The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, including the Lansdowne Heracles and the Victorious Youth. The UCLA/Getty Master's Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation is housed on this campus. The collection is documented and presented through the online GettyGuide as well as through audio tours.
In 1954, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty opened a gallery adjacent to his home in Pacific Palisades. Quickly running out of room, he built a second museum, the Getty Villa, on the property down the hill from the original gallery. The villa design was inspired by the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum and incorporated additional details from several other ancient sites. It was designed by architects Robert E. Langdon, Jr., and Ernest C. Wilson, Jr., in consultation with archeologist Norman Neuerburg. It opened in 1974, but was never visited by Getty, who died in 1976. Following his death, the museum inherited $661 million and began planning a much larger campus, the Getty Center, in nearby Brentwood. The museum overcame neighborhood opposition to its new campus plan by agreeing to limit the total size of the development on the Getty Center site. To meet the museum's total space needs, the museum decided to split between the two locations with the Getty Villa housing the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. In 1993, the Getty Trust selected Rodolpho Machado and Jorge Silvetti to design the renovation of the Getty Villa and its campus. In 1997, portions of the museum's collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities were moved to the Getty Center for display, and the Getty Villa was closed for renovation. The collection was restored during the renovation.
Starting in 2004, the museum and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hold summer institutes in Turkey, studying the conservation of Middle Eastern Art.
Reopened on January 28, 2006, the Getty Villa shows Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities within Roman-inspired architecture and surrounded by Roman-style gardens. The art is arranged by themes, e.g., Gods and Goddesses, Dionysos and the Theater, and Stories of the Trojan War. The new architectural plan surrounding the Villa – which was conceived by Boston architects Machado and Silvetti Associates (who were also responsible for the plans for the renovated museum) – is designed to simulate an archaeological dig. Architectural Record has praised their work on the Getty Villa as "a near miracle – a museum that elicits no smirks from the art world ... a masterful job ... crafting a sophisticated ensemble of buildings, plazas, and landscaping that finally provides a real home for a relic of another time and place."
In 2016–18 the collection was reinstalled in a chronological arrangement emphasizing art-historical themes.
There has been controversy surrounding the Greek and Italian governments' claim that objects in the collection were looted and should be repatriated. In 2006, the Getty returned or promised to return four looted objects to Greece: a stele (grave marker), a marble relief, a gold funerary wreath, and a marble statue. In 2007, the Getty signed an agreement to return 40 looted items to Italy.
Admission to the Getty Villa is free, but timed tickets must be obtained in advance via phone or the museum's website. As of June 2010, there is a $15.00 charge for parking during the day, but parking is free for evening performances. The museum is open Wednesday to Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed Tuesday and on New Year's Day (January 1), July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas (December 25).
The Getty Villa hosts live performances in both its indoor auditorium and its outdoor theatre. Indoor play-readings included The Trojan Women, Aristophanes' The Frogs, and Euripides' Helen. Indoor musical performances, which typically relate to art exhibits, included: Musica Angelica, De Organographia, and Songs from the Fifth Age: Sones de México in Concert. The auditorium also held a public reading of Homer's Iliad. Outdoor performances included Aristophanes' Peace, Aeschylus's Agamemnon, and Sophocles' Elektra. The Getty Villa also hosts visiting exhibitions beyond its own collections. For example, in March 2011 "In Search of Biblical Lands" was a photographic exhibition which included scenes of the Middle East dating back to the 1840s.
The Getty Villa offers special educational programs for children. A special Family Forum gallery offers activities including decorating Greek vases and projecting shadows onto a screen that represents a Greek urn. The room also has polystyrene props from Greek and Roman culture for children to handle and use to cast shadows. The Getty Villa also offers children's guides to the other exhibits.
The Getty Conservation Institute offers a Master's Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation in association with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Classes and research are conducted in the museum wing of the ranch house. The program was the first of its kind in the United States.
