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Your First Day With The iPad 2: Customizing and Configuring The Tablet
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If you've just purchased a brand new Apple iPad 2, you're probably pretty excited. In this article, Jason Rich spells out the initial steps to take in order to get your new tablet up and running within minutes. This process includes setting up a data plan with AT&T Wireless or Verizon if you've purchased an iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G model, as well as transferring apps and data from an original iPad if you're upgrading.
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If you've just purchased a brand new Apple iPad 2, you're probably pretty excited. In this article, you'll discover the initial steps to take in order to get your new tablet up and running within minutes.
These steps include setting up a data plan with AT&T Wireless or Verizon, if you've purchased an iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G model, as well as transferring apps and data from an original iPad, if you're upgrading.
As an early adopter of the iPad 2, you're probably filled with excitement as you hold the sleek white iPad 2 box that Apple's newest tablet device comes in. Inside is one of the most advanced and well-designed tablet devices ever created. It's a tool that can help you become more productive, stay in touch, as well as keep you informed and entertained. It's lightweight, has a long battery life (about 10 hours of continuous use), and can be used any time and just about anywhere.
Before you can begin tapping the vast potential of the iPad 2, and experiencing firsthand all that it's capable of, you'll need to take it out of its box, remove the clear plastic protective wrap that surrounds it, and then configure the tablet for the first time.
Prior to configuring your iPad 2, install the latest version of iTunes onto your Mac or Windows PC. With iTunes running on your computer, access the iTunes pull-down menu that's located in the upper-left corner of the screen and choose the "Check For Updates" command to ensure you have the latest version of the program installed. If you need to download iTunes from scratch, visit http://www.itunes.com/download.
Once your iPad 2 is removed from its packaging, when you turn it on, you'll see an image of a USB cable and the iTunes program logo on the screen with a message that simply says, "iTunes."
At this point, if you're upgrading from the original iPad and want to transfer all your apps and data to the iPad 2, be sure to perform a backup sync of your original iPad.
Otherwise, connect the iPad 2 to your computer using the USB cable that was supplied with your iPad 2. Within a few seconds, the iTunes "Welcome to Your New iPad" screen will appear (as shown in Figure 1).
Figure 1 The Welcome to Your New iPad screen appears when your iPad 2 is first connected to your computer that's running the latest version of iTunes.
From the welcome screen, you have two options: "Register Later" or "Continue." To set up your iPad 2, whether you're upgrading from the original iPad or setting up your new iPad 2 from scratch, click on the "Continue" icon.
When the iPad Software License Agreement screen appears, use the mouse to place a checkmark next to the statement that says "I have read and agree to the iPad Software License Agreement." Next, click on the "Continue" icon that's located in the lower-right corner of the screen (as shown in Figure 2).
Figure 2 The iPad Software License Agreement screen displayed within iTunes when configuring a new iPad 2
When the Apple ID screen appears, you can either enter your existing Apple ID account information, which you would have set up when you first established your iTunes account, or initially set up any other Apple product, such as a Mac, iPod, or iPhone. If you don't yet have an Apple ID, click on the "I do not have an Apple ID" and set one up for free.
The Register Your iPad screen will be displayed next. Enter or confirm your current name, mailing address, email address and phone number; and answer the four questions at the bottom of the screen by selecting responses for their respective pull-down menus. When you've entered all the required information on this screen using your computer's keyboard and mouse, click on the "Submit" icon.
The next configuration screen that appears is an important one. You must determine whether you want to set up the iPad 2 as a new device or import all your data and apps from your original iPad.
As shown in Figure 3, using the mouse, select either "Set up a new iPad" or "Restore from the backup of [existing iPad name]."
Figure 3 The Set Up Your iPad screen
If you choose "Set up a new iPad," you will be asked to enter a name for the device and then use the mouse to customize three menu options (shown in Figure 4). You can make up any device name, as long as you differentiate it from other Apple devices that sync with iTunes.
Figure 4 The second Set Up Your iPad screen
From this screen, choose any or all of the following options:
Automatically sync songs and videos to my iPad—This will transfer content you already have saved within iTunes on your computer, including your music and playlists.
Automatically add photos to my iPad—This allows you to transfer digital photos stored on your computer to be viewed using the iPad 2's Photos app.
Automatically sync apps to my iPad—This will transfer iPhone and/or iPad apps you've downloaded and purchased from the App Store using iTunes on your computer.
Now, when you click the Continue icon, iTunes will perform a sync with your iPad 2. Based on your selections, this process will take anywhere from 15 seconds to several minutes. When the process is complete, the familiar iTunes Device screen, showing the Summary of your iPad 2 will be displayed (as shown in Figure 5).
Figure 5 The iTunes Device Summary Screen for a newly installed iPad 2
If you set up your iPad 2 from scratch and didn't transfer content from your original iPad, when you turn on the new tablet for the first time after the initial installation, you'll see the core set of iPad apps displayed on the device's Home Screen (shown in Figure 6).
Figure 6 The iPad 2's Home Screen after its very first sync with iTunes
Starting in the upper-left corner of the screen, if you're holding your iPad 2 vertically, you'll see icons for the following core apps:
Calendar—A scheduling and calendar app that can sync information with your computer, iPhone, or other devices.
Contacts—A useful contact management and address book app for keeping track of names, addresses, phone numbers, and other pertinent information about the people you know. The Contacts app can sync data with your computer, iPhone, or other devices.
Notes—A digital notebook, useful for creating, organizing, and emailing short notes or to-do lists, for example.
Maps—Tied into Google Maps, this is an interactive mapping application that can be used to obtain directions to a location, for example. To fully utilize this app, it must have access to the Internet via a Wi-Fi or 3G connection.
Videos—Used for watching videos you've shot with the camera built into your iPad or downloaded from iTunes, for example.
YouTube—Used for watching online-based YouTube videos. This app must have access to the Internet via a Wi-Fi or 3G connection.
iTunes—This app is used to purchase and download music, videos, movies, and TV episodes (excluding apps) from the iTunes Store. This app must have access to the Internet, via a Wi-Fi or 3G connection.
App Store—Used for browsing, purchasing, and downloading apps from Apple's App Store. Currently, there are more than 350,000 third-party apps available for the iPhone and iPad, and more than 65,000 apps specifically designed for the iPad and iPad 2.
Game Center—This is an online community for playing games on your iPad 2, and for communicating with other gamers.
FaceTime—With the addition of the cameras built into the iPad 2, your new tablet is capable of video conferencing with other FaceTime users. To use this app, a Wi-Fi internet connection (not a 3G connection) must be available. FaceTime is also available for the Mac, iPod Touch, iPhone 3Gs, and iPhone 4.
Camera—This core app is used for snapping digital photos or shooting videos using either of the iPad 2's built-in cameras.
Photo Booth—This whimsical app is used to take candid photos with the iPad 2's built-in cameras, and for quickly adding special effects to them. You can then email the images to others or post them online.
Settings—By tapping on the Settings icon, you can adjust a wide range of settings that allow you to fully customize your iPad 2, including its appearance and how it operates.
Along the bottom of the screen, you'll see icons for four additional core apps, including:
Safari—This is Apple's own web browser. This version is designed specially for surfing the wireless Web via your iPad 2.
Mail—Used to read, create, send, and manage email from one or more accounts simultaneously. Before using this app, it must be configured with your email account information.
Photos—Used to view and share digital images stored on your iPad 2.
iPod—This app simulates the controls of an Apple iPod and allows you to listen to your favorite music on the tablet device using the same interface as you'd experience using a iPod.
By pressing and holding down any of the App icons for three to five seconds, you can reorganize the order or placement of the app icons on the Home Screen once they start to shake. Simply drag each icon, one at a time, to its desired location, and press the Home button when you're done. These core apps cannot be deleted or removed from your iPad 2, but you can add additional apps at anytime.
