![]() ![]() However, she later deleted her controversial tweets and shared, “Guys I DID NOT KNOW the extent of whats being alleged against AH I just read he was getting divorced and thought he was hot. “I’m not sorry I don’t take it back it was a f–king joke clearly I need my rib cage but maybe he can have one my kidneys,” she said, adding that the people criticizing her should “get some hobbies.” Glanville immediately received backlash for her tweet, though she stood her ground at first. how do you just keep getting hotter and hotter #letsbbq.” The messages alluded to cannibalism fetish and other NSFW acts.Ībout a month later, Glanville chimed in on the conversations and tweeted, according to E! News, “Dear you can have my rib cage. In January, Hammer began trending all over social media after a series of his alleged direct messages were leaked. Brandi Glanville | Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images What did Brandi Glanville tweet about Armie Hammer? *The following article contains discussions about abuse. However, while she later apologized for them, Glanville apparently still does not understand why those tweets were problematic. Recently, she received backlash for making controversial tweets about actor Armie Hammer amid his sexual abuse and cannibalism allegations. This has also landed her in hot water many times throughout the years. Since her first appearance on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Brandi Glanville has often attracted a lot of attention for her outspoken, unapologetic way of communications.
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![]() These recipes will be removed as development goes on an more features become available They only exist to make some otherwise unaccessible items available when you're not in creative mode. In-game help system containing extensive help about gameplay basics, blocks, items and more.Built-in crafting guide which shows you crafting and smelting recipes.A couple of non-trivial blocks and itemsīonus features (not found in Minecraft 1.11):.Generated structures (especially villages).Deco blocks: Glass, stained glass, glass panes, iron bars, hardened clay (and colors), heads and more.Slime block (does not interact with redstone).Buidling blocks: Stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, walls.Brewing, potions, tipped arrow (partial).The Nether, a fiery underworld in another dimension.Chests, large chests, ender chests, shulker boxes.Crafting system: 2×2 grid, crafting table (3×3 grid), furnace, including a crafting guide.The following main features are available: It is playable, but unfinished, many bugs are to be expected.īackwards-compability is not guaranteed, updating your world might cause small andīig bugs (such as “missing node” errors or even crashes). Limitations found in Minetest will be written down and reported in the course of development.Cloning the interface has no priority.MineClone 2 will use different graphics and sounds, but with a similar style.Cloning the gameplay has highest priority.In general, Minecraft is aimed to be cloned as good as Minetest currently permits (no hacks).Features of later Minecraft versions might sneak in, but they have a low priority.Target of development: Minecraft, PC Edition, version 1.11 (later known as “Java Edition”).The main goal of MineClone 2 is to be a clone of Minecraft and to be released as free software. “games” directory of your Minetest data directory. To install MineClone 2 (if you haven't already), move this directory into the There is no support for running MineClone 2 in development versions of Minetest. This game requires Minetest to run (version 5.0.0 or Minecart with Command Block: mcl_minecarts:command_block_minecart.Minecart with Hopper: mcl_minecarts:hopper_minecart.Minecart with Furnace: mcl_minecarts:furnace_minecart.Minecart with Chest: mcl_minecarts:chest_minecart.These items do not work yet, but you can get them with /giveme for testing: Use the /giveme chat command to obtain them. They can not be obtained in-game or in the creative inventory. The following items are interesting for Creative Mode and for adventure You can access the help from your inventory menu. More help about the gameplay, blocks items and much more can be found from inside See tooltips in crafting guide to learn about fuels and smeltable items.Lower slot must contain a fuel item (example: coal).Upper slot must contain a smeltable item (example: iron ore).Furnace allows you to obtain more items.If near water, farmland becomes wet and speeds up growth.Place seeds on farmland and watch them grow.Rightclick dirt or similar block with hoe to create farmland.Different tools break different kinds of blocks.Craft a wooden pickaxe so you can dig stone.Use the crafting guide (book icon) to learn all the possible crafting recipes.Rightclick the crafting table for a 3×3 crafting grid to craft more complex things.Place the 4 wood planks in a 2×2 shape in the crafting grid to make a crafting table.Place the wood into the 2×2 grid (your “crafting grid” in your inventory menu and craft 4 wood planks.Punch a tree trunk until it breaks and collect wood.How to play (quick start) Getting started In creative mode you can build almost anything for free and without limits.Build complex machines with redstone circuits.Build a railway system and have fun with minecarts.Collect flowers (and other dye sources) and colorize your world.Use the collected blocks to create great buildings, your imagination is the limit.Survive: Fight against hostile monsters and hunger.Sandbox-style gameplay, no goals (for now).Or you can play in “creative mode” in which you can build almost anything instantly. Various other aspects of the game, such as mining, farming, building machines, and so on You can choose to play in a “survival mode” in which you have toįight monsters and hunger for survival and slowly progress through the The world and dig and build almost every block in the world to create new You start in a randomly-generated world made entirely of cubes. Forked from MineClone by davedevils.