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Gary Paulsen’s e-book Hatchet, a few child who survives an airplane crash deep within the woods and has to outlive on his personal within the wilderness deeply affected hundreds of adolescents when the e-book was revealed in 1987. Youngsters all over the place would take into consideration Brian, Hatchet’s quick-witted protagonist, as they set out for backcountry hikes, questioning what they might do in the event that they discovered themselves alone, misplaced for days or perhaps weeks within the wilderness, no person to depend on however themselves.
The e-book wasn’t primarily based on his precise experiences, however a 12-year-old Donn Fendler knew simply what that felt like when he spent almost two weeks misplaced within the woods of Maine in 1939. His disappearance captivated the nation, as did the story of his miraculous survival. The New York Occasions lined his plight. A parade was held in his honor. FDR even gave Donn the Military and Navy Legion of Valor medal for his bravery.
Fendler turned misplaced whereas mountain climbing the Katahdin Hunt path, the tip part of the newly opened Appalachian Path. Donn was together with his father, brothers, and an older good friend, making an attempt to achieve Katahdin’s peak. Donn pushed forward towards the summit, however turned again chilly and moist in a drenching fog, assuming he’d rejoin his brothers alongside the path. Disoriented within the poor visibility, he couldn’t find anyone and shortly misplaced the path altogether. He was alone, chilly, with out meals, and solely 12-years-old.
At one level, a small pair of footprints had been found that led on to the lip of an overhanging cliff that plunged a whole bunch of ft to the rocks under. It appeared as if any person Donn’s measurement had walked proper off the cliff to their doom.
Luckily, Fendler was additionally a Boy Scout and had some backcountry expertise. He determined to spend an evening within the criminal of a big tree, then attempt discover the path within the morning. He was decided to not let panic overtake his thought course of. “Very first thing, I have to hold my head, then, possibly, if I seemed shut, I might discover a path,” he later stated. The subsequent day, Donn’s luck discovering the trail out proved no higher, so he began strolling alongside the banks of a stream, assuming it could movement downward towards assist, civilization, one thing. He stored strolling for 9 days.
In the meantime, search and rescue operations had been combing Mt. Katahdin. Canines sniffed the underbrush, Boy Scout volunteers searched simply off the paths, staff at a close-by paper mill, accustomed to the environs, poked into hidden areas.
At one level, a small pair of footprints had been found that led on to the lip of an overhanging cliff that plunged a whole bunch of ft to the rocks under. It appeared as if any person Donn’s measurement had walked proper off the cliff to their doom. Nonetheless, the search continued.
Fendler was rapidly dropping pounds and most of his garments. He took his sneakers off to wade via a creek and misplaced them. To maintain his pants as dry as he might, he took these off solely to look at them be carried downstream. For meals, he tried to eat berries when he might, at one level, nonetheless, he encountered black bears eating on the similar bushes he focused. Donn moved on.
Ultimately, Donn stumbled throughout an deserted cabin the place he discovered a potato sack he might use for a bit of heat, however no meals. 5 days into his wandering, folks again dwelling had given up hope. His mom obtained telegrams from folks expressing their concern, sharing their prayers, sending comforting phrases.
“I’m nonetheless making an attempt to make myself imagine there’s a faint thread of hope,” his father, Donald, advised The Boston Globe days after Donn went lacking.
9 days after he vanished into the fog, Donn, persevering with to observe that stream down the mountain, walked almost bare and ravenous into the arms of a pair staying at a cabin subsequent to a lake some 35 miles from the place he had parted from his household. He’d misplaced 16 kilos. The couple was capable of get Donn’s mom on the cellphone and relayed the excellent news: he’d survived, no worse for the damage, avoid wasting extreme starvation and exhaustion, and struggling hundreds of bug bites.
Donn spent just a few days within the hospital, then returned to his Rye, New York, dwelling, to renew the lifetime of a 12-year-old, albeit one who now had some notoriety. His city turned out for a small parade. The New York Occasions ran the story of his expertise on the entrance web page. Then, the following 12 months, the president got here calling. Donn was honored because the younger hero of the 12 months.
To learn extra about Fendler’s experiences, get Misplaced on a Mountain in Maine right here.


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The Herren Tunnel is a road tunnel in Lübeck opened in August 2005.
The Herren Tunnel replaces the ageing bridge over the Trave River.
The tunnel was sealed by lining it with 3,640 prefabricated concrete segments, put in place immediately behind the TBM.
The Herren Tunnel is a twin parallel tube tunnel.
The twin tunnels were mainly cut using a TBM.
The cutting edge of the TBM.
The TBM being assembled in the access shaft.
Excavation for one of the ramps to lead to the tunnel entrance.
Components of the TBM being transported for assembly.
The interior of the tunnel before the road surface was laid.
The entrance of the finished Herren Tunnel.
The city of Lübeck in the Hanseatic League region of Northern Germany had a major traffic congestion problem across the Trave River, which divided the old city from the new regions of the city. The traffic used to run across the Trave River via a road bridge, which was desperately in need of replacement (the bridge was also hazardous to shipping traffic on the river).
The Federal government offered sufficient funds to the City of Lübeck for a replacement bridge at the initial planning stages in 1997. However, the city authorities decided that the best option for the city was a road tunnel to take the traffic along the diverted national B104 under the river. This would then result in the existing bridge being demolished and the site undergoing redevelopment.
The Federal government were only prepared to finance a new bridge and this lead to the setting up of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement to finance the new tunnel. This was one of the first PPP arrangements set up in Germany, and was made possible by the 1994 Private Financing of Highway Construction Act.
The city granted a 30-year concession to finance, build and operate the tunnel to a private investment company, Herrentunnel Lübeck GmbH % Co. KG (HLKG), which is run in a 50/50 partnership by HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung GmbH of Essen and Bilfinger Berger BOT GmbH of Wiesbaden.
There were four bidding groups for the tunnel contract in 1997 following a prequalification phase. Each bidder was requested by the city of Lübeck parliament and the municipal construction authority to present three different plans for a road route across the River Trave within five months.
The winning consortium of HOCHTIEF and Bilfinger Berger put forward three ideas: a cut and cover tunnel, a shield driven tunnel and a high bridge.