In order to utilize any app that requires access to the Internet, you must first either turn on your iPad 2's Wi-Fi, or set up a 3G wireless account with AT&T Wireless or Verizon, based on which iPad 2 hardware configuration you've purchased.
If you purchased one of the iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G models, at the time of purchase, you chose which wireless service provider you wanted to register with. Your choices were AT&T Wireless or Verizon. Now that you've made this decision, it's not changeable. The hardware configuration for the iPad 2 varies slightly, depending on which service provider you selected, and the two are not compatible.
At any time you can turn on your iPad 2's Wi-Fi and gain access to the Web for free, assuming you're within range of a Wi-Fi Hotspot. Otherwise, if you have an iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, you can rely on a 3G wireless Internet connection.
To set up an account with AT&T Wireless or Verizon for the first time, access the Safari app by tapping on it. A window will appear on your iPad (shown in Figure 7) informing you that you have not yet signed up for a data plan. Click on the "Now" icon to set up an account using a major credit card.
If you previously used an original iPad with AT&T Wireless and signed up for the $30.00-per-month unlimited data plan that is no longer available, you can switch your service to your new device by calling AT&T Wireless directly. Otherwise, you'll need to set up a new account and sign up for a new data plan directly from your iPad 2.
Figure 7 You must set up a Cellular Data Account before you can access the Web via a 3G network from AT&T Wireless or Verizon.
When the "Cellular Data Account" screen appears (shown in Figure 8) on your iPad 2, enter your name, phone number, and email address; and then create a password for the account, as prompted. As you scroll down, you'll have the option to choose which cellular data plan you want to sign up for and then provide your credit card information.
Unlike setting up a cell phone account, there is no long-term contract. What you will be registering for is a month-to-month data plan that can be changed or cancelled at any time with no penalties.
Both AT&T Wireless and Verizon offer slightly different data plan options. Choose which option you want to pay for, based on your anticipated monthly Internet usage, keeping in mind that if you go above and beyond the allocated usage in any given month, additional fees will apply.
Figure 8 The AT&T Wireless Cellular Data Account setup screen
Once your wireless data account is set up, your credit card will be charged on a monthly basis unless you cancel the account. Within minutes after completing the signup process, you will have full wireless access to the Internet via your iPad 2.
If you have questions relating to setting up a wireless Internet account, contact:
Apple —(800) MY-APPLE, http://www.apple.com/support/ipad
AT&T Wireless—(800) 331-0500, http://www.att.com/ipad
Verizon—(800) 2-JOIN-IN, http://www.verizonwireless.com/iPad2
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Kenworth donates truck cab to SCCTC
By Kimberly Jenkins - kjenkins@aimmediamidwest.com
Kenworth cab that was donated to the SCCTC. Back Row (Left to Right): Matt Rann,-Principal SCCTC, Eli Riggs-AutoBody Instructor, Tracy DePugh-Kenworth. Seniors from the AutoBody Class: Front Row (L to R): Noah Osborne, Creed Parker, Chad Blackburn, Garrett Humphrey, Brice Slusher, Shaun May, Brad Sedgwick, Trenton Johnson, and Noah Stevens Absent: William Robinson and Noah Cameron
Students (l to r) Nathaniel Copeland and Alli O'Brien from the Junior AutoBody Class.
It's amazing how a donation from a company can open the door for students to learn with a hands-on approach.
Kenworth Truck Company of Chillicothe has given a donation of a truck cab to the AutoBody Program at the Scioto County Career and Technical Center(SCCTC), and with this donation, students will have an opportunity to use the truck cab in their world of learning.
Eli Riggs is the AutoBody Instructor and this is his second year at the SCCTC. He also owns a repair shop of his own in Lathem in Pike County, he is from this area and has had shops in this area as well. "The big thing that this cab will do for us, it's kind of like an artist' canvas," Riggs said. "We're going to use it just for the paintwork, just to teach them how to paint. Instead of taking cars and destroying them and fixing them up and painting them, which we'll still do, when we are ready to do the paintwork training, we'll put them on that. It's big enough that by the time they go around that thing, they will be a 'perfect' painter."
In his program, Riggs says they weld, do mechanical work, air condition work, of course, the painting, framework, just all vehicle work. He said when his students graduate, they will be a full AutoBody Technician, they should be able to do it all. "Whenever they get done, they get the knowledge to get out in the AutoBody world of work and they can proceed from there." He said they give them ASC training and OSHA.
Riggs said that in December they are going to have color training on how to shade paint with Metalux, their paint distributor. "It's hard to get a color match on older cars and they teach them how to shade and make it match," Riggs said. "It's a very hard thing to do and if they find a student that is really really good at it companies would hire them in a minute."
Riggs has four girls in his junior class this year, and when asked how they all got along, he said, "they actually get along really well, they just get along, they are just buddies. There are more and more women getting into these fields, because of the money. One of the news stations was saying that in the next five years they are going to have to employ 42,000 people to work on cars."
Riggs said they have been working with Kenworth since last year on getting a cab. "Me and Tracy DePugh (Kenworth), have been talking since last year about getting them in here and I actually had one of my workers from my shop go and pick them up, we delivered one to the Ross County Trade school and then the one here," he said. "We got to talking and he asked if I would be interested in a cab and I said 'Absolutely!' so it's a good thing. They are going to let us play with it and we may even come up with a design of paintwork that they may like for their trucks."
"I can see all kinds of designs we can do on this and patterns, the students will do that, then take pictures, and then we'll change it up and do another one, keep it going for them, it's something we can sand down and do it over, Riggs said." He said he was also talking with Kenworth about if they see what the students can do they will help them in getting hired.
The Superintendent of the SCCTC, Kyle Copley was excited about the donation. "I'm really excited to have Mr. Riggs here instructing our kids. I think that he's done an excellent job with our kids, I think if they just listen and learn from him, they have a great chance for employment and training opportunities out there," Copley said "He can lead them to where they want to go in this industry of AutoBody. I'm just really proud of what this program has become, and really want to thank Kenworth and Mr. Riggs for getting this project for our kids. I think will be a great great thing."
Speaking with two of the juniors in Rigg's class, First of all, Nathaniel Copeland, who was just recently named, 'Student of the Week. "I've learned a lot about AutoBody fixing cars and stuff like that and I'm enjoying myself," Copeland said. He said he'd much rather be doing this than sitting in a classroom all day. "I'm really excited for this truck and learning how to paint, paint and primer. I really like to work on cars and wanted to learn how to fix cars."
Riggs said the main reason he chose Copeland for Student of the Month is that he is always trying to focus on working and doing the right thing. "What puts him from the rest of the students is, from the time he gets here, he is constantly non-stop, until he leaves, constantly working," Riggs said. "He puts his safety gear on and he's always where he needs to be. I let the class vote on him from a few others. He is a good worker."
The second junior was Alli O'Brien. "I want to show the boys that girls can do the same thing, just like they can with stuff. My favorite part of this class, I think, will be painting and stuff, I'm really excited about that," O'Brien said. "My boyfriend works with his dad and he has a shop and he does the same thing and he wants me to work there." Both of these juniors said that in the short time they have been there, they have learned a lot and that Riggs is a good teacher. "He's a great teacher, and he's funny too," O'Brien said.
https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/09/web1_Votec-Kenworth-1.jpgKenworth cab that was donated to the SCCTC. Back Row (Left to Right): Matt Rann,-Principal SCCTC, Eli Riggs-AutoBody Instructor, Tracy DePugh-Kenworth. Seniors from the AutoBody Class: Front Row (L to R): Noah Osborne, Creed Parker, Chad Blackburn, Garrett Humphrey, Brice Slusher, Shaun May, Brad Sedgwick, Trenton Johnson, and Noah Stevens Absent: William Robinson and Noah Cameron Submitted Photo
https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/09/web1_autobody-1.jpgStudents (l to r) Nathaniel Copeland and Alli O'Brien from the Junior AutoBody Class. Kimberly Jenkins
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20 unique illustrated woodland scenes to color: Frog & Log, Squirrel, Baby Raccoon, Snail & Flowers, Woodpecker, Groundhog, Woodland Flowers & Mushrooms, Caterpillar, Fluffy Fox, Chipmunk, Bear, Ladybug, Hedgehog, Badger, Beaver, Bee & Flowers, Mouse & Mushrooms, Crazy Owl, Deer, and Pheasant.


