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Day 1.409 – Lukas
I wonder if he's missed me as much as I've missed him?
Most of the day's spent trying to get organized, re-packing my beloved bike bags for tomorrow's take-off, leaving everything behind that I don't absolutely need, and stocking up on off-bike clothes for my arrival (and first weeks/months?) in Copenhagen.
Being reunited with my old wardrobe anno April 2006 is a feat that cannot be overestimated – and is all part of my on-going process of becoming a "normal" (or less Lycra-clad, at least) citizen again.
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The Full Blast trio of reedist Peter Brotzmann, bassist Mario Piakas and drummer Michael Wertmueller are joined by Ken Vandermark, Thomas Heberer and Dirk Rothbrust for an excellent concert at Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2010.
The Full Blast trio of reedist Peter Brottzman, bassist Mario Piakas and drummer Michael Wertmueller are joined by Ken Vandermark, Thomas Heberer and Dirk Rothbrust for an excellent concert at Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2010.
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"Born Remscheid, Germany on 6 March 1941; soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, a-clarinet, e-flat clarinet; bass clarinet, tarogato.
Peter Brötzmann's early interest was in painting and he attended the art academy in Wuppertal. Being very dissatisfied with the gallery/exhibition situation in art he found greater satisfaction playing with semi-professional musicians, though continued to paint (as well as retaining a level of control over his own records, particularly in record sleeve/CD booklet design). In late 2005 he had a major retrospective exhibition jointly with Han Bennink - two separate buildings separated by an inter-connecting glass corridor - in Brötzmann's home town of Remscheid.
Self-taught on clarinets, he soon moved to saxophones and began playing swing/bebop, before meeting Peter Kowald. During 1962/63 Brötzmann, Kowald and various drummers played regularly - Mingus, Ornette Coleman, etc. - while experiencing freedoms from a different perspective via Stockhausen, Nam June Paik, David Tudor and John Cage. In the mid 1960s, he played with American musicians such as Don Cherry and Steve Lacy and, following a sojourn in Paris with Don Cherry, returned to Germany for his unorthodox approach to be accepted by local musicians like Alex von Schlippenbach and Manfred Schoof.
The trio of Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald and Sven-Ake Johansson began playing in 1965/66 and it was a combination of this and the Schoof/Schlippenbach Quintet that gave rise to the first Globe Unity Orchestra. Following the self-production of his first two LPs, For Adolphe Sax and Machine gun for his private label, BRÖ, a recording for Manfred Eicher's 'Jazz by Post' (JAPO) [Nipples], and a number of concert recordings with different sized groups, Brötzmann worked with Jost Gebers and started the FMP label. He also began to work more regularly with Dutch musicians, forming a trio briefly with Willem Breuker and Han Bennink before the long-lasting group with Han Bennink and Fred Van Hove. As a trio, and augmented with other musicians who could stand the pace (e.g. Albert Mangelsdorff on, for example, The Berlin concert), this lasted until the mid-1970s though Brötzmann and Bennink continued to play and record as a duo, and in other combinations, after this time. A group with Harry Miller and Louis Moholo continued the trio format though was cut short by Miller's early death.
The thirty-plus years of playing and recording free jazz and improvised music have produced, even on just recorded evidence, a list of associates and one-off combinations that include just about all the major figures in this genre: Derek Bailey (including performances with Company (e.g. Incus 51), Cecil Taylor, Fred Hopkins, Rashied Ali, Evan Parker, Keiji Haino, Misha Mengelberg, Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Phil Minton, Alfred 23 Harth, Tony Oxley. Always characterised as an energy player - and the power-rock setting of Last Exit with Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharock and Bill Laswell, or his duo performances with his son, Casper, did little to disperse this conviction - his sound is one of the most distinctive, life-affirming and joyous in all music. But the variety of Brötzmann's playing and projects is less recognised: his range of solo performances; his medium-to-large groups and, in spite of much ad hoc work, a stability brought about from a corpus of like- minded musicians: the group Ruf der Heimat; pianist Borah Bergman; percussionist Hamid Drake; and Die like a dog, his continuing tribute to Albert Ayler, with Drake, William Parker and Toshinori Kondo. Peter Brötzmann continues a heavy touring schedule which, since 1996 has seen annual visits to Japan and semi-annual visits to the thriving Chicago scene where he has played in various combinations from solo through duo (including one, in 1997, with Mats Gustafsson) to large groups such as the Chicago Octet/Tentet, described below. He has also released a number of CDs on the Chicago-based Okka Disk label, including the excellent trio with Hamid Drake and the Moroccan Mahmoud Gania, at times sounding like some distant muezzin calling the faithful to become lost in the rhythm and power of the music.
The "Chicago Tentet" was first organized by Brötzmann with the assistance of writer/presenter John Corbett in January 1997 as an idea for a one-time octet performance that included Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang (drums), Kent Kessler (bass) and Fred Lomberg-Holm (cello), Ken Vandermark and Mars Williams (reeds), and Jeb Bishop (trombone). The first meeting was extremely strong and warranted making the group an ongoing concern and in September of that same year the band was expanded to include Mats Gustafsson (reeds) and Joe McPhee (brass) as permanent members (with guest appearances by William Parker (bass), Toshinori Kondo (trumpet/electronics), and Roy Campbell (trumpet) during its tenure) - all in all a veritable who's who of the contemporary improvising scene's cutting edge. Though the Tentet is clearly led by Brötzmann and guided by his aesthetics, he has been committed to utilizing the compositions of other members in the ensemble since the beginning. This has allowed the band to explore an large range of structural and improvising tactics: from the conductions of Mats Gustafsson and Fred Lonberg-Holm, to the vamp pieces of Michael Zerang and Hamid Drake, to compositions using conventional notation by Ken Vandermark and Mars Williams, to Brötzmann's graphic scores - the group employs almost every contemporary approach to composing for an improvising unit. This diversity in compositional style, plus the variety in individualistic approaches to improvisation, allows the Tentet to play extremely multifaceted music. As the band moves from piece to piece, it explores intensities that range from spare introspection to all out walls of sound, and rhythms that are open or free from a steady pulse to those of a heavy hitting groove. It is clear that the difficult economics of running a large band hasn't prevented the group from continuing to work together since its first meeting. Through their effort they've been able to develop an ensemble sound and depth of communication hard to find in a band of any size or style currently playing on the contemporary music scene."
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"Born in Warwick, Rhode Island on September 22nd, 1964, Ken Vandermark began studying the tenor saxophone at the age of 16. Since graduating with a degree in Film and Communications from McGill University during the spring of 1986, his primary creative emphasis has been the exploration of contemporary music that deals directly with advanced methods of improvisation. In 1989, he moved to Chicago from Boston, and has worked continuously from the early 1990's onward, both as a performer and organizer in North America and Europe, recording in a large array of contexts, with many internationally renowned musicians (such as Fred Anderson, Ab Baars, Peter Brötzmann, Tim Daisy, Hamid Drake, Terrie Ex, Mats Gustafsson, Devin Hoff, Christof Kurzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, Paul Lytton, Andy Moor, Joe Morris, and Nate Wooley). His current activity includes work with Made To Break, The Resonance Ensemble, Side A, Lean Left, Fire Room, the DKV Trio, and duos with Paal Nilssen-Love and Tim Daisy; in addition, he is the music director of the experimental Pop band, The Margots. More than half of each year is spent touring in Europe, North America, and Japan, and his concerts and numerous recordings have been critically acclaimed both at home and abroad. In addition to the tenor sax, he also plays the bass and Bb clarinet, and baritone saxophone. In 1999 he was awarded the MacArthur prize for music."
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"The terror with which twins are regarded in the Niger Delta is exceedingly strange and real ..." Mary Kingsley continues, and it was the desire to fathom some of these bizarre emotions about twinning and twinship, many of which are reproduced - if less savagely - in our culture, that prompted Penelope Farmer, a twin bereaved of her other half, to compile this book. And as the extracts heap up, words as strong as "terror" become amply justified. The strength of feeling - curiosity, wonder and delight, on one side of the equation, disgust, resentment, even horror on the other - is everywhere palpable but never quite explicable. People just can't quite say what is so strange about twins.
