![]() Among sages and historians this was known as Mystra's Ban. Indeed, in the wake of the Fall of Netheril, one of her first acts as the Lady of Spells was to ban the use of all magic greater than tenth level. ![]() ![]() Whereas Mystryl was quixotic and quick to change, Mystra was said to be a manifestation of the Cosmic Balance-maintaining order in the world of magic by correcting great inequalities if things went askew. This incarnation of the Mother of All Magic was quite the opposite of her predecessor, Mystryl. When possessed by Mystra, she appeared taller and her hair moved as if it were alive. Caitlan went barefoot and wore plain ankle-length robes of a dark hue. As she created the pendant that held some of her power, the glow revealed the face of a "beautiful, willful young woman, with hints of a long-borne pain." Mystra's avatar at the time was a slim, young girl named Caitlan Moonsong who had a graceful bearing, large, dark eyes and short-cropped blond hair. ![]() When Mystra revealed herself to Midnight just before the gods were forced to walk the land of Toril, she was at first just a dark figure surrounded by an aura of blue-white light. Others described her appearing in a form resembling a multicolored will-o'-wisp. Ĭaitlan Moonsong, who served as an avatar of Mystra.Īs a goddess, Mystra could shape change at will and mortals who saw her reported she changed constantly. The only known description of the mortal that became Mystra was of a "beautiful peasant girl" who was just beginning her studies of the Art. ![]()
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![]() In addition to being what I call my combination gym-slash-hot tub, Shapers' Sanctuary rewards you with a card every time one of your creatures is targeted by an opponent.Our commander for the evening will be Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis, whose end-step trigger will ramp you and keep your opponents juiced up with crispy removal spells. Vindicate targeting your Suleiman's Legacy? You've won. Murder targeting your commander? Awesome. Disenchant pointed at your Sol Ring? Perfect. Your deck's goal is simple: You want everything coming your way. Make no mistake, pulling off the Dick job will be harder than anything you've had to do before, and you're the most important member of the heist: the diversion. To avoid confusion, I will now refer to our target by the pseudonym "Dick Wolf." They just happen to have the same name, and I am categorically not asserting that Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Facebook, is a psychopath and robot overlord. It's now in the hands of a notorious psychopath and robot overlord named Mark Zuckerberg, who my lawyers stress I mention is a separate individual from the one you're thinking of. A Crime of PassionĪs the team was unable to crack the safe, Her Majesty's Gigantic Bounty was traded among tens of locksmiths, private collectors, and perverts who didn't know that it was a safe. It was the perfect crime to this day, nobody in the British government is even aware it happened. ![]() ![]() They hacked through three layers of door locks, avoided 15 separate laser traps, and then crashed into GOGGS with a bulldozer, which obliterated the west wing of the building, ripped off the top of the sealed underground vault, and secured their escape route. What I'm about to propose to you is both highly lucrative and highly dangerous if that doesn't seem like your particular brand of Hot Soup, help yourself to as much food as you like, and have a safe journey, no hard feelings.įorty-five years ago, a group of thieves broke into GOGGS with intent to crack Her Majesty's Gigantic Bounty, a safe containing untold riches in precious metal. It's finally lead you back to me, Maximilian Crimeboy, the veritable God of crime, and now that you've joined the rest of the team at my beautiful Chateau Écureuil, we can begin. connections, shall we say, in the criminal underworld have lead you to the illicit gambling tables, drug deals gone awry, and here's-the-church-here's-the-steeple-put-on-a-mask-and-stab-poor-people parties of the upper class. Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis by Will Murai ![]() ![]() ![]() Although I still would prefer a free and distributed equivalent to Second Life. I must admit, after having read the book, I would have tried Second Life myself, but as long as they don't provide a linux client. There are sucessful experiments with a neuro prosthesis proving a 12x12 pixel black and white vision to blinds.