#Thrasher Toro

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9/10/22

Holy shit, such a good idea just popped into my head. I absolutely love having my inspiration cracked back open again, man I hate getting blocked up like that. Check this out. So street skating is still fucking illegal. 1 - figure that shit the fuck out. It's an OLYMPIC FUCKING SPORT. Say it with me out loud, sound it out with your mouths, explore the actual concepts behind the words that are being spoken. This is not a whiny punk teen complaining and we're just going to ignore the actual words of what they're writing. This is an actual, real sentiment that is empirically accurate. SKATEBOARDING - in all its forms: transition, freestyle, street, competition, megaramp, etc. - IS AN OLYMPIC SPORT. Please stop making it illegal. For FUCK'S SAKE!

Imagine kicking someone out of a parking lot for throwing a frisbee or a football around. Just imagine that. "Oh, but they break shit." Okay, they put wax on ledges, handrails, curbs, stuff like that. It literally scrapes off. Sometimes ledges and stuff get damaged. That happens from normal use anyway. It's not this horrible vandalism people imagine it. It's just scrapes from trucks - paint from board graphics. That's all. It's aluminum dust, cement dust, paint. That's it. And who the fuck is going around saying "man, that's a really pretty loading dock behind the grocery store, I'm really glad it isn't a tiny bit chipped or has what looks like a wet spot from wax. The community is better for it." This is fucking dumb and I'm really tired of it! We would gladly pay to keep these spots in good condition. To fix them up when they get broken. We love skating them! Why would we just trash a sick spot and then just... say fuck it and move on to a new one? Good lord! Like... just think for a minute on that! Skateboarders are not fucking vandals, we are appreciating and using that spot in a different way than you. We revered El Toro - a legendary 20-stairset at a high school in... Vegas, I think. This is a petition to rebuild it. They literally demolished it to stop people from skating it. I don't know if it's a legit petition, it's on change.org and it only has a few signatures on it. But this place was on the cover of Thrasher, absolute legends have been measured by their ability to skate this spot. https://chng.it/ZKGdrSzHSm

We worship skate spots, we think of them in a completely different lens than others. They are landmarks, they are canvases to paint. And you call the cops on us for skating there. And we are forcibly removed. And we leave. Even the pros.

I am writing this because I was watching a Dan Corrigan video on YouTube. This one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQJWeH7MUw I wasn't watching with full attention, I was playing with the cat and getting ready for bed, but I noticed the cops kicking them out a few times. These guys are professionals for Powell/Peralta, one of the first ever skate companies. A legendary skate company. One of the OG's. They are on a filming trip for their work, to film a full length skate movie ... I'm assuming, the career has morphed a LOT since the internet came into the picture, a lot of them just do Instagram and shit instead of yearly video parts, but a lot of the old guard are still doing parts. It hit me hard and I wanted to write about how fucked up it is that people are still getting kicked out for skating, how we still have to deal with this. And only the street skaters. The transition are fine, they have their parks. The freestylers are fine, they've got any nice flat space. The street skaters (and street hybrids) are the ones who get fucked. It sucks.

At the tail end of the video, there was a skate spot that just had like... fucking everything. In a natural setting. Not some artificial skatepark trying to be all perfect and shit. Not out at a park or a school like some kind of playground. In the middle of town. Where it belongs. And people were just gravitating towards it. I wish I was paying more attention, I could give more details, but I was just immediately lost in thought by this, it captivated me. The concept of a natural park, an organic street skating park. A spot that exists in a street locale that is preserved and maintained by skaters. Which is basically what a street spot is, but like... officially. Like, legally. Like we bought this spot and we take care of it and we of course will yield to and be mindful of pedestrians who are passing through, and invite them to watch, and encourage them to learn more about how awesome skateboarding is. They like pamphlets and shit, right? Put up a board like a state park and hand out pamphlets like a fuckin zoo, here's what a kickflip is, Susan who's going shopping for a new handbag.

The idea hit me so hard, so quick, it was so... like... this would completely change street skating, this would be fucking perfect. So much that I had to pause the video and just start typing this. I like the parks and all, it's nice to have a local. But man, I just... it's not street skating. It's just not. If you grew up skating a park and you go into the street, you'd be fuckin complaining about the pavement and gravel and sidewalk cracks and how the ledges are all rough and won't slide well, how the stairs are unevenly placed and shit, how the landing isn't perfect, how there's no run-up. If you've ever skated street with a park skater, you know what I mean. I'm a street skater. I always have been. I didn't have a fucking park, I skated what I could find. So skating at the park is kinda just weird for me. It's unnatural. I try, but it's just not what I want to be doing. Give me a halfpipe and I feel the same way. I can do it, I'll figure out shit to do on it, but I'm not pulled towards it the way I am with exploring for a new spot and then seshing that for like 4 hours.

