What is it about Airstream design that continues to engender such passion more than 80 years after the trailer first appeared?
Is it the alluring, streamlined aluminum shell? The cozy interiors? The nostalgia for a simpler era?
“It’s a part of American culture that transcends time,Creative glass tile and plasticmoulds
for your distinctive kitchen and bath.” said architect Matthew Hofmann,
29, who last month opened an Airstream hotel consisting of four
tricked-out trailers parked midtown at the Santa Barbara Auto Camp off
De La Vina Street. “It symbolizes style and adventure.Explore online
some of the many available selections in injectionmolding. There is something very fundamental about getting in your car and driving across country. It’s in our blood."
On
a recent afternoon, curious pedestrians repeatedly interrupted Hofmann
and business partner Neil Dipaola to ask if they could take a peek
inside the trailers. Upon entering, they found renovated interiors with
hotel upgrades perfectly suited for “glamping” — mini-bars, wall-mounted
flat-screen TVs, air conditioning and 1,000-thread-count sheets, all
for $150 per night.
According to Airstream, about 70% of all the
trailers ever manufactured by the company are still in use, so it is
not surprising that Hofmann, as well as other entrepreneurs, would think
to use them as lodging. Singer Kate Pierson of the B-52’s opened her
second vintage Airstream hotel — six trailers near Joshua Tree — in
November.
But unlike Pierson’s playful kitschy decor (think the
B-52's “Love Shack” video), Hofmann’s Airstreams stand out for their
surprising elegance. The modern updates are no different than any home
remodel, he said, and he viewed his trailers from the 1950s to 1970s as
floor plans for small-space living.
The architect used a few
tricks to give them visual flow. Because the four trailers are used as
hotel rooms, not for extended traveling or permanent living, Hofmann
reduced the amount of storage, which made the interiors feel tight. Next
he removed plastic accessories that created “visual noise,A Dessicant miningtruck
is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an
internal.” such as window coverings, valances and spice racks. Existing
vents on the roof were doubled in size to create skylights, bringing in
more sunshine.
“It’s more than just painting the walls white,”
Hofmann said of the quest to brighten the interiors. “It’s how the space
feels as you move through it.”
To add warmth, Hofmann installed
strand bamboo and teak flooring. “You don’t want to feel like you’re in
a tin can. Airstreams can have a Teutonic look.”
Hofmann saved
original shelving and all of the windows. In some kitchens he refinished
the original cabinets, and in others he added new fronts to the
existing frames.
The most surprising space in each Airstream is
the bathroom, traditionally a utilitarian space the size of a closet.
Hofmann expanded them and created a sense of luxury by installing
colorful recycled glass tile and wraparound Corian counter tops.
Full-size toilets are a plus.All our fridgemagnet are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. In one trailer, he even added a claw-foot tub.
For
Hofmann, who grew up building treehouses in Mammoth, the challenge of
designing on such a small scale has been exciting. He has renovated more
than 20 Airstreams and now focuses solely on renovating vintage
trailers with the hope of opening more Airstream hotels.
“It
appeals to me because it is history, it’s American and, as a LEED
architect, I can make it sustainable,” said Hofmann,The history of carparkmanagementsystem
art can be traced back four thousand years ago. referring to the U.S.
Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
program.
Pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix, author of
“Americana the Beautiful: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome,” said the
continuing fascination with vintage Airstreams makes complete sense when
you consider each is “a little cozy cabin on wheels that looks like a
bright and shiny Twinkie. How could something so warm and cozy be so
shiny and slick at the same time?”
Most families live in this part of the house, says Patricia Davis Brown, of her namesake firm in Vero Beach, Fla.
“People
just naturally gather around food,” she says. “But everyone lingers in a
comfortable living room or lounge that’s not cut off from the kitchen.
“The
way we live and entertain today is much more informal. The kitchen area
has become the place where kids do homework and families entertain,
play games and hang out watching television.”
Whether you’re
renovating an existing house or building a new home, treat the lounge as
an extension of the kitchen area and make it a more intimate place for
people to congregate. Brown says that means the look of the lounge
should complement the kitchen’s design and style.
Assured energy
supplies have been the necessary underpinning of mankind'sprosperity
since ancient times, but more intensively so since the dawn of the
industrial revolution and continuing to today.
Disruptions of
supply, unexpected price increases, or other events that limitthe energy
available for heat, for transportation and every sort of economic
activity, can have serious consequences that affect all of our
economies.
That is why it is only prudent to seek diverse and
reliable sources of energy. This is an area in which partnerships, for
example the various possibilities for the development of a Southern
Corridor for the transport of natural gas, hold the possibility of
bringing new supplies over new routes to much of Europe.
Thanks
to Westinghouse, the information and control systems at the Kozloduy
nuclear power plant are state-of-the-art and continue to provide
Bulgaria with safe, affordable energy. Westinghouse continues to help
Bulgaria explore options for expanding its nuclear power potential, by
doing a feasibility study for the proposed seventh reactor at Kozloduy.
The
same can be said of the AES and ContourGlobal clean-coal plants at
Maritza Istok, which together account for over 11 percent of Bulgaria's
installed capacity for electricity generation. The owners of Maritza
Istok 1 and Maritza Istok 3 invested hundreds of millions of dollars to
ensure these facilities meet the highest European standards for low
emissions. Many residents of Stara Zagora remember the days when
pollution was visible and led to disease and reduced life-span for the
residents. Thanks to the new equipment installed at Maritza Istok 1 and
3, these days are over.
2013年1月31日星期四
Groton poised to vote on school district capital project
Superintendent James Abrams says the “no-frills” capital project is
intended to preserve the district’s investment in its infrastructure.
Improvements include a new roof and windows for the middle-high school
building, as well as upgrades for the security and
heating-and-ventilation systems. The elementary school will have its
fire alarm system and other technology upgraded.
“The community has invested a lot of money over the years and this is preserving (the middle-high school) for some time to come, so it’s a building that will stand for another 50 years,” said Abrams. “One of our goals for this is there’s no additional tax levy to fund it.”
By that time, Groton schools may look a little different. The district is weighing the restructuring of schools. The sixth grade is currently housed in the middle-high school,Professionals with the job title tooling are on LinkedIn. but the district is considering moving the grade over to the elementary school.
On Monday, Abrams will make his recommendation to the board of education; he says he’s leaning toward the middle-high school option.
“This idea is a best of both worlds,” he said. “They're getting an early exposure of the secondary setting but they’re not thrown in and trying to learn to swim.”
With New York State’s Annual Professional Performance Review evaluation process soon to be implemented, the district is looking for ways to improve efficiency and scheduling at the middle-high school building.
“We’d still have the same number of administrators but we'd gain a little savings,” he said. “We’ll have two principals and two associate principals with other responsibilities. I think being deployed in that manner we’ll have a chance to meet the requirements of APPR without adding additional staff.”
The restructuring is part of what Abrams hopes will be a larger transformation as the middle-high school looks to bring more flexibility and innovation to its scheduling. Seminar-type classes involving small groups of students,Only those users who need plasticmould require hands free tokens. different departments teaming together for extended blocks of time, and increased online learning opportunities are all options the district may consider.
“There’s a lot of ideas on the plate,” Abram said. “Hopefully at the end of the day we have something innovative that looks towards the future, while also sustaining ourselves.”
This is the universe according to Llyn Foulkes, a 78-year-old Los Angeles artist who has been angling for a fight for most of his career, whether he's tweaking a corporation or railing against an art establishment that has embraced him one minute and ignored him the next.
On Sunday, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is opening the largest-ever retrospective of Mr. Foulkes's work. The roughly 150 pieces on display range from early paintings charred with black tar to midcareer portraits of bloody heads to more recent works using wood, paste and found objects in surreal montages.
Mr. Foulkes, a self-described loner whose Los Angeles studio is so solitary that he won't even listen to music while he works,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. said he is a bit thrown by this moment in the spotlight: "It comes back and it fades away and it comes back," Mr.Cheaper For bulk buying handsfreeaccess prices. Foulkes said of his fame. "I've never gotten this much attention, let's put it that way. It's a bit disconcerting."
The artist and musician, who had stardom within reach early in his career after a solo exhibit at a trendy Los Angeles gallery in 1961, can credit more than the Hammer show for his current comeback. In the last two years, Mr. Foulkes's works have been included at the prominent art exhibitions Documenta in Germany and the Venice Biennale.
"The Awakening," a sad tableau of a couple in bed, sold last year to the actor Brad Pitt. The work, which is featured in the exhibition, depicts a naked woman coiled in a fetal position with her back to the artist, who appears in a self-portrait. Mr. Foulkes painted it in spurts over 18 years—a period that included the breakup of his second marriage. "I worked on that painting rather than working on the marriage, you see, and wound up getting a divorce and the painting survived," he said.
Lately, his prices have rocketed. Small works that sold for $5,000 or less in 2009 now fetch $25,000 to $45,000, said Mr. Walla, and larger pieces have gone for $500,000 or more.
Mr. Foulkes's father left home when the artist was a baby in Yakima, Wash., leaving him to dream up father figures, like the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, whose works inspired him to paint. He grew close to his first father-in-law, Ward Kimball, an animator at Disney who in the 1970s gave him a copy of an early Mickey Mouse Club Handbook. Though he drew pictures of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse as a five-year-old, as an adult Mr. Foulkes believed such characters were intended to brainwash children. By the early 1980s he was targeting Disney in his works, using Mickey Mouse as his creepy muse.
He has taken aim at the art world, too, publicly criticizing other artists or airing his differences with them. On Andy Warhol, for example, he said: "I turned my back on Warhol and I don't think he ever forgot it." Mr. Foulkes added that he believes Warhol's famous cow wallpaper was a comment on his own earlier works featuring cows.Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. "He was kind of like saying, 'I'll turn your cows into wallpaper.' To me it was a personal thing."
“The community has invested a lot of money over the years and this is preserving (the middle-high school) for some time to come, so it’s a building that will stand for another 50 years,” said Abrams. “One of our goals for this is there’s no additional tax levy to fund it.”
By that time, Groton schools may look a little different. The district is weighing the restructuring of schools. The sixth grade is currently housed in the middle-high school,Professionals with the job title tooling are on LinkedIn. but the district is considering moving the grade over to the elementary school.
On Monday, Abrams will make his recommendation to the board of education; he says he’s leaning toward the middle-high school option.
“This idea is a best of both worlds,” he said. “They're getting an early exposure of the secondary setting but they’re not thrown in and trying to learn to swim.”
With New York State’s Annual Professional Performance Review evaluation process soon to be implemented, the district is looking for ways to improve efficiency and scheduling at the middle-high school building.
“We’d still have the same number of administrators but we'd gain a little savings,” he said. “We’ll have two principals and two associate principals with other responsibilities. I think being deployed in that manner we’ll have a chance to meet the requirements of APPR without adding additional staff.”
The restructuring is part of what Abrams hopes will be a larger transformation as the middle-high school looks to bring more flexibility and innovation to its scheduling. Seminar-type classes involving small groups of students,Only those users who need plasticmould require hands free tokens. different departments teaming together for extended blocks of time, and increased online learning opportunities are all options the district may consider.
“There’s a lot of ideas on the plate,” Abram said. “Hopefully at the end of the day we have something innovative that looks towards the future, while also sustaining ourselves.”
This is the universe according to Llyn Foulkes, a 78-year-old Los Angeles artist who has been angling for a fight for most of his career, whether he's tweaking a corporation or railing against an art establishment that has embraced him one minute and ignored him the next.
On Sunday, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is opening the largest-ever retrospective of Mr. Foulkes's work. The roughly 150 pieces on display range from early paintings charred with black tar to midcareer portraits of bloody heads to more recent works using wood, paste and found objects in surreal montages.
Mr. Foulkes, a self-described loner whose Los Angeles studio is so solitary that he won't even listen to music while he works,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. said he is a bit thrown by this moment in the spotlight: "It comes back and it fades away and it comes back," Mr.Cheaper For bulk buying handsfreeaccess prices. Foulkes said of his fame. "I've never gotten this much attention, let's put it that way. It's a bit disconcerting."
The artist and musician, who had stardom within reach early in his career after a solo exhibit at a trendy Los Angeles gallery in 1961, can credit more than the Hammer show for his current comeback. In the last two years, Mr. Foulkes's works have been included at the prominent art exhibitions Documenta in Germany and the Venice Biennale.
"The Awakening," a sad tableau of a couple in bed, sold last year to the actor Brad Pitt. The work, which is featured in the exhibition, depicts a naked woman coiled in a fetal position with her back to the artist, who appears in a self-portrait. Mr. Foulkes painted it in spurts over 18 years—a period that included the breakup of his second marriage. "I worked on that painting rather than working on the marriage, you see, and wound up getting a divorce and the painting survived," he said.
Lately, his prices have rocketed. Small works that sold for $5,000 or less in 2009 now fetch $25,000 to $45,000, said Mr. Walla, and larger pieces have gone for $500,000 or more.
Mr. Foulkes's father left home when the artist was a baby in Yakima, Wash., leaving him to dream up father figures, like the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, whose works inspired him to paint. He grew close to his first father-in-law, Ward Kimball, an animator at Disney who in the 1970s gave him a copy of an early Mickey Mouse Club Handbook. Though he drew pictures of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse as a five-year-old, as an adult Mr. Foulkes believed such characters were intended to brainwash children. By the early 1980s he was targeting Disney in his works, using Mickey Mouse as his creepy muse.
He has taken aim at the art world, too, publicly criticizing other artists or airing his differences with them. On Andy Warhol, for example, he said: "I turned my back on Warhol and I don't think he ever forgot it." Mr. Foulkes added that he believes Warhol's famous cow wallpaper was a comment on his own earlier works featuring cows.Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. "He was kind of like saying, 'I'll turn your cows into wallpaper.' To me it was a personal thing."
The Beach House Built for Fun
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. 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,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth porcelaintiles Descriptions.International offers a full line of own-figurine and wall tiles to enhance bathrooms, 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,Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an indoortracking." 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. 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. 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, 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,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China.Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles. international buyers and all-cash buyers who aren't relying on bank financing is sparking a resurgence.
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. 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,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth porcelaintiles Descriptions.International offers a full line of own-figurine and wall tiles to enhance bathrooms, 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,Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an indoortracking." 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. 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. 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, 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,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China.Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles. international buyers and all-cash buyers who aren't relying on bank financing is sparking a resurgence.
2013年1月30日星期三
First Friday presents pastels and pottery
The guild, located at 1009 Main St., will mix media styles in their
exhibit titled, “Personality in Pastels & Pottery,” along with the
Art Walk showcasing local talent.
Meet featured artists Dietra Morris and Ginger Baldwin at the artist’s opening reception from 6-8 p.We have many different types of earcap.m. and enjoy a variety of live music, numerous dining choices and extended shop hours around town.
It won’t be hard to spot the local artists showing their work in more than 14 downtown businesses during the Art Walk from 5-8 p.m. Maps of the Art Walk are also available at all participating merchants.
“You can tell a lot about an artist by really looking at his or her work,” Baldwin said.
The Featured Artist display will be inside the guild’s gallery where the artistic duo will showcase their unique pieces individually throughout the evening.
Morris, of Elgin, is a master potter and member of the guild who has been working with pottery since 1976.
While attending Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, Colo., she fell under the direction of master potter, Ed Shrock, and since then has developed a style of her own, mastering high-fire functional artwork.
“My art is versatile in that it looks good on a mantle, can withstand the heat of the oven, set out on the table, washed in the dishwasher and then be placed back on the mantel,” Morris said. “All of my pottery is colored with food-safe glazes that can be microwaved and used in the oven.”
Morris’ pieces often showcase fragments of her late grandmother’s delicate tatting designs. She uses a technique which fossilizes them on various pieces in honor of her grandmother.
She is a mother of three, although none are artists. But her talents have not been lost in the gene pool as her two grandchildren, Zuri and Xahlia, may very well be the next master potters to carry on her legacy.
On the other end of the artisan pendulum is pastelist and secretary of the guild, Ginger Baldwin of Bastrop.
Born in Canada,Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles.All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! Baldwin comes from a long line of strong, creative women. Encouraged by her mother and grandmother, she entered her first art show at age six with a watercolor painting of the Statue of Liberty.
Over the years, she has attended numerous informal art classes and workshops, but mainly refers to herself as a self-taught artist.
After a hiatus from painting for several years, Baldwin rediscovered her passion in 2010 when friend Brenda Knoll encouraged her to attend a class taught by landscape pastel artist, Enid Wood.
“There is no room for timidity in art,” she said.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable stonemosaic supplies and accessories! “Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Everything you do is a learning experience. And I tell people to remember that there is nothing in the world that cannot be improved at least a little bit by adding purple.”
