![]() It ensures that the pool tiles look flawless and the swimming pool remains safe for a splash. Investing in routine pool tile cleaning and proactively testing the water chemistry prevents heavy calcium build-up. The dustless and soda blasting methods have their pros and cons, and a professional can determine the one most suitable for the pool surface. Tile cleaning professionals are experienced and equipped with the right tools and supplies to remove deposits and keep the pool swim-ready. However, hiring a professional is the most effective way to eliminate the heavy scale and dirt build-up from the swimming pool. Pool owners can consider DIY pool tile cleaning when the calcium deposit is light, using any cleaning method. Soda blasting may also affect the plants in the garden and damage the lawn. It is also expensive and has a higher running cost when compared to dustless blasting. However, unlike the dustless method, soda blasting increases the water's pH and alkaline levels, especially in larger pools. Soda blasting is non-toxic, gentle, biodegradable, and environmentally-friendly. It is ideal for use on fragile tile materials like ceramic, pebble, or stone. The soda blasting method is quite similar to dustless blasting, but it uses a common kitchen ingredient, baking soda or sodium bicarbonate, to remove the calcium build-up. It is an excellent and damage-free pool tile cleaning method that cleans even the dirtiest pool and improves its lifespan. The cost of dustless blasting depends on the pool size, surface type, and the abrasive used. It is safe to perform even when there is water in the pool and is ideal for cleaning any tile surface, including glass. It is an affordable and eco-friendly method as it uses less water, does not emit toxic fumes, doesn't give off heat, and has no impact on the water's chemical balance.ĭustless blasting also cleans decks and rocks around the pool. Experts use a dustless blasting machine to spray dust blasters on the pool's walls. The dustless blasting method for cleaning pool tiles uses non-toxic and mild abrasive materials like crushed glass or glass beads with a water stream to clean oil, calcium, algae, and other grime from the tiles. In this piece, we discuss the two popular pool tile cleaning methods-dustless blasting and soda blasting, and how they differ from each other: Dustless blasting ![]() ![]() Regular upkeep by a pool tile cleaning company protects the investment and keeps the pool free from harsh chemicals and scale build-up. The unsightly white scaly layer around the waterline tarnishes the pool's beauty, lowers its value, promotes algae growth, and damages the filtration system. It involves getting rid of the calcium deposits that accumulate on the tiles over time. Tile cleaning is a critical part of pool maintenance. However, the downside includes regular pool cleaning to maintain its aesthetics and keep the water hygienic, safe, and inviting. The best part about swimming pool ownership is the luxury of a refreshing dip any time of the day.
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![]() Aldredge ( costume design), and Martin Aronstein ( lighting design). The creative team included Santo Loquasto ( scenic design), Theoni V. Directed by Joseph Papp, the cast included Madeline Kahn as Chrissy, Robert Loggia as her husband Al, Charles Durning as her father Harold, Charlotte Rae as her mother Helen, and Mary Woronov as a dancer named Susan. The play opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Novemand closed on December 9, 1973, after 37 performances and 16 previews. As a result, the play was divided into three acts, to Rabe's dissatisfaction. Prior to staging the play at Lincoln Center the following year, Rabe added a scene and several speeches to the first act, expanding it considerably. Rabe was teaching at Villanova and the play's director, Robert Hedley, was chair of the theatre department. The play was first written and performed, in two acts, at Villanova University in 1972. She tries to resolve troubling issues in her life, including her mother who had wanted an abortion and memories of sexual abuse by her father. While working at the nightclub, she explores love and sex with a variety of unsuitable partners of both genders and forms a friendship with a gay neighbor. Desperation leads her to a job at a sleazy nightclub called Big Tom's Boom Boom Room. The play follows a young go-go dancer who has a difficult relationship with her parents.Ĭhrissy arrives in 1960s Philadelphia with the dream of becoming a successful dancer. In the Boom Boom Room is a play by David Rabe. ![]() Sunday, however, the Huskies were far from the court, at the home of Cecilia Lloyd, 72, who was killed in the tornado.