![]() ![]() Certificate approval by the Japanese government may take several weeks to process and should be received before bringing the medication or medical devices to Japan.Īll travelers entering Japan with a prescription medication, including medication that is not restricted in Japan, should consider bringing a copy of their doctor’s prescription as well as a letter stating the purpose of the drug. All travelers are encouraged to check before traveling to Japan at Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) website, including reviewing FAQ, or to email who need to bring more than the MLHW’s approved quantity of medication or medical devices should obtain a “Yunyu Kakunin-sho” (importation certificate) prior to travelling, and present it with the prescription to a customs officer upon arrival in Japan. Comprehensive information is available only from the Japanese government and is subject to change without notice. Embassy and Consulates in Japan do not maintain a comprehensive list of prohibited medications or ingredients. ![]() ![]() prescription for a medicine/drug which is illegal in Japan: if you bring it with you, you risk arrest and detention by the Japanese authorities. It does not matter if you have a valid U.S. Many common medications and over-the-counter drugs in the United States are illegal in Japan. AMBIEN and other medicines can interact with each other causing serious side effects. Decisions on which medications or prescription drugs can be brought into Japan are made solely by the Japanese Government and subject to control under Japan’s Pharmaceutical Affairs Law. AMBIEN and AMBIEN CR passes into your breast milk and may harm your baby Tell your healthcare provider about all of the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jon Fulton Adams (left) and Ron Megee listen to a speaker during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. BanksĪn activist at the Supreme Court Wednesday (June 26) carries a sign depicting support for the Supreme Court overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. BanksĪ man exits the Supreme Court building carrying an American flag after the high court made its rulings on same-sex marriage Wednesday (June 26, 2013). “What could be more important than this?” she asked. Jill McCrory, pastor of Twinbrook Baptist Church of Rockville, Md., carries a sign supporting gay marriage outside the Supreme Court Wednesday (June 26). RNS photo by Sally Morrowįrom left to right, Jon Fulton Adams, Ron Megee and “Dirty Dorothy” celebrate during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Tom Marks plays his violin with the Mid America Freedom Band during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Members of the Mid America Freedom Band (left to right) Tom Marks, Lee Hartman, Trisha Van Wig and Mark Hash prepare to perform during a celebration rally at Ilus W. ![]() The high court rejected Prop 8 on legal grounds. Between the couples is attorney David Boies. Two other plaintiffs, Jeff Zarrillo, second left, and Paul Katami, third left, exited with them. Plaintiffs Sandy Stier and Kristin Perry kiss on Wednesday (June 26) as they leave the Supreme Court with others who argued against California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. Banksĭavid Baker of Washington, a 24-year-old native of Salt Lake City, stood outside the Supreme Court Tuesday (June 25) hoping for a decision in support of gay marriage. Ronald Brock, a Detroit native who travels the country sharing a “prophetic message” from God, stood outside the Supreme Court Tuesday (June 25) hoping for a decision against gay marriage. Participants gather during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Randy Hite holds a gay pride flag during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Supreme Court Wednesday (June 26) for its decisions about same-sex marriage. The scene outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday (June 25), when media and spectators on opposing sides of the same-sex marriage debate gathered to await the announcement of the high court’s decisions. RNS photo by Sally MorrowĪ man holds a gay pride flag in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday (June 26, 2013) after the court decided to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Josh Hyde and Emily Johnson represent the Kansas City Atheist Coalition during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. RNS photo by Sally MorrowĪudrey and Jack McQueen, 7-yr-old twins, gather during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Davis Park in Kansas City, Mo., on June 26, 2013. Wes Warner (right) holds a gay pride flag during a rally celebrating the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling at Ilus W. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, celebrates Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage on Wednesday (June 26). (On the right is Andres Calderon of Washington, who supported the striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act.) RNS photo by Adelle M. Michael McCoy of Washington carried an umbrella of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization, outside the Supreme Court Wednesday (June 26). Bob Kunst, president of Shalom International from Miami Beach, Fla., stood outside the Supreme Court Wednesday (June 26) and supported the Supreme Court decisions to “get government out of everybody’s bedrooms.” RNS photo by Adelle M. ![]() ![]() The seams between the pieces are smoothed and grouted. The second one - Roman mosaic is consists of tiny rectangular or square glass pieces.Īfter cutting, each detail is glued on the wooden base. In case of the first one - the glass is cut exactly according to the shape of the element, for instance: leaf, petal or bird wing etc. The main difference lays in shape of details used for mosaic. In our studio mosaics are made in two techniques, which are known asįlorentine and Roman. The size, shape and shades of details are carefully selected in such a way as to create the desired effect - for example, photorealism, or a pronounced mosaic texture. This requires not only an amazing art taste and sense of beauty, but also phenomenal patience and concentration on such a work as time to handcraft mosaic depending on size and design could take from 1 to 6 months for one master. Only experienced artist is be able to create it. Mosaic is the most hard and challenging work among other stained glass products. Also stained glass lamps can reduce your stress or bad mood. That’s why the mosaic looks different when the lighting changes. Glass reflects the light and refracts it very in a charming way. The stained glass mosaic has the ability to reflect light, creating a bewitching game of glare. The main peculiarity of mosaic among other glass products is a possibility of reproduction of the small details and expressing trick of the light - in a word making alive and realistic pattern. Such accented interior decor doesn’t need additional support, it is completely self-sufficient. Our masters will create a stained glass mosaic that imitates the pattern and texture of any kind of art - fresco, panels, paintings, etc. Stained glass mosaic is an image or a pattern consisting of colored glass pieces, which are jewelry-precisely combined together on the wood base according to the designed sketch. If you’re a true art appreciator, such work will for sure impress you by unique texture, deep attention to details and vibrant colors, which literally glow from the inside and shimmer with hundreds of shades when light cover the mosaic. That’s why it often could be founded in temples, churches, architectural monuments as well as in mansions, houses and other buildings, where majestic atmosphere need to be created. ![]() Stained glass mosaic sets the style and creates the artistic value of the place where it’s located. Mosaic is one of the ancient types of art, in basis on which lies reproduction of pattern using tiny stained glass pieces. ![]() ![]() On to damage, like the damage I am feeling right now looking at how much more there is to talk about… We’ve talked about Dosis, so now we’ll get into AoE with Dyskrasia and its’ upgrade. Zoe is similar to Recitation, but instead of guaranteed crit on some spells, it doubles the healing from a healing spell (not OGCD). Soteria doubles the cure potency of your Kardion heals for 10 seconds every 90 seconds. Physis is an OGCD AoE healing spell with a 60 second cooldown, a nice weaving/emergency button there. We’re still going! Let’s talk about the rest of the healing kit of spells and cooldowns. These cannot be stacked so make sure that the single target version has fallen off or timed out before casting the AoE version! There is also an AoE version of this with the same mechanics called Panhaima. ![]() If the target still has stacks once their timer is up, the target will receive a heal that is equal to 150 potency per stack remaining. When this barrier is broken, a stack is consumed and the barrier is replaced. When you cast this, your target gains a small barrier and 5 stacks of a buff called Haimatinon. Let’s stick with barriers for a moment, as there are more! Haima is an OGCD barrier on a 120 second cooldown with some really interesting effects. One thing to note about all of these is that they are all instant casts unlike Succor and Adloquium but still invoke the GCD on cast, most likely because they are all locked behind the OGCD activation of Eukrasia. This is your AoE healing GCD, and as Eukrasian Prognosis it becomes similar to Succor. Speaking of that, the last spell alterable by Eukrasia is Prognosis. This shield is not stackable with the Galvanize from Scholar’s abilities or your own AoE shield affects. When under the effects of Eukrasia, Eukrasian Diagnosis evolves into… Adloquium! No really, including the usual doubling of critical shields. Once altered in this way, Eukrasian Dosis becomes a DoT spell like Dia, and will heal the party member you picked for the Kardion buff with each tick.