ĭeveloped by Wuzzy and contributors. An unofficial Minecraft-like game for Minetest. ![]() It has the ability to appeal to both strategic thinkers and casual players.ĭoes building a city from the ground up sound exciting to you? Did you spend hours of your youth playing Sim-City? Guess what? You need to buy Suburbia. Suburbia delivers a tight engine-building game with strong theme and simple mechanics. Historical Figure/ Fictional Character I’d Most Like to Play Against: Fred Rogers –Ĝomplication of various tile interactions can cause anxiety for more casual players. –Ĝity building is not most appealing of themes to hook new players. – Replay value kept high due to random element of which tiles are used each game. – Tiles’ effects make sense thematically and help you envision how your borough could exist. –Ğxcellent graphic design eliminates need for game text in many situations. – Simple game mechanics make it easy to learn and keeps game play fast paced. The player who has achieved the highest Population is the winner. Players adjust scores based on results of both public and secret personal goals that were assigned at the start of the game. The final stack of tiles contains a One Last Turn tile which announces the end of the game after all players have had equal amount of plays. ![]() The effects make sense thematically, such as a Reputation penalty for building certain industrial zones next to residential areas or an income increase from a Farm whenever a new restaurant appears. Tiles’ effects are also retroactive, future placements can trigger effects from tiles that have been previously played. These effects involve increases or decreases in Population, Reputation, Money or Income. When a tile is placed it will have effects based on its location, other adjacent tiles, tiles included in your borough, and sometimes, tiles included in opponents’ boroughs. Tiles represent various types of city elements, including residential, civic, commercial and industrial areas. There are three stacks which will be depleted in order, tiles generally increasing in price and power as the stacks progress. The Market is refilled from a face down stack each turn. Then they add the tile to their borough by aligning it next to at least one existing tile. Players take turns purchasing hexagonal tiles from a Real Estate Market, a line of random tiles which decrease in price the longer they remain available. It is influenced each turn by your current Income, which functions the same as Reputation does for Population. Money is measured in millions and is what you use to purchase new tiles. Thus increasing your Reputation gives you a steady rate of increase to Population. It is adjusted each turn by your current Reputation, ranging from -5 to 15. Population is essentially your current score, having the highest being the goal of the game. Gameplay: There are four elements that players track during the game. Overview: Suburbia is a tile-placement game for 1-4 players who plan and develop their own unique city borough. As your reputation increases, you'll gain more and more population (and the winner at the end of the game is the player with the largest population).ĭuring each game, players compete for several unique goals that offer an additional population boost – and the buildings available in each game vary, so you'll never play the same game twice! ![]() As your income increases, you'll have more cash on hand to purchase better and more valuable buildings, such as an international airport or a high rise office building. As your town grows, you'll modify both your income and your reputation. Suburbia is a tile-laying game in which each player tries to build up an economic engine and infrastructure that will be initially self-sufficient, and eventually become both profitable and encourage population growth. Your goal is to have your borough thrive and end up with a greater population than any of your opponents. Use hex-shaped building tiles to add residential, commercial, civic, and industrial areas, as well as special points of interest that provide benefits and take advantage of the resources of nearby towns. Plan, build, and develop a small town into a major metropolis. ![]() Operating System: Windows, macOS, and Linuxīesides being a free DWG viewer, LibreCAD is an open-source computer-aided design (CAD) software that CAD users can download for free rather than downloading costly CAD software like AutoCAD and the like. Allows users to view 2D drawings and 3D models and also measure distances and areas.