With the clock ticking down to a Sept. 9 first day of class, primary school students will be able to use the library and will have a new gym floor to play on for the first time since Superstorm Sandy flooded the building.
The building is 100 percent functional, said Thomas Berger Red Bank School district facilities director.Watch the video above to see the work done.“There are still many things to do, but we did the things we needed to do to get the school operational,” he said. “Now, it’s catch up on the lose ends.”
Those things include replacing furniture on a one-to-one basis, some plumbing work and floor replacement under cabinets, he said.“Everything here works,” Berger said.The primary school, located on the banks of the Swimming River, had several inches of water in the one-story building when officials returned after Superstorm Sandy. Primary School students were temporarily housed at the middle school, while crews replaced carpeting with vinyl Ceramic tile in 16 of the 33 classrooms that are used daily in the primary school.
The primary school reopened on Nov. 26 after replacement and sanitizing work had been done to allow students to safely return to the building, but additional work remained in non-classroom areas.“I can say we’re in a much better place than when we reopened in November,” said Laura C. Morana, superintendent of schools. “The work our team has done has been happening for the last 10 months and is an ongoing process.”
There are tangible results, such as shiny new white floors in the school gym and library, both of which were damaged by flooding and put on the back burner to get class rooms repaired first, last fall.The gym is ready for use, however a large moveable wall to divide the gym had to be removed because it was water damaged, Berger said.
The library has been closed since the storm after it wound up being used as a storage area for class room furniture and items displaced from other parts of the building where work was going on. Equipment for a math and engineering class, which also used the library, was put on a cart and moved from room to room last school year, Morana said.New Primary School principal Luigi Laugelli joined the district on July 1 as the school moved into full repair mode. He said he wasn’t daunted by what he saw in the building.
“It’s not the physical structure, it’s the people inside, the quality of the staff and the families,” he said.Teachers came in early to working on their classrooms and volunteers helped out the district prepare the building, Laugelli said.Books and any supplies on lower shelves or on floors was lost to flooding, he said and new books have been ordered. When charities and other schools and individuals seeking to help after the storm contacted the district, Morana said the district asked for books. Those books went right in to class rooms last school term and may will find their way back to the library this year, she said.
Located just moments from Morgan Crossing and Grandview Corners, you'll be able to take advantage of everything the neighbourhood has to offer, including shopping, dining and recreation.
Inside your home, you'll find a spacious open floorplan with plenty of contemporary features. Among them is a chef's kitchen with a dining island, stainless-steel appliances, granite/quartz countertops and a modern designer porcelain tiles backsplash. The entire kitchen is complemented by the Metropolitan Evoke Wide Plank laminate flooring that continues through the living and dining area, with plush carpeting in the bedrooms and large porcelain tile in the bathrooms.
Adera is now offering homeowners a seriously amazing way to personalize their homes. Called I.D. By Me, the program allows the buyer to be their own interior designer and choose their own colour scheme, upgrade finishes or fixtures and several other choices. Among the options at Breeze are adding heated floors, upgrading the kitchen appliances and adding a washer/dryer package, along with several other ways to make your home your own.
Adera has long been committed to sustainable and green buildings, and this continues with Breeze. Among the ecologically friendly features you'll find here are LED street lamps (a first for Surrey), motion sensor lights in the bathrooms and ENERGY Star-rated windows and appliances. The lush landscaping outside of your home easily showcases the green lifestyle you will live at Breeze. All of the materials used in construction are locally sourced, which reduces the project's carbon footprint.
It's not, of course, radar at all. Household mobiles don't yet have radar technology and while the system can pick up the Bluetooth signal emanating from the sticker, it can't determine its direction. So you need to prowl around the house, mobile held on a fully extended arm, watching the screen for the blue dot to get closer or further away.
When you do get close, you can click a pager button, and the sticker will flash a blue light and emit a brief ping or buzz. The ping is so quiet, however, we couldn't hear it, unless we had an ear within centimetres of the sticker. So you end up depending on eyesight.
If you want to keep track of pets or small children, you can set a sticker to sound an alert when they wander out of range.By and large the sticker system works pretty well, though we'd certainly like a louder ping, and a thinner sticker. We have put one sticker on the back of a mobile, one inside our wallet. Stick-N-Find will locate the latter even if the wallet is closed.
And we have ordered two more stickers to go on car and household key rings. The stickers are too big to be applied to spectacle frames, alas: we look forward to the day when someone devises a tiny device for this purpose, possibly one that will answer when you whistle.Stick-N-Find mentions another use for the stickers. Put one on your luggage when travelling, then sit back and wait at the airport pick-up point. Stick-N-Find will alert you when your suitcase hits the carousel.
Total outlay for our four stickers including postage has been $142, which is pretty hefty, though peace of mind is valuable.A cheaper solution could be on the way. Another US company, Reveal Labs, has developed similar stickers dubbed Tiles, which are square rather than round, and says it will have them on the market in the coming US winter/Aussie summer.
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2013年8月28日星期三
Dolores Heights architecture
With its dark glass walls, flat modern lines and bare concrete base, the new house at Sanchez and 20th streets makes a brash first impression on the settled eastern slope of Dolores Heights.Now take a broader look at the entire block, and something else is revealed: a fresh strand in the neighborhood's architectural fabric.
One house on the west side of the 700 block is barn-shaped and deep-set; another swells with a single tile-roofed bay. The house in the middle of the block pulls back behind balconies in a demure Cubist manner. Two doors away, the protruding top floor is adorned with flower boxes.Even as they coexist with ease, what the houses share is a sensibility rather than a preordained style - a sensibility that extends to the newcomer as well, an 1,800-square-foot structure on a lot that would allow nearly twice that. The context of Dolores Heights, like the context of the city as a whole, is a tapestry that only grows more intriguing as new elements are added to the weave.
The steep, 400-foot hill itself is a definition rather than a destination, framing Noe Valley to the south and Dolores Park to the east. From afar it's a rustle of walls and porcelain tiles, green trees and straight asphalt.Things aren't so placid on foot in the enclave bounded roughly by Cumberland, Church, 22nd and Castro streets.
"Residents of the hill fought bitterly over location of the streets the city was preparing to cut into the sides of the hill," The Chronicle wrote in its 1958 piece on Dolores Heights, describing the early 20th century. "Everyone wanted the paved street to be at the level of his house - not that of the house across the way, which might be 20 or 30 feet higher or lower."he result was that some streets are split by retaining walls between lanes. Others filled in on one side but not the other. At the crest of 20th Street above Sanchez, for instance, the south side of the block was still open space when George Homsey and his wife bought a 50-foot-wide lot in 1963.
"It was a little blue-collar enclave back then, a cul-de-sac with steps down to Sanchez," recalled Homsey, a founding principal of the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis. "This side was nothing but a rocky bank and the property above."Then, filling in the blanks was a casual thing. Homsey met with a bureaucrat, assured him the house wouldn't be too tall, and hired a contractor to erect a woodsy house that would look at home in a Sierra forest. Friends stopped by on weekends to help with interior details, such as the stained plywood floors that still do the job.
Now, new houses must align with the guidelines of the Dolores Heights Special Use District, established in 1980 "to encourage development in context and scale with established character and China ceramic tile." Builders and architects also are encouraged to vet their plans with the Dolores Heights Improvement Club, a neighborhood association.Groups like this emerged across the city in the 1960s and '70s, many of them in reaction to what was seen as excessive or insensitive development.
The 3600 block of 21st Street is a case study in why such fears took root. On the summit at Sanchez stands the home built by then-Mayor Sunny Jim Rolph in 1930, a storybook chateau with small paned window and a brick-studded chimney. Downhill - literally - the block concludes with a 30-unit apartment building from 1963, a colorless box with so little grace that on Church Street the hill's underlying rock stands exposed behind three concrete piers.
While families like the Homseys staked their claim with affection and care, mid-century builders slapped in product with no thought for their surroundings. No wonder that neighborhood groups stepped forward to protect their terrain, or why the city's Urban Design Plan of 1971 warned that "modern changes tend to be extremely potent and to have sharply visible negative effects."
Some people are fed up with excessively noisy restaurants and they never seem to tire of talking about it. It’s one of the most frequent topics — and complaints — I get as a restaurant critic. More than two years ago, in March 2011, I wrote a blog about the five noisiest restaurants in the Bay Area. The Golden Hearing Aid Award went to Leopold’s; Rotisserie and Wine in Napa (now closed); Cafe Des Amis, which now has drapes and other additions; Nopa, which also did some acoustical work; and Adesso in Oakland.
What that means is that the decibel level at some restaurants continues to increase as the lines between a bar and restaurant continue to blur. Probably the loudest place I’ve been in the last year or so is Mikkeller Bar on Mason Street. That said, it’s hard to be too critical because it’s basically a bar that happens to have a full dinner menu. While many patrons were standing around drinking the 40+ beers, others were sitting at the table ordering sausages, salads and sandwiches. Even though I was sitting next to my dining companion at a communal table, I felt like my head would explode, not so much from the noise, but trying to make myself heard. Since I hadn’t caught up with my friend for a while, after we finished our sausage platter we went to a quieter place for an after-dinner drink to finish our conversation.
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One house on the west side of the 700 block is barn-shaped and deep-set; another swells with a single tile-roofed bay. The house in the middle of the block pulls back behind balconies in a demure Cubist manner. Two doors away, the protruding top floor is adorned with flower boxes.Even as they coexist with ease, what the houses share is a sensibility rather than a preordained style - a sensibility that extends to the newcomer as well, an 1,800-square-foot structure on a lot that would allow nearly twice that. The context of Dolores Heights, like the context of the city as a whole, is a tapestry that only grows more intriguing as new elements are added to the weave.
The steep, 400-foot hill itself is a definition rather than a destination, framing Noe Valley to the south and Dolores Park to the east. From afar it's a rustle of walls and porcelain tiles, green trees and straight asphalt.Things aren't so placid on foot in the enclave bounded roughly by Cumberland, Church, 22nd and Castro streets.
"Residents of the hill fought bitterly over location of the streets the city was preparing to cut into the sides of the hill," The Chronicle wrote in its 1958 piece on Dolores Heights, describing the early 20th century. "Everyone wanted the paved street to be at the level of his house - not that of the house across the way, which might be 20 or 30 feet higher or lower."he result was that some streets are split by retaining walls between lanes. Others filled in on one side but not the other. At the crest of 20th Street above Sanchez, for instance, the south side of the block was still open space when George Homsey and his wife bought a 50-foot-wide lot in 1963.
"It was a little blue-collar enclave back then, a cul-de-sac with steps down to Sanchez," recalled Homsey, a founding principal of the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis. "This side was nothing but a rocky bank and the property above."Then, filling in the blanks was a casual thing. Homsey met with a bureaucrat, assured him the house wouldn't be too tall, and hired a contractor to erect a woodsy house that would look at home in a Sierra forest. Friends stopped by on weekends to help with interior details, such as the stained plywood floors that still do the job.
Now, new houses must align with the guidelines of the Dolores Heights Special Use District, established in 1980 "to encourage development in context and scale with established character and China ceramic tile." Builders and architects also are encouraged to vet their plans with the Dolores Heights Improvement Club, a neighborhood association.Groups like this emerged across the city in the 1960s and '70s, many of them in reaction to what was seen as excessive or insensitive development.
The 3600 block of 21st Street is a case study in why such fears took root. On the summit at Sanchez stands the home built by then-Mayor Sunny Jim Rolph in 1930, a storybook chateau with small paned window and a brick-studded chimney. Downhill - literally - the block concludes with a 30-unit apartment building from 1963, a colorless box with so little grace that on Church Street the hill's underlying rock stands exposed behind three concrete piers.
While families like the Homseys staked their claim with affection and care, mid-century builders slapped in product with no thought for their surroundings. No wonder that neighborhood groups stepped forward to protect their terrain, or why the city's Urban Design Plan of 1971 warned that "modern changes tend to be extremely potent and to have sharply visible negative effects."
Some people are fed up with excessively noisy restaurants and they never seem to tire of talking about it. It’s one of the most frequent topics — and complaints — I get as a restaurant critic. More than two years ago, in March 2011, I wrote a blog about the five noisiest restaurants in the Bay Area. The Golden Hearing Aid Award went to Leopold’s; Rotisserie and Wine in Napa (now closed); Cafe Des Amis, which now has drapes and other additions; Nopa, which also did some acoustical work; and Adesso in Oakland.
What that means is that the decibel level at some restaurants continues to increase as the lines between a bar and restaurant continue to blur. Probably the loudest place I’ve been in the last year or so is Mikkeller Bar on Mason Street. That said, it’s hard to be too critical because it’s basically a bar that happens to have a full dinner menu. While many patrons were standing around drinking the 40+ beers, others were sitting at the table ordering sausages, salads and sandwiches. Even though I was sitting next to my dining companion at a communal table, I felt like my head would explode, not so much from the noise, but trying to make myself heard. Since I hadn’t caught up with my friend for a while, after we finished our sausage platter we went to a quieter place for an after-dinner drink to finish our conversation.
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2013年8月26日星期一
Little left to chance
Last year, the scratch-off tickets resulted in more than $2.3 billion in sales, comprising 62 percent of the lottery’s record sales that fell just shy of $3.7 billion. All told, the lottery games produced over $1 billion in profits to fund programs for senior citizens.Managing the lottery’s portfolio of instant games, coming up with new game concepts, enticing players to buy more tickets in a manner that it considers socially responsible, and making sure the ticket supply doesn’t run out at lottery retailers is a full-time job for nearly 400 people.
The Pennsylvania Lottery employs 236 people. Some 152 others work for state’s lottery servicing contractor, New York-based Scientific Games International, Inc., here in the commonwealth.Although there has been talk for well over the past year of outsourcing the lottery’s management, that issue remains unresolved.But a recent visit to lottery’s highly secured headquarters in Lower Swatara Twp. offered no clue that such upheaval was on the horizon.
