A man killed his partner in a planned attack then spent a week on
board a river cruiser on the Norfolk Broads with her daughter before
drowning himself, an inquest has heard.
The body of Annette
Creegan, 49, who worked as a community nurse at the Trinity Hospice
charity in Clapham Common, south-west London, was found naked,
strangled and weighted down in the River Bure last September following a
major police search.
The body of her partner, John Didier, 41,
was found nearby and evidence suggests he drowned himself by tying
dumbbells to his limbs and jumping overboard, the inquest at Norwich
Coroner's Court heard.
A search was launched after a river
worker alerted police on September 1 to the discovery of Ms Creegan's
13-year-old daughter alone on a boat moored near isolated Salhouse
Broad. When she was interviewed, the girl said they had arrived for a
holiday on the Broads on August 25 and the following day she woke to
find her mother was not there.
Detective Constable Christina
Stone told the inquest: "They had moored the boat at about 5.30pm on
the Friday. The following day she woke up and Mr Didier told her that
Annette had left.
"She had no access to a mobile telephone and
no means of getting off the boat so stayed there over the following
days. Six days later she woke up and there was no sign of Mr Didier and
she was rescued by a passing Broads ranger."
The inquest heard
Mr Didier's body was found later on September 1. He had drowned and was
found immersed in water, weighted down with two 17.5kg dumbbells tied
to his feet and two 15kg weights tied to his wrists, pathologist Ben
Swift said.
Ms Creegan's body was found in the water nearby the
following afternoon. Mr Swift said she was naked and her hands had
been tied behind her knees with cable ties. She was weighted down with a
30kg dumbbell and had been strangled. The decomposed state of the body
suggested she had been in the water for about a week. Bruises to her
fists suggested she had tried to fight off Mr Didier but there was no
evidence of sexual abuse.
Detective Inspector Gary Bloomfield
said a thorough investigation was carried out. Outside the inquest, he
added that officers had found no evidence of any tension in the
relationship and Mr Didier's motive remained unclear.
Never
mind that there isn’t a road. His father, the previous khan, spent his
life lobbying for a road. The new khan does the same. A road, he
argues, would permit doctors, and their medicines, to easily reach
them. Then maybe all the dying would stop. Teachers too could get to
them. Also traders. There could be vegetables. And then his people—the
Kyrgyz nomads of remote Afghanistan—might have a legitimate chance to
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platforms. with no car and no road, the reality is a yak. The khan is
holding one by a rope strung through its nose. Other yaks are standing
by. It’s moving day; everything the khan owns needs to be tied to the
back of a yak. This includes a dozen teapots, a cast-iron stove, a car
battery, two solar panels, a yurt, and 43 blankets. His younger brother
and a few others are helping. The yaks buck and kick and snort;
loading them is as much wrestling as packing.
Moving is what
nomads do. For the Kyrgyz of Afghanistan, it’s from two to four times a
year, depending on the weather and the availability of grass for the
animals. They call their homeland Bam-e Dunya, which means “roof of the
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and controllers.” This might sound poetic and beautiful—it is
undeniably beautiful—but it’s also an environment at the very cusp of
human survivability. Their land consists of two long, glacier-carved
valleys, called pamirs, stashed deep within the great mountains of
Central Asia. Much of it is above 14,000 feet. The wind is furious;
crops are impossible to grow. The temperature can drop below freezing
340 days a year. Many Kyrgyz have never seen a tree.
The
valleys are located in a strange, pincer-shaped appendage of land
jutting from the northeast corner of Afghanistan. This strip,We have
many different types of earcap.
often referred to as the Wakhan corridor, was a result of the 19th
century’s so-called Great Game, when the British and Russian Empires
fought for influence in Central Asia. The two powers created it,
through a series of treaties between 1873 and 1895, as a buffer zone—a
sort of geographical shock absorber—preventing tsarist Russia from
touching British India. In previous centuries the area was part of the
Silk Road connecting China and points west, the route of armies and
explorers and missionaries. Marco Polo passed through in the late
1200s.
But communist revolutions—Russia in 1917, China in
1949—eventually sealed the borders. What was once a conduit became a
cul-de-sac. Now, in the postcolonial age, the corridor is bordered by
Tajikistan to the north, Pakistan to the south, and China to the east.
Mainland Afghanistan, to the west, can seem so far away—the corridor is
about 200 miles long—that some Kyrgyz refer to it as a foreign
country. They feel locked in a distant outpost, encaged by a spiked
fence of snowy peaks, lost in the swirl of history and politics and
conflict.
2013年1月31日星期四
Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth
Los Angeles based Swedish born painter Astrid Preston has long
explored and invented new frontiers of an aesthetic naturalism,
elegantly remaking urban and rural wildness into provocative, soul
satisfying tapestries of life and parkland utopias. Her work has
consistently taken technical and philosophical risks, achieved unique
depth, and established Ms. Preston as one of America’s most important
contemporary landscape painters.
She conveys a never-sated astonishment about the work of other painters as diverse as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer and – in three recent trips to Japan – a profound Asian connection, particularly to Hiroshige, as well as Japan’s remarkable 18th century painter, Itō Jakuchū. This latest exhibition, “New Territory” (Craig Krull Gallery, running through March 2nd), combines a philosophical array of brilliant sensuality in forty-three new works. It follows upon more than four decades of a highly public presence. Most of these paintings are on richly-veined hardwoods, some on stretched linen which resembles flawless silk. These works have transformed genial frames of both contemporary as well as historic reference into Zen-like masterpieces of restraint that at once challenge and comfort. Ms. Preston spent two years assembling this dazzling collection of her work, a quiet, habitable reminder of the critical haikus and the “awe and reverence for nature” that is core to her ethic and art-form.
Her Nordic origins are not obvious. There is little to suggest, for example, the influence of such Scandinavian giants as Edvard Bergh, the brothers Wilhelm and Magnus von Wright,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a rtls tile and floral motif. Carl Larsson,Want to find cableties? Alfred Wahlberg or Johan Sevebom. Indeed, this most recent exhibition altogether heralds a unique approach to landscape, though one as luscious and inviting as any édouard Vuillard interior across Paris.
But there are other Swedish influences that reign supreme in Ms. Preston’s governing similes; all seeming to center upon humanity’s clear and present need to be immersed in as much nature as possible. As we ourselves are Nature, and a most meddling part of it, to be sure, I asked her about her particular passion for trees, which insinuate a looming,We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard howotractor and controllers. iconic centrality in much of her work.
“I photographed hundreds of trees across Japan. Everyone of them has a biography,” she ruminates aloud. “Certain trees are in the paintings, and if you were to come upon them in a park, or on a mountain top over Kyoto, for example, you would recognize an individual red or black pine; you can know them for who they are, I believe,” she says. “Do you think of yourself as an environmental activist, in some sense?” I ask.
To which she replies: “My friend, the cinematographer Haskell Wexler once said that every time one paints a leaf, he/she is making an anti-war statement,” Ms. Preston declares; and she goes on to express how human beings all want to feel their fingers in the dirt. “We miss that. No matter how benign my landscape paintings, I suppose in the end they might well be construed as political acts. We look for beauty every day. And when a tree dies, we mourn the loss.” Hence,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. societies around the world need a great nature painter of Ms. Preston’s stature like never before.
In this same vein, Ms. Preston acknowledges the huge difference between, say, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s ca. 1865 civil engineering of Paris – well laid out Reconstructionism, with enormous and orderly boulevards – versus the Paris she is particularly fond of, backstreets, with sinuous wandering lanes more in keeping with the animal trails we would all prefer, in our hearts, to follow: The difference between the Left Bank, and the Right Bank.
In Ms. Preston’s latest exhibition she discloses a new-found desire to embrace still water – which has always posed theoretical problems for her, she confesses; but now, she has discovered how to make ponds and reflections work towards that aesthetic liberation she seeks; one that enables her to lavish in a single, brave line, painted with a five-zero (super-fine) brush, all the dreams of a songbird or a crane; to give mottled light upon the dabbling mallards;a Monet-like ephemerality that anchors, in this instance, all of Japan to the fact it is an island, after all. Many islands.
And, while there are nearly 128 million human inhabitants in Japan, including Astrid and her physicist/inventer husband, Howard Preston’s son, Max, who loves, and has worked in Japan for nearly five years, Ms. Preston quietly computes the evocative challenges of Japan’s endless contradictions, emerging with an awesome clarity. Japan has never looked so good. And while the free extent of a bonsai tree’s predilections may be held back, its intimations are not. The river through Kyoto is encased in concrete, but the thousands of garden monasteries across that great heart-throb of a city bring perpetual renewal to all sides of Japanese artistic, spiritual and emotional life. Ms. Preston captures that as never before.
She renders commentary and a painter’s reckoning made all the more poignant in the sense that Japan is fully exposed to the forces of the wilderness – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons. A cosmos as artistic and religious as it is hazardous.
Indeed, Japan is the 35th biological “hotspot” on the planet (Ms. Preston’s home, Southern California, also a biological hotspot); stricken with a huge number of endemic plants and animals on the verge of extinction. In Ms. Preston’s art form, these underlying truths are something of a sub-text; a potent divining rod that emerges – if one takes the time to contemplate humanity’s unique plight – as something of an ecological dangling modifier: What is our true place in the world? Clearly, art as championed by this technically-flawless painter, has a huge capacity to heal wounds, mend morbidity, dispel bleakness, and signal at once a rejuvenation of the spirit that harkens back to the wilderness so consciously celebrated by luminaries like Thoreau,Cheaper For bulk buying handsfreeaccess prices. George Inness, or Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
She conveys a never-sated astonishment about the work of other painters as diverse as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer and – in three recent trips to Japan – a profound Asian connection, particularly to Hiroshige, as well as Japan’s remarkable 18th century painter, Itō Jakuchū. This latest exhibition, “New Territory” (Craig Krull Gallery, running through March 2nd), combines a philosophical array of brilliant sensuality in forty-three new works. It follows upon more than four decades of a highly public presence. Most of these paintings are on richly-veined hardwoods, some on stretched linen which resembles flawless silk. These works have transformed genial frames of both contemporary as well as historic reference into Zen-like masterpieces of restraint that at once challenge and comfort. Ms. Preston spent two years assembling this dazzling collection of her work, a quiet, habitable reminder of the critical haikus and the “awe and reverence for nature” that is core to her ethic and art-form.
Her Nordic origins are not obvious. There is little to suggest, for example, the influence of such Scandinavian giants as Edvard Bergh, the brothers Wilhelm and Magnus von Wright,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a rtls tile and floral motif. Carl Larsson,Want to find cableties? Alfred Wahlberg or Johan Sevebom. Indeed, this most recent exhibition altogether heralds a unique approach to landscape, though one as luscious and inviting as any édouard Vuillard interior across Paris.
But there are other Swedish influences that reign supreme in Ms. Preston’s governing similes; all seeming to center upon humanity’s clear and present need to be immersed in as much nature as possible. As we ourselves are Nature, and a most meddling part of it, to be sure, I asked her about her particular passion for trees, which insinuate a looming,We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard howotractor and controllers. iconic centrality in much of her work.
“I photographed hundreds of trees across Japan. Everyone of them has a biography,” she ruminates aloud. “Certain trees are in the paintings, and if you were to come upon them in a park, or on a mountain top over Kyoto, for example, you would recognize an individual red or black pine; you can know them for who they are, I believe,” she says. “Do you think of yourself as an environmental activist, in some sense?” I ask.
To which she replies: “My friend, the cinematographer Haskell Wexler once said that every time one paints a leaf, he/she is making an anti-war statement,” Ms. Preston declares; and she goes on to express how human beings all want to feel their fingers in the dirt. “We miss that. No matter how benign my landscape paintings, I suppose in the end they might well be construed as political acts. We look for beauty every day. And when a tree dies, we mourn the loss.” Hence,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. societies around the world need a great nature painter of Ms. Preston’s stature like never before.
In this same vein, Ms. Preston acknowledges the huge difference between, say, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s ca. 1865 civil engineering of Paris – well laid out Reconstructionism, with enormous and orderly boulevards – versus the Paris she is particularly fond of, backstreets, with sinuous wandering lanes more in keeping with the animal trails we would all prefer, in our hearts, to follow: The difference between the Left Bank, and the Right Bank.
In Ms. Preston’s latest exhibition she discloses a new-found desire to embrace still water – which has always posed theoretical problems for her, she confesses; but now, she has discovered how to make ponds and reflections work towards that aesthetic liberation she seeks; one that enables her to lavish in a single, brave line, painted with a five-zero (super-fine) brush, all the dreams of a songbird or a crane; to give mottled light upon the dabbling mallards;a Monet-like ephemerality that anchors, in this instance, all of Japan to the fact it is an island, after all. Many islands.
And, while there are nearly 128 million human inhabitants in Japan, including Astrid and her physicist/inventer husband, Howard Preston’s son, Max, who loves, and has worked in Japan for nearly five years, Ms. Preston quietly computes the evocative challenges of Japan’s endless contradictions, emerging with an awesome clarity. Japan has never looked so good. And while the free extent of a bonsai tree’s predilections may be held back, its intimations are not. The river through Kyoto is encased in concrete, but the thousands of garden monasteries across that great heart-throb of a city bring perpetual renewal to all sides of Japanese artistic, spiritual and emotional life. Ms. Preston captures that as never before.
She renders commentary and a painter’s reckoning made all the more poignant in the sense that Japan is fully exposed to the forces of the wilderness – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons. A cosmos as artistic and religious as it is hazardous.
Indeed, Japan is the 35th biological “hotspot” on the planet (Ms. Preston’s home, Southern California, also a biological hotspot); stricken with a huge number of endemic plants and animals on the verge of extinction. In Ms. Preston’s art form, these underlying truths are something of a sub-text; a potent divining rod that emerges – if one takes the time to contemplate humanity’s unique plight – as something of an ecological dangling modifier: What is our true place in the world? Clearly, art as championed by this technically-flawless painter, has a huge capacity to heal wounds, mend morbidity, dispel bleakness, and signal at once a rejuvenation of the spirit that harkens back to the wilderness so consciously celebrated by luminaries like Thoreau,Cheaper For bulk buying handsfreeaccess prices. George Inness, or Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
Friendship and Discipline at the Trenton School of Dance
With her arms jutting from her sides and toes pointed, Reagan
Wellman spun and jumped across a large room with a wall-sized mirror on
one side and pictures of ballet dancers on another, while two
instructors called out directions.
Reagan is a student at the Trenton School of Dance. She's 10 years old. She's been dancing at the school since she turned three.
Reagan is one of hundreds of girls who've spent countless hours over the past 37 years practicing ballet under the tutelage of the instructors at the Trenton School of Dance.
In 2009, Meredith Shamanski, 28, of Detroit, took ownership of the school after her aunt, Trenton resident Judy Shamanski, decided to retire.
"She comes in to check up on me," Meredith Shamanski said. "She's well-loved among current students."
Meredith Shamanski, her cousin Errin Menna, 29, and Charlie Howard, 26, make up the school's staff; each began dancing when they were very young.
Meredith Shamanski has a bachelor's degree in dance from Eastern Michigan University and has been dancing under her aunt's direction since she could walk.
"My aunt was trained in Detroit in the Cecchetti method, which is a strict ballet training method," Meredith Shamanski said. "She danced for the Detroit City Ballet,All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! which is no longer around."
Menna and Howard have full-time jobs during the day, but from the time the school opens at 4 p.m. to the time it schools at 9 p.m., their focus becomes teaching ballet, jazz and tap dancing.
Menna, a high school teacher in Dearborn Heights, said she likes teaching the younger students.
"They wanna be here and they always have a smile on their faces," Menna said.
While staff encourage everyone ages three to 18 to register for classes, acceptance to the school can be tricky. Registration is only available in August and some previous dance training is often required.
"It can be very difficult to teach dance to an older student who has never taken dance before," Howard said.
Meredith said students often begin taking classes at the school at a very young age and return year after year because they want dance to play a major role in their lives. Students often make strong friendships with fellow dancers.
"They love going to dance class because they have such good relationships with both the staff and their friends they dance with," Toth said.
One-by-one students marched in through the glass door of the Trenton School of Dance and out onto the gray tile floor as quietly as the soft, slick shoes strapped to the bottom of their feet. With their heads still and eyes straight ahead, their hands felt for a long wooden bar hanging from the wall. The music played. And they danced.
Jim Andersen, president of NMS Properties, the current developer, worked with Killefer Flammang Architects (KFA) -- the original architect -- to complete the two urban contemporary six-story buildings.
“Residents will be able to live, work, and play without ever needing to get into their cars,” said Andersen. “This is part of our vision for walkable destination apartments for lease in Santa Monica. Leading this kind of lifestyle will save residents thousands of dollars in car-related expenses and reduce their carbon footprint.”
