![]() ![]() The best actual play series to watch after Critical Role. ![]() The first episode will air on Dropout’s YouTube channel on August 16th, but the full show will be hosted on, with episodes airing every Wednesday. ![]() The series is comprised of 51 8-min short episodes uploaded on Youtube. How they will use that in the game isn’t clear, but the show has an established penchant for dramatic set pieces used to enhance things for both the players and the audience.Īn FAQ accompanying the press release for Mentopolis explained that this season was shot in-person prior to airing, meaning it likely was not affected by the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and CWA strike against Hollywood executives and the wider film and television industry. Monster Strike (, Monsut Sutoraiku) is a Japanese anime adaptation based on the role-playing, strategy and cooperative multiplayer physics game developed by Mixi for iOS and Android platforms. In the middle, we can see something close to a roulette wheel or clock that can be turned by the players or Mulligan. This image is further sold by several tracks on which a little metal ball periodically travels. In the trailer, the Dimension 20 table is largely filled by a massive contraption of pipes, wire and angular metal that looks like an exploded pinball machine. Mulligan and a rowdy crew of queens just wrapped the popular Dungeons and Drag Queens season, which featured some of the most influential drag names sharing a table and skewering each other as much as their enemies. Reveal trailer for Dimension 20: Mentopolisĭimension 20’s 19th foray into well-produced tabletop roleplay drama will be the second time Kids on Bikes has appeared on their table, following 2021’s Misfits and Magic. Become a monster master and collect over 500 kinds of unique and powerful. It sounds a bit like a meets-meets between Osmosis Jones and Inside Out with a dead body thrown in for spice. Monster Strike is a fast-paced hunting action game you can play cooperatively in groups of up to four players. All of the players will represent different functions of Elias’ brain - Thompson’s Imelda Pulse is a manifestation of impulse, for example - or other anthropomorphised mental constructs. Mentopolis will premiere on August 9th and run for six episodes, marking it as a smaller interstitial campaign usually sandwiched in between the meatier, Dungeons & Dragons-powered seasons. They will travel inside the brain of Elias Hodge in order to solve murders, track missing secrets and solve a knot of interconnected mysteries. Mentopolis uses the Kids on Bikes tabletop RPG to tell a detective noir narrative set inside the mind of a scientist and will bring three new faces to the table, including the internet’s favourite science brother - Hank Green.īrennan Lee Mulligan returns to the facilitator hotseat to lead Green and fellow players Siobhan Thompson (longtime D20 player) Mike Trapp from Dropout’s Um, Actually comedian Danielle Radford, writer, actor, and comedian Alex Song-Xia and Freddie Wong from fellow actual play series Dungeons and Daddies. Dimension 20 has revealed plans for the next season of its actual play anthology series. Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will stream the Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair (Monster Strike The Movie: Lucifer Zetsub no Yoake) film on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He used to love punching people in the face. Others had been recruited by Riley Cote, a former enforcer with the Philadelphia Flyers and now a psychedelics evangelist who is an adviser to Wake with an equity stake.Ĭote was once just like Lee. ![]() Lee had learned about the retreat from a childhood friend who works as a doctor for Wake. They didn't know what to expect, whether the treatment would work, whether they'd return home with a solution or just more disappointment. They'd come from all over North America, from different backgrounds and different sports, but they had a few things in common: They were vulnerable and they felt like prescription medications had failed them. The participants were nervous, but also hopeful.Īlong with Lee, there was a professional football player considering retirement and a former hockey star who had multiple concussions. Two psychedelic mushroom ceremonies and two therapy sessions awaited them at the retreat run by a Canadian company called Wake Network. They each had come to the Good Hope Estate, a sugar plantation turned exclusive resort, hoping to rid themselves of depression, anxiety and chronic pain they had experienced for years. Lee was part of a small group - many of them retired athletes - who'd traveled to Jamaica in March 2022 for a retreat costing as much as $5,500. Psychedelic mushrooms, he hoped, could change his life. Now, he had come to a verdant jungle at the end of a dirt road halfway up a mountain. "When you're in pain and you're stuck in a corner, you'll do anything to get out of it," Lee said. The impulse faded, but the pain remained. He was willing to do anything to escape the hell he felt trapped in. In his lowest moment, on a night when he was in the depths of an addiction to painkillers, he said, he contemplated driving his car into the median of a Chicago freeway at 140 mph. At one point, Lee was taking eight different prescription medications, all of them trying to help him cope. He'd gone 21-1 professionally, fought in Madison Square Garden, and in front of millions on TV.