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We are home with the phone for some time. Glance images and free wallpaper inputs from the web are paid for by advertisers. I will not be looking for a new car or a new girlfriend any time soon. I make my own images, email them in batches to my phone and have something different and slightly unexpected that I find inspiring every time I open my phone. If you would like to share on mobile and screen capture or download any of the hundreds of mobile wallpapers in my albums you are welcome to do that. Take care. We are in this world together, and none of us know what to do.
For a 200 or so ad'free miscellaneous phone images see the album at flickr.com/photos/jacobs_ian/albums/72157711897629218
3d illustration of the design of the ambience hallway in brown colors with white furniture. White door on the output or input.
Okay so, heres the thing, I'm not sure what I should do here, cause this board, it's gonna be big, almost 4 feet by 4 feet, and seeing as I terribly like big immersion type terrain, but that means it's gonna get pretty expensive, For example, that one little mountain range is 235 2x4 bricks, at .15cents a brick it's 35$ about, and this being more of a bad lands tye terrain board, that's going to be far from the only rocky outcropping, and while I had some other stuff planned, you can already see the walls of a supply depot kind of thing I was planning, I wanted there to be a fair amount of tall-ish rocky outcroppings, so either I gotta bite the bullet and spend 150-200$ on Tan Bricks, find a better way of doing said rocky outcroppings, or come up with a better/different idea/theme for the board.
Thoughts? I've love to hear some feed back, even if you don't know what Mobile Frame Zero is!
EDIT: just to be clear, it's not about the amount of money, as much as just spending it efficiently, I don't mind the idea of dropping 150$ on just the bricks, because not only would it help to flesh out this board, but later on as I start to incorporate things like slopes, extra coloring and plates for more variation and such it'd free up more of the bricks to be used in more terrain, it's like a large upfront investment that pays off long term. but I don't want to just jump on that because it's the first thing I thought of either.
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Persistent pelvic floor pain can be difficult to endure.
Pelvic floor dysfunction issues can range between hyperactivity to pelvic organ prolapse. The result of both cases can lead to painful and embarrassing symptoms for both men and women. In this article, I will address helpful exercises and stretches that help free you of painful symptoms and aid in restoring pelvic floor and core function. To be clear, stretching is just one type of input into the pelvic floor system and is not the only thing you should do for a tight / tense pelvic floor. Downtraining your pelvic floor will require a variety of loads and inputs, stretching is one important one.
Symptoms of Tight Pelvic Floor Muscles
When addressing tight pelvic floor muscles or pelvic floor pain, there are a few symptoms that are common between men and women suffering from POP or a weakened pelvic floor. These can include symptoms such as:
Rectal pain
Vaginal pain
Penile pain
Testicular pain
Labia pain
Pelvic pain
Lower back pain
Pain during intercourse
Difficulty with bowel movements
Painful orgasms
Abdominal pain
Pain while urinating
Incontinence
Dealing with these symptoms can be embarrassing and prolonged suffering can result in a host of other issues. The goal with movement programs like Restore Your Core, is to help you overcome these painful symptoms while encouraging proper core and pelvic floor engagement on a daily basis. Below are a few of the techniques, exercises, and stretches I teach my clients in my program.
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How to Stretch Pelvic Muscles
There are several ways you can properly stretch and engage your pelvic floor in order to reduce pelvic floor tension . One of the most beneficial and important techniques that I teach my clients is 3-D breathing – a pattern of breathing that uses the rib cage expansion rather than belly expansion for an effective and efficient strategy.
One of the key elements in resolving pelvic floor dysfunction and POP is breathing mechanics. In Restore Your Core, I spend a significant amount of time teaching my clients proper breathing mechanics. Often people don’t realize the way they breathe impacts the integrity of their core and pelvic floor. Yet, most of us do not even realize easily we can fall into improper breathing patterns.
Most people are belly breathers. This means that while inhaling, they’re extending their abdomen – focusing the tension in their belly. An Illustration of this would look like filling an oval-shaped balloon with water and squeezing the top creating a bulge. The exact same thing happens when you belly breathe. Bulging your gut strains your core and pelvic floor by increasing intra-abdominal pressure. This tends to cause muscle and organ damage in those regions. Our pelvic floor is not designed to handle a lot of consistent pressure and stress.
I spend a lot of my time with clients training them to 3-D breathe. 3-D breathing trains you to engage your diaphragm and rib cage while breathing. This means that instead of your belly extending as you inhale, your rib cage expands. Breathing in this manner reduces pressure in your core and pelvic region. Additionally, this technique encourages proper core response and engagement in your daily activities. Now that you understand proper breathing mechanics, it is time to learn how to properly stretch and exercise your core and pelvic floor.
Stretches for the Pelvic Floor
Supine Pelvic Floor Stretch:
Lying on your back, keep your knees bent and bring them toward your chest. Slowly extend your knees to the side to stretch the inner groin. Relax your pelvic floor and butt. Remain in this position for 5 to 10 breaths and relax.
Supported Slight Backbend Pelvic Stretch:
This is a fantastic pelvic stretcher. Using a pillow or bolster of some kind, gently lower your back to rest on top of the pillow. Once in position, slowly bring your feet together so the soles of your feet are touching. Keep your knees bent, but gently allow them to open sideways. If you feel any discomfort at all in your back or inner thighs, you can use pillows for further support or get rid of the bolster. Relax after 30 seconds or more (roughly 15 to 20 breaths)
Supported Pelvic Squat:
This stretch is an incredible hip and pelvis stretch. Grab a low stool or a stack of books and with your feet spread wide and toes pointed out sideways, gradually extend your buttocks and lower yourself to the blocks. If you are struggling to balance yourself, it may be helpful to use a wall for back support. It is important that if you experience any discomfort during these stretches that you reposition yourself until you can firmly plant your feet and bend without pain. Stay in a squatted position for close to 30 seconds (5-10 deep breaths), stand back up, relax, and repeat several times. Please note, that for some people with prolapse – a deep squat can really irritate and aggravate things due to bearing down, so be sure to only do this one if you feel comfortable that you are not bearing down in a low squat.
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Legs up the wall:
This exercise offers a lot of people relief from their symptoms and it is a great way to downtrain the pelvic floor. I always teach this with a block / pillows / blankets under the hips for elevation. The elevation is pretty key so be sure to get your hips on something. Elevate your hips and simply bring your legs up a wall. Move closer or further away from the wall depending on your body and comfort. Stay for 3-4 relaxing breaths and then you have a few options. One is to bend your knees and have the soles of your feet touching while still leaning legs against the wall. Adjust your body to make this more comfortable. No stress or tension in your hips. The other is to simply bend your knees and place the soles of your feet on the floor and relax your pelvis and pelvic floor and finally, option #3 is to open your legs wide and keep them against the wall while straddled. Find the position that best allows you to relax and release. Hold for 5-8 breaths.