Īn overturned Cadillac rested where a three-car garage used to be. 5 seed Marion (19-5) in the Class 3A boys state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. When a devastating tornado hit Winterset Saturday, members of the Winterset Huskies boys basketball team sprang to action. On Sunday, they were cleaning up tornado damage Winterset boys basketball plays in the state tournament Tuesday. The most amount of snow is predicted to happen in southeast Iowa, although Winterset and Chariton, two of the cities most affected by Saturday's tornadoes and severe weather, are included in the NWS map. MORE: What is a 'wedge' tornado and did we see one in Iowa on Saturday? "Be prepared for possible slick roads," NWS said in a tweet. from Sunday night to early Monday morning. NWS Des Moines says to be prepared for winter weather Sunday night Parts of the treehouse and gazebo were blown onto neighboring property, and pieces of neighbors' property are now in the Millers' yard. "My daughter and I tore it down, pulled all the nails out, salvaged all the wood and built a two-story treehouse. Our daughter asked what we were going to do with it. "We'll probably put something out there (to replace it)," Von said. "The sad thing is, when we added onto this house, we had an old two-story garage that was kind of pulling off. While their house took less severe damage, the treehouse destroyed in the tornado held special meaning for the family. "We are very fortunate and very lucky that our house is still livable," Von said. "The neighbors lost their roof, two houses down she lost her whole house. MORE: As they clean up, Iowans share harrowing stories of destruction, survival from Saturday's tornadoes and severe weather ![]() Saturday and expect to be without power for a couple weeks, as several of the utility poles holding power lines in their neighborhood either snapped or were leveled completely. "We both grew up on farms in Iowa," Chris Miller said. "If it wasn't like right outside your house, you just stood outside and watched it." Now, on Sunday, friends and family have gathered to help the Millers clean up downed trees and the wreckage that remains of the family's gazebo and treehouse. This was the first tornado the couple had experienced while living in their Pleasant Hill home, but both were prepared for the storms. Sheltering in their basement during Saturday's tornadoes, Von and Chris Miller of Pleasant Hill had no idea what kind of damage their property would sustain. 4:17 p.m. A meaningful treehouse stood no chance during Saturday's tornadoes ![]() Sunday night's anticipated snowfall may slow crews down, with some residents expected to be without power through at least tomorrow, Greenwood said. At its peak Saturday, MidAmerican reports that about 10,500 customers were affected. MidAmerican reports fewer than 1,000 still without powerĪbout 800 customers are still without power primarily in the southern and southeastern parts of the Des Moines metro, said MidAmerican Media Relations Manager Geoff Greenwood.Īs of 4:30 p.m., 558 of those customers are in Des Moines and greater Polk County and 157 are in Norwalk and greater Warren County.
Tizian - Flaying of Marsyas (ca.Joshua Reynolds - Self-Portrait (ca.1748).Salvator Rosa - Tobit and the Angel (ca.1670).Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait (1669).Rembrandt van Rijn - Portrait of Jacob Trip.Rembrandt van Rijn - Stormy Landscape (ca.1640).Rembrandt van Rijn - The Abduction of Ganymede (1635).Leonardo da Vinci - Lady with an Ermine (1490).Lavinia Fontana - Antonietta Gonzalez (1583).Juan van der Hamen - Portrait of a Dwarf (ca.1626).Johann Heinrich Füssli - The Nightmare (1781).Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait (1434).Jan van Eyck - Man With A Red Turban (1433).Hieronymus Bosch- Hell (ca.1550–60) Ausschnitt.In the wife ending, the painter finds himself stuck in an endless loop, doomed to repeat the same cycle. Herri met de Bles - The Inferno (detail) Each ending is represented by the final painting the player has been putting together throughout the story, which could be a self-portrait, a family portrait, or his wifes portrait.Gustave Courbet - Zélie Courbet Portraint (1847).Guido Reni - Lotta di Putti Angels (ca.1625).George Morland - A Party Angling (1789).Francisco de Goya - El Aquelarre ( Witches Sabbath And The Great He Goat) (1823).Francisco de Goya - Saturn Devouring His Son (ca.1819-1823).Francisco de Goya - El Tio Paquete (ca.1819-1820).Francisco de Goya - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (ca.1797-1798).Francisco de Goya - Brigand Murdering a Woman (1800). ![]()
I reboot the affected computer in Target mode (holding down the T key on boot) to try to connect its hard drive to the machine I want to run DiskWarrior from. That's how I used it: I have it installed on multiple computers, which I connect using a Thunderbolt cable. So it's a good utility to have on a backup hard drive that you use only for recovery, or even on a separate computer. To get the most out of it, DiskWarrior needs to be running from a drive other than the one you're trying to save. Those folks can set up DiskWarrior to monitor the drive's status and ping you if there's a problem - either through an alert, an e-mail, by executing an AppleScript or by sending a text message from an email account. information, but it has some uses, especially for system administrators and other support personnel who need to keep systems up and running around the clock. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology), which is common feature on many hard drives.īy the time you actually start paying attention to the drive's operation, it's probably too late to do much with S.M.A.R.T. They stand behind their product 100 percent, and can often help when the software hits stuff it can't handle.