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Macallan whiskey tasting8/1/2023 ![]() But I assume you want a little more than that. What is Scotch?īasic definition: Scotch is whisky produced and matured in Scotland. It is closest to the Highland/Speyside style and is full of rich caramel, vanilla, and hot spice notes. Macallan 12 is a Single Malt Scotch that has been aged for 12 years in oak.
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Example squidoo lens8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Pics from today a bit over exposed bit posting anyways. You just created 2 streams for incoming traffic into your web site. It’s Sunday and I was bored so I went to hang out with friends and enjoy a beer to fix me up. Imagine putting a video on, then inserting that video into your Squidoo lens. Squidoo lenses can be especially successful for consultants or nonfiction authors. Hi Sara just here always thinking about you. Walter came back with me and now we are going to go for a ride in town. Just got back from Catamaran had a nice afternoon and feel totally relaxed. That was a good reminder that I really need to get backing up on a more regular basis. For example, you can write an article on your area of expertise and submit it to an article submission site like, or create a Squidoo lens. I just read Upstart Blogger’s post on power surge and bullet proof back up systems. Still hoping to get a line monitor but have not totally figured that out yet. Even though we use surge protectors on most stuff, we still unplug laptops when power goes off. Scary we just had a power surge and it blipped off an on before I even had time to unplug my computer. I will likely continue on and have a rum punch while I am out and start fresh tomorrow. Having a bit of a of a slip on food this weekend toast and a burger bun yesterday not to mention mini chocolates that Tiona brought for tacoboy. Today that is feeling a bit more difficult than usual – nothing like friends, bbq and a nice float in the ocean to help shake it off. In one of my recent posts I wrote… I find it refreshing to know that at any point in time we can “click refresh” and see things in a new way. these elements into your pages with, for example, polls, comments, etc. Michele is ahead of me and had her second lens dreaming Belize done right away. improve the amount of traffic you receive to your Hub Page or Squidoo lens. I was having issues with links part so I will add them later. If you decide to give the challenge a try, let us know by leaving a comment below.Been a busy morning doing a new squidoo lens – said I would do one weekly for a bit and I just made t in under the wire. So sign up for a Squidoo account, and start building. And the person who builds the most lenses (if you get the urge to build more than one) will be crown SPN Grand Lens Master, and will get a whole box of cookies. Anyone who builds a lens between now and then, and posts their link here at Supernatural Squidoo Lenses will get a cookie. And, if you need some help, just follow this tutorial I wrote for just this purpose. Really, the only limit is your imagination.īuild a lens devoted to Supernatural. How closely Sam matches his astrological sign.The G8LED ninety days Watt All Reddish LED is the consequence of G8LED and DormGrow teaming around produce an LED grow light that gives the best final results for flowering, with out making any forfeit. G8LED ninety days WATT All Reddish LED Grow Light. ![]() You can make a lens on anything SPN related. Check out all the lenses I've created in Squidoo. You don't have to host images you use in a lens somewhere else. You don't have to update a lens constantly, like a blog. You have heard of Squidoo before, right It is like any other blogging sites. And they are great for fans who want to get creative in a way that doesn't involve building a website (which can take some work), writing fanfiction (not all of us have been bitten by the writing bug), or do fanart (same as before). You can build a good lens in about an hour. Here's one I just built to give you an idea. Posted at 09:16 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag You'll be surprised how fast it really is. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you, step-by-step, how to put together a Squidoo lens. Here is the lens I built for this tutorial, to give you an idea what lenses are like. You don't have to update a lens constantly, like a blog. Squidoo lenses are great for fans who want to get creative in a way that doesn't involve building a website (which can take some work), writing fanfiction (not all of us have been bitten by the writing bug), or do fanart (same as before). And, because they are so short, they don't take a lot of work. You can build a lens in less than an hour, then come back a few days or a week later to add some more stuff. Lenses are great because they are so fast. Been to one of the SPN cons? You can build a lens about it. For example, you like Supernatural posters? You can build a Squidoo lens about your favorite SPN posters. A Squidoo lens shines a spotlight on something that interests you.īasically, a lens is a single webpage on one topic. ![]()
