So you may have heard that Microsoft recently released the much
anticipated Windows 8 operating system. It sure doesn’t look like those
previous operating systems of Windows that you have seen. Don’t
despair since Windows 8 was made with the future in mind as it works
well with touchscreens and you will be seeing more touchscreen personal
computers over the next few months.About the bobbleheads We make them for the joy of it, and then we give them away.
One
of the first things you will notice is that there is no start tab.
You’re wondering how to turn the computer off. Going to either the
upper or lower right hand corner will bring up a bar known as the
charms bar.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system
that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level
accuracy. The bottom icon there that looks like a cog a bicycle chain
goes around is the Settings icon. Either click on it or if you have a
touchscreen tap it and you will see the Power icon at the bottom.
Select that and select “Sleep” “Restart” or “Shut Down” You no longer
are wondering how to shut your computer off.
You also by now
have probably noticed that the screen instead of showing the familiar
icons on your desktop show tiles. Each of these tiles represents an app
(Programs are now referred to as apps like the apps on your smartphone
and your friend’s Mac programs which are also referred to as apps).
Some of these apps show information. The weather tile shows the weather
for the location noted. You can put a calculator app to do arithmetic
operations. One great thing about this new screen is if you are looking
for a file, setting, or app just start typing the name of it. Once you
start the search screen will show. You can see where your search query
for apps, settings, files. Also expect to see more Windows 8 phones
out there in the next few months. Don’t despair about not seeing a
desktop. There is a desktop tile. By tapping it if you have a
touchscreen or moving your mouse to it and left clicking, the old
traditional desktop (without the start tab) will show.
One
disadvantage of the new Windows 8 is when you go to delete a file there
is no longer a confirmation asking if you wish to do so. No last
chance to change your mind. However all is not lost. By going to the
recycle bin and right-clicking on it, choose Properties, and check the
"Display Delete Confirmation Dialog" box. You now will have that last
chance to make sure that you truly want to delete that file. Another
disadvantage is a longer learning curve going to a new operating
system. The advantages however outweigh the disadvantages.
So
should you upgrade to Windows 8? Windows 8 Pro is available for $39.99
but that is only until January 31, 2013. Unless you are upgrading from
Windows 7 you will need to reinstall your apps. I upgraded due to
business considerations since I will be setting up new computers that
use Windows 8 and training people to use it. There is the learning curve
I mentioned earlier and you need to get used to not having a start
tab. File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer), is a lot more user
friendly, security is improved and boot time is faster making it a
possible investment if you are still using Windows Vista or Windows XP.
That said, given the age of your computer if you are using XP or
Vista, replacing your computer may be a more feasible option. If you
have XP or Vista currently, while Windows 8 requires a minimum of a
1GHz processor I would recommend a minimum of 2 GHz. Other than the
tiled apps, there is not a real big change between Windows 7 and Windows
8.
New to Windows Phone 8, the For You view is tied to the new
Windows Phone personal recommendation service. When enabled, this
feature will recommend places to eat, drink, shop or visit in Local
Scout, and will recommend other items, like apps,Shop for high quality
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system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. music, and
deals, throughout Windows Phone. Its recommendation are based on your
search and activity history as well as the places that your friends and
family “like” through social networking services such as Facebook.
Regardless
of the kind of place you’re looking for, eventually something will
look interesting. Each place listed in one of the Local Scout views
includes a lot of useful information, including the place name, type,
distance, relative expensiveness,Modern and modern lighting
and lights to enhance your home. address, and rating. But if you tap
the item in the list, you’ll be shown a Quick card for the place.
This
is a front-end to a staggering array of sites and attractions. To
really appreciate how many different types of places can appear in this
view, tap the Show categories link, which lets you filter things down
to only those place types you want. You’ll see amusement parks,
casinos, historical sites, movie theaters, museums, parks, and much,
much more. Scroll down further and you’ll see events as well—comedy,
dance, fairs and festivals, music, and much more—so you can really find
exactly what you’re looking for.
2012年11月19日星期一
Why Twinkie Will Survive
Life is short, except for shelf life. All the rivers run into the
sea, but the Twinkie abides. It will long be an icon of comfort food, a
spongy link with a time when coffee was a nickel, Camels made you
healthy, and your brother was the Beaver. This world never existed in
reality, and now even our Twinkie is gone, in the blink of an eye. We
must press on, somehow.
High in the aisles of junk that passes for food today, the everlasting Twinkie is on display no more. This sweet icon of Americana will now be collected, not consumed, its cash value qua artifact rising even as its food-value stays frozen forever,About the bobbleheads We make them for the joy of it, and then we give them away. at the number zero. There may be heavy trading and speculation, Atlantic crossings, perhaps even a Twinkie Bubble and a Twinkie Crash. In its natural state, which is dropped on the ground for a lucky dog to find,Modern and modern lighting and lights to enhance your home.Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. it resembles something that should be poked with a stick.
A Twinkie passes rapidly through the human or canine gut like the masticated chyme it becomes after chewing, and from there we draw a curtain. But any whole specimens saved by the fall of Hostess will be stored like holy relics in a deep vault, for future archaeologists to unearth.
Scientists will not eat it, not even lab rats. It will wind up in a museum, probably. Too bad about the library at Alexandria, the Mona Lisa, all the lost empires grown stale and sucked down into the dustbin of history, but Twinkies will remain. It is what they do best.
In my long life, I have eaten many, many Twinkies, and Sno(man’s)Balls, as we used to call them, Ho-Hos, Ding-Dongs, plus numerous insect parts and crunchy pelletized rat exhaust. On a reservation in South Dakota in 1967, I once traded my last Twinkie to an old man in a blanket for a piece of homemade fry bread, and thus made a new friend: Seven Teeth Left.
That’s what he mumbled when I asked him his name, but we were both chewing. He taught me to say Fuck You in the Crow tongue. I will tell you, to pay that Twinkie gift forward: Epi-Ha! It is an excellent battle cry, and can be said to Death when it comes for you or takes a friend, as a joke, he said. Ah, golden days of my lost youth, with ever-fresh Twinkies in my backpack and a thousand yearning horizons.
One summer in Colorado, when a black bear decided to stroll alongside my parked Volkswagen convertible, tossing a Twinkie in a far arc over the windshield helped steer the beast away, the correct direction. The Twinkie belonged to my first ex-wife.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. She loved them very much. We are no longer together, perhaps even because of them.
The best Twinkies of my life have been the ones I didn’t eat. In childhood, they were a kind of mysterious, expensive holiday food, but the holiday was on no calendar. My Danish mother did all the baking, for which she had the same natural aptitude as clubbing seals. Growing up with woodstoves, the only heat setting she ever learned was Full Fracking On, ignoring the scientific principle that baked goods tend to incinerate at prolonged high temperatures.
Finding a Twinkie in my school lunch box would have meant the magic holiday had finally arrived. But it never did. My mother’s cookies were tarry, burned ceramic-tile biscuits that the local squirrels walked around.
So in the fifth grade, when I found a Twinkie in the school bathroom, way up on a tiled windowsill, wrapped and uneaten, my amazement and wonder totally redlined, not to return at that intensity for a whole decade…
That was the night of my first acid trip. There was a Twinkie on the outdoor table, and after several subjective months of planning, it occurred to me to eat it, somehow. Everything seemed very simple and basic, full of Zen and the Holy Spirit. Such being the case, eating or not eating that single Twinkie became a moral and philosophical issue.
It followed that if I unwrapped the cellophane and it spoke to me, this would prove its consciousness at some level. I already suspected a degree of sentience, because it had been communicating telepathically about unwrapping it. Eating it was either very wrong, or very right. Somehow it compelled me to open the wrapper, with a label reading “HOSTess.” I elevated it, to my nose.
The sense of smell is most closely connected to memory, but 300 micrograms of lysergic acid boosts the effect, much like connecting your laptop to all the Crays in Langley. And then a dim, dusty, smelly vision came out from its cranny between my ears, of that long-ago Twinkie on a bathroom sill. Are you kidding,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. absolutely not. No, I didn’t eat it, not out of logic or good sense, nor even because it was suspect. There was no reason. Maybe it told me not to.
This one said the same, for sure. Not in so many words, perhaps, but I understood what it wanted: to be given as a gift to the universe, set free from the cellophane, not added to the plaque on my arteries. I peeled the wrapper and floated out to the edge of the deck, casting it out into the darkness of the Rocky Mountains. It may have been eaten by Coyote himself, this ancestor of the Last Twinkie Left On Earth. Goodbye, old snack. Epi Ha!
High in the aisles of junk that passes for food today, the everlasting Twinkie is on display no more. This sweet icon of Americana will now be collected, not consumed, its cash value qua artifact rising even as its food-value stays frozen forever,About the bobbleheads We make them for the joy of it, and then we give them away. at the number zero. There may be heavy trading and speculation, Atlantic crossings, perhaps even a Twinkie Bubble and a Twinkie Crash. In its natural state, which is dropped on the ground for a lucky dog to find,Modern and modern lighting and lights to enhance your home.Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. it resembles something that should be poked with a stick.
A Twinkie passes rapidly through the human or canine gut like the masticated chyme it becomes after chewing, and from there we draw a curtain. But any whole specimens saved by the fall of Hostess will be stored like holy relics in a deep vault, for future archaeologists to unearth.
Scientists will not eat it, not even lab rats. It will wind up in a museum, probably. Too bad about the library at Alexandria, the Mona Lisa, all the lost empires grown stale and sucked down into the dustbin of history, but Twinkies will remain. It is what they do best.
In my long life, I have eaten many, many Twinkies, and Sno(man’s)Balls, as we used to call them, Ho-Hos, Ding-Dongs, plus numerous insect parts and crunchy pelletized rat exhaust. On a reservation in South Dakota in 1967, I once traded my last Twinkie to an old man in a blanket for a piece of homemade fry bread, and thus made a new friend: Seven Teeth Left.
That’s what he mumbled when I asked him his name, but we were both chewing. He taught me to say Fuck You in the Crow tongue. I will tell you, to pay that Twinkie gift forward: Epi-Ha! It is an excellent battle cry, and can be said to Death when it comes for you or takes a friend, as a joke, he said. Ah, golden days of my lost youth, with ever-fresh Twinkies in my backpack and a thousand yearning horizons.
One summer in Colorado, when a black bear decided to stroll alongside my parked Volkswagen convertible, tossing a Twinkie in a far arc over the windshield helped steer the beast away, the correct direction. The Twinkie belonged to my first ex-wife.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. She loved them very much. We are no longer together, perhaps even because of them.
The best Twinkies of my life have been the ones I didn’t eat. In childhood, they were a kind of mysterious, expensive holiday food, but the holiday was on no calendar. My Danish mother did all the baking, for which she had the same natural aptitude as clubbing seals. Growing up with woodstoves, the only heat setting she ever learned was Full Fracking On, ignoring the scientific principle that baked goods tend to incinerate at prolonged high temperatures.
Finding a Twinkie in my school lunch box would have meant the magic holiday had finally arrived. But it never did. My mother’s cookies were tarry, burned ceramic-tile biscuits that the local squirrels walked around.
So in the fifth grade, when I found a Twinkie in the school bathroom, way up on a tiled windowsill, wrapped and uneaten, my amazement and wonder totally redlined, not to return at that intensity for a whole decade…
That was the night of my first acid trip. There was a Twinkie on the outdoor table, and after several subjective months of planning, it occurred to me to eat it, somehow. Everything seemed very simple and basic, full of Zen and the Holy Spirit. Such being the case, eating or not eating that single Twinkie became a moral and philosophical issue.
It followed that if I unwrapped the cellophane and it spoke to me, this would prove its consciousness at some level. I already suspected a degree of sentience, because it had been communicating telepathically about unwrapping it. Eating it was either very wrong, or very right. Somehow it compelled me to open the wrapper, with a label reading “HOSTess.” I elevated it, to my nose.
The sense of smell is most closely connected to memory, but 300 micrograms of lysergic acid boosts the effect, much like connecting your laptop to all the Crays in Langley. And then a dim, dusty, smelly vision came out from its cranny between my ears, of that long-ago Twinkie on a bathroom sill. Are you kidding,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. absolutely not. No, I didn’t eat it, not out of logic or good sense, nor even because it was suspect. There was no reason. Maybe it told me not to.
This one said the same, for sure. Not in so many words, perhaps, but I understood what it wanted: to be given as a gift to the universe, set free from the cellophane, not added to the plaque on my arteries. I peeled the wrapper and floated out to the edge of the deck, casting it out into the darkness of the Rocky Mountains. It may have been eaten by Coyote himself, this ancestor of the Last Twinkie Left On Earth. Goodbye, old snack. Epi Ha!
Dominion fits into New West community
Much like New Westminster, the city in which The Dominion will claim its home, Ledinghham McAllister has history on its side.
In 1905, George W. Ledingham founded his company, which specialized in infrastructure and road building, constructing the Granville Street Bridge and downtown Vancouver’s Hudson Bay Company building.
Now partnered with Ward McAllister, Ledingham McAllister — LedMac in short — has since carved a reputation as a multi-family residential builder.
At Dominion’s presentation centre, it’s clear Ledingham McAllister is having fun with New Westminster’s legacy. Baby blue Union Jack graphics on the building’s exterior cry out for Mother Britain; on the roof, meantime, an Austin Mini spins its motorized front wheels.
Building in the Royal City was natural for the developer, according to Manuela Mirecki, Ledingham McAllister’s senior vice-president of marketing.
“We took a new fresh look at New Westminster and we said,Modern lighting fixtures, chandeliers and contemporary lighting. ‘OK, this is an established community with a history, not dissimilar to our company.’
“This is the single most centrally located community in the Lower Mainland,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. with no bridges and no tolls. There are five (SkyTrain) stations servicing this area, depending which direction you’re going. There is a lot of architectural depth and character to New Westminster, and there’s a lot of renewed energy coming into this community.”
The Dominion’s site is walking distance to Front Street, the location of the original Chinatown, but now the hub of the city’s antiques and second-hand stores, with a charm so untouched it’s a favourite movie location (I Robot, New Moon, Rumble in the Bronx,Customized bobblehead made from your own photos, to name a few).
LedMac and interior designer, The Mill, have reflected the area with a suitable blend of contemporary and old-world moods.
The backsplash and the entire back wall of the show suite kitchen are covered in white “penny round” tiles.
The chimney-style hood fan, antique-look hardware and square undermount sinks deserve the moniker “industrial light,” according to Mirecki, “because it’s so warm and accessible.”
The modern-meets-vintage mood continues in the bathrooms.
Sleek cabinets and finishes on one side, a glass shower door hung by a barn-door track railing show two worlds melding so naturally together that it’s difficult to notice the diversity in their styles.
The balcony in the two-bedroom display suite measures about 12 by 14 square feet; cement board beams on the ceiling add warmth and security.
Considering the age and character of the neighbourhood, and the topography of the site, situated on a slight slope, Ledingham McAllister knew a woodframe six-storey would blend into the established community.
The exterior of the project, from Integra Architecture, blends brick and warm materials with lighter cladding on the upper floor.
That brick blends cedar on soffits, glass inset railings,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. expansive roof overhangs and horizontal planes that extend beyond balconies’ edges.
Entrances to ground-floor suites will stand on the street, in a townhome style, with their own garden patios on the building’s north face.
On the south side, facing the Fraser, ground-floor suites will stand on three levels of landscaping, giving homeowners privacy and complementing the building’s street presence.
On the top-floor suites, windows stack upon windows, giving south-side top floor units a grand view of the Fraser.
The building will be set back from the street and sidewalk. Its neighbours across the street — city hall and Tipperary Park, a green space with a large picnic area full of ponds, public art, and a cenotaph — give the community a sense of serenity, Mirecki says.
“The neighbourhood is just grassroots. It’s not affected.”
Developers are adding to the social and commercial life of New Westminster’s waterfront and transit hubs, while keeping the city’s treasured character intact.
The recently refurbished River Market on the Quay has brought in new restaurants, a fruit market, new eateries and cafés, a Safeway, a 10-screen multiplex, and is just a walk from the Army and Navy department store, built in 1939.
Royal Engineers established New Westminster in 1859,Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. making it the oldest city in Western Canada.
Queen Victoria gave the busy port city its name, and the more casual moniker of the “Royal City” was born.
The city boomed after the 1885 completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, centring around Columbia and Front Streets.
