![]() ![]() ![]() The $334 they and his parents scrounged together just to keep the lights on this month was “food money”, he said.īy the time they switched utilities midway through the storm, they owed an untenable $1,757.43 to Griddy, which Polk-Borgerding doubts they will ever be able to pay. Polk-Borgerding and his roommates work retail jobs where their hours have been cut because of the coronavirus pandemic. “State and local regulators should act swiftly to prevent this injustice.” No power company should get a windfall because of a natural disaster, and Texans shouldn’t get hammered by ridiculous rate increases for last week’s energy debacle,” Cruz tweeted. Senator Ted Cruz – who along with the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, and state representative Gary Gates skipped town last week, even as their constituents shivered, went hungry and died from hypothermia and carbon monoxide poisoning – has also decried the energy crisis. “Texans who suffered through days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills due to a spike in the energy market,” Abbott said on Sunday. Governor Greg Abbott called addressing consumers’ bills a “top priority”, and he has also charged lawmakers and power companies with “winterizing” infrastructure to avoid future calamities, though some experts warn that retrofitting plants for low temperatures will be difficult. “It’s just a matter of whether it’s going to get passed on in an immediate way, in a shocking way … or spread out over time,” Kaiba White, an energy policy specialist at Public Citizen, told the Texas Tribune.Īfter bungling emergency management of the winter storm, Texas’s Republican leadership is now vowing to mitigate the impact of exponentially higher electricity prices, in part by issuing a moratorium on power disconnections because of non-payment.ĭeAndré Upshaw shows a $5,000 bill from Griddy on his cellphone for his 900 sq ft apartment during very cold weather in Dallas, last Friday. The outsized financial hit is a symptom of Texas’s largely deregulated energy market, which gives customers some semblance of choice between providers, including high-risk plans linked to the volatility of the spot price for wholesale electricity.īut whether Texans are already dealing with sticker shock or have fixed-rate plans that have temporarily shielded them from those untenable costs, consumers will eventually pay the price for the state’s vulnerable power infrastructure after it collapsed under the pressure of this month’s natural disaster. While frigid conditions knocked power offline and freezing Texans tried to heat their homes, demand for energy far outstripped supply, causing wholesale energy prices to soar.įrom a recent widow who let her home temperature drop to 43F, trying to preserve power, to an army veteran who is spending his life’s savings paying off his utility, the state’s residents are now bearing the brunt of a crisis within a crisis, fielding thousands of dollars worth of energy bills overnight. ![]() “I just had to sit there and pay the $400, $500 a day to run the electricity,” he said.Īs millions of Texans went without power and potable water last week, many simultaneously worried, helpless, about the catastrophically high energy prices they were suddenly being charged and couldn’t afford. But by the time he got the message, he had already missed the cutoff to change companies over the weekend. Griddy, which offers electricity at wholesale rates, sent Polk-Borgerding a text warning that customers should switch utilities when extreme winter weather started to affect Texas.
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![]() ![]() Recently I started reinstalling a lot of my arkanoid clones as I had a yearning to replay some of them, including Ricochet Infinity. This means all those amazing level sets with designs that were not possible in previous versions of the game. However, none of the level sets I still have include any that were created in Ricochet Infinity. I just have to execute the file then copy the resulting level set files to where I now have my ricochet infinity game installed (via Steam). Those I still have as executable level sets. Thankfully I had previously downloaded and backed up onto DVD several hundred from before Infinity was released (when you had to go to the web site as it wasn't available from directly within the game). Unfortunately I lost them all due to a hard drive failure. It was quite time consuming so I only downloaded a few at a time. basically all of the level sets that were rated from A+ and was almost through downloading those rated at B+. I'd managed to download a significant number of the custom level sets over several years i.e. I've been angry at myself for not taking the time to back up the downloads I'd already completed via Infinity. Since the demise of the ability to download custom level sets that were available directly from Ricochet Infinity apparently because the license holder said it was ''no longer viable'' (probably meaning they weren't making any money from it). ![]() Remember, you’re looking to set up targeted monitoring. It’s important to get the expertise you need to build a website monitoring process that works-mistakes at the start can be costly to fix! Getting engineering or developer input can be a great way to set things up smoothly and make sure the results are intuitive and accessible to a non-tech team afterward. Spend time setting up targeted monitoringĭon’t rush through the setup stage. You can switch them up and adapt them to your team, resources, and workflow. 