As the “Professional Organizer,” I was really expecting Sean’s
hometown date with AshLee to take place in a Container Store. Sadly, it
took place instead in an unkempt Texas field. AshLee confesses that
she’s been “dreaming of this day since she was four years old.We sell
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online.” Wait, THIS day?! This one right here? -- Meaning you’ve been
dreaming about eating lunch in a Houston field of overgrown weeds and
broken dreams since you were a kid? Well, AshLee, Err, I mean actually,
you probably have.
I got past that quickly though when AshLee’s
dad begins describing the moment he first met little AshLee when she was
a girl. He fell in love with her instantly and wants to be able to hand
her gently off to the next man who will love her like that. It was so
corny. But it was such a beautiful portrait of adoption and made most of
America weep.
AshLee is overcome with emotion – and naturally
can’t help but sprinkle her conversation with talk of her abandonment
issues and bad decision making. Gawd forbid she let the present moment
speak for her instead of constantly wallowing in her past. She tires me.
AshLee tells the camera that she thinks there’s positive pixie
dust scattered all over her right now. Little does she know, that’s just
left over “sparkle” from Tierra.
The next hometown date brings
Sean to Seattle to meet Catherine and her Filipino family. The date
begins in the fish market throwing fish to and fro. I’m pretty sure that
Catherine’s inability to catch that first fish will foreshadow her
inability to reel Sean in. Or will it? Hmmm…
You’d think that
with all those rings on her fingers, Catherine would be able to get one
in the hole. All those rings make me think she’s Mandarin from the Iron
Man comics. -- You with me?
Next up, Sean meets Catherine’s mom,
sister and Lola (her grandmother), all whilst a piece of food clings to
her front bangs and I wait anxiously for her real love interest,
Lindsay Murphy, to show back up and save her from herself.we are the
biggest USB flash drives wholesale supplier in china. That didn't happen.
Speaking of food, Catherine’s mom serves the clan egg rolls. Based on that alone, if I were Sean, I'd choose Catherine!!!
But while Sean gets egg rolls from her mom, he gets eye rolls from her sisters. Yikes!
These
two tarts are the original angry birds. No joke. When Sean asked if
they think Catherine is ready to settle down, one of the sisters chimes
in bitterly saying that Catherine goes in 100% with guys and makes
things really fun and the second the fun starts to fizzle out, it’s over
for her.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone. She’s either very happy, or very focused. Or, she’s very messy and she’s a big slob.
Lindsay
says she has never been this happy in her “whole entire life.” And
since she’s merely a toddler judging by her voice, we know that a couple
rounds of paddy cake and a bubble bath and she’ll be set for the rest
of it.
Seriously, I feel like Sean should just drop her off at KinderCare and head on out to his final date with a grown woman!
But
before that can happen, Lindsay insists Sean get “Army ready!” And
nothing says “Army ready” like a pair of converse and breakaway
windbreaker pants. Not to mention the mock turtleneck. Wasn’t aware
people still wore mock turtlenecks.
Great, now that Sean is sweating profusely and wreaking of B.O., he’s all set to meet the ‘rents!!! Bravo, Lindsay. Bravo!
As
the two drive the car towards the parent’s house, I can’t help but
envision Lindsay still sleeps in a bunk bed dawned with a floral
comforter and hundreds of Holly Hobbie dolls.
Upon arrival,
Lindsay’s mom runs to the door and greets her daughter with all the
enthusiasm of her having been gone for four years of college...
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today! I might add, which I do not happen to share for her choice of
couch fabrics. Seriously, is that a couch or are they sitting on a plaid
Boy Scout? Yikers!
At this point, it really won’t take much to
convince me that Lindsay’s mom wears jeggings and still stores all her
makeup in a caboodle.
As for Lindsay’s father,Design and order your own custom silicone bracelet
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his blessing, should Sean decide to ask for his daughter’s hand in
marriage. To commemorate the moment, he gives Sean some dog tags with
words like “loyalty, duty, respect and personal courage” inscribed on
them.
2013年2月19日星期二
Overdosing on 'identity' fever?
For the rather large number of ‘new’ Chennaiites or migrants to the
city, getting basic services without a local address is still a hassle
in the metro. From gas cylinders to SIM cards for mobile phones, even
private service providers haven’t been known to be kind to newbies in
the city.
Before accessing any of these services, the essential prerequisite is having a bank account,Wireless indoor indoor positioning system have become very popular in recent years. as wedding videographer Prabhu, a native of Kumbakkonam, found out after moving here, “I have no rental agreement or any proof to show I have been living in Chennai. They gave me an option of getting an ‘introduction’ from another member, but even that didn’t work out. I tried for it for some time and got tired,” says the videographer, who has now wised up after four years of living here.
At least he spoke Tamil. Things were much worse for Tibetan student Dorji Kyi who came here to study. “At the bank, I tried explaining to them that I had just arrived in the city and needed to open a bank account so my sponsors could send me my scholarship money, but they insisted on a ration card or driver’s licence,” she relates.
The major problem that a lack of an ID bearing a local address poses, is getting a cooking gas cylinder. It took close to a month of running around for 3D animator Vinod Kumar to get an LPG connection. A native of Vellore, who now resides in Adambakkam, he applied for a PAN card as the gas agency said it was enough to have at least a photo proof first. “I had to search for houses where landlords agree to give a rental agreement. Many of them refused an agreement. Finally, the agency accepted a letter from my company after they felt sorry for me for walking in to their office almost every day,” he says. Even Dorji agrees. When she provided them with her refugee passport and detailed photo-ID card issued by the exile government in Dharamsala, the LPG companies flatly refused, “We still buy expensive commercial gas cylinders, after living here for six years,” she laments. “Officials in Chennai do not want to consider ID proof issued in any other states,” she complains.
If these domestic services are difficult to obtain, people say that it’s nothing short of a nightmare to get an ID like a voters card. Mageshwaran, a visual effects artiste from Cumbum, who settled with his family in T Nagar five years ago, is yet to get a voter’s ID for his wife Kalaivani. “I applied to get her a voter ID in Saidapet. They asked me for documents like a marriage certificate, ration card and rental agreement. I applied for all this and got them after a long wait. I changed houses to get the agreement. It has been many weeks now since I applied, I still haven’t got it. I am ashamed to say that I even bribed officials but they are still giving me excuses like the paper has not moved from one officer to another,” he says.
And if you happen to lose your ID cards, then heaven help you. When social worker Sapna Abraham was called to Africa for a project two years ago, she put all her original IDs—driving licence, PAN card, passport and bank passbook in her bag, to be taken to be photocopied.Explore online some of the many available selections in Floor tiles. Her bag was stolen on a bus, and that was the last she saw of her IDs.
“I made numerous trips to the police station, filed an FIR, spent days waiting at the RTO — for 6 months, I did all I could to apply for fresh IDs. Every step of the way, the cops kept making up unnecessary new procedures and new difficulties. They kept sending me back, asking for lawyer’s signatures, new documents, new photographs and made me rewrite the complaint six times. Their behaviour bordered on harassment, as at the end of six months, they asked me to come back with my father!,” she says.
Planning to travel at night or attend a late-night party? Carry a valid identity card with you. The cops can stop you and demand to see your ID card. Reason: It is the time when criminals are on the prowl.
That is why the movement of people at night comes under the police scanner. While there is no provision in law whereby the men in khaki can restrict the movement of people, they can stop night travellers and question them. “It is usually in the nature of a casual enquiry,” a senior police official said.We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online.
If the person is able to account satisfactorily for his movements – where he is coming from and where he is headed for, and produce an identity card, he is let off. The “casual enquiry,” however, can turn “serious,” when the person is not able to do so. He is then taken to the police station, where his claims and credentials are ascertained before he is let off – or further detained when they turn out to be false.
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Also, identity proof, by way of records, should be presented during vehicul checks. Cops may also demand to see your ID during checks conducted in lodging houses and hotels.Design and order your own custom silicone bracelet / rubber bracelets with personalized message and artwork.
However, ID proof is not mandatory while seeking to file a case at the police station. “The person is a victim. We may ask for ID, while registering the details. But it is not a prerequisite to file a case,” the police official said.
Before accessing any of these services, the essential prerequisite is having a bank account,Wireless indoor indoor positioning system have become very popular in recent years. as wedding videographer Prabhu, a native of Kumbakkonam, found out after moving here, “I have no rental agreement or any proof to show I have been living in Chennai. They gave me an option of getting an ‘introduction’ from another member, but even that didn’t work out. I tried for it for some time and got tired,” says the videographer, who has now wised up after four years of living here.
At least he spoke Tamil. Things were much worse for Tibetan student Dorji Kyi who came here to study. “At the bank, I tried explaining to them that I had just arrived in the city and needed to open a bank account so my sponsors could send me my scholarship money, but they insisted on a ration card or driver’s licence,” she relates.
The major problem that a lack of an ID bearing a local address poses, is getting a cooking gas cylinder. It took close to a month of running around for 3D animator Vinod Kumar to get an LPG connection. A native of Vellore, who now resides in Adambakkam, he applied for a PAN card as the gas agency said it was enough to have at least a photo proof first. “I had to search for houses where landlords agree to give a rental agreement. Many of them refused an agreement. Finally, the agency accepted a letter from my company after they felt sorry for me for walking in to their office almost every day,” he says. Even Dorji agrees. When she provided them with her refugee passport and detailed photo-ID card issued by the exile government in Dharamsala, the LPG companies flatly refused, “We still buy expensive commercial gas cylinders, after living here for six years,” she laments. “Officials in Chennai do not want to consider ID proof issued in any other states,” she complains.
If these domestic services are difficult to obtain, people say that it’s nothing short of a nightmare to get an ID like a voters card. Mageshwaran, a visual effects artiste from Cumbum, who settled with his family in T Nagar five years ago, is yet to get a voter’s ID for his wife Kalaivani. “I applied to get her a voter ID in Saidapet. They asked me for documents like a marriage certificate, ration card and rental agreement. I applied for all this and got them after a long wait. I changed houses to get the agreement. It has been many weeks now since I applied, I still haven’t got it. I am ashamed to say that I even bribed officials but they are still giving me excuses like the paper has not moved from one officer to another,” he says.
And if you happen to lose your ID cards, then heaven help you. When social worker Sapna Abraham was called to Africa for a project two years ago, she put all her original IDs—driving licence, PAN card, passport and bank passbook in her bag, to be taken to be photocopied.Explore online some of the many available selections in Floor tiles. Her bag was stolen on a bus, and that was the last she saw of her IDs.
“I made numerous trips to the police station, filed an FIR, spent days waiting at the RTO — for 6 months, I did all I could to apply for fresh IDs. Every step of the way, the cops kept making up unnecessary new procedures and new difficulties. They kept sending me back, asking for lawyer’s signatures, new documents, new photographs and made me rewrite the complaint six times. Their behaviour bordered on harassment, as at the end of six months, they asked me to come back with my father!,” she says.
Planning to travel at night or attend a late-night party? Carry a valid identity card with you. The cops can stop you and demand to see your ID card. Reason: It is the time when criminals are on the prowl.
That is why the movement of people at night comes under the police scanner. While there is no provision in law whereby the men in khaki can restrict the movement of people, they can stop night travellers and question them. “It is usually in the nature of a casual enquiry,” a senior police official said.We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online.
If the person is able to account satisfactorily for his movements – where he is coming from and where he is headed for, and produce an identity card, he is let off. The “casual enquiry,” however, can turn “serious,” when the person is not able to do so. He is then taken to the police station, where his claims and credentials are ascertained before he is let off – or further detained when they turn out to be false.
The police can also demand ID in the event of seeing persons loitering near a teashop,Check out our selection of eyewear Optical frame today! on the streets or on the bridge overlooking sensitive places like the airport or railway station.
Also, identity proof, by way of records, should be presented during vehicul checks. Cops may also demand to see your ID during checks conducted in lodging houses and hotels.Design and order your own custom silicone bracelet / rubber bracelets with personalized message and artwork.
However, ID proof is not mandatory while seeking to file a case at the police station. “The person is a victim. We may ask for ID, while registering the details. But it is not a prerequisite to file a case,” the police official said.
NACO to lead major airport assignment
Taiwan Airport Company has awarded a EUR 33 million consultancy
contract for the development of Terminal 3 Area at Taiwan Taoyuan
International Airport (TTIA) to a joint venture of NACO, T.Y. Lin and
Parsons Brinkerhoff. NACO Netherlands Airport Consultants, a Royal
HaskoningDHV company, is the lead consultant in the joint venture.
Services will be provided for seven years.
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport currently handles 25 million passengers annually and is preparing for a growth up to 60 million passengers in 2030. In the near future the surrounding Taoyuan region will be developed for commercial, industrial and residential use with a focus on aviation related activities. The new Terminal 3 will be connected with Terminal 2 and the area in between will be developed to accommodate a ground transportation centre, parking and commercial real estate. Both terminals will have stations served by the regional light rail system. The estimated direct investment is 1.25 billion Euros.
Taiwan Airport Company (TAC) aspires to incorporate the cultural heritage of Taiwan and focus on a sustainable scheme which combines excellent passenger experience, operational efficiency, use of renewable energy sources and minimal waste. The new terminal site is in the middle of the operational airport and it will be a challenge to minimize impact on airport operations.
Rik Krabbendam, Managing Director of NACO said “We are very proud that TAC has entrusted our team with this assignment. The airport expansion will allow the airport to regain a position as a major aviation hub and become an even stronger driver for the national economy, following examples set by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol among others.”
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With its experience in construction management, Parsons Brinckerhoff will be responsible for the program management of the project and together with T.Y. Lin International will utilize their knowledge for the local engineering and site management.
Jackson County Circuit Court judges and staff are finishing up training on a soon-to-be-launched computer system designed to store all of Oregon's circuit court documents electronically.
"We are going to a paperless system, or, rather, we're going to be providing paper only on demand," said Bob Kleker, court administrator.
Instead of hand-carrying court files from room to room, staff will be able to move documents electronically and share information with plaintiffs, defendants and their attorneys, he said.
Designed by Tyler Technologies out of Texas, the new e-court system, dubbed Odyssey, will allow attorneys to file and serve documents electronically — and provide the public access to documents online ranging from parking tickets to divorce decrees. The system will get its first local test in early March.
"We've been having intense training of all staff here on site, which has been provided by Tyler,Your council is responsible for the installation and maintenance of street light." Kleker said.
Judges will manage their cases from the bench absent their ubiquitous file folders of paperwork. Instead, cases and calendars will be loaded into the new Odyssey data-management system. Judges will be able to pull up indictments, pleadings and other legal documents with the click of a mouse on large computer screens installed at their benches, he said.
"Judges won't have a hard file in front of them," Kleker said.
Jackson County Circuit Court in April joined every other judicial district in Oregon when it began providing an online payment service. "OJD Courts ePay" allows residents and the public to pay most citations, make monthly payments,For this reason Plastic Mould steels are of key significance, and pay on many court cases without having to travel to the courthouse, stand in line or try to maneuver through telephone loops. The online service accepts MasterCard and Visa debit and credit cards, while adding a $3.50 transaction fee.