The building exteriors of the two buildings utilize plaster, resin panels, and painted metal panels and are further distinguished by sloping, metal roofs, which also conceal mechanical equipment, according to KFA principal Barbara Flammang, whose firm has designed more than 8,000 units of multifamily housing..Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable stonemosaic supplies and accessories!
Another design element of the $22 million project are the powder-coated custom blue tube steel trellises which march along the ground floor and are echoed at the fifth and sixth floor balconies.
I would like to speak now about perhaps the most challenging and sensitive part of our relationship - our work together to combat organized crime and strengthen the rule of law in Bulgaria. In recent years, we have identified drug trafficking, cybercrime, ATM skimming, and other economic crimes as priority areas for law enforcement cooperation. Collaboration between our respective law enforcement services is excellent in these areas and is producing concrete results. This, in turn,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. has persuaded the U.S. Government to significantly increase our resources for joint law enforcement activities here in Bulgaria.
Fighting crime is a lot more than just policing. It requires an able and efficientprosecution service as well as a determined and impartial judiciary. Recent events have demonstrated that there is considerable interest in Bulgaria in having a prosecution service and a national judiciary that can truly uphold the rule of law. And there has been progress in that regard. The selection of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the Prosecutor General involved a serious examination of the credentials of the candidates and were conducted in a more transparent manner than before, though there is still room for improvement. Most important will be whether those selected will institute needed reforms. There is a lot of work to be done. The U.S.We specialize in usbmemorydrive. is committed to assisting Bulgarian efforts to reform the legal system so that the process of administering justice can be efficient and effective, but ours is a supporting role - the impetus and energy has to come from Bulgarians.
Going forward, we plan to continue our engagement on strengthening the rule of law. We are bringing prosecutors and judges to consult with their Bulgarian counterparts and share their experiences. In the past year, members of the Specialized Court for organized crime cases and the Ministry of Justice traveled to the United States for a week of consultations with their counterparts in our Federal criminal justice system. We have identified subject matter experts who have come to Bulgaria to assist the Ministry of Justice as it drafts new legislation.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. We are training law enforcement officials at the FBI Academy as well as through the International Law Enforcement Academy, or ILEA, in Budapest. And both our FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have sent agents to work side-by-side with their Bulgarian counterparts.
But of course the key ingredient for success here is going to be your determination - the commitment of Bulgarian officials and civil society to make needed reforms.
Reagan is a student at the Trenton School of Dance. She's 10 years old. She's been dancing at the school since she turned three.
Reagan is one of hundreds of girls who've spent countless hours over the past 37 years practicing ballet under the tutelage of the instructors at the Trenton School of Dance.
In 2009, Meredith Shamanski, 28, of Detroit, took ownership of the school after her aunt, Trenton resident Judy Shamanski, decided to retire.
"She comes in to check up on me," Meredith Shamanski said. "She's well-loved among current students."
Meredith Shamanski, her cousin Errin Menna, 29, and Charlie Howard, 26, make up the school's staff; each began dancing when they were very young.
Meredith Shamanski has a bachelor's degree in dance from Eastern Michigan University and has been dancing under her aunt's direction since she could walk.
"My aunt was trained in Detroit in the Cecchetti method, which is a strict ballet training method," Meredith Shamanski said. "She danced for the Detroit City Ballet,All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! which is no longer around."
Menna and Howard have full-time jobs during the day, but from the time the school opens at 4 p.m. to the time it schools at 9 p.m., their focus becomes teaching ballet, jazz and tap dancing.
Menna, a high school teacher in Dearborn Heights, said she likes teaching the younger students.
"They wanna be here and they always have a smile on their faces," Menna said.
While staff encourage everyone ages three to 18 to register for classes, acceptance to the school can be tricky. Registration is only available in August and some previous dance training is often required.
"It can be very difficult to teach dance to an older student who has never taken dance before," Howard said.
Meredith said students often begin taking classes at the school at a very young age and return year after year because they want dance to play a major role in their lives. Students often make strong friendships with fellow dancers.
"They love going to dance class because they have such good relationships with both the staff and their friends they dance with," Toth said.
One-by-one students marched in through the glass door of the Trenton School of Dance and out onto the gray tile floor as quietly as the soft, slick shoes strapped to the bottom of their feet. With their heads still and eyes straight ahead, their hands felt for a long wooden bar hanging from the wall. The music played. And they danced.
Jim Andersen, president of NMS Properties, the current developer, worked with Killefer Flammang Architects (KFA) -- the original architect -- to complete the two urban contemporary six-story buildings.
“Residents will be able to live, work, and play without ever needing to get into their cars,” said Andersen. “This is part of our vision for walkable destination apartments for lease in Santa Monica. Leading this kind of lifestyle will save residents thousands of dollars in car-related expenses and reduce their carbon footprint.”
The building exteriors of the two buildings utilize plaster, resin panels, and painted metal panels and are further distinguished by sloping, metal roofs, which also conceal mechanical equipment, according to KFA principal Barbara Flammang, whose firm has designed more than 8,000 units of multifamily housing..Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable stonemosaic supplies and accessories!
Another design element of the $22 million project are the powder-coated custom blue tube steel trellises which march along the ground floor and are echoed at the fifth and sixth floor balconies.
I would like to speak now about perhaps the most challenging and sensitive part of our relationship - our work together to combat organized crime and strengthen the rule of law in Bulgaria. In recent years, we have identified drug trafficking, cybercrime, ATM skimming, and other economic crimes as priority areas for law enforcement cooperation. Collaboration between our respective law enforcement services is excellent in these areas and is producing concrete results. This, in turn,When I first started creating broken ultrasonicsensor. has persuaded the U.S. Government to significantly increase our resources for joint law enforcement activities here in Bulgaria.
Fighting crime is a lot more than just policing. It requires an able and efficientprosecution service as well as a determined and impartial judiciary. Recent events have demonstrated that there is considerable interest in Bulgaria in having a prosecution service and a national judiciary that can truly uphold the rule of law. And there has been progress in that regard. The selection of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the Prosecutor General involved a serious examination of the credentials of the candidates and were conducted in a more transparent manner than before, though there is still room for improvement. Most important will be whether those selected will institute needed reforms. There is a lot of work to be done. The U.S.We specialize in usbmemorydrive. is committed to assisting Bulgarian efforts to reform the legal system so that the process of administering justice can be efficient and effective, but ours is a supporting role - the impetus and energy has to come from Bulgarians.
Going forward, we plan to continue our engagement on strengthening the rule of law. We are bringing prosecutors and judges to consult with their Bulgarian counterparts and share their experiences. In the past year, members of the Specialized Court for organized crime cases and the Ministry of Justice traveled to the United States for a week of consultations with their counterparts in our Federal criminal justice system. We have identified subject matter experts who have come to Bulgaria to assist the Ministry of Justice as it drafts new legislation.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. We are training law enforcement officials at the FBI Academy as well as through the International Law Enforcement Academy, or ILEA, in Budapest. And both our FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have sent agents to work side-by-side with their Bulgarian counterparts.
But of course the key ingredient for success here is going to be your determination - the commitment of Bulgarian officials and civil society to make needed reforms.
Calling coyotes in rugged Verdigre canyons
I had almost given up three different times. I had used every
predator-calling trick in my book. My legs had fallen asleep a long time
ago. The tingling was beginning to drive me crazy. And yet I had hung
in there. My companions, Gary Howey and Bill Christensen, both of
Hartington, Neb., were hunkered down in front of another cedar tree to
my left. I knew they must be wondering why I had not called an end to
this fruitless stand.
But the land we had permission to hunt upon was not very large. At best we had two, maybe three, stands to cover it all. Patience, when calling predators, can be a virtue.
We were at the edge of a cornfield and the elevation gave us a good view of what was below. To our left was a large ravine choked with trees which were in the process of being strangled by invasive cedars. The ravine played out into the cornfield and a grassy hill splayed across a hundred yards to the next ravine on the right. That was where the movement was.
My gun, nestled on my bipod, somehow, had slowly reached my shoulder and I ducked behind the scope and picked up the animal. It was the ugliest looking coyote I had ever seen. It was heavily infested with mange and had lost at least 90 percent of its fur. It had a tail, but it was simply bones covered with dark skin.
Through the scope, I watched the animal walk across the base of the hill toward the ravine on our right. I thought it would simply duck into that ravine and disappear forever.We offers custom moulds parts in as fast as 1 day. But, it was looking right at me from time to time.
As it trotted in,Want to find solarpanel? it dropped out of sight below a small ridge in the cornfield. It's always a nervous time when that happens. But I knew where it should appear and I waited.
Within seconds the coyote crested the little ridge and continued to lope in, its tongue lolling out the side of its mouth. It was less than a hundred yards out now and I had it in the scope. It was trotting so slowly that I thought Gary or Bill would shoot. Nothing. It was really close now, almost too close. Maybe they were waiting for me to stop it. I took a breath to do a bark, but the coyote stopped and quartered away from me, looking directly at Bill and Gary.
The coyote flinched. It's that little move they make just before they turn and run. They crouch just a little, and then they turn and are gone.
I had already taken up most of the trigger pull on the .243. It was more a matter of will that the gun should go off. And it did. The crosshairs of the scope centered just behind the front leg. The 58-grain ballistic tip left the barrel at 3,750 feet per second and smacked that pathetic facade of a coyote.
"We didn't see him until he was right on top of us," Gary said. "He saw us move and that's why he stopped. I saw you looking through your scope and I thought, 'That looks serious,' so I knew something was out there."
I stepped it off. One hundred feet. The animal had almost no hair. It's face and neck had not yet been ravaged by the burrowing parasitic mites that cause this disease. I was amazed the animal had lived through the recent cold weather. Coyotes in this bad of shape die of the disease, usually a pathetic death of exposure to the elements.
You don't want to handle coyotes showing symptoms of mange. It's very contagious for the coyotes, but humans can pick it up too, although it is not as serious. Usually a rash for a few days and then it's gone.
Our next calling area consisted of several tree-filled canyons emptying out onto the flood plain of the Niobrara River. It would have been a great spot if the wind had been out of the north, but the southeast wind complicated things.
Colorful works by some of local artist collective hob’art’s hardest hitters are currently on display in their exhibit “Archeology of Color.”
The show, which opened Jan. 13, focuses not just on color, but on how each artist approaches it, said curator Willie Baez.
“Some people use their senses to work on whatever project they’re working on and their colors are spontaneous like children when they paint,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. they just paint, they’re not worried about anything,” says Baez. “But because we’re grown and more intelligent, some feel that intellectuality comes into play all the time.”
Some of the most spontaneous artists in the show are Liz Cohen and Ibou Ndoye,Want to find cableties? who both create paintings inspired by the native art of various non-Western countries.
“Liz is more child-like in her world of creativity and is in love with primal things. She loves African art, South American art and the simplicity of it,” explained Baez. “Ibou is also a spontaneous guy. He mostly uses primary colors and rarely does any mixing.”
The curator says that most abstract painters are more spontaneous because they’re not concerned with form or realism. One exception would be Meredeth Turshen.
“When I first saw her painting, I didn’t think it was a landscape, but she said it has to do with sunlight . . . she was looking out a window in Paris, saw fields and then started painting. The act was really spontaneous, but she did think of where to put the color and what exactly she was painting,” said Baez. “She told me, ‘I intentionally did this. I didn’t do it in a trance.’ ”
In between the two extremes are photographers like Don Sichler, who looks for his colors on the street.
“He finds colorful mirages or images on the street in water, puddles, and uses that to color his photographs,” said Baez. “It’s a little more spontaneous and not really thought about. He just sees them, catches the light, and boom!”
Other participating artists include Pauline Chernichaw, Constance Ftera,A collection of natural parkingsensor offering polished or tumbled finishes and a choice of sizes. Janet Kolstein, Roslyn Rose, Starr Tucker-Ortega, Tom Egan, Ann Kinney, Erich Heinemann and Howard Berelson.
But the land we had permission to hunt upon was not very large. At best we had two, maybe three, stands to cover it all. Patience, when calling predators, can be a virtue.
We were at the edge of a cornfield and the elevation gave us a good view of what was below. To our left was a large ravine choked with trees which were in the process of being strangled by invasive cedars. The ravine played out into the cornfield and a grassy hill splayed across a hundred yards to the next ravine on the right. That was where the movement was.
My gun, nestled on my bipod, somehow, had slowly reached my shoulder and I ducked behind the scope and picked up the animal. It was the ugliest looking coyote I had ever seen. It was heavily infested with mange and had lost at least 90 percent of its fur. It had a tail, but it was simply bones covered with dark skin.
Through the scope, I watched the animal walk across the base of the hill toward the ravine on our right. I thought it would simply duck into that ravine and disappear forever.We offers custom moulds parts in as fast as 1 day. But, it was looking right at me from time to time.
As it trotted in,Want to find solarpanel? it dropped out of sight below a small ridge in the cornfield. It's always a nervous time when that happens. But I knew where it should appear and I waited.
Within seconds the coyote crested the little ridge and continued to lope in, its tongue lolling out the side of its mouth. It was less than a hundred yards out now and I had it in the scope. It was trotting so slowly that I thought Gary or Bill would shoot. Nothing. It was really close now, almost too close. Maybe they were waiting for me to stop it. I took a breath to do a bark, but the coyote stopped and quartered away from me, looking directly at Bill and Gary.
The coyote flinched. It's that little move they make just before they turn and run. They crouch just a little, and then they turn and are gone.
I had already taken up most of the trigger pull on the .243. It was more a matter of will that the gun should go off. And it did. The crosshairs of the scope centered just behind the front leg. The 58-grain ballistic tip left the barrel at 3,750 feet per second and smacked that pathetic facade of a coyote.
"We didn't see him until he was right on top of us," Gary said. "He saw us move and that's why he stopped. I saw you looking through your scope and I thought, 'That looks serious,' so I knew something was out there."
I stepped it off. One hundred feet. The animal had almost no hair. It's face and neck had not yet been ravaged by the burrowing parasitic mites that cause this disease. I was amazed the animal had lived through the recent cold weather. Coyotes in this bad of shape die of the disease, usually a pathetic death of exposure to the elements.
You don't want to handle coyotes showing symptoms of mange. It's very contagious for the coyotes, but humans can pick it up too, although it is not as serious. Usually a rash for a few days and then it's gone.
Our next calling area consisted of several tree-filled canyons emptying out onto the flood plain of the Niobrara River. It would have been a great spot if the wind had been out of the north, but the southeast wind complicated things.
Colorful works by some of local artist collective hob’art’s hardest hitters are currently on display in their exhibit “Archeology of Color.”
The show, which opened Jan. 13, focuses not just on color, but on how each artist approaches it, said curator Willie Baez.
“Some people use their senses to work on whatever project they’re working on and their colors are spontaneous like children when they paint,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. they just paint, they’re not worried about anything,” says Baez. “But because we’re grown and more intelligent, some feel that intellectuality comes into play all the time.”
Some of the most spontaneous artists in the show are Liz Cohen and Ibou Ndoye,Want to find cableties? who both create paintings inspired by the native art of various non-Western countries.
“Liz is more child-like in her world of creativity and is in love with primal things. She loves African art, South American art and the simplicity of it,” explained Baez. “Ibou is also a spontaneous guy. He mostly uses primary colors and rarely does any mixing.”
The curator says that most abstract painters are more spontaneous because they’re not concerned with form or realism. One exception would be Meredeth Turshen.
“When I first saw her painting, I didn’t think it was a landscape, but she said it has to do with sunlight . . . she was looking out a window in Paris, saw fields and then started painting. The act was really spontaneous, but she did think of where to put the color and what exactly she was painting,” said Baez. “She told me, ‘I intentionally did this. I didn’t do it in a trance.’ ”
In between the two extremes are photographers like Don Sichler, who looks for his colors on the street.
“He finds colorful mirages or images on the street in water, puddles, and uses that to color his photographs,” said Baez. “It’s a little more spontaneous and not really thought about. He just sees them, catches the light, and boom!”
Other participating artists include Pauline Chernichaw, Constance Ftera,A collection of natural parkingsensor offering polished or tumbled finishes and a choice of sizes. Janet Kolstein, Roslyn Rose, Starr Tucker-Ortega, Tom Egan, Ann Kinney, Erich Heinemann and Howard Berelson.
Text for day four of Ministerial vetting
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important than other levels of education,Researchers at the Korean
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because the beginning is important. Attaching preschool to primary is a
new phenomenon, so we need to work on further integration and
importantly training personnel to specialize in working at that level.
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Our graduate students need more money to achieve international
standards. We need to use our resources to ensure quality. I have faith
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The foundation of the educational process is kindergarten education, which has unfortunately been long neglected. I’ve heard that a national strategic plan to integrate kindergarten into basic education is underway. What assurances can you give us that you will ensure the plan’s full implementation. Regarding the petition before us, we have committed in our Constitution to ensure that everyone has access to equal opportunities and facilities. To achieve this, the document arranged policies that will actualize this access. How far have we come along these lines?