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Improving your website’s design and content so it’s more relevant to usersĬomparing your site performance with other websites to keep a competitive edgeĮnsuring your web hosting provider is delivering Prioritizing security features so users and their data are safe on your site ![]() Improving your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) rankings Helping you understand how real users experience your site Showing you where to focus your website optimization efforts to achieve your KPIs Giving you user data to optimize your site’s performance Key website monitoring advantages for teams include:Īlerting you to bugs and functionality issues so you can solve them before they affect your customers Website monitoring lets you address all of these needs: doing regular checks on key metrics will ensure your site is performing well and supporting users in their jobs to be done. 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You can monitor your site through manual checks, but most companies use automated web monitoring tools to test the service and network to ensure that real users can access the domain, load pages, and complete transactions without a hitch. Website monitoring is the process of testing a website’s availability, performance, and functionality, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the site is working smoothly and visitors can use it effectively. Maroney broke the toe in May, then aggravated the break in June. Finally, in the first interviews given in London, McKayla revealed that her toe is broken. McKayla did vault in podium training like a champ, but did not do floor. As a result, she is no longer training as a replacement athlete.” ( Gymnastike) ![]() “She tore a ligament in her neck, and she has been advised to wear the collar as well as check with a physician upon her return to the States. It turns out the injury was worse than they thought and she is wearing a neck brace. However, all USA gymnastics would say is that she hurt her toe, but is fine.įine is the same word they used to describe Anna Li on July 24 when she took a nasty fall from the uneven bars. It definitely appeared that something was wrong. Panic abound on the gymternet earlier this week – “Is that tape I see on McKayla in that picture?” “She seems to be favoring her right foot in every picture.” “McKayla didn’t train today!” After the second day of light training, the panic became more pronounced. I would not be surprised at all if she ends up on the podium. She has that undefinable quality and mental drive that propels her to the front. But Aliya has a competitive drive, a fierceness and focus on the competition floor like few others. But she has continued to train hard.Īliya has yet to show the level of gymnastics and performance she attained in 2010 this year. In 2011, she tore her ACL at the European Championships while performing her famous amanar. Unfortunately, an injury has put a serious roadblock in her path to glory. She qualified in EVERY event finals and placed on the podium in all but beam, where she had her only mistake of the entire competition. Had we ever seen someone who could vault with the power and amplitude she attained and dance like a prima ballerina on floor? Someone who’s beautiful swing on bars was only outdone by her lightness and sureness on beam. ![]() In fact, it seemed she was on her way to becoming one of the gymnastics greats. ![]() Original chrome Shell Mount Tom Tom Holder ![]() The kit was manufactured in 1963, pre-serial badges which were not offered until late 1963ġ2” x 8” 3-ply Mahogany, Poplar, Mahogany shell, white Resa-Cote painted interiorġ2 original chrome Mini Classic lugs and tension rods Ain’t Nothin’ Shakin’ (But The Leaves On The Trees).Many of the recordings can be found on The Beatles’ Live At The BBC, Volumes I & II as well as on bootleg recordings. It was heard on over 160 songs in 28 different broadcast episodes of BBC Radio shows like Saturday Club, Pop Go The Beatles and From Us To You.It was seen on close to 20 television performances including the aforementioned Thank Your Lucky Stars (May 12, 1963), Ready, Steady, Go!(October 4, 1963), Sunday Night At The London Palladium (October 13, 1963), the Royal Command Performance from the Prince of Wales Theatre (November 4, 1963), the Morecambe And Wise Show (December 2, 1963) and Juke Box Jury from the Empire Theatre in Liverpool (December 7, 1963).It was played at the last appearance by The Beatles at The Cavern Club on August 3, 1963.Here are some key moments in its history: Gerry Evans personally delivered the new kit to the Alpha Television Studios where The Beatles were taping a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, miming “From Me To You” and “I Saw Her Standing There.”