A new course in the Program in American Studies, being taught for the
first time this spring, seeks to answer that question by immersing
students in an interdisciplinary cross-section of the American
experience — from the familiar to the unfamiliar.
The syllabus
for "America Then and Now" is filled with historical and contemporary
novels, poems, film, songs, paintings, and archival documents. Students
will examine widely disparate but related items — from the Gettysburg
Address to the songs of Bruce Springsteen, from Dr. Spock's "Baby and
Child Care" to Amy Chua's controversial 2011 Wall Street Journal article
"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," from the paintings of Alfred
Bierstadt to the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever."
Assignments
and class discussions are designed "to prompt a range of sensory and
cognitive experiences," said Hendrik Hartog, the Class of 1921
Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty and
director of the Program in American Studies. Hartog will co-teach the
course with Anne Cheng, a professor of English and African American
studies, and Rachael DeLue, an associate professor of art and
archaeology.
Nearly 200 undergraduates, ranging from freshmen to seniors, are enrolled in the course.
Close
to five years in the making, the course grew out of a 2008 workshop,
"Thinking About Diversity, Ethnicity and Difference in the 'New'
Princeton," attended by members of the Princeton faculty and
administration spanning the University.
"It was an intimate
forum for frank and rigorous discussions about the opportunities and
challenges facing the institutional and intellectual commitment to
diversity at Princeton," Cheng said.
The workshop, which
included representatives from more than a dozen academic departments and
programs, jumpstarted an initiative to rethink the curriculum of the
Program in American Studies and reflect broader changes in the field.
"American
studies as a field has been undergoing much disciplinary
self-questioning and changes in the past decade," Cheng said. "The
outcome of the workshop was a unanimous agreement that Princeton could
become a leader in teaching students about the complicated issues that
are rapidly emerging surrounding the issue of racial, ethnic, gender and
cultural diversity, beyond the black and white dyad."
Eddie Glaude Jr.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!,
the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies
and chair of the Center for African American Studies, was a core
participant in the workshop and suggested the Program in American
Studies play the lead role in developing a course that would become the
"gateway" for undergraduates intending to earn a certificate from the
program, Hartog said.
"That was the beginning," Hartog said.
"The course has been constructed to illustrate diverse and distinctive
ways of 'knowing' an immense and impossible subject — America."
To
help students who are looking at American history from the vantage
point of the early 21st century approach such a vast area of study, the
course is divided into 12 units. In the "American Properties and
Terrains" unit, for example, students will read legal documents
including "U.S. Steel Workers of America v. U.S. Steel Corporation,"
listen to the Bruce Springsteen song "Youngstown," and view historical
and contemporary photographs of steel mills and life in steel mill
towns.
By examining individual items — a song, a poem, a
painting — students will learn "how the microanalysis of specific
objects yields major insights about the bigger picture of American
culture, history and experience," Hartog said. "Analyzing a rock song,
for instance, can aid in illuminating aspects of economic history, while
examining a work of art can yield information about immigration policy
or controversies within the scientific realm."
In the unit on
"American Landscapes," students will view landscape paintings dating
from the mid-1800s through the 20th century in the Princeton University
Art Museum, as well as various kinds of images of the urban landscape,
including a silent film of New York City from 1920, and will read an
excerpt from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
"The history of
the United States is in many ways a history of land: its discovery,
exploration, conquest and settlement and, more recently, its
over-development and degradation," DeLue said.Service Report a problem
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"Put simply, looking at pictures of nature and of cities is really a
matter of looking at history and historical consciousness in the
making.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal,"
During
the unit on "Borders and Movement," New York-based playwright Jorge
Cortinas will visit the class to discuss the dramatic portrayal of
migration to America. Students will watch a video of Cortinas' 2012 play
"Bird in the Hand," about a Cuban-American teenager growing up in
Miami.
"Memorialization" is another topic of focus, and will
include a visit to the "still-developing space around the World Trade
Center, to think about what memorialization means in 21st-century
America,Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing." Hartog said.
Students
will gain exposure to the various ways scholars approach different
subjects dealing with America. DeLue explained: "An art historian
attempts to understand the story of America by looking at its pictures, a
scholar of literature seeks meanings in texts, a scholar of the law
pays attention to the nature and outcome of legislation and court cases,
and a musicologist looks for insight in American music."
The
course will center on conversation-style lectures — two or more of the
faculty will be "in conversation with one another,Application can be
conducted with the local designated IC card producers. working to make sense of a shared problem," Hartog said.
The
course had a test run last spring with a small seminar of 14
undergraduates co-taught by Cheng and Hartog. "'Reinventing American
Studies' was an exploratory and experimental mini-model of the new
course," Cheng said. "We tried many things, including giving the
students opportunities to determine some of the contents of the course,
as well as trying untraditional assignments. The experience was
wonderful and enlightening."
2013年1月31日星期四
Santa Susana situation has improved
After a leaking roof and inconsistent heating and cooling system
became problematic late last year, teachers and staff are welcome to a
newly-repaired Santa Susana Hall.
According to Ken Rosenthal, manager of construction services for CSUN’s facilities and planning department, the roof had been leaking, and the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system had to be replaced on the fourth floor.
“The reality is, it’s one of those buildings where we are aware there have been multiple issues,” Rosenthal said.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
Last fall, the Facilities and Planning Department undertook the task of addressing some of the worst problems in Santa Susana Hall on the south side of campus across from the Matador Bookstore complex.
The recent rainfall did not penetrate the new roof according to Herman Debose, sociology department chair, whose Santa Susana office was affected by severe water leaks last year.
Other offices on the third and fourth floors that had also once experienced indoor water damage have stayed dry.
Faculty on the fourth floor said they are enjoying their new HVAC system. Each office now has its own thermostat, so occupants can control the temperature more effectively.
The first, second and third floors, however, are still operating on the original, outdated HVAC system, Rosenthal said.
Debose added that thermostats in some offices control the temperature in others, and the inclement situation is compounded when staff members open doors in order to increase visability in the hallways.
“Most people don’t realize it’s all interconnected,” Rosenthal said. “They don’t have a dedicated unit for each office. It’s one big system.”
Another recent change in the building is the sudden removal of the venerable system of ivy that had been growing up both of the interior courtyards’ four floors for years.
Santa Susana Hall is designed with two courtyards connected by a section of hallway containing offices and the building’s elevator. The boundaries of each courtyard are made up by the offices, lined by walkways with a railing at the interior edge. The vines grew up the inside of each of these courtyards in the corners and around the railings.
Without the greenery, the balconies are more exposed, and the railings are left uncovered.
“It looks like a prison now,” said mathematics professor Mark Schilling, whose office is on the fourth floor.
Debose said he felt the removal of the vines would allow more light to get through into the building.
Senior manager of Physical Plant Management, Jason Wang, said the vines were posing problems.
The weight of the plants caused cracks to form in the old railings and provided refuge for vermin like rats or insects, Wang said.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, They determined it was safest to remove the vines rather than to let the situation continue.
Planned improvements include additional seating on the first floor, new railings that are up to current code and doors with larger windows to improve visibility and make the space more inviting. Wang added the project could proceed as early as this summer.
When complete, there will be 630 spaces between surface parking and a new parking garage, an enhanced bus staging area, I-15 BRT-branded shelters, next bus arrival signs, new landscaping, a photovoltaic system, electric vehicle charging stations, fuel-efficient and smart vehicle spaces, security cameras and modular bicycle parking facility.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers.
Per a simulation video, the project will maximize open space, minimize heat island effect, have water efficient landscaping, optimum energy performance,Service Report a problem with a street light. include recycled and regional materials, increased ventilation in the garage, open views to increase passive security and 100 percent security camera coverage.
Frank Owsiany, a senior transportation engineer at SANDAG, said the station will include 630 parking spaces because it is a “huge hub,” with more demand expected after full BRT service comes. It will draw commuters from surrounding communities including Poway, Rancho Penasquitos and Mira Mesa.
The facility is near the shared border of Sabre Springs and Carmel Mountain Ranch.
According to Owsiany, the winning bid came in well below the original estimate of more than $19 million and is expected to be completed faster. This is because SANDAG went with a design-bid contract, a first for the agency. This has the same contractor designing and constructing the station. For other projects, a design-bid-build contract was used, so the designer and builder were two entities. This led to an additional bid time factored into projects and many consultations needed between design and construction teams, which led to increased costs and delays.
SANDAG officials met with more than 35 locals on Jan. 16 to explain the project and answer questions, said Tedi Jackson, a senior public affairs representative at SANDAG.
As for Rancho Bernardo Transit Station upgrades that began in August,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! those are expected to be complete by mid-March, Owsiany said. The $768,000 renovation includes adding bus bays, new shelters and new signage that indicates updated arrival times. The existing landscaped median is being reconfigured to accommodate an eight-bay bus staging area. Until work is completed, the north lot will remain closed and riders are using the 39-space Rodeway Inn parking lot at 16911 W. Bernardo Drive, about a 7-minute walk, in addition to the station’s southeast lot.
According to Ken Rosenthal, manager of construction services for CSUN’s facilities and planning department, the roof had been leaking, and the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system had to be replaced on the fourth floor.
“The reality is, it’s one of those buildings where we are aware there have been multiple issues,” Rosenthal said.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
Last fall, the Facilities and Planning Department undertook the task of addressing some of the worst problems in Santa Susana Hall on the south side of campus across from the Matador Bookstore complex.
The recent rainfall did not penetrate the new roof according to Herman Debose, sociology department chair, whose Santa Susana office was affected by severe water leaks last year.
Other offices on the third and fourth floors that had also once experienced indoor water damage have stayed dry.
Faculty on the fourth floor said they are enjoying their new HVAC system. Each office now has its own thermostat, so occupants can control the temperature more effectively.
The first, second and third floors, however, are still operating on the original, outdated HVAC system, Rosenthal said.
Debose added that thermostats in some offices control the temperature in others, and the inclement situation is compounded when staff members open doors in order to increase visability in the hallways.
“Most people don’t realize it’s all interconnected,” Rosenthal said. “They don’t have a dedicated unit for each office. It’s one big system.”
Another recent change in the building is the sudden removal of the venerable system of ivy that had been growing up both of the interior courtyards’ four floors for years.
Santa Susana Hall is designed with two courtyards connected by a section of hallway containing offices and the building’s elevator. The boundaries of each courtyard are made up by the offices, lined by walkways with a railing at the interior edge. The vines grew up the inside of each of these courtyards in the corners and around the railings.
Without the greenery, the balconies are more exposed, and the railings are left uncovered.
“It looks like a prison now,” said mathematics professor Mark Schilling, whose office is on the fourth floor.
Debose said he felt the removal of the vines would allow more light to get through into the building.
Senior manager of Physical Plant Management, Jason Wang, said the vines were posing problems.
The weight of the plants caused cracks to form in the old railings and provided refuge for vermin like rats or insects, Wang said.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, They determined it was safest to remove the vines rather than to let the situation continue.
Planned improvements include additional seating on the first floor, new railings that are up to current code and doors with larger windows to improve visibility and make the space more inviting. Wang added the project could proceed as early as this summer.
When complete, there will be 630 spaces between surface parking and a new parking garage, an enhanced bus staging area, I-15 BRT-branded shelters, next bus arrival signs, new landscaping, a photovoltaic system, electric vehicle charging stations, fuel-efficient and smart vehicle spaces, security cameras and modular bicycle parking facility.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers.
Per a simulation video, the project will maximize open space, minimize heat island effect, have water efficient landscaping, optimum energy performance,Service Report a problem with a street light. include recycled and regional materials, increased ventilation in the garage, open views to increase passive security and 100 percent security camera coverage.
Frank Owsiany, a senior transportation engineer at SANDAG, said the station will include 630 parking spaces because it is a “huge hub,” with more demand expected after full BRT service comes. It will draw commuters from surrounding communities including Poway, Rancho Penasquitos and Mira Mesa.
The facility is near the shared border of Sabre Springs and Carmel Mountain Ranch.
According to Owsiany, the winning bid came in well below the original estimate of more than $19 million and is expected to be completed faster. This is because SANDAG went with a design-bid contract, a first for the agency. This has the same contractor designing and constructing the station. For other projects, a design-bid-build contract was used, so the designer and builder were two entities. This led to an additional bid time factored into projects and many consultations needed between design and construction teams, which led to increased costs and delays.
SANDAG officials met with more than 35 locals on Jan. 16 to explain the project and answer questions, said Tedi Jackson, a senior public affairs representative at SANDAG.
As for Rancho Bernardo Transit Station upgrades that began in August,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! those are expected to be complete by mid-March, Owsiany said. The $768,000 renovation includes adding bus bays, new shelters and new signage that indicates updated arrival times. The existing landscaped median is being reconfigured to accommodate an eight-bay bus staging area. Until work is completed, the north lot will remain closed and riders are using the 39-space Rodeway Inn parking lot at 16911 W. Bernardo Drive, about a 7-minute walk, in addition to the station’s southeast lot.
'Stand Up Guys' not a standout
Without 'this' cast, it would be a mediocre time-waster. It would be
easily dismissed and quickly forgotten. But director Fisher Stevens (the
actor-turned-filmmaker) managed to get Al Pacino, Christopher Walken
and Alan Arkin to headline his ensemble of aging gangsters. Pacino is
72, Walken is 69 and Arkin is 78. With these legendary dudes on duty,
this otherwise dark and dingy movie has some geriatric electricity to
turn the lights on.
The simple-minded story was penned by Noah Haidle, earning his first writing credit for a feature film. Stand Up Guys kicks off when retiree Walken,A car parking system is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot. an amateur oil painter who specializes in exploding sunrises, picks up Pacino at a maximum security prison.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! Walken's pal has just served 28 years for a violent crime they were all involved in.
Mark Margolis as the psychotic thug Claphands -- wants Pacino dead anyway for past sins. Who is the designated triggerman? This is not hard to figure out and this plot twist is soon divulged to us.Service Report a problem with a street light. Stand Up Guys is not about suspense, it is about character development and banter.
The rest of the made-in-Hollywood movie takes place over the rest of the day, into the night, and onto the explosive events of the next morning. Along the way, the story is played as a buddy comedy and occasionally as a sappy melodrama about Walken's long-lost granddaughter and Arkin's devoted daughter (Julianna Margulies).Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. Pacino's character has no family, so he is the wild one who brazenly indulges in drugs, booze, steak dinners and sleazy (if amusing) hookers. After all, 28 years is a long time.
Pacino chews up scenery like a troll. It is fun to watch. Arkin is sly and sarcastic. Nicely done. Walken sends up Walken, using that famously stilted voice to make a mockery of the thousands of actors who imitate him. Love the guy! Everyone else in the movie -- even those we come to like -- are just superficial types. The good people are too good to believe. The bad people are total a--holes who deserve to be punished.
Some are punished, especially thugs who sexually assault a young woman. Our anti-heroes wreak revenge on her behalf and establish their moral credentials with us, the audience. They may be criminals, but our old-school guys have ethics.
It should now be obvious that you do not go to this movie expecting an action classic. Stevens is a hack director when he is doing diction. This is not something in the league of Heat, Michael Mann's 1995 heist drama which sets Pacino up against Robert De Niro. Instead, use Walken's painting as a metaphor. In the movie, Walken is no Rembrandt -- and neither is Stand Up Guys. But his vivid yellow sunrises bring us a little cheer on a winter's night.
“I think the bills right here, conceptually, I agree with,ST Electronics' parking guidance system provides drivers with a realtime indication of available parking spaces.” Sen. Smith said before adding that he questions whether a 2 percent tax could generate as much as the current system. “But I do appreciate their efforts about trying to get some discussion and debate for legitimate tax reform.”
