Sloth from ice age6/4/2023 ![]() To top it all off, he eats the best part of their salad: A dandelion. Unfortunately, he steps in Glyptodon dung and wipes his filthy feet on the last meal belonging to two brontotheres named Carl and Frank, ruining it. ![]() Sid was first seen fast asleep on his home tree and wakes up, only to realize that his family left without him to migrate, so he decided to travel alone without them in annoyance at being left behind. He is considered as the only character with bad karma. Sid is usually the one getting knocked about. He is talkative and positive, and suffers from a lateral lisp, which makes his "s" and "c" pronunciation rather "wet" or "spitty". Sid has long claws on his hands and feet and a curled tail. Sid is a ground sloth who stands and walks like a human with ping-pong ball-like eyes (one is bigger then the other), a button nose, buck teeth and whitish yellow fur. A female sloth called Sylvia wanted to be the mate of Sid and often chased him around, although Sid was obviously not interested in her. He lived in a tree with other sloths who never made a physical apparition in the films, they always wanted to leave Sid behind when the migration occurred, using several different ways to leave him behind. Little is known from Sid's life, much of it was explained in the first movie. Background Story Main article: Sid's family ![]()
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The flaming lips the w.a.n.d6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Genres Neo-psychedelia psychedelic rock alternative rock indie rock experimental rock noise rock Years active 1983present Labels Restless, Warner Bros. Please note that our catalog only lists songs that weve set. The Flaming Lips in 2006 Background information Origin Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. Album Poster The Flaming Lips The W.A.N.D. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. The Flaming Lips is an American neo-psychedelic band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States in 1983. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. The band covered legendary albums by essential artists and collaborated with numerous other off-mainstream artists. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. The Flaming Lips Aliases Imagene Peise Years active since 1983 Country United States Comments Psychedelic rock band from Oklahoma City crossing over to and intergrating other styles creating their own but varied blend. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. (Official Audio) 6,601 views 113 Dislike Share flaminglips 100K subscribers The Flaming Lips Greatest Hits : Vol. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. ![]() First image of blackhole moon meme6/4/2023 ![]() That day, Chael posted a thread on Twitter condemning "sexist attacks" on Bouman (shown below). He wrote 850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black hole image algorithm" to /r/pics, which was subsequently deleted for having an "inappropriate title." The following day, Redditor SmellyTheBluCow submitted a post titled "Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the picture if the black hole" to /r/unpopularopinion, citing the project's GitHub page showing that programmers Andrew Chael and Michael Johnson contributed a majority of commits. Meanwhile, a post titled "This is Andrew Chael. That day, Redditor GrumpyWendigo posted the photo to /r/photoshopbattles, where numerous edited examples were submitted in the comments. Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 195,800 points (86% upvoted) and 6,200 comments on /r/pics. Katie Bouman, identifying her as "the computer scientist behind the first ever image of a black-hole" (shown below). On April 10th, 2019, Redditor iKojan tweeted a photograph of Dr. For example, a post made by Redditor Dragonjazz, referncing Surprised Pikachu meme, gained over 33,600 upvotes in four hours. In the hours following the public release of the image, it gained significant popularity online as an exploitable. Multiple major news outlets reported on the story, including news articles by ABC News, Telegraph,, CNN and BBC. ![]() On the same day, National Science Foundation tweeted the image, with the post accumulating over 29,700 retweets and 53,400 likes within 12 hours. In the released photograph, a supermassive black hole and its shadow can be seen. The photograph of black hole at the center of Messier 87 galaxy was made using the Event Horizon Telescope, an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes designed to capture the image. On April 10th, 2019, National Science Foundation issued a press release revealing the first ever photograph of a black hole. ![]() ![]() ![]() To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
