With the clock ticking down to a Sept. 9 first day of class, primary school students will be able to use the library and will have a new gym floor to play on for the first time since Superstorm Sandy flooded the building.
The building is 100 percent functional, said Thomas Berger Red Bank School district facilities director.Watch the video above to see the work done.“There are still many things to do, but we did the things we needed to do to get the school operational,” he said. “Now, it’s catch up on the lose ends.”
Those things include replacing furniture on a one-to-one basis, some plumbing work and floor replacement under cabinets, he said.“Everything here works,” Berger said.The primary school, located on the banks of the Swimming River, had several inches of water in the one-story building when officials returned after Superstorm Sandy. Primary School students were temporarily housed at the middle school, while crews replaced carpeting with vinyl Ceramic tile in 16 of the 33 classrooms that are used daily in the primary school.
The primary school reopened on Nov. 26 after replacement and sanitizing work had been done to allow students to safely return to the building, but additional work remained in non-classroom areas.“I can say we’re in a much better place than when we reopened in November,” said Laura C. Morana, superintendent of schools. “The work our team has done has been happening for the last 10 months and is an ongoing process.”
There are tangible results, such as shiny new white floors in the school gym and library, both of which were damaged by flooding and put on the back burner to get class rooms repaired first, last fall.The gym is ready for use, however a large moveable wall to divide the gym had to be removed because it was water damaged, Berger said.
The library has been closed since the storm after it wound up being used as a storage area for class room furniture and items displaced from other parts of the building where work was going on. Equipment for a math and engineering class, which also used the library, was put on a cart and moved from room to room last school year, Morana said.New Primary School principal Luigi Laugelli joined the district on July 1 as the school moved into full repair mode. He said he wasn’t daunted by what he saw in the building.
“It’s not the physical structure, it’s the people inside, the quality of the staff and the families,” he said.Teachers came in early to working on their classrooms and volunteers helped out the district prepare the building, Laugelli said.Books and any supplies on lower shelves or on floors was lost to flooding, he said and new books have been ordered. When charities and other schools and individuals seeking to help after the storm contacted the district, Morana said the district asked for books. Those books went right in to class rooms last school term and may will find their way back to the library this year, she said.
Located just moments from Morgan Crossing and Grandview Corners, you'll be able to take advantage of everything the neighbourhood has to offer, including shopping, dining and recreation.
Inside your home, you'll find a spacious open floorplan with plenty of contemporary features. Among them is a chef's kitchen with a dining island, stainless-steel appliances, granite/quartz countertops and a modern designer porcelain tiles backsplash. The entire kitchen is complemented by the Metropolitan Evoke Wide Plank laminate flooring that continues through the living and dining area, with plush carpeting in the bedrooms and large porcelain tile in the bathrooms.
Adera is now offering homeowners a seriously amazing way to personalize their homes. Called I.D. By Me, the program allows the buyer to be their own interior designer and choose their own colour scheme, upgrade finishes or fixtures and several other choices. Among the options at Breeze are adding heated floors, upgrading the kitchen appliances and adding a washer/dryer package, along with several other ways to make your home your own.
Adera has long been committed to sustainable and green buildings, and this continues with Breeze. Among the ecologically friendly features you'll find here are LED street lamps (a first for Surrey), motion sensor lights in the bathrooms and ENERGY Star-rated windows and appliances. The lush landscaping outside of your home easily showcases the green lifestyle you will live at Breeze. All of the materials used in construction are locally sourced, which reduces the project's carbon footprint.
It's not, of course, radar at all. Household mobiles don't yet have radar technology and while the system can pick up the Bluetooth signal emanating from the sticker, it can't determine its direction. So you need to prowl around the house, mobile held on a fully extended arm, watching the screen for the blue dot to get closer or further away.
When you do get close, you can click a pager button, and the sticker will flash a blue light and emit a brief ping or buzz. The ping is so quiet, however, we couldn't hear it, unless we had an ear within centimetres of the sticker. So you end up depending on eyesight.
If you want to keep track of pets or small children, you can set a sticker to sound an alert when they wander out of range.By and large the sticker system works pretty well, though we'd certainly like a louder ping, and a thinner sticker. We have put one sticker on the back of a mobile, one inside our wallet. Stick-N-Find will locate the latter even if the wallet is closed.
And we have ordered two more stickers to go on car and household key rings. The stickers are too big to be applied to spectacle frames, alas: we look forward to the day when someone devises a tiny device for this purpose, possibly one that will answer when you whistle.Stick-N-Find mentions another use for the stickers. Put one on your luggage when travelling, then sit back and wait at the airport pick-up point. Stick-N-Find will alert you when your suitcase hits the carousel.
Total outlay for our four stickers including postage has been $142, which is pretty hefty, though peace of mind is valuable.A cheaper solution could be on the way. Another US company, Reveal Labs, has developed similar stickers dubbed Tiles, which are square rather than round, and says it will have them on the market in the coming US winter/Aussie summer.
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2013年8月28日星期三
Dolores Heights architecture
With its dark glass walls, flat modern lines and bare concrete base, the new house at Sanchez and 20th streets makes a brash first impression on the settled eastern slope of Dolores Heights.Now take a broader look at the entire block, and something else is revealed: a fresh strand in the neighborhood's architectural fabric.
One house on the west side of the 700 block is barn-shaped and deep-set; another swells with a single tile-roofed bay. The house in the middle of the block pulls back behind balconies in a demure Cubist manner. Two doors away, the protruding top floor is adorned with flower boxes.Even as they coexist with ease, what the houses share is a sensibility rather than a preordained style - a sensibility that extends to the newcomer as well, an 1,800-square-foot structure on a lot that would allow nearly twice that. The context of Dolores Heights, like the context of the city as a whole, is a tapestry that only grows more intriguing as new elements are added to the weave.
The steep, 400-foot hill itself is a definition rather than a destination, framing Noe Valley to the south and Dolores Park to the east. From afar it's a rustle of walls and porcelain tiles, green trees and straight asphalt.Things aren't so placid on foot in the enclave bounded roughly by Cumberland, Church, 22nd and Castro streets.
"Residents of the hill fought bitterly over location of the streets the city was preparing to cut into the sides of the hill," The Chronicle wrote in its 1958 piece on Dolores Heights, describing the early 20th century. "Everyone wanted the paved street to be at the level of his house - not that of the house across the way, which might be 20 or 30 feet higher or lower."he result was that some streets are split by retaining walls between lanes. Others filled in on one side but not the other. At the crest of 20th Street above Sanchez, for instance, the south side of the block was still open space when George Homsey and his wife bought a 50-foot-wide lot in 1963.
"It was a little blue-collar enclave back then, a cul-de-sac with steps down to Sanchez," recalled Homsey, a founding principal of the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis. "This side was nothing but a rocky bank and the property above."Then, filling in the blanks was a casual thing. Homsey met with a bureaucrat, assured him the house wouldn't be too tall, and hired a contractor to erect a woodsy house that would look at home in a Sierra forest. Friends stopped by on weekends to help with interior details, such as the stained plywood floors that still do the job.
Now, new houses must align with the guidelines of the Dolores Heights Special Use District, established in 1980 "to encourage development in context and scale with established character and China ceramic tile." Builders and architects also are encouraged to vet their plans with the Dolores Heights Improvement Club, a neighborhood association.Groups like this emerged across the city in the 1960s and '70s, many of them in reaction to what was seen as excessive or insensitive development.