The plan would affect everything that is sold, purchased and rented in New Mexico and eliminates the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, the compensating tax and nearly all of the state’s special sales taxes such as the vehicle excise tax and taxes on insurance premiums.
The few existing taxes that would remain would be the property tax, the gasoline tax and severance taxes — such as the ones on the oil and natural gas industries that supply nearly one-third of New Mexico’s total tax revenues.
Under the plan, local governments will be able to add up to a 1 percent gross receipts tax for the towns and cities.
“This basically goes to the true definition of a gross receipts tax, Rep. Taylor said. “For a long time we have talked about a broad-based tax with very low rates.”
Taylor says the plan would allow poorer New Mexicans to obtain tax refunds of up to 100 percent.
Sharer introduced the bill Thursday in the Senate and Taylor introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives.
New Mexico has a complex tax structure that relies heavily on a gross receipts tax that has developed into a system filled with credits, exemptions, deductions and outright exceptions.
The simple-minded story was penned by Noah Haidle, earning his first writing credit for a feature film. Stand Up Guys kicks off when retiree Walken,A car parking system is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot. an amateur oil painter who specializes in exploding sunrises, picks up Pacino at a maximum security prison.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! Walken's pal has just served 28 years for a violent crime they were all involved in.
Mark Margolis as the psychotic thug Claphands -- wants Pacino dead anyway for past sins. Who is the designated triggerman? This is not hard to figure out and this plot twist is soon divulged to us.Service Report a problem with a street light. Stand Up Guys is not about suspense, it is about character development and banter.
The rest of the made-in-Hollywood movie takes place over the rest of the day, into the night, and onto the explosive events of the next morning. Along the way, the story is played as a buddy comedy and occasionally as a sappy melodrama about Walken's long-lost granddaughter and Arkin's devoted daughter (Julianna Margulies).Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. Pacino's character has no family, so he is the wild one who brazenly indulges in drugs, booze, steak dinners and sleazy (if amusing) hookers. After all, 28 years is a long time.
Pacino chews up scenery like a troll. It is fun to watch. Arkin is sly and sarcastic. Nicely done. Walken sends up Walken, using that famously stilted voice to make a mockery of the thousands of actors who imitate him. Love the guy! Everyone else in the movie -- even those we come to like -- are just superficial types. The good people are too good to believe. The bad people are total a--holes who deserve to be punished.
Some are punished, especially thugs who sexually assault a young woman. Our anti-heroes wreak revenge on her behalf and establish their moral credentials with us, the audience. They may be criminals, but our old-school guys have ethics.
It should now be obvious that you do not go to this movie expecting an action classic. Stevens is a hack director when he is doing diction. This is not something in the league of Heat, Michael Mann's 1995 heist drama which sets Pacino up against Robert De Niro. Instead, use Walken's painting as a metaphor. In the movie, Walken is no Rembrandt -- and neither is Stand Up Guys. But his vivid yellow sunrises bring us a little cheer on a winter's night.
“I think the bills right here, conceptually, I agree with,ST Electronics' parking guidance system provides drivers with a realtime indication of available parking spaces.” Sen. Smith said before adding that he questions whether a 2 percent tax could generate as much as the current system. “But I do appreciate their efforts about trying to get some discussion and debate for legitimate tax reform.”
The plan would affect everything that is sold, purchased and rented in New Mexico and eliminates the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, the compensating tax and nearly all of the state’s special sales taxes such as the vehicle excise tax and taxes on insurance premiums.
The few existing taxes that would remain would be the property tax, the gasoline tax and severance taxes — such as the ones on the oil and natural gas industries that supply nearly one-third of New Mexico’s total tax revenues.
Under the plan, local governments will be able to add up to a 1 percent gross receipts tax for the towns and cities.
“This basically goes to the true definition of a gross receipts tax, Rep. Taylor said. “For a long time we have talked about a broad-based tax with very low rates.”
Taylor says the plan would allow poorer New Mexicans to obtain tax refunds of up to 100 percent.
Sharer introduced the bill Thursday in the Senate and Taylor introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives.
New Mexico has a complex tax structure that relies heavily on a gross receipts tax that has developed into a system filled with credits, exemptions, deductions and outright exceptions.
London Bay Homes’ Girona Model Now Open for Viewing in Mediterra
The three-bedroom villa home features interior design by Michael
Scott of Romanza Interior Design in Naples and overlooks a marsh
preserve in Cortile, a neighborhood of 46 estate and villa homesites.
The floor plan is one of more than a dozen offered by London Bay Homes
in the Cortile neighborhood. The maintenance-free villas in Cortile –
which include pool service, landscaping and lawn care covered through
the homeowners association – are now more than 60 percent sold.
The model features Leonardo travertine flooring, neutral background finishes and a color palette of sand, charcoal, rust and green accented with blue and coral in select rooms. Its Spanish architecture incorporates a terra cotta tile barrel roof, rustic brick paver walkway and an intimate landscaped entry courtyard featuring an Italianate fountain.
The Girona offers 3,526 square feet of air-conditioned living space, a dining room, great room and study. It has three full baths and a powder room and the model is shown with a pool, spa, full summer kitchen with a commercial-grade grill and optional three-car garage.
Scott introduces the travertine flooring at the home’s entry and continues it throughout the model’s main living areas and onto the pool deck. The technique emphasizes the Girona’s open floor plan as does its connection to al fresco spaces through sliding glass doors in the family room and nook and a French door in the master suite.
The great room features an eclectic mix of transitional furniture pieces in warm walnut brown wood tones and contemporary upholstery with medium-toned fabrics and leathers. A natural sisal area rug anchors the main seating area and floral draperies throughout echo the room’s sand, rust, green and grey hues. Wood beams accent the ceiling.
The kitchen offers a Sub-Zero beverage center and refrigerator, a 48-inch stainless steel Wolf range and a walk-in pantry. The room has Carrara granite countertops with a unique leather finish, light-toned wood cabinetry, a handmade tile backsplash above the range and a freestanding island.
The floor and furniture plans provide numerous gathering areas, accommodating four at the kitchen’s island breakfast bar, eight to 10 people at the dining room table and another six at the nook’s round table. Additional gathering spaces include the outdoor living areas and even the study, designed with a small sectional for late-night TV viewing and a walnut writing/computer desk.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
The classic king-size four-poster mission-style bed in the master bedroom references the Girona’s architectural influences and has an upholstered headboard with bronze accents. Clay colored walls and a hand-finished hickory wood plank floor add warmth to the room; blonde woven raffia bedside chests and a sisal area rug introduce elements of nature, also echoed in shades of sea green, blue and sand.
The English Victoria + Albert volcanic stone and resin tub, set in a windowed alcove,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! is the focal point of the master bath, which also has travertine floors,Service Report a problem with a street light. light wood stained vanities with polished Sicilian mocha-hued limestone tops, transitional crystal and metal light fixtures and a travertine-clad walk-in shower.
The Girona’s two guest suites have private full baths; one has a walk-in closet. One offers a queen-sized bed and a transitional design with a teal, rust and sand color palette. The second room has two twin beds and shades of pale green, coral and sand.
The 1,700-acre master-planned Mediterra community is the seven-time winner of the Collier Building Industry Association’s Sand Dollar Award for Community of the Year. Mediterra offers an array of lifestyle amenities, including the member-owned Club at Mediterra with two Tom Fazio-designed championship courses and the private 10,000-square-foot Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico, featuring an elevated swimming pool, casual dining with a full bar, and valet service for beach chairs, umbrellas and beverage and food menus.
Mediterra’s onsite amenities include themed neighborhood parks; eight miles of walking and jogging trails; a fitness complex with tennis and bocce courts, swimming pool and spa services; and the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse offering formal and casual dining prepared by a staff of award-winning culinary experts.
Mediterra’s Golf Learning Center offers indoor and outdoor hitting stations, video equipment with launch monitor,A car parking system is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot.ST Electronics' parking guidance system provides drivers with a realtime indication of available parking spaces. a 2.5-acre short game practice complex with three greens, and a staff of certified PGA professionals. Membership opportunities at Mediterra are limited to just 225 members per 18 holes.
Planned for fewer than 950 homes, Mediterra’s master plan includes more than 1,000 acres dedicated to open space with golf, parks and nature preserves. All of the community’s amenities are membership-owned.
Since December 2009, London Bay and affiliates have managed all new home sales and marketing for the luxury community. London Bay recently expanded services by adding Mediterra Realty, which lists resale properties throughout Mediterra.
The model features Leonardo travertine flooring, neutral background finishes and a color palette of sand, charcoal, rust and green accented with blue and coral in select rooms. Its Spanish architecture incorporates a terra cotta tile barrel roof, rustic brick paver walkway and an intimate landscaped entry courtyard featuring an Italianate fountain.
The Girona offers 3,526 square feet of air-conditioned living space, a dining room, great room and study. It has three full baths and a powder room and the model is shown with a pool, spa, full summer kitchen with a commercial-grade grill and optional three-car garage.
Scott introduces the travertine flooring at the home’s entry and continues it throughout the model’s main living areas and onto the pool deck. The technique emphasizes the Girona’s open floor plan as does its connection to al fresco spaces through sliding glass doors in the family room and nook and a French door in the master suite.
The great room features an eclectic mix of transitional furniture pieces in warm walnut brown wood tones and contemporary upholstery with medium-toned fabrics and leathers. A natural sisal area rug anchors the main seating area and floral draperies throughout echo the room’s sand, rust, green and grey hues. Wood beams accent the ceiling.
The kitchen offers a Sub-Zero beverage center and refrigerator, a 48-inch stainless steel Wolf range and a walk-in pantry. The room has Carrara granite countertops with a unique leather finish, light-toned wood cabinetry, a handmade tile backsplash above the range and a freestanding island.
The floor and furniture plans provide numerous gathering areas, accommodating four at the kitchen’s island breakfast bar, eight to 10 people at the dining room table and another six at the nook’s round table. Additional gathering spaces include the outdoor living areas and even the study, designed with a small sectional for late-night TV viewing and a walnut writing/computer desk.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
The classic king-size four-poster mission-style bed in the master bedroom references the Girona’s architectural influences and has an upholstered headboard with bronze accents. Clay colored walls and a hand-finished hickory wood plank floor add warmth to the room; blonde woven raffia bedside chests and a sisal area rug introduce elements of nature, also echoed in shades of sea green, blue and sand.
The English Victoria + Albert volcanic stone and resin tub, set in a windowed alcove,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! is the focal point of the master bath, which also has travertine floors,Service Report a problem with a street light. light wood stained vanities with polished Sicilian mocha-hued limestone tops, transitional crystal and metal light fixtures and a travertine-clad walk-in shower.
The Girona’s two guest suites have private full baths; one has a walk-in closet. One offers a queen-sized bed and a transitional design with a teal, rust and sand color palette. The second room has two twin beds and shades of pale green, coral and sand.
The 1,700-acre master-planned Mediterra community is the seven-time winner of the Collier Building Industry Association’s Sand Dollar Award for Community of the Year. Mediterra offers an array of lifestyle amenities, including the member-owned Club at Mediterra with two Tom Fazio-designed championship courses and the private 10,000-square-foot Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico, featuring an elevated swimming pool, casual dining with a full bar, and valet service for beach chairs, umbrellas and beverage and food menus.
Mediterra’s onsite amenities include themed neighborhood parks; eight miles of walking and jogging trails; a fitness complex with tennis and bocce courts, swimming pool and spa services; and the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse offering formal and casual dining prepared by a staff of award-winning culinary experts.
Mediterra’s Golf Learning Center offers indoor and outdoor hitting stations, video equipment with launch monitor,A car parking system is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot.ST Electronics' parking guidance system provides drivers with a realtime indication of available parking spaces. a 2.5-acre short game practice complex with three greens, and a staff of certified PGA professionals. Membership opportunities at Mediterra are limited to just 225 members per 18 holes.
Planned for fewer than 950 homes, Mediterra’s master plan includes more than 1,000 acres dedicated to open space with golf, parks and nature preserves. All of the community’s amenities are membership-owned.
Since December 2009, London Bay and affiliates have managed all new home sales and marketing for the luxury community. London Bay recently expanded services by adding Mediterra Realty, which lists resale properties throughout Mediterra.
2013年1月30日星期三
This time must be different
Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords (D-Ariz.), told a Senate committee on Wednesday morning that
“this time must be different,” calling for stronger gun laws in the wake
of a string of mass shootings.
Kelly, a retired Navy officer who flew four times in space, has become the country’s best-known spokesman for gun control, following the January 8, 2011, shooting that nearly killed his wife. Giffords was shot in the head as she held a constituent event in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Ariz. Six others were killed,Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. before alleged gunman Jared Loughner was stopped as he sought to re-load. Kelly spoke after a brief opening statement from Giffords, who he said is still partially blind, and struggles to walk. He took her hand to help lead her from the room,Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online. and then returned a few minutes later to be a witness himself.
In Kelly’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he took pains to cast himself–and his wife–as political moderates, and longtime gun owners. “We take that right very, very seriously, and we would never, ever give it up,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production.” Kelly said.
But Kelly urged the committee to seek to fix the “matrix of failure and inadequacy” that underlies every gun death. He suggested three potential actions.
Kelly, who founded a group called Americans for Responsible Solutions with Giffords, had previously said he wanted a new ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. In this hearing, however, he stopped short of calling explicitly for those measures. Instead, Kelly called for a “careful and civil conversation” about whether those items should face greater regulation.
Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, tagged along in January when her father took part in a nine-person US delegation to North Korea, organized by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Ms. Schmidt, a grad school student, made a number of enlightening observations about the “hermit kingdom” on her blog, Sophie in North Korea.
In a post titled “It might not get weirder than this,” Schmidt writes, “Our trip was a mixture of highly staged encounters, tightly-orchestrated viewings and what seemed like genuine human moments.” She notes under “Top Level Take-aways” that “Nothing I’d read or heard beforehand really prepared me for what we saw.” It was also extremely cold and none of the sites they toured – schools, malls, and government buildings – were heated,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. despite frigid temperatures.
“It is quite extraordinary to have the Honored Guest Experience in such conditions: they’re proudly showing you their latest technology or best library, and you can see your breath. A clue to how much is really in their control.”
Beacon Hill business owners and residents are working on ideas to improve parking on Charles Street, including shuffling commercial parking spots and installing multispace parking meters.
Business owners and neighborhood residents met Tuesday night at a Joint Charles Street Committee meeting to discuss possible changes that would make more parking spots available to customers.
“We obviously don’t want to make changes willy-nilly,” said John Corey, co-chair of the committee, who presented a parking study of the street.
Corey noted that the commercial loading zones on the street ban customer parking from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and are clustered in certain areas, such as the eight commercial spots at the top of the street near Charles Circle.Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics.
“That didn’t seem to make a lot of sense,” said Corey. “A lot of these loading zones could be left over from God knows when.”
Corey and co-chair Susan Symonds, who is also president of the Beacon Hill Business Association, suggested redistributing the commercial spots along the street without reducing their numbers.
The suggested moves would include changing the commercial spaces on Mt. Vernon Street into resident parking while moving the commercial spaces onto Charles Street in front of Charles Street Market, where commercial and delivery vehicles could more easily park.
Kelly, a retired Navy officer who flew four times in space, has become the country’s best-known spokesman for gun control, following the January 8, 2011, shooting that nearly killed his wife. Giffords was shot in the head as she held a constituent event in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Ariz. Six others were killed,Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. before alleged gunman Jared Loughner was stopped as he sought to re-load. Kelly spoke after a brief opening statement from Giffords, who he said is still partially blind, and struggles to walk. He took her hand to help lead her from the room,Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online. and then returned a few minutes later to be a witness himself.