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Quicksand song8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Nietzsche introduces the concept of the Ãœbermensch in contrast to the other-worldliness of Christianity: Zarathustra proclaims the Ãœbermensch to be the meaning of the earth and admonishes his audience to ignore those who promise other-worldly hopes in order to draw them away from the earth. These are some interesting tidbids from the Wikipedia article on the Overman (Ãœbermensch): The non-holistic, reductionist qualities of idealistic philosophies can lead to a sickness of the mind (insanity/introversion derived from being neglectful of the whole of being). It is readily apparent and does not need to be deconstructed. In the end, a human's nature is exactly what it is. Everything else will simply follow after this realization. Knowledge comes with the freeing of one's mind from the torments of idealization. The "belief in yourself" he warns against is that of idealizing yourself in an other-worldy sort of way, which is deceiving and misrepresentative of your true nature. The song is very much about the death of the idealized view we hold of ourselves in our mind's eye and not so much about an actual physical death. Believe it or not, the song is actually a positive, hopeful song.Įssentially, the song is about moving one's psyche away from that of god-infused egalitarianism, Platonic idealism, asceticism, or any other-worldly idealism or even nihilism and towards that of a purposed existence based on a love of this earth, a love of the world we share, a love for each other, and a love of life at this very moment. The song is influenced heavily by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of the Overman/Superman (which is actually mentioned in the song "I'm not a prophet or a stone age man Just a mortal with the potential of a Superman"), as well as philosophy and ideas emanating from Buddhism. ![]() You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo If I don't explain what you ought to know Just a mortal with the potential of a supermanĬan't take my eyes from the great salvation I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughtĭon't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief ![]() Where others see their targets, divine symmetry She gave a live performance of "Quicksand", and the footage was later incorporated into the "Quicksand" VR experience which debuted months later.Living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny I was really lucky that he was up for it."ījörk Digital ran from 29 June to 18 July 2016 in Tokyo, Japan at Miraikan, where Björk made history by featuring in the world's first ever virtual reality live stream, broadcast on YouTube. Are you okay with this, can I release it, how do you feel about this?’ John said yes and we put it on the album. I said to him, ‘it seems like I’ve made a mash-up of your song and my song and this is what we got. I contacted him and it was very awkward because I had never worked like this before. "I heard John’s beat online and I knew immediately that it would fit exactly with the song. “It’s a song about my mother who had a heart attack and she was in a coma for six days – she’s much better now – so it’s in a different category to all my other songs because I’d never written a song about my mother before. "I’d been trying to put some beats to Quicksand and nothing worked,” Björk says. It's one of two songs on the album (along with Mouth Mantra) that is not about Björk's breakup.ījörk told Irish Times that she sampled a song by Spaces on "Quicksand": "Quicksand" is the oldest song on Vulnicura, written in 2011 after Björk's mother suffered a heart attack that left her in a coma for a week. ![]()
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Trackmap 63rd street subway8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() (5) trains only serve this station on weekdays, and when they do, one of the platforms only serves (2) trains and the other serves (5) trains. The tunnel does actually extend past the station for about 400 feet, until Avenue H, but opening this up for tail tracks would necessarily remove the U shaped platform and make the station more difficult for passengers to navigate. ![]() ![]() This layout also doesn’t leave any room for storage tracks past the end of the station, so trains constantly have to be moved in and out. This is the only station at the end of a physical line that doesn’t have an island platform, which means that riders entering the station have to pick which platform to wait on for the next train. The station has two side platforms, although they are connected at the southern end, forming a U shape. The lack of this third track on the Nostrand Ave line means trains either have to make every single stop along the line (which had it been extended to Kings Plaza or Coney Island would have been somewhere in the realm of 13 stations in a row with no express service) or trains would operate in a skip stop pattern (see the BMT Jamaica Line post for more details on how this works) which can be unpopular with riders and logistically difficult to schedule.Īnother bottleneck on the Nostrand Ave Line, although this would have been negated had the line been extended, is the inefficient terminal design of Flatbush Ave-Brooklyn College. This two-track set up goes against the IRT’s typical modus operandi with lines in the outer boroughs, which usually have a middle track that can carry express services into and out of Manhattan during rush hours. Secondly, the line only has two tracks, and has no provisions to be widened to three or four tracks. Because of the increase in service that a Nostrand Ave extension would bring to the line, Rogers junction would have to be rebuilt as well, which adds huge cost and complexity to any possible extension. This junction restricts how many trains can move through it at any given time, and is a major bottleneck to this day on the (2)(3)(4)(5) trains. The Nostrand Ave Line merges with the Eastern Parkway Line at Franklin Ave-Medgar Evers College, at a point called Rogers Junction. It was restricted, like many other never-realized extensions, by fiscal crises in 19, the burgeoning car culture of post-war America, but also by more practical considerations. The line would have had two tracks added to it, in order to allow both freight and subway trains to use the line.