Nexus being6/4/2023 ![]() What she could do was something not seen in comics before. Both are Speedsters and both are the best at what they do. If you’re thinking that Quicksilver was Marvel’s answer to DC’s The Flash, you’re right. As his name implies, Quicksilver was able to move at speeds undetectable to the human eye, and Scarlet Witch, well, was able to alter the probability of the world around her. Not only were they brother and sister (a Fantastic Four influence), but their powers were unlike anything seen in Marvel Comics to date. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, or Pietro and Wanda Maximoff added a certain flair to Magneto’s team. Those characters were named Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Magneto recruited the help of Toad, Mastermind, and two other obscure characters. By issue 4, Magneto made his return to the title. At the end of it, it was Charles Xavier and his team of teenagers standing tall while Magneto fled. The Fantastic Four showed that being a superhero doesn’t necessarily mean escaping the everyday challenges of life.Īlthough Magneto is one of the most powerful mutants alive, his first encounter with the X-Men (X-Men issue 1) didn’t go so well. They paid bills, bought groceries, cooked meals, cleaned the house, and more. ![]() The Fantastic Four argued just families argue. Even though being a superhero wasn’t something that readers could relate to, the family was. It was a book about a family trying to be a family all-the-while struggling to be superheroes. What made it work was that it was very relatable to the reader. Sure, it focused on a group of super-powered individuals who used their power for the betterment of society. The book was a hit with the readers but not for the reasons you might be thinking. In addition, Reed was also the longtime best friend of the final member, Benjamin Grimm. Their leader, Reed Richards, was the husband to fellow teammate Susan Storm and she was the sister to Johnny Storm. With the Fantastic Four, he created a team of superheroes who were also a family. Leiber (eventually Stan Lee) accepted and created a book of superheroes that nobody had ever seen before. Sensing that superhero comics might once again be profitable, he asked the unknown Stanley Lieber to create a book to test the market. Martin Goodman was in control of the once Timely, now Marvel Comics during the 1960s. ![]() Thankfully, in the 1960s a couple of pioneers couldn’t and wouldn’t accept this fate. For over a decade, the superhero genre scrambled to stay alive. Superhero books, which came in like a lion during the 1940s, came out like a lamb in the 1950s. They cared about the Wild West, love, and gore. They didn’t care if their once-favorite super-powered heroes saved the world from certain doom. Children of the 1950s weren’t interested in superhero vs supervillain stories. Before it, comic book superheroes were cast aside for western, horror, and romance books. The 1960s was arguably the most pivotal decade for comic books in the 20th Century. Wanda was created at a time where superheroes and supervillains were pushing themselves back into the hands of children. Her increased popularity has resulted in her receiving the first of many Marvel Studios television shows and co-starring in the Doctor Strange sequel movie. Since she debuted in Avengers Age of Ultron, she has transformed from a misunderstood and obscure character into a well-known household name. Even though she’s a great character, her sudden surge in popularity is a result of her various appearances in television and movies. ![]() Consumption junction6/3/2023 ![]() The conclusion explores how social practice approaches can contribute to a better understanding of dynamics of agency, power, and change in everyday consumption. Offer free samples, the most effective strategy for getting Asian Americans to try new products or brands in the store. This framework is then applied in empirical examples of energy, food, and mobility to illustrate the additional insights that social practices can contribute to political consumerism. This leads to a focus on social practices, the embeddedness of different social practices, and the roles of power and information. Defeat Trollgore in DrakTharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty before Consume reaches ten stacks. This chapter presents the main conceptual tools and empirical orientations and connects these with political consumerism thinking. The conclusion explores how social practice approaches can contribute to a better understanding of dynamics of agency, power, and change in everyday consumption.