Like the four audible seasons enjoyed in New England, the Brookfield Ability Centermost (BCC) has apparent abounding changes over the years. Founded by Nancy Hagmayer in 1954, the BCC became one of the state’s oldest nonprofit schools and galleries of American adroitness in the country.
For decades, its classes and workshops accept been accomplished by nationally acclaimed bounded and visiting artists who brought their acquaintance and artistic energies to anyone absorbed in acquirements a specific craft, whether blacksmithing, bladesmithing, ceramics, alloyed glass, and lampworking, or jewelry-making, woodturning, aberrant and cilia arts. It aswell offered appropriate interests, such as business, business and photography for artists, adorning arts, cartoon and painting.
The centermost flourished for about 30 years beneath the administration of controlling administrator Jack Russell, who larboard the centermost in 2009. Sadly, the bread-and-butter abatement of 2008 hit the centermost hard, banishment it to abutting its doors in May 2010, abrogation abounding to admiration if it would anytime accessible again. But the centermost sprang aback to activity beneath the administration of controlling administrator Richard Herrmann, who helped it affected abounding of its banking obstacles. The BCC reopened in October of the aforementioned year, and has done absolutely able-bodied until this accomplished May, if questions about the center’s administration resurfaced afterwards Mr. Herrmann appear his departure.
So it seems alone natural, as the summer division absolutely leafs out, for the Brookfield Ability Centermost to barrage its countdown summer arcade series, “Local Treasures,” which advance and alternation babysitter Chris Doherty said is a alternation of exhibitions featuring plan in assorted media by bounded ability artists who accept continued been associated with the centermost in one way or another.
“All you accept to do is attending about and you can see all of the plan we accept in the shop,” said Mr. Doherty about the series. “There is such a accumulating of plan [at the center], but this will go above that. The alternation is added than just a show. We achievement it will not alone highlight the accomplished bounded artists who accomplish up the association [at the Brookfield Ability Center], but aswell accompany the association calm to acknowledge these artists.”
But the abstraction of a alternation of exhibitions featuring bounded artists and craftspeople doesn’t stop there, he said.
“Highlighting the array of ability and artistic plan produced by our community, anniversary show’s aperture will be sponsored by a baddest accumulation of bounded vintners, restaurants, and farmers,” he said. “We’re befitting the accomplished affair bounded and, if we are advantageous enough, we will aswell highlight bounded music.”
The alternation bliss off with “Local Ground: Pottery and Ceramic Plan from About Here,” featuring the plan of bounded potters, sculptors and asphalt makers Sarah Bernhardt, Joy Brown, Clare Lewis, Elizabeth MacDonald, Alison Palmer, Christine Owen, Lisa Scroggins and others. It opens with a accession Saturday, June 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. and is sponsored by DiGrazia Vineyards and RW’s Barbecue, both of Brookfield.
2012年6月28日星期四
2012年6月27日星期三
Volunteers plan to advance barrier appeal
It may be a continued time afore any business owners adjudge to set up boutique in Pittsburg’s National Coffer Building, but volunteers say they can see the approaching and are accomplishing what they can to bandbox up the building’s shops and accomplish them occupiable.
Volunteer Kate Price has logged at atomic 50 hours of plan abrading the achromatic and arise acrylic from the facades of the building’s alone Fourth Street shops. She’s replacing it with acrylic donated by Sherwin-Williams and with the aid of a lift donated by Volvo Rents.
“It’s the aboriginal affair (of city Pittsburg) humans see if they appear into town,” Price said. “We anticipation if we just gave it some barrier address it would accomplish a big difference.”
There’s still a continued way to go afore the shops are accessible for occupancy. The battered coffer and alone ceilings from the 1970s charge to be gutted, and the aboriginal ceilings, some of which are elaborately molded, charge to be restored. Some of the shops aswell accept been torn into and lived in by the homeless. Price even apparent marble floors beneath the adulteration linoleum attic tiles in what acclimated to be Anthony Stevens Floral.
When the exoteric has been aching and primed, artisan Sue Robinson, who corrective the mural on the ancillary of the Colonial Fox Theater, will acrylic 3-D awnings assimilate the front.
“It’s amazing how things accept changed,” said Sarah Jensen, a agent for the foundation. “Eight thousand cars canyon by it every day, and I anticipate it’s traveling to accomplish a big difference.”
The architecture was acquired by the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation in November of endure year for $85,000, which was paid absolutely by donations from the Mitchelson and Menghini families, WATCO, the Webb ancestors and an bearding donor. Mid America Roofing will accord roof aliment to anticipate added damage, and an bearding donor has apprenticed to pay for approaching acreage taxes and insurance.
The architecture was congenital in the 1880s and was home to the National Coffer of Pittsburg, now Coffer of America, N.A., until the coffer confused to its present area in 1965. The building’s tenants again organized Pittsburg Enterprises, Inc. and purchased the architecture from the Bank. The architecture had collapsed into busted and “was a pinstroke away” from getting demolished, said Vonnie Corsini, controlling administrator of the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation.
“We’re just authoritative it presentable,” Jensen said. “We don’t accept the money to advance in it, but we accept volunteers. The businesses that are adjoining accept told us they absolutely acknowledge it.”
Volunteer Kate Price has logged at atomic 50 hours of plan abrading the achromatic and arise acrylic from the facades of the building’s alone Fourth Street shops. She’s replacing it with acrylic donated by Sherwin-Williams and with the aid of a lift donated by Volvo Rents.
“It’s the aboriginal affair (of city Pittsburg) humans see if they appear into town,” Price said. “We anticipation if we just gave it some barrier address it would accomplish a big difference.”
There’s still a continued way to go afore the shops are accessible for occupancy. The battered coffer and alone ceilings from the 1970s charge to be gutted, and the aboriginal ceilings, some of which are elaborately molded, charge to be restored. Some of the shops aswell accept been torn into and lived in by the homeless. Price even apparent marble floors beneath the adulteration linoleum attic tiles in what acclimated to be Anthony Stevens Floral.
When the exoteric has been aching and primed, artisan Sue Robinson, who corrective the mural on the ancillary of the Colonial Fox Theater, will acrylic 3-D awnings assimilate the front.
“It’s amazing how things accept changed,” said Sarah Jensen, a agent for the foundation. “Eight thousand cars canyon by it every day, and I anticipate it’s traveling to accomplish a big difference.”
The architecture was acquired by the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation in November of endure year for $85,000, which was paid absolutely by donations from the Mitchelson and Menghini families, WATCO, the Webb ancestors and an bearding donor. Mid America Roofing will accord roof aliment to anticipate added damage, and an bearding donor has apprenticed to pay for approaching acreage taxes and insurance.
The architecture was congenital in the 1880s and was home to the National Coffer of Pittsburg, now Coffer of America, N.A., until the coffer confused to its present area in 1965. The building’s tenants again organized Pittsburg Enterprises, Inc. and purchased the architecture from the Bank. The architecture had collapsed into busted and “was a pinstroke away” from getting demolished, said Vonnie Corsini, controlling administrator of the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation.
“We’re just authoritative it presentable,” Jensen said. “We don’t accept the money to advance in it, but we accept volunteers. The businesses that are adjoining accept told us they absolutely acknowledge it.”
2012年6月26日星期二
Major renovations beneath way at Bossier City mall
Shoppers at Pierre Bossier Capital anon may apprehension a altered attending and feel at the 600,000-square-foot arcade center.
The capital is ability an autogenous anaplasty that includes new styles of basement areas, ceramics asphalt attic in the aliment cloister and accepted areas and an all-embracing lighter and fresher environment, according to buyer Rouse Properties.
"As we enhance the chump experience, the ambition for us is to affix added with that chump and accept them absorb added time at our centers added often," Rouse Properties' Chief Operating Officer Benjamin Schall said.
The multimillion-dollar renovations are getting done afterwards hours to accomplish the action seamless for the customer, he said. Construction is accepted to blanket in November.
Some of the better changes shoppers may apprehension in the advancing months are new acquisition areas — some in a café style, others with lounge chairs and some advised for families with children. All will be able with Wi-Fi access.
"When you bout that with the aesthetics, ... it will accomplish it abundant added agreeable for the alone and the ancestors atmosphere that is the capital allure of the mall," J.C. Penney abundance administrator Lon Hawkins said, apropos to the Wi-Fi access.
The capital is a "desirable" breadth for bartering business with its adjacency to Interstate 20 and Airline Drive, he said, and any advancement to the capital blueprint will crop absolute after-effects for all the humans involved.
While the aggregate of the renovations are inside, Schall said, Rouse Properties affairs to amend some exoteric appearance as well, such as the capital entrances and directional parking lot signs to the beyond stores.
Yasmine Altaf, administrator of the Fashion Jewelry kiosk abreast the mall's aliment court, said she is borderline how the renovations could appulse business. But she is optimistic. "Renovation is consistently acceptable for anywhere."
Renovations such as those beneath way at the capital do not about access the amount of a building, Bossier Tax Assessor Bobby Edmiston said. "Unless they're abacus aboveboard feet, it doesn't about affect the value."
Pierre Bossier Capital is one of the aboriginal Rouse Properties getting adapted as allotment of an accomplishment to advance the capital acquaintance for barter and retailers alike. The close owns 31 malls throughout the nation.
"It's a bazaar we actual abundant accept in, and we're aflame about the approaching of breadth Pierre Bossier is headed," Schall said.
And while the renovations are getting accommodating with those at Virginia College — a new addressee in the above Service Merchandise space, they were not planned to time with college's.
The capital work, however, will account students, Virginia College campus President Lisa Ramirez said. "We accept a apprentice lounge. But sometimes if you're in an breadth for a continued aeon of time, you wish to be able to abstraction at your own clip or in a airy environment. This gives them a altered ambiance appropriate next door."
The capital is ability an autogenous anaplasty that includes new styles of basement areas, ceramics asphalt attic in the aliment cloister and accepted areas and an all-embracing lighter and fresher environment, according to buyer Rouse Properties.
"As we enhance the chump experience, the ambition for us is to affix added with that chump and accept them absorb added time at our centers added often," Rouse Properties' Chief Operating Officer Benjamin Schall said.
The multimillion-dollar renovations are getting done afterwards hours to accomplish the action seamless for the customer, he said. Construction is accepted to blanket in November.
Some of the better changes shoppers may apprehension in the advancing months are new acquisition areas — some in a café style, others with lounge chairs and some advised for families with children. All will be able with Wi-Fi access.
"When you bout that with the aesthetics, ... it will accomplish it abundant added agreeable for the alone and the ancestors atmosphere that is the capital allure of the mall," J.C. Penney abundance administrator Lon Hawkins said, apropos to the Wi-Fi access.
The capital is a "desirable" breadth for bartering business with its adjacency to Interstate 20 and Airline Drive, he said, and any advancement to the capital blueprint will crop absolute after-effects for all the humans involved.
While the aggregate of the renovations are inside, Schall said, Rouse Properties affairs to amend some exoteric appearance as well, such as the capital entrances and directional parking lot signs to the beyond stores.
Yasmine Altaf, administrator of the Fashion Jewelry kiosk abreast the mall's aliment court, said she is borderline how the renovations could appulse business. But she is optimistic. "Renovation is consistently acceptable for anywhere."
Renovations such as those beneath way at the capital do not about access the amount of a building, Bossier Tax Assessor Bobby Edmiston said. "Unless they're abacus aboveboard feet, it doesn't about affect the value."
Pierre Bossier Capital is one of the aboriginal Rouse Properties getting adapted as allotment of an accomplishment to advance the capital acquaintance for barter and retailers alike. The close owns 31 malls throughout the nation.
"It's a bazaar we actual abundant accept in, and we're aflame about the approaching of breadth Pierre Bossier is headed," Schall said.
And while the renovations are getting accommodating with those at Virginia College — a new addressee in the above Service Merchandise space, they were not planned to time with college's.
The capital work, however, will account students, Virginia College campus President Lisa Ramirez said. "We accept a apprentice lounge. But sometimes if you're in an breadth for a continued aeon of time, you wish to be able to abstraction at your own clip or in a airy environment. This gives them a altered ambiance appropriate next door."
2012年6月25日星期一
Foreigners ascertain hidden Moscow
The Kremlin and Red Square are the a lot of acclaimed landmarks of the Russian basic and should not be absent if sightseeing. But there is so abundant added to see in Moscow, and a cruise off the baffled clue can yield you to the places that accomplish Russia such a different destination for art, architecture, literature, music and accustomed beauty.
Penelope Vogler, who afresh fabricated her aboriginal cruise to Russia, says of her 5 canicule in the city: “Moscow is an acclaimed experience; a affluent admixture of alarming ability and fun. Even an underground chance is an chance in Soviet art and history. I decidedly admired the churches with their 360-degree, floor-to-ceiling colour in tiles, paintings and gold; the ambit of the river and the adorableness of the parks in May. Tolstoy’s house, the galleries and palaces all put in abode pieces of the actual and arcane jigsaw that a lot of of us in the West, don’t apperceive about, but should.”
So, for a accurate aftertaste of Moscow’s culture, actuality are three itineraries that you can do yourself – anniversary in a day.
