Following closely on the heels of the popular exhibit by the French
modern photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the museum presents an
exciting assemblage of important American paintings from roughly the
same time period.
Called "To See as Artists See: American Art
from the Phillips Collection," the 100 paintings and one sculpture in
the show represent American art from the 1850s through the 1960s.
There is something for everyone here,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. including sports scenes, portraits, flowers, landscapes and cityscapes, in a plethora of styles and media.
"If
you are even the least bit interested in American painting, you're
going to love this show," predicted museum director Todd Smith.
In presenting this exhibit, the museum is continuing its mission to bring Tampa a high level of modern and contemporary art.
"Modernism
starts with impressionism," Smith observed. "The majority of 19th
century works in this exhibition are American impressionists."
You'll
find many familiar names among the 75 artists in the group, including
Milton Avery,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light
in Chennai India. Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, Adolph
Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Jacob Lawrence,
John Marin, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Pendergast and
John Sloan.
"Every major school of American painting is
represented in this show," Smith said. "There are 10 themes around which
we've installed the show, and sometimes the artist in a particular
school is seen in several different themes."
It all depends on
the subject of the painting. For example, paintings by Sloan, one of the
eight early 20th century artists known as "The Ash Can School," show up
in the "Modern Life" theme section as well as the section called "The
City."
In the section themed "Memory and Identity," in which
artists draw on their memory for inspiration, you'll find such
influential painters as Grandma Moses and Lawrence. Four of O'Keeffe's
paintings can be found in the "Nature and Abstraction" section.
"(Duncan)
Phillips was one of the first to collect Georgia O'Keeffe in depth,"
Smith explained. "A lot of these artists were people he knew personally,
so he would see work in progress and work completed. Because he knew
them, he had a vested interest in their success. So when you see this
exhibition, you're seeing one man's personal vision of what modern art
was."
Duncan Phillips, (1886-1966) critic, writer and art
historian, founded The Phillips Memorial Art Gallery" in Washington,
D.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine
for materials like metal,C., in 1921 and continued collecting modern
and contemporary art throughout his life. The title of this exhibit —
"To See as Artists See" — is a reference to a phrase Phillips is
credited with using to explain why he put this particular collection of
works together.
"His was America's first museum of modern art,"
Smith noted. "It's really remarkable that he was able to put this
together at that time and in that place. Washington wasn't exactly the
center of art back then. There weren't many collectors then, so he was
able to get superb examples of these artists and their styles. The
collection is unrivaled in what it says about working American artists."
Art aficionados usually have a preferred genre. But Chun Arthur
Wang's works are attracting a diverse audience as the Chinese American
oil painter blazes a new trail in oil painting.
"Though I live
in a Western environment, what truly inspires me is traditional Chinese
culture. The longer I live in the US,If we don't carry the bobblehead
you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads
for you! the more I miss Chinese culture," said Wang, a professor of
fine arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design in
Ohio.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers.
Trained
as a realistic oil painter at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in
China, Wang moved to the US in 1992, where at Columbus he obtained his
second bachelor's degree in fine arts. Later he earned a master's degree
in fine arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In 2004,
after 12 years of living in the US, he started to explore innovative
ways to blend East and West by combining oil painting media with
techniques from traditional Chinese painting.
He has since
established his own style, which includes more smooth brushwork,
delicate details and weakened contrast of light and shading - lending
his oil paintings an air of Chinese elegance.
One of his
signature works is Do You Hear Me Now? Created in 2010, the painting
borrowed its title from a popular commercial for cell phones in the US.
It portrays three fretful people of different races speaking on their
cell phones, isolated from one another while sitting on the same bench.
2013年1月31日星期四
IDT Winter Show is tacular
A bevy of figures comprised of students, seniors and professionals
gathered in the lobby of Boise State’s Special Events Center.
They leisurely trickled into the theater for the presentation of Idaho Dance Theatre’s Winter Show. The production spanned from Thursday, Jan. 24 through Sunday, Jan. 27 and featured four sections including “Now We are Here: Diaries of a Treasured Land,” “Lifeline,” “Architecture: Splintered and Cracked” and “The Story of Humanity.”
These four sections stem from a series of collaboration involving Idaho Dance Theatre directors, dancers and Boise State faculty members.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Music department professors,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. Laura Rushing-Raynes, Barton Moreau, Brian Hodges and Rodney Zuroeveste performed as a quartet alongside eight dancers during the opening section “Now We Are Here: Diaries of a Treasured Land.”
Rushing-Raynes, associate voice professor, described the production as, “A world premiere of a very unique piece involving poetry, dance, live music and visual art.”
“Now We are Here” presented a spectrum of stunning sensory elements; a progression from intense dark to bright colors in backdrop to landscape paintings as the setting.
Dancers costumed in nude and earthy tones muted into the background, flowing simultaneously, following the rhythm and syncopation of the music.
Eric Fitzpatrick, junior international business major, reflected on the beginning piece.
“I’d remember the first one,” Fitzpatrick said. “Hearing her (Rushing-Raynes) say the word ‘Idaho.’”
The first song was titled, “Farewell to Idaho.” Rushing-Raynes sang, “My talk of leaving Idaho was a little bit too soon” while a painting of rolling foothills brightened up the backdrop.
With open untainted landscapes and easeful motions, the collaboration depicted nature in its purest form, illustrating the influence of what surrounds you has a profound effect on the body.
“Lifeline,” the second section in Idaho Dance Theater’s Winter Performance, left nature and Idaho behind and progressed toward a modern era, one with synthesizers and black hues.
This short, dramatic piece moved at an electrifying, heightened pace.
The dancers in their quick, deliberate motions utilized a prop, a solid white rope stretching diagonally across the stage from one corner to another.
The dancers’ dependence on the rope and the electronica music continuously intensifying provided for a rousing show, very similar to its successor,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, “Architecture: Splintered and Cracked.” This third section of the Winter Show began with low, deep tones. The overhead music played in a minor key, while a haze was dispensed into the dark set.
The slow careful movements of the dancers blended with a brief whispering chant instilled an eerie feeling reminiscent of a thriller. However, their blue-toned outfits shifting into the aerobic motions of planks, lunges, and squats were notable and unanticipated.
The final section was the premiere of “The Story of Humanity.” This offbeat, unsystematic piece generated a good deal of laughter from the audience. The dancers, playfully in character, donned separate outfits, ranging from sequins and spandex shorts to high waters and suspenders.
One male dancer purposely tripped over boxes onstage and would occasionally wave red tail feathers near his hindquarters, acting as good comic relief for the winter show.
Connor Sheldon, junior health sciences major, said, “The last one was the best.” She added she was able to laugh and would remember the sequin top.
Idaho Dance Theatre’s Winter Show featured inventiveness along with awe-inspiring visuals, acoustics and will be back in spring for another performance.
The ten displayed preparatory paintings and drawings for one of the Gallery’s most famous portraits show the complex process of depicting, from figuration to abstraction, one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. According to the artist, the final portrait owned by the Gallery and also on display, was painted ‘from memory very slowly, after a period of nearly three years.’
Patrick Heron secured permission to paint T. S. Eliot in January 1947. While Eliot’s reputation was established Heron was still relatively unknown and yet to secure recognition as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. He had been fascinated by Eliot’s poetry since his early teens and it was his father, Tom Heron, who had become a friend of the poet through his connection with the New English Weekly, who provided the initial contact.
The first sitting was held two months later in Eliot’s central London office at Faber & Faber, the publishers where he was a director, shortly after the death of his estranged first wife Vivien. At that moment a national electricity crisis coincided with extremely cold weather and it was forbidden to use electric fires in late morning: to keep warm Eliot began the sittings wearing a dark blue overcoat which can still be glimpsed in the final abstracted painting. In a letter to Heron, Eliot’s second wife Valerie later described, ‘what I liked about the drawing was that you had captured a mood of mingled sweetness and sadness.’
At the outset Heron had no idea how the portrait would turn out.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! He started by making drawings in order to acquaint himself with the ‘plastic facts’ of Eliot’s physiognomy. Nearly three years followed when further sittings were held at the painter’s house in Holland Park and at his parents’ home in Welwyn Garden City. Heron’s concern was to distil his sitter’s appearance to essentials. The two paintings on display show his allegiance to the analytical cubism of early Picasso, Eliot’s features being fractured into flattened planes.
They leisurely trickled into the theater for the presentation of Idaho Dance Theatre’s Winter Show. The production spanned from Thursday, Jan. 24 through Sunday, Jan. 27 and featured four sections including “Now We are Here: Diaries of a Treasured Land,” “Lifeline,” “Architecture: Splintered and Cracked” and “The Story of Humanity.”
These four sections stem from a series of collaboration involving Idaho Dance Theatre directors, dancers and Boise State faculty members.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Music department professors,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. Laura Rushing-Raynes, Barton Moreau, Brian Hodges and Rodney Zuroeveste performed as a quartet alongside eight dancers during the opening section “Now We Are Here: Diaries of a Treasured Land.”
Rushing-Raynes, associate voice professor, described the production as, “A world premiere of a very unique piece involving poetry, dance, live music and visual art.”
“Now We are Here” presented a spectrum of stunning sensory elements; a progression from intense dark to bright colors in backdrop to landscape paintings as the setting.
Dancers costumed in nude and earthy tones muted into the background, flowing simultaneously, following the rhythm and syncopation of the music.
Eric Fitzpatrick, junior international business major, reflected on the beginning piece.
“I’d remember the first one,” Fitzpatrick said. “Hearing her (Rushing-Raynes) say the word ‘Idaho.’”
The first song was titled, “Farewell to Idaho.” Rushing-Raynes sang, “My talk of leaving Idaho was a little bit too soon” while a painting of rolling foothills brightened up the backdrop.
With open untainted landscapes and easeful motions, the collaboration depicted nature in its purest form, illustrating the influence of what surrounds you has a profound effect on the body.
“Lifeline,” the second section in Idaho Dance Theater’s Winter Performance, left nature and Idaho behind and progressed toward a modern era, one with synthesizers and black hues.
This short, dramatic piece moved at an electrifying, heightened pace.
The dancers in their quick, deliberate motions utilized a prop, a solid white rope stretching diagonally across the stage from one corner to another.
The dancers’ dependence on the rope and the electronica music continuously intensifying provided for a rousing show, very similar to its successor,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, “Architecture: Splintered and Cracked.” This third section of the Winter Show began with low, deep tones. The overhead music played in a minor key, while a haze was dispensed into the dark set.
The slow careful movements of the dancers blended with a brief whispering chant instilled an eerie feeling reminiscent of a thriller. However, their blue-toned outfits shifting into the aerobic motions of planks, lunges, and squats were notable and unanticipated.
The final section was the premiere of “The Story of Humanity.” This offbeat, unsystematic piece generated a good deal of laughter from the audience. The dancers, playfully in character, donned separate outfits, ranging from sequins and spandex shorts to high waters and suspenders.
One male dancer purposely tripped over boxes onstage and would occasionally wave red tail feathers near his hindquarters, acting as good comic relief for the winter show.
Connor Sheldon, junior health sciences major, said, “The last one was the best.” She added she was able to laugh and would remember the sequin top.
Idaho Dance Theatre’s Winter Show featured inventiveness along with awe-inspiring visuals, acoustics and will be back in spring for another performance.
The ten displayed preparatory paintings and drawings for one of the Gallery’s most famous portraits show the complex process of depicting, from figuration to abstraction, one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. According to the artist, the final portrait owned by the Gallery and also on display, was painted ‘from memory very slowly, after a period of nearly three years.’
Patrick Heron secured permission to paint T. S. Eliot in January 1947. While Eliot’s reputation was established Heron was still relatively unknown and yet to secure recognition as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. He had been fascinated by Eliot’s poetry since his early teens and it was his father, Tom Heron, who had become a friend of the poet through his connection with the New English Weekly, who provided the initial contact.
The first sitting was held two months later in Eliot’s central London office at Faber & Faber, the publishers where he was a director, shortly after the death of his estranged first wife Vivien. At that moment a national electricity crisis coincided with extremely cold weather and it was forbidden to use electric fires in late morning: to keep warm Eliot began the sittings wearing a dark blue overcoat which can still be glimpsed in the final abstracted painting. In a letter to Heron, Eliot’s second wife Valerie later described, ‘what I liked about the drawing was that you had captured a mood of mingled sweetness and sadness.’
At the outset Heron had no idea how the portrait would turn out.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! He started by making drawings in order to acquaint himself with the ‘plastic facts’ of Eliot’s physiognomy. Nearly three years followed when further sittings were held at the painter’s house in Holland Park and at his parents’ home in Welwyn Garden City. Heron’s concern was to distil his sitter’s appearance to essentials. The two paintings on display show his allegiance to the analytical cubism of early Picasso, Eliot’s features being fractured into flattened planes.
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam
What Troy was for the ancients, the World Trade Centre attacks and
subsequent wars seem destined to become for our own time. The events
acquired a mythic aura even as they were unfolding; miracle-stories
circulating within hours of the attacks, conspiracy theories springing
up days later.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine
for materials like metal, In the absence of rational agency on either
side, the narrative defaulted effortlessly into the tropes of legend:
quests for magical weapons, duelling codes of conduct, ransoms and
bounties, eschatological bombast, archaic barbarity. What writer
wouldn't want to engage with this material?
As a reader, on the other hand,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. one approaches it with caution. It isn't easy to get any kind of credible purchase on the subject,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. as numerous bad books and worse movies have shown. In the case of Nadeem Aslam's new novel, however, the caution quickly proves unnecessary.
Aslam, who was born in Pakistan and moved to Britain aged 14, is an exceptionally gifted writer whose previous books (which include Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil) have already demonstrated an ability to turn his double perspective to powerful effect. He knows his different worlds intimately and seems able to feel their very different kinds of want and anguish on his own nerves, with sharp immediacy. There aren't many writers who can take you inside the heads of, say, a vulnerable young Pakistani widow one moment, and a US Special Forces operative the next, with as little visible effort of impersonation as he does in The Blind Man's Garden.
The book is set in the first few months following the attacks. Its action moves back and forth between the small town of Heer in Pakistan and the mountains of Afghanistan, where American soldiers have begun the fight against the Taliban and the hunt for al?Qaeda terrorists. At its core is an intricately knotted group of characters based around a school in Heer, whose devoutly Muslim founder, Rohan, still lives in its lovingly tended grounds, though the school itself has been taken over by hardline Islamists. Rohan's recently married son, Jeo, a trainee doctor, sets off for Afghanistan with his adopted brother Mikal, a poetically minded mechanic who knows everything about cars and stars and is secretly, agonisingly, in love with Jeo's wife, Naheed, who also happens to be in love with him.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.
The two young men – equally opposed to the Taliban and the US – are not intending to fight, but want to help the wounded. However, they have been betrayed even before they set off, and soon find themselves forced to defend a Taliban stronghold against American-backed rebels. In the ensuing battle Jeo is killed, while Mikal is captured by a warlord who sells him as a "terrorist" to the Americans; they proceed to interrogate him, Bagram-style.
The question – and the emotional motor driving much of the book – is whether Mikal will make it back to his beloved Naheed before she is married off yet again. A love story, then, but with the tumult of war in the foreground.
Counterpointing this plot is a quieter, more reflective story centred on Rohan himself. He is an interestingly problematic figure whose religious convictions, though sympathetically portrayed, at one time caused him to withhold medication from his dying wife. He hoped to force her to re-embrace the religion she had rejected, and thereby save her soul from eternal torment. For the same reason, he had also burned her life's work of drawings and paintings.
In him the conflicting passions of pious spirituality and ordinary human love are tragically combined. Still in mourning for his wife, he is as religious as ever, though appalled by the fundamentalists who have taken over his school. He is also going blind – a steady (and symbolically punitive) exile from the realm of earthly beauty incarnated in the trees and shrubs he himself once planted.
His existence is a kind of atonement, though whether he himself ever makes the connection enforced by the larger intelligence of the novel – between his own inflexible faith and the sickening act of violence that finally erupts out of the teenage jihadists at the school – remains doubtful. This isn't the kind of novel in which characters change or evolve much: they are what they are. Complexity tends to be more outward than inward,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! resulting from the wide variety of human types portrayed (and the very ingenious plotting that brings them into collision with each other), rather than from individual psychological richness. Emotion is done imagistically, via quick, finely sketched details of light and landscape that set small precise moods. Flora and fauna are wonderfully observed – moths "like shavings from a pencil sharpener"; a tree trunk "twisted as though struggling with some unseen force" – forming a decorative braid around the frequently brutal human interactions they coincide with.
