The pretenders top hits4/30/2023 It’s probably no coincidence that Johnny Marr ended up joing the Pretenders – I’m sure the attraction was mutual. His guitar playing though was not remotely Richard-like, but rather puts me in mind (in this song and the beautiful follow-up “Talk of the Town”) of classic Smiths. There are guitar hooks a-plenty from the much underrated and sadly prematurely deceased, James-Honeyman Scott, a player with a Keith Richardesque fondness for the rock’n’roll lifestyle, but unfortunately for him, not Mr Richard’s constitution. I can’t agree there are no hooks in “Brass In Pocket”. It’s 1980, I am now approaching nineteen (a final kiss goodbye to the Bun!), my childhood is over and life goes on. So then, as Uncle Mac was apt to say, “Goodnight children, everywhere!” This has been a most pleasurable interlude for me but we are now entering territory which held other memories for me, as a man not as a boy. I can’t promise jokes but he’ll be a far more interesting overseer of the eighties and beyond than I could ever hope (or want) to be. Peter was born in 1975 when I was already a teenager. His name is Peter and he is a site manager down in Eastbourne. I just need to mention that after a titanic struggle I have, it seems, coerced a young friend of mine, “Waldo’s protégé”, to pick up the mantle. And I may well threaten you with an appearance at a future drinkie. I’m sure the bandwagon will roll on sans Waldo. It’s been good exchanging views with everyone on all kinds of everything (sic). I shall single none of you out, even though I have cultivated a contact with one of you in another place and shall soon come face to face with another stalwart when I head for the northern wastes to watch Eastbourne Borough continue their struggle in the top flight of non-league football. Tatty bye too to my fellow bloggers, many of whom were here when I arrived. He has in addition proved to be an admirably objective arbitrator, being faced as he is, with a group of alarmingly passionate and erudite commentators, who take great delight in in revealing disagreements with each other, sometimes with hilarious but other times unfortunate results. The quality of his writing has been simply breathtaking and this is aside from his obvious knowledge of his brief, most of which must have been learned as a history, an obstacle not presented to those who were there at the time. Popular has provided me with a lot a pleasure from then until now and for this I thank our founder, Mr Ewing, who is a magnificent Master of Ceremonies. One of the links led me to some bugger called Tom Ewing and suddenly I found myself trapped in his dream. I had initially googled The Overlanders one lazy day, remembering that I had been at school as far back as 1966 with the son of one of the band members. How I wish I had found you all earlier, although this itself was a case of serendipity. I joined the blog early in 2006 when the group was already discussing spring 1972. We’ve reached 1980 and true to my word, ahm a-checkin’ out. « Popular ’79 THE SPECIALS – The Special AKA Live! (EP) » Comments 1 2 3 » Allīefore the main body of comments, a message from a one-time regular, printed w/o alteration or comment as a last request: Of course, it’s a song about going after what you want with laser focus, so no surprise that the delivery’s kind of calculating – but this is one of those singles where I can understand exactly why it’s loved, but can’t join in myself. I don’t hear that in Hynde, and it means I can’t buy into her technique here. And the honest truth is, I don’t like it – she’s borrowing a lot from Patti Smith but there’s a spontaneity in Smith’s singing, a sense that her squeals and shouts are unbidden responses to musical and emotional momentum. Without it, actually, the song is nothing at all – there’s no particuarly good hooks in “Brass In Pocket”, no chorus, just build and force: if you don’t like Hynde’s voice there’s not a lot of room for you to enjoy it. The band keep things steady in the background, cresting and rolling back unobtrusively to give their singer the space and stage she needs – and her vocal is a box-of-tricks performance, snapping from purr to pounce in the space of a line. The danger in the song is that its determination could shade into desperation, but when you listen to it you never once doubt that Hynde’s got the moves to back up her words: if anything, the song’s a challenge to her lover-to-be to step up and match her. “Brass In Pocket” isn’t quite what we were getting at – there’s no sense that Chrissie Hynde’s target is any weaker than her, even if his capitulation is inevitable – but as an exercise in total confidence it takes some beating. I had a pub conversation once about Radiohead’s “Creep”, where we decided the ideal cover would be one grounded in full-on swagger, simply inverting every “I” and “You” in the song: “I’m so fucking special – you wish you were special…you’re a creep!”.
