Ascert announced today the general release of VersaTest Automator
version 1.7. This release contains a number of new features many of
which, as is customary, were demonstrated at Ascert's annual User Group
held in November in London. "As use of VersaTest Automator increases we
need to ensure its users are given the best possible tools for managing
and controlling the tests that have been created." says Simon Miles,
Ascert's Product Architect for the VersaTest product line. "VersaTest
Automator has enabled users to reduce testing time and effort which in
turn has enabled them to expand their test coverage. This means that
there are many more test cases being produced. Release 1.7 has expanded
on features to help manage these tests."
Within this latest
release, changes have been made to extend the way environment templates
can share common data and tests across multiple similar test
environments. This improves the maintainability of the large enterprise
testing environments typically found in VersaTest installations. The
existing test case search facilities have also been enhanced to allow a
more refined search operation to be performed. The significant benefit
is that it allows users to more easily find test cases that have
particular fields and data.
Additionally, the release includes a
new feature to give per-user persistence allowing the state and layout
of the interface to be saved between uses. The user experience has been
enhanced in other ways as well, in that panels and menus can now be
customized based on user access levels. This allows a user’s experience
of the product to be tailored depending on their operational role.
Also
included in this release are enhancements to the documentation of test
cases, allowing extra descriptive information to be included in a form
readily understood by business analysts.
In addition to time
savings in testing, VersaTest Automator decreases the time involved in
analyzing testing results. With an easy to use GUI interface and “audit
capture” functionality, the product increases both testing accuracy as
well as ROI. To find out more about VersaTest Automator, visit the
Ascert Web Site or call one of the local Ascert offices.
Ascert
is recognized as a leading provider of premier testing software
solutions. Ascert was founded in 1992 to provide automated software
testing solutions that help companies measure the performance,
reliability and scalability of their mission-critical back-end servers
and applications. With over 100 clients worldwide, Ascert's products and
services are used at some of the world's most successful companies.
Off-the-shelf simulators include solutions for EFT testing, POS testing,
ATM testing, IFX testing, EMV/chip card testing, ISO8583 testing and
3270 & 6530 terminal testing. Ascert’s custom simulators have been
used for testing air traffic control systems and biometric payment
systems. Ascert's products assist testing professionals across industry
segments to better manage their testing processes and environments
through an end-to-end tool set.
Tilera's Tile CPU was one of the
first massively multi-core processors with the firm announcing a
32-core Tile-Gx chip as far back as 2007,There are generally three
different configurations of industrial laser cutting machine.
and now the firm has more than doubled the core count and improved
connectivity. Tilera's 64-bit Tile-Gx72 chip sports 72 cores clocked at
between 1GHz and 1.2GHz with each core having 256KB of Level 2 cache,
and is aimed at the networking and high performance computing (HPC)
markets.
Tilera has spent a lot of effort beefing up external
connectivity support in the Tile-Gx72, from quad channel DDR3-1866
support to 32 gigabit Ethernet controllers and 24 lane PCI-Express
support. Tilera claims that bandwidth between the cores, which use the
firm's Imesh interconnect,This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. has now surpassed 100Tbit/s.
With Tilera pitching its Tile-Gx chips at the networking market,The most famous china mosaic
of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. the firm
said its Mpipe packet engine can support 120 million packets per second
in duplex.Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. The firm's Mica security core supports 80 threads and can do 40Gbit/s cryptography.
Tilera's
Tile Gx-72 chip can be had as a standalone chip or placed on a network
card. The firm said that most of its customers opt for the standalone
chip, though it told The INQUIRER that the number of "off-load NICs",
where the Tilera chip is used as an accelerator on an x86 machine, is
growing.
Tilera told The INQUIRER that its Tile-Gx72 chip is
being fabbed by TSMC on its 40nm process node, showing that chip
designers not burdened with legacy ISAs can create many core chips
without the need for costly leading edge process nodes. The firm also
told The INQUIRER that the Tile-Gx72 chip consumes between 50W and 60W
of power depending on the application.
Although Tilera's chip is
very much a niche product, given that Intel and ARM vendors are looking
at getting into the networking market with the growing popularity of
software defined networks,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated
Circuit) is called an IC card.
Tilera has a considerable advantage by already having been in the
market for a number of years. As Bob Doud, director of processor
strategy for Tilera told The INQUIRER, Tilera "already has 64-bit today
and [is] packing 72 cores on a single chip", and it might be a while
before even Intel's chip manufacturing skill enables it to match
Tilera's core count.
2013年2月19日星期二
Art Escape
At first glance, 21c Museum Hotel looks like any other building in
Louisville’s urban museum district. Architecturally beautiful, its stone
facade blends in with the surrounding historic neighborhood. That is,
until you look up and a bright red penguin overlooking the main entrance
catches your eye. Turn the corner and a 38-foot Styrofoam and steel,
gold-painted replica of Michelangelo’s “David” hints there is something
different about this particular spot.
It’s a museum masquerading as a hotel at night. And it’s a hotel with the most impressive contemporary art collection outside of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It’s no surprise 21c has been touted as one of the world’s coolest places to stay.
Contemporary art collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson had two passions. The first was to contribute to revitalization efforts in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The second was to share their love of contemporary art and help make it a part of peoples’ daily lives. They partnered with renowned architect Deborah Berke to renovate five former warehouses, and in 2006, their dream materialized in the form of 21c Museum Hotel. The name itself pays homage to the 21st century, when all the art in the museum hotel was created.
By its very nature, contemporary art is mutable and experiential. It’s an event that changes with each interaction, and it’s rarely passive. The art housed at 21c exemplifies that; much of it is designed to be interactive. For example, those red penguins that greet visitors were one of the museum’s first exhibitions. Patrons and staff alike could (and still sometimes do) move these recycled plastic creatures around the museum and hotel at will, so they were rarely in the same place twice. Some guests even found them inside their rooms at check-in.
“That is exemplary of the kind of art that you can find at 21c. It’s about an interactive experience,” says Stephanie Greene, the museum’s public relations manager. “There’s art everywhere. You experience art whether you’re dining or attending a meeting. There really is art everywhere on the property.”
Another guest favorite greets visitors as they approach the elevator bank in the main building. Called “Text Rain,” this interactive piece projects a person’s image onto a huge, blank wall. There, falling words settle on the image of the person standing in front of the wall (you as you wait for the elevator), mimicking falling rain.
Some pieces are as functional as they are intriguing. The art car “Pipmobile” is a working limousine covered in red glass beads to mimic the interior of a pomegranate. VIP guests can opt to be picked up from the airport, for example, by hotel staff driving the flashy limo.
Contemporary art isn’t limited to display pieces at 21c, either.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. There’s a monthly poetry series, as well other cultural programming such as artist and curator lectures, musical performances and film showings.
True to the founders’ vision, 21c is making contemporary art more accessible and more immersive than ever before. There is no admission fee for the museum portion of the establishment. And it’s open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, with guided tours offered most Fridays and Saturdays.
Installations are a mix of permanent pieces, like “Text Rain,” commissioned exhibitions and rotating thematic displays, which change about twice a year. Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and director of art programming, works with the rest of the curatorial staff to carefully select work from up-and-coming artists. Additionally, 21c hosts traveling exhibitions and borrows from and loans to other contemporary art museums.
“The art is really carefully selected … with an eye toward exceptional art,” says Gray Stites. “When a topic is provocative, that’s a good thing. It’s thought provoking.” The non-traditional style of 21c actually lends to a more flexible, open-minded approach to contemporary art, she adds.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system. “When you create a framework where people can be more relaxed and engaged, you can provoke people a bit for the sake of broadening perspectives.
Art permeates every inch of the five-building complex, including its 90 rooms, which feature high ceilings and large windows to better display the pieces. Charming, industrial elements like exposed brick walls and pewter mint julep cups complement modern decor and conveniences such as iPod docking stations, luxurious bedding and plush bathrobes.
Guests can choose between city and atrium views for their standard rooms or suites.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. The well-appointed Corner Suite features gorgeous views of downtown Louisville through four enormous windows, a dinette set, sitting area and a 42-inch flat-screen HDTV. Some suites include a semi-private rooftop terrace that overlooks the historic Seventh Street, but the real jewel of the 21c’s hotel portion is the Rooftop Apartment. This exclusive retreat boasts 1,300-plus square feet of living space, including a bedroom, a full bath plus two half baths, a full kitchen, an open concept living and dining area and a private garden terrace.
A variety of packages include themes such as birthday celebrations, romance, bourbon and, of course, art exploration. With special perks, including a dining credit to 21c’s in-house restaurant, Proof on Main, or a bottle of champagne waiting for you in the room, you’re sure to feel like royalty.
It’s no surprise to discover that the museum’s exhibitions and displays carry through into the dining and bar areas of Proof on Main—a restaurant touted as one of the best in the city. The rotating exhibitions change about once a year, but the menu is updated seasonally, and sometimes even weekly,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. Greene says. The upscale, familiar food offerings are locally sourced from Kentucky farms. The main source for menu items is Woodland Farms, which is owned by 21c founders Brown and Wilson. Woodland Farms supplies fresh eggs, sustainably grown produce, heirloom fruits, Hereford and Mulefoot hogs, and even hormone-free, grass-fed bison.
Although the menu is based on what’s locally available, hearty offerings such as bison burgers and bone-in pork chops are standard fare. In the warmer months, look for house-made gelato and heirloom tomato salads.
And don’t forget to check out the bar at Proof on Main, too. It has a library of more than 50 Kentucky bourbons and was named one of GQ magazine’s “New Whiskey Temples.” Try a small batch or single barrel bourbon, or sample one of the bourbon and rye tasting flights. The innovative cocktail list is full of fresh ingredients,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. and it changes seasonally to complement changing menu items. Of course, the best beverages make the list of signature, year-round cocktails.
“It’s very much a place for locals in addition to hotel guests,” Greene says. And with its status on the famous Louisville Urban Bourbon Trail (see “Five Things To Do”), it’s not hard to see why. To celebrate this status, Proof on Main has hand-selected a unique collection of small batch bourbons that celebrate artisan craftsmanship.
It’s a museum masquerading as a hotel at night. And it’s a hotel with the most impressive contemporary art collection outside of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It’s no surprise 21c has been touted as one of the world’s coolest places to stay.
Contemporary art collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson had two passions. The first was to contribute to revitalization efforts in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The second was to share their love of contemporary art and help make it a part of peoples’ daily lives. They partnered with renowned architect Deborah Berke to renovate five former warehouses, and in 2006, their dream materialized in the form of 21c Museum Hotel. The name itself pays homage to the 21st century, when all the art in the museum hotel was created.
By its very nature, contemporary art is mutable and experiential. It’s an event that changes with each interaction, and it’s rarely passive. The art housed at 21c exemplifies that; much of it is designed to be interactive. For example, those red penguins that greet visitors were one of the museum’s first exhibitions. Patrons and staff alike could (and still sometimes do) move these recycled plastic creatures around the museum and hotel at will, so they were rarely in the same place twice. Some guests even found them inside their rooms at check-in.
“That is exemplary of the kind of art that you can find at 21c. It’s about an interactive experience,” says Stephanie Greene, the museum’s public relations manager. “There’s art everywhere. You experience art whether you’re dining or attending a meeting. There really is art everywhere on the property.”
Another guest favorite greets visitors as they approach the elevator bank in the main building. Called “Text Rain,” this interactive piece projects a person’s image onto a huge, blank wall. There, falling words settle on the image of the person standing in front of the wall (you as you wait for the elevator), mimicking falling rain.
Some pieces are as functional as they are intriguing. The art car “Pipmobile” is a working limousine covered in red glass beads to mimic the interior of a pomegranate. VIP guests can opt to be picked up from the airport, for example, by hotel staff driving the flashy limo.
Contemporary art isn’t limited to display pieces at 21c, either.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. There’s a monthly poetry series, as well other cultural programming such as artist and curator lectures, musical performances and film showings.
True to the founders’ vision, 21c is making contemporary art more accessible and more immersive than ever before. There is no admission fee for the museum portion of the establishment. And it’s open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, with guided tours offered most Fridays and Saturdays.
Installations are a mix of permanent pieces, like “Text Rain,” commissioned exhibitions and rotating thematic displays, which change about twice a year. Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and director of art programming, works with the rest of the curatorial staff to carefully select work from up-and-coming artists. Additionally, 21c hosts traveling exhibitions and borrows from and loans to other contemporary art museums.
“The art is really carefully selected … with an eye toward exceptional art,” says Gray Stites. “When a topic is provocative, that’s a good thing. It’s thought provoking.” The non-traditional style of 21c actually lends to a more flexible, open-minded approach to contemporary art, she adds.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system. “When you create a framework where people can be more relaxed and engaged, you can provoke people a bit for the sake of broadening perspectives.
Art permeates every inch of the five-building complex, including its 90 rooms, which feature high ceilings and large windows to better display the pieces. Charming, industrial elements like exposed brick walls and pewter mint julep cups complement modern decor and conveniences such as iPod docking stations, luxurious bedding and plush bathrobes.
Guests can choose between city and atrium views for their standard rooms or suites.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. The well-appointed Corner Suite features gorgeous views of downtown Louisville through four enormous windows, a dinette set, sitting area and a 42-inch flat-screen HDTV. Some suites include a semi-private rooftop terrace that overlooks the historic Seventh Street, but the real jewel of the 21c’s hotel portion is the Rooftop Apartment. This exclusive retreat boasts 1,300-plus square feet of living space, including a bedroom, a full bath plus two half baths, a full kitchen, an open concept living and dining area and a private garden terrace.
A variety of packages include themes such as birthday celebrations, romance, bourbon and, of course, art exploration. With special perks, including a dining credit to 21c’s in-house restaurant, Proof on Main, or a bottle of champagne waiting for you in the room, you’re sure to feel like royalty.
It’s no surprise to discover that the museum’s exhibitions and displays carry through into the dining and bar areas of Proof on Main—a restaurant touted as one of the best in the city. The rotating exhibitions change about once a year, but the menu is updated seasonally, and sometimes even weekly,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. Greene says. The upscale, familiar food offerings are locally sourced from Kentucky farms. The main source for menu items is Woodland Farms, which is owned by 21c founders Brown and Wilson. Woodland Farms supplies fresh eggs, sustainably grown produce, heirloom fruits, Hereford and Mulefoot hogs, and even hormone-free, grass-fed bison.
Although the menu is based on what’s locally available, hearty offerings such as bison burgers and bone-in pork chops are standard fare. In the warmer months, look for house-made gelato and heirloom tomato salads.
And don’t forget to check out the bar at Proof on Main, too. It has a library of more than 50 Kentucky bourbons and was named one of GQ magazine’s “New Whiskey Temples.” Try a small batch or single barrel bourbon, or sample one of the bourbon and rye tasting flights. The innovative cocktail list is full of fresh ingredients,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. and it changes seasonally to complement changing menu items. Of course, the best beverages make the list of signature, year-round cocktails.