The 3600 block of 21st Street is a case study in why such fears took root. On the summit at Sanchez stands the home built by then-Mayor Sunny Jim Rolph in 1930, a storybook chateau with small paned window and a brick-studded chimney. Downhill - literally - the block concludes with a 30-unit apartment building from 1963, a colorless box with so little grace that on Church Street the hill's underlying rock stands exposed behind three concrete piers.
While families like the Homseys staked their claim with affection and care, mid-century builders slapped in product with no thought for their surroundings. No wonder that neighborhood groups stepped forward to protect their terrain, or why the city's Urban Design Plan of 1971 warned that "modern changes tend to be extremely potent and to have sharply visible negative effects."
Some people are fed up with excessively noisy restaurants and they never seem to tire of talking about it. It’s one of the most frequent topics — and complaints — I get as a restaurant critic. More than two years ago, in March 2011, I wrote a blog about the five noisiest restaurants in the Bay Area. The Golden Hearing Aid Award went to Leopold’s; Rotisserie and Wine in Napa (now closed); Cafe Des Amis, which now has drapes and other additions; Nopa, which also did some acoustical work; and Adesso in Oakland.
What that means is that the decibel level at some restaurants continues to increase as the lines between a bar and restaurant continue to blur. Probably the loudest place I’ve been in the last year or so is Mikkeller Bar on Mason Street. That said, it’s hard to be too critical because it’s basically a bar that happens to have a full dinner menu. While many patrons were standing around drinking the 40+ beers, others were sitting at the table ordering sausages, salads and sandwiches. Even though I was sitting next to my dining companion at a communal table, I felt like my head would explode, not so much from the noise, but trying to make myself heard. Since I hadn’t caught up with my friend for a while, after we finished our sausage platter we went to a quieter place for an after-dinner drink to finish our conversation.
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One house on the west side of the 700 block is barn-shaped and deep-set; another swells with a single tile-roofed bay. The house in the middle of the block pulls back behind balconies in a demure Cubist manner. Two doors away, the protruding top floor is adorned with flower boxes.Even as they coexist with ease, what the houses share is a sensibility rather than a preordained style - a sensibility that extends to the newcomer as well, an 1,800-square-foot structure on a lot that would allow nearly twice that. The context of Dolores Heights, like the context of the city as a whole, is a tapestry that only grows more intriguing as new elements are added to the weave.
The steep, 400-foot hill itself is a definition rather than a destination, framing Noe Valley to the south and Dolores Park to the east. From afar it's a rustle of walls and porcelain tiles, green trees and straight asphalt.Things aren't so placid on foot in the enclave bounded roughly by Cumberland, Church, 22nd and Castro streets.
"Residents of the hill fought bitterly over location of the streets the city was preparing to cut into the sides of the hill," The Chronicle wrote in its 1958 piece on Dolores Heights, describing the early 20th century. "Everyone wanted the paved street to be at the level of his house - not that of the house across the way, which might be 20 or 30 feet higher or lower."he result was that some streets are split by retaining walls between lanes. Others filled in on one side but not the other. At the crest of 20th Street above Sanchez, for instance, the south side of the block was still open space when George Homsey and his wife bought a 50-foot-wide lot in 1963.
"It was a little blue-collar enclave back then, a cul-de-sac with steps down to Sanchez," recalled Homsey, a founding principal of the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis. "This side was nothing but a rocky bank and the property above."Then, filling in the blanks was a casual thing. Homsey met with a bureaucrat, assured him the house wouldn't be too tall, and hired a contractor to erect a woodsy house that would look at home in a Sierra forest. Friends stopped by on weekends to help with interior details, such as the stained plywood floors that still do the job.
Now, new houses must align with the guidelines of the Dolores Heights Special Use District, established in 1980 "to encourage development in context and scale with established character and China ceramic tile." Builders and architects also are encouraged to vet their plans with the Dolores Heights Improvement Club, a neighborhood association.Groups like this emerged across the city in the 1960s and '70s, many of them in reaction to what was seen as excessive or insensitive development.
The 3600 block of 21st Street is a case study in why such fears took root. On the summit at Sanchez stands the home built by then-Mayor Sunny Jim Rolph in 1930, a storybook chateau with small paned window and a brick-studded chimney. Downhill - literally - the block concludes with a 30-unit apartment building from 1963, a colorless box with so little grace that on Church Street the hill's underlying rock stands exposed behind three concrete piers.
While families like the Homseys staked their claim with affection and care, mid-century builders slapped in product with no thought for their surroundings. No wonder that neighborhood groups stepped forward to protect their terrain, or why the city's Urban Design Plan of 1971 warned that "modern changes tend to be extremely potent and to have sharply visible negative effects."
Some people are fed up with excessively noisy restaurants and they never seem to tire of talking about it. It’s one of the most frequent topics — and complaints — I get as a restaurant critic. More than two years ago, in March 2011, I wrote a blog about the five noisiest restaurants in the Bay Area. The Golden Hearing Aid Award went to Leopold’s; Rotisserie and Wine in Napa (now closed); Cafe Des Amis, which now has drapes and other additions; Nopa, which also did some acoustical work; and Adesso in Oakland.
What that means is that the decibel level at some restaurants continues to increase as the lines between a bar and restaurant continue to blur. Probably the loudest place I’ve been in the last year or so is Mikkeller Bar on Mason Street. That said, it’s hard to be too critical because it’s basically a bar that happens to have a full dinner menu. While many patrons were standing around drinking the 40+ beers, others were sitting at the table ordering sausages, salads and sandwiches. Even though I was sitting next to my dining companion at a communal table, I felt like my head would explode, not so much from the noise, but trying to make myself heard. Since I hadn’t caught up with my friend for a while, after we finished our sausage platter we went to a quieter place for an after-dinner drink to finish our conversation.
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2013年8月26日星期一
Little left to chance
Last year, the scratch-off tickets resulted in more than $2.3 billion in sales, comprising 62 percent of the lottery’s record sales that fell just shy of $3.7 billion. All told, the lottery games produced over $1 billion in profits to fund programs for senior citizens.Managing the lottery’s portfolio of instant games, coming up with new game concepts, enticing players to buy more tickets in a manner that it considers socially responsible, and making sure the ticket supply doesn’t run out at lottery retailers is a full-time job for nearly 400 people.
The Pennsylvania Lottery employs 236 people. Some 152 others work for state’s lottery servicing contractor, New York-based Scientific Games International, Inc., here in the commonwealth.Although there has been talk for well over the past year of outsourcing the lottery’s management, that issue remains unresolved.But a recent visit to lottery’s highly secured headquarters in Lower Swatara Twp. offered no clue that such upheaval was on the horizon.
Rather, employees there were plotting and planning more ways to entice players to spend their money in hopes of making more money for at least the next 18 months.Lottery games’ sales trends here and China Porcelain tile. Decades of product development experience. Focus groups. Industry gut.All are factors that go into the development of new lottery games.
Developing new draw-based games, such as The Daily Number and Treasure Hunt, are derived through the same process as instant games but take longer to develop. They require creating software and seemingly endless testing to make sure a game works before it can be introduced to the lottery’s line-up, according to lottery officials.With instant tickets, the focus is on keeping the games fresh and appealing to players. Every month, four to six new instant games are introduced and the same number are closed out. According to Scientific Games, the nation's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, that is a higher frequency than most state lotteries.
“You always have to have something on deck to not only replace that certain type of game, whether it be a theme or whether it be a price point,” said Todd Rucci, lottery director. “The science behind that is truly amazing.”The lottery maintains an 18-month calendar that projects when each game is going to end and what comes next, said Cal Heath, the lottery’s director of research and regulations.
