![]() ![]() The relocation of MOSH to the shipyards comes at a time when big changes are afoot in and around Jacksonville’s downtown riverfront. Kate Orff and the SCAPE team believe landscape architecture can enable positive change in communities by regenerating living infrastructure and public landscapes.” Erik Kasper and his team impressed us with their design ethos, knowledge of Jacksonville processes and their deep community-service efforts. “We are honored to be part of this groundbreaking project and are fortunate to be partners with both kasper architects and SCAPE. “MOSH will have a dramatic impact on the Jacksonville region, telling its unique story of human and natural history and culture, innovation and current science,” said DLR Group Senior Principal Paul Westlake, who leads the firm’s Cultural + Performing Arts practice. Museum projects led by the Omaha-founded DLR Group include, among others, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the Chandler History Museum in Arizona, the lauded renovation of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and a handful of Cleveland-based projects including renovations at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the now-underway expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. “Together, we know DLR Group, kasper architects + associates, and SCAPE will bring our vision to life.” “We knew this project required the expertise of both a national firm with deep experience in museum architecture, and a local partner with existing relationships and knowledge of the Jacksonville market,” said MOSH president and CEO Bruce Fafard. Of the ten competing firms that completed the RPF process, three emerged as finalists: DLR Group, SmithGroup, and Grimshaw Architects. The MOSH Genesis project team was selected as part of a competitive, eight-month-long process spearheaded by the MOSH Board of Trustees and the Genesis Oversight Committee. (PicoOrdinalo/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0) MOSH’s current home, completed in 1969 in the Southbank district of Jacksonville. Early projections have estimated that MOSH will be able to serve 58,000 students (double the pre-pandemic number) and 469,000 visitors (a 168 percent increase) annually by moving into more spacious digs across the river. Per a press release, the $85 million relocation scheme will enable MOSH to “meet the growing demand for exhibits and programs that inspire innovation” with dedicated spaces for exhibitions, events, educational programming, and, of course, a new Bryan-Gooding Planetarium. ![]() (A previously announced $80 million plan to further expand and renovate MOSH’s Southbank campus was ultimately scrapped, and the relocation scheme was first announced in October 2020.) Johns River at the downtown Jacksonville Shipyards. Despite the major late 1980s expansion and subsequent renovations, MOSH has steadily outgrown its 77,000-square-foot home, necessitating an entirely new museum building across the St. In 1988, the nonprofit institution was bestowed with its current name following a significant expansion and renovation project that included the addition of the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium (formerly the Alexander Brest Planetarium). MOSH was first chartered as the Jacksonville Children’s Museum in 1941, becoming the Jacksonville Museum of Arts & Sciences in 1977. The most popular museum in Florida’s most populous city, MOSH has been situated at its beloved but aging Southbank home since the late 1960s. ![]() Along with the design team announcement, MOSH also revealed three new conceptual interior renderings of the new museum, although they are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent the finalized design. ![]()
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![]() The southern-most aspen are found in central Mexico. It may dominate a site until replaced by less fire-enduring but more shade-tolerant conifers. In the Central Rocky Mountains, the extensive stands of aspen are usually attributed to repeated wildfires. It readily colonizes burned areas and can persist even when subjected to frequent fires. Quaking aspen is an aggressive pioneer species. Aspen is intolerant of shade, and does not compete well with more shade-tolerant conifer species. It grows best where soils are moist and sunshine is plentiful. It grows on many soil types, especially sandy and gravelly slopes, and is quick to pioneer disturbed sites where there is bare soil. ![]() The leaves of young sucker aspens may be much larger, sometimes 7 to 8 inches long.Īspen trees usually do not live more than 150 years, though they may persist more than 200 years. ![]() The flattened stem allow the leaves to quake or tremble in the slightest breeze hence, their name. The leave's small stem (petiole) is flattened along its entire length, perpendicular to the leaf blade. Aspen leaves are smooth, bright green to yellowish-green, dull underneath, until they turn brilliant yellow, gold, orange, or slightly red in the fall. They are pointed at the apex and rounded at the base, with many small rounded to sharply pointed teeth along their margins. Their bark may become rough and fissured with age.