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If you don't already have a flower bed that means you'll have to clear a portion of your lawn of grass and weeds. You may have to use a technique called layer where you spread news paper to smother the grass. It's a technique used by many gardeners when they start a new garden.
Weeds can be a garden's worst enemy, taking up space and resources that you want going to the plant you put there on purpose. But sometimes it's not as easy as just pulling up the offending weed. Learning the different kinds of weeds and how best to deal with them will help you grow a beautiful garden.
We don't think about dirt very often but if your going to grow your garden you'll have to learn about getting nutrients into your garden. You garden will draw it's nutrients from the soil so making sure it's full of nitrates and food for you plants is imperative. OKC Realtors recommend that you provide nutrients to your garden through composting, it's cost effective and will reduce the waste you throw away. Once you've gone to all the trouble to get rid of all your weeds you can use a landscape fabric to prevent them from coming back.


In traditional science, it is believed that Earth and planets are rounded because of attraction. However, the attraction is electromagnetic mass and the forces created by the electrons inside the crust (for further details, I explain it in another article). According to the experiment under microgravity, the waterdrop takes a round shape. It is Van der Waals force that is making a sphere. Van der Waals force is also called intermolecular attraction, but it is a type of electric attraction.
Inside a substance, molecules, atoms have a direction of mutual charge. When the distance between the substances approaches, it has plus and minus plus strength to stick together. Adhesive enters between materials and adheres to each other by causing van der Waals forces by adhering to each other. Van der Waals force also occurs by pressing a substance with a strong force. Because there is pressure to expand inside the planet, van der Waals force is also expected to work well. Because it is made under high temperature and high pressure in the central part of Jupiter or Saturn , it is thought that the rock is being pressed very strongly and van der Waals force is strongly working.
This image is a photograph of the state of the experiment conducted at ISS. Make water balls in zero gravity condition. Since it is in the zero gravity state, water is rounded by drawing with van der Waals force and hydrogen bonding. It is not rounded by gravity. Although it sometimes explains that it turns round with surface tension, the surface tension is van der Waals force appearing on the top of water in the case of gravity. Van der Waals force is generated in the whole of the polka dots. Van der Waals force is also acting inside the polka dots. The polka dots are at most a few centimeters in size, but Earth has a diameter of 13,000 kilometers. Is gravitation still acting? If gravity is acting, the pressure will increase as the depth from the ground surface increases. Let's check it.
In Earth's interior, it is thought to be 300,000 atmospheres at 100 km underground, 135,000 atmospheres at 410 km, and 235,000 atmospheres at 600 km. This pressure is estimated by taking attraction into account. As deep earthquakes occur in deep places over 100 km, the magnitude of the earthquake will increase as it gets deeper. Underground 100k and 600km pressure is 8 times different. When an explosive phenomenon called an earthquake occurs, there will be a change in the intensity of the earthquake caused by the pressure. I downloaded data for one year of earthquake that occurred in 2015 from the site of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. The figure below shows the average value and the median value of the earthquakes with deep epicenter more than 100 kilometers counted by depth of the epicenter.
The vertical axis is the strength and magnitude of the earthquake, the horizontal axis is the depth of the epicenter, 100 km to 600 km. It seems that there is a positive correlation between the depth and the magnitude slightly when taking the average value, but if you take the median value, correlation will hardly be recognized in places deeper than 160 km. When looking at the average value, M 4.1 at 100 km underground has an energy difference of about 3 times that of 21.3 t when converted to TNT powder, 60 t at M4.4 at 600 km. There is no difference in the median.
The above image is an experiment with the same ISS. Rotating the polka with bubbles and tea leaves. Bubbles gather together in a cylindrical shape along the axis of rotation inside, but the leaves of tea spread outward by centrifugal force. The image below shows the state of the outer core inside Earth with the analysis of seismic waves, tomography. You can see the state where the outer core is spreading in a cylindrical shape.
If gravity acts on the inside of Earth, if the pressure is high and the outer core is a heavy metal with a high specific gravity, it should not show such a distribution. Gravity is not working inside Earth, the outer core is not a heavy metal with a high specific gravity, but it is lighter than the mantle so it has a cylindrical shape due to its centrifugal force. In the experiment of ISS, astronaut rotate books and bottles, but interesting are hard boiled eggs and raw eggs. Hard boiled egg shown stable rotation, but raw eggs become irregular rotation immediately and do not stabilize. Earth has a structure in which the inner core is the solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is solid but soft. If this is correct, like the raw egg, the rotation of Earth should become unstable instantly. By the way, there are core made of iron and nickel inside Earth, it is speculation that was analyzed by seismic waves. From the mass of Earth estimated from gravitational force, the density of the central core is estimated and iron and nickel are believed to be melted. It is a condition that assumes that mass is creating attraction. However, from the analysis of deep earthquakes, liquid behavior in zero gravity condition, it is considered that gravitational force is not acting inside Earth.


