Developer Media Molecule has standardized adorable in the high-def
console generation, introducing gamers to Sackboy and friends with the
creation-focused LittleBigPlanet. The UK-based studio's newest
concoction follows a similar strand of cuteness, commanding "awwwwwws"
throughout the demo of Tearaway – Media Molecule's first foray onto the
PlayStation Vita.
Tearaway follows 'The Messenger' – played by
the lovable and customizable male cutout, Iota, or his female paper
counterpart,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?
Atoi – on a quest to deliver a message to the player. As either of the
two characters, you'll explore a wondrous world crafted from colorful
paper and propped up with globs of glue, gusts of wind, and strategic
folds.
At its heart, Tearaway is a 3D platformer. You won't be
developing your own levels or actions in Tearaway, but navigate through
the imagination of the small, roughly fifteen-person team handling the
studio's handheld debut.
The second chapter of Tearaway sends
players to Sogport, a city partially drowned in deep wells of deadly
glue and smeared throughout with the adhesive substance. Stepping into
pits of the bubbling paste will immediately send you back to a recent
checkpoint, but the smeared glue can be used to run across and up walls
to progress through the level or find collectibles.
The
objectives in my demo were a fairly standard 'rush from Point A to Point
B' affair, but the road was littered with loads of interesting critters
and challenges.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card
can authenticate your computer usage and data. Wendigos, which are
behemoth paper-crafted baddies with a playful appearance (seen in the
image below), stalk sections of the chapter, rushing toward you in an
attempt to tear your progress apart. You can roll into a ball to speed
past foes, or play with the world to impede them. You can trick them
into stepping on cage traps, which curl and bend shut over the monsters,
by standing in their eye line or luring them to right spot with pearls
(a monster delicacy). More simply, you can stand near a river of deadly
glue and hop out of the way when the creatures rush toward you.
Levels are developed with what Tearaway's creative lead Rex Crowle called a "papercraft editor." The tools simulate paper.
"All
the flexibility of it and all of the constraints of it. The constraints
of it I find really interesting as well because it forces you to think a
little bit differently. We're not 'whiteboxing' levels and then
saying,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. 'Right. Now apply the paper filter! Now ship it.'"
Originally
the art style was "too neat," Crowle said, and it became obvious the
team had to treat the in-game material the same way it would in the real
world. "It starts to rip, it starts to peel, it starts to bend. That's
where it becomes more interesting to look at."
"It's really
prevented us from falling into the traps of having spike pits and block
platforms. I think the movement and transformation of paper is what's
really driving the gameplay."
The developer plays with the
Vita's features in a number of ways: jump pads appear throughout the
world. They're skinned to look exactly like the handheld's rear touch
panel, thus offering a neat visual cue as to how you activate them.
Illuminated circles in the world pull the camera out and enter "God
Mode," where the player is given the ability to move something in the
world with the touch screen, such as uncurling a small tent and using it
to create a bridge to a new area.
"I particularly wanted to
make something that was really tactile," said Crowle. "Something that
really felt like you were squeezing the world in your fingertips." The
look of the world evolved over time as the small team, focused on
Tearaway, began to compile their collective pitches for what the new IP
could accomplish.
In one prototype level I saw, a large chasm
stood between the player and an exit. With no way to jump across the
deadly pit, gaze turns to the forest landscape behind the player.
Pinching the image allows the world of the painting to come alive,Other
companies want a piece of that iPhone headset
action allowing The Messenger to hop into the newly unfurled world.
Inside this new room, you can pull the exit toward the painting, folding
the world onto itself and closing the gap. Though specific level won't
appear exactly this way later, the 'whitebox' environment was created by
one of the game's leads to show the development team what creativity
the world offered.
Customization will be the only
'user-generated' experience available for players in Tearaway, and Media
Molecule won't ship the game with a suite of level editing tools.
Instead,We've got a plastic card
to suit you. Tearaway will enable you to customize your Messenger –
whose head is shaped like an envelope – and "draw in" pieces of your
live life. One example shown was the game activating the Vita's
front-facing camera to place your face in the game behind a wall of torn
paper.
"There's loads of opportunity throughout the journey to
draw in more about the player's lives through cameras and microphones,"
said Crowle. "Any player will see little glimpses of their own lives
turning up in the game world."
Tearaway also features a
"paper-cutting customization engine," in which you can take a sheet of
paper in the game, draw cuts and make shapes to stick to the messenger's
face. You'll be able to take pictures of real-world textures to apply
it to the character as well, Crowle said.
Some areas will be
presented as a sandbox, allowing you to wander in any direction. Once
you've collected more abilities, you can return to completed sections to
explore areas once out of your reach. One such an ability comes in the
form of an accordion music box, which you can push and pull to interact
with the environment or enemies.
The word here is charming.
Cutscenes in Tearaway, for example, were designed with the world's
texture in mind. Scenes are presented like pages pulled from a pop-up
book, with paper levers that animate pieces of the scene when you tug on
them.
2013年1月31日 星期四
Plant a symbol of storm's power
For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant
where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. She and two
other women rushed into a bathroom stall, she holding one under each arm
as she prayed, a tornado roaring overhead.
On two occasions, tornadoes have ripped through the Daiki Corp. steel manufacturing plant that employs more than 90 people in this small community. Both times, everyone inside escaped serious injury.
The sprawling facility won't be reopening anytime soon after the storm that hit Wednesday, however: Most of it has been reduced to a pile of rubble, little more than mangled beams and twisted steel. The first time,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. in 2002, a tornado tossed the roof into the parking lot. Ventilation fans, ductwork and wiring were torn away.
Three people died because of the massive storm system that marched across the U.S. - tornadoes killed one each in Tennessee and Georgia, while floodwaters killed a third in Maryland. While most came away with their lives, many lost their homes and were left with little else a day later.
Tens of thousands were without power at the storm's peak as a cold front sent what had been unseasonably high temperatures plummeting to near-freezing depths. Dangerous wind blanketed the nation's midsection, with subzero temperatures and wind chills recorded in the Dakotas. In Detroit, icy roads were blamed for a massive chain reaction wreck involving about 30 vehicles on Interstate 75. At least three people died there, and another pileup involving more than 40 vehicles near Indianapolis closed a stretch of Interstate 70 in both directions.
Others closely watched rivers swollen by torrential rains, and officials opened flood gates to ease pressure on dams in Maryland. Hundreds were evacuated to higher ground. In Anne Arundel County, one person apparently drowned in a flooded camp where homeless people live in tents, said police Lt. T.J. Smith.
Ernest Moran said he lives at the site with about 15 other people. He awakened Thursday morning to find "a swamp," he said, and escaped with only his dog and a knapsack.
Near the nation's capital, at least one motorist had to be rescued because of flash floods. In New England, powerful winds were the main problem as gusts topping 60 mph in some areas caused widespread power outages.
The tornadoes Tuesday and Wednesday broke the nation's longest break between tornado fatalities since detailed records began being kept in 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center and National Climatic Data Center. The last one was June 24 in Florida. That was 220 days ago as of Tuesday.
Winter tornadoes are not unheard of: In January 2012, at least two tornadoes ripped across Alabama, killing two people and wiping out scores of homes and businesses.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico can collide with cold air inland, creating the sort of instability that spawned this week's tornadoes.
National Weather Service meteorologist George Wetzel said the storm that tore through Adairsville was a high EF3 in strength, creating winds of more than 100 miles per hour. An EF5 is the strongest tornado category.
The storm traveled 25 miles across Bartow and Gordon counties, and it is not yet clear how long it took for the storm to travel through the area, Wetzel said.
By Thursday, the focus in Adairsville had turned to cleanup and rebuilding. Metal siding and fiberglass insulation dangled from trees; Christmas ornaments and knickknacks were strewn across lawns, the homes that had housed them no longer standing.
Dozens of law enforcement officials from several agencies swarmed the area, as well as other relief workers. A Krystal fast food restaurant in town served meals to rescuers as well as residents struggling to recover.
Daiki plant manager Wes Stephenson said Thursday that the facility would likely have to at least temporarily lay off most of its 90 employees. The storm knocked out most of its manufacturing capability, but there are some sections of the plant still standing where employees could do some finishing work. Stephenson said he hoped to keep a skeleton crew to do that finishing work until the rest of the plant could be repaired, which would likely take at least several months.
Rodey Kirby,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action a production worker, was among those who didn't know if he'd still have a job in the coming days. He was working Wednesday when the lights started flickering, and Stephenson told him and others to run. They took cover in a restroom, and Kirby and two colleagues kneeled and started praying. He heard the unmistakable roar of a tornado; he looked up and saw the ceiling tiles vanish.
Three people died because of the massive storm system that marched across the U.S. — tornadoes killed one each in Tennessee and Georgia, while floodwaters killed a third in Maryland. While most came away with their lives, many lost their homes and were left with little else a day later.
Tens of thousands were without power at the storm's peak as a cold front sent what had been unseasonably high temperatures plummeting to near-freezing depths. Dangerous wind blanketed the nation's midsection, with subzero temperatures and wind chills recorded in the Dakotas. In Detroit, icy roads were blamed for a massive chain reaction wreck involving about 30 vehicles on Interstate 75. At least three people died there, and another pileup involving more than 40 vehicles near Indianapolis closed a stretch of Interstate 70 in both directions.
Others closely watched rivers swollen by torrential rains, and officials opened flood gates to ease pressure on dams in Maryland. Hundreds were evacuated to higher ground. In Anne Arundel County, one person apparently drowned in a flooded camp where homeless people live in tents, said police Lt. T.J. Smith.
Ernest Moran said he lives at the site with about 15 other people.We've got a plastic card to suit you. He awakened Thursday morning to find "a swamp," he said, and escaped with only his dog and a knapsack.
Near the nation's capital,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? at least one motorist had to be rescued because of flash floods. In New England, powerful winds were the main problem as gusts topping 60 mph in some areas caused widespread power outages.
On two occasions, tornadoes have ripped through the Daiki Corp. steel manufacturing plant that employs more than 90 people in this small community. Both times, everyone inside escaped serious injury.
The sprawling facility won't be reopening anytime soon after the storm that hit Wednesday, however: Most of it has been reduced to a pile of rubble, little more than mangled beams and twisted steel. The first time,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. in 2002, a tornado tossed the roof into the parking lot. Ventilation fans, ductwork and wiring were torn away.
Three people died because of the massive storm system that marched across the U.S. - tornadoes killed one each in Tennessee and Georgia, while floodwaters killed a third in Maryland. While most came away with their lives, many lost their homes and were left with little else a day later.
Tens of thousands were without power at the storm's peak as a cold front sent what had been unseasonably high temperatures plummeting to near-freezing depths. Dangerous wind blanketed the nation's midsection, with subzero temperatures and wind chills recorded in the Dakotas. In Detroit, icy roads were blamed for a massive chain reaction wreck involving about 30 vehicles on Interstate 75. At least three people died there, and another pileup involving more than 40 vehicles near Indianapolis closed a stretch of Interstate 70 in both directions.
Others closely watched rivers swollen by torrential rains, and officials opened flood gates to ease pressure on dams in Maryland. Hundreds were evacuated to higher ground. In Anne Arundel County, one person apparently drowned in a flooded camp where homeless people live in tents, said police Lt. T.J. Smith.
Ernest Moran said he lives at the site with about 15 other people. He awakened Thursday morning to find "a swamp," he said, and escaped with only his dog and a knapsack.
Near the nation's capital, at least one motorist had to be rescued because of flash floods. In New England, powerful winds were the main problem as gusts topping 60 mph in some areas caused widespread power outages.
The tornadoes Tuesday and Wednesday broke the nation's longest break between tornado fatalities since detailed records began being kept in 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center and National Climatic Data Center. The last one was June 24 in Florida. That was 220 days ago as of Tuesday.
Winter tornadoes are not unheard of: In January 2012, at least two tornadoes ripped across Alabama, killing two people and wiping out scores of homes and businesses.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico can collide with cold air inland, creating the sort of instability that spawned this week's tornadoes.
National Weather Service meteorologist George Wetzel said the storm that tore through Adairsville was a high EF3 in strength, creating winds of more than 100 miles per hour. An EF5 is the strongest tornado category.
The storm traveled 25 miles across Bartow and Gordon counties, and it is not yet clear how long it took for the storm to travel through the area, Wetzel said.
By Thursday, the focus in Adairsville had turned to cleanup and rebuilding. Metal siding and fiberglass insulation dangled from trees; Christmas ornaments and knickknacks were strewn across lawns, the homes that had housed them no longer standing.
Dozens of law enforcement officials from several agencies swarmed the area, as well as other relief workers. A Krystal fast food restaurant in town served meals to rescuers as well as residents struggling to recover.
Daiki plant manager Wes Stephenson said Thursday that the facility would likely have to at least temporarily lay off most of its 90 employees. The storm knocked out most of its manufacturing capability, but there are some sections of the plant still standing where employees could do some finishing work. Stephenson said he hoped to keep a skeleton crew to do that finishing work until the rest of the plant could be repaired, which would likely take at least several months.
Rodey Kirby,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action a production worker, was among those who didn't know if he'd still have a job in the coming days. He was working Wednesday when the lights started flickering, and Stephenson told him and others to run. They took cover in a restroom, and Kirby and two colleagues kneeled and started praying. He heard the unmistakable roar of a tornado; he looked up and saw the ceiling tiles vanish.
Three people died because of the massive storm system that marched across the U.S. — tornadoes killed one each in Tennessee and Georgia, while floodwaters killed a third in Maryland. While most came away with their lives, many lost their homes and were left with little else a day later.
Tens of thousands were without power at the storm's peak as a cold front sent what had been unseasonably high temperatures plummeting to near-freezing depths. Dangerous wind blanketed the nation's midsection, with subzero temperatures and wind chills recorded in the Dakotas. In Detroit, icy roads were blamed for a massive chain reaction wreck involving about 30 vehicles on Interstate 75. At least three people died there, and another pileup involving more than 40 vehicles near Indianapolis closed a stretch of Interstate 70 in both directions.
Others closely watched rivers swollen by torrential rains, and officials opened flood gates to ease pressure on dams in Maryland. Hundreds were evacuated to higher ground. In Anne Arundel County, one person apparently drowned in a flooded camp where homeless people live in tents, said police Lt. T.J. Smith.
Ernest Moran said he lives at the site with about 15 other people.We've got a plastic card to suit you. He awakened Thursday morning to find "a swamp," he said, and escaped with only his dog and a knapsack.
Near the nation's capital,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? at least one motorist had to be rescued because of flash floods. In New England, powerful winds were the main problem as gusts topping 60 mph in some areas caused widespread power outages.
Graphic content
In the world of painter, photographer, and graphic designer Jay
Vigon, the commercial and the artistic are never completely severed. On
the commercial side of things, Vigon is known for his bold, graphic
logos; fashion advertising work; music packaging; and TV commercials.And
yet Vigon, in his personal art, seems to critique the very industry in
which he himself is a pioneer.
In an exhibit titled “Swimming Upstream,” currently hanging at the Cal Poly University Art Gallery, Vigon deliberately places both sides of his creative work on display, with the goal of showing just how interconnected the artistic and commercial worlds really are. Placards next to each section of the exhibit seem to underscore this, delineating a series or piece’s title, medium, and its “application,” which often simply reads “personal art.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?”
Nowhere in “Swimming Upstream” is Vigon’s work better dichotomized than in the large-scale piece Remote Control, which the artist created by photographing his television as he changed the channels, presenting a mashup of the resulting images in banner-like rows.We've got a plastic card to suit you. Superimposed across these pieces, large yet barely legible, are phrases torn from the parlance of television. And now a word, reads one. Elsewhere: We are going live. Another implores, Stay tuned.
Vigon was interested by the ways in which consumers are “remotely controlled” by advertising, fashion, and celebrity, he explains, and by the television’s unyielding command that the viewer not look away. Directly across from Remote Control—bathing the piece, in fact, in a flickering glow—is a looped video showcasing Vigon’s television ad work.
The concentration of work in “Swimming Upstream” is a little overwhelming, yet serves as a comprehensive look at the artist and designer’s career. A series of posters created for the Tokyo radio station J-Wave are fabulously bright, bold, and graphic, but rendered with astonishing intricacy and care, like an Oriental rug imagined by an 8-bit video game designer. Sort of. Another standout is Vigon’s series of “clown skulls”—eerie, leering, color-soaked faces created, like his series of alien flowers and imagined tropical fish, entirely in Photoshop.
