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The "New" Tactile Turn Mover and Shaker Pens - A Review — The Clicky Post The Shaker comes with the Easy Flow 9000, one of my favorite Parker refills, but can now also accept the popular P8126 rollerball (which I swapped into mine) which is a major plus. The Mover comes fitted with the 0.38mm Pilot G2 refill, a great refill for small letter writers, but a wide variety of refills can be swapped in like the Pilot Juice, or the Pilot Precise V7 which I loaded into mine. While writing, not sure why but the Mover tends to have a little more tip movement (although minimal...) than the Shaker. Perhaps this is due to the spring being used. I am fairly sensitive to this and can say that even though there is some movement, it isn't on the offensive end of the spectrum. With some pens it is like you're broadcasting morse code with the amount of "clicking" the tip does...

Garden of Extinct Flowers March 26, 2018 “Heirs to a civilization that is thousands of years old and rich in untold economic possibilities, we stand ready to continue in the total recovery of our personalities.” - Pan-African Cultural Manifesto, 1969 We languidly watched the watery movement of time; now, we see a wave on the horizon. During the several hundred years that Europeans dominated the other peoples of the world, we also dominated the water, the forests, the terrain of the world. The interlocking set of problems we call climate change is the ultimate intersectionality, touching each and every one of us, but in unique ways alluding to our own subject position—artist, surfer, criminal.

Beached Houses — Michael Sorkin Studio The beached houses – slug, carp, and ray – were designed for a site near the sea in Jamaica and are another exercise in biomorphic bilateralism. Although they are inspired by marine creatures rather than mammalians, they beg the same questions of symmetry and, in the case of the carp, of elevation. They differ from the Animal Houses in having much lighter frames and were intended to be built from small members with a light – and lightly stressed – metal skin. The houses engage the idea of representational motility via a somewhat more fluid – if mild – asymmetry and via the idea of the wiggle, an integral distortion of symmetry produced via respiration, motion, or some other life process. Thus, the tail of the ray is caught as it swings to swim, the carp begins to turn, the slug creeps along. The project called for three houses of each type and the site plan catches them in a net of palm trees.

Chiron Fact Sheet Perihelion Date: 14 February 1996, 18:06 UTPerihelion Distance: 8.4639422 AUDate of Perihelion Opposition: 01 April 1996 (closest approach to Earth)Orbital Period: 50.39 yearsEccentricity: 0.3816Inclination: 6.9352 degreesSemi-Major Axis: ~13.648 AUAphelion: ~18.865 AUDiameter: 198 to 238 kmRotation Period: ~5.9 hoursAbsolute Visual Magnitude: 5.8Asteroid Classification: B-typeDiscoverer: Charles KowalDate of Discovery: 01 November 1977 (on a photographic plate taken 18 October) Osculating Orbital Elements B1950.0 reference frame, Epoch 2450100.5 (17 Jan 1996) Semi-Major Axis: 13.7053530 AUEccentricity: 0.3831649Inclination: 6.93524 deg.Longitude of Ascending Node: 208.65735 deg.Longitude of Perihelion: 339.58061 deg.Mean Anomaly: 359.46170 deg.

Illuminating Engineering Society The Advanced Energy Design Guide series provides a sensible approach to easily achieve advanced levels of energy savings without having to resort to detailed calculations or analysis. The four-color guides offer contractors and designers the tools, including recommendations for practical products and off-the-shelf technology, needed for achieving a 30% energy savings compared to buildings that meet the minimum requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999. The energy savings target of 30% is the first step in the process toward achieving a net-zero energy building, which is defined as a building that, on an annual basis, draws from outside resources equal or less energy than it provides using on-site renewable energy sources. These guides have been developed through the collaboration of ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), and the U.S.

Permaculture groups in Los Angeles - Meetup Permaculture groups in Los Angeles Here's a look at some Permaculture groups near Los Angeles. Join Meetup Touchscreen Landscapes [Image: Screen grab via military.com]. This new, partly digital sand table interface developed for military planning would seem to have some pretty awesome uses in an architecture or landscape design studio. Using 3D terrain data—in the military's case, gathered in real-time from its planetary network of satellites—and a repurposed Kinect sensor, the system can adapt to hand-sculpted transformations in the sand by projecting new landforms and elevations down onto those newly molded forms.

American Buddhist Journal: Search results for Nepal Dispute over the Birthplace of Buddha Boils Again [According to Dream Nepal:] It has become the norm for Indians to claim that the Buddha was born in India. This piece of news is propaganda meant to create hype in the media. Indians envy the rich traditions of Nepal. Port-a-Bach: A Container Getaway Port-a-Bach is a holiday home made from a shipping container. It’s portable, secure, stylish, and can comfortably accommodate two adults and two children. How wonderful it is to just lay there, on the top bunk bed, read a book and enjoy the perfect indoor/outdoor flow.

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