Today, the "Lady in Blue" or "Blue Nun" or "Blue Lady of the Plains"
is on a path to canonization, a slow process that began shortly after
her death and may not end with Sister Maria de Agreda becoming Saint
Maria de Agreda. Only time will tell.
Nonetheless, because she
is said to have appeared to Native Americans in New Mexico while she
lived in a convent in northern Spain — a phenomenon called "bilocation" —
Maria de Agreda today remains a celebrity of sorts in and around
Mountainair. Besides being seen as an historical figure and a holy
woman, she is considered a potential economic boon for the town of
Mountainair.
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subscribe to that view. She is also one of many who is pushing and
planning for a new mural in Mountainair, a town already known for its
murals.
"For years, many people have been wondering how we can
get the town to prosper," she said this week. Last weekend, at an
organizational meeting at Mountain Arts, a number of supporters of the
mural project gathered to discuss how to move forward. Representatives
of the Manzano Mountain Arts Council,Are you looking for Optical frame,
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Monument put their heads together and listened to ideas in discussing
the development of the mural.
Plans call for the mural to grace
the west wall of the Abo Trading Co., at the intersection of state
Highways 55 and 60. Ravenstone described it as "a huge wall." The
central figure, of course, will be Sister Maria de Agreda, but will
include much more, especially a respectful picture of Native Americans
"whose role in all this is obviously huge," Ravenstone said.
Even
before the first brush stroke or ceramic tile hits the wall, the mural
is seen as a work of art that will attract tourists to the town and
help create a strong, economic base.
Another meeting is
scheduled for noon Feb. 9 at Mountain Arts. Tom? s Wolff, a prominent
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project," Wolff said. "We want to include as many people as possible,
and this is a really good one, with lots of support from different
sides of the community."
Sor Maria de Agreda, as she is
sometimes called, came out of a Franciscan background and philosophy,
Wolff said, one that believes in helping the community.
As a
producer, facilitator and organizer of the project, Wolff's job is to
get various artists to collaborate on the mural. And that, he jokes,
"is not always an easy job."
Even before moving to Mountainair
six or seven years ago and working on the town's murals, Wolff said, he
helped organize at least 20 murals in eastern Pennsylvania. He is also
an artist himself, specializing in clay and mosaics.
Wolff is
hoping work can get started on the mural within a month or so after the
February meeting. It will consist of paint and mosaics and be
completed on panels of Hardibacker, a commercial brand of cement board,
allowing much of the work to be done indoors. Once they are finished,
the panels will be attached to the outside wall, which at this point is
"adobe falling off of brick," he said.
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2013年1月31日星期四
Text for day four of Ministerial vetting
The education strategic plan is in place, and kindergarten is more
important than other levels of education, because the beginning is
important. Attaching preschool to primary is a new phenomenon, so we
need to work on further integration and importantly training personnel
to specialize in working at that level. In terms of the absence of
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available anywhere. they must want to teach and teach well.
Supervision is important. If all students at a school fail a test, that
tells us something about the quality of teachers there. I’ve explained
the lack of adequate personnel at the tertiary levels. Our graduate
students need more money to achieve international standards. We need to
use our resources to ensure quality. I have faith in our system.
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We are surrounded by French speaking countries and should take the language more seriously. That English is more widely spoken is not a good excuse. It fits into the issue of language acquisition. A child learning English in school and speaking a mother tongue at home. We need to build a strong language base and we need to improve our methodology. I had a nephew learning French prepositions in JHS, and because they entered into technicalities too early in the instruction, he lost interest. This may account for the lack of interest in math and science as well. We need to rebrand technical training, people must want to do it as their first choice. Regarding the use of transfers as a disciplinary measure, it will not solve any problems, it only sends the problem to plague another school. The school should be a welcoming environment. Prayers can even be offered in such a way as to marginalize no religion. When we decide to have even Sunday or Makarata schools, we must see that students are enabled and encouraged to gain personal skills.
Baba Jamal suggested that she has done so well in her answers, she must have had consultants. There was laughter and the chair called the comment out of order. What do you think about French learning in this country? Our neighbors are all francophones,The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking. but as a country we haven’t taken the language seriously. What about technical schools whose shortcomings disadvantage their students? There are teachers who involve themselves in bad practices and are simply transferred as punishment. What do you think about this? Can we have an arrangement whereby rural teachers make more money than urban ones? Is it possible? There is a controversy about religious discrimination in schools, especially against Muslim students and especially in church schools. Will you ensure that all churches treat all students equally regardless of religious affiliation? We have about 270000 teachers in this country. With such a huge number, can’t we have a system whereby some money for teachers can be put into a special welfare fund for teachers who will retire instead of depending on a meager pension?
The person shouldn’t have gotten pregnant but she did. Life goes on, and now that she has a dependent, she should return to school. But we must help our daughters to delay parenthood, to let their bodies grow before they grow someone else in their bodies. Adolescent reproductive health is important, and they must understand why it makes no sense to rush into this. These children are not being fair to themselves or their parents, but if she wants to return to school, she should go to a school other than the one she attended when she became pregnant so that she is not discriminated against by her classmates and distracted from her studies. These girls do not understand how significantly this disrupts their lives, they should not fall prey to this unnecessary pressure. I have heard of sex for grades, but it’s not an overriding thing at the universities, it’s a rare exception to the rule but that doesn’t make it right. These ladies are smart and don’t need anyone’s bribery. If they study, it’s easy to pass. It depends on their own efforts. The idea of scholarship and fairness go down the drain with this practice. No one should have to do something they don’t want to to get ahead in life. The satisfaction is knowing that you tried, this is what you were able to do, and you can learn and grow through your experience.
Regarding unaccredited universities, we have a duty to educate the public on which institutions are accredited and we must stop the operation of illegal institutions. I’d like to see the National Accreditation Board better empowered to do their job. In terms of ranking, we’d obviously like our universities to be rated higher internationally, but the problem is a lack of resources. The average lecturer has to teach far too many students. What magic can they perform, especially when for lack of space, some students can’t even sit inside the classroom. We don’t have enough lecturers who are willing to spend those long years pursuing a Ph.D. and then go on to teach.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. We need to aggressively recruit quality educators, pay to get them trained and then incentivize them to come back. We should also improve our domestic training programs because we spend too much sending an educator abroad for training when that money could educate more lecturers here in Ghana. In terms of labor relations, we simply need advocacy and dialogue. We must be able to sit down and talk, so let’s start there and see where it gets us. We must make good on our promises too, because we set our own deadlines for a reason. We all need to talk about NAT and NAGRAT. In terms of social justice, that’s one thing that attracted me to this job, because education plays a role in ensuring security and social justice, especially basic education. It’s about skills, but just as much about tolerance, respect, and the teaching of peace. And the law does not allow students to be sacked from a school over fees. A headmaster who must feed a student who hasn’t paid should be resourced so that the need to sack the student doesn’t arise.
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We are surrounded by French speaking countries and should take the language more seriously. That English is more widely spoken is not a good excuse. It fits into the issue of language acquisition. A child learning English in school and speaking a mother tongue at home. We need to build a strong language base and we need to improve our methodology. I had a nephew learning French prepositions in JHS, and because they entered into technicalities too early in the instruction, he lost interest. This may account for the lack of interest in math and science as well. We need to rebrand technical training, people must want to do it as their first choice. Regarding the use of transfers as a disciplinary measure, it will not solve any problems, it only sends the problem to plague another school. The school should be a welcoming environment. Prayers can even be offered in such a way as to marginalize no religion. When we decide to have even Sunday or Makarata schools, we must see that students are enabled and encouraged to gain personal skills.
Baba Jamal suggested that she has done so well in her answers, she must have had consultants. There was laughter and the chair called the comment out of order. What do you think about French learning in this country? Our neighbors are all francophones,The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking. but as a country we haven’t taken the language seriously. What about technical schools whose shortcomings disadvantage their students? There are teachers who involve themselves in bad practices and are simply transferred as punishment. What do you think about this? Can we have an arrangement whereby rural teachers make more money than urban ones? Is it possible? There is a controversy about religious discrimination in schools, especially against Muslim students and especially in church schools. Will you ensure that all churches treat all students equally regardless of religious affiliation? We have about 270000 teachers in this country. With such a huge number, can’t we have a system whereby some money for teachers can be put into a special welfare fund for teachers who will retire instead of depending on a meager pension?
The person shouldn’t have gotten pregnant but she did. Life goes on, and now that she has a dependent, she should return to school. But we must help our daughters to delay parenthood, to let their bodies grow before they grow someone else in their bodies. Adolescent reproductive health is important, and they must understand why it makes no sense to rush into this. These children are not being fair to themselves or their parents, but if she wants to return to school, she should go to a school other than the one she attended when she became pregnant so that she is not discriminated against by her classmates and distracted from her studies. These girls do not understand how significantly this disrupts their lives, they should not fall prey to this unnecessary pressure. I have heard of sex for grades, but it’s not an overriding thing at the universities, it’s a rare exception to the rule but that doesn’t make it right. These ladies are smart and don’t need anyone’s bribery. If they study, it’s easy to pass. It depends on their own efforts. The idea of scholarship and fairness go down the drain with this practice. No one should have to do something they don’t want to to get ahead in life. The satisfaction is knowing that you tried, this is what you were able to do, and you can learn and grow through your experience.
Regarding unaccredited universities, we have a duty to educate the public on which institutions are accredited and we must stop the operation of illegal institutions. I’d like to see the National Accreditation Board better empowered to do their job. In terms of ranking, we’d obviously like our universities to be rated higher internationally, but the problem is a lack of resources. The average lecturer has to teach far too many students. What magic can they perform, especially when for lack of space, some students can’t even sit inside the classroom. We don’t have enough lecturers who are willing to spend those long years pursuing a Ph.D. and then go on to teach.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. We need to aggressively recruit quality educators, pay to get them trained and then incentivize them to come back. We should also improve our domestic training programs because we spend too much sending an educator abroad for training when that money could educate more lecturers here in Ghana. In terms of labor relations, we simply need advocacy and dialogue. We must be able to sit down and talk, so let’s start there and see where it gets us. We must make good on our promises too, because we set our own deadlines for a reason. We all need to talk about NAT and NAGRAT. In terms of social justice, that’s one thing that attracted me to this job, because education plays a role in ensuring security and social justice, especially basic education. It’s about skills, but just as much about tolerance, respect, and the teaching of peace. And the law does not allow students to be sacked from a school over fees. A headmaster who must feed a student who hasn’t paid should be resourced so that the need to sack the student doesn’t arise.
'Boneheaded move'
The leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party says the
Liberal government’s decision to pause the conversion of the Thunder Bay
Power Generating Station from coal to natural gas is a “boneheaded”
move.
Tim Hudak on Thursday said he met with Mayor Keith Hobbs and understands why convincing the province to reconsider the decision is Hobbs’ No. 1 priority.
“If we want to actually create jobs in the province, and we’re looking at the potential of nine new mines coming on stream in the area, we’re going to need affordable power,” Hudak said.
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The energy program is too expensive, he added, with subsidies for wind and solar power projects upping the cost of traditional electricity sources.
Hudak, who said he presented an economic plan to incoming premier Kathleen Wynne, plans to take a wait-and-see approach on forcing an election. If she listens and is willing to incorporate Conservative suggestions, he said he’s willing to work with the Liberals to make government work. But if she takes a different approach, it’ll be up to the voters to decide.
He said he fears Northwestern Ontario could be on the outside looking if the Liberals remain in power, despite being represented by a pair of MPPs at Queen’s Park.
He pledged to create more jobs and balance the province’s books, which Hudak deemed the two most important issues to Northern Ontario voters.
“You see in the other two parties, quite frankly, this mentality that seems to say that the downtown Toronto environmental groups call the shots when it comes to economic policy. I think that’s wrong. I want to see a Northwestern Ontario that’s creating jobs empowering our province, not slipping.”
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At the last council meeting of 2012, aldermen looked at the four bids submitted for the project. P.J.Meyers’ bid was for $6,899; Woodruff Service, LLC bid $7,950; John Eaton bid $5,850; and Larry Harmon bid $5,300. The two lowest bidders did not provide certificates of liability or workers compensation insurance and therefore were disqualified from the bidding process.
City Comptroller Jennifer Basham pointed out that the cost was much higher than expected. “This is very over budget,” she said. “It’s about $3,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.500 too much. I see a lot of cuts in the parks (budget) future to do this project, but it’s something that needs to be done before someone gets hurt up there.”
Mayor Terry Palmer agreed that the project was needed, noting that the structure was a liability for the city.
Alderman Dave Hatcher made a motion to accept P.J. Meyers’ bid, but his counterpart Beckham questioned whether the city employees could to the job instead. “Is that out of the question,” Beckham asked. “This is way more than we had anticipated.”
“The only concern I have is what happens if they get called away on more than one occasion,” Alderman Mike Pounds said. “I’d hate to have half a building standing there.”
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As Meyers was at the meeting, he informed the council that an asbestos inspection was a requirement before the structure could be demolished and noted that he had some concern about the floor tile in the old home.
Tim Hudak on Thursday said he met with Mayor Keith Hobbs and understands why convincing the province to reconsider the decision is Hobbs’ No. 1 priority.
“If we want to actually create jobs in the province, and we’re looking at the potential of nine new mines coming on stream in the area, we’re going to need affordable power,” Hudak said.
“Here’s what I’m worried about. I’m worried that the cancellation of the gas plants down in Mississauga and in Oakville, the billion dollars that it’s going to cost,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. I’m worried Thunder Bay is paying the price for this cancellation.”
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“Let’s be clear about this,” the 45-year-old Hudak said. “Mining, forestry, manufacturing, they’ve always been strengths in this province. They’ve helped us build this great province of Ontario. But we have to have formal energy to move forward. And I’m really concerned that I’ve seen places pack up and go to Quebec and into the States.”
The energy program is too expensive, he added, with subsidies for wind and solar power projects upping the cost of traditional electricity sources.
Hudak, who said he presented an economic plan to incoming premier Kathleen Wynne, plans to take a wait-and-see approach on forcing an election. If she listens and is willing to incorporate Conservative suggestions, he said he’s willing to work with the Liberals to make government work. But if she takes a different approach, it’ll be up to the voters to decide.
He said he fears Northwestern Ontario could be on the outside looking if the Liberals remain in power, despite being represented by a pair of MPPs at Queen’s Park.
He pledged to create more jobs and balance the province’s books, which Hudak deemed the two most important issues to Northern Ontario voters.
“You see in the other two parties, quite frankly, this mentality that seems to say that the downtown Toronto environmental groups call the shots when it comes to economic policy. I think that’s wrong. I want to see a Northwestern Ontario that’s creating jobs empowering our province, not slipping.”
The Conservative leader also touched on gridlock at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, a problem that has plagued the facility since its earliest days.
Hudak said the health care system is too top heavy, and promised to alleviate the problem,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. using the savings to provide the care patients need.
“We’re throwing way too many dollars into administration. Nobody seems to make decisions. We laid out a plan in Paths to Prosperity that’s going to take the administration and put it into front-line services, and actually reward the hospitals, doctors and nurses that are doing a good job out there.”
Aldermen had agreed that the structure needed to be demolished last year, due to its poor condition. Alderman Terry Beckham had made the recommendation on behalf of the city’s museum committee in March of 2012. Work to remove items from the place took close to six months and in November, the city council agreed to seek bids for the removal of the old house that had served as the museum in the Hoppe Springs Park.
