![]() Zack Morris of Saved by the Bell has the in-universe ability to call "time-outs", making time freeze around himself while he would consider the situation and what he should do next.In Legends of Tomorrow, a drunk Wally does this to Gary, dropping his pants and stealing his time courier. Oh, and he uses his powers to cheat at prison poker. During a prison fight, he positions the thugs so that they hit one another and causes a third one to break his hand against a beam, while making it look like they're simply incompetent. In a later episode, Barry parodies the Quicksilver scene from X-Men: Days of Future Past and has the Dirty Cops slam one another in the face with their guns. For example, while we don't actually see Barry's perspective, a mugger who tries to rob him at gunpoint finds himself disarmed, pantsed, and facing a cop. In The Flash, speedsters occasionally engage in this.While the crew is frozen by the Time Wand, Lister steals a ping pong ball from mid-air between two players. After accepting the deal, Al asks the Devil to wait a few seconds before unfreezing the room: In the meantime he puts a broom in Peg's hand and shakes the beer can Jeff is about to open. ![]() with Children episode "Damn Bundys", the Devil pauses time so he can offer a deal to Al Bundy. He then added that while time was stopped, he'd take the opportunity to adjust the undergarments of the other casino patrons, purely for his own amusement. Discussed and played for laughs in an episode of QI, when Sean Lock suggested using time manipulation to cheat at casino games.While they discuss the matter at hand, Lucifer messes with the frozen robber, putting a tiara on his head, stealing his gun, stripping him down to his briefs and tying his shoes together before leaving. ![]()
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![]() The Haiti Earthquake 2021 Fund at the Boston Foundation:.The prayers of the western Massachusetts Catholic community for their brothers and sisters in Haiti are much welcome in these difficult times," he added.ĭumay recommended a number of organizations accepting donations to assist with their emergency response in Haiti: "Thank you for all those expressions of compassion and support. "Many friends from the Springfield Diocese have already reached out to express their solidarity with the people of Haiti and to indicate that they hold the earthquake victims in their prayers," Dumay said. He expected that at the very least Elms College's School of Nursing "will adjust schedules to accommodate our students in Haiti during these extremely difficult times." Our partners in Haiti are compiling an updated report on students and we will determine whether and how we can be of any help." "As a result, some of our students are in the areas affected by the earthquake. The continuing education program in nursing "draws students from all geographical areas in Haiti by design," he said. The Episcopalian University of Haiti's School of Nursing is not located near the epicenter of the earthquake and "did not sustain any damage," Dumay said, adding that the university "will most likely participate in relief efforts." In 2020, just prior to the start of the pandemic, the college partnered with the Episcopalian University of Haiti to set up a Haiti Nursing Continuing Education program.Įlms nursing faculty teach Haitian educators in nursing from various parts of Haiti, via Zoom, "so that they can better prepare - and educate - their students," he said.įollowing the earthquake, the college has been in contact with its Haiti program partners to see how they fared. It was upgraded to a hurricane as it passed near the Cayman Islands on its way to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center.ĭumay said the College of Our Lady of the Elms, or Elms College for short, has students in Haiti. Tropical Storm Grace dumped heavy rain on Haiti Aug. 16, Haiti's civil protection agency raised the death toll from the earthquake to 1,419 and the number of injured to 6,000. The cities of Jérémie and Les Cayes were most affected. Some tens of thousands of residents of southern Haiti are living out in the open following the quake, centered about 80 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Writing ahead of the major tropical storm that hit Haiti a couple of days after the quake, he said the people there also were "bracing for the hurricane season, which has already started to hamper the rescue and recovery efforts and will undoubtedly make things more difficult in the days ahead." "I have been in touch with my family and friends they are all safe, away from the south where much of the effect of the earthquake was felt," he said in a statement sent to iObserve, the media outlet of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts. (CNS) - Harry Dumay, president of the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee and a native of Haiti, said everyone throughout his homeland is "devastated by what happened to their brothers and sisters in the south of Haiti," hit Aug. ![]() In its 2005 list "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", Blender ranked the song 70th and commented that the song "made people who hadn't yet had either a first love or a first band nostalgic for the experience". I think songs can have a life of their own regardless of the promotion. It didn't chart anywhere in Europe until at least 10 years after it was released. A lot of songs, like that one, hit big in America but