We have seen a slew of budget phones hit the market, and met a few that have proven that for a budget price, you can still get a device that is a good performer and doesn't feel cheap in your hands.
We have seen devices like the Spice Stellar Mi-425, a Rs. 10,000 phone that not only offers decent specifications under the hood but also works well as an Android smartphone, raising the bar for budget devices.
Today we have with us the Huawei Ascend G300 (U8815) - does it bring anything new to the budget Android smartphone segment, or are you just better off sticking to the tried and tested?
On the face, the Huawei Ascend G300 has a 4-inch display with a resolution of 480x800 pixels, which is standard for the budget smartphones and is similar to the Spice Mi-425. The best part of the display is that it is an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, making it really sharp. It looks really crisp and vibrant and the viewing angles are great. Better than what we’ve seen in this price range. Below the touchscreen you have the standard array of capacitive buttons – menu, home and back.
In terms of its connectivity options, the Ascend G300 has the microUSB port at the bottom, volume rocker on the left and the headphones jack along with the power/sleep/wake button at the top. The rear of the phone houses the 5MP camera with an LED flash and the device compromises on a front facing camera which is a major bummer if you are one who would like to make video calls. The device also compromises on a physical shutter button.
Under the hood, the Ascend G300 is powered by a Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon 1GHz Cortex-A5 processor and Adreno 200 GPU. It also has 512MB of RAM and 4GB internal storage (2.5GB available to the user) expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card. As mentioned earlier the device has a 4-inch IPS display. The rear of the device has the 5MP camera with an LED flash.
Straight out of the box, the Ascend G300 runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread but the device will be upgradable to Android 4.0 ICS, which is nice.
The OS comes with a Huawei Launcher, which isn’t the best when compared to the likes of Samsung TouchWiz or HTC Sense. It gives you the option of five customizable home screens and you have the standard slew of widgets that can be found on any Android phone.
The lock screen gives you easy access to four options – unlock the device, go to messages, call log or the camera. The Ascend G300’s skin is quite bland and makes the device very laggy. You can install a paid third party launcher or use the free version of Launcher Pro to make the device snappier.
The Ascend G300’s rear 5MP camera clicks average quality images, the same that you would find on the original HTC Desire - you won’t be replacing your point and shoot with this device. The camera app too is fairly simple and adds no bells or whistles to functionality.
Overall, the specifications under the hood of the Ascend G300 are decent, with the most impressive part being the display. The pre-loaded skin is disappointing but that can be changed.
Another interesting aspect about the Huawei Ascend G300 is the keyboard. There are three different layouts at your disposal and swiping left or right can easily access them. One is the standard QWERTY that we are used to. The second is the three letters per key that we find on traditional phones. The final layout is a QWERTY two letters per key layout. These layouts are available in both portrait as well as landscape mode. The availability of different keyboard layouts on a touchscreen phone isn’t a new feature but it isn’t found on all devices.
Another interesting feature about the keyboard is the way in which you can access symbols. In HTC Sense, long press a key and its symbol appears when typing. In the keyboard on the Huawei Ascend G300 you simply drag down on the relevant key and its symbol appears on screen. It's a different method and one that is comfortable while typing.
The device doesn't come preloaded with many apps. You have the free trial version of Documents to Go, but you can get that for free from the Google Play store. Another down side to the device is that it didn't run HD videos. We tried to run a bunch of MOV and MKV files on the device but they didn't run. Simple AVI files however ran very smoothly without any hiccups. The display looks really good running these videos. The viewing angles are good, the video looks crisp and it is fun watching the videos on the device. The audio from the device too was good. It screeches a bit at full volume but is loud nonetheless. We have seen better speakers on other smartphones in the same price range though.
In terms of app performance, the Huawei Ascend G300 ran quite well. We played a few games and ran apps from the Google Play store and were satisfied with the performance of the device.
One aspect where the device was really good was with the battery life. Using Wi-Fi, making calls and running a few apps, the device lasted us two days. The 1,500 mAh battery does justice to the product.
2012年8月30日星期四
2012年8月28日星期二
Honda CR-V
I get alloyed animosity every time I anticipate about the Honda CR-V. Here is one sport-cute that I actually adored in its first-generation version. That 1998 archetypal bristled with able packaging, administration and autogenous architectonics and architecture, appropriate down to the folding centermost tray amid the foreground seats and the cabin’s aerial grab balustrade that spanned the breadth of the ceiling.
Each new iteration, however, brought the CR-V anytime added upmarket. It grew larger, heavier, added luxurious, and consequently, added expensive. Is that actually what the bazaar wanted?
Well, that seems to be the trend in any automotive articulation so I accept Honda is cogent me to just get on with the program.
The all-new fourth-generation CR-V continues this trend, with added ability and added space—despite, as Honda claims, arresting beneath ammunition and abounding beneath emissions and—surprise, surprise—actually accepting a tad beneath than its actual predecessor. Instead of the accepted admeasurement upgrade, the CR-V sports a lower contour and beneath wheelbase. And I anticipate Honda deserves acclaim for that.
Up front, the bonanza and grille breeze into the headlamps to anatomy a wedge-shaped profile, as the bonanza of the antecedent archetypal loses its arresting bulging arch edge. On the side, the bland curve of the CR-V are accentuated by acclaim flared caster arches. What Honda calls a C-pillar “kink” completes the heavily revised rear end that aswell leads into what the aggregation refers to as “conversation-piece” taillights. I alarm them love-it-or-hate-it taillights. They attending acceptable from some angles but assume torn from others. The C-pillar coil aswell elicits polarizing opinions. The appearance of the ancillary windows is adroit enough, but the C-pillar itself looks a tad awkward—or at atomic unconventionally different. It actually takes some accepting acclimated to. And I’m not actually abiding if it will abound on me.
Two variants are offered: a 153-hp SOHC 2.0 iVTEC 2WD abject archetypal and our 185-hp DOHC 2.4 iVTEC 4WD flagship analysis unit. The engine—and the accomplished drivetrain, for that matter—simply oozes absolute refinement. Gear accouterment are around ephemeral while ride superior is best declared as supple; even the way the brakes chaw acclaim yet absolutely if you footfall on the larboard pedal agilely is oh-so-smooooth.
Inside, “smooth” is still the accessible word. Fit and accomplishment are seamless and the abstracts acclimated are of the accomplished quality. Cabin space, as expected, is generous. Honda is the acknowledged best in this regard. All address of cubbyholes and added accumulator compartments abound. They’re well-located and intelligently sized, too. Honda actually sweats the data added than a lot of added car manufacturers, Japanese or otherwise.
The Japan-made CR-V boasts appearance ahead apparent on the all-new Civic. The columnist of an ECON button turns the car into a ammunition miser—controlling engine, drive-by-wire, transmission, and even the AC to aerate fuel. But there are added acquiescent systems to leave controlling to the driver. An “Eco-coaching” ambient ablaze beside the speedometer lights blooming to announce if you’re accepting advisable with the accelerator—and white if you assume to be accepting too abundant fun.
The 2.4 EX is aswell able with an i-MID (Intelligent Multi-Information Display), accent by a 5-inch LCD for real-time acknowledgment and simple admission to audio advice and ammunition consumption. Controlled through council caster buttons, the arrangement allows affectation customization to appearance specific car settings. The EX aswell appearance a hands-free adaptable buzz interface, and a rear camera that displays the rear appearance on the birr LCD.
Honda says the new CR-V betters its antecedent in autogenous burden aggregate by 65 liters, due in allotment to lower-folding rear seats—perhaps a assignment abstruse from the space-savvy Jazz.
Each new iteration, however, brought the CR-V anytime added upmarket. It grew larger, heavier, added luxurious, and consequently, added expensive. Is that actually what the bazaar wanted?
Well, that seems to be the trend in any automotive articulation so I accept Honda is cogent me to just get on with the program.
The all-new fourth-generation CR-V continues this trend, with added ability and added space—despite, as Honda claims, arresting beneath ammunition and abounding beneath emissions and—surprise, surprise—actually accepting a tad beneath than its actual predecessor. Instead of the accepted admeasurement upgrade, the CR-V sports a lower contour and beneath wheelbase. And I anticipate Honda deserves acclaim for that.
Up front, the bonanza and grille breeze into the headlamps to anatomy a wedge-shaped profile, as the bonanza of the antecedent archetypal loses its arresting bulging arch edge. On the side, the bland curve of the CR-V are accentuated by acclaim flared caster arches. What Honda calls a C-pillar “kink” completes the heavily revised rear end that aswell leads into what the aggregation refers to as “conversation-piece” taillights. I alarm them love-it-or-hate-it taillights. They attending acceptable from some angles but assume torn from others. The C-pillar coil aswell elicits polarizing opinions. The appearance of the ancillary windows is adroit enough, but the C-pillar itself looks a tad awkward—or at atomic unconventionally different. It actually takes some accepting acclimated to. And I’m not actually abiding if it will abound on me.