That neighbourhood is a destination today, well known for its antique stores, cafés, and independently owned businesses.
More than a century later, the focus of B.C. growth gradually moved west, and New Westminster, in many ways, fell off the urban radar, with a new interest in developing around New Westminster SkyTrain stations, and a rejuvenation of the New Westminster Quay market.
In 1905, George W. Ledingham founded his company, which specialized in infrastructure and road building, constructing the Granville Street Bridge and downtown Vancouver’s Hudson Bay Company building.
Now partnered with Ward McAllister, Ledingham McAllister — LedMac in short — has since carved a reputation as a multi-family residential builder.
At Dominion’s presentation centre, it’s clear Ledingham McAllister is having fun with New Westminster’s legacy. Baby blue Union Jack graphics on the building’s exterior cry out for Mother Britain; on the roof, meantime, an Austin Mini spins its motorized front wheels.
Building in the Royal City was natural for the developer, according to Manuela Mirecki, Ledingham McAllister’s senior vice-president of marketing.
“We took a new fresh look at New Westminster and we said,Modern lighting fixtures, chandeliers and contemporary lighting. ‘OK, this is an established community with a history, not dissimilar to our company.’
“This is the single most centrally located community in the Lower Mainland,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. with no bridges and no tolls. There are five (SkyTrain) stations servicing this area, depending which direction you’re going. There is a lot of architectural depth and character to New Westminster, and there’s a lot of renewed energy coming into this community.”
The Dominion’s site is walking distance to Front Street, the location of the original Chinatown, but now the hub of the city’s antiques and second-hand stores, with a charm so untouched it’s a favourite movie location (I Robot, New Moon, Rumble in the Bronx,Customized bobblehead made from your own photos, to name a few).
LedMac and interior designer, The Mill, have reflected the area with a suitable blend of contemporary and old-world moods.
The backsplash and the entire back wall of the show suite kitchen are covered in white “penny round” tiles.
The chimney-style hood fan, antique-look hardware and square undermount sinks deserve the moniker “industrial light,” according to Mirecki, “because it’s so warm and accessible.”
The modern-meets-vintage mood continues in the bathrooms.
Sleek cabinets and finishes on one side, a glass shower door hung by a barn-door track railing show two worlds melding so naturally together that it’s difficult to notice the diversity in their styles.
The balcony in the two-bedroom display suite measures about 12 by 14 square feet; cement board beams on the ceiling add warmth and security.
Considering the age and character of the neighbourhood, and the topography of the site, situated on a slight slope, Ledingham McAllister knew a woodframe six-storey would blend into the established community.
The exterior of the project, from Integra Architecture, blends brick and warm materials with lighter cladding on the upper floor.
That brick blends cedar on soffits, glass inset railings,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. expansive roof overhangs and horizontal planes that extend beyond balconies’ edges.
Entrances to ground-floor suites will stand on the street, in a townhome style, with their own garden patios on the building’s north face.
On the south side, facing the Fraser, ground-floor suites will stand on three levels of landscaping, giving homeowners privacy and complementing the building’s street presence.
On the top-floor suites, windows stack upon windows, giving south-side top floor units a grand view of the Fraser.
The building will be set back from the street and sidewalk. Its neighbours across the street — city hall and Tipperary Park, a green space with a large picnic area full of ponds, public art, and a cenotaph — give the community a sense of serenity, Mirecki says.
“The neighbourhood is just grassroots. It’s not affected.”
Developers are adding to the social and commercial life of New Westminster’s waterfront and transit hubs, while keeping the city’s treasured character intact.
The recently refurbished River Market on the Quay has brought in new restaurants, a fruit market, new eateries and cafés, a Safeway, a 10-screen multiplex, and is just a walk from the Army and Navy department store, built in 1939.
Royal Engineers established New Westminster in 1859,Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. making it the oldest city in Western Canada.
Queen Victoria gave the busy port city its name, and the more casual moniker of the “Royal City” was born.
The city boomed after the 1885 completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, centring around Columbia and Front Streets.
That neighbourhood is a destination today, well known for its antique stores, cafés, and independently owned businesses.
More than a century later, the focus of B.C. growth gradually moved west, and New Westminster, in many ways, fell off the urban radar, with a new interest in developing around New Westminster SkyTrain stations, and a rejuvenation of the New Westminster Quay market.
2012年11月5日星期一
Panoramic views a draw at North Van's Orizon
When Jesse and Samantha Godin bought their first home in the North
Shore’s Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood 10 years ago, it was the panoramic
view that attracted them.
They purchased their two-bedroom suite in the “Lo-Lo” neighbourhood — as it’s known to locals — just before there was a surge in construction and real estate prices. Now they are looking forward to mid 2014 when they will move a few blocks east to their new home in Orizon on Third, a new residential project from Vancouver developer Intracorp that will offer some of the most spectacular water and skyline views in Metro Vancouver.
“We like the ‘hood” said Jesse, a 34-year-old drummer who grew up in nearby West Vancouver and fell in love with wife Samantha while taking band class together at Sentinel secondary. “We had actually planned to live in our current home and to look around in a couple of years.”
But when their son Bowie — yes,Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. he’s named after the pop star — arrived four months ago, they knew they needed to find something larger than their 800-square-foot apartment.
Bowie was born at the time Intracorp was cranking up the marketing of Orizon. When the couple saw the view was even better than the spectacular vista they already had — coupled with the fact that they got more space — they didn’t hesitate.
“We liked the open floor plan and huge deck overlooking the city because we love to entertain,” says Jesse, who paid $564,900 for a 930-square-foot home with two bedrooms and a den. The deck, at 92 square feet, provides ample room for a barbecue and a table and chairs.
One of the prime features of Orizon is its views of the Vancouver harbour and city skyline. They may well explain the project’s appeal to buyers, who have snapped up 30 of the first 40 homes released.
But the North Shore offers more than views, as Intracorp has cleverly pushed in its “North Shore True” marketing campaign. Residents have quick access to three ski mountains, numerous parks and marinas, and, in the case of Lo Lo, an easy walk to nearby markets, shops and restaurants and the 12-minute SeaBus ride to work and play in Vancouver.
Intracorp has been a major force in transforming the area, a neighbourhood where some 4,500 workers assembled Victory ships during the Second World War. In July 2011, it announced a deal with Anavets, Canada’s oldest veterans association, and the provincial government to redevelop an adjacent site and construct 76 affordable apartments for seniors. The buildings are being completed this fall.
In return, Anavets transferred to Intracorp two remaining parcels of land, which had been home to 58 aging, smaller suites built in the 1960s. With the new Anavets building completed, Intracorp will soon begin demolishing the two old buildings to make way for Orizon.
Architect Doug Ramsay,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. whose firm Ramsey Worden has been doing a number of residential buildings throughout Metro Vancouver, says Orizon is different from other projects in that it develops the theme of indoor and outdoor space flowing together, one evident in many North Shore homes.Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada.
It is evident in the design of the ground-floor suites on the building’s south side. The level of the yards above the rear lane was raised by about four feet, which provides up to 392 square feet of patio and yard space on the larger suites. The design enhanced privacy by erecting a four-foot fence, meaning residents don’t have to see the cars moving through the lane, but still can conveniently access it through a gate.
The extension of living space to the outdoors is incorporated at roof level as well: a terrace with a barbecue area, firepit and furnished lounge is available to owners, allowing them to take in views of the harbour and Vancouver’s skyline.
Ramsey says the building exudes a “crisp” modern feel in everything from long horizontal rooflines to a mix of wood, stone and glass in the building’s lobby. At the same time,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. the firm also broke the horizontal lines out of consideration to preserve the views of neighbouring buildings above Orizon and permits the creation of light wells that bathe the lobby entrance and corridors in natural light.
The show suite also presents a pleasing blend of wood, glass and metal detailing. Kitchen cabinets feature uppers in frosted glass and brushed aluminum with stainless steel lowers in real wood veneers. The balconies have coffered ceilings and bevelled siding on the walls, and Malaysian wood duckboard and wood-grain and glass railings, giving the space the feel of a detached home.
Suites are equipped with solid quartz countertops and those with kitchen islands feature a deep 29-inch square Julien stainless steel under-mount sink. A gourmet appliance package includes an LG stainless steel range, refrigerator and dishwasher. A Faber slide-out hood fan has been installed with provision for a self-standing microwave in another cabinet.
Bathrooms include a deep soaker tub and 12-by-24 inch porcelain tiles, a Duravit high-efficiency toilet and undermount sink. The metal and glass theme continues with wood veneer cabinets with stainless steel detailing. Two bathroom suites include glass shower surrounds.
Orizon also is one of several new buildings on Lower Lonsdale to connect with the Lonsdale District Heating system, a publicly-owned utility that provides heat through a series of inter-connected gas-fired boiler plants. The hot water is distributed underground to the buildings, where owners enjoy the cost-effective (and quiet) benefit of radiant heating piped under the laminate wood flooring.
Orizon boasts the equivalent of Leed silver standard building specifications that include Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs) in every suite. These vents capture heat from the bathrooms and kitchens to preheat the air in the suites, further reducing energy costs. The city of North Vancouver also requires developments like Orizon, which cover more land than the predecessor buildings,Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. to make use of bio-swails, vegetative natural filter systems that clean water from the street and other hard surfaces and return the water to the environment.
They purchased their two-bedroom suite in the “Lo-Lo” neighbourhood — as it’s known to locals — just before there was a surge in construction and real estate prices. Now they are looking forward to mid 2014 when they will move a few blocks east to their new home in Orizon on Third, a new residential project from Vancouver developer Intracorp that will offer some of the most spectacular water and skyline views in Metro Vancouver.
“We like the ‘hood” said Jesse, a 34-year-old drummer who grew up in nearby West Vancouver and fell in love with wife Samantha while taking band class together at Sentinel secondary. “We had actually planned to live in our current home and to look around in a couple of years.”
But when their son Bowie — yes,Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. he’s named after the pop star — arrived four months ago, they knew they needed to find something larger than their 800-square-foot apartment.
Bowie was born at the time Intracorp was cranking up the marketing of Orizon. When the couple saw the view was even better than the spectacular vista they already had — coupled with the fact that they got more space — they didn’t hesitate.
“We liked the open floor plan and huge deck overlooking the city because we love to entertain,” says Jesse, who paid $564,900 for a 930-square-foot home with two bedrooms and a den. The deck, at 92 square feet, provides ample room for a barbecue and a table and chairs.
One of the prime features of Orizon is its views of the Vancouver harbour and city skyline. They may well explain the project’s appeal to buyers, who have snapped up 30 of the first 40 homes released.
But the North Shore offers more than views, as Intracorp has cleverly pushed in its “North Shore True” marketing campaign. Residents have quick access to three ski mountains, numerous parks and marinas, and, in the case of Lo Lo, an easy walk to nearby markets, shops and restaurants and the 12-minute SeaBus ride to work and play in Vancouver.
Intracorp has been a major force in transforming the area, a neighbourhood where some 4,500 workers assembled Victory ships during the Second World War. In July 2011, it announced a deal with Anavets, Canada’s oldest veterans association, and the provincial government to redevelop an adjacent site and construct 76 affordable apartments for seniors. The buildings are being completed this fall.
In return, Anavets transferred to Intracorp two remaining parcels of land, which had been home to 58 aging, smaller suites built in the 1960s. With the new Anavets building completed, Intracorp will soon begin demolishing the two old buildings to make way for Orizon.
Architect Doug Ramsay,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. whose firm Ramsey Worden has been doing a number of residential buildings throughout Metro Vancouver, says Orizon is different from other projects in that it develops the theme of indoor and outdoor space flowing together, one evident in many North Shore homes.Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada.
It is evident in the design of the ground-floor suites on the building’s south side. The level of the yards above the rear lane was raised by about four feet, which provides up to 392 square feet of patio and yard space on the larger suites. The design enhanced privacy by erecting a four-foot fence, meaning residents don’t have to see the cars moving through the lane, but still can conveniently access it through a gate.
The extension of living space to the outdoors is incorporated at roof level as well: a terrace with a barbecue area, firepit and furnished lounge is available to owners, allowing them to take in views of the harbour and Vancouver’s skyline.
Ramsey says the building exudes a “crisp” modern feel in everything from long horizontal rooflines to a mix of wood, stone and glass in the building’s lobby. At the same time,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. the firm also broke the horizontal lines out of consideration to preserve the views of neighbouring buildings above Orizon and permits the creation of light wells that bathe the lobby entrance and corridors in natural light.
The show suite also presents a pleasing blend of wood, glass and metal detailing. Kitchen cabinets feature uppers in frosted glass and brushed aluminum with stainless steel lowers in real wood veneers. The balconies have coffered ceilings and bevelled siding on the walls, and Malaysian wood duckboard and wood-grain and glass railings, giving the space the feel of a detached home.
Suites are equipped with solid quartz countertops and those with kitchen islands feature a deep 29-inch square Julien stainless steel under-mount sink. A gourmet appliance package includes an LG stainless steel range, refrigerator and dishwasher. A Faber slide-out hood fan has been installed with provision for a self-standing microwave in another cabinet.
Bathrooms include a deep soaker tub and 12-by-24 inch porcelain tiles, a Duravit high-efficiency toilet and undermount sink. The metal and glass theme continues with wood veneer cabinets with stainless steel detailing. Two bathroom suites include glass shower surrounds.
Orizon also is one of several new buildings on Lower Lonsdale to connect with the Lonsdale District Heating system, a publicly-owned utility that provides heat through a series of inter-connected gas-fired boiler plants. The hot water is distributed underground to the buildings, where owners enjoy the cost-effective (and quiet) benefit of radiant heating piped under the laminate wood flooring.
Orizon boasts the equivalent of Leed silver standard building specifications that include Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs) in every suite. These vents capture heat from the bathrooms and kitchens to preheat the air in the suites, further reducing energy costs. The city of North Vancouver also requires developments like Orizon, which cover more land than the predecessor buildings,Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. to make use of bio-swails, vegetative natural filter systems that clean water from the street and other hard surfaces and return the water to the environment.
Lessons on Bottom Line Basics
Corn quality, mashing, fermentation, distillation, coproducts—each
year The Alcohol School provides a comprehensive course on making
ethanol efficiently. In September, 90 participants flew into Montreal
for the 32nd annual school, which digs into the science behind the
process as well as new developments under way for both the fuel ethanol
and beverage alcohol industries. The cross fertilization is deliberate,
not only between the beverage and fuel alcohol producers, but also for
related companies that send employees to get a broader understanding of
the industries served. Ethanol Producer Magazine attended this year and
gives a taste of what was learned, with a focus on areas with a big
impact on the bottom line in the initial steps of the process.
“If you want to save money, improve your bottom line in the biggest cost—feedstock,” said Robert Piggot, technical consultant with Lallemand Ethanol Technology, a co-sponsor of the event with the Ethanol Technology Institute.Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. When buying corn, ethanol producers are most interested in the starch. Nonetheless, a survey of ethanol producers once asked if they would pay more for corn if they could get 3 percent more starch. “Most ethanol plants said no,” he said. For a 100 MMgy plant, that 3 percent would add up to $13 million more revenue, if ethanol were selling at $2.50 per gallon, he pointed out.
There can actually be a conflict in the goals between the purchasing department, which is looking for low cost, large quantities and flexible payment terms, and operations, which needs easy-to-process, high yielding corn to be delivered on a timely basis. Operations is looking for high starch content, low moisture, high ratios of amylopectin-to-amylose and floury-endosperm-to-horny-endosperm, and no molds or mycotoxins, which means the standard grade of No. 2 yellow dent corn isn’t all that helpful. “We are stuck with the specifications that were meant for the baking and feed industries, and they actually don’t mean anything to us,” Piggot said. Broken kernels,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. for instance, could be considered beneficial for the ethanol industry, while foreign material wouldn’t. Thus the maximum 3 percent BKFM is not specific enough. No. 2 specs also call for a 5 percent maximum in damaged kernels,Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. with no more than 0.2 percent heat damaged. “If the grain is heat damaged, you lose sugars,” he explained. “Other types of damage are not a problem.” The moisture spec of 14.5 percent is well-understood, but the test weight spec of 54 or 56 pounds per bushel is meaningless, he said. “You often get better yields out of low test weight corn.”
