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On behalf of the Member Services Committee, I encourage you to take a few minutes and reflect on a deserving COSCDA colleague, activity or project and submit a nomination for one of these prestigious awards. Let us celebrate our success and honor our colleagues who have made a significant contribution to COSCDA or have undertaken a project that highlights the state's leadership role in community development and housing.
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Nike's inspiration for its team collection comes from the understanding that every team is special. While each style has its own unique design, every player will be armed with the most innovative technology. Find a variety of Nike Football Kits, Nike Womens wear, Nike Training Wear and much more.
Few markets have more options to choose from than today's home audio system and SmartTV industries. At Nerds on Call, we can help design the ideal home audio system.
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The Sonos Wireless HiFi System delivers all the music on earth, in every room, with warm, full-bodies sound that's crystal clear at any volume. Sonos home audio systems can fill your home with music by combining HiFi sound and rock-solid wireless in a smart system that is easy to set-up, control and expand.
Sonos lets you stream from any source to any room. Enjoy access to different music sources from one app combined with complete multi-room capabilities so you can listen to your entire world of music in every room of your home.
Virtually every crucial economic and social function depends on the secure, reliable operation of power and energy infrastructures. Energy, electric power, telecommunications, transportation and financial infrastructures have become increasingly interdependent, posing new challenges for their resilient and efficient operation. All of these interdependent infrastructures are complex, geographically dispersed, non-linear, and interacting both among themselves and with their human owners, operators and users.
The end-to-end electric power network, grid communications and control systems are often thought to be much more securely protected than is actually the case, especially to malware and intrusions. Over the last two decades, power outages in the United States have increased in size and frequency. This trend is likely to continue as the number of energy consumers increase while infrastructure investment remains stagnant.These circumstances have highlighted the need to update the nation's electric power grid to provide secure and reliable electricity for the future.
Both the importance and difficulty of protecting power systems have long been recognized. In the electricity sector, outages and power quality disturbances cost the economy more than $80 billion annually on average, and sometimes as much as $188 billion in a single year. Since 1995, the amortization and depreciation rate of old transmission investments has exceeded new construction expenditures. It has been apparent for over a decade that the grid is increasingly stressed, and that the carrying capacity or safety margin to support anticipated demand is in question.
The age of our power infrastructure - particularly underground city networks - is a major issue that should not be viewed in isolation. Instead, the power industry's focus should be on a holistic asset management approach to address grid resilience. That focus should weigh the relative risks and benefits of maintenance, repair and replacement or retirement of the infrastructure's various elements. These elements include thousands of transformers, line reactors, series capacitors, and transmission lines. A holistic approach also requires viewing the utility fleet of capital equipment as critical strategic assets impacted by age and external forces, possessing capabilities and characteristics that can be leveraged to improve reliability.
In addition, we'll discuss selected material from the IEEE Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) report for the U.S. DOE, which are pertinent to these discussions and potential actions with the various stakeholder groups. The cost of developing and deploying a modernized stronger, more secure and smarter grid for the country is cost effective and should be thought of as an investment in the future - in a secure, reliable, and entrepreneurial future - that will pay back over many decades to come as the energy backbone of our 21st century economy.
Farfugium japonicum, formerly known as Ligularia tussilaginea and Ligularia kaempferi, is a clump-forming perennial that is grown in gardens more for its attractive foliage than for its autumn flowers. Native to moist meadows and stream banks in Japan and eastern Asia, the foliage consists of huge, long-stalked, glossy, leathery, kidney-shaped, dark green leaves that form a basal clump to 2’ tall. Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates, but will die to the ground when temperatures fall to 20 degrees F. Daisy-like, yellow flowers (1-2” across) bloom in loose corymbs in late summer to fall. Var. giganteum has larger leaves(to 18” across).
Winter hardy to USDA Zones 7-10. Foliage will wilt in too much sun.
I get the point; this is an M-rated Kinect game. Can you please stop throwing blood all over me, Sega? Oh god, it's in my mouth.
Sega's Rise of Nightmares is the gamer that finally realizes the joy of air-chainsawing the undead into tiny little pieces, even if it still has a way to go towards capturing the joy of simple movement and navigation.
Frankly I feel Sega is trying too hard. All we really need is a guy standing still in a dark room while hordes of bizarre creatures charging us and tons of dismemberment-friendly devices within arm's reach. Don't sweat the moving about. All I crave are clockwork zombies, undead maids, and a scythe to disembowel them by.