Two variants are offered: a 153-hp SOHC 2.0 iVTEC 2WD abject archetypal and our 185-hp DOHC 2.4 iVTEC 4WD flagship analysis unit. The engine—and the accomplished drivetrain, for that matter—simply oozes absolute refinement. Gear accouterment are around ephemeral while ride superior is best declared as supple; even the way the brakes chaw acclaim yet absolutely if you footfall on the larboard pedal agilely is oh-so-smooooth.
Inside, “smooth” is still the accessible word. Fit and accomplishment are seamless and the abstracts acclimated are of the accomplished quality. Cabin space, as expected, is generous. Honda is the acknowledged best in this regard. All address of cubbyholes and added accumulator compartments abound. They’re well-located and intelligently sized, too. Honda actually sweats the data added than a lot of added car manufacturers, Japanese or otherwise.
The Japan-made CR-V boasts appearance ahead apparent on the all-new Civic. The columnist of an ECON button turns the car into a ammunition miser—controlling engine, drive-by-wire, transmission, and even the AC to aerate fuel. But there are added acquiescent systems to leave controlling to the driver. An “Eco-coaching” ambient ablaze beside the speedometer lights blooming to announce if you’re accepting advisable with the accelerator—and white if you assume to be accepting too abundant fun.
The 2.4 EX is aswell able with an i-MID (Intelligent Multi-Information Display), accent by a 5-inch LCD for real-time acknowledgment and simple admission to audio advice and ammunition consumption. Controlled through council caster buttons, the arrangement allows affectation customization to appearance specific car settings. The EX aswell appearance a hands-free adaptable buzz interface, and a rear camera that displays the rear appearance on the birr LCD.
Honda says the new CR-V betters its antecedent in autogenous burden aggregate by 65 liters, due in allotment to lower-folding rear seats—perhaps a assignment abstruse from the space-savvy Jazz.
2012年8月27日星期一
Buy a 1Time ticket now
It’s the age-old story all over again, isn’t it? When domestic air travel was deregulated in 1991 a venerable name in South African aviation, Trek Airways, most famous for its inexpensive Luxavia joint venture, promptly acquired four new Airbus A320 aircraft and launched Flitestar, a service connecting Johannesburg with both Durban and Cape Town.
With competitive prices and good service, it promptly wrested a quarter of the market from the state-owned monopoly, South African Airways, which was forced to remove some of its aircraft from domestic service.
This, SAA did not like. It embarked on what veteran industry-watcher Paul Dubois calls “dirty tricks” to regain the upper hand. According to his article on Flitestar’s history these included blocking aircraft on airport aprons to cause delays, ratcheting up mechanical service fees and commissions to travel agents, arranging priority treatment by air traffic controllers and even sabotaging the national ticketing system, Safari, to show Flitestar flights as being full.
Flitestar may have jolted a lethargic state-owned monopoly into improving service somewhat, but by the time elections came around in 1994, the upstart had already closed its doors. In the wake of its liquidation, according to Dubois, SAA paid “in excess of R90-million to Trek Airways shareholders, Rentmeester Beleggings, SAFREN and the de Moelenaer family to cease operating ‘any’ airline service in competition with SAA for five years.”
The New South Africa would not begin with competition in the airline sector.
A year later, Phoenix Airways arose, but soon returned to the ashes, leaving only a wispy memory. It would go on to become a bidder in the privatisation of Sun Air in 1997 in a process was heavily rigged in favour of SAA.
In a 1,500-page doctoral thesis on the competitiveness (or the lack thereof) in the domestic air transport market, transport economist Joachim Vermooten quoted Mac Maharaj, Transport Minister from 1994 to 1999, as saying: “I would like a South African investor or consortium to buy (Sun Air), but I would check carefully to ensure it isn't a front for a large foreign airline... That would give them a strategic foothold here and enable them to undercut South African Airways.”
The anti-competitive tactics that worked against Flitestar worked against Sun Air too. Among other predatory moves, like controlling landing and apron slots, SAA artificially increased capacity on routes operated by Sun Air, sparking a price war.
Vermooten explained how that worked: “(SAA) has not achieved an adequate return on assets and has received substantial financial state aid without any published conditions that would mitigate the anti-competitive effect of such state aid and promote competition in the air transport market. The risk of such state aid could enable the dominant state-owned airline, SAA, to deploy too much capacity on an uneconomical basis, operate many services at a lower income level than the cost of providing such services, dump excess capacity on competitive routes at a lower fare than needed to provide a reasonable return on assets, and conduct operations with the objective of earning a lower return on investment than would be required as a reasonable return on assets by competitors that are subject to normal financial markets and do not receive state financial aid.”
Sun Air ceased operations 1999, and SAA ticket prices quickly returned to their usual high levels.
Even the demise of its rival wasn’t good enough for SAA, however. Without even bothering with the required approval from government, it engineered a takeover of shares and debt designed to prevent the Sun Air liquidation from going to court, where the assets might be sold to potential competitors. While Maharaj worried about Singapore Airlines or British Airways running Sun Air, SAA feared a takeover of its distressed assets by Virgin Atlantic and KLM, both of which were sniffing for opportunities to challenge inefficient state-owned airlines in emerging markets like South Africa.
A day after it was purchased by SAA, Sun Air was shut down, though Coleman Andrews, the SAA chief executive at the time, denied having anything to do with it. That is a lie. At least, one can safely assume it must be a lie, because if it is true, it is evidence of gross negligence. Even notoriously predatory monopolists don’t accidentally acquire and shut down rivals in the ordinary course of business.
Once Sun Air had been driven under, SAA reprised its nasty little deal with Flitestar’s shareholders, and paid R50 million to Safair, the leasing company that owned the Sun Air aircraft, to keep the aircraft out of the hands of would-be domestic competitors.
Andrews would go on to abscond with a golden handshake worth R230-million, even though the state-owned airline was booking massive losses and fraud allegations were swirling all about.
“According to the editor of the Business Day, the result of the demise of Sun Air was higher domestic airfares, hundreds of people joining unemployment queues and an increasingly weary international investment community,” Vermooten wrote.
Rather too late, SAA was slapped with a R45 million Competition Commission fine. It had been found guilty of employing another tactic it first used against Flitestar, bribing travel agents, in its rivalry with Sun Air. “Loyalty rebates”, is what SAA delicately called these blatant kickbacks.
The fine was the largest the Competition Commission had issued to date, but it must have hit the state-owned airline like the tip on an expense claim for a Coleman Andrews dinner. SAA was quick to recover from this slap on the wrist.
While its lawyers were still mumbling niceties about never ever doing anything naughty again, it set its sights on Nationwide Airlines. This was the oldest of the three remaining private airlines, having been founded in 1995. Along with Kulula, established in 2001, and 1Time, founded 2004, it was using low-cost airline strategies to try to compete with the voracious government behemoth.
In addition to all the nice state-sponsored benefits it enjoys, however, like being bailed out whenever it failed to make a profit because it had been undercutting private competitors, SAA launched its own low-cost airline in 2006.
SAA’s little anti-competitive spawn was inexplicably called Mango. It got a fleet of nice hand-me-down aircraft from its sugar daddy, along with a lifelong service deal from its nice uncle, SAA Technical.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Nationwide and the other private airlines had to buy aircraft and pay for them by running a profitable business.
In the face of predatory pricing, over-capacity on competitive routes and having to park a half-hour bus ride from airport terminal buildings, Nationwide bravely kept flying until bits of its aircraft started to fall off. Then it shut its doors, too.
Flitestar, Phoenix, Sun Air, Nationwide, Velvet Sky. Now 1Time has its back against the wall. In the face of tough market conditions and high fuel prices, it filed for what it calls a “business rescue”, which is essentially bankruptcy protection.
1Time said it would continue scheduled services while it pitches a restructuring plan to its investors and creditors, designed to address heavy debt under loss-making conditions. However, I have tickets for George to Johannesburg today, returning tomorrow, and I’m nervous. Airlines that announce trouble don’t have a good record of hanging around to fly passengers to where they’re supposed to be.
SAA’s financials, meanwhile, though in better shape than a few years ago, remain worrying. Its cash flow remains negative to the tune of a billion rand a year or so, and several pages are devoted to its non-compliance with various financial laws and to its weak defences against a raft of local and global competition accusations. However, its operating profit is back in the black, which means 1Time and Kulula can expect a lot more walloping from the big government bully.
With competitive prices and good service, it promptly wrested a quarter of the market from the state-owned monopoly, South African Airways, which was forced to remove some of its aircraft from domestic service.
This, SAA did not like. It embarked on what veteran industry-watcher Paul Dubois calls “dirty tricks” to regain the upper hand. According to his article on Flitestar’s history these included blocking aircraft on airport aprons to cause delays, ratcheting up mechanical service fees and commissions to travel agents, arranging priority treatment by air traffic controllers and even sabotaging the national ticketing system, Safari, to show Flitestar flights as being full.
Flitestar may have jolted a lethargic state-owned monopoly into improving service somewhat, but by the time elections came around in 1994, the upstart had already closed its doors. In the wake of its liquidation, according to Dubois, SAA paid “in excess of R90-million to Trek Airways shareholders, Rentmeester Beleggings, SAFREN and the de Moelenaer family to cease operating ‘any’ airline service in competition with SAA for five years.”