Gitanjali Chaturvedi, who visited Moscow from India, recalls: “The one affair that is inseparable from Moscow is art; it’s everywhere.” Many visitors accomplish a beeline for the Pushkin Architecture of Fine Arts with its aces accumulating of western European actor paintings, but why not sample some Russian art, too? The Tretyakov Gallery, in the arresting Zamoskvorechye area, offers a crash-course in history and culture, from icons and authoritative portraits to agitating Russian landscapes and ballsy recreations of the past.
Ms. Chaturvedi says: “I spent a accomplished afternoon in the Tretyakov Gallery assimilation in the art.” She remembers Repin’s delineation of Ivan the Terrible with his dying son, as able-bodied as “stunning landscapes – bitter seas, all-inclusive fields, bounce flowers and meadows. A day at the Tretyakov is a acceptable captivation in Russia.” The Classic restaurant has art-inspired adornment and offers a abundant business lunch.
To see aerial works by Mikhail Nesterov in their aboriginal setting, airing annular the bend to the Martha and Mary Convent. Alexei Shchusev, artisan of Lenin’s tomb, advised the affected art nouveau basilica at the complex. Fans of 20th-century art should arch for the New Tretyakov Gallery, with its modernist abstracts and waterside carve garden abounding of Soviet heroes.
In the afternoon, ride the busline out to Kolomenskoye Esplanade (Kolomenskaya station) to adore some of the city’s finest architectural monuments. Among the clifftop angel orchards is the Unesco-listed Abbey of the Ascension. Congenital in 1532 by Vasili III to bless the bearing of his son, Ivan (who was to become “the Terrible”), its spire, one of the ancient congenital of rock rather than wood, rises from layers of angled gables and alveolate stairways.
The surrounding esplanade includes the sites of Rock Age villages and a huge about-face of a 17th-century authoritative palace. The architecture in the authoritative architecture has an all-embracing collection, including gilded angelic gates and bowl stoves by the Siberia-born artist, Mikhail Vrubel. You can aswell acquisition Peter the Great’s log cabin, leash rides, baiter trips and a row of board caf é s confined broiled craven and honey mead.
A new busline station, Dostoevskaya, has murals assuming scenes from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels in animated black-and-white marble. Next aperture is his birthplace, the Mariinsky Hospital, breadth he spent his adolescence in a addition for the poor.
Two busline stops away, airing from Chekhovskaya forth the boulevard, casual a brownish of the artist Sergei Yesenin, to appointment Maxim Gorky’s house. This chargeless museum, in a arresting art nouveau mansion, is adverse the abbey breadth Alexander Pushkin got married. From the bouncing marble access beneath a stained-glass chandelier in the anatomy of a jelllyfish, to the dragonfly-shaped brownish aperture handles, about every aspect of the adornment was created by the artisan Fyodor Shekhtel.
At the far end of the alley is the blush townhouse architecture of author Anton Chekhov; aswell abutting by is the pond breadth the aperture arena of Mikhail Bulgakov’s surreal atypical The Master and Margarita takes place. Café Margarita does a abundant business lunch, which includes a bottle of wine and blooming vareniki (little dumplings lined with brittle sugar). Bulgakov’s apartment, aswell now a museum, is annular the corner. The cultural centre in the aforementioned courtyard has a cosy café and runs tours of the breadth on a tram-style bus.
Penelope Vogler, who afresh fabricated her aboriginal cruise to Russia, says of her 5 canicule in the city: “Moscow is an acclaimed experience; a affluent admixture of alarming ability and fun. Even an underground chance is an chance in Soviet art and history. I decidedly admired the churches with their 360-degree, floor-to-ceiling colour in tiles, paintings and gold; the ambit of the river and the adorableness of the parks in May. Tolstoy’s house, the galleries and palaces all put in abode pieces of the actual and arcane jigsaw that a lot of of us in the West, don’t apperceive about, but should.”
So, for a accurate aftertaste of Moscow’s culture, actuality are three itineraries that you can do yourself – anniversary in a day.
Gitanjali Chaturvedi, who visited Moscow from India, recalls: “The one affair that is inseparable from Moscow is art; it’s everywhere.” Many visitors accomplish a beeline for the Pushkin Architecture of Fine Arts with its aces accumulating of western European actor paintings, but why not sample some Russian art, too? The Tretyakov Gallery, in the arresting Zamoskvorechye area, offers a crash-course in history and culture, from icons and authoritative portraits to agitating Russian landscapes and ballsy recreations of the past.
Ms. Chaturvedi says: “I spent a accomplished afternoon in the Tretyakov Gallery assimilation in the art.” She remembers Repin’s delineation of Ivan the Terrible with his dying son, as able-bodied as “stunning landscapes – bitter seas, all-inclusive fields, bounce flowers and meadows. A day at the Tretyakov is a acceptable captivation in Russia.” The Classic restaurant has art-inspired adornment and offers a abundant business lunch.
To see aerial works by Mikhail Nesterov in their aboriginal setting, airing annular the bend to the Martha and Mary Convent. Alexei Shchusev, artisan of Lenin’s tomb, advised the affected art nouveau basilica at the complex. Fans of 20th-century art should arch for the New Tretyakov Gallery, with its modernist abstracts and waterside carve garden abounding of Soviet heroes.
In the afternoon, ride the busline out to Kolomenskoye Esplanade (Kolomenskaya station) to adore some of the city’s finest architectural monuments. Among the clifftop angel orchards is the Unesco-listed Abbey of the Ascension. Congenital in 1532 by Vasili III to bless the bearing of his son, Ivan (who was to become “the Terrible”), its spire, one of the ancient congenital of rock rather than wood, rises from layers of angled gables and alveolate stairways.
The surrounding esplanade includes the sites of Rock Age villages and a huge about-face of a 17th-century authoritative palace. The architecture in the authoritative architecture has an all-embracing collection, including gilded angelic gates and bowl stoves by the Siberia-born artist, Mikhail Vrubel. You can aswell acquisition Peter the Great’s log cabin, leash rides, baiter trips and a row of board caf é s confined broiled craven and honey mead.
A new busline station, Dostoevskaya, has murals assuming scenes from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels in animated black-and-white marble. Next aperture is his birthplace, the Mariinsky Hospital, breadth he spent his adolescence in a addition for the poor.
Two busline stops away, airing from Chekhovskaya forth the boulevard, casual a brownish of the artist Sergei Yesenin, to appointment Maxim Gorky’s house. This chargeless museum, in a arresting art nouveau mansion, is adverse the abbey breadth Alexander Pushkin got married. From the bouncing marble access beneath a stained-glass chandelier in the anatomy of a jelllyfish, to the dragonfly-shaped brownish aperture handles, about every aspect of the adornment was created by the artisan Fyodor Shekhtel.
At the far end of the alley is the blush townhouse architecture of author Anton Chekhov; aswell abutting by is the pond breadth the aperture arena of Mikhail Bulgakov’s surreal atypical The Master and Margarita takes place. Café Margarita does a abundant business lunch, which includes a bottle of wine and blooming vareniki (little dumplings lined with brittle sugar). Bulgakov’s apartment, aswell now a museum, is annular the corner. The cultural centre in the aforementioned courtyard has a cosy café and runs tours of the breadth on a tram-style bus.
2012年6月24日星期日
Retail options diverse
Whether you biking to Petal, city-limits Hattiesburg or to west Hattiesburg, the Pine Belt is alive with arcade options.
The city-limits arcade mural has afflicted with new businesses including {click} boutique, Twelve Oaks Accessory Garden and Southern Fried Comics that emphasis mainstays such as Go Young Fashions, Sacks Outdoors, AGallery and Plums and McKenzie's on Main.
"With city-limits efforts, we've apparent baby businesses be actual adjustable to authoritative changes that are absolute and creates new customers," said Betsy Rowell, controlling administrator of the Historic Hattiesburg City-limits Association.
"I accept consistently anticipation and abide to anticipate one affair we accept that is appropriate is chump service. The businesses apperceive barter by aboriginal name."
Across the river in Petal, there are abounding arcade opportunities - alignment from accoutrement to gently-used assignment items.
Deborah Reynolds, controlling administrator with the Petal Chamber of Commerce, said the city-limits has several retail and restaurant offerings.
"We accept a advanced array of retail giving you appealing abundant aggregate you wish in Petal," she said.
The city-limits has altered boutiques, assignment shops and restaurants. Reynolds said association accept agilely accessible the aperture of Yamato Japanese Steakhouse.
"That's altered and something we've never had that will be different," she said
Travel to west Hattiesburg and acquisition a admixture of bounded and alternation retail shops and restaurants.
Turtle Creek Capital is in the bosom of above renovations.
The aliment cloister will yield on a agreeable theme, with the tables featuring agreeable apparatus cartoon and added elements. The aloft basement will be removed from the aliment cloister to actualize an accessible breadth and acquiesce free-flowing traffic. Restrooms will be adapted with new accessories and finishes.
New ceramics asphalt akin copse attic will beautify the absolute capital forth with carpeting accents. Accepted metal benches will be replaced with added comfortable, abreast seating. New, warmer acrylic colors will alter the mall's accepted bluish-gray colors.
"We wish to allure higher-end retail that we may not accept been able to get recently," Capital Manager Ted Martin said.
"There will aswell be cartoon anon accompanying to Hattiesburg. It (will) accord it added of that hometown feel and accord humans of Hattiesburg that faculty of pride for the community."
Development about Turtle Creek Capital aswell is traveling strong.
Construction crews are alive on The Ridge at Turtle Creek, adjoining to Turtle Creek Crossing.
The Ridge, a 13.4-acre site, is anchored by a 76,000-square-foot Academy Sports Supercenter, which opened endure November. Eight-thousand aboveboard anxiety of retail amplitude will be accessible in a architecture next to Academy Sports.
Cheddar's Casual Cafe opened in April and an broadcast annex of Heritage Bank will be amid at the site.
Beyond the Ridge are varieties of arcade centers including Newpointe Arcade Center and The Market at Woodstone forth U.S. 98 that action all-embracing food and restaurants.
The city-limits arcade mural has afflicted with new businesses including {click} boutique, Twelve Oaks Accessory Garden and Southern Fried Comics that emphasis mainstays such as Go Young Fashions, Sacks Outdoors, AGallery and Plums and McKenzie's on Main.
"With city-limits efforts, we've apparent baby businesses be actual adjustable to authoritative changes that are absolute and creates new customers," said Betsy Rowell, controlling administrator of the Historic Hattiesburg City-limits Association.
"I accept consistently anticipation and abide to anticipate one affair we accept that is appropriate is chump service. The businesses apperceive barter by aboriginal name."
Across the river in Petal, there are abounding arcade opportunities - alignment from accoutrement to gently-used assignment items.
Deborah Reynolds, controlling administrator with the Petal Chamber of Commerce, said the city-limits has several retail and restaurant offerings.
"We accept a advanced array of retail giving you appealing abundant aggregate you wish in Petal," she said.
The city-limits has altered boutiques, assignment shops and restaurants. Reynolds said association accept agilely accessible the aperture of Yamato Japanese Steakhouse.
"That's altered and something we've never had that will be different," she said
Travel to west Hattiesburg and acquisition a admixture of bounded and alternation retail shops and restaurants.
Turtle Creek Capital is in the bosom of above renovations.
The aliment cloister will yield on a agreeable theme, with the tables featuring agreeable apparatus cartoon and added elements. The aloft basement will be removed from the aliment cloister to actualize an accessible breadth and acquiesce free-flowing traffic. Restrooms will be adapted with new accessories and finishes.
New ceramics asphalt akin copse attic will beautify the absolute capital forth with carpeting accents. Accepted metal benches will be replaced with added comfortable, abreast seating. New, warmer acrylic colors will alter the mall's accepted bluish-gray colors.
"We wish to allure higher-end retail that we may not accept been able to get recently," Capital Manager Ted Martin said.
"There will aswell be cartoon anon accompanying to Hattiesburg. It (will) accord it added of that hometown feel and accord humans of Hattiesburg that faculty of pride for the community."
Development about Turtle Creek Capital aswell is traveling strong.
Construction crews are alive on The Ridge at Turtle Creek, adjoining to Turtle Creek Crossing.
The Ridge, a 13.4-acre site, is anchored by a 76,000-square-foot Academy Sports Supercenter, which opened endure November. Eight-thousand aboveboard anxiety of retail amplitude will be accessible in a architecture next to Academy Sports.
Cheddar's Casual Cafe opened in April and an broadcast annex of Heritage Bank will be amid at the site.
Beyond the Ridge are varieties of arcade centers including Newpointe Arcade Center and The Market at Woodstone forth U.S. 98 that action all-embracing food and restaurants.
2012年6月20日星期三
Finding abiding strategies
That's the takeaway from customer durables manufacturers as they
attempt to adapt business affairs angry chaotic by the storm
apprehension battering the economy.
“Normally, the aboriginal bisected of the year is all about cardinal marketing, about cast accession and innovation. The additional half, if the anniversary affairs division bliss in, it's all tactical,” says the business arch of a above customer durables multinational.
But this year, companies accept been affected to go appropriate from the chat go, as sales flagged and margins came beneath accretion ascribe bulk pressure.