really not anywhere else. That song is 35 years old now so it's had that many years to incubate. We had a laugh about it at the time, and Bryan decided to keep it when he did the final recording a month or two later." However, Vallance stated on the Song Facts message board that "When we recorded the demo in my basement, towards the end of the song Bryan sang a little naughty bit: 'me and my baby in a ’69'. He notes Jackson Browne's " Running on Empty", which contains references to 19, as his own influence, and recalls Adams citing the film Summer of '42 as his. Vallance, however, has gone for the more conventional interpretation of the title being a reference to a year. "69" is a reference to the sexual position 69. Adams said the song was not about the summer of 1969 but about sex and making love in the summertime. When Adams appeared on The Early Show in 2008, he was asked about "Summer of '69" and its lyrical meaning. "Summer of '69" is written in the key of D major. The song was recorded three to four times, in different ways, with both Adams and Vallance still not convinced that it was finished. On the song's first demo, it started with a 12-string riff, just like the breakdown section in the middle of the song, but this was replaced with a chunky 6-string intro on the second demo. "Jody" is a reference to Adams' sound manager, Jody Perpick, who got married during the album's recording session. ![]() Adams mentioned once in an interview that "Jimmy" was one of his early drummers. When writing the lyrics "Jimmy quit, Jody got married", Vallance suggested using "Woody quit and Gordy got married", referring to members of his high school band, but Adams liked his version better. While the phrase "Best Days of My Life" appeared seven times in the first draft, on the final draft it had been replaced by "Summer of '69" and appeared only two times throughout the song. At that time the two were planning to title it "Best Days of My Life" instead. In their first draft, the lyric "summer of '69" appeared only once. The song went through a number of changes because neither Adams nor Vallance was convinced it was a strong enough song to be featured on the album. "Summer of '69" was finished on January 25, 1984, co-written with Jim Vallance in his basement studio. Īfter a tour supporting his album Cuts Like a Knife, Adams immediately started the recording sessions for the new album, Reckless. It is also the most played song on Canadian radio amongst songs by Canadian artists originally released before 1990. Amongst songs recorded by Canadian artists, it is the most streamed and most digitally purchased song within Canada amongst songs originally released before the start of the digital download era (approximiately 2005). The single had a strong effect on music charts internationally, in the UK it was acclaimed as one of Bryans best, with its highest peaks being number four in the Netherlands and number five in the United States. The music video for the song, which was filmed by Steve Barron, features Adams and his backing band in a variety of settings, including running from the police. "Summer of '69" received favourable reviews from music critics. The song was released with two B-side tracks: "Kids Wanna Rock" and "The Best Was Yet to Come", which had previously appeared on the albums Reckless and Cuts Like a Knife respectively. According to later claims by Adams, the title is a reference to the sex position, not the year, but Vallance disputes this. "Summer of '69" is an up-tempo rock song. It was released in June 1985 under A&M Records as the fourth single from Reckless. "Summer of '69" was produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain. The song was written by Adams and his longtime songwriting collaborator Jim Vallance. The song is about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star. " Summer of '69" is a song recorded by the Canadian musician Bryan Adams from his fourth album, Reckless. ![]() ![]() The qualities that immediately distinguished Euphoria from other coming-of-age shows remain present this season, including sequences that co-mingle fantasy with reality, an abundance of needle drops, the occasional musical number, a fixation on dim-to-dark lighting (even the wealthy families on Euphoria apparently lack a substantial lamp budget), and often graphic sexual encounters. (There will be eight total.) He kicks off season two this way, perhaps, to announce two prevailing elements in this run of the dark teen drama: an interest in exploring the parental relationships and childhood patterns that have made the Euphoria characters who they are, and a commitment to going in even more audacious creative directions. As established in its first season, which unspooled on HBO in 2019, Levinson is a filmmaker with a moody vibe all his own, one he leans fully into throughout the seven new episodes provided to critics in advance. Levinson doesn’t spend the entirety of Euphoria’s second season mimicking the style of one of the great American filmmakers, though. The content, pacing, and cutting of the sequence is all pretty Scorsesian, but the casting of Kathrine Narducci from The Irishman (and also The Sopranos) as Fez’s grandmother, along with the soundtrack appearance of Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into the Fire” - famously used in the GoodFellas helicopter sequence - cements the notion that Sam Levinson, creator, writer, and director of Euphoria, is trying to pull a