Piggot recommends plants make their expectations clear when explaining their quality needs and setting discounts. “You’re better off to discount the grain,” he added. “Try not to get into the loop of getting a rejected load returned to you, just blended up.” Discounts need to consider hidden and indirect costs. High moisture corn, just 1 percent over the 14.5 percent spec, would translate into a direct cost of 50 gallons of ethanol lost from the load, which at $2.50 per gallon ethanol, would call for a discount of 16 cents per bushel. He recommends that number be doubled to account for other increased costs. For example, the electrical power needed to grind wet corn will be significantly higher than for properly dried corn.
Attention to details in grinding corn is the next area that can have a direct impact on yield. The ideal grind size is very much plant-dependent, Piggot said. While there are advantages to smaller grind sizes that increase the surface area exposed to enzyme action, problems can arise. Factors to consider include how well the slurry mixes and temperature parameters. Coarser grinds need slightly higher temperatures while finer grinds are needed if jet cooking is not used. Finer grinds will keep suspended longer in the fermentor, but will contribute to quicker fouling in the stripper and heat exchangers, plus impact centrifuge separation. The goal is to get the best compromise of particle size for maximum yield and good separation—too large and yields are lost,Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. too small can increase solids in the stillage and backset.
Most ethanol plants use hammermills to grind, and many never take a close look at the configuration, Piggot added. A number of things can be adjusted to improve performance, including the speed and number of hammers as well as spacing, plus the open area on the screen, feed rate, air flow and hammer-to-screen distance.
The next step in the process, mashing, is also a key area for maximizing yields, said Garth Whiddon, technical service manager for Lallemand Ethanol Technology. In mashing, water is combined with the crushed or ground grain, adjusted for pH and temperature to match the chosen enzymes used to break the starches down into dextrins. “Having the optimal conditions for enzymatic efficiency leads to lower usage rates and higher yields,” he said.You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. Fine tuning this step is important. If 4.5 percent residual starch is left after fermentation, it adds up, amounting to $2.6 million lost for a 50 MMgy plant.
The industry has gone through some major process changes, Whiddon added. At one time, nearly every plant used a separate saccharification tank, where the mash was cooled before adding glucoamylase. While it may have been optimal for the ideal enzyme dose, it also created a perfect environment for bacteria. Most plants have now moved to simultaneous saccharification and fermentation.
A more recent process change has been a move towards dropping the jet cooking step. In addition to decreasing enzyme use by nearly 25 percent, eliminating jet cooking prevents a possible 3 to 5 percent yield loss from a Maillard reaction—a chemical reaction that makes some sugars unfermentable and also reduces the free amino acids needed for yeast health. If jet cooking is eliminated, however, the grind requirements are more stringent, he adds, to ensure proper starch conversion.
“If you want to save money, improve your bottom line in the biggest cost—feedstock,” said Robert Piggot, technical consultant with Lallemand Ethanol Technology, a co-sponsor of the event with the Ethanol Technology Institute.Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. When buying corn, ethanol producers are most interested in the starch. Nonetheless, a survey of ethanol producers once asked if they would pay more for corn if they could get 3 percent more starch. “Most ethanol plants said no,” he said. For a 100 MMgy plant, that 3 percent would add up to $13 million more revenue, if ethanol were selling at $2.50 per gallon, he pointed out.
There can actually be a conflict in the goals between the purchasing department, which is looking for low cost, large quantities and flexible payment terms, and operations, which needs easy-to-process, high yielding corn to be delivered on a timely basis. Operations is looking for high starch content, low moisture, high ratios of amylopectin-to-amylose and floury-endosperm-to-horny-endosperm, and no molds or mycotoxins, which means the standard grade of No. 2 yellow dent corn isn’t all that helpful. “We are stuck with the specifications that were meant for the baking and feed industries, and they actually don’t mean anything to us,” Piggot said. Broken kernels,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. for instance, could be considered beneficial for the ethanol industry, while foreign material wouldn’t. Thus the maximum 3 percent BKFM is not specific enough. No. 2 specs also call for a 5 percent maximum in damaged kernels,Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. with no more than 0.2 percent heat damaged. “If the grain is heat damaged, you lose sugars,” he explained. “Other types of damage are not a problem.” The moisture spec of 14.5 percent is well-understood, but the test weight spec of 54 or 56 pounds per bushel is meaningless, he said. “You often get better yields out of low test weight corn.”
Piggot recommends plants make their expectations clear when explaining their quality needs and setting discounts. “You’re better off to discount the grain,” he added. “Try not to get into the loop of getting a rejected load returned to you, just blended up.” Discounts need to consider hidden and indirect costs. High moisture corn, just 1 percent over the 14.5 percent spec, would translate into a direct cost of 50 gallons of ethanol lost from the load, which at $2.50 per gallon ethanol, would call for a discount of 16 cents per bushel. He recommends that number be doubled to account for other increased costs. For example, the electrical power needed to grind wet corn will be significantly higher than for properly dried corn.
Attention to details in grinding corn is the next area that can have a direct impact on yield. The ideal grind size is very much plant-dependent, Piggot said. While there are advantages to smaller grind sizes that increase the surface area exposed to enzyme action, problems can arise. Factors to consider include how well the slurry mixes and temperature parameters. Coarser grinds need slightly higher temperatures while finer grinds are needed if jet cooking is not used. Finer grinds will keep suspended longer in the fermentor, but will contribute to quicker fouling in the stripper and heat exchangers, plus impact centrifuge separation. The goal is to get the best compromise of particle size for maximum yield and good separation—too large and yields are lost,Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. too small can increase solids in the stillage and backset.
Most ethanol plants use hammermills to grind, and many never take a close look at the configuration, Piggot added. A number of things can be adjusted to improve performance, including the speed and number of hammers as well as spacing, plus the open area on the screen, feed rate, air flow and hammer-to-screen distance.
The next step in the process, mashing, is also a key area for maximizing yields, said Garth Whiddon, technical service manager for Lallemand Ethanol Technology. In mashing, water is combined with the crushed or ground grain, adjusted for pH and temperature to match the chosen enzymes used to break the starches down into dextrins. “Having the optimal conditions for enzymatic efficiency leads to lower usage rates and higher yields,” he said.You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. Fine tuning this step is important. If 4.5 percent residual starch is left after fermentation, it adds up, amounting to $2.6 million lost for a 50 MMgy plant.
The industry has gone through some major process changes, Whiddon added. At one time, nearly every plant used a separate saccharification tank, where the mash was cooled before adding glucoamylase. While it may have been optimal for the ideal enzyme dose, it also created a perfect environment for bacteria. Most plants have now moved to simultaneous saccharification and fermentation.
A more recent process change has been a move towards dropping the jet cooking step. In addition to decreasing enzyme use by nearly 25 percent, eliminating jet cooking prevents a possible 3 to 5 percent yield loss from a Maillard reaction—a chemical reaction that makes some sugars unfermentable and also reduces the free amino acids needed for yeast health. If jet cooking is eliminated, however, the grind requirements are more stringent, he adds, to ensure proper starch conversion.
How Did the MTA Restore Subway Service in Time
This morning, temperatures dropped, vast parts of the region remained
without power, and New Jersey commuter lines were in a stranglehold.
But there was one major, if improbable, sign of hope: Some 80 percent of
the New York City subway system was up and running. Not everything went
perfectly — there were delays and crowds and, for those living on
defunct lines, long walks or bus rides to open stations — but it was a
far cry from the prolonged collapse many feared after the wrath of
Sandy.
The challenges, as detailed by MTA chairman Joe Lhota the morning after the storm, were daunting. Seven tunnels under the East River were flooded. An unknown amount of equipment had been exposed to corrosive salt water. Yet the system recovered in time for Monday’s morning commute, which even the MTA’s usual critics acknowledged was nothing short of a miracle. How did they do it?
The first thing the MTA did right was informed by a colossal mistake. After the 2010 blizzard, which embarrassed the mayor and took out the subway for days, the MTA was too slow bringing its trains and equipment somewhere safe and dry.The Fridge fridge magnet is leader in the custom design, “We kind of dropped the ball and we learned from that,” said Tom Prendergast, president of New York City Transit, the part of the MTA that handles city subways and buses. This time the MTA shut everything down on Sunday evening, the day before the storm arrived. Waiting longer would have wasted time and man power needed for the cleanup afterwards.
Even so, Prendergast says, the system wasn’t prepared for what came next. While Irene had brought the water within a foot or two of flooding the subway entrances and ventilation gratings, Sandy’s fourteen-foot surges brought the water gushing in. Half of the subway system’s fourteen under-river tubes flooded. A few filled up end to end, much like the Department of Transportation’s Battery Tunnel. They couldn’t even send workers out to assess them until after the second surge at the next high tide Tuesday morning.
Pumping began soon after — or “dewatering,” as the pumping industry calls it. Other city agencies had to rely on outside contractors to pump their tunnels. But it happens that the subway system already had its own toys. Each of the system’s under-river tunnels has a sump to deal with everyday seepage, and each also has a tube fixed to the side called a discharge line. Starting Tuesday, the system sent in its “pump trains” — diesel powered trains with five or six cars, run by just five or six workers. Underneath the trains are pumps, moving hundreds of gallons of water back into the river every minute. “You take the pump train and you bury the first car up to the floor level so it’s underwater,” Prendergast says, “and you hook it up to the discharge line and you start pumping the tunnel dry.”
The only problem was the MTA had seven flooded tunnels and just three pump trains. It can take up to 100 hours to pump the largest tubes, fully loaded with water, or as little as five or six hours for those that are smaller or less fully flooded. It was time to prioritize. “If you let the size of the effort overcome you, you can’t get started,” Prendergast says. “So you just take on the most important tunnels first. It’s like the old story: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” The highest priority was the 4, 5, and 6 Lexington line — probably the highest capacity line in the United States in terms of customers carried — which connects to the Joraleman Street tunnel. Then there was Clark Street tunnel, which connects to the West Side IRT 2 and 3 trains. Those lines were luckily not completely flooded. The Army Corps of Engineers helped out with some crucial work on the Montague Street tunnel, but Prendergast says the MTA handled the majority of the effort.
At the same time tunnels were being pumped, there were some 600 miles of other track to examine for damage, at least twenty miles of which is exposed to the elements, like the elevated Dyer Avenue line, the Sea Beach line, and the Brighton line in Brooklyn. “We had a lot of downed trees and debris that had to be cleared, so that effort started,” Prendergast says. The system’s 2,700 track workers worked double shifts, then they were fed and given lodging so they could do another double the next day. These same workers also cleaned garbage and debris and silt out of the freshly pumped tunnels.
Next came the moment of truth: Assessing the damage of salt water on the equipment in the tunnels. “You can see right away if the tracks are okay,” Prendergast says. “But everything else — power to move trains and energize communications and signals equipment — they can do some tests, but the ultimate test is powering it up.” They found that different tunnels were affected in different ways, depending on the mix of salt water from the ocean and fresh water from the Hudson. “If it’s more fresh water, all you have to do is dry out the equipment — you don’t necessarily have to clean it.Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. But if you have salt water, it dries and leaves a salt residue. Salt is conductive.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. So you want to clean that salt off. Otherwise you can have a short circuit and you could burn the equipment.”
In this effort, the MTA found they had been given a little grace period, courtesy of the massive power failure in Manhattan south of 39th Street. Instead of the city waiting for the equipment to be cleaned and tested, it was the subway system waiting for the electricity to run final tests.Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. On Thursday, Lhota announced that some service was being restored — the 7 between 74th Street and Main in Queens, and the M between 34th Street in Manhattan and Jamaica in Queens. He also said tunnels for the 4, 5, and F were just waiting for Con Ed to turn on the power. “We were trying to communicate we were willing to get back to normal as soon as possible,” Prendergast says.
By then, the “bus bridge” between Brooklyn and Manhattan had proven woefully inadequate, with long lines stretching around the Barclays Center and tremendous traffic making most commutes practically pointless. “If the bus bridge did anything,” Prendergast says, “it helped underscore for people how our rail system has a lot more utility than our bus system.”
The first lines connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan opened on Saturday, after Con Ed turned on the lights.Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. On Monday, it was back to business, more or less. Of course, major challenges remain: Many stations will remain closed for a long time, like the South Ferry on the 1 line and 207th Street on the A line because of water. The A, L, B, and G lines, among others, are still partially or entirely closed. The tracks across Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways are devastated and could take weeks or months to repair.
In the future, Prendergast says, the system will have to rethink the way it designs its infrastructure. At the very least, ventilation ducts and gratings should be moved higher up or built so that they can be covered and made water-tight along with station entrances. But today, at least, there was a chance for the MTA to exhale a little. “New Yorkers are very resilient; we could not have gotten through it this far without their support,” says Prendergast. “When I look back, given all that we were able to take care of and get service restored, it was pretty amazing to do all we could do.”
The challenges, as detailed by MTA chairman Joe Lhota the morning after the storm, were daunting. Seven tunnels under the East River were flooded. An unknown amount of equipment had been exposed to corrosive salt water. Yet the system recovered in time for Monday’s morning commute, which even the MTA’s usual critics acknowledged was nothing short of a miracle. How did they do it?
The first thing the MTA did right was informed by a colossal mistake. After the 2010 blizzard, which embarrassed the mayor and took out the subway for days, the MTA was too slow bringing its trains and equipment somewhere safe and dry.The Fridge fridge magnet is leader in the custom design, “We kind of dropped the ball and we learned from that,” said Tom Prendergast, president of New York City Transit, the part of the MTA that handles city subways and buses. This time the MTA shut everything down on Sunday evening, the day before the storm arrived. Waiting longer would have wasted time and man power needed for the cleanup afterwards.
Even so, Prendergast says, the system wasn’t prepared for what came next. While Irene had brought the water within a foot or two of flooding the subway entrances and ventilation gratings, Sandy’s fourteen-foot surges brought the water gushing in. Half of the subway system’s fourteen under-river tubes flooded. A few filled up end to end, much like the Department of Transportation’s Battery Tunnel. They couldn’t even send workers out to assess them until after the second surge at the next high tide Tuesday morning.
Pumping began soon after — or “dewatering,” as the pumping industry calls it. Other city agencies had to rely on outside contractors to pump their tunnels. But it happens that the subway system already had its own toys. Each of the system’s under-river tunnels has a sump to deal with everyday seepage, and each also has a tube fixed to the side called a discharge line. Starting Tuesday, the system sent in its “pump trains” — diesel powered trains with five or six cars, run by just five or six workers. Underneath the trains are pumps, moving hundreds of gallons of water back into the river every minute. “You take the pump train and you bury the first car up to the floor level so it’s underwater,” Prendergast says, “and you hook it up to the discharge line and you start pumping the tunnel dry.”
The only problem was the MTA had seven flooded tunnels and just three pump trains. It can take up to 100 hours to pump the largest tubes, fully loaded with water, or as little as five or six hours for those that are smaller or less fully flooded. It was time to prioritize. “If you let the size of the effort overcome you, you can’t get started,” Prendergast says. “So you just take on the most important tunnels first. It’s like the old story: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” The highest priority was the 4, 5, and 6 Lexington line — probably the highest capacity line in the United States in terms of customers carried — which connects to the Joraleman Street tunnel. Then there was Clark Street tunnel, which connects to the West Side IRT 2 and 3 trains. Those lines were luckily not completely flooded. The Army Corps of Engineers helped out with some crucial work on the Montague Street tunnel, but Prendergast says the MTA handled the majority of the effort.
At the same time tunnels were being pumped, there were some 600 miles of other track to examine for damage, at least twenty miles of which is exposed to the elements, like the elevated Dyer Avenue line, the Sea Beach line, and the Brighton line in Brooklyn. “We had a lot of downed trees and debris that had to be cleared, so that effort started,” Prendergast says. The system’s 2,700 track workers worked double shifts, then they were fed and given lodging so they could do another double the next day. These same workers also cleaned garbage and debris and silt out of the freshly pumped tunnels.
Next came the moment of truth: Assessing the damage of salt water on the equipment in the tunnels. “You can see right away if the tracks are okay,” Prendergast says. “But everything else — power to move trains and energize communications and signals equipment — they can do some tests, but the ultimate test is powering it up.” They found that different tunnels were affected in different ways, depending on the mix of salt water from the ocean and fresh water from the Hudson. “If it’s more fresh water, all you have to do is dry out the equipment — you don’t necessarily have to clean it.Promotional custom keychain at ePromos Promotional Products. But if you have salt water, it dries and leaves a salt residue. Salt is conductive.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. So you want to clean that salt off. Otherwise you can have a short circuit and you could burn the equipment.”