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Q: Cancan - new form fails when user restricted to certain sites I have users
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  devise :database_authenticatable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation,
                  :remember_me, :site_id, :role_name

  belongs_to :site

end

sites
class Site < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :users
  has_one :front_page_campaign
end

and front_page_campaigns
class FrontPageCampaign < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :site
end

I'm using cancan to restrict access, so users can only manage front_page_campaigns for their own site:
class Ability
  include CanCan::Ability

  def initialize(user)
    user ||= User.new # guest user (not logged in)

    case user.role_name

    when "super_admin"
      # can do everything
      can :manage, :all

    when "editor"
      # can edit content for their site
      can [:create, :read, :update], FrontPageCampaign, site_id: user.site_id

    end
  end
end

This works perfectly for users with role_name super_admin and also for editor on show and edit on front_page_campaigns.  But when an editor tries to create a new front_page_campaign, I get a cancan forbidden notice
You are not authorized to access this page.

The standard form offers a dropdown box of all sites, and I guess I need to restrict this to just the user's own site.  How would I go about doing this?

A: Your authorization issue is solved by adding:
can :new, FrontPageCampaign

to the editor section of cancan ability init.
To set site_id on the new and create object you can set up a before_filter:
# FrontPageCampaignsController
before_filter :set_site_id, :only => [:new, :create]

protected

def set_site_id
  @resource.site_id = current_user.site_id if current_user && current_user.role_name == 'editor'
end

you gotta make sure this fires after the resource is created but before can can authorization.
In your form (if you use the same for superadmin and editor) make the site dropdown selection readonly or hidden if current_user.role_name == 'editor'.
Note that if someone tampers with the form and sends an alien site_id as editor, it will be corrected by the before filter, which is not nice. If you take if out and have :only => :new then they will get authorization error by cancan. If you are super pedant, you should instead get a valid response with validation error. You can achieve this by 1) applying the before_filter only to new and 2) say in ability init
when "editor"
  # can edit content for their site
  can [:read, :update], FrontPageCampaign, site_id: user.site_id
  can [:create, :new], FrontPageCampaign
end

and 3) add site owner checking to model validation. This is my preferred way, keeping authorization errors for illegal access of existing resources.
hope this answers your question

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The letter was signed by Brad Burton, mid-atlantic regional director of National Nurses United; Margaret Shanks, president of the DC Nurses Association; and Edward Smith, President of the D.C. Fire Fighters Association Local 36.
In addition to the units listed above Ambulance 22 had their air-conditioning fixed having gone several days without the ability to cool the patient compartment. Medic 8 has been out of service for 68 hours with mechanical problems and has been replaced with a Chevrolet Tahoe, as the department no longer has any reserve transport units!


