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![]() ![]() Temples of India - Vaishno Devi, Konark, Tirupatiġ0. Pandit And The Milkmaid And Other Tales Told By RamakrishnaĨ. Friends And Foes: Animal Tales From The Mahabharataġ45. Panchatantra : The Dullard And Other Storiesġ08. It is synonymous with the visual reinvention of Indian stories from the great epics, mythology, history, literature, oral folktales and many other sources. Panchatantra : The Greedy Mother-In-LawĨ5. Amar Chitra Katha ( ACK, 'Immortal Picture Stories'), the flagship brand, was founded in 1967 and is a household name in India. ![]() These stories will take you back to your roots and acquaint you with men, women, events and occurrences which have shaped India over the years."ħ5. For these reasons, we bring you the Amar Chitra Katha Complete Collection - a collector’s true delight. 32-page illustrated Amar Chitra Katha comic on Swachh Bharat Mission, to bring about awareness and behaviour change towards sanitary and clean habits. Our comics are synonymous with the visual reinvention of Indian tales of history, folklore, heritage and culture They are a treasure trove of knowledge and learning imparted in an interesting manner. Amar Chitra Katha, our flagship brand, was founded in 1967 and is a household name in India. ![]() ![]() I watched porn by Loree Erickson, a queer white femme wheelchair user, heard poetry by Latina wheelchair goddess Maria Palacios, and witnessed a performance by white genderqueer crip seeley quest, who did a lap dance while wearing a molded plastic back brace. I watched Lateef McLeod, a beautiful black man with cerebral palsy, recite poetry through an electronic talker and get almost naked, crawling on the floor in front of a mirror under a giant full moon. Sitting in the audience the first time I got to see a Sins Invalid show, I witnessed some of the most radical work I’d ever seen or imagined. I had recently been approved for federal disability benefits, and though I have a lifelong disability and have been an activist since I was a teenager – and even though I’d spent the past fifteen years doing fat liberation work, and the past five years doing personal work around the legacy of medical trauma in my life – I had not figured out a way to integrate my politics within a bigger framework of disability activism. ![]() Spoken word pieces are offered by Leah Lakshmi (“Dirty River Girl”), Maria Palacios (“The Hunger” and “Vagina Manifesto”), and Aurora Levins Morales.Soon after I moved to San Francisco eight years ago, I was introduced to radical crip artist/activists Leroy Moore and Patty Berne, and the project they founded, Sins Invalid. Nomy Lamm offers two rock-opera pieces involving a “nest of legs” comprised of the prosthetic limbs that she has worn since she was a child. In “The Scene,” Leroy Moore, seeley quest, Ralph Dickinson and Patty Berne enact a sexual encounter in which a dominatrix conducts an erotic medical procedure, captured on live video feed integrated with surreal images. Antoine-DeVinci Hunter, an accomplished deaf choreographer/dancer, asks the audience to share the element of risk he faces every day as a deaf person by rolling a die, each side of which corresponds to a different sound score. Mat Fraser, a celebrated disabled performer from Great Britain offers “No Retreat, No Surrender,” an athletic performance piece using martial arts, and “Beautiful Freak,” a tender cleansing ritual. But Sins Invalid is also, quite simply, a hot, arousing, sexually charged evening of thought-provoking, imaginative sexual entertainment that only happens to be entirely by and about people with disabilities. Sins Invalid challenges its audience to think about sexuality, beauty, and disability in new and expanded ways. What makes Sins Invalid so powerful is that it thoroughly succeeds artistically and erotically, separate from the impact of its political message. In place of the familiar notion that sex, beauty and desirability are limited to people who are young, thin, and physically agile, Sins Invalid offers “a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities,” an affirmation that we are all sexual, all sexy, all attractive, regardless of age, body form, or skin color. “We wanted to address the disconnect between what we know to be true about our beauty and what the world seems to believe - that we are ‘less than,’ undesirable and pitiable,” Berne explains.īut Sins Invalid is more than a statement about sex and disability, going beyond the specific issue of discounting the sexuality of people with disabilities to challenge a whole range of conventional notions about what is normal, what is beautiful, and what is sexy. Sins Invalid was founded in 2006 by Patty Berne and Leroy Moore, two Bay Area activists with disabilities who were frustrated with the propensity of many to view people with disabilities as asexual, deviant, or undesirable. “Each of these artists is in a non-normative body,” Berne notes, “and each is a miraculous, sexual being.”