![]() ![]() “Captivating … an engaging series of narratives.” Navy holds surprises for even scholars of the era.“ Clearly, the bicentennial of the war that birthed the U.S. Navy … Inspired … couldn’t have done a better job of weaving together first-person accounts of the War of 1812 into a single volume … Spectacular… Jenkins and Taylor’s tapestry of personal reminiscences of the war is sui generis. “Since childhood, I’ve been a War of 1812 buff … Never before, however, have I encountered a book on that war more intellectually engaging than The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Praise for The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. history and a must-read for maritime aficionados and general history buffs alike. Navy is a sweeping panorama of a defining moment in U.S. Featuring a colorful, diverse cast of characters–from sailors, spies, and ship’s surgeons to commodores, Navy wives, and privateers–and incorporating hundreds of photographs, period illustrations, and contemporary and original maps, The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Explore historic documents, letters, ephemera, and artifacts, including fascinating finds from the Navy’s most recent underwater excavation of the war’s lost ships. Riveting firsthand accounts enliven this official sea-level view of the conflict that proved American naval prowess a force to be reckoned with. Discover the epic naval story of the war that threatened to undo our nation in 1812. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Of course, Oppenheimer did not witness the actual use of his weapon, he never saw anything becoming death, the destroyer of worlds, and Nolan takes the decision to look away from it too, to stay in the US, to stay with Oppenheimer himself in all his sudden tragic irrelevance. ![]() He knows it is his duty as a leader to congratulate them and be upbeat, stammering out some fatuous remark about how the Japanese “didn’t like it”, then realising how callous that was, and beginning to hallucinate the horror. After the successful detonation of the Hiroshima bomb, Murphy shows us Oppenheimer in shock, but also realising he has to address an audience of cheering colleagues and subordinates. The purest payload of fear is delivered in a scene that Nolan handles with forthright gusto. Tom Conti plays the sorrowfully detached Albert Einstein, and it has to be said that Nolan, rightly or wrongly, uses non-Jewish actors for Oppenheimer and Einstein, two of the most famous Jewish people in history and in fact doesn’t quite get to grips with the antisemitism that Oppenheimer faced as an assimilated secular American Jew. ![]() ![]() Matt Damon is the boorish Lt Gen Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer’s exasperated military minder Kenneth Branagh is his genial scientific hero and mentor Niels Bohr Robert Downey Jr is the duplicitous Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss Florence Pugh plays his lover Jean Tatlock, whose heart he broke, while Emily Blunt is his wife, Kitty, also badly treated. Later in the 50s, there is the disillusioned, compromised administrator, hounded by the McCarthyites for his communist connections, nauseated by his own pointless celebrity, by his failure to establish postwar international atomic control and by a single denied thought: the Nazis surrendered long before there was any suggestion they had the weapon, and bombing the defeated Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was merely to cow the Russians with a ruthless demonstration of the US’s nuclear mastery.Ĭillian Murphy is an eerily close lookalike for Oppenheimer with his trademark hat and pipe, and is very good at capturing his sense of solitude and emotional imprisonment, giving us the Oppenheimer million-yard stare, eyeballs set in a gaunt skull, seeing and foreseeing things he cannot process. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pinks caught in the ocean are the best, as with all salmon. ![]() In places along the Pacific Northwest coast, residents may notice a putrid scent emanating from the woods in mid-summer–literally the smell of a good pink year. They surge upstream to spawn in astonishing numbers, actually clogging streams at times and making easy pickings for bears, birds, wolves and humans. The pink, or humpie, salmon averages just several pounds in weight–like a large trout–but teems in ocean waters from Oregon to Alaska in the tens of millions. What this little fish lacks in size it makes up for in sheer abundance. This fillet, to be grilled and served with Alaskan chanterelles, came from a pink salmon, often considered the lousiest tasting of the salmon. Here, we catch, taste and discuss the wild Pacific salmon–from the reddest to the biggest to the best. Some is, of course, farmed–almost always