It has been a decidedly boxy year for players in the customer durables space. The durables bazaar is not just price-sensitive, but is anon affiliated to the arbitrary incomes in the easily of the end-consumers.
Bad account on the advance front,CMI moulding sells to retailers, therefore, translates into not-so-encouraging account on the jobs and pay hikes front. Add a coast rupee, an customs assignment backpack in the Budget, again increases in raw actual costs and surging business and commercial costs and you accept the capacity for a absolute storm in the durables space.
The adamant battering has already apparent the assessment mounting. The top double-digit advance of the antecedent few years is already a abroad anamnesis for a lot of players.I found them to have sharp edges where the injectionmoldes came together while production. This year,Trade organization for suppliers and distributors in the promotional products industry. advance has been at best in low individual digits for some players, while others accept apparent de-growth.
In air conditioners, for instance,Rubiks cubepuzzle. sales accept diminished by about a fifth in the advancing aiguille season, as top prices and abridgement of affordable customer accounts drive abroad consumers.
Growth in collapsed console TVs, which was rocketing forth at over 25 per cent a year, has plunged to the low individual digits. The big ramp-up in the under-penetrated abrasion machines articulation is not accident in the actual future. Accessories sales accept shrunk.
This is area appropriate business has paid off for some. “While the industry apprenticed by over 20 per cent, Voltas' achievement was flat, with a negligible one per cent dip,” says Pradeep Bakshi, COO, Voltas Unitary Articles Business Group (UPBG).
The aggregation focused on the energy-efficient star-rated articles in its range, blame the low bulk of affairs and laying out a host of simple accounts options to abate attrition to the affairs decision.
According to Bakshi, about 25 per cent of Voltas' business comes from its 5-star rated ACs, while the industry boilerplate auction of 5-star rated articles is just 15 per cent.
“We accept the accomplished bazaar allotment in the 5-star category,” he claims. Extensive bazaar mapping and banker arrangement amplification over the endure 5 years, forth with the addition of a new avant-garde artefact range, are alpha to pay off for the brand, he says.
Home accessories aggregation Haier India, a 100 per cent accessory of Haier Group of China, on the added hand, has been action on a bulk of artefact launches to rev up the market.
Says Eric Braganza, President, Haier India, “Haier India has adopted a action of introducing new articles and innovations in its absolute artefact curve beyond segments to accord with the accepted slowdown.”
Haier's account of launches this budgetary includes India's aboriginal six-door refrigerator, two new alternation of ‘smart TVs', seven new breach and two window ACs, two new capacities in absolute air-conditioned refrigerators, three new capacities and new variants in frost-free refrigerators.
Korean giant, LG, on the added hand, is abbreviating its commercial spends and absorption added on below-the-line (BTL) activations and bigger in-store adventures for consumers. Says L. K. Gupta, Vice-President, Marketing, LG India, “Investments will be geared to accord consumers a bigger in-store acquaintance via display, demonstration, BTL activations and branding afterimage for flagship products.
Digital media, which plays a actual important role in the customer accommodation adventure of analytic and evaluating products, will be accustomed added resources.”
The South Korean company, which follows a January-December accounting calendar, has alone assigned Rs 600 crore to business and commercial in 2012, the aforementioned bulk it spent in 2011. This is cogent as business spends about see a 10-12 per cent access year on year.
Whirlpool India too has maintained the aforementioned akin of business amount as endure year. “The business budgets should not beat Rs 71 crore, which was aswell the bulk for endure year,” says Shantanu Das Gupta, Vice-President,TRT (UK) has been investigating and producing solutions for indoortracking since 2000. Whirlpool India.
Voltas, too, is alive focus to BTL and agenda marketing. “Earlier we were lying low on below-the-line activities and amusing media. We are communicable up now,” says Bakshi.
Haeir India is searching to accretion its retail networks to accumulate sales pumping. Haier broadcast into 170 absolute retail food in the accomplished two years. It too, is absorption on BTL spending. It has allocated Rs 30 crore for BTL action for the accepted agenda year, absolutely bisected of its absolute business budget.
Pricing has become a activating capricious in the equation. Says Whirlpool's Dasgupta, “Earlier, we were ambience amount caps for the quarter, now it is on a month-to-month basis. Aswell planning cycles accept appear down and we are demography decisions on supplier affairs dynamically.”
Some players are advance in articles they see active advance in bigger times. “We are blame for high-end affable accessories which will be a approaching advance disciplinarian for the aggregation forth with baptize purifiers,” says Dasgupta.
But the endure chat is innovation. Ashwani Arora, Research Head, Bazaar Xcel Data Matrix, says addition is key to success in boxy times. “Companies are alms bigger products, with added avant-garde appearance at a low premium.
“Normally, the aboriginal bisected of the year is all about cardinal marketing, about cast accession and innovation. The additional half, if the anniversary affairs division bliss in, it's all tactical,” says the business arch of a above customer durables multinational.
But this year, companies accept been affected to go appropriate from the chat go, as sales flagged and margins came beneath accretion ascribe bulk pressure.
It has been a decidedly boxy year for players in the customer durables space. The durables bazaar is not just price-sensitive, but is anon affiliated to the arbitrary incomes in the easily of the end-consumers.
Bad account on the advance front,CMI moulding sells to retailers, therefore, translates into not-so-encouraging account on the jobs and pay hikes front. Add a coast rupee, an customs assignment backpack in the Budget, again increases in raw actual costs and surging business and commercial costs and you accept the capacity for a absolute storm in the durables space.
The adamant battering has already apparent the assessment mounting. The top double-digit advance of the antecedent few years is already a abroad anamnesis for a lot of players.I found them to have sharp edges where the injectionmoldes came together while production. This year,Trade organization for suppliers and distributors in the promotional products industry. advance has been at best in low individual digits for some players, while others accept apparent de-growth.
In air conditioners, for instance,Rubiks cubepuzzle. sales accept diminished by about a fifth in the advancing aiguille season, as top prices and abridgement of affordable customer accounts drive abroad consumers.
Growth in collapsed console TVs, which was rocketing forth at over 25 per cent a year, has plunged to the low individual digits. The big ramp-up in the under-penetrated abrasion machines articulation is not accident in the actual future. Accessories sales accept shrunk.
This is area appropriate business has paid off for some. “While the industry apprenticed by over 20 per cent, Voltas' achievement was flat, with a negligible one per cent dip,” says Pradeep Bakshi, COO, Voltas Unitary Articles Business Group (UPBG).
The aggregation focused on the energy-efficient star-rated articles in its range, blame the low bulk of affairs and laying out a host of simple accounts options to abate attrition to the affairs decision.
According to Bakshi, about 25 per cent of Voltas' business comes from its 5-star rated ACs, while the industry boilerplate auction of 5-star rated articles is just 15 per cent.
“We accept the accomplished bazaar allotment in the 5-star category,” he claims. Extensive bazaar mapping and banker arrangement amplification over the endure 5 years, forth with the addition of a new avant-garde artefact range, are alpha to pay off for the brand, he says.
Home accessories aggregation Haier India, a 100 per cent accessory of Haier Group of China, on the added hand, has been action on a bulk of artefact launches to rev up the market.
Says Eric Braganza, President, Haier India, “Haier India has adopted a action of introducing new articles and innovations in its absolute artefact curve beyond segments to accord with the accepted slowdown.”
Haier's account of launches this budgetary includes India's aboriginal six-door refrigerator, two new alternation of ‘smart TVs', seven new breach and two window ACs, two new capacities in absolute air-conditioned refrigerators, three new capacities and new variants in frost-free refrigerators.
Korean giant, LG, on the added hand, is abbreviating its commercial spends and absorption added on below-the-line (BTL) activations and bigger in-store adventures for consumers. Says L. K. Gupta, Vice-President, Marketing, LG India, “Investments will be geared to accord consumers a bigger in-store acquaintance via display, demonstration, BTL activations and branding afterimage for flagship products.
Digital media, which plays a actual important role in the customer accommodation adventure of analytic and evaluating products, will be accustomed added resources.”
The South Korean company, which follows a January-December accounting calendar, has alone assigned Rs 600 crore to business and commercial in 2012, the aforementioned bulk it spent in 2011. This is cogent as business spends about see a 10-12 per cent access year on year.
Whirlpool India too has maintained the aforementioned akin of business amount as endure year. “The business budgets should not beat Rs 71 crore, which was aswell the bulk for endure year,” says Shantanu Das Gupta, Vice-President,TRT (UK) has been investigating and producing solutions for indoortracking since 2000. Whirlpool India.
Voltas, too, is alive focus to BTL and agenda marketing. “Earlier we were lying low on below-the-line activities and amusing media. We are communicable up now,” says Bakshi.
Haeir India is searching to accretion its retail networks to accumulate sales pumping. Haier broadcast into 170 absolute retail food in the accomplished two years. It too, is absorption on BTL spending. It has allocated Rs 30 crore for BTL action for the accepted agenda year, absolutely bisected of its absolute business budget.
Pricing has become a activating capricious in the equation. Says Whirlpool's Dasgupta, “Earlier, we were ambience amount caps for the quarter, now it is on a month-to-month basis. Aswell planning cycles accept appear down and we are demography decisions on supplier affairs dynamically.”
Some players are advance in articles they see active advance in bigger times. “We are blame for high-end affable accessories which will be a approaching advance disciplinarian for the aggregation forth with baptize purifiers,” says Dasgupta.
But the endure chat is innovation. Ashwani Arora, Research Head, Bazaar Xcel Data Matrix, says addition is key to success in boxy times. “Companies are alms bigger products, with added avant-garde appearance at a low premium.
LLC Initiates Advantage on Ziyang Ceramics Corporation
Bullworthy, LLC, a agenda broker and columnist relations close
focused on bearing high-quality web content, is admiring to advertise
the company's analysts accept accomplished advantage on Ziyang Ceramics
Corporation (OTCBB: ZYCI), a arch architect of autogenous ceramics bank
and attic tiling for residential and bartering applications in Zhucheng,
China.
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Per the advantage agreement, Bullworthy, LLC, nor their company's shareholders accept accustomed advantage from Ziyang Ceramics of its affiliated shareholders for this coverage. Representatives of Ziyang Ceramics accept agreed to accommodate Bullworthy with acknowledgment on the casework they provide.
Tom Copeland and Michael J. Carr CMT, both co-founders and ally at Bullworthy, LLC, affianced in a agreeable and affiliation acceding with Ziyang Ceramics in which the analysts accept produced and broadcast a abundant equities assay address on the issuer. The 25-page Bullworthy Equities Assay Report: Ziyang Ceramics (OTCBB: ZYCI) is now accessible for assay and download in PDF anatomy by beat the link. It's hosted at Ziyang Ceramic's Bullworthy IR profile, featuring aboriginal journalistic and beat annotation and assay accurately tailored for ZYCI investors.
The purpose of the address is to accommodate added buy and advertise ancillary analysts, retail and institutional investors with a complete, realistic, and able assay of the issuer's business,Welcome to the online guide for do-it-yourself Ceramic tile.Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. banal and bazaar opportunity.
Where added microcap banal assay letters abort to bear on a comprehensive, cold anatomization of their subject's stock, bazaar opportunity, and banking achievement with businesslike appraisal projections and recommendations, Bullworthy analysts accoutrement Ziyang Ceramics accept they've been absolute and diligent.
The address cites assay and abstracts calm on capacity that ambit from the company's background, artefact line, and operations to the residential and bartering absolute acreage bazaar trends appear urbanization of above Chinese cities. The Banking Achievement area provides a different angle and insight, with Bullworthy, LLC analyst writing, "Ziyang Ceramics has for the endure two years enjoyed absolute banknote breeze from operational activities."
The address comes on the heels of Ziyang Ceramics advertisement absorbing 1Q 2012 balance on May 16th, 2012, in which the aggregation appear net revenues of $11.4 million, an admission of 52.5% from the aboriginal division of 2011. The aggregation aswell appear net assets of $3.2 million, or $.42 per allotment on 7.We looked everywhere, but couldn't find any beddinges.5 actor shares outstanding, its fourth beeline assisting quarter.
In commendations to the growing purchasing ability and admission of China's growing boilerplate chic and a trend appear urbanization, an extract from the address reads, "A majority of all-embracing home décor and architecture barter shows today are concentrated in Chinese cities." Analysts go on to advance how the acceptance of home décor in China provides one accessible account for Ziyang Ceramics' able-bodied 1Q 2012 top-line acquirement growth, and the about 39% admission in net revenues year-over-year from 2010 to 2011.
The address aswell addresses both the U.S. and all-around bazaar appeal and risks for autogenous ceramics attic and bank tiling; the accompaniment and attributes of the white adobe bazaar from which the aggregation derives the all-inclusive majority of its raw materials; and a Conclusions and Analyst Opinion area accurate with third-party abstracts and sources.
Bullworthy, LLC's 12-18 ages amount ambition application the BullworthyGrey Pneumatic is a world supplier of impactsockets for the heavy duty, Composite Appraisal Archetypal (BCVM) is $9.25 a share. The archetypal is affected application formulas that cover price-to-earnings ratios, price-to-book ratios, and discounted banknote breeze with bourgeois variables, and smoothed for a final, boilerplate amount target.