While impressive, a wall covered in logos, printed on paper and stapled into place, seems intentionally busy and overwhelming, as if intended both to showcase Vigon’s massive and diverse body of work and to demonstrate the urban landscape’s absolute saturation with graphics—and, by proxy, the people who create them.
This is,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. the artist notes, a recent phenomenon, as anyone with a computer can install a program and proclaim him or herself a graphic designer. The result? Designers who merely appropriate existing images. Designers who don’t know how to draw. Designers who aren’t very good.
“Not drawing limits your problem-solving capabilities,” he explained, though with none of the expected back-in-my-day harumphiness. Today’s designers, working digitally, tend to approach a project with one idea, he went on. Drawing enables the designer to explore many ideas, without being limited by one’s knowledge of a particular program.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
A wall of Vigon’s sketches, currently hanging in “Swimming Upstream,” seems to confirm this. Elsewhere in the show, we identify these drafts’ final versions.
When Vigon, as a young man, enrolled in the Art Center College of Design to pursue advertising, there was no graphic design major, he explained in a phone interview. When the art director of A&M Records spoke to his class, he says, it was the first time Vigon realized there was such a position: “When I found out that there was a job like that, where you designed record packages all day, that was it for me.”
He was hired at A&M in the early ’70s, and the first decade of his career was devoted to music packaging. When the music industry started flagging, however, he moved on to other kinds of creative work, taking jobs at Warner Bros., Gotcha, and Cole Surfboards. In the ’90s, Vigon was one of the first to incorporate typography into a television commercial—a style that’s practically ubiquitous today.
“Swimming Upstream” tracks Vigon’s evolution as a designer ever since, as well as the parallel world of his personal art.
A single piece from his “Masked Men” series—paintings of faces created through the layering up and scraping away of paint—is represented twice: in its original form and as an enlarged photograph, which shows the nuance and texture of the piece. The choice may recall the way in which ads for everything from cosmetics to hamburgers to breakfast cereal tend to zoom in on their product to show its every juicy, age-defying, fat-free, flame-grilled,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action rejuvenating, heart-healthy facet. But the artist says the choice was more coincidental. Drawn in by a blown-up photograph of a “Masked Men” painting, created to advertise (that word again!) one of his art shows, Vigon decided he liked the photographic representations of the pieces, with their beautiful details and stark white backgrounds, better than the originals—and I have to agree with him.
In an exhibit titled “Swimming Upstream,” currently hanging at the Cal Poly University Art Gallery, Vigon deliberately places both sides of his creative work on display, with the goal of showing just how interconnected the artistic and commercial worlds really are. Placards next to each section of the exhibit seem to underscore this, delineating a series or piece’s title, medium, and its “application,” which often simply reads “personal art.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet?”
Nowhere in “Swimming Upstream” is Vigon’s work better dichotomized than in the large-scale piece Remote Control, which the artist created by photographing his television as he changed the channels, presenting a mashup of the resulting images in banner-like rows.We've got a plastic card to suit you. Superimposed across these pieces, large yet barely legible, are phrases torn from the parlance of television. And now a word, reads one. Elsewhere: We are going live. Another implores, Stay tuned.
Vigon was interested by the ways in which consumers are “remotely controlled” by advertising, fashion, and celebrity, he explains, and by the television’s unyielding command that the viewer not look away. Directly across from Remote Control—bathing the piece, in fact, in a flickering glow—is a looped video showcasing Vigon’s television ad work.
The concentration of work in “Swimming Upstream” is a little overwhelming, yet serves as a comprehensive look at the artist and designer’s career. A series of posters created for the Tokyo radio station J-Wave are fabulously bright, bold, and graphic, but rendered with astonishing intricacy and care, like an Oriental rug imagined by an 8-bit video game designer. Sort of. Another standout is Vigon’s series of “clown skulls”—eerie, leering, color-soaked faces created, like his series of alien flowers and imagined tropical fish, entirely in Photoshop.
While impressive, a wall covered in logos, printed on paper and stapled into place, seems intentionally busy and overwhelming, as if intended both to showcase Vigon’s massive and diverse body of work and to demonstrate the urban landscape’s absolute saturation with graphics—and, by proxy, the people who create them.
This is,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. the artist notes, a recent phenomenon, as anyone with a computer can install a program and proclaim him or herself a graphic designer. The result? Designers who merely appropriate existing images. Designers who don’t know how to draw. Designers who aren’t very good.
“Not drawing limits your problem-solving capabilities,” he explained, though with none of the expected back-in-my-day harumphiness. Today’s designers, working digitally, tend to approach a project with one idea, he went on. Drawing enables the designer to explore many ideas, without being limited by one’s knowledge of a particular program.Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.
A wall of Vigon’s sketches, currently hanging in “Swimming Upstream,” seems to confirm this. Elsewhere in the show, we identify these drafts’ final versions.
When Vigon, as a young man, enrolled in the Art Center College of Design to pursue advertising, there was no graphic design major, he explained in a phone interview. When the art director of A&M Records spoke to his class, he says, it was the first time Vigon realized there was such a position: “When I found out that there was a job like that, where you designed record packages all day, that was it for me.”
He was hired at A&M in the early ’70s, and the first decade of his career was devoted to music packaging. When the music industry started flagging, however, he moved on to other kinds of creative work, taking jobs at Warner Bros., Gotcha, and Cole Surfboards. In the ’90s, Vigon was one of the first to incorporate typography into a television commercial—a style that’s practically ubiquitous today.
“Swimming Upstream” tracks Vigon’s evolution as a designer ever since, as well as the parallel world of his personal art.
A single piece from his “Masked Men” series—paintings of faces created through the layering up and scraping away of paint—is represented twice: in its original form and as an enlarged photograph, which shows the nuance and texture of the piece. The choice may recall the way in which ads for everything from cosmetics to hamburgers to breakfast cereal tend to zoom in on their product to show its every juicy, age-defying, fat-free, flame-grilled,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action rejuvenating, heart-healthy facet. But the artist says the choice was more coincidental. Drawn in by a blown-up photograph of a “Masked Men” painting, created to advertise (that word again!) one of his art shows, Vigon decided he liked the photographic representations of the pieces, with their beautiful details and stark white backgrounds, better than the originals—and I have to agree with him.
Friendship and Discipline at the Trenton School of Dance
With her arms jutting from her sides and toes pointed, Reagan Wellman
spun and jumped across a large room with a wall-sized mirror on one
side and pictures of ballet dancers on another, while two instructors
called out directions.
Reagan is a student at the Trenton School of Dance. She's 10 years old. She's been dancing at the school since she turned three.
Reagan is one of hundreds of girls who've spent countless hours over the past 37 years practicing ballet under the tutelage of the instructors at the Trenton School of Dance.
In 2009, Meredith Shamanski, 28, of Detroit, took ownership of the school after her aunt, Trenton resident Judy Shamanski, decided to retire.
"She comes in to check up on me," Meredith Shamanski said. "She's well-loved among current students."
Meredith Shamanski, her cousin Errin Menna, 29, and Charlie Howard, 26, make up the school's staff; each began dancing when they were very young.
Meredith Shamanski has a bachelor's degree in dance from Eastern Michigan University and has been dancing under her aunt's direction since she could walk.
"My aunt was trained in Detroit in the Cecchetti method, which is a strict ballet training method," Meredith Shamanski said. "She danced for the Detroit City Ballet,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action which is no longer around."
Menna and Howard have full-time jobs during the day, but from the time the school opens at 4 p.m. to the time it schools at 9 p.m.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person., their focus becomes teaching ballet, jazz and tap dancing.
Menna, a high school teacher in Dearborn Heights, said she likes teaching the younger students.
"They wanna be here and they always have a smile on their faces," Menna said.
While staff encourage everyone ages three to 18 to register for classes, acceptance to the school can be tricky. Registration is only available in August and some previous dance training is often required.
"It can be very difficult to teach dance to an older student who has never taken dance before," Howard said.
Meredith said students often begin taking classes at the school at a very young age and return year after year because they want dance to play a major role in their lives. Students often make strong friendships with fellow dancers.
"They love going to dance class because they have such good relationships with both the staff and their friends they dance with," Toth said.
One-by-one students marched in through the glass door of the Trenton School of Dance and out onto the gray tile floor as quietly as the soft, slick shoes strapped to the bottom of their feet. With their heads still and eyes straight ahead, their hands felt for a long wooden bar hanging from the wall. The music played.We've got a plastic card to suit you. And they danced.
Jim Andersen, president of NMS Properties, the current developer, worked with Killefer Flammang Architects (KFA) -- the original architect -- to complete the two urban contemporary six-story buildings.
“Residents will be able to live, work, and play without ever needing to get into their cars,” said Andersen. “This is part of our vision for walkable destination apartments for lease in Santa Monica. Leading this kind of lifestyle will save residents thousands of dollars in car-related expenses and reduce their carbon footprint.”
The building exteriors of the two buildings utilize plaster, resin panels, and painted metal panels and are further distinguished by sloping, metal roofs, which also conceal mechanical equipment, according to KFA principal Barbara Flammang, whose firm has designed more than 8,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.000 units of multifamily housing..
Another design element of the $22 million project are the powder-coated custom blue tube steel trellises which march along the ground floor and are echoed at the fifth and sixth floor balconies.
I would like to speak now about perhaps the most challenging and sensitive part of our relationship - our work together to combat organized crime and strengthen the rule of law in Bulgaria. In recent years, we have identified drug trafficking, cybercrime, ATM skimming, and other economic crimes as priority areas for law enforcement cooperation. Collaboration between our respective law enforcement services is excellent in these areas and is producing concrete results. This, in turn, has persuaded the U.S. Government to significantly increase our resources for joint law enforcement activities here in Bulgaria.
Fighting crime is a lot more than just policing. It requires an able and efficientprosecution service as well as a determined and impartial judiciary. Recent events have demonstrated that there is considerable interest in Bulgaria in having a prosecution service and a national judiciary that can truly uphold the rule of law. And there has been progress in that regard. The selection of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the Prosecutor General involved a serious examination of the credentials of the candidates and were conducted in a more transparent manner than before, though there is still room for improvement. Most important will be whether those selected will institute needed reforms. There is a lot of work to be done. The U.S. is committed to assisting Bulgarian efforts to reform the legal system so that the process of administering justice can be efficient and effective, but ours is a supporting role - the impetus and energy has to come from Bulgarians.
Going forward, we plan to continue our engagement on strengthening the rule of law. We are bringing prosecutors and judges to consult with their Bulgarian counterparts and share their experiences. In the past year, members of the Specialized Court for organized crime cases and the Ministry of Justice traveled to the United States for a week of consultations with their counterparts in our Federal criminal justice system. We have identified subject matter experts who have come to Bulgaria to assist the Ministry of Justice as it drafts new legislation. We are training law enforcement officials at the FBI Academy as well as through the International Law Enforcement Academy, or ILEA, in Budapest.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? And both our FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have sent agents to work side-by-side with their Bulgarian counterparts.
But of course the key ingredient for success here is going to be your determination - the commitment of Bulgarian officials and civil society to make needed reforms.
Reagan is a student at the Trenton School of Dance. She's 10 years old. She's been dancing at the school since she turned three.
Reagan is one of hundreds of girls who've spent countless hours over the past 37 years practicing ballet under the tutelage of the instructors at the Trenton School of Dance.
In 2009, Meredith Shamanski, 28, of Detroit, took ownership of the school after her aunt, Trenton resident Judy Shamanski, decided to retire.
"She comes in to check up on me," Meredith Shamanski said. "She's well-loved among current students."
Meredith Shamanski, her cousin Errin Menna, 29, and Charlie Howard, 26, make up the school's staff; each began dancing when they were very young.
Meredith Shamanski has a bachelor's degree in dance from Eastern Michigan University and has been dancing under her aunt's direction since she could walk.
"My aunt was trained in Detroit in the Cecchetti method, which is a strict ballet training method," Meredith Shamanski said. "She danced for the Detroit City Ballet,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset action which is no longer around."
Menna and Howard have full-time jobs during the day, but from the time the school opens at 4 p.m. to the time it schools at 9 p.m.Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person., their focus becomes teaching ballet, jazz and tap dancing.
Menna, a high school teacher in Dearborn Heights, said she likes teaching the younger students.
"They wanna be here and they always have a smile on their faces," Menna said.
While staff encourage everyone ages three to 18 to register for classes, acceptance to the school can be tricky. Registration is only available in August and some previous dance training is often required.
"It can be very difficult to teach dance to an older student who has never taken dance before," Howard said.
Meredith said students often begin taking classes at the school at a very young age and return year after year because they want dance to play a major role in their lives. Students often make strong friendships with fellow dancers.
"They love going to dance class because they have such good relationships with both the staff and their friends they dance with," Toth said.
One-by-one students marched in through the glass door of the Trenton School of Dance and out onto the gray tile floor as quietly as the soft, slick shoes strapped to the bottom of their feet. With their heads still and eyes straight ahead, their hands felt for a long wooden bar hanging from the wall. The music played.We've got a plastic card to suit you. And they danced.
Jim Andersen, president of NMS Properties, the current developer, worked with Killefer Flammang Architects (KFA) -- the original architect -- to complete the two urban contemporary six-story buildings.
“Residents will be able to live, work, and play without ever needing to get into their cars,” said Andersen. “This is part of our vision for walkable destination apartments for lease in Santa Monica. Leading this kind of lifestyle will save residents thousands of dollars in car-related expenses and reduce their carbon footprint.”
The building exteriors of the two buildings utilize plaster, resin panels, and painted metal panels and are further distinguished by sloping, metal roofs, which also conceal mechanical equipment, according to KFA principal Barbara Flammang, whose firm has designed more than 8,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business.000 units of multifamily housing..
Another design element of the $22 million project are the powder-coated custom blue tube steel trellises which march along the ground floor and are echoed at the fifth and sixth floor balconies.
I would like to speak now about perhaps the most challenging and sensitive part of our relationship - our work together to combat organized crime and strengthen the rule of law in Bulgaria. In recent years, we have identified drug trafficking, cybercrime, ATM skimming, and other economic crimes as priority areas for law enforcement cooperation. Collaboration between our respective law enforcement services is excellent in these areas and is producing concrete results. This, in turn, has persuaded the U.S. Government to significantly increase our resources for joint law enforcement activities here in Bulgaria.
Fighting crime is a lot more than just policing. It requires an able and efficientprosecution service as well as a determined and impartial judiciary. Recent events have demonstrated that there is considerable interest in Bulgaria in having a prosecution service and a national judiciary that can truly uphold the rule of law. And there has been progress in that regard. The selection of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the Prosecutor General involved a serious examination of the credentials of the candidates and were conducted in a more transparent manner than before, though there is still room for improvement. Most important will be whether those selected will institute needed reforms. There is a lot of work to be done. The U.S. is committed to assisting Bulgarian efforts to reform the legal system so that the process of administering justice can be efficient and effective, but ours is a supporting role - the impetus and energy has to come from Bulgarians.
Going forward, we plan to continue our engagement on strengthening the rule of law. We are bringing prosecutors and judges to consult with their Bulgarian counterparts and share their experiences. In the past year, members of the Specialized Court for organized crime cases and the Ministry of Justice traveled to the United States for a week of consultations with their counterparts in our Federal criminal justice system. We have identified subject matter experts who have come to Bulgaria to assist the Ministry of Justice as it drafts new legislation. We are training law enforcement officials at the FBI Academy as well as through the International Law Enforcement Academy, or ILEA, in Budapest.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? And both our FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have sent agents to work side-by-side with their Bulgarian counterparts.
But of course the key ingredient for success here is going to be your determination - the commitment of Bulgarian officials and civil society to make needed reforms.
2013年1月30日 星期三
Casino closes for recharging electric service
Only a few cars and some service
vehicles from electrical contractors could be seen in the parking lot at the
back of the casino Wednesday, while inside workers were busy renovating the
building’s main electrical distribution system.
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the doors were locked starting at 4 a.m. Wednesday and signs advised patrons that the casino would be closed for the day.
“The work is going as planned. It’s progressing quite well and we are fully expecting to be open at 8 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) morning,” said Greg Medulun, spokesman for Niagara Casinos.