Īspen leaves are are thin, firm, and nearly round, 1 1/2 to 3 inches diameter. ![]() The green color is from chlorophyll in the bark. Their bark is smooth, greenish-white, yellowish-white, yellowish-gray, or gray to almost white in color. Trees more than 80 feet tall and larger than 24 inches diameter are occasionally found. Photo by Linnea Hanson.Īspen are medium-sized deciduous trees, commonly 20 to 80 feet in height, and 3 to 18 inches diameter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 2023 growth rate is set at 4.88% in the rate announcement released in July by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Īs enrollment in the Medicare Advantage program grows, so do concerns and uncertainty over the profits providers are reaping and whether "overpayment" is an issue.Ī report from the Brookings Institution indicates the five major insurers, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Aetna, Kaiser Permanente and Anthem (now Elevance), are allegedly padding their bottom lines by disguising profits as costs. This is an increase over the 7.98% proposed in the February advance notice. Medicare Advantage plan payments are expected to get an 8.5% revenue increase for 2023. The DOJ, seeking civil fines and triple damages, sued the insurer under the False Claims Act, which bars false payment claims. The DOJ initially filed suit in March 2020, an action that stemmed from Anthem's operation of dozens of Medicare Advantage plans. A motion to dismiss was similarly rejected. The government alleges the insurer sought to increase revenue by not deleting invalid codes.Īnthem, which rebranded this year as Elevance, had sought to strike portions of the complaint under rule 12(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which says the court may strike any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter," but this effort was denied. District Judge Andrew Carter of Manhattan estimated the alleged overpayments far exceeded $100 million over a span from 2014 to 2018. ![]() In the decision, released Friday, September 30, U.S. ![]() The suit alleges that the supposedly inaccurate diagnosis data allowed Anthem to collect tens of millions of dollars in annual overpayments. Photo: Pichsakul Promrungsee EyeEm/Getty ImagesĪnthem has been accused of not verifying the accuracy of diagnosis codes it submitted when seeking reimbursements over a four-year span, and a federal judge has now ordered the insurer to face a lawsuit from the U.S. ![]() ![]() His affection for animals stayed with White into manhood, leading him to the farm that became his defining landscape, and informing the tales for children still read by millions of youngsters. White loved the backyard stable, which had a hutch for his rabbits, too. White’s boyhood home also included a series of memorable dogs, along with pigeons, chickens, a turkey, ducks, and geese. ![]() He was the youngest of six children, and his father’s success as a business executive meant good things for young Elwyn and his siblings.Įlwyn “owned the first small-sized bicycle on the block, and when he was only eleven he was given a sixteen-foot, dark green Old Towne canoe that, as his father might have said, was ‘the best that money could buy,’” author Scott Elledge notes in his biography. White, Illustrations copyright © renewed 1980 by the Estate of Garth WilliamsĮlwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899, into a prosperous family in Mount Vernon, New York. ![]() White, Text copyright © renewed in 1980 by E. His accomplishment seems all the more remarkable because, unlike so many literary geniuses, White appears to have enjoyed a relatively happy childhood, although his youth was complicated by chronic shyness that would plague him throughout his life.Ĭourtesy HarperCollins Publishers. White’s farm inspired not only his essays, which are still highly regarded as classics of the form, but children’s stories, such as Charlotte’s Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, that have endured as touchstones for generations of children. His essays-plainspoken, self-deprecating, and with a gentle but abiding skepticism about institutional authority-seemed to express the basic qualities for which his nation was fighting. White needn’t have worried about his relevance to the war effort. “This relieved my mind, as I had been uneasy about indulging myself in pastoral pursuits when so many of my countrymen were struggling for their lives, and for mine.” ![]() “Soon my casual pieces depicting life on a saltwater farm in New England were finding their way to members of the Armed Forces in a paperback Overseas edition, and letters of thanks were arriving from homesick soldiers in distant lands,” White later recalled of those war years. His “One Man’s Meat” columns, collected in a book of the same name, were a hit among the troops. And when news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached his household on December 7, 1941, White noted that his wife had lost the stopper to a hot water bottle, a minor mishap that seemed, somehow, to underscore the larger disorder shaking the world to its knees.