Quoted from the report,Distributes and manufactures rubbermats. "Ziyang seems to accept positioned itself able-bodied in all above aspects of their industry's best practices and operations, from superior ascendancy and development of new artefact curve to bazaar admission and abiding amount structuring, to abide benefiting from calm appeal from both alone consumers and bartering absolute acreage developers for the company's bowl and ceramics attic and bank tiles."
Per the advantage agreement, Bullworthy, LLC, nor their company's shareholders accept accustomed advantage from Ziyang Ceramics of its affiliated shareholders for this coverage. Representatives of Ziyang Ceramics accept agreed to accommodate Bullworthy with acknowledgment on the casework they provide.
House Hunting in ... France
This 35-acre acreage dates to the 13th century, admitting it was
adapted in the 19th, in the Gothic Revival style, by an aloof family.
Accepted clearly as Chteau de Burnand, the seven-bedroom abode has been
home over the centuries to both monks and nobles. Its absurd appearance
has becoming it the appellation “Castle of Sleeping Beauty.” Turrets,
some with hidden rooms, were acclimated during World War II to adumbrate
Jewish refugees, said Nico Vrielink,UK chickencoop Specialist. the accepted owner, an artisan from the Netherlands.
Built of a chestnut rock built-in to the region, the alcazar is roofed in anesthetized tiles of assorted sizes and colors; the adjustment is one of the a lot of busy in Burgundy, which is accepted for roofs of this kind. There are four stories, admitting alone the aboriginal and additional are in use as active quarters, with a accumulated 7,500 aboveboard feet. The top two belief originally housed servants; also, below the castle, a alveolate apartment has wine accumulator areas and a aerial fireplace, originally for cooking. It is one of 14 alive fireplaces, all carved from altered types of marble, said Mr. Vrielink, the buyer back 1996. He spent eight years on restoration, and is affairs the alcazar furnished.
The arty angled access opens to a admirable antechamber belted by active rooms.Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. Both accept marble fireplaces and board axle ceilings. One has marquetry attic — inlaid checkered copse that forms a adjustment — and walls of board panels and aged fabrics. The antechamber aswell connects to the kitchen,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design a ample amplitude absolutely accessible to the 800-square-foot dining room, which has parquet floors,This is a really pretty round stonemosaic votive that has been covered with vintage china . moss-green wainscoting, and a beamed beam corrective in jewel tones with aloof bouncer and added patterns.
Though it has been affected up through the years, the beam — like several others in the alcazar — is original, Mr. Vrielink said, ciphering its age at 500 to 600 years. The kitchen has 19th-century accoutrement from the adjacent city-limits of Lyon; accessories are modern, admitting the oven and stove are advised to attending antiquated.
“I had a two-Michelin-star chef from Holland baker for me for one anniversary in the kitchen,” Mr.TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. Vrielink recalled, “and he was actual blessed with it.”
The arena attic aswell has a library, as able-bodied as a billiards allowance aperture to a belfry allowance with a “shooting hole,” now a window. A 19th-century staircase, carved of rock quarried in the adjacent apple of Buxy, leads to the additional floor.
Four of the seven bedrooms on this akin — anniversary with added than 400 aboveboard anxiety — are furnished with adorned awning beds. Two bedrooms accept belfry annexes; one has been fabricated into a boudoir, the added a bedroom. Completing the attic is Mr. Vrielink’s studio. Also, the castle’s better and oldest tower, six belief high, can be accomplished via a baby ambagious stairway basic on this floor. The belfry has abounding windows with arresting angle of Burgundy’s blooming rolling hills and forests, with Mont Blanc, in the Swiss Alps, arresting in the distance.
Among the outbuildings on the acreage are a medieval-era broil abode and a 1,500-square-foot rock cottage beside a baby pond. The cottage has been renovated; it has one bedroom, a bath with an aged tub, a ample kitchen and active allowance with a fireplace. Not far abroad is an arty barn, able with an adjustment of 19th-century board balustrade meant to adviser a barrow for the appointment of hay from one end to the other. The barn is still acclimated to abiding horses and cows; the top attic has been adapted to an art arcade with basilica ceilings.
The Chteau de Burnand is currently getting operated as a bed-and-breakfast inn, which helps to accounts its upkeep, said Mr. Vrielink, who declared the anatomy as in acceptable condition.
“You can move in there appropriate abroad with no headaches for the next 20 years,” he said. “Everything is working.”
Down a baby acropolis from the alcazar is the apple of Burnand, citizenry about 45, which grew up over the decades as a digital association of alcazar workers. Along with the apple and the surrounding valley, the alcazar is accurately adequate by the government from any new development, Mr. Vrielink said. About a mile abroad is the medieval boondocks of Saint-Gengoux-le-National, with just over 1,000 people, as able-bodied as markets and added shops; the hardly beyond city-limits of Cluny is about 15 afar away. Lyon, the abutting big city, is about an hour’s drive and has an all-embracing airport.
Built of a chestnut rock built-in to the region, the alcazar is roofed in anesthetized tiles of assorted sizes and colors; the adjustment is one of the a lot of busy in Burgundy, which is accepted for roofs of this kind. There are four stories, admitting alone the aboriginal and additional are in use as active quarters, with a accumulated 7,500 aboveboard feet. The top two belief originally housed servants; also, below the castle, a alveolate apartment has wine accumulator areas and a aerial fireplace, originally for cooking. It is one of 14 alive fireplaces, all carved from altered types of marble, said Mr. Vrielink, the buyer back 1996. He spent eight years on restoration, and is affairs the alcazar furnished.
The arty angled access opens to a admirable antechamber belted by active rooms.Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. Both accept marble fireplaces and board axle ceilings. One has marquetry attic — inlaid checkered copse that forms a adjustment — and walls of board panels and aged fabrics. The antechamber aswell connects to the kitchen,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design a ample amplitude absolutely accessible to the 800-square-foot dining room, which has parquet floors,This is a really pretty round stonemosaic votive that has been covered with vintage china . moss-green wainscoting, and a beamed beam corrective in jewel tones with aloof bouncer and added patterns.
Though it has been affected up through the years, the beam — like several others in the alcazar — is original, Mr. Vrielink said, ciphering its age at 500 to 600 years. The kitchen has 19th-century accoutrement from the adjacent city-limits of Lyon; accessories are modern, admitting the oven and stove are advised to attending antiquated.
“I had a two-Michelin-star chef from Holland baker for me for one anniversary in the kitchen,” Mr.TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. Vrielink recalled, “and he was actual blessed with it.”
The arena attic aswell has a library, as able-bodied as a billiards allowance aperture to a belfry allowance with a “shooting hole,” now a window. A 19th-century staircase, carved of rock quarried in the adjacent apple of Buxy, leads to the additional floor.
Four of the seven bedrooms on this akin — anniversary with added than 400 aboveboard anxiety — are furnished with adorned awning beds. Two bedrooms accept belfry annexes; one has been fabricated into a boudoir, the added a bedroom. Completing the attic is Mr. Vrielink’s studio. Also, the castle’s better and oldest tower, six belief high, can be accomplished via a baby ambagious stairway basic on this floor. The belfry has abounding windows with arresting angle of Burgundy’s blooming rolling hills and forests, with Mont Blanc, in the Swiss Alps, arresting in the distance.
Among the outbuildings on the acreage are a medieval-era broil abode and a 1,500-square-foot rock cottage beside a baby pond. The cottage has been renovated; it has one bedroom, a bath with an aged tub, a ample kitchen and active allowance with a fireplace. Not far abroad is an arty barn, able with an adjustment of 19th-century board balustrade meant to adviser a barrow for the appointment of hay from one end to the other. The barn is still acclimated to abiding horses and cows; the top attic has been adapted to an art arcade with basilica ceilings.
The Chteau de Burnand is currently getting operated as a bed-and-breakfast inn, which helps to accounts its upkeep, said Mr. Vrielink, who declared the anatomy as in acceptable condition.
“You can move in there appropriate abroad with no headaches for the next 20 years,” he said. “Everything is working.”
Down a baby acropolis from the alcazar is the apple of Burnand, citizenry about 45, which grew up over the decades as a digital association of alcazar workers. Along with the apple and the surrounding valley, the alcazar is accurately adequate by the government from any new development, Mr. Vrielink said. About a mile abroad is the medieval boondocks of Saint-Gengoux-le-National, with just over 1,000 people, as able-bodied as markets and added shops; the hardly beyond city-limits of Cluny is about 15 afar away. Lyon, the abutting big city, is about an hour’s drive and has an all-embracing airport.
2012年6月19日星期二
Republicans want food stamps cut in big farm bill
The 1,000-page "farm bill" being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it - roughly $80 billion a year - goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans through food stamps.
Republicans say Congress could cut the cost $2 billion a year by just closing a pair of loopholes that some states use to award benefits to people who otherwise might not qualify.
"This is more than just a financial issue. It is a moral issue," says Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of several Republicans pushing for cuts in spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP.
The program has swelled from 28 million to 46 million participants and its costs have doubled in the past four years. The recession and slow recovery have increased the number of people unemployed over the same period from 8 million to 12 million.
The Agriculture Department credits the program with keeping about 5 million Americans out of poverty every year. Before 2004, people received paper stamps or coupons worth $1, $5 or $10. Since then, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island and Guam have moved to debit-type cards that allow recipients to authorize transferring their benefits from a federal account to retailer accounts.
Democrats led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York are resisting a proposal by Agriculture Committee leaders in both parties to trim a modest $250 million from the program each year by cracking down on abuses.
They say that would deprive about half a million households losing an average $90 a month in food aid.
The Republican-controlled House, which has yet to write its own farm bill, is certain to demand greater food stamp cuts, too. Finding common ground with the Democratic-led Senate could be key to whether Congress can pass a 1,000-page bill that also makes fundamental changes in farm subsidies before the current legislation bill expires at the end of September.
Sessions points out that the federal government now spends twice as much on food stamps as it does on fixing the nation's roads and bridges, and that SNAP is now the government's second-largest federal welfare program, following Medicaid.
To qualify, households, except those with elderly or disabled members, must have gross incomes below 130 percent of the poverty line. The Agriculture Department, which runs the program, says the average monthly benefit per person as of last November was $134.15. As for helping the economy, it calculates that each dollar in benefits generates $1.72 in economic activity, including 16 cents for farmers who grow the food.
Republicans say Congress could cut the cost $2 billion a year by just closing a pair of loopholes that some states use to award benefits to people who otherwise might not qualify.
"This is more than just a financial issue. It is a moral issue," says Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of several Republicans pushing for cuts in spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP.
The program has swelled from 28 million to 46 million participants and its costs have doubled in the past four years. The recession and slow recovery have increased the number of people unemployed over the same period from 8 million to 12 million.
The Agriculture Department credits the program with keeping about 5 million Americans out of poverty every year. Before 2004, people received paper stamps or coupons worth $1, $5 or $10. Since then, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island and Guam have moved to debit-type cards that allow recipients to authorize transferring their benefits from a federal account to retailer accounts.
Democrats led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York are resisting a proposal by Agriculture Committee leaders in both parties to trim a modest $250 million from the program each year by cracking down on abuses.
They say that would deprive about half a million households losing an average $90 a month in food aid.
The Republican-controlled House, which has yet to write its own farm bill, is certain to demand greater food stamp cuts, too. Finding common ground with the Democratic-led Senate could be key to whether Congress can pass a 1,000-page bill that also makes fundamental changes in farm subsidies before the current legislation bill expires at the end of September.
Sessions points out that the federal government now spends twice as much on food stamps as it does on fixing the nation's roads and bridges, and that SNAP is now the government's second-largest federal welfare program, following Medicaid.
To qualify, households, except those with elderly or disabled members, must have gross incomes below 130 percent of the poverty line. The Agriculture Department, which runs the program, says the average monthly benefit per person as of last November was $134.15. As for helping the economy, it calculates that each dollar in benefits generates $1.72 in economic activity, including 16 cents for farmers who grow the food.
2012年6月18日星期一
Police arrested in Kashmir for alleged rebel links
Four Indian police officers have been arrested in Kashmir for alleged links with rebels fighting against Indian rule, the police chief of the disputed Himalayan region said Monday.
The case has rattled Indian authorities who administer the tense region, where insurgents have waged a violent campaign for decades demanding independence or a merger with neighboring Pakistan.
The alleged rebel ties were discovered last week during a routine investigation into a recent shooting attack on a former militant, police Chief Rajendra Kumar said.
Authorities have arrested two intelligence officials and two low-ranking police officers, and two more suspected officers are still at large, he said.
Kumar said the six are believed to have links to Kashmir's largest militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen. Officials are investigating whether they might have helped rebels stage attacks, procure arms, avoid arrest or move undetected through the region.
One of the suspects, a constable who has worked undercover infiltrating rebel groups in the past, was arrested briefly in 2008 for allegedly buying cellphone cards used by gunmen in deadly attacks that year in Mumbai. However, the constable, Mukhtar Ahmed, was released after authorities said he had made the purchase as part of his undercover work.
Ahmed's re-arrest follows new evidence that suggests he may have operated outside of his official mandate on behalf of the rebels, Kumar said.
This is not the first time Indian law enforcement officers have been implicated in rebel activities in Kashmir, where some 700,000 Indian troops are deployed for a population of 12.5 million.
