![]() By following these steps and tips, you can ensure that your projects turn out perfectly every time. Mixing Plaster of Paris for your crafts and DIY projects is a simple process that can lead to stunning results. Stir the mixture thoroughly to eliminate any lumps, as these can weaken the final product and cause it to crack.ĥ) Fill the molds with water and pour into mixing vessel to get accurate water volume. Warm water will cause the plaster to set very quickly, while cooler water will encourage it to set slowly.ģ) Mix the plaster in small batches, as it sets quickly and you don't want to waste any.Ĥ) Don't add too much water to the mixture, as this will weaken the final product. ![]() Be gentle with the mixing process.Ģ) Use cool or room temperature water when mixing the plaster. Minimize dry clusters by sprinkling the plaster into the water to allow the plaster to absorb the water. Tips for Successġ) Add plaster to the water and not the other way around. This can take anywhere from a few hours to overnight, depending on the size and thickness of your project. Pour the mixture into your mold and allow it to dry completely. Stir the mixture again to eliminate any remaining air bubbles. Let the mixture sit for a minute or so to allow any air bubbles to rise to the surface. Mix thoroughly for about 2-3 minutes to ensure all lumps are dissolved. Slowly add plaster to the water, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches the consistency of a watery paste. If you need a larger batch, increase the amounts accordingly. The mold release agent will form a layer between the. For example, 2 cups of plaster to 1 cup of water. Spray the molds surface with a mold release agent purchased at most art supply stores or hobby shops. For a basic mix, use 2 parts plaster to 1 part water by volume. In this article, we will show you how to mix plaster of Paris to get the perfect consistency for your projects. ![]() It is a fine powder that is mixed with water to form a paste, which can be molded into any shape and then left to dry. ![]() Plaster of Paris is a versatile material used for a variety of craft and DIY projects. How to Mix Plaster of Paris for Crafts and DIY Projects ![]()
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![]() ![]() In contrast, many metal roofs are guaranteed for as many as 40 years and could last up to 70 years. This is because metal roofs will typically last much longer than traditional asphalt shingles, which are often guaranteed for only about 20 years. If you believe you will be staying in your home for more than 20 years, it might make sense to invest a little more upfront and install a metal roof. By contrast, a typical shingle roof costs around $8900 on average, according to Home Advisor. How much does it Cost to Install a Metal Roof?Īccording to, the national average cost for a metal roof is around $10,700. Let’s break down how much it costs to install a metal roof and how it can save money long term. Despite the slightly larger initial cost, many homeowners find value long-term in metal roof installation. Upon researching, homeowners are sometimes surprised to learn that metal roof installation can be more expensive initially than a traditional asphalt roof. When a roof begins to show signs of needing a roof replacement, homeowners in North East Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are beginning to look toward metal roofs due to their longevity, durability, safety, and energy efficiency. Because zinc is a durable metal, it doesn't scratch easily like other materials do.Metal roof installation is becoming a popular choice in Western Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Through the patination process, the dark outer layer of zinc is removed and replaced with a light gray or blue one. Zinc is a non-reactive metal that benefits from the aging process. If you're looking for an environmentally-friendly, noncorrosive material for your roofing, zinc may be a good choice for your home. While there are many disadvantages to lead-based roofing materials, it is still a popular choice among contractors. Lead is also very durable and can be shaped into many complex shapes, and it is known for lasting for more than 200 years. However, lead has been in use for centuries and is the oldest flashing material. Roofing contractors in Texas should avoid lead-based products, as they are hazardous to workers. This type of steel is coated with zinc oxide to help it resist corrosive elements. Residential steel roofing is commonly made of G-90 galvanized steel. This steel has been treated with zinc to prevent rusting and is coated with a protective Kynar 500 coating to resist corrosion. Prices range from about $3 to $7.50 per square foot, depending on the type of galvanized steel used. Residential galvanized steel roofing is the most popular choice for standing seam roofing. And while you can get a discount if you have a metal roof installed in your home, you'll have to pay for it in Texas. Still, other types of metal roofing are less expensive. In fact, some metals corrode more easily than others, so some materials are better suited to certain climates. It is often less durable than other metal roofing types, and some rusting is inevitable. Rusted metal roofingĪ roof made of rusty metal can cost as much as $300 per square foot, but this type of metal is not