īut it had been more than two years since he'd been inside a ring, and every day was a reminder of the cost. He had been one of the best professional fighters in the world in his weight class. Some days, it was debilitating headaches. WAKEFIELD, Jamaica - The boxer felt broken. Pain, hope, science collide as athletes turn to magic mushrooms Markian Hawryluk and Kevin Van Valkenburg You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() You can bet they’re going to be asking for it again soon. ![]() Now the grapefruit is going to be a pleasant surprise instead of too much to handle. How can they be getting an incredible blowjob and feel like they’re inside of you at the same time?Īfter you’ve been going for a while, feel free to take the blindfold off to give them a view of what’s happening. Your partner’s not going to believe what they’re feeling. Slide it over their penis and move it up and down with your hand in sync with your mouth. Give your best blow job intro to get them hard, then reach under the bed and pull out the grapefruit. Once the blindfold is on, lay your partner on the bed and get started doing what you do. If you haven’t tried it yet, put it on your list immediately. Trust me, practically no partner will ever reject the idea of being blindfolded by their lover. Your partner may be resistant to the idea of having a grapefruit rubbed all over their penis, so get the blindfold on them and lay them down. The element of surprise is important here. You must get your partner blindfolded before you bring the grapefruit out. Your partner will probably think you have some scented candle burning or an oil diffuser on. Just before you’re ready for sex, place the grapefruit under your bed where you can reach it. This isn’t exactly something you want to bust out on the first night. Again, you should have a good idea of how big they are. Now, if your partner is allergic to grapefruit for any reason, skip it and buy a large orange or something comparable.Ĭut a hole in the middle of the grapefruit that’s approximately the size of your partner’s penis. Oh, you thought this was just a name for something else? No, you need an actual grapefruit. What if you could find a way to make it feel like you’re doing both at the same time? With the grapefruit technique, that’s exactly what you’ll get.įirst, you’re going to need a grapefruit. What feels better, getting head or getting inside? One of the time-tested sex topics is a preference between oral sex and intercourse. ![]() If they’re hanging around friends, sex is on the table. Don’t believe whatever your partner tells you. How much they’re getting, if it’s good, what they wish would happen, who’s the hottest, what’s the craziest thing they’ve done, and anything else you can think of. ![]() This is a quick guide to something called the grapefruit technique, brought to us by Angel, otherwise known as the “Grapefruit Lady.” If your partner’s got a penis, this is something fun that is sure to blow their mind.Īnytime old friends get together, they talk about sex. Well, this blog is for the adventurer in you. I meet with people all the time that want more out of sex, and they don’t know where to start. Sometimes though, you need to do something new to juice up the sex life a bit… so: the grapefruit technique. You don’t have to go wild in bed every time you have sex. We feel like we can barely make it into bed much less put on a show. Work, family, or just life, in general, gets to us. We all fall into sexual doldrums from time to time. Maybe it has been a while since you’ve been a little freaky, and you have a feeling that your partner feels things are a bit stale in your sexual techniques lately? Have you heard of The Grapefruit Technique in Bed? ![]() ![]() ![]() Kim Ulmer owner of Huron Continental Marketing said the futures system was created to benefit producers but has been changed to benefit speculators and puts cattlemen at a disadvantage. Hay supplies are on the short side, so we’ll see higher prices there.” Corn prices are depressed and the anticipated 2018 crop looks like we’ll have plenty of feed on hand. “However, we are hopeful feed costs will stay down compared to what they have been. “The calf market is strong, but fat cattle prices are tough largely due to the uptick in supply com-pared to last year,” Nilsson said. Marlin Nilsson, owner of Nilsson Farms in Warner, S.D., says it’s tough going right now. I tell my customers to plan your trade and then trade your plan.”Ĭattle feeders are currently feeling the market pinch with fats priced roughly $100 less than this time last year. “When you take a position as a hedge, and you like the price, you should never look back. “None of us know exactly what the market is going to do,” he said. Basically, these options offer protection for a downside, but they also leave room for the upside. When you have a trade in the account and it goes in your favor, cash goes in, but when the market goes against you, you have to put more cash in your account. These are used to stop a loss if the market goes south, or they can be used to lower your break even by using those options. They can either lock in a straight price by hedging or use options that act as additional insurance. “Puts and calls are just another tool that producers have access to. ![]() “For these more complex strategies, that’s where a broker can really help,” Varilek said. Choosing options instead of outright purchasing the Feeder Cattle futures offers additional leverage while limiting potential losses, but the risk for the trader is the asset could expire and be worth nothing. If you sell your commodity and feel like it might still go higher, you can try to capture that upside by utilizing a call option.”