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Community bike workshop3/18/2023 Contact us if you have any questions to ensure it will work for you. Children's bicycles may not fit/be accommodated. ****Bicycle trailer will fit most adult bicycles. Welcome to Recyke ybike We are a charity in North East England that specialises in refurbishing donated bikes and selling them at reasonable. ![]() 8 PM - Final shuttle back to The Walter Dome.7 PM - Second shuttle ride back to The Walter Dome.6 PM - First shuttle ride back to The Walter Dome.The refurbishment and fit out of a community workshop making it a. Kids activity station, raffle, music, food and drinks available for purchase. BBP is a comprehensive community bike project, repairing and rehoming unwanted bikes. 4:30PM - arrive at Walter Station Brewery.Don't miss the pit stop half way to refill your water bottle and grab a special treat. 3:30PM - guided bike ride to Walter Station Brewery.2PM - The Walter Dome - art workshop to deck out your bike! Many creative options will be available including ways to decorate your spokes, handle bars or any part of your bike you choose! Add fairy lights to your bike for $5 per strand.for the DIY ebike community and believe in providing quality bike parts at. Looking to rent a bicycle? Check out REI Co-op Adventure Center 0 Dutch custom bicycle workshop Timmermans Fietsen have presented the updated. ![]() Additional swag kits can be purchased for $5. Every paid ticket will also receive a swag kit including a Walter Hive tote bag and reusable water bottle. Included with all tickets - art workshop, guided bicycle ride with safety talk, shuttle and trailer to take you and your bike back to The Walter Dome***. Join us for an art workshop to decorate your bicycle and a guided bicycle ride to Walter Station Brewery.
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Tvtropes spec ops the line3/18/2023 The Darkness contains the entire movie To Kill a Mockingbird. Surely the movie clip stops at some point, right? Maybe you’re a fan of classic movies and you don’t feel like getting up. But maybe you’d rather spend a bit more time with Jenny. Soon your partner falls asleep, and your character gets the urge to slip out quietly to go about his business. Oddly enough, the movie actually starts playing on the television in the game. You sit back, snuggle up, and turn on the classic black-and-white movie To Kill a Mockingbird. But at an early point in the game, Jackie and his girlfriend Jenny get together for a relaxing night in front of the television. It definitely doesn’t sound like a game where you’d spend much time relaxing on the couch with a loved one. In a first-person shooter called The Darkness - which follows a mafia hitman named Jackie whose body is host to a mysterious ancient entity that craves violence - it makes sense that you’d spend the majority of your time gruesomely murdering your enemies. Only a game like The Witcher 3 could pull off a scene like this and have players take it in stride. Geralt goes along with it, and you get the sense that this isn’t the first time they’ve copulated on this unique piece of furniture. Only she doesn’t want to do it on the bed, presumably because that would be too comfortable. If you choose the flirty dialog choices for Geralt, you’ll find that Yennifer is thinking along the same lines. When they return to their room, they have a chat. All that action leaves them with some (sexual) energy to burn. Circumstances throw them together, and they survive a typical Witcher mission, which means they barely escape with their lives. The encounter begins after the Witcher Geralt and his on-again-off-again lover Yennifer have been apart for years. Leave it to The Witcher 3 to sidestep (and maybe even embrace) all of those issues by serving up one of most absurd sex scenes in the history of moving images. When video games dabble in sex, the results are often problematic, laughable, or just plain bad. A traditional love story of boy Pac meets girl Pac (while being chased by ghosts), boy and girl Pac chase one another and then a teeny little baby Pac is delivered via stork to form a full Pac family. Her game was faster and more varied than her husband’s, and in-between rounds spent dashing around its dot-filled mazes were some of the first and most iconic cutscenes in gaming. After a whirlwind of edits and a presentation to Namco that legitimized the entire project, Ms. So eager, in fact, that they ultimately gave up on waiting and embraced an American team’s conversion kit that transformed existing Pac-Man cabinets into an all-new sequel. Adjusted for inflation, it's made over $7,000,000,000 to date, most of that within just its first year of availability! After such insane success, it’s understandable that Midway, Pac-Man’s North American distributor, was more than eager for Namco to deliver a follow-up as the calendar flipped into 1982. The original Pac-Man had been a culture-shaking success in 1981 – an arcade game so popular that it's still the highest-grossing video game of all-time, entirely due to the sheer avalanche of quarters shoved into its coin slots over 30 years ago. The video game industry's first leading lady was created out of impatience. Kerrigan, as the leader of the Zerg, granted them humanity - transforming their story from that of mindless insectoids into a somewhat sympathetic race of creatures. But through Kerrigan’s dark transformation, the Starcraft franchise also turned from being just a black and white space opera to a complex story with characters full of depth and shades of gray. When Kerrigan emerged from the chrysalis, she immediately became Blizzard’s most iconic villain- once the love interest of lovable good guy Jim Raynor, she became a villain responsible for millions of deaths, hell bent on revenge against Mengsk and inhumane in her tactics. It’s only in the Zerg campaign that we find out that she is not dead, but corrupted by the Zerg to become the Queen of Blades. ![]() The most shocking in the initial Terran campaign is Mengsk’s betrayal on Tarsonis, leading to veteran ghost and beloved ally Sarah Kerrigan’s apparent death. For those who remember back to Blizzard’s original Starcraft campaign, it was rife with twists.