In 2006, three Indian soldiers and two police officers were detained for alleged links with the rebel group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which New Delhi blames for the Mumbai attacks. The two police officers were removed from service, while the army has remained quiet about the status of the detained soldiers.
In 1992, two policemen and a paramilitary soldier were arrested for allegedly helping rebels bomb the police headquarters in Srinagar in an attack that killed one officer and injured several others.
Though an insurgency launched in 1989 has largely been suppressed, attacks still occur, along with frequent street protests. About 68,000 people have died in rebel violence and ensuing crackdowns.
Pakistan also controls part of Kashmir and, like India, claims the entire region.
The case has rattled Indian authorities who administer the tense region, where insurgents have waged a violent campaign for decades demanding independence or a merger with neighboring Pakistan.
The alleged rebel ties were discovered last week during a routine investigation into a recent shooting attack on a former militant, police Chief Rajendra Kumar said.
Authorities have arrested two intelligence officials and two low-ranking police officers, and two more suspected officers are still at large, he said.
Kumar said the six are believed to have links to Kashmir's largest militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen. Officials are investigating whether they might have helped rebels stage attacks, procure arms, avoid arrest or move undetected through the region.
One of the suspects, a constable who has worked undercover infiltrating rebel groups in the past, was arrested briefly in 2008 for allegedly buying cellphone cards used by gunmen in deadly attacks that year in Mumbai. However, the constable, Mukhtar Ahmed, was released after authorities said he had made the purchase as part of his undercover work.
Ahmed's re-arrest follows new evidence that suggests he may have operated outside of his official mandate on behalf of the rebels, Kumar said.
This is not the first time Indian law enforcement officers have been implicated in rebel activities in Kashmir, where some 700,000 Indian troops are deployed for a population of 12.5 million.
In 2006, three Indian soldiers and two police officers were detained for alleged links with the rebel group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which New Delhi blames for the Mumbai attacks. The two police officers were removed from service, while the army has remained quiet about the status of the detained soldiers.
In 1992, two policemen and a paramilitary soldier were arrested for allegedly helping rebels bomb the police headquarters in Srinagar in an attack that killed one officer and injured several others.
Though an insurgency launched in 1989 has largely been suppressed, attacks still occur, along with frequent street protests. About 68,000 people have died in rebel violence and ensuing crackdowns.
Pakistan also controls part of Kashmir and, like India, claims the entire region.
2012年6月17日星期日
Cicero contemporary is warm and welcoming
Gina and Bob Piper's contemporary home at 8763 Wedgefield Lane, Cicero, on the market for $244,000, shows that creative use of color and texture can complement the clean lines of contemporary design to create a family friendly, warm and welcoming living space.
The 2,424-square-foot, three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath home was built nearly 26 years ago, just blocks from the southwest shores of Oneida Lake. Bob said that although the home's construction pre-dated Energy Star standards, the couple, concerned even then about energy efficiency, upgraded the project with walls built of 2- by 6-inch lumber, heavier insulation in the ceilings and walls, and double pane, low-E casement clad windows.
One of the hallmarks of contemporary homes is their connection of indoor and outdoor spaces, which the Pipers maximized. Skylights, nearly floor-to-ceiling windows, transoms and glass doors invite views of the property's park-like setting inside. A covered front porch and a partially covered, multi-tiered wood deck on the back provide snug spots from which to observe nature or to just chill out.
"We've loved having porches on the front as well as the back," Bob said. "We sit out there with a glass of wine, and sometimes even drag the TV out back and watch Yankees baseball."
The home accommodated the active Pipers and their two children -- now grown, with families of their own -- as well as Bob's contracting business, Upstate Painting, which he runs out of his basement workshop and the oversized two-car garage.
"The kids would come in after cross-country skiing on nearby snowmobile trails or canoeing on the lake, and they could just go straight downstairs to the basement from the garage to put their clothes in the laundry," Bob said. The wide cellar stairs also accommodated Bob's all terrain vehicle, allowing him to store it in the basement.
The 600-square-foot eat-in kitchen has a walk-in pantry, recessed and under-cabinet lighting and an abundance of work space on laminate countertops. A large island surrounds an electric range with a down draft vent, grill and griddle. There is a dishwasher and a built-in wine cooler. An adjoining powder room and a glass door to the back deck make the space work well for entertaining.
"We're kitchen people," Gina said. "This is where we do our entertaining. Everyone gathers in the kitchen. It's the original kitchen, but it's in perfect shape."
The open-plan carpeted dining room has a triple width sliding glass door that opens to the deck. A half-wall divides the dining room from the sunken living room, which has a marble-faced, wood-burning fireplace with a marble hearth. One half of the ceiling is vaulted and has track lighting.
The adjacent foyer's oak floor extends into a walk-through closet, with access to the kitchen and the garage on the other side. A double-door entrance in the foyer opens to a home office, also with oak floors.
A carpeted staircase to the second floor has a landing with two tall picture windows. The bottom window frame edges are flush with the landing's floor - a perfect spot for a dog to lie in the sun while watching over the front of the property and the neighborhood beyond.
The 2,424-square-foot, three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath home was built nearly 26 years ago, just blocks from the southwest shores of Oneida Lake. Bob said that although the home's construction pre-dated Energy Star standards, the couple, concerned even then about energy efficiency, upgraded the project with walls built of 2- by 6-inch lumber, heavier insulation in the ceilings and walls, and double pane, low-E casement clad windows.
One of the hallmarks of contemporary homes is their connection of indoor and outdoor spaces, which the Pipers maximized. Skylights, nearly floor-to-ceiling windows, transoms and glass doors invite views of the property's park-like setting inside. A covered front porch and a partially covered, multi-tiered wood deck on the back provide snug spots from which to observe nature or to just chill out.
"We've loved having porches on the front as well as the back," Bob said. "We sit out there with a glass of wine, and sometimes even drag the TV out back and watch Yankees baseball."
The home accommodated the active Pipers and their two children -- now grown, with families of their own -- as well as Bob's contracting business, Upstate Painting, which he runs out of his basement workshop and the oversized two-car garage.
"The kids would come in after cross-country skiing on nearby snowmobile trails or canoeing on the lake, and they could just go straight downstairs to the basement from the garage to put their clothes in the laundry," Bob said. The wide cellar stairs also accommodated Bob's all terrain vehicle, allowing him to store it in the basement.
The 600-square-foot eat-in kitchen has a walk-in pantry, recessed and under-cabinet lighting and an abundance of work space on laminate countertops. A large island surrounds an electric range with a down draft vent, grill and griddle. There is a dishwasher and a built-in wine cooler. An adjoining powder room and a glass door to the back deck make the space work well for entertaining.
"We're kitchen people," Gina said. "This is where we do our entertaining. Everyone gathers in the kitchen. It's the original kitchen, but it's in perfect shape."
The open-plan carpeted dining room has a triple width sliding glass door that opens to the deck. A half-wall divides the dining room from the sunken living room, which has a marble-faced, wood-burning fireplace with a marble hearth. One half of the ceiling is vaulted and has track lighting.
The adjacent foyer's oak floor extends into a walk-through closet, with access to the kitchen and the garage on the other side. A double-door entrance in the foyer opens to a home office, also with oak floors.
A carpeted staircase to the second floor has a landing with two tall picture windows. The bottom window frame edges are flush with the landing's floor - a perfect spot for a dog to lie in the sun while watching over the front of the property and the neighborhood beyond.
2012年6月14日星期四
25 years and still going strong at Stahl’s Pottery
Berks County ceramic artist Steve Day takes nature seriously. He’s made it his livelihood for the past 30 years with his signature leaf designs inspired by daily walks in the local woodlands of Blandon. Day will be one of 32 potters displaying wares at Saturday’s 25th annual Summer Pottery Festival held on the grounds of historic Stahl’s Pottery in Powder Valley, Lehigh Co. It’s an event he’s never failed to miss since its inception.
The festival, held rain or shine from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 6826 Corning Rd., Zionsville, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the formation of Stahl’s Pottery Preservation Society and the Stahl’s Pottery Festival. According to Anne Goda, site director, a “first-time-ever” Anniversary Gala will be held Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring 27 of the 32 potters scheduled for Saturday’s festival. Patrons will hear the sounds of the Rob Stoneback Brass Quartet while having the opportunity to do advance shopping for traditional and contemporary wares. A silent auction will include works from the potters, along with gift baskets from local merchants.
New this year at the festival will be three free children’s workshops in the afternoon: Hand modeling miniature animals with air dry clay taught by participating potter Sandra Jones; clay whistle making taught by participating potter Bob Hughes, and how to make a coil pot taught by Whitney Leh, great-great granddaughter of property owner Thomas Stahl. Children also can try their hand at the kick wheel and learn how to turn a piece of pottery.
Limited edition traditional redware sgraffito plates marking the 25th anniversary have been made by Goda’s brother-in-law, Joel Leh, and will be available Saturday.
What’s a festival without food? Family roots run deep in this area as well, with Christa Leh, great-granddaughter of Thomas Stahl, serving samples of pot cheese and “dew-drops” in the summer kitchen next to the Thomas and Alice Stahl House. Goda said Stahl made pot cheese, apple butter, and an ice cream treat he named “dew-drops” which he sold “huckster-style” throughout East Greenville and Pennsburg from his Model T Ford truck. He also sold vegetables he grew in his large garden.
Goda said either she or a Stahl family descendent will conduct tours of the potting sheds and kiln. The “gem of the site,” she added, is the round, bee-hive, wood-fired kiln originally built in 1933, around the time of rural arts and crafts revival pottery.
As a pottery vendor, Steve Day said he enjoys the patrons who visit the festival each year. Many return to expand their personal collections. Still others visit for the first time and remark how they’ve picked up one of his works at a craft gallery or museum shop in the country. “Oh, I have one of those” is music to his ears. “People want to touch your work, and the festival provides that opportunity,” he said.
Day creates his ceramic leaf bowls and tiles from his studio at Guldin Mill, a 1781 farmhouse, grist mill and barn. The process involves a thick slab of stoneware clay that is rolled out, with the shape of the finished bowl or tile cut from the slab. While the clay is still soft, colors are applied and the leaf design is arranged. When the clay is firm enough to handle, additional colors are added and the final shaping is done before the firing at more than 2,000 degrees.
The festival, held rain or shine from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 6826 Corning Rd., Zionsville, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the formation of Stahl’s Pottery Preservation Society and the Stahl’s Pottery Festival. According to Anne Goda, site director, a “first-time-ever” Anniversary Gala will be held Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring 27 of the 32 potters scheduled for Saturday’s festival. Patrons will hear the sounds of the Rob Stoneback Brass Quartet while having the opportunity to do advance shopping for traditional and contemporary wares. A silent auction will include works from the potters, along with gift baskets from local merchants.
New this year at the festival will be three free children’s workshops in the afternoon: Hand modeling miniature animals with air dry clay taught by participating potter Sandra Jones; clay whistle making taught by participating potter Bob Hughes, and how to make a coil pot taught by Whitney Leh, great-great granddaughter of property owner Thomas Stahl. Children also can try their hand at the kick wheel and learn how to turn a piece of pottery.
Limited edition traditional redware sgraffito plates marking the 25th anniversary have been made by Goda’s brother-in-law, Joel Leh, and will be available Saturday.
What’s a festival without food? Family roots run deep in this area as well, with Christa Leh, great-granddaughter of Thomas Stahl, serving samples of pot cheese and “dew-drops” in the summer kitchen next to the Thomas and Alice Stahl House. Goda said Stahl made pot cheese, apple butter, and an ice cream treat he named “dew-drops” which he sold “huckster-style” throughout East Greenville and Pennsburg from his Model T Ford truck. He also sold vegetables he grew in his large garden.
Goda said either she or a Stahl family descendent will conduct tours of the potting sheds and kiln. The “gem of the site,” she added, is the round, bee-hive, wood-fired kiln originally built in 1933, around the time of rural arts and crafts revival pottery.
As a pottery vendor, Steve Day said he enjoys the patrons who visit the festival each year. Many return to expand their personal collections. Still others visit for the first time and remark how they’ve picked up one of his works at a craft gallery or museum shop in the country. “Oh, I have one of those” is music to his ears. “People want to touch your work, and the festival provides that opportunity,” he said.
Day creates his ceramic leaf bowls and tiles from his studio at Guldin Mill, a 1781 farmhouse, grist mill and barn. The process involves a thick slab of stoneware clay that is rolled out, with the shape of the finished bowl or tile cut from the slab. While the clay is still soft, colors are applied and the leaf design is arranged. When the clay is firm enough to handle, additional colors are added and the final shaping is done before the firing at more than 2,000 degrees.
2012年6月13日星期三
Businesses return in Shickshinny after September flood
Nine months after record flooding devastated this small borough, most of its 28 businesses have made a comeback.
The Wagon Wheel family restaurant reopened Monday. It follows Subway and J-Angelos Pizza as the third restaurant to reopen since the September flooding.
Arlene Monroe and Kim Miller, co-owners of the Wagon Wheel, spent the last nine months remodeling the restaurant after it was inundated with almost 5 feet of water. It was the first time there ever was floodwater in the restaurant, which had been open for 13 years, Ms. Monroe said. They did most of the work themselves.