Preparation for the upgrade began several months ago and the electricity to the building had to be shut on Wednesday so that workers could install the new system. This was the first time since the casino opened in 1996 that the building was temporarily closed for building maintenance.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.
A group of university students from Toronto had no idea the casino would be closed Wednesday when they showed up for a visit only to find the doors locked. One student said they were a little disappointed, but they would just have to go someplace else.
“We had a good plan and strategy in place to let our customers know that we were going to be closed. We had on site signage, we had a web presence and our associates informed our customers verbally for a couple of weeks leading up to it to avoid any disappointment,” said Medulun.
Shoppers at Clay Terrace in Carmel,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. Ind. not only can choose from an exciting array of stores and restaurants, but now they also have the opportunity to minimize their carbon footprint. Simon Property Group, Toshiba Corporation,Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? Duke Energy, ITOCHU Corporation, Tom Wood Automotive Group and Indiana’s ‘clean tech’ initiative Energy Systems Network (ESN) have teamed up to develop one of the most advanced charging stations in the world for plug-in cars, debuting today.
Clay Terrace’s new vehicle charging station is integrated with solar panels and a battery storage system, creating a ‘plug-in ecosystem’ which uses renewable energy and a battery system to store surplus power for evenings and cloudy days.
Central Indiana was chosen as the first site for the cutting-edge charging station based on the partners’ mutual engagement with ESN and its Project Plug-IN campaign. Project Plug-IN, a plug-in electric vehicle and charging infrastructure deployment initiative launched in 2009, has been nationally recognized for positioning the Indianapolis region as one of the most electric vehicle-friendly sites in the country.
“Indiana is becoming known as an ideal location for companies and research institutions to collaborate, develop and test new clean technologies,” said Paul Mitchell, ESN’s President & CEO. “It’s exciting that Hoosiers have the opportunity to get the first look at these innovative systems, but even more significant to Indiana’s economy is the fact that the clean tech sector recognizes our state as a place where innovation is embraced and validated.”
The ‘plug-in ecosystem’ contains both traditional and ‘quick charge’ charging stations that are connected to a 10-kilowatt roof-mounted solar panel. The solar energy can be stored in the Toshiba 75-kilowatt lithium ion battery, located next to the charging system.
According to Ryuji Maruyama, General Manager of Toshiba’s Smart Community Division, “Toshiba developed its end of the ‘Plug-in Ecosystem’ for North America by combining existing micro-EMS (energy management system) optimization control capabilities with our latest rechargeable battery technology. This system ensures the efficient management of load within the EV charging system.”
This system is unique as a ‘real-world’ demonstration of smart charging technologies rather than a test site. Its direct connection to the Duke Energy electrical grid, and its unique public location at a shopping mall allows customers to experience and learn about the technology firsthand. For Duke Energy, the installation provides a valuable model for how renewable energy can be aligned with advanced storage technologies to provide a practical power source.
“Innovations in grid energy storage can have a tremendous impact on the effectiveness of renewable energy usage,” said Zachary Kuznar, Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technology Office at Duke Energy. “Because renewable energy sources like solar and wind are intermittent and less reliable, incorporating energy storage can make them much more stable.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! This system at Clay Terrace allows us to even out the variable solar output, shift energy from off-peak to peak energy usage times and ‘buffer’ the grid from electric vehicle charging, which can use a substantial amount of energy, particularly with DC quick charging.”
“Simon Property Group already has a history of innovation in the real estate industry,” said George Caraghiaur, Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Simon Property Group. “The majority of our shopping malls across the state are now equipped with electric vehicle charging stations, and we’re seeking to upgrade this infrastructure just like we work to enhance every aspect of our customers’ shopping experience. We’re proud to play a role in perfecting this new technology and offering it to our customers.”
Customers may begin charging their plug-in vehicles tSite describes services including Plastic Mould.oday at the Clay Terrace system, which is located at the north end of the parking lot just north of Dick’s Sporting Goods. Currently the charging system is available to customers at no cost.
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the doors were locked starting at 4 a.m. Wednesday and signs advised patrons that the casino would be closed for the day.
“The work is going as planned. It’s progressing quite well and we are fully expecting to be open at 8 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) morning,” said Greg Medulun, spokesman for Niagara Casinos.
Preparation for the upgrade began several months ago and the electricity to the building had to be shut on Wednesday so that workers could install the new system. This was the first time since the casino opened in 1996 that the building was temporarily closed for building maintenance.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products.
A group of university students from Toronto had no idea the casino would be closed Wednesday when they showed up for a visit only to find the doors locked. One student said they were a little disappointed, but they would just have to go someplace else.
“We had a good plan and strategy in place to let our customers know that we were going to be closed. We had on site signage, we had a web presence and our associates informed our customers verbally for a couple of weeks leading up to it to avoid any disappointment,” said Medulun.
Shoppers at Clay Terrace in Carmel,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. Ind. not only can choose from an exciting array of stores and restaurants, but now they also have the opportunity to minimize their carbon footprint. Simon Property Group, Toshiba Corporation,Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? Duke Energy, ITOCHU Corporation, Tom Wood Automotive Group and Indiana’s ‘clean tech’ initiative Energy Systems Network (ESN) have teamed up to develop one of the most advanced charging stations in the world for plug-in cars, debuting today.
Clay Terrace’s new vehicle charging station is integrated with solar panels and a battery storage system, creating a ‘plug-in ecosystem’ which uses renewable energy and a battery system to store surplus power for evenings and cloudy days.
Central Indiana was chosen as the first site for the cutting-edge charging station based on the partners’ mutual engagement with ESN and its Project Plug-IN campaign. Project Plug-IN, a plug-in electric vehicle and charging infrastructure deployment initiative launched in 2009, has been nationally recognized for positioning the Indianapolis region as one of the most electric vehicle-friendly sites in the country.
“Indiana is becoming known as an ideal location for companies and research institutions to collaborate, develop and test new clean technologies,” said Paul Mitchell, ESN’s President & CEO. “It’s exciting that Hoosiers have the opportunity to get the first look at these innovative systems, but even more significant to Indiana’s economy is the fact that the clean tech sector recognizes our state as a place where innovation is embraced and validated.”
The ‘plug-in ecosystem’ contains both traditional and ‘quick charge’ charging stations that are connected to a 10-kilowatt roof-mounted solar panel. The solar energy can be stored in the Toshiba 75-kilowatt lithium ion battery, located next to the charging system.
According to Ryuji Maruyama, General Manager of Toshiba’s Smart Community Division, “Toshiba developed its end of the ‘Plug-in Ecosystem’ for North America by combining existing micro-EMS (energy management system) optimization control capabilities with our latest rechargeable battery technology. This system ensures the efficient management of load within the EV charging system.”
This system is unique as a ‘real-world’ demonstration of smart charging technologies rather than a test site. Its direct connection to the Duke Energy electrical grid, and its unique public location at a shopping mall allows customers to experience and learn about the technology firsthand. For Duke Energy, the installation provides a valuable model for how renewable energy can be aligned with advanced storage technologies to provide a practical power source.
“Innovations in grid energy storage can have a tremendous impact on the effectiveness of renewable energy usage,” said Zachary Kuznar, Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technology Office at Duke Energy. “Because renewable energy sources like solar and wind are intermittent and less reliable, incorporating energy storage can make them much more stable.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! This system at Clay Terrace allows us to even out the variable solar output, shift energy from off-peak to peak energy usage times and ‘buffer’ the grid from electric vehicle charging, which can use a substantial amount of energy, particularly with DC quick charging.”
“Simon Property Group already has a history of innovation in the real estate industry,” said George Caraghiaur, Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Simon Property Group. “The majority of our shopping malls across the state are now equipped with electric vehicle charging stations, and we’re seeking to upgrade this infrastructure just like we work to enhance every aspect of our customers’ shopping experience. We’re proud to play a role in perfecting this new technology and offering it to our customers.”
Customers may begin charging their plug-in vehicles tSite describes services including Plastic Mould.oday at the Clay Terrace system, which is located at the north end of the parking lot just north of Dick’s Sporting Goods. Currently the charging system is available to customers at no cost.
Inside a Bomb-Proof Israeli Hospital
Will Israel take military action against
Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon?
It is a question that has been asked and answered in dozens of different ways over the last year, with heated discussion of red lines, enrichment percentages, centrifuge output capabilities, bunker-busting bombs and the fuel capacity of Israeli bombers.
The Iranians deny that they even intend to build such a weapon, saying that their nuclear program is a peaceful, civilian operation, aimed at medical research and cheap energy.
But despite the questions, Israel is without a doubt preparing for the possibility of a strike on its cities in case it does decide to hit Iran's enrichment facilities.
Margaret Warner and her NewsHour team visited a place in Tel Aviv designed to protect against just such a strike: a four-story hospital built almost entirely underground. In case of a conventional, chemical or biological missile attack against the city, the hospital can be totally self sustaining for up to seven days.
The director of the facility, Dr. Gabriel Barbash, told Warner that he is certain the facility will be needed one day.
"I have no doubt in my mind that we'll have to use this facility," he said.
His fears are not unfounded.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . If Israel were to take out Iran's nuclear development facilities, the response could be fearsome.
From Lebanon in the north, Iran-sponsored Hezbollah could rain rockets on Israeli cities. Down south in Gaza, Hamas -- which has already proven their willingness to fire on Israeli, even into Tel Aviv -- could also mobilize.
Iran "will not be like Saddam Hussein or Bashar al-Assad," said former Israeli Gen. Amos Yadlin in an interview with Warner. Yadlin was referring to two other incidents where Israel neutralized budding nuclear programs in their neighborhood. The first, in 1981, was when Israeli jets took out a nuclear reactor at Osirak. Yadlin, then a young pilot, flew a fighter jet on that mission. The second, was in 2007, when when the Israeli air force again destroyed a nuclear reactor, this one in Syria.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? Neither Arab country mounted a response, but Yadlin says that Iran won't remain quiet.
Iran "will retaliate," he said. "No doubt about it. They've (been) preparing for it for the last five, six, seven years."
That -- in the eyes of the Israeli government -- is reason enough for an underground hospital.
When walking through the hospital, you might not notice that it is a hospital at all. That's because it's currently being used as an underground parking garage, serving a full-size, above-ground hospital directly overhead.
But in a matter of 24 hours, said Barbash, hundreds of beds can be wheeled into place. Above each bed is a box, with sockets that can help feed fluids and medicines into patients.
Each section of the hospital is color-coded by ward. For now, those colors help drivers remember where they parked.
Some wards have technologies built-in to treat specific ailments. The dialysis center has cabinets along the wall next to where the beds will be, for the machines that cycle blood in and out of patients.
At the entrance to the hospital is a sealed rinse room,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! where victims of a chemical or biological weapons attack can be cleaned off, without contaminating others. The hospital also has a separate ventilation system, with filters and ducts, ensuring the air inside the facility is clean.
Topside, Barbash said that the above-ground hospital also has a few wards, such as the neo-natal unit, that are as secure as the underground rooms.
The facility, called the Sammy Ofer Underground Emergency Hospital, was completed in 2010 at a cost of $45 million. There is one other like it in Israel and a third is currently under construction.
These secure hospitals are far from the only precaution the Israeli government is taking to protect civilians from possible attacks.
When Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel during the first Gulf War, the Israeli building code was changed, requiring every new home to have a "safe room," where residents can take shelter during an attack.
We visited a home in a Tel Aviv suburb where a safe room was nearing completion.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. Shortly after we arrived, the contractor, Dani Avram, who specializes in building these rooms, was literally blowing smoke around the inside of the safe room to make sure that the seal was tight.
The room has a filtration system to protect against chemical weapons, and the door, which led to a recreation room,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. appeared to be about three inches thick.
It is a question that has been asked and answered in dozens of different ways over the last year, with heated discussion of red lines, enrichment percentages, centrifuge output capabilities, bunker-busting bombs and the fuel capacity of Israeli bombers.
The Iranians deny that they even intend to build such a weapon, saying that their nuclear program is a peaceful, civilian operation, aimed at medical research and cheap energy.
But despite the questions, Israel is without a doubt preparing for the possibility of a strike on its cities in case it does decide to hit Iran's enrichment facilities.
Margaret Warner and her NewsHour team visited a place in Tel Aviv designed to protect against just such a strike: a four-story hospital built almost entirely underground. In case of a conventional, chemical or biological missile attack against the city, the hospital can be totally self sustaining for up to seven days.
The director of the facility, Dr. Gabriel Barbash, told Warner that he is certain the facility will be needed one day.
"I have no doubt in my mind that we'll have to use this facility," he said.
His fears are not unfounded.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . If Israel were to take out Iran's nuclear development facilities, the response could be fearsome.
From Lebanon in the north, Iran-sponsored Hezbollah could rain rockets on Israeli cities. Down south in Gaza, Hamas -- which has already proven their willingness to fire on Israeli, even into Tel Aviv -- could also mobilize.
Iran "will not be like Saddam Hussein or Bashar al-Assad," said former Israeli Gen. Amos Yadlin in an interview with Warner. Yadlin was referring to two other incidents where Israel neutralized budding nuclear programs in their neighborhood. The first, in 1981, was when Israeli jets took out a nuclear reactor at Osirak. Yadlin, then a young pilot, flew a fighter jet on that mission. The second, was in 2007, when when the Israeli air force again destroyed a nuclear reactor, this one in Syria.Are you looking for Optical frame, glasses and eye exams? Neither Arab country mounted a response, but Yadlin says that Iran won't remain quiet.
Iran "will retaliate," he said. "No doubt about it. They've (been) preparing for it for the last five, six, seven years."
That -- in the eyes of the Israeli government -- is reason enough for an underground hospital.
When walking through the hospital, you might not notice that it is a hospital at all. That's because it's currently being used as an underground parking garage, serving a full-size, above-ground hospital directly overhead.
But in a matter of 24 hours, said Barbash, hundreds of beds can be wheeled into place. Above each bed is a box, with sockets that can help feed fluids and medicines into patients.
Each section of the hospital is color-coded by ward. For now, those colors help drivers remember where they parked.
Some wards have technologies built-in to treat specific ailments. The dialysis center has cabinets along the wall next to where the beds will be, for the machines that cycle blood in and out of patients.
At the entrance to the hospital is a sealed rinse room,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! where victims of a chemical or biological weapons attack can be cleaned off, without contaminating others. The hospital also has a separate ventilation system, with filters and ducts, ensuring the air inside the facility is clean.
Topside, Barbash said that the above-ground hospital also has a few wards, such as the neo-natal unit, that are as secure as the underground rooms.
The facility, called the Sammy Ofer Underground Emergency Hospital, was completed in 2010 at a cost of $45 million. There is one other like it in Israel and a third is currently under construction.
These secure hospitals are far from the only precaution the Israeli government is taking to protect civilians from possible attacks.
When Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel during the first Gulf War, the Israeli building code was changed, requiring every new home to have a "safe room," where residents can take shelter during an attack.
We visited a home in a Tel Aviv suburb where a safe room was nearing completion.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other solar light products. Shortly after we arrived, the contractor, Dani Avram, who specializes in building these rooms, was literally blowing smoke around the inside of the safe room to make sure that the seal was tight.
The room has a filtration system to protect against chemical weapons, and the door, which led to a recreation room,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. appeared to be about three inches thick.
Virtual digital credentials
Spend time around a college campus these days and it
will become apparent just how attached students have become to their mobile
phones. Whether texting, listening to music, playing games, checking out the
latest app or talking to a friend, they are constantly interacting with their
phones and are among the first to grow up with an expectation of continuous
connection.
Up until this point, the campus OneCard had been a way of life for students — enabling access to campus buildings, the dining hall and for payments for vending and laundry services. But when you consider students’ reliance on their cell phones – always on, always on them – it is clear that the plastic campus card, as we know it will evolve and mobile technology will be a big part of that transformation.
Indeed, adoption of mobile tech seems to be heading in only one direction: up. There were nearly 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide in 2011, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . And it’s estimated that 5 billion people will have smart phones in the next five years, giving those people access to the mobile Internet and apps. In the United States alone the majority of American phone owners now have smart phones.
The desire to use a cell phone as a credential can also be tied into the current discussions on near field communication technology. NFC is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smart phone in North America. Which means the smart phone will not only be used as a digital credential,Service Report a problem with a street light. but will be used for cashless,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! card-less payments. NFC is one way we could replace our wallets with one embedded in our smart phones.