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Wet 'n Wild Orlando was the flagship water park of Wet 'n Wild owned by NBC Universal, located on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. It was founded in 1977 by SeaWorld creator George Millay. It closed on December 31, 2016.

History

Development and ownership
While developing SeaWorld, George Millay realized the need for a water park, later recalling "being in Florida, with all its heat and hot sun, you naturally think about cooling off in water". In the mid-1970s, he directed his time and money towards the project. The idea stemmed from the splash pad at Ontario Place in Canada and the wave pool at Point Mallard Park in Alabama. His desire was to combine these two elements and build upon it in order to achieve a good return on investment. Due to his prior success with SeaWorld, he was able to form a team of investors to fund the project.

The park opened in Orlando, Florida on March 13, 1977. Although it opened to rain and suffered a $600,000 loss in its first year of operation, Millay kept it open. He later claimed it "started making money the second year and never looked back". The success of the park spawned several other Wet 'n Wild-branded parks across the Americas.

In 1998, Millay sold off his interests in his parks. The Orlando location was purchased by Universal Studios Recreation Group, who continued to lease the land on which it is located. In mid-2013, Universal purchased the  of land for $30.9 million.

Expansion and later years

In 1998, the Hydra Fighter was added to the park. Riders were able to control their suspended gondola through the use of high-powered water guns.

In 2000, the park renovated their Kids Park children's area. The original aviation theme was converted into a sandcastle theme. The renovation saw three ProSlide Technology "Kidz" slides added as well as a castle with a tipping bucket which dumped  of water every three-and-a-half minutes. With the exception of the three slides, it was manufactured entirely by Integrity Attractions.

In 2001, the park began a multi-year expansion plan with Canadian manufacturer ProSlide Technology. It added The Storm, a pair of ProBowls, in 2001; The Blast, an inline tube slide, in 2003; Disco H2O, an enclosed Behemoth Bowl, in 2005; and Brain Wash, an enclosed Tornado, in 2008.

In 2011, the Kids Park was demolished. In 2012, it was replaced by Blastaway Beach, a larger children's water play area, also themed around sandcastles.

In 2014, the Bubba Tub was removed and replaced with the Aqua Drag Racer, a four-lane race slide.

On June 17, 2015, it was confirmed that the park would close on December 31, 2016, to be replaced by a new water park, Universal's Volcano Bay. The park permanently closed on December 31, 2016, and was demolished from February 2017 to June 2017. Volcano Bay opened across the site on May 25, 2017.

The former site of Wet N' Wild became a resort known as Universal's Endless Summer Resort which opened in June 2019.

Attendance
The park was the most-attended water park in the United States until 1999, when Walt Disney World Resort's Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach surpassed it. At the time, it was averaging around 1.3 million visitors for several years.

Attractions

Final attractions

Former attractions

In popular culture
The park was featured on Travel Channel's Extreme Waterparks and was also the setting for the music video for "Se a vida é", by the Pet Shop Boys.

The park was featured for Puerto Rican band Menudo for their video Nao Se Reprima in Portuguese.