So really the only big thing people bring up with this is liability for injury. That's the only inhibiting factor. If anyone wants to bring up "oh but they're just going to trash the place", just go to any one of the trailheads near me. Look at how much litter is all over that shit. These skate spots look pristine compared to that shit, and these people don't even skate! So the problem is individuals, not stereotypes. So get your prejudice fucking out of here. The injuries is the only hang up. And I really can't imagine how the fuck a kid who's voluntarily trying to kickflip a 5 stair is going to sue a person who preserves the spot specifically for that purpose and win that case. Like... is Darren Brown their fucking lawyer?! Judges aren't fucking dumb. Lawyers aren't dumb. If I was a defense lawyer, I would hop on that shit like white on rice, fuckin hell. This dumb ass kid and his greedy parents think they can take a guy who manages a public park to court to milk him for money because their kid got too cocky and it was all on film. Name one fucking judge that sides with the kid there. That judge should be fuckin sworn out, end of story. That's dumb, people. I'm tired of nodding my head and smiling to this. It's an excuse. People don't sue for shit like that, and if I managed a park and they ever tried that with me, I would gladly win that court case. And seek reputational damages against the parents in a counter-suit. Fuck it.

If someone wants to be "brave" enough to pioneer this idea: privately owned skate spots. Just the skate spot, not the properties near them, just the square footage of the spot itself, the run-up, the landing and a little bit of room for people to safely chill and watch. As organic street skating parks. Get on that shit. I will gladly endorse it just like I did on the El Toro one, and I'll even write a damn speech about it too. I'll manage one, fuck it. I think this is genius and it could really change the accessibility of skating.

Instead of these spots being skate-stopped, looking like absolute garbage, built deliberately to be more difficult to skate and subsequently more dangerous to skate, just put them into the hands of skaters who will keep it safe-to-skate. Who will keep them maintained. Repaint them, fix dents and try to patch up divots. Keepers. SkateKeepers. Don't gatekeep, SkateKeep. Oh god, that's corny as fuck. But people like corny... :/

We really, as a culture, need to get out of this mindset of like... making things as inconvenient and uncomfortable as possible, and then charging people to get rid of that inconvenience. Like having all the parking spots to a store 30 spots away, then charging to park at the closer spot. It's all just built off of making peoples' lives harder as a means to an end. I really feel like we could have more actions that are focused around the intention of making peoples lives better. Helping them find a way to get what they are looking for. As long as it's not like... leading to hurting people or something.

I lost my train of thought, I didn't wanna get political or something, or make a general statement that someone might take offense to or something. Seems like a reflex nowadays, I see it everywhere. Ugh. Anxiety, I guess. I think it came from thinking about peoples' intentions. And how some people just do not have good intentions. They just want to hurt people, for whatever reason. It's... so hard to relate to. Like how it's hard to relate to my cat easily being able to kill animals, and even find pleasure in it. I am not wired like that. I find it hard to even understand how people think that way, to empathize with it, to put myself in their POV. Like... I would legitimately struggle to roleplay a character like that, I would struggle to understand how my character would think, it would just kinda be a cartoon and imitation of characters I have seen before. So it makes it hard for me to believe that that kind of person actually exists. I know they do, it's just like trying to believe that aliens are real for me. I want to believe, but I probably wouldn't know one if I saw one. That's a scary feeling.

I feel like sometimes I come across people who are actors. Some are very bad, some are exceptionally good. And it's hard for me to tell what they are underneath, in their inner thoughts, because I assume they are good. I assume they have good intentions, they are loving, they think about "we" and not just "me". I assume they are interested in what I have to say, not just waiting for their turn to speak. I assume they are looking for how they can participate in my life, as much as what I can do for them. I assume they are being truthful with me. And I stay loyal to them through a lot of dysfunction and... not good shit.

I know this is a problem. I'm identifying it, which is part of working on it, I wanted to say "I'm working on it" really bad. XD It's hard because I really do genuinely want to help every person I meet. I want to help them heal, I want to help them become the potential I can see in them. But I don't think they look at me the same way. I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how they do see me.

This is on my mind because of social stuff. My friend came back from Scotland, we talked a bit tonight. It was back and forth, casual and serious, fun and intense. He's in an incredibly difficult place and I admire his fortitude. I wish he didn't have to endure it. I see that a lot. I wish I could do something to help, to relieve that burden.

I also have this on my mind because of getting back into streaming, which will likely be happening tomorrow. I just looked at my last stream notification on my Discord and it was from 9/5/21. I haven't streamed in over a year. That fucked my head up real good. A month or two break from streaming, then holidays, then falling into the GTARP rabbithole, then a really rough spring, then reconnecting with hippie-self barefoot-in-nature making-organic-outdoors-art for summer, then losing my dog, then a few months later I'm here.

