A company that develops wind turbine installations for commercial and agricultural landowners has secured more than ￡16m in new funding to help finance its next 10 projects.
Infinite Energy was set up three years ago and used an initial ￡6.9m funding round from venture capital trust Albion Ventures VCT to finance its first four projects.Changes in financial legislation mean venture capital trusts can no longer invest in projects designed to take advantage of feed-in tariffs, so Albion Ventures has formed a plc called Albion Community Power.
The new company has agreed to provide ￡15m in finance to support Infinite Energy’s next 10 projects.Infinite Energy, which has offices in Cardiff and Bridgend, has also signed a ￡1.6m funding deal with Finance Wales.The company has so far brought four turbine installation projects into operation, two near Milford Haven, one at Ebbw Vale and one near Bridgend.
The Bridgend one is the smallest at only 80kw (kilowatts), built to help a local farm generate electricity to help with the farm’s running costs. The other three sites each have a capacity of 500kw from a single turbine.Of the 10 new sites, which are in various stages of planning, seven are in Wales, two in the Midlands and one in Devon.The company says it hopes to reach “financial close” on the projects by December and to carry out construction during 2014.
All of the projects are for the installation of 500kw turbines except for one, at Shawell in Leicestershire, which is for a 1.5MW (megawatt) turbine.
Infinite Energy manages the planning, installation and system management of the turbine projects on behalf of its landowner or commercial clients. Its first installation, at Rassau industrial estate, was for roof tile manufacturer Redland Monier.The turbine has been operating since February 2012 and can produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of 307 homes, potentially saving up to 289 tonnes of CO 2 per year.
Following the success of the Rassau installation Infinite Energy was asked to complete two further installations for China Porcelain tile, including the one at Shawell.Albion Community Power is hoping to raise up to ￡24.4m in a share offer, and says it will consider raising a further ￡100m in funding if it believes further suitable renewable energy projects are available.It intends to invest in proven power generation methods across a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar, biomass heat, hydroelectricity and anaerobic digestion as well as wind.
With regard to wind, it says it plans to invest in turbines on brownfield sites near existing developments such as industrial estates rather than greenfield developments in remote areas.
This sits well with the Infinite Energy model, which is to site turbines by preference on industrial brownfield land, or on farms.Infinite Energy was established by directors Will David, a chartered surveyor, and Andrew Crossman, who has significant experience in energy use analysis and renewable energy. A third director, energy engineer Iestyn Morgan, joined the board later.
Following the installation at Rassau Nick Payne, factory manager at Monier Redland, said: “Monier Redland is committed to reducing its impact on the environment and has a medium-term plan to source 20% of its production energy from renewable sources. Our successful partnership with Infinite Renewables is a major step towards achieving this.”
Daniel Rees, Investment executive, Finance Wales said: "Infinite Energy has established itself as a leading Welsh renewable energy company and has a proven track record in the installation and management of wind turbine projects. Finance Wales is pleased to back the business as a funding partner.’
Not many people know the shallow area off the public access at Riverside Park in New Ulm can be a hot spot for walleye fishing, Schwartz said. What he didn't know: The reason he wasn't constantly snagging his lure on old tires, rusty barrels and other junk had something to do with the thumping music coming from a stage above the grassy river bank.
Schwartz figured the Riverblast festival was just about old people getting together to listen to bands, eat some food and enjoy each other's company while sipping some locally brewed Schell's beer. Scott Sparlin, one of the event's organizers, would have told Schwartz Riverblast is about fun, but it also supports a cause that has improved the river, and helped its walleye flourish, during the past two decades.
The event started as the River Rally in 1992 and evolved into Riverblast in 2000. It's always used camping, music and refreshments to make people aware of the river and to raise a little money for the Coalition for a Clean Minnesota River.
The coalition's most significant accomplishment, Sparlin said, has been changing people's attitudes about the river. Instead of thinking of the river as a dump, which was the case for many years, people now see it as an asset that can draw tourists to its river towns.
"The river is why New Ulm is here," he said. "It's why Mankato is where it is. It's why St. Peter is where it is."We're changing the way people view the Minnesota River and getting people to want to change it. There's lots of work to do, but the good news is the river is getting better."
Phosphorus and sediment levels have dropped by 25 percent since the coalition's work started, Sparlin said. They're still working on Nitrogen levels. They are making progress with that, in part, by working with farmers to change the way they tile their fields.
Greg Asmus and his two sons, 10-year-old Anthony and 2-year-old Jonathan, wandered down by the river to toss some rocks and watch Schwartz and his buddies cast their lines. Asmus, who grew up in New Ulm, pointed to a big rock he used to sit on when he fished as a kid. He remembered snagging his line regularly.
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2013年9月2日星期一
2013年5月19日星期日
Iron Boy works magic and throws a stellar boxing card in Phoenix
The night kicked off with some crowd pleasing amateur bouts. Lupita Navarez, defeated a tough Rosa Orozco, in an exciting match that had both fighters trading some hard blows. Although Orozco lost, she has nothing to be ashamed about, she fought with heart and grit, representing Tucson proudly. Luis Espinoza won his bout with Alejandro Dominguez, in an entertaining bout that had the crowd worked up. The hard hitting Espinoza needs to be be on your radar, he has speed and power. Ariel Arismendez, of Phoenix made her second appearance on an Iron Boy card, and defeated a crafty Alejandra Cardoza. Both fighters wasted little time trading punches, it was a battle to the end. A short night for soon to be pro, David Benavidez, as he would take a first round win over Gustavo Esparza. A patient Benavidez, displayed great defensive skill and amazing power, he hardly broke a sweat. Simply said, Benavidez is a stud in the ring and will be a world champion at the pro level. Valley favorite Sulem Urbina-Soto was scheduled to fight, but the match was cancelled due to her opponent dropping out. Sadly, this has been the case for Sulem as of late, by no fault of her own she remains fight ready. Sulem's husband and coach, Andy Soto said her opponent dropped out at the last minute after missing the plane to Phoenix. Andy Soto made arrangements on another flight and again they did not board the plane. It was a tough break for Sulem, but it was quite apparent they had no intention coming to Phoenix, leaving the hard hitting Sulem empty handed.
For months the young emperor to the north has been threatening to turn this thriving metropolis into a "sea of fire." But it's not easy to ruffle the jaunty vibe of 75-year-old Kim Chong-shik as he strolls among young couples and shoppers along the boutiques of the Ceramic tile.
Living well, it's said, is the best revenge. "I never imagined it would be like this," he says, grinning, not far from a playfully misplaced sign on a coffeehouse: Beverly Hills City Limits.
The retired civil servant, who remembers the Korean War and its miserable aftermath, cuts a dapper figure against a springtime cold snap, a green silk scarf peeking out from his handsome wool overcoat.
Ten million people live in Seoul, the heart of a huge sprawl that is home to half of the Republic of Korea's 49 million people. It is a hard-charging, high-pressure, high-tech hub of the 21st-century global economy – and sits in the cross hairs of an enemy who seems unaware the cold war ended a generation ago. North Korean missile installations are just 30 miles away – and now the threats are nuclear.
Yet not long ago, the dream of a single Korea – reconciled in peace like Germany, not through war like Vietnam – seemed like a destiny within reach. As recently as two months ago, Koreans from the south were still crossing the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to go to work alongside 50,000 northerners at the Kaesong industrial park, a legacy of the South's old "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation. The Kaesong facility opened four years after athletes from both Koreas marched into the 2000 Sydney Olympics under a flag depicting a united peninsula. That same year South Korea's president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And Koreans have long embraced the idea that they are of "one blood." A January 2011 survey by the Korean Broadcasting System found that 71.6 percent of South Koreans favored reunification, and nearly as many said they would be willing to pay taxes to support it.
But the ardor for reunification has cooled with a new round of tensions this year. Pyongyang's threats appear to have decimated the southerners' goodwill: In just six months there was a precipitous drop in the number of South Koreans who consider northerners a "neighbor" or "one of us," from 64.2 percent as late as November 2012 to 37.3 percent in late April, and a spike to 46 percent considering northerners as strangers at best, if not enemies.
As "the American century" fades, and the 21st century is said to "belong to China," it may make more sense to speak of "the Asian century" – and now is South Korea's moment. And in that moment, it shines in such stark contrast to the sad state of North Korea – so impoverished its people literally stand a few inches shorter than their southern cousins. The peninsula's bipolar condition is reflected most aptly in its leading personalities. The stocky K-pop party rocker Psy spreads "Gangnam Style" to the world while the North's pudgy supreme leader, like his father and grandfather before him, spreads menace, Pyongyang style.
The nuclear saber-rattling may have prompted the United States in March to add B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers to its annual military exercises with South Korea, but there are few outward signs of distress among South Koreans themselves. Seoul's stock market took it all in stride, and 50,000 Psy fans jammed a Seoul stadium for a mid-April concert that premièred his new song and video "Gentleman," in which Psy does not seem gentlemanly at all. Nobody expects him or any act, anywhere, to soon top the 1.5 billion-plus YouTube viewings of "Gangnam Style."
Psy's global success has made him a national hero. He is, in a sense, a flamboyant, fun-loving, globe-trotting version of the "industrial warriors" hailed by South Korean politicians for transforming this small nation into an economic powerhouse. While the Korean Wave exports K-pop and TV and film dramas far and wide, the rest of South Korea Inc. keeps cranking out computer chips, smart phones, TVs, autos, oil tankers, and container ships, while also building skyscrapers, highways, and shopping malls at home and abroad. In the first quarter of 2013, as Pyongyang started to act up, South Korea's gross domestic product jumped markedly over recent quarters. Samsung Electronics recorded a 42 percent spike in profits in its sixth straight quarter of growth as it pulls away from Apple in the smart-phone market.
For months the young emperor to the north has been threatening to turn this thriving metropolis into a "sea of fire." But it's not easy to ruffle the jaunty vibe of 75-year-old Kim Chong-shik as he strolls among young couples and shoppers along the boutiques of the Ceramic tile.
Living well, it's said, is the best revenge. "I never imagined it would be like this," he says, grinning, not far from a playfully misplaced sign on a coffeehouse: Beverly Hills City Limits.
The retired civil servant, who remembers the Korean War and its miserable aftermath, cuts a dapper figure against a springtime cold snap, a green silk scarf peeking out from his handsome wool overcoat.
Ten million people live in Seoul, the heart of a huge sprawl that is home to half of the Republic of Korea's 49 million people. It is a hard-charging, high-pressure, high-tech hub of the 21st-century global economy – and sits in the cross hairs of an enemy who seems unaware the cold war ended a generation ago. North Korean missile installations are just 30 miles away – and now the threats are nuclear.
Yet not long ago, the dream of a single Korea – reconciled in peace like Germany, not through war like Vietnam – seemed like a destiny within reach. As recently as two months ago, Koreans from the south were still crossing the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to go to work alongside 50,000 northerners at the Kaesong industrial park, a legacy of the South's old "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation. The Kaesong facility opened four years after athletes from both Koreas marched into the 2000 Sydney Olympics under a flag depicting a united peninsula. That same year South Korea's president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And Koreans have long embraced the idea that they are of "one blood." A January 2011 survey by the Korean Broadcasting System found that 71.6 percent of South Koreans favored reunification, and nearly as many said they would be willing to pay taxes to support it.
But the ardor for reunification has cooled with a new round of tensions this year. Pyongyang's threats appear to have decimated the southerners' goodwill: In just six months there was a precipitous drop in the number of South Koreans who consider northerners a "neighbor" or "one of us," from 64.2 percent as late as November 2012 to 37.3 percent in late April, and a spike to 46 percent considering northerners as strangers at best, if not enemies.
As "the American century" fades, and the 21st century is said to "belong to China," it may make more sense to speak of "the Asian century" – and now is South Korea's moment. And in that moment, it shines in such stark contrast to the sad state of North Korea – so impoverished its people literally stand a few inches shorter than their southern cousins. The peninsula's bipolar condition is reflected most aptly in its leading personalities. The stocky K-pop party rocker Psy spreads "Gangnam Style" to the world while the North's pudgy supreme leader, like his father and grandfather before him, spreads menace, Pyongyang style.
The nuclear saber-rattling may have prompted the United States in March to add B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers to its annual military exercises with South Korea, but there are few outward signs of distress among South Koreans themselves. Seoul's stock market took it all in stride, and 50,000 Psy fans jammed a Seoul stadium for a mid-April concert that premièred his new song and video "Gentleman," in which Psy does not seem gentlemanly at all. Nobody expects him or any act, anywhere, to soon top the 1.5 billion-plus YouTube viewings of "Gangnam Style."
Psy's global success has made him a national hero. He is, in a sense, a flamboyant, fun-loving, globe-trotting version of the "industrial warriors" hailed by South Korean politicians for transforming this small nation into an economic powerhouse. While the Korean Wave exports K-pop and TV and film dramas far and wide, the rest of South Korea Inc. keeps cranking out computer chips, smart phones, TVs, autos, oil tankers, and container ships, while also building skyscrapers, highways, and shopping malls at home and abroad. In the first quarter of 2013, as Pyongyang started to act up, South Korea's gross domestic product jumped markedly over recent quarters. Samsung Electronics recorded a 42 percent spike in profits in its sixth straight quarter of growth as it pulls away from Apple in the smart-phone market.
2013年4月27日星期六
Do you ever wonder where that far-off world has gone?
THE county of Shropshire contains many a quaint and curious town,
full of history and half-timbering. Its rolling hills seem to invite
such quiet and tranquil settlements, from black-and-white Cleobury to
sedate and elegant Ludlow.
Craven Arms could hardly be included in this category. Its not particular old, and its not especially picturesque either. Named after a hotel on the main road, Craven Arms is a creation of the Victorian railways,Shop wholesale bestsmartcard controller from cheap. which in turn fostered small industries and a market.
Nevertheless, Craven Arms boasts one remarkable attraction. To be fair, it can claim two others in the shape of a museum of the Shropshire Hills and Stokesay Castle, the striking fortified manor house on its outskirts.
But lets leave these for another day and concentrate instead on the former market hall, in Market Street, just off the A49. Welcome to the Land of Lost Content.
A.E. Housman is a familiar figure in these parts, his last resting place being in the graveyard of St Laurence, Ludlow. That oft-quoted poem, with its blue remembered hills and yearning sense of loss, is perhaps his best-loved work. But the museum that takes its name from Housman is more than this, and certainly no simple tribute to the Shropshire Lad.
Change the stress on the word content and you have a more accurate introduction to what lies within the old market hall. For the Land of Lost Content is where all our childhood toys disappeared to, the last retreat for our kitchen gadgets, the home for all the tins and packets that once lined our cupboards. Here are the contents of all our living rooms and kitchens, from the First World War to the 1980s. Not lost at all.
The Land of Lost Content is the brainchild of Stella and Dave Mitchell. Stella was an art student at Birmingham Polytechnic in the 1970s. For her final degree show she assembled a collection of ephemera, much of it bought for pennies in the old Rag Market. At that point Stella was hooked. What began as a cutting-edge art installation has metamorphosed into something we can all buy into.
As the collection began to grow Stella and her husband moved it to the South coast, and set up a museum called Rejectamenta at East Wittering in West Sussex. That was in 1991. Twelve years later the couple returned, as they had always planned to do,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible landscapeoilpaintings available anywhere. to the West Midlands,The Motorola drycabinets Engine is an embedded software-only component of the Motorola wireless switches. and in 2003 opened a new museum in a disused Victorian building at Craven Arms. The destination could hardly be more appropriate.
Ive made three visits to the place since then, and fondly tell my students about it too. In a world where so many of our museums have gone hi-tech, and are packed with interactives and touch-screens, Lost Content is a reminder that at the heart of any good museum are objects, and preferably a lot of them.
Indeed, there could hardly be more objects, three floors of them, to be precise. On our most recent visit, Stella had just returned from the weekly flea-market at Abergavenny, with yet more treasures to squeeze in somewhere. What the world throws away, Stella picks up.
At one time, says Stella,About buymosaic in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. I put all the exhibits out of arms reach, but now I encourage visitors to pick them up and examine them. Funnily enough, they rarely do.
I still miss the Opie museum of packaging, which once occupied part of Gloucester Docks, but the Land of Lost Content makes for a worthy replacement. And all of it has been achieved without a single grant from the HLF or any other funding body. Its all the Mitchells own work, and I suspect every entrance fee gets recycled into more and more objects.
Some day soon, you wont be able to get into the place at all. I defy anyone to get in and out of here in less than three hours. More likely they will be politely ushered out when the museum closes at 5pm.
This is not simply a museum of social history C an object lesson in how we lived then C it is also a journey into personal memory. There are the board games we played as children, the decorations we put up at Christmas, the utility furniture we once bought, the food we ate, the little plastic toys we found in packets of cornflakes. Spangles, powdered milk, love-hearts, Andrews liver salts, Fairy Snow, powdered egg, Escalado, games compendia, I-Spy books, Franklyns Fine Shagg (its a tobacco, by the way). If you wondered where that far-off world has gone, its in Craven Arms.
Every time I go to Stellas kingdom of bygones, I find something new. Last week I picked up an old recipe card, forged in days of austerity. Macaroni cheese, it said, is cheap and filling. There was a set of recipes to prove it, for plain macaroni cheese, one for macaroni cheese and crab, another for macaroni cheese and ham, and yet one more for macaroni cheese and mushroom.
This was a historic night, marked by four astonishing goals from the Polish striker, and the Dortmund manager was not going to let anyone ruin it. Success may come tinged with sadness, the growing realisation that the better his players perform the more likely they are to depart, but Klopp refused to think about that. Besides, he claimed that Lewandowski was staying. That is far from certain but these have been days in which the manager has sought to put off a worrying future and focus instead on a brilliant present.