"We totally gutted the place. We had to redo all the ceramic tile floors and carpeting. We lost almost everything," Ms. Monroe said.
The restaurant employs about 15 people. Only two of the former employees came back and the owners hired new people. Since reopening Monday, the restaurant has been busy, Ms. Monroe said.
"The town has been very supportive," Ms. Monroe said. "It's a small town and it really pulled together after the disaster. They really did."
Skovish Brothers Pools also reopened recently and expanded. The store now carries pet supplies as well as pool supplies.
"People are rebuilding and reopening, which is a good, positive sign," said Holly Reynolds, manager of Skovish Brothers Pools.
Family Dollar is in the process of coming back, said Shickshinny Mayor Beverly Moore. Some have expressed an interest in opening a grocery store to replace the closed 5 Mountain Market on Route 11, but she would not say who. The closest grocery store is about 12 miles away in Berwick or Nanticoke.
A dentist's office, a T-shirt store and laundromat did not re-open in Shickshinny, which was especially hard hit by the flooding. Wells Fargo Bank was demolished in March, but Berwick-based First Keystone Community Bank is opening a branch in Shickshinny in the summer.
Ms. Moore is encouraged by the businesses that have reopened. She said it is a sign of hope and a "good indication of how the town is coming back."
The Wagon Wheel family restaurant reopened Monday. It follows Subway and J-Angelos Pizza as the third restaurant to reopen since the September flooding.
Arlene Monroe and Kim Miller, co-owners of the Wagon Wheel, spent the last nine months remodeling the restaurant after it was inundated with almost 5 feet of water. It was the first time there ever was floodwater in the restaurant, which had been open for 13 years, Ms. Monroe said. They did most of the work themselves.
"We totally gutted the place. We had to redo all the ceramic tile floors and carpeting. We lost almost everything," Ms. Monroe said.
The restaurant employs about 15 people. Only two of the former employees came back and the owners hired new people. Since reopening Monday, the restaurant has been busy, Ms. Monroe said.
"The town has been very supportive," Ms. Monroe said. "It's a small town and it really pulled together after the disaster. They really did."
Skovish Brothers Pools also reopened recently and expanded. The store now carries pet supplies as well as pool supplies.
"People are rebuilding and reopening, which is a good, positive sign," said Holly Reynolds, manager of Skovish Brothers Pools.
Family Dollar is in the process of coming back, said Shickshinny Mayor Beverly Moore. Some have expressed an interest in opening a grocery store to replace the closed 5 Mountain Market on Route 11, but she would not say who. The closest grocery store is about 12 miles away in Berwick or Nanticoke.
A dentist's office, a T-shirt store and laundromat did not re-open in Shickshinny, which was especially hard hit by the flooding. Wells Fargo Bank was demolished in March, but Berwick-based First Keystone Community Bank is opening a branch in Shickshinny in the summer.
Ms. Moore is encouraged by the businesses that have reopened. She said it is a sign of hope and a "good indication of how the town is coming back."
2012年6月12日星期二
Our old factories finding respect
Henry Ford's 1910 factory — a pioneering building designed by Albert Kahn, home of the first full automotive assembly line — is used as a storage building. Some days you can't see the plaque for the weeds.
That's how we often see Detroit factories: boarded up, unused. A century ago, Detroit was at the forefront of an industrial revolution that provided jobs, even as it influenced art and architecture around the world.
Can any vestige of that dramatic past be reclaimed? Today, there are glimmerings that Detroit's machine-age heritage is being re-harnessed to new purpose, with a 21st century imagination at work.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the newly installed exhibit "Vertical Urban Factory" seizes on the way factories — gritty, smokestacky, unglamorous — inspired 20th century ideas about space, light and openness that are still with us, and insists that factories still have an important role to play in the future of cities.
In its photographs of factory workers and illustrations of production and within its text, the show asks a question most of us wouldn't dare pose: How can we reinvent Detroit as a city whose factories aren't decrepit monuments to a dim past? How can even the old building be repurposed to a cleaner, more engaging industrial future?
Case in point: New York-based curator Nina Rappaport poses these questions inside MOCAD, a 90-year-old building that was once a car dealership and is now an art museum on Woodward Avenue at Garfield that flaunts its original concrete and ceramic tile floors.
The city was once a place where the aroma of Wonder Bread baking wafted over the freeways, and drivers on Woodward could watch Vernors bottles on an assembly line. "Factories can be part of our cities. By shutting them off from view, or moving them to the suburbs, we lose touch," Rappaport said during a recent interview at MOCAD.
Rappaport has an optimistic streak about places like Detroit, in part because she sees buildings around the world taking on new lives, in part because she's a scholar of factories, who recognizes their influential role.
Even as Rappaport, a university lecturer and critic, opened the Detroit show, a Texas-based company proved her point: Bedrock Manufacturing has leased space in the Midtown Argonaut Building. The company will make stylish $500-ish watches.
The Argonaut, now the Taubman Center and home to the College for Creative Studies, began its life as a General Motors laboratory and research center — designed by that omnipresent industrial architect, Albert Kahn.
In one extra twist, the Taubman fortune, wrought from building suburban shopping centers, renovated a chunk of Detroit's past — and now gives it a new lease on industrial life.
That's how we often see Detroit factories: boarded up, unused. A century ago, Detroit was at the forefront of an industrial revolution that provided jobs, even as it influenced art and architecture around the world.
Can any vestige of that dramatic past be reclaimed? Today, there are glimmerings that Detroit's machine-age heritage is being re-harnessed to new purpose, with a 21st century imagination at work.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the newly installed exhibit "Vertical Urban Factory" seizes on the way factories — gritty, smokestacky, unglamorous — inspired 20th century ideas about space, light and openness that are still with us, and insists that factories still have an important role to play in the future of cities.
In its photographs of factory workers and illustrations of production and within its text, the show asks a question most of us wouldn't dare pose: How can we reinvent Detroit as a city whose factories aren't decrepit monuments to a dim past? How can even the old building be repurposed to a cleaner, more engaging industrial future?
Case in point: New York-based curator Nina Rappaport poses these questions inside MOCAD, a 90-year-old building that was once a car dealership and is now an art museum on Woodward Avenue at Garfield that flaunts its original concrete and ceramic tile floors.
The city was once a place where the aroma of Wonder Bread baking wafted over the freeways, and drivers on Woodward could watch Vernors bottles on an assembly line. "Factories can be part of our cities. By shutting them off from view, or moving them to the suburbs, we lose touch," Rappaport said during a recent interview at MOCAD.
Rappaport has an optimistic streak about places like Detroit, in part because she sees buildings around the world taking on new lives, in part because she's a scholar of factories, who recognizes their influential role.
Even as Rappaport, a university lecturer and critic, opened the Detroit show, a Texas-based company proved her point: Bedrock Manufacturing has leased space in the Midtown Argonaut Building. The company will make stylish $500-ish watches.
The Argonaut, now the Taubman Center and home to the College for Creative Studies, began its life as a General Motors laboratory and research center — designed by that omnipresent industrial architect, Albert Kahn.
In one extra twist, the Taubman fortune, wrought from building suburban shopping centers, renovated a chunk of Detroit's past — and now gives it a new lease on industrial life.
2012年6月11日星期一
Wazir Khan Mosque lays derelict, neglected
The 400-year-old renowned Mughal monument Wazir Khan Mosque stands in dire need of restoration and preservation on an emergent basis.
The mosque, situated inside the Dehli Gate of the Walled City, is an exquisite structure that was built in 1634 by Hakim Ilmud Din Ansari, aka Nawab Wazir Khan, a native of Chiniot, who served as Punjab’s viceroy during Emperor Shah Jahan’s reign. Superb calligraphy and the octagonal minarets, one of the earliest of their type in Mughal architecture, are among the mosque’s distinctive features.
Sadly, today the monument stands in a dilapidated condition, surrounded by encroachments. Locals have built houses and shops around the mosque. The sewerage from the surrounding houses has badly damaged the mosque’s walls.
Big cracks can be seen in the mosque’s roof, through which rainwater seeps during the monsoon, accumulating on the mosque’s floor. This renders the mosque useless for worshippers.
Also, the variegated glazed tiles and mosaic work on the walls are fading day by day. The designs, both in enamelled mosaic work and fresco paintings, have almost completely vanished.
The mosque contains 32 hujras in total, where Quran classes used to be held for students.
However, now these rooms are only filled with scraps of broken material and dirt, with plaster ripped off from their ceilings and tiles dislocated from original positions.
The mosque has four big minarets, of which the south eastern is in the worst condition and has started to tilt.
The floor under the main dome of the mosque has also broken at various places, whereas the walls at the mosque’s entrances have decayed and blackened. Also, water fungus can be seen in the pond which worshippers used for ablution.
The need of the hour is initiation of repair and renovation work of the mosque under supervision of high-powered technical administrative experts.
According to sources in the Archaeology Department, the Punjab government had allocated Rs 33 million under the PC1 Plan this year for the mosque’s preservation.
Also, the government had transferred the mosque’s case to the Archaeology Department, providing further Rs 5 million funds to the department for renovation purposes.
A committee of experts was also formed, which was entrusted with the task of supervising the preservation and restoration process.
The department started renovation work in January, under which two roofs of the mosque’s northern side were repaired.
Later in February, the process of renovation was halted on the request of the Walled City director general and Aga Khan Programme director who had some reservations with regards to the renovation process.
The sources further said a high-level steering committee, under the chairmanship of MNA Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, was constituted to decide the ways and means for smooth execution of conservation work of Wazir Khan Mosque. The committee held several meetings at the site and finally decided to resume the conservation work on top priority basis, but only after certain necessary arrangements were made.
The mosque, situated inside the Dehli Gate of the Walled City, is an exquisite structure that was built in 1634 by Hakim Ilmud Din Ansari, aka Nawab Wazir Khan, a native of Chiniot, who served as Punjab’s viceroy during Emperor Shah Jahan’s reign. Superb calligraphy and the octagonal minarets, one of the earliest of their type in Mughal architecture, are among the mosque’s distinctive features.
Sadly, today the monument stands in a dilapidated condition, surrounded by encroachments. Locals have built houses and shops around the mosque. The sewerage from the surrounding houses has badly damaged the mosque’s walls.
Big cracks can be seen in the mosque’s roof, through which rainwater seeps during the monsoon, accumulating on the mosque’s floor. This renders the mosque useless for worshippers.
Also, the variegated glazed tiles and mosaic work on the walls are fading day by day. The designs, both in enamelled mosaic work and fresco paintings, have almost completely vanished.
The mosque contains 32 hujras in total, where Quran classes used to be held for students.
However, now these rooms are only filled with scraps of broken material and dirt, with plaster ripped off from their ceilings and tiles dislocated from original positions.
The mosque has four big minarets, of which the south eastern is in the worst condition and has started to tilt.
The floor under the main dome of the mosque has also broken at various places, whereas the walls at the mosque’s entrances have decayed and blackened. Also, water fungus can be seen in the pond which worshippers used for ablution.
The need of the hour is initiation of repair and renovation work of the mosque under supervision of high-powered technical administrative experts.
According to sources in the Archaeology Department, the Punjab government had allocated Rs 33 million under the PC1 Plan this year for the mosque’s preservation.
Also, the government had transferred the mosque’s case to the Archaeology Department, providing further Rs 5 million funds to the department for renovation purposes.
A committee of experts was also formed, which was entrusted with the task of supervising the preservation and restoration process.
The department started renovation work in January, under which two roofs of the mosque’s northern side were repaired.
Later in February, the process of renovation was halted on the request of the Walled City director general and Aga Khan Programme director who had some reservations with regards to the renovation process.
The sources further said a high-level steering committee, under the chairmanship of MNA Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, was constituted to decide the ways and means for smooth execution of conservation work of Wazir Khan Mosque. The committee held several meetings at the site and finally decided to resume the conservation work on top priority basis, but only after certain necessary arrangements were made.
2012年6月10日星期日
Tipp Hill bungalow updated with passion
Mary Jo Kiggins remembers walking past the run-down little bungalow with a raggedy front porch on her way to school each day at St. Brigid's Elementary on Syracuse's Tipperary Hill.
Kiggins, who said she has a knack for seeing the possibility hidden beneath peeling paint, always had a soft spot for that 1940 fixer-upper at 708 Avery Ave. She snapped it up when it came on the market almost 17 years ago. After spending years spiffing up the 900-square-foot house, Kiggins is ready to tackle another project. She is selling the two-bedroom, one-bath home for $79,900.
An offer for the house has been accepted, said the seller's real estate agent, Adrian Nugent, of Prudential CNY Realty.
As a facilities manager, Kiggins oversees construction projects at Onondaga Community College, just four miles away. She was confident about tackling many of her own home's renovations.
"I did a lot of the remodeling myself - there's a lot of sweat equity in this house - with the help of friends, family and some contractors," Kiggins said. "That's why I'm so passionate about my house."
Kiggins started by tearing off the dilapidated front porch and adding columns. The house now has a deep, open-sided, covered front porch with a wraparound concrete floor.