The big 9-by-14-foot section in the system's Savage branch sits to his left, already complete. In it, three cartoon critters putz along in a teal-and-purple dirigible, high above a rolling prairie scene not far removed from the southern Minnesotan landscape where the library is located.
Now Preslicka is working on the remaining 8-by-8-foot section, shading in a dog and cat who are sharing the cab of what looks to be a purple hang glider. An old Walkman playing National Public Radio is clipped to his belt, and a new haircut and a matching, neatly trimmed brown beard frame his round face.
Staccato dabs with a short-haired brush do most of the work, but it's the long, wavy, contoured strokes that get the final say. He stops all the time to quickly mix colors in an old metal tray. There's a reddish brown, two shades of neon orange, three shades of turquoise, a light purple and a deep blue, but there is no black. Preslicka doesn't use black. And he doesn't do Disney characters.
"What I do is create unique stuff. There's value in having something that is totally unique," said Preslicka, speaking in the calm, thoughtful demeanor of a man who paints children's murals.
"In art school, everyone wanted to illustrate children's books, and this is a way I could do some of that."
The Savage resident grew up in New Prague and went to the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. After graduation, he worked for a few different local design firms before starting Preslicka Studio 18 years ago.
Much of his work has been aimed at a youthful audience. Preslicka has done jobs for General Mills, Dairy Queen, Nabisco, Malt-O-Meal and 3M, as well as creating the logos for Scott County and the cities of Savage and Burnsville.
He has five kids himself, ages 10 to 18, and originally started painting murals for their bedrooms. Then he had the idea to start painting other children's bedrooms for extra income on the side.
His first big project was the pool at the Burnsville YMCA,Creative glass tile and ceramictile tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. and since then he's done 17 projects for different YMCAs across the metro.
His mural business is called the Big Picture and has snowballed in large part due to the business savvy of his wife, Heidi, who graduated from St. Thomas with a degree in marketing. Today there are more than 50 Preslicka murals in Minnesota, in places ranging from day cares to museums.
Meet featured artists Dietra Morris and Ginger Baldwin at the artist’s opening reception from 6-8 p.We have many different types of earcap.m. and enjoy a variety of live music, numerous dining choices and extended shop hours around town.
It won’t be hard to spot the local artists showing their work in more than 14 downtown businesses during the Art Walk from 5-8 p.m. Maps of the Art Walk are also available at all participating merchants.
“You can tell a lot about an artist by really looking at his or her work,” Baldwin said.
The Featured Artist display will be inside the guild’s gallery where the artistic duo will showcase their unique pieces individually throughout the evening.
Morris, of Elgin, is a master potter and member of the guild who has been working with pottery since 1976.
While attending Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, Colo., she fell under the direction of master potter, Ed Shrock, and since then has developed a style of her own, mastering high-fire functional artwork.
“My art is versatile in that it looks good on a mantle, can withstand the heat of the oven, set out on the table, washed in the dishwasher and then be placed back on the mantel,” Morris said. “All of my pottery is colored with food-safe glazes that can be microwaved and used in the oven.”
Morris’ pieces often showcase fragments of her late grandmother’s delicate tatting designs. She uses a technique which fossilizes them on various pieces in honor of her grandmother.
She is a mother of three, although none are artists. But her talents have not been lost in the gene pool as her two grandchildren, Zuri and Xahlia, may very well be the next master potters to carry on her legacy.
On the other end of the artisan pendulum is pastelist and secretary of the guild, Ginger Baldwin of Bastrop.
Born in Canada,Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles.All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! Baldwin comes from a long line of strong, creative women. Encouraged by her mother and grandmother, she entered her first art show at age six with a watercolor painting of the Statue of Liberty.
Over the years, she has attended numerous informal art classes and workshops, but mainly refers to herself as a self-taught artist.
After a hiatus from painting for several years, Baldwin rediscovered her passion in 2010 when friend Brenda Knoll encouraged her to attend a class taught by landscape pastel artist, Enid Wood.
“There is no room for timidity in art,” she said.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable stonemosaic supplies and accessories! “Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Everything you do is a learning experience. And I tell people to remember that there is nothing in the world that cannot be improved at least a little bit by adding purple.”
The big 9-by-14-foot section in the system's Savage branch sits to his left, already complete. In it, three cartoon critters putz along in a teal-and-purple dirigible, high above a rolling prairie scene not far removed from the southern Minnesotan landscape where the library is located.
Now Preslicka is working on the remaining 8-by-8-foot section, shading in a dog and cat who are sharing the cab of what looks to be a purple hang glider. An old Walkman playing National Public Radio is clipped to his belt, and a new haircut and a matching, neatly trimmed brown beard frame his round face.
Staccato dabs with a short-haired brush do most of the work, but it's the long, wavy, contoured strokes that get the final say. He stops all the time to quickly mix colors in an old metal tray. There's a reddish brown, two shades of neon orange, three shades of turquoise, a light purple and a deep blue, but there is no black. Preslicka doesn't use black. And he doesn't do Disney characters.
"What I do is create unique stuff. There's value in having something that is totally unique," said Preslicka, speaking in the calm, thoughtful demeanor of a man who paints children's murals.
"In art school, everyone wanted to illustrate children's books, and this is a way I could do some of that."
The Savage resident grew up in New Prague and went to the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. After graduation, he worked for a few different local design firms before starting Preslicka Studio 18 years ago.
Much of his work has been aimed at a youthful audience. Preslicka has done jobs for General Mills, Dairy Queen, Nabisco, Malt-O-Meal and 3M, as well as creating the logos for Scott County and the cities of Savage and Burnsville.
He has five kids himself, ages 10 to 18, and originally started painting murals for their bedrooms. Then he had the idea to start painting other children's bedrooms for extra income on the side.
His first big project was the pool at the Burnsville YMCA,Creative glass tile and ceramictile tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. and since then he's done 17 projects for different YMCAs across the metro.
His mural business is called the Big Picture and has snowballed in large part due to the business savvy of his wife, Heidi, who graduated from St. Thomas with a degree in marketing. Today there are more than 50 Preslicka murals in Minnesota, in places ranging from day cares to museums.
The Joy of Cinemax
It may not seem like anything worth caring about to most people,
really: Cinemax has renewed its new show Banshee for a second season,
after three episodes. It's just some random show on Cinemax, that
cheesy porn-lite channel, right? Wrong! With the renewal of this new
series — a gritty, gory, only kinda sorta corny crime show about
depraved small-town America — Cinemax is working to assure a position
as a true network of original programming. It's an oddly exciting and
mostly unheralded development that speaks to the ever-deepening and
refreshing pool of available television.
Look, Cinemax's three big shows right now aren't going to win many awards — ones that aren't for stunt work, anyway. And that's... OK. The goods are great fun nonetheless. The network's first show,The lanyard series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. Strike Back, a co-production with British broadcaster Sky, is a T&A action riot that eschews geopolitical nuance for guns-blazing bravado and is all the more enjoyable for it. Its attitude toward pesky things like extreme civilian collateral damage would be deplorable if it was the real world, but it's not, so who really cares? Not caring too much about the actual nuts and bolts of global intelligence, the show is international fun — last season told an unexpectedly complex story of nuclear armament and nation-building in Africa. And, rather surprisingly, the great Charles Dance showed up to play the season's main villain, giving it enough gusto to override most of the too-easy plot contrivances. All the neat explosions took care of the rest.
Hunted, another British co-production (this time with the BBC), is a subtler and decidedly smarter affair, a domestic spy drama about a wronged superagent (Melissa George) seeking undercover revenge. Its first season had more satisfyingly knotty mythology than Homeland, but blessedly didn't take itself so damn seriously. Sure, George's Sam Hunter (get the title now?) may be the worst spy ever — breaking into the bad guy's office in broad daylight while he's in the other room is maybe not the best idea! — but she's an intriguing central figure nonetheless. George was supported ably by the likes of Stephen Dillane and confirmed dreamboat Adam Rayner, playing shadowy colleagues/potential foes of Sam's with lots of pleasing modulation and mystery. The first season ended with a wonderful twist, something we couldn't see coming miles away, like, say Abu Nazir's wicked master plan. Classier than Strike Back but no less viscerally engaging, Hunted was an unexpected highlight of the late-2012 TV season. We were sad to hear that the BBC has dropped its partnership with the show and that Hunted's second season will likely look very different because of it, but at least creator Frank Spotnitz and his star are still aboard.
And then there's Banshee, which is definitely the weirdest of the three series. Set in rural-ish Pennsylvania, the show focuses on an ex-con who turns up in the titular town to find his long-lost lady love, only to wind up becoming the sheriff by way of a deadly fight and a case of mistaken identity. He squares off against the de facto town leader, a sinister fellow with evil henchmen and ties to the Amish community. At just three episodes in, Banshee is already an engaging potboiler, at turns silly and kinda sexy. It's Cinemax's first purely native show, and it indicates good things for the future. That future includes another action series, called Sandbox, and, supposedly,Bottle cutters let you turn old parkingsystem and wine bottles into bottle art! a TV version of the Transporter films. So, Cinemax knows its brand. It's action with a dash of wit, plus just enough oddity to keep it original. It's FX to HBO's AMC.
Cinemax is lucky to be owned by HBO — they don't have to compete with their polished, prestige-ified big brother. Unlike Showtime, Cinemax does not seem burdened with aspirations of grandeur; they can roll around in the muck and grunt all they want. This is not, for time being anyway, a network that's trying to win any Peabodys. That's a nice change of pace for non-HBO premium cable.We offers custom moulds parts in as fast as 1 day. Hopefully the dribbles of praise they've been getting of late won't go to their heads. I like the network muscly and goofy; swagger and sweat become it, and too much glossiness wouldn't. I like also what Cinemax's recent intriguing developments suggest about another evolution of the television landscape. They're now succeeding where Starz largely stumbled and failed. So maybe we're truly ready for another round of new offerings. And,That is a machine for manufacturing plastic products by the bobblehead process. lo, here comes House of Cards on Netflix, as well as the rebooted, slimmed-down Arrested Development. And, further off, there will be whatever Amazon Studios turns into. Hopefully expectations can be managed on these new platforms and they'll succeed at courting a niche audience rather than flailing after wider appeal.
Radical advances in military science sometimes arrive from far afield. Take Kevlar, invented to reinforce radial tires years before it saw use in body armor and helmets. Similarly, the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, one of the most popular military spy drones, arose from technology created to help fishing fleets find schools of tuna.
Now, a brewing legal war over the fish-finder-turned-weapon has opened a window on a rarely examined side of military contracting: ideas and intellectual property. How do you untangle who really owns the technology the U.S.Beautiful indoorpositioningsystem in a wide range of colors & sold at factory direct prices. government buys and deploys in battle?
A swept-wing UAV with a 10-foot wingspan, ScanEagle has become an ISR workhorse, deployed everywhere from Iraq to Somalia. Its manufacturer, Insitu, had $400 million in sales last year. Iran in December claimed to have captured one. And in fact, this fall, as tensions with Iran ratcheted higher, the Navy awarded another contract to Insitu to deploy, fly and maintain two more ScanEagle systems from warships in the Persian Gulf. It’s a drop in the bucket in the steady stream of contracts for the system.
Among the features that make the drone well-suited to deployment from a ship’s flight deck or a small combat outpost is its ability to land without a runway. Crews connect a taut cable to a vertical boom, then fly the little airplane so it snags the cable with a hook on its wing. They recover it easily, sliding it off the cable like a fish from a line.
That simple, ingenious feature, which Insitu calls SkyHook, is at the center of a legal war far from the conflict zone, in federal courts in Missouri and Washington, D.C. The stakes could be several hundred million dollars; the combatants bear familiar names.
On the one side of the legal struggle: an inventor who is a member of a defense-contracting dynasty. His name is William “Randy” McDonnell — as in McDonnell Douglas. He says he came up with the Skyhook landing system and that he is owed, big-time, for its use in ScanEagle. The lawsuits were filed under the name of McDonnell’s company, Advanced Aerospace Technologies Inc.
Look, Cinemax's three big shows right now aren't going to win many awards — ones that aren't for stunt work, anyway. And that's... OK. The goods are great fun nonetheless. The network's first show,The lanyard series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. Strike Back, a co-production with British broadcaster Sky, is a T&A action riot that eschews geopolitical nuance for guns-blazing bravado and is all the more enjoyable for it. Its attitude toward pesky things like extreme civilian collateral damage would be deplorable if it was the real world, but it's not, so who really cares? Not caring too much about the actual nuts and bolts of global intelligence, the show is international fun — last season told an unexpectedly complex story of nuclear armament and nation-building in Africa. And, rather surprisingly, the great Charles Dance showed up to play the season's main villain, giving it enough gusto to override most of the too-easy plot contrivances. All the neat explosions took care of the rest.
Hunted, another British co-production (this time with the BBC), is a subtler and decidedly smarter affair, a domestic spy drama about a wronged superagent (Melissa George) seeking undercover revenge. Its first season had more satisfyingly knotty mythology than Homeland, but blessedly didn't take itself so damn seriously. Sure, George's Sam Hunter (get the title now?) may be the worst spy ever — breaking into the bad guy's office in broad daylight while he's in the other room is maybe not the best idea! — but she's an intriguing central figure nonetheless. George was supported ably by the likes of Stephen Dillane and confirmed dreamboat Adam Rayner, playing shadowy colleagues/potential foes of Sam's with lots of pleasing modulation and mystery. The first season ended with a wonderful twist, something we couldn't see coming miles away, like, say Abu Nazir's wicked master plan. Classier than Strike Back but no less viscerally engaging, Hunted was an unexpected highlight of the late-2012 TV season. We were sad to hear that the BBC has dropped its partnership with the show and that Hunted's second season will likely look very different because of it, but at least creator Frank Spotnitz and his star are still aboard.
And then there's Banshee, which is definitely the weirdest of the three series. Set in rural-ish Pennsylvania, the show focuses on an ex-con who turns up in the titular town to find his long-lost lady love, only to wind up becoming the sheriff by way of a deadly fight and a case of mistaken identity. He squares off against the de facto town leader, a sinister fellow with evil henchmen and ties to the Amish community. At just three episodes in, Banshee is already an engaging potboiler, at turns silly and kinda sexy. It's Cinemax's first purely native show, and it indicates good things for the future. That future includes another action series, called Sandbox, and, supposedly,Bottle cutters let you turn old parkingsystem and wine bottles into bottle art! a TV version of the Transporter films. So, Cinemax knows its brand. It's action with a dash of wit, plus just enough oddity to keep it original. It's FX to HBO's AMC.
Cinemax is lucky to be owned by HBO — they don't have to compete with their polished, prestige-ified big brother. Unlike Showtime, Cinemax does not seem burdened with aspirations of grandeur; they can roll around in the muck and grunt all they want. This is not, for time being anyway, a network that's trying to win any Peabodys. That's a nice change of pace for non-HBO premium cable.We offers custom moulds parts in as fast as 1 day. Hopefully the dribbles of praise they've been getting of late won't go to their heads. I like the network muscly and goofy; swagger and sweat become it, and too much glossiness wouldn't. I like also what Cinemax's recent intriguing developments suggest about another evolution of the television landscape. They're now succeeding where Starz largely stumbled and failed. So maybe we're truly ready for another round of new offerings. And,That is a machine for manufacturing plastic products by the bobblehead process. lo, here comes House of Cards on Netflix, as well as the rebooted, slimmed-down Arrested Development. And, further off, there will be whatever Amazon Studios turns into. Hopefully expectations can be managed on these new platforms and they'll succeed at courting a niche audience rather than flailing after wider appeal.
Radical advances in military science sometimes arrive from far afield. Take Kevlar, invented to reinforce radial tires years before it saw use in body armor and helmets. Similarly, the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, one of the most popular military spy drones, arose from technology created to help fishing fleets find schools of tuna.
Now, a brewing legal war over the fish-finder-turned-weapon has opened a window on a rarely examined side of military contracting: ideas and intellectual property. How do you untangle who really owns the technology the U.S.Beautiful indoorpositioningsystem in a wide range of colors & sold at factory direct prices. government buys and deploys in battle?
A swept-wing UAV with a 10-foot wingspan, ScanEagle has become an ISR workhorse, deployed everywhere from Iraq to Somalia. Its manufacturer, Insitu, had $400 million in sales last year. Iran in December claimed to have captured one. And in fact, this fall, as tensions with Iran ratcheted higher, the Navy awarded another contract to Insitu to deploy, fly and maintain two more ScanEagle systems from warships in the Persian Gulf. It’s a drop in the bucket in the steady stream of contracts for the system.