“We’re really looking at having the research done maybe six to 12 months in advance of when we launch those new games,” he said.That means, for example, ideas for winter games are being bandied about in the heat of summer, said Kara Sparks, deputy marketing director for product management.
Many game concepts bubble up from previous instant games. Sometimes, players suggest ideas and those ideas are welcome although lottery officials emphasize there is no remuneration offered in return.Once mock versions of game concepts are developed, they are taken to focus groups to gauge reactions and player input.
Primarily, Heath said these sessions are in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia but on occasion have been held in other locations around the state, including Harrisburg.“We usually try to get enough players from an urban and suburban setting because quite often they’ll think a little different,” he said.
Participants in focus groups are carefully screened. For example, Heath said you don’t want players who dislike the “extended play” games like Bingo Star or Crossword 5X evaluating that type of game concept. Or players who only play the $5, $10 and $20 instant games are not chosen to test out lower-priced game ideas.A moderator leads groups of 10 to 12 participants through a 90-minute discussion that is observed behind a one-way mirror by lottery employees.
Some focus on the manner in which the session is conducted to be sure concepts are presented in an objective fashion. Others zero in on what participants are saying about the games themselves.The purpose of the focus group is to gather ideas on how to adjust a particular game or provide food for thought for future games.
“It really does help us hone the games that we introduce,” Heath said.The lottery shared snippets of a video of a focus group discussion that helped shape the instant ticket game named “polished tiles.”Immediately upon seeing the picture of a bulging wallet on a mock ticket, one woman remarked, “I like it all already.”
Another commented on how she liked the large print and seeing that the $5 game offered 12 chances to win.Then they turned to a picture of the mock ticket with the scratch-off material removed. Several quickly discerned a match with a winning number that would have carried a $50 prize if the ticket was real.Mock tickets shown to focus groups are always winners. Svitko said, “It’s not to improve their opinion but it’s to make sure they understand how to play because sometimes some games are more confusing.”
The energetic response “Fat Wallet” evoked from this and other focus groups helped convince Sparks and other lottery officials this game would be a winner with players hoping the game would live up to its name.Once a concept is nailed down, the artwork gets finetuned and color choices are made. Lottery officials are careful that games on sale at the same time have different themes and color schemes.
Based on focus group reaction, decisions might be made to add a second-chance of winning to a game. And the ticket price gets evaluated as well. Lottery likes to have a good mix of different priced tickets on sale at the same time to attract all types of players.The odds of winning are yet another matter. Instant tickets offer anywhere between a 25 and 33 percent chance of winning on each ticket. The number of winning tickets can differ depending on the prize structure. If a game offers multiple top prizes, the number of small prizes might be lower than a game with fewer top prizes.
Lottery officials also point out that once a game's top prizes are claimed, the game is closed and no more of its tickets are sold.All of this is done to ensure a good playing experience, which lottery officials realize is critical to keeping players coming back to buy more tickets.Throughout the process, lottery officials consult with Scientific Games to draw on their experience with lottery games.
“It’s one thing for something to sound great but we can’t afford so-so games,” Svitko said. “We don’t take risks when it comes to generating money for older Pennsylvanians.”Players take risk. So does Scientific Games, which gets paid based on a percentage of ticket sold. Last year, the company was paid nearly $62.3 million for its work with the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Its contract for instant games requires Scientific Games to cover the cost of printing tickets, which is done at its facility in Alpharetta, Ga.; warehousing them; and distributing them.If the lottery would decide a game isn't selling well and decides to close it down, Scientific Games is obligated to pull it off the street even if it hasn't recouped all its costs. That's how its contract is structured giving the company incentive to partner with the lottery to ensure every game is a moneymaker, officials said.
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The Pennsylvania Lottery employs 236 people. Some 152 others work for state’s lottery servicing contractor, New York-based Scientific Games International, Inc., here in the commonwealth.Although there has been talk for well over the past year of outsourcing the lottery’s management, that issue remains unresolved.But a recent visit to lottery’s highly secured headquarters in Lower Swatara Twp. offered no clue that such upheaval was on the horizon.
Rather, employees there were plotting and planning more ways to entice players to spend their money in hopes of making more money for at least the next 18 months.Lottery games’ sales trends here and China Porcelain tile. Decades of product development experience. Focus groups. Industry gut.All are factors that go into the development of new lottery games.
Developing new draw-based games, such as The Daily Number and Treasure Hunt, are derived through the same process as instant games but take longer to develop. They require creating software and seemingly endless testing to make sure a game works before it can be introduced to the lottery’s line-up, according to lottery officials.With instant tickets, the focus is on keeping the games fresh and appealing to players. Every month, four to six new instant games are introduced and the same number are closed out. According to Scientific Games, the nation's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, that is a higher frequency than most state lotteries.
“You always have to have something on deck to not only replace that certain type of game, whether it be a theme or whether it be a price point,” said Todd Rucci, lottery director. “The science behind that is truly amazing.”The lottery maintains an 18-month calendar that projects when each game is going to end and what comes next, said Cal Heath, the lottery’s director of research and regulations.
“We’re really looking at having the research done maybe six to 12 months in advance of when we launch those new games,” he said.That means, for example, ideas for winter games are being bandied about in the heat of summer, said Kara Sparks, deputy marketing director for product management.
Many game concepts bubble up from previous instant games. Sometimes, players suggest ideas and those ideas are welcome although lottery officials emphasize there is no remuneration offered in return.Once mock versions of game concepts are developed, they are taken to focus groups to gauge reactions and player input.
Primarily, Heath said these sessions are in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia but on occasion have been held in other locations around the state, including Harrisburg.“We usually try to get enough players from an urban and suburban setting because quite often they’ll think a little different,” he said.
Participants in focus groups are carefully screened. For example, Heath said you don’t want players who dislike the “extended play” games like Bingo Star or Crossword 5X evaluating that type of game concept. Or players who only play the $5, $10 and $20 instant games are not chosen to test out lower-priced game ideas.A moderator leads groups of 10 to 12 participants through a 90-minute discussion that is observed behind a one-way mirror by lottery employees.
Some focus on the manner in which the session is conducted to be sure concepts are presented in an objective fashion. Others zero in on what participants are saying about the games themselves.The purpose of the focus group is to gather ideas on how to adjust a particular game or provide food for thought for future games.
“It really does help us hone the games that we introduce,” Heath said.The lottery shared snippets of a video of a focus group discussion that helped shape the instant ticket game named “polished tiles.”Immediately upon seeing the picture of a bulging wallet on a mock ticket, one woman remarked, “I like it all already.”
Another commented on how she liked the large print and seeing that the $5 game offered 12 chances to win.Then they turned to a picture of the mock ticket with the scratch-off material removed. Several quickly discerned a match with a winning number that would have carried a $50 prize if the ticket was real.Mock tickets shown to focus groups are always winners. Svitko said, “It’s not to improve their opinion but it’s to make sure they understand how to play because sometimes some games are more confusing.”
The energetic response “Fat Wallet” evoked from this and other focus groups helped convince Sparks and other lottery officials this game would be a winner with players hoping the game would live up to its name.Once a concept is nailed down, the artwork gets finetuned and color choices are made. Lottery officials are careful that games on sale at the same time have different themes and color schemes.
Based on focus group reaction, decisions might be made to add a second-chance of winning to a game. And the ticket price gets evaluated as well. Lottery likes to have a good mix of different priced tickets on sale at the same time to attract all types of players.The odds of winning are yet another matter. Instant tickets offer anywhere between a 25 and 33 percent chance of winning on each ticket. The number of winning tickets can differ depending on the prize structure. If a game offers multiple top prizes, the number of small prizes might be lower than a game with fewer top prizes.