The story itself moves in terse jabs of present-tense narrative; short scenes are built around two or three bright shards of action or dialogue that light up whole universes of thought and outlook. Mikal in captivity begs the warlord's men to extract the bullets in his flesh, to no avail. But then "while he slept, a large group of them came at him with scalpels and blades. A rumour had circulated that the Americans had used solid gold bullets." Later, when he captures an American soldier and wants to ask him some questions, the interpreter he finds turns out to be too frightened of the Taliban to speak to an American: "She says they'll cut off her tongue …"
With his outcast affect, cool resourcefulness and impeccable private code of honour, Mikal resembles certain reluctantly heroic Clint Eastwood characters. His dramatic reversals of fortune constantly test (and affirm) his superior courage and decency. Along with the elemental landscapes he passes through, they give much of the novel the quality of an eastern western. Firmly anchored as it is in reality, it isn't above using the heightening devices of romance and picaresque. There are some whopping coincidences, and some unlikely escapades with guns and trucks. Nothing wrong with that, especially when the handling is as enjoyably skilful as it is here, though it does occasionally narrow the scope of one's engagement with the characters. Harder to take is something a little too easily wonderstruck in the general tone; a slight weakness for sonorous, even borderline-hokey, utterance – "Perhaps healing had existed before wounds and bodies were created to be its recipient" – that at times softens the otherwise tart clarity of the writing.
But by any measure The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment; a gripping and moving piece of storytelling that gets the calamitous first act in the "War on Terror" on to the page with grace, intelligence and rare authenticity.
As a reader, on the other hand,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. one approaches it with caution. It isn't easy to get any kind of credible purchase on the subject,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. as numerous bad books and worse movies have shown. In the case of Nadeem Aslam's new novel, however, the caution quickly proves unnecessary.
Aslam, who was born in Pakistan and moved to Britain aged 14, is an exceptionally gifted writer whose previous books (which include Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil) have already demonstrated an ability to turn his double perspective to powerful effect. He knows his different worlds intimately and seems able to feel their very different kinds of want and anguish on his own nerves, with sharp immediacy. There aren't many writers who can take you inside the heads of, say, a vulnerable young Pakistani widow one moment, and a US Special Forces operative the next, with as little visible effort of impersonation as he does in The Blind Man's Garden.
The book is set in the first few months following the attacks. Its action moves back and forth between the small town of Heer in Pakistan and the mountains of Afghanistan, where American soldiers have begun the fight against the Taliban and the hunt for al?Qaeda terrorists. At its core is an intricately knotted group of characters based around a school in Heer, whose devoutly Muslim founder, Rohan, still lives in its lovingly tended grounds, though the school itself has been taken over by hardline Islamists. Rohan's recently married son, Jeo, a trainee doctor, sets off for Afghanistan with his adopted brother Mikal, a poetically minded mechanic who knows everything about cars and stars and is secretly, agonisingly, in love with Jeo's wife, Naheed, who also happens to be in love with him.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.
The two young men – equally opposed to the Taliban and the US – are not intending to fight, but want to help the wounded. However, they have been betrayed even before they set off, and soon find themselves forced to defend a Taliban stronghold against American-backed rebels. In the ensuing battle Jeo is killed, while Mikal is captured by a warlord who sells him as a "terrorist" to the Americans; they proceed to interrogate him, Bagram-style.
The question – and the emotional motor driving much of the book – is whether Mikal will make it back to his beloved Naheed before she is married off yet again. A love story, then, but with the tumult of war in the foreground.
Counterpointing this plot is a quieter, more reflective story centred on Rohan himself. He is an interestingly problematic figure whose religious convictions, though sympathetically portrayed, at one time caused him to withhold medication from his dying wife. He hoped to force her to re-embrace the religion she had rejected, and thereby save her soul from eternal torment. For the same reason, he had also burned her life's work of drawings and paintings.
In him the conflicting passions of pious spirituality and ordinary human love are tragically combined. Still in mourning for his wife, he is as religious as ever, though appalled by the fundamentalists who have taken over his school. He is also going blind – a steady (and symbolically punitive) exile from the realm of earthly beauty incarnated in the trees and shrubs he himself once planted.
His existence is a kind of atonement, though whether he himself ever makes the connection enforced by the larger intelligence of the novel – between his own inflexible faith and the sickening act of violence that finally erupts out of the teenage jihadists at the school – remains doubtful. This isn't the kind of novel in which characters change or evolve much: they are what they are. Complexity tends to be more outward than inward,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! resulting from the wide variety of human types portrayed (and the very ingenious plotting that brings them into collision with each other), rather than from individual psychological richness. Emotion is done imagistically, via quick, finely sketched details of light and landscape that set small precise moods. Flora and fauna are wonderfully observed – moths "like shavings from a pencil sharpener"; a tree trunk "twisted as though struggling with some unseen force" – forming a decorative braid around the frequently brutal human interactions they coincide with.
The story itself moves in terse jabs of present-tense narrative; short scenes are built around two or three bright shards of action or dialogue that light up whole universes of thought and outlook. Mikal in captivity begs the warlord's men to extract the bullets in his flesh, to no avail. But then "while he slept, a large group of them came at him with scalpels and blades. A rumour had circulated that the Americans had used solid gold bullets." Later, when he captures an American soldier and wants to ask him some questions, the interpreter he finds turns out to be too frightened of the Taliban to speak to an American: "She says they'll cut off her tongue …"
With his outcast affect, cool resourcefulness and impeccable private code of honour, Mikal resembles certain reluctantly heroic Clint Eastwood characters. His dramatic reversals of fortune constantly test (and affirm) his superior courage and decency. Along with the elemental landscapes he passes through, they give much of the novel the quality of an eastern western. Firmly anchored as it is in reality, it isn't above using the heightening devices of romance and picaresque. There are some whopping coincidences, and some unlikely escapades with guns and trucks. Nothing wrong with that, especially when the handling is as enjoyably skilful as it is here, though it does occasionally narrow the scope of one's engagement with the characters. Harder to take is something a little too easily wonderstruck in the general tone; a slight weakness for sonorous, even borderline-hokey, utterance – "Perhaps healing had existed before wounds and bodies were created to be its recipient" – that at times softens the otherwise tart clarity of the writing.
But by any measure The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment; a gripping and moving piece of storytelling that gets the calamitous first act in the "War on Terror" on to the page with grace, intelligence and rare authenticity.
Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth
Los Angeles based Swedish born painter
Astrid Preston has long explored and invented new frontiers of an aesthetic
naturalism, elegantly remaking urban and rural wildness into provocative, soul
satisfying tapestries of life and parkland utopias. Her work has consistently
taken technical and philosophical risks, achieved unique depth, and established
Ms. Preston as one of America’s most important contemporary landscape painters.
She conveys a never-sated astonishment about the work of other painters as diverse as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer and – in three recent trips to Japan – a profound Asian connection, particularly to Hiroshige, as well as Japan’s remarkable 18th century painter, Itō Jakuchū. This latest exhibition, “New Territory” (Craig Krull Gallery, running through March 2nd), combines a philosophical array of brilliant sensuality in forty-three new works. It follows upon more than four decades of a highly public presence. Most of these paintings are on richly-veined hardwoods, some on stretched linen which resembles flawless silk. These works have transformed genial frames of both contemporary as well as historic reference into Zen-like masterpieces of restraint that at once challenge and comfort. Ms. Preston spent two years assembling this dazzling collection of her work, a quiet, habitable reminder of the critical haikus and the “awe and reverence for nature” that is core to her ethic and art-form.
Her Nordic origins are not obvious. There is little to suggest, for example, the influence of such Scandinavian giants as Edvard Bergh, the brothers Wilhelm and Magnus von Wright, Carl Larsson, Alfred Wahlberg or Johan Sevebom. Indeed, this most recent exhibition altogether heralds a unique approach to landscape, though one as luscious and inviting as any édouard Vuillard interior across Paris.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal,
But there are other Swedish influences that reign supreme in Ms. Preston’s governing similes; all seeming to center upon humanity’s clear and present need to be immersed in as much nature as possible. As we ourselves are Nature, and a most meddling part of it, to be sure, I asked her about her particular passion for trees, which insinuate a looming, iconic centrality in much of her work.
“I photographed hundreds of trees across Japan. Everyone of them has a biography,” she ruminates aloud. “Certain trees are in the paintings,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and if you were to come upon them in a park, or on a mountain top over Kyoto, for example,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. you would recognize an individual red or black pine; you can know them for who they are, I believe,” she says. “Do you think of yourself as an environmental activist, in some sense?” I ask.
To which she replies: “My friend, the cinematographer Haskell Wexler once said that every time one paints a leaf, he/she is making an anti-war statement,” Ms. Preston declares; and she goes on to express how human beings all want to feel their fingers in the dirt. “We miss that. No matter how benign my landscape paintings, I suppose in the end they might well be construed as political acts. We look for beauty every day. And when a tree dies, we mourn the loss.” Hence, societies around the world need a great nature painter of Ms. Preston’s stature like never before.
In this same vein, Ms. Preston acknowledges the huge difference between, say, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s ca. 1865 civil engineering of Paris – well laid out Reconstructionism, with enormous and orderly boulevards – versus the Paris she is particularly fond of, backstreets, with sinuous wandering lanes more in keeping with the animal trails we would all prefer, in our hearts, to follow: The difference between the Left Bank, and the Right Bank.
In Ms. Preston’s latest exhibition she discloses a new-found desire to embrace still water – which has always posed theoretical problems for her, she confesses; but now, she has discovered how to make ponds and reflections work towards that aesthetic liberation she seeks; one that enables her to lavish in a single, brave line, painted with a five-zero (super-fine) brush, all the dreams of a songbird or a crane; to give mottled light upon the dabbling mallards;a Monet-like ephemerality that anchors, in this instance, all of Japan to the fact it is an island, after all. Many islands.
And, while there are nearly 128 million human inhabitants in Japan, including Astrid and her physicist/inventer husband, Howard Preston’s son, Max, who loves, and has worked in Japan for nearly five years,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. Ms. Preston quietly computes the evocative challenges of Japan’s endless contradictions, emerging with an awesome clarity. Japan has never looked so good. And while the free extent of a bonsai tree’s predilections may be held back, its intimations are not. The river through Kyoto is encased in concrete, but the thousands of garden monasteries across that great heart-throb of a city bring perpetual renewal to all sides of Japanese artistic, spiritual and emotional life. Ms. Preston captures that as never before.
She renders commentary and a painter’s reckoning made all the more poignant in the sense that Japan is fully exposed to the forces of the wilderness – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons. A cosmos as artistic and religious as it is hazardous.
Indeed, Japan is the 35th biological “hotspot” on the planet (Ms. Preston’s home, Southern California, also a biological hotspot); stricken with a huge number of endemic plants and animals on the verge of extinction. In Ms. Preston’s art form, these underlying truths are something of a sub-text; a potent divining rod that emerges – if one takes the time to contemplate humanity’s unique plight – as something of an ecological dangling modifier: What is our true place in the world? Clearly,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! art as championed by this technically-flawless painter, has a huge capacity to heal wounds, mend morbidity, dispel bleakness, and signal at once a rejuvenation of the spirit that harkens back to the wilderness so consciously celebrated by luminaries like Thoreau, George Inness, or Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
She conveys a never-sated astonishment about the work of other painters as diverse as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer and – in three recent trips to Japan – a profound Asian connection, particularly to Hiroshige, as well as Japan’s remarkable 18th century painter, Itō Jakuchū. This latest exhibition, “New Territory” (Craig Krull Gallery, running through March 2nd), combines a philosophical array of brilliant sensuality in forty-three new works. It follows upon more than four decades of a highly public presence. Most of these paintings are on richly-veined hardwoods, some on stretched linen which resembles flawless silk. These works have transformed genial frames of both contemporary as well as historic reference into Zen-like masterpieces of restraint that at once challenge and comfort. Ms. Preston spent two years assembling this dazzling collection of her work, a quiet, habitable reminder of the critical haikus and the “awe and reverence for nature” that is core to her ethic and art-form.
Her Nordic origins are not obvious. There is little to suggest, for example, the influence of such Scandinavian giants as Edvard Bergh, the brothers Wilhelm and Magnus von Wright, Carl Larsson, Alfred Wahlberg or Johan Sevebom. Indeed, this most recent exhibition altogether heralds a unique approach to landscape, though one as luscious and inviting as any édouard Vuillard interior across Paris.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal,
But there are other Swedish influences that reign supreme in Ms. Preston’s governing similes; all seeming to center upon humanity’s clear and present need to be immersed in as much nature as possible. As we ourselves are Nature, and a most meddling part of it, to be sure, I asked her about her particular passion for trees, which insinuate a looming, iconic centrality in much of her work.
“I photographed hundreds of trees across Japan. Everyone of them has a biography,” she ruminates aloud. “Certain trees are in the paintings,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and if you were to come upon them in a park, or on a mountain top over Kyoto, for example,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. you would recognize an individual red or black pine; you can know them for who they are, I believe,” she says. “Do you think of yourself as an environmental activist, in some sense?” I ask.
To which she replies: “My friend, the cinematographer Haskell Wexler once said that every time one paints a leaf, he/she is making an anti-war statement,” Ms. Preston declares; and she goes on to express how human beings all want to feel their fingers in the dirt. “We miss that. No matter how benign my landscape paintings, I suppose in the end they might well be construed as political acts. We look for beauty every day. And when a tree dies, we mourn the loss.” Hence, societies around the world need a great nature painter of Ms. Preston’s stature like never before.
In this same vein, Ms. Preston acknowledges the huge difference between, say, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s ca. 1865 civil engineering of Paris – well laid out Reconstructionism, with enormous and orderly boulevards – versus the Paris she is particularly fond of, backstreets, with sinuous wandering lanes more in keeping with the animal trails we would all prefer, in our hearts, to follow: The difference between the Left Bank, and the Right Bank.
In Ms. Preston’s latest exhibition she discloses a new-found desire to embrace still water – which has always posed theoretical problems for her, she confesses; but now, she has discovered how to make ponds and reflections work towards that aesthetic liberation she seeks; one that enables her to lavish in a single, brave line, painted with a five-zero (super-fine) brush, all the dreams of a songbird or a crane; to give mottled light upon the dabbling mallards;a Monet-like ephemerality that anchors, in this instance, all of Japan to the fact it is an island, after all. Many islands.
And, while there are nearly 128 million human inhabitants in Japan, including Astrid and her physicist/inventer husband, Howard Preston’s son, Max, who loves, and has worked in Japan for nearly five years,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card producers. Ms. Preston quietly computes the evocative challenges of Japan’s endless contradictions, emerging with an awesome clarity. Japan has never looked so good. And while the free extent of a bonsai tree’s predilections may be held back, its intimations are not. The river through Kyoto is encased in concrete, but the thousands of garden monasteries across that great heart-throb of a city bring perpetual renewal to all sides of Japanese artistic, spiritual and emotional life. Ms. Preston captures that as never before.
She renders commentary and a painter’s reckoning made all the more poignant in the sense that Japan is fully exposed to the forces of the wilderness – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons. A cosmos as artistic and religious as it is hazardous.
Indeed, Japan is the 35th biological “hotspot” on the planet (Ms. Preston’s home, Southern California, also a biological hotspot); stricken with a huge number of endemic plants and animals on the verge of extinction. In Ms. Preston’s art form, these underlying truths are something of a sub-text; a potent divining rod that emerges – if one takes the time to contemplate humanity’s unique plight – as something of an ecological dangling modifier: What is our true place in the world? Clearly,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! art as championed by this technically-flawless painter, has a huge capacity to heal wounds, mend morbidity, dispel bleakness, and signal at once a rejuvenation of the spirit that harkens back to the wilderness so consciously celebrated by luminaries like Thoreau, George Inness, or Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
2013年1月30日星期三
Avalon Breads Rises To New Heights
Ann Perrault, co-owner and CEO of Avalon International Breads, never
dreamed she would turn a dilapidated industrial building in Detroit into
a state-of-the-art bakery to be called Avalon City Ovens.
"Not in a million years," she said when talking about the first phase of her $2.2 million expansion project. The new 50,000-square-foot production facility is scheduled to open this month at 6555 East Forrest. "But if you think about it and think about the resources in Detroit, and the large vacant buildings, it does make sense that this is the direction we took."
The warehouse was purchased at the 2010 Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction and is funded by a loan that closed in early October. "I never would have thought of doing this. It was an exciting process to actually go and do it," said Perrault, adding that a few of her customers turned her on to the idea. "I am getting the space for a lot less than what it's worth because the owner hasn't paid the taxes. That's kind of a hard situation. I got really lucky."
Avalon now employs more than 50 people. Perrault is in the process of hiring 100 additional bakers, drivers, sales and customer service workers to continue Avalon's growth in the heart of the city.
According to a recent press release, the project comes not long after Avalon opened its second retail location last summer known as the Eat Well, Do Good Cafe in the West Grand Boulevard building of Henry Ford Hospital. "The quick success of this store and growing demand for Avalon products in suburban Detroit and Ann Arbor prompted the expansion," she said.