The New South Africa would not begin with competition in the airline sector.
A year later, Phoenix Airways arose, but soon returned to the ashes, leaving only a wispy memory. It would go on to become a bidder in the privatisation of Sun Air in 1997 in a process was heavily rigged in favour of SAA.
In a 1,500-page doctoral thesis on the competitiveness (or the lack thereof) in the domestic air transport market, transport economist Joachim Vermooten quoted Mac Maharaj, Transport Minister from 1994 to 1999, as saying: “I would like a South African investor or consortium to buy (Sun Air), but I would check carefully to ensure it isn't a front for a large foreign airline... That would give them a strategic foothold here and enable them to undercut South African Airways.”
The anti-competitive tactics that worked against Flitestar worked against Sun Air too. Among other predatory moves, like controlling landing and apron slots, SAA artificially increased capacity on routes operated by Sun Air, sparking a price war.
Vermooten explained how that worked: “(SAA) has not achieved an adequate return on assets and has received substantial financial state aid without any published conditions that would mitigate the anti-competitive effect of such state aid and promote competition in the air transport market. The risk of such state aid could enable the dominant state-owned airline, SAA, to deploy too much capacity on an uneconomical basis, operate many services at a lower income level than the cost of providing such services, dump excess capacity on competitive routes at a lower fare than needed to provide a reasonable return on assets, and conduct operations with the objective of earning a lower return on investment than would be required as a reasonable return on assets by competitors that are subject to normal financial markets and do not receive state financial aid.”
Sun Air ceased operations 1999, and SAA ticket prices quickly returned to their usual high levels.
Even the demise of its rival wasn’t good enough for SAA, however. Without even bothering with the required approval from government, it engineered a takeover of shares and debt designed to prevent the Sun Air liquidation from going to court, where the assets might be sold to potential competitors. While Maharaj worried about Singapore Airlines or British Airways running Sun Air, SAA feared a takeover of its distressed assets by Virgin Atlantic and KLM, both of which were sniffing for opportunities to challenge inefficient state-owned airlines in emerging markets like South Africa.
A day after it was purchased by SAA, Sun Air was shut down, though Coleman Andrews, the SAA chief executive at the time, denied having anything to do with it. That is a lie. At least, one can safely assume it must be a lie, because if it is true, it is evidence of gross negligence. Even notoriously predatory monopolists don’t accidentally acquire and shut down rivals in the ordinary course of business.
Once Sun Air had been driven under, SAA reprised its nasty little deal with Flitestar’s shareholders, and paid R50 million to Safair, the leasing company that owned the Sun Air aircraft, to keep the aircraft out of the hands of would-be domestic competitors.
Andrews would go on to abscond with a golden handshake worth R230-million, even though the state-owned airline was booking massive losses and fraud allegations were swirling all about.
“According to the editor of the Business Day, the result of the demise of Sun Air was higher domestic airfares, hundreds of people joining unemployment queues and an increasingly weary international investment community,” Vermooten wrote.
Rather too late, SAA was slapped with a R45 million Competition Commission fine. It had been found guilty of employing another tactic it first used against Flitestar, bribing travel agents, in its rivalry with Sun Air. “Loyalty rebates”, is what SAA delicately called these blatant kickbacks.
The fine was the largest the Competition Commission had issued to date, but it must have hit the state-owned airline like the tip on an expense claim for a Coleman Andrews dinner. SAA was quick to recover from this slap on the wrist.
While its lawyers were still mumbling niceties about never ever doing anything naughty again, it set its sights on Nationwide Airlines. This was the oldest of the three remaining private airlines, having been founded in 1995. Along with Kulula, established in 2001, and 1Time, founded 2004, it was using low-cost airline strategies to try to compete with the voracious government behemoth.
In addition to all the nice state-sponsored benefits it enjoys, however, like being bailed out whenever it failed to make a profit because it had been undercutting private competitors, SAA launched its own low-cost airline in 2006.
SAA’s little anti-competitive spawn was inexplicably called Mango. It got a fleet of nice hand-me-down aircraft from its sugar daddy, along with a lifelong service deal from its nice uncle, SAA Technical.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Nationwide and the other private airlines had to buy aircraft and pay for them by running a profitable business.
In the face of predatory pricing, over-capacity on competitive routes and having to park a half-hour bus ride from airport terminal buildings, Nationwide bravely kept flying until bits of its aircraft started to fall off. Then it shut its doors, too.
Flitestar, Phoenix, Sun Air, Nationwide, Velvet Sky. Now 1Time has its back against the wall. In the face of tough market conditions and high fuel prices, it filed for what it calls a “business rescue”, which is essentially bankruptcy protection.
1Time said it would continue scheduled services while it pitches a restructuring plan to its investors and creditors, designed to address heavy debt under loss-making conditions. However, I have tickets for George to Johannesburg today, returning tomorrow, and I’m nervous. Airlines that announce trouble don’t have a good record of hanging around to fly passengers to where they’re supposed to be.
SAA’s financials, meanwhile, though in better shape than a few years ago, remain worrying. Its cash flow remains negative to the tune of a billion rand a year or so, and several pages are devoted to its non-compliance with various financial laws and to its weak defences against a raft of local and global competition accusations. However, its operating profit is back in the black, which means 1Time and Kulula can expect a lot more walloping from the big government bully.
2012年8月23日星期四
Farmville, for real
In the next few months, San Francisco will lose some of its a lot of admired burghal farms.
The City-limits Hall achievement garden is now bargain to dirt. The grants that kept afloat Quesada Area Initiative, which creates association area in Bayview, were acting and are now dehydration up. Kezar Gardens, adjourned by the Haight Asbury Neighborhood Council recycling center, is adverse boot by the city.
Time is up for Hayes Valley Farm, on the old freeway ramp, area developers are now accessible to body condos.
St. Paulus Lutheran Church has aswell appear that it wants to advertise the acreage that the Free Farm uses at Eddy and Gough.
"There's the old antic about developers," said Antonio Roman-Alcalá, co-founder of Alemany Farm and the San Francisco Burghal Agronomics Alliance. "God accept to be a developer, because they consistently assume to get their way."
At the aforementioned time, new burghal agronomics projects accept sprung up beyond San Francisco. Legislation authored by Sup. David Chiu will actualize a city-limits Burghal Agronomics Program, with the ambition of analogous efforts throughout the city.
So is the movement to abound aliment in the city-limits progressing? It's a catchy catechism that gets down to one of the oldest conflicts in San Francisco: The best use of scarce, big-ticket land.
The San Francisco Planning and Burghal Research Association lauds the amount of association gardens. An April 2012 SPUR address addendum that burghal agronomics connects humans "to the broader aliment system, offers accessible amplitude and recreation, provides hands-on education, presents new and abstinent business opportunities, and builds community."
According to the report, the city-limits had "nearly 100 area and farms on both accessible and clandestine acreage (not including academy gardens)," two dozen of which started in the accomplished four years.
But that's boilerplate abreast abundant for the demand. "The endure time cat-and-mouse lists were surveyed, there were over 550 humans waiting," Eli Zigas, Aliment Systems and Burghal Agronomics Affairs Manager at SPUR, told us. "That acceptable underrepresents appeal because some humans who are absorbed haven't put their name down."
Changes in zoning endure year, and the contempo authorization to actualize the Burghal Agronomics Program, appearance a admeasurement of city-limits abutment for burghal agronomics and gardening.
"We accept one of the a lot of acquiescent zoning codes for burghal agronomics that I apperceive of in the country," said Zigas.
One zoning change from 2011 makes it absolute that association area and farms beneath than one acre in admeasurement are acceptable anywhere in the city, and that projects on beyond plots of acreage are accustomed in assertive non-residential districts.
More contempo legislation is meant to accumulate the action of starting to abound aliment in the city. Applying to use abandoned accessible acreage for a garden can be an backbreaking process, and every accessible bureau has a altered approach. The hoops to jump through for acreage endemic by the Police Department, for example, are absolutely altered than what the Accessible Utilities Commission requires. A new Burghal Agronomics Affairs would alike efforts.
"The abstraction is to actualize a new affairs that will serve as the capital point of entry. Whether it will be managed by absolute bureau or nonprofit is to be determined," said Zigas.
If the timeline laid out in the authorization is followed, the plan will be implemented by Jan.1, 2014.
By then, if all goes according to plan, no San Franciscan searching to garden will delay added than a year for admission to a association garden plot.
The City-limits Hall achievement garden is now bargain to dirt. The grants that kept afloat Quesada Area Initiative, which creates association area in Bayview, were acting and are now dehydration up. Kezar Gardens, adjourned by the Haight Asbury Neighborhood Council recycling center, is adverse boot by the city.
Time is up for Hayes Valley Farm, on the old freeway ramp, area developers are now accessible to body condos.
St. Paulus Lutheran Church has aswell appear that it wants to advertise the acreage that the Free Farm uses at Eddy and Gough.