Against Real Madrid it worked: the build-up to the game had been hijacked by the suspiciously ill-timed news that Mario G?tze was joining rivals Bayern Munich after they paid his ?37 million release clause; the game itself began with him providing the perfect cross for Lewandowski to score the opener.
Three more goals followed, the third of them especially stunning, Lewandowski dragging the ball back to create a bit of space before hammering the ball into the net. Even the penalty was pretty impressive.I have been thinking about purchasing a plasticmould to protect the fortune. "The goals were incredible," Klopp said. "The third is worth every single cent of what the TV channels pay for the rights to show the games."
Asked whether Lewandowski was offside for one of his goals, as Jos? Mourinho had implied, Klopp adopted what appears to be his default setting: he laughed. "There were so many Lewandowski goals that I cannot think which one he means," he smiled, blowing out his cheeks. "The fourth was a penalty and, yes, it is a penalty. The third was so brilliant that no referee in the world is allowed to take this back." He did not add that there was nothing wrong with the first or the second, either.
It was some calling card on the night when everyone was watching, open-mouthed. G?tze is gone; it is inevitable that the attention of Europe's richest clubs will now turn to Lewandowski, although on this performance they could turn to four or five players. Marco Reus, in particular, was exceptional. So too Ilkay Gundogan. Manchester United already bid for Lewandowski last summer and others will surely clamour for the 24-year-old this year.
Bayern Munich have spoken to him and agreed the basis of a deal on personal terms. But Dortmund have already lost G?tze and they are determined not to let Lewandowski go to the same club. He has a year left on his contract, so eventually they may have no choice, but they insist that they would rather keep him. The other option, rather more palatable than him joining Bayern, is to negotiate with a foreign suitor. Premiership clubs are monitoring movements.
Craven Arms could hardly be included in this category. Its not particular old, and its not especially picturesque either. Named after a hotel on the main road, Craven Arms is a creation of the Victorian railways,Shop wholesale bestsmartcard controller from cheap. which in turn fostered small industries and a market.
Nevertheless, Craven Arms boasts one remarkable attraction. To be fair, it can claim two others in the shape of a museum of the Shropshire Hills and Stokesay Castle, the striking fortified manor house on its outskirts.
But lets leave these for another day and concentrate instead on the former market hall, in Market Street, just off the A49. Welcome to the Land of Lost Content.
A.E. Housman is a familiar figure in these parts, his last resting place being in the graveyard of St Laurence, Ludlow. That oft-quoted poem, with its blue remembered hills and yearning sense of loss, is perhaps his best-loved work. But the museum that takes its name from Housman is more than this, and certainly no simple tribute to the Shropshire Lad.
Change the stress on the word content and you have a more accurate introduction to what lies within the old market hall. For the Land of Lost Content is where all our childhood toys disappeared to, the last retreat for our kitchen gadgets, the home for all the tins and packets that once lined our cupboards. Here are the contents of all our living rooms and kitchens, from the First World War to the 1980s. Not lost at all.
The Land of Lost Content is the brainchild of Stella and Dave Mitchell. Stella was an art student at Birmingham Polytechnic in the 1970s. For her final degree show she assembled a collection of ephemera, much of it bought for pennies in the old Rag Market. At that point Stella was hooked. What began as a cutting-edge art installation has metamorphosed into something we can all buy into.
As the collection began to grow Stella and her husband moved it to the South coast, and set up a museum called Rejectamenta at East Wittering in West Sussex. That was in 1991. Twelve years later the couple returned, as they had always planned to do,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible landscapeoilpaintings available anywhere. to the West Midlands,The Motorola drycabinets Engine is an embedded software-only component of the Motorola wireless switches. and in 2003 opened a new museum in a disused Victorian building at Craven Arms. The destination could hardly be more appropriate.
Ive made three visits to the place since then, and fondly tell my students about it too. In a world where so many of our museums have gone hi-tech, and are packed with interactives and touch-screens, Lost Content is a reminder that at the heart of any good museum are objects, and preferably a lot of them.
Indeed, there could hardly be more objects, three floors of them, to be precise. On our most recent visit, Stella had just returned from the weekly flea-market at Abergavenny, with yet more treasures to squeeze in somewhere. What the world throws away, Stella picks up.
At one time, says Stella,About buymosaic in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. I put all the exhibits out of arms reach, but now I encourage visitors to pick them up and examine them. Funnily enough, they rarely do.
I still miss the Opie museum of packaging, which once occupied part of Gloucester Docks, but the Land of Lost Content makes for a worthy replacement. And all of it has been achieved without a single grant from the HLF or any other funding body. Its all the Mitchells own work, and I suspect every entrance fee gets recycled into more and more objects.
Some day soon, you wont be able to get into the place at all. I defy anyone to get in and out of here in less than three hours. More likely they will be politely ushered out when the museum closes at 5pm.
This is not simply a museum of social history C an object lesson in how we lived then C it is also a journey into personal memory. There are the board games we played as children, the decorations we put up at Christmas, the utility furniture we once bought, the food we ate, the little plastic toys we found in packets of cornflakes. Spangles, powdered milk, love-hearts, Andrews liver salts, Fairy Snow, powdered egg, Escalado, games compendia, I-Spy books, Franklyns Fine Shagg (its a tobacco, by the way). If you wondered where that far-off world has gone, its in Craven Arms.
Every time I go to Stellas kingdom of bygones, I find something new. Last week I picked up an old recipe card, forged in days of austerity. Macaroni cheese, it said, is cheap and filling. There was a set of recipes to prove it, for plain macaroni cheese, one for macaroni cheese and crab, another for macaroni cheese and ham, and yet one more for macaroni cheese and mushroom.
This was a historic night, marked by four astonishing goals from the Polish striker, and the Dortmund manager was not going to let anyone ruin it. Success may come tinged with sadness, the growing realisation that the better his players perform the more likely they are to depart, but Klopp refused to think about that. Besides, he claimed that Lewandowski was staying. That is far from certain but these have been days in which the manager has sought to put off a worrying future and focus instead on a brilliant present.
Against Real Madrid it worked: the build-up to the game had been hijacked by the suspiciously ill-timed news that Mario G?tze was joining rivals Bayern Munich after they paid his ?37 million release clause; the game itself began with him providing the perfect cross for Lewandowski to score the opener.
Three more goals followed, the third of them especially stunning, Lewandowski dragging the ball back to create a bit of space before hammering the ball into the net. Even the penalty was pretty impressive.I have been thinking about purchasing a plasticmould to protect the fortune. "The goals were incredible," Klopp said. "The third is worth every single cent of what the TV channels pay for the rights to show the games."
Asked whether Lewandowski was offside for one of his goals, as Jos? Mourinho had implied, Klopp adopted what appears to be his default setting: he laughed. "There were so many Lewandowski goals that I cannot think which one he means," he smiled, blowing out his cheeks. "The fourth was a penalty and, yes, it is a penalty. The third was so brilliant that no referee in the world is allowed to take this back." He did not add that there was nothing wrong with the first or the second, either.
It was some calling card on the night when everyone was watching, open-mouthed. G?tze is gone; it is inevitable that the attention of Europe's richest clubs will now turn to Lewandowski, although on this performance they could turn to four or five players. Marco Reus, in particular, was exceptional. So too Ilkay Gundogan. Manchester United already bid for Lewandowski last summer and others will surely clamour for the 24-year-old this year.
Bayern Munich have spoken to him and agreed the basis of a deal on personal terms. But Dortmund have already lost G?tze and they are determined not to let Lewandowski go to the same club. He has a year left on his contract, so eventually they may have no choice, but they insist that they would rather keep him. The other option, rather more palatable than him joining Bayern, is to negotiate with a foreign suitor. Premiership clubs are monitoring movements.
2013年2月27日星期三
Council considers proposal to stay at church center to further mission
The church’s denominational offices would remain at the Episcopal Church Center in New York if the Executive Council accepts a recommendation it received Feb. 26 from a group of Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society executives.
Of four main scenarios analyzed, “God’s mission of reconciliation is best furthered” by remaining at 815 Second Ave. in Manhattan and consolidating DFMS operations at the church center to free up even more space to rent to outside tenants than the 3.5 floors that are currently leased out, a report to council says. This choice would be “in the organization’s best interests financially, both in terms of budget effect and for long-term investment purposes,” according to the report.
The DFMS, the church’s corporate entity, currently rents 2.5 floors to the Ad Council and one floor to Permanent Mission of Haiti to the United Nations. The church center has nine floors of office space.
The study began in February 2012, five months before General Convention met, when council’s Finances for Mission committee asked DFMS management to study the possible relocation of the church center.
The report said the group believes that “the real underlying energy in examining the location of the church center is less about its location and more about how it actually functions,” adding that the writers “could not be in greater agreement about the need to reform how the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society functions and serves the needs of the church, particularly as to fostering, encouraging, and supporting mission at the local level in partnership with local leadership.”
Calling the desire for relocation “only a mask for the real reform needed and called for,” the group asks “how long, we wonder, would it be before complaints about the isolation of the Church Center in New York would become complaints about the isolation of the Church Center in some other city?”
“Perhaps rather than shifting the locus of our communal anxiety from one site to another, we would be better served in the long run to use our best judgment to make a rational and strategic decision in the best interests of the church’s engagement of God’s mission and then clearly articulate that decision to the church.”
Episcopal Church Chief Operating Officer Bishop Stacy Sauls told the council that the question of relocating the church center is regularly asked. The first time was about eight years after the building began to be used, and the issue seems to return at the same interval, he said.
Sauls, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer Kurt Barnes, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Director of Mission Sam McDonald, Director of Human Resources John Colon and Legal Counsel Paul Nix, all members of the 10-person Executive Oversight Group, conducted the study that began last spring.
The study considered Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Minneapolis, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Charlotte, Ft. Lauderdale and Cincinnati, as well as another location in New York as alternatives to the 50-year-old church center.
Later in the day, Nat Rockett, Cushman & Wakefield executive vice president, told the entire council that it is not unusual that his firm came to a different conclusion that the Executive Oversight Group because the real estate firm looked at a different, limited set of factors.
After the recommendation was presented, council discussed the conclusion during an executive session on the second day of council’s three-day winter meeting. The session was closed because part of the discussion of the group’s report involved proprietary information such as the anticipated per-square-foot market rental rate for the 11-story building and its presumed value on the Manhattan real estate market. That information will also be absent from the version of the report that is expected to be posted here Feb. 27.
Council took no action on the recommendation and Finances for Mission and Governance and Administration for Mission will take up the report at council’s June 8-10 meeting.
The Executive Oversight Group came to its unanimous conclusion, the report says, after analyzing five “mission considerations,” including the unity of the church, mission partnerships, continuation of services provided, promoting justice and maximizing financial resources for mission. The overall consideration, according to Sauls, was stewardship in terms of financial management of the church’s resources for mission.
“We question the prudence of such a disruption at precisely the time when the church is reforming itself to have an increasingly missional focus and the staff is most needed to facilitate, encourage, and lead the initiatives being implemented as part of the Marks of Mission Budget as adopted at the 2012 General Convention,” the writers say.
In addition, Episcopal Migration Ministries might be threatened by a move because it is unlikely many staffers would leave New York since resettlement jobs abound there. If a major loss of staff impacted EMM’s abilities to offer the services for which it receives government grants, the ministry might have to be discontinued, the report says.
The report expresses concern about leaving New York because of the laws that might be encountered elsewhere. Married same-sex couples would be forced to choose between their jobs and moving to a jurisdiction that did not recognize their marriages, the writers suggest. New York recognizes same-sex marriage.
“We wish to be clear that we, as management, will implement whatever needs to be done to serve the church, and further, that we believe the entire staff of the Church will exercise its best efforts to the same end,” the writers say. “However, we do wonder about the effect on our prophetic voice of the indiscriminate dismissal of staff in order to replace them with cheaper labor absent some persuasive, if not compelling reason, to do so.”
“As leaders in the church, we have a particular concern about the effect on our witness on the issue of marriage equality when some married persons employed by us would be forced to make a choice between keeping their jobs and having their marriages recognized.”
Of four main scenarios analyzed, “God’s mission of reconciliation is best furthered” by remaining at 815 Second Ave. in Manhattan and consolidating DFMS operations at the church center to free up even more space to rent to outside tenants than the 3.5 floors that are currently leased out, a report to council says. This choice would be “in the organization’s best interests financially, both in terms of budget effect and for long-term investment purposes,” according to the report.
The DFMS, the church’s corporate entity, currently rents 2.5 floors to the Ad Council and one floor to Permanent Mission of Haiti to the United Nations. The church center has nine floors of office space.
The study began in February 2012, five months before General Convention met, when council’s Finances for Mission committee asked DFMS management to study the possible relocation of the church center.
The report said the group believes that “the real underlying energy in examining the location of the church center is less about its location and more about how it actually functions,” adding that the writers “could not be in greater agreement about the need to reform how the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society functions and serves the needs of the church, particularly as to fostering, encouraging, and supporting mission at the local level in partnership with local leadership.”
Calling the desire for relocation “only a mask for the real reform needed and called for,” the group asks “how long, we wonder, would it be before complaints about the isolation of the Church Center in New York would become complaints about the isolation of the Church Center in some other city?”
“Perhaps rather than shifting the locus of our communal anxiety from one site to another, we would be better served in the long run to use our best judgment to make a rational and strategic decision in the best interests of the church’s engagement of God’s mission and then clearly articulate that decision to the church.”
Episcopal Church Chief Operating Officer Bishop Stacy Sauls told the council that the question of relocating the church center is regularly asked. The first time was about eight years after the building began to be used, and the issue seems to return at the same interval, he said.
Sauls, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer Kurt Barnes, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Director of Mission Sam McDonald, Director of Human Resources John Colon and Legal Counsel Paul Nix, all members of the 10-person Executive Oversight Group, conducted the study that began last spring.
The study considered Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Minneapolis, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Charlotte, Ft. Lauderdale and Cincinnati, as well as another location in New York as alternatives to the 50-year-old church center.
Later in the day, Nat Rockett, Cushman & Wakefield executive vice president, told the entire council that it is not unusual that his firm came to a different conclusion that the Executive Oversight Group because the real estate firm looked at a different, limited set of factors.
After the recommendation was presented, council discussed the conclusion during an executive session on the second day of council’s three-day winter meeting. The session was closed because part of the discussion of the group’s report involved proprietary information such as the anticipated per-square-foot market rental rate for the 11-story building and its presumed value on the Manhattan real estate market. That information will also be absent from the version of the report that is expected to be posted here Feb. 27.
Council took no action on the recommendation and Finances for Mission and Governance and Administration for Mission will take up the report at council’s June 8-10 meeting.
The Executive Oversight Group came to its unanimous conclusion, the report says, after analyzing five “mission considerations,” including the unity of the church, mission partnerships, continuation of services provided, promoting justice and maximizing financial resources for mission. The overall consideration, according to Sauls, was stewardship in terms of financial management of the church’s resources for mission.
“We question the prudence of such a disruption at precisely the time when the church is reforming itself to have an increasingly missional focus and the staff is most needed to facilitate, encourage, and lead the initiatives being implemented as part of the Marks of Mission Budget as adopted at the 2012 General Convention,” the writers say.
In addition, Episcopal Migration Ministries might be threatened by a move because it is unlikely many staffers would leave New York since resettlement jobs abound there. If a major loss of staff impacted EMM’s abilities to offer the services for which it receives government grants, the ministry might have to be discontinued, the report says.
The report expresses concern about leaving New York because of the laws that might be encountered elsewhere. Married same-sex couples would be forced to choose between their jobs and moving to a jurisdiction that did not recognize their marriages, the writers suggest. New York recognizes same-sex marriage.
“We wish to be clear that we, as management, will implement whatever needs to be done to serve the church, and further, that we believe the entire staff of the Church will exercise its best efforts to the same end,” the writers say. “However, we do wonder about the effect on our prophetic voice of the indiscriminate dismissal of staff in order to replace them with cheaper labor absent some persuasive, if not compelling reason, to do so.”
“As leaders in the church, we have a particular concern about the effect on our witness on the issue of marriage equality when some married persons employed by us would be forced to make a choice between keeping their jobs and having their marriages recognized.”
2013年1月21日星期一
Parade grand marshals provide service in mold of MLK
When it came time to choose the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade grand marshals, the selection of both the Rev. Marion Bennett and Lillian McMorris was simple for parade president Wendell Williams.
Since 1982, Williams and a selection committee have chosen a male and female grand marshal that best represent King’s values of community service and unity. Each year the grand marshals ride in the parade – which will weave through an estimated 40,000 spectators Monday - as the ceremonial guests of honor.
The selection of Bennett and McMorris were long overdue, Williams said.
“These two people most exemplify what we are looking for in grand marshals,” Williams said. “… They’re both are involved in the entire community.”
When the 10 a.m. festivities kick off, both Bennett and McMorris will ride through a parade on a holiday that Williams said represents a day of duty to one’s community rather than a day off. He feels both grand marshals represent King’s beliefs, and both have left a large imprint on Las Vegas.
Williams said Bennett represented the “no non-sense service” King was known for. Bennett has been serving the Las Vegas community since 1960; he worked as the pastor of Zion United Methodist Church until 2003.
Bennett also spent three terms as president of the Las Vegas NAACP, served in the Nevada Legislature for a decade and founded a low-cost African American daycare facility. Williams said Bennett’s true impact on the community, however, would be felt in years to come.
“He’s done so much to plant seeds in community,” Williams said. “…His work will show what he’s been about and has given.”
He has been so entrenched in the Las Vegas community that Williams assumed Bennett already had served as grand marshal. In fact, his daughter, Judge Karen Bennett had even been selected for the honor in the past. When parade organizers realized Bennett hadn’t been selected, it didn’t even require a vote.
