![]() They looked younger than Camila by quite a bit, which she supposed made sense, and their narrow face and pointed nose didn’t resemble Gus much at all- but they were lanky the same way she could see that he was becoming, and they had the same notch in their hairline, their locks pulled back into a thick ponytail. It started out in shades of blue and then settled into colour, a chest-up portrait of a handsome black witch. My dad lost his whole spouse, you know, that’s different, that’s a whole other thing.”Īs he spoke, he twiddled his finger in the air, and a shimmering little image appeared. There’s pictures in the house, so I don’t even know how much of their face in my head is actually my memory. “I think it’s worse for dad than it is for me I was so little I just have… a couple images, a little bit of their voice. She hadn’t heard the word ‘nen’ before, but context made it clear enough, and sympathy was so much more important than asking after specifics. Dumb way to die, right? Just hit their head, and they were out.” I was only four, so I just remember- bits and pieces. “And if Luz was ten, she remembers him, too. “It meant we got a good few more years with him than we would have if he’d gone when it first set in.” He wasn’t meeting her eyes, but she didn’t really expect him to. ![]() “Sickness must be the worst,” he said, surprising her. “And it’s awful, but Luz is a strong girl, and I’m here for her too. “It happens sometimes,” she said, much more responsibly than she ever felt. He shifted a little in his seat, and she didn’t want to leave him alone to process, so she sat by him- just around the corner of the table, so she could face him, but not across where they’d be separated. ![]() Gus nodded slowly, cupping the mug in both hands, breathing in the steam. He was sick for a long time before that, though.” “Four years,” she said, fetching the kettle to pour water over his teabag, looking at what she was doing instead of at him. “How long ago?” he asked, and she swallowed. She opened her mouth to try and make some small talk, but Gus spoke first. She hadn’t seen any of her cousins since she was… what, thirteen? It was a big pot, for seven people she hadn’t cooked in such big batches regularly since she was a little girl surrounded by cousins. He sat there playing with the tag on the teabag as she put a kettle on and started a pot of oatmeal. She installed Gus at the kitchen table, a mug in front of him and the box of teabags free for him to peruse- she quietly hoped he’d pick a herb tea, because she felt a little guilty giving a thirteen-year-old caffeine, but he didn’t and she knew she was being a little over-protective so she didn’t protest. “Let’s have some tea,” she said, and he followed her to the kitchen. He was just a kid, even if he was tall for his age, his hands too big for his body like a puppy’s paws, and she put hers over his and patted it. He nodded again, slower this time, and put his hand on her arm, gently. In her peripheral vision, she saw Gus’s eyes widen briefly. “Manuel, but no one called him that except one aunt and his driver’s license. In it, he was beaming, a crinkle at the corner of his mouth, that one crooked tooth she’d played with in their kisses. “Manny,” Camila said, her eyes sliding off Gus and back to the photo. “What’s his name?” he asked, after a moment. Gus nodded, clearly adding this information to his mental Human Scrapbook. “Humans can be raised all kinds of ways, but to make one you need good old fashioned parents.” “We can’t, we can’t,” Camila said, laughing a little at his earnestness. “Well, no,” Gus said, “but some demons can, so I thought maybe humans could too?” “I thought she might have budded off you! You do look a lot alike.” “Well, where did you think she came from?” she teased, to redirect. She didn’t want to make him imagine losing a parent. It never came smoothly, and telling a kid was even harder. School administrators asking to speak to the father, the auto repair man, strangers in the park making small talk. It had been years, but Camila had never exactly gotten used to telling people her husband was dead. ![]() She was glad she’d been the one to take it, now. Manny flanked her, beaming Camila remembered taking the picture. The photo was from Luz’s third birthday, her little cheeks puffed out like balloons as she blew out her candles. “Who’s in the picture? That’s baby Luz, right?” There wasn’t the overlay of disbelief that Amity and Hunter always had, like her actually caring about them was inherently suspicious he was just genuinely and innocently happy to see her. Gus could be counted on to do that- to look at her like she’d made his day by being there. He didn’t look up right away, and she’d got halfway across the room before he noticed she was there. When Camila came downstairs to start breakfast, Gus was already up, standing in the living room and staring at a photo on the wall.