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Copper cups3/18/2023 ![]() If you love copper, then a good old-fashion Moscow Mule Mug should be one of the first pieces of copper cups you own! Ready to take a look at 7 of the best copper cups for everyone in your family? Check out our selection of hand hammered copper cups perfect for kids and adults-and special occasions! 1. 5 Best Copper Cups For Everyone In Your Family ![]() That is why copper cups are not only great for drinking water, they also add a cooling effect to your favorite libation, as well as making your drink taste even better over time. When it comes to alcoholic drinks, holding your copper cups in your hand allows copper's conductivity to release the flavors and aromas of your favorite spirit. Rest assured, all of our copper drinkware, cups and mugs are hand hammered using pure copper from 100% recycled sources! How do copper cups work?Īs mentioned earlier, copper reacts with water to release copper oxide ions which are beneficial to your health. Thus, it is safe to drink out of copper cups given that you purchase high quality copper cups from our copper drinkware collection. This is under the World Health Organization's recommendation of 2ppm, which is 2mg per liter. ![]() Excessive amounts of copper in the water does lead to copper poisoning.Īccording to this article, the amount of copper leached into water overnight is at 0.0475 parts per million(ppm). This process, known as the oligodynamic effect, is why the Ayurvedic tradition of storing water in copper vessels continues until today. Is it safe to drink out of copper cups?Ĭopper reacts when it comes in contact with water and release copper oxide ions into water. If you are not familiar with copper's oligodynamic effect and why drinking copper water is good for your health, be sure to read this article to learn about the Ayurvedic way of drinking copper water. The long answer is, copper cups are not only unbreakable and will last for a lifetime, drinking liquids and water from them also yields long-term health benefits for everyone in your family. The short answer is, yes! You should definitely invest in some good quality hand hammered copper cups. Have you ever wondered whether you should get copper cups for your home?
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Stylizer 63/18/2023 ![]() The ‘Transparent’ materials will use a cutout alpha method based on the pattern.Īll these shaders also have two variants for ‘Soft’ and ‘Simple’ lighting. Both have separate shaders for ‘Opaque’ and ‘Transparent’ materials. ‘Diffuse’ is a more lightweight shader based on the legacy lambert lighting calculations. The ‘Standard’ shader uses a more heavy lighting calculation, based on the Unity Standard shaders, and offers a few more options. ‘Standard’ and ‘Diffuse’ (Lambert) specify the lighting method used before the dithering effect is applied to the material. The package contains a few material shaders which can be used to create dithered materials.There are in total eight dithered shaders available. Hovewer there is an option to generate texture automaticly using checkbox 'Auto Generate'. A warning will be shown if you changed settings, but didn't generate the texture. If you edit the properties, the texture will not generate automatically, so you should always generate the texture to see the results. 'Object Space' will wrap the pattern around the object based on the UV coordinates. 'Screen Space' will be like the image effect, a static pattern over the material. Using materials the pattern can be applied in 'Screen Space' or in 'Object Space'. This will make sure the 'Mixed Color Count' is setup correctly in the shader. When the 'Generate Texture' button is pressed, the texture is saved within the asset, that's why the image effect and materials will just take a 'Palette' asset as input. With the 'List From Image' button it's possible to populate the color list with the colors found in an image. The asset has 'Palette Color List' and 'Mixed Color Count' properties to setup your palette. ![]() The "Stylizer" element also contains a pixelation modifier to go alongside the dithering functionality to achieve pixel art style for any kind of 3D or 2D game. Four other shader, standard and diffuse both with opaque and transparent variants, to be used to create a material for geometry. One shader to be used in a post processing effect. Both have settings to tweak and generate a texture that can be used in the dithering shaders and materials. As well as a 'Pattern Asset' which has a several settings to define the pattern. A 'Palette Asset' which basically contains a list of colors and the amount of concurrent colors that could make up a color representation. ![]() The package introduces two types of assets. First layer can pixelate your game with just one button, second adds extra grain to reduce banding on the color steps. The package includes different shaders to achieve retro color look effect based on a color palette & pattern.
