![]() ![]() I've talked to several solar companies in the area and all of them gave me some ridiculous quotes to install a new solar system. I highly recommend you consider them for your solar project. I was impressed by Green Brilliance work, I would give AAA+++ if possible. We have been, and continue to be, very happy with our decision to go with this company. They have also prepared our documentation for solar energy tax credits. Green Brilliance made things easy by doing all of the coordination, the permits paperwork, and the NET metering switch with Dominion. Although, the process can be lengthy with multiple moving pieces. I have to say that Green Brilliance is hands down the most customer accommodating company I have dealt with in a long time. We opted to use North American sourced materials and the system is now working exactly as they said it would work, if not better. ![]() They were the most responsive to our questions, gave the clearest and fullest explanation of our options, and offered the best system for the lowest price out there. Sumit and his team are simply top notch! I am very pest articular about small and big details, this company went above and behind to ensure that everything was done to the highest standard. I would highly recommend GreenBrillianceĪfter talking with several solar energy installation companies, we decided to go with Green Brilliance. The company has always been quickly responsive to our needs and requests, including assisting with our elementary school solar education program in Sterling, VA. In fact, since 2013, we are ahead over $1500 in energy costs. We now pay nothing for gas or electricity, because our bills for both are offset by the Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) we earn. When squirrels did some serious damage to our system wiring (twice), GB responded quickly and installed stainless steel screening to prevent further rodent damage. GB responded quickly and added the additional panels at a fair price. In 2013, we decided to build a shed and increase our total number of PV panels to 26. GB coordinated beautifully with (plug here) Douglas Roofing to make the project happen seamlessly. We needed to have the roof re-done before having the photo-voltaic panels and hot water system installed. Communication was excellent, and we came to a final contract agreement via e-mail. I became a GreenBrilliance customer in 2010. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It took the Army six weeks to move two divisions from the U.S. Even the four-engine C-124 could only gain 50 feet per minute on a warm day if it lost an engine on takeoff while loaded. Even the biggest recips didn’t have the power to carry truly significant tonnage, and since many transports were twins, they had a fatal flaw: If you lost an engine, particularly on takeoff, staying in the air when loaded was a desperate game. The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was state of the art for tactical chores - airborne troopers called it the Dollar Nineteen and hoped to never have to ride in one - and the obese, double-deck Douglas C-124 Globemaster II was the strategic-airlift superplane. As America went to war in Korea with Johnson’s F-80s and then swept-wing North American F-86s, supplies and troops were still being hauled in Ernie Gann–era Douglas C-47s, C-54s and some leftover Curtiss C-46s. While the 1950s Air Force sired badass jet fighters and mega-engine strategic bombers, the neglected orphan of its fleet was the transport, the cargo plane, what later came to be called the airlifter. We’ll probably only sell about 100 of them.” As I write this, more than 2,400 C-130s of seven basic models and a total of 70 individual variants have been sold throughout the world. “The Hercules is a good design,” Johnson eventually admitted, “but there is no market for it. The soccer mom truck was a vehicle whose time had come. Get a grip!īut Kelly Johnson disdaining the C-130 was like Enzo Ferrari poking fun at the Chrysler Minivan. The Lockheed of Connies, Shooting Stars and missile-with-a-man-in-it Starfighters. This was Lockheed, forgodsakes, not the Grumman Iron Works or Republic ThunderThud. The airplane was totally out of character for a company that prized aesthetics. Yes, the C-130 was a boxcar with wings on fat Tonka-toy wheels, and yes, it had a straight wing that looked like an ironing board bolted atop its fuselage. Yes, the C-130 in prototype form had a nose like a goat. The Herk prayed at the altar of simplicity, reliability, ruggedness and economy. More C-130 upgrades have been fitted with avionics from Collins than from any other single provider in the world.Johnson worshipped speed, sophistication and beauty. Collins has also delivered or is on contract for 370 C-130s upgrades in 16 different countries. “This collaboration shows PTDI's readiness to implement the work of the Indonesian Air Force’s C-130 modernization program, especially in the avionics upgrade” said PTDI’s President Director Gita Amperiawan.