There are already apps in the market, such as ones offered by Starbucks, PayPal, Level Up, Apple Passboo,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. and Isis, where users create an account and use the app for direct payment.
And at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, MyPay, a new mobile payments app that is patent pending, is enabling students to pay for purchases around campus, in vending and laundry machines, at dining locations and more. It is also used as a virtual campus ID card. The product is expected to soon feature an off-campus capability for food ordering.
The need for new is rapidly approaching. If you want to better engage your current and prospective students, you need to take a closer look at mobile’s role at the center of the student experience. Get immersed in conversations about mobile on your campus and be sure to let your IT department know that the trend among campus card providers is to transition the credential to the cell phone. It’s a step in the right direction.
Rumors about this cheaper iPhone — possibly called iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 — have been circulating since early January, when a slew of reports from supply chain sources and even major U.S. news sites such as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg took notice of a new iPhone in development strategically targeted toward lower-income, emerging markets like China and India.
On Monday,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. iLounge Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Horwitz followed up on his Friday exposé of next-gen iOS devices with a new report detailing what he calls the "budget iPhone 5," which will allegedly look like the iPhone 5 but feature several new design elements and tweaks.
“Yes, it will be made substantially from plastic,” Horwitz wrote, echoing an earlier report from DigiTimes that said the iPhone 5S or 6 would feature a hybrid chassis made of both plastic and metal. “No, it won’t just be a Retina- and Lightning-equipped refresh of the iPhone 3G or 3GS, Apple’s last plastic iPhones, nor will it look just like an all-plastic version of the iPhone 5. This new model is actually a cross between the iPhone 5, fifth-generation iPod touch and — wait for it — the iPod classic. Yes, really. It will have a 4” screen, like the iPhone 5, a bottom like the latest iPod touch and a shape that’s most similar to the iPod classic.”
The original DigiTimes report said the new iPhone’s internal parts could “be seen from the outside through a special design; if this turned out to be true, the finished design for the iPhone 6 might look like an iPhone 5 mixed with the plastic enclosure of the iPhone 3GS from 2009 mixed with the final design for the Bondi blue iMac in 1998, which was characterized by its brightly colored, translucent plastic casing, letting users see the inside of their desktop computer for the first time.
The new low-cost iPhone 5S or 6 is said to feature nearly identical specs to the iPhone 5 but “a half-millimeter taller and a half-millimeter wider,” according to Horwitz, as well as a full millimeter thicker. But iLounge noted that the biggest design change in this cheaper iPhone will be the curves.
“Apple’s budget housing looks closest to the iPod classic in shape, though not in materials,” Horwitz said. “Unlike the plastic iPhone 3G/3GS, which featured soft curves on all sides, the budget iPhone’s curves start and end at flat surfaces, so each side and the back are flat. This seems like a trivial change, until you realize that it allows Apple to use flat rather than curve-matched parts: the right side has a flat, centered SIM card tray just like the iPhone 5’s, while all of the buttons and ports are on flat rather than curved surfaces. A flat-backed iPhone won’t rock on a flat surface when it vibrates, either.”
In addition to the new form factor, Horwitz believes the iPhone 5S or 6 will have very similar features to the iPod Touch, including identical proportions and locations for the camera, microphone and rear flash. The headphone jack, Lightning dock, bottom microphone and speaker are in the same location as the iPhone 5, but the new phone is said to have an extra microphone on the bottom, as well as four individual holes for the speaker grill, rather than the 26 speaker holes at the bottom of the iPhone 5.
“In summary, the budget iPhone will look a lot like an iPhone 5 from the front, an iPod classic from the side and an iPod touch 5G on the bottom — only made from plastic rather than glass or metal,” Horwitz concluded. “It won’t make any bold departures from past Apple designs, but then, it’s supposed to be an inexpensive iPhone and achieves that goal pretty much as expected.”
Up until this point, the campus OneCard had been a way of life for students — enabling access to campus buildings, the dining hall and for payments for vending and laundry services. But when you consider students’ reliance on their cell phones – always on, always on them – it is clear that the plastic campus card, as we know it will evolve and mobile technology will be a big part of that transformation.
Indeed, adoption of mobile tech seems to be heading in only one direction: up. There were nearly 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide in 2011, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . And it’s estimated that 5 billion people will have smart phones in the next five years, giving those people access to the mobile Internet and apps. In the United States alone the majority of American phone owners now have smart phones.
The desire to use a cell phone as a credential can also be tied into the current discussions on near field communication technology. NFC is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smart phone in North America. Which means the smart phone will not only be used as a digital credential,Service Report a problem with a street light. but will be used for cashless,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! card-less payments. NFC is one way we could replace our wallets with one embedded in our smart phones.
There are already apps in the market, such as ones offered by Starbucks, PayPal, Level Up, Apple Passboo,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. and Isis, where users create an account and use the app for direct payment.
And at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, MyPay, a new mobile payments app that is patent pending, is enabling students to pay for purchases around campus, in vending and laundry machines, at dining locations and more. It is also used as a virtual campus ID card. The product is expected to soon feature an off-campus capability for food ordering.
The need for new is rapidly approaching. If you want to better engage your current and prospective students, you need to take a closer look at mobile’s role at the center of the student experience. Get immersed in conversations about mobile on your campus and be sure to let your IT department know that the trend among campus card providers is to transition the credential to the cell phone. It’s a step in the right direction.
Rumors about this cheaper iPhone — possibly called iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 — have been circulating since early January, when a slew of reports from supply chain sources and even major U.S. news sites such as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg took notice of a new iPhone in development strategically targeted toward lower-income, emerging markets like China and India.
On Monday,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver. iLounge Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Horwitz followed up on his Friday exposé of next-gen iOS devices with a new report detailing what he calls the "budget iPhone 5," which will allegedly look like the iPhone 5 but feature several new design elements and tweaks.
“Yes, it will be made substantially from plastic,” Horwitz wrote, echoing an earlier report from DigiTimes that said the iPhone 5S or 6 would feature a hybrid chassis made of both plastic and metal. “No, it won’t just be a Retina- and Lightning-equipped refresh of the iPhone 3G or 3GS, Apple’s last plastic iPhones, nor will it look just like an all-plastic version of the iPhone 5. This new model is actually a cross between the iPhone 5, fifth-generation iPod touch and — wait for it — the iPod classic. Yes, really. It will have a 4” screen, like the iPhone 5, a bottom like the latest iPod touch and a shape that’s most similar to the iPod classic.”
The original DigiTimes report said the new iPhone’s internal parts could “be seen from the outside through a special design; if this turned out to be true, the finished design for the iPhone 6 might look like an iPhone 5 mixed with the plastic enclosure of the iPhone 3GS from 2009 mixed with the final design for the Bondi blue iMac in 1998, which was characterized by its brightly colored, translucent plastic casing, letting users see the inside of their desktop computer for the first time.
The new low-cost iPhone 5S or 6 is said to feature nearly identical specs to the iPhone 5 but “a half-millimeter taller and a half-millimeter wider,” according to Horwitz, as well as a full millimeter thicker. But iLounge noted that the biggest design change in this cheaper iPhone will be the curves.
“Apple’s budget housing looks closest to the iPod classic in shape, though not in materials,” Horwitz said. “Unlike the plastic iPhone 3G/3GS, which featured soft curves on all sides, the budget iPhone’s curves start and end at flat surfaces, so each side and the back are flat. This seems like a trivial change, until you realize that it allows Apple to use flat rather than curve-matched parts: the right side has a flat, centered SIM card tray just like the iPhone 5’s, while all of the buttons and ports are on flat rather than curved surfaces. A flat-backed iPhone won’t rock on a flat surface when it vibrates, either.”
In addition to the new form factor, Horwitz believes the iPhone 5S or 6 will have very similar features to the iPod Touch, including identical proportions and locations for the camera, microphone and rear flash. The headphone jack, Lightning dock, bottom microphone and speaker are in the same location as the iPhone 5, but the new phone is said to have an extra microphone on the bottom, as well as four individual holes for the speaker grill, rather than the 26 speaker holes at the bottom of the iPhone 5.
“In summary, the budget iPhone will look a lot like an iPhone 5 from the front, an iPod classic from the side and an iPod touch 5G on the bottom — only made from plastic rather than glass or metal,” Horwitz concluded. “It won’t make any bold departures from past Apple designs, but then, it’s supposed to be an inexpensive iPhone and achieves that goal pretty much as expected.”
District leaders seeking ways to strengthen school security
Like all schools in
the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut, Worthington
is seeking the best ways to keep students and staff safe and secure.
The district has had extensive emergency plans on the books for years, but officials are re-examining everything and could make recommendations for additions to its security systems in the near future.
"We have good things in place," Jeff Maddox, director of innovation and school support, told the Worthington Board of Education on Jan. 28.
The Worthington schools do not have an elaborate system -- front-door buzz-in systems, surveillance cameras and security officers patrolling the hallways.
Any of those could be part of the recommendations that could come before the board following a security audit that is expected to be done in the next few weeks.
Maddox also will take into consideration the many conversations he has had with community members and the recommendations of the PTSA (parent-teacher-student association), building councils and the safety and security committee before making any recommendations to the board.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver.
Currently, all school building doors are locked during the day, except for front doors. When he talks to community members about their concerns, installing buzz-in systems most often is on their minds, he said.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. He said buzz-in systems could create a false sense of security and are only as good as the training of the people who use them.
Thomas Worthington High School once had a monitor who would watch hallways and parking lots. For years,Service Report a problem with a street light. retired Worthington police officer Tom Verne filled that position, which was eliminated as part of budget cuts several years ago.
Thomas Worthington has security cameras in the parking lot. Cameras are supposed to be installed outside at Worthington Kilbourne next summer. The money to pay for those cameras was provided via the $40 million bond issue that voters had approved in November 2012. They were planned prior to the Sandy Hook shootings.
The audits will look at perimeters and internal features of each school and report what improvements could be made.
Some people question the need for such additions as buzz-in door systems,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! especially because such as system did not prevent the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Maddox said the advantages must be examined, regardless.
"We have to have things in place to reduce the intensity of an event," he said.
Facilities would be one part of the district's three-part approach to safety and security, he said. Also important are planning and mental health.
Four law-enforcement agencies work with the schools to be ready in case of an emergency. Each has digitized maps and extensive plans for how to handle any situation.
Buildings also have crisis manuals, crisis plans and crisis teams. Lockdown drills are done several times a year.
The district also operates a safe-schools hotline through which a student could report any possible threats or suspicions.
Mental-health issues must continue to take center stage if tragedy is to be averted, Maddox said.
"Tragic events like Sandy Hook don't take place without mental-health issues," Maddox told the board.
Not many years ago, mental-health problems were noticed mostly in high school and middle school students. Now problems are showing up as early as fourth grade, Maddox said.
The district has guidance counselors and relies on counseling from the North Community Counseling Centers.
Maddox and Superintendent Thomas Tucker also are working with the ADAMH Board of Franklin County to try to free up more money for mental-health services, including training for staff.
Teachers and others who work in the schools want to know more about how to recognize students who are struggling and how to engage those students' parents, Tucker said.
One of the strategies already in place in all of the schools is an emphasis on building relationships, Maddox said.
When a student enters a building, he or she should have an interaction with at least one adult every day.
Another emphasis is on breaking the code of silence, meaning that anyone who notices anything that does not seem right needs to tell someone who could take action.
Too often following a tragic event, it becomes evident that signs and signals were missed, Maddox said.
School board president David Bressman said it was good to see people energized because complacency is the enemy.
"We're never going to solve this issue, but we're always going to try to solve it," he said.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!
The district has had extensive emergency plans on the books for years, but officials are re-examining everything and could make recommendations for additions to its security systems in the near future.
"We have good things in place," Jeff Maddox, director of innovation and school support, told the Worthington Board of Education on Jan. 28.
The Worthington schools do not have an elaborate system -- front-door buzz-in systems, surveillance cameras and security officers patrolling the hallways.
Any of those could be part of the recommendations that could come before the board following a security audit that is expected to be done in the next few weeks.
Maddox also will take into consideration the many conversations he has had with community members and the recommendations of the PTSA (parent-teacher-student association), building councils and the safety and security committee before making any recommendations to the board.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver.
Currently, all school building doors are locked during the day, except for front doors. When he talks to community members about their concerns, installing buzz-in systems most often is on their minds, he said.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. He said buzz-in systems could create a false sense of security and are only as good as the training of the people who use them.
Thomas Worthington High School once had a monitor who would watch hallways and parking lots. For years,Service Report a problem with a street light. retired Worthington police officer Tom Verne filled that position, which was eliminated as part of budget cuts several years ago.
Thomas Worthington has security cameras in the parking lot. Cameras are supposed to be installed outside at Worthington Kilbourne next summer. The money to pay for those cameras was provided via the $40 million bond issue that voters had approved in November 2012. They were planned prior to the Sandy Hook shootings.
The audits will look at perimeters and internal features of each school and report what improvements could be made.
Some people question the need for such additions as buzz-in door systems,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! especially because such as system did not prevent the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Maddox said the advantages must be examined, regardless.
"We have to have things in place to reduce the intensity of an event," he said.
Facilities would be one part of the district's three-part approach to safety and security, he said. Also important are planning and mental health.
Four law-enforcement agencies work with the schools to be ready in case of an emergency. Each has digitized maps and extensive plans for how to handle any situation.
Buildings also have crisis manuals, crisis plans and crisis teams. Lockdown drills are done several times a year.
The district also operates a safe-schools hotline through which a student could report any possible threats or suspicions.
Mental-health issues must continue to take center stage if tragedy is to be averted, Maddox said.
"Tragic events like Sandy Hook don't take place without mental-health issues," Maddox told the board.
Not many years ago, mental-health problems were noticed mostly in high school and middle school students. Now problems are showing up as early as fourth grade, Maddox said.
The district has guidance counselors and relies on counseling from the North Community Counseling Centers.
Maddox and Superintendent Thomas Tucker also are working with the ADAMH Board of Franklin County to try to free up more money for mental-health services, including training for staff.
Teachers and others who work in the schools want to know more about how to recognize students who are struggling and how to engage those students' parents, Tucker said.
One of the strategies already in place in all of the schools is an emphasis on building relationships, Maddox said.
When a student enters a building, he or she should have an interaction with at least one adult every day.
Another emphasis is on breaking the code of silence, meaning that anyone who notices anything that does not seem right needs to tell someone who could take action.
Too often following a tragic event, it becomes evident that signs and signals were missed, Maddox said.
School board president David Bressman said it was good to see people energized because complacency is the enemy.
"We're never going to solve this issue, but we're always going to try to solve it," he said.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!
2013年1月29日 星期二
Colchester East Hants Health Centre operating rooms returning to service
All four operating rooms at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre
will be back in service Wednesday morning following a malfunction with
the ventilation system.
The issue has been traced back to an issue with the ventilation system that pumps humidified air (sterile steam) into the operating rooms. The malfunction led to a higher concentration of steam entering the vents, which condensed into water, pooled in the ducts and leaked into rooms in the area.
“Prior to moving in our staff spent several months testing and becoming familiar with our new building systems and it is discouraging to have issues like this one arise,” said Peter MacKinnon, CEO of the Colchester East Hants Health Authority, in a news release. “This was not something we expected or could have planned for, but we are grateful to our team members and partners who responded so quickly and worked so hard to restore our surgical program.”
Since the problem was discovered staff has been working with vendors and contractors to dry out the areas, replace damaged ceiling tiles and insulation and test the various systems.
As of Monday afternoon two of the four operating rooms at the facility were back in service. Late Tuesday afternoon, following a complete assessment, staff determined that surgeries could safely resume in the remaining two operating rooms and environmentalHow cheaply can I build a solar power systems? services staff began the extensive cleaning required to prepare the rooms for surgery.
Staff is continuing to work with vendors and consultants to pinpoint the cause of the malfunction and the system will remain on by-pass until the coming weekend when crews will continue their investigation into the source.
Actifio, the radically simple copy data storage company, today announced significant product and service enhancements designed to make managing copy data – and transforming the underlying economics of enterprise storage – even easier.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. The company introduced new product and service packages, a storage industry-first “pay-per-use” utility pricing option, new deployment tools, and a suite of new features in its 5.1 software release. The enhancements are designed to ease the way for customers and channel partners to embrace Actifio’s compelling economic value proposition, which propelled the company to 700 percent growth in 2012.