Happy Baby Pose:
Lie on your back and bend your knees bringing them close to your chest. Grasp the soles of your feet with your arms inside your knees. Open your knees wide carefully, keeping your feet together, and making sure you’re breathing deeply. While in this position, press the soles of your feet into your palms. Relax and repeat 3-4 times. You can also do this with pillows under your hips if you find that you are fighting tight hips here.
Child Pose:
Begin this pose by resting on your hands and knees. Extend your arms slightly in front of you while relaxing your lower body and butt down toward your heels. Gradually lengthen the distance between your knees, but keep your feet together. Hold this position for 30 seconds and breathe restfully.
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Soom Idealian Sabik in tawny skintone..
Monique wig April in two tone brown.
Eyeco eyes (will input color when I remember lol)
My own demo, a five-button controller with only two wires connecting it to the Arduino. It's based on an analog voltage divider circuit and uses one of the Arduino's analog input pins, plus an LCD for output.
on the holy cards lots of ESCARCHAS
it happened this morning 7/30/12 affter the 6am rosary
Scientific Study Claimed To Yield No Clue As To Composition Of Mysterious 'Glitter'
[In many parts of the world or at least the West, those involved in devotional and charismatic practices have asserted that at times a strange "glitter" falls, like decorative manna. This is a particularly difficult phenomenon to accept in the way of its strangeness and glitziness, although it was reported during the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, during 1917 in an ephemeral form which soon vanished, leaving no material.]
The glitter reported in some parts of the world allegedly remains as a physical manifestation. While remaining open we warn that the materialization of any such thing can be occult, and so we place that as input for discernment. At the same time, Christians across denominations have been reporting both the glitter and "gold dust" during especially poignant spiritual moments. The alleged phenomenon is prevalent in South America, particularly Venezuela -- including the approved apparition site of Betania -- as well as the Miami area.
In Latin America it is known as "escarchas." Below we present an article translated by former monk Allan Weilart from a Spanish article entitled, "La Gracia de las Escarchas" or "The Grace of the Escarchas," including scientific tests of the "glitter." The article, from a while back, was translated from the official website of the convent at Carrizal, Venezuela where, along with all the houses of the same community in Venezuela, "escarchas" were said fall from "Heaven" during daily Mass. We submit it unedited for your strict discernment]:
"The Grace of Escarchas"
translated from the Spanish:
The theme of escarchas has become a controversial topic for certain people, some lend absolute credibility to them, believing they are a sign that shows the presence and aid of the Most Holy Virgin, just as she affirmed it that day February 9, 1993, to Sister Mary Carmen. Others reject such a possibility and doubt, laughing it all off.
It is important to precisely touch on this theme with a certain latitude by noting that escarchas from Carrizal have been studied twice in different laboratories of the Central University of Venezuela.
The first study was carried out by the petition of the Sister Mary Clara, superior of the Servants of Jesus in Carrizal and by the Chief Engineer who was the intermediary with the UCV, since was he graduated from that university in the Faculty of Engineering and could help in that sense. The Laboratory of Special Studies of the School of Mechanical Engineering accepted the assignment and proceeded with a thorough a scientific investigation.
This study was carried out September 21 -- October 14, 1993. The samples were taken of escarchas which appeared on different days within the dates mentioned, in the monastery of Carrizal, as well as a sample of the escarchas which appeared the day following the first apparition so that those also could be analyzed.
So once they separated and placed the samples in test tubes. They were sealed airtight, to prevent the possibility of fraud, by order of the Chief Engineer. He was likewise present during the majority of the hours of study dedicated to the investigation. In this manner and under these conditions, were the escarchas delivered to the laboratory of the UCV.
It is interesting here to allude to an event which happened September 22, when at 9:00 AM, a doctor came to the laboratory and related that the previous day having listened on the origin of the escarchas, and having access to the laboratory, had secretly taken two of these escarchas to his two small children who had suffered from chronic asthma for some years.
He related that after having taken the escarchas home, the children unexpectedly suffered a severe asthma attack and expelled phlegm by coughing almost all night. They were cured when they awoke; the asthma had disappeared!
The laboratory continued its scientific examination of the escarchas, submitting them to study and observation, by viewing them in the microscope without processing and in the electron microscope without processing.
Then they were studied again in the microscope and in the electronic one, but this time with processing chemicals.
They were then submitted to different mechanical actions and to other various chemical processing and incinerated in a burning flame. The results were similar to the ones found in the second more comprehensive and exhaustive study.
This second study was carried out, with the consent of the Sister Mary Clara, with a much more extensive sample of escarchas, including industrial glitter, manufactured by man, in order to know the difference between them.
From among the escarchas that appeared from the Virgin were chosen samples from other convents in Venezuela in which this phenomenon had also taken place, including some collected during a conference of the Marian Movement of Priests on March 2, 1992.
The colors of the religious escarchas chosen for this scientific study, so-called to distinguish them from manufactured glitter were silver, gold, green, red, aquamarine, pink, and transparent.
They took the shapes of squares, rectangles, and hexagons. Their size was between 1 and 2 millimeters.
There was also golden dust collected. The circumstances of these appearance of escarchas was related to some of these situations: moments of anguish and pain, dedication to the Virgin, moments of prayer, and even without any particular reason: simply they appeared.
Some escarchas had appeared on the hands, others on the face; there were also taken from various parts of the body, and even some collected off bedspreads, off the cloths of the altar, or off the pews of the church. As for type of people they had been collected from: children, youths and adults, religious sisters, as well as laymen of both sexes.
This second study was initiated in October of 1994 and was finished in May of 1995. The thesis of the experiment had this title: "INVESTIGATION OF THE PRIVATE MATERIAL OF VARIOUS COLORS AND ITS COMPARISON WITH INDUSTRIAL GLITTER"
The religious escarchas taken of the samples chosen of the places already mentioned were submitted to the same experimental processing that the other man-made glitter, in order to compare the physiochemical characteristics of both types and to compare likewise the effects produced by subjugation of both groups to mechanical actions, incinerations by flame, chemical
processing, and other means.
The chemical processing both types of escarchas (religious and industrial glitter) were submitted successively to nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, isopropol alcohol, to NITAL (mixture of alcohol and nitric acid), to hydroxide of sodium, to benzol, to benzene, and to flurohydric acid. After being submitted to these chemical substances for periods that oscillated between 60 minutes and several days, they were examined by electron microscope.
