text:
Psycliq Musical Productions
Tag: production
Chaos Theory: Album Progress
June 17, 2013 psycliq
I'm glad to report that The Cure For Chaos Theory is progressing well, even though such progress never as quickly or as smoothly as I'd like it to. Personal life and other projects always seem to conspire to take me out of the studio. Even so, as of tonight there are eleven songs that are complete (apart from the final mixing and mastering), with another nine in various states of progress from early scratch track to full demo recording.
There's still a long way to go, I admit, but we're still hoping to have things out by the end of 2013, so don't cross Psycliq off of your Christmas list quite yet. And in the mean time, there are some other cool things happening that you'll like. Probably. Keep listening.
Tagged cure for chaos theory, music, new music, production, psycliq, recordingLeave a comment
Still Alive, Approaching the Holidays
October 26, 2011 October 26, 2011 psycliq
I still function! Though with the month I've had, that's somewhat surprising. I did manage to get into the studio long enough to lay down some ideas on a couple of songs for the next album. I like where things are going so far, and there's still a lot of potential to be had. I haven't really begun recording in earnest yet, and with the holiday season soon upon us I won't likely dive into full production mode until the new year has landed. With that in mind, I'm currently thinking I'll be able to have the new full album in your hands sometime mid to late next year. If you want to be among the first to hear about it, sign up for the newsletter mailing list! I'll announce behind-the-scenes plans there before anywhere else.
Speaking of the holidays, this means that it's time to pick out this year's Christmas song. For those of you just joining us, for the past few years I've taken some time away from regular music production to put my own personal touch on a Christmas classic and released it for free on the site here. I've already covered "Angels We Have Heard On High," "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," and last year's "In The Bleak Midwinter." That leaves quite a lot to choose from, and I need your help to decide what to do this year. Frontrunners are:
Although I am definitely open to suggestions. Want to vote? Comment here or on Facebook, tweet at us, send an email, or dispatch a courier pigeon to a predetermined set of coordinates with your desires inscribed upon it. But however you do it, let us know what you want for Christmas from Psycliq, and we'll do what we can to get it to you!
Tagged christmas, facebook, holiday, light the tree, music, new year, production, song, twitterLeave a comment
There is a House down in N'Awlins
July 29, 2011 psycliq
I've been hard at work on a cover of "House of the Rising Sun" over the past couple weeks. I'm using it as an opportunity to find my way around new software and equipment, and to try out some new ways of working with what I'd had already.
One really big change? No programmed drums on this track. They're still synth generated, but I played the whole rhythm section on the MPD18 drum pad controller. The results are a lot more organic than usual, with a lot more variation in dynamics. I'm sure I'll gravitate back towards at least a few programmed loops, but this has been a really interesting experience. Granted, the fact that the song is in 6/8 helped push that decision, but it's still been good. I've also been figuring out how to mix using the nanoKontrol2, and it's already been a great upgrade to its predecessor. The physical control over volume sliders is actually making me use the volume automation a lot more than I used to, and doing things by ear instead of by what was easy to set up.
The song itself is really starting to come along, and I'm excited about the arrangement. I'm hoping to have it wrapped up sometime in mid August if all goes well. Subscribers to the newsletter will be getting a preview cut of it in the next week. Want in on the action? Subscribe today!
Tagged cover songs, mergers & acquisitions inc, nanokontrol, newsletter, production, protoolsLeave a comment
Sale Madness!
July 5, 2011 psycliq
In case you haven't heard, the folks over at IK Multimedia are having a pretty sweet sale right now in celebration of their 15th anniversary. Basically, buy any bit of their stuff, and you get 15% off and another product of theirs (of equal or lesser value) for absolutely free. Can't beat that with a stick.
I was in the market to update my copy of Amplitube anyway when this sale came around, so the timing was really great for me. Most of the guitars in Psycliq recordings have been piped through one version of Amplitube or another, and the new version has some great capabilities to it that I can't wait to exercise. I picked up T-RackS 3 Deluxe as my free download, and hope to use it for better mixing and mastering of my stuff from here on in. Maybe I'll even issue remastered versions of old tracks or something, who knows?
Anyway, they make good stuff and it's a great deal, so you should go check them out.
Tagged amp, amplitube, guitar, ik multimedia, mastering, production, sale, t-racks, upgradesLeave a comment
More Kontrol Than Ever
June 29, 2011 June 30, 2011 psycliq
Right after Christmas of last year, I posted about my first run in with the KORG nanoKONTROL and my adventures in getting it hooked up with ProTools. Many things have happened in the intervening seven months, but two items are of particular note here. First off, KORG came out with an updated version of the nano series, tweaking all of them in pretty good ways all around. Second, I finished graduate school, and set about to upgrade a bunch of bits of studio equipment and software as a kind of graduation present.
I've only had it plugged in for a few minutes, but the nanoKONTROL2 is an upgrade to its predecessor in many ways. First off, it has native support of the HUI protocol, which ProTools speaks without any further configuration. Thus, you plug this guy in, fire up ProTools (or any number of other editor softwares), and you're good to go. One of the most immediate differences is the support for the lights behind all the buttons. While the original nanoKONTROL does have lighted buttons, the hacked scene file I had to use to hook it up didn't let the DAW light buttons up appropriately. Thus, you had no indication on your control of the state of any of your tracks, or even which tracks were selected. Withe the nanoKONTROL2, all of this comes working out of the box. The dedicated solo, mute, and record switches work exactly as you'd expect, and the transport controls all do what they should as well. There are a few new controls on this device as well. In particular, there are buttons for switching track groups (something that had to be done with a mouse with the original nanoKONTROL) and for navigating between markers in the song. Even a few minutes in and it's already a better experience overall.
I feel kinda bad about upgrading so soon after getting the original, but it's hard to argue with such progress. I'm going to keep it around for the moment and reprogram it into a general MIDI controller, with the intent of using it in software synths, effects plugins, and things of that nature. We'll see if it ends up being truly useful in that mode, but there are at least many good possibilities ahead.
Another newcomer to the recording studio is the Akai MPD18, a 16-pad drum controller. As I understand it, this is what one uses to create Phat Beatz. Or bizzeatz. I'm not sure, really. In any case, the velocity sensitive pads on this will be much more conducive to programming drum tracks than either a mouse or a piano keyboard ever were. Since it's just a basic MIDI controller as well, and not a drum machine in and of itself, I can also use this as a MIDI trigger for other things. Perhaps someday if I ever get up the nerve to play live, this will all come in handy.
As you can see by the low-quality smartphone shots of my desk here, all of these devices leave me with about a mile and a half of USB cables strewn about, leading me to get yet another USB hub for the workstation. Several years ago, I very gladly picked up one of these guys to keep things from falling back into the oblivion behind my desk. Cordies are totally awesome. So simple of an idea, but so well executed. I haven't yet figured out if latency is going to be an issue with all of the intervening hardware, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
The rest of the studio upgrade is all software, most of which is still on its way. Finally able to upgrade ProTools, Reason, Melodyne, and Amplitube to their latest releases, I'll have a shiny and full suite of new tools with which to work on new music.
Oh yeah– there is new music. There is actually quite a lot of new music, and once I get all the software installed and set up, I'm going to be working on it in earnest. Keep tuned for more of that.
Tagged akai, amplitube, drum pad, korg, nanokontrol, production, protools, reason, recording, studio2 Comments
For posterity's sake
May 28, 2011 psycliq
Over the last week or so I've been taking some time in the evenings to do something that I should have done long ago: create per-track mixdowns of all of my released songs. This basically means getting back into ProTools and bouncing out each individual bit of audio into its own cohesive track.
Here we have Adoré from halt, a somewhat complex song with several programmed synthesizer parts, a few live synthesizer parts, programmed drums, live guitars, and all kinds of effects with a good bit of automation of various parameters throughout the piece. Along the bottom of the window you can see a set of ten yellow-colored tracks with audio data that spans the whole length of the track. This is the bounced audio from each of the tracks above, with all the effects, automation, panning, volume, and edits applied and pushed into a single contiguous piece of audio for each track.
Most audio workstations have a button that does this automatically, except of course for ProTools. Now why on earth the leading audio editing software would be missing this feature is beyond me, but at least it's not impossible to do yourself. Here's how it works:
First, figure out how many tracks you have to bounce and create that many new stereo audio tracks. You only need holder tracks for things that produce sound in your final mix — for instance, MIDI tracks themselves won't count, but any instrument tracks that they're attached to do count. For Adoré, there were ten distinct sound-making tracks, so I created ten new stereo audio tracks. For my own sanity's sake, I color coded them bright yellow to distinguish them from the rest of the song and labeled all of them "Bounce [Trackname]" based on what source track they were going to hold.
Next, we need to route the audio using the ProTools bus from our source tracks into the new bounce tracks. This amounts to setting the audio out for each source track to a unique stereo pair on the bus, and then setting the input for each bounce track to the corresponding bus pair. So with Adoré (which I'm starting to regret naming with that accent mark in it), the drums are sent out to Bus 1-2 and the Bounce Drums track is set to input 1-2, and so on down the line. This is a real pain to set up each one by hand and make sure they line up, but there turns out to be a shortcut that I discovered about halfway through the process. First, select all of your source tracks (and only those). Then hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the output bar of the first source track in the mix window and select Bus 1-2. All other selected tracks will automatically be assigned to Bus 3-4, Bus 5-6, and so on down the line. Repeat this process to set the inputs to your bounce tracks. So long as they're in the same order, everything will line up automatically. It's pretty awesome.
Next, we need to arm all of our bounce tracks to record. Again, there's a nice shortcut here. Select all of the bounce tracks, then hold down Alt+Shift and click on the record button for any of them. This will arm all selected tracks at once, and you're good.
Finally, make sure the song is rewound to the beginning and hit record and play. If everything's set up correctly, the audio from all of your source tracks should now be emptying itself into the bounce tracks and you'll have clean copies of all of your audio, effects and automation and all. After recording completes, don't forget to set the output of your audio tracks back to the main interface output and mute all of your bounce tracks. You can use the same Alt+Shift trick here, too.
Now of course I do have the final mix of this song, and I obviously still have the project file, so why go through all this work? Especially considering that digital audio doesn't degrade like old analogue tapes would, right?