the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar–but such cage-raised fish are not a part of this discussion. Other times, salmon is sold anonymously or under false marketing names–like “silverbrite” for the ill-named chum salmon. ![]() Some restaurant menus will specify the species–especially if the fish is Chinook, also called king. But within the Pacific salmon genus, Oncorhynchus, there are five main species–and they are all very different. Their bright red meat is so distinct and so delicious that it hardly qualifies merely as seafood but, rather, occupies a princely culinary category of its own. Salmon are also one of the most revered guests in any kitchen. Far inland, within river basins of the Pacific Northwest, their biomass nourishes the soil, while at sea, nearly every level of predator–from rockfish to halibut to seal to orca–relies at least partially on this abundant source of food. Salmon are one of nature’s miracles, a resource of protein and nitrogen that feeds entire ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Kyle Strickland. ![]() Biggest, most succulent and greasiest of the salmon, the Chinook, or king. ![]() ![]() ![]() She struts the catwalk of street fighting to become the world's strongest model.įinally, JP is head of an international NGO responsible for many successful investment projects. Manon on the other hand, is something of a fashionista. As a child, she was inspired by a vision of the Colosseum in its prime. Marisa is an up-and-coming jewelry designer from Italy who claims ancestry to ancient Greek warriors. Kimberly had an ordinary upbringing, but she's a genuine prodigy who graduated college early.and now wants to be a ninja. "Uninvited student to Guy, the 39th successor to Bushinryu. Here's how she's described on the same blog: She has heaps of visual flair, and a fun 80s aesthetic. Kimberly on the other hand, is basically an aspiring ninja with a spray can. An expert dancer, Jamie places justice and friendship above all else, defending his town with martial skill." ![]() "This self-styled Chinatown peacekeeper aspires to the example set by Yun and Yang, the Twin Dragons. He is described on the official SF6 blog as follows: In terms of fighting styles, Jamie is a professional dancer, so has extremely acrobatic moves and skills. Of these characters, Kimberly, Marisa, Manon, JP, and Jamie are brand new. Honda, Blanka, Guile, Ken, Chun-Li, Zangief, Dhalsim, Dee Jay, Manon, Marisa and JP. While DLC characters are inevitable additions, here's who players can expect off the bat: Luke, Jamie, Manon, Kimberly, Marisa, Lily, JP, Juri, Dee Jay, Cammy, Ryu, E. Thanks to the recent release date reveal trailer, Capcom has now outlined the full launch roster for Street Fighter 6. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present day, geologist Darcy Tyril excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Sixty-five million years ago, an alien race known as the “ Creators” used devices called Seeds to terraform Planet Earth, covering it with an alloy called Transformium. 6.1.4 Authenticity over North American box office opening.It was the sole film to gross over $1 billion in 2014.Ī sequel, The Last Knight, was released on June 21, 2017, with Wahlberg, Tucci, and Cullen returning, and Bay directing. ĭespite poor reviews, it was a massive box office success, grossing over $1.104 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the second-highest-grossing film in the Transformers series, the 19th film to gross over $1 billion, and the 23rd-highest-grossing film of all time. ![]() The film received seven nominations at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, with Bay and Grammer winning the awards for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor, respectively. Transformers: Age of Extinction received largely negative reviews from critics, many of whom considered it poorly directed, badly acted, terribly written, overlong, and having awful product placement, but received some praise for its action sequences, stunts, effects, musical score and the performances of Wahlberg, Tucci, Grammer, Cullen, Ryan, Welker, Watanabe, Goodman, DiMaggio, Foxworth, and Wilson. The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D. It is the first film in the series not to feature the human cast from the previous three films, but features a new cast of human characters and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. Miller with Peter Cullen reprising as the voice of Optimus Prime. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T. Like its predecessors, it was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, with Steven Spielberg and Bay as executive producers. It is the fourth installment of the live-action Transformers film series and a stand-alone sequel to 2011's Dark of the Moon, taking place five years after its events. Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. ![]() ![]() On Dec 7, 2020, at 4:19 PM, Jon Gotow wrote: On Dec 7, 2020, at 9:57 AM, Mark Allan wrote: On Dec 7, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Mark Allan wrote: ![]() No I hadn't checked that tool.but I have now, and it says "YES" ie it's signed correctly, so unfortunately I'm no further forward. On Dec 7, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Mark Allan wrote: Have you tried that? Does it report anything useful? TN2206 ( ) makes reference to using the `check-signature` tool ( ) to validate package signatures. I can't speak to what might be the problem, but I've been reading about code signing and notarization recently in an effort to better understand how it all works at a lower level, so I'm interested in what you find out. Is anyone aware of any changes to pkgbuild and productbuild which might have caused this? The man pages don't reference anything new that might be relevant, so I'm stuck. The signature is valid and I can see this in macOS 11 and 10.15 when clicking the certificate icon in the upper right corner of the window, so I'm not sure what's going on. Get a new copy of the package and try again. The package may have been corrupted or tampered with. ![]() Installer_signed.pkg can't be installed because its digital signature is invalid. When I try to open the installer on the older OSes, I'm presented with the following error message: ![]() pkg installer file along with all the other elements of the app.įor the last few years this has worked fine, but for some reason I'm now unable to open the resulting pkg file on macOS 10.10 and 10.11. I have a script which Xcode runs as a post-action during the archive phase which takes my compiled app, and generates a signed. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the new class mechanic coming there is more incentive for players to come out of their wizard towers and defeat your opponents more directly. The new Rogue class however takes a more stealthy approach by utilising poisons, agile units and mind-controlling spells to dictate their engagements in battle more easily than other classes we know about so far.Ĭhecking out the trailer above, I don’t know about you but my dreams of sexy nymphs from Age of Wonders 2 were crushed when I saw those fat big-pixeled Dwarven Succubi, I had a horrid nightmare just now thinking about them…flying over my wall, their beards wagging and wings flapping (shudders). Spells like Nightwish can hide your cities, Plague of Brigands can cause a revolt in your enemies city to drain their armies numbers and best of all (correct me if I’m wrong), Mass Confusion spell from AoW2 seems to have made a transition to Mass Panic, causing enemies to randomly flee than attack each other, maybe it’s been nerfed considering the lack of willpower attribute details around and Dreadnaughts Destabilize Mana Core spell?Ĭompared to AoW2, Age of Wonders 3 lets you combine race, class, alignment and your magical sphere you specialise in to yield a unique mix of spells and units, mostly determined by your chosen class. With focus into one of these aspects, your chosen class could probably obtain those big top-tier spells like Mass Panic. Plus they're cheaper than the sorcerer class one. * Scoundrel – The dirt fighting henchmen of the Rogue with the ability to climb fortifications. Age of Wonders 3 is a fantastic game eagerly anticipated. Specialization would be 2 destruction and 1 fire. As the game comes closer to launch we'll be sharing previews, videos, beta impressions and more. ![]() After launch feel free to share strategies, let's plays, and any other AOW3 content the community will enjoy. Since Goblins do not get a penalty for Blight, you can use Blight Empire for transforming your entire empire to blighted. Receiving a good defense bonus against enemies, as they're not happy to be in your lands. ![]() * Succubus – Corrupted seductress built at cities from one of the main races. ![]() (Yes – we also have Dwarven Succubi with beards). * Shadow Stalker – Incorporeal monster of elemental darkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six new brand specialisations with 6 new skills called “Adept Conflux” (V1.0), "Master Conflux" (V5.0, since ), “Blood Conqueror Adept” (V2.0, out since 11/06/19), "Master Blood Conqueror" (V4.0, out since ), “Academician” (V3.0, out since 13/06/19), "Archaeologist" (V6.0, since ) (personal note- after experimenting a little bit, my favourite setup is one Dual + 2 single, so basically just one more spec than what the vanilla game provides) All is up to your personal taste in this regard. While using combinations provides you more skills in the late game, you might be waiting quite some time in the early game before getting