“It’s very much a place for locals in addition to hotel guests,” Greene says. And with its status on the famous Louisville Urban Bourbon Trail (see “Five Things To Do”), it’s not hard to see why. To celebrate this status, Proof on Main has hand-selected a unique collection of small batch bourbons that celebrate artisan craftsmanship.
Use Tax Credit, Not Minimum Wage
These are worthy goals, but they should be paid for by taxpayers
nationwide, not just by the businesses that employ lower-wage workers.
Instead of redistribution through regulation, Congress should enhance
and improve the earned income tax credit, or start a new
taxpayer-financed program that makes working more attractive for the
poor.
The great appeal of raising the minimum wage is that it appears to reduce inequality without increasing budget deficits. That seductive glimmer is the policy’s greatest flaw. We should have a debate about how much to spend to promote opportunity. We shouldn’t embrace policies that make politicians look caring without requiring them to pay the cost of justifying higher taxes. We should abhor cheap tricks,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. such as unfunded mandates, and the minimum wage is a bit like an unfunded mandate.
Like the minimum wage, the Americans with Disabilities Act was motivated by worthy goals. I care deeply that disabled Americans suffer less.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. But instead of funding remedies with taxpayer dollars, the ADA pushed the burden downstream to local public transit systems, declaring that it was discrimination for a system to “fail to provide” alternatives such as “paratransit and other special transportation services to individuals with disabilities.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system.”
This means that the finances of the Boston area’s transit system, for example, have been deeply strained by the $40-a-trip cost of paratransit, which leads to more than $100 million of annual spending that is only trivially offset by $5 million in federal aid. The costs of righting a widespread social wrong shouldn’t have to be paid for by bus and train riders, who face higher fees and reduced service, as systems work to cover the law’s mandated costs.
Likewise, why should the costs of making the U.S. more egalitarian be paid by the employers that happen to hire lower- wage workers? In January, the unemployment rate among high school dropouts was 12 percent. Only 40 percent of that group was employed at all.
Those scary numbers reflect a failure of entrepreneurial imagination: an inability of American companies to figure out ways to productively employ the less skilled. The most skill- intensive sectors, including my own, won’t pay the price of a higher minimum wage, precisely because they provide so few jobs for people at the low end of the skill spectrum.
The debate over the minimum wage is often depicted as a battle of social justice, calling for higher wages instead of economic efficiency, which operates best with fewer regulatory restrictions. Although providing more for the poor may be social justice, there is nothing just about loading all the costs onto the employers and customers of lower-wage workers. For 20 years, there has been a fierce debate about the impact that minimum wage laws have on unemployment.
Alan Krueger, now chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and David Card, of the University of California at Berkeley, are responsible for the research that reopened the debate on the efficiency costs of the minimum wage.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. They compared fast-food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and found little decline in employment after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in 1992. Their 1997 book brings together five years of their serious scholarship, which suggests that at low levels an increase in minimum wage does little to discourage employment.
Changes in the minimum wage have been found to reduce employment by Kevin Murphy of the University of Chicago and economists Donald Deere and Finis Welch of Welch Consulting as well as by Janet Currie and Bruce Fallick. These findings are sufficiently disparate so that progressives can plausibly claim that Obama’s proposed minimum-wage increase will do little harm to employment, while libertarians can argue that a 24 percent increase in the minimum wage will lead to more unemployed teenagers and high school dropouts.
We would be stuck between two ideologically driven viewpoints if the minimum wage was our only tool to help lower- income Americans.
There are better ways of making work pay. The earned income tax credit has helped make work pay since 1975. It rises initially with income up to a maximum of $5,236 for families with two children, and then it phases out.
It has downsides, such as administrative complexity and monitoring, but it has been shown to increase employment, especially for single mothers. It can be improved and increased, and it remains the best alternative to raising the minimum wage.
Perhaps the simplest way to alter the credit is for it to provide a clear per-hour benefit directly to workers earning less than $9 an hour. An extra $1.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.75 an hour, the proposed increase in the minimum wage, for the 1.67 million workers who currently earn the minimum wage, would cost about $4 billion, which could be easily funded with minor cuts to other programs such as highway spending.
The great appeal of raising the minimum wage is that it appears to reduce inequality without increasing budget deficits. That seductive glimmer is the policy’s greatest flaw. We should have a debate about how much to spend to promote opportunity. We shouldn’t embrace policies that make politicians look caring without requiring them to pay the cost of justifying higher taxes. We should abhor cheap tricks,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. such as unfunded mandates, and the minimum wage is a bit like an unfunded mandate.
Like the minimum wage, the Americans with Disabilities Act was motivated by worthy goals. I care deeply that disabled Americans suffer less.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. But instead of funding remedies with taxpayer dollars, the ADA pushed the burden downstream to local public transit systems, declaring that it was discrimination for a system to “fail to provide” alternatives such as “paratransit and other special transportation services to individuals with disabilities.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system.”
This means that the finances of the Boston area’s transit system, for example, have been deeply strained by the $40-a-trip cost of paratransit, which leads to more than $100 million of annual spending that is only trivially offset by $5 million in federal aid. The costs of righting a widespread social wrong shouldn’t have to be paid for by bus and train riders, who face higher fees and reduced service, as systems work to cover the law’s mandated costs.
Likewise, why should the costs of making the U.S. more egalitarian be paid by the employers that happen to hire lower- wage workers? In January, the unemployment rate among high school dropouts was 12 percent. Only 40 percent of that group was employed at all.
Those scary numbers reflect a failure of entrepreneurial imagination: an inability of American companies to figure out ways to productively employ the less skilled. The most skill- intensive sectors, including my own, won’t pay the price of a higher minimum wage, precisely because they provide so few jobs for people at the low end of the skill spectrum.
The debate over the minimum wage is often depicted as a battle of social justice, calling for higher wages instead of economic efficiency, which operates best with fewer regulatory restrictions. Although providing more for the poor may be social justice, there is nothing just about loading all the costs onto the employers and customers of lower-wage workers. For 20 years, there has been a fierce debate about the impact that minimum wage laws have on unemployment.
Alan Krueger, now chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and David Card, of the University of California at Berkeley, are responsible for the research that reopened the debate on the efficiency costs of the minimum wage.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. They compared fast-food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and found little decline in employment after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in 1992. Their 1997 book brings together five years of their serious scholarship, which suggests that at low levels an increase in minimum wage does little to discourage employment.
Changes in the minimum wage have been found to reduce employment by Kevin Murphy of the University of Chicago and economists Donald Deere and Finis Welch of Welch Consulting as well as by Janet Currie and Bruce Fallick. These findings are sufficiently disparate so that progressives can plausibly claim that Obama’s proposed minimum-wage increase will do little harm to employment, while libertarians can argue that a 24 percent increase in the minimum wage will lead to more unemployed teenagers and high school dropouts.
We would be stuck between two ideologically driven viewpoints if the minimum wage was our only tool to help lower- income Americans.
There are better ways of making work pay. The earned income tax credit has helped make work pay since 1975. It rises initially with income up to a maximum of $5,236 for families with two children, and then it phases out.
It has downsides, such as administrative complexity and monitoring, but it has been shown to increase employment, especially for single mothers. It can be improved and increased, and it remains the best alternative to raising the minimum wage.
Perhaps the simplest way to alter the credit is for it to provide a clear per-hour benefit directly to workers earning less than $9 an hour. An extra $1.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.75 an hour, the proposed increase in the minimum wage, for the 1.67 million workers who currently earn the minimum wage, would cost about $4 billion, which could be easily funded with minor cuts to other programs such as highway spending.
2013年2月18日星期一
The Good Life actor Richard Briers has died
The star, who was also known for his Shakespearean roles, had been battling a serious lung condition for a number of years.
Briers, who also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen, recently said years of smoking had been to blame for his emphysema.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.
Briers died “peacefully” at his London home yesterday, his agent said today.
In 2007 he took part in filming on location at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for the popular series Kingdom. He also appeared in pantomime at Norwich’s Theatre Royal in 1978 playing Dame Nanny Good Life in The Babes in the Wood and as Prospero in The Tempest in 2002.
But he was no less acclaimed as a distinguished Shakespearean actor, a major development in his career, at a point when he said “I realised I had gone as far as I could doing sitcoms”.
He will be best remembered as a bumbling, fussy and occasionally downtrodden figure in some of the most successful TV comedies of his era.
He was the lynchpin of three of the most notable sitcoms ever made in Britain - Marriage Lines, The Good Life (shown in the United States as Good Neighbours) and Ever Decreasing Circles.
But after a long career in popular television, Briers joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his already very successful professional life took a new turn as he moved on to major classical roles.
Briers was born on January 14 1934 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the silver medal and a scholarship to Liverpool Playhouse in 1956. Two years later he made his first West End appearance in Gilt And Gingerbread. He barely stopped working from that day onwards.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.
Your television can watch you while you’re watching it; your notebook can follow you when you surf the Web and your smartphone can secretly scan every corner of your house. All these pictures could then land in the hands of hackers. Such a scenario may sound like part of a Michael Bay movie, but it is a real threat, as our connected devices are equipped with cameras that are not well protected and can allow people unauthorised access with relative ease.
There have been cases of PC rental agencies exploiting such weaknesses to track their customers and even schools have tracked students without their knowledge. Amongst the many things these spying mechanisms allow hackers to do is install malware. And some of the more malicious PC malwares can even lock up a PC and threaten to delete everything on it unless you pay a ransom, and an image of yourself through your own webcam is shown to show you proof of your being monitored.
Besides PCs and smartphones, there are also smart TVs with integrated webcams that can be misused. We show you how dangerous the situation is and how to protect yourself from your own devices.
With an active Internet connection, one or even two cameras and other sensors, your smartphone is an especially rewarding target for hackers on a mission. Unlike a stationary PC, it not only includes potentially compromising photos but a range of information that can be called up together with images connecting you to it—including details such as where and when the photo was taken. Researchers have already manipulated smartphones to create extensive and zoomable panoramas of a room by combining and interpolating a number of secretly taken photos. They could then simply flick through the composite image to find important information.
Even manufacturers of smartphones and their business partners are desperately interested in collecting such information. One such example is ad tracking, which Apple has introduced with iOS 6. It works by assigning a unique number that associates a user with a particular device. When visiting websites and whilst using apps, this number is sent to advertising servers whose operators get an exact picture of what interests you, and which advertisements you’d be more likely to act upon.
If you think your smartphone and its webcam are protected by Android’s security mechanisms, think again. The operating system is dependent on two basic principles: the user must grant each app authorisations for what it wants access to, and apps are strictly separated from one another. This way malware can only upload stolen data if it has been authorised for Internet access.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. However, proof-of-concept app Soundcomber bypasses all of this. It only requires authorisation for sound recording and disguises itself as a harmless voice memo app. It secretly taps phone calls and extracts numbers entered or spoken into the phone.Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. It then transfers these numbers to its author by calling up the Android browser, which does not require authorisation. It directs the browser to go to a specific URL,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. which includes the numbers that have been stolen. The URL is interpreted by the author’s server and he gains possession of the numbers. As an alternative, Soundcomber can also smuggle this data through a “dead postbox” to a second identical malware app. For this purpose, it changes the authorisations on different photos in your camera roll in a predetermined sequence. The information is then reassembled by the second app and then transferred via the Internet. Hackers can also transfer images this way.
Besides the camera and the microphone, a smartphone’s motion sensors are also used to spy on users. This is supported by the research project iPhone, which uses the highly accurate accelerator sensors of an iPhone to determine what is typed on a PC keyboard set beside the smartphone on the table. The smartphone registers the vibrations and reconstructs the text typed in from the sequence and a dictionary, although it helps if you know the subject matter that is being typed in advance. The researchers managed a success rate of 80 percent.
Briers, who also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen, recently said years of smoking had been to blame for his emphysema.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.
Briers died “peacefully” at his London home yesterday, his agent said today.
In 2007 he took part in filming on location at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for the popular series Kingdom. He also appeared in pantomime at Norwich’s Theatre Royal in 1978 playing Dame Nanny Good Life in The Babes in the Wood and as Prospero in The Tempest in 2002.
But he was no less acclaimed as a distinguished Shakespearean actor, a major development in his career, at a point when he said “I realised I had gone as far as I could doing sitcoms”.
He will be best remembered as a bumbling, fussy and occasionally downtrodden figure in some of the most successful TV comedies of his era.
He was the lynchpin of three of the most notable sitcoms ever made in Britain - Marriage Lines, The Good Life (shown in the United States as Good Neighbours) and Ever Decreasing Circles.
But after a long career in popular television, Briers joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his already very successful professional life took a new turn as he moved on to major classical roles.
Briers was born on January 14 1934 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the silver medal and a scholarship to Liverpool Playhouse in 1956. Two years later he made his first West End appearance in Gilt And Gingerbread. He barely stopped working from that day onwards.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.
Your television can watch you while you’re watching it; your notebook can follow you when you surf the Web and your smartphone can secretly scan every corner of your house. All these pictures could then land in the hands of hackers. Such a scenario may sound like part of a Michael Bay movie, but it is a real threat, as our connected devices are equipped with cameras that are not well protected and can allow people unauthorised access with relative ease.
There have been cases of PC rental agencies exploiting such weaknesses to track their customers and even schools have tracked students without their knowledge. Amongst the many things these spying mechanisms allow hackers to do is install malware. And some of the more malicious PC malwares can even lock up a PC and threaten to delete everything on it unless you pay a ransom, and an image of yourself through your own webcam is shown to show you proof of your being monitored.
Besides PCs and smartphones, there are also smart TVs with integrated webcams that can be misused. We show you how dangerous the situation is and how to protect yourself from your own devices.
With an active Internet connection, one or even two cameras and other sensors, your smartphone is an especially rewarding target for hackers on a mission. Unlike a stationary PC, it not only includes potentially compromising photos but a range of information that can be called up together with images connecting you to it—including details such as where and when the photo was taken. Researchers have already manipulated smartphones to create extensive and zoomable panoramas of a room by combining and interpolating a number of secretly taken photos. They could then simply flick through the composite image to find important information.
Even manufacturers of smartphones and their business partners are desperately interested in collecting such information. One such example is ad tracking, which Apple has introduced with iOS 6. It works by assigning a unique number that associates a user with a particular device. When visiting websites and whilst using apps, this number is sent to advertising servers whose operators get an exact picture of what interests you, and which advertisements you’d be more likely to act upon.
If you think your smartphone and its webcam are protected by Android’s security mechanisms, think again. The operating system is dependent on two basic principles: the user must grant each app authorisations for what it wants access to, and apps are strictly separated from one another. This way malware can only upload stolen data if it has been authorised for Internet access.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. However, proof-of-concept app Soundcomber bypasses all of this. It only requires authorisation for sound recording and disguises itself as a harmless voice memo app. It secretly taps phone calls and extracts numbers entered or spoken into the phone.Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. It then transfers these numbers to its author by calling up the Android browser, which does not require authorisation. It directs the browser to go to a specific URL,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. which includes the numbers that have been stolen. The URL is interpreted by the author’s server and he gains possession of the numbers. As an alternative, Soundcomber can also smuggle this data through a “dead postbox” to a second identical malware app. For this purpose, it changes the authorisations on different photos in your camera roll in a predetermined sequence. The information is then reassembled by the second app and then transferred via the Internet. Hackers can also transfer images this way.