Īlso the way the net itself is described, a commercialized copy of the real world, with people paying a lot of realmoney for prestigous sims and strange buildings, but also with a non-commerial, distributed ran hackers' playground, is something that has already become real: Products like Second Life are fightening similar to Williams' vision: A world where people pay real world money for vitual estate, where they can do just about everything they could do offline: Finding friends, being creative, working, playing, showing off. The ways in which the net is accessed in the futrure, from simple touchscreens over 3D goggle to neuron implants, are still the most probable way. Nevertheless, Williams created a very convincing view of the world in a few decades. The book was first published in 1996, when the Internet was just beginning to become mainstream. And of course, by now the conflict is fully visible, so that after some point, you just want to know what's going to happen. Also, only after some reading time the reader feels at home is the not-too-much, but still, different world. This separation in several tracks actually helped me through beginning: It is always a surprise what storie will be continued now, and for what story you have to wait. The better half is the second one: By now, each of the half dozen seemingly independand stories have advanced far enough to be interesting for themselves, and the first slight connections become apparent. I'm not saying it is not interesting, but it is not hard to stop in that half, so one might stop for good, missing the better half of the book. Also, the reader needs quite some patience with the book as about the first half is not really exciting. First important thing to know when starting to read the book: It not only says "Volume One", it means "Volume One": The story is even more unfinished as the story of the ring after The Fellowship. I recently finished reading the first volume of Tad Williams' " Otherland" triology. ![]() ![]() “Our growth within the Larry Miller chain prevails as a result of continued success at the theatres’ two current D-BOX locations,” said President and Chief Executive Officer of D-BOX Technologies, Claude Mc Master. The newly expanded Megaplex 17 at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi and the brand new Megaplex 14 at Legacy Crossing in Centerville will each be equipped with 30 D-BOX MFX Seats that offer moviegoers access to a completely immersive movie experience. Miller Megaplex Theatres to equip two additional Utah theatres with D-BOX motion technology for a total of four locations with the theatre chain. (TSXV: DBO.A), a leader in innovative motion technology, announced today a new agreement with Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres Longueuil, Québec (March 28, 2011) – D-BOX Technologies Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.D-BOX Technologies Announces Two New Locations with Larry H. ĭ-BOX ® and D-BOX Motion Code ® are registered trademarks of D-BOX Technologies Inc. D-BOX is a public company whose shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DBO. By reaching agreements with various industry leaders, D-BOX's award-winning motion technology is gradually proving itself as a new global standard. As of today, many Hollywood studios offer D-BOX Motion Code on their motion pictures in commercial theatres, on DVDs and Blu-rays. The resulting motion is perfectly synchronized with the on-screen action, thus creating an unmatched realistic immersive experience. This unique and patented technology, the D-BOX Motion Code, uses motion effects specifically programmed for each visual content which are sent to a motion system integrated into either a platform or a seat. designs, manufactures and markets cutting-edge motion systems intended mainly for the entertainment and industrial simulation industries. Megaplex Theatres show times and other group information can be found on the web at texting "Movies" to 71354, or by calling (801) 304-4636.ĭ-BOX Technologies Inc. In addition, the Megaplex Theatres feature regular and large-format movie screens, Megaplex dinner and a movie gift card options, conference and auditorium rental and an industry-leading guest services team. Miller, the theatres are among the top grossing in the nation. A new Megaplex Theatres location is in the final stages of construction at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City, Utah while a major expansion is also underway at Jordan Commons in Sandy.įounded by local businessman Larry H. A recently announced expansion project brings Megaplex Theatres to more than 150 screens across 17 current or announced locations from Logan, Utah to Mesquite, Nevada. The Megaplex Theatres are among the most popular theatres in Utah and frequently finish at the top in national box office results for opening night and weekend results for major Hollywood releases. Miller, recent announcements provide for the installation of over 20 additional screens with existing customers over the next several months. Considering this latest announcement with Larry H. This agreement comes on the heels of two other deals recently announced by D-BOX. "Moviegoers have come to expect the highest level of entertainment from our theatres and D-BOX contributes to that, adding a truly immersive, one-of-a-kind experience that can only be had at Larry Miller theatres in Utah," said Senior Vice-President and General Manager of Megaplex Theatres, Blake Andersen. We look forward to this newest expansion as well as future opportunities to grow within the circuit," said President and Chief Executive Officer of D-BOX Technologies, Claude Mc Master. ![]() "The Larry Miller chain has been a long-standing partner of ours given the success of D-BOX at existing theatres. Miller Megaplex Theatres to equip six screens in four locations in Utah with D-BOX MFX Systems. ( DBO.TO), a leader in innovative motion technology, announced today a third deal with Larry H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Multiple Big Tech executives joined the Biden transition team just weeks before Silicon Valley censored the New York Post‘s bombshell articles on alleged Biden family corruption. Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive, has been a big fundraiser, and is being talked about to lead a new technology industry task force in the White House. Hired both Jessica Hertz, former associate general counsel at Facebook, and Cynthia Hogan, former Apple vice-president for government affairs to his transition team. Many have resorted to posting screenshots of the tweet to share it with followers.īreitbart News recently reported that Joe Biden has begun considering hiring multiple big tech executives to his transition team.īreitbart News reporter Allum Bokhari reported recently:Įven though the election result is still disputed by President Donald Trump and the Republicans, Joe Biden is already forming his transition team, which includes many former Silicon Valley employees, including Schmidt.Īccording to the Financial Times (paywalled), presidential contender Biden has: Learn more.” Twitter users were also unable to reply to the tweet, favorite it, or share it. Twitter added a label to the tweet which reads: “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process. It will also induce violence in the streets. It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. ![]() ![]() Recently, President Trump expressed his feelings about a Supreme Court ruling on voting in Pennsylvania in a tweet, which Twitter marked as “misleading.” Trump stated: “The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one. Breitbart News previously reported that Twitter was adding fact check click-through windows to some of the President’s tweets, preventing users from seeing them on their timelines and disabling replies to the tweets. Twitter has not completely censored the President’s tweets over the last day. & are finding things that, when released, will be absolutely shocking! Nevada is turning out to be a cesspool of Fake Votes. Pennsylvania prevented us from watching much of the Ballot count. #Developing: The #DominionVotingSystems that "glitched" in favor of Joe Biden (and was used in 29 states), partnered up with Clinton Global Initiative and had on staff former employees of both Clinton Growth Initiative and Clinton Cash Cow TENEO.įull report on Chanel Rion OAN November 9, 2020 Some of the labeled tweets from President Trump can be seen below: Most of the labels related to the President’s claims of election interference or allegations of election fraud. Over the past 24 hours, eight tweets posted or retweeted by President Trump have received a Twitter fact-check label. ![]() ![]() “The Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Sri Lanka (WCIC) was established in 1985 by a group of visionary women with the main objective of facilitating the inclusion of women in mainstream business activity. ![]() The ceremony will culminate with the selection of the ‘Women Entrepreneur of the Year-2022’. “The participants will also be considered for the coveted special awards – Young Woman Entrepreneur, Outstanding Startup, Most Positively Abled Woman Entrepreneur, Most Outstanding Export Oriented Entrepreneur and Best of the SAARC Region. With a view to identifying and promoting regional women entrepreneurs, WCIC encourages applications from all the provinces in the country in order to select the ‘Best of the Region’ from each province.” “Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards will be presented for each category. Each category will have a specified revenue for the year under review – 2021/22. Acceptance of applications for the competition is underway under the categories – startup, micro, small, medium and large. “WCIC Prathibhabisheka – Women Entrepreneur Award 2022- powered by DFCC ALOKA is to be held in January 2023. Some of our past winners include, Abans Pastonjee, Lakmini Wijesundra, Yoland Aluwihare, Sandra Wanduragala, Indrani Fernando, Nayana Karunaratne and Ramya Weerakoon,” Chairperson of WCIC said. Through the Judging process and after we include all these women into our network and then work with them to be more successful. To us, this is not just an award ceremony. However, as a country we do little to help these women to grow and scale. They build companies that are built on a set of values and they create diverse and inclusive working environments. “Women Entrepreneurs have the ability to help our economy grow in a sustainable manner. “As a country we have gone through so many changes over the last 4 years and therefore, we felt we need to re-look at our concept and ensure that the winners of our award are those that have the potential to be global entrepreneurs,” she noted. We also hope to recommend our winners and other high potential women who apply for the awards to register giving them the opportunity to access global markets directly,” she explained. The Chamber at present also has an MOU with WEConnect where we recommend women who are able to sell in the global market to register. This will definitely help the women to market their products to global buyers. ![]() “The award is a national award and hence will be recognized globally. She made this