Among the features that make the drone well-suited to deployment from a ship’s flight deck or a small combat outpost is its ability to land without a runway. Crews connect a taut cable to a vertical boom, then fly the little airplane so it snags the cable with a hook on its wing. They recover it easily, sliding it off the cable like a fish from a line.
That simple, ingenious feature, which Insitu calls SkyHook, is at the center of a legal war far from the conflict zone, in federal courts in Missouri and Washington, D.C. The stakes could be several hundred million dollars; the combatants bear familiar names.
On the one side of the legal struggle: an inventor who is a member of a defense-contracting dynasty. His name is William “Randy” McDonnell — as in McDonnell Douglas. He says he came up with the Skyhook landing system and that he is owed, big-time, for its use in ScanEagle. The lawsuits were filed under the name of McDonnell’s company, Advanced Aerospace Technologies Inc.
Colchester East Hants Health Centre operating rooms returning to service
All four operating rooms at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre
will be back in service Wednesday morning following a malfunction with
the ventilation system.
The issue has been traced back to an issue with the ventilation system that pumps humidified air (sterile steam) into the operating rooms. The malfunction led to a higher concentration of steam entering the vents, which condensed into water, pooled in the ducts and leaked into rooms in the area.
“Prior to moving in our staff spent several months testing and becoming familiar with our new building systems and it is discouraging to have issues like this one arise,” said Peter MacKinnon, CEO of the Colchester East Hants Health Authority, in a news release. “This was not something we expected or could have planned for, but we are grateful to our team members and partners who responded so quickly and worked so hard to restore our surgical program.”
Since the problem was discovered staff has been working with vendors and contractors to dry out the areas, replace damaged ceiling tiles and insulation and test the various systems.
As of Monday afternoon two of the four operating rooms at the facility were back in service. Late Tuesday afternoon, following a complete assessment, staff determined that surgeries could safely resume in the remaining two operating rooms and environmental services staff began the extensive cleaning required to prepare the rooms for surgery.
Staff is continuing to work with vendors and consultants to pinpoint the cause of the malfunction and the system will remain on by-pass until the coming weekend when crews will continue their investigation into the source.Elpas Readers detect and forward 'Location' and 'State' data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to host parkingguidance platforms.
Actifio, the radically simple copy data storage company, today announced significant product and service enhancements designed to make managing copy data – and transforming the underlying economics of enterprise storage – even easier. The company introduced new product and service packages, a storage industry-first “pay-per-use” utility pricing option,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. new deployment tools, and a suite of new features in its 5.1 software release. The enhancements are designed to ease the way for customers and channel partners to embrace Actifio’s compelling economic value proposition, which propelled the company to 700 percent growth in 2012.
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructure faces a tidal wave of data, coupled with the growing cost and complexity of the software tools, hardware, and personnel required to manage it. Savvy IT executives are recognizing that the driver of this exponential growth is the copy data – redundant copies of corporate data created by point tools to meet the business requirements to protect, share, and analyze information. With a purpose-built solution to address the root cause of the copy data problem – siloed data protection and availability applications - Actifio offers customers the ability to recover anything instantly for a total cost of ownership up to 90 percent less than the traditional model.
To make it easier for channel partners and customers to embrace the Actifio model, the company today announced its new 100T product package. The new Actifio 100T is designed for rapid deployment by mid-sized IT organizations,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. or departments of larger IT organizations. It protects both physical and virtual IT environments with the world’s most efficient data management technology, and features integrated Actifio Optimized Storage capable of protecting up to 100 Terabytes of production data and 1,000 virtual machines. Actifio 100Ts can be combined in a scale-out architecture to support up to 2 PetaBytes of production data, with custom configuration of the appliance.
To help customers take better advantage of their existing storage, the company also announced its new Actifio Gateway, a similarly robust hardware and software tandem that doesn’t include its own storage, but instead can virtualize and manage a wide variety of third party storage devices. The Actifio Gateway is designed for regionally and globally distributed enterprises, including cloud and managed service providers. It’s built for a large mix of physical, virtual, and heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure, and also scales to handle multi-petabytes of data.
Actifio’s revolutionary new utility pricing model enables customers to pay as their data volumes grow, avoiding the significant up-front capital requirements that challenge many procurement cycles. Actifio’s all-inclusive utility pricing for a complete storage system – hardware, software, storage, installation, and maintenance – is based on a per-terabyte per-year basis, with rates decreasing as volumes increase. For CIOs implementing chargeback models, or Service Providers looking to align procurement with market demand, Actifio’s utility pricing model delivers simplicity, flexibility, and predictability. Customers who wish to purchase the hardware and services through traditional means will still have that option.
Actifio is also introducing version 5.1 of its software, which includes several new features in the areas of data governance, business resilience, and service management. As enterprise environments put a greater focus on security and control of application data, Actifio has ramped-up its data governance features to include SLA-based data integrity validation; enhanced SLA compliance reporting; user/role-based auditing; LDAP and Active Directory integration; and automated disk-to tape enhancements directly integrated into Actifio’s SLA Lifecycle Manager for compliance-oriented, long-term retention.
Service providers around the globe have embraced Actifio as a strategic technology to accelerate new service introduction, deliver new functionality and customer satisfaction, and improve their business margins. Actifio 5.1 continues to advance service management functionality by addressing operations and delivery needs with enhanced system monitoring, alert correlation and processing, auto-updates, VPN access enhancements, and improved integrated reporting.
Leading storage analyst firm, ESG has independently validated that Actifio 5.1 can provide almost 300 percent IT efficiency savings over the competition, and a 400 percent better annual total cost of ownership (TCO) than alternative storage solutions.
“In a world that moves faster than ever, enterprises faces what we call ‘The Agility Imperative,’” said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. “Actifio was designed from the start to free businesses from the undue burden of wildly redundant copy data, free IT executives from the complex tangle of data protection and availability applications consuming more and more of their IT budgets, and free IT managers from the stress of unmet SLA’s and recovery time objectives impossible to deliver with 20th century technology. These enhancements take us further down that path, making radically simple copy data storage easier to buy, deploy, and love than ever before.”
“We deployed the 100T and within fifteen minutes Actifio was configured and online. An hour later it was customized to our environment, backing up, deduplicating and replicating to our DR facility 3000 miles away,Only those users who need plasticmould require hands free tokens.” said Daniel Acosta, IT Director, MC Assembly. “If something goes wrong, now I just go back in time and mount the snapshot directly from Actifio. To our users it looks like a server reboot, to us it’s the ultimate peace of mind.”
"Technology is an invaluable learning tool here at the university, which means that I need to plan for maximum uptime and availability. In the past this meant frequent data protection and business resiliency testing that required planning, application downtime and costly excess infrastructure which ultimately impacted our users," said Rich Siedzik, Sr. IT Director, Bryant University. "That was before Actifio where we now have the ability to run Failover Test non-disruptively as often as needed. And if there's a site failure,We specialize in usbmemorydrive. I can easily and automatically sync back our unique data."
The issue has been traced back to an issue with the ventilation system that pumps humidified air (sterile steam) into the operating rooms. The malfunction led to a higher concentration of steam entering the vents, which condensed into water, pooled in the ducts and leaked into rooms in the area.
“Prior to moving in our staff spent several months testing and becoming familiar with our new building systems and it is discouraging to have issues like this one arise,” said Peter MacKinnon, CEO of the Colchester East Hants Health Authority, in a news release. “This was not something we expected or could have planned for, but we are grateful to our team members and partners who responded so quickly and worked so hard to restore our surgical program.”
Since the problem was discovered staff has been working with vendors and contractors to dry out the areas, replace damaged ceiling tiles and insulation and test the various systems.
As of Monday afternoon two of the four operating rooms at the facility were back in service. Late Tuesday afternoon, following a complete assessment, staff determined that surgeries could safely resume in the remaining two operating rooms and environmental services staff began the extensive cleaning required to prepare the rooms for surgery.
Staff is continuing to work with vendors and consultants to pinpoint the cause of the malfunction and the system will remain on by-pass until the coming weekend when crews will continue their investigation into the source.Elpas Readers detect and forward 'Location' and 'State' data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to host parkingguidance platforms.
Actifio, the radically simple copy data storage company, today announced significant product and service enhancements designed to make managing copy data – and transforming the underlying economics of enterprise storage – even easier. The company introduced new product and service packages, a storage industry-first “pay-per-use” utility pricing option,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. new deployment tools, and a suite of new features in its 5.1 software release. The enhancements are designed to ease the way for customers and channel partners to embrace Actifio’s compelling economic value proposition, which propelled the company to 700 percent growth in 2012.
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructure faces a tidal wave of data, coupled with the growing cost and complexity of the software tools, hardware, and personnel required to manage it. Savvy IT executives are recognizing that the driver of this exponential growth is the copy data – redundant copies of corporate data created by point tools to meet the business requirements to protect, share, and analyze information. With a purpose-built solution to address the root cause of the copy data problem – siloed data protection and availability applications - Actifio offers customers the ability to recover anything instantly for a total cost of ownership up to 90 percent less than the traditional model.
To make it easier for channel partners and customers to embrace the Actifio model, the company today announced its new 100T product package. The new Actifio 100T is designed for rapid deployment by mid-sized IT organizations,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. or departments of larger IT organizations. It protects both physical and virtual IT environments with the world’s most efficient data management technology, and features integrated Actifio Optimized Storage capable of protecting up to 100 Terabytes of production data and 1,000 virtual machines. Actifio 100Ts can be combined in a scale-out architecture to support up to 2 PetaBytes of production data, with custom configuration of the appliance.
To help customers take better advantage of their existing storage, the company also announced its new Actifio Gateway, a similarly robust hardware and software tandem that doesn’t include its own storage, but instead can virtualize and manage a wide variety of third party storage devices. The Actifio Gateway is designed for regionally and globally distributed enterprises, including cloud and managed service providers. It’s built for a large mix of physical, virtual, and heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure, and also scales to handle multi-petabytes of data.
Actifio’s revolutionary new utility pricing model enables customers to pay as their data volumes grow, avoiding the significant up-front capital requirements that challenge many procurement cycles. Actifio’s all-inclusive utility pricing for a complete storage system – hardware, software, storage, installation, and maintenance – is based on a per-terabyte per-year basis, with rates decreasing as volumes increase. For CIOs implementing chargeback models, or Service Providers looking to align procurement with market demand, Actifio’s utility pricing model delivers simplicity, flexibility, and predictability. Customers who wish to purchase the hardware and services through traditional means will still have that option.
Actifio is also introducing version 5.1 of its software, which includes several new features in the areas of data governance, business resilience, and service management. As enterprise environments put a greater focus on security and control of application data, Actifio has ramped-up its data governance features to include SLA-based data integrity validation; enhanced SLA compliance reporting; user/role-based auditing; LDAP and Active Directory integration; and automated disk-to tape enhancements directly integrated into Actifio’s SLA Lifecycle Manager for compliance-oriented, long-term retention.
Service providers around the globe have embraced Actifio as a strategic technology to accelerate new service introduction, deliver new functionality and customer satisfaction, and improve their business margins. Actifio 5.1 continues to advance service management functionality by addressing operations and delivery needs with enhanced system monitoring, alert correlation and processing, auto-updates, VPN access enhancements, and improved integrated reporting.
Leading storage analyst firm, ESG has independently validated that Actifio 5.1 can provide almost 300 percent IT efficiency savings over the competition, and a 400 percent better annual total cost of ownership (TCO) than alternative storage solutions.
“In a world that moves faster than ever, enterprises faces what we call ‘The Agility Imperative,’” said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. “Actifio was designed from the start to free businesses from the undue burden of wildly redundant copy data, free IT executives from the complex tangle of data protection and availability applications consuming more and more of their IT budgets, and free IT managers from the stress of unmet SLA’s and recovery time objectives impossible to deliver with 20th century technology. These enhancements take us further down that path, making radically simple copy data storage easier to buy, deploy, and love than ever before.”
“We deployed the 100T and within fifteen minutes Actifio was configured and online. An hour later it was customized to our environment, backing up, deduplicating and replicating to our DR facility 3000 miles away,Only those users who need plasticmould require hands free tokens.” said Daniel Acosta, IT Director, MC Assembly. “If something goes wrong, now I just go back in time and mount the snapshot directly from Actifio. To our users it looks like a server reboot, to us it’s the ultimate peace of mind.”
"Technology is an invaluable learning tool here at the university, which means that I need to plan for maximum uptime and availability. In the past this meant frequent data protection and business resiliency testing that required planning, application downtime and costly excess infrastructure which ultimately impacted our users," said Rich Siedzik, Sr. IT Director, Bryant University. "That was before Actifio where we now have the ability to run Failover Test non-disruptively as often as needed. And if there's a site failure,We specialize in usbmemorydrive. I can easily and automatically sync back our unique data."
2013年1月24日星期四
GOP Attracting Minorities?
What with everything going on these days, it
wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Reince Priebus hasn’t been foremost in your
mind lately. Well, this is your opportunity to correct that error, because I
deliver tidings that the Republican National Committee is holding its winter
meeting right now, starting yesterday, in Charlotte. A-Number-One on Chairman
Priebus’s list, say advance reports, is figuring ways the GOP can attract more
support among minorities.We have many different types of parkingsystem. Well, they
could. But they’d have to do things that would make them not the Republican
Party anymore, and their base would never permit it.
Let’s start with African-Americans. Republicans, whatever they might say publicly, won’t actually try to win more black votes. Why? Because the positions the party would have to embrace to win black votes are abhorrent to the GOP base.Cheaper For bulk buying stonemosaic prices. Which, you may have noticed, is kind of racist. Now, people like me—pundits of the respectable class—aren’t supposed to talk that way. We’re supposed to cooperate in the fiction that the Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and underneath it all yearns to reawaken the great Jack Kemp tradition.
All that is a bunch of rot, I’m afraid, and the rank and file’s racism is just a plain fact. Ever read some of those Fox News website comment threads on race stories,Our extensive range of werkzeugbaus is supplied to all sorts of industries across Australia and overseas. like this rather fascinating thread when Whitney Houston died, or certain Obama articles? It’s like reading Bull Connor’s diary. No, this doesn’t mean every conservative is a racist. But it does mean that if you find yourself at a table with five conservatives and try to break the ice with a watermelon joke, you’re very likely to get somewhere between two and three laughs.
A party with that kind of base is not going to be changing positions on affirmative action anytime in the next, oh, millennium. No—I really can’t predict a meeting of the minds here in any remotely foreseeable future. Remember, the conservative, Republican-appointed Supreme Court is (presumably) about to undo affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. It’ll be another decade fighting to win those back at least.
The GOP base doesn’t appear to boil with the same depth of contempt for Latinos. To Republicans, Latinos are the people who at least, you know, mow people’s lawns and such. But I think conservatives misunderstand Latinos. It’s true that they are a quite heterogeneous admixture of people from a broad range of cultures and historical traditions. But to the extent that they can be lumped together, as we do for electoral-demographic purposes, we find that they are alas a pretty liberal outfit.
Conservatives always say, “Latinos are conservative; they are our natural allies!” It’s not really true. Exit polls last year found Latinos supporting abortion rights in quite large numbers, and ditto same-sex marriage (to a lesser degree, but still a healthy majority). The conservative misunderstanding, of course, is in assuming that personal conservatism equates with political conservatism. Sometimes it does, but a lot of the time it does not.
And here’s another thing about Latinos, especially working-class and working-poor Latinos. Because of language and cultural barriers, they have tended to take advantage of fewer state benefits than others. They don’t use the earned-income tax credit as much, for example. There seems to me reason to think that over time, as language barriers lessen, that will change. And of course we have health care coming down the pike, and all its subsidies to families up to 188 percent of the poverty line. In other words, conservatives, millions more Latinos are poised to become card-carrying members of the good old moocher class! You think the party that wanted to repeal health-care expansion is going to get the bulk of those votes?
The main mistake Republicans make is that they actually think symbolic moves will accomplish the job here. More black speakers at the convention, three Latinos in office instead of one. Most people are actually smart enough to figure out that symbolism with no substance behind it is kind of insulting.
The bottom line is about the base. The GOP base consists of white people who are terrified of losing their skin privilege in Barack Obama’s America. Even if Priebus and a few other Republicans are sincere in their efforts, the minute they start to take steps that are anything but symbolic and that are aimed specifically at trying to win over blacks or Latinos,Wholesale various Glass Mosaic Tiles from handsfreeaccess Tiles Suppliers. the base will howl to the moon. I suppose it’s possible that two or three generations from now, which means 30 to 50 years, white Republicans who grew up in our multicultural era will have different attitudes.Make your house a home with Border and luggagetag Tiles. But even that is a fairly big question mark—there are always going to be vast sections of the country where the population will be 90 or more percent white.
