The La Jolla, Calif., real-estate executive wanted to make sure his
young daughter, Sarah, would have plenty to do when the family
vacationed on the coast of Mexico. So he included an entertainment room
with games and pinball, a playroom, bunk beds that sleep six, separate
kids' pools and a toy barn on the beach. Construction cost about $15
million, and he continues to make improvements—adding a small theater
and a horse stable—as his daughter gets older.
Sarah, now 14, says her favorite feature is the "jump rock—a 12-foot waterfall that we can jump off of into a lower pool."
"We
built the whole thing in order to make it friendly for children," says
Mr. Games, the chairman of the board of Pacific Sotheby's International
Realty. "It's about being totally open and accessible and not having a
single place where the kids cannot be wet."
Instead of letting
their children tag along on their friends' family cruises, some parents
are building beach getaways loaded with kid magnets. Knowing that a mere
TV room with videogames just doesn't cut it anymore, they're adding
high-tech media rooms, bunk rooms, indoor playgrounds and outdoor
water-park features.
While many homeowners seek open-floor plans
and a spacious great room, they also want private areas to give
children and adults their space. To that end, some are ditching the
traditional Cape Cod-style home and constructing family compounds with
multiple buildings that flank a common area.
"Movie theaters are
standard now in higher-end houses," says Joe Farrell, a luxury
residential developer in New York's Hamptons. Now, Mr. Farrell gets
requests for over-the-top amenities like ice-cream parlors, skate ramps,
outdoor ice-skating rinks and subterranean basements with 20-foot
ceilings for indoor basketball.
He built a roughly
30,000-square-foot house for himself and his family in Bridgehampton,
N.Y., with a bowling alley, indoor playground, skateboard half-pipe,
tree house and a zip line. "It was totally kid-oriented," Mr. Farrell
says.Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset
action He estimates that the construction of the home cost roughly
$1,000 per square foot. The home, known as "The Sandcastle," is on the
market for $43.5 million.
Interior designer Paige Schnell
recently worked on a house on Mustang Island in Texas. The décor, which
cost about $150,000,Did you know that custom keychain
chains can be used for more than just business. includes a large bunk
room that has hardwood walls and sleeps eight to 10 kids—each bed
outfitted with its own TV. The room is attached to a camp-style bathroom
with three sinks lined up in a row. Every other room in that house was
designed to be kid-friendly. Even the white living-room sofa was covered
in indoor/outdoor fabric.
"There is no off-limit space in that
house," says Ms. Schnell, principal at Tracery Interiors, which has
offices in Rosemary Beach, Fla., and Mountain Brook, Ala.
Jonathan
Kukk, a luxury residential architect based in Naples, Fla., is
designing a waterfront home in Port Royal for grandparents who want to
make the house appeal to their grandkids. The house will feature a
roughly 500-foot "kids' wing," with three sets of bunk beds, a lofted
play area and a camp-style bathroom with four sinks and sectioned-off
toilets and showers. The wing is located in an attic space above the
garage, so it's acoustically separated from the rest of the home, Mr.
Kukk says.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag
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Construction and finishes will likely cost between $3 million and $5
million.
Marion Fischer, who lives in Bedford Corners, N.Y.,
also created distinct play areas for her three sons when she renovated
her 3,900-square-foot Cape Cod beach home in Chatham, Mass., about eight
years ago.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?
The 800-square-foot basement is designed to look like a ship, complete
with curved walls and portholes. The boys' bedroom has four beds in a
nautical theme, leading to a ship deck loft with four more beds.
Even
though her boys are older, now ages 12, 14 and 15, Ms. Fischer, owner
of Gallery Galleon, an art gallery in Vieques, Puerto Rico, has no plans
to make her home more adult. "I always felt that it would be a house
that would be in our family for 100 years," says Ms. Fischer. "I hope my
kids will want to come even as adults and bring their own kids."
John
DaSilva, design principal at Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects
Builders, designed the Fischer home and others to withstand rough play
by kids and pets. He also likes to add playful architectural elements,
such as wavy beams and columns, in his projects.
Before, homes
on the beach had to be built as sturdy, compact boxes to withstand the
elements. Now, improved glass better resists storms and helps keep heat
out of the home, allowing for more indoor/outdoor living and
floor-to-ceiling glass walls, says Scott Lee, president of SB Architects
with offices in San Francisco, Miami and Shenzhen, China. Builders are
choosing more durable materials—tough hardwood flooring like teak or
ipe, ceramic tile that looks like limestone, even rubber flooring—so
children can feel free to run around.
Some traditional adult amenities, like bars,We've got a plastic card
to suit you. dining rooms, luxurious master suites and spa-style
bathrooms, are falling out of favor. "The idea of a wine room is a
little bit passé," he adds.
"There is no question that we felt
that this would be a place that would attract Sarah's friends, and by
attracting Sarah's friends, it ended up giving us more time with her,"
Mr. Games says.
The beach-home market is much improved from the
height of the downturn in 2008 and 2009, but it has not completely
recovered from the housing crash, says Susan Wachter, professor of real
estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
Still,
beach properties are highly coveted, Prof. Wachter says, and new money
from young tech moguls, international buyers and all-cash buyers who
aren't relying on bank financing is sparking a resurgence.
2013年1月31日 星期四
Sam Savage’s ‘The Way of the Dog’ teaches lessons in art
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Ernest Hemingway said, “or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life
and one is as good as the other.”
With his fourth novel, “The Way of the Dog,” South Carolina native Sam Savage presents just such a ruined life — and the attempts to wrestle it into shape — in the story of former art collector and critic Harold Nivenson, a dying man who finds that the regrets of his past have become his constant companions.
After the death of a little dog whose care provided a comforting routine, Nivenson, in failing health and living in squalor, is bereft and aimless. “My life followed a dog’s rhythm,” Nivenson says, mourning the daily walks they took together. In the dog’s absence, he has let his house deteriorate, no longer cleans up after himself, can barely get around or go outdoors, and spends his days sleeping or staring out the windows.
By the time we meet him, Nivenson is nearly jumping out of his skin with disgust at his own helplessness. A relentless (and sometimes funny) critic of the neighbors he spies on,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! he also shares his impressions of how disappointing it is to see his once-bohemian neighborhood in the throes of gentrification. Nivenson reserves his most scathing commentary for the two characters — his ex-wife and estranged son — who come to care for him.
His first-person account, we soon learn, is gleaned from index cards, a vast jumble of notes that hopscotch from the present to the past — particularly a period when Nivenson was in his late 20s and managed to squander a small fortune in support of the arts.
The author of two books of art criticism, Nivenson is deeply conflicted over the art he once valued. He scorns his published work as “juvenile pamphlets,” and compares his decades of cumulative “scribbling” with dog droppings, hinting that for all the “thousands of scraps of paper” that make up his life’s work, none of it is worth anything because it doesn’t fit together and is nothing but “minor art.”
But the “index card habit” that Nivenson sneers at — this work that is barely worth stuffing into “drawers and boxes,” these fragments, allegories, snatches of memoir,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? this enlightening ragbag of philosophy and literary references — eventually becomes the novel we’re reading.
Savage is known for the international best-seller “Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife” (2006). His previous books have established him as a connoisseur of solitude, regrets and broken dreams. He was 66 when he wrote “Firmin,” the life story of a bookstore rat who laments his failure to write the great American novel.
Savage continued to chart the interior landscape of disappointment in 2009’s “The Cry of the Sloth,” a comic portrait of a would-be writer who sinks under the weight of letters he writes in hopes of rescuing himself from literary oblivion. In “Glass” (2011), an elderly woman charged with writing a preface to one of her late husband’s novels instead breaks her long silence to piece together memories of their life together.
The regret that eats at Nivenson has its origins in his long-ago friendship with a painter named Peter Meinenger, a role model whose talent and prodigious output swamped Nivenson’s more timid artistic efforts. With money he received after the death of his parents, Nivenson financed Meinenger’s career. At the peak of his success the two of them attracted a Warholian factory of hangers-on who camped out in Nivenson’s home until Meinenger’s abrupt departure and subsequent suicide.
Though brief, this dose of concentrated fame and fortune now embodies every failure and shame Nivenson met then or since. It’s an era tied up with Moll,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. the shadowy ex-wife who refuses to let Nivenson “die like this,” and with a painting he calls “the Meinenger nude” that he can neither bear to look at nor stand to sell.
However, a closer reading connects the dots of Nivenson’s bitterness, anxious obsessing about the authenticity of art vs. “essentially worthless daubings,” and profound loneliness to gradually reveal the shape of one writer’s battles with identity and legitimacy.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product.
From the childhood jigsaw puzzles he once adored to Moll’s gentle efforts to encourage him to keep writing, the journey Nivenson describes reflects the artist’s bone-deep conflict with success and failure, the struggle to make art out of life, and the lifelong attempt to validate one’s work.
“The Way of the Dog” is Savage’s most elegiac, tender novel to date, and despite Nivenson’s vitriol, readers soon will recognize that his bark is worse than his bite. For this besieged but genuine artist and writer, grace arrives as a second chance to appreciate, in what time he has left, the fact that life — and art — is never about getting everything right. Sometimes, the missing pieces can be found only in the wreckage.
With his fourth novel, “The Way of the Dog,” South Carolina native Sam Savage presents just such a ruined life — and the attempts to wrestle it into shape — in the story of former art collector and critic Harold Nivenson, a dying man who finds that the regrets of his past have become his constant companions.
After the death of a little dog whose care provided a comforting routine, Nivenson, in failing health and living in squalor, is bereft and aimless. “My life followed a dog’s rhythm,” Nivenson says, mourning the daily walks they took together. In the dog’s absence, he has let his house deteriorate, no longer cleans up after himself, can barely get around or go outdoors, and spends his days sleeping or staring out the windows.
By the time we meet him, Nivenson is nearly jumping out of his skin with disgust at his own helplessness. A relentless (and sometimes funny) critic of the neighbors he spies on,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! he also shares his impressions of how disappointing it is to see his once-bohemian neighborhood in the throes of gentrification. Nivenson reserves his most scathing commentary for the two characters — his ex-wife and estranged son — who come to care for him.
His first-person account, we soon learn, is gleaned from index cards, a vast jumble of notes that hopscotch from the present to the past — particularly a period when Nivenson was in his late 20s and managed to squander a small fortune in support of the arts.
The author of two books of art criticism, Nivenson is deeply conflicted over the art he once valued. He scorns his published work as “juvenile pamphlets,” and compares his decades of cumulative “scribbling” with dog droppings, hinting that for all the “thousands of scraps of paper” that make up his life’s work, none of it is worth anything because it doesn’t fit together and is nothing but “minor art.”
But the “index card habit” that Nivenson sneers at — this work that is barely worth stuffing into “drawers and boxes,” these fragments, allegories, snatches of memoir,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? this enlightening ragbag of philosophy and literary references — eventually becomes the novel we’re reading.
Savage is known for the international best-seller “Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife” (2006). His previous books have established him as a connoisseur of solitude, regrets and broken dreams. He was 66 when he wrote “Firmin,” the life story of a bookstore rat who laments his failure to write the great American novel.
Savage continued to chart the interior landscape of disappointment in 2009’s “The Cry of the Sloth,” a comic portrait of a would-be writer who sinks under the weight of letters he writes in hopes of rescuing himself from literary oblivion. In “Glass” (2011), an elderly woman charged with writing a preface to one of her late husband’s novels instead breaks her long silence to piece together memories of their life together.
The regret that eats at Nivenson has its origins in his long-ago friendship with a painter named Peter Meinenger, a role model whose talent and prodigious output swamped Nivenson’s more timid artistic efforts. With money he received after the death of his parents, Nivenson financed Meinenger’s career. At the peak of his success the two of them attracted a Warholian factory of hangers-on who camped out in Nivenson’s home until Meinenger’s abrupt departure and subsequent suicide.
Though brief, this dose of concentrated fame and fortune now embodies every failure and shame Nivenson met then or since. It’s an era tied up with Moll,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. the shadowy ex-wife who refuses to let Nivenson “die like this,” and with a painting he calls “the Meinenger nude” that he can neither bear to look at nor stand to sell.
However, a closer reading connects the dots of Nivenson’s bitterness, anxious obsessing about the authenticity of art vs. “essentially worthless daubings,” and profound loneliness to gradually reveal the shape of one writer’s battles with identity and legitimacy.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product.
From the childhood jigsaw puzzles he once adored to Moll’s gentle efforts to encourage him to keep writing, the journey Nivenson describes reflects the artist’s bone-deep conflict with success and failure, the struggle to make art out of life, and the lifelong attempt to validate one’s work.
“The Way of the Dog” is Savage’s most elegiac, tender novel to date, and despite Nivenson’s vitriol, readers soon will recognize that his bark is worse than his bite. For this besieged but genuine artist and writer, grace arrives as a second chance to appreciate, in what time he has left, the fact that life — and art — is never about getting everything right. Sometimes, the missing pieces can be found only in the wreckage.
The why of Howe
Take it on the authority of Sir David Attenborough, the supreme
naturalist. "Lord Howe Island is so extraordinary it's almost
unbelievable," he once wrote. "You can get to it within two hours from
great cities,They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. yet once there you can see five species of bird and over 50 plant species that live nowhere else on earth."
Thus, it's a bit surprising to hear from a friend that she couldn't stand the place. The subtropical island paradise has an astonishing volcanic landscape, numerous rare species; you can swim, snorkel, cycle, bird watch, hike, feast and laze about to your heart's content. What's not to like? "You do know what I call the place," my friend Michelle draws me aside to tell me over the summer break. "Not Lord Howe Island but Lord Why?" It turns out the prevailing winds during her trip had been so strong the result was bored children and curtailed activities.
This anecdote merely emphasises two points: you shouldn't expect much over the winter months (in fact, many lodges close) and while most visitors love it, this island jewel just 11km long and 2km wide (at its widest point) 600km off the east coast of mainland Australia is not for everyone. Yet tales of its magnetism abound. There was the retired Queensland postman who vowed to visit, inspired after decades of delivering entrancing postcards of the place.
There was the dying American who collected his childhood sweetheart (she married someone else) for one last trip so they could stand together in front of the banyan tree out the back of the Pinetrees guesthouse. And from Britain, there was the man who made the journey because as a kid he would lie in bed looking up at a National Geographic poster.
Its Edenic qualities have been well remarked on, as well as its singular lack of a nightlife. It is also one of the few locations in the world where you can have a digital detox, as mobile phones don't work and WiFi is scarce. Whether you react to this with abject horror or delight tells you a little bit about yourself.
Some facts: Lord Howe, where the tropical waters from the Great Barrier Reef flow into more temperate waters, hosts the world's most southerly large coral reef. One of four island groups awarded world heritage status, it is surrounded by a marine reserve and more than two-thirds of the island is a permanent park. It is home to 130 species of birds; the reef shelters more than 500 species of fish and 90 different corals.
No more than 350 people live on the island and only 400 tourists are allowed at any one time, so even with full occupancy the beaches look deserted, a seemingly abandoned bicycle by the side of the road above often the only indicator of visitors.
Flying low over Lord Howe, I see the dense green hills of the north slope down to fields and the lodges, while to the west the crescent beach edged by the lagoon and reef sweeps south to the cloud-capped Mount Gower, which towers with its neighbour, Mount Lidgbird, over the land mass, truly the place where the mountains meet the sea.
From the aeroplane window I spy an even more arresting sight, the inexplicable Ball's Pyramid, at 551m the world's tallest sea stack, rising out of the Pacific 23km away. This shard is a harbinger of the future of Lord Howe, which will disintegrate in the coming centuries until a similar remnant is all that is left. In fact, Lord Howe is less than 10 per cent of its original size.
If the island's airstrip looks tiny from the 36-seat QantasLink Dash 8 200 Series, that's because it is. We set down on the narrow strip between Prince William Henry Bay and Blinky Beach. The ground staff know every second passenger by name, including my neighbour Sheridan, a trainee teacher returning home, who has generated excitement by bringing home a golden retriever puppy as a present for her parents. Like the puppy, I'm making my first visit to the island and I am here for adventure. I shall swim, snorkel and cycle, and undertake the eight-hour trek up the 875m Mount Gower. The prize shall be the view, the cloud garden at the summit and the bragging rights.
Lord Howe was discovered by accident in 1788 while HMS Supply was en route to the penal settlement of Norfolk Island. The first settlers arrived in 1834; the names of descendents of the original families are dotted about the pretty graveyard off the main street, with surnames such as Andrew and Thompson. The first tourists hopped off trade vessels heading to Norfolk Island or Vanuatu and were taken in by local families, and more than 150 years later tourism still operates pretty much like that.