It's an enviable state, to outsiders (and everyone else, even the mother, is to some extent an outsider). A twin I know once told me that she didn't understand loneliness. She had never felt it, because even if they weren't together, she knew her twin was in the world. But - and there is always an opposite, with this subject - later relationships can fail to match up, as one contributor says: "There is one problem ... in our adult lives we [twins] expect of our friends and partners what we receive from each other, a relationship that is more profound than between parents and children, most siblings and many couples."
Farmer launches herself autobiographically into the fray, prefacing each themed section of extracts with a mini-essay that is part factual digest and part reminiscence or personal exploration. She draws her material from the Classical era to the present day; prose and poetry, fiction and reportage, fact and fantasy. She takes a wide cultural view, with pieces about Bali, China, France, Germany and elsewhere, and extends her range to "Shadows, Reflections and Other Doubles" as well as alter egos, twin myths and mirrors.
Sometimes her thematic divisions prove confusing - any comment on twins seems to link to so many others that its placement in one section or another becomes arbitrary. For instance, a report on twins born in Bali in the 1930s, an event so distressing to the community that they tore down the birthplace and banished the "unclean" mother and babies, seems logically to belong with the Niger Delta report quoted earlier. But in fact the Bali story appears in a section entitled "Twins as Loved and Lovers", linked to other items on twin incest because the Balinese villagers thought the baby boy and girl were "wrong" to have shared the intimacy of the womb.
Similarly, when Farmer sets out to find passages about twins' sense of intimacy and oneness, she seems most able to prove this by its absence - that is, by loss. Perhaps only the peculiar pain of the separating of the doubled self can bring home to us just how forceful that doubling is. So in "The Nature of Twinship" comes this magnificently strange quote from Mark Twain, no less moving for its jokey style: "My twin and I got mixed up in the bathtub when we were only two weeks old and one of us was drowned, but we don't know which. Some think it was Bill and some think it was me."
Some of the most poignant and mysterious extracts are to do with the death of a twin. Shakespeare's heart-searing lines are well known - "I to the world am like a drop of water / that in the ocean seeks another drop" - and they really encapsulate any bereavement, any loneliness. But beside the agonies of grief, others talk of feelings of relief, of liberation, even of triumph over the dead twin. Just as non-twins are fascinated by doubles, so twins are interesting in being unique. Ise-Margaret Vogel remembers her pride at her father telling her, on the death of her sister: "You are the only one now ." One of the famous "Silent Twins", Jennifer, died on the day the two were released from Broadmoor: "When she died," June told Marjorie Wallace, "I came into my own. She let go of me and I got my life back."
Through quotes like these, as well as through her own contributions, Farmer brings across the harsher realities of twinship: the fights, the competitiveness and resentment, the guilts and jealousies. And she doesn't shirk the freak-show side of things: the Dionne Quints, the Kray twins, and a strong showing of Siamese twins - including a description by Donald Newlove of a young girl having sex with a Siamese pair which verges on pap porn.
Such extracts bring up the question of literary merit in this collection. Despite the scores of great writers, from Stevenson to Tacitus, Shakespeare to Angela Carter, we have to put up with too many duds, whose poor writing was presumably included only for its subject matter. And there are too many repeats: quoting the same source twice or more within a single section is surely to break the unwritten rules of the anthologer's art.
There are other facets, too, of this perpetually intriguing subject that Farmer could have covered more thoroughly. The way in which twins divide the world between them, for instance - if one is good at music, the other will often avoid that and concentrate on sport, say. My twin daughter cannot see why she needs to learn spellings, since she knows her brother knows them; at eight she still regards his mind as an extension of her own. And the siblings of twins, always looking in from outside, might have found a voice - as indeed might the parents. "All of us twins are freaks," Farmer writes, but in fact it is not a rare state. It is, however, one so fascinating that a book such as this could multiply its length endlessly, and she has provided a rich selection for insiders and outsiders alike.
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Bismarck State College (BSC) has established an Office of Innovation as a way to foster a culture of innovation campus wide. These practices can be applied to creating a culturally rich entrepreneurial community as well.
In 2007, we implemented the Office of Innovation with the mission to create a culture of innovation for faculty, staff and students. Innovation at BSC must be employee driven, so it became important to approach this new culture as an organizational change. BSC made changes that were clearly connected to our culture not only in operations, systems, and procedures but it also tied innovation to our campus strategies, values, mission, and vision. We used three talking points to communicate that innovation was part of this cultural change on campus.
This same cultural change approach can be used to incorporate entrepreneurship into your campus and community and our 2013 Coleman Action Grant project is an extension of this in that we are working to Create or Expand Internal & External Teams Dedicated to Entrepreneurship. But before you embark on a series of activities or program you must ask yourself "is your organization ready?" On a continuum, assess whether "your organization wants to be entrepreneurial" on one end to "your organization is entrepreneurial" on the other end. In helping you assess, ask yourself, do you have operations, systems, and procedures that prevent or discourage entrepreneurial behaviors? Or do you have operations, systems, and procedures that encourage or require entrepreneurial behaviors?
If you have operations, systems, and procedures that prevent or discourage entrepreneurial behavior you can begin to change the culture within your organization along four distinct and important levels. At each level you address the ability to "impact" the organization's capability to change culturally. The higher the levels number the more impact the activities will have on the organization. That said, the lower the number the easier it is to implement within the organization with relatively minimal time commitment.
Here's our advice and some potential activities to consider at each level:
Level One: Environment
· Developing goals and measurements specific to operations, policies and procedures that reinforce desired changes.
· Establish a physical environment that reinforces the changes.
Examples include: leadership commitment to entrepreneurship announcement, a "kick off" event and a campus wide project.
Level Two: Work Structure
· Establish an organizational structure that will reinforce operational changes.
· Eliminate rules and policies that hinder performance of new methods and procedures.
· Create new rules and policies that reinforce entrepreneurship activities
Examples include: an operationally "flat" campus, employee empowerment training, implementation of LEAN office, establish a process to bring ideas forward beyond traditional budgeting process.
Level Three: Interpersonal Behaviors
Activities to consider:
· Replace current training with training that reinforces desired behaviors.
· Develop goals and measurements that reinforce the desired behaviors and provide rewards.
· Publicly recognize and reward employees who change.
· Develop new rewards and recognition that reinforce the desired ways of operating.
· Establish ceremonies and events that reinforce new ways of doing things, such as awards ceremonies and recognition events for teams and employees who achieve goals or successfully implement changes.
Examples include: training, a certification program, incorporating expected behaviors into job descriptions and performance reviews, entrepreneurship ceremony with individual and team recognition and awards.
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· Develop new customs and norms that reinforce the new ways.
· Incorporate communication that reinforces the new customs and norms.
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Great find! Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going to work as a stocking stuffer this year. The site says that they are sold out until January.
Certainly not your fault! And I imagine the manufacturer's are kicking themselves that they don't have enough ready for the Christmas rush.
I'll just have to put off giving them out to everyone I know until next year. 🙂
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Sadly it doesn't include the Robertson bit (inaccurately called the "square bit" in the States). A much more robust bit and corresponding screw head. -sigh- Waiting for a Canadian interpretation of this tool I guess.
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- Kosher salt
In a saucepan, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the onion and garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until softened and just starting to brown, 10 minutes. Add the carrot and thyme and cook, stirring, until softened, 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and their juices and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderately low heat, stirring, until thickened and reduced to 5 cups, 30 minutes. Season with salt.