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Building The Dome
The original plan was to just pay a concrete contractor to build us a slab and then I'd take over from there. Then I read some horror stories online about concrete guys— who normally deal only with rectangles— screwing up people's 15- or 20-sided dome foundations, and decided maybe it should be an owner-built concrete form as well.
Spring is a busy season for excavators. By the time we got our site leveled, a perimeter trench dug, and the under-slab plumbing in place (all jobs we contracted out), it was the end of June, 2005. Fortunately I had been using this time to pre-fab dome panels and struts.
This shows the first of several truckloads of 1" clean gravel that Marcia and I spread out and compacted:
I built the concrete form from the outside in, starting with a 20-sided perimeter of pressure-treated plywood:
There's 7-l/2" of extruded polystyrene foam inside the plywood perimeter, and 4" of the high-density type under the footing. Once the concrete is poured, the treated plywood serves to protect the foam from sun and insects:
Notice how the thickened perimeter trench is still not very deep. We're building a frost protected shallow foundation. This kind of foundation is fairly new to the US, but they have been used successfully for many years in Canada and the Scandinavian countries. Instead of placing deep footers below the natural frostline, you use insulation to raise the frostline near the building.
There's 4-3/4" of high-density foam under the middle expanse of the slab:
A layer of 6 mil polyethylene is topped by rebar 18" on center. That's a lot of rebar, but I don't entirely trust this Iowa clay soil. A local builder told me that with that much rebar, we could park concrete trucks on our slab.
Most people skip the polyethylene if there's already foam under the concrete, but we're in an area with potentially high radon levels, and the poly helps keep the radon out of the living space.
The idea is that if any radon seeps up under the slab, it will travel through the 4" thick layer of clean 1" gravel and leave through the 4" PVC radon pipe. This pipe starts as a slotted T-shape in the gravel layer, and runs vertically up through the foam, through the poly, through the concrete, through a wall in the house, then through the roof to vent to the outside air. If you still have worrisome radon levels, you can install a fan in the pipe. Like a plumbing vent, the radon pipe needs to be at least ten feet away from any openable window or skylight.
We conducted the week-long radon test with the doors and windows closed and the ventilator turned off. The results were well below the 4 pCi/L level, which is what you want. With normal ventilation it would be even lower.
I put 500' of PEX tubing in the slab for radiant floor heat. The conventional wisdom would say that's not enough PEX, but I figured the greatly elevated insulation levels changed the rules. As it turns out, I was right.
My idea at the time was that whenever the sun was shining and the house needed heat, antifreeze would pump from the slab to a solar heat collector and then carry that heat back into the slab. This direct loop probably would have worked to some degree, but I found reasons it wasn't the best plan:
A collector tied directly to the slab couldn't be used to solar-heat domestic hot water the rest of the year, and its antifreeze could be damaged by high temperatures in the summer.
Apparently one foot of half-inch PEX can only release about 25 BTU/hour. So 500' of PEX times 25 is 12,500 BTU/hour, times 4 hours of peak winter sun is only 50,000 BTUs per day. Our worst month's heat needs, I estimate, average about 160,000 BTUs per day.
160,000 BTUs doled out over 13 hours (at 12,500 BTU/hour) would work fine. Unfortunately, I neglected to include space inside the dome for a 300 gallon water tank to store all those BTUs. The place to put it would have been right next to the water heater so it could also pre-heat the domestic hot water. Ideally, both of them would have been against a south wall holding a large drainback collector, thus avoiding the use of antifreeze.
If I had put a lot more PEX in the slab, it would have been possible to transfer a whole day's worth of heat during the brief hours of winter sunlight. But that could have resulted in a big late afternoon temperature spike. Without sophisticated controls, even radiant slabs heated by conventional boilers are known to overshoot their mark. When your slab can only release 12,500 BTU/hr, though, a simple air-temperature thermostat can stop it before you're roasted.
Some people in green building circles believe that radiant floors aren't a great fit for superinsulated houses. For one thing, radiant's big selling point is the emotional appeal of warm floors, but in an extremely well insulated house the floors only need to be a couple degrees above the target indoor air temperature, so they don't feel particularly warm.
Commenters at Green Building Advisor often make the point that there's no reason to bother with the expense of a radiant slab because a superior solution exists: just heat your superinsulated house with a ductless mini-split heat pump, which also provides cooling in summer. It's a compelling argument. The Mitsubishi MSZ-FH09NA, their smallest, highest-SEER model, works down to -13°F and would be able to heat our whole dome (as long as the various rooms' doors were kept open most of the time, which is not a requirement with the radiant floors). It would be too small for our cooling needs, though, so if I got a mini-split I'd actually get the largest one in that series, the MSZ-FH15NA.
A mini-split gets about three times more heat out of a kilowatt-hour compared to electric resistance heating, so with a mini-split but no solar we'd be spending about $120/year rather than $360/year on space heat. That's great from the standpoint of reducing our carbon footprint, but financially it seemed very possible that the $240/year savings would be mostly consumed by maintaining, and eventually replacing, the mini-split.
Plus, a mini-split would have done nothing for our other big energy expense, domestic hot water. So I ultimately rejected the mini-split idea and decided to build a large solar heat collector after all. I put the 300 gallon tank outside, and insulated it really well. A mini-split may have triple the performance of electric resistance heat, but getting tens of thousands of BTUs from the sun for the cost of running a couple pumps is better still.
Having only 500' of PEX in the slab hasn't been a problem. There are warm spots, but they're delightful.
The slab was poured September 15th, 2005. We used a stronger concrete mix than the usual.
When the riser wall corners were bolted in place, it reminded me of Stonehenge:
Struts going up:
The trick to putting up a Natural Spaces dome when you're the only person up on the scaffold is to keep a couple Phillips screwdrivers within reach at all times. You lift the strut up next to its hub just long enough to slip the screwdriver into the slot where eventually the 4-1/2" pin will go. The screwdriver is thin enough to go in easily, but strong enough to hold the strut in place while still allowing some adjustability while you complete a triangle.
If it's a horizontal strut, hold one end in place with a screwdriver then use a three or four foot 2x4 as a lever to persuade the sleeve at the other end of the strut past the curve of its hub. When both ends of the strut are where you want them, remove the screwdriver and pound in the pins.
Then the sheathing:
Next came a layer of Vaproshield breathable roofing underlayment.
We got a deal on some fun, unusually-shaped windows, but it took me months and months— literally all winter and most of the spring— to build seven custom dormers. I'm glad there's some overhang on these south-facing windows, though. Too much unshaded south glass can cause overheating in the summertime.
The big triangular skylight from Natural Spaces was expensive, but it only took two hours to install.	If your time has any monetary value, it would probably make sense to have more triangle skylights and fewer windows requiring dormers.
On the other hand, besides the summer heat issue, skylights can be obscured for weeks following an ice storm, while vertical windows under overhangs remain clear.
I put 6" of foam around the base of the riser wall to keep cold air away from the concrete slab.
The foam was followed by plywood, the angle of which makes the riser wall look like a continuation of the curve of the dome.
The plywood got a layer of ice-and-water shield to resist leaks in case of melty snow drifts. This was late May, 2006.
Shingling the roof took all summer. One thing about the Reinke shakes is that you can't use a nail gun because it would dent the metal. I had to drive all 16,000 nails the old-fashioned way. But it's not really the hammering that takes the time, it's hanging sections of 18" wide 15# roofing felt between each row.
Near the top, where the slope of the roof gets shallower, I put a layer of Tyvek over the Vaproshield. I also backed each section of felt with Tyvek for extra protection.
Roofing the main dome surface was completed September 20th, 2006.
Once the roof was weatherproof, my priority became getting the interior finished enough that the foam crew could insulate. This involved inner framing for the doors, windows, and riser walls, then running electrical conduit for lights and outlets. I also had to build a little bump-out for the electric meter and a section of wall for the breaker box.
The design called for 10" of spray-foam in a 12" cavity, but in some places it filled the whole 12" and had to be trimmed. The top of the dome is all closed cell foam. As the walls get closer to vertical, there's a mix of open cell and closed cell, so we have the dome equivalent of R‑60 roof, R‑40 walls.
The triangular spruce panels went up fairly quickly, but fitting the spruce around the windows took a long time—almost every piece of wood had a compound angle on both ends.
Next I started framing the internal rooms.
The walls hold plumbing and ductwork.
What to do with leftover scrap drywall? Instead of hauling it to the landfill and paying them to take it, I put it between the studs in the wall shared by the bedroom and studios. There it will add thermal mass and reduce noise transmission.
Meanwhile, Marcia's garden area was taking shape.
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This charming, two-bedroom Barcelona apartment is one of many brand new properties in a renovated building located very close to Las Ramblas. Although it has been completely restored, it keeps many of its original characteristics, like the wooden ceiling beams and exposed brick walls.
With a capacity of up to six people, it is composed of one bedroom with two single beds (which can be made into a double bed) and a large built-in wardrobe, and one bedroom with a bunk bed (two single beds).
The dining-living room is bright with large windows that lead onto two balconies overlooking the street, and it is equipped with a double sofa bed and a large dining table with six chairs. There is also a TV, and Wi-Fi so you can keep in touch with friends and family at home.