Besides the camera and the microphone, a smartphone’s motion sensors are also used to spy on users. This is supported by the research project iPhone, which uses the highly accurate accelerator sensors of an iPhone to determine what is typed on a PC keyboard set beside the smartphone on the table. The smartphone registers the vibrations and reconstructs the text typed in from the sequence and a dictionary, although it helps if you know the subject matter that is being typed in advance. The researchers managed a success rate of 80 percent.
2013年2月17日星期日
On phantom businesses and phantom toll roads
Perhaps you missed it, but they moved Fork & Company off of MoPac Boulevard last week.We've got a plastic card to suit you. Keller Williams Realty, too.
But if you look in the right places, you can still find Cedar Valley Grocery just yards from MoPac near Lady Bird Lake and, on Interstate 35 between the main lanes and the frontage road just north of East 51st Street, a Radio Shack. You never know when you might want to reach out the window at 65 mph and buy some ear buds.
And then there’s “Tran Steven,” an optometry practice, which is apparently smack dab in the southbound lanes of MoPac (Loop 1) not far from the Cedar Valley Grocery.
Convenient, if perhaps a little hair-raising for eye examinations. But also, like the other examples above, nonexistent. The optometrist involved is actually Steven Tran, and his office is miles away. There’s no grocery store down by Austin High School and no electronics store at that I-35 location.
Spend much time on Google’s map feature, as a transportation reporter tends to do, and you will find businesses shown in some very odd places. I first noticed this a couple of weeks ago with Fork & Company when I was working on a column about the upcoming MoPac express lane project. What turned out to be a catering concern owned by Chera Little was shown on Google in an area between the southbound lanes and Winsted Lane, somewhere around West Seventh Street.
It’s not sitting on MoPac anymore either. I contacted Google’s press relations office about this phantom establishment, and, to my surprise, a representative of the giant corporation called me back. Who knew they even had phones?
Deanna Yick, the spokeswoman, was very apologetic about the misplacement of Fork & Company. I assured her that this was a light-hearted call, that we weren’t exactly in Woodward and Bernstein territory here.
“It is a big deal for us,” Yick said. “We definitely want to get it right.”
I asked her to explain the process Google uses to locate businesses on its maps. Is it advertising?
No, she said, Google doesn’t solicit or accept payments from companies for the privilege of appearing on the maps. Instead, Google collects information from a variety of sources,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. pours it into the corporation’s inscrutable software machinery and then the maps come out the other side. Perhaps the machinery could use a tuneup.
I told her about a few other such glitches I had found along MoPac, and sure enough they were all gone from the maps within a day or two. But I didn’t tell her about the nonexistent Radio Shack, the grocery or the eye guy. Didn’t want to spoil all the fun for you folks.
While we’re talking about map oddities, did you see that local transportation planners would like to put tolls on East 11st Street between I-35 and San Jacinto Boulevard?
OK, I’ll wait while you clean up the Cap’n Crunch you just spit all over the counter. Ready? I’ll explain.
A partnership that includes the city of Austin, Capital Metro and some other Central Texas transportation entities in 2011 formed something called Project Connect. The undertaking, working with consultants and an appointed group of political and civic leaders called the Transit Working Group, over about a year’s time produced a complicated map showing a future network of rail lines, rapid bus routes and “express lanes.”
The vision map includes dotted brown linesrunning from I-35 to near the Capitol on East 11th and from MoPac to near the Seaholm Power Plant downtown. That line east of MoPac is north of the Union Pacific railroad, which would make it appear to be West Fifth Street or West Sixth Street, or both.
That would be particularly ironic given what I wrote last week in this column, which is that the city would rather those future MoPac express lanes not even be connected to West Fifth, much less extend along it.
I talked about all this to Karla Villalon,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. the primary spokeswoman for the city’s Transportation Department. No, she told me, no one involved in Project Connect envisions putting tolls on either East 11th, or West Fifth and West Sixth.
The map is purely schematic, she told me, and those extended express lane segments are meant only to signify “connectivity” between downtown and the toll lanes out on the highways. All that indicates, in other words, is that transit buses using those express toll lanes could take those routes to final destinations in the central business district.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers.
Well, OK. But an uninformed map reader easily could interpret it more literally, and that might lead to some ticklish phone calls later about tollways flowing past Symphony Square, El Arroyo and Waterloo Records.
But if you look in the right places, you can still find Cedar Valley Grocery just yards from MoPac near Lady Bird Lake and, on Interstate 35 between the main lanes and the frontage road just north of East 51st Street, a Radio Shack. You never know when you might want to reach out the window at 65 mph and buy some ear buds.
And then there’s “Tran Steven,” an optometry practice, which is apparently smack dab in the southbound lanes of MoPac (Loop 1) not far from the Cedar Valley Grocery.
Convenient, if perhaps a little hair-raising for eye examinations. But also, like the other examples above, nonexistent. The optometrist involved is actually Steven Tran, and his office is miles away. There’s no grocery store down by Austin High School and no electronics store at that I-35 location.
Spend much time on Google’s map feature, as a transportation reporter tends to do, and you will find businesses shown in some very odd places. I first noticed this a couple of weeks ago with Fork & Company when I was working on a column about the upcoming MoPac express lane project. What turned out to be a catering concern owned by Chera Little was shown on Google in an area between the southbound lanes and Winsted Lane, somewhere around West Seventh Street.
It’s not sitting on MoPac anymore either. I contacted Google’s press relations office about this phantom establishment, and, to my surprise, a representative of the giant corporation called me back. Who knew they even had phones?
Deanna Yick, the spokeswoman, was very apologetic about the misplacement of Fork & Company. I assured her that this was a light-hearted call, that we weren’t exactly in Woodward and Bernstein territory here.
“It is a big deal for us,” Yick said. “We definitely want to get it right.”
I asked her to explain the process Google uses to locate businesses on its maps. Is it advertising?
No, she said, Google doesn’t solicit or accept payments from companies for the privilege of appearing on the maps. Instead, Google collects information from a variety of sources,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. pours it into the corporation’s inscrutable software machinery and then the maps come out the other side. Perhaps the machinery could use a tuneup.
I told her about a few other such glitches I had found along MoPac, and sure enough they were all gone from the maps within a day or two. But I didn’t tell her about the nonexistent Radio Shack, the grocery or the eye guy. Didn’t want to spoil all the fun for you folks.
While we’re talking about map oddities, did you see that local transportation planners would like to put tolls on East 11st Street between I-35 and San Jacinto Boulevard?
OK, I’ll wait while you clean up the Cap’n Crunch you just spit all over the counter. Ready? I’ll explain.
A partnership that includes the city of Austin, Capital Metro and some other Central Texas transportation entities in 2011 formed something called Project Connect. The undertaking, working with consultants and an appointed group of political and civic leaders called the Transit Working Group, over about a year’s time produced a complicated map showing a future network of rail lines, rapid bus routes and “express lanes.”
The vision map includes dotted brown linesrunning from I-35 to near the Capitol on East 11th and from MoPac to near the Seaholm Power Plant downtown. That line east of MoPac is north of the Union Pacific railroad, which would make it appear to be West Fifth Street or West Sixth Street, or both.
That would be particularly ironic given what I wrote last week in this column, which is that the city would rather those future MoPac express lanes not even be connected to West Fifth, much less extend along it.
I talked about all this to Karla Villalon,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. the primary spokeswoman for the city’s Transportation Department. No, she told me, no one involved in Project Connect envisions putting tolls on either East 11th, or West Fifth and West Sixth.
The map is purely schematic, she told me, and those extended express lane segments are meant only to signify “connectivity” between downtown and the toll lanes out on the highways. All that indicates, in other words, is that transit buses using those express toll lanes could take those routes to final destinations in the central business district.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers.
Well, OK. But an uninformed map reader easily could interpret it more literally, and that might lead to some ticklish phone calls later about tollways flowing past Symphony Square, El Arroyo and Waterloo Records.
CCPD thanks its volunteers
The volunteers worked more than 46,000 hours at a multitude of
tasks, including clerical work, information desk duties, vacation house
checks and traffic control, among other things.
That equates to $706,257 worth of services if they were drawing a salary, and more than $2.2 million in the past three years.
"That's a huge chunk of change. This is our little offering of thanks and appreciation for another great year," Murphy said. "And it goes to people who ask nothing more than a pat on the back."
That means people like Roger Novak,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. who worked nearly 1,000 hours this past year, on patrol at parking lots of the area shopping centers.
"We assist in finding violators parking illegally in fire lanes or handicapped parking," Novak said. "We issue citations and take pictures of the violation if we need to go to court."
For Novak and many others, it's the camaraderie with the others that make it well worth it.
"I like meeting the general public and instructing them on the proper things they need to do to be in Cape Coral," Novak said.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. "It also gets me out of the house."
Not only did the volunteers "save the city $700,000 for a $2.99 lunch" as Murphy said, but they also heard from city officials including Mayor John Sullivan and City Manager John Szerlag.
"They do a great service for the people of Cape Coral. I really don't know what we'd do without them and they're really a big help, especially in hard economic times," Sullivan said.
Also in attendance were city council members - one of which, Rana Erbrick, is a police volunteer.
"Part of it is to have something to do and part is I was willing to man the desk at the police department," Erbrick said. "They do house checks, marine patrol. The value to the city is way beyond the dollars they save our department."
At the luncheon, Barbara Hartley was given the Captain Joseph Hartley Memorial award in remembrance of the volunteer captain who worked 23 years on the volunteer force.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
Murphy, along with sergeants Jennifer Matlock and Lisa Barnes, also presented awards for five and 10 years of service, along with recognition of those who served the most hours on the squad which, to some, equates to a full-time job.
The volunteer of the year was presented to Pat Koelber, who has worked on a multitude of projects for the police force this year.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
Among them are Live Saver, designed to track and locate individuals who wander and become lost, such as the elderly who are have Alzheimer's or dementia, or youths with autism or Down syndrome, and Seniors Against Crime, among other things.We've got a plastic card to suit you.
That would be a perfect out for the flunky teacher who cannot teach, and would spend the period writing suspend referrals. A good teacher usually has good class control and spends the period motivating students to learn.
There was a system in place whereby there was a dean of discipline for each grade, along with an assistant principal and a guidance counselor. Referrals were made by the teacher to the dean.
Infractions could be delivered for disruptive students, cutting class, fighting, bullying, stealing, and possession of weapons. The student would be called to respond to the referral. When necessary, a guidance counselor or parents were called in. Suspensions were down the road. Sadly, the shuffle was, in effect — you send me a bad apple, I’ll send you one of mine.
That equates to $706,257 worth of services if they were drawing a salary, and more than $2.2 million in the past three years.
"That's a huge chunk of change. This is our little offering of thanks and appreciation for another great year," Murphy said. "And it goes to people who ask nothing more than a pat on the back."
That means people like Roger Novak,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. who worked nearly 1,000 hours this past year, on patrol at parking lots of the area shopping centers.
"We assist in finding violators parking illegally in fire lanes or handicapped parking," Novak said. "We issue citations and take pictures of the violation if we need to go to court."
For Novak and many others, it's the camaraderie with the others that make it well worth it.
"I like meeting the general public and instructing them on the proper things they need to do to be in Cape Coral," Novak said.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. "It also gets me out of the house."
Not only did the volunteers "save the city $700,000 for a $2.99 lunch" as Murphy said, but they also heard from city officials including Mayor John Sullivan and City Manager John Szerlag.
"They do a great service for the people of Cape Coral. I really don't know what we'd do without them and they're really a big help, especially in hard economic times," Sullivan said.
Also in attendance were city council members - one of which, Rana Erbrick, is a police volunteer.
"Part of it is to have something to do and part is I was willing to man the desk at the police department," Erbrick said. "They do house checks, marine patrol. The value to the city is way beyond the dollars they save our department."
At the luncheon, Barbara Hartley was given the Captain Joseph Hartley Memorial award in remembrance of the volunteer captain who worked 23 years on the volunteer force.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
Murphy, along with sergeants Jennifer Matlock and Lisa Barnes, also presented awards for five and 10 years of service, along with recognition of those who served the most hours on the squad which, to some, equates to a full-time job.
The volunteer of the year was presented to Pat Koelber, who has worked on a multitude of projects for the police force this year.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
Among them are Live Saver, designed to track and locate individuals who wander and become lost, such as the elderly who are have Alzheimer's or dementia, or youths with autism or Down syndrome, and Seniors Against Crime, among other things.We've got a plastic card to suit you.
That would be a perfect out for the flunky teacher who cannot teach, and would spend the period writing suspend referrals. A good teacher usually has good class control and spends the period motivating students to learn.
There was a system in place whereby there was a dean of discipline for each grade, along with an assistant principal and a guidance counselor. Referrals were made by the teacher to the dean.
Infractions could be delivered for disruptive students, cutting class, fighting, bullying, stealing, and possession of weapons. The student would be called to respond to the referral. When necessary, a guidance counselor or parents were called in. Suspensions were down the road. Sadly, the shuffle was, in effect — you send me a bad apple, I’ll send you one of mine.
Council to have another debate about controversial Enwin audit
City councilors will go another round Tuesday arguing over a
controversial and hotly debated audit of the city owned Enwin group of
companies.
Council will consider instructing Price Waterhouse Coopers to probe 10 issues relative to the Enwin Group of companies. It would be the first task for Price Waterhouse as the city’s “outsourced Audit Services provider.”
But the latest recommendation, penned by Mayor Eddie Francis, has already sparked a new controversy over how much access concerned citizens are given to it before the public debate.
Ward 4 Coun. Alan Halberstadt said it was included in a supplementary council agenda Friday afternoon before the long weekend, with city hall closed today for Family Day. That doesn’t give people much opportunity to review the report and sign up to speak at the council meeting, he said.
He will ask Tuesday for a deferral on the recommendation to ensure it gets “full airing with the public.”
“My first question is why is this such an urgent matter now that would go on a supplementary agenda,” said Halberstadt, who launched a failed motion last year to have Enwin audited. “A supplementary agenda is supposed to be for matters of urgency.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. I guess the second question is it’s on a Friday of a long weekend, which certainly in other areas of government is seen as a dirty trick, but I won’t call it that.”
The Price Waterhouse Coopers study would cost $32,000, but the report to council states Enwin will have to pay for it. The audit would occur in two phases between Feb. 20 and the end of March.
It would include reviews of executive and board compensation, board attendance, credit card usage,They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. dividend payment, management services agreements, the smart meter project, procurement processes, intercompany loans and transfers, travel and corporate gifts and the disclosure of relevant information.
Tuesday’s debate comes after a great deal of criticism, suspicion and a previous failed motion to launch an Enwin audit.
The utilities company has been criticized for a perceived lack of transparency in its operations and decision-making, including closed-door meetings and a dearth of public records, along with alleged wasted spending.