Įxtensions to this line never happened. One interesting proposal from 1919 would have had the IRT trains using the Manhattan Beach Branch, a now demolished branch of the Long Island Railroad that paralleled the BMT Brighton Line to Coney Island. The proposed extensions usually follow one of two routes, either turning off Nostrand Avenue and onto Flatbush Avenue, and continuing to Avenue U and Kings Plaza, or continuing along Nostrand Avenue to Sheepshead Bay or Coney Island. There have been a surprising number of proposed extensions to the line, dating all the way back to when the line was first planned as part of the Dual Contracts, and as recently as 2016. It was built as part of the Dual Contracts, the period of most rapid expansion to the subway, when the city signed a number of contracts with the two private transit operators, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT). The Nostrand Ave Line was built in 1920, but what exists today was never meant to be the whole line. A guide to the lines we’ll be traveling along, starting in the bottom right in Brooklyn and heading north ![]()
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Ukulele songbook for beginners8/1/2023 ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Little Harry Huges and the Duke's Daughter.Songs from the Forgotten Children's Songs Suitable for use with other books for guitar, guitalele, mandolin, Cigar Box Guitar, baritone ukulele, and tenor banjo from the same book collection.Suitable for playing solo melodies, accompaniment of singing with chords, and playing in a duet.Intended for anyone who would like to increase the repertoire of songs.Included free, online audio tracks for all songs, with solo and basic chord changes.With a melody in standard notation and tablature, chord diagrams, and lyrics.Collection of 40 once most popular, but nowadays forgotten old-time children's songs.In short, before us is a new book of slightly older but once most popular children's songs that portray the world in a slightly different way. Nowadays, we can hardly imagine a child singing "I'm glad I am a farmer." It is better not to talk at all about old archetypal ballads that do not correspond to our advertised notion of modern life. We avoid, for example, mentioning acts of violence, such as the once-daily hunt in the song "Hare and Hunter." For example, we avoid former worldviews, like "What care we for gold or silver?". There are, of course, several reasons for the loss of popularity.įormer educational songs became almost banned in modern education. But nowadays they have almost disappeared from children's games. The other half of the songs in this book are songs that were once so popular that we find them in almost every old book. At the time of publication of this book, "Forgotten Children's Songs," we do not find most of these songs even on almighty Youtube. In the book "Games and Songs of American Children" from 1884, we notice songs that are hardly sung by today's children. William Wells Newell (1839-1907), a folklorist, the founder of the American Folklore Society, collected the most popular children's songs on his travels in the United States. Most of these children's songs, such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Humpty Dumpty," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," and the like, most likely got their final shape right in the mid-1800s. ![]() We immediately notice that the repertoire of songs from those days is quite different from a set of modern children's folk songs. ![]() But in this book, "Forgotten Children's Songs," we presented 40 children's songs that were popular around 1880. If in the book "50 Timeless Children Songs with Tabs and Chords," we presented the 50 most popular children's songs of today's era. Forgotten Children's Songs - Baritone Ukulele Songbook for Beginners with Tabs and Chords ![]()
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Xcom 2 more enemies8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Enemy Within will be available on PC and Mac for $30, while Xbox 360 and PS3 get the $40 "Commander Edition" that includes a copy of Enemy Unknown and the Slingshot and Elite Soldier content packs.Įnemy Within takes place in the confines of Enemy Unknown, so it's the same game with more stuff. That’s no easy task, but XCOM definitely succeeds.XCOM: Enemy Unknown will seek out the "Enemy Within" when the critically acclaimed reboot receives its first major expansion on November 12. I think it does something very few “remakes” do these days, it feels and remains faithful to the original series while still modernizing itself. ![]() An “undo” option on the first move would be a god send.