įollowing this pattern the second spell with this interaction is Diagnosis your single target Physick analog. ![]() Once you are under the effects of Eukrasia this changes to Eukrasian Dosis (at least that’s easy to remember). The first of these, Dosis and its upgrades, are your single target damage spells similar to Glare, Broil, etc. This ability gained at level 30 changes the effects of three of your main GCD spells. Phew, we’re not even close to done yet, before we can talk about the last Job Gauge mechanic, Addersting we need to talk about Sage’s “sorta Dark Arts” spell Eukrasia. These abilities might feel like some homogeneity sneaking in between the healers, and you right- But, they are legally distinct enough to give Sage a different flavor as a slightly more in the moment healer with the lack of Excogitation. The last ability breaks this pattern by not being an Excogitation clone and instead Taurochole is Lustrate with a 10% damage resistance buff for 15 seconds. Ixochole, the Indomitability analog, an AoE heal with the same potency. Kerachole a Sacred Soils-like AoE damage resistance bubble with a regen. These are the “-chole” abilities Druochole, a Lustrate doppelganger that is a single target with comparable potency. They can be spent on powerful OGCD healing spells with similar effects as Scholar’s Aetherflow stack abilities. You receive one of these every 30 seconds similar to White Mage’s Lilies. Addersgall is shown in the Job Gauge as the oval-shaped indicator. It is sort of a mélange of a few Job mechanics in a new and interesting wrapper. Next we have another unique mechanic, Addersgall. This implementation makes a lot of sense and will most likely result in easier balancing for Sage if it is out of whack on release. This means that the amount of damage you do does not affect the healing received by the Kardion target and damage buffs would also not boost this. Right now, that is 170 potency per cast, and just like all potency numbers, that is subject to change. Once that is on, when you land a damaging spell on an enemy, the party member with the Kardion buff will receive some healing. This is similar to Dance Partner and probably will be the cause of quite a few first pull wipes in roulettes when you forget to set it. Once you cast this on a party member they will have the Kardion buff until you select another target and recast Kardia. ![]() OK, stop laughing, I really mean it for this Job. This ability is gained early (level 4) and is the cornerstone of the Job, somewhat like Fairies are for Scholar. Let’s get into it.įirst and foremost we’ll talk about their unique buff/mechanic Kardia. New buffs, damage converting to healing, a weird stacking shield and a whole lotta lasers. ![]() Sage is the new hotness for healing and because it is so new, this was always going to be a long one. ![]() ![]() Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic history Jose Rosado is the bullpen coach, and Alex Cintron - hitting coach for the Astros, will serve as bench coach. ![]() Phenomenal name Ricky Bones is the pitching coach, and José Molina and Luis Rivera will be the first and third-base coaches, respectively. Victor Rodríguez will be the hitting coach while Juan Gonzalez will be an assistant hitting coach. Molina will look to lead Puerto Rico to its first win after finishing as runner-up in the past two classics. Molina played for Puerto Rico in the first four iterations of the World Baseball Classic, so he's hyper-familiar with the format. It's a natural transition for Molina, who was always praised for his mind as much as much as his athleticism. Yadier Molina, who just retired after catching 19 seasons for the Cardinals, will be in the Puerto Rico dugout for the World Baseball Classic. MLB fans will know the man behind Team Puerto Rico well. MORE: World Baseball Classic 2023: MLB team-by-team roster breakdown Who is coaching Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic? Francisco Lindor is one of MLB's brightest stars, and he'll shine in the Puerto Rico infield. If you're a Twins fan, this is going to be the team for you, with new acquisition Christian Vásquez also behind the plate. Other players on MLB rosters include Enrique "Kiké" Hernández, Emilio Pagán, and José Miranda, not to mention All-Star Jorge López. Puerto Rico has a lot of players in the MiLB pipeline, including third baseman Edwin Díaz for the Red Sox, Vimael Machin for the Phillies, and Dereck Rodríguez for the Twins. Edwin Díaz was the breakout star of 2022, Báez has been an MLB fixture, and Lindor is one of the biggest names in the sport already.