ġ963 and early ’64 was a very busy and aggressive time for The Beatles and this Ludwig Downbeat drum kit was used extensively as the band crisscrossed the UK, playing in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, as well as on the continent in Sweden and France. Ringo took possession of his new Ludwig kit on May 12, 1963. He then rang up Eddie Stokes, a local sign painter who occasionally worked for Drum City painting band names on drum heads and paid him £5 to paint the new logo on the front drum head just under the Ludwig logo, to everyone’s satisfaction. Epstein also wanted the band’s name to appear on the front bass drum as well and according to Arbiter, Ivor hastily sketched a logo on a scrap of paper from his desk which emphasized the BEAT in “Beatles.” In doing so Arbiter became the designer of The Beatles' "Drop-T" logo, one of the most recognizable logos in the world. The Beatles frequented another of Ivor’s shops, Sound City, which sold guitars, amps and accessories and Brian wanted to cut a deal. A call was made by Gerry Evans to Ivor and a meeting was quickly arranged. To complete the sale, Brian wanted to meet with store owner Ivor Arbiter, who had an office nearby. He wanted the American made Ludwig Downbeat kit in Oyster Black Pearl he saw in the window. Ringo’s recollection was seeing the Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl drum kit in the shop’s window and saying to Brian “Oh great! Look at this kit!” The two went in and met with Gerry Evans, the store manager, to discuss what drum options Drum City had to offer and other details. His Mahogany Duroplastic 4-piece Premier kit was well used and in need of replacement. Through the years, a number of different versions of what happened next have surfaced. ![]() In April of 1963 Starr and The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein went to Drum City Ltd. This historic drum kit has not been seen in public since. Ringo’s ultimate decision to purchase this very kit lit the fuse for the Ludwig Drum Company, while the actual explosion would take place on Monday, February 10, 1964, the day after The Beatles’ legendary first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. This 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl Downbeat drum kit, the first Ludwig kit ever owned by Ringo Starr, was used on more than 200 live performances and over 180 studio recordings from through February 4, 1964, while becoming a visual trademark as important to The Beatles’ stage show as their hair, suits, boots, guitars and amplifiers. ![]() Ringo Starr’s Lugwig Oyster Black Pearl 3-piece drum kit. Click To Request A Pre-Sale Condition Report Children are taught about the lives of Civil War soldiers and "join" the army themselves. They are given a cap gun, caps, Civil War replica hat, canteen, and haversack. The camp allows children to choose to be a Union or Confederate soldier. This annual Civil War themed kids' summer camp has been running for over 20 years. This year’s theme will focus on the western battles in 1863. Experiences include camp life, drills and battles. Participants will get the chance to “join the army” for the week and experience life as a Civil War soldier. ![]() This fun and educational camp is for boys and girls ages 8-13. It has now been restored to reflect the Civil War time period.ĬAMP PROGRAM INFO: Children’s Civil War Summer Camp This is a great location for kids to be outside and explore while learning about the Civil War.ĬAMP FACILITIES: The centerpiece of the property is the 1769 plantation house known as "Endview." The house is surrounded by the fields and woods used by the Harwood family since the 1630's. The property includes, fields, woods, recreated Civil War fortifications, and a stream. Monday-Friday 9am-4pm plus available before and after-camp careĬAMP LOCATION: We are located on the property of historic Endview Plantation. Evidently, the cabins were built by the city to accommodate war reenactors on the property during plantation events.Visit Our Endview Plantation Civil War Kids' Camp Website There lies a collection of cabins located in the woods behind the home – the cabins are very small, with built in bunk-beds. Southeast Virginia Investigations explored the property in 2012 and gathered evidence of possible paranormal activity, such as strange noises and voices on digital recordings. Over the years, varying accounts tell tales of haunting and strange phenomena on the plantation. After a two-year rehabilitation project, Endview was opened to the public as a historic house museum in 2000. The property has been used for military reenactments including events related to the 225th anniversary of the Siege of Yorktown which was held in 2006. An inscription on one of the mantles in