When their daughters Amy and Lucy left home, Maria Ellery and Frank
Dick, a management consultant, realised that their three-storey Finsbury
Park family house was simply too big for just the two of them.
Their
initial idea was to create a flat above, so they interviewed four
architects, but it was clear from the minute they met Paul Archer
(paularcherdesign.co.uk) that he was the one. "I have little visual
imagination, but Frank does," said Maria. "Frank knew what he wanted and
Paul just got it."
Archer did some drawings, but then Frank got
a contract that took the couple to Salisbury for a year. Then,Here's a
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the beginning oil painter. instead of going back to Finsbury Park, they
rented a flat in St Margarets in Twickenham, to see if they liked the
area better than Finsbury Park. They did, and they also liked what they
were experiencing in their rented home clean wooden floors and
under-floor heating were a revelation. So they put their period house on
the market and started looking.
Their "musts" list was short:
three bedrooms, proximity to public transport, and a small garden. "We
wanted to downsize our space but upscale our quality of life," said
Maria, who is self employed.
Frank joined in: "I saw the
potential straightaway. We were talking about major works just to sort
things out despite the agent claiming that all it needed was a coat of
paint. It was on the market for 550,000 and we got it for 465,000, in
2010." The house was dark. "With a poky front room, a poky back room, an
old Sixties kitchen and an overgrown garden with a stagnant pool. The
only thing holding the stairs up was the stair carpet," said Frank.
Next,
the couple called in Archer. In response to their main idea of getting
as much light as possible into the property, he came up with an
audacious solution. He suggested taking out all the original supporting
brick outside walls and replacing them with folding glass doors.
In
engineering terms, this meant excavating six feet down to lay a massive
slab of concrete to support the steels needed to hold everything up.
But the genius part of this radical transformation is that the couple
didn't change the footprint of the house at all, so didn't need planning
permission. "We didn't need more space, we needed better space," said
Maria. "The only original thing left is the roof oh, and the front." So,
from the demure Victorian exterior, one walks into a magazine house.
The effect is clean and sleek, welcoming, quiet and warm.
All
the floors are engineered walnut, which is silky and cosy underfoot.
Dividing doors have been replaced with full-height sliding pocket doors,
or removed altogether. The old staircase went out and a slimmer one, in
walnut,Get the led fog lamp products information, find oilpaintingreproduction, manufacturers on the hot channel. went up instead,A indoorpositioningsystem has
real weight in your customer's hand. top-lit by a skylight, with a
full-height glass wall separating it from the living area.
The
kitchen, in the centre of the house, is integral to the long, flowing,
ground floor space. From any part from the old front room, to the
central kitchen/ living area, to the relaxed seated area near the garden
one can see the outdoors through the new glass "envelope", which
creates a tremendous sense of freshness and serenity.
Upstairs,
the couple continued the sleekness theme. The front master bedroom
boasts a narrow floor-to-ceiling sliding door that leads into a
Pandora's box of a bespoke walnut dressing room, which leads in turn to a
marble-walled bathroom, divided rather sexily from the dressing room by
a sandblasted glass wall.This is a house full of grown-up style. Yet
amazingly, the complete transformation, including fittings, was done for
less than 200,000.
A big money-saving trick was having the
kitchen fronts made by the builder, in powder-coated MDF with white
Corian tops, put on Ikea carcasses. Recessed ceiling lights are the same
style throughout; door-handles and fittings are simple brushed steel,
and the Duravit double bathroom sink, Maria said, was surprisingly
inexpensive.
As she contemplated the garden, with its mature
Japanese Acer tree, she said: "We wanted an outside room not to be
bothered with mowing a lawn." She added: "I wouldn't want to move ever
again. I want to stay here."
Embraced by a select few but not
yet overexposed, Ocean Drive, the most celebrated street in South Beach,
undulated with sultriness and whimsy. Models on Rollerblades sped along
the sea wall, portfolios in hand. One by one, pastel Art Deco hotels
began to scrub away neglect. Ibiza-style nightclubs proliferated. And
Miamis Latin feel offered the ultimate mixer.
Gianni coming in,
and being so high profile, it was a seal of approval for the doubters
who, up until then, thought it was all a flash in the pan, that it
wouldnt last, said Louis Canales, who helped promote the South Beach
scene.
Much has changed on that prime stretch of South Beach
since then, including the mansions fortunes.In 1997, as Mr. Versace
climbed the front steps of his palace, he was shot dead by Andrew
Cunanan, a serial killing suspect. His mansion, though, remains, with
its mosaics, marble floors, onyx toilet, a swimming pool flecked with
24-karat gold and abundant frescoes.
While it is aesthetically
intact, it is foundering financially. In 2000, the Versace family sold
the property for $19 million to a telecom entrepreneur, Peter Loftin.
Over the past 13 years, it has been a residence, a private club, a
boutique hotel and event spaces.
On Sept. 17, Casa Casuarina, as
the mansion is called, will be auctioned off, a casualty of lawsuits,
countersuits, missed mortgage payments, back taxes and a federal
bankruptcy proceeding initiated this summer to stave off foreclosure.
Considered one of the countrys most expensive homes,A quality paper cutter or paper bestluggagetag can
make your company's presentation stand out. the mansion was put on the
market in June of last year for $125 million; it was later reduced to
$75 million. With the property now in bankruptcy proceedings, a judge
signed off on the auction, which requires an opening offer of $25
million.
Bidding on the property, even at the reduced price,
requires deep pockets. A total of $3 million must be put in escrow, and
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2013年7月31日 星期三
Algonquin gathering brings unity
With the morning sky a collage of vibrant pink and peach Algonquin
elders along with at least 60 others gathered atop the Eagles Nest on
Saturday, July 27, to welcome the arrival of Grandfather Sun and begin a
day of ceremony and celebration at the Algonquin Nation Gathering in
Bancroft.
Out of earshot from the town, the drumming and singing could be heard while climbing the hill towards the sunrise ceremony. Upon arrival latecomers were invited to join the circle and take part in the tradition.Elder Andy Frosts opening words shed light upon the purpose of why people had been called upon to leave the comforts of their beds and gather before 6 a.m. that day.
It is not about politics today it is about unity, said Frost.Its about sharing our culture, sharing our sense of community, sharing our thoughts. Its all about sharing. Lets try and live by the four rules today of caring, sharing, love and respect. If we can carry these in our hearts we will have a great day.
After Frost had walked around the entire circle sharing thanks with each individual in attendance, participants were urged to leave the ceremonial circle in the traditional manner. This being to shake hands and offer thanks with everyone else there. Following the sunrise ceremony the gathering proceeded down the hill from the Eagles Nest to Millennium Park where Algonquin elders were preparing a complimentary breakfast for all those who shared in the mornings experience.
The gathering moved next to the North Hastings Community Centre where people were invited to take part in the celebrations and ceremony, and to browse through the village of traditional artisans and craftspeople displaying and demonstrating their crafts.
Chuck and Janet Commanda were two of the many traditional artisans and craftspeople displaying their crafts in the field at the gathering. Their birch bark creations were on display including handcrafted birch bark canoe. The boat building artisans demonstrated their craft while explaining in great detail how these naturally efficient modes of transport are harvested, built and paddled.Paddling one of these is like floating on a leaf, said Chuck.
I have had people try one out that have paddled all of their lives, and when they see how far they travel in one stroke they are in shock.In some of the other booths there was one-of-a-kind artwork for sale, clothing, handcrafted drums as well as jewelry made of deer and moose antler. There were also information tables set up both indoors and out to help educate people regarding Algonquin culture.
With many individuals dressed in traditional attire, elders side by side with youth and flag bearers from all factions in attendance, made their grand entrance into the sacred circle.Design and order your own custom rfidtag with personalized message and artwork. Entering from the east to the sound of drumming some chose to dance while others chose to sing as the master of ceremonies Mike Boldt announced the names of the flag bearers and the parties they were representing.
The heartbeat of the drum and the footsteps of the dancers persisted throughout the day sending out good vibrations through the ground and into the crowd. For some dancing is just a fun, and entertaining way to enjoy the music filling their ears. In Algonquin culture it is a sacred form of celebration where each step holds great meaning.
One of the dancers, Norman Coleman a member of the Matachewan band, believes that traditional dancing is an element of Algonquin culture that needs to be preserved.The younger generation has lost so much culture because many of them no longer follow their elders, said Coleman.The elders here are not going to be around forever. Hopefully the young ones will listen to their teachings, and carry the torch.
At age 61 Coleman has danced for most of his life, although he said that he did not start dancing traditionally until seven years ago. In his eyes gatherings like these are instrumental in bringing people from all nations together.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained.Lefse is a flatbread rather like a soft tortilla that originated in Norway and is usually made of some combination of flour, cream and potatoes.
Leiann Ronnestad, president of the Sons of Norway, Cascade Lodge, coordinated the event with help from the Barneleikarringen Cultural Foundation in hopes of uniting the Eastsides Scandinavian community.Other craftwork included traditional dancer crowns of Danish, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian origins. At another booth, Christmas ornaments woven out of wheat strands reflected the frugal approach Scandinavians had for their materials.
Scandinavians hung onto everything. Wherever they grew grains, they could weave, said Jean Whipple, of Woven Traditions. They didnt throw anything out.Inside the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, more Sons of Norway volunteers, including the Skogsblomman Lodge, stayed busy preparing more lefse. In addition to the flatbread, a lunch of split pea soup and Scandinavian sandwiches open-faced and buttered were being served.More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans.
Common lefse is served plain or rolled with butter, though a sweet version can be made by adding cinnamon-sugar, jam or brown sugar. Another popular sweet treat is krumkake, a Norwegian waffle-esque cookie.Krumkake is very similar to a pizzelle, said Carol Hansen, Sons of Norway volunteer. They are a little thicker, but compare almost the same in the recipe.
The highlight of the Lefse Festival was decorating the maypole. After several traditional outdoor dances, children let loose to decorate an ivy-covered maypole cross. The field then opened up to welcome people of all ages to join in the traditional maypole folk dance. The kids dancing were part of a group called Risadala.The groups name comes from the words risa and dala, translating to horse dance, from the Swedish symbol of the Dalecarlian horse,We Engrave luggagetag for YOU. Ronnestad said.
The festival continued into the afternoon with a raffle drawing for homemade kransekake, a Danish and Norwegian style of cake, often made for special occasions.A glassbottles is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. It is a wheat cake combined with ground almonds and sprinkled with a glaze.
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Out of earshot from the town, the drumming and singing could be heard while climbing the hill towards the sunrise ceremony. Upon arrival latecomers were invited to join the circle and take part in the tradition.Elder Andy Frosts opening words shed light upon the purpose of why people had been called upon to leave the comforts of their beds and gather before 6 a.m. that day.
It is not about politics today it is about unity, said Frost.Its about sharing our culture, sharing our sense of community, sharing our thoughts. Its all about sharing. Lets try and live by the four rules today of caring, sharing, love and respect. If we can carry these in our hearts we will have a great day.
After Frost had walked around the entire circle sharing thanks with each individual in attendance, participants were urged to leave the ceremonial circle in the traditional manner. This being to shake hands and offer thanks with everyone else there. Following the sunrise ceremony the gathering proceeded down the hill from the Eagles Nest to Millennium Park where Algonquin elders were preparing a complimentary breakfast for all those who shared in the mornings experience.
The gathering moved next to the North Hastings Community Centre where people were invited to take part in the celebrations and ceremony, and to browse through the village of traditional artisans and craftspeople displaying and demonstrating their crafts.
Chuck and Janet Commanda were two of the many traditional artisans and craftspeople displaying their crafts in the field at the gathering. Their birch bark creations were on display including handcrafted birch bark canoe. The boat building artisans demonstrated their craft while explaining in great detail how these naturally efficient modes of transport are harvested, built and paddled.Paddling one of these is like floating on a leaf, said Chuck.
I have had people try one out that have paddled all of their lives, and when they see how far they travel in one stroke they are in shock.In some of the other booths there was one-of-a-kind artwork for sale, clothing, handcrafted drums as well as jewelry made of deer and moose antler. There were also information tables set up both indoors and out to help educate people regarding Algonquin culture.
With many individuals dressed in traditional attire, elders side by side with youth and flag bearers from all factions in attendance, made their grand entrance into the sacred circle.Design and order your own custom rfidtag with personalized message and artwork. Entering from the east to the sound of drumming some chose to dance while others chose to sing as the master of ceremonies Mike Boldt announced the names of the flag bearers and the parties they were representing.
The heartbeat of the drum and the footsteps of the dancers persisted throughout the day sending out good vibrations through the ground and into the crowd. For some dancing is just a fun, and entertaining way to enjoy the music filling their ears. In Algonquin culture it is a sacred form of celebration where each step holds great meaning.
One of the dancers, Norman Coleman a member of the Matachewan band, believes that traditional dancing is an element of Algonquin culture that needs to be preserved.The younger generation has lost so much culture because many of them no longer follow their elders, said Coleman.The elders here are not going to be around forever. Hopefully the young ones will listen to their teachings, and carry the torch.
At age 61 Coleman has danced for most of his life, although he said that he did not start dancing traditionally until seven years ago. In his eyes gatherings like these are instrumental in bringing people from all nations together.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained.Lefse is a flatbread rather like a soft tortilla that originated in Norway and is usually made of some combination of flour, cream and potatoes.
Leiann Ronnestad, president of the Sons of Norway, Cascade Lodge, coordinated the event with help from the Barneleikarringen Cultural Foundation in hopes of uniting the Eastsides Scandinavian community.Other craftwork included traditional dancer crowns of Danish, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian origins. At another booth, Christmas ornaments woven out of wheat strands reflected the frugal approach Scandinavians had for their materials.
Scandinavians hung onto everything. Wherever they grew grains, they could weave, said Jean Whipple, of Woven Traditions. They didnt throw anything out.Inside the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, more Sons of Norway volunteers, including the Skogsblomman Lodge, stayed busy preparing more lefse. In addition to the flatbread, a lunch of split pea soup and Scandinavian sandwiches open-faced and buttered were being served.More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans.
Common lefse is served plain or rolled with butter, though a sweet version can be made by adding cinnamon-sugar, jam or brown sugar. Another popular sweet treat is krumkake, a Norwegian waffle-esque cookie.Krumkake is very similar to a pizzelle, said Carol Hansen, Sons of Norway volunteer. They are a little thicker, but compare almost the same in the recipe.
The highlight of the Lefse Festival was decorating the maypole. After several traditional outdoor dances, children let loose to decorate an ivy-covered maypole cross. The field then opened up to welcome people of all ages to join in the traditional maypole folk dance. The kids dancing were part of a group called Risadala.The groups name comes from the words risa and dala, translating to horse dance, from the Swedish symbol of the Dalecarlian horse,We Engrave luggagetag for YOU. Ronnestad said.
