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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Proper Machine Buffing With Compound
To begin the buffing on a cool clean surface, lay down a strip of compound and run buffer at a fairly high rate of speed between (1800 to 2500 rpm) to break the abrasives down and get a brilliant shine. As you finish the section that you are buffing, back off on the pressure as you start to see the compound disappear. You'll get a higher gloss when you perform this properly. Imagine a grid pattern as you buff the hull, side to side, then top to bottom. This helps to ensure you don't miss a spot. To get the product to work a little longer you can mist, distilled water only, on the product itself as you're buffing. It will work a little bit longer and you can actually a little more gloss out of it. It will make the abrasives in it work just a touch longer. You can get some really nice results by doing this.
Be very careful when working near exposed antennas, lines, horns, and as mentioned before, especially striping. Slow the speed down when buffing on stripes and use less pressure on the buffer. Remove as much of the product as possible, then wipe residual by hand. It is also recommended that you tape off areas, tops, exposed seats, etc. that may be in the path of flying compound. You can do this using towels, old sheets. There are also different areas you may want to cover up like the dash if it's an exposed top boat. It just saves time on cleanup later.
Optional Second Step
If you follow the buffing step with Blue Magnum Carnuba from Monsters, you will achieve a brilliant reflective shine and long lasting protection. In the buffing process an optional second step is to add Meguiar's #45 polish by hand or orbital polisher to the area just buffed. This will help feed the pores of the gel coat and add an additional amount of gloss to the surface. With this you have to use the product as directed and do one section at a time. It does not work well as a wax to just let it sit on there, haze, and then try to remove it. It's something that you put on and remove almost immediately. As mentioned, it is an optional step to use in this process. This also is a product that you'll want to keep away from the anti-skid portions of the boat, usually the side railings or the top deck where the anti-skid is mostly found. It just does not work well with anti-skid.
Window Tinting
Before you have the window tinting done make sure that you know the laws in regards to what is legal. In most states, there are medical necessity exemptions to the window tinting laws. This exemption is for those that have a valid vision or medical related condition that requires the person to limit their exposure to sunlight. Some of the medical conditions include sunlight allergy, lupus, melanoma, and phosensitivity. If you windows are tinted darker than is legally allowed and you are stopped, you need to have documentation showing that you have an exemption.
Provided that you have side mirrors, some states will allow every window to be tinted. Other states may not allow you to have your two front windows and the windshield tinted. If you have illegally tinted windows and are stopped you will generally pay a fine from $50 to $500 and will have the windows retinted to what is considered legal. All states have separate laws that legislate tinting for windows. This is why it is very important to follow what your state's laws say in regards to tinting for windows.
Most people have window tinting done to protect themselves and their car from the sun's damaging UV rays. There are two basic styles of window tinting; traditional non-reflective film and metallic performance films that have a reflective surface. You can get tinted windows in gold, gray, bronze, amber, and other colors.
Window tinting has many benefits, which include:
• Blocking ninety-nine percent of the damaging UV rays and sixty-five percent of the sun's heat
• Protects your skin from sun damage and your eyes from eyestrain and glare
• Protects the upholstery and interior of your car
• Makes your glass safer if it gets broken by holding the shattered glass in place
• Can prevent people from seeing into your vehicle
All about Repairing Car Damage
Skilled car damage repairers earn almost four folds of what novice repairer gets. Statistics show that of the 223,000 automotive repairers in 2004, 10% of them, the skilled automotive repairers earn more than $28.45 per hour. This is about four times what the less skilled repairer's get, which is about $9.42 per hour.
If we then compare it to the median per hour rate of company executives which is about $29.75 per hour, you probably pair enough in take-home money because being in the business of repairing car damage, you do not need to wear a suit and tie, and get stressed to much thinking of how you will run the business. You may also need to worry about the life of all the people in your company. You thus sport a stressful lifestyle, although from a distance, you may look far better than blue-collar workers. You may have the power to command as a company executive but you do not have the coziness of a blue-collar job. You may be more stressed as compared to skilled car damage repairers.
On the other hand, as a skilled car damage repairer, you go to work in noisy body shops with clatters of hammering and whining of power tools. You also will be dirty at the end of the day. You are also working in a condition where there is great possibility of being hurt while repairing car damages.