ĭiskWarrior's Hardware feature comes in handy if you're trying to troubleshoot a problem with a drive that supports S.M.A.R.T. If you ever run into a complete show-stopper with DiskWarrior, don't forget to give Alsoft a call. If you've already tried another disk utility that's failed to recover your drive contents, holding down the option key when you rebuild will pop up an advanced menu a "Scavenge" checkbox will enable DiskWarrior to attempt to undo any damage from other software before continuing. The amount of time it takes from start to finish depends entirely on what you're trying to restore and what the speed and working condition of the drive is, but it's much faster than it was before. Once you're satisfied that DiskWarrior has done its, you click on "Replace" and it does the rest. DiskWarrior goes through a process of creating, verifying and comparing a new directory to what's on the drive, then presents you with a "preview" that lets you examine the directory structure yourself, so you can see if anything's out of place. Puzzles in the Shrine of the Coral Tomb leads players to the Siren Queen who explains how she has been deceiving pirates into believing the Pirate Lord killed his own son, DeMarco. The voice asks for help, and instructs the listeners to follow the coins and to seek her spyglass. Find him.".Ī third meeting with an Order of Souls using the skull from The Sunken Grove revealed not another vision, but a voice telling pirates that all the visions revealed with the lantern were lies fabricated by an unnamed female. One of Wanda's Journals now has a new line scrawled on it's pages saying: "He is trapped. There was no hidden text found at the island, but rather a broken music box and silver skull coin discovered on the ground near the skull. A second meeting with the Order of Souls was made to extract Harry's memories which lead to William Davies' skull at The Sunken Grove. Her memories lead to the skull of Harry Handles. ![]() From this note, the skull of Sally Marshall was found and through a meeting with the Order of Souls, one of the Madames was able to extract memories from Sally's skull. It suggests that they are being restricted from reaching and using the Ferry of the Damned to return to the Sea of Thieves. The Fallen Sea Dog Lantern reveals three journals of DeMarco's crew in the shipwreck, which led to another ghostly vision of the Pirate Lord meeting with three other pirates at Thieves' Haven.Ī note hidden in the Pirate Lord's quarters implies the Pirate Lord's involvement in the disappearances of the mutinous crew. With part of the log decoded, investigating pirates have discovered the sunken shipwreck of The Howling Wolf deep below the waves at coordinates J-7. Fragments of the key are now being discovered by pirates and very slowly the chart is being decoded. He chose to encode his chart for safe-keeping, but unfortunately the key has been burnt up and spread across the sea. ![]() However despite these efforts, he found himself pursued by Lesedi and possibly others. In the logbook, it's noted that in order to cover his tracks, DeMarco employed a crew unfamiliar to him and set sail aboard an undistinguished Galleon. Investigating pirates have since uncovered DeMarco's Ship Log and have found that prior to his demise, DeMarco had embarked on a secretive and seemingly dangerous mission leading into the Devil's Shroud. A short time later she moved on from the island to an unknown destination. ![]() She would mumble to herself sorrowfully and had no interest in conversing with other visitors. She could be found seated haphazardly on the beach near the remains, drinking from a tankard. Not long after the remains were discovered, Lesedi Singh, DeMarco's sister, visited the island. In the chest is the Fallen Sea Dog Lantern with mystical powers that can be used to reveal clues relating to the murder of DeMarco. The note reads, "From shell of red into water deep, the truth shall come to light.", a riddle that leads to an Old Sailor's Chest submerged out from the south-east shore. ![]() Near to the remains is a music box and several footprints leading to a note. Found on the remains are the clothing and belongings of DeMarco, including his necklace, trousers, gloves, boots, belt, satchel, a bottle, and his hat. The skeletal remains of DeMarco Singh have been discovered on Sea Dog's Rest. ![]() ![]() In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing. Christopher de Hamel’s engaging text is accompanied by a glossary of key technical terms relating to manuscripts and illumination, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone interested in studying medieval manuscripts today. Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. This book also explains the role of the stationer or bookshop, often to be found near cathedral and market squares, in the commissioning of manuscripts, and it cites examples of specific scribes and illuminators who can be identified through their work as professional lay artisans. Compra Cerniere a 175 gradi senza telaio, SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei. Each stage of production is described in detail, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the manuscript. Making Medieval Manuscripts, puoi prima misurare la lunghezza del piede, per filtra Cloro. ![]() Based principally on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages through to the high Renaissance. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigments, and how were they applied? This book looks at the work of scribes, illuminators and book binders. Ancient scribes wrote on scrolls that were stored in boxes. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigments, and how were they applied?Įxamining the work of scribes, illuminators, and bookbinders, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages through to the high Renaissance.Įach stage of production is described in detail, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints, and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration of the manuscript.