Changing all this can’t be done with some buzzwords and slogans. It is going to be a deeply painful and contentious process for the GOP. I’d say it will be amusing for the rest of us, but it will inject enough poison into the body politic to make it not much fun for anyone.
Israel Keyes showed no remorse as he described in merciless detail how he'd abducted and strangled an 18-year-old woman, then demanded ransom, pretending she was alive. He seemed pumped up, as if he were reliving the crime. His body shook. He rubbed his muscular arms on the chair rests so vigorously his handcuffs scraped off the wood finish.
Keyes was being questioned by two prosecutors. They acceded to his requests: a cup of Americano coffee, a peanut butter Snickers and a cigar (for later). Then they showed him surveillance photos, looked him in the eye and declared: We know you kidnapped Samantha Koenig. We're going to convict you.
They aimed to solve a disappearance, and they did. But they soon realized there was much more here: a kind of evil they'd never anticipated.
Confessing to Koenig's killing, Keyes used a Google map to point to a spot on a lake where he'd disposed of her dismembered body and gone ice fishing at the same time. He wasn't done talking, though. He declared he'd been "two different people" for 14 years. He had stories to tell, stories he said he'd never shared. He made seemingly plural references and chilling remarks such as, "It takes a long time to strangle someone."
Let’s start with African-Americans. Republicans, whatever they might say publicly, won’t actually try to win more black votes. Why? Because the positions the party would have to embrace to win black votes are abhorrent to the GOP base.Cheaper For bulk buying stonemosaic prices. Which, you may have noticed, is kind of racist. Now, people like me—pundits of the respectable class—aren’t supposed to talk that way. We’re supposed to cooperate in the fiction that the Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and underneath it all yearns to reawaken the great Jack Kemp tradition.
All that is a bunch of rot, I’m afraid, and the rank and file’s racism is just a plain fact. Ever read some of those Fox News website comment threads on race stories,Our extensive range of werkzeugbaus is supplied to all sorts of industries across Australia and overseas. like this rather fascinating thread when Whitney Houston died, or certain Obama articles? It’s like reading Bull Connor’s diary. No, this doesn’t mean every conservative is a racist. But it does mean that if you find yourself at a table with five conservatives and try to break the ice with a watermelon joke, you’re very likely to get somewhere between two and three laughs.
A party with that kind of base is not going to be changing positions on affirmative action anytime in the next, oh, millennium. No—I really can’t predict a meeting of the minds here in any remotely foreseeable future. Remember, the conservative, Republican-appointed Supreme Court is (presumably) about to undo affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. It’ll be another decade fighting to win those back at least.
The GOP base doesn’t appear to boil with the same depth of contempt for Latinos. To Republicans, Latinos are the people who at least, you know, mow people’s lawns and such. But I think conservatives misunderstand Latinos. It’s true that they are a quite heterogeneous admixture of people from a broad range of cultures and historical traditions. But to the extent that they can be lumped together, as we do for electoral-demographic purposes, we find that they are alas a pretty liberal outfit.
Conservatives always say, “Latinos are conservative; they are our natural allies!” It’s not really true. Exit polls last year found Latinos supporting abortion rights in quite large numbers, and ditto same-sex marriage (to a lesser degree, but still a healthy majority). The conservative misunderstanding, of course, is in assuming that personal conservatism equates with political conservatism. Sometimes it does, but a lot of the time it does not.
And here’s another thing about Latinos, especially working-class and working-poor Latinos. Because of language and cultural barriers, they have tended to take advantage of fewer state benefits than others. They don’t use the earned-income tax credit as much, for example. There seems to me reason to think that over time, as language barriers lessen, that will change. And of course we have health care coming down the pike, and all its subsidies to families up to 188 percent of the poverty line. In other words, conservatives, millions more Latinos are poised to become card-carrying members of the good old moocher class! You think the party that wanted to repeal health-care expansion is going to get the bulk of those votes?
The main mistake Republicans make is that they actually think symbolic moves will accomplish the job here. More black speakers at the convention, three Latinos in office instead of one. Most people are actually smart enough to figure out that symbolism with no substance behind it is kind of insulting.
The bottom line is about the base. The GOP base consists of white people who are terrified of losing their skin privilege in Barack Obama’s America. Even if Priebus and a few other Republicans are sincere in their efforts, the minute they start to take steps that are anything but symbolic and that are aimed specifically at trying to win over blacks or Latinos,Wholesale various Glass Mosaic Tiles from handsfreeaccess Tiles Suppliers. the base will howl to the moon. I suppose it’s possible that two or three generations from now, which means 30 to 50 years, white Republicans who grew up in our multicultural era will have different attitudes.Make your house a home with Border and luggagetag Tiles. But even that is a fairly big question mark—there are always going to be vast sections of the country where the population will be 90 or more percent white.
Changing all this can’t be done with some buzzwords and slogans. It is going to be a deeply painful and contentious process for the GOP. I’d say it will be amusing for the rest of us, but it will inject enough poison into the body politic to make it not much fun for anyone.
Israel Keyes showed no remorse as he described in merciless detail how he'd abducted and strangled an 18-year-old woman, then demanded ransom, pretending she was alive. He seemed pumped up, as if he were reliving the crime. His body shook. He rubbed his muscular arms on the chair rests so vigorously his handcuffs scraped off the wood finish.
Keyes was being questioned by two prosecutors. They acceded to his requests: a cup of Americano coffee, a peanut butter Snickers and a cigar (for later). Then they showed him surveillance photos, looked him in the eye and declared: We know you kidnapped Samantha Koenig. We're going to convict you.
They aimed to solve a disappearance, and they did. But they soon realized there was much more here: a kind of evil they'd never anticipated.
Confessing to Koenig's killing, Keyes used a Google map to point to a spot on a lake where he'd disposed of her dismembered body and gone ice fishing at the same time. He wasn't done talking, though. He declared he'd been "two different people" for 14 years. He had stories to tell, stories he said he'd never shared. He made seemingly plural references and chilling remarks such as, "It takes a long time to strangle someone."
Gemalto’s Basic Breakdown
According to Benitez, who’s worked with Canada, Mexico
and the U.S. on each country’s respective EMV migration, the key to
understanding why EMV technology is important is to consider the role EMV cards
take in a transaction compared to their magstripe counterparts.
“In a magnetic stripe transaction, the card plays a static role in the sense that when a cardholder swipes his card, the terminal transmits the data that you see on the front and the back of the card: the card holder’s name, the account number, the expiration date and that little three digit value on the back of the card,” Benitez explained. “That same data is transmitted every single time for every single transaction. If a fraudster is able to sniff the data online, they will be able to duplicate a card easily and then use it to perform fraudulent transactions.”
“In an EMV transaction, the card actually plays an active role because the chip, in essence, is a little computer that is running a payment program. And that card is able to approve or decline transactions offline on its own, if the banks want it to do so. The card can go online and request approval from the bank if that’s what the bank prefers too,” he said. “In all cases the card generates a messages using cryptographic technology that is different for every single transaction. So if a fraudster is ever able to sniff EMV transaction data on the network, it would be useless for them because they couldn’t create one of these counterfeit cards that are so easy to create with magnetic stripe data.”
Another interesting point Benitez brought up was that by being the late to the EMV party,We specialize in iphoneheadset. so to speak, the U.S. will actually face lower adoption costs than many countries that came before. Benitez noted that EMV penetration has reached about 80 percent in Europe and 30 percent in Europe, and sits t around 50 percent worldwide for cards and 75 percent worldwide for POS terminals.
“[The cost] is not as steep as it’s characterized because the U.S. gets a huge benefit from being last to migrate and inheriting the economies of scale created by massive shifts to EMV everywhere lese in the world,” he pointed out. “I’d say that the U.S. payments industry is seeing unit costs that are less than half what the trailblazers saw when they started EMV migration several years ago.Navigating the world of customkeychain and RFID requires a keen insight into the trends that are shaping the industry.”
National Signing Day is one of my favorite days of the year. The fact that The University of Georgia already has 13 student-athletes on campus from the class of 2013 is huge. Hopefully,All our rtls are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. these young men are acclimating to the rigors of the classroom and the weight room in preparation for next season. I'm sure they're already adjusting to the inherent distractions of college life (inserts picture of a beautiful coed...) God,Add depth and style to your home with these large format glassmosaic. I miss Athens. It truly is a huge advantage to have this many dudes already enrolled. Conversely, for any blue-chip recruit that hasn't gone on-record as to where he will be matriculating and playing some football, the wait is nearly over - for both school and prospect. As always, there are several highly coveted players that are weighing all of their options as the clock winds down.
One of those recruits is a home-grown product, out of Norcross. He is 5-10 and weighs around 195 with speed, good hands and the ability to make the first "would be" tackler miss. He rushed for almost 2300 yards this past season with 26 touchdowns and is a threat to take it the distance each and every time he touches the rock. I really, really like his game. It's down to Alabama and Georgia, with the Dawgs getting an official visit and one more in-home with Coach Richt. The school is doing their part in getting this kid signed, sealed and delivered. I'm going to try and do mine. Let's immortalize him in food, yes?
Yep, Alvin Kamara is not only a tremendous athlete, but perhaps one of the most photogenic prospects to ever lace up a cleat. This kid smiles. Like, always. I've never not seen a picture of him doing anything else. You know who he reminds me of in that regard? Hines Ward. I hope the two end up having more in common than just a great set of gnashers for the camera. C'mon down, Alvin. Become a Dawg!
Ever tried Coca Cola chicken in a slow cooker? This tried-and-true Southern delicacy is a staple in many homes, and there are probably several variations on this simple but utterly fantastic recipe. Here's the one that MomTheDawg has made throughout my life. Alvin, I'm re-naming this in your honor and adding a little spice. Now, am I risking running afoul of the NCAA? Probably not. As my English wife would say, "they could cock-up a piss-up in a brewery." As far as I am concerned, they can go probe themselves. Meanwhile, UM will probably get off and A.When I first started creating broken buymosaic.J. Green just got suspended 2 more games. I digress just a little bit. Back to the recipe at hand.
Yep, the coaches are busy and everyone is waiting to see how the last of the blue chips shake out. So far our 2013 class, both with the enrolled kids and committed guys, is shaping up very nicely. However, a few more players of Kamara's caliber could make this class something very, very special. This season's class is rather large which is fine by me. You know what they say? The more recruits, the more Crock Pot recipes. Life is good...
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr Malik said that Nadra had issued over 92.8 million identity cards to people of 18 years or more. Nadra had now formulated an accidental death insurance scheme to help the government reach out to the poorest sections of society.
“Under the scheme, the holder of the SNIC will automatically be registered for the accidental death insurance of Rs100,000 for the first two years. The applicant may nominate his/her nominee at the time of registration for the SNIC, who will collect the insurance amount.”
Mr Malik said that on the accidental death of any SNIC holder, the benefit derived from the scheme would be paid by the State Life to Nadra for its onward transfer to the person nominated by the card holder. The minimum premium which Nadra would pay to the State Life on behalf of the people, would create a snowball effect for the company’s financial position on the one side and security for the people on the other, he added.
The Nadra chairman said the SNIC had allowed Nadra to reach out to people with a state-of-the-art technology having biometric facilities which were not possible previously.
One of the major benefits of the technology, which was fast becoming the authentication standard around the globe, was its ability to store data within a microchip, said Mr Malik.
A micro-chip installed in the new card keeps the biometric data of the holder in it and thus makes the card more secure and safe from distortion.
“In a magnetic stripe transaction, the card plays a static role in the sense that when a cardholder swipes his card, the terminal transmits the data that you see on the front and the back of the card: the card holder’s name, the account number, the expiration date and that little three digit value on the back of the card,” Benitez explained. “That same data is transmitted every single time for every single transaction. If a fraudster is able to sniff the data online, they will be able to duplicate a card easily and then use it to perform fraudulent transactions.”
“In an EMV transaction, the card actually plays an active role because the chip, in essence, is a little computer that is running a payment program. And that card is able to approve or decline transactions offline on its own, if the banks want it to do so. The card can go online and request approval from the bank if that’s what the bank prefers too,” he said. “In all cases the card generates a messages using cryptographic technology that is different for every single transaction. So if a fraudster is ever able to sniff EMV transaction data on the network, it would be useless for them because they couldn’t create one of these counterfeit cards that are so easy to create with magnetic stripe data.”
Another interesting point Benitez brought up was that by being the late to the EMV party,We specialize in iphoneheadset. so to speak, the U.S. will actually face lower adoption costs than many countries that came before. Benitez noted that EMV penetration has reached about 80 percent in Europe and 30 percent in Europe, and sits t around 50 percent worldwide for cards and 75 percent worldwide for POS terminals.
“[The cost] is not as steep as it’s characterized because the U.S. gets a huge benefit from being last to migrate and inheriting the economies of scale created by massive shifts to EMV everywhere lese in the world,” he pointed out. “I’d say that the U.S. payments industry is seeing unit costs that are less than half what the trailblazers saw when they started EMV migration several years ago.Navigating the world of customkeychain and RFID requires a keen insight into the trends that are shaping the industry.”
National Signing Day is one of my favorite days of the year. The fact that The University of Georgia already has 13 student-athletes on campus from the class of 2013 is huge. Hopefully,All our rtls are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. these young men are acclimating to the rigors of the classroom and the weight room in preparation for next season. I'm sure they're already adjusting to the inherent distractions of college life (inserts picture of a beautiful coed...) God,Add depth and style to your home with these large format glassmosaic. I miss Athens. It truly is a huge advantage to have this many dudes already enrolled. Conversely, for any blue-chip recruit that hasn't gone on-record as to where he will be matriculating and playing some football, the wait is nearly over - for both school and prospect. As always, there are several highly coveted players that are weighing all of their options as the clock winds down.
One of those recruits is a home-grown product, out of Norcross. He is 5-10 and weighs around 195 with speed, good hands and the ability to make the first "would be" tackler miss. He rushed for almost 2300 yards this past season with 26 touchdowns and is a threat to take it the distance each and every time he touches the rock. I really, really like his game. It's down to Alabama and Georgia, with the Dawgs getting an official visit and one more in-home with Coach Richt. The school is doing their part in getting this kid signed, sealed and delivered. I'm going to try and do mine. Let's immortalize him in food, yes?
Yep, Alvin Kamara is not only a tremendous athlete, but perhaps one of the most photogenic prospects to ever lace up a cleat. This kid smiles. Like, always. I've never not seen a picture of him doing anything else. You know who he reminds me of in that regard? Hines Ward. I hope the two end up having more in common than just a great set of gnashers for the camera. C'mon down, Alvin. Become a Dawg!
Ever tried Coca Cola chicken in a slow cooker? This tried-and-true Southern delicacy is a staple in many homes, and there are probably several variations on this simple but utterly fantastic recipe. Here's the one that MomTheDawg has made throughout my life. Alvin, I'm re-naming this in your honor and adding a little spice. Now, am I risking running afoul of the NCAA? Probably not. As my English wife would say, "they could cock-up a piss-up in a brewery." As far as I am concerned, they can go probe themselves. Meanwhile, UM will probably get off and A.When I first started creating broken buymosaic.J. Green just got suspended 2 more games. I digress just a little bit. Back to the recipe at hand.
Yep, the coaches are busy and everyone is waiting to see how the last of the blue chips shake out. So far our 2013 class, both with the enrolled kids and committed guys, is shaping up very nicely. However, a few more players of Kamara's caliber could make this class something very, very special. This season's class is rather large which is fine by me. You know what they say? The more recruits, the more Crock Pot recipes. Life is good...
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr Malik said that Nadra had issued over 92.8 million identity cards to people of 18 years or more. Nadra had now formulated an accidental death insurance scheme to help the government reach out to the poorest sections of society.
“Under the scheme, the holder of the SNIC will automatically be registered for the accidental death insurance of Rs100,000 for the first two years. The applicant may nominate his/her nominee at the time of registration for the SNIC, who will collect the insurance amount.”
Mr Malik said that on the accidental death of any SNIC holder, the benefit derived from the scheme would be paid by the State Life to Nadra for its onward transfer to the person nominated by the card holder. The minimum premium which Nadra would pay to the State Life on behalf of the people, would create a snowball effect for the company’s financial position on the one side and security for the people on the other, he added.
The Nadra chairman said the SNIC had allowed Nadra to reach out to people with a state-of-the-art technology having biometric facilities which were not possible previously.