At the last council meeting of 2012, aldermen looked at the four bids submitted for the project. P.J.Meyers’ bid was for $6,899; Woodruff Service, LLC bid $7,950; John Eaton bid $5,850; and Larry Harmon bid $5,300. The two lowest bidders did not provide certificates of liability or workers compensation insurance and therefore were disqualified from the bidding process.
City Comptroller Jennifer Basham pointed out that the cost was much higher than expected. “This is very over budget,” she said. “It’s about $3,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.500 too much. I see a lot of cuts in the parks (budget) future to do this project, but it’s something that needs to be done before someone gets hurt up there.”
Mayor Terry Palmer agreed that the project was needed, noting that the structure was a liability for the city.
Alderman Dave Hatcher made a motion to accept P.J. Meyers’ bid, but his counterpart Beckham questioned whether the city employees could to the job instead. “Is that out of the question,” Beckham asked. “This is way more than we had anticipated.”
“The only concern I have is what happens if they get called away on more than one occasion,” Alderman Mike Pounds said. “I’d hate to have half a building standing there.”
But Hatcher didn’t like the idea of asking for bids, but then deciding against the work. “I’m not against our own crew doing things.The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking. But I don’t think it’s right to put out these bids and then say we’re going to do it ourselves. I don’t think that’s ethical.”
Although Beckham reiterated he hadn’t thought the project would be so costly, Pounds seconded Hatcher’s motion and the vote passed, awarding the bid to Meyers.
As Meyers was at the meeting, he informed the council that an asbestos inspection was a requirement before the structure could be demolished and noted that he had some concern about the floor tile in the old home.
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Busier lifestyles, longer working hours and a hectic home life have
led to many couples spending less time together but according to NITB
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“With so many demands on our attention nowadays, couples find it increasingly difficult to capture quality time together,” said Pauline Gormley, NITB’s Destination PR Officer.
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Discover another side of Northern Ireland by exploring the underwater world with Aquaholics. Meet your guide in the dive centre in Portstewart to be fitted out with diving equipment before being led to the water’s edge where the adventure will begin.
Learn how to negotiate the urban landscape during an Urban Mountain Biking course with Far and Wild in Co. Londonderry. If you’ve ever struggled with kerbs or you’re too nervous to try a set of steps then this fun-filled session is perfect and you’ll get to see the sights of the walled city on your journey.
Go navigating in the Mourne Mountains with Tollymore National Outdoor Centre and learn how to map read, route plan and use the required equipment. This course is for those people that are new to hill walking and want a gentle introduction to the basic skills and equipment.
Discover the mystical waterways of Northern Ireland on a one day beginner’s canoe course with your partner at Life Adventure Centre in Annalong. With the aid of skilled coaches you will enjoy a guided trip of the local area and develop the basics of canoeing.
There is no better place to learn how to cook than Belle Isle Cookery School, the ultimate destination for food lovers. Discover the delights of cooking modern cuisine in the stunning Lakelands of Fermanagh. The school offers many classes in different cuisines including Italian, Chinese and Thai as well as traditional Irish food. A four-week diploma programme as well as one day courses and evening demonstrations are all available at Belle Isle.We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.
Nestled in the heart of Belfast city centre is the Belfast Cookery School which offers a range of courses for everyone including those donning an apron for the first time. The school has 16 fully equipped, individual cooking stations with many different courses on offer including a seafood master class, Thai cookery, bread making and family baking classes.
The James Street South Cookery School in Belfast opened its doors in 2011 and is the perfect place to learn how to entertain effortlessly. The classes are suited to all skill levels and cover a wide range of cuisines including fish, Italian, curry and French bistro food.
Learn how to make delicious three course dinners at the Orange Tree House Cookery School in Newtownards. Designed with both the experienced cook and beginners in mind, the classes are informal and the menu can be easily recreated in your own home.
Why not learn a new skill together at The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast which offers a wide range of beginner and advanced language classes in Italian, French, Japanese and Russian. As well as languages, the centre has a full programme of various classes and workshops such as Burlesque dancing, African drumming, singing for adults and graffiti workshops.
If you are aged 50 plus and want to find an enjoyable way to get active together then why not join the Body Wisdom classes by the Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company in Co. Londonderry. The movement style is very relaxed and exploratory and each participant will follow their own imagination to create movement.
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Expand your minds together and join the Linen Hall Library’s reading group to debate and discuss the chosen title for the month. Admission is free and the group meets on the last Thursday of each month.
When it comes to picture perfect scenery you are spoilt for choice in Northern Ireland. Escape with your loved one to Tyrone on a painting break with artist and tutor Dermot Cavanagh who teaches all levels of artistic ability. Develop your painting skills during a one, two or three day course and learn how to create a splendid watercolour.
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The Island Arts Centre in Lisburn runs various courses throughout the year for anyone interested in arts and crafts. There’s sure to be something for all in its wide variety of classes including dressmaking, painting, pottery and textile art classes.
“With so many demands on our attention nowadays, couples find it increasingly difficult to capture quality time together,” said Pauline Gormley, NITB’s Destination PR Officer.
“It’s the perfect time of year for couples to discover something new about your local region or learn a new skill together,” she continued.
“There is so much to do on a Date NIght in Northern Ireland to suit all types of couples from canoeing to cooking and pottery making to burlesque dancing.
“Whatever your taste may be, and whether you only have a few hours to spare or a full weekend, there will be an activity or place for you and your loved one to enjoy quality time together,” she added.
To help get you started, NITB has put together some suggestions to suit all different types of Date NIghts:
Couples with a sense of adventure can canoe to a deserted island, build your own shelter and cook your dinner over an open fire in the ‘Become Bear Grylls’ adventure package with Four Elements Adventure in Omagh.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. The guides will ensure you get to the island safely before giving you materials, tools and ideas for you to build your own outdoor shelter before its time to cook and chow down.
Discover another side of Northern Ireland by exploring the underwater world with Aquaholics. Meet your guide in the dive centre in Portstewart to be fitted out with diving equipment before being led to the water’s edge where the adventure will begin.
Learn how to negotiate the urban landscape during an Urban Mountain Biking course with Far and Wild in Co. Londonderry. If you’ve ever struggled with kerbs or you’re too nervous to try a set of steps then this fun-filled session is perfect and you’ll get to see the sights of the walled city on your journey.
Go navigating in the Mourne Mountains with Tollymore National Outdoor Centre and learn how to map read, route plan and use the required equipment. This course is for those people that are new to hill walking and want a gentle introduction to the basic skills and equipment.
Discover the mystical waterways of Northern Ireland on a one day beginner’s canoe course with your partner at Life Adventure Centre in Annalong. With the aid of skilled coaches you will enjoy a guided trip of the local area and develop the basics of canoeing.
There is no better place to learn how to cook than Belle Isle Cookery School, the ultimate destination for food lovers. Discover the delights of cooking modern cuisine in the stunning Lakelands of Fermanagh. The school offers many classes in different cuisines including Italian, Chinese and Thai as well as traditional Irish food. A four-week diploma programme as well as one day courses and evening demonstrations are all available at Belle Isle.We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.
Nestled in the heart of Belfast city centre is the Belfast Cookery School which offers a range of courses for everyone including those donning an apron for the first time. The school has 16 fully equipped, individual cooking stations with many different courses on offer including a seafood master class, Thai cookery, bread making and family baking classes.
The James Street South Cookery School in Belfast opened its doors in 2011 and is the perfect place to learn how to entertain effortlessly. The classes are suited to all skill levels and cover a wide range of cuisines including fish, Italian, curry and French bistro food.
Learn how to make delicious three course dinners at the Orange Tree House Cookery School in Newtownards. Designed with both the experienced cook and beginners in mind, the classes are informal and the menu can be easily recreated in your own home.
Why not learn a new skill together at The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast which offers a wide range of beginner and advanced language classes in Italian, French, Japanese and Russian. As well as languages, the centre has a full programme of various classes and workshops such as Burlesque dancing, African drumming, singing for adults and graffiti workshops.
If you are aged 50 plus and want to find an enjoyable way to get active together then why not join the Body Wisdom classes by the Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company in Co. Londonderry. The movement style is very relaxed and exploratory and each participant will follow their own imagination to create movement.
If you love photography then why not brush up on your technical and practical skills with a photography courses at Belfast Exposed.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. The courses are open to people from all backgrounds and levels and include introductory photography, portrait photography, street photography and one to one tuition.
Expand your minds together and join the Linen Hall Library’s reading group to debate and discuss the chosen title for the month. Admission is free and the group meets on the last Thursday of each month.
When it comes to picture perfect scenery you are spoilt for choice in Northern Ireland. Escape with your loved one to Tyrone on a painting break with artist and tutor Dermot Cavanagh who teaches all levels of artistic ability. Develop your painting skills during a one, two or three day course and learn how to create a splendid watercolour.
Get a real hands-on creative experience with Ballydougan Pottery at the picturesque Bloomvale House in Craigavon.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. Learn how to paint a pot, hand-build with clay or throw on the Potter’s Wheel with a range of classes to suit individual needs.Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter.
The Island Arts Centre in Lisburn runs various courses throughout the year for anyone interested in arts and crafts. There’s sure to be something for all in its wide variety of classes including dressmaking, painting, pottery and textile art classes.
2013年1月30日星期三
An inside tour of the MassDOT
MIT students frequently use the T and other MassDOT transit systems;
since 2010, our IDs even come with a built-in Charlie Card chip. But
most students are unfamiliar with the inner workings of the transit
system. I was excited to take advantage of one of the opportunities
offered this IAP and take a tour of several MassDOT (Massachusetts
Department of Transportation) facilities, including an underground
ventilation tunnel system, bus operator training school, and the
organizational headquarters for the T.
MassDOT offers variations of this tour every other week to Boston residents. The locations on the tour change based on weather. Ethan Feuer, Student Activities Coordinator for the MIT Energy Initiative, organized the tour for twenty five students in order to learn more about large infrastructures and emergency preparedness in cities.
Our tour was led by two MassDOT veterans, Adam Hurtubise, Assistant to the Highway Administrator at Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and Darrin McAuliffe, Director of Communications and Coordination.
We boarded our privately-chartered MBTA bus and departed for our first stop: bus driver training school. Driving a 40 or 60-foot bus through the crowded streets of Boston is no easy task. The rigorous training program accepts applicants with a Certified Driver’s License permit, and begins testing them only eight days later to determine if they will qualify to become a bus operator. For their final exam, students must complete a serpentine maneuver, back up in a straight line, parallel park, and drive through the streets to the satisfaction of their examiner.
As part of the training program, students are introduced to the feeling of the bus driver’s seat in a simulator. We were able to give the simulator a whirl. When I first entered the simulator cab, I was surprised by the size of the steering wheel.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. Making tight turns with the bus required not only excellent timing but also rapid spinning of the wheel. The size of the bus and the seemingly countless rearview mirrors were disorienting and meant I was never entirely sure where the back of my simulated bus was. I successfully right-turned and merged into traffic, only to hit a taxi seconds later as I tried to pull over to the bus stop.
The bus instructors entertained themselves by introducing obstacles, such as ambulances and elderly pedestrians, into the simulated roadway, and by turning the roads icy or making it snow in the view screen. During one particularly unfortunate drive,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? they caused a boulder to roll into the middle of the road. After struggling with the simulator, I am much more impressed by the MBTA drivers’ ability to maneuver these behemoths.
The next stop on our tour was Vent Building 4, one of 13 major ventilation buildings located throughout Boston. These buildings take in fresh air from above ground, pump it into roadway tunnels, and expel the exhaust-filled air from within the tunnel. This system is key to keeping the MassDOT Central Artery roadway tunnel system pleasant to drive through, and safe from smoke buildup in case of a fire.
Many vent buildings are built into pre-existing buildings, including the upscale Intercontinental Hotel. Vent buildings can be identified by the large vents on the side of them, but the vents are designed to be inconspicuous and the building interiors are mostly unaffected. You might never guess that the basements of such buildings house several-story-high fans, backup generators and batteries, and tunnels that connect most of the city of Boston.
We visited the Haymarket T station vent building. Before beginning this part of our tour, they outfitted us in outrageous orange hard hats and vests, because we were going to see “live traffic coming at us.”
According to Hurtubise, the Haymarket building has so much basement space that it is deeper underground than it is high. We took an elevator down into a chilly series of rooms made entirely of cement and lined with pump machinery and gauges (in case of “water infiltration,” said our guides), wandered past two large 8- and 12-cylinder diesel generators, which the city keeps in order to light the traffic tunnels in case of a power outage, through rooms containing large arrays of backup batteries in case the generators fail, until we came to a flight of stairs leading further down. The ceilings were very high, and at this point, we began to suspect the basements were even colder than the frigid 15 degree air at ground level.
“Congratulations,” said McAuliffe, as he directed us into an enormous room with fans the size of the MIT chapel lined up on one side, “you’ve found the coldest place in Boston.”
We were in the supply plenum of the vent building. Every vent building has a supply and exhaust plenum. The supply plenum is full of fans to suck fresh air into the building. In the Haymarket plenum, we could stand in the center, look directly up, and see straight out of the skylight at the top of the building. We also visited the exhaust plenum, which was much darker, creepier, and more damaging to the lungs.
Our guides assured us the levels of carbon monoxide within the car tunnels are continuously monitored to maintain a safe level. The vent system can also react to smoke from a car fire by pressurizing one part of the tunnel more than the other in order to dispel the smoke.
While in the plenum, our guides showed us a place where the room narrowed into a car-size tunnel. They explained such tunnels connect most of the vent buildings together, meaning you can travel across Boston via them, in a similar way to traveling through the MIT tunnels, although perhaps not quite as luxurious. Sometimes, said Hurtubise, the tunnels get so narrow you have to crawl. The vent building also connects directly to the car tunnel it ventilates. So, it was time for us to see some “live traffic.”
Our guides opened a door which led to a narrow concrete platform in one of Boston’s car tunnels. I had seen maintenance doors countless times in traffic tunnels, but never imagined what was on the other side. From our position, we could look down to see cars driving through the tunnels and feel the freshly ventilated air blow into our faces.
At the ventilation building, we visited one of the emergency systems MassDOT has in place in case of superstorms like Hurricane Sandy. The low-point pump room, the deepest part of the building, deals with any flooding that may occur in that section of the tunnels. We could see evidence of the most severe flood experienced in Vent Building 4: a water mark about three feet high on the walls. According to our guides, MassDOT is unsure of how its systems would be affected by a sudden rise in water level, such as Hurricane Sandy caused in New York, and is currently conducting a study on how much their infrastructure could handle.
By now, we were ready to warm up and feel our extremities again, so we proceeded to the MassDOT Highway Operations Center. This office, housed on the second story of an inconspicuous office building, resulted from the merger of Massachusetts Highway Authority and the Turnpike Authority, which occurred during the formation of MassDOT in 2009.
Most of the office was a single large room that resembled spy headquarters from an action movie. The back wall of the office displayed multiple video feeds from some of the 900 video cameras dispersed along the Massachusetts highway system.
The Highway Operations Center monitors the video feeds with help from computer algorithms to identify traffic accidents and provide emergency responders with exact location and visual information. The cameras employ an accident-finding algorithm, which triggers an alert when one camera shows non-moving tail-lights, which means the camera is viewing the back-up behind an accident, or when a camera shows no traffic at all, which means the camera is trained on the roadway in front of an accident.