“Nobody in the (selection committee) could believe we had overlooked him,” Williams said. “It was an oversight we were glad to overcorrect.”
McMorris had been involved in the parade from the beginning, when it was no longer than a funeral procession and lasted just 30 minutes. Now it is one of the largest parades in Nevada. She has helped with planning, handled media relations, hosted the cable parade show, and done pretty much anything else Williams has needed.
Growing up with a deacon father and a missionary mother in West Sahara, helping others is the only way McMorris has ever known. She has donated most of her life works to charity and community efforts.
Her impact ranged from producing and directing the KVVU-Fox5 public affairs show “A.M. Southern Nevada” highlighting charity efforts throughout Las Vegas to advocacy work for various charities. She said she’s so busy with community efforts most people are baffled at how she juggles her schedule.
The nation’s first African-American president, taking his ceremonial oath of office on the official birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr., juxtaposed the nation’s Founding Fathers, the civil rights battles of the 1960s and this era’s drive for equal rights for gays and lesbians in a speech that was short in length and long on ambition.
The president wove familiar campaign themes into an address about governance, including support for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; alternative energy sources and climate-change science; immigration reform; gun control measures; and a foreign policy that promotes international alliances as well as the “strength of arms and rule of law.”
The White House said Obama will detail his agenda Feb. 12 during his State of the Union address, and wants the two speeches to be examined as a pair.
Tutored by historians that second terms can be drained of clout long before they run out of time -- and are often marred by unscripted dramas -- the president urged action, speed, “common purpose,” and sufficient courage to take risks that affirm American values.
“We have always understood that when times change, so must we,” he said. The American “truths” of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- and the belief that all men are created equal -- “may be self-evident [but] they have never been self-executing,” he added.
Obama included a reference to the 1969 riots at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, which helped spark a decades-long gay rights movement after police raided a well-known gay bar. By including Stonewall in his rhetoric, the president elevated equal rights for LGBT Americans to a place of historical importance with the women’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, and the 1965 march for racial equality from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
On Jan. 18, the administration hosted an all-day pre-inaugural policy briefing for the LGBT community and donors from the gay community, held at the Commerce Department. Federal officials reviewed Obama’s achievements and policy ambitions deemed of interest to that constituency, including progress on health care issues such as HIV/AIDS. Other similar policy briefings for constituent groups took place in advance of Monday’s inauguration, as the White House got a head start on mobilizing supporters to promote Obama’s legislative initiatives.
The president’s 15-minute address was chock-full of references to the middle class, seniors, teachers, women, young people, immigrants, African-Americans, and gays -- in other words, the political base and the voters who made his second term possible. In the mold of Abraham Lincoln and King, the president used his speech to present himself as a leader determined to work for them -- to leave behind a stronger, more just and mightier country.
Although many Obama advisers have sounded upbeat about enacting immigration reform, they have not been as confident about reviving gun control measures, with the exception of universal background checks, which Congress may adopt. White House aides have sounded even less gung-ho about Congress’s willingness to tackle climate change. Even outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Obama would likely use his executive authority in his second term, because legislation seems like such a long shot.
Nonetheless, Obama devoted a large chunk of his address to energy and climate science, going so far as to appeal to conservative evangelicals, who support some environmental protections as a form of stewardship of God’s creation.
“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it,” he said. “We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries -- we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure. . . . That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.”
The president challenged his Republican congressional opponents to move quickly in helping him to address the nation’s problems. And he was pointed in his denunciations of positions the GOP -- most prominently Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan -- voiced during last year’s election.
Since 1982, Williams and a selection committee have chosen a male and female grand marshal that best represent King’s values of community service and unity. Each year the grand marshals ride in the parade – which will weave through an estimated 40,000 spectators Monday - as the ceremonial guests of honor.
The selection of Bennett and McMorris were long overdue, Williams said.
“These two people most exemplify what we are looking for in grand marshals,” Williams said. “… They’re both are involved in the entire community.”
When the 10 a.m. festivities kick off, both Bennett and McMorris will ride through a parade on a holiday that Williams said represents a day of duty to one’s community rather than a day off. He feels both grand marshals represent King’s beliefs, and both have left a large imprint on Las Vegas.
Williams said Bennett represented the “no non-sense service” King was known for. Bennett has been serving the Las Vegas community since 1960; he worked as the pastor of Zion United Methodist Church until 2003.
Bennett also spent three terms as president of the Las Vegas NAACP, served in the Nevada Legislature for a decade and founded a low-cost African American daycare facility. Williams said Bennett’s true impact on the community, however, would be felt in years to come.
“He’s done so much to plant seeds in community,” Williams said. “…His work will show what he’s been about and has given.”
He has been so entrenched in the Las Vegas community that Williams assumed Bennett already had served as grand marshal. In fact, his daughter, Judge Karen Bennett had even been selected for the honor in the past. When parade organizers realized Bennett hadn’t been selected, it didn’t even require a vote.
“Nobody in the (selection committee) could believe we had overlooked him,” Williams said. “It was an oversight we were glad to overcorrect.”
McMorris had been involved in the parade from the beginning, when it was no longer than a funeral procession and lasted just 30 minutes. Now it is one of the largest parades in Nevada. She has helped with planning, handled media relations, hosted the cable parade show, and done pretty much anything else Williams has needed.
Growing up with a deacon father and a missionary mother in West Sahara, helping others is the only way McMorris has ever known. She has donated most of her life works to charity and community efforts.
Her impact ranged from producing and directing the KVVU-Fox5 public affairs show “A.M. Southern Nevada” highlighting charity efforts throughout Las Vegas to advocacy work for various charities. She said she’s so busy with community efforts most people are baffled at how she juggles her schedule.
The nation’s first African-American president, taking his ceremonial oath of office on the official birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr., juxtaposed the nation’s Founding Fathers, the civil rights battles of the 1960s and this era’s drive for equal rights for gays and lesbians in a speech that was short in length and long on ambition.
The president wove familiar campaign themes into an address about governance, including support for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; alternative energy sources and climate-change science; immigration reform; gun control measures; and a foreign policy that promotes international alliances as well as the “strength of arms and rule of law.”
The White House said Obama will detail his agenda Feb. 12 during his State of the Union address, and wants the two speeches to be examined as a pair.
Tutored by historians that second terms can be drained of clout long before they run out of time -- and are often marred by unscripted dramas -- the president urged action, speed, “common purpose,” and sufficient courage to take risks that affirm American values.
“We have always understood that when times change, so must we,” he said. The American “truths” of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- and the belief that all men are created equal -- “may be self-evident [but] they have never been self-executing,” he added.
Obama included a reference to the 1969 riots at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, which helped spark a decades-long gay rights movement after police raided a well-known gay bar. By including Stonewall in his rhetoric, the president elevated equal rights for LGBT Americans to a place of historical importance with the women’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, and the 1965 march for racial equality from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
On Jan. 18, the administration hosted an all-day pre-inaugural policy briefing for the LGBT community and donors from the gay community, held at the Commerce Department. Federal officials reviewed Obama’s achievements and policy ambitions deemed of interest to that constituency, including progress on health care issues such as HIV/AIDS. Other similar policy briefings for constituent groups took place in advance of Monday’s inauguration, as the White House got a head start on mobilizing supporters to promote Obama’s legislative initiatives.
The president’s 15-minute address was chock-full of references to the middle class, seniors, teachers, women, young people, immigrants, African-Americans, and gays -- in other words, the political base and the voters who made his second term possible. In the mold of Abraham Lincoln and King, the president used his speech to present himself as a leader determined to work for them -- to leave behind a stronger, more just and mightier country.
Although many Obama advisers have sounded upbeat about enacting immigration reform, they have not been as confident about reviving gun control measures, with the exception of universal background checks, which Congress may adopt. White House aides have sounded even less gung-ho about Congress’s willingness to tackle climate change. Even outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Obama would likely use his executive authority in his second term, because legislation seems like such a long shot.
Nonetheless, Obama devoted a large chunk of his address to energy and climate science, going so far as to appeal to conservative evangelicals, who support some environmental protections as a form of stewardship of God’s creation.
“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it,” he said. “We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries -- we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure. . . . That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.”
The president challenged his Republican congressional opponents to move quickly in helping him to address the nation’s problems. And he was pointed in his denunciations of positions the GOP -- most prominently Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan -- voiced during last year’s election.
2013年1月13日星期日
Hygienic show features art with 'class'
Saturday afternoon, a light mist on Bank Street in downtown New London was just persistent enough to present a mosquito-like annoyance factor. The brightly lit Hygienic Art Galleries, though, offered the promise of shelter - along with a welcome and day-glo plethora of pieces from the new "Whalers & Lancers" exhibition.
The seventh annual show features works in a variety of mediums from art students at both Waterford and New London High Schools.
The opening reception took place Friday evening, and A. Vincent Scarano, the president of Hygienic Art, estimated about 500 students, parents and assorted art-enthusiasts attended.
"It was a very diverse and enthusiastic crowd," Scarano said. "You could tell the kids were proud and excited. They should be. There's some wonderful stuff here, and this gives them an actual gallery exhibition experience."
Both of the ground-level rooms in the gallery were full of pieces roughly arranged into sections featuring pottery and sculpture, photographs, and drawings and paintings.
The subject matter varied expansively. There are plenty of land- and seascapes, portraiture, and expressions ranging from abstract to realism. Various pieces seem to reflect themes of autumn - possibly because much of the student work was done in the fall semester.
There are also indications of the influence of popular culture with respective allusions to music such as Deadmau5 and Skillet as well as the television series "Pretty Little Liars."
For most of Saturday, attendance at the show was scarce and void of student artists - which was perhaps not surprising given the large turnout at the reception.
But those who did wander through were impressed by variety of disciplines and the skill level.
Jack Shackles, a pastor at Taftville Congregational Church, was walking in downtown New London and, seeing some of the art through the window, came in to see the exhibition.
"It's always encouraging to see students express themselves, and some of these pieces show a lot of talent," he said. "The technique and perspective, the humor and movement ... it's good stuff. It also helps show you the world through (the students') eyes. I also think it's really nice of the gallery to encourage them and give them space."
Scarano said that's the whole idea. "This is a professional art gallery as opposed to a classroom wall," he said. "Being an artist is like being in a band. You can rehearse in the garage all you want - and you should - but eventually you've got to play that first gig. This show is a gig experience for the students. It gives them that sense of pride, and it gives their families a sense of pride."
There is also the aspect that much of the work on display is for sale. Visitor Bud Bray, a resident of New London who studied the exhibition in leisurely but comprehensive fashion, said he was drawn immediately to an untitled crayon piece by New London High School student Austin Clay - and was dismayed to learn it had already been sold.
"If you want to be a professional artist, you've got to realize that there is a business side of art as well as the creative side," he said. "That's another great thing about not just this show but how the art departments at these schools operate today. The kids learn about the process of the business and how to price art work even as they learn technique."
A "Celebration of Life" for Armond "Army" Kirschbaum will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Blue-Hollomon Gallery, 3555 Arctic Blvd. We previously noted his passing, at age 89, on Dec. 4, 2012, but this seems a good time to revisit some of his accomplishments, with information supplied by his family and friends.
Born in San Francisco March 25, 1923, he spent summers in Nome with his mother and stepfather who ran a trading post. He enlisted in the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a Seabee. After the war, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute on the GI bill, studying what was then called commercial art and is now known as graphic design.
He came to Anchorage in 1948, according to a Daily News interview in 1981. He told the reporter that he found five little theater groups and a symphony orchestra, but "there was nothing, nothing going on" in the visual arts.
He opened an advertising business with a strong commercial art component and sold art supplies to people who would become the core of the town's visual art community, like William Kimura and Alex Combs, well before they were actually making money from their art. He expanded his business to include a gallery and showed the work of Rie Munoz, Keith Appel, Bill Sabo and Pat Austin. He was instrumental in forming the Alaska Artists Guild.
He served on the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum Commission, on the boards of the Alaska Watercolor Society and was a founding member of the Anchorage Lions Club.
As an artist, Kirschbaum produced paintings and murals, including some of the prominent pieces at the Hotel Captain Cook. When the city of Anchorage merged with the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, he created the seal for the new municipality.
Some said they had known him and the picture included with the article was not of him; others who knew him said it certainly was.
It didn't take long for folks with connections to the old homesteading community at the head of Kachemak Bay to get word to his grandson, Ron Wieber, and we connected by phone early last week. Wieber told me that the "old man's" name was properly spelled Alvia Mattox and that he was best known as "Matt." He was born in 1879 in Buffalo, Wyo., and was working at the Turkey Track Cattle Company there at the turn of the century.
It was a wild and woolly place, Wieber said. "He told me how he encountered a sheep herder one time and they shot it out. He wound up with a bullet in his back that he carried to his grave."
He came to Alaska to work in the gold fields in Nome, Wieber said, and accumulated enough of a stake to fund his ranching efforts in the Homer area. That would not have been during the first Nome gold rush, however, since the 1910 census shows him still living in Wyoming and the 1930 census has him living in Unalaska -- herding sheep. Wieber thought Mattox's Nome years were in the '30s.
The seventh annual show features works in a variety of mediums from art students at both Waterford and New London High Schools.
The opening reception took place Friday evening, and A. Vincent Scarano, the president of Hygienic Art, estimated about 500 students, parents and assorted art-enthusiasts attended.
"It was a very diverse and enthusiastic crowd," Scarano said. "You could tell the kids were proud and excited. They should be. There's some wonderful stuff here, and this gives them an actual gallery exhibition experience."
Both of the ground-level rooms in the gallery were full of pieces roughly arranged into sections featuring pottery and sculpture, photographs, and drawings and paintings.
The subject matter varied expansively. There are plenty of land- and seascapes, portraiture, and expressions ranging from abstract to realism. Various pieces seem to reflect themes of autumn - possibly because much of the student work was done in the fall semester.
There are also indications of the influence of popular culture with respective allusions to music such as Deadmau5 and Skillet as well as the television series "Pretty Little Liars."
For most of Saturday, attendance at the show was scarce and void of student artists - which was perhaps not surprising given the large turnout at the reception.
But those who did wander through were impressed by variety of disciplines and the skill level.
Jack Shackles, a pastor at Taftville Congregational Church, was walking in downtown New London and, seeing some of the art through the window, came in to see the exhibition.
"It's always encouraging to see students express themselves, and some of these pieces show a lot of talent," he said. "The technique and perspective, the humor and movement ... it's good stuff. It also helps show you the world through (the students') eyes. I also think it's really nice of the gallery to encourage them and give them space."
Scarano said that's the whole idea. "This is a professional art gallery as opposed to a classroom wall," he said. "Being an artist is like being in a band. You can rehearse in the garage all you want - and you should - but eventually you've got to play that first gig. This show is a gig experience for the students. It gives them that sense of pride, and it gives their families a sense of pride."
There is also the aspect that much of the work on display is for sale. Visitor Bud Bray, a resident of New London who studied the exhibition in leisurely but comprehensive fashion, said he was drawn immediately to an untitled crayon piece by New London High School student Austin Clay - and was dismayed to learn it had already been sold.
"If you want to be a professional artist, you've got to realize that there is a business side of art as well as the creative side," he said. "That's another great thing about not just this show but how the art departments at these schools operate today. The kids learn about the process of the business and how to price art work even as they learn technique."
A "Celebration of Life" for Armond "Army" Kirschbaum will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Blue-Hollomon Gallery, 3555 Arctic Blvd. We previously noted his passing, at age 89, on Dec. 4, 2012, but this seems a good time to revisit some of his accomplishments, with information supplied by his family and friends.
Born in San Francisco March 25, 1923, he spent summers in Nome with his mother and stepfather who ran a trading post. He enlisted in the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a Seabee. After the war, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute on the GI bill, studying what was then called commercial art and is now known as graphic design.
He came to Anchorage in 1948, according to a Daily News interview in 1981. He told the reporter that he found five little theater groups and a symphony orchestra, but "there was nothing, nothing going on" in the visual arts.
He opened an advertising business with a strong commercial art component and sold art supplies to people who would become the core of the town's visual art community, like William Kimura and Alex Combs, well before they were actually making money from their art. He expanded his business to include a gallery and showed the work of Rie Munoz, Keith Appel, Bill Sabo and Pat Austin. He was instrumental in forming the Alaska Artists Guild.
He served on the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum Commission, on the boards of the Alaska Watercolor Society and was a founding member of the Anchorage Lions Club.
As an artist, Kirschbaum produced paintings and murals, including some of the prominent pieces at the Hotel Captain Cook. When the city of Anchorage merged with the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, he created the seal for the new municipality.
Some said they had known him and the picture included with the article was not of him; others who knew him said it certainly was.
It didn't take long for folks with connections to the old homesteading community at the head of Kachemak Bay to get word to his grandson, Ron Wieber, and we connected by phone early last week. Wieber told me that the "old man's" name was properly spelled Alvia Mattox and that he was best known as "Matt." He was born in 1879 in Buffalo, Wyo., and was working at the Turkey Track Cattle Company there at the turn of the century.
It was a wild and woolly place, Wieber said. "He told me how he encountered a sheep herder one time and they shot it out. He wound up with a bullet in his back that he carried to his grave."
He came to Alaska to work in the gold fields in Nome, Wieber said, and accumulated enough of a stake to fund his ranching efforts in the Homer area. That would not have been during the first Nome gold rush, however, since the 1910 census shows him still living in Wyoming and the 1930 census has him living in Unalaska -- herding sheep. Wieber thought Mattox's Nome years were in the '30s.
2012年12月29日星期六
Retro girlie look in a quiet corner of Old Montreal
It was. I hadn’t really intended to move, but a friend told me about this place because some people he knew were moving out. It’s one of the few rentals left in this area of Old Montreal. They’re tearing them all down and turning them into condominiums. It’s very cheap. I pay only $530 a month.