Rather, employees there were plotting and planning more ways to entice players to spend their money in hopes of making more money for at least the next 18 months.Lottery games’ sales trends here and China Porcelain tile. Decades of product development experience. Focus groups. Industry gut.All are factors that go into the development of new lottery games.
Developing new draw-based games, such as The Daily Number and Treasure Hunt, are derived through the same process as instant games but take longer to develop. They require creating software and seemingly endless testing to make sure a game works before it can be introduced to the lottery’s line-up, according to lottery officials.With instant tickets, the focus is on keeping the games fresh and appealing to players. Every month, four to six new instant games are introduced and the same number are closed out. According to Scientific Games, the nation's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, that is a higher frequency than most state lotteries.
“You always have to have something on deck to not only replace that certain type of game, whether it be a theme or whether it be a price point,” said Todd Rucci, lottery director. “The science behind that is truly amazing.”The lottery maintains an 18-month calendar that projects when each game is going to end and what comes next, said Cal Heath, the lottery’s director of research and regulations.
“We’re really looking at having the research done maybe six to 12 months in advance of when we launch those new games,” he said.That means, for example, ideas for winter games are being bandied about in the heat of summer, said Kara Sparks, deputy marketing director for product management.
Many game concepts bubble up from previous instant games. Sometimes, players suggest ideas and those ideas are welcome although lottery officials emphasize there is no remuneration offered in return.Once mock versions of game concepts are developed, they are taken to focus groups to gauge reactions and player input.
Primarily, Heath said these sessions are in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia but on occasion have been held in other locations around the state, including Harrisburg.“We usually try to get enough players from an urban and suburban setting because quite often they’ll think a little different,” he said.
Participants in focus groups are carefully screened. For example, Heath said you don’t want players who dislike the “extended play” games like Bingo Star or Crossword 5X evaluating that type of game concept. Or players who only play the $5, $10 and $20 instant games are not chosen to test out lower-priced game ideas.A moderator leads groups of 10 to 12 participants through a 90-minute discussion that is observed behind a one-way mirror by lottery employees.
Some focus on the manner in which the session is conducted to be sure concepts are presented in an objective fashion. Others zero in on what participants are saying about the games themselves.The purpose of the focus group is to gather ideas on how to adjust a particular game or provide food for thought for future games.
“It really does help us hone the games that we introduce,” Heath said.The lottery shared snippets of a video of a focus group discussion that helped shape the instant ticket game named “polished tiles.”Immediately upon seeing the picture of a bulging wallet on a mock ticket, one woman remarked, “I like it all already.”
Another commented on how she liked the large print and seeing that the $5 game offered 12 chances to win.Then they turned to a picture of the mock ticket with the scratch-off material removed. Several quickly discerned a match with a winning number that would have carried a $50 prize if the ticket was real.Mock tickets shown to focus groups are always winners. Svitko said, “It’s not to improve their opinion but it’s to make sure they understand how to play because sometimes some games are more confusing.”
The energetic response “Fat Wallet” evoked from this and other focus groups helped convince Sparks and other lottery officials this game would be a winner with players hoping the game would live up to its name.Once a concept is nailed down, the artwork gets finetuned and color choices are made. Lottery officials are careful that games on sale at the same time have different themes and color schemes.
Based on focus group reaction, decisions might be made to add a second-chance of winning to a game. And the ticket price gets evaluated as well. Lottery likes to have a good mix of different priced tickets on sale at the same time to attract all types of players.The odds of winning are yet another matter. Instant tickets offer anywhere between a 25 and 33 percent chance of winning on each ticket. The number of winning tickets can differ depending on the prize structure. If a game offers multiple top prizes, the number of small prizes might be lower than a game with fewer top prizes.
Lottery officials also point out that once a game's top prizes are claimed, the game is closed and no more of its tickets are sold.All of this is done to ensure a good playing experience, which lottery officials realize is critical to keeping players coming back to buy more tickets.Throughout the process, lottery officials consult with Scientific Games to draw on their experience with lottery games.
“It’s one thing for something to sound great but we can’t afford so-so games,” Svitko said. “We don’t take risks when it comes to generating money for older Pennsylvanians.”Players take risk. So does Scientific Games, which gets paid based on a percentage of ticket sold. Last year, the company was paid nearly $62.3 million for its work with the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Its contract for instant games requires Scientific Games to cover the cost of printing tickets, which is done at its facility in Alpharetta, Ga.; warehousing them; and distributing them.If the lottery would decide a game isn't selling well and decides to close it down, Scientific Games is obligated to pull it off the street even if it hasn't recouped all its costs. That's how its contract is structured giving the company incentive to partner with the lottery to ensure every game is a moneymaker, officials said.
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The Pennsylvania Lottery employs 236 people. Some 152 others work for state’s lottery servicing contractor, New York-based Scientific Games International, Inc., here in the commonwealth.Although there has been talk for well over the past year of outsourcing the lottery’s management, that issue remains unresolved.But a recent visit to lottery’s highly secured headquarters in Lower Swatara Twp. offered no clue that such upheaval was on the horizon.
Rather, employees there were plotting and planning more ways to entice players to spend their money in hopes of making more money for at least the next 18 months.Lottery games’ sales trends here and China Porcelain tile. Decades of product development experience. Focus groups. Industry gut.All are factors that go into the development of new lottery games.
Developing new draw-based games, such as The Daily Number and Treasure Hunt, are derived through the same process as instant games but take longer to develop. They require creating software and seemingly endless testing to make sure a game works before it can be introduced to the lottery’s line-up, according to lottery officials.With instant tickets, the focus is on keeping the games fresh and appealing to players. Every month, four to six new instant games are introduced and the same number are closed out. According to Scientific Games, the nation's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, that is a higher frequency than most state lotteries.
“You always have to have something on deck to not only replace that certain type of game, whether it be a theme or whether it be a price point,” said Todd Rucci, lottery director. “The science behind that is truly amazing.”The lottery maintains an 18-month calendar that projects when each game is going to end and what comes next, said Cal Heath, the lottery’s director of research and regulations.
“We’re really looking at having the research done maybe six to 12 months in advance of when we launch those new games,” he said.That means, for example, ideas for winter games are being bandied about in the heat of summer, said Kara Sparks, deputy marketing director for product management.
Many game concepts bubble up from previous instant games. Sometimes, players suggest ideas and those ideas are welcome although lottery officials emphasize there is no remuneration offered in return.Once mock versions of game concepts are developed, they are taken to focus groups to gauge reactions and player input.
Primarily, Heath said these sessions are in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia but on occasion have been held in other locations around the state, including Harrisburg.“We usually try to get enough players from an urban and suburban setting because quite often they’ll think a little different,” he said.
Participants in focus groups are carefully screened. For example, Heath said you don’t want players who dislike the “extended play” games like Bingo Star or Crossword 5X evaluating that type of game concept. Or players who only play the $5, $10 and $20 instant games are not chosen to test out lower-priced game ideas.A moderator leads groups of 10 to 12 participants through a 90-minute discussion that is observed behind a one-way mirror by lottery employees.
Some focus on the manner in which the session is conducted to be sure concepts are presented in an objective fashion. Others zero in on what participants are saying about the games themselves.The purpose of the focus group is to gather ideas on how to adjust a particular game or provide food for thought for future games.
“It really does help us hone the games that we introduce,” Heath said.The lottery shared snippets of a video of a focus group discussion that helped shape the instant ticket game named “polished tiles.”Immediately upon seeing the picture of a bulging wallet on a mock ticket, one woman remarked, “I like it all already.”
Another commented on how she liked the large print and seeing that the $5 game offered 12 chances to win.Then they turned to a picture of the mock ticket with the scratch-off material removed. Several quickly discerned a match with a winning number that would have carried a $50 prize if the ticket was real.Mock tickets shown to focus groups are always winners. Svitko said, “It’s not to improve their opinion but it’s to make sure they understand how to play because sometimes some games are more confusing.”
The energetic response “Fat Wallet” evoked from this and other focus groups helped convince Sparks and other lottery officials this game would be a winner with players hoping the game would live up to its name.Once a concept is nailed down, the artwork gets finetuned and color choices are made. Lottery officials are careful that games on sale at the same time have different themes and color schemes.
Based on focus group reaction, decisions might be made to add a second-chance of winning to a game. And the ticket price gets evaluated as well. Lottery likes to have a good mix of different priced tickets on sale at the same time to attract all types of players.The odds of winning are yet another matter. Instant tickets offer anywhere between a 25 and 33 percent chance of winning on each ticket. The number of winning tickets can differ depending on the prize structure. If a game offers multiple top prizes, the number of small prizes might be lower than a game with fewer top prizes.
Lottery officials also point out that once a game's top prizes are claimed, the game is closed and no more of its tickets are sold.All of this is done to ensure a good playing experience, which lottery officials realize is critical to keeping players coming back to buy more tickets.Throughout the process, lottery officials consult with Scientific Games to draw on their experience with lottery games.
“It’s one thing for something to sound great but we can’t afford so-so games,” Svitko said. “We don’t take risks when it comes to generating money for older Pennsylvanians.”Players take risk. So does Scientific Games, which gets paid based on a percentage of ticket sold. Last year, the company was paid nearly $62.3 million for its work with the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Its contract for instant games requires Scientific Games to cover the cost of printing tickets, which is done at its facility in Alpharetta, Ga.; warehousing them; and distributing them.If the lottery would decide a game isn't selling well and decides to close it down, Scientific Games is obligated to pull it off the street even if it hasn't recouped all its costs. That's how its contract is structured giving the company incentive to partner with the lottery to ensure every game is a moneymaker, officials said.
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What's up with Grove Arcade?
I’d be remiss if I didn’t pause for a minute here and acknowledge a loss at the paper.Last week, six of my newsroom colleagues were laid off, the latest indication of tough economic times in the newspaper business. I just want to say that these six folks — Susan Reinhardt, Jason Sandford, John Fletcher, Jaime McKee, Thomas Fraser and Rob Mikulak — are all top-notch people and journalists, and I’ll miss them around the office.
They gave a lot of fantastic years to this paper and the community, and I wish them the best.I’m pretty sure the only thing keeping me employed is your burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal. So let’s get to this week’s batch.Chuck Tessier, of Ceramic tile, which handles maintenance on the landmark building, said the scaffolding is part of a 14-18-month project to repair the parapet walls and the roof of the main building. It is there mainly as a safety precaution.
“They’re working on the parapets and the caps of the parapets, and we want to make sure nothing falls off onto the sidewalk while they’re doing that,” Tessier said. “They will move the scaffolding with them as they move around the building.”Water has been seeping through the terra cotta tile on the parapets, then traveling down the walls. The workers will remove the cap, seal up the parapets and add flashing, then replace the caps. Next, crews will re-roof the building.
“They are going to have to take it down to the original structure, then come back up with layers of insulation and a membrane roof,” Tessier said.Built by malaria chill tonic magnate E.W. Grove, the Grove Arcade opened in 1929. At 269,000 square feet, it now houses shops and restaurants on the first floor and offices and apartments above. The building became federal offices during World War II but closed when the National Climatic Data Center moved to a new federal building in the mid-1990s.
As far as the tiles, many of which on the lower level have become faded or discolored looking, Tessier said that repair will come after the roof and parapet project. The water seepage has affected glazing on the tiles, and a previous glaze used on them was inappropriate and allowed ultraviolet rays to discolor them.The tiles and roof of the top two floors were redone previously, and they give a good idea of what the rest of the building will look like when the tile work eventually is done.
“First of all, we didn’t eliminate all the one-hour times for parking on that street,” said Harry Brown, parking services manager for the city of Asheville. “We just took the six spaces directly adjacent to our parking deck and made it bus parking. It’s perfect for it, for our city buses, and we don’t have enough parking for tour buses downtown.”Right now, the only spot tour buses can park is next to the Wall Street deck on Battery Park. Brown said they’ve gotten several calls from tour bus companies asking about places to park.
“We decided to make it accessible on South Lexington so people on tour buses could access that part of town,” Brown said. “Our mission is to accommodate everybody.”Andrea Barclay knows what makes a great kitchen. The classically trained pastry chef has worked in enough of them, including the one at her popular Global Gourmet restaurant in Carbondale.
In fact, it was that kitchen’s cramped, enclosed layout that drove the design of her home version. “I’m tall, so I feel claustrophobic in a hurry,” the Johnston City native said, Floor tiles. “I work all day and night in my small kitchen at Global, so I really wanted to open up my kitchen at home.”
When Barclay bought the house last year, the kitchen was filled with white appliances, brown-painted cabinets and worn linoleum flooring. Along with completing many other projects, she expanded her kitchen’s size and vastly improved its aesthetics. She worked with a local contractor to design the layout, ordered new cabinets and removed the soffit above the cabinets to open the ceiling height. This captured a more airy atmosphere while also allowing her to display unique artwork.
The black marble floor contrasts starkly against the white cabinets and tall, angled ceiling. It is a visual that almost didn’t come to fruition. “My original plan was to have dark, distressed looking cabinets with a white marble floor,” she said. But when Barclay fell in love with the black marble, it was a perfect fit. It transitions seamlessly into the upper level’s wood floor that she refinished to its original light color.
The kitchen opens to a sitting area Barclay designed to allow guests to enjoy a casual chat, a glass of wine and an up-close view of the chef in her element.Her kitchen is loaded with gadgets, platters, pots and pans — some of which are stored in a printer’s table sideboard she purchased from Restoration Hardware, one of Barclay’s favorite furniture vendors.
The high-level commercial equipment is all stainless steel and provides a perfect pairing to the silver specks within the honed white granite countertop. “It’s gorgeous,” she said. “I love a splash of bling, so I fell in love with it. It’s very unique and super thick, so it will withstand the wear and tear of a chef.”
The refrigerator, range and hood are all Viking, one of the top names in kitchen appliances. Barclay’s Bosch dishwasher is also a sight to see.“It’s my favorite appliance,” she said, marveling at the red light that shines on the floor to let you know that the ultra-quiet machine is running a cycle. “It’s so cool.”“Cool” is how Barclay describes the overall feel of her kitchen. Rustic, yet modern, with a definite European flair.