The shield driven tunnel was considered the best prospect as it would avoid the disruption of shipping, protect the water supply and be environmentally friendly. The tunnel was chosen since a bridge was thought to be too disruptive, and a tunnel would also help reduce traffic noise in the area.
In addition, the area where the old bridge was situated was earmarked for the extension of the Seeland Quay to provide more access for shipping in the river.
The investment for the construction of the tunnel amounted to €179m. €89m came from the Federal government, €54m from loans (HSH Nordbank) and €36m from HLKG.
The total investment costs are due to be recouped by a toll charge levied during the 30-year concession; the control of the tunnel (which has to be kept in an excellent state of repair) will be handed over to the city of Lübeck in 2035.
Work on the tunnel started in October 2001 and was completed in early 2005 with the tunnel opening in August 2005. The Trave River tunnel complex is approximately 1km in length and was constructed by ARGE Herrentunnel Lübeck, which is a joint venture of HOCHTIEF Construction AG and BilfingerBerger AG.
The tunnel is a twin parallel tube tunnel 11.5m in outside diameter, 10.5m inside diameter, 1.04km in length and situated 9.5m below the riverbed. The tunnel was cut by a Tunnel-Boring Machine (TBM) for 780m of its length using a shield driving technique (the machine used was a Herrenknecht hydroshield machine that was named HILDE, a German acronym for ‘down into the dark earth of Lübeck’); the remaining 260m was constructed by using cut-and-cover method.
The boring commenced from a start shaft on the east side of the river (Siems) and the target shaft was on the west side of the river (Herreninsel). These shafts allowed the TBM to be assembled and disassembled at the start and end of the work, respectively.
The 11.5m-high cutter head of the hydroshield TBM consists of six spokes which remove the ground with ripper teeth and roller cutters. The average daily advance rate was 7.5m.
The TBM drove the tunnel, which was sealed by lining with 3,640 prefabricated concrete tunnel segments immediately behind the TBM. The TBM had to negotiate two problematic areas in the construction where the tunnel was driven through a protective layer of marl lying close to the drinking water strata (this was negotiated with no problems and sealed).
The construction also incorporated two man-sized emergency crosscuts for escape access between the tunnels. The cut and cover sections of the tunnel were lined by in situ rectangular reinforced concrete sections and serve as the links between the ramp sections and the shield-driven tunnels.
The ramp sections have a length of 80m to 100m and lead from ground level to the tunnel portal. The tunnel is monitored 24 hours a day by a tunnel control unit.
The tunnel was designed to exceed the current safety regulations set out in the RABT regulations. There are emergency telephones and video surveillance every 150m, state-of-the-art fire alarm and fire fighting systems and BOS radio channels for emergency services.
The tunnel design also takes into account loads from harbour areas and also a possible scenario of the weight of a sinking ship directly above the tunnel on the riverbed.
The German automobile club ADAC has carried out an extensive safety audit on the new tunnel complex and it has concluded that it is one of the safest in Europe.
Both the tunnel construction and all the fittings were in line with the rules laid down in ZTV Tunnel, Part 1, point 10. The load-bearing structures were designed to withstand a temperature of 1,200°C for 30 minutes.
For the interior fitting-out of the tunnel, the only materials used are those complying with the relevant standard – DIN 4102 Building Materials Class A (non-flammable). The tunnel structure is designed to withstand 1,200°C, which corresponds to a fuel tanker burning with a fire load of 100MW.
The tunnel will be toll-operated for the duration of the 30-year concession. The toll systems and the amount charged were the remit of two consultancy companies, TÜV Rheinland and Autostrade International.
There are several different toll lanes allowing different methods of payment. These include an automatic toll system where the vehicle passing through the toll has a transponder or onboard unit (OBU) in the vehicle that can communicate with the toll station via antennae at the side of the road; the toll charges are thus recorded automatically. Other methods include cash payment to both coin bins and manned booths and also credit card payment.
Each of the tunnels carries four lanes of traffic and the traffic load is estimated to be fairly light at 45,000 vehicles per day.
The tunnel is part of the national highway Bundestrasse 75 connecting Lubeck and Travemunde. Cyclists are not allowed to use the tunnel but have to detour around Bad Schwartau or use the free shuttle bus provided for them.

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Asunción, Paraguay – Fireworks can still be heard in the distance where thousands of people are in the streets of downtown Asuncion sharing, embracing, reveling, hugging, smothering each other in kisses, and dancing until the early morning. Fernando Lugo, the opposition candidate and progressive former bishop, has won with just over ten points above his closest challenger, Colorado candidate Blanca Ovelar.
Asunción, Paraguay – Fireworks can still be heard in the distance where thousands of people are in the streets of downtown Asuncion sharing, embracing, reveling, hugging, smothering each other in kisses, and dancing until the early morning.
Fernando Lugo, the opposition candidate and progressive former bishop, has won with just over ten points above his closest challenger Colorado candidate, Blanca Ovelar.
Mark this one down in the books because this moment is already engrained in the hearts of many Paraguayans – both here and across the globe.
People here from age 10 to 100 will never forget it, and it will be talked about for as long as they shall live – regardless of what comes after. It is the beginning of something else, new horizons, a new chapter in this book that is Paraguay, and this is living history. Everyone here realizes it, and tonight, you couldn’t help but get teary-eyed as the grandmothers, wrapped in the Paraguayan flag, danced with children in the streets, and cried at the top of their lungs that this is the moment they’ve been waiting for their whole lives.
Tonight, for millions of Paraguayans in this tiny country, and across the globe, nothing else matters. There is nothing else. "I am renewed!" cried a friend at the foot of the Pantheon in the midst of jubilant revelry after the results were announced. "For the first time in our lives, we have hope, we have possibilities… We are a new nation!"
It is not some far off dream. It is the realization of decades of struggle, beneath a repressive dictatorship, which sent thousands of Paraguayans in to exile. It is finally the fall of the dictatorship, a fall which was never fully realized in 1989, as power was passed from dictator Alfredo Stroessner in to the hands of another Colorado party member. It is the realization of truly legitimate elections, which portrayed the will of the people for the first time in as long as anyone here can remember.
Suddenly the massive crowd before us breaks into a spontaneous choir of the Paraguayan national anthem.
"I’ve never heard our anthem like this before," says my Paraguayan friend, turning to me with a large smile. "It never meant anything before."