It is being reported now that stress may be responsible for up to 90% of medical conditions. There are a lot of people who make a lot of money helping people cope with the stress in their lives. Where does knitting fit into this picture?
1. Knitting occupies. People who are occupied feel less pain and depression. When the brain is engaged at something that requires attention and detail, it often forgets to remind you that something else is wrong. Knitting provides distraction but of the constructive variety and this can have a profound effect for someone who is dealing with stress, depression or chronic pain.
2. Knitting calms the mind. Engaging in knitting closely resembles the techniques of meditation and mindfulness practices that are employed throughout the medical community for the treatment of chronic pain. Knitting slows down the mind processes and allows for improved concentration. The relaxation that follows is also important to the process of relieving stress.
3. Rhythm, Baby! Although the exact reasons are not known, the rhythmic movement knitting provides is soothing. Knitting is logical- it can be done without too much thought once some basic concepts are learned. Simple patterns are best for someone who is looking to experience the healing benefits of the practice of knitting, although complicated patterns can fully engage the mind and increase a person's concentration on the process at hand.
4. Knitting is creative. Do not underestimate the effect that creative activity has the psyche. Knitting and crocheting allow a lot of room for creative exploration. With a few basic skills, needlecraft lends itself easily to interpretation. There is a sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with finishing a piece. Wearing or gifting a handmade piece is to give something original, bursting with good vibes and love in every stitch. The joy that goes into creating it cannot help but be absorbed into the fibers the knitter welds.
In short, knitting is beneficial in a multitude of ways. In the UK, knitting groups are even popping up in hospitals and therapy centers as a way to engage patients in a creative, relaxing activity. I envision that in the future we will see the popularity of this craft rising even higher then the surge it is already experiencing as an inexpensive and effective form of therapy.
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Founded in 1995, the Miso Studio, is an independent studio for creation, production and diffusion of music, research and development of electronic music, as well as other multidisciplinary creations created with the use of computer.
In the first place, its objective is to support various areas of music creation and production, which are connected with technology. Secondly it carries out and develops research projects, including punctual implementation of software and hardware.
various collaborations with soloists as well as Portuguese and international groups, with the aim to prepare the electronic parts and assure their performance in concert.
In 2005 the main studio was joined by the second one designated as the Lab for Electroacoustic Creation (LEC), which offers creation residencies to Portuguese and foreign composers. The creation of the LEC initiated a number of partnerships with foreign studios, in order to organize a part of the available residencies in cooperation with these institutions.
a) With regards to the support, which the Miso Studio has provided to the Música Viva Festival one should refer, in the first place, the research and, consequently, the development of software, which in 1995 allowed to create the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra, premiered at the Música Viva Festival in the same year. The Loudspeaker Orchestra developed by the Miso Studio is nowadays an unique and internationally renowned instrument for electroacoustic music interpretation and sound diffusion.
Secondly, one should mention the support provided by the Miso Studio within the elaboration and preparation of either "tape" or live electronic parts of various works, presented at the Música Viva Festival, and composed by young composer with emerging careers or already affirmed creators, such as Emmanuel Nunes, Clotilde Rosa, Cândido Lima, Enrique X. Macías, Isabel Soveral, João Rafel, Pedro Amaral, Pedro Rebelo, Miguel Azguime, Tiago Cutileiro, Bruno Gabirro, etc.
Finally the Miso Studio provides the whole technological side of the Música Viva Festival and Miso Music Portugal's Season, in terms of diffusion of multichannel electronic works, of "tape" works, as well as the mixed ones with live electronics.
c) When it comes to the collaboration with the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, the Miso Studio has provided the archive consisting of an important number of recordings of works by Portuguese composers, some of them already historical. The Studio has been carrying out not only their digitalization and preservation, but also preparing their sample fragments for subsequent online publication, or at the request of programmers and foreign promoters, with the aim to promote Portuguese music.
d) The technical endowment and experience gained over more than 20 years of Miso Studio's activity, are today a guarantee for a quality proposal in the pedagogical area, which crosses music and technology. In this context the Miso Studio provides the technical support necessary at all pedagogical initiatives of Miso Music Portugal - from computer music courses to composition masterclasses conducted by renowned Portuguese and foreign tutors (Tomás Henriques, António Ferreira, André Sier, Miguel Azguime, António de Sousa Dias, Cort Lippe, Trevor Wishart, Simon Emmerson, André Bartetzki, Barry Truax, Agostino Di Scipio, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Claude Cadoz, Morton Subotnick, Jean-Claude Risset, François Bayle, John Chowning, among many others).
e) One of the main Miso Studio activities has always been the preparation of electronic parts (diffusion, processing and spatialization controlled by computer including recasting of older pieces) of a significant number of mixed works (combining acoustic instruments and electronic means), including pieces with multimedia elements such as video, automated illumination or various sensors for live interaction, etc.
Mark Foster, Tsun Yeh, Renato Rivolta, Stefan Asbury, Joahnnes Kalitzke, Dominique My, Rolf Gupta, Peter Rundel, Olivier Cuendet, Laurent Cuniot, Frank Ollu, Guillaume Bourgogne, Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Petter Sundkvist, Jorge Mata, Pedro Amaral, Pedro Pinto Figueiredo, Pierre Strauch, Alain Damiens, Alain Neveux, Jean-Marie Cottet, Xing Rufeng, Gao Yonping, Miguel Azguime, Paula Azguime, Robert Glassburner, Franziska Schroeder, Nuno Pinto, Ana Telles, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Hua Xia, London Sinfonietta, l'Autre Trio, Smith Quartet, Remix Ensemble, Miso Ensemble, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Ensemble 20/21, Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Smith Quartet, Quarteto de Cordas de Matosinhos, NEO Norrbotten, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Nacional do Porto Casa da Música, OrchestrUtopica, Coro Gulbenkian, Singcircle, Coro Infanto-Juvenil da Universidade de Lisboa, among many others.
The Miso Studio is the permanent studio of the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble.


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Abstract: This paper provides a literature survey of maximum power point tracking applied to the photovoltaic power system. To maximize the PV array output power MPPT algorithm is used in PV systems irrespective of temperature and irradiation of the weather and electrical characteristics of the load. The load resistance should match the source input resistance to increase the power flow from the photovoltaic systems. This paper presents a comprehensive review of maximum power point tracking techniques with various advantages and drawbacks of each technique are identified for different weather conditions. This manuscript would serve as a convenient reference for future work in maximum power tracking control.
Keywords: PV module, maximum power point tracking (MPPT), photovoltaic (PV) power system, DC-DC converter.
Abstract: Traffic light control systems are widely used to monitor and control the flow of automobiles through the junction of many roads. They aim to realize smooth motion of cars in the transportation routes. This paper is designed to develop a traffic signal based on traffic density and also innovative control to clear the traffic for ambulance. During normal situation, the signal timing changes automatically by sensing the density of vehicles. Conventional traffic light system is based on the fixed time concept allotted to each slots. The proposed system uses and PIC16F877A micro controller (Harvard architecture family) interface with sensors that change the junction timing automatically to avoid unnecessary waiting of drivers. IR sensors are used in this paper to detect the density of the traffic. The Bluetooth operated by Android device override the set timing and give green signal in the desired directions whereas blocking other roads by red signal. Thereby providing traffic clearance for emergency vehicles.
Keywords: Traffic light control systems, automobiles, transportation routes, traffic signal, emergency vehicles.
Abstract: 5G Technology stands for 5th Generation Mobile technology or mobile Networks or Wireless Systems. The 5G technology which is expected to be launched by 2020 it is an upgraded version of the existing and establishing network 4G known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) network, this technology started an era of highly-efficient information society. 5G is a name used in some research papers and projects to denote the next major phase of mobile telecommunications standards beyond the upcoming 4G standards. Currently, 5G is not a term officially used for any particular specification or in any official document yet made public by telecommunication companies or standardization bodies such as 3GPP, Wi-MAX Forum or ITU-R. Mobile communication prime objectives can be improved, including increased capacity, higher data rate, low latency, and better QOS. This paper studies 5G Technology, architecture, waveforms, and makes a comparison between these waveforms and OFDM.
Keywords: 5G Architecture-Nanotechnologies, BDMA, OFDM, UBMC, FBMC, GFDM, Cloud Computing.


As a webmaster, I always knew that Internet marketing was related to traffic generation. Every webmaster would agree with me after hearing the statement. The more Internet marketing you engage in and the more time you spend on advertising, the more traffic to your website you are going to receive. If you receive more traffic, your visitors are more likely to convert into loyal customers. This is something you really want to achieve if you are an online business owner. Usually, the more Internet marketing you engage in and the more diversified it is, the bigger number of visitors that will land on your website.


EVERY WEEK THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING is lit in different colors. This lighting display offers an unusual seperation of space & time from the message delivered by the system.
Space: since the ESB is New York City's tallest building, the lighting display atop it can be experienced from all over the city, as opposed to a more location-specific display, like the subway's pixelboards that display the next station.
Time: The ESB lights are changed on average once per week, so the display lacks the immediacy of say, the clock atop the Virgin megastore, which is updated every millisecond, or weather forcasting building spires, like Toronto's Canada Life Building (updated four times daily). This gives the ESB lights the appearance of permanence, until the viewer has repeated exposure, and notices the changes occur from one night to the next, or until the viewer learns the significance of a particular combination of colors (by reading the schedule in Time Out New York, or on the esb website).
*edit* The Canada Life Building has the weather beacon, not the Canada Trust Building, and it is updated 4 times daily, not immediately, from Environment Canada's Station at Toronto's Pearson Airport.