“It’s a mix of Paris and Provence,” she said. “It is very rustic European-looking. I’ve made several trips to Europe and love a mix of French/Italian country, but with a modern twist.”
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They gave a lot of fantastic years to this paper and the community, and I wish them the best.I’m pretty sure the only thing keeping me employed is your burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal. So let’s get to this week’s batch.Chuck Tessier, of Ceramic tile, which handles maintenance on the landmark building, said the scaffolding is part of a 14-18-month project to repair the parapet walls and the roof of the main building. It is there mainly as a safety precaution.
“They’re working on the parapets and the caps of the parapets, and we want to make sure nothing falls off onto the sidewalk while they’re doing that,” Tessier said. “They will move the scaffolding with them as they move around the building.”Water has been seeping through the terra cotta tile on the parapets, then traveling down the walls. The workers will remove the cap, seal up the parapets and add flashing, then replace the caps. Next, crews will re-roof the building.
“They are going to have to take it down to the original structure, then come back up with layers of insulation and a membrane roof,” Tessier said.Built by malaria chill tonic magnate E.W. Grove, the Grove Arcade opened in 1929. At 269,000 square feet, it now houses shops and restaurants on the first floor and offices and apartments above. The building became federal offices during World War II but closed when the National Climatic Data Center moved to a new federal building in the mid-1990s.
As far as the tiles, many of which on the lower level have become faded or discolored looking, Tessier said that repair will come after the roof and parapet project. The water seepage has affected glazing on the tiles, and a previous glaze used on them was inappropriate and allowed ultraviolet rays to discolor them.The tiles and roof of the top two floors were redone previously, and they give a good idea of what the rest of the building will look like when the tile work eventually is done.
“First of all, we didn’t eliminate all the one-hour times for parking on that street,” said Harry Brown, parking services manager for the city of Asheville. “We just took the six spaces directly adjacent to our parking deck and made it bus parking. It’s perfect for it, for our city buses, and we don’t have enough parking for tour buses downtown.”Right now, the only spot tour buses can park is next to the Wall Street deck on Battery Park. Brown said they’ve gotten several calls from tour bus companies asking about places to park.
“We decided to make it accessible on South Lexington so people on tour buses could access that part of town,” Brown said. “Our mission is to accommodate everybody.”Andrea Barclay knows what makes a great kitchen. The classically trained pastry chef has worked in enough of them, including the one at her popular Global Gourmet restaurant in Carbondale.
In fact, it was that kitchen’s cramped, enclosed layout that drove the design of her home version. “I’m tall, so I feel claustrophobic in a hurry,” the Johnston City native said, Floor tiles. “I work all day and night in my small kitchen at Global, so I really wanted to open up my kitchen at home.”
When Barclay bought the house last year, the kitchen was filled with white appliances, brown-painted cabinets and worn linoleum flooring. Along with completing many other projects, she expanded her kitchen’s size and vastly improved its aesthetics. She worked with a local contractor to design the layout, ordered new cabinets and removed the soffit above the cabinets to open the ceiling height. This captured a more airy atmosphere while also allowing her to display unique artwork.
The black marble floor contrasts starkly against the white cabinets and tall, angled ceiling. It is a visual that almost didn’t come to fruition. “My original plan was to have dark, distressed looking cabinets with a white marble floor,” she said. But when Barclay fell in love with the black marble, it was a perfect fit. It transitions seamlessly into the upper level’s wood floor that she refinished to its original light color.
The kitchen opens to a sitting area Barclay designed to allow guests to enjoy a casual chat, a glass of wine and an up-close view of the chef in her element.Her kitchen is loaded with gadgets, platters, pots and pans — some of which are stored in a printer’s table sideboard she purchased from Restoration Hardware, one of Barclay’s favorite furniture vendors.
The high-level commercial equipment is all stainless steel and provides a perfect pairing to the silver specks within the honed white granite countertop. “It’s gorgeous,” she said. “I love a splash of bling, so I fell in love with it. It’s very unique and super thick, so it will withstand the wear and tear of a chef.”
The refrigerator, range and hood are all Viking, one of the top names in kitchen appliances. Barclay’s Bosch dishwasher is also a sight to see.“It’s my favorite appliance,” she said, marveling at the red light that shines on the floor to let you know that the ultra-quiet machine is running a cycle. “It’s so cool.”“Cool” is how Barclay describes the overall feel of her kitchen. Rustic, yet modern, with a definite European flair.
“It’s a mix of Paris and Provence,” she said. “It is very rustic European-looking. I’ve made several trips to Europe and love a mix of French/Italian country, but with a modern twist.”
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2013年8月19日星期一
After move, Dolce Vita improves
As any long-time Phantom fan knows, searching out authentic Italian meals in Central PA is both a challenge and a passion for your favorite restaurant reviewer.Such a challenge/passion often results in disappointment and lowered expectations.A good example was several years ago when I took Italian friends to a place I’d heard of in Enola called Dolce Vita (literally “sweet life”).
The experience was less than sweet, so far less that I didn’t even write about it. I figured I’d wait, give it a second chance, but I just never went back.So it was with suspicion and low expectations that I ventured out to the relocated Dolce Vita, which moved this year from Enola to Camp Hill.
Well, vivere e imparare — live and learn!For although Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is owned and operated by the same Nino Basic who owned and operated Dolce Vita in Enola, dining in the new location is very different.Maybe some of that is atmospheric. As I recall, Dolce Vita in Enola was just a cut above a working-class neighborhood saloon and about as Italianate as a blue-collar bar in Essen. Not that there’s anything wrong with establishments of Ceramic tile. It’s just they’re rarely home to well-made angel hair pasta. And the overall feel at Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is different.
Located in a renovated two-story house along the main drag of Market Street, it has a nice, quiet Italian feel thanks to its warm colors and lighting, an interior stone archway, tile floors, linen tablecloths, Italian art, a first-floor serving bar — although the place is BYOB — and Italian opera music playing in the background.
Appetizers included mushrooms stuffed with lump crab and baked clams casino with baby clams. Both were exceptional.The regular menu, which seems to me entirely sufficient, is accompanied with a list of “specials” (chicken meatballs and crabmeat-stuffed salmon, for example) that seem to outnumber the regulars.
This generally raises questions for me along the lines of: How can any kitchen, let alone a small one, offer such variety without liberal use of frozen foods? And, if one is eating frozen foods, why not dine at home?But, having said that, entrées sampled at my table were very good, and one was better than that.
I had steak di Napoli ($21), a New York strip steak with mushrooms, onions and green and red peppers in marinara sauce. Though the steak (ordered rare) was a tad tough and not quite rare, it was tasty. The peppers were great. And the side of pasta that comes with all nonpasta entrées was perfect.A dining partner had a “special,” capellini d’Angelo ($24), extra-thin spaghetti served with shrimp, large chunks of crab and asparagus. The dish drew rave reviews and was large enough to also provide lunch the following day.
The restaurant offers standards: red or white linguine with clams; veal or chicken Piccata or Marsala; spaghetti with meatballs or sausage; manicotti, baked ziti and just about any other classic Italian dish you can think of.But it also has offerings such as red snapper with shrimp dipped in eggs, and a house dish of sautéed veal with eggplant, porcelain tiles, ham, onions, tomato and mozzarella in a white wine sauce — in other words, variety.
This is the kind of place, largely due to its location, that can become a regular stop for a lot of people, including neighborhood walk-ins.If you bring wine, there is no corking fee. Ice buckets for white wine are available upon request. There’s better Italian in Central PA. But Dolce Vita of Camp Hill shows promise. Its challenge will be to maintain consistency given the wide variety it offers. The irony? Owner operator Nino Basic is from Yugoslavia. But, hey, everybody loves Italian.
Today’s kitchens easily supplant the bathroom as the home’s most dangerous room. While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury. Even a seemingly simple kitchen task can result in a devastating injury.
Just ask April Stewart Klausner, a New York illustrator and accomplished cook. Recently Ms. Klausner, 56, severed four tendons, multiple nerves and a blood vessel in her hand while pitting an avocado, something she’d done countless times.
Gushing blood and unable to feel or move two fingers, she was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. The injury required more than three hours of surgical repair and many months of painful rehab. It will take at least a year for the injured nerves to heal, and Ms. Klausner can only hope her hand will function normally, enabling her to resume her career full-speed.
The therapists at Lang Hand Therapy in Manhattan told her she was the fourth “avocado victim” they’d seen that month. “So add that to immersion blenders and mandolines . . . and maybe the bathroom is not the most dangerous room in the house!” Ms. Klausner said in an e-mail.
Knowledge and mindfulness are the secrets to kitchen safety. My husband used to say, “From rushing no good can come.” Don’t try to do several things at once, and leave enough time to accomplish your tasks.
Use timers, especially for foods that cook a long time. I use them for everything I cook. My favorite is the battery-operated West Bend Kitchen Timer, easily set by punching in the numbers for hours, minutes and seconds — a worthwhile investment.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/!
The experience was less than sweet, so far less that I didn’t even write about it. I figured I’d wait, give it a second chance, but I just never went back.So it was with suspicion and low expectations that I ventured out to the relocated Dolce Vita, which moved this year from Enola to Camp Hill.
Well, vivere e imparare — live and learn!For although Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is owned and operated by the same Nino Basic who owned and operated Dolce Vita in Enola, dining in the new location is very different.Maybe some of that is atmospheric. As I recall, Dolce Vita in Enola was just a cut above a working-class neighborhood saloon and about as Italianate as a blue-collar bar in Essen. Not that there’s anything wrong with establishments of Ceramic tile. It’s just they’re rarely home to well-made angel hair pasta. And the overall feel at Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is different.
Located in a renovated two-story house along the main drag of Market Street, it has a nice, quiet Italian feel thanks to its warm colors and lighting, an interior stone archway, tile floors, linen tablecloths, Italian art, a first-floor serving bar — although the place is BYOB — and Italian opera music playing in the background.
Appetizers included mushrooms stuffed with lump crab and baked clams casino with baby clams. Both were exceptional.The regular menu, which seems to me entirely sufficient, is accompanied with a list of “specials” (chicken meatballs and crabmeat-stuffed salmon, for example) that seem to outnumber the regulars.
This generally raises questions for me along the lines of: How can any kitchen, let alone a small one, offer such variety without liberal use of frozen foods? And, if one is eating frozen foods, why not dine at home?But, having said that, entrées sampled at my table were very good, and one was better than that.
I had steak di Napoli ($21), a New York strip steak with mushrooms, onions and green and red peppers in marinara sauce. Though the steak (ordered rare) was a tad tough and not quite rare, it was tasty. The peppers were great. And the side of pasta that comes with all nonpasta entrées was perfect.A dining partner had a “special,” capellini d’Angelo ($24), extra-thin spaghetti served with shrimp, large chunks of crab and asparagus. The dish drew rave reviews and was large enough to also provide lunch the following day.
The restaurant offers standards: red or white linguine with clams; veal or chicken Piccata or Marsala; spaghetti with meatballs or sausage; manicotti, baked ziti and just about any other classic Italian dish you can think of.But it also has offerings such as red snapper with shrimp dipped in eggs, and a house dish of sautéed veal with eggplant, porcelain tiles, ham, onions, tomato and mozzarella in a white wine sauce — in other words, variety.
This is the kind of place, largely due to its location, that can become a regular stop for a lot of people, including neighborhood walk-ins.If you bring wine, there is no corking fee. Ice buckets for white wine are available upon request. There’s better Italian in Central PA. But Dolce Vita of Camp Hill shows promise. Its challenge will be to maintain consistency given the wide variety it offers. The irony? Owner operator Nino Basic is from Yugoslavia. But, hey, everybody loves Italian.
Today’s kitchens easily supplant the bathroom as the home’s most dangerous room. While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury. Even a seemingly simple kitchen task can result in a devastating injury.
Just ask April Stewart Klausner, a New York illustrator and accomplished cook. Recently Ms. Klausner, 56, severed four tendons, multiple nerves and a blood vessel in her hand while pitting an avocado, something she’d done countless times.
Gushing blood and unable to feel or move two fingers, she was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. The injury required more than three hours of surgical repair and many months of painful rehab. It will take at least a year for the injured nerves to heal, and Ms. Klausner can only hope her hand will function normally, enabling her to resume her career full-speed.
The therapists at Lang Hand Therapy in Manhattan told her she was the fourth “avocado victim” they’d seen that month. “So add that to immersion blenders and mandolines . . . and maybe the bathroom is not the most dangerous room in the house!” Ms. Klausner said in an e-mail.
Knowledge and mindfulness are the secrets to kitchen safety. My husband used to say, “From rushing no good can come.” Don’t try to do several things at once, and leave enough time to accomplish your tasks.
Use timers, especially for foods that cook a long time. I use them for everything I cook. My favorite is the battery-operated West Bend Kitchen Timer, easily set by punching in the numbers for hours, minutes and seconds — a worthwhile investment.
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Fear and triumph
Dozens of Seddon residents have been told that if the Haldon dam breaches they will get 90 minutes' warning before their properties could be flooded.Marlborough District Council assets and services manager Mark Wheeler said that in a worst-case scenario 44 properties in Seddon could be affected if floodwater flowed into Starborough Creek.
The dam, in Starborough Creek, is about 15 kilometres out of Seddon and is owned by Seddon farmer Dick Bell. He was advised to lower the level after the magnitude 6.5 quake on July 21, but after Friday's magnitude 6.6 quake and subsequent heavy rain, the council sent an engineer to supervise an emergency plan to lower the water level.
A dam engineer overseeing the site also identified more issues with the dam's stability during the process, which was slowed by heavy rain at the weekend.Nearby residents were warned and emergency services were on standby in Seddon because of the increased risk, Mr Wheeler said.
A warning note was delivered to each household yesterday afternoon informing the occupants of the Ceramic tile and the possibility they might be asked to leave their homes at short notice.Emergency services would go door to door evacuating properties if necessary, Mr Wheeler said.