My last stream was the final session of drawing the Barred Owl that is my profile picture on here. It's like my subconscious is just fucking laying out neon goddamn signs for me sometimes and I just feel foolish not seeing them. It's so easy to get caught in the "what ifs" and blinded by the day-to-day. To let the fears consume and start taking control. What if I'm not emotionally good with being on stream after a big fight with my mom? What if I'm so stressed from my only viewer being a high school kid who just wants a friend and watches me on his phone, who doesn't really seem that interested in what I'm doing, just kinda wants company and a friendly presence to talk to... what if I get upset at him one day and ban him. Then I'm broadcasting to no one. I banned my audience! XD How fuckin sad is that! What if I say something on stream that I regret, or that someone just takes out of context, and it gets clipped and I get a mob with torches and pitchforks outside my window the next morning. With like 1000 notifications on my phone. What if my life stress leaks through when I'm trying to set a vibe? When I'm trying to provide entertainment. That's not what I'm here to do! I can't risk doing those things!

So I take a break and wait for the fights to stop. And a year goes by. Yeah. So, I guess as I'm here prepping for the next step in my life, I'm finally getting some clear focus on where I've been stuck the past year. Avoidance. Confronting the inner, exploring the self, but avoiding the outside. Avoiding threats. So... PTSD. Makes sense.

Welcome to my mind. If this is familiar, if this makes sense, you might have PTSD too. It's not the end of the world, it hits people differently. I think it has to do with how much of a conscience you let yourself have, and the quality of your moral character. But also it kinda is a mirror to how healthy your emotional support system is. I think... speaking from my own experience.

This has been a rollercoaster of a post, but I'm very glad I wrote it and thank you for sticking with me for the ride. I'm very serious about that SkateKeepers thing, the name is kinda dumb but the concept is fucking cool. I might try to hit up the guy who owns the local skateshop and throw the idea his way, see if its something he's interested in brainstorming. They keep raising money for this extravagant skate park, and it's cool and all, but if street skating could happen too, and if it were like... cheaper than building a spot from scratch because the spot literally already exists... I don't know, I think I'm kinda sitting on a golden idea there. I hope I can override my anxiety and propose it to him. Maybe its a good excuse to finally go buy a new board. Mine is from like 2009.

I have to pee. I'm gonna read this back and then pass out. Yep, still like the post after reading it and correcting minor grammatical errors. Journaling ritual complete. Just gotta send out a good vibe and say goodbye, like a Ouija board or some shit. Idk, I like the idea of ending with a kind wish. Because goodbye is short for "god be with ye", so it's pretty much the best wish you could end on. I hope life brings you love, peace and good fortune. Is that a good modern equivalent, or is it too deep in the patchouli? XD

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10 Best Vape Juice Package Designs

by Toro Imports

We love packaging design here at Toro Imports — as a smoke and vape wholesaler, we know how important design can be to make products appealing to potential consumers. Ugly packaging means slow-moving product, and a great design conveys a strong message. When a company introduces products with great design, it conveys the message that the company has good communication, a quality product, strong branding, a good understanding of its customers, and that it cares about the presentation of their product. 

Vape juice bottles are items that customers tend to collect, after all. Who wants to add an ugly bottle to their collection? So, without further ado, here are 10 of our favorite vape juice brands with great packaging:

10. Vapetasia

Vapetasia is a brand with a fun aesthetic. The vaper demographic tends to be young, edgy, alternative adults who grew up with the Internet, Adult Swim cartoons, and skater brands like Savage, Thrasher, and Stussy. Vapetasia does a terrific job of encapsulating everything that this demographic finds nostalgic and fun without directly exploiting that nostalgia.

The mascot for the Killer Kustard line of vape juices by Vapetasia reminds us of the heroes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as a character that is personified food with a thick black outline and expressive features.

The Vapetasia logo itself is also fun, having two variations — the cloud which has icons from all of its juice brands:

and the simple, iconic Vapetasia name. I have found that people wear Vapetasia branded swag freely, simply because even outside of its context as an e-juice brand, it is a groovy look.

9. Enfuse - Pulp

We admit a personal bias here, because Enfuse is a brand local to Toro Imports HQ here in Houston, Texas. However, there’s a lot to be said for its logo and packaging design for their line of Pulp e-Juices.

While the Enfuse logo is simple and conveys what the brand is, the packaging for Pulp reminds us of packaging for food and beverages. The Pulp packaging is classic, readable, and beautifully conveys the flavor with its mostly bi-chromatic color scheme that makes the box itself into a watermelon and lemon hybrid.

The packaging is bright, appealing, and while not as cartoonish and playful as Vapetasia, still has its own crisp, minimal illustrations that make the bottles fun to collect as well as delicious to vape

8. Naked100

Naked100 is one of those brands that you can count on consistently flying off the shelves. Each bottle has a very minimal aesthetic that strives not to give the consumer more visual information than they require — the brand name, the e-juice line, nicotine strength, flavor, etc. 

No additional design elements are ever added to the packaging, which makes the brand unassuming, yet very stylish.