In Kelly’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he took pains to cast himself–and his wife–as political moderates, and longtime gun owners. “We take that right very, very seriously, and we would never, ever give it up,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production.” Kelly said.
But Kelly urged the committee to seek to fix the “matrix of failure and inadequacy” that underlies every gun death. He suggested three potential actions.
Kelly, who founded a group called Americans for Responsible Solutions with Giffords, had previously said he wanted a new ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. In this hearing, however, he stopped short of calling explicitly for those measures. Instead, Kelly called for a “careful and civil conversation” about whether those items should face greater regulation.
Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, tagged along in January when her father took part in a nine-person US delegation to North Korea, organized by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Ms. Schmidt, a grad school student, made a number of enlightening observations about the “hermit kingdom” on her blog, Sophie in North Korea.
In a post titled “It might not get weirder than this,” Schmidt writes, “Our trip was a mixture of highly staged encounters, tightly-orchestrated viewings and what seemed like genuine human moments.” She notes under “Top Level Take-aways” that “Nothing I’d read or heard beforehand really prepared me for what we saw.” It was also extremely cold and none of the sites they toured – schools, malls, and government buildings – were heated,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. despite frigid temperatures.
“It is quite extraordinary to have the Honored Guest Experience in such conditions: they’re proudly showing you their latest technology or best library, and you can see your breath. A clue to how much is really in their control.”
Beacon Hill business owners and residents are working on ideas to improve parking on Charles Street, including shuffling commercial parking spots and installing multispace parking meters.
Business owners and neighborhood residents met Tuesday night at a Joint Charles Street Committee meeting to discuss possible changes that would make more parking spots available to customers.
“We obviously don’t want to make changes willy-nilly,” said John Corey, co-chair of the committee, who presented a parking study of the street.
Corey noted that the commercial loading zones on the street ban customer parking from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and are clustered in certain areas, such as the eight commercial spots at the top of the street near Charles Circle.Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics.
“That didn’t seem to make a lot of sense,” said Corey. “A lot of these loading zones could be left over from God knows when.”
Corey and co-chair Susan Symonds, who is also president of the Beacon Hill Business Association, suggested redistributing the commercial spots along the street without reducing their numbers.
The suggested moves would include changing the commercial spaces on Mt. Vernon Street into resident parking while moving the commercial spaces onto Charles Street in front of Charles Street Market, where commercial and delivery vehicles could more easily park.
No more free parking in Media City
Carol is not alone. Hundreds of people working and studying in Dubai
Internet City, Dubai Media City and the Dubai Knowledge Village started
paying parking fees this week, owing to a new move by the Roads and
Transport Authority (RTA) to relieve parking congestion in these areas.
Huda, a Moroccan student at Eton University in Knowledge Village, said she will have to start shelling out Dh16 a day to park her four-wheel drive near the college. “Apart from the cost, we have to remember to pay the fees even when we are studying, otherwise we risk being fined. ”
Aiken Geovic Fonseca, 20, a second year Advertising, Public Relations and Media student at Middlesex University, said students must get subsidised rates as parents are already paying heavily for college fees.
Officegoers in Internet City and Media City have also started to feel the burden of this additional cost. They also fear that paying for parking will not guarantee them a slot close to their offices since there is a massive demand for parking in these areas.
Ahmad, another journalist working in Media City and living in The Gardens, has decided to commute to work by the Metro. “Apart from the fact that I will have to shell out a considerable amount every day for parking, there is no guarantee that I will get it or if I will get it close to my office. Until summer sets in I plan to use the Metro. After that I will eventually have to cough up the additional expenses.”
Clearly the RTA’s move has not gone down well with office goers. But the RTA is certain it will relieve the congestion at peak hours.
“The new parking move has been done to provide a solution to the growing demand for parking in the areas. It follows legitimate concerns raised by a number of our valued business partners about the availability of parking in areas allocated for their companies and employees. The implementation of the new parking management system will provide priority to business partners in Tecom buildings when trying to access the facilities made specifically available to them,” RTA’s circular says.Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics.
Meanwhile, the RTA has already started placing flyers on vehicles parked in the Media City, Internet City and Knowledge Village areas.
Companies have been asked to contact Tecom offices to ascertain the parking spaces allotted to them. Season parking cards A and B will not be valid in the areas. The multi-level parking buildings in these areas will also be paid-parking.
While the ground and first floor levels will be charged, the upper floors have been designated for Tecom Investments permit holders.
The spokesperson added that the project, located in Sector 11 East between Al Falah Street and Baniyas Street near the Ministry of Finance, Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council and the Department of Economic Development (DED), was set to be completed by the third quarter of next year.
The new Dh120 million structure will provide additional parking to cater to the needs of the capital’s growing population and urban expansion.
The new project will add three storeys of underground parking in addition to surface parking. Through this project,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. the DoT aims to increase the capacity and number of parking spaces in Abu Dhabi, while providing multiple services within the facility in accordance with the highest standards in safety and comfort for the public.
The parking facility will have three elevators equipped with a high-tech security system, CCTV and round-the-clock security surveillance, while Mawaqif inspectors will supervise the parking area. The facility will also have a dedicated parking section next to the entrance of the building to accommodate people with special needs. The parking has been designed in a rectangular shape to facilitate movement into and out of the building. In addition, the facility will also offer energy efficiency through the use of environment-friendly technologies.
A parking guide system will be in place to simplify the search for a parking space through the use of green and red lights.Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online.
The parking complex will also feature recreational facilities, including a park for families with a children’s playarea and a basketball court as part of surface parking.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. Future plans also may include a mosque.
Residents in Abu Dhabi say finding a parking space is still a frustrating exercise, particularly in areas like Tourist Club and Khalidiya.
“Finding a parking space poses a problem daily and [is] a frustrating exercise despite being a subscriber to the paid parking scheme,” Mahmoud Ali, a teacher who lives in Tourist Club Area, said.
The Abu Dhabi Executive Council (Adec) has approved the construction of five multi-storey parking facilities in the capital.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. The approval was given at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Shaikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board at Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, and member of the Executive Council, on January 23.
The parking facilities will be constructed in densely populated neighbourhoods and areas that experience heavy traffic such as the Corniche, Khalifa Bin Zayed Street, Khalid Bin Al Waleed-Al Nasr Road junction and Hamdan Bin Mohammed Street-Al Najda Street junction. The parking facilities can be dismantled and used for multiple purposes.
Huda, a Moroccan student at Eton University in Knowledge Village, said she will have to start shelling out Dh16 a day to park her four-wheel drive near the college. “Apart from the cost, we have to remember to pay the fees even when we are studying, otherwise we risk being fined. ”
Aiken Geovic Fonseca, 20, a second year Advertising, Public Relations and Media student at Middlesex University, said students must get subsidised rates as parents are already paying heavily for college fees.
Officegoers in Internet City and Media City have also started to feel the burden of this additional cost. They also fear that paying for parking will not guarantee them a slot close to their offices since there is a massive demand for parking in these areas.
Ahmad, another journalist working in Media City and living in The Gardens, has decided to commute to work by the Metro. “Apart from the fact that I will have to shell out a considerable amount every day for parking, there is no guarantee that I will get it or if I will get it close to my office. Until summer sets in I plan to use the Metro. After that I will eventually have to cough up the additional expenses.”
Clearly the RTA’s move has not gone down well with office goers. But the RTA is certain it will relieve the congestion at peak hours.
“The new parking move has been done to provide a solution to the growing demand for parking in the areas. It follows legitimate concerns raised by a number of our valued business partners about the availability of parking in areas allocated for their companies and employees. The implementation of the new parking management system will provide priority to business partners in Tecom buildings when trying to access the facilities made specifically available to them,” RTA’s circular says.Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics.
Meanwhile, the RTA has already started placing flyers on vehicles parked in the Media City, Internet City and Knowledge Village areas.
Companies have been asked to contact Tecom offices to ascertain the parking spaces allotted to them. Season parking cards A and B will not be valid in the areas. The multi-level parking buildings in these areas will also be paid-parking.
While the ground and first floor levels will be charged, the upper floors have been designated for Tecom Investments permit holders.
The spokesperson added that the project, located in Sector 11 East between Al Falah Street and Baniyas Street near the Ministry of Finance, Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council and the Department of Economic Development (DED), was set to be completed by the third quarter of next year.
The new Dh120 million structure will provide additional parking to cater to the needs of the capital’s growing population and urban expansion.
The new project will add three storeys of underground parking in addition to surface parking. Through this project,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. the DoT aims to increase the capacity and number of parking spaces in Abu Dhabi, while providing multiple services within the facility in accordance with the highest standards in safety and comfort for the public.
The parking facility will have three elevators equipped with a high-tech security system, CCTV and round-the-clock security surveillance, while Mawaqif inspectors will supervise the parking area. The facility will also have a dedicated parking section next to the entrance of the building to accommodate people with special needs. The parking has been designed in a rectangular shape to facilitate movement into and out of the building. In addition, the facility will also offer energy efficiency through the use of environment-friendly technologies.
A parking guide system will be in place to simplify the search for a parking space through the use of green and red lights.Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online.
The parking complex will also feature recreational facilities, including a park for families with a children’s playarea and a basketball court as part of surface parking.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. Future plans also may include a mosque.
Residents in Abu Dhabi say finding a parking space is still a frustrating exercise, particularly in areas like Tourist Club and Khalidiya.
“Finding a parking space poses a problem daily and [is] a frustrating exercise despite being a subscriber to the paid parking scheme,” Mahmoud Ali, a teacher who lives in Tourist Club Area, said.
The Abu Dhabi Executive Council (Adec) has approved the construction of five multi-storey parking facilities in the capital.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. The approval was given at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Shaikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board at Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, and member of the Executive Council, on January 23.
The parking facilities will be constructed in densely populated neighbourhoods and areas that experience heavy traffic such as the Corniche, Khalifa Bin Zayed Street, Khalid Bin Al Waleed-Al Nasr Road junction and Hamdan Bin Mohammed Street-Al Najda Street junction. The parking facilities can be dismantled and used for multiple purposes.
Powerful storm flips cars, decimates homes; 2 dead
A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, spawning
tornadoes and dangerous winds that overturned cars on a major Georgia
interstate and demolished homes and businesses, killing at least two
people.
In northwest Georgia, the storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs. The highway was closed for a time, and another main thoroughfare remained closed until crews could safely remove downed trees and power lines from the road.
WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage showing an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta, as the storm ripped through the city's downtown area. The system flattened homes and wiped out parts of a large manufacturing plant. Pieces of insulation hung from trees and power poles,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. while the local bank was missing a big chunk of its roof.
One person was killed and nine were hospitalized for minor injuries, state emergency management officials said. Residents said no traces remained of some roadside produce stands - a common sight on rural Georgia's back roads.
One other death was reported in Tennessee after an uprooted tree fell onto a storage shed where a man had taken shelter.
In Adairsville, the debris in one yard showed just how dangerous the storm had been: a bathtub, table, rolls of toilet paper and lumber lay in the grass next to what appeared to be a roof. Sheets of metal dangled from a large tree like ornaments.
"The sky was swirling," said Theresa Chitwood, who owns the Adairsville Travel Plaza. She said she went outside to move her car because she thought it was going to hail. Instead, the passing storm decimated a building behind the travel plaza.
Powerful winds ripped through the entire region, with gusts powerful enough to topple tractor-trailers in several places.
In Adairsville, several were flipped on their side in the parking lot of the travel plaza. Danny Odum and Rocky Depauw, both truckers from Marion,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. Ill., had stopped for breakfast when the suspected tornado hit.
The pair had been driving their trucks through storm warnings all night long. When they got to the restaurant in Adairsville they went inside to eat. Depauw got a weather alert on his phone, and about two minutes later they saw debris flying through the parking lot and ran for an inner room.
"I've been stopping here for probably 40 years," Odum said. "I just stopped and had breakfast this morning, and this happened."
After it passed, Odum said he went outside to find his truck that was hauling diapers on its side with his dog Simon, a Boston terrier, still inside. Simon was scared but otherwise fine.
Depauw's truck was parked next to Odum's and was damaged but still upright. He speculated his heavy haul of cat litter may have helped his truck handle the hit better than his friend's.
Not far down the road, at Owen's Bar-B-Que, Chrystal Bagley and her coworkers heard warnings about severe weather on the radio, but they didn't hear Adairsville included in the list of warning areas. Around 11:45 a.m.We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production., the doors started rattling, and chairs and knick-knacks began blowing around the room as the door flapped open.
"We heard this big old whooshing noise like a train, and then we ran to the restroom, but we had to dodge objects," she said. "It was real scary."
Access to the area was being restricted, and there was a report of a gas leak in the area, officials said.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. A shelter was being established at a community recreation center - temperatures were expected to plummet to the 30s and 40s overnight.
Authorities were still investigating several sites to determine if damage was caused by twisters. Since Tuesday, the system had caused damage across a swath from Missouri to Georgia.
In recent days, people in the South and Midwest had enjoyed unseasonably balmy temperatures in the 60s and 70s. A system pulling warm weather from the Gulf of Mexico was colliding with a cold front moving in from the west, creating volatility.
One person was reported injured by lightning in Arkansas during the storm's eastward trek. Two people suffered minor injuries when a mobile home was blown off its foundation in Kentucky. Only one minor injury was reported in Mississippi, where officials praised residents for heeding warnings and being prepared.
In Tennessee, officials confirmed that a tornado with peak wind speeds of 115 mph touched down in Mount Juliet. No serious injuries were reported there, though the path of damage was about 150 yards wide, including homes, a warehouse and an automotive business. At least six other tornadoes were reported statewide.
At a shopping center in Mount Juliet, large sheets of metal littered the parking lot, light poles were knocked down and bits of fiberglass insulation were stuck in the trees.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office.
One wall of a Dollar General convenience store collapsed, and the roof was torn off. Mark Fulks Jr. runs Mark's Automotive with his father in a building attached to the Dollar General. The garage door was blown off his shop and sitting on one of the cars inside, and Fulks said several of the cars they were working on had their windshields blown out.
In northwest Georgia, the storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs. The highway was closed for a time, and another main thoroughfare remained closed until crews could safely remove downed trees and power lines from the road.
WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage showing an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta, as the storm ripped through the city's downtown area. The system flattened homes and wiped out parts of a large manufacturing plant. Pieces of insulation hung from trees and power poles,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. while the local bank was missing a big chunk of its roof.
One person was killed and nine were hospitalized for minor injuries, state emergency management officials said. Residents said no traces remained of some roadside produce stands - a common sight on rural Georgia's back roads.
One other death was reported in Tennessee after an uprooted tree fell onto a storage shed where a man had taken shelter.
In Adairsville, the debris in one yard showed just how dangerous the storm had been: a bathtub, table, rolls of toilet paper and lumber lay in the grass next to what appeared to be a roof. Sheets of metal dangled from a large tree like ornaments.
"The sky was swirling," said Theresa Chitwood, who owns the Adairsville Travel Plaza. She said she went outside to move her car because she thought it was going to hail. Instead, the passing storm decimated a building behind the travel plaza.
Powerful winds ripped through the entire region, with gusts powerful enough to topple tractor-trailers in several places.
In Adairsville, several were flipped on their side in the parking lot of the travel plaza. Danny Odum and Rocky Depauw, both truckers from Marion,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. Ill., had stopped for breakfast when the suspected tornado hit.
The pair had been driving their trucks through storm warnings all night long. When they got to the restaurant in Adairsville they went inside to eat. Depauw got a weather alert on his phone, and about two minutes later they saw debris flying through the parking lot and ran for an inner room.
"I've been stopping here for probably 40 years," Odum said. "I just stopped and had breakfast this morning, and this happened."