In addition to this, you will need to have at least 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience in all the paces of automotive repairing before you reach a receive a handsome pay.
Therefore, to ensure that later on, your business of repairing car damages will go up to the level where you will earn like those handsomely dressed company executives, it may help to have yourself certified by the National Institute of Automotive Service Excellence. Once you are certified as an ASE Master Collision Repair and Refinishing Technician, you may already command your price.
However, before you get this far in your business of car damage repairing, you may need continuing education on the modern and technically advanced quality of cars that manufacturers introduce to the market.
Formal training will help you develop your skills and attending seminars sponsored by automotive manufacturers will keep you at the top of your business.
It may also help to understand the government requirements and that of insurance companies so that you will be able to assist your clients well enough.
Your business might be slapped by the total loss assessment of insurance companies. However, this may be masked by the fact that you can buy these total loss cars, study their parts, and even use some of them for your future repairs. Understanding the requirements and the logic behind these requirements will be able to give you an edge in assisting your customers, whether to have their cars repaired or ask the insurance company for a total loss assessment. Being an authority in all the paces of owning a car may help you in your business as well.
Keeping pace with the modernity of today's automotive industry will keep your business of repairing car damage such a lucrative business.
You may be dirty at the end of the day, but if you are able to provide for the needs of your family, I think repairing car damage is not such a bad idea.
Giant Cars Lifted
Please not that working below a lift is a potentially dangerous condition if you do not take precautions to avoid accidents. Badly maintained lifts with faulty controls can malfunction and action is so quick that the person can consider himself/herself lucky with injuries no matter how serious.
While working under a raised car make sure that,
- You know where the controls are located and know the controls properly. Untrained persons can be dangerous in times of emergency. Such persons aggravate the situations instead of bringing it under control.
- Make sure that unauthorized persons and customers are not allowed in the area.
- The feeder that feeds electrical power to the hydraulic pump should be in off position and the switch locked to prevent the power being fed to hydraulic pump.
- If it is possible lock the lift in that position with mechanical lock.
1. Ensure that the lift does not go beyond the maximum position where it might be unsafe for the lift and mechanic.
2. Ensure that lifts are used only for jobs for which it was made. Using it for any other work can be deadly.
3. See that the controls get the manufacturer's checks regularly. Get these checks done by the manufacturer or a mechanic trained at manufacturer's training institute.
4. Get the hydraulic lifts checked regularly and check for leakages from the seals or hydraulic hoses. If you detect any leakage any time, keep clear of the raised lift. Bring it down as early as possible consistent with other condition. Attend to the lift and test the system and then only use the lift once again.
5. Keep a watch on hydraulic pressure when lifting the load. If you notice that the pressure is higher than the normal, do not use the lift till it is certified safe by the maintenance personnel.
6. Check the fluid level regularly and top up with recommended oils.
7. Remove any dirt around pistons and cylinders.
8. Check the structure of the platform and see if any defects are noticed during inspection
9. See that the weight being lifted is within the capacity of lift.
10. The dimensions of car being lifted do not go beyond the frame of lift structure.


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powersurge wrote:The dash picture does not make sense in the fact that the dash gives 91% charge, with only 63 miles range on the GOM.
On a new car with only 3K miles, it looks like the car is measuring a lot lower capacity than the % gauge indicates.
Right now, my dash shows 98% SOC. With the heater and fan off, the GOM says 100 miles. If I turn on the heater + defrost, GOM changes to 74 miles. Fiddling with the fan speed, temperature, or adding rear defrost does not change the 74 mile GOM at all. But if I shut-off the heater, GOM goes right back up to 100. So it looks like there is a 26% reduction in GOM, purely from hitting the Defrost button.
Also, this reduction doesn't change with ambient temp:
- last week: -2F, 74 mile GOM, 98% SOC = .6923 miles per SOC%.
- today: 28F, 63 mile GOM, 91% SOC = .6923 miles per SOC%.
...so the GOM's reduction is identical (to several decimal places!) regardless of whether the ambient temp is 28F or -2F, and whether the cabin is set to 60F or to 90F. As usual, the GOM algorithm appears to be simplistic/stupid.