One of the major benefits of the technology, which was fast becoming the authentication standard around the globe, was its ability to store data within a microchip, said Mr Malik.
A micro-chip installed in the new card keeps the biometric data of the holder in it and thus makes the card more secure and safe from distortion.
Time Saver or Finance Wrecker?
Paying bills is a task that most people dread. With
many companies, such as utilities and cell phone companies offering a monthly
automatic credit card billing option, it can be tempting to sign up for this
service. But while we are all looking to save time and hassle, is this actually
a smart financial move?
One of the most obvious benefits is that automatic payments save time because you do not have to sit down and manually pay your bills each month. But actually, the most important benefit is that setting up autopayments can help increase your credit score if you have the bad habit of occasionally pay bills late.
"If you pay bills late, even utilities and cell phones, then these late payments get reported to the credit bureaus which lower your credit score," says Beverly Harzog, Independent credit card expert and consumer advocate. "By setting up automatic payments, your bills are paid on time, and you don't miss any payments because you are traveling or forgot."
For those of us who play the credit card rewards game, automatic payments can be a great way to earn additional rewards points or frequent flier miles. By using your credit card with the highest rewards benefits for autopayments, you will most likely earn the plane ticket, hotel stay or experience that you are coveting even quicker.
The adage "out of sight, out of mind" is often very true when it comes to paying your bills. Many people forget about the autopayments that they have signed up for until they open their credit card statement to find their balance is much higher than expected.
"When you set up an autopayment,Beautiful plasticcard in a wide range of colors & sold at factory direct prices. you often feel emotionally disconnected from the amount you are spending, and it is easy to get lulled into a sense of security that your bills are paid for," Harzog says. Since any benefits of autopayments are wiped out if you carry a balance on your card and pay interest, she recommends carefully reconciling your budget with the autopayments to make sure you are not spending more than you can pay off each month.
When you pay your bills manually, you most likely check through the bill to make sure that each payment is for the correct amount and that the company did not overcharge you. When you set up an automatic payment, it is much easier for you to not notice a mistake on the company's end and be overcharged. If you are not paying close attention to the bill, you could also be unaware of any fraudulent activity.
Each time you go over your credit limit, many credit cards will charge you an overdraft fee. If the card you have set up for autopayment is close to the limit, then you may find yourself paying additional fees and possibly negatively impacting your credit score by having a high balance. "Any time you are close to your credit limit on a credit card, your credit score can go down, which can be an issue if you are applying for a loan or refinancing your home," Harzog says.
Groupon is a 'group-buying' website that collates offers for discounted goods and services and markets them to users.
When she saw they payment was made to Groupon Helen called up and was told that a voucher for a Groupon getaway had been bought in her name. She immediately realised that her nephew must have accidentally clicked on the app whilst playing with her phone.
Helen, who lives in Manchester, said: 'My details were already stored from a previous purchase with Groupon online and this meant that with just one click the holiday was paid for out of my account.'
'I had no idea that this would happen and I was in complete shock.Our aim is to supply indoortracking which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. There is no warning on the app and with just one click he managed to spend over 500.'
A Groupon spokesman said: 'I can now confirm that her card issuer has now taken the funds from us and Helen should now have been refunded the amount in full.
'Customers can prevent this happening by not storing their details on their account if they are not the only person who has access to their computer or mobile phone.
'This means that they will have to enter their card details each time as an extra precaution. If they have their details stored, a purchase can be made more easily.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth streetlight truck Descriptions.All molds comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty !'
However, Helen argues that she was not notified when downloading the app to her phone that her card information was automatically stored from previous purchases and she wasn't alerted the she might need to put a security measure in place.
And she’s not alone. Last week This is Money reported that some youngsters are unknowingly generating bills of more than 500 through smartphones, with bills being charged to mobile phone accounts or parents’ credit cards.
Some mobile phone users have also fallen foul of scam versions of popular apps like Angry Birds and Minecraft, where they have been it with a 15 charge every time it was opened.The crystalmosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos.
But it’s not just scams that consumers need to be aware of - legitimate companies will offer free games to be downloaded and will then try and cash in by selling virtual coins, or other types of currency, to be used in the game.
One of the most obvious benefits is that automatic payments save time because you do not have to sit down and manually pay your bills each month. But actually, the most important benefit is that setting up autopayments can help increase your credit score if you have the bad habit of occasionally pay bills late.
"If you pay bills late, even utilities and cell phones, then these late payments get reported to the credit bureaus which lower your credit score," says Beverly Harzog, Independent credit card expert and consumer advocate. "By setting up automatic payments, your bills are paid on time, and you don't miss any payments because you are traveling or forgot."
For those of us who play the credit card rewards game, automatic payments can be a great way to earn additional rewards points or frequent flier miles. By using your credit card with the highest rewards benefits for autopayments, you will most likely earn the plane ticket, hotel stay or experience that you are coveting even quicker.
The adage "out of sight, out of mind" is often very true when it comes to paying your bills. Many people forget about the autopayments that they have signed up for until they open their credit card statement to find their balance is much higher than expected.
"When you set up an autopayment,Beautiful plasticcard in a wide range of colors & sold at factory direct prices. you often feel emotionally disconnected from the amount you are spending, and it is easy to get lulled into a sense of security that your bills are paid for," Harzog says. Since any benefits of autopayments are wiped out if you carry a balance on your card and pay interest, she recommends carefully reconciling your budget with the autopayments to make sure you are not spending more than you can pay off each month.
When you pay your bills manually, you most likely check through the bill to make sure that each payment is for the correct amount and that the company did not overcharge you. When you set up an automatic payment, it is much easier for you to not notice a mistake on the company's end and be overcharged. If you are not paying close attention to the bill, you could also be unaware of any fraudulent activity.
Each time you go over your credit limit, many credit cards will charge you an overdraft fee. If the card you have set up for autopayment is close to the limit, then you may find yourself paying additional fees and possibly negatively impacting your credit score by having a high balance. "Any time you are close to your credit limit on a credit card, your credit score can go down, which can be an issue if you are applying for a loan or refinancing your home," Harzog says.
Groupon is a 'group-buying' website that collates offers for discounted goods and services and markets them to users.
When she saw they payment was made to Groupon Helen called up and was told that a voucher for a Groupon getaway had been bought in her name. She immediately realised that her nephew must have accidentally clicked on the app whilst playing with her phone.
Helen, who lives in Manchester, said: 'My details were already stored from a previous purchase with Groupon online and this meant that with just one click the holiday was paid for out of my account.'
'I had no idea that this would happen and I was in complete shock.Our aim is to supply indoortracking which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. There is no warning on the app and with just one click he managed to spend over 500.'
A Groupon spokesman said: 'I can now confirm that her card issuer has now taken the funds from us and Helen should now have been refunded the amount in full.
'Customers can prevent this happening by not storing their details on their account if they are not the only person who has access to their computer or mobile phone.
'This means that they will have to enter their card details each time as an extra precaution. If they have their details stored, a purchase can be made more easily.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth streetlight truck Descriptions.All molds comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty !'
However, Helen argues that she was not notified when downloading the app to her phone that her card information was automatically stored from previous purchases and she wasn't alerted the she might need to put a security measure in place.
And she’s not alone. Last week This is Money reported that some youngsters are unknowingly generating bills of more than 500 through smartphones, with bills being charged to mobile phone accounts or parents’ credit cards.
Some mobile phone users have also fallen foul of scam versions of popular apps like Angry Birds and Minecraft, where they have been it with a 15 charge every time it was opened.The crystalmosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos.
But it’s not just scams that consumers need to be aware of - legitimate companies will offer free games to be downloaded and will then try and cash in by selling virtual coins, or other types of currency, to be used in the game.
2013年1月17日星期四
How Starbucks Will Make Millions Off Its New
Starbucks‘ recent introduction of a
reusable cup has already gleaned the company a grande dose of positive publicity
and brisk sales. But the advantages of this new program are just getting
rolling.
Besides winning Starbucks points with some environmentally minded consumers and possibly keeping tons of paper waste out of landfills, the program offers Starbucks a number of opportunities to grow sales.
The cups cost $1. When customers lose them, accidentally sit on and crush them, or forget to bring them back, that’s another $1. When they wear out — reports are they’re good for maybe a month if you don’t run them through the dishwasher — that’s another $1.
How many bucks might that add up to? Many stores reported they were selling out of the cups, and a YouGov Omnibus snap poll taken at the beginning of the month showed 28 percent of Americans had purchased or planned to purchase one. There are 233 million Americans old enough to drink coffee, so that’s about $65 million dollars if each of those consumers only buys a reusable cup once. Given how well we all remember to bring our reusable grocery bags back to the store, Starbucks could easily see repeat sales of the cup and even more revenue.
Instead of having to provide customers with a free, disposable cup it must purchase, Starbucks now gets to sell customers a semi-permanent cup. Less trash may also lower trash-removal charges at stores. Way to cut the overhead!
Customers save 10 cents by refilling their reusable cup, so they can earn back the price of the cup if they keep coming back to Starbucks. And they’ve got that visual reminder sitting in the car of where they should go for coffee. Can you say “drives customer loyalty“?
Here’s how pre-loaded gift cards work in terms of the balance sheet: Starbucks doesn’t report the money loaded onto them as income until someone comes in and orders a latte with their card. Until then, it’s considered deferred revenue. Last year, under $66 million of the $570 million that was loaded onto Starbucks cards was redeemed, leaving more than $500 million of potential revenue unclaimed. If the reusable cups can bring more repeat visits from card-holding customers, Starbucks could claim more of its card revenue sooner.
The program’s environmental benefit is a question mark, as the cups’ #5 plastic is not easy to recycle — many curbside recycling programs won’t accept it. Maybe Starbucks will encourage more outlets to accept it, which would be a real plus. Knowing Starbucks, they’ll improve the program as they go, so a switch to a more easily recyclable material is also a future possibility.
McEwan and Officer Kyle Ferreira responded to a home on a report from parents that their 23-year-old son was unconscious. The investigation determined that the man was having a medical reaction after injecting himself with heroin, and narcotics were located in his bedroom. He was transported to the hospital for treatment and ultimately released. He was charged by Officer Ferreira with possession of 17 glassine envelopes of heroin, possession of hypodermic needles and possession of narcotics paraphernalia. He was released on his own recognizance and will appear in municipal court.
Wyckoff Police responded to a Charnwood Drive home on a reported burglary. The investigation determined that the front door to the house had been kicked open to gain entry during a time the family was away. Several rooms of the house were ransacked, and the owner is compiling a list of stolen property. Detective Sgt. Joseph Soto, Officer Kevin Kasak and Officer Kyle Ferreira investigated.
The parents of a 26-year-old Wyckoff man called to report that their son was unconscious. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Sgt. Brian Zivkovich responded and found that the man was overdosing after injecting himself with heroin; during the investigation the officers located narcotics. The man was transported to the hospital for treatment and released several days later. Sgt. Zivkovich charged him with possession of three envelopes of heroin, possession of narcotics paraphernalia and possession of a hypodermic syringe. He was released on his own recognizance and will appear in municipal court.
At 5:30 p.m., the owner of Hartger’s Jewelers reported a suspicious vehicle in his parking lot with New York license plates. The vehicle drove away and then was located in the lot of Walgreeens on Wyckoff Avenue. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Officer Kevin Kasak responded and determined that the vehicle was occupied by four males who had different stories as to why they were in the area. Following a lengthy investigation and interviews, it was determined that the men were in possession of iPods, an iPad, a Global Positioning System, and more than a dozen gift cards that were purchased with stolen credit cards and gift cards that they stated they bought on the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y.You can buy mosaic Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock. Two of the individuals had given false names and had to be identified through fingerprint records.
All of the men were from Brooklyn. The 26-year-old was found to have an active warrant for his arrest from the Bergen County Court for contempt of a judicial court order. He was additionally charged by Officer Kasak with possession of stolen property, theft, use of a fraudulent credit card, and providing false information to hinder his apprehension. He was committed to Bergen County Jail in default of $25,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles.000 bail. The other three men, ages 20, 21 and 22, each were charged with possession of stolen property and theft. The 22-year-old additionally was charged with providing false information. They were released on their own recognizance and are scheduled to appear in municipal court in January.
A 17-year-old Wyckoff resident, who was on probation by the juvenile court system for previous juvenile offenses, was visited at his home by his probation officer. The officer determined that the boy had been smoking marijuana and contacted Wyckoff Police for assistance. Sgt. Brian Zivkovich and Officer Mark Tagliareni responded.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. A search of the home was conducted with the assistance of a Bergen County K-9 Unit,Want to find howo concrete mixer? and it was determined that the boy was in possession of about 1 pound of marijuana, numerous narcotic pills and narcotic mushrooms, a digital scale and plastic bags for packaging marijuana, and $6,000 cash. The cash was seized for forfeiture. The boy was charged by Officer Tagliareni with narcotic offenses. He was determined to be in violation of probation and committed to the Union County Juvenile Detention Center.
Officer Michael DeMaio stopped a vehicle for failing to stop for the stop sign at Wyckoff and Russell avenues. The officer detected the odor of marijuana in the vehicle, and a subsequent search led to the arrest of a 21-year-old Franklin Lakes resident.Find Complete Details about howo tractor Truck. He was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, possession of narcotics in a motor vehicle, and disregard of a stop sign. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Officer Michael Teegan assisted.
Besides winning Starbucks points with some environmentally minded consumers and possibly keeping tons of paper waste out of landfills, the program offers Starbucks a number of opportunities to grow sales.
The cups cost $1. When customers lose them, accidentally sit on and crush them, or forget to bring them back, that’s another $1. When they wear out — reports are they’re good for maybe a month if you don’t run them through the dishwasher — that’s another $1.
How many bucks might that add up to? Many stores reported they were selling out of the cups, and a YouGov Omnibus snap poll taken at the beginning of the month showed 28 percent of Americans had purchased or planned to purchase one. There are 233 million Americans old enough to drink coffee, so that’s about $65 million dollars if each of those consumers only buys a reusable cup once. Given how well we all remember to bring our reusable grocery bags back to the store, Starbucks could easily see repeat sales of the cup and even more revenue.
Instead of having to provide customers with a free, disposable cup it must purchase, Starbucks now gets to sell customers a semi-permanent cup. Less trash may also lower trash-removal charges at stores. Way to cut the overhead!
Customers save 10 cents by refilling their reusable cup, so they can earn back the price of the cup if they keep coming back to Starbucks. And they’ve got that visual reminder sitting in the car of where they should go for coffee. Can you say “drives customer loyalty“?
Here’s how pre-loaded gift cards work in terms of the balance sheet: Starbucks doesn’t report the money loaded onto them as income until someone comes in and orders a latte with their card. Until then, it’s considered deferred revenue. Last year, under $66 million of the $570 million that was loaded onto Starbucks cards was redeemed, leaving more than $500 million of potential revenue unclaimed. If the reusable cups can bring more repeat visits from card-holding customers, Starbucks could claim more of its card revenue sooner.
The program’s environmental benefit is a question mark, as the cups’ #5 plastic is not easy to recycle — many curbside recycling programs won’t accept it. Maybe Starbucks will encourage more outlets to accept it, which would be a real plus. Knowing Starbucks, they’ll improve the program as they go, so a switch to a more easily recyclable material is also a future possibility.
McEwan and Officer Kyle Ferreira responded to a home on a report from parents that their 23-year-old son was unconscious. The investigation determined that the man was having a medical reaction after injecting himself with heroin, and narcotics were located in his bedroom. He was transported to the hospital for treatment and ultimately released. He was charged by Officer Ferreira with possession of 17 glassine envelopes of heroin, possession of hypodermic needles and possession of narcotics paraphernalia. He was released on his own recognizance and will appear in municipal court.
Wyckoff Police responded to a Charnwood Drive home on a reported burglary. The investigation determined that the front door to the house had been kicked open to gain entry during a time the family was away. Several rooms of the house were ransacked, and the owner is compiling a list of stolen property. Detective Sgt. Joseph Soto, Officer Kevin Kasak and Officer Kyle Ferreira investigated.
The parents of a 26-year-old Wyckoff man called to report that their son was unconscious. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Sgt. Brian Zivkovich responded and found that the man was overdosing after injecting himself with heroin; during the investigation the officers located narcotics. The man was transported to the hospital for treatment and released several days later. Sgt. Zivkovich charged him with possession of three envelopes of heroin, possession of narcotics paraphernalia and possession of a hypodermic syringe. He was released on his own recognizance and will appear in municipal court.