Naked100’s sans-serif font and minimal aesthetic remind us of Apple or Google, strong brands that also strive not to over-design their products. The brand is also careful not to under-design their packaging, either: all of their juices come in an eco-friendly glass bottle with very pale, subtle colors on the labels.

Aside from their innovative flavors, Naked’s sophisticated and thoughtful packaging makes it stand out from the competition as one of the best juices out there.

7. Nasty Juice

On the opposite side of the design spectrum from Naked100 is Nasty Juice. According to their company bio, Nasty Juice is a company founded on the idea of being an “obnoxious e-juice brand” with an “empowered sense of X-rated […] playfully daring spirit”. Standing out from other vape juice brands on this list, Nasty Juice vocally prides itself on its “exquisite advertising and top notch packaging”, which it easily accomplishes.

Nasty Juice, like Vapetasia, understands its alternative, millennial consumer base, diving into design language of skater brands and hip-hop aesthetic. Nasty Juice, much like RAW Rolling Papers, even produces its own skateboard decks and apparel with their signature fun illustrations. We love Nasty Juice not only because they are hugely popular, but because their thoughtful packaging and branding earns the popularity.

Just look at this guy. Nasty as can be.

While each of their line of Nasty Juices have unique packaging, every single bottle is easily identifiably Nasty™.

6. Nasty Juice x Kilo Collab

We just had to bring it back to Nasty Juice, because this collaboration between Nasty Juice and Kilo is absolutely stellar. 

Nasty Juice tends towards its high-contrast, pop culture skater illustrations, while Kilo has a high detail, classical, almost baroque style of packaging. When you combine the two, you get this line of amazing illustrations and packages that remind us of Alphonse Mucha and vintage tobacco ads.

The packaging for the Nasty Juice x Kilo collaboration, to us, shows enormous respect and love for their consumers, knowing that the swag and bottles would be a lot of fun for fans of the individual brands to own. Kilo has a great aesthetic in its own right, but when combined with the powerhouse that is Nasty Juice, they come together to make a gorgeously detailed piece of artwork on every bottle.

5. Alternativ by Marina Vape Co.

Marina Vape Co. is a company that understands the other side of its consumer base that Nasty Juice and Vapetasia don’t quite reach — the sophisticated, yet edgy adults who are also likely big fans of the design of Naked100 bottles. While not quite as minimal as Naked100, the Alternativ juice line by Marina Vape Co. has a strong, informed design language of its own. Each juice is named after Greek letters, while using typography and design elements that are very much from the advanced digital age.

Alternativ e-Juices Alpha through Omega do a beautiful job of showcasing the transcendence of nicotine consumption from traditional smoking to high-tech vaping techniques, while also alluring the consumer with its fruity color schemes.

Like Naked100, the Alternativ vape juice packaging is not over designed, and only has some design elements that aren’t directly giving you information. We love the classy, stylish look of this juice line

4. Fresh Pressed by California Grown E-Liquids

Going back to fun and illustrative, yet a little more modern, Fresh Pressed juices by California Grown E-Liquids reminds us of Enfuse Vapory’s Pulp juices. The logo condenses its flavors into one succinct space, and the entire aesthetic makes the juice line feel very “fresh”, as it claims to be.

The finish on Fresh Pressed bottles is glossy with contrasting metallic and glossy shine, and the illustrations are minimal, yet very appealing.

We are particularly big fans of the high-contrast packaging used for the Fresh Pressed line of Salts. Using its flowery, decorative logo splashed against a matte black background, this packaging is downright sexy.

3. Levels

While the packaging design for Levels is not very illustrative like other brands on this list, it is indeed thoughtful and intriguing. Utilizing design language of the 80’s such as Neon signage color schemes and fonts, Levels understands that its bottles need to earn their place in a customer’s vape juice collection.

This juice brand is for fans of the Terminator, the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror, and the more seasoned of their target demographic who actually lived through the 80’s. 

What impresses us about the packaging for this juice brand is how it conveys a feeling, a time, and a place while giving us very little visual information besides lines and color, with no real change in color values or shading.

2. Coastal Clouds

Coastal Clouds is a hugely popular brand that positively flies off the shelves — in part, we believe, due to their amazing packaging and illustrations.

Like Marina Vape Co., Coastal Clouds utilizes a maritime design aesthetic, making consumers feel like they are inhaling fresh fruit right by the seaside. Coastal Clouds manages to work in the digital age information and inherent newness of vapor products in their vintage packaging feel seamlessly. 

The old-school shape of the label and logo are vectorized, as are the illustrations of the flavors each bottle contains. The color schemes are muted, not overbearing, yet still ‘pop’.

Each design element on the bottle is perfectly balanced with the other elements. While some brands like Nasty Juice can tend to ‘crowd’ the information on their packaging against their vivid, detailed illustrations, all of the information on Coastal Clouds packaging is perfectly legible and beautifully described.