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport currently handles 25 million passengers annually and is preparing for a growth up to 60 million passengers in 2030. In the near future the surrounding Taoyuan region will be developed for commercial, industrial and residential use with a focus on aviation related activities. The new Terminal 3 will be connected with Terminal 2 and the area in between will be developed to accommodate a ground transportation centre, parking and commercial real estate. Both terminals will have stations served by the regional light rail system. The estimated direct investment is 1.25 billion Euros.
Taiwan Airport Company (TAC) aspires to incorporate the cultural heritage of Taiwan and focus on a sustainable scheme which combines excellent passenger experience, operational efficiency, use of renewable energy sources and minimal waste. The new terminal site is in the middle of the operational airport and it will be a challenge to minimize impact on airport operations.
Rik Krabbendam, Managing Director of NACO said “We are very proud that TAC has entrusted our team with this assignment. The airport expansion will allow the airport to regain a position as a major aviation hub and become an even stronger driver for the national economy, following examples set by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol among others.”
The NACO-T.Car guide to parking systems explains parking sensor.Y.Integrated Car park management system which can administrate regular and temporary customers. Lin-PB joint venture presents a team with a clear vision, strong track record and local resource base. NACO will provide its expertise in terminal area master planning and knowledge of TTIA,Our parallel Parking assist system helps you park with ease - even in tight spots. gained from its current project that has been ongoing since 2007 for the rehabilitation and upgrading of the airside pavements.
With its experience in construction management, Parsons Brinckerhoff will be responsible for the program management of the project and together with T.Y. Lin International will utilize their knowledge for the local engineering and site management.
Jackson County Circuit Court judges and staff are finishing up training on a soon-to-be-launched computer system designed to store all of Oregon's circuit court documents electronically.
"We are going to a paperless system, or, rather, we're going to be providing paper only on demand," said Bob Kleker, court administrator.
Instead of hand-carrying court files from room to room, staff will be able to move documents electronically and share information with plaintiffs, defendants and their attorneys, he said.
Designed by Tyler Technologies out of Texas, the new e-court system, dubbed Odyssey, will allow attorneys to file and serve documents electronically — and provide the public access to documents online ranging from parking tickets to divorce decrees. The system will get its first local test in early March.
"We've been having intense training of all staff here on site, which has been provided by Tyler,Your council is responsible for the installation and maintenance of street light." Kleker said.
Judges will manage their cases from the bench absent their ubiquitous file folders of paperwork. Instead, cases and calendars will be loaded into the new Odyssey data-management system. Judges will be able to pull up indictments, pleadings and other legal documents with the click of a mouse on large computer screens installed at their benches, he said.
"Judges won't have a hard file in front of them," Kleker said.
Jackson County Circuit Court in April joined every other judicial district in Oregon when it began providing an online payment service. "OJD Courts ePay" allows residents and the public to pay most citations, make monthly payments,For this reason Plastic Mould steels are of key significance, and pay on many court cases without having to travel to the courthouse, stand in line or try to maneuver through telephone loops. The online service accepts MasterCard and Visa debit and credit cards, while adding a $3.50 transaction fee.
Hands-on with Dream Cheeky's WebMail Notifier
The Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier is the cutest way to receive email
notifications–they’re delivered directly to your desk in the form of an
illuminated envelope. There’s different colors for different alerts and
even optional sound indicators.
The Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier is a USB device with a 4 foot cable. The white plastic envelope is about the size of a credit card and at least a few inches deep. You can set up a number of different email accounts from a number of different providers. You can easily set up accounts such as Gmail,Your council is responsible for the installation and maintenance of street light. Yahoo, Live, Outlook Express, or any POP3 Account.Integrated Car park management system which can administrate regular and temporary customers. Each email address can be linked to a different color and chime. There’s 9 different colors and you can even set the color effect to range from green to red depending on how many emails you have to read.
The fun thing about the Webmail Notifier is that you can get creative with the email accounts and notification colors and set off a bat signal every time,Car guide to parking systems explains parking sensor. let’s say, it’s time to pay off a credit card bill. You’ll basically have to set up different email accounts for different purposes and have your main account forward emails by filtering, but it could totally be worth it for different chimes and color notifications!
Spokesperson further said, "We advice consumers to wait for the official launch to happen, which is on 25 February, before purchasing BlackBerry Z10 so that they can avail lot of benefits, like service provider ties ups, which will be announced on the day of launch."
BlackBerry Z10 features a 4.2-inch LCD touchscreen display with 1280x768 pixel resolution.Our parallel Parking assist system helps you park with ease - even in tight spots. It's the first time a BlackBerry smartphone offers 356 pixels per inch pixel density and the up to 4 points of multi-touch.
Inside the 9 mm chassis of the handset, rests a dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 mobile processor paired with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB on-board storage by default. Of course, out of that 16 GB some would be reserved for the system and updates. Thankfully there is a Hot Swappable memory card slot to accommodate a higher density micro SD Card.
At the rear, BlackBerry has packed 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, LED Flash and 5X digital zoom. This camera can be used to capture high quality images and also record full 1080p HD videos. BlackBerry Z10 also features a 2 megapixel front facing camera with 3X digital zoom and 720p HD video recording ability.
Apart from that, the BlackBerry Z10 packs dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Ambient Light Sensor and Near Field Communication chip. There is also a micro HDMI out port along with micro USB port.
The BlackBerry Z10 offers better location locking with Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS module. BlackBerry Z10 come packed with an 1800 mAh battery that promises talk time of up to 10 hours and standby time of up to 305 hours on 3G network. This smartphone promises audio playback for up to 60 hours and video playback for up to 11 hours.
According to Orlando, each team had 24 hours to make an app using a technology called NFC that would help solve a problem of their choice at SJSU.
“We switched our idea at like midnight,” Orlando said. “It’s called a gamification app. What we wanted to do was encourage students to attend events on campus. We wanted to reward students for checking into these events so they’d be able to use their phone to check in, then they’d get a point for that.”
Orlando said the idea of gamification is to turn something that is normally boring into something exciting, or have someone do something that one wouldn't normally do, like attend a lot of campus events, and then get rewarded for it.
One of the ideas behind their app was that eventually, students would accumulate enough points to redeem them for buying something at the bookstore or at a local restaurant like La Victoria Taqueria, according to Orlando.For this reason Plastic Mould steels are of key significance,
“Students would also be able to go onto the app to find events,” said Klarence OuYang, a senior management information systems major. “Also (it can be used) just to see past events and read their reviews and see if they’d want to go to a similar event next time, or if a club’s having an event regularly then they can read the reviews from other students and decide without having to make that time commitment.”
The Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier is a USB device with a 4 foot cable. The white plastic envelope is about the size of a credit card and at least a few inches deep. You can set up a number of different email accounts from a number of different providers. You can easily set up accounts such as Gmail,Your council is responsible for the installation and maintenance of street light. Yahoo, Live, Outlook Express, or any POP3 Account.Integrated Car park management system which can administrate regular and temporary customers. Each email address can be linked to a different color and chime. There’s 9 different colors and you can even set the color effect to range from green to red depending on how many emails you have to read.
The fun thing about the Webmail Notifier is that you can get creative with the email accounts and notification colors and set off a bat signal every time,Car guide to parking systems explains parking sensor. let’s say, it’s time to pay off a credit card bill. You’ll basically have to set up different email accounts for different purposes and have your main account forward emails by filtering, but it could totally be worth it for different chimes and color notifications!
Spokesperson further said, "We advice consumers to wait for the official launch to happen, which is on 25 February, before purchasing BlackBerry Z10 so that they can avail lot of benefits, like service provider ties ups, which will be announced on the day of launch."
BlackBerry Z10 features a 4.2-inch LCD touchscreen display with 1280x768 pixel resolution.Our parallel Parking assist system helps you park with ease - even in tight spots. It's the first time a BlackBerry smartphone offers 356 pixels per inch pixel density and the up to 4 points of multi-touch.
Inside the 9 mm chassis of the handset, rests a dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 mobile processor paired with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB on-board storage by default. Of course, out of that 16 GB some would be reserved for the system and updates. Thankfully there is a Hot Swappable memory card slot to accommodate a higher density micro SD Card.
At the rear, BlackBerry has packed 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, LED Flash and 5X digital zoom. This camera can be used to capture high quality images and also record full 1080p HD videos. BlackBerry Z10 also features a 2 megapixel front facing camera with 3X digital zoom and 720p HD video recording ability.
Apart from that, the BlackBerry Z10 packs dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Ambient Light Sensor and Near Field Communication chip. There is also a micro HDMI out port along with micro USB port.
The BlackBerry Z10 offers better location locking with Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS module. BlackBerry Z10 come packed with an 1800 mAh battery that promises talk time of up to 10 hours and standby time of up to 305 hours on 3G network. This smartphone promises audio playback for up to 60 hours and video playback for up to 11 hours.
According to Orlando, each team had 24 hours to make an app using a technology called NFC that would help solve a problem of their choice at SJSU.
“We switched our idea at like midnight,” Orlando said. “It’s called a gamification app. What we wanted to do was encourage students to attend events on campus. We wanted to reward students for checking into these events so they’d be able to use their phone to check in, then they’d get a point for that.”
Orlando said the idea of gamification is to turn something that is normally boring into something exciting, or have someone do something that one wouldn't normally do, like attend a lot of campus events, and then get rewarded for it.
One of the ideas behind their app was that eventually, students would accumulate enough points to redeem them for buying something at the bookstore or at a local restaurant like La Victoria Taqueria, according to Orlando.For this reason Plastic Mould steels are of key significance,
“Students would also be able to go onto the app to find events,” said Klarence OuYang, a senior management information systems major. “Also (it can be used) just to see past events and read their reviews and see if they’d want to go to a similar event next time, or if a club’s having an event regularly then they can read the reviews from other students and decide without having to make that time commitment.”
2013年2月18日星期一
New tech leads to stolen vehicle recovery, arrest
A stolen car was recovered, and a suspected car thief was arrested,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. after they were identified by a patrol vehicle equipped with real-time license plate reading technology, police said.
According to the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department, 41-year-old Salvatore Giacona, of Claymont, Del., was pulled over after he drove past a patrol vehicle equipped with an automated license plate reader system in the 1100 block of Wilmington Pike (Route 202) around 4:45 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the vehicle was rented from a car rental company at the Philadelphia Airport last August, but Giacona allegedly never returned the vehicle.
But when he drove past officer Peter Keegan’s marked vehicle Saturday, a rear-facing camera captured the registration tag of the blue Ford Fusion and automatically alerted the officer that the vehicle was stolen.
Police officials said Keegan alerted backup units that he had located a stolen vehicle, and followed behind until they arrived. Keegan and the assisting units from several area agencies pulled over the vehicle without incident and made contact with Giacona.
Investigators said they determined Giacona had stolen the vehicle from the Philadelphia rental location, and the Philadelphia Police Department and the rental company were both notified of the arrest.
Giacona was charged with receiving stolen property, unauthorized use of an automobile and driving with a suspended license, police said. He was transported to Chester County Prison overnight and released Sunday after posting bail,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. according to court records.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone.
Arresting officers were assisted by members of the Birmingham Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
The Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department is one of several departments in Chester County that has a patrol car equipped with the license plate reader technology. They obtained the system through a federal grant just over a year ago,Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. and since then it has led to the recovery of three stolen vehicles,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? police said.
The system employs the use of three high-resolution cameras, two pointing forward and one to the rear, that automatically runs passing license plates through a database and instantly determines if the vehicle is stolen.
Few things engender rage in life as efficiently as forking out a preposterous sum for a rail ticket, only to find that the carriage you board is so full that you spend the journey wedged in a sliver of space between a surly, sodcasting teenager and a charmless Brooklyn flashpacker.
An Android app -- called Planner Xtra -- from Dutch national train operator NS aims to at least bring transparency to the situation by developing an app that lets passengers know how crowded trains they plan to catch are, updated in realtime. The app ranks how busy trains are on a scale of one to three, where three could be described as "congestion level: sardines" and one is "my bag has the right to be seated as well". These levels are flagged with one, two or three human-shaped icons. The idea is that passengers can make an informed decision, factoring in their sense of urgency in getting to a destination and their ability to tolerate the sound and sensation of other people's breath in their faces.
The information is broken down not only on a train-by-train basis, but also on a carriage-by-carriage basis, so that passengers can position themselves at the right point along the platform to optimise their chances of getting a seat. For more long-term planning, the app also supplies a forecast for the average level of crowdedness on a particular train, based on historical data. However, this doesn't account for any delays, disruptions or any other planned engineering works.
The data is gathered through around 280 infrared sensors placed on the doors and throughout the train to measure the number of people who get on and off and how they move through carriages within the train. Around two minutes after the train leaves a station, the system updates the app to give a real-time overview of the level of occupation.
Other information supplied by the app includes the location of the 1st and 2nd class carriages, quiet carriages, entrances for bicycles and wheelchairs and train Wi-Fi information.
According to the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department, 41-year-old Salvatore Giacona, of Claymont, Del., was pulled over after he drove past a patrol vehicle equipped with an automated license plate reader system in the 1100 block of Wilmington Pike (Route 202) around 4:45 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the vehicle was rented from a car rental company at the Philadelphia Airport last August, but Giacona allegedly never returned the vehicle.
But when he drove past officer Peter Keegan’s marked vehicle Saturday, a rear-facing camera captured the registration tag of the blue Ford Fusion and automatically alerted the officer that the vehicle was stolen.
Police officials said Keegan alerted backup units that he had located a stolen vehicle, and followed behind until they arrived. Keegan and the assisting units from several area agencies pulled over the vehicle without incident and made contact with Giacona.
Investigators said they determined Giacona had stolen the vehicle from the Philadelphia rental location, and the Philadelphia Police Department and the rental company were both notified of the arrest.
Giacona was charged with receiving stolen property, unauthorized use of an automobile and driving with a suspended license, police said. He was transported to Chester County Prison overnight and released Sunday after posting bail,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. according to court records.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone.
Arresting officers were assisted by members of the Birmingham Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
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The system employs the use of three high-resolution cameras, two pointing forward and one to the rear, that automatically runs passing license plates through a database and instantly determines if the vehicle is stolen.
Few things engender rage in life as efficiently as forking out a preposterous sum for a rail ticket, only to find that the carriage you board is so full that you spend the journey wedged in a sliver of space between a surly, sodcasting teenager and a charmless Brooklyn flashpacker.
An Android app -- called Planner Xtra -- from Dutch national train operator NS aims to at least bring transparency to the situation by developing an app that lets passengers know how crowded trains they plan to catch are, updated in realtime. The app ranks how busy trains are on a scale of one to three, where three could be described as "congestion level: sardines" and one is "my bag has the right to be seated as well". These levels are flagged with one, two or three human-shaped icons. The idea is that passengers can make an informed decision, factoring in their sense of urgency in getting to a destination and their ability to tolerate the sound and sensation of other people's breath in their faces.
The information is broken down not only on a train-by-train basis, but also on a carriage-by-carriage basis, so that passengers can position themselves at the right point along the platform to optimise their chances of getting a seat. For more long-term planning, the app also supplies a forecast for the average level of crowdedness on a particular train, based on historical data. However, this doesn't account for any delays, disruptions or any other planned engineering works.
The data is gathered through around 280 infrared sensors placed on the doors and throughout the train to measure the number of people who get on and off and how they move through carriages within the train. Around two minutes after the train leaves a station, the system updates the app to give a real-time overview of the level of occupation.