In this effort, the MTA found they had been given a little grace period, courtesy of the massive power failure in Manhattan south of 39th Street. Instead of the city waiting for the equipment to be cleaned and tested, it was the subway system waiting for the electricity to run final tests.Find the best iPhone headset for you at Best Buy. On Thursday, Lhota announced that some service was being restored — the 7 between 74th Street and Main in Queens, and the M between 34th Street in Manhattan and Jamaica in Queens. He also said tunnels for the 4, 5, and F were just waiting for Con Ed to turn on the power. “We were trying to communicate we were willing to get back to normal as soon as possible,” Prendergast says.
By then, the “bus bridge” between Brooklyn and Manhattan had proven woefully inadequate, with long lines stretching around the Barclays Center and tremendous traffic making most commutes practically pointless. “If the bus bridge did anything,” Prendergast says, “it helped underscore for people how our rail system has a lot more utility than our bus system.”
The first lines connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan opened on Saturday, after Con Ed turned on the lights.Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. On Monday, it was back to business, more or less. Of course, major challenges remain: Many stations will remain closed for a long time, like the South Ferry on the 1 line and 207th Street on the A line because of water. The A, L, B, and G lines, among others, are still partially or entirely closed. The tracks across Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways are devastated and could take weeks or months to repair.
In the future, Prendergast says, the system will have to rethink the way it designs its infrastructure. At the very least, ventilation ducts and gratings should be moved higher up or built so that they can be covered and made water-tight along with station entrances. But today, at least, there was a chance for the MTA to exhale a little. “New Yorkers are very resilient; we could not have gotten through it this far without their support,” says Prendergast. “When I look back, given all that we were able to take care of and get service restored, it was pretty amazing to do all we could do.”
2012年10月30日星期二
Slusser challenges Dunstan in Madison County Board chairman race
It's been a decade since Dunstan was the first county chairman
elected directly by the voters instead of the County Board, and Dunstan
said progress has been made in the county in the last 10 years because
of bipartisan cooperation.
"Here, Democrats and Republicans seem to be able to work together," Dunstan said. "We don't always agree, because that's impossible. But I honestly believe that Madison County is in the best position financially in the state of Illinois."
Dunstan said the county's stability is primarily because the 19 Democrats and 10 Republicans on the County Board work together to "deliver the goods."
A graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Troy native, Dunstan was first elected to the Troy City Council in 1978, at the time the youngest city official in Illinois at age 21. Two years later he was elected to the County Board, again breaking state records. He served seven terms before his election to county chairman in 2002.
"I love this job, I love working for the people of Madison County," Dunstan said. "I actually enjoy County Board meetings."
The county budget has been cut each year for the past four years, with $3 million in cuts this year and elimination of 23 more employees, Dunstan said. He also pointed out that Madison County has more than 230 fewer employees than in 2002. The reductions were from attrition and some layoffs.
Madison County also is "virtually debt free," Dunstan said, which he credits to a decision to pay down the county's debt with its share of the Phillip Morris tobacco settlement.
In fact, Dunstan said, one of the county's continuing financial problems is that the county can't raise its credit rating from AA to AAA -- the county hasn't borrowed enough money to do so.
"If we end up remodeling the jail ... we will have to renew some jail bonds," Dunstan said. "They tell us that will actually get our credit rating up."
While Dunstan acknowledged that the 2011 tax levy has gone up 1.3 percent, he said it is the lowest increase in 20 years -- for which he also credits both sides of the aisle.
While most public bodies are sweating the pension issue, Madison County has always made 100 percent of its payments, Dunstan said. But he still is leery of the pensions being forced on local taxing bodies, because it is the county that must issue property tax bills, and he doesn't want to see them go up.
Madison County also was the only Southern Illinois county to receive a passing grade from the Illinois Policy Institute in governmental transparency, with budgets, audits, union contracts and the county checkbook all available online for the public to see.
Dunstan cited Madison County's growth both in the Edwardsville-Glen Carbon region and in the warehouse and transportation area around Gateway Commerce Center, as well as the America's Central Port, formerly known as the Melvin Price Center. He said he wants to see it grow even more, with a potential warehouse project that could employ more than 800 people -- though a final decision and announcement has not yet been made on that project.
"More than 50 percent of the U.S. population lives within 500 miles of Madison County," Dunstan said. "We can become the logistics hub of the nation ... If you want to know the future of the St.Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. Louis metropolitan area, look east. The future of our region is in Illinois."
Dunstan said he wants to continue to induce businesses to locate in Madison County and especially wants to see through the levee rehabilitation project. Protecting property values and insurance rates through improving the levees is the biggest challenge and top priority for the county going forward, Dunstan said.
"What we've done as a team is tremendous -- and it's not me, it's 'we,'" Dunstan said.
Slusser wants to see a lower property tax levy and more transparency in Madison County, and lists those as two of the main reasons he is challenging Dunstan for chairman.
Slusser,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. 34, is a graduate of SIUE who worked as a university police officer to get through college. He is now the chief financial officer for a commercial real estate firm, married for seven years and a frequent volunteer with social ministries in northern Madison County.
He said his wife introduced him to programs offering counseling to victims of sexual assault, and for three years assisted in weekly counseling sessions for men who have been abusers, frequently ordered to such therapy by the courts.
Slusser and his wife, Megan, also have formed a group to assist at-risk children through Madison County courts and has served as president of Riverbend Family Ministries, helping victims of domestic violence, particularly children who have lost their homes.
"All the political stuff I do is fine, but that's the stuff I'm most proud of," Slusser said.
Slusser was elected to the County Board in 2008 and serves on the public safety, information technology and county institutions committees. He was a strong proponent of the effort to put the county's checkbook online in 2010, and has been the treasurer of the Madison County Republican Party since his election to the board.
He also has worked on the campaigns of Republican congressional candidate Jason Plummer and state Rep. Dwight Kay, R-Glen Carbon.Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet,
Slusser agrees that Madison County has "so much potential based on our geographic region," but said he thinks the county could do more to cut through red tape and get out of property tax litigation against large employers like Olin Corp. and ConocoPhillips.Everyone needs a USB flash drives wholesale these days.
"Madison County is at a competitive disadvantage, being in the state of Illinois, and we're still making decisions like it's 1985," he said. "We plan on adopting soon, and I want to be able to tell my kids someday that I did something to change things."
Slusser proposes cutting the tax levy rather than its current increase of 1.3 percent. "We will send a clear message that we will not raise the property tax levy," Slusser said. "People have reached their tipping point ... we're being taxed out of our homes and communities. Wages are not increasing and the price of everything is increasing."
While Slusser acknowledged that cuts have been made, he said there are still places where waste is taking place in county government. For example, departments that have a high manager-to-employee ratio can be restructured, he said.
And while he said the online checkbook was a major reason that Madison County gets high marks for transparency, he would like to see it improved. "It's in PDF form and not searchable, while DuPage County's is searchable," he said.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
Slusser has said he believes the county government can do more to fight unemployment and lower property taxes. "Madison County government should be part of the solution, not part of the problem," he said. "We're still operating under 20th century models which are inefficient and costly to the taxpayers. We need a cultural change and that starts with a change in leadership."
"Here, Democrats and Republicans seem to be able to work together," Dunstan said. "We don't always agree, because that's impossible. But I honestly believe that Madison County is in the best position financially in the state of Illinois."
Dunstan said the county's stability is primarily because the 19 Democrats and 10 Republicans on the County Board work together to "deliver the goods."
A graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Troy native, Dunstan was first elected to the Troy City Council in 1978, at the time the youngest city official in Illinois at age 21. Two years later he was elected to the County Board, again breaking state records. He served seven terms before his election to county chairman in 2002.
"I love this job, I love working for the people of Madison County," Dunstan said. "I actually enjoy County Board meetings."
The county budget has been cut each year for the past four years, with $3 million in cuts this year and elimination of 23 more employees, Dunstan said. He also pointed out that Madison County has more than 230 fewer employees than in 2002. The reductions were from attrition and some layoffs.
Madison County also is "virtually debt free," Dunstan said, which he credits to a decision to pay down the county's debt with its share of the Phillip Morris tobacco settlement.
In fact, Dunstan said, one of the county's continuing financial problems is that the county can't raise its credit rating from AA to AAA -- the county hasn't borrowed enough money to do so.
"If we end up remodeling the jail ... we will have to renew some jail bonds," Dunstan said. "They tell us that will actually get our credit rating up."
While Dunstan acknowledged that the 2011 tax levy has gone up 1.3 percent, he said it is the lowest increase in 20 years -- for which he also credits both sides of the aisle.
While most public bodies are sweating the pension issue, Madison County has always made 100 percent of its payments, Dunstan said. But he still is leery of the pensions being forced on local taxing bodies, because it is the county that must issue property tax bills, and he doesn't want to see them go up.
Madison County also was the only Southern Illinois county to receive a passing grade from the Illinois Policy Institute in governmental transparency, with budgets, audits, union contracts and the county checkbook all available online for the public to see.
Dunstan cited Madison County's growth both in the Edwardsville-Glen Carbon region and in the warehouse and transportation area around Gateway Commerce Center, as well as the America's Central Port, formerly known as the Melvin Price Center. He said he wants to see it grow even more, with a potential warehouse project that could employ more than 800 people -- though a final decision and announcement has not yet been made on that project.
"More than 50 percent of the U.S. population lives within 500 miles of Madison County," Dunstan said. "We can become the logistics hub of the nation ... If you want to know the future of the St.Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. Louis metropolitan area, look east. The future of our region is in Illinois."
Dunstan said he wants to continue to induce businesses to locate in Madison County and especially wants to see through the levee rehabilitation project. Protecting property values and insurance rates through improving the levees is the biggest challenge and top priority for the county going forward, Dunstan said.
"What we've done as a team is tremendous -- and it's not me, it's 'we,'" Dunstan said.
Slusser wants to see a lower property tax levy and more transparency in Madison County, and lists those as two of the main reasons he is challenging Dunstan for chairman.
Slusser,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. 34, is a graduate of SIUE who worked as a university police officer to get through college. He is now the chief financial officer for a commercial real estate firm, married for seven years and a frequent volunteer with social ministries in northern Madison County.
He said his wife introduced him to programs offering counseling to victims of sexual assault, and for three years assisted in weekly counseling sessions for men who have been abusers, frequently ordered to such therapy by the courts.
Slusser and his wife, Megan, also have formed a group to assist at-risk children through Madison County courts and has served as president of Riverbend Family Ministries, helping victims of domestic violence, particularly children who have lost their homes.
"All the political stuff I do is fine, but that's the stuff I'm most proud of," Slusser said.
Slusser was elected to the County Board in 2008 and serves on the public safety, information technology and county institutions committees. He was a strong proponent of the effort to put the county's checkbook online in 2010, and has been the treasurer of the Madison County Republican Party since his election to the board.
He also has worked on the campaigns of Republican congressional candidate Jason Plummer and state Rep. Dwight Kay, R-Glen Carbon.Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet,
Slusser agrees that Madison County has "so much potential based on our geographic region," but said he thinks the county could do more to cut through red tape and get out of property tax litigation against large employers like Olin Corp. and ConocoPhillips.Everyone needs a USB flash drives wholesale these days.
"Madison County is at a competitive disadvantage, being in the state of Illinois, and we're still making decisions like it's 1985," he said. "We plan on adopting soon, and I want to be able to tell my kids someday that I did something to change things."
Slusser proposes cutting the tax levy rather than its current increase of 1.3 percent. "We will send a clear message that we will not raise the property tax levy," Slusser said. "People have reached their tipping point ... we're being taxed out of our homes and communities. Wages are not increasing and the price of everything is increasing."
While Slusser acknowledged that cuts have been made, he said there are still places where waste is taking place in county government. For example, departments that have a high manager-to-employee ratio can be restructured, he said.
And while he said the online checkbook was a major reason that Madison County gets high marks for transparency, he would like to see it improved. "It's in PDF form and not searchable, while DuPage County's is searchable," he said.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
Slusser has said he believes the county government can do more to fight unemployment and lower property taxes. "Madison County government should be part of the solution, not part of the problem," he said. "We're still operating under 20th century models which are inefficient and costly to the taxpayers. We need a cultural change and that starts with a change in leadership."
5 seek Lexington County Council post
Each is seeking to be the choice of voters to replace retiring
incumbent Smokey Davis of Lexington, who is not recommending anyone as
his successor.
It’s a showdown delayed from the June 12 Republican primary.
Four candidates - Scott Adams, Wes Howard, Darrell Hudson and Anthony Keisler - were among 250 candidate statewide disqualified then for failure to report personal finances properly.
They quickly gathered hundreds of voter signatures to be restored to the ballot this fall against Kent Collins, who won the GOP nomination by default.
All four call themselves petition Republicans. And county GOP leaders call all five candidates acceptable.
It’s a race mostly on personal appeal than on divergent outlooks.
All the candidates express similar views on steady improvement of law enforcement, fire protection and emergency medical care while keeping taxes low.
It’s a message that Davis said plays well in District 3, which is centered in the town of Lexington and surrounding area that includes a slice of the south shore of Lake Murray.
The area is moderately progressive socially while conservative fiscally, Davis said. "They are willing to pay for quality and security as well as education.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy."
Each petition candidate acknowledges it’s a challenge to capture the attention of voters who tend to cast straight-Republican ballots.
There is no Democrat running for the seat, so the winner among the five will claim a post with a four-year term.
Here’s a snapshot of each campaign:
Adams would be a shoo-in if fund-raising were a promise of success.
He’s well ahead of other challengers in taking in nearly $24,000 so far, including $7,Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet,Everyone needs a USB flash drives wholesale these days.300 from himself. His donors reflect ties to the Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce and his role in helping bring an Amazon distribution center to the Midlands.
When it comes to taxpayers dollars, Adams would focus on major expenses instead of small items. "A lot of people get caught up on $10, when it’s $100 that needs to be addressed."
Adams, a telecommunications cable company executive, is pledging to donate the post’s yearly salary of $17,347 to charities and forego taxpayer-paid health insurance.
Collins is promoting himself as experienced in getting things done due to his background as a former Lexington County prosecutor.
"As a lawyer, I fight for people on a daily basis," he said.
The challenges of operating a small law firm also make him sensitive to the impact of county decisions on local businesses, he said.
Collins signed the petitions of some of his challengers as a goodwill gesture, saying voters deserve a choice that shouldn’t be frustrated by technicalities.
Hudson,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. a vehicle dealer and member of a family well-known for its barbecue, is running as everyone’s neighbor.
His website is full of pictures of family and friends, with less emphasis on politics. "It’s about the local community," he said.You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. "It’s about helping people."
Hudson promises to ask lots of questions as spending decisions are made, but stops short of pinpointing any in place as excessive.
He’s done well in fundraising, pulling in just over $15,100, including nearly $1,500 from himself.
Howard, a Tea Party favorite, is running as an outsider with an insider’s experience who is eager to tackle what he considers spending practices that prevent taxes from being cut.
County leaders treat taxpayers as "a bottomless piggy bank," he said, citing examples such as pens, lunch bags, T-shirts, hats and meals given as staff morale boosters.
"It’s becoming an accepted practice, but that doesn’t make it right," said Howard, a county paramedic who said he will give up that job if elected.
Howard also is critical of larger decisions, such as approval of a package of improvements at Riverbanks Zoo that he said are nice but unnecessary. The zoo tax hike is estimated to add $1.60 yearly to the property tax bill of a $100,000 home.
Keisler portrays himself as someone whose longtime family roots in the area and involvement in local events give him a better sense of problems and acceptable solutions.
"You’ve got to be part of the community to be able to serve the community," he said. "I’m used to getting up every morning, put my pants on and go to work."
It’s a showdown delayed from the June 12 Republican primary.
Four candidates - Scott Adams, Wes Howard, Darrell Hudson and Anthony Keisler - were among 250 candidate statewide disqualified then for failure to report personal finances properly.
They quickly gathered hundreds of voter signatures to be restored to the ballot this fall against Kent Collins, who won the GOP nomination by default.
All four call themselves petition Republicans. And county GOP leaders call all five candidates acceptable.
It’s a race mostly on personal appeal than on divergent outlooks.
All the candidates express similar views on steady improvement of law enforcement, fire protection and emergency medical care while keeping taxes low.