Having to downsize actually forced me to get rid of some of the furniture I’d brought with me from Saskatchewan. A lot of what you see here (she indicates the turquoise covered sofa and an armchair) are hand-me-downs or things I’ve picked up at St. Vincent de Paul. I paid $25 for chair and $50 for the couch. I’ve just had it re-covered.
(To illustrate her point, she shows me her camera collection, neatly arranged, with one old film camera on top of the other, on a CD rack. MacPherson is an accomplished photographer and her work, along with that of artist friends, hangs on the walls. We walk into her long, narrow kitchen. Her office space is at one end. A door to a terrace, “big enough for a barbecue” is at the other. In the kitchen, more of her collections — a row of vintage cocktail shakers and aquamarine glass containers.)
I notice you’ve used a lot of blues and greens in your decor. Are those your favourite colours?
Those and shocking pink. (She shows me the tiny bathroom, which has fuchsia walls and two bright pink gnomes, perched atop the toilet.) A friend gave these to me. I could do with a bigger bathtub, but the water pressure is great. That’s not always the case in older buildings.
His name is Mack. He’s a schnauzer and because he’s a German breed, I decided to name him after Kurt Weill’s Mack the Knife. That’s another great thing about living in this area. There are lots of places to walk him along the Lachine Canal.
Also, I’m so handy to everything. When I lived in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, friends used to remark that I lived so far away. I didn’t agree because it took me only 30 minutes to cycle downtown. (She still has a bike, leaning up against the bottom of the stairs to her apartment.) Living here, so close to downtown, I can see they were probably right.
It needed a complete makeover. My parents helped me renovate. We put in a laminate floor in the living area, painted the walls and doors and my dad — he’s very handy — modified the kitchen cabinets. The floor in the living room was all square tiles covered in some kind of ship’s varnish. It was a real “manly man” decor. I prefer a retro, girlie look!
Before my dad redesigned the cabinets, they were really high. He actually cut one of them in half so that I could fit the fridge underneath. All in all, we probably spent about $3,000.
It probably dates back to around the late 19th century. It has a colourful history. There are seven apartments within the block and they’re cut into really weird shapes. I’ve heard from a couple of sources that the building may at one time have been a brothel!
One of the apartments has a sweeping staircase, which could have been where the Madame paraded the girls. We’re so close to the harbour — lots of sailors — and near what was once Montreal’s first prison for women.
Perhaps more interesting is the personal collection that was reserved for the seacoast retreat that is now a permanent repository for museum-quality maritime art, Civil War naval maps, Revolutionary War letters from the North Carolina signers of
the Declaration of Independence, first edition North Carolina history books plus scrimshaw, earthenware pottery and more decorative accessories that resonate with meaning for the lifetime steward.
All have found a new address in one of Wrightsvilles bedroom communities overlooking the skyline of the tiny beach town from a top berth above the Intracoastal Waterway. On a clear day its possible to see the southern tip of Masonboro Island from the window hanging above the kitchen sink.
The three-bedroom condominium floorplan is simple. The kitchen gives way to a small dining area that adjoins the living room. Both areas open to a terrace anchored at its southern edge by a Carrara marble urn purchased from the Palm Beach estate of Bernie Madoff. Italian tiles cover the terrace floor. Cushioned outdoor wicker settees and chairs surround conversation tables and a few well placed conversation pieces, like the 1850 confit pot and an 18th century walnut oil vessel.
Sliding glass doors separate the terrace from the living room appointed with built-in display cases. One is a showcase for English Delft. The tin glaze pottery is rarer than its Dutch namesake. This particular assemblage includes 1690 King William and Mary Regina chargers. The large 14-inch decorative plates bear the portraits of the king and queen of England who reigned from 1689 until 1702.
The regents portrait chargers are flanked by German Westerwald jugs, scrimshaw clock hutches and a 1720 English Delft bowl from Bristol, a locale, like London, well known for its Delft earthenware.
Making way for the display of more antiquities, a chase located along the living rooms interior wall allowed the addition of French doors leading into the entrance hall. This underutilized space allows the housing for the collection of scrimshaw made from whale teeth and bones.
Out at sea, when whalers were bored they whittled and engraved keepsakes called scrimshaw for their wives and children. This display includes a childs teething ring and ball, clothespins, corkscrews, a comb, a toy spinning wheel, a yarn caddy, rolling pin, pie dough crimper and a device that strapped on a sailors belt holds needles for sail mending.
Having to downsize actually forced me to get rid of some of the furniture I’d brought with me from Saskatchewan. A lot of what you see here (she indicates the turquoise covered sofa and an armchair) are hand-me-downs or things I’ve picked up at St. Vincent de Paul. I paid $25 for chair and $50 for the couch. I’ve just had it re-covered.
(To illustrate her point, she shows me her camera collection, neatly arranged, with one old film camera on top of the other, on a CD rack. MacPherson is an accomplished photographer and her work, along with that of artist friends, hangs on the walls. We walk into her long, narrow kitchen. Her office space is at one end. A door to a terrace, “big enough for a barbecue” is at the other. In the kitchen, more of her collections — a row of vintage cocktail shakers and aquamarine glass containers.)
I notice you’ve used a lot of blues and greens in your decor. Are those your favourite colours?
Those and shocking pink. (She shows me the tiny bathroom, which has fuchsia walls and two bright pink gnomes, perched atop the toilet.) A friend gave these to me. I could do with a bigger bathtub, but the water pressure is great. That’s not always the case in older buildings.
His name is Mack. He’s a schnauzer and because he’s a German breed, I decided to name him after Kurt Weill’s Mack the Knife. That’s another great thing about living in this area. There are lots of places to walk him along the Lachine Canal.
Also, I’m so handy to everything. When I lived in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, friends used to remark that I lived so far away. I didn’t agree because it took me only 30 minutes to cycle downtown. (She still has a bike, leaning up against the bottom of the stairs to her apartment.) Living here, so close to downtown, I can see they were probably right.
It needed a complete makeover. My parents helped me renovate. We put in a laminate floor in the living area, painted the walls and doors and my dad — he’s very handy — modified the kitchen cabinets. The floor in the living room was all square tiles covered in some kind of ship’s varnish. It was a real “manly man” decor. I prefer a retro, girlie look!
Before my dad redesigned the cabinets, they were really high. He actually cut one of them in half so that I could fit the fridge underneath. All in all, we probably spent about $3,000.
It probably dates back to around the late 19th century. It has a colourful history. There are seven apartments within the block and they’re cut into really weird shapes. I’ve heard from a couple of sources that the building may at one time have been a brothel!
One of the apartments has a sweeping staircase, which could have been where the Madame paraded the girls. We’re so close to the harbour — lots of sailors — and near what was once Montreal’s first prison for women.
Perhaps more interesting is the personal collection that was reserved for the seacoast retreat that is now a permanent repository for museum-quality maritime art, Civil War naval maps, Revolutionary War letters from the North Carolina signers of
the Declaration of Independence, first edition North Carolina history books plus scrimshaw, earthenware pottery and more decorative accessories that resonate with meaning for the lifetime steward.
All have found a new address in one of Wrightsvilles bedroom communities overlooking the skyline of the tiny beach town from a top berth above the Intracoastal Waterway. On a clear day its possible to see the southern tip of Masonboro Island from the window hanging above the kitchen sink.
The three-bedroom condominium floorplan is simple. The kitchen gives way to a small dining area that adjoins the living room. Both areas open to a terrace anchored at its southern edge by a Carrara marble urn purchased from the Palm Beach estate of Bernie Madoff. Italian tiles cover the terrace floor. Cushioned outdoor wicker settees and chairs surround conversation tables and a few well placed conversation pieces, like the 1850 confit pot and an 18th century walnut oil vessel.
Sliding glass doors separate the terrace from the living room appointed with built-in display cases. One is a showcase for English Delft. The tin glaze pottery is rarer than its Dutch namesake. This particular assemblage includes 1690 King William and Mary Regina chargers. The large 14-inch decorative plates bear the portraits of the king and queen of England who reigned from 1689 until 1702.
The regents portrait chargers are flanked by German Westerwald jugs, scrimshaw clock hutches and a 1720 English Delft bowl from Bristol, a locale, like London, well known for its Delft earthenware.
Making way for the display of more antiquities, a chase located along the living rooms interior wall allowed the addition of French doors leading into the entrance hall. This underutilized space allows the housing for the collection of scrimshaw made from whale teeth and bones.
Out at sea, when whalers were bored they whittled and engraved keepsakes called scrimshaw for their wives and children. This display includes a childs teething ring and ball, clothespins, corkscrews, a comb, a toy spinning wheel, a yarn caddy, rolling pin, pie dough crimper and a device that strapped on a sailors belt holds needles for sail mending.
2012年12月27日星期四
Jacksonville man describes time aiding New Yorkers
Street vendors were busy last week on Broadway Avenue selling lamb over rice with white sauce, and families milled about Macy’s department store on 34th Street where Santa Claus told their children that “while Santa can’t get you everything you want, he will surely surprise you on Christmas morning.”
Yet as life is largely back to normal for many after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast, there remains so much to do. That’s what Paul Locke took away from his time volunteering with the Red Cross in New York in early December.
The retired Jacksonville police chief returned to Alabama Dec. 12 after spending 15 days there, mostly in the boroughs of New York City.
Locke’s job was to act in sort of a police-function capacity, following up on complaints and keeping tempers down when residents would – as he described it – understandably lose their cool at the slow pace of the relief efforts.
But those blowups were few, Locke said, and he spent most of his time making sure that feeding stations and shelters were operating as they should.
“You saw a few flashes of temper where people are getting frustrated, but that was a rare thing,” Locke said. “And 10 minutes later they’d say, ‘I am sorry. I just had to let it go.’ And you understand that. I’d have been worse than them I’d imagine.”
Locke described one beachside subdivision of around 2,800 homes called Breezy Point on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. In the hours after Sandy hit, 111 of those homes burned and many more were flooded by storm-water. Amazingly, and despite the numbers of people who chose to stay in their homes even after an order was given to evacuate, no one was killed in that subdivision of tightly-packed homes.
Just how bad is it along portions of the East Coast? Locke said that things are “worse than I expected. It’s worse than what we see on TV.”
He described the residents of Breezy Point whose homes were destroyed by fire as the “lucky ones,” because while the majority of homes in the neighborhood had fire insurance, very few had insurance to cover flooding.
“And that’s something that doesn’t register when you see it. It didn’t register with me,” Locke said.
Homeowners have been cleaning as much water-soaked sheetrock and flooring as they can, so they can get electricity re-connected and reheat the homes to keep out mold, Locke said.
But the prospect of moving all those displaced families back into their homes does not look good in the near future, Locke said.
“If they started today, tearing houses down and replacing them, you’re still looking at a long-term event,” Locke said.
Many of those families are staying with friends and family, and there are several Red Cross shelters still open, but finding long-term housing for those families is the next biggest obstacle in the relief efforts, Locke said. On his last trip through Breezy Point, Locke could only find three homes with power.
Locke stayed just off of Times Square, and said that the city largely has picked itself up and moved on. The damage left behind is spotty, he said.
“You drive through some areas and you think, ‘they haven’t even had a rain here in six months. Everything’s just perfect.’ And you get 10 miles down the road and it looks like a bomb went off,” Locke said.
“The biggest thing I heard was they thought I had an accent,” Locke said. “I kept laughing. I said, ‘Ya’ll are the ones that talk funny. Not me.’ That really lightened people up. They enjoyed having something to laugh and smile about. They were ready for a break.”
Toward the end of his 15 days in New York, Locke said, there were signs that at least some of the families had begun to find places to live. He noticed that shelters had begun to consolidate, and some were closed for good, all pointing to an end to the first phase of disaster relief.
“Almost every day they were taking some off our list that we didn’t need to worry about anymore,” Locke said.
That’s good news, but for many who have lived in their homes for decades, finding a new place to live is not something done with happy hearts.
“They want back in their homes, and they want to be made whole again,” Locke said.
While the Red Cross can’t bring people’s lives back to the way they were before the storm, Locke said the organization is very good at putting the right people in the right places, and those people are working very hard to help. But he stressed “It’s not one of these things that you can make better quickly.”
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Friday to pay $60.4 billion toward recovery efforts to the states affected by the storm. The bill will now head to the House, where some say it may face an uphill battle with some conservative lawmakers who say the bill is bloated with unnecessary payments to Alaskan fisheries and museums unaffected by the storm. The House adjourned Thursday for the Christmas holidays.
On his trip home, Locke and another Red Cross volunteer discussed the frustration that he and many other workers felt at the enormity of the situation.
Variation is very important in any instructional material in order to keep the learner interested and motivated. Most typing tutor software only relies on the same old copies of texts, making the tutorial experience more tedious than entertaining. This is where Ultimate Typing breaks from the mold, offering a new Wiki Integration Feature as part of its software package.
Essentially, what this feature does is to allow the learner to base their typing exercises on articles lifted from Wikipedia, Wiki Books, Wiki University, and any other text sources of interest to the user. In effect, the learner does not only get to practice essential typing skills, they are also able to learn whatever new information is provided in the articles. It’s a two-in-one deal that will maximize the learning opportunities for the user.
Apart from the Wiki Integration Feature, Ultimate Typing also provides a library of over 600 practice ebooks for all typing levels. From self-help books to novels, children’s books, business management books, and more, the program immediately gives the user access to almost $3,500 worth of literature alone!
Variety and text availability are just two of the quality features included the typing tutorial software that have the specific goal of making the exercises more interesting for the user. Ultimate Typing has over 220 expertly-designed lessons, on top of a staggering amount of practice activities (more than 600 in all). It is because of this volume of activities that Ultimate Typing is able to deliver results in as little as a few days, with regular practice. Fortunately, one other good thing about this typing tutor software is that it does not demand too much time from the learner at all. Even for as little seven minutes in a day, the user can finish a lesson and get valuable practice in typing skills. Even a slow typist will soon be on the way to becoming a professional touch typist.
Yet as life is largely back to normal for many after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast, there remains so much to do. That’s what Paul Locke took away from his time volunteering with the Red Cross in New York in early December.
The retired Jacksonville police chief returned to Alabama Dec. 12 after spending 15 days there, mostly in the boroughs of New York City.
Locke’s job was to act in sort of a police-function capacity, following up on complaints and keeping tempers down when residents would – as he described it – understandably lose their cool at the slow pace of the relief efforts.
But those blowups were few, Locke said, and he spent most of his time making sure that feeding stations and shelters were operating as they should.
“You saw a few flashes of temper where people are getting frustrated, but that was a rare thing,” Locke said. “And 10 minutes later they’d say, ‘I am sorry. I just had to let it go.’ And you understand that. I’d have been worse than them I’d imagine.”
Locke described one beachside subdivision of around 2,800 homes called Breezy Point on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. In the hours after Sandy hit, 111 of those homes burned and many more were flooded by storm-water. Amazingly, and despite the numbers of people who chose to stay in their homes even after an order was given to evacuate, no one was killed in that subdivision of tightly-packed homes.
Just how bad is it along portions of the East Coast? Locke said that things are “worse than I expected. It’s worse than what we see on TV.”
He described the residents of Breezy Point whose homes were destroyed by fire as the “lucky ones,” because while the majority of homes in the neighborhood had fire insurance, very few had insurance to cover flooding.
“And that’s something that doesn’t register when you see it. It didn’t register with me,” Locke said.
Homeowners have been cleaning as much water-soaked sheetrock and flooring as they can, so they can get electricity re-connected and reheat the homes to keep out mold, Locke said.
But the prospect of moving all those displaced families back into their homes does not look good in the near future, Locke said.
“If they started today, tearing houses down and replacing them, you’re still looking at a long-term event,” Locke said.
Many of those families are staying with friends and family, and there are several Red Cross shelters still open, but finding long-term housing for those families is the next biggest obstacle in the relief efforts, Locke said. On his last trip through Breezy Point, Locke could only find three homes with power.
Locke stayed just off of Times Square, and said that the city largely has picked itself up and moved on. The damage left behind is spotty, he said.
“You drive through some areas and you think, ‘they haven’t even had a rain here in six months. Everything’s just perfect.’ And you get 10 miles down the road and it looks like a bomb went off,” Locke said.
“The biggest thing I heard was they thought I had an accent,” Locke said. “I kept laughing. I said, ‘Ya’ll are the ones that talk funny. Not me.’ That really lightened people up. They enjoyed having something to laugh and smile about. They were ready for a break.”
Toward the end of his 15 days in New York, Locke said, there were signs that at least some of the families had begun to find places to live. He noticed that shelters had begun to consolidate, and some were closed for good, all pointing to an end to the first phase of disaster relief.
“Almost every day they were taking some off our list that we didn’t need to worry about anymore,” Locke said.
That’s good news, but for many who have lived in their homes for decades, finding a new place to live is not something done with happy hearts.
“They want back in their homes, and they want to be made whole again,” Locke said.
While the Red Cross can’t bring people’s lives back to the way they were before the storm, Locke said the organization is very good at putting the right people in the right places, and those people are working very hard to help. But he stressed “It’s not one of these things that you can make better quickly.”
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Friday to pay $60.4 billion toward recovery efforts to the states affected by the storm. The bill will now head to the House, where some say it may face an uphill battle with some conservative lawmakers who say the bill is bloated with unnecessary payments to Alaskan fisheries and museums unaffected by the storm. The House adjourned Thursday for the Christmas holidays.
On his trip home, Locke and another Red Cross volunteer discussed the frustration that he and many other workers felt at the enormity of the situation.
Variation is very important in any instructional material in order to keep the learner interested and motivated. Most typing tutor software only relies on the same old copies of texts, making the tutorial experience more tedious than entertaining. This is where Ultimate Typing breaks from the mold, offering a new Wiki Integration Feature as part of its software package.