The festival continued into the afternoon with a raffle drawing for homemade kransekake, a Danish and Norwegian style of cake, often made for special occasions.A glassbottles is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. It is a wheat cake combined with ground almonds and sprinkled with a glaze.
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Jay Carney defends infamous
After 30 days in court and 63 witnesses on the stand, the prosecution
in the mobster trial of James Whitey Bulger finally rested their
case,This is a great parkingsystem solution! allowing for the defense to take the stand, as led by skilled attorney Jay Carney.
J.W Carney Jr., one of Massachusettss best-known criminal defense lawyers, has been called the patron saint of hopeless cases. In the past he has defended alleged child-killers; terrorists; men accused of bludgeoning, then poisoning, their wives; and a man who shot up an abortion clinic.
Now Carney must take on his greatest task of all: Defending a man on trial for killing 19 people, among other charges.Jay is an extraordinarily well-prepared, hard-working, and able advocate, and when he gets in the courtroom, hes the guy who is calm and deliberate and at the same time knows how to move a jury, Howard Cooper, another Boston criminal defense lawyer, told The Boston Globe.
Assistant U.S Attorney Brian Kelly argued that Bulgers family should pay the bill for Carneys defense services, rather than U.S taxpayers . But a district court judge pronounced that Bulger was financially unable to retain counsel privately.
In addition to a high-end defense attorney, the mobster has received additional star treatment during the course of the trial. Taxpayers paid $14,000 for Bulgers chauffeured helicopter ride from Plymouth Municipal Airport to Logan International Airport. The 81-year-old former mobster has also received daily motorcade-like transport to court during the first 30 days of the trial, all paid for by Massachusetts tax dollars.
The fact is he victimized many people in this state, victim-rights advocate Laurie Myers told the Globe. The last thing they should be doing is giving him the celebrity treatment. I think its a disgrace.
One of the most polarizing figures in the annals of the city's rich sports history, no quarterback in team history achieved more. McNabb,This is a great parkingsystem solution! who will have his number 5 retired on Sept. 19, holds 11 records and led the Eagles to the most regular-season victories (91) and playoff wins (nine) by a quarterback. All other Eagles quarterbacks combined for 10 playoff wins.But the relationship between McNabb and the Eagles' passionate fans didn't get off to the best start.
Reid chose McNabb with his first draft pick, taking him with the second selection in 1999, but he was greeted with boos during what should have been the signature moment of his athletic career. Led by Philadelphia mayor and season ticket holder Ed Rendell, the fans wanted Texas running back Ricky Williams, but Lurie revealed Monday that the choice would have been Miami running back Edgerrin James had McNabb not blown them away during the draft process.
Lincoln Financial Field opened the next season, but the Eagles got off to an 0-2 start and McNabb was criticized by Rush Limbaugh, who said "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." McNabb and the Eagles bounced back, winning 12 of their last 14 games, but a week after a fourth-and-26 conversion helped the Eagles rally to beat Green Bay, he threw three interceptions and broke a rib in a 14-3 loss to Carolina in the NFC Championship game.
After a career of throwing to second- and third-rate wide receivers, the Eagles finally gave McNabb a top-flight option when they traded for Terrell Owens in 2004 and the two hit it off immediately. The Eagles looked primed to finally reach the biggest game of the season and the fourth time was the charm when Philadelphia beat Atlanta (without Owens, who had broken his leg in early December) in the NFC Championship game a day after a blizzard dumped nearly two feet of snow on Philadelphia.
McNabb and the Eagles had reached the pinnacle, but again couldn't get the job done. McNabb threw three interceptions and the Eagles took too much time on their second-to-last possession (there were reports McNabb threw up, but he said that was "a myth") and lost 24-21 to New England.
The relationship with Owens began to break when he said, "I'm not the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl," during the offseason. By the time training camp rolled around, McNabb and Owens were not speaking and trading barbs through the press. At one point,Full service promotional company specializing in drycabinet. Reid kicked Owens out of practice only to see the enigmatic receiver do shirtless sit-ups in his driveway while surrounded by the media. Owens played through Week 8 before the Eagles suspended him for the reason of the season.
McNabb was up-and-down in 2008, when he didn't know a game could end in a tie during a 13-13 stinker against Cincinnati, before being benched at halftime against Baltimore in Week 12. He bounced back to lead the Eagles to the playoffs, where they fell for a fourth time in the NFC Championship game in a loss to Arizona.
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J.W Carney Jr., one of Massachusettss best-known criminal defense lawyers, has been called the patron saint of hopeless cases. In the past he has defended alleged child-killers; terrorists; men accused of bludgeoning, then poisoning, their wives; and a man who shot up an abortion clinic.
Now Carney must take on his greatest task of all: Defending a man on trial for killing 19 people, among other charges.Jay is an extraordinarily well-prepared, hard-working, and able advocate, and when he gets in the courtroom, hes the guy who is calm and deliberate and at the same time knows how to move a jury, Howard Cooper, another Boston criminal defense lawyer, told The Boston Globe.
Assistant U.S Attorney Brian Kelly argued that Bulgers family should pay the bill for Carneys defense services, rather than U.S taxpayers . But a district court judge pronounced that Bulger was financially unable to retain counsel privately.
In addition to a high-end defense attorney, the mobster has received additional star treatment during the course of the trial. Taxpayers paid $14,000 for Bulgers chauffeured helicopter ride from Plymouth Municipal Airport to Logan International Airport. The 81-year-old former mobster has also received daily motorcade-like transport to court during the first 30 days of the trial, all paid for by Massachusetts tax dollars.
The fact is he victimized many people in this state, victim-rights advocate Laurie Myers told the Globe. The last thing they should be doing is giving him the celebrity treatment. I think its a disgrace.
One of the most polarizing figures in the annals of the city's rich sports history, no quarterback in team history achieved more. McNabb,This is a great parkingsystem solution! who will have his number 5 retired on Sept. 19, holds 11 records and led the Eagles to the most regular-season victories (91) and playoff wins (nine) by a quarterback. All other Eagles quarterbacks combined for 10 playoff wins.But the relationship between McNabb and the Eagles' passionate fans didn't get off to the best start.
Reid chose McNabb with his first draft pick, taking him with the second selection in 1999, but he was greeted with boos during what should have been the signature moment of his athletic career. Led by Philadelphia mayor and season ticket holder Ed Rendell, the fans wanted Texas running back Ricky Williams, but Lurie revealed Monday that the choice would have been Miami running back Edgerrin James had McNabb not blown them away during the draft process.
Lincoln Financial Field opened the next season, but the Eagles got off to an 0-2 start and McNabb was criticized by Rush Limbaugh, who said "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." McNabb and the Eagles bounced back, winning 12 of their last 14 games, but a week after a fourth-and-26 conversion helped the Eagles rally to beat Green Bay, he threw three interceptions and broke a rib in a 14-3 loss to Carolina in the NFC Championship game.
After a career of throwing to second- and third-rate wide receivers, the Eagles finally gave McNabb a top-flight option when they traded for Terrell Owens in 2004 and the two hit it off immediately. The Eagles looked primed to finally reach the biggest game of the season and the fourth time was the charm when Philadelphia beat Atlanta (without Owens, who had broken his leg in early December) in the NFC Championship game a day after a blizzard dumped nearly two feet of snow on Philadelphia.
McNabb and the Eagles had reached the pinnacle, but again couldn't get the job done. McNabb threw three interceptions and the Eagles took too much time on their second-to-last possession (there were reports McNabb threw up, but he said that was "a myth") and lost 24-21 to New England.
The relationship with Owens began to break when he said, "I'm not the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl," during the offseason. By the time training camp rolled around, McNabb and Owens were not speaking and trading barbs through the press. At one point,Full service promotional company specializing in drycabinet. Reid kicked Owens out of practice only to see the enigmatic receiver do shirtless sit-ups in his driveway while surrounded by the media. Owens played through Week 8 before the Eagles suspended him for the reason of the season.
McNabb was up-and-down in 2008, when he didn't know a game could end in a tie during a 13-13 stinker against Cincinnati, before being benched at halftime against Baltimore in Week 12. He bounced back to lead the Eagles to the playoffs, where they fell for a fourth time in the NFC Championship game in a loss to Arizona.
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McNabb's Eagles career ended on Easter 2010,A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand. when Reid traded him to Washington for draft picks. McNabb won in his return to Philadelphia, but was so bad with the Redskins that they traded him to Minnesota the next year. He was benched after 1-5 start and released by the Vikings that December.
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2013年7月29日 星期一
MDOT sees maintaining good roads
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is dealing with its
maintenance crisis the only way it can -- shifting money away from new
construction to the upkeep of more than 27,000 lane-miles.MDOT leaders
said roads improved through its 1987 road program are now as old as 25
years and are breaking down.The dilemmas facing MDOT and the
three-member elected Transportation Commission are that the cost of
asphalt has tripled over recent years and fuel taxes haven't produced
enough money for new construction and maintenance needs.
The three transportation commissioners say they have done the only thing they can -- shift construction money to maintenance and hope for the best.A task force of lawmakers, business leaders and others created by the state Senate to look at highway needs.An bestgemstonebeads is a device which removes contaminants from the air. It will hit the road this fall to hear from the public. The task force expects to have a report completed for the 2014 Legislature.
The task force has found that $400 million is needed annually to maintain Mississippi highways, but only $150 million was being spent. Also while the need to maintain roads grows, the development of more efficient vehicles has depressed Mississippi's consumption driven motor fuel taxes.
"I commend the Senate for creating the task force ... some people over there realized they need to look at the problem. Realistically, I don't know of anything that will come out of it," said Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall.Hall has advocated an increase in the fuel tax to bolster both the construction and maintenance budgets at MDOT. The proposal has generally fallen on deaf ears.
Hall said the 1987 road program, funded with fuel taxes, made no provision for maintenance.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained."We are going to build 1,000 miles of road with not a nickel to take care of it," he said.Hall said there are 27,156 lane-miles of highway and 4,630 of those miles are in serious need of rehabilitation. He said MDOT figures show the cost at around $960 million.
Southern District Commissioner Tom King and Hall agree the task force's best work may be in educating the public about highway needs."The '87 program was a wonderful thing but you have to maintain what you build," said King. "It's a situation of educating everyone about our need for funding and our work to maintain this highway system. I think a lot of people will recognize that we need more money whether it is fuel taxes or some other avenue.
"It's going to take a lot of working together and a determination to keep our highways safe -- that's our first priority."In Mississippi, drivers pay state and federal taxes of 37.2 cents per gallon of gasoline and 43.2 cents per gallon of diesel -- among the lowest in the nation.
Mississippi's excise tax is 18.8 cents per gallon on gasoline and diesel, with 0.4 cents going to an environmental protection fee. In coastal Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties, there is an additional 3-cents-per-gallon seawall tax.The federal tax is 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents for diesel.Northern District Commissioner Mike Tagert said he hopes the task force recognizes the highway system is one of the state's economic engines. He said that includes keeping roads and bridges in shape to move raw materials and manufactured products through Mississippi.
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Other efforts to ease so-called range anxiety include an optional combustion engine to generate electricity on board, roadside assistance if the battery does lose charge during a trip, and a navigation system that shows charging stations. Those offerings are flanked by special training for dealers and a sales force that makes house calls for test drives.
The point is to avoid a high-profile flop as the company today unveils the i3 at events on three continents. The prestige project has cost BMW more than 2 billion euros ($2.65 billion), according to the Center of Automotive Management in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.
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The three transportation commissioners say they have done the only thing they can -- shift construction money to maintenance and hope for the best.A task force of lawmakers, business leaders and others created by the state Senate to look at highway needs.An bestgemstonebeads is a device which removes contaminants from the air. It will hit the road this fall to hear from the public. The task force expects to have a report completed for the 2014 Legislature.
The task force has found that $400 million is needed annually to maintain Mississippi highways, but only $150 million was being spent. Also while the need to maintain roads grows, the development of more efficient vehicles has depressed Mississippi's consumption driven motor fuel taxes.
"I commend the Senate for creating the task force ... some people over there realized they need to look at the problem. Realistically, I don't know of anything that will come out of it," said Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall.Hall has advocated an increase in the fuel tax to bolster both the construction and maintenance budgets at MDOT. The proposal has generally fallen on deaf ears.
Hall said the 1987 road program, funded with fuel taxes, made no provision for maintenance.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained."We are going to build 1,000 miles of road with not a nickel to take care of it," he said.Hall said there are 27,156 lane-miles of highway and 4,630 of those miles are in serious need of rehabilitation. He said MDOT figures show the cost at around $960 million.
Southern District Commissioner Tom King and Hall agree the task force's best work may be in educating the public about highway needs."The '87 program was a wonderful thing but you have to maintain what you build," said King. "It's a situation of educating everyone about our need for funding and our work to maintain this highway system. I think a lot of people will recognize that we need more money whether it is fuel taxes or some other avenue.
"It's going to take a lot of working together and a determination to keep our highways safe -- that's our first priority."In Mississippi, drivers pay state and federal taxes of 37.2 cents per gallon of gasoline and 43.2 cents per gallon of diesel -- among the lowest in the nation.
Mississippi's excise tax is 18.8 cents per gallon on gasoline and diesel, with 0.4 cents going to an environmental protection fee. In coastal Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties, there is an additional 3-cents-per-gallon seawall tax.The federal tax is 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents for diesel.Northern District Commissioner Mike Tagert said he hopes the task force recognizes the highway system is one of the state's economic engines. He said that includes keeping roads and bridges in shape to move raw materials and manufactured products through Mississippi.
"There is a true economic development impact if we have to restrict the movement of goods and services. Our objective is safety and keeping our highways and bridges open. Not being able to do that restricts the ability of our local communities to recruit industry and jobs,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and partypaymentgateway." he said.
Customers of BMWs first electric model can book a conventional auto like the full-sized X5 SUV for several weeks a year for family trips or as a backup. The add-on mobility feature,Now it's possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in handsfreeaccess form for your office. for which BMW hasnt yet revealed pricing, is part of the manufacturers effort to overcome a major concern about electric vehicles,Are you still hesitating about where to buy bestparkingguidance? namely getting stuck on the side of the road with a dead battery.
Other efforts to ease so-called range anxiety include an optional combustion engine to generate electricity on board, roadside assistance if the battery does lose charge during a trip, and a navigation system that shows charging stations. Those offerings are flanked by special training for dealers and a sales force that makes house calls for test drives.
The point is to avoid a high-profile flop as the company today unveils the i3 at events on three continents. The prestige project has cost BMW more than 2 billion euros ($2.65 billion), according to the Center of Automotive Management in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.