Windsor’s former auditor general Todd Langlois,Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials. fired last January after less than a year on the job, has alleged that his desire to audit Enwin is one of the reasons he was sacked.
A group called Taxpayers for Accountability in Municipal Affairs (TAMA) collected about 800 signatures on a petition last year calling for an Enwin audit. After a motion from Halberstadt in November — before Price Waterhouse Coopers was appointed audit services provider — council did debate auditing Enwin.
At the time,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Halberstadt said complaints of “hidden taxes” through rising utilities bills was the No. 1 concern of his constituents.
That motion failed, with only Halberstadt and Coun. Al Maghnieh voting for it.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. But the failure followed a raucous debate peppered with name calling and jeers from the public gallery. Windsor police officers were even on hand outside council chambers.
Ward 9 Coun. Hilary Payne, who suggested Halberstadt’s motion would be a “criminal waste of money” in November, said Sunday he supports the mayor’s recommendation.
“The parameters of an Enwin study were not defined the last time around as they are this time,” he said. “What was requested (last time) was a very wide-ranging and very expensive study.”
Halberstadt said there are some things missing from the current proposal, including reference to the “value for money audit” that TAMA was asking for.
“It deserves a full airing with the public,” said Halberstadt. “I intend to, if I can get a seconder, call for a deferral on Tuesday so people are given proper notice. There were eight or nine people that spoke to the original motion from the TAMA group. I don’t think they’ve had much of an opportunity, given on the Friday of a long weekend some of them were probably out of town.”
Council will consider instructing Price Waterhouse Coopers to probe 10 issues relative to the Enwin Group of companies. It would be the first task for Price Waterhouse as the city’s “outsourced Audit Services provider.”
But the latest recommendation, penned by Mayor Eddie Francis, has already sparked a new controversy over how much access concerned citizens are given to it before the public debate.
Ward 4 Coun. Alan Halberstadt said it was included in a supplementary council agenda Friday afternoon before the long weekend, with city hall closed today for Family Day. That doesn’t give people much opportunity to review the report and sign up to speak at the council meeting, he said.
He will ask Tuesday for a deferral on the recommendation to ensure it gets “full airing with the public.”
“My first question is why is this such an urgent matter now that would go on a supplementary agenda,” said Halberstadt, who launched a failed motion last year to have Enwin audited. “A supplementary agenda is supposed to be for matters of urgency.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. I guess the second question is it’s on a Friday of a long weekend, which certainly in other areas of government is seen as a dirty trick, but I won’t call it that.”
The Price Waterhouse Coopers study would cost $32,000, but the report to council states Enwin will have to pay for it. The audit would occur in two phases between Feb. 20 and the end of March.
It would include reviews of executive and board compensation, board attendance, credit card usage,They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. dividend payment, management services agreements, the smart meter project, procurement processes, intercompany loans and transfers, travel and corporate gifts and the disclosure of relevant information.
Tuesday’s debate comes after a great deal of criticism, suspicion and a previous failed motion to launch an Enwin audit.
The utilities company has been criticized for a perceived lack of transparency in its operations and decision-making, including closed-door meetings and a dearth of public records, along with alleged wasted spending.
Windsor’s former auditor general Todd Langlois,Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials. fired last January after less than a year on the job, has alleged that his desire to audit Enwin is one of the reasons he was sacked.
A group called Taxpayers for Accountability in Municipal Affairs (TAMA) collected about 800 signatures on a petition last year calling for an Enwin audit. After a motion from Halberstadt in November — before Price Waterhouse Coopers was appointed audit services provider — council did debate auditing Enwin.
At the time,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Halberstadt said complaints of “hidden taxes” through rising utilities bills was the No. 1 concern of his constituents.
That motion failed, with only Halberstadt and Coun. Al Maghnieh voting for it.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. But the failure followed a raucous debate peppered with name calling and jeers from the public gallery. Windsor police officers were even on hand outside council chambers.
Ward 9 Coun. Hilary Payne, who suggested Halberstadt’s motion would be a “criminal waste of money” in November, said Sunday he supports the mayor’s recommendation.
“The parameters of an Enwin study were not defined the last time around as they are this time,” he said. “What was requested (last time) was a very wide-ranging and very expensive study.”
Halberstadt said there are some things missing from the current proposal, including reference to the “value for money audit” that TAMA was asking for.
“It deserves a full airing with the public,” said Halberstadt. “I intend to, if I can get a seconder, call for a deferral on Tuesday so people are given proper notice. There were eight or nine people that spoke to the original motion from the TAMA group. I don’t think they’ve had much of an opportunity, given on the Friday of a long weekend some of them were probably out of town.”
Get a chance to blow up your Dad's house at Idex
It was a bittersweet moment as I unleashed the BK-27 Mauser cannon
mounted on my Typhoon Eurofighter and remembered that the strategically
important atomic facility was only about 8 kilometres from my father's
house, which would certainly have been destroyed in the blast.
Not long after this somewhat emotional realisation, I ditched the US$60 million (Dh220.3m) Eurofighter, and the cutting edge heads-up display helmet that comes with it, into a farmer's field. The auto-ejection system saved my skin though,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. and I apparently floated down to land somewhere off Morecambe Bay.
This unusually personal flight of fancy in fact took place in the middle of a crowded Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on the first day of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference 2013 (Idex).
The Eurofighter simulation was a popular attraction and probably the most technologically advanced piece of kit on display at the event. It was certainly among the most expensive.
Sitting in the cockpit wearing a Typhoon Helmet Mounted Symbology System, it was remarkably easy to get the hang of flying a jet at the speed of sound, barrelling and rolling around the skies, tracking an enemy jet with nothing more than a turn of the head and destroying it with the mere twitch of an index finger.
But there were countless examples of similarly sophisticated and technologically advanced equipment at every turn throughout the vast exhibition hall.Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials.
Most prominent were the dozens of examples of unmanned vehicle systems. From tiny propeller-driven airborne drones that look like they could land in the palm of your hand to big glider-sized aircraft produced by Abu Dhabi's Adcom Systems,They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. such drones were clearly among the stars of the show.
Abu Dhabi's Al Tuff Industries also had on display a complete unmanned navy with waterborne drones capable of patrolling ports and coastlines. The sleek black naval robots looked as if they had sailed straight off the set of a Star Wars movie, with Darth Vader at the controls.
Farther afield, in the Australian defence industries area, another group of robots lurked. The Marathon Smart Targets - the torso and head of a tailor's dummy mounted on a four-wheel-drive vehicle - looked less Star Wars and more Metal Mickey.
Each one wore a sweatshirt, face mask and baseball cap for authenticity. But for all their clunkiness and unkempt appearances, the Smart Targets are just as cutting edge as any drone.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
The target robots react autonomously to noises and other stimuli, giving soldiers the ability to train shooting at targets that behave like people without actually having to kill anyone.
Raytheon, the American defence giant, had a huge array of weapons on display but perhaps its most interesting piece of technology was a translation device ripped from the pages of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Douglas Adams novel. Adams imagined a creature called the Babel Fish that, once inserted in the ear, would simultaneously translate all the languages it heard allowing free communication throughout the universe.
Raytheon's TransTalk isn't quite that good but it does a pretty good job. The United States army has been using it at checkpoints and in villages across Afghanistan with impressive results.
The technology is housed on an Android phone that displays two flags,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. one to represent each language to be translated. The user simply touches one flag, speaks and the phone translates.
Not all the technology on display at Idex this year contains microchips and fibre-optic cabling, however. A German company called Blücher had on display remarkable underpants that were said to be "ballistic protective".
"The material matrix of the extreme lightweight pants meets soldiers' requirements both in highly active and relaxed situations," the publicity material said.
But it was the Russians who claimed to have the most reliable weapon in the whole exhibition. The Kalashnikov rifle - otherwise known as the AK-47 - has been firing off rounds with regular precision since 1949.
"When there is no war countries invest a lot of money in these very advanced weapons systems that we see here," said Andrey Baryshnikov, the director of international sales for Izhmash, the company that makes the Kalashnikov.
Not long after this somewhat emotional realisation, I ditched the US$60 million (Dh220.3m) Eurofighter, and the cutting edge heads-up display helmet that comes with it, into a farmer's field. The auto-ejection system saved my skin though,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. and I apparently floated down to land somewhere off Morecambe Bay.
This unusually personal flight of fancy in fact took place in the middle of a crowded Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on the first day of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference 2013 (Idex).
The Eurofighter simulation was a popular attraction and probably the most technologically advanced piece of kit on display at the event. It was certainly among the most expensive.
Sitting in the cockpit wearing a Typhoon Helmet Mounted Symbology System, it was remarkably easy to get the hang of flying a jet at the speed of sound, barrelling and rolling around the skies, tracking an enemy jet with nothing more than a turn of the head and destroying it with the mere twitch of an index finger.
But there were countless examples of similarly sophisticated and technologically advanced equipment at every turn throughout the vast exhibition hall.Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials.
Most prominent were the dozens of examples of unmanned vehicle systems. From tiny propeller-driven airborne drones that look like they could land in the palm of your hand to big glider-sized aircraft produced by Abu Dhabi's Adcom Systems,They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. such drones were clearly among the stars of the show.
Abu Dhabi's Al Tuff Industries also had on display a complete unmanned navy with waterborne drones capable of patrolling ports and coastlines. The sleek black naval robots looked as if they had sailed straight off the set of a Star Wars movie, with Darth Vader at the controls.
Farther afield, in the Australian defence industries area, another group of robots lurked. The Marathon Smart Targets - the torso and head of a tailor's dummy mounted on a four-wheel-drive vehicle - looked less Star Wars and more Metal Mickey.
Each one wore a sweatshirt, face mask and baseball cap for authenticity. But for all their clunkiness and unkempt appearances, the Smart Targets are just as cutting edge as any drone.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
The target robots react autonomously to noises and other stimuli, giving soldiers the ability to train shooting at targets that behave like people without actually having to kill anyone.
Raytheon, the American defence giant, had a huge array of weapons on display but perhaps its most interesting piece of technology was a translation device ripped from the pages of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Douglas Adams novel. Adams imagined a creature called the Babel Fish that, once inserted in the ear, would simultaneously translate all the languages it heard allowing free communication throughout the universe.
Raytheon's TransTalk isn't quite that good but it does a pretty good job. The United States army has been using it at checkpoints and in villages across Afghanistan with impressive results.
The technology is housed on an Android phone that displays two flags,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. one to represent each language to be translated. The user simply touches one flag, speaks and the phone translates.
Not all the technology on display at Idex this year contains microchips and fibre-optic cabling, however. A German company called Blücher had on display remarkable underpants that were said to be "ballistic protective".
"The material matrix of the extreme lightweight pants meets soldiers' requirements both in highly active and relaxed situations," the publicity material said.
But it was the Russians who claimed to have the most reliable weapon in the whole exhibition. The Kalashnikov rifle - otherwise known as the AK-47 - has been firing off rounds with regular precision since 1949.
"When there is no war countries invest a lot of money in these very advanced weapons systems that we see here," said Andrey Baryshnikov, the director of international sales for Izhmash, the company that makes the Kalashnikov.
2013年2月16日星期六
Ducab showcases range of energy cables
Ducab will be prominently represented at stand 7E10, Hall 7, at the
38th edition of Middle East Electricity running from February 17th to
19th 2012 at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre. Held under the
patronage of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, MEE is not just the largest power event
in the region but also the longest-running.
Ducab's participation at MEE will see it network with existing suppliers and customers, and also reach out to potential clients in new markets. The company's presence at MEE comes on the back of a string of recent project wins, including an Dhs140m contract for the South Al-Shamkha Infrastructure Development project in Abu Dhabi, Dhs57m for Abu Dhabi's Cleveland Clinic project, Dhs20m for Abu Dhabi's Presidential Palace Development project in Abu Dhabi worth Dhs20m, and Dhs10m for the Ras Al Khair project. The company has also scored projects from the US Government worth Dhs4.4m in Afghanistan.
"Ducab's participation at MEE 2013 helps it reach out a diverse audience of potential channel partners, suppliers and customers while reaffirming ties with existing ones. Ducab wants to maintain leadership in local market, but also take its UAE-manufactured, high quality products to regional and international markets.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. We believe MEE is the right platform to facilitate that expansion," said Colin McKay,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. GM- Sales & Marketing, Ducab while introducing the new range of "Tuff DuFlex" wires and cables. Ducab is the only BASEC approved cable and wire manufacturer to offer wires operating in stringent conditions ranging from -40deg C to 105deg C
Ducab's MEE participation will serve as a showcase for the company's extensive range of copper and aluminium cable products, including those in the 400kV class, which will soon be offered from its Ducab-HV plant. Other products on display will include the company's FlamBICC fire resistant cables for residential and industrial use, flexible indoor wiring cables, and control & instrumentation cables for the OGP sector.Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo.
Ducab's regional project wins in the recent past have also included an Dhs5m contract for the King Abdullah Financial District Development in Saudi Arabia, Dhs100m for the Dubai Airport Congress Building, Dhs17m for the New York University in Abu Dhabi, Dhs51m for GASCO's Habshan Field Development, Dhs40m for Qatar Petroleum and Dhs37m for Al-Shuaiba Power Station in Kuwait.
Ashish Chaturvedy, Marketing Manager, Ducab, said "Ducab's participation at MEE 2013 will allow us to capitalize on the momentum generated by our recent project wins, and show customers and stakeholders what we offer in terms of world class energy infrastructure for a variety of products. For us, MEE is an excellent event to showcase our achievements and products, and develop sustained, mutually beneficial relationships for the future."
MEE 2013 will host over 1000 exhibitors from 56 countries. It is the region's largest power event, attracting leading names in the power, lighting, new, renewable and nuclear sectors.
"Power is a vital component for modern urban and industrial development. At MEE 2013, we look forward to demonstrating how we can contribute to infrastructural development for iconic projects with our range of extremely high quality, stringently tested wire and cable products," concluded Chaturvedy.
Favourite to win a final, four-year term in today’s presidential election, Correa has brought stability to this notoriously unstable nation, which shuffled through seven presidents in 10 years before he took office in 2007.
He has become a forceful voice of Latin America’s left, befriending ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leading a softer socialist “revolution” than his more radical ally.
“The characteristics of my personality are positive for Ecuadorans. I am decisive, direct, objective, rational,” says the US-educated economist. “But if I don’t please someone, what can we do?”
“They didn’t elected me to be Mr Nice Guy to please everybody, but to move the nation forward. And we are undoubtedly making history,” says Correa, 49, who is constitutionally limited to one more run at the presidency.
Correa has become popular in this Andean nation of 15mn people through social programmes funded with the Opec nation’s oil proceeds,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! and his job approval rating has soared to 80%.
His closest rivals in today’s election are conservative banker Guillermo Lasso and former president Lucio Gutierrez, but they are far behind and Correa is expected to secure enough votes to avoid a run-off.
“People feel that there is someone steering the ship and this generates trust because it brings more work,” said sociologist Hernan Reyes.