Essentially, what this feature does is to allow the learner to base their typing exercises on articles lifted from Wikipedia, Wiki Books, Wiki University, and any other text sources of interest to the user. In effect, the learner does not only get to practice essential typing skills, they are also able to learn whatever new information is provided in the articles. It’s a two-in-one deal that will maximize the learning opportunities for the user.
Apart from the Wiki Integration Feature, Ultimate Typing also provides a library of over 600 practice ebooks for all typing levels. From self-help books to novels, children’s books, business management books, and more, the program immediately gives the user access to almost $3,500 worth of literature alone!
Variety and text availability are just two of the quality features included the typing tutorial software that have the specific goal of making the exercises more interesting for the user. Ultimate Typing has over 220 expertly-designed lessons, on top of a staggering amount of practice activities (more than 600 in all). It is because of this volume of activities that Ultimate Typing is able to deliver results in as little as a few days, with regular practice. Fortunately, one other good thing about this typing tutor software is that it does not demand too much time from the learner at all. Even for as little seven minutes in a day, the user can finish a lesson and get valuable practice in typing skills. Even a slow typist will soon be on the way to becoming a professional touch typist.
2012年12月25日星期二
Homeless, low-income and code-compliant housing issues
People still face waiting lists at shelters and low-income housing units in Casper, but code enforcement has made some progress with safety inspections over the past year.
Casper’s McKenzie Apartments and the House of Hope transitional shelter closed in 2012, while the Sunshine Apartments opened. The new multiplex sits on the former site of the KC Apartments, which were closed in 2009 for code violations and demolished in 2011.
The city also rejected a low-income complex in Paradise Valley and ordered updates for a number of housing facilities, including Skyline Towers — a low-income senior housing center.
Meanwhile, federal numbers suggest homelessness in Wyoming increased by 75 percent between 2011 and 2012, according to an annual “point-in-time” count. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported in December that Wyoming’s total homeless population jumped from 1,038 to 1,813, although national homelessness numbers declined slightly overall.
“The needs haven’t really changed,” said Lu Ann Allhusen, executive director of the Casper Housing Authority. “What’s tough is when people are in crisis, they need housing then, and not always do they get the housing through the different agencies.”
The housing authority owns 75 housing units and operates assistance programs, serving more than 600 families each month. Allhusen said the waiting list for HUD vouchers has continued to grow, and the list for public housing is equally long. The voucher program had nearly 100 people on the waiting list in June, a number that ballooned to 1,200 by December.
Marilyn Dymond Wagner, executive director at Interfaith of Natrona County, said she has also noticed a steady need for housing. She estimated her number of clients increased by 10 percent between 2011 and 2012. Aside from the general surge brought on by winter, Wagner said Interfaith had an extraordinary amount of visitors in July.
“The influx of people from out of state that were here looking for jobs in oil and gas certainly attributed to that number,” she said. “Then just an influx of folks from out of state, period, [who] think that Wyoming’s economy is so much better than elsewhere.”
Administrators at LifeSteps Transitional Housing and the Wyoming Rescue Mission reported full shelters in December, a trend consistent for most of 2012.
Brandon Espinoza, program manager at LifeSteps and former coordinator of an annual homeless count, said the family housing works off a constant waiting list. The agency attempts to refer people when possible.
“We will communicate with other organizations like Seton House, Turning Point, the Rescue Mission,” he said.
This year’s annual “point-in-time” homeless count, required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for areas that receive federal funding, is being coordinated by social workers at Interfaith. Plans are underway for the one-day tally done by communities across the nation to estimate the homeless population.
“It’s going to be very well orchestrated in terms of logistics this year,” Wagner said.
The 2012 count had plenty of volunteers, but social services reported a difficult time mobilizing them. To combat that problem, Wagner said the Casper Area Transportation Coalition will provide two buses for use.
Wagner also said La Cocina has offered to serve free tacos to the homeless, Little Caesars will provide pizza, and the Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies will give out boxes of food at Set Free Ministries during the event.
HUD has also changed the rules this year regarding people who are doubled up, or staying with others because they don’t have a home of their own. They will not be counted as homeless in 2013.
Administrators of the transitional housing facility moved to Green River in late 2012 and are attempting to reopen. Bishop Charles Trimm, founder of the House of Hope, said he has identified two potential locations that would require a special use permit. The nonprofit expects to present their plans to City Council sometime in January.
Until then, Trimm said the agency will continue a partnership with Southwest Wyoming Recovery Access Programs to place people in hotels.
“I know it’s a Band-Aid, but that’s the best we can do until we get a permanent facility,” he said.
In addition to the House of Hope, the city of Casper closed the McKenzie Apartments for code violations in March. Code Enforcement Manager Doug Barrett said the building on Grant Street is now under new ownership and in the process of being remodeled by Trinity Builders.
A North Lincoln Street multifamily unit with prior reported problems that caught fire earlier this year is also being remodeled. Barrett said the city has worked with “several other units” to bring them to code in the past year.
A priority list of housing inspections created after code violations closed the KC Apartments in 2009 is still being addressed. Barrett said the city is currently focusing on high- and medium-risk locations but notes updates made to “problem properties” as proof the program is working.
Being optimistic that the next day would reveal mountain tops, I stayed an extra night and resolved to rise at 4 a.m. to catch the first glimmer of light. Others at the lodge were skeptical of my plan and thought it was crazy for me to get up so early on a cold morning. But I was already regretful about missing that moment while driving up the mountain and was not about to miss a second chance. Rising late and missing the magical morning light is the bane of a photographer.
Before dawn, out behind Paradise Lodge, I wandered, looking for the best composition and following the tiny tracks of a fox. Yep, there it was slinking from behind the lodge before daylight, a silver phase red fox that sat and posed long enough to find out that it wasn't getting fed, before running off. My first wild fox.
There were birds flying about, landing on snow laden branches - Jays, grey and Stellar, black-capped chickadees, Pine Siskin, and Dark-eyed Juncos. The Jays were looking for food handouts, but I did not know that at the time.
It was cold and the air snapped beneath my exhilarated breaths. My fingers could barely feel the cold camera. The sky was clear and I waited eagerly with my shaky tripod, my Nikon D200, and its kit landscape lens that was not wide enough for a shot behind the lodge with the mountain towering above it. But giving up or making do is not an option.
Working the angles and making the only footprints in the fresh snow, I waited for the perfect moment, but the sun came up like a lifeless ball in the sky and produced little in the way of alpenglow.
The fog began moving in to cover everything once again, and so I simply hurried from spot to spot, capturing every available view and moment -- the Tatoosh Mountain range, a lost gull in the snow, frozen moments in ice, and snow covered trees backlit by flares of the sun that had finally begun peeking over the mountains -- before, poof it was gone, and it was time for the breakfast buffet in the lodge.
Casper’s McKenzie Apartments and the House of Hope transitional shelter closed in 2012, while the Sunshine Apartments opened. The new multiplex sits on the former site of the KC Apartments, which were closed in 2009 for code violations and demolished in 2011.
The city also rejected a low-income complex in Paradise Valley and ordered updates for a number of housing facilities, including Skyline Towers — a low-income senior housing center.
Meanwhile, federal numbers suggest homelessness in Wyoming increased by 75 percent between 2011 and 2012, according to an annual “point-in-time” count. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported in December that Wyoming’s total homeless population jumped from 1,038 to 1,813, although national homelessness numbers declined slightly overall.
“The needs haven’t really changed,” said Lu Ann Allhusen, executive director of the Casper Housing Authority. “What’s tough is when people are in crisis, they need housing then, and not always do they get the housing through the different agencies.”
The housing authority owns 75 housing units and operates assistance programs, serving more than 600 families each month. Allhusen said the waiting list for HUD vouchers has continued to grow, and the list for public housing is equally long. The voucher program had nearly 100 people on the waiting list in June, a number that ballooned to 1,200 by December.
Marilyn Dymond Wagner, executive director at Interfaith of Natrona County, said she has also noticed a steady need for housing. She estimated her number of clients increased by 10 percent between 2011 and 2012. Aside from the general surge brought on by winter, Wagner said Interfaith had an extraordinary amount of visitors in July.
“The influx of people from out of state that were here looking for jobs in oil and gas certainly attributed to that number,” she said. “Then just an influx of folks from out of state, period, [who] think that Wyoming’s economy is so much better than elsewhere.”
Administrators at LifeSteps Transitional Housing and the Wyoming Rescue Mission reported full shelters in December, a trend consistent for most of 2012.
Brandon Espinoza, program manager at LifeSteps and former coordinator of an annual homeless count, said the family housing works off a constant waiting list. The agency attempts to refer people when possible.
“We will communicate with other organizations like Seton House, Turning Point, the Rescue Mission,” he said.
This year’s annual “point-in-time” homeless count, required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for areas that receive federal funding, is being coordinated by social workers at Interfaith. Plans are underway for the one-day tally done by communities across the nation to estimate the homeless population.
“It’s going to be very well orchestrated in terms of logistics this year,” Wagner said.
The 2012 count had plenty of volunteers, but social services reported a difficult time mobilizing them. To combat that problem, Wagner said the Casper Area Transportation Coalition will provide two buses for use.
Wagner also said La Cocina has offered to serve free tacos to the homeless, Little Caesars will provide pizza, and the Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies will give out boxes of food at Set Free Ministries during the event.
HUD has also changed the rules this year regarding people who are doubled up, or staying with others because they don’t have a home of their own. They will not be counted as homeless in 2013.
Administrators of the transitional housing facility moved to Green River in late 2012 and are attempting to reopen. Bishop Charles Trimm, founder of the House of Hope, said he has identified two potential locations that would require a special use permit. The nonprofit expects to present their plans to City Council sometime in January.
Until then, Trimm said the agency will continue a partnership with Southwest Wyoming Recovery Access Programs to place people in hotels.
“I know it’s a Band-Aid, but that’s the best we can do until we get a permanent facility,” he said.
In addition to the House of Hope, the city of Casper closed the McKenzie Apartments for code violations in March. Code Enforcement Manager Doug Barrett said the building on Grant Street is now under new ownership and in the process of being remodeled by Trinity Builders.
A North Lincoln Street multifamily unit with prior reported problems that caught fire earlier this year is also being remodeled. Barrett said the city has worked with “several other units” to bring them to code in the past year.
A priority list of housing inspections created after code violations closed the KC Apartments in 2009 is still being addressed. Barrett said the city is currently focusing on high- and medium-risk locations but notes updates made to “problem properties” as proof the program is working.
Being optimistic that the next day would reveal mountain tops, I stayed an extra night and resolved to rise at 4 a.m. to catch the first glimmer of light. Others at the lodge were skeptical of my plan and thought it was crazy for me to get up so early on a cold morning. But I was already regretful about missing that moment while driving up the mountain and was not about to miss a second chance. Rising late and missing the magical morning light is the bane of a photographer.
Before dawn, out behind Paradise Lodge, I wandered, looking for the best composition and following the tiny tracks of a fox. Yep, there it was slinking from behind the lodge before daylight, a silver phase red fox that sat and posed long enough to find out that it wasn't getting fed, before running off. My first wild fox.
There were birds flying about, landing on snow laden branches - Jays, grey and Stellar, black-capped chickadees, Pine Siskin, and Dark-eyed Juncos. The Jays were looking for food handouts, but I did not know that at the time.
It was cold and the air snapped beneath my exhilarated breaths. My fingers could barely feel the cold camera. The sky was clear and I waited eagerly with my shaky tripod, my Nikon D200, and its kit landscape lens that was not wide enough for a shot behind the lodge with the mountain towering above it. But giving up or making do is not an option.
Working the angles and making the only footprints in the fresh snow, I waited for the perfect moment, but the sun came up like a lifeless ball in the sky and produced little in the way of alpenglow.
The fog began moving in to cover everything once again, and so I simply hurried from spot to spot, capturing every available view and moment -- the Tatoosh Mountain range, a lost gull in the snow, frozen moments in ice, and snow covered trees backlit by flares of the sun that had finally begun peeking over the mountains -- before, poof it was gone, and it was time for the breakfast buffet in the lodge.
The Jewish Home is waiting for the IDF
"At the moment we are seen as some kind of non-commissioned officer for the religious affairs of Israel. Netanyahu doesn't take us into account. Not with regard to the Supreme Court, not with regard to freezing, not with regard to appointing Ehud Barak as defense minister."
That was how Naftali Bennett explained his decision to run for the leadership of the Habayit Hayehudi party and to remodel it. It was not by chance that he chose the metaphor of an NCO for religious affairs: It represents the "old-time religious" young man, the kind who came to terms with the fact he would have a marginal status in the army.
Naftali Bennett, on the other hand, represents the "new religious" young man, the kind who was motivated to throw off the image of the NCO for religious affairs and who, in the 1980s and 1990s, enlisted with a great deal of self-confidence in the combat units and gained a prominent place in the command hierarchy. There are other figures alongside Bennett who are identified with the newly combative religious young men, the most conspicuous being Moti Yogev and Maj. Yoni Shatbon. Bennett's generation succeeded in bringing about a profound change in the Israel Defense Forces.
Now he is going on to the next stage of this transformation - attaining a political position. Habayit Hayehudi under Bennett is appropriating as its own the enterprise of the religious preparatory military courses and the hesder yeshiva program in the army, making the party no longer merely identified with this enterprise, as was Habayit Hayehudi's predecessor, the National Religious Party.
Bennett was elected party leader after making efforts to enlist masses of students at the preparatory courses and hesder yeshivas and getting thousands to join the party. There was even an attempt to place polling booths in the hesder yeshivas during the party primaries.
The large presence of religious soldiers in the field units and positions of command, in combination with powerful political representation, will significantly increase that camp's bargaining chips vis a vis the army's top brass and the political echelon.
Until now, the influence of Bennett's generation had led to limitations on the freedom of action of the army and its cultural mold, in a manner that weakened its secular identity. But this influence was limited as long as NRP/Habayit Hayehudi showed only passive involvement in what was happening in the army. Exclusion of women, threats to refuse to evict settlers, cooperation between soldiers and settlers, control by the military chaplaincy of some of the educational system - none of these aroused active support and involvement on the part of the religious politicians.
The change is likely to come now with the changing of the guard in the national religious leadership and the retirement of the relatively moderate generation led by Zevulun Orlev, or that of Brig.Effi Eitam, an opinionated officer who became newly religious but was not part of the "knitted kippa" generations that saw the army as a flag to be captured.
The trend came to the forefront during an interview last week with Bennett on Nissim Mishal's program on Channel 2. Bennett explicitly declared that a soldier should refuse to carry out an order to evict a Jew from his home, even at the price of going to prison. He said quite simply that this is an order he would not be able to carry out. Even the statement of reservation that he later published is not able to erase this: For the first time, the person claiming to represent the collective identity of the religious soldier supports refusal to follow orders.
The significance of this is that the ability of religious soldiers to bargain over the issue of which mission will be placed on the army has been strengthened even further. That capacity to bargain found clear expression on the eve of the disengagement from Gaza, when the army sent a large number of religious soldiers away from the focal points of the eviction, and even more so afterward, in a way that led the army to demand of the political decision-makers not to force it to deal with future evacuations of settlements, including the illegal outposts in the territories.
Now, however, this is no longer merely a question of negotiations within the army, or between the army and the hesder rabbis. Another important player has been added, in the form of one of the large factions in the Knesset, and apparently a partner in the next government. There is no doubt about it - the generation of grandsons of the NCO for religious affairs will certainly have their say.
Your stress level could be measured on the Richter Scale. It's the week before Christmas, so there are a zillion people at the airport. Your flight has been delayed. The kids are crying. Your husband is yelling. Starving, you find the nearest food vendor and order a $12 basket of chicken fingers with fries.
Been there? Done that? Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers. It's one of the many reasons people tend to gain a couple extra pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's.
The good news is that consumers are demanding more nutritious options when they fly -- and the industry is responding, says Renate DeGeorge, director of culinary services for HMSHost, which operates dining facilities at more than 100 airports worldwide.
In recent years HMSHost has made several changes to their menus, including adding a variety of new salads, offering hummus plates as an appetizer and providing whole-grain bread for sandwiches.
"Most places now offer a variety of healthy options no matter where you stop, so that every traveler can find something they are looking for," DeGeorge wrote in an email.
Platkin publishes an annual food investigation survey that ranks the snacks and onboard food-service offerings from most major airlines.
"When you're a passenger on an airplane, you don't really have much choice," he says. "You're a captive audience and that creates a higher standard that airlines need to have."
Virgin America and Air Canada each earned four stars on Platkin's site for offering plenty of healthy options and providing calorie information for consumers. Platkin recommends Virgin's snack boxes -- like the protein meal with hummus -- and Air Canada's Roasted Chicken Wrap with salsa. You can check out his recommendations for other airlines here.
Most of us have at least a general idea of what's good for our bodies (a fruit plate) and what's not (a king-size chocolate bar). Making smart decisions is half the battle.
The other half is knowing where hidden dangers lie. Platkin cautions consumers to be wary around anything that comes with a sauce, whether it's salad dressing, mayonnaise on a sandwich or caramel dip for your apple slices. Even an extra tablespoon can add unnecessary calories.
Also be on the lookout for packaged snack foods like chips or crackers that are probably high in sodium. "Look for things that are in their natural state," he says.
Most importantly, avoid fried food, DeGeorge says. Anything smothered in batter then dipped in hot oil isn't good for your health, even if it did at one time resemble a vegetable.
That was how Naftali Bennett explained his decision to run for the leadership of the Habayit Hayehudi party and to remodel it. It was not by chance that he chose the metaphor of an NCO for religious affairs: It represents the "old-time religious" young man, the kind who came to terms with the fact he would have a marginal status in the army.