So I think the picture showing 63 miles GOM at 91% is "normal" for my 2017 S. Does anyone else have an S, and wants to report how much their GOM changes when Defrost is turned-on? It may be that the 2017 GOM is different (more pessimistic).

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We've been blessed with rain and burgeoning spring. Here is the Climbing Don Juan rose covered in raindrops. Rare treat. What a classic rose shape on this one.
This is what the skies looked like before a big rainfall a couple days ago . . .
Almost scary--look at that line in the sky!
And here's a baby Arapaho blackberry, striding along . . .
The Brown Turkey fig looks very happy!
Chosen for the treasury!!!
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While it may seem that my recent posts have had little or nothing to do with bicultural parenting, that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about it. Indeed, updates about hair, language lessons and cooking Ghanian food are all bubbling away in my brain, but due to a combination of lack of time and a bad dose of eyestrain, they haven't made it into cyberspace. Bokor, be patient.
These other activities and reflections have been a necessary distraction from current challenges. Like the fact that in just over a week we step onto an outward-bound plane. In fact, I shouldn't really be taking any time out to blog at all.
So instead of plunging into a lengthy discourse on, for example, teens and mixed race identity, or recipes for peanut soup, I will update you on our travel plans – and you may not hear much more from me for a while after that.
On May 15th we fly from Sydney to LA to visit my niece, her hubby and three small daughters for a week. Disneyland, San Diego zoo, here we come! Then it's off to St Louis for a long weekend to visit a friend who's promised us walks, boating and more (I just can't remember what, but I'm looking forward to it. The next flight is to Frankfurt – just cos it's part of the deal with a round-the-world ticket – where we have 5 days to explore castles on the Rhine, thermal baths and German internet cafes.
All these are but appetisers (or perhaps a last blast of western culture, flush toilets and malaria-free zones) before the main course: Ghana, West Africa.
We'll be in Ghana for three months, returning to Oz in early September via South Africa & possibly a game park or two. Mostly we'll be staying with DadaK & co at his mother's house, which of course means also with quite a few other extended family members. We will visit slave castles, rainforest, the family cocoa farms and the arid north, where I've seen camels in the middle of town.
I'll also be scouting out a suitable school for a proposed Australian African Network Sister School venture, getting involved with the local co-counselling community, fanning myself a lot, blogging, and – in all likelihood – gorging myself on Ghanaian food while simultaneously slimming down from the effects of the Kumasi Runs. I hope we'll also both be getting more fluent in Twi. Kwajo will go to school.
So are we prepared? Well, mostly.
- Tickets – booked & paid for
- Ghana Visas – being processed (slightly delayed because I forgot to enclose a cheque with the application. Who, stressed, moi?).
- Vaccinations & anti-malarials – check
- Travel insurance – check
- Excitement rising – check
- US-safe padlocks – check
- Farewell party organised – check
- 2nd house-minder organised – eek!
- Bandwidth used up so that urgent internet business can no longer be easily undertaken at home – thank you ActionMan
- Lift to the airport – check. Except if I cut my hair before we leave the offer will be withdrawn. (I do have other friends you know …)
- Centrelink bombed – heh, just kidding.
- Australian African Network responsibilities handed over – check. Except they seem to accumulate at the same rate as I divest them. Hmmm.
- Work projects handed over – panic, panic, panic! No really, I'm on track.
- Pharmacy purchased – check. Except I think I should get some antiseptic powder. And maybe I'll need an elastic bandage … AM's run out of skin cream …
So, it's all happening. Count to ten, breathe deeply … and hit the ground running.


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Healthcare ministry seeks to introduce mandatory insurance by 2020
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS. The mandatory medical insurance of the population will be introduced in Armenia from the end of 2019 at best. The insurance fee will be either a fixed amount, or maximum 2% of the salary, healthcare minister Levon Altunyan told reporters.
"Only after the flawless work of the insurance program for 612,000 socially vulnerable people in 2018 will the mandatory medical insurance of the population be introduced. There are two formulas for the mandatory medical insurance: when the entire insurance fee, 6000 drams monthly, is paid by the citizen, or when 50% is paid by the citizen and the other 50 by the employer", the minister said, adding that experience shows that the citizens should pay, because in this case responsibility for their own health increases.