Other information supplied by the app includes the location of the 1st and 2nd class carriages, quiet carriages, entrances for bicycles and wheelchairs and train Wi-Fi information.
A Retrospective” at the Oklahoma Capitol
Oklahoma artist Regina Murphy has led a prolific art career over more
than 40 years. Opening today and on view through April 14, “A
Retrospective” features a sampling of her vast portfolio of works from
different periods of her career.
Murphy’s passion for art is illustrated by the evolution of her style and experimentation with subject matter and various media including pastel, oil, watercolor, and acrylic painting.
“I experiment often with different techniques and subject matter,” says Murphy in a news release. “This variety holds my interest and keeps me always looking forward to the next project.”
At 91 years of age, Murphy has maintained diligence in her artwork and spends most weekdays working in her studio. After many years of plein air painting (painting on site in the open air), she now only paints in the studio – usually from photographs or recollection. The reality of her subject matter acts as the foundation and her creativity is expressed through abstraction of color, shape, and composition.
Murphy explains in the release, “I blend greatly abstracted shapes with realism, sometimes flatten space, use exaggerated or arbitrary color, and often delineate objects. My goal is to produce a painting that is not a ‘postcard’ view but will intrigue the viewer and prolong interest.”
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“After all the experimenting, it seems the most comfortable endeavor for me is painting in either oil or acrylic, and my favorite subject matter is some form of landscape,” says Murphy in the release.
In her more recent works, she accentuates her landscapes with slightly abstracted, lyrical shapes in exaggerated colors and bold lines.
Murphy’s process for painting other subjects has evolved over the years as well.
“In the past, for still life paintings, I would set up actual compositions with fresh flowers,” she explains in the release.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone. “But in recent years, I paint from imagination, abstracting shapes,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. and again, exaggerating colors and outlining objects in bright colors.”
Of Murphy’s “Rocks & Boulders” series, she says in the release,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? “Nature has always been a source of inspiration to me. A walk in the woods or near the water’s edge can start me planning paintings in which I might convey the feelings that come over me as I experience our awesome environment at close range. In this series my concept was to convey the stability, splendor, silence, and richness of color in nature’s boulders and rocks. Life is so transient; we are so vulnerable; but the earth endures, although gouged and scarred by time and the elements. Perhaps that is why I am awed by its grandeur and inspired by its beauty.”
Of another popular subject matter for Murphy, she explains in the release, “Puppets and dolls have been a recurring subject in my paintings through the years. When I found a wooden monkey puppet in an import shop I thought he would be a great subject for paintings, so I bought him and have created a number of paintings with this single puppet posing in any number of ways.”
Murphy, a longtime resident of Oklahoma, has studied at Oklahoma City University, Louisiana Tech University and at Louisiana Tech’s sister school in Rome, Italy, as well as with numerous nationally known instructors. She has traveled the world for study and pleasure to places such as Holland, France,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. Morocco, Bali, China, Hawaii, Mexico, and Guatemala.
Her artwork is a staple in solo and juried exhibitions and competitions in the region. In addition, her artwork is included in numerous permanent collections including the Oklahoma State Art Collection, and the collections at the University of Science and Art of Oklahoma in Chickasha and the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee.
But for Cardot-Greiner, the MBA, etc., had been a radical departure from the art career she once thought she’d pursue.
Giving art one more try has led to her own shop at 210 St. George St., a studio where she works on jewelry, oil paintings, pencil drawings and publication in several books.
She’s on a tight deadline now to finish in time for a New York City show, a group exhibition set to open March 1 and featuring artists from around the world. Called “The Power of Perception,” the exhibition is curated by Creative Concept Studios and one of Cardot-Greiner’s pieces is being used as a logo. A painting published in “The Power of Perception 2013” was commissioned as a backdrop for New York Fashion Week 2014.
When she was 4, her parents hung a white panel on a wall in the breezeway of their Pennsylvania farm house because she would paint on anything. She kept painting on that panel through the years.
In the ninth grade her Pennsylvania art teacher “saw something special. She told me I was already better than her,” Cardot-Greiner said, and an art scholarship to the Erie (Pa.) Art Museum was arranged so she could take art lessons once a week with a noted artist.
For four years she found a way to make the 40-mile trip. She trained to be an oil painter and got a solid foundation in drawing and composition. Later she studied fine art at Mercyhurst College in Erie.
Murphy’s passion for art is illustrated by the evolution of her style and experimentation with subject matter and various media including pastel, oil, watercolor, and acrylic painting.
“I experiment often with different techniques and subject matter,” says Murphy in a news release. “This variety holds my interest and keeps me always looking forward to the next project.”
At 91 years of age, Murphy has maintained diligence in her artwork and spends most weekdays working in her studio. After many years of plein air painting (painting on site in the open air), she now only paints in the studio – usually from photographs or recollection. The reality of her subject matter acts as the foundation and her creativity is expressed through abstraction of color, shape, and composition.
Murphy explains in the release, “I blend greatly abstracted shapes with realism, sometimes flatten space, use exaggerated or arbitrary color, and often delineate objects. My goal is to produce a painting that is not a ‘postcard’ view but will intrigue the viewer and prolong interest.”
Beyond the works featured here, Murphy has worked in numerous media,Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. both two- and three-dimensional.
“After all the experimenting, it seems the most comfortable endeavor for me is painting in either oil or acrylic, and my favorite subject matter is some form of landscape,” says Murphy in the release.
In her more recent works, she accentuates her landscapes with slightly abstracted, lyrical shapes in exaggerated colors and bold lines.
Murphy’s process for painting other subjects has evolved over the years as well.
“In the past, for still life paintings, I would set up actual compositions with fresh flowers,” she explains in the release.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone. “But in recent years, I paint from imagination, abstracting shapes,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. and again, exaggerating colors and outlining objects in bright colors.”
Of Murphy’s “Rocks & Boulders” series, she says in the release,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? “Nature has always been a source of inspiration to me. A walk in the woods or near the water’s edge can start me planning paintings in which I might convey the feelings that come over me as I experience our awesome environment at close range. In this series my concept was to convey the stability, splendor, silence, and richness of color in nature’s boulders and rocks. Life is so transient; we are so vulnerable; but the earth endures, although gouged and scarred by time and the elements. Perhaps that is why I am awed by its grandeur and inspired by its beauty.”
Of another popular subject matter for Murphy, she explains in the release, “Puppets and dolls have been a recurring subject in my paintings through the years. When I found a wooden monkey puppet in an import shop I thought he would be a great subject for paintings, so I bought him and have created a number of paintings with this single puppet posing in any number of ways.”
Murphy, a longtime resident of Oklahoma, has studied at Oklahoma City University, Louisiana Tech University and at Louisiana Tech’s sister school in Rome, Italy, as well as with numerous nationally known instructors. She has traveled the world for study and pleasure to places such as Holland, France,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. Morocco, Bali, China, Hawaii, Mexico, and Guatemala.
Her artwork is a staple in solo and juried exhibitions and competitions in the region. In addition, her artwork is included in numerous permanent collections including the Oklahoma State Art Collection, and the collections at the University of Science and Art of Oklahoma in Chickasha and the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee.
But for Cardot-Greiner, the MBA, etc., had been a radical departure from the art career she once thought she’d pursue.
Giving art one more try has led to her own shop at 210 St. George St., a studio where she works on jewelry, oil paintings, pencil drawings and publication in several books.
She’s on a tight deadline now to finish in time for a New York City show, a group exhibition set to open March 1 and featuring artists from around the world. Called “The Power of Perception,” the exhibition is curated by Creative Concept Studios and one of Cardot-Greiner’s pieces is being used as a logo. A painting published in “The Power of Perception 2013” was commissioned as a backdrop for New York Fashion Week 2014.
When she was 4, her parents hung a white panel on a wall in the breezeway of their Pennsylvania farm house because she would paint on anything. She kept painting on that panel through the years.
In the ninth grade her Pennsylvania art teacher “saw something special. She told me I was already better than her,” Cardot-Greiner said, and an art scholarship to the Erie (Pa.) Art Museum was arranged so she could take art lessons once a week with a noted artist.
For four years she found a way to make the 40-mile trip. She trained to be an oil painter and got a solid foundation in drawing and composition. Later she studied fine art at Mercyhurst College in Erie.
Laminate Flooring Now Champion Tile
“If your budget won’t stand hardwood flooring, then you might want to
consider laminate instead. It’s fairly easy to install as well,
provided you read and follow the instructions, and don’t cut corners,”
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The main attraction to laminate flooring as an alternative to hardwood is cost, but also the wide variety of styles, designs and colors available. This means versatility in choices to match a home’s ambiance and theme. It is not unheard of for a do-it-yourselfer to hit a store on the weekend, haul home flooring and lay it that same weekend. “It isn’t difficult to install, as it snaps together with planks with tongues and grooves. It’s almost fail-proof, too, because the plank design let’s you install it fast and easy, without a whole lot of work,” said Dupre.
Just remember that laminate flooring has a laminate base, and that simply means it adds even more strength to the floor, stretching its longevity. Hardwood does not have the same durability as laminate, and for this reason, families with kids and pets love this as a reasonably priced alternative that suits their lifestyle.RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. The big bonus comes when wiping it clean. If the laminate was good quality, there should be no issues cleaning it with a damp mop. Cheaper quality laminate does not always clean up well without leaving streaks.
“Not sure what to buy? Then approach your purchase by first choosing a light or dark finish, according to the room you are going to renovate. Then, check the pricing and work from there. Thankfully, laminate flooring comes in a wide variety of prices ranges to suit anyone’s budget. It’s also good idea to read the instructions on the outside of the box, just to make sure you have the materials you need to install the floor,” Dupre added.
Remember that to install laminate, the back of the plank either needs to already be padded or padding needs to be put down before installation.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. This helps the floor last longer and assists with insulation. Laminate is a great alternative for those on a budget, and they still get a great looking floor, when all is said and done.
For only ￡100 (about $155 Canadian), this piece of terrifying history can be yours. The description on the advertisement says the sellers feel compelled to tell potential bidders about the misfortune they've encountered since placing the mirror in their apartment.
"Many times since putting up the mirror, both myself and my flat mate have woken in the early morning hours screaming in pain. We both experienced what I can only described as intense sharp stabbing pains throughout our bodies," the post says.
Excruciating stabbing pains? Oh, well in that case, consider it sold.
Other side-effects apparently include feeling zapped of energy and falling sick without any clear cause. The advertisement says items began disappearing from the apartment, paintings fell from the walls and items would be inexplicably strewn across the floor.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone.
The description includes an image of mysterious scratches on someone's body, which one of the sellers claims as proof of the mirror's malevolent powers.
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A share of the artworks’ proceeds will be donated by the artists to the Fund for the Arts in Southwest Florida, which supports nonprofit art organizations in the area.
Among the pieces sold, four were Gale Bennett paintings that were donated by his widow and Display Curator Cello Bennett. These paintings sold during the Gale Bennett exhibition at the Community Foundation last summer. The paintings were Force Red, River Flats 2005, Nocturnal Bouquet, A Special Place and Bouquet de Printemps.
The next art open house will be held Friday, March 1, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will feature interactive classes with artist Doug MacGregor and Freida VanPelt, a legally blind art instructor at the Lighthouse of SWFL. VanPelt will conduct a live demonstration while providing goggles that stimulate being blind, for anyone who wants to know what it feels like to paint blind.
The main attraction to laminate flooring as an alternative to hardwood is cost, but also the wide variety of styles, designs and colors available. This means versatility in choices to match a home’s ambiance and theme. It is not unheard of for a do-it-yourselfer to hit a store on the weekend, haul home flooring and lay it that same weekend. “It isn’t difficult to install, as it snaps together with planks with tongues and grooves. It’s almost fail-proof, too, because the plank design let’s you install it fast and easy, without a whole lot of work,” said Dupre.
Just remember that laminate flooring has a laminate base, and that simply means it adds even more strength to the floor, stretching its longevity. Hardwood does not have the same durability as laminate, and for this reason, families with kids and pets love this as a reasonably priced alternative that suits their lifestyle.RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. The big bonus comes when wiping it clean. If the laminate was good quality, there should be no issues cleaning it with a damp mop. Cheaper quality laminate does not always clean up well without leaving streaks.
“Not sure what to buy? Then approach your purchase by first choosing a light or dark finish, according to the room you are going to renovate. Then, check the pricing and work from there. Thankfully, laminate flooring comes in a wide variety of prices ranges to suit anyone’s budget. It’s also good idea to read the instructions on the outside of the box, just to make sure you have the materials you need to install the floor,” Dupre added.
Remember that to install laminate, the back of the plank either needs to already be padded or padding needs to be put down before installation.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. This helps the floor last longer and assists with insulation. Laminate is a great alternative for those on a budget, and they still get a great looking floor, when all is said and done.
For only ￡100 (about $155 Canadian), this piece of terrifying history can be yours. The description on the advertisement says the sellers feel compelled to tell potential bidders about the misfortune they've encountered since placing the mirror in their apartment.
"Many times since putting up the mirror, both myself and my flat mate have woken in the early morning hours screaming in pain. We both experienced what I can only described as intense sharp stabbing pains throughout our bodies," the post says.
Excruciating stabbing pains? Oh, well in that case, consider it sold.
Other side-effects apparently include feeling zapped of energy and falling sick without any clear cause. The advertisement says items began disappearing from the apartment, paintings fell from the walls and items would be inexplicably strewn across the floor.I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone.
The description includes an image of mysterious scratches on someone's body, which one of the sellers claims as proof of the mirror's malevolent powers.
"Truthfully, we both love the look of the mirror, but since we put it up in our flat we have had nothing but bad luck, misery, financial problems and illness," the description says.we are the biggest USB flash drives wholesale supplier in china.
A share of the artworks’ proceeds will be donated by the artists to the Fund for the Arts in Southwest Florida, which supports nonprofit art organizations in the area.
Among the pieces sold, four were Gale Bennett paintings that were donated by his widow and Display Curator Cello Bennett. These paintings sold during the Gale Bennett exhibition at the Community Foundation last summer. The paintings were Force Red, River Flats 2005, Nocturnal Bouquet, A Special Place and Bouquet de Printemps.
The next art open house will be held Friday, March 1, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will feature interactive classes with artist Doug MacGregor and Freida VanPelt, a legally blind art instructor at the Lighthouse of SWFL. VanPelt will conduct a live demonstration while providing goggles that stimulate being blind, for anyone who wants to know what it feels like to paint blind.
A late surge from the post-Eighties
London’s contemporary art sales last week took
place very much in the shadow of New York’s spectacular $1 billion November
sales, in which post-war American Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art attracted
huge sums. More recent art, from the Eighties on, seemed flat by comparison and
triggered a pre-London sale survey that suggested that confidence in this area
was falling away.
However, the evidence of last week’s sales indicates otherwise. Although the ￡203.5 million taken by Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips paled in comparison with New York, it was high for London February sales, up 9.5 per cent on last year, and included 27 record prices, most of which were for post-Eighties art.
The closest to Abstract Expressionism they got was a vigorously gestural black and white painting from 1962 by the Frenchman Pierre Soulages, who has often been compared to the American Franz Kline. The two had met in New York, and both exhibited at its Kootz Gallery. In November, Kline’s prices jumped to $40 million at auction. Last week, the leap for Soulages was also dramatic, as his 1962 painting far exceeded his auction record to fetch ￡3.3 million.