"The Michigan Economic Development Corporation under Mike Finney wanted to jump start economic growth and support businesses dedicated to employing people, particularly from urban communities," said Don Snider, senior vice president, Urban Economic Development for MEDC. "Avalon is a great example of how our collaborative resources with local partners can lead to growth that benefits all of metropolitan Detroit."
The project involves a complicated partnership with Invest Detroit, Whole Foods, the Small Business Administration and Main Street Bank. "I asked them to be a part of the business in 2008. It was formally done in 2010. It came with a lot of negotiations around how that was going to happen. This was a good way to secure the wholesale end of the business," she said.
The new location will service the artisan bakery's growing wholesale and retail customers. Avalon breads can be purchased at grocery stores like Whole Foods, Holiday, and Plum markets. Restaurants that offer Avalon products are Small Plates in Detroit, Frittata in Clawson, Bastone in Royal Oak, and the Jolly Pumpkin in Ann Arbor, to name a few.
The original 2,000-square-foot production and retail flagship store was established in 1997 by Perrault with her partner, Jackie Victor. Located at 422 W. Willis in the Cass Corridor, Avalon became the biggest organic bread flour purchaser in Michigan, purchasing over 9,000 pounds of organic,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. milled grains weekly from hard-working, organic wheat farmers.
Many aspiring entrepreneurs seek advice and guidance from Perrault as a result of her success. At Avalon City Ovens, Perrault will continue to offer her customers more of their local marketplace favorites from Garden Works in Ann Arbor, Apple Schram in Lansing, St. Laurent Bros Peanut Butter, Chartreuse Organic Herbal Tea in Trenton,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! and more. But she hopes to support some of the Detroit companies starting to spring up. "I'd like to help smaller, innovative companies to start up and do some things for them to boost them to the next level more quickly," she said.
Like 25-year-old Nailah Ellis, owner of the four-year-old beverage company Ellis Island Tea available for purchase at Avalon. The tea, which is sold in almost 20 grocery stores and restaurants throughout Southeastern Michigan, is made with a unique blend of herbs, 100 percent natural extracts, no high fructose corn syrup or yellow 5.
"Nobody wanted to be the first one to carry my product. Ann is very big on supporting local and was willing to take that risk. She gave me a shot and opened a lot of doors for me," said Ellis, who is looking to rent space at Avalon City Ovens. "She is an angel on earth and my business mentor. She is not one of those people who keeps her experience a secret. She shares everything, she is one of her word, she is knowledgeable, and the bakery thrives the way it does because of Ann. I name drop her anytime I'm trying to get a new account or close on a deal. Her name is golden."
Perhaps it's the advice Perrault provides. She tells them what Larkin told her. "Don't pay a rent that will make you stay up at night. Don't be open too much when you first start because you'll already be overwhelmed. Never grow more than 20 percent, which I take to heart.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. As you get larger, you have to be really careful. At any point, one section of business can decide they don't want to do business or want to do business with someone else," she said.
Perrault and her staff have been growing about 20 percent since 2003. "The biggest growth margin here has been the sweet department," she said. Her mother had a pie business when she was a kid. "I happen to have a mother who's one of the best bakers I know. Her chocolate cake, cheesecakes, fruit cakes, Yule logs, and so many more products we bake together will be introduced soon. We're gearing ourselves toward a 25 percent increase within the first year at the new place.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. As we very modestly move forward, we're taking on the true aspects of training individuals to grow at that rate and training to keep the hands in the mixing," she said.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.
"Not in a million years," she said when talking about the first phase of her $2.2 million expansion project. The new 50,000-square-foot production facility is scheduled to open this month at 6555 East Forrest. "But if you think about it and think about the resources in Detroit, and the large vacant buildings, it does make sense that this is the direction we took."
The warehouse was purchased at the 2010 Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction and is funded by a loan that closed in early October. "I never would have thought of doing this. It was an exciting process to actually go and do it," said Perrault, adding that a few of her customers turned her on to the idea. "I am getting the space for a lot less than what it's worth because the owner hasn't paid the taxes. That's kind of a hard situation. I got really lucky."
Avalon now employs more than 50 people. Perrault is in the process of hiring 100 additional bakers, drivers, sales and customer service workers to continue Avalon's growth in the heart of the city.
According to a recent press release, the project comes not long after Avalon opened its second retail location last summer known as the Eat Well, Do Good Cafe in the West Grand Boulevard building of Henry Ford Hospital. "The quick success of this store and growing demand for Avalon products in suburban Detroit and Ann Arbor prompted the expansion," she said.
"The Michigan Economic Development Corporation under Mike Finney wanted to jump start economic growth and support businesses dedicated to employing people, particularly from urban communities," said Don Snider, senior vice president, Urban Economic Development for MEDC. "Avalon is a great example of how our collaborative resources with local partners can lead to growth that benefits all of metropolitan Detroit."
The project involves a complicated partnership with Invest Detroit, Whole Foods, the Small Business Administration and Main Street Bank. "I asked them to be a part of the business in 2008. It was formally done in 2010. It came with a lot of negotiations around how that was going to happen. This was a good way to secure the wholesale end of the business," she said.
The new location will service the artisan bakery's growing wholesale and retail customers. Avalon breads can be purchased at grocery stores like Whole Foods, Holiday, and Plum markets. Restaurants that offer Avalon products are Small Plates in Detroit, Frittata in Clawson, Bastone in Royal Oak, and the Jolly Pumpkin in Ann Arbor, to name a few.
The original 2,000-square-foot production and retail flagship store was established in 1997 by Perrault with her partner, Jackie Victor. Located at 422 W. Willis in the Cass Corridor, Avalon became the biggest organic bread flour purchaser in Michigan, purchasing over 9,000 pounds of organic,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. milled grains weekly from hard-working, organic wheat farmers.
Many aspiring entrepreneurs seek advice and guidance from Perrault as a result of her success. At Avalon City Ovens, Perrault will continue to offer her customers more of their local marketplace favorites from Garden Works in Ann Arbor, Apple Schram in Lansing, St. Laurent Bros Peanut Butter, Chartreuse Organic Herbal Tea in Trenton,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! and more. But she hopes to support some of the Detroit companies starting to spring up. "I'd like to help smaller, innovative companies to start up and do some things for them to boost them to the next level more quickly," she said.
Like 25-year-old Nailah Ellis, owner of the four-year-old beverage company Ellis Island Tea available for purchase at Avalon. The tea, which is sold in almost 20 grocery stores and restaurants throughout Southeastern Michigan, is made with a unique blend of herbs, 100 percent natural extracts, no high fructose corn syrup or yellow 5.
"Nobody wanted to be the first one to carry my product. Ann is very big on supporting local and was willing to take that risk. She gave me a shot and opened a lot of doors for me," said Ellis, who is looking to rent space at Avalon City Ovens. "She is an angel on earth and my business mentor. She is not one of those people who keeps her experience a secret. She shares everything, she is one of her word, she is knowledgeable, and the bakery thrives the way it does because of Ann. I name drop her anytime I'm trying to get a new account or close on a deal. Her name is golden."
Perhaps it's the advice Perrault provides. She tells them what Larkin told her. "Don't pay a rent that will make you stay up at night. Don't be open too much when you first start because you'll already be overwhelmed. Never grow more than 20 percent, which I take to heart.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. As you get larger, you have to be really careful. At any point, one section of business can decide they don't want to do business or want to do business with someone else," she said.
Perrault and her staff have been growing about 20 percent since 2003. "The biggest growth margin here has been the sweet department," she said. Her mother had a pie business when she was a kid. "I happen to have a mother who's one of the best bakers I know. Her chocolate cake, cheesecakes, fruit cakes, Yule logs, and so many more products we bake together will be introduced soon. We're gearing ourselves toward a 25 percent increase within the first year at the new place.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. As we very modestly move forward, we're taking on the true aspects of training individuals to grow at that rate and training to keep the hands in the mixing," she said.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.
BYU to close Campus Drive, build walking plaza
Provo's neighborhood chairmen received a surprise announcement at
their Tuesday night meeting when representatives from Brigham Young
University presented plans for a three-phase redesign of the north and
east sides of campus that will eventually include closing Campus Drive
and turning the area into a walking plaza for students.
"We are connecting campus to make a unified whole," BYU attorney Steve Sandberg said.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! "By the end we will be unifying and beautifying campus."
The desire is to have enhanced green space, more safety for pedestrians and more car-free housing, Sandberg added. A housing change around Heritage Halls is in the future but not part of this project.
According to BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins, the first phase will be in tandem with the Central Utah Project's pipeline construction and Provo City's buildout of 900 East this summer. BYU's project will begin May 1 and will last for three years.
Motorists on campus will be able to access the BYU Law School parking lot from 900 East and from the existing south entrances. Those coming from Bulldog Boulevard up to the Administration Building and Museum of Art will use the new roundabout exits to get into those parking lots. All lots will be reconfigured and special dedicated parking will be made available for the Alumni Center.
The first phase will include redirecting parking stalls to match the walking patterns of east to west instead of north to south at the BYU law school, adding a roundabout and plaza area at the Wilkinson Center and a new intersection on 900 East by the ROTC building. Phase two will be changing the parking, sidewalk and intersections by the Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center, which will still be accessible to cars, and up the hill from Bulldog Boulevard. Phase three will finish the project with a roundabout on the road approximately between the two sky bridges to the Marriott Center, which will feed cars into the administration and Museum of Art parking lots. From there to the Wilkinson Center the road will be replaced with plaza, including flowers, trees, shrubs and other amenities. The three-phase project is scheduled for completion by fall 2015.
One thing BYU representatives made clear -- they are listening to suggestions from residents. While the redesign will happen, all things aren't completely set in stone.
"We received wonderful feedback at the meeting," Jenkins said. "We want to continue to work with the chairmen and improve BYU.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.wind turbine"
Provo spokesman Corey Norman said, "Things might be moving faster than our residents are used to but timing of this project is critical. We need to be ready with designs for 900 East as the CUP pipeline moves north. Our goal is to make sure transportation around campus is enhanced. This includes more ways to get onto campus and a more pedestrian-friendly experience."
Community development director Gary McGinn said the project will require people to change their travel routes in the coming days, but that it will be a great opportunity to work with BYU while 900 East is dug up.
"I think the campus will be beautiful with the pedestrian plaza. This isn't better or worse, it's just different," McGinn said.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day.
Utah Transit Authority regional general manager Hugh Johnson said that while UTA hasn't been able to fully analyze the proposal yet, work on 900 East will also help UTA with infrastructure for the future Bus Rapid Transit system.
"This project is consistent with BRT and our future plans to service BYU," Johnson said. He noted that UTA will make modifications on its current routes in April in preparation for the changes and construction.
Joaquin neighborhood chairman Leo Lines has lived in the area for 31 years and is concerned about the closures.
"I had heard about this plan, but I thought they'd never do it," Lines said. "My main concern is how do we get to and from campus. You're going to have to get on the Starship Enterprise to get into campus."
Lines did say it was the first time he has seen BYU come to the neighbors to share what they are doing and was grateful. That said, there are a number of concerns, like displacing UTA buses to 900 East and parking issues.
Jenkins said university officials took copious notes at the meeting and will be meeting with individual neighborhoods as well. Jenkins also noted that as far as parking, the university already has programs to help students with parking and transportation issues,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. such as the Bike Share program where students can lease a bike. There also is a Hertz Car sharing program that allows students to rent a car for as little as an hour, for a date, to shop or to visit friends. There also are apartment shuttles that bring students in from outlying complexes like Raintree Apartments on Freedom Boulevard.
"I'm grateful that staff members from BYU are coming to the residents and sharing with them their plans," Provo Mayor John Curtis said. "Brigham Young is an important part of our community and it's imperative that we organize together in order to make navigation around campus as seamless as possible."
"We are connecting campus to make a unified whole," BYU attorney Steve Sandberg said.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! "By the end we will be unifying and beautifying campus."
The desire is to have enhanced green space, more safety for pedestrians and more car-free housing, Sandberg added. A housing change around Heritage Halls is in the future but not part of this project.
According to BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins, the first phase will be in tandem with the Central Utah Project's pipeline construction and Provo City's buildout of 900 East this summer. BYU's project will begin May 1 and will last for three years.
Motorists on campus will be able to access the BYU Law School parking lot from 900 East and from the existing south entrances. Those coming from Bulldog Boulevard up to the Administration Building and Museum of Art will use the new roundabout exits to get into those parking lots. All lots will be reconfigured and special dedicated parking will be made available for the Alumni Center.
The first phase will include redirecting parking stalls to match the walking patterns of east to west instead of north to south at the BYU law school, adding a roundabout and plaza area at the Wilkinson Center and a new intersection on 900 East by the ROTC building. Phase two will be changing the parking, sidewalk and intersections by the Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center, which will still be accessible to cars, and up the hill from Bulldog Boulevard. Phase three will finish the project with a roundabout on the road approximately between the two sky bridges to the Marriott Center, which will feed cars into the administration and Museum of Art parking lots. From there to the Wilkinson Center the road will be replaced with plaza, including flowers, trees, shrubs and other amenities. The three-phase project is scheduled for completion by fall 2015.
One thing BYU representatives made clear -- they are listening to suggestions from residents. While the redesign will happen, all things aren't completely set in stone.
"We received wonderful feedback at the meeting," Jenkins said. "We want to continue to work with the chairmen and improve BYU.I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics.wind turbine"
Provo spokesman Corey Norman said, "Things might be moving faster than our residents are used to but timing of this project is critical. We need to be ready with designs for 900 East as the CUP pipeline moves north. Our goal is to make sure transportation around campus is enhanced. This includes more ways to get onto campus and a more pedestrian-friendly experience."
Community development director Gary McGinn said the project will require people to change their travel routes in the coming days, but that it will be a great opportunity to work with BYU while 900 East is dug up.
"I think the campus will be beautiful with the pedestrian plaza. This isn't better or worse, it's just different," McGinn said.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day.
Utah Transit Authority regional general manager Hugh Johnson said that while UTA hasn't been able to fully analyze the proposal yet, work on 900 East will also help UTA with infrastructure for the future Bus Rapid Transit system.
"This project is consistent with BRT and our future plans to service BYU," Johnson said. He noted that UTA will make modifications on its current routes in April in preparation for the changes and construction.
Joaquin neighborhood chairman Leo Lines has lived in the area for 31 years and is concerned about the closures.
"I had heard about this plan, but I thought they'd never do it," Lines said. "My main concern is how do we get to and from campus. You're going to have to get on the Starship Enterprise to get into campus."
Lines did say it was the first time he has seen BYU come to the neighbors to share what they are doing and was grateful. That said, there are a number of concerns, like displacing UTA buses to 900 East and parking issues.
Jenkins said university officials took copious notes at the meeting and will be meeting with individual neighborhoods as well. Jenkins also noted that as far as parking, the university already has programs to help students with parking and transportation issues,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. such as the Bike Share program where students can lease a bike. There also is a Hertz Car sharing program that allows students to rent a car for as little as an hour, for a date, to shop or to visit friends. There also are apartment shuttles that bring students in from outlying complexes like Raintree Apartments on Freedom Boulevard.
"I'm grateful that staff members from BYU are coming to the residents and sharing with them their plans," Provo Mayor John Curtis said. "Brigham Young is an important part of our community and it's imperative that we organize together in order to make navigation around campus as seamless as possible."
Real Madrid 1-1 FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona were forced to settle for a draw in the opening leg of
their Copa del Rey semi-final clash with Real Madrid at the Santiago
Bernabeu as Cesc Fàbregas’ second-half opener was cancelled out by a
late header from Raphael Varane. Both sides created a plethora of
chances all throughout the game, but thanks to a combination of
last-ditch defending and profligate finishing, neither side could really
capitalise, and on reflection,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. a draw is arguably the fairest result.
FC Barcelona started with arguably their strongest possible XI; aside from Pinto’s inclusion in goal, each of the other starters had either won the European Championship, or the UEFA Champions League; but would they be good enough to walk away from the Santiago Bernabeu with a win? Real Madrid on the other hand started with Michael Essien in defense, and Jose Callejon on the wing; with so many injuries and suspensions to contend with, the odds seemed stacked against Los Blancos. Would either side be able to take the initiative by the end of this first-leg?
Real Madrid started well, immediately forcing Barcelona onto the back foot as Cristiano Ronaldo got an early chance to stretch his legs down the left-hand side. Breaking away from one challenge, Ronaldo was tripped by Gerard Piqué, and within a minute, Real Madrid had a chance to take the lead. Piqué picked up a yellow card for his troubles; although it would have been worse if not for a spectacular save from stand-in keeper Jose Manuel Pinto. As per usual, Ronaldo’s free-kick was struck with power, and Pinto had to be at his very best to judge the flight of the ball and make the save.