The Villa self-identifies with Malibu as it is located just east of the city limits of Malibu in the city of Los Angeles in the community of Pacific Palisades. The 64 acres (26 ha) museum complex sits on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which is about 100 feet (30 m) from the entrance to the property. An outdoor 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) entry pavilion is also built into the hill near the 248-car, four story, South Parking garage at the southern end of the Outer Peristyle. The Outer Peristyle is a formal garden with roses and English ivy that includes a number of Roman sculptures. To the west of the Outer Peristyle is an herb garden. Beneath the Outer Peristyle is the Central Parking Garage. To the west of the Museum is a 450-seat outdoor Greek theater where evening performances are staged, named in honor of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman. The theater faces the west side of the Villa and uses its entrance as a stage. To the northwest of the theatre is a three-story, 15,500-square-foot (1,440 m2) building built into the hill that contains the museum store on the lower level, a cafe on the second level, and a private dining room on the top level. North of the Villa is a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) indoor 250 seat auditorium. On the hill above the museum are Getty's original private ranch house and the museum wing that Getty added to his home in 1954. They are now used for curatorial offices, meeting rooms and as a library. Although not open to the public, the campus includes J. Paul Getty's grave on the hill behind his ranch house. A 200-car North Parking Garage is behind the ranch complex. The 105,500-square-foot (9,800 m2) museum building is arranged in a square opening into the Inner Peristyle courtyard. The 2006 museum renovation added 58 windows facing the Inner Peristyle and a retractable skylight over the atrium. It also replaced the terrazzo floors in the galleries and added seismic protection with new steel reinforcing beams and new isolators in the bases of statues and display cases. The museum has 48,000 sq ft (4,500 m2) of gallery space.
What the Getty Villa achieves, first by seclusion, then by control of access, and ultimately through the architecture, is a sense of detachment from its immediate environment.
The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, of which approximately 1,400 are on view.
Among the outstanding items is Victorious Youth, one of few life-size Greek bronze statues to have survived to modern times. The Lansdowne Heracles is a Hadrianic Roman sculpture in the manner of Lysippus. The Villa also has jewelry and coin collections and an extensive 20,000 volume library of books covering art from these periods. The Villa also displays the Getty kouros, which the museum lists as "Greek, about 530 B.C., or modern forgery" because scientific analysis is inconclusive as to whether the marble statue can be dated to Greek times. If genuine, the Getty kouros is one of only twelve remaining intact lifesize kouroi. The Marbury Hall Zeus is a 81 in (2.1 m) tall marble statue that was recovered from ruins at Tivoli near Rome.
Detailed information about the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection at the Getty Villa is provided on "GettyGuide". This is available both at the Museum, at various points known as "GettyGuide stations", and externally on its website.
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The Villa of the Papyri is named after its unique library of papyri, discovered in 1750, but is also one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and in the Roman world. Its luxury is shown by its exquisite architecture and by the very large number of outstanding works of art discovered, including frescoes, bronzes and marble sculpture which constitute the largest collection of Greek and Roman sculptures ever discovered in a single context.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The two locations received over two million visitors in 2016.
The J. Paul Getty Trust is one of world's wealthiest art institutions with an estimated endowment in 2017 of $US 6.9 billion. Based in Los Angeles, California, it operates the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has two locations, the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, California. Its other programs are the Getty Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
Vulci or Volci was a rich and important Etruscan city.
The Chimera of Arezzo is regarded as the best example of ancient Etruscan artwork. British art historian, David Ekserdjian, described the sculpture as "one of the most arresting of all animal sculptures and the supreme masterpiece of Etruscan bronze-casting." Made entirely of bronze and measuring 78.5 cm high with a length of 129 cm, it was found alongside a small collection of other bronze statues in Arezzo, an ancient Etruscan and Roman city in Tuscany. The statue was originally part of a larger sculptural group representing a fight between a Chimera and the Greek hero Bellerophon. This sculpture was likely created as a votive offering to the Etruscan god Tinia.
The Kroisos Kouros is a marble kouros from Anavyssos in Attica which functioned as a grave marker for a fallen young warrior named Kroisos (Κροῖσος).
Italy has a very broad and diverse architectural style, which cannot be simply classified by period or region, due to Italy's division into several city-states until 1861. However, this has created a highly diverse and eclectic range in architectural designs. Italy is known for its considerable architectural achievements, such as the construction of arches, domes and similar structure during ancient Rome, the founding of the Renaissance architectural movement in the late-14th to 16th century, and being the homeland of Palladianism, a style of construction which inspired movements such as that of Neoclassical architecture, and influenced the designs which noblemen built their country houses all over the world, notably in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America during the late-17th to early 20th centuries. Several of the finest works in Western architecture, such as the Colosseum, the Duomo of Milan, the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Florence cathedral and the building designs of Venice are found in Italy. Italy has an estimated total of 100,000 monuments of all varieties. Now Italy is in the forefront of modernist and sustainable design with Architects like Renzo Piano and Carlo Mollino.