ĪB - Social practice approaches, developed in sociology, contribute to the study of political consumerism by moving away from individual accounts of political consumerism and towards the study of everyday practices and their changes. ![]() This leads to a focus on social practices, the embeddedness of different social practices, and the roles of power and information. There are plenty of PvE-related achievements in the game such as Consumption Junction from DrakTharon Keep dungeon. by The Headland Peddler Includes unlimited streaming via the Bandcamp app, plus download in mp3, FLAC and. N2 - Social practice approaches, developed in sociology, contribute to the study of political consumerism by moving away from individual accounts of political consumerism and towards the study of everyday practices and their changes. I focus on the consumption junction, the place and the time at which the consumer makes choices between competing technologies, and try to ascertain how. They share a conceptual language that addresses a range of topics from excessive spending, pollution, and urban infrastructure to alternative transportation, suburban sprawl, and recycling.T1 - Political Consumerism and the Social Practice Perspective and it wasnt internet, it was vhs tapes in elementary school. Hi there My dad actually used to run consumption junction He told me a ton of stories, mostly baout the logistics of running the site. Consumption - What does consumption stand for The Free Dictionary CONSUMP (redirected from consumption) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Performers, writers, and thinkers in this exhibition are sensitive to concerns of this worldwide environmental movement an ecological crisis. renz20003 said: That was conjunction junction not consumption junction. ![]() It certainly doesn’t seek to provide concrete solutions to these perplexing situations, but the artists, designers, Merely thoughtless acts against our environment. It is a nudge toward discussions-or at the very least poignant reminders-about unkindly or This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Consumption Junction, organized by Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, and on view from September 13 to Decemat Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus.Īmy Chan, Guy Debord, Design Management AS, Dan Graham, Komar & Melamid, Learning Group, Nicola López, Scott Massey, The Miss Rockaway Armada, Ester Partegàs, Tim Rietenbach, 5.5 DesignersĬonsumption Junction seeks to make us think (.) about issues and topics related to the general impact humans make on the earth. ![]() ![]() “Catering to the idea of showing monetary income status via branded goods is the last gasp of any quote, unquote luxury brand,” he shares. So home-focused brands and service providers need to make the most of their opportunities this year.Īuld sees such logo-centric displays diluting brand value rather than creating it. Throughout 2021, luxury consumers will continue to invest in home, but that is likely to start to ebb as they begin to feel safe leaving their homes.Īs soon as luxury consumers can escape confinement, it will usher in a “Roaring Twenties” for experiential luxury providers, but it will also curtail home luxury spending. This resulted in growth in the home furnishings and furniture, home appliances, home improvement and electronics sectors, as well as a bounty to service providers who helped decorate, install and maintain home environments. However, the money luxury consumers weren’t spending going out was turned elsewhere, with a big chunk devoted to improving their experiences at home. Since the 2008-2009 recession, the market for luxury experiences, like travel, dining and entertainment, has grown at a much faster pace than that of luxury goods. dollars, who spent on average $2,400 per travel day.ĪDVERTISEMENT Opportunity – Capture luxury consumers’ delayed experiential spending In that study, luxury travelers were defined as people with assets over one-million U.S. The global luxury travel and tourism industry, estimated by Statista to have totaled $831 billion in 2019 in direct spending, ground to a halt early in the pandemic. Challenge – Luxury consumers will take time to emerge They are also buying the fragrance because of the brand, its brand equity and how you tell the story of your brand,” he continues. How else we can tell the story of the brand because people aren’t necessarily buying the fragrance only because of the scent. If we cannot let people smell, for example, then we have to find out what else we can do. The sensual touch, feel and in the case of perfume, the scent, are missing. “We have to acknowledge these limitations and work around them. “There are certain limits as to how you can bring brand equity across digitally,” says Daniel Langer, CEO of brand strategy firm Équité and professor of luxury strategy at Pepperdine University. This rapid shift will continue with the expectation that e-commerce will be the leading channel of distribution for luxury goods by 2025.