Marty. There’s Grandma marching into a strip club and shooting a guy in both thighs while his erect penis is exposed Grandma bringing a very young Fezco, her “business partner,” to a handoff of illegal substances and Grandma sharing important life lessons with her grandson while dropping myriad F-bombs. The almost ten-minute flashback that recounts the relationship between drug-dealing Fezco (Angus Cloud) and the gangster grandmother who raised him unfolds in a briskly edited rush of imagery. The first episode of Euphoria season two opens blatantly, unapologetically, like a Martin Scorsese film. ![]() Better yet, all characters within the same class can share in this benefit. So worrying about appearance versus statistical gains is no longer an issue. Squids adopts a system where you can extract beneficial stats from helmets gained while still keeping the cosmetic appearance that you want. The store is where you can purchase new characters to unlock, items for use during battle, and stat-boosting helmets. The only trouble is, those same pearls are used to buy things at the store, so you really have to put some thought into your spending priorities. This is actually a nice system, since you don’t have to depend on a particular character scoring their own kills in order to be improved, something that has become problematic for healing classes in these sorts of games. Each of your characters can be leveled up at your base between stages using pearls earned in battle. Finally, you have your Healer class that restores health just by bumping into comrades. ![]() Shooters and Troopers are very similar in that they can damage enemies before or after their normal movement, with the former launching projectiles and the latter performing a stomp move that damages anyone within a close radius. They can dash during movement to propel them even further than a normal launch would allow them to. Scouts, as expected, can cover the most ground as far as exploration is concerned. The various classes come with their own innate abilities that, while minor, can really make things easier or harder depending on the combination you bring with you to a particular stage. There are also streams and vortexes that will dictate movement long after a particular turn has ended, and much of the variety in the game is owed to the overall level design of each stage. Sometimes, using your surroundings and various obstacles will lead to better results, as spiky urchins do lots of damage and falling into a pit will instantly eliminate someone (including you). The speed at which you connect coupled with the damage potential of your character will ultimately decide the damage done to your enemies. If you’re more of a button kind of person, using a combination of the analog stick and the A button accomplishes the same thing. All you do is tap on your squid, slide your finger/stylus in the direction opposite of where you want to launch them to and let them fly. The Wii U gamepad works wonders as a control setup, particularly when using the touchscreen, as the game was designed with that scheme in mind. The idea is to propel yourself into the other enemies in such a way as to maximize damage. On their turn, each character has a meter indicating how much they can move as well as one showing their individual health. ![]() For each stage, you can put together a party of squids from a selection of different classes. The real draw is going to be the addictive gameplay that successfully fuses a rubberband physics exercise with strategy RPG sensibilities. It’s not an epic tale filled with political intrigue by any means, but it moves the game along and manages to be somewhat charming. It also falls to them to raise an army large enough to fight back against this seemingly impossible foe, and thus their quest begins. They learn that this is a result of a mysterious black ooze that is slowly polluting their waters. The basic premise of Squids goes a little something like this: Steev and his tentacled companions are out treasure hunting before they are forced to contend with several assaults by other creatures of the sea. This is the one folly that Squids Odyssey brings to its Wii U iteration. I mean, I’m perfectly content with doodling with a physics puzzle while sitting on the can for several minutes, but that doesn’t mean I’ll find the same joy in it when I sit down in front of my TV to play something. The issue with making the leap from mobile to console, such as with games like the aforementioned Angry Birds Trilogy, is that they aren’t necessarily built with the more attentive focus of the console space in mind. Squids Odyssey is the series’ first foray into the Nintendo Wii U’s eShop or consoles in general, which is impressive for a game about slingshotting cephalopods. Squids started life as an iOS title and eventually migrated to Android and PC by way of ports and spinoff titles. Rather, you would have described in the simplest way possible what I believe to be the core essence of Squids Odyssey. What do you get when you mix the core mechanics of Angry Birds with that of Final Fantasy Tactics? If you said Angry Birds: Chocobo Edition, you would be close (and on to something so far as spinoff ideas go). ![]() ![]() As such he believes that they might suggest beings from other planets have been interacting with humans since prehistoric times: Adding weight to the ’ancient astronaut theory’ which postulates that human civilization was established with the assistance of benevolent space-faring aliens. He claims that the objects and creatures seen in them are totally anomalous and out of character when compared to other, already discovered, examples of prehistoric cave art depicting ancient life in the area. He goes on to describe a journey through the solar system on a comet, which he regarded as a natural rocket. He describes a rocket as the only means to travel through a vacuum. Local Archaeologist, Mr Wasim Khan, has personally seen the images. The earliest reference to space travel by means of a rocket was written by William Leitch in 1861 in 'Good Words'. This image may lead UFO enthusiasts to conclude that the images might have been drawn with the involvement of aliens themselves. A force-field or trail of some sort is seen at the rear of the UFO.