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PaperDesk and Penultimate are two iPad apps which (amongst other, varying things) allow you to draw free-form in virtual notebooks.
I have a Pogo Sketch stylus to use when sketching in these apps, and a problem I ran into was that PaperDesk would pick up unintended input from my wrist as I naturally rested it on the iPad screen.
Penultimate has a "wrist-protection" mode which purports to ignore such unintentional input, so I thought I'd give it a try. In my admittedly brief and unscientific test, it seems to actually work as advertised. Look at the full-size version of this composite screenshot to see the wrist-"smudges" created in PaperDesk (left) but not in Penultimate (right).
So which is better? Tricky to say. Penultimate is purely a sketching app (no text-entry via keyboard or such; you'll need to hand-write all your text), but the user experience is lush and tactile; it's basically a digital Moleskine, complete with smooth, flowing ink, animated page-turning and a very comprehensible UI.
PaperDesk is more flexible (text entry, sketching, supports whiteboard function with the iPad VGA connector), but is visually more clinical, right down to the jagged, non-aliased lines as you sketch. I'd suggest you try each app to see which suits your workflow and personality. For now, I'm going to keep both on my iPad - but I suspect that unless I need text entry, I'll be working in Penultimate.
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
For the time being, the way to select the coax or opto input is by having a 5v relay actually connect one wire or the other, as shown with delicate, fragile wire wrap wire. the relay control routes off-board via the molex connector and ribbon cable.
The top orange wire comes from word-clock on the spdif receiver. I DC-block (AC-couple) it via a floor capacitor. (you know, the kind that you find on the floor and will work for any purpose at all).
far left is opto-in and opto-out, with the spdif being FIFO reclocked by the wolfson transceiver chip. not only does it give me wordclock (sample rate, which is what I display) but it 'de-jitters' the stream and so it could actually make the output sound better than the input ;)
Migration, Brexit and defence topped MEPs’ priorities for the June European summit, in a debate with the Maltese Presidency and Commission President Juncker.
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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.
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
Got the lanterns painted and hung. Now I'm wondering if I should trim the boards... or add more boards across the top to create an arbor. Part of me likes the current simplicity of the boxes, but part of me can totally imagine a homespun arbor, dripping in flowerey vines and sparkly white lights...whatya think?
Delivered in May 1960, the building-sized LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer) was built by Remington-Rand to specifications provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The LARC was the most advanced computer of its time. Innovative features included separation of input/output controls from the main central processing unit and register files for rapid context switching.
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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.
Kit telah disertai dengan artikel dan petunjuk pemasangan. Check price: partstore.langsungjadi.com/index.php?route=product/produc....
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
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
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
Help! I'm making a twin size quilt for my son--and I need more fabrics, especially orange ones. I These are 5 inch charms--I might add in a few of the HR stripes (thinking of binding it in the orange/red one). Should I add in some yellows? Ideas? Help!
Also, I'm on a buying freeze for two months (I figured if I put that out there it might actually happen). I'd be happy to swap charms with people if you have any you think might work well with these fabrics--especially orange prints. I have extra of everything except blue seeds and the HR goldfish in bags and the other older HR fish (spooky, swimmy, etc).
Thanks!
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.
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Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
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There are always people who regret the Packard automobile has gone for good. Or people who hardly can except Packard is history.
But there are also people who refuse to except this fact and take action. Like Roy Gullickson, an engineer and entrepreneur from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US.
Read the auction description below and be surprised...
This Packard Twelve prototype was designed by former GM stylist Don Johnson with important input from Roy Gullickson and Lawrence Johnson. Development started in Autumn 1993. This prototype was presented in 1999. A yearly production of at least 2000 items was intended but the necessary investments were not found. It remained with this single prototype.
It was finally offered at an auction in 2014.
See also: rmsothebys.com/auctions/sj14/lots/r112-1999-packard-twelv...
Auction description:
573 hp, 525 cu. in. OHV fuel-injected V-12 engine, four-speed GM 4L80E automatic transmission, full-time all-wheel drive, four-wheel independent suspension, and four-wheel power-assisted anti-lock disc brakes. Wheelbase: 119 in.
Some cars have presence, some cars have panache, some cars have prestige, and some cars have all that and more…like Packards. This is what inspired Roy Gullickson, entrepreneur and engineer, to pursue his dream and build the new Packard Twelve.