Properties at risk included eight rural properties, 12 houses and up to 24 sections in Seddon township on the southeastern side of Starborough Creek. The engineer said extreme flooding was unlikely but the council decided it was in the public interest to be prepared, Mr Wheeler said. Crew member Pani Rarere, of Kaikoura, said lines were bent and rock-ballast was slumped along the track between Ward and Seddon.
A 3km section at Hauwai near Grassmere was especially hard hit, he said.A work train had delivered six wagons of rock-fill from Hapuku, near Kaikoura, to fill collapsed areas beneath the rails, he said. Another 12 wagons were expected.A tamping machine from Greymouth packed down the rock.
A broken bridge was temporarily fixed ahead of a specialist bridging gang from Blenheim building a replacement.Bruce Pattie, who farms at Hauwai, said immediately after the quake, the lines resembled roller-coaster tracks. One section had fallen off the embankment and a bridge was out.
He rang KiwiRail to make sure no trains were coming. A 22-year-old Seddon woman had a weekend of horror, experiencing a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Friday and then a bus crash on Sunday.
Micha Heard was travelling back to Palmerston North after spending a week with her family in the Awatere when the bus she was in crashed near Shannon.The former Marlborough Girls' College student had been staying with her parents in their Redwood Pass Rd home while on a study-break from her nursing studies at UCOL in Palmerston North.
She and her father were driving to Blenheim when the quake hit on Friday."People had stopped their Floor tiles and were checking their tyres," Miss Heard said.They carried on to Blenheim to check on her grandmother then drove home to help clean up the minor damage.
"It was just scary," she said."We ran outside every time there was an aftershock."After two days of being on unsteady ground, she caught the ferry back to Wellington on Sunday and got on a bus to Palmerston North along with 38 other passengers.
The bus was crossing a narrow bridge when the driver appeared to lose control, Miss Heard said."He seemed to click the bridge and then crashed into the grass gully," she said."Everyone was screaming, saying ‘we're going to crash'."Three people slammed on top of her as the bus veered off the road and tipped over at the northern entrance to Shannon.Miss Heard landed on the bottom and smashed her head on the glass window.
After struggling out from underneath the people piled on top of her, she climbed over the seat and helped some other passengers push the emergency window out.Apart from a big bump on her head and some bruising on her body, she was not seriously hurt, she said.
"I was shocked at what happened but I stayed calm," she said."Because I'd just been through the earthquakes, I think I was less worried."Those on board were taken by ambulance and police cars to the Club Hotel in Shannon, where a triage centre was set up by St John medics.Six people were taken to Palmerston North Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and were all discharged by yesterday.
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The QuadTech Color Quality Solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between in-line color control and off-line color measurement industry leaders.
QuadTech’s recently introduced Color Quality Solution is the world’s first in-line color and ink control for packaging presses. The solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between QuadTech’s in-line color measurement and off-line color measurement industry leader X-Rite. This enables a standard spectral color measurement from ink dispensing and printing stages. Comparisons of printed work with the original color information begin immediately and the Color Measurement System with SpectralCamTM shows real-time ?E, solid density and dot gain values via an operator touch screen.
QuadTech’s Color Measurement System with SpectralCam HD enables continuous, in-line monitoring of all packaging substrates, including challenging transparent, translucent and reflective films. It accurately measures the spectral response and calculates, and dot gain all at full press speeds, ensuring consistent results and minimal make-ready waste. The system also utilizes a web stabilizer unit that enables color measurement over a certified BCRA ceramic tile without risk of substrate corrugation.
Also available for the package printer is the Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic Register Guidance System, which is suitable for foil, film and paper, as well as for non-print processes such as die-cutting. Its unique scanning heads can detect a wide range of pale and low-contrast marks and are flexible to transition to any new production substrate.
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The dam, in Starborough Creek, is about 15 kilometres out of Seddon and is owned by Seddon farmer Dick Bell. He was advised to lower the level after the magnitude 6.5 quake on July 21, but after Friday's magnitude 6.6 quake and subsequent heavy rain, the council sent an engineer to supervise an emergency plan to lower the water level.
A dam engineer overseeing the site also identified more issues with the dam's stability during the process, which was slowed by heavy rain at the weekend.Nearby residents were warned and emergency services were on standby in Seddon because of the increased risk, Mr Wheeler said.
A warning note was delivered to each household yesterday afternoon informing the occupants of the Ceramic tile and the possibility they might be asked to leave their homes at short notice.Emergency services would go door to door evacuating properties if necessary, Mr Wheeler said.
Properties at risk included eight rural properties, 12 houses and up to 24 sections in Seddon township on the southeastern side of Starborough Creek. The engineer said extreme flooding was unlikely but the council decided it was in the public interest to be prepared, Mr Wheeler said. Crew member Pani Rarere, of Kaikoura, said lines were bent and rock-ballast was slumped along the track between Ward and Seddon.
A 3km section at Hauwai near Grassmere was especially hard hit, he said.A work train had delivered six wagons of rock-fill from Hapuku, near Kaikoura, to fill collapsed areas beneath the rails, he said. Another 12 wagons were expected.A tamping machine from Greymouth packed down the rock.
A broken bridge was temporarily fixed ahead of a specialist bridging gang from Blenheim building a replacement.Bruce Pattie, who farms at Hauwai, said immediately after the quake, the lines resembled roller-coaster tracks. One section had fallen off the embankment and a bridge was out.
He rang KiwiRail to make sure no trains were coming. A 22-year-old Seddon woman had a weekend of horror, experiencing a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Friday and then a bus crash on Sunday.
Micha Heard was travelling back to Palmerston North after spending a week with her family in the Awatere when the bus she was in crashed near Shannon.The former Marlborough Girls' College student had been staying with her parents in their Redwood Pass Rd home while on a study-break from her nursing studies at UCOL in Palmerston North.
She and her father were driving to Blenheim when the quake hit on Friday."People had stopped their Floor tiles and were checking their tyres," Miss Heard said.They carried on to Blenheim to check on her grandmother then drove home to help clean up the minor damage.
"It was just scary," she said."We ran outside every time there was an aftershock."After two days of being on unsteady ground, she caught the ferry back to Wellington on Sunday and got on a bus to Palmerston North along with 38 other passengers.
The bus was crossing a narrow bridge when the driver appeared to lose control, Miss Heard said."He seemed to click the bridge and then crashed into the grass gully," she said."Everyone was screaming, saying ‘we're going to crash'."Three people slammed on top of her as the bus veered off the road and tipped over at the northern entrance to Shannon.Miss Heard landed on the bottom and smashed her head on the glass window.
After struggling out from underneath the people piled on top of her, she climbed over the seat and helped some other passengers push the emergency window out.Apart from a big bump on her head and some bruising on her body, she was not seriously hurt, she said.
"I was shocked at what happened but I stayed calm," she said."Because I'd just been through the earthquakes, I think I was less worried."Those on board were taken by ambulance and police cars to the Club Hotel in Shannon, where a triage centre was set up by St John medics.Six people were taken to Palmerston North Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and were all discharged by yesterday.
QuadTech offers fully integrated solutions including register and ribbon control, color control, ink control, 100% web inspection and data management software for virtually all printing and converting situations. For example, QuadTech’s Inspection System has a modular architecture that enables the system to inspect at any resolution on a variety of substrate surfaces on any web width—regardless of whether a press is Gravure, Offset, Flexo or Digital. The system ensures 100% inspection on all print or non-print product, web or sheet, throughout the entire print run.
The QuadTech Color Quality Solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between in-line color control and off-line color measurement industry leaders.
QuadTech’s recently introduced Color Quality Solution is the world’s first in-line color and ink control for packaging presses. The solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between QuadTech’s in-line color measurement and off-line color measurement industry leader X-Rite. This enables a standard spectral color measurement from ink dispensing and printing stages. Comparisons of printed work with the original color information begin immediately and the Color Measurement System with SpectralCamTM shows real-time ?E, solid density and dot gain values via an operator touch screen.
QuadTech’s Color Measurement System with SpectralCam HD enables continuous, in-line monitoring of all packaging substrates, including challenging transparent, translucent and reflective films. It accurately measures the spectral response and calculates, and dot gain all at full press speeds, ensuring consistent results and minimal make-ready waste. The system also utilizes a web stabilizer unit that enables color measurement over a certified BCRA ceramic tile without risk of substrate corrugation.
Also available for the package printer is the Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic Register Guidance System, which is suitable for foil, film and paper, as well as for non-print processes such as die-cutting. Its unique scanning heads can detect a wide range of pale and low-contrast marks and are flexible to transition to any new production substrate.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/!
2013年8月14日星期三
Outdoor Elegance Meets Cutting Edge Technology
If anything in the summer of 2013 points to still evolving homeowner expectations, it may be the frequency with which locals are integrating screen porches, patios, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens into original landscaping schemes that artfully marry the house to its setting.
Gone are the days of minimal outdoor improvements; today’s homeowners are inclined to stay put and express themselves — which is why the traditional house as we’ve known it is becoming more personalized — in short, a home.
“It’s a real renaissance,” said Craig Durosko founder and chairman of Sun Design Remodeling Specialists, and one of the housing industry’s more prescient trend spotters.
“Interestingly, when we started this company in the 1980s our core specialty was opening up views and creating visual continuum, so indoor/outdoor solutions are just a logical extension of what our culture has always been about.”
Asked about current projects, Durosko said that Fairfax County’s more affluent homeowners are actively seeking to better articulate the relationship of the house and polished tiles — an impulse which has gradually become a passion for outdoor spaces that can be used in both the hottest days of summer and fall’s chilly nights.
“Homeowners want outdoor rooms — spaces that are wired for entertainment, useable for seven or eight months of the year, and so easy to maintain that the usual repair and replacement tasks are mostly eliminated,” Durosko said. “Naturally, the changes must also enhance the home architecturally.”
To meet a rising criteria, Durosko and colleagues constantly stay on top of a new generation of weather-resistant materials, absorbing and applying fine building techniques that will shape non-traditional materials into designs perfectly suited to the home's style and setting.
Starting with a blank canvas — the unadorned rear elevation to a Georgian-style brick home in McLean — Parker imagined a six-sided pavilion, with 10-foot ceilings and sweeping vistas.
The structure would segue from the preexisting sunroom, courtesy of two sets of matching French doors. The white exterior trim is now crowned with a white balustrade visually connected to a columned “arbor trellis” that adds definition to the rear elevation. Since the high-ceiling interior the owners wanted precluded a conventional "pitched" roof — which would have obstructed a second floor window — Parker designed an inverted membrane ceiling that accommodates internal drainage tied into the existing underground system.
Rainspouts are concealed inside the trimmed porch columns and extended, unseen, along the ogee end "eagle head" trellis. The trellis “ends,” in turn, continue as a decorative motif around the top of the porch.
The overall design, as Parker envisioned, perfectly elaborates the home's classic architecture while spotlighting the impressive "English garden" that dominates the backyard. The existing barbecue grill remains steps from either the kitchen or the porch, but now there are multiple dining venues. From the porch, in fact, the owners can keep an eye on the pool when the children are playing.
The patchwork design of the English garden, the old, flagstone patio, the small pond with running water, the crepe myrtles along the property line — all give the setting a refined textural elegance.
“We think of an outdoor living plan is a creative response to an owner's personal requirements,” says Bob Gallagher, whose extensive design/build portfolio extends back some 25 years. “The important point is not how much of it is open or enclosed, but how well the whole supports a lifestyle in which exposure to nature is the primary goal.”
A recent dining decking plus sunroom solution in Oak Hill illustrates the point. After years of occupying a home custom-designed precisely to exploit a pretty wooded setting, the owners had decided they wanted a still stronger link to the outdoors. Low-maintenance was an essential ingredient, but they initially envisioned an “China ceramic tile,” free from insects — yet with dramatic views in all directions.
“They had looked at screen porches,” Gallagher said. “The idea was an enclosed space on the new dining deck. Something of a place apart. A transitional foot print between house and open air.”
At a glance, the resulting 10.5-foot by 12.5-foot sunroom is a neatly balanced space plan that seems neither closed nor overexposed to the elements. Floor-to-ceiling windows define the room on every elevation. Overhead, two skylights installed on a hipped roof allow 25 square feet of natural light. Ceramic tile flooring and other neutral finishes reinforce the natural, open ambiance, which is visually linked to the welcoming dining deck.
To preserve generous views on the existing rear elevation, Gallagher and team placed the sunroom directly off the kitchen to the left of the family room. Built-ins and a fireplace comfortably integrate the space to the existing interior. The room is a favored spot to watch the trees, and mostly opened-up for cross breezes on temperate days.
Since upkeep requirements were to be restricted to an annual pressure wash, even the sunroom's exterior paneling is low-maintenance Hardiboard. Trex decking, aluminum balusters and vinyl-clad posts further an outdoor design scheme that is also easy to maintain.
Sometimes Durosko's first call from a homeowner comes when some weather-exposed part of an existing house has conspicuously failed.
To repair the front facade of a Fairfax home, for instance, Durosko and team replaced a leaking flat roof portico with an architecturally-appropriate alternative that features a concave metal roof. In lieu of the original wood-trimmed front-window, the remodeler called for an aluminum-framed arch-topped window integrated with other exterior elements. For added weather-protection, new portico supports are trimmed in PVC.
Gone are the days of minimal outdoor improvements; today’s homeowners are inclined to stay put and express themselves — which is why the traditional house as we’ve known it is becoming more personalized — in short, a home.
“It’s a real renaissance,” said Craig Durosko founder and chairman of Sun Design Remodeling Specialists, and one of the housing industry’s more prescient trend spotters.
“Interestingly, when we started this company in the 1980s our core specialty was opening up views and creating visual continuum, so indoor/outdoor solutions are just a logical extension of what our culture has always been about.”