At 5:30 p.m., the owner of Hartger’s Jewelers reported a suspicious vehicle in his parking lot with New York license plates. The vehicle drove away and then was located in the lot of Walgreeens on Wyckoff Avenue. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Officer Kevin Kasak responded and determined that the vehicle was occupied by four males who had different stories as to why they were in the area. Following a lengthy investigation and interviews, it was determined that the men were in possession of iPods, an iPad, a Global Positioning System, and more than a dozen gift cards that were purchased with stolen credit cards and gift cards that they stated they bought on the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y.You can buy mosaic Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock. Two of the individuals had given false names and had to be identified through fingerprint records.
All of the men were from Brooklyn. The 26-year-old was found to have an active warrant for his arrest from the Bergen County Court for contempt of a judicial court order. He was additionally charged by Officer Kasak with possession of stolen property, theft, use of a fraudulent credit card, and providing false information to hinder his apprehension. He was committed to Bergen County Jail in default of $25,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles.000 bail. The other three men, ages 20, 21 and 22, each were charged with possession of stolen property and theft. The 22-year-old additionally was charged with providing false information. They were released on their own recognizance and are scheduled to appear in municipal court in January.
A 17-year-old Wyckoff resident, who was on probation by the juvenile court system for previous juvenile offenses, was visited at his home by his probation officer. The officer determined that the boy had been smoking marijuana and contacted Wyckoff Police for assistance. Sgt. Brian Zivkovich and Officer Mark Tagliareni responded.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. A search of the home was conducted with the assistance of a Bergen County K-9 Unit,Want to find howo concrete mixer? and it was determined that the boy was in possession of about 1 pound of marijuana, numerous narcotic pills and narcotic mushrooms, a digital scale and plastic bags for packaging marijuana, and $6,000 cash. The cash was seized for forfeiture. The boy was charged by Officer Tagliareni with narcotic offenses. He was determined to be in violation of probation and committed to the Union County Juvenile Detention Center.
Officer Michael DeMaio stopped a vehicle for failing to stop for the stop sign at Wyckoff and Russell avenues. The officer detected the odor of marijuana in the vehicle, and a subsequent search led to the arrest of a 21-year-old Franklin Lakes resident.Find Complete Details about howo tractor Truck. He was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, possession of narcotics in a motor vehicle, and disregard of a stop sign. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Officer Michael Teegan assisted.
Chip Kelly Can Save the Philadelphia Eagles
Everyone knows you can't win in this
league without a good quarterback, right? That's been tattooed to our brains by
every NFL analyst in the nation. And to a lesser extent, it's widely considered
to be factual that you can't usually win without good pass rushers, either.
But it's strange how rarely, in comparison, you hear about how valuable good coaching is. Outliers win Super Bowls without great quarterbacks or solid pass rushes (although never with neither), but nobody comes close to the Lombardi Trophy without top-of-the-line coaches. It is the trump card in this game.
The Philadelphia Eagles have been an un-hot mess for 18 months. They need a superhero to get them back onto the perennial brink they resided on for over a decade under Andy Reid.howo spareparts And since you can't just pick a franchise-saving quarterback from a tree, the Eagles' best shot at a quick turnaround was to find a potential franchise-saving head coach.
It's hard to imagine there were many/any better options for that than Chip Kelly, who this week became the 21st head coach in team history after playing hard to get for two and a half weeks.
It's impossible to predict how this will end.Get the best deal on solar panel in the UK and use our free tools. Hell, it's impossible to predict how it'll start. But you get a gut feeling one way or another, and it's not as though I'd be significantly more confident with anyone else.
There's a risk here. A risk that Kelly becomes another Steve Spurrier or another Nick Saban, or some sort of frightening blend of both. After all, he's a control freak with absolutely no experience coaching professional athletes. It's easier to be anal retentive and dictatorial with students than it is with grown men.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot.
Despite what we're hearing, I have my doubts that Kelly and general manager Howie Roseman can stay out of each other's way. I don't know that Kelly can let Roseman call the shots in the draft and during free agency year after year without losing patience. I can see and feel the blowup already. I can already hear the outrage on 94 WIP and 97.5 The Fanatic.Ubisense RTLS solutions go beyond the traditional definition of a “real time location system” to a new class.
But while that risk remains present, the potential reward is larger than it would be with any other candidate, up to and including Jon Gruden. And even if Kelly does eventually make a power play, it might not be a bad thing. OCD coaches like Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin have proven that.
That has to have its limits in this case, because Kelly has to know that only parts of his Oregon offense can make the commute from Eugene to Philly. Elements can and will work, but the system as a whole wasn't made for this league. The rosters are too shallow, the offensive players too slow and the defensive players too fast and sophisticated.
I believe Kelly knows that, and if that is indeed that case, he might truly possess everything you need to lead the resurrection of this franchise.
He can't do so single-handedly, but he at least has that utterly-important pass rush in place. He risks screwing it up by fixing what ain't broke and requiring a 4-3-oriented defense to switch to the 3-4, though, and it's imperative that he finds the right defensive coordinator for a unit that hasn't been led properly since the Jim Johnson days.
And of course he needs that quarterback, whoever it may be. This franchise can't completely be saved without the right piece in place under center, whether that's Michael Vick or Nick Foles or Alex Smith or Geno Smith or Matt Flynn or John Doe.
I don't have the answer there, but I'm optimistically going to believe that Kelly's enough of an offensive genius to make the right decision in that regard and then create the system that pivot requires.
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Bij Baas aangekomen worden alleen de RFID tags gescand, en de goederen automatisch ingeboekt. Bij elke RFID scan wordt de container automatisch op echtheid gecontroleerd en geregistreerd, voor een sluitende administratie, zonder extra werk.
Volgens Lenthe hebben bijna vijftig kwekers afgelopen seizoen meegedaan aan Baas Go!. Er waren dagen dat meer dan vijftig procent van het inkomende volume gekoppeld werd aangeleverd”, aldus Van Lenthe. De reacties van de leveranciers zijn overwegend positief.Buy Joan Rivers crystal mosaic Stretch Bracelet. Van Lenthe zegt hierover: “Afgelopen seizoen is op het gebied van RFID tracking and tracing bijzonder leerzaam gebleken. Wat we hebben bereikt is dat we meer inzicht hebben in onze supply chain en er minder fouten worden gemaakt. Op basis van de leerervaringen werd ook een nieuwe scanner ontwikkeld die het komend seizoen wordt ingezet.
Dit najaar heeft D. Speksnijder Transport zich als eerste transport onderneming bij Baas Go! aangesloten. In pilot die twee maanden duurde, scanden de chauffeurs van Speksneijder de karren voor het laden van de vrachtauto. De gegevens van deze loading scan legt de overdracht van verantwoordelijkheden duidelijk vast en zo wordt een belangrijke volgende stap gezet naar realtime inzicht in de gang van de plantencontainers, voor traceerbaarheid door zowel kweker, transportplanner als handelaar.
But it's strange how rarely, in comparison, you hear about how valuable good coaching is. Outliers win Super Bowls without great quarterbacks or solid pass rushes (although never with neither), but nobody comes close to the Lombardi Trophy without top-of-the-line coaches. It is the trump card in this game.
The Philadelphia Eagles have been an un-hot mess for 18 months. They need a superhero to get them back onto the perennial brink they resided on for over a decade under Andy Reid.howo spareparts And since you can't just pick a franchise-saving quarterback from a tree, the Eagles' best shot at a quick turnaround was to find a potential franchise-saving head coach.
It's hard to imagine there were many/any better options for that than Chip Kelly, who this week became the 21st head coach in team history after playing hard to get for two and a half weeks.
It's impossible to predict how this will end.Get the best deal on solar panel in the UK and use our free tools. Hell, it's impossible to predict how it'll start. But you get a gut feeling one way or another, and it's not as though I'd be significantly more confident with anyone else.
There's a risk here. A risk that Kelly becomes another Steve Spurrier or another Nick Saban, or some sort of frightening blend of both. After all, he's a control freak with absolutely no experience coaching professional athletes. It's easier to be anal retentive and dictatorial with students than it is with grown men.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot.
Despite what we're hearing, I have my doubts that Kelly and general manager Howie Roseman can stay out of each other's way. I don't know that Kelly can let Roseman call the shots in the draft and during free agency year after year without losing patience. I can see and feel the blowup already. I can already hear the outrage on 94 WIP and 97.5 The Fanatic.Ubisense RTLS solutions go beyond the traditional definition of a “real time location system” to a new class.
But while that risk remains present, the potential reward is larger than it would be with any other candidate, up to and including Jon Gruden. And even if Kelly does eventually make a power play, it might not be a bad thing. OCD coaches like Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin have proven that.
That has to have its limits in this case, because Kelly has to know that only parts of his Oregon offense can make the commute from Eugene to Philly. Elements can and will work, but the system as a whole wasn't made for this league. The rosters are too shallow, the offensive players too slow and the defensive players too fast and sophisticated.
I believe Kelly knows that, and if that is indeed that case, he might truly possess everything you need to lead the resurrection of this franchise.
He can't do so single-handedly, but he at least has that utterly-important pass rush in place. He risks screwing it up by fixing what ain't broke and requiring a 4-3-oriented defense to switch to the 3-4, though, and it's imperative that he finds the right defensive coordinator for a unit that hasn't been led properly since the Jim Johnson days.
And of course he needs that quarterback, whoever it may be. This franchise can't completely be saved without the right piece in place under center, whether that's Michael Vick or Nick Foles or Alex Smith or Geno Smith or Matt Flynn or John Doe.
I don't have the answer there, but I'm optimistically going to believe that Kelly's enough of an offensive genius to make the right decision in that regard and then create the system that pivot requires.
Het systeem dat Baas Plantenservice heeft ontwikkeld werkt als volgt: kwekers die leveren aan Baas, brengen een barcode label aan op elke CC Container met planten. Met een handscanner worden de barcode en de CC RFID tag gescand en gekoppeld. Deze gegevens worden via het Supply Chain Platform aan de plantengroothandel en transporteurs beschikbaar gesteld, om het aanvoer transport te optimaliseren en te stroomlijnen.
Bij Baas aangekomen worden alleen de RFID tags gescand, en de goederen automatisch ingeboekt. Bij elke RFID scan wordt de container automatisch op echtheid gecontroleerd en geregistreerd, voor een sluitende administratie, zonder extra werk.
Volgens Lenthe hebben bijna vijftig kwekers afgelopen seizoen meegedaan aan Baas Go!. Er waren dagen dat meer dan vijftig procent van het inkomende volume gekoppeld werd aangeleverd”, aldus Van Lenthe. De reacties van de leveranciers zijn overwegend positief.Buy Joan Rivers crystal mosaic Stretch Bracelet. Van Lenthe zegt hierover: “Afgelopen seizoen is op het gebied van RFID tracking and tracing bijzonder leerzaam gebleken. Wat we hebben bereikt is dat we meer inzicht hebben in onze supply chain en er minder fouten worden gemaakt. Op basis van de leerervaringen werd ook een nieuwe scanner ontwikkeld die het komend seizoen wordt ingezet.
Dit najaar heeft D. Speksnijder Transport zich als eerste transport onderneming bij Baas Go! aangesloten. In pilot die twee maanden duurde, scanden de chauffeurs van Speksneijder de karren voor het laden van de vrachtauto. De gegevens van deze loading scan legt de overdracht van verantwoordelijkheden duidelijk vast en zo wordt een belangrijke volgende stap gezet naar realtime inzicht in de gang van de plantencontainers, voor traceerbaarheid door zowel kweker, transportplanner als handelaar.
Banks and Celebrities Love Them ... But Should You?
It seems there's no shortage
of banks issuing prepaid credit cards in 2013,Add depth and style to your home
with these large format polished
tiles. and no shortage of customers -- and celebrities -- willing to give
them a chance.
This hybrid of credit and debit cards (you pre-load the refillable card with cash and then use it like you would a credit card) is rapidly grabbing market share from its plastic predecessors. It began in 2011 when a new law limited how much banks could charge merchants for debit card transactions (known as swipe fees). Banks scrambled to find a way to replace the profits they were losing -- a whopping $40 billion a year in revenue.
For a while it seemed that gift cards would fill the void, especially since the Credit CARD Act of 2009 nixed many of the more predatory practices associated with those cards, including inactivity fees, dormancy fees, and service fees. But the limitations of gift cards left the door open for another solution.
Current teen heartthrob Justin Bieber made news recently when he announced his new card, and promised to make videos about the importance of financial literacy.
In a move aimed at adults, financial guru Suze Orman launched her branded card last year with a goal of increasing transparency in the prepaid market in 2011.
But endorsement deals can backfire, particularly when it comes to this product that is not currently subject to many of the regulations governing gift cards and credit/debit cards.
"As fast as celebrity endorsers enter the fray, many of them leave just as quickly,All our plastic moulds are vacuum formed using food safe plastic." says RushCard's Rosenblatt. He knows too well how such endorsement deals can create negative press: The Russell Simmons RushCard has come under fire for its high fees.
Crazy fees were also the downfall of the Kardashian card, which was on the market for just a few short weeks before it was pulled due to complaints about its exorbitant hidden fees.
Regardless of whose face graces a prepaid card, the real value of the product comes down to fees and benefits. How much will it cost to use this card, to reload it, to withdraw cash, to replace a card, or to maintain monthly fees? What benefits, online apps, and financial tools are available?
I just had lunch with Anna Almendrala, the 27-year-old associate editor of Huffington Post's Los Angeles page. She ended our meal by ordering a cup of coffee to go, and whipped out a plastic card to pay for it. I think the coffee cost $2.75.
It dawned on me: Anna is part of the generation that doesn't carry cash. Never, as in Not Ever. I find this kind of fascinating because if I didn't have a wad of cash in my wallet, my inclination would be to drop what I was doing and rush to the nearest ATM.Panasonic ventilation system fans are energy efficient and whisper quiet. The thing with carrying cash? It's a generational thing.Our team of consultants are skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects.
Anna uses a debit or credit card for everything, including parking meters. She uses plastic to fill up her gas tank, pay for her restaurant meals, make her in-store and online purchases. There is not so much as a single fat nickel in her slim wallet, just her credit and debit cards and her driver's license for ID.
She feels liberated. The mother in me wanted to press a ten-spot into her palm.
No, it's not just Anna.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. I asked for a show of hands in the Los Angeles newsroom of who regularly carries cash and the only one that shot up was the hand of a 58-year-old guy. Nobody else regularly carries cash. It's also not just an L.A. thing. I asked a bunch of 20-something New Yorkers whether they carry cash. "No," "not much of it" and "not often" were the responses. They use pre-paid transit cards for the subway and even taxis nowadays take debit cards.
I was raised to carry not only enough cash to cover every possible contingency, but to carry it in multiple places on my person as a safety precaution. When I was a teenager dating, there would always be a few dollars stuck in my shoe. We had a little signal, Mom and me; she'd look meaningfully at my feet as I left the house on a date, and I would give her a short affirmative nod as I blew a kiss good night. It was Mother-Daughter code for keeping you safe back in the '60s.
Having cash on you, I was taught, was protection against the unknown. It was your "just in case" armor. No one ever said what "just in case" could possibly be, and like all good imaginations run amok, my "just in case" mental reel was filled with blood and guts and my body being dumped in the woods on the outside of town -- all presumably because I didn't have money on me to call for help. Carrying cash, even to this day, makes me feel more secure.
This hybrid of credit and debit cards (you pre-load the refillable card with cash and then use it like you would a credit card) is rapidly grabbing market share from its plastic predecessors. It began in 2011 when a new law limited how much banks could charge merchants for debit card transactions (known as swipe fees). Banks scrambled to find a way to replace the profits they were losing -- a whopping $40 billion a year in revenue.
For a while it seemed that gift cards would fill the void, especially since the Credit CARD Act of 2009 nixed many of the more predatory practices associated with those cards, including inactivity fees, dormancy fees, and service fees. But the limitations of gift cards left the door open for another solution.
Current teen heartthrob Justin Bieber made news recently when he announced his new card, and promised to make videos about the importance of financial literacy.
In a move aimed at adults, financial guru Suze Orman launched her branded card last year with a goal of increasing transparency in the prepaid market in 2011.
But endorsement deals can backfire, particularly when it comes to this product that is not currently subject to many of the regulations governing gift cards and credit/debit cards.
"As fast as celebrity endorsers enter the fray, many of them leave just as quickly,All our plastic moulds are vacuum formed using food safe plastic." says RushCard's Rosenblatt. He knows too well how such endorsement deals can create negative press: The Russell Simmons RushCard has come under fire for its high fees.
Crazy fees were also the downfall of the Kardashian card, which was on the market for just a few short weeks before it was pulled due to complaints about its exorbitant hidden fees.