So the place I was at which allowed me to take the beautiful photos of Chicago in the post below, contained a movie theater. While looking for the manager to get into a locked room, the client and I walked by this promotional display for an upcoming movie.
There are a lot of people in my World of Warcraft guild who played with Legos or have kids or siblings who played with Legos. Actually, a long time ago, having kids was the reason you bought Legos. It's only within the last 20 years that Lego realized it has a huge market in adults.
I knew, thanks to guild chat, there was a Lego movie coming out this year. After I finished inspecting the office and was heading back outside, I asked the client to indulge me. I think, if I'd have asked him to take my photo with the Lego people, he would have and I should have, but this was fun as it was. I know a bunch of guild members will get tickets to opening night. I'll wait for their reviews. I'm actually kind of interested to see how they pull this off. The movie preview is quite entertaining.
I think Morgan Freeman is typecast again.
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Katie Compton Has a Gnarly Crash, With a Disc Brake Slicing Her Knee to the Bone
A wreck at the Krawatencross brings the cyclocross champion's season to an end
By selene yeager
Mark Legg
Katie Compton, the 14-time cyclocross national champion, saw her season come to a painful close on Saturday when a disc brake sliced her knee to the bone during a racing wreck.
Compton was in Lille, Belgium, racing in the Krawatencross, the final round of the DVV Trophy series. As she approached the first right turn in the sand, she got caught between two other riders and took a spill that left her with a broken shoe and a severely gashed knee. The 39-year-old American described the crash as a "British sandwich of poor decision making."
"I was riding the line in the rut and Helen [Wyman] literally ran into me on my right and took me out," Compton told Bicycling. "Nikki [Brammeier] was on my left doing the same thing… There was no room to pass there and they should have waited instead of crashing people out just to get by."
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Compton got up and kept racing, not realizing how badly her knee was hurt. What she did soon notice, however, was that the Boa wire on her shoe was cut so it wouldn't stay fastened, leaving her unable to run or pull up on the pedals until she could get a shoe change.
"I then spent the whole race making passes and trying to get by," she said. "It was frustrating to say the least." Compton ended up finishing in seventh place.
After the race, Mark Legg, Compton's husband, issued an angry tweet accompanied by a grisly close-up of the wound:
What happens when two riders make poor decisions and can't be patient on the first lap and squeeze Katie into a crash? Disc rotor cut to the bone. Not a happy way to end a great season 😠 pic.twitter.com/7ORlxqWXh0
— Mark Legg 🇳🇿🇺🇸 (@MrKatieCompton) February 10, 2018
This isn't the first time disc brakes—which after a temporary ban are set to become the equipment of choice in the pro peloton—have caught flak for filleting racers during wrecks. Team Sky's Owain Doull called for their prohibition last year after claiming that another rider's rotor slashed through his shoe. (Video footage of the crash suggests it was actually a fence.)
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But Compton's injury hasn't changed her favorable opinion on disc brakes. "I like disc brakes and find that the injuries incurred aren't that bad in the whole scheme of things," she said. "Broken bones and road rash hurt way more. At least the cuts are clean and can be sewed up easily enough."
She maintained that rider behavior, not equipment, is what more often causes dangerous conditions during a race.
"Disc brakes are much safer on the road and the trails since you can stop and have more control," she said. "It's the individual riders within the group that affect the safety of everyone more than anything. It only takes one person not paying attention or trying to fit into a hole that's not there to cause a crash and the pileup that ensues."
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Q: How to get the filter class or viewset class through model? I want to find the corresponding filter class or viewset class only through Model.
The corresponding Model can be found by filter class or viewset class, but it cannot be reversed. I have a naming of these three, there is a rule, I guess it can be found through the string name of the filter class or viewset class, but it can not be achieved
class Manager(models.Model)

class ManagerFilter(filters.FilterSet):
    class Meta:
        model = Manager
        fields = {'name': ['exact', 'in', 'startswith']}

class ManagerViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    filter_class = ManagerFilter

I can only get the Model class, I want to get the corresponding filter class or viewset class according to this Model.


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Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2018), Bias and Sensitivity of Boundary Layer Clouds and Surface Radiative Fluxes in MERRA-2 and Airborne Observations Over the Beaufort Sea During the ARISE Campaign, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 6565-6580, doi:10.1029/2018JD028349.
Smith, W., et al. (2017), Arctic Radiation-Icebridge Sea And Ice Experiment: The Arctic Radiant Energy System during the Critical Seasonal Ice Transition, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1399-1426, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00277.1.
Beyersdorf, A., et al. (2016), The impacts of aerosol loading, composition, and water uptake on aerosol extinction variability in the Baltimore–Washington, D.C. region, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 1003-1015, doi:10.5194/acp-16-1003-2016.
Corr, C. A., et al. (2016), Observational evidence for the convective transport of dust over the Central United States, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD023789.
Crumeyrolle, S., et al. (2014), Factors that influence surface PM2.5 values inferred from satellite observations: perspective gained for the US Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area during DISCOVER-AQ, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 2139-2153, doi:10.5194/acp-14-2139-2014.
Sawamura, P., et al. (2014), Aerosol optical and microphysical retrievals from a hybrid multiwavelength lidar data set – DISCOVER-AQ 2011, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 3095-3112, doi:10.5194/amt-7-3095-2014.
Schafer, J. S., et al. (2014), Intercomparison of aerosol single-scattering albedo derived from AERONET surface radiometers and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011 DRAGON-MD and DISCOVER-AQ experiments, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 7439-7452.
Ziemba, L. D., et al. (2013), Airborne observations of aerosol extinction by in situ and remote-sensing techniques: Evaluation of particle hygroscopicity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 417-422, doi:10.1029/2012GL054428.
McHaughton, C. S., et al. (2011), Absorbing aerosols in the troposphere of the Western Arctic during the 2008 ACTAS/ARCPAC airborne field campaigns, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 7561-7582, doi:10.5194/acp-11-7515-2011.
Thornhill, L., et al. (2008), The impact of local sources and long-range transport on aerosol properties over the northeast U.S. region during INTEX-NA, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D08201, doi:10.1029/2007JD008666.
Cofer, W. R., et al. (1989), Trace Gas Emissions from Chaparral and Boreal Forest Fires, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 2255.
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Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.


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Q: WordPress Elementor how to make custom tabs? Here is the example link and a picture of what I want. If anyone knows the process I request help me. Thanks.

A: Here is a link https://wpjunction.net/elementor-show-hide-sections for this hope so it will help you :).


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Q: How to clear the views which are held in the ListView's RecycleBin? In Android's ListView widget, the ListView will hold the views which is got from getView method of an Adapter in a inner class RecycleBin.
How can I clear the views in the RecycleBin and force the ListView to recreate all the child views.

A: Calling invalidate() or invalidateViews() did not do the trick for me (as mentioned in the correct answer). The recycled views were still stored in the ListView. I had to dig in Android source code to find a solution. I checked many methods, including the setAdapter() method of the ListView class (Android API 15) :
@Override
public void setAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {

    // ...
    mRecycler.clear();
    // ...