Many Roman villas have been discovered in the district of Boscoreale, Italy. They were all buried and preserved by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, along with Pompeii and Herculaneum. The only one visible in situ today is the Villa Regina, the others being reburied soon after their discovery. Nevertheless, among the most important finds from these others are the exquisite frescoes from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor and the sumptuous silver collection of the Villa della Pisanella, which are now displayed in several major museums, as are finds from the Villa del fondo Ippolito Zurlo. The name Villa Boscoreale is typically used for any one of these villas.
Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy between the 9th and 2nd centuries BC. From around 600 BC it was heavily influenced by Greek art, which was imported by the Etruscans, but always retained distinct characteristics. Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta, wall-painting and metalworking especially in bronze. Jewellery and engraved gems of high quality were produced.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997 and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The Center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain people mover.
The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986.
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The Lansdowne Heracles is a Roman marble sculpture of about 125 CE. Today it is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum's "Getty Villa" in Malibu, California. The statue, representing the hero Heracles as a beardless Lysippic youth grasping the skin of the Nemean lion with his club upon his shoulder, was discovered in 1790 on the site of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, where many fine Hadrianic copies and pastiches of Greek sculptures had been discovered since the 16th century. Today, the sculpture is considered to be an example of Roman-era improvisations on the Greek sculptural style of the fourth century BCE than a copy of a specific Greek original.
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043 – Lord of Jiangnan City!
As the lord of the prosperous Jiangnan city, Yan Bolai is extremely busy every day.
However, even with such a hectic schedule, he still decides to find his son Yan Xiangma and have a talk with him.
"Yes." Yan Xiangma bowed down slightly, accepting his father's teachings.
Yan Xiangma opened his mouth wanting to speak, but in the end no words came out, he turned and walked towards the outside.
A clink of a mechanism operating sounded from the room.
The enormous 'tiger growling on the mountains' painting divided into two in the middle, and a huge empty hole emerged from the middle of the wall. A man in a gray robe came out from the inside of the black hole.
"Yes." The black-robe man said in a deep voice.
I can just see Xiangma spotting the person Li muyang was switched with and the similarity to shinian.


We had an amazing week at Vacation Bible School from July 25 - July 29 2016 at Christ United Methodist Church of North Huntingdon. Our theme was "Cave Quest," exploring stories of Jesus in an underground adventure where 40 to 50 children learned each day about being grounded in the rock-solid foundation of God's love, a love that takes us through life's dark times.
We would like to thank everyone who worked so hard to make this year's VBS a success.
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Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
David F. Pelly
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.
A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. Since the 1980s, Arctic writer and researcher David F. Pelly has been exploring this region on foot and by sea-kayak, and with Inuit friends, while documenting Inuit traditional knowledge of the land. In this book, he presents the stories of Inuit elders and includes historical records to provide a complete history of this extraordinary corner of our northern landscape, Ukkusiksalik.
In this book, Pelly weaves together stories from Inuit elders with historical accounts to provide the complete history of Ukkusiksalik. The reader sees a new way of seeing the world through the oral traditions of telling stories through the generations for centuries.
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What I take away from this volume...is the rich and layered and often quite stories from the elders, talking to us over the arc of decades about a time that, for all practical purposes, no longer exists in Canada. That these stories, most often passed on by oral traditions have been collected and published is an enormous gift to all of us.
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This book will be very useful for people traveling to Ukkusiksalik National Park (everyone planning a trip there should read it), as well as to students and teachers. It will also appeal to those who enjoy learning about the Arctic and its history.
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David F. Pelly is a modern-day explorer of the North's cultural landscape, who has lived in and travelled to the Arctic since the late 1970s. He is the author of several books and articles on the land and its people, including The Old Way North, Sacred Hunt, and Uvajuq: The Origin of Death. Much of his writing is based on oral history shared with him by Inuit elders. He lives in the woods near Ottawa.
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Special attention was paid to make the seats of G70 stand out from the competition. Unique among premium sport sedans is the availability of several types of quilted-pattern, heated and ventilated seats covered in smooth, Nappa leather. (Black or gray leatherette seats are standard on 2.0T models.) Sport Quilting features a repeating diamond pattern on black seating surfaces, with a choice of gray or red contrast stitching. The calming pattern of the Luxury Quilting seats is available in both gray and black. A burgundy upper-dash finish is optional with the black Luxury Quilting.
"It was important to create harmony between the exterior and interior design that corresponds to the characteristics and logically reflects the Athletic Elegance design theme of the vehicle," said Bozhena Lalova, Head of Genesis Color and Trim. "The quilted patterns throughout the interior, which were inspired by bespoke fashion and furniture, exceed expectations for individuality and brand identity."
