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Digital Drugs or Binaural beats or Binaural Tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
Phieuw. I know, this took a while. Was it worth it? Mhwa. It sure doesn't look as good as it looked inside my head. Anyway, may I suggest that you look at that Cleopatra-lamp? It isn't included in the catalogue, sadly enough.
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I made a JALKOW collection, last year, in sort of homage to John's photostream and his JOHN Collection: the concurrent of the JOHN Collection. 'Not expensive, yet not cheap!'
So, big credits go to John and his trust.
This year, I had another brainwave, with lots of chairs and tables, so here it is: the JALKOW collection 2.
Really, am I the first to make the spacegun-is-a-blowdryer-joke?
I can't be, right? I mean, it wasn't thát hard.
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I made a JALKOW collection, last year, in sort of homage to John's photostream and his JOHN Collection: the concurrent of the JOHN Collection. 'Not expensive, yet not cheap!'
So, big credits go to John and his trust.
This year, I had another brainwave, with lots of chairs and tables, so here it is: the JALKOW collection 2.
This picture took quite a while. I really wanted a picture with some more depth, so I added some nice big doors. I'm quite happy with how the little look in the kitchen turned out.
I think that furniture-wise, this page is my favorite so far.
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I made a JALKOW collection, last year, in sort of homage to John's photostream and his JOHN Collection: the concurrent of the JOHN Collection. 'Not expensive, yet not cheap!'
So, big credits go to John and his trust.
This year, I had another brainwave, with lots of chairs and tables, so here it is: the JALKOW collection 2.
Best brainwave in my liiiiife ;D
This is Gemma, but my balloons and my hoodie. :)
I found the most gorgeous Hollister jacket, but I'm not made of money, so I can't afford the £94 for the jacket plus the £20 p&p :( going to have to save up a load.
+2 in comment.
HAPPY VALENTINE's everyone!
i couldn't decide between the bw and this one, so i uploaded both of them. i'm sorry i didn't come up with anything festive for V day, i guess the brainwaves were on a low tide today. lol.
i'm also in the process of applying for a part time job(i hope they pick me!!) at the mall, so i'm a little busy this week.
have a great day guys.
xoxoxo
♥
PS: my hair isn't really that red, its actually somewhere between burgundy and really really dark auburn.
because of not all my shots not working as I planned on my recent trip to the beach at Point Lonsdale, Victoria, I decided to have a good hard think about my workflow practices & came up with a bit of a brainwave solution to some dynamic range issues i've been experiencing of late that have been getting me down.
So I took some time out on my way home to catch some brackets & have just processed my first image using this refined technique. & I'm very happy. I think i've squeezed a bit more sharpness & better colour rendering out of the final image due to this cleaner method of catching the extremes of dynamic range.
The Singing Butler is a painting by Jack Vettriano.
It is a painting i have admired for some time.
I wanted to get a print of it to hang at home,
but then had the brainwave to recreate it instead.
This was taken on the beach at Blackrock at low tide.
The models are all friends of mine.
It is far more rewarding having a picture on my wall that i created,
with people i know,
rather than having somebody else's painting.
Tonmoy Sharma, CEO, Sovereign Health Group recently shared his vision for using neuro feedback as a tool for empowering patients who are being treated for substance abuse. In order to do so, Dr. Sharma explains, we start by measuring the four types of brain activity through the use of an EEG (electroencephalograph). The EEG picks up electrical impulses that are generated when we have any thoughts. Just like when we treat high cholesterol by measuring the different types of cholesterol in the body and the ratio between them, we can measure the four types of brainwaves that signify different types of brain activity. We know that people with substance abuse issues have a certain type of brain activity and our goal is to decrease that type of brain activity in relationship to other types of brain activity. We are working with the patient to change the ratio of the different brain activities in order to normalize brain function. After we have used EEG as an assessment tool we employ neuro feedback to help patients get their emotion regulation and decision making back on track. During between 12 and 20 neuro feedback sessions of about 30-40 minutes each we have them look at stimulus such as video or a photo that will evoke a certain emotion. We then train the patient to manage the brain waves so when faced with a trigger they can change their brain waves and resist the craving. This gives them the ability to help themselves by empowering them to take control over their emotions and begin to live day-by-day. Through these neurofeedback sessions, people suffering with addiction can see for themselves that it makes a big difference.
About Tonmoy Sharma, CEO, Sovereign Health Group. During a career spanning 30 years, Dr. Sharma has served as an acclaimed researcher having led countless international mental health clinical research trials, taught and trained students as a neuro-scientist and served as author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed published articles and five books on schizophrenia and mental illness. He is dedicated to putting his vast knowledge to furthering the mental health field with insights into pharmacology and cognitive impairment treatment. Dr Sharma recognizes that the substance abuse treatment community is heading towards an inevitable next step in its evolution to ensure it continues to improve the quality of patients’ treatment. Today Dr. Tonmoy Sharma is committed to tirelessly promote and call for measurement-based care (MBC) in the diagnosis and treatment of addiction and mental illness calling for a national standardized measurement scale for assessing, diagnosing and treating alcohol and drug addiction.
For more on Tonmoy Sharma, CEO of Sovereign Health Group go to LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/tonmoysharmaceo
About Dr. Judith Ho. Dr. Judy Ho, Ph. D., ABPP is a licensed and board certified Clinical Psychologist based in Los Angeles. She lends her expertise as a panelist on a variety of national television shows and provides professional services in Psychological Testing and Forensic Expert work. She is a tenured professor of psychology at Pepperdine University.
Character Creation
Maxima is a character appearing in comics published by DC Comics. In her original incarnation, she was a morally ambiguous queen from the planet Almerac who is known for searching for mates among Earth's superhuman male population to be wedded as her king, and became obsessed with Superman for a time. She has also worked as a superheroine member of the Justice League.
