12/28/2023 0 Comments Columbus metropolitan library grant![]() Ĭarnegie's library was dedicated on Apthe event included an address by the governor, as well as a message from Carnegie read by Ohio Library Association president Burton E. Construction lasted from 1903 to 1906 at a cost of $310,000 the city covered the remaining cost and agreed to pay at least $20,000 per year in maintenance and growth, a stipulation of Carnegie's gift. The house was demolished to make way for the library. Grant Avenue was the location of the Judge Noah Swayne house (also known as the Thomas Ewing Miller house), the official residence of six Ohio governors, including future president Rutherford B. Construction and opening Letter from Carnegie's secretary offering to fund the libraryĬonstruction in 1904 and completed building c. The donation was later increased to $200,000 in 1903. Library director John Pugh traveled to New York City and secured Carnegie's $150,000 donation after bonding over their similar heritage Carnegie was Scottish and Pugh was Welsh. Ĭolumbus was initially passed over by Carnegie for funds to build a large main library, as it was against his preference for smaller branches accessible to local working class residents. In 1906, the reading room moved to a separate building across from the Ohio Statehouse. These included 1,200 from the Columbus Athenaeum (1853-1872), 358 from Columbus's high school library, and 33 from its horticultural society. The first public library in Columbus, the downtown reading room on the first floor of City Hall, opened on March 4, 1873, and contained 1,500 books. History Columbus City Hall (1872–1921), location of the city's first public library Predecessors and planning In 20, another renovation took place to increase reader space, add to its west lawn, join the building to Topiary Park at its east, and clad most of the 1991 building in glass. It was first expanded in 19, followed by a 1991 addition and the demolition of the two prior structures the process tripled the building's size. The library was designed by Albert Randolph Ross in the Beaux-Arts style, utilizing white Vermont marble. In 1903, Andrew Carnegie largely funded its construction, making it a Carnegie library. ![]() The library building was proposed as early as 1901 when the public utilized a reading room in Columbus's city hall. The third floor includes a computer lab and houses the Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society. It includes numerous rooms, including separate spaces for children, teens, an adult reading room, newspaper room, auditorium, gallery, gift shop, and a cafe. The public library is the largest in the library system and holds approximately 300,000 volumes. ![]() The Main Library of the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) system is located in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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12/28/2023 0 Comments Convert pdf to digital form![]() In the side panel, go to the AutoCAD section and in the Format option, select Drawing Format (DWG) from the dropdown menu.Open your PDF file in Able2Extract Professional.To convert PDF to AutoCAD formats with Able2Extract Professional, follow the steps below. Only powerful desktop PDF converters with full featured conversion capabilities like Able2Extract Professional can extract your content seamlessly. When you need to interact and manipulate the CAD content you receive in a PDF, you can use a PDF conversion application to convert PDF to DWG or from PDF to DXF (depending on the CAD format you’re working with). As long as you have a PDF viewer, anyone can open and view the PDF’s content. Hence, converting DWG to PDF allows users not only a way to secure their content that can be shared with anyone, but even allows the recipient to use a PDF reader as a makeshift DXF viewer or a DWG viewer. PDFs can be viewed on any platform quite easily. Using the PDF format is also an obvious and most common way to share CAD data, as well. Everyone knows that it is a universal format that locks down your content safely and securely. Security is simply a matter of using the PDF format. DXF files, you need to be able to share that content, keep it secure and at the same time be able to manipulate that data. This way AutoCAD documents can be opened in and interact with other design-related software. It essentially produces the same CAD data of. However, it was designed as a universal format, allowing data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. DWG files in that it was published by Autodesk and intended to store CAD models, as well. This is the file format that is used to store the complex two and three dimensional design data, such as vector images and metadata. DWG file, is the proprietary and native file format for Autodesk's AutoCAD application. Drawing maps and designing physical objects in a digital environment.Creating data needed for manufacturing components and conceptualizing model shapes.Drafting architectural designs in the form of floor plans and blueprint.AutoCAD applications help to create and aid in the production and design process. It allows you to include and manipulate vector graphics, metadata, geometric data, CAD drawings, and more. It is essential to a wide range of industry professionals - engineers, designers, modelers, construction workers, architects and manufacturers, just to name a few. In this article, we give you a better understanding of AutoCAD, CAD file formats, and a good look at how to convert PDF to AutoCAD (follow the link to jump straight to the step-by-step guide).