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His [Henry Wessel] equanimity can be a detriment sometimes. Modesty has its costs, and his views of houses, straight-on like head shots or real estate advertisements, while conveying a curious, plainspoken affection for their home(l)y subjects, in the end don’t overcome their inherent boredom. Noir-ish night shots of darkened bungalows and moonlit trees come to look repetitive too.

Sometimes the point of an image is simply hard to fathom. I gazed at a picture of an empty yard, wondering whether the geometry of it was the subject, before finally giving up. Mr. Wessel doesn’t always make it easy. But then, looking hard isn’t.

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With the reopening today, the city will have spent $3.2 million to redesign and rebuilt the Water Gardens, with most of the changes focused on the Active Pool.

The floor of the pool has been raised, bringing the maximum water level to about 1 1/2 feet. The water will drain through a trench along the perimeter of the pool, instead of through a single point in the center. And a newly installed wall with seating and a gate along the top of the stairs will add a protective barrier around the pool.

And the Water Gardens budget has doubled this year, to nearly $732,000. Staffing has been increased from two to seven workers, and the city plans to staff the park from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Workers will lock the gate when they leave at night.

Other changes are less obvious but no less important, officials said. Pumps, electrical switches and filtration equipment were replaced, and a control was added to automatically maintain water levels. The system will also include an emergency stop button and a system to notify operators of abnormal conditions.

"A lot of it, the public will never see," said Harold Pitchford, Fort Worth's acting assistant director of parks.

Randall Charbeneau, an associate dean in the engineering school at the University of Texas at Austin, reviewed the changes at the request of the Star-Telegram. He said the changes should reduce the velocity and depth of the water in the Active Pool.

Those changes, he said, "should greatly increase safety."

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the pulaski highway t-shirt is finally a reality


for this reason alone, pledge to the wfmu marathon


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andy breckman - a man with only three jokes, yet possibly the funniest man on earth - blows the nyt metro diary's mind.


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container like pods with more desirable living dimensions using container stacking technology - via the fabprefab container bay msg board - pdf warning!


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