Outside of comics, Maxima has appeared in the live-action series Smallville and Supergirl, respectively portrayed by Charlotte Sullivan and Eve Torres Gracie.
Publication history
Maxima first appeared in Action Comics #645 (September 1989) and was created by writer Roger Stern and artist George Pérez.
Maxima was created by writer Roger Stern and artist George Pérez as a powerful female antagonist for Superman, but one who would also harbor a strong romantic interest in him. The character was conceived during the period of the late eighties and early nineties, when comic book specialty stores were dominated by X-Men related titles. Aside from the conspicuous visual similarities to Marvel's Jean Grey, Maxima's creators also borrowed elements from other popular X-book characters such as Magneto, Nightcrawler and Professor X. Her first appearance was in Action Comics #645, published by DC Comics in September 1989.
Jerry Ordway on Maxima's transition from 'Panic In The Sky' to the Justice League
Buoyed by their success against Brainiac, Superman would be predisposed to leading another super-team – namely the Justice League, which my buddy Dan Jurgens was planning to take over. There was one problem though – Dan wanted to use Maxima as a member of the new League, and I’d kind of planned to have her take over the helm of the now leaderless Warworld. Who else could I use, in order to free up Maxie for Dan? A quick call to the-New Gods editor Jonathan Peterson and we were given the okay to install Orion of the New Gods as ruler of Warworld! See how the cross-continuity works? You think coordinating is easy?
Dan Jurgens on whether it was always planned for Maxima to join the Justice League when she did her face turn in 'Panic In The Sky'
It was more of an afterthought in that when she was first introduced, I thought she was a really interesting - potentially interesting sort of character. So, as we were doing the story I wanted to put her on the other side of things with the idea that I'd use her again at some point, but I don't think I had really thought so far as, you know, putting her in the Justice League. But again...she had attitude, and in the DCU, there weren't a lot of characters with attitude at that time. I just found her interesting. I think a lot of what we were doing is slowly building up a cadre of characters in the superman books that were worthwhile to use and worth having around.
Charlotte Sullivan on playing Maxima in Smallville
My opening line as Maxima makes me laugh and go red - it was, ‘I came when I saw your KRYPTONIAN beacon.’ I just thought I had to play it out funny. Of course, I was bashful. There was a certain element of shyness that crept up inside of me with having to say those things, wearing that costume, and knowing that it would be seen by millions of people.
Origin
Maxima once ruled a vast intergalactic empire centered on her homeworld of Almerac. For thousands of years, her ancestors had intermarried with races from other worlds, breeding for strength, for speed, and for power. Representing the apex of Almeracian eugenics, Maxima resolved to continue in the same tradition of her people. To that end, she became obsessed with expanding her galactic reach and, most importantly, securing a suitable mate to father an heir to her glorious realm.
When Sazu, her personal handmaiden, intercepted a subspace transmission detailing the astonishing feats of Superman in the gladiatorial games of Mongul's Warworld, Maxima was sure she had found her man. Without further delay, she set out to make the Man of Steel her husband. But despite Maxima's beauty and power, Superman consistently eluded her for various reasons. As a result, Maxima's admiration turned to rage, and she became his enemy.
The day of the Krypton Man
Initially, Maxima sent her royal advisor, Sazu, along with a near perfect duplicate of herself to seduce Superman on his adopted home planet of Earth. Despite Sazu's attempts to extinguish the warrior queen's growing fascination with Krypton's last son, Maxima soon traveled to Earth herself. After first engaging Superman in battle to test his mettle, the Almeracian aristocrat managed to obtain some privacy for the two of them by luring her prospective mate beneath the waves at the bottom of Metropolis Harbor.
There, Maxima revealed that she could bring new life to Krypton's lost race by giving to Superman what no earth woman could -- children. While the Man of Steel expressed among other things that he had no desire to father despots, it was soon revealed that an ancient artifact called the Eradicator was interfering. Earth's champion had been reformatted in favor of the sentient program's own cold, cerebral, and unemotional matrix.
Not knowing where this attitude of dismissal was coming from, Maxima ceased making advances at Superman during this initial encounter, stating: "Sazu was right, you are unworthy of the bloodline, but not because you are overly merciful. Far from it. You have become heartless, passionless. Whatever fire that once lurked within has been eradicated, replaced with a presence of horrible sterility. I'll not find a mate in so cold a knave!" Ultimately, these rocky beginnings set a precedent for the type of rapport that Maxima and Superman would have in future confrontations.
Panic in the Sky
As time passed, Maxima's fury towards Superman abated when Brainiac gained control over Warworld, and used the engine of destruction to wreak havoc on her home planet of Almerac. To save her people from complete annihilation, the Warrior Queen pretended to ally herself with the powerful telepath, and acted as his chief officer. As the cosmically powered Brainiac proceeded towards Earth to engage Superman and a host of other heroes in battle, Maxima took advantage of the chaos and flipped over to the side of the heroes. As soon as Brainiac's direct connection in the heart of Warworld was severed, Maxima lobotomized him.
Justice League
Although the Earth was saved at the conclusion of the Panic in the Sky crisis, Almerac was left in ruins. As a result, Maxima made it an even higher priority to find a suitable mate to help her restore her empire. To that end, she decided to remain on Earth. At the time, the Justice League's ranks were suffering the sudden loss of the Silver Sorceress, the mysterious departure of J'onn J'onzz, and the terminated membership of L-Ron. Soon, Maxima found herself helping the remaining League defeat the Weapons Master.
Meanwhile, Maxwell Lord was working furiously behind the scenes to secure the team's funding by dealing with the UN. Immediately following their success in the field, the shrewd businessman took advantage of the small moral victory he sensed within the group and recruited Maxima. Much to Superman's dismay, Maxima's agreement to be with the League was first and foremost a means to keep an eye on her top prospect. She was formally made a member of the team in Justice League of America vol. 2 #63.