After it passed, Odum said he went outside to find his truck that was hauling diapers on its side with his dog Simon, a Boston terrier, still inside. Simon was scared but otherwise fine.
Depauw's truck was parked next to Odum's and was damaged but still upright. He speculated his heavy haul of cat litter may have helped his truck handle the hit better than his friend's.
Not far down the road, at Owen's Bar-B-Que, Chrystal Bagley and her coworkers heard warnings about severe weather on the radio, but they didn't hear Adairsville included in the list of warning areas. Around 11:45 a.m.We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production., the doors started rattling, and chairs and knick-knacks began blowing around the room as the door flapped open.
"We heard this big old whooshing noise like a train, and then we ran to the restroom, but we had to dodge objects," she said. "It was real scary."
Access to the area was being restricted, and there was a report of a gas leak in the area, officials said.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. A shelter was being established at a community recreation center - temperatures were expected to plummet to the 30s and 40s overnight.
Authorities were still investigating several sites to determine if damage was caused by twisters. Since Tuesday, the system had caused damage across a swath from Missouri to Georgia.
In recent days, people in the South and Midwest had enjoyed unseasonably balmy temperatures in the 60s and 70s. A system pulling warm weather from the Gulf of Mexico was colliding with a cold front moving in from the west, creating volatility.
One person was reported injured by lightning in Arkansas during the storm's eastward trek. Two people suffered minor injuries when a mobile home was blown off its foundation in Kentucky. Only one minor injury was reported in Mississippi, where officials praised residents for heeding warnings and being prepared.
In Tennessee, officials confirmed that a tornado with peak wind speeds of 115 mph touched down in Mount Juliet. No serious injuries were reported there, though the path of damage was about 150 yards wide, including homes, a warehouse and an automotive business. At least six other tornadoes were reported statewide.
At a shopping center in Mount Juliet, large sheets of metal littered the parking lot, light poles were knocked down and bits of fiberglass insulation were stuck in the trees.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office.
One wall of a Dollar General convenience store collapsed, and the roof was torn off. Mark Fulks Jr. runs Mark's Automotive with his father in a building attached to the Dollar General. The garage door was blown off his shop and sitting on one of the cars inside, and Fulks said several of the cars they were working on had their windshields blown out.
The Nature of Things
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago is, arguably, the most
intellectually accomplished bishop in the history of the American
episcopate. Earlier this year,A ridiculously low price on this
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by Gordon. when the Illinois legislature began to consider changing
state law to “accommodate those of the same sex who wish to ‘marry’ one
another” (as the cardinal put it), Professor George gave the readers of
his column in the Chicago archdiocesan newspaper a lesson in
metaphysics—and, I suspect, a high-voltage intellectual jolt:
Sexual relations between a man and a woman are naturally and necessarily different from sexual relations between same-sex partners. This truth is part of the common sense of the human race. It was true before the existence of either Church or State, and it will continue to be true when there is no State of Illinois and no United States of America. A proposal to change this truth about marriage in civil law is less a threat to religion than it is an affront to human reason and the common good of society. It means we are all to pretend to accept something we know is physically impossible. The Legislature might just as well repeal the law of gravity.
The crucial term here is “naturally.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.” And if people were shocked by the cardinal’s suggestion that a same-sex “marriage” law would be as fatuous as a statute repealing the law of gravity, it’s because our philosophically challenged culture has lost any grip on what “nature” means, beyond that physical world we venerate through such civic rituals as recycling.
There is little sense of the givenness of things, in the twenty-first-century postmodern West. And where there is no culturally affirmed conviction that some realities simply are, there will be a parallel intuition that everything is fungible, plastic,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. malleable: anything can be changed by an act of will. The legal ne plus ultra of this cultural phenomenon came in 2007, when the Spanish government allowed Juan to become Juanita on his/her national identity card by simply declaring (absent any surgical alteration) that he was now she. Cardinal George was suggesting,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! correctly in my view, that same-sex marriage is the same, essentially incoherent denial of givenness manifest in Spain’s Gender Identity Law 3/2007.
In his Christmas address to the Roman Curia last December, Pope Benedict XVI raised similar issues. We deplore the “manipulation of nature” today “where our environment is concerned,” the pope noted; but when it comes to human affairs, human “nature” has become a matter of our “choice.” Which means that we no longer experience ourselves as unique composites of matter and spirit. The “matter” of our humanness is mere ephemera; we are merely, as Benedict put it, “spirit and will.”
Who are the big losers, the pope asked, when societies and cultures lose their grip on the reality that “man and women are complementary versions of what it means to be human”? The family is certainly a loser: for if there is no “duality of man and women” that is accepted as the Way Things Are, than “neither is the family any longer a reality” established by anything other than our willfulness.
The biggest losers, though, are children, the pope argued. If children are simply a lifestyle choice in a “family” that is nothing other than a willed arrangement for mutual convenience, children lose their rightful place and their rightful dignity. Citing the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, Benedict argued that children are, in this bizarre new world, no longer the subject of rights. Rather, “the child has become an object to which people have a right and which they have a right to obtain.” The freedom to be creative, which finds its most awesome expression in procreation, has been reduced to the freedom to create myself,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. however I imagine myself to be.
The marriage debate is thus about more than the legal definition of marriage, although that is serious enough. It’s a debate about whether there are any givens in the human condition, or whether willfulness and self-assertion trump reality at every point. If they do, what happens to democracies built on self-evident truths?
"ISU when collecting tuition, it's no different," said Dr. Robert Guell, a professor of economics at Indiana State University. "If you want to pay your tuition on a credit card, ISU will take the credit card but you'll pay that extra three percent as an extra cost."
While some businesses might not add the fee, Dr. Guell expects places to cover their overhead cost one way or another.
"Whether it shows up on the ticket or whether it doesn't show up on the ticket, Walmart is going to charge it's customers for it's cost, one of which is collecting money from the credit card companies," said Dr. Guell.
"If this means more small businesses are going to be able to offer credit card services than that's probably a boom for them because now i can shop there without having the hastle of going to get cash or getting my checkbook," said Justin.
Sexual relations between a man and a woman are naturally and necessarily different from sexual relations between same-sex partners. This truth is part of the common sense of the human race. It was true before the existence of either Church or State, and it will continue to be true when there is no State of Illinois and no United States of America. A proposal to change this truth about marriage in civil law is less a threat to religion than it is an affront to human reason and the common good of society. It means we are all to pretend to accept something we know is physically impossible. The Legislature might just as well repeal the law of gravity.
The crucial term here is “naturally.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.” And if people were shocked by the cardinal’s suggestion that a same-sex “marriage” law would be as fatuous as a statute repealing the law of gravity, it’s because our philosophically challenged culture has lost any grip on what “nature” means, beyond that physical world we venerate through such civic rituals as recycling.
There is little sense of the givenness of things, in the twenty-first-century postmodern West. And where there is no culturally affirmed conviction that some realities simply are, there will be a parallel intuition that everything is fungible, plastic,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. malleable: anything can be changed by an act of will. The legal ne plus ultra of this cultural phenomenon came in 2007, when the Spanish government allowed Juan to become Juanita on his/her national identity card by simply declaring (absent any surgical alteration) that he was now she. Cardinal George was suggesting,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! correctly in my view, that same-sex marriage is the same, essentially incoherent denial of givenness manifest in Spain’s Gender Identity Law 3/2007.
In his Christmas address to the Roman Curia last December, Pope Benedict XVI raised similar issues. We deplore the “manipulation of nature” today “where our environment is concerned,” the pope noted; but when it comes to human affairs, human “nature” has become a matter of our “choice.” Which means that we no longer experience ourselves as unique composites of matter and spirit. The “matter” of our humanness is mere ephemera; we are merely, as Benedict put it, “spirit and will.”
Who are the big losers, the pope asked, when societies and cultures lose their grip on the reality that “man and women are complementary versions of what it means to be human”? The family is certainly a loser: for if there is no “duality of man and women” that is accepted as the Way Things Are, than “neither is the family any longer a reality” established by anything other than our willfulness.
The biggest losers, though, are children, the pope argued. If children are simply a lifestyle choice in a “family” that is nothing other than a willed arrangement for mutual convenience, children lose their rightful place and their rightful dignity. Citing the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, Benedict argued that children are, in this bizarre new world, no longer the subject of rights. Rather, “the child has become an object to which people have a right and which they have a right to obtain.” The freedom to be creative, which finds its most awesome expression in procreation, has been reduced to the freedom to create myself,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. however I imagine myself to be.
The marriage debate is thus about more than the legal definition of marriage, although that is serious enough. It’s a debate about whether there are any givens in the human condition, or whether willfulness and self-assertion trump reality at every point. If they do, what happens to democracies built on self-evident truths?
"ISU when collecting tuition, it's no different," said Dr. Robert Guell, a professor of economics at Indiana State University. "If you want to pay your tuition on a credit card, ISU will take the credit card but you'll pay that extra three percent as an extra cost."
While some businesses might not add the fee, Dr. Guell expects places to cover their overhead cost one way or another.
"Whether it shows up on the ticket or whether it doesn't show up on the ticket, Walmart is going to charge it's customers for it's cost, one of which is collecting money from the credit card companies," said Dr. Guell.
"If this means more small businesses are going to be able to offer credit card services than that's probably a boom for them because now i can shop there without having the hastle of going to get cash or getting my checkbook," said Justin.
Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas
Waves rolled through the night, pitching the ship from side to side.
From the bridge deck, the white sand beaches of the Exumas glowed
blue-white under the starlight, and the rising moon spread a thin layer
of silver over the sea. A few miles north, toward our destination in
Nassau, lightning flickered.
I was on a freighter heading through the Bahamas. The sweeping view couldn’t have been more different from the one on deck: shrink-wrapped palettes cradled cinderblocks, baby diapers and bottled water obscured the bow; oiled two-by-eight planks concealed crates of produce, furniture and hardware stowed in the cargo hold. Amidships, a 70-foot crane was lashed to a steel boom crutch. Tucked away in private cabins behind the wheelhouse, two dozen passengers slept soundly.
The ship was one of 15 government-contracted mail boats that deliver provisions, passengers and a few adventurous tourists to the Out Islands, the hundreds of remote islands beyond the tourist and commercial centers of New Providence, Grand Bahama and Paradise Islands. My boat was one of three mail boats that I took on a six-day, 350-mile journey last spring to explore the Bahamas the way Bahamians do. I had vacationed in the islands several times before, usually cooped up in a resort with every amenity a guest could dream up, and I’d long wanted to get beyond the more touristed areas. Mail boats have been the primary means of interisland travel for locals for more than a century and seemed the perfect way to do it. There are no tour guides or lido deck, and the nighttime entertainment consists largely of gazing at a starry sky over the drone of a diesel engine. But for a shockingly cheap ticket (from $45), passengers can get a meal, a bed and one thing that eludes even the most dogged Caribbean traveler: immersion in authentic Bahamian culture.
The Out Islands are made up of more than 700 islands, many of them belonging to particular archipelagos or chains. Each chain is served by its own mail boat system, and because I was vacationing with friends in the Exumas, I started my exploration there. A resident told me about a mail boat heading to Nassau, and I was soon onboard a ship listening to Capt. Lance Brozozog outline our loose itinerary: cross the Tropic of Cancer at sunset; bisect the 360-island Exuma archipelago through a 150-foot-wide channel at midnight; arrive in Nassau sometime after dawn. Mr. Brozozog knows the route well. Since he was a boy, the 41-year-old Bahamian has been loading the Grand Master with food,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. water, tools, scrap metal and every other provision that helps to keep the Exuma Islands operating.
My room,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. which was the size of a typical train sleeper compartment,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. was filled with some of those provisions: screen doors, crates of juice and a half-dozen packages addressed to recipients in Nassau — name and phone number only. There were three other berths in the room, but since the ship wasn’t full I had it to myself.
After leaving my bags, I wandered on deck, where Mr. Brozozog chatted with passengers over the din of the big diesel engines rumbling to life.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! As the sun set he shared some of his own history, which included growing up on nearby Staniel Cay and the honor of captaining one of the most famous crossings in the Exumas: in 2006 he piloted (by remote control) the Black Pearl while Johnny Depp clung to the wheel during the filming of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”
He also threw in a recommendation,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. as did several other islanders onboard: go to the hotel at Junkanoo Beach; visit the food shacks on Potter’s Cay in Nassau; avoid Paradise Island at all costs.
Our own meal — served on paper plates — was a Bahamian favorite: barbecued chicken with peas and rice. Afterward, I retired to my cabin for the night, but it soon became clear that, thanks to its location just over the engine room, it would be intolerably hot. At midnight I took the cushion off my bed and dragged it to the upper deck where I was rewarded with a cool breeze and a view of that stunning moonrise and a shooting star falling through the Big Dipper.
The next morning Captain Brozozog steered the Grand Master around two Jet Skis, a tourist excursion boat and a cluster of dilapidated steel freighters, before parallel parking between two ships with 20 feet to spare on either side. Our destination, Potter’s Cay, home port for the mail boats in Nassau, looked the part: it was crowded with rows of shipping containers, stacks of cardboard boxes and fishermen cleaning snapper and conch. A half-dozen mail boats lined the key, all of which were contracted to make a weekly or biweekly run to one of the major Out Islands. Most return directly to Nassau. The trick to touring the islands, Mr. Brozozog had told me, is finding a boat that lays over for a couple of days or visits twice a week, allowing you to stay for a few nights and catch a ride back.
Then he told me that there weren’t any mail boats scheduled to leave Potter’s Cay for days.
I’d learned on previous trips that schedules, assurances and even time itself were abstract concepts in the Bahamas, so I walked the docks anyway, asking if any boats were leaving — for anywhere. An old man sta The Island Link wasn’t close to leaving at 1 p.m., but I boarded anyway, edging past a man trying to back a Buick LeSabre up the slick ramp and a forklift loaded with palettes of toilet paper trying to get around him. An hour later the crew cast off, and the captain steered the ship through the narrow slot separating Potter’s from Paradise Island. The 130-foot catamaran was newer and faster than the Grand Master — was able to cruise around 13 miles per hour compared with 8 — and had an enclosed passengers’ lounge with airplane-style seats, a snack bar and a 50-inch flat screen seemingly programmed with Queen Latifah’s filmography. Wind and rain whipped the windows as the boat pulled away from Nassau. I fell asleep in my seat, and five hours later saw the bowling green coast of Eleuthera rise up from the ocean.
Mr. Green, a sweatshirt hood cinched around his face to protect it from the rain, was waiting with about 50 other islanders when we docked. He waved me down, hustled me into a gold Jeep Cherokee, and in 10 minutes we were in Gregory Town, a tiny settlement with a few restaurants, bars, a gift shop and a liquor store, which happened to be the only place to swipe a credit card. So he hopped out, billed me for both the hotel and the rental car, and pointed me to Daddy Joe’s hotel three miles north. “See you in a couple of days,” he said. nding beside a stack of lumber told me that the Island Link would sail for Eleuthera at noon that day. The cleaning woman on the Island Link told me it would leave at 3 p.m. Dockmaster Craig Curtis said he thought the ship was departing in two days.
Then I found Conrad Sweating, who owns the boat and was selling tickets in a tiny blue shack with his grandson. He said that the boat would actually leave that day, at 1 p.m. Then he sold me a $90 round-trip ticket and booked me a hotel room and a rental car through his cousin with a single phone call. “Mr. Green will be waiting for you at the dock,” he said.
I was on a freighter heading through the Bahamas. The sweeping view couldn’t have been more different from the one on deck: shrink-wrapped palettes cradled cinderblocks, baby diapers and bottled water obscured the bow; oiled two-by-eight planks concealed crates of produce, furniture and hardware stowed in the cargo hold. Amidships, a 70-foot crane was lashed to a steel boom crutch. Tucked away in private cabins behind the wheelhouse, two dozen passengers slept soundly.