Also, they’re delicious.

1. Psycho Unicorn by Puff Labs

Psycho Unicorn earns first place on our list for design for making us stop and stare every time we pass their bottles in our store. We are suckers for vaporwave aesthetic here at Toro Imports, as is most of their demographic — making Psycho Unicorn by Puff Labs a clever play in packaging design.

One of the latest and greatest crazes in fashion and art nowadays is Glitch and Vaporwave. Psycho Unicorn perfectly merges design language from the 80’s and 90’s, a nostalgia factor for both sides of the vaping demographic spectrum. The illustrations for Psycho Unicorn are as appealing as they are hilarious, which shows that although they understand the importance of great packaging design, they don’t take themselves so seriously that they can’t inject humor in their product.

Psycho Unicorn is stylish, fun, and shows a deep understanding of their consumer base, which makes it our #1 favorite packaging design for vape juices.

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2016 f1 season schedule

#2016 f1 season schedule mod

#2016 f1 season schedule drivers

#2016 f1 season schedule update

Mercedes / Ferrari / Honda / Renault / Red Bull (TAG Huer) Power Units will evolve faster as season progresses. Team will also keep points awarded before the driver swap. All D.Kvyat / M.Verstappen individual points obtained will be awarded to them. In case you already are in a mid-season career your saved game will be updated to the new calendar. Career Mode calendar adapted to 2016 Season style (Only 19 races). Season Standings / Constructor Championship (those mini cars logos thingy) now show 2016 Season livery. Now you can select personalized style helmets from MAIN MENU created by Supla007 Your team mate/rivals pic is now updated.

#2016 f1 season schedule drivers

Menu has been updated with 2016 Season drivers pics. Tyre wear more close to 2016 Season with %Scalling for length of Races Starting Grid Order NOW more accurate to 2016 Season Race track menu order similar to 2016 Season Calendar Teams are presented according to 2015 Constructor Championship Order definition. All Teams logos and Teams for 2016 Season with new transparencies for drivers backdrop pictures. All Drivers now use their assigned 2016 Season helmets, plus the drivers stats have been updated up to Bahrain Grand Prix 2016 TIER 2 = Williams / Red Bull / Toro Rosso / Haas Power Units updated including the New RENAULT "Spec B" engine (in use by RedBull & RENAULT) You'll notice that overall, all the cars are 35% faster than stock F1 2013 engines, which should be accurate compared to the real engines (930BHP in 2016). Replicated the performance of the F1 engines using data from up to 2016 Catalunya Grand Prix.

#2016 f1 season schedule mod

Verstappen to RBR.Ī) Red Bull RB12 / McLaren MP4-31 / Force India VJM09 / Sauber C35 and MANOR MRT05 created by MrTheRacerī) Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid / Ferrari SF16-H / Williams FW38 / Haas VF-16 / Toro Rosso STR11 / Renault R.S.16 created by SKYFALLĪcknowledgements: YeBossKiller / Advantian / Miguelp17 / Thrasher / Franske / Krsskos / Kris / Chianamik / Supla007 and the RaceDepartment Community for their help to make this MOD possible. All the driver names and pics to 2016 F1 Season including Ericsson, Kvyat, Verstappen, Sainz, Nasr, Wehrlein, Haryanto, Palmer and Magnussen. Marussia F1 Team is now Manor Racing MRT F1 Team Williams Racing is now Williams Martini Racing Infiniti Red Bull Racing is now Red Bull Racing

#2016 f1 season schedule update

I believe the F1-2013 is Codemasters best F1 game engine of the series, so I decided to work on it and update it for a while.Ĭreated by MrTheRacer / Silidus / Skyfall This is my first Mod so I will update and polish it if you guys like it. I am happy to introduce the new F1 2016 SEASON MOD to be used on the F1-2013 game engine.

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Dave Bachinsky - El Toro - stop motion animation

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Growth of Agricultural Equipment Market Rising Demand of High Crop Yield is Projected  in near future, According to Research Nester

“Agricultural Equipment Market: Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2024”

The global agriculture equipment market is segmented into product type such as tractor, thrasher, rotavator, self-propelled vertical conveyer reaper, zero till seed drill, multi crop planter, power tiller, laser land leveler, power weeder, drip irrigation equipment, sprinkler irrigation equipment, combine harvester, rice transplanter, and power spray. Among these segments, tractor segment accounted for the biggest market of global agriculture equipment market and expected to grow at significant CAGR during the forecast period. The factors fostering the growth of tractor segment includes rising government initiatives such as providing low interest rate loans to the famers. Furthermore, various loan schemes and easy installment is also intensifying the growth of global tractor agriculture equipment market.  

Global agriculture equipment market is expected to flourish at a significant CAGR of 10.2% over the forecast period. Moreover, agriculture equipment market is expected to garner outstanding revenue by the end of 2024. Government initiatives to promote agriculture equipment are expected to fuel the growth of the agriculture equipment market.