It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. I am sure that those around me are feeling the same way.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Facestore/NOS: A partnership that seeks to potentialize e-commerce in Portugal. – Como o podemos ajudar hoje?
Websites creation, integrated online stores on Facebook and domain registrations are some of the solutions offered by the new NOS Web Pro from NOS Companies.
The NOS Web Pro offer allows access to a universe of robust solutions to digitalize the national company’s business and create a digital shopper supported integrally by an evolved platform and simple to use.
The solution provides the possibility of websites creation and, with an online retail optic, allows a quick construction and Facebook online stores operationalization through a partnership with Facestore.
Duarte Sousa Lopes, NOS companies’ marketing director, affirms that “NOS Web Pro is a unique offer between national operators, and was developed in order to optimize our customers’ digital presence, allowing them to have a more effective online presence, on a simpler and quicker way, reaching new markets and customers through their websites and online stores”.
“We’re working with NOS in order to create a new offer that allows customers, whether they are small local businesses or a bigger dimension Company, to develop quickly a new website and integrate it with an online store and Facebook store, through our platform, which has already more than 35 thousand customers in more than 15 countries”, affirms by his side Paulo Solinho Barbosa, Facestore CEO.
Among the available solutions, there are internet domain registrations, website construction, professional mail capacitation, and digital store creation as well as the possibility of integrating the store on social networks.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Schedule: Today, 7:05 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:05 p.m.; Thursday, 12:05 p.m.
Probably pitchers: Today, RHP Fausto Carmona (13-4, 3.31) vs. RHP Brandon McCarthy (4-7, 5.52); Wednesday, RHP Paul Byrd (9-4, 4.40) vs. LHP John Rheinecker (1-0, 3.80); Thursday, RHP Jake Westbrook (1-6, 5.85) vs. RHP Jamey Wright (3-3, 4.57).
Promotions: Today, half-price tickets with Giant Eagle Advantage Card; Wednesday, half-price tickets for students with school ID; Thursday, Slider growth chart.
Notable: This is the third and final series of the season between the Indians and Rangers. Cleveland swept a two-game set in April and took 3 of 4 at Arlington on July 19-22. ... Paul Byrd has two wins over the Rangers this year, but is 3-5 with a 6.56 ERA in eight career starts against Texas. ... The Rangers have been one of the oddest teams in baseball over the last couple of weeks. They won 2 of 3 against Oakland, lost 3 of 4 against the Indians, swept a four-game series from Seattle, then were swept in a three-game series at Kansas City. ... Texas will be without No. 3 hitter Mark Teixiera, traded to Atlanta on Monday.
Up next: Cleveland at Minnesota, Friday through Sunday.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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The fertile land of northwest Kansas was once covered with buffalo grass, which was ideal grazing ground for large herds of bison.
In the 1880s cattlemen formed large cattle companies and used the land for grazing large herds. One of the largest cattle companies was the Northwestern Land Cattle Company. Partners of the Northwestern Land Cattle Company, realizing the need for a town, formed the Northwestern Town Site Company and purchased 160 acres of land in the center of Section 36.
Since Benjamin Bird was the president of the newly formed company and a well-respected person in the community, the town Bird City was named. Although the community was named after him, Benjamin Bird was not born, did not die, and never resided here. Several avenues in the town were named honoring other members of the Northwestern Town Site Company, including Ketcham, Pen, Demick, Cave, Rich and Burr.
Two different historical websites have been created on the history of Bird City, KS. They both have great information including some neat, old photos from the early days of Bird City.
The Bird City Historical Association has a website; check out their page at: www.birdcityhistory.com.
Ted Glasco (1991 graduate of Cheylin) created the website www.history.birdcityks.com and has done a great job organizing this information for people interested in the community and its history. He has made this site accessible for others to add their own stories and photos pertaining to the history of Bird City.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Red Cross Meeting today at 12pm in room 117.
There will be a quick Debate Club meeting at lunch today in room 141.
Strive meeting will be held in room 139, today at lunch hour.
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Congratulations to Cameron Davis who was selected as the PEI Flag bearer for the Canada Games…Way to Go Cameron!!
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PolyBase is a technology that allows us to access data outside of the database via the t-sql language. We can access data from Azure Blob Storage, Hadoop and Parallel Data Warehouse.
From Microsoft – PolyBase allows you to run queries on external data in Hadoop or to import/export data from Azure Blob Storage. Queries are optimized to push computation to Hadoop. In Azure SQL Data Warehouse, you can import/export data from Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Store.
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On Empathy | Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the neurotypicals are at it again.
Tomorrow is Autism Pride Day, so of course today Twitter has been dominated by responses to a stupid tweet from a neurotypical journalist “thinking out loud”. She’s deleted the tweet and issued a fauxpology, but what she said was that Theresa May has no empathy because she’s a “super-functioning” autistic person.
Lack of empathy is not a characteristic of autism. Some autistic people have no empathy, just as some (most?) people with neurotypicality do, but most autistic people have a far, far higher degree of empathy than most people with neurotypicality.
Autistic people sometimes have difficulty in reading other people’s emotional states. That difficulty is not due to a lack of empathy. It’s a perceptual difference, and is roughly equivalent to a blind person being unable to see someone smiling, or a deaf person being unable to hear tone of voice. If you don’t think that blind or deaf people lack empathy, then don’t think it of us, either.
And this is not something that is limited to autistic people. People with neurotypicality have *exactly the same difficulty* in reading autistic people’s emotional states. The main difference is that autistic people are punished for this inability, while people with neurotypicality are given a free pass. We’re forced to conform to neurotypical forms of expression, and told we’re doing it wrong anyway. When it comes to emotional communication, autistic people are like native French speakers being forced to communicate in English, and being told that any time we speak with an accent or misunderstand an idiom it’s because we’re literally subhuman and don’t have the basic human quality of empathy.
When autistic people do understand someone’s emotional state — when the person with neurotypicality has managed to learn to communicate successfully with people who are unlike them, or when the autistic person has expended massive amounts of mental effort to become emotionally bilingual — they are usually far more empathetic than people with neurotypicality. (I say “usually” because the things which stop people having empathy can coexist with autism just as they can with neurotypicality. Autism isn’t a magic wand that makes you into a good person).