Įven so, the homely reports from White’s farm to readers of his “One Man’s Meat” essays in Harper’s Magazine seemed, at first glance, a far remove from the global conflagration causing so much suffering among millions of soldiers, sailors, and, civilians.Īnd yet White was the writer that many American fighting men chose to read. The next year, as England and France declared war against Nazi Germany, White walked to his garage and began sorting nails. ![]() ![]() ![]() Good luck, and look as if you're enjoying yourself it helps everyone else to enjoy it too. 5.2K 456K views 3 years ago Relaxing Piano Music: Calm Piano Music you can use in the background while studying, to focus, as relaxation music, as music for meditation, as background. If you think a number is being well received, why not put an extra middle 8/chorus in? Likewise, cut something short if you feel it doesn't work 'in the moment'. 01:45 Free Download This track is free to use even commercially (like YouTube monetization), but you must include the following credits in your video's description (Copy & Paste): Beautiful Piano by LesFM Music promoted by Creative Commons CC BY 3. Why shouldn't you? I also may play a couple of bars of the new song, stop for a bar, do it again. Sometimes an abrupt stop is effective, in that those listening (and those not!) sense something has happened ('Did the piano player fall off his stool?') and suddenly you've gained a bit of attention. Calm piano music 1906 : Relaxing piano music you can use in the background, while studying, to focus, as relaxation music, as music for meditation, or as background. Sometimes a number needs to come to a proper end, but since it's background stuff, what I do is try to keep the music going, by either moving straight from one song to the next, or using the 'mortar' of a few bars to change key - ii-V-I is an industry standard - or maybe playing the first couple of bars of the new song in the key of the last, and moving chromatically up/down the 3 or 4 semitones to the new key. ![]() Can't tell you what sort of pieces in what order - that's partly down to intuition on the night: reading audience reaction (or not!) and doing more of the same or not as the case may be. The Best Compilation of Relaxing Smooth Jazz Piano and Saxophone Cafe Music, perfect as background instrumental music for studying, work, relax for full 10 Hours Music by Richard Freeman. ![]() ![]() The biggest edition is the 5CD/7LP/1-7" single Super Deluxe set. (Stillwater's six songs are also available as a standalone vinyl EP.) A 2CD, 35-song cutdown version will also be released as well as two vinyl versions of the original, 17-song soundtrack as first issued in 2000. The 5CD and 6LP editions of the expanded soundtrack feature 47 songs from the movie as sung by artists from Alvin and the Chipmunks to Yes, including tracks by fictional in-movie band Stillwater, plus film dialogue, score cues, Stillwater demos, and more. Even the end credits kept the audience spellbound, thanks to The Beach Boys' haunting "Feel Flows." The most iconic (and yes, that word is tremendously overused but remains appropriate here) moment in the film is a tour bus sing-along set to Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." That was one of many goosebump-inducing moments in the movie recreated in a recent stage musical adaptation which premiered in 2019 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and is currently circling Broadway for a debut in the post-pandemic landscape. Simon and Garfunkel's "America" takes him on a journey that doesn't even require him to leave his bedroom Todd Rundgren's "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" underscores a scene in which William meets influential, real-life critic Lester Bangs (memorably brought to life by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Anyone who's seen the film remembers how beautifully Crowe integrated classic rock and pop sounds into the affecting, semi-autobiographical coming of age story of budding rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit). The Second Disc has been championing an expansion of the Almost Famous soundtrack since 2011 when it was the subject of a Friday Feature column. ![]() We're also thrilled to present both versions of the film, along with a collection of rare new bonus features, on these beautiful new 4K and Blu-ray releases as part of Paramount Presents. For the first time, we've created a deluxe soundtrack that features nearly every song heard in the film, along with Nancy Wilson's wonderfully evocative score. Crowe was quoted late yesterday in Rolling Stone (where else?): "We are extremely proud to revisit Almost Famous with a very special bounty of goodness.