Clearly, Jose Mourinho was keen to take the game to the visitors right from the opening whistle, and as soon as Barcelona got their foot on the ball, they were instantly swarmed by a number of white shirts. Naturally, there were a couple of late tackles thrown in for good measure; but this was nothing new. The Blaugrana are used to a little rough-and-tumble and they tend to start slowly away from home; would they be able to survive the early Madrid pressure?
In short, yes. It may have taken 10 or so minutes, but Barcelona eventually settled into their groove and began to chip away at a resolute Real Madrid defense. Lionel Messi in particular was looking dangerous, and it was his close control on the counter-attack that set up Bar?a’s first chance of the evening. With an opportunity to take on Ricardo Carvalho, Messi instead decided to wait for support from his teammates, and he soon received help from Andrés Iniesta. Iniesta, starting in an advanced role on the left-hand side of attack, proceeded to "scoop" the ball over Michael Essien to find the overlapping run of Jordi Alba. Unfortunately, Alba couldn’t control his shot and the chance went begging.
Ricardo Carvalho – who has seen limited action thus far this season – didn’t take long to even the yellow card count with an obvious foul, and he nearly picked up a second yellow just minutes later with a foul on Andrés Iniesta. The referee gave Carvalho the benefit of the doubt, but Madrid were not out of the woods yet. There was still a free-kick to contend with; but the Bernabeu crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief as Xavi’s effort rattled off the frame of Diego Lopez’ goal. Xavi then went closer still with a shot assisted by Cesc Fabregas, who pounced on a mistake from Carvalho, but Raphael Varane spared his teammate’s blushes with an exceptional goal-line clearance.
However, as Barcelona committed more and more players to attack, they left themselves susceptible to potential counter-attacks. Karim Benzema looked to take advantage, collecting a lobbed through ball from Ozil to volley the ball past Pinto’s near post.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? It was end-to-end stuff, and the longer the game went on, the more it appeared to favour Real Madrid. Barcelona really were under pressure, and if it wasn’t for crucial interventions from Dani Alves and Gerard Piqué, they could have easily found themselves a goal down. Somehow, someway, the two teams went in level at the break. It was tense, it was dramatic; this was El Clasico.
Neither manager made a change at the break, but Barcelona came out a few minutes early and – coincidentally? – started the brighter team. Recovering from Benzema’s early chance, Barcelona took the game to the makeshift Madrid defense and immediately reaped the rewards. Capitalising on a poor clearance from Jose Callejon, Messi stabbed the ball through the Madrid defense to find Cesc Fàbregas, who was being played onside by the aforementioned Callejon, and one-on-one with Diego Lopez, Fàbregas kept his composure to hand Barcelona the lead.We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. It was a superb finish from the Catalan midfielder, and now Jose Mourinho’s side had it all to do.
Mourinho immediately made a change, replacing Callejon with Luka Modric, which meant a reshuffle offensively, as Mesut Ozil drifted out to the right-hand side. That allowed Michael Essien a little more space to work with on the overlap, and with that extra space, the Ghanaian nearly created an equaliser. His driven cross was a teasing one, but unfortunately for the home crowd, there was just too much pace on Essien’s delivery and as a result, Ronaldo couldn’t convert his diving header at the far post.
Karim Benzema was the next to make way, Gonzalo Higuain his replacement; and the Argentine could have made an instant impact if it wasn’t for a terrific intervention from Gerard Piqué. Despite his early yellow card, Piqué launched into a sliding challenge at the far post, and just did enough to nick the ball away from Ronaldo who was poised to tap-in an equaliser at the far post.
However, in a role reversal from previous encounters, as Madrid pressed forward in search of an equaliser,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. Bar?a had the opportunity to strike on the counter. After Puyol decisively dealt with what could have been a dangerous free-kick, Cesc Fàbregas initiated a counter-attack with a delightful long-pass for Pedro. Bearing down on goal, Pedro looked certain to score, but in the end he got too greedy – he got too close to Diego Lopez’ goal and clipped his shot agonisingly wide of the target. It was a golden chance, and Pedro really should have scored.
Pedro was then taken off for Alexis Sánchez and while the Chilean has struggled for goals, there can be no faulting his work-rate. Winning the ball back in the offensive third, Alexis found Lionel Messi with an excellent through ball and Messi looked to have killed the game with the second goal of the evening, but the assistant referee correctly ruled the goal out for offside. Leo was then denied an obvious free-kick, as Carvalho stuck out a hand to stop a trademark Messi dribble, and typically, the missed call would come back to haunt the Blaugrana.
In truth though, Barcelona really could have done more to deny Real Madrid their equaliser.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. For starters, Mesut Ozil should have been closed down on the right-wing. At what point does any top-class defender think it’s a good idea to let Ozil – one of the most creative players in football – cut inside onto his favoured left foot AND allow him time to pick out a cross? It was criminal defending, and that’s before the ball even entered the penalty area. Then we have the marking; why was Fàbregas marking Raphael Varane? And if Fàbregas wasn’t marking Varane, then why didn’t he get out of Piqué’s way? Varane powered the header into the back of the net, and just like that, Real Madrid were level.
Thiago Alcantara replaced Cesc Fàbregas as Barcelona looked to restore their goal advantage, but it wasn’t to be. Jordi Alba had the best chance to win the game, but his stinging shot was easily parried by Diego Lopez and Bar?a had to settle for the draw. On reflection, they will probably be pleased with the result, but it does leave them with a lot to do at the Camp Nou. Next up, Bar?a return to league action as they take on Valencia at the Mestalla. Until then, Visca el Bar?a!
FC Barcelona started with arguably their strongest possible XI; aside from Pinto’s inclusion in goal, each of the other starters had either won the European Championship, or the UEFA Champions League; but would they be good enough to walk away from the Santiago Bernabeu with a win? Real Madrid on the other hand started with Michael Essien in defense, and Jose Callejon on the wing; with so many injuries and suspensions to contend with, the odds seemed stacked against Los Blancos. Would either side be able to take the initiative by the end of this first-leg?
Real Madrid started well, immediately forcing Barcelona onto the back foot as Cristiano Ronaldo got an early chance to stretch his legs down the left-hand side. Breaking away from one challenge, Ronaldo was tripped by Gerard Piqué, and within a minute, Real Madrid had a chance to take the lead. Piqué picked up a yellow card for his troubles; although it would have been worse if not for a spectacular save from stand-in keeper Jose Manuel Pinto. As per usual, Ronaldo’s free-kick was struck with power, and Pinto had to be at his very best to judge the flight of the ball and make the save.
Clearly, Jose Mourinho was keen to take the game to the visitors right from the opening whistle, and as soon as Barcelona got their foot on the ball, they were instantly swarmed by a number of white shirts. Naturally, there were a couple of late tackles thrown in for good measure; but this was nothing new. The Blaugrana are used to a little rough-and-tumble and they tend to start slowly away from home; would they be able to survive the early Madrid pressure?
In short, yes. It may have taken 10 or so minutes, but Barcelona eventually settled into their groove and began to chip away at a resolute Real Madrid defense. Lionel Messi in particular was looking dangerous, and it was his close control on the counter-attack that set up Bar?a’s first chance of the evening. With an opportunity to take on Ricardo Carvalho, Messi instead decided to wait for support from his teammates, and he soon received help from Andrés Iniesta. Iniesta, starting in an advanced role on the left-hand side of attack, proceeded to "scoop" the ball over Michael Essien to find the overlapping run of Jordi Alba. Unfortunately, Alba couldn’t control his shot and the chance went begging.
Ricardo Carvalho – who has seen limited action thus far this season – didn’t take long to even the yellow card count with an obvious foul, and he nearly picked up a second yellow just minutes later with a foul on Andrés Iniesta. The referee gave Carvalho the benefit of the doubt, but Madrid were not out of the woods yet. There was still a free-kick to contend with; but the Bernabeu crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief as Xavi’s effort rattled off the frame of Diego Lopez’ goal. Xavi then went closer still with a shot assisted by Cesc Fabregas, who pounced on a mistake from Carvalho, but Raphael Varane spared his teammate’s blushes with an exceptional goal-line clearance.
However, as Barcelona committed more and more players to attack, they left themselves susceptible to potential counter-attacks. Karim Benzema looked to take advantage, collecting a lobbed through ball from Ozil to volley the ball past Pinto’s near post.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? It was end-to-end stuff, and the longer the game went on, the more it appeared to favour Real Madrid. Barcelona really were under pressure, and if it wasn’t for crucial interventions from Dani Alves and Gerard Piqué, they could have easily found themselves a goal down. Somehow, someway, the two teams went in level at the break. It was tense, it was dramatic; this was El Clasico.
Neither manager made a change at the break, but Barcelona came out a few minutes early and – coincidentally? – started the brighter team. Recovering from Benzema’s early chance, Barcelona took the game to the makeshift Madrid defense and immediately reaped the rewards. Capitalising on a poor clearance from Jose Callejon, Messi stabbed the ball through the Madrid defense to find Cesc Fàbregas, who was being played onside by the aforementioned Callejon, and one-on-one with Diego Lopez, Fàbregas kept his composure to hand Barcelona the lead.We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. It was a superb finish from the Catalan midfielder, and now Jose Mourinho’s side had it all to do.
Mourinho immediately made a change, replacing Callejon with Luka Modric, which meant a reshuffle offensively, as Mesut Ozil drifted out to the right-hand side. That allowed Michael Essien a little more space to work with on the overlap, and with that extra space, the Ghanaian nearly created an equaliser. His driven cross was a teasing one, but unfortunately for the home crowd, there was just too much pace on Essien’s delivery and as a result, Ronaldo couldn’t convert his diving header at the far post.
Karim Benzema was the next to make way, Gonzalo Higuain his replacement; and the Argentine could have made an instant impact if it wasn’t for a terrific intervention from Gerard Piqué. Despite his early yellow card, Piqué launched into a sliding challenge at the far post, and just did enough to nick the ball away from Ronaldo who was poised to tap-in an equaliser at the far post.
However, in a role reversal from previous encounters, as Madrid pressed forward in search of an equaliser,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. Bar?a had the opportunity to strike on the counter. After Puyol decisively dealt with what could have been a dangerous free-kick, Cesc Fàbregas initiated a counter-attack with a delightful long-pass for Pedro. Bearing down on goal, Pedro looked certain to score, but in the end he got too greedy – he got too close to Diego Lopez’ goal and clipped his shot agonisingly wide of the target. It was a golden chance, and Pedro really should have scored.
Pedro was then taken off for Alexis Sánchez and while the Chilean has struggled for goals, there can be no faulting his work-rate. Winning the ball back in the offensive third, Alexis found Lionel Messi with an excellent through ball and Messi looked to have killed the game with the second goal of the evening, but the assistant referee correctly ruled the goal out for offside. Leo was then denied an obvious free-kick, as Carvalho stuck out a hand to stop a trademark Messi dribble, and typically, the missed call would come back to haunt the Blaugrana.
In truth though, Barcelona really could have done more to deny Real Madrid their equaliser.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. For starters, Mesut Ozil should have been closed down on the right-wing. At what point does any top-class defender think it’s a good idea to let Ozil – one of the most creative players in football – cut inside onto his favoured left foot AND allow him time to pick out a cross? It was criminal defending, and that’s before the ball even entered the penalty area. Then we have the marking; why was Fàbregas marking Raphael Varane? And if Fàbregas wasn’t marking Varane, then why didn’t he get out of Piqué’s way? Varane powered the header into the back of the net, and just like that, Real Madrid were level.
Thiago Alcantara replaced Cesc Fàbregas as Barcelona looked to restore their goal advantage, but it wasn’t to be. Jordi Alba had the best chance to win the game, but his stinging shot was easily parried by Diego Lopez and Bar?a had to settle for the draw. On reflection, they will probably be pleased with the result, but it does leave them with a lot to do at the Camp Nou. Next up, Bar?a return to league action as they take on Valencia at the Mestalla. Until then, Visca el Bar?a!
Deport the Interlopers?
Mexicans don't necessarily have it the worst when crossing illegally
into the United States. Ecuadorans and Salvadorans, who also immigrate
here in large (and rising) numbers, tend to face a much longer land
journey -- they have to pass through all of Mexico to get here. The
ocean crossing from Cuba to Key West, a mere 100 miles, may be the most
dangerous of all, especially if you set out at night on a homemade raft,
as many migrants used to do.
But Mexicans, even those traveling safely and legally between the two countries, carry history with them when they cross the border. On the drive past Nuevo Laredo to San Antonio or Houston -- or at any number of checkpoints along the national border -- they pass through land that used to be claimed by Mexico.
President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of eight senators have proposed comprehensive immigration reform. If the measure passes, it will impact immigrants from around the world, but perhaps none more so than Mexicans. As Brian Resnick of National Journal notes,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. 55 to 60 percent of our undocumented immigrants are Mexican. That's about 6 million people, a far greater number than any other country has sent us.
At least publicly and at least so far, a lot of the objections to the plan have taken the law-and-order angle. What kind of message does it send to reward law-breakers with citizenship? But other objections are not as sophisticated. Commentators have begun to invoke the idea, long popular on the right, that legalizing our undocumented workers would somehow mock or weaken U.S. sovereignty.
At moments like this, it's good to remember that the border has been highly porous, and often ambiguous, for most of U.S. history. Mexicans and their forebears have lived on both sides of it for a long time. Because of the Mexican-American war, our economic ties, and our geopolitical situation, almost every Mexican citizen has some kind of history with the U.S.
But for some migrants and visitors, the ties are even deeper. Many Mexicans trace their heritage to indigenous groups cleaved in two by the border. Others have worked for factories or firms that produce goods primarily for U.S. export. Tell these people they don't have a right to live or work in the U.S., and some would reply that they have as much of a right as any U.S. citizen.
Like many national borders, the initial line drawn between the two countries was in a sense highly arbitrary. Through the end of the 19th century -- that is, even after the Mexican-American war -- native populations that inhabited what is now the border region roamed without restrictions the area between the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Because of the process of mestizaje, many Mexicans could trace part of their heritage back to one of these cultural groups.
During the conquest, the Spanish settled deep in North America. Before the Mexican-American War in 1848, Mexico's claims on the West Coast stretched all the way up to modern-day Oregon. And,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. of course, the country also claimed more than half of what is now Texas.
As settlers from the eastern United States began to move west, the disputed slice of the future state of Texas started to become a problem. American settlers clashed with Mexicans, and with indigenous people still living in the area. By 1846, both U.S. and Mexican federal troops had arrived in the territory. In two years, Mexico had lost the war.
As part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended hostilities and established a friendly relationship between the two nations, Mexico ceded a vast swath of territory, from today's California to today's Texas. Our southern contour was set. In the east, the treaty moved our border from one natural boundary (the Nueces River) to another (the Rio Grande). In the west, the geological boundary between the two countries is less clear.
For some people living between the two cultures, the border is a fracture that has never healed. The treaty, wrote the Chicana activist Gloria Anzaldúa, "left 100,000 Mexican citizens on this [the U.S.] side, annexed by conquest along with the land." They became the first Mexican Americans. It was not, and is not, a comfortable position to be in, Anzaldúa writes.
The war delineated our current border. But beginning in 1850 -- that is, almost immediately after the war -- Mexicans began to replace immigrant Chinese and Japanese as cheap manual labor, especially on Midwestern and Western farms. While they crossed the border to work without any particular authorization, it didn't really matter. The concept of an "illegal alien" didn't yet exist. Their immigration without papers hadn't been criminalized, and many agricultural workers returned to Mexico at the end of each picking season.
Not until 1924, when the Border Patrol was founded, did it become illegal for Mexicans to cross the border without permission from the U.S. government. The government first began policing the border, in fact, after a general nativist backlash against immigrants provoked by World War I. The first mass deportations of immigrant farm workers occurred in the 1930s -- that is, during the Great Depression.
The first few years of border enforcement set the pattern we have followed since: U.S.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. borders have been enforced more or less rigorously depending on the country's political and economic mood, with a general trend towards greater enforcement.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. Of course, even after policing began, employers still needed to use Mexican labor. Through the mid-1960s, the U.S. maintained a bracero program, which brought Mexicans here legally as temporary workers just for the harvesting season. The program was discontinued after investigations revealed mass abuse of labor by the growers who used the program.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?
But Mexicans, even those traveling safely and legally between the two countries, carry history with them when they cross the border. On the drive past Nuevo Laredo to San Antonio or Houston -- or at any number of checkpoints along the national border -- they pass through land that used to be claimed by Mexico.
President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of eight senators have proposed comprehensive immigration reform. If the measure passes, it will impact immigrants from around the world, but perhaps none more so than Mexicans. As Brian Resnick of National Journal notes,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. 55 to 60 percent of our undocumented immigrants are Mexican. That's about 6 million people, a far greater number than any other country has sent us.