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How to Be Safe from Dust When Drilling Concrete
Posted by Mark Hunter - May 28, 2014
Anyone working on concrete or stone knows how messy a job it is. However, the actual mess the dust from stone or concrete makes isn't the real issue on the job site. It's breathing in the dust that's of concern.
In this guide we'll cover some top tips on how to stay safe and the products you should be using while you work on concrete or stone.
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Why is Concrete Dust Dangerous
Silica is a basic compound - or mineral - found in concrete, concrete blocks, cement or mortar. It's also found in masonry bricks, tiles and asphalt that contains rock or stone. When any of these are cut or drilled it creates a cloud of dust within which contains Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS).
Inhaling this can - and is - very hazardous to your health, and to anyone in the environment where you're working.
According to the Health and Safety Executive:
How to Protect Yourself from Concrete and Stone Dust
As we've already said, silica dust is unavoidable when cutting or drilling into any object that contains silica. Therefore we need to look at the ways to protect ourselves and others from this dust.
It goes without saying that this guide isn't an exhaustive guide to protection against RCS. Everyone should be following the relevant guidelines on RSC control laid out by their employer, site manager and health safety bodies.
1. Use Proper PPE
When drilling or chipping concrete or stone a good quality dust mask will help protect you from the fine dust particles created. When choosing one, look for a mask that actively filters the air you're breathing, preferably through a HEPA filter.
2. Use a Dust Extractor When Possible
If the power tool you're using to work on the stone, brick or concrete comes with a dust extraction port, hook it up to an "M Class" dust extractor unit, such as the Dewalt DWV902M or the Makita 447M.
The importance of having an "M Class" vacuum or dust extractor on site with you can't be overestimated. These are rated "M" due to the type of very fine dust, such as created by stone or concrete, that it traps. This helps minimise as much as possible the release of dust into the air while you work.
But the potential downside of this tip is that not all power tools are fitted with dust extraction ports. This is especially true when using a heavy hammer drill to chisel or drill.
Protecting Yourself When Chipping or Drilling Concrete or Stone with a Drill
3. Attach a Dust Extraction Kit to Your Drill
Two power tool manufacturers in particular are taking the need to minimise the production of harmful RSC while you work very seriously.
We've seen Bosch and Makita launch dust extraction kits that are designed to fit onto your drill to remove the dust as its being created. Both claim that their kits present you with a virtually dust-free environment while you drill or chisel.
Makita for a while has had DX02 Dust Extraction Unit available for use on its BHR243 3 mode rotary hammer drill. The effectiveness of this filter can be seen in this video we made for Toolstop TV (click here).
The DX02 benefits from a HEPA filter which is regarded as the ultimate filtration system for collecting the tiniest of harmful dust particles, efficient to around 99.75%.
This is a great solution for anyone using the cordless Makita BHR243 and its an accessory we'd love to see the other manufacturers developing for use on their hammers, especially as it slots directly onto the hammer drill and allows you to reduce the release of harmful dust when you simply can't be hooked up to a dust extractor.
Bosch has a similar product on the market, supplied with its corded GSB19-2REA 900W Impact Drill, which you can learn more about here.
We asked Bosch to demonstrate how well this filter system works, you can see this demo on Toolstop TV by clicking here.
And another great product for handling dust is the Bosch GDE162 adaptor which is designed for use on all drilling tools, core cutters in particular.
It even allows for adequate dust extraction during wet drilling, and it doesn't add any weight to your already hefty drill.
We've got more on this type of solution below.
4. Attach a Dust Extractor to your Dust Extraction Kit
Lately both Bosch and Makita have launched products that combine the power of an "M Class" dust extractor/vacuum with the ability to attach a filter system directly to your power tool. This creates the perfect solution to minimising the dust released into the air when drilling or chipping stone, brick or masonry.
Both products are designed to slot onto your hammer drill, catching the harmful silica dust as its being created, then drawing it down into the "M Class" filtered vacuum cleaner/dust extraction unit.
The Bosch GDEMAX Professional Dust Extraction Adaptor is specifically designed to eliminate the production of dust during chiselling application. The very nature of chiselling, whereby the surface is bashed and hammer, creates lots of dust, but Bosch claims the GDEMAX will provide you with a "virtually dust-free" environment. It fits all current models of SDS Max hammers from Bosch and it compatible with bits up to 600mm.
We asked Eric from Bosch to show us how it works, watch his demo here on Toolstop TV.
When connected to one of Bosch's "M Class" vacuums, the dust extraction process starts as soon as the hammer drill is activated. And you can see how effective it is in our video above; there's virtually no fine dust particles escaping as Eric chiselled into the concrete block.
Makita has a similar product available now called the 195866-2 Dust Extractor Attachment Set which is designed for their range of SDS max hammers. Again the principle applies that it fits onto your power tool, capturing the dust at the very point that its being generated, then extracting the dust down into the "M Class" vacuum cleaner.
The outlet hose can be strapped onto your hammer drill via the supplied velcro strap and it all fits securely in place due to the integrated side grip.
Thankfully our favourite power tool manufacturers are taking the risks of RCS seriously. It's great to see more and more kits coming onto the market to deal with dust as its being generated.
We want to hear how you're dealing with the risk of silica dust in the workplace, tell us in the comments below.
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Matt Hubert on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 05:45:58 +0000 (Likes: 0 / Dislikes: 0
I was not knowing that concrete drilling dust is so harmful to our health. But your article described great points on how to protect yourself from concrete dust and drilling dust. Thanks for the detailed article.