The manager of the operations center, Michael Fitzpatrick, shared stories with us about incidents the office handles. The center has over-height vehicle detection systems, which alert when a truck that is too tall for a tunnel is en route to pass through it. They respond by flashing warnings on digital signs on the side of the road. Fitzpatrick said once a driver ignored the warnings and scraped a video camera off the tunnel ceiling. Police followed him in order to retrieve the camera, which was dangling from the back of his trailer.
Being MIT students, we were especially interested to learn more about their computing systems. Another unique algorithm the Highway Operations Center developed works like the Google Maps traffic feature to track the speed of traffic. Sensors identify bluetooth devices in vehicles,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. mainly cell-phones, and record how long it takes the devices to go from checkpoint to checkpoint. Fitzpatrick explained the color coding on the traffic map. Since it was the middle of the day, most roadways were green; amusingly some stretches were blue, indicating the average car speed was above the posted speed limit.
Although the Highway Operations Center uses some clever algorithms,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. several issues from the merger remain. According to Fitzpatrick, many of their monitoring and data-collection systems run on different platforms, so they do not communicate with each other.
Our final stop on the tour continued to indulge our tech-oriented sides. We parked our bus outside of a inconspicuous office building. Most passerby did not give the building a second glance, but the security guard in the foyer made us realize this building was important.
“No one really knows where this building is,” said Hurtubise. “We don’t advertise it.”
We were inside the MBTA Operations Control Center, home to the logistics departments responsible for deploying T trains and MBTA buses. The operations centers for these two transit systems were located on separate floors.
In the bus headquarters, we learned more about the role of MBTA buses. They respond to emergency situations, such as building evacuations or natural disasters, by providing buses for shelter or egress. Employees in this office were responsible for tracking the location of buses and making calls to drivers to keep them within five minutes of schedule.
The T train operations center looked like the command center from a sci-fi ship. All the walls were painted black, employees sat at computers arranged on terraced platforms facing the front wall of the room. On this wall a huge projected graphic depicted the train lines, stops, and trains currently on the track.
This tour left me amazed the with amount of detail MassDOT manages every day and great respect for its employees. Feuer called it a “wonderful” and “holistic” tour which covered many aspects of the MassDOT system.
This is the first time the MIT Energy Initiative has organized such a tour with MassDOT. The tour fit in well with this month’s theme at the Energy Initiative,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. “Preparing for Climate Variability.”
Due to the New York subway shut-down in the aftermath of Sandy, Feuer wanted to find out how prepared Massachusetts’ transportation systems are for such an event.
Feuer said he was pleased by the feedback he received from both students and our tour guides, and, luckily for the many students on this tour’s waitlist, he hopes to do more tours in the future.
“One student said it was a real highlight of his seven years at MIT,” said Feuer, “and Adam [Hurtubise] has told me we were the best group, that people are telling him we brought our A game.”
This tour was a unique opportunity for students. As Feuer put it, “rarely do we get to see the underpinnings of public transit” and the “engineering marvels” involved.
MassDOT offers variations of this tour every other week to Boston residents. The locations on the tour change based on weather. Ethan Feuer, Student Activities Coordinator for the MIT Energy Initiative, organized the tour for twenty five students in order to learn more about large infrastructures and emergency preparedness in cities.
Our tour was led by two MassDOT veterans, Adam Hurtubise, Assistant to the Highway Administrator at Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and Darrin McAuliffe, Director of Communications and Coordination.
We boarded our privately-chartered MBTA bus and departed for our first stop: bus driver training school. Driving a 40 or 60-foot bus through the crowded streets of Boston is no easy task. The rigorous training program accepts applicants with a Certified Driver’s License permit, and begins testing them only eight days later to determine if they will qualify to become a bus operator. For their final exam, students must complete a serpentine maneuver, back up in a straight line, parallel park, and drive through the streets to the satisfaction of their examiner.
As part of the training program, students are introduced to the feeling of the bus driver’s seat in a simulator. We were able to give the simulator a whirl. When I first entered the simulator cab, I was surprised by the size of the steering wheel.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. Making tight turns with the bus required not only excellent timing but also rapid spinning of the wheel. The size of the bus and the seemingly countless rearview mirrors were disorienting and meant I was never entirely sure where the back of my simulated bus was. I successfully right-turned and merged into traffic, only to hit a taxi seconds later as I tried to pull over to the bus stop.
The bus instructors entertained themselves by introducing obstacles, such as ambulances and elderly pedestrians, into the simulated roadway, and by turning the roads icy or making it snow in the view screen. During one particularly unfortunate drive,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? they caused a boulder to roll into the middle of the road. After struggling with the simulator, I am much more impressed by the MBTA drivers’ ability to maneuver these behemoths.
The next stop on our tour was Vent Building 4, one of 13 major ventilation buildings located throughout Boston. These buildings take in fresh air from above ground, pump it into roadway tunnels, and expel the exhaust-filled air from within the tunnel. This system is key to keeping the MassDOT Central Artery roadway tunnel system pleasant to drive through, and safe from smoke buildup in case of a fire.
Many vent buildings are built into pre-existing buildings, including the upscale Intercontinental Hotel. Vent buildings can be identified by the large vents on the side of them, but the vents are designed to be inconspicuous and the building interiors are mostly unaffected. You might never guess that the basements of such buildings house several-story-high fans, backup generators and batteries, and tunnels that connect most of the city of Boston.
We visited the Haymarket T station vent building. Before beginning this part of our tour, they outfitted us in outrageous orange hard hats and vests, because we were going to see “live traffic coming at us.”
According to Hurtubise, the Haymarket building has so much basement space that it is deeper underground than it is high. We took an elevator down into a chilly series of rooms made entirely of cement and lined with pump machinery and gauges (in case of “water infiltration,” said our guides), wandered past two large 8- and 12-cylinder diesel generators, which the city keeps in order to light the traffic tunnels in case of a power outage, through rooms containing large arrays of backup batteries in case the generators fail, until we came to a flight of stairs leading further down. The ceilings were very high, and at this point, we began to suspect the basements were even colder than the frigid 15 degree air at ground level.
“Congratulations,” said McAuliffe, as he directed us into an enormous room with fans the size of the MIT chapel lined up on one side, “you’ve found the coldest place in Boston.”
We were in the supply plenum of the vent building. Every vent building has a supply and exhaust plenum. The supply plenum is full of fans to suck fresh air into the building. In the Haymarket plenum, we could stand in the center, look directly up, and see straight out of the skylight at the top of the building. We also visited the exhaust plenum, which was much darker, creepier, and more damaging to the lungs.
Our guides assured us the levels of carbon monoxide within the car tunnels are continuously monitored to maintain a safe level. The vent system can also react to smoke from a car fire by pressurizing one part of the tunnel more than the other in order to dispel the smoke.
While in the plenum, our guides showed us a place where the room narrowed into a car-size tunnel. They explained such tunnels connect most of the vent buildings together, meaning you can travel across Boston via them, in a similar way to traveling through the MIT tunnels, although perhaps not quite as luxurious. Sometimes, said Hurtubise, the tunnels get so narrow you have to crawl. The vent building also connects directly to the car tunnel it ventilates. So, it was time for us to see some “live traffic.”
Our guides opened a door which led to a narrow concrete platform in one of Boston’s car tunnels. I had seen maintenance doors countless times in traffic tunnels, but never imagined what was on the other side. From our position, we could look down to see cars driving through the tunnels and feel the freshly ventilated air blow into our faces.
At the ventilation building, we visited one of the emergency systems MassDOT has in place in case of superstorms like Hurricane Sandy. The low-point pump room, the deepest part of the building, deals with any flooding that may occur in that section of the tunnels. We could see evidence of the most severe flood experienced in Vent Building 4: a water mark about three feet high on the walls. According to our guides, MassDOT is unsure of how its systems would be affected by a sudden rise in water level, such as Hurricane Sandy caused in New York, and is currently conducting a study on how much their infrastructure could handle.
By now, we were ready to warm up and feel our extremities again, so we proceeded to the MassDOT Highway Operations Center. This office, housed on the second story of an inconspicuous office building, resulted from the merger of Massachusetts Highway Authority and the Turnpike Authority, which occurred during the formation of MassDOT in 2009.
Most of the office was a single large room that resembled spy headquarters from an action movie. The back wall of the office displayed multiple video feeds from some of the 900 video cameras dispersed along the Massachusetts highway system.
The Highway Operations Center monitors the video feeds with help from computer algorithms to identify traffic accidents and provide emergency responders with exact location and visual information. The cameras employ an accident-finding algorithm, which triggers an alert when one camera shows non-moving tail-lights, which means the camera is viewing the back-up behind an accident, or when a camera shows no traffic at all, which means the camera is trained on the roadway in front of an accident.
The manager of the operations center, Michael Fitzpatrick, shared stories with us about incidents the office handles. The center has over-height vehicle detection systems, which alert when a truck that is too tall for a tunnel is en route to pass through it. They respond by flashing warnings on digital signs on the side of the road. Fitzpatrick said once a driver ignored the warnings and scraped a video camera off the tunnel ceiling. Police followed him in order to retrieve the camera, which was dangling from the back of his trailer.
Being MIT students, we were especially interested to learn more about their computing systems. Another unique algorithm the Highway Operations Center developed works like the Google Maps traffic feature to track the speed of traffic. Sensors identify bluetooth devices in vehicles,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. mainly cell-phones, and record how long it takes the devices to go from checkpoint to checkpoint. Fitzpatrick explained the color coding on the traffic map. Since it was the middle of the day, most roadways were green; amusingly some stretches were blue, indicating the average car speed was above the posted speed limit.
Although the Highway Operations Center uses some clever algorithms,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. several issues from the merger remain. According to Fitzpatrick, many of their monitoring and data-collection systems run on different platforms, so they do not communicate with each other.
Our final stop on the tour continued to indulge our tech-oriented sides. We parked our bus outside of a inconspicuous office building. Most passerby did not give the building a second glance, but the security guard in the foyer made us realize this building was important.
“No one really knows where this building is,” said Hurtubise. “We don’t advertise it.”
We were inside the MBTA Operations Control Center, home to the logistics departments responsible for deploying T trains and MBTA buses. The operations centers for these two transit systems were located on separate floors.
In the bus headquarters, we learned more about the role of MBTA buses. They respond to emergency situations, such as building evacuations or natural disasters, by providing buses for shelter or egress. Employees in this office were responsible for tracking the location of buses and making calls to drivers to keep them within five minutes of schedule.
The T train operations center looked like the command center from a sci-fi ship. All the walls were painted black, employees sat at computers arranged on terraced platforms facing the front wall of the room. On this wall a huge projected graphic depicted the train lines, stops, and trains currently on the track.
This tour left me amazed the with amount of detail MassDOT manages every day and great respect for its employees. Feuer called it a “wonderful” and “holistic” tour which covered many aspects of the MassDOT system.
This is the first time the MIT Energy Initiative has organized such a tour with MassDOT. The tour fit in well with this month’s theme at the Energy Initiative,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. “Preparing for Climate Variability.”
Due to the New York subway shut-down in the aftermath of Sandy, Feuer wanted to find out how prepared Massachusetts’ transportation systems are for such an event.
Feuer said he was pleased by the feedback he received from both students and our tour guides, and, luckily for the many students on this tour’s waitlist, he hopes to do more tours in the future.
“One student said it was a real highlight of his seven years at MIT,” said Feuer, “and Adam [Hurtubise] has told me we were the best group, that people are telling him we brought our A game.”
This tour was a unique opportunity for students. As Feuer put it, “rarely do we get to see the underpinnings of public transit” and the “engineering marvels” involved.
Powerful storm flips cars, decimates homes
A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, spawning
tornadoes and dangerous winds that overturned cars on a major Georgia
interstate and demolished homes and businesses, killing at least two
people.
In northwest Georgia, the storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs. The highway was closed for a time, and another main thoroughfare remained closed until crews could safely remove downed trees and power lines from the road.
WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage showing an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta, as the storm ripped through the city’s downtown area. The system flattened homes and wiped out parts of a large manufacturing plant. Pieces of insulation hung from trees and power poles, while the local bank was missing a big chunk of its roof.
One person was killed and nine were hospitalized for minor injuries, state emergency management officials said. Residents said no traces remained of some roadside produce stands — a common sight on rural Georgia’s back roads.
One other death was reported in Tennessee after an uprooted tree fell onto a storage shed where a man had taken shelter.
In Adairsville, the debris in one yard showed just how dangerous the storm had been: a bathtub, table, rolls of toilet paper and lumber lay in the grass next to what appeared to be a roof. Sheets of metal dangled from a large tree like ornaments.
“The sky was swirling,” said Theresa Chitwood, who owns the Adairsville Travel Plaza. She said she went outside to move her car because she thought it was going to hail. Instead, the passing storm decimated a building behind the travel plaza.
In Adairsville, several were flipped on their side in the parking lot of the travel plaza. Danny Odum and Rocky Depauw, both truckers from Marion, Ill., had stopped for breakfast when the suspected tornado hit.
The pair had been driving their trucks through storm warnings all night long. When they got to the restaurant in Adairsville they went inside to eat. Depauw got a weather alert on his phone, and about two minutes later they saw debris flying through the parking lot and ran for an inner room.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau.
“I’ve been stopping here for probably 40 years,” Odum said. “I just stopped and had breakfast this morning, and this happened.”
After it passed, Odum said he went outside to find his truck that was hauling diapers on its side with his dog Simon, a Boston terrier, still inside. Simon was scared but otherwise fine.
Depauw’s truck was parked next to Odum’s and was damaged but still upright. He speculated his heavy haul of cat litter may have helped his truck weather the hit better than his friend’s.
Not far down the road, at Owen’s Bar-B-Que, Chrystal Bagley and her coworkers heard warnings about severe weather on the radio, but they didn’t hear Adairsville included in the list of warning areas. Around 11:45 a.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.m., the doors started rattling, and chairs and knick-knacks began blowing around the room as the door flapped open.
In order to make a policy change effective, it also has to be enforced. For an example, look no further than Washington, D.C., perhaps the city with the country’s most peculiar set of Sunday parking disputes. Back in March 2006, after long ignoring rule-breaking parishioners known to double-park during Sunday worship services, District police angered congregants by announcing that they would begin ticketing on Sundays that May. Local residents complained that suburban congregants coming into the city for Sunday services caused gridlock in residential neighborhoods,wind turbine blocking driveways and making streets impassable. Believers shot back that skyrocketing rents and widespread gentrification had long since forced them out of their inner city homes and away from their beloved congregations.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. In the years since, the city has attempted to resolve the issue both by adding additional metered spaces and by implementing new resident-only parking restrictions. In some ways, the changes have only inflamed tensions.
So should cities look to Sunday meters a viable solution to budget woes? Or are local officials just asking to be pulled into drawn-out debates about gentrification, car reliance, and public space? Several cities, like Chicago and Denver,Which Air purifier is right for you? have been experimenting with 24-hour meters, which can often be pre-paid overnight. Other communities—including San Francisco—are weighing the long-term viability of variable meter prices that change based on time of day and demand.
Some of the near-term solutions like installing more long-run smart meters can be financially and logistically daunting, raising concerns about how the city’s middle class and working poor will adjust. Even in tech-savvy S.F., Pappas says, “You can’t expect a little old lady to have a pre-pay parking app on her smartphone.” But Lynn points out that for-profit companies like FedEx and delivery-based services see tickets for double parking and expired meters as part of the cost of doing business. Should city visitors and everyday commuters try to see things the same way?