Asked about current projects, Durosko said that Fairfax County’s more affluent homeowners are actively seeking to better articulate the relationship of the house and polished tiles — an impulse which has gradually become a passion for outdoor spaces that can be used in both the hottest days of summer and fall’s chilly nights.
“Homeowners want outdoor rooms — spaces that are wired for entertainment, useable for seven or eight months of the year, and so easy to maintain that the usual repair and replacement tasks are mostly eliminated,” Durosko said. “Naturally, the changes must also enhance the home architecturally.”
To meet a rising criteria, Durosko and colleagues constantly stay on top of a new generation of weather-resistant materials, absorbing and applying fine building techniques that will shape non-traditional materials into designs perfectly suited to the home's style and setting.
Starting with a blank canvas — the unadorned rear elevation to a Georgian-style brick home in McLean — Parker imagined a six-sided pavilion, with 10-foot ceilings and sweeping vistas.
The structure would segue from the preexisting sunroom, courtesy of two sets of matching French doors. The white exterior trim is now crowned with a white balustrade visually connected to a columned “arbor trellis” that adds definition to the rear elevation. Since the high-ceiling interior the owners wanted precluded a conventional "pitched" roof — which would have obstructed a second floor window — Parker designed an inverted membrane ceiling that accommodates internal drainage tied into the existing underground system.
Rainspouts are concealed inside the trimmed porch columns and extended, unseen, along the ogee end "eagle head" trellis. The trellis “ends,” in turn, continue as a decorative motif around the top of the porch.
The overall design, as Parker envisioned, perfectly elaborates the home's classic architecture while spotlighting the impressive "English garden" that dominates the backyard. The existing barbecue grill remains steps from either the kitchen or the porch, but now there are multiple dining venues. From the porch, in fact, the owners can keep an eye on the pool when the children are playing.
The patchwork design of the English garden, the old, flagstone patio, the small pond with running water, the crepe myrtles along the property line — all give the setting a refined textural elegance.
“We think of an outdoor living plan is a creative response to an owner's personal requirements,” says Bob Gallagher, whose extensive design/build portfolio extends back some 25 years. “The important point is not how much of it is open or enclosed, but how well the whole supports a lifestyle in which exposure to nature is the primary goal.”
A recent dining decking plus sunroom solution in Oak Hill illustrates the point. After years of occupying a home custom-designed precisely to exploit a pretty wooded setting, the owners had decided they wanted a still stronger link to the outdoors. Low-maintenance was an essential ingredient, but they initially envisioned an “China ceramic tile,” free from insects — yet with dramatic views in all directions.
“They had looked at screen porches,” Gallagher said. “The idea was an enclosed space on the new dining deck. Something of a place apart. A transitional foot print between house and open air.”
At a glance, the resulting 10.5-foot by 12.5-foot sunroom is a neatly balanced space plan that seems neither closed nor overexposed to the elements. Floor-to-ceiling windows define the room on every elevation. Overhead, two skylights installed on a hipped roof allow 25 square feet of natural light. Ceramic tile flooring and other neutral finishes reinforce the natural, open ambiance, which is visually linked to the welcoming dining deck.
To preserve generous views on the existing rear elevation, Gallagher and team placed the sunroom directly off the kitchen to the left of the family room. Built-ins and a fireplace comfortably integrate the space to the existing interior. The room is a favored spot to watch the trees, and mostly opened-up for cross breezes on temperate days.
Since upkeep requirements were to be restricted to an annual pressure wash, even the sunroom's exterior paneling is low-maintenance Hardiboard. Trex decking, aluminum balusters and vinyl-clad posts further an outdoor design scheme that is also easy to maintain.
Sometimes Durosko's first call from a homeowner comes when some weather-exposed part of an existing house has conspicuously failed.
To repair the front facade of a Fairfax home, for instance, Durosko and team replaced a leaking flat roof portico with an architecturally-appropriate alternative that features a concave metal roof. In lieu of the original wood-trimmed front-window, the remodeler called for an aluminum-framed arch-topped window integrated with other exterior elements. For added weather-protection, new portico supports are trimmed in PVC.
Kingsport Ballet turns flood clean-up into restoration job
Following the July flood that inundated downtown Kingsport in two and three feet of water, Kingsport Ballet staff, volunteers, and hired hands went to work to extract, clean up, dry up and restore affected areas.The Kingsport Ballet facility was renovated into the current arts center in July of 2010. The original building housed the Dixie Maid Bakery in the 1930s and 1940s, and various businesses since then.
Kingsport Ballet renovated over 15,000 square feet of space into five studios, spacious waiting areas, dressing rooms and porcelain tiles, a wellness lounge and additional studios sublet to arts instructors. Some of the front rooms which serve as reception areas and waiting rooms were covered in old vinyl tile, which was repaired and cleaned but not replaced in 2010. The recent flood saturated the front half of the building under 2 inches of water and the vinyl tile became loose in areas and buckled in others.
Faced with various options for re-flooring, it was determined that the two layers of tile would need to come up to determine if ceramic tile, sealed concrete or other appropriate high-traffic flooring would be best in the approximately 900 square-foot area. In the process of removal, workers exposed large areas of original porcelain tile laid during the original construction of the bakery. The tile covers 90 percent of the floor affected.
During the 2010 renovations, some of the same tile was exposed in another area, but due to large spots of subfloor disrepair, only a small portion of the original tile was restored into a framed area about 4 feet by 10.
The recent flooding forced the exposure and subsequent restoration of the original hexagonal one-inch tile, typical during the 1930s and 1940s. Kingsport Ballet volunteers and staff have been stripping and cleaning the tile for several weeks in order to open doors for fall classes on Aug. 19.
In addition to restoring the waiting area floors, workers have repaired buckled subfloors in carpeted areas, ripped out and replaced base molding, repaired and patched walls that became wet during the flood and are replacing some furniture damaged by water.
The non-profit company — supported in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Kingsport Community Foundation, the City of Kingsport and various area sponsors — is seeking donations to offset renovation and restoration efforts as a result of the flood. A T-shirt commemorating the restoration has been created, and will be for sale on the corner of Cherokee and Market streets on Saturday, Aug. 17, during a downtown celebration event, and at Kingsport Ballet after that. Proceeds will help offset renovation and restoration expenses.
Kingsport Ballet is funded for general operations by the Tennessee Arts Commission under an agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts. Outreach programs are funded in part by the City of Kingsport, the East Tennessee Foundation’s Arts Fund, the Funds for At-Risk Youth with the Tennessee Arts Commission, Holston Medical Group, among others.
"If a spacecraft is hit by orbital debris it may damage the thermal protection system," said Eric Fahrenthold, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, who studies impact dynamics both experimentally and through numerical simulations. "Even if the impact is not on the main heat shield, it may still adversely affect the spacecraft. The thermal researchers take the results of impact research and assess the effect of a certain impact crater depth and volume on the survivability of a spacecraft during reentry," Fahrenthold said.
Only some of the collisions that may occur in low earth orbit can be reproduced in the laboratory. To determine the potential impact of fast-moving orbital debris on spacecraft — and to assist NASA in the design of shielding that can withstand hypervelocity impacts — Fahrenthold and his team developed a numerical algorithm that simulates the shock physics of orbital debris particles striking the layers of Kevlar,China Porcelain tile, and fiberglass that makes up a space vehicle's outer defenses.
Supercomputers enable researchers to investigate physical phenomenon that cannot be duplicated in the laboratory, either because they are too large, small, dangerous — or in this case, too fast — to reproduce with current testing technology. Running hundreds of simulations on the Ranger, Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Fahrenthold and his students have assisted NASA in the development of ballistic limit curves that predict whether a shield will be perforated when hit by a projectile of a given size and speed. NASA uses ballistic limit curves in the design and risk analysis of current and future spacecraft.
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Kingsport Ballet renovated over 15,000 square feet of space into five studios, spacious waiting areas, dressing rooms and porcelain tiles, a wellness lounge and additional studios sublet to arts instructors. Some of the front rooms which serve as reception areas and waiting rooms were covered in old vinyl tile, which was repaired and cleaned but not replaced in 2010. The recent flood saturated the front half of the building under 2 inches of water and the vinyl tile became loose in areas and buckled in others.
Faced with various options for re-flooring, it was determined that the two layers of tile would need to come up to determine if ceramic tile, sealed concrete or other appropriate high-traffic flooring would be best in the approximately 900 square-foot area. In the process of removal, workers exposed large areas of original porcelain tile laid during the original construction of the bakery. The tile covers 90 percent of the floor affected.
During the 2010 renovations, some of the same tile was exposed in another area, but due to large spots of subfloor disrepair, only a small portion of the original tile was restored into a framed area about 4 feet by 10.
The recent flooding forced the exposure and subsequent restoration of the original hexagonal one-inch tile, typical during the 1930s and 1940s. Kingsport Ballet volunteers and staff have been stripping and cleaning the tile for several weeks in order to open doors for fall classes on Aug. 19.
In addition to restoring the waiting area floors, workers have repaired buckled subfloors in carpeted areas, ripped out and replaced base molding, repaired and patched walls that became wet during the flood and are replacing some furniture damaged by water.
The non-profit company — supported in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Kingsport Community Foundation, the City of Kingsport and various area sponsors — is seeking donations to offset renovation and restoration efforts as a result of the flood. A T-shirt commemorating the restoration has been created, and will be for sale on the corner of Cherokee and Market streets on Saturday, Aug. 17, during a downtown celebration event, and at Kingsport Ballet after that. Proceeds will help offset renovation and restoration expenses.
Kingsport Ballet is funded for general operations by the Tennessee Arts Commission under an agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts. Outreach programs are funded in part by the City of Kingsport, the East Tennessee Foundation’s Arts Fund, the Funds for At-Risk Youth with the Tennessee Arts Commission, Holston Medical Group, among others.
"If a spacecraft is hit by orbital debris it may damage the thermal protection system," said Eric Fahrenthold, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, who studies impact dynamics both experimentally and through numerical simulations. "Even if the impact is not on the main heat shield, it may still adversely affect the spacecraft. The thermal researchers take the results of impact research and assess the effect of a certain impact crater depth and volume on the survivability of a spacecraft during reentry," Fahrenthold said.
Only some of the collisions that may occur in low earth orbit can be reproduced in the laboratory. To determine the potential impact of fast-moving orbital debris on spacecraft — and to assist NASA in the design of shielding that can withstand hypervelocity impacts — Fahrenthold and his team developed a numerical algorithm that simulates the shock physics of orbital debris particles striking the layers of Kevlar,China Porcelain tile, and fiberglass that makes up a space vehicle's outer defenses.
Supercomputers enable researchers to investigate physical phenomenon that cannot be duplicated in the laboratory, either because they are too large, small, dangerous — or in this case, too fast — to reproduce with current testing technology. Running hundreds of simulations on the Ranger, Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Fahrenthold and his students have assisted NASA in the development of ballistic limit curves that predict whether a shield will be perforated when hit by a projectile of a given size and speed. NASA uses ballistic limit curves in the design and risk analysis of current and future spacecraft.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/.
2013年8月12日星期一
Asheville artist creates display
That’s certainly the case of ceramic artist Alex Irvine’s new installation in Mission Hospital’s Memorial Campus lobby.The 16-foot-high piece — made of tiles inspired by Mission’s dogwood and cross logo — is designed to attract visitors.“Alex’s work brings you over here,” said Manner-McLarty, creative consultant from Asheville project management company, Heurista. “It’s large and impressive, and would entice you to explore the interactive components.”
Irvine’s work frames a tribute to the Mission Foundation, which raised $11 million for patient services last year, and the 130-year-old hospital’s major donors. In addition to recognition of Ceramic tile, a television with an updatable list of donors, as well as a historical timeline, anchors the work.
Irvine installed the piece in about a week; it was unveiled quietly last week. Foundation officials will plan an official dedication later.John Locke at the Mission Foundation said a tribute of this nature has been talked about for two decades.“Mission has been supported by donations and grants since it was founded,” he said. “A lot of times, with new buildings and department changes, recognitions get lost or maybe not rehung after a redesign. We wanted something really classy in the lobby, and we are guaranteed that this won’t change for a while.”
Irvine wanted his work to respond to the lobby’s earthy tones and natural elements — like rock face and wood design.The logo elements also worked together aesthetically, Irvine said.The cross “was a great way to fill the negative space between leaves and flowers, and balance the organic elements,” he said. “If you just cut the organic image with the grid of the tile, it can seem contrived.
“But now there is the cross and the square created by the negative space of the cross. These geometric lines gives a context for the squareness of the tiles.”
The overarching theme in this test build of the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) build is usability. Specifically, first-time usability. You might be surprised to hear this, but it turns out that Windows 8, without a Start button and with most features hidden behind hard-to-discover menus, is hard for first-time users to grok. We’re not entirely sure why Microsoft did this — it breaks one of the most important rules of interface design. Furthermore, thousands of beta testers, and tech writers like myself, warned Microsoft that it simply wouldn’t fly. Unperturbed, convinced that it knew something that we didn’t, Microsoft pushed ahead with one of the worst interface blunders of all time.
First up, Windows 8.1′s built-in Metro apps now have a “three dots” button that reveals the app’s context menu — just like Windows Phone 8. Previously, the only way to find the context menu was to stumble upon it by accident (right clicking the mouse, or swiping up). Presumably other third-party apps will have the option of including this visual prompt, too.
In the same vein, and perhaps more importantly, Microsoft’s built-in apps will now remind users to swipe in from the right to reveal the Charms bar and the Start button. Again, the Charms bar was previously only discoverable by random luck, leaving many users to wonder how to get back to the Start screen. Many Metro apps link into Share and Search on the Charms bar, too — but a fat lot of good that did, if users couldn’t find those buttons.
The test build also includes a “Help + Tips” app, which includes some video tutorials that will help you find your way around all of Windows 8.1′s new features. This is a significant step up from the previous “tutorial,” which essentially consisted of an animated, noninteractive GIF during the installation process telling you to “move your mouse into any corner.” As for why Microsoft didn’t includes these video tutorials in the original release of Windows 8, I guess the only answer is hubris.