ĪutoCAD is commonly used in industries where highly technical detail and accuracy are needed in digital design. While applications like AutoDesk’s AutoCAD is one of the most popular computer-aided design and drafting applications on the market, you may still be uncertain of how best to deal with AutoCAD content and what to do when it is in a PDF. If you’ve ever worked with an advanced design team, then you know how complex the software, file formats and their digital content can be. 12/28/2023 0 Comments Unity church of cannabis![]() The building saw several more Christian denominations occupy the space before standing empty for nearly two years before Molloy and his friends began work on it to create their vision. “I often think she wouldn’t be that pleased with us today,” Molloy joked. Molloy describes Pillar of Fire Bishop Alma White as a “rather stern” lady. Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production and sale of alcohol that lasted from 1920 to 1933. In the 1930s, the prohibitionist religious group Pillar of Fire came in control of the church. Originally built as a Lutheran church known as Mount Calvary Apostolic Church, the building was later purchased by a bank. The 113-year-old building housed many different religious sects before it became the International Church of Cannabis. “And that was really what made this an important idea.” From prohibition to cannabis worship ![]() “Rather than looking for the differences, you start finding things that bring you together,” Molloy said. Currently, the church has between 30 and 40 active members.Īs Molloy recalls, the church’s founding members all came from a “mixed bag.” Some are Jewish, some Baptists, but all believe cannabis will “break down the walls” of their “stamped identities.” Molloy explains it is a practice that is non-denominational and is multi-faith. Molloy and other church members are Elevationists, a small group of individuals who were “unsatisfied with the outdated, organized religions currently available to them.”Įlevationism is described by Molloy as the idea that the “ritual use of cannabis” can help one in their “personal, spiritual journey” to become a better self. As the third-year anniversary of the church approaches on April 20, 2019, (or “4/20” as it is known in cannabis culture), co-founder Lee Molloy remembers a time when the church stood vacant and he and friends only used it to “smoke cannabis and enjoy the space.”īut rather than “cutting it up into condos” or turning it into a “mansion for a football player,” Molloy and others wanted to use the church “for its intended purpose.” Nearly two years ago, the International Church of Cannabis opened its doors to visitors far and wide. Visitors come to adhere not to one creed or dogma, but to bask in the church’s fundamental belief: that cannabis will guide them to self-discovery. Settled among a row of houses in Denver’s Washington Park neighborhood stands a brown brick church. This ride is only appropriate for those 21 years of age and older, but young at heart.The International Church of Cannabis’ main chapel. The event is part of Slow Roll Buffalo’s Ticket To Roll Series The ride starts at 1pm at Rooted Lounge, 69 Allen Street, Buffalo NY This black owned family business aims to curate a safe space for cannabis connoisseurs, to de-stigmatize the plant, expand knowledge of rare genetics all in an aesthetically appealing environment curated by a former educator and cannabis cultivator with over 25 years of experience. Rooted Lounge is a communal space dedicated to herbs and plants, including cannabis, bringing awareness to safe and conscious consumption practices that promote holistic wellness.Wild Willow Botany strives to help you feel pain free, naturally with carefully crafted cannabis salve made using all natural, organic and locally sourced ingredients.Canna House is a lifestyle brand that aims to disrupt the cannabis industry by serving as a community resource within the legalized market: reshaping the narrative of the plant and advancing consumer knowledge while becoming a synonymous name for consumption spaces led by a black male collective.Riders will use all five senses to explore the cannabis plant and learn about the history of cannabis. Inside Allentown’s Hiraeth House (a women’s collective of businesses) you will find Iykyk Buffalo, a cannabis workers cooperative with a mission to educate and advocate in cannabis. 