Well, here's the thing that I found out the hard way. Digital recordings can in fact degrade, but not in the same way. With digital systems, master tracks are no longer just straight recordings of what somebody played at some time. Take Mettle here, for instance. It was recorded entirely with software instruments, meaning I had no audio for any of the parts except for what was exported in the final mix. If any of these plugins had stopped working, I wouldn't be able to go back and do anything interesting with Mettle again, like remixes or mashups or inclusion into a music game.
Software changes, computer upgrades, file system shuffles, and other things can all lead to difficulties. For example, I had sampled a software-modeled Roland TR-808 drum machine ages ago and had used those bits in lots of places. However, in the intervening years since I made those recordings I have no idea what happened to those files. I still had the drum machine sequence, but no sounds to put in it. This effectively meant that unless I found or replaced those sound files, the drum tracks to several songs would be lost forever. Several plugins that I used heavily on earlier albums under WinXP no longer run very nicely on Win7, which meant I was very close to losing the exact sound that I had carved out for each part of these songs. I spent a lot of time getting legacy software to run just to make this work. Since I'm looking to upgrade my whole setup this summer, I wanted to take some steps to make sure I had things taken care of first.
Bouncing out to individual tracks gives you a flexibility and a certain amount of future-proofing that you wouldn't have otherwise. Thus far, I've managed to bounce out the three main Psycliq albums and am now working on the covers and Christmas tracks. Even though going back over some old music has made me cringe at every mistake and slip, it's been well worth it.
Tagged bounce, future, future proof, legacy, production, protools, samples, software, tracks1 Comment
Production, Uncategorized
I Have Kontrol
December 27, 2010 July 5, 2011 psycliq
Update: For those wandering in looking how to use a nanoKontrol with ProTools 8, I've since updated to a nanoKontrol2 and ProTools 9, and the two work seamlessly out of the box with each other. On the chance that you're still shopping around for stuff, I highly recommend going with the nanoKontrol2. Original post below...
I hope that everyone had and/or is having a wonderful holiday season! Have you downloaded Light The Tree yet? It's only going to be up for another week, and it's completely free! My holiday has been filled with a lot of driving around to family events, but now I think we're finally settled into the house for a bit.
Exhausting, yes, but lots of fun, with a brand new year that's almost begun. And what did I find under the tree this year? Why, nothing short of a new piece of gear! OK, this rhyming has to stop. (Anybody got a mop?) Seriously.
What you're looking at in the product shot (courtesy of a fine review from SKRATCHWORX) is a Korg NanoKontrol. This lovely (and tiny) piece of hardware is really just a USB MIDI controller with a bunch of sliders and knobs and buttons on it. Nothing fancy on its own, but when you pair it with the right software you've got a pretty powerful setup on your hands. The obvious use case for me is for a mixing board, controlling track volumes and plugin controls in ProTools. With nine independent sliders, each with a knob and pair of buttons, you've got some really nice physical control over the mixing process. Since ProTools is notoriously picky about non-Avid-owned hardware, it sadly didn't work out of the box. However, there is hope! You see, with its included editor software, this little guy can spit out pretty much whatever MIDI control codes you want it to, thereby pretending to be basically any kind of control surface out there. I used a great little tutorial to wire it up into ProTools, and I was very quickly in business. The first eight sliders map to the volume control on the first eight channels, and the last slider maps to the volume control of the last master fader. In other words, it does exactly what you'd expect it to do. In fact, I was a bit amazed at how smoothly everything worked. I will likely be tweaking the control mappings going forward, but this is a fantastic starting point, and I'd like to thank the folks at Trikome for their setup.
One of the main reasons for loving it so much has got to be the hardware transport controls. The ability to start, stop, rewind, and record from dedicated buttons cannot be beat. This way, I don't have to fumble over to my computer keyboard to mash the right arcane button combination just to get things to start and stop when I want them to.
Mind you, the NanoKontrol doesn't do any recording or mixing on its own — it is nothing more than a simple MIDI device. But like all good tools, it's in exactly the form factor it needs to be in to make it useful. I'm going to need to rearrange my desk a bit to accommodate it, but I really needed to rework the studio space anyway. Maybe that's something we can look forward to in the new year.
Tagged christmas, control, korg, light the tree, midi, mixing, nanokontrol, production1 Comment
November 13, 2010 November 13, 2010 psycliq
Just got an express package in the mail: a new printing of Results Not Typical. This one comes from createspace. Same music, bit different packaging, and these are print on demand and should be available through Amazon. I think I'll be using these guys for the forseeable future.
Tagged cover art, inserts, printer, production, results not typical2 Comments
Tracking and Titles
Somehow, I'm finding a decent amount of time to work on this album. I've been able to track two more songs in the past two days. And what's more amazing to me is that they're nearly done in their current state. The aesthetic for this album is going to be a lot more sparse than I'm used to working with. There are songs on here that are a solo piano with nothing else involved. These last two are piano with a simple synth pad of some kind underneath them. Sure, there are more complex songs with multiple layers of guitars and all kinds of effects and stuff like that, but even those are a lot more raw than the norm. But I'm very happy with how it's coming out, even though I'm also wanting to be done with this set of things so I can put some work into other stuff.
Titles for songs have always been fairly important to me. However, most of what I come up with is simply Too Clever for its Own Good. Which, incidentally, I've decided is going to be the title of my autobiography/memoir. But take for example "This Town Loves You, This Town Will Destroy You" off of halt. I like the title a lot here, it's catchy and I felt it matched the two-part nature of the song. Problem is that the song itself isn't as good as its title, in my opinion. You expect this epic tale of woe, but you get this noodly thing. It's one of the most clicked-on tracks in the bandcamp page, which tells you that the title is grabbing people's attention. But "Adoré", what I consider to be the best track on the album, doesn't get as much attention. The title is a much better fit for the song here, though.
And now the part that some of you have figured out was coming. I've told you that I have a lot of songs for Results Not Typical, and I told you that titles are important to me. Now I tell you the titles of the songs! At least, these are the probably-final titles from the most-likely-going-to-keep tracks for the album. There will be other songs, too, but I'm either not happy enough with the title yet or I'm not sure the song's going to be good enough to make it on. These are also the ones I'm pretty sure I'll be able to finish.
Amid the Stacks
Another Empty Hour In Every Day
By Pint and Pound
Dustwood
Ghosts of Persistence
Open to Suggestions
Those Born of Kings
Unfurled
Whether or Not
Presented alphabetically so as not to imply any kind of album ordering.
Tagged music, production, recording, results not typical, songs, titlesLeave a comment
Music, Production
A Weekend with the Wavedrum
I'm currently borrowing a KORG Wavedrum from a friend of mine. For those unfamiliar with this fantastic instrument, it is an acoustic drum synthesizer. It works by using vibration sensors underneath a real drum head and rim that respond to all of the dynamic playing that a hand drum is used to, and then sending those signals to a synthesis engine. The engine then takes the input waves and modulates them with various PCM sources and algorithmic sound models to create the output.
What all of that technobabble really means is that this isn't a drum, it's a thousand drums in one box. And unlike a drum machine or normal synthesizer, it is played like a real acoustic drum would be. In short, it's pretty awesome.
I've only had it at my place for a few days now, but I've managed to spend a few sessions just playing with it. It has an impressive range of tones, most of which mimic real drums of various flavors in addition to a bunch of very otherworldly sounds that have very little to do with drums. However, the fact that you play these sounds like a drum adds a rhythmic character to it. Another great feature of this instrument is that it outputs directly into the recording system. This means that any incidental ambient noises won't bleed over into the recording. As you'll recall, this was a necessary feature for my acoustic guitar as well. It turns out that a home studio is difficult to run with a 10-month old in the house. Incidental ambient noises are the rule of the day.
After my initial noodling, I set about using the Wavedrum on an actual song. This one has a bluesy little groove to it that my traditional drum machine just wasn't going to capture. I tried to program it in Reason, but the timing was all off and it felt horrible. Ever wonder why so many techno songs are in straight 4/4? It's because it's really easy to program that. I've programmed a few different step sequencers before, and they've all been 16-step 4/4 sequencers. The Wavedrum, based entirely on hand input, has no sense of quantization. Thus, I quickly found out something I knew already — that I am not a very good drummer. I've got a decent sense of rhythm, but translating that into a particular instrument isn't always so straightforward. Thankfully, modern post-production lets me tweak things in software where needed. That said, I am trying to have a fairly light touch on this.
In any case, I jumped in and tried a few different drum sounds before settling on a nice round conga sound. With a little compression, it gave me a nice snappy sound that complemented the acoustic guitar and bass that drives the rest of the song. The Wavedrum, being a very different kind of sequencer, turns out to be quite difficult to program. I wasn't getting the deep booming tones that I was after for underlying the higher accents, so I ended up breaking out the drum machine for just those bits. After trying unsuccessfully to sync with the underlying groove, I simply recorded the drum machine output to a track and un-quantized it by hand to match. This is the opposite of what you usually do with drums.
After a few sessions of recording, re-recording, and tweaking, I'm getting relatively happy with the state of the song. I have a vision of some kind of bell over the top of it, or something to that effect, but I'm not sure it needs it. I always have trouble knowing when to stop.
Oh yes, the title? "By Pint and Pound". Now you have the first title of a song from Results Not Typical. Originally the title was "Blood and Flesh by Pint and Pound", I thought it was a little too macabre. What do you think though? Should I change it back or keep the shorter version? Maybe you'd have to hear it first. Maybe I can arrange that, if you want.
Tagged korg, music, production, recording, results not typical, wavedrum1 Comment
Psycliq
Are you in the greater Boston area? Psycliq is going to be playing a live set. Yes, that's right -- for the first… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 year ago
This year's Christmas song is Jingle Bells, and it's available for free through the holiday season along with the r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 years ago
This year's christmas song is now available: Snow Angel, free download and stream! The whole back catalog of... fb.me/6fPNBN51r 3 years ago
Our version of the classic "House of the Rising Sun" has been licensed for use in an upcoming short film! We'll... fb.me/145Ki2ETN 3 years ago
Somebody used "Her Ice-Lit Walk" from "The Cure for Chaos Theory" as the music for the intro and outro of this... fb.me/17lnv3tsA 3 years ago
Electric Goodies Newsletter