Rounding out the other changes found in the leaked build, Skype is now pre-installed as a stock app, and Facebook and Flickr photo integration have been dropped in favor of SkyDrive. This is an obvious and fairly obnoxious play for more market/usage share from Microsoft, and really a bit of a slap in the face for any Windows 8 users who upgrade and find that they’ve lost access to their Flickr and Facebook photos. It’s possible that some functionality will be preserved by the introduction of Facebook and Flickr apps, but it still seems like an overzealous move from Microsoft. There are also some new “parallax” Start screen wallpapers that move as you scroll through your tiles, including a robot and a dragon.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/.
Irvine’s work frames a tribute to the Mission Foundation, which raised $11 million for patient services last year, and the 130-year-old hospital’s major donors. In addition to recognition of Ceramic tile, a television with an updatable list of donors, as well as a historical timeline, anchors the work.
Irvine installed the piece in about a week; it was unveiled quietly last week. Foundation officials will plan an official dedication later.John Locke at the Mission Foundation said a tribute of this nature has been talked about for two decades.“Mission has been supported by donations and grants since it was founded,” he said. “A lot of times, with new buildings and department changes, recognitions get lost or maybe not rehung after a redesign. We wanted something really classy in the lobby, and we are guaranteed that this won’t change for a while.”
Irvine wanted his work to respond to the lobby’s earthy tones and natural elements — like rock face and wood design.The logo elements also worked together aesthetically, Irvine said.The cross “was a great way to fill the negative space between leaves and flowers, and balance the organic elements,” he said. “If you just cut the organic image with the grid of the tile, it can seem contrived.
“But now there is the cross and the square created by the negative space of the cross. These geometric lines gives a context for the squareness of the tiles.”
The overarching theme in this test build of the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) build is usability. Specifically, first-time usability. You might be surprised to hear this, but it turns out that Windows 8, without a Start button and with most features hidden behind hard-to-discover menus, is hard for first-time users to grok. We’re not entirely sure why Microsoft did this — it breaks one of the most important rules of interface design. Furthermore, thousands of beta testers, and tech writers like myself, warned Microsoft that it simply wouldn’t fly. Unperturbed, convinced that it knew something that we didn’t, Microsoft pushed ahead with one of the worst interface blunders of all time.
First up, Windows 8.1′s built-in Metro apps now have a “three dots” button that reveals the app’s context menu — just like Windows Phone 8. Previously, the only way to find the context menu was to stumble upon it by accident (right clicking the mouse, or swiping up). Presumably other third-party apps will have the option of including this visual prompt, too.
In the same vein, and perhaps more importantly, Microsoft’s built-in apps will now remind users to swipe in from the right to reveal the Charms bar and the Start button. Again, the Charms bar was previously only discoverable by random luck, leaving many users to wonder how to get back to the Start screen. Many Metro apps link into Share and Search on the Charms bar, too — but a fat lot of good that did, if users couldn’t find those buttons.
The test build also includes a “Help + Tips” app, which includes some video tutorials that will help you find your way around all of Windows 8.1′s new features. This is a significant step up from the previous “tutorial,” which essentially consisted of an animated, noninteractive GIF during the installation process telling you to “move your mouse into any corner.” As for why Microsoft didn’t includes these video tutorials in the original release of Windows 8, I guess the only answer is hubris.
Rounding out the other changes found in the leaked build, Skype is now pre-installed as a stock app, and Facebook and Flickr photo integration have been dropped in favor of SkyDrive. This is an obvious and fairly obnoxious play for more market/usage share from Microsoft, and really a bit of a slap in the face for any Windows 8 users who upgrade and find that they’ve lost access to their Flickr and Facebook photos. It’s possible that some functionality will be preserved by the introduction of Facebook and Flickr apps, but it still seems like an overzealous move from Microsoft. There are also some new “parallax” Start screen wallpapers that move as you scroll through your tiles, including a robot and a dragon.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/.
Jessamine County Burglary Suspect
Police say a Jessamine County burglary suspect who likely hurt himself after falling through the ceiling of a pawn shop early Monday has been arrested, and police say he is the same man who went through the ceiling to burglarize a Lexington business earlier this year.
Officers responded to a burglar alarm at Sam's Check Cashing and Pawn Shop on Lexington Road around 1 a.m. Monday. They say they found a hole in the building roof and a mess inside. Police say infrared surveillance video revealed a man, now identified as Paul Masters, 48, crawling above the store's ceiling, dropping down to the floor, and looking over merchandise. After repeating the process several times, the burglar fell through the porcelain tiles and landed on the floor. Masters allegedly then pried open a door, cut some razor wire over a fence, and hopped over.
It remains unclear if Masters got away with anything.The previous burglary happened in March. Masters allegedly scrambled through the attic of a Lexington store. Police say he also gave them a hard time before they could make an arrest.Police say Masters was sneaking around in the attic of the Roses general store off of Winchester Road hadn't gotten around to doing whatever it was he planned to do from up there, when employees heard him moving about from above the tile ceiling, and called police.
Police swarmed the shopping center, and chased Masters through the attic. Police say Masters ran probably about 50 yards through the attic area before the ceiling gave way and he fell about 12 feet through the tile ceiling to the ground.
The original design of the (Newfoundland & Labrador) building featured slate tiles adorning the intricate roof structure. However, the stone tiles became a problem when they began falling off during windy weather shortly after the building opened in 2010.At one point, a falling tile nearly struck a person attending the courthouse. The Department of Transportation and Works had to erect safety fencing around the entire perimeter and build wooden structures around the entrances to the building.
The department also asked the original roofing contractor, Allied Constructors, to determine if there had been a flaw in the initial design or in the installation of the roof. Government also threatened to take legal action against the contractor if it didn’t remediate the problem.In the meantime, action is being taken (in late July) to put fibreglass shingles that resemble the original slate tiles. The tender for that was issued this past spring and has been awarded to a different contractor, BDW Roofing based in Stephenville.
“So, you will have a similar effect (as slate tiles), but with a fibreglass shingle,” said Davis. “We know that’s what is widely used in many buildings and houses throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. They are sort of time-tested.”More importantly, Davis said completing this work will mean the unsightly safety fencing and polished tiles will finally be removed.“That’s the plan,” he said. “We hope to have it all done, completed and cleaned up this year and have it back to a finished condition like we hoped to have back in 2010.”
The Culver Archaeological Project (CAP), supported to the tune of ￡90,900 by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has also discovered a circular kiln, possibly for firing tiles, and a sunken tile-lined basin – which the team is struggling to find anything to compare it to in Britain.
The six-week dig at the Roman settlement began last month and smaller discoveries include glass beads, coins, lead weights, a stylus for writing on a wax tablet, a ceramic spindle whorl and a complete lower quern stone.Also brooch and glass vessel fragments, Samian pottery with a maker’s mark and hundreds of pieces of pottery and tile fragments from the Roman period.
CAP Deputy Archaeological Director David Millum said it appeared the urn could possibly very late Romano British or even post-Roman as it sat above the main Roman features – and was caught by the bucket of the mechanical digger when clearing away the topsoils.
Officers responded to a burglar alarm at Sam's Check Cashing and Pawn Shop on Lexington Road around 1 a.m. Monday. They say they found a hole in the building roof and a mess inside. Police say infrared surveillance video revealed a man, now identified as Paul Masters, 48, crawling above the store's ceiling, dropping down to the floor, and looking over merchandise. After repeating the process several times, the burglar fell through the porcelain tiles and landed on the floor. Masters allegedly then pried open a door, cut some razor wire over a fence, and hopped over.
It remains unclear if Masters got away with anything.The previous burglary happened in March. Masters allegedly scrambled through the attic of a Lexington store. Police say he also gave them a hard time before they could make an arrest.Police say Masters was sneaking around in the attic of the Roses general store off of Winchester Road hadn't gotten around to doing whatever it was he planned to do from up there, when employees heard him moving about from above the tile ceiling, and called police.
Police swarmed the shopping center, and chased Masters through the attic. Police say Masters ran probably about 50 yards through the attic area before the ceiling gave way and he fell about 12 feet through the tile ceiling to the ground.
The original design of the (Newfoundland & Labrador) building featured slate tiles adorning the intricate roof structure. However, the stone tiles became a problem when they began falling off during windy weather shortly after the building opened in 2010.At one point, a falling tile nearly struck a person attending the courthouse. The Department of Transportation and Works had to erect safety fencing around the entire perimeter and build wooden structures around the entrances to the building.
The department also asked the original roofing contractor, Allied Constructors, to determine if there had been a flaw in the initial design or in the installation of the roof. Government also threatened to take legal action against the contractor if it didn’t remediate the problem.In the meantime, action is being taken (in late July) to put fibreglass shingles that resemble the original slate tiles. The tender for that was issued this past spring and has been awarded to a different contractor, BDW Roofing based in Stephenville.
“So, you will have a similar effect (as slate tiles), but with a fibreglass shingle,” said Davis. “We know that’s what is widely used in many buildings and houses throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. They are sort of time-tested.”More importantly, Davis said completing this work will mean the unsightly safety fencing and polished tiles will finally be removed.“That’s the plan,” he said. “We hope to have it all done, completed and cleaned up this year and have it back to a finished condition like we hoped to have back in 2010.”
The Culver Archaeological Project (CAP), supported to the tune of ￡90,900 by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has also discovered a circular kiln, possibly for firing tiles, and a sunken tile-lined basin – which the team is struggling to find anything to compare it to in Britain.
The six-week dig at the Roman settlement began last month and smaller discoveries include glass beads, coins, lead weights, a stylus for writing on a wax tablet, a ceramic spindle whorl and a complete lower quern stone.Also brooch and glass vessel fragments, Samian pottery with a maker’s mark and hundreds of pieces of pottery and tile fragments from the Roman period.
CAP Deputy Archaeological Director David Millum said it appeared the urn could possibly very late Romano British or even post-Roman as it sat above the main Roman features – and was caught by the bucket of the mechanical digger when clearing away the topsoils.
2013年8月7日星期三
Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman Lists Townhouse for Sale
Trohman bought the interior unit in the Embassy Club development in 2006 for $685,000, according to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Tim Salm, the Jameson Sotheby’s agent representing the condo, declined to discuss the sellers but said they had “re-done the entire space, top to bottom” before moving in. The eventual buyer, Salm said, will “basically get a brand-new unit within the original Embassy Club,” which when built in the late 1980s was thought of as bringing a London-style mews to the rapidly gentrifying West DePaul area.
In 2007, Trohman led MTV’s Cribs on a tour of the home, where he showed off such design flourishes as a living room rug made of treated Barbie hair, the spring-loaded drawers in the kitchen, Space Invaders decals on the wall behind his bed, and tree-themed wallpaper in the polished tiles. “Get lost in the forest, you know,” he said about that last one. Trohman also pointed out how some “terrible, terrible” white built-ins got converted into additional closet space.
On a tour of the home Wednesday afternoon, I saw most of what Trohman had pointed out on Cribs, except for his guitars, his toy collection and a wall of moss surrounding a crucifix. “That was taken down” for showings to potential buyers, Salm said.
In the renovations and decorating, led by Lisa Ewing, a wall that concealed the staircase was opened up and given a more open and industrial look, the master bedroom fireplace got a glass mantel, and the kitchen became a sleek showpiece. Appliances and cabinetry behind crisp espresso-finish doors, white tops, and a stylized tile backsplash make it “five times the kitchen that the original developers put in here,” Salm says. “You have cabinets for days.”
The main living floor is one flight above ground and contains living, dining, and kitchen. There are two bedrooms and two baths upstairs, all finished in the same glamorous style as the main floor, and on the ground floor is the garage, another full bath, and the family room. Out back is a fenced garden of lawn, stone, and succulents.
Louis Parrinello, the school's principal at the time who now heads Briarcliff Elementary, said the time capsule was a way to retain memories from Miller Avenue School's 50th anniversary celebrations from over the past year as well as to recollect how life has changed since the school opened in 1963.
Supervisor Ed Romaine said in a release, "So much history has passed since Miller Avenue School opened in 1963. We've been to the moon and back, have had 10 presidents and technology has put the world in the palm of our hands with smart phones. For the students who attend this school today, the future is full of possibilities and the opportunity to make the world a better place to live."
In describing the capsule's contents, Parrinello said, "There were recent events, articles, students writing about what's happening right now in the world and what they predict will happen 50 years from now. There was also information about the iPhone and Facebook and those things that are so prolific in our society right now."
The time capsule, although sealed and protected against moisture, could not be buried in the ground because of the soft soil, but was instead placed in the main office above a ceiling tile. A plaque was put in place to mark the capsule's location, with instructions to open it on Flag Day in 2063. "We wanted it to be as simple as lifting up a ceiling tile," said Parrinello.A 50-year anniversary committee was set up to plan events throughout the year like a 1950s dance — in keeping with the "50" theme — and a photo taken by the Shoreham branch of the Rocky Point Fire Department showed all of the students arranged in the shape of the number 50.
While current students at Miller Avenue participated in activities and contributed to the capsule, former students reflected on the anniversary.Edward Gaias was in the first Ceramic tile, moving up from Miller Avenue's sixth grade in 1964. He said the 50-year anniversary was "amazing" because of the rich history and memories surrounding the school.
"It makes me feel pretty old," said the 61-year-old Gaias. "We did a lot of things in Miller Avenue. They had Boy Scouts there and I had my Eagle Scout ceremony there."Jo Napolitano, president of the Miller Avenue Parent Teacher Organization, was involved with organizing the 50-year anniversary celebrations at the school, though she said a lot of credit goes to Parrinello.
"He's the dynamic person who put it all together," said Napolitano.Napolitano has been president for the past two years and has four children who have gone through Miller Avenue, two of whom are still enrolled.
She said the school has always stood for "community-building and the children," both of which she said were reflected in the celebrations and the time capsule. "I think Miller Avenue has stayed very much a community. It's not just my children or my neighbor's children. It's all of Miller Avenue's children."