comment as WCIC is gearing to showcase the excellence of outstanding women entrepreneurs through WCIC Prathibhabisheka – The Women Entrepreneur Awards 2022, powered by DFCC ALOKA. Prathibhabisheka National Awards to be bestowed on outstanding women entrepreneurs of Sri Lanka and the SAARC region will be recognised globally, Anoji De Silva, the chairperson of Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Sri Lanka (WCIC) told The Island Financial Review. This time poised to select the ‘Best of the Region’ from each province ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have hair clippers to cut your baby’s hair, regular clipper oil is still the best oil to use. The pros use exactly the same, albeit in much larger quantities. There’s no difference between clipper oil barbers and hair salons use and the stuff you’ll buy to use at home. Get the best deals on Hair Clipper Oil In Hair Clippers & Trimmers and save on personal grooming supplies at the lowest prices with. 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The regular clipper oil that comes with your clippers is essentially just refined mineral oil anyway. ![]() Mineral oil works well on hair clippers because it’s low-viscosity and can also withstand the high temperatures generated by the clipper blades. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Traditionally, it includes units that are lexicalised (reproducible) and composed of at least two w (.)ġ Even if there are several more or less broad 1 conceptions of phraseology, there is a general consensus among scholars that proverbs form a special class among phraseological units.L’analyse révèle que malgré un certain degré de créativité, plusieurs critères de sélection restent des obstacles à la propagation de ces candidats proverbiaux. Parmi leurs propositions, figurent ‘ There is more than one way to peel a potato ’ au lieu de ‘ There is more than one way to skin a cat ’ ou ‘ Don’t put the caboose before the engine ’ au lieu de ‘ Don’t put the cart before the horse’. Les candidats étudiés font partie d’une campagne de l’association PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), ayant pour but de réécrire les proverbes et les expressions idiomatiques célèbres jugés trop violents envers les animaux. Dans la dernière partie, les critères de sélection précédemment identifiés sont appliqués à une liste de candidats afin d’évaluer leurs chances de réplication. ![]() Dans la partie 3, un modèle de proverbialisation est présenté et le cadre mémétique est appliqué pour décrire l’impact des critères de sélection sur les étapes spécifiques du processus, à travers des exemples concrets de proverbes qui ont réussi à passer en langue. Bien que controversé, ce domaine offre des outils utiles à travers les notions de « meme fitness » ( aptitude des mèmes) et de « critères de sélection », qui peuvent être adaptés et transférés à la parémiologie afin de décrire les qualités qui permettent aux proverbes de s’imposer et de survivre. La deuxième section présente brièvement le domaine de la mémétique, qui étudie la réplication des unités culturelles. Avant d’aborder les principales questions, la notion controversée de « proverbialité » est introduite, ainsi que la relativité terminologique qu’elle implique, permettant d’établir une échelle de consensus pour les critères de définition dans la littérature spécialisée. Le présent article a pour but d’examiner les mécanismes de la proverbialisation – la naissance et la propagation des proverbes – et les critères qui favorisent ce processus. The analysis reveals that despite a degree of creativity, several selection criteria remain obstacles to the propagation of these proverb candidates. Their proposals include There is more than one way to peel a potato instead of There is more than one way to skin a cat, or Don’t put the caboose before the engine instead of Don’t put the cart before the horse. The candidates under study are part of a recent attempt by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to rewrite famous proverbs and idioms with the aim to make them “animal friendly”. In the final part, the selection criteria previously identified are applied to a list of candidates in order to appraise their chances of replication. In Section 3, a model for proverbialisation is introduced and the memetic framework is applied to describe the impact of the selection criteria on the specific stages of the process, through concrete examples of sayings that successfully caught on. This field, which studies the replication of cultural units, offers useful tools through the notions of “meme fitness” and “selection criteria”, which may be adapted and transferred to paremiology in order to describe the qualities that help proverbs catch on and survive. ![]() ![]() Before tackling the main issues, we introduce the controversial notion of “proverbiality” and the terminological relativity it entails by establishing a scale of consensus for definition criteria in specialised literature. In the present article, we examine the mechanisms of proverbialisation – the birth and propagation of proverbs – and the criteria that boost their chances of propagation and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I found a free YouTube Subscribe motion