įrank and Linda copyright David Steinberg ![]() “The theme of this year’s show is the magic of embodiment,” says Patty Berne, artistic director of Sins Invalid, “the magic of all life and the spirit incarnate.” The 12 artists in Sins Invalid all possess disabilities, some quite apparent, others less so, such as deafness and environmental illness and injuries. The cabaret-style performances in Sins Invalid range from mild to graphic, from tender to passionate, from the gentle spoken word to a sexually explicit depiction of a scene involving loving dominance and submission. Most specifically, Sins Invalid is about the sexuality of people with physical disabilities - an opportunity for people with disabilities to affirm and celebrate the vibrancy of their sexuality through performance art, theater, film, dance, song, and the spoken word. These are some of the questions addressed in Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility, whose fourth annual multi-media presentation is being performed this coming weekend at the Brava Theater. ![]() Gayle and David Sins Invalid copyright: David Steinberg ![]() ![]() There aren’t many action/adventure games on the Wii, but in the small class of options Rygar excels. This is the type of game that anyone can pick up and play and have a good time. Being a virgin to the series the ease of play and amount of enjoyment truly surprised me. Definitely a nice touch, but still not worth taking a second dip if you have already experienced this game when it was released on the PS2.Įven though the game feels dated (and looks it too), Rygar: The Battle of Argus is extremely fun. The short of it is it’s a survival mode that has you battling waves of baddies for thirty levels. You pretty much just use it as a finishing blow by swinging the Wiimote, but the motion controls have a bigger role in the new mode that has been added to this interpretation: Gladiator Mode. The game does take advantage of the Wii’s motion controls but it’s not widely used in the story mode. It’s also worth noting that if you abhor traveling down different paths that don’t follow the main quest, these side paths do usually lead you back to where you started, eliminating any sense of backtracking. You have nothing to lose: chances are you will find a hidden artifact or you might find enemies that keep respawning (and either way, you come out with something as some enemies you defeat drop items). ![]() So, as you enter a level and there are multiple paths in which to traverse, I recommend going down each one. At its heart, it is a hack and slash game, but, as mentioned a couple paragraphs ago, it mixes in quite a bit of exploration. So is there more to Rygar: The Battle of Argus, you ask? Yes, but not too much more. However, the story and the facts about that time era that you find, really help keep this game interesting if you are into mythology. Don’t get your hopes up for first-class voice acting though as comes across pretty lame. I mean, it’s far from the best looking game on the Wii, but it is also far from being the worst looking. Graphically, the game isn’t that impressive, but seeing as how Nintendo decided that graphics aren’t what make the game (and I agree), Tecmo did a good job working with what they had to make a decent looking game. I love hacking and slashing, but I also like a little strategy in my boss battles. For example, I defeated the first boss by walking up to it and just mashing buttons while watching their health plummet. Usually there is no set strategy involved in defeating them. They really aren’t amusing and can be frustrating at times. The only real downside to the combat is the boss fights. Now there will be attacks that simply can’t be blocked, but Rygar has other moves to avoid more powerful attacks, and as you can imagine you will find these abilities by searching the levels. It as simple as pushing the C button that’s it. I find myself destroying everything I can as I go through levels (this is not only fun, but also a way to find upgrades for your weapon).Īlright now that I have covered the offense it’s time for the defense the defense. On top of that, the environment is destructible and let me tell you, knocking down pillars and destroying other things in the environment is extremely satisfying. ![]() ![]() Of course they can also be used to chain together combos that can be pretty devastating. The A and B buttons are used as a normal and a heavy attack respectively. The combat works well with the diskarmor and is really simplistic. There are items you can pick up to make your trusty weapon more powerful, and even three different types of diskarmor you earn on your quest, each with its own different abilities. Essentially it is a round (shaped like a shield) disc with blades all around it and is attached to a handle similar to a mace. This is probably one of the coolest weapons I have used in an action/adventure game. He does however implement some pretty cool things along the way, mainly with his trusty diskarmor weapon. The story really isn’t that unique: Rygar is assigned the task of the tired mission to save the princess. Rygar takes place in the mythological Roman Empire. The question is will you find reason to don the diskarmor once again? Brawl is one of the best fighting games this generation, and now Tecmo has released Rygar: The Battle of Argus which is another game that has been picked up, remade and found a home in the thwarting arms of the Wii. Mario Kart is one of the better racing games on any console. While their competitors chose to widely advance their hardware, Nintendo decided to introduce a new way to play games, and quite a few games have utilized this motion sensor technology rather well. ![]() ![]() Instead, we temporarily disabled Windows driver signature compliance, allowing the app to load.