Ĭollins Aerospace has delivered over 1,100 Flight2 solutions for military fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft, including the KC-135, KC-10, C-130 P-3, C-2A, E-2C and E-3. Customers using the MMA architecture can tailor the system to meet specific mission requirements, comply with regional communications navigation surveillance/air traffic management mandates, or simply to maximize capabilities for a given budget.īy upgrading to Flight2, the Indonesian Air Force’s C-130H will be in compliance with the most recent International Civil Aviation Organization standards, while also equipping it with a tactical advantage in military operations. At the same time, it's the most cost-effective and lowest-risk CNS/ATM upgrade solution.Īs part of the upgrade, Collins will leverage its Flight2 Mobility Mission Application (MMA) architecture, which allows customers to select from a super set of off-the-shelf capabilities. With its advanced displays and integrated military/civil flight management system, Flight2 delivers the most advanced capabilities available today, including required navigation performance, area navigation flight management system with high altitude release point, and computed air release point precision airdrop software. “Included in the avionics upgrade is a full glass cockpit with new primary flight displays that provides commonality to many other C-130 users as well as commercial aircraft.”įlight2 transforms a federated analog system into a modern digital glass cockpit. “Modernizing to the Flight2 system provides the Indonesian Air Force with a suite of communications, navigation and surveillance equipment seamlessly integrates new-generation avionics with legacy sensors, radios, autopilot and aircraft systems that will increase operational and mission efficiency” said Martin Hoare, Director, Global Business Development, Military Avionics & Helicopters. ![]() Serving as a contractor to PTDI, Collins will provide its Flight2™ aftermarket avionics solution, which delivers the most cost-effective and lowest-risk CNS/ATM upgrade solution. ![]() ![]() For a week, he worked with the youths in slums on their interpretation of Hip-Hop History, and in 2018 he played with them at the Safaricom International Jazz Festival in Kenya.Īt this year’s Brave Festival, a 20-member representation of the Ghetto Classics orchestra performed for the first time outside of Kenya, which was a real adventure for them. We all know Jimek for the famous Hip-hop History Orchestrated by Jimek performed with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice as encore after a concert with the rapper Miuosh, as well as the awarded remix of Beyoncé’s “End of time”. In July, the kids went to Poland for the Brave Festival to play alongside Polish composer Radzimir Dębski (JIMEK) was also there in 2017 last year. They can later make their living playing their beautiful music and the most gifted can become members of the National Youth Orchestra of Kenya. Music has become a respite and vehicle of social change, giving the children a chance to make contact with a different world. ![]() Under the supervision of professional musicians, they learn the classical repertoire from Bach to Brahms, as well as traditional African compositions, or film scores by Hans Zimmer. It all started with a group of teenagers and borrowed instruments today, it is an orchestra of 80 people, and about 650 music students take lessons in Korogocho and the surrounding areas. Its founder, having returned to Kenya from abroad, set up The Art of Music, an organization which offers free music lessons to children from slums. Thanks to the determination of one angel– social activist and at the same time classical music lover, Elizabeth Njoroge – an educational project for children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Ghetto Classics, was launched in 2008. ![]() With over 150 garbage trucks moving in and out of the dump site, sometimes it’s even difficult to describe in words how people, especially such beautiful and talented kids, live there – but the Ghetto Classics orchestra make it work! The kids practicing. Looking back at those times, I couldn’t believe how the Ghetto Classics would practice such powerful wind instruments next to such heat and smoke from the burning garbage. Hand in hand, she’d guide me through the garbage, tell me to keep breathing through my sweater (because of the toxic smoke) and jump through the almost black streams of water. As much as I’ve heard Ghetto Classics playing multiple times, the beauty and brilliance of the kids still remains indescribable! I’ll try to explain why: I grew up near Korogocho and every Saturday, we’d go to the Korogocho market with my mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as a signifier of where Iommi wanted Sabbath to go, completely off-message. Exciting for the audiences that were there for the shows, perhaps, but utterly enervating on record, as draining as a coke comedown. This was primeval Sabbath, heavy as hobnailed boots trudging through mud, obnoxiously loud and overbearing. Plus a live album cost relatively nothing to make, an idea that particularly excited everyone.