According to Altunyan, the 6000 dram monthly fee is an unprecedented low amount globally, including for post-Soviet countries. In Czech Republic for instance, where healthcare has developed in a short period of time, the insurance fee comprises nearly 15% of salary.
Salaries are lower in Armenia, therefore the insurance fee will be lower.
"We modeled all situations. Even in case of not addressing a doctor the nearly 3000 dram of the monthly fee will be returned to the families due to screening checkups. We charge this amount in order to spend it on the people's health, to extend the duration of healthy life", he said.


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Children of MRIS, NOIDA had an amazing experience with Wet Mud. They were given free will to mold the mud as they wanted it to. Some made Aeroplanes,some ice creams and some balls.
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A rising MLS tide offers unexpected benefits to growing Liga MX
If MLS truly is catching up to Liga MX, that's a good thing for the Mexican league and El Tri.
There's no arguing Liga MX has MLS' number. Even MLS' brass concedes that.. With more CONCACAF Champions League titles, talent on the pitch and eyeballs on matches, Mexico's top flight is the best that North America has to offer.
However, although Liga MX is likely to continue growing, a recent financial push from MLS is aimed at narrowing the gap between the two leagues.
Thanks to an influx of Targeted Allocation Money, MLS clubs have been able expand the depth of their rosters. In theory, this should bolster a league that has typically lived in the shadow of its Mexican neighbor.
Imagine what a more competitive MLS environment could do for other young Mexicans to develop.
With this in mind, it's worth imagining the implications if MLS were to finally catch up. Undoubtedly, Liga MX is still superior right now, but it's not unrealistic to think the two leagues existing on even footing could happen in the near future.
Would a stronger MLS be bad news for Mexico's top flight? Actually, no. A level playing field for both leagues might produce some unexpected but positive changes for Liga MX.
Improved rivalry, competition in CCL
Since the introduction of the new CCL format for the 2008-09 tournament, no MLS club has ever won the title. Six of the eight tournaments have finished with all-Liga MX finals, with Real Salt Lake (2011) and Montreal Impact (2015) the only non-Mexican clubs to crack the final two.
This dominance has, at times, made the competition feel dull for fans. The pinnacle moment of the tournament tends to feel like an overhyped, mid-week Copa MX match.
What the CCL needs is a shake-up, something more talented MLS squads will hopefully provide. A title or two for MLS would force Liga MX to take the competition more seriously, which would then add more importance to a tournament that has consistently been a cake-walk for Mexico.
Intriguing rivalries might even develop if reinforced MLS rosters can start challenging big names south of the border. Forget the Cascadia Cup, the California Clasico or the Clasico Nacional for a moment. How incredible would it be to see a rivalry be between Club America and the Seattle Sounders? Or between Chivas and the LA Galaxy?
We are still far away from that kind of shift in the CCL, but the recent investment from MLS point toward positive changes for the tournament. There's a small chance that investment could help FC Dallas or the Vancouver Whitecaps do something special in this year's semifinals.
More vigilance on payment issues
On the field, it's clear that deeper MLS rosters would help garner interest in the CCL and improve the rivalry with Liga MX. Off the field, it may also force Mexican teams to be more financially responsible.
Last year, it was reported that both Dorados and Chiapas had failed to pay wages on time. Although karma hit the Dorados when they were relegated last summer, stories of Chiapas' late payments continued to emerge throughout 2016.
Despite a delayed intervention from Liga MX, the issue was a blemish for the league which is supposed to be the benchmark for CONCACAF competitions. In order for the Mexican top flight to continue as the best in the region, and potentially keep up with MLS, Liga MX will need to be more strict with any future payment issues.
Many players, including numerous talented Americans, have made the trip south to compete at a higher standard. Even it meant late payments, the true profit was playing in a more difficult environment than MLS.
A perfect example is that of DaMarcus Beasley, who made the move to Puebla in 2011. In search of regaining relevance with the U.S. men's national team, and perhaps finding a club who could match his salary demands, the American took a risk by joining Liga MX. Beasley dealt with late payments from Puebla but was also able to gradually revive his international career. At the time, the risk was worth the reward, but could the same be said in the near future?
If the quality of competition in MLS was on par with Liga MX, players would choose MLS over financial uncertainties. This isn't just for U.S. players either, but any prospective options who are eyeing North America.