Īpplications Urban VPN’s Windows client is as simple as a VPN app, with no interface for its device tray icon beyond a right-click menu. We weren’t hopeful the company could help anyway, as we had exactly the same problem the last time we looked at the service, ten months ago. Urban VPN has no live support, Urban VPN has no chat option, Urban VPN has no website support section, Urban VPN has no email address obviously dedicated to general assistance. You can ask us via our live support.’ This doesn’t seem real, though. Near investigation of the Event Viewer showed alerts that Windows couldn’t verify the digital signature for the virtual network adapter of Urban VPN, and when we checked it wasn’t signed at all. ![]() But it wasn’t easy because the installer failed repeatedly. No account to build, no password to remember – simply download, install and run the Windows app. Setting up Using Urban VPN should have been fast. None of that seems possible yet, though, so you’re left to take the company’s words entirely on faith. The free use of Urban VPN service may inform potential users by recording more about how their system operates, or even through a security or privacy audit. How much traffic there are protection or privacy considerations? We don’t know that. By using the free Services, you agree to use your device as defined and agree that other users or services may use your network link. In exchange, your free use of the Urban VPN would enable other devices using the Services to be re-routed through your computer. “The Urban VPN may make use of the Internet, inter alia by re-routing some of your requests through other peer users. (Guessing is not good enough, of course Urban VPN can make this clear.) Finally, there’s the question of peer-to-peer Urban VPN. submit?name=this&city=that), and our assumption is that Urban VPN eliminates that data very easily, but retains anonymous browsing information. We think the company is trying to claim that it records the URLs you visit but does not connect them to your account (it will end up with a list of URLs created by all customers, but no way to tell which account visited which sites).Ĭomplete URLs may also include personal information (e.g. ![]() A strangely phrased clause states, ‘IPs obtained for the position are removed immediately after completion of usage (not stored),’ which probably means they are deleted when you disconnect.īut it goes on to say that the IP obtained while using Urban VPN for the desktop will only be removed ‘when you uninstall the free VPN program and stop using the Services.’ ‘We collect URLs of visited websites that are often aggregated Non-Personal Data, but often Web Browsing Data includes words that could be considered as Personal Data. The document says that free Urban VPN collects your ‘Agent Id, UDID, Android ID, and IP address to locate your approximate location (country level) and provide service. To find out more, we went to the Urban VPN Privacy Policy, a well-organized document outlining all the data the service gathers and how it is used. How does free Urban VPN encrypt your data? How much money can Urban apps use once installed? What happens if another Urban VPN user uses your IP address to behave illegally? The approach to VPNs brings several questions. ‘The organization claims to use a Hola-type system where, once you connect, your traffic is routed through other users’ systems, and some of their traffic is routed through yours. A ‘Free why? ‘Page describes that ‘ free Urban VPN is driven by VPN community (Peer-to-Peer). ![]() ![]() ![]() Advanced riders will be able to get the best from it. This is not a board for beginners but worthwhile investment for intermediates and better wanting to improve their riding. I’d be happy to have this as my only board knowing that whether I was dropping into the pipe, kicker line or just cruising around the mountain looking for hits it would be up to the job. Discover the largest range of snowboards at Australia's favourite snowboard store Rhythm Snowsports Our snowboard shop stocks all the best brands in the industry such as Burton, DC, Jones, YES, Rome, GNU, Endeavor, Off Shore, Trapper and more All-Mountain, Park, Pow, Splitboards - We have it all at Rhythm Snowboard Shop. The Parkitect has loads of pop and is really responsive, despite having these qualities the Parkitect is great for jibbing, it just takes a bit more effort to work those presses. It was slightly stiffer than I expected but after a couple of runs to get used to it, I really started to love it. The Parkitect is a snowboard that is suited to riders who really want to push their freestyle. The Burton Parkitect brings some camber back to the world of freestyle, plus a whole load more tech. The result is a distinct toe and heel edge that works with your stance for smoother flex, focused pop, and direct edge control where it matters most. NEW Off-Axis Squeezebox and Frostbite means never-before-seen tweaks in 3D core profiling and edge geometries. International Review of Education 60 (4):583-585. Working with Jeremy Jones and Zak Hale, we began designing a board built specifically around a park rider’s stance. Introduction to education studies (Bartlett & Burton Book Review) September 2014. Recently there have been some strange