“He generates trust with the level of work he delivers, the demands he has on his subordinates and the amount of finished public works.”
Correa has insisted that he is not “anti-capitalist or anti-Yankee,” stating that the left has committed the mistake of denying space to the market and capitalist economy.
But he has also antagonised big business and media groups, seizing the assets of bankers involved in corruption scandals and accusing private news organisations of conspiring to destabilise him. And his plans for large-scale mining have angered indigenous communities.
Correa was born into a lower middle-class family in the southwestern port of Guayaquil, the country’s industrial centre. His father spent time in jail in the US after he was caught carrying narcotics as a “drug mule.”
He was able to study thanks to scholarships which took him to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, before earning a doctorate’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois in the US.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.
Ducab's participation at MEE will see it network with existing suppliers and customers, and also reach out to potential clients in new markets. The company's presence at MEE comes on the back of a string of recent project wins, including an Dhs140m contract for the South Al-Shamkha Infrastructure Development project in Abu Dhabi, Dhs57m for Abu Dhabi's Cleveland Clinic project, Dhs20m for Abu Dhabi's Presidential Palace Development project in Abu Dhabi worth Dhs20m, and Dhs10m for the Ras Al Khair project. The company has also scored projects from the US Government worth Dhs4.4m in Afghanistan.
"Ducab's participation at MEE 2013 helps it reach out a diverse audience of potential channel partners, suppliers and customers while reaffirming ties with existing ones. Ducab wants to maintain leadership in local market, but also take its UAE-manufactured, high quality products to regional and international markets.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. We believe MEE is the right platform to facilitate that expansion," said Colin McKay,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. GM- Sales & Marketing, Ducab while introducing the new range of "Tuff DuFlex" wires and cables. Ducab is the only BASEC approved cable and wire manufacturer to offer wires operating in stringent conditions ranging from -40deg C to 105deg C
Ducab's MEE participation will serve as a showcase for the company's extensive range of copper and aluminium cable products, including those in the 400kV class, which will soon be offered from its Ducab-HV plant. Other products on display will include the company's FlamBICC fire resistant cables for residential and industrial use, flexible indoor wiring cables, and control & instrumentation cables for the OGP sector.Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo.
Ducab's regional project wins in the recent past have also included an Dhs5m contract for the King Abdullah Financial District Development in Saudi Arabia, Dhs100m for the Dubai Airport Congress Building, Dhs17m for the New York University in Abu Dhabi, Dhs51m for GASCO's Habshan Field Development, Dhs40m for Qatar Petroleum and Dhs37m for Al-Shuaiba Power Station in Kuwait.
Ashish Chaturvedy, Marketing Manager, Ducab, said "Ducab's participation at MEE 2013 will allow us to capitalize on the momentum generated by our recent project wins, and show customers and stakeholders what we offer in terms of world class energy infrastructure for a variety of products. For us, MEE is an excellent event to showcase our achievements and products, and develop sustained, mutually beneficial relationships for the future."
MEE 2013 will host over 1000 exhibitors from 56 countries. It is the region's largest power event, attracting leading names in the power, lighting, new, renewable and nuclear sectors.
"Power is a vital component for modern urban and industrial development. At MEE 2013, we look forward to demonstrating how we can contribute to infrastructural development for iconic projects with our range of extremely high quality, stringently tested wire and cable products," concluded Chaturvedy.
Favourite to win a final, four-year term in today’s presidential election, Correa has brought stability to this notoriously unstable nation, which shuffled through seven presidents in 10 years before he took office in 2007.
He has become a forceful voice of Latin America’s left, befriending ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leading a softer socialist “revolution” than his more radical ally.
“The characteristics of my personality are positive for Ecuadorans. I am decisive, direct, objective, rational,” says the US-educated economist. “But if I don’t please someone, what can we do?”
“They didn’t elected me to be Mr Nice Guy to please everybody, but to move the nation forward. And we are undoubtedly making history,” says Correa, 49, who is constitutionally limited to one more run at the presidency.
Correa has become popular in this Andean nation of 15mn people through social programmes funded with the Opec nation’s oil proceeds,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! and his job approval rating has soared to 80%.
His closest rivals in today’s election are conservative banker Guillermo Lasso and former president Lucio Gutierrez, but they are far behind and Correa is expected to secure enough votes to avoid a run-off.
“People feel that there is someone steering the ship and this generates trust because it brings more work,” said sociologist Hernan Reyes.
“He generates trust with the level of work he delivers, the demands he has on his subordinates and the amount of finished public works.”
Correa has insisted that he is not “anti-capitalist or anti-Yankee,” stating that the left has committed the mistake of denying space to the market and capitalist economy.
But he has also antagonised big business and media groups, seizing the assets of bankers involved in corruption scandals and accusing private news organisations of conspiring to destabilise him. And his plans for large-scale mining have angered indigenous communities.
Correa was born into a lower middle-class family in the southwestern port of Guayaquil, the country’s industrial centre. His father spent time in jail in the US after he was caught carrying narcotics as a “drug mule.”
He was able to study thanks to scholarships which took him to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, before earning a doctorate’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois in the US.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.
Are the Tar Heels NIT Bound?
The North Carolina Tar Heels are feeling the effects of growing pains
more than usual. After losing four of five starts to the NBA draft last
year, Roy Williams had to start back in square one and it has been a
long and tough season on him the Tar Heels.
Joe Soriano and I have one simple question: Are the Tar Heels NIT bound? We’re going to share our thoughts below, and hope to hear what you have to say in the comments below!
Bryant: It’s hard for me to truly say yes or no. There are a lot of pending factors in this. If North Carolina can play with the same intensity, lineup, and strength that they did Wednesday night in Durham, they will make the NCAA Tournament. Despite falling five points short of the No. 2 Blue Devils, the Tar Heels played their best game against a quality opponent and it was in Durham which as everyone knows,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. not an easy task.
If they do make the NCAA Tournament, they won’t be a high seed. In fact I truly believe the Tar Heels as well as the Kentucky Wildcats will have to play in the first round of four to even make the field of 64 to begin with.
However, if they return to their sloppy defense and shot selection ways of the pre-Duke game days…I lose hope. North Carolina is a bubble team and must win against a worthy opponent. A win against Virginia, State and Duke (remaining on the schedule) is a must for the Tar Heels. Of their wins so far,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. they have none against a resume worthy team, and making those three games important.
Joe: This is a quite popular question that many people are asking, and it draws snickers and jeers from a few N.C. State and Duke fans on Twitter; both teams that are locks for the NCAA Tournament this year.
It’s easy to sit here and say “Doom for UNC”, because this team is underperforming when looking at previous years. Hell, any time UNC isn’t at least ranked in the top 25 it sends shockwaves that this is a “rebuilding” year for a blue blood team.
I honestly think the “NIT-bound” talk regarding the Tar Heels is quite ludicrous, because a quick look at the numbers and advanced statistics tells the story of a team that has a spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket with their name written on it. It won’t be a familiar top slot, but it’s a chance to get something going nonetheless. This team is stocked with young talent, and the pieces are finally hitting their stride late in the season; that’s where it matters most. It’s funny, because I use to cover the Kansas Jayhawks and non-Jayhawks fans would always freak out about their slow start (Michigan State is an example).
Now this UNC team is clearly not as good as they were last year or the year before, and one of the main reasons is because their big men don’t fit Roy Williams’s usual personnel requirements. There is no true great “big” down low in the mold of Tyler Zeller, but you don’t need to fit a scheme in order to be a solid team.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. The Tar Heels have four players with at least two win shares in finesse big James Michael McAdoo, the rising P.J. Hairston (he had better be locked into the starting spot with the way he’s played recently), the underrated Brice Johnson, and team leader and star Reggie Bullock. That’s a cog of four solid players, and that’s really all you need in order to be a solid team.
SRS is one of my favorite advanced statistics out there in college basketball (it’s really an all-around metric used by Sports Reference for every sport), because it’s accurate and simple to calculate. Did you know that the Tar Heels have the 36th-best SRS in the country? To me, that shows that this team is good enough, efficient enough, and talented enough to safely make the NCAA Tournament. UNC has played in a tough schedule, especially since they have to play two elite teams in Miami and Duke twice this year, as well as two games against another very good team in rivals N.C. State.
The Tar Heels don’t stand out in any one statistic, but they are 6-5 in conference play which ranks them squarely in fifth place. The ACC sent five teams to the tournament last season, and I think we’ll see UNC slot into the tourney once again this season. The ACC is the third-strongest conference per SRS after being rated just fifth last year, so the fact that the ACC is even stronger means that UNC has a better case to get in. I mean, if five teams made it in a weaker top-to-bottom ACC last year, then surely at least five teams will be sent in this season.
UNC is sandwiched between UCLA and Notre Dame in the SRS rankings, and that’s good enough for me to think that this team is worthy of an NCAA Tournament bid. In fact, I think people who are slotting UNC for an NIT bid are just downright overreacting. This team is finally clicking, they’ve played a difficult schedule, and they have enough talent. They aren’t a lock by any means and the stats do skew them a little too much, but UNC will be playing in the tourney come March.
"It is difficult to fix all of that even if financial resources were not an obstacle. The amount of people and time it would take would be a lot," Hansen said.
More than 385 of the original violations have been addressed, city officials said,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! but an additional 243 violations were found this month. Hansen said many of those were in unoccupied units.
Sue Phillips, longtime president of the community group East Arlington Renewal, was among residents who testified about improvements they want to see at the complex.
"East Arlington Renewal works very hard to elevate east Arlington. We think everybody that lives in east Arlington or does business in east Arlington should have that same dedication," Phillips said. "I think that the property owners of La Joya Apartments are doing everything in their power to add blight and deterioration to our community.
"They have not only failed to maintain their properties. They have set their tenants at great risk for potential fire."
Resident Sam Moore said La Joya was once a desirable place to live but has become so dilapidated and so damaged by water and fire that it should be bulldozed.
"I would love to see this place go to the ground. I don't think it's repairable," Moore said. "How could you put enough money into it to make it worth it?"
Hansen also owns Bella Apartments in Fort Worth -- declared a substandard property by the Building Standards Commission.
When he appeared before the Fort Worth commission Jan. 28, he was arrested for unpaid fines related to code violations. He is free on bail in the Fort Worth case.We offer advanced technology products and services for parking guidance control.
Joe Soriano and I have one simple question: Are the Tar Heels NIT bound? We’re going to share our thoughts below, and hope to hear what you have to say in the comments below!
Bryant: It’s hard for me to truly say yes or no. There are a lot of pending factors in this. If North Carolina can play with the same intensity, lineup, and strength that they did Wednesday night in Durham, they will make the NCAA Tournament. Despite falling five points short of the No. 2 Blue Devils, the Tar Heels played their best game against a quality opponent and it was in Durham which as everyone knows,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. not an easy task.
If they do make the NCAA Tournament, they won’t be a high seed. In fact I truly believe the Tar Heels as well as the Kentucky Wildcats will have to play in the first round of four to even make the field of 64 to begin with.
However, if they return to their sloppy defense and shot selection ways of the pre-Duke game days…I lose hope. North Carolina is a bubble team and must win against a worthy opponent. A win against Virginia, State and Duke (remaining on the schedule) is a must for the Tar Heels. Of their wins so far,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. they have none against a resume worthy team, and making those three games important.
Joe: This is a quite popular question that many people are asking, and it draws snickers and jeers from a few N.C. State and Duke fans on Twitter; both teams that are locks for the NCAA Tournament this year.
It’s easy to sit here and say “Doom for UNC”, because this team is underperforming when looking at previous years. Hell, any time UNC isn’t at least ranked in the top 25 it sends shockwaves that this is a “rebuilding” year for a blue blood team.
I honestly think the “NIT-bound” talk regarding the Tar Heels is quite ludicrous, because a quick look at the numbers and advanced statistics tells the story of a team that has a spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket with their name written on it. It won’t be a familiar top slot, but it’s a chance to get something going nonetheless. This team is stocked with young talent, and the pieces are finally hitting their stride late in the season; that’s where it matters most. It’s funny, because I use to cover the Kansas Jayhawks and non-Jayhawks fans would always freak out about their slow start (Michigan State is an example).
Now this UNC team is clearly not as good as they were last year or the year before, and one of the main reasons is because their big men don’t fit Roy Williams’s usual personnel requirements. There is no true great “big” down low in the mold of Tyler Zeller, but you don’t need to fit a scheme in order to be a solid team.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. The Tar Heels have four players with at least two win shares in finesse big James Michael McAdoo, the rising P.J. Hairston (he had better be locked into the starting spot with the way he’s played recently), the underrated Brice Johnson, and team leader and star Reggie Bullock. That’s a cog of four solid players, and that’s really all you need in order to be a solid team.
SRS is one of my favorite advanced statistics out there in college basketball (it’s really an all-around metric used by Sports Reference for every sport), because it’s accurate and simple to calculate. Did you know that the Tar Heels have the 36th-best SRS in the country? To me, that shows that this team is good enough, efficient enough, and talented enough to safely make the NCAA Tournament. UNC has played in a tough schedule, especially since they have to play two elite teams in Miami and Duke twice this year, as well as two games against another very good team in rivals N.C. State.
The Tar Heels don’t stand out in any one statistic, but they are 6-5 in conference play which ranks them squarely in fifth place. The ACC sent five teams to the tournament last season, and I think we’ll see UNC slot into the tourney once again this season. The ACC is the third-strongest conference per SRS after being rated just fifth last year, so the fact that the ACC is even stronger means that UNC has a better case to get in. I mean, if five teams made it in a weaker top-to-bottom ACC last year, then surely at least five teams will be sent in this season.
UNC is sandwiched between UCLA and Notre Dame in the SRS rankings, and that’s good enough for me to think that this team is worthy of an NCAA Tournament bid. In fact, I think people who are slotting UNC for an NIT bid are just downright overreacting. This team is finally clicking, they’ve played a difficult schedule, and they have enough talent. They aren’t a lock by any means and the stats do skew them a little too much, but UNC will be playing in the tourney come March.
"It is difficult to fix all of that even if financial resources were not an obstacle. The amount of people and time it would take would be a lot," Hansen said.
More than 385 of the original violations have been addressed, city officials said,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! but an additional 243 violations were found this month. Hansen said many of those were in unoccupied units.
Sue Phillips, longtime president of the community group East Arlington Renewal, was among residents who testified about improvements they want to see at the complex.
"East Arlington Renewal works very hard to elevate east Arlington. We think everybody that lives in east Arlington or does business in east Arlington should have that same dedication," Phillips said. "I think that the property owners of La Joya Apartments are doing everything in their power to add blight and deterioration to our community.
"They have not only failed to maintain their properties. They have set their tenants at great risk for potential fire."
Resident Sam Moore said La Joya was once a desirable place to live but has become so dilapidated and so damaged by water and fire that it should be bulldozed.
"I would love to see this place go to the ground. I don't think it's repairable," Moore said. "How could you put enough money into it to make it worth it?"
Hansen also owns Bella Apartments in Fort Worth -- declared a substandard property by the Building Standards Commission.