In northwest Georgia, the storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs. The highway was closed for a time, and another main thoroughfare remained closed until crews could safely remove downed trees and power lines from the road.
WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage showing an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta, as the storm ripped through the city’s downtown area. The system flattened homes and wiped out parts of a large manufacturing plant. Pieces of insulation hung from trees and power poles, while the local bank was missing a big chunk of its roof.
One person was killed and nine were hospitalized for minor injuries, state emergency management officials said. Residents said no traces remained of some roadside produce stands — a common sight on rural Georgia’s back roads.
One other death was reported in Tennessee after an uprooted tree fell onto a storage shed where a man had taken shelter.
In Adairsville, the debris in one yard showed just how dangerous the storm had been: a bathtub, table, rolls of toilet paper and lumber lay in the grass next to what appeared to be a roof. Sheets of metal dangled from a large tree like ornaments.
“The sky was swirling,” said Theresa Chitwood, who owns the Adairsville Travel Plaza. She said she went outside to move her car because she thought it was going to hail. Instead, the passing storm decimated a building behind the travel plaza.
In Adairsville, several were flipped on their side in the parking lot of the travel plaza. Danny Odum and Rocky Depauw, both truckers from Marion, Ill., had stopped for breakfast when the suspected tornado hit.
The pair had been driving their trucks through storm warnings all night long. When they got to the restaurant in Adairsville they went inside to eat. Depauw got a weather alert on his phone, and about two minutes later they saw debris flying through the parking lot and ran for an inner room.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau.
“I’ve been stopping here for probably 40 years,” Odum said. “I just stopped and had breakfast this morning, and this happened.”
After it passed, Odum said he went outside to find his truck that was hauling diapers on its side with his dog Simon, a Boston terrier, still inside. Simon was scared but otherwise fine.
Depauw’s truck was parked next to Odum’s and was damaged but still upright. He speculated his heavy haul of cat litter may have helped his truck weather the hit better than his friend’s.
Not far down the road, at Owen’s Bar-B-Que, Chrystal Bagley and her coworkers heard warnings about severe weather on the radio, but they didn’t hear Adairsville included in the list of warning areas. Around 11:45 a.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.m., the doors started rattling, and chairs and knick-knacks began blowing around the room as the door flapped open.
In order to make a policy change effective, it also has to be enforced. For an example, look no further than Washington, D.C., perhaps the city with the country’s most peculiar set of Sunday parking disputes. Back in March 2006, after long ignoring rule-breaking parishioners known to double-park during Sunday worship services, District police angered congregants by announcing that they would begin ticketing on Sundays that May. Local residents complained that suburban congregants coming into the city for Sunday services caused gridlock in residential neighborhoods,wind turbine blocking driveways and making streets impassable. Believers shot back that skyrocketing rents and widespread gentrification had long since forced them out of their inner city homes and away from their beloved congregations.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. In the years since, the city has attempted to resolve the issue both by adding additional metered spaces and by implementing new resident-only parking restrictions. In some ways, the changes have only inflamed tensions.
So should cities look to Sunday meters a viable solution to budget woes? Or are local officials just asking to be pulled into drawn-out debates about gentrification, car reliance, and public space? Several cities, like Chicago and Denver,Which Air purifier is right for you? have been experimenting with 24-hour meters, which can often be pre-paid overnight. Other communities—including San Francisco—are weighing the long-term viability of variable meter prices that change based on time of day and demand.
Some of the near-term solutions like installing more long-run smart meters can be financially and logistically daunting, raising concerns about how the city’s middle class and working poor will adjust. Even in tech-savvy S.F., Pappas says, “You can’t expect a little old lady to have a pre-pay parking app on her smartphone.” But Lynn points out that for-profit companies like FedEx and delivery-based services see tickets for double parking and expired meters as part of the cost of doing business. Should city visitors and everyday commuters try to see things the same way?
A big surprise party
The most talked about player in college basketball the past few weeks
is a jersey-popping guard from Ole Miss who loves his trash talk and
his Coors Light and says he doesn't really care what you think about any
of that.
It was only a few years ago, during the fall of his senior season at L.D. Bell High School just outside of Dallas, that Henderson became incensed after scanning a list of the nation's top 100 prospects on a recruiting website.
"They had guys ranked ahead of me [who] couldn't hold my jock strap in a million years," Henderson said by phone Monday night. "For some reason, people have never thought I could ball. They said I was too white.
"I play with a chip on my shoulder because of stuff like that. I've always flown under the radar because no one thinks I'm any good."
That's why it's so fitting that, one year after earning national junior college player of the year honors, Henderson chose to continue his career at Ole Miss. Much like their sharpshooting guard, the Rebels entered the 2012-13 season in relative obscurity.
Ole Miss was picked to finish seventh in the SEC, and coach Andy Kennedy was rumored to be on the hot seat after failing to lead his team to the NCAA tournament in his first six seasons.
Even after Tuesday's home loss to Kentucky, Ole Miss remains one of the top stories of the college basketball season to date. At 17-3 overall and 6-1 in conference play, the 16th-ranked Rebels trail Florida by just a half-game in the SEC standings.
Henderson and his team-leading 19.3 points per game are a big reason for Rebs' surge. But Kennedy's squad also features one of the nation's top frontcourts in Murphy Holloway and Reginald Buckner, who combine to average 24.3 points, 18.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks.
Guards Ladarius White, Nick Williams and Jarvis Summers are all veterans who played key roles a season ago.
"If we were on a video game, our chemistry would be 99 percent," Henderson said. "I think having experienced players helps. The teams that make the runs in the NCAA tournament usually have,wind turbine like, four seniors. They know how to handle adversity.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. When games are close, they're calm. They're relaxed under pressure. That's how we are."
Henderson, who played his freshman season at Utah before transferring, said Ole Miss hasn't come anywhere close to hitting its ceiling. "It's been fun to watch everyone's reaction," he said. "We won some games early and people were like, 'Oh, they're really good.' Then we lost a few and it changed to, 'Oh, they suck.'
"Here we are, winning again, and everyone is back to singing our praises."
Ole Miss, which plays at No. 4 Florida on Saturday, is hardly the only team that has far exceeded expectations.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. Here's a look at five other "out of nowhere" squads which have forced their way into the national picture.
"Maybe earlier in the season we might've, but I don't think that's the case anymore," Singler said by phone. "Once the Pac-12 hit, I think people realized how dangerous we can be. We have so many different types of players, and we can all score."
Indeed, Oregon is one of the country's more balanced teams,Which Air purifier is right for you? with six players averaging between 8.9 and 11.7 points per game. Senior Tony Woods (10.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.9 points) is finally living up to expectations after transferring from Wake Forest, but the biggest boost is coming from Rice transfer Arsalan Kazemi, a senior who leads the team with 9.6 rebounds per game.
"There wasn't a transition period with him at all," said Singler, who averages 11.2 points. "He knew the offense after one day. He's fun to play with because of how smart and how basketball savvy he is."
Still, the biggest reason so many people have been surprised by Oregon's success is because the Ducks start two freshmen in their backcourt. "That's dangerous," Altman chuckled.
But it really hasn't been. Damyean Dotson leads the team with 11.7 points per game while currently injured Dominic Artis chips in 10.2.
"We're roommates, so we've developed a really good chemistry," Dotson said of he and Artis. "I think we've both adapted [to the college game] really quick. It's a great situation. Everyone loves the offense because everyone touches the ball."
Oregon has already defeated preseason favorites Arizona and UCLA. And because of the schedule imbalance, the Ducks don't have to play either team again. That makes UO the hands down favorite to win the Pac-12.
"Knowing what's ahead, that keeps our fire burning and keeps our practices upbeat," Singler said. "Knowing our goals still haven't been accomplished keeps us motivated and determined."
It was only a few years ago, during the fall of his senior season at L.D. Bell High School just outside of Dallas, that Henderson became incensed after scanning a list of the nation's top 100 prospects on a recruiting website.
"They had guys ranked ahead of me [who] couldn't hold my jock strap in a million years," Henderson said by phone Monday night. "For some reason, people have never thought I could ball. They said I was too white.
"I play with a chip on my shoulder because of stuff like that. I've always flown under the radar because no one thinks I'm any good."
That's why it's so fitting that, one year after earning national junior college player of the year honors, Henderson chose to continue his career at Ole Miss. Much like their sharpshooting guard, the Rebels entered the 2012-13 season in relative obscurity.
Ole Miss was picked to finish seventh in the SEC, and coach Andy Kennedy was rumored to be on the hot seat after failing to lead his team to the NCAA tournament in his first six seasons.
Even after Tuesday's home loss to Kentucky, Ole Miss remains one of the top stories of the college basketball season to date. At 17-3 overall and 6-1 in conference play, the 16th-ranked Rebels trail Florida by just a half-game in the SEC standings.
Henderson and his team-leading 19.3 points per game are a big reason for Rebs' surge. But Kennedy's squad also features one of the nation's top frontcourts in Murphy Holloway and Reginald Buckner, who combine to average 24.3 points, 18.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks.
Guards Ladarius White, Nick Williams and Jarvis Summers are all veterans who played key roles a season ago.
"If we were on a video game, our chemistry would be 99 percent," Henderson said. "I think having experienced players helps. The teams that make the runs in the NCAA tournament usually have,wind turbine like, four seniors. They know how to handle adversity.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. When games are close, they're calm. They're relaxed under pressure. That's how we are."
Henderson, who played his freshman season at Utah before transferring, said Ole Miss hasn't come anywhere close to hitting its ceiling. "It's been fun to watch everyone's reaction," he said. "We won some games early and people were like, 'Oh, they're really good.' Then we lost a few and it changed to, 'Oh, they suck.'
"Here we are, winning again, and everyone is back to singing our praises."
Ole Miss, which plays at No. 4 Florida on Saturday, is hardly the only team that has far exceeded expectations.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. Here's a look at five other "out of nowhere" squads which have forced their way into the national picture.
"Maybe earlier in the season we might've, but I don't think that's the case anymore," Singler said by phone. "Once the Pac-12 hit, I think people realized how dangerous we can be. We have so many different types of players, and we can all score."
Indeed, Oregon is one of the country's more balanced teams,Which Air purifier is right for you? with six players averaging between 8.9 and 11.7 points per game. Senior Tony Woods (10.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.9 points) is finally living up to expectations after transferring from Wake Forest, but the biggest boost is coming from Rice transfer Arsalan Kazemi, a senior who leads the team with 9.6 rebounds per game.
"There wasn't a transition period with him at all," said Singler, who averages 11.2 points. "He knew the offense after one day. He's fun to play with because of how smart and how basketball savvy he is."
Still, the biggest reason so many people have been surprised by Oregon's success is because the Ducks start two freshmen in their backcourt. "That's dangerous," Altman chuckled.
But it really hasn't been. Damyean Dotson leads the team with 11.7 points per game while currently injured Dominic Artis chips in 10.2.
"We're roommates, so we've developed a really good chemistry," Dotson said of he and Artis. "I think we've both adapted [to the college game] really quick. It's a great situation. Everyone loves the offense because everyone touches the ball."
Oregon has already defeated preseason favorites Arizona and UCLA. And because of the schedule imbalance, the Ducks don't have to play either team again. That makes UO the hands down favorite to win the Pac-12.
"Knowing what's ahead, that keeps our fire burning and keeps our practices upbeat," Singler said. "Knowing our goals still haven't been accomplished keeps us motivated and determined."
Edgar Allan Poe meets Fawlty Towers
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner at Hotel
St. Germain — you know, the Queen Anne-style mansion on Maple Avenue
with the graceful rounded porch, debonair circular drive and French and
American flags flying out front?
Built as a private residence for John Patrick Murphy in 1906 on what was once known as “Millionaires’ Row,” the three-story house was purchased by its current owner, Claire Heymann, in 1989. Heymann, a native of Louisiana whose mother was an antiques dealer, opened her seven-suite hotel two years later, decorating it with pieces culled from her mother’s collection of furnishings from France and New Orleans.
Before long, it became known not just as an elegant lodging where Dallasites could escape for a special weekend without leaving town, but also as one of the city’s finest restaurants. Reviews over the years, crowned with as many as 41/2 stars, were peppered liberally with words like exquisite, sumptuous and seamless.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.
In 2008, a three-star review from then-restaurant critic Bill Addison was more reticent. But two years later, the hotel joined the exclusive Relais and Chateaux international group of hotels, whose members include L’Espérance, Troisgros and other temples of gastronomy in France. American Relais and Chateaux properties include Meadowood and Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley, Calif., the Inn at Little Washington, New York’s Surrey Hotel (whose dining room is Cafe Boulud) and the Inn at Dos Brisas in Washington, Texas.
None of that prepared me for the strange welcome — or lack thereof — I received at Hotel St.wind turbine Germain on a Friday evening last October.
No one appeared after I drove up the circular drive. Unsure of what to do with the car, I left it there and entered the hotel, where I was greeted by … not a soul. After an uncomfortable wait,Which Air purifier is right for you? I hit the bell on the reception desk, then covered it quickly, embarrassed it was so loud. Still no one appeared. At last, one white-gloved staffer appeared from the top of the stairs, and another came from the direction of the dining room. “Wait in the library,” I was told, and both disappeared. I found the library, a cozy, antique-filled room with a fire in the hearth, and before too long the white- gloved gentleman appeared, offering to bring a drink.
“What kind of sparkling wine do you have by the glass?” I asked.
“We don’t have sparkling wine,” he said firmly. “We have Champagne. Well, actually, it’s Champagne from California — Roederer Estate. So I guess that’s a sparkling wine.”
My three friends arrived, and we obediently sipped our bubbly till 8:20 p.m.; our reservation was for 8. The white-gloved gentleman seemed to be avoiding the subject of our table.
And we’d had to jump through hoops to secure it. You must reserve in advance, perusing the emailed menu and choosing a main course when you book, providing your credit card and phone numbers, maybe even your physical address as well (I drew the line there). If you’re a gentleman, you’ll have to show up in a coat and tie.
That — plus the $85-per-person tab for a six-course tasting menu (with an amuse and mignardises, post-dessert sweets) — is a lot to ask of a would-be diner.
Dinner, in a high-ceilinged, very formal (if a little fusty) dining room appointed with an 18th-century Aubusson tapestry, white linens, Limoges china and antique silver, was a procession of dishes that looked impressive, but left me scratching my head. Diners at two other tables spoke in whispers.
A thick, sweet butternut squash soup with a mystery garnish that sunk to the bottom arrived lukewarm. Nicely seared foie gras that topped a “fig pain perdue” was almost inedibly salty,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. as was the lukewarm scallop that followed it. The foie got a crazy dose of pepper, as well. The scallop came with a big, tough, square agnolloto filled with sweet potato purée and sauced in maple brown butter. Why so many sweet notes on the savory plates?
Covered with silver cloches, the main courses were served with great ceremony, and a couple were somewhat better than what preceded them — butter-poached lobster on a wild-mushroom risotto and a lightly smoked beef tenderloin filet with a classic glace de viande. OK, so the wild mushrooms tasted like tough shiitakes and the tenderloin’s potato gratin was soggy.
Meanwhile, two fillets of wild salmon came stacked over braised du Puy lentils and topped, towerlike, with roasted tomato and garlic. But the wild salmon was wildly overcooked; so were slices of duck breast that came with a wedge of pistachio cake so sweet it would have made a fine dessert.