For many autistic people, in fact, we are over-sensitive to other people’s emotional states. I can become so overwhelmed by someone else’s sadness that I lose all ability to function and will do literally anything to help them. Most of the autistic people I know are so aware of injustice and hurt around them that they put all their energy into fighting injustices that many people with neurotypicality are completely unaware of. Distance-diagnosing people is pernicious whenever and wherever it’s done, but I’d say that figures like Gandhi or Albert Schweitzer show far more of the characteristics of autism than May ever has, and are far more typical of how autistic people respond to injustice.
People with neurotypicality seem far, far, more likely in my experience to only show empathy for members of a particular group with which they identify (white people, English people, men, Christians, heterosexuals, members of their own family or whatever). It’s certainly not true for *all* people with neurotypicality, but as a crude generalisation they separate people into in-groups and out-groups and only care about in-groups. Autistic people, on the other hand, very rarely see ourselves as members of a group at all, and don’t often distinguish in the same way between deserving and undeserving targets of empathy. Which of those actually sounds more like Theresa May?
Theresa May is the Daily Mail made flesh, a perfect living representation of the views, values, and behaviours of middle-class, middle-aged, white, suburban England. She is stupid, cruel, and appears to have no hinterland whatsoever. These are not characteristics of autism, but characteristics of privilege.
Evil is not a disability, and disabled people are not evil.
And this matters for two reasons. The most obvious one is that this is being used to excuse May, and she does not deserve excuses, but blame.
But more importantly, this kind of bigotry kills people. Autistic people die, on average, sixteen years younger than people with neurotypicality (for autistic people who also have epilepsy, it can be much, much younger than that — if I were one of the twenty to forty percent of autistic people who have epileptic seizures, my current life expectancy would be about four months). For autistic people without comorbid neurological conditions, the two biggest causes of death are stress-related heart disease and suicide.
As someone on blood pressure medication because stress has at times raised my blood pressure to 200/100, and who has suicidal ideation caused by depression on a semi-regular basis, this is a statistic that holds a very personal meaning to me. I would quite like to live past my mid fifties, if it’s all the same to neurotypical broadsheet journalists who complain about others’ lack of empathy.
And the only way to increase autistic people’s life expectancy (other than prompt treatment of comorbid conditions like epilepsy and diabetes, which we are at very high risk of) is to remove the stress which comes from living in a world designed by and for people with different brain architectures to ours. And the very, very, smallest, most trivial, first step in that process is to recognise that we are human, and that we share the human capacity for love, for empathy, and for decency.
There are a lot of words I could use for what Theresa May is, none of them complimentary. And none of them are “autistic”.
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That is just brilliantly put.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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text: Making the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Landscape and Energy is a groundbreaking book about the effect of this transition on our environment. It's the first book to visually compare the spatial footprints of all relevant energy sources. Thoughtfully designed, Landscape and Energy features exploratory graphics that makes this dense information accessible.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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Christian Nuckels from Weems Creek Baptist Church in Annapolis, MD brings us this very cool, large cross on their stage.
When the Stage Design team at Weems Creek set out to create an engaging stage design to utilize their new lighting system, they began with the concept of a large, three dimensional cross in the center, flown from the pipe grid above the stage. To create the cross, the team mocked up a 3D frame in auto cad and cut 2X4s to the specified angles, then assembled the wooden frame using screws and L brackets then stretched cheap white fabric (layered in some areas for additional geometric variation) onto the front of the cross. The sides of the frame were covered in black weed guard that was left over from a previous project. The cross was then backlit with a mixture of Elation Opti QA Pars and ETC Vivid-R’s.
The towers were created using AC filters purchased online. These were duct taped together into cubes and stacked in a staggered fashion. The bases for the towers were made by simply cutting holes in the boxes that the AC filters were shipped in, and covering them with black weed guard. The towers were then up-lit with Elation Opti QA Pars.
Can you tell me where you got your AC/furnace filters?
Hello please drop me an email at andy@weemscreek.com and I can help.
This looks great! Would you mind sharing the measurements and supplies for the cross to me as well? Also, I would be interested in learning more about how you lit the cross.
Is the back wall a simple wall with lights shining on it?


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Total Surface Area (A): The calculator will return the total surface area (A) of the interior room including the walls and ceiling. The area is returned in square feet. However, this can be automatically converted to other area units (e.g. square meters) via the pull-down menu.
This equation, Room - Interior Wall and Ceiling Area, is used in 4 calculators and 1 equation/constant.


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Candy loves big spells and big effects. Insurrection? Yes. Storm Herd? HELL yes. Insurrection the turn after an an opponent has resolved a Storm Herd? Oh my God yes. Twincasting an opponent’s Storm Herd, followed by Gather Specimens? Let’s just say that play makes her happy in ways no Magic play should ever make a person happy. She’s at her most gleeful when abusing geometric progressions (token creation and lifegain, mostly) and beating face, either with a bunch of weenies or, even better, a big wall o’ fat, though she sometimes dabbles in more controlly builds.
You can see a list of her decks at www.tappedout.net/users/misshepeshu.
Coda is an inveterate Spike who likes to take breaks from the focused competition of the draft tables in the insane world of EDH. Her approach to multiplayer is probably best described as “suicidal,” although she might demur and call it merely “aggressive.” While some players prefer to sit back and lay low as the board state develops, Coda is the one doing her damnedest to exert control over the entire table right from turn 1. Think of it like playing Archenemy, only without the benefit of scheme cards. Sure, the whole table often ends up ganging up on her, but Coda lives for those moments in the eye of the storm. A connoisseur of big mana plays and enters-the-battlefield shenanigans, Coda is most at home piloting a green deck of some description, although blue exerts a powerful pull of its own. Once upon a time she would have also claimed to be fond of mass discard and land destruction, but she’s better now. Honest.
You can see her creations at www.tappedout.net/users/CodaPDX/. If you want to get in touch with her, send her a PM on MTGSalvation. Her handle there is CodaPDX.
Samwise is the protector of the bearer of the ring creator and gamekeeper of a Commander Cube. He heard whispers from the far reaches of the internet telling of a creation so marvelous that it shook the very foundation of the EDH community. Inspired by these tales, he decided to take it upon himself to create the Commander Cube. Here he will be a teller of tales, sharing stories of its construction and the wondrous games played with it. Prior to his adventures with the Commander Cube, Sam had been playing MtG since 2000-ish and playing EDH/Commander since 2005-ish. Although he is perfectly comfortable wielding all five colors of Magic, nothing gives him more sadistic glee than casting black spells such as Damnation, Necropotence , Reanimate or Vampiric Tutor . You can contact him at EDHcube@gmail.com for any magic related questions or comments.