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Sometime last week, I went out late in the evening to buy few things remaining in the shopping list. The last item required was idly batter. I rushed to a near by shop and picked one and rushed into the waiting auto. When I reached home I realized that I picked a different brand and it was not ID brand.
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Who'll Stop the Rain? Rick Perry's Pals, That's Who.
Rick Perry wasn't able to seize private property and build a Spanish toll road four football fields wide from Mexico to Oklahoma. He's probably not going to get away with making academic research illegal. But his legacy may be even bigger.
By the time he's done being our governor, Perry may have sold the rain.
On the 25th of this month the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will begin hearings on an application that would give the Brazos River Authority ownership of virtually every drop of rainfall in its territory not already allocated to another permit-holder.
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Sold. The. Rain. That's what we're talking about. You think that's crazy? Nobody can sell the rain? I ask you to keep one of Perry's own words in mind.
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The Brazos River Authority, a quasi-public water development entity whose territory reaches from New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, is asking the state to give it perpetual control over every remaining drop of unallocated water in its domain, equal to almost twice the amount of water used by the Dallas metropolitan area in a year.
The BRA application also seeks permission to use the Brazos River as a large pipe to transport water from the BRA's 11 reservoirs and for water purchased from providers in other watersheds.
Opponents of the BRA application say it's a dangerous foot in the door for water districts all over the state. If the BRA gets what it wants from the TCEQ, every other water provider in Texas will line up right behind the BRA in Austin demanding the same deal.
Until now, if you want to dam up the rain or draw it out of a lake or stream, you have to get a permit from the state. It's the state's job to make sure you're not screwing somebody else downstream who needs it and had rights to it first.
Ed Lowe, president of Friends of the Brazos, a group opposing the BRA permit request, says the precedent that could be set on the Brazos would have a radical effect on the nature of water rights.
"If you're an orchard owner," Lowe says, "and you want to get a water right to water your orchard, you couldn't go to the TCEQ any more under the terms of the proposed permit. You would have to enter into a contract and buy the water from BRA."
Lowe, an owner of Celebration Restaurant in Dallas, owns a place on the Brazos, and is active in paddling and conservation activities statewide. He believes Texas rivers already are suffering from an over-aggressive hawking of water as a commercial product.
"There are some studies that indicate that the low flows that result from all of the water being sold are resulting in golden algae blooms which kill all the fish in the lakes, in the rivers and everywhere.
"Our feeling is that the BRA is less than trustworthy and that their main reason for being is to sell water."
The Brazos River Authority bristles at two things — at being characterized as a water seller and at the idea there's something wrong with being a water seller.
"As a water district we go back to 1929 when we were established by the Legislature," says Bech Bruun, the BRA's government and customer relations manager. "Our job as set forth by the Legislature is to manage and develop water in the basin."
That means selling water, Bruun says. "We go forth and get water permitted so that we can then put it to 'benefical use.'"
He says beneficial use is a legal term in Texas water law: "It means to sell it to municipalities for people to drink and for industries to put to use in power plants."
He says the BRA operates under a board appointed by the governor and does what the Legislature wants it to do. "To imply that we are some sort of private water marketer that is trying to go out and sell water on the open market is a little bit of a stretch and misstating what exactly our mission is.
"It's kind of like we're the bad guy for going out and selling water, and the flip side is, that's exactly what we were established to do."
But here's the Perry wrinkle. Under state law, water districts have always applied for permits to hold and sell water only after they have demonstrated that somebody needs or will soon need it. Say the BRA does a study and finds that Waco is going to grow by 30 percent in the next 20 years. It goes to the TCEQ and says, "Hey, Waco is going to need more water. We want a permit to divert and store that water so we can sell it to them."
That was the old way. Here's the new: With its permit application, the BRA is saying, "Give us all the water rights first. Later we'll let you know if we've found somebody who needs it."
That's taking the surface water out from under the TCEQ process, basically, and turning ownership of it over to the BRA in advance, in perpetuity, so that nobody else can get it.
Both the board of the BRA and the TCEQ commissioners are Perry appointees. Otherwise, there would not be much to worry about here. Last spring in Austin the BRA and its opponents, including conservation groups, Dow Chemical and agricultural interests, presented more than two weeks of evidence before a state administrative law judge. Some time later the judge issued a ruling — in effect a recommendation to the TCEQ — that the BRA application be denied.
Rick Lowerre, an attorney representing Friends of the Brazos, says, "Essentially the BRA said, 'Give us this water, and we will surely be able to use it and sell it over the next 50 years.
"It's basically speculation or what I call banking of water. They take over the role of deciding who gets water in the future, and instead of it being a benefit to the public it's whoever has the most money."
Lowerre was gratified, of course, when the judge ruled Lowerre's way. "The judge recommended denial or in the alternative sort of abating everything and letting BRA try again."
But now it goes before the three Perry appointees on the TCEQ commission, who are not bound by the judge's recommendation. Bruun says his understanding is that TCEQ staff will recommend to the commissioners they rule in favor of the BRA.
This is the same TCEQ staff and commission that mishandled federal clean air requirements so egregiously that the regional director of the EPA removed them from clean air management in Texas and took it over himself. That act, of course, put the EPA on the now famous list of federal agencies Perry plans to abolish if elected president.
