 demanding. Considering the strict confines of these hillclimbs, the savage power available, and the ludicrous straightline speeds attainable with that motor, it’s understandable that even a talented driver gets it wrong occasionally.
Undaunted, the team took the opportunity to update the machine with new livery, and a new front splitter with canards. There are no limits for this multifaceted monster, and S&J Automotive plan on making it perhaps the best all-around Subaru in Australia—if not the world.The Hughes Electronics Corp. unit responsible for broadcasting the DirecTV satellite-television service in Latin America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday and said its chairman, Kevin McGrath, has quit.
A heavy subscriber drain was blamed for the woes at DirecTV Latin America.
The unit said it will ask a judge to approve a $300-million loan from Hughes to continue operating under bankruptcy protection. The region's largest satellite-TV service had $600 million in assets and $1.6 billion in debts on Dec. 31, according to papers filed in U.S. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., investors said.
News Corp. executives have said they might buy a controlling stake in Hughes, whose U.S. DirecTV unit is the biggest U.S. satellite-TV service with about 11.2 million subscribers. DirecTV Latin America has about 1.6 million customers.Architectural renders form the cornerstone of public communication in contemporary architecture. An overabundance of visual content has produced a fixation on architectural representation, rendering techniques in particular. Computer generated imagery is no longer an intermediary between an idea and its realization, but a finished product on its own. The worldwide dominance of this rendering programs consequently results in a homogenous aesthetic around the globe. Rendering software and its application works as a self-reciprocating aesthetic style of tropes that reinforce these dominant politics and values. Images of the future reinforce the way that future is developed.
While standardization is a necessity for computer operating systems that might be contrary to the desire of the inhabitants of those cities to have them as individual and as tailored to individual needs. Jiu Jiu captures with his exhibition “Fantastic Grounds” the universal language and the fascination of these highly-glamourized abstraction of the world we live in. In his new video work Jiu Jiu carefully dissects the images and algorithms that form our living space.
This is not only an important aspect on an aesthetical level but also has far-reaching consequences for human society. In designing and constructing environments in which people live and work, architects and planners are necessarily involved in influencing human behavior. From Howard’s “Garden Cities of To-morrow” (1902), through Le Corbusier’s “Ville Contemporaine and LaVille Radieuse”, to the Smithsons’ “Streets in the sky”, there has been a long-standing thread of recognition that the way people live their lives is directly linked to the designed environments in which they live. So how will be live in these new cities?Have a single in the front row at cost here: http://www.stubhub.com/toronto-sketchfest-tickets-toronto-sketchfest---hello-thunder-bay-toronto-3-7-2016/event/9533512/ Would love to have done this and was seriously considering it, but the flights are either too expensive or too laborious...
Favorite Song from Each Album?
What about Feedback? The critical difference is where they were then and where they are now. Hard for me to imagine that they'd that the go out like that.
The work ethic and professionalism that guided them through these last four decades will remain to the end I think. They'll put out a fantastic new album---like CA---or nothing at all.
If any of this is within the realm of the possible I'd rather they pick a very talented no-name drummer who acts as a designated hitter. Maybe Neil could record a new album, and then they could find someone who is willing and (mostly) able to reproduce Neil's work. If they picked a bigger name like Portnoy, that person would be more likely to change the dynamic. To some extent that's unavoidable of course, but my hope would be that any new iteration of the band would maintain the essence of Rush. And I'm with tb- if any of the guys are playing out anywhere with anyone, I'll be looking to see them.
Not at all bothered but I am very much partial to the album version... from the moment I heard I thought it was achingly beautiful.
Just fyi, I wrote backstage about other sizes for the dalmatian tee, and they told me that merch from the road would be returning, which it did.
I love hearing this, but is this new information, or just a transcription of the podcast from a while back?
Your Personal Top 10 Rush Songs?
I think a solo instrumental from Alex would be wonderful. I've often thought about that. Peke's Repose really got me, particularly the very first version in Manchester, and it was so interesting to hear the evolution through the tour. And O'Malley's Break and Hope were lovely. His acoustic work reminds me in many ways of Michael Hedges, who was similarly inventive.
Of course, that goes without saying. Just think it's a tad early to be categorical, that's all.A robbery at the Bethesda Medical Clinic in Corozal has left the staff shaken, but the alleged culprits have already being caught. Police say they responded to a robbery report at the clinic Wednesday afternoon where the administrator, Zeima Cambranes, reported that she and several staff members were held up by two men who entered the building. One was armed with a knife. The thieves made off with purses, cell phones and a computer for a total value of over four thousand dollars. Police have since recovered the phones and have arrested a sixteen-year-old minor and twenty-seven-year-old Leroy Hendriks. Both are facing robbery charges.My Aunt Cindy keeps a running playlist of songs that she wants played at her funeral.
It’s hundreds of songs long, so from the looks of it the ceremony would last a few days, or we’d put it on shuffle and pray the computer chooses all the best ones.
With all this talk of the North Pole melting, while thousands of dead fish mysteriously wash up in Marina del Rey, and McDonald’s is catering national nutrition conferences, I’ve realized she may be ahead of the game.The A.C. Clark Library offers library and information literacy instruction for on-campus students, distance learners, staff, faculty, and the community.
Some examples of potential library and information literacy instruction sessions are listed below. This list is not comprehensive and sometimes two or more topics can be covered in a session, or multiple sessions can take place to provide more depth to the research process. Please contact Research and Instruction Services Librarian Patrick Leeport if you would like to know more or discuss how the library instruction program can serve you and your students.
Government documents, children’s/young adult fiction and non-fiction, special collections, and print reference.
Any requests for library instruction can be sent to the Research and Instruction Services Librarian, Patrick Leeport. Often, upper level, discipline specific library instruction requests will be routed to the librarian who liaises with the department the course is listed in. If faculty prefer, they are welcome to contact their departmental library liaison directly.
When contacting a librarian about scheduling a session, sharing information about any research assignments, required sources, the number of students, and possible dates is helpful. Scheduling in advance is greatly appreciated, as it allows the librarian teaching the session to create a more meaningful and relevant workshop.
Library instruction can take place in a variety of different classrooms and computer labs in the library, or the librarian can come to your classes’ usual meeting place.
CNN’s Candy Crowley, who hosts “State of the Union,” is adding spice to her Sunday show. It’s a new feature called “Getting to Know…” where she asks her (sometimes) very stiff political guests off-beat questions during commercial breaks that loosen them up.
“What do you do just for fun?” she recently asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has apparently taken a fancy to the “Washington Nats.” It’s hard to hear, but he says he “windsgh down” the evening by watching the Nats.
Crowley gets McConnell chuckling hard when she asked what the 15-year-old McConnell wanted to be when he grew up. He says that was the year he won election as president of the student body – his first campaign win.
His favorite place to retreat to outside of Kentucky? That would be the U.S. Virgin Islands (where he and his wife, Elaine Chao, honeymooned).
Crowley also questioned President Obama’s top political advisor David Axelrod. Favorite comfort food? “Pizza,” he replied. “I eat for comfort, which can be a real problem.”
Watch the videos here and here.Microsoft has expanded its Live services with the release of a book search for Live Search.
The service, potentially a rival to Google’s book search, will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto, with others being added next year.
The current archive contains non-copyright material, but Microsoft has also been working on securing deals with copyright