At least publicly and at least so far, a lot of the objections to the plan have taken the law-and-order angle. What kind of message does it send to reward law-breakers with citizenship? But other objections are not as sophisticated. Commentators have begun to invoke the idea, long popular on the right, that legalizing our undocumented workers would somehow mock or weaken U.S. sovereignty.
At moments like this, it's good to remember that the border has been highly porous, and often ambiguous, for most of U.S. history. Mexicans and their forebears have lived on both sides of it for a long time. Because of the Mexican-American war, our economic ties, and our geopolitical situation, almost every Mexican citizen has some kind of history with the U.S.
But for some migrants and visitors, the ties are even deeper. Many Mexicans trace their heritage to indigenous groups cleaved in two by the border. Others have worked for factories or firms that produce goods primarily for U.S. export. Tell these people they don't have a right to live or work in the U.S., and some would reply that they have as much of a right as any U.S. citizen.
Like many national borders, the initial line drawn between the two countries was in a sense highly arbitrary. Through the end of the 19th century -- that is, even after the Mexican-American war -- native populations that inhabited what is now the border region roamed without restrictions the area between the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Because of the process of mestizaje, many Mexicans could trace part of their heritage back to one of these cultural groups.
During the conquest, the Spanish settled deep in North America. Before the Mexican-American War in 1848, Mexico's claims on the West Coast stretched all the way up to modern-day Oregon. And,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. of course, the country also claimed more than half of what is now Texas.
As settlers from the eastern United States began to move west, the disputed slice of the future state of Texas started to become a problem. American settlers clashed with Mexicans, and with indigenous people still living in the area. By 1846, both U.S. and Mexican federal troops had arrived in the territory. In two years, Mexico had lost the war.
As part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended hostilities and established a friendly relationship between the two nations, Mexico ceded a vast swath of territory, from today's California to today's Texas. Our southern contour was set. In the east, the treaty moved our border from one natural boundary (the Nueces River) to another (the Rio Grande). In the west, the geological boundary between the two countries is less clear.
For some people living between the two cultures, the border is a fracture that has never healed. The treaty, wrote the Chicana activist Gloria Anzaldúa, "left 100,000 Mexican citizens on this [the U.S.] side, annexed by conquest along with the land." They became the first Mexican Americans. It was not, and is not, a comfortable position to be in, Anzaldúa writes.
The war delineated our current border. But beginning in 1850 -- that is, almost immediately after the war -- Mexicans began to replace immigrant Chinese and Japanese as cheap manual labor, especially on Midwestern and Western farms. While they crossed the border to work without any particular authorization, it didn't really matter. The concept of an "illegal alien" didn't yet exist. Their immigration without papers hadn't been criminalized, and many agricultural workers returned to Mexico at the end of each picking season.
Not until 1924, when the Border Patrol was founded, did it become illegal for Mexicans to cross the border without permission from the U.S. government. The government first began policing the border, in fact, after a general nativist backlash against immigrants provoked by World War I. The first mass deportations of immigrant farm workers occurred in the 1930s -- that is, during the Great Depression.
The first few years of border enforcement set the pattern we have followed since: U.S.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. borders have been enforced more or less rigorously depending on the country's political and economic mood, with a general trend towards greater enforcement.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. Of course, even after policing began, employers still needed to use Mexican labor. Through the mid-1960s, the U.S. maintained a bracero program, which brought Mexicans here legally as temporary workers just for the harvesting season. The program was discontinued after investigations revealed mass abuse of labor by the growers who used the program.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?
2013年1月29日星期二
Opportunities for healthcare in a sustainable future
Since the Rio+20 summit in June, more and more chief executives,
civil society leaders and politicians have been talking about the need
for a shared vision of a sustainable future and the need for a radically
new and positive approach that would see the bold creation of a
vibrant, sustainable society, rather than the gloomy vision of the 2C,
4C or 6C degree world that we all fear to live in.
Telling people what they will gain from a shift to a sustainable lifestyle is far more engaging and powerful than telling them what they might lose. Shifting the narrative from one of restraints and limitations to one that focuses on how you can improve your quality of life is what the sustainability agenda needs. We need a positive, engaging and exciting, yet realistic way of telling people about our future.
But then the difficult questions begin. What are the key messages to help reshape the gloomy sentiment and excite consumers and voters about a sustainable future? And what should persuade them to wish for – even long for – a sustainable future? There are no simple answers, but one thing is certain; neither voters nor consumers will support sustainability as a priority unless it offers considerable positive impacts on their everyday lives.Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. That's why there is huge potential in tying together sustainability and health.
It is a lot easier to convince people to eat less animal fat because it will make them leaner and more energetic than to persuade them to do so because livestock farming put a huge strain on the environment. Health is a great vehicle to accelerate the sustainable agenda and give it a highly personal relevance. A healthy lifestyle has the power to define your quality of life and sustainability needs this kind of obvious positive daily impact.
We use about 40% of our overall energy consumption on and in buildings,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. and approximately a third of all materials used globally go to construction. Similarly, a third of all waste comes from the building sector. For years, we have had the knowledge and technology to lower energy use and waste – not to mention create huge savings for companies, homeowners and societies – by making buildings more sustainable. Still progress is slow. Why?
In our research for a our recent guide on more sustainable buildings it became clear to us that the arguments that really won the hearts and minds of owners and investors were direct health benefits, such as improved wellbeing and reduction of asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases. Sustainable material and designs include increased ventilation and sunlight and moisture control. Some studies have shown that respiratory issues caused by poor indoor climate can be lowered with up to 46% and asthma by 73% if buildings were more sustainable but this direct impact is not commonly known.
There are more examples. For instance,We've got a plastic card to suit you. arguments for sustainable transport such as cycling to work shouldn't be framed around the fuel this saves. It is too abstract to grasp the changes this can drive – and hence too convenient to take the car. Highlighting the positive effects of exercising for 30 minutes a day on the immune system and other health benefits creates a personal and clear incentive for pedal-driven, carbon-free transportation.
The good news for the broader healthcare industry is there is ample room for growth.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! At a conference in November, Research from the pan-European Spread Sustainable Lifestyles project suggested that, broadly, the consumption of health services is very resource efficient; companies engaged in healthcare and prevention create a lot of value for each unit of energy and material used. And they pollute less too.
A recent study from Harvard Business School suggested that companies that embrace a sustainable business culture over many years significantly outperform their counterparts in terms of stock returns and accounting performance. They are better at involving stakeholders, reading trends and new needs better than competitors and excel at defining clear, long-term goals which attracts and sustains relationships to investors,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. consumers and partners.
This is an excellent starting point for a sector that wishes to grow in a sustainable economy. From a sustainability point of view, healthcare is a growth area. But do healthcare companies see this potential?
Sustainable healthcare is an open field waiting to be cultivated. There is still no clear definition or vision of what a sustainable healthcare system would look like. But if you dig just a little deeper into the processes shaping the future of technology and markets, as for example transition management researchers do, it is clear there are tremendous opportunities. Stakeholders that engage early in defining a vision can influence the development of the market.
Telling people what they will gain from a shift to a sustainable lifestyle is far more engaging and powerful than telling them what they might lose. Shifting the narrative from one of restraints and limitations to one that focuses on how you can improve your quality of life is what the sustainability agenda needs. We need a positive, engaging and exciting, yet realistic way of telling people about our future.
But then the difficult questions begin. What are the key messages to help reshape the gloomy sentiment and excite consumers and voters about a sustainable future? And what should persuade them to wish for – even long for – a sustainable future? There are no simple answers, but one thing is certain; neither voters nor consumers will support sustainability as a priority unless it offers considerable positive impacts on their everyday lives.Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. That's why there is huge potential in tying together sustainability and health.
It is a lot easier to convince people to eat less animal fat because it will make them leaner and more energetic than to persuade them to do so because livestock farming put a huge strain on the environment. Health is a great vehicle to accelerate the sustainable agenda and give it a highly personal relevance. A healthy lifestyle has the power to define your quality of life and sustainability needs this kind of obvious positive daily impact.
We use about 40% of our overall energy consumption on and in buildings,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. and approximately a third of all materials used globally go to construction. Similarly, a third of all waste comes from the building sector. For years, we have had the knowledge and technology to lower energy use and waste – not to mention create huge savings for companies, homeowners and societies – by making buildings more sustainable. Still progress is slow. Why?
In our research for a our recent guide on more sustainable buildings it became clear to us that the arguments that really won the hearts and minds of owners and investors were direct health benefits, such as improved wellbeing and reduction of asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases. Sustainable material and designs include increased ventilation and sunlight and moisture control. Some studies have shown that respiratory issues caused by poor indoor climate can be lowered with up to 46% and asthma by 73% if buildings were more sustainable but this direct impact is not commonly known.
There are more examples. For instance,We've got a plastic card to suit you. arguments for sustainable transport such as cycling to work shouldn't be framed around the fuel this saves. It is too abstract to grasp the changes this can drive – and hence too convenient to take the car. Highlighting the positive effects of exercising for 30 minutes a day on the immune system and other health benefits creates a personal and clear incentive for pedal-driven, carbon-free transportation.
The good news for the broader healthcare industry is there is ample room for growth.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! At a conference in November, Research from the pan-European Spread Sustainable Lifestyles project suggested that, broadly, the consumption of health services is very resource efficient; companies engaged in healthcare and prevention create a lot of value for each unit of energy and material used. And they pollute less too.
A recent study from Harvard Business School suggested that companies that embrace a sustainable business culture over many years significantly outperform their counterparts in terms of stock returns and accounting performance. They are better at involving stakeholders, reading trends and new needs better than competitors and excel at defining clear, long-term goals which attracts and sustains relationships to investors,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. consumers and partners.
This is an excellent starting point for a sector that wishes to grow in a sustainable economy. From a sustainability point of view, healthcare is a growth area. But do healthcare companies see this potential?
Sustainable healthcare is an open field waiting to be cultivated. There is still no clear definition or vision of what a sustainable healthcare system would look like. But if you dig just a little deeper into the processes shaping the future of technology and markets, as for example transition management researchers do, it is clear there are tremendous opportunities. Stakeholders that engage early in defining a vision can influence the development of the market.
Cyprien Gaillard's "Crystal Worlds" at MoMA PS1 Trace the Fragility of Empire
In “The Crystal World,” his first solo museum exhibition in New York
(which runs through March 18), Gaillard creates powerful and mesmerizing
portraits of suffering cities, meditations on transformation and decay
that are also simply enjoyable to look at. Although the 80 works on view
here comprise a variety of media, video art is the centerpiece. The
show is anchored by the film “Artefacts” (2011), which has the largest
exhibition room to itself. In these images from Baghdad during the U.S.
occupation, soldiers in fatigues hold out fragments of ancient tablets
and other archaeological finds, men in traditional dress trek across the
desert, and, in one intensely enjoyable and intriguing segment,
swirling bands of solid color fill up the screen. These bands suggest
the mad movements of carnival rides, but we’re told that they’re the
spinning skirts of a whirling dervish. The film captivates and draws you
in, kind of like a travelogue — over the weekend, there were even some
young children sitting on the floor watching it with their parents.
But this is also heavy stuff — occupation, cultural destruction, and loss,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. evoked obliquely,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. without violence. Though the images of American soldiers are innocuous enough, their presence brings to mind the massive destruction to Iraqi antiquities that resulted from the U.S. invasion. The music is a continuous loop of a sample from David Gray’s song “Babylon,” which, as the wall text points out, is said to have been used as part of the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib. Here, though, the repetition is haunting without being torturous, and there’s an added layer of meaning; located about 50 miles south of Baghdad, the ancient kingdom of Babylon, with its fabled hanging gardens, is itself a symbol of loss and the passage of time. Technologically the work is also composed of layers — Gaillard filmed the video on his iPhone and then transferred it to 35-millimeter film, which you can hear whirring through the projector while watching the shaky, handheld images.
The show is rich in connections between works. One small room holds seven huge excavator bucket teeth in seven glass cases, recalling the display of Babylonian antiquities at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum that were viewed in “Artefacts.” I found myself examining them from all angles, as if they were worn antique statues, when of course they signify something very different — their natural erosion occurs from digging into earth to put up new construction.
In his long series of three-by-three grids of Polaroid photos, “Geographical Analogies,” Gaillard also plays with notions of tourism and the past. Each grid is focused on one locale; I recognized Baghdad from seeing one of the structures that appeared in “Artefacts.” But most of these cities could be anywhere — a certain kind of anywhere, that is.We've got a plastic card to suit you. Images of foreclosed houses made me think of Detroit (though they may be in Passaic, New Jersey, one location that Gaillard used), and others look like the outdated, monolithic structures of many third-world cities. Individually, with their slightly orangey hue and their odd angles, these snapshots could be photos that any tourist has taken. The way they’re arranged in grids, though, is somehow very elegant and poignant. Poignant, perhaps, because, as the wall text informs us, Polaroid film is unstable, and in these photos (taken between 2006 and 2011),Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. the colors have already begun to break down.
These works are almost Romantic in the way they find beauty in contemporary ruins. But Gaillard’s landscapes are also landscapes of people, whether soldiers patrolling Baghdad, spring breakers guzzling tequila in Cancún, or rival Russian gangs brutally clashing with each other. The artist seems to remind us that people are a force of randomness and decay as much as time. A few works here seem less complex, such as two frottages of New York sewer lids and a found landscape painting from 1914 on which Gaillard silkscreened the grinning face of the Cleveland Indians’ mascot. But the show is a highly rewarding journey. “The Crystal World” presents a world that may be crystalline in its fragility, but is rough, rocky, and decrepit, populated by random human gestures and the survival of things past.
As most would already know, the event will feature a collection of works by local artists as well as historic pieces by the late Douglas Pratt.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
Now that the event is coming so close, however, we felt this might be the time to expand a little on who Douglas Pratt actually was.
Douglas was born in Katoomba in 1900. His first job was as jackeroo on a property near Singleton, probably where he developed his love of the landscape.
Working in Sydney in the 1920s, a colleague, having seen some of his sketches, suggested he should develop his drawing and painting talents.
Early sales encouraged him to study at the Royal Art Society’s drawing classes and at Sydney Long’s Etching School.
His artwork covered all mediums - oils, watercolour, pencil, etchings.
His first exhibition was held at the Macquarie Galleries, in Sydney in 1928. Exhibitions of his etchings and pencil drawings throughout Australia followed.
In 1953, he was appointed to the Commwealth Art Advisory Board, Canberra and served as a member until his death in 1972; he was awarded an OBE for this work.
Douglas returned on many occasions socially and for surveying work, and being an avid artist, he produced a large number of sketches and paintings capturing the Monaro.
Now Sydney, Melbourne and Perth have his works hung in their art galleries, and we too in Bombala and surrounds have our share of his wonderful pieces.
It is a selection of these which will be exhibited at ‘Visions of the Monaro’, and this will of course be a very rare treat for art lovers in the region.
All the more so when the show and sale will also offer a range of works from our own local artists, which will add another dimension to the event, and allow some to take home very special purchases.
It’s coming up quickly though, so artists are encouraged to get moving if they are creating and assembling the pieces to enter into the show and sale.
See your ad here
Local artists are invited to contribute art in any of the following forms - landscape in any medium, including photography; portrait of personalities in any medium including photography; still life in any medium; visions in sculpture or sculptures using local products.
But this is also heavy stuff — occupation, cultural destruction, and loss,We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. evoked obliquely,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. without violence. Though the images of American soldiers are innocuous enough, their presence brings to mind the massive destruction to Iraqi antiquities that resulted from the U.S. invasion. The music is a continuous loop of a sample from David Gray’s song “Babylon,” which, as the wall text points out, is said to have been used as part of the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib. Here, though, the repetition is haunting without being torturous, and there’s an added layer of meaning; located about 50 miles south of Baghdad, the ancient kingdom of Babylon, with its fabled hanging gardens, is itself a symbol of loss and the passage of time. Technologically the work is also composed of layers — Gaillard filmed the video on his iPhone and then transferred it to 35-millimeter film, which you can hear whirring through the projector while watching the shaky, handheld images.
The show is rich in connections between works. One small room holds seven huge excavator bucket teeth in seven glass cases, recalling the display of Babylonian antiquities at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum that were viewed in “Artefacts.” I found myself examining them from all angles, as if they were worn antique statues, when of course they signify something very different — their natural erosion occurs from digging into earth to put up new construction.