Delayed payments are usually more of a problem for the lower-tier clubs in Mexico, but it's still a problem present in the leagues. In order to keep pace with MLS, Liga MX would need to eradicate even the perception of any wage issues.
Coupled with MLS' depth of talent, fixing these payment issues could also lead to some interesting player movement.
Stronger MLS means favorable transitions to, from Liga MX
Assuming that both leagues reach an equal playing field, this then widens the pool of skilled options who could join Liga MX.
If certain MLS squads are suddenly filled with noteworthy and accomplished names, a lateral move for players to Mexico would help Liga MX. For numerous clubs, especially big ones such as America and Tigres, that means more talent nearby to possibly snatch up from a larger selection of enticing players.
It's also important to keep in mind the opportunity that this could provide for young and promising Mexicans. With diminished roles in many Liga MX rosters, MLS could become a fascinating alternative. This wouldn't directly support Mexico's top flight, but it could help the national team. That isn't to say that Liga MX wouldn't be good enough for these budding Mexican stars. A stronger MLS competition would just open the door to several other clubs who could produce a similar experience.
For Mexico fans who are perhaps skeptical of young talent moving north, a quick look at Carlos Salcedo's career is an excellent reminder of what MLS has to offer. After spending a few years with Real Salt Lake's academy and senior team, the player later returned to Guadalajara as a confident central defender. Now, the 23-year-old is on loan with Serie A's Fiorentina.
Imagine what a more competitive MLS environment could do for other young Mexicans to develop.
Looking ahead
Despite the possibility of players leaving Liga MX and a likely drop in Champions League titles, the pros of MLS' improvement outweigh the cons for Mexico. The CCL would be more intriguing to follow, the rivalry between MLS and Liga MX would get stronger, financial responsibility would improve and a new batch of neighboring talent would be available to bring over.
As for Mexican soccer as a whole, having more established and ambitious organizations in the U.S. to play for is a plus. More opportunities and minutes, in a similar tournament, would be highly advantageous for the the Mexican national team system.
MLS still has a ways to go before catching Liga MX, but once it does, fans of the Mexican league shouldn't feel too worried. In fact, they should feel thrilled.


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"Defeat Concentrates the Mind"
OH - How damn refreshing it is to hear this from a senior member of the Liberal party:
Absolutely right. That's been the complaints and concerns here pretty much since Ahab began. Regardless of how Harper's tenure as Prime Minister turns out, the turfing of the Liberals from the PMO in 2006 will prove exceedingly beneficial not only for the Liberal party, but for Canadian democracy as a whole.
The man the Liberals have assigned to assemble their blueprint for party renewal says the defeated government's national daycare program was "a deathbed repentance," the gun registry was "an administrative disaster" and the response to the sponsorship scandal was "bizarre."
The blunt-talking Tom Axworthy, a former aide to Pierre Trudeau who teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., also says the former government's Kyoto policy was not only difficult to understand, "it wasn't real anyway."
"On file after file, we haven't had bad ideas, but the implementation process has been abysmal," he [Tom Axworhty] said in an interview with CanWest News Service. "A press release is not a policy."
Frankly, I am shocked and pleasantly surprised at the speed with which elements of the natural governing party is admitting the deficiencies and errors of Paul Martin's time at the head of the government. The magnitude of the paradigm shift in conventional wisdom circles - commentators who claimed Stephen Harper could never win now claiming just as certainly that he is sure to be around as PM for a minimum of 6 years, for example - is surely contributing to it.
How many, as recently as December 1, 2005, would have predicted that the subsequent events of a few months would bring us so completely to this point? And, more ridiculous, all because about 6.6% of those who turned out to vote (about 975,000 Canadians) were convinced to change their mind over the course of 18 months!? Amazing how the cumbersome mechanism that is our modern electoral democracy manages to get it about right. Against all the odds.


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-This seminar is designed to prepare electrical personnel with the ability to read and understand the electrical diagrams, recognize equipment and verify the integrity of the existing schematics. Participants will be introduced to electrical symbols, one-line and three-line electrical schematics and their content, including basic layout and legends.