for everyone. Copper roofing contractors in Houston, TX are happy to serve you. While copper may be slightly more expensive than other roofing materials, the long-term savings will be well worth it. This material has been used to cover the world's most beautiful buildings for centuries. Copper is one of the most expensive roofing materials, but it doesn't lose its value over time. If you're looking to have your roof replaced with a copper roof, there are some factors that you should know. In addition, you should know if you'll be required to tear off the old roof in order to do the installation. Additionally, it's important to know whether the installers are insured, and if they offer any meaningful labor warranties. Additionally, there are other factors like the size and slope of the roof, the existing roof, and any ventilation requirements in the attic. Among these are the quality and gauge of material, and how the panels are connected. The cost of standing seam metal roofing in Texas depends on several factors. These prices, however, are only general estimates, and will likely be higher or lower in certain areas. Copper, galvanized steel, zinc, stainless steel, and aluminum are all common materials for metal roofs. Prices vary greatly, but are generally based on material and size. A basic, 1,500-square-foot standing seam metal roof can cost around $11,950. How Much Does a Metal Roof Cost in Texas?Ī metal roof can cost anywhere from $6,200 to $34,000, depending on size, material, and type. ![]() ![]() Deliberately winning the lead with the intention of giving partner a free discard is very helpful. Browse our complete range of over 500 online games including Spades and other trick-taking card games like Hearts all of which are completely free to play, now. Not that youre always going to do these calculation. A good partner will also try to help you by good discarding - ideally he'll discard short suits first (if you have K765432, you don't gain anything by chucking the King early!), and by discarding a low card in a suit he's essentially saying "this suit is safe, please lead it whenever you can". In a traditional four-player, two-team game of Spades, each play is 4 cards, with the highest card in each suit winning provided it isn't trumped by a Spade. In this short video, Ive tried to explain all that you need to know about Scoring in Spades card games. Before you bid Nil, you need to be doubly sure. Of course, if you know the cards that have been played, hopefully you'll know how many high cards are gone and what risk this trick poses. Spades Royale is a trick-taking card game similar to popular top card games. There is a lot more to bidding and defending nil than this If your partner has already bid a high number (say, 6+) then you can often nil even with the king of spades. The fate of this game depended solely on how well the partners cooperated with each other to fulfill the Nil. The name of the game is Spades, where Spades is the trump suit. If not, then a high trump will allow him to under-trump if he has an awkward middling trump. tricks that you bid before few ways to play spades with 4 people. 10-for-2 is always worth 200 points, and most rule sets I've seen put nil at 100 and blind nil at 200. ![]() If you are going to protect partner, do you think he will have to follow suit? If so, then you can either trump small so he can throw a high card, or discard small and save your strength for later if you think he can duck this trick. My favorite bids in Spades are the riskiest ones: 10-for-2, nil, and blind nil. Again, no Blind Nil is allowed and the game is played in teams. So not considering game score, not nilling and bidding 2 is the correct move. The players must either bid Nil or bid the exact number of spades they possess. EV for 2 bid, assuming - you can get your combined 7 bid 98 of the time and your team gets 2 bags EV (0.9870) + (0.02-70) + 2-0.5 66.2. But your opponents should always be playing to set you here. If not, and RHO has led a low card, then partner's nil may be in danger and you probably won't have to work hard to get your bid, so you need to protect partner from LHO playing low. Your p might have underbid anticipating covering a nil bid. ![]() Have you and the opponents bid for most or all of the tricks? If so then your left hand opponent (LHO) will probably not let the trick go by for fear of going down themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the main activity in the village was fishing, the source of income was selling fish in neighboring villages. In every morning all men would woke up and start their fishing adventure, while their wives would take the fish and set on the road to neighboring villages. “In a Japanese village the main source of income was fishing. There’s a small story that clearly explains how your comfort zone works. This entry was posted in Motivational Stories and tagged bag, bargain, daughter, debt, dishonesty, lateral, logical, merchant, money lender, pebble, smart thinking, story, think outside the box, thinking on by leadingpersonality. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. ![]() If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag. The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. He said he would forgo the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter so he proposed a bargain. ![]() Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He even gets a lightning bolt to the head. Cain and Abel: Cain is arrogant and psychopathic, as he is portrayed in most modern works.Others get their licks too, but if something bad happens, it's usually to Oh, and almost always played for laughs. Even though no one save for Oh, Zed and Adam really cares, any mention of the mark on his forehead causes him to deny the murder. Later in the film, Zed saves Eema from a Roman commander. Big Brother Instinct: Eema and Zed were siblings.They are instead charged with "refusing sodomy." Except of course, that "sodomy" is not a crime in Sodom.If it ends in an "ee" sound, chances are Zed and Oh were accused of it in the Long List of charges against them, including. ![]() An alternate ending even has the destruction of Sodom, and all of this happens in the span of a couple weeks at most. Anachronism Stew: For starters, we have the story of Cain and Abel, followed shortly after with Abraham and Isaac, and then a visit to the city of Sodom.The Abridged History: If we were to take all of the historical facts behind The Bible at face value, we'd get this film - a comedic Anachronism Stew of Bible Times and Ancient Rome.Not to be confused with Batman: Year One. The film features a large amount of Anachronism Stew and features a wide assortment of noted comedic actors in bit parts, including Harold Ramis in both his final acting part and the final film he directed before his death. It's up to Zed and Oh to rescue their tribe and become the heroes they were meant to be. The two are eventually captured and brought as slaves to the City of Sodom, where they discover the women they once pined for, Maya and Eema, have also been enslaved, along with the rest of their tribe. After the duo is banished from their tribe (thanks to Zed eating from a tree of Forbidden Fruit), they embark upon a series of adventures, and run into various characters from The Bible ( influencing historical events as a result). Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) are would-be hunters who dream of becoming something more. Year One has gags and costumes galore, but it doesn't have the snap that would make it truly funny throughout, instead of scattering a few gags against a backdrop of tedium.Year One is a 2009 comedy film starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as a pair of weak hunter-gatherers in Ancient Rome who get caught up in a plot to rescue their tribe from the City of Sodom. The plodding pace doesn't help, either - the movie feels padded and slow and bogs down unforgivably in too many places. Perhaps the original, R-rated cut of Year One was funnier, but that seems unlikely some scenes have such weak transitions that you find yourself confused by how characters got from one to the other - and wondering what went missing in between. Black and Cera are both funny insofar as they do what they normally do - Black is wild and wacky, Cera reserved and repressed - but the movie doesn't ask them to do much more, and the supporting players (including David Cross, Hank Azaria, Paul Rudd, and Oliver Platt) consistently steal scenes out from under the stars. Director Ramis ( Groundhog Day) may be a comedy titan, but YEAR ONE feels both slapdash and slow - as if the film felt like it could spread out the few jokes it had by dawdling between scenes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Traxxas Stability Management (TSM) allows you to experience all the extreme power, speed, and acceleration that was engineered into the 1/16 E-Revo VXL by making it much easier to control on common slippery surfaces such as loose dirt, smooth concrete, and even ice and snow. 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Upon the release of the Traxxas 1/16th Scale Mini E-Revo, we immediately started receiving requests for durability upgrades. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as we avoid sugar to make them healthier tossing in sour sugar isn’t a good option for me. You can dust the gummies with some sour sugar for a tangy flavor.Pour them into a candy silicon mold or cute bear silicon mold, it’s all up to you. You can give the gummies any shape you want.Ensure you have kept the stove on low heat in the whole process, high heat will burn and ruin everything.Use any fruit juice you love, with no boundaries.Must use a nonstick pan and rubber spatula.Once time up, remove the magical butter gummies from the silicon tray and serve as your need. Keep them in the refrigerator for up to 1 hour. Transfer the mixture into a pour spout measuring cup and pour them into gummies silicon molds. Make The Magical Butter Gummies: The magical butter gummies are almost ready.Keep stirring until everything is dissolved and well combined. Once it’s mixed well, add the mixed dry ingredients of gelatin and citric acid. Add Other Ingredients: When the tincture is boiling, add the liquid mixture we made with fruit and honey or agave and keep stirring.Then add ½ tablespoon of flavored extract and stir it in a circular motion. Let it simmer for a few minutes until the alcohol is reduced. Add 1 ¾ cup of Magical tincture, stir it in a circular motion, and wait until it comes to a boil. Cook The Tincture: Turn on the stove, put a large nonstick saute pan, and heat it medium-high. ![]() Stir until everything is mixed and keep aside.