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The Quest mode can last a VERY long time, with close to 400 opponents to challenge throughout the various parts of the city. Whether this will grab you for the duration is an open question. In the Quest mode, where you work to build up your car and conquer the streets, you can race two or three opponents, clear out a stretch of highway, head on back to the shop to upgrade your car, and then pick a new section of the streets to challenge. ![]() Everything comes in bite-sized chunks, and it's easy to switch back and forth between flavors. Thus, the game never becomes very involving - it's more like a big plate of racing hors d'oeuvres. The pace of most races is such that they'll last between 30 and 90 seconds, covering a short stretch of highway with perhaps one or two major curves, and you don't usually have to wait more than two minutes or so before encountering a new opponent. Fall too far back and you lose, with nothing to show for your efforts and a back mark in your win-loss record. Empty your rival's energy and walk away with victory points (and bragging rights). You lose energy for falling behind your opponent, and for crashing into walls or cars - hence, speed and clean cornering are both rewarded. Cue the appearance of the energy bars, and their gradual degradation, depending on who leads and who trails. You find and choose an opponent by wandering around the freeway until you meet one, then flash your headlights to start the race. ![]() Gameplay If nobody's ever bothered to explain the TXR concept to you before (unlikely, since this site alone has probably done so three or times already, but this primer remains obligatory), it's a head-to-head racing game using fighter-style energy bars. GT3 is still the king, but TXR makes a cracking giant-exhaust-cone-bedecked court jester. TXR will always be a bit of an acquired taste, with its quirky drift mechanics, inexplicable collision behavior, and above all the potential for monotony inherent in a continuous string of highway drag races, but Zero does the best job of overcoming those problems and delivering a well-rounded racing experience. This, in addition to the expansions added to the PS2 version of the game, helps make up for some of the series' endemic faults. ![]() Tweak your car just how you like it and it's yours, something you can invest a little of your ego in. Gran Turismo has greater simulation depth when it comes to tuning your car, and it's naturally a far better driving game all round, but TXR has that Armored Core vanity appeal, with all the painting and detailing and cosmetic modifications and neato decals and so on. The best thing about the Tokyo Xtreme Racer games is that they provide all the goofy macho fun of your own custom racers without any of the guilt caused by all that tawdry excess, not to mention any of the ridiculous expenditure of cash required.
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Viper titanfall 23/17/2023 Going by the worn-out Northstar chassis in his homestead's barn, he appears to have been a mercenary Pilot for years before retiring on his home world and taking a job with the local air force to better care for his family and young daughter. In the recently released cinematic trailer for Apex Legends, the latest in the "Stories From The Outlands" video series, gamers finally get to see Viper's face (he looks good in a mustache) and learn more about his backstory. He pilots a customized version of the "Northstar" Titan players can use in multiplayer matches, a sniper mech capable of flying for long stretches of time and launching truly ludicrous numbers of missiles. He presents himself as a cocky ace pilot when fighting the player, darting out of the path of their gunshots and taunting them with remarks such as " the skies belong to me" and " speed is life." Player encounter Viper in the 8th mission of Titanfall 2, on top of the hull of a starship flying through the skies of an alien world. Viper, one of the deadliest boss encounters in Titanfall 2, was one of Blisk's Apex Predator mercenaries, while Valkyrie, his daughter, is one of the newest additions to Blisk's stable of "Legends." In Apex Legends, years after the war, an older Kuben Blisk retired from the mercenary business to found the Apex Games, a sporting event where outlaws, champions, and rogues shoot each other up in an arena with a constantly shrinking force field boundary. Titanfall 1 and Titanfall 2 have narratives centered around the aforementioned Frontier War, blending FPS combat with wall-running acrobatics and destructive brawling between armored Titans, which are mechas players summon to the battlefield via dramatic orbital drops. In these games, Kuben Blisk and his menagerie of mercs are antagonists and bosses the players must run and gun their way past. Related: Why Apex Legends' New Arenas Mode Is Such A Great Idea One of these mercenary companies, the Apex Predators, was led by an amoral if sporting individual named Kuben Blisk. ![]() During this war, unscrupulous mercenary companies plied their trade, contracted by employers to destroy their enemies and treat the laws of war more as suggestions. ![]() The setting of Titanfall 1, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends, a classic science fiction setting of space travel and far-flung interstellar colonies, is defined by an event called the Frontier Wars, a conflict between militarized Core World corporations like the IMC and the Frontier Militia mustered by colonies seeking independence (the similarities between this plot, the original Star Wars trilogy, and the historical American Revolution are fairly easy to notice).