When he appeared before the Fort Worth commission Jan. 28, he was arrested for unpaid fines related to code violations. He is free on bail in the Fort Worth case.We offer advanced technology products and services for parking guidance control.
2013年2月5日星期二
Wachusett area artists ready to welcome visitors to their studios
From what some might describe as scrap, cast off old tools and pieces
of metal headed for the recycling center or gathered by friends,Are you
looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? he crafts metal art.
“I find interesting shapes and parts of machinery and bring it home and weld it together,” Mr. Koleshis said of his work, a passion he said has grown over the last three or four years.
The shovelheads on a basement wall in his Sterling home could be a family, albeit a hard-headed one, from the woman with a B on her hat (a steel-headed Boston fan) to the Blondie-inspired figure with pink earrings and curly locks. Another wall features fish and other animal figures, while birdhouses are ready for occupancy.
Mr. Koleshis turns those scrap pieces into art in his home workshop, just as other artists are working in small studios to create paintings, mixed media, woodturning and pottery that will be showcased in this year's Wachusett Reservoir Art Path.
The event is driven by the West Boylston Arts Foundation's desire to spread interest in art. Although four communities are involved this year, art is art, wherever it is found.
“People enjoy going to meet the artists and seeing the work in progress,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.” according to Mark Baldi, president of the West Boylston Arts Foundation. “It's an opportunity for people to make that connection to the person creating the art they might hang on their wall.”
The West Boylston Arts Foundation has worked to promote and support arts and music in the schools, including funding programs lost to budget cuts.
“There is a good variety of different types of artists and venues,We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers.” Mr. Baldi said,Parkeasy Electronics are dedicated to provide Car park management system. “Between jewelry, metal sculpture, wood turning and all types of painting.”
People can get information directly from the artists, often as they watch them work. And the artists get feedback from potential customers.
“The idea is to build this kind of tour around a natural resource, a feature that is a big part of the towns,” Mr. Baldi said. The reservoir itself is often featured in paintings.
My first experience with freelancing came during my art school days. I had just finished my second year of Industrial Design when a friend recommended me to a group of three engineers who were developing a consumer product. With them it was a textbook case of brilliance on the technical side but it looked awful. They needed me to essentially make it pretty to show to potential investors. After guessing at a rough fee, I got to work producing some sketches and a presentation rendering. Didn’t sign a contract, nor establish a scope of work. Several rounds of revisions later and following the addition of making a solid model that turned into a molded shell model which could demonstrate how their mechanicals were packaged, I was feeling in over my head. I remember converting my apartment kitchen into a spray painting booth and pulling a few all-nighters to get the model work done. In the end they paid me a little extra but nowhere near the amount for what I delivered. It was a hard lesson in learning that a fundamental part of freelancing is setting boundaries.
I continued to pickup freelance jobs through school, learning a little more with each project about managing time and client expectations. I had some good clients and a few horror stories. It was a learn-as-I-go method,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. there was no class I could take about running an independent design business, the internet didn’t exist and for an art school student, business books were like kryptonite.
After graduating, I began full-time work at a design firm that required a lot of long work days and weekends on the job. Freelance work still seemed to find me through recommendations from friends and colleagues. I was young and could work crazy hours without feeling clobbered the next day, so I accepted most of the jobs. What became increasingly stressful was the juggling between commitments during the day and client needs for the after-hours work. I’d wager that anyone doing freelance design work has at some point had to sneak that work in at their day job. The result is always a lot of anxiety paired with ‘why am I doing this’ self-reflection.
Recently, my editor turned me onto The Freelancer’s Bible. It is the first practical book written about the topic I’ve seen that tackles the obvious and unexpected issues anyone working for themselves will likely encounter. Of particular interest to me is a section called ‘Strategies For Working On-Site’ which I do quite a lot of. It is a situation, especially if done long term that has lots of fuzzy edges. I’m glad to see that the book doesn’t assume that every freelancer works out of their well appointed home office.
The book also includes the ‘12 Acts of Uber-Communication’. These are efficiently worded bullet points relating to effective client interaction. Near the bottom is one I’ve considered tattooing on my hand: ‘Don’t overpromise.’ It always results in the self-inflicted headache. My approach is similar, underpromise – overdeliver.
“I find interesting shapes and parts of machinery and bring it home and weld it together,” Mr. Koleshis said of his work, a passion he said has grown over the last three or four years.
The shovelheads on a basement wall in his Sterling home could be a family, albeit a hard-headed one, from the woman with a B on her hat (a steel-headed Boston fan) to the Blondie-inspired figure with pink earrings and curly locks. Another wall features fish and other animal figures, while birdhouses are ready for occupancy.
Mr. Koleshis turns those scrap pieces into art in his home workshop, just as other artists are working in small studios to create paintings, mixed media, woodturning and pottery that will be showcased in this year's Wachusett Reservoir Art Path.
The event is driven by the West Boylston Arts Foundation's desire to spread interest in art. Although four communities are involved this year, art is art, wherever it is found.
“People enjoy going to meet the artists and seeing the work in progress,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.” according to Mark Baldi, president of the West Boylston Arts Foundation. “It's an opportunity for people to make that connection to the person creating the art they might hang on their wall.”
The West Boylston Arts Foundation has worked to promote and support arts and music in the schools, including funding programs lost to budget cuts.
“There is a good variety of different types of artists and venues,We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers.” Mr. Baldi said,Parkeasy Electronics are dedicated to provide Car park management system. “Between jewelry, metal sculpture, wood turning and all types of painting.”
People can get information directly from the artists, often as they watch them work. And the artists get feedback from potential customers.
“The idea is to build this kind of tour around a natural resource, a feature that is a big part of the towns,” Mr. Baldi said. The reservoir itself is often featured in paintings.
My first experience with freelancing came during my art school days. I had just finished my second year of Industrial Design when a friend recommended me to a group of three engineers who were developing a consumer product. With them it was a textbook case of brilliance on the technical side but it looked awful. They needed me to essentially make it pretty to show to potential investors. After guessing at a rough fee, I got to work producing some sketches and a presentation rendering. Didn’t sign a contract, nor establish a scope of work. Several rounds of revisions later and following the addition of making a solid model that turned into a molded shell model which could demonstrate how their mechanicals were packaged, I was feeling in over my head. I remember converting my apartment kitchen into a spray painting booth and pulling a few all-nighters to get the model work done. In the end they paid me a little extra but nowhere near the amount for what I delivered. It was a hard lesson in learning that a fundamental part of freelancing is setting boundaries.
I continued to pickup freelance jobs through school, learning a little more with each project about managing time and client expectations. I had some good clients and a few horror stories. It was a learn-as-I-go method,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. there was no class I could take about running an independent design business, the internet didn’t exist and for an art school student, business books were like kryptonite.
After graduating, I began full-time work at a design firm that required a lot of long work days and weekends on the job. Freelance work still seemed to find me through recommendations from friends and colleagues. I was young and could work crazy hours without feeling clobbered the next day, so I accepted most of the jobs. What became increasingly stressful was the juggling between commitments during the day and client needs for the after-hours work. I’d wager that anyone doing freelance design work has at some point had to sneak that work in at their day job. The result is always a lot of anxiety paired with ‘why am I doing this’ self-reflection.
Recently, my editor turned me onto The Freelancer’s Bible. It is the first practical book written about the topic I’ve seen that tackles the obvious and unexpected issues anyone working for themselves will likely encounter. Of particular interest to me is a section called ‘Strategies For Working On-Site’ which I do quite a lot of. It is a situation, especially if done long term that has lots of fuzzy edges. I’m glad to see that the book doesn’t assume that every freelancer works out of their well appointed home office.
The book also includes the ‘12 Acts of Uber-Communication’. These are efficiently worded bullet points relating to effective client interaction. Near the bottom is one I’ve considered tattooing on my hand: ‘Don’t overpromise.’ It always results in the self-inflicted headache. My approach is similar, underpromise – overdeliver.
Renaissance art makes a comeback
Last week, I asked whether, for roughly $12 million (￡8 million
pounds), wealthy art buyers would prefer a rare, newly discovered
painting by the 16th-century Mannerist painter, Bronzino, or a
self-portrait by the contemporary graffiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
I can now say, at least, rule the Bronzino out.
The dark and moody portrait of a young writer had been accepted by art historians as a genuine early work, but was painted too much under the influence of his teacher,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands. Pontormo, to appeal to collectors and did not sell. It was one of the few blips in an ambitious Renaissance-themed sale that raised $42.6 million at Christie’s in New York last week, and broke several record prices. Another was one of two Botticellis on offer: an early, slightly atypical work in the style of his master, Filippo Lippi, which was estimated at $3 million.
But it wasn’t the religious, madonna-and-child subject that was putting modern-day buyers off. A later, more typical Botticelli of the same subject, known as “the Rockefeller Madonna” because it was once owned by John D Rockefeller Jr, sold for a record $10.4 million. In 1992, when religious subject matter was more of an impediment in the art market, the seller made what looks now like a great investment when acquiring it for $440,000. The week’s top sale also belonged to a madonna and child, a rare early tondo (pictured), by the Dominican monk Fra Bartolommeo from the 1490s,Service Report a problem with a street light. which only came to light 20 years ago. Estimated at $10 million to $15 million, it sold for a record $13 million.
Although Christie’s did not reveal the identity of the seller, trade sources confirmed that the tondo had come from the collection of Washington lawyer, publisher and Renaissance art enthusiast Frank Pearl, who died last year.
Another work from Pearl’s collection was a superb image of glamour and power, a bearded young man in richly decorated armour painted in 1574 by Scipione Pulzone. As the bidding rose above the $2.5 million estimate, the auctioneer carefully read out the equivalent price in roubles to a hesitant telephone bidder before knocking it down for a record $7.6 million. Nicholas Hall of Christie’s, who led the sale, says the Pulzone exemplifies how past images of power appeal to the new elite. Hall also said all the top lots at Christie’s were bought by buyers known to be active in other areas simply buying the best that is available, whatever the art historical category.
At Sotheby’s, Christopher Apostle confirmed that religious pictures were attracting demand again, that modern art collectors were active in the Old Master market, and that buyers were looking for strong images in very good condition. A stream of gold ground altar paintings, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was selling, all found buyers. These paintings were hard to sell 25 years ago, says Apostle, but now there is a deep pool of buyers.
Ticking all the boxes from the early Netherlandish school were a newly discovered painting from the 1480s of Christ lifting his hand in blessing by Hans Memling, which doubled estimates to fetch a record $4.1 million, and an icon-style head of the Virgin in prayer by Quinten Matsys that trebled estimates, selling to a Russian buyer for just over $1 million.
Russian buyers had a greater influence on results for more secular 18th-century paintings. At Christie’s they targeted a gentle interior by Chardin at a record $4 million, and views of Rome by Panini, while at Sotheby’s they spurred a new record $2.1 million for the rococo fantasies of Fran?ois Boucher.
As with religious paintings, there has also been a shift in taste in favour of 18th-century rococo and neo-classical painting, says Apostle. His top lot, for example, was a mythological painting of Susanna and the Elders, charged with colour and incident, by Pompeo Batoni, an artist better-known for his grand portraits of British tourists in 18th-century Rome. In 1991 the painting had been offered unsuccessfully at auction for ￡3 million and was bought subsequently by the Swiss investor Jacob Eli Safra. Now with an unaggressive $6 million estimate, Sotheby’s sold it for Safra for a record $11.4 million.
Overall, the Old Masters sales took $168 million,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. an improvement on last year. Although one third of lots went unsold, they were successful enough for Christie’s to announce that it would hold another Renaissance sale in New York this time next year.We offer advanced technology products and services for parking guidance control.
While the Philadelphia-based Fun A Day event is slated for the weekend of Feb. 15, residents and artists in the Montgomery County suburbs will have their chance to see local art early at the Lansdale-based Fun A Day event this Friday.
“There are many talented people around here,” Amy Rims, Lansdale Fun A Day organizer, said. “I figured I could open it up to the rest of the area.”
The Lansdale Fun A Day event will take place Feb. 8, starting at 7 p.m. at the Third and Walnut Bar in Lansdale.
Rims, a multi-medium artist and former Lansdale resident, originally participated with the Philadelphia-based Fun A Day event. Recognizing the potential gain for local artists, she said she wanted the Fun A Day event to come to the Philadelphia suburbs.
“Art does not happen in a vacuum,” Rims said.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. “You have to experience everything, and art will happen.”
Prior to organizing the Fun A Day in Lansdale, she recalled setting up her paintings-in-progress on street corners and sidewalks, where interaction with people came naturally. Rims describes the Lansdale Fun A Day as benefitting local artists in the same fashion.
There will be at least 20 artists, with several returning artists from last year, attending the Feb. 8 Lansdale Fun A Day event. However, registration is not required for participating artists, who may show up with their work during the show set up on the day of the event (from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
In addition, Rims said that artists will be encouraged to sell their work. However, Lansdale Fun A Day organizers will not take commission on the event. Items, including raffle tickets and a silent auction, will also be for sale to help fund for future shows.
As the challenge is not limited to any particular form of art or art medium, the event will include 2D and 3D arts, as well as live performances, making for an eclectic and engaging evening.
“It is laid back. Everyone is in a great mood,” Brian Medlin, a musician, formerly of Hatfield, said of last year’s event. “People seem to be excited to learn there is so much talent right in their neighborhood.”
The dark and moody portrait of a young writer had been accepted by art historians as a genuine early work, but was painted too much under the influence of his teacher,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands. Pontormo, to appeal to collectors and did not sell. It was one of the few blips in an ambitious Renaissance-themed sale that raised $42.6 million at Christie’s in New York last week, and broke several record prices. Another was one of two Botticellis on offer: an early, slightly atypical work in the style of his master, Filippo Lippi, which was estimated at $3 million.
But it wasn’t the religious, madonna-and-child subject that was putting modern-day buyers off. A later, more typical Botticelli of the same subject, known as “the Rockefeller Madonna” because it was once owned by John D Rockefeller Jr, sold for a record $10.4 million. In 1992, when religious subject matter was more of an impediment in the art market, the seller made what looks now like a great investment when acquiring it for $440,000. The week’s top sale also belonged to a madonna and child, a rare early tondo (pictured), by the Dominican monk Fra Bartolommeo from the 1490s,Service Report a problem with a street light. which only came to light 20 years ago. Estimated at $10 million to $15 million, it sold for a record $13 million.
Although Christie’s did not reveal the identity of the seller, trade sources confirmed that the tondo had come from the collection of Washington lawyer, publisher and Renaissance art enthusiast Frank Pearl, who died last year.
Another work from Pearl’s collection was a superb image of glamour and power, a bearded young man in richly decorated armour painted in 1574 by Scipione Pulzone. As the bidding rose above the $2.5 million estimate, the auctioneer carefully read out the equivalent price in roubles to a hesitant telephone bidder before knocking it down for a record $7.6 million. Nicholas Hall of Christie’s, who led the sale, says the Pulzone exemplifies how past images of power appeal to the new elite. Hall also said all the top lots at Christie’s were bought by buyers known to be active in other areas simply buying the best that is available, whatever the art historical category.