Īll in all, XCOM: Enemy Unknown is an incredibly addictive strategy game, one of the best to come out in years. It can also be difficult to perceive the battlefield at times, even when rotating the camera, and you end up putting yourself in a position you didn’t mean to go to. It actually seems a bit more forgiving with the gamepad so you won’t have to fight the cursor for a certain grid. The controls with the mouse and keyboard can be annoying at times, with the “snap to” option being a little too aggressive. If I had a complaint about XCOM it’d be the lack of polish in a few areas. "Last night you managed to take out 3 Chrysalids in a single turn!" I share war stories of the game with my friends who I’ve created, talk as if they were the ones doing the actions. If you make a mistake leaving someone vulnerable only to watch their head explode at the other end of an alien laser rifle, you feel bad. Like I said, you grow attached to these soldiers. ![]() I know for a fact that a certain friend of mine is a badass assault soldier and can count on him to defend a position with his shotgun. Naming your soldiers not only helps with the attachment, but it makes it easier to remember and recognize their roles in battle. You weigh your options going into a mission - do I want to bring my experienced college roommate into this battle, risking losing him, or bring up some rookie and hope for the best. As soldiers level up and unlock abilities, the attachment you feel to them, especially when named something familiar like friends and family, becomes even greater. Something that sounds so simple adds so much to the attachment that the game yields to your squad. Perhaps the greatest feature of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is the ability to name your soldiers. You’ll have to balance your soldier’s positioning (cover, flank, line of sight) with each turn, while not only fighting against the visible enemies, but the ones that you can’t see yet hidden in the fog of war. Each soldier can move, fire, cover, or use some sort of special ability in each turn. ![]() The game carefully ramps up the difficulty on these missions over time, introducing new and more difficult alien types along the way. Its here you’ll take out a squad of four to six soldiers into a turn based battle against the alien menace. The randomly generated missions are the second half of the tactical equation. You’ll also have to carefully choose between available scenarios and balance the risk vs reward factor of choosing one over the other. Here you’ll build up your underground facilities, research new technology, recruit and upgrade soldiers, and build weapons and armor to outfit your squads for missions. XCOM is broken down into two segments - there’s a resource management section which puts players in control of a base commander. While the new game embraces consoles equally as its PC ancestry, it does so without sacrificing any gameplay and depth. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a reimagining of the classic X-COM franchise, one that lives fondly in many PC gamer’s hearts. The game is as much about tactics on the battlefield as it is off, and the fear it conveys won’t be found in any ghost stories. Who do you bring? What mission do you choose? What resources do you need? XCOM: Enemy Unknown is the latest turn based strategy game from Firaxis, makers of Civilization V, and it contains just some of the above decisions for players. Whatever mission you decide, you know some of your squad isn’t coming back. Japan wants more sectoid corpses for research. There’s a downed alien craft in North America. ![]()
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Jdm definition8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() In this paper, we present Joint Descriptive Model (JDM). Concepts and tools that support an integrative design procedure are missing. 2016) and therefore the fabrication and assembly strategies as a whole. This requires multiple iterations of the design, particularly in the case of timber structure where slight changes of the geometry significantly impact the connections that constitute a decisive part of the structure (Willmann et al. ![]() This is because all the stockholders are not known initially, in addition to other aspects such as administration or tendering that do not get decided until later stages. In a large-scale project, it is very difficult (and often impossible) to have an overview of different components, fabrication techniques, and logistic considerations during the early design phase. While these parametric models can provide an extensive overview of the design, the seamless translation from design model to fabrication files to assembly instructions is still limited to research and academic fields, where the global design parameters are known in advance (Stehling et al. Complex structures can then be described with an exhaustive parametric model that breaks down the complexity into several separated relatively simple elements and becomes more manageable. Simultaneously, digital fabrication machines’ proliferation is pushing toward an uninterrupted chain from the design-to-fabrication process (Beorkrem 2017). With the rapid advances in computer-assisted design tools and parametric modeling in architecture designing and manufacturing, and assembling buildings with complex geometry is becoming more accessible, especially within the timber construction field. Finally, we suggest a seed of a joint’s library with some common joints. Based on this, we introduce a comprehensive descriptive language called Joint Descriptive Model (JDM) that leverages industry standards to convert a joint into a usable output for both fabrication and assembly simulations. We developed a workflow that allows us to identify the fundamental data to describe a given joint geometry, machine-independent fabrication procedures, and the assembly sequence. This paper introduces a novel approach to timber joints design that embed both fabrication and assembly considerations within the same model to avoid mistakes that might cause delays and further expenses. Complex architectural topologies require thorough planning and scheduling, as it is necessary to consider numerous factors such as structural stability, fabrication capabilities, and ease of assembly. Joints design is an essential step in the process of designing timber structures. ![]() |