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The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma’s life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Mira and her sister traveled to Cleveland, where they shared an extraordinary reconciliation with their mother that none of them had thought possible. In her search for a way back to her lost self, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying. Struggling to recover from a traumatic brain injury, she was confronted with a need to recontextualize her life-she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside world. Then one day, a debilitating car accident changes Mira’s life forever. But while Mira pursued her career as an artist-exploring the ancient romance of Florence, the eerie mysticism of northern Norway, and the raw desert of Israel-the haunting memories of her mother were never far away. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated-Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped. Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful piano protégé Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. ![]() It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. “People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through,” Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. ![]() ![]() *The National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Autobiography* *A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and one family ’ s capacity for forgiveness. In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this New York Times bestselling poignant memoir about family and mental illness. ![]() The program may be installed fast and with minimal effort on your part thanks to a user-friendly UI. Recover deleted contacts, call logs, SMS, photos, and documents from the Android’s internal memory or SIM card (root required). It can be used to recover files on SD cards as well as internal storage. It helps you recover lost and deleted files from Android phones and tablets. MobiKin Doctor for Android is one of the best Android data recovery programs that can help you get back deleted contacts, text messages, or call logs on Android phones and tablets. For the machine to have access, you must e nable USB debugging mode on your Android device.s soon as MobiKin Doctor recognizes an Android device, it will ask permission to install Mobikin Assistant Android app on your Phone. MobiKin Doctor for Android Features: Restore deleted files from the Android SD card or phone memory to the PC with just one click. MobiKin Doctor For Android Crack + License Code & Keygen MobiKin Doctor for Android is an easy and fast free data recovery tool for Android-based devices. It doesn’t matter if you accidentally destroy your Android files MobiKin Doctor for Android can restore them. The program is meant to restore data from your Androidphone to a computer without sacrificing any of the information. You can use this Windows program to get back lost or deleted files from your Android-based device. MobiKin Doctor for Android (Windows Version) The best Android data recovery software to help you recover deleted contacts, text messages or call logs on Android phones and tablets. It works with both Android phones and tablets. For the machine to have access, you must e nable USB debugging mode on your Android device.Īs soon as MobiKin Doctor recognizes an Android device, it will ask permission to install Mobikin Assistant Android app on your Phone. Next, it gathers information about the model, system version, serial number, and current power supply. File name: mobikin-doctor-for-android.exe (23.3 MB) Latest version: 4.2.55. All of this information is displayed in the first pane of the main window. The software can be installed on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 32-bit. It’s also possible to search for and retrieve specific types of files, such as contact information and call records as well as images and videos. By default, recovery is chosen for all types of items. Recover deleted contacts, call logs, SMS, photos, and documents from the Android’s internal memory or SIM card (root required).Restore deleted files from the Android SD card or phone memory to the PC with just one click.You can speed up the process (depending on how much memory your phone or tablet has) by unchecking unwanted files. ![]() RStudio v2022.07 and later includes support for editing and preview of Quarto documents (the documentation below assumes you are using this build or a later version). You can override the version of R used by Quarto by setting the QUARTO_R environment variable. In addition, on Windows when R is not found on the PATH, the registry will be scanned for the current R version. Quarto will select a version of R by looking on the system PATH. Installation of the rmarkdown package will also install the knitr package so you will have everything required to render documents containing R code. You can render Quarto documents in a variety of ways:įrom the system shell using the quarto render command: When a Quarto document is rendered, R code blocks are automatically executed. There are many options which control the behavior of code execution and output, you can read more about them in the article on Execution Options. You can produce a wide variety of output types from executable code blocks, including plots, tabular output from data frames, and plain text output (e.g. printing the results of statistical summaries). This document results in the following rendered output: These are cell level options that make the figure cross-referenceable. You’ll note that there are some special comments at the top of the code block. ![]() ``` #| label: fig-airquality #| fig-cap: "Temperature and ozone level." #| warning: false library(ggplot2) ggplot(airquality, aes(Temp, Ozone)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth( method = "loess") ``` ![]() title: "ggplot2 demo" author: "Norah Jones" date: "" format: html: code-fold: true - # Air Quality further explores the impact of temperature on ozone level. ![]() Computer Lib explained basically how computers worked, some of the different things they were capable of, and how they can either confuse, stupefy and oppress, or enlighten, empower and liberate. First, in 1974, Ted Nelson, a social scientist and literary scholar, self-published a book called Computer Lib, with a clenched fist on its cover, and the slogan ‘You can and must understand computers, NOW!’ It was never a big seller (thanks to Nelson’s eccentric approach to publishing) but it became a sort of foundational text for what would become the ‘hacker’ movement, which subsequently produced such things as the famous GNU/Linux computer operating system. Some of them wanted a political revolution, and a few recognized the danger that a counter-revolution would sneak into the new movement before it had fairly got started, and end up making the world worse instead of better. Few of them had any intention of founding a new capitalist industry and many of them explicitly opposed any such idea. In northern California in 1974, it was hobbyists, draft-dodgers and political activists who cobbled together what they impiously called ‘personal computers’ from mail-order, bootleg and ‘liberated’ components. He lives in Mission Viejo, California with his wife, Judy, daughter Melanie, and son, David. ![]() In addition, he has been an active church member and elder in various churches. A very rewarding aspect of his ministry has been the many opportunities to work with pastors, missionaries, Christian leaders, and elder boards in providing counsel, encouragement and support to them and to their ministries.Bob has been a popular speaker at conferences, seminars, marriage weekends, churches, retreats and radio programs. He has had extensive experience in training and supervising Christian professionals and lay therapists. ![]() Hughes is passionate about helping people grow spiritually and uniquely gifted in applying the truths of God’s word in simple, yet profound, life-changing ways.As the Minister of Counseling for a local church for seven years, he was the founder and director of the church’s community counseling center. In his many years of practice, Bob Hughes has helped thousands of people grow spiritually through his counseling, writing and teaching ministry. The book concludes: ‘Let’s assume that the commitment to human equality that’s written into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights means exactly what it says, and take it from there.’ Read moreīob Hughes was a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for thirty years and is the founder of Love Focused Ministries in Mission Viejo, California. He argues that new technologies have never emerged from elites or from the clash of competitive forces, but from largely voluntary, egalitarian collaborations of the kind that produced the world’s first working computers.įinally, Hughes shows that an egalitarian world is not ‘pie in the sky' but our evolutionary homeland, the glue that holds societies together, and the “cradle of invention” from which all our best ideas emerge. Hughes pursues the latest discoveries about the effects of social inequality on human health, into the field of human environmental impact, and traces today’s ecological crisis back to the rise of the world’s first elites, 5,000 years ago. Wherever elites exist, self-preservation decrees that they must take control of new technologies to protect and entrench their status, rather than satisfy people’s needs. In The Bleeding Edge, Bob Hughes argues that unequal societies are incapable of using new technologies well. So how did it go so wrong? In a word, inequality. By now, all human beings should be leading creative, leisure-filled lives in a pristine world of burgeoning diversity. No pain, no gain.īut technology is precisely the business of minimising the costs and impacts of existence… and by whole orders of magnitude. Some suggest that the carnage is “a price worth paying” for technological progress. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environmental collapse in every part of the globe. It’s hammered into us from birth that ‘all good things come at a price’. ![]() John Egbert is the main protagonist of Homestuck and the first character that is introduced. The four main characters are presented as Internet friends who have technically never met one another, but interact through an online chat application. The main characters of Homestuck were all named by fans. Early pages of Homestuck were experiments in "fan-sourced storytelling", where Hussie allowed readers of Homestuck to name its characters and make story suggestions. The first few acts of Homestuck center around four 13-year-old children. The cast of Homestuck features a large quantity of LGBT characters, and a major theme of the webcomic is the multitude of characters that die throughout the story.