Kiggins replaced all the windows and doors, sided the house in vinyl and replaced the roof. Soon, she found a certificate in her mailbox from the Tipperary Hill Association deeming it "Most Improved House."
"I thought, 'How nice that they noticed! I've been working so hard on it, and they like it,'" she said.
The full-glass storm door and insulated front door, inset with leaded glass, open to the living room, which has crown molding, a lighted paddle fan and painted wide-plank wood floors, also found throughout the house.
The kitchen, updated with a four-burner gas cooktop and separate built-in oven, has laminate counter tops and white raised-panel cabinets with glass fronts on the upper doors. There's a corner stainless steel sink, and space in front of the sliding glass door for a small island or bistro table and a couple chairs.
Beyond the sliding glass door, which floods the kitchen with morning sunshine, a wood deck with wood railings easily accommodates a gas grill and deck furniture. The deck overlooks the backyard, gently sloping away for the house and edged with mature evergreens and maple trees. Kiggins' vegetable garden takes up a back corner, leaving plenty of room for other uses.
A door in the kitchen opens to the walk-out basement, where Kiggins has her washer and dryer as well as her stained glass workshop and studio.
A small room off the kitchen is listed as a second bedroom, but having no closet, it might make a better guest room, home office, den, hobby space or small dining room.
The full bath, also off the kitchen, has been updated with a new toilet, pedestal sink and ceramic tile floor. Kiggins added a shower to the re-glazed original claw foot tub, which is complemented by the original wood wainscoting.
The staircase, which starts in the living room at the front door, ends in a brief hallway outside the upstairs bedroom. The bedroom has three windows. Its painted tongue-in-groove ceiling peaks in the center and slopes down to the short walls on either side, creating a cottage effect. There's a walk-in closet and more storage space under the eaves. The home, which has natural gas forced-air heat, has an asphalt driveway but no garage.
Kiggins said she has lived in this Tipperary Hill neighborhood for nearly 50 years, and she enjoys running up and down the hills while training for the Syrathon foot race series, including the Tipp Hill Shamrock Run, and half-Iron Man competitions.
Kiggins, who said she has a knack for seeing the possibility hidden beneath peeling paint, always had a soft spot for that 1940 fixer-upper at 708 Avery Ave. She snapped it up when it came on the market almost 17 years ago. After spending years spiffing up the 900-square-foot house, Kiggins is ready to tackle another project. She is selling the two-bedroom, one-bath home for $79,900.
An offer for the house has been accepted, said the seller's real estate agent, Adrian Nugent, of Prudential CNY Realty.
As a facilities manager, Kiggins oversees construction projects at Onondaga Community College, just four miles away. She was confident about tackling many of her own home's renovations.
"I did a lot of the remodeling myself - there's a lot of sweat equity in this house - with the help of friends, family and some contractors," Kiggins said. "That's why I'm so passionate about my house."
Kiggins started by tearing off the dilapidated front porch and adding columns. The house now has a deep, open-sided, covered front porch with a wraparound concrete floor.
Kiggins replaced all the windows and doors, sided the house in vinyl and replaced the roof. Soon, she found a certificate in her mailbox from the Tipperary Hill Association deeming it "Most Improved House."
"I thought, 'How nice that they noticed! I've been working so hard on it, and they like it,'" she said.
The full-glass storm door and insulated front door, inset with leaded glass, open to the living room, which has crown molding, a lighted paddle fan and painted wide-plank wood floors, also found throughout the house.
The kitchen, updated with a four-burner gas cooktop and separate built-in oven, has laminate counter tops and white raised-panel cabinets with glass fronts on the upper doors. There's a corner stainless steel sink, and space in front of the sliding glass door for a small island or bistro table and a couple chairs.
Beyond the sliding glass door, which floods the kitchen with morning sunshine, a wood deck with wood railings easily accommodates a gas grill and deck furniture. The deck overlooks the backyard, gently sloping away for the house and edged with mature evergreens and maple trees. Kiggins' vegetable garden takes up a back corner, leaving plenty of room for other uses.
A door in the kitchen opens to the walk-out basement, where Kiggins has her washer and dryer as well as her stained glass workshop and studio.
A small room off the kitchen is listed as a second bedroom, but having no closet, it might make a better guest room, home office, den, hobby space or small dining room.
The full bath, also off the kitchen, has been updated with a new toilet, pedestal sink and ceramic tile floor. Kiggins added a shower to the re-glazed original claw foot tub, which is complemented by the original wood wainscoting.
The staircase, which starts in the living room at the front door, ends in a brief hallway outside the upstairs bedroom. The bedroom has three windows. Its painted tongue-in-groove ceiling peaks in the center and slopes down to the short walls on either side, creating a cottage effect. There's a walk-in closet and more storage space under the eaves. The home, which has natural gas forced-air heat, has an asphalt driveway but no garage.
Kiggins said she has lived in this Tipperary Hill neighborhood for nearly 50 years, and she enjoys running up and down the hills while training for the Syrathon foot race series, including the Tipp Hill Shamrock Run, and half-Iron Man competitions.
2012年6月6日星期三
White powder is mailed to Pizza Patrón restaurant in Fort Worth
White powder, later determined to be harmless, was sent to Pizza Patrón restaurants in Fort Worth and Georgia on Tuesday -- the same day that the national pizza chain launched a controversial promotion giving free pepperoni pizzas to customers who order in Spanish.
Shortly before 2 p.m., the owner/manager of the Pizza Patrón at 301 NW 28th St. brought an envelope containing white powder to the Fort Worth Police Department, prompting police to alert the Fire Department.
An analysis determined that the powder was Sheetrock dust, Fire Capt. M.R. Skains said.
Andy Gamm, brand director for Dallas-based Pizza Patrón, said that hours before the Fort Worth incident, he learned that an envelope containing white powder had also been mailed to a restaurant in Atlanta. That owner also took the envelope to police, and authorities quickly determined that it was ceramic tile powder, Gamm said.
Gamm said he has no doubt that the stores were targeted because of the national Spanish-order promotion.
"Obviously it's an easy way to disrupt what's going on at the stores," he said. "This becomes the story. It becomes what people talk about rather than the promotion. No question it's deliberate. We've got our eyes and ears open right now to hear about any more situations like that."
Gamm said the company has received some criticism since announcing the pizza promotion.
"We've got lots of phone calls, a lot of e-mails," he said. "We've even got a few handwritten love letters people put in the mail. I didn't know people wrote letters anymore."
Gamm said the company has no regrets.
"It doesn't change our focus on what we're doing," he said. "We still think this promotion is a good idea. We don't apologize for it at all."
Gamm said the 26-year-old company had always focused on providing a uniquely Hispanic experience.
"When we create a promotion, it's always designed to strengthen the relations we have with our Hispanic customers," he said. "About 70 percent of our customers are Hispanic."
Gamm said employees will coach non-Spanish-speaking customers on ordering their pizza so they can get the deal, too.
"We're always trying to strengthen and resonate with our core customers. In this case, we thought it would be fun to reach out and create a bridge to non-Hispanics who live in the neighborhood," he said.
Gamm said he has alerted other franchisees about the two incidents and instructed employees not to open any mail.
"We've got to take it seriously as with anything," he said. "I hope the motivation is to disrupt and there isn't anything serious in any of these envelopes. I hope we don't find any more. I'm most concerned for people at the stores who just show up to make pizza and have to deal with things like that."
Skains, supervisor of the Fire Department's hazardous material team, said that firefighters sporadically respond to calls involving suspicious powder but that the powder is rarely harmful.
Shortly before 2 p.m., the owner/manager of the Pizza Patrón at 301 NW 28th St. brought an envelope containing white powder to the Fort Worth Police Department, prompting police to alert the Fire Department.
An analysis determined that the powder was Sheetrock dust, Fire Capt. M.R. Skains said.
Andy Gamm, brand director for Dallas-based Pizza Patrón, said that hours before the Fort Worth incident, he learned that an envelope containing white powder had also been mailed to a restaurant in Atlanta. That owner also took the envelope to police, and authorities quickly determined that it was ceramic tile powder, Gamm said.
Gamm said he has no doubt that the stores were targeted because of the national Spanish-order promotion.
"Obviously it's an easy way to disrupt what's going on at the stores," he said. "This becomes the story. It becomes what people talk about rather than the promotion. No question it's deliberate. We've got our eyes and ears open right now to hear about any more situations like that."
Gamm said the company has received some criticism since announcing the pizza promotion.
"We've got lots of phone calls, a lot of e-mails," he said. "We've even got a few handwritten love letters people put in the mail. I didn't know people wrote letters anymore."
Gamm said the company has no regrets.
"It doesn't change our focus on what we're doing," he said. "We still think this promotion is a good idea. We don't apologize for it at all."
Gamm said the 26-year-old company had always focused on providing a uniquely Hispanic experience.
"When we create a promotion, it's always designed to strengthen the relations we have with our Hispanic customers," he said. "About 70 percent of our customers are Hispanic."
Gamm said employees will coach non-Spanish-speaking customers on ordering their pizza so they can get the deal, too.
"We're always trying to strengthen and resonate with our core customers. In this case, we thought it would be fun to reach out and create a bridge to non-Hispanics who live in the neighborhood," he said.
Gamm said he has alerted other franchisees about the two incidents and instructed employees not to open any mail.
"We've got to take it seriously as with anything," he said. "I hope the motivation is to disrupt and there isn't anything serious in any of these envelopes. I hope we don't find any more. I'm most concerned for people at the stores who just show up to make pizza and have to deal with things like that."
Skains, supervisor of the Fire Department's hazardous material team, said that firefighters sporadically respond to calls involving suspicious powder but that the powder is rarely harmful.
2012年6月5日星期二
Blighty's eels and haggis pakora
This summer, crowds of people will arrive at London’s airports to find themselves, as many did this weekend, immediately lodged in a lengthy queue to pass the border controls of fortress Britannia. Some will be arriving for the first time, others with local passports, rushing back in time to celebrate her Divine Majesty’s sixth decade of handwaving, or to ogle, first hand, the spectacular athleticism of beach volleyball players. Yet, as they absentmindedly thumb through the pages of their readied passports, slowly churning blackened chewing gum further into the carpet tiles beneath their feet, they might have cause to momentarily wonder what it is that warrants the inclusion of the word “Great” in the name of their destination.
Answers to that question may readily be offered by a special genre of traveller scattered in the crowd around them. It is a well-known irony that the fastest and most vociferous defenders of all things British are ex-pats, some of whom will be returning briefly to Blighty to participate in the festivities of coming months. Most will offer a predictable narrative of blood, earth and pride to explain their enduring attachment to the island: an honourable history of kings and queens, one World Cup and a couple of World Wars. Her Majesty may well be mentioned, for grimacing so consistently through the degeneration of the nation’s character.
However, when it comes to the things that they actually miss, and feel the strongest emotional attachment to, the list is often more banal. Frequently high on their list are the everyday culinary rhythms of their former home. Amongst the crowd in the queues this summer is one ex-pat who, after reentering the border on his yearly trip ‘home’ from South Africa, charters a taxi to take him to his favourite jellied eel stand in East London. There he slowly ruminates on a portion of eels swimming in a porcelain bowl of vinegar and jelly, mopping up the remainder with a piece of thick white bread before journeying on to meet his patient family. Others, dissatisfied by the pale imitations that they eat in their sunny homes abroad, make a bee-line for their old local fish and chip shops.
Of course, there is nothing inherent in the flavour of such dishes that makes them great. The taste of home is the taste of home. If fried palm worms were fed to you amidst the security of childhood, you might miss them. Indeed, there are no doubt members of a Vietnamese diaspora who still crave these frittered invertebrates. While eels doused in tangy chilli vinegar are surprisingly addictive, what is really remarkable about so much of this island’s culinary culture is less the flavour of the dishes themselves, than the long history of transcultural exchange and evolution that they tell.
Eels, while abundant in the Thames estuary, were traditionally brought to London by Dutch fishermen. They were made especially accessible in the 19th century by families of Irish and Italian entrepreneurs who set up London’s leading eel and pie shop chains, Kelly’s and Manze’s. The particular eel stand to which our returnee heads for a taste of home is, to this day, run by the descendants of Eastern European Jews that landed in London when fleeing the pogroms. Even the dish at the heart of a national culinary identity, fish and chips, is to all intents and purposes a Franco-Sephardic fusion food. The fish is derived from the peise frite favoured by the Portuguese Jews that arrived following their readmission to the country under Cromwell in the 16th century. The deep fried Andean tubers that the fish nestles on were the favoured fuel of French migrant workers – pommes frittes.
Answers to that question may readily be offered by a special genre of traveller scattered in the crowd around them. It is a well-known irony that the fastest and most vociferous defenders of all things British are ex-pats, some of whom will be returning briefly to Blighty to participate in the festivities of coming months. Most will offer a predictable narrative of blood, earth and pride to explain their enduring attachment to the island: an honourable history of kings and queens, one World Cup and a couple of World Wars. Her Majesty may well be mentioned, for grimacing so consistently through the degeneration of the nation’s character.