īeyond the MLB talent, however, the exciting thing about Puerto Rico isn't just its stars of today. There are plenty of obvious players to look for on Team Puerto Rico. (Getty Images) Puerto Rico players to watch Also representing the Red Sox, Kiké Hernández will be in centerfield. Báez is moving over to second to accommodate Lindor at short, while Red Sox prospect Edwin Díaz (not that Edwin Díaz) will be at third. Puerto Rico doesn't have as many utility players as other teams with MLB representation, but its middle infield will be among the best in the WBC. There will be three catchers, leaving just 11 spots for outfielders and infielders. Of Puerto Rico's 30-man roster, 16 of them are pitchers. MORE: 2023 World Baseball Classic: 10 pitcher-hitter matchups we can't wait to see Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic 2023 roster However, it's as talented as nearly any other team in this tournament, and a number of MLB teams are represented on its roster. Puerto Rico is playing in a crowded Pool D alongside the likes of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, so its competition is going to be fierce early and often. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor and Tigers shortstop Javier Báez are also on the roster, not to mention the likes of new Twins catcher Christian Vásquez and Blue Jays pitcher José Berríos. Edwin became one of baseball's eminent closers last year, and his walk-out song Narco made his entrances must-see TV. ![]() The headliner for Puerto Rico is Edwin Díaz, who is pitching with his brother, the Cincinnati Reds' Alexis Díaz. A fun thing about this squad is its "team of the future" vibe, with 12 of its players currently playing in MiLB pipelines. With Yadier Molina managing after retiring from the Cardinals last season, there is a lot of knowledge on the Puerto Rico bench. Puerto Rico may not be in the Tier A group of favorites in this year's World Baseball Classic, but there is a lot of optimism for the two-time runner ups. ![]() ![]() How about this, writing the move down before making it is note taking. Now in order to do this, we need to come up with a reason as to why Blumenfeld’s Rule should be eliminated. So what is a company to do? That is easy: try to eliminate Blumenfeld’s Rule from tournament play. What is the major obstacle toward getting the greatest number of chess players to purchase such a device (besides the price!)?…Blumenfeld’s Rule. Because the MonRoi would reject illegal moves and the player would get to see a future position by “writing” his move down first on the MonRoi, players using a MonRoi are required to make the move on the board first, before entering it into the device. The MonRoi is an expensive chess-recording device where the player uses a stylus to trace out the move. I have no problem with that, it is what America and the free enterprise system is all about. What is the primary purpose of the Canadian company that produces MonRois? To sell MonRois and make a profit. Now I have no problems with technological advances, but I do have a BIG problem when technology actually influences changes in the rules of chess. What type of parent wouldn’t want their kid to learn to read and write with good penmanship and instead would give them a machine to do it for them? My first thought at the TD meeting was, “Why would a parent buy one of these for a kid instead of having the child learn the very basic algebraic notation language of reading and writing chess?” ![]() Every chess player has a home computer, and many spend countless hours in front of it on a daily basis.Įnter the MonRoi. ![]() Remember back in the days of manual typewriters when you had to do special “pinky curls” at the gym to try to gain enough strength to type an “a” or a “ ” on the keyboard? For us old-timers, chess notation used to be a little more complicated…we used the old Descriptive notation where you had to flip-flop back and forth.įlash forward again to 2006. Today it is hard to imagine the world before the computer. The personal computer becomes the most influential invention in society since the automobile and the television set. (In my own personal experience, I have had two masters walk into a mate in one, with plenty of time on their clock.)įlash forward to the 1990’s. If it is useful for them, it is even more useful for us mere mortals. Kotov claimed that the great majority of the world’s best players use Blumenfeld’s Rule. Think of all the games you have ever lost…I would guess that over half of them were fairly obvious blunders in hindsight. This simple blunder check will save you countless games. Then double-check it for obvious mistakes…Are any of your pieces en prise? Is there a mate in one or two? Is there anything obvious that you have missed in your deep analysis? The purpose of Blumenfeld’s Rule is to tear yourself away from the distant future of the position you just analyzed and look at the board again through fresh eyes. Paraphrased, Blumenfeld’s Rule says that after you have considered all the candidate moves and gone along all the branches of the analysis tree, write the move down on your score sheet before playing it and hide it under your pen so that your opponent can’t see it. Kotov suggests what I believe is the most important piece of practical advice given to the tournament chess player…Blumenfeld’s Rule. One of the classic instructional chess books of all time, Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster, was published. ![]() Closing in on midnight on May 11 at the Colorado Convention at the Tournament Directors meeting for the 2006 Elementary School Nationals, I leaned over and whispered to Mary Nelson, “What is this MonRoi thing that they are talking about?”