![]() Dow expects to start accepting FOG and food waste deliveries from private haulers in late fall. Structural work on the receiving station, designed to accept 5,000 gallons/day of FOG and 20 tons/day of food waste, is completed and installation of equipment and the Sulfatreat biogas purification system is underway. “If we process 20 tons/day of food waste we should produce enough biogas to see another 5 to 6 hours of run-time.” The addition of FOG and other food waste could increase biogas production sufficiently to operate the facility solely on renewable energy. “During the other 12 hours a day we buy natural gas for fueling the engine,” Dow says. ![]() At current capacity the facilities two digesters produce approximately 140,000-standard cubic feet/day (sscfd) of biogas, enough to run a 750-kW dual-fuel Waukesha engine up to 12 hours a day. “Hopefully at some point in the future we could become energy independent,” says Jason Dow, CMSA general manager.ĬMSA is leveraging about 109 tons/day of excess digester capacity to bring in additional organics to increase biogas production. Based on projected volumes, codigestion of fats, oil and grease (FOG) and commercial food waste could almost double biogas production. Bundled into the project is a receiving station for hauled-in organic waste for codigestion. The Central Marin Sanitation Agency (CMSA) in San Rafael, California, is overhauling its vintage 1985 anaerobic digestion system, installing new covers, mixers, biogas purification equipment and supporting systems. “That’s impressive.” Upgrades For Codigestion “In just 5 years we went from nobody doing codigestion to just under five percent that are doing this,” says Lauren Fillmore, senior program manager at the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF). Installation of receiving stations for codigestion of hauled-in waste is becoming an increasingly common upgrade at WWTFs. Once a facility adopts that perspective on the value of the energy they begin to maximize it.” “With the cost of electricity now there is recognition that biogas is valuable. “I think energy is a big driver,” says Ned Beecher, executive director of the North East Biosolids and Residuals Association (NEBRA) in Tamworth, New Hampshire. Many wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) are upgrading their anaerobic digestion systems to improve energy efficiency and energy generation capabilities. Central Marin Sanitation Agency cleaned out and is upgrading its existing digesters with membrane covers and pump mixing systems (inside of cleaned digester shown above). ![]() ![]() ![]() The most common one is to sit down with them (figuratively, or in real life), and have them record your story. ![]() Once you’re set on a ghostwriter, there are several ways to start the collaboration. What is the process of working with a ghostwriter? Choose someone you’re confident will do your story justice. It is important that you feel completely safe from the get-go, and ready to entrust the ghostwriter with the inner secrets of your story. Communication is absolutely key when reaching out to prospective ghostwriters, to ensure you make the best decision for your book. Get a sense both of their writing style (by reading what they’ve written already) and of their personality (by arranging face-to-face interviews when possible). You also need to find someone whose personality gels with yours, and whose style appeals to you. How to find a ghostwriterįirst, you should be looking for someone familiar with the subject of your book, and who is willing to spend the time to get to know your vision for the project. Such a job usually requires a mix of developmental editing (to restructure the book) and ghostwriting, and can be just as time-consuming for the ghostwriter as writing the book from the outset. Some ghostwriters will also accept unfinished manuscripts, and work with the author to write the missing parts. What if I’ve written most of my book already? More often than not, however, they are bound by confidentiality clauses that prevents them from revealing which books they have ghostwritten.īut where can you find that dream ghostwriter, who’ll be able to capture your voice and tell your story the exact way you want it told? Some ghostwriters prefer the term "collaborator" as they see the project as a partnership with the author. Ghostwriters are rarely the official “author” of the book, though they are sometimes mentioned as a “co-author” in a book’s Acknowledgments. If you have an important story to tell, but don’t possess the writing skills (or the time) to put it down on paper, you can hire a ghostwriter to write that book for you. Ghostwriters are the unsung heroes behind thousands of bestselling books - from celebrity autobiographies to business books and even works of fiction. Book proposal Web design Translation What to look for in a ghostwriter ![]() ![]() To see the fretboard chart for the Open E tuning just enter the note to which each string is tuned: namely E B E G# B E. To be clear that's not the only thing you need to change when retuning from the standard EADGBE to Open E - the second and third strings also need to be tuned to a different pitch (from A to B and from D to E, respectively) - that's just the only sharp note. Open E includes a sharp note: the fourth string is tuned up one half-step from G to G♯. For that matter you can use the letter s to mark sharp notes and the letter f to mark flat notes, but those are most convenient when you creating the URL for a fretboard diagram by hand.įor example, you may be familiar with the Open E tuning, which lets you play an E chord by simply strumming the open strings. You can actually use the real sharp and flat symbols - ♯ and ♭ - but those aren't nearly as easy to type. ![]() Just add # or b after the base note to specify a sharp (#) or flat (b). If you want to map a tuning that includes sharp or flat notes, you can do that too. The diagram will update automatically to show you the notes on the fretboard under this new tuning. To see the notes across the entire fretboard for the Drop-D tuning, simply edit the tuning description to change the first string from E to D. Just list the note to which each string is tuned in the box marked "Tuning".įor example, to tune your guitar to the popular Drop D tuning you lower the pitch of the low E string (the thickest, top-most string) by one full step, from E to D. In addition to the standard tuning for guitar or for bass guitar, you can create fretboard charts for an arbitrary tuning. (You can also use the "Generate" button to trigger a refresh if you need to.) The guitar neck diagram will update automatically as you make changes to the form, so there's no need to "submit" the form or reload the page to see the impact of a change to the configuration. ![]() But we'd like to think this fret map is pretty easy to use, so feel free to just poke around with the controls above. These tips are intended to help you take full advantage of the tool. See the note for every fret on each string on the neck of your guitar in any tuning, any number of frets or number of strings.įor example, you can create a guitar fingerboard note map, bass guitar fingerboard map, a custom 5 string bass fretboard map (B E A D G tuning), and so on. ![]() Use this interactive tool to create a map of the notes on the neck of your guitar. ![]() |
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