It’s a message that Davis said plays well in District 3, which is centered in the town of Lexington and surrounding area that includes a slice of the south shore of Lake Murray.
The area is moderately progressive socially while conservative fiscally, Davis said. "They are willing to pay for quality and security as well as education.Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy."
Each petition candidate acknowledges it’s a challenge to capture the attention of voters who tend to cast straight-Republican ballots.
There is no Democrat running for the seat, so the winner among the five will claim a post with a four-year term.
Here’s a snapshot of each campaign:
Adams would be a shoo-in if fund-raising were a promise of success.
He’s well ahead of other challengers in taking in nearly $24,000 so far, including $7,Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet,Everyone needs a USB flash drives wholesale these days.300 from himself. His donors reflect ties to the Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce and his role in helping bring an Amazon distribution center to the Midlands.
When it comes to taxpayers dollars, Adams would focus on major expenses instead of small items. "A lot of people get caught up on $10, when it’s $100 that needs to be addressed."
Adams, a telecommunications cable company executive, is pledging to donate the post’s yearly salary of $17,347 to charities and forego taxpayer-paid health insurance.
Collins is promoting himself as experienced in getting things done due to his background as a former Lexington County prosecutor.
"As a lawyer, I fight for people on a daily basis," he said.
The challenges of operating a small law firm also make him sensitive to the impact of county decisions on local businesses, he said.
Collins signed the petitions of some of his challengers as a goodwill gesture, saying voters deserve a choice that shouldn’t be frustrated by technicalities.
Hudson,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. a vehicle dealer and member of a family well-known for its barbecue, is running as everyone’s neighbor.
His website is full of pictures of family and friends, with less emphasis on politics. "It’s about the local community," he said.You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. "It’s about helping people."
Hudson promises to ask lots of questions as spending decisions are made, but stops short of pinpointing any in place as excessive.
He’s done well in fundraising, pulling in just over $15,100, including nearly $1,500 from himself.
Howard, a Tea Party favorite, is running as an outsider with an insider’s experience who is eager to tackle what he considers spending practices that prevent taxes from being cut.
County leaders treat taxpayers as "a bottomless piggy bank," he said, citing examples such as pens, lunch bags, T-shirts, hats and meals given as staff morale boosters.
"It’s becoming an accepted practice, but that doesn’t make it right," said Howard, a county paramedic who said he will give up that job if elected.
Howard also is critical of larger decisions, such as approval of a package of improvements at Riverbanks Zoo that he said are nice but unnecessary. The zoo tax hike is estimated to add $1.60 yearly to the property tax bill of a $100,000 home.
Keisler portrays himself as someone whose longtime family roots in the area and involvement in local events give him a better sense of problems and acceptable solutions.
"You’ve got to be part of the community to be able to serve the community," he said. "I’m used to getting up every morning, put my pants on and go to work."
‘Malawi needs more change now’
Malawi’s ex-president Bakili Muluzi, who ruled from 1994 to 2004, on
Tuesday formally announced his retirement from active politics,
stepping down as chairman of his former governing United Democratic
Front (UDF) party.
The former president, who is recuperating in South Africa after undergoing a surgery,Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. addressed a UDF National Conference in Blantyre through a message which was read on his behalf by one of the country’s top lawyers Kalekeni Kaphale.
Muluzi, who defeated late dictator Kamuzu Banda in the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, said he choose Kaphale to deliver a farewell speech becauae he “ is a passionate defender of human rights and constitutionalism and also a promoter of rule of law and good governance.”
In his speech,Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. Muluzi said he regretted not having done more to improve the lives of his citizens when he was head of state but pointed out that his government “performed extremely well” in some areas.
“When we took over government in 1994, the poverty levels in this country were very high. Admittedly, they are still a challenge today. However, we must admit and acknowledge that during our time there were some areas where we performed extremely well and others where we failed to meet the expectations of Malawians,” he said.
Muluzi said the political gains and the socio-economic changes that the country achieved in the 1990s and early 2000s have not been consolidated.
“To consolidate these, Malawi needs more change now than ever before!” he said.
Muluzi,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. who is a life patron of UDF together with Patrick Mbewe, told delegates that the party is “alive and strong and that we are continuing the agenda we set 20 years ago,” adding “UDF siyizatha ngati makatani! Ayi! (UDF will not be torn apart like tattered curtains) And nobody should wish this party away. You just can’t.”
He said UDF will contune with “change agenda”.
“As a party, how do we abandon our change agenda when the cost of living is increasingly becoming more unbearable for most Malawians. How do we abandon the reform agenda when the basic needs such as water and electricity are still a luxury?
“How do we stop calling for transformative change when our industries are not performing well? How do we stop the change agenda when the products of our policy on free primary school cannot access higher education?
“How do we fold our hands and claim that we have achieved it all when our fuel supplies are way below our required needs to drive our economy. How do we claim that we have accomplished our agenda when the majority of our youth are not gainfully employed and cannot make a decent living out of any economic activity?”
The former president said UDF should provide a unique and special vehicle that should serve many purposes.
“It should be a defender, protector,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. and fighter for the underdogs; a refuge for the powerless; and a parliament for the disenfranchised,” he said.
Muluzi also said asa party that championed the introduction of multipartyism and pluralism, the UDF should take the leadership and be exemplary in opening up to new membership and new ideas in order to find new ways of dealing with new challenges.
“It is important to make sure that the party utilizes the experience from the old members but at the same time creating a conducive environment for new members to come in and help the party at various levels of its structures.,” he said, adding “Malawi, as a country, is endowed with talent but at times we are not willing to give this talent a chance.”
Muluzi said UDF should embrace the ‘Facebook generation”.
“This generation holds the key to the survival of this party and, for that matter, any other social and political institution in this country at the moment. Let us therefore take this generation very seriously or we risk extinction like dinosaurs. If we do not open up to this generation and to women,Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet, then our party could as well be an item for preservation in the museums and the archives,” he said.
He pointed out that in democracy there are no shortcuts and urged party members to allow members to elect leaders of their choice from the top to the lowest structure of the party.
The former president, who is recuperating in South Africa after undergoing a surgery,Offering lowest priced printed lanyard in Canada. addressed a UDF National Conference in Blantyre through a message which was read on his behalf by one of the country’s top lawyers Kalekeni Kaphale.
Muluzi, who defeated late dictator Kamuzu Banda in the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, said he choose Kaphale to deliver a farewell speech becauae he “ is a passionate defender of human rights and constitutionalism and also a promoter of rule of law and good governance.”
In his speech,Redpin is an open source indoor positioning system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. Muluzi said he regretted not having done more to improve the lives of his citizens when he was head of state but pointed out that his government “performed extremely well” in some areas.
“When we took over government in 1994, the poverty levels in this country were very high. Admittedly, they are still a challenge today. However, we must admit and acknowledge that during our time there were some areas where we performed extremely well and others where we failed to meet the expectations of Malawians,” he said.
Muluzi said the political gains and the socio-economic changes that the country achieved in the 1990s and early 2000s have not been consolidated.
“To consolidate these, Malawi needs more change now than ever before!” he said.
Muluzi,Shop for high quality wholesale parking sensor system products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery. who is a life patron of UDF together with Patrick Mbewe, told delegates that the party is “alive and strong and that we are continuing the agenda we set 20 years ago,” adding “UDF siyizatha ngati makatani! Ayi! (UDF will not be torn apart like tattered curtains) And nobody should wish this party away. You just can’t.”
He said UDF will contune with “change agenda”.
“As a party, how do we abandon our change agenda when the cost of living is increasingly becoming more unbearable for most Malawians. How do we abandon the reform agenda when the basic needs such as water and electricity are still a luxury?
“How do we stop calling for transformative change when our industries are not performing well? How do we stop the change agenda when the products of our policy on free primary school cannot access higher education?
“How do we fold our hands and claim that we have achieved it all when our fuel supplies are way below our required needs to drive our economy. How do we claim that we have accomplished our agenda when the majority of our youth are not gainfully employed and cannot make a decent living out of any economic activity?”
The former president said UDF should provide a unique and special vehicle that should serve many purposes.
“It should be a defender, protector,You'll be able to spot your bag from a mile away with these elegant and colorful leather luggage tag. and fighter for the underdogs; a refuge for the powerless; and a parliament for the disenfranchised,” he said.
Muluzi also said asa party that championed the introduction of multipartyism and pluralism, the UDF should take the leadership and be exemplary in opening up to new membership and new ideas in order to find new ways of dealing with new challenges.
“It is important to make sure that the party utilizes the experience from the old members but at the same time creating a conducive environment for new members to come in and help the party at various levels of its structures.,” he said, adding “Malawi, as a country, is endowed with talent but at times we are not willing to give this talent a chance.”
Muluzi said UDF should embrace the ‘Facebook generation”.
“This generation holds the key to the survival of this party and, for that matter, any other social and political institution in this country at the moment. Let us therefore take this generation very seriously or we risk extinction like dinosaurs. If we do not open up to this generation and to women,Custom Rubber Bracelets and silicone bracelet, then our party could as well be an item for preservation in the museums and the archives,” he said.
He pointed out that in democracy there are no shortcuts and urged party members to allow members to elect leaders of their choice from the top to the lowest structure of the party.
2012年10月23日星期二
'The Punisher' Chases 200 mph
Steve and I drooled over the then brand-new red 1983 Suzuki GS1100
sitting in the Rock Store parking lot one Saturday morning. The Suzuki
owner was more than happy to tell us all about how much horsepower his
new bike made, its quarter-mile drag strip times, and its cost. It was
the hottest thing on two wheels.
He asked what we were riding, and we pointed to our well-worn mid-70s Kawasaki and Honda mounts.We are porcelain tiles specialists and are passionate about our product， He nodded politely, but was a bit distracted, his attention focused on himself. After a few minutes we said it was time to go on a canyon ride. He asked if we would mind if he tagged along. Sure thing, buddy.
We waited for him at the end of the canyon road, sitting in the shade with our helmets off. He eventually rolled up and stammered some lame excuses why it took him so long to reach the destination. We nodded in sympathy and simply observed that he had been "Punished." He gave a puzzled look. We felt no need to explain.
Most of us in our early riding years did not have the financial means to enjoy the ownership and riding experience of the latest two-wheeled equipment; our bikes generally consisted of last generation performance machines. Out of nothing more than envy, we dedicated our efforts to building, testing, and riding our bikes in a manner that demonstrated to those more fortunate individuals that they could not simply buy their way to status and speed.
"Those who take the easy road to motorcycle performance shall be Punished.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring." That guiding principle has been applied to each successive model of last generation bikes I have owned. They have all been simply called The Punisher.
Fast forward to 2008. Twenty-five years later, my current bike was good, but not the latest and greatest.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. My 2003 Aprilia Tuono Racing performed well, yet was rapidly being eclipsed by the latest generation of powerful and expensive Ducatis by as much as 40 horsepower. The seemingly endless parade of shiny new red machines clogging up the Starbucks parking lots slowly awakened those old feelings of class warfare, and could no longer be ignored. Punishment must be served, but how?
I knew the answer as soon as I saw the Spoon Valley Racing supercharger kit for the Aprilia RSV motor. It was compact, powerful, and fit entirely beneath the stock bodywork. The plan to build a stealthy supercharged Punisher streetbike was hatched, and a leftover 2007 Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory was purchased. I could hardly contain myself at the thought of ambushing unsuspecting Ducs, turning their smug smiles into slack-jawed disbelief with a simple twist of the throttle.
The kit contained the basic mounting brackets, pulleys, and a fabricated intake bonnet, though not the 200-horsepower rated Rotrex C15-60 centrifugal supercharger. There were still lots of ancillary parts to purchase, some machining, fitting, and fabrication work, as well.
An extension shaft taken off the engine counterbalancer drives the supercharger, and that required some delicate machining to the engine cases and balancer shaft to accomplish. Overall, it took about eight months from the time I received the kit to having a running bike. And it did run - for about two minutes before an oil leak developed from the shaft seal. Three months and three prototype shaft and seal designs later, the oil leak problem was permanently resolved.
Early dyno tuning sessions identified an inadequate fuel pump and undersized fuel injectors. Once sorted, the bike showed great promise by making over 170 rear wheel horsepower (ed. note: all horsepower numbers in the story are rear wheel), with mostly OEM engine parts. The question of longevity was still unanswered.
"We should run this bike at the Texas Mile," suggest my horsepower freak friend Micah Shoemaker. Micah is one of the owners, and chief tuner at AF1 Racing in New Braunfels, Texas, who opined, "I think we can do a little more tuning and make enough horsepower to go 200 mph." Did he just say "200 mph?"
My eyes glazed over and my mind raced. I had always dreamed of breaking that magical speed barrier.Find the lowest prices on Air purifier. Was this possible with an Aprilia? From that casual remark, we launched a three-year project to be the fastest twin in Texas Mile land speed racing.
Another friend, Dave Malmberg of Leucadia, Calif.The Fridge fridge magnet is leader in the custom design,, was to become the third member of Team Punisher. Dave is a design engineer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, as well as a championship motorcycle racer/builder with a full race shop. He had already been advising me on the project from time to time, so it seemed prudent to drag him into the black hole of race bike development.
Our first Texas Mile event in March of 2010 showed potential, and made clear how much farther we had to go. During that initial outing, we only managed a total of five passes and 175.4 mph before a melted stock piston with fractured rings forced us to quit. At least that had given us plenty of time to study how the big boys were getting it done.
He asked what we were riding, and we pointed to our well-worn mid-70s Kawasaki and Honda mounts.We are porcelain tiles specialists and are passionate about our product， He nodded politely, but was a bit distracted, his attention focused on himself. After a few minutes we said it was time to go on a canyon ride. He asked if we would mind if he tagged along. Sure thing, buddy.
We waited for him at the end of the canyon road, sitting in the shade with our helmets off. He eventually rolled up and stammered some lame excuses why it took him so long to reach the destination. We nodded in sympathy and simply observed that he had been "Punished." He gave a puzzled look. We felt no need to explain.
Most of us in our early riding years did not have the financial means to enjoy the ownership and riding experience of the latest two-wheeled equipment; our bikes generally consisted of last generation performance machines. Out of nothing more than envy, we dedicated our efforts to building, testing, and riding our bikes in a manner that demonstrated to those more fortunate individuals that they could not simply buy their way to status and speed.
"Those who take the easy road to motorcycle performance shall be Punished.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring." That guiding principle has been applied to each successive model of last generation bikes I have owned. They have all been simply called The Punisher.
Fast forward to 2008. Twenty-five years later, my current bike was good, but not the latest and greatest.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. My 2003 Aprilia Tuono Racing performed well, yet was rapidly being eclipsed by the latest generation of powerful and expensive Ducatis by as much as 40 horsepower. The seemingly endless parade of shiny new red machines clogging up the Starbucks parking lots slowly awakened those old feelings of class warfare, and could no longer be ignored. Punishment must be served, but how?
I knew the answer as soon as I saw the Spoon Valley Racing supercharger kit for the Aprilia RSV motor. It was compact, powerful, and fit entirely beneath the stock bodywork. The plan to build a stealthy supercharged Punisher streetbike was hatched, and a leftover 2007 Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory was purchased. I could hardly contain myself at the thought of ambushing unsuspecting Ducs, turning their smug smiles into slack-jawed disbelief with a simple twist of the throttle.
The kit contained the basic mounting brackets, pulleys, and a fabricated intake bonnet, though not the 200-horsepower rated Rotrex C15-60 centrifugal supercharger. There were still lots of ancillary parts to purchase, some machining, fitting, and fabrication work, as well.
An extension shaft taken off the engine counterbalancer drives the supercharger, and that required some delicate machining to the engine cases and balancer shaft to accomplish. Overall, it took about eight months from the time I received the kit to having a running bike. And it did run - for about two minutes before an oil leak developed from the shaft seal. Three months and three prototype shaft and seal designs later, the oil leak problem was permanently resolved.
Early dyno tuning sessions identified an inadequate fuel pump and undersized fuel injectors. Once sorted, the bike showed great promise by making over 170 rear wheel horsepower (ed. note: all horsepower numbers in the story are rear wheel), with mostly OEM engine parts. The question of longevity was still unanswered.