īut when Iommi listened back to the tapes, he was aghast. Sabbath had been going to release a double live album, à la Deep Purple, whose double live Made In Japan, released in December ’72, was now a colossal international hit. Iommi craved the one thing money couldn’t buy: respect. ![]() Iommi finally had his house with ‘everything’ and didn’t have to go out again – ever.īetween tours, while the rest of the band took their wives and girlfriends on long holidays, Iommi stayed behind to work alone in his new home studio, snorting coke and ‘creating’ long into the night. Susan’s wealthy father invited the newlyweds to move into his 200-room mansion on several hundred acres of grounds halfway between Birmingham and London. But it was clear from the day they got married in November 1973 that they were destined to remain strangers throughout the seven years they would be together. They were worlds apart, opposites that attracted. But we did go out to dinner, and that’s how it all started.” I found out she couldn’t sing – and she found out I hadn’t written a song for her. ![]() However, as he recounted in his 2011 memoir Iron Man: “She came up to my house one day and it was a bit awkward. Snowdon said she was a singer Iommi offered to write for her. Iommi had recently fallen for Susan Snowdon, a “posh bird” introduced to him by Sabbath’s manager. “I have a big house with a swimming pool now, but I want one with tennis courts and a studio, so I have everything in the house and don’t have to go out at all…” To get away from everybody so he could work undisturbed, the Phantom Of The Rock Opera. ![]() “I want to move to a bigger house,” he said. “I’ve got a few tapes of Deep Purple in the car, but I prefer to listen to things like Peter Paul And Mary, Sinatra, the Moody Blues and The Carpenters.” He wants Sabbath to carve out their own hallowed place in the pantheon, and for the name Tony Iommi to be up there, where he feels it belongs, alongside those of Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.Īs he complained in an NME interview that year: “On drawing power and album sales we can compare with groups like Zeppelin and The Who, although we seldom get recognition for the fact.” He wasn’t just a heavy rock guitarist, he complained. The others still feel more comfortable sitting at the back of the class, sneering at teacher. The other members of Sabbath want it too, but not nearly as much as Iommi does. Now all Iommi wants is to get back into the studio and produce the masterpiece that will, finally, he is determined, prove that Black Sabbath are as important, as worthy of serious consideration, as the bands they have been outselling, like the Rolling Stones and Deep Purple like anyone you would care to name, with the sole exception of Led Zeppelin, who are now outselling everybody. But eight months on the road has nearly killed them. What no one knows is that a few days after the Rainbow show there’ll be a phone call that quietly cancels what should have been Sabbath’s next US tour. ![]() ![]() In other words, the PV cells absorb sunlight in order to produce a flow of free electrons, which results in generating an electrical current that can power electrical equipment. Solar shingle's basic principle works just the same as with conventional solar panels. The main idea is to combine the solar cells with the roof sheathing rather than mounting solar modules on top of the shingles. Solar shingles or tiles perform as roofing material for your home. In addition, since solar shingles are quite thin, this allows them to have greater flexibility and be lightweight. The cells are assembled in bands or strips to form the shingle or tile shape. Solar shingles or tiles are made of solar cells that are commonly manufactured using semiconductor materials, such as monocrystalline silicon and copper-indium-gallium selenide. Using solar shingles allows you to have a roof that achieves two functions: generate clean energy and give your home, office or any other of your buildings, an aesthetic look. These roofing solar cells are commonly shaped into shingles