Maxima and Amazing Man
Eventually, Ultraa, Maxima's betrothed from childhood, followed her to Earth after hearing that Maxima was seeking to mate with one called 'Superman'. As a clear sign that she still had feelings for the Man of Steel, she rejected the Almeracian warlord on the grounds that since coming to Earth, she had become familiar with mercy and unselfishness.
Maxima came to an understanding over Superman's dismissal of her, but she was still determined to find a worthy mate to father her children. She entered a romance with Captain Atom and followed him into battle as part of the Extreme Justice team (Extreme Justice #0). While on the team her relationship with Captain Atom deteriorated, so she became romantically involved with another teammate, Amazing Man. Neither of these relationships, nor her subsequent pursuit of Aquaman, ever worked out for various reasons.
Superman Revenge Squad
Unfortunately, the series of failed relationships and Maxima's own superiority complex caused lingering resentment over her rejection by the man she had always wanted most, Superman, to flare up with a vengeance. She returned to villainy and entered a partnership with the so-called Superman Revenge Squad, a group of super-villains who all harbored extreme grudges against the Man of Steel and were determined destroy him. Ultimately the Revenge Squad was unsuccessful, and Maxima's involvement with it became a black mark on her career, which had otherwise been on an impressive path to redemption.
Our Worlds at War
Fickle though she was, Maxima never once backed down from a fight, even at the very end. During the Our Worlds at War story arc in 2001, the seemingly unstoppable world-destroying being known as Imperiex attacked and leveled Almerac. Maxima apparently gave her own life in Man of Steel #117 so that Earth, her adopted home, would not suffer the same terrible fate. Her remains were never found, but she has not been seen since.
Powers and Abilities
As an Almeracian of Royal descent, Maxima's immense powers stem from having been the product of gene therapy and generations of selective breeding.
Super Strength
Maxima possesses a level of superhuman strength that puts her in Wonder Woman's and Superman's class; she routinely exhibits the ability to lift/press thousands of tons with minimal effort. In addition, her psionic abilities allow her to further augment her physical prowess beyond those in her tier. During Doomsday's first battle with the Justice League, other than Superman, Maxima was the only other League member able to trade blows with the creature.
Enhanced Stamina
Based on her first account to Superman, Maxima comes from a hearty star-spanning people who wage war tirelessly. Her own family spent thousands of years conquering, and assimilating only the strongest survivors from carefully selected worlds with rich genetic stock. Accordingly, Maxima continued the same progression of striving without exhaustion through sheer force of will and psychic discipline. Her stamina has been credited specifically as being the attribute that allowed her to gain victory over Hank King in a telepathic duel.
Super Speed
Maxima's first appearances demonstrated a degree of speed in combat that went well into the hypersonic. In Action Comics No. 651, Superman observed Maxima using her telekinesis to pilot Sazu back to her orbiting spaceship at escape velocity while rocketing there herself. Superman flew in to intercept, but instead of getting Maxima to break from her straight escape trajectory, the fiery monarch engaged Earth's Mightiest Hero head on in a game of chicken. As the two were about to pass one another, she reached out, grabbed his arm, and performed a judo throw on the Man of Steel. On another occasion, while observing Jay Garrick fight at super speed in Justice League America No. 78, Maxima remarked that he was fighting at a level of skill and intensity that would make a warrior of Almerac proud. Finally, Maxima and Superman traded blows for the last time out in space during the Our Worlds At War event. The lead-up to this last encounter is noteworthy since earlier, Superman and Kyle Rayner were doing a quick circuit of the solar system. Before their warm-up was interrupted by Maxima, Superman made mention of the sun being unblocked by Earth's atmosphere while doing loop-de-loops around the young Green Lantern.
Teleportation
Maxima has been seemingly conservative with the use of this powerful skill in combat. By contrast, the Warrior Queen has shown no qualms teleporting those she has deemed beneath her. That being said, she has demonstrated the capacity to forego her bloodlust, and use her teleportation strategically when more is on the line. When she first appeared on Earth in the flesh, she employed this ability in more of a theatrical way as a means to instill fear in her servant, Sazu.
In Action Comics No. 645, when Maxima could not find Earth's Champion at the Daily Planet, she quickly teleported herself, Sazu, and Malcolm to Metropolis City Hall, and held Mayor Berkowitz hostage with the goal of coaxing Superman out of hiding. During the "Panic In the Sky!" story arc, while governing her passions closely by maintaining the ruse of an Alliance with Brainiac, she used this ability to retreat when Matrix Supergirl, and Draaga ceased being mind-slaves in the middle of a heated battle.
She has shown the ability to teleport herself or others in and out of a battle over interstellar distances. In Justice League America No. 66, while she was attempting to win Superman's heart as a Justice League member, Maxima complied with Earth's judicial process by teleporting Sazu back to Metropolis. Maxima mentioned that Sazu was teleported to Earth from a prison on a distant planet. This feat is especially noteworthy since in earlier appearances, both Maxima and Sazu have stated that Earth is a backwater world far from established star routes. Moreover, in Superman Man of Steel No. 115, Adam Strange used his Zeta-Beam technology to teleport Superman and himself from Earth's solar system to Almeracian space. The Savior of Rann mentioned a distance traveled of 100 trillion light years.
Forcefield Projection
Maxima can generate defensive force-field bubbles to shield herself, and or others. This skill allows her to travel unaffected by the intense pressures of the ocean's depths, or the vacuum of outer space. She can also use this skill for offense by trapping an opponent and constricting the space inside the shield, crushing them, or letting the air run out.
In Aquaman No. 41, Power Girl attempted an underwater ambush on Maxima's shield as the King of Atlantis was being psionically assaulted inside. Maxima's shield didn't drop, but Kara's surprise attack winded the Almeracian warrior briefly. Although Aquaman took the opportunity to mention that Maxima's force bubble wouldn't be able to hold up to the pounding of Power Girl's punches, Maxima's shield was more solid for Kara's second punch.