"We should run this bike at the Texas Mile," suggest my horsepower freak friend Micah Shoemaker. Micah is one of the owners, and chief tuner at AF1 Racing in New Braunfels, Texas, who opined, "I think we can do a little more tuning and make enough horsepower to go 200 mph." Did he just say "200 mph?"
My eyes glazed over and my mind raced. I had always dreamed of breaking that magical speed barrier.Find the lowest prices on Air purifier. Was this possible with an Aprilia? From that casual remark, we launched a three-year project to be the fastest twin in Texas Mile land speed racing.
Another friend, Dave Malmberg of Leucadia, Calif.The Fridge fridge magnet is leader in the custom design,, was to become the third member of Team Punisher. Dave is a design engineer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, as well as a championship motorcycle racer/builder with a full race shop. He had already been advising me on the project from time to time, so it seemed prudent to drag him into the black hole of race bike development.
Our first Texas Mile event in March of 2010 showed potential, and made clear how much farther we had to go. During that initial outing, we only managed a total of five passes and 175.4 mph before a melted stock piston with fractured rings forced us to quit. At least that had given us plenty of time to study how the big boys were getting it done.
So The NHL Players Have Reached Animal Status
The latest players to come forward have been Alexander Ovechkin,
David Krejci, and Sergei Kostitsyn. They all said just about the same
thing. They would prefer to play in Europe, they like the money, they
like the atmosphere,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet
to choose from for your storage needs. they are treated like kings.
Well, they didn’t say they have been treated like kings, but their
comments toward the NHL make it seem like they live in palaces with
intricate tapestries and velvet curtains. Gold leafed thrones that serve
as a bench in their stall, a woman standing with a large palm fanning
them- ok I’ll stop.
I could handle Henrik Zetterberg and Ilya Bryzgalov spewing out typical PR empty threats to ruffle some feathers, but now it’s gone overboard. How do you expect to be treated like a professional and receive respect when you publicly bash the guys on the other side of the table?
Players who have been so bold as to say they wouldn’t mind staying in Russia, or Sweden – wherever they may be- instead of coming back to the NHL are putting the nail in the lockout coffin.
Kostitsyn has a bit of an attitude; refusing to report to the AHL, now ridiculing the NHL for being second rate. Well, if you really hate the NHL that much and love the KHL… play for the KHL. As Ovechkin stated, go to court and get your contract annulled. Divorce the NHL Kostitsyn, I dare you. The fact that Kostitsyn has a contract that forks over 3 million a season is disturbing to me anyway.
Krejci decided to go -what I would call- a little too far overboard with his statements. “It’s a shame for the entire hockey world. (He) treats us like animals.” LF Press Now, David, you play hockey, get world class health care and nutrition with the Bruins, and make $5.25 million. Let me get this straight, you make $5.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring.25 million a year and you’re treated like an animal?
Ahem. Let’s compare. I work retail, and I hate it 99.9% of the time. I work because I have to in order to go to school, and, well, take care of myself. As anyone who has worked retail, or customer service knows, we get treated like total animals sometimes.A Water poloear cap is a piece of headgear used in water polo. By total animals, I mean, if the customer is having a bad day, we are their punching bag and there’s nothing we can do about it. If we stick up for ourselves, we can get fired. The customer is always right.
Even though I wear a lanyard at work with my name on it in big letters, I still get snapped at, whistled at, and -my favourite- the “Hello?!”. Now, this comes with the territory and it makes you feel worthless some days. The point is, I make a HEFTY $10.25 an hour. I know, right? Where did I score this gig!?
As an animal,Excellent range of ceramic wall tiles in various finishes, I’m wondering which kind he is referring to. You mean like the ones at the zoo who have nice confined spaces, are fed at certain times each day, have toys, families, have direct access to vets when they’re sick, or hurt, are in no danger? Oh, yes, those pampered animals. I feel so bad for them, stuck in cages that stretch acres wide, never having to worry about their next meal, or illness.
So yes, David Krejci, being treated like a zoo animal must be so hard. You have world-class doctors and trainers at your disposal, you have to pinch your pennies with that $5.25 million a year, and you have to live in Massachusetts? I feel bad for you son, you’ve got 99 problems and living comfortably ain’t one.Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate.
Nobody is taking these allegations of the NHL treating their players like animals seriously, because, really… they have all the benefits in the world within their organizations. They have fat stacks to go with it, and fly on private planes. There’s no pity party going on here. Stop trying to win a PR battle. Buckle down and end the lockout with your silence, don’t lengthen it with your pompous statements.
I could handle Henrik Zetterberg and Ilya Bryzgalov spewing out typical PR empty threats to ruffle some feathers, but now it’s gone overboard. How do you expect to be treated like a professional and receive respect when you publicly bash the guys on the other side of the table?
Players who have been so bold as to say they wouldn’t mind staying in Russia, or Sweden – wherever they may be- instead of coming back to the NHL are putting the nail in the lockout coffin.
Kostitsyn has a bit of an attitude; refusing to report to the AHL, now ridiculing the NHL for being second rate. Well, if you really hate the NHL that much and love the KHL… play for the KHL. As Ovechkin stated, go to court and get your contract annulled. Divorce the NHL Kostitsyn, I dare you. The fact that Kostitsyn has a contract that forks over 3 million a season is disturbing to me anyway.
Krejci decided to go -what I would call- a little too far overboard with his statements. “It’s a shame for the entire hockey world. (He) treats us like animals.” LF Press Now, David, you play hockey, get world class health care and nutrition with the Bruins, and make $5.25 million. Let me get this straight, you make $5.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring.25 million a year and you’re treated like an animal?
Ahem. Let’s compare. I work retail, and I hate it 99.9% of the time. I work because I have to in order to go to school, and, well, take care of myself. As anyone who has worked retail, or customer service knows, we get treated like total animals sometimes.A Water poloear cap is a piece of headgear used in water polo. By total animals, I mean, if the customer is having a bad day, we are their punching bag and there’s nothing we can do about it. If we stick up for ourselves, we can get fired. The customer is always right.
Even though I wear a lanyard at work with my name on it in big letters, I still get snapped at, whistled at, and -my favourite- the “Hello?!”. Now, this comes with the territory and it makes you feel worthless some days. The point is, I make a HEFTY $10.25 an hour. I know, right? Where did I score this gig!?
As an animal,Excellent range of ceramic wall tiles in various finishes, I’m wondering which kind he is referring to. You mean like the ones at the zoo who have nice confined spaces, are fed at certain times each day, have toys, families, have direct access to vets when they’re sick, or hurt, are in no danger? Oh, yes, those pampered animals. I feel so bad for them, stuck in cages that stretch acres wide, never having to worry about their next meal, or illness.
So yes, David Krejci, being treated like a zoo animal must be so hard. You have world-class doctors and trainers at your disposal, you have to pinch your pennies with that $5.25 million a year, and you have to live in Massachusetts? I feel bad for you son, you’ve got 99 problems and living comfortably ain’t one.Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate.
Nobody is taking these allegations of the NHL treating their players like animals seriously, because, really… they have all the benefits in the world within their organizations. They have fat stacks to go with it, and fly on private planes. There’s no pity party going on here. Stop trying to win a PR battle. Buckle down and end the lockout with your silence, don’t lengthen it with your pompous statements.
Azerbaijani border could lead to war
In a region where a fragile peace holds over three frozen conflicts,
the nations of the South Caucasus are buzzing with drones they use to
probe one another’s defenses and spy on disputed territories.
The region is also host to strategic oil and gas pipelines and a tangled web of alliances and precious resources that observers say threaten to quickly escalate the border skirmishes and airspace violations to a wider regional conflict triggered by Armenia and Azerbaijan that could potentially pull in Israel, Russia and Iran.
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Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Center in Yerevan, said in a briefing that attacks this summer showed that Azerbaijan is eager to “play with its new toys” and its forces showed “impressive tactical and operational improvement.”
The International Crisis Group warned that as the tit-for-tat incidents become more deadly, “there is a growing risk that the increasing frontline tensions could lead to an accidental war.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs.”
With this in mind, the UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have long imposed a non-binding arms embargo on both countries, and both are under a de facto arms ban from the United States. But, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), this has not stopped Israel and Russia from selling to them.
After fighting a bloody war in the early 1990s over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a stalemate with an oft-violated ceasefire holding a tenuous peace between them.
And drones are the latest addition to the battlefield. In March, Azerbaijan signed a $1.6 billion arms deal with Israel, which consisted largely of advanced drones and an air defense system. Through this and other deals, Azerbaijan is currently amassing a squadron of over 100 drones from all three of Israel’s top defense manufacturers.
Armenia, meanwhile, employs only a small number of domestically produced models.
Intelligence gathering is just one use for drones, which are also used to spot targets for artillery, and, if armed, strike targets themselves.Dongpeng professionally produces and export all types of glazed porcelain tile tiles at low price.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces routinely snipe and engage one another along the front, each typically blaming the other for violating the ceasefire. At least 60 people have been killed in ceasefire violations in the last two years, and the Brussels-based International Crisis Group claimed in a report published in February 2011 that the sporadic violence has claimed hundreds of lives.
“Each (Armenia and Azerbaijan) is apparently using the clashes and the threat of a new war to pressure its opponent at the negotiations table, while also preparing for the possibility of a full-scale conflict in the event of a complete breakdown in the peace talks,” the report said.
Alexander Iskandaryan, director of the Caucasus Institute in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, said that the arms buildup on both sides makes the situation more dangerous but also said that the clashes are calculated actions, with higher death tolls becoming a negotiating tactic.
“This isn’t Somalia or Afghanistan. These aren’t independent units. The Armenian, Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces have a rigid chain of command so it’s not a question of a sergeant or a lieutenant randomly giving the order to open fire. These are absolutely synchronized political attacks,” Iskandaryan said.
The deadliest recent uptick in violence along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the line of contact around Karabakh came in early June as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was on a visit to the region.Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate. While death tolls varied, at least two dozen soldiers were killed or wounded in a series of shootouts along the front.
The year before, at least four Armenian soldiers were killed in an alleged border incursion by Azerbaijani troops one day after a peace summit between the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“No one slept for two or three days [during the June skirmishes],” said Grush Agbaryan, the mayor of the border village of Voskepar for a total of 27 years off and on over the past three decades. “Everyone is now saying that the war is coming. We know that it could start at any moment.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring."
Azerbaijan refused to issue accreditation to GlobalPost’s correspondent to enter the country to report on the shootings and Azerbaijan’s military modernization.
The region is also host to strategic oil and gas pipelines and a tangled web of alliances and precious resources that observers say threaten to quickly escalate the border skirmishes and airspace violations to a wider regional conflict triggered by Armenia and Azerbaijan that could potentially pull in Israel, Russia and Iran.
To some extent, these countries are already being pulled towards conflict. Last September,A smooth and Glossy floor tile not only looks bright and clean, Armenia shot down an Israeli-made Azerbaijani drone over Nagorno-Karabakh and the government claims that drones have been spotted ahead of recent incursions by Azerbaijani troops into Armenian-held territory.
Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Center in Yerevan, said in a briefing that attacks this summer showed that Azerbaijan is eager to “play with its new toys” and its forces showed “impressive tactical and operational improvement.”
The International Crisis Group warned that as the tit-for-tat incidents become more deadly, “there is a growing risk that the increasing frontline tensions could lead to an accidental war.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs.”
With this in mind, the UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have long imposed a non-binding arms embargo on both countries, and both are under a de facto arms ban from the United States. But, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), this has not stopped Israel and Russia from selling to them.
After fighting a bloody war in the early 1990s over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a stalemate with an oft-violated ceasefire holding a tenuous peace between them.
And drones are the latest addition to the battlefield. In March, Azerbaijan signed a $1.6 billion arms deal with Israel, which consisted largely of advanced drones and an air defense system. Through this and other deals, Azerbaijan is currently amassing a squadron of over 100 drones from all three of Israel’s top defense manufacturers.
Armenia, meanwhile, employs only a small number of domestically produced models.
Intelligence gathering is just one use for drones, which are also used to spot targets for artillery, and, if armed, strike targets themselves.Dongpeng professionally produces and export all types of glazed porcelain tile tiles at low price.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces routinely snipe and engage one another along the front, each typically blaming the other for violating the ceasefire. At least 60 people have been killed in ceasefire violations in the last two years, and the Brussels-based International Crisis Group claimed in a report published in February 2011 that the sporadic violence has claimed hundreds of lives.
“Each (Armenia and Azerbaijan) is apparently using the clashes and the threat of a new war to pressure its opponent at the negotiations table, while also preparing for the possibility of a full-scale conflict in the event of a complete breakdown in the peace talks,” the report said.
Alexander Iskandaryan, director of the Caucasus Institute in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, said that the arms buildup on both sides makes the situation more dangerous but also said that the clashes are calculated actions, with higher death tolls becoming a negotiating tactic.
“This isn’t Somalia or Afghanistan. These aren’t independent units. The Armenian, Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces have a rigid chain of command so it’s not a question of a sergeant or a lieutenant randomly giving the order to open fire. These are absolutely synchronized political attacks,” Iskandaryan said.
The deadliest recent uptick in violence along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the line of contact around Karabakh came in early June as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was on a visit to the region.Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate. While death tolls varied, at least two dozen soldiers were killed or wounded in a series of shootouts along the front.
The year before, at least four Armenian soldiers were killed in an alleged border incursion by Azerbaijani troops one day after a peace summit between the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“No one slept for two or three days [during the June skirmishes],” said Grush Agbaryan, the mayor of the border village of Voskepar for a total of 27 years off and on over the past three decades. “Everyone is now saying that the war is coming. We know that it could start at any moment.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring."
Azerbaijan refused to issue accreditation to GlobalPost’s correspondent to enter the country to report on the shootings and Azerbaijan’s military modernization.
2012年10月17日星期三
NASCAR’s also-rans work the system
Those terms, as well as wheel bearing,We are professional in supplying Aion Kinah, transmission and engine are code for NASCAR’s hidden secret: the drivers who start and park.
The start-and-parkers have enough talent to wheel a race car 185 mph but not enough sponsorship money to keep it on the track for 400 miles. Or sometimes, even 40.
But they keep coming to the track, hoping to qualify for races like Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway even though they realize their chances of finishing, not to mention winning, is remote.
“I love racin,” said Nemechek, who won both the 2004 Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at Kansas Speedway.Service and equipment provider in professional Car park management system. “Now some of the time, it makes you think twice. Why the heck am I still doing this? But I love it.”
So while most of the attention at NASCAR races focuses on the race leaders and contenders for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, there is just as much drama at the rear of the pack. That’s where the drivers for the low-budget teams try to squeeze in as many laps as they can without damaging their race car and hope to pick up enough cash to make it to next week.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring.
“Once in a while, we find some extra funds which allow us to go out there and run more, but it’s so hard, if you don’t have that, you’re going to be broke pretty quick, said Nemechek, who owns NEMCO Motorsports with his wife, Andrea. “It’s a very expensive sport, which everybody knows, and we’re trying to do the best we can.”
Blaney, driving for upstart Tommy Baldwin Racing, nearly caught the break of his career at this year’s Daytona 500 when he was the leader on lap 164 of 202 when the race was red flagged after Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer in a rain delay.
“I was thinking, ‘We might get lucky,’?” Blaney said of winning the Great American Race and its $1,Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate.588,887 purse had the race not resumed.
Instead, he managed to finish 15th and pocketed $296,513 for his team to race another day.
“You’re trying to race, trying to raise a little money,” said Blaney, 50. “Maybe the sponsor arena gets a little more friendly and you get enough money to race all day instead of having to stop early. A lot of guys are quality race car drivers who don’t have much to drive, and in this day and age, there’s no making up for lack of equipment.”
This week, NASCAR tried to level the field a bit when it announced a change in qualifying procedures. Instead of the top 35 in owners points automatically qualifying for a race, the fastest 36 would automatically qualify for the 43-car field, regardless of position in the standings.
That would seem to give someone like Nemechek, nicknamed “Front Row Joe” for his qualifying prowess,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. a chance to start further up in the field rather than struggle for one of the last eight spots.
“They’re trying to add some excitement to qualifying, so it means something,” said Nemechek, 49. “There are a few teams that have taken advantage of being locked in. Now, everybody has to put a valiant effort forward and see what it takes to get in.”
Qualifying to make the show is so important for the field fillers that they consider qualifying day more important than race day.