Lottery officials also point out that once a game's top prizes are claimed, the game is closed and no more of its tickets are sold.All of this is done to ensure a good playing experience, which lottery officials realize is critical to keeping players coming back to buy more tickets.Throughout the process, lottery officials consult with Scientific Games to draw on their experience with lottery games.
“It’s one thing for something to sound great but we can’t afford so-so games,” Svitko said. “We don’t take risks when it comes to generating money for older Pennsylvanians.”Players take risk. So does Scientific Games, which gets paid based on a percentage of ticket sold. Last year, the company was paid nearly $62.3 million for its work with the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Its contract for instant games requires Scientific Games to cover the cost of printing tickets, which is done at its facility in Alpharetta, Ga.; warehousing them; and distributing them.If the lottery would decide a game isn't selling well and decides to close it down, Scientific Games is obligated to pull it off the street even if it hasn't recouped all its costs. That's how its contract is structured giving the company incentive to partner with the lottery to ensure every game is a moneymaker, officials said.
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What's up with Grove Arcade?
I’d be remiss if I didn’t pause for a minute here and acknowledge a loss at the paper.Last week, six of my newsroom colleagues were laid off, the latest indication of tough economic times in the newspaper business. I just want to say that these six folks — Susan Reinhardt, Jason Sandford, John Fletcher, Jaime McKee, Thomas Fraser and Rob Mikulak — are all top-notch people and journalists, and I’ll miss them around the office.
They gave a lot of fantastic years to this paper and the community, and I wish them the best.I’m pretty sure the only thing keeping me employed is your burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal. So let’s get to this week’s batch.Chuck Tessier, of Ceramic tile, which handles maintenance on the landmark building, said the scaffolding is part of a 14-18-month project to repair the parapet walls and the roof of the main building. It is there mainly as a safety precaution.
“They’re working on the parapets and the caps of the parapets, and we want to make sure nothing falls off onto the sidewalk while they’re doing that,” Tessier said. “They will move the scaffolding with them as they move around the building.”Water has been seeping through the terra cotta tile on the parapets, then traveling down the walls. The workers will remove the cap, seal up the parapets and add flashing, then replace the caps. Next, crews will re-roof the building.
“They are going to have to take it down to the original structure, then come back up with layers of insulation and a membrane roof,” Tessier said.Built by malaria chill tonic magnate E.W. Grove, the Grove Arcade opened in 1929. At 269,000 square feet, it now houses shops and restaurants on the first floor and offices and apartments above. The building became federal offices during World War II but closed when the National Climatic Data Center moved to a new federal building in the mid-1990s.
As far as the tiles, many of which on the lower level have become faded or discolored looking, Tessier said that repair will come after the roof and parapet project. The water seepage has affected glazing on the tiles, and a previous glaze used on them was inappropriate and allowed ultraviolet rays to discolor them.The tiles and roof of the top two floors were redone previously, and they give a good idea of what the rest of the building will look like when the tile work eventually is done.
“First of all, we didn’t eliminate all the one-hour times for parking on that street,” said Harry Brown, parking services manager for the city of Asheville. “We just took the six spaces directly adjacent to our parking deck and made it bus parking. It’s perfect for it, for our city buses, and we don’t have enough parking for tour buses downtown.”Right now, the only spot tour buses can park is next to the Wall Street deck on Battery Park. Brown said they’ve gotten several calls from tour bus companies asking about places to park.
“We decided to make it accessible on South Lexington so people on tour buses could access that part of town,” Brown said. “Our mission is to accommodate everybody.”Andrea Barclay knows what makes a great kitchen. The classically trained pastry chef has worked in enough of them, including the one at her popular Global Gourmet restaurant in Carbondale.
In fact, it was that kitchen’s cramped, enclosed layout that drove the design of her home version. “I’m tall, so I feel claustrophobic in a hurry,” the Johnston City native said, Floor tiles. “I work all day and night in my small kitchen at Global, so I really wanted to open up my kitchen at home.”
When Barclay bought the house last year, the kitchen was filled with white appliances, brown-painted cabinets and worn linoleum flooring. Along with completing many other projects, she expanded her kitchen’s size and vastly improved its aesthetics. She worked with a local contractor to design the layout, ordered new cabinets and removed the soffit above the cabinets to open the ceiling height. This captured a more airy atmosphere while also allowing her to display unique artwork.
The black marble floor contrasts starkly against the white cabinets and tall, angled ceiling. It is a visual that almost didn’t come to fruition. “My original plan was to have dark, distressed looking cabinets with a white marble floor,” she said. But when Barclay fell in love with the black marble, it was a perfect fit. It transitions seamlessly into the upper level’s wood floor that she refinished to its original light color.
The kitchen opens to a sitting area Barclay designed to allow guests to enjoy a casual chat, a glass of wine and an up-close view of the chef in her element.Her kitchen is loaded with gadgets, platters, pots and pans — some of which are stored in a printer’s table sideboard she purchased from Restoration Hardware, one of Barclay’s favorite furniture vendors.
The high-level commercial equipment is all stainless steel and provides a perfect pairing to the silver specks within the honed white granite countertop. “It’s gorgeous,” she said. “I love a splash of bling, so I fell in love with it. It’s very unique and super thick, so it will withstand the wear and tear of a chef.”
The refrigerator, range and hood are all Viking, one of the top names in kitchen appliances. Barclay’s Bosch dishwasher is also a sight to see.“It’s my favorite appliance,” she said, marveling at the red light that shines on the floor to let you know that the ultra-quiet machine is running a cycle. “It’s so cool.”“Cool” is how Barclay describes the overall feel of her kitchen. Rustic, yet modern, with a definite European flair.
“It’s a mix of Paris and Provence,” she said. “It is very rustic European-looking. I’ve made several trips to Europe and love a mix of French/Italian country, but with a modern twist.”
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They gave a lot of fantastic years to this paper and the community, and I wish them the best.I’m pretty sure the only thing keeping me employed is your burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal. So let’s get to this week’s batch.Chuck Tessier, of Ceramic tile, which handles maintenance on the landmark building, said the scaffolding is part of a 14-18-month project to repair the parapet walls and the roof of the main building. It is there mainly as a safety precaution.
“They’re working on the parapets and the caps of the parapets, and we want to make sure nothing falls off onto the sidewalk while they’re doing that,” Tessier said. “They will move the scaffolding with them as they move around the building.”Water has been seeping through the terra cotta tile on the parapets, then traveling down the walls. The workers will remove the cap, seal up the parapets and add flashing, then replace the caps. Next, crews will re-roof the building.
“They are going to have to take it down to the original structure, then come back up with layers of insulation and a membrane roof,” Tessier said.Built by malaria chill tonic magnate E.W. Grove, the Grove Arcade opened in 1929. At 269,000 square feet, it now houses shops and restaurants on the first floor and offices and apartments above. The building became federal offices during World War II but closed when the National Climatic Data Center moved to a new federal building in the mid-1990s.
As far as the tiles, many of which on the lower level have become faded or discolored looking, Tessier said that repair will come after the roof and parapet project. The water seepage has affected glazing on the tiles, and a previous glaze used on them was inappropriate and allowed ultraviolet rays to discolor them.The tiles and roof of the top two floors were redone previously, and they give a good idea of what the rest of the building will look like when the tile work eventually is done.
“First of all, we didn’t eliminate all the one-hour times for parking on that street,” said Harry Brown, parking services manager for the city of Asheville. “We just took the six spaces directly adjacent to our parking deck and made it bus parking. It’s perfect for it, for our city buses, and we don’t have enough parking for tour buses downtown.”Right now, the only spot tour buses can park is next to the Wall Street deck on Battery Park. Brown said they’ve gotten several calls from tour bus companies asking about places to park.