Regardless of whose face graces a prepaid card, the real value of the product comes down to fees and benefits. How much will it cost to use this card, to reload it, to withdraw cash, to replace a card, or to maintain monthly fees? What benefits, online apps, and financial tools are available?
I just had lunch with Anna Almendrala, the 27-year-old associate editor of Huffington Post's Los Angeles page. She ended our meal by ordering a cup of coffee to go, and whipped out a plastic card to pay for it. I think the coffee cost $2.75.
It dawned on me: Anna is part of the generation that doesn't carry cash. Never, as in Not Ever. I find this kind of fascinating because if I didn't have a wad of cash in my wallet, my inclination would be to drop what I was doing and rush to the nearest ATM.Panasonic ventilation system fans are energy efficient and whisper quiet. The thing with carrying cash? It's a generational thing.Our team of consultants are skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects.
Anna uses a debit or credit card for everything, including parking meters. She uses plastic to fill up her gas tank, pay for her restaurant meals, make her in-store and online purchases. There is not so much as a single fat nickel in her slim wallet, just her credit and debit cards and her driver's license for ID.
She feels liberated. The mother in me wanted to press a ten-spot into her palm.
No, it's not just Anna.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. I asked for a show of hands in the Los Angeles newsroom of who regularly carries cash and the only one that shot up was the hand of a 58-year-old guy. Nobody else regularly carries cash. It's also not just an L.A. thing. I asked a bunch of 20-something New Yorkers whether they carry cash. "No," "not much of it" and "not often" were the responses. They use pre-paid transit cards for the subway and even taxis nowadays take debit cards.
I was raised to carry not only enough cash to cover every possible contingency, but to carry it in multiple places on my person as a safety precaution. When I was a teenager dating, there would always be a few dollars stuck in my shoe. We had a little signal, Mom and me; she'd look meaningfully at my feet as I left the house on a date, and I would give her a short affirmative nod as I blew a kiss good night. It was Mother-Daughter code for keeping you safe back in the '60s.
Having cash on you, I was taught, was protection against the unknown. It was your "just in case" armor. No one ever said what "just in case" could possibly be, and like all good imaginations run amok, my "just in case" mental reel was filled with blood and guts and my body being dumped in the woods on the outside of town -- all presumably because I didn't have money on me to call for help. Carrying cash, even to this day, makes me feel more secure.
2013年1月16日星期三
Bad pollution driving many expatriates out of Beijing
Many expatriates in Beijing used to find the capital a pleasant city to live in, especially right after the 2008 Olympics.
The city's air quality improved yesterday morning, with readings of health-threatening PM2.5 respirable particles of about 100 micrograms per cubic metre of air, down from nearly 900 on Saturday. But the figure rose to above 200 in the afternoon as the sky turned milky, triggering concerns about the return of the smog that blanketed the city at the weekend.
The World Health Organisation recommends that PM2.5 levels be kept below 25 micrograms per cubic metre.
Joshua Dyer, a translator from the United States, recalled how different Beijing's air was when he arrived in 2008, when huge sums were being invested to improve the environment for the Olympics. "It was surprisingly good. Many blue skies,Our aim is to supply air purifier which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements." he said. "But what happened over the weekend was really shocking."
Dyer uses an air filter at home and puts on a mask when pollution readings are high. "The air pollution is one reason I know I can't stay much longer here. I feel the bad air affects me psychologically as well. I feel sluggish on heavily polluted days."
An American PR consultant, who arrived in Beijing two years ago, said he was planning to move,We maintain a full inventory of all cable tie we manufacture. even though his employer wanted him to stay. "Many people are talking about whether to stay. The air pollution pushes them over the edge so that they really can't take it," he said.
The consultant said he thought Beijing's air pollution would be similar to that of Hong Kong when he first arrived in the capital, but he was always coughing after suffering from mild pneumonia last year. "Sometimes I end up taking aspirin to cure a headache after waking up," he said.
A Beijing-based American blogger working for a mainland newspaper said: "I have had more respiratory problems living in Beijing in 21/2 years than I had in my entire life in the US."
Some Hongkongers in Beijing also find the air pollution unbearable, even though they are not leaving Beijing. "I have to spend a fortune on buying an air purifier and am limited to staying at home," said Hongkonger Elaine Ho, who came to Beijing to join her husband three years ago.
A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China last year showed 36 per cent of 244 companies experienced difficulties recruiting senior executives because of air quality issues - up from 19 per cent in 2010.
Richard Saint Cyr, a doctor at Beijing United Family Hospital, said he was receiving more patients,We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. not only because of pollution but also due to the flu season.
The doctor, who has lived in Beijing for six years, said air quality had deteriorated, but he still planned to raise his family in the capital. "When it comes to emotional health, my life here is quite interesting and exciting," he said.
Many mainland cities were still experiencing bad pollution yesterday, especially Shanghai, where the PM2.5 reading was 242. Liu Ronggen, 75, said he found it uncomfortable to breathe. "I had to wear a mask and I told my granddaughter not to do outdoor activities at her primary school," he said.
That is why Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying yesterday pledged to introduce a HK$10 billion package to remove tens of thousands of the dirtiest vehicles from the streets in phases between now and 2019.Explore online some of the many available selections in floor tiles. It is the largest and most expensive measure ever to clean up the city's air.
As well as offering larger cash incentives for owners to scrap their vehicles than previous,We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. unsuccessful schemes, the vehicle replacement plan will also limit the lifespan of newly registered trucks to a maximum of 15 years.
Officials say a new law would be needed to impose the lifespan limit before they seek lawmakers' approval for the funding.
Besides addressing the problem of what he called "carcinogenic" roadside pollution, Leung also pledged to introduce legislation next year to require all oceangoing vessels to use fuel with lower sulphur content when berthed in the city, a move think tank Civic Exchange called a "major breakthrough" that could reduce the sulphur emissions by up to a third.
Leung also plans to force all 15,000 vessels operating in local waters to use cleaner fuel.
Officials hope these policies can improve air quality, helping to extend the lives of the 3,000 people estimated to die prematurely each year due to air pollution and reduce annual economic losses of HK$39 billion attributed by experts to the pollution. But the measures are set to prompt a battle with the transport industry, which says the package goes too far, and green groups like Friends of the Earth and Clean Air Network which say the old vehicles are not being phased out quickly enough.
Under the plan, about 88,000 commercial diesel vehicles which pre-date the Euro IV emission standard introduced in the city in 2006 would be removed from the streets in phases. These vehicles account for about half of all nitrogen oxides emissions and 88 per cent of particles at the roadside.
From 2016, no new licences would be allowed for vehicles that pre-date the Euro and Euro I emissions standards. Pre-Euro II vehicles will not be licensed from 2017, pre-Euro III vehicles from 2019. By the deadlines, these vehicles would be at least 13 years old. Some would have been running for more than 18 years.
Ex-gratia payments based on the age of the vehicle and representing a percentage of the cost of replacement would be offered to affected owners. Those who scrap and replace old vehicles could receive between 18 per cent and 30 per cent of the cost of the replacement, up from 10 per cent to 12 per cent in past schemes.
Unlike previous schemes, owners who scrap their vehicle without replacement would also receive cash, at a rate of between 10 per cent and 18 per cent of a new vehicle's cost.
But Lau, the truck owner, said a payment of just HK$200,000 would not be enough for him to buy a new truck, which would cost HK$1 million. "It is going to rob me of my living," he said, adding he would drive his vehicle until the 2016 deadline.
The city's air quality improved yesterday morning, with readings of health-threatening PM2.5 respirable particles of about 100 micrograms per cubic metre of air, down from nearly 900 on Saturday. But the figure rose to above 200 in the afternoon as the sky turned milky, triggering concerns about the return of the smog that blanketed the city at the weekend.
The World Health Organisation recommends that PM2.5 levels be kept below 25 micrograms per cubic metre.
Joshua Dyer, a translator from the United States, recalled how different Beijing's air was when he arrived in 2008, when huge sums were being invested to improve the environment for the Olympics. "It was surprisingly good. Many blue skies,Our aim is to supply air purifier which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements." he said. "But what happened over the weekend was really shocking."
Dyer uses an air filter at home and puts on a mask when pollution readings are high. "The air pollution is one reason I know I can't stay much longer here. I feel the bad air affects me psychologically as well. I feel sluggish on heavily polluted days."
An American PR consultant, who arrived in Beijing two years ago, said he was planning to move,We maintain a full inventory of all cable tie we manufacture. even though his employer wanted him to stay. "Many people are talking about whether to stay. The air pollution pushes them over the edge so that they really can't take it," he said.
The consultant said he thought Beijing's air pollution would be similar to that of Hong Kong when he first arrived in the capital, but he was always coughing after suffering from mild pneumonia last year. "Sometimes I end up taking aspirin to cure a headache after waking up," he said.
A Beijing-based American blogger working for a mainland newspaper said: "I have had more respiratory problems living in Beijing in 21/2 years than I had in my entire life in the US."
Some Hongkongers in Beijing also find the air pollution unbearable, even though they are not leaving Beijing. "I have to spend a fortune on buying an air purifier and am limited to staying at home," said Hongkonger Elaine Ho, who came to Beijing to join her husband three years ago.
A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China last year showed 36 per cent of 244 companies experienced difficulties recruiting senior executives because of air quality issues - up from 19 per cent in 2010.
Richard Saint Cyr, a doctor at Beijing United Family Hospital, said he was receiving more patients,We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. not only because of pollution but also due to the flu season.
The doctor, who has lived in Beijing for six years, said air quality had deteriorated, but he still planned to raise his family in the capital. "When it comes to emotional health, my life here is quite interesting and exciting," he said.
Many mainland cities were still experiencing bad pollution yesterday, especially Shanghai, where the PM2.5 reading was 242. Liu Ronggen, 75, said he found it uncomfortable to breathe. "I had to wear a mask and I told my granddaughter not to do outdoor activities at her primary school," he said.
That is why Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying yesterday pledged to introduce a HK$10 billion package to remove tens of thousands of the dirtiest vehicles from the streets in phases between now and 2019.Explore online some of the many available selections in floor tiles. It is the largest and most expensive measure ever to clean up the city's air.
As well as offering larger cash incentives for owners to scrap their vehicles than previous,We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. unsuccessful schemes, the vehicle replacement plan will also limit the lifespan of newly registered trucks to a maximum of 15 years.
Officials say a new law would be needed to impose the lifespan limit before they seek lawmakers' approval for the funding.
Besides addressing the problem of what he called "carcinogenic" roadside pollution, Leung also pledged to introduce legislation next year to require all oceangoing vessels to use fuel with lower sulphur content when berthed in the city, a move think tank Civic Exchange called a "major breakthrough" that could reduce the sulphur emissions by up to a third.
Leung also plans to force all 15,000 vessels operating in local waters to use cleaner fuel.
Officials hope these policies can improve air quality, helping to extend the lives of the 3,000 people estimated to die prematurely each year due to air pollution and reduce annual economic losses of HK$39 billion attributed by experts to the pollution. But the measures are set to prompt a battle with the transport industry, which says the package goes too far, and green groups like Friends of the Earth and Clean Air Network which say the old vehicles are not being phased out quickly enough.
Under the plan, about 88,000 commercial diesel vehicles which pre-date the Euro IV emission standard introduced in the city in 2006 would be removed from the streets in phases. These vehicles account for about half of all nitrogen oxides emissions and 88 per cent of particles at the roadside.
From 2016, no new licences would be allowed for vehicles that pre-date the Euro and Euro I emissions standards. Pre-Euro II vehicles will not be licensed from 2017, pre-Euro III vehicles from 2019. By the deadlines, these vehicles would be at least 13 years old. Some would have been running for more than 18 years.
Ex-gratia payments based on the age of the vehicle and representing a percentage of the cost of replacement would be offered to affected owners. Those who scrap and replace old vehicles could receive between 18 per cent and 30 per cent of the cost of the replacement, up from 10 per cent to 12 per cent in past schemes.
Unlike previous schemes, owners who scrap their vehicle without replacement would also receive cash, at a rate of between 10 per cent and 18 per cent of a new vehicle's cost.
But Lau, the truck owner, said a payment of just HK$200,000 would not be enough for him to buy a new truck, which would cost HK$1 million. "It is going to rob me of my living," he said, adding he would drive his vehicle until the 2016 deadline.
Irrigation lawsuit tops items in Caldwell Mayor’s City
In his 15th annual State of the City Address Tuesday, Caldwell Mayor
Garrett Nancolas vowed the city will “continued to fight” its legal
battle with the Pioneer Irrigation District over storm drain access. The
fight has put the city at odds with the Irrigation District, the Idaho
Farm Bureau and the Idaho Water Users Association.
Also in his address, the Mayor weighed in on the issue of gun rights, touted Caldwell’s success in establishing a Foreign Trade Zone, the addition of a new park, and how the city has survived during tough economic times.
This year's recipient is known as the "First Lady of the Arts" because of her work as a musician, teacher, mentor, and booster of the fine and performing arts. She graduated summa cum laude from the College of Idaho, Class of 1959 with a degree in piano performance and music history. A native of Idaho Falls she began playing piano in the sixth grade.
By ninth grade she was already accomplished enough to perform the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah with her ninth grade choir. Sylvia has been the director of the Caldwell Fine Arts for 31 years and the 51-year-old organization has flourished and expanded since she took the helm. In addition to directing Caldwell Fine Arts, she still plays and performs as she did here today, wasn’t that beautiful by the way?
And thank you also to her partner, Mrs. Attebery. She has performed as the organist at Boone Presbyterian Church in Caldwell for over 50 years and she and Barbara Attebery have performed a piano duet recital every year since 1986. Sylvia and Jack Hunt will celebrate their 53rd anniversary in July. They have two children, Anthony Hunt and Mary Hunt Macey and four grandchildren. Her awards include the Idaho Statesman Distinguished Citizen, the Idaho Governor's Medal for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and the College of Idaho Alumni Service Award.
Please help me and welcome to the stage to receive this year's Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award, Mrs. Sylvia Hunt. I want you to know that the music was absolutely gorgeous and we're so grateful, but that was our way of getting her here without her knowing that this award was coming.
I'd like again to read Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Sylvia Hunt for your exemplary leadership and selfless acts of time and dedication to the city of Caldwell and the College of Idaho. Your talents as a musician, teacher, and mentor are outstanding. You are the Treasure Valley's First Lady of the Arts. Thank you very, very much.Do you know any howo spare parts wholesale supplier?
There are also some other individuals in this room that I would like to recognize and thank. I am so thankful for my parents. They're not here in body, but I know they're here in spirit. I'm grateful for the lessons that they taught me, for the values that they instilled in me. I'm so grateful for the great example that they were of all that's good in life.
My mother was the queen of compassion. She absolutely instilled that in her children and everybody who knew her and I'm so grateful for those lessons that she taught me.
I am grateful for my wife. What a trooper she is. She is so wonderful at being a wife, a mother, a grandmother. As you know, we're helping to raise two of our granddaughters and they adore her and they love her. That is so important in the overall realm of things. I'm grateful for her. Pam, would you please stand and let everybody just say hi to you.
You know they say that an individual is measured by their friends and if that's the case then I am the luckiest man on the planet because I have some of the most wonderful and incredible friends in the world.
Other elected officials who have supported me and taught me, mentored me, and stood by me through very, very difficult times over the past decade and I would like to thank those elected officials for their willingness to serve.
Mayor Tammy de Weerd from the city of Meridian, Chris Yamamoto the county clerk, newly elected Sheriff Donahue, Canyon County Commission, Craig Hanson, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, thank you so very much for coming.
Talk about a man of integrity and honor. That is the premier example of those two characteristics. So as we look at 2012, boy, am I glad the Mayans were wrong. We have so much to look forward to. We have so many things yet to accomplish. And 2012, was a year that was very interesting to say the least. It was a year filled with challenges, new opportunities, frustrations, economic concerns. It was a time that exemplified that life has changed.
We are, as you know, the sum total of all the events that happen in our lives, right? Everything that has happened prior to us that led up to 2012, makes us who we are today.
All those things that were good, that were bad, that were happy, that were sad, that were challenging, that were rewarding, that were successful, all those things seemed to come to a head in 2012 with all the issues that we faced. We live in a time now where technology is at its all time high. We can receive information instantaneously.
Information can be broadcast around the world in a matter of seconds. People tweet. Facebook, LinkedIn, all kinds of ways of communicating electronically that have changed the way that we as a society communicate. And I think there's wonderful things about that, but I think there's also a very, very unintended negative side of that.