Selected for this experiment was the laboratory of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of the Central University, in which was located one of the better electron microscopes in Venezuela.
The results were carefully scrutinized by three professors and continuously monitored by the Licentiate in Biology, Gillermo Strap, of the Laboratory of Physics of the UCV. The conditions of the experiments and strict measures of scientific character were carefully followed.
These results can be summarized thus:
A.- Simple observation can differentiate the religious escarchas from man-made glitter in the following way: the religious ones have greater quantity of tones in its color. For example in glitter, they came three types of green tone and in the religious to seven types of that tone of
color can be observed. The religious escarchas are thin, light, and shine with apparently their own brightness; they do not reflect light shined on them in the same manner as does glitter. The religious escarchas adhere to any surface and it is difficult to remove them. They present two faces or surfaces, as the plant leaves: a "top" and "bottom" side.
On the other hand, manufactured glitter is rough; it feels sandy, without its own brightness, it dazzles when any light shines on it; it is not as adherent as escarchas, and they present two equal surfaces.
B - Observation with optic microscope, without processing the following differences can be found:
In the religious escarchas is observed the presence of protozoans or of green or various algae and blue or of diverse fungi, bubbles of air, water, and crystals. These elements always remained static, without activity, they seemed like fossils.
In the man-made glitter it is observed that besides having the two equal faces lack protozoans, fungi, algae and they do not contain anything organic in them.
C - Of the observation with electron microscope without processing, can be appreciated the following differences:
The escarchas are not metallic -- it is impossible to see them without first covering them with gold (does not apply with silver escarchas), in order visualize them with the detachment of the necessary secondary electrons to be able to view them through the electron microscope. They show they have a laminated structure. The edges are solid.
Glitter possesses half of the thickness of the religious escarchas; they are of plastic material and the mark of the cut of the machine is observed at the same junction, as if were a fingerprint. The edges are not solid.
D.- Of the observation of the frosts submitted to various chemical processing and then analyzed by optic microscope, can be appreciated these differences:
No differences were found when both groups were submitted to nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and distilled water.
But with isopropyl alcohol, the religious escarchas were not bleached, but the glitter was bleached 75 percent. With NITAL the religious escarchas remained stable while the glitter
suffered total discoloration, they diminished in size and developed pores, tracks, and bubbles of air.
With hydroxide of sodium the religious escarchas did not suffer alterations, while the glitter was reduced of size.
The test of acid fluorohydric acid turns out to be highly significant: the religious escarchas remained stable while the industrial glitter disappeared completely.
This last experiment shows that the religious escarchas are not metallic, neither they are of plastic, nor mica, nor resins. Their composition could not be determined. With the oxide of propylene the same thing was shown, although through this chemical substance, glitter suffered corrosion by its industrial nature, but not the religious escarchas.
E.- Of the observation of the frosts submitted to thermal procedure of flames and combustion is obtained these differences:
The religious frosts are bleached a little, but they increase their shine and do not leave any residual odor. The glitter is bleached completely; they lose the shine and they leave an irritating odor, noxious to the eyes and the throat. This scientific differential analysis is presented in order to present a clear conclusion that the phenomenon of escarchas cannot be so easily dismissed, as some have done, even to the point of laughter and mockery.
One can sin by negligence or omission, not only by action. It is a fact that from 1993 the phenomenon of escarchas has constantly increased and has reached in Venezuela such proportions that it cannot be ignored. This study can help in the comprehension of the reality of this phenomenon connected with the presence of the Virgin, just as she declared on February 9, 1993. Since the escarchas have become a phenomenon of incalculable proportions, the same one, the Most Holy Virgin deigned to deliver to a priest who desires to remain anonymous, the meaning of their colors.
I have here the message of the September 23, 1999:
Revelation About the Meaning of the Escarchas
In these times in which men feel self-satisfied and far away from my Son the
Lord, I want to declare in a humbler way, the message that I want to deliver
to them and to declare to them the meaning of the escarchas. The ones who
live in my heart are those who have been bought by the blood of my Son.
Therefore, prayer, sacrifice, reconciliation, and penitence are the weapons
with which are going to fight in the battle against Satan.
I want to announce to them the meaning of the colors of my frosts:
-- The silver: in them I show you the magnanimity of my heart. Ask me what you
want.
-- The golden: in them I incline toward the weak one; I am going to heal you
spiritually, physically, psychologically, morally.
-- The blue: in them I want to announce you my proximity. I am with you, I
have been present to you.
-- The green: they are a song so that open you to hope. I will act in the
favor of God. Hope in God.
-- The red: in times of trial you offer me a sacrifice; remember that I love
you.
-- The transparent: the road of humility is the path that leads to freedom. I
know those who are humble and simple
-- The aquamarines: is the road that is very treacherous and curved, I want
to tell you on that road, I will be with you.
To my children, who have been graced with my gifts, sprouted from the love
of my Son, and who are the sweetest fragrance of the Father, to all who
find shelter in His breast, I give my blessing in the name of the Father, of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
For your discernment only!
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on the far right in green; that's the dual plus/minus regulator demo board (tps-something-or-other). does not need heatsink (uses the board) and allows a pretty wide input range. it powers the cs3318 attenuator/op-amp system.
the system is my preamp design (sercona audio, www.sercona.net). it uses 2 (so far) arduinos and an optional linux pc (for remote web control) and is an audio system preamp and in/out selector. it works with digital and analog audio (separate chains, though).
Founding member and keyboardist of Pink Floyd, he passed away yesterday after a brief fight against cancer. This morning, in celebration of his life and his timeless contributions to the music world, I'm playing a few of the Pink Floyd classics he wrote, co-wrote or sang on. RIP Rick, thanks for all the music.
Dave Gilmour's website comments on Rick's passing
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten.
He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on 'Echoes'. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky', both of which he wrote, what would 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' have been? Without his quiet touch the Album 'Wish You Were Here' would not quite have worked.
In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with 'The Division Bell', his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).
Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.
David Gilmour
Monday 15th September 2008
Nick Mason's comments on Rick's passing;
Losing Rick is like losing a family member - in a fairly dysfunctional family. He's been in my life for 45 years, longer than my children and longer than my wife. It brings one's own mortality closer. I'll remember Rick with great affection. He was absolutely the non-contentious member of the band and probably suffered for it. I wouldn't say he was easy-going, but he certainly never pushed to any aggravation. It made life a lot easier.