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Inside Versace's former Miami mansion
Walking into the opulent, Mediterranean-style mansion once owned by
innovative fashion designer Gianni Versace is a step back into the early
1990s, when energy and money began pouring into the renaissance of
Miami's South Beach.Past the ivy-covered gates on Ocean Drive, the 1930s
mansion is an expression of the designer's personal style and lust for
excess that made it and South Beach a magnet for the creative, artistic
and jet set.
"It helped create that early essence," said Michael Capponi, a nightclub promoter who threw parties at Versace's villa in its glory days. "It was the defining house of the era."As lawyers and realtors scramble to prepare the estate for a September 17 auction, they opened its doors to a group of reporters and photographers, offering a rare glimpse inside the 10-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot mansion.
After Versace was gunned down at the mansion's entrance gate in 1997 by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, telecom magnate Peter Loftin bought the property and turned it into a boutique hotel. Loftin is now facing bankruptcy and has been trying to sell the house for more than a year.
Known as Casa Casuarina, it was initially listed for $125 million. The asking price was recently cut to $75 million, with bids to start at $25 million, according to Fisher Auction Co.Versace bought the mansion in 1992 for $2.9 million and spent $33 million to create a marble-and-fresco-covered palace, complete with 54-foot (16.5-meter) pool of black marble mosaic tiles inlaid with 24-carat gold. The snake-haired Medusa head, Versace's logo, is on display throughout the house.A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand.
His over-the-top decoras displayed in his former bedroom where a sprawling, double king-sized bed is flanked by paintings of Grecian, nymph-like characters playing lyres under palm treescame to be emblematic of South Beach's new over-the-top lifestyle.
Before Versace bought the three-story mansion, South Beach, the lower section of Miami Beach, was "pretty much a slum,A quality paper cutter or paper bestluggagetag can make your company's presentation stand out." said Tony Magaldi, a co-owner of the News Cafe on Ocean Drive, where Versace was a regular when he was in town.Ocean Drive's bright pink and pastel-blue Art Deco hotels, which now exude glamour and luxury, sat in disrepair when Versace arrived.
"He found Miami Beach when he was delayed on the way to the airport on the way to Havana and fell in love with it, no matter how neglected," said Tara Solomon, a South Beach public relations maven and event organizer who wrote a newspaper column "Queen of the Night" in the 1990s.
First developed as a residential resort in the 1920s and 1930s during the height of the Art Deco period of architecture, Miami Beach lost its allure in the '60s and '70s and fell into decay.Drug dealers and hookers peddled on street corners. South Beach's apartmentstoday some of the most expensive in Miamiwere among the city's cheapest,Get the led fog lamp products information, find oilpaintingreproduction, manufacturers on the hot channel. attracting low-income retirees who sat chain-smoking in deck chairs and cash-strapped Cuban refugees who had landed in Florida in the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
At the time, Lincoln Road, now a wide, pedestrian-only boulevard of tony restaurants and high-end shops,Get the led fog lamp products information, find oilpaintingreproduction, manufacturers on the hot channel. sat deserted."Not much had gone on since the 1960s and all of the sudden we had this influx," said Capponi. "When Versace was here it was the most eclectic, eccentric group of people who had ever set foot on Miami Beach."
Many of Versace's parties spilled over into development of a rotating roster of trendy nightclubs. Dozens, with names like Hell, opened and closed, some lasting a few weeks and some a few years. Nightclub heavyweights like Crobar, which has clubs in New York City, Chicago and Buenos Aires, set up outposts.Stars Sylvester Stallone, Madonna and the designer's sister Donatella Versace became Miami Beach regulars. Famed modeling agencies Ford Models and Elite opened offices on Ocean Drive, and beautiful, long-legged models became a common sight.
Madonna was such a frequent guest that Versace built her a suite where an oval fresco of a pale nude woman with an arm stretching toward a winged Cupid looks down on an inlaid mahogany bed.While Versace's presence helped launch South Beach's prominence as a cosmopolitan getaway,Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. its popularity as a tourist destination has since exploded, to an extent Versace might not have relished.
Bold art makes for unique homes. Statement staircases achieve that on a mega scale. Staircases used to be functional, a way to get from here to there, says Trevor Hoover, director and senior designer at Edmontons Habitat Studio & Workshop. But now a lot of people are treating them like a piece of sculpture in the middle of the house.
As a builder of one-of-a-kind homes, Hoovers firm has long made distinctive staircases a specialty. But many other local builders are also creating visually arresting and technically demanding staircases. Requests that might once have been whimsical wishes on the part of homeowners are now challenges beautifully executed. Heres a selection of some of our favourite work.
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"It helped create that early essence," said Michael Capponi, a nightclub promoter who threw parties at Versace's villa in its glory days. "It was the defining house of the era."As lawyers and realtors scramble to prepare the estate for a September 17 auction, they opened its doors to a group of reporters and photographers, offering a rare glimpse inside the 10-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot mansion.
After Versace was gunned down at the mansion's entrance gate in 1997 by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, telecom magnate Peter Loftin bought the property and turned it into a boutique hotel. Loftin is now facing bankruptcy and has been trying to sell the house for more than a year.
Known as Casa Casuarina, it was initially listed for $125 million. The asking price was recently cut to $75 million, with bids to start at $25 million, according to Fisher Auction Co.Versace bought the mansion in 1992 for $2.9 million and spent $33 million to create a marble-and-fresco-covered palace, complete with 54-foot (16.5-meter) pool of black marble mosaic tiles inlaid with 24-carat gold. The snake-haired Medusa head, Versace's logo, is on display throughout the house.A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand.
His over-the-top decoras displayed in his former bedroom where a sprawling, double king-sized bed is flanked by paintings of Grecian, nymph-like characters playing lyres under palm treescame to be emblematic of South Beach's new over-the-top lifestyle.
Before Versace bought the three-story mansion, South Beach, the lower section of Miami Beach, was "pretty much a slum,A quality paper cutter or paper bestluggagetag can make your company's presentation stand out." said Tony Magaldi, a co-owner of the News Cafe on Ocean Drive, where Versace was a regular when he was in town.Ocean Drive's bright pink and pastel-blue Art Deco hotels, which now exude glamour and luxury, sat in disrepair when Versace arrived.
"He found Miami Beach when he was delayed on the way to the airport on the way to Havana and fell in love with it, no matter how neglected," said Tara Solomon, a South Beach public relations maven and event organizer who wrote a newspaper column "Queen of the Night" in the 1990s.
First developed as a residential resort in the 1920s and 1930s during the height of the Art Deco period of architecture, Miami Beach lost its allure in the '60s and '70s and fell into decay.Drug dealers and hookers peddled on street corners. South Beach's apartmentstoday some of the most expensive in Miamiwere among the city's cheapest,Get the led fog lamp products information, find oilpaintingreproduction, manufacturers on the hot channel. attracting low-income retirees who sat chain-smoking in deck chairs and cash-strapped Cuban refugees who had landed in Florida in the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
At the time, Lincoln Road, now a wide, pedestrian-only boulevard of tony restaurants and high-end shops,Get the led fog lamp products information, find oilpaintingreproduction, manufacturers on the hot channel. sat deserted."Not much had gone on since the 1960s and all of the sudden we had this influx," said Capponi. "When Versace was here it was the most eclectic, eccentric group of people who had ever set foot on Miami Beach."
Many of Versace's parties spilled over into development of a rotating roster of trendy nightclubs. Dozens, with names like Hell, opened and closed, some lasting a few weeks and some a few years. Nightclub heavyweights like Crobar, which has clubs in New York City, Chicago and Buenos Aires, set up outposts.Stars Sylvester Stallone, Madonna and the designer's sister Donatella Versace became Miami Beach regulars. Famed modeling agencies Ford Models and Elite opened offices on Ocean Drive, and beautiful, long-legged models became a common sight.
Madonna was such a frequent guest that Versace built her a suite where an oval fresco of a pale nude woman with an arm stretching toward a winged Cupid looks down on an inlaid mahogany bed.While Versace's presence helped launch South Beach's prominence as a cosmopolitan getaway,Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. its popularity as a tourist destination has since exploded, to an extent Versace might not have relished.
Bold art makes for unique homes. Statement staircases achieve that on a mega scale. Staircases used to be functional, a way to get from here to there, says Trevor Hoover, director and senior designer at Edmontons Habitat Studio & Workshop. But now a lot of people are treating them like a piece of sculpture in the middle of the house.
As a builder of one-of-a-kind homes, Hoovers firm has long made distinctive staircases a specialty. But many other local builders are also creating visually arresting and technically demanding staircases. Requests that might once have been whimsical wishes on the part of homeowners are now challenges beautifully executed. Heres a selection of some of our favourite work.
Click on their website www.granitetrade.net for more information.
Local artist uses recycled bottles
Sketched on construction-grade plywood is a peacock, its luxurious eye-spotted tail feathers shining with bits of glass made from recycled wine bottles. It's a mosaic-in-progress that artist Janna Bowman works on in spare moments between two jobs and weekends at art fairs selling her wares --- mosaics, jewelry, sun catchers, candle holders, chandeliers, hanging lamps, terrariums and other objects made from wine, beer and liquor bottles.
"Glass is so versatile. You can blow it, cut it, shape it, break it,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. fuse it, melt it and it sparkles so prettily. There are so many colors, and I love making art from glass," Bowman enthuses.Bowman and her art, which she calls Green Earth Glass, will be featured at the Stem & Stein | Food, Beer and Wine Fest. The second annual event takes place Aug. 17 at the RiverLoop Amphitheater in downtown Waterloo.
Her day job is as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, and she works part time for Moment in Thyme Catering in Cedar Falls "so I can buy art supplies," she says, laughing.
That's one reason why the artist, who earned an art degree at the University of Northern Iowa, began searching for alternative materials that would be either extremely cheap or free. Often she finds discarded building materials in dumpsters that are perfect as backing material for mosaic wall hangings and other bits and pieces of things like mirrors and glass that she can use in her work.
"It's amazing what you can find in dumpsters,Design and order your own custom rfidtag with personalized message and artwork. what people throw away, and I have no problem pulling it out, bringing it home and using it in my projects instead of sending it to the landfill. Sometimes people will bring me their mirrors or leftovers from a stained glass project. I love all that pretty colored glass."
Bowman also regularly makes trips to the local redemption center where for 50 cents, she can carry away a large box loaded with Bailey's Irish Cream, Bombay Gin and other liquor, wine and beer bottles.
The glass artist uses a variety of tools to snip and shape glass bits for jewelry and mosaics, and cuts bottles using a diamond-blade band saw in her basement. When she's cutting glass, she dons a welder's mask and protective clothing, but doesn't wear gloves. "I don't know why," she says, shrugging. " I guess I get a better feel for what I'm doing or maybe I don't think the glass is as sharp as it probably is. But I am careful, and I drop the suit before I come upstairs because I don't want to track tiny shards of glass or glass dust, which can be irritating,We Engrave luggagetag for YOU. into the rest of the house."
Round rings cut from bottles are turned into necklaces and bracelets. She uses an old ceramics kiln to melt glass and fashion layers from "little piles of glass." Her jewelry, terrariums, lamps and etched and personalized wine bottles are popular with customers at art fairs, but mosaics still are her passion.
"I compare it to Paint by Numbers from childhood or putting together a jigsaw puzzle. This is my meditation, my version of yoga, such a de-stresser," Bowman explains.
Most often, she works on projects at her dining room table. It's her dream to find studio space. "I want to hang my chandeliers to see how beautiful they are sparkling in the light. I'm always asked by people if I have a studio, if they can come me work. It would be nice to say 'yes.'"
As the technology for making silicon circuitry smaller, faster and less power-thirsty approaches the limits of physics, scientists have tried out many materials in the search for an alternative to silicon. New research by a team at the US Department of Energys SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory may have put some other promising candidates into the race.
In a paper just published in the journal Nature Materials, researchers described their successful observation of electrical switching (that is, a forced switch from a non-conductive state to a conductive one) in magnetite, a naturally magnetic iron oxide.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained. The ability to act as a switch that is either on (conducting) or off (non-conducting) is the basis for a transistor, which is the building block of any electronic circuit. And while magnetite itself isnt slated to replace silicon, the work opens up the floor for other, similar materials to be studied.
Researchers showed that magnetites on-off electrical switch could be flipped in one-trillionth of a secondthousands of times faster than in transistors used currently. In theory, a computer made with magnetite chips instead of silicon would be that much faster than the machines we use today. But since magnetite has to be cooled to a chilly -190 C (-310 F) to lock its electrical charges into place, its not going to end up in your computer anytime soon.
But whats cooler than the material itself is the method used to study it. Until now, researchers couldnt observe the switching speeds of possible silicon competitors, because the optical lasers they used werent precise enough. Using intense X-ray pulses that lasted one-quadrillionth (thats one-thousandth of one-trillionth) of a second, they finally saw the moment of switch from insulator to conductor. They also found that only some atoms of the material were turned on, with other portions remaining as insulating islands in the middle. But electrons were able to pass around these portions, showing that the switch from insulator to metal doesnt need to be complete in order for the material to function as a transistor.
We understand the process, Hermann Drr, the principal investigator of the experiment and senior staff scientist for the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, told Quartz, so now its about optimizing the materials. For this to be practical, we need to explore other materials and other methods.
Specifically, they hope to continue the experiment with materials that can operate at room temperature. One possibility is vanadium dioxide, which Drr says the team is now working with. If they can get another material to behave the same way as magnetite did, but at a higher temperature,A glassbottles is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. the next step is to find a way of inducing the change without a laserhopefully using short, strong electrical pulses, like in a normal transistor.
All we have to compare this process to is history, Drr said. It took many decades from the first demonstration of a semiconductor transistor to the technological dominance this device has nowadays. And of course this dominance is the problem in finding an alternative. We need to generate a real winner if we want to transcend semiconductors. When this could happen, he said, is difficult to predictbut hes confident his team has just taken a leap in the right direction.
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"Glass is so versatile. You can blow it, cut it, shape it, break it,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. fuse it, melt it and it sparkles so prettily. There are so many colors, and I love making art from glass," Bowman enthuses.Bowman and her art, which she calls Green Earth Glass, will be featured at the Stem & Stein | Food, Beer and Wine Fest. The second annual event takes place Aug. 17 at the RiverLoop Amphitheater in downtown Waterloo.
Her day job is as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, and she works part time for Moment in Thyme Catering in Cedar Falls "so I can buy art supplies," she says, laughing.
That's one reason why the artist, who earned an art degree at the University of Northern Iowa, began searching for alternative materials that would be either extremely cheap or free. Often she finds discarded building materials in dumpsters that are perfect as backing material for mosaic wall hangings and other bits and pieces of things like mirrors and glass that she can use in her work.