happenings at our Vermont proto shop. It must work because Transworld gave it a coverted Good Wood Award. Make sense? Don’t worry! In essence you’re left with a board that has a specific heal edge and toe edge and means manouverability, edge hold and pop are all improved. As a consequence you’re left with an asymetric core. This is Squeezebox technology that thins directly under the riders foot but at a freestyle stance of +/- 15 degrees. The main feature of the Parkitect is the Off-Axis Squeezebox. This deck is by no means your average snowboard but then again Jeremy Jones isn’t your average rider and if anybody has the experience and knowledge to build a killer board it’s got to be JJ the OG. ![]() Burton have embraced some fairly ‘off the wall’ technology by building the Parkitect. ![]() ![]() So long as it’s only used as a tool, that is. It’s no substitute for the real thing, but it’s an excellent accoutrement to the core experience. However, it’s a fairly lackluster way to actually play in them. I love the idea of Disney Infinity: Toy Box, and even I think it’s the optimal way to go about editing and creating one’s own worlds in the Disney Infinity universe. What’s worse, there are noticeable performance issues that make the action chug (and even freeze) fairly regularly. Disney has done a decent job of attempting to adapt the character controls to the touch screen but they just aren’t as user friendly as a controller. It all falls apart once players jump in to the action, though. The touch interface feels a lot easier to use and more intuitive than the one found in the console version, and dare I say it’s even preferable. Actually editing and creating worlds is a snap, too. And if players have held on to the codes that came with each figure, they can enter those on the official website to unlock that character on the iPad. All the unlocked items and characters will immediately be available. Sharing one’s Toy Box library between console and iPad is simple: just create an account and log in while the system takes care of the rest. Buying any of the extraneous figures isn’t required, but it does add some variety to be able to play as someone other than the default trio of Captain Jack Sparrow, Mr. Introducing the Disney Infinity Toy Box, a wide open world of possibilities where you can mix, match and mash-up everything you unlock from the Disney Infinity Play Sets to make your own adventures, build your own worlds, and create your own games. What’s more, players can submit their creations to Disney in the hopes of being featured, and download other players’ creations. Racetracks, obstacle courses, combat arenas, and so on are all possibilities. Instead, players can use bits and pieces collected through their console game to create their own worlds to play in. This is just the Toy Box mode, and as such there are no “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Monsters University” levels in sight. ![]() As a game, it’s a fairly big disappointment.ĭon’t jump in to Disney Infinity: Toy Box expecting the same collection of character-specific stories and worlds found on consoles. Disney Infinity: Toy Box is an iPad port of the console version's Toy Box mode that allows players to create, edit, play with, and share their own custom worlds and adventures.Īs a creation tool, it’s a fantastic way to curate one’s collection from just about anywhere. It’s an awesome concept and has resulted in a remarkably cool game. Disney Infinity is a super ambitious adventure/sandbox game that lets players enjoy a mish-mash of various Disney worlds and characters, while simultaneously appealing to their inner (or outer) collector by integrating physical figures that can be brought into it. ![]() ![]() That’s why you see a truck of this size with the eight bolt pattern and the stud bolts that the wheel goes on will be closer to one inch rather than the typical 7/16 to 1/2 inch size on smaller 1/2 ton trucks. If you have an F450 Ford that pulls a large fifth wheel trailer the heaviness of the truck/trailer combination plus the torque the engine needs to put to the drive wheels would certainly break off the studs that the wheel slips onto if you only have 4 or 5. Bolt pattern or bolt circle is the diameter of an imaginary circle formed by the centers of the wheel lugs The reason for this is the heavier the car or truck– the more lug bolts it needs to carry the weight. There are usually at least four and they can go up to as many as eight on heavy duty pickup trucks. source:ĭifferent car and truck manufacturers use different amounts of lug bolts to hold the wheels onto your vehicle. Follow along as we give you the facts about wheel lug patterns.įrom a 1968 and a 1971 C10 showing the bolt change. There have been many different lug bolt patterns used on cars and trucks over the years and they are even stated in different terms. Be sure that you skip one bolt when measuring. This gives you the second number. With a 5 lug bolts pattern choose any lug bolt and measure the distance between the back of one lug to the center of another that is directly across from it. A 4 lug bolt pattern is measured center to center directly across from each other. Here is a short table with the lug bolt pattern changes: Truck yearĬount the number of lug nuts on the hub and that gives you the first number. This makes it easy to remember what pattern is on a truck. ![]() The C10 series of General Motors trucks changed the lug bolt pattern, number of studs and the stud diameter one time. Whether you are purchasing a set of wheels, or you’re stranded with a flat and need someone to bring you a spare, it’s always a good idea to know the lug spacing of your wheels.