Geographically, Asia-Pacific is projected to dominate the agriculture equipment market during the forecast period owing to the rising agricultural activities in China and India. Moreover, rising spending on agricultural activities and continuously increasing population in this region is expected to strengthen the growth of the agriculture equipment market in Asia Pacific. Apart from this, Europe and North America are also projected to seize significant contribution in the global agriculture equipment market.

Escalating World Population

Growing population across the globe has augmented the demand for more food which is imposing pressure to increase the crop yield. Further, the demand for agriculture equipment is multiplying which is projected to flourish the growth of agriculture equipment market over the forecast period. Moreover, rising labor expenses along with insufficient labor supply is also attracting the farmers to invest more on agriculture equipments.  

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Although, high cost associated with agriculture equipment is projected to be one of the major factors hindering the growth of the global agriculture equipment market.      

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@jamie_foy front crooks al 1er intento en la brutal baranda de El Toro!!!😳 se llevó la portada de la última @thrashermag 🤘🏼😎 a esperar ese clip para ver como la logró 💥 [LARUTADELSKATE] #weloveskateboarding #skateboarding #skatepp #thrasher #thrashermag #gamechanger #jamiefoy #pinchpoint (at El TORO)

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15 Marvel Characters You Never Knew Were Mutants

For a number of years, the “X-Men” were so popular that most of Marvel’s highest-selling titles were either “X-Men” or related to “X-Men” in some way (“X-Factor,” “Wolverine,” “New Mutants”/”X-Force,” etc.). It got to the point when characters began to associate with “X-Men” even if they had no connection at all. “Spider-Man” promoted itself as Marvel’s most popular non-mutant. A new “Namor” ongoing series launched by touting him as Marvel’s first mutant. Being a mutant was the thing to be for many years.

RELATED: X-ed Out: 15 Forgotten X-Men

In recent years, things have calmed down a bit, and in fact some characters that were declared to be mutants (like Squirrel Girl, Toro, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver) have turned out to not be mutants. However, there are still plenty of mutants out there that people still don’t know about, especially the much rarer alien mutants. Here, then, are 15 Marvel characters that you probably didn’t know were mutants, ranked in terms of how surprising it is that they are mutants.

MOST OF THE GREAT LAKES AVENGERS

After the Avengers were seemingly killed during Onslaught, the Great Lakes Avengers, a not-quite-affiliated team that Hawkeye tried to whip into fighting shape, decided that they needed to change their name. So they picked the Lightning Rods in honor of the new group of heroes known as the Thunderbolts. Of course, they felt silly when it turned out that the Thunderbolts were criminals. They debated what to call themselves until they realized something important: they were all mutants! Therefore, they called themselves the Great Lakes X-Men for a while before going back to the being the Great Lakes Avengers.

The mutant members of the team are Mister Immortal (who cannot be killed), Doorman (who can teleport people through his body – he died and became a new agent of Death), Flatman (who can stretch) and Big Bertha (who can dramatically increase her size). Squirrel Girl used to be a mutant member of the team, as well, but she recently discovered that she wasn’t a mutant. They recently added a new member, Good Boy, who may or may not be a mutant, as well. Since they literally called themselves X-Men at one point, they’re the least surprising mutants.

DEVIL DINOSAUR

Devil Dinosaur was actually part of a mutant team, it just wasn’t any of the popular mutant teams. Devil Dinosaur, and his best buddy, Moon Boy, were part of the team of mutant outcasts known as the Fallen Angels. That team was formed when Sunspot accidentally nearly killed Cannonball during training. He fled to New York and Warlock followed him. Madrox and Siryn were sent to keep an eye on them and they all ended up caught up in a sort of gang of young mutants led by the Vanisher. They broke free of the Vanisher and formed their own team (but mostly just hung out).

Devil Dinosaur is a mutant due to his intelligence, which is close to that of a human, and possibly his whole red look. Interestingly, in his current series, “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” he’s paired with an Inhuman. See, this shows that mutants and Inhumans can get along!

KRAVEN THE HUNTER (#3)

A few years after Kraven the Hunter took his own life in the classic “Spider-Man” storyline, “Kraven’s Last Hunt,” his son took over the family business, as it were, as the Grim Hunter. For some reason, though, the Grim Hunter was not enough for the “Spider-Man” titles, so they then introduced Kraven’s other son, Alyosha Kravinoff. Alyosha’s mother was a mutant and Alyosha had the mutant power to be basically super-strong, fast and agile like his father. He essentially had the same powers as his dad, only his came from being a mutant while his father got his from potions.

Amusingly enough, Aloysha went through a period where he decided to become involved in producing films. This led to the mini-series, “Get Kraven.” When that was finished, Aloysha went crazy, but eventually he was replaced when his father was resurrected. His father and his sister hunted Aloysha down and killed him.