“We decided to make it accessible on South Lexington so people on tour buses could access that part of town,” Brown said. “Our mission is to accommodate everybody.”Andrea Barclay knows what makes a great kitchen. The classically trained pastry chef has worked in enough of them, including the one at her popular Global Gourmet restaurant in Carbondale.
In fact, it was that kitchen’s cramped, enclosed layout that drove the design of her home version. “I’m tall, so I feel claustrophobic in a hurry,” the Johnston City native said, Floor tiles. “I work all day and night in my small kitchen at Global, so I really wanted to open up my kitchen at home.”
When Barclay bought the house last year, the kitchen was filled with white appliances, brown-painted cabinets and worn linoleum flooring. Along with completing many other projects, she expanded her kitchen’s size and vastly improved its aesthetics. She worked with a local contractor to design the layout, ordered new cabinets and removed the soffit above the cabinets to open the ceiling height. This captured a more airy atmosphere while also allowing her to display unique artwork.
The black marble floor contrasts starkly against the white cabinets and tall, angled ceiling. It is a visual that almost didn’t come to fruition. “My original plan was to have dark, distressed looking cabinets with a white marble floor,” she said. But when Barclay fell in love with the black marble, it was a perfect fit. It transitions seamlessly into the upper level’s wood floor that she refinished to its original light color.
The kitchen opens to a sitting area Barclay designed to allow guests to enjoy a casual chat, a glass of wine and an up-close view of the chef in her element.Her kitchen is loaded with gadgets, platters, pots and pans — some of which are stored in a printer’s table sideboard she purchased from Restoration Hardware, one of Barclay’s favorite furniture vendors.
The high-level commercial equipment is all stainless steel and provides a perfect pairing to the silver specks within the honed white granite countertop. “It’s gorgeous,” she said. “I love a splash of bling, so I fell in love with it. It’s very unique and super thick, so it will withstand the wear and tear of a chef.”
The refrigerator, range and hood are all Viking, one of the top names in kitchen appliances. Barclay’s Bosch dishwasher is also a sight to see.“It’s my favorite appliance,” she said, marveling at the red light that shines on the floor to let you know that the ultra-quiet machine is running a cycle. “It’s so cool.”“Cool” is how Barclay describes the overall feel of her kitchen. Rustic, yet modern, with a definite European flair.
“It’s a mix of Paris and Provence,” she said. “It is very rustic European-looking. I’ve made several trips to Europe and love a mix of French/Italian country, but with a modern twist.”
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2013年8月19日星期一
After move, Dolce Vita improves
As any long-time Phantom fan knows, searching out authentic Italian meals in Central PA is both a challenge and a passion for your favorite restaurant reviewer.Such a challenge/passion often results in disappointment and lowered expectations.A good example was several years ago when I took Italian friends to a place I’d heard of in Enola called Dolce Vita (literally “sweet life”).
The experience was less than sweet, so far less that I didn’t even write about it. I figured I’d wait, give it a second chance, but I just never went back.So it was with suspicion and low expectations that I ventured out to the relocated Dolce Vita, which moved this year from Enola to Camp Hill.
Well, vivere e imparare — live and learn!For although Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is owned and operated by the same Nino Basic who owned and operated Dolce Vita in Enola, dining in the new location is very different.Maybe some of that is atmospheric. As I recall, Dolce Vita in Enola was just a cut above a working-class neighborhood saloon and about as Italianate as a blue-collar bar in Essen. Not that there’s anything wrong with establishments of Ceramic tile. It’s just they’re rarely home to well-made angel hair pasta. And the overall feel at Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is different.
Located in a renovated two-story house along the main drag of Market Street, it has a nice, quiet Italian feel thanks to its warm colors and lighting, an interior stone archway, tile floors, linen tablecloths, Italian art, a first-floor serving bar — although the place is BYOB — and Italian opera music playing in the background.
Appetizers included mushrooms stuffed with lump crab and baked clams casino with baby clams. Both were exceptional.The regular menu, which seems to me entirely sufficient, is accompanied with a list of “specials” (chicken meatballs and crabmeat-stuffed salmon, for example) that seem to outnumber the regulars.
This generally raises questions for me along the lines of: How can any kitchen, let alone a small one, offer such variety without liberal use of frozen foods? And, if one is eating frozen foods, why not dine at home?But, having said that, entrées sampled at my table were very good, and one was better than that.
I had steak di Napoli ($21), a New York strip steak with mushrooms, onions and green and red peppers in marinara sauce. Though the steak (ordered rare) was a tad tough and not quite rare, it was tasty. The peppers were great. And the side of pasta that comes with all nonpasta entrées was perfect.A dining partner had a “special,” capellini d’Angelo ($24), extra-thin spaghetti served with shrimp, large chunks of crab and asparagus. The dish drew rave reviews and was large enough to also provide lunch the following day.
The restaurant offers standards: red or white linguine with clams; veal or chicken Piccata or Marsala; spaghetti with meatballs or sausage; manicotti, baked ziti and just about any other classic Italian dish you can think of.But it also has offerings such as red snapper with shrimp dipped in eggs, and a house dish of sautéed veal with eggplant, porcelain tiles, ham, onions, tomato and mozzarella in a white wine sauce — in other words, variety.
This is the kind of place, largely due to its location, that can become a regular stop for a lot of people, including neighborhood walk-ins.If you bring wine, there is no corking fee. Ice buckets for white wine are available upon request. There’s better Italian in Central PA. But Dolce Vita of Camp Hill shows promise. Its challenge will be to maintain consistency given the wide variety it offers. The irony? Owner operator Nino Basic is from Yugoslavia. But, hey, everybody loves Italian.
Today’s kitchens easily supplant the bathroom as the home’s most dangerous room. While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury. Even a seemingly simple kitchen task can result in a devastating injury.
Just ask April Stewart Klausner, a New York illustrator and accomplished cook. Recently Ms. Klausner, 56, severed four tendons, multiple nerves and a blood vessel in her hand while pitting an avocado, something she’d done countless times.
Gushing blood and unable to feel or move two fingers, she was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. The injury required more than three hours of surgical repair and many months of painful rehab. It will take at least a year for the injured nerves to heal, and Ms. Klausner can only hope her hand will function normally, enabling her to resume her career full-speed.
The therapists at Lang Hand Therapy in Manhattan told her she was the fourth “avocado victim” they’d seen that month. “So add that to immersion blenders and mandolines . . . and maybe the bathroom is not the most dangerous room in the house!” Ms. Klausner said in an e-mail.
Knowledge and mindfulness are the secrets to kitchen safety. My husband used to say, “From rushing no good can come.” Don’t try to do several things at once, and leave enough time to accomplish your tasks.
Use timers, especially for foods that cook a long time. I use them for everything I cook. My favorite is the battery-operated West Bend Kitchen Timer, easily set by punching in the numbers for hours, minutes and seconds — a worthwhile investment.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/!
The experience was less than sweet, so far less that I didn’t even write about it. I figured I’d wait, give it a second chance, but I just never went back.So it was with suspicion and low expectations that I ventured out to the relocated Dolce Vita, which moved this year from Enola to Camp Hill.
