I have spent the last 20 years trying to portray the sense of place I experience at the lake of my childhood. Located in Upper East Tennessee, South Holston Lake is cradled in the Appalachian Mountains.
South Holston is where I bump up against the truth of my spirituality at its most sincere and humble levels. At this frontier, I see most clearly. Resting by these waters creates an awareness of the moment where I can finally stop the racing thoughts of our world. At this still point of mindfulness, I finally come into remembrance of the transforming presence of beauty.
Spirituality, described as the art of homecoming, is that universal experience of suffering, joy, and mystery. The driving desire behind this ongoing body of work tries to convey feelings of belonging, of homecoming as the soul lies against the threshold of such thin places.
My personal journey seemed to mirror my artistic choices, and the images progressively have become more personal. The importance of self-reflection emerges through simple attraction to the reflective properties of the water. Expanding, my attraction moved to objects and structure that underscored this growing introspection.
The role of courage to embrace a sense of separateness surfaces as a strong undercurrent serving to highlight the difficult journey of self-acceptance. Through critical self-reflection, I have become aware of the powerful force of solitude in both my spirituality and my art. Enveloped in that solitude are suffering, joy, and mystery that carry me to that thin place.
Meet the upgraded big brother to our best-selling Manhattan 37: The Manhattan 39 Ultra-Thin.
Upon extensive prototyping and listening to requests of those with wrists catered toward larger case sizes, The Manhattan 39 Ultra-Thin is on its way. Now featuring a 39mm case and coming in at just 6.9mm thin, the Manhattan 39 Ultra-Thin packs more punch than ever before.
This new collection boasts a rare manual-wound ETA 7001 movement that has been fully decorated with blued screws and precise Ctes de Genve finishing, all displayed through an open sapphire caseback.
The Manhattan 39 Ultra-Thin stays true to the original Manhattan design-DNA with its steel case, vertically elongated octagonal bezel, Ctes de Genve dial, and integrated bracelet. Unmatched attention to detail, design, and precision provide a wearing experience like no other.
This classic black forest ham adds great flavor to any sandwich. Slow-roasted and sliced ultra-thin. Carefully crafted meals deserve the highest-quality ingredients: now made with no artificial preservatives, no added nitrates and nitrites* and no artificial flavors.
The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client improves end-user and IT staff productivity with cost-effective, secure, easy-to-manage access to virtual desktops. The devices are preconfigured and shipped directly to the end user, ready to deploy, connect, and use.
The Thin Client is a small cube that connects directly to a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and other USB peripherals such as headsets, microphones, and cameras. With the optional hub it can also drive a second monitor. The administrator can create environments that give users access to Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Web, or Amazon AppStream 2.0, with multiple options for managing user identities and credentials using Active Directory.
Thin Clients in action
As a very long-time user of Amazon WorkSpaces via a thin client, I am thrilled to be able to tell you about this device and the administrative service behind it. While my priority is the ease with which I can switch from client to client while maintaining my working context (running apps, browser tabs, and so forth), administrators will find it attractive for other reasons. For example:
Each Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client environment provides access to a specific virtual desktop service (WorkSpaces, WorkSpaces Web, or Amazon AppStream 2.0). I click Create environment to move ahead:
Next, I click Create WorkSpaces Web portal and go through those steps (not shown, basically choosing a VPC and two or more subnets, a security group, and an optional Private Certificate Authority):
I am using AWS Identity Center as my identity provider. I already set up my first user, and assigned myself to the MyWebPortal app (the precise steps that you take to do this will vary depending on your choice of identity provider):
Getting started as a user
In my role as a user I return to my testing setup, power-on, go through a couple of quick steps to select my keyboard and connect to my home Wi-Fi, and enter my activation code:
Administrator tools
As an administrator, I can manage environments, devices, and device software updates from the Thin Client Console. For example, I can review the list of devices that I manage:
I am launching Rhino 7 for the first time on my Windows PC and all drawn lines as well as the yellow selection frame around objects get only visible if I zoom in quite a lot. Is there a way to increase the thickness of all lines in my Rhino interface?