See also
 List of water parks

References

External links

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1977 establishments in Florida
Universal Orlando
Universal Parks & Resorts
Water parks in Florida
Amusement parks opened in 1977
Amusement parks closed in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Florida
Defunct amusement parks in Florida

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This Meme Needs To Stop!
What type of knight do you consider yourself?
Well, my first profile pic was of an Imperial Knight from Warhammer 40k, so not Medieval. I wouldn't think of myself as either White or Black Knight... just an Imperial Knight, I guess. I serve the king, the kingdom, and the empire.
I don't really have a favorite video game, I rather have a list of highly ranked games that I love. This includes games like Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Deus Ex (the original), etc.
Q : ****ing hell you beat me in posts. not fair.
Best & Worst Fire Emblem game?


I have 3Par storage with only 2 tiers: SSD & Nearline. On SSD, we have about 3TB of raw space left. If I tune 1 of the volume to SSD to help out with IOPS, will the tune fail? or the tune will only move data up to certain threshold & stop?
If you have enough space it will tune, if you don't it won't.
Keep in mind that if you run out of SSD space, the 3PAR will use NL capacity as SSDto keep you afloat, but there will be a significant cleanup to fix it afterwards.


The recent death of Bill Buckley brought forth the usual lies from the liberal-neocon establishment; and having devoted part of my latest book and a slew of irate commentaries to exposing these gross untruths, I see no reason to dwell on them here. Suffice it to say that in the 1950s the late Mr. Buckley, contrary to the current fiction, did not drive out a mob of anti-Semites and racists from the conservative movement. More accurately, he kicked out a few Jewish libertarians, starting with Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, and Ron Hamowy. Nor did he make a moral statement in the 1960s against the anti-Semitism of the John Birch Society by expelling the society's members (to the extent he was authorized to expel anyone from anything) from American conservatism. What Buckley, James Burnham, and Frank Meyer did in 1965 in National Reviewwas to condemn the Birchers principally for their opposition to the War in Vietnam. As for anti-Semitism, I recall reading as a teenager the JBS publication American Opinion (which for some reason arrived gratis at my parents' home), and it contained multiple articles by a journalist named Allan Stang who looked a lot like Woody Allen.
More credible comments about Buckley's accomplishments, however, have come from members of the Old Right, and particularly from Peter Brimelow and Larry Auster on their respective websites. Peter sketches a picture of a socially driven and callous journalist, who disposed of people like us when we ceased to be useful and whose vaunted oratorical abilities were rather exiguous. He recalls one social gathering with Buckley that he felt obliged to attend after Peter's wife had undergone surgery for breast cancer. Buckley was totally indifferent to Peter's worrisome problems, about which he was well aware; instead he tried to impress on the then-distracted husband the need to fawn on well-connected guests. Peter considers Buckley's proverbial charm to have been a grease gun applied for social advantage. A perpetual climber, he was nice to lefties who counted or when his apparent kindness could be used to make him look admirably tolerant.
Larry adds to the grievances Buckley's betrayal of the Right that he had claimed to be fighting for. Instead of truly "standing athwart" the age, as he said he was doing when he launched NR in 1955, Buckley became the captive of a leftward moving American culture. For Brimelow and Auster, Buckley's abandonment of the immigration question, while courting neoconservative friends and allies, and his willingness to purge immigration restrictionists from his own magazine in the 1990s indicates his lack of serious conviction. Both of his critics attack Buckley's character as well as his traceable fall from any position that might with reason be considered rightwing. Neither critic sees fit to praise Buckley for having scolded the neoconservatives for their ill-considered war policy. By the time he got around to that, he has already done incalculable and perhaps irreversible harm to the American Right by not speaking up at the moment of decision.
Except for some of the personal details in Peter's account, there is nothing in his broadside or in that of Larry Auster that has not also appeared in my occasional writings. As a matter of historical interest, I was discouraged from contributing further to NR before Peter became a noted writer there; and unless I'm mistaken, by the early 1990s, no one contributing to NR could have done so for very long unless he enjoyed neoconservative favor.
But the trek of this magazine toward the left did not begin in the 1990s. It was already in full swing by the 1970s, something that my monograph on the conservative movement tries to demonstrate. What rendered Peter's and Larry's "obituaries of sorts" memorable was not that they contained new revelations, or that their authors even thought they did. Rather they were imitating Buckley, who when Murray Rothbard died unexpectedly in 1995, leapt at the occasion to settle scores with his longtime adversary. In this case, however, the charges were considerably more defensible than they had been when Buckley had gone after the deceased Rothbard, accusing him of, among other enormities, supporting the Communists in the Cold War.
Chief among the particulars in the briefs under consideration was that Buckley had handed over American conservatism to neoconservative adventurers from the Left. He had done so by turning sharply against more genuine conservatives (a practice that my book heavily documents) and by making neoconservatism the only permissible form of thinking on the right. There is of course nothing in my friends' charges that seems even vaguely untrue. I myself have made the same general charges, and often with far more ferocity. The only objection I could raise, and even this might sound hypocritical considering its source, is that it looks bad to say bad things about someone who has just died, and especially if that someone has attracted decent people as admirers.