Įach Homestuck character has their own icon Jade's is in the shape of her dog Becquerel's head. Īccording to Lauren Rae Orsini writing for The Daily Dot, there existed 128 named characters in Homestuck in September 2012, with more still being introduced. Homestuck characters are particularly popular to cosplay at anime conventions. Hussie invented an alien species, called trolls, that have a unique culture. Homestuck features a complex story and a large cast of characters, starring the four children John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider, and Jade Harley. The webcomic centers on a group of teenagers who unwittingly bring about the end of the world through the installation of a beta copy of an upcoming computer game. Homestuck is a webcomic written, illustrated, and animated by Andrew Hussie as part of MS Paint Adventures ( MSPA). A group of cosplayers portraying characters from Homestuck at MCM London Comic Con in 2014 They are merely used as gateways to teleport from point A to B, for the most part. There are a few areas of the world that take some inspiration from Portal, but they don’t let you play much with momentum. Along with the unique environments, there are unique puzzles as well. You can see the labor of love that went into making each area. One thing The Blind Forest did well but is perfected in Will of the Wisps is making its biomes distinctly unique. ![]() That’s just a silly example, but it’s these little details that make this game feel more alive than its predecessor. Something that felt very static in the previous game is now responsive. Just jumping on a branch is now more… fun it's satisfyingly supple. Do keep in mind that storage requirements seem to be different for some reason across available platforms. ![]() It’s measly compared to most high-budget games releasing this year, but a substantial jump, nonetheless. ![]() It’s a bigger, more beautiful world that’s full of life – both friendly and hostile – split into regions, each with an incredible soundscape and the game’s size reflects that: long gone is the reasonable download size of 3.8 GB that The Blind Forest’s Definitive Edition was bundled into, because this game needs 15 GB of your storage. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a grand experience compared to the first game. ![]() ![]() “ took away a degree of spontaneity from the experience for locals out here,” said Jorge Jordan, executive director of the SNCC. The reservation system also had a negative impact on climbers, particularly local ones. This is what happened to Calico Basin when, during the pandemic, the BLM-without public input-imposed a reservation system for the Loop Road, which is adjacent to Calico Basin and provides access to much of the Red Rock recreation area.Ĭalico Basin and other nearby areas saw an immediate rise in visitor traffic and, consequently, larger impacts on the land. The balloon is going to expand in other places.” “You’re not going to get rid of the total number of people, you’re just going to force them to go somewhere else. “It’s like squeezing a balloon,” Winter said. Thankfully, the Southern Nevada Climbing Coalition (SNCC), with help from Access Fund, stepped in to ensure that the climbing community had a voice in these management decisions.Īccording to Chris Winter, executive director of Access Fund, the reservation systems are a good way to limit the number of visitors in a given area on a given day, but they do not reduce the overall number of people wanting to use the outdoors-and therefore often fail to consider the impact on the total conservation area. The plan would involve implementing a fee and reservation system, forcing recreators to book entry times online prior to entering the area, with a limited number of available reservations per day. In June 2022, the Bureau of Land Management proposed a management plan for Calico Basin, home to some of the best and most accessible climbing in Red Rock, NV. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! ![]() Type your text within brackets, followed by the 'spoiler' hashtag. Flatiron Books announced Thursday the book 4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023 was in fact about the mega-popular South Korean boy band, not Swift. Please be mindful about spoilers, don't put them in the post title. The speculation over a certain untitled book can end, and its BTS fans, not followers of Taylor Swift, who can rejoice. Please link flair your submission accordingly if the automoderator hasn't. No flaming, trolling, arguing, insulting, low-effort or Meme posts. Only two games are said to be featured at the event. If you have a dope combo video to share please feel free to post it! Mods will choose on a per post basis what is considered low effort. (Photo : Injustice) 'Injustice 3' has its character roster supposedly leaked by an anonymous source, and it has surrounded the games future with a lot of confusion from skeptic gamers and fans. Injustice 3 Probably Will Not Be Announced At DC FanDome After All. No low effort self promotion! This includes links to twitch channels, spammy clickbait youtube videos, and anything that you would consider "blatant self promotion". If you have interest, feel free to message me and we can. Prob my own bias seeping, but when Boon said the reason for breaking the pattern will make a lot more sense when the game is revealed automatically made me. Mortal Kombat 12 and Injustice 3 Will Not Be at The Game Awards DecemBy Rebecca Smith Neither Mortal Kombat 12 nor Injustice 3 will be at The Game Awards next week said. ![]() I'll keep it short - the day injustice 3 is announced, we will be looking for moderators, both for the reddit and discord. 