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My simbl float4/30/2023 Not that I'm discovering anything new, but to me it was a new discovery. It was only towards the end of it being filled with water did it finally try to sink a little from my hands. When filling a bleach bottle from the pool today, I notivced it floated very easily at the begining and throughtout the filling process. I also realized something today that should be noted. I bought another 3" pipe and caps today, but the rain is just non-stop up here. Question - the bag of sand sitting on top - how did you keep the sand from getting into the pool? What kind of bag is it in? I think the pipes might it easier to put more under my steps but what I've got's working so. I never made the PVC pipes because I hadn't worked with PVC and glue when I started this. I always think I should add one or two more jugs but the ladder stays in place and doesn't lift up when even our heaviest swimmer uses the ladder to get in and out of the pool. I have to watch for algae growth in that area but I just stick my garden watering wand on JET and spray away under the ladder before I shock and that gets stuff flying out. I've never taken them out or off or dealt with them again. Yes, you have to get in the water and BEHIND the ladder so don't do this ALONE. When I attached them to the TOP and SECOND step from the top they worked perfect. I originally had them attached to the bottom rug with the jugs resting on the floor but it didn't work. I got the kind that you can loosen or remove with the little 'button' in the square box just in case I had to redo the placement of the jugs. I attached to the underside of the steps. I added a little bleach to the juice bottles and the bleach jugs to keep gooey stuff from growning. I filled the jugs to the top with pea grave, some sand (left over), shook then to get the sand and gravel to settle, added water to the TOP (shook again to get the out the bubbles out), and then capped them. I used my 10% pool bleach bottles and rinsed-out minute made JUICE gallon jugs because the CAPS are the TWIST LOCK/OPEN. I didn't use the pipes but used about 5 - 1 gallon jugs (with BBB you will have lots of these around!). Had the same problem with them 'floating' I have similar 'staircase' steps but for an above ground pool. Higher up on the steps seems to work better. This is one of the weak points of ToS and the best you can get for float.Check the PLACEMENT of the pipes. I do this, and it is not ideal but it does work. If you update the base low float watchlist once a month or so it should stay relatively accurate. Now you have a scanner scanning only the low float stocks you imported. Then set whatever filters you like to make a scanner….then you can export that again as a scanning watchlist. Then in your scanner open that watchlist (instead of saying search in all stocks or whatever say ‘search in’ the low float watchlist you imported) It is easier to clean the sheet outside of ToS before uploading. What I have done in the past is use anything that does filter by float, maybe tradingview or whatever…export this list to a CSV OR EXCEL, clean it up a bit cause it will have symbols that have no action or are delisted, then upload that into a watchlist in ToS. This will not give you ‘Float’ and they are not the same thing. ToS does not report ‘Float’ and therefore cannot scan or filter by float. Reparative moisture emulsion4/30/2023 Reparative Moisture Emulsion helps keep your skin looking and feeling healthy, smooth and protected. 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Clearly we were all too busy to tackle that challenge. The aim of the BIM Challenge discussed above was to show how we do the same things in different software. UPDATE January 29th, 2016: So often ARCHICAD vs Revit debates devolve into name calling. Because I bet there’s some way Revit wants you to handle these topics which is going to give me clarity on how I can better use, explain, and share ArchiCAD. Whether you use ArchiCAD, Revit, or some BIM program you invented. And then comment on how you view, pars, and utilize this data. So jump over to the Graphisoft North America blog and read some of the above posts (especially the last one). And I need you to read these posts so that we can all explore these topics together. These divisions get to the heart of what BIM is. Because your tools might be slightly different, but viewing your data as global or local and graphic, metadata, or digital approximations is going to revolutionize how you think about your day to day work. But they cover some universal issues and hopefully the ArchiCAD lens will allow you to see their analogs in Allplan or Bentley Systems, etc. Two Ways to View Global Data: an introduction to the split between graphic data, metadata, and digital approximations.Īre these posts very ArchiCAD-centric? Yes. Parameter vs Attribute: the data in your elements. Global vs Local: Macro Solutions vs Micro Solutions. Part of me wishes they were generic enough to go viral around the entire BIM community but I also realize that they wouldn’t be as good if they weren’t specific. Over on the Graphisoft North America blog I’ve been writing about ArchiCAD 17 and there are three posts in particular that I feel have a lot of value to all BIM users. If you don’t want to record a response to the video above, here’s something else you should do. And more importantly about BIM in general, which of course is really about the future of the construction industry. Learning about other programs will teach you about the software you use. And who knows? Maybe the developers will watch the videos and learn something about what they need