Ī more complex strategy implements “spreads,” which combine both buying and selling options. ![]() In this case, the safest place to start is to buy a put, which puts a floor under your price and won’t necessarily make money but will stop a loss. “In some strategies, we are selling options to lower the breakeven costs. “There are upside options and downside options, and you can be a buyer or seller either way,” explained Varilek. ![]() This right for an option contract is eliminated after the market closes on an expiration date. In layman’s terms, the holder of a Feeder Cattle option possesses the right to assume a long position (a call option) or a short position (a put option) in the underlying feeder cattle futures at a strike price. Producers can also choose Feeder Cattle options, which are option contracts where the underlying asset is a Feeder Cattle futures contract. It allows producers to mitigate risk to ensure they are still operating next year.” “Producers can calculate their breakevens and lock in a price on their commodities to manage the price now instead of waiting and getting whatever the price happens to be. “When you have a product like cattle, and you have to buy a pen of them, that’s a lot of dollars tied up,” Varilek said. Live Cattle contracts come with physical delivery, there is no option for live delivery with Feeder Cattle contracts they must be settled with cash. for Feeder Cattle, and they are priced in cents per pound. Feeder Cattle consist of calves weighing 600-800 pounds while Live Cattle are cattle fed to the point of harvest weight. There are two types of cattle futures contracts - Live Cattle and Feeder Cattle. ![]() ![]() To create a SQL warehouse you must be a workspace admin or a user with unrestricted cluster creation permissions. SQL warehouses have the following requirements: You can edit or delete this SQL warehouse. To help you get started quickly, Azure Databricks creates a small SQL warehouse called Starter Warehouse automatically. By default, warehouses are sorted by state (running warehouses first), then in alphabetical order. To navigate to the SQL warehouse dashboard, click SQL Warehouses in the sidebar. Compute resources are infrastructure resources that provide processing capabilities in the cloud. What is a SQL warehouse?Ī SQL warehouse is a compute resource that lets you run SQL commands on data objects within Databricks SQL. You can also create SQL warehouses using the SQL warehouse API, or Terraform. You will also learn how to convert existing classic warehouses into serverless warehouses. This includes how to create, edit, and monitor existing SQL warehouses. The Sales_log file is allocated in megabytes because the MB suffix is explicitly stated in the SIZE parameter.įILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\saledat.mdf',įILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\salelog.ldf',įor more examples, see CREATE DATABASE (SQL Server Transact-SQL).This article explains how to configure and manage SQL warehouses using the Databricks SQL UI. Because MB or KB aren't specified in the SIZE parameter for the Sales_dat file, it uses MB and is allocated in megabytes. Because the keyword PRIMARY isn't used, the first file ( Sales_dat) becomes the primary file. For example, enter one or more statements that describe the database.Ĭopy and paste the following example into the query window and select Execute. In the Value column, enter the extended property text. In the Name column, enter a name for the extended property. To add an extended property to the database, select the Extended Properties page. Select Add and then enter the values for the filegroup. To add a new filegroup, select the Filegroups page. For a description of each option, see ALTER DATABASE SET Options (Transact-SQL). To change database options, select the Options page, and then modify the database options. To change the recovery model, select the Options page and select a recovery model from the list. To change the collation of the database, select the Options page, and then select a collation from the list. For more information, see Add Data or Log Files to a Database. To change the default values of the primary data and transaction log files, in the Database files grid, select the appropriate cell and enter the new value. ![]() The Use full-text indexing option is always checked and dimmed because, beginning in SQL Server 2008 (10.0.x), all user databases are full-text enabled. To create the database by accepting all default values, select OK otherwise, continue with the following optional steps. Right-click Databases, and then select New Database. In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine and then expand that instance. Use SQL Server Management Studio Create a database To maintain control over disk use on an instance of SQL Server, permission to create databases is typically limited to a few SQL Server login. Requires CREATE DATABASE permission in the master database, or requires CREATE ANY DATABASE, or ALTER ANY DATABASE permission. When you create a database, make the data files as large as possible based on the maximum amount of data you expect in the database. The master database should be backed up whenever a user database is created, modified, or dropped. ![]() The CREATE DATABASE statement must run in autocommit mode (the default transaction management mode) and isn't allowed in an explicit or implicit transaction.A maximum of 32,767 databases can be specified on an instance of SQL Server.To create a database in Azure SQL Database using T-SQL, see Create database in Azure SQL Database. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Honkai Impact 3rd, the Honkai is revealed to be a force put in place by mysterious beings to reflect the lifeforms of any particular world into understanding themselves, and exists to allow physical and spiritual transformations for intelligent life.It is suspiciously similar to what Tayzzyronth the Propagation attempted to do in the past of Star Rail universe. In Houkai Gakuen 2nd or Gun Girls Z Part 2, the Will of Honkai is revealed to be once a race of lifeforms from an Alternate Universe, who used the Honkai to ascend and assimilate all other forms of life, becoming one with the Honkai itself of their universe.Call-Back: Though Aeons are entities which are first introduced to the Honkai Multiverse within Star Rail, there have been multiple instances of entities similar to them existing or being hinted at.This is most obvious with Yaoshi the Abundance their gift of immortality is bestowed with apparently benevolent intentions, but the consequence can range from genuinely helpful (to Denizens of Abundance) to catastrophic (to the Xianzhou Alliance). Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Aeons became what they are by living through a philosophy with which life can be lived, and after a certain point embody that philosophy so thoroughly in a vast and encompassing manner to the point it is difficult for mortals to truly comprehend their mindsets.How it happened differ between Aeon to Aeon, and the exact specifics are unclear. Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: The followers of many Aeons claim they were once lesser, mortal lifeforms before becoming Aeons.Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the possible philosophical paths which can be cultivated and expressed by life itself.Only some have humanoid forms, and even among those there are quite a few being referred with they/them pronouns regardless of the gender expressions of their forms. Ambiguous Gender: It is debatable if gender is a concept which applies to Aeons. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cloak is made out of plastic, and the hood that goes around Levi’s neck is connected to four main pieces. ![]() Levi belongs to the Survey Corps branch, so it is only appropriate that he comes with the Survey Corps cloak. These arms are connected by a peg at the shoulder but are also segmented at the upper arm for more posing potential. Levi comes with two bent arms in addition to his default straight arms. You can also have Levi holding his blades backwards in either hand for poses showing off his unique style of fighting. He comes with two hands for holding the dual blades. The 3D maneuver gear plugs into Levi’s back, where the stand normally goes. The blades are permanently attached to the operating devices, and as you’ve probably noticed, they are also not tethered to the main device that is attached to the body.Īlthough Good Smile Company has overall simplified the equipment for the Nendoroid, there is still an impressive amount of detail that went into them. ![]() Extra blades cannot be removed from the scabbards, and there are no parts included to simulate the steel wires that come out of the device. The scabbards and gas canisters are attached to the main device by a ball joint so they won’t restrict posing as much.
![]() ![]() Countrywide needed a $2 billion investment by Bank of America to get through 2007 but lasted just one month into 2008. A wave of subprime lenders declared bankruptcy, announced significant losses or put themselves up for sale in the first months of 2007, the pain spreading to a broad swath of hedge funds, commercial banks and investment banks that had bought, sold, repackaged and invested in the loans. “Housing suddenly went from being part of the American dream to house my family to settle down - it became a commodity,” he said. “Housing prices were rising so rapidly - at a rate that I’d never seen in my 55 years in the business - that people, regular people, average people got caught up in the mania of buying a house, and flipping it, making money,” he said in a 2010 interview with the US Congress-appointed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Looking back on those boom years, Mozilo said Countrywide had been swept up in a “gold rush” mentality that had overtaken the US. From 2000 until 2008, Mozilo received total compensation of $521.5 million, according to Equilar, a compensation-research firm. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon by $10 million and Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis by $20 million. In 2006, he was paid $48 million, beating JPMorgan Chase & Co. ![]() With their enhanced interest rates, these mortgages were in high demand on Wall Street, where firms bundled them with other, less-risky forms of consumer debt and sold them as mortgage-backed securities. It was after 2000, when Loeb left the company, that Mozilo fully embraced the looser practices of surging subprime mortgage companies. Those unconventional buyers were willing to agree to higher-than-normal interest rates to offset their added risk. That was several years after other non-bank lenders, with the government cheering them on, began loosening their borrowing requirements and extending mortgages to those who previously might have been turned away. The tactics Countrywide used toward the end of his career as CEO were starkly different from the tried-and-true loan-verification methods he and his partner, David Loeb, had used when they started the company in 1969 as a two-person operation focused on low-cost loans with little risk.