I first met Rick at the Regent Street College of Architecture. And I think Rick was always pretty much that same character I met in 1962. Rock'n'roll is a Peter Pan existence; no one ever grows up. Over a period, we gravitated towards the people who were less interested in architecture and more in going to the pictures and making music. The band happened a couple of years later. We all had very different ways of working. He always knew what he wanted to do and had a unique approach to playing. I saw an interview he did on TV, and he said it clearly: "Technique is so secondary to ideas." Roger [Waters] said the more technique you have, the more you can copy. Despite having some training, Rick found his own way.
To some extent, I think, the recognition for what he did in the band was a bit light. He was a writer as well as a keyboard player, and he sang. The keyboard in particular creates the sound of a band. By definition, in a rock'n'roll band people remember the guitar solo, the lead vocal or the lyric content. But a lot of people listen to our music in a different way. The way Rick floats the keyboard through the music is an integral part of what people recognise as Pink Floyd. He wrote "The Great Gig in the Sky" and the music for "Us and Them".
We were a very close-knit band and one always has the memory of that. We spent a lot of time together between 1967 and the mid-1970s. Rick was a very gentle soul. My image of Rick would be him sitting at the keyboard playing when all the fireworks were going on around him. That's the main quality one remembers, in a band where Roger and David [Gilmour] were more strident about what they believed should be done.
If there's something that feels like a legacy, it's Live 8 [July 2005, Hyde Park] and the fact that we did surmount any disagreements and managed to play together. It was the greatest occasion.
Roger Waters comment on Rick's passing;
"I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly [his daughters] Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliet, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired.
"As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the '60s and '70s. The intriguing, jazz influenced, modulations and voicings so familiar in 'Us and Them' and 'Great Gig in the Sky,' which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick's ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock.
"I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him and David [Gilmour] and Nick [Mason] that one last time. I wish there had been more."
ECHOES...
"Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.
And no-one called us to the land
And no-one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no-one calls us to move on
And no-one forces down our eyes
And no-one speaks and no-one tries
And no-one flies around the sun
Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
inciting and inviting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no-one sings me lullabies
And no-one makes me close my eyes
And so I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky..."
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I suck at flowers, but I spent some time on them today. Any input would be great!
I tried to go diagonal on this shot.
At Wicken Fen there are Konik ponies living in natural groups with minimal human input. They originate from Poland, bred from the now extinct wild European horses known as Tarpan. The majority of foals born at Wicken Fen survive and thrive but watching this little fellow fight for life in his first two hours puts “survival of the fittest” into context. Most births are straightforward but living wild any complication can be fatal. Occasionally foals fail to feed, are rejected by the mare or killed/driven off by the herd. Attempts to hand rear such survivors have been disappointing leading to the possibility the herd knows best. In this case a rogue stallion on the fringe of the herd saw an opportunity to mate with the mare. In the violent exchange of hooves which followed the foal was accidentally kicked by the rogue stallion. A sickening thud and the foal lay seemingly lifeless but after several minutes nudging and licking by the mare it struggled to its feet and started to look for milk. The National Trust were quickly on the scene. The policy is to monitor and intervene only as a very last resort. They were fairly sure that with the herds support this tough little fellow will survive.
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There's placeholder text here that somehow didn't make it into my collection of screen grabs. Needless to say an input mask took my typed in SSN converted it into the format required for the field.
I particularly like the error message on this field. It's human and informal (although there is formality handled by the colour red). I've often tried to get that level of informality into my copy only have it turned down by stakeholders, but here we see it in a bank. It's precisely this kind of attention to detail that, I believe, is getting people excited about Simple.
Les Otten and his American Skiing Company bought Wolf Mountain in 1997 from co-owners Kenny Griswold and Mike Baker. Otten favored the name Red Pine Canyon but later settled on Canyons in the re-naming of Wolf Mountain which was earlier known as Park City West. Otten said he had been driving around Wolf Mountain and saw the enormous canyons and 14 peaks, The Canyons seemed the appropriate name. At that time Wolf Mountain had seven 2-person chair lifts and a few rustic buildings. Les Otten had visions for a 15-year master plan that would create a world recognized winter and summer destination resort. Otten wanted the Canyons master plan to be driven by input from the community. He believed that local residents preferred a higher-density village development that is pedestrian and mass transit -oriented to sprawling subdivisions which rely on the automobile.
American Skiing Company planned the Grand Summit Hotel as a 360-room "quartershare" condo-hotel. It was designed as a horseshoe structure with a maximum height of nine stories. Each unit would be owned by four owners who rotate their 13 weeks of occupancy year - round. The hotel was designed by Jung Brannen of Boston. American Skiing Company's first quartershare hotel was the Grand Summit in Sunday River, Maine. Since then it has built Grand Summits in Killington and Mount Snow in Vermont, Attitash Bear Peak in New Hampshire, Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe, California and Steamboat Springs, Colaorado. American Skiing Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Grand Summit Resort Properties Inc., closed a $145 million construction loan facility with TFC Textron Financial. The loan would finance the 358-room Grand Summit Resort Hotel at The Canyons in Park City, Utah and a 325-room Grand Summit Hotel at Steamboat in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Both facilities were expected to open for the 1999- 2000 ski season.
Les Otten had grown American Skiing Company to the largest operator of alpine ski and snowboard resorts in the United States. He grew the company by taking on huge debt that could not be supported by earnings. To survive the debt crisis Otten engaged the Texas investment firm, Oak Hill Partners in a $150 million deal. The investors achieved control of American Skiing Co. within two years and the founder Otten was forced out. American Skiing was forced to sell Heavenly to Vail Resorts, Steamboat to Intrawest, and Sugarbush to a group of investors. Finally in July 2008, American Skiing Company's last remaining and flagship resort, The Canyons had been bought by the Talisker Corporation for $100 million. This was the final resort sold by the American Skiing Company, in preparation for the dissolution of the company.
By 2000, Oak Hill Capital Partners (founded by Robert Bass) had increased its stake in the company and taken control. Otten resigned as Chairman and CEO in 2001. The stock price offered initially at $18 per share was below a dollar. Otten left American Skiing without any personal debt, but with enough money to join a group buying the Boston Red Sox. Otten was a minority partner in the Boston Red Sox baseball team for 7 years and was instrumental in the restoration of Fenway Park.
In 2003 the Grand Summit Park City received the four-diamond designation from AAA. Jeff Zogg was the VP of Lodging at that time. Zogg is now the Senior Vice President, AZUL Hospitality Group. In 2004 Grand Summit Resort Properties, a subsidiary of American Skiing Company, conducted an auction to sell the remaining unsold fractional ownership inventory. The Park City auction resulted in sales of $15.3 million which was used to reduce debt and provide liquidity for ongoing operations.