LionRum fell in love with Magic the Gathering for its social aspect. He began by playing with his friends at school during homeroom and at lunch, and could be often found playing on kitchen tables and bedroom floors with his friends. Eventually the power level of his group shifted up, and his group shifted to the FNM tournament scene. LionRum showed moderate success here and was known to win a few FNMs; however, as he started to get higher DCI ranked, Magic shifted from “fun” into “winning.” Once he realized Magic turned from stress-relief into stress-full, he quit for awhile. But the advent of EDH brought him back to the game he grew up loving, tying competitive and casual in beautiful harmony. Pheldagrif, Zedruu, the Greathearted, and funny theme decks like one with Karador, Ghost Chieftan impersonating an executive chef in a kitchen (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/chef-edh/) are his favorite decks to play; and he is having the most fun at the table when everyone is having a good time.

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This is not a complex shooting drill that has a lot of moving parts, and is in fact pretty basic, but it is a great way to keep a shooter mentally engaged when shooting catch and shoot shots, and it will provide some variation to simply just catching and shooting over and over again without some kind of competitive factor involved.
It is important that shooters stay mentally engaged when they are shooting so that they don't allow themselves to practice bad habits. So shooting drills like this are great because they give the shooter a competition rather than just mindlessly shooting.
Drill Goal: Work on shooting game speed catch and shoot shots while staying mentally engaged.
Drill Tips: Get your work done before the ball gets there and shoot the same way every time. Focus on one shot at a time and stay mentally engaged on each shot.
Drill Directions: The shooter will start in the corner with a rebounder under the basket and a passer near the top of the key. The player has 1 minute to get through the drill and they must make; 3 in a row from the corner, 2 total from the wing, 3 in a row from the top of the key, 2 total from the opposite wing, and then 3 in a row from the opposite corner. If you would like to scale down the drill you can flip flop the numbers and go; 3 total makes from the corner, 2 in a row from the wing, 3 total makes from the top of the key, 2 in a row from the opposite wing, and 3 total makes from the opposite corner.


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The Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) is an open-source router designed for use with data from the OpenStreetMap project.
In contrast to most routing servers, OSRM does not use an A* variant to compute the shortest path, but instead uses contraction hierarchies or multilevel Dijkstra's. This results in very fast query times, usually below 1 millisecond for data sets like Europe, making OSRM a good candidate for responsive, web-based routing applications and websites.
Besides chronological routing, OSRM also provides additional functionality, such as map matching, traveling salesman problem solving, and generating vector tiles that contain routing metadata.
See the full list of websites and projects using OSRM and a showcase of Mapbox-powered applications.
The OSRM project began with an initial public release on July 9, 2010, by Dennis Luxen. The next year, Luxen presented on OSRM at the ACM GIS '11 conference along with Christian Vetter. In 2015, Luxen stepped back from leading active development on OSRM. Mapbox's Directions team continues to maintain and contribute to the project.
↑ “Biking Directions With OSRM’s New External Data Support”. 2013-10-22. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/osrm-using-external-data/. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
↑ “Smart Directions Powered by OSRM’s Enhanced Graph Model”. 2014-01-31. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/smart-directions-with-osrm-graph-model/. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
↑ Luxen, Dennis (July 9, 2010). “Announcing the immediate availability of the Open Source Routing Machine”. OSM-dev mailing list. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-July/019834.html. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
↑ Luxen, Dennis; Vetter, Christian (November 1–4, 2011). “Real-time routing with OpenStreetMap data”. Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Chicago, Illinois: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 513–516. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2093973.2094062.
↑ Luxen, Dennis (April 7, 2015). “Taking a break ...”. OSRM-talk mailing list. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osrm-talk/2015-April/000800.html. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
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Meet one of my senior models for the class of 2019 Karrie.
This girl was amazing to work with!
When I met with Karrie she was game to do anything. She just didn’t want the normal, boring, what everyone else is doing senior photos. She wanted fun, creative, a little edgy, and a few with her dogs. She loves reading and glitter, but hates rain. So we made it all work even though for her session we were hit with an apocalyptic type down pour and that moment when her one dog decided it wanted to be free and run away (no worries she didn’t get far).
I loved this session and I’m so happy with what we captured.
Karrie I hope you have the BEST SENIOR YEAR EVER!
PS. If you’re a friend of Karrie and a Junior or Senior who needs your senior photos done, ask her about her senior model discount!


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The accumulated leaves standing to the credit of an employee may be availed by the employee during his service time or, subject to service rules, such leaves may be encashed at the time of retirement or leaving the job.
If Leave salary encashment is received by any employee while in employment then it is fully taxable in the hands of employee.
While if leave encashment is received in case of retirement or superannuation or resignation, then exemption is available up to the following limits.
For the purpose of discussing the tax treatment of leave salary, we shall have two types of employees; Government and non-government employees. Based on the status of the employee, the tax treatment of the leave encashment differs.
Any leave salary received by an employee of Central Government, State Government is wholly exempt from tax. This exemption is not available to employees of Statutory Corporation & employee of local authority.
. Average salary x leaves at the credit of an employee (leaves cannot exceed 30 days for every completed year of service, fraction of a year is to be ignored).
. Average Salary = Average of salary drawn in the last 10 months immediately preceding the date of retirement.
If leave encashment is received by an employee from more than one employer in the same previous year or in different previous years the aggregate maximum amount exempt from tax on account of leave encashment cannot exceed Rs. 3,00,000.
Section 43B disallows the sum which are not paid in the financial year as well as not paid before due date of filing income tax return.
The following sum are allowed in the year in which they are incurred, only if they are paid before the due date of furnishing the return of income under section 139(1) of that year.
As an employer in lieu of any leave at the credit of his employee (Leave Encashment).
i.e. If employer does not paid the statutory dues of leave salary before the due date of filling of return the same will be taxable in the hands of employer as income.

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The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) belongs to the family 'hominidae' which includes four extant genera: gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutangs and humans.
The western lowland gorilla has been recognised within the tropical rainforests of six west central African countries: Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Central African Republic. Their only (reported) predators are leopards, although rare, and humans.