G70 also offers an unprecedented level of standard and optional interior features designed to enhance the in-car experience without taking focus away from the pleasure of driving. G70 comes standard with a 7-inch color LCD multi-information display located between the speedometer and tachometer, and a floating, 8-inch, wide-view display audio touchscreen is positioned atop the center stack. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity are both standard as are Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and HD Radio. An integrated navigation system and Qi wireless charging are optional, as is a heads-up display and surround-view camera system for easy parking.
A highlight of the interior of G70 is its available, 15-speaker, 660-watt Lexicon audio system. With QuantumLogic multi-dimensional sound and Clari-Fi music restoration technology, G70 is transformed into a mobile concert venue. Under-seat subwoofers and two immersive listening settings, Audience Mode and On Stage Mode, completely fill the cabin with sonorous tones. Unique in the segment, this high-end audio system is a feature included within most trim package variants of the G70 across the vast majority of the forecasted model range mix.
Engineered to Care
The 2019 Genesis G70 is engineered to put drivers first offering customers the same, industry-leading levels of safety, customer service and technological advancements found across the Genesis lineup. G70 is the third Genesis model in a lineup consistently recognized for excellence in quality and the ownership experience.
Like all Genesis vehicles, the G70 offers an unparalleled level of standard active- and passive-safety equipment, surpassing the competition. These include advanced driver assistance systems such as Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist with Pedestrian Detection, Blind-Spot Collision Warning, Lane Keeping Assist and Driver Attention Warning. The G70 was designed to meet the highest safety standards, just like the G80 and G90 sedans.
G70 offers a class-exclusive, no-cost, consumer-focused program that elevates the luxury vehicle ownership experience: a collection of concierge services that exceeds the near-luxury level benchmark. From valet service appointments scheduled using the Genesis mobile app, to complimentary maintenance and Genesis Connected Services, the Genesis experience provides owners market-leading convenience and time savings:
Three years/36,000 miles of complimentary scheduled G70 maintenance
Three years/36,000 miles of complimentary Genesis Service Valet care
Three years of complimentary SiriusXM® Travel Link (Data Services)
Three years of complimentary Annual Multimedia and Navigation Updates
Lifetime complimentary traffic data vis HD+ Traffic radio
Peace of mind is also standard on G70, thanks to a 5-year/60,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty and a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain limited warranty. G70 also features Enhanced Roadside Assistance and Concierge Services, including tire changes or transportation to the nearest Genesis dealership or authorized service facility and reimbursement for inconvenience. For the first three years or 36,000 miles, complimentary Service Valet will collect the G70 to service it and offer a courtesy replacement meanwhile.
To complete the total ownership experience, every G70 model comes standard with Genesis Connected Services. Advanced telematics include technology like Destination Search powered by Voice, Car Finder, Enhanced Roadside Assistance and Stolen Vehicle Recovery. With a complimentary three-year subscription, Genesis Connected Services further enhances assurance for drivers and passengers, with SOS Emergency & Automatic Collision Notification.
When combining the power of Genesis Connected Services and an Amazon Alexa-enabled device, the G70 offers remote voice control, performing tasks including Remote Door Lock/Unlock and Remote Start with a specified interior temperature. Genesis Connected Services can also easily be accessed from the controls located on the vehicle's center stack, the rearview mirror, the internet through the
MyGenesisUSA.com website or via the smartphone/smartwatch app exclusive to Genesis owners. Genesis Intelligent Assistant adds another degree of seamless connectivity, sending notifications and recommendations ahead of the drive, delivering point-of-interest navigation directly to G70, and providing a vehicle health report on demand.
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Leave Entitlement - if any employee worked only 2 days in a week?
Dear respected seniors, My query is that if any employee worked only 2 days in a week then he/ she will be entitled for weekly off and third Saturday is off in the organization then how many days has to come for entitlement of weekly off?
Employee, who has worked only for 2 days in a week is not entitle for weekly off. Provision of weekly off for those employees who have worked 5-6 days in a week (That depend on company policy).
I have already mentioned in my previous post that weekly off provided to those who have worked for 5-6 days in a week.
Beyond that depend on the company policy. How it is formulated and what are the rule defined for Leave.
Please refer your leave policy or go through the leave rule of the respective act applicable to your organisation.
The responsibility of the HR man is double towards the employee as well as the employer and he has to strike a balance between two keeping into consideration the production and productivity as also the morale of the workforce.
Giving a largese by way of granting weekly off to a workman who has put in 2-3 days of work in the week may motivate many more workmen to opt out to the same requirement/ demand and may leave the management crippled so far productivity is concerned.The decision, if taken as indicated above will create more problems than solve .I agree with the views as above.Please try to take a balanced approach on this and other similar issues which may arise in future.