“I’m a product of that,” said Landon Cassill, the 2008 Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year who drives for another fledgling Sprint Cup team, BK Racing. “I spent a year driving for teams that couldn’t even run 20 laps. We had to make the race, and once we made the race, that was the end of our weekend.
“We achieved our goal, and I acquired many meetings with big(-money) team owners based on how I qualified a car. I qualified 20th at Indianapolis, and the very next week, I was sitting at a desk of big-time team owners who wanted to know who I was.”
The logical question for those teams struggling to keep up with the $20 million a year budgets of the powerhouse Cup teams is: Why don’t they race at the second-tier Nationwide level?
That answer is that takes millions of dollars as well to haul cars and crews to the track.
“Three years ago, Tommy Baldwin was a start-and-park team,” said Cassill, who is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “You would have said, ‘Tommy why don’t you run Nationwide?’ But last fall, Dave Blaney finished third in (Baldwin’s) car at Talladega. Tommy built it from ground up. He built a team that generated enough money starting and parking in order to race a couple of races, and through their success in those races found some sponsorship to race a full season for a couple of years.
The start-and-parkers have enough talent to wheel a race car 185 mph but not enough sponsorship money to keep it on the track for 400 miles. Or sometimes, even 40.
But they keep coming to the track, hoping to qualify for races like Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway even though they realize their chances of finishing, not to mention winning, is remote.
“I love racin,” said Nemechek, who won both the 2004 Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at Kansas Speedway.Service and equipment provider in professional Car park management system. “Now some of the time, it makes you think twice. Why the heck am I still doing this? But I love it.”
So while most of the attention at NASCAR races focuses on the race leaders and contenders for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, there is just as much drama at the rear of the pack. That’s where the drivers for the low-budget teams try to squeeze in as many laps as they can without damaging their race car and hope to pick up enough cash to make it to next week.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring.
“Once in a while, we find some extra funds which allow us to go out there and run more, but it’s so hard, if you don’t have that, you’re going to be broke pretty quick, said Nemechek, who owns NEMCO Motorsports with his wife, Andrea. “It’s a very expensive sport, which everybody knows, and we’re trying to do the best we can.”
Blaney, driving for upstart Tommy Baldwin Racing, nearly caught the break of his career at this year’s Daytona 500 when he was the leader on lap 164 of 202 when the race was red flagged after Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer in a rain delay.
“I was thinking, ‘We might get lucky,’?” Blaney said of winning the Great American Race and its $1,Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate.588,887 purse had the race not resumed.
Instead, he managed to finish 15th and pocketed $296,513 for his team to race another day.
“You’re trying to race, trying to raise a little money,” said Blaney, 50. “Maybe the sponsor arena gets a little more friendly and you get enough money to race all day instead of having to stop early. A lot of guys are quality race car drivers who don’t have much to drive, and in this day and age, there’s no making up for lack of equipment.”
This week, NASCAR tried to level the field a bit when it announced a change in qualifying procedures. Instead of the top 35 in owners points automatically qualifying for a race, the fastest 36 would automatically qualify for the 43-car field, regardless of position in the standings.
That would seem to give someone like Nemechek, nicknamed “Front Row Joe” for his qualifying prowess,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. a chance to start further up in the field rather than struggle for one of the last eight spots.
“They’re trying to add some excitement to qualifying, so it means something,” said Nemechek, 49. “There are a few teams that have taken advantage of being locked in. Now, everybody has to put a valiant effort forward and see what it takes to get in.”
Qualifying to make the show is so important for the field fillers that they consider qualifying day more important than race day.
“I’m a product of that,” said Landon Cassill, the 2008 Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year who drives for another fledgling Sprint Cup team, BK Racing. “I spent a year driving for teams that couldn’t even run 20 laps. We had to make the race, and once we made the race, that was the end of our weekend.
“We achieved our goal, and I acquired many meetings with big(-money) team owners based on how I qualified a car. I qualified 20th at Indianapolis, and the very next week, I was sitting at a desk of big-time team owners who wanted to know who I was.”
The logical question for those teams struggling to keep up with the $20 million a year budgets of the powerhouse Cup teams is: Why don’t they race at the second-tier Nationwide level?
That answer is that takes millions of dollars as well to haul cars and crews to the track.
“Three years ago, Tommy Baldwin was a start-and-park team,” said Cassill, who is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “You would have said, ‘Tommy why don’t you run Nationwide?’ But last fall, Dave Blaney finished third in (Baldwin’s) car at Talladega. Tommy built it from ground up. He built a team that generated enough money starting and parking in order to race a couple of races, and through their success in those races found some sponsorship to race a full season for a couple of years.
Islamist businessmen challenge Egypt's old money
A business association founded by a financier for Egypt's new
Islamist rulers says it can democratise an economy long dominated by
associates of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, but sceptics fear the
emergence of just another clique.
The Muslim Brotherhood dominates post-Mubarak politics. It has less traction in an economy long dominated by an inner circle of businessmen around Mubarak's now jailed son Gamal.
Opponents say the Brotherhood wants to replicate in business its firm grip on politics, with a view to rewarding those who supported the movement financially through the long years it was banned. That dismays liberals who saw in Mubarak's overthrow last year an opportunity for a more meritocratic economy.
Hassan Malek, a tycoon and Brotherhood member, insists his goal has been promoting equal opportunity since he founded the Egyptian Business Development Association in March, three months before the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi won Egypt's presidency.
He has modelled EBDA, whose acronym means "start" in Arabic, on Turkey's MUSIAD,Service and equipment provider in professional Car park management system. an association of religiously oriented small businesses which share information and contracts to challenge the traditional dominance of larger groups.
"We welcome everyone who wants to work with us," said Malek, who has a family background in business and made his money in software, textiles and furniture. "Unequal distribution of opportunity is what we seek to change in the new Egypt."
Businesses, many of them smaller enterprises struggling in an anaemic economy, have rushed to join EBDA, which now has over 400 members. It says 1,000 companies are waiting to join.
Some members represent leading businesses such as cable maker El Sewedy Electric, food producer Juhayna and Egyptian Steel. These flourished during Mubarak's three-decade rule but were not caught up in the corruption lawsuits that emerged after his overthrow in February 2011.
In a mark of its ambitions - and good contacts in powerful new places - EBDA sent a delegation of 80 businesspeople, many of them young entrepreneurs without personal ties to the Brotherhood, to accompany Mursi on a trip to China in August.
Many of those also joined him on visits to Italy, Turkey and Qatar as Egypt tries to end a drought in inward investment.
Osama Farid, head of international cooperation at EBDA, said Mursi's visit to China marked a break with the past when Mubarak would typically take only as few as 10 favoured businessmen on foreign trips to capture the opportunities available.
"Within EBDA there are businessmen who did very well under Mubarak and new ones looking to prosper in the new Egypt. We are not trying to replace what exists but to offer an alternative" Farid said.
Malek has multiplied his meetings with foreign diplomats and business people and representatives of international banks. Brotherhood officials credit him with facilitating a $2-billion loan to Egypt from Turkey last month.
Since Mubarak's overthrow, the change of fortunes for men like Malek has been dramatic.
Brotherhood-linked businessmen were forced to operate under restrictions on how much wealth they could amass. Some had property confiscated during the 1990s or were detained on suspicion of money laundering or funding the Brotherhood.
Malek and former partner Khairat al-Shater, another Brotherhood tycoon and financial strategist, spent more than four years in jail together under Mubarak,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. who sought to curtail the Brotherhood and formally banned it from operating.
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Some executives are suspicious of EBDA's motives. One agribusiness manager told Reuters he was still trying to decide whether to accept its offer of membership: "I agree with their goals to expand the business climate," he said.
"But my concern is that EBDA could turn into another clique close to the Islamist presidency, mirroring Gamal Mubarak's."
In Turkey, admired by some in the Brotherhood for showing that Islamist democrats can take over from military rulers, the business organisation MUSIAD forged ties with Egyptian peers more than a decade ago, when Turkish entrepreneurs were trying to find ways to better exploit markets in the region.
Its emergence as a lobby for a growing entrepreneurial middle class came in tandem with the rise of the AK Party, which arrived in government in 2002 and which has roots in political Islam. MUSIAD promotes itself as a partner for foreign investors looking not only at Turkey but the wider Islamic world.
"EBDA and MUSIAD represent a huge coming together of smaller capital,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring." said Koray Caliskan, political science professor at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. "Those people who were with the Mubarak regime were a small coming together of big capital."
With thousands of members, and favoured by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of AK, MUSIAD now poses a challenge to the dominant secular business group in Turkey, TUSIAD.
"Erdogan said capital is changing hands in Turkey," Caliskan said. "Ten years ago everyone wanted to be TUSIAD chairman. Now everyone is away from it. Even members do not go to meetings, as Erdogan takes aim at them very frequently."
With Mubarak gone, Egyptian business ties with Turkey, the biggest economy in the Middle East, are now growing to match the Brotherhood's links with the AK Party.
But Turkey's enduring tradition of secular rule could limit the scope for political cooperation. Egypt's new political landscape is dominated by Islamists and ultraconservative groups for whom secularism is synonymous with atheism.
One Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity,We are professional in supplying Aion Kinah, said the new Egyptian government sees Turkey "not as a model but an inspiration ... and Turkey reciprocates this".
EBDA officials say Egypt's business landscape needs levelling through a focus on small enterprise, vocational training and cutting red tape. They say they favour broad-based, sustainable growth that reduces widespread poverty instead of just rewarding government cronies.
The Muslim Brotherhood dominates post-Mubarak politics. It has less traction in an economy long dominated by an inner circle of businessmen around Mubarak's now jailed son Gamal.
Opponents say the Brotherhood wants to replicate in business its firm grip on politics, with a view to rewarding those who supported the movement financially through the long years it was banned. That dismays liberals who saw in Mubarak's overthrow last year an opportunity for a more meritocratic economy.
Hassan Malek, a tycoon and Brotherhood member, insists his goal has been promoting equal opportunity since he founded the Egyptian Business Development Association in March, three months before the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi won Egypt's presidency.
He has modelled EBDA, whose acronym means "start" in Arabic, on Turkey's MUSIAD,Service and equipment provider in professional Car park management system. an association of religiously oriented small businesses which share information and contracts to challenge the traditional dominance of larger groups.
"We welcome everyone who wants to work with us," said Malek, who has a family background in business and made his money in software, textiles and furniture. "Unequal distribution of opportunity is what we seek to change in the new Egypt."
Businesses, many of them smaller enterprises struggling in an anaemic economy, have rushed to join EBDA, which now has over 400 members. It says 1,000 companies are waiting to join.
Some members represent leading businesses such as cable maker El Sewedy Electric, food producer Juhayna and Egyptian Steel. These flourished during Mubarak's three-decade rule but were not caught up in the corruption lawsuits that emerged after his overthrow in February 2011.
In a mark of its ambitions - and good contacts in powerful new places - EBDA sent a delegation of 80 businesspeople, many of them young entrepreneurs without personal ties to the Brotherhood, to accompany Mursi on a trip to China in August.
Many of those also joined him on visits to Italy, Turkey and Qatar as Egypt tries to end a drought in inward investment.
Osama Farid, head of international cooperation at EBDA, said Mursi's visit to China marked a break with the past when Mubarak would typically take only as few as 10 favoured businessmen on foreign trips to capture the opportunities available.
"Within EBDA there are businessmen who did very well under Mubarak and new ones looking to prosper in the new Egypt. We are not trying to replace what exists but to offer an alternative" Farid said.
Malek has multiplied his meetings with foreign diplomats and business people and representatives of international banks. Brotherhood officials credit him with facilitating a $2-billion loan to Egypt from Turkey last month.
Since Mubarak's overthrow, the change of fortunes for men like Malek has been dramatic.
Brotherhood-linked businessmen were forced to operate under restrictions on how much wealth they could amass. Some had property confiscated during the 1990s or were detained on suspicion of money laundering or funding the Brotherhood.
Malek and former partner Khairat al-Shater, another Brotherhood tycoon and financial strategist, spent more than four years in jail together under Mubarak,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. who sought to curtail the Brotherhood and formally banned it from operating.
The two men are now vying for economic influence within the movement, Brotherhood sources told Reuters.Shop for high quality wholesale glassmosaicchina products on Dhgate. While Malek seeks to extend the reach of EBDA, Shater has established a chain of supermarkets and recently held talks in Dubai to establish a bank there to help manage the Brotherhood's finances.
Some executives are suspicious of EBDA's motives. One agribusiness manager told Reuters he was still trying to decide whether to accept its offer of membership: "I agree with their goals to expand the business climate," he said.
"But my concern is that EBDA could turn into another clique close to the Islamist presidency, mirroring Gamal Mubarak's."
In Turkey, admired by some in the Brotherhood for showing that Islamist democrats can take over from military rulers, the business organisation MUSIAD forged ties with Egyptian peers more than a decade ago, when Turkish entrepreneurs were trying to find ways to better exploit markets in the region.
Its emergence as a lobby for a growing entrepreneurial middle class came in tandem with the rise of the AK Party, which arrived in government in 2002 and which has roots in political Islam. MUSIAD promotes itself as a partner for foreign investors looking not only at Turkey but the wider Islamic world.
"EBDA and MUSIAD represent a huge coming together of smaller capital,Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring." said Koray Caliskan, political science professor at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. "Those people who were with the Mubarak regime were a small coming together of big capital."
With thousands of members, and favoured by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of AK, MUSIAD now poses a challenge to the dominant secular business group in Turkey, TUSIAD.
"Erdogan said capital is changing hands in Turkey," Caliskan said. "Ten years ago everyone wanted to be TUSIAD chairman. Now everyone is away from it. Even members do not go to meetings, as Erdogan takes aim at them very frequently."
With Mubarak gone, Egyptian business ties with Turkey, the biggest economy in the Middle East, are now growing to match the Brotherhood's links with the AK Party.
But Turkey's enduring tradition of secular rule could limit the scope for political cooperation. Egypt's new political landscape is dominated by Islamists and ultraconservative groups for whom secularism is synonymous with atheism.
One Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity,We are professional in supplying Aion Kinah, said the new Egyptian government sees Turkey "not as a model but an inspiration ... and Turkey reciprocates this".
EBDA officials say Egypt's business landscape needs levelling through a focus on small enterprise, vocational training and cutting red tape. They say they favour broad-based, sustainable growth that reduces widespread poverty instead of just rewarding government cronies.
Parking could get easier in New Hope
Visitors to New Hope may soon have the option of paying for parking
with their iPhone, Android or other smartphone, according to a
presentation by Parkmobile to borough council on Tuesday.
“It’s E-ZPass for parking,” said Dennis Marco of Parkmobile, a global company that has registered more than 3 million users of the technology.
Developed and deployed in Europe in 1999, the company began operations in the United States in 2009.We are porcelain tiles specialists and are passionate about our product， It now has users in 320 locations in 28 U.S. states,This document provides a guide to using the Ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. Marco said.
If borough council approves the plan, drivers could download a free app to provide their cell phone, license plate and credit card numbers to the company. Then, when they pull into a parking spot, they would key in the parking space number found on a green sticker on the meter. That would activate the parking session.
The company automatically advises users 15 minutes before their parking time expires and allows them to extend their time, if desired, Marco said.
“That’s a convenience we don’t charge for,” he said.
“There’s no cost involved to the (public) entity,” said Henry Savelli, a government procurement consultant working with Parkmobile, “because we charge a 35-cent convenience fee” to users of the system.
That fee, however, is collected as part of the parking revenue and Parkmobile would invoice the borough for payment, which means “we do lose money,” said council President Claire Shaw.
Savelli said that some communities have increased the fee to 40 cents or 50 cents, keeping the additional funds as revenue. The system also allows the borough to charge different parking fees in different areas,An area-wide parking guidance system was introduced by private parking lot operators in 1997.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. if it wants.
Marco noted that the system has been enthusiastically received in locations such as Boston and Washington, D.C. In Boston, the number of Parkmobile members increased from 18,817 in March 2011 to 31,299 a year later.
And in just one year in Washington, 70 percent of all parking transactions were conducted via the Parkmobile mobile app, he said. It became available there in June 2011.
He noted that the system is voluntary, and that putting quarters into a meter is still an option. “They don’t have to use it. That’s the beauty of the system,” he said.
Users can also call a phone number to activate the service, if they don’t have a smart phone.
Council member Edward Duffy said such a system “will help the merchants keep the visitors in their stores and also the restaurants. I think it’s a real nice fit.”