įor much of his long career, Mozilo “believed strongly in the importance of underwriting standards - that is, in making loans to people who had the means to pay them back,” Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera wrote in All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (2010).īut Countrywide dipped its toes into subprime lending - issuing mortgages to borrowers with poor credit histories - in the late 1990s. In some ways, Mozilo was an unlikely villain in the saga. Even at that discount price, the sale came to be seen as a painful mistake by Bank of America, which over subsequent years paid more than $50 billion to resolve regulatory probes and litigation tied to Countrywide. for $4 billion - one-sixth of what it had been worth a year earlier. Mozilo’s long tenure as CEO ended abruptly in January 2008 when Countrywide, running out of funds to finance loans, was sold to Bank of America Corp. Time magazine, citing Countrywide’s loosened lending standards and exotic mortgages, named him one of the “25 People to Blame.” Countrywide was a pioneer in the field, and, fairly or not, Mozilo became a public face of the financial crisis. The housing bubble that burst in 2008, sending the US economy into a recession and erasing almost $8 trillion in value from the stock market, was built on exceptionally cheap and available credit extended to homebuyers, along with creative options to repay their debt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you receive the trade-in kit, you have 14 days to prepare and send in your device. If it’s not eligible for credit, you can recycle it for free. If you pay in full, we’ll credit your payment method after we receive your trade-in. If you pay monthly, we’ll apply the value as instant credit to lower the monthly payments of your new iPhone. ![]() Based on what you tell us, we’ll provide an estimated trade-in value. Simply answer a few questions about your device. Territories should contact Goldman Sachs Bank USA for questions about installments.Īpple Trade In makes it easy to get credit towards the purchase of your next iPhone. You can also chat with one by tapping on Apple Card in Wallet, tapping on the black circle in the upper right-hand corner, and then tapping Message.Ĭustomers in U.S. If you used your Apple Card to pay in full, but you meant to take advantage of interest-free financing using Apple Card Monthly Installments, we can help you get switched over. ![]() Learn more about Apple Card Monthly Installments If you don’t have Apple Card yet, you can apply for one in as little as a minute when you select Apple Card Monthly Installments as your payment option and use it for your purchase. You’ll receive 3% Daily Cash back up front and pay for your new device over time, interest-free ◊ when you choose to check out with Apple Card Monthly Installments. If you already have Apple Card and want to purchase your iPhone with Apple Card Monthly Installments, select it as your payment option during checkout. To learn how to transfer data to your new iPhone, see /en-us/HT201269. If you are switching from Android, you need to download the Move to iOS app first and follow the setup process on your new iPhone. For phones using iOS 12.4 or later, Quick Start offers the option of using device-to-device migration, allowing you to transfer all your data wirelessly from your current device to your new one. With Quick Start, you can restore your data and content to your new iPhone from your iCloud backup. Just sign in to iCloud when you set up your new device, access your previous device’s iCloud backup and you’ll be ready to go in minutes.ĭon’t have enough iCloud storage to complete a backup? iCloud will grant you enough temporary storage to make sure you can back up your device and get all your data transferred, free of charge (iOS 15 required). Yes, iCloud makes moving your settings, photos, apps and documents to a new device seamless. ![]() ![]() Step 2Connect two iPhones to your computer To transfer music from iPhone to iPhone, you need first to download and install Aiseesoft iPhone to iPhone music transfer and run it on your computer. Transfer Music from iPhone to iPhone on PC Professional iPhone to iPhone music transfer software. Two USB cables, which enable you to connect the two iPhones to the computer at the same timeĤ. Two iPhones, no matter which generationģ. ![]() Method one: How to transfer music from iPhone to iPhone with app (Recommended by users)įirst you need to prepare for the transfer and share. Method three: How to sync music from iPhone to iPhone via AirDrop.Method two: How to sync music from iPhone to iPhone using iTunes.Transfer Music from iPhone to iPhone on Mac.Transfer Music from iPhone to iPhone on PC.Method one: How to transfer music from iPhone to iPhone with app (Recommended by users).However, sometimes we really need to do that with the help of iPhone to iPhone music transfer software.įor instance, you may have a new iPhone X and you need to transfer your music from the old one to the new iPhone and also you love some music in your friends' iPhone very much, how to share? You just need to read this guide and you can do that easily to transfer music from iPhone to iPhone in three ways. ![]() ![]() You cannot transfer computer files to iPhone nor from iPhone to computer for protected copyrights. How to Transfer Music from iPhone to Another iPhoneĪpple has made it difficult to copy and transfer music and other files that stored on iPhone to another iPhone. ![]() |
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