Would appreciate if you could elaborate your query in detail so as to give appropriate view by forum members, apart from the above if any employee who has recently joined your company i.e. on Friday and Sunday being the weekly off, you cannot ask the employee to report to duty since he joined/worked for 2 days.
To get weekly off with pay, one should work for 6 days in a week as.per the act.
But, In the six days of work, if he applies leave for one or 2 days, it will be counted as days worked.
It depends upon the company policy. some companies are seeing prefix and suffix attendance for allowing weekly off with pay.
Some are seeing one present either in suffix or prefix of weekly off and allowing.
Some are seeing at least 4 days of work in a week for giving paid weekly off.
All these comes in collective bargaining of unions in the company.
The laws says that employee worked after 48 hours he should be given weekly day of rest. Now you can design the weekly day of rest of your employees.
Washing allowance comes under which Act & which employees are eligible for it ?
Leave rule - leave between holiday and weekly off?
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Former National Youth Commission chairperson Ronald Cardema (in black polo shirt). (PNA photo by Ferdinand Patinio) MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division will deliberate on the testimonies of both parties to consolidate the petitions questioning the substitution by former National Youth Commission (NYC) chairman Ronald Cardema as the first nominee of Duterte Youth Party-list. […]
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This Saturday, February 16 is the annual tournament celebrating the Lunar New Year. "This is always a great event with prizes sponsored by the Chinese cultural community of the DC area," says the National Go Center's Gurujeet Khalsa. This will be a 4-round AGA rated event. Doors open at 8:30 AM.


This area is mostly residential, with a few sports bars and the America West Arena to boast. Not my scene, but if your a guy, with lots of guy-like testosterone, this might be just the place for you. I can say it's quite peaceful at night, during the off season.
US Airways center is a major attraction of this street. I happened to be there with a friend of mine who took me for a basketball match. Chase Field was the next thing she took me to. It is also another sports arena, especially baseball of which I got a view only from the outside. Buildings on this street range from skyscrapers to small homes and apartments. At the intersection of this particular street with !5th street, there is the Eastlake park, which I liked the most. A nice shady side of Jefferson street is this. Nice pathways are made for people to walk among the lush green surroundings covered with dwarfed trees and grass. We had scoops of delicious flavors at Desert Ice enterprises near Chase field.
"Not what I expected but great- West Jefferson St"
When visiting Phonix I didn't expect to find such a metroplis of great businesses and fun people. I had alot of fun at Jefferson St Bar & Grill, took a nice walk through Library Park and did alot of shoping. I know alot of people don't know how to appreciate age,arcitecture and the beauty of all that this city has to offer. I have plans on moving to Pheonix in the fall. I can't wait.
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The 2020 names for the Cadillac made a lot of people braking their tongues and brains figuring out what's about the new names and numbers.
To get here simple, this is the CT5-V 2020 model.
The CT5 replaced the older CTS. The CT5-V didn't replace the CTS-V. The CTS-V had a 6.2-liter V8 engine (ZL1) while the CT5-V had half of that. Under the hood, there was a twin-turbo V6 engine.
The look of the CT5-V was slightly different than that of a CT5. For starters, the -V version had angrier LED headlights and air-scoops design inspired by performance vehicles. Like any other V series, the grille was completely black, with a black mesh and the big, Cadillac badge in the middle. Its entire presence was sporty. A set of Brembo brakes was fitted to the front of the car, and the red calipers could have been seen through the 19" light-alloy wheel fitted as standard.
Inside the CT5-V there was a big infotainment unit mounted on top of the center console. It supported Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. The bucket-seats upfront provided good lateral support. The CT5-V was designed and built to compete against the European premium vehicles such as the BMW 3-Series, the Audi A4, and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Some interior details were special. For instance, there was a special pocket for a mobile phone. It was installed in the center storage space, but poking out near the center armrest. It had a split line on one side that allowed a charging cable to be attached to the phone.
For the platform, the CT5-V received new amenities from the latest Chevrolet Corvette. The Magnetic ride control 4.0 version from the supercar was installed in the CT5-V.


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Androsynth Combat Tactics Specialist
Re: Multiplayer on Net
Oh lord, that brings back memories...
8 player war we were having at my old highschool. Myself and three of my buddies (one is the one I make tacs off of) and a slew of other guys that said 'they were good'.