-Participants will participate in practical exercises in schematic reading, diagram verification and the steps required for creating and maintaining accurate one line diagrams. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their own facility's prints to use during practical exercises. Low, medium and high-voltage installations can be reviewed as requested by participants.
-Create a block map of the installed equipment
-Transfer the information to the one line diagram
-Verify electrical prints and make changes to existing diagrams
- Create and maintain regulatory compliant electrical diagrams In order to comply with the above-mentioned regulations, complete and up to date electrical single line diagrams and equipment operating and control schematics must be made available in the work place. These important documents are required to be updated as necessary or as equipment changes or is modified and sometimes verified on an annual basis. In addition, this two-day program is designed to provide knowledge of the various types of electrical diagrams used in the industry, and to develop the skills necessary to read, draw and interpret these diagrams.
Day 1:
Introduction and review of the regulations: How do the regulations apply and what do we need to know?
- Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations
- Provincial Regulations - Control of Hazardous Energy - Safeguarding of Machinery
- NPFA 70E - Manufacturers Standards - Company Policy, Procedures and Practices
Day 2: Print reading basics: Legends:
- What is the purpose of the legend, and
- What information can be found in the legend?
Electrical Symbols:
- Review of standard symbols, and
- Symbol identification and meaning Basic layout:
- Familiarization with the layout of different schematics and one line diagrams Practical exercise using example prints:
- Participants will participate in practical exercises and skills demonstrations of symbol identification and meaning, basic information location and schematic diagram layout.
Day 3: Elementary electrical diagrams:
- What are schematics used for and why are they necessary DC voltage schematic: Introduction, familiarization and review of: - Series circuits,
- Parallel circuits, and
- Series/parallel circuits Single-Line Diagram: - Purpose of a single line,
- Equipment identification, and - Hazardous energy control. AC voltage schematic:
- Equipment identification, and - Trouble shooting and fault finding Three-line diagram and practical exercise using elementary diagrams:
- Participants will participate in practical exercises and skills demonstrations on the identification of circuits, and the uses of single-line, AC schematic and three line diagrams.
Day 4: Developing and maintaining a single line diagram:
- Regulation compliance
- Site familiarization
- Equipment identification and inventory
- Nomenclature verification - Preparing a block diagram,
- Interconnecting the equipment - Verification of accuracy
- Practical exercise:
- Participants will participate in the development of a single line diagram using narrative information.
- Effective trouble shooting approach Evaluating and assessing the fault Mapping a solution
- Task identification Identifying the hazards:
- Introduction to Job Hazard Analysis Practical exercise using schematics:
- DC circuits - AC single phase circuits - AC three phase circuits Conclusion:
- Review of course highlights - Questions and Answers
- Electrical technicians, field engineers, project managers, inspectors, contractors, and journeyman electricians who depend on effective skills and knowledge required in this ever changing fast pace electrically driven environment.
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Modern CB2 couch that transitions easily into a full sized bed.
Gorgeous bathroom with walk in glass shower and spacious new vanity.
Enjoy complete privacy with blackout shades and curtains.
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Nissan has unveiled an electric version of the NV200 Concept at the Detroit Auto Show today and unimaginatively labelled it with a proceeding "e". It previews a near-future production vehicle the Japanese automaker has under development.
Nissan currently has Leaf Electric Vehicle on the market and the majority of its drivetrain components have made the journey to their larger sibling, including the 80kW lithium-ion battery that generates 207 lb-ft (280 Nm) of torque.
It features a design and exterior color that has clearly been derived from the Leaf. Inside the cabin, the designers have given the NV200 a futuristic style that fits well with its electric architecture.
"With its 'no gas, no tailpipe, no emissions' powertrain, the Nissan e-NV200 Concept combines a quiet, comfortable driving experience with a large, highly versatile, functional interior space within a compact overall body length," said Hideto Murakami, corporate vice president, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. "A potential game changing vehicle in its segment, the battery capacity will support a driving range similar to the Nissan LEAF, while payload and cargo space will offer the same level as the current NV200. The production version would be targeted mainly at businesses, but also at private users or families in major regions."