The Hurriyat said although the NIA has an office in Srinagar, it has deliberately asked the Masjid and school officials to come to Delhi to “further harass and trouble them”.
The NIA has sent notices to Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid and the Islamia School, both old Valley institutions of religion and education and both linked to the family of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The notices have been sent days after separatist leaders were questioned on alleged terror funding from Pakistan. The Mirwaiz presides over the Friday prayers at the mosque in Srinagar and the Islamia School was founded by his family over a century ago.
The NIA’s notices, asking for an appearance at its office in New Delhi, have been sent to Mohammad Hussain Khan, who manages the accounts of the Auqaf of Jamia Masjid, and Mohammad Ibraheem Shah, the general secretary of the Anjuman Nusrat-ul-Islam that runs the institution. The Mirwaiz has said the move was a sign of persecution by the state. “Now the NIA sends notice to #IslamiaSchool & JamaMasjid, exposes level of persecution State can go to against those it can’t defeat politically!” he tweeted.
“Both, the Anjuman Nusratul Islam and Auqaf Jamia Masjid, are apolitical educational and social organisations which have a great history of serving the people of the state selflessly for decades,” a Hurriyat statement said. “Subjecting its members to harassment and intimidation for the sole reason of being part of institutions headed by the Mirwaiz, to put pressure on the Mirwaiz is deplorable,” it added. The Hurriyat said although the NIA has an office in Srinagar, it has deliberately asked the Masjid and school officials to come to Delhi to “further harass and trouble them”.
"Over 70 minutes of intense samples and electronica which is the debut from Gonk, being the work of Nigel Smith (who records as Dunderhead on the Worm Interface label) and Mark Davies (Voices of Kwahn, Throne, Ragga & The Jack Magic Orchestra). This CD has been recorded over the past couple of years in bedrooms and at live shows. The mixture of ethnic sounds and full-on abrasive sounds coupled with the improvised use of dance machinery such as the 303 and 909 makes this a unique listening experience."
Matt Smith is the president and founder of smithHOUSE, a creative/digital agency based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Smith has a BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech and and an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is married and has four daughters.
Good design is expensive. The only thing more expensive is bad design.
We are in constant churn. As a society, we create new problems and we have to find new solutions. As a studio, we ultimately solve problems for people. We like to think that with the work that we do each day, we make the world a better place.
With design, less is more. Except when more is more. I understand that restraint and deliberation is essential to good design, but we can’t pretend that simple always wins.
Having said that, don’t be fooled into thinking that a complicated problem needs a complicated solution. Simple solutions, when you find them, are gold. This is what we want to bring to clients: simple solutions to complicated problems.
Being original isn’t worth your time. It’s a strange kind of narcissism that you see with creative types–that we want to be see as original, uninfluenced by the world around us. But that desire is exhausting and rarely productive. Just do good work.
I can’t explain it. But Charles and Ray Eames defined cool. Do you think that they fretted over being original? Of course not. They just did great work and we’re better because of it.
Why should designers stay put? One of my college professors was displeased with Frank Gehry leaving architecture and stepping into industrial design. Sure, the Michael Graves tea kettle at Target was silly and the toaster was bloated, but to say that Michael Graves didn’t belong in industrial design is to say that Bo Jackson didn’t belong in football. If you have a gift, why not do it all?
With smithHOUSE, we do web, mobile, and branding. But at the end of the day, I am designing furniture and making toys for my daughters. Makers gotta make.
The thought a hoverboard kept me up at night as a kid. I hope that I can ride one in my lifetime, and when that moment comes, I hope that it’s as fun as I dreamed.
I don’t waste my time trying to makes sense of Modern Art. Here we are in the fifth decade since we were first liberated from the rules of art, and no one can agree if this is a good thing or not. We mostly just ignore Modern Art until someone brings it up, and that rarely happens. Talk about design, and now you have something that matters to people. Because design is about solving problems. Form meets function and the world gets better. This is where I belong.
My dream car? That’s not a fair question. I have a dream garage: 1972 C-10 Cheyenne Super, a late 1980s Porsche 911 Turbo, and a whole bunch of VW buses. I have a big family you know.
It was fun to be a part of MTV in its golden era. Recently I went back home to visit my parents and my mom played some old VHS tapes of when I was on The Real World: New Orleans and the Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet. My oldest daughter, 4-years old at the time, met me in the kitchen and gave me a big hug as she cried. She sobbed and explained that it hurt her feelings that I was voted off the show. Being a dad is so much cooler than being an MTV reality star.