to improve. The good and the bad of each program will come out. Any of us can explain why apples and oranges are hard to compare, but seriously who can explain why ArchiCAD and Revit are hard to compare? Who can give some examples of the ineffable? Let’s make simple videos that help explain both programs. We all know that comparing ArchiCAD to Revit is like comparing apples to oranges. (FYI: Revit Approach and ArchiCAD Approach) We all know each program has its strengths and weaknesses. This is the same concept as what I am trying to do with my series of guest bloggers talking about Object Making in various BIM software. And if your blood is boiling because this video (in a simplistic view) is just about 3D, answer the video and then ask a question that is only about linked data. Who’s up for it? Is there someone who wants to record a video that covers the same topics? Maybe you could finish the video by showing something else and asking a question back to ArchiCAD users. It comes the closest to the concept I proposed in my post about the Ideal BIM Software. The above video points to the real goal: not a definitive answer, but education. They did the ArchiCAD half and are asking for Revit responses. To rectify this, they have recorded a second video and took a different approach. And it seems that the BIMEquity team that created the original video realized this too. They don’t have the knowledge to do the Revit side justice. Everything pretty much boils down to this: an ArchiCAD expert shouldn’t be doing a video on how Revit doesn’t compare. Some of the issues with the video were mentioned in the post, others were pointed out in the comments, and on Twitter. Last week’s video was interesting, but it also raised many concerns among plenty of viewers. Last week I talked about comparing BIM platforms and shared some comparisons I’d collected over the past few months. But keep reading because I am also going to use ArchiCAD to teach you about your preferred BIM tool. I’m going to share another ArchiCAD vs Revit video. Vpn plus doesnt work4/29/2023 Read more: Special report: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Hola Free VPN: 4 dangerous permissions Regardless, there's no reason to let proXPN (or any other VPN) access your phone calls, track your every footstep and write to your SD card when its limited number of servers can't even get you to stream Netflix. "If you don't prefer to use the official app you can use the official OpenVPN client which is available in the app store or the official IPsec client from Strongswan if you prefer on using IPsec/IKEv2 VPN." 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But the first question was whether the company was still operating. We reached out to proXPN to ask a few questions about the number of permissions its app requests. Five Eyes openly calls for what most people consider an end to online privacy via the installation of government backdoor access into private communication technology. Any VPN based out of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - the so-called " Five Eyes" intelligence community - should generally be avoided if you're looking to max out your privacy. And yes, it has a zero-log policy (at least after two weeks, when the logs are supposedly torched).īut proXPN is based out of the US. Yes, this VPN offers unlimited data transfer and connection time. ExpressVPN: Speed, security and price compared proXPN VPN: 5 dangerous permissions We'd help, but we haven't been able to find out either since it has not yet responded to our request for comment. But for Yoga to really find itself, it would have to know where its headquarters are. That holds true for Yoga, which found itself in Top10VPN's analysis of free apps with too few privacy protections. You should already be avoiding free VPNs no matter where you find them. That's hard to say, given Yoga's 373-word privacy policy somehow includes both claims of "we do not collect your personal information" and "we may collect your information when you communicate with us." It wants to know your phone number, what cell network you're on, and whether you're on a call. Yoga tops the list with six requests for dangerous permissions, including reading your phone state. Read: Best mobile VPNs: Android and iPhone VPNs comparedĪs originally highlighted by our sister site ZDNet, a number of popular Android VPN apps have been grabbing more permissions than they need. But sometimes "dangerous" permissions include unnecessary requests, like when an app wants to be able to change your system settings, read your list of phone calls, or pinpoint your exact location. Like when an app asks for general location data to check whether a public Wi-Fi network is trusted. Some are harmless or required by Android. "Dangerous" permissions can compromise privacy. "Normal" permissions are usually granted by Android - they let apps stay awake during use or get online when you tell them to. So before you trust that highly-rated VPN with a million installs on the Google Play Store, know that there's a list of shady Android VPNs that grab more permissions than they actually need, putting your privacy at risk.Īll the research boils down to each app's number of "normal" permissions and "dangerous" permissions. 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