The western lowland gorilla is the largest living primate. They have broad shoulders, a muscular neck, as well as strong hands and feet. Their considerable size enables defense against most potentiel predators and allows them to live in relative safety on the ground. The western lowland gorilla's body is covered by short, thin grey-black or brown-black hair. A gorilla's face has no hair and has a thick supra-orbital bony ridge above the eyes.
Western lowland gorillas can walk for short distances on two legs (bipedalism), however, they generally walk quadrupedally using their knuckles (known as 'knuckle-walking).
Western lowland gorillas form small, non-territorial harems usually lead by a single, mature male commonly known as the "dominant" silverback. They live in a structured group of between 6-22 individuals usually consisting of one adult male silverback, 3-4 unrelated adult female gorillas and several juvenile / infant youngsters. The silverback is the dominant figure in the family and regulates the group's schedule. Western lowland gorillas spend several hours eating in the morning, rest during late-morning and early-afternoon (although young gorillas play with each other while adults sleep) and continue eating in the afternoon until nesting at night starting around 17:00. While western lowland gorillas are social creatures, the strongest bond ussually takes form between the silverback and his female mates.
Western lowland gorillas are quiet, shy, and non-agressive. There is very little conflict between groups with overlapping territories.
Adult males can, however, perform elaborate displays, including chest beats, sideway runs, and tearing up vegetation, which all serve to deter an intruding male (and other threats) or express their dominance within a group. Adult females can become agressive while defending their infants, or while helping each other drive off rowdy, young adult male gorillas. The silverback is the peace keeper and intervenes between occasional squabbles between female gorillas.


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My husband and myself are happy that we chose Fountain Hills to be our home. Our manager, Gina, and her staff work diligently to facilitate a smooth running facility where we feel like "friends and family".Requests and communications are handled promptly, and we have more friends on the waiting list to join us here!
Fountain Hills is a beautiful and convenient home for senior citizens, with welcome activities. Building and grounds are well maintained throughout the years.
This is a great place to live. I have made many new friends.
I was drawn to Fountain hills after I found out they could give me me my three reasons for moving - a walk in shower, heated garage, washer & dryer in apt. I soon found out there were many more advantages, a well-stacked library, bank, store, beauty salon and exercise room. Staff is friendly and caring. Maintenance crew is fantastic, apartments are checked several times a year to make sure everything is in good working order. And where can you get the newspaper delivered right to your door. I especially like the fact that the staff sponsors fundraisers for cancer, veterans, homeless and other community concerns. There are many activities going on constantly. I also like being able to entertain family and friends in either dining room for special occasions.
The office staff and maintenance crew have been very helpful and do an outstanding job here in the building and I am very pleased with their work.
Considerate "management" team, always on top of needs via listening, action and kindness! The best "maintenance" crew, prompt service. Cleaning - the best! Safe and comfortable apartments! Home like atmosphere, along with activity offerings! Continued interest in residents needs. Best choice in Racine to consider long range home life.
Love this place- Best in Wisconsin!
Great place, my parents live here. The staff is the best ever anywhere.
Best in Racine & Milwaukee.
Been here 15 yrs- Love it!
Would love to live here. They have a wait list at all times! That says something!
Great place to be. Staff is the best.
Wonderful staff & very clean & updated.
I've been to Fountain Hills as a vendor. It is a wonderful community! Would recommend it!
Great people on the staff. Love the surroundings. Tons of activities.
Would love to live here. Am getting on the wait list ASAP! Great tour by competent consultant Diane!
7. Nice atmosphere. I now have a comfortable place to live and very little responsibilities.
Fountain Hills is a physically attractive, well managed resident’s community. Privacy is highly respected, but staff is available for support when needed and requested. Residents participate in giving events (lunches, dinner, information, presentation) at their own discretion and comfort level.
Well managed community with a homelike atmosphere. Friendly people, lots of activities and a library. Staff is great.
The best. Clean, price friendly. Bus trips cook-outs management. Many activities, repairs quickly done. Week day lunches what more can you ask for!!!
Very friendly and lots of activities.
I have been a resident for 5 years. Everyone on staff is well trained, are accommodating to all residents, and do a very good job.
Highly recommend! Very clean, quiet and safe. Staff is always there to help.
The best staff and maintenance I have ever encountered. My parents have been here for several years. They are open and friendly and welcome everyone to parties and events. I plan on moving here as soon as I turn 50!
Feel comfortable and safe. Friendly staff and maintenance people. Seminars for safety, scams, health issues. Meals available. Beautiful landscape campus.
After living at Fountain Hills for fourteen years, I would rate this community as the best senior living. The manager and staff are always available to help if needed. Problems are usually taken care of on the same day. There are plenty of activities and services.
I've been happy living in this community. Any problems that come up here are always been repaired.
We have lived in this community for over 5 year sand love it. We go south for the winter and know that our apartment is always safe. One of the staff checks on our apartment while we are gone. This doesn't mean much to most people but they have popcorn for the residents that my husband loves!
We so much enjoy the friendliness of everyone from employees to residents. The building is well kept and the grounds are beautiful. We have been blessed to be living in such a great environment.
I have several friends who live here. The place is great and very clean! I highly recommend the place.
I have several elderly ladies that live on different floors of Mt. Pleasant Fountain Hills and I have visited all of the units and they are all so clean and comfortable. I give this place high marks.
Fountain Hills is a wonderful place to call "home". Everyone is so nice and friendly. It is well-maintained and in very good condition! Things get fixed before I know they need repaired. I am 100% happy living here.
My mother enjoys the friendly community at Fountain Hills. She especially appreciates that the buildings and grounds are so well-maintained. Life is easier for me because I know my mother is in good hands!
My mother lives in a seniors apartment in Minnesota and wishes she could live in an environment as caring as Fountain Hills!
Fountain Hills is a wonderful place to live.
- The office manager and staff are very friendly and helpful.
- The buildings and grounds are well maintained.
- There are lots of activities for all those who wish to participate.
- For all who have vehicles, a heated garage is available.
Fountain Hills is a great place for seniors. There are planned activities and available meals. Mom has made many friends who look in on her and help her when she needs it. We know mom is safe here.
Well organized, wonderful place to live. Safe place to live. Friendly community.
A great place to live!!! Many friends - new and older. What more can I say - but it can turn one's life from sadness and acceptance and happiness.