"There's the old antic about developers," said Antonio Roman-Alcalá, co-founder of Alemany Farm and the San Francisco Burghal Agronomics Alliance. "God accept to be a developer, because they consistently assume to get their way."
At the aforementioned time, new burghal agronomics projects accept sprung up beyond San Francisco. Legislation authored by Sup. David Chiu will actualize a city-limits Burghal Agronomics Program, with the ambition of analogous efforts throughout the city.
So is the movement to abound aliment in the city-limits progressing? It's a catchy catechism that gets down to one of the oldest conflicts in San Francisco: The best use of scarce, big-ticket land.
The San Francisco Planning and Burghal Research Association lauds the amount of association gardens. An April 2012 SPUR address addendum that burghal agronomics connects humans "to the broader aliment system, offers accessible amplitude and recreation, provides hands-on education, presents new and abstinent business opportunities, and builds community."
According to the report, the city-limits had "nearly 100 area and farms on both accessible and clandestine acreage (not including academy gardens)," two dozen of which started in the accomplished four years.
But that's boilerplate abreast abundant for the demand. "The endure time cat-and-mouse lists were surveyed, there were over 550 humans waiting," Eli Zigas, Aliment Systems and Burghal Agronomics Affairs Manager at SPUR, told us. "That acceptable underrepresents appeal because some humans who are absorbed haven't put their name down."
Changes in zoning endure year, and the contempo authorization to actualize the Burghal Agronomics Program, appearance a admeasurement of city-limits abutment for burghal agronomics and gardening.
"We accept one of the a lot of acquiescent zoning codes for burghal agronomics that I apperceive of in the country," said Zigas.
One zoning change from 2011 makes it absolute that association area and farms beneath than one acre in admeasurement are acceptable anywhere in the city, and that projects on beyond plots of acreage are accustomed in assertive non-residential districts.
More contempo legislation is meant to accumulate the action of starting to abound aliment in the city. Applying to use abandoned accessible acreage for a garden can be an backbreaking process, and every accessible bureau has a altered approach. The hoops to jump through for acreage endemic by the Police Department, for example, are absolutely altered than what the Accessible Utilities Commission requires. A new Burghal Agronomics Affairs would alike efforts.
"The abstraction is to actualize a new affairs that will serve as the capital point of entry. Whether it will be managed by absolute bureau or nonprofit is to be determined," said Zigas.
If the timeline laid out in the authorization is followed, the plan will be implemented by Jan.1, 2014.
By then, if all goes according to plan, no San Franciscan searching to garden will delay added than a year for admission to a association garden plot.
2012年8月21日星期二
Bucks guild ends its lengthy drought of craft shows
A door at the Asa Packer Mansion Museum in Jim Thorpe opened for Lara Ginzburg — and she happily walked through.
This was no ordinary passage. Ginzburg eyed the filigreed wrought iron, which seemed to flow into heart shapes, and thought how well the forms would work as jewelry. She snapped a photo.
Back in the upstairs studio of her Lower Makefield home, Ginzburg sketched elements based on the center of the door into a pendant. The border lent itself to two earring designs: one dangling, one button-shaped.
She is debating how to execute her idea. Wire work is a possibility, as is enamel on metal. “I’m not sure yet,” says Ginzburg, an accomplished jewelry maker and metalsmith who, except for two recent classes, is self-educated.
Gathering inspiration and laboriously bringing it to life by hand, tool and eye is the craftsman’s calling. Ginzburg is among a group maintaining a lively craft tradition in the Delaware Valley.
More than 100 belong to the Bucks County Guild of Craftsmen, which, after a hiatus of about seven years, is holding a juried show Saturday and Sunday at the New Hope Winery.
The group suspended exhibits and sales because “everybody and their brother was having craft shows, and it was becoming difficult for people to differentiate between the good and the bad,” says guild president Cynthia Prediger of Kintnersville.
In previous years, the Bucks County guild held shows at Delaware Valley College and the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology. Members also exhibited their work at shows organized by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, of which the Bucks County group is a chapter, and at local craft events in Doylestown and New Hope.
The Bucks County guild’s new venue is in the air-conditioned surroundings of the winery’s events hall, which features its own lineup of wine tastings and food.
Craftspeople are scheduled to exhibit pottery, textiles, metalwork, cabinetry, paintings, folk art, photography and fine woodwork. All follow an inner mandate to refine and perfect form and function in handmade objects.
Ginzburg, a structural engineer by training who had an early inclination to art, began her explorations in jewelry design with beading a few years ago. A memorable early acquisition was a large strand of red coral her husband, Eugene, bought her at the Golden Nugget Flea Market in Lambertville.
Some of her works are made of silver clay, an amalgam that is shaped, dried, fired in a kiln and then polished; other pieces are made by piercing sheet metal. Some of her jewelry is enameled.
“I’m getting ideas faster than I can make them,” she says.
Ginzburg has an eye for the dramatic possibilities of pendants, two of which came from a trip to Israel earlier this year.
For one, she took a tiny print of a photo she made of an ancient mosaic known as “the Mona Lisa of the Galilee” and built a square silver frame to surround it.
In the other, an open, oval-shaped box holds a tiny piece of an old glass vessel, which she found lying on the ground at her feet on an archaeological site in the Israeli desert.
“I wasn’t digging for it,” she says. “If (excavators) left it around, they left it for me.”
Other work incorporates beads, semiprecious stones, geodes glittering with rock crystal or pearls. She sells the results on Etsy, an online site for handiwork, but sometimes doesn’t have to post pictures of her jewelry.
“People on the street will approach me and ask (to buy my work),” she says.
This was the fate of some of her plentiful supply of red coral, from which she made herself a necklace.
This was no ordinary passage. Ginzburg eyed the filigreed wrought iron, which seemed to flow into heart shapes, and thought how well the forms would work as jewelry. She snapped a photo.
Back in the upstairs studio of her Lower Makefield home, Ginzburg sketched elements based on the center of the door into a pendant. The border lent itself to two earring designs: one dangling, one button-shaped.
She is debating how to execute her idea. Wire work is a possibility, as is enamel on metal. “I’m not sure yet,” says Ginzburg, an accomplished jewelry maker and metalsmith who, except for two recent classes, is self-educated.
Gathering inspiration and laboriously bringing it to life by hand, tool and eye is the craftsman’s calling. Ginzburg is among a group maintaining a lively craft tradition in the Delaware Valley.
More than 100 belong to the Bucks County Guild of Craftsmen, which, after a hiatus of about seven years, is holding a juried show Saturday and Sunday at the New Hope Winery.
The group suspended exhibits and sales because “everybody and their brother was having craft shows, and it was becoming difficult for people to differentiate between the good and the bad,” says guild president Cynthia Prediger of Kintnersville.
In previous years, the Bucks County guild held shows at Delaware Valley College and the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology. Members also exhibited their work at shows organized by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, of which the Bucks County group is a chapter, and at local craft events in Doylestown and New Hope.
The Bucks County guild’s new venue is in the air-conditioned surroundings of the winery’s events hall, which features its own lineup of wine tastings and food.
Craftspeople are scheduled to exhibit pottery, textiles, metalwork, cabinetry, paintings, folk art, photography and fine woodwork. All follow an inner mandate to refine and perfect form and function in handmade objects.
Ginzburg, a structural engineer by training who had an early inclination to art, began her explorations in jewelry design with beading a few years ago. A memorable early acquisition was a large strand of red coral her husband, Eugene, bought her at the Golden Nugget Flea Market in Lambertville.
Some of her works are made of silver clay, an amalgam that is shaped, dried, fired in a kiln and then polished; other pieces are made by piercing sheet metal. Some of her jewelry is enameled.
“I’m getting ideas faster than I can make them,” she says.
Ginzburg has an eye for the dramatic possibilities of pendants, two of which came from a trip to Israel earlier this year.
For one, she took a tiny print of a photo she made of an ancient mosaic known as “the Mona Lisa of the Galilee” and built a square silver frame to surround it.
In the other, an open, oval-shaped box holds a tiny piece of an old glass vessel, which she found lying on the ground at her feet on an archaeological site in the Israeli desert.
“I wasn’t digging for it,” she says. “If (excavators) left it around, they left it for me.”
Other work incorporates beads, semiprecious stones, geodes glittering with rock crystal or pearls. She sells the results on Etsy, an online site for handiwork, but sometimes doesn’t have to post pictures of her jewelry.
“People on the street will approach me and ask (to buy my work),” she says.
This was the fate of some of her plentiful supply of red coral, from which she made herself a necklace.
2012年8月20日星期一
Programming threatened as Louisiana Public
A brief conversation with Louisiana Public Broadcasting President Beth Courtney makes one thing clear: She does not mince words.
It's apparent, as well, that she will not let her station go down without a fight.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting is funded partially through the Public Broadcasting System, and the head of the latter is nearly always on the chopping block. Federal funds pay a portion of the bills for PBS, and in turn pay a portion of the bills for LPB.
Last month the U.S. House Republicans announced legislation aimed at cutting off federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS, saying it could get along just fine without taxpayer help.