}

As you noticed, setting an adapter clears the recycler, which holds all the recycled views in a list view. You do not have to create a new adapter, setting the same adapter is enough to clear the recycled views list in the list view :
Adapter adapter = listview.getAdapter ();
// ... Modify adapter ... do anything else you need to do
// To clear the recycled views list :
listview.setAdapter ( adapter );

A: If I remember correctly a call to invalidate on a ListView widget will empty the cache of Views which are currently stored. I would advise against emptying the cache of views of a ListView because of the potential performance issues.
If you're not going to use the convertView item then you'll end up with having to build the row view each time(resulting in a lot of objects constructed each time the user scrolls) + the extra memory occupied by the recycled views from the RecycleBin which will never be used anyway.

A: There are a special method in ListView - reclaimViews(List<View>). It moves all items that are currently in use and in recycle bin to specified list. Widget will request new views for items from Adapter before rendering next time.
You can use reclaimed views, if there are not many changes to item structure, or scrap them completely. For example, i'm using this method to dynamically update background drawable for items when selection color was changed by user.

A: In my opinion @nekavally offers the best solution. I have a ListView and a SimpleCursorAdapter. Sometimes I need to change the size of the list items. But since the adapter recycles the views, they may appear in the wrong way. So I'm just calling mListView.invalidateViews() after reclaiming the recycled views, and it works just fine.
startAnimation(initialHeight, finalHeight, duration, new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
                        childView.getLayoutParams().height =
                                (Integer) animation.getAnimatedValue();
                        childView.requestLayout();

                        if (animation.getAnimatedFraction() == 1f) {
                            mListView.reclaimViews(new ArrayList<View>());
                            mListView.invalidateViews();
                        }
                    }
                });

A: Remove object of recycle bin from ArrayList or the data structure you have used in your custom adapter and also call notifyDataSetChanged method of your adapter.


Lloyd Center was referenced in a recent article about House of Blues Entertainment coming to Portland.
The former Nordstrom space in the Lloyd Center may soon be home to a music venue as the aging mall works to reposition itself.
House of Blues Entertainment, a subsidiary of ticket-seller Live Nation, has applied for a liquor license at the site, as first reported by Willamette Week.
The venue would operate from 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. and offer dancing, karaoke, live music, recorded music and DJs, as well as lectures and comedy shows.
Live Nation owns, operates or has exclusive booking rights for 167 venues world, according to its annual report. It claims to be the largest live entertainment company in the world, and in 2 015 sold tickets to 63 million people for more than 25,500 events.
Live Nation and the mall owners released a short statement confirming the plans for the music venue, which they said is tentatively slated to open early 2020, "pending the necessary approvals." They declined to comment further.
The Lloyd Center liquor license application comes as mall owners throughout the country are filling the spaces left by struggling department stores with non-traditional tenants like gyms, pubs and health clinics.
In a July interview, Ron Friedman, a partner at Marcum LLP, which follows consumer trends, said malls need to pivot if they want to survive.
To remain relevant in the age of online shopping, he said, malls must completely change their mission, serving not as hubs for shopping, but for entertainment.
As Portland's oldest mall continues its $50 million renovation, its future hinges on its ability to cater to new types of shoppers.
The Lloyd Center application says the space will be fully remodeled and built out to accommodate the music hall.
The Nordstrom space comprises three floors, each floor plate coming in around 50,000 square feet.
Steven Neville, the mall's retail real estate broker, said the concert venue will occupy the top floor. He said he's pursuing food-related concepts, including a food hall or a grocery store, for the ground floor.
The ground floor will also be home to standalone restaurants, "a significant percentage" of which will be local, Neville said. The second floor will likely go to two traditional retailers, he said.
What began as a $50 million, 18-month renovation for the eastside shopping center has morphed into a five-year project worth more than $100 million.
With an updated mall and new apartment buildings offering amenities like rooftop beer gardens, micro-restaurants and makerspaces, the Lloyd District is going to look a lot different in five years.
So far, the renovations include new interiors, a reshaped ice rink and an updated Macy's entrance, complete with a flashy spiral staircase.
I n addition to the changes to the former Nordstrom space, the mall's east end, currently occupied by Sears, will house a 14-screen movie theater.
With new entertainment options on both ends of the mall, Neville is hoping the center attracts customers well into the night. Increased pedestrian traffic, with more eyes on the street, can help deter crime.
The mall's traffic is already picking up, he said.
Lloyd Center's overhaul comes as the surrounding blocks undergo radical redevelopment. Hassalo on Eighth added 657 apartments to the district, and the Oregon Square and 1400 N.E. Multnomah developments will bring hundreds of offices and apartments to the area.
Neville is hoping the Lloyd Center serves as a sort of town center for all the residents and workers nearby.
"It's going to be really fun and interesting," he said.


MVLS has a variety of technology equipment available for loan to member libraries. Equipment includes a LCD projector, projection screen, and tablet PC for use with Polaris' Inventory Manager software.
HP ElitePad 1000 Tablet PC – Using a wireless tablet PC and Polaris Inventory Manager Software, you can go to the shelves to take an inventory of items. Taking an inventory will improve the accuracy of our catalog and can help you weed your collections. This tablet runs Windows 8 as its operating system.
Loan period: Up to 30 days' use; may be extendable.
Delivery: May be placed in delivery using padded delivery tote.
Internet connection: Wireless access is required to use the PIM software. You can load a set of items from anywhere in your library so a separate router should not be required.
How to borrow: You can check for availability at our booking calendar.
Print and send equipment booking request/user agreement form signed by the library director to MVLS by fax or delivery.
User responsibility for all equipment loans: The library director must sign and return the equipment booking request/user agreement form. The borrowing library is expected to provide security and prevent loss, misuse or abuse of the equipment. Damage or loss will be charged to the borrowing library (excepting acts of God).


The Business Event Australia Greater China Showcase has wrapped up in Victoria after two days of uniquely Melbourne experiences.
The major incentive showcase for the China market took place across Melbourne and regional Victoria, with Victoria the first state in Australia to ever hold the showcase outside of China.
Capitalising on the burgeoning incentive travel economy Asia presents, Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) recognised the important opportunity the showcase presented to demonstrate its expertise in the corporate and incentive travel market.
"Corporate and incentive travel is a strategic business tool for organisations to attract and retain the best staff to ultimately achieve business goals.
"This is why it's so important to get incentive reward programs right, and to do this we build our relationship with groups who choose to host in Victoria on partnerships, not transactions," said Karen Bolinger, Chief Executive Officer, MCB.
MCB worked with top suppliers across the business events industry to develop the bespoke program which demonstrated the diversity of experiences on offer.
"Because the China market is already exceptionally well-travelled, corporate and incentive travellers have evolved from a 'tick the box' trip and are wanting experiences that money can't buy which enables them to develop professionally and personally as individuals, and aligns with their values.
"We are fortunate in Melbourne and Victoria to be able to work with suppliers who can offer experiences that meet the requirements of the modern incentive delegate; interactive, VIP, authentic, affordable and condensed," Ms Bolinger said.
Partners in the program included Crown, The Langham Melbourne, Melbourne & Olympic Parks, Showtime Event Group, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Victoria Racing Club, Rochford Wines, Business Events Geelong, Campbell Point House, Jack Rabbit Vineyard, Harry the Hirer and Atlantic Group.