Myself: Cholari Extractor
Nate: Tulkon Ram
Loran: Chmmr Avatar
Richard: K'tang Crippler
We start off vs. a Druuge Mauler, a Harika-Yorn Ravager, a Yush Ranger (how do these guys work?) and a Yev Mech. Nate gets himself all pulled in, Richard starts laying mines, and I go after the Mech. The guy has to close...he does, swinging away, and I grab him.
"Get to the planet, my side!" I yell at Nate. He does so, and I go crushing-speed at it. When I get there, Mech still in my evil grasp, the Ram is waiting. *BGONG* goes the Mech, flying away. Loran, who had just, as he puts it, "pwnd" the Ravager, targets the Mech and Tractors it in, hoping for an easy kill. The Mech, however, is going too fast, and sails past Loran, but bent it's trajectory enough to lead it right into the now-massive minefield that Richard had been laying the whole time while dancing Druuge fire. The Mech took about 6 mines all at once, and the explosion stretched about a quarter of the screen. We were laughing so damn hard...
Good times, good times.
I love being a clone. Everything I do bad gets blamed on the real me!
Re: Â Multiplayer on Net
a Yush Ranger (how do these guys work?)
As someone who enjoys that ship immensely, I believe I can answer that:
The primary weapon consists of "lances", as I call them, that can be steered somewhat after firing (hold down the fire button and use the left and right controls to steer) When they hit your opponent, they do damage, but then they also "stick" onto the ship. From that point on, hitting either the enemy ship or one the the lances will do damage; and the lances can/will stick to each other. With a modicum of practice, you can create lavish constructs of lances that turn your opponent into "the broad side of a barn," as it were. Quite fun.
The secondary allows you to abuptly change direction; If I recall correctly it pushes the ship at 90 degree angles, so you can "sidestep" incoming fire. Not quite as adept as the Supox, but a fairly good "panic button" defensive special.
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I so wish that TW was available for mac...
::sigh::
Heh, now he's one away from 1K.
D_999, if you're a Kohr-Ah, why've you got a picture of a Kzer-Za? Thinking of changing allegiances?
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If I had a mac, I'd compile an OSX version. Allegro supposedly compiles for OSX now, so that means TW should work (probably needs a few tweaks). I'll bet if you pestered us with compile errors on TW's discussion board, it'd eventually work.
Funny that, I posted some issues with OSX to the TW discussion board last night. Â I'm breathlessly awaiting a response. Â
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Maybe I shouldn't read UQM's boards first.
Deep-Jiffa
Then leave this forum and never come back! muahahahahha
Deep Jiffa Owns j00!
Yeep, a Killer disguised as a Slaver. Get a bunch of thralls and WHAM! Cleansing time.
Happy 1K!
Nic: The Ranger doesn't seem to fire anything. While it make it's little swooshie noise and battery drain occurs, nothing seems to come out. I tested vs. an immobile ship, thinking I was missing, but nothing seems to be fired. I had the front little hook of the ship RIGHT in a Starbase's T intersection, holding down the trigger, and nothing occured. I'm sure it'd be an awesome ship (stick them full of needles, then run them into the planet!) but it just doesn't seem to work.
"Tarba-Yeeee" is amusing.
My Kzer-za suit won second place at a Kohr-Ah halloween costume contest. I got that far by convincing the judges that the Dnyarri really represented an Umgah. The Black Spathi took the prize though.
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OT: That'd be one helluva big Spathi...
"We are strong, but you are weak.  We HATE weak!"
I have a suggestion that may help get UQM online.
http://www.zsnes.com
SNES games were never programmed with the Internet in mind. Yet, this SNES Emulator allows two people to play together over the Internet via TCP/IP. It's not the greatest Internet feature in the world, but it works.
What's to say the same type of connection couldn't be made between two people running UQM? Maybe the developers could get a look at the source for ZSNES. I haven't seen whether it's coded in C or C++, though.
I hope this helps out.
ZSNES includes a concept of "resimulation" that's completely lacking in the our pre-existing combat model. That could be changed, of course, but it's on the list of "Wow, that's a lot of work, and it would be easier if we had (a single input interpretation regime, singlethreaded gameplay, etc.)
The reason I personally am so lukewarm about the concept is because I tend towards twitch ships, so by the time I know I need to react, it will be too late except in hotseat or LAN play.
It's not that it's impossible. It's that we won't make 1.0 wait on it because we think it's a lot of work that 1.0 won't need.
Wait, you want to tell me now that you will make a multiplayer, after some of you said there isn't a chance?(say yes...)
Your misinterpret our position on all these things.
The "impossible" thing is that we do it before 1.0, because if we get to the point where we could add it, we wouldn't do it pre-1.0, we'd release 1.0. Also, as I mentioned, adding netplay isn't a prospect that really excites us, so we wouldn't do it if we had "anything better to do."