Īlso visible is another object that might depict a wormhole, explaining how aliens were able to reach Earth. The caves are hidden deep within dense jungle.Ī clear image of what might be an alien or ET in a space suit can be seen in one cave painting along with a classical flying saucer shaped UFO that appears to be either beaming something down or beaming something up, in what might be an ancient UFO abduction scenario. The images were found in the Hoshangabad district of the state of Madhya Pradesh only 70 kilometers from the local administrative centre of Raisen. ![]() It has ACTUALLY had an immediate effect on me! It's TRULY amazing how it works so well! I didn't expect an immediate reaction, but when I started working on school work, it kept me focused on school and nothing else that usually distracts me. I HIGHLY recommend this for people who find it hard to concentrate! I was focused on my work enough to make me think magic did the trick! I love to hear this with the sound of rain dropping on a tent. If you set the volume high on low frequencies, you get a head massage. ![]() This is so helpful, sadly I found out about this on the last day of school, imagine if I saw this earlier. When paired up with the Binaural Beat Machine you can make your brain do task you never thought were possible. I have no choice but to focus, this is impossible to ignore. This, copious amounts of water, and a bit of caffeine, to be specific. I need to do a lot of makeup work to fix things and there's no way I could get through it without this. Pigeon!Īmazing - all of the Beta sliders work really well to keep me focused. Remember, never be afraid of a dream - master the link there is with your conscious mind, and you can start to heal. Your subconscious will access some surprising areas. Leave this by your bed and take that nap when life overwhelms you. I waited a bit, turned off those tones and turned on the two lower beta waves, they immediately woke up and stared at me. I was able to put both my puppies to sleep within three minutes using the three delta wave tones. Maybe it's just the placebo effect, but I personally find this super helpful! My favorite setting is in the high alpha and low beta range. I've tried other noise generators and soundscapes, but the isochronic tone machine is the only one that really gives me the focus I need. This is super useful for getting "in the zone" if you're a writer or an artist. I use this with the 'relaxed' preset in order to keep my mind from overthinking and to get my emotions freely flowing, over the course of a week I've even started to see a change in my own thinking patterns. As someone who struggles with distraction, this is exactly what I need. The higher tones really do help me focus and keep me on the edge of my seat, and this specific arrangement of custom noise helps keep me awake and gives me juuust enough stress to function. When I'm not using the myNoise white noise generator, I do nearly all of my homework and writing with this noise machine. But add those settings to Space Odyssey radio and Impulse noise (calibrate your headphones) - definitely an experience that is keeping me awake and helping me concentrate and focus on work when feeling tired. I never thought a thing that goes "beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep" would help me so much! I pulled up the Isochronic Tones tool from my highschool days, and it's allowed me to learn and absorb more information ("Learn" preset) and be more productive ("Concentrate" preset). I have ADHD on the slightly more severe side, so studying as a college student can be difficult, especially when my ADHD gets out control at the more crucial times I need to study. Effective for twilight headspace where I want maximum relaxation combined with flights of fancy and dreaming. Haven't run a full study on it but I'll take personal anecdotal evidence in the meantime.įinding this to be relaxing good for meditation. I teach and have found that having the 16 Hz focused running barely audibly under either a rain or crowd sound while teaching or music while testing helps keep my students focused. I hope this case study will help someone else. This helps me fall asleep and stay asleep. What works is to play the deep sleep setting to the room on my phone's speakers while I am sleeping. I have been dealing with some insomnia recently. But the tones really do produce all of the desired effects listed. When I read the description, I was skeptical. This page uses isochronic tones as auditory stimuli. This can be used, for example, to induce sleep. The Alpha waves, when we are in a state of physical and mental relaxation Īnd the Beta waves, emitted when we are consciously alert, or when we feel agitated or tense.