When I returned on a recent weeknight with my husband and another couple, the white-gloved gentleman poked his head out the front door a few minutes after we drove up and shouted from the threshold (I kid you not) that we should just leave the car there.
We did not see another soul besides our white-gloved waiter the entire evening. Did anyone else work there? Was there actually a chef in the kitchen, or was the waiter doing everything?
The cooking was better this time, beginning with a layered potato chip-crème fra?che canapé topped with very decent hackleback sturgeon caviar. At its best, however, it never rose above merely correct, and some of it was strange. A workaday onion soup gratinée with an impenetrable cheese-topped crouton seemed out of place at a dinner this formal and expensive. Heavily tempuraed vegetables were odd platefellows with beautifully cooked lamb chops, a three-cheese polenta and a
lovely lamb jus. Seared foie, sauced with huckleberries, topped a delicate apple tarte Tatin that was once again as sweet as dessert. Maybe the chef (and yes, it turns out there is a chef — Chad Martin) was trying to tell us something: He’d rather be a pastry chef. The cheese course featured a wedge of La Tur, an undistinguished Italian soft-ripened cheese.
It’s challenging, I learned on my first visit to Hotel St. Germain, not only to find a worthwhile white or red on the uninspired, mostly French and Californian wine list for less than $80, but even to find a wine that actually exists in the cellar. Nor can the hapless waiter offer much help. Second time around, I abdicated, letting my husband choose one of the more modest reds,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. a 2008 Chateau Puy-Blanquet St. Emilion, for $80. It was served too warm.
Built as a private residence for John Patrick Murphy in 1906 on what was once known as “Millionaires’ Row,” the three-story house was purchased by its current owner, Claire Heymann, in 1989. Heymann, a native of Louisiana whose mother was an antiques dealer, opened her seven-suite hotel two years later, decorating it with pieces culled from her mother’s collection of furnishings from France and New Orleans.
Before long, it became known not just as an elegant lodging where Dallasites could escape for a special weekend without leaving town, but also as one of the city’s finest restaurants. Reviews over the years, crowned with as many as 41/2 stars, were peppered liberally with words like exquisite, sumptuous and seamless.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.
In 2008, a three-star review from then-restaurant critic Bill Addison was more reticent. But two years later, the hotel joined the exclusive Relais and Chateaux international group of hotels, whose members include L’Espérance, Troisgros and other temples of gastronomy in France. American Relais and Chateaux properties include Meadowood and Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley, Calif., the Inn at Little Washington, New York’s Surrey Hotel (whose dining room is Cafe Boulud) and the Inn at Dos Brisas in Washington, Texas.
None of that prepared me for the strange welcome — or lack thereof — I received at Hotel St.wind turbine Germain on a Friday evening last October.
No one appeared after I drove up the circular drive. Unsure of what to do with the car, I left it there and entered the hotel, where I was greeted by … not a soul. After an uncomfortable wait,Which Air purifier is right for you? I hit the bell on the reception desk, then covered it quickly, embarrassed it was so loud. Still no one appeared. At last, one white-gloved staffer appeared from the top of the stairs, and another came from the direction of the dining room. “Wait in the library,” I was told, and both disappeared. I found the library, a cozy, antique-filled room with a fire in the hearth, and before too long the white- gloved gentleman appeared, offering to bring a drink.
“What kind of sparkling wine do you have by the glass?” I asked.
“We don’t have sparkling wine,” he said firmly. “We have Champagne. Well, actually, it’s Champagne from California — Roederer Estate. So I guess that’s a sparkling wine.”
My three friends arrived, and we obediently sipped our bubbly till 8:20 p.m.; our reservation was for 8. The white-gloved gentleman seemed to be avoiding the subject of our table.
And we’d had to jump through hoops to secure it. You must reserve in advance, perusing the emailed menu and choosing a main course when you book, providing your credit card and phone numbers, maybe even your physical address as well (I drew the line there). If you’re a gentleman, you’ll have to show up in a coat and tie.
That — plus the $85-per-person tab for a six-course tasting menu (with an amuse and mignardises, post-dessert sweets) — is a lot to ask of a would-be diner.
Dinner, in a high-ceilinged, very formal (if a little fusty) dining room appointed with an 18th-century Aubusson tapestry, white linens, Limoges china and antique silver, was a procession of dishes that looked impressive, but left me scratching my head. Diners at two other tables spoke in whispers.
A thick, sweet butternut squash soup with a mystery garnish that sunk to the bottom arrived lukewarm. Nicely seared foie gras that topped a “fig pain perdue” was almost inedibly salty,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. as was the lukewarm scallop that followed it. The foie got a crazy dose of pepper, as well. The scallop came with a big, tough, square agnolloto filled with sweet potato purée and sauced in maple brown butter. Why so many sweet notes on the savory plates?
Covered with silver cloches, the main courses were served with great ceremony, and a couple were somewhat better than what preceded them — butter-poached lobster on a wild-mushroom risotto and a lightly smoked beef tenderloin filet with a classic glace de viande. OK, so the wild mushrooms tasted like tough shiitakes and the tenderloin’s potato gratin was soggy.
Meanwhile, two fillets of wild salmon came stacked over braised du Puy lentils and topped, towerlike, with roasted tomato and garlic. But the wild salmon was wildly overcooked; so were slices of duck breast that came with a wedge of pistachio cake so sweet it would have made a fine dessert.
When I returned on a recent weeknight with my husband and another couple, the white-gloved gentleman poked his head out the front door a few minutes after we drove up and shouted from the threshold (I kid you not) that we should just leave the car there.
We did not see another soul besides our white-gloved waiter the entire evening. Did anyone else work there? Was there actually a chef in the kitchen, or was the waiter doing everything?
The cooking was better this time, beginning with a layered potato chip-crème fra?che canapé topped with very decent hackleback sturgeon caviar. At its best, however, it never rose above merely correct, and some of it was strange. A workaday onion soup gratinée with an impenetrable cheese-topped crouton seemed out of place at a dinner this formal and expensive. Heavily tempuraed vegetables were odd platefellows with beautifully cooked lamb chops, a three-cheese polenta and a
lovely lamb jus. Seared foie, sauced with huckleberries, topped a delicate apple tarte Tatin that was once again as sweet as dessert. Maybe the chef (and yes, it turns out there is a chef — Chad Martin) was trying to tell us something: He’d rather be a pastry chef. The cheese course featured a wedge of La Tur, an undistinguished Italian soft-ripened cheese.
It’s challenging, I learned on my first visit to Hotel St. Germain, not only to find a worthwhile white or red on the uninspired, mostly French and Californian wine list for less than $80, but even to find a wine that actually exists in the cellar. Nor can the hapless waiter offer much help. Second time around, I abdicated, letting my husband choose one of the more modest reds,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. a 2008 Chateau Puy-Blanquet St. Emilion, for $80. It was served too warm.
2013年1月29日星期二
Radioman, Frisbees, and Dave Grohl
Sure, we’ve come to love and expect our high-flying celebrity
encounters at SBIFF over the years, catching sight and sound of actors
and sometimes directorsin the flesh in real time. But a funny thing
happened this year when we ran smack into a celebrity as we hardly knew
him, until we got the full story in Mary Kerr’s fascinating documentary
Radioman. The former homeless man and reformed drunk from NYC who
dubbed himself “radioman” is well-known in movie circles, as the avid
pursuer of movie sets and screen ops at shoots around New York, mostly,
a self-styled celebrity who was greeted as such when he showed up in
person after the Monday afternoon screening, in all his funky, witty
splendor.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
Reportedly, for those of us heretofore sadly ignorant of this celebrity on the sidelines, Radioman has appeared in some 100 films, sometimes quite visibly, in countless movies, and stars know and often love him. Kerr gets passionate testimonials from the likes of George Clooney, Josh Brolin (who called him “very genuine and very adolescent, which is why I like him, he’s like me”), Johnny Depp (who described Radioman as “someone from another planet or an eccentric billionaire… or both”),and his fan and friend Robin Williams, among others. Scorcese and Spielberg have found bit roles for him, in The Terminal and Shutter Island. Kerr’s deft and disarmingly charming film tracks his movements, and touches on his own background,We've got a plastic card to suit you. and follows him on a poignant trip to the Oscars in L.A., channeling questions about celebrity fetishism and other subjects along the way.
Post-screening, Kerr came down with Radioman, who got a standing ovation, and waved his box of Dots like a trophy, his signature portable radio strapped around his neck and an SBIFF cap on. He has been doing some touring festivals with the film, and has visited Dubai and is headed to Argentina, and has been tooling around Santa Barbara — by the bay and the “river” and elsewhere — on a Schwinn someone loaned him. “I’m staying at the Sandman Inn,” he told us. “I thought I was going to sleep forever.” He seemed to be soaking up the validating attention he’s receiving. “I’ve never gotten this kind of respect. Never….I think we’re all celebrities.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. We should all be famous.”
Later, as a random detour from the Q&A flow at hand, he made the observation that he noticed a lot of homeless people on the streets of Santa Barbara. “It’s sad to see,” he said, as one who has known that life. He then proposed the idea that the festival powers-that-be arrange a free screening of a film and invite in the homeless. At the end of the Q&A, some patrons started departing, and Radioman ended the session by saying, “Thank you for coming, and thank you for leaving.We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world.”
In another case of a documentary in which the real rubbed contextual elbows with the reel, Tuesday night’s screening of The Invisible String, German filmmaker Jan Bass’s fun and illuminating doc on Frisbee sports and lifestyle kicked off with the filmmakers lobbing film promotional mini-discs into the audience. In fact, Santa Barbara has figured strongly into Frisbee culture, via the world renowned ultimate Frisbee team the Santa Barbara Condors, and members of that team, and other Frisbee scene champions and notables were in the house.
Sound City, whose screening on Tuesday afternoon at the Lobero was the second U.S. screening after making a splash at Sundance, is one of the greatest rock documentaries I’ve ever seen, thanks to the passion and greater purpose of Dave Grohl’s directorial and personal vision. He brings a lot to the table here, tracing the history of the hit-factory-like yet funky Van Nuys studio which created classic albums from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors to Nirvana’s Nevermind, with Tom Petty, Foreigner, Queens of the Stone Age, and countless others.
There is plenty of insider stuff here that musicians and fans of recording studios will slobber over, including a virtual protagonist role of a legendary mixing board, Sound City’s Neve Board, which Grohl eventually bought when the analog studio finally gave up the ghost, done in by Pro Tools and its digital ilk. The final segment of Sound City takes place in Grohl’s own studio, where he has gathered musicians to record an album in tribute to the grand old studio. His partners, recording live to actual analog tape through the godly Neve,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. include Rick Springfield (hey, that guy is surprising good!), Josh Homme, Trent Reznor, and the piece de resistance, a visit from Paul McCartney, which resulted in the spicy bluesy two-chord song heard on Saturday Night Live a few weeks back.
Voila! Grohl has his epiphanic moment, creating a new song with a Beatle who launched his passion for music as a kid, and using the board which he claims lured him deeply into music. In the sometimes dubious genre of rock films, Sound City rocks, big-time.
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Reportedly, for those of us heretofore sadly ignorant of this celebrity on the sidelines, Radioman has appeared in some 100 films, sometimes quite visibly, in countless movies, and stars know and often love him. Kerr gets passionate testimonials from the likes of George Clooney, Josh Brolin (who called him “very genuine and very adolescent, which is why I like him, he’s like me”), Johnny Depp (who described Radioman as “someone from another planet or an eccentric billionaire… or both”),and his fan and friend Robin Williams, among others. Scorcese and Spielberg have found bit roles for him, in The Terminal and Shutter Island. Kerr’s deft and disarmingly charming film tracks his movements, and touches on his own background,We've got a plastic card to suit you. and follows him on a poignant trip to the Oscars in L.A., channeling questions about celebrity fetishism and other subjects along the way.
Post-screening, Kerr came down with Radioman, who got a standing ovation, and waved his box of Dots like a trophy, his signature portable radio strapped around his neck and an SBIFF cap on. He has been doing some touring festivals with the film, and has visited Dubai and is headed to Argentina, and has been tooling around Santa Barbara — by the bay and the “river” and elsewhere — on a Schwinn someone loaned him. “I’m staying at the Sandman Inn,” he told us. “I thought I was going to sleep forever.” He seemed to be soaking up the validating attention he’s receiving. “I’ve never gotten this kind of respect. Never….I think we’re all celebrities.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. We should all be famous.”
Later, as a random detour from the Q&A flow at hand, he made the observation that he noticed a lot of homeless people on the streets of Santa Barbara. “It’s sad to see,” he said, as one who has known that life. He then proposed the idea that the festival powers-that-be arrange a free screening of a film and invite in the homeless. At the end of the Q&A, some patrons started departing, and Radioman ended the session by saying, “Thank you for coming, and thank you for leaving.We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world.”
In another case of a documentary in which the real rubbed contextual elbows with the reel, Tuesday night’s screening of The Invisible String, German filmmaker Jan Bass’s fun and illuminating doc on Frisbee sports and lifestyle kicked off with the filmmakers lobbing film promotional mini-discs into the audience. In fact, Santa Barbara has figured strongly into Frisbee culture, via the world renowned ultimate Frisbee team the Santa Barbara Condors, and members of that team, and other Frisbee scene champions and notables were in the house.
Sound City, whose screening on Tuesday afternoon at the Lobero was the second U.S. screening after making a splash at Sundance, is one of the greatest rock documentaries I’ve ever seen, thanks to the passion and greater purpose of Dave Grohl’s directorial and personal vision. He brings a lot to the table here, tracing the history of the hit-factory-like yet funky Van Nuys studio which created classic albums from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors to Nirvana’s Nevermind, with Tom Petty, Foreigner, Queens of the Stone Age, and countless others.
There is plenty of insider stuff here that musicians and fans of recording studios will slobber over, including a virtual protagonist role of a legendary mixing board, Sound City’s Neve Board, which Grohl eventually bought when the analog studio finally gave up the ghost, done in by Pro Tools and its digital ilk. The final segment of Sound City takes place in Grohl’s own studio, where he has gathered musicians to record an album in tribute to the grand old studio. His partners, recording live to actual analog tape through the godly Neve,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. include Rick Springfield (hey, that guy is surprising good!), Josh Homme, Trent Reznor, and the piece de resistance, a visit from Paul McCartney, which resulted in the spicy bluesy two-chord song heard on Saturday Night Live a few weeks back.
Voila! Grohl has his epiphanic moment, creating a new song with a Beatle who launched his passion for music as a kid, and using the board which he claims lured him deeply into music. In the sometimes dubious genre of rock films, Sound City rocks, big-time.
"The success of this project reinforces the value of teamwork across several departments and organizations," explained Savastano. "The AMES project team expended many hours in preparation, detailed research, and work instruction document preparation including tooling and equipment planning."
"ABX Air was very pleased with AMES' performance on this project," remarked ABX Air Manager of Engineering Joe Freese. "The engineering documentation, coordination of specialized equipment, and detailed planning that went into this project contributed significantly to the success." Both ABX Air and AMES are wholly owned subsidiaries of Air Transport Services Group, Inc (NASDAQ:ATSG).