![]() ![]() Remember to apply any adhesive to only one bonding surface, thus allowing the adhesive to penetrate into the cells on the other trim piece.Ħ. Slow Cure should not be used at temperatures below 40☏. Slow and Fast Cure for field joints and small glue-ups, and Laminating Grade for sheet glue-ups. There are three types of PVC TrimWelder Adhesives. For PVC trim to metal, PVC TrimWelder Adhesive works best. For bonding to wood, we recommend Liquid Nails Sub-Floor Adhesive or Heavy Duty Construction Adhesive. If you are looking for more of a structural bond at shiplap or scarf joints, miter cuts (window surround), or for gluing sheets of PVC trim, we recommend PVC TrimWelder. Be sure the PVC pipe glue has sufficient working time to allow you to apply the glue and push the boards together before it cures. We recommend PVC pipe glue with solvent for bonding the ends of PVC trim boards to themselves (Weld-On 705 by IPS, TrimTight by Trim Glue, Inc. What is the best glue for joining two pieces of PVC trim? What is the best glue for bonding PVC trim to wood? How about metal? For the paint to cure, the moisture must evaporate through the surface of the coating that has skimmed over from drying.ĥ. It can take up to 30 days for paint to fully cure on PVC trim, because PVC trim is impervious to moisture. Warm/dry weather, or warm/humid weather, will allow the paint to cure faster than cool weather. How long does it take the paint to cure on PVC trim? Consult the paint manufacturer for the LRV of your paint before applying it to cellular PVC trim.Ĥ. We have had cases where contractors believed that the paint they used was a light beige, only to find out it had an LRV in the 20s or 30s. Thus, an LRV of zero (0) is black, and an LRV of one hundred (100) is white. LRV is measured based on color and its ability to absorb heat. For example, using paint with an LRV below 55 units will void our product warranty. Only light-to-medium colored paints-with a light reflective value of 55 units or greater-should be applied to PVC trim. Due to its excellent adhesion properties, it is an ideal coating for Cellular PVC. Kem Aqua® BP Enamel is a water-reduceable polyurethane, acrylic topcoat that offers fast dry times and no critical re-coat times. Sherwin Williams also offers a field-applied coating under their “Green Seal®” product designation. Paint on PVC trim will last three to five times longer than paints on wood or wood composites due to the absence of moisture in the substrate. Paints like Duration by Sherwin Williams, Manor Hall paints by PPG and Moorelife by Benjamin Moore adhere well to PVC trim. Lacquers are not recommended with PVC trim because lacquers are a more brittle coating, and will not flex with any movement in the PVC trim. Just about any 100% acrylic latex, or 100% acrylic latex with a urethane additive, can be used to achieve superior coating durability and flexibility. ![]() What type of paint do you recommend for coating PVC trim? In the future, look for more carefully-screened articles from manufacturers.Ģ. If you are sensitive about articles that seem to favor a particular manufacturer, then DON’T read this one!! It’s written by the President of Versatex! But after years of experience, I’ve found that some manufacturers know more about their products than anyone else if a carpenter wants to learn the best way to install a product, sometimes the best source of information is the manufacturer. WARNING: POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST!! (Refer to painting guidelines in the Versatex contractor handbook for more information on painting PVC trim.) Excellent adhesion can be achieved by properly cleaning the board before applying a topcoat of paint to PVC trim. A primer is only needed if you want the paint manufacturer’s warranty. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll update you with the latest stock information on Amazon and every other major retailer there which will give you the best chance of securing a preorder. ![]() Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Limited Edition Console With Controller And Box. Microsoft Xbox Series X Console Halo Infinite Bundle in stock. ![]() Microsoft Xbox 360 Console Halo 4 Limited Edition Bundle 320GB Rare. Microsoft Xbox Series X Console Halo Infinite Bundle. The newly revealed Halo Infinite Xbox Series X Limited Edition console is already unavailable for most, and scalpers have taken advantage of the upcoming release. Get the best deals on Halo Consoles and upgrade your gaming setup with a new gaming console. We can’t guarantee you a console but we can make the task of securing one a little less difficult.Also, make sure to bookmark our guide on where to buy an Xbox. Resellers are already looking to make a profit from the Halo Infinite Xbox Series X Limited Edition console, with prices reaching over 1,000. ![]() This comprehensive guide is updated daily with the latest restock updates across every single major retailer. During the event, Best Buy will sell the 549 Limited Edition Xbox Series X Halo Infinite console, which includes a digital edition of the Halo Infinite game launching on Dec. The product page may have been restored to the site in error, especially as the Halo Infinite console was marketed as a limited edition machine so we’re not expecting it to be regularly restocked going forward.