the upstairs of the home is a visual reminder of the occupation by both the Confederate and Union forces. The City acquired Endview in 1995 and slated it for restoration. But I’m not someone who’s seen anything, nor do I want to.” ~ Endview Curator, 2012Įndview survived both the destruction of the American Revolution and Civil War. “I’ve had some experiences, but don’t think I’ve seen anything appear. I’m sure there are realms of the paranormal, alternative realities that we don’t understand. During the Civil War, Confederate generals occupied the property, where the plantation residence served as a military hospital during Peninsula Campaign. During the War of 1812, the military utilized the property. ![]() General Thomas Nelson’s Virginia Militia used it as a shelter shortly before the surrender of the British. The 247-year-old house and grounds were used by military forces during the Revolutionary War. The admirable captain served as a militia officer, tobacco inspector, and later the Speaker of the House of Burgesses. In 1769, William Harwood completed the Georgian-style house located on the expansive property of the Great Warwick Road – this long road linked the colonial capital of Williamsburg with the harbor town of Hampton. The twenty-four-acre property contains three secondary buildings, two cemeteries, two road traces, and a newly constructed earthen fortification. His great-great-great grandfather Captain Thomas Harwood owned a 1,500-acre plantation dubbed Queen’s Hith, an Old English term meaning “river landing”. William Harwood emigrated from England in 1622. ![]() Harwood Plantation is located on Route 238 in the Lee Hall community of Newport News. Hence the solutions to the given inequality are precisely the reals in the interval. In this case, obviously the root that is larger than is the additional solution, and is the root we need. Once you get rid of the square root, the equation can be solved easily. The reason why we got two roots is that while solving the original equation we squared both sides twice, and this could have created additional solutions. Solving the quadratic equation for, we get ![]() Squaring the equation in the second row would work as well, but this way is a little more pleasant, as the one remaining square root after the squaring will essentially be one of the original two, not their product.) (Note the little trick in the third row: placing the square roots on opposite sides of the equation. Therefore there is exactly one solution to. Moreover, as is a decreasing and an increasing function, both and are decreasing functions, and hence is a decreasing function. Now obviously the function is continuous on, with and. ![]() Solving these we get that the left hand side is defined for. trying to find out how, when using the square root button - to stop it from square rooting the entire equation. Under Equation Tools, on the Design tab, in the Structures group, click the Fraction button: In the Fraction list choose Stacked Fraction: 3. It means the output of each input value is equal to the square root of the input value. Obviously we need for the outer square root to be defined, for the first inner square root to be defined,Īnd for the second inner square root to be defined. Newton gave a useful general recipe for solving equations of the form f(x) 0. The formula for the square root function is f(x) x. Square roots of negative numbers could happen whenever the function has a. Follow the steps below to answer the question What is the domain of the function f(x) sqrt(x-1) Graph the equation y x - 1. ![]() Determine all real numbers which satisfy the inequality: It also doesnt mean that all real numbers can be function values, f(x). ![]() ![]() Capital cost strongly affected the economic analysis, but revenue from the city for the management operation of the organic waste could significantly decrease costs. The preferred district extension was the medium-sized one. Scenario 1 proved to be the most suitable solution, because the introduction of SS in Scenario 2 increased costs and payback time, rather than generating a higher waste amount and lower biogas yield. Results showed the advantage of the two scenarios over the reference one. Furthermore, different district extensions of the metropolitan area were considered with the goal of determining the optimal size. Depending on the type of feedstock, two scenarios were evaluated and compared with the reference scenario, based on composting treatment: (1) mono-AD of OFMSW and (2) co-AD of OFMSW and sewage sludge (SS). This study aims to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of an AD plant at the local scale for the treatment of organic waste generated from urban districts. AD is often regarded as a centralized solution for an entire community, although recently, there has been some debate on the adoption of decentralized, smaller facilities. Anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is considered an excellent solution for both waste management and energy generation, although the impacts of