It began as an idea among friends during a conversation at lunch in 1991. After successfully securing the trademark rights to build a new automobile with the Packard name, concept development began during September and October of 1993. Engineering and styling work was started in January 1994 and continued through to 1996 with Gullickson and Lawrence Johnson, who were both mechanical engineers with automotive experience. The new Packard Motor Car Company and Twelve prototype were first introduced publicly at the 25th anniversary celebration of Arizona Packards in Tuscon in October 1998.
A full-size styling mock-up was developed after consultation with four professional stylists, who included Don Johnson, the former GM stylist who was responsible for the final version of the Zimmer automobile. The sub-structure is an all-aluminum space-frame chassis and body, making extensive use of proprietary high-strength, heat-treated aluminum extrusions. The special aluminum suspension A-frames and knuckles are heat-treated, then X-rayed and dye-penetrant tested to detect any porosity. Anti-squat and anti-dive geometry are included, along with 13.2-inch four-wheel disc brakes. The completed car weighs in at a comparatively light 3,750 pounds.
Power is supplied by a 573 horsepower, 525-cubic inch, all-aluminum OHV V-12. The engine was tested over a five-year period and is equipped with Delco electronic-port fuel injection, dual catalytic converters and oxygen sensors, and Delco powertrain control modules. Full-time all-wheel drive is managed by a Borg Warner transfer case with a viscous clutch and a 35/65 torque split front/rear. A GM 4L80E four-speed electronic-shift automatic transmission was chosen for effortless touring. Performance is quoted at 0–60 mph in 4.8 seconds and the quarter mile in 12.5 seconds.
Inside, you’ll find fine leather upholstery, hand-finished dark walnut veneers with aluminum backing, power front seats, and power windows and locks. Comfort items also include automatic temperature control, full instrumentation, and an AM-FM radio with a CD player and changer.
Included in the purchase of the vehicle are spare parts, such as door glass, suspension knuckles and A-frames, and taillight lenses, along with a list of components with part numbers and suppliers’ names. Historical notes and materials will be provided with the car, as well as many additional photographs and original artwork.
The car is titled under authorization of federal and state laws for “constructed” vehicles, and therefore, it is not EPA or NHTSA certified. It is truly a unique vehicle and the only one built. According to the consignor, there will be no other. He adds that over $1.5 million has been invested in the cost of engineering and building this one-off, modern-day Packard prototype.
This is one time, perhaps, you’ll have to “Ask the Man Who Owns the Only One.”
8603 cc V12 engine.
Performance: 573 bhp.
Production Packard Twelve: 1999.
Without reg. number.
This Packard is part of the Dutch Packard Collection.
Seen on the Dutch Studebaker Packard Club meeting on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this club.
See also: www.spcn.nl/
Plus: studebakerdriversclub.com/
Bleiswijk, Hoekeindseweg, May 20, 2014.
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Des Moines Public Schools is hosting a series of community meetings on the topic of improving our school hours. Each meeting will include a presentation on the changes being considered as well as an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Monday's meeting at Windsor took place in the school's library.
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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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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, interviewed US Air Force pilots during the Korean War and sought 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. 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. 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. 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 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.
56-0914 was delivered as a F-104C to the 479th Fighter Wing at George AFB, California sometime in 1957, where it was assigned to interceptor duties. From 1965 to 1967, it was detached to fly escort missions over North Vietnam, and was among the first F-104s to be camouflaged. The F-104's record in Vietnam was not an enviable one: they were too short ranged to go very deep into the North, and the one time that a F-104 was engaged with a MiG (a Chinese MiG-19), the Starfighter was shot down. When the USAF realized that the F-104 was simply not needed in theater, 56-0914 was sent back to George. It served with the 479th until 1971, when it was relegated to the USAF's last Starfighter unit, the 156th Tactical Fighter Wing (Puerto Rico ANG). When the F-104 was retired, 56-0914 was flown to the National Museum of the USAF for preservation.
Today, 0914 has been restored to its pre-Vietnam War bare metal finish, with large "buzz numbers" on the fuselage--so named in case people on the ground needed to identify a fighter pilot who was making unauthorized low passes. A Tactical Air Command patch and lightning bolt are carried on the tail.