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Jennifer mounty3/17/2023 SAC History Professor, Professional Learning Academy Coordinator, and One Book, One Campus Coordinator Rita Page talks with our host Sun Ezzell about this year's One Book One Campus winner “Illegally Yours: A Memoir” by Rafael Agustin, Mt. Student Senate for California Community Colleges 2021-22 Legislative Priorities: Student Senate for California Community Colleges: Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act (AB 963) Requirements and Increasing Student Voter Participation: ![]() Enjoy.Ī Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future: ![]() You’ll hear from presenters, Dafna Golden, Professor of Geography, Raul Madrid, Sierra Powell, and Kelly Rivera all Professors of Political Science who share on different topics from voter trends to GIS mapping. SAC’s Constitution Day event that will help clarify exactly how it all works. How well do you know our voting system? With mid-term elections just around corner when this airs and just for those of us who want a refresher.we’re sharing a slightly abridged version of Mt. To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE Student Senate for California Community Colleges 2021-22 Legislative Priorities Student Senate for California Community Colleges Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act (AB 963) Requirements and Increasing Student Voter Participation ![]() Enjoy.Ī Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future SAC’s Constitution Day event and today we have a special behind the scenes conversation with Kelly Rivera, Professor of Political Science and Gio Rodriguez, Student Activities Coordinator about the importance of this event and even more so, the importance of leadership and how you can get involved and be a leader for your community.
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Sunvox midi keyboard3/17/2023 ![]() Enjoy experimenting around with the setups, different waveforms and filters. Here’s what’s new in SunVox 1.8: audio engine has been switched to 32bit (Floating Point) mode other than 44100 sampling rate. The update adds in improved audio engine, Audiobus 2 and IAA support, new modules and more. It even is sensitive to the velocity parameters of the keys which makes the playing of the synthesizer very intuitive. Developer Alexander Zolotov has released an update to SunVox, his modular synthesizer for iPhone and iPad. Just click on a source generator (in the standard example: Keys, Drums and Bass) and press the keys. Now you can use Sunvox with your MIDI keyboard. This value may differ from hardware to hardware but for me using a Banana Pi M2 Berry, it resulted in a clear sound and nearly no delay when I was playing the MPK49. For this reason you’ll have to adjust the Audio buffer size from Auto to 1024 in the Audio preferences: On Raspberry Pi the sound quality produced by Sunvox can appear scratchy or with an annoying latence – especially using a MIDI input. To configure the keyboard for the use in sunvox simply open the Preferences menu in the left upper corner and select the MIDI device in the MIDI settings Sunvox MIDI preferences The MIDI keyboard usually gets recognized by the time you plug it into the USB port. The grafical interface of Sunvox should now be up and running and the default screen shows a setup with sound generator blocks including filters on the output like reverb and compressor. Then launch the executable with the command. Connect the monitor, keyboard, mouse and MIDI-Keyboard to the Raspberry.Ĭopy the ARM binary folder of SunVox to the Raspberry Pi and change to the folder of the Raspberry Pi executables: cd ~/sunvox/sunvox/linux_arm_armhf_raspberry_pi Make sure you have Raspbian – I am using Stretch – installed on the Raspberry Pi and all the installed packages up to date. A MIDI-Keyboard, in this case I used the Akai MPK49.Monitor (with HDMI), Keyboard and Mouse.Raspberry Pi (preferably 3+) or Banana Pi M2 *.patterns controls the modules (sends them notes and. The SunVox project consists of the following parts: modules generates the sound. The software is freeware, but no source code is available. It’s a tool for those people who like to compose music. This solution really works out of the box and is very easy to implement. SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker). Have you ever wanted a low-budget, easy to use Synthesizer that produces ambient Retrosounds without lacks in sound quality? Then this guide will show you how to achieve this in no time and only with the use of affordable equipment.