But the post-war selection was more remarkable for the solidity of its returns. At Sotheby’s,I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone. a small Francis Bacon triptych of self-portraits tripled the price it fetched six years ago from an Italian collector, selling for ￡13 million to the German tobacco tycoon Jürgen Hall.
At Christie’s, the sombre 1954 Bacon portrait Man in Blue, from the Norwich Union collection, which four years ago did not sell with an estimate of ￡4 million to ￡6 million, attracted bidding from several dealers before selling for ￡5 million. Also at Christie’s,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. a scarlet 1964 canvas with a single slash down its centre by Lucio Fontana, bought in 1996 for ￡117,000, sold for close to ￡4 million to the art consultant Andrew Stramentov.
However, there were more records and bigger mark-ups for recent art. The stand-out record of the week was the ￡7.6 million given for The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, painted in 1991 by Edinburgh-born Peter Doig. Originally sold for $10,000 to the accountants Arthur Anderson, it was bought at auction in 2002 by Charles Saatchi for $418,000. In 2007, Saatchi sold it with six other Doigs to Sotheby’s for $11 million. Sotheby’s then sold one of them, White Canoe, to the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili for ￡5.7 million, making Doig briefly the most expensive living European artist. The Architect’s Home, meanwhile, was sold in New York, also in 2007, for $3.6 million to an American collector who sold it for a hefty profit last week. The buyer, described by Christie’s as a “private European” (which would include Russia and former Soviet states), was, intriguingly, the same as the buyer for the Soulages.
Other records were obtained for Doig’s former student Hurvin Anderson, for Adrian Ghenie, a Romanian artist recently taken on by the powerful Pace Gallery, and for the recent Turner Prize contender George Shaw, whose early painting of a telephone box sold for a triple estimate ￡51,650.
There were also records for sculptures of a snowman by Gary Hume, of a fat car by the Austrian Erwin Wurm, for abstract paintings by the Americans Wade Guyton and Carroll Dunham, and for a painting of a bullet hole by Nate Lowman, which sold to New York dealer Stellan Holm for a quadruple estimate ￡337,250. Artists making paintings with chewing gum (Adam McEwen), Plasticine (Dan Rees – a new Saatchi favourite), and latex (Ryan Sullivan) in the last few years were on a roll.
Similarly, works bought a decade or more ago saw massive returns.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. A sculpture of a car bonnet by Richard Prince, bought in 1995 for $8,625, sold to London and New York dealer Per Skarstedt for $490,000). A silver painting by Rudolf Stingel was bought 10 years ago for $4,800 and sold for $188,400).
Not all contemporary art is going up. A painting by Franz Ackermann, once favoured by the likes of Saatchi and Frank Cohen, fell from ￡193,000 in 2006 to ￡55,000. But while Gerhard Richter’s abstract paintings are no longer gaining value, Damien Hirst’s market, which had been falling, appears to be stabilising.
Almost 70 years after World War II, France is making one of its biggest efforts to trace the Jewish owners of artworks stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the Allies and sent to the country after the war. President Francois Hollande’s government is setting up a group of historians, regulators, archivists and curators to actively track down families, instead of waiting for claimants to come forward. The group starts working in March.
“It may be one of our last chances to find the owners,” said Jean-Pierre Bady, a former director at the culture ministry,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. who’s a member of a 1999-created Commission for the Compensation of Spoliation Victims and who was instrumental in the formation of the group.we are the biggest USB flash drives wholesale supplier in china. “Seventy years is a long time, but it’s never too late to make things right.”
The Nazis seized hundreds of thousands of works of art from Jewish private collections between 1933 and 1945 as part of their policy of racial persecution in what has been seen as the biggest such heist in history. Much of the art was returned to national governments, with unclaimed pieces landing in museums.
In France, the Hollande government’s plan would mark the first effort to reach out to victims of the Nazis since 1995 when former President Jacques Chirac for the first time recognized France’s responsibility for collaborating in anti- Semitic persecutions during the country’s occupation by the Germans, acknowledging the deportation of Jewish people.
However, the evidence of last week’s sales indicates otherwise. Although the ￡203.5 million taken by Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips paled in comparison with New York, it was high for London February sales, up 9.5 per cent on last year, and included 27 record prices, most of which were for post-Eighties art.
The closest to Abstract Expressionism they got was a vigorously gestural black and white painting from 1962 by the Frenchman Pierre Soulages, who has often been compared to the American Franz Kline. The two had met in New York, and both exhibited at its Kootz Gallery. In November, Kline’s prices jumped to $40 million at auction. Last week, the leap for Soulages was also dramatic, as his 1962 painting far exceeded his auction record to fetch ￡3.3 million.
But the post-war selection was more remarkable for the solidity of its returns. At Sotheby’s,I personally really like these mini ear cap for my iPhone. a small Francis Bacon triptych of self-portraits tripled the price it fetched six years ago from an Italian collector, selling for ￡13 million to the German tobacco tycoon Jürgen Hall.
At Christie’s, the sombre 1954 Bacon portrait Man in Blue, from the Norwich Union collection, which four years ago did not sell with an estimate of ￡4 million to ￡6 million, attracted bidding from several dealers before selling for ￡5 million. Also at Christie’s,RFID TagSource is the leading provider of RFID tag solutions for high value asset management applications. a scarlet 1964 canvas with a single slash down its centre by Lucio Fontana, bought in 1996 for ￡117,000, sold for close to ￡4 million to the art consultant Andrew Stramentov.
However, there were more records and bigger mark-ups for recent art. The stand-out record of the week was the ￡7.6 million given for The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, painted in 1991 by Edinburgh-born Peter Doig. Originally sold for $10,000 to the accountants Arthur Anderson, it was bought at auction in 2002 by Charles Saatchi for $418,000. In 2007, Saatchi sold it with six other Doigs to Sotheby’s for $11 million. Sotheby’s then sold one of them, White Canoe, to the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili for ￡5.7 million, making Doig briefly the most expensive living European artist. The Architect’s Home, meanwhile, was sold in New York, also in 2007, for $3.6 million to an American collector who sold it for a hefty profit last week. The buyer, described by Christie’s as a “private European” (which would include Russia and former Soviet states), was, intriguingly, the same as the buyer for the Soulages.
Other records were obtained for Doig’s former student Hurvin Anderson, for Adrian Ghenie, a Romanian artist recently taken on by the powerful Pace Gallery, and for the recent Turner Prize contender George Shaw, whose early painting of a telephone box sold for a triple estimate ￡51,650.
There were also records for sculptures of a snowman by Gary Hume, of a fat car by the Austrian Erwin Wurm, for abstract paintings by the Americans Wade Guyton and Carroll Dunham, and for a painting of a bullet hole by Nate Lowman, which sold to New York dealer Stellan Holm for a quadruple estimate ￡337,250. Artists making paintings with chewing gum (Adam McEwen), Plasticine (Dan Rees – a new Saatchi favourite), and latex (Ryan Sullivan) in the last few years were on a roll.
Similarly, works bought a decade or more ago saw massive returns.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. A sculpture of a car bonnet by Richard Prince, bought in 1995 for $8,625, sold to London and New York dealer Per Skarstedt for $490,000). A silver painting by Rudolf Stingel was bought 10 years ago for $4,800 and sold for $188,400).
Not all contemporary art is going up. A painting by Franz Ackermann, once favoured by the likes of Saatchi and Frank Cohen, fell from ￡193,000 in 2006 to ￡55,000. But while Gerhard Richter’s abstract paintings are no longer gaining value, Damien Hirst’s market, which had been falling, appears to be stabilising.
Almost 70 years after World War II, France is making one of its biggest efforts to trace the Jewish owners of artworks stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the Allies and sent to the country after the war. President Francois Hollande’s government is setting up a group of historians, regulators, archivists and curators to actively track down families, instead of waiting for claimants to come forward. The group starts working in March.
“It may be one of our last chances to find the owners,” said Jean-Pierre Bady, a former director at the culture ministry,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. who’s a member of a 1999-created Commission for the Compensation of Spoliation Victims and who was instrumental in the formation of the group.we are the biggest USB flash drives wholesale supplier in china. “Seventy years is a long time, but it’s never too late to make things right.”
The Nazis seized hundreds of thousands of works of art from Jewish private collections between 1933 and 1945 as part of their policy of racial persecution in what has been seen as the biggest such heist in history. Much of the art was returned to national governments, with unclaimed pieces landing in museums.
In France, the Hollande government’s plan would mark the first effort to reach out to victims of the Nazis since 1995 when former President Jacques Chirac for the first time recognized France’s responsibility for collaborating in anti- Semitic persecutions during the country’s occupation by the Germans, acknowledging the deportation of Jewish people.
2013年2月17日星期日
C'mon, do the motivation
One
of my fears is having to take part in a fuel economy run. Although some
colleagues regard events such as an Energywise rally as a highlight of
their motoring year, I hide at the mention of one.
A couple of times, car companies have unwisely thought it worth seeing "if I were available" but I've always had an excuse: "Sorry, I'd love to, but I have a headache planned for all that week."
There's nothing at all wrong with economy runs, but I couldn't be bothered spending a week driving across the country measuring every gentle poke of the accelerator in case it gets me another point zero-zero-zero something of a litre per 100km.
There are stories of competitors,Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo. and they obviously were competitors in every sense of the word,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action weighing their clothes, not wearing undies to save weight, shoes ditto, and not even carrying a bottle of water because the weight of their sip might mean an added sup of gas.
Hard-core giga-mileage drivers disdain braking, will put the transmission into neutral at the first sign of a downhill, refuse to use the windscreen wipers even when hailing, and won't turn on the radio, let alone (and their throat tightens as these words fight to get out), the air conditioning.
I'm not against economical driving, just against silly economical driving. I'm not really into slipstreaming behind large trucks or straightening out curves with a road-righteousness possessed only by pumped-up economy run participants.
My own vehicle, a V6, chews petrol, though fortunately the cheaper 91 octane kind. Handing over a credit card after filling its greedy tank provides motivation to drive softly, to use my accelerator foot as smoothly and gently as a downy feather drifting on to a jerry can's filler cap.
My other aid to fuel economy is the ECO ON message that glows from the instrument panel whenever the computer judges that the vehicle is being driven in an economical fashion.
Another set of green LEDs keeps tabs of the overall litres per 100km - which is usually depressing - or the instant consumption, which is often either zero (throttle off) or in the 90s (racing up a steep hill).
I have found a few things that make, in their own way, a small contribution to the economy tally which I'll share with you.
There's no point in carrying around a heap of unnecessary weight, so leave all the crap at home. The bags of garden mix don't need a motoring holiday before spreading. Take off the roof rack if it's not being used because it contributes weight and drag.
Another is to put an automatic transmission into neutral at the lights or when stopped for more than a few seconds. Foot on the brake or use the handbrake, though.
Don't let the engine idle unnecessarily.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? If you're afraid to switch it off because it may not restart, get it fixed. I used to think switching off to be silly, back in the days when I owned a frugal diesel, but the V6 caused me to revisit the advice.
Keeping tyres properly inflated helps a wee bit. I go one step further and put in a little more air than recommended, but be careful; too much will cause uneven wear and create handling and grip problems.
Stay off coarse-chip seal, said to worsen economy by up to 5 per cent. On the other hand, snaking along an alternative route may use more fuel than you're saving.
Driving below the 100km/h highway limit saves, as long as you can stand the tailgating, headlight flashing and gesticulating from other motorists.
Please don't stick to a righteous 80 in the "fast" lane.
A nervous Significant Other is good.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. Despite the addition of his/her weight, the fuel savings from being admonished to "slow down" and "don't drive like a maniac" are not to be underestimated.
A friend, hitchhiker or anyone else will probably be too timid to offer such useful fuel-saving advice. So leave them behind and save the cost of carting their weight. If you have a selfish streak, it's a great way to put it to practical use.
A couple of times, car companies have unwisely thought it worth seeing "if I were available" but I've always had an excuse: "Sorry, I'd love to, but I have a headache planned for all that week."
There's nothing at all wrong with economy runs, but I couldn't be bothered spending a week driving across the country measuring every gentle poke of the accelerator in case it gets me another point zero-zero-zero something of a litre per 100km.
There are stories of competitors,Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo. and they obviously were competitors in every sense of the word,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action weighing their clothes, not wearing undies to save weight, shoes ditto, and not even carrying a bottle of water because the weight of their sip might mean an added sup of gas.
Hard-core giga-mileage drivers disdain braking, will put the transmission into neutral at the first sign of a downhill, refuse to use the windscreen wipers even when hailing, and won't turn on the radio, let alone (and their throat tightens as these words fight to get out), the air conditioning.
I'm not against economical driving, just against silly economical driving. I'm not really into slipstreaming behind large trucks or straightening out curves with a road-righteousness possessed only by pumped-up economy run participants.
My own vehicle, a V6, chews petrol, though fortunately the cheaper 91 octane kind. Handing over a credit card after filling its greedy tank provides motivation to drive softly, to use my accelerator foot as smoothly and gently as a downy feather drifting on to a jerry can's filler cap.
My other aid to fuel economy is the ECO ON message that glows from the instrument panel whenever the computer judges that the vehicle is being driven in an economical fashion.
Another set of green LEDs keeps tabs of the overall litres per 100km - which is usually depressing - or the instant consumption, which is often either zero (throttle off) or in the 90s (racing up a steep hill).
I have found a few things that make, in their own way, a small contribution to the economy tally which I'll share with you.
There's no point in carrying around a heap of unnecessary weight, so leave all the crap at home. The bags of garden mix don't need a motoring holiday before spreading. Take off the roof rack if it's not being used because it contributes weight and drag.
Another is to put an automatic transmission into neutral at the lights or when stopped for more than a few seconds. Foot on the brake or use the handbrake, though.
Don't let the engine idle unnecessarily.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? If you're afraid to switch it off because it may not restart, get it fixed. I used to think switching off to be silly, back in the days when I owned a frugal diesel, but the V6 caused me to revisit the advice.
Keeping tyres properly inflated helps a wee bit. I go one step further and put in a little more air than recommended, but be careful; too much will cause uneven wear and create handling and grip problems.
Stay off coarse-chip seal, said to worsen economy by up to 5 per cent. On the other hand, snaking along an alternative route may use more fuel than you're saving.
Driving below the 100km/h highway limit saves, as long as you can stand the tailgating, headlight flashing and gesticulating from other motorists.
Please don't stick to a righteous 80 in the "fast" lane.
A nervous Significant Other is good.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. Despite the addition of his/her weight, the fuel savings from being admonished to "slow down" and "don't drive like a maniac" are not to be underestimated.
A friend, hitchhiker or anyone else will probably be too timid to offer such useful fuel-saving advice. So leave them behind and save the cost of carting their weight. If you have a selfish streak, it's a great way to put it to practical use.
Local stores honor gift cards issued by closed Jackrabbit Toys
Two Monmouth County toy stores have stepped in to help a Middletown
mom stuck with $90 in gift cards from Jackrabbit Toys, a retailer that
went out of business before Christmas.
Last week, Press on Your Side told you about Elisabeth Kratka. In June,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. her twin boys each were given $45 in gift cards to Jackrabbit Toys, which had stores in Shrewsbury and Wall, for their birthday.