In his long series of three-by-three grids of Polaroid photos, “Geographical Analogies,” Gaillard also plays with notions of tourism and the past. Each grid is focused on one locale; I recognized Baghdad from seeing one of the structures that appeared in “Artefacts.” But most of these cities could be anywhere — a certain kind of anywhere, that is.We've got a plastic card to suit you. Images of foreclosed houses made me think of Detroit (though they may be in Passaic, New Jersey, one location that Gaillard used), and others look like the outdated, monolithic structures of many third-world cities. Individually, with their slightly orangey hue and their odd angles, these snapshots could be photos that any tourist has taken. The way they’re arranged in grids, though, is somehow very elegant and poignant. Poignant, perhaps, because, as the wall text informs us, Polaroid film is unstable, and in these photos (taken between 2006 and 2011),Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. the colors have already begun to break down.
These works are almost Romantic in the way they find beauty in contemporary ruins. But Gaillard’s landscapes are also landscapes of people, whether soldiers patrolling Baghdad, spring breakers guzzling tequila in Cancún, or rival Russian gangs brutally clashing with each other. The artist seems to remind us that people are a force of randomness and decay as much as time. A few works here seem less complex, such as two frottages of New York sewer lids and a found landscape painting from 1914 on which Gaillard silkscreened the grinning face of the Cleveland Indians’ mascot. But the show is a highly rewarding journey. “The Crystal World” presents a world that may be crystalline in its fragility, but is rough, rocky, and decrepit, populated by random human gestures and the survival of things past.
As most would already know, the event will feature a collection of works by local artists as well as historic pieces by the late Douglas Pratt.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks!
Now that the event is coming so close, however, we felt this might be the time to expand a little on who Douglas Pratt actually was.
Douglas was born in Katoomba in 1900. His first job was as jackeroo on a property near Singleton, probably where he developed his love of the landscape.
Working in Sydney in the 1920s, a colleague, having seen some of his sketches, suggested he should develop his drawing and painting talents.
Early sales encouraged him to study at the Royal Art Society’s drawing classes and at Sydney Long’s Etching School.
His artwork covered all mediums - oils, watercolour, pencil, etchings.
His first exhibition was held at the Macquarie Galleries, in Sydney in 1928. Exhibitions of his etchings and pencil drawings throughout Australia followed.
In 1953, he was appointed to the Commwealth Art Advisory Board, Canberra and served as a member until his death in 1972; he was awarded an OBE for this work.
Douglas returned on many occasions socially and for surveying work, and being an avid artist, he produced a large number of sketches and paintings capturing the Monaro.
Now Sydney, Melbourne and Perth have his works hung in their art galleries, and we too in Bombala and surrounds have our share of his wonderful pieces.
It is a selection of these which will be exhibited at ‘Visions of the Monaro’, and this will of course be a very rare treat for art lovers in the region.
All the more so when the show and sale will also offer a range of works from our own local artists, which will add another dimension to the event, and allow some to take home very special purchases.
It’s coming up quickly though, so artists are encouraged to get moving if they are creating and assembling the pieces to enter into the show and sale.
See your ad here
Local artists are invited to contribute art in any of the following forms - landscape in any medium, including photography; portrait of personalities in any medium including photography; still life in any medium; visions in sculpture or sculptures using local products.
The Business Of Scouting And A Crisis Of Our Own Making
I’m an Eagle Scout. When I turned 8, and for the next twenty years, Scouting occupied the majority of my time in life.
I was elected and appointed to national Scouting posts for several years as a kid,Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. and served for several more as an adult. When I was 19 years old, I met — then lived with,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. and traveled the world assisting — one of the great mentors of my life. He was 91 years old, and William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt was renowned as one of the founding fathers of the worldwide movement of Scouting. Hillcourt was a hero to millions of Scouts and Scouters. He wrote many of the Scout handbooks and shaped much of the Scouting program for nearly 70 years, though was often out of step with the corporate decision makers of the Boy Scouts of America.
Following Bill’s death, I carrieWe've got a plastic card to suit you.d a spark from the torch he tried to pass, and one of my earliest startups was a magazine for Boy Scout leaders, together with a web community we launched in 1994, the dark ages of the internet. We reached tens of thousands of leaders, and for several years it was my honor to write and travel and speak to a grassroots movement of Scouting, and lead an incredible team of staff and volunteers that loved their jobs.
In some ways that early startup experience really set an impossible standard for my future business ventures… we didn’t just satisfy customers.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! Instead, the words we published and ideas we promoted brought customer letters proclaiming “Bless you for helping me change the lives of kids!”, and went on to paint in vivid detail how we had done so. It was pretty inspirational and heady stuff for all of us in that business, even if we weren’t making any money.
There was a time when I expected my entire life would be spent in the service of Scouting, humbly trying to continue the legacy of Bill Hillcourt, and give back to a movement that had done more to shape and mold the man I became than anything I learned in school, from my parents, or from any other influence.
Scouting inspired the value of cheerful service, honed my leadership, and fostered my ambition to nurture and advance my community. From those lessons, I’ve launched startups, mentored founders, created schools and built several organizations. I’ve succeeded and failed plenty of times, and Scouting was the lab where I first learned how to do both.
The Scouting of my youth was a welcoming place for all kids to learn and grow. But twenty years ago, Scouting in America chose to become a culture warrior, and has increasingly marginalized itself and eroded its brand.
The BSA won a Supreme Court case in 2000, defending its right as a private organization to define its own membership. That case may have been specifically about gay members, but it was really about a broader right of association. The BSA was correct to defend itself in that case, and the final decision of the Court was also correct.
Many may argue that BSA was drawn into the battle. But where BSA failed, and instead placed itself at the tip of the dagger, was in not announcing the very next day that they were granting local chartering partners (the churches, civic clubs, and parent groups) the power to decide who the best leaders would be for their kids.
BSA correctly fought for the right to association, but then denied that right to their most important partners, the parents in neighborhoods and communities across America.
It may be a difficult nuance to understand the difference between the movement of Scouting, which grows in more than 140 countries and still shines brightly with millions of kids in local neighborhoods throughout this country, and the organization of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA is the national corporation, exclusively granted a charter by the US Congress to administer the only boy scout program in this country. It’s the organization that established this policy.
The movement of Scouting continues to be one of the great opportunities for light and goodness in the world. But in my opinion, and one shared by millions of parents with kids who could benefit from Scouting, the corporation that administers Scouting in America lost its moral compass a long time ago.
The BSA will argue they were only honoring the wishes and concerns of parents.We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. They will argue they didn’t expressly ban gay kids and adults, they simply compelled them to keep that part of their identity secret if they wanted to remain in Scouting. But in reality they refused to allow all local parents, troop leaders and chartering partners to decide for themselves.
In retrospect, the Boy Scouts of America made a bad business decision. It might have been good short-term business, in that it placated a few of their largest chartering partners, like the LDS and Catholic church, who were then using the Boy Scouts as a sectarian tool (even if many smaller churches and other partners were marginalized in dissent). But it was clearly bad business in the long run.
Not long after that Supreme Court case, in a rare, candid moment, the chief scout executive at the time was quoted in the media saying “when [parents] start walking away from us, that’s the signal for us to revisit the issue”. That’s a business decision, driven by numbers, not a moral one.
And for the next thirteen years, the BSA became an increasingly isolated echo chamber of like minded customers, where their business decision ignored the total addressable market.
I was elected and appointed to national Scouting posts for several years as a kid,Purchase an iPhone headset to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. and served for several more as an adult. When I was 19 years old, I met — then lived with,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. and traveled the world assisting — one of the great mentors of my life. He was 91 years old, and William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt was renowned as one of the founding fathers of the worldwide movement of Scouting. Hillcourt was a hero to millions of Scouts and Scouters. He wrote many of the Scout handbooks and shaped much of the Scouting program for nearly 70 years, though was often out of step with the corporate decision makers of the Boy Scouts of America.
Following Bill’s death, I carrieWe've got a plastic card to suit you.d a spark from the torch he tried to pass, and one of my earliest startups was a magazine for Boy Scout leaders, together with a web community we launched in 1994, the dark ages of the internet. We reached tens of thousands of leaders, and for several years it was my honor to write and travel and speak to a grassroots movement of Scouting, and lead an incredible team of staff and volunteers that loved their jobs.
In some ways that early startup experience really set an impossible standard for my future business ventures… we didn’t just satisfy customers.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! Instead, the words we published and ideas we promoted brought customer letters proclaiming “Bless you for helping me change the lives of kids!”, and went on to paint in vivid detail how we had done so. It was pretty inspirational and heady stuff for all of us in that business, even if we weren’t making any money.
There was a time when I expected my entire life would be spent in the service of Scouting, humbly trying to continue the legacy of Bill Hillcourt, and give back to a movement that had done more to shape and mold the man I became than anything I learned in school, from my parents, or from any other influence.
Scouting inspired the value of cheerful service, honed my leadership, and fostered my ambition to nurture and advance my community. From those lessons, I’ve launched startups, mentored founders, created schools and built several organizations. I’ve succeeded and failed plenty of times, and Scouting was the lab where I first learned how to do both.
The Scouting of my youth was a welcoming place for all kids to learn and grow. But twenty years ago, Scouting in America chose to become a culture warrior, and has increasingly marginalized itself and eroded its brand.
The BSA won a Supreme Court case in 2000, defending its right as a private organization to define its own membership. That case may have been specifically about gay members, but it was really about a broader right of association. The BSA was correct to defend itself in that case, and the final decision of the Court was also correct.
Many may argue that BSA was drawn into the battle. But where BSA failed, and instead placed itself at the tip of the dagger, was in not announcing the very next day that they were granting local chartering partners (the churches, civic clubs, and parent groups) the power to decide who the best leaders would be for their kids.
BSA correctly fought for the right to association, but then denied that right to their most important partners, the parents in neighborhoods and communities across America.
It may be a difficult nuance to understand the difference between the movement of Scouting, which grows in more than 140 countries and still shines brightly with millions of kids in local neighborhoods throughout this country, and the organization of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA is the national corporation, exclusively granted a charter by the US Congress to administer the only boy scout program in this country. It’s the organization that established this policy.
The movement of Scouting continues to be one of the great opportunities for light and goodness in the world. But in my opinion, and one shared by millions of parents with kids who could benefit from Scouting, the corporation that administers Scouting in America lost its moral compass a long time ago.
The BSA will argue they were only honoring the wishes and concerns of parents.We bring in fridge magnet souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. They will argue they didn’t expressly ban gay kids and adults, they simply compelled them to keep that part of their identity secret if they wanted to remain in Scouting. But in reality they refused to allow all local parents, troop leaders and chartering partners to decide for themselves.
In retrospect, the Boy Scouts of America made a bad business decision. It might have been good short-term business, in that it placated a few of their largest chartering partners, like the LDS and Catholic church, who were then using the Boy Scouts as a sectarian tool (even if many smaller churches and other partners were marginalized in dissent). But it was clearly bad business in the long run.
Not long after that Supreme Court case, in a rare, candid moment, the chief scout executive at the time was quoted in the media saying “when [parents] start walking away from us, that’s the signal for us to revisit the issue”. That’s a business decision, driven by numbers, not a moral one.
And for the next thirteen years, the BSA became an increasingly isolated echo chamber of like minded customers, where their business decision ignored the total addressable market.
Implanted Defibrillator Patients Prefer Device Off if Very Ill
Most heart patients
with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) would prefer to switch off
the device if they had an advanced illness,Online shopping for luggage tag from
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“We found that the majority, 71 percent, would opt to have their ICD deactivated if they had the choice,” said study co-author Dr. John Dodson, a cardiologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He conducted the research while completing his fellowship training at Yale School of Medicine.
He and Yale colleagues published their findings in a research letter that appeared online Jan. 28 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Dodson said the findings contrast with earlier surveys of patients with implantable defibrillators that showed most didn’t want their devices deactivated.
Implantable defibrillators are prescribed for patients who are at risk for life-threatening, abnormal heart rhythms, called arrhythmias. If the ICD senses one of these arrhythmias, it sends a high-voltage shock to restore a normal heart rhythm and protect the patient from cardiac arrest.
The Yale scientists wanted to sort out why previous surveys indicated that patients would prefer to keep the devices turned on, even though other end-of-life defibrillator studies showed the shocks were painful and disturbing.
“The shocks are very painful — like a kick in the chest,” Dodson explained. “They may prolong suffering that won’t improve lives in a measurable manner.”
The researchers recruited 95 heart patients over the age of 50 who had ICDs — 28 percent were women — and surveyed them over the telephone. The researchers began by asking two general questions: “What do you feel are the potential benefits of your ICD?” and “What do you feel are the potential harms of your ICD?”
Next, they read a script to the participants that listed the benefits and burdens of ICDs according to current research. In the final portion of the survey, they asked whether participants would want their ICD deactivated in five different scenarios: if they were permanently unable to get out of bed; if they had permanent memory problems; if they were a burden to family members; if they required prolonged mechanical ventilation; or if they were suffering from an advanced incurable disease.
The survey takers responded using a scale of one (“definitely no”) to five (“definitely yes”). Sixty-seven (71 percent) of the 95 participants wanted ICD deactivation in one or more of the scenarios, the study authors reported in their letter. Sixty-one percent wanted deactivation if they were suffering with an advanced incurable disease, and 24 percent wanted deactivation if they were to become permanently unable to get out of bed.
Dodson said their findings might be different from previous study results for several reasons.
“Generally those studies focused on younger patients with advanced heart failure. Younger patients tend to want more done,” he said. The previous surveys might also “not get at their understanding of what an ICD does,” he added.
“Our survey explained the purpose of their device. A sizable number of participants did not have a good understanding of the benefits or potential burdens of their ICD,” Dodson said.
One heart expert called the new study “eye-opening.”
“It really caught my eye how little some of these patients understand about these devices,” said Dr. Dan Bensimhon, director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program at Cone Health in Greensboro,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. N.C. “We really have to do a better job making sure people understand what they are getting. That said, our quality of care in heart failure is, in part,You must not use the laser cutter without being trained. measured by what percentage of our patients get these devices.”
It also surprised Bensimhon that only 24 percent would want their device turned off if they were permanently bedridden.
“I think some people just want to hold on to life at all costs,” he said. “I think people equate it with giving up. For somebody who has fought with heart failure for a long time, after all these years, it’s symbolic.”
Dr. James Tulsky, chief of Duke Center for Palliative Care at Duke University, said that while ICDs have “tremendous” value for many patients, when someone reaches the end of life, goals for care may not match with the goal of having an ICD.
“If someone’s dying from heart failure — the inability to pump enough blood — if they’re dying that way, they are going to die anyway and the ICD will basically continue to shock the heart. It’s clearly an undesired outcome and traumatic for the patient and everyone on the scene,” Tulsky said.We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet.
Deactivating the defibrillator is a simple matter, said study author Dodson. A wand is held up to the device and programs it off. He said there is no surgery involved and no risk.
The research results carry important messages for patients, physicians and the health care system, he added.
“We need to make sure we’re addressing ICD deactivation with patients, and determining the right time for addressing it. I’m not sure of the answer — in the clinic, or once the patient is in the hospital? And what is the optimal way to counsel people on this? It should be investigated further,” Dodson said.
The challenge, Bensimhon said, is that the current health care climate does not allow enough time for the discussions that ICD patients and doctors need to have about end-of-life care.
“These things are really complicated. To sit down in someone’s room and explain to them takes a long time,” he said. “Today,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. for example, I saw about 25 patients in clinic. You have 15 minutes with each. To explain to someone why they want their defibrillator turned off, that takes an hour.”
“We found that the majority, 71 percent, would opt to have their ICD deactivated if they had the choice,” said study co-author Dr. John Dodson, a cardiologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He conducted the research while completing his fellowship training at Yale School of Medicine.
He and Yale colleagues published their findings in a research letter that appeared online Jan. 28 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Dodson said the findings contrast with earlier surveys of patients with implantable defibrillators that showed most didn’t want their devices deactivated.
Implantable defibrillators are prescribed for patients who are at risk for life-threatening, abnormal heart rhythms, called arrhythmias. If the ICD senses one of these arrhythmias, it sends a high-voltage shock to restore a normal heart rhythm and protect the patient from cardiac arrest.
The Yale scientists wanted to sort out why previous surveys indicated that patients would prefer to keep the devices turned on, even though other end-of-life defibrillator studies showed the shocks were painful and disturbing.
“The shocks are very painful — like a kick in the chest,” Dodson explained. “They may prolong suffering that won’t improve lives in a measurable manner.”
The researchers recruited 95 heart patients over the age of 50 who had ICDs — 28 percent were women — and surveyed them over the telephone. The researchers began by asking two general questions: “What do you feel are the potential benefits of your ICD?” and “What do you feel are the potential harms of your ICD?”
Next, they read a script to the participants that listed the benefits and burdens of ICDs according to current research. In the final portion of the survey, they asked whether participants would want their ICD deactivated in five different scenarios: if they were permanently unable to get out of bed; if they had permanent memory problems; if they were a burden to family members; if they required prolonged mechanical ventilation; or if they were suffering from an advanced incurable disease.