In Superman No. 159, Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner and Superman were investigating the disappearance of Pluto when Maxima showed up with what appeared to be an army of Almeracians. Contrary to what Superman thought was an invasion of his solar system, Maxima was in fact leading a mass exodus away from her devastated home world. By creating a psionic highway, the Empress of Almerac provided intergalactic transport for the remnants of her people to rendezvous with Grayven.
Ferrokinesis
Maxima has exhibited immense telekinetic control over metals at the molecular level. She can cause metal to melt with a thought, or rearrange the molecules of scraps into anything she chooses, such as weapons or armor. In Justice League America No. 63, Maxima used her psionic power over metal to breach the hull of a wrecked interstellar craft that was submerged at the bottom of Manhattan's East River.
Three more examples of her ferrokinesis are in the following three books. Extreme Justice No. 6, Maxima used this ability to isolate herself atop a massive metal tower. When Captain Atom ascended the tower to try and reason with her, Maxima restrained him with metal tendrils that she animated in a liquid-like fashion out of the structure around her. In Justice League America No. 73, Dr. Destiny was responsible for making several Justice League members act very much out of character. The rogue heroes were capturing, torturing, and maiming super-villains. When one of the prison ships that they were using to capture super-villains attacked Maxima, she focused her ferrokinesis into a beam, and disassembled the ship into its separate components without incinerating the men inside. Later, in the same story-arc told in Justice League America No. 75, Maxima directed this ability on the Red Tornado, easily pulling him apart.
Matter Manipulation
In addition to metals, Maxima has demonstrated the ability to alter other inorganic matter with a thought. The full extent of Maxima's skill in this area is unknown. In Action Comics #645, Maxima's entourage coordinated a rendezvous with a fashion designer. Ultimately, none of Maxima's attendants expected to pay for anything, so the designer and her company of models were rudely escorted out of the meeting room. Soon afterward, while barefoot, and wearing a small bathrobe, she transmuted what little she had on into one of the ensembles she had just seen: a power suit jacket, blouse, black skirt, high heels, and a gold chain choker. She also did this in Justice League America No. 66, when at the request of Superman to be more conservatively dressed, Maxima transmuted the typical light armor that she usually wore into a green suit jacket and skirt.
Optical Force Beams
When firing her molecular telekinesis out of her eyes, Maxima has shown the ability to control the level of physical damage she causes to an attacker. She can focus her optic beams to deliver immense concussive force, or emulate searing heat vision. Among others, Maxima has shown that she can stagger Captain Marvel, Power Girl, and even Superman on several occasions with her eye-beams. At times, her eye-beams have been dubbed 'Psi-bolts' by her opponents despite the evidence of receiving physical damage only.
Mind Bolts
The powerful Almeracian Mind Bolt, Psi-bolt, or Psychic Blast is a favorite of those in the Royal House. This skill is typically depicted as emanating from an Almeracian's forehead. Unlike the optical force beams, the Mind Bolt targets an opponent's mind directly by delivering pain, unconsciousness, brain damage, or even death. Regardless of all his physical strength and Mother Box enhanced defenses, Orion was quickly rendered paralyzed when Maxima turned this deadly power on him during the 'Panic In The Sky' event in Superman No. 65. At the conclusion of the same story arc in Superman No. 66, Maxima was in the process of killing Brainiac using this ability, but Superman intervened just before it was too late. Brainiac was left in a lobotomized state.
Telepathy
Maxima can communicate with other intelligent beings telepathically. She has used this skill as a probe to 'hear' a target's thoughts, and pinpoint their location. On several occasions, she has used this ability to find Superman in Metropolis; nearly exposing his secret identity in one case. In Superman Man of Tomorrow No. 10, Maxima discovered that Superman had been split into two beings. To verify that what she was seeing wasn't a trick, Maxima employed a mental probe. She uncovered that both Superman Red, and Superman Blue had virtually identical minds and the same surface memories.
In Justice League No. 68, an ancient alien called Chaq encountered the JLA and revealed that he had purchased Earth and its entire solar system several hundred thousand years ago. According to Maxima, picking a fight with Chaq over the property deed would awaken powerful intergalactic governing bodies capable of subjugating Earth. Knowing who they were up against, Maxima enticed Chaq by offering to pay 800 trillion sentees (the well known currency of over 200 worlds) for the rights to the deed. While she was negotiating with the ancient alien, Maxima communicated instructions telepathically to Guy Gardner. Completely unaware that Guy's yellow power ring was being used to help pull off a scam, Chaq left Earth and gave up the deed after finding what looked like a deposit of 800 trillion sentees in his cargo hold.
Enhanced Empathy
For those times when Maxima may encounter an undisciplined mind that lacks coherent thought, she has demonstrated the ability to overcome this obstacle by using particularly strong telepathic skill in the area of 'hearing' emotions. During the 'Death of Superman' story arc, she was able to track Doomsday without the benefit of a previous encounter. Maxima described Doomsday's mind as harboring nothing more than hate, death and bloodlust personified.
Aside from its uses in tracking opponents, this ability has also allowed her to better understand the hidden motives of those around her. Having been bred as a warrior, Maxima's ability to sense emotions has helped her to more fully assess when to use tact and when to use force. In Justice League America No. 102, Maxima sensed a greater darkness behind Obsidian's pessimistic mood. Two issues later, Obsidian tried to commit suicide.