Janne Shead, owner of the luxury Arajilla Retreat with her husband Bill,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! greets me at the airport with a beaming smile. We drive past the kentia thatch palms (which Victorian England, mad for them, exported around the world) and turn into a small street with a welcoming cafe and a few scattered shops selling soaps, polished shells, smocks and designer T-shirts. "This is the CBD," she says, acknowledging passing locals with a wave of the hand. I smile at her joke before realising she isn't making one.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
We turn right and park in front of a thicket of palms and banyan trees and Janne announces we have arrived. No buildings are visible, but up the path the main lodge materialises with its triangular white painted roof. It's largely open on one side to the tangle of trees - a perfect spot for meals and afternoon tea. Cylinders of muted brown, olive-and-red fabric hang down from the wooden ceiling and there is a Balinese vibe, with wooden Indonesian sideboards and wall hangings of squares of orange and grey cloth stitched together. Over dinner, honeymooners sit shoulder to shoulder with retirees at candle-lit tables,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. dining on grilled kingfish, tempura soft-shell crab and Frangelico affogato.
To visit Lord Howe Island is to step back, if not millions of years, at least to an era before mobile phones and when you left your doors unlocked at night. "We don't have keys," Janne says after showing me around my single-bedroom Kentia Suite. Turns out no one does.
Inside the suite you step up to the square bedroom, with its high wooden pitched roof boasting two skylights. The decor mixes muted light grey fabrics against antique white, while the wardrobe is solid timber planking. Two intricately carved silver collars of dragons are mounted above the bed, upon which at turndown sits a little cylindrical sniff box of neroli, lavender and chamomile. Outside, it is just a few barefoot steps from the L-shaped balcony to Old Settlement Beach, where you can cook one of the resort's BBQ packs.
The next morning I walk through the palms along the timber boardwalk and turn left at a small stone statue of Ganesh, the elephant-headed Hindu god, strewn with petals, to attend the ayurvedic spa. It's in a little two- room wooden yurt. A foot cleansing leads to a body massage and then a scalp massage and drenching of my head in warm oliana oil.
To the uninitiated, the procedure feels a little light on to those used to deep tissue, with some deft rubbing of the thighs and upper back. But the results defy expectations. After an hour, to my astonishment,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. I find myself leaping off the massage table, fully recharged. Arajilla is set to host a wellness retreat, showcasing yoga and ayurvedic teachings, from February 21 to 26.
Thus, it's a bit surprising to hear from a friend that she couldn't stand the place. The subtropical island paradise has an astonishing volcanic landscape, numerous rare species; you can swim, snorkel, cycle, bird watch, hike, feast and laze about to your heart's content. What's not to like? "You do know what I call the place," my friend Michelle draws me aside to tell me over the summer break. "Not Lord Howe Island but Lord Why?" It turns out the prevailing winds during her trip had been so strong the result was bored children and curtailed activities.
This anecdote merely emphasises two points: you shouldn't expect much over the winter months (in fact, many lodges close) and while most visitors love it, this island jewel just 11km long and 2km wide (at its widest point) 600km off the east coast of mainland Australia is not for everyone. Yet tales of its magnetism abound. There was the retired Queensland postman who vowed to visit, inspired after decades of delivering entrancing postcards of the place.
There was the dying American who collected his childhood sweetheart (she married someone else) for one last trip so they could stand together in front of the banyan tree out the back of the Pinetrees guesthouse. And from Britain, there was the man who made the journey because as a kid he would lie in bed looking up at a National Geographic poster.
Its Edenic qualities have been well remarked on, as well as its singular lack of a nightlife. It is also one of the few locations in the world where you can have a digital detox, as mobile phones don't work and WiFi is scarce. Whether you react to this with abject horror or delight tells you a little bit about yourself.
Some facts: Lord Howe, where the tropical waters from the Great Barrier Reef flow into more temperate waters, hosts the world's most southerly large coral reef. One of four island groups awarded world heritage status, it is surrounded by a marine reserve and more than two-thirds of the island is a permanent park. It is home to 130 species of birds; the reef shelters more than 500 species of fish and 90 different corals.
No more than 350 people live on the island and only 400 tourists are allowed at any one time, so even with full occupancy the beaches look deserted, a seemingly abandoned bicycle by the side of the road above often the only indicator of visitors.
Flying low over Lord Howe, I see the dense green hills of the north slope down to fields and the lodges, while to the west the crescent beach edged by the lagoon and reef sweeps south to the cloud-capped Mount Gower, which towers with its neighbour, Mount Lidgbird, over the land mass, truly the place where the mountains meet the sea.
From the aeroplane window I spy an even more arresting sight, the inexplicable Ball's Pyramid, at 551m the world's tallest sea stack, rising out of the Pacific 23km away. This shard is a harbinger of the future of Lord Howe, which will disintegrate in the coming centuries until a similar remnant is all that is left. In fact, Lord Howe is less than 10 per cent of its original size.
If the island's airstrip looks tiny from the 36-seat QantasLink Dash 8 200 Series, that's because it is. We set down on the narrow strip between Prince William Henry Bay and Blinky Beach. The ground staff know every second passenger by name, including my neighbour Sheridan, a trainee teacher returning home, who has generated excitement by bringing home a golden retriever puppy as a present for her parents. Like the puppy, I'm making my first visit to the island and I am here for adventure. I shall swim, snorkel and cycle, and undertake the eight-hour trek up the 875m Mount Gower. The prize shall be the view, the cloud garden at the summit and the bragging rights.
Lord Howe was discovered by accident in 1788 while HMS Supply was en route to the penal settlement of Norfolk Island. The first settlers arrived in 1834; the names of descendents of the original families are dotted about the pretty graveyard off the main street, with surnames such as Andrew and Thompson. The first tourists hopped off trade vessels heading to Norfolk Island or Vanuatu and were taken in by local families, and more than 150 years later tourism still operates pretty much like that.
Janne Shead, owner of the luxury Arajilla Retreat with her husband Bill,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! greets me at the airport with a beaming smile. We drive past the kentia thatch palms (which Victorian England, mad for them, exported around the world) and turn into a small street with a welcoming cafe and a few scattered shops selling soaps, polished shells, smocks and designer T-shirts. "This is the CBD," she says, acknowledging passing locals with a wave of the hand. I smile at her joke before realising she isn't making one.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person.
We turn right and park in front of a thicket of palms and banyan trees and Janne announces we have arrived. No buildings are visible, but up the path the main lodge materialises with its triangular white painted roof. It's largely open on one side to the tangle of trees - a perfect spot for meals and afternoon tea. Cylinders of muted brown, olive-and-red fabric hang down from the wooden ceiling and there is a Balinese vibe, with wooden Indonesian sideboards and wall hangings of squares of orange and grey cloth stitched together. Over dinner, honeymooners sit shoulder to shoulder with retirees at candle-lit tables,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. dining on grilled kingfish, tempura soft-shell crab and Frangelico affogato.
To visit Lord Howe Island is to step back, if not millions of years, at least to an era before mobile phones and when you left your doors unlocked at night. "We don't have keys," Janne says after showing me around my single-bedroom Kentia Suite. Turns out no one does.
Inside the suite you step up to the square bedroom, with its high wooden pitched roof boasting two skylights. The decor mixes muted light grey fabrics against antique white, while the wardrobe is solid timber planking. Two intricately carved silver collars of dragons are mounted above the bed, upon which at turndown sits a little cylindrical sniff box of neroli, lavender and chamomile. Outside, it is just a few barefoot steps from the L-shaped balcony to Old Settlement Beach, where you can cook one of the resort's BBQ packs.
The next morning I walk through the palms along the timber boardwalk and turn left at a small stone statue of Ganesh, the elephant-headed Hindu god, strewn with petals, to attend the ayurvedic spa. It's in a little two- room wooden yurt. A foot cleansing leads to a body massage and then a scalp massage and drenching of my head in warm oliana oil.
To the uninitiated, the procedure feels a little light on to those used to deep tissue, with some deft rubbing of the thighs and upper back. But the results defy expectations. After an hour, to my astonishment,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. I find myself leaping off the massage table, fully recharged. Arajilla is set to host a wellness retreat, showcasing yoga and ayurvedic teachings, from February 21 to 26.
Open house held for Antonito clinic
Antonito residents got a guided tour of the new clinic when they held their open house.
Conejos Hospital CEO Henry Garvin,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. Crystal Otteson and Josie Villagomez who worked in medical records when the building was located in La Jara, gave a guided tour of the new building prior to the opening ceremony.
“Wow, it’s amazing what a little tile, carpet and paint can do,” said Villagomez. “Yeah, it is like when a woman puts on makeup and looks completely different,” said Otteson. The two women now work on the second floor of the La Jara Clinic.
As Garvin gave the tour of the building he explained that the two exam rooms and office on the east half of the building are for Doctor Dan Talier, who will start practicing in Antonito next Monday.
The two exam rooms and office on the west side of the building are where Brian Jackson, PA-C now sees his patients.
“I have an appointment with Brian next week and I can’t wait to be seen in his new clinic, I’m so excited,” said Rita Martinez a long-time patient of Jackson's.
Garvin mentioned that Jackson will not be using one of the exam rooms on the west side of the building,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. saying, “it may be a good spot for a chiropractor.” He plans on exploring that possibility in the near future.
Conejos County Commissioners, Steve McCarroll and Mitch Jarvies, expressed their excitement about the new clinic as well. “They needed this building, it’s well deserved and it’s a big improvement for them and for the town,” said Jarvies.
Father Serio, of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, blessed the new clinic and said a prayer for the doctors and their staff and for the sick that will be seeking care there. After his blessing Dr. Jackson thanked Father Serio and said that, “Medicine is 90 percent mental and ten percent physical, so I really appreciate that blessing.”
Jackson also thanked his staff, his nurses and receptionists, the Antonito Town Board, the Conejos County Commissioners, Garvin, and all of his patients.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
“The most impressive thing for me is having a window in my room. It makes me want to practice better,” said Jackson. He confessed that a few years ago he was so down and disappointed with his old building that he seriously considered walking away from medicine. His wife encouraged him to hang in there now Jackson said he is glad he did.
Although Fulcher's skyrocketing increase — from $861 to $3,383 — is an extreme, premiums throughout Maryland have been increasing in recent years.They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. It's a result of more payouts and higher building costs, experts say. And many homeowners might want to begin setting aside money to pay home insurance bills, which show no sign of leveling off.
"How many more people are they doing this to?" asks Fulcher, 60, who gets by on disability income after suffering several strokes in her 40s.
Fulcher's insurance story begins with the August 2011 earthquake. Part of her roof pulled away from the wall, causing a severe leak. She had the leak fixed, to the tune of $2,000 out of pocket (her policy didn't cover earthquake damage), but a claims agent came out and inspected her home.
She bought the house, at East Baltimore and North Caroline streets, from the city more than 30 years ago. It's big, about 3,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.400 square feet, but it's not fancy. The main kitchen area, on the first floor, still has harvest gold-colored appliances. The bathrooms are not bedecked in granite or marble. There is no heat in the stairwell.
"There is no expensive stuff in here," Fulcher said. "All I did was put down carpet because it was all tile. ... I have done nothing to it."
Built in 1920, according to tax records, the house's street level was designed as a storefront, as were the rest of the buildings on her block, which has long been on the cusp of gentrification. The state values the home for property tax purposes at less than $350,000, and Fulcher says that comparable homes in her neighborhood are selling for well under $300,000.
She refused to shell out the new premium, but it was paid by her mortgage company, so now she owes the money to her lender. A review of the policy by the Maryland Insurance Administration determined that nothing was amiss, and now Fulcher is awaiting a hearing on the administration's decision.
The Atlantic Alliance, once limited to the trans-Atlantic space, has stepped up to meeting global challenges to the security of its members. Bulgaria has played a part in the Alliance's activities in Libya, and in fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia. We have worked together in Afghanistan and after eleven years we are beginning to wind down our commitment there, but the job is not done and we need to take care that the investment we made endures into the future.
Working together as allies certainly bolsters our collective security, but it also has other benefits. It creates a lasting bond between Bulgarian and U.S. soldiers and interoperability between our two militaries. This has been vital in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya conflicts, and will also benefit any future NATO operations.
I had the opportunity in November to observe the certification of the first Bulgarian Battalion Battle Group and I can tell you it was quite impressive. As your military works to stand up additional units, the United States will continue to be there to support the realization of your own plan for military modernization.
Conejos Hospital CEO Henry Garvin,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. Crystal Otteson and Josie Villagomez who worked in medical records when the building was located in La Jara, gave a guided tour of the new building prior to the opening ceremony.
“Wow, it’s amazing what a little tile, carpet and paint can do,” said Villagomez. “Yeah, it is like when a woman puts on makeup and looks completely different,” said Otteson. The two women now work on the second floor of the La Jara Clinic.
As Garvin gave the tour of the building he explained that the two exam rooms and office on the east half of the building are for Doctor Dan Talier, who will start practicing in Antonito next Monday.
The two exam rooms and office on the west side of the building are where Brian Jackson, PA-C now sees his patients.
“I have an appointment with Brian next week and I can’t wait to be seen in his new clinic, I’m so excited,” said Rita Martinez a long-time patient of Jackson's.
Garvin mentioned that Jackson will not be using one of the exam rooms on the west side of the building,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. saying, “it may be a good spot for a chiropractor.” He plans on exploring that possibility in the near future.
Conejos County Commissioners, Steve McCarroll and Mitch Jarvies, expressed their excitement about the new clinic as well. “They needed this building, it’s well deserved and it’s a big improvement for them and for the town,” said Jarvies.
Father Serio, of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, blessed the new clinic and said a prayer for the doctors and their staff and for the sick that will be seeking care there. After his blessing Dr. Jackson thanked Father Serio and said that, “Medicine is 90 percent mental and ten percent physical, so I really appreciate that blessing.”
Jackson also thanked his staff, his nurses and receptionists, the Antonito Town Board, the Conejos County Commissioners, Garvin, and all of his patients.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
“The most impressive thing for me is having a window in my room. It makes me want to practice better,” said Jackson. He confessed that a few years ago he was so down and disappointed with his old building that he seriously considered walking away from medicine. His wife encouraged him to hang in there now Jackson said he is glad he did.
Although Fulcher's skyrocketing increase — from $861 to $3,383 — is an extreme, premiums throughout Maryland have been increasing in recent years.They manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet and bracelets. It's a result of more payouts and higher building costs, experts say. And many homeowners might want to begin setting aside money to pay home insurance bills, which show no sign of leveling off.
"How many more people are they doing this to?" asks Fulcher, 60, who gets by on disability income after suffering several strokes in her 40s.
Fulcher's insurance story begins with the August 2011 earthquake. Part of her roof pulled away from the wall, causing a severe leak. She had the leak fixed, to the tune of $2,000 out of pocket (her policy didn't cover earthquake damage), but a claims agent came out and inspected her home.
She bought the house, at East Baltimore and North Caroline streets, from the city more than 30 years ago. It's big, about 3,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.400 square feet, but it's not fancy. The main kitchen area, on the first floor, still has harvest gold-colored appliances. The bathrooms are not bedecked in granite or marble. There is no heat in the stairwell.
"There is no expensive stuff in here," Fulcher said. "All I did was put down carpet because it was all tile. ... I have done nothing to it."
Built in 1920, according to tax records, the house's street level was designed as a storefront, as were the rest of the buildings on her block, which has long been on the cusp of gentrification. The state values the home for property tax purposes at less than $350,000, and Fulcher says that comparable homes in her neighborhood are selling for well under $300,000.
She refused to shell out the new premium, but it was paid by her mortgage company, so now she owes the money to her lender. A review of the policy by the Maryland Insurance Administration determined that nothing was amiss, and now Fulcher is awaiting a hearing on the administration's decision.
The Atlantic Alliance, once limited to the trans-Atlantic space, has stepped up to meeting global challenges to the security of its members. Bulgaria has played a part in the Alliance's activities in Libya, and in fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia. We have worked together in Afghanistan and after eleven years we are beginning to wind down our commitment there, but the job is not done and we need to take care that the investment we made endures into the future.
Working together as allies certainly bolsters our collective security, but it also has other benefits. It creates a lasting bond between Bulgarian and U.S. soldiers and interoperability between our two militaries. This has been vital in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya conflicts, and will also benefit any future NATO operations.
I had the opportunity in November to observe the certification of the first Bulgarian Battalion Battle Group and I can tell you it was quite impressive. As your military works to stand up additional units, the United States will continue to be there to support the realization of your own plan for military modernization.