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Acclaimed Film & TV Stunt Performer & Stunt Coordinator
I recently caught up over email with the awesome Angelica Lisk-Hann,
one of the great stunt coordinators and stunt performers working in
film and television today, to get an insight into her career. Lisk-Hann
has worked on television shows such as ‘Nikita’ and ‘Rookie Blue,’ as
well as having worked on feature films ‘Resident Evil: Retribution,’
‘Total Recall,’ ‘AVP: Alien vs. Predator,We bring in fridge magnet
souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world.’ ‘The Incredible
Hulk,’ ‘Warm Bodies,’ ‘White House Down’ and ‘The Mortal Instruments:
City of Bones.’ As such, it’s no surprise that she was brought in to
coordinate stunts on one of the most anticipated films of 2013, ‘Kick
Ass 2.’ Alongside her stunt coordinating, stunt performing and acting
work, Lisk-Hann is a member of the ACTRA Toronto Stunt Committee. Check
out what she had to say below.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: I think it was a series of things, for sure, over many years of my life. I grew up in a small town (Trenton, Ontario), my Parents split up just before I was born so I stayed in Canada with my mum and her family. My father was a professional football player from the US and was traded from Toronto back to Atlanta. I had an uncle who was a stock car driver and a motorcycle hill climb champion, so I spent a lot of time in cars and on the bike. My mum was an ex-model and had me modelling in fashion shows, ads and whatever was going on at the time. In my spare time I would entertain the family and friends with dance shows and I liked to pretend to be Howard Cosell and interview my cat.
I was also the only person of colour for miles, so as you can imagine I “participated” in a lot of fights.We've got a plastic card to suit you. I excelled at every sport, and figured out if I kept winning medals, ribbons and scoring most of the points on our basketball team people seemed to forget I was different. That sporting addiction led me to move to Toronto and train for the Olympics in track and field. Realising there was no real career in heptathlon I returned to the arts and started booking commercials, music videos and acting roles.
It wasn’t until I met Branko Racki on the set of Dave Chappelle’s ‘Half Baked’ that I realised stunts was that thing I was searching for. I mean, I did set my Evel Knievel on fire as a child and made it jump our cat…. but at 7 I don’t think I had ever heard the term “stunt performer”. Branko was one of the top stunt coordinators around, he was larger than life and he knew what he was talking about.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! He was impressed with my athleticism and he was the one who prompted me to get on board with stunts. That was almost 20 years ago, and I am forever thankful to him. What I do, I feel like I was always supposed to do since I was a kid, I just didn’t have a name for it.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: It was definitely Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘AVP: Alien vs. Predator.’ I was hired by Matt Birman, who took a chance on me, as I was still somewhat green as to the many facets of the stunt world. I mean, that athlete was always there, but I was a spoiled little track star and didn’t really get the whole “boss” thing. I never had a real job…. I mean, I tried a few but always got fired or quit because I would sit around all day dreaming about “being a superstar”. Yup, I was something. I would say that was a turning point in my career. Matt made a lot of things very clear to me and I have been forever grateful.
Anyway, upon arriving in Prague, Czech Republic I was taken to the rehearsal studio to test some wires. At which point I thought to myself , “Hmmmmmmm this should be fun.” Well it was not that fun, but weird, and it took me a few days to get it. Luckily the riggers were very patient… lol.
This show turned out to be a dream job. I got to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world for 6 months, met some of the most amazing people, and learned so much. I literally worked 6 days straight at times for weeks in a row. I also got pretty beat up, and learned how to cope with it,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. suck it up, don’t complain, take the meds, and get it done. You either do that, or you go home and they get someone else. I really hope to get to go back there again one day.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: ‘Kick Ass 2′ was a dream job that I had no idea was coming my way. It was a UK-Canada production and the UK assistant stunt coordinator, Buster Reeves (Troy, Batman, Gangster Squad), emailed me a month before requesting that I send him my CV as they were looking for a big tough female villain and he wanted to put my name in the running. So I sent it off and hoped for the best. I then found out that the villain’s name would be “Mother Russia”, and they were looking all over the world for a 6ft+ Russian Bad Ass comparable to Brigette Nielsen from ‘Rocky IV’ and ‘Red Sonja,’ and I knew I was out. Or was I? To make a long story short, Buster knew I had been coordinating for the past 2 years on short films, TIPP projects, and covering for Matt Birman on SyFy’s ‘Warehouse 13,’ so he asked me to come down to Pinewood Studio to meet the boss Jimmy O’Dee, the UK Stunt Coordinator, as they needed a Canadian match, and Buster thought I would be great. I couldn’t wait to get in that office and talk to him, he was amazing and he hired me on the spot. Then it all seems like a blur.
Casting, auditions, phone calls, texts, explosions, wires, fire, fights, motorcycles, bad guys, good guys, no sleep…. it’s hard to explain the feeling of someone you look up to with such admiration and respect seeing something in you, and trusting you at that level. Especially being a woman, and a woman of color at that. I’ve thanked them both so many times I think there probably pretty sick of hearing it by now. I can’t really say anything about the movie obviously, all I can say is be prepared to see things you have never seen before. This movie is going to blow other action movies out of the water. I’m so proud I got to be a part of it.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: Each project is different. If it’s something that I have signed on to do from the beginning I will read the script, break down the stunts and then speak to the director/production manager – sometimes the producer’s. Then we do the budget. Usually they tell me how much $ I have for stunts, other times they ask me how much it will cost. Sometimes I get a phone call from a colleague asking if I can “get my ass to Sudbury” to cover a show that they can’t finish. Sometimes you do all of the prep work and then the show never happens. I like the shows where they look at you and say,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. “So what do you think”? That’s my favorite thing to hear. I love being able to be creative, I love working with actors as well because they get excited about any kind of action. I just want to work on cool projects, I love any kind of SyFy or creature based shows.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: I think it was a series of things, for sure, over many years of my life. I grew up in a small town (Trenton, Ontario), my Parents split up just before I was born so I stayed in Canada with my mum and her family. My father was a professional football player from the US and was traded from Toronto back to Atlanta. I had an uncle who was a stock car driver and a motorcycle hill climb champion, so I spent a lot of time in cars and on the bike. My mum was an ex-model and had me modelling in fashion shows, ads and whatever was going on at the time. In my spare time I would entertain the family and friends with dance shows and I liked to pretend to be Howard Cosell and interview my cat.
I was also the only person of colour for miles, so as you can imagine I “participated” in a lot of fights.We've got a plastic card to suit you. I excelled at every sport, and figured out if I kept winning medals, ribbons and scoring most of the points on our basketball team people seemed to forget I was different. That sporting addiction led me to move to Toronto and train for the Olympics in track and field. Realising there was no real career in heptathlon I returned to the arts and started booking commercials, music videos and acting roles.
It wasn’t until I met Branko Racki on the set of Dave Chappelle’s ‘Half Baked’ that I realised stunts was that thing I was searching for. I mean, I did set my Evel Knievel on fire as a child and made it jump our cat…. but at 7 I don’t think I had ever heard the term “stunt performer”. Branko was one of the top stunt coordinators around, he was larger than life and he knew what he was talking about.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! He was impressed with my athleticism and he was the one who prompted me to get on board with stunts. That was almost 20 years ago, and I am forever thankful to him. What I do, I feel like I was always supposed to do since I was a kid, I just didn’t have a name for it.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: It was definitely Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘AVP: Alien vs. Predator.’ I was hired by Matt Birman, who took a chance on me, as I was still somewhat green as to the many facets of the stunt world. I mean, that athlete was always there, but I was a spoiled little track star and didn’t really get the whole “boss” thing. I never had a real job…. I mean, I tried a few but always got fired or quit because I would sit around all day dreaming about “being a superstar”. Yup, I was something. I would say that was a turning point in my career. Matt made a lot of things very clear to me and I have been forever grateful.
Anyway, upon arriving in Prague, Czech Republic I was taken to the rehearsal studio to test some wires. At which point I thought to myself , “Hmmmmmmm this should be fun.” Well it was not that fun, but weird, and it took me a few days to get it. Luckily the riggers were very patient… lol.
This show turned out to be a dream job. I got to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world for 6 months, met some of the most amazing people, and learned so much. I literally worked 6 days straight at times for weeks in a row. I also got pretty beat up, and learned how to cope with it,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. suck it up, don’t complain, take the meds, and get it done. You either do that, or you go home and they get someone else. I really hope to get to go back there again one day.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: ‘Kick Ass 2′ was a dream job that I had no idea was coming my way. It was a UK-Canada production and the UK assistant stunt coordinator, Buster Reeves (Troy, Batman, Gangster Squad), emailed me a month before requesting that I send him my CV as they were looking for a big tough female villain and he wanted to put my name in the running. So I sent it off and hoped for the best. I then found out that the villain’s name would be “Mother Russia”, and they were looking all over the world for a 6ft+ Russian Bad Ass comparable to Brigette Nielsen from ‘Rocky IV’ and ‘Red Sonja,’ and I knew I was out. Or was I? To make a long story short, Buster knew I had been coordinating for the past 2 years on short films, TIPP projects, and covering for Matt Birman on SyFy’s ‘Warehouse 13,’ so he asked me to come down to Pinewood Studio to meet the boss Jimmy O’Dee, the UK Stunt Coordinator, as they needed a Canadian match, and Buster thought I would be great. I couldn’t wait to get in that office and talk to him, he was amazing and he hired me on the spot. Then it all seems like a blur.
Casting, auditions, phone calls, texts, explosions, wires, fire, fights, motorcycles, bad guys, good guys, no sleep…. it’s hard to explain the feeling of someone you look up to with such admiration and respect seeing something in you, and trusting you at that level. Especially being a woman, and a woman of color at that. I’ve thanked them both so many times I think there probably pretty sick of hearing it by now. I can’t really say anything about the movie obviously, all I can say is be prepared to see things you have never seen before. This movie is going to blow other action movies out of the water. I’m so proud I got to be a part of it.
Angelica Lisk-Hann: Each project is different. If it’s something that I have signed on to do from the beginning I will read the script, break down the stunts and then speak to the director/production manager – sometimes the producer’s. Then we do the budget. Usually they tell me how much $ I have for stunts, other times they ask me how much it will cost. Sometimes I get a phone call from a colleague asking if I can “get my ass to Sudbury” to cover a show that they can’t finish. Sometimes you do all of the prep work and then the show never happens. I like the shows where they look at you and say,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. “So what do you think”? That’s my favorite thing to hear. I love being able to be creative, I love working with actors as well because they get excited about any kind of action. I just want to work on cool projects, I love any kind of SyFy or creature based shows.
Try something new: tofu and soybeans
My grandparents raised my father and his six siblings in the hub of
Hanford’s Chinatown neighborhood that surrounded China Alley. Their
five-room home sat at 64 Visalia St., which was located at the
northeast end of where the United Market parking lot ends. Within their
one-third of an acre, except for a small plot designated as
“playground,” every square inch of usable space was devoted to my
grandmother’s vegetable garden and livestock — she raised chickens and
ducks.
My grandmother supplied the necessary provisions to my great-grandfather’s noodle house and eventually for my grandfather’s Chinese Pagoda from her carefully nurtured chickens and ducks and lush vegetable garden. Depending upon the seasons,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. my grandmother grew a variety a vegetables — from wintermelon and taro root to “ong choy” and snow peas, along with dozens of seasonal vegetables.A laser marking machine can be thought of as three main parts. She prepared her own soy sauce and grew water chestnuts. And grandmother made her own tofu.
t is her tofu-making that intrigues me these days.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation. The soybean has been a basic food source for the Chinese since ancient times, the first making of tofu attributed to Prince Liu An of the Han Dynasty.
Tofu is made with soy milk from soy beans and a coagulant, then pressed into a wooden mold and finally pressed until excess water has been drained. I’ve been making my own ricotta and paneer cheeses for some time now. Tofu has been an integral ingredient in Chinese cooking since its origination. Perhaps it is time for me to tackle the lowly soybean and pick up in this way where my grandmother left off.
Called the “velvety-smooth cheese,” as well as “the poor man’s meat and the rich man’s delight,” tofu has a distinctive, bland taste, yet it is extremely versatile and takes on all types of shapes and flavors once the cooking begins.
Now I imagine some of you are sighing, “She’s written about squab and frog legs. Now it’s tofu. Time to turn the page.” Please bear with me. I’m not writing about “The Art of Tofu Making” this week. It’s just going to be on my list of “Things I Want To Try.”
And when I consider ways to explain my “I’m gonna make tofu” choice, I think Nicole Spriridakis said it best in her blog on NPR’s Kitchen Window: “When you look at tofu as its own delicious entity, a door opens. If you fry cubed tofu hoping it will resemble stir-fried chicken, you’re ensuring disappointment. You’ll be much happier if you can embrace the essence of the soybean.”
Here is a great “go-to” noodle recipe in which one could easily swap chicken or cooked shrimp with the tofu, unless you want to make the tofu leap with me.
My second recipe relies on the soy bean itself, and makes a great game day appetizer, particularly if the soybeans are cooked in the pod with the sauce reduced to a thick glaze that coats the pods.
Zest the orange, set zest aside.Every pair of Optical frame comes with an embossed hard case and microfibre. Juice the orange. In a small bowl mix shallots, black bean and garlic sauce and ginger. In another small bowl mix the sherry, soy sauce, sesame oil and 2 tablespoons of the orange juice.
Heat a wok or pan over high heat. When the wok is hot, add the edamame and stir until just starting to blister. Add shallot mixture and stir-fry for a few minutes until the shallots begin to brown. Add 1 tablespoon of the orange zest and stir-fry another minute. Add the dry sherry mixture and toss until the edamame are glazed.
Serve immediately and enjoy lapping up the sauce as you shell the edamame with your teeth and then licking your fingers. My personal preference is to use shelled edamame and double or triple the sauce and serve the saucy edamame over steamed rice.
3i has suspended fundraising plans and has been focusing on returning capital to shareholders since Simon Borrows, a former investment banker at Greenhill, took over as chief executive from Michael Queen last year. The company has been cutting 160 jobs – more than a third of its workforce – and shutting down offices after struggling to revive dealmaking in the wake of the financial crisis. It has diversified into debt management and hopes to be able to raise a new buyout fund in a couple of years.
3i is planning to sell four companies this year, including Canadian group Mold-Masters, UK software maker Cívica and Scandlines, a Danish-German ferry operator, people with knowledge of the matter said earlier this month.
Analysts cautioned that most of the company’s share price recovery had already occurred. Bill Barnard, a Société Générale analyst, said he saw “little value to add at 3i given the work already done.”
“Had they bought the shares a year ago, when former CEO Michael Queen was still there,Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. I would have seen it as a restructuring play, but there’s a clear plan now,” said Oriel Securities analyst Iain Scouller, who downgraded the stock to sell last week following the company’s share price rally.
My grandmother supplied the necessary provisions to my great-grandfather’s noodle house and eventually for my grandfather’s Chinese Pagoda from her carefully nurtured chickens and ducks and lush vegetable garden. Depending upon the seasons,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. my grandmother grew a variety a vegetables — from wintermelon and taro root to “ong choy” and snow peas, along with dozens of seasonal vegetables.A laser marking machine can be thought of as three main parts. She prepared her own soy sauce and grew water chestnuts. And grandmother made her own tofu.
t is her tofu-making that intrigues me these days.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation. The soybean has been a basic food source for the Chinese since ancient times, the first making of tofu attributed to Prince Liu An of the Han Dynasty.
Tofu is made with soy milk from soy beans and a coagulant, then pressed into a wooden mold and finally pressed until excess water has been drained. I’ve been making my own ricotta and paneer cheeses for some time now. Tofu has been an integral ingredient in Chinese cooking since its origination. Perhaps it is time for me to tackle the lowly soybean and pick up in this way where my grandmother left off.