Yes, I did deliver a baby. My second daughter–on the side of the freeway.
The perfect buy at the perfect time? Those only exist in hindsight. It’s buying into Apple around 2004, or buying up city blocks of NYC during the 1980s. It’s always a matter of looking at the data, paying attention to momentum in the marketplace, and then placing your bet. It’s always a gamble.
New York was different. It’s the only city that I’ve lived in where the #1 drama is your relationship with the city itself. It’s the one thing that everyone in NYC has in common–you’re all in a very complicated relationship.
...if we could change/swap some "post icons" for new ones?
The new and improved banner looks great.
Nice work with the new banner guys!
I can send up a request. You guys have any model requests?
And still keep Mustang and Fusion, but make them the refreshed versions.
Let's get some more feedback on models.
got SOOO many compliments on this dress. The workmanship is impeccable. Like so many others on this site I, too, was a little skeptical about ordering an evening dress site unseen. But after reading all the reviews and seeing the pictures of other customers I decided to give it a try.
Ask, how the job is, and if it gets busy at times, and if he is enjoying himself. Small talk. His answers and mime will let you guess whether it is a good place to work at! This really helps! Small talk.... They need to hire the right people to take on the job, so that they are not losing money due to poor customer service, theft, or turnover. Below are some possible interview questions you may face when applying for a restaurant job.
Step 2: Select the Location for Your Job. There�s small window skip out to ask you to type your city and state. Click Select to move on. Next you will see a big map where you can select McDonald�s restaurant, choose one to apply. how to ask professor to review exam Ask, how the job is, and if it gets busy at times, and if he is enjoying himself. Small talk. His answers and mime will let you guess whether it is a good place to work at! This really helps! Small talk.
Example of a Restaurant Cover Letter . Two Tips: If a job working in a restaurant interests you, be sure to include in your cover letter two essential elements: 1) your experience in this industry and 2) your enthusiasm for serving customers�whether as a waiter, chef, or host.
8/02/2013�� Photo by Les Roches. AS YOU ALL KNOW, there is a time and place for everything. This includes when it�s time to start printing out those ol� resumes and finding a new job.
Applying for a job is probably a very stressful experience for anyone. It could even be the more nerve wracking than the job itself. From the time we make our cover letters and resume, we have to be cautious about the information that we write because it could either impress or discourage the employer reading it.
Alternating between a woman’s childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family’s splintering belief system, their isolation, and the erosion of their relationships. As Emily becomes closer to her closeted Uncle Tyler, she begins to challenge her upbringing. Her questions about the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ insular lifestyle, rigid codes of conduct, and tenets of their faith haunt her older sister Lenora too. When Lenora disappears, everything changes and Emily becomes obsessed with taking on her sister’s identity, believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately, Emily finds release through self-mutilation.
I loved everything about this book. I am quickly becoming a fan of ECW Press as they publish quality and unexpected gems like this one. The book intrigued me from the beginning as who hasn`t had a Jehovah`s Witness come to their door and I did know a bit about their faith so I thought this would be an interesting somewhat inside (although fictional) look into what it would be like to be part of them.
The main character, Emily, was wise beyond her years in some ways yet so sheltered in others. The story goes between past and present and the present left me feeling somewhat unbalanced yet wanting to know more. I loved the way that the story flowed and kept me intrigued to know more and eventually figure out what was going on. The parts from the present were much less straightforward than the parts set in the past so at times I found myself somewhat confused but eventually I got that this was probably also a facet of her mindset. The author was able to create two very distinct personalities in the same character and you could clearly see the changes that time and circumstance had wrought on Emily.
The story was not conventional by any means and that as definitely part of its appeal to me. Not only was Emily raised as a Jehovah`s Witness, there was also her closeted uncle and her rebellious sister that added their own personal elements to the story.
I am definitely looking forward to the next novel by Jennifer as I cannot imagine what she could possibly write to top this one but I am sure that based on her fantastic descriptions and the very fact that she was able to come up with something so interesting that she will find a way to.
Check the bottom of your doors!!
Problems/Service/Maintenance Do you have problems with your new 2.0, 2.2, or 2.4L? What kind of service did you have done?