'NEW CHALLENGER' INFO Read before posting! It has come time where everyone is expecting the next installment of injustice to be announced in the near future, so I thought I'd just give an 'I'm alive' post. We are Reddit's home for NetherRealm Studio's DC Comics fighting game franchise Injustice, including their latest installment, Injustice 2! Please familiarize yourself with posting guidelines (below) and welcome to the r/Injustice Community! I am thinking either in December during the Video game awards that they have, because they would have announced it by April/may in the past just in time for e3 but Mk11 changed it up with a December reveal. The last aspect of Trackmania that we haven’t touched upon yet is the in-game editors. The scope is truly exciting just like any good MMORPG. Keep your head down and just drive race after race to gradually climb up the rankings ladder, join in with the friendly banter and make some friends to race with, or take it one step further and sign up with a team to race in competitions. From there on it’s up to the player to get what they want from the game. A big improvement to Canyon over its predecessors is ManiaLive, which ships with the game and easily allows hosts to customise their server with plugins, such as track records and music players. The servers aren’t booming like the fields of duty are, but at the time of writing there are at least a dozen servers with more than 10 drivers apiece, with the top two servers each boasting over 50 drivers, which is a riot as far as racing games are concerned. It should also be noted that there is never any contact between cars – they are there simply for visual pressure. There is even a stunt mode included, which is a bit like the Tony Hawk skateboarding games, only with cars. Servers come in a variety of shapes and sizes with a handful of game modes including time trial, which gives players unlimited restarts to set the fastest lap in a set time limit, and rounds, where points are scored in individual laps of a track with no restarts should car and track depart ways. Ladder points are earned on ranked servers simply by finishing ahead of other ranked drivers. There are offline hot seat, split screen and local network modes, but the longevity comes with the online mode which houses a separate multiplayer ranking board. ![]() It can become an addictive process of trial and error, though skill, luck and consistency can dictate whether the experience ultimately becomes fulfilling or just frustrating.Īfter a bit larking about (read: serious practicing) it’s time to take the plunge and take the race multiplayer. Should a lap be tarnished by a mistake, or indeed were the car to say, leave the track, then it can be instantly reset back to the last checkpoint or restarted at the start line for another go at the press of a button, with our average being 3 or 4 restarts a minute. These uploaded times can now only be set every 5 minutes, so practice and composure are essential for boasting that optimum lap. Official times are uploaded to individual track leaderboards - which can be viewed on regional, national and worldwide scales – and also earn skill points which for an overall solo leaderboard. ![]() Tracks can be raced offline against four preset computer ghost cars but the real satisfaction comes by uploading an ‘official time’. The starter tracks may involve racing a fairly simplistic track from start to finish as quickly as possible, but it’s not long before the tracks involve staggeringly large jumps, loop the loops, crazy suspended bridges through caves and huge banked curves at ridiculous speeds, all of which makes finishing a track a challenge in itself. Unless it’s a simulation of lunacy you're after that is. This simple statement shouldn’t be underestimated however as Trackmania is no simulation racer. The solo mode features a campaign of around 65 tracks which become progressively harder in difficulty. Boot up the game and there are essentially three main ways to get stuck in and play: race solo, online or dabble with the editors. The look and feel of Canyon will be very familiar for returning Trackmania folk, but new players with a basic sense of direction can get up to speed relatively easily. Regardless, in this modern digital age the game is relatively quick and easy to download – it’s just over 1 gig in size and the handy Ubisoft download manager allows pausing and resuming of the download. Trackmania 2: Canyon, or Canyon from here on, is actually only available in digital download form, so wrapping it up as a present could prove rather difficult. Trackmania 2: Canyon is the most recent and grandest offering from French developer Nadeo, but is it worth consideration as a Christmas stocking filler? In fact, the Trackmania lineage now boasts over 10 million registrations and a dedicated following within that. Trackmania has proved to be somewhat of a sleeper hit since the racing series was first released on the PC in 2003. ![]() Reviews // 8th Dec 2011 - 11 years ago // By POBmaestro Trackmania 2: Canyon Review |