American Skiing sold its flagship resort, The Canyons, on July 2008 to a subsidiary of Toronto-based resort operator Talisker Corp. for $123 million. American Skiing had owned as many as 10 ski areas as recently as 2001. The American Skiing board, which included Oak Hill Capital Partners, realized the exceptional value the company could get for the ski areas. It sold the Grand Summit at the Steamboat Springs ski area for $265 million to Intrawest Corp in March 2007. In all, American Skiing raised about $600 million by selling the resorts, using the money to pay off debt and compensate preferred shareholders who pushed for the liquidations.
The Canyons is Taliskers's first ski resort. The Toronto-based private company has invested heavily in lodging at Deer Valley, another Park City resort. It became owner of land and mineral rights at Deer Valley and Park City Mountain resorts, which are operated by separate companies, when it bought United Park City Mines in 2003. Talisker owns the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Spa located at Canyons and Tuhaye, a 2,000-acre golf course community and also has an ownership interest in Montage Resort and Spa, at Deer Valley built on Talisker's land.
In 2013 Vail Resorts landed the long-term lease for Canyons. Under the terms of the long-term lease Vail took over management of Canyons from Utah-based Talisker Corporation for $25 million a year, adjusted for inflation, plus 42 percent of Vail's earnings over $35 million. It will be the 10th resort Vail Resorts owns. The lease runs for 50 years, with six 50-year renewal options. While Vail will take control of the resort, Talisker will retain development rights for some four million square feet of real estate at the base of the mountain. The Canyons is Utah’s largest winter resort. Its 3,700 skiable acres (fourth largest in the nation) are serviced by 17 lifts spread across eight mountain peaks. The Grand Summit Hotel Sundial Lodge and numerous dining and retail options are part of the Vail Resort's lease.
Vail Resorts owns Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Canyons in Park City, Utah; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, manages the hotel properties.
The Grand Summit Hotel - a RockResort - is located in the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort - right across from the Orange Bubble Chair lift and the Red Pine Gondola. Built in 2000 The hotel offers ski-in ski-out access in the winter and in the summer the first tee and 18th-hole of the scenic Canyons Golf Course are located right in front of the door. The hotel has 15,000 square feet of meeting and conference space, a spa, health club, heated pool and hot tubs as well as underground valet parking, fitness center, daycare, library and several dining options. The 212-suite property joined Vail Resorts' RockResorts portfolio and underwent a $15 million renovation in 2017 that included an overhaul of guestrooms, lobby, cafe, spa and conference and meetings spaces. The interior design work was conducted by Boulder, Colo.-based TRH Interior Design.
A golf course designed by Gene Bates and Casey Bates of the Bates Golf Design Group opened at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. The 6,246-yard, par-70 course opened in 2015. The course features over 550ft of elevation change. Located close to the Wasatch and Uinta mountain ranges, each hole at the course features four sets of tees, and six holes interact with skiable terrain. Gene Bates, course architect said “Canyons Golf Course is unlike any other course in Utah, and was a challenge to design and build as the topography provided dramatic elevation change". The course features seven par-3 hole and five par-5 holes and Hole 18 has a true island green, 100% surrounded by the Willow Draw Stream.
In 2018 Chuck Randles was named general manager of the Grand Summit Hotel and the neighboring Silverado Lodge and Sundial Lodge, as well as the opening of the new Lift and Apex properties, which are currently under construction. Randles has been Vail Resorts for 12 years most recently serving as the General Manager for Keystone Resort Property Management where he was responsible for more than 650 rental properties, 250 homecare and rent-by-owner properties and as many as 43 community associations. Prior to that, Randles held various roles in both guest-facing and support positions, leading the front office and property management for Keystone Resort Property Management and as a staff accountant for the Company. Randles is from Rockford, Ill. and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance.
Compile by Dick Johnson, August 2019
So this is one of the older types of Braille keyboard & display that our company has sold.
In addition to 20 output positions of Braille characters, it also contains 8 input buttons to enter them. Each character consists of 8 dots, which can be either on or off. And of course there's a spacebar...
The newer types are smaller, lighter, and therefore more portable. But I couldn't find one in my rush just before leaving the office...
ODC 2: Dots
Les Otten and his American Skiing Company bought Wolf Mountain in 1997 from co-owners Kenny Griswold and Mike Baker. Otten favored the name Red Pine Canyon but later settled on Canyons in the re-naming of Wolf Mountain which was earlier known as Park City West. Otten said he had been driving around Wolf Mountain and saw the enormous canyons and 14 peaks, The Canyons seemed the appropriate name. At that time Wolf Mountain had seven 2-person chair lifts and a few rustic buildings. Les Otten had visions for a 15-year master plan that would create a world recognized winter and summer destination resort. Otten wanted the Canyons master plan to be driven by input from the community. He believed that local residents preferred a higher-density village development that is pedestrian and mass transit -oriented to sprawling subdivisions which rely on the automobile.
American Skiing Company planned the Grand Summit Hotel as a 360-room "quartershare" condo-hotel. It was designed as a horseshoe structure with a maximum height of nine stories. Each unit would be owned by four owners who rotate their 13 weeks of occupancy year - round. The hotel was designed by Jung Brannen of Boston. American Skiing Company's first quartershare hotel was the Grand Summit in Sunday River, Maine. Since then it has built Grand Summits in Killington and Mount Snow in Vermont, Attitash Bear Peak in New Hampshire, Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe, California and Steamboat Springs, Colaorado. American Skiing Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Grand Summit Resort Properties Inc., closed a $145 million construction loan facility with TFC Textron Financial. The loan would finance the 358-room Grand Summit Resort Hotel at The Canyons in Park City, Utah and a 325-room Grand Summit Hotel at Steamboat in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Both facilities were expected to open for the 1999- 2000 ski season.
Les Otten had grown American Skiing Company to the largest operator of alpine ski and snowboard resorts in the United States. He grew the company by taking on huge debt that could not be supported by earnings. To survive the debt crisis Otten engaged the Texas investment firm, Oak Hill Partners in a $150 million deal. The investors achieved control of American Skiing Co. within two years and the founder Otten was forced out. American Skiing was forced to sell Heavenly to Vail Resorts, Steamboat to Intrawest, and Sugarbush to a group of investors. Finally in July 2008, American Skiing Company's last remaining and flagship resort, The Canyons had been bought by the Talisker Corporation for $100 million. This was the final resort sold by the American Skiing Company, in preparation for the dissolution of the company.