ĭigital technology has to bridge the gap with the human side of luxury. “This creates conditions that are favorable to selling to others, merging with others or joining forces to be able to scale, but also to leverage expertise and talent.” Challenge – Digital luxury to continue uncheckedīain reports that online share of sales in the luxury market nearly doubIed in 2020, rising from 12% in 2019 to 23% in 2020. “Covid has added to the pressure from demand going to a very concentrated number of winning brands,” Francesca Di Pasquantonio, who heads up luxury goods equity research at Deutsche Bank, told Vogue Business. One thing is for sure, the established players that have weathered previous recessions will only get bigger and stronger after this one. Companies that have bounced back most strongly from previous recessions usually did not cut their marketing spend, and in many cases actually increased it.” But that is today’s equivalent of bleeding – an old-fashioned but once widespread treatment that actually reduces the patient’s ability to fight disease. “Most companies reduce spending in recessions, especially on marketing items that may be easier to cut (certainly relative to payroll). Not only that, but it may be considered wholly inappropriate to do so, with so many others struggling to make ends meet. Given what we’ve all been through in 2020, it just may not feel right to spend on luxury in 2021. ![]() ![]() The same scenario is likely to occur again. While the affluent consumers are more shielded from economic ups-and-downs than those with less financial resources, they weren’t immune from its effects during the 2008-2009 recession.īack then, they took a hiatus from ‘shop-till-you-drop’ spending and waited till the worse was over before reentering the luxury market. Opportunity – Manage business operations to conserve cash but maintain consumer connection economy goes into 2021 in a weakened state, despite the current robustness of the stock market. It recovered in the third quarter, but with the federal budget deficit at an all-time high of $3.1 trillion and unemployment levels almost double what they were before the pandemic, the U.S. ![]() economy, the strongest in the world at $21.4 trillion in 2019 as compared to China’s $14.3 trillion according to the World Bank, declined by nearly one-third in the second quarter 2020. ![]() Venture forthe hornell ny6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Learning needs in school for a child age 5 to 21.Finding services for a child age 3 to 5 with a disability or developmental delay that may affect learning.Finding services for a child under 3 with a disability or developmental delay.Concerns about delays in learning to talk, walk, or crawl or other developmental milestones for a baby or child.Paying for clothing and household items.Paying for health care services and supports.Finding support groups related to Bereavement.Finding support groups related to Parent/Family.Finding Support Groups related to Care-giving or Receiving, Parent/Family, and Bereavement.Grandparents or other relatives caring for children.Caring for a loved one, including providing care or finding respite.Support groups related to substance use/addiction.Support groups related to mental health.Support groups related to health/disabilties.Finding Support Groups related to Health, Disabilities, Substance Abuse and Addiction.Finding services and supports related to confusion, memory loss, or dementia.Finding hospice services, palliative care, or planning end of life care. ![]() Addressing substance abuse or addiction.Addressing anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns.Services and supports related to hearing, hearing impairment, or deafness.Finding services and supports related to seeing, vision, impairment, or blindness.Finding nursing services, occupational, physical, or speech therapy.Making the house more accessible (grab bars, ramps), getting adaptive equipment, getting assistive devices, or environmental modifications.Leaving the house (going to appointments, grocery shopping, running errands) or other transportation needs.Organizing medicine, remembering to take or taking medicine.Housekeeping, cooking or preparing meals.Is there a need for help with any of the following:. ![]() Heads will roll remix project x6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Taylor Swift Will Get Extra 'Karma' Points With Ice Spice Remix Offset Still Finds It Too Painful to Talk About Takeoff: 'I Get Through My Day Thinking It's Fake' The strongest offering is the final track, the ESG-gone-gentrified instrumental “Bloodwork,” if only because Smith’s petulant vocal takes a back seat it sounds tailor-made for soundtracking a streaming series’ set piece that follows a chemically altered beautiful person’s descent into some personal hell.