Called the “velvety-smooth cheese,” as well as “the poor man’s meat and the rich man’s delight,” tofu has a distinctive, bland taste, yet it is extremely versatile and takes on all types of shapes and flavors once the cooking begins.
Now I imagine some of you are sighing, “She’s written about squab and frog legs. Now it’s tofu. Time to turn the page.” Please bear with me. I’m not writing about “The Art of Tofu Making” this week. It’s just going to be on my list of “Things I Want To Try.”
And when I consider ways to explain my “I’m gonna make tofu” choice, I think Nicole Spriridakis said it best in her blog on NPR’s Kitchen Window: “When you look at tofu as its own delicious entity, a door opens. If you fry cubed tofu hoping it will resemble stir-fried chicken, you’re ensuring disappointment. You’ll be much happier if you can embrace the essence of the soybean.”
Here is a great “go-to” noodle recipe in which one could easily swap chicken or cooked shrimp with the tofu, unless you want to make the tofu leap with me.
My second recipe relies on the soy bean itself, and makes a great game day appetizer, particularly if the soybeans are cooked in the pod with the sauce reduced to a thick glaze that coats the pods.
Zest the orange, set zest aside.Every pair of Optical frame comes with an embossed hard case and microfibre. Juice the orange. In a small bowl mix shallots, black bean and garlic sauce and ginger. In another small bowl mix the sherry, soy sauce, sesame oil and 2 tablespoons of the orange juice.
Heat a wok or pan over high heat. When the wok is hot, add the edamame and stir until just starting to blister. Add shallot mixture and stir-fry for a few minutes until the shallots begin to brown. Add 1 tablespoon of the orange zest and stir-fry another minute. Add the dry sherry mixture and toss until the edamame are glazed.
Serve immediately and enjoy lapping up the sauce as you shell the edamame with your teeth and then licking your fingers. My personal preference is to use shelled edamame and double or triple the sauce and serve the saucy edamame over steamed rice.
3i has suspended fundraising plans and has been focusing on returning capital to shareholders since Simon Borrows, a former investment banker at Greenhill, took over as chief executive from Michael Queen last year. The company has been cutting 160 jobs – more than a third of its workforce – and shutting down offices after struggling to revive dealmaking in the wake of the financial crisis. It has diversified into debt management and hopes to be able to raise a new buyout fund in a couple of years.
3i is planning to sell four companies this year, including Canadian group Mold-Masters, UK software maker Cívica and Scandlines, a Danish-German ferry operator, people with knowledge of the matter said earlier this month.
Analysts cautioned that most of the company’s share price recovery had already occurred. Bill Barnard, a Société Générale analyst, said he saw “little value to add at 3i given the work already done.”
“Had they bought the shares a year ago, when former CEO Michael Queen was still there,Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. I would have seen it as a restructuring play, but there’s a clear plan now,” said Oriel Securities analyst Iain Scouller, who downgraded the stock to sell last week following the company’s share price rally.
About Popeye's Spinach, Lance Armstrong Edition
According to George Orwell "serious sport has nothing to do with
fair play. It is bound up with hatred, with jealousy, with
boastfulness, with disregard for all rules, and with sadistic pleasure
in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
OK ... sounds pretty much like the Super Bowl, but the Tour de France? Lance Armstrong? Ergogenic aids? Cancer survival? Brand and image issues? Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, the Rocket Man, Andy Pettitte? Oprah? Really?
It seems somehow reasonable to use the issue of sports morality as a metaphor of our sociocultural climate and direction .A laser marking machine can be thought of as three main parts... you know: cheating and getting caught, personal hubris and arrogance, public attitudes and mores, rhetorical dissonance, Republican versus Democrat .Every pair of Optical frame comes with an embossed hard case and microfibre... a sports allegory lending insight perhaps into these troubled times and how sports figures, like politicians, are an extension of reality.
That actually may reflect what we've become, what we seemingly want to be, and what we accept and admire as "the new norm."
What has happened to us, to our society, to these times, to our idealism, and to our respect for a code of conduct? What has become of our rules, our integrity, and our personal dignity that we have to bend all the rules, move the goal posts, win at any price, disavow any personal responsibility, and claim a "rights" argument in order to "win"? At whose expense and at what price?
Lily Tomlin got this one right.Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. "The trouble with the rat race," she asserted, "is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
It was once the notion that participation in sports and moral development were intimately related. It was called "sportsmanship." Plato felt that only an athlete could blend mind and body into a perfect functional unity.
In The American Annals of Education and Instruction of 1833, it was advanced that the character of one's students could best be assessed and studied on the playground. In this context, the teacher might be able to mold their characters effectively.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. The value of defeat -- the ability to handle failure -- was considered critical for encouraging the drive toward success. Indeed, without failure, success was meaningless.
So what is the message of the scoreless baseball games now an intimate part of the progressive middle school curricula? That no one should "feel-like-a-loser"? How do we teach our children the lessons of frustration?
Hard work as its own reward and faith in the system seem to be pretty muddled messages these days. At least according to Armstrong's example. But then again he has had some pretty powerful antecedents.
The effects of steroids on the athletic performance of a gifted athlete operating at a high level of training have never been "officially" measured or sanctioned. Steroid use however has been rampant and widespread in both amateur and professional venues. And the veneer of fairness went away long before Arnold was governator, Clinton or Nixon were presidents, Spitzer or (Tonya) Harding were TV personalities, or John Edwards was "Father of the Year."
Mauro diPasquale, MD, a Canadian sports medicine physician who has written extensively on androgenic ergogenics and performance enhancement has stated that the advantages gained by very gifted athletes would probably have emerged without the drugs, but at a training load and effort that would indeed be superhuman.
But it was Armstrong the athlete who defeated a field of similarly endowed (and probably doped) athletes.
The tragic consensus and the cynical media message is that steroids did advance the brand and the success of Lance Armstrong, but that it just wasn't very smart of him to get caught -- and that most of his fellow competitors had probably used ergogenics as well.
The dollar figure for "lost endorsements" is $30 million -- that's just endorsements. And the messaging, the 139 million hits on Google, the Twitter messaging, the attention on Oprah ... well, all this publicity could not readily qualify as subtle. Perhaps, along with the rest of what passes for pop culture, all these "outrages" have actually become the desired outcome. These results are not vague, quiet, subtle, unexpected, or hidden.
We have grown up with Popeye's spinach and Dumbo's feather, hopeful that success can be achieved by technology, by trick, by lottery, by luck, or by magic. Forget about hard work, we teach our children, look for the shortcut.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation.
We have somehow inherited a bizarre and uncomfortable legacy in the process, revising the definition of success. It was the whispered mantra of the '90s. Greed is good, big is better, there is no such thing as bad publicity, and self-interest trumps all other values. We all seem to act to one degree or another without the slightest objection or comment about these new Ten Commandments.
Because, perhaps, that is what we have come to believe in this postmodern age when we have removed God from the classroom and our personal lives. We no longer need rules, miracles, or divine intervention to explain our Universe and lives.
Why bother with the difficult when the emotional larder is filled, when success by any means is the rule, when ends justify means? And why sacrifice anything, if there is no motivation, no need, and little profit? What does it mean to assume personal responsibility? To regard respect for truth as an inviolable axiom?
Self-respect must be sacrificed in this mix. And Lance Armstrong has shown the way. And our media will place his achievements on a visible, noisy, and well-lit central stage for the entire world to see and worship. And they will, at least those who continue to be mesmerized by this theater.
We have abandoned our guidelines, our honesty, and our goals because of moral expediency and unmerciful self-interest. We spin. We have welcomed winners, rejected losers, and broken for the commercials without regard to or thought of consequence for so long now that it is automatic ... and we have taught our children to do likewise.
It may be too late and too far into this journey of hypocrisy to see what is happening or to restore a reasonable moral compass. But in case no one noticed, there are those in the world who would want to see this level of Romanesque drama as our swan song: that we may never be able to discuss our differences nor again act in a deliberate and honest manner with one another to solve problems of mutual concern. Perpetually cheating, like our sports heroes.
If this world is an arena for soul making, it is time for us capitalists to show that we can pursue that goal with the same tenacity that we pursue all those things that just rust.
And we must teach that message to our children. Perhaps that change in attitude can recapture some of the more intangible and ethereal rewards of living in a free society.
OK ... sounds pretty much like the Super Bowl, but the Tour de France? Lance Armstrong? Ergogenic aids? Cancer survival? Brand and image issues? Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, the Rocket Man, Andy Pettitte? Oprah? Really?
It seems somehow reasonable to use the issue of sports morality as a metaphor of our sociocultural climate and direction .A laser marking machine can be thought of as three main parts... you know: cheating and getting caught, personal hubris and arrogance, public attitudes and mores, rhetorical dissonance, Republican versus Democrat .Every pair of Optical frame comes with an embossed hard case and microfibre... a sports allegory lending insight perhaps into these troubled times and how sports figures, like politicians, are an extension of reality.
That actually may reflect what we've become, what we seemingly want to be, and what we accept and admire as "the new norm."
What has happened to us, to our society, to these times, to our idealism, and to our respect for a code of conduct? What has become of our rules, our integrity, and our personal dignity that we have to bend all the rules, move the goal posts, win at any price, disavow any personal responsibility, and claim a "rights" argument in order to "win"? At whose expense and at what price?
Lily Tomlin got this one right.Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. "The trouble with the rat race," she asserted, "is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
It was once the notion that participation in sports and moral development were intimately related. It was called "sportsmanship." Plato felt that only an athlete could blend mind and body into a perfect functional unity.
In The American Annals of Education and Instruction of 1833, it was advanced that the character of one's students could best be assessed and studied on the playground. In this context, the teacher might be able to mold their characters effectively.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. The value of defeat -- the ability to handle failure -- was considered critical for encouraging the drive toward success. Indeed, without failure, success was meaningless.
So what is the message of the scoreless baseball games now an intimate part of the progressive middle school curricula? That no one should "feel-like-a-loser"? How do we teach our children the lessons of frustration?
Hard work as its own reward and faith in the system seem to be pretty muddled messages these days. At least according to Armstrong's example. But then again he has had some pretty powerful antecedents.
The effects of steroids on the athletic performance of a gifted athlete operating at a high level of training have never been "officially" measured or sanctioned. Steroid use however has been rampant and widespread in both amateur and professional venues. And the veneer of fairness went away long before Arnold was governator, Clinton or Nixon were presidents, Spitzer or (Tonya) Harding were TV personalities, or John Edwards was "Father of the Year."
Mauro diPasquale, MD, a Canadian sports medicine physician who has written extensively on androgenic ergogenics and performance enhancement has stated that the advantages gained by very gifted athletes would probably have emerged without the drugs, but at a training load and effort that would indeed be superhuman.
But it was Armstrong the athlete who defeated a field of similarly endowed (and probably doped) athletes.
The tragic consensus and the cynical media message is that steroids did advance the brand and the success of Lance Armstrong, but that it just wasn't very smart of him to get caught -- and that most of his fellow competitors had probably used ergogenics as well.
The dollar figure for "lost endorsements" is $30 million -- that's just endorsements. And the messaging, the 139 million hits on Google, the Twitter messaging, the attention on Oprah ... well, all this publicity could not readily qualify as subtle. Perhaps, along with the rest of what passes for pop culture, all these "outrages" have actually become the desired outcome. These results are not vague, quiet, subtle, unexpected, or hidden.
We have grown up with Popeye's spinach and Dumbo's feather, hopeful that success can be achieved by technology, by trick, by lottery, by luck, or by magic. Forget about hard work, we teach our children, look for the shortcut.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation.
We have somehow inherited a bizarre and uncomfortable legacy in the process, revising the definition of success. It was the whispered mantra of the '90s. Greed is good, big is better, there is no such thing as bad publicity, and self-interest trumps all other values. We all seem to act to one degree or another without the slightest objection or comment about these new Ten Commandments.
Because, perhaps, that is what we have come to believe in this postmodern age when we have removed God from the classroom and our personal lives. We no longer need rules, miracles, or divine intervention to explain our Universe and lives.
Why bother with the difficult when the emotional larder is filled, when success by any means is the rule, when ends justify means? And why sacrifice anything, if there is no motivation, no need, and little profit? What does it mean to assume personal responsibility? To regard respect for truth as an inviolable axiom?
Self-respect must be sacrificed in this mix. And Lance Armstrong has shown the way. And our media will place his achievements on a visible, noisy, and well-lit central stage for the entire world to see and worship. And they will, at least those who continue to be mesmerized by this theater.
We have abandoned our guidelines, our honesty, and our goals because of moral expediency and unmerciful self-interest. We spin. We have welcomed winners, rejected losers, and broken for the commercials without regard to or thought of consequence for so long now that it is automatic ... and we have taught our children to do likewise.
It may be too late and too far into this journey of hypocrisy to see what is happening or to restore a reasonable moral compass. But in case no one noticed, there are those in the world who would want to see this level of Romanesque drama as our swan song: that we may never be able to discuss our differences nor again act in a deliberate and honest manner with one another to solve problems of mutual concern. Perpetually cheating, like our sports heroes.
If this world is an arena for soul making, it is time for us capitalists to show that we can pursue that goal with the same tenacity that we pursue all those things that just rust.
And we must teach that message to our children. Perhaps that change in attitude can recapture some of the more intangible and ethereal rewards of living in a free society.
2013年1月28日星期一
How to get on top of things
There are moments when it seems we are all butts of the joke in the
Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch about the Royal Society for Putting
Things on Top of Other Things -- especially in the technology industry.
No matter how we pile up layers of hardware, software and services,
there is always more to do. Rather than simplifying our IT environment,
we seem trapped in a cycle of ever-increasing complexity.
As the president of the society in the famous sketch says: “This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But, I should warn you,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things -- and I cannot emphasise this too strongly -- not on top of other things.”
Indeed, this year we are hearing more about the “Internet of Things” - a slippery phrase which serves to encompass the multidimensional web of connected devices and individuals that we have been creating (partly by being deliberately unclear). And channel partners will have to grapple with this issue, however frustrating it appears.
In fact,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. Kim King, vice president for global partners and channels at BI vendor Progress Software, sees it primarily as a channel opportunity - whether you consider the Internet of Things to refer to machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-to-human (M2H) communications, both of which are necessary when you start connecting more types of devices and, er, “things”, online.
“Our SI and ISV partners will continue to see a demand for M2M where a complete, vertical solution is required. Our key verticals where we are seeing this demand are within financial, manufacturing and industrial services,” she says. “The need for automation and BI is fuelled by M2M communications and driven by the competition in the market.”
We are talking about these M2M/M2H technologies themselves, but also the support systems that surround them. King says businesses are already looking for easily deployed, automated, information-rich, vertical-specific offerings that offer competitive advantage. The Internet of Things is another strand to mobility and the big data and analytics stories; it is all about learning to make more sense of what is happening, anywhere and everywhere, in real time.
“Align with an ecosystem that includes integrators, MSPs, hosting firms, VARs and consultants, or be part of the consolidation in the marketplace where one large telco or services provider offers the whole solution,” says King (pictured, right). “This is not an opportunity where any partner can stand alone.”
Over time, interoperability and standards should lessen the need for custom integration, allowing feature-rich apps to take centre stage, on top of other things.
“Analysis of the resulting data leads to even more opportunities. Partners that take advantage of this will find themselves in a sweet spot as the market continues to consolidate and telecoms and service providers move away from commodity and into vertical solutions,” King insists.