certain specific skills. Finally, keep in mind that by increasing the pool of skill you can research you also reduce odds of obtaining each skills individually. This will keep the number of research equal between players. For example, you can decide that each players will have one dual or quadra spec and the two others being single or just no spec at all. ![]() FAQ regarding combinations- the point is to offer more customisation, you can still have a very balanced game experience if you setup all leaders from all players to play with the same number of spec, the number of stars on icons is here to help you. Since V7.0 and more, all possible combinations of Adept+Master combined into one unique specialisation, a set of seven quadra-combinations, one hepta-combination, and one octa-combination. This mod is focused on Specialisations and adds more than 40 new spells to the base game, with: ![]() ![]() He made his Grand Prix debut in the Moto2 class when he replaced the injured Efrén Vázquez in the 2016 French motorcycle Grand Prix, finishing the race in 25th place. He made his debut at international level when he competed in the 2013 Superbike World Championship round held in Laguna Seca as a wild card with Michael Jordan Motorsports. ![]() Romero came through with an excellent ride in 1975 aboard a factory Yamaha. He currently competes in the MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 Championship aboard a BMW S1000RR.īorn in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eslick has competed for most of his career in the United States, where he won the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship in 2009 (on a Buell 1125R) and 2011 (on a Suzuki GSXR600), the Harley-Davidson XR1200 Series in 2010 and the Daytona 200 race in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Gene Romero was one of the best-known motorcycle racers in the U.S. The #40 S-Pulse team backed up the results of the factory Suzuki squad with a fourth-place finish, as Hideyuki Ogata, Atsumi Cocoro and Takuya Tsuda came out on top in a duel with the #104 Toho Honda of four-time Suzuka winner Ryuichi Kiyonari, Hiromichi Kunikawa and Takuma Kunimine.īehind the YART Yamaha, the top 10 was completed by the #40 Team ATJ Honda of Yuki Takahashi, Kazuki Ito and Tomoyoshi Koyama, the #5 FCC TSR Honda of Josh Hook and Mike de Meglio, and the #50 Team Kodama Yamaha of Yuuta Kodama, Kengo Nagao and Kenji Nagao.Danny Eslick (born ) is an American professional motorcycle racer. Competing without Sylvain Guintoli following a hand injury for the French rider and having to start 22nd place, the works Suzuki team appeared rapid during the race with a heroic first stint from Black briefly elevating it to the lead after the first safety car phase.īlack and Kazuki Watanabe ended up dropping a few places down the order as they competed the race as a duo in hot conditions, but a strong end to the race ensured they finished third on the podium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Purchase Genie+ – This paid line skipping service is best value at Magic Kingdom with 23 attractions included in the daily price of $15-35 (depending on demand). ![]() Download My Disney Experience app – To check wait times, make Genie+ selections, order food, and more.The reservation system will end for most guests from January 9, 2024. Magic Kingdom is the park that’s most likely to book up at busy times. I recommend booking your Disney tickets and making a park reservation for each day of your trip at least a month in advance. Make a Park Reservation – Reservations are essential in 2023.How to Skip Lines at Magic Kingdom Rising early is worth it both for the gorgeous sunrise views and for avoiding long queuesĭisney is notorious for long lines, and Magic Kingdom is one of the most popular Disney parks in the world.īut with these time saving tips we rarely wait more than 15 minutes for any of these Magic Kingdom attractions. Other Top Things to Do at Magic Kingdom.Best Attractions at Magic Kingdom with Low Wait Times.Most Popular Rides at Magic Kingdom Orlando.In this post, we share our picks for the best rides at Magic Kingdom plus how to skip the lines and other fun things to do for a magical day. Simon and I loved the park as kids and continue to enjoy it on repeat visits as adults. Magic Kingdom attractions tend to be more gentle than thrilling (although there are a few fun roller coasters including the new TRON ride), and there’s plenty to do for both adults and children. You’ll find Cinderella Castle, Mickey Mouse, Disney princesses, and the most nostalgic rides many of us remember from our childhoods. Magic Kingdom is the most Disney of the four Walt Disney World parks in Orlando, Florida. Please read our disclosure for more info. ![]() |
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