Īs we wait to see if a Halo Infinite Xbox Series X restock does happen at GameStop, make sure to check out our Xbox Series X restock hub. While this listing making an unannounced return to the GameStop website is certainly an indication that an Xbox Series X restock could be forthcoming, it’s by no means a guarantee. GameStop restocks are often exclusively for PowerUp Reward Pro members as well. Other than the graphic differences its no different than any other Xbox Series X. Step 3: Choose your console type (there’s only one option), and add warranties or accessories as desired. You can also use a blacklight to see hidden graphics. These packages usually contain several of the best Xbox Series X games as well as some digital credit and/or accessories like an extra controller. Celebrate Halos 20th anniversary and confront the most ruthless foe the Master Chief has ever faced with Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Limited Edition Bundle. Step 2: Select the Configure button to begin your order. It should be noted that GameStop rarely sells standalone consoles the retailer prefers to put its allocation of stock into bundles. It was released last November and costs $549, a slight increase on the base Xbox Series X price of $499. Released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Halo as well as the launch of Halo Infinite, the console is decked out with a custom Halo-inspired pattern and comes with a uniquely designed controller as well. Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Limited Edition Bundle 889842783674 Manufactured by Microsoft, Buy Online Free Shipping Exclusive Price in Dubai, Abu Dhabi. It's important to note, the listing in question isn’t for the standard Xbox Series X but rather the limited edition Halo Infinite console. We’ve seen several previous examples of GameStop adding new Xbox Series X and PS5 listings that have subsequently been followed by a drop. This Halo Infinite Xbox Series X listing returning to the GameStop website is significant because typically when a retailer adds a product page to its site a restock shortly follows. ![]() ![]() ![]() To allow for large-scale production of school buses among body manufacturers, adoption of these standards allowed for greater consistency among body manufacturers. To reduce the complexity of school bus production and increase safety, a set of 44 standards were agreed upon and adopted by the attendees (such as interior and exterior dimensions and the forward-facing seating configuration). Cyr invited transportation officials, representatives from body and chassis manufacturers, and paint companies. Cyr organized a week-long conference at Teachers College, Columbia University that forever changed the design and production of school buses. Although school bus design had moved away from the wagon-style kid hacks of the generation before, there was not yet a recognized set of industry-wide standards for school buses. The custom-built nature of school buses created an inherent obstacle to their profitable mass production on a large scale. In 1940, the first mid-engined transit school bus was produced by Gillig in California. Īs the 1930s progressed, flat-front school buses began to follow motorcoach design in styling as well as engineering, gradually adopting the term "transit-style" for their appearance. Introduced in 1932, the Crown Supercoach seated up to 76 passengers, the highest-capacity school bus of the time. In an effort to gain extra seating capacity and visibility, Crown Coach built its own cabover school bus design from the ground up. In 1930, both Superior and Wayne introduced all-steel school buses the latter introduced safety glass windows for its bus body.Īs school bus design paralleled the design of light to medium-duty commercial trucks of the time, the advent of forward-control trucks would have their own influence on school bus design. The rear entry door of the kid hacks were re-purposed (as an emergency exit).įollowing the introduction of the steel-paneled 1927 Luce bus, school bus manufacturing began to transition towards all-steel construction. To better adapt automotive chassis design, school bus entry doors were moved from the rear to the front curbside, becoming a door operated by the driver (to ease loading passengers and improve forward visibility). Late 1930s school busĭuring the 1930s, school buses saw advances in their design and production that remain in use to this day. Its orange color predates the adoption of school bus yellow. 