We are surrounded by French speaking countries and should take the language more seriously. That English is more widely spoken is not a good excuse. It fits into the issue of language acquisition. A child learning English in school and speaking a mother tongue at home. We need to build a strong language base and we need to improve our methodology. I had a nephew learning French prepositions in JHS, and because they entered into technicalities too early in the instruction, he lost interest. This may account for the lack of interest in math and science as well. We need to rebrand technical training, people must want to do it as their first choice. Regarding the use of transfers as a disciplinary measure, it will not solve any problems, it only sends the problem to plague another school. The school should be a welcoming environment. Prayers can even be offered in such a way as to marginalize no religion. When we decide to have even Sunday or Makarata schools, we must see that students are enabled and encouraged to gain personal skills.
Baba Jamal suggested that she has done so well in her answers, she must have had consultants. There was laughter and the chair called the comment out of order. What do you think about French learning in this country? Our neighbors are all francophones, but as a country we haven’t taken the language seriously. What about technical schools whose shortcomings disadvantage their students? There are teachers who involve themselves in bad practices and are simply transferred as punishment. What do you think about this? Can we have an arrangement whereby rural teachers make more money than urban ones? Is it possible? There is a controversy about religious discrimination in schools, especially against Muslim students and especially in church schools.All our fridgemagnet are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. Will you ensure that all churches treat all students equally regardless of religious affiliation? We have about 270000 teachers in this country. With such a huge number, can’t we have a system whereby some money for teachers can be put into a special welfare fund for teachers who will retire instead of depending on a meager pension?
The person shouldn’t have gotten pregnant but she did. Life goes on,We open source luggagetag system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. and now that she has a dependent, she should return to school. But we must help our daughters to delay parenthood, to let their bodies grow before they grow someone else in their bodies. Adolescent reproductive health is important, and they must understand why it makes no sense to rush into this. These children are not being fair to themselves or their parents, but if she wants to return to school, she should go to a school other than the one she attended when she became pregnant so that she is not discriminated against by her classmates and distracted from her studies. These girls do not understand how significantly this disrupts their lives, they should not fall prey to this unnecessary pressure. I have heard of sex for grades, but it’s not an overriding thing at the universities, it’s a rare exception to the rule but that doesn’t make it right. These ladies are smart and don’t need anyone’s bribery. If they study, it’s easy to pass. It depends on their own efforts. The idea of scholarship and fairness go down the drain with this practice. No one should have to do something they don’t want to to get ahead in life. The satisfaction is knowing that you tried, this is what you were able to do, and you can learn and grow through your experience.
Regarding unaccredited universities, we have a duty to educate the public on which institutions are accredited and we must stop the operation of illegal institutions. I’d like to see the National Accreditation Board better empowered to do their job. In terms of ranking, we’d obviously like our universities to be rated higher internationally, but the problem is a lack of resources. The average lecturer has to teach far too many students. What magic can they perform, especially when for lack of space, some students can’t even sit inside the classroom. We don’t have enough lecturers who are willing to spend those long years pursuing a Ph.D. and then go on to teach. We need to aggressively recruit quality educators, pay to get them trained and then incentivize them to come back. We should also improve our domestic training programs because we spend too much sending an educator abroad for training when that money could educate more lecturers here in Ghana. In terms of labor relations, we simply need advocacy and dialogue. We must be able to sit down and talk, so let’s start there and see where it gets us. We must make good on our promises too, because we set our own deadlines for a reason. We all need to talk about NAT and NAGRAT. In terms of social justice, that’s one thing that attracted me to this job, because education plays a role in ensuring security and social justice, especially basic education. It’s about skills, but just as much about tolerance, respect, and the teaching of peace. And the law does not allow students to be sacked from a school over fees. A headmaster who must feed a student who hasn’t paid should be resourced so that the need to sack the student doesn’t arise.
The foundation of the educational process is kindergarten education, which has unfortunately been long neglected. I’ve heard that a national strategic plan to integrate kindergarten into basic education is underway. What assurances can you give us that you will ensure the plan’s full implementation. Regarding the petition before us, we have committed in our Constitution to ensure that everyone has access to equal opportunities and facilities. To achieve this, the document arranged policies that will actualize this access. How far have we come along these lines?
We are surrounded by French speaking countries and should take the language more seriously. That English is more widely spoken is not a good excuse. It fits into the issue of language acquisition. A child learning English in school and speaking a mother tongue at home. We need to build a strong language base and we need to improve our methodology. I had a nephew learning French prepositions in JHS, and because they entered into technicalities too early in the instruction, he lost interest. This may account for the lack of interest in math and science as well. We need to rebrand technical training, people must want to do it as their first choice. Regarding the use of transfers as a disciplinary measure, it will not solve any problems, it only sends the problem to plague another school. The school should be a welcoming environment. Prayers can even be offered in such a way as to marginalize no religion. When we decide to have even Sunday or Makarata schools, we must see that students are enabled and encouraged to gain personal skills.
Baba Jamal suggested that she has done so well in her answers, she must have had consultants. There was laughter and the chair called the comment out of order. What do you think about French learning in this country? Our neighbors are all francophones, but as a country we haven’t taken the language seriously. What about technical schools whose shortcomings disadvantage their students? There are teachers who involve themselves in bad practices and are simply transferred as punishment. What do you think about this? Can we have an arrangement whereby rural teachers make more money than urban ones? Is it possible? There is a controversy about religious discrimination in schools, especially against Muslim students and especially in church schools.All our fridgemagnet are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. Will you ensure that all churches treat all students equally regardless of religious affiliation? We have about 270000 teachers in this country. With such a huge number, can’t we have a system whereby some money for teachers can be put into a special welfare fund for teachers who will retire instead of depending on a meager pension?
The person shouldn’t have gotten pregnant but she did. Life goes on,We open source luggagetag system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. and now that she has a dependent, she should return to school. But we must help our daughters to delay parenthood, to let their bodies grow before they grow someone else in their bodies. Adolescent reproductive health is important, and they must understand why it makes no sense to rush into this. These children are not being fair to themselves or their parents, but if she wants to return to school, she should go to a school other than the one she attended when she became pregnant so that she is not discriminated against by her classmates and distracted from her studies. These girls do not understand how significantly this disrupts their lives, they should not fall prey to this unnecessary pressure. I have heard of sex for grades, but it’s not an overriding thing at the universities, it’s a rare exception to the rule but that doesn’t make it right. These ladies are smart and don’t need anyone’s bribery. If they study, it’s easy to pass. It depends on their own efforts. The idea of scholarship and fairness go down the drain with this practice. No one should have to do something they don’t want to to get ahead in life. The satisfaction is knowing that you tried, this is what you were able to do, and you can learn and grow through your experience.
Regarding unaccredited universities, we have a duty to educate the public on which institutions are accredited and we must stop the operation of illegal institutions. I’d like to see the National Accreditation Board better empowered to do their job. In terms of ranking, we’d obviously like our universities to be rated higher internationally, but the problem is a lack of resources. The average lecturer has to teach far too many students. What magic can they perform, especially when for lack of space, some students can’t even sit inside the classroom. We don’t have enough lecturers who are willing to spend those long years pursuing a Ph.D. and then go on to teach. We need to aggressively recruit quality educators, pay to get them trained and then incentivize them to come back. We should also improve our domestic training programs because we spend too much sending an educator abroad for training when that money could educate more lecturers here in Ghana. In terms of labor relations, we simply need advocacy and dialogue. We must be able to sit down and talk, so let’s start there and see where it gets us. We must make good on our promises too, because we set our own deadlines for a reason. We all need to talk about NAT and NAGRAT. In terms of social justice, that’s one thing that attracted me to this job, because education plays a role in ensuring security and social justice, especially basic education. It’s about skills, but just as much about tolerance, respect, and the teaching of peace. And the law does not allow students to be sacked from a school over fees. A headmaster who must feed a student who hasn’t paid should be resourced so that the need to sack the student doesn’t arise.
Taking a peek inside Galatoire's new building
Interior designer Jeanne Barousse was explaining the color scheme for
the new upstairs private dining rooms at Galatoire’s when a brassy
trumpet fanfare interrupted her in mid-sentence, drowning out her
description of the buttermilk walls.Professionals with the job title tooling are on LinkedIn.
Curious, the three of us – Barousse, public relations spokesman Marc Ehrhardt and myself – walked onto the balcony overlooking Bourbon Street. Here’s what we saw:
The U.S. Navy Band, in inky blue uniforms, had fallen into formation in front of the restaurant, bisecting the road, horns on one side, drums and cymbals on the other.
Inside Galatoire’s, the Friday lunch was at full tilt in the downstairs dining room. Cocktail-soaked conversations were raising the room’s decibel level. But it was no match for the horn section outside.
Diners flowed out into the street. A woman in a dime-store tiara and Diane Von Furstenberg dress held a champagne flute aloft. Construction crews working nearby silenced their saws. On the balcony next door, a stripper in fishnets, craned over the railing.
Carnival season in full swing. Friday lunch at Galatoire’s. Needless to say, it was very hard to go back to work.
After the hubbub – word was that the Navy band was there to play for the Krewe of Pontchartrain’s pre-parade lunch – Barousse, Ehrhardt and I returned inside, where I was getting a tour of 215 Bourbon St., the new addition to Galatoire’s.
Last year, the hidebound, 108-year-old restaurant bought the vacant, three-story building next door. The space had been empty since Mike Anderson’s Seafood was shuttered in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.
The plan is to use the building three ways: the third floor will be a wood-paneled wine room, the second floor will be additional Galatoire's private dining space, and the first floor will be a long bar facing Bourbon Street with a separate, new restaurant behind it.
The renovation is still a work in progress, but the new bar – at this point just called Galatoire's bar – will debut this weekend, and some well-heeled Super Bowl visitors will get their first sit-down dinner in the second-floor rooms this week.
The second-floor banquet room was the most complete on my visit. It’s located just behind the existing upstairs bar at Galatoire’s. A small passageway connects them.
We passed through it – squeezing by a birthday party clad in cocktail attire at 2 in the afternoon – and into a quiet, plushly carpeted space.
The aesthetic is genteel ballroom – mushroom velvet drapes with Greek key trim, buttermilk walls, alabaster light fixtures – and it's complementary, rather than a carbon copy of the original restaurant’s fin de siècle design.
Barousse purposefully didn’t just roll out a facsimile of Galatoire’s black-and-white mosaic tile floors and call it a day. To avoid an uproar, the construction hasn’t duplicated, or even touched, Galatoire’s first-floor dining room, a place where change is never welcome.
“We’ve taken great pains to make this feel like an extension of Galatoire’s,” Barousse said. “We’re not trying to replicate it.”
The third floor is a masculine, clubby space, with dark wood, a golden rug and seating for 18 surrounded by wine racks.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. During my tour, chef Michael Sichel poked his head in the room. “Look at this attention to detail,” he said, marveling at the marble bathrooms.
Galatoire’s owners haven’t yet divulged their plans for the new restaurant's menu, but Barousse talked a little about the look. It will have wood-beamed ceilings, brass and crystal chandeliers and a series of historic Louisiana maps framed on the walls.
The space was still a hard-hat construction zone during my visit. But broad windows looked out onto Bourbon Street, and the the frame for the long bar was in place. It doesn’t take much imagination to envision the sweating Sazeracs soon to come.
Mr. Chan is often called in when collaboration is required. Take the Opus project, whose architecture Mr. Chan likens to a dynamic envelope—"the envelope changes, and it's very exciting." For three years Mr. Chan worked on its interior layout, which he compared to a cauliflower in that "every floor is different." Since each apartment,Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. occupying an entire floor, was "an open space, like a gallery, a museum space," the challenge was to make sense of it for prospective buyers,Creative glass tile and plasticmoulds for your distinctive kitchen and bath. dividing it into practical living areas "so people can understand it," he says.
Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Chan, 52, says he stumbled into architecture after failing as a pre-med and economics student in California. He moved to New York in the early 1980s, where he studied at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, followed by Rhode Island School of Design and later Columbia University. Back in Hong Kong, he spent close to a decade working for local architecture firms before establishing BTR, which today employs some 40 staff members based in the industrial district of Kwun Tong. Its clients include big-name developers such as Sun Hung Kai 0016.HK -0.39% and Hong Kong Land,All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! as well as powerful individuals and families such as the Tiens, whose patriarch is James Tien, a politician and businessman.
Curious, the three of us – Barousse, public relations spokesman Marc Ehrhardt and myself – walked onto the balcony overlooking Bourbon Street. Here’s what we saw:
The U.S. Navy Band, in inky blue uniforms, had fallen into formation in front of the restaurant, bisecting the road, horns on one side, drums and cymbals on the other.
Inside Galatoire’s, the Friday lunch was at full tilt in the downstairs dining room. Cocktail-soaked conversations were raising the room’s decibel level. But it was no match for the horn section outside.
Diners flowed out into the street. A woman in a dime-store tiara and Diane Von Furstenberg dress held a champagne flute aloft. Construction crews working nearby silenced their saws. On the balcony next door, a stripper in fishnets, craned over the railing.
Carnival season in full swing. Friday lunch at Galatoire’s. Needless to say, it was very hard to go back to work.
After the hubbub – word was that the Navy band was there to play for the Krewe of Pontchartrain’s pre-parade lunch – Barousse, Ehrhardt and I returned inside, where I was getting a tour of 215 Bourbon St., the new addition to Galatoire’s.
Last year, the hidebound, 108-year-old restaurant bought the vacant, three-story building next door. The space had been empty since Mike Anderson’s Seafood was shuttered in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.
The plan is to use the building three ways: the third floor will be a wood-paneled wine room, the second floor will be additional Galatoire's private dining space, and the first floor will be a long bar facing Bourbon Street with a separate, new restaurant behind it.
The renovation is still a work in progress, but the new bar – at this point just called Galatoire's bar – will debut this weekend, and some well-heeled Super Bowl visitors will get their first sit-down dinner in the second-floor rooms this week.
The second-floor banquet room was the most complete on my visit. It’s located just behind the existing upstairs bar at Galatoire’s. A small passageway connects them.
We passed through it – squeezing by a birthday party clad in cocktail attire at 2 in the afternoon – and into a quiet, plushly carpeted space.
The aesthetic is genteel ballroom – mushroom velvet drapes with Greek key trim, buttermilk walls, alabaster light fixtures – and it's complementary, rather than a carbon copy of the original restaurant’s fin de siècle design.
Barousse purposefully didn’t just roll out a facsimile of Galatoire’s black-and-white mosaic tile floors and call it a day. To avoid an uproar, the construction hasn’t duplicated, or even touched, Galatoire’s first-floor dining room, a place where change is never welcome.
“We’ve taken great pains to make this feel like an extension of Galatoire’s,” Barousse said. “We’re not trying to replicate it.”
The third floor is a masculine, clubby space, with dark wood, a golden rug and seating for 18 surrounded by wine racks.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. During my tour, chef Michael Sichel poked his head in the room. “Look at this attention to detail,” he said, marveling at the marble bathrooms.
Galatoire’s owners haven’t yet divulged their plans for the new restaurant's menu, but Barousse talked a little about the look. It will have wood-beamed ceilings, brass and crystal chandeliers and a series of historic Louisiana maps framed on the walls.
The space was still a hard-hat construction zone during my visit. But broad windows looked out onto Bourbon Street, and the the frame for the long bar was in place. It doesn’t take much imagination to envision the sweating Sazeracs soon to come.
Mr. Chan is often called in when collaboration is required. Take the Opus project, whose architecture Mr. Chan likens to a dynamic envelope—"the envelope changes, and it's very exciting." For three years Mr. Chan worked on its interior layout, which he compared to a cauliflower in that "every floor is different." Since each apartment,Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. occupying an entire floor, was "an open space, like a gallery, a museum space," the challenge was to make sense of it for prospective buyers,Creative glass tile and plasticmoulds for your distinctive kitchen and bath. dividing it into practical living areas "so people can understand it," he says.
Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Chan, 52, says he stumbled into architecture after failing as a pre-med and economics student in California. He moved to New York in the early 1980s, where he studied at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, followed by Rhode Island School of Design and later Columbia University. Back in Hong Kong, he spent close to a decade working for local architecture firms before establishing BTR, which today employs some 40 staff members based in the industrial district of Kwun Tong. Its clients include big-name developers such as Sun Hung Kai 0016.HK -0.39% and Hong Kong Land,All realtimelocationsystem comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! as well as powerful individuals and families such as the Tiens, whose patriarch is James Tien, a politician and businessman.
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Has Obama administration gone wobbly on Syria?’
Syria, chemical weapons and the United States. If nothing else,
President Barack Obama last month was emphatic. “I want to make it
absolutely clear to Assad,” Obama declared at the National Defense
University in early December, “….The world is watching. The use of
chemical weapons is…totally unacceptable….[T]here will be consequences
and you will be held accountable.”