or tiles which are seamlessly arranged to provide structural support for the house roof and other types of buildings. Solar shingles are basically solar cells that convert the sun’s radiation into usable electricity, but also, they work as the roofing material for your home. Shingled solar panels: A must-consider solar shingle alternativeĪt are solar shingles and how do they work?.Are these “solar shingle technologies” right for you?.Reviews of the best solar shingle brands.What is the average cost of solar shingle technologies?.Why should you choose solar shingle technology?.At are solar shingles and how do they work?. ![]() ![]() The Jesus pendant at Bayam is available with a 10K mix of white and yellow real gold. However, you can also see the Jesus pendant in the hip-hop community as a symbol, fashion statement, or bling rather than by a specific Christian religion. Wearing a Jesus pendant generally has something to do with one's faith as a Christian and instills one's trust in the human redemption gained by Christ's death. "Jesus" alludes to the centerpiece of the Christian faith, and a Jesus pendant is a work of art or a piece of jewelry. The other design options suit customers who wish to maintain an elegant and stylish look while adorning religious pendants. The cross pendant at Bayam is available with a 10K mix of white and yellow real gold, including 3D designs. Usually, the crucifix hangs from a chain or rosary as a pendant. Because the crucifix depicts Jesus on the cross, it represents the religion's central figure's suffering and death more solemnly and overtly. ![]() Though less well-known than the cross, the Crucifix pendant is a more specialized symbol with similar religious importance. Wearing a cross necklace has a symbolic meaning that emphasizes Jesus' hopeful resurrection from the dead rather than the anguish he underwent during his sacrifice. The plain cross is never empty, unlike a crucifix, which shows Jesus's corpse hanging on the crucifixion. ![]() The Cross pendant symbolizes the Catholic faith and represents the death and salvation of Jesus Christ across all denominations. Usually worn as a pendant or charm, the straightforward design is simple enough to be worn on rings, earrings, or cufflinks. The cross, a symbol of Jesus Christ's suffering and death, is frequently used as the centerpiece in jewelry. Two key icons are often used to represent one of the most prevalent religions in the world. ![]() ![]() Call on us for satisfaction guaranteed at Forest Park Locksmith. We have what you need at a price you can afford. 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It's also the most publically accessible and busiest area, making it a vulnerable area for the workstations and increasing the likelihood that the hardware key will become damaged, lost or stolen. If we were to choose a workstation to install the USB hardware key based on X-ray imaging, it would be one of the reception workstations, since that's where the X-ray scanner lives. And the servers are all virtual to provide scalability and allow for quick migration to new hardware in the event of failure. Users can perform most tasks from any workstation they're logged into without having to sit at a specific PC and a failed workstation can be swapped out with a new workstation with an automated setup that takes just a few minutes. AD with folder redirection, none of the workstations store any data, applications run directly on the server (via RemoteApps), where possible, with GPOs automating the setup of new/replacement workstations. Proper rack servers, locked away in a dedicated server room. That sort of workstation reliance is precisely what I'm trying to stay away from.Įverything has been replaced recently. If one of the 'server' PCs failed, crashed or was simply inadvertently switched off or rebooted by a member of staff, there was lots of disruption and sometimes data loss. They had a similar setup previously: Various non-domain PCs, some delegated as 'servers' for important file shares, patient data, X-ray data, etc, etc. Click to expand.Mainly for reliability and security reasons. ![]() ![]() As you escape from Fort Joy, you realize that if the world remains godless, it will be consumed by the Void. ![]() But the Order has secrets of its own that may cast doubt on its so-called holy mission. Summary: Divinity II: Ego Draconis is a story-based role playing game that combines a truly stunning, free roaming world just waiting to be explored, with exhilarating aerial and ground based combat. ![]() Captured and sent to Fort Joy, you will be "cured" of your powers - no matter the cost. Aside from that, the dedicated chapters contain maps of all locations. Sourcerers are blamed and the Divine Order is leading the