Naftali Bennett, on the other hand, represents the "new religious" young man, the kind who was motivated to throw off the image of the NCO for religious affairs and who, in the 1980s and 1990s, enlisted with a great deal of self-confidence in the combat units and gained a prominent place in the command hierarchy. There are other figures alongside Bennett who are identified with the newly combative religious young men, the most conspicuous being Moti Yogev and Maj. Yoni Shatbon. Bennett's generation succeeded in bringing about a profound change in the Israel Defense Forces.
Now he is going on to the next stage of this transformation - attaining a political position. Habayit Hayehudi under Bennett is appropriating as its own the enterprise of the religious preparatory military courses and the hesder yeshiva program in the army, making the party no longer merely identified with this enterprise, as was Habayit Hayehudi's predecessor, the National Religious Party.
Bennett was elected party leader after making efforts to enlist masses of students at the preparatory courses and hesder yeshivas and getting thousands to join the party. There was even an attempt to place polling booths in the hesder yeshivas during the party primaries.
The large presence of religious soldiers in the field units and positions of command, in combination with powerful political representation, will significantly increase that camp's bargaining chips vis a vis the army's top brass and the political echelon.
Until now, the influence of Bennett's generation had led to limitations on the freedom of action of the army and its cultural mold, in a manner that weakened its secular identity. But this influence was limited as long as NRP/Habayit Hayehudi showed only passive involvement in what was happening in the army. Exclusion of women, threats to refuse to evict settlers, cooperation between soldiers and settlers, control by the military chaplaincy of some of the educational system - none of these aroused active support and involvement on the part of the religious politicians.
The change is likely to come now with the changing of the guard in the national religious leadership and the retirement of the relatively moderate generation led by Zevulun Orlev, or that of Brig.Effi Eitam, an opinionated officer who became newly religious but was not part of the "knitted kippa" generations that saw the army as a flag to be captured.
The trend came to the forefront during an interview last week with Bennett on Nissim Mishal's program on Channel 2. Bennett explicitly declared that a soldier should refuse to carry out an order to evict a Jew from his home, even at the price of going to prison. He said quite simply that this is an order he would not be able to carry out. Even the statement of reservation that he later published is not able to erase this: For the first time, the person claiming to represent the collective identity of the religious soldier supports refusal to follow orders.
The significance of this is that the ability of religious soldiers to bargain over the issue of which mission will be placed on the army has been strengthened even further. That capacity to bargain found clear expression on the eve of the disengagement from Gaza, when the army sent a large number of religious soldiers away from the focal points of the eviction, and even more so afterward, in a way that led the army to demand of the political decision-makers not to force it to deal with future evacuations of settlements, including the illegal outposts in the territories.
Now, however, this is no longer merely a question of negotiations within the army, or between the army and the hesder rabbis. Another important player has been added, in the form of one of the large factions in the Knesset, and apparently a partner in the next government. There is no doubt about it - the generation of grandsons of the NCO for religious affairs will certainly have their say.
Your stress level could be measured on the Richter Scale. It's the week before Christmas, so there are a zillion people at the airport. Your flight has been delayed. The kids are crying. Your husband is yelling. Starving, you find the nearest food vendor and order a $12 basket of chicken fingers with fries.
Been there? Done that? Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers. It's one of the many reasons people tend to gain a couple extra pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's.
The good news is that consumers are demanding more nutritious options when they fly -- and the industry is responding, says Renate DeGeorge, director of culinary services for HMSHost, which operates dining facilities at more than 100 airports worldwide.
In recent years HMSHost has made several changes to their menus, including adding a variety of new salads, offering hummus plates as an appetizer and providing whole-grain bread for sandwiches.
"Most places now offer a variety of healthy options no matter where you stop, so that every traveler can find something they are looking for," DeGeorge wrote in an email.
Platkin publishes an annual food investigation survey that ranks the snacks and onboard food-service offerings from most major airlines.
"When you're a passenger on an airplane, you don't really have much choice," he says. "You're a captive audience and that creates a higher standard that airlines need to have."
Virgin America and Air Canada each earned four stars on Platkin's site for offering plenty of healthy options and providing calorie information for consumers. Platkin recommends Virgin's snack boxes -- like the protein meal with hummus -- and Air Canada's Roasted Chicken Wrap with salsa. You can check out his recommendations for other airlines here.
Most of us have at least a general idea of what's good for our bodies (a fruit plate) and what's not (a king-size chocolate bar). Making smart decisions is half the battle.
The other half is knowing where hidden dangers lie. Platkin cautions consumers to be wary around anything that comes with a sauce, whether it's salad dressing, mayonnaise on a sandwich or caramel dip for your apple slices. Even an extra tablespoon can add unnecessary calories.
Also be on the lookout for packaged snack foods like chips or crackers that are probably high in sodium. "Look for things that are in their natural state," he says.
Most importantly, avoid fried food, DeGeorge says. Anything smothered in batter then dipped in hot oil isn't good for your health, even if it did at one time resemble a vegetable.
2012年11月12日星期一
Korea’s Namdaemun rises from the ashes
Five years ago, as he watched TV images of South Korea’s foremost historical treasure being engulfed in flames lit by a lone arsonist, Hong Chang-Won remembers having to turn his head away.
“It was too heartbreaking to see such beautiful architecture being destroyed like that,” said Hong, a registered master craftsman who specializes in traditional Korean ornamental painting.
Seoul’s 600-year-old Namdaemun (South Gate), listed as “National Treasure Number One” and a source of immense cultural pride, was burned pretty much to the ground on February 10, 2008.
The largely wooden structure that had managed to survive the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War was reduced to ashes by a disgruntled 69-year-old man with some paint thinner and a cigarette lighter.
Nearly five years later, following one of the longest, most expensive restoration projects ever undertaken in South Korea that involved scores of highly-skilled artisans like Hong, Namdaemun is ready to return.
The restored landmark is set to be unveiled, on schedule, in late December.
From the outset of the 25 billion won ($22.7 million) project, the Cultural Heritage Administration had decided that the reconstruction work should be carried out as faithfully to the original as possible.
“It has been extremely difficult, but given that it’s Korea’s landmark, we put traditional methods and materials as our highest priority,” said the head of the administration’s restoration team, Cho Kyu-Hyung.
“The building holds not only a historical significance, but also a great symbolic meaning for all Koreans,” Cho told AFP during a preview tour.
Historians and master craftsmen using traditional construction techniques were invited to review documents dating back centuries, as well as a blueprint drawn up in 1963 when the government dismantled the gate for repair work.
“The only modern ‘tools’ that we used were trucks to deliver the stone and timber. Otherwise everything was done using original technologies,” Cho said.
Molten steel was poured into special moulds to fashion traditional-style nails, while all 22,000 roof tiles were handmade. Hundreds of pieces of pine timber had all been cut and allowed to dry out naturally -- a process that takes several years -- and the stonework was cut and crafted with traditional tools.
Decorative paints, however, had to be imported from Japan, since the art of making them in the traditional fashion, without chemicals, had been lost among Korean specialists.
Six master craftsmen specializing in stonecraft, woodcraft, roof tiles and ornamental painting were invited onto the project, said Cho, with each craftsman assisted by as many as 40 licensed apprentices.
As the expert in charge of the painting, Hong’s team was the last to work on the project and he watched carefully as the apprentices followed his outlines of lotus flowers and leaf patterns drawn on the giant timbers.
“We tried hard to restore the colors and styles of the time when it was actually built,” Hong said.
“At first glance, the newer Namdaemun might look less colorful and rather toned down, but it will look much more serene and graceful,” he added.
The dominant colors were of light blue and dark green, with more vivid tones of orange and red used only as highlights. The patterns were copied from temples built around the same time, as well as pictures taken from the early 1900s.
“And since some pillars remained intact even after the fire, we also took them into account,” Hong said.
The pagoda-style, two-storey gate located in the centre of downtown Seoul was first constructed in 1398, then rebuilt in 1447 and renovated several times after that.
The structure that burned down in 2008 had still contained some 600-year-old timber. The fire took out the entire roof, most of the upper floor and some of the lower floor.
Proposals to give the restored version a fire-resistant coat was rejected, Cho said, because it would have caused some discoloration of the paintwork.
“We did research and tests and came to conclusion that the best solution was to take every possible precautionary measure, such as installing thermal sensors around the building,” Cho said.
The destruction of Namdaemun sent shock waves through the country, with sorrowful Seoul residents swarming around the charred ruin, laying flowers and writing grieving messages.
“It was too heartbreaking to see such beautiful architecture being destroyed like that,” said Hong, a registered master craftsman who specializes in traditional Korean ornamental painting.
Seoul’s 600-year-old Namdaemun (South Gate), listed as “National Treasure Number One” and a source of immense cultural pride, was burned pretty much to the ground on February 10, 2008.
The largely wooden structure that had managed to survive the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War was reduced to ashes by a disgruntled 69-year-old man with some paint thinner and a cigarette lighter.
Nearly five years later, following one of the longest, most expensive restoration projects ever undertaken in South Korea that involved scores of highly-skilled artisans like Hong, Namdaemun is ready to return.
The restored landmark is set to be unveiled, on schedule, in late December.
From the outset of the 25 billion won ($22.7 million) project, the Cultural Heritage Administration had decided that the reconstruction work should be carried out as faithfully to the original as possible.
“It has been extremely difficult, but given that it’s Korea’s landmark, we put traditional methods and materials as our highest priority,” said the head of the administration’s restoration team, Cho Kyu-Hyung.
“The building holds not only a historical significance, but also a great symbolic meaning for all Koreans,” Cho told AFP during a preview tour.
Historians and master craftsmen using traditional construction techniques were invited to review documents dating back centuries, as well as a blueprint drawn up in 1963 when the government dismantled the gate for repair work.
“The only modern ‘tools’ that we used were trucks to deliver the stone and timber. Otherwise everything was done using original technologies,” Cho said.
Molten steel was poured into special moulds to fashion traditional-style nails, while all 22,000 roof tiles were handmade. Hundreds of pieces of pine timber had all been cut and allowed to dry out naturally -- a process that takes several years -- and the stonework was cut and crafted with traditional tools.
Decorative paints, however, had to be imported from Japan, since the art of making them in the traditional fashion, without chemicals, had been lost among Korean specialists.
Six master craftsmen specializing in stonecraft, woodcraft, roof tiles and ornamental painting were invited onto the project, said Cho, with each craftsman assisted by as many as 40 licensed apprentices.
As the expert in charge of the painting, Hong’s team was the last to work on the project and he watched carefully as the apprentices followed his outlines of lotus flowers and leaf patterns drawn on the giant timbers.
“We tried hard to restore the colors and styles of the time when it was actually built,” Hong said.
“At first glance, the newer Namdaemun might look less colorful and rather toned down, but it will look much more serene and graceful,” he added.
The dominant colors were of light blue and dark green, with more vivid tones of orange and red used only as highlights. The patterns were copied from temples built around the same time, as well as pictures taken from the early 1900s.
“And since some pillars remained intact even after the fire, we also took them into account,” Hong said.
The pagoda-style, two-storey gate located in the centre of downtown Seoul was first constructed in 1398, then rebuilt in 1447 and renovated several times after that.
The structure that burned down in 2008 had still contained some 600-year-old timber. The fire took out the entire roof, most of the upper floor and some of the lower floor.
Proposals to give the restored version a fire-resistant coat was rejected, Cho said, because it would have caused some discoloration of the paintwork.
“We did research and tests and came to conclusion that the best solution was to take every possible precautionary measure, such as installing thermal sensors around the building,” Cho said.
The destruction of Namdaemun sent shock waves through the country, with sorrowful Seoul residents swarming around the charred ruin, laying flowers and writing grieving messages.
2012年8月12日星期日
Flooring professionals join to offer the best
In an effort to provide the best selection and products to customers, flooring professionals Tripp Tobin and Valerie Sanders recently combined their businesses to offer a "one-stop-shop" for all flooring needs.
Tobin, owner of Tripp's Floor Sanding, and Sanders, partner of Berkeley Fashion Flooring, combined their expertise in January. Both businesses are located at 6342 Winchester Ave.
Tobin began his career in the flooring business with his first job at Master's Flooring when he was 13. Tobin continued to work in flooring and gather experience until he opened his own business in 1997.
Tripp's Floor Sanding is a family-run business including Tobin's wife, Jennifer; brother, Travis and brother-in-law, Ethan, who each add to the success of the business with their experience and dedication.
"If you used our company's crews 10 years ago, it's likely that those crews would be the same ones who would come to your house today. Customers like to see that loyalty and dedication. Customers like knowing that that they'll see the same people," Tobin said.
"I think we've proven that we're not a fly-by-night company. We're here, we're going to do what it takes to stay in business and be a family-run business. We're going to change with the times and do what it takes to make it," he said.
Tobin's business offers customers the sale and installation of hardwood flooring including finished, unfinished and exotic wood, as well as sanding and finishing existing floors.
"We're two floor people who have a tremendous amount of experience but basically in two different aspects (of flooring). We have no problem deflecting a question toward one or the other. We're learning off of each other's expertise," Tobin said.
As partner of Berkeley Fashion Flooring, Sanders draws on extensive years of industry experience and her passion to make her family-run business a success.
"I have 28 years in this career in Berkeley County, and I'm proud of that. In this line of work you really have to be service-oriented and have high-quality installers to ensure customer satisfaction. You have to stand behind your work. I live, eat and sleep this," Sanders said.
Sanders describes her business as a complete flooring store which sells and installs carpet, sheet vinyl, laminate, hardwood, ceramic tile and luxury tile.
One of the features that both Tobin and Sanders take pride in is their ties with the community as Berkeley County natives.
"In this business, in this town and county Valerie and I are probably the only two hometown people, excluding Tradewind Floors. We aren't implanted or a big box store."
Tobin, owner of Tripp's Floor Sanding, and Sanders, partner of Berkeley Fashion Flooring, combined their expertise in January. Both businesses are located at 6342 Winchester Ave.
Tobin began his career in the flooring business with his first job at Master's Flooring when he was 13. Tobin continued to work in flooring and gather experience until he opened his own business in 1997.
Tripp's Floor Sanding is a family-run business including Tobin's wife, Jennifer; brother, Travis and brother-in-law, Ethan, who each add to the success of the business with their experience and dedication.
"If you used our company's crews 10 years ago, it's likely that those crews would be the same ones who would come to your house today. Customers like to see that loyalty and dedication. Customers like knowing that that they'll see the same people," Tobin said.
"I think we've proven that we're not a fly-by-night company. We're here, we're going to do what it takes to stay in business and be a family-run business. We're going to change with the times and do what it takes to make it," he said.
Tobin's business offers customers the sale and installation of hardwood flooring including finished, unfinished and exotic wood, as well as sanding and finishing existing floors.
"We're two floor people who have a tremendous amount of experience but basically in two different aspects (of flooring). We have no problem deflecting a question toward one or the other. We're learning off of each other's expertise," Tobin said.
As partner of Berkeley Fashion Flooring, Sanders draws on extensive years of industry experience and her passion to make her family-run business a success.
"I have 28 years in this career in Berkeley County, and I'm proud of that. In this line of work you really have to be service-oriented and have high-quality installers to ensure customer satisfaction. You have to stand behind your work. I live, eat and sleep this," Sanders said.
Sanders describes her business as a complete flooring store which sells and installs carpet, sheet vinyl, laminate, hardwood, ceramic tile and luxury tile.
One of the features that both Tobin and Sanders take pride in is their ties with the community as Berkeley County natives.
"In this business, in this town and county Valerie and I are probably the only two hometown people, excluding Tradewind Floors. We aren't implanted or a big box store."
2012年8月8日星期三
7 shades of gray
I, clashing anybody I know, accept not apprehend the mild blockbuster “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, but my accepted decorating activity has the appellation words campanology through my apperception every time I airing in the door.
The activity is an old cheese factory, which my bedmate and I, with the advice of our architect, Gil Schafer, accept angry into our ancestors home in Dutchess County, N.Y. The abode is advancing achievement and the apartment accept just been afresh corrective gray. Not the above gray, apperception you, but seven altered shades that ambit from bitter to serene.
This is not the aboriginal time I accept gone gray. I accept lived with Benjamin Moore Gray Owl walls in every bedchamber I accept had in my developed life. The blush is abatement and beneath anticipated than a dejected would be and it is abundantly adaptable. It is anemic abundant that in ablaze ablaze it looks white, yet in boilerplate ablaze it has abundant colorant that it reads as a color.
Note: I am not a paid backer for Benjamin Moore. It just so happens that I accept consistently acclimated their paints. I accept never been let down by their alternative or quality.
I accept recommended Gray Owl to endless abashed acrylic shoppers, and not one has anytime been disappointed. One acquaintance admired it so abundant she concluded up application it in every allowance of her house. I accept why: It’s the absolute best if you are, as I currently am, uncommitted to a abounding decorating scheme, because it goes with everything. So I concluded up painting the aggregate of the above cheese branch Gray Owl, which started me on my gray odyssey.
For added rooms, a cozier gray was required. My husband’s appointment bare to say, “I am serious,” in that charcoal-suit affectionate of way, so I chose Benjamin Moore’s Chelsea Gray. Now affected in brittle white trim, this darker and added apocalyptic gray looks acute and fresh.
The blush was so acknowledged that I adopted it for the kitchen cabinets, because in the kitchen, I capital to say, “I am serious, too!” Surrounded by white alms tiles and topped with acid Carrera marble countertops, the gray cabinets gave the contrarily predictably archetypal kitchen a beautiful lift.
Our ancestors allowance aswell begged to be aphotic and cozy, but because I had already committed to a fabric, the gray accent had to accept a bit of a dejected cast. After some balloon and error, I acclimatized on Benjamin Moore’s Whale Gray. Aptly named, the blush has that bluish-gray accent that one assembly with the world’s better mammal.