"Just because you have a bookstore doesn't mean you don't need libraries," Courtney said. "I'm not going quietly into the night."
The move comes on the heels of PBS' record 58 Emmy Awards nominations. The mass following of "Downton Abby" alone has pushed public broadcasting into a new dimension where young adults tune in at the rate of small children to "Sesame Street." That is to say, PBS is hip.
The state of Louisiana has been chipping away at LPB's budget since 2008; it's now down 37 percent. Another nearly $2 million in cuts from the federal government could be the death blow.
"You get ($2 million) with the decline in state funding, and it would be devastating to our budget," Courtney said. "That money is really important."
If the proposed cuts pass, Louisiana residents would lose local programming first. That includes "Louisiana Public Square," "The State We're In," "Atchafalaya Houseboat" and dozens of other programs that tell Louisiana's stories of creek banks, farm houses and skyscrapers.
Much of the PBS/LPB programming that goes to DVD or book ends up in Central Louisiana libraries.
"I was surprised at the variety and substance of material we have (in the parish library system)," said Rapides Parish Library Director Steve Rogge. "The latest is a documentary called 'Too Important to Fail' -- it's about African-American teenagers and the dropout rate. And there are materials on the Dust Bowl and Huey Long -- solid topics."
It's losing the children's programming, though, that would be most detrimental.
"What LPB does for our school children is amazing," said Carole Baxter, a Friends of LPB board member from Alexandria.
PBS/LPB is not just "Clifford, the Big Red Dog" and "Arthur." Children's educational programming is top priority for LPB. Louisiana educators avail themselves of LPB's materials to makes ends meet in the classrooms.
"Teachers can download programming to their (digital devices, including Promethean Boards)," Baxter said. "They can't get things off the internet because of all the (potential viruses). They can download this programming safely."
Angie Delrie, Library Media Specialist at W.O. Hall Elementary, said PBS Kids is an invaluable resource.
"They have such a wide range of subject areas and interesting topics," she said. "I don't think teachers or parents realize how many resources are at their fingertips."
The funding strain could be the reason, Delrie said. She said she hasn't seen much literature available to promote PBS Kids.
"A child or even a teacher could be on for days and never access all the resources," Delrie said. "And it's all free."
Free resources to teachers is more important now than ever, as the Louisiana education system is revamped this year.
"With our new common core, (PBS Kids) gives the kids a technology base for their learning," Delrie said. "We are to provide every type of learning we can to the kids. PBS provides technology learning, and through handouts I can print out for activities, it provides hands-on learning."
It's apparent, as well, that she will not let her station go down without a fight.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting is funded partially through the Public Broadcasting System, and the head of the latter is nearly always on the chopping block. Federal funds pay a portion of the bills for PBS, and in turn pay a portion of the bills for LPB.
Last month the U.S. House Republicans announced legislation aimed at cutting off federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS, saying it could get along just fine without taxpayer help.
"Just because you have a bookstore doesn't mean you don't need libraries," Courtney said. "I'm not going quietly into the night."
The move comes on the heels of PBS' record 58 Emmy Awards nominations. The mass following of "Downton Abby" alone has pushed public broadcasting into a new dimension where young adults tune in at the rate of small children to "Sesame Street." That is to say, PBS is hip.
The state of Louisiana has been chipping away at LPB's budget since 2008; it's now down 37 percent. Another nearly $2 million in cuts from the federal government could be the death blow.
"You get ($2 million) with the decline in state funding, and it would be devastating to our budget," Courtney said. "That money is really important."
If the proposed cuts pass, Louisiana residents would lose local programming first. That includes "Louisiana Public Square," "The State We're In," "Atchafalaya Houseboat" and dozens of other programs that tell Louisiana's stories of creek banks, farm houses and skyscrapers.
Much of the PBS/LPB programming that goes to DVD or book ends up in Central Louisiana libraries.
"I was surprised at the variety and substance of material we have (in the parish library system)," said Rapides Parish Library Director Steve Rogge. "The latest is a documentary called 'Too Important to Fail' -- it's about African-American teenagers and the dropout rate. And there are materials on the Dust Bowl and Huey Long -- solid topics."
It's losing the children's programming, though, that would be most detrimental.
"What LPB does for our school children is amazing," said Carole Baxter, a Friends of LPB board member from Alexandria.
PBS/LPB is not just "Clifford, the Big Red Dog" and "Arthur." Children's educational programming is top priority for LPB. Louisiana educators avail themselves of LPB's materials to makes ends meet in the classrooms.
"Teachers can download programming to their (digital devices, including Promethean Boards)," Baxter said. "They can't get things off the internet because of all the (potential viruses). They can download this programming safely."
Angie Delrie, Library Media Specialist at W.O. Hall Elementary, said PBS Kids is an invaluable resource.
"They have such a wide range of subject areas and interesting topics," she said. "I don't think teachers or parents realize how many resources are at their fingertips."
The funding strain could be the reason, Delrie said. She said she hasn't seen much literature available to promote PBS Kids.
"A child or even a teacher could be on for days and never access all the resources," Delrie said. "And it's all free."
Free resources to teachers is more important now than ever, as the Louisiana education system is revamped this year.
"With our new common core, (PBS Kids) gives the kids a technology base for their learning," Delrie said. "We are to provide every type of learning we can to the kids. PBS provides technology learning, and through handouts I can print out for activities, it provides hands-on learning."
2012年8月16日星期四
Boundary punts chargeless app ecology from the clouds
Application ecology apparatus provider Boundary, which alone peddles its articles as a account active on a cloud, is alms abeyant barter a chargeless adaptation of the account to alarm up some business.
The aggregation is aswell rolling out a 2.0 absolution of the eponymous app ecology account while at the aforementioned time partnering with belvedere billow provider Engine Yard to accommodate Boundary into its own cloud.
Gary Read, who came on lath Boundary beforehand this year to be CEO, is no drifter to blurred tools. Read was architect and CEO of Nimsoft, which created a set of cloud-based accoutrement aimed at allowance account providers administer their systems and networks.
CA Technologies, aforetime accepted as Computer Associates, acquired Nimsoft in March 2011 for a ample sum of $350m, and the aforementioned array of affair could appear a few years appropriately if Boundary takes off.
Boundary thinks that appliance and arrangement ecology is too circuitous for the kinds of changeless accoutrement that were acclimated in the old dot-com days, if IT environments themselves were static, Read tells El Reg.
"Cloud agency the server agreement can change at any time, software-defined networking agency the arrangement agreement can change at any time, and active development agency that the cipher in an appliance can change at any time," explains Read. "Application ecology is accordingly an analytic problem, and you charge to aggregate abstracts continuously and run analytics continuously."
The Boundary account caWith the chargeless Boundary service, all of the accretion and whistles work, but the aggregation puts some limitations on it so you don't get agitated abroad and drive up its own costs on its cloud. THe account is hosted at an Equinix abstracts centermost in Ashburn, Virginia, like Amazon's EC2 area on the East bank of the US.
Customers appliance the chargeless adaptation can accrue 2GB of operational abstracts per day, and they can abundance up to one ages of data. Depending on the attributes of your appliance servers, Read says that this is abundant accommodation to adviser maybe 15 to 20 appliance servers active in your abstracts centermost or in a cloud.
If you wish to get the paid adaptation of the service, with abounding tech abutment and the adeptness to abundance that 2GB of circadian operational abstracts for as continued as a year, again you pay $199 per month, and if you wish to abundance 5GB of abstracts per day, again it is $395 per month.
Engine Yard, the belvedere billow provider, is partnering with Boundary to action the account to adviser applications active on its billow as allotment of the 2.0 release. There are aswell predefined integrations for Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Billow as able-bodied as the adeptness to blot in RSS-based cachet alerts from devops accoutrement from New Relic, Splunk, and Papertrail.n yield in all kinds of operational abstracts from systems through agents as able-bodied as demography in ascribe from third affair ecology tools, accessories accoutrement such as Chef or Puppet, and the APIs from billow providers such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, SoftLayer, and Google Compute Engine.
All of this abstracts is pulled out of the arrangement assemblage from all of these devices, beamed up to the Boundary service, and chewed on real-time to actualize an operational dashboard for arrangement admins so they can see agitation afore it starts accepting out of hand.
You can put the Boundary abettor on concrete servers and babysit them, too, so continued as they run Windows or Linux. The aggregation has not apparent appeal for any Unix variants yet and so has not created an abettor for Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX.
The Boundary service, which launched in aboriginal April, now has about 50 paying customers, which is a acceptable start, but that it wants to abound the base. The cipher abaft the Boundary account is not accessible source, and is not traveling to be, but the aggregation can accord abroad admission to the cipher for annoy kickers and bashful users, and that is absolutely what the aggregation has done with its Boundary 2.0 absolution appear this week.
The aggregation is aswell rolling out a 2.0 absolution of the eponymous app ecology account while at the aforementioned time partnering with belvedere billow provider Engine Yard to accommodate Boundary into its own cloud.