Because I believe that the most important thing that we have are relationships and it's so hard to have a relationship that is not face-to-face. It's hard to tell when you're tweeting if you're joking or not. It's hard to tell on Facebook or through email if you're serious or not, or you're angry or not, or upset or not. And so those are things that have changed the way that we communicate so it's very, very important that we choose our words and our actions wisely. It has also become a state of transparency in everything we do, which is also good.
People who are involved in governments need to be held to a higher standard. We have made commitments and promises to those who elected us to live in an exemplary manner and that's very, very important.
But because of technology, everything is so transparent that we have to be on our best watch all the time. And that is a good thing, but it's also made us change the way that we live our lives knowing that.
his year 2012, was a year of fiscal and economic uncertainty. We didn’t know whether we were going to fall off a cliff or not. We still don’t know if that cliff will be overcome. We don’t know what the ramifications of that are. We are in the third year of a very, very dramatic downturn in trying to put our budgets together.
And so it's changed the dynamics of what we do as a city, and as families, and as individuals dramatically. Adrian Peterson, does everybody know who that is? He was the running back that the Boise State Broncos had to contain in that famous Fiesta Bowl. Do you remember that running back? Well, he has gone on to become what I consider a great running back.
This year in a year where the number of running plays per game is at a all time low in the National Football League, he nearly broke the single season rushing record in an environment like that by nine yards. That's a tremendous feat when there were only 27 running plays per game on the average in the NFL. But did he do it by himself? No.
The unsung heroes are those huge linemen that open up holes in front of him or that incredible quarterback that he had the opportunity of playing with that deceived others and created a running game by being a great passer. And the coaches who put that program together, the defense that kept the other team from scoring and allowed the offensive to be on the field. All those great team players allowed Adrian Peterson to become known as one of the greatest running backs of all time. Now I looked up in the dictionary the definition of good. And that definition said, adequate and satisfactory.
There are a lot of good running backs in the NFL. But I looked up great and it said, outstandingly superior is what the dictionary said. And I believe Adrian Peterson fits that definition, but not by himself.We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. Only with the efforts of those around him does he qualify for that definition. And so, as we work together to become great we cannot do it on our own.
We cannot become great without the efforts of all our partners. The employees of the city of Caldwell, the Chamber of Commerce, the College of Idaho, Treasure Valley Community College, all of the governmental entities that we work with, these great city council members, the citizens of this community, the students of this community, the business owners in this community. All of our partners working together we can become great because we need those linemen to open up the hole for us to run through.
And I submit to you, that that is why this community is not just good, that we are great because we have great partners. We have great citizens. We have great linemen opening up the holes for us every time we turn around and I believe that's what makes Caldwell great. I would like to thank those linemen who opened up the holes for us, the employees of the city of Caldwell.
If you are here, would you please rise and let everyone here recognize you and tell you thank you for the job that you do. Employees please stand up so that we can thank you.
When we take office, we take an oath. And that oath says that we solemnly swear or affirm that we will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Idaho,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. and the laws and ordinances of Caldwell. And that we will to the best of our ability faithfully perform the duties of the office that we hold, and then we close by saying, so help me God.
I want you to know that I hold that promise very dear. That is a promise. That's the promise that each one of us have made to you but we also made that promise to God. That we would stand up for what is right and support the Constitution of the United States of America.
And one of the things that I think separates this city from being a good city and a great city is that three times now we have had the challenge of defending your rights that have been threatened by other governmental entities as citizens of Caldwell.
The first time was when FEMA came into this community and based upon inaccurate information tried to impose a flood map upon the cities of Nampa and Caldwell, which would have caused dramatic negative consequences to property owners within those proposed zones. We truly believed that the information was wrong. We had 99 years of empirical facts that said that information was wrong.We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. It would have been very easy to stand back and say well, this is the federal government.
They must know what they're doing and just to have allowed that to happen. But we did not. We gathered our partners together. We made a phone call to Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, because he knew Idaho. We made phone calls to the governor, to our congressional representatives. We partnered with the Bureau of Homeland Security. We partnered with the city of Nampa. We partnered with the Association of Idaho Cities. We partnered with the county. We partnered with our other elected officials and stood up to say that this is not right.
All the good things that are happening downtown are a result of those actions and business owners and property owners in the city of Caldwell saved about $4 million dollars a year in flood insurance premiums that they would have had to pay. I believe that is us standing up for the oath that we took to defend the Constitution.
Now, I would like to very bluntly and plainly address the second time that that has happened in our community and that is involving the Pioneer Irrigation District actions. Their attorney, Scott Campbell, and their Board of Directors sued the citizens of Caldwell, their own patrons, to take away their historical right, their God-given constitutionally protected right to drain into the very drains that those same property owners helped to build, help to construct, are paying for in the past, and are paying for today. We did not sue them. They sued you, the citizens, and business people of Caldwell who just happen to be in the boundaries of the Pioneer Irrigation District. That is the simpleness and the essence of this entire controversy.
Now, I want you to know and let it be said very firmly that we understand and value the agricultural community. It's the largest industry in Canyon County. Cities and counties across this nation get along just fine draining into drains that everybody can share. There are only two irrigation districts in this state that have had problems dealing with this so called drainage issue, both of them represented by the same law firm, both of them suing governmental entities to take away their rights to drain. I'll let you do the addition.
To me, two and two always equals four. And I can promise you that this city will never do anything to intentionally or inadvertently harm the agricultural community. We have been draining into those drains without consequence for over a 100 years and can continue to do so. But what we will not standby and allow to have happen is to have your rights taken away by another governmental entity because of ego, because of false accusations, fear mongering, and smoking mirrors. That's what this is about. So we will stand firm.
We will continue to fight because the consequences of this action would mean that you, who live in that irrigation district, would have to spend between $80 and $100 million dollars to recreate the very drainage system that you've already built and paid for. That is unconscionable in my estimation. And this body stands firm with resolve that we will not allow that to happen to our citizens. We also stand firm in the resolve that there is a way to make it happen so that everybody can be protected, so that everybody can have their rights preserved, and that life can go on, as it should with urban and agricultural activities living in harmony.A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
Recently, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors issued letters asking our President and Vice-President to violate the Constitution of the United States and ban guns. My heart goes out to those poor families in Newtown, Connecticut, whose children's lives were taken unnecessarily and violently. And we condemn the actions of individuals who use guns in violent acts, but that is not a reason or an excuse for the federal government to violate the Constitution of the United States and take away its citizens' rights to own guns.
Also in his address, the Mayor weighed in on the issue of gun rights, touted Caldwell’s success in establishing a Foreign Trade Zone, the addition of a new park, and how the city has survived during tough economic times.
This year's recipient is known as the "First Lady of the Arts" because of her work as a musician, teacher, mentor, and booster of the fine and performing arts. She graduated summa cum laude from the College of Idaho, Class of 1959 with a degree in piano performance and music history. A native of Idaho Falls she began playing piano in the sixth grade.
By ninth grade she was already accomplished enough to perform the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah with her ninth grade choir. Sylvia has been the director of the Caldwell Fine Arts for 31 years and the 51-year-old organization has flourished and expanded since she took the helm. In addition to directing Caldwell Fine Arts, she still plays and performs as she did here today, wasn’t that beautiful by the way?
And thank you also to her partner, Mrs. Attebery. She has performed as the organist at Boone Presbyterian Church in Caldwell for over 50 years and she and Barbara Attebery have performed a piano duet recital every year since 1986. Sylvia and Jack Hunt will celebrate their 53rd anniversary in July. They have two children, Anthony Hunt and Mary Hunt Macey and four grandchildren. Her awards include the Idaho Statesman Distinguished Citizen, the Idaho Governor's Medal for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and the College of Idaho Alumni Service Award.
Please help me and welcome to the stage to receive this year's Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award, Mrs. Sylvia Hunt. I want you to know that the music was absolutely gorgeous and we're so grateful, but that was our way of getting her here without her knowing that this award was coming.
I'd like again to read Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Sylvia Hunt for your exemplary leadership and selfless acts of time and dedication to the city of Caldwell and the College of Idaho. Your talents as a musician, teacher, and mentor are outstanding. You are the Treasure Valley's First Lady of the Arts. Thank you very, very much.Do you know any howo spare parts wholesale supplier?
There are also some other individuals in this room that I would like to recognize and thank. I am so thankful for my parents. They're not here in body, but I know they're here in spirit. I'm grateful for the lessons that they taught me, for the values that they instilled in me. I'm so grateful for the great example that they were of all that's good in life.
My mother was the queen of compassion. She absolutely instilled that in her children and everybody who knew her and I'm so grateful for those lessons that she taught me.
I am grateful for my wife. What a trooper she is. She is so wonderful at being a wife, a mother, a grandmother. As you know, we're helping to raise two of our granddaughters and they adore her and they love her. That is so important in the overall realm of things. I'm grateful for her. Pam, would you please stand and let everybody just say hi to you.
You know they say that an individual is measured by their friends and if that's the case then I am the luckiest man on the planet because I have some of the most wonderful and incredible friends in the world.
Other elected officials who have supported me and taught me, mentored me, and stood by me through very, very difficult times over the past decade and I would like to thank those elected officials for their willingness to serve.
Mayor Tammy de Weerd from the city of Meridian, Chris Yamamoto the county clerk, newly elected Sheriff Donahue, Canyon County Commission, Craig Hanson, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, thank you so very much for coming.
Talk about a man of integrity and honor. That is the premier example of those two characteristics. So as we look at 2012, boy, am I glad the Mayans were wrong. We have so much to look forward to. We have so many things yet to accomplish. And 2012, was a year that was very interesting to say the least. It was a year filled with challenges, new opportunities, frustrations, economic concerns. It was a time that exemplified that life has changed.
We are, as you know, the sum total of all the events that happen in our lives, right? Everything that has happened prior to us that led up to 2012, makes us who we are today.
All those things that were good, that were bad, that were happy, that were sad, that were challenging, that were rewarding, that were successful, all those things seemed to come to a head in 2012 with all the issues that we faced. We live in a time now where technology is at its all time high. We can receive information instantaneously.
Information can be broadcast around the world in a matter of seconds. People tweet. Facebook, LinkedIn, all kinds of ways of communicating electronically that have changed the way that we as a society communicate. And I think there's wonderful things about that, but I think there's also a very, very unintended negative side of that.
Because I believe that the most important thing that we have are relationships and it's so hard to have a relationship that is not face-to-face. It's hard to tell when you're tweeting if you're joking or not. It's hard to tell on Facebook or through email if you're serious or not, or you're angry or not, or upset or not. And so those are things that have changed the way that we communicate so it's very, very important that we choose our words and our actions wisely. It has also become a state of transparency in everything we do, which is also good.
People who are involved in governments need to be held to a higher standard. We have made commitments and promises to those who elected us to live in an exemplary manner and that's very, very important.
But because of technology, everything is so transparent that we have to be on our best watch all the time. And that is a good thing, but it's also made us change the way that we live our lives knowing that.
his year 2012, was a year of fiscal and economic uncertainty. We didn’t know whether we were going to fall off a cliff or not. We still don’t know if that cliff will be overcome. We don’t know what the ramifications of that are. We are in the third year of a very, very dramatic downturn in trying to put our budgets together.
And so it's changed the dynamics of what we do as a city, and as families, and as individuals dramatically. Adrian Peterson, does everybody know who that is? He was the running back that the Boise State Broncos had to contain in that famous Fiesta Bowl. Do you remember that running back? Well, he has gone on to become what I consider a great running back.
This year in a year where the number of running plays per game is at a all time low in the National Football League, he nearly broke the single season rushing record in an environment like that by nine yards. That's a tremendous feat when there were only 27 running plays per game on the average in the NFL. But did he do it by himself? No.
The unsung heroes are those huge linemen that open up holes in front of him or that incredible quarterback that he had the opportunity of playing with that deceived others and created a running game by being a great passer. And the coaches who put that program together, the defense that kept the other team from scoring and allowed the offensive to be on the field. All those great team players allowed Adrian Peterson to become known as one of the greatest running backs of all time. Now I looked up in the dictionary the definition of good. And that definition said, adequate and satisfactory.
There are a lot of good running backs in the NFL. But I looked up great and it said, outstandingly superior is what the dictionary said. And I believe Adrian Peterson fits that definition, but not by himself.We offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online. Only with the efforts of those around him does he qualify for that definition. And so, as we work together to become great we cannot do it on our own.
We cannot become great without the efforts of all our partners. The employees of the city of Caldwell, the Chamber of Commerce, the College of Idaho, Treasure Valley Community College, all of the governmental entities that we work with, these great city council members, the citizens of this community, the students of this community, the business owners in this community. All of our partners working together we can become great because we need those linemen to open up the hole for us to run through.
And I submit to you, that that is why this community is not just good, that we are great because we have great partners. We have great citizens. We have great linemen opening up the holes for us every time we turn around and I believe that's what makes Caldwell great. I would like to thank those linemen who opened up the holes for us, the employees of the city of Caldwell.
If you are here, would you please rise and let everyone here recognize you and tell you thank you for the job that you do. Employees please stand up so that we can thank you.
When we take office, we take an oath. And that oath says that we solemnly swear or affirm that we will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Idaho,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. and the laws and ordinances of Caldwell. And that we will to the best of our ability faithfully perform the duties of the office that we hold, and then we close by saying, so help me God.
I want you to know that I hold that promise very dear. That is a promise. That's the promise that each one of us have made to you but we also made that promise to God. That we would stand up for what is right and support the Constitution of the United States of America.
And one of the things that I think separates this city from being a good city and a great city is that three times now we have had the challenge of defending your rights that have been threatened by other governmental entities as citizens of Caldwell.
The first time was when FEMA came into this community and based upon inaccurate information tried to impose a flood map upon the cities of Nampa and Caldwell, which would have caused dramatic negative consequences to property owners within those proposed zones. We truly believed that the information was wrong. We had 99 years of empirical facts that said that information was wrong.We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. It would have been very easy to stand back and say well, this is the federal government.
They must know what they're doing and just to have allowed that to happen. But we did not. We gathered our partners together. We made a phone call to Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, because he knew Idaho. We made phone calls to the governor, to our congressional representatives. We partnered with the Bureau of Homeland Security. We partnered with the city of Nampa. We partnered with the Association of Idaho Cities. We partnered with the county. We partnered with our other elected officials and stood up to say that this is not right.
All the good things that are happening downtown are a result of those actions and business owners and property owners in the city of Caldwell saved about $4 million dollars a year in flood insurance premiums that they would have had to pay. I believe that is us standing up for the oath that we took to defend the Constitution.
Now, I would like to very bluntly and plainly address the second time that that has happened in our community and that is involving the Pioneer Irrigation District actions. Their attorney, Scott Campbell, and their Board of Directors sued the citizens of Caldwell, their own patrons, to take away their historical right, their God-given constitutionally protected right to drain into the very drains that those same property owners helped to build, help to construct, are paying for in the past, and are paying for today. We did not sue them. They sued you, the citizens, and business people of Caldwell who just happen to be in the boundaries of the Pioneer Irrigation District. That is the simpleness and the essence of this entire controversy.
Now, I want you to know and let it be said very firmly that we understand and value the agricultural community. It's the largest industry in Canyon County. Cities and counties across this nation get along just fine draining into drains that everybody can share. There are only two irrigation districts in this state that have had problems dealing with this so called drainage issue, both of them represented by the same law firm, both of them suing governmental entities to take away their rights to drain. I'll let you do the addition.
To me, two and two always equals four. And I can promise you that this city will never do anything to intentionally or inadvertently harm the agricultural community. We have been draining into those drains without consequence for over a 100 years and can continue to do so. But what we will not standby and allow to have happen is to have your rights taken away by another governmental entity because of ego, because of false accusations, fear mongering, and smoking mirrors. That's what this is about. So we will stand firm.
We will continue to fight because the consequences of this action would mean that you, who live in that irrigation district, would have to spend between $80 and $100 million dollars to recreate the very drainage system that you've already built and paid for. That is unconscionable in my estimation. And this body stands firm with resolve that we will not allow that to happen to our citizens. We also stand firm in the resolve that there is a way to make it happen so that everybody can be protected, so that everybody can have their rights preserved, and that life can go on, as it should with urban and agricultural activities living in harmony.A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
Recently, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors issued letters asking our President and Vice-President to violate the Constitution of the United States and ban guns. My heart goes out to those poor families in Newtown, Connecticut, whose children's lives were taken unnecessarily and violently. And we condemn the actions of individuals who use guns in violent acts, but that is not a reason or an excuse for the federal government to violate the Constitution of the United States and take away its citizens' rights to own guns.
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