"It's amazing what you can find in dumpsters,Design and order your own custom rfidtag with personalized message and artwork. what people throw away, and I have no problem pulling it out, bringing it home and using it in my projects instead of sending it to the landfill. Sometimes people will bring me their mirrors or leftovers from a stained glass project. I love all that pretty colored glass."
Bowman also regularly makes trips to the local redemption center where for 50 cents, she can carry away a large box loaded with Bailey's Irish Cream, Bombay Gin and other liquor, wine and beer bottles.
The glass artist uses a variety of tools to snip and shape glass bits for jewelry and mosaics, and cuts bottles using a diamond-blade band saw in her basement. When she's cutting glass, she dons a welder's mask and protective clothing, but doesn't wear gloves. "I don't know why," she says, shrugging. " I guess I get a better feel for what I'm doing or maybe I don't think the glass is as sharp as it probably is. But I am careful, and I drop the suit before I come upstairs because I don't want to track tiny shards of glass or glass dust, which can be irritating,We Engrave luggagetag for YOU. into the rest of the house."
Round rings cut from bottles are turned into necklaces and bracelets. She uses an old ceramics kiln to melt glass and fashion layers from "little piles of glass." Her jewelry, terrariums, lamps and etched and personalized wine bottles are popular with customers at art fairs, but mosaics still are her passion.
"I compare it to Paint by Numbers from childhood or putting together a jigsaw puzzle. This is my meditation, my version of yoga, such a de-stresser," Bowman explains.
Most often, she works on projects at her dining room table. It's her dream to find studio space. "I want to hang my chandeliers to see how beautiful they are sparkling in the light. I'm always asked by people if I have a studio, if they can come me work. It would be nice to say 'yes.'"
As the technology for making silicon circuitry smaller, faster and less power-thirsty approaches the limits of physics, scientists have tried out many materials in the search for an alternative to silicon. New research by a team at the US Department of Energys SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory may have put some other promising candidates into the race.
In a paper just published in the journal Nature Materials, researchers described their successful observation of electrical switching (that is, a forced switch from a non-conductive state to a conductive one) in magnetite, a naturally magnetic iron oxide.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained. The ability to act as a switch that is either on (conducting) or off (non-conducting) is the basis for a transistor, which is the building block of any electronic circuit. And while magnetite itself isnt slated to replace silicon, the work opens up the floor for other, similar materials to be studied.
Researchers showed that magnetites on-off electrical switch could be flipped in one-trillionth of a secondthousands of times faster than in transistors used currently. In theory, a computer made with magnetite chips instead of silicon would be that much faster than the machines we use today. But since magnetite has to be cooled to a chilly -190 C (-310 F) to lock its electrical charges into place, its not going to end up in your computer anytime soon.
But whats cooler than the material itself is the method used to study it. Until now, researchers couldnt observe the switching speeds of possible silicon competitors, because the optical lasers they used werent precise enough. Using intense X-ray pulses that lasted one-quadrillionth (thats one-thousandth of one-trillionth) of a second, they finally saw the moment of switch from insulator to conductor. They also found that only some atoms of the material were turned on, with other portions remaining as insulating islands in the middle. But electrons were able to pass around these portions, showing that the switch from insulator to metal doesnt need to be complete in order for the material to function as a transistor.
We understand the process, Hermann Drr, the principal investigator of the experiment and senior staff scientist for the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, told Quartz, so now its about optimizing the materials. For this to be practical, we need to explore other materials and other methods.
Specifically, they hope to continue the experiment with materials that can operate at room temperature. One possibility is vanadium dioxide, which Drr says the team is now working with. If they can get another material to behave the same way as magnetite did, but at a higher temperature,A glassbottles is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. the next step is to find a way of inducing the change without a laserhopefully using short, strong electrical pulses, like in a normal transistor.
All we have to compare this process to is history, Drr said. It took many decades from the first demonstration of a semiconductor transistor to the technological dominance this device has nowadays. And of course this dominance is the problem in finding an alternative. We need to generate a real winner if we want to transcend semiconductors. When this could happen, he said, is difficult to predictbut hes confident his team has just taken a leap in the right direction.
Cingrani Battles Capuano
So we now know I have a poor sense of direction. I think Ill live,
but boy do I have issues with parking lots. Sometimes Im up in the press
box, but sometimes I sit in the stands. Last night I was in the stands
and had some serious issues finding my car. (I had stupidly left my
ticket in my car) Perhaps if I had one of the countless cars that Howard
Cole offers for home runs on twitter then maybe I could have used that
to drive around the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Regardless of my
pre-game flustering, I soldiered on.
But you know who doesnt have any issues with anything right now? The Dodgers! The Boys in Blue are hot hot hot! Oh, see Dodgers playing, see Dodgers winning, they stay hot, hot hot. See Dodgers hitting, see Dodgers pitching, they so hot hot hot. (Photo credit-Peter Serling) Last nights 4-1 victory in front of a sold out raucous crowd put them 1.5 games in front of the losing Dbacks.
The Dodgers are now 55-48 on the season and have won 25 of their last 31 games. Today the Dodgers look to pick up a series win over the Reds. For that theyll give the ball to Chris Capuano. Hell battle another left hander, rookie Tony Cingrani, in the final game of the series.
Rookie left hander Tony Cingrani has made 16 starts this season. The 24 year old left hander is from Evergreen Illinois, and was drafted by the Reds in 2011. Cingrani has posted a 4-1 record, and a 3.18 ERA.The need for proper bestiphonecases inside your home is very important. In a little over 70 frames, hes whiffed 79 and walked 29. Cingrani was orginally called up to replace the injured Johnny Cueto. Cingranis last start was a win. He pitched 5.Full service promotional company specializing in drycabinet.2 frames of two-run ball to beat the Giants.
The youngster had some issues with velocity and control of hiss off-speed pitches, or so I read. Apparently he can get up to mid 90s with his heater. Cingrani of course has never faced the Dodgers before, and nobody has seen him. That doesnt bode well for the Dodgers, because we know how they do against pitchers theyve never seen before. Thats about all I know about Cingrani, which isnt much.
But I do know, Chris Capuano. Hell be countering Cingrani for the boys in blue. Capaunos last start against Toronto saw him get torched pretty good. He allowed five runs on seven hits in 4.1 frames. Thank goodness the Dodgers won anyways. Before you start telling me how much Capuano sucks, remember his start before that he tossed six scoreless innings against Colorado while whiffing eight. At times Capuano can be effective, and lets just hope that this afternoon is one of those times. Tony CIngrani hasnt allowed more than three runs in a start since May 4. The Dodger offense has outscored opponents 55-29 since the all-star break.
Carl Crawford started feeling ill on Friday night, acceding to reports. He had three hits on Friday, and has a seven game hitting streak. In that span Crawford is 14 for 33 (.424), with three doubles. Don Mattingly said that he hoped to have Crawford back for Sundays tilt,A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand. but it doesnt look likely. Apparently Crawford had a pretty high fever. It was high enough to put him on antibiotics. Don Mattingly had noticed Crawford looking haggard, and decided it best to rest him after sending him to the doctor to get checked out. The Dodger called it precautionary, and it appears its nothing more than the flu.
Howard Cole has yet to offer a car to Skip Schumaker. That may change with the way the utility guy is hitting.The Dodgers are now 17-5 in July. The only other Dodger team to have a higher winning percentage in the month of July was the pennant winning club of 1977. That team went 17-3 which comes out to an .850 winning percentage.
I will be on the Yanks Go Yard Podcast tonight after the game at 7:30 PM pacific time. Well be discussing many things, including the upcoming Yankees/Dodgers series. You can listen to the show here.You can catch the game today at 1:10 PM on Prime Ticket. Well have the recap for you at the usual time, so dont forget to join us over here after the game. Unless I forget where I parked my car again, then who knows right? I am kidding of course. Stacie covers tonight, so nobody has to worry about that. Go Blue!
In a winner take all game that decided who went to the NBA Finals, the Lakers achieved the biggest comeback in a Game 7 in NBA history, going on a 25-4 run at one point. The Trail Blazers led 42-39 at halftime, but seemingly put the game away by outscoring the Lakers 29-19 in the third quarter. Trailing at one point by 15 in the fourth, the Lakers eventually tied the game at 77, thanks to a pair of threes by Brian Shaw and Shaquille O'Neal's two huge free throws. It didn't hurt that the Lakers at one point held the Trail Blazers scoreless on ten straight possessions to help ensure their comeback.
The signature play was when Kobe Bryant lobbed an alley-oop to Shaq to ensure victory for the Lakers, putting them up 85-79 with 40 seconds left. Shaq ran the length of the court with his fingers in the air and his mouth open in amazement, joy, and relief that he could finally silence his critics and get a chance to win a ring.This is a great parkingsystem solution!
As far as playoff comebacks go, it doesn't get much better than this. The Giants led the 49ers 38-14 late in the third quarter,This is a great parkingsystem solution! but Jeff Garcia threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Terrell Owens near the end of the quarter, lessening the gap. Still, the niners trailed 38-22 going into the fourth quarter, an almost insurmountable lead. A 14-yard TD run by Garcia, followed by a successful two point conversion, lessened the gap to 38-30, then a field goal made it 38-33. Incredibly, the 49ers took the lead with 1:05 left on Garcia's 13-yard strike to Tai Streets, but after the two point conversion failed, the Giants needed just a field goal to win the game. They drove upfield, but when attempting a 40-yard field goal, the snap was botched, forcing an incomplete pass by holder Matt Allen. The referees ruled the Giants had an ineligible receiver downfield on the play when it looked like there was pass interference, which ended the game and gave the Niners an improbable 39-38 victory. The 24-point deficit they overcame to win was the second largest in playoff history.
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But you know who doesnt have any issues with anything right now? The Dodgers! The Boys in Blue are hot hot hot! Oh, see Dodgers playing, see Dodgers winning, they stay hot, hot hot. See Dodgers hitting, see Dodgers pitching, they so hot hot hot. (Photo credit-Peter Serling) Last nights 4-1 victory in front of a sold out raucous crowd put them 1.5 games in front of the losing Dbacks.
The Dodgers are now 55-48 on the season and have won 25 of their last 31 games. Today the Dodgers look to pick up a series win over the Reds. For that theyll give the ball to Chris Capuano. Hell battle another left hander, rookie Tony Cingrani, in the final game of the series.
Rookie left hander Tony Cingrani has made 16 starts this season. The 24 year old left hander is from Evergreen Illinois, and was drafted by the Reds in 2011. Cingrani has posted a 4-1 record, and a 3.18 ERA.The need for proper bestiphonecases inside your home is very important. In a little over 70 frames, hes whiffed 79 and walked 29. Cingrani was orginally called up to replace the injured Johnny Cueto. Cingranis last start was a win. He pitched 5.Full service promotional company specializing in drycabinet.2 frames of two-run ball to beat the Giants.
The youngster had some issues with velocity and control of hiss off-speed pitches, or so I read. Apparently he can get up to mid 90s with his heater. Cingrani of course has never faced the Dodgers before, and nobody has seen him. That doesnt bode well for the Dodgers, because we know how they do against pitchers theyve never seen before. Thats about all I know about Cingrani, which isnt much.
But I do know, Chris Capuano. Hell be countering Cingrani for the boys in blue. Capaunos last start against Toronto saw him get torched pretty good. He allowed five runs on seven hits in 4.1 frames. Thank goodness the Dodgers won anyways. Before you start telling me how much Capuano sucks, remember his start before that he tossed six scoreless innings against Colorado while whiffing eight. At times Capuano can be effective, and lets just hope that this afternoon is one of those times. Tony CIngrani hasnt allowed more than three runs in a start since May 4. The Dodger offense has outscored opponents 55-29 since the all-star break.
Carl Crawford started feeling ill on Friday night, acceding to reports. He had three hits on Friday, and has a seven game hitting streak. In that span Crawford is 14 for 33 (.424), with three doubles. Don Mattingly said that he hoped to have Crawford back for Sundays tilt,A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand. but it doesnt look likely. Apparently Crawford had a pretty high fever. It was high enough to put him on antibiotics. Don Mattingly had noticed Crawford looking haggard, and decided it best to rest him after sending him to the doctor to get checked out. The Dodger called it precautionary, and it appears its nothing more than the flu.
Howard Cole has yet to offer a car to Skip Schumaker. That may change with the way the utility guy is hitting.The Dodgers are now 17-5 in July. The only other Dodger team to have a higher winning percentage in the month of July was the pennant winning club of 1977. That team went 17-3 which comes out to an .850 winning percentage.
I will be on the Yanks Go Yard Podcast tonight after the game at 7:30 PM pacific time. Well be discussing many things, including the upcoming Yankees/Dodgers series. You can listen to the show here.You can catch the game today at 1:10 PM on Prime Ticket. Well have the recap for you at the usual time, so dont forget to join us over here after the game. Unless I forget where I parked my car again, then who knows right? I am kidding of course. Stacie covers tonight, so nobody has to worry about that. Go Blue!
In a winner take all game that decided who went to the NBA Finals, the Lakers achieved the biggest comeback in a Game 7 in NBA history, going on a 25-4 run at one point. The Trail Blazers led 42-39 at halftime, but seemingly put the game away by outscoring the Lakers 29-19 in the third quarter. Trailing at one point by 15 in the fourth, the Lakers eventually tied the game at 77, thanks to a pair of threes by Brian Shaw and Shaquille O'Neal's two huge free throws. It didn't hurt that the Lakers at one point held the Trail Blazers scoreless on ten straight possessions to help ensure their comeback.
The signature play was when Kobe Bryant lobbed an alley-oop to Shaq to ensure victory for the Lakers, putting them up 85-79 with 40 seconds left. Shaq ran the length of the court with his fingers in the air and his mouth open in amazement, joy, and relief that he could finally silence his critics and get a chance to win a ring.This is a great parkingsystem solution!
As far as playoff comebacks go, it doesn't get much better than this. The Giants led the 49ers 38-14 late in the third quarter,This is a great parkingsystem solution! but Jeff Garcia threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Terrell Owens near the end of the quarter, lessening the gap. Still, the niners trailed 38-22 going into the fourth quarter, an almost insurmountable lead. A 14-yard TD run by Garcia, followed by a successful two point conversion, lessened the gap to 38-30, then a field goal made it 38-33. Incredibly, the 49ers took the lead with 1:05 left on Garcia's 13-yard strike to Tai Streets, but after the two point conversion failed, the Giants needed just a field goal to win the game. They drove upfield, but when attempting a 40-yard field goal, the snap was botched, forcing an incomplete pass by holder Matt Allen. The referees ruled the Giants had an ineligible receiver downfield on the play when it looked like there was pass interference, which ended the game and gave the Niners an improbable 39-38 victory. The 24-point deficit they overcame to win was the second largest in playoff history.