Broncos Thoughts and Musings: Fish in a barrel - It's All Over, Fat Man!
I was musing over the vagaries of the Broncos' fall from grace on Sunday. Losing a second year in a row to the Raiders late in the season, at home, is about as unconscionable as anything I can imagine. It hurts on a deep level, and for a lot of reasons. Let's face it - when you can't stop JMR on one drive for the win, you shouldn't have won. Denver's loss was by far the most disappointing of the season.
Like the lists of player problems and mistakes that I've been making as I work through the film room material each week, the list of miscreants from this game was long. I don't tend to easily abandon hope and I generally can see the brighter side of things. There weren't a lot of things to celebrate this time. Most of the problems are just the same mistakes from the same offenders that I've seen each week. We have often won in spite of foolish errors. This time, we threw away a game that we could have and should have won.
And, it was the raiders. What part of 'getting up for a hated division rival' didn't the Broncos get? Finding the Broncos' mistakes during this game really is pretty much shooting fish in a barrel - you can hardly miss. So saying, I'm taking down the Remington pump-action 12-gauge and aiming at a few.
Every Broncos fan is concerned about this. There is a factor here that Josh McDaniels talked about last week, though, and while I don't agree with him, it makes the situation pretty clear.
Our offensive line isn't getting any movement in the center on short yardage. That's unforgivable - if you have a 3rd-and-1 you should be making that play 9 out of 10 times, but that's not happening and it seems that over the course of this year, it probably won't.
It doesn't matter if we run Peyton Hillis, LaMont Jordan or Knowshon Moreno at the middle of the line. None of them has the power of levitation. They are being hit in the backfield or swarmed just as they come up to the line and in today's NFL, that spells disaster. People have talked, rightfully, about which players they would prefer toting the ball in those situations, but McDaniels was very clear about this. He said, in essence, that it's up to the offensive line to move the pile and that his approach isn't going to change on this today, tomorrow or next season. I can make a pretty good argument that this isn't in the best interest of the team, and I imagine that you can do the same, but as the Coach said, that's not the issue. The issue is that McD expects the line to get a push and create the opportunity of getting yardage even though they just flat out aren't doing it.
If you're going to tell me that recognizing this should lead to a change in approach, I'm with you. The problem is, he's not going to make that change. While I emphatically disagree with his perspective regarding making a change, I also understand why: the offensive line is the basis of the entire game. It is followed closely by the defensive line and the cornerbacks, in my own views (more about this later), but the O-line is the rock upon which a team is built. Ours is, to steal a metaphor, built on shifting sands. That's where most of the issues with the running game are coming from. It's not doing our passing game a lot of good, either.
I can say with certainty that Tyler Polumbus has struggled during each of our losses. I can say with equal certainty that the Broncos will be looking for other options at backup tackle following this season. The same likely goes for Russ Hochstein, who didn't have a very good game either after convincing me that he was stepping up, and for Casey Wiegmann, who may retire in a few weeks. That's 3/5 of the most important group to a building team that isn't playing well and that is A Very Bad Thing.
If you were irritated by the running game, I'm with you. If you think the issue is Moreno, we disagree. Oh, it's not that I hold him blameless; not by any stretch. He's learning a variation on the running back position that requires a very specific skill set and which he has not yet mastered. While we can argue about whether or not he should have learned it by now, the simple fact is that he hasn't. He had a poor day compared to recent games and I had hoped for better from him, but even so - he's not getting a lot of favors from the guys who are responsible for blocking, and that's never going to be good. I recall watching one of the best of all time, Walter 'Sweetness' Payton, running behind moderately bad O-lines for years. Walter was one of the best to ever play the game and he still suffered a lot of bad and/or negative plays because of the line. Moreno isn't, at this point, another Payton, and he's not able to make up for their problems - nor should we expect him to. We should expect him to show improvement over the season, and he has. He's also not there yet, and we should expect him to keep working hard until he is - and for a long time to come.
"There was a common thing from the standpoint of where it happened," Nolan said. "It happened on cutbacks - all but two of them. And it really just has to do with the responsibility to stay home ... We have to do a better job of maintaining our responsibility on the cutback. It was really just a case of us over-pursuing on the backside."
It was, of course. Does it concern me that we're making such fundamental errors this late in the season? Certainly. Did it surprise me when I looked over the game film? Not at all - after looking at just the stat lines, you could make a sizable bet about the cause. It is the same cause that has been behind the other breakdowns in the defense.
So, let's talk a little about the team. Should they be better? Should fans be happy that they've done as well as they have? Should fans feel concern? The answer to each of those questions is 'Yes'.
I was talking with some football friends about this and an issue came up that helped put things into a better perspective: Despite the difficulty of dealing with the loss to the raiders, we're pretty much where the more positive folks said that we'd be way back in training camp. Folks like many of the site members, darned few of the media, and Josh McDaniels himself.
It was during training camp that some pundit (thinking himself funny, I suspect) asked Josh about the team's Super Bowl chances. McDaniels didn't bat an eye. "We're not a Super Bowl team," he said calmly. At that time, listening to the tone, I didn't hear this as typical coach-speak. He thought for a brief moment and dismissed the notion as pointless. He should have. He inherited a bad team, did a very good job for a single offseason and has done what he can do with the players he has, but he knows the problems of the team far better than we do. He's more familiar with the players as he watches them practice, something that we don't get to experience.
It was close to that same time that someone talked to him about how the media was claiming that the Broncos were going to be losers over the course of the year. McDaniels stirred up the media by saying that he'd never been on a loser and didn't expect to start now. You know what? Even if we drop the last two, we can't have a losing season. A single victory gives us a 9-7 record. Do you recall what was said about that possible record when we dealt our own pick to Seattle and kept the Bears' pick? Things have changed, in that respect.
From where I sit, it looks like McDaniels came from a winning club, with both the right players and the right attitudes, and migrated from there to Denver. He inherited a club that wasn't ready to take on the playoffs - or the Ultahamma Grannies, for that matter. We will get there, but we aren't currently Super Bowl material. He could see that, and he was right. I'm sure that the difference was fairly stark. This is not a SB team, and it's a much better team than it was last year. However - until the offensive line is righted and the players who lose their wits easily are weeded out over time (just as a start), we are what we are - about the middle of the pack.
The simple fact is, I loved Mike Shanahan's work - he was one of the best offensive coordinators of all time. But despite a brilliant start, he wasn't as good as a head coach over time, and he wasn't a great GM. He made player-personnel deals that still amaze and astound and not in good ways. He left the defense feeling like second-class citizens and by the time Pat Bowlen said 'Enough," Shanahan had built a club with a losing attitude. Josh McDaniels did what you can do in one offseason and I love the direction that the team is taking, but they didn't build Google in a day and this is going to take time - just as most folks said at the beginning of the year.
Lots of members made good points, back then. "He's young and inexperienced," some pointed out. "He will make some bad decisions based on his lack of experience." He has. Lots of good ones, too - more good than bad, to my way of thinking, but definitely lots of both. It's his first year as a head coach and he's still learning. Nothing new there. Is there an argument that he'll get less good with experience? I'd love to hear that one - actually, no, I wouldn't. Scratch that.
"They don't have the personnel," others noted. Those folks were right too, in degree. We recently just don't keep up with good teams and we can't stop a mediocre one on the wrong week. There are a lot of good reasons for that, too. We have a team that can only count on winning if they play a nearly faultless game because even with a lot of very smart personnel moves, we are in the first season of changing the team. And, we don't have enough players who are that good. We still have some locker room problems - and that's not going to change this year; but change it will, given what evidence we've seen since February.
1. The Broncos are actually building a team. We want to win games while we build one, and so far we've won more than we've lost. The long season is showing the cracks, imperfections and outright weaknesses that couldn't get dealt with in a single year. The more film other teams have on us, the more they take advantage of them. What, we were going to do this in one year? Most members expected the final 2009 record to be about the same, a little worse, or perhaps even a bit better than 2008. That's exactly where we are, too. There's a long list of things that are better, though. Start with pass coverage and move on from there.
2. The word 'defense' no longer refers solely to the person that represents one of our players in a trial. I don't miss the negative role models that Denver had become burdened with. I don't miss the ones like Maurice Clarett and I don't miss the Travis Henry's. I don't miss a revolving door at defensive coordinator - nor do I miss the lack of quality players that it has consistently represented. I don't believe that the defense is a second-class organization any longer, either. They aren't ready, in one jump, to handle playoff teams and playoff football, but that's a long way from where we were a year ago when we got some lucky breaks and still didn't make the playoffs. We actually have players to build on, a scheme that works when players play well and coaches who will have had a year with their better players - and some new better ones to replace the folks who couldn't keep their cool in the locker room this year.
3. McDaniels will improve. I didn't go into this season expecting him to be without his own difficulties. Did you? He's blown some calls and he's the first to make note of that. Folks are going to question his decisions on play calling - that goes with the job. Even so - do you deeply miss the play calling of Jeremy Bates? I don't. I think that McDaniels has more than earned a chance to show Denver and Broncos Country just how far he can go with a team that he builds, not inherits. Unless, of course, you miss Nate Webster, Jamie Winborn and Dewayne Robertson.
4. We have a lot of young players who make typical younger-player mistakes. Not all are rookies, either. Wesley Woodyard, for example, has had a roller-coaster season. He looks great one week and gets burned the next; sometimes that happens from quarter to quarter. I don't know if he's going to work out, but he's a very good prospect and a very good special-teams player, so you work with him. The best teams have extensive player development, and for us, that will take time. We need time to develop him, and that goes for Josh Barrett, Alphonso Smith, Darcel McBath, David Bruton , Richard Quinn, Spencer Larsen and a whole bunch of other players. Tony Carter showed last week that he's worth a long look. It's not all defense - Kenny McKinley contributed last game, Peyton Hillis may or may not have potential, Ryan Clady is still learning the game, Ryan Harris (who is one of our best) is hurt again, and Tyler Polumbus has been hit and miss (mostly miss). We've got a lot of players who need to develop and some that won't make it through the next training camp. That's okay, too - that's how you build. You develop the best that you can get each season and you let Brian Xanders do his thing on contracts. I hear a lot of things about what the Broncos will and won't do about money, but no one is ready to set out hard numbers yet. We're talking about things that are interesting, but right now, we don't have the knowledge to say we'll do this or we'll do that. One thing I can say? We will be developing players, replacing some with better players and continuing to coach up and develop the ones who do the best. It isn't a quick thing to do well, either.
5. We have needed a plan for years. Now we have one. Will that plan change and adapt? Of course. But even as much as I loved Mike Shanahan, every year was the same plan - claim that you're a player or two away, replace the defensive coordinator, move a bunch of defensive players around, pick up a lot of new (or old) street veterans and repeat the following offseason. Even the offense was troubled - the issue of not picking up short yardage wasn't a sudden thing, this year. It was the same last year. Management too often neglected the team for too long to demand perfection in a single year.
I get the fact that many people don't like McD's play calling. I don't see that as the same kind of problem that some do - I see a lot of problems, far worse problems, with execution. Do you feel that they should be further along? Probably so - and I do, too. But given what he had to start with, I really can't complain all that much. Should we progress next year too? Yes. If we don't, I'll be as irritated as anyone, but I can't sit here and claim that I thought that we'd be all ready by now, problems fixed and ready to hit the playoffs. I didn't. the challenges that each of us saw were real then, and they still are. That doesn't make them overwhelming - we're doing pretty well, just not as well as we'd like to. If the Broncos have the interior of the line improved over the offseason, a lot of things will come together. We could use a few upgrades at certain other positions, too. Like I said - this won't be quick, but at least it's finally started.
6. We're using our players far better. In one sense, this is an expansion of #1, but it's more than that. Do you recall the fuss made about Mario Haggan? His original acquisition was the Goodman's work (and he was well chosen), but his excellence of application is due to his own efforts, Josh McDaniels' and Mike Nolan's. Andre' Goodman has weaknesses, but his coverage is usually excellent. Renaldo Hill? He was a great steal and has been a team leader on the field. How about Bruton and McBath - did we choose well? When you look at who has been brought in and how they have done, we are far above average - finally! There are more changes to make. It will take time to fully use this principle of identifying and obtaining the best of who is available (and the 'best' is NOT necessarily the most expensive), but look at the start that we made this year.
7. We are getting takeaways. Yes, I'd love to see more, but they come when your coverage and rush are both there. On the other side of the ball, I don't listen to the school that claims that Orton should have more INTs - when did anyone keep that stat? However - do you recall how many TOs we didn't get last year? That's changed, in a big way. We're bringing in better players and they are playing a better scheme. It's a process - not an event.
8. Things take time. While this is unfortunate, it is essential. You don't rebuild the kind of disaster that we had a year ago in one offseason, especially when you look at the level of turnover and the issues of developing communication among the players. Top teams tend to congregate near the top of the league - and, they tend to have built the team through vision, coaching and acquisition. The Broncos have begun that process.
Look back at the reasons that were given by so many, guaranteeing failure in the short term. Some of the theories were overstated, but even then there were kernels of truth in many of them. Of course we're struggling. It's Year One of a major reorganization.
Here's something that isn't a problem - the Broncos aren't struggling late in the season because they did so last year or any other year. They are struggling because they are installing new systems, bringing in new players and, yes, it does take more than one season. Belichick, first season with the Patriots? 5-11. Bill Walsh, first season with SF? 2-14. Chuck Noll, first season with the Steelers? 1-13. The list of folks who took over dysfunctional teams and did better than 9-7 in one season is a short one.
Mike Shanahan did a lot of great things for the Broncos and he's earned a place in history, but his last few years were circling the drain. Let's not blame the plumber who took the job of fixing the problems that were left behind. The problems aren't few and they aren't simple. They have little or nothing to do with whether or not you like a draft pick after less than one season, which is kind of silly anyway (If someone can find me a single example of a professional football coach, NFL level, who would agree that it's a good idea to judge a draft after less than a season, I'll apologize for calling this behavior silly. Yes, I do believe in civil and rational discourse, but not in listening to the same inaccurate renderings, over and over. I'm trying to be polite but still pointing out that it's absurd). The problems aren't about whether or not Peyton Hillis is playing well enough to replace LaMont Jordan or whether or not you hate Robert Ayers, Alphonso Smith or whoever. It isn't about whether you think Eddie Royal is being used right or if he's been discovered to have a tell that is costing him, because none of us knows that info anyway.
What it is about is whether or not you're willing to defenestrate yourself over the fact that it takes time to turn a program around. Only a fool would try to walk backwards into the future. Do you want to try doing so, while looking behind you at the things you aren't happy with? I've seen a lot of good football this season and some bad football, but I haven't seen a thing that convinced me that the program isn't going in the right direction.
The question of how the Broncos will play in Philadelphia is misleading. The real issue is, which Broncos will show up? The guys who stopped Dallas and New England in the 4th quarter or the guys who laid down for JaMarcus Russell? The coaches get a lot of flack if the players don't execute, but that's often not their issue - especially if they're still playing with some leftovers who laid down for the last management team. The Broncos do have the players to win this game, even on the road in Philly.
They don't however, have the players who can make a batch of mistakes whenever we get close to scoring or stopping the other team and still win. Maybe the Colts can do that, this year. Even the Saints found out that they can't play that game without losing at it sooner or later. One consistent? The two games that Tyler Polumbus and Russ Hochstein played well recently, we won. The defense needs to step up as well and quite over-pursuing on the backside, but we have had the ability to outscore other teams. We haven't always used it - we're still leaving points on the field. Those (including Tom Brady, who knows a bit about this) who noted that the system takes a couple of years to implement were also right.
It's a multiple-timezone trip to the East, and that's rarely good news for Denver. Week 1 saw us eking out a win in Cincinnati. We haven't managed to play well for our East Coast wins. But, that doesn't mean that we can't win this game. It isn't the kind of challenge that Indianapolis is, but it's a big one, even so. We are still, hard as it is to believe, in the playoff hunt. This game matters a a lot, on that level. Since I don't see us going deep into the playoffs, I'm not as concerned with whether we win as how we approach playing this one. Having had the game moved to the later time slot on Sunday afternoon is an advantage - Let's hope that the Broncos make the best use of it!
Even after dissecting the dissonance from Sunday, there are far worse things in the sports world than being 8-6 going into Philly. I'd like to offer two examples.
"There will be the usual griping about the Cover-2 defense today. But the Bears played hardly any of it Sunday. Really, they haven't played it much all year. And they didn't play a lot of it last year.
The Bears play a lot of two-deep safeties only when they get opponents in long down and distances. And they haven't been able to do that much lately.
"The defense has evolved away from the (Cover-2)," Cameron said. "I had to change my whole mindset because I remembered going against Lovie (Smith) in St. Louis and playing all the (Cover-2). Looking at all of their games, I realized how committed they are to playing single coverage on the outside."
See, it's really not about the scheme at this point. It's not even about the players.
This is what bankruptcy looks like. There simply is nothing left."
At the Broncos' worst, they aren't close to this. We no longer leave a standard Cover-1 shell, even though our rushing defense was inexcusable against Oakland. Chicago has done exactly what Mike Shanahan and Bob Slowik combined to do - ignore the modern usage of the safety position and invite completions on the outside, balanced by leaving large openings to run through. Baltimore was appropriately grateful for both invitations, exactly as they should have been, and the rout was on.
Not only did Jay Cutler throw his 23rd, 24th and 25th INTs, while notching not a single TD (19/25 for the season, for those who hate Kyle Orton today) and not only did he manage a vile 7.9 QB rating, his backup (C. Hanie) threw for a lousy 8.3 QB rating and still out-performed Jay.
Baltimore Sun sportswriter Kevin Van Valkenburg, in his "Five Things We Learned" from the Ravens' victory, notes Fox analyst Brian Billick's comparison of Jay Cutler to Jeff George and takes it one step further: He speculates that Cutler might be the secret spawn of the former Colts quarterback. "They're both from Indiana, and both strong-armed, knuckle-headed, franchise-killing quarterbacks," Van Valkenburg writes. "Cutler is either the worst good quarterback of his generation, or the best bad quarterback of his generation, just like George. The resemblance has become too much to ignore. At this point, all he needs is a mustache."
"Cutler's first interception was a pass forced to Devin Aromashodu, a bad decision that has become the house special. But hey, at least it took him four plays before throwing a pick."
Holiday special: Order your Jay Cutler No. 7.9 jersey and get three INTs thrown in for free!
In the second possibility I've referred to, we could still have Jay Cutler and a few less draft picks. I couldn't guess who we would and would not have, since the decisions in the draft were dependent on those 5 picks between 1-90, but I'd hate to see this team without David Bruton, Darcel McBath or Knowshon Moreno. I know - Moreno is having some rookie problems, but he's also a very good RB with a bright future. About a year ago, I wrote an article on the problems of teaching a running back the Broncos' rushing system. It's one of the toughest to learn, since much of it is counterintuitive. That means that I'm far from being deeply concerned with Moreno, who still leads all rookies in rushing yards.
But let's face something head-on: Jay Cutler is doing a Jeff George imitation that out-rivals Jeff George. He's helpfully starting games by tossing an INT or two just to let everyone know what kind of game it will be. His line is weak and his receivers less than optimal, but you just can't blame anyone but Jay for his increasing ability to create completions with players in various and different uniforms. There's just something so, I don't know, egalitarian about that. On one level you have to admire his generosity of spirit, in the best trends of the holidays.
Folks in Denver didn't think that Jay had a lot of giving in his nature, and I'm glad that we've put that lie to rest. While some, like the male population of Illinois, might bicker about just who he's completing passes to, you have to give him credit for two things. First, he completes a lot of passes, and secondly, he obviously believes far more in sharing the ball than anyone could have suspected last winter. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him for his dedication to those principles. He's also done everything in his power to protect the Broncos' investment in Chicago's draft pick. How can you describe such a man as petty, mean-spirited or self-serving? Considering all that he's been serving up, I think that we owe him an apology. Sorry, Jay. I guess that I had no real idea just how much you liked the Broncos. But as things have played out, I appreciate you more than I did since the day Mike Shanahan and Company drafted you. Your actions have been a much needed ray of joy in an otherwise bleak and dismal week.
Just keep it up for two more games, Jay. That's all I want for Christmas. Happy Holidays to all!