waste collection and transportation on the whole management system are not negligible. ![]() I’m still trying to figure out how to make this more workable on iOS, since that’s where it makes the most sense. PDFPen OCR Applescript To Automatically Make PDFs Searchable Software which will OCR a document with PDFPen and send it to EagleFiler. PDFPen will launch in the background, process your files and quit. It can also export PDFs, Rich Text and HTML with a variety of themes and the ability to customize with CSS. redit: The OCR PDF Document Automator workflow uses a modified version of an. ![]() If you’re editing on an iOS Dropbox or iCloud-capable application, you can even preview iOS work on your Mac as the document syncs back to the cloud. Youll find best Mac business practices for handling word processing, spreadsheet and presentation creation, task and project management, and graphics. If you’re editing Markdown, there’s a great Mac app called Marked that previews your work, updating every time you save. If you Tweet me and tell me I forgot something, I’ll know you didn’t read this. Be sure to include contact info! You forgot about… Corrections welcome, just use the same form and edit only affected fields and/or add a note at the bottom. If you’re the developer of an iOS text editing app (or a dedicated user), just use the submission form to request a listing. Rosemary Orchard is a nerd, automator. This tool is only useful if it’s accurate and up-to-date. /us/app/pdfpen-scan+-ocr-pdf-text/id685513192mt8&uo4&at11ldw7>PDFpen. Scanning a document now results in a dated, OCR’d PDF file in my Scans folder. This is the screenshot of it in Hazel: That’s it. App details below the chart are pulled live from the App Store API. The embedded AppleScript is: tell application 'PDFpen' open theFile as alias tell document 1 ocr repeat while performing ocr delay 1 end repeat delay 1 close with saving end tell quit end tell. Clicking a feature header at the top will filter to show only apps that have that feature. Holding down command while hovering over the body of the chart will highlight the current row, and clicking a row will highlight it permanently. Hover over an app’s title in the chart to see additional features which might not be included in the default criteria, and click the app name to scroll to its full data block. Every editor is geared toward a slightly different purpose, with their own strengths and focus. Superior OCR capabilities simplify the process of transferring any images or scanned PDF files into easily editable and searchable text formats. It’s meant to help you find the most useful way to write, code or take notes for your personal needs. The information was initially compiled by the web community on an open Google spreadsheet. This is a feature comparison of text editors on iOS. Welcome to iTextEditors The iOS Text Editor roundup ![]() It's stupid that you have to go around a log because you can't climb/jump over it. Main article: Battle For starters, you will always find this enemy paired with another. It is a bulky creature, structured very much like a rectangular cuboid. ![]() It appears as a large rhinoceros with four horns on its face, all facing forward, a short heavy pointed tail and what seems like little spikes on its sides. The game was released during October 2009 in North America, Europe, and Australia. I didn't think no jump would be an issue but having played the game I really wish they included one. Earth Shaker is an Earth element creature which is located within the Barrens. Brtal Legend Brtal Legend is an action-adventure video game with real-time strategy game elements created by Double Fine and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Only negatives I can think of are the frequently repeated audio(mainly an issue when dealing with your squad) and the lack of a jump button. There's also some nods to metalheads that I think a lot people will miss. I've been laughing at almost every cut scene - the characters/story are really well done so far. The gameplay reminds me a lot of psychonauts in the way that it's nothing amazing but definitely a lot of fun. The game does a great job of letting you know when you're injured and about to die (& yes I have died twice already on normal) and the world is distinctive enough that I already know my way around without the map. Unlocking the soundtrack as you go was also a great idea imo. There's also quite a few completely optional collectible items, which I'm glad they included. The world is just stunning to explore - It looks so beautiful and watching animals and local headbangers interact with each other is really entertaining. It's definitely surpassed my expectations so far. If you need to link up with the headbangers again, run a bit closer so your voice will reach. It blows my mind how awesome the game is. Use a combo of lightning, axe, and Earthshaker attacks to take them down, and avoid getting surrounded. I'm 6 hours in and this game is fucking awesome. |
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