Bob Gerenser, a business owner in the borough, agreed.How To learn kung fu in china. “This could be an extraordinary convenience,” he said. “It would take away a lot of the big objections to why (some people) don’t come to New Hope anymore.”
Parking enforcement officers would use smartphones to check whether time is remaining for parked cars, Savelli said. “It would show on the phone which parking spaces and which license numbers have exceeded their time limits,” he said.
Council tabled the motion, pending more information on the system, including a desire to look at the meter stickers and discuss signage.
Marco noted that he will be making a similar presentation to Lambertville, N.J., in a few days, so there would be synergy on the parking systems for the neighboring communities should they move ahead with the plan.
“It’s E-ZPass for parking,” said Dennis Marco of Parkmobile, a global company that has registered more than 3 million users of the technology.
Developed and deployed in Europe in 1999, the company began operations in the United States in 2009.We are porcelain tiles specialists and are passionate about our product， It now has users in 320 locations in 28 U.S. states,This document provides a guide to using the Ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. Marco said.
If borough council approves the plan, drivers could download a free app to provide their cell phone, license plate and credit card numbers to the company. Then, when they pull into a parking spot, they would key in the parking space number found on a green sticker on the meter. That would activate the parking session.
The company automatically advises users 15 minutes before their parking time expires and allows them to extend their time, if desired, Marco said.
“That’s a convenience we don’t charge for,” he said.
“There’s no cost involved to the (public) entity,” said Henry Savelli, a government procurement consultant working with Parkmobile, “because we charge a 35-cent convenience fee” to users of the system.
That fee, however, is collected as part of the parking revenue and Parkmobile would invoice the borough for payment, which means “we do lose money,” said council President Claire Shaw.
Savelli said that some communities have increased the fee to 40 cents or 50 cents, keeping the additional funds as revenue. The system also allows the borough to charge different parking fees in different areas,An area-wide parking guidance system was introduced by private parking lot operators in 1997.Carlo Gavazzi offers a broad range of ultrasonic sensor and ultrasonic transducers for level detection and process monitoring. if it wants.
Marco noted that the system has been enthusiastically received in locations such as Boston and Washington, D.C. In Boston, the number of Parkmobile members increased from 18,817 in March 2011 to 31,299 a year later.
And in just one year in Washington, 70 percent of all parking transactions were conducted via the Parkmobile mobile app, he said. It became available there in June 2011.
He noted that the system is voluntary, and that putting quarters into a meter is still an option. “They don’t have to use it. That’s the beauty of the system,” he said.
Users can also call a phone number to activate the service, if they don’t have a smart phone.
Council member Edward Duffy said such a system “will help the merchants keep the visitors in their stores and also the restaurants. I think it’s a real nice fit.”
Bob Gerenser, a business owner in the borough, agreed.How To learn kung fu in china. “This could be an extraordinary convenience,” he said. “It would take away a lot of the big objections to why (some people) don’t come to New Hope anymore.”
Parking enforcement officers would use smartphones to check whether time is remaining for parked cars, Savelli said. “It would show on the phone which parking spaces and which license numbers have exceeded their time limits,” he said.
Council tabled the motion, pending more information on the system, including a desire to look at the meter stickers and discuss signage.
Marco noted that he will be making a similar presentation to Lambertville, N.J., in a few days, so there would be synergy on the parking systems for the neighboring communities should they move ahead with the plan.
2012年9月24日星期一
Unpaid overtime makes a sick joke of minister's plan
The NSW Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, wants to make cuts to a
system that is already so stressed that patients spend up to a week in a
''transit'' unit (''Skinner takes axe to locums, overtime, but nurses
exempt'', September 24). Hospitals are already under enormous amounts of
pressure to reach performance targets or face funding cuts with no
appreciable improvements in patient care at the coal face.
Enforced cuts to overtime payments will only further stress the system and those charged with the care of patients. Patients will still be there and still need care out of normal business hours. Local area health services will have to refuse to pay those who stay behind to ensure the welfare of their patients.
The system already leans heavily on the ''generosity'' of doctors, in particular junior doctors and medical registrars, who are caught in the position of not wanting to jeopardise future specialist training opportunities and even told that claiming unrostered overtime is unprofessional.
Cuts to the health system at a time when it is facing ever-increasing need will only compromise patient health and demoralise professional staff.
Jillian Skinner says she is protecting nurses' jobs but cutting overtime. There is already a lot of overtime that is not paid. It is supposed to be taken as time in lieu but the time off never eventuates. This overtime is being worked due to short staffing. Cutting overtime is not going to fix any problems, just make them worse.
NSW Health is offering nurses redundancies in the Hunter-New England area. I know experienced nurses who hope they will offer redundancies elsewhere as they want to get out.
Health system managers are bringing in assistants in nursing in community mental health now. These are staff with, maybe, a Certificate III from TAFE, working on crisis teams with people who may need admission to mental health hospitals. This is just plain dangerous. These inexperienced staff will not know what they are looking at and someone is going to get killed.
But the Costello report failed to consider whether a decade-old benchmark was appropriate.The M3 Parking assist system has been designed from the ground up to solve traditional car park problems and more. It didn't provide a detailed analysis of where growth had occurred, or consider the impact of particular policies (such as Queensland's introduction of an additional year of schooling to bring the state in line with the rest of Australia).Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs. And while citing one example of headcounts in health it ignored factors affecting demand for health services, such as an ageing citizenry.
The Newman government's acceptance of the Costello report's simplistic analysis may damage the lives of many Queensland families. The inevitable outsourcing of public services may benefit some of the Business Council's constituents.
But it's a bit rich for Westacott to pontificate about the need for higher standards in the public service when she repeats political slogans about smaller government, uncritically accepts the need for ''tough corrections'' in Queensland, and disregards basic facts.
Enforced cuts to overtime payments will only further stress the system and those charged with the care of patients. Patients will still be there and still need care out of normal business hours. Local area health services will have to refuse to pay those who stay behind to ensure the welfare of their patients.
The system already leans heavily on the ''generosity'' of doctors, in particular junior doctors and medical registrars, who are caught in the position of not wanting to jeopardise future specialist training opportunities and even told that claiming unrostered overtime is unprofessional.
Cuts to the health system at a time when it is facing ever-increasing need will only compromise patient health and demoralise professional staff.
Jillian Skinner says she is protecting nurses' jobs but cutting overtime. There is already a lot of overtime that is not paid. It is supposed to be taken as time in lieu but the time off never eventuates. This overtime is being worked due to short staffing. Cutting overtime is not going to fix any problems, just make them worse.
NSW Health is offering nurses redundancies in the Hunter-New England area. I know experienced nurses who hope they will offer redundancies elsewhere as they want to get out.
Health system managers are bringing in assistants in nursing in community mental health now. These are staff with, maybe, a Certificate III from TAFE, working on crisis teams with people who may need admission to mental health hospitals. This is just plain dangerous. These inexperienced staff will not know what they are looking at and someone is going to get killed.
But the Costello report failed to consider whether a decade-old benchmark was appropriate.The M3 Parking assist system has been designed from the ground up to solve traditional car park problems and more. It didn't provide a detailed analysis of where growth had occurred, or consider the impact of particular policies (such as Queensland's introduction of an additional year of schooling to bring the state in line with the rest of Australia).Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs. And while citing one example of headcounts in health it ignored factors affecting demand for health services, such as an ageing citizenry.
The Newman government's acceptance of the Costello report's simplistic analysis may damage the lives of many Queensland families. The inevitable outsourcing of public services may benefit some of the Business Council's constituents.
But it's a bit rich for Westacott to pontificate about the need for higher standards in the public service when she repeats political slogans about smaller government, uncritically accepts the need for ''tough corrections'' in Queensland, and disregards basic facts.
Quebec corruption commission
The man who infiltrated the New York Mafia and inspired the movie
Donnie Brasco is regaling Quebec’s corruption inquiry with tales about
his years in the mob.
Joseph Pistone, a legendary FBI agent who spent six years undercover as a Mafia associate, told the Charbonneau Commission about the inner workings of the Mob in the United States during his testimony on Monday.
The commission is looking into criminal corruption in Quebec’s construction industry and its ties to organized crime and political parties.
So far, Pistone’s testimony has been about how he infiltrated the Mob while pretending to be a jewel thief. He has also discussed the ways of the underworld, including its moral codes and its list of offences that would get people killed.
He had just begun delving into ties between the New York families and their Canadian counterparts. Pistone referred to a killing of Mafia capos committed by a hit squad that included Montreal’s Vito Rizzuto, although he did not mention Rizzuto by name.
Pistone, now 73, is testifying under heavy security at the inquiry behind a screen.
Commission chair France Charbonneau has imposed a ban on the broadcasting or publication of any image of Pistone from Monday’s hearing. The ban does not extend to photos or footage taken in the past.
His testimony has focused so far on the six years that he spent undercover running with the Bonanno crime family in New York City, an unprecedented police operation that saw law enforcement get as close as it ever has to the Mafia.
Much of his testimony has been the subject of books Pistone himself has already written, as well as the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster “Donnie Brasco.”
He was pulled from the operation just as he was about to become a made man, Pistone said, with his bosses making the call to pull him out. He said he was disappointed to see the operation suspended.
“No one had ever gotten this close to a Mafia family,” Pistone said.
“My argument that was we’re going to embarrass them by having an undercover with them for all these years, can you imagine if it comes out they inducted an FBI agent?”
Pistone’s undercover work led to some 20 trials and 200 convictions across the U.S. But the Bonanno clan continues to exist to this day, Pistone says, and still has strong ties to groups in Montreal as it did when he was embedded.
Pistone’s testimony at the Charbonneau commission is intended to help the inquiry better understand the murky world of the Mafia as a whole.Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs.
Other witnesses testified last week about how Mafia families function.
Honour and loyalty are key, Pistone said. Orders to underlings are to be carried out without question — even when the order is to kill someone. There is no debating or discussing such things, he said.
“Your sworn allegiance is to your Mafia family: it’s your Mafia family, then your regular family, then your church and country,” Pistone said.
“But your first allegiance is to that family that you’re a part of.”
Pistone, who assumed the Brasco identity during his undercover days in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, is still hiding from the Mafia as a result of his old career.
A self-described “street guy” who became famous when he struck at the heart of New York’s notorious organized crime families,The M3 Parking assist system has been designed from the ground up to solve traditional car park problems and more. the former FBI undercover agent’s story enthralled moviegoers when it was chronicled in the 1997 movie Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp.
Usually, Pistone shuns the limelight — and for good reason.
The Mob put a $500,Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter.000 bounty on his head after he skilfully infiltrated their ranks, posing as a bar-hopping jewel thief between 1976 and 1981.
Even the FBI, where he’s a legend, only has an old, blurry surveillance photo of him on its website where it describes his pioneering undercover work.
Pistone, who says his insinuation into the Bonanno and Colombo crime families led to 200 convictions at 20 different trials, rarely sticks his head up. When he does, it’s with his appearance altered and under tight security.
He lives under an assumed name in an undisclosed location and has a licence to pack a gun.
A consultant to the justice system, he has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, including a novel with the son of Mob kingpin Joe Bonanno.
Pistone was such a good undercover agent that surveillance teams from the FBI and New York City police, who weren’t in the loop, had Brasco listed as an associate of the Bonannos.
The Bonanno family has been linked to Montreal’s Rizzutos — and it’s unclear whether Pistone’s testimony will delve into those ties. Quebec’s Charbonneau inquiry is examining corruption in the construction industry and its connection to politics and organized crime. Pistone began with a detailed description of how he infiltrated the Mafia and faced potential threats to his life, from the get-go.
“What I have to do is give you the mindset of gangsters,” he testified, “and how they operate.”
After they were arrested, Mob kingpins were stunned when FBI agents told them whom they had befriended. The man who had brought Pistone into the Mob was later found murdered.
The FBI has warned Mob chieftains that anyone who harms Pistone will face the bureau’s wrath.
“It’s not the wiseguys I’m most worried about,” Pistone told National Geographic News in 2005.
“They respect me. They know I just did my job. I never entrapped anyone, never got them to do something they wouldn’t have done anyway.
Joseph Pistone, a legendary FBI agent who spent six years undercover as a Mafia associate, told the Charbonneau Commission about the inner workings of the Mob in the United States during his testimony on Monday.
The commission is looking into criminal corruption in Quebec’s construction industry and its ties to organized crime and political parties.
So far, Pistone’s testimony has been about how he infiltrated the Mob while pretending to be a jewel thief. He has also discussed the ways of the underworld, including its moral codes and its list of offences that would get people killed.
He had just begun delving into ties between the New York families and their Canadian counterparts. Pistone referred to a killing of Mafia capos committed by a hit squad that included Montreal’s Vito Rizzuto, although he did not mention Rizzuto by name.
Pistone, now 73, is testifying under heavy security at the inquiry behind a screen.
Commission chair France Charbonneau has imposed a ban on the broadcasting or publication of any image of Pistone from Monday’s hearing. The ban does not extend to photos or footage taken in the past.
His testimony has focused so far on the six years that he spent undercover running with the Bonanno crime family in New York City, an unprecedented police operation that saw law enforcement get as close as it ever has to the Mafia.
Much of his testimony has been the subject of books Pistone himself has already written, as well as the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster “Donnie Brasco.”
He was pulled from the operation just as he was about to become a made man, Pistone said, with his bosses making the call to pull him out. He said he was disappointed to see the operation suspended.
“No one had ever gotten this close to a Mafia family,” Pistone said.
“My argument that was we’re going to embarrass them by having an undercover with them for all these years, can you imagine if it comes out they inducted an FBI agent?”
Pistone’s undercover work led to some 20 trials and 200 convictions across the U.S. But the Bonanno clan continues to exist to this day, Pistone says, and still has strong ties to groups in Montreal as it did when he was embedded.
Pistone’s testimony at the Charbonneau commission is intended to help the inquiry better understand the murky world of the Mafia as a whole.Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs.
Other witnesses testified last week about how Mafia families function.
Honour and loyalty are key, Pistone said. Orders to underlings are to be carried out without question — even when the order is to kill someone. There is no debating or discussing such things, he said.
“Your sworn allegiance is to your Mafia family: it’s your Mafia family, then your regular family, then your church and country,” Pistone said.
“But your first allegiance is to that family that you’re a part of.”
Pistone, who assumed the Brasco identity during his undercover days in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, is still hiding from the Mafia as a result of his old career.
A self-described “street guy” who became famous when he struck at the heart of New York’s notorious organized crime families,The M3 Parking assist system has been designed from the ground up to solve traditional car park problems and more. the former FBI undercover agent’s story enthralled moviegoers when it was chronicled in the 1997 movie Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp.
Usually, Pistone shuns the limelight — and for good reason.
The Mob put a $500,Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter.000 bounty on his head after he skilfully infiltrated their ranks, posing as a bar-hopping jewel thief between 1976 and 1981.
Even the FBI, where he’s a legend, only has an old, blurry surveillance photo of him on its website where it describes his pioneering undercover work.
Pistone, who says his insinuation into the Bonanno and Colombo crime families led to 200 convictions at 20 different trials, rarely sticks his head up. When he does, it’s with his appearance altered and under tight security.
He lives under an assumed name in an undisclosed location and has a licence to pack a gun.
A consultant to the justice system, he has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, including a novel with the son of Mob kingpin Joe Bonanno.
Pistone was such a good undercover agent that surveillance teams from the FBI and New York City police, who weren’t in the loop, had Brasco listed as an associate of the Bonannos.
The Bonanno family has been linked to Montreal’s Rizzutos — and it’s unclear whether Pistone’s testimony will delve into those ties. Quebec’s Charbonneau inquiry is examining corruption in the construction industry and its connection to politics and organized crime. Pistone began with a detailed description of how he infiltrated the Mafia and faced potential threats to his life, from the get-go.
“What I have to do is give you the mindset of gangsters,” he testified, “and how they operate.”
After they were arrested, Mob kingpins were stunned when FBI agents told them whom they had befriended. The man who had brought Pistone into the Mob was later found murdered.
The FBI has warned Mob chieftains that anyone who harms Pistone will face the bureau’s wrath.
“It’s not the wiseguys I’m most worried about,” Pistone told National Geographic News in 2005.
“They respect me. They know I just did my job. I never entrapped anyone, never got them to do something they wouldn’t have done anyway.
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