įor a humorous description of this rather expensive and unnecessary device, see the Opinion column written by Randy Reynolds in the October 2006 CCI.įlash back to 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]() (The exception appear in the producer, I don't have a consumer in this application. I have tried to set 40 MB, but I still get the exception. If the message size is about 15 MB I get a MessageSizeTooLargeException. MySignaling.I send String-messages to Kafka V. Check this out: let pc = new RTCPeerConnection(.) So, what can be done to retrieve this information? The answer lies within the SDP blob. Create and exchange offer/answer here.īut sadly, it doesn’t because Firefox and all other browsers currently don’t support the object API yet, that has been borrowed from the ORTC specification. Let maximumMessageSize = pc.sctp.maxMessageSize ĭc.send(new Uint8Array(maximumMessageSize)) So, the following example should work, right? let pc = new RTCPeerConnection(.) It maps to the attribute from the SDP and is exactly what a user application needs to look for. In the W3C WebRTC spec, there’s an RTCSctpTransport object which has a field called maxMessageSize. More precisely, that value must be available before an application even tries to send a message or it would be a guessing game… Maximum Message Size Indication But having a size limit requires knowledge about this limitation. Nevertheless, this size limitation may be increased in the future. Changing this requires changes to the W3C WebRTC specification. Therefore, when you want to send a large file as a whole, there’s an enormous backpressure due to the fact that the file’s data needs to be in memory when calling the send method. Why is there a limitation? Well, theoretically we can support much more but the limiting factor is available memory and the fact that the RTCDataChannel API of WebRTC is too high-level, meaning it’s not possible to send or receive a message in chunks. Thanks to the new EOR feature Firefox now supports receiving up to 1 GiB messages. It is not the cleanest of solutions but it should be adequate and will be removed after Firefox ESR has EOR support. A detection algorithm has been added, so Firefox will fall back to use PPID-based fragmentation/reassembly when needed: in case the maximum message size attribute in the remote SDP is missing and 256 incoming streams have been negotiated for the SCTP association, it is assumed that the other peer is an older Firefox browser. But hold on a second… sending large messages from Firefox to Firefox was possible before, wasn’t it? Yep, that’s true, with help of the deprecated PPID-based fragmentation/reassembly mechanism. With EOR handling, one major benefit is of course being able to send and receive large messages. He decided that it was about time to add support to at least one of the browsers. Lennart had gained experience in writing a standalone data channel implementation with EOR handling when he implemented RAWRTC. While the ndata extension is currently in the specification process, it’s making good progress and there’s no excuse for holding back proper EOR handling anymore. Must be larger than, or a broker can accept messages it cannot replicate, potentially resulting. : 1048576 (1 MiB) Maximum message size a broker can replicate. All messages exchanged in the chat would arrive after the lengthy process of sending a gigantic file has been completed. : 1073741824 (1 GiB) Size of a Kafka data file. This phenomenon is also known as head-of-line blocking and makes sending large messages quite painful if other channels need to keep exchanging messages frequently, for example in a real-time chat with file-sending capability. Unfortunately, none of the browsers today support the SCTP ndata extension yet, so a single data channel message will monopolise the whole SCTP association. Let's first look into our Kafka setup before jumping to configuration. For this tutorial, we're using Kafka v2.5. However, if there's a requirement to send large messages, we need to tweak these configurations as per our requirements. ![]() For more technical information on this and how one can work around this, take a look at Lennart’s