The spectra of three diamonds
Although diamond has the simplest possible chemical formula, it can exhibit large variety of luminescence behaviours. I took three of the small diamonds from my collection and looked at their visible absorption and luminescence spectra.
The diamonds are labelled:
xtal: An octahedral crystal ~2mm on a side with small black (graphite?) inclusions
b: one of a set of small (1-2mm) diamonds given to me by Gérard Barmarin
green: A cut (0.12ct) diamond that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor and appears a pale apple-green colour
The luminescence spectra of the three diamonds were obtained with excitation by a 50mW 406.9nm violet laser and a 300mW 532.2nm green laser. For the green laser measurement a BG38 filter was used between the laser and the sample to remove the ~800nm pumping signal and an OG570 filter used between the sample and the spectrometer input collimator to block the elastically scattered laser light but to include Raman lines beyond a shift of about 800cm-1.
The luminescent colours of the diamonds excited with a 384nm LED are shown in the image at the top right of two of the plots.
Most of the luminescence centres in diamond are related to nitrogen atoms since these have an atomic radius very close to that of carbon. The centres generallly consist of vacancies in the carbon lattice but can include other impurity atoms such as boron and nickel.
The spectral plot has been divided into overlapping blue and red sections that show the response of the three diamonds to 407 and 532 nm laser excitation. There is also an absorption spectrum of the green diamond which, in addition to the very broad absorption band centred at around 620nm and responsible for the green colour, shows two distinct but weak narrow absorption lines at 416 and 503nm arising from the self absorption in the zero-phonon lines of the N3 and H3 centre fluorescence respectively.
List of spectral features and their likely identification.
Centre----------------Wavelength (nm)
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N3 ZPL-------------------------415.8
N3 abs-------------------------415.8
N3-------------------------------429
Raman I ex 406.9nm-----430.2 (1332 cm-1)
N3-------------------------------439
N3-------------------------------452
N3-------------------------------465
S2-------------------------------489.9
S3-------------------------------496.7
H3-------------------------------503.2
H4-------------------------------505
H4-------------------------------513
H3+H4+S2 + abs ~523
H4-------------------------------529
S3-------------------------------537
Raman I ex 532.2nm-----572.8 (1332 cm-1)
N-V^0 ZPL--------------------576
Graphite xtal?---------------578.3 (1500 cm-1)
Raman II ex 532.2nm-----613 (2467 cm-1)
N-V^- ZPL---------------------639
N-V^- 1 phonon-------------660
?---------------------------------742
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Many of the diamond defects are associated with nitrogen atoms and vacancies in the carbon lattice and there is an extensive literature on the subject and much interest from solid state physicists and engineers. In particular the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centre known as N-V^- has properties that are of great importance in the development of quantum computing since individual ionic vacancies can be addressed with lasers. The plots show the narrow zero-phonon lines (ZPL) from both the neutral defect, N-V^0 at 576nm and the negative defect, N-V^- at 639nm. These narrow lines (which are much stronger at low temperatures rather than the room temperature (293K) used here) are accompanied by a set of broader phonon sidebands that extend to longer wavelengths. The ZPL represents the electronic transition between the lowest vibrational levels of two electronic states. The phonon sidebands appear at shorter wavelengths in absorption and at longer wavelengths in emission in a manner determined by the Franck-Condon principles.
Other common defects are N3, consisting of three substitutional nitrogen atoms bound to a single vacancy or carbon atom: H3 and H4 that are connected with a pair of nitrogen atoms and a single vacancy in slightly different configurations; and S2 and S3, the first due to a single nitrogen atom associated with two vacancies and the second to a combination of several nitrogen atoms and a single vacancy. As far as I am aware, not all of the luminescence centres in diamond have yet been fully identified and understood.
In addition to the fluorescent emission lines in the spectra that appear at a fixed energy/wavelength, diamonds exhibit a set of characteristic inelastically scattered (Raman) lines that appear at a fixed energy difference from that of the exciting (monochromatic) light source. The most famous of these is the strong, well-known line with a Raman shift of 1332cm-1 that arises from the fundamental vibrational mode of the carbon lattice. It is possible to see overtones of this line although these are faint and have a complex structure (see the lovely 1946 paper by Krishnan, one or Raman's colleagues: repository.ias.ac.in/30540/ ). All three of the spectra here show both the first order at 572.8nm and the second order Raman line at 613nm (2467cm-1) excited by the 532.2nm laser. In the blue, I see only the first order Raman line excited by the 406.9nm laser at 430.2nm and this is blended with the first phonon sideband of the N3 defect luminescence.