Mind Control
Maxima has the ability to subject others to her mind control abilities. In several appearances, she has shown the capacity to bend masses of people to her will. In Action Comics No. 730, while a member of the Superman Revenge Squad, Maxima was battling the Man of Steel in a scrapyard. She threw a car at a loaded ferry crossing Metropolis Harbor, causing the ship to sink. After Superman rescued the ship's full compliment of passengers, their eyes went blank. The crowd began attacking the Man of Steel by way of Maxima's mind control. In Justice League Quarterly No. 17, she altered a crack dealing pimp's mind by removing his capacity for violence, and erasing his ability to lie. In Justice League America Annual No. 6, the magical being Eclipso was about to initiate a plan that would allow him to possess all of the members of the JLA by first capturing J'onn J'onzz. However, the opportunity to first possess Maxima presented itself as Starman, who was eclipsed at the time, sensed the Warrior Queen's rage and approached her with a cursed gem. As soon as Maxima was possessed, Eclipso exclaimed,
"I feared the martian's absence would stall my plans...but the powers of this body are incredible! The powers of this mind...intoxicating!"
Sure enough, the Almeracian's mind control powers proved powerful enough to enslave Wonder Woman.
Hypnotic Gaze
The Empress of Almerac has the ability to paralyze an opponent with her gaze. Against enemies with greater willpower, this skill has shown to be particularly effective as a lead in to another attack. In Action Comics No. 645, her duplicate used this skill on Lois Lane, and the staff at the Daily Planet, leaving them all standing around like zombies. Later that morning, Clark arrived and got Lois to snap out of her trance by shaking her and shouting. During Maxima's first face to face encounter with Superman, she used this skill to freeze the Man of Steel, leaving him more susceptible to her illusion casting. Despite her rather unfocused and irrational behavior in Aquaman No. 41, during a melee with Doctor Polaris, she lured him into her stare. Dolphin took advantage, and delivered an uppercut to his jaw while he was still disoriented.
Illusion Casting
Maxima has shown the ability to project powerful illusions into the minds of others. In Action Comics No. 651, Maxima cast the illusion into Superman's mind that he was a warlord on the Almeracian Queen's home world. The overriding presence of the Eradicator in Superman's mind at the time exposed the false reality for what it was. In Superman Man of Tomorrow No. 10, Maxima used her illusions against Dana Dearden, an obsessed Superman fan called Obsession. In the illusion, Superman had separated into four differently colored supermen. As the Empress of Almerac wanted Superman for herself, she showed each of the supermen disintegrating into powder. The ruse helped implant the suggestion into Obsession's mind that her love would bring Superman to an early end, and so she fled.
Suspended Animation
Maxima's constitution combined with her mental control is such that she can suspend her own vital functions temporarily. Despite being in a state of suspended animation, she has demonstrated the ability to be completely aware of potential danger around her. Near the end of her first encounter with the Man of Steel in Action Comics No. 651, Maxima halted her breathing and heartbeat to appear dead. Superman could not detect a pulse with his super-senses. When Maxima sensed that he was close enough, she woke up quickly and paralyzed him.
Astral Combat
In Extreme Justice No. 18, Maxima took the point by assembling her finest psychic disciples to engage Brainwave II in combat on the astral plane. While the Queen of Almerac was employing a coordinated assault with her forces, Henry King Jr. relied more on raw power and intimidation by raising twisted manifestations of himself called 'Ego Warriors'. This feat is especially notable since in the real world, although Maxima's and Brainwave's physical bodies were in Florida, the physical bodies of Maxima's psychic warriors were nowhere to be seen. Moreover, while still living out her sentence of exile from Almerac, Maxima had none of her entourage with her on Earth for this occasion.
As the battle progressed, the tide was turning against Maxima's forces, and in the end, the Warrior Queen was the last Almeracian standing. Brainwave appeared to be feeding off of a supernatural power source; a familiar whose face was that of the original deceased Brainwave. Eventually, Maxima deduced that the familiar was in fact a manifestation of Henry's strong feelings of guilt associated with receiving his father's mentalist powers added to his own; powers that had once been used for evil. In order to have more witnesses to the truth that she had discovered, Maxima brought Zan, Jayna and Blue Beetle into the astral plane. Finally, Maxima confronted Brainwave with the truth of the source of his madness, and the overriding presence of Henry's father vanished.
Invulnerability
Thanks to her Almeracian physiology, Maxima is nearly impervious to injury. Bullets bounce off her, missiles or lasers won't leave a scratch, and nuclear bombs are unable to harm her. Her level of resistance to physical harm approaches that of a Kryptonian. In addition, as Maxima is able to boost her constitution and physical strength attributes by channeling her psionic powers internally, her resistance to physical harm also increases. During the Death of Superman story arc, besides the Man of Steel himself, Maxima was the only Justice League member durable enough to fight Doomsday evenly. In Superman No. 159, the Man of Steel used his X-Ray vision on Maxima to find weaknesses he could exploit with pressure point attacks. Although he connected with a two finger jab to her midsection, the Warrior Queen quickly shook off the attack and kept fighting.
Self Duplication
Whether inside her vast intergalactic empire, or abroad, Maxima's high profile status can be both a blessing and a curse. As such, the Empress of Almerac has shown a preference for using simulacra that are virtually identical to her. Each simulacrum possesses powers similar to her, and are able to act in situations when she cannot be present. However, these proxies appear to be less invulnerable, and according to Superman, more restrained than the original Maxima. At the end of Action Comics No. 645, it is revealed that the Maxima on Earth at the time was indeed a simulacrum. This duplicate was atomized by Sazu's optical force beams. In Extreme Justice No. 10, Maxima was a approached by Captain Atom to organize a wedding shower for his then fiancee, Plastique. At the party, Maxima heard Carol Ferris scream in an adjacent room, so she burst through the door. No sooner had she entered the room than she was ambushed by Star Sapphire. In the next issue, Extreme Justice No. 11, Maxima appeared cut in two pieces on the floor. Her torso and lower body were left smouldering where Star Sapphire had sliced her with a sword. During a break in the fight that ensued, Plastique was able to examine the dead body. The corpse was already starting to lose cohesion. Soon, the real Maxima appeared on the scene to the surprise of everyone at the bridal shower. What appeared to be a lifeless flesh and blood Almeracian on the floor was in fact a mere vessel for Maxima's psychic consciousness.