By 2000, Oak Hill Capital Partners (founded by Robert Bass) had increased its stake in the company and taken control. Otten resigned as Chairman and CEO in 2001. The stock price offered initially at $18 per share was below a dollar. Otten left American Skiing without any personal debt, but with enough money to join a group buying the Boston Red Sox. Otten was a minority partner in the Boston Red Sox baseball team for 7 years and was instrumental in the restoration of Fenway Park.
In 2003 the Grand Summit Park City received the four-diamond designation from AAA. Jeff Zogg was the VP of Lodging at that time. Zogg is now the Senior Vice President, AZUL Hospitality Group. In 2004 Grand Summit Resort Properties, a subsidiary of American Skiing Company, conducted an auction to sell the remaining unsold fractional ownership inventory. The Park City auction resulted in sales of $15.3 million which was used to reduce debt and provide liquidity for ongoing operations.
American Skiing sold its flagship resort, The Canyons, on July 2008 to a subsidiary of Toronto-based resort operator Talisker Corp. for $123 million. American Skiing had owned as many as 10 ski areas as recently as 2001. The American Skiing board, which included Oak Hill Capital Partners, realized the exceptional value the company could get for the ski areas. It sold the Grand Summit at the Steamboat Springs ski area for $265 million to Intrawest Corp in March 2007. In all, American Skiing raised about $600 million by selling the resorts, using the money to pay off debt and compensate preferred shareholders who pushed for the liquidations.
The Canyons is Taliskers's first ski resort. The Toronto-based private company has invested heavily in lodging at Deer Valley, another Park City resort. It became owner of land and mineral rights at Deer Valley and Park City Mountain resorts, which are operated by separate companies, when it bought United Park City Mines in 2003. Talisker owns the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Spa located at Canyons and Tuhaye, a 2,000-acre golf course community and also has an ownership interest in Montage Resort and Spa, at Deer Valley built on Talisker's land.
In 2013 Vail Resorts landed the long-term lease for Canyons. Under the terms of the long-term lease Vail took over management of Canyons from Utah-based Talisker Corporation for $25 million a year, adjusted for inflation, plus 42 percent of Vail's earnings over $35 million. It will be the 10th resort Vail Resorts owns. The lease runs for 50 years, with six 50-year renewal options. While Vail will take control of the resort, Talisker will retain development rights for some four million square feet of real estate at the base of the mountain. The Canyons is Utah’s largest winter resort. Its 3,700 skiable acres (fourth largest in the nation) are serviced by 17 lifts spread across eight mountain peaks. The Grand Summit Hotel Sundial Lodge and numerous dining and retail options are part of the Vail Resort's lease.
Vail Resorts owns Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Canyons in Park City, Utah; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, manages the hotel properties.
The Grand Summit Hotel - a RockResort - is located in the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort - right across from the Orange Bubble Chair lift and the Red Pine Gondola. Built in 2000 The hotel offers ski-in ski-out access in the winter and in the summer the first tee and 18th-hole of the scenic Canyons Golf Course are located right in front of the door. The hotel has 15,000 square feet of meeting and conference space, a spa, health club, heated pool and hot tubs as well as underground valet parking, fitness center, daycare, library and several dining options. The 212-suite property joined Vail Resorts' RockResorts portfolio and underwent a $15 million renovation in 2017 that included an overhaul of guestrooms, lobby, cafe, spa and conference and meetings spaces. The interior design work was conducted by Boulder, Colo.-based TRH Interior Design.
A golf course designed by Gene Bates and Casey Bates of the Bates Golf Design Group opened at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. The 6,246-yard, par-70 course opened in 2015. The course features over 550ft of elevation change. Located close to the Wasatch and Uinta mountain ranges, each hole at the course features four sets of tees, and six holes interact with skiable terrain. Gene Bates, course architect said “Canyons Golf Course is unlike any other course in Utah, and was a challenge to design and build as the topography provided dramatic elevation change". The course features seven par-3 hole and five par-5 holes and Hole 18 has a true island green, 100% surrounded by the Willow Draw Stream.
In 2018 Chuck Randles was named general manager of the Grand Summit Hotel and the neighboring Silverado Lodge and Sundial Lodge, as well as the opening of the new Lift and Apex properties, which are currently under construction. Randles has been Vail Resorts for 12 years most recently serving as the General Manager for Keystone Resort Property Management where he was responsible for more than 650 rental properties, 250 homecare and rent-by-owner properties and as many as 43 community associations. Prior to that, Randles held various roles in both guest-facing and support positions, leading the front office and property management for Keystone Resort Property Management and as a staff accountant for the Company. Randles is from Rockford, Ill. and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance.
Compile by Dick Johnson, August 2019
This is a still from a Processing project. 1000 copies of live webcam input images are wrapped around a centerpoint and it's position and rotation are controlled with variations of sine and cosine combined with signal analysis from live microphone input. Bottom line: this shit is ART!!! Audio Responsive Trippiness.
The fourth of the 1950s era “Century Series,” the F-104 Starfighter was designed around one single element: speed. Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, head of Lockheed’s famous “Skunk Works” factory, had interviewed US Air Force pilots during the Korean War, seeking their input on any new fighter. Since the pilots reported that they wanted high performance more than anything else, Johnson returned to the United States determined to deliver exactly that: a simple, point-defense interceptor marrying the lightest airframe to the most powerful engine then available, the superb General Electric J79.
When Johnson offered the L-098 design to the USAF in 1952, the service was so impressed that they created an entire competition for the aircraft to be accepted, ostensibly as a F-100 Super Sabre replacement. The Lockheed design had the clear edge, though both North American’s and Northrop’s design went on to be built themselves—the North American F-107A Ultra Sabre and the Northrop T-38 Talon. The USAF purchased the L-098 as the F-104A Starfighter. The design changed very little from initial design to prototype to operational aircraft, which was done in the astonishing time of two years.
When the first F-104As reached the USAF in 1958, pilots quickly found that it was indeed a hot fighter—too hot. The Starfighter’s design philosophy of speed above all else resulted in an aircraft with a long fuselage, T-tail for stability, and small wings, which were so thin that special guards had to be put on the leading edges to avoid injuring ground personnel. Because of its small wing, the F-104 required a lot of runway, and blown flaps (which vents airflow from the engine over the flaps to increase lift) were a necessity; unfortunately, the airflow system often failed, which meant that the F-104 pilot would be coming in at a dangerous rate of speed. Because it was feared that a pilot who ejected from a F-104 would never clear the tail, a downward-ejection seat was fitted, but after killing over 20 pilots, the seat was retrofitted with a more reliable, upward-firing type. The design also was not very maneuverable in the horizontal, though it was difficult to match in the vertical. Its shape earned it the moniker “Missile With a Man In It” and “Zipper.”