text:
Home Money Chris Rock on Will Smith Oscars slap: 'I'm not a victim'
Chris Rock on Will Smith Oscars slap: 'I'm not a victim'
Chris Rock has finally broken his silence regarding the slap heard around the world: "Yeah, that s – – t hurt, motherf – – ker — but I shook that s – – t off and went to work the next day."
After remaining mostly silent for months, the comedian-actor addressed getting smacked by Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards while headlining stand-up shows in New York and New Jersey over the weekend.
"Anyone who says 'words hurt' has never been punched in the face," Rock, 57, declared while performing alongside Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle at Madison Square Garden Saturday, ET Online reported.
Also during the event, Hart brought a live goat onstage and introduced it as "Will Smith."
Rock elaborated during his set the following day at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, during a bit in which he riffed about people being overly sensitive, Us Magazine reported. "I'm not a victim, motherf – – ker," the "Grown Ups" star declared. "I don't go to the hospital for a paper cut."
From left to right: Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Kevin Hart at Madison Square Garden. Twitter/Kevin Hart
This marked the first time that Rock had addressed the incident, which occurred at the 2022 Oscars in March, when Smith, who would go on to win Best Actor for "King Richard" later in the evening, smacked Rock after the comedian made a bald wisecrack about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia.
Rock had previously remained largely mum on the Best Smacktor fiasco, only referencing it briefly onstage over the past couple months.
See also Kris Jenner's wealth sees her create an entire room solely for her fine china
"I'm OK, if anybody was wondering," Rock said during a show in May at the UK's Royal Albert Hall, according to the Times of London. "I got most of my hearing back."
He added that he still wouldn't be talking about the altercation between him and Smith, 53.
"People expect me to talk about the bulls – – t. I'm not going to talk about it right now. I'll get to it eventually — on Netflix," he said with a laugh.
"Anyone who says 'words' hurt has never been punched in the face," Rock (left) declared.Twitter/Kevin Hart
The comedian previously stated that he wouldn't be talking about the slap until he sees a check with his name on it: "I'm OK. I have a whole show, and I'm not talking about that until I get paid," he told his audience during a comedy set at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, last month.
However, just a week before his casino appearance, the "Everybody Hates Chris" creator said to fans during a surprise visit to the Comedy Cellar in New York City, "Lower your expectations. I'm not going to address that s – – t."
Will Smith accepts the Best Actor award for "King Richard" onstage during the 94th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images
Smith, meanwhile, has remained silent on the subject, although comedian and friend Kevin Hart told "Entertainment Tonight" last night that the "Ali" actor is in a better place since the incident.
"Will is apologetic, you know, he's in a better space, of course, than what he was after," the comedian said. "People are human and as humans sometimes we make mistakes."
See also Brad Pitt's range and flexibility have helped him build long-lasting career
He added, "So it's not about talking about the past, it's about acknowledging the present and doing your best to move forward."
Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Kevin Hart backstage at Madison Square Garden.Twitter/Kevin Hart
Chris Rock Isn't 'Concerned' With Jada Pinkett Smith's words after the Oscars…
'SNL's Michael Che Explains What 'Annoyed' Him in the Aftermath of the Chris…
Chris Rock on Will Smith's slap: "Whoever says words don't hurt hasn't been…
Chris Rock And Dave Chappelle Have Funny Exchange About Both Getting Bum Rushed…
No. Volodymyr Zelenskyy Is Not A Billionaire. And No, He's Not Richer Than Will…
Dave Chappelle brands Will Smith 'as ugly as the rest of us' over Oscars slap
Previous articleCobra Kai Season 5 Debuts New Trailer and Excitingly Close Premiere Date
Next articleBefore 'House of the Dragon,' Olivia Cooke played CT teen
Actual boxing matches added to Jake Paul vs Anderson Silva
Phoebe Bridgers, Bleachers among 50+ concerts in Houston this week
Olivia Cooke Now Has WikiFeet's 'Feet of the Day' Thanks to That 'House of...
More Flood Concerns For Western New York
Ruben Randall - February 22, 2022
Top Spot of the Week: DIRECTV, TBWAChiatDay LA Mesh Pro Football...
Ruben Randall - August 19, 2022 0
Client DIRECTV Agency TBWAChiatDay LA Renato Fernandez, chief creative officer; Jason Karley, group creative director; Mark Winters, Ryan Buckley, creative directors; Josh Hill,...
Crispin Glover's Net Worth (Updated 2021)
The Cast Of 'Stranger Things' Ranked By Net Worth
One Prospect to Watch: NFC East and West

