“I also had orbital celeritous, which was an infection on my brain. I was dragged into hospital and put on a nebuliser in the back of an ambulance. ![]() If it wasn’t for the NHS I wouldn’t have made it. “I’m an asthmatic, and my life was saved three times as a kid. “What is happening with the NHS is heartbreaking,” says Kapranos. On Always Ascending they broach the ubiquity of social media and the disintegration of the NHS in songs such as Academy Award and Huck and Jim. In 2016 Franz Ferdinand contributed a song called Demagogue to writer Dave Eggers' 30 Days, 30 songs project in the run-up to the US presidential election, which Kapronos calls the most overtly political song they've ever written. We ended up selling four million records. I thought, 'oh they'll be, like, somewhere in between Pavement and the Strokes.' I thought we'd sell, you know, up to half a million records. "To what extent I really didn't have any idea. Judging by what Bell reveals in Meet Me in the Bathroom, the feeling appears to be mutual. "They were so good there was no way that people wouldn't like them," Bell says. When I met Laurence I knew he felt the same way. When you're in a band you risk everything to do something you love. Now we're still working with each other 15 years later. When I first met Laurence I made an instant connection. "We didn't know about that until after we signed with Domino," Kapranos says. One of its intriguing revelations is that Franz Ferdinand became such hot property they were the subject of an intense bidding war, which Laurence Bell of Domino Records won after remortgaging his house. In Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011, Lizzy Goodman documents the explosion of guitar bands in the early noughties on both sides of the Atlantic. Admittedly, it took me 18 years to reach that point, but I’m never, ever going to moan about it. I was lucky enough to be able to find out what my thing is. I first started writing songs when I was 14. Also, I love being onstage and performing. The food was just a device to talk about who I was with, and where we were.” Opportunityįranz Ferdinand are very happy on the road. “Oh my God, I absolutely love it,” Kapronos gushes. ![]() I was more interested in writing about where in the world I was rather than the food to be honest. “It was just before good phone cameras and people being able to take decent pictures of what they were having for dinner, which revolutionised food blogging. “It was a totally different environment,” says Kapranos. Indeed, he even moonlighted as a food columnist for the Guardian in the mid-noughties and wrote a book entitled Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand years before the relatively recent explosion in food blogging and contemporary foodie culture. Let’s just say I’m very excited about it.” ![]() Guinness, fish n’ chips and oysters on the side at the same time. “It is also a great excuse to go to McDonagh’s because they do quite possibly the best fish n’ chips I’ve had in my life. If I hadn’t been in Galway that day Julian might never have joined the band, so it’s really nice to be starting the tour there. Emma Pollack and loads of others who were in the film were there, so I told the guys I was looking for a new member for the band. "I was over at the Galway Film Festival with Stuart from Mogwai and Niall McCann, the director of a movie we did about Glasgow musicians called Lost in France. Kapranos is particularly looking forward to playing Galway as the city was also instrumental for the new line up of the band. We started it in the Roisín Dubh in Galway, and ended it playing to 18,000 people in an arena in Madrid using exactly the same gear.” “When I think about it now, the progression of that tour was crazy.