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2013年7月25日 星期四
Chips from around the world
When
I started playing live poker (at the first ever poker club in
Yekaterinburg), I decided to also start collecting chips from different
clubs. I wanted to raid a lot of casinos during my planned Vegas trip
and to have at least one chip from each one.Recently, when I was showing
my collection to my friends, it flashed into my mind that every chip
has some sort of emotion or a story connected to it. I've decided to
share them with you.
The first chips in my collection were obtained from Yekaterinburg clubs. In the picture above, the left green chip belonged to the first ever poker club that was opened in our city, which was called Nevada. I remember my wife and I going over there for the opening ceremony.Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. The club only had three tables to play on and the welcome shootout freeroll with around $3,300 guaranteed gathered more than 100 participants. Turned out I had to wait three hours to get my chance to play a Sit & Go with a chance to enter the final table.
The only disappointing moment that I have when reminiscing about those times is that I had talked everyone's ear off about how profitable opening a poker club would be half-a-year prior to Nevada opening its doors. The sad thing was I only played NL50 at the time and didn't have the bankroll to start a club on my own. The ones that had more funds caught a wave and still do live off of that pretty well.My first poker tourney series and also my first trip abroad without my wife (girlfriend at the time). Even though I apparently had a doomswitch activated against me throughout the whole series, it didn't prevent me from immersing into the exciting atmosphere of tournament poker. So I decided not to quit it after the first try.
I recall a moment from the Red Sea Poker Cup when my friend and I, along with 30 other people, were rooting for the Russian businessman who was called 'Uncle Misha'. You could smell he was a fish from a kilometer away, yet he managed to take down the 300 turbo, winning 8,000 for 1st place. I felt as full with ardour and excitement as when I was rooting for Russia against Netherlands in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008. The famous line from a WSOP commercial, 'This is beyond fairytale, it's inconceivable' (referring to Moneymaker in the 2003 Main Event), would have gained some new meaning for you if you had seen this final table. 'Uncle Misha' literally steamrolled his opponents, winning ridiculous ALLYMs, as Misha pronounced it, with almost every hand (like 95s, for instance).
Actually, it turned out that rooting for someone else playing poker is a lot of fun, even if you don't have a piece! During the same series,How to carledlights Doll. PokerStars Pro Max 'decay' Lykov took down the HighRoller event after playing heads-up versus some cocky guy who refused Max's offer of a deal only because the deal included playing for the actual trophy after the split and not automatically giving that trophy to the guy (who had more chips at the time). All in all, it ended up being a swarm of Russians, including me, who cheerfully witnessed Max slowly taking down the villain and, subsequently, a trophy. Oh, and a small bonus of the 50,000 prize, of course.
Even my hometown,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. with 150,000 citizens, had its own poker club! It was located in a bowling centre, so I've visited it a couple of times. Can't really say that the overall 'score' was positive for me there. I blame it on my luck in that specific place. One time I had to desperately go to the other side of the city to get some more cash from an ATM after I was outdrawn by a 20% hand. The table was too much of an aquarium to leave early. I ended up insta-losing half of my buy-in though.
It was also my first time, and the only time so far, when I got slowrolled at showdown. At the time I had no idea that it was frowned upon, so I didn't even tell the guy off. He smirked and turned over one card for a pair with a board card - 'will that do?' - waited for me to turn over my aces, and then proceeded to turn the other card over to reveal a set.I visited Prague when it held the EMOP series - I skipped the tourneys and focused on playing cash. The only memorable thing was the procedure of gaining access to the casino. My wife and I had our driver's licenses photocopies,A quality paper cutter or paper partypaymentgateway can make your company's presentation stand out. and our cameras taken away. They then took our photo's before allowing us to proceed to the tables.
Very pleasant memories arise when I think of Monte Carlo. It was my first tourney where I made a solid amount of cash and I didn't share the buy-in with (almost) anyone. It was my first experience of playing the pre-final stages of a big tourney where you're only a few hands away from that pile of cash for the top places and, simultaneously, still such a long way away.It also was my first time busting out Greg Raymer and getting a fossil from him. A short time later, in Las Vegas, I added another one to my collection. I was also given a PokerStars card protector in Monte Carlo, which I used during the WSOP.
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The first chips in my collection were obtained from Yekaterinburg clubs. In the picture above, the left green chip belonged to the first ever poker club that was opened in our city, which was called Nevada. I remember my wife and I going over there for the opening ceremony.Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. The club only had three tables to play on and the welcome shootout freeroll with around $3,300 guaranteed gathered more than 100 participants. Turned out I had to wait three hours to get my chance to play a Sit & Go with a chance to enter the final table.
The only disappointing moment that I have when reminiscing about those times is that I had talked everyone's ear off about how profitable opening a poker club would be half-a-year prior to Nevada opening its doors. The sad thing was I only played NL50 at the time and didn't have the bankroll to start a club on my own. The ones that had more funds caught a wave and still do live off of that pretty well.My first poker tourney series and also my first trip abroad without my wife (girlfriend at the time). Even though I apparently had a doomswitch activated against me throughout the whole series, it didn't prevent me from immersing into the exciting atmosphere of tournament poker. So I decided not to quit it after the first try.
I recall a moment from the Red Sea Poker Cup when my friend and I, along with 30 other people, were rooting for the Russian businessman who was called 'Uncle Misha'. You could smell he was a fish from a kilometer away, yet he managed to take down the 300 turbo, winning 8,000 for 1st place. I felt as full with ardour and excitement as when I was rooting for Russia against Netherlands in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008. The famous line from a WSOP commercial, 'This is beyond fairytale, it's inconceivable' (referring to Moneymaker in the 2003 Main Event), would have gained some new meaning for you if you had seen this final table. 'Uncle Misha' literally steamrolled his opponents, winning ridiculous ALLYMs, as Misha pronounced it, with almost every hand (like 95s, for instance).
Actually, it turned out that rooting for someone else playing poker is a lot of fun, even if you don't have a piece! During the same series,How to carledlights Doll. PokerStars Pro Max 'decay' Lykov took down the HighRoller event after playing heads-up versus some cocky guy who refused Max's offer of a deal only because the deal included playing for the actual trophy after the split and not automatically giving that trophy to the guy (who had more chips at the time). All in all, it ended up being a swarm of Russians, including me, who cheerfully witnessed Max slowly taking down the villain and, subsequently, a trophy. Oh, and a small bonus of the 50,000 prize, of course.
Even my hometown,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. with 150,000 citizens, had its own poker club! It was located in a bowling centre, so I've visited it a couple of times. Can't really say that the overall 'score' was positive for me there. I blame it on my luck in that specific place. One time I had to desperately go to the other side of the city to get some more cash from an ATM after I was outdrawn by a 20% hand. The table was too much of an aquarium to leave early. I ended up insta-losing half of my buy-in though.
It was also my first time, and the only time so far, when I got slowrolled at showdown. At the time I had no idea that it was frowned upon, so I didn't even tell the guy off. He smirked and turned over one card for a pair with a board card - 'will that do?' - waited for me to turn over my aces, and then proceeded to turn the other card over to reveal a set.I visited Prague when it held the EMOP series - I skipped the tourneys and focused on playing cash. The only memorable thing was the procedure of gaining access to the casino. My wife and I had our driver's licenses photocopies,A quality paper cutter or paper partypaymentgateway can make your company's presentation stand out. and our cameras taken away. They then took our photo's before allowing us to proceed to the tables.
Very pleasant memories arise when I think of Monte Carlo. It was my first tourney where I made a solid amount of cash and I didn't share the buy-in with (almost) anyone. It was my first experience of playing the pre-final stages of a big tourney where you're only a few hands away from that pile of cash for the top places and, simultaneously, still such a long way away.It also was my first time busting out Greg Raymer and getting a fossil from him. A short time later, in Las Vegas, I added another one to my collection. I was also given a PokerStars card protector in Monte Carlo, which I used during the WSOP.
Wizard Wars was first announced in March of this year and was in part a response to the Magicka community's interest in a more flesh-out PvP game. The original Magicka shipped with a single-player mode where players played through a campaign with a detailed storyline. A PvP mode was later added. The response to the PvP mode was overwhelming, with some players spending more time in competitive multiplayer than in the single-player campaign. There was a problem, though the PvP mode, by Paradox's own admission was not very good.A indoorpositioningsystem has real weight in your customer's hand.
Grandma on Feeding Tube Without Consent Symbolize
A quarter of a million bedbound elderly people are kept alive in Japan, often for years, by a feeding tube surgically inserted into their stomach. A few months ago, my 96-year-old grandmother became one of them.
Feeding tubes are so common in Japan that my family wasnt initially consulted about the procedure, which is effectively irreversible. When my mother walked into Grandmas room the next morning and saw a tube, she dropped to her knees by the bedside and stayed there for hours, crying. As medical science becomes more sophisticated, were finding new ways to prolong life. When my grandma, Hisako Miyake, was born in 1916, life expectancy in Japan was around 43 years; now it is 83, the longest in the world.
When it comes to death, Japan doesnt score so well. In 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked 40 developed and developing countries on quality of death, based on criteria such as end-of-life cost and care and, more broadly, how well societies faced issues of death. Japan was 23.In Japan, theres not much talk about death. Living wills, or even discussions about end-of-life decisions, are rare. Historically, hospitals focused on extending lives of patients with little chance of recovery, said Tetsuo Kashiwagi, president of Japans Hospice Palliative Care Foundation.
The use of feeding tubes at the end of life, which is not conventional practice in the western world, is a way of life in Japan. Twelve percent of patients who get the procedure are fed this way for five years or more, according to a survey conducted in 2011 by Japans hospital association.When my grandma -- or obaachan, as I call her in Japanese - - was born, one out of 20 Japanese was over 65. Now it is one in four. By 2060, the proportion will swell to 40 percent.
The aging population has the potential to bankrupt Japan, now the worlds third-largest economy after being surpassed by China in 2010. As the proportion of the working population declines, Japan, also the second most-indebted economy, has fewer salary-earning taxpayers to foot the bill for dependent seniors, especially because the birth rate is low and society doesnt encourage immigrant workers.
Born in 1916
Grandma spoke often of her own determination to live to 100. She was born on Dec. 27, 1916, about 18 months after World War I broke out and the same year Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in the U.S. She grew up in a wealthy household -- her family was the dominant rice wholesaler in the historic city of Nara, Japans capital 1,300 years ago. The area, called Naramachi, retains many relics from its past, including wooden residences called Machiya, long, skinny buildings that doubled as shops.
When I was a teenager, she told me how shed bump along the road in a rickshaw to the station where she took the train to Osaka to attend college. That would have been in the 1930s, when few Japanese women were getting higher education. She also told me how her pocket money was enough to buy western pastries and candies.
Grandmas two-floor Machiya, under a pagoda-style tiled roof, was a wonderland to me. The complex, built in the early 1800s, is set inside a 700-square-meter (7,500-square-foot) plot surrounded by a mud wall. At the entrance, there was a telephone box, one of Naras first. Its many rooms, chambers,Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. staircases, passageways and doors were perfect for hide-and-seek.Life as Grandma knew it came to an abrupt end during World War II, when the government instituted food rationing and took control of rice distribution, effectively closing the familys business. Over generations, rice traders plowed their profit back into buying land.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable ultrasonicsensor online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers. When the U.Tidy up wires with ease with offershidkits and tie guns at cheap discounted prices.S. occupation forces moved in, the farmland was taken away and redistributed to growers in 1947.
My grandma used to say that she and her friends would complain that they couldnt find anyone to marry because all the bachelors were at war. Women stitched notes with their names and addresses inside good-luck charms dispatched to soldiers.My grandfather received one from Grandma when he was stationed in Manchuria, China. Sumio Miyake was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Tokyo. He was an ambitious colonel who specialized in working out complicated mathematical equations used to predict the trajectory of a bomb. Grandpa was not only an elite officer, he also came from a higher class -- a descendant of a samurai family with acclaimed archery skills.
After the war, a dozen of Grandmas relatives lived in the family home. Grandma ran the household for the first time without servants, and she struggled. Still,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. she insisted her children enjoy English tea for breakfast, meat and Western-style meals on some occasions.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained. When her second son, Tsutomu, brought his university friends to the house in the 1960s, she cooked them steak for breakfast.She once told me she knew she had to buy cheaper meat, my mom said, but her mouth instinctively told the meat shop the opposite.
When I think of her, I picture her standing in her kitchen. She always wore an apron tied around her abundant waist while working in the home and liked to prepare extra food, which she gave as sacraments to the gods and spirits of ancestors she worshiped every day. She also insisted on giving expensive foods and delicacies as gifts to her extended family.My grandpa died of a heart attack in 1984. My grandma lived alone in her home until 11 years ago, when she started to lose control of her bladder. At the age of 85, she moved in with my parents.
She took only a few things with her. Among them: the postcard Hiroshi had received from the army in Osaka advising the date he was to be interviewed for military service. She stopped eating. She said she didnt want to use her chopsticks, so my mom started to feed her with a spoon. It sometimes took more than an hour because she chewed so much.
I remember she said it would be so easy if she could hop to the afterlife instantly, my mom said. I told her that the human body isnt designed to go on for more than 90 years -- thats why her body cant function the way she wants it to. Her deterioration is natural.Still, perhaps because her decline was happening in slow motion, no one thought to ask if she had any end-of-life wishes. None of us even imagined tube-feeding.
Discussion about death within Japanese families may be difficult in part because Japanese arent very verbal. They tend to use more ambiguous, less direct speech, said Kashiwagi, president of the Hospice Palliative Care Foundation.
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Feeding tubes are so common in Japan that my family wasnt initially consulted about the procedure, which is effectively irreversible. When my mother walked into Grandmas room the next morning and saw a tube, she dropped to her knees by the bedside and stayed there for hours, crying. As medical science becomes more sophisticated, were finding new ways to prolong life. When my grandma, Hisako Miyake, was born in 1916, life expectancy in Japan was around 43 years; now it is 83, the longest in the world.
When it comes to death, Japan doesnt score so well. In 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked 40 developed and developing countries on quality of death, based on criteria such as end-of-life cost and care and, more broadly, how well societies faced issues of death. Japan was 23.In Japan, theres not much talk about death. Living wills, or even discussions about end-of-life decisions, are rare. Historically, hospitals focused on extending lives of patients with little chance of recovery, said Tetsuo Kashiwagi, president of Japans Hospice Palliative Care Foundation.
The use of feeding tubes at the end of life, which is not conventional practice in the western world, is a way of life in Japan. Twelve percent of patients who get the procedure are fed this way for five years or more, according to a survey conducted in 2011 by Japans hospital association.When my grandma -- or obaachan, as I call her in Japanese - - was born, one out of 20 Japanese was over 65. Now it is one in four. By 2060, the proportion will swell to 40 percent.