īrainwave frequencies are in the range of 0.1 to 4 (Delta), 4 to 7 (Theta), 7 to 13 (Alpha) and 13 to 30 (Beta) cycles per second (Hz).īrainwave entrainement (or synchronization), aims to cause our brainwave frequencies to fall into step with a periodic stimulus having a frequency corresponding to the intended brain-state. The Theta waves, associated with a state of somnolence and reduced consciousness They provide an indication of the mental state of an individual.īrainwaves are divided into four main categories: Brainwaves can be detected using sensitive medical equipment such as an EEG. Brainwaves are electrical activity patterns caused by the neurons of the brain communicating with each other. Active reading strategies are ones in which you force your brain to actually do something (something effective and research-backed) while reading your textbook. Instead, research shows that active reading strategies lead to comprehension and retention and help students perform better in classes. Neither approach leads to a high level of comprehension or retention of what you just read. Though very different, both approaches are passive in that they don’t involve active, critical thought-the first approach turns the reader into a copying machine, and the second is much less time-consuming but doesn’t include any active engagement with the text. They then typically fall into one of two categories: those who painstakingly read each word and copy pages of notes for hours, or those who casually skim over the words and flip the pages. Many students approach reading textbooks by opening up the book and starting with the first sentence in the chapter. This will help you to have a better purpose and focus going into the reading and will help you to be able to pull out the important ideas more easily. You should always spend a few minutes previewing a chapter or section before you start to read so that you can get an idea of the main concepts in that section. These features provide a wealth of information and clues about the text. Textbooks contain numerous features that you don’t always encounter in novels, articles, or other types of texts. ![]() Effective reading strategies can ensure that you truly comprehend the course material, come to class prepared, and perform better on class assignments and exams. This handout will provide practical strategies to help you read textbooks more effectively. Do you feel like you spend too much time reading textbooks? Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the amount of information they contain? Do you have a hard time focusing or figuring out what’s important? Textbooks can be tedious and difficult, but they contain many features designed to help you learn. Oh, and Durance is fantastic too, but I'll let you discover his special brand of madness for yourself. Kana, meanwhile, is an endlessly cheerful Aumaua Chanter who has a taste for adventure and a love of storytelling. Edér is a gentle-voiced ex-soldier with a sardonic wit and an adorable fondness for animals. watch christian sermons online sermons archive, sermon and worship resources, td jakes sermon. They're all worth spending time with, but if I had to pick a favourite, it would be between Edér and Kana. In the powerful final segment of this four-part interview, Dr. But it's worth persevering to the fourth and final act, where all the game's mysteries are revealed to you in a single, devastating line.Īlthough the main quest is the most intriguing, Obsidian's best writing is dedicated to your party characters and the interactions between them. That said, it falters in the third act, burying a fairly brief quest-line in an encyclopaedia of elvish nonsense. I bought PoE II: Deadfire on sale for PS5 and Im super tempted to start the game, switching from the first game portable and the second on TV depending on the situation. But I was impressed by how Pillars puts so much of its back-story to purpose, and usually frames its most interesting bits front and centre. Im about 45 hours in, at the beginning of Act 3, I didnt touch the White March expansions or Caed Nua dungeons so I still have a long way to go. Understanding the story does involve digesting quite a lot of lore. It deals with the reincarnation of souls, the complicity of a person in their previous lives, and what happens after you kill a God. By comparison, Pillars' central storyline is almost always its most gripping part. I'll avoid going into too much detail, but Pillars reverses a recent trend in RPGs where the main quest exists merely a structure to pull you into the more interesting side attractions. Yet while the ingredients are familiar, Obsidian's recipe results in an often surprising dish. Memories of the Ancients As soon as you jump into the pit, you are unable to finish any previous quests. ![]() The Forgotten Army The Iron Flail The Rising Tide Lair of the Eyeless Act IV. There's a conflict between the civilising advances of magic and the defiling of the natural order. The Assassin at Large Council of Stars Court of the Penitents Part 2. There's a secret cult doing secret things which you must secretly investigate. There are dragons and skeletons and wizards and skeleton wizards and elves and rogues and gods and dukes, some of which have unique names (elves are "Glanfathans") while others don't (Dragons are dragons). 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