The ship was one of 15 government-contracted mail boats that deliver provisions, passengers and a few adventurous tourists to the Out Islands, the hundreds of remote islands beyond the tourist and commercial centers of New Providence, Grand Bahama and Paradise Islands. My boat was one of three mail boats that I took on a six-day, 350-mile journey last spring to explore the Bahamas the way Bahamians do. I had vacationed in the islands several times before, usually cooped up in a resort with every amenity a guest could dream up, and I’d long wanted to get beyond the more touristed areas. Mail boats have been the primary means of interisland travel for locals for more than a century and seemed the perfect way to do it. There are no tour guides or lido deck, and the nighttime entertainment consists largely of gazing at a starry sky over the drone of a diesel engine. But for a shockingly cheap ticket (from $45), passengers can get a meal, a bed and one thing that eludes even the most dogged Caribbean traveler: immersion in authentic Bahamian culture.
The Out Islands are made up of more than 700 islands, many of them belonging to particular archipelagos or chains. Each chain is served by its own mail boat system, and because I was vacationing with friends in the Exumas, I started my exploration there. A resident told me about a mail boat heading to Nassau, and I was soon onboard a ship listening to Capt. Lance Brozozog outline our loose itinerary: cross the Tropic of Cancer at sunset; bisect the 360-island Exuma archipelago through a 150-foot-wide channel at midnight; arrive in Nassau sometime after dawn. Mr. Brozozog knows the route well. Since he was a boy, the 41-year-old Bahamian has been loading the Grand Master with food,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. water, tools, scrap metal and every other provision that helps to keep the Exuma Islands operating.
My room,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. which was the size of a typical train sleeper compartment,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. was filled with some of those provisions: screen doors, crates of juice and a half-dozen packages addressed to recipients in Nassau — name and phone number only. There were three other berths in the room, but since the ship wasn’t full I had it to myself.
After leaving my bags, I wandered on deck, where Mr. Brozozog chatted with passengers over the din of the big diesel engines rumbling to life.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! As the sun set he shared some of his own history, which included growing up on nearby Staniel Cay and the honor of captaining one of the most famous crossings in the Exumas: in 2006 he piloted (by remote control) the Black Pearl while Johnny Depp clung to the wheel during the filming of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”
He also threw in a recommendation,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. as did several other islanders onboard: go to the hotel at Junkanoo Beach; visit the food shacks on Potter’s Cay in Nassau; avoid Paradise Island at all costs.
Our own meal — served on paper plates — was a Bahamian favorite: barbecued chicken with peas and rice. Afterward, I retired to my cabin for the night, but it soon became clear that, thanks to its location just over the engine room, it would be intolerably hot. At midnight I took the cushion off my bed and dragged it to the upper deck where I was rewarded with a cool breeze and a view of that stunning moonrise and a shooting star falling through the Big Dipper.
The next morning Captain Brozozog steered the Grand Master around two Jet Skis, a tourist excursion boat and a cluster of dilapidated steel freighters, before parallel parking between two ships with 20 feet to spare on either side. Our destination, Potter’s Cay, home port for the mail boats in Nassau, looked the part: it was crowded with rows of shipping containers, stacks of cardboard boxes and fishermen cleaning snapper and conch. A half-dozen mail boats lined the key, all of which were contracted to make a weekly or biweekly run to one of the major Out Islands. Most return directly to Nassau. The trick to touring the islands, Mr. Brozozog had told me, is finding a boat that lays over for a couple of days or visits twice a week, allowing you to stay for a few nights and catch a ride back.
Then he told me that there weren’t any mail boats scheduled to leave Potter’s Cay for days.
I’d learned on previous trips that schedules, assurances and even time itself were abstract concepts in the Bahamas, so I walked the docks anyway, asking if any boats were leaving — for anywhere. An old man sta The Island Link wasn’t close to leaving at 1 p.m., but I boarded anyway, edging past a man trying to back a Buick LeSabre up the slick ramp and a forklift loaded with palettes of toilet paper trying to get around him. An hour later the crew cast off, and the captain steered the ship through the narrow slot separating Potter’s from Paradise Island. The 130-foot catamaran was newer and faster than the Grand Master — was able to cruise around 13 miles per hour compared with 8 — and had an enclosed passengers’ lounge with airplane-style seats, a snack bar and a 50-inch flat screen seemingly programmed with Queen Latifah’s filmography. Wind and rain whipped the windows as the boat pulled away from Nassau. I fell asleep in my seat, and five hours later saw the bowling green coast of Eleuthera rise up from the ocean.
Mr. Green, a sweatshirt hood cinched around his face to protect it from the rain, was waiting with about 50 other islanders when we docked. He waved me down, hustled me into a gold Jeep Cherokee, and in 10 minutes we were in Gregory Town, a tiny settlement with a few restaurants, bars, a gift shop and a liquor store, which happened to be the only place to swipe a credit card. So he hopped out, billed me for both the hotel and the rental car, and pointed me to Daddy Joe’s hotel three miles north. “See you in a couple of days,” he said. nding beside a stack of lumber told me that the Island Link would sail for Eleuthera at noon that day. The cleaning woman on the Island Link told me it would leave at 3 p.m. Dockmaster Craig Curtis said he thought the ship was departing in two days.
Then I found Conrad Sweating, who owns the boat and was selling tickets in a tiny blue shack with his grandson. He said that the boat would actually leave that day, at 1 p.m. Then he sold me a $90 round-trip ticket and booked me a hotel room and a rental car through his cousin with a single phone call. “Mr. Green will be waiting for you at the dock,” he said.
2013年1月29日星期二
Stand Up Guys
The waste of talent in Fisher Stevens' Stand Up Guys is criminal.
It's the movie equivalent of shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him
die.
This tale of three aging lawbreakers -- played by Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin -- is not just clichéd. It's witless, to boot. The script by first-timer Noah Haidle longs for depth, even as it makes Viagra jokes (poor Pacino is forced utter them). It wants to be Tarantino-esque, blending wisecracks with wild violence. Instead, it just stumbles from one scene to the next, a long journey into night that will leave you dazed.
Walken plays Doc, who apparently spends his days painting the same landscape of an L.A. River bridge over and over. But on the day in which the story transpires, he packs up his paints and heads for the prison gates, where his best friend,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. Val (Pacino),flash drive and USB flash drives wholesale logo printing in Malaysia. is being released after a lengthy stretch.
Very quickly we get the gist: Doc has orders from their old boss, Claphands (Mark Margolis), to kill Val when he's released, because Claphands also has something he's holding over Doc's head. But Doc's deadline is 10 a.m. the next day,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. so he's willing to let Val have a memorable final night. Val knows this and is determined to make the most of it.
So let's see: hookers and blow, right? Well, hookers, at the least. And then a lot of driving around -- including springing their old pal Hirsch (Arkin) from the nursing home where he's spending his last days connected to an oxygen tank.We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet. Hirsch, their longtime getaway driver, takes them on a wild ride and gets a ride himself, when they head back to the same brothel where Val got his pipes cleaned.
But the sword of doom is hanging over Val -- and Claphands (as stupid and contrived a character name as any I've heard in a while) keeps sending thugs to intrude on his final hours. The joke (allegedly) is that these aging wiseguys have a few violent tricks left up their collective sleeves, which they pull off easily because the thugs are too stupid to expect them.
Arkin jolts the film to life during his brief sojourn on the screen. Pacino and Walken have an easy chemistry, but their material is too stale for them to ever really get any traction. There are moments, to be sure, including one when Pacino muses on mortality, when things feel real for a moment. But only for a moment.
There should be a penalty for assembling a cast this good (it includes Julianna Margulies and Lucy Punch) and then forcing them to work from a script as bad as this. If there were such a thing as movie jail, Stand Up Guys and its creators would be serving life without parole.
In the broadest sense, any work of art can be described as a metamorphosis in one way or another.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. The artist takes an inspiration or experience and translates it for the viewer through a process that is both cerebral and hands-on. Raw materials and ideas are transformed into finished art. In this exhibit, five CCC Art Faculty members have been encouraged to take the theme of metamorphosis a bit further.
Myers relies on quiet mindfulness and "slow seeing" to capture his sensitive landscape photographs, but sometimes fleeting moments of change are "a quick and joyful catch" with the shutter. Seeing the world through the camera lens allows him to attend to the light, form and detail that make up his immediate surroundings, a vision that is translated into photographs of sublime subtlety.
Nebeker is intrigued by the metamorphosis of form and substance and the ineffable ability of art to unite them in "the fragile space between." When considering work for this show, he found himself pondering on "the fragile moment between sleeping and waking, between forgetfulness and remembrance, between becoming and being, between presence and absence, between life and death." His paintings reveal his vision of that transitory moment.
Rowland's wood-fired ceramic works go through an unpredictable metamorphosis in their creation. He finds himself continuously challenged by both the corporeal and ethereal aspects of the process, from digging clay out of the ground, to forming it, to subjecting it to the "hot, windy wilderness" that is the environment of his anagama kiln. The resulting works are what he considers to be "stony artifacts" that speak of the journey of their creation through their forms and surfaces.
Shauck has taken an interdisciplinary approach to the idea of metamorphosis through illustrating poems by local writer Florence Sage, who had embodied the theme within her poetic content. In her work for this show, Shauck endeavors to visually depict the words of the poems, thus translating from one medium to another. In turn, these illustrations have become the springboard for further development and exploration of the theme, resulting in paintings on fabric.
This tale of three aging lawbreakers -- played by Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin -- is not just clichéd. It's witless, to boot. The script by first-timer Noah Haidle longs for depth, even as it makes Viagra jokes (poor Pacino is forced utter them). It wants to be Tarantino-esque, blending wisecracks with wild violence. Instead, it just stumbles from one scene to the next, a long journey into night that will leave you dazed.
Walken plays Doc, who apparently spends his days painting the same landscape of an L.A. River bridge over and over. But on the day in which the story transpires, he packs up his paints and heads for the prison gates, where his best friend,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. Val (Pacino),flash drive and USB flash drives wholesale logo printing in Malaysia. is being released after a lengthy stretch.
Very quickly we get the gist: Doc has orders from their old boss, Claphands (Mark Margolis), to kill Val when he's released, because Claphands also has something he's holding over Doc's head. But Doc's deadline is 10 a.m. the next day,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. so he's willing to let Val have a memorable final night. Val knows this and is determined to make the most of it.
So let's see: hookers and blow, right? Well, hookers, at the least. And then a lot of driving around -- including springing their old pal Hirsch (Arkin) from the nursing home where he's spending his last days connected to an oxygen tank.We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet. Hirsch, their longtime getaway driver, takes them on a wild ride and gets a ride himself, when they head back to the same brothel where Val got his pipes cleaned.
But the sword of doom is hanging over Val -- and Claphands (as stupid and contrived a character name as any I've heard in a while) keeps sending thugs to intrude on his final hours. The joke (allegedly) is that these aging wiseguys have a few violent tricks left up their collective sleeves, which they pull off easily because the thugs are too stupid to expect them.
Arkin jolts the film to life during his brief sojourn on the screen. Pacino and Walken have an easy chemistry, but their material is too stale for them to ever really get any traction. There are moments, to be sure, including one when Pacino muses on mortality, when things feel real for a moment. But only for a moment.
There should be a penalty for assembling a cast this good (it includes Julianna Margulies and Lucy Punch) and then forcing them to work from a script as bad as this. If there were such a thing as movie jail, Stand Up Guys and its creators would be serving life without parole.
In the broadest sense, any work of art can be described as a metamorphosis in one way or another.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. The artist takes an inspiration or experience and translates it for the viewer through a process that is both cerebral and hands-on. Raw materials and ideas are transformed into finished art. In this exhibit, five CCC Art Faculty members have been encouraged to take the theme of metamorphosis a bit further.
Myers relies on quiet mindfulness and "slow seeing" to capture his sensitive landscape photographs, but sometimes fleeting moments of change are "a quick and joyful catch" with the shutter. Seeing the world through the camera lens allows him to attend to the light, form and detail that make up his immediate surroundings, a vision that is translated into photographs of sublime subtlety.
Nebeker is intrigued by the metamorphosis of form and substance and the ineffable ability of art to unite them in "the fragile space between." When considering work for this show, he found himself pondering on "the fragile moment between sleeping and waking, between forgetfulness and remembrance, between becoming and being, between presence and absence, between life and death." His paintings reveal his vision of that transitory moment.
Rowland's wood-fired ceramic works go through an unpredictable metamorphosis in their creation. He finds himself continuously challenged by both the corporeal and ethereal aspects of the process, from digging clay out of the ground, to forming it, to subjecting it to the "hot, windy wilderness" that is the environment of his anagama kiln. The resulting works are what he considers to be "stony artifacts" that speak of the journey of their creation through their forms and surfaces.
Shauck has taken an interdisciplinary approach to the idea of metamorphosis through illustrating poems by local writer Florence Sage, who had embodied the theme within her poetic content. In her work for this show, Shauck endeavors to visually depict the words of the poems, thus translating from one medium to another. In turn, these illustrations have become the springboard for further development and exploration of the theme, resulting in paintings on fabric.
Time for a New Cable Model?
In a witheringly condescending article, Guardian columnist Michael
Wolff recently mocked the launching of Al Jazeera America, a new cable
network that will compete with the likes of Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Hardly
mincing words, Wolff writes that Al Jazeera's programming is "dreary as
all get out." "The network is so boring," Wolff continues, "that there
is no real reason to be hostile to it." Not stopping there, Wolff adds
"if Al Jazeera were more passionate, more gutsy, more jaw-dropping to
Muslim-fearing Americans,flash drive and USB flash drives wholesale
logo printing in Malaysia. that would be something to defend, with joy
in the cause.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card
producers. And even, perhaps, an audience to follow. But who is really
going over the barricades for some super-rich Qataris and their roster
of sanctimonious and boring news shows?"
Rallying to Al Jazeera's defense, Guardian readers took Wolff to task in the paper's online comments section. "I don't really see why an international news agency should be entertaining. It is my understanding that news agencies should be informative," notes one reader. Another writes, "Al Jazeera is definitely interesting, unless you don't care at all for global news and just prefer to read about celebrity divorces." "Frankly, I don't think Michael Wolff and Co. actually know what interesting is," adds yet another reader, "beyond the latest junk topics that all the U.S. networks keep recycling." Other readers argue that Al Jazeera has outclassed its competitors when it comes to international news coverage and point out that the network has won many journalistic awards.
It's one thing to trounce a network, yet Wolff never spells out what he is actually for. Reading between the lines, however, it would seem that the Guardian columnist prefers slick entertainment to hard news. "Al Jazeera clearly does not place much of a premium on wit or style," he laments,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. and "often relies on old-time, marginal or unhappy mainstream broadcasters in an effort to gain some legitimacy and recognition." Presumably, Wolff prefers the chipper, offbeat and occasionally wacky commentators who inhabit the liberal lineup of MSNBC. At one point, the Guardian man remarks that liberal pundit Keith Olbermann, despite his "cantankerous" nature, represents a bright "moment in the sun."
Ridiculous aspersions on "unhappy" commentators aside, the future trajectory of Al Jazeera America is very much open to question. Just how does the new network hope to appeal to the U.S. audience? The stakes are high as Doha HQ, home to the original Al Jazeera Arabic network, reportedly paid a whopping $500 million for Al Gore's Current TV. Al Jazeera America will shortly replace the ailing Current and thereby secure coveted access to the U.S. cable market. With Current TV in the fold, Al Jazeera's reach into the American market will increase exponentially to more than 60 million homes.