2013年1月30日 星期三
The Separation of Church and Parking
The story in most U.S. cities goes that on the seventh day,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker
are on LinkedIn. even parking enforcement officers rest. But thanks to
slashed municipal budgets and seemingly never-ending congestion on the
roads, that’s quickly and likely irrevocably changing.
Earlier this month, San Francisco became the latest city to announce it will begin enforcing parking meters on Sundays. For now, municipal traffic cops are merely leaving warnings on windshields to let motorists know about the upcoming policy change. But on February 2, meters will start ticking on Sundays at noon and require payment until 6 p.m.
The San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority argues the change will encourage turnover, relieve the bottlenecking that comes from drivers’ endless circling in hopes of nabbing an open space, and in theory,Service Report a problem with a street light. draw more visitors to the city with the promise of easier parking. Predictably, it’s also caused quite a stir among Bay Area residents who think Sunday churchgoers are being unfairly targeted and that local residents are being priced out of their own neighborhoods.
Of course, San Francisco’s Sunday parking woes aren’t remarkable. Both Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, have charged for Sunday metered parking for several years. Chicago officials angered churchgoers forced to pay to pray when the Windy City also began enforcing Sunday meters in 2010. And San Francisco itself has, at a smaller scale, been doing the same for a while now, with meters running seven days a week amid the throng of tourists along Fisherman’s Wharf. The city also tries to take full advantage of Giants fans’ fat wallets, with meters in Mission Bay near AT&T Park operating until 10 p.m.
But it’s the citywide Sunday meter fee ordinance that’s incited the fiercest debate about the intersection of public parking, faith, and community service. San Francisco Interfaith Council Executive Director Michael Pappas says that he and many of the city’s religious and spiritual leaders were blindsided by SFMTA, which put together a stakeholder group without consulting anyone in the city’s faith community—something Pappas calls "a real infraction of due process."
Because SFMTA is an independent organization, no elected official can line item veto any part of its budget. Short of creating and passing new legislation, there isn’t much to be done about the change. That's unacceptable to people like Pappas, who see the new law as directly targeting urban communities of faith. "Penalizing people who just want to come and worship is more than significant," he argues, acknowledging that the debate may seem to favor Christian denominations but also impacts local temples that conduct Sunday classes. He cautions that the law will reach believers in every type of faith community, disrupting routine services and even funerals, if meters are enforced past 10 p.m. or 24-hours.
A quick overview for anyone without intimate knowledge of the Bay Area’s religious topography: San Francisco alone has more than 800 congregations, some of which existed long before cars were even invented. Moreover, the city’s communities of faith are an integral part of the social services safety net. S.F. has one of the nation’s highest homelessness rates, and churches and foundations in the downtown area, like Glide Memorial Church and the St. Anthony Foundation, are among the many non-profit organizations that serve thousands of free meals every day to the city’s destitute and homeless. (In the interest of full disclosure, I live near Glide and occasionally volunteer for meal service.) Leaders like Pappas who are opposed to Sunday meters immediately seized on not just the supposed injustice to people of faith, but also the burden put upon volunteers who drive downtown to serve the city’s poorest residents.
City officials contend that meters can be paid for up to four hours in advance, easing the burden on everyone. But Pappas counters the notion that believers should just pre-pay meters comes with myriad assumptions: that services will start and end on schedule, that time for uninterrupted fellowship should be secondary to plugging the meter,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! that churchgoers can afford to pay for parking, and that congregations won’t lose money thanks to lowered attendance rates. Many churches also earn supplementary income by renting out space to recovery program meetings or health and fitness instruction. Pappas wonders whether, in addition to discouraging congregants from attending Sunday services, ever-increasing meter fees lead to fewer participants in after-hours activities and an all-around revenue loss. He notes that Glide, the renowned community-oriented church best known as the safe haven for Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) in the film The Pursuit of Happyness, could be forced to dip into its annual budget to hire additional parking attendants to handle traffic.
Maybe these questions seem overwrought and invasive. But Milo Hanke, past president and current board member of neighborhood advocacy group San Francisco Beautiful, says government agencies invite criticism and scrutiny when they act without a mandate. The S.F. Municipal Railway (Muni), the city’s trolley and bus system which is overseen by the SFMTA, has recently been under fire for negligent use of funds following reports that some mechanics worked enough overtime in 2012 to effectively earn triple their normal salary. The Sunday meter fees are projected to bring in an extra $2 million dollars in 2013—a lot, relatively speaking, but only a slight increase above the $47 million meters already bring in annually. Two million dollars is even less when you consider that the MTA’s annual budget tops out over $700 million.
For all the hand wringing about how to boost Muni’s budget while saving churchgoers a few dollars, city officials can’t legally offer a churchgoer exemption and privilege certain private entities over others. According to the Reverend Barry Lynn,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, believers can’t demand special treatment, no matter how unfair a measure seems. “If a community can agree upon a measure and it happens to benefit churches, it’s thereby legal for a secular purpose with a collateral purpose for churches,” he says. In other words, if citizens can make a secular case for abolishing meter fees—that Sunday enforcement will diminish tourism or somehow hamper the rhythm of city life—congregations can reap the rewards as well. Otherwise, no one gets a free pass to pray.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver.
Earlier this month, San Francisco became the latest city to announce it will begin enforcing parking meters on Sundays. For now, municipal traffic cops are merely leaving warnings on windshields to let motorists know about the upcoming policy change. But on February 2, meters will start ticking on Sundays at noon and require payment until 6 p.m.
The San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority argues the change will encourage turnover, relieve the bottlenecking that comes from drivers’ endless circling in hopes of nabbing an open space, and in theory,Service Report a problem with a street light. draw more visitors to the city with the promise of easier parking. Predictably, it’s also caused quite a stir among Bay Area residents who think Sunday churchgoers are being unfairly targeted and that local residents are being priced out of their own neighborhoods.
Of course, San Francisco’s Sunday parking woes aren’t remarkable. Both Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, have charged for Sunday metered parking for several years. Chicago officials angered churchgoers forced to pay to pray when the Windy City also began enforcing Sunday meters in 2010. And San Francisco itself has, at a smaller scale, been doing the same for a while now, with meters running seven days a week amid the throng of tourists along Fisherman’s Wharf. The city also tries to take full advantage of Giants fans’ fat wallets, with meters in Mission Bay near AT&T Park operating until 10 p.m.
But it’s the citywide Sunday meter fee ordinance that’s incited the fiercest debate about the intersection of public parking, faith, and community service. San Francisco Interfaith Council Executive Director Michael Pappas says that he and many of the city’s religious and spiritual leaders were blindsided by SFMTA, which put together a stakeholder group without consulting anyone in the city’s faith community—something Pappas calls "a real infraction of due process."
Because SFMTA is an independent organization, no elected official can line item veto any part of its budget. Short of creating and passing new legislation, there isn’t much to be done about the change. That's unacceptable to people like Pappas, who see the new law as directly targeting urban communities of faith. "Penalizing people who just want to come and worship is more than significant," he argues, acknowledging that the debate may seem to favor Christian denominations but also impacts local temples that conduct Sunday classes. He cautions that the law will reach believers in every type of faith community, disrupting routine services and even funerals, if meters are enforced past 10 p.m. or 24-hours.
A quick overview for anyone without intimate knowledge of the Bay Area’s religious topography: San Francisco alone has more than 800 congregations, some of which existed long before cars were even invented. Moreover, the city’s communities of faith are an integral part of the social services safety net. S.F. has one of the nation’s highest homelessness rates, and churches and foundations in the downtown area, like Glide Memorial Church and the St. Anthony Foundation, are among the many non-profit organizations that serve thousands of free meals every day to the city’s destitute and homeless. (In the interest of full disclosure, I live near Glide and occasionally volunteer for meal service.) Leaders like Pappas who are opposed to Sunday meters immediately seized on not just the supposed injustice to people of faith, but also the burden put upon volunteers who drive downtown to serve the city’s poorest residents.
City officials contend that meters can be paid for up to four hours in advance, easing the burden on everyone. But Pappas counters the notion that believers should just pre-pay meters comes with myriad assumptions: that services will start and end on schedule, that time for uninterrupted fellowship should be secondary to plugging the meter,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! that churchgoers can afford to pay for parking, and that congregations won’t lose money thanks to lowered attendance rates. Many churches also earn supplementary income by renting out space to recovery program meetings or health and fitness instruction. Pappas wonders whether, in addition to discouraging congregants from attending Sunday services, ever-increasing meter fees lead to fewer participants in after-hours activities and an all-around revenue loss. He notes that Glide, the renowned community-oriented church best known as the safe haven for Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) in the film The Pursuit of Happyness, could be forced to dip into its annual budget to hire additional parking attendants to handle traffic.
Maybe these questions seem overwrought and invasive. But Milo Hanke, past president and current board member of neighborhood advocacy group San Francisco Beautiful, says government agencies invite criticism and scrutiny when they act without a mandate. The S.F. Municipal Railway (Muni), the city’s trolley and bus system which is overseen by the SFMTA, has recently been under fire for negligent use of funds following reports that some mechanics worked enough overtime in 2012 to effectively earn triple their normal salary. The Sunday meter fees are projected to bring in an extra $2 million dollars in 2013—a lot, relatively speaking, but only a slight increase above the $47 million meters already bring in annually. Two million dollars is even less when you consider that the MTA’s annual budget tops out over $700 million.
For all the hand wringing about how to boost Muni’s budget while saving churchgoers a few dollars, city officials can’t legally offer a churchgoer exemption and privilege certain private entities over others. According to the Reverend Barry Lynn,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, believers can’t demand special treatment, no matter how unfair a measure seems. “If a community can agree upon a measure and it happens to benefit churches, it’s thereby legal for a secular purpose with a collateral purpose for churches,” he says. In other words, if citizens can make a secular case for abolishing meter fees—that Sunday enforcement will diminish tourism or somehow hamper the rhythm of city life—congregations can reap the rewards as well. Otherwise, no one gets a free pass to pray.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver.
Fiat Suspends Dividend
Europe's No. 6 auto maker by unit sales said it needs to conserve
cash because it wants to purchase the shares it doesn't already own in
Chrysler, facilitating the merger of the companies' auto-making
activities.
The Turin-based company, whose brands also include Ferrari and Alfa Romeo, paid out €40 million in dividends last year on its ordinary shares and preferred stock. It last suspended dividend payments on its preferred stock in 2009.
Fiat expects its earnings to continue to be propped up by Chrysler this year, though debt is likely to rise as it attempts to revive its European operations.
Fiat said fourth-quarter net profit after minorities more than doubled to €102 million, compared with €43 million a year earlier, as strong sales in Brazil and the U.S. offset weakness in Europe.
Trading profit, a closely watched figure that excludes extraordinary items from operating profit, jumped 29% to €987 million for the quarter, on an 11% rise in revenue to €21.78 billion. For the full year, trading profit rose 18% to €3.81 billion.
In the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, Fiat said the loss at the level of earnings before interest and taxes, or Ebit, for its mass-market car brands halved in the quarter from a year earlier. For the full year, the loss narrowed to €738 million from €897 million in 2011 on a pro forma basis.
Earlier Wednesday, Mr. Marchionne presided over the official reopening of a manufacturing plant in Grugliasco, renamed after Giovanni Agnelli, a patriarch of Fiat's founding family. The plant will produce two cars for Fiat's Maserati luxury sports car brand: the Quattroporte four-door sedan and the Ghibli, the first of an expanding product line in a €1.2 billion relaunch of the brand.
Tuesday night's Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing was the final opportunity to discuss the special zoning permit application made by Grace Property Holdings LLC for its plans for the design of The River building and lighting at Grace Farms.
The meeting concluded a three-month hearing process, and the various neighbors, many of whom retained lawyers, presented their final arguments in a session that lasted more than three hours.
Many of the neighbors' concerns centered around lighting and traffic congestion. William Hennessey, lawyer for the Markatos family, of 28 Smith Ridge Road, offered 18 conditions for the Planning and Zoning Commission to impose on the Grace Farms permit. While the commission placed conditions on the project in its 2007 and 2008 permits before any plans were drawn up, Hennessey argued that in light of the developments, there should be new conditions as well.
"It's a campus being built: it's a sanctuary, a gymnasium, dining hall, a library. It's a big, big project. And we're not saying it shouldn't happen, but we are saying it should be regulated," he said.
The family hired landscape architect Eric Rains to analyze the effects the lighting would have.
"A nine-foot-tall pane of glass, 645 feet around, is what we're dealing with," Rains said.
While the requested regulations were not made public, references to them included conditions about the lighting of the building and the types of events that could take place at the facility.
At the conclusion of the presentation,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . Planning and Zoning Commissioner Dick Ward asked if the Grace Farms Foundation was agreeable to the conditions.
Other complaints came from attorney Marjorie Shansky, who represents three families in the area in question -- the Coopers, the Abels, and Mary Shah. Shanksy argued that the project is now more involved and larger than what had been previously approved.
"They (Grace Farms) came to this commission with an institutional use that is materially larger than that which had been (given)," she argued.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. "It represents materially more construction than was approved. There's 154 percent more construction in 2013 than in 2007."
Shanksy concluded that the increase in size and scope of the church warrants a new traffic study.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! The traffic study completed in 2007 said even the maximum of 900 people attending Sunday services would not present a traffic problem on the roads around Grace Farms. The study has been upheld in court after a previous legal challenge from Shah's husband, Sanjit Shah.
The attorney representing Grace Farms Property Holdings LLC, Joseph Hammer, argued that most of the issues brought forth rehashed arguments that already have been settled.
"(The project) has already been approved as a religious institution," he said. "Before you, the focus needs to be the design of the structure. You did not intend this to be a rerun of the underlying special permit, therefore it would not be proper to reopen traffic,Service Report a problem with a street light. or other issues. Courts have rejected the arguments of those same people who are making them now."
"I want to reiterate -- Grace is not contemplating any new or different use than from its first application or from what other churches do on a daily basis. The conditions you're being asked to impose would conflict with the church's ability to act as a church and from the permit they've received," he argued.
A lighting designer, Gabe Williams, said that the 20 to 30 trees around The River, which had been planned to be illuminated, would now only be illuminated on The River side of the trees, not on the exterior side that faces neighbors. He said that the building's lights would turn off at 11 p.m. and that interior lights would be on a sensor and shut off automatically if no one was in the room.
Further, in a presentation for which the assembly room was darkened for the use of a projector, Williams made the point that the lighting of the building would in most cases amount to between .1 and one candle feet. A candle foot is the amount of light perceptible from a distance of one foot from a lit candle.
The Turin-based company, whose brands also include Ferrari and Alfa Romeo, paid out €40 million in dividends last year on its ordinary shares and preferred stock. It last suspended dividend payments on its preferred stock in 2009.
Fiat expects its earnings to continue to be propped up by Chrysler this year, though debt is likely to rise as it attempts to revive its European operations.
Fiat said fourth-quarter net profit after minorities more than doubled to €102 million, compared with €43 million a year earlier, as strong sales in Brazil and the U.S. offset weakness in Europe.
Trading profit, a closely watched figure that excludes extraordinary items from operating profit, jumped 29% to €987 million for the quarter, on an 11% rise in revenue to €21.78 billion. For the full year, trading profit rose 18% to €3.81 billion.
In the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, Fiat said the loss at the level of earnings before interest and taxes, or Ebit, for its mass-market car brands halved in the quarter from a year earlier. For the full year, the loss narrowed to €738 million from €897 million in 2011 on a pro forma basis.
Earlier Wednesday, Mr. Marchionne presided over the official reopening of a manufacturing plant in Grugliasco, renamed after Giovanni Agnelli, a patriarch of Fiat's founding family. The plant will produce two cars for Fiat's Maserati luxury sports car brand: the Quattroporte four-door sedan and the Ghibli, the first of an expanding product line in a €1.2 billion relaunch of the brand.
Tuesday night's Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing was the final opportunity to discuss the special zoning permit application made by Grace Property Holdings LLC for its plans for the design of The River building and lighting at Grace Farms.
The meeting concluded a three-month hearing process, and the various neighbors, many of whom retained lawyers, presented their final arguments in a session that lasted more than three hours.
Many of the neighbors' concerns centered around lighting and traffic congestion. William Hennessey, lawyer for the Markatos family, of 28 Smith Ridge Road, offered 18 conditions for the Planning and Zoning Commission to impose on the Grace Farms permit. While the commission placed conditions on the project in its 2007 and 2008 permits before any plans were drawn up, Hennessey argued that in light of the developments, there should be new conditions as well.