I love it here! Best move I could have made. My family is so pleased I am here!
This is a loving, caring community. It is clean and well maintained.
Good security. The best staff, very helpful. Place a service call 99% of time fixed same day. Convenient to shopping, church, all of Racine area.
Very responsive to your needs. Wonderful staff. Promote education for the elderly on how to care for yourself and your needs, to stay independent as long as possible. Very friendly environment.
A nice quiet place for senior citizens.
I am very happy at Fountain Hills. I have been here for almost 4 years and I have found everyone to be friendly and helpful. Everything is very clean and they update and have staff to help you with any problems. They also have meals available and many types of entertainment.
Very clean and well maintained buildings. People are all very friendly, the place is very well run. Fountain Hills is a very clean, safe and quiet place to live.
This is the best place for seniors.
Owner: maintains building, excellent condition.
Management: top rated, sees to needs of residents, listens to concerns of residents. Goes out of her way to retain good relationships.
Maintenance: courteous, fast to respond, knowledgeable, eager to please.
Activities: many different activities you may attend, meal program cards, trips to restaurants, shopping, gambling.
Residents are friendly and sociable.
Everyone is very friendly. Kept up very well - if something goes wrong, they are very prompt in fixing it.
Very nice place to live. Staff is very helpful with any issues you might have. The maintenance men are very prompt with answering your requests. Have a nice and reasonable lunch served M - F and a dinner once a month.
Is a fine place to live.
It's a great place to be living here.
It's the best place to live. You feel safe at night - lots of activity and everyone are friendly. We also have a little grocery store.
We have lived at Fountain Hills for 3 1/2 years. The grounds and interior are beautiful. Our apartment is very quiet. The staff is caring and attentive to our needs. We love living here and feel good to call it "home".
Both the building and the grounds are neat and clean, well kept for - any needed repairs are done promptly. Activities anyone can participate in. Lunches available daily . Our manager and the employees are helpful and friendly.
1. Management and staff treat residents more like family than renters.
They arrange many on-site events; informational, entertainment, social - including catered lunches every week day and at least two "special" meals every month. They arrange on-site flu shots for residents every year.
2. Care of grounds and buildings is outstanding. Required in-apartment maintenance is always prompt. Annual apartment inspections prevent many problems before they occur. The grounds, lobbies and common areas are beautiful.
3. The residents are warm and friendly.
My husband and I have lived here for seven years and really appreciate all of the amenities. The management and maintenance are great. We enjoy meeting neighbors and taking part in various social activities.
It is the "M&M" place. Great management and great maintenance. The staff is upbeat and that carries into the residents. All kinds of things to do but you are never forced to do them.
I've lived at Fountain Hills for 17 years. It has always been a friendly and enjoyable place to live. We have a great staff and a concerned manager. We feel safe in our locked buildings. I would never want to live anywhere else.
Attractive apartments, community areas and grounds. Well managed activities galore, friendly atmosphere and quiet sound proof units. Each has it's own laundry facilities and separate thermostat for heat and air conditioning plus a balcony or patio for ventilation or relaxing.
I ham happy living here. I checked several other places and preferred this one.
This is a very good place to retire and live in. It's a beautiful place and the staff keeps it in very good repair. The staff is also very pleasant and helpful. We have lived in another senior community before this one, and Fountain Hills is so much nicer all the way around.
Fountain Hills is everything we wanted and needed. It is safe, friendly, clean, makes us feel like it is our home and a beautiful facility. the entire staff is first class and they are always there to provide assistance. We have and will continue to talk about Fountain Hills to anyone looking for a facility like this! We are very happy!
We have only been here for a few months. We are happy in our apt. The staff is friendly and very cooperative. The buildings and grounds are kept up and well taken care of. We made a good choice when we moved to Fountain Hills.
I have lived here for 6 years and am very happy.
I like living here. We have so many pluses - the store, the bank, the library, beauty salon and an indoor garage, and the location fits my needs. I feel safe here!
I live in these senior living apartments. I rate this community 4 stars.
When I recall the list of our needs, this place is an answer to our prayers.
I give this senior living community 5 stars!
I live at Fountain Hills senior community. I rate this community 5 out of 5 stars!
Very hospitable, friendly environment. I like the fact that you have the option to enjoy as many or as few of the amenities offered as you wish, without pressure.
I have lived at Fountain Hills for 14 years, and it just keeps getting better. From the management, which is resident-conscious and efficient, to all the caring staff, our needs are always attended to. There are opportunities for everyone to tailor their lives according to their own wishes, enjoying their privacy or taking part in the numerous activities, scheduled and spontaneous. If you will miss taking care of a garden, there are plots available where residents grow vegetables and flowers. If you like to walk, the area is lovely and refreshing. From well-planned apartments to comfortable common areas, to congenial companionship, Fountain Hills offers the best in a new way of life.
When we realized the time was coming to move, it was "Fountain Hills here we come!"
After my husband's death, it was burden free. I was already situated. No worry selling home, the horrific move. The owners and staff are terrific, caring people.
The tour was given by director who was very personable and friendly. The community is fresh, clean, and beautiful. Maintenance provides all services, even replacing burned out lightbulbs. No odors detected. There wasn't much going on during the time I was there. They do provide transportation. The staff was wonderful and very friendly and attentive to the residents. I definitely felt welcomed. The scenery is gorgeous. They have a large pond which has an island in it that contains several big trees, a fountain, geese, ducks, and swans. Picnic tables and benches to sit on are located close to the pond. The building is very secure and each apartment has an intercom so she can let in any guests she wants to. There are outdoor gardens where residents can plant things, and tons of other activities. I was so impressed and pleased that I selected an apartment and put down a deposit on it.
Fountain Hills Apartments offers condo style apartment homes dedicated to your comfort, while allowing you the freedom to enjoy a more active and worry free lifestyle.
Scheduled social activities include trips, cookouts, and family get togethers.
Fountain Hills - Mount Pleasant, WI has been recognized for consistently high ratings from residents and their families in previous years.


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The properties of soft cohesive soils can be improved by mixing of a variety of chemical additives. The addition of lime, fly ash and cement in different combinations can significantly improve the shear strength and compression properties of such soils. Other additives can be used to fix pollutants in place to prevent leaching or to reduce soil permeability. Deep soil mixing (DSM) is achieved using either a wet or a dry process where metered quantities of additives are injected into the soil through the hollow stem of a rotary drill string fitted to a drilling rig.