īill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Father of Spike Lee, Dead at 94 The burbling “Sex” has a slightly more existential bent, although the “I’m Too Sexy” cadence of lines like “Sex, to me/It’s just a mystery/And a lie we tell” give the joke away its laptop-grime-covered coda does at least provide a neat sonic wrinkle. Debut single “Girls” has a Rapture-via- The Man Show feel, its horniness trying to come off as nonchalant, but mostly feeling joyless. ![]() More than 12-ish minutes, The Sex EP rages through a karaoke bar stocked with blogged-about cuts from 20 years ago, with maybe a 1975 track thrown in for current-relevance measure. Listening to The Sex EP doesn’t do much to ease the feeling that the songs are only tangential to Smith’s nascent project’s overall point. The Dare, which released its debut EP last week, feels like a musical pseudo-event, existing only for the purpose of feeding its perpetual-motion publicity machine. To even comment on the Dare, the provoca-pop project of 27-year-old private-school substitute teacher turned downtown NYC enfant celebre Harrison Patrick Smith, is to have lost the game. TheDareEPRelease TheDareEPRelease.jpg - Credit: Ben Taylor ![]() ![]() and Primal Cleaveling Seed Primal Cleaveling Seed Stack Size: 100 Provides ? Units of Raw Vivid Lifeforce when HarvestedĬan be Harvested after 6 Growth Cycles Reveals a random Speed modifier crafting effect when Harvested Shift click to unstack. , Vivid Thornweaver Seed Vivid Thornweaver Seed Stack Size: 100 Provides ? Units of Raw Wild Lifeforce when HarvestedĬan be Harvested after 6 Growth Cycles Reveals a random Currency crafting effect with improved outcome chances when Harvested Shift click to unstack. The growth times of Tier 1 seeds is now uniformly 3 growth cycles, with the exception of the rarest seeds: Wild Hatchling Seed Wild Hatchling Seed Stack Size: 100.Adjusted the weightings of the Tier 1 seed outcomes such that the more desirable outcomes (remove a modifier, add a modifier, remove and then add a modifier) are significantly more common.Doubled the likelihood of Tier 2 seeds dropping from Tier 1 Harvest monsters.Fixed a bug causing some Harvest seeds to appear very bright when you entered the Sacred Grove.Fixed a bug where the portal to the Sacred Grove could be placed in an inaccessible area while in the Port Map.Fixed a bug where the Sacred Grove had the wrong icon in the World Map information panel.Fixed a bug where the Horticrafting Station's minimap icon was visible from outside the Sacred Grove.Fixed a bug where Oshabi could say multiple voice lines at once when auto-planting large amounts of seeds.Fixed a bug where the displayed number of seeds in your Seed Stockpile didn't update correctly after auto-planting seeds.Fixed a bug where the Tier 4 Harvest Bosses could endlessly spawn monsters during their immobile phase.Added additional preloading for the Tier 4 Harvest bosses and Heart of the Grove encounter.Namharim, Born of Night now becomes invisible during its Prowl skill.Your progress towards respawning the Heart of the Grove in the Sacred Grove is now displayed in the Sacred Grove. ![]() Added text hovers over various Harvest Infrastructure to more clearly display what it is connected to.Adjusted the colours of planted seeds and Harvest art assets to help better distinguish them from one another.Added a confirmation warning when attempting to uproot fully-grown Tier 1 seeds as well as Tier 2 or higher seeds with any growth.Storage Tanks are now unlocked when your Raw Lifeforce plus any additional Condensed Lifeforce exceeds 250.'Ready' notifications now display whether a given collector is 'Partially Ready' or 'Fully Ready'.The area around the entrance portal in the Sacred Grove now has stairs, creating 180 degrees of pathway.When a Tier 2, Tier 3 or Tier 4 seed drops, there is a chance for an additional seed of the same type to drop and be allocated to a party member for each party member present.This can be placed in the Sacred Grove and will affect planted seeds around it, granting nearby seeds additional properties on being Harvested. Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4 and the Heart of the Grove monsters and bosses now have a chance based on their rarity, with higher-tier seeds having a higher chance, to drop a new plantable "seed". ![]() |