"It's a campus being built: it's a sanctuary, a gymnasium, dining hall, a library. It's a big, big project. And we're not saying it shouldn't happen, but we are saying it should be regulated," he said.
The family hired landscape architect Eric Rains to analyze the effects the lighting would have.
"A nine-foot-tall pane of glass, 645 feet around, is what we're dealing with," Rains said.
While the requested regulations were not made public, references to them included conditions about the lighting of the building and the types of events that could take place at the facility.
At the conclusion of the presentation,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . Planning and Zoning Commissioner Dick Ward asked if the Grace Farms Foundation was agreeable to the conditions.
Other complaints came from attorney Marjorie Shansky, who represents three families in the area in question -- the Coopers, the Abels, and Mary Shah. Shanksy argued that the project is now more involved and larger than what had been previously approved.
"They (Grace Farms) came to this commission with an institutional use that is materially larger than that which had been (given)," she argued.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. "It represents materially more construction than was approved. There's 154 percent more construction in 2013 than in 2007."
Shanksy concluded that the increase in size and scope of the church warrants a new traffic study.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! The traffic study completed in 2007 said even the maximum of 900 people attending Sunday services would not present a traffic problem on the roads around Grace Farms. The study has been upheld in court after a previous legal challenge from Shah's husband, Sanjit Shah.
The attorney representing Grace Farms Property Holdings LLC, Joseph Hammer, argued that most of the issues brought forth rehashed arguments that already have been settled.
"(The project) has already been approved as a religious institution," he said. "Before you, the focus needs to be the design of the structure. You did not intend this to be a rerun of the underlying special permit, therefore it would not be proper to reopen traffic,Service Report a problem with a street light. or other issues. Courts have rejected the arguments of those same people who are making them now."
"I want to reiterate -- Grace is not contemplating any new or different use than from its first application or from what other churches do on a daily basis. The conditions you're being asked to impose would conflict with the church's ability to act as a church and from the permit they've received," he argued.
A lighting designer, Gabe Williams, said that the 20 to 30 trees around The River, which had been planned to be illuminated, would now only be illuminated on The River side of the trees, not on the exterior side that faces neighbors. He said that the building's lights would turn off at 11 p.m. and that interior lights would be on a sensor and shut off automatically if no one was in the room.
Further, in a presentation for which the assembly room was darkened for the use of a projector, Williams made the point that the lighting of the building would in most cases amount to between .1 and one candle feet. A candle foot is the amount of light perceptible from a distance of one foot from a lit candle.
Children's center pushes Bastrop for repairs
Attorneys for a nonprofit Christian center for children in Bastrop
say they are concerned whether the city will pay for damages incurred
because the city refused to repair a drainpipe that forced the center to
close.
“I’m concerned they are not going to do what they are called upon to do,” said Richard Fewell Jr., an attorney for New Beginnings Christian Center.
New Beginnings Christian Center sued Bastrop in July 2008 after the city refused to repair a problematic drainpipe running underneath the center’s parking lot. The suit alleged the city should be responsible for repairing the drainpipe.
When the case first went to district court, the trial judge granted the city’s motion for involuntary dismissal of the case, but after the center appealed to the 2nd Circuit, the appellate court in September reversed the trial judge’s decision and agreed with the plaintiff’s assertion that the city undertook a responsibility to continue to repair the drainpipe when it performed previous maintenance and repairs.
“If they don’t respond, we’ll have to see what the court has to say,” Fewell said.
Bastrop Mayor Betty Alford Olive confirmed Wednesday she did receive the letter but could not say whether the city will be repairing the pipe.
“We have forwarded this information to our Office of Risk Management, and we’re going to wait for the guidance of our legal advisers,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.” she said.
Jack Wright Jr., another attorney for New Beginnings, said the children’s center, which served 143 youth, brought in more than $100,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!000 a year in donations and helped keep youth off the streets by offering spiritual counseling, athletics and educational programs.
According to court documents, the area of the parking lot above the drainpipe has continually eroded and periodically caused cave-ins of the concrete above the pipe.
In the past, when the pipe needed repair, the center would alert the mayor and the city would make repairs, which it did in 2005, 2006 and 2007.View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps.
When the center contacted the city in 2008 about the erosion and a growing sinkhole in the parking lot,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. the mayor refused to approve the repairs and refused to allow the center to fill in or obstruct the pipe, according to court documents.
Fifty years later, the industry has progressed immeasurably. Now ultra-jumbos carry 300-500 passengers who can telecommute inflight, watch first-run movies from seat-mounted consoles, nap supine a la Nash Rambler and other non-travel-related activities.
But my simple mind can't figure out the advantage (to the passenger) of cramming 300 people onto one plane, especially since, to make the plane lighter and therefore more fuel-efficient, many airplane parts are fabricated from plastic.
I don't know if this has anything to do with problems experienced recently by the Boeing part-plastic 787 Dreamliner. Probably not. Boeing quickly made noises about the Dreamliner's safety until planes were grounded worldwide and stock tumbled. All the bells and whistles were chiming and whistling just fine. The plastic still gleamed like metal. The lithium batteries, however, posed a fire risk.
This raises the question: What was wrong with older, sturdier aircraft that delivered us to our destinations just fine? The kind held together with chewing gum and baling wire. Most with padded seats, decent leg room,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . free checked bags. The kind owned by airlines staffed by people-oriented employees.
That's because military-trained pilots are scarcer than trim young flight attendants. Obviously, I'm for equal opportunity (gender and age) employment, but the attendant on my last flight had AARP tattooed on one arm, The Biggest Loser on the other. She was quite capable of pouring Coke. But taking charge of an emergency evacuation?
Back to plastic planes with cubbies surrounding each seat, desktop and computer screen included, aimed at businessmen still traveling on company bucks, which are scarcer than polite gate agents. I ponder to whom the airlines pander. One TV ad for Korea Air features long-legged women too beautiful even for those other runways.
Cars present a similar conundrum. Sure, many promote good mileage, but just as many others seduce buyers with perks totally unrelated to a safe arrival. What difference does it make if an NFL quarterback stuck in traffic can order a pizza by pushing a button on the dashboard? Now, if that button could inflate a flat tire -- different story.
Of course, some safety features like the back-up sensor do make prime time. How I wish the van that knocked me over as it backed out of a parking space had been equipped with one. Trucks are required. Why is it installed only on high-priced models, or as an extra?
“I’m concerned they are not going to do what they are called upon to do,” said Richard Fewell Jr., an attorney for New Beginnings Christian Center.
New Beginnings Christian Center sued Bastrop in July 2008 after the city refused to repair a problematic drainpipe running underneath the center’s parking lot. The suit alleged the city should be responsible for repairing the drainpipe.
When the case first went to district court, the trial judge granted the city’s motion for involuntary dismissal of the case, but after the center appealed to the 2nd Circuit, the appellate court in September reversed the trial judge’s decision and agreed with the plaintiff’s assertion that the city undertook a responsibility to continue to repair the drainpipe when it performed previous maintenance and repairs.
“If they don’t respond, we’ll have to see what the court has to say,” Fewell said.
Bastrop Mayor Betty Alford Olive confirmed Wednesday she did receive the letter but could not say whether the city will be repairing the pipe.
“We have forwarded this information to our Office of Risk Management, and we’re going to wait for the guidance of our legal advisers,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.” she said.
Jack Wright Jr., another attorney for New Beginnings, said the children’s center, which served 143 youth, brought in more than $100,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!000 a year in donations and helped keep youth off the streets by offering spiritual counseling, athletics and educational programs.
According to court documents, the area of the parking lot above the drainpipe has continually eroded and periodically caused cave-ins of the concrete above the pipe.
In the past, when the pipe needed repair, the center would alert the mayor and the city would make repairs, which it did in 2005, 2006 and 2007.View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps.
When the center contacted the city in 2008 about the erosion and a growing sinkhole in the parking lot,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. the mayor refused to approve the repairs and refused to allow the center to fill in or obstruct the pipe, according to court documents.
Fifty years later, the industry has progressed immeasurably. Now ultra-jumbos carry 300-500 passengers who can telecommute inflight, watch first-run movies from seat-mounted consoles, nap supine a la Nash Rambler and other non-travel-related activities.
But my simple mind can't figure out the advantage (to the passenger) of cramming 300 people onto one plane, especially since, to make the plane lighter and therefore more fuel-efficient, many airplane parts are fabricated from plastic.
I don't know if this has anything to do with problems experienced recently by the Boeing part-plastic 787 Dreamliner. Probably not. Boeing quickly made noises about the Dreamliner's safety until planes were grounded worldwide and stock tumbled. All the bells and whistles were chiming and whistling just fine. The plastic still gleamed like metal. The lithium batteries, however, posed a fire risk.
This raises the question: What was wrong with older, sturdier aircraft that delivered us to our destinations just fine? The kind held together with chewing gum and baling wire. Most with padded seats, decent leg room,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . free checked bags. The kind owned by airlines staffed by people-oriented employees.
That's because military-trained pilots are scarcer than trim young flight attendants. Obviously, I'm for equal opportunity (gender and age) employment, but the attendant on my last flight had AARP tattooed on one arm, The Biggest Loser on the other. She was quite capable of pouring Coke. But taking charge of an emergency evacuation?
Back to plastic planes with cubbies surrounding each seat, desktop and computer screen included, aimed at businessmen still traveling on company bucks, which are scarcer than polite gate agents. I ponder to whom the airlines pander. One TV ad for Korea Air features long-legged women too beautiful even for those other runways.
Cars present a similar conundrum. Sure, many promote good mileage, but just as many others seduce buyers with perks totally unrelated to a safe arrival. What difference does it make if an NFL quarterback stuck in traffic can order a pizza by pushing a button on the dashboard? Now, if that button could inflate a flat tire -- different story.
Of course, some safety features like the back-up sensor do make prime time. How I wish the van that knocked me over as it backed out of a parking space had been equipped with one. Trucks are required. Why is it installed only on high-priced models, or as an extra?
Freescale Expands Data Center Focus
Underscoring its continued focus on the fast-growing data center market,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card
can authenticate your computer usage and data. Freescale Semiconductor
introduces the C29x family of crypto coprocessors – a new lineup of
security accelerators engineered to help the world’s top data center
equipment manufacturers efficiently scale to handle dramatic increases
in secure network traffic.
The new C29x crypto coprocessors enable multi-chip, single PCI-E card solutions providing more than 120K RSA-2048 operations/second and delivering more than 3x the performance of more expensive PCI-E options currently available from today’s market share leader.
“Internet traffic security requirements are increasingly stringent and complex, yet the security coprocessor market is currently served by very few vendors. Customers are asking us for high-performance, cost- and power-efficient choices for coprocessors,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps.” said Tareq Bustami, vice president of Product Management for Freescale’s Digital Networking group. “Freescale has leveraged its communications processor leadership and 30 years of embedded security R&D investment to develop the new C29x crypto coprocessors, which offer the security and scalability data centers need to handle tremendous increases in data volume.”
“Freescale’s new C29x crypto coprocessor family provides OEMs with more choices and significantly lower costs at a time when network security has never been more important,” said Joseph Byrne, senior analyst with the Linley Group. “The security coprocessor space is a potentially high-margin market for Freescale’s Digital Networking business.”
Freescale’s C29x family offers scalability in both power and performance. The family is designed to accelerate RSA (up to 4k key sizes), Diffie Hellman, and Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms, and integrates up to 10 Gbs of bulk encryption. Whether applied in a large data center blade or within a hardware security module, C29x crypto coprocessors consume minimal power for thermally constrained designs. The products can be used in single- or multi-chip PCI-E end point card configurations, or can operate as standalone processors.
“Ensuring the security of enormous volumes of IP traffic is one of the most pressing issues facing our industry today,” said Darren Learmonth, chief technology officer,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. Thales e-Security. “Freescale’s C29x successfully addresses this issue with an extremely flexible, cost-efficient solution which should prove quite compelling to the marketplace.”
Freescale will discuss applications and features of the C29x family at the Linley Tech Data Center Conference planned for February 5 & 6 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The company also plans to demonstrate C29x technology in San Francisco at the RSA 2013 event in booth numbers 3002 and 3004.
ESET began studying the Trojan at the beginning of 2012. However, due to its proactive generic detection of this threat, the users of ESET security solutions were protected against it already from December 2011. During the investigation ESET could not provide any details about this threat publicly.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn.
The attacker used the malware to gain the user's FB login credentials, his/her score in the game, as well as information on the amount of credit cards stored in his/her Facebook settings and available to increase the credit in the game of poker. The game had a functionality that allowed replenishing the chip value using real money by inputting the credit card details or PayPal account. To gain the user's login credentials,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. an army of 800 of computers were used - all infected and controlled by the attacker. These machines were executing commands from the C&C (Command & Control) server. The creator of the threat has launched an attack using the login credentials of several FB accounts, which were gained ahead of time.
"To protect against attacks relying on social engineering methods, having a good security solution is not enough, users should be attentive to \any such ploys," says Róbert Lipovsky, ESET Security Intelligence Team Lead. He adds "The user could recognize the fake FB login page if he/she would check the site's URL."
The infected computers received a command to login into the user's FB accounts and to gain the user's Texas HoldEm score, as well as the amount of credit cards stored in his/her FB account. In case of a user without a credit card or low score, the infected computer received instructions to infect the victim's FB profile with a link to a phishing site. This site has acted to directly or indirectly lure the player's FB friends to a website resembling the FB homepage. In case the login credentials were input by them, they were also harvested by the attacker. While analyzing this botnet ESET estimates that the attacker could gain access to a total of 16,194 login credentials. ESET would like to caution that any other FB application could have been infected in this way, not just Texas HoldEm Poker.
The new C29x crypto coprocessors enable multi-chip, single PCI-E card solutions providing more than 120K RSA-2048 operations/second and delivering more than 3x the performance of more expensive PCI-E options currently available from today’s market share leader.
“Internet traffic security requirements are increasingly stringent and complex, yet the security coprocessor market is currently served by very few vendors. Customers are asking us for high-performance, cost- and power-efficient choices for coprocessors,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps.” said Tareq Bustami, vice president of Product Management for Freescale’s Digital Networking group. “Freescale has leveraged its communications processor leadership and 30 years of embedded security R&D investment to develop the new C29x crypto coprocessors, which offer the security and scalability data centers need to handle tremendous increases in data volume.”
“Freescale’s new C29x crypto coprocessor family provides OEMs with more choices and significantly lower costs at a time when network security has never been more important,” said Joseph Byrne, senior analyst with the Linley Group. “The security coprocessor space is a potentially high-margin market for Freescale’s Digital Networking business.”
Freescale’s C29x family offers scalability in both power and performance. The family is designed to accelerate RSA (up to 4k key sizes), Diffie Hellman, and Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms, and integrates up to 10 Gbs of bulk encryption. Whether applied in a large data center blade or within a hardware security module, C29x crypto coprocessors consume minimal power for thermally constrained designs. The products can be used in single- or multi-chip PCI-E end point card configurations, or can operate as standalone processors.
“Ensuring the security of enormous volumes of IP traffic is one of the most pressing issues facing our industry today,” said Darren Learmonth, chief technology officer,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. Thales e-Security. “Freescale’s C29x successfully addresses this issue with an extremely flexible, cost-efficient solution which should prove quite compelling to the marketplace.”
Freescale will discuss applications and features of the C29x family at the Linley Tech Data Center Conference planned for February 5 & 6 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The company also plans to demonstrate C29x technology in San Francisco at the RSA 2013 event in booth numbers 3002 and 3004.
ESET began studying the Trojan at the beginning of 2012. However, due to its proactive generic detection of this threat, the users of ESET security solutions were protected against it already from December 2011. During the investigation ESET could not provide any details about this threat publicly.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn.
The attacker used the malware to gain the user's FB login credentials, his/her score in the game, as well as information on the amount of credit cards stored in his/her Facebook settings and available to increase the credit in the game of poker. The game had a functionality that allowed replenishing the chip value using real money by inputting the credit card details or PayPal account. To gain the user's login credentials,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. an army of 800 of computers were used - all infected and controlled by the attacker. These machines were executing commands from the C&C (Command & Control) server. The creator of the threat has launched an attack using the login credentials of several FB accounts, which were gained ahead of time.
"To protect against attacks relying on social engineering methods, having a good security solution is not enough, users should be attentive to \any such ploys," says Róbert Lipovsky, ESET Security Intelligence Team Lead. He adds "The user could recognize the fake FB login page if he/she would check the site's URL."