previous blog posting. Kafka configuration limits the size of messages that it's allowed to send. This is sadly the case for all popular data channel implementations at the moment and results in harsh size limitations for data channel messages. Thus, every implementation needs to pay attention to this flag or message integrity will be violated. Its API provides an EOR flag which stands for end of record and tells us whether a message is partial or complete. SCTP is the transport protocol used for exchanging WebRTC data channel messages. ![]() The good news is that bug 979417, a big contribution by Lennart Grahl, has landed in Firefox 57, which adds EOR handling to Firefox data channels. See here for a very good explanation of the problem. Especially if the data channel had been established between Firefox and Chrome. Until very recently you had to be careful about the maximum message size you could send over a WebRTC data channel. ← View all posts NovemLarge Data Channel Messages Contributed by Nils Ohlmeier, Hacking on real time communications since 2002 ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you open the website, you will find a big "Download" button.Open Memuplay website by clicking this link - Download Memuplay Emulator.Zoiper Premium voip soft phone Download for PC Windows 7/8/10 – Method 2: Double-click the app icon to open and use the Zoiper Premium voip soft phone in your favorite Windows PC or Mac. Once the installation is over, you will find the Zoiper Premium voip soft phone app under the "Apps" menu of BlueStacks.Click "Install" to get it installed. Always make sure you download the official app only by verifying the developer's name. ![]() ![]() Now you can search Google Play store for Zoiper Premium voip soft phone app using the search bar at the top.On the home screen, double-click the Playstore icon to open it. BlueStacks comes with Google play store pre-installed.You will see the home screen of Bluestacks. Just be patient until it completely loads and available. It may take some time to load for the first time. Once the installation is complete, open the BlueStacks software.Installation is as simple and easy as any other software installation. After the download is complete, please install it by double-clicking it.Click it and it will start the download based on your OS. Once you open the website, you will find a green color "Download BlueStacks" button.Open BlueStacks website by clicking this link - Download BlueStacks Emulator.An incomplete uninstallation of a program may cause problems, which is why thorough removal of programs is recommended. There could be other causes why users may not be able to uninstall Zoiper. Another process is preventing the program from being uninstalled.Due to an error, not all of the files were successfully uninstalled.A file required for the uninstallation to complete could not be run.The program’s built-in uninstaller does not start or does not operate properly.Possible problems that can arise during uninstallation of Zoiper Removing process running for a long time and does not come to the end.Some traces of the program can still can be found on the computer.After removing the program, some of its related processes still run on the computer.The program is not listed in the Windows Settings or Control Panel.The program is regarded by the user and/or some websites as a potentially malicious.The program is being re-installed (uninstalled and installed again afterwards).The program is not as good as the user expected.The program crashes or hangs periodically/frequently.The program is not compatible with other installed applications.These are the main reasons why Zoiper is uninstalled by users: Some experience issues during uninstallation, whereas other encounter problems after the program is removed. ![]() It seems that there are many users who have difficulty uninstalling programs like Zoiper from their systems. What usually makes people to uninstall Zoiper This guide will provide you with detailed instructions and all the information that you require to remove and uninstall Zoiper is a reliable and effective piece of software whose main purpose is to help users perform voice and video calls with their friends, family, colleagues and business partners.Īre you having trouble uninstalling Zoiper?