Such a development is sorely welcomed back in Doha, which has been trying to crack American cable for years. Indeed, executives at sister station Al Jazeera English (AJE) have been perpetually frustrated by uncooperative U.S. cable companies and to this day few operators actually carry the network. Under an unusual "sublet" deal with another network, AJE is available on Time Warner cable, though only part time and just in New York. Facing such uphill structural problems, AJE has scarcely managed to reach 5 million U.S. homes out of a grand total of 100 million.
The new network, Al Jazeera America, will focus on U.S. news but will re-broadcast about 40 percent of its content from sister station AJE which covers international news [the two outlets will beam from separate channels, however]. The rest of Al Jazeera America's programming, some 60 percent of overall content,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. will be entirely original.
It all sounds promising enough, yet the new network faces a number of daunting challenges. Indeed, Americans don't always take to foreign news outlets and both Russian-English news network RT as well as BBC America have struggled in the ratings department, to say nothing of China's CCTV and France 24. In a political sense, Al Jazeera may carry additional baggage: to this day some recall how the network aired an Osama bin Laden video in which the deceased Saudi terrorist referred to the World Trade Center attacks as "commendable."
Even if Al Jazeera manages to overcome American stereotypes, there are other logistical hurdles in store. Hours after Al Jazeera purchased Current, reprehensible Time Warner Cable announced that it would no longer carry the network. Such a development needs to be taken seriously, since Time Warner is the second largest TV operator in the U.S. and plays an important role in the New York metropolitan market. If the company follows through on its threats, Al Jazeera's viewership could be cut from a high of 60 million homes down to 48 million.
Though Time Warner recently stated that it still had an "open mind" about carrying Al Jazeera America, some suspect the cable provider may be motivated by political considerations. In justifying its original decision, Time Warner remarked that it "did not consent" to the Al Jazeera sale, prompting the Atlantic magazine to remark that the underlying rationale may have been "about more than business."
The Huffington Post went even further, remarking that Time Warner's decision smacked of outright censorship. According to the website, Time Warner has become "a government-regulated near monopoly," and behaved in an anti-American manner when it moved to block Al Jazeera. "A few executives at cable providers... actually have too much unfettered censorship power,We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet." notes The Huffington Post, "and it threatens our freedom of choice and access to news."
What does the wider U.S. public think about Time Warner's leverage over news content? Rather disturbingly, most people don't seem to be bothered. According to a poll carried out by The Huffington Post, Americans approved of Time Warner's decision to drop Al Jazeera America by a whopping margin of almost two to one. According to the poll, Republicans were the most supportive of Time Warner, with 65 percent approving of the media company's decision. However, even independents and Democrats were disappointing, with 42 percent and 26 percent, respectively, backing Time Warner. Al Jazeera ran into particular problems with older Americans, who were more likely to support the dropping of the network than younger folk.
Rallying to Al Jazeera's defense, Guardian readers took Wolff to task in the paper's online comments section. "I don't really see why an international news agency should be entertaining. It is my understanding that news agencies should be informative," notes one reader. Another writes, "Al Jazeera is definitely interesting, unless you don't care at all for global news and just prefer to read about celebrity divorces." "Frankly, I don't think Michael Wolff and Co. actually know what interesting is," adds yet another reader, "beyond the latest junk topics that all the U.S. networks keep recycling." Other readers argue that Al Jazeera has outclassed its competitors when it comes to international news coverage and point out that the network has won many journalistic awards.
It's one thing to trounce a network, yet Wolff never spells out what he is actually for. Reading between the lines, however, it would seem that the Guardian columnist prefers slick entertainment to hard news. "Al Jazeera clearly does not place much of a premium on wit or style," he laments,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. and "often relies on old-time, marginal or unhappy mainstream broadcasters in an effort to gain some legitimacy and recognition." Presumably, Wolff prefers the chipper, offbeat and occasionally wacky commentators who inhabit the liberal lineup of MSNBC. At one point, the Guardian man remarks that liberal pundit Keith Olbermann, despite his "cantankerous" nature, represents a bright "moment in the sun."
Ridiculous aspersions on "unhappy" commentators aside, the future trajectory of Al Jazeera America is very much open to question. Just how does the new network hope to appeal to the U.S. audience? The stakes are high as Doha HQ, home to the original Al Jazeera Arabic network, reportedly paid a whopping $500 million for Al Gore's Current TV. Al Jazeera America will shortly replace the ailing Current and thereby secure coveted access to the U.S. cable market. With Current TV in the fold, Al Jazeera's reach into the American market will increase exponentially to more than 60 million homes.
Such a development is sorely welcomed back in Doha, which has been trying to crack American cable for years. Indeed, executives at sister station Al Jazeera English (AJE) have been perpetually frustrated by uncooperative U.S. cable companies and to this day few operators actually carry the network. Under an unusual "sublet" deal with another network, AJE is available on Time Warner cable, though only part time and just in New York. Facing such uphill structural problems, AJE has scarcely managed to reach 5 million U.S. homes out of a grand total of 100 million.
The new network, Al Jazeera America, will focus on U.S. news but will re-broadcast about 40 percent of its content from sister station AJE which covers international news [the two outlets will beam from separate channels, however]. The rest of Al Jazeera America's programming, some 60 percent of overall content,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. will be entirely original.
It all sounds promising enough, yet the new network faces a number of daunting challenges. Indeed, Americans don't always take to foreign news outlets and both Russian-English news network RT as well as BBC America have struggled in the ratings department, to say nothing of China's CCTV and France 24. In a political sense, Al Jazeera may carry additional baggage: to this day some recall how the network aired an Osama bin Laden video in which the deceased Saudi terrorist referred to the World Trade Center attacks as "commendable."
Even if Al Jazeera manages to overcome American stereotypes, there are other logistical hurdles in store. Hours after Al Jazeera purchased Current, reprehensible Time Warner Cable announced that it would no longer carry the network. Such a development needs to be taken seriously, since Time Warner is the second largest TV operator in the U.S. and plays an important role in the New York metropolitan market. If the company follows through on its threats, Al Jazeera's viewership could be cut from a high of 60 million homes down to 48 million.
Though Time Warner recently stated that it still had an "open mind" about carrying Al Jazeera America, some suspect the cable provider may be motivated by political considerations. In justifying its original decision, Time Warner remarked that it "did not consent" to the Al Jazeera sale, prompting the Atlantic magazine to remark that the underlying rationale may have been "about more than business."
The Huffington Post went even further, remarking that Time Warner's decision smacked of outright censorship. According to the website, Time Warner has become "a government-regulated near monopoly," and behaved in an anti-American manner when it moved to block Al Jazeera. "A few executives at cable providers... actually have too much unfettered censorship power,We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet." notes The Huffington Post, "and it threatens our freedom of choice and access to news."
What does the wider U.S. public think about Time Warner's leverage over news content? Rather disturbingly, most people don't seem to be bothered. According to a poll carried out by The Huffington Post, Americans approved of Time Warner's decision to drop Al Jazeera America by a whopping margin of almost two to one. According to the poll, Republicans were the most supportive of Time Warner, with 65 percent approving of the media company's decision. However, even independents and Democrats were disappointing, with 42 percent and 26 percent, respectively, backing Time Warner. Al Jazeera ran into particular problems with older Americans, who were more likely to support the dropping of the network than younger folk.
Affordable Caribbean Escapes
The tops of the palms wave cheerily in the breeze like giant green
feather dusters against a soft blue, cloudless sky. I’m bobbing
contentedly in the warm turquoise waters looking back at the beach, its
silky white sands speckled with tiny seashells.
Despite it being mid-summer I’m the only one swimming in this small cove…the only one enjoying this flawless slice of beach this morning.
I’m near the town of Bayahibe on the south-eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, at a stretch of beach known as Dominicus.
This is in the province of La Romana—a popular tourism destination. I’ve learned, though,flash drive and USB flash drives wholesale logo printing in Malaysia. that there are the tourist resort areas of La Romana and then there are places like this—that buzz with activity on weekends and holidays when the locals come to play, yet are nearly deserted mid-week.
A small fishing village of brightly-painted, Caribbean-style wooden buildings, Bayahibe itself is laidback, with the rustic charm of nearby Saona Island and the Dominican Republic’s best scuba-diving sites, located just offshore.
On this trip, I had a chance to look at the popular beachside community of Juan Dolio, 45 minutes west of La Romana and about two hours from Santo Domingo. This proximity makes it a well-established weekend getaway for those looking to escape the big-city stress and spend some downtime on the beach. It’s also a quick-and-easy hop from the States. Santo Domingo is little more than a three-hour flight from New York and a two-hour flight from Miami.
In a three-tower project right on the beach, for example, a 1,345-square-foot, ground-floor two-bedroom/two-bathroom condo is selling for $230,000. This condo has tile floors and granite countertops, and a large terrace perfect for dining. There’s also a superb view of the beach and ocean. The beach here is wide and sandy, lined by swaying palms, and condo amenities include a swimming pool and on-site restaurant.A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object.
A free golf membership to a country club is part of the deal, and all the amenities you need are close by, including restaurants and small grocery stores, an international school, and a medical clinic with English-speaking doctors.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing.
A bit farther east, in another high-rise project, a 1,We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet.560-square-foot, two-bedroom/two-bathroom apartment on the fourth floor is selling for $278,000. There are gorgeous ocean views from the master bedroom, and the guestroom has an ocean-view balcony to capture a cooling sea breeze.
All the properties I saw are in the newer part of Juan Dolio, traveling east along the beach from the more established section of town. This newer area is where a brand-new film studio is being built, along with one of the biggest shopping malls in the Caribbean.
Later that night, after viewing these properties, I sat on the balcony of my hotel room, sipping Dominican rum and watching the soft Caribbean moonlight play across water and the fine white sands. Another perfect moment…
Anand Saha said last week he wants to take his time to get things right in renovating the former Cord Camera building as his new restaurant location -- but said time is rapidly running out on another aspect of the venture.
With his wife, Doris,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. Saha is co-owner of the 17-year-old Mozart's Piano Cafe and Bakery as well as the more recent Vienna Ice Cafe. He said he is negotiating terms that he hopes will enable him to keep the current south Clintonville location of the older establishment in business even after he gets the new one up and running at 4784 N. High St.
Saha faces a deadline of Tuesday, Feb. 5, in order to submit 231 valid signatures to the Franklin County Board of Elections in order to have a ballot measure that would enable alcohol sales at the one-time Henri Boyd Restaurant. He said he hopes to gather at least 300 signatures to ensure enough valid ones, but added cold weather has hampered efforts.
"It is not a break deal," the restaurant owner said. "For me, it is more of a motivational factor. If people know I have been a good neighbor and a good business person ... I would like to get the signatures. I'm not intending to open a bar. The concept will be the same as my High Street location.
"Would it hurt my business if I didn't get it? Yes, but it is not instrumental to my success," he said. "We do need that license. For me, getting that license is being invited to that neighborhood."
Liquor sales account for only about 3 percent of his current operations, Saha added.
Saha announced in October that he had entered into agreement to purchase the 11,000-square-foot building, constructed in 1930, for $635,000.
He said last week he made his offer just as a national chain restaurant was about to swoop in, tear down the historic structure and erect a drive-through establishment in its place.
Despite it being mid-summer I’m the only one swimming in this small cove…the only one enjoying this flawless slice of beach this morning.
I’m near the town of Bayahibe on the south-eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, at a stretch of beach known as Dominicus.
This is in the province of La Romana—a popular tourism destination. I’ve learned, though,flash drive and USB flash drives wholesale logo printing in Malaysia. that there are the tourist resort areas of La Romana and then there are places like this—that buzz with activity on weekends and holidays when the locals come to play, yet are nearly deserted mid-week.
A small fishing village of brightly-painted, Caribbean-style wooden buildings, Bayahibe itself is laidback, with the rustic charm of nearby Saona Island and the Dominican Republic’s best scuba-diving sites, located just offshore.
On this trip, I had a chance to look at the popular beachside community of Juan Dolio, 45 minutes west of La Romana and about two hours from Santo Domingo. This proximity makes it a well-established weekend getaway for those looking to escape the big-city stress and spend some downtime on the beach. It’s also a quick-and-easy hop from the States. Santo Domingo is little more than a three-hour flight from New York and a two-hour flight from Miami.
In a three-tower project right on the beach, for example, a 1,345-square-foot, ground-floor two-bedroom/two-bathroom condo is selling for $230,000. This condo has tile floors and granite countertops, and a large terrace perfect for dining. There’s also a superb view of the beach and ocean. The beach here is wide and sandy, lined by swaying palms, and condo amenities include a swimming pool and on-site restaurant.A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object.
A free golf membership to a country club is part of the deal, and all the amenities you need are close by, including restaurants and small grocery stores, an international school, and a medical clinic with English-speaking doctors.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing.
A bit farther east, in another high-rise project, a 1,We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet.560-square-foot, two-bedroom/two-bathroom apartment on the fourth floor is selling for $278,000. There are gorgeous ocean views from the master bedroom, and the guestroom has an ocean-view balcony to capture a cooling sea breeze.
All the properties I saw are in the newer part of Juan Dolio, traveling east along the beach from the more established section of town. This newer area is where a brand-new film studio is being built, along with one of the biggest shopping malls in the Caribbean.
Later that night, after viewing these properties, I sat on the balcony of my hotel room, sipping Dominican rum and watching the soft Caribbean moonlight play across water and the fine white sands. Another perfect moment…
Anand Saha said last week he wants to take his time to get things right in renovating the former Cord Camera building as his new restaurant location -- but said time is rapidly running out on another aspect of the venture.
With his wife, Doris,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. Saha is co-owner of the 17-year-old Mozart's Piano Cafe and Bakery as well as the more recent Vienna Ice Cafe. He said he is negotiating terms that he hopes will enable him to keep the current south Clintonville location of the older establishment in business even after he gets the new one up and running at 4784 N. High St.
Saha faces a deadline of Tuesday, Feb. 5, in order to submit 231 valid signatures to the Franklin County Board of Elections in order to have a ballot measure that would enable alcohol sales at the one-time Henri Boyd Restaurant. He said he hopes to gather at least 300 signatures to ensure enough valid ones, but added cold weather has hampered efforts.
"It is not a break deal," the restaurant owner said. "For me, it is more of a motivational factor. If people know I have been a good neighbor and a good business person ... I would like to get the signatures. I'm not intending to open a bar. The concept will be the same as my High Street location.
"Would it hurt my business if I didn't get it? Yes, but it is not instrumental to my success," he said. "We do need that license. For me, getting that license is being invited to that neighborhood."
Liquor sales account for only about 3 percent of his current operations, Saha added.
Saha announced in October that he had entered into agreement to purchase the 11,000-square-foot building, constructed in 1930, for $635,000.
He said last week he made his offer just as a national chain restaurant was about to swoop in, tear down the historic structure and erect a drive-through establishment in its place.
You could just stand there and cry
Like many here in the western Philadelphia suburbs, where downed
trees and power outages were the most common vestiges of Hurricane
Sandy, Lori Jennings watched the devastation unfold farther east, on
the Jersey shore and in New York, on news reports.
For her, though, those images have not faded with the months since the passage of the superstorm. They were refreshed, and made only more vivid and personal, when she and about two dozen other volunteers traveled to three New Jersey communities earlier this month to help with what still seems an almost unimaginably difficult recovery.
Jennings, an administrative assistant in the Lower Merion Township Manager’s Office, and her husband, Ronnie, were part of a group from GraceCrossing Community Church in their home town of Phoenixville that spent Jan.We've got a plastic card to suit you. 7-9 ripping out water-damaged walls and floors and helping residents move belongings from houses left uninhabitable by the storm, in towns still virtually empty three months later.