Bryan W. Shaw, chairman of the commission and a Texas A&M professor, displayed his credentials as steward of the environment by lending full-throated support to Perry's anti-EPA jihad. Buddy Garcia, the second commissioner, put his shoulder to this same wheel. Carlos Rubinstein was a TCEQ staffer for 16 years before being elevated to the commission.
Of course, there is a theoretical possibility that the commissioners will review the findings of the judge and the evidence and find it persuasive. There is also the fact that the opponents of the BRA application have political allies. They are hopeful an array of public and commercial entities may bring pressure on the commission to honor the judge's recommendation.
I just worry we're all going to walk outside one day after a prolonged dry spell when a blessed downpour finally falls from the sky to soothe the parched earth, and the only thing we'll be able to say is, "Oops. Guess that's not ours anymore."
Talk about a legacy. The only thing bigger would be if Perry could sell the air.
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Vengeance Lyrics
Artist: New Model Army
Album: Vengeance
Escaped the net in '45, hiding out in South America
Protected by money and powerful friends
Hoping the world has forgotten by now
All the things that you did in the Nazi Death camps
The people that you tortured and killed
You can live you life in expectant fear
Sure some day you'll be made to pay
I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard
Man walks over dressed in flashy clothes
With an empty heart and a head full of money
Puts his arm around the lad of fifteen years
Talks sort of close like a long-lost brother
"It's really cool, all the pop stars do
If you don't try a little you'd really be a fool
Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free
And when you want some more just come back to me"
[Alternative version of second verse:]
Loading up the barrels at the warehouse gates
Men in overalls on double rates
Put the stuff in the river and away for a beer
Don't worry too much, they don't live around here
And the poison seeps into every pore
Every child's eyes, every innocent's sore
Everybody knows behind the closed doors
Kick down the doors, kick down the doors
I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard
Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner
Plants poison where there was just confusion
Walks away scot-free and laughing
Rides on the tide as the cancer grows
And the business man on corruption charges
With millions of dollars in dirty money
Gets a thousand pound fine after months in court
While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought
I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard
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We've moved!
After weeks of packing, condensing, organizing, and trying to prepare for the big day it is now behind us and all our of stuff is currently sitting in boxes in our new place (or in my car, still)
Sunday and Monday night we were at the Queen Anne apartment spackling, touching up paint, vacuuming and cleaning every last nook and cranny.
And you know what I've learned in all this?
No matter how organized you think you are, you're still going to wind up throwing a wayward shoe you found under the bed, a half-used bottle of shampoo, a too-late discovered library book and a box of spaghetti all in one box.
And, no matter how clean you think you are, you'll still find dirt in the windowsill and spatters on the stove.
That's life. Messy, dirty, and at the end of the day further under your fingernails than you're comfortable with.
Here's a couple shots during the pack up.
Roy would not stop itching a hot spot on his tummy and I got so fed up with him I put a t-shirt on him.
He wears it well.
Friday evening Matt and I headed over to the New Place, signed the lease, did a quick walk through and unloaded our first batch of stuff. Mostly fragile stuff that I get nervous and fidgety about when I think of it riding in a Budget truck or important stuff that we'll need right away.
So basically, our china and the toilet paper.
so nice and clean! (for now)
And here's Mr. Matt helping pack up the kitchen...or something like that.
Friday evening Matt and I headed over to the New Place, signed the lease, did a quick walk through and unloaded our first batch of stuff. Mostly fragile stuff that I get nervous and fidgety about when I think of it riding in a Budget truck or important stuff that we'll need right away.
So basically, our china and the toilet paper.
so nice and clean! (for now)
Saturday morning dawned bright and clear, thank goodness. Our ever-so-appreciated friends Stephanie and Peter turned up and with their help we began moving our stuff from the apartment to the hall, from the hall to the elevator, and from the elevator to the truck.
Stephanie and I began the day upstairs tying up loose ends, but one trip down to the truck after a "It's getting full" from Matt told us we were more needed there.
We love our men, we really do, but for whatever reason their packing skills...well...are a bit lacking. You want a computer fixed? Peter's your guy. What kind of jacket do you need to scale Everest? Matt's your man. Both can carry massive loads without so much as a grunt, but ask them to play Tetris and they might have some issues.
The "almost full" 16' Budget truck had almost no floor space left, but things were only stacked a box or two high...
Enter Stephanie.
In ten minutes items were wedged and moved and rearranged to clear up half the truck space and pack everything in for a nice, cozy ride. She should seriously consider a career as a moving van packer, because she did an amazing job!
By two-ish we were starving, tired, and ready to head south. Stephanie and Peter headed off to Costco to grab lunch and Matt and I were off to the new place.
Now, you may be wondering in all this hullabaloo where the Roy Boy was.
My dog went skiing while we sweat and grunted and moved our stuff. Matt's friend John took his dog Cooper and our Roy up to the mountains and they would hike up a mountiain and while John skiied down Roy took full advantage of his webbed paws and ran/slid downhill.
As John said, "Roy is so much better behaved after an hour of running through the snow!"
At the new place, after a quick lunch and a promise for the zillionth time to Steph and Peter that we'd return to Queen Anne to visit (I promise!), we began the process of unloading. Mark and Sara--the couple who own the house--graciously helped us out and the unload process went much faster than the loading process!
And that's when you pour your wine in a dixie cup, pop a squat on the floor since there's no couch and listen to the rain fall. And did it EVER fall! Not on moving day, thank the good Lord. But Sunday and Monday we had a downpour like I've never seen!
Monday I was home with a migraine (guess I should mention I had it since Saturday morning...ah the joys of eating unhealthy and getting no sleep), and realized the rain was getting louder and louder.
Then I looked outside.
That's all for now folks. Stay tuned for the next update, "In the Land of Two Names."