1930s A 1939 school bus seen in a museum display. While fitted with a roof, the primary weather protection of the Luce bus design included roll-up canvas side curtains. The forerunner of the first Blue Bird school buses, steel was used to panel and frame the bus body wood was relegated to a secondary material. Luce produced a bus body for a 1927 Ford Model T. In 1919, the usage of school buses became funded in all 48 U.S. In 1915, International Harvester constructed its first school bus today, its successor company Navistar still produces school bus cowled chassis. Weather protection remained minimal some designs adopted a tarpaulin stretched above the passenger seating. While transitioning into purpose-built designs, a number of features from wagons were retained, including wood construction, perimeter bench seating, and rear entry doors. As vehicles evolved from horse-drawn to "horseless" propulsion on a wider basis, the wagon bodies of kid hacks and school cars were adapted to truck frames. ![]() It is based on a 1927 Ford Model T chassis.įollowing the first decade of the 20th century, several developments would affect the design of the school bus and student transport. In 1869, Massachusetts became the first state to add transportation to public education by 1900, 16 other states would transport students to school. As a horse-drawn wagon, the school car was fitted with a rear entrance door (intended to avoid startling the horses while loading or unloading passengers) over a century later, the design remains in use (as an emergency exit). In 1892, Indiana-based Wayne Works (later Wayne Corporation) produced its first "school car" A purpose-built design, the school car was constructed with perimeter-mounted wooden bench seats and a roof (the sides remained open). ![]() Essentially re-purposed farm wagons, kid hacks were open to the elements, with little to no weather protection. For those students who lived beyond practical walking distance from school, transportation was facilitated in the form of the kid hack at the time, " hack" was a term referring to certain types of horse-drawn carriages. In the second half of the 19th century, many rural areas of the United States and Canada were served by one-room schools. Main article: Kid hack One-horse kid hack (1910-1915) A 1912 Studebaker truck with a school bus body ![]() ![]() ![]() On-screen controls have been added as an option alongside gestural equivalents. The game is a free download, with a single £3.69 IAP to unlock all levels. Unlock the Backbone Apps unified game launcher with a trial of Backbone+ Membership, included with every purchase of a Backbone One. Update: In January 2019, Oddmar was released for Android. And while I could gripe about some irritatingly difficult moments and the game’s brevity, I’d rather get back to playing the best platform game on mobile, thanks. Brightly illustrated as a motion comic, Oddmars. JOURNEY through 24 beautifully hand-crafted levels of physics-based. He is shunned by his fellow Vikings and must redeem himself of his. ![]() ![]() Detail Play the beginning for free as Demo' Oddmar struggles with life in his village and is not worthy of a place in Valhalla. All Level Unlocked Description from Developer. Sure, it’s not perfect – but then nothing is. Unlock your true power with magically imbued weapons and shields that can be discovered throughout the game. Oddmar Mod APK (Unlocked) is a premium version of Oddmar, you can use all the. Oddmar Mod APK 1.0 Unlocked uploaded by ysabelminseok. And the design’s such that there’s plenty of replay value, to beat speedrun targets, or grab all the gold. The controls work very nicely – to the point using an MFi controller feels like a regression. JOURNEY through 24 beautifully hand-crafted levels of physics-based puzzles and platforming challenges. Oddmar Full 0.110 Apk + Mod (Unlocked) + Data for AndroidOfflinePlay the beginning for free as DemoOddmar struggles with life in his village and is not. After changing my phone I reinstalled the game but I can not play the paid levels anymore. Still, Oddmar‘s cartoonish world is beautifully animated and feels alive. I cant hear the sounds when using headphones. journey through a set of levels, enabling you to unlock new technologies. And they won’t be bad ones either, even if Oddmar doesn’t quite reach the dizzy heights of Nintendo’s finest. Oddmar is an Action-Adventure, Side-scroll Platformer, and Single-player video. Unless you’re a killjoy who can’t abide the thought of a decent platform game on a smartphone or tablet, you’ll at this point be making comparisons with Super Mario Bros. ![]() |
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