But what a difference a New Year makes. At a January 10 news conference, the administration’s senior security officials, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff head Martin E. Dempsey, recoiled: Consequences won’t involve the Pentagon. Better wait to secure the arsenal after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls, Panetta said. Dempsey stated: “Preventing the use of chemical weapons would be almost unachievable.” The result, as Panetta explained: “We’re not working on options that involve boots on the ground.”
Assad must have smiled. Washington had gone wobbly on chemical weapons. With the deterrent value of the president’s remarks in question – and one unconfirmed report that Syria used a chemical agent in Homs on December 23 – the chemical specter remains. This raises the key question: Would Obama really stand by if the Syrian government gassed thousands of its citizens?
Before we answer,Watch Later Lifescape airpurifier 66 views 3 months ago Just thought I'd upload this cool track. let’s hit the pause button for a reality check: Are chemical weapons really more heinous than the bombs that have already killed some 60,000 Syrians. This continuing mayhem has not justified military intervention so far. Why would chemical weapons be different?
Lift the pause button and one suspects it would be hard for the U.S. government to turn a blind eye to a Halabja on steroids – Halabja being the last case where an Arab regime (Iraq in 1988) killed thousands of its people in a chemical attack.
But the tug to save lives is countered by another specter: Quashing Assad’s chemical capacity could plunge the U.S. into a new military quagmire.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth werkzeugbaus truck Descriptions.
Obama clearly has the authority to act. If he wishes to use force, under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, he can do so for at least 60 days without congressional approval.
But to avoid Congress now would be a mistake.The 3rd International Conference on custombobbleheads and Indoor Navigation. The flummoxed administration needs another set of eyes to determine what is in the national interest.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. Congress can do this,High quality glassbottles tiles. assuming it can act with independence and reverse the legacy of deferring to the executive branch on matters of war and peace. Granting presidents, for example, broad authority to use military force without proper vetting – as the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraq war resolutions illustrated – ill-served the country.
To this end, Congress should reconvene the hearings begun last session. This time, however, it must press for details about the administration’s assumptions about intervening or not. In addition, all the hearings should be public – not secret, as the administration prefers. This will give the American people confidence in the decision-making.
Congress should mold its findings into a joint House and Senate resolution – still plausible on national security issues even as legislators divide on budgetary matters – unblemished by executive branch drum-beating or quaking.
If Congress does this, it won’t just be addressing the Syrian challenge. It will finally begin to right the imbalance of power between the executive and lawmakers that for too long has dominated American war deciding.
This will begin to fulfill what the War Powers Resolution intended – to “insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the president will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities.”
Bowlsby gave the typical conference realignment double-talk by saying that the Big 12 feels, “very good about where we are”, but not failing to mention that, “we’d be unwise to be oblivious to all that is going on around us. We need to be constantly vigilant”. That is about as close as us Big 12 supporters are going to get to having Bowlsby guarantee that the Big 12 will expand prior to 2014, though he did mention that staying at 10 members or allying with other conferences without adding teams were possibilities.
Though it might seem like the most pressing matter, conference composition was not the number one item on the agenda for the meetings. Rather, the primary focus of the ADs was to discuss the future of Big 12 bowl tie-ins.
The conference has to do so because the Cotton Bowl, which currently has the first pick of non BCS bound Big 12 teams come bowl season, is set to become part of the rotation of semifinal game sites once the new playoff system comes into effect in 2014. Bowlsby stated that once the host bowls are finalized over the next few months, the Big 12 will want to reach out to different bowls in order to secure spots for its members in prestigious games. He went on to say that both the Alamo Bowl and the Meineke Bowl (it is the friggin’ Texas Bowl people, COME ON!) have, “expressed a desire to move up and-or maintain a high level of association” with the Big 12.
Other potential sites for future Big 12 bowl engagements include games played in Florida. Siting the fact that the majority of the nation’s recruits come out of Texas, Florida, and California, Bowlsby expressed that the Big 12 desires to have a strong presence in all three states during bowl season. They already have Cali ties due to their involvement with the Holiday Bowl.
But what a difference a New Year makes. At a January 10 news conference, the administration’s senior security officials, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff head Martin E. Dempsey, recoiled: Consequences won’t involve the Pentagon. Better wait to secure the arsenal after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls, Panetta said. Dempsey stated: “Preventing the use of chemical weapons would be almost unachievable.” The result, as Panetta explained: “We’re not working on options that involve boots on the ground.”
Assad must have smiled. Washington had gone wobbly on chemical weapons. With the deterrent value of the president’s remarks in question – and one unconfirmed report that Syria used a chemical agent in Homs on December 23 – the chemical specter remains. This raises the key question: Would Obama really stand by if the Syrian government gassed thousands of its citizens?
Before we answer,Watch Later Lifescape airpurifier 66 views 3 months ago Just thought I'd upload this cool track. let’s hit the pause button for a reality check: Are chemical weapons really more heinous than the bombs that have already killed some 60,000 Syrians. This continuing mayhem has not justified military intervention so far. Why would chemical weapons be different?
Lift the pause button and one suspects it would be hard for the U.S. government to turn a blind eye to a Halabja on steroids – Halabja being the last case where an Arab regime (Iraq in 1988) killed thousands of its people in a chemical attack.
But the tug to save lives is countered by another specter: Quashing Assad’s chemical capacity could plunge the U.S. into a new military quagmire.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth werkzeugbaus truck Descriptions.
Obama clearly has the authority to act. If he wishes to use force, under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, he can do so for at least 60 days without congressional approval.
But to avoid Congress now would be a mistake.The 3rd International Conference on custombobbleheads and Indoor Navigation. The flummoxed administration needs another set of eyes to determine what is in the national interest.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original buymosaic Descriptions. Congress can do this,High quality glassbottles tiles. assuming it can act with independence and reverse the legacy of deferring to the executive branch on matters of war and peace. Granting presidents, for example, broad authority to use military force without proper vetting – as the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraq war resolutions illustrated – ill-served the country.
To this end, Congress should reconvene the hearings begun last session. This time, however, it must press for details about the administration’s assumptions about intervening or not. In addition, all the hearings should be public – not secret, as the administration prefers. This will give the American people confidence in the decision-making.
Congress should mold its findings into a joint House and Senate resolution – still plausible on national security issues even as legislators divide on budgetary matters – unblemished by executive branch drum-beating or quaking.
If Congress does this, it won’t just be addressing the Syrian challenge. It will finally begin to right the imbalance of power between the executive and lawmakers that for too long has dominated American war deciding.
This will begin to fulfill what the War Powers Resolution intended – to “insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the president will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities.”
Bowlsby gave the typical conference realignment double-talk by saying that the Big 12 feels, “very good about where we are”, but not failing to mention that, “we’d be unwise to be oblivious to all that is going on around us. We need to be constantly vigilant”. That is about as close as us Big 12 supporters are going to get to having Bowlsby guarantee that the Big 12 will expand prior to 2014, though he did mention that staying at 10 members or allying with other conferences without adding teams were possibilities.
Though it might seem like the most pressing matter, conference composition was not the number one item on the agenda for the meetings. Rather, the primary focus of the ADs was to discuss the future of Big 12 bowl tie-ins.
The conference has to do so because the Cotton Bowl, which currently has the first pick of non BCS bound Big 12 teams come bowl season, is set to become part of the rotation of semifinal game sites once the new playoff system comes into effect in 2014. Bowlsby stated that once the host bowls are finalized over the next few months, the Big 12 will want to reach out to different bowls in order to secure spots for its members in prestigious games. He went on to say that both the Alamo Bowl and the Meineke Bowl (it is the friggin’ Texas Bowl people, COME ON!) have, “expressed a desire to move up and-or maintain a high level of association” with the Big 12.
Other potential sites for future Big 12 bowl engagements include games played in Florida. Siting the fact that the majority of the nation’s recruits come out of Texas, Florida, and California, Bowlsby expressed that the Big 12 desires to have a strong presence in all three states during bowl season. They already have Cali ties due to their involvement with the Holiday Bowl.
White Rock City Hall turns the big 50
As the White Rock Museum and Archives Society prepares to celebrate
100 years of White Rock's well-known railway station, another building
is also celebrating a milestone anniversary.
Up the hill from the railway station, White Rock City Hall will be celebrating its golden jubilee, having spent 50 years as the headquarters for all of the city's operations since opening July 6, 1963.
Having started as a multi-purpose civic building, the current City Hall initially also played host to the city's police detachment, library and court clerks. In fact,Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. the current council chamber was originally built as the White Rock Courthouse, which is why White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin's chair is so high up.
"It used to be a judge's chair and the room beside the chambers was the judge's chambers," explained Baldwin.
However, in the five decades since opening, many of those other operations have since moved out as White rock continued to grow, leaving the entirety of the facility for city hall's increasing demand for space.
"Now the purpose of the building has changed considerably since it was first built, and so any money we've spent on the building since has been spent on accommodating the change in purpose," said Baldwin.
But like all old things, some upgrades are in order.
"The biggest thing would be the heating ventilation system, which is really bad," said Baldwin. "We need to do a lot of work on things like getting better windows in, we've got single pane, so the energy efficiency of our windows and doors is also bad."
Another key upgrade, said Baldwin, is to improve the appearance of the building.
"It hasn't really been touched much since it was first built, so the appearance both on the inside and outside has to be improved,Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using howotipper." he said.
Despite the upgrades needed, Baldwin said the building is still serving its purpose well and will likely continue to do so into the future.
"The building itself is well-built. It's a strong structure, the roof is still good and so on, but obviously changes need to be made to keep up with the times and the expectations of the public," he said.
Binghamton University will save an estimated $355,000 in energy costs every year and avoid sending more than 2,190 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually into the atmosphere thanks to a number of energy efficiency projects, the New York State Emergy Research and Development Authority announced.
BU has received $740,000 from the agency. Projects include energy efficiency measures at seven new East Campus dorms; a new Collegiate Center with kitchen and dining facilities, multipurpose rooms, computer labs,Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles. lounges and offices; and renovations at the Recreation Center.
The NYSERDA-funded projects for new construction are projected to be 17 to 30 percent more energy efficient than the state’s energy code requires,Want to find solarpanel? depending on the building. Measures include high-efficiency lighting; occupancy-based lighting controls; insulation; high-efficiency heating,The lanyard series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. ventilation and air-conditioning systems; variable-speed pumps and motors; and daylight harvesting controls, which is a system that dims artificial light in response to available natural light.
“The implementation of our projects will greatly enhance our energy conservation efforts, reduce cost and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” BU President Harvey Stenger said in a statement.
Overall, the measures BU is taking are projected to reduce electricity use by 1.8 million kilowatt hours and fossil fuel use by 18,437 million Btu annually, the equivalent of powering and heating about 260 homes for a year, according to NYSERDA. They will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,190 tons annually, the equivalent of taking 438 cars off the road.
Funding is through the agency’s New Construction Program, which provides technical support to design teams and financial incentives to building owners. The projects also support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Build Smart NY initiative, which aims to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent over seven years.
“There were three things for fire stations that were rated high [for need],” Fire Chief Alan Mannel said. “One was a generator which we already have, one was the exhaust ventilation system which we got and the other was a fire sprinkler system.”
The fire department/municipal building was approved for a new sprinkler system late last year.
The majority of the funding is being handled by “Assistance to Firefighters Grant” – a nationwide grant though FEMA and Homeland Security. The grant will pay for 90 percent of the cost to install the system.
“It’s certainly not an easy grant to get but it’s well worth the effort,” Mannel said.
Mannel said he hopes to have the sprinkler system installed throughout the Municipal Building and the fire station in about a year’s time. According to the U.S. Fire Administration Tropical Fire Research Series, back in 2001 most fires in fire stations often originate in the fire department vehicles – 44 percent – while the rest of the damages are caused by structural fires.
Framingham State University will eliminate some infrastructure improvements planned for the Hemenway Hall academic building renovation in light of the project's increased cost from rising construction prices around the state, university officials said.
The university will forgo modernizing the interiors of existing classrooms and laboratories in the building, deferring the work until funding is available, said Dan Magazu, a university spokesman.
Earlier this month, officials said they might have to scale back parts of the $64 million project after rising construction costs led the state to drive up the project estimate by $10 million.
"As we anticipated, some of the planned infrastructure improvements to the original building have been eliminated from the scope of the work to balance the project budget," Magazu said in an email.
The main parts of the Hemenway Hall project, which received approval for $54 million in state funding in 2010, will still move forward, including a new science wing with 16 laboratories equipped with cutting-edge technology by 2014, as well as an update the building's existing windows and heating and ventilation system, Magazu said.
Up the hill from the railway station, White Rock City Hall will be celebrating its golden jubilee, having spent 50 years as the headquarters for all of the city's operations since opening July 6, 1963.
Having started as a multi-purpose civic building, the current City Hall initially also played host to the city's police detachment, library and court clerks. In fact,Austrian hospital launches drycabinet solution to improve staff safety. the current council chamber was originally built as the White Rock Courthouse, which is why White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin's chair is so high up.
"It used to be a judge's chair and the room beside the chambers was the judge's chambers," explained Baldwin.
However, in the five decades since opening, many of those other operations have since moved out as White rock continued to grow, leaving the entirety of the facility for city hall's increasing demand for space.
"Now the purpose of the building has changed considerably since it was first built, and so any money we've spent on the building since has been spent on accommodating the change in purpose," said Baldwin.
But like all old things, some upgrades are in order.
"The biggest thing would be the heating ventilation system, which is really bad," said Baldwin. "We need to do a lot of work on things like getting better windows in, we've got single pane, so the energy efficiency of our windows and doors is also bad."
Another key upgrade, said Baldwin, is to improve the appearance of the building.
"It hasn't really been touched much since it was first built, so the appearance both on the inside and outside has to be improved,Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using howotipper." he said.
Despite the upgrades needed, Baldwin said the building is still serving its purpose well and will likely continue to do so into the future.
"The building itself is well-built. It's a strong structure, the roof is still good and so on, but obviously changes need to be made to keep up with the times and the expectations of the public," he said.
Binghamton University will save an estimated $355,000 in energy costs every year and avoid sending more than 2,190 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually into the atmosphere thanks to a number of energy efficiency projects, the New York State Emergy Research and Development Authority announced.
BU has received $740,000 from the agency. Projects include energy efficiency measures at seven new East Campus dorms; a new Collegiate Center with kitchen and dining facilities, multipurpose rooms, computer labs,Features useful information about ventilationsystem tiles. lounges and offices; and renovations at the Recreation Center.
The NYSERDA-funded projects for new construction are projected to be 17 to 30 percent more energy efficient than the state’s energy code requires,Want to find solarpanel? depending on the building. Measures include high-efficiency lighting; occupancy-based lighting controls; insulation; high-efficiency heating,The lanyard series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. ventilation and air-conditioning systems; variable-speed pumps and motors; and daylight harvesting controls, which is a system that dims artificial light in response to available natural light.
“The implementation of our projects will greatly enhance our energy conservation efforts, reduce cost and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” BU President Harvey Stenger said in a statement.
Overall, the measures BU is taking are projected to reduce electricity use by 1.8 million kilowatt hours and fossil fuel use by 18,437 million Btu annually, the equivalent of powering and heating about 260 homes for a year, according to NYSERDA. They will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,190 tons annually, the equivalent of taking 438 cars off the road.
Funding is through the agency’s New Construction Program, which provides technical support to design teams and financial incentives to building owners. The projects also support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Build Smart NY initiative, which aims to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent over seven years.
“There were three things for fire stations that were rated high [for need],” Fire Chief Alan Mannel said. “One was a generator which we already have, one was the exhaust ventilation system which we got and the other was a fire sprinkler system.”
The fire department/municipal building was approved for a new sprinkler system late last year.
The majority of the funding is being handled by “Assistance to Firefighters Grant” – a nationwide grant though FEMA and Homeland Security. The grant will pay for 90 percent of the cost to install the system.
“It’s certainly not an easy grant to get but it’s well worth the effort,” Mannel said.
Mannel said he hopes to have the sprinkler system installed throughout the Municipal Building and the fire station in about a year’s time. According to the U.S. Fire Administration Tropical Fire Research Series, back in 2001 most fires in fire stations often originate in the fire department vehicles – 44 percent – while the rest of the damages are caused by structural fires.
Framingham State University will eliminate some infrastructure improvements planned for the Hemenway Hall academic building renovation in light of the project's increased cost from rising construction prices around the state, university officials said.
The university will forgo modernizing the interiors of existing classrooms and laboratories in the building, deferring the work until funding is available, said Dan Magazu, a university spokesman.
Earlier this month, officials said they might have to scale back parts of the $64 million project after rising construction costs led the state to drive up the project estimate by $10 million.
"As we anticipated, some of the planned infrastructure improvements to the original building have been eliminated from the scope of the work to balance the project budget," Magazu said in an email.
