Rice Casserole Recipe Mom On Timeout nikholas 2 months ago This easy Broccoli Rice Casserole is the perfect side dish for dinner tonight Made in one pot, completely from scratch, this cheesy side dish is a total crowd pleaser. In a medium bowl, combine the soup, mayonnaise, wine, and curry. I’m pretty sure I ate a sugar cookie and took a nap instead. So this is one of those recipes that got photographed but didn’t get posted. I think I made it to the 20th and then I passed out from sheer exhaustion. Towards the middle of December I got this weird idea that I was going to post a recipe until Christmas. Broccoli Rice CasseroleĪnyway! While I’m doing that, I’m going to leave you to munch on this amazing broccoli and rice casserole. There is a responsible woman in her mid 50’s inside of me who won’t let my social work credentials lapse in case the internet implodes on itself. Hello and welcome to Wednesday and my weird little corner of the internet! Today I am busily trying to create a few recipes before I run off to the other side of town and sit in a room full of social workers who are listening to someone talk about ethics and trying to earn continuing education credits. ![]() ![]() The investigators must then battle the Ancient One. A countdown mechanism makes an Ancient One appear if the investigators are not quick enough. To locate Elder Signs, investigators must successfully endure Adventures within the museum and its environs. ![]() Armed with tools, allies, and occult knowledge, investigators must put their sanity and stamina to the test as they adventure to locate Elder Signs, the eldritch symbols used to seal away the Ancient Ones and win the game. Players take the roles of investigators racing against time to stave off the imminent return of the Ancient One. Only they can stop the Ancient One beyond from finding its way to Earth and reducing humanity to cinders. Only a handful of investigators race against time to locate the eldritch symbols necessary to seal the portals forever. Animals, the mad, and those of more susceptible minds are driven to desperation by the supernatural forces the portals unleash. ![]() Gates to the beyond begin to leak open, and terrifying creatures of increasing strength steal through them. It is 1926, and the museum's extensive collection of exotic curios and occult artifacts poses a threat to the barriers between our world and the elder evils lurking between dimensions. Elder Sign from Fantasy Flight Games and Asmodee is a fast-paced, cooperative dice game of supernatural intrigue for one to eight players by Richard Launius and Kevin Wilson, the designers of Arkham Horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() A gigantic crater is shown to be all that remains of Mount Grimrock, the final fate of the prisoners seemingly unknown. The last scenes show the party running down a stone hallway of the dungeon, before a beam of pale blue light explodes from Mount Grimrock, ascending to the sky. The Undying One eventually explodes and falls apart, triggering another tremor which shakes the dungeon apart. Using the weapon, which temporarily stuns the machine, the party disassemble the parts which they used to repair the Undying One and deal a fatal blow to it using spells of lightning. The tomb also contains a weapon designed to be used in the event of the Undying One's escape from confinement. Escaping through a portal, the party locates the tomb of the creators of Grimrock Dungeon, who left behind scrolls explaining the dungeon's purpose of containing the machine, which they refer to as "the Undying One", until "the gears of time finally come to rest". Inside, the source of the voice guides the player to reconstruct a broken machine which will activate a portal out of the dungeon, however upon assembling the parts and repairing it, the voice is revealed to be the machine itself, which manifests as a giant mechanical clockwork cube which attempts to crush the party. The party also occasionally finds notes from a previous wanderer of the dungeon named Toorum, who aside from offering clues to certain puzzles and hidden stashes of equipment, talks about his experiences of the dungeon's periodic tremors and the dungeon's design seemingly meant to be "traversed from the top down".Įventually the party reaches the bottom level, signposted as "Prison". On being sealed within the mountain, the prisoners make their way downwards through the levels of Grimrock Dungeon, guided by a disembodied voice which comes to them in their sleep promising that a way of escape for both it and the party awaits at the bottom of the dungeon. However, no prisoner pardoned in this manner has ever returned. The prisoners, for crimes against the King, have been sentenced to be thrown into the pit of Mount Grimrock, at which point their crimes will be absolved. On top of Mount Grimrock, an airship carries a group of prisoners escorted by armed knights. Screenshot of Legend of Grimrock showing an altar room Plot The opening cinematic showing the prisoners and their guards being dropped off at Mount Grimlock by the airship. The game's digital manual contains a printable grid sheet which encourages players to chart their course through the game to this end. In this mode the game's map system is deactivated, leaving navigation through the dungeon's grid down to the player alone this references