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructure faces a tidal wave of data, coupled with the growing cost and complexity of the software tools, hardware, and personnel required to manage it. Savvy IT executives are recognizing that the driver of this exponential growth is the copy data – redundant copies of corporate data created by point tools to meet the business requirements to protect, share, and analyze information. With a purpose-built solution to address the root cause of the copy data problem – siloed data protection and availability applications - Actifio offers customers the ability to recover anything instantly for a total cost of ownership up to 90 percent less than the traditional model.
To make it easier for channel partners and customers to embrace the Actifio model, the company today announced its new 100T product package. The new Actifio 100T is designed for rapid deployment by mid-sized IT organizations, or departments of larger IT organizations. It protects both physical and virtual IT environments with the world’s most efficient data management technology, and features integrated Actifio Optimized Storage capable of protecting up to 100 Terabytes of production data and 1,000 virtual machines. Actifio 100Ts can be combined in a scale-out architecture to support up to 2 PetaBytes of production data, with custom configuration of the appliance.
To help customers take better advantage of their existing storage, the company also announced its new Actifio Gateway, a similarly robust hardware and software tandem that doesn’t include its own storage, but instead can virtualize and manage a wide variety of third party storage devices. The Actifio Gateway is designed for regionally and globally distributed enterprises, including cloud and managed service providers. It’s built for a large mix of physical, virtual, and heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure, and also scales to handle multi-petabytes of data.
Actifio’s revolutionary new utility pricing model enables customers to pay as their data volumes grow, avoiding the significant up-front capital requirements that challenge many procurement cycles. Actifio’s all-inclusive utility pricing for a complete storage system – hardware, software, storage, installation, and maintenance – is based on a per-terabyte per-year basis, with rates decreasing as volumes increase. For CIOs implementing chargeback models, or Service Providers looking to align procurement with market demand, Actifio’s utility pricing model delivers simplicity, flexibility, and predictability. Customers who wish to purchase the hardware and services through traditional means will still have that option.
Actifio is also introducing version 5.1 of its software, which includes several new features in the areas of data governance, business resilience, and service management. As enterprise environments put a greater focus on security and control of application data, Actifio has ramped-up its data governance features to include SLA-based data integrity validation; enhanced SLA compliance reporting; user/role-based auditing; LDAP and Active Directory integration; and automated disk-to tape enhancements directly integrated into Actifio’s SLA Lifecycle Manager for compliance-oriented, long-term retention.
Service providers around the globe have embraced Actifio as a strategic technology to accelerate new service introduction, deliver new functionality and customer satisfaction, and improve their business margins. Actifio 5.1 continues to advance service management functionality by addressing operations and delivery needs with enhanced system monitoring, alert correlation and processing, auto-updates, VPN access enhancements, and improved integrated reporting.
Leading storage analyst firm, ESG has independently validated that Actifio 5.1 can provide almost 300 percent IT efficiency savings over the competition, and a 400 percent better annual total cost of ownership (TCO) than alternative storage solutions.
“In a world that moves faster than ever, enterprises faces what we call ‘The Agility Imperative,’” said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. “Actifio was designed from the start to free businesses from the undue burden of wildly redundant copy data, free IT executives from the complex tangle of data protection and availability applications consuming more and more of their IT budgets, and free IT managers from the stress of unmet SLA’s and recovery time objectives impossible to deliver with 20th century technology. These enhancements take us further down that path, making radically simple copy data storage easier to buy, deploy, and love than ever before.”
“We deployed the 100T and within fifteen minutes Actifio was configured and online. An hour later it was customized to our environment, backing up,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. deduplicating and replicating to our DR facility 3000 miles away,” said Daniel Acosta, IT Director, MC Assembly. “If something goes wrong, now I just go back in time and mount the snapshot directly from Actifio. To our users it looks like a server reboot, to us it’s the ultimate peace of mind.”
"Technology is an invaluable learning tool here at the university, which means that I need to plan for maximum uptime and availability. In the past this meant frequent data protection and business resiliency testing that required planning, application downtime and costly excess infrastructure which ultimately impacted our users," said Rich Siedzik,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. Sr. IT Director, Bryant University. "That was before Actifio where we now have the ability to run Failover Test non-disruptively as often as needed. And if there's a site failure, I can easily and automatically sync back our unique data."
The issue has been traced back to an issue with the ventilation system that pumps humidified air (sterile steam) into the operating rooms. The malfunction led to a higher concentration of steam entering the vents, which condensed into water, pooled in the ducts and leaked into rooms in the area.
“Prior to moving in our staff spent several months testing and becoming familiar with our new building systems and it is discouraging to have issues like this one arise,” said Peter MacKinnon, CEO of the Colchester East Hants Health Authority, in a news release. “This was not something we expected or could have planned for, but we are grateful to our team members and partners who responded so quickly and worked so hard to restore our surgical program.”
Since the problem was discovered staff has been working with vendors and contractors to dry out the areas, replace damaged ceiling tiles and insulation and test the various systems.
As of Monday afternoon two of the four operating rooms at the facility were back in service. Late Tuesday afternoon, following a complete assessment, staff determined that surgeries could safely resume in the remaining two operating rooms and environmentalHow cheaply can I build a solar power systems? services staff began the extensive cleaning required to prepare the rooms for surgery.
Staff is continuing to work with vendors and consultants to pinpoint the cause of the malfunction and the system will remain on by-pass until the coming weekend when crews will continue their investigation into the source.
Actifio, the radically simple copy data storage company, today announced significant product and service enhancements designed to make managing copy data – and transforming the underlying economics of enterprise storage – even easier.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. The company introduced new product and service packages, a storage industry-first “pay-per-use” utility pricing option, new deployment tools, and a suite of new features in its 5.1 software release. The enhancements are designed to ease the way for customers and channel partners to embrace Actifio’s compelling economic value proposition, which propelled the company to 700 percent growth in 2012.
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructure faces a tidal wave of data, coupled with the growing cost and complexity of the software tools, hardware, and personnel required to manage it. Savvy IT executives are recognizing that the driver of this exponential growth is the copy data – redundant copies of corporate data created by point tools to meet the business requirements to protect, share, and analyze information. With a purpose-built solution to address the root cause of the copy data problem – siloed data protection and availability applications - Actifio offers customers the ability to recover anything instantly for a total cost of ownership up to 90 percent less than the traditional model.
To make it easier for channel partners and customers to embrace the Actifio model, the company today announced its new 100T product package. The new Actifio 100T is designed for rapid deployment by mid-sized IT organizations, or departments of larger IT organizations. It protects both physical and virtual IT environments with the world’s most efficient data management technology, and features integrated Actifio Optimized Storage capable of protecting up to 100 Terabytes of production data and 1,000 virtual machines. Actifio 100Ts can be combined in a scale-out architecture to support up to 2 PetaBytes of production data, with custom configuration of the appliance.
To help customers take better advantage of their existing storage, the company also announced its new Actifio Gateway, a similarly robust hardware and software tandem that doesn’t include its own storage, but instead can virtualize and manage a wide variety of third party storage devices. The Actifio Gateway is designed for regionally and globally distributed enterprises, including cloud and managed service providers. It’s built for a large mix of physical, virtual, and heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure, and also scales to handle multi-petabytes of data.
Actifio’s revolutionary new utility pricing model enables customers to pay as their data volumes grow, avoiding the significant up-front capital requirements that challenge many procurement cycles. Actifio’s all-inclusive utility pricing for a complete storage system – hardware, software, storage, installation, and maintenance – is based on a per-terabyte per-year basis, with rates decreasing as volumes increase. For CIOs implementing chargeback models, or Service Providers looking to align procurement with market demand, Actifio’s utility pricing model delivers simplicity, flexibility, and predictability. Customers who wish to purchase the hardware and services through traditional means will still have that option.
Actifio is also introducing version 5.1 of its software, which includes several new features in the areas of data governance, business resilience, and service management. As enterprise environments put a greater focus on security and control of application data, Actifio has ramped-up its data governance features to include SLA-based data integrity validation; enhanced SLA compliance reporting; user/role-based auditing; LDAP and Active Directory integration; and automated disk-to tape enhancements directly integrated into Actifio’s SLA Lifecycle Manager for compliance-oriented, long-term retention.
Service providers around the globe have embraced Actifio as a strategic technology to accelerate new service introduction, deliver new functionality and customer satisfaction, and improve their business margins. Actifio 5.1 continues to advance service management functionality by addressing operations and delivery needs with enhanced system monitoring, alert correlation and processing, auto-updates, VPN access enhancements, and improved integrated reporting.
Leading storage analyst firm, ESG has independently validated that Actifio 5.1 can provide almost 300 percent IT efficiency savings over the competition, and a 400 percent better annual total cost of ownership (TCO) than alternative storage solutions.
“In a world that moves faster than ever, enterprises faces what we call ‘The Agility Imperative,’” said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. “Actifio was designed from the start to free businesses from the undue burden of wildly redundant copy data, free IT executives from the complex tangle of data protection and availability applications consuming more and more of their IT budgets, and free IT managers from the stress of unmet SLA’s and recovery time objectives impossible to deliver with 20th century technology. These enhancements take us further down that path, making radically simple copy data storage easier to buy, deploy, and love than ever before.”
“We deployed the 100T and within fifteen minutes Actifio was configured and online. An hour later it was customized to our environment, backing up,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn.Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. deduplicating and replicating to our DR facility 3000 miles away,” said Daniel Acosta, IT Director, MC Assembly. “If something goes wrong, now I just go back in time and mount the snapshot directly from Actifio. To our users it looks like a server reboot, to us it’s the ultimate peace of mind.”
"Technology is an invaluable learning tool here at the university, which means that I need to plan for maximum uptime and availability. In the past this meant frequent data protection and business resiliency testing that required planning, application downtime and costly excess infrastructure which ultimately impacted our users," said Rich Siedzik,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. Sr. IT Director, Bryant University. "That was before Actifio where we now have the ability to run Failover Test non-disruptively as often as needed. And if there's a site failure, I can easily and automatically sync back our unique data."
Bio Roof Tiles
When the cold weather sets in there is nothing better than having a
warm home to seek solace in. But it might raise a few eyebrows to know
that over half of home heating could be escaping through the walls and
roof of your residential retreat.
Roof insulation, as the name suggests, insulates the roof, keeping the warmth in and the cold out during the winter, while in the Sumer cool air is kept in and the warm air is kept out. However, a properly insulated roof will save money on heating bills as the heating doesn't have to be kept on to compensate for the warmth that escapes through the roof. For many people this is where their understanding of roof insulation ends.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day.
In line with the EU strategy of cutting annual primary energy consumption by 20% by 2020, researchers from Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoffmechanik have come up with an innovative organic tile. Indeed, these tiles are more resource-efficient than their ceramic counterparts and unlock new creative options for design purposes. Bioplastics made of polylactides (PLA) are becoming more heat-resistant, thereby making them suitable for high-temperature filling processes in the food industry as well.
But what makes them bio? The tiles consist of a mixture of linseed oil epoxy, various natural fibres and diatomaceous earth, a material that is procured from fossilized diatoms. New bio-based tile systems, like the ones designed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Halle, are more environmentally friendly, lighter-weight and - depending on their manufacturing and material properties - more resource- and energy-efficient than conventional ceramic materials. 'The composite is not hard as glass and brittle like conventional epoxy, but flexible and more pliable instead. This makes it easier to work with the tiles,' as Andreas Krombholz, scientist in the natural composites division at IWM, describes another advantage. They also put a completely new spin on architectural perspectives. In the moulding process, they can be shaped on an entirely customized basis, and shaped into squares, triangles or circles, for example.
Even patterns and colours can be tailor-made. Another design advantage is adding fluorescent pigments to the blend, which transforms into light tiles. This means they can be used for both outdoors and indoors, serving as illuminated guideposts on floors and walls. The same bio-tiles can also be installed in kitchens and bathrooms and can serve as indoor floor coverings. There are cost benefits to both producer and customer here: this is because the tiles can handle the impact noise abatement directly, so an entire work step can be dropped from the production process.
Moreover, the packaging industry is increasingly using biopolymers made from polylactides (PLAs) as an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based plastic. They are obtained from corn starch and completely biodegradable.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. Previously, however, PLA began to soften at about 60 oC,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. so it was not suitable for heat-intensive processes. But now, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam have found a way to make this bioplastic even more heat-resistant. An interesting application comes from the food industry: The filling of yogurt in plastic cups, because this process takes place at higher temperatures. Cups made of PLA stereo complexes retain their shape and remain stable even at temperatures of up to 120 oC. Dr. Johannes Ganster, division director at IAP, explains the principle behind this: 'To make PLA plastics more form-stable at higher temperatures, we introduced stereo complexes with special components of L-lactides and D-lactides. These right-and-left rotating molecules complement each other and make the bond even more stable.'
Corporations have already expressed tremendous interest, because of the huge potential. Production of biopolymers made of PLA is independent of the growing scarcity of petroleum. In addition, they can be readily composted, and they are ideal for recycling by decomposition in lactic acid. The greatest advantage is that they have since become just as durable and sturdy as any petroleum-based plastic, and can even be used for other products, such as protective films, computer housing and shopping bags adding another step towards a bio-sustainable economy that Europe is aiming to reach.
Heated Bathroom Flooring - Starting from the floor up, trendy bath re-modelers often incorporate a ceramic tile floor laid diagonally with ceramic tile base molding. Radiant floor heat or under tile floor heating systems are in demand across Minneapolis luxury homes; the comfort of warmth when stepping into the bathroom is welcoming on Minneapolis winter days. Lifetime Warranty's are offered on select floor warming systems that can be readily transferred from homeowner to homeowner.
Custom Bathroom Tile & Stonework - Tile and stonework can give bathrooms that crisp, spa-like feel that immediately offers the soothing atmosphere of relaxation. Using nature's incentives and the natural elements of earthy and neutral-toned stone is definitely on-trend. Building stone and tile into a bathroom's design is smart looking and moisture resistant. Destiny Home bath remodels are designed to prevent leaks,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? mildew, and mold up front. Porcelain, glass and ceramic tiles are available in inspiring choices. New expanding lines of such tiles are particularity slip resistant.
Eco-friendly Bath Fixtures - Choosing the right bathroom fixtures goes well beyond choices of color and style. “About a quarter of households undertaking home improvement projects in 2011 did so for energy efficiency purposes,” states Harvard's Housing Stock: Ready for Renewal Report. Toilets,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. faucets, shower-heads, and bathtubs are offered with Eco-friendly aspects that can help save homeowners money on water bills in addition to being planet-friendly.
Low-Profile Linear Shower Drains - For safety purposes low-profile linear drains are ideal for zero-threshold shower designs. Home builders are able to minimize the slope of the shower floor, sometimes placing the drain at the outside edge of the shower, creating a wheelchair-friendly curb-less shower. Nearly invisible tile-in channel models end up hidden by shower floor tile are becoming the standard for upscale bathroom remodeling projects.
Well-Insulated Stone Bathtubs - Luxurious bathtubs are a top trend for 2013 bathrooms. From well-insulated stone tubs to trendy freestanding tub styles with depth for soaking, to highly advanced Jacuzzi bathtubs, homeowners can build a five-star quality spa right in their home.
Roof insulation, as the name suggests, insulates the roof, keeping the warmth in and the cold out during the winter, while in the Sumer cool air is kept in and the warm air is kept out. However, a properly insulated roof will save money on heating bills as the heating doesn't have to be kept on to compensate for the warmth that escapes through the roof. For many people this is where their understanding of roof insulation ends.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day.
In line with the EU strategy of cutting annual primary energy consumption by 20% by 2020, researchers from Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoffmechanik have come up with an innovative organic tile. Indeed, these tiles are more resource-efficient than their ceramic counterparts and unlock new creative options for design purposes. Bioplastics made of polylactides (PLA) are becoming more heat-resistant, thereby making them suitable for high-temperature filling processes in the food industry as well.