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In 2007, Trohman led MTV’s Cribs on a tour of the home, where he showed off such design flourishes as a living room rug made of treated Barbie hair, the spring-loaded drawers in the kitchen, Space Invaders decals on the wall behind his bed, and tree-themed wallpaper in the polished tiles. “Get lost in the forest, you know,” he said about that last one. Trohman also pointed out how some “terrible, terrible” white built-ins got converted into additional closet space.
On a tour of the home Wednesday afternoon, I saw most of what Trohman had pointed out on Cribs, except for his guitars, his toy collection and a wall of moss surrounding a crucifix. “That was taken down” for showings to potential buyers, Salm said.
In the renovations and decorating, led by Lisa Ewing, a wall that concealed the staircase was opened up and given a more open and industrial look, the master bedroom fireplace got a glass mantel, and the kitchen became a sleek showpiece. Appliances and cabinetry behind crisp espresso-finish doors, white tops, and a stylized tile backsplash make it “five times the kitchen that the original developers put in here,” Salm says. “You have cabinets for days.”
The main living floor is one flight above ground and contains living, dining, and kitchen. There are two bedrooms and two baths upstairs, all finished in the same glamorous style as the main floor, and on the ground floor is the garage, another full bath, and the family room. Out back is a fenced garden of lawn, stone, and succulents.
Louis Parrinello, the school's principal at the time who now heads Briarcliff Elementary, said the time capsule was a way to retain memories from Miller Avenue School's 50th anniversary celebrations from over the past year as well as to recollect how life has changed since the school opened in 1963.
Supervisor Ed Romaine said in a release, "So much history has passed since Miller Avenue School opened in 1963. We've been to the moon and back, have had 10 presidents and technology has put the world in the palm of our hands with smart phones. For the students who attend this school today, the future is full of possibilities and the opportunity to make the world a better place to live."
In describing the capsule's contents, Parrinello said, "There were recent events, articles, students writing about what's happening right now in the world and what they predict will happen 50 years from now. There was also information about the iPhone and Facebook and those things that are so prolific in our society right now."
The time capsule, although sealed and protected against moisture, could not be buried in the ground because of the soft soil, but was instead placed in the main office above a ceiling tile. A plaque was put in place to mark the capsule's location, with instructions to open it on Flag Day in 2063. "We wanted it to be as simple as lifting up a ceiling tile," said Parrinello.A 50-year anniversary committee was set up to plan events throughout the year like a 1950s dance — in keeping with the "50" theme — and a photo taken by the Shoreham branch of the Rocky Point Fire Department showed all of the students arranged in the shape of the number 50.
While current students at Miller Avenue participated in activities and contributed to the capsule, former students reflected on the anniversary.Edward Gaias was in the first Ceramic tile, moving up from Miller Avenue's sixth grade in 1964. He said the 50-year anniversary was "amazing" because of the rich history and memories surrounding the school.
"It makes me feel pretty old," said the 61-year-old Gaias. "We did a lot of things in Miller Avenue. They had Boy Scouts there and I had my Eagle Scout ceremony there."Jo Napolitano, president of the Miller Avenue Parent Teacher Organization, was involved with organizing the 50-year anniversary celebrations at the school, though she said a lot of credit goes to Parrinello.
"He's the dynamic person who put it all together," said Napolitano.Napolitano has been president for the past two years and has four children who have gone through Miller Avenue, two of whom are still enrolled.
She said the school has always stood for "community-building and the children," both of which she said were reflected in the celebrations and the time capsule. "I think Miller Avenue has stayed very much a community. It's not just my children or my neighbor's children. It's all of Miller Avenue's children."
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Vinyl windows need different care
First, don’t use paper towels or household cleaners such as bleach or ammonia, as you have noted. Here’s what is recommended on most of these sites: Use a clean, soft terry cloth or cotton rag to wash your windows. Wipe the windows from left to right or right to left to clean them. Use a clean, soft terry towel or cotton rag to dry the entire surface after washing. Rinse thoroughly to completely remove whatever cleaning agent you’ve used. Apply a protectant.
Our master bath has a 6-inch ceramic-tile floor that needs to be replaced as the result of a less-than-stellar renovation that left a large scar on the floor. A Jacuzzi-style step-in bathtub was removed and replaced with a 60-inch shower. The replacement floor tiles were not matched up correctly, more like a cut and patch, and the result is not acceptable. Home Depot claims 12-inch vinyl tile squares can be laid over the existing ceramic floor by a professional, which would save us the cost of having all the China ceramic tile removed first. I am a little hesitant to go cheap for a second time. What is your opinion?
First, when you decide down the road to sell the house, buyers will universally pan your decision to go cheap — that’s if the vinyl floor is intact. Obviously, the person who scarred the floor when the Jacuzzi was removed and the shower was installed is not willing to return to redo his or her shoddy work. Or, am I to understand the person who did the work was homegrown, as we say? I’d redo the ceramic tile (I’ve done it myself a couple of times over the years) because you want a bathroom that is long on quality and short on shortcuts. Hire a professional and ask what he or she recommends.
Removing the current tile floor to replace it with new would be difficult if the underlayment was wet-bed but not if it was exterior plywood or WonderBoard or Durock. Even if the tile person were to lay something on top of the existing tile, he or she would likely use thinset or some other compound to level it. If you add another layer of anything to an existing floor, you raise it, even slightly, meaning thresholds and trim need to be adjusted. I’d spend the money to have it done correctly. You’ll be able to enjoy something that looks good and add to the value of your house instead of detract from it.
We have a 100-plus-year-old twin house. We recently got a new neighbor next door who has a treadmill which he has placed on the second floor. When in use, the house shakes slightly and items on shelves on the first floor rattle slightly. We do have wall mounted shelves with some expensive items on them. Our fear is that the vibration from the treadmill may not be good for the structure of an old house. We put our exercise equipment in the basement for that reason. Is it likely to do any damage?
Mozaico, a leader in custom mosaic tiles for nearly 50 years, announced today that the company has retained 80 mosaic artists to cater to its growing global customer base. Notable artists added to the company’s impressive roster of talent include Amir Fares, John Farra, John Messina, Nada Khoury, Sola Baz and Yulia Stebris.
The company has employed a diverse group of designers that possess tremendous talent and professionalism. They leverage their expertise to create custom crafted mosaics based on photos, illustrations and descriptions submitted by Mozaico.net customers. Mosaics have been created to replicate family portraits, corporate logos, famous symbols and icons and notable figures, and to commemorate special milestones and memories. Custom mosaics are commonly installed in kitchens, baths, foyers, yachts or pool areas, or on walls for added color and style.
“Handcrafted custom works of art, especially custom mosaics, have not always been available to mainstream consumers,” said Rim Mecherkany, marketing executive at Mozaico.net. “There have been a number of barriers ranging from price to access. We’re now riding a growing trend of bringing together some of the world’s best polished tiles talent in one place on the web to make it easier for consumers to gain access to these works and do so at a price that they can afford.”
“We anticipate that mainstream consumers will gravitate toward Mozaico.net for custom mosaics that are truly an expression of their interests and lifestyle rather than opting for mass market décor that doesn’t speak to who they are,” Mecherkany continued.
While mosaics continue to top the lists each year of colorful design trends, the tradition goes as far back as 4,000 years ago, as evidenced by the use of terracotta cones and their application onto structures as a means of decoration. Mozaico.net has upheld this tradition since 1963. The company first began production in a facility in Lebanon, and has since expanded their operations to various strategic international hubs.
The company now exports custom mosaic tiles to more than 70 countries, catering to a worldwide client base that includes both residential and commercial customers. High profile clients include the State of Hawaii, the President of Chile, Le Gray Hotel in Beirut and Casino Spielbank Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Mozaico’s custom mosaics are made from natural stone, ceramic or glass tiles. Mosaics come honed with avarnish that gives the design a wet look, but can also be antiqued or polished for an additional fee based on the customer’s preference. Self-installation is simple and comparable to installing a ceramic tile purchased from a home improvement vendor. Directions are included for the customer’s convenience.
Mozaico.net does offer installation of custom mosaics in Florida and Orange County, Calif. Installation in other areas requires additional fees to cover the cost of travel and accommodation.
“This is an exciting time in the life of our company,” said Mecherkany. “Our mosaic artists have apprenticed in Spain and Italy; they’ve studied classical arts in Paris; they’ve exhibited in galleries – you name it, they’ve done it. Having such an amazing depth of talent is a great achievement for our company, but it’s also a tremendous advantage for our customers. We’re delighted to be able to continue to share the tradition of mosaic artistry with the world and help art lovers bring dynamic mosaic pieces into their homes and places of business.”
Our master bath has a 6-inch ceramic-tile floor that needs to be replaced as the result of a less-than-stellar renovation that left a large scar on the floor. A Jacuzzi-style step-in bathtub was removed and replaced with a 60-inch shower. The replacement floor tiles were not matched up correctly, more like a cut and patch, and the result is not acceptable. Home Depot claims 12-inch vinyl tile squares can be laid over the existing ceramic floor by a professional, which would save us the cost of having all the China ceramic tile removed first. I am a little hesitant to go cheap for a second time. What is your opinion?
First, when you decide down the road to sell the house, buyers will universally pan your decision to go cheap — that’s if the vinyl floor is intact. Obviously, the person who scarred the floor when the Jacuzzi was removed and the shower was installed is not willing to return to redo his or her shoddy work. Or, am I to understand the person who did the work was homegrown, as we say? I’d redo the ceramic tile (I’ve done it myself a couple of times over the years) because you want a bathroom that is long on quality and short on shortcuts. Hire a professional and ask what he or she recommends.
Removing the current tile floor to replace it with new would be difficult if the underlayment was wet-bed but not if it was exterior plywood or WonderBoard or Durock. Even if the tile person were to lay something on top of the existing tile, he or she would likely use thinset or some other compound to level it. If you add another layer of anything to an existing floor, you raise it, even slightly, meaning thresholds and trim need to be adjusted. I’d spend the money to have it done correctly. You’ll be able to enjoy something that looks good and add to the value of your house instead of detract from it.
We have a 100-plus-year-old twin house. We recently got a new neighbor next door who has a treadmill which he has placed on the second floor. When in use, the house shakes slightly and items on shelves on the first floor rattle slightly. We do have wall mounted shelves with some expensive items on them. Our fear is that the vibration from the treadmill may not be good for the structure of an old house. We put our exercise equipment in the basement for that reason. Is it likely to do any damage?
Mozaico, a leader in custom mosaic tiles for nearly 50 years, announced today that the company has retained 80 mosaic artists to cater to its growing global customer base. Notable artists added to the company’s impressive roster of talent include Amir Fares, John Farra, John Messina, Nada Khoury, Sola Baz and Yulia Stebris.
The company has employed a diverse group of designers that possess tremendous talent and professionalism. They leverage their expertise to create custom crafted mosaics based on photos, illustrations and descriptions submitted by Mozaico.net customers. Mosaics have been created to replicate family portraits, corporate logos, famous symbols and icons and notable figures, and to commemorate special milestones and memories. Custom mosaics are commonly installed in kitchens, baths, foyers, yachts or pool areas, or on walls for added color and style.
“Handcrafted custom works of art, especially custom mosaics, have not always been available to mainstream consumers,” said Rim Mecherkany, marketing executive at Mozaico.net. “There have been a number of barriers ranging from price to access. We’re now riding a growing trend of bringing together some of the world’s best polished tiles talent in one place on the web to make it easier for consumers to gain access to these works and do so at a price that they can afford.”
“We anticipate that mainstream consumers will gravitate toward Mozaico.net for custom mosaics that are truly an expression of their interests and lifestyle rather than opting for mass market décor that doesn’t speak to who they are,” Mecherkany continued.
While mosaics continue to top the lists each year of colorful design trends, the tradition goes as far back as 4,000 years ago, as evidenced by the use of terracotta cones and their application onto structures as a means of decoration. Mozaico.net has upheld this tradition since 1963. The company first began production in a facility in Lebanon, and has since expanded their operations to various strategic international hubs.
The company now exports custom mosaic tiles to more than 70 countries, catering to a worldwide client base that includes both residential and commercial customers. High profile clients include the State of Hawaii, the President of Chile, Le Gray Hotel in Beirut and Casino Spielbank Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Mozaico’s custom mosaics are made from natural stone, ceramic or glass tiles. Mosaics come honed with avarnish that gives the design a wet look, but can also be antiqued or polished for an additional fee based on the customer’s preference. Self-installation is simple and comparable to installing a ceramic tile purchased from a home improvement vendor. Directions are included for the customer’s convenience.
Mozaico.net does offer installation of custom mosaics in Florida and Orange County, Calif. Installation in other areas requires additional fees to cover the cost of travel and accommodation.
“This is an exciting time in the life of our company,” said Mecherkany. “Our mosaic artists have apprenticed in Spain and Italy; they’ve studied classical arts in Paris; they’ve exhibited in galleries – you name it, they’ve done it. Having such an amazing depth of talent is a great achievement for our company, but it’s also a tremendous advantage for our customers. We’re delighted to be able to continue to share the tradition of mosaic artistry with the world and help art lovers bring dynamic mosaic pieces into their homes and places of business.”
2013年8月5日星期一
Officials Duck and Cover
As Talk of the Sound has previously reported, investigations by the New York State Department of Labor Asbestos Control Bureau and the New York State Education Department were initiated last week based on reporting by Talk of the Sound.Talk of the Sound had received information that asbestos tiles and material may have been improperly handled and disposed of illegally. The test results confirm this to have been the case.
By failing to stop work and seal off the area when workers found what they believed to be asbestos in the office of Principal Michael Galland on July 16th, a number of New York State and Federal laws were violated.The asbestos material was confirmed in tiles, dust and pieces of tile and dust stuck to a carpet ripped up by employees of district contractor George Wood Plumbing working at the direction of John Gallagher, Director of Buildings and Grounds. Gallagher is a contractor, employed by Aramark.