The main parts of the Hemenway Hall project, which received approval for $54 million in state funding in 2010, will still move forward, including a new science wing with 16 laboratories equipped with cutting-edge technology by 2014, as well as an update the building's existing windows and heating and ventilation system, Magazu said.
About Popeye's Spinach, Lance Armstrong Edition
According to George Orwell "serious sport has nothing to do with fair
play. It is bound up with hatred, with jealousy, with boastfulness,
with disregard for all rules, and with sadistic pleasure in witnessing
violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
OK ... sounds pretty much like the Super Bowl, but the Tour de France? Lance Armstrong? Ergogenic aids? Cancer survival? Brand and image issues? Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, the Rocket Man, Andy Pettitte? Oprah? Really?
It seems somehow reasonable to use the issue of sports morality as a metaphor of our sociocultural climate and direction ... you know: cheating and getting caught, personal hubris and arrogance, public attitudes and mores, rhetorical dissonance, Republican versus Democrat ... a sports allegory lending insight perhaps into these troubled times and how sports figures, like politicians, are an extension of reality.
That actually may reflect what we've become, what we seemingly want to be, and what we accept and admire as "the new norm."
What has happened to us, to our society, to these times, to our idealism, and to our respect for a code of conduct? What has become of our rules, our integrity, and our personal dignity that we have to bend all the rules, move the goal posts, win at any price, disavow any personal responsibility, and claim a "rights" argument in order to "win"? At whose expense and at what price?
Lily Tomlin got this one right. "The trouble with the rat race," she asserted, "is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
It was once the notion that participation in sports and moral development were intimately related. It was called "sportsmanship." Plato felt that only an athlete could blend mind and body into a perfect functional unity.
In The American Annals of Education and Instruction of 1833, it was advanced that the character of one's students could best be assessed and studied on the playground. In this context, the teacher might be able to mold their characters effectively. The value of defeat -- the ability to handle failure -- was considered critical for encouraging the drive toward success. Indeed, without failure, success was meaningless.
So what is the message of the scoreless baseball games now an intimate part of the progressive middle school curricula? That no one should "feel-like-a-loser"? How do we teach our children the lessons of frustration?
Hard work as its own reward and faith in the system seem to be pretty muddled messages these days. At least according to Armstrong's example. But then again he has had some pretty powerful antecedents.
The effects of steroids on the athletic performance of a gifted athlete operating at a high level of training have never been "officially" measured or sanctioned. Steroid use however has been rampant and widespread in both amateur and professional venues. And the veneer of fairness went away long before Arnold was governator, Clinton or Nixon were presidents, Spitzer or (Tonya) Harding were TV personalities, or John Edwards was "Father of the Year."
Mauro diPasquale, MD, a Canadian sports medicine physician who has written extensively on androgenic ergogenics and performance enhancement has stated that the advantages gained by very gifted athletes would probably have emerged without the drugs, but at a training load and effort that would indeed be superhuman.Posts with thequicksilverscreen system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.
But it was Armstrong the athlete who defeated a field of similarly endowed (and probably doped) athletes.
The tragic consensus and the cynical media message is that steroids did advance the brand and the success of Lance Armstrong, but that it just wasn't very smart of him to get caught -- and that most of his fellow competitors had probably used ergogenics as well.
The dollar figure for "lost endorsements" is $30 million -- that's just endorsements. And the messaging, the 139 million hits on Google, the Twitter messaging, the attention on Oprah ... well, all this publicity could not readily qualify as subtle. Perhaps, along with the rest of what passes for pop culture, all these "outrages" have actually become the desired outcome. These results are not vague, quiet, subtle, unexpected, or hidden.
We have grown up with Popeye's spinach and Dumbo's feather, hopeful that success can be achieved by technology, by trick, by lottery, by luck, or by magic. Forget about hard work, we teach our children, look for the shortcut.
We have somehow inherited a bizarre and uncomfortable legacy in the process, revising the definition of success. It was the whispered mantra of the '90s. Greed is good, big is better,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. there is no such thing as bad publicity,Want to find cableties? and self-interest trumps all other values. We all seem to act to one degree or another without the slightest objection or comment about these new Ten Commandments.We open source luggagetag system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
Because, perhaps, that is what we have come to believe in this postmodern age when we have removed God from the classroom and our personal lives. We no longer need rules, miracles, or divine intervention to explain our Universe and lives.
Why bother with the difficult when the emotional larder is filled, when success by any means is the rule, when ends justify means? And why sacrifice anything, if there is no motivation, no need, and little profit? What does it mean to assume personal responsibility? To regard respect for truth as an inviolable axiom?
Self-respect must be sacrificed in this mix. And Lance Armstrong has shown the way. And our media will place his achievements on a visible, noisy, and well-lit central stage for the entire world to see and worship. And they will, at least those who continue to be mesmerized by this theater.
We have abandoned our guidelines, our honesty, and our goals because of moral expediency and unmerciful self-interest. We spin. We have welcomed winners, rejected losers, and broken for the commercials without regard to or thought of consequence for so long now that it is automatic .We can supply porcelaintiles11 products as below... and we have taught our children to do likewise.
It may be too late and too far into this journey of hypocrisy to see what is happening or to restore a reasonable moral compass. But in case no one noticed, there are those in the world who would want to see this level of Romanesque drama as our swan song: that we may never be able to discuss our differences nor again act in a deliberate and honest manner with one another to solve problems of mutual concern. Perpetually cheating, like our sports heroes.
If this world is an arena for soul making, it is time for us capitalists to show that we can pursue that goal with the same tenacity that we pursue all those things that just rust.
And we must teach that message to our children. Perhaps that change in attitude can recapture some of the more intangible and ethereal rewards of living in a free society.
OK ... sounds pretty much like the Super Bowl, but the Tour de France? Lance Armstrong? Ergogenic aids? Cancer survival? Brand and image issues? Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, the Rocket Man, Andy Pettitte? Oprah? Really?
It seems somehow reasonable to use the issue of sports morality as a metaphor of our sociocultural climate and direction ... you know: cheating and getting caught, personal hubris and arrogance, public attitudes and mores, rhetorical dissonance, Republican versus Democrat ... a sports allegory lending insight perhaps into these troubled times and how sports figures, like politicians, are an extension of reality.
That actually may reflect what we've become, what we seemingly want to be, and what we accept and admire as "the new norm."
What has happened to us, to our society, to these times, to our idealism, and to our respect for a code of conduct? What has become of our rules, our integrity, and our personal dignity that we have to bend all the rules, move the goal posts, win at any price, disavow any personal responsibility, and claim a "rights" argument in order to "win"? At whose expense and at what price?
Lily Tomlin got this one right. "The trouble with the rat race," she asserted, "is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
It was once the notion that participation in sports and moral development were intimately related. It was called "sportsmanship." Plato felt that only an athlete could blend mind and body into a perfect functional unity.
In The American Annals of Education and Instruction of 1833, it was advanced that the character of one's students could best be assessed and studied on the playground. In this context, the teacher might be able to mold their characters effectively. The value of defeat -- the ability to handle failure -- was considered critical for encouraging the drive toward success. Indeed, without failure, success was meaningless.
So what is the message of the scoreless baseball games now an intimate part of the progressive middle school curricula? That no one should "feel-like-a-loser"? How do we teach our children the lessons of frustration?
Hard work as its own reward and faith in the system seem to be pretty muddled messages these days. At least according to Armstrong's example. But then again he has had some pretty powerful antecedents.
The effects of steroids on the athletic performance of a gifted athlete operating at a high level of training have never been "officially" measured or sanctioned. Steroid use however has been rampant and widespread in both amateur and professional venues. And the veneer of fairness went away long before Arnold was governator, Clinton or Nixon were presidents, Spitzer or (Tonya) Harding were TV personalities, or John Edwards was "Father of the Year."
Mauro diPasquale, MD, a Canadian sports medicine physician who has written extensively on androgenic ergogenics and performance enhancement has stated that the advantages gained by very gifted athletes would probably have emerged without the drugs, but at a training load and effort that would indeed be superhuman.Posts with thequicksilverscreen system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.
But it was Armstrong the athlete who defeated a field of similarly endowed (and probably doped) athletes.
The tragic consensus and the cynical media message is that steroids did advance the brand and the success of Lance Armstrong, but that it just wasn't very smart of him to get caught -- and that most of his fellow competitors had probably used ergogenics as well.
The dollar figure for "lost endorsements" is $30 million -- that's just endorsements. And the messaging, the 139 million hits on Google, the Twitter messaging, the attention on Oprah ... well, all this publicity could not readily qualify as subtle. Perhaps, along with the rest of what passes for pop culture, all these "outrages" have actually become the desired outcome. These results are not vague, quiet, subtle, unexpected, or hidden.
We have grown up with Popeye's spinach and Dumbo's feather, hopeful that success can be achieved by technology, by trick, by lottery, by luck, or by magic. Forget about hard work, we teach our children, look for the shortcut.
We have somehow inherited a bizarre and uncomfortable legacy in the process, revising the definition of success. It was the whispered mantra of the '90s. Greed is good, big is better,TBC help you confidently bobbleheads from factories in China. there is no such thing as bad publicity,Want to find cableties? and self-interest trumps all other values. We all seem to act to one degree or another without the slightest objection or comment about these new Ten Commandments.We open source luggagetag system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
Because, perhaps, that is what we have come to believe in this postmodern age when we have removed God from the classroom and our personal lives. We no longer need rules, miracles, or divine intervention to explain our Universe and lives.
Why bother with the difficult when the emotional larder is filled, when success by any means is the rule, when ends justify means? And why sacrifice anything, if there is no motivation, no need, and little profit? What does it mean to assume personal responsibility? To regard respect for truth as an inviolable axiom?
Self-respect must be sacrificed in this mix. And Lance Armstrong has shown the way. And our media will place his achievements on a visible, noisy, and well-lit central stage for the entire world to see and worship. And they will, at least those who continue to be mesmerized by this theater.
We have abandoned our guidelines, our honesty, and our goals because of moral expediency and unmerciful self-interest. We spin. We have welcomed winners, rejected losers, and broken for the commercials without regard to or thought of consequence for so long now that it is automatic .We can supply porcelaintiles11 products as below... and we have taught our children to do likewise.
It may be too late and too far into this journey of hypocrisy to see what is happening or to restore a reasonable moral compass. But in case no one noticed, there are those in the world who would want to see this level of Romanesque drama as our swan song: that we may never be able to discuss our differences nor again act in a deliberate and honest manner with one another to solve problems of mutual concern. Perpetually cheating, like our sports heroes.
If this world is an arena for soul making, it is time for us capitalists to show that we can pursue that goal with the same tenacity that we pursue all those things that just rust.
And we must teach that message to our children. Perhaps that change in attitude can recapture some of the more intangible and ethereal rewards of living in a free society.
2013年1月24日星期四
Powell selected commission chair
Preston Stone, who took his seat on the board
this month, replacing Sedillo as District 1 representative, was selected as vice
chairman.
During the Tuesday meeting,Want to find handbags? commissioners were told by County Manager Nita Taylor that Justin King of King Industries was asked to give a second opinion on repairs to the county public health clinic building on Kansas City Road in Ruidoso.
She reminded them that a few months ago, she passed along an assessment of the building's condition and the $27,000 estimated cost to fix the problems given by officials with Basic IDIQ, a project management firm used by the county.
But officials with that company said they were not engineers and she decided to seek another opinion.
"Some of the things largely followed what Basic IDIQ thought, but there were more extensive suggestions made," she said. "The first three I listed here are to correct the side drainage issues first by taking care of the gravel, road and gutter, all of the stuff that allows the water to run down into the building; installation of double gutters in the parking lot along with storm water inlets to carry water away from the building; improve the parking lot with an oil seal and create positive drainage away from the building on the north side. The second priority that can be done quickly is to install a complete gutter and downspout system for all roof areas around the building exiting to the west of the building, eliminating surface ice from forming and creating a hazard. The third suggestion is to use French drains along the east and north sides of the buildings.
"The other priorities need to wait until we have some (rain). It's difficult for him to assess in these dry times what is causing the problem on the north side of the building," Taylor said. King proposed waiting until June on the other items, she said. She didn't have a cost estimate and said Basic IDIQ probably would continue handling the repairs, incorporating King's information.
Commission Mark Doth said when he looked at the building, he could see that the foundation was separated and had cracked all the way into the ground.
Taylor said she would supply copies of the complete study to commissioners for their review. "Mr. King's thought is the building has not really settled more than most buildings do and he thinks the fix is more related to how the water gets to where it's getting. (He advocates) to fix the parking lots and route the water away from the building and when that is done, go back inside and fix the damage inside and outside. But he doesn't think it structurally is in bad condition."
Doth said many other buildings in the same area experienced similar problems, such as Ruidoso Village Hall. "I'm not disagreeing with the assessment, I'm saying there was poor planning in construction, even the convention center has some major settle within the last two years attributed probably to ground water disappearance," he said.
The single-engine plane that crashed Tuesday evening in a parking lot off South Street was being used by a flight school based at Danbury Airport, the school's president confirmed Thursday.
Nicholas Ringrose, president of Epic Blue, said the Cirrus SR20 that parachuted to earth was part of the school's flight training rental fleet and one of the school's flight instructors was among the three people on board.
Ringrose said he couldn't identify the pilot or the two others on the plane on the advice of the company's lawyers.
Nor would he say whether the instructor was at the controls at the time, although airport officials previously said the instructor was flying the aircraft.
"The instructor declared an emergency and deployed the aircraft's safety parachute system. There were no injuries to any of the occupants," Ringrose said in a prepared statement. "Epic Blue is cooperating fully with the FAA and other representative parties to determine the cause of the incident."
According to the company's website, Epic Blue was founded in 2010 by Ringrose to "provide a diverse range of services in the marine and aviation fields. These include asset management, training,Find Complete Details about oilpaintingreproduction Truck. sales, consulting, delivery, charter brokerage and pilot services."
We rolled into 2013 just weeks ago and in the midst of all the greetings and good wishes of happiness and prosperity to one another, I extended my sympathy to those who might not have had a very good start to the new year.
A friend told me that his wife had witnessed a robbery in broad daylight at a signalised junction in Sri Hartamas. Two motorcycles pulled up on a luxury car,The term 'smartcardfactory control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. one on each side. The motorcyclist on the driver's side snatched the keys from the ignition after breaking the window, and the one on the other side snatched the handbag from the passenger seat.
My friend's wife was two cars in front of the victim. She watched the whole episode on the rearview mirror, frozen with fear.
The wife was grateful that she was not the victim, but she has since demanded of the husband that the car be installed with every security system available in the market, or she would not be driving anywhere any time soon.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
The husband, meanwhile, has had his office cleaned up by a pair of villains who had bypassed the security system by attaching some gadget to the auto-lock system. He lost several laptops, handphones and other valuables.
Adding to his woe, the insurance company has refused to reimburse his losses as there was no sign of "forced entry", as the adjusters saw it, despite CCTV footage showing the bad guys hefting away the loot.Get the best deal on smartcard in the UK and use our free tools.
Another friend lost his year-old car in broad daylight in a busy commercial centre in Petaling Jaya, despite it being equipped with the best alarm and lock.
My brother managed to hold on to his gold chain when two guys on a motorcycle tried to snatch it away. He struggled a little and escaped with minor bruises on his neck. This was in Puchong.
Following a spate of basement car-park incidences, the management of several shopping complexes have taken reactive measures, the most apparent of which are the designated women's parking lots, which are located closer to the lift lobby. I wonder how this ladies-only parking is enforced.
And then there are panic buttons installed in the basement car parks. That help will arrive in time -- at the push of a button, as they say -- is yet to be fully tested.
I have serious reservations about the effectiveness of CCTV cameras in combating crime, whether at home, at the office or on the streets.
A friend of mine argued that they served as a deterrent but I begged to differ. The professional criminal will be smart enough to not get caught on camera, while the petty one, such as the drug addict, would be too reckless and likely also too high to care.
During the Tuesday meeting,Want to find handbags? commissioners were told by County Manager Nita Taylor that Justin King of King Industries was asked to give a second opinion on repairs to the county public health clinic building on Kansas City Road in Ruidoso.
She reminded them that a few months ago, she passed along an assessment of the building's condition and the $27,000 estimated cost to fix the problems given by officials with Basic IDIQ, a project management firm used by the county.
But officials with that company said they were not engineers and she decided to seek another opinion.
"Some of the things largely followed what Basic IDIQ thought, but there were more extensive suggestions made," she said. "The first three I listed here are to correct the side drainage issues first by taking care of the gravel, road and gutter, all of the stuff that allows the water to run down into the building; installation of double gutters in the parking lot along with storm water inlets to carry water away from the building; improve the parking lot with an oil seal and create positive drainage away from the building on the north side. The second priority that can be done quickly is to install a complete gutter and downspout system for all roof areas around the building exiting to the west of the building, eliminating surface ice from forming and creating a hazard. The third suggestion is to use French drains along the east and north sides of the buildings.