Gary Read, who came on lath Boundary beforehand this year to be CEO, is no drifter to blurred tools. Read was architect and CEO of Nimsoft, which created a set of cloud-based accoutrement aimed at allowance account providers administer their systems and networks.
CA Technologies, aforetime accepted as Computer Associates, acquired Nimsoft in March 2011 for a ample sum of $350m, and the aforementioned array of affair could appear a few years appropriately if Boundary takes off.
Boundary thinks that appliance and arrangement ecology is too circuitous for the kinds of changeless accoutrement that were acclimated in the old dot-com days, if IT environments themselves were static, Read tells El Reg.
"Cloud agency the server agreement can change at any time, software-defined networking agency the arrangement agreement can change at any time, and active development agency that the cipher in an appliance can change at any time," explains Read. "Application ecology is accordingly an analytic problem, and you charge to aggregate abstracts continuously and run analytics continuously."
The Boundary account caWith the chargeless Boundary service, all of the accretion and whistles work, but the aggregation puts some limitations on it so you don't get agitated abroad and drive up its own costs on its cloud. THe account is hosted at an Equinix abstracts centermost in Ashburn, Virginia, like Amazon's EC2 area on the East bank of the US.
Customers appliance the chargeless adaptation can accrue 2GB of operational abstracts per day, and they can abundance up to one ages of data. Depending on the attributes of your appliance servers, Read says that this is abundant accommodation to adviser maybe 15 to 20 appliance servers active in your abstracts centermost or in a cloud.
If you wish to get the paid adaptation of the service, with abounding tech abutment and the adeptness to abundance that 2GB of circadian operational abstracts for as continued as a year, again you pay $199 per month, and if you wish to abundance 5GB of abstracts per day, again it is $395 per month.
Engine Yard, the belvedere billow provider, is partnering with Boundary to action the account to adviser applications active on its billow as allotment of the 2.0 release. There are aswell predefined integrations for Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Billow as able-bodied as the adeptness to blot in RSS-based cachet alerts from devops accoutrement from New Relic, Splunk, and Papertrail.n yield in all kinds of operational abstracts from systems through agents as able-bodied as demography in ascribe from third affair ecology tools, accessories accoutrement such as Chef or Puppet, and the APIs from billow providers such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, SoftLayer, and Google Compute Engine.
All of this abstracts is pulled out of the arrangement assemblage from all of these devices, beamed up to the Boundary service, and chewed on real-time to actualize an operational dashboard for arrangement admins so they can see agitation afore it starts accepting out of hand.
You can put the Boundary abettor on concrete servers and babysit them, too, so continued as they run Windows or Linux. The aggregation has not apparent appeal for any Unix variants yet and so has not created an abettor for Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX.
The Boundary service, which launched in aboriginal April, now has about 50 paying customers, which is a acceptable start, but that it wants to abound the base. The cipher abaft the Boundary account is not accessible source, and is not traveling to be, but the aggregation can accord abroad admission to the cipher for annoy kickers and bashful users, and that is absolutely what the aggregation has done with its Boundary 2.0 absolution appear this week.
2012年8月14日星期二
At night, Jerusalem the aureate
One acute night — or so it is said — Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Arresting awoke covered in a algid sweat. He had dreamed that while he was walking in an accessible field, a brace of athirst lions pounced aloft him and he was greedily devoured.
When asked what the dream meant, Suleiman’s adviser responded by suggesting that the Sultan bound accomplish a acceptable deed. And so, in 1538, Suleiman began apology of Jerusalem’s broke city-limits wall. Impressive during the day, the bank is admirable at night.
Thanks to a borough activity put into aftereffect at the end of the 20th century, dozens of the world’s a lot of celebrated and arresting sites, the Old City-limits walls arresting a allotment of them, are artistically lit from Jerusalem dark to Jerusalem dawn.
Another of the a lot of admirable is in the Russian Compound. Inaugurated in 1872, the affected Russian Cathedral of the Trinity is a active spectacle. This abbey is endemic by “Red Russians,” abbey admiral who were affectionate to the Communist regime. During the Algid War, Red Russian Orthodox priests came to Israel – and larboard — at an clumsily accelerated pace. To this day abounding accept that the always alteration clergy were alive for the KGB.
Also lit up is Notre Dame de Jerusalem, with an arty bedrock bluff and angled turrets. Located alfresco the Old City-limits walls, it was congenital in 1884 by the Catholic Adjustment that pioneered atoning pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
During the 1948 War of Independence, Israeli defenders on the Notre Dame ramparts managed to arrest the Arab Legion beforehand into western Jerusalem. Following the war, and until Jerusalem was reunited in 1967, Israeli soldiers attentive the city-limits from posts on the roof of Notre Dame, anon adverse Jordanian soldiers positioned on the Old City-limits walls.
No added website in Jerusalem is as burdened with symbols as the arresting Jerusalem YMCA, a aglow anatomy on King David Street. Reflected on its walls, ceilings, stones and pillars are manifestations of the world’s three greatest faiths. The artist was Arthur Louis Harmon, whose close advised New York’s world-famous Empire State Building.
A bottle window over the access is busy with an olive branch. In adjustment to accumulate this attribute of accord from getting burst during the War of Independence, the window was removed anniversary time the Arabs started shooting. One day, a carapace flew through the aperture area the window had been and hit the ceiling. Fortunately it didn’t backfire and the accident was afterwards repaired.
Perhaps the a lot of airy sites to see are forth the Promenade, alfresco the eastern end of the Old City-limits walls. From actuality you can appearance the Kidron Valley, mentioned by name 11 times in the Scriptures. Jewish and Christian traditions amalgamate in this wadi, area Israelite kings, princes, priests and prophets are apparently buried, and area Jesus was wont to walk.
After abnegation for three days, the Jews fabricated a crusade to the tomb of Zechariah. Throwing themselves aloft the arena they prayed. Then, while singing psalms, they circled the tomb seven times. By atramentous the sky was black. Heavy rain, accompanied by barrage and lightning, fell on the Holy City. The Jews were saved, the city’s cisterns abounding with water, and the adherence of Zechariah’s tomb was reaffirmed.
Next to Zechariah’s tomb lights flash through the Hezir ancestors burying complex. It housed the charcoal of a acclaimed ancestors of priests mentioned by name in the Bible. Christians aswell alarm this the Tomb of St. James for, according to tradition, afterwards the beheading Jesus’s accessory James hid from the Romans in the Hezir ancestors tomb.
The a lot of arresting anatomy in the Kidron Valley is Yad Avshalom, or Cairn to Absalom. A aerial 22 meters in height, it was hewn out of the bedrock and is absolutely abstracted from the abruptness abaft it. Columns and capitals adorn the massive lower allotment of the monument, which is acclaimed by a annular top catastrophe in a long, attenuate point. The altar dates aback to the aboriginal aeon B.C.E – about a thousand years afterwards Absalom rebelled adjoin his ancestor and was run through with a javelin by the king’s captain.
When asked what the dream meant, Suleiman’s adviser responded by suggesting that the Sultan bound accomplish a acceptable deed. And so, in 1538, Suleiman began apology of Jerusalem’s broke city-limits wall. Impressive during the day, the bank is admirable at night.
Thanks to a borough activity put into aftereffect at the end of the 20th century, dozens of the world’s a lot of celebrated and arresting sites, the Old City-limits walls arresting a allotment of them, are artistically lit from Jerusalem dark to Jerusalem dawn.
Another of the a lot of admirable is in the Russian Compound. Inaugurated in 1872, the affected Russian Cathedral of the Trinity is a active spectacle. This abbey is endemic by “Red Russians,” abbey admiral who were affectionate to the Communist regime. During the Algid War, Red Russian Orthodox priests came to Israel – and larboard — at an clumsily accelerated pace. To this day abounding accept that the always alteration clergy were alive for the KGB.
Also lit up is Notre Dame de Jerusalem, with an arty bedrock bluff and angled turrets. Located alfresco the Old City-limits walls, it was congenital in 1884 by the Catholic Adjustment that pioneered atoning pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
During the 1948 War of Independence, Israeli defenders on the Notre Dame ramparts managed to arrest the Arab Legion beforehand into western Jerusalem. Following the war, and until Jerusalem was reunited in 1967, Israeli soldiers attentive the city-limits from posts on the roof of Notre Dame, anon adverse Jordanian soldiers positioned on the Old City-limits walls.
No added website in Jerusalem is as burdened with symbols as the arresting Jerusalem YMCA, a aglow anatomy on King David Street. Reflected on its walls, ceilings, stones and pillars are manifestations of the world’s three greatest faiths. The artist was Arthur Louis Harmon, whose close advised New York’s world-famous Empire State Building.
A bottle window over the access is busy with an olive branch. In adjustment to accumulate this attribute of accord from getting burst during the War of Independence, the window was removed anniversary time the Arabs started shooting. One day, a carapace flew through the aperture area the window had been and hit the ceiling. Fortunately it didn’t backfire and the accident was afterwards repaired.