Well, vivere e imparare — live and learn!For although Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is owned and operated by the same Nino Basic who owned and operated Dolce Vita in Enola, dining in the new location is very different.Maybe some of that is atmospheric. As I recall, Dolce Vita in Enola was just a cut above a working-class neighborhood saloon and about as Italianate as a blue-collar bar in Essen. Not that there’s anything wrong with establishments of Ceramic tile. It’s just they’re rarely home to well-made angel hair pasta. And the overall feel at Dolce Vita in Camp Hill is different.
Located in a renovated two-story house along the main drag of Market Street, it has a nice, quiet Italian feel thanks to its warm colors and lighting, an interior stone archway, tile floors, linen tablecloths, Italian art, a first-floor serving bar — although the place is BYOB — and Italian opera music playing in the background.
Appetizers included mushrooms stuffed with lump crab and baked clams casino with baby clams. Both were exceptional.The regular menu, which seems to me entirely sufficient, is accompanied with a list of “specials” (chicken meatballs and crabmeat-stuffed salmon, for example) that seem to outnumber the regulars.
This generally raises questions for me along the lines of: How can any kitchen, let alone a small one, offer such variety without liberal use of frozen foods? And, if one is eating frozen foods, why not dine at home?But, having said that, entrées sampled at my table were very good, and one was better than that.
I had steak di Napoli ($21), a New York strip steak with mushrooms, onions and green and red peppers in marinara sauce. Though the steak (ordered rare) was a tad tough and not quite rare, it was tasty. The peppers were great. And the side of pasta that comes with all nonpasta entrées was perfect.A dining partner had a “special,” capellini d’Angelo ($24), extra-thin spaghetti served with shrimp, large chunks of crab and asparagus. The dish drew rave reviews and was large enough to also provide lunch the following day.
The restaurant offers standards: red or white linguine with clams; veal or chicken Piccata or Marsala; spaghetti with meatballs or sausage; manicotti, baked ziti and just about any other classic Italian dish you can think of.But it also has offerings such as red snapper with shrimp dipped in eggs, and a house dish of sautéed veal with eggplant, porcelain tiles, ham, onions, tomato and mozzarella in a white wine sauce — in other words, variety.
This is the kind of place, largely due to its location, that can become a regular stop for a lot of people, including neighborhood walk-ins.If you bring wine, there is no corking fee. Ice buckets for white wine are available upon request. There’s better Italian in Central PA. But Dolce Vita of Camp Hill shows promise. Its challenge will be to maintain consistency given the wide variety it offers. The irony? Owner operator Nino Basic is from Yugoslavia. But, hey, everybody loves Italian.
Today’s kitchens easily supplant the bathroom as the home’s most dangerous room. While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury. Even a seemingly simple kitchen task can result in a devastating injury.
Just ask April Stewart Klausner, a New York illustrator and accomplished cook. Recently Ms. Klausner, 56, severed four tendons, multiple nerves and a blood vessel in her hand while pitting an avocado, something she’d done countless times.
Gushing blood and unable to feel or move two fingers, she was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. The injury required more than three hours of surgical repair and many months of painful rehab. It will take at least a year for the injured nerves to heal, and Ms. Klausner can only hope her hand will function normally, enabling her to resume her career full-speed.
The therapists at Lang Hand Therapy in Manhattan told her she was the fourth “avocado victim” they’d seen that month. “So add that to immersion blenders and mandolines . . . and maybe the bathroom is not the most dangerous room in the house!” Ms. Klausner said in an e-mail.
Knowledge and mindfulness are the secrets to kitchen safety. My husband used to say, “From rushing no good can come.” Don’t try to do several things at once, and leave enough time to accomplish your tasks.
Use timers, especially for foods that cook a long time. I use them for everything I cook. My favorite is the battery-operated West Bend Kitchen Timer, easily set by punching in the numbers for hours, minutes and seconds — a worthwhile investment.
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Fear and triumph
Dozens of Seddon residents have been told that if the Haldon dam breaches they will get 90 minutes' warning before their properties could be flooded.Marlborough District Council assets and services manager Mark Wheeler said that in a worst-case scenario 44 properties in Seddon could be affected if floodwater flowed into Starborough Creek.
The dam, in Starborough Creek, is about 15 kilometres out of Seddon and is owned by Seddon farmer Dick Bell. He was advised to lower the level after the magnitude 6.5 quake on July 21, but after Friday's magnitude 6.6 quake and subsequent heavy rain, the council sent an engineer to supervise an emergency plan to lower the water level.
A dam engineer overseeing the site also identified more issues with the dam's stability during the process, which was slowed by heavy rain at the weekend.Nearby residents were warned and emergency services were on standby in Seddon because of the increased risk, Mr Wheeler said.
A warning note was delivered to each household yesterday afternoon informing the occupants of the Ceramic tile and the possibility they might be asked to leave their homes at short notice.Emergency services would go door to door evacuating properties if necessary, Mr Wheeler said.
Properties at risk included eight rural properties, 12 houses and up to 24 sections in Seddon township on the southeastern side of Starborough Creek. The engineer said extreme flooding was unlikely but the council decided it was in the public interest to be prepared, Mr Wheeler said. Crew member Pani Rarere, of Kaikoura, said lines were bent and rock-ballast was slumped along the track between Ward and Seddon.
A 3km section at Hauwai near Grassmere was especially hard hit, he said.A work train had delivered six wagons of rock-fill from Hapuku, near Kaikoura, to fill collapsed areas beneath the rails, he said. Another 12 wagons were expected.A tamping machine from Greymouth packed down the rock.
A broken bridge was temporarily fixed ahead of a specialist bridging gang from Blenheim building a replacement.Bruce Pattie, who farms at Hauwai, said immediately after the quake, the lines resembled roller-coaster tracks. One section had fallen off the embankment and a bridge was out.
He rang KiwiRail to make sure no trains were coming. A 22-year-old Seddon woman had a weekend of horror, experiencing a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Friday and then a bus crash on Sunday.
Micha Heard was travelling back to Palmerston North after spending a week with her family in the Awatere when the bus she was in crashed near Shannon.The former Marlborough Girls' College student had been staying with her parents in their Redwood Pass Rd home while on a study-break from her nursing studies at UCOL in Palmerston North.
She and her father were driving to Blenheim when the quake hit on Friday."People had stopped their Floor tiles and were checking their tyres," Miss Heard said.They carried on to Blenheim to check on her grandmother then drove home to help clean up the minor damage.
"It was just scary," she said."We ran outside every time there was an aftershock."After two days of being on unsteady ground, she caught the ferry back to Wellington on Sunday and got on a bus to Palmerston North along with 38 other passengers.
The bus was crossing a narrow bridge when the driver appeared to lose control, Miss Heard said."He seemed to click the bridge and then crashed into the grass gully," she said."Everyone was screaming, saying ‘we're going to crash'."Three people slammed on top of her as the bus veered off the road and tipped over at the northern entrance to Shannon.Miss Heard landed on the bottom and smashed her head on the glass window.
After struggling out from underneath the people piled on top of her, she climbed over the seat and helped some other passengers push the emergency window out.Apart from a big bump on her head and some bruising on her body, she was not seriously hurt, she said.
"I was shocked at what happened but I stayed calm," she said."Because I'd just been through the earthquakes, I think I was less worried."Those on board were taken by ambulance and police cars to the Club Hotel in Shannon, where a triage centre was set up by St John medics.Six people were taken to Palmerston North Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and were all discharged by yesterday.
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The QuadTech Color Quality Solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between in-line color control and off-line color measurement industry leaders.
QuadTech’s recently introduced Color Quality Solution is the world’s first in-line color and ink control for packaging presses. The solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between QuadTech’s in-line color measurement and off-line color measurement industry leader X-Rite. This enables a standard spectral color measurement from ink dispensing and printing stages. Comparisons of printed work with the original color information begin immediately and the Color Measurement System with SpectralCamTM shows real-time ?E, solid density and dot gain values via an operator touch screen.