charge against the threat: you. The Divinity: Original Sin II Game Guide contains description of all quests available in the game, from the ones connected to the main plotline, up to optional, side adventures. The Divine is dead and the Void is everywhere. Now, you yourself are a Sourcerer: a dangerously powerful individual whose abilities summon creatures from the encroaching Void. Divinity II: Developers Cut Dragons: they have been hunted, they have been slain, but now the hour to strike back has come. In Divinity: Original Sin, you were on a quest for the forbidden Source magic. Even with lone wolf, splitting between STR and INT isnt wise. Now, you yourself are a Set a thousand years after the first game, Divinity: Original Sin II presents a darker, more grounded narrative and expands on the tactical combat system of its award-winning predecessor. Might be, but without using skills like Venom Coating or Sparking swings, youll be looking at a low magic damage output to use those magic skills without INT investment. ![]() Summary: Set a thousand years after the first game, Divinity: Original Sin II presents a darker, more grounded narrative and expands on the tactical combat system of its award-winning predecessor. ![]() ![]() JPEG format can achieve a 10:1 compression ratio. It also has the option to trade between image size and quality. JPEG images are supported across almost all devices and all image editing software accept JPEG format. One notable benefit of using JPEG is its wide compatibility. JPEG is broadly supported across many types of devices such as Windows computers, Android smartphones, etc. JPEG was developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a largely used imaging format, mainly in digital photography. This format is also capable of keeping editing data, making it friendly to edit software. This format also supports storing multiple images in one file, thus it is great for burst images and iPhone’s signature feature Live photos. Some other benefits of HEIC include the support for 16-bit colors. This is very helpful in mobile devices where the storage is often limited. This facilitates storing high-quality images in smaller file sizes. One of the biggest benefits of using the HEIC format is that it uses a more effective and modern compression method. There are numerous reasons why Apple uses this format as their default image format in iPhones. heif file, which stands for High-Efficiency Image Format. Images taken in this format are saved as a. The HEIC format was developed by MPEG or the Moving Picture Experts Group. ![]() Stick with us on this guide, as we will show how you can view HEIC image files on your Windows 11 computer and also how you can easily convert these image files to JPEG files. ![]() Even in such circumstances, you are not in the dark. This is because Windows uses the JPEG or JPG image format – which is a more widely utilized format. You will notice that you cannot view, edit or simply do anything with those photos on your PC. Image format issues begin when you port pictures from your iPhone to your Windows PC. It mainly sees its use only in iOS and macOS. A reason for this unfamiliarity may probably lie in the fact that the HEIC technology is not widely implemented. This may be your first time reading and learning about HEIC unless you’re already acquainted with your iPhone’s camera settings. ![]() Like anything new, there can be some growing pains in using HEIC over JPEG, especially if you have an iPhone paired with a Windows 10 PC.įortunately, it doesn’t have to be an awkward process and with the apps and extensions we’ve used here, you can open and convert HEIC files to JPEG on Windows 10 with ease.HEIC or High Efficiency Image Container has been the default image format for iPhones since the release of iOS 11. You’ll now have copies with the same file names but saved as a JPEG instead of a HEIC file. Once you’re happy with your settings, click ‘Convert’, choose the folder you want to save to, and hit ‘OK’. Before anything happens you can choose between JPEG and PNG formats, whether you want to preserve the EXIF data and how high you want the quality to be. Once you have the app installed and open, all you need to do is drag and drop the files you want to convert into the app window. It’s lightweight and extremely simple to use. To convert larger batches, we’re using a free app from the Microsoft Store called ‘ iMazing HEIC Converter’. Opening an image in the Windows 10 Photos app and saving a copy is OK if you have one image, or maybe a small number, but what about if you have a lot that you want to convert. (Image credit: TechRadar) How to quickly convert HEIC files to JPEG in Windows 10 ![]() |
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