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
<?php

namespace SellerLabs\Nucleus\Support;

use SellerLabs\Nucleus\Control\Maybe;
use SellerLabs\Nucleus\Data\ArrayMap;
use SellerLabs\Nucleus\Exceptions\CoreException;
use SellerLabs\Nucleus\Foundation\StaticObject;

/**
 * Class Env
 *
 * Utility functions for interacting with the environment.
 *
 * @author Eduardo Trujillo <ed@sellerlabs.com>
 * @package SellerLabs\Nucleus\Support
 */
class Env extends StaticObject
{
    /**
     * Get an environment variable or return the default if it is not defined.
     *
     * @param string $key
     * @param null|mixed|callable $default
     *
     * @return bool|mixed|null|string
     */
    public static function get($key, $default = null)
    {
        $value = static::getRaw($key, $default);

        if (is_string($value)) {
            // Convert some common values into their scalar types.
            switch (strtolower($value)) {
                case 'true':
                    return true;

                case 'false':
                    return false;

                case 'null':
                    return null;
            }

            // Strip "" if the string is wrapped in them.
            if (Str::beginsWith($value, '"') && Str::endsWith($value, '"')) {
                return substr($value, 1, -1);
            }
        }

        return $value;
    }

    /**
     * Get an environment variable or return the default if it is not defined.
     *
     * This avoid any post-processing, such as automatic casting.
     *
     * @param string $key
     * @param null|mixed|callable $default
     *
     * @return mixed|string
     */
    public static function getRaw($key, $default = null)
    {
        $env = ArrayMap::of($_ENV);
        $server = ArrayMap::of($_SERVER);

        if ($env->member($key)) {
            return Maybe::fromJust($env->lookup($key));
        } elseif ($server->member($key)) {
            return Maybe::fromJust($server->lookup($key));
        }

        $value = getenv($key);

        if ($value === false) {
            return Std::thunk($default);
        }

        return $value;
    }

    /**
     * Get an environment variable or fail.
     *
     * @param string $key
     *
     * @return bool|mixed|null|string
     */
    public static function getOrFail($key)
    {
        return static::get($key, function () use ($key) {
            throw new CoreException(vsprintf(
                'The variable %s was not found in the environment',
                [$key]
            ));
        });
    }