QuadTech’s Color Measurement System with SpectralCam HD enables continuous, in-line monitoring of all packaging substrates, including challenging transparent, translucent and reflective films. It accurately measures the spectral response and calculates, and dot gain all at full press speeds, ensuring consistent results and minimal make-ready waste. The system also utilizes a web stabilizer unit that enables color measurement over a certified BCRA ceramic tile without risk of substrate corrugation.
Also available for the package printer is the Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic Register Guidance System, which is suitable for foil, film and paper, as well as for non-print processes such as die-cutting. Its unique scanning heads can detect a wide range of pale and low-contrast marks and are flexible to transition to any new production substrate.
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The dam, in Starborough Creek, is about 15 kilometres out of Seddon and is owned by Seddon farmer Dick Bell. He was advised to lower the level after the magnitude 6.5 quake on July 21, but after Friday's magnitude 6.6 quake and subsequent heavy rain, the council sent an engineer to supervise an emergency plan to lower the water level.
A dam engineer overseeing the site also identified more issues with the dam's stability during the process, which was slowed by heavy rain at the weekend.Nearby residents were warned and emergency services were on standby in Seddon because of the increased risk, Mr Wheeler said.
A warning note was delivered to each household yesterday afternoon informing the occupants of the Ceramic tile and the possibility they might be asked to leave their homes at short notice.Emergency services would go door to door evacuating properties if necessary, Mr Wheeler said.
Properties at risk included eight rural properties, 12 houses and up to 24 sections in Seddon township on the southeastern side of Starborough Creek. The engineer said extreme flooding was unlikely but the council decided it was in the public interest to be prepared, Mr Wheeler said. Crew member Pani Rarere, of Kaikoura, said lines were bent and rock-ballast was slumped along the track between Ward and Seddon.
A 3km section at Hauwai near Grassmere was especially hard hit, he said.A work train had delivered six wagons of rock-fill from Hapuku, near Kaikoura, to fill collapsed areas beneath the rails, he said. Another 12 wagons were expected.A tamping machine from Greymouth packed down the rock.
A broken bridge was temporarily fixed ahead of a specialist bridging gang from Blenheim building a replacement.Bruce Pattie, who farms at Hauwai, said immediately after the quake, the lines resembled roller-coaster tracks. One section had fallen off the embankment and a bridge was out.
He rang KiwiRail to make sure no trains were coming. A 22-year-old Seddon woman had a weekend of horror, experiencing a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Friday and then a bus crash on Sunday.
Micha Heard was travelling back to Palmerston North after spending a week with her family in the Awatere when the bus she was in crashed near Shannon.The former Marlborough Girls' College student had been staying with her parents in their Redwood Pass Rd home while on a study-break from her nursing studies at UCOL in Palmerston North.
She and her father were driving to Blenheim when the quake hit on Friday."People had stopped their Floor tiles and were checking their tyres," Miss Heard said.They carried on to Blenheim to check on her grandmother then drove home to help clean up the minor damage.
"It was just scary," she said."We ran outside every time there was an aftershock."After two days of being on unsteady ground, she caught the ferry back to Wellington on Sunday and got on a bus to Palmerston North along with 38 other passengers.
The bus was crossing a narrow bridge when the driver appeared to lose control, Miss Heard said."He seemed to click the bridge and then crashed into the grass gully," she said."Everyone was screaming, saying ‘we're going to crash'."Three people slammed on top of her as the bus veered off the road and tipped over at the northern entrance to Shannon.Miss Heard landed on the bottom and smashed her head on the glass window.
After struggling out from underneath the people piled on top of her, she climbed over the seat and helped some other passengers push the emergency window out.Apart from a big bump on her head and some bruising on her body, she was not seriously hurt, she said.
"I was shocked at what happened but I stayed calm," she said."Because I'd just been through the earthquakes, I think I was less worried."Those on board were taken by ambulance and police cars to the Club Hotel in Shannon, where a triage centre was set up by St John medics.Six people were taken to Palmerston North Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and were all discharged by yesterday.
QuadTech offers fully integrated solutions including register and ribbon control, color control, ink control, 100% web inspection and data management software for virtually all printing and converting situations. For example, QuadTech’s Inspection System has a modular architecture that enables the system to inspect at any resolution on a variety of substrate surfaces on any web width—regardless of whether a press is Gravure, Offset, Flexo or Digital. The system ensures 100% inspection on all print or non-print product, web or sheet, throughout the entire print run.
The QuadTech Color Quality Solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between in-line color control and off-line color measurement industry leaders.
QuadTech’s recently introduced Color Quality Solution is the world’s first in-line color and ink control for packaging presses. The solution enables automatic sharing and processing of color data between QuadTech’s in-line color measurement and off-line color measurement industry leader X-Rite. This enables a standard spectral color measurement from ink dispensing and printing stages. Comparisons of printed work with the original color information begin immediately and the Color Measurement System with SpectralCamTM shows real-time ?E, solid density and dot gain values via an operator touch screen.
QuadTech’s Color Measurement System with SpectralCam HD enables continuous, in-line monitoring of all packaging substrates, including challenging transparent, translucent and reflective films. It accurately measures the spectral response and calculates, and dot gain all at full press speeds, ensuring consistent results and minimal make-ready waste. The system also utilizes a web stabilizer unit that enables color measurement over a certified BCRA ceramic tile without risk of substrate corrugation.
Also available for the package printer is the Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic Register Guidance System, which is suitable for foil, film and paper, as well as for non-print processes such as die-cutting. Its unique scanning heads can detect a wide range of pale and low-contrast marks and are flexible to transition to any new production substrate.
Read the full products at http://www.tilees.com/!
2013年8月14日星期三
Outdoor Elegance Meets Cutting Edge Technology
If anything in the summer of 2013 points to still evolving homeowner expectations, it may be the frequency with which locals are integrating screen porches, patios, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens into original landscaping schemes that artfully marry the house to its setting.
Gone are the days of minimal outdoor improvements; today’s homeowners are inclined to stay put and express themselves — which is why the traditional house as we’ve known it is becoming more personalized — in short, a home.
“It’s a real renaissance,” said Craig Durosko founder and chairman of Sun Design Remodeling Specialists, and one of the housing industry’s more prescient trend spotters.
“Interestingly, when we started this company in the 1980s our core specialty was opening up views and creating visual continuum, so indoor/outdoor solutions are just a logical extension of what our culture has always been about.”
Asked about current projects, Durosko said that Fairfax County’s more affluent homeowners are actively seeking to better articulate the relationship of the house and polished tiles — an impulse which has gradually become a passion for outdoor spaces that can be used in both the hottest days of summer and fall’s chilly nights.
“Homeowners want outdoor rooms — spaces that are wired for entertainment, useable for seven or eight months of the year, and so easy to maintain that the usual repair and replacement tasks are mostly eliminated,” Durosko said. “Naturally, the changes must also enhance the home architecturally.”
To meet a rising criteria, Durosko and colleagues constantly stay on top of a new generation of weather-resistant materials, absorbing and applying fine building techniques that will shape non-traditional materials into designs perfectly suited to the home's style and setting.
Starting with a blank canvas — the unadorned rear elevation to a Georgian-style brick home in McLean — Parker imagined a six-sided pavilion, with 10-foot ceilings and sweeping vistas.