12/28/2023 0 Comments Instal the new for windows Dropzone 4![]() It all includes access to all new features added in updates and unlocks Dropzone's advanced features including Amazon S3 Uploading, Google Drive Uploading, FTP/SFTP Uploading, macOS service integration and more. This subscription includes access to our growing library of cloud based actions, regular cloud action updates and enhancements, as well as all app updates, including major ones, provided automatically. 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12/28/2023 0 Comments Awaken online order to read![]() I’ve been wondering how Awaken Online might punish death to encourage intelligent play, particularly since Jason is constantly wigging out about being killed. Jason hadn’t yet died in the game, but he had read on the forums that players that died were subject to a mandatory lock-out period of three hours real world time. ![]() This leads to Awaken Online’s most stunning assault on players’ time so far, something so egregious that I’ve decided to ignore the self-imposed ban on ranting about this subject I’ve mostly maintained since chapter nine: This leads to an exchange in the game chat where a player reporting on what’s up with the zombies gets murked. Of course, since all 1,000,000+ players besides Jason are ubiquitously braindead idiots who cannot interact with the game world in any way except by hitting red dots in the face until they die, no one really stands a chance against the level 70+ feral zombies that Jason has been raising. But, hey, if the book keeps this up I will at least give it less of a failing grade.Īwaken Online remembers that it is actually an MMORPG again during the fracas, and players start talking about what’s going on. The devs were enamored with his brilliance before he started doing this kind of thing, which has made it clear that all the handjobs Awaken Online has been giving him just for being a regular gamer with regular gamer instincts were meant to be taken at face value. This is the kind of behavior that, clear back in like chapter eight, was the sort of thing I was talking about when I said that this book could still turn things around. Not so much that he’d draw attention from the devs for unprecedented awesomeness, but the gap between how clever he actually is and how clever the book thinks he is would be significantly smaller. Not so smart that I wouldn’t expect a beta tester necromancer to have already figured it out (bearing in mind that beta testers tend to be amongst the most hardcore players), but smart enough that if Jason had been doing stuff like this constantly, rather than just barely getting into it now, I’d be much more willing to believe that he stands out amongst other players. ![]() He would basically be creating a trap inside each the noble houses! As the thieves left the house, they could also rig the doors with something that would make a lot of noise when someone tried to get in. If he raised the bodies in the various houses one at a time in separate rooms, he could then have his thieves sneak into the manors and open all of the doors. Jason is considering how he can use this to defeat the city guard so that he can just walk out of Lux with his zombie army instead of trying to find some way to sneak out like thirty maimed corpses or abandoning his crazy OP minions to escape alone. It’s not clear, but they’d probably also attack anything that crosses their line of sight. The result is that they’re feral zombies that are kind of dumb but immediately attack anything that makes noise. ![]() Context: Jason has just finished an experiment to see how zombies behave if he raises one that’s past his control limit. ![]() Sports memorabilia tied to modern players is far more likely to be legitimate, experts say, because a plethora of companies now perform witnessed signings and uniquely identify the items with holograms to deter fraud.īut forgers are still churning out the more lucrative signed balls and bats and photographs from sports greats of yore. But the barrier for entry was low, Fitzsimmons said, and some authenticators were later ostracized for making dubious determinations. The authenticators - a mix of court-certified handwriting analysts and longtime collectors - offered the promise of cleaning up the industry. ![]() Soon phony memorabilia was flooding the marketplace, complete with fabricated letters of authenticity that mirrored those produced by Scoreboard.Ī cottage industry of third-party authenticators sprung up in response, offering to assess the validity of signatures for a price. The value of the items skyrocketed, and fraudsters pounced. Other experts put the figure closer to 80 percent. Today, the retired FBI agent estimates that roughly 50 percent of vintage sports memorabilia on the market is fraudulent. In 2000, Fitzsimmons helped take down a nationwide counterfeiting ring that made millions largely off the pen of a master forger who needed only blank balls, bats and aged pieces of paper. "And there are a lot of naive people out there. "Unfortunately, it's too easy a crime to commit," Tim Fitzsimmons, a retired FBI agent, said. ![]() And a Mickey Mantle-signed bat from his magical 1956 season went for $430,000 in 2014.