The survey takers responded using a scale of one (“definitely no”) to five (“definitely yes”). Sixty-seven (71 percent) of the 95 participants wanted ICD deactivation in one or more of the scenarios, the study authors reported in their letter. Sixty-one percent wanted deactivation if they were suffering with an advanced incurable disease, and 24 percent wanted deactivation if they were to become permanently unable to get out of bed.
Dodson said their findings might be different from previous study results for several reasons.
“Generally those studies focused on younger patients with advanced heart failure. Younger patients tend to want more done,” he said. The previous surveys might also “not get at their understanding of what an ICD does,” he added.
“Our survey explained the purpose of their device. A sizable number of participants did not have a good understanding of the benefits or potential burdens of their ICD,” Dodson said.
One heart expert called the new study “eye-opening.”
“It really caught my eye how little some of these patients understand about these devices,” said Dr. Dan Bensimhon, director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program at Cone Health in Greensboro,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in custom keychain. N.C. “We really have to do a better job making sure people understand what they are getting. That said, our quality of care in heart failure is, in part,You must not use the laser cutter without being trained. measured by what percentage of our patients get these devices.”
It also surprised Bensimhon that only 24 percent would want their device turned off if they were permanently bedridden.
“I think some people just want to hold on to life at all costs,” he said. “I think people equate it with giving up. For somebody who has fought with heart failure for a long time, after all these years, it’s symbolic.”
Dr. James Tulsky, chief of Duke Center for Palliative Care at Duke University, said that while ICDs have “tremendous” value for many patients, when someone reaches the end of life, goals for care may not match with the goal of having an ICD.
“If someone’s dying from heart failure — the inability to pump enough blood — if they’re dying that way, they are going to die anyway and the ICD will basically continue to shock the heart. It’s clearly an undesired outcome and traumatic for the patient and everyone on the scene,” Tulsky said.We are Malaysia company specialize in customized silicone bracelet.
Deactivating the defibrillator is a simple matter, said study author Dodson. A wand is held up to the device and programs it off. He said there is no surgery involved and no risk.
The research results carry important messages for patients, physicians and the health care system, he added.
“We need to make sure we’re addressing ICD deactivation with patients, and determining the right time for addressing it. I’m not sure of the answer — in the clinic, or once the patient is in the hospital? And what is the optimal way to counsel people on this? It should be investigated further,” Dodson said.
The challenge, Bensimhon said, is that the current health care climate does not allow enough time for the discussions that ICD patients and doctors need to have about end-of-life care.
“These things are really complicated. To sit down in someone’s room and explain to them takes a long time,” he said. “Today,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. for example, I saw about 25 patients in clinic. You have 15 minutes with each. To explain to someone why they want their defibrillator turned off, that takes an hour.”
2013年1月28日星期一
Credit cards lip-sync a siren song of spending
Ours is an age of anxiety. Will global
climate change create oceanfront property in Nebraska? Do Subway's "foot-long"
sandwiches span a full 12 inches? Did Beyonce fake the national anthem and --
more importantly -- will she lip-sync again at the Super Bowl?
I, for one, believe it is pointless to agonize over trivia, so let's confront the big question here: Beyonce will lip-sync at the Super Bowl to a backing track prerecorded by Manti Te'o's fake dead girlfriend while sitting in the lap of Sasquatch in the chair that Clint Eastwood yelled at during the Republican National Convention.
If you really want something you don't have to worry about, try the latest "cause celebre" of the personal financial worry-warts: credit-card checkout charges.
Sunday marked the first day that merchants -- if they are crazy, self-destructive and exceedingly parsimonious -- may charge a processing fee on credit card purchases. This used to be banned, but it's now OK after an anti-trust settlement.
Retailers already can insist on a minimum purchase of up to $10 to use a credit card (but not a debit card). That practice also used to be banned under card network agreements but was legalized in post-recession financial reforms. Both measures aim to help mom-and-pop stores that don't have the clout to negotiate discounts with the big card processing networks, which can be up to 3.5 percent of the purchase, plus a flat fee.
While some personal finance writers are all aflutter about this, I don't see the problem. Consider that the minimum-charge rule went into effect in July 2010, and beyond the occasional small store, I don't see many merchants taking advantage of it.
That's because people spend more when they use plastic. Studies estimate that shoppers spend 12 to 18 percent more when using cards over cash. So don't expect stores to kill that golden goose just to offset a 3.5 percent card-processing fee,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. unless it's the guy with the only cold beer stand on the beach.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine .
It's not so much that people spend more when using credit cards, debit cards, gift certificates or even trinkets and beads, but more that they spend less when using cash. The authors of a study published by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied found that "the pain of paying is higher when paying by cash."
So, even if you aren't worried about paying the nonexistent credit-card checkout fee, paying with cash remains the best way to really save when you're shopping. Otherwise,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. the spending doesn't feel real enough to make you consider the cost of the money you're handing over. Or, as Beyonce might lip-sync, "There ain't nothing like the real thing, baby."
Hotels are filled with vulnerabilities: multiple entrances and exits, driveways, underground entries, spacious and busy lobbies, non-guests who eat at the restaurant and come in for conferences and events. But those risks are also the hotels’ livelihood: it’s not in a hotel’s best interest to scare away potential business by employing armed guards, installing metal detectors or X-rays, limiting entrances,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. or even checking IDs.
In fact, security experts don’t know of ANY hotel in the US that has implemented high-security measures that we see in Asia and the Middle East: metal detectors, explosive vapor devices, barriers in front of the hotel, screening of bags, screening under vehicles, or “hardening” glazing structures of windows and entranceways.
In general, the most an American hotel will do is implement increased security cameras, limit access into the building, require key cards to get to guest room floors, and train staff to be alert to odd behavior. Until recently, even security cameras or CCTV on guest room floors was considered taboo. The measures that have been implemented also help prevent petty crime and assault, so the hotels’ motives for doing so are manifold.
Most U.S. hotels are mid-market products where you won’t see anything more than cameras for loss prevention and maybe locking perimeter doors. It’s the higher-end hotels that have implemented any significant measures—and much of that is to block out the riff-raff and ensure privacy.
A Mozilla developer and security researcher demonstrated the security in one of the most common key card locks in hotels. At the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference in July, Cody Brocious reverse engineered the locks by inserting a small, homemade device into the keycard lock, read the digital key that triggers the lock, and opened it. He explained that it was “stupidly simple” to exploit the locks. Onity locks can be found in more than 4 million hotel rooms around the world.
In September, there was a there was a string of break-ins at a Houston Hyatt in which the thief hacked the lock with a digital tool that triggered the door to open.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. The hotel itself took measures for a temporary fix by puttying the vulnerable port on the door. Since then Onity has been offering to replace the circuit boards for locks bought after 2005; older models will replace the locks for a fee, or will send a plastic plug to cover the port.
I, for one, believe it is pointless to agonize over trivia, so let's confront the big question here: Beyonce will lip-sync at the Super Bowl to a backing track prerecorded by Manti Te'o's fake dead girlfriend while sitting in the lap of Sasquatch in the chair that Clint Eastwood yelled at during the Republican National Convention.
If you really want something you don't have to worry about, try the latest "cause celebre" of the personal financial worry-warts: credit-card checkout charges.
Sunday marked the first day that merchants -- if they are crazy, self-destructive and exceedingly parsimonious -- may charge a processing fee on credit card purchases. This used to be banned, but it's now OK after an anti-trust settlement.
Retailers already can insist on a minimum purchase of up to $10 to use a credit card (but not a debit card). That practice also used to be banned under card network agreements but was legalized in post-recession financial reforms. Both measures aim to help mom-and-pop stores that don't have the clout to negotiate discounts with the big card processing networks, which can be up to 3.5 percent of the purchase, plus a flat fee.
While some personal finance writers are all aflutter about this, I don't see the problem. Consider that the minimum-charge rule went into effect in July 2010, and beyond the occasional small store, I don't see many merchants taking advantage of it.
That's because people spend more when they use plastic. Studies estimate that shoppers spend 12 to 18 percent more when using cards over cash. So don't expect stores to kill that golden goose just to offset a 3.5 percent card-processing fee,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. unless it's the guy with the only cold beer stand on the beach.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine .
It's not so much that people spend more when using credit cards, debit cards, gift certificates or even trinkets and beads, but more that they spend less when using cash. The authors of a study published by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied found that "the pain of paying is higher when paying by cash."
So, even if you aren't worried about paying the nonexistent credit-card checkout fee, paying with cash remains the best way to really save when you're shopping. Otherwise,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. the spending doesn't feel real enough to make you consider the cost of the money you're handing over. Or, as Beyonce might lip-sync, "There ain't nothing like the real thing, baby."
Hotels are filled with vulnerabilities: multiple entrances and exits, driveways, underground entries, spacious and busy lobbies, non-guests who eat at the restaurant and come in for conferences and events. But those risks are also the hotels’ livelihood: it’s not in a hotel’s best interest to scare away potential business by employing armed guards, installing metal detectors or X-rays, limiting entrances,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. or even checking IDs.
In fact, security experts don’t know of ANY hotel in the US that has implemented high-security measures that we see in Asia and the Middle East: metal detectors, explosive vapor devices, barriers in front of the hotel, screening of bags, screening under vehicles, or “hardening” glazing structures of windows and entranceways.
In general, the most an American hotel will do is implement increased security cameras, limit access into the building, require key cards to get to guest room floors, and train staff to be alert to odd behavior. Until recently, even security cameras or CCTV on guest room floors was considered taboo. The measures that have been implemented also help prevent petty crime and assault, so the hotels’ motives for doing so are manifold.
Most U.S. hotels are mid-market products where you won’t see anything more than cameras for loss prevention and maybe locking perimeter doors. It’s the higher-end hotels that have implemented any significant measures—and much of that is to block out the riff-raff and ensure privacy.
A Mozilla developer and security researcher demonstrated the security in one of the most common key card locks in hotels. At the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference in July, Cody Brocious reverse engineered the locks by inserting a small, homemade device into the keycard lock, read the digital key that triggers the lock, and opened it. He explained that it was “stupidly simple” to exploit the locks. Onity locks can be found in more than 4 million hotel rooms around the world.
In September, there was a there was a string of break-ins at a Houston Hyatt in which the thief hacked the lock with a digital tool that triggered the door to open.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. The hotel itself took measures for a temporary fix by puttying the vulnerable port on the door. Since then Onity has been offering to replace the circuit boards for locks bought after 2005; older models will replace the locks for a fee, or will send a plastic plug to cover the port.
So we bought a 2011 Renault Koleos
And didn’t crash it in the first 2 minutes. In
fact it’s been about 2 weeks now and the car surprisingly still refuses to go
sideways. It must have something to do with certain drivers’ skill level (or
driving like a girl — Ed.). Based on a Nissan crossover, the pre-facelift 2011
Koleos is rather an oddball of a car. Bought in August 2010, the car is in
almost pristine condition driven extremely carefully by the previous owner. In
fact, apart from a few mall-parking door incidents, the car looks and feels
brand new even with 60,000 km on the odometer.
Replacing the hankered 2007 Ford Focus as a daily commute, we needed a car that could handle all the equipment one needs to carry to a proper photography shoot. With thoughts drifting towards a Ford Flex thanks to its enormous interior space, we decided to settle for something more affordable. With our affinity towards non-conformist car choices, the CRV, Sportage, Tucson and RAV4 were out of the question. Then along the way, a friend decides to sells his Koleos and next thing we know, we’re signing transfer papers.
With a whiney CVT, sluggish handling and lightly-bolstered seating; the Koleos makes it immediately evident that it’s not going to be much fun. Now this is a good and bad thing in the sense that those first few sharp turns you take freak you out as you’re taking them at Ford Focus-like speeds, but your aging back does appreciate the comfort levels the Koleos provides on long drives. Talking about comfort, the interior of the Koleos is aesthetically pleasing to the eyes and extremely practical. And apart from a prematurely-worn out steering wheel and a loose sun-visor, everything works without any creaks and shows zero wear-and-tear, something we can’t say about my three-year-old Ford Mondeo.
A panoramic sunroof,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. soft-touch interior materials, speed limiter, cruise control, BOSE sound system, tyre pressure monitor, parking sensor front and back, AUX/USB connectors, rear side window blinds, electric parking brake, smart keyless entry and start, dual zone A/C with rear controls, Bluetooth connectivity, flat folding 60:40 rear seats,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. flat folding passenger seat, numerous storage compartments and cup holders, two piece tailgate, hill descent assist, 50:50 ‘4X4’ lock switch, multiple airbags, telescopic steering wheel, chilled glove compartment and so on are things that make this such a sweet deal in terms of value for money. Obviously there’s always a chance something could go wrong with so much tech, but with Nissan underpinnings and a ‘Made in Korea’ badge, we’re hoping this will serve us better than the European-made Focus.
Last week we decided to call up Farba Guard and not only got it detailed, but also went for the paint protection deal that they have up for DriveArabia readers. We also got all the lower door protection panels and the front bumper repainted at a discounted price to fix those mall parking dings. As expected, they did a brilliant job, and we now own a car that truly looks brand new. With a 6-month warranty still remaining, and a sun visor on order, a visit to the service center in a few months shall be interesting. Hopefully the good stories we’ve been hearing about the dealer is true and not some elusive fairy tale.
The White House had argued that the Senate was in recess because it was only holding pro forma sessions at the time of the appointments.
Without the recess appointments, the board wouldn't have had enough members for a quorum, preventing it from taking action on a number of controversial issues. Republicans in the Senate have blocked several nominees, saying the board has shown a pro-union bias.
The administration is likely to appeal the decision, but if it stands, hundreds of NLRB decisions that have been handed down in the past year would suddenly become invalid. Critics of the administration say the past year's decisions have been strongly pro-union.
In one example involving trucking companies,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. the NLRB has expanded powers for unions to get information from employers. Whenever unions are bargaining or filing grievances, they are allowed to ask their employers for relevant information. For a long time, employers had some leeway to resist these requests. In a November decision involving two trucking companies, the NLRB ruled that an employer must timely respond to a union request seeking relevant information even when the employer believes it has grounds for not providing the information.
That dream will be realized now that a builder has been selected to construct an auditorium along Broad Street behind the home. Five local building contracting firms were asked to bid. William J. Graham was low bidder and the contract was awarded to his firm.
Final plans call for a concrete block structure with a stucco finish. Seating capacity of the auditorium will be about 260 people. There will be kitchen facilities, restrooms and a cloak room.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine .
It was in January of 1962 that a committee was appointed by the president of the Village Improvement Association, Mrs. John Elfman, to explore the possibilities of expanding the facilities of the James-Lorah Memorial Home.
The committee concluded that there was a real need to enlarge the seating capacity of the home. With a membership of 320 and an additional 40 or 50 new members each year, the seating capacity of the old parlor was not adequate. This accommodates only 75 folding chairs.
The board of the directors of the VIA authorized the architectural firm of Martin and Gilmour to proceed with the necessary studies and sketches for an auditorium addition.
In October of 1962, Mrs. Julian P. Perry, president of the VIA, appointed Mrs. Elfman chairman of the James-Lorah Expansion Committee and recalled the original committee to confer with the architects. They worked for a year before sketches and specifications were finalized.
Borough Council has received a request from the Bucks County Commissioners to create another parking space on the Broad Street side of the Bucks County Courthouse's administration building for the fifth judge.
At present, there are parking spaces reserved for the four judges and the three County Commissioners. The Sheriff's and County Detective's offices also share the parking area.
"Quite a number of the Bucks County employees, particularly of the planning commission, absolutely refuse to use the county parking lot [between Main and Union streets]," said William D. Ritchie Jr., borough engineer. "I can give you the names of county department heads who never use the county parking lot but always park along the streets.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver."
Council can't legally charge the County Commissioners a rental fee, but it can accept a donation.
"We will inform the County Commissioners that we will accept a donation of $1,000, which amounts to roughly $20 a week in meter collections, for the 11 parking meter spaces," said Councilman Allen Z. Bogert.
"If the County Commissioners are willing to give us $1,000," said President John F. Mason, "we will let them decide how many spaces the judges should have, the County Commissioners, the Sheriff's Office and the County Detectives, or whoever they want to designate to use the parking area."
Replacing the hankered 2007 Ford Focus as a daily commute, we needed a car that could handle all the equipment one needs to carry to a proper photography shoot. With thoughts drifting towards a Ford Flex thanks to its enormous interior space, we decided to settle for something more affordable. With our affinity towards non-conformist car choices, the CRV, Sportage, Tucson and RAV4 were out of the question. Then along the way, a friend decides to sells his Koleos and next thing we know, we’re signing transfer papers.