ġ960 to 1970 Chevy C10s have 6 studs. ![]() It’s important to know the lug bolt pattern and size of the lug bolt on a classic Chevy truck as some of the information available out there is not always reliable. ![]() ![]() ![]() I first heard it during my mandatory two years of military service in Singapore. Those of you with a military background will immediately recognize this phrase. If you’re into sports, martial arts, visual arts, or any other kind of craft that require you to use well-coordinated body movements, these techniques and exercises will seem very familiar. The methods to master the techniques of playing guitar are very similar to the methods used in other physical art forms. In this article, we’ll check out some methods to develop good chord changing fundamental techniques and then provide some chord changing exercises to practice. So for those of you who intend to play guitar with other musicians in gigs, or those of you who intend to sing while playing guitar, it is extremely vital that you get your chord changes as smooth and rhythmically correct as possible. Having a reliable rhythm section provides comfort to the musicians taking on lead roles. If you’re playing rhythm guitar with another musician, say a vocalist for example, the inability to play with a consistent tempo will make it very difficult for the vocalist to get comfortable and put on a good performance. Chord changing stutters also cause problems when playing with other musicians because they throw off the rhythmic pulse. ![]() Without smooth transitions between chords, your rhythm guitar playing will sound choppy and stuttered. Many beginning guitar players struggle to perform smooth and seamless chord changes. ![]() ![]() ![]() CyberLink TrueTheater module can upscale SD videos to HD-like content, sharpening images and removing video noise or even reducing shakes from your camera movement transforming your sequence into a smooth clip. The cinematic Time-Lapse technique makes its debut in PowerDirector 10 transforming any slow moving activity into a fluid motion. In addition these drawings are time-distortable, so you can slow down or speed up the action anytime. One of these features that comes for the first time in a consumer editing software is the free-hand drawings that can be recorded and overlay on any video. PowerDirector 10 introduces a host of exciting new features to make your video productions not only more impressive, but also easier to create. You can use up to 100 track timelines that lets you create even the most sophisticated movie sequences with ease by allowing multiple layers of video, audio and objects to be controlled simultaneously. But as you go deeply into his functions, the interface becomes overcrowded. On the surface CyberLink PowerDirector 10 looks nice, bringing the main features in front. This means that even if your PC doesn't have the latest CPU/GPU hardware, rapid video rendering speeds are still within reach through software technology.īeing a comprehensive application, it's not an easy job to deliver a user-friendly interface. Thanks to an enhanced H.264 software encoder, PowerDirector 10 is up to 38% faster than PowerDirector 9 at rendering 1080 HD video clips. But for an average user, this technology can become useless if he already knows what output suites he needs, or if the user is forced to use a specific output for his project.ĬyberLink PowerDirector 10 is a good solution also for slow computers. SVRT technology recognizes the portions of a movie clip that has been modified and only renders those portions during production and not the entire clip. Theoretically in this way users can produce better videos in less time. Intelligent Smart Video Rendering Technology (SVRT) is a patented technology that analyzes an entire project to assess the types of media and formats used, then selects the best output profile for optimal production speed. In addition PowerDirector 10 is the world's first native 64-bit consumer video editor, enabling improved system efficiency and faster loading of HD video footage through parallel processing optimization. The engine takes advantage of both hardware and software technologies to speed up video processing, harnessing system GPU power via OpenCL for incomparable effects rendering speed, while a brand new H.264 media encoder rapidly processes HD video. This is the result of a revamped rendering engine that provides even faster and more efficient video production. PowerDirector 10 confirms again to be the fastest video editing tool. CyberLink has released the latest PowerDirector edition, which seems to cover all your needs, giving a balanced solution between low hardware requirements and usability.īased on a huge community, PowerDirector has been recognized the most popular video editing tool, and therefore has evolved from version to version in terms of functionality and performance. Even if you meet all the requirements, your need some expertise in this field to obtain good results in video editing. 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