One thing pilots did not complain about was its speed—the listed top speed of the F-104 was Mach 2.2, but this was because above that the fuselage would melt. The J79 was a near flawless engine that gave the Starfighter an excellent thrust-to-weight ratio; uniquely, the intake design of the Starfighter gave the engine a bansheelike wail. So superb was the F-104 at level speed and climbing that NASA leased several as trainers for the X-15 program, and in setting a number of speed and time-to-climb records.
If the F-104 had gotten a mixed reception at best in the USAF, Lockheed felt that it had potential as an export aircraft. Beating out several excellent British and other American designs in a 1961 competition, every NATO nation except France and Great Britain bought F-104s and manufactured their own as the F-104G; Japan also license-built Starfighters as F-104Js, while still more were supplied to Pakistan and Taiwan. Just as in USAF service, accident rates were incredibly high, particularly in West German and Canadian service—Germany lost 30 percent of its initial batch, and the Canadians over half. Worries that the F-104 was too “hot” for pilots usually transitioning from the F-86 were ignored, and later it was learned why: German, Dutch, and Japanese politicians later admitted to being bribed by Lockheed into buying the Starfighter.
Its high accident rate earned such nicknames as “Widowmaker,” “Flying Coffin,” and “Ground Nail.” Pakistani pilots simply called it Badmash (“Criminal”) and the Japanese Eiko (“Glory,” inferring that it was the easiest way to reach it). German pilots joked that the quickest way to obtain a F-104 was to buy a patch of land and wait.
Nonetheless, once pilots learned how to tame the beast, the accident rates eased somewhat, and NATO pilots discovered that the Starfighter excelled as a low-level attack aircraft: fitted with bomb racks, the F-104 was remarkably stable at low altitude and high speed, and Luftwaffe pilots in particular found that they could sneak up on a target, launch a simulated attack, and be gone before ground defenses could react. The Italians in particular loved the F-104, building their own as the F-104S: these aircraft were equipped with multimode radar and armed with AIM-7 Sparrow and Aspide radar-guided missiles, making them a superb interceptor. Though most NATO nations reequipped their F-104 units with F-16s, F-18s, or Tornados beginning in 1980, the Italian F-104S fleet was continually upgraded and soldiered on until final retirement in 2004. 2578 F-104s were built, mostly F-104Gs; today over 150 survive in museums, with at least ten flyable examples, making it one of the best preserved of the Century Series.
Since Capt. Ron Dallenger controlled F-104s during the earlier part of his career as an enlisted fighter controller, Dad built him a 1/72 scale F-104C. However, I'm not sure where Dad got the tail number from--it appears to be 53-0888, but that serial was actually assigned to a F-86D Sabre Dog. 56-0888 was a F-104C, however: it was converted to a JF-104C testbed and flew with the 4925th Test Group at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. It crashed there in April 1963 after engine failure, though luckily the pilot was able to eject.
Dad painted this F-104C in overall bare metal, which was carried by F-104s in their early USAF careers, along with 1950s-style "buzz numbers" on the rear fuselage--supposedly to discourage pilots from low-level flying, as a civilian could see the number and report the pilot. (How someone would read a small number on the side of an aircraft moving at near supersonic speeds was not something the USAF explained.) It is equipped with two AIM-9B Sidewinders on the wingtip rails.
June 12, 2020--New York City--Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed an Executive Order — the 'New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative' — requiring local police agencies, including the NYPD, to develop a plan that reinvents and modernizes police strategies and programs in their community based on community input. Each police agency's reform plan must address policies, procedures, practices and deployment, including, but not limited to use of force. Joining the Governor for the bill signing are: Rev. Al Sharpton, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Leader Carl Heastie, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; and Hazel N. Dukes is President of the NAACP New York State Conference.
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"LinkFX" Balance Bridge Input Module (LKX-46). Adalah modul pengantara (interface) antara unit pre-amp berkeluaran simetrik (balanced out, XLR) dan masukkan power amp stereo tak simstrik (unbalanced).
Modul ini juga sebuah piranti signal conditioner yang mengolah materi suara penuh gangguan seperti dengung (hum), desah (buzz), serta interfensi radio liar, menjadi sinyal yang lebih jernih.
Selain membuat impedansi makin berjodoh (match), LKX46 juga bisa menyesuaikan tingkat kepekaan power amp yang kurang peka, sehingga dinamika suara lebih terjaga.
Dua keluarannya bisa dipilih antara mode stereo atau mode bridge (mono) yang akan sanggup menggenjot daya power amp hingga empat kali daya normalnya (syarat dan ketentuan berlaku, hehehe...).
Beroperasi dengan gaya profesional dengan adanya 4 LED indikator: protect, clip, signal, active.
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Go to all PCB & Kits; or GOA menu (all parts).
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Shadows are really hard to control, i need a lot more practice, well this is a picture for many friends
some are having heavy storms and missing flowers
some looking for inspiration
friends waiting for their results, looking for jobs, going through various situations
and yes all of you were in my thoughts while dark room drama :P
enjoy ;)
p.s thank you nancy for energizing me with that beautiful post and did you say derivatives :P are you scared of them or they just reminds you of toxic assets? :O
Les Otten and his American Skiing Company bought Wolf Mountain in 1997 from co-owners Kenny Griswold and Mike Baker. Otten favored the name Red Pine Canyon but later settled on Canyons in the re-naming of Wolf Mountain which was earlier known as Park City West. Otten said he had been driving around Wolf Mountain and saw the enormous canyons and 14 peaks, The Canyons seemed the appropriate name. At that time Wolf Mountain had seven 2-person chair lifts and a few rustic buildings. Les Otten had visions for a 15-year master plan that would create a world recognized winter and summer destination resort. Otten wanted the Canyons master plan to be driven by input from the community. He believed that local residents preferred a higher-density village development that is pedestrian and mass transit -oriented to sprawling subdivisions which rely on the automobile.
American Skiing Company planned the Grand Summit Hotel as a 360-room "quartershare" condo-hotel. It was designed as a horseshoe structure with a maximum height of nine stories. Each unit would be owned by four owners who rotate their 13 weeks of occupancy year - round. The hotel was designed by Jung Brannen of Boston. American Skiing Company's first quartershare hotel was the Grand Summit in Sunday River, Maine. Since then it has built Grand Summits in Killington and Mount Snow in Vermont, Attitash Bear Peak in New Hampshire, Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe, California and Steamboat Springs, Colaorado. American Skiing Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Grand Summit Resort Properties Inc., closed a $145 million construction loan facility with TFC Textron Financial. The loan would finance the 358-room Grand Summit Resort Hotel at The Canyons in Park City, Utah and a 325-room Grand Summit Hotel at Steamboat in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Both facilities were expected to open for the 1999- 2000 ski season.