Īre you looking for a solution that will completely uninstall and remove all of its files from your computer? ![]() ![]() ![]() Giving the album four stars from Jesus Freak Hideout, Lucas Munachen describes, " Therapy Session, is a strong step forward and delves into even darker themes. however, for NF's sake, that he experiences some personal growth before his next album so another dark excursion isn't necessary." Regardless, NF has blown past the sophomore slump, creating a project well-worth listening to." Awarding the album four and a half stars at Jesus Freak Hideout, Kevin Hoskins writes, "Many are not going to like the pure raw emotions here, but I am a fan of someone who can offer something outside of the box and this fits that bill perfectly." Mark Rice, rating the album three and a half stars for Jesus Freak Hideout, states, "Personally, I'm ambivalent towards NF's approach, but it makes for a good, thoughtful, and memorable listen. This album doesn't seem quite ready for release, evidenced by the short, one-year gap between Mansion and Therapy Session. ![]() Indicating in a four star review at CCM Magazine, Matt Conner writes, "fortunately NF digs deeper on an impressive second album." David Craft, allotting the album three and a half stars from Jesus Freak Hideout, believes, "In no way is NF lacking in talent or creativity, but he could afford to exercise a tad more patience. Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores ![]() It was released on April 22, 2016, by Capitol Christian Music Group. Therapy Session is the second studio album by American rapper NF. ![]() ![]() ![]() A great little detail is systems readouts printed in the recessed open sides of the turret's body. Paint detailing is nice, the leopard print is sharp and there is no slop that I can see. I don't know if mine just has a slightly warped leg or if this is a design flaw, but a stiff breeze can knock this guy over. I should note that the whole "tripods aren't structurally sound" adage rings true here as The King will topple over on any surface that isn't perfectly level. Joes and Star Wars figures, but should be perfect for apologetically shooting at your DC Universe figures, or better yet the Gordan Freeman figure NECA just recently released. He's a bit too big for menacing your G.I. The turret stands just under three inches tall at the top of the body housing, the antenna and The King's crown adding a little height in this case. The sculpt features no articulation, but other than unfolding, the turrets don't move much anyways so I'm perfectly OK with this. For the main body, this is fine since there is a seam between the plates there in the games, but this one also unfortunately runs directly across the eye, ruining the effect. The only negative is an obvious seam that runs vertically up the turret. ![]() The sculpt is excellent, perfectly capturing the in game look and featuring some pretty intricate mechanical detailing on the inner workings of the gun panels. The Animal King is cast in a hard plastic that makes me worry about him breaking a leg if he takes a fall, with the crown made of a softer PVC. Apparently, The King is also a chase version of the standard Leopard Camo figure. ![]() A giant leopard spotted, crown sporting sentry turret known as the Animal King shows up in the second game during an in game slide show and later during the closing credits while you are treated to an opera performed by levels and levels of turrets stored within the Apperture Science facilities. I'm not 100% certain as the series just came out this month and none of the official documentation I can find mentions chases, but I'm pretty sure it's safe to say this is a chase variant. I wanted an attack mode turret in a cool color scheme and boy did I get one. But I digress, my point is that half the reason I decided to buy one was the paint schemes. Seriously? There was an awesome Hawaiian Shirt design that looked like a turret version of Dennis Nedry. Apparently there was an online poll to decide the tenth pattern in the series and Table won. Really though, they're all pretty awesome looking. Some of the designs are pretty awesome, Sunburst, Clouds and Desert Camo being a few of my favorites. There are technically twenty figures in total as each paint scheme comes in both a "neutral" mode and an "attack" mode with guns extended. The back of the box reveals the ten different color schemes the turrets come in. ![]() Both sections are hilarious and written perfectly to match the cynical wit and sarcasm of the video games. The second paragraph is legal text removing any responsibility on the part of Aperture Laboratories if things go horribly, horribly awry. The opposite side features a diagram of positioning turrets in the home and blurbs about not using the turrets as home security systems and the fact that you may want to invest in an ANOTHER home security system to defend you from them as they tend to go rogue. The entire package is made up to be as if the turret within is a full-sized death appliance, this side showcasing a schematic and handling instruction icons to ensure your turret is not damaged in transit. The box is simple but hilariously tongue-in-cheek. In my travels today, I stopped off at ye olde local comic shop (in this case, Jetpack Comics) to see if there was anything interesting about and they had some of the brand spanking new Portal 2 Sentry Turret blind box figures by NECA/Wizkids. ![]() |
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