    /**
     * Set an environment variable with the provided value.
     *
     * @param string $key
     * @param string|bool|int|float $value
     */
    public static function set($key, $value)
    {
        putenv(vsprintf('%s=%s', [$key, $value]));
        $_ENV[$key] = $value;
        $_SERVER[$key] = $value;
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
How ordinary ship traffic could help map the uncharted Arctic Ocean seafloor
A cargo ship sails through multi-year ice in Canada's the Northwest Passage.
(Timothy Keane / Fednav)
From Arctic Today by Melody Schreiber
Equipping every ship that enters the Arctic with sensors could help fill critical gaps in maritime charts.
Throughout world, the ocean floor's details remain largely a mystery; less than 10 percent has been mapped using modern sonar technology.
Even in the United States, which has some of the best maritime maps in the world, only one-third of the ocean and coastal waters have been mapped to modern standards.
This map shows unique ship visits to Arctic waters
between September 1, 2009, and December 31, 2016.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
But perhaps the starkest gaps in knowledge are in the Arctic.
Only 4.7 percent of the Arctic has been mapped to modern standards.
"Especially when you get up north, the percentage of charts that are basically based on Royal Navy surveys from the 19th century is terrifying — or should be terrifying," said David Titley, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral who directs the Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk at the Pennsylvania State University.
Titley spoke alongside several other maritime experts at a recent Woodrow Wilson Center event on marine policy, highlighting the need for improved oceanic maps.
GeoGarage nautical raster chart coverage with material from international Hydrographic Offices
red : US NOAA / grey : Canada CHS / black : Denmark Greenland DGA / yellow ; Norway NHS
GeoGarage nautical raster chart coverage (NGA material)
Catalogue of charts from
Department of Navigation and Oceanography of the Russian Federation
When he was on active duty in the Navy, Titley said, "we were finding sea mounts that we had no idea were there.
And conversely, we were getting rid of sea mounts on charts that weren't there."
The problem, he said, comes down to accumulating — and managing — data. But there could be an intriguing solution: crowdsourcing.
"How does every ship become a sensor?" Titley asks.
Ships outfitted with sensors could provide the very information they need to travel more effectively.
Each ship would collect information on oceans, atmosphere, ecosystems, pollutants and more.
As the ships traverse the ocean, they would help improve existing maps and information about the waters they tread.
Map of the Arctic region showing the shipping routes in Arctic
Map of potential shipping routes
Maps are becoming more important as shipping activity increases — both around the world and in the Arctic.
In August, the Russian research ship Akademik Ioffe ran aground in Canada's Arctic. In 2015, the Finnish icebreaker Fennica ripped a three-foot gash in its hull — while sailing within the relatively better charted waters of Alaska's Dutch Harbor.
"The traditional way that we have supplied these ships with information — with nautical charts and predicted tides and tide tables, and weather over radio facts — are not anywhere near close to being what's necessary," said Rear Admiral Shep Smith, director of NOAA's Office of Coast Survey.
The "next generation of services" would go much further, predicting the water level, salinity, and other information with more precision and detail.
One of NOAA's top priorities, Smith said, is "the broad baseline mapping of the ocean — including the hydrography, the depth and form of the sea floor, and oceanography."
Such maps are necessary to support development, including transportation, offshore energy, fishing and stewardship of natural resources, he said.
A team of engineers and students from the University of New Hampshire's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping recently returned from a voyage that deployed the first autonomous (robotic) surface vessel — the Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator (BEN) — from a NOAA ship far above the Arctic Circle. Credit: Courtesy Christina Belton, NOAA
In NOAA's records of U.S. waters and coasts, they have at least one piece of information on only 41 percent of the ocean.
"The other 59 percent, there's potentially a gold mine of economically important information in there," he continued. "Or environmentally important information."
NOAA struggles even to model how water moves in the ocean without more information, he said.
They are turning to crowdsourcing, satellite-derived bathymetry — and the idea of turning every ship into a sensor.
Projects like Seabed 2030 — a worldwide effort to map the seabed — will be crucial to these efforts, Smith said.
"It's hard to map the bottom of the ocean," said Rear Admiral Jon White, president and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.
"It's like trying to map your backyard with ants, with the ships that we have."
However, he said, the technology to do so is improving.
"There are great opportunities for the people who understand this technology, to make new ways, better ways to actually map it faster," White said.
Moving forward, he said, both federal investment and public-private partnerships should focus on "getting every ship to be a sensor in the ocean."
That effort will be crucial for accomplishing "all the things that we're trying to do in the maritime environment," he said.
Arctic Today : As ice recedes, the Arctic isn't prepared for more shipping traffic
UNH : UNH Engineers Deploy First Autonomous Boat to Map Arctic Seafloor
GeoGarage blog : Chinese shipper on path to 'normalize' polar shipping / The future of the Arctic economy / As Arctic ice vanishes, new shipping routes open / New sailing routes for future container mega-ships / Container ship crosses Arctic route for first time in ... / Melting ice in the Arctic is opening a new energy trade route / Amid ice melt, new shipping lanes are drawn up off ... / 5 maps that help explain the Arctic / China wants to build a "Polar Silk Road" in the Arctic / Helping the shipping industry adapt to climate change / First ship crosses Arctic in winter without an ... / Russian tanker sails through Arctic without ... / Oblique icebreaker gives better access to Arctic waters /The quest to map the mysteries of the ocean floor / Ocean floor to be mapped by 2030 ? / It's time to geek out over a new global bathymetric ... / Beyond charting : nautical information for the 21st ...
Posted by geogarage at 1:31 AM
Canada CHS layer update in the GeoGarage platform
Fake maps, very dishonest
Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, comple...
Mechanics of Nazaré
Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go gree...
Can Artificial Intelligence help build better, sma...
How ordinary ship traffic could help map the uncha...
Pearl Harbor WWII maps


Cahill Orthopedic Sports Medicine and Joint Replacement, an award winning practice, has particular interests in joint replacements, arthroscopic shoulder and knee ligament repair/reconstructive surgery as well as treatment of complex cartilage injuries.
We are very pleased to have you as a patient. If you have any questions, always feel free to contact our office and our friendly and professional staff will be happy to provide the highest level of service.


Insight Intensive at Gold Lake is a short-term therapeutic facility designed to help older teens and young adult men gain the skills they need to launch out on their own. The boys and men enrolled in Insight Intensive at Gold Lake often struggle with depression, anxiety, lack of motivation, compulsive behaviour or addictive behavior. A professional staff helps the participants develop life skills needed to overcome challenges, learn new ways of coping and use therapy to gain insight into underlying issues. Working on mind, spirit and body, the participants soon gain the self confidence and abilities they once lacked.
Activities at Insight Intensive at Gold Lake include life skills groups, equine therapy, horseback riding, woodshop, exercise and fitness programs, art labs and low ropes course.


1st ed. of "The secret of life".
Publisher: Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-262) and index.A companion to the PBS television series--T.p. verso..
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-262) and index.A companion to the PBS television series--T.p. verso.
The Free Books Online service executes searching for the e-book "The secret of life" to provide you with the opportunity to download it for free. Click the appropriate button to start searching the book to get it in the format you are interested in.


Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park exhibits large outdoor, contemporary sculptures from New England artists. Located on the Merrimac River at the west end of the boardwalk in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the sculpture park is one of the many galleries in the Newburyport ArtWalk. You can see more sculptures on the nearby Clipper City Rail Trail and Harborwalk in Newburyport.
Support for the exhibit at Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park is provided by the Firehouse Center for the Arts. Special thanks to the City of Newburyport and Newburyport Waterfront Trust.
All sculptures © of their respective artists. Website Design © Artfluence.


CENTURY GREEN FIELD SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED is a Private Company limited by Shares. It is registered with Registrar of Companies, Delhi on Feb 3, 2009.
Current Status of Century Green Field Services Private Limited is Active.
There are 2 Directors associated with Century Green Field Services Private Limited. They are: Rajinder Singh Rohilla and Rameshwar Lal Maheshwari.
As per the records of Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Century Green Field Services Private Limited's last Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on Sep 29, 2018, and the date of lastest Balance Sheet is Mar 31, 2018.
Corporate Identification Number (CIN) of Century Green Field Services Private Limited is U02000DL2009PTC187174 and its Registration Number is 187174. Its Registered Address and Contact Email are '113, First floor, Hemkunt Chember 89, Nehru Place New Delhi South Delhi DL 110019 IN' and century.rlm@gmail.com respectively.
No Charges found for "CENTURY GREEN FIELD SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED".
Are you the owner or authorized representative of 'CENTURY GREEN FIELD SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED'?
You may link to "Profile Page" of "CENTURY GREEN FIELD SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED" in your websites (or) blogs.


text:
Clearlake Capital-Backed Wheel Pros Acquires TSW Alloy Wheels – AftermarketNews.com (AMN)
Clearlake Capital-Backed Wheel Pros Acquires TSW Alloy Wheels AftermarketNews.com (AMN)
Wheel Pros, a designer, manufacturer, and distributor of branded automotive aftermarket wheels, performance tires, suspension products and accessories, acquired Just Wheels & Tires Co., Inc d/b/a TSW, a leading designer and distributor of proprietary aftermarket custom wheels focused on the luxury and off-road markets. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition of TSW represents Wheel Pros' eighth acquisition under sponsorship from Clearlake, and its 11th acquisition in the past six years, reflecting Wheel Pros' commitment to expand to attractive, complementary product lines and grow the business through strategic acquisitions.
Since its founding in 1991 by CEO Terence Sheckter, TSW has grown its portfolio substantially and today boasts some of the most popular brands in the industry, including Black Rhino and TSW, as well as OE-specific brands in key luxury segments. TSW benefits from a strong reputation in the industry and customer loyalty, with enthusiasts and new aftermarket customers alike choosing TSW for their cutting-edge designs, as well as superior quality and fitments. TSW maintains a broad footprint, with more than 5,800 dealer relationships and a network of eight distribution centers.
"We are thrilled to welcome Terence and his team at TSW to the Wheel Pros family. Terence has done a phenomenal job scaling his business, underscored by TSW's very positive reputation in the industry. Furthermore, TSW's best-in-class brands complement the Wheel Pros portfolio very well and provide a great opportunity for us to expand our customer relationships with new and exciting products," said Randy White, CEO and co-founder of Wheel Pros. "Our comprehensive suite of aftermarket brands and designs truly encompasses all driver lifestyles and preferences. We are excited to partner with Terence to drive accelerated growth in the business."
"We have known Terence for years and are excited to now work together to grow our combined portfolio. More and more people are looking to change from their OEM wheels to custom branded aftermarket alternatives to showcase their individuality and style. Over the past year, we have seen many new customers enter the segment, customizing their vehicles for the first time. With the acquisition of TSW, Wheel Pros enhances its brand awareness and innovative design capabilities to meet the needs of a rapidly growing customer base," added Jody Groce, president and co-founder of Wheel Pros.
"Wheel Pros has shown outstanding performance this year, adapting to this unprecedented environment while continuing to drive outsized growth and invest for the future. We have been impressed with the management team's flexibility and nimbleness, especially at the substantial scale they have achieved," stated José E. Feliciano, co-founder and managing partner, and Colin Leonard, a partner at Clearlake. "We look forward to continuing to leverage our O.P.S. framework in partnership with the Wheel Pros team to drive both organic and inorganic growth as the company builds upon its position as a premier automotive aftermarket enthusiast platform."
Clearlake Capital-Backed Wheel Pros Acquires TSW Alloy Wheels (aftermarketnews.com)
PrevPreviousWhat Wheels from Other Vehicles Will Fit your Car – J.D. Power
NextWheel Pros acquires TSW Alloy Wheels – Tire BusinessNext