At Sotheby’s, Christopher Apostle confirmed that religious pictures were attracting demand again, that modern art collectors were active in the Old Master market, and that buyers were looking for strong images in very good condition. A stream of gold ground altar paintings, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was selling, all found buyers. These paintings were hard to sell 25 years ago, says Apostle, but now there is a deep pool of buyers.
Ticking all the boxes from the early Netherlandish school were a newly discovered painting from the 1480s of Christ lifting his hand in blessing by Hans Memling, which doubled estimates to fetch a record $4.1 million, and an icon-style head of the Virgin in prayer by Quinten Matsys that trebled estimates, selling to a Russian buyer for just over $1 million.
Russian buyers had a greater influence on results for more secular 18th-century paintings. At Christie’s they targeted a gentle interior by Chardin at a record $4 million, and views of Rome by Panini, while at Sotheby’s they spurred a new record $2.1 million for the rococo fantasies of Fran?ois Boucher.
As with religious paintings, there has also been a shift in taste in favour of 18th-century rococo and neo-classical painting, says Apostle. His top lot, for example, was a mythological painting of Susanna and the Elders, charged with colour and incident, by Pompeo Batoni, an artist better-known for his grand portraits of British tourists in 18th-century Rome. In 1991 the painting had been offered unsuccessfully at auction for ￡3 million and was bought subsequently by the Swiss investor Jacob Eli Safra. Now with an unaggressive $6 million estimate, Sotheby’s sold it for Safra for a record $11.4 million.
Overall, the Old Masters sales took $168 million,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. an improvement on last year. Although one third of lots went unsold, they were successful enough for Christie’s to announce that it would hold another Renaissance sale in New York this time next year.We offer advanced technology products and services for parking guidance control.
While the Philadelphia-based Fun A Day event is slated for the weekend of Feb. 15, residents and artists in the Montgomery County suburbs will have their chance to see local art early at the Lansdale-based Fun A Day event this Friday.
“There are many talented people around here,” Amy Rims, Lansdale Fun A Day organizer, said. “I figured I could open it up to the rest of the area.”
The Lansdale Fun A Day event will take place Feb. 8, starting at 7 p.m. at the Third and Walnut Bar in Lansdale.
Rims, a multi-medium artist and former Lansdale resident, originally participated with the Philadelphia-based Fun A Day event. Recognizing the potential gain for local artists, she said she wanted the Fun A Day event to come to the Philadelphia suburbs.
“Art does not happen in a vacuum,” Rims said.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. “You have to experience everything, and art will happen.”
Prior to organizing the Fun A Day in Lansdale, she recalled setting up her paintings-in-progress on street corners and sidewalks, where interaction with people came naturally. Rims describes the Lansdale Fun A Day as benefitting local artists in the same fashion.
There will be at least 20 artists, with several returning artists from last year, attending the Feb. 8 Lansdale Fun A Day event. However, registration is not required for participating artists, who may show up with their work during the show set up on the day of the event (from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
In addition, Rims said that artists will be encouraged to sell their work. However, Lansdale Fun A Day organizers will not take commission on the event. Items, including raffle tickets and a silent auction, will also be for sale to help fund for future shows.
As the challenge is not limited to any particular form of art or art medium, the event will include 2D and 3D arts, as well as live performances, making for an eclectic and engaging evening.
“It is laid back. Everyone is in a great mood,” Brian Medlin, a musician, formerly of Hatfield, said of last year’s event. “People seem to be excited to learn there is so much talent right in their neighborhood.”
2013年2月4日星期一
Partying with Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco means parents
He has won the Super Bowl. He was named the MVP of a 34-31 Baltimore
Ravens victory vs. the San Francisco 49ers. And he has a life-changing
announcement to make to his family.
It's 12:40 a.m., hours after the 47th AFC-NFC Championship game, and Joe walks into Huck Finn's on Decatur Street, a three-room French Quarter sports bar tucked away from raucous Bourbon Street. Tonight the bar hosts a private party for Joe's family and friends, 60 of them flown here at Joe's expense the week of the biggest game of his life.
Wearing a long-sleeve gray shirt, blue jeans and gray sneakers, Joe pushes open the door, grinning. The party cheers his arrival, and before he can hug his wife, Dana, chants of "M-V-P, M-V-P" fill the bar. Outside, Ravens fans in purple jerseys crouch and peer through the window panes as an unassuming bouncer stands guard at the door.
Joe, 28, dishes out dozens of hugs, each female guest turning their face to the chest of the 6-5 quarterback from New Jersey. Joe takes pictures too, and signs autographs for children who bring footballs and jerseys.
Its 12:50 a.m., and Joe makes his way slowly to the buffet line in the second room, where a bed of jambalaya, penne pasta in alfredo sauce and blackened chicken breasts lay waiting. Joe fills his plate and returns to the main room. Nine televisions mounted into brick walls are tuned to ESPN and NFL Network,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. and party-goers down free beers and chat as Chris Berman breathlessly relives the Super Bowl. Joe and his wife Dana gather their four parents around the table.
Joe digs into his plate, shoveling home mouthfuls of Cajun cuisine as guests walk up to shake his hand and offer congratulations on the Super Bowl victory and MVP award. Somebody hands Joe a soda in a hard plastic cup. Behind him, on a red brick wall, rests a black and white picture of Hank Aaron, breaking his bat on a baseball.Whilst the preparation of ceramic and porcelain tiles are similar. Above and to the left of the 1957 NL MVP hangs a picture of Babe Ruth, young, skinny and draped in a Red Sox uniform, taken some years before he won the 1923 AL MVP award as a Yankee.
Joe hears his name boom from a familiar voice. It's Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis on the largest television in the room, interviewing with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio minutes after the game. Cheeks bulging with food, Joe's head pops up to look at the screen.'
Mom gets a long hug. She doesn't know how long Joe and Dana have known Dana was pregnant. Their first child is 71/2 months old, and Karen says the couple told their parents they were expecting that child after a 2011 Thanksgiving night victory over the 49ers in Baltimore.
"It's a 49ers tradition now," Karen beams. "He's hit the trifecta. Somebody asks me if Joe was going to go win the lottery tonight. I said, 'He already has.' "
Joe and Dana leave the party,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action exiting through a back door at 1:40 a.m. Karen says the husband and wife, married in June 2011, are going to bed. Joe has a press conference in the morning, then a trip to Disney World for the MVP parade, then a flight to New York to film the Late Show with David Letterman, all according to recent Super Bowl MVP tradition. There will be questions about his personal life, offers for commercials, and there's the small matter of an expiring contract with the Ravens. Joe soon will be a very well-paid pro athlete with a public persona.
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Some readers may have figured out that those quotes are not from the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. rather from the President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi and his affiliates. The first quote is from a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (possibly also a parlimentary member but I could not confirm), The second quote is from the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badi, the last quote from a top aide of Mohammed Morsi, you can even see the original article from Badie on the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website here (google translate does decent job).
It's 12:40 a.m., hours after the 47th AFC-NFC Championship game, and Joe walks into Huck Finn's on Decatur Street, a three-room French Quarter sports bar tucked away from raucous Bourbon Street. Tonight the bar hosts a private party for Joe's family and friends, 60 of them flown here at Joe's expense the week of the biggest game of his life.
Wearing a long-sleeve gray shirt, blue jeans and gray sneakers, Joe pushes open the door, grinning. The party cheers his arrival, and before he can hug his wife, Dana, chants of "M-V-P, M-V-P" fill the bar. Outside, Ravens fans in purple jerseys crouch and peer through the window panes as an unassuming bouncer stands guard at the door.
Joe, 28, dishes out dozens of hugs, each female guest turning their face to the chest of the 6-5 quarterback from New Jersey. Joe takes pictures too, and signs autographs for children who bring footballs and jerseys.
Its 12:50 a.m., and Joe makes his way slowly to the buffet line in the second room, where a bed of jambalaya, penne pasta in alfredo sauce and blackened chicken breasts lay waiting. Joe fills his plate and returns to the main room. Nine televisions mounted into brick walls are tuned to ESPN and NFL Network,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. and party-goers down free beers and chat as Chris Berman breathlessly relives the Super Bowl. Joe and his wife Dana gather their four parents around the table.
Joe digs into his plate, shoveling home mouthfuls of Cajun cuisine as guests walk up to shake his hand and offer congratulations on the Super Bowl victory and MVP award. Somebody hands Joe a soda in a hard plastic cup. Behind him, on a red brick wall, rests a black and white picture of Hank Aaron, breaking his bat on a baseball.Whilst the preparation of ceramic and porcelain tiles are similar. Above and to the left of the 1957 NL MVP hangs a picture of Babe Ruth, young, skinny and draped in a Red Sox uniform, taken some years before he won the 1923 AL MVP award as a Yankee.
Joe hears his name boom from a familiar voice. It's Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis on the largest television in the room, interviewing with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio minutes after the game. Cheeks bulging with food, Joe's head pops up to look at the screen.'
Mom gets a long hug. She doesn't know how long Joe and Dana have known Dana was pregnant. Their first child is 71/2 months old, and Karen says the couple told their parents they were expecting that child after a 2011 Thanksgiving night victory over the 49ers in Baltimore.
"It's a 49ers tradition now," Karen beams. "He's hit the trifecta. Somebody asks me if Joe was going to go win the lottery tonight. I said, 'He already has.' "
Joe and Dana leave the party,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action exiting through a back door at 1:40 a.m. Karen says the husband and wife, married in June 2011, are going to bed. Joe has a press conference in the morning, then a trip to Disney World for the MVP parade, then a flight to New York to film the Late Show with David Letterman, all according to recent Super Bowl MVP tradition. There will be questions about his personal life, offers for commercials, and there's the small matter of an expiring contract with the Ravens. Joe soon will be a very well-paid pro athlete with a public persona.
To get the best benefits at the biggest banks, you’ll need to tuck at least $25,000 into relationship accounts. In return, you get priority customer service, often with a dedicated phone number, as well as the potential to earn higher rates on deposits and bigger rewards on credit and checking accounts. You also get breaks on checking overdraft fees and charges for account services such as money orders, cashier’s checks and wire transfers.
Hands-on investors may appreciate the commission-free trades in self-directed investing accounts (up to a monthly or annual limit) that Bank of America provides to its Platinum Privileges clients and Wells Fargo to its PMA customers. You may also get a break when you take out a mortgage or other loan. For example, a member of Citibank’s relationship service, Citigold, can get up to $2,500 off closing costs or 0.375% off the interest rate on a first mortgage, depending on the size of the client’s total Citigold balance.
How to deal with a nation where the leader makes such comments depends on many factors. Should they be bombed to stop them from getting a nuke,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. have economic sanctions put on them, negotiate etc.? I personally think there is zero chance of Iran keeping their word, but doubt military action or sanctions will help as they are already are near or past the point of no return. Additionally, the biggest threat of Iran going nuclear was not them using the bomb, but other countries going nuclear, that process has already started. However, that is not the issue here. The point is that surely almost all Americans would agree that it would be insane for the U.S. to provide weapons to such a nation.
Some readers may have figured out that those quotes are not from the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. rather from the President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi and his affiliates. The first quote is from a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (possibly also a parlimentary member but I could not confirm), The second quote is from the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badi, the last quote from a top aide of Mohammed Morsi, you can even see the original article from Badie on the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website here (google translate does decent job).
Will Samer Issawi be the next victim of medical neglect by the Israeli Prison Service?
Reading With My Own Eyes by the Israeli lawyer Felicia Langer brought
painful scenes to my mind, but my faith in humanity grew deeper. While
the Zionists might proclaim “woe to the vanquished,” there were Jewish
people in Palestine, such as Langer, who, more profoundly, recognized it
was “woe to the victor.” Langer was one who fought bravely against the
unjust Israeli system throughout her 23-year career. She defended my
father Ismael Abusalama in Israeli courts. He has always spoken about
her with admiration and respect for her humanity and firmness.
In her book, she writes that she met my father on 6 April 1972 in Kafaryouna, an Israeli interrogation center.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. “Ismael Abusalama, a 19-year-old man who lives in Jabalia Refugee Camp, is a refugee originally from Beit-Jerja.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.” She mentioned Dad’s cousin who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces after the Six-Day War in 1967. Langer quoted my father’s words:
“I saw how children were being brutally shot dead in the camp’s streets by the Israeli border guards. I witnessed the murder of a little girl who was just leaving her school when an Israeli soldier from the border guards shot her dead. They raid the camp with their thick batons beating up every human. They break into the houses inhabited by women without knocking at their doors. They mix the flour with oil during their aggressive inspections deliberately and without any necessity.”
On page 352, she records a painful story of my father’s that she witnessed. While reading it, my heart ached to imagine my father in such brutal conditions. She writes, “After his arrest in Jabalia Camp on January 1, 1972, they dragged him to the Gaza police center while beating him with batons all the way. They showered him with extremely cold water in winter while soldiers continued to attack him with batons everywhere, and punched him very violently to the extent that he lost his sense of hearing. This continued for 10 days.” She quotes my father saying,Whilst the preparation of ceramic and porcelain tiles are similar. “’They threatened me with being expelled to Amman and assassinating me there if I didn’t say what they wanted to hear.’”
I have no doubt that she tried hard to expose the reality and prove my father and other detainees innocent, but Israel’s unjust judicial system was perhaps stronger than her then. Her dedicated investigations and defense of the truth didn’t stop Israel from sentencing my father to seven life sentences and 35 years! I appreciate her book, which exposes the injustices of the Israeli occupation and the rotten justice system in Israel. She has always repeated that the aggressor can never win. And I have faith that Israel will never win and Palestine shall be free.
Surprisingly, I only learned this story from her book and haven’t heard it from Dad. When I read that story about him losing his sense of hearing, I asked him about it and he confirmed and continued,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action “but I was never sent to hospital.”
“Detainees suffer intensively from medical neglect,” he said.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. “Small health problems can become critical with constant negligence. I thankfully survived, but many others didn’t and were left with permanent disabilities or health problems that led in some cases to their death.”
Medical neglect is one of the major brutal policies the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) practices intentionally against Palestinian political prisoners which Langer aimed to highlight in her book.
“IPS deliberately aims to harm Palestinian detainees’ physical and mental health in any possible way,” my father repeatedly says and many released prisoners have agreed. Because of this, access to proper medical care has been always on the top of detainees’ demands whenever they go on mass hunger strikes.
Akram Rikhawi, whose 102-day hunger strike ended 22 July 2012 , has chosen to shoulder the responsibility for hundreds of disabled and ill political prisoners who grieve daily behind Israel’s bars and suffer its medical neglect. Since his first day of detention in 2004, he was held in Ramleh prison hospital, described by him and many prisoners as “a slaughterhouse, not a hospital, with jailers wearing doctors’ uniforms.”
Akram ended his hunger strike in exchange for an agreement by Israel for his early release. As part of the agreement, Akram was supposed to be released on 25 January 2013. But it’s been more than a week since that date passed, yet we have heard nothing regarding his release. This is more evidence that Israel never keeps any promises or agreements.