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Mustang Fastback Junked!!
Hey everyone. I have another case of sad news from the junkyard.
I was at Lakeside Auto Salvage in Carter Lake Iowa, right by Omaha Neb., and saw that someone decided a 1972 factory 4 speed fastback Mustang wasn't worth anything and decided to scrap it for probably 100 bucks. It was rough but savable. Still had the four speed intact as well as the block, a small block, It was dark green and had a GT hood. The floors were cut out and sheet metal was laid down. The rear quarters were rusted about 2" up and the only interior left was one bucket seat, the shifter, and the dash. I asked the owner if they sold cars out of there and he said no. But then he asked which one was I interested in. I said guess. He said the Mustang. I said yeah. He said he could let that one go for $1200 or It'll be crushed in two weeks! $1200! This guy's nuts! No one is going to pay that for a car I'm sure he scammed an old lady out of for $50 to get it off her lawn! So it looks like one more part of American history is going to be turned into a pile of toasters.
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Sounds to me like there was still alot of good parts left on the car. Cole
I totaly agree with you eric, exactly what i was thinking also i would have bought it also, its a shame to let all those good parts go down that way. Cole
Well if an enterprising 19 year old guy like 58lincoln can learn from that experience, then what he'd do is figure out how to be the guy paying 50 and threatening to crush the car or ransome it off for 1200....instead of the one who wishes he got that deal...
Just think of how many cars that junkyard guy pays 50.00 for and does not sell. How much does it cost to run a junkyard? AND make a living at it.. I know a guy who scours craigslist, newspapers, knocks on doors to ask about cars that are sitting on the side of someones house. He deals in mustangs, comets torinos etc .He gets a deal sometimes, then parts the thing out or offs it whole...it's not a 10 minute job to drag it home, take it apart, try to sell all the parts at swapmeets etc. No matter how much you surround yourself with things from the past, you are still in the present. Later, mikey
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Mustangs 1964-1973 generally bring at least $500 for a buildable shell around me. at least $2k for a complete V8 car and at least $2,500 for 1 that runs.. sounds like $1,200 would be about right for a car like that.... also note that many junkyards cannot sell whole vehicles ( tax breaks and such ) so by offering 1 for sale, there bending the rules for you
Doesn't sound like too bad of the deal The whale body stangs were never my cup of tea,but they have grown on me in the past year or so,and the price has been going up on them. If it has a title it's mostlikely worth saving
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Its still there if you guys want the phone number I can give it to you. I am gonna offer the guy a few hundred bucks next week because the way I see it it's either he makes $100 scrapping it or I can give him $300 the way it is. His choice. Otherwise screw it, yeah it sucks, but I have way too many friggin projects the way it is. No one around here is gonna buy it for $1200. The dude also has a shed full of mid 70's truck 454's that he wnts 2 grand a pop for. My buddy just bought one from a newspaper ad for $450 that runs.
Sadly 2 grand is about the going rate for big blocks around here too, heck the 406 that I'm building has close to 3 grand or so in parts and machinework.
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I guess everything is overpriced anymore. I can get a 402 though from another junkyard near here though for 500. Like every car I've ever had I guess there are deals out there. 69 Nova-$75. 76 Running Nova- $150. 66 Driving Chevy pickup- $325. 86 Grand Wagoneer- $125 & an 18 pack of "soda". Last but certainly not least- My 58 lincoln- $800. What I paid.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Just told a buddy about it. He went down to look at it. They dont have a title. Looked underneath. The frame is rusted bad on the rear. And I didn't state this before but the grille and front bumper are gone, the rear is damaged slightly but not bad and the back bumper is rusted and bent. He took pictures so I will upload them shortly.- Alex. Last edited by 58lincoln; 07-05-2009 at 06:02 PM. |
Mustangs of that vintage are often too far along to be much more then parts cars, sadly enough. Their rot is usually more then skin deep, especially in rust belt areas. Torque boxes, front and rear, front and back window frames, door frames, floor boards, rocker panels and often even fire walls and trunk lid frames and of course trunk floors. It would have to be a labor of love for a car like that which might have a history - personal, relative or some other special person or even be a rare model - unfortunately, most are not and are a regular run 4spd SBF Mustang
Now, since I've said that, and if after a really good exam, you find that it really doesn't have terminal rot in those areas, maybe for a right price.....tho $1200 from a junky sounds too high. Dave W
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Thank you Dave.
Called down there today, still there, the guy said it'll be there for awhile yet , don't think anything has been taken off of it since I've been down there last, I'm giving you guys the number and the location is easy to find even if you haven't been there before.
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By Alicia Sokolowski From: Brooklyn, NY Apr 18, 2011 |
I think this route is kind of a one move wonder, and that one move is really hard. The rest of the route is 5.7 at best. The bottom (hard part) is interesting enough. |
By gblauer From: Wayne, PA Sep 22, 2012 |
One move wonder. It's a technical, balancey move particularly for a shorty. Once you make the move the climb backs way down. |
By Brandon S From: Weehawken, NJ Oct 30, 2013 |
I agree with the "one move wonder" comments regarding difficulty. But the climb has great movement throughout. Definitely a worthwhile climb. |
By kenr Jul 19, 2014 |
Interesting crux sequence. Worthwhile as top-rope with directional from Laurel anchor bolts. (Not surprisingly, much more difficult if much shorter than 5ft7in / 170cm with normal reach.) |
By Jay Harrison Nov 6, 2014 rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b R |
Historical Footnote: Bob Gilmore is 5'9", which makes that reach pretty desperate...but he has a mythological wingspan of 6'6", putting that key crimp well within his grasp. Better known for his FA of The Sliding Board with Willie Crowther, Bob also explored a few Adirondack crags back in the day. |
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Thanks for the note, Jay. I'm 5'6+" with a negative ape index, and .... yeah, harder than 5.9. |