But what makes them bio? The tiles consist of a mixture of linseed oil epoxy, various natural fibres and diatomaceous earth, a material that is procured from fossilized diatoms. New bio-based tile systems, like the ones designed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Halle, are more environmentally friendly, lighter-weight and - depending on their manufacturing and material properties - more resource- and energy-efficient than conventional ceramic materials. 'The composite is not hard as glass and brittle like conventional epoxy, but flexible and more pliable instead. This makes it easier to work with the tiles,' as Andreas Krombholz, scientist in the natural composites division at IWM, describes another advantage. They also put a completely new spin on architectural perspectives. In the moulding process, they can be shaped on an entirely customized basis, and shaped into squares, triangles or circles, for example.
Even patterns and colours can be tailor-made. Another design advantage is adding fluorescent pigments to the blend, which transforms into light tiles. This means they can be used for both outdoors and indoors, serving as illuminated guideposts on floors and walls. The same bio-tiles can also be installed in kitchens and bathrooms and can serve as indoor floor coverings. There are cost benefits to both producer and customer here: this is because the tiles can handle the impact noise abatement directly, so an entire work step can be dropped from the production process.
Moreover, the packaging industry is increasingly using biopolymers made from polylactides (PLAs) as an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based plastic. They are obtained from corn starch and completely biodegradable.Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. Previously, however, PLA began to soften at about 60 oC,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. so it was not suitable for heat-intensive processes. But now, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam have found a way to make this bioplastic even more heat-resistant. An interesting application comes from the food industry: The filling of yogurt in plastic cups, because this process takes place at higher temperatures. Cups made of PLA stereo complexes retain their shape and remain stable even at temperatures of up to 120 oC. Dr. Johannes Ganster, division director at IAP, explains the principle behind this: 'To make PLA plastics more form-stable at higher temperatures, we introduced stereo complexes with special components of L-lactides and D-lactides. These right-and-left rotating molecules complement each other and make the bond even more stable.'
Corporations have already expressed tremendous interest, because of the huge potential. Production of biopolymers made of PLA is independent of the growing scarcity of petroleum. In addition, they can be readily composted, and they are ideal for recycling by decomposition in lactic acid. The greatest advantage is that they have since become just as durable and sturdy as any petroleum-based plastic, and can even be used for other products, such as protective films, computer housing and shopping bags adding another step towards a bio-sustainable economy that Europe is aiming to reach.
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The High Stakes of Native Resistance
The blossoming of the Idle No More movement signals the return of
native resistance to the political and social landscape of Canada and
Quebec. With its origins in Saskatchewan in October 2012, this mass
movement has taken on the federal government and more specifically the
adoption of Bill C-45. Its origins lay not in the work of established
organizations such as The Assembly of First Nations (although the AFN
fully supports the initiative), but in a grassroots mobilization that
has arisen in several parts of the country. This process echoes other
recent citizen mobilizations such as the student carrés rouges in
Quebec and the worldwide Occupy movement.
Bill C-45 is perceived by native people as an attempt to further weaken their already limited powers to resist the invasion of their lands and the continuing exploitation of their natural resources. In the eyes of these communities, this adds to a long list of initiatives and legislation put forward to undermine their autonomy.
In neo-conservative circles, the existence of First Nations peoples is seen as an anachronism, best relegated to the past. Their future, if indeed they do have one, lies in assimilation into Canadian society.
Even though this attempt at social erasure began prior to the election of the present government, the process of destruction of native culture and identity has intensified under the Harper government.
However, it would be an error to believe that this attack is driven solely by neo-conservative ideology.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. The present strategy of the Conservative government,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. one also shared by the economic elite, sees the occupation of the northern and western stretches of Canada as a key piece of a thoroughgoing re-tooling and refashioning of the Canadian economy, in which Canada, in the words of the Prime Minister, must become an “energy superpower.”
From this perspective one thing is clear – the native populations are in the way. Given this, it also means that it makes little sense to work toward resolving the horrendous health, housing,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. employment and education problems of Attawapiskat and elsewhere.
A brief look at the past is necessary to better understand the present crisis. At the beginning of the 16th century, the French colonists came into contact and conflict with native communities. These encounters provoked a long history of resistance by native peoples on both shores of the St-Lawrence. More through necessity than through choice, France was forced to come to an agreement, the Great Montreal Peace of 1701, to share the territory. This,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? in turn, led to the somewhat surprising Franco-Native alliance which then jointly resisted the British imperial forces.
But during the 18th century, the British forces prevailed and the process of colonization continued apace.
This economy was built upon the pillage of natural resources and the subjugation of the native and French-Canadian populations. Then, in 1837, came the revolt of the Patriotes in Quebec. This uprising, with republican impulses, demanded democratic reform and insisted that the native population have the same rights as all. But the British forces were too powerful and these promising efforts were defeated. The colonial power then proceeded to attempt to extend and consolidate its control over the western frontier, an area occupied by several important native communities, including the Métis of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This resistance also suffered a bloody defeat.
In 1867, Canada emerged as a semi-independent state. The Anglo-Canadian elite, learning their lessons well from the Empire, adopted the imperial tactic of divide and rule. The subjugated peoples were in disarray and their elites co-opted into the colonial apparatus. The native populations were herded onto reserves after signing treaties under unfavourable conditions which provided few benefits.
Following the Second World War, the Canadian variant of capitalism aligned itself with a new empire – the American one this time, a growing colossus desperate for resources. This led to a series of megaprojects in the hydro-electric and oil sectors in the 1950s and 60s. At the same time, the Canadian state, under the rubric of ‘modernization,’ moved to further reduce the autonomy of native communities, all the while refusing to address the colonial relationship imposed upon native peoples.
In the 1970s, the federal state was challenged by the national and political movements in Quebec. The Parti Québécois wanted to build a Quebec nation, within the context of North American capitalism, but with local control of natural resources.
From the Quebec side, the relations with natives remained ambiguous. Both had aspirations to nationhood but the lines were never clearly drawn as to the question of the division of territory. However, concessions were forced on all sides as the federalist forces in Ottawa had to be faced.
The native populations saw an opening and attempted to mobilize. And it was the Cree in Quebec who succeeded in opening a serious breach. They managed, in negotiating the James Bay Agreement, to obtain certain new powers, as well as financial resources, in exchange for allowing Quebec to develop important hydro-electric projects on their territory. This turn of events sparked native resistance in the rest of Canada who looked to follow the Cree example and gain similar victories. But it was a no go in the West and in Ontario. Negotiations dragged on interminably and gains were minimal.
Following the defeat of the indépendantist project in Quebec in the 1990s, new conflicts surfaced. The Oka Crisis is the start of a cycle of resistance in several native communities close to urban areas. Mass actions, such as the blockading of highways, spread throughout Ontario, Northern Quebec and elsewhere.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. At the same time, the development of natural resources became an imperative for Canadian capital, more and more in synch with its American counterparts. Native groups and the Assembly of First Nations were pushed into a corner, leading to their opposition to the constitutional reform of Meech Lake from which they were excluded.
Finally in 2006, Stephen Harper undertook to recast the Canadian state and put in place a no-holds barred capitalism wrapped in religious rhetoric and social conservatism.
The First Nations have no place in this neo-conservative world. Territorial claims are off the table and the administrative framework for dealing with these communities had to be dismantled. To justify this abrupt and drastic change of course, the government, with the help of a compliant media, mounted a major campaign of denigration and defamation. However, the native people didn't back down. A striking example of this resistance was the setting up of roadblocks by the Atikamekw Nation to deny access to companies seeking to exploit forest resources on their land.
Bill C-45 is perceived by native people as an attempt to further weaken their already limited powers to resist the invasion of their lands and the continuing exploitation of their natural resources. In the eyes of these communities, this adds to a long list of initiatives and legislation put forward to undermine their autonomy.
In neo-conservative circles, the existence of First Nations peoples is seen as an anachronism, best relegated to the past. Their future, if indeed they do have one, lies in assimilation into Canadian society.
Even though this attempt at social erasure began prior to the election of the present government, the process of destruction of native culture and identity has intensified under the Harper government.
However, it would be an error to believe that this attack is driven solely by neo-conservative ideology.Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products. The present strategy of the Conservative government,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. one also shared by the economic elite, sees the occupation of the northern and western stretches of Canada as a key piece of a thoroughgoing re-tooling and refashioning of the Canadian economy, in which Canada, in the words of the Prime Minister, must become an “energy superpower.”
From this perspective one thing is clear – the native populations are in the way. Given this, it also means that it makes little sense to work toward resolving the horrendous health, housing,Ein innovativer und moderner Werkzeugbau Formenbau. employment and education problems of Attawapiskat and elsewhere.
A brief look at the past is necessary to better understand the present crisis. At the beginning of the 16th century, the French colonists came into contact and conflict with native communities. These encounters provoked a long history of resistance by native peoples on both shores of the St-Lawrence. More through necessity than through choice, France was forced to come to an agreement, the Great Montreal Peace of 1701, to share the territory. This,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? in turn, led to the somewhat surprising Franco-Native alliance which then jointly resisted the British imperial forces.
But during the 18th century, the British forces prevailed and the process of colonization continued apace.
This economy was built upon the pillage of natural resources and the subjugation of the native and French-Canadian populations. Then, in 1837, came the revolt of the Patriotes in Quebec. This uprising, with republican impulses, demanded democratic reform and insisted that the native population have the same rights as all. But the British forces were too powerful and these promising efforts were defeated. The colonial power then proceeded to attempt to extend and consolidate its control over the western frontier, an area occupied by several important native communities, including the Métis of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This resistance also suffered a bloody defeat.
In 1867, Canada emerged as a semi-independent state. The Anglo-Canadian elite, learning their lessons well from the Empire, adopted the imperial tactic of divide and rule. The subjugated peoples were in disarray and their elites co-opted into the colonial apparatus. The native populations were herded onto reserves after signing treaties under unfavourable conditions which provided few benefits.
Following the Second World War, the Canadian variant of capitalism aligned itself with a new empire – the American one this time, a growing colossus desperate for resources. This led to a series of megaprojects in the hydro-electric and oil sectors in the 1950s and 60s. At the same time, the Canadian state, under the rubric of ‘modernization,’ moved to further reduce the autonomy of native communities, all the while refusing to address the colonial relationship imposed upon native peoples.
In the 1970s, the federal state was challenged by the national and political movements in Quebec. The Parti Québécois wanted to build a Quebec nation, within the context of North American capitalism, but with local control of natural resources.
From the Quebec side, the relations with natives remained ambiguous. Both had aspirations to nationhood but the lines were never clearly drawn as to the question of the division of territory. However, concessions were forced on all sides as the federalist forces in Ottawa had to be faced.
The native populations saw an opening and attempted to mobilize. And it was the Cree in Quebec who succeeded in opening a serious breach. They managed, in negotiating the James Bay Agreement, to obtain certain new powers, as well as financial resources, in exchange for allowing Quebec to develop important hydro-electric projects on their territory. This turn of events sparked native resistance in the rest of Canada who looked to follow the Cree example and gain similar victories. But it was a no go in the West and in Ontario. Negotiations dragged on interminably and gains were minimal.
Following the defeat of the indépendantist project in Quebec in the 1990s, new conflicts surfaced. The Oka Crisis is the start of a cycle of resistance in several native communities close to urban areas. Mass actions, such as the blockading of highways, spread throughout Ontario, Northern Quebec and elsewhere.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. At the same time, the development of natural resources became an imperative for Canadian capital, more and more in synch with its American counterparts. Native groups and the Assembly of First Nations were pushed into a corner, leading to their opposition to the constitutional reform of Meech Lake from which they were excluded.
Finally in 2006, Stephen Harper undertook to recast the Canadian state and put in place a no-holds barred capitalism wrapped in religious rhetoric and social conservatism.
The First Nations have no place in this neo-conservative world. Territorial claims are off the table and the administrative framework for dealing with these communities had to be dismantled. To justify this abrupt and drastic change of course, the government, with the help of a compliant media, mounted a major campaign of denigration and defamation. However, the native people didn't back down. A striking example of this resistance was the setting up of roadblocks by the Atikamekw Nation to deny access to companies seeking to exploit forest resources on their land.
Lauderdale County art show slated this weekend
Students across Lauderdale County are busy this week putting
finishing touches on their entries for the school district’s eighth
annual special education art show this weekend.
Fifty-nine students from throughout Lauderdale County schools will participate in the show with their paintings on display at Regency Square Mall from Feb.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. 1-Feb. 15. Winners will be announced Feb. 16.
A panel of judges will determine the winner, awarding Best of Show to the overall winning piece. There also will be a People’s Choice award, which will be decided by the voting public.
Last year, 650 votes were cast in the People’s Choice category, according to art teacher Sonya Skipworth.
“This show is about showing the public what we see every day, what these students can do instead of any limitations they may have,” Skipworth said. “The interest in this show has grown phenomenally. And, it’s competitive. These students have worked hard, and they want to win.”
For the past three years, Brooks High School student Evan Threet has won Best of Show.
This year, Tim “Tater” Scott is out to take the title with his landscape painting of a tree-lined lake with nature’s reflections on the water. In the corner of the painting is a University of Alabama trademark “A,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.” reflective of Scott’s passion for the school’s athletics.
“I was second last year, and I don’t want to be second again,” Scott said. “I took a picture off my cellphone and painted it.”
Scott said he enjoys art and has worked on his painting since the fall. Also an athlete, Scott said he can’t help but be competitive, even with his art.
“I want to win first place and stay there until I graduate,” he said.
His 11 classmates also have been working on their paintings since mid-October. Michaela Pruitt painted a skyscraper in a line of buildings. A music lover, she said a song about a skyscraper inspired her painting.
“I got a first place ribbon last year,” Pruitt said. “I really like this painting. It may win.”
Student Austin Dodd painted geometric shapes in crimson and gray with an Alabama “A” inside one of the shapes.
“We were supposed to paint what we love, and I love Alabama,” Dodd said.
Leanna Rhodes, Wilson’s special education teacher, said her students have taken their art projects seriously, looking forward to showcasing their talents, especially Scott.
“He’s a leader in my class, always reliable and responsible,” Rhodes said. “He has made sure that everyone has stayed on track with their art projects since they started in the fall. It’s an exciting time for these students.”
“This has really opened doors for these students, and it has become a much-anticipated yearly event,” she said. “To see their work is really heartwarming. When you realize the kind of time and effort they put into their paintings, it really puts life in perspective.”
It has happened over and over again in the past few years. Someone in their 20s tells me how much they love Fleetwood Mac, and in particular its monster-selling album Rumours. My reaction is always the same. Their reaction is invariably deep surprise. I could never stand that record.
In 1977, when Fleetwood Mac's 11th studio album came out, I was working in a record store in Rockville, Maryland. Needless to say, I heard Rumours a lot. I know the songs all too well. In fact, 35 years later I can still tell you the label and number on the spine of the record: Warner BSK 3010.
But it wasn't the constant in store listening that turned me off to Rumours. To understand my indifference — verging on disdain — toward this record, you have to think about the state of rock music in 1977. Here's what was selling well back then: the Bee Gees, The Eagles, Abba, KC and the Sunshine Band, Wings, Barry Manilow. In this era, of course, Rumours was number one for 31 weeks. It was the ultimate easy listening album, a mere refinement on what felt like an old L.A. rock formula. But for a music geek looking for new adventures in music, what was great about 1977 were the brash fresh faces and sounds coming out of New York and London. Toward the end of 1976, Patti Smith had led the way for me, and then '77 gave us the debut albums by Talking Heads, Television, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Wire, Elvis Costello, The Clash and on and on and on.
Having come from a generation that saw huge changes to the musical landscape, I always expected music to mine new territory. And in the early '70s — with Pink Floyd and Genesis, Bowie and Eno, even Elton John and Electric Light Orchestra — rock was taking chances. But at some point, it got comfy and really bloated and we wound up with Kansas, The Doobie Brothers and the Captain and Tennille.
So 1977 felt like one generation giving the big finger to the the previous one, and it felt good. Rock was shedding its skin, it was a constant amazing rush of wonder and surprise. Attitudes changed. My musical heroes were more likely to be DIY kids than superstars in supergroups. The shows I went to moved from soulless stadiums and arenas to clubs and found spaces. Small labels with tightly defined sounds were popping up everywhere, another middle finger to the corporate bloat that shaped and controlled the music we heard. We think of the Internet as redefining the music industry, but it had a precursor here.