Asbestos in schools is heavily regulated by New York State and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.Staff and students in the building from July 16th to July 20th, may have been exposed to the cancer-causing material. School officials did confirm that students were in the building that week until noon each day along with staff and porcelain tiles.
By law, staff and students at a school must be notified immediately of possible exposure to asbestos. That has yet to happen.Talk of the Sound has reported for years on problems within the Buildings and Grounds Department including kickbacks, no-show jobs and shady contractors. This is just the latest example.
Assistant Superintendent John Quinn, the New Rochelle Board of Education cabinet official responsible for Buildings and Grounds, first became aware of the asbestos incident at Davis last Thursday from an email from Talk of the Sound seeking comment on the incident.
The tiles and contaminated carpet was carried from the principal's office, through the hallway, to the school lobby and out the front doors of the school, according to one source. The material was then transported in an open garbage truck to the district yard at 51 Cliff Street, co-mingled with other district trash and delivered to a waste transfer station in Mount Vernon.
By contrast, asbestos material taken from a second that was properly abated after Poretta and Sinkfield complained about asbestos exposure from the Principal's office, was sealed and removed in a special vehicle and carted to a special asbestos dump site in Pennsylvania.
“If a building was a superhero, that’s it,” said Helfrich, the team’s former offensive coordinator who was promoted to head coach when Chip Kelly left for the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year.
The Ducks have an ever-growing national profile on the field, but the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, as it is officially named, is undeniably world-class. Estimated conservatively at $68 million, the six-story, multi-wing football building was funded by Oregon alum and Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny.
The six-bedroom, five-bathroom home originally was constructed as a hunting lodge and given its name for a prominent Philadelphia family, the Cadwaladers, in the early part of the 1900s.
“The culmination of this whole project is this great room that has a first-story window that’s in the front facing the road, and a balcony around the whole room so that you can stand up on the second China ceramic tile and look out the big window,” Mrs. Spalter says. “That’s really the special feature.”
The fireplace in the great room has Mercer tiles that tell the story of the Cadwalader family, which is said to have been present at the signing of the Treaty of Penn and hails from Wales in the United Kingdom. Mercer tiles also tell the story of Rip Van Winkle. The tiles were handmade for a relative of Henry Mercer as a wedding gift, and afterward the molds were broken, Mrs. Spalter says.
“When he (Harry Cadawalader) built it, he built the fireplace in such a way that he had vents to every room so that he could warm the whole place with just the fireplace,” Mrs. Spalter says. “And then later a furnace was added and electricity and all the other things for today’s person.”The second fireplace is located in the library, in the oldest section of the house. The earliest iteration of the home was a two-room structure used by a farmhand that predates the Cadwaladers’ construction of the lodge.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/.
By failing to stop work and seal off the area when workers found what they believed to be asbestos in the office of Principal Michael Galland on July 16th, a number of New York State and Federal laws were violated.The asbestos material was confirmed in tiles, dust and pieces of tile and dust stuck to a carpet ripped up by employees of district contractor George Wood Plumbing working at the direction of John Gallagher, Director of Buildings and Grounds. Gallagher is a contractor, employed by Aramark.
Asbestos in schools is heavily regulated by New York State and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.Staff and students in the building from July 16th to July 20th, may have been exposed to the cancer-causing material. School officials did confirm that students were in the building that week until noon each day along with staff and porcelain tiles.
By law, staff and students at a school must be notified immediately of possible exposure to asbestos. That has yet to happen.Talk of the Sound has reported for years on problems within the Buildings and Grounds Department including kickbacks, no-show jobs and shady contractors. This is just the latest example.
Assistant Superintendent John Quinn, the New Rochelle Board of Education cabinet official responsible for Buildings and Grounds, first became aware of the asbestos incident at Davis last Thursday from an email from Talk of the Sound seeking comment on the incident.
The tiles and contaminated carpet was carried from the principal's office, through the hallway, to the school lobby and out the front doors of the school, according to one source. The material was then transported in an open garbage truck to the district yard at 51 Cliff Street, co-mingled with other district trash and delivered to a waste transfer station in Mount Vernon.
By contrast, asbestos material taken from a second that was properly abated after Poretta and Sinkfield complained about asbestos exposure from the Principal's office, was sealed and removed in a special vehicle and carted to a special asbestos dump site in Pennsylvania.
“If a building was a superhero, that’s it,” said Helfrich, the team’s former offensive coordinator who was promoted to head coach when Chip Kelly left for the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year.
The Ducks have an ever-growing national profile on the field, but the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, as it is officially named, is undeniably world-class. Estimated conservatively at $68 million, the six-story, multi-wing football building was funded by Oregon alum and Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny.
The six-bedroom, five-bathroom home originally was constructed as a hunting lodge and given its name for a prominent Philadelphia family, the Cadwaladers, in the early part of the 1900s.
“The culmination of this whole project is this great room that has a first-story window that’s in the front facing the road, and a balcony around the whole room so that you can stand up on the second China ceramic tile and look out the big window,” Mrs. Spalter says. “That’s really the special feature.”
The fireplace in the great room has Mercer tiles that tell the story of the Cadwalader family, which is said to have been present at the signing of the Treaty of Penn and hails from Wales in the United Kingdom. Mercer tiles also tell the story of Rip Van Winkle. The tiles were handmade for a relative of Henry Mercer as a wedding gift, and afterward the molds were broken, Mrs. Spalter says.
“When he (Harry Cadawalader) built it, he built the fireplace in such a way that he had vents to every room so that he could warm the whole place with just the fireplace,” Mrs. Spalter says. “And then later a furnace was added and electricity and all the other things for today’s person.”The second fireplace is located in the library, in the oldest section of the house. The earliest iteration of the home was a two-room structure used by a farmhand that predates the Cadwaladers’ construction of the lodge.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/.
Blast Away Grime With Baking Soda
It works in conjunction with an air compressor to clean dirty parts and surfaces. But instead of using sand as the cleaning abrasive, a soda blaster shoots out sodium bicarbonate, which is commonly known as baking soda though what's used in blasters is composed of larger particles than those found in standard household baking soda.
The advantage of using baking soda, as opposed to sand, crushed walnut shells, coal slag, or any other abrasive, is that it's environmentally safe, less aggressive, relatively affordable, and easily rinsed away with water. In fact, the first large-scale industrial use of soda blasting occurred during the 1986 centennial restoration of the Statue of Liberty. It was the only safe and effective way to remove coal tar, paint, and corrosion from the statue's soft copper skin.
Soda blasters can be used to remove paint, grease, indelible stains, and caked-on dirt from virtually any surface, Ceramic tile, aluminum, wood, sheet metal, brick, concrete, granite, chrome, glass, and even fiberglass.
Today soda blasters are often used to remove rust from metal, strip paint from wood doors and moldings, clean graffiti from masonry surfaces, blast hard-water deposits from ceramic tile, and power-strip industrial machinery. I recently used one to blast four coats of paint off a sheet of diamond-plate steel. It took less than 2 minutes to clean a 1-square-foot area down to bare steel.
A soda blaster itself is composed of a steel storage tank for holding the sodium bicarbonate, a spray nozzle and hose, manifold, and water separator that helps to prevent clogging. When shopping for a soda blaster, check its air requirement to ensure that your air compressor can provide the necessary pressure.
Soda blasters come in various sizes, based on the their storage-tank capacity. I bought a compact 15-pound Central Pneumatic soda blaster from Harbor Freight Tools for less than $100. The company also offers a larger 40-pound unit for about $160. Sodium bicarbonate is commonly available in medium- and extra-large grit. A 50-pound bag costs between $38 and $43. When operating a soda blaster, always wear protective eye goggles or a face shield, and a dust mask or dual-cartridge respirator. And be sure to follow the safety precautions outlined in the instruction manual.
Fylde's largest independent retail showroom, Artisan Tiles and Interiors is owned and managed by Marcus and Julia Eastwood. With nearly 25 years of combined experience in the UK tiles industry, the husband and wife tandem have advised clients on both domestic and commercial projects, both large and small. The Eastwood couple has recently helped in the design of a number of local businesses including Henry's Bar and Grill, Capri Bar, Moshina's Indian, Kensington Developments Lytham Quays site and Floor tiles.
At ArtisanTiles.co.uk, visitors will find a diverse range of tiling products for home and commercial needs. The website features each of the interiors and tiles in large image galleries for visitors to take a closer look at the design that may suit their taste or meet their tiling requirement.
Satisfied clients Ken & Elaine Beer from Blackpool talk about Artisan Tiles &Interiors: "What a fantastic range of tiles for walls and floors! The owners Julia and Marcus were extremely helpful and obliging, keen to offer advice with 'samples' and help with colour and design choices. The 'in store' home interiors section specialising in wallpapers and fabrics has an excellent service. Overall, it was a pleasant shopping experience."
ArtisanTiles.co.uk also displays Porcelanosa bathroom suites, the latest addition to the Artisan Tiles and Interiors showroom featuring two Porcelanosa bathroom and tile settings. The website also features the showroom's interiors department, which specialises in wallpapers, fabrics, wall covering and blinds. The website offers tile design advice and assistance, as well as quotations and insulations on curtains and all soft furnishings.
Kayser-Roth Corporation is seeking incentives from Burlington and Ala mance County to help create 50 new full-time jobs and invest $18 million in new capital as part of an expansion plan for its Burlington location.
Mac Wi lliams, Ala mance County A r ea Chamber of Commerce president, revealed the name of the textile company seeking incentives on Monday during an Alamance County Board of Commissioners meeting.
Kayser-Roth is based in Greensboro with a mailing address of 714 W. Interstate Service Road in Graham. County Manager Craig Honeycutt said the business is located in Burlington; he sent a letter regarding the company’s expansion plans to Williams on July 29.
“ Ala mance County ’s local ind ustrial development incentive is to provide a cash grant to the Company of a maximum of $360,000 based upon the initial new taxable valuation increase of building and equipment of $18,000,000 once the above job and investment thresholds have been met,” the letter stated. “This would be paid over a five year period, $72,000 annually for five years.”
The advantage of using baking soda, as opposed to sand, crushed walnut shells, coal slag, or any other abrasive, is that it's environmentally safe, less aggressive, relatively affordable, and easily rinsed away with water. In fact, the first large-scale industrial use of soda blasting occurred during the 1986 centennial restoration of the Statue of Liberty. It was the only safe and effective way to remove coal tar, paint, and corrosion from the statue's soft copper skin.
Soda blasters can be used to remove paint, grease, indelible stains, and caked-on dirt from virtually any surface, Ceramic tile, aluminum, wood, sheet metal, brick, concrete, granite, chrome, glass, and even fiberglass.
Today soda blasters are often used to remove rust from metal, strip paint from wood doors and moldings, clean graffiti from masonry surfaces, blast hard-water deposits from ceramic tile, and power-strip industrial machinery. I recently used one to blast four coats of paint off a sheet of diamond-plate steel. It took less than 2 minutes to clean a 1-square-foot area down to bare steel.
A soda blaster itself is composed of a steel storage tank for holding the sodium bicarbonate, a spray nozzle and hose, manifold, and water separator that helps to prevent clogging. When shopping for a soda blaster, check its air requirement to ensure that your air compressor can provide the necessary pressure.
Soda blasters come in various sizes, based on the their storage-tank capacity. I bought a compact 15-pound Central Pneumatic soda blaster from Harbor Freight Tools for less than $100. The company also offers a larger 40-pound unit for about $160. Sodium bicarbonate is commonly available in medium- and extra-large grit. A 50-pound bag costs between $38 and $43. When operating a soda blaster, always wear protective eye goggles or a face shield, and a dust mask or dual-cartridge respirator. And be sure to follow the safety precautions outlined in the instruction manual.
Fylde's largest independent retail showroom, Artisan Tiles and Interiors is owned and managed by Marcus and Julia Eastwood. With nearly 25 years of combined experience in the UK tiles industry, the husband and wife tandem have advised clients on both domestic and commercial projects, both large and small. The Eastwood couple has recently helped in the design of a number of local businesses including Henry's Bar and Grill, Capri Bar, Moshina's Indian, Kensington Developments Lytham Quays site and Floor tiles.
At ArtisanTiles.co.uk, visitors will find a diverse range of tiling products for home and commercial needs. The website features each of the interiors and tiles in large image galleries for visitors to take a closer look at the design that may suit their taste or meet their tiling requirement.
Satisfied clients Ken & Elaine Beer from Blackpool talk about Artisan Tiles &Interiors: "What a fantastic range of tiles for walls and floors! The owners Julia and Marcus were extremely helpful and obliging, keen to offer advice with 'samples' and help with colour and design choices. The 'in store' home interiors section specialising in wallpapers and fabrics has an excellent service. Overall, it was a pleasant shopping experience."
ArtisanTiles.co.uk also displays Porcelanosa bathroom suites, the latest addition to the Artisan Tiles and Interiors showroom featuring two Porcelanosa bathroom and tile settings. The website also features the showroom's interiors department, which specialises in wallpapers, fabrics, wall covering and blinds. The website offers tile design advice and assistance, as well as quotations and insulations on curtains and all soft furnishings.
Kayser-Roth Corporation is seeking incentives from Burlington and Ala mance County to help create 50 new full-time jobs and invest $18 million in new capital as part of an expansion plan for its Burlington location.
Mac Wi lliams, Ala mance County A r ea Chamber of Commerce president, revealed the name of the textile company seeking incentives on Monday during an Alamance County Board of Commissioners meeting.
Kayser-Roth is based in Greensboro with a mailing address of 714 W. Interstate Service Road in Graham. County Manager Craig Honeycutt said the business is located in Burlington; he sent a letter regarding the company’s expansion plans to Williams on July 29.
“ Ala mance County ’s local ind ustrial development incentive is to provide a cash grant to the Company of a maximum of $360,000 based upon the initial new taxable valuation increase of building and equipment of $18,000,000 once the above job and investment thresholds have been met,” the letter stated. “This would be paid over a five year period, $72,000 annually for five years.”
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