"The other priorities need to wait until we have some (rain). It's difficult for him to assess in these dry times what is causing the problem on the north side of the building," Taylor said. King proposed waiting until June on the other items, she said. She didn't have a cost estimate and said Basic IDIQ probably would continue handling the repairs, incorporating King's information.
Commission Mark Doth said when he looked at the building, he could see that the foundation was separated and had cracked all the way into the ground.
Taylor said she would supply copies of the complete study to commissioners for their review. "Mr. King's thought is the building has not really settled more than most buildings do and he thinks the fix is more related to how the water gets to where it's getting. (He advocates) to fix the parking lots and route the water away from the building and when that is done, go back inside and fix the damage inside and outside. But he doesn't think it structurally is in bad condition."
Doth said many other buildings in the same area experienced similar problems, such as Ruidoso Village Hall. "I'm not disagreeing with the assessment, I'm saying there was poor planning in construction, even the convention center has some major settle within the last two years attributed probably to ground water disappearance," he said.
The single-engine plane that crashed Tuesday evening in a parking lot off South Street was being used by a flight school based at Danbury Airport, the school's president confirmed Thursday.
Nicholas Ringrose, president of Epic Blue, said the Cirrus SR20 that parachuted to earth was part of the school's flight training rental fleet and one of the school's flight instructors was among the three people on board.
Ringrose said he couldn't identify the pilot or the two others on the plane on the advice of the company's lawyers.
Nor would he say whether the instructor was at the controls at the time, although airport officials previously said the instructor was flying the aircraft.
"The instructor declared an emergency and deployed the aircraft's safety parachute system. There were no injuries to any of the occupants," Ringrose said in a prepared statement. "Epic Blue is cooperating fully with the FAA and other representative parties to determine the cause of the incident."
According to the company's website, Epic Blue was founded in 2010 by Ringrose to "provide a diverse range of services in the marine and aviation fields. These include asset management, training,Find Complete Details about oilpaintingreproduction Truck. sales, consulting, delivery, charter brokerage and pilot services."
We rolled into 2013 just weeks ago and in the midst of all the greetings and good wishes of happiness and prosperity to one another, I extended my sympathy to those who might not have had a very good start to the new year.
A friend told me that his wife had witnessed a robbery in broad daylight at a signalised junction in Sri Hartamas. Two motorcycles pulled up on a luxury car,The term 'smartcardfactory control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. one on each side. The motorcyclist on the driver's side snatched the keys from the ignition after breaking the window, and the one on the other side snatched the handbag from the passenger seat.
My friend's wife was two cars in front of the victim. She watched the whole episode on the rearview mirror, frozen with fear.
The wife was grateful that she was not the victim, but she has since demanded of the husband that the car be installed with every security system available in the market, or she would not be driving anywhere any time soon.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
The husband, meanwhile, has had his office cleaned up by a pair of villains who had bypassed the security system by attaching some gadget to the auto-lock system. He lost several laptops, handphones and other valuables.
Adding to his woe, the insurance company has refused to reimburse his losses as there was no sign of "forced entry", as the adjusters saw it, despite CCTV footage showing the bad guys hefting away the loot.Get the best deal on smartcard in the UK and use our free tools.
Another friend lost his year-old car in broad daylight in a busy commercial centre in Petaling Jaya, despite it being equipped with the best alarm and lock.
My brother managed to hold on to his gold chain when two guys on a motorcycle tried to snatch it away. He struggled a little and escaped with minor bruises on his neck. This was in Puchong.
Following a spate of basement car-park incidences, the management of several shopping complexes have taken reactive measures, the most apparent of which are the designated women's parking lots, which are located closer to the lift lobby. I wonder how this ladies-only parking is enforced.
And then there are panic buttons installed in the basement car parks. That help will arrive in time -- at the push of a button, as they say -- is yet to be fully tested.
I have serious reservations about the effectiveness of CCTV cameras in combating crime, whether at home, at the office or on the streets.
A friend of mine argued that they served as a deterrent but I begged to differ. The professional criminal will be smart enough to not get caught on camera, while the petty one, such as the drug addict, would be too reckless and likely also too high to care.
Galoshes And Moon Boots
It's January, and so far in Chicago we've had a relatively
mild winter. We've had some cold days, but in the last week or so we had
temperatures in the 50's and I was grilling outside without the need for a
winter coat. There has been almost no snow. Yet I have grown to hate winter as
the years go by, and I still can't wait for it to be over. Hearing others
complain about the lack of snow made me remember growing up in the 1970's, and
how much I used to enjoy winter.
The first thing I remembered was the winter clothing we had back then.Buy today and get your delivery for £25 on a range of plasticmoulds for your home. Mothers would constantly remind their children to "bundle up and keep warm." This could be taken too far, in that you could end up completely unable to move, like Ralphie's whiny kid brother in A Christmas Story. What moms either failed to realize, or ignored for other reasons, is that kids would rather deal with the cold than be caught in clothing that was considered uncool. At a certain age,Features useful information about fridgemagnet tiles. for example, mittens were perfectly acceptable for boys, but later, only gloves would do. I'm not sure why, other than I remember having better control of making and throwing snowballs with gloves -- an important consideration back then.
No one wanted to be the kid who had to wear galoshes over his street shoes, you had to have boots -- and heaven forbid they were moon boots (remember those?). No, they had to be work boots, those tan-colored leather boots you laced up. It was also acceptable to wear those greenish-brown and mustard yellow rubber boots if you were building a snowman or shoveling snow. Besides galoshes and mittens, it was also considered uncool to wear a scarf.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable injectionmold supplies and accessories! Scarves were considered to be for girls and Momma's boys. If a boy had a scarf, you could bet he had mittens, along with a clip so they could be fastened directly to his coat. And he probably had galoshes and a pocket protector, too.
In a previous post, Back to School in the 70's: Razzles, Bullies and Primary Colors, I described my first winter coat. It was an electric blue fake fur coat with a hood, making me look like a little blue teddy bear, and I was thankful when I grew out of it. Then it was time for CPO jackets, made of wool and lined with fleece, plaid and cut like a shirt, as if to say "it's not cold out here." For more "formal" occasions, you had to have a pea coat, a double breasted wool coat, usually in black or dark navy blue. Some guys even had sheepskin McCloud jackets, like Dennis Weaver wore in the TV show, tan colored with white fleece. No one really wore cowboy hats in Chicago -- unless you were playing Cowboys,Source drycabinets Products at Other Truck Parts. of course. That was more of a summertime or indoor activity, though.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
What about winter hats? First of all, there's no consensus on what all the styles are called -- the names vary wildly from region to region and sometimes within a certain region. At least where and when I grew up, those "Elmer Fudd" or Catcher in the Rye hunting hats were considered for old people. There were also more European looking hats, that you could imagine being worn by skiers. They were long, enough to cover the ears, with "strings" that would hang down so you could tie them under your chin. There was also a string that hung off the top, supposedly so it would fly in the air as you zoomed down the mountain. The preferred winter hat was what can be called a "skull cap", either with or without the little pom-pom on top. You could cover your ears to keep them warm with these hats, so apparently that was OK, but having a hunting hat with ear flaps wasn't. I'm not saying that makes sense, that's just the way it was. I have heard the term "beanie" used to describe a skull cap, which baffles me. I always associated the term beanie with a baseball hat with a propeller on top, probably because of the old TV cartoon Beany and Cecil.
You would also see what we called "ski masks" which were basically extra-large skull caps that you could pull down to cover your face, with cutouts for your eyes and mouth. As these became more popular with bank robbers and other criminals, they became less popular for casual wear, at least on the South Side of Chicago.
Ever felt inadequate when you step onto a boat and the skipper bawls out a bewildering series of commands that involve the movement of rope? Most Strawbridge Pointers understand this feeling of inadequacy, but made great leaps to overcome it on Wednesday 16th January by holding a “Know your Ropes” day in truly magnificent conditions on Eastern Cove.
No longer will there be spousal friction when David Churchill orders the warps to be belayed with a lanyard... Glen will immediately know that her husband wants another cup of tea.
The grossly inadequate crew on Rubicon will now take heed when Andy Wood orders a catharpin be employed above the telltales to secure the starboard shroud and when Henk’s all-Dutch crew hear the call to attach the nippers to the messenger to haul the rode, they’ll legitimately blame a foreign language for their ineptitude.
A bright complement of eight boats had gathered at the wharf and roped in 27 Pointers, including eight first-timers, where a course to Kangaroo Head was decided upon.
It was then money for old rope as Klee Wyck, Bone Idle and Angels Wings bolted on the falling tide, followed by Dauntless, Rubicon and Astoria with Ann Tidd and Winterwind slower to cast off the mooring lines. A steady 8-10 knot ESEasterly sending the fleet on their way on a long reach before, coming to the end of their rope, coming about for a Baudin Beach luncheon rendezvous.
Stay tuned for radio silence from Klee Wyck in the coming months as a rueful Brian Moon was made to pay for his gratuitous advice to Astoria over the airwaves, as the breeze faltered. Ah, yes... enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
Warps, cables, lines and of course ropes were in abundance as rafting up proceeded and eight vessels soon resembled a Christmas package as all crews dined under the voluminous canopy over Astoria’s cockpit. Debate then ensued over whether all this rope terminology was necessary or merely pretentious nautical balderdash. As matters heated up, the combatants rapidly leapt or were pushed into the sea for a refreshing dip, mindful not to dislodge Brian’s iPhone into the briny.
Lesley Beck is living proof that when a gal knows the ropes, she won’t be tied up, sunning herself atop Winterwind’s deck and kindly offering both ends of the rope to a floundering John Gray.
The first thing I remembered was the winter clothing we had back then.Buy today and get your delivery for £25 on a range of plasticmoulds for your home. Mothers would constantly remind their children to "bundle up and keep warm." This could be taken too far, in that you could end up completely unable to move, like Ralphie's whiny kid brother in A Christmas Story. What moms either failed to realize, or ignored for other reasons, is that kids would rather deal with the cold than be caught in clothing that was considered uncool. At a certain age,Features useful information about fridgemagnet tiles. for example, mittens were perfectly acceptable for boys, but later, only gloves would do. I'm not sure why, other than I remember having better control of making and throwing snowballs with gloves -- an important consideration back then.
No one wanted to be the kid who had to wear galoshes over his street shoes, you had to have boots -- and heaven forbid they were moon boots (remember those?). No, they had to be work boots, those tan-colored leather boots you laced up. It was also acceptable to wear those greenish-brown and mustard yellow rubber boots if you were building a snowman or shoveling snow. Besides galoshes and mittens, it was also considered uncool to wear a scarf.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable injectionmold supplies and accessories! Scarves were considered to be for girls and Momma's boys. If a boy had a scarf, you could bet he had mittens, along with a clip so they could be fastened directly to his coat. And he probably had galoshes and a pocket protector, too.
In a previous post, Back to School in the 70's: Razzles, Bullies and Primary Colors, I described my first winter coat. It was an electric blue fake fur coat with a hood, making me look like a little blue teddy bear, and I was thankful when I grew out of it. Then it was time for CPO jackets, made of wool and lined with fleece, plaid and cut like a shirt, as if to say "it's not cold out here." For more "formal" occasions, you had to have a pea coat, a double breasted wool coat, usually in black or dark navy blue. Some guys even had sheepskin McCloud jackets, like Dennis Weaver wore in the TV show, tan colored with white fleece. No one really wore cowboy hats in Chicago -- unless you were playing Cowboys,Source drycabinets Products at Other Truck Parts. of course. That was more of a summertime or indoor activity, though.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
What about winter hats? First of all, there's no consensus on what all the styles are called -- the names vary wildly from region to region and sometimes within a certain region. At least where and when I grew up, those "Elmer Fudd" or Catcher in the Rye hunting hats were considered for old people. There were also more European looking hats, that you could imagine being worn by skiers. They were long, enough to cover the ears, with "strings" that would hang down so you could tie them under your chin. There was also a string that hung off the top, supposedly so it would fly in the air as you zoomed down the mountain. The preferred winter hat was what can be called a "skull cap", either with or without the little pom-pom on top. You could cover your ears to keep them warm with these hats, so apparently that was OK, but having a hunting hat with ear flaps wasn't. I'm not saying that makes sense, that's just the way it was. I have heard the term "beanie" used to describe a skull cap, which baffles me. I always associated the term beanie with a baseball hat with a propeller on top, probably because of the old TV cartoon Beany and Cecil.
You would also see what we called "ski masks" which were basically extra-large skull caps that you could pull down to cover your face, with cutouts for your eyes and mouth. As these became more popular with bank robbers and other criminals, they became less popular for casual wear, at least on the South Side of Chicago.
Ever felt inadequate when you step onto a boat and the skipper bawls out a bewildering series of commands that involve the movement of rope? Most Strawbridge Pointers understand this feeling of inadequacy, but made great leaps to overcome it on Wednesday 16th January by holding a “Know your Ropes” day in truly magnificent conditions on Eastern Cove.
No longer will there be spousal friction when David Churchill orders the warps to be belayed with a lanyard... Glen will immediately know that her husband wants another cup of tea.
The grossly inadequate crew on Rubicon will now take heed when Andy Wood orders a catharpin be employed above the telltales to secure the starboard shroud and when Henk’s all-Dutch crew hear the call to attach the nippers to the messenger to haul the rode, they’ll legitimately blame a foreign language for their ineptitude.
A bright complement of eight boats had gathered at the wharf and roped in 27 Pointers, including eight first-timers, where a course to Kangaroo Head was decided upon.
It was then money for old rope as Klee Wyck, Bone Idle and Angels Wings bolted on the falling tide, followed by Dauntless, Rubicon and Astoria with Ann Tidd and Winterwind slower to cast off the mooring lines. A steady 8-10 knot ESEasterly sending the fleet on their way on a long reach before, coming to the end of their rope, coming about for a Baudin Beach luncheon rendezvous.
Stay tuned for radio silence from Klee Wyck in the coming months as a rueful Brian Moon was made to pay for his gratuitous advice to Astoria over the airwaves, as the breeze faltered. Ah, yes... enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
Warps, cables, lines and of course ropes were in abundance as rafting up proceeded and eight vessels soon resembled a Christmas package as all crews dined under the voluminous canopy over Astoria’s cockpit. Debate then ensued over whether all this rope terminology was necessary or merely pretentious nautical balderdash. As matters heated up, the combatants rapidly leapt or were pushed into the sea for a refreshing dip, mindful not to dislodge Brian’s iPhone into the briny.
Lesley Beck is living proof that when a gal knows the ropes, she won’t be tied up, sunning herself atop Winterwind’s deck and kindly offering both ends of the rope to a floundering John Gray.
UEM launches Verdi ‘eco-dominiums’ in Cyberjaya
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unique design and lush greenery.
“Cyberjaya is hot right now. The property market is set to fly,” said Datuk Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim, UEM Land’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer during the launch of Verdi’s Tower 1 on Tuesday.
Conceptualised as living in a park, Wan Abdullah cited the green factor as a major selling point and believed that it would quickly win over customers.
Each unit of Verdi eco-dominiums comes equipped with smart home features such as Unified Home Network, interactive Community Services Portal, Info Kiosk / IP Telephony / Intercom, web access home control, automated lighting control, all-in-one remote controller, scenario control, temperature control and a panic button. Other amenities include multipurpose hall, gymnasium,Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. family pool, children pool, jacuzzi pool, central garden, gazebo, children playground and a jogging trail.
There is also an ample car park complemented by security features such as card access system,The 3rd International Conference on howotipper and Indoor Navigation. CCTV system and 24-hour security services.
Verdi eco-dominiums will be managed by UEM Land’s wholly-owned subsidiary Sunrise Berhad which intends to bring Mont’ Kiara’s condo-living experiences to Verdi eco-dominiums by offering good quality finishings and innovative architectural designs.
On the market outlook, Wan Abdullah is positive despite obvious challenges. “In the current economic scenario, many people are treading with caution. Bank Negara has undertaken some cooling measures to dampen speculators, which we fully support. The measures are good for the country as a whole. Nevertheless, with the right products, prices and locations, people will still buy properties,” he said.
The system, which Fujitsu plans to launch later this year, is one of a number that addresses this increasingly common problem: how to allow workers access to corporate IT systems while avoiding deliberate or inadvertent leaks of data from devices that are not totally under the company's control.
Fujitsu's system matches an app on the phone with a cloud-based server that delivers corporate apps such as email, sales databases and customer contacts, as HTML 5 applications.
The phone app senses whether it's in the workplace or not and therefore whether it has access to corporate data. The cloud apps are delivered over an encrypted connection to the handset, which runs them inside a secure application environment on the phone.The term 'smartcardfactory control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
As soon as the employee leaves the workplace, the cloud connection is severed and the corporate apps are no longer accessible. And because they ran in the application environment, the phone doesn't contain any remnants of their use, such as cookies or temporary data files, said Kazuaki Nimura, a research manager at the smart platform laboratory of Fujitsu Laboratories.