Ĭhristopher de Hamel’s engaging text is accompanied by a glossary of key technical terms relating to manuscripts and illumination, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone interested in studying medieval manuscripts today.liefs, and a profound sense of their own destiny.Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. codices), meaning a book made of pages bound between two boards. Although modern readers tend to avoid writing in the margins of books for fear of spoiling them, medieval readers. Empty margins were made to be filled not only with decorative borders but also with corrections and glosses added by the scribe and later readers. Christopher de Hamels Making Medieval Manuscripts, a revised edition of his 1992 Scribes and Illuminators, is a copiously-and beautifully-illustrated survey. Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. Based principally on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages. In fact, unfinished space was built into virtually every medieval manuscript. ![]() This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. “Making Medieval Manuscripts” by Christopher de Hamel Christopher de Hamels Making Medieval Manuscripts, a revised edition of his 1992 Scribes and Illuminators, is a copiously-and beautifully-illustrated. illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures. By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. It's not exactly Assetto Corsa - and if a PC release ever does materialise as Sony’s studios continue to make headway into that space, it'll sit awkwardly alongside more dedicated sims - yet there's still nothing on console that immerses you so fully in the quirks and character of any particular car. It's with the benefit of all that time, and with the hype and drama of launch having dimmed, that it becomes ever clearer how much of a step forward Polyphony Digital took with Gran Turismo 7. That's something that continues to shine, and continues to draw me back in all these months later. Thanks to Gran Turismo's partnership with Toyota this is the only game where you can find the Le Mans-conquering GR010. ![]() Watkins Glen, the gloriously faded, fantastic gem from upstate New York, made its series debut in July and underlines everything that makes Gran Turismo great: a respect and understanding of heritage, and an execution that's near flawless in what's surely the best virtual representation of the track yet, its dips and surprising cambers the perfect canvas for Gran Turismo 7's exquisite handling. ![]() The updates have kept flowing, sticking to a monthly cadence and introducing some genuine surprises amidst the usual culprits. Gran Turismo games have always been a serious grind, and in this way Gran Turismo 7 is no different - it's just been lent a new unsavoury edge by its new business model.Īt the same time as Yamauchi was justifying all that, he requested players take a longer view of the project - and in that light Gran Turismo 7 looks a little better. Those kinds of numbers will always overshadow Gran Turismo 7, as should be expected for a full-price game stuffed with microtransactions (another uncomfortable figure is the £3600 it'd cost you to unlock all of Gran Turismo 7's ever-growing garage, a number I'd baulk at if I wasn't aware I'd probably spent as much on fuelling an iRacing addiction over the years). The photo mode's a constant source of delight, and the best place to get up close and personal with Polyphony's incredible models. ![]() Unless you're willing to part with just under £150 of your own cash, that is, and follow the prominent in-game prompt to the PlayStation Store where you can purchase Gran Turismo 7's virtual currency. There's an enforced scarcity to the more rarefied cars found in Gran Turismo 7's auction house, and no easy way to get your hands on the game's most desirable vehicles like the astounding Porsche 917K that has an asking price of a cool 18 million in-game credits. It's frankly ludicrous, though part of me admires Yamauchi's commitment to his bit (an admiration that would come that much easier if it was possible to sell on your own cars in Gran Turismo 7, a promised feature that's yet to materialise and that leaves the economy still firmly weighted against the player). Watch on YouTube Updates have kept to a regular monthly cadence, typically introducing three new cars and a little else besides. I want to make GT7 a game in which you can enjoy a variety of cars lots of different ways, and if possible would like to try to avoid a situation where a player must mechanically keep replaying certain events over and over again." "So I do think it's important for it to be linked with the real world prices. "The pricing of cars is an important element that conveys their value and rarity," he said in the heated aftermath of that early update. Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi's justification for the always online element and the inflated prices was simply maddening. The spotlight was on Sony's series for its first numbered outing in almost a decade, and it duly shat itself. Polyphony Digital's initial updates only exacerbated the situation: an early patch nerfed payouts of some key grinding spots players had been exploiting, but most damningly its deployment took the servers down for 24 hours, underlining the madness of a single-player campaign rendered unplayable without an internet connection. That controversy defined Gran Turismo 7's early days, and in so many ways continues to do so today. ![]()
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