With a whiney CVT, sluggish handling and lightly-bolstered seating; the Koleos makes it immediately evident that it’s not going to be much fun. Now this is a good and bad thing in the sense that those first few sharp turns you take freak you out as you’re taking them at Ford Focus-like speeds, but your aging back does appreciate the comfort levels the Koleos provides on long drives. Talking about comfort, the interior of the Koleos is aesthetically pleasing to the eyes and extremely practical. And apart from a prematurely-worn out steering wheel and a loose sun-visor, everything works without any creaks and shows zero wear-and-tear, something we can’t say about my three-year-old Ford Mondeo.
A panoramic sunroof,Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office. soft-touch interior materials, speed limiter, cruise control, BOSE sound system, tyre pressure monitor, parking sensor front and back, AUX/USB connectors, rear side window blinds, electric parking brake, smart keyless entry and start, dual zone A/C with rear controls, Bluetooth connectivity, flat folding 60:40 rear seats,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. flat folding passenger seat, numerous storage compartments and cup holders, two piece tailgate, hill descent assist, 50:50 ‘4X4’ lock switch, multiple airbags, telescopic steering wheel, chilled glove compartment and so on are things that make this such a sweet deal in terms of value for money. Obviously there’s always a chance something could go wrong with so much tech, but with Nissan underpinnings and a ‘Made in Korea’ badge, we’re hoping this will serve us better than the European-made Focus.
Last week we decided to call up Farba Guard and not only got it detailed, but also went for the paint protection deal that they have up for DriveArabia readers. We also got all the lower door protection panels and the front bumper repainted at a discounted price to fix those mall parking dings. As expected, they did a brilliant job, and we now own a car that truly looks brand new. With a 6-month warranty still remaining, and a sun visor on order, a visit to the service center in a few months shall be interesting. Hopefully the good stories we’ve been hearing about the dealer is true and not some elusive fairy tale.
The White House had argued that the Senate was in recess because it was only holding pro forma sessions at the time of the appointments.
Without the recess appointments, the board wouldn't have had enough members for a quorum, preventing it from taking action on a number of controversial issues. Republicans in the Senate have blocked several nominees, saying the board has shown a pro-union bias.
The administration is likely to appeal the decision, but if it stands, hundreds of NLRB decisions that have been handed down in the past year would suddenly become invalid. Critics of the administration say the past year's decisions have been strongly pro-union.
In one example involving trucking companies,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. the NLRB has expanded powers for unions to get information from employers. Whenever unions are bargaining or filing grievances, they are allowed to ask their employers for relevant information. For a long time, employers had some leeway to resist these requests. In a November decision involving two trucking companies, the NLRB ruled that an employer must timely respond to a union request seeking relevant information even when the employer believes it has grounds for not providing the information.
That dream will be realized now that a builder has been selected to construct an auditorium along Broad Street behind the home. Five local building contracting firms were asked to bid. William J. Graham was low bidder and the contract was awarded to his firm.
Final plans call for a concrete block structure with a stucco finish. Seating capacity of the auditorium will be about 260 people. There will be kitchen facilities, restrooms and a cloak room.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine .
It was in January of 1962 that a committee was appointed by the president of the Village Improvement Association, Mrs. John Elfman, to explore the possibilities of expanding the facilities of the James-Lorah Memorial Home.
The committee concluded that there was a real need to enlarge the seating capacity of the home. With a membership of 320 and an additional 40 or 50 new members each year, the seating capacity of the old parlor was not adequate. This accommodates only 75 folding chairs.
The board of the directors of the VIA authorized the architectural firm of Martin and Gilmour to proceed with the necessary studies and sketches for an auditorium addition.
In October of 1962, Mrs. Julian P. Perry, president of the VIA, appointed Mrs. Elfman chairman of the James-Lorah Expansion Committee and recalled the original committee to confer with the architects. They worked for a year before sketches and specifications were finalized.
Borough Council has received a request from the Bucks County Commissioners to create another parking space on the Broad Street side of the Bucks County Courthouse's administration building for the fifth judge.
At present, there are parking spaces reserved for the four judges and the three County Commissioners. The Sheriff's and County Detective's offices also share the parking area.
"Quite a number of the Bucks County employees, particularly of the planning commission, absolutely refuse to use the county parking lot [between Main and Union streets]," said William D. Ritchie Jr., borough engineer. "I can give you the names of county department heads who never use the county parking lot but always park along the streets.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver."
Council can't legally charge the County Commissioners a rental fee, but it can accept a donation.
"We will inform the County Commissioners that we will accept a donation of $1,000, which amounts to roughly $20 a week in meter collections, for the 11 parking meter spaces," said Councilman Allen Z. Bogert.
"If the County Commissioners are willing to give us $1,000," said President John F. Mason, "we will let them decide how many spaces the judges should have, the County Commissioners, the Sheriff's Office and the County Detectives, or whoever they want to designate to use the parking area."
FERNANDO TORRES TO THE RESCUE
Chelsea were sliding to one of the most
embarrassing Cup exits in their history yesterday. But, seven minutes from time,
Demba Ba, who had only been on for a minute, won the ball in a tussle and poked
it to Torres. The Spaniard then guided a shot across keeper Simon Moore and into
the far corner of the net. Sighs of relief all round.
Roman Abramovich would not have been at all happy to see his club go out of two cup competitions in the space of five days. Wednesday’s Capital One Cup semi-final loss at Swansea was bad enough.
After the first 45 minutes yesterday it looked as though even worse was on the cards as Chelsea trailed to Marcello Trotta’s strike. It was as bad a performance as the Blues have put in this season.
Twice they had to fight back from behind against Uwe Rosler’s League One promotion contenders. In the end they slunk away grateful for a replay. Had this one slipped away they would have only the Europa League,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. and that is a notoriously difficult competition.
The FA Cup isn’t easy, mind, not in a proper old London tie in a proper old ground heaving with a capacity 12,146 crowd. And how close we came to an old-fashioned upset. The Bees looked set to be overwhelmed early on. Then they discovered that s second-choice goalkeeper Ross Turnbull was as nervous as a cat on hot bricks.
Benitez brought back John Terry after two months out for the sort of match that the skipper loves. But Turnbull’s nerves affected everyone.
First he picked up a back-pass, giving away a free-kick that Harry Forrester put over. Forrester then twice put efforts wide and Adam Forshaw just missed.
Chelsea at this stage, on a wet pitch and with the wind against them, could barely put a pass right. And four minutes before half-time the roof fell in. Forrester’s shot was palmed away by Turnbull, but only to Trotta, who tapped the ball in.
Off went the anonymous Marko Marin, on went Juan Mata, and Chelsea at last started to play. Oscar provided the equaliser , skipping past two tackles to chip his shot home, but Brentford dug in.
Forrester sent Tom Adeyemi through with a clever pass and Turnbull upended him.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! Luckily for Chelsea it was only a yellow card. But Forrester punished them enough, rattling in the penalty.
Calamity threatened. Benitez was getting abuse from the Chelsea fans and to shouts of “You don’t know what you’re doing”. He threw Ba on, and that switch paid off within a minute. Ba set up Torres for what seasoned Chelsea watchers reckoned was only the third meaningful, game-changing goal that he has scored in a blue shirt.
The day after joining Hearts on a six-month loan from Liverpool, he went straight into the starting line-up for their Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final against Inverness Caledonian Thistle, volleyed in the equaliser that took it to a penalty shootout and claimed one of the conversions that secured victory.
Six foot six inches tall, limbs flapping like a helicopter in freefall, he is an awkward customer all right, but he knows where the net is. Even before his goal, he had hit the post with a glancing first-half header. One thing is for sure, St Mirren will not relish facing him at Hampden Park on March 17, when Hearts attempt to win this competition for the first time in 50 years.
John McGlynn, their manager, gambled with his team selection on Saturday, keeping some of his most experienced players on the bench so that 19-year-old Callum Tapping could make his first start, and Fraser Mullen, another teenager, could play at right-back, but it was the debut of 20-year-old Ngoo that captured the imagination.
“He’s going to be a massive asset,” said McGlynn. “If you’re Michael, you’ll say: ‘I scored a goal, I scored a penalty kick, and I’ve got a final to look forward to. I want a bit more of that.’
“And he’ll only get better because he doesn’t know his team-mates and his team-mates don’t know him. They only had one training session.”
They seemed familiar enough with each other in the 66th minute, when Danny Wilson nodded Mullen’s cross back into the box, and Ngoo thrashed it in with a swipe of his long, left leg.
As his name resonated around Easter Road, you had the impression that a cult hero had been born. “I’m sure he probably enjoyed that, playing in front of 15,000,” said McGlynn. “With the greatest respect, Liverpool are a massive, massive football club, but Michael’s been playing under-21s with maybe 100 punters there.”
This was certainly a frenzied affair. Ten minutes after Ngoo had cancelled out Andrew Shinnie’s opener, Hearts had Scott Robinson sent off but they saw out the remaining 14 minutes of the regulation 90, as well as half an hour of extra time, to set up a shoot-out. The first nine penalties were crisp and accurate but Philip Roberts ballooned the tenth over the bar to send the Edinburgh side through.
While Inverness made the better chances, Hearts made all the running, thanks to the possession kept by a youthful midfield that also included Jamie Walker and Jason Holt, both 19.
They also dug deep when it mattered to line up a much-needed cash boost for the financially-stricken club, who have not reached a League Cup final in 17 years.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office.
McGlynn, who took over as manager only last summer, can hardly believe that they last won the competition in 1962. “It’s obviously one that’s haunted us for whatever reason,” he said. “In recent years, it’s maybe not been looked upon as so important. Sometimes they’ve played weakened teams and it’s come back to bite them but such is the squad we’ve got that we’ve always got to play our strongest team.”
Inverness had their first-choice XI out, but they were not themselves, especially up front. Although Shinnie gave them the lead just after half-time, finding the bottom left-hand corner with an angled shot, Billy McKay will have nightmares about the chances he missed. In the first half, he had only the goalkeeper to beat but his shot, which lacked conviction, was blocked.
Better still was the opportunity that McKay squandered in extra time,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. when Shane Sutherland dashed clear of a square defence and struck a low ball across the box. Instead of taking it first time, the young Englishman wanted an extra touch, which allowed the defenders to recover. In the scramble that followed,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. Jamie MacDonald parried a shot by Shinnie.
It was an uncharacteristic slip by McKay, who has scored 20 goals this season, but his team-mates rallied round afterwards. “He’s done that a lot,” said Richie Foran. “You think he will slot it in but he takes a touch and then slots it in.
“He probably thought he could do it again. Yes, he’ll feel gutted about it, but we can’t rely on Billy every game. We’ve all got to chip in and do better. He’ll dust himself down and, I’m sure, go on to get 30-plus goals this season.”
It was a let-off for Hearts, who had been playing with ten men since Robinson was given a straight red card for his lunge at Owain Tudur Jones. There were also 10 bookings, including one in extra time for Marius Zaliukas, who will be suspended for the final. McGlynn admitted that his team will miss their Lithuanian captain, whose absence was sorely felt in the recent 4-1 defeat by Celtic.
Roman Abramovich would not have been at all happy to see his club go out of two cup competitions in the space of five days. Wednesday’s Capital One Cup semi-final loss at Swansea was bad enough.
After the first 45 minutes yesterday it looked as though even worse was on the cards as Chelsea trailed to Marcello Trotta’s strike. It was as bad a performance as the Blues have put in this season.
Twice they had to fight back from behind against Uwe Rosler’s League One promotion contenders. In the end they slunk away grateful for a replay. Had this one slipped away they would have only the Europa League,Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. and that is a notoriously difficult competition.
The FA Cup isn’t easy, mind, not in a proper old London tie in a proper old ground heaving with a capacity 12,146 crowd. And how close we came to an old-fashioned upset. The Bees looked set to be overwhelmed early on. Then they discovered that s second-choice goalkeeper Ross Turnbull was as nervous as a cat on hot bricks.
Benitez brought back John Terry after two months out for the sort of match that the skipper loves. But Turnbull’s nerves affected everyone.
First he picked up a back-pass, giving away a free-kick that Harry Forrester put over. Forrester then twice put efforts wide and Adam Forshaw just missed.
Chelsea at this stage, on a wet pitch and with the wind against them, could barely put a pass right. And four minutes before half-time the roof fell in. Forrester’s shot was palmed away by Turnbull, but only to Trotta, who tapped the ball in.
Off went the anonymous Marko Marin, on went Juan Mata, and Chelsea at last started to play. Oscar provided the equaliser , skipping past two tackles to chip his shot home, but Brentford dug in.
Forrester sent Tom Adeyemi through with a clever pass and Turnbull upended him.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! Luckily for Chelsea it was only a yellow card. But Forrester punished them enough, rattling in the penalty.
Calamity threatened. Benitez was getting abuse from the Chelsea fans and to shouts of “You don’t know what you’re doing”. He threw Ba on, and that switch paid off within a minute. Ba set up Torres for what seasoned Chelsea watchers reckoned was only the third meaningful, game-changing goal that he has scored in a blue shirt.
The day after joining Hearts on a six-month loan from Liverpool, he went straight into the starting line-up for their Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final against Inverness Caledonian Thistle, volleyed in the equaliser that took it to a penalty shootout and claimed one of the conversions that secured victory.
Six foot six inches tall, limbs flapping like a helicopter in freefall, he is an awkward customer all right, but he knows where the net is. Even before his goal, he had hit the post with a glancing first-half header. One thing is for sure, St Mirren will not relish facing him at Hampden Park on March 17, when Hearts attempt to win this competition for the first time in 50 years.
John McGlynn, their manager, gambled with his team selection on Saturday, keeping some of his most experienced players on the bench so that 19-year-old Callum Tapping could make his first start, and Fraser Mullen, another teenager, could play at right-back, but it was the debut of 20-year-old Ngoo that captured the imagination.
“He’s going to be a massive asset,” said McGlynn. “If you’re Michael, you’ll say: ‘I scored a goal, I scored a penalty kick, and I’ve got a final to look forward to. I want a bit more of that.’
“And he’ll only get better because he doesn’t know his team-mates and his team-mates don’t know him. They only had one training session.”
They seemed familiar enough with each other in the 66th minute, when Danny Wilson nodded Mullen’s cross back into the box, and Ngoo thrashed it in with a swipe of his long, left leg.
As his name resonated around Easter Road, you had the impression that a cult hero had been born. “I’m sure he probably enjoyed that, playing in front of 15,000,” said McGlynn. “With the greatest respect, Liverpool are a massive, massive football club, but Michael’s been playing under-21s with maybe 100 punters there.”
This was certainly a frenzied affair. Ten minutes after Ngoo had cancelled out Andrew Shinnie’s opener, Hearts had Scott Robinson sent off but they saw out the remaining 14 minutes of the regulation 90, as well as half an hour of extra time, to set up a shoot-out. The first nine penalties were crisp and accurate but Philip Roberts ballooned the tenth over the bar to send the Edinburgh side through.
While Inverness made the better chances, Hearts made all the running, thanks to the possession kept by a youthful midfield that also included Jamie Walker and Jason Holt, both 19.
They also dug deep when it mattered to line up a much-needed cash boost for the financially-stricken club, who have not reached a League Cup final in 17 years.Shop for bobblehead dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build a fun collection for your home or office.
McGlynn, who took over as manager only last summer, can hardly believe that they last won the competition in 1962. “It’s obviously one that’s haunted us for whatever reason,” he said. “In recent years, it’s maybe not been looked upon as so important. Sometimes they’ve played weakened teams and it’s come back to bite them but such is the squad we’ve got that we’ve always got to play our strongest team.”
Inverness had their first-choice XI out, but they were not themselves, especially up front. Although Shinnie gave them the lead just after half-time, finding the bottom left-hand corner with an angled shot, Billy McKay will have nightmares about the chances he missed. In the first half, he had only the goalkeeper to beat but his shot, which lacked conviction, was blocked.
Better still was the opportunity that McKay squandered in extra time,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. when Shane Sutherland dashed clear of a square defence and struck a low ball across the box. Instead of taking it first time, the young Englishman wanted an extra touch, which allowed the defenders to recover. In the scramble that followed,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. Jamie MacDonald parried a shot by Shinnie.
It was an uncharacteristic slip by McKay, who has scored 20 goals this season, but his team-mates rallied round afterwards. “He’s done that a lot,” said Richie Foran. “You think he will slot it in but he takes a touch and then slots it in.
“He probably thought he could do it again. Yes, he’ll feel gutted about it, but we can’t rely on Billy every game. We’ve all got to chip in and do better. He’ll dust himself down and, I’m sure, go on to get 30-plus goals this season.”
It was a let-off for Hearts, who had been playing with ten men since Robinson was given a straight red card for his lunge at Owain Tudur Jones. There were also 10 bookings, including one in extra time for Marius Zaliukas, who will be suspended for the final. McGlynn admitted that his team will miss their Lithuanian captain, whose absence was sorely felt in the recent 4-1 defeat by Celtic.
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