The method helps to achieve significant improvement of mechanical and physical properties of the existing soil, which after mixing with cement or compound binders becomes the so-called soil-mix (or soil-cement). The stabilized soil material that is produced has a higher strength, lower permeability and lower compressibility than the native soil.
There are two different mixing methods of deep soil mixing. The existing soil which has to be improved can be mixed mechanically, either with a slurry including binder (wet DSM) or with a dry binder (dry DSM). Jetting of slurry can be also used to boost the mechanical mixing.
The wet method is more appropriate in soft clays, silts and fine-grained sands with lower water content and in stratified ground conditions including interbedded soft and stiff or dense soil layers. The dry method is more suitable for soft soils with very high moisture content, and hence appropriate for mixing with dry binders.
This method consists of a special mixing tool which is inserted into the soil on site. This mixing tool comprises of a drilling rod, transverse beams and a drill end with a head. The drilling does not cause any vibrations, and is accommodated by cement slurry outflow from nozzles intentionally placed at the end of the soil auger. When the design depth is reached, the construction phase of deep soil mixing (DSM) columns is started.
Mass wet soil mixing is carried out with a horizontal axis rotary mixing tool at the end of a track hoe arm. The binder slurry is injected through a feed pipe which is attached to the arm.
This technique creates individual soilcrete columns, rows of overlapping columns, all of which have a specific design strength and stiffness. Wet soil mixing is suitable to any soil types which includes even organic soil. With this method, the treatment of soil is possible to depths up to 100 feet.
Dry soil mixing is a ground improvement technique that mechanically mixes the soil with dry cementitious binder to create soilcrete so as to improve the weak soils such as soft, high moisture clays, peats. A high speed drill moves into the ground with a drill rod which has radial mixing paddles near the bottom so as to construct the columns. During the penetration of the tool into the ground, it shears the soils to prepare them for mixing. As and when the tool the specified design depth, the binder is injected through the drill steel where it is assorted with the soil as the tool is taken out.
Mass dry soil mixing is carried out with a horizontal axis rotating mixing tool positioned on the end of a track hoe arm. The binder is injected to the soil mixing tool through a feed pipe, which is attached to the track hoe arm. With dry soil mixing, the treatment for the soil is possible to depths up to 60 feet. Obstructions are sometimes pre-drilled ahead of the soil mixing process.
When there is need for ground improvement work or site remediation and the soil is very weak or contaminated soil with high water content such as deposits of dredged sediments or wet organic soils or waste sludges , shallow dry mixing provides a cost-effective solution. In this method special mixing tools are used which are usually fixed to an excavator’s rig arm.
Stabilization is performed in phases which is according to the operational range of the drilling rig. This normally comprises an area of 8 to 10m2 and depth up to 4m approximately. When the necessary binder volume has been applied, mixing is continued to make sure of the optimum mixing properties.


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Here’s a close-up of a bucket dredge – for those of you who’ve seen an actual dredge bucket, you can imagine the size of this machine! We thank Alison Cotterill (nee Caldwell) for this photograph. From her emails, we think that this was probably part of the Keramat Tin mine in Bidor (if we’re wrong, do let us know 🙂 ).
These buckets are made from molybdenum steel and weigh about one tonne each.
This dredge about 5000 plus tonnes had been dredging for tin ore from Kampar to Membang Diawan , Air Kuning, Simpang Empat, Banir, Temoh, Temoh Station, Tapah Road to Bidor , Bidor Station, Pekan Pasir, Sungkai to Jeram Mengkuang , Telok Anson Road and finally stoped near Langkap, Perak when the price of tin ore fell in 1985 covering an area of a few thousand acres. of tin ore mining land.
I believe the worker in blue shirt is taking great risk to repairing or working on that huge machine.
The worker in blue is a greaser, hes pumping grease into the bottom tumbler bearings.
There is no danger at all as he is in full view of the winchman who is the only man capable of putting the dredge into operation.
I know because I use to work on board these monsters.
By the way, which ‘monster’ did you used to work with?

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Karen O. Brown is a professional artist with extensive experience as an arts educator. She draws students into learning curriculum as they discover the joys of artistic expression. She conducts 30 to 40 workshops and residencies a year in DC, MD and VA for organizations such as The Kennedy Center, Class Acts Arts, WPAS, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art and Natural History Museum.
Karen has permanent art installations at the DC Commission for the Arts, Children’s National Medical Center and The DC Convention Center. In 2010, she completed a 23′ mural with 1st through 5th graders at Ideal Academy Public Charter School based on the painted house designs of the Ndebele women of South Africa.
Her extensive international travels in Asia, Europe, Central and South America inform and enrich her creative and imaginative approach to teaching, leading workshops and creating public art. Ms. Brown’s education includes graduate studies in textiles, ceramics, sculpture, 3-D and surface design, bookmaking, and photography.


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Why Is There No Footage of Nikola Tesla Online?
The internet's Nikola Tesla obsession is in full force. There's Tesla fanfic, endless blog posts rediscovering the great inventor, and of course, Matthew Inman's tremendously popular webcomic about the man. But curiously, there's one crucial thing missing: Any digitized film of Tesla.
Despite a wave of revisionism that has washed over the internet in recent years, Tesla was actually an incredibly popular figure in his own time. Journalists clamored for interviews, and even in his old age he would grace the cover of major magazines like Time. So where are all the moving pictures?
Even though Tesla lived to see the year 1943, there seems to be no footage of the man online. We have written accounts that suggest he appeared in short newsreels in the 1920s and '30s, and at least one account of a film that he helped produce in 1935. But alas, none of this footage has made its way to the big old collective brain we call the internet.
In 1935, with the help of newsreel photographers, Tesla designed and produced an electrified extravaganza which he offered to Paramount Pictures. "Paramount said the film came out unusually good, both in respect to pictorial and sound effects," he told George Scherff," but they feel that the subject was too technical."
And thus I implore you, dear reader, to make this the internet's next big mission. Sadly, the world has lost so many films to the ravages of time. Film, even when stored properly, will deteriorate. So, if film of Nikola Tesla exists—and of course we hope it still does—then let's make sure it's digitized and preserved for generations to come.
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