At an event in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Nimura demonstrated the system running on both an iPhone and Android handset. Each mobile OS requires a native app to run the execution environment, but the HTML 5 cloud apps will run across all platforms.
In the demonstration, access to the corporate apps was enabled in the iPhone when it came within reach of a simulated company Wi-Fi signal, while the Android phone had the option of being switched on by either Wi-Fi detection or through a tap on an NFC (near field communication) card.
The National Assembly was told on Wednesday that the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) spent around Rs2.443 billion on the advertisements in print and electronic media during the last four years. Replying a question, the BISP chairperson Farzana Raja said Rs3.5 billion had been allocated during the period out of which Rs93 million were spent in 2008-09, Rs658 million in 2009-10, Rs778 million in 2010-11, Rs863 million in 2011-12 and Rs51 million in 2012-13.
To a question she said, BISP beneficiaries resided across the country belonging to deprive segment of society which is not much literate with no access to a solitary source of information. “Thus, it was taken as a challenge to run awareness campaigns relying on various sources of communication to keep them well informed, updated and aware on various components of the BISP,” she said.
She said the BISP components included Introductory Phase, Waseela-e-Haq, Waseela-e-Rozgar, BISP Achievements, Benazir Smart Card/Benazir Debit Cart,The term 'moulds control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Poverty Survey, Mobile Phone Banking, Grievance Redressal, News Letter and Special Supplement. She said currently an awareness campaign was being run on Waseela-e-Sehet, Life and Health Insurance and Waseela-e-Taleem.
“Cyberjaya is hot right now. The property market is set to fly,” said Datuk Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim, UEM Land’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer during the launch of Verdi’s Tower 1 on Tuesday.
Conceptualised as living in a park, Wan Abdullah cited the green factor as a major selling point and believed that it would quickly win over customers.
Each unit of Verdi eco-dominiums comes equipped with smart home features such as Unified Home Network, interactive Community Services Portal, Info Kiosk / IP Telephony / Intercom, web access home control, automated lighting control, all-in-one remote controller, scenario control, temperature control and a panic button. Other amenities include multipurpose hall, gymnasium,Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. family pool, children pool, jacuzzi pool, central garden, gazebo, children playground and a jogging trail.
There is also an ample car park complemented by security features such as card access system,The 3rd International Conference on howotipper and Indoor Navigation. CCTV system and 24-hour security services.
Verdi eco-dominiums will be managed by UEM Land’s wholly-owned subsidiary Sunrise Berhad which intends to bring Mont’ Kiara’s condo-living experiences to Verdi eco-dominiums by offering good quality finishings and innovative architectural designs.
On the market outlook, Wan Abdullah is positive despite obvious challenges. “In the current economic scenario, many people are treading with caution. Bank Negara has undertaken some cooling measures to dampen speculators, which we fully support. The measures are good for the country as a whole. Nevertheless, with the right products, prices and locations, people will still buy properties,” he said.
The system, which Fujitsu plans to launch later this year, is one of a number that addresses this increasingly common problem: how to allow workers access to corporate IT systems while avoiding deliberate or inadvertent leaks of data from devices that are not totally under the company's control.
Fujitsu's system matches an app on the phone with a cloud-based server that delivers corporate apps such as email, sales databases and customer contacts, as HTML 5 applications.
The phone app senses whether it's in the workplace or not and therefore whether it has access to corporate data. The cloud apps are delivered over an encrypted connection to the handset, which runs them inside a secure application environment on the phone.The term 'smartcardfactory control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
As soon as the employee leaves the workplace, the cloud connection is severed and the corporate apps are no longer accessible. And because they ran in the application environment, the phone doesn't contain any remnants of their use, such as cookies or temporary data files, said Kazuaki Nimura, a research manager at the smart platform laboratory of Fujitsu Laboratories.
At an event in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Nimura demonstrated the system running on both an iPhone and Android handset. Each mobile OS requires a native app to run the execution environment, but the HTML 5 cloud apps will run across all platforms.
In the demonstration, access to the corporate apps was enabled in the iPhone when it came within reach of a simulated company Wi-Fi signal, while the Android phone had the option of being switched on by either Wi-Fi detection or through a tap on an NFC (near field communication) card.
The National Assembly was told on Wednesday that the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) spent around Rs2.443 billion on the advertisements in print and electronic media during the last four years. Replying a question, the BISP chairperson Farzana Raja said Rs3.5 billion had been allocated during the period out of which Rs93 million were spent in 2008-09, Rs658 million in 2009-10, Rs778 million in 2010-11, Rs863 million in 2011-12 and Rs51 million in 2012-13.
To a question she said, BISP beneficiaries resided across the country belonging to deprive segment of society which is not much literate with no access to a solitary source of information. “Thus, it was taken as a challenge to run awareness campaigns relying on various sources of communication to keep them well informed, updated and aware on various components of the BISP,” she said.
She said the BISP components included Introductory Phase, Waseela-e-Haq, Waseela-e-Rozgar, BISP Achievements, Benazir Smart Card/Benazir Debit Cart,The term 'moulds control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Poverty Survey, Mobile Phone Banking, Grievance Redressal, News Letter and Special Supplement. She said currently an awareness campaign was being run on Waseela-e-Sehet, Life and Health Insurance and Waseela-e-Taleem.
2013年1月17日星期四
Brylle the Thrill travels long road to bring passion for fashion
In back-to-back
games separated by the CIS winter break, Kamen put up dual 21-rebound
performances, each just a pair of caroms shy of equaling the UBC single-game
record of 23 set a quarter of a century ago by Aaron Point. In one of those
games, a 96-84 win over Lethbridge, Kamen scored 26 points.
Those are the kinds of numbers that have made everyone stand up and take notice, kind of like what happens every time Kamen arrives at War to prepare for games and practices.
“He came in here last year wearing some of the most interesting outfits I have ever seen a player wear,” continues Hanson of Kamen, who spent the 2011-12 season as a redshirt following his transfer from NCAA Div. 1 San Jose State. “Designer rubber boots. Silk scarves. Some of our alums asked me what was going on with this guy, and I said ‘Hey, wait until you see him in a basketball uniform and you’ll understand what is going on.’”
Now in his third season of eligibility with two more remaining, Kamen — averaging 12.6 points and 11.4 rebounds per game — admits he has discovered the place he can call home after so many mis-timed landings south of the border.
Electing not to turn pro coming out of high school in Paris, Kamen attended the blue-chip Stoneridge Preparatory School in Los Angeles in 2007-08. There he developed a friendship with assistant coach Rob Brooks, and followed him to NCAA Div. 1 Jacksonville State in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama in 2008-09.
NCAA officials were concerned that Kamen had scrimmaged with some pros in France before coming to the U.You can buy mosaic Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock.S., and made him sit out that entire campaign before finally clearing him. He followed Brooks to Western Nebraska Community College in 2009-10, where he used his first year of eligibility. And from there, went to San Jose State in 2010-11, where he played but says he could just never click with the coaching staff.
“I was lying in bed one morning and the phone rang,” laughed Kamen. “It said it was a British Columbia number. I had no idea what state it was.”
UBC assistant Jamie Oei was on the other end, and after convincing Kamen to take a visit north, it wasn’t too long before Kamen had packed his bags for Vancouver.Product information for Avery Dennison cable ties products.
“I feel like it’s more about life here,” he says when asked about the biggest differences between the two countries for a student-athlete. “There, everything is given to the athletes. Your house. Your food. You start to feel like you are superior being on a team. You’re kind of like a star but you don’t really deserve it.
“Coming to Canada is more of a humbling experience and I have had to work part time to pay my bills and buy food,” continues Kamen, who waits on tables and even helps in the kitchen just off campus at Cafe Regalade.
And Kamen has also been eager to expand his fashion consulting business, which at present includes just a few clients.
“I work to help them find clothes,We have brought a large range of attractive cry stalmosaic tiles.” says Kamen. “It’s very fun, and the more people that know about me, the more they ask for advice.”
“Two weeks ago Doug was wearing a pair of jeans, they were skinnier than he would usually wear,” Kamen laughed of veteran ‘Birds guard and team scoring leader Doug Plumb. “He said to me ‘It looks good. I didn’t think I could pull this off.’ I told him that he was picking up his fashion sense.’”
Hanson admits that often times, players who transfer as many times as Kamen arrive with a lot of issues. Yet other than his suitcases full of clothes, Hanson has seen no baggage.
“We got him by working hard and having our feelers out there,” the coach explains. “But it was also kind of by fluke. It was through a connection of a connection of a connection. He is just the kindest human being and a true team guy. Sometimes you have to be lucky and for us, it just panned out.”
Across America, we have more news about Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend, who, whether or not Te'o was involved in the hoax, did not die tragically as had been widely and touchingly reported. We also have Lance Armstrong, once my personal sports hero, finally confirming the doping he has been lying about for over a decade.
Stories about lies, about athletes who lie, about athletes with questionable character, about athletes who it seems have no regard for personal integrity. They fall like raindrops—meaning they fill the air and we can't dodge them.
NBA superstar disagrees publicly with coach? Let's back the superstar. Big-time college football player drives drunk? Let him play in his bowl game.
Here, the NBA's premier player demands an entire hour of prime time, surrounds himself with kids from charities as protection, then blindsides his hometown team by rejecting them on national television.
Elsewhere, Major League Baseball refuses to induct its all-time home run leader to the Hall of Fame because of steroid violations which have been denied repeatedly and vehemently, but which are so visually blatant,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles. one need only hold his Giants baseball card and his Pirates baseball card side by side to know what really happened.
Speaking of baseball cards, we don't put them in the spokes of our bikes anymore. We carefully slide them into plastic sleeves, so as not to affect their future value. We don't scream for athletes' autographs so we can show them to friends; we want to put them up for sale on eBay.
I'd tell you to cue Poison's "Something to Believe In"—except that we can't even believe in that, not since Bret Michaels kissed Donald Trump's pompous rear end on The Apprentice.
It's not like our sports heroes were ever what they were made out to be. Before steroidWhy does moulds grow in homes or buildings?s and greed and attitudes, there was alcohol abuse, drug abuse, spousal abuse. Before that there was racism.
Those are the kinds of numbers that have made everyone stand up and take notice, kind of like what happens every time Kamen arrives at War to prepare for games and practices.
“He came in here last year wearing some of the most interesting outfits I have ever seen a player wear,” continues Hanson of Kamen, who spent the 2011-12 season as a redshirt following his transfer from NCAA Div. 1 San Jose State. “Designer rubber boots. Silk scarves. Some of our alums asked me what was going on with this guy, and I said ‘Hey, wait until you see him in a basketball uniform and you’ll understand what is going on.’”
Now in his third season of eligibility with two more remaining, Kamen — averaging 12.6 points and 11.4 rebounds per game — admits he has discovered the place he can call home after so many mis-timed landings south of the border.
Electing not to turn pro coming out of high school in Paris, Kamen attended the blue-chip Stoneridge Preparatory School in Los Angeles in 2007-08. There he developed a friendship with assistant coach Rob Brooks, and followed him to NCAA Div. 1 Jacksonville State in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama in 2008-09.
NCAA officials were concerned that Kamen had scrimmaged with some pros in France before coming to the U.You can buy mosaic Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock.S., and made him sit out that entire campaign before finally clearing him. He followed Brooks to Western Nebraska Community College in 2009-10, where he used his first year of eligibility. And from there, went to San Jose State in 2010-11, where he played but says he could just never click with the coaching staff.
“I was lying in bed one morning and the phone rang,” laughed Kamen. “It said it was a British Columbia number. I had no idea what state it was.”
UBC assistant Jamie Oei was on the other end, and after convincing Kamen to take a visit north, it wasn’t too long before Kamen had packed his bags for Vancouver.Product information for Avery Dennison cable ties products.
“I feel like it’s more about life here,” he says when asked about the biggest differences between the two countries for a student-athlete. “There, everything is given to the athletes. Your house. Your food. You start to feel like you are superior being on a team. You’re kind of like a star but you don’t really deserve it.
“Coming to Canada is more of a humbling experience and I have had to work part time to pay my bills and buy food,” continues Kamen, who waits on tables and even helps in the kitchen just off campus at Cafe Regalade.
And Kamen has also been eager to expand his fashion consulting business, which at present includes just a few clients.
“I work to help them find clothes,We have brought a large range of attractive cry stalmosaic tiles.” says Kamen. “It’s very fun, and the more people that know about me, the more they ask for advice.”
“Two weeks ago Doug was wearing a pair of jeans, they were skinnier than he would usually wear,” Kamen laughed of veteran ‘Birds guard and team scoring leader Doug Plumb. “He said to me ‘It looks good. I didn’t think I could pull this off.’ I told him that he was picking up his fashion sense.’”
Hanson admits that often times, players who transfer as many times as Kamen arrive with a lot of issues. Yet other than his suitcases full of clothes, Hanson has seen no baggage.
“We got him by working hard and having our feelers out there,” the coach explains. “But it was also kind of by fluke. It was through a connection of a connection of a connection. He is just the kindest human being and a true team guy. Sometimes you have to be lucky and for us, it just panned out.”
Across America, we have more news about Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend, who, whether or not Te'o was involved in the hoax, did not die tragically as had been widely and touchingly reported. We also have Lance Armstrong, once my personal sports hero, finally confirming the doping he has been lying about for over a decade.
Stories about lies, about athletes who lie, about athletes with questionable character, about athletes who it seems have no regard for personal integrity. They fall like raindrops—meaning they fill the air and we can't dodge them.
NBA superstar disagrees publicly with coach? Let's back the superstar. Big-time college football player drives drunk? Let him play in his bowl game.
Here, the NBA's premier player demands an entire hour of prime time, surrounds himself with kids from charities as protection, then blindsides his hometown team by rejecting them on national television.
Elsewhere, Major League Baseball refuses to induct its all-time home run leader to the Hall of Fame because of steroid violations which have been denied repeatedly and vehemently, but which are so visually blatant,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles. one need only hold his Giants baseball card and his Pirates baseball card side by side to know what really happened.
Speaking of baseball cards, we don't put them in the spokes of our bikes anymore. We carefully slide them into plastic sleeves, so as not to affect their future value. We don't scream for athletes' autographs so we can show them to friends; we want to put them up for sale on eBay.
I'd tell you to cue Poison's "Something to Believe In"—except that we can't even believe in that, not since Bret Michaels kissed Donald Trump's pompous rear end on The Apprentice.
It's not like our sports heroes were ever what they were made out to be. Before steroidWhy does moulds grow in homes or buildings?s and greed and attitudes, there was alcohol abuse, drug abuse, spousal abuse. Before that there was racism.
69-Year-Old Northville Woman Robbed in Driveway
According to a press release from
the Novthville City Police, at approximately 11 a.m. Wednesday, a 69-year-old
woman had just returned from the Northville Community Center to her home on Lake
Street in Northville. She had put her car in her garage and was walking down her
driveway when a male carrying a burgundy portfolio approached her and asked if
she would take part in a survey. The woman questioned the type of survey and
noticed that the person did not have any type of identification, such as a
lanyard with an identification card or badge, so she asked to see some I.D. This
is the last thing that she remembered, according to the press release. When she
awoke she managed to get into her home and call a friend who took her to
Providence Park Hospital in Novi.
The woman suffered a fractured jaw and a severe head injury. She has been admitted to the hospital and is listed in stable condition, according to the press releae.
The woman’s purse was taken, which contained her cell phone, credit cards and identification.We can supply howo truck products as below. The cell phone has been recovered in Farmington Hills. The vehicle used by the man is described as a light-colored, possibly tan, sedan. The woman described the man as an African American male in his 30s with a medium build, wearing a dark, three-quarter-length cloth coat.
Officers are currently working with neighboring jurisdictions, which may have had similar incidents. The Farmington Hills Police Department received a report of a similar incident involving a woman being attacked after arriving home in her vehicle just before 11 p.m.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale turquoise beads from china. Wednesday.
According to a Farmington Hills Police press release, a 42-year-old resident of Village Green Apartments,Product information for Avery Dennison cable ties products. at Eight Mile and Grand River, suffered serious injuries when she was attacked at around 10:45 p.m., while inside the entrance to her building. Her assailant used a "club-type instrument", according to the release. The woman was treated at the scene by Farmington Hills Fire Dept. medics, then transported to an area hospital.
Farmington Hills Police Commander Matt Koehn said police have not been able to talk with the woman and so have few details about the crime. He also did not have information about the extent of her injuries.A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
In Talladega County, EMA director Debra Gaither said most of the groundwork had been done Wednesday.Our aim is to supply air purifier which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. “We readjusted everyone’s schedules to make sure we’ve got someone here throughout the night. We’ve been posting updates on Twitter and Facebook, we’ve contacted all of our first responders via 800 megahertz radio, and we’ve got information from the National Weather Service in Birmingham via 800 megahertz. The main thing is for people to stay off the roads after dark as much as possible, and to check before they leave in the morning.”