But when she went to the store in Shrewsbury recently, she discovered the store was dark. It plans to file for bankruptcy,Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? a proceeding that will leave gift card holders such as Kratka with little more than plastic scrap.
With the cards virtually worthless,Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo. shoppers are left with a lesson: if you can, use a gift card as soon as possible. You never know what will happen to the business, large or small, that issued the card.
Two toy stores — Distinctive Toys & Movies in Fair Haven and Toymasters in Red Bank — have stepped into help.
It’s not known how many gift cards for Jackrabbit Toys are out there. Before it closed, Jackrabbit wrote checks to holders who came in to redeem the cards, said its bankruptcy lawyer, Bruce C. Truesdale of Middlesex.
The Distinctive Toys offer gives a Jackrabbit Toys gift-card holder a one-time 50 percent discount, like a coupon, no matter how much the card is worth.
“If she purchases $90 worth of toys, I will discount it half off,” Margaret Spicer, owner of Distinctive Toys, wrote in an email to Press on Your Side. “The children shouldn’t lose out.” Spicer said she will extend that offer to other Jackrabbit Toys gift card holders who bring in their cards.
Toymasters reached out to Kratka with its own offer. Signs touting the deal are up in the store: “Jackrabbit Toys Gift Cards Honored Here.”
“We would like to offer 50 percent off the face value to whoever comes in,” said Charles Horowitz, co-owner of the toy store. “We don’t like to see people get stuck.”
Co-owner Denise Zappoli said the card holder will receive a one-time store credit,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action equal to 50 percent of the card’s face value, towards a purchase. For example, if you have $40 worth of cards, you’ll get a $20 credit.
Auctions enable owners of storage yards to recoup on uncollected rents and empty out nonpaying units to get them back on the market, but for decades much of the industry kept the sales quiet, advertising them only through required public notices. Storage operators were -- and, in many cases, still are -- loath to point out that they liquidate their former customers' personal possessions. Delinquent renters often are incensed at losing keepsakes, such as baby pictures and jewelry, they had purposely stashed away for safekeeping.
"It was a hidden secret -- nobody really knew about them," Cox said of the first auctions he attended some 15 years ago. "I was in the antique business for years and didn't know about them."
Buyers talk about the hard labor, the "sweat equity,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online." involved in moving and sorting, deciding what should be set out at yard sales and swap meets and what should be posted on eBay and Craigslist. Successful dealers are able to capitalize on things of unusual value; they develop networks of contacts, people who are willing to shell out the maximum price for a Duke Snider baseball card or a rare hood ornament from a 1949 Packard. Occasionally, storage units become hiding places for drugs, weapons, and things even more shocking and bizarre. In 1991, a house painter named John J. Famalaro, evicted from a residence in Lake Forest, rented a self-storage unit in Laguna Hills, Calif., and apparently moved in. Months later, in the same unit, he bludgeoned to death 23-year-old Denise Huber, then put her handcuffed body into a freezer that he locked inside a different Orange County self-storage unit.
No one knows how long Huber's body might have remained there if the killer had not decided to haul the freezer to his new home in Dewey, Ariz., in 1994. Arrested there, Famalaro was later convicted of murder.
In 1989, a man stole a new, cherry-red Corvette convertible from a dealership in San Diego and hid it in a storage locker, racking up more than $70,000 in storage fees over the next 23 years. This past September, when the bills became too much, the crook finally turned himself in, claiming he had been coerced into the theft and into hanging onto the car, according to various news accounts. The convertible emerged from storage with four flats, 67 miles on the odometer and still having, in the words of one law-enforcement spokesman, "that new car smell." Fears of what's behind the roll-up doors are another reason storage yards tend to shun publicity. Lance Watkins, owner of Storage Outlet, which operates in Southern California, recalls the alarm he felt four or five years ago when a manager called to say that a TV news crew was planning to air a report on auctions at his Gardena, Calif., yard.
Last week, Press on Your Side told you about Elisabeth Kratka. In June,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. her twin boys each were given $45 in gift cards to Jackrabbit Toys, which had stores in Shrewsbury and Wall, for their birthday.
But when she went to the store in Shrewsbury recently, she discovered the store was dark. It plans to file for bankruptcy,Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? a proceeding that will leave gift card holders such as Kratka with little more than plastic scrap.
With the cards virtually worthless,Virtual parking management system logo Verano Place logo. shoppers are left with a lesson: if you can, use a gift card as soon as possible. You never know what will happen to the business, large or small, that issued the card.
Two toy stores — Distinctive Toys & Movies in Fair Haven and Toymasters in Red Bank — have stepped into help.
It’s not known how many gift cards for Jackrabbit Toys are out there. Before it closed, Jackrabbit wrote checks to holders who came in to redeem the cards, said its bankruptcy lawyer, Bruce C. Truesdale of Middlesex.
The Distinctive Toys offer gives a Jackrabbit Toys gift-card holder a one-time 50 percent discount, like a coupon, no matter how much the card is worth.
“If she purchases $90 worth of toys, I will discount it half off,” Margaret Spicer, owner of Distinctive Toys, wrote in an email to Press on Your Side. “The children shouldn’t lose out.” Spicer said she will extend that offer to other Jackrabbit Toys gift card holders who bring in their cards.
Toymasters reached out to Kratka with its own offer. Signs touting the deal are up in the store: “Jackrabbit Toys Gift Cards Honored Here.”
“We would like to offer 50 percent off the face value to whoever comes in,” said Charles Horowitz, co-owner of the toy store. “We don’t like to see people get stuck.”
Co-owner Denise Zappoli said the card holder will receive a one-time store credit,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action equal to 50 percent of the card’s face value, towards a purchase. For example, if you have $40 worth of cards, you’ll get a $20 credit.
Auctions enable owners of storage yards to recoup on uncollected rents and empty out nonpaying units to get them back on the market, but for decades much of the industry kept the sales quiet, advertising them only through required public notices. Storage operators were -- and, in many cases, still are -- loath to point out that they liquidate their former customers' personal possessions. Delinquent renters often are incensed at losing keepsakes, such as baby pictures and jewelry, they had purposely stashed away for safekeeping.
"It was a hidden secret -- nobody really knew about them," Cox said of the first auctions he attended some 15 years ago. "I was in the antique business for years and didn't know about them."
Buyers talk about the hard labor, the "sweat equity,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online." involved in moving and sorting, deciding what should be set out at yard sales and swap meets and what should be posted on eBay and Craigslist. Successful dealers are able to capitalize on things of unusual value; they develop networks of contacts, people who are willing to shell out the maximum price for a Duke Snider baseball card or a rare hood ornament from a 1949 Packard. Occasionally, storage units become hiding places for drugs, weapons, and things even more shocking and bizarre. In 1991, a house painter named John J. Famalaro, evicted from a residence in Lake Forest, rented a self-storage unit in Laguna Hills, Calif., and apparently moved in. Months later, in the same unit, he bludgeoned to death 23-year-old Denise Huber, then put her handcuffed body into a freezer that he locked inside a different Orange County self-storage unit.
No one knows how long Huber's body might have remained there if the killer had not decided to haul the freezer to his new home in Dewey, Ariz., in 1994. Arrested there, Famalaro was later convicted of murder.
In 1989, a man stole a new, cherry-red Corvette convertible from a dealership in San Diego and hid it in a storage locker, racking up more than $70,000 in storage fees over the next 23 years. This past September, when the bills became too much, the crook finally turned himself in, claiming he had been coerced into the theft and into hanging onto the car, according to various news accounts. The convertible emerged from storage with four flats, 67 miles on the odometer and still having, in the words of one law-enforcement spokesman, "that new car smell." Fears of what's behind the roll-up doors are another reason storage yards tend to shun publicity. Lance Watkins, owner of Storage Outlet, which operates in Southern California, recalls the alarm he felt four or five years ago when a manager called to say that a TV news crew was planning to air a report on auctions at his Gardena, Calif., yard.
New Liquidity Management Tool Eyed
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is reviewing a new liquidity
management tool called an “interest rate corridor” that will provide
both deposit and lending facilities to banks and ensure that the markets
have sufficient money supply.
BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said this interest rate corridor will need to be put in placed as they gradually introduce more revisions to the existing liquidity management tool, the special deposit account (SDA) facility, of whose pricing is being rationalized to reduce the costs to the BSP.
“The interest rate corridor system, among other benefits, would provide guidance for short-term interest rates and promote the development of the interbank capital market,” Tetangco said in his speech before Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) where he inducted the new EJAP Board on Friday.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers.
“As the corridor is adjusted, banks would be discouraged from parking their funds with the central bank and prevent the central bank from crowding out the private sector.”
“(An) Interest rate corridor allows a central bank to offer banks standing facilities for both lending and deposit,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories!” explained BSP Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo.
Guinigundo said that lending to the banks ensures market liquidity and that deposit facilities provide the banks with an “outlet for their surplus funds” and at the same time “offers the central bank additional facility to mop up these excess funds.”
“In between, the central bank would normally position the policy rate to send the signal about the stance of monetary policy whether it is biased towards easing or tightening. Many central banks both advanced and emerging have this kind of set up with varying widths of the corridor between lending (high) and deposit (low),” said Guinigundo.
Both Tetangco and Guinigundo noted that setting up an interest rate corridor as an approach supportive of the rationalization of SDA pricing and access, is a practice that is consistent with the global central banking trends. The BSP has already sought the assistance of the International Monetary Fund to further study the proposed liquidity facility.
The central bank has introduced changes to the SDAs which basically is a facility that allows the BSP to accept deposits from banks. SDA facility consists of fixed-term deposits by banks and trust entities which has enabled the BSP since 1998 to manage excess liquidity in the financial system due to strong foreign exchange inflows.
The government, particularly the Department of Finance, has been trying to find ways to lure these funds from SDAs and diverted into economic-enhancing projects such as infrastructure development as well as more lending funds for productive activities.
In the last six years with the global financial upheaval, more banks parked bulk of their investible funds in the interest-bearing and safe SDAs. From deposits of only R51 billion in 2006, funds in SDAs ballooned to R400 billion at the height of the 2008 US-led financial crisis and crossed the R1 trillion mark by 2010.
In July last year, the BSP has banned foreign banks from investing in SDAs in a bid to reduce placements with the BSP.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation. In January, SDA rates were also reduced to three percent. Previously, the SDA rate was priced at a premium over the policy rate. Still, as of the end of January this year, SDAs have reached R1.The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking.8 trillion even with the lowering of rates and prohibition of non-residents from placing their funds in the facility.
Tetangco said there is still room to refine the SDA operations. “We limited the SDA to the domestic market so that the SDA would cease to be an investment outlet for foreign funds, and revert to its primary purpose of being an instrument of managing domestic liquidity. We followed this up with rationalized pricing, bringing rates we pay on SDA across the board to three percent.”
But more importantly, he said rationalizing the pricing on the SDA was really a move to “align the operation of this deposit facility with how other central banks operate similar deposit facilities.”
“In several jurisdictions, the central bank deposit rates are set lower than the policy borrowing rate,” he said. “Rationalizing the SDA pricing can also be seen as an intermediate step towards developing an interest rate corridor.”
The lending facility -- through the BSP’s repurchase agreements -- ensures market liquidity with the regulator buying back government securities from financial institutions, central bank Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo told BusinessWorld.
The SDA, meanwhile, acts as a deposit facility, providing banks with an outlet for surplus funds and allowing the BSP another means of mopping up excess liquidity.
"In between,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. the central bank would normally position the policy rate to send the signal about the stance of monetary policy, whether it is biased towards easing or tightening," Mr. Guinigundo explained.
Monetary authorities typically use the overnight borrowing and lending rates as the basis for easing and tightening money supply. In an interest rate corridor, they will be able adjust deposits and lending without constantly shifting monetary policy.
"A central bank can have the flexibility of varying the width of the corridor or the spread around the policy rate. Or it can move the policy rate depending on the conditions," Mr. Guinigundo said.
Last month’s SDA rate cut to 3% applied to all tenors -- seven days, 14 days and one month. The rates had previously been set at a slight premium above the 3.5% overnight borrowing rate. It followed a 2012 move to limit access to the SDA facility to residents, reverting it to the purpose of managing domestic liquidity.
BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said this interest rate corridor will need to be put in placed as they gradually introduce more revisions to the existing liquidity management tool, the special deposit account (SDA) facility, of whose pricing is being rationalized to reduce the costs to the BSP.
“The interest rate corridor system, among other benefits, would provide guidance for short-term interest rates and promote the development of the interbank capital market,” Tetangco said in his speech before Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) where he inducted the new EJAP Board on Friday.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers.
“As the corridor is adjusted, banks would be discouraged from parking their funds with the central bank and prevent the central bank from crowding out the private sector.”
“(An) Interest rate corridor allows a central bank to offer banks standing facilities for both lending and deposit,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories!” explained BSP Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo.
Guinigundo said that lending to the banks ensures market liquidity and that deposit facilities provide the banks with an “outlet for their surplus funds” and at the same time “offers the central bank additional facility to mop up these excess funds.”
“In between, the central bank would normally position the policy rate to send the signal about the stance of monetary policy whether it is biased towards easing or tightening. Many central banks both advanced and emerging have this kind of set up with varying widths of the corridor between lending (high) and deposit (low),” said Guinigundo.
Both Tetangco and Guinigundo noted that setting up an interest rate corridor as an approach supportive of the rationalization of SDA pricing and access, is a practice that is consistent with the global central banking trends. The BSP has already sought the assistance of the International Monetary Fund to further study the proposed liquidity facility.
The central bank has introduced changes to the SDAs which basically is a facility that allows the BSP to accept deposits from banks. SDA facility consists of fixed-term deposits by banks and trust entities which has enabled the BSP since 1998 to manage excess liquidity in the financial system due to strong foreign exchange inflows.
The government, particularly the Department of Finance, has been trying to find ways to lure these funds from SDAs and diverted into economic-enhancing projects such as infrastructure development as well as more lending funds for productive activities.
In the last six years with the global financial upheaval, more banks parked bulk of their investible funds in the interest-bearing and safe SDAs. From deposits of only R51 billion in 2006, funds in SDAs ballooned to R400 billion at the height of the 2008 US-led financial crisis and crossed the R1 trillion mark by 2010.
In July last year, the BSP has banned foreign banks from investing in SDAs in a bid to reduce placements with the BSP.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation. In January, SDA rates were also reduced to three percent. Previously, the SDA rate was priced at a premium over the policy rate. Still, as of the end of January this year, SDAs have reached R1.The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking.8 trillion even with the lowering of rates and prohibition of non-residents from placing their funds in the facility.
Tetangco said there is still room to refine the SDA operations. “We limited the SDA to the domestic market so that the SDA would cease to be an investment outlet for foreign funds, and revert to its primary purpose of being an instrument of managing domestic liquidity. We followed this up with rationalized pricing, bringing rates we pay on SDA across the board to three percent.”
But more importantly, he said rationalizing the pricing on the SDA was really a move to “align the operation of this deposit facility with how other central banks operate similar deposit facilities.”
“In several jurisdictions, the central bank deposit rates are set lower than the policy borrowing rate,” he said. “Rationalizing the SDA pricing can also be seen as an intermediate step towards developing an interest rate corridor.”