Flight
By applying her telekinesis as a means for propulsion, Maxima is able to "fly". She has shown the ability to maneuver herself, other beings, or objects through the air at escape velocity. Having served on several incarnations of the Justice League, she was often counted on to provide flight for those teammates who were not gifted with the ability to fly. During the 'Our Worlds at War' event, Maxima also demonstrated that she was able to fly through space as her psionic highway carried the remnants of her people over interstellar distances below her.
Telekinesis
In Justice League America No. 65, despite having been drained from a previous encounter with Starbreaker, Maxima closed numerous fissures on her home world by re-shifting continental plates together telekinetically.
Mental Defense
When Brainiac had seized control of Warworld, and used the planet to boost his telepathic abilities to cosmic levels, Maxima was still able to plot behind his back and resist becoming one of his mind-slaves.
Possession
Maxima has displayed the ability to place her own psychic consciousness into her simulacrums. The full extent of her skill in this area is unknown.
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Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Action Comics #645 (September 1989)
Created by: Roger Stern (writer)
George Pérez (artist)
First appearance:
Just opposite Green Park and having past Hyde Park Corner this is probably one of the more scenic parts of the Service 38 diagram, and also the most photogenic - eh well if you don't mind climbing over what amounts to a dual carriageway's central reservation (I knew my swimmer's body would come in handy somewhere on my hols this year!).
Under the Union Jack we can salute Boris Johnson's brainwave even if it is just a bit pricey (promise I won't mention that again)! This is Hybrid number 4 and the first of the newer registration plates LT12 DHT.
Smooth diagonals, aligned evenly and the Z effect combined with soft curves all make for an appealing image and from this angle I give the design 10 out of10 - another winner from Wrightbus.
The new design features two doors, an open rear platform and two staircases.Unlike the original standard RM Routemaster used in central London, the new bus has a conventional full front end and a rear platform that can also be a closed door when not needed, but the open platform seems to be the preferred norm.
The new layout allows it to be operated by one person at off-peak times, but a conductor is required for those boarding at the rear end between bus stops.
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How shy am I? I'm not so shy that I won't ask a cute guy to flex for me, but I am too shy to ask him to whip off his shirt no matter how many brainwaves I send out trying to get him to do just that. Those are the borderlands in which I live...
Name: Troy Hudson
Age: 18
Weapons: Escrima sticks that can double as a bo staff
Relationships to other characters: Conner Silver
(Boyfriend), Finch (Partner)
Height: 6’2
Weight: 136 Ibs
Ethnicity: American
Alias: Nexus
Skills: Various hand to hand combat techniques, Acrobatics, Technopathic (Communicate with machines and manipulation over them and electricity within people via the electromagnetic brainwaves)
Nemesis: Façade
Universe: DC
Affiliation: Hero
Back story
My name is irrelevant to whoever would be reading this, I only tell it to those I care for and there are very few people I care for. Though I was given the codename Nexus to go by, the link between that of machine and man. I’ve had a troubled past, my Mum died when I was born and my Dad… Well he’s a jackass. He spent all his money on whatever booze he could get meaning we lived in what I would call a shack that was falling apart at the seams. The man kept me locked in my room except for school, if I was late home, which I almost always was he beat me. He told me that I was a failure that he was stuck with and legally obliged to look after me. He even referred to me as his ‘Daughter’ because of who I liked, I’d come out as gay when I was thirteen and that didn’t sit well in where I lived. The place was fool of religious gats who claimed I was broken and needed to be fixed, me and Conner that was. And if I wasn’t getting beat up at home it was at school. The guys were a bunch Homophobes afraid of the different. I guess this is what inspired me to start training myself. I began to build myself up and train. I was sick of being treated like trash. I first discovered my unusual ability when walking home one day. The televisions in the store window caught my eye on my route to the shack. Breaking News was spelt in big red letters up in the corner and I saw some type of earthquake event that had torn apart Gotham. Cataclysm. I placed my hands on the windows trying to hear the muffled sound through the glass. I felt a jolt spring through me and leave out my fingertips. The televisions exploded outwards shards of glass flying everywhere, sending me to the ground and the person who had been standing next to me. I had to be given twenty six stitches in one arm; I’d almost pierced an artery. Dad had a fit, he’d claimed I’d put us back by too much money and beat me close to death. I had to go back to Hospital, that idiot. As I was otherwise incapacitated I decided to find out what had happened at the electronics store and what the jolt of power was. I didn’t find anything out. I couldn’t even replicate the situation. It took me two months to heal. Plus the added time it took me to get over the added attacks. But I only had to suffer for a half a year. That’s when I ran away. Of course I was going to miss some people. There was Conner of course. I’ll be back for him; I just had to find out a few things. I didn’t give up on trying to stay fit and decided that if I was on my own I’d need some kind of weapon to protect myself. I’d heard that Nightwing fellow used some kind of batons to fight. They looked fun to use. I used the library computers to look at some footage of Nightwing in action and where I could find those, what I believe is called Escrima Sticks. Then I felt that jolt. Damn. The computers and lights blew out sending sparks and shards all over the place and causing the library to go dark. Again, this had happened so many times since I’d left. It was becoming more and more frequent. I ran, I couldn’t afford to be charged with damage repair. Though I wouldn’t know who would charge a sixteen year old in a hoody I didn’t know. Then they found me, the organization Mockingbird. They’d taken interest in me since the event at the electronics store. They took me off the streets and bundled me into a van. Of course I screamed and kicked, but they overpowered me and I suddenly felt myself go limp. They’d drugged me. The next thing few events were a blur but next I remember I was in a poorly lit room with huge lights blinding me. A silhouette of a man appeared in front of the flood lights. He asked me my name. I stayed silent. He said it didn’t really matter if I never spoke to him at all, he had my file. All he needed to know was in their. He went on to explain that I was one of many like me. I was what was called a Nexus. The first Nexus. He said that twenty years ago Mockingbird was created to make a person capable of communing with electronics and machines. They attempted to do such a thing with cell alterations. Sixteen years ago the experiment was put into action and what people thought was a new type of influenza shot held the genetic material that would change the firstborn of whoever was injected with it. Unfortunately the side effect was that the woman was born to die in childbirth. I was the first person to activate my altered DNA and alert them that we were beginning to come online. At first they kept there distance incase their machinery had a surge of power and it was just false data. They said they needed me to find the others. That I was the ‘Nexus Prime.’ And that’s how I became the agent Nexus, the only teenager working for a sub division of the Government, legally that is, sort of. I of course needed a little training before they let me out of the facility. It helped that I’d kept in shape. And I finally got those Escrima sticks, and they double as a Bo staff. I ended up working with the agent who’d come to see me in their interrogation room. He’s called Finch. How ironic. Of course I was reluctant at first to jump on there band wagon and I tried to escape several times. Though I had nowhere better to go, I was pissed that from birth I had been engineered for the life I had and will have. I was never to have a mother, I was supposed to work with them that I was supposed to help them find other people like me and ruin their lives too. I had to ask why. Why they created us anyway. Finch only said that they would need us for something. He never said what. So you could see why I had a hard time trusting these people, though the vague comments and cold comfort grew on me. Strange as that may seem I started to enjoy myself. I got to be what people my age dream of being, a superhuman. Though I’m still not at total comfort with what they did, I’m just going to have to live with it. I’d promised myself I’d go back for Conner, though it took two years of trust building and training to get there but I did in the end. He was happy enough to see me to say the least. He got an apartment in the closest city to Mockingbird base and I visited him as often as I could. It was tough on him. I had even told him he needed to move on with his own life and find someone else other than me and have a normal life. I was in serious trouble for telling an outsider about what I do and Finch threatened to kill him if I told anyone else or if he blabbed. He didn’t blab. And that’s the short and rather depressing story of how I became who I am. I’m still not completely happy with how this all turned out but hey, I’m a superhero in my own right and my powers are still growing. I’ve been able to tell machines to change or do things without making them explode, so that’s a bonus. This is why I am Nexus, the link between man and machine.
My entry for TTPES build a hero contest the technopath Nexus!
I’ve often heard it said that everything’s connected. Right now I’m noticing how every little domestic job is connected to umpteen others. I set out to do one job and find umpteen others have somehow gotten between me and the intended task in hand!
I stood earlier in the utility room, about to get going on the shoe cleaning duties when another job snuck its way in … ‘How many shoes does a man need?’ Maybe it’s time to let go of numerous pairs of partly worn shoes we’ve got stored on racks in some subconscious attempt to outdo Amilda de Marcos.
Dad used to manage perfectly well with just two pairs of shoes. A black pair and a brown pair. His shoes were specially made for him due to his war wounds you know! In his case, both his feet were badly crushed in an RAF wartime accident involving a Short Stirling bomber and a crash landing. And so, the memory of his shoe cleaning routine and his use of brown for weekends and black for weekdays, comes back to remind me of leaner days long past.
Again, subconsciously, I’ve mostly, for the past twenty years, had a brown and a black pair of shoes on the go, though the brown ones hardly get a look in. These days on the catwalk of life, (Give us a twirl Anthea!) I’m mostly sporting black Solavair Gibson shoes, these latest ones being the 10th pair I’ve owned. ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ seems to make good sense.
Carol on the other hand … well let’s just say that she likes shoes and whilst my brainwave of letting go of my old shoes to create some much needed ‘useful’ space seemed great at the time, it’s instantly overtaken by the realisation that the space will simply make way for more of M’ Ladyships shoes. On the plus side, shoe shining duty also equates to a cup of tea and a spot of Radio 4.
And … he notices, as yet another connection connects itself to his constantly open connectors … I do love the radio. Mostly Jazz on Radio 3 or nearly everything on Radio 4. I’ve also got my eyes on an old World Band radio, a Grundig 3400 ideally. A radio so clever it can transport you around the world or back in time to teenage days of Radio Caroline or Radio Luxembourg, well almost.
Anyway, as Mum used to often say from the command and control centre of her favourite chair, “It’s no good, this isn’t getting anything done!”
So, on that determined note, I’d better get to it and finish shining those shoes!
TTFN
again messing around tonight, had a brainwave or not, i dunno, one of those things that doesnt happen often to me, im too blonde natured lol
St Catherine's Lighthouse. Round the Island Race, July 1, 2017
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No! It isn’t that.
Merely short term memory loss. Sometimes I can’t remember what I had for dinner the night before and sometimes, because I can be posing anywhere, which means sometimes I forget where I am and I have a need to go looking for myself. If I ever get totally lost ….. woe is me.
Brainwave …… Just go looking for the where the camera is and guaranteed I will be there.
Easy peasy!
Project TW (Travelling Wage) - Image 99/366
Being one of the biggerers uglies livings here on Earths with you all means that I gets to has so much funs lookering after all the littlers uglies that comes with us from Uglyworld.
For the pasts coupler of weekies I has been hards at work makerings my coolers tenter and also designerings all the coolers images so that I could cuts them outer and gluers them ontos the fronts of my tenter to be the backgrounders for my easters story.
You can sees justs how biggers a crowd gathereds to hears the story this years, so it musts have been a gooders one!
I'll shares it withs you alls if you likers...?