Before making the trip, Jennings, a township employee since 2005,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. said what she knew about conditions in the hard-hit communities of Ortley Beach, Point Pleasant and Brick Township was “what we saw on television.” “Seeing it in person – you could just stand there and cry,” she said.
Hers was actualWear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!ly the second group from the church to work on the recovery. A member of the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware (ABCOPAD), GraceCrossing worked through that organization with the charity Samaritan’s Purse, which has been engaged in disaster relief efforts around the world. A non-denominational evangelical Christian organization, Samaritan’s Purse coordinates efforts of volunteer teams, in this case identifying homeowners in need and providing site management and tools for the job, Jennings said.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
Among her group, some of the volunteers were retired and some, like Jennings and her husband, a technician with Comcast,Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. used vacation time to help out. “I had no idea what they were going to have us do,” she said. “Every day was different.”
Jennings said the group arrived on the Sunday night. Most were housed at the vacant parsonage of a church in Brick Township, while some, including the Jenningses, stayed at the home of their pastor, the Rev. Brent Miller’s, parents. “They were out of power for 10 days, but didn’t have any water damage,” she said, though “a mile down the road” there had been flooding.
Technology consultancy and precision manufacturing specialist Prodrive (Banbury, Oxfordshire, U.K.) reported on Jan. 25 that it has won a major contract to supply components for first-class cabin interiors. The order is Prodrive’s biggest aerospace contract to date, strengthening what it says is its position as one of the premier suppliers of composites to sectors where precision and finish are critical.
“This is a significant win for the company and confirms the aerospace sector’s growing interest in extending the use of high-quality composites in the interior,” says Ian Handscombe, Prodrive’s composites business manager. “The contract is an interesting transfer of the expertise that has made us one of the leaders in precision composite engineering for the automotive industry and demonstrates the opportunities that are opening for companies with exceptional technical capability combined with the high efficiency levels that allow competitive pricing.”
Prodrive’s integrated service includes design and development of the initial tooling through to the fabrication and finishing of each piece using state-of-the-art CNC machines. The company also has the capability to provide design support, using the same engineering team that works with a wide range of customers from Formula 1 to biomedical.
“The key requirement for this program is a very high quality finish. Components that are visible to passengers have a zero-defect allowance,” says Handscombe. “We have strong, long-term relationships with many of Europe’s leading manufacturers of luxury and high-performance cars, which I believe gave our new aerospace customer confidence in our ability to deliver to their demanding standards.”
For her, though, those images have not faded with the months since the passage of the superstorm. They were refreshed, and made only more vivid and personal, when she and about two dozen other volunteers traveled to three New Jersey communities earlier this month to help with what still seems an almost unimaginably difficult recovery.
Jennings, an administrative assistant in the Lower Merion Township Manager’s Office, and her husband, Ronnie, were part of a group from GraceCrossing Community Church in their home town of Phoenixville that spent Jan.We've got a plastic card to suit you. 7-9 ripping out water-damaged walls and floors and helping residents move belongings from houses left uninhabitable by the storm, in towns still virtually empty three months later.
Before making the trip, Jennings, a township employee since 2005,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. said what she knew about conditions in the hard-hit communities of Ortley Beach, Point Pleasant and Brick Township was “what we saw on television.” “Seeing it in person – you could just stand there and cry,” she said.
Hers was actualWear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!ly the second group from the church to work on the recovery. A member of the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware (ABCOPAD), GraceCrossing worked through that organization with the charity Samaritan’s Purse, which has been engaged in disaster relief efforts around the world. A non-denominational evangelical Christian organization, Samaritan’s Purse coordinates efforts of volunteer teams, in this case identifying homeowners in need and providing site management and tools for the job, Jennings said.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
Among her group, some of the volunteers were retired and some, like Jennings and her husband, a technician with Comcast,Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. used vacation time to help out. “I had no idea what they were going to have us do,” she said. “Every day was different.”
Jennings said the group arrived on the Sunday night. Most were housed at the vacant parsonage of a church in Brick Township, while some, including the Jenningses, stayed at the home of their pastor, the Rev. Brent Miller’s, parents. “They were out of power for 10 days, but didn’t have any water damage,” she said, though “a mile down the road” there had been flooding.
Technology consultancy and precision manufacturing specialist Prodrive (Banbury, Oxfordshire, U.K.) reported on Jan. 25 that it has won a major contract to supply components for first-class cabin interiors. The order is Prodrive’s biggest aerospace contract to date, strengthening what it says is its position as one of the premier suppliers of composites to sectors where precision and finish are critical.
“This is a significant win for the company and confirms the aerospace sector’s growing interest in extending the use of high-quality composites in the interior,” says Ian Handscombe, Prodrive’s composites business manager. “The contract is an interesting transfer of the expertise that has made us one of the leaders in precision composite engineering for the automotive industry and demonstrates the opportunities that are opening for companies with exceptional technical capability combined with the high efficiency levels that allow competitive pricing.”
Prodrive’s integrated service includes design and development of the initial tooling through to the fabrication and finishing of each piece using state-of-the-art CNC machines. The company also has the capability to provide design support, using the same engineering team that works with a wide range of customers from Formula 1 to biomedical.
“The key requirement for this program is a very high quality finish. Components that are visible to passengers have a zero-defect allowance,” says Handscombe. “We have strong, long-term relationships with many of Europe’s leading manufacturers of luxury and high-performance cars, which I believe gave our new aerospace customer confidence in our ability to deliver to their demanding standards.”
2013年1月28日星期一
Green thumbs up for roof-top design
A roof-top garden in Middletown and a pond preserve in Westport are
among the projects honored recently by the Connecticut Chapter of the
American Society of Landscape Architects.
The Excellence Award for Corporate and Institutional Landscape Architectural Design went to Boston-based Robert Olson Associates for its work designing the rooftop garden at the Community Health Center in Middletown.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! The Excellence Award is the group's highest honor.
It was the first garden rooftop design in Connecticut for the firm and one of only a handful constructed in the state. The $17 million, 48,000-square-foot Community Health Center was constructed last year on a dilapidated, asphalt parking lot on Main Street.
Installing rooftop irrigation is similar to setting up ground-level systems, said David Miller, a LEED-certified landscape architect at Robert Olson Associates.
"One of the things we had to figure out was how to run the system up through the core of the building," said Miller. "We had the elevator and other building components included, so it wasn't that difficult of a process once we knew where everything was and how it was going to fit."
Mark Masselli, who started the health clinic in town 40 years ago, envisioned a rooftop garden designed to absorb storm water runoff, cool the building and promote educational opportunities for students and visitors.
"The community surrounding us is important too. Primary care is only one piece of the puzzle," said Masselli. "People can't be healthy if their neighborhood isn't healthy."
The garden, which has 10 inches of soil, provides a habitat for butterflies and pollination for bees. Masselli coordinates with the nearby elementary school to maintain the plants and vegetables.
"Although not an entirely new practice, rooftop gardens and green roofs are becoming more common," said Barbara Yaeger, chairperson of the CTASLA Awards Committee and a self-employed landscape architect in Madison.
"As development becomes denser, the value of outdoor green space increases. Rooftops provide an ideal space that not only allows humans to interact with nature, but also provides added benefits of reduced heating and cooling expenses, increased wildlife habitat and storm water management," said Yaeger.
Towers|Golde LLC, a New Haven-based landscape architect firm, was honored this year for its work at the Gateway Community College. It also earned recognition in 2010 for its rooftop garden at the Betty Ruth & Milton B. Hollander Healing Garden at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale.
The CTASLA recognized Erskine Middeleer Associates LLC in Georgetown with an award for its Sherwood Pond Preserve in Westport.
The site was formally occupied by Allen's Clam House, and purchased by the Town of Westport to protect it from developers. After a five-year design and permitting process, the park was constructed over a one-year period starting in 2009, according to Silvia Erskine, a principal at the design firm.
The firm transformed the gravel and asphalt parking areas into a park with walking paths and benches for viewing the flora and fauna of the marsh,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. and a kayak launch area.
"Each year it seems the projects emphasize more and more the importance of sustainability in designed and built landscapes, with more native plants and green infrastructure on a majority of the projects," said Yaeger.
Dr. Samuel Milham, an epidemiologist and author of Dirty Electricity, gave a presentation titled The Black Side of Green Energy. He shared measurements of dirty energy, also called stray voltage, taken near large wind and industrial solar installations. He admits that when he first heard about wind and solar “I thought oh boy, we’re going to get great,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. clean green energy.”
But measurements at a 23 Megawatt solar facility with 46 inverters, each the size of a large trailer, found frequencies high enough to cause leukemuia. “It goes away when you turn off the inverters,” he added as proof that the solar inverters were the source of the EMF pollution. While rules require that electricity go to or from a substation on wires, he explained, “now utilities are cheap and lazy, so they dump 80% into the ground. It makes people sick.We've got a plastic card to suit you. It makes cows sick.”
In addition to EMFs, wind turbines pose additional hazards including noise, infrasound and blade flicker. Infrasound, frequencies too low to be heard, can cause headaches, ear pain and pressure, heart problems and more. Some people have been “driven mad” and moved out of their homes at wind farms in many locations around the world, she added.
There are also safety problems. Tisdale's slideshow included images of Iberdrola turbines that have collapsed, sending the gargantuan turbines weighing many tons crashing to earth.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? Iberdrola is the developer of the Tule Wind project set to be built in McCain Valley on federal Bureau of Land Management public land near Boulevard--with turbines just 900 feet from campgrounds and lining the only road on both sides.
Other turbines malfunctioned, exploded and caught fire. Turbines also attract lightning -- a common occurrance in this mountainous area. More than 190 wind turbine fires have been documented, included two wildfires in California last summer.
The Excellence Award for Corporate and Institutional Landscape Architectural Design went to Boston-based Robert Olson Associates for its work designing the rooftop garden at the Community Health Center in Middletown.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! The Excellence Award is the group's highest honor.
It was the first garden rooftop design in Connecticut for the firm and one of only a handful constructed in the state. The $17 million, 48,000-square-foot Community Health Center was constructed last year on a dilapidated, asphalt parking lot on Main Street.
Installing rooftop irrigation is similar to setting up ground-level systems, said David Miller, a LEED-certified landscape architect at Robert Olson Associates.
"One of the things we had to figure out was how to run the system up through the core of the building," said Miller. "We had the elevator and other building components included, so it wasn't that difficult of a process once we knew where everything was and how it was going to fit."
Mark Masselli, who started the health clinic in town 40 years ago, envisioned a rooftop garden designed to absorb storm water runoff, cool the building and promote educational opportunities for students and visitors.
"The community surrounding us is important too. Primary care is only one piece of the puzzle," said Masselli. "People can't be healthy if their neighborhood isn't healthy."
The garden, which has 10 inches of soil, provides a habitat for butterflies and pollination for bees. Masselli coordinates with the nearby elementary school to maintain the plants and vegetables.
"Although not an entirely new practice, rooftop gardens and green roofs are becoming more common," said Barbara Yaeger, chairperson of the CTASLA Awards Committee and a self-employed landscape architect in Madison.
"As development becomes denser, the value of outdoor green space increases. Rooftops provide an ideal space that not only allows humans to interact with nature, but also provides added benefits of reduced heating and cooling expenses, increased wildlife habitat and storm water management," said Yaeger.
Towers|Golde LLC, a New Haven-based landscape architect firm, was honored this year for its work at the Gateway Community College. It also earned recognition in 2010 for its rooftop garden at the Betty Ruth & Milton B. Hollander Healing Garden at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale.
The CTASLA recognized Erskine Middeleer Associates LLC in Georgetown with an award for its Sherwood Pond Preserve in Westport.
The site was formally occupied by Allen's Clam House, and purchased by the Town of Westport to protect it from developers. After a five-year design and permitting process, the park was constructed over a one-year period starting in 2009, according to Silvia Erskine, a principal at the design firm.
The firm transformed the gravel and asphalt parking areas into a park with walking paths and benches for viewing the flora and fauna of the marsh,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. and a kayak launch area.
"Each year it seems the projects emphasize more and more the importance of sustainability in designed and built landscapes, with more native plants and green infrastructure on a majority of the projects," said Yaeger.
Dr. Samuel Milham, an epidemiologist and author of Dirty Electricity, gave a presentation titled The Black Side of Green Energy. He shared measurements of dirty energy, also called stray voltage, taken near large wind and industrial solar installations. He admits that when he first heard about wind and solar “I thought oh boy, we’re going to get great,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. clean green energy.”
But measurements at a 23 Megawatt solar facility with 46 inverters, each the size of a large trailer, found frequencies high enough to cause leukemuia. “It goes away when you turn off the inverters,” he added as proof that the solar inverters were the source of the EMF pollution. While rules require that electricity go to or from a substation on wires, he explained, “now utilities are cheap and lazy, so they dump 80% into the ground. It makes people sick.We've got a plastic card to suit you. It makes cows sick.”
In addition to EMFs, wind turbines pose additional hazards including noise, infrasound and blade flicker. Infrasound, frequencies too low to be heard, can cause headaches, ear pain and pressure, heart problems and more. Some people have been “driven mad” and moved out of their homes at wind farms in many locations around the world, she added.
There are also safety problems. Tisdale's slideshow included images of Iberdrola turbines that have collapsed, sending the gargantuan turbines weighing many tons crashing to earth.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? Iberdrola is the developer of the Tule Wind project set to be built in McCain Valley on federal Bureau of Land Management public land near Boulevard--with turbines just 900 feet from campgrounds and lining the only road on both sides.
Other turbines malfunctioned, exploded and caught fire. Turbines also attract lightning -- a common occurrance in this mountainous area. More than 190 wind turbine fires have been documented, included two wildfires in California last summer.
Repeat violations don't warrant firing
Moore's history with Broward transit ended two weeks ago. He wasn't
fired. He retired. Broward transit officials said Friday they would have
fired him if he hadn't left.
His case is illustrative of some of Broward's transit drivers, given more forgiveness for causing accidents and mistreating the public than even their union contract calls for. Meanwhile, complaints continue to come in, public records show. The disciplinary system for bus drivers is under scrutiny now by top county officials, including the county auditor.
"I think some of them know they can get away with doing what they want,'' said Tom Cook, a daily bus rider who lives in Wilton Manors. "They know how their contract is. We're pretty much at their mercy.''
Moore,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! 62, remained behind the wheel until his Jan. 11 resignation, earning $48,500. He and his union representatives couldn't be reached for comment for this story.
His personnel file shows Moore repeatedly had flareups with passengers who grated on his nerves. He also had a history of accidents.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Once, he had the police kick a woman off his bus because her daughter was popping bubble gum loudly. Another time he had a passenger evicted for whistling.We've got a plastic card to suit you.
Moore had to be continually reminded not to fight with passengers, and not to let them get under his skin.
In one of his cases, Moore wrote a response, telling county officials that his loss of an arm and leg in a county bus accident in 1996 had heightened his sensitivity to sound. Moore lost two limbs while driving a Broward transit bus in 1996, in a crash caused by a Cadillac on University Drive. He came back to drive buses using prosthetics, receiving a federal waiver allowing him to do so.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?
Hired in 1993, Moore's first serious discipline, a three-day suspension, came in 2001, according to his personnel file. "You had a passenger who placed his bike on the bike rack,'' county bus officials summarized, "and then proceeded to board when you closed the doors and left him and further down the road you stopped and took the bike off the rack and left it on the side of the road.''
Years later, in August 2008, Moore was suspended for five days after an ugly exchange with a female passenger. Moore missed her bus stop, and she wanted off. He pulled over at the next stop.
Moore refused to open the front door to let her out, insisting she leave by the back door. Passengers started yelling at him, but he wouldn't budge. The woman remained on the bus after it pulled away, until a county supervisor intercepted it and apologetically drove her home.