The infected computers received a command to login into the user's FB accounts and to gain the user's Texas HoldEm score, as well as the amount of credit cards stored in his/her FB account. In case of a user without a credit card or low score, the infected computer received instructions to infect the victim's FB profile with a link to a phishing site. This site has acted to directly or indirectly lure the player's FB friends to a website resembling the FB homepage. In case the login credentials were input by them, they were also harvested by the attacker. While analyzing this botnet ESET estimates that the attacker could gain access to a total of 16,194 login credentials. ESET would like to caution that any other FB application could have been infected in this way, not just Texas HoldEm Poker.
2013年1月29日 星期二
The Next American G.I. Joes?
As the Pentagon seeks to vastly expand its cyber warfare efforts,
experts and hackers warn that hackers who have the skills to wage this
war are not a good fit for America’s straight-laced military
culture.Come January 9 and chip card
driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar
Pradesh. In short, potential soldiers in cyber warfare break the
military mold.
The Defense Department’s Cyber Command plans to add up to 4,900 workers in the coming years.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. But to fill these positions, the Pentagon will have to tap into an odd recruiting pool: people known more for their distrust of authority and for their belief in open information than their commitment to protecting the country, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Recruiting is a “hard thing to do, given the career paths of hackers and the military,” Harrison said. “The typical military career path, in which it takes years to advance, isn’t going to seem very attractive to the hacker. In the software world, you can be CEO of a billion dollar company when you’re in your twenties.”
“There are a lot of things about military culture that may not be attractive to these real hacker types,” Harrison added.
In fact, a group of hackers has recently made the U.S. government one of its targets. As revenge for the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was facing up to 30 years in prison for illegally downloading academic papers, the powerful hackers group Anonymous last week threatened to attack the Justice Department’s network.
Harrison said that the fast-paced nature of cyber warfare – hackers constantly need to find new ways to beat security, making techniques that work today useless in a matter of months – would only complicate recruitment efforts.
“You constantly need to be recruiting 22 year olds,” he said. “If you’re in your 30s you’re too old.”
This would leave people with expertise in cyber warfare, as well as with years of access to highly classified information, without work. At the very least, these redundant workers pose a possible security risk.
Chris, who said he was speaking from the Czech Republic, said forum participants were posting about the Pentagon’s announcement in recent days. But he said he doubted many would be interested in working for the Pentagon or the federal government.
“I've heard quite a lot about the United States trying to fight the cyber crime,” he said. “Generally our [hackers] society knows about these attempts to catch the bad guys, but very few have interest in joining them.”
Chris added that he didn’t think the U.S. government could locate the hackers who are capable of penetrating military systems. He said these hackers operate in secret forums that are extremely difficult to penetrate.
“The real bad people that do all these huge bugs operate in private,” he said.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. “It's really, really difficult to get there. I don't believe that the government could get to them.”
However, Harrison said not to underestimate the current capabilities of America’s cyber army compared to cyber operations in countries like China and Russia. Few details are known about what the group actually does. On rare occasion, success stories like the infiltration of an Iranian nuclear facility are leaked.
Quarterback play was a bugaboo for the Gators in 2012, and Muschamp is losing Jacoby Brissett to NC State, but he picks up Max Staver. Staver's not as highly rated as some of the more high-profile quarterbacks, but he fits what Muschamp is looking for: a big, physical guy who can stretch the field and is not afraid to carry the ball.
Kelvin Taylor is going to look to challenge for time at the running back spot, and there are defensive players who will use the departures as an opportunity to play early. Alex Anzalone and Daniel McMillian are both early enrollments, and that means they will have more time to digest the playbook and compete for early playing time.
Nick Saban is at it again. The four-time BCS Championship winner is just a wizard on the recruiting trail. He is in the running for some elite recruits, but his current list stands up by itself as a top-notch group. Saban has a knack for meshing his project players with guys who already possess college bodies and mixing them into one class.
This class is headlined by three top-level running backs, and as is Saban's way, he'll let them sort that out themselves in August. If they are up to snuff, they'll get reps on Saturdays.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. If not, they will be sitting on the sideline watching. Competition is a beautiful thing.
There is a lot to talk about with Saban's class. He has linebackers to continue the embarrassment of riches at that position, plus the quarterback who just seems to fit his mold. Offensive line talent and a lot of wide receivers help too.
However, the big get for the Tide is tight end O.J. Howard. This is a kid who has some real skills when it comes to catching the football and getting open down the field. He has the ability to really open up the offense in Tuscaloosa, and that will be a major problem for defenses. An elite,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. pass-catching tight end paired with the power rushing attack is a true nightmare for SEC safeties.
The Defense Department’s Cyber Command plans to add up to 4,900 workers in the coming years.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. But to fill these positions, the Pentagon will have to tap into an odd recruiting pool: people known more for their distrust of authority and for their belief in open information than their commitment to protecting the country, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Recruiting is a “hard thing to do, given the career paths of hackers and the military,” Harrison said. “The typical military career path, in which it takes years to advance, isn’t going to seem very attractive to the hacker. In the software world, you can be CEO of a billion dollar company when you’re in your twenties.”
“There are a lot of things about military culture that may not be attractive to these real hacker types,” Harrison added.
In fact, a group of hackers has recently made the U.S. government one of its targets. As revenge for the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was facing up to 30 years in prison for illegally downloading academic papers, the powerful hackers group Anonymous last week threatened to attack the Justice Department’s network.
Harrison said that the fast-paced nature of cyber warfare – hackers constantly need to find new ways to beat security, making techniques that work today useless in a matter of months – would only complicate recruitment efforts.
“You constantly need to be recruiting 22 year olds,” he said. “If you’re in your 30s you’re too old.”
This would leave people with expertise in cyber warfare, as well as with years of access to highly classified information, without work. At the very least, these redundant workers pose a possible security risk.
Chris, who said he was speaking from the Czech Republic, said forum participants were posting about the Pentagon’s announcement in recent days. But he said he doubted many would be interested in working for the Pentagon or the federal government.
“I've heard quite a lot about the United States trying to fight the cyber crime,” he said. “Generally our [hackers] society knows about these attempts to catch the bad guys, but very few have interest in joining them.”
Chris added that he didn’t think the U.S. government could locate the hackers who are capable of penetrating military systems. He said these hackers operate in secret forums that are extremely difficult to penetrate.
“The real bad people that do all these huge bugs operate in private,” he said.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. “It's really, really difficult to get there. I don't believe that the government could get to them.”
However, Harrison said not to underestimate the current capabilities of America’s cyber army compared to cyber operations in countries like China and Russia. Few details are known about what the group actually does. On rare occasion, success stories like the infiltration of an Iranian nuclear facility are leaked.
Quarterback play was a bugaboo for the Gators in 2012, and Muschamp is losing Jacoby Brissett to NC State, but he picks up Max Staver. Staver's not as highly rated as some of the more high-profile quarterbacks, but he fits what Muschamp is looking for: a big, physical guy who can stretch the field and is not afraid to carry the ball.
Kelvin Taylor is going to look to challenge for time at the running back spot, and there are defensive players who will use the departures as an opportunity to play early. Alex Anzalone and Daniel McMillian are both early enrollments, and that means they will have more time to digest the playbook and compete for early playing time.
Nick Saban is at it again. The four-time BCS Championship winner is just a wizard on the recruiting trail. He is in the running for some elite recruits, but his current list stands up by itself as a top-notch group. Saban has a knack for meshing his project players with guys who already possess college bodies and mixing them into one class.
This class is headlined by three top-level running backs, and as is Saban's way, he'll let them sort that out themselves in August. If they are up to snuff, they'll get reps on Saturdays.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. If not, they will be sitting on the sideline watching. Competition is a beautiful thing.
There is a lot to talk about with Saban's class. He has linebackers to continue the embarrassment of riches at that position, plus the quarterback who just seems to fit his mold. Offensive line talent and a lot of wide receivers help too.
However, the big get for the Tide is tight end O.J. Howard. This is a kid who has some real skills when it comes to catching the football and getting open down the field. He has the ability to really open up the offense in Tuscaloosa, and that will be a major problem for defenses. An elite,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. pass-catching tight end paired with the power rushing attack is a true nightmare for SEC safeties.
Arthur Rann Roof Work Set For Bidding
A contract is expected to be awarded for work on the Arthur Rann
Elementary School roof by the second week of February so that
replacement can take place this summer, Galloway Township Public Schools
Business Administrator Tim Kelley said during a presentation on
district and board of education goals Monday night, Jan. 28, at the
middle school.
The bid has already been advertised, and the unsealing of the bids should take place in the middle of next month, Kelley said. He reminded the Board of Education and the voters that the project was being paid through capital reserves, and the taxpayers would not see a raise in taxes.
The Roland Rogers and Smithville elementary schools also need new roofs, but because voters defeated two referendums in December of 2011 and in the spring of 2012, the district is not able to replace all three roofs.
“We are able to fix any problems as they come along,” Kelley said.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. “Substantial repairs were already done to Smithville and Arthur Rann in the fall.”
Kelley and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Annette Giaquinto gave the presentations during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting before giving a preliminary presentation on the 2013-14 budget,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. a month earlier than they did last year.
Other district improvements include the need to upgrade air conditioning units in district server rooms; the need to re-carpet selected classrooms, and in some cases, to replace carpet with tile; fixing the aged phone system throughout the district; replacing one maintenance vehicle; upgrade existing network switches; and sand/refinish the Smithville School gym floor.
The district has put its plans to install solar panels on hold, but a “tough decision” must be made on equipment in the cafeteria.
“A lot of the equipment in the cafeteria is original to the building,” Kelley said. “We have to perform ongoing repairs. Code requires food service to be self sufficient, and we must decide if it’s viable to continue with this equipment.You must not use the laser cutter without being trained.”
Kelley and Giaquinto also discussed the school bus consortium, headed by the Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District, that the district is a part of. A number of incidents in which school buses were late, two school bus accidents and a report on safety concerning Integrity Transportation led the district to consider other options as far as bus companies are concerned.
They’ve also met with Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District representatives about the possible consolidation of school bus routes, Kelley said. He added there have been no problems with the bus company with lateness this month.
Kelley and Giaquinto also discussed new standards for teaching students, standards for evaluating teachers and upgrades to technology, including the use of iPads, Chrome Books and Surface.
“We’ve formed a technology committee to make sure we don’t go too far too fast,” Giaquinto said. “Everyone might not get the same devices.”
The district is also looking to expand its wireless connection.
Despite giving an update on the budget process, which includes negotiating with teachers’ unions, Kelley and Giaquinto could offer no hard budget numbers.
One of the key factors includes state aid, which won’t be announced until Gov. Chris Christie gives his budget address at the end of February.
The district will then formulate a budget and introduce it to the Board of Education. Despite voters no longer going to the polls to approve the budget, the district must still hold a public hearing before it can approve the budget.
Charity has had a tough life and even though Bo promises her his love and devotion, he comes on so strong and possessive that it frightens her.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.
“I wonder if that’s the kind of love I want,” she says. “I gotta feel he really respects me. I gotta feel a man has a real regard for me apart from all the loving and sex. Maybe it don’t exist.”
The professor, who doesn’t like authority but does have a passion for young girls, has been married three times and been chased by the law even more often.
Although the diner does not serve alcohol, the professor has his own bottle and he gets more drunk as the night goes on. It leads to a hilarious and very believable staggering and drunken reading of the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet” by the tipsy professor and Elma.
But the professor’s lechery turns out to be no match for Elma’s idealism, youth, innocence and sweetness. She doesn’t see his lusty intentions but appreciates talking with him because “usually, old people don’t have time for kids like me.”
Whether it’s the 1950s or 2013, males and females have varying views of love and relationships. In “Bus Stop,” we get to eavesdrop on six different ideas portrayed by characters who are fun to watch.
The onstage “chemistry” is apparent with each of the couples — the no-strings-attached one-night stand for Grace and the bus driver, the lecherous professor and the innocent Elma,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. and the unworldly but macho Bo with the wise-beyond-her-years Charity.
The bid has already been advertised, and the unsealing of the bids should take place in the middle of next month, Kelley said. He reminded the Board of Education and the voters that the project was being paid through capital reserves, and the taxpayers would not see a raise in taxes.
The Roland Rogers and Smithville elementary schools also need new roofs, but because voters defeated two referendums in December of 2011 and in the spring of 2012, the district is not able to replace all three roofs.
“We are able to fix any problems as they come along,” Kelley said.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. “Substantial repairs were already done to Smithville and Arthur Rann in the fall.”
Kelley and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Annette Giaquinto gave the presentations during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting before giving a preliminary presentation on the 2013-14 budget,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. a month earlier than they did last year.
Other district improvements include the need to upgrade air conditioning units in district server rooms; the need to re-carpet selected classrooms, and in some cases, to replace carpet with tile; fixing the aged phone system throughout the district; replacing one maintenance vehicle; upgrade existing network switches; and sand/refinish the Smithville School gym floor.
The district has put its plans to install solar panels on hold, but a “tough decision” must be made on equipment in the cafeteria.
“A lot of the equipment in the cafeteria is original to the building,” Kelley said. “We have to perform ongoing repairs. Code requires food service to be self sufficient, and we must decide if it’s viable to continue with this equipment.You must not use the laser cutter without being trained.”
Kelley and Giaquinto also discussed the school bus consortium, headed by the Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District, that the district is a part of. A number of incidents in which school buses were late, two school bus accidents and a report on safety concerning Integrity Transportation led the district to consider other options as far as bus companies are concerned.
They’ve also met with Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District representatives about the possible consolidation of school bus routes, Kelley said. He added there have been no problems with the bus company with lateness this month.
Kelley and Giaquinto also discussed new standards for teaching students, standards for evaluating teachers and upgrades to technology, including the use of iPads, Chrome Books and Surface.
“We’ve formed a technology committee to make sure we don’t go too far too fast,” Giaquinto said. “Everyone might not get the same devices.”
The district is also looking to expand its wireless connection.
Despite giving an update on the budget process, which includes negotiating with teachers’ unions, Kelley and Giaquinto could offer no hard budget numbers.
One of the key factors includes state aid, which won’t be announced until Gov. Chris Christie gives his budget address at the end of February.
The district will then formulate a budget and introduce it to the Board of Education. Despite voters no longer going to the polls to approve the budget, the district must still hold a public hearing before it can approve the budget.
Charity has had a tough life and even though Bo promises her his love and devotion, he comes on so strong and possessive that it frightens her.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.
“I wonder if that’s the kind of love I want,” she says. “I gotta feel he really respects me. I gotta feel a man has a real regard for me apart from all the loving and sex. Maybe it don’t exist.”
The professor, who doesn’t like authority but does have a passion for young girls, has been married three times and been chased by the law even more often.
Although the diner does not serve alcohol, the professor has his own bottle and he gets more drunk as the night goes on. It leads to a hilarious and very believable staggering and drunken reading of the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet” by the tipsy professor and Elma.
But the professor’s lechery turns out to be no match for Elma’s idealism, youth, innocence and sweetness. She doesn’t see his lusty intentions but appreciates talking with him because “usually, old people don’t have time for kids like me.”
Whether it’s the 1950s or 2013, males and females have varying views of love and relationships. In “Bus Stop,” we get to eavesdrop on six different ideas portrayed by characters who are fun to watch.
The onstage “chemistry” is apparent with each of the couples — the no-strings-attached one-night stand for Grace and the bus driver, the lecherous professor and the innocent Elma,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. and the unworldly but macho Bo with the wise-beyond-her-years Charity.
White Rock City Hall turns the big 50
As the White Rock Museum and Archives Society prepares to celebrate
100 years of White Rock's well-known railway station, another building
is also celebrating a milestone anniversary.
Up the hill from the railway station, White Rock City Hall will be celebrating its golden jubilee, having spent 50 years as the headquarters for all of the city's operations since opening July 6, 1963.
Having started as a multi-purpose civic building, the current City Hall initially also played host to the city's police detachment, library and court clerks. In fact,You must not use the laser cutter without being trained. the current council chamber was originally built as the White Rock Courthouse, which is why White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin's chair is so high up.
"It used to be a judge's chair and the room beside the chambers was the judge's chambers," explained Baldwin.
However, in the five decades since opening, many of those other operations have since moved out as White rock continued to grow, leaving the entirety of the facility for city hall's increasing demand for space.
"Now the purpose of the building has changed considerably since it was first built, and so any money we've spent on the building since has been spent on accommodating the change in purpose," said Baldwin.
But like all old things, some upgrades are in order.