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I tend to avoid the first version of the Unmaker because its beam cripples my entire game down to 1fps on dual or more consecutive shots when alone, and with a single shot if I have enemies around. On a note, it forces me to load both Unmaker versions into ZDL to get rid of an error message where it will say "Unmaker BeamMode is not a type of inventory item" etc. My only comments about this, is that there are still a couple weapons not being read properly, such as TheBarge's sledgehammer there's no sledgehammer icon when the sledge is selected. Now I can't play without it, I no longer use the original HUD! Please report any possible bugs you could find in the HUD, for fixing them as soon as possible! Special thanks to Cotton Disciple for his invaluable collaboration and help in porting the HXRTC HUD to Project Brutality addon! Without him, this HUD version would not have become reality. If you prefer a more stable version of GZDoom, visit this page and choose your preferred download (2.1.1 is recommended for use with OpenGL 3.0 or higher, and 1.9.1 is for OpenGL 2.0 only): If you have got any problems related to loading the game with HXRTC HUD, I recommend you to get one of the development builds of (G)ZDoom, available on these links: Latest alpha release of Zandronum 3.0 should also work with it, but it hasn't been tested. The HUD has been tested and works with most recent releases of GZDoom and ZDoom. ![]() On the other hand, if you find the size of the HUD is too small, you should open (G)ZDoom/Zandronum console and input the following command: HUD_SCALE 1Īlternatively, you can also turn on the Stretch Fullscreen HUD option in the (G)ZDoom/Zandronum HUD options menu. IMPORTANT: For showing the HUD correctly, you must set in Display Options a screensize of 11 and turn off the alternative HUD. ![]() Forests cover over 99% of dry land and the rest of the region is composed of 40% water.Įly is the main western entry point to the BWCA while Grand Marais on the North Shore of Minnesota is the eastern point of entry. Due to thin acidic soil and the climate, agriculture would not only be impractical but nearly impossible. The closest ocean inlet is actually the Hudson Bay which is frozen for 70 percent of the time. ![]() One reason for this cold climate is that it is centered in the North American continent. The average yearly temperature ranges from 29-36 degrees Fahrenheit. Lakes tend to freeze to a walkable thickness (4 in/10 cm) by late October. Generally the first significant snowfall (2 in/5 cm or more) occurs in early October. Summer weather lasts from mid June to mid August. Summer temperatures rarely exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32☌)but if they do, consider yourself blessed and swim at every opportunity. ![]() Temperatures can be as much as 25 degrees Fahrenheit cooler near the coast opposed to inland areas. Summers are short and generally cool with offshore breezes from Lake Superior dramatically cooling areas near the shore. Average winter snowfall in the area can be as high as 150 inches (381 cm) atop the ridges of the Superior highlands off the shore of Lake Superior with about 75-90 inches (190-229 cm) of snowfall being the norm throughout the rest of the BWCA. Without any records taken from within the BWCA this has yet to be proven. However many feel that temperatures could be as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit colder within some of the top ridges of the Laurention Highlands which seemingly bisect the BWCA. Minnesota's state record low of -60☏ (-51☌) was officially reported in Tower, just south of the BWCA. Snow can fall at any month of the year and is actually highest around the months of March and April. ![]() Four to seven feet of lake ice is common from winter to winter with the number of subzero days (that is days within a 365-day year the temperature dips below 0☏/-18☌) averaging around 90. An important note to the stability of this wilderness's survival is the constant thickness of its lake ice throughout the winters. One constant is the perilously long frigid winters. Numerous wild flowers, mushrooms, and other fungi dot the forest floor. The other 15 percent of the area is deciduous trees such as paper birch, yellow birch, poplar, upland maple, and tamarack. Roughly 85 percent of the BWCA is coniferous forest composed of white and red pine, spruce, jack pine, cedar, and hemlock. It features the largest boreal forest east of the Rocky Mountains. No motored vehicles or boats are allowed within the parameters of the wilderness area. Thousands upon thousands of miles of water routes weaving in and out of one of the most lightly populated places on earth are open for the taking. outside of Alaska, the experience will be one that is simply impossible to have anywhere else on earth. While the climate may be the harshest found within the U.S. The BWCA is composed of over 1 million acres of untouched boreal forests strewn with dramatic cliffs, rock outcroppings, and unforgettable vistas. It is a well-known camping and canoeing destination. The Boundary Waters includes thousands of interconnected lakes and waterways.Boundary Waters Canoe Area is a vast wilderness area in Northeastern Minnesota, adjoining with Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park, famous for its array of over a thousand small-to-medium-sized lakes, and the wildlife they provide a home for. Here are five reasons to stop this project and permanently protect the Boundary Waters from toxic mining: If developed, the “Twin Metals” mine would generate a mountain of toxic waste that would flow directly into the Boundary Waters-causing irreversible damage to this irreplaceable land. The most looming threat is a sulfide-ore copper mine proposed by the Chilean mining giant, Antofagasta. Yet, plans to mine on the edge of the Wilderness have raised questions about the future of this land. An abundance of wildlife roam free, outdoor enthusiasts find adventures of a lifetime and the Anishinaabe people (or Ojibwe/Chippewa) retain treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather. The one million-acre site sits at the heart of the Superior National Forest in a pristine watershed that includes thousands of interconnected lakes and waterways. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota is a little piece of paradise. |