I was cleaning my car the other day and i seen that on the bottom of the door where the weather strip meets the door is rubbing the paint of to bare metal.I'm a painter at a body shop so i fixed it myself but thats the first place you will get rust.
mine's doing the same thing... GM told me its because I have aftermarket wheels and 1 size bigger tires. Same thing for the paint coming off the rockers, both bumpers and the quarter panel.
Those are some tires, no?
Thanks for the warning boostedss26.
My paint is rubbing off the doors onto the weather stripping.
I may as well **** on an electric fence for all its doing. The dealership told them that I have aftermarket wheels and tires (the tires are a 215-60-15... stock I think was 195? 205? 60-15) and the wheels are the same offset (?) as factory... I am getting the weenie.
I went to autozone to get weather stripping lubricant and they didn't know what i was talking about. Should i be looking for something else?
You should be taking it to the next level, get GM customer service in on it. You will be amazed what a dealer will do for you once they get a phone call. Rim ad tires voiding warrenty, common your getting the shaft.
I keep the painted parts of the insides of my doors waxed fairly regularly... maybe every other time I wax the exterior... haven't seen evidence of any problems yet... but I'll have to check.
can u put any pics of it? b/c i have the front of my passanger, bottom corner door rubbin on the metal but only when its really cold and wana see if it's that what your talking about.
wash it in the winter.
Do not use any type of petroleum product for this ,because it will swell and degrade your weather strpping.
Mine is going to the body shop under warranty sometime next week. The left front door is chipping away on the upper and lower door edge.
Unfortunately, the car is gone. I traded it in shortly after I made the post for a 2007 SS/SC.
2 years now and no problems, I always clean the doors with Windex and also the weather stripping I apply some ArmourAll so it won't stick.
mine does it now did you guys end up having the dealer repaint the chipped area too or they only readjusted the door?
Quick Reply: Check the bottom of your doors!!
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Thought experiment: is there such a thing as bad music?
This is just really great.
I don't understand where these lyrics are going but I can dig it.
I brought extra blankets and coco for those who are late to the comfy song.
I love seeing good artwork. It usually means the band has put some decent thought into what they want their music to appeal to. If you get my drift. Might have to try it again on a bigger system.
Oh yeah I mean, if you only have so many songs coming in there are only so many that can go out. But I think they have really spread their wings on what they post.
Hearing a lot of funk recently. Glad it's sort of getting a resurgance in more music.
Boulder represent. Real recognize real.
I upvote everything because I like music.
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I'm having a hard time reconciling a decent reason not to risk this stock with real money. In my opinion, at $2/share the company is poised to repeat miraculous gains in a relatively near future. Only twice in the past eleven years has this stock been this low. Its price has climbed up to as high as $10 in times past! With the company's current pipeline, a plausible economic crisis (something this sector can be relatively immune to and could therefore draw investors), and add in the fact that ArQule is presenting at the RBC Capital Markets Global Healthcare Conference coming this Tuesday... it seems likely that something positive, no matter how minute, will likely send this stock up quick. Dilution, or other bad things could happen, but I'm having a difficult time seeing it happen with this company. The fundamentals on this stock are shaky, though. This is not without risk.
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Eddie Chu, a fοrmer journalist who was demοcratically elected as οne of Hοng Kοng’s 70 legislatοrs in a 2016 electiοn, had planned to cοntest a separate grassrοots pοll to represent a village in the rural hinterland of the New Territοries.
But an official with Hοng Kοng’s Electοral Affairs Commissiοn, Enοch Yuen, wrοte to Chu οn Sunday to disqualify his candidacy οn the grοunds that Chu had previously expressed suppοrt fοr “independence as an optiοn fοr Hοng Kοng people to self-determine their future”.
While Chu had written to Yuen stating he didn’t suppοrt independence, she cοncluded that Chu’s answers: “When viewed objectively, can be understood as implicitly cοnfirming that he suppοrts independence cοuld be an optiοn fοr Hοng Kοng people”.
Chu said he might challenge this “ridiculous” decisiοn in cοurt, and that he had been stripped of a fundamental pοlitical right at a time when Beijing has tightened its grip οn the city.
He pοinted out that he was already an elected lawmaker with strοng public backing, whose suitability fοr public office had never previously been questiοned.
Hοng Kοng, a fοrmer British cοlοny, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 amid guarantees the territοry would enjoy a high degree of autοnomy and freedoms under a “οne cοuntry, two systems” fοrmula.

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