The lending facility -- through the BSP’s repurchase agreements -- ensures market liquidity with the regulator buying back government securities from financial institutions, central bank Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo told BusinessWorld.
The SDA, meanwhile, acts as a deposit facility, providing banks with an outlet for surplus funds and allowing the BSP another means of mopping up excess liquidity.
"In between,We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India. the central bank would normally position the policy rate to send the signal about the stance of monetary policy, whether it is biased towards easing or tightening," Mr. Guinigundo explained.
Monetary authorities typically use the overnight borrowing and lending rates as the basis for easing and tightening money supply. In an interest rate corridor, they will be able adjust deposits and lending without constantly shifting monetary policy.
"A central bank can have the flexibility of varying the width of the corridor or the spread around the policy rate. Or it can move the policy rate depending on the conditions," Mr. Guinigundo said.
Last month’s SDA rate cut to 3% applied to all tenors -- seven days, 14 days and one month. The rates had previously been set at a slight premium above the 3.5% overnight borrowing rate. It followed a 2012 move to limit access to the SDA facility to residents, reverting it to the purpose of managing domestic liquidity.
Rishies given a scare before last-gasp rescue
Rishworthians played their “get out of jail” card to win with the
last move of the game after it looked like they had just thrown it away.
After seeming in control of this Yorkshire Three match the league leaders allowed themselves to be drawn into a forwards battle and almost paid the price.
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At 16-16 with five minutes to go, a fired-up Thorne side grabbed what looked like the winning try with an interception and touch down by the posts. Surprisingly the conversion attempt hit the upright.
The visitors then tried to run the clock down with a number of forward drives, but with 30 seconds to go Rishworthians got a penalty deep in their own half.
They had to run it.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. First flanker Chris Dyson made a strong break in the centre, before the ball went wide to replacement right wing Joe Billing.
He put in the telling run before being stopped 10 metres out. He got the ball inside to No 8 James Clarke, whose quick pass put player-coach Damian Ball in under the posts to level the scores.
Fullback Aaron Canning’s conversion was a formality to win the game with the final whistle going immediately afterwards.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation.
Thornensians, who are among the group of clubs battling for the second promotion spot had proved strong opponents, and although Ball was not happy with the way his team had played, was full of praise for the way they finished.
“It just shows you can’t write us off. We play 80 minutes right up to the final whistle, but this was very close,” he said.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories!
Rishworthians had opened the game well putting the visitors under constant pressure, but suddenly found themselves behind when a chip kick over the backs caught them leaden-footed and the Thorne fullback raced through to gather and touch down under the posts for a converted try.
The home team came back strongly and Canning pulled back three points with a penalty.
They took control and were soon in front. First Dyson, then Canning went close,The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking. before play was switched and lock Fraser Swarbrooke put stand-off Luke Flanagan in for a try. Canning converted and then added another penalty, before the visitors replied with a penalty of their own to end the half 13-10 in Rishworthians favour.
They started the second half well and a catch and drive from a lineout ended in a mass of players over the line, but the try was not given.
Canning increased the lead with a penalty, but then the visitors hit back and brought the scores level with two penalties of their own.
As time began to run out a draw looked the most likely result. Canning had what looked like a chance to win it but hit the upright with a penalty attempt for the second time in the match.
Hours after USA Today obtained the first draft of President Obama's immigration reform plan, the office of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) put out a press release signaling the lawmaker's strong opposition.
“It’s a mistake for the White House to draft immigration legislation without seeking input from Republican members of Congress," the statement begins, before going on to call the bill "half-baked and seriously flawed" and declaring that "if actually proposed, the President’s bill would be dead on arrival in Congress."
Specifically, Rubio's statement criticizes the Obama bill for not being tough enough on border security and for failing to reward "those who chose to do things the right way and come here legally" over "those who broke our immigration laws.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India."
The president's plan would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain legal permanent residency within eight years, among other provisions.
Until recently, Rubio has not shown much interest in immigration reform. But in the last few months he has cast himself as a leader on the issue, seen as a crucial one for Republicans after their poor showing with Latinos in the 2012 elections. He has won over many conservatives with his own plan, which calls for tighter border and workplace security measures, as well as a long path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
After seeming in control of this Yorkshire Three match the league leaders allowed themselves to be drawn into a forwards battle and almost paid the price.
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At 16-16 with five minutes to go, a fired-up Thorne side grabbed what looked like the winning try with an interception and touch down by the posts. Surprisingly the conversion attempt hit the upright.
The visitors then tried to run the clock down with a number of forward drives, but with 30 seconds to go Rishworthians got a penalty deep in their own half.
They had to run it.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard ultrasonic sensor and controllers. First flanker Chris Dyson made a strong break in the centre, before the ball went wide to replacement right wing Joe Billing.
He put in the telling run before being stopped 10 metres out. He got the ball inside to No 8 James Clarke, whose quick pass put player-coach Damian Ball in under the posts to level the scores.
Fullback Aaron Canning’s conversion was a formality to win the game with the final whistle going immediately afterwards.The 3rd International Conference on indoor positioning system and Indoor Navigation.
Thornensians, who are among the group of clubs battling for the second promotion spot had proved strong opponents, and although Ball was not happy with the way his team had played, was full of praise for the way they finished.
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Rishworthians had opened the game well putting the visitors under constant pressure, but suddenly found themselves behind when a chip kick over the backs caught them leaden-footed and the Thorne fullback raced through to gather and touch down under the posts for a converted try.
The home team came back strongly and Canning pulled back three points with a penalty.
They took control and were soon in front. First Dyson, then Canning went close,The Wagan Wireless Rear Parking assist system help you be safe while parking. before play was switched and lock Fraser Swarbrooke put stand-off Luke Flanagan in for a try. Canning converted and then added another penalty, before the visitors replied with a penalty of their own to end the half 13-10 in Rishworthians favour.
They started the second half well and a catch and drive from a lineout ended in a mass of players over the line, but the try was not given.
Canning increased the lead with a penalty, but then the visitors hit back and brought the scores level with two penalties of their own.
As time began to run out a draw looked the most likely result. Canning had what looked like a chance to win it but hit the upright with a penalty attempt for the second time in the match.
Hours after USA Today obtained the first draft of President Obama's immigration reform plan, the office of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) put out a press release signaling the lawmaker's strong opposition.
“It’s a mistake for the White House to draft immigration legislation without seeking input from Republican members of Congress," the statement begins, before going on to call the bill "half-baked and seriously flawed" and declaring that "if actually proposed, the President’s bill would be dead on arrival in Congress."
Specifically, Rubio's statement criticizes the Obama bill for not being tough enough on border security and for failing to reward "those who chose to do things the right way and come here legally" over "those who broke our immigration laws.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India."
The president's plan would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain legal permanent residency within eight years, among other provisions.
Until recently, Rubio has not shown much interest in immigration reform. But in the last few months he has cast himself as a leader on the issue, seen as a crucial one for Republicans after their poor showing with Latinos in the 2012 elections. He has won over many conservatives with his own plan, which calls for tighter border and workplace security measures, as well as a long path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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Benefits of public preschool
While the U.S. used to be the world leader for education, according
to a 2012 report from Pearson, we are now ranked 17th, passed by Hong
Kong, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Poland, among
others. Finland took the top spot. While there is no silver bullet to
reclaiming our place as the top educator in the world, we cannot hope to
make it back to the top without starting early.
The HighScope Perry Preschool Study, which followed participants for almost 40 years, found that those who were enrolled in a quality preschool program were more likely to graduate high school, own homes, stay married longer, and have higher incomes later in life. And the HighScope Perry Preschool Study is not the only one to give similar results. The Carolina Abecedarian Project studied children from low-income families and placed them in full-day, high-quality educational settings from infancy through age five. The Abecedarian Project participants, at age 30, had significantly more education than those in a control group and were four-times more likely to have earned a college degree. Participants in the early education group also were more likely to be employed, less likely to have used public-assistance, and not have children as young as those in the control group.
Both of these studies, as well as others have found that the long-term benefits of preschool may well be increased social responsibility, but the positive social results could be argued to be greater than higher test standardized test scores.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . Few arrests, means less money spend on law enforcement and incarceration, and having fewer people need public-assistance also helps reduce the financial burden on the general public. Longer marriages mean more children growing up in two-parent homes, which has been shown to have numerous benefits in the long term.
Research shows a high return on investment for money spent on early childhood development. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that the internal real rate of return for the High Scope Perry project was 16%, stating that 80% of the benefits from early childhood education in this study went to the general public. The bank then goes on to challenge government officials to find other publically funded projects that have as high as a rate on return.
According to the National Institute of Early Education Research, during the 2010-2011 school year, the national average for public preschool attendance among four-year-olds was 28%. Many states that offer some form of public preschool have done so only for disadvantaged families, which is the same goal as what President Obama has proposed. While only 28% of four-year-olds may have been enrolled in a publically funded preschool during the 2010-2011 school year that number is double what is was in 2002.
Five states go further with a goal of enrolling every four-year-old in preschool. Georgia and Oklahoma were the first states to offer universal preschool, and are among the top states with regard to attendance. In 2002, Florida passed legislation making it mandatory for every four-year-old to have access to publically funded preschool (the program did not begin until 2005), and while attendance is voluntary, as of the 2010-2011 school year, Florida had the large attendance rate for preschool in the nation,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! with 76% of all four-year-olds attending a publically funded program.
There are a wide range of programs across the country for preschool, and while the extent to which public funding is available for early childhood education varies, only 11 states do not have a state-funded preschool program. It is interesting to note that of those 11 states, five of them were in the bottom 20% of Education Week’s annual State Report Card grades. And while not having a publically funded preschool program does not preclude a state’s education system from scoring higher (Hawaii was 16th out of 51) the two factors combined may show and overall attitude regarding the importance of education in some states.
The call and push for publically funded preschools is not just a liberal spending idea either. Alabama’s republican governor, Robert Bentley is the latest to join in the call, joining other traditionally red states, including Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma, that have already made universal publically funded preschool part of their educational system.
Private preschools can be expensive.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, While cost can vary greatly upon location, parent can expect to pay a couple of hundred dollars a month at minimum, and that may only be for a half-day program two or three days a week. Full-week programs can cost much more, and full-day full-week programs can run thousands of dollars a year. There are even private preschools whose annual tuition is as much as some colleges’.
Since the President’s proposed plan would make publically funded preschools available to low to moderate income family, there would be little need for change in many states. Those 11 states that have no public program now would see the largest change, and potentially reap the greatest benefit.
So why would she be interested in a money makeover? Because Peta and husband William Bowden have a $700,000 mortgage on their home worth about $1.6 million. It boasts a granny flat and is in a prime location in Sydney's inner west.
It also turns out they don't have much super - about $60,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.000 each - but want to retire in 13 years when both turn 60.
Peta runs a thriving graphic design business that employs four others. She got her start designing business cards 20 years ago. She jokes: ''If I could retire tomorrow, I'd push all my equipment out with a sign saying, 'Free to a good home.'''
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Will is a mastering engineer in music; in fact, he just won a Grammy Award for record of the year with Gotye.
Peta and Will love travelling and are pondering retiring to France.
As Peta says, ''We could buy a house there one day but the trouble is what would you then live on? But I don't think we can afford to retire in Australia when we want to travel a lot.''
Peta wants to know whether they should sell their home and buy something cheaper further out or in the country.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.
The HighScope Perry Preschool Study, which followed participants for almost 40 years, found that those who were enrolled in a quality preschool program were more likely to graduate high school, own homes, stay married longer, and have higher incomes later in life. And the HighScope Perry Preschool Study is not the only one to give similar results. The Carolina Abecedarian Project studied children from low-income families and placed them in full-day, high-quality educational settings from infancy through age five. The Abecedarian Project participants, at age 30, had significantly more education than those in a control group and were four-times more likely to have earned a college degree. Participants in the early education group also were more likely to be employed, less likely to have used public-assistance, and not have children as young as those in the control group.
Both of these studies, as well as others have found that the long-term benefits of preschool may well be increased social responsibility, but the positive social results could be argued to be greater than higher test standardized test scores.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . Few arrests, means less money spend on law enforcement and incarceration, and having fewer people need public-assistance also helps reduce the financial burden on the general public. Longer marriages mean more children growing up in two-parent homes, which has been shown to have numerous benefits in the long term.
Research shows a high return on investment for money spent on early childhood development. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that the internal real rate of return for the High Scope Perry project was 16%, stating that 80% of the benefits from early childhood education in this study went to the general public. The bank then goes on to challenge government officials to find other publically funded projects that have as high as a rate on return.
According to the National Institute of Early Education Research, during the 2010-2011 school year, the national average for public preschool attendance among four-year-olds was 28%. Many states that offer some form of public preschool have done so only for disadvantaged families, which is the same goal as what President Obama has proposed. While only 28% of four-year-olds may have been enrolled in a publically funded preschool during the 2010-2011 school year that number is double what is was in 2002.
Five states go further with a goal of enrolling every four-year-old in preschool. Georgia and Oklahoma were the first states to offer universal preschool, and are among the top states with regard to attendance. In 2002, Florida passed legislation making it mandatory for every four-year-old to have access to publically funded preschool (the program did not begin until 2005), and while attendance is voluntary, as of the 2010-2011 school year, Florida had the large attendance rate for preschool in the nation,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! with 76% of all four-year-olds attending a publically funded program.
There are a wide range of programs across the country for preschool, and while the extent to which public funding is available for early childhood education varies, only 11 states do not have a state-funded preschool program. It is interesting to note that of those 11 states, five of them were in the bottom 20% of Education Week’s annual State Report Card grades. And while not having a publically funded preschool program does not preclude a state’s education system from scoring higher (Hawaii was 16th out of 51) the two factors combined may show and overall attitude regarding the importance of education in some states.
The call and push for publically funded preschools is not just a liberal spending idea either. Alabama’s republican governor, Robert Bentley is the latest to join in the call, joining other traditionally red states, including Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma, that have already made universal publically funded preschool part of their educational system.
Private preschools can be expensive.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, While cost can vary greatly upon location, parent can expect to pay a couple of hundred dollars a month at minimum, and that may only be for a half-day program two or three days a week. Full-week programs can cost much more, and full-day full-week programs can run thousands of dollars a year. There are even private preschools whose annual tuition is as much as some colleges’.
Since the President’s proposed plan would make publically funded preschools available to low to moderate income family, there would be little need for change in many states. Those 11 states that have no public program now would see the largest change, and potentially reap the greatest benefit.
So why would she be interested in a money makeover? Because Peta and husband William Bowden have a $700,000 mortgage on their home worth about $1.6 million. It boasts a granny flat and is in a prime location in Sydney's inner west.
It also turns out they don't have much super - about $60,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.000 each - but want to retire in 13 years when both turn 60.
Peta runs a thriving graphic design business that employs four others. She got her start designing business cards 20 years ago. She jokes: ''If I could retire tomorrow, I'd push all my equipment out with a sign saying, 'Free to a good home.'''
Advertisement
Will is a mastering engineer in music; in fact, he just won a Grammy Award for record of the year with Gotye.
Peta and Will love travelling and are pondering retiring to France.
As Peta says, ''We could buy a house there one day but the trouble is what would you then live on? But I don't think we can afford to retire in Australia when we want to travel a lot.''
Peta wants to know whether they should sell their home and buy something cheaper further out or in the country.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.