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Mac install4j wizard hangs3/17/2023 ![]() Option to the Cytoscape.vmoptions file or the _JAVA_OPTIONSĮnvironment variable, substituting the desired path as appropriate: Installed on a workstation, but the home directory is stored on aĬentral file server. to the desired directory – this is useful when Cytoscape is To change the user homeĭirectory from the default, one can set the Java environment variable The u/ directory signifies the user’s home directory, which variesįrom user to user and from platform to platform. ![]() Various libraries needed to run the application. The core CytoscapeĪpplication assumes this directory structure when looking for the For Cytoscape to work properly, all files shouldīe left in the directory in which they were unpacked. The p/ directory signifies the program directory, which varies from U/CytoscapeConfiguration/cytoscape3.props Preset networks as described in the embedded README.txt fileĬytoscape properties and program cache files More automation flexibility is available using other settings and pre-programmed response files, as described in Appendix A of the Install4j manual ().Ĭytoscape installations (regardless of platform) contain theįollowing files and directories: Cytoscape files and directories Directory / FileĬytoscape program files, startup scripts, and default location for session files ![]() With a “-q” parameter, the installation package will automatically choose all default settings. For this to succeed, your execution environment must already have sufficient privileges to install software (e.g., for Windows: administrator priveleges). The installation process can be automated and made silent by executing the installation package with the “-q” command parameter (e.g., “Cytoscape_3_8_0-RC1_windows_64bit.exe -q”) from a command line or script. This will bring up a wizard that will lead you through the process, presenting choices for the installation directory, license agreement, file associations and privacy settings. The easiest and most common way to install Cytoscape is by executing an automatic installation package downloaded from the Cytoscape web site.
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Kingdom under fire 2 spellsword3/17/2023 ![]() The content we produce is obviously not free of use should you want to upload our videos on your own website or YouTube channel. We now also produce HDR videos, which can only be enjoyed by those who own compatible televisions. At a time when Youtube's subpar video compression has become the norm for most people on the Internet, we refuse to give up quality without a fight. Kingdom Under Fire II is an RTS for the masses that features both a single campaign mode as well as a MMO mode. The HD content we provide always respects the original resolution and framerate of the games we capture, making Gamersyde the one and only place to get 1080p/4K/60fps videos with high bitrate. We are able to offer fast news delivery and HD content from the upcoming games, and one of the greatest and friendliest gaming communities in the world. We cover both handheld and video games platforms and the site has grown into one of the biggest gaming sites in the continent. Originally posted by AmaWizzyHorray:IMO you also want to look at the late-game potential of this character Gamersyde is a commercial multiplatform web portal based in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each month from all over the world. In general this damage is a lot of the time lower compared to ice because of the strong vitality impact. LIGHTNING is mostly for single-target DPS (the bigger mobs) to reduce vitality and instantly execute those in general mostly for 1v1 combat solely for the vitality purpose. Ice also sometimes has stacking damage if you add the debuff "Frostbite - Low" you can sometimes apply more DPS to those targets with those ice spells. The Spellsword combines her magical runes to produce ever new attacks and healing spells, compensating for her relatively shallow health pool. You want to use ICE for debuffing movement and attack speed. Her damage sits in between all it's not the worst but you really rely on reducing vitality on bigger targets and debuffing enemies compared to doing raw DPS, like the gunslinger or the elementalist pet, for example. No other class has anywhere near the debuff and heal capabilities of this class: so i would most definitely define her as a debuff / support class amongst all others. Kingdom Under Fire II - Spellsword - High quality stream and download In case you deliberately steal content from us, we will let Youtube and other video hosting services know about it. ![]() She can utilise this tree as a strategy skill and heal allies.Ī THUNDER cloud which deals damage and reduces defenses of opponents in the radius.Īn ICE tree that mostly reduces attack speed and movement speed and randomly freezes enemies. Her late-game lvl 30 strategy abillities (for big raids and invasions):Ī HEALING tree, pure supportive abillity. cannons balls coming from space exploding in your face). His level 30 support skills are flashbang and a gangplank ult (you know. Same with scorpions, it's damage output is kind of ridiculous anyway so why have the need to execute. once you hit level 20) and mobs like scorpions will need one or two strong combo's in order for you to execute this minion.Ī gunslinger, for example, has raw damage and does not need vitality as it can most likely two or three shot one of those mini-bosses anyway. ![]() You can easily combo all of those abillities together (esp. Once a "mini-boss" has low vitality you can instantly execute this minion. What is Best Weapon Pathfinder 2e.Heightened Spells: Heightening spells is an important mechanic in Pathfinder 2e.If a suit of armor or a weapon has multiple etchings of the same rune, only the highest-level one applies. She can actively restore both health and add buffs during skill combo's (both for you and surrounding allies).įor example she has a lot of THUNDER abillities which reduce VITALITY by a lot. Pathfinder 2e Nexus - Signature Spell Expansion - Your direct mental grasp of your power lets you cast more spells with greater freedom. Instance (Makadu Village) start at 8:08.p.s. The nature of a spellsword is mostly DEBUFFING your target and having both a combat and SUPPORT role. At start some current businesses before the dungeon run (sells, buys, questors etc). IMO you also want to look at the late-game potential of this character |