text:
'The White Lotus' Cast's Biggest Confessions About the Steamy Scenes
Making an announcement. The White Lotus drew viewers in with stunning plot twists and a few very NSFW intercourse scenes.
The HBO sequence, which debuted in July 2021, focuses on the company and workers at a fictional resort that undergo private ups and downs whereas on trip. The anthology sequence can also be recognized for a mysterious demise — or two — that followers have to attend to see uncovered.
Throughout season 2, viewers have been shocked when Harper (Aubrey Plaza) by accident snuck a peek at Cameron (Theo James) whereas he undressed. Though the second wasn't a intercourse scene, the actor later opened up about bringing the intimate energy play to life.
"The reality of it was you go into this stuff and you've got a dialog with the director and the producers, they usually go, 'OK, for this, we're going to make use of a prosthetic, we're gonna use one thing,'" James defined throughout a December 2022 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in regards to the scene that made headlines. "It's a pee-pee prosthetic."
The Divergent star hoped the prosthetic wouldn't be too "distracting" for the viewers. "He must be [a] common Joe as a result of the scene's not in regards to the pee-pee, it's about energy play in intercourse [and] whether or not he did it intentionally or whether or not it was an accident," he mentioned.
On the time, James joked in regards to the remaining product, including, "I imply, it's greater than that. It's like she stole it off a donkey within the discipline. The factor is ginormous."
Creator Mike White, in the meantime, recalled the trepidation he confronted when it got here to directing intercourse scenes.
"I'm very timid about asking individuals to undress and get into sexual conditions. It's not my wheelhouse. There have been positively occasions on this shoot that I used to be like, what have I acquired myself into? My threshold for awkwardness could be very low," the author detailed to NPR in November 2022. "The actors are far more assured and uninhibited than I'm. That was new terrain for me. It simply felt prefer it was necessary as a result of it truly is baked into the narrative."
White additionally weighed in on fan reactions to the steamy story strains. "It's humorous, although, how now that the present is airing, how a lot you notice a graphic intercourse scene or a intercourse scene that sort of is titillating for numerous causes, does simply spike and generate an curiosity within the populace, for higher or worse," he shared.
Scroll down for the White Lotus solid's most candid quotes about creating these provocative moments:
Credit score: Fabio Lovino/HBO
Each Time 'The White Lotus' Solid Mentioned the Present's Steamy Intercourse Scenes: 'We Simply Performed'
The Divergent star hoped the prosthetic would not be too "distracting" for the viewers. "He must be [a] common Joe as a result of the scene's not in regards to the pee-pee, it's about energy play in intercourse [and] whether or not he did it intentionally or whether or not it was an accident," he mentioned.
"I am very timid about asking individuals to undress and get into sexual conditions. It isn't my wheelhouse. There have been positively occasions on this shoot that I used to be like, what have I acquired myself into? My threshold for awkwardness could be very low," the author detailed to NPR in November 2022. "The actors are far more assured and uninhibited than I'm. That was new terrain for me. It simply felt prefer it was necessary as a result of it truly is baked into the narrative."
White additionally weighed in on fan reactions to the steamy story strains. "It is humorous, although, how now that the present is airing, how a lot you notice a graphic intercourse scene or a intercourse scene that sort of is titillating for numerous causes, does simply spike and generate an curiosity within the populace, for higher or worse," he shared.
Utilizing Prosthetics
"I simply wished it to not be distracting," James defined in December 2022. "He must be [a] common Joe as a result of the scene's not in regards to the pee-pee, it's about energy play in intercourse [and] whether or not he did it intentionally or whether or not it was an accident."
Pulling Again the Curtain
Forward of the season 2 finale, Beatrice Grannò broke down how she filmed the particular second between Mia and Valentina.
"The atmosphere was actually secure. Having an intimacy coordinator there was very useful as a result of it's a tough factor to do. We rehearsed it earlier than, and I talked with Sabrina [Impacciatore] and we discovered a method to do it and really feel snug," she advised Selection in December 2022. "If I've to be utterly trustworthy, we each felt a bit embarrassed, however that embarrassment helped the vitality of the scene. As a result of I've to be the one in management, it wasn't simple to play that."
The actress added: "I sort of went the wrong way — as a substitute of enjoying the horny woman who makes use of her physique to get what she needs, I wished to go to a a lot deeper degree. … I feel Mia likes Valentina a little bit bit. It's equal in a method. It was very candy. Valentina wanted to be embraced by anyone. It's not about having intercourse, it's about being embraced for who she is."
What Goes on Behind the Scenes
"As a director, I am very timid about asking individuals to undress and get into sexual conditions. It isn't my wheelhouse," White admitted to NPR. "There have been positively occasions on this shoot that I used to be like, what have I acquired myself into? My threshold for awkwardness could be very low. The actors are far more assured and uninhibited than I'm. That was new terrain for me. It simply felt prefer it was necessary as a result of it truly is baked into the narrative."
Stunning the Viewers
Throughout season 2, Tanya noticed Jack and Quentin having intercourse after they beforehand claimed to be members of the family. Based on Leo Woodall, the plot twist was meant to reflect a previous intercourse scene.
"I simply thought it was sort of surprising however so cool. And so White Lotus," the Vampire Academy star, who performs Jack, advised Bustle in November 2022 in regards to the season 1 sequence between Armand (Murray Bartlett) and Dillon (Lukas Gage). "I believed it was nearly an honor to have our personal second on this season."
Woodall credited White for giving the actors house to discover the dynamic, including, "He simply allowed us to play along with his script and make issues up if we wished to. It was as much as us to determine it out on our personal and permit the viewers to sort of determine it out as nicely."
Credit score: Courtesy of HBO
Getting Candid Concerning the Expertise
In a November 2022 interview, Adam DiMarco candidly mentioned his strategy to filming intercourse scenes.
"You simply must disassociate. It will be nice if HBO may make a reduce of the episodes that have been family-friendly for the actors, that didn't embrace their intercourse or nudity scenes. However that doesn't exist," he advised Interview Journal in regards to the public response to the NSFW sequence. "I've come to just accept that that's on the market and naturally, I selected to do all of that. I may've mentioned no to any of these scenes."
Based on DiMarco, having an intimacy coordinator helped him really feel "snug" filming sure Albie scenes. "I feel the scenes turned out nice. I watched episode 5 final evening. It was my first time watching an episode with a big group of individuals. I used to be with Sabrina and John [Gries], and lots of mutual pals, they usually wished to look at the episode," he continued. "Simply earlier than they put it on, I had a mini panic assault. I used to be like, 'I don't know if I can watch this episode in a room full of individuals. Particularly because it begins with a intercourse scene. That is going to be a bizarre expertise.'"
The Magicians alum added: "However Sabrina actually calmed me down and inspired me simply to attempt it. I used to be positively cringing and hiding behind my arms when that stuff was occurring, nevertheless it was cool to listen to the reactions to the episode as a complete."
Credit score: Mario Perez/HBO
Addressing Their Strategy
Whereas season 1 was airing in July 2021, Bartlett opened up in regards to the work that went behind the surprising Armand and Dillion intercourse scene.
"Truthfully, we didn't have lots of conversations exterior of simply engaged on the scenes on the time. I feel partly as a result of it was simply there; it was simply written within the script," he advised Decider on the time. "This character was totally realized and complex and had all these facets that I don't suppose they wanted rationalization."
The Australia native, who performed the White Lotus supervisor, praised White for his assist.
"There wasn't lots of speak [about] exterior of the second of what we have been enjoying with. And I like that method of working, that Mike simply makes you are feeling like you possibly can utterly play on set," he mentioned. "You're simply exploring, however he provides you this unimaginable library of details about the character within the script. So I didn't have lots of questions and I really feel like he didn't really want to elucidate lots of stuff. We simply performed."
As a way to view the gallery, please enable Handle Cookies
House Democrats Condemn Peru's Crackdown, Push Biden to Cut Off Security Aid
Neutralyze Dark Spot Corrector Could Show Results in 2 Weeks


Home › Hate the taste of Listerine?
Hate the taste of Listerine?
I'd rather have the proverbial wooden teeth than use Listerine it makes me gag every time and that incredibly gross tastes stays with you for months. Yuck!!!
Check out the latest vanilla, mint or natural citrus Listerine flavors and feel free to dilute half water it still works!
I have nothing to do with the Listerine company just years of work as a clinical dentist.
Research shows (and from looking at teeth I would agree) that rinsing with Listerine twice a day is just as effective as flossing.
I work with a lot of people who either cannot (disabled in some way or lack manual skills) and with those who do not want to floss. If these folks use Listerine as part of a special program we can help them enjoy great oral health.
The active ingredients in Listerine are essential oils (eucalyptus, thymol and menthol), The formula is virtually the same since it was introduced as a surgical antiseptic in the nineteenth century!
The problem with Listerine is that it really should not be left on teeth for various reasons.
I loved your message but I wouldn't recommend wooden teeth they get very soggy!
My dentist, a very proactive dentist who places a lot of emphasis on prevention, home care, diet, etc. and who is also a proponent of xylitol (as well as other products that have been in use in other countries for years before they're even heard of in the U.S), has serious concerns about Listerine. She is the personal dentist of several of the local dental school faculty dentists, one of whom is a dental pathologist. This dental pathologist has evidence that Listerine can be very damaging to the soft tissue of the mouth, in addition to causing erosion of the enamel, as you have already stated. I find your CWT program intriguing, but have serious reservations about using Listerine. I'm thinking about substituting tea tree oil rinse as the antimicrobial agent in the process.


Dolce Latte is an amazing range of lingerie by LingaDore. They all have one thing in common, namely that they are subtle and elegant. These briefs have a certain classic charm that we love. With a tasteful and formal array of little leaves and a superbly soft fabric all in one colour makes it elegant but not too minimalist or reserved either. These briefs are LingaDore at their most sophisticated and tasteful. Matching items are available here at UK Lingerie.


There is a wide range of motors available on the market today.
One of the most common problems we have is from customers who have previously had motorised blinds installed only for the client to advise they are a lot noisier compared to the ones in our showroom.
It is important to see and hear the motors operating prior to purchasing. This will ensure you purchase the correct motor for the product and how you wish to operate the product.
Somfy are regarded as the world leaders in motorisation for the blind and awning industry having a wide range of motors and methods of control.
For roller blinds we usually supply the sonesse motor. This is one of the quietest motors if not the quietest motor and has many options for controlling the blind.
For small size roller blinds that are not convenient to install a mains power supply we offer a battery wireless motor and for non accessible areas we offer the battery wireless motor with a small solar panel.
Louvolite are a major UK supplier of material and components to the industry and have recently introduced a range of motors designed to offer motorisation to a larger audience that is more cost effective.
Naturally with a more cost effective motor the size of blinds is generally reduced and therefore looking to the domestic installation although some of the motors are suitable for commercial applications.
The magic wand product is a fantastic breakthrough. A wand is attached to the motor giving ease of access to operate the controls. The power to this blind is from batteries neatly out of view of the product. The wand is only available for roller blinds.
Another alternative is a motor that can be recharged via a small charger supplied. Ideal for locations that can not have a power supply that may have a higher frequency of operation.
Mains powered motors are also available from Louvolite for the larger blinds.