Modi & his muses
Looking back, one recalled that the same Hébuterne had met a tragic
end on January 26, 1920 when she had thrown herself out of a window in
Paris and fallen down from the fifth floor killing herself and her
unborn child; she was barely 21. A night before her suicide, Jeanne’s
lover and partner, Modigliani (nickname ‘Modi’) had died of
tuberculosis. The maverick painter and sculptor whose posthumous legend
became almost as famous as Vincent van Gogh’s, was 36.
Modigliani’s life — as pointed out by art historians and biographers — was marked not only by precocious talent but also debauchery, arrogant conduct, relentless drunkenness and violent public hostility. Life with Modi was not easy for the young, beautiful and serene Jeanne who had to bear his abuses. He promised to marry her but never did; he carried on liaison with other women quite openly. None of these had, however, stopped Jeanne from loving him. On his part, Modigliani painted a number of portraits of Jeanne which, according to critics, are among his most refined and accomplished works.
It was during the Carnival of 1917 that Modigliani had met Jeanne, then a 19-year-old student from the Academie Colarossi. Despite her conventional upbringing and defying family’s protestations, she started living with him; and remained his constant companion till his death. In November 1918, she gave birth to his daughter.
Modigliani’s creative faculties and artistic output came to be well recognised during his lifetime. His relatively short working life was enriched by associations with Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and sculptor Constantin Brancusi who encouraged him to carve directly in stone. Sadly, excessive use of substances and increased public misdeeds took a deathly hold of his life and isolated him from others.
Modigliani’s final days were pathetic. When the doctor saw him on his bed amidst empty bottles and half-opened cans of sardines, he declared the case as hopeless.
Jeanne’s funeral was simple and quiet; a few family members and friends were in attendance on a cold, gray sky in a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. Contrastingly, Modigliani’s last march was a public and princely affair with a large crowd of artists and friends following the hearse. He was buried among the cultural elite in the celebrity cemetery.
A handsome and attractive man, Modigliani could lure women easily and had many affairs during his short life. Before he met Jeanne, he had serious relationship with two women: Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova from 1907-14, and English poetess Beatrice Hastings from 1914-16. Both of them figured in his paintings repeatedly.
Anna was a charismatic beauty with elongated,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, sensual body. She not only struck a unique chord with Modigliani but even influenced the course of his art. She was portrayed by him in at least 20 paintings, including several nudes. In her memoirs, Anna recalled how poor and lonely Modigliani was, and how in the Jardin du Luxembourg they sat on a bench and not, as was usual, on chairs since one had to pay for them. “He complained neither about his poverty nor about the lack of recognition, both of which were clearly apparent. I never heard him mention the name of an acquaintance or a friend, and I never heard him joke. It astonished me that Modigliani could find ugly people beautiful and stick by this opinion. I thought even then that he clearly saw the world through different eyes to ours.” Anna said that Modigliani was unlike anyone in the world: “He had the head of Antinoos, and in his eyes was a golden gleam. I shall never forget his voice.”
In contrast to Anna,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. the South African born British poet and critic Beatrice Hastings was a fiery character. Arrogant and proud, she formed a tempestuous and turbulent relationship with Modigliani, which was boosted by alcohol and hashish. For her, Modigliani was “a complex character; a swine and a pearl.” She recalled their meeting in 1914 at a crémerie. “I sat opposite him. Hashish and brandy. Not at all impressed. Didn’t know who he was. He looked ugly, ferocious and greedy. Met him again at the Café Rotonde. He was shaved and charming.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Raised his cap with a pretty gesture, blushed and asked me to come and see his work. And I went. He had no respect for anyone except Picasso and Max Jacob.”
The relationship between Hastings and Modigliani came apart violently. Hastings later on became a cancer patient and eventually killed herself with gas from a domestic cooker in 1943.
Jeanne Hébuterne’s short life had its own artistic side but it was only in October 2000 — 80 years after her death — that her paintings came to be shown in public for the first time ever. Critics saw Modigliani’s influence on her works, but appreciated her identity as an artist in her own right.
Modigliani’s popularity soared after his death.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . His exhibitions draw massive crowds and his paintings have commanded astronomical prices at auctions. “The art audience loves a miserable loser who, after death, succeeds in a big way,” wrote Robert Hughes in Time Magazine in 2004. “The last Modigliani retrospective held in New York was in 1951 at the Museum of Modern Art, and clearly the appetite for him has grown since then.”
In May 2010, Modigliani’s Jeanne Hébuterne au collier (1916 - 17) was sold for $13.80 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York. Months later, in November 2010, his Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) created a record at another Sotheby’s auction when it got a whopping $69 million.
Modigliani’s life — as pointed out by art historians and biographers — was marked not only by precocious talent but also debauchery, arrogant conduct, relentless drunkenness and violent public hostility. Life with Modi was not easy for the young, beautiful and serene Jeanne who had to bear his abuses. He promised to marry her but never did; he carried on liaison with other women quite openly. None of these had, however, stopped Jeanne from loving him. On his part, Modigliani painted a number of portraits of Jeanne which, according to critics, are among his most refined and accomplished works.
It was during the Carnival of 1917 that Modigliani had met Jeanne, then a 19-year-old student from the Academie Colarossi. Despite her conventional upbringing and defying family’s protestations, she started living with him; and remained his constant companion till his death. In November 1918, she gave birth to his daughter.
Modigliani’s creative faculties and artistic output came to be well recognised during his lifetime. His relatively short working life was enriched by associations with Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and sculptor Constantin Brancusi who encouraged him to carve directly in stone. Sadly, excessive use of substances and increased public misdeeds took a deathly hold of his life and isolated him from others.
Modigliani’s final days were pathetic. When the doctor saw him on his bed amidst empty bottles and half-opened cans of sardines, he declared the case as hopeless.
Jeanne’s funeral was simple and quiet; a few family members and friends were in attendance on a cold, gray sky in a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. Contrastingly, Modigliani’s last march was a public and princely affair with a large crowd of artists and friends following the hearse. He was buried among the cultural elite in the celebrity cemetery.
A handsome and attractive man, Modigliani could lure women easily and had many affairs during his short life. Before he met Jeanne, he had serious relationship with two women: Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova from 1907-14, and English poetess Beatrice Hastings from 1914-16. Both of them figured in his paintings repeatedly.
Anna was a charismatic beauty with elongated,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, sensual body. She not only struck a unique chord with Modigliani but even influenced the course of his art. She was portrayed by him in at least 20 paintings, including several nudes. In her memoirs, Anna recalled how poor and lonely Modigliani was, and how in the Jardin du Luxembourg they sat on a bench and not, as was usual, on chairs since one had to pay for them. “He complained neither about his poverty nor about the lack of recognition, both of which were clearly apparent. I never heard him mention the name of an acquaintance or a friend, and I never heard him joke. It astonished me that Modigliani could find ugly people beautiful and stick by this opinion. I thought even then that he clearly saw the world through different eyes to ours.” Anna said that Modigliani was unlike anyone in the world: “He had the head of Antinoos, and in his eyes was a golden gleam. I shall never forget his voice.”
In contrast to Anna,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. the South African born British poet and critic Beatrice Hastings was a fiery character. Arrogant and proud, she formed a tempestuous and turbulent relationship with Modigliani, which was boosted by alcohol and hashish. For her, Modigliani was “a complex character; a swine and a pearl.” She recalled their meeting in 1914 at a crémerie. “I sat opposite him. Hashish and brandy. Not at all impressed. Didn’t know who he was. He looked ugly, ferocious and greedy. Met him again at the Café Rotonde. He was shaved and charming.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Raised his cap with a pretty gesture, blushed and asked me to come and see his work. And I went. He had no respect for anyone except Picasso and Max Jacob.”
The relationship between Hastings and Modigliani came apart violently. Hastings later on became a cancer patient and eventually killed herself with gas from a domestic cooker in 1943.
Jeanne Hébuterne’s short life had its own artistic side but it was only in October 2000 — 80 years after her death — that her paintings came to be shown in public for the first time ever. Critics saw Modigliani’s influence on her works, but appreciated her identity as an artist in her own right.
Modigliani’s popularity soared after his death.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . His exhibitions draw massive crowds and his paintings have commanded astronomical prices at auctions. “The art audience loves a miserable loser who, after death, succeeds in a big way,” wrote Robert Hughes in Time Magazine in 2004. “The last Modigliani retrospective held in New York was in 1951 at the Museum of Modern Art, and clearly the appetite for him has grown since then.”
In May 2010, Modigliani’s Jeanne Hébuterne au collier (1916 - 17) was sold for $13.80 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York. Months later, in November 2010, his Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) created a record at another Sotheby’s auction when it got a whopping $69 million.
PSU preschool teaches kids and college students
The entire Pittsburg State University campus is available for use by
the Early Childhood Development program as both preschoolers and college
students learn.
The university offers a preschool for children in the community, and it is there that college students put their learning into practice as the teachers of preschool students. This all occurs under the direction of lead preschool teacher Kari Cronister and assistant professor Amber Tankersley.
Tankersley is the director of the preschool lab, and said the setting gives student teachers the opportunity to practice and test teaching methods.
“They’re responsible for planning a portion of the time they’re in there,” Tankersley said. “As long as they’re targeting different learning domains, they’re pretty much free to design whatever curriculum.”
She said the key is to follow developmentally appropriate curriculum, but the specifics are left up to each student teacher. The college students’ selections mean each unit of each semester turns out differently.
Cronister said the college students’ creativity knows no bounds, and units on space, farm animals, oceans, jungles and around the world have been taught.
“It’s really great when they pick units that we can use part of the campus for,” Cronister said, citing the incorporation of the planetarium into the space-themed unit, or the obvious jungle connections.
The college students also learn, and Tankersley said each student’s turn leading also teaches management skills as they collaborate with others in the class.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!
“Managing adults is a lot harder than managing children,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal,” she said. “It gives you good teamworking skills.”
Cronister said the experience of working in the preschool as a Pitt State student prepared her well.
“They really prepared you,” Cronister said. “It was a lot of hard work.”
But, she said it helped when she and her mom owned a home daycare.
Caitlin Ralstin is a Pitt State student working at the preschool and agreed that the hands-on experience helps.
“It is definitely a great learning experience,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot, and definitely a lot about rules and regulations.
“It definitely put what we learned in Amber’s (Tankersley) classes into real life.”
Ralstin said she began college as a physical therapy major, but working in the daycare at the YMCA helped to develop her interest in working with children.
Now, as a student working in the preschool, Ralston had the opportunity to get involved with organizations for those working with young children and said she has learned that careers in the field can range from having a home daycare to directing children’s programming on a Disney cruise or at a resort location.
The high cost of entry struck Kyle Azevedo and three classmates at Atlanta's Georgia Tech University as an opportunity. "When we looked at the options for implementing a program in Atlanta," he says, "they were completely ridiculous--$5,000 per bike, with permanent stations that had to be trucked to each location and installed. Getting funding and all the right permits would have been a nightmare. Being mechanical engineers,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. we thought there had to be a better way, and we set out to design the world's first GPS-enabled, stationless bike-share system."
Azevedo is now CEO of the resulting company, viaCycle. "Once we started, we realized that cities and campuses around the world were overpaying for clunky systems that were expensive to set up and maintain," he says.
Azevedo and his team spent 2010 sourcing equipment and perfecting a mobile app; in 2011 they cranked out their first bikes on the Georgia Tech campus. He says the advantage viaCycle gives customers is convenience: no kiosks or docking stations, no fussy returns. Bikes are kept at standard bike racks, locked with viaCycle's proprietary security chain mechanism.
When registered customers need wheels, the app points them to the closest bike, which they unlock through the app. Once riders reach their destination, they lock the rig to any bike rack. Pricing varies by program; at Georgia Tech, rentals cost 45 cents for 30 minutes or $18 for 24 hours. According to viaCycle, the cost to launch the program is one-third as much as kiosk-based sharing systems. The locking technology can be retrofitted to most bikes.
Because it's portable, the viaCycle system is inherently scalable; the business can travel to areas of demand--such as campuses, sponsored events,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . conventions or resorts--without incurring the costs and permits associated with setting up shop in each location.
Azevedo claims viaCycle has seen growth of more than 30 percent per month in terms of the number of riders using the 40 bikes at Georgia Tech and the 20 that have been placed at George Mason University outside Washington, D.C. The company broke even by the end of 2012 and has plans to expand its fleet this year to 500 bikes in locations such as Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif., and San Francisco's SoMa district.
The university offers a preschool for children in the community, and it is there that college students put their learning into practice as the teachers of preschool students. This all occurs under the direction of lead preschool teacher Kari Cronister and assistant professor Amber Tankersley.
Tankersley is the director of the preschool lab, and said the setting gives student teachers the opportunity to practice and test teaching methods.
“They’re responsible for planning a portion of the time they’re in there,” Tankersley said. “As long as they’re targeting different learning domains, they’re pretty much free to design whatever curriculum.”
She said the key is to follow developmentally appropriate curriculum, but the specifics are left up to each student teacher. The college students’ selections mean each unit of each semester turns out differently.
Cronister said the college students’ creativity knows no bounds, and units on space, farm animals, oceans, jungles and around the world have been taught.
“It’s really great when they pick units that we can use part of the campus for,” Cronister said, citing the incorporation of the planetarium into the space-themed unit, or the obvious jungle connections.
The college students also learn, and Tankersley said each student’s turn leading also teaches management skills as they collaborate with others in the class.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!
“Managing adults is a lot harder than managing children,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal,” she said. “It gives you good teamworking skills.”
Cronister said the experience of working in the preschool as a Pitt State student prepared her well.
“They really prepared you,” Cronister said. “It was a lot of hard work.”
But, she said it helped when she and her mom owned a home daycare.
Caitlin Ralstin is a Pitt State student working at the preschool and agreed that the hands-on experience helps.
“It is definitely a great learning experience,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot, and definitely a lot about rules and regulations.
“It definitely put what we learned in Amber’s (Tankersley) classes into real life.”
Ralstin said she began college as a physical therapy major, but working in the daycare at the YMCA helped to develop her interest in working with children.
Now, as a student working in the preschool, Ralston had the opportunity to get involved with organizations for those working with young children and said she has learned that careers in the field can range from having a home daycare to directing children’s programming on a Disney cruise or at a resort location.
The high cost of entry struck Kyle Azevedo and three classmates at Atlanta's Georgia Tech University as an opportunity. "When we looked at the options for implementing a program in Atlanta," he says, "they were completely ridiculous--$5,000 per bike, with permanent stations that had to be trucked to each location and installed. Getting funding and all the right permits would have been a nightmare. Being mechanical engineers,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. we thought there had to be a better way, and we set out to design the world's first GPS-enabled, stationless bike-share system."
Azevedo is now CEO of the resulting company, viaCycle. "Once we started, we realized that cities and campuses around the world were overpaying for clunky systems that were expensive to set up and maintain," he says.
Azevedo and his team spent 2010 sourcing equipment and perfecting a mobile app; in 2011 they cranked out their first bikes on the Georgia Tech campus. He says the advantage viaCycle gives customers is convenience: no kiosks or docking stations, no fussy returns. Bikes are kept at standard bike racks, locked with viaCycle's proprietary security chain mechanism.