But there is another reason I would hesitate at this point to go after Buckley. When all is said and done, there must have been something in him that caused me (as well as the young John Zmirak) to have once admired his achievements. It was not until I had entered my forties that I began to disapprove, and quite openly, of this onetime idol. But before then, for over 20 years, I had followed his columns, read his anthologies, and watched him on TV with undiminished respect for his literary gifts and remarkable aplomb. His manipulation of English syntax, his capacity for sarcasm, and his unending output had all turned me into his loyal devotee. On the few occasions I met him, I was almost speechless with wonder, just as I would later become inexpressibly angry when he was foolish or cavalier enough to have shoved what he had built up into unworthy hands. Although I now see how deeply flawed he was as a person and how ridiculously contrived his "movement" had been, the question remains whether I had been entirely deluded in my judgments about him from the beginning.
Without boring the reader with other examples of such broadminded respect drawn from the past, I would note that my reaction to Buckley's career follows Weaver's regard for Lincoln as an orator. One does not have to overlook his flagrantly opportunistic career, especially his passion for neoconservative dinner companions and for taking instruction from these grotesques, to appreciate Buckley's magnificence as a polemicist and wit. Even now I read Up From Liberalism and other samples of Buckley's early oeuvre and continue to thrill to the clever phrases and epigrammatic style. Buckley's descriptions of Eleanor Roosevelt, the ultimate do-gooder, in the 1960s are at least as funny as Mencken's earlier, devastating snipes at Woodrow Wilson, the world missionary. And Buckley's arguments against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were entirely on target, no matter how far he would later move from these sound positions out of social anxiety or rank opportunism. For years I walked among my leftist academic colleagues armed with Buckley's well framed refutations of what were then fashionable political opinions. The fact that Buckley made a later, fateful alliance with even more obnoxious leftists than the ones I was then forced to associate with does not diminish the force of what he had said and written, at a more principled and more spirited time in his life.
Admittedly Peter might have a point that Buckley's speeches sometimes fell flat; and certainly he took on tasks that went beyond his perpetually cluttered publishing schedule. What for me, however, is noteworthy is that he was as good as often as he was, given his endless obligations and considering all the novels and columns that he was grinding out. In the early 1990s, I began to correspond with Buckley at the urging of a shared friend, and in one abrasive, no-holds-barred letter, let him know how disappointed I had been by his odyssey over the preceding twenty years. I carefully spelled out his "tergiversations," one of his favorite bookish terms, and I cited examples of those he had once reamed out, for example, the atheist philosopher at Yale, Paul Weiss, with whom he later struck up much publicized, socially celebrated friendships. I strongly hinted that he had "put off the Old Adam and put on the New one" as an exercise in social climbing. Buckley wrote back an even longer letter, and it was full of the statements that he had made about his present friends over a long period of time, citations that were meant to indicate a lack of contradiction between his current and past views. He also tried to prove that his apparent about-faces on a wide range of social issues had never really occurred, and indeed his present stands were the ones he had held decades earlier.
Two things about Buckley's letters, and this text in particular, impressed me. One, my correspondent did not have to provide me (of all people) with an elaborate self-justification. His neoconservative buds had already marginalized me, and although I was corresponding with my onetime hero, I would be of absolutely no use to the movement that his then current friends were creating with his cooperation. In fact, I would never be allowed to participate in any way in their zombie army. Two, he managed to play the bad cards I had dealt him superbly. He had put me on the defensive, despite the abundant proofs for my implied charges. He was like a chess master taking his multiple opponents apart one after the other.
Presumably I was not the only person with whom my correspondent was discussing his "tergiversations." He had undoubtedly tried some of his polemical weapons on other "Dear Bill" critics before getting around to my brief, on July 22, 1992. Still, it seemed unlikely that in all cases he had had to respond to exactly the same set of evidence. There is probably a ton of evidence for what I was suggesting, and his attackers would have had no problem finding many illustrations of his volte-face. Nor do I consider my debating abilities to be anything but first-rate. But I was clearly embroiled with someone who was much better than I. Moreover, a letter he had written that was brought to my attention soon after (in circumstances I am not allowed to reveal), one that had been sent to the neocon ranter Irwin Stelzer, who had predictably called Pat Buchanan a "Nazi," testified further to Buckley's argumentative and verbal skills. I could not imagine having come up with a refutation even remotely as good, and certainly not as a literary exercise produced en route to a speaking engagement.
Having paid this compliment, it is also inconceivable how such a writer of quality could have surrounded himself with the mental midgets he enlisted for National Review or the untalented social vulgarians who snatched up his mind in the 1970s. One is sadly reminded here of how Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger, both surpassingly brilliant thinkers, tried to pass in the social world of the Third Reich. The renowned composer Shostakovich had engaged in a similar form of slumming under Stalin. But these celebrities eventually recoiled from those they had forced themselves to court, unlike Buckley, who sank deeper and deeper into the fatuous world of his patrons.
Despite his slide downward, WFB showed talents that I could never dream of equaling—and particularly not at this stage in my life. He deserved at least some of his moments in the sun; and I am glad that he enjoyed the ones he was entitled to. As in our views of other badly flawed men of talent, let us pay fitting tribute to Bill Buckley, without willfully ignoring what the Germans call the Schattenseite, the shadowy, negative aspect of people and things that honesty requires us to notice.