įigure 3.It supports 50 other CAD file formats thus saving users the need to download multiple CAD file viewers for different file formats.It allows users to view DWG drawing for free.Users can also use it to print drawings to scale.Allows users to verify distances and areas.It allows users to view 2D drawings and 3D models.It supports DWG file formats and 50 other CAD file formats including DXF.It is rated as one of the most powerful free DWG file viewers developed by a third party.Īnd besides supporting DWG file formats, it also supports 50 other CAD file formats and BIM features. Latest Version: Bentley View V8i SELECTseries 4īentley View is a product of Bentley, which is also the official Microstation developer, a free DXF viewer. It is available for both 64-bit and 32-bit Operating Systems.It offers useful tooltips guide to enhance the users’ experience.It is easy to use even for non-professionals.Allows users to measure distances, angles, and areas in DWG drawings.Users can open DWG, DXF, DWF, and DWFx files.Users can view DWG drawing files for free. ![]() ![]() By using the DWG TrueConvert, users can convert drawing to other AutoCAD versions.By integrating DWG TrueView with Design Review, users can quickly and easily review and markup DWG drawings.By adding the Design Review, DWG TrueView users can accurately measure the distances, areas, and angles of DWG drawings.It facilitates collaboration when sharing AutoCAD drawing files with other CAD applications.DWG TrueView is a free stand-alone DWG viewer.Also, with Design Review, DWG TrueView users can add comments, ideas, and other information required when communicating design changes.ĭWG TrueView (+Design Review) Features and Functions It was designed to enable CAD users to view, edit, and convert DWG files.ĭesign Review on the other hand is a DWG TrueView add-on that helps to extend the features of DWG TrueView to enable users to use it to measure lengths, areas, and angles. Latest Version: Autodesk DWG Trueview 2021Īutodesk DWG TrueView is the official Autodesk application for viewing DWG files and it comes in two versions the free version and the paid version. ![]() In this post, Scan2CAD has selected the 7 best free DWG viewers that you can freely download to view and modify DWG drawing files. DWG File FormatĭWG, which stands for DraWinG, is the proprietary AutoCAD file format that contains all the metadata and geometrical data.Īnd due to its importance in design and engineering, DWG is supported by virtually all other third-party CAD programs. Additionally, if you want to edit DWG drawings without having to purchase or subscribe to costly CAD applications, there are also lots of free DWG editors that you can download from the internet.Īnd amazingly some of these free DWG viewer apps are made by Autodesk, which is the same company that develops AutoCAD. There are lots of free DWG Viewers that you can download from the internet. If all you want to do is to view, modify, or even annotate DWG drawing files that are originally made using AutoCAD, you do not have to buy the costly AutoCAD application. However, although AutoCAD is that versatile, it has a very high annual subscription fee thus the need for free Free DWG Viewers in case one only needs to view a DWG CAD file without having to do much. AutoCAD is one of the most widely used CAD applications around and AutoCAD files are everywhere from design to engineering including electrical engineering drawings. ![]() I also read that a traditional lager normally needs 10-12 psi of co2 pressure and a 5 pound (90 ounce) co2 tank will usually last for 2-4 half barrells depending on temperature conditions. One of the reviews that I read for the 30 ounce tank the customer mentioned that he was going to use it for a beer keg. I spoke with the distributor and several package stores and the prices I was quoted for co2 tanks and conversion kits from recommended local retailers were such that I would find better value in purchasing a brand new kegerator which is why I would be thrilled if this other idea could work. ![]() 30 ounce size they use for paintball guns that they sell at Wa*%#rt for $20 so we may be able to preserve the unused beer for more than 24 hours and would a disposable tank be compatible with the pump style taps that the package stores offer? ![]() We have a small fridge that could convert into a kegerator but we dont have the necessary equipment which leads to my question, if we decided to go with a quarter or half barrell is it possible to use a disposable smaller sized co2 like the approx. With the holiday fast approaching we want the exhilaration of drinking ice cold nectar from a keg for maximus festivas □ We are having a few guests and have reserved a sixth barrell but the looming thought when having a keg is that when friends and neighbors “get wind” there is always a chance that a few stragglers will pop in making this size keg seem inadequate.