"Robbie and Roberta rabbiter wakereds up brighters and earliers on Easters Sunday, and when they lookereds out of the windows they wondereds if the Easters Bunny had paids them a visiter"
"As Roberta reachereds their livingsroomer she gaspereds with shock while lookerings at their easter eggies basketer, as it was sitterings there completely emptiers!!!"
"Robbie, comes quick, the easters rabbiter hasn't been able to pays us a visiter, and now we has no tastiers easter eggies in our basketer, what are we goings to do now for our easters sunday dinnerers!"
*gaspers from the audiencers*
"Roberta was cryings her eyes out when Robbie hads the brainwaver to takes a walker outsides in the warms spring sunshiners, and afters dryerings Robertas tearies away with some tissuers the pair settereds off for a nice walkers in the countrysider"
"Afters a while Robbie and Roberta were startings to get mega hungries, but an easter eggies shop was nowheres to be findereds, and the pair begans to grow weariers and wondereds if this woulds be their lasts easterer togethers"
*ooohhhh from the audiencers*
"Roberta sittereds down on the grounds, unabler to continuers, Robbie, after makerings sure that she was comfiers decidereds to walks justs that littlers bit furthers, ups and overs the nexts hiller"
"As he reachereds the tops of the hill he coulds see a builderings in the distancers, and nots just any builderings, a cookie shopper!"
*gaspers from the audiencers*
"He shoutereds back downs to Roberta who gettereds a seconders wave of energies at the gooders news and she sprintereds as fasts as her feeties could carries her ups the hill to stands sides by sides with Robbie once mores"
"Froms about half a miler away they could sniffers the sweeters aromas of cookies that mosts rabbiters only dreamers about, and when they reachereds the doors of the shop they were greetereds by the biggerests selectioner of cookies you can possiblies imaginer!"
*cheerers from the audiencers*
"Roberta and Robbie eaters all the cookies their littlers bellys could holds and they evens takereds a few boxers of the tastiers cookies home withs them to enjoyers for the days to comes."
"As the sun slowly droppereds over the horizons the pair skippereds off home with biggerers smiles on their faces and tastiers cookies unders their arms"
*massivers clapperings and cheererings from the audiencers*
Happiers Easter Everyones!!!
From the Uglydoll blog at blog.adventuresinuglyworld.com/
And on Twitter at - @uglyadventures
On Google+ at - plus.google.com/110890957394686361214/posts
p.s. A massive thank you all for the views, comments and favourites over the last 1500 images of my adventures in uglyworld set (or what should simply be known as the story of the little guys life here with us on Earth), 1500 images, I can't believe it myself!!!
It's all your feedback on Flickr, the Adventures In Uglyworld blog, Facebook, Google+, and so many other websites out there that makes this so much more fun to do for myself and Mireille! You guys inspire us to continue, so here's to the next 500 images...!!!
Barry & Mireille.
I dont usually take my macro kit on holiday with me, its bulky and gets in the way also i'm completely addicted to it and can get a bit carried away which isn't fair on everyone else. However for our recent trip to Corfu our destination looked so stunning that i decided to take a dslr instead of a little pocket camera for our holiday snaps. Then i had a brainwave and bought a cheap set of close up filters off of amazon my thinking being that they would take up no room at all and when we were out and about if i saw any nice bugs i could quickly screw one on to my 18-55 kit lens take a piccy or two then whip it off into my pocket and carry on with whatever we were doing no harm done everybodies happy, the only thing was i didn't expect brilliant results but they would at least be better than our little ageing Canon sureshot. After a little go or two though i started getting some quite passable shots better than expected for sure and i didn't really get chance to try out all the magnification permutations that they offered sticking to just the one X4 filter. Am i glad i made the effort ! Corfu has some amazing insects i had a great time chasing them and i wasn't even leaving the road all the pics of creatures i got were taken in vegetation by the side of the road, imagine what a proper expedition into the countryside with a serious macro set up would turn up...oh well one of these days......
Paleokastritsa, Corfu
I picked up the Batman jet-ski set today, but had a brainwave so re-purposed another into a Robin version. (I also swapped out the front of the batcycle on batman's jet-ski to take advantage of the sticker)
Project 365 - Image 98/365
Orange Ice-Bat had mysteriously gone missing over the last few days, so before leaving for work this morning I decided to try and find him (I was getting worried that he wouldn't be able to find food for himself and could end up starving while I'm working long days).
I searched high and low (with the help of several other Uglies) and we couldn't find him anywehere, so Babo had the brainwave (as always) to have everyone stand perfectly still and silent.
Feint sounds of "nom, nom, nom" could be heard from the kitchen, so we silently crept upstairs and found Orange Ice-Bat inside a tub of peach sweeties. When he began to feel like a goldfish inside it's bowl due to us all staring at him, he popped the lid open and said "wassssssup" to which Babo replied, "Alls is ok's with you?". "Yup, just nom'ing on some nom nom's".
At least we managed to find the little guy and make sure he was ok.
From the Uglydoll blog at adventuresinuglyworld.blogspot.com/
for this weeks Me Again Monday
So yep I am sat in the fireplace ..with my heart balloon that I got a few days ago with lots of ideas in my head {inspired by one of my favourite dance tunes}
but of course yesterday and then today the California weather decided to turn into feckin Irish weather making it impossible for me to get what I wanted outdoors. So I was lost for ideas and couldnt think of how to interpret the theme and then suddenly *brainwave* I thought why not get in the fireplace and so I did and this is what we get.
So happy me again Monday and Valentines day seeing as it is nearly here!
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Life Ink, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, in a performance by pianist Maki Namekawa at the Futurelab Day, part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2022.
Life Ink revolves around the question: Can mind and body generate ink? It captures brainwaves and body signals in real time to create a new form of ink: This Life Ink is used to express our creative moments in a completely new form.
Life Ink was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab in collaboration with Wacom. Learn more:
ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/projects-life-ink/
Photo: Jochen Manz / Wacom Co., Ltd.