īut for every authentic Mickey Mantle-signed bat or ball, there are many more for sale on eBay and other sites that are counterfeit, experts say. The bat that Babe Ruth used to knock the first home run out of Yankee Stadium was sold for $1.2 million in 2000. Mark McGwire's 70th-home run ball was snapped up for $3 million in 1999. The rarest of pieces sell for jaw-dropping prices. 12/27/2023 0 Comments Chicago traffic trackerPermits issued by the Department of Environment (DOE) from January 1993 to Decemand by the Department of Public Health (CDPH) since January 1, 2012. Current estimates of traffic congestion by region are available at. The segment speed and traffic region congestion estimates together may give a better understanding of the actual traffic conditions. Speed on individual arterial segments can fluctuate from heavily congested to no congestion and back in a few minutes. ![]() Due to a myriad of factors, including but not limited to frequent intersections, traffic signals, transit movements, availability of alternative routes, crashes, short length of the segments, etc. Most volatility in arterial speed comes from the very nature of the arterials themselves. ![]() Two types of congestion estimates are produced every 10 minutes: 1). However, the congestion estimates for the traffic regions remain consistent for a relatively longer period. The Chicago Traffic Tracker estimates traffic congestion on Chicago’s arterial streets (non-freeway streets) in real-time by continuously monitoring and analyzing GPS traces received from Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) buses. There is much volatility in traffic segment speed. Congestion is represented by speed in miles per hour. 29 regions are created to cover the entire city (except O’Hare airport area). Estimates traffic congestion in Chicago in real-time by continuouslymonitoring and analyzing GPS traces received from Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)buses every 10 minutes. A traffic region is comprised of two or three community areas with comparable traffic patterns. Congestion by Traffic Region gives the average traffic condition for all arterial street segments within a region. Traffic Segment level congestion is available for about 300 miles of principal arterials. Congestion estimates by traffic segments gives observed speed typically for one-half mile of a street in one direction of traffic. Two types of congestion estimates are produced every 10 minutes: 1) by Traffic Segments and 2) by Traffic Regions or Zones. ![]() The Chicago Traffic Tracker estimates traffic congestion on Chicago’s arterial streets (non-freeway streets) in real-time by continuously monitoring and analyzing GPS traces received from Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) buses. 12/27/2023 0 Comments Qlab uk![]() ![]() This work ethic has allowed us to forge strong partnerships with dentists and dental partners that we maintain to this day. Contact Q Lab UK Peer support available to all (2017/18) Mental health problems and persistent back and neck pain (2018/19) Technology-enabled remote monitoring (2021/23) The Q Improvement Lab brings people and organisations together to explore, develop and test ideas to make progress on complex health and care challenges. As a full-service dental lab, we work closely with patients and dentists to ensure each product we create is made to perfection. 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Let’s say it’s the former! I like her hat and yellow dress. That, or she is deranged enough to think one of the biggest pop acts in the world is copying her specifically and that other queens will absolutely know who she is and fear her when they see her. She claims Sia once stole one of her ideas (a gown that turns out to be other performers and “moves” away from her mid-song), so this is obviously someone who is well-known enough to potentially intimidate the other contestants. Next up is Nina West, a comedy queen who lists largely male comedy or performance acts as her influences. ![]() Here to prove she is more than just one extended shouted word, she hides from the rest of the girls as they enter one by one. I’m really down to have something new to talk about regarding Vanessa, as there’s obviously a lot there. Last season, we were unable to “get these cookies,” as it were, due to her early exit in episode one, but we did get “Vaaaaaaanjie,” as well as a cultural conversation about just how long a bit can last. By episode’s end, I’m not really sure what we are in for, as I find this to be an uncharacteristically rushed premiere, but there are certainly some really interesting and talented queens and several hints at juicy storylines going forward.įirst in the house is a queen I am really looking forward to getting to know less as a meme and more as a queen, and that is of course Vanessa Vanjie Mateo. Anal sex jokes aside (and, yes, this was an anal sex joke for my culturally uninitiated/straight readers - who I love and accept, by the way!), it is time, just two weeks after the controversial culmination of All Stars 4, to begin again with 15 mostly new contestants. Pop the poppers, folks! 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