![]() We are still waiting for the breakaway but Smok is leading the pack and competitor Joyetech is finally in the sights. But these years are behind Smok because, for a few products, innovations come back and commercial successes follow one another, putting the brand back in the race for excellence. Then, followed some “slack” or the manufacturer had gone astray in failed attempts, false good ideas and following materials which did not fool anyone. Veteran vapers, those who survived silica fiber, mesh, diacetyl and so on, remember that Smok, then better known under the name Smoktech, was one of the pioneering brands of the vape and had known impose significant evolutions in the technological development of the personal vaporizer and its accessories. Reviewer comments on business characteristics Minimum value in Ohms resistance for a start: 0.06.Mod type: Variable power electronics and temperature control.Product category according to its selling price: Mid-range (from 41 to 80 euros).Price of the tested product: 79.90 Euros.Sponsor who has loaned the product for the magazine: Do not wish to be named.Can't bring it back to place of purchase right now. TLDR: 5-day-old Smoktech M80 reading check atomizer if I screw too tight. In case I have to send away my M80 for a while, can anyone recommend an ideally inexpensive device that should be able to run a subtank well enough in the interim? I believe I can use the 1.2 ohm coils on my Provari but with very little wiggle room. I'm encouraged that it's still firing, but I've never heard of things only firing when sitting so loose.Ģ) with all of the stuff I just ordered I really don't want to be without a device that can run. The big questions are these: 1) has anyone had this problem or heard of someone having it and if so, is it something I can fix on my own (how?). Smoktech has terrible customer service and I'm not used to this after having a Provari as my primary device. I spoke to the owner of that shop and he recommended that I take it to a nearby vape shop and I finally found one who sells the Xpro M80 so I'll bring it in later, but not sure how much they can do on site. ![]() I purchased the Smok from an out-of-state shop in a city I will be moving to, but I'm not there yet so I can't bring it in easily. The problem here, other than the obvious, is multifold: I just ordered a bunch of stuff for the Xpro that mostly won't run on my older ecig, an updated Provari V1. Basically if I tighten it enough not to wobble, it no longer reads. ![]() Then within about 10 minutes, nothing was working.Īfter some fiddling I managed to get things firing consistently, but only if it's very loose in the thread. I tried it with some other atomizers and at first they all fired just fine. Today I took it off to refill, put it back on, and got a check atomizer message. I'm mostly running it with a Kanger Subtank. Up until today it's been nothing short of brilliant. For what it's worth, I AM very new to VW and subohm vaping but being a 5-year vaping veteran I've managed to get up to speed pretty quick, not to toot my own horn.Īnyway, I literally just bought a Smoktech Xpro M80 plus about five days ago. I thought I had an account here but apparently not. So I'm not at all new to vaping or to forums in general, but I did take a long break from really being involved in the hobby and am just getting back. ![]() When Usagi intervenes, the pig makes a noxious fool of himself trying to stop the samurai. Spot, in search of a snack, angers an abrasive pig restauranteur, who chases the tokage up the title structure. The Tower is a lighthearted tale, which isn’t to say that it’s without peril or stakes. This first issue, The Tower, introduces Usagi to a tokage lizard (in a world of anthropomorphic animals, the vaguely dinosaurian tokage play the part of wildlife) who he’ll come to name Spot. Usagi Yojimbo: Wanderer’s Road, published by IDW, is reprinting some of the earliest Usagi stories with new color work by Ronda Pattison. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and a possible “final” Usagi story. ![]() And, for the 30th anniversary, Sakai got the whole cast together for Senso – a combination of homage to H.G. Usagi’s friend Tomoe Ame, a woman who has risen to become a great samurai in an era of particularly rigid gender roles, has navigated both massive conspiracies to slay her liege lord and her family’s fraught history. Grasscutter combines legend and political intrigue with an earth-shaking showdown between Usagi and the terrifying demonic spearman Jei. Action, horror, romance, comedy, studies of faith and questions of honor Usagi Yojimbo‘s done all this and more. The tale of Miyamoto Usagi, a wandering rabbit samurai in a world of anthropomorphized animals, Sakai’s comic has told a tremendous range of stories in its 36 years. Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is one of the capital-G Great American Comic Books. ![]() Mass Effect Video Review (Xbox 360/PC/PS3) ![]() “Special Delivery” premieres on January 12. His poster showcases his professional skills turning broken-down cars into special delivery vehicles and reads, “What is this crap car?” Her poster says, “I’ll become the lighthouse that catches Jang Eun Ha.” Han Hyun Min plays Baek Kang Industries’ special delivery vehicle repair expert Asif. Yeom Hye Ran’s poster captures her charismatic image as Han Mi Young, a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent who is chasing after Eun Ha. His caption reads, “I request a special delivery tomorrow at 9 p.m. Looking nervous and concerned in the back seat, his poster reads, “Aren’t you here to rescue me?” Yeon Woo Jin plays Seo Won’s father Kim Doo Shik, a special delivery client who is the root cause of this mess. Jung Hyun Joon plays Kim Seo Won, the lost young boy who ends up in Eun Ha’s delivery car. Surrounded by monitors in his office, he looks serious while answering a call from a client as the caption reads, “You can see that we deliver all items that can make