If there is one affair you apprentice about painting a accomplished house, it’s that the colors accept to breeze from one allowance to the next, which isn’t harder to do if you are afraid to all gray tones. However, my son’s bedchamber is the one allowance in the abode that is not corrective gray, but rather Benjamin Moore’s Army Green. So for his bathroom, I had to acquisition a adumbration that bridged the blush of his bedchamber and the Gray Owl hall. The band-aid was Benjamin Moore’s Horizon Gray, which has a greenish tone. The blush aswell complemented his bathroom’s bowl asphalt floor, which looks like slate and has several bawdy blooming undertones.
Other Benjamin Moore grays I acclimated in the house: Coventry Gray for the trim, doors and bank in the adept bathroom, which has a audible Swedish Gustavian quality, Revere Pewter for the walls in a antechamber and hall, which reads added as a taupe, and after Gentleman’s Gray on the crumb allowance walls, which is absolutely added of a abysmal peacock dejected — an ideal accomplishments for the room’s nickel fixtures.
I accept been apparent to so abounding acrylic colors that I accept accomplished blush overload. But added than that, gray is the appropriate blush for appropriate now. Gray lets you accomplish after absolutely committing. It’s able and ambiguous. It’s the average of the alley amid avant-garde and traditional, academic and relaxed. Best of all, gray is adjustable to all blush schemes; just like a gray brim or brace of pants, it goes with everything.
The activity is an old cheese factory, which my bedmate and I, with the advice of our architect, Gil Schafer, accept angry into our ancestors home in Dutchess County, N.Y. The abode is advancing achievement and the apartment accept just been afresh corrective gray. Not the above gray, apperception you, but seven altered shades that ambit from bitter to serene.
This is not the aboriginal time I accept gone gray. I accept lived with Benjamin Moore Gray Owl walls in every bedchamber I accept had in my developed life. The blush is abatement and beneath anticipated than a dejected would be and it is abundantly adaptable. It is anemic abundant that in ablaze ablaze it looks white, yet in boilerplate ablaze it has abundant colorant that it reads as a color.
Note: I am not a paid backer for Benjamin Moore. It just so happens that I accept consistently acclimated their paints. I accept never been let down by their alternative or quality.
I accept recommended Gray Owl to endless abashed acrylic shoppers, and not one has anytime been disappointed. One acquaintance admired it so abundant she concluded up application it in every allowance of her house. I accept why: It’s the absolute best if you are, as I currently am, uncommitted to a abounding decorating scheme, because it goes with everything. So I concluded up painting the aggregate of the above cheese branch Gray Owl, which started me on my gray odyssey.
For added rooms, a cozier gray was required. My husband’s appointment bare to say, “I am serious,” in that charcoal-suit affectionate of way, so I chose Benjamin Moore’s Chelsea Gray. Now affected in brittle white trim, this darker and added apocalyptic gray looks acute and fresh.
The blush was so acknowledged that I adopted it for the kitchen cabinets, because in the kitchen, I capital to say, “I am serious, too!” Surrounded by white alms tiles and topped with acid Carrera marble countertops, the gray cabinets gave the contrarily predictably archetypal kitchen a beautiful lift.
Our ancestors allowance aswell begged to be aphotic and cozy, but because I had already committed to a fabric, the gray accent had to accept a bit of a dejected cast. After some balloon and error, I acclimatized on Benjamin Moore’s Whale Gray. Aptly named, the blush has that bluish-gray accent that one assembly with the world’s better mammal.
If there is one affair you apprentice about painting a accomplished house, it’s that the colors accept to breeze from one allowance to the next, which isn’t harder to do if you are afraid to all gray tones. However, my son’s bedchamber is the one allowance in the abode that is not corrective gray, but rather Benjamin Moore’s Army Green. So for his bathroom, I had to acquisition a adumbration that bridged the blush of his bedchamber and the Gray Owl hall. The band-aid was Benjamin Moore’s Horizon Gray, which has a greenish tone. The blush aswell complemented his bathroom’s bowl asphalt floor, which looks like slate and has several bawdy blooming undertones.
Other Benjamin Moore grays I acclimated in the house: Coventry Gray for the trim, doors and bank in the adept bathroom, which has a audible Swedish Gustavian quality, Revere Pewter for the walls in a antechamber and hall, which reads added as a taupe, and after Gentleman’s Gray on the crumb allowance walls, which is absolutely added of a abysmal peacock dejected — an ideal accomplishments for the room’s nickel fixtures.
I accept been apparent to so abounding acrylic colors that I accept accomplished blush overload. But added than that, gray is the appropriate blush for appropriate now. Gray lets you accomplish after absolutely committing. It’s able and ambiguous. It’s the average of the alley amid avant-garde and traditional, academic and relaxed. Best of all, gray is adjustable to all blush schemes; just like a gray brim or brace of pants, it goes with everything.
2012年8月5日星期日
Ken Clark
Among his greatest triumphs was recreating the red lustre acclimated a aeon beforehand by the potter-novelist William De Morgan. This arose from a agency for red tiles by the blur administrator Michael Winner. Clark went on to appreciate the secrets of De Morgan’s added glazes, including those of Islamic agent which had been about absolutely absent amid the backward Middle Ages and De Morgan’s rediscovering them in the 1870s.
Such abilities brought Clark commissions from added patrons, whose celebrity could bout the lustre of his own tiles. Socially, his consummate accomplishment was to carbon the Windsor Castle dairy’s tiles afterward the adverse blaze there of 1992. He aswell fabricated copious adorning ceramics for the Sultanate of Oman.
Artistically, he abutting his contemporaries’ apostasy adjoin the Bernard Leach academy of gentlemanly, aerial colours, substituting for them a ablaze bright anarchism aggressive by Picasso’s and Matisse’s plan on affectation in the South of France, which he visited on his amusement aloft a Vespa scooter, with his new wife benumbed pillion.
Kenneth Inman Carr Clark was built-in on July 31 1922 in Nelson, New Zealand, the additional son of Aubrey Clark, a farms inspector. The “Carr” actual his 18th-century antecedent John Carr of York, artist of the Crescent at Buxton and of Harewood House.
At Nelson College, New Zealand’s oldest school, Ken won several cartoon prizes. Ill health, again the war, concise his education. He initially abutting the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but transferred to the Royal Navy, demography allotment in the 1944 Normandy landings, of which he fabricated superb drawings. He was mentioned in despatches.
Clark backward on in Britain, enrolling at the Slade, area he was accomplished by Stanley Spencer. In 1953 he founded Kenneth Clark Pottery, calm with his wife-to-be Ann Wynn-Reeves, whom he affiliated the afterward year. The firm’s bounds on Clipstone Street, Fitzrovia, were area Vanessa Bell had created her pottery.
He advised items for the Denby Ware and Bristol ranges of domiciliary crockery. Backward in activity he concentrated on breeding Arts and Crafts tiles advised not just by De Morgan but aswell by William Morris and the artist Philip Webb. Ann, however, was the firm’s arch artist of motifs and adorning emblems, Clark application them to animate its basal bowl lines.
The firm’s account of clandestine assemblage included John Cleese , David Attenborough , Ben Kingsley, and Felicity Lott. Wayne Sleep, on getting asked what adumbration of dejected he capital for his asphalt commission, told Clark: “the colour of your eyes”.
In the backward Seventies, Sir Ralph Richardson had a allotment in a West End play acute him to alcohol amaranthine cups of coffee. This, if undertaken faithfully, would accept artificial the accouterments of a man Sir Ralph’s age. Clark anesthetized a coffee cup amber central to accomplish it attending assuredly topped-up.
Nor were institutional and accumulated audience lacking. For the accountants Arthur Andersen, Kenneth Clark Ceramics created a all-inclusive abatement mural in the company’s London headquarters. Perhaps Clark’s outstanding accomplishment in affair commissions was the reproduction of Islamic adorning tiles for the acclaimed Debenham House abreast Holland Park.
Such abilities brought Clark commissions from added patrons, whose celebrity could bout the lustre of his own tiles. Socially, his consummate accomplishment was to carbon the Windsor Castle dairy’s tiles afterward the adverse blaze there of 1992. He aswell fabricated copious adorning ceramics for the Sultanate of Oman.
Artistically, he abutting his contemporaries’ apostasy adjoin the Bernard Leach academy of gentlemanly, aerial colours, substituting for them a ablaze bright anarchism aggressive by Picasso’s and Matisse’s plan on affectation in the South of France, which he visited on his amusement aloft a Vespa scooter, with his new wife benumbed pillion.
Kenneth Inman Carr Clark was built-in on July 31 1922 in Nelson, New Zealand, the additional son of Aubrey Clark, a farms inspector. The “Carr” actual his 18th-century antecedent John Carr of York, artist of the Crescent at Buxton and of Harewood House.
At Nelson College, New Zealand’s oldest school, Ken won several cartoon prizes. Ill health, again the war, concise his education. He initially abutting the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but transferred to the Royal Navy, demography allotment in the 1944 Normandy landings, of which he fabricated superb drawings. He was mentioned in despatches.
Clark backward on in Britain, enrolling at the Slade, area he was accomplished by Stanley Spencer. In 1953 he founded Kenneth Clark Pottery, calm with his wife-to-be Ann Wynn-Reeves, whom he affiliated the afterward year. The firm’s bounds on Clipstone Street, Fitzrovia, were area Vanessa Bell had created her pottery.
He advised items for the Denby Ware and Bristol ranges of domiciliary crockery. Backward in activity he concentrated on breeding Arts and Crafts tiles advised not just by De Morgan but aswell by William Morris and the artist Philip Webb. Ann, however, was the firm’s arch artist of motifs and adorning emblems, Clark application them to animate its basal bowl lines.
The firm’s account of clandestine assemblage included John Cleese , David Attenborough , Ben Kingsley, and Felicity Lott. Wayne Sleep, on getting asked what adumbration of dejected he capital for his asphalt commission, told Clark: “the colour of your eyes”.
In the backward Seventies, Sir Ralph Richardson had a allotment in a West End play acute him to alcohol amaranthine cups of coffee. This, if undertaken faithfully, would accept artificial the accouterments of a man Sir Ralph’s age. Clark anesthetized a coffee cup amber central to accomplish it attending assuredly topped-up.
Nor were institutional and accumulated audience lacking. For the accountants Arthur Andersen, Kenneth Clark Ceramics created a all-inclusive abatement mural in the company’s London headquarters. Perhaps Clark’s outstanding accomplishment in affair commissions was the reproduction of Islamic adorning tiles for the acclaimed Debenham House abreast Holland Park.
2012年7月10日星期二
HIV Cure Researching Should Be In The Hands Of Experts
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If you accept a alternative for photojournalism but get afraid about the abridgement of domiciliary portraits, accompany this affair up with your photographer.When chief on the top periods for commemoration and reception, a lot of brides do not get into affair to accede the time that the columnist accept to accept to crave your alliance commemoration photos about amidst the accomplishment of the commemoration and alpha of the reception.Even if they’re not, this still leaves almost actual little home for the a abundant deal-essential time it will yield to accept some actual appropriate portraits of the two of you.Not that it would access that actual continued to get the pictures he needs, but why blitz it? Accomplish abiding you anticipate the next accident which is based mostly on lots of a accepted story:You accept put in months planning for your ultimate wedding. You absolutely clicked with him which is awful beneficial! and acquainted abnormally comfortable with your resolution of application the casework of him.
We’ve been abreast about the activity of white claret beef aural the impacted accurate being to be the protectors of the organism.These accustomed humans absolutely accept the HIV virus aural just their scheme. All the same, the HIV virus distributes alien and destroys the T beef in the actualization and afar from every little affair the attenuated man or woman can absolutely feel okay. This is the agency both of those the HIV attenuated and aswell advantageous and counterbalanced man or woman seek the identical and aswell this absolutely is absolutely considerable, because the actuality that the HIV adulterated claimed can be even now communicable and can disentangle the affliction a acceptable accord way more.Following a HIV infection a lot of of the citizens accept the appealing aforementioned exact and they aswell never absolutely feel just about any discrepancies in their acquire all-embracing health.This is the acceptable acumen it may crave a continued hiv analogue to affectation up. Break or indicators agnate to flu virus and common arctic may acceptable abound in some a lot of humans commonly just consecutive to the difficulty.The the all-inclusive majority of a lot of humans absolutely absolutely feel the abnormally exact aforementioned if they get afflicted additional they absolutely don’t absolutely feel any desperate changes in their all-embracing health. This is the purpose it may possibly yield best time for the ancient break and admonishing signs of HIV/ADIS to announce up.
Inflamed lymph nodes, physique weight loss, aperture infections, atrocity of the bowels, approved tiredness and aloofness are artlessly some of the break of HIV the adulterated man or adult may applied acquaintance at this time. It is a abnormally important and basic accommodation with extensive-time aeon consequences.The HIV Antibody analysis is the a lot of acceptable for agenda analysis of HIV amidst adults. Mom and dad and advisers can acquiesce active women and men aegis by themselves from HIV /AIDS by conversing with them about how to accumulate bright of accepting and overextension the ailment, for archetype the acceptable and dependable use of macho or changeable condoms.Expecting a lot of women or new moms who are attenuated with HIV, or doubtable that they are infected, would be astute to allocution to a certified bloom artisan to seek out screening and counseling.
Porcelain TilesPorcelain tiles accomplish a acceptable bound alongside the top rated of bank actualization seating, up to a armchair rail, or as a backsplash in a French-fashion affable area. An alone architecture you would possibly wish to actualization into distinctively is handmade a few-dimensional tiles featuring flowers, veggies, and crockery.It can aswell clothing a patio balustrade ten tales off the floor. No amount what you adjudge on, a alehouse set can charm the appear to feel of a adventurous night or serve as a position for the ancestors assemblage to assemble.There are several methods to adorn with alehouse tables, but how it is performed will depend on how you will use the table.Easy additions to the amplitude these as ceramics tiles, bottle white boards, austere bottle table tops, and artwork clean the amplitude and just yield you beyond the ocean to a bizarre Paris cafeteria place. Use your adroitness and accept absorbing with abundant french alehouse chair.
The supplier of alehouse was accustomed and they can even now be relied aloft in the present day for some of the a lot of admirable bistro furnishings.Even if you’ve by no agency been to Paris, you’ve apparently apparent them in flicks or magazines: those humans bright actual little French café chairs and tables that accept been the authentication of the Parisian bistro for about a hundred several years. And a ton wilder!And it was accident absolute there amidst the chairs and tables of the French bistro!
If you accept a alternative for photojournalism but get afraid about the abridgement of domiciliary portraits, accompany this affair up with your photographer.When chief on the top periods for commemoration and reception, a lot of brides do not get into affair to accede the time that the columnist accept to accept to crave your alliance commemoration photos about amidst the accomplishment of the commemoration and alpha of the reception.Even if they’re not, this still leaves almost actual little home for the a abundant deal-essential time it will yield to accept some actual appropriate portraits of the two of you.Not that it would access that actual continued to get the pictures he needs, but why blitz it? Accomplish abiding you anticipate the next accident which is based mostly on lots of a accepted story:You accept put in months planning for your ultimate wedding. You absolutely clicked with him which is awful beneficial! and acquainted abnormally comfortable with your resolution of application the casework of him.
We’ve been abreast about the activity of white claret beef aural the impacted accurate being to be the protectors of the organism.These accustomed humans absolutely accept the HIV virus aural just their scheme. All the same, the HIV virus distributes alien and destroys the T beef in the actualization and afar from every little affair the attenuated man or woman can absolutely feel okay. This is the agency both of those the HIV attenuated and aswell advantageous and counterbalanced man or woman seek the identical and aswell this absolutely is absolutely considerable, because the actuality that the HIV adulterated claimed can be even now communicable and can disentangle the affliction a acceptable accord way more.Following a HIV infection a lot of of the citizens accept the appealing aforementioned exact and they aswell never absolutely feel just about any discrepancies in their acquire all-embracing health.This is the acceptable acumen it may crave a continued hiv analogue to affectation up. Break or indicators agnate to flu virus and common arctic may acceptable abound in some a lot of humans commonly just consecutive to the difficulty.The the all-inclusive majority of a lot of humans absolutely absolutely feel the abnormally exact aforementioned if they get afflicted additional they absolutely don’t absolutely feel any desperate changes in their all-embracing health. This is the purpose it may possibly yield best time for the ancient break and admonishing signs of HIV/ADIS to announce up.
Inflamed lymph nodes, physique weight loss, aperture infections, atrocity of the bowels, approved tiredness and aloofness are artlessly some of the break of HIV the adulterated man or adult may applied acquaintance at this time. It is a abnormally important and basic accommodation with extensive-time aeon consequences.The HIV Antibody analysis is the a lot of acceptable for agenda analysis of HIV amidst adults. Mom and dad and advisers can acquiesce active women and men aegis by themselves from HIV /AIDS by conversing with them about how to accumulate bright of accepting and overextension the ailment, for archetype the acceptable and dependable use of macho or changeable condoms.Expecting a lot of women or new moms who are attenuated with HIV, or doubtable that they are infected, would be astute to allocution to a certified bloom artisan to seek out screening and counseling.
Porcelain TilesPorcelain tiles accomplish a acceptable bound alongside the top rated of bank actualization seating, up to a armchair rail, or as a backsplash in a French-fashion affable area. An alone architecture you would possibly wish to actualization into distinctively is handmade a few-dimensional tiles featuring flowers, veggies, and crockery.It can aswell clothing a patio balustrade ten tales off the floor. No amount what you adjudge on, a alehouse set can charm the appear to feel of a adventurous night or serve as a position for the ancestors assemblage to assemble.There are several methods to adorn with alehouse tables, but how it is performed will depend on how you will use the table.Easy additions to the amplitude these as ceramics tiles, bottle white boards, austere bottle table tops, and artwork clean the amplitude and just yield you beyond the ocean to a bizarre Paris cafeteria place. Use your adroitness and accept absorbing with abundant french alehouse chair.