We're a lot more territorial about music we share and hear in our teens and twenties. Back in 1977,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? my world had zero room or tolerance for a middle-of-the-road, though pretty,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. rock band like Fleetwood Mac. The shiny production on Rumours felt planned and orderly, which made it suitable for moms and dads in their 30s and up but not for unsettled 20-year-olds and teens. Which makes me wonder why so many in this generation are latching on to that sound.
This morning, 35 years after its release, I thought I'd give Rumours another chance and wirelessly streamed it to my home stereo. For the most part that perfect shine didn't sound as shiny. The pop charts these days are filled with clinical perfection, beats locked to clocks and sequencers that makes Rumours feel more like a casual home recording. Once I got past some of the goofy lyrics, I found it to be a fine record, one whose influence is all over many of the records I hear now. Fleet Foxes really aren't that far from Fleetwood Mac in name or in sound ..Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.. a bit darker, perhaps. And where Fleetwood Mac, in 1977, was on the extreme pop side of the musical scale, Fleet Foxes feels somewhere in the middle, given the much more extreme landscape today, with, let's say, Carly Rae Jepsen on one side and, say, Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the extreme side.
It's all relative. In 2013, the lockstep dance beats — the heart of electronic dance music — and the drummers playing to click tracks — the heart of pop — make Rumours feel organic. And look at the cover art, with its wistful and graceful image of the soon-to-be-couple Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks. Back then they seemed like hippies dressed too well. These days it seems like a painting from a long ago past, almost renaissance.
I understand how art can be seen in such different light, that it's never as simple as just the music, that it's always wrapped up in the cultural zeitgeist. And most importantly, there's no right or wrong to loving what you love. But it's wise to keep an open mind, and that's easier to do as you get older. That said, I won't be putting Rumours back on the stereo anytime soon. Though there's strong songwriting on the record and the drums and harmonies stand out, there are plenty of bands these days making music equally wonderful and — for me — without the taint of the past.
Fifty-nine students from throughout Lauderdale County schools will participate in the show with their paintings on display at Regency Square Mall from Feb.We offers custom Injection Mold parts in as fast as 1 day. 1-Feb. 15. Winners will be announced Feb. 16.
A panel of judges will determine the winner, awarding Best of Show to the overall winning piece. There also will be a People’s Choice award, which will be decided by the voting public.
Last year, 650 votes were cast in the People’s Choice category, according to art teacher Sonya Skipworth.
“This show is about showing the public what we see every day, what these students can do instead of any limitations they may have,” Skipworth said. “The interest in this show has grown phenomenally. And, it’s competitive. These students have worked hard, and they want to win.”
For the past three years, Brooks High School student Evan Threet has won Best of Show.
This year, Tim “Tater” Scott is out to take the title with his landscape painting of a tree-lined lake with nature’s reflections on the water. In the corner of the painting is a University of Alabama trademark “A,Bay State Cable Ties is a full line manufacturer of nylon cable ties and related products.” reflective of Scott’s passion for the school’s athletics.
“I was second last year, and I don’t want to be second again,” Scott said. “I took a picture off my cellphone and painted it.”
Scott said he enjoys art and has worked on his painting since the fall. Also an athlete, Scott said he can’t help but be competitive, even with his art.
“I want to win first place and stay there until I graduate,” he said.
His 11 classmates also have been working on their paintings since mid-October. Michaela Pruitt painted a skyscraper in a line of buildings. A music lover, she said a song about a skyscraper inspired her painting.
“I got a first place ribbon last year,” Pruitt said. “I really like this painting. It may win.”
Student Austin Dodd painted geometric shapes in crimson and gray with an Alabama “A” inside one of the shapes.
“We were supposed to paint what we love, and I love Alabama,” Dodd said.
Leanna Rhodes, Wilson’s special education teacher, said her students have taken their art projects seriously, looking forward to showcasing their talents, especially Scott.
“He’s a leader in my class, always reliable and responsible,” Rhodes said. “He has made sure that everyone has stayed on track with their art projects since they started in the fall. It’s an exciting time for these students.”
“This has really opened doors for these students, and it has become a much-anticipated yearly event,” she said. “To see their work is really heartwarming. When you realize the kind of time and effort they put into their paintings, it really puts life in perspective.”
It has happened over and over again in the past few years. Someone in their 20s tells me how much they love Fleetwood Mac, and in particular its monster-selling album Rumours. My reaction is always the same. Their reaction is invariably deep surprise. I could never stand that record.
In 1977, when Fleetwood Mac's 11th studio album came out, I was working in a record store in Rockville, Maryland. Needless to say, I heard Rumours a lot. I know the songs all too well. In fact, 35 years later I can still tell you the label and number on the spine of the record: Warner BSK 3010.
But it wasn't the constant in store listening that turned me off to Rumours. To understand my indifference — verging on disdain — toward this record, you have to think about the state of rock music in 1977. Here's what was selling well back then: the Bee Gees, The Eagles, Abba, KC and the Sunshine Band, Wings, Barry Manilow. In this era, of course, Rumours was number one for 31 weeks. It was the ultimate easy listening album, a mere refinement on what felt like an old L.A. rock formula. But for a music geek looking for new adventures in music, what was great about 1977 were the brash fresh faces and sounds coming out of New York and London. Toward the end of 1976, Patti Smith had led the way for me, and then '77 gave us the debut albums by Talking Heads, Television, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Wire, Elvis Costello, The Clash and on and on and on.
Having come from a generation that saw huge changes to the musical landscape, I always expected music to mine new territory. And in the early '70s — with Pink Floyd and Genesis, Bowie and Eno, even Elton John and Electric Light Orchestra — rock was taking chances. But at some point, it got comfy and really bloated and we wound up with Kansas, The Doobie Brothers and the Captain and Tennille.
So 1977 felt like one generation giving the big finger to the the previous one, and it felt good. Rock was shedding its skin, it was a constant amazing rush of wonder and surprise. Attitudes changed. My musical heroes were more likely to be DIY kids than superstars in supergroups. The shows I went to moved from soulless stadiums and arenas to clubs and found spaces. Small labels with tightly defined sounds were popping up everywhere, another middle finger to the corporate bloat that shaped and controlled the music we heard. We think of the Internet as redefining the music industry, but it had a precursor here.
We're a lot more territorial about music we share and hear in our teens and twenties. Back in 1977,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? my world had zero room or tolerance for a middle-of-the-road, though pretty,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker are on LinkedIn. rock band like Fleetwood Mac. The shiny production on Rumours felt planned and orderly, which made it suitable for moms and dads in their 30s and up but not for unsettled 20-year-olds and teens. Which makes me wonder why so many in this generation are latching on to that sound.
This morning, 35 years after its release, I thought I'd give Rumours another chance and wirelessly streamed it to my home stereo. For the most part that perfect shine didn't sound as shiny. The pop charts these days are filled with clinical perfection, beats locked to clocks and sequencers that makes Rumours feel more like a casual home recording. Once I got past some of the goofy lyrics, I found it to be a fine record, one whose influence is all over many of the records I hear now. Fleet Foxes really aren't that far from Fleetwood Mac in name or in sound ..Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh.. a bit darker, perhaps. And where Fleetwood Mac, in 1977, was on the extreme pop side of the musical scale, Fleet Foxes feels somewhere in the middle, given the much more extreme landscape today, with, let's say, Carly Rae Jepsen on one side and, say, Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the extreme side.
It's all relative. In 2013, the lockstep dance beats — the heart of electronic dance music — and the drummers playing to click tracks — the heart of pop — make Rumours feel organic. And look at the cover art, with its wistful and graceful image of the soon-to-be-couple Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks. Back then they seemed like hippies dressed too well. These days it seems like a painting from a long ago past, almost renaissance.
I understand how art can be seen in such different light, that it's never as simple as just the music, that it's always wrapped up in the cultural zeitgeist. And most importantly, there's no right or wrong to loving what you love. But it's wise to keep an open mind, and that's easier to do as you get older. That said, I won't be putting Rumours back on the stereo anytime soon. Though there's strong songwriting on the record and the drums and harmonies stand out, there are plenty of bands these days making music equally wonderful and — for me — without the taint of the past.
2013年1月28日 星期一
Bosch accelerates development of autonomous driving
Bosch already provides high-performance assistance systems, including
Adaptive Cruise Control and Predictive Emergency Braking System, to
help drivers reach their destinations safely and more comfortably.
Its technologies can also alert drivers to traffic jams and redirect them, as well as manoeuvre vehicles into the tightest of parking spaces. In the near future, Bosch’s systems will extend to a traffic jam assistant,Which Air purifier is right for you? which will brake, accelerate, and steer vehicles autonomously at speeds between 0 and 30 miles per hour.
Last year, Bosch surveyed UK motorists about their attitudes towards autonomous driving, finding that nearly one in three drivers would already consider buying a vehicle that could be driven autonomously.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. More than a quarter of drivers – and more than half of young drivers – said they would enjoy an autonomous car as much as driving themselves.
“The traffic jam assistant helps drivers arrive more relaxed at their destination, even in dense traffic,” said Gerhard Steiger, president of the Bosch Chassis Systems Control division. No doubt many UK motorists who thought an autonomous car would be as enjoyable as driving themselves were imagining a vehicle that could relieve the stress of the daily commute.
The first generation of the traffic jam assistant is expected to enter series production in 2014. In the following years,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. the feature will be enhanced to cover ever-faster speeds and more complex driving situations. Eventually, the traffic jam assistant will make fully autonomous driving a reality.
Adaptive Cruise Control already uses front-mounted sensors to keep a safe distance from the preceding vehicle in front, with Land Departure Warning using lane-detection cameras to keep vehicles on course.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. For fully autonomous driving, the next step would be automatic lane changing, which would require firstly a rear-mounted sensor to detect vehicles approaching from behind and secondly a dynamic navigation system to keep drivers informed of traffic situations and local speed restrictions.
Bosch offers its vehicle manufacturer customers all of the sensors and systems required in developing autonomous driving technologies. For example, Bosch’s high-performance long-range radar sensor can detect objects up to 250 metres away. In addition, a stereo video camera can detect objects in 3D, calculating how far objects are away from a vehicle, as well as the direction in which they are moving.
“Fully autonomous driving will come about one step at a time,” Steiger says. At first, driving on highways with an ever greater degree of automation and at ever higher speeds will be possible, until the highway pilot can take over the entire trip.
“Two major challenges remain: first, inner-city driving, since automated vehicle functions have to deal with dense traffic involving a large number of road users traveling in every direction; and second, developing a concept to ensure that the system’s functions operate reliably in all types of driving situation.
There is a large chrome grille that dominates, flanked by sleek headlight assemblies that give the front a somewhat menacing look – especially with the lights turned on.
In profile, the Fusion’s new lines make a for a nice silhouette with steeply raked front and rear glass.
The back end features narrow wraparound tail lights and a very large opening for the trunk, which extends down well into the bumper. It’s a bit unusual, but it works.
As a whole, the exterior package makes the Fusion look decidedly more upscale that you might expect.
On the inside, there are a few issues that have to do with fit and finish rather than design and layout, which is fine.
For starters, the ceiling-mounted holder for your sunglasses was loose and appeared ready to come right out of its place with one hard tug.
Then there was a piece of plastic placed in the centre console to mirror the location of the electronic parking brake. That piece, too, felt rather poorly secured.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?
There are several engine options available on the Fusion, starting with the 2.5-litre four-cylinder that is standard on the S and SE trims. Then you have an optional 2.0L EcoBoost and a hybrid powertrain.
The fourth engine is only available as an option on the SE I drove, which is the 1.6L EcoBoost engine. It delivers 173 horsepower and 184 foot-pounds of torque through a six-speed automatic transmission.
This setup delivers an estimated fuel economy of 8.7 litres per 100 kilometres in the city and 5.5 L/100 km on the highway. With me behind the wheel, the average worked out to 11.1 L/100 km in a mix of city and highway cruising. Then again, it was also a terribly cold week in Montreal.
If I had experienced issues with some transmissions in other Ford models, that was not the case with the Fusion. The system worked its way through the six gears will little fuss, and when a dropdown was needed for a little extra giddy-up on the highway, there was no hesitation.
Its technologies can also alert drivers to traffic jams and redirect them, as well as manoeuvre vehicles into the tightest of parking spaces. In the near future, Bosch’s systems will extend to a traffic jam assistant,Which Air purifier is right for you? which will brake, accelerate, and steer vehicles autonomously at speeds between 0 and 30 miles per hour.
Last year, Bosch surveyed UK motorists about their attitudes towards autonomous driving, finding that nearly one in three drivers would already consider buying a vehicle that could be driven autonomously.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. More than a quarter of drivers – and more than half of young drivers – said they would enjoy an autonomous car as much as driving themselves.
“The traffic jam assistant helps drivers arrive more relaxed at their destination, even in dense traffic,” said Gerhard Steiger, president of the Bosch Chassis Systems Control division. No doubt many UK motorists who thought an autonomous car would be as enjoyable as driving themselves were imagining a vehicle that could relieve the stress of the daily commute.
The first generation of the traffic jam assistant is expected to enter series production in 2014. In the following years,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. the feature will be enhanced to cover ever-faster speeds and more complex driving situations. Eventually, the traffic jam assistant will make fully autonomous driving a reality.
Adaptive Cruise Control already uses front-mounted sensors to keep a safe distance from the preceding vehicle in front, with Land Departure Warning using lane-detection cameras to keep vehicles on course.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. For fully autonomous driving, the next step would be automatic lane changing, which would require firstly a rear-mounted sensor to detect vehicles approaching from behind and secondly a dynamic navigation system to keep drivers informed of traffic situations and local speed restrictions.
Bosch offers its vehicle manufacturer customers all of the sensors and systems required in developing autonomous driving technologies. For example, Bosch’s high-performance long-range radar sensor can detect objects up to 250 metres away. In addition, a stereo video camera can detect objects in 3D, calculating how far objects are away from a vehicle, as well as the direction in which they are moving.
“Fully autonomous driving will come about one step at a time,” Steiger says. At first, driving on highways with an ever greater degree of automation and at ever higher speeds will be possible, until the highway pilot can take over the entire trip.
“Two major challenges remain: first, inner-city driving, since automated vehicle functions have to deal with dense traffic involving a large number of road users traveling in every direction; and second, developing a concept to ensure that the system’s functions operate reliably in all types of driving situation.
There is a large chrome grille that dominates, flanked by sleek headlight assemblies that give the front a somewhat menacing look – especially with the lights turned on.
In profile, the Fusion’s new lines make a for a nice silhouette with steeply raked front and rear glass.
The back end features narrow wraparound tail lights and a very large opening for the trunk, which extends down well into the bumper. It’s a bit unusual, but it works.
As a whole, the exterior package makes the Fusion look decidedly more upscale that you might expect.
On the inside, there are a few issues that have to do with fit and finish rather than design and layout, which is fine.
For starters, the ceiling-mounted holder for your sunglasses was loose and appeared ready to come right out of its place with one hard tug.
Then there was a piece of plastic placed in the centre console to mirror the location of the electronic parking brake. That piece, too, felt rather poorly secured.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?
There are several engine options available on the Fusion, starting with the 2.5-litre four-cylinder that is standard on the S and SE trims. Then you have an optional 2.0L EcoBoost and a hybrid powertrain.
The fourth engine is only available as an option on the SE I drove, which is the 1.6L EcoBoost engine. It delivers 173 horsepower and 184 foot-pounds of torque through a six-speed automatic transmission.
This setup delivers an estimated fuel economy of 8.7 litres per 100 kilometres in the city and 5.5 L/100 km on the highway. With me behind the wheel, the average worked out to 11.1 L/100 km in a mix of city and highway cruising. Then again, it was also a terribly cold week in Montreal.
If I had experienced issues with some transmissions in other Ford models, that was not the case with the Fusion. The system worked its way through the six gears will little fuss, and when a dropdown was needed for a little extra giddy-up on the highway, there was no hesitation.
Police outline Up-Helly-A’ traffic restrictions
Police in Lerwick are advising the motoring public to bear in mind the effects on traffic Up-Helly-A’ will cause on Tuesday.
As in previous years, police are putting measures in place to try and minimise traffic congestion, particularly during the morning and evening.
Residents in the affected streets are asked to remove their vehicles from the road and leave them outwith the parade route if they require to use them during the processions.
The morning procession will assemble at Islesburgh at around 8.30am and will march to the Toll Clock Shopping Centre via King Harald Street, King Haakon Street, St Sunniva Street and Gilbertson Road. They will stop and enter the Toll Clock via the lane between Frank Williamson’s and the old fire station.