St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church is holding a "Severe Weather Safety Seminar" on June 16. Tickets are available through The Villages Box Office.
A deaf person called the Box Office and wants to know what to do in an emergency such as a hurricane.
Does anyone know if there is an ASL interpretation service in this area?
I know my friend attends a class on sign language at Fairway Christian Church on 466. Betcha they have a nice person who could relay the information to the person who needs it.


The chef-harvested wild watercress, goat cheese, strawberry and toasted almond salad at Google's Kirkland cafeteria was spectacular.
I couldn't resist the roasted lamb with blackberry sauce or the "garlic lover's soup with Beecher's white cheddar."
Also impressive was the herb and vegetable garden that Chef Darin Leonardson started in the parking lot and nourishes with compost made from kitchen waste.
But what really struck me was the profusion of avocados he serves every day in the cafeteria dubbed Olympic Cafe for the mountains visible from its picture windows.
Forget the upbeat, distributed decision-making processes. What else says "outrageously prosperous California software company" like a cafeteria offering platters and bowls full of perfectly ripe peeled avocados?
There were slices at the salad bar and halves at the carving station — organic Hass halves warmed and slickened with a Tamari-ginger glaze.
Still, Olympic Cafe pales next to the 12 cafes on Google's headquarters campus in Mountain View, Calif., that were initially run by a former chef to the Grateful Dead. But it has to be the best cafeteria in the Northwest, especially considering that it's free for employees.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon sweets are served. If that's not enough, there's a "grab and go" selection of prepared foods and of course the racks of snacks on every floor.
It's a dream job for Leonardson, 31, who was formerly chef at the Bellevue Club and is now the envy of his food-service friends. "A lot of them just say they don't believe me. It's a chef's dream to be able to do that," he said.
Does Google give him a blank check?
"Basically," he said. "Google wants the premium products for employees. The whole point is to keep employees here, to keep them happy, so they don't have to go anywhere, so they can come up with the great things that Google does. So that's my job, to keep them happy."