Perhaps the a lot of airy sites to see are forth the Promenade, alfresco the eastern end of the Old City-limits walls. From actuality you can appearance the Kidron Valley, mentioned by name 11 times in the Scriptures. Jewish and Christian traditions amalgamate in this wadi, area Israelite kings, princes, priests and prophets are apparently buried, and area Jesus was wont to walk.
After abnegation for three days, the Jews fabricated a crusade to the tomb of Zechariah. Throwing themselves aloft the arena they prayed. Then, while singing psalms, they circled the tomb seven times. By atramentous the sky was black. Heavy rain, accompanied by barrage and lightning, fell on the Holy City. The Jews were saved, the city’s cisterns abounding with water, and the adherence of Zechariah’s tomb was reaffirmed.
Next to Zechariah’s tomb lights flash through the Hezir ancestors burying complex. It housed the charcoal of a acclaimed ancestors of priests mentioned by name in the Bible. Christians aswell alarm this the Tomb of St. James for, according to tradition, afterwards the beheading Jesus’s accessory James hid from the Romans in the Hezir ancestors tomb.
The a lot of arresting anatomy in the Kidron Valley is Yad Avshalom, or Cairn to Absalom. A aerial 22 meters in height, it was hewn out of the bedrock and is absolutely abstracted from the abruptness abaft it. Columns and capitals adorn the massive lower allotment of the monument, which is acclaimed by a annular top catastrophe in a long, attenuate point. The altar dates aback to the aboriginal aeon B.C.E – about a thousand years afterwards Absalom rebelled adjoin his ancestor and was run through with a javelin by the king’s captain.
2012年8月13日星期一
Sportsmen and Tribes Pledge Opposition
A new National Wildlife Federation report concludes that a massive buildup of U.S. coal exports through the Pacific Northwest would threaten public health and cause serious environmental degradation to the region’s natural resources.
As coal continues to decline as a source of power in the U.S., the report warns that the industry’s plan to expand markets abroad will harm fisheries, endanger communities, and increase global warming pollution. The audio from the July 31, 2012 teleconference about the report's release is posted here.
Because of a decline in demand in the U.S. for coal, this fight over port expansion in Washington and Oregon will determine the immediate future of the coal industry in the United States.
“Sending more coal to Asia carries almost no benefits for the U.S., but we pay the price," said Felice Stadler, Director of Energy Campaigns at the National Wildlife Federation. "Degraded fisheries, damaged communities, medical costs, harms to wildlife, and a continued burning of high carbon fuel will cost us dearly for decades."
Currently, at least six coal port proposals are being considered in Washington and Oregon, which together would be capable of sending 150 million tons or more annually to Asian markets. The report is released jointly with the Association of Northwest Steelheaders.
"There are still too many unanswered questions regarding the potential impact of coal dust on the Columbia River watershed and the health of the river's salmon and steelhead runs, many of which are federally-listed under the Endangered Species Act," said Russell Bassett, executive director of the Association of Northwest Steelheaders. "At the very least the Army Corps of Engineers should conduct a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement to study the potential impacts fugitive coal dust would have on the Columbia River and the fisheries that supports billions of dollars in Oregon's and Washington's economies."
The report, “The True Cost of Coal,” says ramping up coal exports means sending more coal-laden rail cars through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. This will leave more fugitive coal dust and diesel emissions in communities, deposit more mercury in waterways and create more air and noise pollution from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to Puget Sound.
Each coal car can lose hundreds of pounds of toxic coal dust en route from the Powder River Basin to the Pacific Northwest.
There have been at least 30 coal train derailments in the U.S. since 2010 alone, raising the specter of massive coal contamination into rivers. A spate of them has occurred in recent weeks.
And whether burned in China or the U.S., coal would continue to speed climate change and crowd out cleaner sources of energy like wind and solar power.
NWF issues a series of recommendations for policymakers in the report that would urge further study of the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of the projects including the induced rail traffic, mining activities and climate implications. Federal and state permitting agencies must fully engage tribes in this process as well.
As coal continues to decline as a source of power in the U.S., the report warns that the industry’s plan to expand markets abroad will harm fisheries, endanger communities, and increase global warming pollution. The audio from the July 31, 2012 teleconference about the report's release is posted here.
Because of a decline in demand in the U.S. for coal, this fight over port expansion in Washington and Oregon will determine the immediate future of the coal industry in the United States.
“Sending more coal to Asia carries almost no benefits for the U.S., but we pay the price," said Felice Stadler, Director of Energy Campaigns at the National Wildlife Federation. "Degraded fisheries, damaged communities, medical costs, harms to wildlife, and a continued burning of high carbon fuel will cost us dearly for decades."
Currently, at least six coal port proposals are being considered in Washington and Oregon, which together would be capable of sending 150 million tons or more annually to Asian markets. The report is released jointly with the Association of Northwest Steelheaders.
"There are still too many unanswered questions regarding the potential impact of coal dust on the Columbia River watershed and the health of the river's salmon and steelhead runs, many of which are federally-listed under the Endangered Species Act," said Russell Bassett, executive director of the Association of Northwest Steelheaders. "At the very least the Army Corps of Engineers should conduct a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement to study the potential impacts fugitive coal dust would have on the Columbia River and the fisheries that supports billions of dollars in Oregon's and Washington's economies."
The report, “The True Cost of Coal,” says ramping up coal exports means sending more coal-laden rail cars through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. This will leave more fugitive coal dust and diesel emissions in communities, deposit more mercury in waterways and create more air and noise pollution from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to Puget Sound.
Each coal car can lose hundreds of pounds of toxic coal dust en route from the Powder River Basin to the Pacific Northwest.
There have been at least 30 coal train derailments in the U.S. since 2010 alone, raising the specter of massive coal contamination into rivers. A spate of them has occurred in recent weeks.
And whether burned in China or the U.S., coal would continue to speed climate change and crowd out cleaner sources of energy like wind and solar power.
NWF issues a series of recommendations for policymakers in the report that would urge further study of the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of the projects including the induced rail traffic, mining activities and climate implications. Federal and state permitting agencies must fully engage tribes in this process as well.
2012年8月7日星期二
Stone sculptures alter abhorred visitor
An abhorred company centre on Scotland’s 10th accomplished abundance has been removed and replaced with accessories declared as ‘more in befitting with the abundance landscape’.
The Civic Assurance for Scotland has aswell confused the car esplanade at Ben Lawers to a beneath arresting website in woodland.
The NTS, which owns the acreage including the 1,214m Perthshire munro, said the website has been reinstated to moorland. New unmanned alfresco estimation has aswell been created to acquaint the belief of the civic attributes reserve.
“The architecture of these new analytic structures takes afflatus from broke shielings – baby barrio breadth farmers lived if their livestock were agriculture in the hills,” a agent said.
“Traces of these dwellings can be begin broadcast beyond the Ben Lawers reserve.
“Built application locally reclaimed stone, these enclosures abode sculptural installations created by Edinburgh based artisan Tim Chalk.
“The sculptures, which highlight cogent aspects of the mountain’s flora, archaeology and the trust’s attention work, abide of several ample carvings, a rock circuitous that apprehension through the shieling and a melancholia sundial.”
Property administrator Helen Cole said: “Ben Lawers is one of Scotland’s a lot of accepted walking destinations, with seven munros, aces angle over Loch Tay and a huge assortment of bulb and beastly life.
“The new estimation will advice add to the faculty of place, of this important abundance mural whilst apropos its history and the acceptation of its accustomed history.
“We achievement these new accessories will accredit the assurance to accommodated its key aims of auspicious anybody to analyze their accustomed heritage, while ensuring that we assure Scotland’s mural for approaching generations.”
New paths accept aswell been created from the car esplanade to the low- and high-level walks on the reserve. A self-guiding album to the attributes aisle on the lower slopes of Beinn Ghlas has aswell been adapted and can be bought on the website from a dispenser.
The attention at Ben Lawers aswell includes plan to restore threatened bulb communities, aisle plan and an anniversary programme of guided walks and educational work.
Ben Lawers NNR has been in the affliction of the Civic Assurance for Scotland back 1950. It is a website of appropriate accurate absorption and a appropriate breadth of attention beneath the European Habitats Directive for the aberrant examples of a amount of habitats, attenuate on a European scale.
The assets is broadly accepted for its outstanding ambit and assortment of arctic-alpine breed and frondescence types.
It is important for the actual ample amount of nationally attenuate or deficient montane bulb breed that it supports, including vascular plants, lichens, and bryophytes. It aswell has an outstanding assortment of invertebrates with abounding nationally attenuate or notable species.
The Civic Assurance for Scotland has aswell confused the car esplanade at Ben Lawers to a beneath arresting website in woodland.
The NTS, which owns the acreage including the 1,214m Perthshire munro, said the website has been reinstated to moorland. New unmanned alfresco estimation has aswell been created to acquaint the belief of the civic attributes reserve.
“The architecture of these new analytic structures takes afflatus from broke shielings – baby barrio breadth farmers lived if their livestock were agriculture in the hills,” a agent said.
“Traces of these dwellings can be begin broadcast beyond the Ben Lawers reserve.