However, if a coder were to try to add such a thing, it's not like we'd try to stop them. It's just that we don't think it's a good use of our time. (Should someone take this on, do let us know, either in #sc2 or here... if you're going to try to hide it behind the input layer, then I'm the one you'll want to talk to.)
There's still no real interest from the current batch of developers in working on it, though. If this changes in the future you'll hear about it, rest assured.


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The task of selecting the best science fiction and fantasy books for 2023 was a difficult one, and even this list is quite extensive. However, it was quite impossible for the curator to ignore the appeal of alien abduction road trip comedies, time travel nostalgia stories, secretive societies, and standalone works from many beloved authors. No matter if the reader is seeking to begin a new series or simply wants to try a shorter novella or collection, these recommended books provide a strong starting point for a 2023 reading list. These daring and poignant speculative works come from notable authors such as Ann Leckie, Kelly Link, Victor LaValle, Arkady Martine, and many others.
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Open Office Space: The Wave of the Future for Academic Health Centers?
Barnes, Janice MArch, MS, PhD; Wineman, Jean MUP, DArch; Adler, Nancy PhD
J. Barnes is founding partner, Climate Adaptation Partners, New York, New York. The author was global director of planning and strategies, Perkins + Will, New York, New York, at the time of writing.
J. Wineman is professor emerita, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
N. Adler is professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and director, Center for Health and Community, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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Funding/Support: Funding for this research was provided by the University of California Capital Programs Office.
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Ethical approval: The University of California, San Francisco institutional review board approved the study as minimal risk.
Correspondence should be addressed to Nancy Adler, 3333 California St., Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94118; telephone: (415) 476-7759; email: Nancy.adler@ucsf.edu.
Academic Medicine: January 2020 - Volume 95 - Issue 1 - p 52-58
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002992
Facing space constraints similar to those experienced by many urban campuses, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) looked to innovative office workplace design to curb growing facilities expenditures. Mission Hall, a new office building primarily for desktop and clinical researchers and staff, was designed as an activity-based workplace (ABW), a type of open-space design. ABW was simultaneously being proposed as the template for future UCSF desktop research workspaces. ABWs can be less costly to construct than other designs, and their mix of shared and open workspaces is intended to improve efficiency and interaction. Evaluations of ABWs in corporate settings have yielded mixed results. Examples of ABW buildings for faculty in academic health centers (AHCs) are rare.
The Mission Hall experience provided a unique opportunity to understand the impact of an ABW design on faculty satisfaction, work effectiveness, well-being, and engagement. In a 2016 survey of faculty, 1 year after occupancy, respondents reported adverse changes in all 4 areas. The most common complaints involved noise exposure and lack of visual and auditory privacy. In response to these issues, faculty reported working at home or elsewhere more frequently, making collaboration more difficult. In 2018, UCSF retrofitted the building to create some private offices and adjusted its overall program to balance private office and open workspaces in future projects.
Lessons drawn from this experience can inform workplace solutions at other AHCs. Most critical are the needs to assess functional requirements of work and align design, change management, and technologies to support those requirements.
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Other articles in this journal by Janice Barnes, MArch, MS, PhD
The Schwartz Center Rounds: Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhancing Patient-Centered Communication, Teamwork, and Provider Support
The Increasing Complexities of Professionalism
Commentary: When Much Is Promised, Much Is—and Should Be—Expected
Student Performance Problems in Medical School Clinical Skills Assessments
Assessing the Communication and Interpersonal Skills of Graduates of International Medical Schools as Part of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) Exam
by the Association of American Medical Colleges


Fall Fest (formerly called Dark Fest) is a popular annual tradition here at Stacey.
This event is held out on the field area and includes movies, fun games, and fall festivities. Food is available for purchase and the fun is free!
Listen to our morning announcements for more information. Our morning announcements are also posted in the Links section.
This is a student only event. Students need to be dropped off and picked up by an adult. See you there!


Moose has provided good advice in the past.
Mechanic's Assistant: What is the model/year of your transmissions?
I have a 1998 Dodge Dakota 2WD pick-up with about 90,000 miles. It stopped shifting. Starting from a stop, it's wants to stay in first gear too long. At highway speeds, it will not downshift to go up hills.
It is as old as the truck - but only about 90,000 miles - no leaks - I got it used a few years ago and I doubt the transmission fluid has ever been changed.
Mechanic's Assistant: Are you fixing your Dakota yourself? What have you tried so far?