However, when it comes to the things that they actually miss, and feel the strongest emotional attachment to, the list is often more banal. Frequently high on their list are the everyday culinary rhythms of their former home. Amongst the crowd in the queues this summer is one ex-pat who, after reentering the border on his yearly trip ‘home’ from South Africa, charters a taxi to take him to his favourite jellied eel stand in East London. There he slowly ruminates on a portion of eels swimming in a porcelain bowl of vinegar and jelly, mopping up the remainder with a piece of thick white bread before journeying on to meet his patient family. Others, dissatisfied by the pale imitations that they eat in their sunny homes abroad, make a bee-line for their old local fish and chip shops.
Of course, there is nothing inherent in the flavour of such dishes that makes them great. The taste of home is the taste of home. If fried palm worms were fed to you amidst the security of childhood, you might miss them. Indeed, there are no doubt members of a Vietnamese diaspora who still crave these frittered invertebrates. While eels doused in tangy chilli vinegar are surprisingly addictive, what is really remarkable about so much of this island’s culinary culture is less the flavour of the dishes themselves, than the long history of transcultural exchange and evolution that they tell.
Eels, while abundant in the Thames estuary, were traditionally brought to London by Dutch fishermen. They were made especially accessible in the 19th century by families of Irish and Italian entrepreneurs who set up London’s leading eel and pie shop chains, Kelly’s and Manze’s. The particular eel stand to which our returnee heads for a taste of home is, to this day, run by the descendants of Eastern European Jews that landed in London when fleeing the pogroms. Even the dish at the heart of a national culinary identity, fish and chips, is to all intents and purposes a Franco-Sephardic fusion food. The fish is derived from the peise frite favoured by the Portuguese Jews that arrived following their readmission to the country under Cromwell in the 16th century. The deep fried Andean tubers that the fish nestles on were the favoured fuel of French migrant workers – pommes frittes.
2012年6月4日星期一
Woods quiets doubters with a flick of his wrists
For those who thought Tiger Woods' run as the world's best golfer was over, the 747-sized roar that emanated from the 16th green at Muirfield Village likely shocked them to their senses.
With one flick of his wrists, Woods reminded everyone of who he was and what he has done.
Woods slid a 60-degree sand wedge under a ball hidden by tall grass behind the 16th green, popped the ball straight up into the air where it seemed to hang for an instant, and then watched as it rolled ever so slowly toward the cup before dropping in for a 50-foot birdie that tied him for the lead at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday.
If that birdie served notice, then another on a sneaky-fast 10-foot downhill putt at the 18th assured him of his fifth victory at the tournament that Jack Nicklaus built.
So, Tiger was asked, do you think you're back?
"I won," he joked with a wide smile. "I'm sure by Tuesday I'll be retired and done, and then by the time I tee it up at the U.S. Open (at Olympic Club in San Francisco in 11 days) it might be something different. But I'll let you guys figure that out."
Adding to the weight of the moment, the win tied Woods with Nicklaus - the tournament founder and host who handed him the crystal trophy on the 18th green - with 73 tour wins for second behind Sam Snead's record 82.
Woods said it was "awfully special" to tie Nicklaus at the Golden Bear's own tournament.
"Well, he had to rub it in my face right here, didn't he?" Nicklaus cracked.
Then he added, "The last time he won here three years ago, he came here struggling a little bit and just absolutely blitzed it. And he did it again this week."
Woods, four shots back and in fourth place at the start of the final round, closed with a 67 to match the best round of the day. He also saved his best for last, birdieing three of the final four holes under pressure conditions to make up a two-shot deficit as he teed off on the 15th hole.
After a big drive, he hit a 3-iron second shot on the par-5 15th to 40 feet past the flag. He two-putted for birdie. At the 16th, he hit an 8-iron that rode the wind and bounced off the green and about 15 feet into deep grass. A little too soft a shot and he would be left with a treacherous, twisting putt for par. Catch it a little thin and the ball could easily run all the way through the green and into a pond.
The sonic boom that erupted when the ball fell shook the whole course. The rest of the field, those who didn't already know anyway, were reminded that Woods still can summon the thunder.
"Well, obviously, I knew something was going on up in front," said Rory Sabbatini, who held a one-shot lead until Woods' chip-in.
With one flick of his wrists, Woods reminded everyone of who he was and what he has done.
Woods slid a 60-degree sand wedge under a ball hidden by tall grass behind the 16th green, popped the ball straight up into the air where it seemed to hang for an instant, and then watched as it rolled ever so slowly toward the cup before dropping in for a 50-foot birdie that tied him for the lead at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday.
If that birdie served notice, then another on a sneaky-fast 10-foot downhill putt at the 18th assured him of his fifth victory at the tournament that Jack Nicklaus built.
So, Tiger was asked, do you think you're back?
"I won," he joked with a wide smile. "I'm sure by Tuesday I'll be retired and done, and then by the time I tee it up at the U.S. Open (at Olympic Club in San Francisco in 11 days) it might be something different. But I'll let you guys figure that out."
Adding to the weight of the moment, the win tied Woods with Nicklaus - the tournament founder and host who handed him the crystal trophy on the 18th green - with 73 tour wins for second behind Sam Snead's record 82.
Woods said it was "awfully special" to tie Nicklaus at the Golden Bear's own tournament.
"Well, he had to rub it in my face right here, didn't he?" Nicklaus cracked.
Then he added, "The last time he won here three years ago, he came here struggling a little bit and just absolutely blitzed it. And he did it again this week."
Woods, four shots back and in fourth place at the start of the final round, closed with a 67 to match the best round of the day. He also saved his best for last, birdieing three of the final four holes under pressure conditions to make up a two-shot deficit as he teed off on the 15th hole.
After a big drive, he hit a 3-iron second shot on the par-5 15th to 40 feet past the flag. He two-putted for birdie. At the 16th, he hit an 8-iron that rode the wind and bounced off the green and about 15 feet into deep grass. A little too soft a shot and he would be left with a treacherous, twisting putt for par. Catch it a little thin and the ball could easily run all the way through the green and into a pond.
The sonic boom that erupted when the ball fell shook the whole course. The rest of the field, those who didn't already know anyway, were reminded that Woods still can summon the thunder.
"Well, obviously, I knew something was going on up in front," said Rory Sabbatini, who held a one-shot lead until Woods' chip-in.
2012年6月3日星期日
Century-old homes in Arlington Heights part of walking tour
One thing that Steve Martini brags about is his wife’s decorating skills. And while Daisy Kessler has done a great job with color selection and finding treasures in antique shops, garage sales and on Craig’s List, the couple has also displayed considerable do-it-yourself skills on their antique house.
On the other hand, Jessica and Mike Braun moved their young children into their 100-year-old Arlington Heights home without many decorating changes.
Both homes are part of the Arlington Heights Historical Society’s June 10 House Walk and Tea. All five homes on the walking tour are historic this year to honor the 125th anniversary of the village’s incorporation. Other homes are a 1906 Victorian complete with a turret and stained glass and two 1920s bungalows.
Guess which room both the Brauns and Martini/Kessler redid completely during their three years of homeownership? That’s right, the kitchen.
And another thing the couples have in common — they both love their old houses and the central Arlington Heights neighborhoods where they live.
Martini and Kessler added 150 square feet to what was once a galley kitchen, making it much more workable when 50 or more relatives gather for Christmas.
And while the couple has painted most rooms, sanded floors, added crown molding and other woodwork, vaulted the ceiling of a small family room off the kitchen that was once an enclosed porch, they still consider the home a work in progress.
Remaining on the to do list: Remodel the 2 bathrooms and find an appropriate mantel for the oversized living room fireplace, not to mention sconces for the wall above it.
The Brauns did not enlarge their kitchen, but one place where they are ahead of Martini and Kessler is the fireplace in the living room. The Brauns, whose home was built in 1910, could tell from the floor boards that a fireplace had been there, so they recreated one beautifully, all with pieces that Mike found online.
The antique cherry mantel matches the home’s incredible cherry woodwork, and it surrounds antique-looking tiles with wine-colored clouds on white. The fireplace does not work, so it was important to find the metal plate that Jessica hopes depicts a musician such as Mozart, and Mike says looks like Thomas Jefferson.
Martini and Kessler looked long and hard for an old house, then found this one after they had given up and remodeled the kitchen in their previous, much more contemporary house.
They did much of the work themselves and received considerable help from relatives, some of whom work in construction.
Visitors will note the many details that Kessler, who acted as general contractor, sweated over in the kitchen. The window in the pantry door features a sheaf of wheat, and a tree graces the one to the back stoop.
Kessler fell in love with the Silestone counter she bought at at Home Depot and put on the two-level island a few years ago, and that inspired features like the maple cabinets painted ivory. The island cabinets are an olive green, and that area holds one of the room’s upscale appliances, a two-drawer dishwasher, flexible for when the couple eats alone or entertains.
Three colors of brick-shaped glass tiles, including olive green, make up the backsplash, and Kessler not only loves the look of the kitchen, but finds all the materials easy to clean. Kessler took the colors from nature, including the Cypress Grass from Glidden, a soft yellow paint with green tones.
A corner table was made from a large wooden box or crate that once held boots, now held up with metal legs. It’s labeled Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., a St. Louis store. In the 1870s one of its salesmen, a relative of an owner, started the company that eventually made Buster Brown shoes and sold the most children’s shoes in the world, according to an article on the website of the Clayton, Mo., History Society.
It’s obvious that Kessler loves oak, which she selected for the kitchen floor and the round table and chairs she found on Craig’s List, but Martini is so pleased the couple decided to keep the maple flooring in the dining room.
“I just love the wood in there,” he said. “You know by looking at it it’s original to the house.”
Martini and Kessler found they were spending a lot of time in the small room off the kitchen, even before they raised the ceiling, installed a skylight and added large travertine tiles to the floor.
Kessler doesn’t like to admit it, but she found the large painting of a Spanish woman, which sets the tone of the whole room, at La-Z-Boy where the couple bought their sofa. She loves how the colors go with the rug she had already selected for the floor.
On the other hand, Jessica and Mike Braun moved their young children into their 100-year-old Arlington Heights home without many decorating changes.
Both homes are part of the Arlington Heights Historical Society’s June 10 House Walk and Tea. All five homes on the walking tour are historic this year to honor the 125th anniversary of the village’s incorporation. Other homes are a 1906 Victorian complete with a turret and stained glass and two 1920s bungalows.
Guess which room both the Brauns and Martini/Kessler redid completely during their three years of homeownership? That’s right, the kitchen.
And another thing the couples have in common — they both love their old houses and the central Arlington Heights neighborhoods where they live.
Martini and Kessler added 150 square feet to what was once a galley kitchen, making it much more workable when 50 or more relatives gather for Christmas.
And while the couple has painted most rooms, sanded floors, added crown molding and other woodwork, vaulted the ceiling of a small family room off the kitchen that was once an enclosed porch, they still consider the home a work in progress.
Remaining on the to do list: Remodel the 2 bathrooms and find an appropriate mantel for the oversized living room fireplace, not to mention sconces for the wall above it.
The Brauns did not enlarge their kitchen, but one place where they are ahead of Martini and Kessler is the fireplace in the living room. The Brauns, whose home was built in 1910, could tell from the floor boards that a fireplace had been there, so they recreated one beautifully, all with pieces that Mike found online.
The antique cherry mantel matches the home’s incredible cherry woodwork, and it surrounds antique-looking tiles with wine-colored clouds on white. The fireplace does not work, so it was important to find the metal plate that Jessica hopes depicts a musician such as Mozart, and Mike says looks like Thomas Jefferson.
Martini and Kessler looked long and hard for an old house, then found this one after they had given up and remodeled the kitchen in their previous, much more contemporary house.
They did much of the work themselves and received considerable help from relatives, some of whom work in construction.
Visitors will note the many details that Kessler, who acted as general contractor, sweated over in the kitchen. The window in the pantry door features a sheaf of wheat, and a tree graces the one to the back stoop.
Kessler fell in love with the Silestone counter she bought at at Home Depot and put on the two-level island a few years ago, and that inspired features like the maple cabinets painted ivory. The island cabinets are an olive green, and that area holds one of the room’s upscale appliances, a two-drawer dishwasher, flexible for when the couple eats alone or entertains.
Three colors of brick-shaped glass tiles, including olive green, make up the backsplash, and Kessler not only loves the look of the kitchen, but finds all the materials easy to clean. Kessler took the colors from nature, including the Cypress Grass from Glidden, a soft yellow paint with green tones.
A corner table was made from a large wooden box or crate that once held boots, now held up with metal legs. It’s labeled Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., a St. Louis store. In the 1870s one of its salesmen, a relative of an owner, started the company that eventually made Buster Brown shoes and sold the most children’s shoes in the world, according to an article on the website of the Clayton, Mo., History Society.
It’s obvious that Kessler loves oak, which she selected for the kitchen floor and the round table and chairs she found on Craig’s List, but Martini is so pleased the couple decided to keep the maple flooring in the dining room.
“I just love the wood in there,” he said. “You know by looking at it it’s original to the house.”
Martini and Kessler found they were spending a lot of time in the small room off the kitchen, even before they raised the ceiling, installed a skylight and added large travertine tiles to the floor.
Kessler doesn’t like to admit it, but she found the large painting of a Spanish woman, which sets the tone of the whole room, at La-Z-Boy where the couple bought their sofa. She loves how the colors go with the rug she had already selected for the floor.
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