The structure would segue from the preexisting sunroom, courtesy of two sets of matching French doors. The white exterior trim is now crowned with a white balustrade visually connected to a columned “arbor trellis” that adds definition to the rear elevation. Since the high-ceiling interior the owners wanted precluded a conventional "pitched" roof — which would have obstructed a second floor window — Parker designed an inverted membrane ceiling that accommodates internal drainage tied into the existing underground system.
Rainspouts are concealed inside the trimmed porch columns and extended, unseen, along the ogee end "eagle head" trellis. The trellis “ends,” in turn, continue as a decorative motif around the top of the porch.
The overall design, as Parker envisioned, perfectly elaborates the home's classic architecture while spotlighting the impressive "English garden" that dominates the backyard. The existing barbecue grill remains steps from either the kitchen or the porch, but now there are multiple dining venues. From the porch, in fact, the owners can keep an eye on the pool when the children are playing.
The patchwork design of the English garden, the old, flagstone patio, the small pond with running water, the crepe myrtles along the property line — all give the setting a refined textural elegance.
“We think of an outdoor living plan is a creative response to an owner's personal requirements,” says Bob Gallagher, whose extensive design/build portfolio extends back some 25 years. “The important point is not how much of it is open or enclosed, but how well the whole supports a lifestyle in which exposure to nature is the primary goal.”
A recent dining decking plus sunroom solution in Oak Hill illustrates the point. After years of occupying a home custom-designed precisely to exploit a pretty wooded setting, the owners had decided they wanted a still stronger link to the outdoors. Low-maintenance was an essential ingredient, but they initially envisioned an “China ceramic tile,” free from insects — yet with dramatic views in all directions.
“They had looked at screen porches,” Gallagher said. “The idea was an enclosed space on the new dining deck. Something of a place apart. A transitional foot print between house and open air.”
At a glance, the resulting 10.5-foot by 12.5-foot sunroom is a neatly balanced space plan that seems neither closed nor overexposed to the elements. Floor-to-ceiling windows define the room on every elevation. Overhead, two skylights installed on a hipped roof allow 25 square feet of natural light. Ceramic tile flooring and other neutral finishes reinforce the natural, open ambiance, which is visually linked to the welcoming dining deck.
To preserve generous views on the existing rear elevation, Gallagher and team placed the sunroom directly off the kitchen to the left of the family room. Built-ins and a fireplace comfortably integrate the space to the existing interior. The room is a favored spot to watch the trees, and mostly opened-up for cross breezes on temperate days.
Since upkeep requirements were to be restricted to an annual pressure wash, even the sunroom's exterior paneling is low-maintenance Hardiboard. Trex decking, aluminum balusters and vinyl-clad posts further an outdoor design scheme that is also easy to maintain.
Sometimes Durosko's first call from a homeowner comes when some weather-exposed part of an existing house has conspicuously failed.
To repair the front facade of a Fairfax home, for instance, Durosko and team replaced a leaking flat roof portico with an architecturally-appropriate alternative that features a concave metal roof. In lieu of the original wood-trimmed front-window, the remodeler called for an aluminum-framed arch-topped window integrated with other exterior elements. For added weather-protection, new portico supports are trimmed in PVC.
Gone are the days of minimal outdoor improvements; today’s homeowners are inclined to stay put and express themselves — which is why the traditional house as we’ve known it is becoming more personalized — in short, a home.
“It’s a real renaissance,” said Craig Durosko founder and chairman of Sun Design Remodeling Specialists, and one of the housing industry’s more prescient trend spotters.
“Interestingly, when we started this company in the 1980s our core specialty was opening up views and creating visual continuum, so indoor/outdoor solutions are just a logical extension of what our culture has always been about.”
Asked about current projects, Durosko said that Fairfax County’s more affluent homeowners are actively seeking to better articulate the relationship of the house and polished tiles — an impulse which has gradually become a passion for outdoor spaces that can be used in both the hottest days of summer and fall’s chilly nights.
“Homeowners want outdoor rooms — spaces that are wired for entertainment, useable for seven or eight months of the year, and so easy to maintain that the usual repair and replacement tasks are mostly eliminated,” Durosko said. “Naturally, the changes must also enhance the home architecturally.”
To meet a rising criteria, Durosko and colleagues constantly stay on top of a new generation of weather-resistant materials, absorbing and applying fine building techniques that will shape non-traditional materials into designs perfectly suited to the home's style and setting.
Starting with a blank canvas — the unadorned rear elevation to a Georgian-style brick home in McLean — Parker imagined a six-sided pavilion, with 10-foot ceilings and sweeping vistas.
The structure would segue from the preexisting sunroom, courtesy of two sets of matching French doors. The white exterior trim is now crowned with a white balustrade visually connected to a columned “arbor trellis” that adds definition to the rear elevation. Since the high-ceiling interior the owners wanted precluded a conventional "pitched" roof — which would have obstructed a second floor window — Parker designed an inverted membrane ceiling that accommodates internal drainage tied into the existing underground system.
Rainspouts are concealed inside the trimmed porch columns and extended, unseen, along the ogee end "eagle head" trellis. The trellis “ends,” in turn, continue as a decorative motif around the top of the porch.
The overall design, as Parker envisioned, perfectly elaborates the home's classic architecture while spotlighting the impressive "English garden" that dominates the backyard. The existing barbecue grill remains steps from either the kitchen or the porch, but now there are multiple dining venues. From the porch, in fact, the owners can keep an eye on the pool when the children are playing.
The patchwork design of the English garden, the old, flagstone patio, the small pond with running water, the crepe myrtles along the property line — all give the setting a refined textural elegance.
“We think of an outdoor living plan is a creative response to an owner's personal requirements,” says Bob Gallagher, whose extensive design/build portfolio extends back some 25 years. “The important point is not how much of it is open or enclosed, but how well the whole supports a lifestyle in which exposure to nature is the primary goal.”
A recent dining decking plus sunroom solution in Oak Hill illustrates the point. After years of occupying a home custom-designed precisely to exploit a pretty wooded setting, the owners had decided they wanted a still stronger link to the outdoors. Low-maintenance was an essential ingredient, but they initially envisioned an “China ceramic tile,” free from insects — yet with dramatic views in all directions.
“They had looked at screen porches,” Gallagher said. “The idea was an enclosed space on the new dining deck. Something of a place apart. A transitional foot print between house and open air.”
At a glance, the resulting 10.5-foot by 12.5-foot sunroom is a neatly balanced space plan that seems neither closed nor overexposed to the elements. Floor-to-ceiling windows define the room on every elevation. Overhead, two skylights installed on a hipped roof allow 25 square feet of natural light. Ceramic tile flooring and other neutral finishes reinforce the natural, open ambiance, which is visually linked to the welcoming dining deck.
To preserve generous views on the existing rear elevation, Gallagher and team placed the sunroom directly off the kitchen to the left of the family room. Built-ins and a fireplace comfortably integrate the space to the existing interior. The room is a favored spot to watch the trees, and mostly opened-up for cross breezes on temperate days.
Since upkeep requirements were to be restricted to an annual pressure wash, even the sunroom's exterior paneling is low-maintenance Hardiboard. Trex decking, aluminum balusters and vinyl-clad posts further an outdoor design scheme that is also easy to maintain.
Sometimes Durosko's first call from a homeowner comes when some weather-exposed part of an existing house has conspicuously failed.
To repair the front facade of a Fairfax home, for instance, Durosko and team replaced a leaking flat roof portico with an architecturally-appropriate alternative that features a concave metal roof. In lieu of the original wood-trimmed front-window, the remodeler called for an aluminum-framed arch-topped window integrated with other exterior elements. For added weather-protection, new portico supports are trimmed in PVC.
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