Although streamers, noisemakers and party hats are a bit passe when it comes to parties, they have not completely gone the way of the dodo. When decorating for a party, look to the party's purpose, the guest of honor or the season for inspiration. Decorations do not need to be over the top to make an impact. Simple touches are all that you need to make the celebration successful.
Whether your party includes a sit-down dinner, a buffet or a simple assortment of finger foods, the table is often the center of attention. Although a floral bouquet is always appropriate, avoid a large centerpiece for a sit-down dinner. Look to the food for your inspiration. For an Asian theme, set pillar candles on white sushi plates with some soy sauce on the bottom or in rice bowls filled with white rice, or set a runner or meandering path of polished stones across the table with tea light candles nestled here and there. For a fall feast, set tea lights inside of hollowed-out gourds, miniature pumpkins or oranges studded with whole cloves.
When your party includes a large gathering, make an impact on the ceiling to keep the room clear for the guests. Inflate enough helium balloons to cover the ceiling and let them go, drape a deflated weather balloon or parachute from the ceiling to give a soft feel to the space or use a projector to project photos or images onto the ceiling or floor-to-ceiling fabric panels.
For a party centered around a holiday or event that has strong color connotations, simply bring those colors into the objects around you, like the fabrics, flowers, food and tableware, to bring a festive feel. Use red and green for a Christmas party, black and orange for Halloween, black and white for an over-the-hill birthday party or school colors for a class reunion.
Avoid in-your-face decorations for a themed party and go with subtle touches instead. A few bales of hay and cowboy hats gives the feel of a rodeo better than a cowboy-printed tablecloth. Think vinyl records suspended from the ceiling for a 1950s bebop gathering or a simple disco ball with appropriate lighting for a "Saturday Night Fever" theme. Use beaded necklaces and party masks for a Mardi Gras theme or pineapples and tiki torches for a luau.
When pressed for time, minimalism has its advantages. It is perfectly acceptable to use only one or two decorative items, but if you do, go large or go home. Instead of a few balloons scattered across the room, create one large column of 30 or more balloons to center in the space. For an elegant evening theme, set a large assortment of candles throughout the space instead of a few single tapers.


Decorative Ideas For Living Room Contemporary 56 Lovely Design Best Modern Decor Intended 23 is one of pictures thet are related with the picture before in the collection gallery. If you would like to see the Decorative Ideas For Living Room Contemporary 56 Lovely Design Best Modern Decor Intended 23 in High Resolution [HD Resolution] version, please press the right click on picures/image then choose "Save as Image" option, and done. You will get Decorative Ideas For Living Room Contemporary 56 Lovely Design Best Modern Decor Intended 23 pictures that you want. The exactly dimension of Decorative Ideas For Living Room Contemporary 56 Lovely Design Best Modern Decor Intended 23 was 980x626 pixels. You can also look for some pictures by collection on below this picture. Find the other picture or article about Decorative Ideas For Living Room here. We hope it can help you to get information of the picture.


text:
Home news A 17-year-old was killed in Follwell, Minneapolis
A 17-year-old was killed in Follwell, Minneapolis
A 17-year-old was killed and another person was injured after a shooting in the Follwell neighborhood of Minneapolis.
According to a Minneapolis police spokesperson, the shooting occurred at the intersection of Fremont Avenue North and Dowling Avenue North at 4:27 PM.
Two people were killed in the accident. The 17-year-old was rushed to North Memorial Hospital in critical condition, but died of his wounds after 5 pm.
The second victim was transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center in serious but stable condition. The police believe that their injuries are not life threatening.
The suspects fled in the shooting before the police arrived. No arrests were made.
Previous articleA woman dies in an elevator collision in Boston
Next articleA Texas man killed his 9-month-old daughter during a sexual assault
Haiti raises earthquake death toll, passes 2,200
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
An overnight shooting incident in Philadelphia left 3 victims critical
Filmmaker revisits case that challenged her and her 2 moms
Florida Man fatally struck by SunRail train in central Florida


Product prices and availability are accurate as of 2019-04-21 15:40:26 UTC and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on http://www.amazon.co.uk/ at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.
We are happy to present the fantastic Benromach Single Malt Whisky Cycle Jersey.
With so many available these days, it is great to have a brand you can trust. The Benromach Single Malt Whisky Cycle Jersey is certainly that and will be a great buy.
For this price, the Benromach Single Malt Whisky Cycle Jersey comes highly respected and is a regular choice amongst many people. The Cycle Jersey have provided some great touches and this equals great value.
Jersey created for Benromach, a classic niche whisky brand from Speyside.


text:
Applied Physics and Mathematics Building groundbreaking
<iframe src="https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/embed/bb4950012j/0" width="768" height="768" frameborder="0"></iframe>
University Communications & Public Relations Materials: Photographs
University of California, San Diego. University Communications
Applied Physics and Mathematics Building groundbreaking (an3_a607_1_2), University Communications. Public Relations Materials. RSS 6020. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
University of California, San Diego--Events
University of California, San Diego--History
University of California, San Diego--People
University of California, San Diego--Pictorial works
Left to right, John Muir College Provost John Stewart; unidentified; unidentified; Robert Mosher
Construction to begin for John Muir College
Online finding aid
University Communications Public Relations Materials
News Release: 19670524a
This digital image is a surrogate of an item in the University Communications Relations Materials (RSS 6020) - Box 168, Folder 19.
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Permission may be obtained from the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library.


LOCATION: The property forms part of the Molly Millar's Lane mixed business and residential area which is very conveniently located for the town centre of Wokingham. Molly Millar's Bridge is within walking distance of Wokingham railway station and the motorway network can be accessed at Coppid Beech roundabout via the A329 Berkshire Way.
DESCRIPTION: The property consists of improved offices forming a major portion of the ground floor and accessed via an intercom entrance to a shared reception area and consists of four separate partitioned offices and an open plan office area. There are ladies and gentlemen's WCs and kitchen facilities.
TERMS: The property is available with a new full repairing and insuring lease from July 2018.


Entering Venice transports you into the Renaissance period of religious paintings and relics. The goddess city is an excellent setting for a modern crusade. You can use the renovation projects funded by Venice in Peril as your guide, unless the environmental elements disintegrate the design flare created from the 13th through 17th centuries.
Arriving by train builds anticipation with each depot stop where teenagers board carrying backpacks and sleeping bags. After the shock of disembarking at a rundown train station, you exit into a world with the electrifying energy of Diagon Alley on the other side of the Leaky Cauldron's wall.
Outside, the sun streams the length of a canal lined with quoined terra cotta and vermilion facades. Vaporetti drift within speeding flatboat taxis. Bridges span the waterways. Alleys funnel in all directions, corridors to churches and cemeteries. Regardless of how you arrive, both hotel and public boat taxis can take you down the winding canals to the submerged doorstep of wherever you stay.
"I love Venice. I remember Mozart lounging on a vaporetto in Amadaus," I say to my dear Yankee husband, Zip.
We set off to explore the chapels with me in my favorite walking heels and a stroller in tow so I don't have to carry the whippersnapper. Zip, eager to take in all the crumbling, desolate and bustling dead ends before cocktail hour, ducks through lingering crowds, leaping up the steps of bridge after bridge, after bridge.
"I sure can visualize Mozart here." I shake out my numb toes while describing the lavish costumes and garish makeup from the movie.
By mid-afternoon, I'm fatigued and no longer able to pick up the stroller and child to carry over the arched bridges. Strangers break free from understanding companions to help lift my cargo over the steps. No matter which alleys my husband and I venture down, we eventually returned to the same Ponte dei Barcaroli bridge. I convince Zip to take in the beauty of a vaporetto ambling below. Lo and behold, an enormous sign gives homage to Mozart having been in that very spot.
"See. I know history. I watch TV." I nudge my husband and he nods.
I manage to get the last word only because Zip doesn't read Italian. Mozart merely visited the city with his father.
The secret to a spiritual walkabout is to venture down the intriguing crannies alongside interconnecting canals. On the other side of the next bridge are decaying neighborhoods with artistry equal to the refurbished sections.
Exploring by boat gives a breathtaking view of the mansions, especially where you glide inside the foyer of a palace. A new perspective appears during a midnight sail.
Key points of the city include the Basilica of St. Marks where the disciple's bones are preserved. Harry's Bar boasts having authors and artists create their greatest works within its walls, with Ernest Hemingway as one of the most famous.
Each island has a unique flavor. A monastery fortress fills one private destination. A fisherman's island is lit with yellow buildings and vibrant fabrics cover the doorways. On another is amazing glassware.
Unfortunately, part of Venice's unique ambience are the eroded stucco and weathered artwork. Venice in Peril hopes to deter the effects of the sea level consistently rising four to six millimeters per year as estimated by the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit. Where St. Mark's Square once flooded fewer than ten times per year, the frequency has increased to sixty times within the same period. Flooding encompasses as much as 93% of the city.
The paintings and architecture suffer from air and water pollution, as well. According to Nations Encyclopedia, Italy's air pollution includes deadly carbon monoxide emissions. Water pollution caused by industrial and agricultural contaminants has warranted warnings for pregnant women to have abortions.
Venice in Peril empowers the restoration of murals and building foundations. They give equal support to the lesser known churches and cemeteries, and therefore they preserve history. Their project list can serve as a discovery path on how Venetians viewed religions and politics throughout the ages. For information about specific projects funded by Venice in Peril, see, https://www.veniceinperil.org.