graphics, with sound and downloaded, used greenscreen key to remove the green background and it superimposed it over my video footage. CS4 didn't have that capability, or so I was told. Hitfilm Express (free) while it may not have ALL of the effects, of Pro, but has way more than you'd find with most free software, and it'll do motion graphics by activating the greenscreen key function that comes with Express out of the box. Hitfilm gave me what I was after, the ability to edit on something fairly robust as far as editing software goes, but do so on a lower end/older machine and do it fairly well and be feature rich as some NLE's that tout "free" versions are nothing more than trial versions and you must pay for them to get full functionality. They did an update in I think October to 2021.2, and I updated to that for the true proxy workflow to help with the fact that I run the bare minimum PC/graphics card at the time, and even with this update, it may be considered marginal still. However, now, they are up to the 6th gen processors for both, but the i3/Ryzen 3 are not listed anymore. As of last August when HF did an update, they were on the 4th gen Core iXX and AMD Ryzen processors, including the Core i3/Ryzen 3 variants. ![]() Davinci Resolve, Premiere CC, Vegas, Avid and several others all require beefier PC's than what I have, or you have many editors that work on lesser machines, but are weak sauce as far as capabilities and usability. Just to jump in here, when I was looking to replace the aging Premier Pro CS4 on my system, which admittedly is now "ancient" in a general sense. Another reason is that my computer is weak for Davinci. The sound work is many times better than in HitFilm, which is still very basic with 2000 year level effects.ĭespite all this and many other advantages, I continue to work with HitFilm because I've gotten used to it and I like it. In HitFilm at least you could do basic import of 3D objects for free, and with additional payment release some extras needed for professional work. No need to pay extra to work with 3D objects. HitFilm Express's tracking hasn't moved an inch forward in 10-15 years. Tracking in Resolve is several levels above that of HitFilm. Everything in HitFilm Express is like paid plugins, in Resolve is provided for free. The advantage is that the nodes are self-contained and if one crashes, the others keep working normally and the program doesn't crash.Īdvantage is that you can use OFX plugins, whereas you can't with HitFilm Express.įor working with color corrections and grading, no comparison can be made at all. But once you get used to the nodes, you won't want to see more layers. The problem is that it's hard to learn for someone who's used to working with layers. Resolve is better than HitFilm in every way. I'm curious if anybody else can replicate this.A firm yes. Ls attributes (if any) will appear below each file/folder listing. ![]() To check files for these attributes, use the command: I don't think this is the root cause, since I was able to copy another set of files with similar attributes, but it did fix the issue in at least one case. I could remove those attributes and then the same collection of files would copy over without issue. In our case, we could reliably crash the machine by attempting to copy files from the local file system to the Nexis that had been downloaded using a web browser, and thus had Apple's 'quarantine' attributes attached. We're still on an older Dell switch, but I can't see how that could precipitate a kernel panic (I'm open to explanations.)įor what it's worth, I can tell you that I was able to change the problem behavior by removing extended attributes attached to files on the MacOS filesystem. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Great Price Dog Dog Food Dog Treats Dog Beds & Blankets Dog Toys Dog Health & Care Collars, Leads & Harnesses Dog Coats Dog Bowls & Scoops Dog Clean Up Dog Agility & Training Crop Packaging Bale & Crop Net Bale Twine Silage Sheets Silage Wrap.Seeds, Fertilisers & Chemicals Grass Seed Clover Seed Fodder Beet Turnip Kale Forage Rape Stewardship & Environmental Leys Fertilisers Weed Killers Waste, Drainage & Waterpipe Drainage Sewer. ![]() Electric Fencing Electric Fencing Energisers Electric Fencing Batteries Tapes, Wires & Ropes Electric Fencing Insulators Electric Fencing Posts Electric Fencing Netting Electric Fencing Accessories Fencing, Gates & Timber Stakes, Struts & Posts Sawn Timber Sleepers Gates Wire Fencing Accessories Stock Board & Materials.Poultry Egg Trays Poultry Feeders & Drinkers Poultry Supplements & Treats Poultry Disinfectants & Sanitisers Housing & Bedding Pigs Pig Health Troughs & Feeders Feeders Water Troughs Pest & Fly Control Fly & Bug Control Rodent Baits Rodent Traps.Cattle Cattle Supplement Hoofcare Calving & Calf Health Cattle Clipping & Trimming Dairy Chemicals Marking & Heat Detection Cattle Handling Cattle Health & Hygiene Sheep Sheep Supplements Sheep Clippers & Shearing Sheep Handling Sheep Health & Hygiene Lambing Markers & Tupping.Great Price Animal Medicines Cattle Sheep Pig Poultry Syringes & Needles Drench Guns Pour On Guns Vaccinators & Injectors Feeds Cattle Feed Sheep Feed Pig Feed Poultry Feeds Goat, Alpaca & Llama Milk Powders ![]() |