money.” CEO Baek is a thorough businessman and an aide to Eun Ha. Saat Kokdu bertemu dengan Han Gye Jeol ( Im Soo Hyang ), seorang dokter dengan kemampuan misterius, dia pun mulai bekerja sebagai dokter tamu. Kim Eui Sung plays CEO Baek, the president of Baek Kang Industries, a special delivery company. Kokdu Season of Deity adalah drakor romcom yang bercerita tentang malaikat maut bernama Kokdu ( Kim Jung Hyun) yang datang ke dunia untuk menghukum manusia setiap 99 tahun. The caption reads, “Put your life on the line, it’s 300 billion dollars (approximately 25.2 million).” Song Sae Byuk stars as Jo Kyung Pil, a police officer who leads a double life as a gangster. With his disheveled suit and angry expression, his poster captures the character’s greed. The poster reads, “To be exact, I only do deliveries.” He was raised in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul. The Nigerian-Korean model confessed that he was bullied due to his different. Han was born to a Nigerian father and a Korean mother. Han Hyun Min opened up about his modeling career, ideal type, discrimination, and more in International bnt. First up is Park So Dam as Eun Ha who shows off her powerful gaze while looking comfortable in the driver’s seat. He is the first Korean model of African descent to walk the catwalks in South Korea. The seven new character posters capture each individual’s ambition and personality. The film also stars Song Sae Byuk, Kim Eui Sung, Yeon Woo Jin, Yeom Hye Ran, and Han Hyun Min. The tough and daring Eun Ha will deliver anything speedily and securely for a price – but she winds up getting into hot water when she finds herself unexpectedly taking on human cargo in the form of the young boy Kim Seo Won (Jung Hyun Joon). (Still courtesy of Golden Village Pictures) Length: 109 minutes Director: Park Dae-min Cast: Park So-dam, Jeong Hyun-joong, Kim Eui-sang, Han Hyun-min In cinemas from 13 January (Singapore) 3. “Special Delivery” stars Park So Dam as Jang Eun Ha, a talented driver who has a 100 percent success rate when it comes to making special deliveries. These Korean names for boys will be suitable for any family, whether they are looking for traditional, modern, strong, or Korean American names.Upcoming crime action film “Special Delivery” has released exciting new character posters! To find out more about Korean names, visit our guide to Korean names for girls, or dive straight into our 100 fabulous Korean boy names. As well as a move away from naming professionals, there is a trend toward choosing native Korean words for names rather than hanja, which are based on Chinese characters. ![]() And, even though the tradition is waning, six out of ten Korean parents still go to a professional to choose their child’s name. Actor Lee Min Ki will be starring as Cha Jung Woo. Roles of Lee Min Ki and Han Ji Hyun in New Drama Look at Me. Thus, the primary factor in choosing a Korean baby name would be when the child was born.Įither the child’s grandfather or a professional namer would enact this process. The Korean drama Look at Me production will start in March.Look at Me will exclusively premiere on Wavve in the second half of this year. Han Hyun-min age is 19 years as of in 2021 and his birthplace is Seoul, South Korea. This information was used to divine the baby’s fate, and then specific characters, or hanja, were picked to counter any negative implications of the results. Han Hyun-min was born on in Seoul, South Korea. In this system, the time, date, and year of birth are associated with water, earth, wood, metal, or fire. ![]() Bora Deborah also stars 2PM’s Chansung, Girl’s Day’s Sojin, iKON’s Junhoe, and more. He is Lee Soo Hyuk’s close friend and business partner. Han Sang Jin (Joo Sang Wook) is the CEO of Jinri Publishing Company. Traditionally, Korean names were often selected based on the Chinese zodiac. Lee Soo Hyuk (Yoon Hyun Min) works as a publishing planner. Main photography of the music video for "The Reflex" took place during the Seven and the Ragged Tiger tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario on 5 March 1984. So a wood-block sound was mixed in to make it even more percussive and, successfully, it did the job." Critical reception Ĭash Box said that "spotlighting the slick vocals of Simon Le Bon and the tight Euro-pop rhythms set to a funk beat, 'The Reflex' will certainly cause a stir for current fans and it will probably reach a new, more dance oriented crowd." Music video Steel drums always are, but it was exactly right in terms of rhythm and tone. Producer Ian Little recalled the sound Nick Rhodes came up with on his Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard: ".whenever I hear that steel-drum part it always brings a smile to my face because it's so out of tune. It was his first work with the band, and he would later go on to produce " The Wild Boys" single as well as the album Notorious (1986) and several tracks on Astronaut (2004). The remixes for both the 7" and 12" singles were created by Nile Rodgers, of Chic fame. The band wanted it to be the lead single from Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), but their label did not like the warbling singing during the "why don't you use it" segments, thinking this would hinder its success as a stand-alone single track. 