This year’s CES showcased more products with online capability than ever before. These devices were able to respond to touch, voice, gaze or gesture when controlling a TV, PC or other gadget while online. Consumers are getting more interested in a range of smart devices - and where consumers go, businesses these days tend to follow.
According to Gartner,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. the cost of components is continuing to fall as well - expanding the number of things that could be connected to other things.
On top of that, specific verticals such as healthcare and logistics have long seen the advantages of the Internet of Things. As General Electric explains in a presentation on the industrial internet, if more machines and components are internet enabled, more information can be exchanged and shared between components, machines, sensors, monitoring systems and software applications.
Greg Smith, chief innovation officer at consultancy C-View Technologies, agrees, noting that a wide range of devices are already connected to the internet, so management and integration opportunities are already emerging.
“This is a collection of hyped technologies, internet enabled and driven by a thirst for information and knowledge,” he says. “[So] channel partners need to understand their ability to work at the early adopter phase of technology sales and identify their sweet spot - do not focus your core effort on technologies that lack revenue at the early stage of adoption.”
Early on, the Internet of Things will not be an opportunity for every partner, he suggests. “While partnerships have traditionally been about technology enablement and this enablement is still essential, it may not be sufficient for the Internet of Things today.
“Successful partners will not only bring deals but also identify new ways to market, while vendors should look at developing tool kits for resellers to both market and integrate these new solutions,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.” says Smith.
Mike Mayers, global channel director at Peer1 Hosting, continues: “We already have smart meters, web-enabled phones,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. inventory management, logistics and smart cars, and over the next five to 10 years many more machines and objects will become connected to the internet. The type of information an Internet of Things can provide logistical companies, manufacturers, retailers, universities and the public sector is invaluable.”
However, more needs to be done on legi-slation, technology and security for companies to capitalise on the concept, Mayers warns, adding that, once again, this represents an opportunity.
As the president of the society in the famous sketch says: “This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But, I should warn you,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things -- and I cannot emphasise this too strongly -- not on top of other things.”
Indeed, this year we are hearing more about the “Internet of Things” - a slippery phrase which serves to encompass the multidimensional web of connected devices and individuals that we have been creating (partly by being deliberately unclear). And channel partners will have to grapple with this issue, however frustrating it appears.
In fact,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. Kim King, vice president for global partners and channels at BI vendor Progress Software, sees it primarily as a channel opportunity - whether you consider the Internet of Things to refer to machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-to-human (M2H) communications, both of which are necessary when you start connecting more types of devices and, er, “things”, online.
“Our SI and ISV partners will continue to see a demand for M2M where a complete, vertical solution is required. Our key verticals where we are seeing this demand are within financial, manufacturing and industrial services,” she says. “The need for automation and BI is fuelled by M2M communications and driven by the competition in the market.”
We are talking about these M2M/M2H technologies themselves, but also the support systems that surround them. King says businesses are already looking for easily deployed, automated, information-rich, vertical-specific offerings that offer competitive advantage. The Internet of Things is another strand to mobility and the big data and analytics stories; it is all about learning to make more sense of what is happening, anywhere and everywhere, in real time.
“Align with an ecosystem that includes integrators, MSPs, hosting firms, VARs and consultants, or be part of the consolidation in the marketplace where one large telco or services provider offers the whole solution,” says King (pictured, right). “This is not an opportunity where any partner can stand alone.”
Over time, interoperability and standards should lessen the need for custom integration, allowing feature-rich apps to take centre stage, on top of other things.
“Analysis of the resulting data leads to even more opportunities. Partners that take advantage of this will find themselves in a sweet spot as the market continues to consolidate and telecoms and service providers move away from commodity and into vertical solutions,” King insists.
This year’s CES showcased more products with online capability than ever before. These devices were able to respond to touch, voice, gaze or gesture when controlling a TV, PC or other gadget while online. Consumers are getting more interested in a range of smart devices - and where consumers go, businesses these days tend to follow.
According to Gartner,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. the cost of components is continuing to fall as well - expanding the number of things that could be connected to other things.
On top of that, specific verticals such as healthcare and logistics have long seen the advantages of the Internet of Things. As General Electric explains in a presentation on the industrial internet, if more machines and components are internet enabled, more information can be exchanged and shared between components, machines, sensors, monitoring systems and software applications.
Greg Smith, chief innovation officer at consultancy C-View Technologies, agrees, noting that a wide range of devices are already connected to the internet, so management and integration opportunities are already emerging.
“This is a collection of hyped technologies, internet enabled and driven by a thirst for information and knowledge,” he says. “[So] channel partners need to understand their ability to work at the early adopter phase of technology sales and identify their sweet spot - do not focus your core effort on technologies that lack revenue at the early stage of adoption.”
Early on, the Internet of Things will not be an opportunity for every partner, he suggests. “While partnerships have traditionally been about technology enablement and this enablement is still essential, it may not be sufficient for the Internet of Things today.
“Successful partners will not only bring deals but also identify new ways to market, while vendors should look at developing tool kits for resellers to both market and integrate these new solutions,We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands.” says Smith.
Mike Mayers, global channel director at Peer1 Hosting, continues: “We already have smart meters, web-enabled phones,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. inventory management, logistics and smart cars, and over the next five to 10 years many more machines and objects will become connected to the internet. The type of information an Internet of Things can provide logistical companies, manufacturers, retailers, universities and the public sector is invaluable.”
However, more needs to be done on legi-slation, technology and security for companies to capitalise on the concept, Mayers warns, adding that, once again, this represents an opportunity.
Pebble smartwatch review
The Pebble smartwatch is a lot more than just a watch — it’s the
latest attempt to turn your wrist into the launchpad for a wearable
computing revolution. It’s also the preeminent symbol of the Kickstarter
hardware revolution. After 85,000 orders, 10 million crowdfunded
dollars, and one or two slipped ship dates, the Pebble is finally here,
ready to pipe emails and texts directly to your wrist.
So is the Pebble a gimmick or the start of a bold new platform? Has an indie hardware startup managed to produce the first smartwatch for regular people, or is this just another toy for nerds to eventually discard like almost every other smartwatch before it? What did our 10 million dollars actually buy us? Let’s find out.
The Pebble stands out by not standing out — almost every other smart watch is a bulky, chunky affair, but chances are most people won’t even realize you’re wearing the Pebble until you tell them. It’s slim and sleek, and when the backlight is off the screen blends in seamlessly with the borders of my black review unit. On the right side you’ll find up / down and select buttons, while the left side has a back button and a set of contacts for the Pebble’s magnetic power connector, which aligns and latches on like Apple’s familiar MagSafe system. It’s a clever way to keep the Pebble waterproof without resorting to clunky port covers or flaps.
As for the screen itself, I would call it just okay: Pebble calls it "e-paper," but it’s really a 114 x 168 "transflective" LCD that’s designed for watches. It’s functional, but ultimately it’s a low-resolution black and white LCD, and low-resolution black and white LCDs are not renowned for their beauty. It’s also covered by a curved plastic lens that can reflect light in weird ways — it’s not a huge problem at all, but you’ll notice it from time to time.
The screen itself always has content on it, whether it’s the time, the music player, or a notification, and it’s fairly readable in daylight without the backlight on. But the backlight makes a big difference: when it’s off, the screen is roughly black and white, in the same way a Nook or Kindle screen is roughly black and white. But incoming notifications and particularly fast movements trigger the backlight, which adds an unexpected bluish tint to the screen. It works fine, but there’s no way for it to feel super-premium if the screen looks cheap — the experience here is fundamentally all about the display, after all.We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. I hope Pebble finds a better part the next time around.
The Pebble’s polyurethane watchband is entirely unremarkable. It’s there, and it holds the thing to your wrist comfortably. But it’s tremendously boring and even somewhat cheap feeling, and I’m already shopping for a replacement — you can fit any standard 22mm band, so your options are basically unlimited.
But overall, the Pebble is a very nice piece of hardware — it’s comfortable and small, and it works. You could put it in the designer watch case at a department store and it would blend right in, which is a big accomplishment. Holding it in your hand, it’s amazing to think that it was designed and assembled by an independent hardware startup funded by Kickstarter. But we’ve known the Pebble looks cool for months now. The big question is — does it work?
The Pebble app for iOS is basically a placeholder — you can download new watchfaces and troubleshoot connection problems, but that’s about it. Everything else happens at the iOS system level: you pair the Pebble and select "show notifications,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products." and you’re theoretically off to the races.We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands. Well, sort of. iOS has the necessary underlying frameworks for supporting devices like the Pebble, but there’s virtually no interface for managing any of it — you can’t selectively send some app notifications to the Pebble but not others, or only get pings from one email account, or tweak any other settings. It’s a little messy, and there’s some real weirdness in the mix.
For example, getting third-party apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail to send notifications requires a strange dance: you open each app’s Notification Center preferences, select a different notification style, and then reselect whatever one you actually wanted. That seems to link the notifications to the Pebble, and from there everything works just fine. But be warned: if the Bluetooth connection disconnects for any reason,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! you’ll have to re-re-select all your notifications all over again. It’s irritating, but it’s clearly not Pebble’s fault; Apple just hasn’t built the right management tools into iOS yet.
Unlike the iPhone and iOS, which offer skeletal native support for devices like the Pebble at the system level, Pebble on Android is all about the app. That’s where you manage everything, and at first glance it makes far more sense: all the settings are in one place, and you can quickly and easily make tweaks like having the watch show alerts for one email account but not another.
But there are some drawbacks to having an all-powerful app take the place of system-level support: Pebble’s Android app needs broad permissions to your phone, including your Gmail account passwords. (Android users see more of each email on the Pebble than iPhone users because the app is actually checking your email over IMAP, not just seeing notifications.) You also need to turn on Android’s accessibility features so the app can read your notifications and send them along to the phone, which pops up a scary warning about the app reading all your text input. I trust Pebble to behave itself, but that’s a lot of leeway with my data and personal information.
And there are other places where it seems like iOS just doesn’t know how to deal with Pebble: at first my phone seemed convinced that Pebble was actually a Bluetooth headset, and tried to route call audio and Siri to it. The music player controls worked fine with every app I tried, including Music, Spotify, and Rdio,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. but sometimes the track info displayed on the Pebble didn’t update.
These are all fairly minor irritations, though: once you get the Pebble up and running with your iPhone, it works perfectly, assuming the two don’t disconnect often. And leveraging Apple’s Notification Center frameworks might involve some funky setup, but it means that every app’s notifications work with Pebble out of the box, which isn’t the case with Android. I’m assuming Apple will continue to build and improve these tools in future version of iOS (perhaps for its own watch), and that should make the Pebble better as well.
So is the Pebble a gimmick or the start of a bold new platform? Has an indie hardware startup managed to produce the first smartwatch for regular people, or is this just another toy for nerds to eventually discard like almost every other smartwatch before it? What did our 10 million dollars actually buy us? Let’s find out.
The Pebble stands out by not standing out — almost every other smart watch is a bulky, chunky affair, but chances are most people won’t even realize you’re wearing the Pebble until you tell them. It’s slim and sleek, and when the backlight is off the screen blends in seamlessly with the borders of my black review unit. On the right side you’ll find up / down and select buttons, while the left side has a back button and a set of contacts for the Pebble’s magnetic power connector, which aligns and latches on like Apple’s familiar MagSafe system. It’s a clever way to keep the Pebble waterproof without resorting to clunky port covers or flaps.
As for the screen itself, I would call it just okay: Pebble calls it "e-paper," but it’s really a 114 x 168 "transflective" LCD that’s designed for watches. It’s functional, but ultimately it’s a low-resolution black and white LCD, and low-resolution black and white LCDs are not renowned for their beauty. It’s also covered by a curved plastic lens that can reflect light in weird ways — it’s not a huge problem at all, but you’ll notice it from time to time.
The screen itself always has content on it, whether it’s the time, the music player, or a notification, and it’s fairly readable in daylight without the backlight on. But the backlight makes a big difference: when it’s off, the screen is roughly black and white, in the same way a Nook or Kindle screen is roughly black and white. But incoming notifications and particularly fast movements trigger the backlight, which adds an unexpected bluish tint to the screen. It works fine, but there’s no way for it to feel super-premium if the screen looks cheap — the experience here is fundamentally all about the display, after all.We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. I hope Pebble finds a better part the next time around.
The Pebble’s polyurethane watchband is entirely unremarkable. It’s there, and it holds the thing to your wrist comfortably. But it’s tremendously boring and even somewhat cheap feeling, and I’m already shopping for a replacement — you can fit any standard 22mm band, so your options are basically unlimited.
But overall, the Pebble is a very nice piece of hardware — it’s comfortable and small, and it works. You could put it in the designer watch case at a department store and it would blend right in, which is a big accomplishment. Holding it in your hand, it’s amazing to think that it was designed and assembled by an independent hardware startup funded by Kickstarter. But we’ve known the Pebble looks cool for months now. The big question is — does it work?
The Pebble app for iOS is basically a placeholder — you can download new watchfaces and troubleshoot connection problems, but that’s about it. Everything else happens at the iOS system level: you pair the Pebble and select "show notifications,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products." and you’re theoretically off to the races.We have become one of the worlds most recognised Ventilation system brands. Well, sort of. iOS has the necessary underlying frameworks for supporting devices like the Pebble, but there’s virtually no interface for managing any of it — you can’t selectively send some app notifications to the Pebble but not others, or only get pings from one email account, or tweak any other settings. It’s a little messy, and there’s some real weirdness in the mix.
For example, getting third-party apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail to send notifications requires a strange dance: you open each app’s Notification Center preferences, select a different notification style, and then reselect whatever one you actually wanted. That seems to link the notifications to the Pebble, and from there everything works just fine. But be warned: if the Bluetooth connection disconnects for any reason,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! you’ll have to re-re-select all your notifications all over again. It’s irritating, but it’s clearly not Pebble’s fault; Apple just hasn’t built the right management tools into iOS yet.
Unlike the iPhone and iOS, which offer skeletal native support for devices like the Pebble at the system level, Pebble on Android is all about the app. That’s where you manage everything, and at first glance it makes far more sense: all the settings are in one place, and you can quickly and easily make tweaks like having the watch show alerts for one email account but not another.
But there are some drawbacks to having an all-powerful app take the place of system-level support: Pebble’s Android app needs broad permissions to your phone, including your Gmail account passwords. (Android users see more of each email on the Pebble than iPhone users because the app is actually checking your email over IMAP, not just seeing notifications.) You also need to turn on Android’s accessibility features so the app can read your notifications and send them along to the phone, which pops up a scary warning about the app reading all your text input. I trust Pebble to behave itself, but that’s a lot of leeway with my data and personal information.
And there are other places where it seems like iOS just doesn’t know how to deal with Pebble: at first my phone seemed convinced that Pebble was actually a Bluetooth headset, and tried to route call audio and Siri to it. The music player controls worked fine with every app I tried, including Music, Spotify, and Rdio,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. but sometimes the track info displayed on the Pebble didn’t update.
These are all fairly minor irritations, though: once you get the Pebble up and running with your iPhone, it works perfectly, assuming the two don’t disconnect often. And leveraging Apple’s Notification Center frameworks might involve some funky setup, but it means that every app’s notifications work with Pebble out of the box, which isn’t the case with Android. I’m assuming Apple will continue to build and improve these tools in future version of iOS (perhaps for its own watch), and that should make the Pebble better as well.
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