"The biggest thing would be the heating ventilation system, which is really bad," said Baldwin. "We need to do a lot of work on things like getting better windows in, we've got single pane, so the energy efficiency of our windows and doors is also bad."
Another key upgrade, said Baldwin, is to improve the appearance of the building.
"It hasn't really been touched much since it was first built, so the appearance both on the inside and outside has to be improved," he said.
Despite the upgrades needed, Baldwin said the building is still serving its purpose well and will likely continue to do so into the future.
"The building itself is well-built. It's a strong structure, the roof is still good and so on, but obviously changes need to be made to keep up with the times and the expectations of the public," he said.
Binghamton University will save an estimated $355,000 in energy costs every year and avoid sending more than 2,190 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually into the atmosphere thanks to a number of energy efficiency projects, the New York State Emergy Research and Development Authority announced.
BU has received $740,000 from the agency. Projects include energy efficiency measures at seven new East Campus dorms; a new Collegiate Center with kitchen and dining facilities, multipurpose rooms, computer labs, lounges and offices; and renovations at the Recreation Center.
The NYSERDA-funded projects for new construction are projected to be 17 to 30 percent more energy efficient than the state’s energy code requires, depending on the building. Measures include high-efficiency lighting; occupancy-based lighting controls; insulation; high-efficiency heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; variable-speed pumps and motors; and daylight harvesting controls, which is a system that dims artificial light in response to available natural light.
“The implementation of our projects will greatly enhance our energy conservation efforts,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. reduce cost and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” BU President Harvey Stenger said in a statement.
Overall,In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. the measures BU is taking are projected to reduce electricity use by 1.8 million kilowatt hours and fossil fuel use by 18,437 million Btu annually, the equivalent of powering and heating about 260 homes for a year, according to NYSERDA. They will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,190 tons annually, the equivalent of taking 438 cars off the road.
Funding is through the agency’s New Construction Program, which provides technical support to design teams and financial incentives to building owners. The projects also support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Build Smart NY initiative, which aims to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent over seven years.
“There were three things for fire stations that were rated high [for need],” Fire Chief Alan Mannel said. “One was a generator which we already have, one was the exhaust ventilation system which we got and the other was a fire sprinkler system.”
The fire department/municipal building was approved for a new sprinkler system late last year.
The majority of the funding is being handled by “Assistance to Firefighters Grant” – a nationwide grant though FEMA and Homeland Security. The grant will pay for 90 percent of the cost to install the system.
“It’s certainly not an easy grant to get but it’s well worth the effort,” Mannel said.
Mannel said he hopes to have the sprinkler system installed throughout the Municipal Building and the fire station in about a year’s time.A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. According to the U.S. Fire Administration Tropical Fire Research Series, back in 2001 most fires in fire stations often originate in the fire department vehicles – 44 percent – while the rest of the damages are caused by structural fires.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain.
Framingham State University will eliminate some infrastructure improvements planned for the Hemenway Hall academic building renovation in light of the project's increased cost from rising construction prices around the state, university officials said.
The university will forgo modernizing the interiors of existing classrooms and laboratories in the building, deferring the work until funding is available, said Dan Magazu, a university spokesman.
Earlier this month, officials said they might have to scale back parts of the $64 million project after rising construction costs led the state to drive up the project estimate by $10 million.
"As we anticipated, some of the planned infrastructure improvements to the original building have been eliminated from the scope of the work to balance the project budget," Magazu said in an email.
The main parts of the Hemenway Hall project, which received approval for $54 million in state funding in 2010, will still move forward, including a new science wing with 16 laboratories equipped with cutting-edge technology by 2014, as well as an update the building's existing windows and heating and ventilation system, Magazu said.
Up the hill from the railway station, White Rock City Hall will be celebrating its golden jubilee, having spent 50 years as the headquarters for all of the city's operations since opening July 6, 1963.
Having started as a multi-purpose civic building, the current City Hall initially also played host to the city's police detachment, library and court clerks. In fact,You must not use the laser cutter without being trained. the current council chamber was originally built as the White Rock Courthouse, which is why White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin's chair is so high up.
"It used to be a judge's chair and the room beside the chambers was the judge's chambers," explained Baldwin.
However, in the five decades since opening, many of those other operations have since moved out as White rock continued to grow, leaving the entirety of the facility for city hall's increasing demand for space.
"Now the purpose of the building has changed considerably since it was first built, and so any money we've spent on the building since has been spent on accommodating the change in purpose," said Baldwin.
But like all old things, some upgrades are in order.
"The biggest thing would be the heating ventilation system, which is really bad," said Baldwin. "We need to do a lot of work on things like getting better windows in, we've got single pane, so the energy efficiency of our windows and doors is also bad."
Another key upgrade, said Baldwin, is to improve the appearance of the building.
"It hasn't really been touched much since it was first built, so the appearance both on the inside and outside has to be improved," he said.
Despite the upgrades needed, Baldwin said the building is still serving its purpose well and will likely continue to do so into the future.
"The building itself is well-built. It's a strong structure, the roof is still good and so on, but obviously changes need to be made to keep up with the times and the expectations of the public," he said.
Binghamton University will save an estimated $355,000 in energy costs every year and avoid sending more than 2,190 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually into the atmosphere thanks to a number of energy efficiency projects, the New York State Emergy Research and Development Authority announced.
BU has received $740,000 from the agency. Projects include energy efficiency measures at seven new East Campus dorms; a new Collegiate Center with kitchen and dining facilities, multipurpose rooms, computer labs, lounges and offices; and renovations at the Recreation Center.
The NYSERDA-funded projects for new construction are projected to be 17 to 30 percent more energy efficient than the state’s energy code requires, depending on the building. Measures include high-efficiency lighting; occupancy-based lighting controls; insulation; high-efficiency heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; variable-speed pumps and motors; and daylight harvesting controls, which is a system that dims artificial light in response to available natural light.
“The implementation of our projects will greatly enhance our energy conservation efforts,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. reduce cost and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” BU President Harvey Stenger said in a statement.
Overall,In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience. the measures BU is taking are projected to reduce electricity use by 1.8 million kilowatt hours and fossil fuel use by 18,437 million Btu annually, the equivalent of powering and heating about 260 homes for a year, according to NYSERDA. They will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,190 tons annually, the equivalent of taking 438 cars off the road.
Funding is through the agency’s New Construction Program, which provides technical support to design teams and financial incentives to building owners. The projects also support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Build Smart NY initiative, which aims to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent over seven years.
“There were three things for fire stations that were rated high [for need],” Fire Chief Alan Mannel said. “One was a generator which we already have, one was the exhaust ventilation system which we got and the other was a fire sprinkler system.”
The fire department/municipal building was approved for a new sprinkler system late last year.
The majority of the funding is being handled by “Assistance to Firefighters Grant” – a nationwide grant though FEMA and Homeland Security. The grant will pay for 90 percent of the cost to install the system.
“It’s certainly not an easy grant to get but it’s well worth the effort,” Mannel said.
Mannel said he hopes to have the sprinkler system installed throughout the Municipal Building and the fire station in about a year’s time.A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. According to the U.S. Fire Administration Tropical Fire Research Series, back in 2001 most fires in fire stations often originate in the fire department vehicles – 44 percent – while the rest of the damages are caused by structural fires.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain.
Framingham State University will eliminate some infrastructure improvements planned for the Hemenway Hall academic building renovation in light of the project's increased cost from rising construction prices around the state, university officials said.
The university will forgo modernizing the interiors of existing classrooms and laboratories in the building, deferring the work until funding is available, said Dan Magazu, a university spokesman.
Earlier this month, officials said they might have to scale back parts of the $64 million project after rising construction costs led the state to drive up the project estimate by $10 million.
"As we anticipated, some of the planned infrastructure improvements to the original building have been eliminated from the scope of the work to balance the project budget," Magazu said in an email.
The main parts of the Hemenway Hall project, which received approval for $54 million in state funding in 2010, will still move forward, including a new science wing with 16 laboratories equipped with cutting-edge technology by 2014, as well as an update the building's existing windows and heating and ventilation system, Magazu said.
Mineral Tiles Announces Latest Addition
With fashion and contemporary interior design trends showing a strong
emphasis on the color white, Mineral Tiles, a leading provider of tile
products and tile design services on the Internet, has taken it upon
themselves to act on the growing demand for white interior design
pieces. The company announced the latest addition to their continually
growing line of tile products, the White Tile Collection,You must not
use the laser cutter without being trained.A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. a raange of tiles designed for contemporary white floor tile and white mosaic tile projects among others.
Aside from considering design trends favoring the color white, Mineral Tiles also took note of internal figures prior to the conceptualization of their new collection. After receiving calls for samples and orders of white glass tile, which customers used as the backdrop to their home décor, the company thought it prudent to create a separate line of tiles completely revolving around this interior design trend.
The increased demand for white tile styles is particularly evident in the popularity of Mineral Tiles’ Supreme Milk Glass Tile range, a line of a glass tiles designed to represent the elegance and beauty of the world’s whitest natural stone, Thassos marble from Greece. Similar to the prized Greek marble quarried since ancient times, the Supreme Milk Glass Tiles are notable for their strength and durability as they are made from crystallized glass melted onto a porcelain body, allowing for quick installations and cuts. However, unlike its natural stone counterpart, Supreme Milk Glass tiles do not require polishing or sealing during installation, making the process quick and easy.
Given the flexibility of white tiles, Mineral Tiles representatives believe it comes as no surprise why the color is catching on with homeowners and interior designers, as people’s tastes are evolving from traditional, to a more contemporary feel. Mineral Tiles’ White Tile Collection is ideal for a number of applications, from being used on the floor, white subway tile backplashes for kitchens and bathrooms, to feature walls and fireplace surrounds. The company recognizes how it is this flexibility that endears white tiles to interior designers and customers, who see the color as capable of being matched with any color scheme in the home. White also creates a fresh and clean look, bring out a room’s best design features.
Streetsense, an integrated brokerage, design, branding, marketing, and architecture firm announced today that they recently designed the second U.S. store location for ZILLI, a Lyon, France based men’s clothing atelier.
The fashion brand recently unveiled its 2,000 square foot store in the upscale Tysons Galleria in McLean, Virginia. Classically modern, the store’s inviting architectural expression was designed to establish a presence in one of Washington, DC’s most vibrant shopping destinations. The store’s design remains true to ZILLI’s use of luxurious finishes, including mahogany, brass and fine leathers.
According to streetsense, their team knew this store needed to be re-imagined from ZILLI’s New York City flagship store, which is located in the Four Seasons Hotel on East 57th Street. “ZILLI’s Washington, DC client is highly refined, powerful and in control. Therefore, the space is reflective of their luxurious and contemporary lifestyle,” said Alexander Crawford, Director of Interior Architecture at streetsense. “Prior to designing the space, we looked at our target audience and embraced their lifestyle. It was important to us to understand who we were designing for and the end result is reflective of the process we went through to understand them," says Tina Ruiz-Ellen, Project Manager for streetsense.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.
The storefront fa?ade consists of large glass windows trimmed in polished mahogany and brass and creates a contemporary, yet luxurious presence. Black granite floor tiles are etched in gold with the distinguished ZILLI logo and help frame the entrance. Creating visual engagement as you precede further inside, a backlit display panel adds a modern element to the space as does a large mannequin wall display.
The front and middle sections of the store are dedicated to pleasurable product browsing through meticulous space planning, innovative displays and the clever use of lighting to bring about an ambience of inviting elegance. The back portion of the store continues to bring progressive sensibility to the luxurious retail experience with a private consultation area that includes a gold domed ceiling reflective of the numerous domes throughout Washington, DC’s architecture symbolizing power, balance and order.
The semi-private backroom space also includes a custom designed circular carpet that showcases one of ZILLI’s many elite textile patterns; and a wall of adjustable mirrors that allows for the master tailor to perfectly fit the client.
Additionally, ZILLI’s Tysons Galleria store is the second location to offer women’s fine luxury accessories, including coats, handbags and other fine accessories. The women’s area was designed to delight, surprise and entertain the distinguished woman.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience.
With the release of iOS 6.1, Apple has also announced a new Search API that will allow developers to query its Maps servers to get back point-of-interest and location data. This will allow them to integrate these kinds of local results into their apps when users search for things around them.
It’s not exactly an earth shattering development, as there are tons of ‘places’ API choices out there for developers including OpenStreetMaps, Foursquare and Google Places.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. But it does bring a significant point of parity back for Apple when it comes to its mapping offerings for third-party developers.
With iOS 5 and previous versions of iOS, developers could call Google Maps and use those in conjunction with any third-party places API. This included Google’s own Places API, which could only be used with Google Maps tiles, and not other services. So a developer could use Apple’s MapKit to call up mapping tiles and Google Places to fill out location data. This is fairly standard operating procedure for mapping services.
Unfortunately, with the release of iOS 6, developers no longer had the ability to use Google Places with Apple’s mapping tiles, and had to make the choice to use other services if they wanted to use the standard MapKit frameworks for their mapping apps. Now, with the addition of the new Search API, developers have a one-stop shop to get their mapping display tiles and their POI search data, all in one place.
Aside from considering design trends favoring the color white, Mineral Tiles also took note of internal figures prior to the conceptualization of their new collection. After receiving calls for samples and orders of white glass tile, which customers used as the backdrop to their home décor, the company thought it prudent to create a separate line of tiles completely revolving around this interior design trend.
The increased demand for white tile styles is particularly evident in the popularity of Mineral Tiles’ Supreme Milk Glass Tile range, a line of a glass tiles designed to represent the elegance and beauty of the world’s whitest natural stone, Thassos marble from Greece. Similar to the prized Greek marble quarried since ancient times, the Supreme Milk Glass Tiles are notable for their strength and durability as they are made from crystallized glass melted onto a porcelain body, allowing for quick installations and cuts. However, unlike its natural stone counterpart, Supreme Milk Glass tiles do not require polishing or sealing during installation, making the process quick and easy.
Given the flexibility of white tiles, Mineral Tiles representatives believe it comes as no surprise why the color is catching on with homeowners and interior designers, as people’s tastes are evolving from traditional, to a more contemporary feel. Mineral Tiles’ White Tile Collection is ideal for a number of applications, from being used on the floor, white subway tile backplashes for kitchens and bathrooms, to feature walls and fireplace surrounds. The company recognizes how it is this flexibility that endears white tiles to interior designers and customers, who see the color as capable of being matched with any color scheme in the home. White also creates a fresh and clean look, bring out a room’s best design features.
Streetsense, an integrated brokerage, design, branding, marketing, and architecture firm announced today that they recently designed the second U.S. store location for ZILLI, a Lyon, France based men’s clothing atelier.
The fashion brand recently unveiled its 2,000 square foot store in the upscale Tysons Galleria in McLean, Virginia. Classically modern, the store’s inviting architectural expression was designed to establish a presence in one of Washington, DC’s most vibrant shopping destinations. The store’s design remains true to ZILLI’s use of luxurious finishes, including mahogany, brass and fine leathers.
According to streetsense, their team knew this store needed to be re-imagined from ZILLI’s New York City flagship store, which is located in the Four Seasons Hotel on East 57th Street. “ZILLI’s Washington, DC client is highly refined, powerful and in control. Therefore, the space is reflective of their luxurious and contemporary lifestyle,” said Alexander Crawford, Director of Interior Architecture at streetsense. “Prior to designing the space, we looked at our target audience and embraced their lifestyle. It was important to us to understand who we were designing for and the end result is reflective of the process we went through to understand them," says Tina Ruiz-Ellen, Project Manager for streetsense.Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.
The storefront fa?ade consists of large glass windows trimmed in polished mahogany and brass and creates a contemporary, yet luxurious presence. Black granite floor tiles are etched in gold with the distinguished ZILLI logo and help frame the entrance. Creating visual engagement as you precede further inside, a backlit display panel adds a modern element to the space as does a large mannequin wall display.
The front and middle sections of the store are dedicated to pleasurable product browsing through meticulous space planning, innovative displays and the clever use of lighting to bring about an ambience of inviting elegance. The back portion of the store continues to bring progressive sensibility to the luxurious retail experience with a private consultation area that includes a gold domed ceiling reflective of the numerous domes throughout Washington, DC’s architecture symbolizing power, balance and order.
The semi-private backroom space also includes a custom designed circular carpet that showcases one of ZILLI’s many elite textile patterns; and a wall of adjustable mirrors that allows for the master tailor to perfectly fit the client.
Additionally, ZILLI’s Tysons Galleria store is the second location to offer women’s fine luxury accessories, including coats, handbags and other fine accessories. The women’s area was designed to delight, surprise and entertain the distinguished woman.In every TruLaser laser cutting machine there are decades of experience.