1 in the US was the title song to the 1985 James Bond film " A View to a Kill".) It was also the first of two songs that kept " Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen out of the top spot (the other one being Prince's " When Doves Cry"). 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (for 2 weeks) on 23 June 1984 (see 1984 in music), and was a huge hit internationally. 46, became Duran Duran's first of two singles to hit no. The single entered the charts in America on 21 April 1984 at no. 1, after 1983's " Is There Something I Should Know?", and would prove to be their last. "The Reflex" became the band's most successful single, topping the UK chart on. The single became the band's first to reach the top of the US singles chart and their second to top the UK singles chart. The song was heavily remixed for single release and was the third and last to be taken from their third studio album Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983). ![]() " The Reflex" is the eleventh single by English new wave band Duran Duran, released in 1984. ![]() Four of these shows still air, with impressive ratings and loyal audiences. There are several dimensions of interracial intimacy reflected in the six successful television shows produced by ShondaLand, Rhimes’s production company. In her world, successful people of color run things and are three-dimensional, sexual beings. The show, currently in its thirteenth season, was groundbreaking primarily because it reflected the lens through which Rhimes, an African American, sees. That was a year before Shonda Rhimes aired her first multiracial hit show, "Grey’s Anatomy," in which residents and surgeons of different colors and sexualities save lives at a fictional Seattle hospital, depend on one another, and have a lot of sex. A five-week content analysis of shows on major networks in 2004 found that 21 percent of shows portrayed an interracial liaison. Others were scandalized. In the South, where miscegenation laws had just been struck down by Loving, NBC executives considered blacking out the kiss but ultimately aired it.īy the 2000s, viewers were experiencing an explosion in portrayals of interracial couples on television. The then small band of Trekkies loved this lurch to a new frontier. So that studio executives would be forced to air the kiss, Shatner purposely crossed his eyes in the tandem, non-kiss version the director shot. Originally, Spock was supposed to kiss Uhura, but the actor William Shatner insisted that he wanted to do it. It was the first time on American TV that a white and black person kissed in prime time. ![]() The Platonians made Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura kiss against their will, and they breathlessly suffered through it. According to the camp script for episode 65 of "Star Trek," sadistic “Platonians,” who modeled themselves on Ancient Greeks, controlled the minds of members of the starship Enterprise. We have traveled far from 1968, when Captain Kirk boldly went where no white man had gone before on television. Viewers can now see many interracial couples in dramas and sitcoms, and this may have contributed to the transformation in public attitudes about such couples. The Cheerios ads and other unambiguous depictions of interracial families are a clear departure from what was standard even five years ago. It is hard to know whether this trend is the beginning of a new normal or a marketing fad. The world they depict - happy, laughing people of different colors and hair textures having a party, raising glasses as they wear cool stuff, inhabit mod furnishings, eat from neon plates - is idealized, but some people are buying it. Or the companies are playing racists like a fiddle, benefiting from the free viral publicity their intercultural ads sometimes create when trolls object. Multiracial families have become de rigueur in advertising for companies that wish to convey that they are open to all customers or to signal hipness to their brand. Nonfragile, emotionally secure people move on. Again, more people laughed and approved than those who choked on hate. Gracie looks at her father and visibly pregnant mother, then advances another Cheerio on the kitchen table to insist, successfully, that this family lineup will also include a puppy. In the commercial, the same father gingerly uses Cheerios to explain to the same moppet, Gracie, that a baby brother is on the way. But before comments were closed, those who clicked an upward thumb to signal their approval of the ad outnumbered those who disliked it by about nineteen to one.Ī year later, General Mills aired an ad during the Super Bowl. General Mills, maker of Cheerios, closed the comment section, and much of the discussion about the controversy focused on the reactionaries. The trolls came out on YouTube, posting nasty comments of “racial genocide” and worse. The commercial ends with a single-word sentence brought to a close with a Cheerio period, “Love.” In a 2013 Cheerios cereal commercial, a biracial girl with a mop of golden curls and adorable fat cheeks asks her white mom innocent questions about the heart healthiness of Cheerios, then takes what she learns and dumps Cheerios on her sleeping black father’s heart. Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press. ![]() Excerpted from " Loving: Interracial Intimacy and the Threat to White Supremacy" by Sheryll Cashin (Beacon Press, 2017). |
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