When registered customers need wheels, the app points them to the closest bike, which they unlock through the app. Once riders reach their destination, they lock the rig to any bike rack. Pricing varies by program; at Georgia Tech, rentals cost 45 cents for 30 minutes or $18 for 24 hours. According to viaCycle, the cost to launch the program is one-third as much as kiosk-based sharing systems. The locking technology can be retrofitted to most bikes.
Because it's portable, the viaCycle system is inherently scalable; the business can travel to areas of demand--such as campuses, sponsored events,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . conventions or resorts--without incurring the costs and permits associated with setting up shop in each location.
Azevedo claims viaCycle has seen growth of more than 30 percent per month in terms of the number of riders using the 40 bikes at Georgia Tech and the 20 that have been placed at George Mason University outside Washington, D.C. The company broke even by the end of 2012 and has plans to expand its fleet this year to 500 bikes in locations such as Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif., and San Francisco's SoMa district.
Moving Into The Cloud
Many of us use ‘cloud computing’ every day without even realising it.
Web-based e mail and social media sites such as Facebook and Spotify
all use the technology to store data such as pictures, videos and text
files. But what exactly is ‘the cloud’? Even many people who have heard
of the concept aren’t always sure about what it involves.
Cloud computing relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as “the cloud”) is used as a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase cloud computing actually means “a type of Internet-based computing,” where different services – such as servers, storage and applications – are delivered to an organisation’s computers and devices through the Internet. The files are stored in massive data centres containing hundreds of servers and storage systems that are compatible with nearly all computer software. When you wish to access your information,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . you simply connect to the ‘cloud’ from your PC, smartphone or tablet.
The advantages are numerous. Users for example don’t have to buy or maintain expensive servers and data-storage systems. For corporations, the technology helps them lower their costs by reducing the need for in-house IT support and extra office space.
The European Commission’s Digital Agenda is the EU’s strategy to help digital technologies, including the internet, to deliver sustainable economic growth. The reduction in the cost and complexity of mobile application development using cloud technologies is one of the objectives of the European Commission. The 4.45M Mobicloud project, co-funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (PSP) Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), aims to do just that.
The project’s objective is to stimulate the provision of new mobile services in the cloud and help support the emergence of a European ecosystem of mobile cloud application developers. With MobiCloud, it will become feasible for smaller companies, and not only global enterprise resource planning vendors,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, to quickly develop and market mobile extensions of their existing business applications. The Commission therefore aims to enable and facilitate faster adoption of cloud computing throughout all sectors of the economy. This will have the knock-on effect of cutting ICT costs, and boosting productivity, growth and jobs when combined with new digital business practices.
MobiCloud will become an online technology marketplace where end-users, mobile developers, application vendors,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! system integrators and cloud service providers can collaborate to develop end-to-end solutions with high return on investment (ROI). This collaborative platform will develop, deploy and manage mobile cloud applications for business-critical scenarios such as public transport, field service or construction. Its initial demonstration scenarios focus on industries where collaborative mobile applications can support a more efficient, greener organisation. It provides a composite screen (mobile mash-up) that aggregates data from various corporate IT systems. Depending on context the application displays different services which react in real-time to changes.
Despite its ubiquity, cloud computing is at an early stage. As analyst firm Gartner puts it: “Many factors, including advances in cloud,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. mobile, information and social technologies, change how applications can be built and the value they can deliver to the enterprise. To keep their enterprises competitive, application development leaders must continuously embrace new technologies and disciplines.” Through the Mobicloud project, this is exactly what Europe is doing.
If Magpul Industries follows through on its threat to leave Colorado, it could harm more than a dozen Front Range firms specializing in plastic injection molding and reduce the region's capacity in that manufacturing process.
The Erie company, which makes weapons components and high-capacity ammunition magazines, has threatened to leave if the state bans individuals from owning magazines with more than 15 rounds.
"It is an if/then statement at this point. We don't have a choice," said Duane Liptak, the company's director of product management and marketing.
Magpul employs 200 people directly, ranging from basic assembly workers to product designers and other professionals specializing in weapons-related components, Liptak said.
As much as possible, the company tries to contract with Colorado vendors, who represent about 90 percent of its supply chain,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. he said. Those suppliers received about $46 million last year from Magpul, with the company projecting that number to reach $85 million for 2013, Liptak said.
A large share of those dollars goes to manufacturers that mold the company's mostly plastic components, including the controversial cases that can hold more than 15 rounds.
North Denver's Alfred Manufacturing Co. has grown from 40 employees in 2008 to 150 largely because of the work provided by Magpul, said the company's third-generation chief executive, Greg Alfred.
Cloud computing relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as “the cloud”) is used as a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase cloud computing actually means “a type of Internet-based computing,” where different services – such as servers, storage and applications – are delivered to an organisation’s computers and devices through the Internet. The files are stored in massive data centres containing hundreds of servers and storage systems that are compatible with nearly all computer software. When you wish to access your information,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . you simply connect to the ‘cloud’ from your PC, smartphone or tablet.
The advantages are numerous. Users for example don’t have to buy or maintain expensive servers and data-storage systems. For corporations, the technology helps them lower their costs by reducing the need for in-house IT support and extra office space.
The European Commission’s Digital Agenda is the EU’s strategy to help digital technologies, including the internet, to deliver sustainable economic growth. The reduction in the cost and complexity of mobile application development using cloud technologies is one of the objectives of the European Commission. The 4.45M Mobicloud project, co-funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (PSP) Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), aims to do just that.
The project’s objective is to stimulate the provision of new mobile services in the cloud and help support the emergence of a European ecosystem of mobile cloud application developers. With MobiCloud, it will become feasible for smaller companies, and not only global enterprise resource planning vendors,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, to quickly develop and market mobile extensions of their existing business applications. The Commission therefore aims to enable and facilitate faster adoption of cloud computing throughout all sectors of the economy. This will have the knock-on effect of cutting ICT costs, and boosting productivity, growth and jobs when combined with new digital business practices.
MobiCloud will become an online technology marketplace where end-users, mobile developers, application vendors,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! system integrators and cloud service providers can collaborate to develop end-to-end solutions with high return on investment (ROI). This collaborative platform will develop, deploy and manage mobile cloud applications for business-critical scenarios such as public transport, field service or construction. Its initial demonstration scenarios focus on industries where collaborative mobile applications can support a more efficient, greener organisation. It provides a composite screen (mobile mash-up) that aggregates data from various corporate IT systems. Depending on context the application displays different services which react in real-time to changes.
Despite its ubiquity, cloud computing is at an early stage. As analyst firm Gartner puts it: “Many factors, including advances in cloud,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. mobile, information and social technologies, change how applications can be built and the value they can deliver to the enterprise. To keep their enterprises competitive, application development leaders must continuously embrace new technologies and disciplines.” Through the Mobicloud project, this is exactly what Europe is doing.
If Magpul Industries follows through on its threat to leave Colorado, it could harm more than a dozen Front Range firms specializing in plastic injection molding and reduce the region's capacity in that manufacturing process.
The Erie company, which makes weapons components and high-capacity ammunition magazines, has threatened to leave if the state bans individuals from owning magazines with more than 15 rounds.
"It is an if/then statement at this point. We don't have a choice," said Duane Liptak, the company's director of product management and marketing.
Magpul employs 200 people directly, ranging from basic assembly workers to product designers and other professionals specializing in weapons-related components, Liptak said.
As much as possible, the company tries to contract with Colorado vendors, who represent about 90 percent of its supply chain,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. he said. Those suppliers received about $46 million last year from Magpul, with the company projecting that number to reach $85 million for 2013, Liptak said.
A large share of those dollars goes to manufacturers that mold the company's mostly plastic components, including the controversial cases that can hold more than 15 rounds.
North Denver's Alfred Manufacturing Co. has grown from 40 employees in 2008 to 150 largely because of the work provided by Magpul, said the company's third-generation chief executive, Greg Alfred.
2013年2月5日星期二
Coliseum renovation clicking along
Progress is being made on the $4.5 million Coliseum renovation
project, and Phase 2 will begin on schedule the week of March 18, City
Manager Scott Shumard told the council Monday night.
Also Monday, council members OK'd the purchase of a $54,082 security system for the 80-year-old building. Certain doors will have a card reader instead of a key, and a keypad will be used in the armory, where the Police Department weapons are stored, which will track who comes in and out,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Shumard said.
A drop ceiling is being installed in certain areas now, and the new geothermal system will be tested this week. Last week, bathroom floors and tiles were laid; carpeting goes in in 2 weeks.
The council also approved a $75,345 change order to cover expenses for a number of minor issues discovered during renovation, the most significant of which was a lack of insulation, Shumard said.
"We have found no insulation in any part of the building that has been remodeled,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!" Shumard wrote in a memo to the council. "There were areas above drop and plaster ceilings that had no insulation above them nor against the exterior walls."
Phase 2 will begin the week of March 18 and will include renovating the west half of the first floor and the south half of the basement, which is now the City Clerk's office and part of the Police Department, he said.
That entire area will become part of the Police Department. The mayor and city manager's area and the women's restroom will be combined to become the new council chambers, while the existing code enforcement department will become a couple of conference rooms, Shumard said.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Geoscience Australia has released a new multibeam bathymetry dataset that provides improved understanding about the topography and nature of the seafloor of offshore Australia, an area which for the most part remains poorly mapped.
The 50m Multibeam Dataset of Australia 2012 is a tiled compilation of the entire multibeam dataset held by Geoscience Australia, including all data lying within the outer edge of the offshore area of Australia, as well as some data in international waters, as at August 2012.
“As national co-custodian of this extensive multibeam dataset, we hope this new accessibility will facilitate the use of bathymetry data in the wider mapping community,” said Dr Bruce Goleby, Group Leader of Innovation and Specialists Services at Geoscience Australia.
Bathymetry is the measurement or mapping of seafloor topography.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. One of the most accurate ways of collecting bathymetry data is through the use of multibeam echosounders which are acoustic ship-borne instruments designed to map the ocean floor.
The newly released dataset includes the multibeam data collected by the Australian Government, in addition to the numerous datasets that have been submitted from other institutions in the international scientific community, and that lie within and around Australian waters.
“The data has also been gridded to a resolution of 50 metres, which means in the areas where data is available, it can now been seen in more detail than the previous Bathymetric Grid of Australia released in 2009,” Dr Goleby said.
The dataset is available to download as individual tiles from the Geoscience Australia website, or the entire 50m Multibeam Dataset of Australia 2012 can be purchased for the cost of transfer from the Geoscience Australia Sales Centre.
Interface's "Reconnect Your Space" competition invites architects, designers and students of these disciplines to submit their visions for how biophilia can influence the design of a new or existing space, either inside within built environments or outside in cities. One winning submission will be selected as the most unique, inspiring and purposeful way of reconnecting this space with nature. "Reconnect Your Space" is also intended to foster dialogue,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. spark ideas and pique global interest in biophilic design for working, playing and living.
Evidence of biophilic design can be seen in a variety of ways -- from New York's acclaimed High Line linear park built on an historic elevated freight rail line, to the growing popularity of community gardens throughout Sydney, as well as through the ecological approach to building design showcased in Singapore's Solaris high-rise project. Research has shown benefits such as productivity, emotional well-being, stress reduction, learning, healing and environmental protection resulting from biophilic design and humankind's innate psychological and physiological connections with the natural world.
"Biophilic design is 'purpose driven' design that recognizes humanity's strong link with the natural world, which can be utilized for good," said Maria Davlantes, senior vice president and CMO of Interface, Inc. "Our hope is that 'Reconnect Your Space' inspires compelling examples of leading-edge biophilic design. We appreciate the global emergence of this exciting area and how the broader design community and communities at large stand to benefit through its development."
Also Monday, council members OK'd the purchase of a $54,082 security system for the 80-year-old building. Certain doors will have a card reader instead of a key, and a keypad will be used in the armory, where the Police Department weapons are stored, which will track who comes in and out,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Shumard said.
A drop ceiling is being installed in certain areas now, and the new geothermal system will be tested this week. Last week, bathroom floors and tiles were laid; carpeting goes in in 2 weeks.
The council also approved a $75,345 change order to cover expenses for a number of minor issues discovered during renovation, the most significant of which was a lack of insulation, Shumard said.
"We have found no insulation in any part of the building that has been remodeled,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!" Shumard wrote in a memo to the council. "There were areas above drop and plaster ceilings that had no insulation above them nor against the exterior walls."
Phase 2 will begin the week of March 18 and will include renovating the west half of the first floor and the south half of the basement, which is now the City Clerk's office and part of the Police Department, he said.
That entire area will become part of the Police Department. The mayor and city manager's area and the women's restroom will be combined to become the new council chambers, while the existing code enforcement department will become a couple of conference rooms, Shumard said.We are one of the leading manufacturers of solar street light in Chennai India.
Geoscience Australia has released a new multibeam bathymetry dataset that provides improved understanding about the topography and nature of the seafloor of offshore Australia, an area which for the most part remains poorly mapped.
The 50m Multibeam Dataset of Australia 2012 is a tiled compilation of the entire multibeam dataset held by Geoscience Australia, including all data lying within the outer edge of the offshore area of Australia, as well as some data in international waters, as at August 2012.
“As national co-custodian of this extensive multibeam dataset, we hope this new accessibility will facilitate the use of bathymetry data in the wider mapping community,” said Dr Bruce Goleby, Group Leader of Innovation and Specialists Services at Geoscience Australia.
Bathymetry is the measurement or mapping of seafloor topography.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. One of the most accurate ways of collecting bathymetry data is through the use of multibeam echosounders which are acoustic ship-borne instruments designed to map the ocean floor.
The newly released dataset includes the multibeam data collected by the Australian Government, in addition to the numerous datasets that have been submitted from other institutions in the international scientific community, and that lie within and around Australian waters.
“The data has also been gridded to a resolution of 50 metres, which means in the areas where data is available, it can now been seen in more detail than the previous Bathymetric Grid of Australia released in 2009,” Dr Goleby said.
The dataset is available to download as individual tiles from the Geoscience Australia website, or the entire 50m Multibeam Dataset of Australia 2012 can be purchased for the cost of transfer from the Geoscience Australia Sales Centre.
Interface's "Reconnect Your Space" competition invites architects, designers and students of these disciplines to submit their visions for how biophilia can influence the design of a new or existing space, either inside within built environments or outside in cities. One winning submission will be selected as the most unique, inspiring and purposeful way of reconnecting this space with nature. "Reconnect Your Space" is also intended to foster dialogue,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. spark ideas and pique global interest in biophilic design for working, playing and living.
Evidence of biophilic design can be seen in a variety of ways -- from New York's acclaimed High Line linear park built on an historic elevated freight rail line, to the growing popularity of community gardens throughout Sydney, as well as through the ecological approach to building design showcased in Singapore's Solaris high-rise project. Research has shown benefits such as productivity, emotional well-being, stress reduction, learning, healing and environmental protection resulting from biophilic design and humankind's innate psychological and physiological connections with the natural world.
"Biophilic design is 'purpose driven' design that recognizes humanity's strong link with the natural world, which can be utilized for good," said Maria Davlantes, senior vice president and CMO of Interface, Inc. "Our hope is that 'Reconnect Your Space' inspires compelling examples of leading-edge biophilic design. We appreciate the global emergence of this exciting area and how the broader design community and communities at large stand to benefit through its development."
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