The aging population has the potential to bankrupt Japan, now the worlds third-largest economy after being surpassed by China in 2010. As the proportion of the working population declines, Japan, also the second most-indebted economy, has fewer salary-earning taxpayers to foot the bill for dependent seniors, especially because the birth rate is low and society doesnt encourage immigrant workers.
Born in 1916
Grandma spoke often of her own determination to live to 100. She was born on Dec. 27, 1916, about 18 months after World War I broke out and the same year Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in the U.S. She grew up in a wealthy household -- her family was the dominant rice wholesaler in the historic city of Nara, Japans capital 1,300 years ago. The area, called Naramachi, retains many relics from its past, including wooden residences called Machiya, long, skinny buildings that doubled as shops.
When I was a teenager, she told me how shed bump along the road in a rickshaw to the station where she took the train to Osaka to attend college. That would have been in the 1930s, when few Japanese women were getting higher education. She also told me how her pocket money was enough to buy western pastries and candies.
Grandmas two-floor Machiya, under a pagoda-style tiled roof, was a wonderland to me. The complex, built in the early 1800s, is set inside a 700-square-meter (7,500-square-foot) plot surrounded by a mud wall. At the entrance, there was a telephone box, one of Naras first. Its many rooms, chambers,Here's a complete list of granitecountertops for the beginning oil painter. staircases, passageways and doors were perfect for hide-and-seek.Life as Grandma knew it came to an abrupt end during World War II, when the government instituted food rationing and took control of rice distribution, effectively closing the familys business. Over generations, rice traders plowed their profit back into buying land.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable ultrasonicsensor online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers. When the U.Tidy up wires with ease with offershidkits and tie guns at cheap discounted prices.S. occupation forces moved in, the farmland was taken away and redistributed to growers in 1947.
My grandma used to say that she and her friends would complain that they couldnt find anyone to marry because all the bachelors were at war. Women stitched notes with their names and addresses inside good-luck charms dispatched to soldiers.My grandfather received one from Grandma when he was stationed in Manchuria, China. Sumio Miyake was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Tokyo. He was an ambitious colonel who specialized in working out complicated mathematical equations used to predict the trajectory of a bomb. Grandpa was not only an elite officer, he also came from a higher class -- a descendant of a samurai family with acclaimed archery skills.
After the war, a dozen of Grandmas relatives lived in the family home. Grandma ran the household for the first time without servants, and she struggled. Still,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. she insisted her children enjoy English tea for breakfast, meat and Western-style meals on some occasions.You must not use the stonecarving without being trained. When her second son, Tsutomu, brought his university friends to the house in the 1960s, she cooked them steak for breakfast.She once told me she knew she had to buy cheaper meat, my mom said, but her mouth instinctively told the meat shop the opposite.
When I think of her, I picture her standing in her kitchen. She always wore an apron tied around her abundant waist while working in the home and liked to prepare extra food, which she gave as sacraments to the gods and spirits of ancestors she worshiped every day. She also insisted on giving expensive foods and delicacies as gifts to her extended family.My grandpa died of a heart attack in 1984. My grandma lived alone in her home until 11 years ago, when she started to lose control of her bladder. At the age of 85, she moved in with my parents.
She took only a few things with her. Among them: the postcard Hiroshi had received from the army in Osaka advising the date he was to be interviewed for military service. She stopped eating. She said she didnt want to use her chopsticks, so my mom started to feed her with a spoon. It sometimes took more than an hour because she chewed so much.
I remember she said it would be so easy if she could hop to the afterlife instantly, my mom said. I told her that the human body isnt designed to go on for more than 90 years -- thats why her body cant function the way she wants it to. Her deterioration is natural.Still, perhaps because her decline was happening in slow motion, no one thought to ask if she had any end-of-life wishes. None of us even imagined tube-feeding.
Discussion about death within Japanese families may be difficult in part because Japanese arent very verbal. They tend to use more ambiguous, less direct speech, said Kashiwagi, president of the Hospice Palliative Care Foundation.
Carson Energy Services diversifies
If
you ask Ron Carson, hell tell you the oilfield service company he
founded in tiny Lampman, Saskatchewan (population 735), is an
oil-and-gas focused contractor, and has been since 1974.Thats the year
Carson Energy Services was founded, employing eight people who welded
and provided general contracting to energy producers in southeastern
Saskatchewan. Today, Carson employs 1,Compare prices and buy all brands
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home power systems and by the pallet.500 people and operates from
Wainwright, Alberta, to Virden, Manitoba. Throughout its history, and in
the time since its 2011 acquisition by Flint URS, Carson has grown by
diversifying. Ron Carson says the company has moved into horizontal
drilling, then into major facility construction and then into
pipelining.
Eventually, Carson started trying to diversify even further, beyond the oil and gas industry, and began looking for a new set of customers C particularly in the provinces booming potash industry. There are 10 potash mining and processing operations in Canada, says Natural Resources Canada, and nine of them are in Saskatchewan. We see an opportunity in Saskatchewan, in Regina, thats a little more diversified from oil and gas, Carson says. Thats why were building an 85,000-square-foot building and were moving there in July. While 90 per cent of Carsons work continues to be focused in the oil and gas sector, the executive team decided it could grow the business by getting into potash.
For several years, Carson Energy Services bid unsuccessfully for work at Saskatchewans potash mines. Ron Carson says the company struggled to get the work, because it was a little different from what we were used to. So the company made two changes.First,You will see earcap , competitive price and first-class service. company executives looked at what potash-specific skills its employees would need to complete the work. Carsons central area manager Dale Ziegler says the company already owned much of the equipment for working with potash miners but the knowledge and talent for the welders was a little bit more specialized. Additional training was required for a few of its welders on material like cement-lined steel, which is frequently used in potash mine infrastructure.
Secondly, Carson decided to set up shop in the middle of potash country,This is a basic background on rtls. building an 85,000-square-foot facility on the highway into Regina to attract the attention of potash miners like the Mosaic Company. The Plymouth, Minnesota-based firm operates three potash mines in Saskatchewan. Theres potash to the east and to the west and to the north [of Regina], Ziegler says, adding, As soon as you put a flag in the ground, people notice you.Carson did its first potash job at Mosaics Belle Plaine mine in 2011. It was a pipelining contract to install cement-lined steel pipe at the operation. The company has since installed large-diameter poly-pipe at Mosaics Esterhazy mine and done some work at K+S AGs potash plant immediately north of Regina.
Carson has also parlayed some of its oil and gas experience, like directional drilling, above-ground piping and installing piles, to its potash services. And while oil and gas is still the core of Carsons business, the potash industry provides a hedge against some of the energy sectors seasonality. In the oil and gas industry, it can roller-coaster quite often and potash could be a little bit more steady work, Ziegler says.Carsons human resources team has seen another benefit, albeit unintended, of working with the provinces potash producers. Weve got a lot of local people that work for us C Saskatchewan employees C and its nice for them to be able to stay and work at home, so the more work we can pick up at home, the easier it is for us to keep those people, and keep them happy.
This is the barbershop quartet we always end conferences with, the old people at the barbershop. Let me tell you a story, in early 1992, when I was editor of Time, and did technology and science and business, one of our writers turned me on to The Well, which was, as you remember, the old community system before America Online, and Prodigy, and those sort of things. And it was a true online community. And it seemed to me that we could start putting things of our magazine and create communities around discussions around what we were doing, our journalism, in some ways even crowd source our journalism.
After we did that, we moved on to things like AOL,This technology allows high volume bondcleaningsydney production at low cost. CompuServe, Prodigy that were still community services, but a little bit walled gardens. I think a weird thing happened a couple of years later when I think some of us were discussing it, including Louis Rossetto of Wired, we decided how do you get away from these walled gardens, onto the Internet directly, and there were three or four options, Send, Fetch, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, FTP, and the World Wide Web, which was new at the time because the Mosaic browser had just come out, new at least to consumers.
We put it on the web, we lost the notion of community. All of a sudden we just started putting our content online, and maybe there was some junkie comments at the bottom, but it was no longer a community site. We also committed what some say is the original sin in journalism was I think Paul and I were working on it at the time, something called RoadRunner, Pathfinder, and other things. We were going to say, if you want to subscribe, if you want Time Magazine, or all of our new products, like Virtual Gardens, and things we were doing, you'd pay us a little bit of money.
Instead young advertising executives from Madison Avenue came rushing across Fifth Avenue to the Time-Life Building with bags of money to dump it on our desk so that we would put banner ads on whatever we were putting online. We said, well, this is too easy. We will never charge for things because we want eyeballs. And that was the beginning of the decline of journalism.
John Huey on my right was editor of Fortune when I was editor of Time. Martin Nisenholtz was for many years the chief digital guru at The New York Times, and is still a counselor there for digital. And Paul Sagan, as I mentioned, was a partner of mine when I was at Time Inc. New Media, went on to be the CEO of Akamai. And, oddly enough, all three of them went into a witness protection program called the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and they found each other there, and decided to do an oral history project on how all this worked.The term 'kitchenhidkits control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
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Eventually, Carson started trying to diversify even further, beyond the oil and gas industry, and began looking for a new set of customers C particularly in the provinces booming potash industry. There are 10 potash mining and processing operations in Canada, says Natural Resources Canada, and nine of them are in Saskatchewan. We see an opportunity in Saskatchewan, in Regina, thats a little more diversified from oil and gas, Carson says. Thats why were building an 85,000-square-foot building and were moving there in July. While 90 per cent of Carsons work continues to be focused in the oil and gas sector, the executive team decided it could grow the business by getting into potash.
For several years, Carson Energy Services bid unsuccessfully for work at Saskatchewans potash mines. Ron Carson says the company struggled to get the work, because it was a little different from what we were used to. So the company made two changes.First,You will see earcap , competitive price and first-class service. company executives looked at what potash-specific skills its employees would need to complete the work. Carsons central area manager Dale Ziegler says the company already owned much of the equipment for working with potash miners but the knowledge and talent for the welders was a little bit more specialized. Additional training was required for a few of its welders on material like cement-lined steel, which is frequently used in potash mine infrastructure.
Secondly, Carson decided to set up shop in the middle of potash country,This is a basic background on rtls. building an 85,000-square-foot facility on the highway into Regina to attract the attention of potash miners like the Mosaic Company. The Plymouth, Minnesota-based firm operates three potash mines in Saskatchewan. Theres potash to the east and to the west and to the north [of Regina], Ziegler says, adding, As soon as you put a flag in the ground, people notice you.Carson did its first potash job at Mosaics Belle Plaine mine in 2011. It was a pipelining contract to install cement-lined steel pipe at the operation. The company has since installed large-diameter poly-pipe at Mosaics Esterhazy mine and done some work at K+S AGs potash plant immediately north of Regina.
Carson has also parlayed some of its oil and gas experience, like directional drilling, above-ground piping and installing piles, to its potash services. And while oil and gas is still the core of Carsons business, the potash industry provides a hedge against some of the energy sectors seasonality. In the oil and gas industry, it can roller-coaster quite often and potash could be a little bit more steady work, Ziegler says.Carsons human resources team has seen another benefit, albeit unintended, of working with the provinces potash producers. Weve got a lot of local people that work for us C Saskatchewan employees C and its nice for them to be able to stay and work at home, so the more work we can pick up at home, the easier it is for us to keep those people, and keep them happy.
This is the barbershop quartet we always end conferences with, the old people at the barbershop. Let me tell you a story, in early 1992, when I was editor of Time, and did technology and science and business, one of our writers turned me on to The Well, which was, as you remember, the old community system before America Online, and Prodigy, and those sort of things. And it was a true online community. And it seemed to me that we could start putting things of our magazine and create communities around discussions around what we were doing, our journalism, in some ways even crowd source our journalism.
After we did that, we moved on to things like AOL,This technology allows high volume bondcleaningsydney production at low cost. CompuServe, Prodigy that were still community services, but a little bit walled gardens. I think a weird thing happened a couple of years later when I think some of us were discussing it, including Louis Rossetto of Wired, we decided how do you get away from these walled gardens, onto the Internet directly, and there were three or four options, Send, Fetch, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, FTP, and the World Wide Web, which was new at the time because the Mosaic browser had just come out, new at least to consumers.
We put it on the web, we lost the notion of community. All of a sudden we just started putting our content online, and maybe there was some junkie comments at the bottom, but it was no longer a community site. We also committed what some say is the original sin in journalism was I think Paul and I were working on it at the time, something called RoadRunner, Pathfinder, and other things. We were going to say, if you want to subscribe, if you want Time Magazine, or all of our new products, like Virtual Gardens, and things we were doing, you'd pay us a little bit of money.
Instead young advertising executives from Madison Avenue came rushing across Fifth Avenue to the Time-Life Building with bags of money to dump it on our desk so that we would put banner ads on whatever we were putting online. We said, well, this is too easy. We will never charge for things because we want eyeballs. And that was the beginning of the decline of journalism.
John Huey on my right was editor of Fortune when I was editor of Time. Martin Nisenholtz was for many years the chief digital guru at The New York Times, and is still a counselor there for digital. And Paul Sagan, as I mentioned, was a partner of mine when I was at Time Inc. New Media, went on to be the CEO of Akamai. And, oddly enough, all three of them went into a witness protection program called the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and they found each other there, and decided to do an oral history project on how all this worked.The term 'kitchenhidkits control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
Homeless animals will benefit from 'eclectic' garage sale
Throughout
60-some years of living and conducting business in McCook, Otto and
Frances Nilsson collected the usual items -- dishes, lamps, linens --
but then there are also some items that are not so common.The uncommon
list includes: Marble countertops with and without sink-holes cut out
and a lighted marble company sign; a wall-mount white porcelain drinking
fountain and a small wall-mount sink equipped with a drinking fountain;
a sky-blue round bathroom sink; an adjustable hair dresser's chair; a
medical examination table.
For those handy in "repurposing," there are two console televisions that can be transformed into storage cupboards and/or doggie beds; there's a wooden hutch (shingled in blue) that some creative person can turn into a head board for a bed. Some items are "one of," and include a screen window, a glass window, a tip-out pantry drawer,You must not use the samsungcases without being trained. a set of dusty-blue/gray-painted sliding cupboard doors; bumper carrying mounts for a motorcycle.There is flooring, sheets of pegboard and a set of wooden, louvered swinging saloon-type doors, three adjustable draftsman's tables and T-squares.A small artist's easel ... a huge artist's easel.There is an antique scythe, antique kerosene lamps; lamp chimneys, lighting fixtures and lamp shades.There's one 5x5-inch "Made in America" "Small Fry" cast iron skillet. There are porcelain bathroom soap and toothbrush holders.