In one of my 532nm laser excited spectra of the diamond xtal, I see a narrow line at 578.3nm that does not show up in all spectra. This diamond contains a few small black inclusions which are most probably graphite. I tentatively identify this line with the raman line from graphite which can range from Raman shifts of 1335cm-1 for amorphous material to 1575cm-1 for crystalline graphite. The Raman shift I measure is 1500cm-1. However, I am not at all sure of this ID.
I hope this experiment will help orient people who are interested in diamond spectra to get started with this somewhat bewildering topic. I was certainly bewildered when I started! I can't present myself as an expert in this field and there may well be some mistakes and misunderstandings in this description but, if there are, I will correct them as I learn more. I made use of the books by Gaft et al. (2005, "Luminescence Spectroscopy of Minerals and Materials", Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, p100 and p187) and by Gorobets & Rogojine (“Luminescent Spectra of Minerals” Moscow, 2002) as well as some of the extensive journal literature.
Note: These measurement of the luminescence spectra were reduced with a new (Cal #9) radiative flux calibration based on the Solar (outside the atmosphere) flux from the Hubble Space Telescope Calibration Database and a transmission model of the Earth's atmosphere at the appropriate zenith distance. The actual calibration curve used for the measurements is from an observation of a halogen filament lamp which has been adjusted to fit the solar flux data. The result is a relative flux scale in energy units per nm which removes the fine pixel-to-pixel sensitivity variations from the spectrometer detector. The result is smooth flux spectra with photon (poisson) fluctuations being the dominant noise source.
“The dark horse in graphical input is the human finger”
Being Digital (1995) by Nicholas Negroponte (p.131)
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MEPs gave their input to the upcoming EU summit in a debate on the future Energy Union with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Latvian Secretary of State for European Affairs Kalniņa-Lukaševica. At the 19-20 March summit in Brussels, EU heads of state or government are likely to discuss the future energy union with a focus on its security dimension.
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OpenCV (the Open Source Computer Vision Library) can detect different features in images using different input XML files called "Haar cascades".
To get an idea how successful each one is, how many false positives, and how much stuff in total it finds, here's the results of running each file on 41,452 magazine covers.
The title shows the input XML filename and how many features were detected in the contact sheet.
See also "The 7,063 Faces of 38,181 Magazines":
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Goal::
To make giving information less of a 1-sided transaction and more of a way for a church to pastor an individual
Audience:
First Time Guests to Regular Attenders
Direction
The idea behind this new updated connection card was to create something that felt very "mobile first" friendly but translated to paper.
Secondarily, I wanted to take the connection card experience which seems like a very one-sided transaction of giving an organization your information, somewhere that was a little more meaningful.
This Connection Card design is based primarily around the person's Decision so that we can pastor them better.
Later on, I will take this same design and create an online form that will sit in our website and app.
Your feedback, favorites, and comments are much appreciated!
Update:
This iteration was improved upon from this original concept. I added a map to know where to bring the card, reduced the amount of input fields to make it less daunting, and added a box for kids' names. I also move the perforation to the middle since we had room and lowered the cost of printing. Most of the Decision icons came from Life.Church - so thanks to them!
Check out my other work (websites/apps/logos): andstud.io
"The Hardest Hit" March & Parliamentary Lobby - 11.05.2011
Part (1) The Prelude to the March
Between 8,000 and 10,000 disabled people with long-term conditions, their families, carers and many trade union supporters assembled on London's Victoria Embankment to protest against the punitive cuts to welfare spending implimented by David Cameron's "Caring Conservatives", which are specifically aimed at the sick and the disabled. Using French IT company ATOS Origin to do the government's dirtiest work, the disabled are being summoned to "Work Capability Assessments" at ATOS Regional offices up and down the country, and are then subjected to a twenty minute examination by often medically unqualified staff who ask a series of questions and then try fill in tick boxes on their completely inflexible computerised forms, which are inadequate for coping with the very serious complexities which go with long-term disabilities. These accumulated scores then form that disabled person's Work Capability score. Input from Doctors, Carers and Senior Consultants is not allowed to be considered when going through this sham exercise designed to force people off Disablity benefits and mobility allowances - crucial to many working disabled people, many of whom have had to stop work because they cannot get there any more thanks to this incompetent process. Instead they become trapped in their homes, unable to shop for themselves or socialise.