New startup Text Back Appointments spotted an opportunity in the appointment reminder market and worked with Atlas to take advantage of it.
Easy to Use – The system has been designed from a user centric perspective to be easy to use even for non-technical users.
Recognisable – Uses a standard calendar interface to aid in ease of use for users, so no learning curve.
Responsive – Works across any internet device, including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones seamlessly.
Scale – The system was built with the future in mind, so that it can be easily scaled as the business grows.
Support – Flexible, ongoing support, which allows the Managing Director to grow the business without worrying about the website.
Sonny and his team initially worked with Atlas to bring their idea to life. Given the non-technical nature of the customers the user experience had to be flawless. Atlas helped to wireframe screens and define workflows.
To aid with ease of use Atlas designed a calendar interface that would be instantly recognizable by a typical office administrator. We also ensured that the new platform would work on mobile, desktops and tablets.
The core of the new platform would be the ability to reliably send text messages at scale.
Atlas worked with Sonny to locate a suitable partner for such a requirement, and undertook the technical work to integrate the new platform with them.
Following the successful launch of the new website Sonny and his team understood that responding quickly to customer feedback by evolving the new platform would be essential to its success.
Atlas provided a flexible support and development arrangement that allows Text Back Appointments to call on the team in a way that allowed them to adopt a pace of development which ensured that customers feedback could be processed quickly and efficiently.
Atlas are expert software developers who can help you build your startup, like we did for Text Back Appointments. We can bring your idea to life and can help you to wire-frame screens and define workflows of your startup idea, as well as design and build a great user experience for your customers.
If you're interested in finding out how Atlas could help your startup with bespoke software development or you are looking to have a wire-frame created of new software you need, call us now on +44 (0)800 033 7569 for a free no-obligation consultation on how we can help you.


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Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to the Azerbaijan - Publication date: 10/01/2020
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Growing number of young Jews turning to service to express their Jewish values
Sara Ivry, JTA • Published January 26, 2023
When Jon Cohen was in college a decade ago studying biology and chemistry with plans for medical school, he knew he wanted to make a difference in the world beyond the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee. So he and some friends decided to...
Is human composting the next big thing in Jewish death practice?
MAYA MIRSKY , In partnership with the "J" of Northern California • Published January 24, 2023
This article first appeared in J. The Jewish News of Northern California "There was no squeamishness on my part, I didn't wear gloves," said Adam Gottstein. "I had Mom in the palms of my hands." The Amador County resident was placing the...
'Misinformed' intermarriage rumors distress some Conservative rabbis
Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward • Published January 11, 2023
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. A number of prominent Conservative rabbis wrote a letter to the Rabbinical Assembly last year declaring their strong opposition...
'Rabbi Rub'? Kosher products with spicy names cause a stir online
By Adam Kovac, The Forward • Published January 3, 2023
Dry rubs called "Rabbi Rub" and "Jew Cub Rub" are getting a mixed reaction online. On Monday, a user posted a photo of the products on a store shelf to the r/Jewish subreddit. The rubs are made by Texas-based Smo' Better Food. The photo...
Have you seen this menorah? Help us solve a mystery
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer • Published November 7, 2022
When we look back at our lives, we can probably count on both hands and feet the number of times we did something that we wish you could take back. Hopefully, most are minor, but still, crawl under your skin. Like the time when I was 10ish, and...
The brief Jewish history of candy cigarettes
BY ALLY SASS, JTA • Published October 27, 2022
This retro candy has a surprising Jewish legacy behind it.
50 years after first woman ordained, St. Louis is rich with female rabbis
BY SHULA NEUMAN , SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT • Published October 21, 2022
Something radical happened 50 years ago. Judaism experienced a crack in the patriarchy when the first woman was publicly ordained as a rabbi. There had been private ordinations before, ordinations that weren't recognized outside a small circle of people....
44 one-syllable Jewish baby names
By Lior Zaltzman, Kveller • Published October 13, 2022
A baby's name is the first gift we give them, so it's important to be thoughtful about it. Sometimes, the perfect name is a short and sweet one — and it's surprising how much meaning a one-syllable name can pack. (In fact, one of the Hebrew words...
Network STL works to bring Jewish college students together at local universities without large Jewish populations
Megan Rubenstein , Special To The Jewish Light • Published October 12, 2022
When attending a college or university without a large Jewish population, it can be hard for students to find a community of peers who share the same background. In St. Louis, Yael Sabah of the Network STL is making it easier. Led by Sabah, the Network...
Why a queer Jewish chicken farm is closing itself down
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer • Published October 11, 2022
On a hot, humid day in late August, Nahanni Rous joined a gathering at Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project in New York's Hudson Valley. (Linke Fligl is a pun—Yiddish for "left wing.") For the past seven years,...
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BY SUZANNE EPSTEIN-LANG , SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT • Published October 10, 2022
On the way to Yom Kippur services, I began the following sentence, "Girls, Sukkot starts on Sunday…." I would have completed this sentence by saying, "We're really not going to be at home much next week," " It always blows over," or, "The weather never...
Astros manager Dusty Baker hopes matzah ball soup will give his team a playoffs boost
MATT SAMUELS , JTA • Published October 7, 2022
(Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston via JTA) — If the Astros make it to the World Series later this month, fans can thank team manager Dusty Baker — along with a fresh baked challah and several quarts of matzah ball soup. Baker stopped by Kenny &...


The Pittsboro Town Board of Commissioners agreed Monday to offer a letter of support to Chatham Park Investors for a portion of a roadway that would create an eastern bypass around Pittsboro.
But the matter of how an allocation from the North Carolina Department of Transportation will be spent is still in discussion between the town and Chatham Park investors.
Tim Smith, the manager of Chatham Park Investors LLC, contended during multiple meetings with the DOT, that the project structure and funding was agreed upon with NCDOT secretary Jim Trogdon, NCDOT Chief Operating Officer Bobby Lewis and NCDOT Division 8 Engineer Brandon Jones.
The entire project will include creating a new road that will connect U.S. 15-501 north of Pittsboro to U.S. 15-501 south of town, and thus creating an eastern bypass around the town.
Phase one of the project will be construction of a new road that runs from the northern terminus of the existing portion of the Chatham Park Way at its intersection with U.S. 64 Bypass to U.S. 15-501 north of Pittsboro.
The second phase of the project will be the construction of a new road that runs in southerly direction from the southern terminus of the existing portion of Chatham Park Way, at its intersection with U.S. 64 Business and U.S. 15-501 south of Pittsboro.
As part of the agreement between Chatham Park Investors and NCDOT, Chatham Park will pay $9 million for the first phase of the project. The funding helped increase the score of the project on the State Transportation Improvement Program, or STIP.
In return, NDOT will reimburse the Town of Pittsboro $4.5 million. The money will not come in a lump sum, but rather would be an allocation for future road projects. The Town of Pittsboro would have no out of pocket contribution to the project.
According to Smith, the structure agreed upon from Chatham Park Investors and NCDOT officials would see the Town of Pittsboro disbursing the $4.5 million back to road projects within Chatham Park.
"We've been working on this for years," Smith said.
Pittsboro Planning Director Jeff Jones, however, said that in his meetings with Trogdon, Lewis, and Jones that he was informed that Pittsboro would be able to use the $4.5 million for NCDOT projects of the town's choosing.
"This was my understanding, too," Pittsboro Mayor Cindy Perry said.
Ultimately, Pittsboro's town board unanimously agreed to direct town manager Bryan Gruesbeck to write a letter of support, with the understanding the use of the $4.5 million would be discussed in the future.
Matt Day, a principal planner with the Triangle J Council of Governments, said that the town could decide later to opt out of supporting the project later. The NCDOT would then flag the project and start a review process.
"They cannot hold you or other boards to future plans," Day said.