Les Otten had grown American Skiing Company to the largest operator of alpine ski and snowboard resorts in the United States. He grew the company by taking on huge debt that could not be supported by earnings. To survive the debt crisis Otten engaged the Texas investment firm, Oak Hill Partners in a $150 million deal. The investors achieved control of American Skiing Co. within two years and the founder Otten was forced out. American Skiing was forced to sell Heavenly to Vail Resorts, Steamboat to Intrawest, and Sugarbush to a group of investors. Finally in July 2008, American Skiing Company's last remaining and flagship resort, The Canyons had been bought by the Talisker Corporation for $100 million. This was the final resort sold by the American Skiing Company, in preparation for the dissolution of the company.
By 2000, Oak Hill Capital Partners (founded by Robert Bass) had increased its stake in the company and taken control. Otten resigned as Chairman and CEO in 2001. The stock price offered initially at $18 per share was below a dollar. Otten left American Skiing without any personal debt, but with enough money to join a group buying the Boston Red Sox. Otten was a minority partner in the Boston Red Sox baseball team for 7 years and was instrumental in the restoration of Fenway Park.
In 2003 the Grand Summit Park City received the four-diamond designation from AAA. Jeff Zogg was the VP of Lodging at that time. Zogg is now the Senior Vice President, AZUL Hospitality Group. In 2004 Grand Summit Resort Properties, a subsidiary of American Skiing Company, conducted an auction to sell the remaining unsold fractional ownership inventory. The Park City auction resulted in sales of $15.3 million which was used to reduce debt and provide liquidity for ongoing operations.
American Skiing sold its flagship resort, The Canyons, on July 2008 to a subsidiary of Toronto-based resort operator Talisker Corp. for $123 million. American Skiing had owned as many as 10 ski areas as recently as 2001. The American Skiing board, which included Oak Hill Capital Partners, realized the exceptional value the company could get for the ski areas. It sold the Grand Summit at the Steamboat Springs ski area for $265 million to Intrawest Corp in March 2007. In all, American Skiing raised about $600 million by selling the resorts, using the money to pay off debt and compensate preferred shareholders who pushed for the liquidations.
The Canyons is Taliskers's first ski resort. The Toronto-based private company has invested heavily in lodging at Deer Valley, another Park City resort. It became owner of land and mineral rights at Deer Valley and Park City Mountain resorts, which are operated by separate companies, when it bought United Park City Mines in 2003. Talisker owns the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Spa located at Canyons and Tuhaye, a 2,000-acre golf course community and also has an ownership interest in Montage Resort and Spa, at Deer Valley built on Talisker's land.
In 2013 Vail Resorts landed the long-term lease for Canyons. Under the terms of the long-term lease Vail took over management of Canyons from Utah-based Talisker Corporation for $25 million a year, adjusted for inflation, plus 42 percent of Vail's earnings over $35 million. It will be the 10th resort Vail Resorts owns. The lease runs for 50 years, with six 50-year renewal options. While Vail will take control of the resort, Talisker will retain development rights for some four million square feet of real estate at the base of the mountain. The Canyons is Utah’s largest winter resort. Its 3,700 skiable acres (fourth largest in the nation) are serviced by 17 lifts spread across eight mountain peaks. The Grand Summit Hotel Sundial Lodge and numerous dining and retail options are part of the Vail Resort's lease.
Vail Resorts owns Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Canyons in Park City, Utah; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, manages the hotel properties.
The Grand Summit Hotel - a RockResort - is located in the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort - right across from the Orange Bubble Chair lift and the Red Pine Gondola. Built in 2000 The hotel offers ski-in ski-out access in the winter and in the summer the first tee and 18th-hole of the scenic Canyons Golf Course are located right in front of the door. The hotel has 15,000 square feet of meeting and conference space, a spa, health club, heated pool and hot tubs as well as underground valet parking, fitness center, daycare, library and several dining options. The 212-suite property joined Vail Resorts' RockResorts portfolio and underwent a $15 million renovation in 2017 that included an overhaul of guestrooms, lobby, cafe, spa and conference and meetings spaces. The interior design work was conducted by Boulder, Colo.-based TRH Interior Design.
A golf course designed by Gene Bates and Casey Bates of the Bates Golf Design Group opened at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. The 6,246-yard, par-70 course opened in 2015. The course features over 550ft of elevation change. Located close to the Wasatch and Uinta mountain ranges, each hole at the course features four sets of tees, and six holes interact with skiable terrain. Gene Bates, course architect said “Canyons Golf Course is unlike any other course in Utah, and was a challenge to design and build as the topography provided dramatic elevation change". The course features seven par-3 hole and five par-5 holes and Hole 18 has a true island green, 100% surrounded by the Willow Draw Stream.
In 2018 Chuck Randles was named general manager of the Grand Summit Hotel and the neighboring Silverado Lodge and Sundial Lodge, as well as the opening of the new Lift and Apex properties, which are currently under construction. Randles has been Vail Resorts for 12 years most recently serving as the General Manager for Keystone Resort Property Management where he was responsible for more than 650 rental properties, 250 homecare and rent-by-owner properties and as many as 43 community associations. Prior to that, Randles held various roles in both guest-facing and support positions, leading the front office and property management for Keystone Resort Property Management and as a staff accountant for the Company. Randles is from Rockford, Ill. and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance.
Compile by Dick Johnson, August 2019
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Diagram exemplifying eutrophication in coastal water bodies. The process begins with excessive inputs of nutrients (primarily N and P) into the system. These nutrients lead to a substantial increase in primary production (e.g. macroalgae) which eventually results in the transport of vast amounts of organic material to the seabottom. Subsequently, oxygen consumption increases dramatically as organic material starts to decompose while vertical delivery of oxygen through the water column is restricted by thermal and/or saline stratification (i.e. pycnocline). Bottom-dwelling organisms suffocate and/or migrate to other areas.
Credit: Pew Trusts
Moderator : Sylvie GOULARD, Deputy-Governor, Banque de France
• Daniel KLIER, Chair, IIF Sustainable Finance Working Group and Global Head of Sustainable Finance HSBC
•Sarah BREEDEN, Executive Director for International Banks Supervision at the Prudential Regulation Authority
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