For those whose garages are just as, if not more, important than their kitchens, there are collectible shop signs and pegboard organizers from Otto's automotive business -- United Delco, Stanadyne Diesel, Roosa Master, Robert Bosch Alignment Kits, Wagner Lockheed, Motorcraft, Autolite,Find the perfect cleaningsydney and you'll always find your luggage! Weatherhead, Red Tip Partshop.For shoppers/homeowners looking to rebuild or redecorate, there are doors -- screen doors, interior doors, exterior doors, residential doors, commercial doors.Rolls and rolls of classy flocked wallpaper.
There is signed original artwork -- a couple framed oil paintings by untrained "sidewalk" folk artists. An oil painting by an artist named "Van Lowe." A couple of framed unsigned pencil drawings of country scenes. There are large gold-colored, ornate frames.The sale will be Friday, Aug. 2, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 3, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.Early birds pay double.
Enter the Rutt Building through the blue doors on the north side of the building, in the alley between West B and West C ... or a half-block east of McCook Christian Church ... or a half-block southeast of the new McCook city offices, fire and police department ... or a half block west of the Kugler Company and American Electric ... or across B Street north of the former Automotive Sales and Service building and in the alley on the north.
There are some other inscriptions present and one of them, from the Danish philosopher S?ren Kierkeg?rd, is in Danish. Translated, it reads: "The person who never leaves reason never reaches a connection with God." Another Kierkeg?rd quote enhances the allegory of the voyage as a spiritual quest: "The believer lies always above the deep; he has 70,000 leagues of water under him." Paul Anderson notes that "There is a wonderful interplay between high culture, pop culture and spirituality in Nebeker's works. Most have spiritual themes without being overtly religious."
Nebeker, who has Norwegian ancestry and has lived in Norway, has been asked "Why do you write on your paintings in Norwegian, Japanese and English?" His answer is: "I don't like the way English looks,The feeder is available on drying parkingsystem equipped with folder only. it is so blatant. It is too easy to take literally, too easy to see what it means. I don't intentionally obscure meaning,You've probably seen cellphonecases at some point. but I distrust clarity." For that reason, looking at a Nebeker can be like listening to an opera in a foreign language: the emotion comes through even if the words can't all be deciphered.
Norway is often the setting for his paintings -- Nebeker says he dreams about Norway -- and the works of the Norwegian master Edvard Munch have exerted a major influence on him as well. In 1972 Royal received a grant to live in Munch's studio and living quarters in Ekley where he read the artist's journals and also helped organize the artist's archive of prints. At the time, Munch's work was out of favor in Norway, but Nebeker was very moved by his direct experience of the artist's environment and archives. Royal's interest in imbuing his paintings with psychological motivations and the inclusion of writing in his works both began with this crucial engagement.
Nebeker's 2013 oil The Blue Bike certainly feels quite a bit like a Munch painting: it is a deeply felt moment shaded by memory. The painting is centers on the silhouttes of Royal and his father facing each other across an isthmus in a nocturnal dreamscape. The Blue Bike distills Nebeker's recollection of the disappointment he felt as a boy when he received an inexpensive green bicycle from his father after hoping for a top of the line blue Schwinn. The canvas also alludes to Nebeker's mature, guilty realization that his father had been a man with limited resources he did all he could for his son.
"They stand so awkwardly," observes Paul Anderson of the two silhouettes; "two people who don't quite understand each other." The image of the father and son carries a very strong emotional charge: it makes the resulting painting nostalgic, apologetic and cathartic. Like many of Nebeker's strongest works, The Blue Bike is about human relationships, their emotions clarified and magnified through the filter of dreams.
Nebeker's very commanding vertical canvas When We Awaken which derives its title from a play by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a trio of figures rising from a tomb. The central figure is a woman who throws off her burial shroud as another open-mouthed figure to her right rises skyward. A third, transparent figure stands to her left, wearing a belt that is covered with numbers representing earthly knowledge.Give your logo high visibility on highriskmerchantaccount! A collaged poster -- in French -- advertises a concert with an image of the Louvre's Hellenistic "Winged Victory" who serves as a sister image to the resurrected figures. At the bottom of the canvas is a line from Ibsen's play, a despairing, dreamlike drama that was originally called The Resurrection:"What shall we then see?" We find that we have never lived."
Although resurrection has certainly been a theme used by many artists for hundreds of years, the idiosyncratic nature of Nebeker's painting demonstrates how Nebeker has come to the theme on his own terms. There is a paradox at the heart of Nebeker's art that goes like this: by presenting his personal dream world, infused with cultural references and anecdotes that mean something to him he causes his viewers to think more deeply about universal themes. Not all of us have read or seen the works of Ibsen, but at some deep level we can all connect with the universal human craving to reawaken to life's beauties and deeper meanings.
For those handy in "repurposing," there are two console televisions that can be transformed into storage cupboards and/or doggie beds; there's a wooden hutch (shingled in blue) that some creative person can turn into a head board for a bed. Some items are "one of," and include a screen window, a glass window, a tip-out pantry drawer,You must not use the samsungcases without being trained. a set of dusty-blue/gray-painted sliding cupboard doors; bumper carrying mounts for a motorcycle.There is flooring, sheets of pegboard and a set of wooden, louvered swinging saloon-type doors, three adjustable draftsman's tables and T-squares.A small artist's easel ... a huge artist's easel.There is an antique scythe, antique kerosene lamps; lamp chimneys, lighting fixtures and lamp shades.There's one 5x5-inch "Made in America" "Small Fry" cast iron skillet. There are porcelain bathroom soap and toothbrush holders.
For those whose garages are just as, if not more, important than their kitchens, there are collectible shop signs and pegboard organizers from Otto's automotive business -- United Delco, Stanadyne Diesel, Roosa Master, Robert Bosch Alignment Kits, Wagner Lockheed, Motorcraft, Autolite,Find the perfect cleaningsydney and you'll always find your luggage! Weatherhead, Red Tip Partshop.For shoppers/homeowners looking to rebuild or redecorate, there are doors -- screen doors, interior doors, exterior doors, residential doors, commercial doors.Rolls and rolls of classy flocked wallpaper.
There is signed original artwork -- a couple framed oil paintings by untrained "sidewalk" folk artists. An oil painting by an artist named "Van Lowe." A couple of framed unsigned pencil drawings of country scenes. There are large gold-colored, ornate frames.The sale will be Friday, Aug. 2, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 3, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.Early birds pay double.
Enter the Rutt Building through the blue doors on the north side of the building, in the alley between West B and West C ... or a half-block east of McCook Christian Church ... or a half-block southeast of the new McCook city offices, fire and police department ... or a half block west of the Kugler Company and American Electric ... or across B Street north of the former Automotive Sales and Service building and in the alley on the north.
There are some other inscriptions present and one of them, from the Danish philosopher S?ren Kierkeg?rd, is in Danish. Translated, it reads: "The person who never leaves reason never reaches a connection with God." Another Kierkeg?rd quote enhances the allegory of the voyage as a spiritual quest: "The believer lies always above the deep; he has 70,000 leagues of water under him." Paul Anderson notes that "There is a wonderful interplay between high culture, pop culture and spirituality in Nebeker's works. Most have spiritual themes without being overtly religious."
Nebeker, who has Norwegian ancestry and has lived in Norway, has been asked "Why do you write on your paintings in Norwegian, Japanese and English?" His answer is: "I don't like the way English looks,The feeder is available on drying parkingsystem equipped with folder only. it is so blatant. It is too easy to take literally, too easy to see what it means. I don't intentionally obscure meaning,You've probably seen cellphonecases at some point. but I distrust clarity." For that reason, looking at a Nebeker can be like listening to an opera in a foreign language: the emotion comes through even if the words can't all be deciphered.
Norway is often the setting for his paintings -- Nebeker says he dreams about Norway -- and the works of the Norwegian master Edvard Munch have exerted a major influence on him as well. In 1972 Royal received a grant to live in Munch's studio and living quarters in Ekley where he read the artist's journals and also helped organize the artist's archive of prints. At the time, Munch's work was out of favor in Norway, but Nebeker was very moved by his direct experience of the artist's environment and archives. Royal's interest in imbuing his paintings with psychological motivations and the inclusion of writing in his works both began with this crucial engagement.
Nebeker's 2013 oil The Blue Bike certainly feels quite a bit like a Munch painting: it is a deeply felt moment shaded by memory. The painting is centers on the silhouttes of Royal and his father facing each other across an isthmus in a nocturnal dreamscape. The Blue Bike distills Nebeker's recollection of the disappointment he felt as a boy when he received an inexpensive green bicycle from his father after hoping for a top of the line blue Schwinn. The canvas also alludes to Nebeker's mature, guilty realization that his father had been a man with limited resources he did all he could for his son.
"They stand so awkwardly," observes Paul Anderson of the two silhouettes; "two people who don't quite understand each other." The image of the father and son carries a very strong emotional charge: it makes the resulting painting nostalgic, apologetic and cathartic. Like many of Nebeker's strongest works, The Blue Bike is about human relationships, their emotions clarified and magnified through the filter of dreams.
Nebeker's very commanding vertical canvas When We Awaken which derives its title from a play by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a trio of figures rising from a tomb. The central figure is a woman who throws off her burial shroud as another open-mouthed figure to her right rises skyward. A third, transparent figure stands to her left, wearing a belt that is covered with numbers representing earthly knowledge.Give your logo high visibility on highriskmerchantaccount! A collaged poster -- in French -- advertises a concert with an image of the Louvre's Hellenistic "Winged Victory" who serves as a sister image to the resurrected figures. At the bottom of the canvas is a line from Ibsen's play, a despairing, dreamlike drama that was originally called The Resurrection:"What shall we then see?" We find that we have never lived."
Although resurrection has certainly been a theme used by many artists for hundreds of years, the idiosyncratic nature of Nebeker's painting demonstrates how Nebeker has come to the theme on his own terms. There is a paradox at the heart of Nebeker's art that goes like this: by presenting his personal dream world, infused with cultural references and anecdotes that mean something to him he causes his viewers to think more deeply about universal themes. Not all of us have read or seen the works of Ibsen, but at some deep level we can all connect with the universal human craving to reawaken to life's beauties and deeper meanings.
2013年7月23日 星期二
Debris still plague coastal lakes
Superstorm Sandyslammed New Jersey's coastal lakes, saddling many
with sand and debris, but eight months after the storm they remain a
lower priority than beaches, according to environmental advocates.At
least 15 scenic lakes still need sand, debris or fallen trees removed,
and many pose flood threats to neighboring homes. Several lakes have
overflowed during heavy rainstorms in recent weeks.More than 80 standard
commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans.
"The coastal lakes have been mostly forgotten," said Edward Bonanno, chairman of the Avon Environmental Commission and a former environmental crimes bureau chief in the state Attorney General's Office. "We hope there will be a solution for all the coastal lakes, a plan for dredging, for storm water management and for shoreline restoration" with restored habitats, Bonanno said.
The lakes are key elements of their communities, and it's unfortunate that lake restoration is getting less attention than other Jersey Shore restoration efforts, said President Stephen J. Souza of Princeton Hydro, a Ringoes, N.J.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable ultrasonicsensor online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers.-based environmental consulting firm.
"It's been going much slower than what you see happening along the coastal areas, the boardwalks repairs and things like that," said Souza, a consultant to the Deal Lake Commission.For decades, coastal lakes in Monmouth and Ocean counties have served as giant receptacles for polluted stormwater runoff and sediment from their heavily developed watersheds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has received few requests for Sandy relief money to restore coastal lakes in the two counties and the Army Corps of Engineers eventually may study lakes, according to officials.
The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service had received 37 applications from across the state for Emergency Watershed Protection Program money after Hurricane Sandy. Proposed projects ranged from debris removal to bulkhead repair, according to Carrie Mosley, state conservationist in the agency. But some of the applications were ineligible.
The Army Corps will conduct a $2.5 million study of Wreck Pond in Spring Lake and Sea Girt, N.J., focusing on how to reduce flooding and pollution. But the study will take several years to complete. Every year, rainfall triggers numerous ocean swimming bans at four beaches near the pond.
The state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking more information from communities about flooding, debris, sand and damage to storm water infrastructure,You will see earcap , competitive price and first-class service. according to spokesman Larry Hajna. The agency will use the information to develop restoration strategies and is looking into possible sources of financing.
Federal officials have approved $59.7 million in grants to the state for contractors to remove sand and sediment debris from navigable waterways following Sandy. But officials had not determined whether any of the money would go toward dredging and cleaning up coastal lakes, according to spokesman Larry Ragonese of the Department of Environmental Protection.The surge affected about 100 named lakes in New Jersey. In general, Monmouth County had the worst damage, said Jill Lipoti, director of the Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Water Monitoring and Standards.
Before Sandy struck the Jersey Shore, officials lowered several lakes, including Silver Lake and Lake Como in Belmar, in an unsuccessful effort to prevent flooding.Nearly 25 years ago, the Monmouth County Health Department found generally poor water quality in nine lakes in the county.Erosion since the early 1900s has led to large amounts of sediment, sand and silt washing into the coastal lakes, according to a 2009 study by Monmouth University researchers and Souza. Stream banks were stripped of vegetation, flood plains were filled and tidal areas paved over, causing more flooding and worsening erosion in lake tributaries.
In February, Monmouth University hosted a Coastal Lakes Summit that focused partly on Sandy's effect on the 11 coastal lakes in Monmouth County and four in Ocean County.The Leap Motion Controller is a motion-sensor for your computer -- think of it as a tiny Kinect that works with a Windows PC or Mac. The Controller tracks your hands -- all 10 fingers, plus joints -- in 3D space, with far more precision than youd expect: up to 1/100th of a millimeter accuracy, according to Leap Motion.
Put it down in front of your computer, in front of the keyboard or your laptop, and the space above it becomes a zone where you can use your hands to control stuff on your computer. Its sensory field, however, is limited to a narrow dome that extends above and around the tiny unit -- 2 feet above the controller, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet deep -- 8 cubic feet.Of all the equipment in the laundry the oilpaintingreproduction is one of the largest consumers of steam. It effectively covers a good chunk of your desktop space between you and your computer screen.
For people wondering what you can "do" with the Leap Motion Controller, the answer so far is: a lot, but not much that's useful. The Controller is compatible with Windows PCs and Macs, but it mostly works with software from the Airspace Store, an app store that's specifically designed for the unit. I tried the Controller on a MacBook Air, on an HP Elitebook Revolve, and on a bigger-screen Dell XPS 18. I played with about a dozen or so apps, and tried navigating Windows 8 and OS X with it.
Familiar apps like Google Maps and games like Cut the Rope have been Leap-enabled, and there were a host of other games and exploratory educational apps in the Airspace Store that were fun to noodle around with -- some even delivered a magic moment or two. But make no mistake: the Leap Motion Controller is a hobby accessory. No matter how cool it could be, or occasionally is, it wont replace your touch pad, mouse, keyboard, and touch screen. Its an experience more than an essential tool. For the most part,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other kitchenhidkits products. though, it works. And if the right apps were made available for it, it could get interesting.