The following screenshots show the invisible lines on a normal zoom and the same lines visible on a high zoom. One line is from the selection of an imported plan and the other line is from a simple cuboid in the wireframe display.
Hi Killian- please open Options > View > OpenGL page and in there move the slider one or two notches to the left. (The Radeon drivers are problematic in Rhino and so you need to pull back that setting)
Thanks for your help! Unfortunately I still have the same problem. Now the points at the edges of polylines are visible but the lines in between are still too thin. Also the selection frame did not change in thickness at all.
The only problem I have left now is that the lines of 3D objects seem to be displayed in a low resolution making their edges quite jagged, is this a consequence I have to live with or is there a solution as well?
Hi Killian - you can try turning up the Anti-Aliasing on that page to 8x if that is available, but I am not sure it will help a lot.
@Kilian a developer here suggests running the OpenGL slider up to 3.3 and see if that looks better.
New exciting missions, such as a rendezvous with a passing interstellar object, or a multi-target observing effort at the solar gravitational focus, require velocities that are well in excess of conventional rocketry. Exotic solar sail approaches may enable reaching the required distant localities, but are unable to then make the required propulsive maneuvers in deep space. Nuclear rockets are large and expensive systems with marginal capability to reach the location. In contrast, we propose a thin film nuclear isotope engine with sufficient capability to search, rendezvous and then return samples from distant and rapidly moving interstellar objects.
Each Package includes a lunar thin section set consisting of 12 polished sections of rocks and soils, specifically selected to represent the lunar collection. The samples represented in this set are listed on the table below. Click on the sample number to see a description of the sample from the Lunar Petrographic Thin Section Set Study Guide, written by Dr. Charles Meyer along with photos and links to associated resources and references.
Vacuum technology is critical for manufacturing high tech products like semiconductors, optics, health care technology, architectural glass and more. Thin film technology is a specialized area within this category.
Your first vacuum technology course will set you on a path to earning an associate degree in thin film and vacuum technology in two years. Classes involve engineering, math, computer technology, chemistry and more. Yes, you can learn them!
Five moms and I are standing on a sidewalk, holding mugs of coffee and tea as we run through logistics. We have an action plan, and a goal: We're picking up nearly 3,300 packages of cookies for our Girl Scout troop and taking them to our homes-turned-mini-warehouses.
As a lifelong fan of Girl Scout Cookies but also a never-scout (a term no one, as far as I can tell, uses), I'm low-key buzzing at being let into the inner circle, where we're relied on to Do The Thing. A successful run today means that all the cookie promises our Daisies, Brownies and Juniors made will be kept, on schedule.
As we head out, I hold two not-necessarily-conflicting ideas in my mind: I'm glad I can do this for my two daughters, and this is one way the Girl Scouts outsources core functions to parent volunteers.
We have a special group chat for this trip. When we get separated in traffic, we use Google Maps pins and phone calls to ensure our team can recombine before entering the pickup zone. There, we join a snake of cars pulsing down a long incline into a huge lot, where we coil our way between 18-wheelers with trailers full of Thin Mints, Samoas and Adventurefuls.
If you were picturing the Girl Scouts' inner circle like a Wonka-like scene of Tagalong rainbows and Do-si-do stools, this ain't it. It reminds me of large-scale relief efforts I've visited for NPR, where the sole objective is to distribute massive quantities of food. At this one delivery site, 170,000 packages of cookies are being dispersed.
After picking up hundreds of cardboard cases, we hand-carry the precious cargo into cookie manager Cavanaugh's large basement. From there, cookies are portioned out to Girl Scouts to deliver to their customers. Hundreds more boxes are earmarked for cookie booth sales.
In a normal year, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America will sell about 200 million boxes of cookies, as NPR's Scott Horsley reported last year. The national organization calls it "the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world," with nearly 700,000 Girl Scouts participating.
You've probably heard about cookie prices going up. The vast majority of troops are now selling boxes for between $5 and $7. If the girls hit that 200 million mark this year, cookie revenue would eclipse $1 billion. So, I asked, how much do the girls see in profits?
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