It is at a local garage that has worked on our cars and trucks for years. They have handed it off to a transmission shop, but are saying that the transmission probably has to be replaced. The truck is so old, it is not worth the expense. I am wondering if simply changing the fluid would be worth trying.
Hello, my name is ***** ***** I will assist you today. Changing the transmission fluid and filter can't hurt, especially if you think it has never been done. Ask the shop to also adjust the kick down cable and to adjust the front and rear bands. This may help extend the life of the transmission. But note that if the shop finds a lot of clutch material or metal in the pan when they remove it, then the transmission may need to be replaced or rebuilt.


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Tribune Editorial: A bitter pill, but one that is necessary
Nobody likes to see taxes to go up. That's pretty much a given any time, but especially after a major recession that is only now starting to show signs of easing up a little. A proposal to raise the tax on gasoline would be met with resistance even in the best of times, and these are hardly the best of times.
Nobody likes to see taxes to go up. That�s pretty much a given any time, but especially after a major recession that is only now starting to show signs of easing up a little. A proposal to raise the tax on gasoline would be met with resistance even in the best of times, and these are hardly the best of times.
So it�s not surprising the Des Moines Register found 68 percent of people in a recent poll to be against the proposals wending their way through the Iowa Legislature to raise the gasoline tax 8 to 10 cents a gallon over the next few years.
But sometimes, we have to do things we don�t want to do. Whether it�s get up in the morning to go to work or school, or pay the electric bill, there�s a good reason we do it, often associated with what would happen if we didn�t. And there are so many good reasons to do a better job maintaining Iowa�s roads and bridges, which is what the increased gasoline tax revenue would be used for.
First is the obvious: safety. Bumping along a poorly maintained road or crossing a bridge that is past the end of its useful life is simply dangerous. And the state is about $215 million short each year in the amount that�s needed to maintain our roads and bridges.
In Story County, a third of the 284 bridges have restricted load limits because of structural problems and age. Most of the county�s bridges, 63 percent, are more than 50 years old. Twenty-seven of them are more than 100 years old. There�s money now to repair about two bridges per year, according to the county engineer.
Second, transportation is essential to commerce, starting with the farmer who needs to truck his corn and beans in from the fields, all that new wealth that fuels so much of Iowa�s economy. As we seek to diversify our economic base and create much-needed new jobs, tomorrow�s entrepreneurs will choose a state that takes care of its infrastructure over one that doesn�t.
Third, there�s protecting our public investment. A well-maintained house or car will function better and need replacement much later than one allowed to deteriorate. Likewise a well-maintained transportation system.
Now, there may be other ways to raise the needed revenue to repair and maintain our roads and bridges. Like some states, we could make our highways into toll roads, forcing motorists to stop periodically and pay for the privilege of driving on a decent road. We could turn our transportation system over to a private enterprise, whose fiduciary duty would be to its investors, not to the people of Iowa.
Or, we could raise the gasoline tax, which hasn�t been raised since 1989. Virtually everyone who drives a motor vehicle pays this tax, and it is collected in direct proportion to how much gasoline a person uses.
Of the two bills under consideration, the House version includes an increase in vehicle registration fees and new fees for vehicles that don�t use traditional gasoline or diesel. It also favors an 8-cent raise (4 cents beginning in May 2013 and 4 cents a year later), as opposed to the 10-cent increase in the Senate bill.
It makes sense to start to plan now for an alternatively fueled future that will doubtless still require a good transportation system. The House bill attempts to spread the cost more evenly among all who use the roads, regardless of whether they fill up at the pump or plug into a charging station.
Both bills have bipartisan support. We like the House version a little better, but urge both parties and houses to work together to craft a tax increase that is fair and will keep Iowa rolling safely and wisely well into the future.


After several years work behind the scenes, with the Dutch production team, the Target Live team are thrilled to finally announce Soldier Of Orange - The Musical coming to London Autumn 2020! The record-breaking production, which uses a revolutionary 360° rotating auditorium will be a UK first! For more info & to register for pre-sale head to SoldierOfOrange.com & follow @SoldierOrangeUK for updates!


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For a firm to have confidence in the ability of its compliance and risk functions, it may become necessary to request an independent party to review and comment upon the validity of its operations, and the effectiveness and coverage of the activities of the oversight functions. Those responsible for managing these functions are facing constantly shifting goalposts, and without an independent expert health check, it is possible to fail to meet requirements or to allow areas to fall behind the curve of expectations. The regulatory environment is turbulent and the requirements placed upon firms frequently shift.
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Development and review of conduct risk frameworks for UK Managers.