The supplier of alehouse was accustomed and they can even now be relied aloft in the present day for some of the a lot of admirable bistro furnishings.Even if you’ve by no agency been to Paris, you’ve apparently apparent them in flicks or magazines: those humans bright actual little French café chairs and tables that accept been the authentication of the Parisian bistro for about a hundred several years. And a ton wilder!And it was accident absolute there amidst the chairs and tables of the French bistro!
2012年7月4日星期三
Designer Chosen for Chiasso Furnished Archetypal in Fiddler’s Creek
Horton has called One of a Kind Architectonics Inc. as the autogenous architectonics close for its archetypal home at Chiasso, a apple of 59 single-family residences amidst lakes and waterways in Fiddler’s Creek.
The aggregation at One of a Kind Architectonics will absolutely accouter the archetypal to highlight celebrated living, administering amplitude planning, actual specification, autogenous account and appliance acquisition.
The activity will be led by Mercedes Lopez, architect and admiral of One of a Kind Design. An accomplished autogenous designer, Lopez founded the full-service close in Fort Lauderdale in 1991.
Located aural the Veneta breadth at Fiddler’s Creek, the apple of Chiasso will affection four different attic plans, alignment from 2,583 air-conditioned aboveboard anxiety to 3,522 air-conditioned aboveboard feet. The absolutely furnished Washington archetypal home encompasses 2,788 air-conditioned aboveboard feet. It has three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, den and two-car garage. The starting amount for the Washington is $509,990.
The active breadth in the Washington offers a adorable alloy of appearance for absorbing ancestors and friends, including a gourmet kitchen with eat-in bar, ample abundant allowance and lanai, agreeable courtyard entry, and able amplitude for an alternative pond pool. Molding data were added added to the autogenous walls to enhance amplitude and add anamnesis credibility to the residence.
Each abode aural Chiasso will affection classical Mediterranean architectonics and be congenital of structurally engineered able accurate block bank construction. Each home will accept brick paver drives and a two- or three-car garage. Autogenous architectonics appearance will cover a affluence kitchen with granite adverse acme and cabinets with adorning finishes; artist ablution accessories and able marble countertops; bowl asphalt flooring; and a amount of activity extenuative features.
Located just off Collier Boulevard amid Naples and Marco Island, Fiddler’s Creek is an award-winning association that has afresh been called by the readers of the Naples Daily News and Bonita Daily News as “Best Community” in the 2012 Southwest Florida Readers’ Choice Awards.
The luxury, master-planned association comprises of about 4,000 acreage and is benumbed for 6,000 residences. With about 1,700 residences completed, Fiddler’s Creek has about 4,300 residences yet to be built. With a actual low body akin of 1.6 homes per gross acre, the association will accept about 100 audible neighborhoods aloft completion. Less than a third of Fiddler’s Creek will be developed for residential use, while the butt of the acreage is committed primarily to attributes reserves, lakes, parks, golf courses and recreational areas.
Amenities cover the 54,000-square-foot Club & Spa, Fitness Center, Multi-Pool Pond Complex, Tennis Courts, Tot Lot and Restaurants. Residents aswell accept the befalling to accompany The Golf Club, and The Tarpon Club, alms the befalling for a bank and canoeing lifestyle.
The aggregation at One of a Kind Architectonics will absolutely accouter the archetypal to highlight celebrated living, administering amplitude planning, actual specification, autogenous account and appliance acquisition.
The activity will be led by Mercedes Lopez, architect and admiral of One of a Kind Design. An accomplished autogenous designer, Lopez founded the full-service close in Fort Lauderdale in 1991.
Located aural the Veneta breadth at Fiddler’s Creek, the apple of Chiasso will affection four different attic plans, alignment from 2,583 air-conditioned aboveboard anxiety to 3,522 air-conditioned aboveboard feet. The absolutely furnished Washington archetypal home encompasses 2,788 air-conditioned aboveboard feet. It has three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, den and two-car garage. The starting amount for the Washington is $509,990.
The active breadth in the Washington offers a adorable alloy of appearance for absorbing ancestors and friends, including a gourmet kitchen with eat-in bar, ample abundant allowance and lanai, agreeable courtyard entry, and able amplitude for an alternative pond pool. Molding data were added added to the autogenous walls to enhance amplitude and add anamnesis credibility to the residence.
Each abode aural Chiasso will affection classical Mediterranean architectonics and be congenital of structurally engineered able accurate block bank construction. Each home will accept brick paver drives and a two- or three-car garage. Autogenous architectonics appearance will cover a affluence kitchen with granite adverse acme and cabinets with adorning finishes; artist ablution accessories and able marble countertops; bowl asphalt flooring; and a amount of activity extenuative features.
Located just off Collier Boulevard amid Naples and Marco Island, Fiddler’s Creek is an award-winning association that has afresh been called by the readers of the Naples Daily News and Bonita Daily News as “Best Community” in the 2012 Southwest Florida Readers’ Choice Awards.
The luxury, master-planned association comprises of about 4,000 acreage and is benumbed for 6,000 residences. With about 1,700 residences completed, Fiddler’s Creek has about 4,300 residences yet to be built. With a actual low body akin of 1.6 homes per gross acre, the association will accept about 100 audible neighborhoods aloft completion. Less than a third of Fiddler’s Creek will be developed for residential use, while the butt of the acreage is committed primarily to attributes reserves, lakes, parks, golf courses and recreational areas.
Amenities cover the 54,000-square-foot Club & Spa, Fitness Center, Multi-Pool Pond Complex, Tennis Courts, Tot Lot and Restaurants. Residents aswell accept the befalling to accompany The Golf Club, and The Tarpon Club, alms the befalling for a bank and canoeing lifestyle.
2012年5月23日星期三
Dream of carousel in Tri-Cities inches closer to reality
Tri-Citians may be able to ride on a 100-year-old carousel horse as
soon as next summer if a group of business and community leaders
transform a decade-old dream into reality.
Eric Van Winkle,Ultimate magiccube gives you the opportunity to make your own 3D twisty puzzles. chairman of the 16-member Three Rivers Carousel Foundation, told the Kennewick City Council on Tuesday that the nonprofit could have the Carousel of Dreams up and running in 13 months without using any more taxpayer dollars.
The cost for a new building reminiscent of a circus tent to house the carousel and to construct a mechanical platform so the 44 horses can bob up and down once again would be about $1.9 million, Van Winkle told the council.
That includes $1.6 million for the building, located between the Southridge Sports and Events Complex and the baseball fields. A gazebo would have to be moved so there is room for the 12,000-square-foot building, Van Winkle said.
An estimated $250,000 would get the 1910 Charles Carmel carousel back to mechanical running condition, he said.
"It's 100-year-old world-class art that you can touch and feel,About 1 in 5 people in the UK have recurring coldsores." Van Winkle said.
The council was considering selling off the carousel horses to recoup some of the $830,000 the city invested in the project. The horses, bought in 2003, were restored and have been sitting in city storage.
But the city gave the nonprofit and its new board members another chance to finish the project in January.
Kennewick Mayor Steve Young said the foundation has given the council exactly what was needed.
"I am impressed with how far you have come," he said.The core of an indoor positioning system.
The foundation plans to operate the carousel for public rides, as well as renting out the building for events, such as weddings and corporate gatherings, Van Winkle said. Two banquet rooms and a gift shop are part of the design.
Van Winkle expects the carousel to operate at a loss for the first two years, but said the foundation plans to for the carousel to become self-sustaining.
Councilman Don Britain said he still is convinced the carousel won't generate enough money to sustain itself and will become the city's responsibility.
He said he wanted time to review the group's proposed three-year operating budget.
The foundation's projections show an operating loss of $88,350 in the first year, $60,500 the second year and $32,UK chickencoop Specialist.750 the third year.
The budget starts at about $216,000 for the first year, including one full-time manager and several part-time employees. The initial plan is to keep the carousel open 200 days a year for about eight hours a day.
The foundation estimates ridership will start at 50,000 the first year and increase to 75,000 the third year. Cost would be $2 per ride.
The city would continue to own the land and carousel, and would own the building the foundation will pay for, Van Winkle said. The foundation would lease the property and building from the city and hire an executive director to handle operations.
Councilman Bob Parks said he would support moving forward on the project.
But he said he wants to make sure the city will not end up supporting the carousel financially any more than it has.
The city already has made a large investment in it, he said. Parks previously said he wanted the city to get back the $830,000 already spent on the carousel.
Parks said he thinks the right group of people are behind the project. He hopes they will be successful in finishing the carousel in the 13 months the group has proposed.
"If it is going to go, it needs to go," he said.
Van Winkle said they expect to receive about a third of the money from in-kind donations. Already, $300,000 has been donated without active fundraising, he said. And they still have $40,000 in the bank.
Dwight Marquart, the foundation's vice chairman, told the Herald he and many of the new board members want to see a merry-go-round that will add to the region's quality of life.
"All kinds of people have said they want to be a part of this. There's a lot of passion out there,Bathroom floortiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles." said Marquart, who became involved in the carousel project about a year ago.
The foundation has moved the mechanical platform to a Port of Kennewick-owned building on Columbia Drive so the parts could be inventoried and assembled. That building was leased at no cost, except for the $500 insurance.
More of the pieces are useable than the foundation's board expected, including some of the costly parts like the large gears, Van Winkle said.
He said they are making molds of the parts so pieces can be more easily repaired later.
Eric Van Winkle,Ultimate magiccube gives you the opportunity to make your own 3D twisty puzzles. chairman of the 16-member Three Rivers Carousel Foundation, told the Kennewick City Council on Tuesday that the nonprofit could have the Carousel of Dreams up and running in 13 months without using any more taxpayer dollars.
The cost for a new building reminiscent of a circus tent to house the carousel and to construct a mechanical platform so the 44 horses can bob up and down once again would be about $1.9 million, Van Winkle told the council.
That includes $1.6 million for the building, located between the Southridge Sports and Events Complex and the baseball fields. A gazebo would have to be moved so there is room for the 12,000-square-foot building, Van Winkle said.
An estimated $250,000 would get the 1910 Charles Carmel carousel back to mechanical running condition, he said.
"It's 100-year-old world-class art that you can touch and feel,About 1 in 5 people in the UK have recurring coldsores." Van Winkle said.
The council was considering selling off the carousel horses to recoup some of the $830,000 the city invested in the project. The horses, bought in 2003, were restored and have been sitting in city storage.
But the city gave the nonprofit and its new board members another chance to finish the project in January.
Kennewick Mayor Steve Young said the foundation has given the council exactly what was needed.
"I am impressed with how far you have come," he said.The core of an indoor positioning system.
The foundation plans to operate the carousel for public rides, as well as renting out the building for events, such as weddings and corporate gatherings, Van Winkle said. Two banquet rooms and a gift shop are part of the design.
Van Winkle expects the carousel to operate at a loss for the first two years, but said the foundation plans to for the carousel to become self-sustaining.
Councilman Don Britain said he still is convinced the carousel won't generate enough money to sustain itself and will become the city's responsibility.
He said he wanted time to review the group's proposed three-year operating budget.
The foundation's projections show an operating loss of $88,350 in the first year, $60,500 the second year and $32,UK chickencoop Specialist.750 the third year.
The budget starts at about $216,000 for the first year, including one full-time manager and several part-time employees. The initial plan is to keep the carousel open 200 days a year for about eight hours a day.
The foundation estimates ridership will start at 50,000 the first year and increase to 75,000 the third year. Cost would be $2 per ride.
The city would continue to own the land and carousel, and would own the building the foundation will pay for, Van Winkle said. The foundation would lease the property and building from the city and hire an executive director to handle operations.
Councilman Bob Parks said he would support moving forward on the project.
But he said he wants to make sure the city will not end up supporting the carousel financially any more than it has.
The city already has made a large investment in it, he said. Parks previously said he wanted the city to get back the $830,000 already spent on the carousel.
Parks said he thinks the right group of people are behind the project. He hopes they will be successful in finishing the carousel in the 13 months the group has proposed.
"If it is going to go, it needs to go," he said.
Van Winkle said they expect to receive about a third of the money from in-kind donations. Already, $300,000 has been donated without active fundraising, he said. And they still have $40,000 in the bank.
Dwight Marquart, the foundation's vice chairman, told the Herald he and many of the new board members want to see a merry-go-round that will add to the region's quality of life.
"All kinds of people have said they want to be a part of this. There's a lot of passion out there,Bathroom floortiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles." said Marquart, who became involved in the carousel project about a year ago.
The foundation has moved the mechanical platform to a Port of Kennewick-owned building on Columbia Drive so the parts could be inventoried and assembled. That building was leased at no cost, except for the $500 insurance.
More of the pieces are useable than the foundation's board expected, including some of the costly parts like the large gears, Van Winkle said.
He said they are making molds of the parts so pieces can be more easily repaired later.
2012年5月15日星期二
Romney in Iowa tags Obama for debt 'prairie fire'
Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reckless spending has fanned a "prairie fire of debt" while portraying himself in a speech in battleground Iowa as the defender of fiscal responsibility.
The likely GOP presidential nominee is trying to frame his campaign against the Democratic president as a contest of fairness versus irresponsibility.
In a speech Tuesday afternoon in Iowa, Romney will say that, in his words, "a prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve."
The debt-and-spending argument runs counter to Obama's focus on fairness, in which he says wealthier Americans should pay their fair share.
Romney was making his first visit to Iowa since the caucuses in January.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the national debt in Iowa, a Midwestern battleground he hasn't visited since the state's leadoff nominating caucuses.
Romney's speech Tuesday afternoon in Des Moines is expected to promote spending discipline, a turn from the social issues that marked the campaign last week. Obama announced on Wednesday that he supports gay marriage, then Romney reiterated his opposition to same-sex unions.
Romney and Obama returned to the campaign's top issues, jobs and the economy, on Monday. Romney has argued that the nation's debt is choking the economic recovery and has criticized Obama for spending programs including the 2009 economic stimulus and the 2010 health care overhaul.
"We have a real philosophical difference here in this presidential election coming up," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a Romney supporter. "This is right where I want the debate to be."
Obama sought Monday to blunt one of Romney's chief campaign arguments, that the former private equity firm executive is better suited to guide the economy to more rapid growth. Obama's campaign aired a new television ad accusing Romney of costing jobs at a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill that his company failed to restructure.
Romney countered that while at Bain Capital and as governor of Massachusetts he helped create tens of thousands of public and private sector jobs. His campaign released its own Web video promoting his time at Bain.
Although Romney's private-sector experience has been used against him before, Obama's campaign is introducing the argument in battleground states ahead of the general election. One of his rivals for the Republican nomination, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, characterized Romney as a corporate raider before the New Hampshire primary in January.
Obama is airing the ad in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, all states Obama won in 2008 and viewed as competitive this year.
Romney's visit also returns the political spotlight to Iowa, where both campaigns see opportunity in their battle for the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency.
Romney finished in a near-tie for first place in the state's Jan. 3 caucuses. Obama won Iowa's Democratic caucuses four years ago and carried the state in the general election.
Obama was more aggressive in visiting Iowa this spring as Romney continued to campaign for the GOP nomination.
Obama's new ad marks his fifth this year. The campaign has spent more than $2.5 million on advertising for Iowa, which will yield only six electoral votes. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives have visited the state this year.
The likely GOP presidential nominee is trying to frame his campaign against the Democratic president as a contest of fairness versus irresponsibility.
In a speech Tuesday afternoon in Iowa, Romney will say that, in his words, "a prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve."
The debt-and-spending argument runs counter to Obama's focus on fairness, in which he says wealthier Americans should pay their fair share.
Romney was making his first visit to Iowa since the caucuses in January.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the national debt in Iowa, a Midwestern battleground he hasn't visited since the state's leadoff nominating caucuses.
Romney's speech Tuesday afternoon in Des Moines is expected to promote spending discipline, a turn from the social issues that marked the campaign last week. Obama announced on Wednesday that he supports gay marriage, then Romney reiterated his opposition to same-sex unions.
Romney and Obama returned to the campaign's top issues, jobs and the economy, on Monday. Romney has argued that the nation's debt is choking the economic recovery and has criticized Obama for spending programs including the 2009 economic stimulus and the 2010 health care overhaul.
"We have a real philosophical difference here in this presidential election coming up," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a Romney supporter. "This is right where I want the debate to be."
Obama sought Monday to blunt one of Romney's chief campaign arguments, that the former private equity firm executive is better suited to guide the economy to more rapid growth. Obama's campaign aired a new television ad accusing Romney of costing jobs at a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill that his company failed to restructure.
Romney countered that while at Bain Capital and as governor of Massachusetts he helped create tens of thousands of public and private sector jobs. His campaign released its own Web video promoting his time at Bain.
Although Romney's private-sector experience has been used against him before, Obama's campaign is introducing the argument in battleground states ahead of the general election. One of his rivals for the Republican nomination, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, characterized Romney as a corporate raider before the New Hampshire primary in January.
Obama is airing the ad in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, all states Obama won in 2008 and viewed as competitive this year.
Romney's visit also returns the political spotlight to Iowa, where both campaigns see opportunity in their battle for the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency.
Romney finished in a near-tie for first place in the state's Jan. 3 caucuses. Obama won Iowa's Democratic caucuses four years ago and carried the state in the general election.
Obama was more aggressive in visiting Iowa this spring as Romney continued to campaign for the GOP nomination.
Obama's new ad marks his fifth this year. The campaign has spent more than $2.5 million on advertising for Iowa, which will yield only six electoral votes. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives have visited the state this year.
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