Ramleh stands as a nightmare for many detainees because of the inhumane procedures for them to receive a medical check, such as the long hours of waiting, being shackled from hands to feet, being aggressively treated during transfer from jail to hospital, and being treated as inferior by the racist doctors there. Many former detainees I interviewed repeatedly described this procedure as “torment.” One said, “Only when pain becomes intolerable will many prisoners call the IPS to allow them a visit to Ramleh Hospital Prison. They fear the humiliation and torture once their call is met after a long wait.”
On 22 January, I came home from my last exam of the semester very happy and relieved that I could finally sleep without worrying about loads of studies. I put myself in bed and decided to check my Facebook before I closed my eyes. I saw a video shared by my friend Loai Odeh that turned my happiness into sadness and my relief into distress. My desire to sleep escaped me.
The video’s Arabic title read, “The last words the martyr Ashraf Abu Dhra’ uttered before he fell in a coma.” I had no idea who Ashraf was then. A young man in weak physical shape lay on a hospital bed in the video. While struggling to make his voice as loud and clear as possible, he said, “When I got sick, they only prescribed me paradicamol and released me. When I went to the hospital the medics discovered that I have a severe inflammation. Thank God. My faith eases everything.”
Then I Googled his name and the ambiguity behind the pronouns he used became no longer ambiguous and learned that Ashraf, a 29-year-old from Hebron, was released recently after a detention of six and a half years in Ramleh prison hospital. Only then did I realize that the pronoun “they” refers to the IPS.
In her book, she writes that she met my father on 6 April 1972 in Kafaryouna, an Israeli interrogation center.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. “Ismael Abusalama, a 19-year-old man who lives in Jabalia Refugee Camp, is a refugee originally from Beit-Jerja.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.” She mentioned Dad’s cousin who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces after the Six-Day War in 1967. Langer quoted my father’s words:
“I saw how children were being brutally shot dead in the camp’s streets by the Israeli border guards. I witnessed the murder of a little girl who was just leaving her school when an Israeli soldier from the border guards shot her dead. They raid the camp with their thick batons beating up every human. They break into the houses inhabited by women without knocking at their doors. They mix the flour with oil during their aggressive inspections deliberately and without any necessity.”
On page 352, she records a painful story of my father’s that she witnessed. While reading it, my heart ached to imagine my father in such brutal conditions. She writes, “After his arrest in Jabalia Camp on January 1, 1972, they dragged him to the Gaza police center while beating him with batons all the way. They showered him with extremely cold water in winter while soldiers continued to attack him with batons everywhere, and punched him very violently to the extent that he lost his sense of hearing. This continued for 10 days.” She quotes my father saying,Whilst the preparation of ceramic and porcelain tiles are similar. “’They threatened me with being expelled to Amman and assassinating me there if I didn’t say what they wanted to hear.’”
I have no doubt that she tried hard to expose the reality and prove my father and other detainees innocent, but Israel’s unjust judicial system was perhaps stronger than her then. Her dedicated investigations and defense of the truth didn’t stop Israel from sentencing my father to seven life sentences and 35 years! I appreciate her book, which exposes the injustices of the Israeli occupation and the rotten justice system in Israel. She has always repeated that the aggressor can never win. And I have faith that Israel will never win and Palestine shall be free.
Surprisingly, I only learned this story from her book and haven’t heard it from Dad. When I read that story about him losing his sense of hearing, I asked him about it and he confirmed and continued,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action “but I was never sent to hospital.”
“Detainees suffer intensively from medical neglect,” he said.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. “Small health problems can become critical with constant negligence. I thankfully survived, but many others didn’t and were left with permanent disabilities or health problems that led in some cases to their death.”
Medical neglect is one of the major brutal policies the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) practices intentionally against Palestinian political prisoners which Langer aimed to highlight in her book.
“IPS deliberately aims to harm Palestinian detainees’ physical and mental health in any possible way,” my father repeatedly says and many released prisoners have agreed. Because of this, access to proper medical care has been always on the top of detainees’ demands whenever they go on mass hunger strikes.
Akram Rikhawi, whose 102-day hunger strike ended 22 July 2012 , has chosen to shoulder the responsibility for hundreds of disabled and ill political prisoners who grieve daily behind Israel’s bars and suffer its medical neglect. Since his first day of detention in 2004, he was held in Ramleh prison hospital, described by him and many prisoners as “a slaughterhouse, not a hospital, with jailers wearing doctors’ uniforms.”
Akram ended his hunger strike in exchange for an agreement by Israel for his early release. As part of the agreement, Akram was supposed to be released on 25 January 2013. But it’s been more than a week since that date passed, yet we have heard nothing regarding his release. This is more evidence that Israel never keeps any promises or agreements.
Ramleh stands as a nightmare for many detainees because of the inhumane procedures for them to receive a medical check, such as the long hours of waiting, being shackled from hands to feet, being aggressively treated during transfer from jail to hospital, and being treated as inferior by the racist doctors there. Many former detainees I interviewed repeatedly described this procedure as “torment.” One said, “Only when pain becomes intolerable will many prisoners call the IPS to allow them a visit to Ramleh Hospital Prison. They fear the humiliation and torture once their call is met after a long wait.”
On 22 January, I came home from my last exam of the semester very happy and relieved that I could finally sleep without worrying about loads of studies. I put myself in bed and decided to check my Facebook before I closed my eyes. I saw a video shared by my friend Loai Odeh that turned my happiness into sadness and my relief into distress. My desire to sleep escaped me.
The video’s Arabic title read, “The last words the martyr Ashraf Abu Dhra’ uttered before he fell in a coma.” I had no idea who Ashraf was then. A young man in weak physical shape lay on a hospital bed in the video. While struggling to make his voice as loud and clear as possible, he said, “When I got sick, they only prescribed me paradicamol and released me. When I went to the hospital the medics discovered that I have a severe inflammation. Thank God. My faith eases everything.”
Then I Googled his name and the ambiguity behind the pronouns he used became no longer ambiguous and learned that Ashraf, a 29-year-old from Hebron, was released recently after a detention of six and a half years in Ramleh prison hospital. Only then did I realize that the pronoun “they” refers to the IPS.
Gun-control restrictions reasonable
Congratulations to the Central School District for taking one of the
most-effective means of preventing school massacres — making sure that
the classroom school doors have locks that can be locked from the
inside. The effectiveness of this measure was surely demonstrated in
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are similar. The teachers who locked their doors or, if that was
impossible, were locked in by the school custodian lived, along with
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To those who protest that fire codes prohibit locking classroom doors, it isn’t true. The general requirement of fire codes is that fire exits be openable from the inside to allow escape in a fire. Panic hardware that allows fire exits to be opened from the inside, but not the outside, have long been standard features of modern buildings, except apparently schools.
Congratulations also to all legislators who support reasonable restrictions on weapons, such as the proposed legislation mandating more-secure storage of weapons. If there has been a boom in sales of gun lockers (not display cases) to match the post-Newtown surge in sales of assault weapons, I sure haven’t heard of it. This is something that all owners of weapons should support without being compelled, but don’t.
On the other hand, the most-persuasive evidence for greater restrictions on weapons comes,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. not from the proponents of restrictions, but from the free-floating fear and anxiety and the lack of empathy of many of the supporters of unrestricted weapon possession. We see them in innumerable legions in all media touting how necessary weapons are to protect their lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Absent from their arguments is any appreciation that the children of Newtown also had a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
President Barack Obama’s featuring a child at a press conference who wrote that he wanted to be safe and happy goes to the heart of the issue. The NRA has it half right — people kill people including children, and they do it most effectively with military weapons designed for killing people en masse.
At the time of the passage of the Bill of Rights, the people of a young nation had just gained their independence by defeating a country that had the greatest military in the world. At Concord in 1775, a confrontation between British troops and Minutemen occurred when the Minutemen received word that the British were after the people’s gunpowder. After a skirmish, the British searched house to house for individual “military stores.” The British were trying to confiscate and control all military-type arms that the Minutemen could use to defend their liberty.
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution and was passed because most people believed the Constitution would not restrain the central government from abridging individual rights. The Bill of Rights would stop a centralized government from encroaching on the inalienable rights of the people. Therefore, the Bill of Rights was adopted to protect the people from an oppressive central government. When debating the formation of the Constitution and the first 10 amendments, the framers wanted to protect the people’s rights from being infringed again by an all-powerful centralized government. The second of those amendments was adopted to defend their newly gained freedoms.
When the Second Amendment states in part “arms shall not be infringed,” the arms refer to military arms. The framers wanted the people to have access to military arms like the British to defend individual fundamental rights. The Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights protects the people’s unalienable right — not a right granted by the Constitution or by government. The original purpose of the Second Amendment was to stop Congress from making laws that allowed any infringement upon the right of the people to keep and bear military-style arms.
A Clemson's men track athlete ran in five indoor meets after his eligibility was complete and a women's track team member received impermissible school expenses from former program director Lawrence Johnson while training for a foreign Olympic team.
The violations were outlined in the school's report sent to the NCAA last month. The report was obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Other violations include a Clemson runner receiving shoes from a volunteer assistant and a prospect getting bottled water on a recruiting visit last fall. Names of the athletes were redacted in the documents.
The school's letter to the NCAA said Johnson did not promote "an atmosphere of compliance" in the men's and women's track programs. He was resigned as director on Jan. 8. Johnson did not return emails left by the AP.
School spokeswoman Libby Kehn said athletic director Dan Radakovich and other school representatives would not comment on the violations until the NCAA completes its investigation.
Clemson blacked-out the names of those athletes involved in the report released to the AP. Clemson classified the violations as secondary in nature, the less serious category of NCAA transgressions.
The school told the NCAA it received an anonymous letter last September about track and field violations and hired an outside law firm, Bond, Schnoeneck & King, to conduct an independent review of the program.
The inquiry found Clemson used the ineligible athlete during the 2012 indoor season, including at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships. The school said as punishment, it would dock itself one track scholarship for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. It also agreed to pay a $2,500 fine and revamp some procedures for tracking an athlete's eligibility.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
A second violation involved an athlete who competed for a foreign Olympic team in London, yet received funds from Johnson while training with her college teammates competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., last year. The school said it repaid the cost of the transportation expenses, $175.60, to a Clemson area children's shelter.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. The athlete missed the first two indoor meets of the season before here eligibility was restored by the NCAA.
Another member of the women's team was found to have received a pair of Adidas running shoes, valued at $95, from volunteer assistant Kristi Castlin. The athlete was declared ineligible by the school and has not practiced with the team since the spring semester began.
All the violations, Clemson associate athletic director compliance services Stephanie Ellison wrote the NCAA, show that Johnson "failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance within his men's and women's track and field program."
To those who protest that fire codes prohibit locking classroom doors, it isn’t true. The general requirement of fire codes is that fire exits be openable from the inside to allow escape in a fire. Panic hardware that allows fire exits to be opened from the inside, but not the outside, have long been standard features of modern buildings, except apparently schools.
Congratulations also to all legislators who support reasonable restrictions on weapons, such as the proposed legislation mandating more-secure storage of weapons. If there has been a boom in sales of gun lockers (not display cases) to match the post-Newtown surge in sales of assault weapons, I sure haven’t heard of it. This is something that all owners of weapons should support without being compelled, but don’t.
On the other hand, the most-persuasive evidence for greater restrictions on weapons comes,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. not from the proponents of restrictions, but from the free-floating fear and anxiety and the lack of empathy of many of the supporters of unrestricted weapon possession. We see them in innumerable legions in all media touting how necessary weapons are to protect their lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Absent from their arguments is any appreciation that the children of Newtown also had a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
President Barack Obama’s featuring a child at a press conference who wrote that he wanted to be safe and happy goes to the heart of the issue. The NRA has it half right — people kill people including children, and they do it most effectively with military weapons designed for killing people en masse.
At the time of the passage of the Bill of Rights, the people of a young nation had just gained their independence by defeating a country that had the greatest military in the world. At Concord in 1775, a confrontation between British troops and Minutemen occurred when the Minutemen received word that the British were after the people’s gunpowder. After a skirmish, the British searched house to house for individual “military stores.” The British were trying to confiscate and control all military-type arms that the Minutemen could use to defend their liberty.
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution and was passed because most people believed the Constitution would not restrain the central government from abridging individual rights. The Bill of Rights would stop a centralized government from encroaching on the inalienable rights of the people. Therefore, the Bill of Rights was adopted to protect the people from an oppressive central government. When debating the formation of the Constitution and the first 10 amendments, the framers wanted to protect the people’s rights from being infringed again by an all-powerful centralized government. The second of those amendments was adopted to defend their newly gained freedoms.
When the Second Amendment states in part “arms shall not be infringed,” the arms refer to military arms. The framers wanted the people to have access to military arms like the British to defend individual fundamental rights. The Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights protects the people’s unalienable right — not a right granted by the Constitution or by government. The original purpose of the Second Amendment was to stop Congress from making laws that allowed any infringement upon the right of the people to keep and bear military-style arms.
A Clemson's men track athlete ran in five indoor meets after his eligibility was complete and a women's track team member received impermissible school expenses from former program director Lawrence Johnson while training for a foreign Olympic team.
The violations were outlined in the school's report sent to the NCAA last month. The report was obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Other violations include a Clemson runner receiving shoes from a volunteer assistant and a prospect getting bottled water on a recruiting visit last fall. Names of the athletes were redacted in the documents.
The school's letter to the NCAA said Johnson did not promote "an atmosphere of compliance" in the men's and women's track programs. He was resigned as director on Jan. 8. Johnson did not return emails left by the AP.
School spokeswoman Libby Kehn said athletic director Dan Radakovich and other school representatives would not comment on the violations until the NCAA completes its investigation.
Clemson blacked-out the names of those athletes involved in the report released to the AP. Clemson classified the violations as secondary in nature, the less serious category of NCAA transgressions.
The school told the NCAA it received an anonymous letter last September about track and field violations and hired an outside law firm, Bond, Schnoeneck & King, to conduct an independent review of the program.
The inquiry found Clemson used the ineligible athlete during the 2012 indoor season, including at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships. The school said as punishment, it would dock itself one track scholarship for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. It also agreed to pay a $2,500 fine and revamp some procedures for tracking an athlete's eligibility.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
A second violation involved an athlete who competed for a foreign Olympic team in London, yet received funds from Johnson while training with her college teammates competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., last year. The school said it repaid the cost of the transportation expenses, $175.60, to a Clemson area children's shelter.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. The athlete missed the first two indoor meets of the season before here eligibility was restored by the NCAA.
Another member of the women's team was found to have received a pair of Adidas running shoes, valued at $95, from volunteer assistant Kristi Castlin. The athlete was declared ineligible by the school and has not practiced with the team since the spring semester began.
All the violations, Clemson associate athletic director compliance services Stephanie Ellison wrote the NCAA, show that Johnson "failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance within his men's and women's track and field program."
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