Sylacauga city schools administrative assistant Terri Bentley said the system would make the decision about whether to delay or cancel school today by late Thursday night or early Friday morning. If there is any delay, students and parents will be notified via the SchoolCast system, and the information should also be posted online at www.sylacauag.k12.al.us.
Pell City Schools Superintendent Dr. Bobby Hathcock said Thursday that it was still too early to determine if officials will delay the opening of schools this morning.
“We could look at a delay of a couple of hours,” Hathcock said, adding that school officials will have to look at the big picture Friday morning. “It may be fine here in town, but it could be bad on the bus routes. We have to look at the bus situation.”
Talladega County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Jimmy Kilgore was in the process Thursday of rounding up every available four-wheel drive vehicle, and making sure they were all fueled up. “We’ll be available to help transport anyone who needs us,” he said.
Talladega city manager Brian Muenger said he was still evaluating the situation, and would meet again with the department heads before everyone went home.
“Public Works has already been out and cleaned up some roadside ponding, since our primary concern is ice in the morning. It’s supposed to be up to 40 degrees by 10 a.m. Friday, so everything will depend on how long the snow lasts.”
The Public Works Department will be kept on standby through the night, spreader trucks and sand, he added. “The police will be monitoring any problem areas, and we’ll make sure the hospital hill area stays clear. We may open city offices a little later in the morning if we need to.”
Talladega County Road Department Director Tim Markert said his crews normally go home at 3 p.m., but 10 people stayed on. “They’re out riding the roads,” he said. “We’ve got the sand trucks and spreaders all gassed up and ready to go, we’ve got the chainsaws ready. The guys that stayed on will be out until 7 p.m., and then we’ll have another crew on after that.”
The woman suffered a fractured jaw and a severe head injury. She has been admitted to the hospital and is listed in stable condition, according to the press releae.
The woman’s purse was taken, which contained her cell phone, credit cards and identification.We can supply howo truck products as below. The cell phone has been recovered in Farmington Hills. The vehicle used by the man is described as a light-colored, possibly tan, sedan. The woman described the man as an African American male in his 30s with a medium build, wearing a dark, three-quarter-length cloth coat.
Officers are currently working with neighboring jurisdictions, which may have had similar incidents. The Farmington Hills Police Department received a report of a similar incident involving a woman being attacked after arriving home in her vehicle just before 11 p.m.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale turquoise beads from china. Wednesday.
According to a Farmington Hills Police press release, a 42-year-old resident of Village Green Apartments,Product information for Avery Dennison cable ties products. at Eight Mile and Grand River, suffered serious injuries when she was attacked at around 10:45 p.m., while inside the entrance to her building. Her assailant used a "club-type instrument", according to the release. The woman was treated at the scene by Farmington Hills Fire Dept. medics, then transported to an area hospital.
Farmington Hills Police Commander Matt Koehn said police have not been able to talk with the woman and so have few details about the crime. He also did not have information about the extent of her injuries.A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
In Talladega County, EMA director Debra Gaither said most of the groundwork had been done Wednesday.Our aim is to supply air purifier which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. “We readjusted everyone’s schedules to make sure we’ve got someone here throughout the night. We’ve been posting updates on Twitter and Facebook, we’ve contacted all of our first responders via 800 megahertz radio, and we’ve got information from the National Weather Service in Birmingham via 800 megahertz. The main thing is for people to stay off the roads after dark as much as possible, and to check before they leave in the morning.”
Sylacauga city schools administrative assistant Terri Bentley said the system would make the decision about whether to delay or cancel school today by late Thursday night or early Friday morning. If there is any delay, students and parents will be notified via the SchoolCast system, and the information should also be posted online at www.sylacauag.k12.al.us.
Pell City Schools Superintendent Dr. Bobby Hathcock said Thursday that it was still too early to determine if officials will delay the opening of schools this morning.
“We could look at a delay of a couple of hours,” Hathcock said, adding that school officials will have to look at the big picture Friday morning. “It may be fine here in town, but it could be bad on the bus routes. We have to look at the bus situation.”
Talladega County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Jimmy Kilgore was in the process Thursday of rounding up every available four-wheel drive vehicle, and making sure they were all fueled up. “We’ll be available to help transport anyone who needs us,” he said.
Talladega city manager Brian Muenger said he was still evaluating the situation, and would meet again with the department heads before everyone went home.
“Public Works has already been out and cleaned up some roadside ponding, since our primary concern is ice in the morning. It’s supposed to be up to 40 degrees by 10 a.m. Friday, so everything will depend on how long the snow lasts.”
The Public Works Department will be kept on standby through the night, spreader trucks and sand, he added. “The police will be monitoring any problem areas, and we’ll make sure the hospital hill area stays clear. We may open city offices a little later in the morning if we need to.”
Talladega County Road Department Director Tim Markert said his crews normally go home at 3 p.m., but 10 people stayed on. “They’re out riding the roads,” he said. “We’ve got the sand trucks and spreaders all gassed up and ready to go, we’ve got the chainsaws ready. The guys that stayed on will be out until 7 p.m., and then we’ll have another crew on after that.”
Which Way Did the Taliban Go?
The village was abandoned. Streets deserted. Houses
empty. Behind the central mosque rose a steep escarpment. Behind the escarpment
mountains upon mountains. Up there — above the timberline, among the peaks — a
white Taliban flag whipped in the wind. Several Afghan soldiers were admiring it
when a stunted and contorted person emerged from an alley. Dressed in rags, he
waved a hennaed fist at them and wailed. Tears streamed down his face. Most of
the soldiers ignored him. Some laughed uncomfortably.Our team of consultants are
skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects. A few jabbed their
rifles at his chest and simulated shooting. The man carried on undeterred —
reproaching them in strange tongues.
A truck pulled up, and Lt. Col. Mohammad Daowood, the battalion commander, stepped out. Everyone waited to see what he would do. Daowood is a man alive to his environment and adept at adjusting his behavior by severe or subtle degrees. He can transform, instantaneously, from empathetic ally to vicious disciplinarian. To be with him is to be in constant suspense over the direction of his mood. At the same time, there is a calculation to his temper. You feel it is always deliberately, never capriciously, employed. This only adds to his authority and makes it impossible to imagine him in a situation of which he is not the master. A flicker of recognition in the deranged man’s eyes suggested that he intuited this. He approached Daowood almost bashfully; only as he closed within striking range did he seem to regain his lunatic energy,All smartcardfactory comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! emitting a low, threatening moan. We waited for Daowood to hit him. Instead, Daowood began to clap and sing. Instantly, the man’s face reorganized itself. Tearful indignation became pure, childish joy. He started to dance.
This continued for a surprisingly long time. The commander clapping and singing. The deranged man lost in a kind of ecstatic, whirling performance, waving his prayer cap in the air, stamping his feet.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. When at last Daowood stopped, the man was his. He stood there — breathless and obsequious — waiting for what came next. Daowood mimed the motion of wrapping a turban on his head. Where are the Taliban? Eager to please, the man beamed and pointed across the valley.
Several hours later, as I shared the bed of a pickup truck with an Afghan soldier who manned a machine gun mounted on the roof of the cab, it became evident that we were lost. The rest of the company was nowhere to be seen, though we could hear them, not far off, exchanging rocket and automatic-weapons fire with insurgents who had fled into the mountains and were hiding behind protective crags, shooting down. The driver sped up one narrow rutted path after another. The paths were hemmed in by rock walls — a labyrinth of cul-de-sacs — and the driver grew more panicked and reckless with each dead end. Aside from the occasional night raid, no Afghan or American forces had been to this place in more than a decade. Men stood on top of the walls, watching.
He offered the words I had heard time and again — so often, and so predictably, they could be the battalion motto. The words were invoked in response to such questions as: What is the plan? Who is shooting? Where will we sleep tonight? How many dead?
Soon we arrived on a bare ridge and found Colonel Daowood almost alone. Two young soldiers stood nearby with rifles. Daowood sat on a rock. A teenage boy knelt before him, kowtowing, wrists cuffed behind his back. Daowood was doing something to his head. As we got closer, we saw that he held scissors and was roughly shearing the boy’s hair. A neat pile of long black locks lay on the ground between Daowood’s feet.
While Daowood was giving the haircut, our driver, who it turned out was a company commander, yelled at a pair of intrepid young soldiers who had taken it upon themselves to scale the mountain and capture the Taliban’s flag. We were leaving soon, and the commander wanted them to come back down. The young soldiers, however, were too high. They couldn’t hear him. The commander yelled and yelled. If only they had radios. If only he had a radio. In lieu of one, the commander drew his sidearm, aimed in the general vicinity of the soldiers, then shot two bullets.
It was the third day of a four-day operation being conducted by the Afghan National Army (A.N.A.) in Chak District, Wardak Province. There were no U.S. forces in sight. Every so often,Wholesale various Glass Mosaic Tiles from china glass mosaic Tiles Suppliers. a pair of American attack helicopters circled overhead; otherwise, the Afghans — roughly 400 of them — were on their own. For the A.N.A. — which every day assumes a greater share of responsibility for the security of Afghanistan — the operation was an ambitious undertaking and a test of its ability to function independently. For years now, the U.S. military’s priority in Afghanistan has been shifting from effectively prosecuting the present war to preparing Afghans for a future one in which our role is minimal. But even as American troops return home and American bases across the country close, such a future continues to feel difficult to envision. How will the A.N.A. fare when it is truly on its own? Predictions vary, tending toward the pessimistic. To the extent that assessments of the competency and preparedness of the A.N.A. take into consideration on-the-ground observations, however, they are usually limited to the perspective of American forces working in concert with Afghan units.
The operation to Chak District was nearly over before it began. Just hours before departure, during a briefing at Combat Outpost Dash-e Towp, the battalion headquarters, Daowood told his subordinate officers: “The only thing we’re waiting on is the fuel. If we don’t receive the fuel, we will not be able to do the operation.Shop the web's best selection of precious gemstones and gemstone beads at wholesale prices.” A cohort of American advisers stood in the back of the room, silently listening. In the past, they probably would have offered to provide the fuel themselves. But that paradigm has changed. Increasingly, A.N.A. units must rely on their own supply lines, however inefficient they may be. Nevertheless, as the officers rose from their chairs, an Afghan captain pulled aside one of the advisers and told him the battalion lacked batteries for the metal detectors used to find improvised explosive devices. The adviser sighed. “Come over to our side,” he said, “and we’ll see what we can do.”
The American side of Dash-e Towp is separated from the Afghan side by a tall wall and a door that can be opened only with a code to which the Afghans do not have access. Whereas a close partnership between coalition and Afghan forces was for years considered a cornerstone of the overall military strategy, recently the Americans have distanced and even sequestered themselves from their erstwhile comrades. The about-face is a response to a rash of insider or “green on blue” attacks that killed more than 60 foreign troops in 2012, accounting for 22 percent of all coalition combat deaths. The Americans claim that many of the killings result from cultural differences; the Taliban claim to have infiltrated the security forces; the Afghan government claims “foreign spy agencies” are to blame. Whatever their provenance, the attacks have eroded trust to such a degree that NATO has begun designating some personnel as “guardian angels.” It is the guardian angel’s job to protect the NATO soldier from the Afghan soldier whom it is the NATO soldier’s job to train.
A truck pulled up, and Lt. Col. Mohammad Daowood, the battalion commander, stepped out. Everyone waited to see what he would do. Daowood is a man alive to his environment and adept at adjusting his behavior by severe or subtle degrees. He can transform, instantaneously, from empathetic ally to vicious disciplinarian. To be with him is to be in constant suspense over the direction of his mood. At the same time, there is a calculation to his temper. You feel it is always deliberately, never capriciously, employed. This only adds to his authority and makes it impossible to imagine him in a situation of which he is not the master. A flicker of recognition in the deranged man’s eyes suggested that he intuited this. He approached Daowood almost bashfully; only as he closed within striking range did he seem to regain his lunatic energy,All smartcardfactory comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! emitting a low, threatening moan. We waited for Daowood to hit him. Instead, Daowood began to clap and sing. Instantly, the man’s face reorganized itself. Tearful indignation became pure, childish joy. He started to dance.
This continued for a surprisingly long time. The commander clapping and singing. The deranged man lost in a kind of ecstatic, whirling performance, waving his prayer cap in the air, stamping his feet.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. When at last Daowood stopped, the man was his. He stood there — breathless and obsequious — waiting for what came next. Daowood mimed the motion of wrapping a turban on his head. Where are the Taliban? Eager to please, the man beamed and pointed across the valley.
Several hours later, as I shared the bed of a pickup truck with an Afghan soldier who manned a machine gun mounted on the roof of the cab, it became evident that we were lost. The rest of the company was nowhere to be seen, though we could hear them, not far off, exchanging rocket and automatic-weapons fire with insurgents who had fled into the mountains and were hiding behind protective crags, shooting down. The driver sped up one narrow rutted path after another. The paths were hemmed in by rock walls — a labyrinth of cul-de-sacs — and the driver grew more panicked and reckless with each dead end. Aside from the occasional night raid, no Afghan or American forces had been to this place in more than a decade. Men stood on top of the walls, watching.
He offered the words I had heard time and again — so often, and so predictably, they could be the battalion motto. The words were invoked in response to such questions as: What is the plan? Who is shooting? Where will we sleep tonight? How many dead?
Soon we arrived on a bare ridge and found Colonel Daowood almost alone. Two young soldiers stood nearby with rifles. Daowood sat on a rock. A teenage boy knelt before him, kowtowing, wrists cuffed behind his back. Daowood was doing something to his head. As we got closer, we saw that he held scissors and was roughly shearing the boy’s hair. A neat pile of long black locks lay on the ground between Daowood’s feet.
While Daowood was giving the haircut, our driver, who it turned out was a company commander, yelled at a pair of intrepid young soldiers who had taken it upon themselves to scale the mountain and capture the Taliban’s flag. We were leaving soon, and the commander wanted them to come back down. The young soldiers, however, were too high. They couldn’t hear him. The commander yelled and yelled. If only they had radios. If only he had a radio. In lieu of one, the commander drew his sidearm, aimed in the general vicinity of the soldiers, then shot two bullets.
It was the third day of a four-day operation being conducted by the Afghan National Army (A.N.A.) in Chak District, Wardak Province. There were no U.S. forces in sight. Every so often,Wholesale various Glass Mosaic Tiles from china glass mosaic Tiles Suppliers. a pair of American attack helicopters circled overhead; otherwise, the Afghans — roughly 400 of them — were on their own. For the A.N.A. — which every day assumes a greater share of responsibility for the security of Afghanistan — the operation was an ambitious undertaking and a test of its ability to function independently. For years now, the U.S. military’s priority in Afghanistan has been shifting from effectively prosecuting the present war to preparing Afghans for a future one in which our role is minimal. But even as American troops return home and American bases across the country close, such a future continues to feel difficult to envision. How will the A.N.A. fare when it is truly on its own? Predictions vary, tending toward the pessimistic. To the extent that assessments of the competency and preparedness of the A.N.A. take into consideration on-the-ground observations, however, they are usually limited to the perspective of American forces working in concert with Afghan units.
The operation to Chak District was nearly over before it began. Just hours before departure, during a briefing at Combat Outpost Dash-e Towp, the battalion headquarters, Daowood told his subordinate officers: “The only thing we’re waiting on is the fuel. If we don’t receive the fuel, we will not be able to do the operation.Shop the web's best selection of precious gemstones and gemstone beads at wholesale prices.” A cohort of American advisers stood in the back of the room, silently listening. In the past, they probably would have offered to provide the fuel themselves. But that paradigm has changed. Increasingly, A.N.A. units must rely on their own supply lines, however inefficient they may be. Nevertheless, as the officers rose from their chairs, an Afghan captain pulled aside one of the advisers and told him the battalion lacked batteries for the metal detectors used to find improvised explosive devices. The adviser sighed. “Come over to our side,” he said, “and we’ll see what we can do.”
The American side of Dash-e Towp is separated from the Afghan side by a tall wall and a door that can be opened only with a code to which the Afghans do not have access. Whereas a close partnership between coalition and Afghan forces was for years considered a cornerstone of the overall military strategy, recently the Americans have distanced and even sequestered themselves from their erstwhile comrades. The about-face is a response to a rash of insider or “green on blue” attacks that killed more than 60 foreign troops in 2012, accounting for 22 percent of all coalition combat deaths. The Americans claim that many of the killings result from cultural differences; the Taliban claim to have infiltrated the security forces; the Afghan government claims “foreign spy agencies” are to blame. Whatever their provenance, the attacks have eroded trust to such a degree that NATO has begun designating some personnel as “guardian angels.” It is the guardian angel’s job to protect the NATO soldier from the Afghan soldier whom it is the NATO soldier’s job to train.
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