The ATOS assessors are paid a bounty of around £70 for every person they instruct the Department of Work and Pensions to be thrown off their benefits, and those assessors with medical qualifications are instructed by the government when they sign contracts to do assessment work with ATOS that the normal medical code of conduct regarding their innate responsibility for the well-being of the patient is waived!
Since the introduction of this punitive and intensely cruel process several disabled people have committed suicide, having had their support ripped away from them, with many disabled people becoming homeless. There are also many instances where people with terminal illnesses have been told they are fit for work, their benefits stopped, and have died within weeks in absolute abject misery because the State has treated them monstrously.
Many previously independent disabled people in their own homes have had to be institutionalised in homes run by private comanies who are egging the government forward because they make a huge profit from running these homes. The sickest irony is that it costs around £10,000 per year to keep a disabled person living in their own home, independent and contributing to society, yet it costs the taxpayer between £30/40,000 to put them in a care home where they may be neglected or even worse abused.
Assaults and threats against the disabled has increased sharply over the last year as a direct result of the government's insulting press campaigns which have painted the sick and disabled as workshy scroungers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but as long as those in power have the ability to behave so appallingly towards the very weakest and most vulnerable members of our society just to score cheap political points, then that is what an increasing number of people in this country want to believe.
In December of last year Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for Work and Pensions, said of the disabled in Rupert Murcoch's Sun Newspaper interview:
"It embarrasses me. I think this is the greatest country on earth.
“What I cannot bear is the idea that this country was the workshop of the world. It gave everybody the free market, the industrial revolution. You think what we did to change the world. This was the place that everyone looked to.
“Yet we have managed to create a block of people in Britain who do not add anything to the greatness of this country.
“They have become conditioned to be users of services, not providers of money. This is a huge part of the reason we have this massive deficit. We have had to borrow vast sums of money. We went on this inflated spending spree."
Ever since that statement by Iain Duncan Smith the Sun, the Daily Express and the Telegraph have run continual lie-filled campaigns in their pages stating that around 75% of the disabled are fully able to work but because they are little more than complaining parasites who just want to sit at home enjoying themselves at "Our" expense. The rapid consequence of this disgusting, immoral slur which could be easily mistaken for the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany.
Because the government has picked on the Disabled first, they are getting away with it. Most people in this country are unable to even begin to understand what it is like living with a severe disability. Most people in this country are too stupid and dull to have the intelligence to question what they are being told to think by the right-wing press who serve the Global Capitalists hiding 'round the curtain waiting to get the nod to start taking over huge parts of our National Health Service using the appalling American model which is all about profit and not about the patient's actual needs.
This is what David Cameron has planned for Great Britain, and he's starting with the disabled because disability makes most people uncomfortable because they're so self-obsessed and shallow that human empathy is too rich an emotion for them to grasp. Instead they are turning against the disabled, and talking to many disabled people it is very clear that a lot of them are now living in a climate of fear, hounded by bullies in their local communities, taunted in the streets, often physically abused or spat at, their homes broken into, their meagre possessions stolen.
And all this human misery because David Cameron's Conservatives will not punish the banks and hedge funds which caused the recession which has wrecked our economy, and he will not close down the corporate tax loopholes, shut down the tax havens and start throwing corrupt, greedy financiers in prison where they belong. All this human pain because Conservatives think that the State should stop providing services cheaply and reasonably efficiently, and instead services should be run by completely unaccountable private comanies whose only masters are the shareholders. This is all about profit, nothing else. profit at the expense of human pain and fear.
On appeal following an ATOS assessment around 70% of people win their cases, proving how incompetent ATOS' system is, but the cruellest part is that an appeal can take a year, during which that disabled person's mental and physical health has deteriorated. Many are driven to desperation and suicidal thinking. The government is just about to make it much, much harder to appeal against an ATOS decision by making it impossible to get any form of Legal Aid which would pay for a solicitor armed with the Law to represent you. It seems unbelievably wicked and cruel to me.
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