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Convert Rss feeds to csv files
I need a piece of script that will take ebay rss feeds based on keyword and convert them too a 2 column csv file.
All the feeds are in the same format, so should be quite simple.
THe script will need to work with multiple feeds, converting one at a time and returning a csv file for each..
Here is an example of the feed
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They're two of the hottest performers in the world and wherever they go, women swoon! Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull are rolling through Texas in the next week so I thought I'd share the tour dates and some of my favorite videos to get you in the mood!
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Green way to clean computers
Published On: Sun, Sep 4th, 2011 | Environment | By BioNewsScientists have come up with "green" solutions to remove digital waste from computers.
For instance, old or rarely used files deplete precious storage space, bog down a computer's efficiency and sap its energy.
Trash management methods could point the way to a new era of computer cleansing, the arXiv (pronounced as 'archive') website reports.
Johns Hopkins University scientists Ragib Hasan and Randal Burns are applying real world trash management methods to clean computers.
Hasan and Burns have devised a five-tier pyramid of options – reduce, reuse, recycle, recover and dispose – according to a Hopkins statement.
"If you have too much waste data in your computer, your applications may slow down because they don't have the space they require," Hasan said.
How then can such clutter be curbed?
Reduce: The most preferred option is to cut back on the amount of waste data that flows into a computer. This can be done by encouraging software makers to design their programs to leave fewer unneeded files behind.
Reuse: If two programmes are found to utilize identical modules, one might be eliminated in a process called "data deduplication."
Recycle: Just as discarded plastic can be refashioned into new soda bottles, some files could be re-purposed. When old software is about to be removed, the computer could retain useful pieces of the program.
Recover: Even when waste data can't be reused or recycled, these leftovers might yield information worth studying after private identification details are removed.
Dispose: This is the least desirable option and the messiest, when you consider the energy used to completely eliminate old files or the real-world pollution created when one destroys an old hard drive or other form of storage media.
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Spain's national side achieved the Triple Crown and thereby write themselves into the history books of world football. The side managed by Vicente del Bosque, and previously by Luis Aragonés, has won three championships – the European Championship in 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, all in a row. No other national side has ever achieved this.
Germany came close in the 1970s. The then West Germany side won the European Championship in 1972 and the World Cup in 1974. Then in 1976 came the historic opportunity… but Czechoslovakia beat the Germans in the final on penalties.
France has also come close to the triple, winning the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship in 2000, but in the Japan and Korea World Cup in 2002, they fell in the first stages.
La Roja laid the foundations in 2008. A unique generation of footballers arrived in Austria and Switzerland with the idea of bringing about a radical change by means of touch and good play. The final against Germany was the best example of a system which from that moment on was going to be respected.
At the South Africa World Cup Spain once again left everyone open-mouthed, and Xavi, Iniesta, Casillas and co. brought Spain a trophy which they had never lifted up to the skies. The triple has been completed in Poland and the Ukraine.
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We spend our whole lives talking about teams. We start playing pee-wee soccer and baseball at four or five, and our team association never ends. Schools have sports teams, math teams, and debate teams. We pick college and professional sports teams that we follow devotedly.