An included Orientation tutorial you go through when you install the device shows you that virtual space and how your fingers are tracked. Immediately, you can see that it can sense subtle movements like a little finger waggle or rapid air-writing.
Once youre done with the tutorial, youre sent to Airspace Home, Leap Motions app launcher and gateway to the Airspace Store, where Leap Motion-compatible apps are sold. You need to set up an Airspace account; while the Leap Motion Controller could run apps outside the Airspace Store ecosystem (Google Earth 7.1 is one of them), the stores a cleanly laid-out way to discover what apps are out there already, and a good chunk of them are free.
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"The coastal lakes have been mostly forgotten," said Edward Bonanno, chairman of the Avon Environmental Commission and a former environmental crimes bureau chief in the state Attorney General's Office. "We hope there will be a solution for all the coastal lakes, a plan for dredging, for storm water management and for shoreline restoration" with restored habitats, Bonanno said.
The lakes are key elements of their communities, and it's unfortunate that lake restoration is getting less attention than other Jersey Shore restoration efforts, said President Stephen J. Souza of Princeton Hydro, a Ringoes, N.J.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable ultrasonicsensor online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers.-based environmental consulting firm.
"It's been going much slower than what you see happening along the coastal areas, the boardwalks repairs and things like that," said Souza, a consultant to the Deal Lake Commission.For decades, coastal lakes in Monmouth and Ocean counties have served as giant receptacles for polluted stormwater runoff and sediment from their heavily developed watersheds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has received few requests for Sandy relief money to restore coastal lakes in the two counties and the Army Corps of Engineers eventually may study lakes, according to officials.
The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service had received 37 applications from across the state for Emergency Watershed Protection Program money after Hurricane Sandy. Proposed projects ranged from debris removal to bulkhead repair, according to Carrie Mosley, state conservationist in the agency. But some of the applications were ineligible.
The Army Corps will conduct a $2.5 million study of Wreck Pond in Spring Lake and Sea Girt, N.J., focusing on how to reduce flooding and pollution. But the study will take several years to complete. Every year, rainfall triggers numerous ocean swimming bans at four beaches near the pond.
The state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking more information from communities about flooding, debris, sand and damage to storm water infrastructure,You will see earcap , competitive price and first-class service. according to spokesman Larry Hajna. The agency will use the information to develop restoration strategies and is looking into possible sources of financing.
Federal officials have approved $59.7 million in grants to the state for contractors to remove sand and sediment debris from navigable waterways following Sandy. But officials had not determined whether any of the money would go toward dredging and cleaning up coastal lakes, according to spokesman Larry Ragonese of the Department of Environmental Protection.The surge affected about 100 named lakes in New Jersey. In general, Monmouth County had the worst damage, said Jill Lipoti, director of the Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Water Monitoring and Standards.
Before Sandy struck the Jersey Shore, officials lowered several lakes, including Silver Lake and Lake Como in Belmar, in an unsuccessful effort to prevent flooding.Nearly 25 years ago, the Monmouth County Health Department found generally poor water quality in nine lakes in the county.Erosion since the early 1900s has led to large amounts of sediment, sand and silt washing into the coastal lakes, according to a 2009 study by Monmouth University researchers and Souza. Stream banks were stripped of vegetation, flood plains were filled and tidal areas paved over, causing more flooding and worsening erosion in lake tributaries.
In February, Monmouth University hosted a Coastal Lakes Summit that focused partly on Sandy's effect on the 11 coastal lakes in Monmouth County and four in Ocean County.The Leap Motion Controller is a motion-sensor for your computer -- think of it as a tiny Kinect that works with a Windows PC or Mac. The Controller tracks your hands -- all 10 fingers, plus joints -- in 3D space, with far more precision than youd expect: up to 1/100th of a millimeter accuracy, according to Leap Motion.
Put it down in front of your computer, in front of the keyboard or your laptop, and the space above it becomes a zone where you can use your hands to control stuff on your computer. Its sensory field, however, is limited to a narrow dome that extends above and around the tiny unit -- 2 feet above the controller, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet deep -- 8 cubic feet.Of all the equipment in the laundry the oilpaintingreproduction is one of the largest consumers of steam. It effectively covers a good chunk of your desktop space between you and your computer screen.
For people wondering what you can "do" with the Leap Motion Controller, the answer so far is: a lot, but not much that's useful. The Controller is compatible with Windows PCs and Macs, but it mostly works with software from the Airspace Store, an app store that's specifically designed for the unit. I tried the Controller on a MacBook Air, on an HP Elitebook Revolve, and on a bigger-screen Dell XPS 18. I played with about a dozen or so apps, and tried navigating Windows 8 and OS X with it.
Familiar apps like Google Maps and games like Cut the Rope have been Leap-enabled, and there were a host of other games and exploratory educational apps in the Airspace Store that were fun to noodle around with -- some even delivered a magic moment or two. But make no mistake: the Leap Motion Controller is a hobby accessory. No matter how cool it could be, or occasionally is, it wont replace your touch pad, mouse, keyboard, and touch screen. Its an experience more than an essential tool. For the most part,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other kitchenhidkits products. though, it works. And if the right apps were made available for it, it could get interesting.
An included Orientation tutorial you go through when you install the device shows you that virtual space and how your fingers are tracked. Immediately, you can see that it can sense subtle movements like a little finger waggle or rapid air-writing.
Once youre done with the tutorial, youre sent to Airspace Home, Leap Motions app launcher and gateway to the Airspace Store, where Leap Motion-compatible apps are sold. You need to set up an Airspace account; while the Leap Motion Controller could run apps outside the Airspace Store ecosystem (Google Earth 7.1 is one of them), the stores a cleanly laid-out way to discover what apps are out there already, and a good chunk of them are free.
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Tawam Hospital asks Public
Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine and part
of the SEHA healthcare system, today called on the public to recognise
and support its new visitor policy for one of the hospital's busiest
environments, the Emergency Department. The new policy means that a
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Dr. Robert Corder Chairman Department of Emergency Medicine Tawam Hospital says: "The new visitor policy is designed to protect and respect the privacy of our patients, and to ensure that our staff is able to provide the best possible care in a busy environment where people are suffering from a wide range of problems - often complex, and sometimes life-threatening.
"Since the introduction of the new visiting policy in 1 June 2013 we have not strictly enforced it to allow people to get used to the change. Now, however, we need the public's help in understanding why the policy has been introduced, and in ensuring that the limit on visitor numbers in the Emergency Department is adhered to. This will ensure that our patients receive the care they need, from staff who can work without unnecessary distractions.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using samsungcases."
Dr. Robert Corder added, "We appreciate that it can be difficult to wait when a loved one is receiving treatment - especially when these patients are children. However, the visitor policy is designed to ensure that we can do our job as healthcare practitioners, and provide the best possible care for their family members and friends in a high-pressure, high-stakes environment."
Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a premier 461-bed tertiary care facility located in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi; one of the largest hospitals in the United Arab Emirates. With over 22,We offer the biggest collection of old masters that can be turned into hand painted cleanersydney on canvas.000 admissions in 2012 and an average 73 per cent occupancy rate, Tawam offers services in specialties including oncology, neonatal care, emergency medicine, intensive care, surgery, urology, family medicine, fertility services, neurosurgery, nephrology, paediatrics, pain management, internal medicine and obstetrics & gynaecology.
Tawam serves as a regional referral center for specialized medical care and is a national referral center for oncology services. Tawam Hospital received program accreditation in 2012 from the American College of Graduate Medical Education - International, and is a recognized intern, resident, and fellowship training site for the Arab Medical Board. Tawam Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission International Accreditation, last renewed in 2012, and its laboratory services are accredited by the College of American Pathology.
With an average of 330 daily inpatients, Tawam Hospital is the preferred destination for quality medical care in the UAE. In 2012, the ER unit received over 116,000 patients, and hospital clinic visits exceeded 489,000.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a graniteslabs can authenticate your computer usage and data. Tawam's team of renowned surgeons performed over 7,700 surgeries during the year, while the dental clinic served over 84,000 patients. During the year, Tawam adopted a single room model in its medical and surgical wards, upgraded the paediatric extended care unit to 10 beds, expanded and relocated its In-vitro Fertilization Unit, remodelled a surgical unit, expanded our Endoscopy Unit, added 19 private rooms to our oncology program, and provided additional special needs parking spaces to serve our clients better. Innovations in clinical care were adopted to treat patients using an evidence-based approach during life-threatening situations to include formation of the ICU Outreach Team and implementation of a Paediatric Early Warning Score process and Rapid Response Team.
Motorists have won a landmark judgement after the High Court ruled it illegal for a cash-strapped council to hike parking charges as a revenue-raising stealth tax to subsidise its other services.Motoring groups said the ruling was fantastic news which had major implications for millions of drivers because it would stop local authorities across the country picking on drivers to fill their empty coffers by imposing similar illegal parking taxes.A High Court judge ruled Barnet council in north London acted unlawfully when it increased the cost of residents' parking permits and visitor vouchers in controlled parking zones (CPZs) to raise revenue.
Professor Glaister said he had some sympathy with cash-strapped councils, but added: But we have no sympathy for attempts to make up the shortfall by arbitrarily picking on drivers. That view has now been backed by the courts.Councils thinking of turning to motorists to balance the books would do well to read the judgement and put their heads back below the parapet. This ruling will be felt by hundreds of local authorities and benefit millions of drivers.
The ruling was achieved by the Barnet CPZ Action group, made up of residents from the borough, including solicitor David Attfield, who brought the lead case.Mr Attfield, from East Finchley, won the quashing of the council's decision in February 2011 to dramatically increase the charges with effect from April 2011.
The judge rejected arguments put forward by council lawyers that it had powers under section 45 of the 1984 Act to raise a surplus from parking charges for transport functions.There were no parking charges in Mr Attfield's quiet residential road until the Controlled-Parking Zone CPZ was first introduced in 2001 to prevent tube commuters parking in local streets.
The judge ordered the council to repay the parking charges unlawfully obtained from Mr Attfield, plus his legal costs, opening the way for other residents to seek their money back.The judge formally rejected Barnet's application to appeal against her ruling, but the council can still ask the Court of Appeal to hear the case. Mrs Justice Lang said her orders against Barnet would be stayed until the appeal court makes a decision.
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Dr. Robert Corder Chairman Department of Emergency Medicine Tawam Hospital says: "The new visitor policy is designed to protect and respect the privacy of our patients, and to ensure that our staff is able to provide the best possible care in a busy environment where people are suffering from a wide range of problems - often complex, and sometimes life-threatening.
"Since the introduction of the new visiting policy in 1 June 2013 we have not strictly enforced it to allow people to get used to the change. Now, however, we need the public's help in understanding why the policy has been introduced, and in ensuring that the limit on visitor numbers in the Emergency Department is adhered to. This will ensure that our patients receive the care they need, from staff who can work without unnecessary distractions.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using samsungcases."
Dr. Robert Corder added, "We appreciate that it can be difficult to wait when a loved one is receiving treatment - especially when these patients are children. However, the visitor policy is designed to ensure that we can do our job as healthcare practitioners, and provide the best possible care for their family members and friends in a high-pressure, high-stakes environment."
Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a premier 461-bed tertiary care facility located in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi; one of the largest hospitals in the United Arab Emirates. With over 22,We offer the biggest collection of old masters that can be turned into hand painted cleanersydney on canvas.000 admissions in 2012 and an average 73 per cent occupancy rate, Tawam offers services in specialties including oncology, neonatal care, emergency medicine, intensive care, surgery, urology, family medicine, fertility services, neurosurgery, nephrology, paediatrics, pain management, internal medicine and obstetrics & gynaecology.
Tawam serves as a regional referral center for specialized medical care and is a national referral center for oncology services. Tawam Hospital received program accreditation in 2012 from the American College of Graduate Medical Education - International, and is a recognized intern, resident, and fellowship training site for the Arab Medical Board. Tawam Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission International Accreditation, last renewed in 2012, and its laboratory services are accredited by the College of American Pathology.
With an average of 330 daily inpatients, Tawam Hospital is the preferred destination for quality medical care in the UAE. In 2012, the ER unit received over 116,000 patients, and hospital clinic visits exceeded 489,000.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a graniteslabs can authenticate your computer usage and data. Tawam's team of renowned surgeons performed over 7,700 surgeries during the year, while the dental clinic served over 84,000 patients. During the year, Tawam adopted a single room model in its medical and surgical wards, upgraded the paediatric extended care unit to 10 beds, expanded and relocated its In-vitro Fertilization Unit, remodelled a surgical unit, expanded our Endoscopy Unit, added 19 private rooms to our oncology program, and provided additional special needs parking spaces to serve our clients better. Innovations in clinical care were adopted to treat patients using an evidence-based approach during life-threatening situations to include formation of the ICU Outreach Team and implementation of a Paediatric Early Warning Score process and Rapid Response Team.
Motorists have won a landmark judgement after the High Court ruled it illegal for a cash-strapped council to hike parking charges as a revenue-raising stealth tax to subsidise its other services.Motoring groups said the ruling was fantastic news which had major implications for millions of drivers because it would stop local authorities across the country picking on drivers to fill their empty coffers by imposing similar illegal parking taxes.A High Court judge ruled Barnet council in north London acted unlawfully when it increased the cost of residents' parking permits and visitor vouchers in controlled parking zones (CPZs) to raise revenue.
Professor Glaister said he had some sympathy with cash-strapped councils, but added: But we have no sympathy for attempts to make up the shortfall by arbitrarily picking on drivers. That view has now been backed by the courts.Councils thinking of turning to motorists to balance the books would do well to read the judgement and put their heads back below the parapet. This ruling will be felt by hundreds of local authorities and benefit millions of drivers.
The ruling was achieved by the Barnet CPZ Action group, made up of residents from the borough, including solicitor David Attfield, who brought the lead case.Mr Attfield, from East Finchley, won the quashing of the council's decision in February 2011 to dramatically increase the charges with effect from April 2011.
The judge rejected arguments put forward by council lawyers that it had powers under section 45 of the 1984 Act to raise a surplus from parking charges for transport functions.There were no parking charges in Mr Attfield's quiet residential road until the Controlled-Parking Zone CPZ was first introduced in 2001 to prevent tube commuters parking in local streets.
The judge ordered the council to repay the parking charges unlawfully obtained from Mr Attfield, plus his legal costs, opening the way for other residents to seek their money back.The judge formally rejected Barnet's application to appeal against her ruling, but the council can still ask the Court of Appeal to hear the case. Mrs Justice Lang said her orders against Barnet would be stayed until the appeal court makes a decision.
Click on their website www.granitetrade.net for more information.
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