text: Frank Lloyd Wright From Within Outward Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim has chosen to celebrate its golden anniversary by paying an appropriate homage to its legendary architect. For the devoted Wright aficionado this current exhibit, Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, constitutes the chance of a lifetime to see the original blueprints for projects left unbuilt and photos of those long since demolished. For those less familiar with Wright's work, it will prove an intimidating crash course on one of the art form's finest masters and can only whet the appetite for more. There is no pretension in this journey through the mind of Frank Lloyd Wright. Blueprints are respectfully displayed in glass cases, allowing viewers to search closely at detail, accompanied by slideshows of demolished buildings and a generous number of scale models. This leaves the work to simply speak for itself and sparks the mind of the viewer to imagine works they would be unable to see in any other manner. In this regard, the curators of the exhibit, Thomas Krens and David van der Leer (along with other collaborators), made a wise choice in focusing largely on projects that would otherwise be all but inaccessible to the general public. The show begins at the base of the Guggenheim, aptly opening with a curtain designed by Wright for the Hillside Theater in Green Spring, Wisconsin. Narrated by a free audio tour, the exhibit then wanders in an upward exploration along Wright's spiraling interior design for the museum, culminating with a model of the Guggenheim itself. After searching for Wright's vision, the viewer is reminded that they are standing in one of the architect's last great works and encouraged to appreciate both its beauty and the fact that after its completion fifty years ago it remains standing and fully renovated. Wright clearly had dreams of a new world, not set on some alien soil, but rather to be created by working with the planet we already inhabit. Many of his later projects, most of which remain unrealized, take on a futuristic, almost space-like quality, revealing the limitless expansion of the master's scope. Being a designer of more than just buildings, Wright set his sights on engineering entire cities with the aim of bringing mass urbanization into harmony with the nature of their indigenous landscapes, a quality much lacking in most current big cities and one of Wright's prime distastes for concentrated communities. The present movement to go green shows that Wright was once again esthetically ahead of his time, a point that is amusingly contradicted by his love for automobiles (which are given great consideration in most of his works). Though budgetary limits explain why many of Wright's works have gone uncompleted, it is mind-boggling to see how many of his masterpieces have been torn down. This show stands as a tribute to both. It avoids patronizing its audience and clearly assumes that anyone coming to see this exhibit is there to gain a deep and fuller comprehension of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. Anyone who visits with that intention should leave fully satisfied. - C. Jefferson Thom Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward is showing through August 23: Sunday–Wednesday 10 a.m.–5:45 p.m. Friday 10 a.m.–5:45 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.–7:45 p.m. Pay What You Wish: Saturdays from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Mr. Thom lives in New York City and walks dogs, writes plays, and loves dissecting pop culture.


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Monday, June 14, 2010
Quick Sketch: Clarissa
This is a quick sketch I did a while ago. Due to a time shortage, I didn't complete the look such as eyeliner, etc. but I still loved the way it turned out. Clarissa doesn't wear a lot of makeup and so she was a bit wary to try such dark lipstick. But I think it looks great, and she liked it too!
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MAS Law Firm hosted a reception for Congressman Marc Veasey, who represents Texas' newly drawn Congressional District 33 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Veasey also served in Texas State House, where he was first elected in 2004, representing District 95. He served in Texas State House for four consecutive terms.
The reception was attended by the honorable judges, attorneys, shareholders of the firm Sean Modjarrad and Mohamad Said, and senior attorney Rick Krause.


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LonelyDemon2017-11-02 06:17:51
So sorry my friend turned on me ;-;
The_Cute_Cookie2017-11-01 18:46:27
awwww im sorry... (idk what to say..... XP)
xLegendaryWolfx2017-11-01 17:24:03
@RubyRainShe's been my friend since 2nd grade, but she used to be my bff.
RubyRain2017-11-01 17:05:58
@LegendaryIf she's gonna be fake, just confront her and let her know how fucking stupid she sounds. That's pathetic, if she has something to say to you she needs to grow tf up and say it to you
xLegendaryWolfx2017-11-01 16:52:22
Oh no. Same thing is happening to me,and it's been going on for 2 years now. My friend, Logan, is kinda avoiding me. She always hangs out with her other friends. It made me so mad, I was going to tell her how I feel, but I never got a chance, because I was too chicken. She was doing the same thing to me today, avoiding me, and I also heard rumors that she was talking about me behind my back }:(