With the release of iOS 6.1, Apple has also announced a new Search API that will allow developers to query its Maps servers to get back point-of-interest and location data. This will allow them to integrate these kinds of local results into their apps when users search for things around them.
It’s not exactly an earth shattering development, as there are tons of ‘places’ API choices out there for developers including OpenStreetMaps, Foursquare and Google Places.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. But it does bring a significant point of parity back for Apple when it comes to its mapping offerings for third-party developers.
With iOS 5 and previous versions of iOS, developers could call Google Maps and use those in conjunction with any third-party places API. This included Google’s own Places API, which could only be used with Google Maps tiles, and not other services. So a developer could use Apple’s MapKit to call up mapping tiles and Google Places to fill out location data. This is fairly standard operating procedure for mapping services.
Unfortunately, with the release of iOS 6, developers no longer had the ability to use Google Places with Apple’s mapping tiles, and had to make the choice to use other services if they wanted to use the standard MapKit frameworks for their mapping apps. Now, with the addition of the new Search API, developers have a one-stop shop to get their mapping display tiles and their POI search data, all in one place.
2013年1月28日 星期一
Electronic ticket app next stop for MTA railroads
Paper tickets and loose change on Metro-North Railroad may soon become as obsolete as tokens in the subway.
Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Railroad announced Monday they are looking for a company to create an app for smart phones and tablets that will allow riders to purchase digital tickets. The request also calls for a plan to let conductors accept credit and debit cards for on-board payments,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. officials said.
“This is a huge step technological step away form the old-style ticket punch systems, which has been in use as far back as anyone can remember,” said Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
He noted that a lot of riders are already using their smartphones and tablets during their rides so “it’s an easy step to add ticketing.”
The MTA app is being developed for east of Hudson riders and is separate from the app NJ Transit has in the works for the Pascack Valley line. That app is currently in a customer testing phase, a NJ Transit spokeswoman said Monday.
Metro-North and Long Island railroads began exploring the electronic ticket idea last year. In one experiment involving Metro-North employees, workers downloaded the free app on an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry and could purchase any type of ticket with a credit or debit card. A conductor would then view the ticket on the screen or scan the ticket’s bar code with a special hand-held device.
Gene Campanello, 60, of Manhattan, said although he thinks it’s good the railroads are catching up with the latest technology, he would want to be assured his personal information would be protected before using it.
“If I had my phone and it wasn’t charged, I’d be scared of losing my ticket,” said Roslyn Dease, a 20-year-old Westchester Community College student.
Josh Block, 33, who was busy typing on his smartphone at the White Plains station, was less concerned about what could go wrong: “The chances of me losing my phone are less than my chances of losing my Metro-North ticket,” he said.
Proposals for the electronic ticketing apps are due to the MTA by March 15. The MTA plans to award a contract by July and launch a pilot program for customers by spring 2014. The app could be available to all customers by fall 2014, the agency said.
“I’m a mangy gray dog with its ribs showing named van Gogh,” my husband told me not long before he died. “I have soulful brown eyes.” In real life, his name was Kevin, and he had blue eyes. But my husband was always a writer. Words were his tool, employed skillfully to explain,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. to invent, even to protect. Many years ago, defusing a self-loathing comment I made, he told me, “No, you’re a silk undershirt named Simone.”
There was a lot of living between the silky Simone and the mangy mutt. It was mostly delicious, beaches and beds, reading out loud, laughter unspooling through the days. Even a shared stint of unemployment we spent traveling through Italy, slowing down in Florence so we could cook from the markets. Fava beans were in season. When we met, on a junket for journalists in the Bahamas, we were magazine editors living a continent apart. Kevin had read a feature I had written quoting one of his favorite Berkeley professors. He thought I was smart. So we began our relationship via email, Los Angeles to Vermont. It was always built on words. It wasn’t until he sent me a poem, the one about eating the plums, that I understood he was at least flirting with flirting.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.
It was a lot of living,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. not a lot of time. On Jan. 14, 2008, Kevin began his first blog post: “I am writing this from a warm place in a small town in a cold state. It is a little bit more than 16 months after I was diagnosed with a rare cancer that will more than likely kill me.” He doesn’t mention that the disease was so off the radar — epithelioid sarcoma, with its absurdity of vowels and senseless destruction — that it took more than a year of increased suffering before anyone guessed it might be cancer. But he finally opened up that day to cope as he counted down the hours to a crucial scan, a post that made him feel exposed, wit and irreverence being more his style. His anxiety was merited: A lung had collapsed and his cancer had spread.
Yet Kevin went on with this blog, weaving data from obscure sarcoma studies with tips for the ultimate chocolate chip cookies, punctuating it with the stark day-to-day realities of living with cancer. Near the end he described his pain: “I imagined that I was carrying a dagger suspended by filaments in my lower belly.” He also stepped back to reflect on his life, recalling vivid moments from brief, now burnished times. “I think about stories a lot these days,” he wrote. “They may be the only thing that can save us.”
“I am hoping to throw away a pair of boots tomorrow,” one post began. “They are sitting in the playroom under a chair; neither toe nor heel sit evenly on the ground, and what was a rich cordovan leather is now murky with filth and dust. I haven’t worn them for years, and still the boots span some of the biggest happenings of my adult life: ‘Testing’ products for a national magazine; hiking with my now-wife in New Mexico, the red cliffs of Sedona, around the Grand Canyon. Walking with her another time up a steep pitch in Vermont and being surprised and delighted when she threw off her clothes and plunged into a mountain pond, truly, that wasn’t very remote at all.”
We scratched the itch, more surely being more, until there was a toddler and a newborn. But at least we had a common enemy, these chortling little crazy people who whittled us bare at times as we longed for sleep and dinners communing with uninterrupted sentences. Still, we had hope then, a muted vision of ourselves once again in an Italian wine bar or even a coffee shop downtown without a miniature mouth suctioned to my nipple. Meanwhile we kept our Newfie from upending the highchair as she dove for spills, met kindred spirits doing the daycare dance,Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics. bought an old farmhouse with a beautiful new kitchen, not for show but for braised short ribs and birthday cakes.
Add cancer and we got an enemy that over time hushed joy and divided us into camps, speaking languages that became increasingly foreign to each other. We both had caverns of pain and fear, but they weren’t the same. It’s a side effect that’s not much talked about.
Rare as it was, Kevin’s disease was unusually “proximal.” It tends to turn up somewhere like a finger, and they talk amputation. When it starts in the pelvis, in and around a number of considerably useful parts, they stop talking. At least about surgery. They made guesswork plans and started debilitating treatments and experimental trials that poisoned me too in a bleary transformation from lover to overbearing caregiver.
“I’m good,” he would say with a captivating smile and nod to the techs, the nurses, the doctor. Kevin so wanted to be fine, to be whole and human. But I saw him gray with pain as he got out of the car, shuffled inside. He would talk and I would shoot the doctor a “don’t buy it” look. I wanted them to understand and help him. That’s the position I would bring to the fight after we left the hospital. His bitter response: “You don’t see a man, you see cancer.”
Waking him as I headed out to a meeting one morning, his greeting was so warm but I noticed his narcotics-glazed eyes. He was planning to get himself to the hospital for something routine. I hesitated on the edge of just-a-feeling and the certain consequences of changing my plans, enforcing my judgment that he not drive. We kissed goodbye. A few hours later I stood at the tow lot in the pounding sun, removing license plates and junk from our minivan, a small sapling lodged in its fender. Kevin was fine, no one else involved, but I still tremble imagining his reaction if I had called it the other way. I don’t remember words exchanged, just silence, avoidance, shame.
Physical pain is a different divide. Early on it was radiation burns disintegrating the most vulnerable skin imaginable. Despite his shocking level of endurance, there were nights I got children to bed trying to downplay the sounds of screaming from the bathroom. Somehow I could keep kids, pets, home and my job, but here I was helpless. He was in a place too deep to connect. Later, with the disease and the drugs amped, I would hold out until 4 on Sundays before losing hope that he might get up. Widow rehearsal.
I know I’m leaving out the many lovely, loving bits, painting a black mural over the end of my marriage that in truth at least flickered with light. Van Gogh still made me laugh, and I watched him pour the end of his energy into playing and reading with the kids. It was only fair. I didn’t get enough, but I got a longer turn. That we never stopped loving each other is true but not a surprise. It’s the ugly, still human moments that get buried.
In the summer, before he died in late fall, the kids were in California visiting their grandparents. Time for the two of us. I came home from the grocery store and tossed him a chocolate bar he liked, which landed on the floor near the sofa where he lay. I’m not sure why I didn’t hand it to him except that it wasn’t meant to be a big deal, just a nice gesture. But I screwed up and it came off as contempt. He threw it with such bitter hostility my next gesture was cleaning gooey chocolate off the walls.
Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Railroad announced Monday they are looking for a company to create an app for smart phones and tablets that will allow riders to purchase digital tickets. The request also calls for a plan to let conductors accept credit and debit cards for on-board payments,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. officials said.
“This is a huge step technological step away form the old-style ticket punch systems, which has been in use as far back as anyone can remember,” said Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
He noted that a lot of riders are already using their smartphones and tablets during their rides so “it’s an easy step to add ticketing.”
The MTA app is being developed for east of Hudson riders and is separate from the app NJ Transit has in the works for the Pascack Valley line. That app is currently in a customer testing phase, a NJ Transit spokeswoman said Monday.
Metro-North and Long Island railroads began exploring the electronic ticket idea last year. In one experiment involving Metro-North employees, workers downloaded the free app on an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry and could purchase any type of ticket with a credit or debit card. A conductor would then view the ticket on the screen or scan the ticket’s bar code with a special hand-held device.
Gene Campanello, 60, of Manhattan, said although he thinks it’s good the railroads are catching up with the latest technology, he would want to be assured his personal information would be protected before using it.
“If I had my phone and it wasn’t charged, I’d be scared of losing my ticket,” said Roslyn Dease, a 20-year-old Westchester Community College student.
Josh Block, 33, who was busy typing on his smartphone at the White Plains station, was less concerned about what could go wrong: “The chances of me losing my phone are less than my chances of losing my Metro-North ticket,” he said.
Proposals for the electronic ticketing apps are due to the MTA by March 15. The MTA plans to award a contract by July and launch a pilot program for customers by spring 2014. The app could be available to all customers by fall 2014, the agency said.
“I’m a mangy gray dog with its ribs showing named van Gogh,” my husband told me not long before he died. “I have soulful brown eyes.” In real life, his name was Kevin, and he had blue eyes. But my husband was always a writer. Words were his tool, employed skillfully to explain,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. to invent, even to protect. Many years ago, defusing a self-loathing comment I made, he told me, “No, you’re a silk undershirt named Simone.”
There was a lot of living between the silky Simone and the mangy mutt. It was mostly delicious, beaches and beds, reading out loud, laughter unspooling through the days. Even a shared stint of unemployment we spent traveling through Italy, slowing down in Florence so we could cook from the markets. Fava beans were in season. When we met, on a junket for journalists in the Bahamas, we were magazine editors living a continent apart. Kevin had read a feature I had written quoting one of his favorite Berkeley professors. He thought I was smart. So we began our relationship via email, Los Angeles to Vermont. It was always built on words. It wasn’t until he sent me a poem, the one about eating the plums, that I understood he was at least flirting with flirting.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.
It was a lot of living,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. not a lot of time. On Jan. 14, 2008, Kevin began his first blog post: “I am writing this from a warm place in a small town in a cold state. It is a little bit more than 16 months after I was diagnosed with a rare cancer that will more than likely kill me.” He doesn’t mention that the disease was so off the radar — epithelioid sarcoma, with its absurdity of vowels and senseless destruction — that it took more than a year of increased suffering before anyone guessed it might be cancer. But he finally opened up that day to cope as he counted down the hours to a crucial scan, a post that made him feel exposed, wit and irreverence being more his style. His anxiety was merited: A lung had collapsed and his cancer had spread.
Yet Kevin went on with this blog, weaving data from obscure sarcoma studies with tips for the ultimate chocolate chip cookies, punctuating it with the stark day-to-day realities of living with cancer. Near the end he described his pain: “I imagined that I was carrying a dagger suspended by filaments in my lower belly.” He also stepped back to reflect on his life, recalling vivid moments from brief, now burnished times. “I think about stories a lot these days,” he wrote. “They may be the only thing that can save us.”
“I am hoping to throw away a pair of boots tomorrow,” one post began. “They are sitting in the playroom under a chair; neither toe nor heel sit evenly on the ground, and what was a rich cordovan leather is now murky with filth and dust. I haven’t worn them for years, and still the boots span some of the biggest happenings of my adult life: ‘Testing’ products for a national magazine; hiking with my now-wife in New Mexico, the red cliffs of Sedona, around the Grand Canyon. Walking with her another time up a steep pitch in Vermont and being surprised and delighted when she threw off her clothes and plunged into a mountain pond, truly, that wasn’t very remote at all.”
We scratched the itch, more surely being more, until there was a toddler and a newborn. But at least we had a common enemy, these chortling little crazy people who whittled us bare at times as we longed for sleep and dinners communing with uninterrupted sentences. Still, we had hope then, a muted vision of ourselves once again in an Italian wine bar or even a coffee shop downtown without a miniature mouth suctioned to my nipple. Meanwhile we kept our Newfie from upending the highchair as she dove for spills, met kindred spirits doing the daycare dance,Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics. bought an old farmhouse with a beautiful new kitchen, not for show but for braised short ribs and birthday cakes.
Add cancer and we got an enemy that over time hushed joy and divided us into camps, speaking languages that became increasingly foreign to each other. We both had caverns of pain and fear, but they weren’t the same. It’s a side effect that’s not much talked about.
Rare as it was, Kevin’s disease was unusually “proximal.” It tends to turn up somewhere like a finger, and they talk amputation. When it starts in the pelvis, in and around a number of considerably useful parts, they stop talking. At least about surgery. They made guesswork plans and started debilitating treatments and experimental trials that poisoned me too in a bleary transformation from lover to overbearing caregiver.
“I’m good,” he would say with a captivating smile and nod to the techs, the nurses, the doctor. Kevin so wanted to be fine, to be whole and human. But I saw him gray with pain as he got out of the car, shuffled inside. He would talk and I would shoot the doctor a “don’t buy it” look. I wanted them to understand and help him. That’s the position I would bring to the fight after we left the hospital. His bitter response: “You don’t see a man, you see cancer.”
Waking him as I headed out to a meeting one morning, his greeting was so warm but I noticed his narcotics-glazed eyes. He was planning to get himself to the hospital for something routine. I hesitated on the edge of just-a-feeling and the certain consequences of changing my plans, enforcing my judgment that he not drive. We kissed goodbye. A few hours later I stood at the tow lot in the pounding sun, removing license plates and junk from our minivan, a small sapling lodged in its fender. Kevin was fine, no one else involved, but I still tremble imagining his reaction if I had called it the other way. I don’t remember words exchanged, just silence, avoidance, shame.
Physical pain is a different divide. Early on it was radiation burns disintegrating the most vulnerable skin imaginable. Despite his shocking level of endurance, there were nights I got children to bed trying to downplay the sounds of screaming from the bathroom. Somehow I could keep kids, pets, home and my job, but here I was helpless. He was in a place too deep to connect. Later, with the disease and the drugs amped, I would hold out until 4 on Sundays before losing hope that he might get up. Widow rehearsal.
I know I’m leaving out the many lovely, loving bits, painting a black mural over the end of my marriage that in truth at least flickered with light. Van Gogh still made me laugh, and I watched him pour the end of his energy into playing and reading with the kids. It was only fair. I didn’t get enough, but I got a longer turn. That we never stopped loving each other is true but not a surprise. It’s the ugly, still human moments that get buried.
In the summer, before he died in late fall, the kids were in California visiting their grandparents. Time for the two of us. I came home from the grocery store and tossed him a chocolate bar he liked, which landed on the floor near the sofa where he lay. I’m not sure why I didn’t hand it to him except that it wasn’t meant to be a big deal, just a nice gesture. But I screwed up and it came off as contempt. He threw it with such bitter hostility my next gesture was cleaning gooey chocolate off the walls.
Fire destroys Cheshire Cat Pub in west Ottawa
An early morning fire has destroyed the Cheshire Cat Pub in rural west Ottawa.
“It’s a write off, it’s completely gutted," said pub owner Dustin Therrien who was at the scene Monday afternoon. "Everything’s burned all the way from the ground level up.”