While this is happening the galley will make its way from the Galley Shed at St Sunniva Street, down Gilbertson Road, onto North Road and will stop at the British Legion to await the Jarl’s Squad.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.
After meeting with management at the Toll Clock, the Jarl’s Squad will re-form and march to the British legion where they will meet up with the galley and march to the Bressay Slip, arriving at approximately 10.05am.
Traffic will be subject to delay as the Jarl’s Squad and the galley make their way through the town in the morning. Motorists are strongly advised to avoid this area if possible and use alternative routes.
The area of Upper and Lower Hillhead, King Erik Street, the Town Hall brae,Which Air purifier is right for you? St Olaf Street, Union Street,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? Prince Alfred Street, King Harald Street, Harbour Street and Market Street will be subject to parking restrictions all day. They will be closed to all traffic from about 4pm until after the area is cleared following the burning ceremony.
Arrangements have been made for a limited amount of space for disabled people’s vehicles on King Erik Street outside King Erik House. Police are appealing to people to arrive early as no spaces can be guaranteed.
A one-way traffic system from north to south will be in force in Burgh Road. Anyone parking in Burgh Road before the system is introduced is asked to park facing Scalloway Road to ensure a safe and speedy exit from the area. Motorists parking in Gilbertson Road are “strongly advised” to park facing northwards, exiting via the North Road.
A police spokesperson said: “These measures are intended to enable people to enjoy the spectacle to the full and for a safe and rapid dispersal of traffic afterwards
“All motorists are asked in their own interests to comply with these measures. In recent years, they have successfully minimised traffic congestions and delays.
“It may appear that the restrictions imposed come into effect some time before the various parades, but drivers can be assured that this is for good reason.
“Every year the police have to spend many hours trying to trace drivers who have left their vehicles in defiance of the no parking signs. While these drivers may intend to return and move their cars before the main parade, the police cannot be sure of this.
“For safety reasons they cannot afford to wait until the last moment to start the time-consuming task to trace the owner and have the vehicle moved.
“Any vehicles parked in contravention of the traffic regulation orders will be liable to be towed away and the driver will be liable for the cost, as well as prosecution.”
The Yale Vision system provides a tiered offering of wireless monitoring, wireless access and wireless verifications.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. With basic monitoring, lift truck operations are able to utilize a variety of tracking capabilities, including hour meter, cost of operations, periodic maintenance, fault code, impact monitoring, operator training, parking brake and seat belt violation and speed alerts. This breadth of monitoring helps operations effectively manage the fleet of lift trucks and their operators to aid in providing greater productivity and efficiency. Emails can also be sent automatically when certain faults or impacts occur, improving information available when reviewing incidents.
With the wireless access tier added on, operations receive the monitoring level as well as operator access control and idle shutdown control. For operator access, Yale Vision knows who is operating the equipment and can keep untrained personnel from accessing or operating a piece of equipment.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. This increased operator accountability can improve driving behaviors and reduce damage or repair needs to equipment. The idle shutdown feature will power off equipment following a pre-identified amount of time if the equipment is tracked as idling or unattended, reducing excess fuel costs and preventing running equipment from being left unattended.
As in previous years, police are putting measures in place to try and minimise traffic congestion, particularly during the morning and evening.
Residents in the affected streets are asked to remove their vehicles from the road and leave them outwith the parade route if they require to use them during the processions.
The morning procession will assemble at Islesburgh at around 8.30am and will march to the Toll Clock Shopping Centre via King Harald Street, King Haakon Street, St Sunniva Street and Gilbertson Road. They will stop and enter the Toll Clock via the lane between Frank Williamson’s and the old fire station.
While this is happening the galley will make its way from the Galley Shed at St Sunniva Street, down Gilbertson Road, onto North Road and will stop at the British Legion to await the Jarl’s Squad.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality.
After meeting with management at the Toll Clock, the Jarl’s Squad will re-form and march to the British legion where they will meet up with the galley and march to the Bressay Slip, arriving at approximately 10.05am.
Traffic will be subject to delay as the Jarl’s Squad and the galley make their way through the town in the morning. Motorists are strongly advised to avoid this area if possible and use alternative routes.
The area of Upper and Lower Hillhead, King Erik Street, the Town Hall brae,Which Air purifier is right for you? St Olaf Street, Union Street,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? Prince Alfred Street, King Harald Street, Harbour Street and Market Street will be subject to parking restrictions all day. They will be closed to all traffic from about 4pm until after the area is cleared following the burning ceremony.
Arrangements have been made for a limited amount of space for disabled people’s vehicles on King Erik Street outside King Erik House. Police are appealing to people to arrive early as no spaces can be guaranteed.
A one-way traffic system from north to south will be in force in Burgh Road. Anyone parking in Burgh Road before the system is introduced is asked to park facing Scalloway Road to ensure a safe and speedy exit from the area. Motorists parking in Gilbertson Road are “strongly advised” to park facing northwards, exiting via the North Road.
A police spokesperson said: “These measures are intended to enable people to enjoy the spectacle to the full and for a safe and rapid dispersal of traffic afterwards
“All motorists are asked in their own interests to comply with these measures. In recent years, they have successfully minimised traffic congestions and delays.
“It may appear that the restrictions imposed come into effect some time before the various parades, but drivers can be assured that this is for good reason.
“Every year the police have to spend many hours trying to trace drivers who have left their vehicles in defiance of the no parking signs. While these drivers may intend to return and move their cars before the main parade, the police cannot be sure of this.
“For safety reasons they cannot afford to wait until the last moment to start the time-consuming task to trace the owner and have the vehicle moved.
“Any vehicles parked in contravention of the traffic regulation orders will be liable to be towed away and the driver will be liable for the cost, as well as prosecution.”
The Yale Vision system provides a tiered offering of wireless monitoring, wireless access and wireless verifications.Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing. With basic monitoring, lift truck operations are able to utilize a variety of tracking capabilities, including hour meter, cost of operations, periodic maintenance, fault code, impact monitoring, operator training, parking brake and seat belt violation and speed alerts. This breadth of monitoring helps operations effectively manage the fleet of lift trucks and their operators to aid in providing greater productivity and efficiency. Emails can also be sent automatically when certain faults or impacts occur, improving information available when reviewing incidents.
With the wireless access tier added on, operations receive the monitoring level as well as operator access control and idle shutdown control. For operator access, Yale Vision knows who is operating the equipment and can keep untrained personnel from accessing or operating a piece of equipment.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. This increased operator accountability can improve driving behaviors and reduce damage or repair needs to equipment. The idle shutdown feature will power off equipment following a pre-identified amount of time if the equipment is tracked as idling or unattended, reducing excess fuel costs and preventing running equipment from being left unattended.
Taking the pain out of payments
Anyone who has received a new style Visa Debit card from their bank
will probably have noticed a new feature on it – a contactless payment
facility. This allows low-value transactions – less than €15 in Ireland –
to be conducted simply by passing the card over a machine reader.
There is no need to insert the card into a reader or even touch the reader with the card and no PIN is required. It’s quick and easy and makes things a lot more convenient both for cardholders and retailers.
This new payment mechanism is enabled by a microchip and antenna embedded inside the card itself. The chip and antenna receive power transmitted by the machine reader and they transmit the information required for the payment back to it.
This is the same technology now in use in passports worldwide. Those queues at passport control in Dublin Airport could soon be a thing of the past if the hardware to read passports electronically is installed.
This would allow everyone with a modern passport simply to wave it over a reader with all their information appearing on screen in front of the person at the checkpoint. No need to hand a passport over for a person to scan it or physically read it again, making the process a lot quicker and easier.
But there are some drawbacks to the new technology, and Irish company AmaTech is at the forefront of developing solutions to them. These issues include difficulties encountered with the actual insertion of the electronic components into the cards or documents, and problems with the connection between the chip and the antenna.
“Our founder and chief executive David Finn has written over 50 patents in this area and wrote the original patent for electronic card inlays back in the 1990s,” says AmaTech financial controller Mark Rafferty.
“The company is structured around his background and we have two divisions – an inlay production facility in Galway which develops and manufactures products for the electronic inlay industry and a machine engineering business in the Bavarian Alps which offers proprietary engineering expertise for production platform development for the industry.”
The German division is very important as it means that the company has the capacity to design and develop the machinery required to manufacture and implement its own inventions and innovations. “Research and development are at the core of the company,” says Rafferty.
“Having the two divisions means we can work with the production and machine engineering guys at the same time. For example, if a new bank card comes out with a new type of electronic inlay inside it our engineering group can look at that to design the machine required to manufacture it. This is important to the industry which wants to be able to manufacture the cards as efficiently as possible.”
Where AmaTech really scores is its innovative technology for the new contactless payment cards. As Rafferty explains,Which Air purifier is right for you? the new cards incorporate a wire antenna that runs around the card near its edge and is connected to the chip which contains all of the payment and account information.
Normal usage, however, presents certain difficulties for this arrangement.
“Modern cards are dual interface cards,” he points out. “They have the traditional chip and PIN payment system where you put the card into the reader and enter your PIN.
“They also have RFID [radio frequency identifier] technology built in to allow for contactless payment. Contactless payment doesn’t require a PIN and just involves the cardholder passing it over or near a reader. This speeds up transactions enormously. It has been estimated that a standard chip and PIN payment takes about 40 seconds to execute but a contactless payment takes about 15.”
This is very important for businesses with high volumes of relatively low-value transactions and the new technology is already in widespread use in popular fast-food chains and coffee shops in the US. It is also gaining in popularity in Europe and many Irish retailers are installing the technology.
The problem with normal usage is the way people use the cards. “They put the cards in wallets where they get bent and putting them in ATMs and so on causes wear and tear as well,” Rafferty explains. “Over time this can break the connection between the antenna and the chip and this means the contactless payments function will no longer operate and people will have to replace cards with all the inconvenience and expense that causes. We have enhanced the quality and reliability of cards with our reactive coupling technology which removes the need to interconnect the outer antenna with the chip. This means that the cards are much better able to withstand the stresses of normal usage.”
Rafferty points out that a major liability change is due to occur in the US in October 2015. This will fundamentally change the status of old-style magnetic stripe cards. Currently, if any card – chip and PIN or magnetic stripe only – is physically used for payment at a retail outlet and the payment subsequently turns out to have been fraudulent the card issuer is liable for the loss. The cardholder and the retailer bear no liability.
From October 2015, however, the retailer will be liable for losses on magnetic stripe cards. This will create a marked reluctance among retailers to accept anything but smart cards for cashless payments.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. Similar changes are expected to follow around the world and this is driving the rapid replacement of the hundreds of millions of cards in issue globally.
For the electronic financial markets alone, US market research and analysis firm Frost Sullivan estimates that the number of electronic inlays being issued per annum for use in payment cards will grow from about 180 million in 2010 to more than 1.3 billion in 2020. In the passport market the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which is responsible for regulating passport use globally, envisages that all ICAO-compliant passports will be using this technology by 2020 – that’s a market of billions of passport holders around the world.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
IMS Research forecasts concur. These put the number of financial payment cards in use around the world at roughly 11 billion by 2017 with about half of them smart cards. By that stage, one in every three new cards issued will incorporate contactless technology.
Rafferty says the company expects to be in full production at its Spiddal, Co Galway, base in 2013.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. “All of the main card issuers in the world will be our major customers. We also work with the card companies to resolve problems they might be experiencing in the manufacturing process. Our sales team have all been in the industry for a long time and know what the issues are and we have already got some very interesting projects to work on from the industry. Another major market for us is likely to be national ID cards.
There is no need to insert the card into a reader or even touch the reader with the card and no PIN is required. It’s quick and easy and makes things a lot more convenient both for cardholders and retailers.
This new payment mechanism is enabled by a microchip and antenna embedded inside the card itself. The chip and antenna receive power transmitted by the machine reader and they transmit the information required for the payment back to it.
This is the same technology now in use in passports worldwide. Those queues at passport control in Dublin Airport could soon be a thing of the past if the hardware to read passports electronically is installed.
This would allow everyone with a modern passport simply to wave it over a reader with all their information appearing on screen in front of the person at the checkpoint. No need to hand a passport over for a person to scan it or physically read it again, making the process a lot quicker and easier.
But there are some drawbacks to the new technology, and Irish company AmaTech is at the forefront of developing solutions to them. These issues include difficulties encountered with the actual insertion of the electronic components into the cards or documents, and problems with the connection between the chip and the antenna.
“Our founder and chief executive David Finn has written over 50 patents in this area and wrote the original patent for electronic card inlays back in the 1990s,” says AmaTech financial controller Mark Rafferty.
“The company is structured around his background and we have two divisions – an inlay production facility in Galway which develops and manufactures products for the electronic inlay industry and a machine engineering business in the Bavarian Alps which offers proprietary engineering expertise for production platform development for the industry.”
The German division is very important as it means that the company has the capacity to design and develop the machinery required to manufacture and implement its own inventions and innovations. “Research and development are at the core of the company,” says Rafferty.
“Having the two divisions means we can work with the production and machine engineering guys at the same time. For example, if a new bank card comes out with a new type of electronic inlay inside it our engineering group can look at that to design the machine required to manufacture it. This is important to the industry which wants to be able to manufacture the cards as efficiently as possible.”
Where AmaTech really scores is its innovative technology for the new contactless payment cards. As Rafferty explains,Which Air purifier is right for you? the new cards incorporate a wire antenna that runs around the card near its edge and is connected to the chip which contains all of the payment and account information.
Normal usage, however, presents certain difficulties for this arrangement.
“Modern cards are dual interface cards,” he points out. “They have the traditional chip and PIN payment system where you put the card into the reader and enter your PIN.
“They also have RFID [radio frequency identifier] technology built in to allow for contactless payment. Contactless payment doesn’t require a PIN and just involves the cardholder passing it over or near a reader. This speeds up transactions enormously. It has been estimated that a standard chip and PIN payment takes about 40 seconds to execute but a contactless payment takes about 15.”
This is very important for businesses with high volumes of relatively low-value transactions and the new technology is already in widespread use in popular fast-food chains and coffee shops in the US. It is also gaining in popularity in Europe and many Irish retailers are installing the technology.
The problem with normal usage is the way people use the cards. “They put the cards in wallets where they get bent and putting them in ATMs and so on causes wear and tear as well,” Rafferty explains. “Over time this can break the connection between the antenna and the chip and this means the contactless payments function will no longer operate and people will have to replace cards with all the inconvenience and expense that causes. We have enhanced the quality and reliability of cards with our reactive coupling technology which removes the need to interconnect the outer antenna with the chip. This means that the cards are much better able to withstand the stresses of normal usage.”
Rafferty points out that a major liability change is due to occur in the US in October 2015. This will fundamentally change the status of old-style magnetic stripe cards. Currently, if any card – chip and PIN or magnetic stripe only – is physically used for payment at a retail outlet and the payment subsequently turns out to have been fraudulent the card issuer is liable for the loss. The cardholder and the retailer bear no liability.
From October 2015, however, the retailer will be liable for losses on magnetic stripe cards. This will create a marked reluctance among retailers to accept anything but smart cards for cashless payments.Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. Similar changes are expected to follow around the world and this is driving the rapid replacement of the hundreds of millions of cards in issue globally.
For the electronic financial markets alone, US market research and analysis firm Frost Sullivan estimates that the number of electronic inlays being issued per annum for use in payment cards will grow from about 180 million in 2010 to more than 1.3 billion in 2020. In the passport market the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which is responsible for regulating passport use globally, envisages that all ICAO-compliant passports will be using this technology by 2020 – that’s a market of billions of passport holders around the world.How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?Have a look at all our custom bobbleheads models starting at 59.90US$ with free proofing.
IMS Research forecasts concur. These put the number of financial payment cards in use around the world at roughly 11 billion by 2017 with about half of them smart cards. By that stage, one in every three new cards issued will incorporate contactless technology.
Rafferty says the company expects to be in full production at its Spiddal, Co Galway, base in 2013.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. “All of the main card issuers in the world will be our major customers. We also work with the card companies to resolve problems they might be experiencing in the manufacturing process. Our sales team have all been in the industry for a long time and know what the issues are and we have already got some very interesting projects to work on from the industry. Another major market for us is likely to be national ID cards.
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