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The Real Reason Why Tamron Hall Decided to Leave the 'Today' Show and NBC
There was a lot happening behind the cameras.
By Kayla Keegan
On February 2, 2017 Al Roker announced that Tamron Hall would be leaving the Today show and NBC News. "We want to wish her nothing but the best, much continued success, and cannot wait to see what her next chapter is," Al said at the time.
Right away, the announcement shocked Today show fans, with many wondering what the real reason behind Tamron's sudden departure was (and if it had anything to do with the arrival of Megyn Kelly from Fox News).
Here's what Tamron has said about her exit:
Why did Tamron Hall really leave Today?
Reports began to surface in late January of 2017 that Megyn was "being considered" for her own hour-long program on Today that would air in the fall. She was either going to take over the 9.a.m. hour, which Tamron and Al were running at the time, or the 10 a.m. hour that belonged to Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
What's more, the network made clear that if they put Megyn in the 10 a.m. slot, they'd move KLG and Hoda up an hour. The same wasn't true for Al and Tamron, however. As The New York Times put it, "the current iteration of the third hour of Today ... will be at thing of the past once Ms. Kelly's show begins."
All while this unnerving news was going around, Tamron's contract with NBC happened to be up in February. The journalist had been with NBC since 2007, having first joined MSNBC and later becoming a part of Today in 2014. She was allegedly in the process of negotiating her contract when the news broke.
However, Tamron decided to walk away just days after reports about Megyn surfaced.
"Yesterday was her last day as an anchor on both networks," a statement from NBC News read on February 1, 2017. "Tamron is an exceptional journalist, we valued and enjoyed her work at Today and MSNBC and hoped that she would decide to stay. We are disappointed that she has chosen to leave, but we wish her all the best."
Additionally, Tamron shared her own statement: "The last 10 years have been beyond anything I could have imagined, and I'm grateful. I'm also very excited about the next chapter. To all my great colleagues, I will miss you and I will be rooting for you."
Where is Tamron Hall now?
Fast forward to today, and Tamron couldn't be doing better. For one, Tamron recently welcomed her first baby with her husband, Steve Greener, in late April. The 48-year-old journalist was ecstatic to share the news about her baby boy named Moses.
"Moses & Mama!! I can't wait to introduce y'all to my #sonshine," she wrote on Instagram. "Photo credit: Dad who can't stop crying tears of joy. Thank y'all for the love and support. It got us here."
Behind the scenes though, Tamron shared with People that she was initially worried about telling people she was pregnant, which explains why she didn't reveal the truth to fans until she was at the 8-month mark.
"I was high-risk, not just because of my age, but there were other medical factors, too," she told the publication. "I was terrified I would lose this baby and I would have to go back and tell everyone that now it was bad news and after this pregnancy had gone so far."
Fortunately, Moses and Tamron are doing well. And now, on top of being a new mom, Tamron has her own talk show launching on September 9, 2019. Variety explains that the set up will be like the Oprah Winfrey Show and Phil Donahue Show and will cover both light-hearted lifestyle topics as well as in-depth stories.
All in all, Tamron is the living, breathing definition of the old saying, "When one door closes, another one opens." But even though she is thriving now, Tamron admitted to GoodHousekeeping.com that her mind was racing when she left NBC.
"On the outside, it looked like it was all together. 'Look at her, she's walking out, her head up.' My head is never going to be bowed, but I had to pray not to be broken," Tamron explained.
But eventually, she realized that everything does, in fact, happen for a reason.
"I don't think I've ever said this out loud, but every 'no' that I received in my life, and there have been many, it's made sense at some point in time," she reflected. "We are not the biggest job we've landed ... I'm not Tamron from the Today show. I'm Tamron."
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Tamron Hall's Comeback Is Here
Kayla Keegan Senior News and Entertainment Editor Kayla Keegan covers all things in the entertainment, pop culture and celebrity space for Good Housekeeping.
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