Firefighters, police and paramedics responded to the fire at 2193 Richardson Side Rd.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. just before 4:30 a.m. Monday as alarms were sounding.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.
Firefighters began to fight the fire from the outside and douse the flames until the blaze was under control about eight hours later. At least two dozen trucks responded to the fire, but there were not any fire hydrants close to the building.
About five hours after the fire started,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. the bell tower atop the pub's building collapsed to the ground and crumbled. The roof and interior of the building were severely damaged, according to Ottawa fire spokesman Marc Messier, but the building was still standing.
From 1883 to 1956, the structure was a school house. In the 1990s, what had become a rural residence was converted to a restaurant and bar. Therrien purchased the Cheshire Cat Pub in 2005 and it continued to be a popular gathering spot that employed 36 people.
"I’m just worried about my staff right now — we have a lot of people who work here that we really care about," said Therrien. "It’s just a building, I’m really worried about the people.Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics."
Nobody was inside the building, a former schoolhouse, at the time of the fire, firefighters said. A shelter bus also arrived to help assist firefighters.
Falling snow and cool temperatures has also the pub's parking lot, covered by water from the fire hose, into a slushy and icy mess.
Ottawa police reopened Richardson Side Road after closing the street between Carp Road and Huntmar Drive for more than eight hours.
Two hikers stranded for at least three hours on a rain-soaked cliff in Malibu Creek State Park were rescued by helicopter early Monday morning, authorities said.
The 29-year-old man and 31-year-old woman found the cliff too dangerous to descend and used a cellphone to call for help at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, said Reserve Deputy David Katz of the L.A. County sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station.
Members of the sheriff's Malibu search and rescue team went to the park, near Century Lake, but the recent rains that saturated the cliff also made climbing too dangerous for rescue personnel, Katz said.
An L.A. County Fire Department helicopter was called to assist with the rescue and its crew hoisted the hikers to safety at 12:30 a.m., Katz said. It was the second rescue in one week from Malibu Creek State Park, officials said.
In a separate incident, county fire helicopters lifted four stranded hikers to safety from Strawberry Peak Trail in the Angeles National Forest late Sunday, a sheriff's lieutenant said. One of the hikers had called the Crescenta Valley sheriff's station from his cellphone around 7 p.m. Sunday to say no one was injured but the weather was turning cold and they had no supplies, said sheriff's Lt. Elisabeth Sachs.
While the miniatures combat and CCG have been out for a long while now, this game not only combines the two genres, but combines them well. Yu-Gi-Oh had something like this with the console and handheld games, but that was still just a card game. On top of summoning the minions, being able to manage them a bit through your point pool was a very nice touch, and simply added to the complexity of the game, making it even more unique.
While you can see definite influences from different areas, the developers have made a truly unique beast with Minion Master that I think both miniature and collectible card game players would enjoy. I found it pretty engaging,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. and my love of tweaking decks and customizing layouts got a nice bite with this game. While it took me a bit to get used to how it plays, mainly because I dove right in without tutorials, I really love just firing it up for a quick match or two. While I think it’s taken a bit to catch on, I do see some pretty good appeal. The game, while basic and fast to learn, has some nice and deeper strategy to it, and being able to lay out over 30,000 tiles for a match and not having to clean all that up is an amazing prospect. I’d have to say it’s priced pretty decently as well.
The pack I received to review with is $20, and that gets you every card in the game, plus a bunch of spares to play around and build decks with, meaning you wouldn’t have to sink anymore into it at all if you didn’t want to. For a free deck to play with, the free option is pretty decent to start with if you just want to give it a go with friends and try to suck them in.
“It’s a write off, it’s completely gutted," said pub owner Dustin Therrien who was at the scene Monday afternoon. "Everything’s burned all the way from the ground level up.”
Firefighters, police and paramedics responded to the fire at 2193 Richardson Side Rd.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. just before 4:30 a.m. Monday as alarms were sounding.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.
Firefighters began to fight the fire from the outside and douse the flames until the blaze was under control about eight hours later. At least two dozen trucks responded to the fire, but there were not any fire hydrants close to the building.
About five hours after the fire started,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. the bell tower atop the pub's building collapsed to the ground and crumbled. The roof and interior of the building were severely damaged, according to Ottawa fire spokesman Marc Messier, but the building was still standing.
From 1883 to 1956, the structure was a school house. In the 1990s, what had become a rural residence was converted to a restaurant and bar. Therrien purchased the Cheshire Cat Pub in 2005 and it continued to be a popular gathering spot that employed 36 people.
"I’m just worried about my staff right now — we have a lot of people who work here that we really care about," said Therrien. "It’s just a building, I’m really worried about the people.Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics."
Nobody was inside the building, a former schoolhouse, at the time of the fire, firefighters said. A shelter bus also arrived to help assist firefighters.
Falling snow and cool temperatures has also the pub's parking lot, covered by water from the fire hose, into a slushy and icy mess.
Ottawa police reopened Richardson Side Road after closing the street between Carp Road and Huntmar Drive for more than eight hours.
Two hikers stranded for at least three hours on a rain-soaked cliff in Malibu Creek State Park were rescued by helicopter early Monday morning, authorities said.
The 29-year-old man and 31-year-old woman found the cliff too dangerous to descend and used a cellphone to call for help at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, said Reserve Deputy David Katz of the L.A. County sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station.
Members of the sheriff's Malibu search and rescue team went to the park, near Century Lake, but the recent rains that saturated the cliff also made climbing too dangerous for rescue personnel, Katz said.
An L.A. County Fire Department helicopter was called to assist with the rescue and its crew hoisted the hikers to safety at 12:30 a.m., Katz said. It was the second rescue in one week from Malibu Creek State Park, officials said.
In a separate incident, county fire helicopters lifted four stranded hikers to safety from Strawberry Peak Trail in the Angeles National Forest late Sunday, a sheriff's lieutenant said. One of the hikers had called the Crescenta Valley sheriff's station from his cellphone around 7 p.m. Sunday to say no one was injured but the weather was turning cold and they had no supplies, said sheriff's Lt. Elisabeth Sachs.
While the miniatures combat and CCG have been out for a long while now, this game not only combines the two genres, but combines them well. Yu-Gi-Oh had something like this with the console and handheld games, but that was still just a card game. On top of summoning the minions, being able to manage them a bit through your point pool was a very nice touch, and simply added to the complexity of the game, making it even more unique.
While you can see definite influences from different areas, the developers have made a truly unique beast with Minion Master that I think both miniature and collectible card game players would enjoy. I found it pretty engaging,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. and my love of tweaking decks and customizing layouts got a nice bite with this game. While it took me a bit to get used to how it plays, mainly because I dove right in without tutorials, I really love just firing it up for a quick match or two. While I think it’s taken a bit to catch on, I do see some pretty good appeal. The game, while basic and fast to learn, has some nice and deeper strategy to it, and being able to lay out over 30,000 tiles for a match and not having to clean all that up is an amazing prospect. I’d have to say it’s priced pretty decently as well.
The pack I received to review with is $20, and that gets you every card in the game, plus a bunch of spares to play around and build decks with, meaning you wouldn’t have to sink anymore into it at all if you didn’t want to. For a free deck to play with, the free option is pretty decent to start with if you just want to give it a go with friends and try to suck them in.
How A Narrow Focus Can Benefit Entrepreneurs
I meet hundreds of entrepreneurs each year from all over the world
and they are mostly smart, motivated, and extremely passionate about
their idea. After they give me their card and shake hands, we part ways.
I immediately turn to the person next to me to ask “What exactly do
they do again?” It sounds intriguing in the moment as I’m caught up in
their excitement, but ultimately if no one can explain it, they will
face an enormous challenge without investors and connections.
Enter “refined simplicity” – a term I often use to describe the collision of brilliance & ease of use that leads to successful expansion.
A shining example of refined simplicity is a company called Give Forward. They are the leading crowd funding platform for medical related expenses. But why would they focus on such a niche market when other platforms allow just about everything? Give Forward’s goal is to “create unexpected joy” and they noticed an enormous need to cover medical expenses. In fact, medical related expenses are causing 60% of U.S. bankruptcies according to a recent CNN health report. Co-founder of Give Forward, Ethan Austin, also explains that “It’s a lot easier to get behind an idea, whereas a product can be duplicated.”
Whether it’s an investor, client, or connection maker, your company will need people to help you progress. Ethan explains that the idea of a niche focus for his company came in a “slow pivot.” However, with the mission of “creating unexpected joy” being so clear for their company,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. it was only natural to gravitate toward helping people cover unexpected medical expenses. The recent explosion of crowd funding’s popularity has certainly helped Give Forward explain what they do. Yet, even your parents that still carry a flip phone will be able to understand ‘we help people raise money to cover medical expenses’.
Ethan mentioned that we regularly give money in the happy times like weddings and birthdays, but not when friends need it the most. Many people are either too proud or reluctant to ask for help. The success of past medical campaigns via Give Forward provides users with an automatic response when they hear of someone with that specific need. Can your clients, customers, or users repeat success stories? Similarly, Fundable, is focused on crowd funding for small businesses. As companies continue to have exceptional results raising capital through Fundable, they will send their entrepreneurial friends to that site again & again.
Refined simplicity does not mean that you can’t build out additional product lines eventually. It reassures people that you are dependable, consistent, and worth betting on because you know exactly what you’re focused on. For your sake, and ours, make it easy to share what you do.
Ed Reed is gearing up for the biggest game of his football life this week. But once the confetti falls in New Orleans on Sunday, and no matter which end he finds himself on, Reed’s NFL future will be very much up in the air. The Ravens, with Ray Lewis already set to retire, may be looking at something of a youth movement on defense, and that could lead Reed out of Baltimore and looking for a new place to call home.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau.
Well, as it turns out, New England could be just that place. Bill Belichick has always had something of an infatuation with Reed, praising the All-Pro safety with every opportunity, and rightfully so. Reed has been arguably the best safety in football for going on a decade now, and even at his older age (34), at least for an NFL player, he’s still one of the better defensive backs playing. So, while Reed weighs his options this offseason — return, retire or move on — Belichick would be wise to try and lure him to New England.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. The Patriots’ secondary was one of the worst in football in 2012,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. ranking 29th in passing yards allowed, and has been on the whole over the past few seasons. There is a good influx of talent in that group, with Devin McCourty and Alfonzo Dennard standing out as promising contributors and potential building blocks for the future.
Add Reed to that mix, and suddenly you’re not only helping to develop that young talent but a lot of your imminent secondary concerns become obsolete. Reed is a strong, smart and crafty defender. He may lay a lick or two down unnecessarily at times, for which his wallet has taken a hit of its own over the years, but he’s got a great mind for the game and is as instinctual a player as there’s been maybe in NFL history. The Patriots desperately need a player like Reed to maintain some semblance of control and focus in that secondary, and to be the quarterback of that unit. If Reed suited up for the Patriots, he’d instantly make McCourty a better safety and add a much-needed playmaker to the unit — the same kind of playmaker Aqib Talib was expected to be.Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics.
There’s no doubting that the Patriots would need more than just Reed to repair the problems in that secondary. Kyle Arrington is now a free agent and Marquice Cole didn’t seem to be the answer in the slot against the Ravens. So, some additional talent would be needed to fill the voids on the outside. But wouldn’t the Patriots’ money be better spent on a proven commodity like Reed — even with the injury risks involved — than a wild card in Talib?
Not to question Talib’s impact or stellar behavior during his two-plus months with the Patriots, but there remain inherent risks with his checkered past. As for Reed, he’s been a consummate professional his entire career and, even in the later stages of his football life, he’s still a consistent contributor and a leader — something that secondary unit really needs. Wherever he goes, Reed’s not going to be the same ball hawk who was the Defensive Player of the Year in 2004 or even the same guy who intercepted 61 passes over the past 13 seasons. But he’ll still bring a world of talent, knowledge and leadership, which should be more than enough to help a desperate Patriots secondary. Before any of this can even be anything more than a pipe dream, Reed first needs to take the field in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But after that, there’s no question that he should be atop the Patriots’ wish list, and who knows, maybe he could even help the Patriots get back to this very game again next year.
Enter “refined simplicity” – a term I often use to describe the collision of brilliance & ease of use that leads to successful expansion.
A shining example of refined simplicity is a company called Give Forward. They are the leading crowd funding platform for medical related expenses. But why would they focus on such a niche market when other platforms allow just about everything? Give Forward’s goal is to “create unexpected joy” and they noticed an enormous need to cover medical expenses. In fact, medical related expenses are causing 60% of U.S. bankruptcies according to a recent CNN health report. Co-founder of Give Forward, Ethan Austin, also explains that “It’s a lot easier to get behind an idea, whereas a product can be duplicated.”
Whether it’s an investor, client, or connection maker, your company will need people to help you progress. Ethan explains that the idea of a niche focus for his company came in a “slow pivot.” However, with the mission of “creating unexpected joy” being so clear for their company,We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. it was only natural to gravitate toward helping people cover unexpected medical expenses. The recent explosion of crowd funding’s popularity has certainly helped Give Forward explain what they do. Yet, even your parents that still carry a flip phone will be able to understand ‘we help people raise money to cover medical expenses’.
Ethan mentioned that we regularly give money in the happy times like weddings and birthdays, but not when friends need it the most. Many people are either too proud or reluctant to ask for help. The success of past medical campaigns via Give Forward provides users with an automatic response when they hear of someone with that specific need. Can your clients, customers, or users repeat success stories? Similarly, Fundable, is focused on crowd funding for small businesses. As companies continue to have exceptional results raising capital through Fundable, they will send their entrepreneurial friends to that site again & again.
Refined simplicity does not mean that you can’t build out additional product lines eventually. It reassures people that you are dependable, consistent, and worth betting on because you know exactly what you’re focused on. For your sake, and ours, make it easy to share what you do.
Ed Reed is gearing up for the biggest game of his football life this week. But once the confetti falls in New Orleans on Sunday, and no matter which end he finds himself on, Reed’s NFL future will be very much up in the air. The Ravens, with Ray Lewis already set to retire, may be looking at something of a youth movement on defense, and that could lead Reed out of Baltimore and looking for a new place to call home.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau.
Well, as it turns out, New England could be just that place. Bill Belichick has always had something of an infatuation with Reed, praising the All-Pro safety with every opportunity, and rightfully so. Reed has been arguably the best safety in football for going on a decade now, and even at his older age (34), at least for an NFL player, he’s still one of the better defensive backs playing. So, while Reed weighs his options this offseason — return, retire or move on — Belichick would be wise to try and lure him to New England.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. The Patriots’ secondary was one of the worst in football in 2012,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. ranking 29th in passing yards allowed, and has been on the whole over the past few seasons. There is a good influx of talent in that group, with Devin McCourty and Alfonzo Dennard standing out as promising contributors and potential building blocks for the future.
Add Reed to that mix, and suddenly you’re not only helping to develop that young talent but a lot of your imminent secondary concerns become obsolete. Reed is a strong, smart and crafty defender. He may lay a lick or two down unnecessarily at times, for which his wallet has taken a hit of its own over the years, but he’s got a great mind for the game and is as instinctual a player as there’s been maybe in NFL history. The Patriots desperately need a player like Reed to maintain some semblance of control and focus in that secondary, and to be the quarterback of that unit. If Reed suited up for the Patriots, he’d instantly make McCourty a better safety and add a much-needed playmaker to the unit — the same kind of playmaker Aqib Talib was expected to be.Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets for applications spanning electronics.
There’s no doubting that the Patriots would need more than just Reed to repair the problems in that secondary. Kyle Arrington is now a free agent and Marquice Cole didn’t seem to be the answer in the slot against the Ravens. So, some additional talent would be needed to fill the voids on the outside. But wouldn’t the Patriots’ money be better spent on a proven commodity like Reed — even with the injury risks involved — than a wild card in Talib?
Not to question Talib’s impact or stellar behavior during his two-plus months with the Patriots, but there remain inherent risks with his checkered past. As for Reed, he’s been a consummate professional his entire career and, even in the later stages of his football life, he’s still a consistent contributor and a leader — something that secondary unit really needs. Wherever he goes, Reed’s not going to be the same ball hawk who was the Defensive Player of the Year in 2004 or even the same guy who intercepted 61 passes over the past 13 seasons. But he’ll still bring a world of talent, knowledge and leadership, which should be more than enough to help a desperate Patriots secondary. Before any of this can even be anything more than a pipe dream, Reed first needs to take the field in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But after that, there’s no question that he should be atop the Patriots’ wish list, and who knows, maybe he could even help the Patriots get back to this very game again next year.
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