the 1990s games which Grimrock is based on, which left remembering routes and paths through the dungeon completely down to the player. In reference to its classic roots, the player has the option to switch on "old-school mode" when beginning a new game. Many of the harder puzzles throughout the game are designed as bonuses, being optional to the progression through the dungeon but granting superior items and equipment for solving them. Characters within the party gain experience for slaying creatures and beasts within the dungeon, allowing them to increase in level and progress skills which enhance combat abilities and allow the casting of new spells, and equipment is obtained through exploration and solving of puzzles throughout the dungeon. Gameplay consists of a combination of puzzle solving and combat. Players control a party of one to four characters which they move through a 3D rendered grid-based dungeon, a style of gameplay popular in RPG games from the 1990s such as Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, from which Legend of Grimrock draws heavy inspiration. Legend of Grimrock is a first-person action role-playing game with tile-based movement and realtime game mechanics. Gameplay An in-game screenshot with the open inventory of a party member A sequel, Legend of Grimrock II, was released in 2014. Legend of Grimrock was the debut game of Almost Human, a four-man Finnish indie development team formed in February 2011, which self-financed the title's development. It was released for Windows in April 2012, OS X and Linux in December 2012, and iOS in May 2015. The title is a 3D grid-based, real-time dungeon crawler based on the 1987 game Dungeon Master. Legend of Grimrock is a 2012 action role-playing game video game developed and published by Almost Human. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two find themselves ridiculed by Spike after their commercial airs. When the brothers first appear in the film, it's revealed that they've quit their jobs working construction in order to open their own plumbing company. Movie, Spike appears as Mario and Luigi's former boss, and is voiced by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco. Super Mario 64 established "Peach" as her first name, while "Toadstool" became her last name, though it's rare to see her full name used anymore. In a tweet published on Nintendo’s official Twitter account (you can tell it’s official, thanks to the golden checkmark), the company announced that the character of Spike, who originally first. This wouldn't be the first time the company changed a character's name to be the same across regions prior to Super Mario 64, Princess Peach predominantly went by the name "Princess Toadstool" in North America. One curious thing about him is that he regurgitates the balls. In all games he appears in he throws large spiked balls at Mario hence his name. He is always green with a small black shell, and blue flame hair. It's also possible that Nintendo simply wanted the character to have the same name across all territories. Spike is a medium sized enemy found in the Mario Series of games and is a member of the Koopa family. Mario, and his brother Luigi, the main protagonists share similarities of racist stereotypes of Italians- the series defines them as short, fat, sporting. However, as Video Games Chronicle notes, it's possible that the decision was made to avoid any connotation with a racist slur. franchise is definitively full of hidden agendas and racist connotations that the average user overlooks due to it’s cartoonish art-style appealing to all ages. ![]() ![]() Nintendo's Tweet does not give a specific reason for the name change. A Spike in the catcher position in the baseball mode of Mario Sports Superstars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: According to Kyle, she is the Responsible to Kim's Foolish.Face of the Show: You can almost always count on Kyle to have a seat next to Andy or hold center diamond in the title card.The two end up becoming great friends later on though with Kyle serving as a bridesmaid in Camille's wedding to her second husband, David Meyer. Their problems begin when Camille accuses Kyle of saying that no one would find her interesting without Kelsey. Put on a Bus: Camille left the show after divorcing Kelsey due to the fact that she was not able to go into great detail about it.Not Like Other Girls: In Season 1, Camille notes that she is much more comfortable having male friends instead of female ones because "women are very catty" towards her.Happy Marriage Charade: Camille tried for the cameras, but alas her marriage to Kelsey didn't survive.The Cat Came Back: Camille exited the series as a full-time Housewife after Season 2, but aside from Kyle and LVP, she is the most frequently seen of the OGs.Catchphrase: "So pernicious." Camille credits her college education as an English major for her word choice.This prompts her to turn the public perception of her around in Season 2. 0% Approval Rating: Camille was voted the most hated Housewife in America after Season 1. ![]() It is clear that the Grammers marriage is on the rocks, and by the time the reunion airs, the two of them are in the middle of a divorce. ![]() Season 1Camille is introduced to the series as the wife of Kelsey Grammer. ![]() |
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