When we land in a job, we are also in teams. Basically, a team is any group of people organized to work together interdependently and cooperatively to accomplish a purpose or a goal.

A sports team wants to win, of course. A business team also wants to win - but its winning is not as clear-cut as that of a sports team. How does a team win? By accomplishing what the team has set out to accomplish.

Teams are created for both long term and short term interaction. A product development team, an executive leadership team, and a departmental team are long lasting planning and operational groups. Their way of winning is to continue to produce quality work and provide continued value to the company.

They can accomplish their value through strong sales (in the case of a sales team), or through reducing costs (such as an HR team that works to reduce turnover).

Short term teams might include a team to develop an employee onboarding process, a team to plan the annual company party, or a team to respond to a specific customer problem or complaint.

These short-term teams win by accomplishing their goals. Was the company party a success? Is the new onboarding process better than the old one?

What Size Team Is Optimum for Work Performance?

The team size that is optimum for team performance is a topic much researched and debated. The problem is that you need to consider a number of factors when determining optimum team size.

Factors that affect optimum team size include:

the purpose for which you formed the team,

the expectations you have of the team and its members,

the roles that the team members need to play,

the amount of cohesiveness and interconnectivity necessary for optimal team performance, and

the function, activities, and goals of the team.

So, optimum team size is not an easy answer. From experience and research, the optimum team size is 5-7 members. The team size that continues to function effectively is 4-9 members. Teams are known to function cohesively with a size up to 12 members.

If you seek effective input, the optimal team size ranges from more than 2 up to 18-20 members, but these individuals are not expected to form a cohesive, highly interconnected team.

It is much more likely that teams of a large size form sub-teams and working groups to accomplish the actual work of a project. These larger groups are effective, as examples, for strategic planning input, overall project communication, building support for an idea, and so forth.

Common Teams in Organizations

Three common types of teams include functional or departmental, cross-functional, and self-managing.

Functional or Departmental Teams

Groups of people from the same work area or department who meet on a regular basis to analyze customer needs, solve problems, provide members with support, promote continuous improvement, and share information.

These are the teams we're probably the most familiar with in the workplace. We may not even use the term team but instead say department but it's really a team. They work together to accomplish a goal.

Working together doesn't necessarily mean that there is constant interaction between team members. For example, in an employee relations team, you may have seven employee relations specialists who support seven different departments (or other teams).

They may work very independently. But, a good team shares successes to help team members build best practices. A good team also shares failure so that the other team members can learn and help develop solutions.

Cross-Functional Teams

Groups of people who are pulled together from across departments or job functions to deal with a specific product, issue, customer problem, or to improve a particular process are cross-functional teams. These are often teams with a specific goal with an end date.

For instance, a company may put together a team to handle a layoff. This team would consist of representatives from Human Resources, Finance, Legal, the Executive Team, and employees from affected areas. They work closely together to develop a plan that works best for the company.

Each person comes with a different responsibility and a needed contribution. For instance, legal is concerned with compliance, finance is concerned with budgets, and HR wants to ensure that the best people are retained.

Self-Managing Teams

Groups of people who gradually assume responsibility for self-direction in all aspects of work are called self-managing teams. Some teams, of course, have a manager who rules with an iron fist, but self-managing teams work together to reach a goal without a great deal of oversight.

These teams are extremely effective when you have capable, independent workers on the team. They often report their findings or progress to a boss or team lead, but that boss doesn't necessarily participate actively in the team.

Conclusion

Teamwork always existed in workplaces, but the emphasis on approaching problem solving, process improvement, and accomplishing goals with a group of employees, the team, originated in the late 1920s and 30s.

The research of Elton Mayo in the Hawthorne studies examined what happened to a workplace group under various conditions. They determined that the most significant factor in success was the building of a sense of group identity. Find out more about the history of teams.

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xkcd Password Generator
It may seem counter-intuitive to have a plain English passphrase instead of a t0tta11y l337 password, but what it comes down to is how many bits of entropy you can generate while not following any predictable patterns.
Lifehacker has a great article explaining why old password tricks aren't working anymore with the amount of raw computing power available today.
If you're lazy and you want to make use of the XKCD passphrase method above, you can always lean on a passphrase generator.
My favorite combination is using LastPass along with its support for two-factor authentication. For those of you unfamiliar with two-factor authentication, the way it's implemented with LastPass (and Google, if you enable it), is that a random number is generated that needs to be entered in after you provide your passphrase. This random number can either be SMS'ed to you or you can view it using the Google Authenticator app. That random number rotates every 15 or so seconds. It's a little cumbersome, but in order for somebody to gain access to websites I use, they would need to know my LastPass passphrase AND physically have my iPhone.
Be safe, everyone!
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This is extremely nerdy, but I'd be a liar if I didn't want to get some friends together and play this simulator.
From the website:
What is Artemis?
Artemis is a multiplayer, multi-computer networked game for Windows computers.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the "main screen", while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Engineering, and Weapon Control.
Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room ("bridge") , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle, doesn't have a workstation, and tells everyone what to do.
Artemis is a software game for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
My favorite bit from the FAQs:
Q: Why can't my crew play over the internet, using some voice chat software?
A: I always wanted the players to be in one room together, just like a spaceship bridge. I want the captain to be able to push the helmsman aside and shout "Full power, DAMN you!!!" BUT, as a veteran game developer, I recognize that players play my game the way THEY like, not the way I like. V1.1 optimized the network code, and a server option that lets you adjust the network update speed, so Artemis plays across the internet just fine.
Artemis | Spaceship Bridge Simulator
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What an amazing feat of handcraftsmanship!
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I'm a sucker for elaborate contraptions—especially ones that involve themes that are near and dear to my heart.
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Great use of technology, timing, and sleight of hand, though I wouldn't exactly label it as "magic."
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Leica Lenses Sliced in Half For Science!
Pictured above is a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm lens cut neatly in half. Call it death of a lens. I call it an interesting display on the intricate mechanical workings of a camera lens.
These were actually made by Leica students as a graduation project and boxed as a "cutaway model" of the lens.
This also gives you a good mental image of what you can potentially break if/when you drop your lens.
Thanks for the link, David!
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Vi Hart is my hero. This is how you make math fun to learn.
Her YouTube videos went viral and now she is being featured in the New York Times.
Bravo, Vi… Bravo.
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If you are writing an informal letter or email to someone who will be visiting in December with a group of people, yes. In a more formal context, you could use:
- I hope to see you all in December.
- I am looking forward to seeing you all in December.
The only thing that sounds a little unnatural is the use of "looking forward to" with "hopefully". The former sounds as if a fairly concrete plan is in place, but adding "hopefully" makes it sound less certain.
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New Adress : Nakanoshima Daibiru,Room 802, 3-3-23, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-6108 Tel 81-(0)6-7711-5801 Fax 81-(0)6-7711-5811
Isolite has acquired ISO 14001 certification as a total system following the prior individual basis acquisitions by plant by plant.
Isolite has issued an alert for the Isolite customers in China warning that there are false Isolite products being distributed by people who have no right to use the name of Isolite, or sell Isolite products.