SILHOUETTE

Silhouette and her brother, Midnight’s Fire, were characters introduced in the pages of “New Warriors.” They were the daughter and son of Andrew Chord, who was the former guardian of Dwayne Taylor. She, her brother and Dwayne were vigilantes together on the streets of New York. She and Dwayne began a romantic relationship. Tragedy struck, though, when she was shot in a police sting gone wrong. She was paralyzed from the waist down. Her brother became a villain and Dwayne became the superhero known as Night Thrasher.

Silhouette trained herself to fight without the use of her legs, using braces to allow herself to get into battle, along with her mutant ability to teleport and also become a living shadow (both were essentially the same powers that Nightcrawler has). She and Night Thrasher became a couple again and she joined the New Warriors. She and Dwayne eventually broke up and she started dating his half-brother, Bandit. She was part of the superhero resistance during Civil War.

WHIRLWIND

One of the most resilient villains in Marvel history, Whirlwind has managed to stick around for decades without being killed, which is a pretty impressive resume for a supervillain. He hits that very small sweet spot in that his mutant ability to spin and create wind vortexes makes him just powerful enough to be worth consideration, yet not powerful enough that he can fight a bunch of superheroes on his own. This has made him the perfect filler supervillain, although efforts have been made over the years to upgrade him (mostly by giving him lots of blades).

Whirlwind is probably the closest that you can come to an arch-rival of the Wasp. He fought her and Giant-Man as the Human Top before taking on the identity of her chauffeur. He grew obsessed with her and even now he remains creepily interested in her. He’s one of the villains who have have served on the most incarnations of the Masters of Evil supervillain team.

SKEIN

Skein is an excellent example of how minor characters can be developed by later writers into more interesting versions of their original selves (that’s basically the calling card of the “Thunderbolts” as a title in general). Skein was the supervillain known as Gypsy Moth, who had strong telekinetic abilities, but she chose to only use her telekinesis on “soft” things like fabric. This way, she could unweave any sort of fabric and then reweave it almost instantly. While a villain of Spider-Woman in Los Angeles, she formed her own sort of sex cult.

After a number of years of being a reliable piece of cannon fodder, she abruptly decided to join up with the Thunderbolts. She changed her name to Skein and fought alongside the good guys for a few years, although it was always clear that she was doing it more because it entertained her than out of any sense of morality. More recently, she has returned to a life of crime, while keeping the Skein name. She famously unraveled Spider-Man’s costume in the first issue of “Amazing Spider-Man” following “Superior Spider-Man.”

BUSHWACKER

Bushwacker is a weird one for this list, as he made his debut early in Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr.’s “Daredevil” run as a killer of mutants. He was a former priest who began to work for the C.I.A. and it was while with the C.I.A. that his body was cybernetically altered so that he could transform his arm into a weapon. He hunted down mutants, claiming that he was paid a lot of money to kill them, but it appeared that it had more to do with some crazed obsession on his part than anything financial.

He became a recurring villain in “Daredevil” and some other titles, like “Punisher” and “Nomad.” However, in the David Lapham miniseries, “Daredevil vs. Punisher,” Bushwacker made a shocking confession. He revealed that the whole “C.I.A. gave me cybernetic implants” story was a lie and that he was actually a mutant himself! He apparently just took self-hating to a whole other level.

SHRIEK

Shriek debuted as part of the popular crossover event “Maximum Carnage,” as the “mother” to Carnage’s “father” in their growing “family” of sociopathic killers that formed the basis of that event, which saw Spider-Man being forced to team up with his former foe, Venom, to stop the even worse criminals. This was an interesting period where Venom had grown so popular that Marvel decided to invent someone so evil that Venom would look like a hero in comparison. So that way they could give Venom his own book and still have a symbiote villain.

It is unclear which of Shriek’s powers are her natural, mutant ones. She has the ability to sense people’s dark emotions and also to know how to fester those dark feelings. She has sound-based powers that let her create concussive blasts or use her abilities as a sonic scream meant to disorient and drive people mad. Some of her powers kicked in when she was trapped in Cloak’s darkforce dimension. Which ones kicked in then are unclear, but what is clear is that she’s one of the few purely evil villains out there.

MENTALLO

Like Whirlwind, Mentallo is one of those rare villains that has survived mostly unscathed for 50 years now (okay, he was once presumed dead a few years back, but that was very brief!), debuting in an early S.H.I.E.L.D. story. Mentallo is also one of the few mutant telepaths on Marvel’s Earth that is not connected with the X-Men in any way, shape or form. Mentallo often teamed up with his friend and colleague, the Fixer, to wage war on S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as take part in various other criminal enterprises.

The Fixer, though, eventually tried to reform as a member of the Thunderbolts. Mentallo, though, kept up his villainy through and through. He started off as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., working for their ESP program before he tried to take over S.H.I.E.L.D. using his telepathy. Rebuffed, he joined up with Hydra and A.I.M. instead. He has even become a fairly high-ranking member of A.I.M. in recent years.