Just a month later, Moore got into a challenge with a woman whose daughter was popping bubble gum. He called headquarters and told them to call the police.
This wasn't his first instance of "improper and overly aggressive'' exchanges with passengers, his bosses wrote, and because of the progressive discipline system, they wrote, "this instance is grounds for termination.''
Instead, they offered him a "Last Chance Agreement'' — a five-day suspension and employee-assistance referral, and the warning: "Any future incidents of a same or similar nature that rise to the level of formal discipline will result in immediate discharge.''
He received many more chances after that, starting with an accident a year later.
In July 2010, for example, a man in a white cap got on his bus. Moore could have been fired if he got in any more trouble, but the man was whistling. Moore pulled the bus over and waited almost 11 minutes for Plantation police to evict the man for "whistling too loud,'' personnel records say.
County transit officials pulled the video tapes and watched. "There are ... no laws that prohibit any member of the public from whistling in a normal tone,'' they wrote to him in a memo.
The Santa Fe girls' basketball team went on a mid-game roll and didn't let up Saturday until they had secured the third-place trophy of the 32nd Wildcat Classic.
The fourth-seeded Lady Chiefs coasted to a 60-40 victory over Sacred Heart for their best finish in a tournament since defeating Glasgow by three points at Slater 2009.
The Lady Gremlins came into the meet seeded seventh, but pulled off the biggest upset of the first round by beating No. 2 Higginsville. And they appeared ready to put Santa Fe to the test.
Neither team led by more than four points until the final minute of the first half, when the Lady Chiefs surged on junior Brooke Barnett's runner in the lane, a free throw by sophomore Lexi Smith and two charity shots from senior Brandi Beasley for a nine-point cushion at the break.
That was merely a prelude to Santa Fe's third-quarter dominance. Freshman Kyle Limback converted a conventional three-point play, Barnett made two lay-ups, Limback drove to the hole and Barnett popped a perimeter jumper to cap a 19-2 run for a 42-21 Lady Chief lead.
The Lady Huskers recovered from their first-round upset at the hands of Sacred Heart to win back-to-back games, the third time this season they've won twice in tourney play -- having placed second in the Husker Classic and third in the Lafayette County Tournament, both on their home court.
Higginsville blew out to a 13-3 first-quarter lead and extended the margin to 14 points by halftime. The Lady Wildcats surged slightly with 12 points during the third period, but Dyer had 10 of her team's 24 points down the stretch to seal the win.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
His case is illustrative of some of Broward's transit drivers, given more forgiveness for causing accidents and mistreating the public than even their union contract calls for. Meanwhile, complaints continue to come in, public records show. The disciplinary system for bus drivers is under scrutiny now by top county officials, including the county auditor.
"I think some of them know they can get away with doing what they want,'' said Tom Cook, a daily bus rider who lives in Wilton Manors. "They know how their contract is. We're pretty much at their mercy.''
Moore,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! 62, remained behind the wheel until his Jan. 11 resignation, earning $48,500. He and his union representatives couldn't be reached for comment for this story.
His personnel file shows Moore repeatedly had flareups with passengers who grated on his nerves. He also had a history of accidents.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Once, he had the police kick a woman off his bus because her daughter was popping bubble gum loudly. Another time he had a passenger evicted for whistling.We've got a plastic card to suit you.
Moore had to be continually reminded not to fight with passengers, and not to let them get under his skin.
In one of his cases, Moore wrote a response, telling county officials that his loss of an arm and leg in a county bus accident in 1996 had heightened his sensitivity to sound. Moore lost two limbs while driving a Broward transit bus in 1996, in a crash caused by a Cadillac on University Drive. He came back to drive buses using prosthetics, receiving a federal waiver allowing him to do so.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?
Hired in 1993, Moore's first serious discipline, a three-day suspension, came in 2001, according to his personnel file. "You had a passenger who placed his bike on the bike rack,'' county bus officials summarized, "and then proceeded to board when you closed the doors and left him and further down the road you stopped and took the bike off the rack and left it on the side of the road.''
Years later, in August 2008, Moore was suspended for five days after an ugly exchange with a female passenger. Moore missed her bus stop, and she wanted off. He pulled over at the next stop.
Moore refused to open the front door to let her out, insisting she leave by the back door. Passengers started yelling at him, but he wouldn't budge. The woman remained on the bus after it pulled away, until a county supervisor intercepted it and apologetically drove her home.
Just a month later, Moore got into a challenge with a woman whose daughter was popping bubble gum. He called headquarters and told them to call the police.
This wasn't his first instance of "improper and overly aggressive'' exchanges with passengers, his bosses wrote, and because of the progressive discipline system, they wrote, "this instance is grounds for termination.''
Instead, they offered him a "Last Chance Agreement'' — a five-day suspension and employee-assistance referral, and the warning: "Any future incidents of a same or similar nature that rise to the level of formal discipline will result in immediate discharge.''
He received many more chances after that, starting with an accident a year later.
In July 2010, for example, a man in a white cap got on his bus. Moore could have been fired if he got in any more trouble, but the man was whistling. Moore pulled the bus over and waited almost 11 minutes for Plantation police to evict the man for "whistling too loud,'' personnel records say.
County transit officials pulled the video tapes and watched. "There are ... no laws that prohibit any member of the public from whistling in a normal tone,'' they wrote to him in a memo.
The Santa Fe girls' basketball team went on a mid-game roll and didn't let up Saturday until they had secured the third-place trophy of the 32nd Wildcat Classic.
The fourth-seeded Lady Chiefs coasted to a 60-40 victory over Sacred Heart for their best finish in a tournament since defeating Glasgow by three points at Slater 2009.
The Lady Gremlins came into the meet seeded seventh, but pulled off the biggest upset of the first round by beating No. 2 Higginsville. And they appeared ready to put Santa Fe to the test.
Neither team led by more than four points until the final minute of the first half, when the Lady Chiefs surged on junior Brooke Barnett's runner in the lane, a free throw by sophomore Lexi Smith and two charity shots from senior Brandi Beasley for a nine-point cushion at the break.
That was merely a prelude to Santa Fe's third-quarter dominance. Freshman Kyle Limback converted a conventional three-point play, Barnett made two lay-ups, Limback drove to the hole and Barnett popped a perimeter jumper to cap a 19-2 run for a 42-21 Lady Chief lead.
The Lady Huskers recovered from their first-round upset at the hands of Sacred Heart to win back-to-back games, the third time this season they've won twice in tourney play -- having placed second in the Husker Classic and third in the Lafayette County Tournament, both on their home court.
Higginsville blew out to a 13-3 first-quarter lead and extended the margin to 14 points by halftime. The Lady Wildcats surged slightly with 12 points during the third period, but Dyer had 10 of her team's 24 points down the stretch to seal the win.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
Firms Brace for Write-Downs
Europe's blue chip companies are set to wipe billions of dollars from
their balance sheets this year, writing down the value of assets
acquired over recent years as the economic slowdown makes cash-flow
forecasts look increasingly optimistic.
The write-downs will serve as a report card on executives' records in making shrewd acquisitions and are important because they will reduce company earnings by a corresponding amount and potentially diminish shareholder returns.
The charges will also indicate how pessimistic executives are about the current business outlook in Europe and influence how investors value companies.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams?
Write-downs are likely because Europe's biggest 600 companies by market value bought more than €1.6 trillion ($2.15 trillion) worth of new businesses between 2007 and today, according to data compiled by investment bank Houlihan Lokey, a unit of Japanese financial-services group Orix Corp.
Europe's sputtering economy makes it more difficult for companies to justify the amount of goodwill on their balance sheet when it is probably greater than the value of the assets today.
Goodwill is an intangible asset created when companies capitalize the premium they pay in acquisitions. When acquisitions don't pan out, companies have to recognize the difference by writing down the value of the goodwill. They are often slow to do so, partly because valuing assets accurately is difficult.
The European Securities and Markets Authority, Europe's umbrella body for securities regulators, said on Jan.Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. 21 that it wants companies to tighten up how they justify the goodwill on their balance sheets to give investors a fairer picture of the health of their businesses. ESMA believes around half of Europe's biggest listed companies are trading below their book value.
According to ESMA, there was €800 billion of goodwill on the books of Europe's largest 235 companies in 2011, up from €790 billion the year before. But the body calculates only 5%, or about €40 billion, of that was written off when companies published their 2011 accounts despite stock markets trading well below boom-era levels as Europe's economic outlook as worsened. Those trends have continued, suggesting there is an even bigger discrepancy between the value of goodwill on companies' books and the real value of the assets.
"It's not our job to tell companies how much of an impairment charge they should take but if you look at the figures, the fact that only 5% of goodwill recognized at the end of 2010 was impaired in such difficult economic conditions raises the question: is this sufficient?" said Steven Maijoor, the chairman of ESMA. "We know from past financial crises that there is a tendency by management to be slow in recognizing goodwill impairment."
Mr. Maijoor cites the examples of U.S. and European banks in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and Japan's banks after the bursting of the 1990s property bubble.
"In general, when it comes to assessing the value of assets from past mergers, it's more a question that management is too ambitious…than capital markets are too conservative,The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation." said Marc Hayn, a Frankfurt-based managing director at Houlihan Lokey.
The bank—although not giving an actual forecast—said it expects impairments of goodwill related to 2012 results to exceed the €76.44 billion written down by constituents of the Stoxx Europe 600 index as part of 2011 results. The 2011 figure was up on a collective €13.65 billion write-down taken in 2010 results.
As well as hitting financial results, such impairments could put the spotlight on executives responsible for the acquisitions.
"Goodwill impairment is a noncash charge," said Romil Radia, a partner in the valuation practice at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. "But somebody did actually write a check at some point in time," Mr. Radia said.
On Jan. 17 mining company Rio Tinto PLC announced a $14-billion write-down related to two acquisitions, with Chairman Jan du Plessis describing the charge on a relatively recent acquisition as "unacceptable."
Houlilhan Lokey's analysis shows that while much of the asset impairments in recent years have focused on the financial services sector—because of the 2008 financial crisis and then the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis—and telecommunications—because operators overpaid for new licenses and smaller companies in the last decade—Europe's economic slowdown has spread to the broader economy.
For instance,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . it believes more than a quarter of companies in the automotive, metals, hotel, and real-estate sectors have assets with a book value significantly exceeding their market value.
ESMA notes that the 2011 impairment rate in the industrial goods and services sector at the companies it studied was 1.4%, equivalent to €1.54 billion in goodwill written off a total of €112.55 billion recognized at the end of 2010, compared with 25% in the financial-services sector, or €19.12 billion out of a total of €76.08 billion.
To be sure, companies can ignore market valuations in assessing the goodwill on their balance sheets by arguing that the market is undervaluing the real value of the assets.
But with Europe's economic prospects deteriorating, that could prove more of a stretch. A tough trading environment in Spain, with little prospect of a recovery soon, led Imperial Tobacco to write down the value of its business there by 1.2 billion ($1.9 billion) in October, four years after its 2008 acquisition of Franco-Spanish rival Altadis for €12.8 billion.
With companies working typically on three-year business plans, few managers are likely to have forecast back in late 2009 that, after a rapid rebound from the financial crisis,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. Europe's economies would so quickly become mired again in slow growth, with a double-dip recession in some countries, said Houlihan Lokey's Mr. Hayn.
The write-downs will serve as a report card on executives' records in making shrewd acquisitions and are important because they will reduce company earnings by a corresponding amount and potentially diminish shareholder returns.
The charges will also indicate how pessimistic executives are about the current business outlook in Europe and influence how investors value companies.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams?
Write-downs are likely because Europe's biggest 600 companies by market value bought more than €1.6 trillion ($2.15 trillion) worth of new businesses between 2007 and today, according to data compiled by investment bank Houlihan Lokey, a unit of Japanese financial-services group Orix Corp.
Europe's sputtering economy makes it more difficult for companies to justify the amount of goodwill on their balance sheet when it is probably greater than the value of the assets today.
Goodwill is an intangible asset created when companies capitalize the premium they pay in acquisitions. When acquisitions don't pan out, companies have to recognize the difference by writing down the value of the goodwill. They are often slow to do so, partly because valuing assets accurately is difficult.
The European Securities and Markets Authority, Europe's umbrella body for securities regulators, said on Jan.Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. 21 that it wants companies to tighten up how they justify the goodwill on their balance sheets to give investors a fairer picture of the health of their businesses. ESMA believes around half of Europe's biggest listed companies are trading below their book value.
According to ESMA, there was €800 billion of goodwill on the books of Europe's largest 235 companies in 2011, up from €790 billion the year before. But the body calculates only 5%, or about €40 billion, of that was written off when companies published their 2011 accounts despite stock markets trading well below boom-era levels as Europe's economic outlook as worsened. Those trends have continued, suggesting there is an even bigger discrepancy between the value of goodwill on companies' books and the real value of the assets.
"It's not our job to tell companies how much of an impairment charge they should take but if you look at the figures, the fact that only 5% of goodwill recognized at the end of 2010 was impaired in such difficult economic conditions raises the question: is this sufficient?" said Steven Maijoor, the chairman of ESMA. "We know from past financial crises that there is a tendency by management to be slow in recognizing goodwill impairment."
Mr. Maijoor cites the examples of U.S. and European banks in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and Japan's banks after the bursting of the 1990s property bubble.
"In general, when it comes to assessing the value of assets from past mergers, it's more a question that management is too ambitious…than capital markets are too conservative,The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation." said Marc Hayn, a Frankfurt-based managing director at Houlihan Lokey.
The bank—although not giving an actual forecast—said it expects impairments of goodwill related to 2012 results to exceed the €76.44 billion written down by constituents of the Stoxx Europe 600 index as part of 2011 results. The 2011 figure was up on a collective €13.65 billion write-down taken in 2010 results.
As well as hitting financial results, such impairments could put the spotlight on executives responsible for the acquisitions.
"Goodwill impairment is a noncash charge," said Romil Radia, a partner in the valuation practice at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. "But somebody did actually write a check at some point in time," Mr. Radia said.
On Jan. 17 mining company Rio Tinto PLC announced a $14-billion write-down related to two acquisitions, with Chairman Jan du Plessis describing the charge on a relatively recent acquisition as "unacceptable."
Houlilhan Lokey's analysis shows that while much of the asset impairments in recent years have focused on the financial services sector—because of the 2008 financial crisis and then the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis—and telecommunications—because operators overpaid for new licenses and smaller companies in the last decade—Europe's economic slowdown has spread to the broader economy.
For instance,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . it believes more than a quarter of companies in the automotive, metals, hotel, and real-estate sectors have assets with a book value significantly exceeding their market value.
ESMA notes that the 2011 impairment rate in the industrial goods and services sector at the companies it studied was 1.4%, equivalent to €1.54 billion in goodwill written off a total of €112.55 billion recognized at the end of 2010, compared with 25% in the financial-services sector, or €19.12 billion out of a total of €76.08 billion.
To be sure, companies can ignore market valuations in assessing the goodwill on their balance sheets by arguing that the market is undervaluing the real value of the assets.
But with Europe's economic prospects deteriorating, that could prove more of a stretch. A tough trading environment in Spain, with little prospect of a recovery soon, led Imperial Tobacco to write down the value of its business there by 1.2 billion ($1.9 billion) in October, four years after its 2008 acquisition of Franco-Spanish rival Altadis for €12.8 billion.
With companies working typically on three-year business plans, few managers are likely to have forecast back in late 2009 that, after a rapid rebound from the financial crisis,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. Europe's economies would so quickly become mired again in slow growth, with a double-dip recession in some countries, said Houlihan Lokey's Mr. Hayn.
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