MADAME WEB

Cassandra Webb was born a mutant with tremendous telepathic and precognitive powers. However, she was also born paralyzed and blind. Over time, things got even worse for her physically, as she developed myasthenia gravis, so her husband built her a life support system that she had to remain attached to. She became involved with Spider-Man, using her powers to fill him in on crimes that she could not physically deal with herself. She also revealed that she knew his secret identity due to her telepathy. She was one of the first people to learn Spider-Man’s identity (and not die right after discovering it, that is).

Over time, she regained her vitality but then lost it again. During the “Grim Hunt” storyline, she was murdered and passed on her abilities to Julia Carpenter. It is unclear how she was able to pass along abilities that were hers genetically, but hey, this is comics. She was recently resurrected as part of the “Clone Conspiracy.”

ABIGAIL BRAND

Abigail Brand showed up in Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s acclaimed “Astonishing X-Men” run as the head of S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), a special spin-off of S.H.I.E.L.D. designed to deal with alien threats to Earth. While initially she did not like the X-Men and had no interest in working with them, her feelings changed after getting to know them, especially Hank McCoy, who she began a romantic relationship with (he reminded her of her alien father).

From early on, we knew that Abigail Brand was half-alien/half-human. However, it was not until a number of years into her history as a character, during the “Avengers vs. X-Men” epilogue miniseries “AvX: Consequences,” that we discovered that she was a mutant, as well. Her human mother was a mutant and Abigail inherited her mother’s pyrokinetic abilities. She clearly prefers not to use her mutant abilities if she can avoid doing so, which makes some sense, as she is a very skilled agent, powers or not.

TERRAX

One of the more famous former heralds of Galactus (and one of the few heralds who had no problem with destroying other worlds), the being once known as Tyros was born a mutant on his home planet of Birj. He had the mutant ability to control the stones on his world. When Galactus came to Birj to find a new herald, he chose Tyros and, upon giving him the Power Cosmic, his power of controlling the terrain grew immensely. Now calling himself Terrax, he also gained a powerful cosmic axe.

Like Galactus’ other heralds, even after leaving Galactus’ employ, Terrax was allowed to keep his Power Cosmic, so he is one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy. However, he has mostly chosen to do nothing in particular with his great power. He mostly just likes messing with people and fighting. He is sort of like a cosmic-powered bully in a lot of ways.

SWARM

Swarm is made up of the consciousness of Fritz von Meyer, a Nazi scientist who served Adolf Hitler, and a bunch of bees. The bees were mutated by a meteorite that landed in South America and became super-intelligent. Von Meyer tried to take control of them and they instead turned on him and devoured him. His mind merged with theirs, though, and they formed a bee-creature around his skeleton. In the years since, his skeleton has no longer even been required to form the being known as Swarm.

Now here’s the tricky part: normally, if you get mutated by something like a meteorite, that does not make you a mutant. It makes you a mutate. However, A) bees have such short life spans that we must be dealing with multiple generations of bees in Swarm and B) even if they did not die naturally (like maybe the meteorite let them live longer), we have seen them dissipated before, so there has to be new bees involved. Therefore, by this time, they have to be mutants by now. In addition, in “Sensational Spider-Man” #9, they specifically noted that Onslaught’s mutant energy messed with theirs. So we believe that they count as mutants.

WHIZZER

This one is also controversial. We know what you might be thinking: “Wait a second, I know the Whizzer’s origin! CBR even did a list where they featured his as one of the worst superhero origins of all-time! And he wasn’t a mutant! He got a transfusion of mongoose blood!” And yes, that is true. We did, in fact, feature him on our list of the worst superhero origins of all-time due to the fact that he got his powers from getting a blood transfusion from a mongoose. That’s clearly insane.

However, Roy Thomas later explained away that origin. His new take on the Whizzer’s origin is that the Whizzer was already a mutant with super speed, it was just that the mongoose blood transfusion (or heck, the trauma of the situation period. Imagine needing a mongoose blood transfusion) kick-started the Whizzer’s mutant powers. It is worth noting that the Whizzer’s son, Nuklo, was also a mutant. So it all fits!

THANOS

Yes, the Mad Titan himself, Thanos, is a mutant. He is one of the Eternals who live on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. However, due to a genetic mutation, Thanos came out looking like a Deviant and not an Eternal. This is why he is so big and so ugly while his brother, Starfox, is normal sized and looks like a human.

Despite his freakish appearance, Thanos was accepted by his family, but even at a young age, there was something wrong with him. He was worshiping Mistress Death at far too young of an age. He grew up obsessed with her and as soon as he formed his own family, he then killed them as a tribute to his true love, Death itself. Thanos would grow up to pursue more and more elaborate ways of causing mass fatalities, with his quest culminating in him gaining possession of the Infinity Gauntlet.

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