“Built application locally reclaimed stone, these enclosures abode sculptural installations created by Edinburgh based artisan Tim Chalk.
“The sculptures, which highlight cogent aspects of the mountain’s flora, archaeology and the trust’s attention work, abide of several ample carvings, a rock circuitous that apprehension through the shieling and a melancholia sundial.”
Property administrator Helen Cole said: “Ben Lawers is one of Scotland’s a lot of accepted walking destinations, with seven munros, aces angle over Loch Tay and a huge assortment of bulb and beastly life.
“The new estimation will advice add to the faculty of place, of this important abundance mural whilst apropos its history and the acceptation of its accustomed history.
“We achievement these new accessories will accredit the assurance to accommodated its key aims of auspicious anybody to analyze their accustomed heritage, while ensuring that we assure Scotland’s mural for approaching generations.”
New paths accept aswell been created from the car esplanade to the low- and high-level walks on the reserve. A self-guiding album to the attributes aisle on the lower slopes of Beinn Ghlas has aswell been adapted and can be bought on the website from a dispenser.
The attention at Ben Lawers aswell includes plan to restore threatened bulb communities, aisle plan and an anniversary programme of guided walks and educational work.
Ben Lawers NNR has been in the affliction of the Civic Assurance for Scotland back 1950. It is a website of appropriate accurate absorption and a appropriate breadth of attention beneath the European Habitats Directive for the aberrant examples of a amount of habitats, attenuate on a European scale.
The assets is broadly accepted for its outstanding ambit and assortment of arctic-alpine breed and frondescence types.
It is important for the actual ample amount of nationally attenuate or deficient montane bulb breed that it supports, including vascular plants, lichens, and bryophytes. It aswell has an outstanding assortment of invertebrates with abounding nationally attenuate or notable species.
2012年8月5日星期日
Spare us the swoons over the Boss
David Remnick's 75,000-word profile of Bruce Springsteen is another of his contributions to the literature of fandom. Once again there is a derecho of detail and the conventional view of his protagonist, the official legend, is left undisturbed. It could have been written by the record company.
The interminable thing is an inventory of Springsteen (and rock) platitudes, punctuated by the fleeting acknowledgment of a dissent about the deity, but much more interested in access than in judgment. "Springsteen Survives", the cover of the magazine triumphantly proclaims.
Survives what? When Remnick turns from reporting to commentary, the earnestness becomes embarrassing, which is to say, fully the match of the earnestness of his subject. Springsteen's new album, he patiently explains, is "shot through with a liberal insistence that American patriotism has less to do with the primacy of markets than with a Rooseveltian sense of fairness and a communal sense of belonging." Just wrap your legs round these paperbacks.
And Remnick is not alone in his articulate swoon. In The Atlantic, in another of his exercises in stenographic journalism, Jeffrey Goldberg accompanied New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to a Springsteen concert and recorded the boorish governor's frenzy and its repercussions for contemporary conservatism.
"We are in a luxury suite at the Prudential Centre - the Rock - in downtown Newark, the sort of suite accessible only to the American plutocracy." The lucky Jew! Then Christie "loses himself". "The fist-pumping governor seems uncontainable . . . Bringing him to a Springsteen concert is an exercise in volcano management." It is an unpleasant thought, as Christie's ass is not at all finely sausaged. Goldberg wishes also to establish his own demotic credentials.
"I've spent much of my life as a pro-Springsteen extremist," he boasts. "If the E Street Band at full throttle doesn't fill you with joy, you're probably dead."
Goldberg is alive. And so, apparently, is David Brooks, who recently began a column with this tasteless remark: "They say you've never really seen a Bruce Springsteen concert until you've seen one in Europe, so some friends and I threw financial sanity to the winds and went to follow him around Spain and France."
The lesson that Brooks learns from the popularity of New Jersey's Asbury Park so far away from Asbury Park is "Don't try to be everyman . . . Don't try to be citizens of some artificial global community. Go deeper into your own tradition."
It is an ancient point, often made about Joyce and Faulkner and Sholem Aleichem, but a fine point. The problem is that nobody tries harder, and less persuasively, to be everyman than Bruce Springsteen.
Do these men have ears? The musical decline of Springsteen has been obvious for decades. The sanctimony, the grandiosity, the utterly formulaic monumentality; the witlessness; the tiresome recycling of those anthemic figures, each time more preposterously distended; the disappearance of intimacy and the rejection of softness.
And the sexlessness: Remnick adores Springsteen for his "flagrant exertion", which he finds deeply sensual, comparing him with James Brown. But Brown's shocking intensity, his gaudy stamina, his sea of sweat, was about, well, f . . king, whereas Springsteen "wants his audience to leave the arena, as he commands them, 'with your hands hurting, your feet hurting, your back hurting, your voice sore, and your sexual organs stimulated!' ", which is how you talk dirty at Whole Foods.
Remnick lauds him also for his "exuberance", which is indeed preternatural. I was twice at The Bottom Line in August 1975 and I have never been in a happier room. But there is nothing daft or insouciant, nothing crazy free, about Springsteen's exuberance any more.
The joy is programmatic; it is mere uplift, another expression of social responsibility, a further statement of an idealism that borders on illusion. The rising? Not quite yet. We take care of our own? No, we do not.
Nothing has damaged Springsteen's once-magnificent music more than his decision to become a spokesman for America. The wounded workers in his songs do not have the authenticity of acquaintance; they are pious hackneyed tropes, class martyrs from Guthrie and Steinbeck.
Springsteen's sympathy is genuine but his people are not. His 9/11 and recession songs are bloated editorials: "Where's the promise from sea to shining sea?" His anger that "the banker man grows fat" is too holy: "If I had a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight" is not a "liberal insistence".
A few minutes with one of Johnny Cash's last records and it is impossible to take Springsteen's vernacular seriously.
When was the last time Springsteen wrote a song as moving and true as Alejandro Escovedo's Down in the Bowery?
Springsteen worship is a cry against the clock. But rock 'n' roll has played another role in American life, which is to prove that Herbert Marcuse was right. There will be no revolution in the US. This society will contain
its contradictions without resolving them; it will absorb opposition and reward it; it will transform dissent into culture and commerce.
Marcuse's mistake was in believing that this is bad news. It is good news, because we will be spared the agonies of political purifications. It is also comic, as protest songs become entertainment for the rich, and Springsteen the idol of the elite. The New Yorker clinches it: he is the least dangerous man in America.
The interminable thing is an inventory of Springsteen (and rock) platitudes, punctuated by the fleeting acknowledgment of a dissent about the deity, but much more interested in access than in judgment. "Springsteen Survives", the cover of the magazine triumphantly proclaims.
Survives what? When Remnick turns from reporting to commentary, the earnestness becomes embarrassing, which is to say, fully the match of the earnestness of his subject. Springsteen's new album, he patiently explains, is "shot through with a liberal insistence that American patriotism has less to do with the primacy of markets than with a Rooseveltian sense of fairness and a communal sense of belonging." Just wrap your legs round these paperbacks.
And Remnick is not alone in his articulate swoon. In The Atlantic, in another of his exercises in stenographic journalism, Jeffrey Goldberg accompanied New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to a Springsteen concert and recorded the boorish governor's frenzy and its repercussions for contemporary conservatism.
"We are in a luxury suite at the Prudential Centre - the Rock - in downtown Newark, the sort of suite accessible only to the American plutocracy." The lucky Jew! Then Christie "loses himself". "The fist-pumping governor seems uncontainable . . . Bringing him to a Springsteen concert is an exercise in volcano management." It is an unpleasant thought, as Christie's ass is not at all finely sausaged. Goldberg wishes also to establish his own demotic credentials.
"I've spent much of my life as a pro-Springsteen extremist," he boasts. "If the E Street Band at full throttle doesn't fill you with joy, you're probably dead."
Goldberg is alive. And so, apparently, is David Brooks, who recently began a column with this tasteless remark: "They say you've never really seen a Bruce Springsteen concert until you've seen one in Europe, so some friends and I threw financial sanity to the winds and went to follow him around Spain and France."
The lesson that Brooks learns from the popularity of New Jersey's Asbury Park so far away from Asbury Park is "Don't try to be everyman . . . Don't try to be citizens of some artificial global community. Go deeper into your own tradition."
It is an ancient point, often made about Joyce and Faulkner and Sholem Aleichem, but a fine point. The problem is that nobody tries harder, and less persuasively, to be everyman than Bruce Springsteen.
Do these men have ears? The musical decline of Springsteen has been obvious for decades. The sanctimony, the grandiosity, the utterly formulaic monumentality; the witlessness; the tiresome recycling of those anthemic figures, each time more preposterously distended; the disappearance of intimacy and the rejection of softness.
And the sexlessness: Remnick adores Springsteen for his "flagrant exertion", which he finds deeply sensual, comparing him with James Brown. But Brown's shocking intensity, his gaudy stamina, his sea of sweat, was about, well, f . . king, whereas Springsteen "wants his audience to leave the arena, as he commands them, 'with your hands hurting, your feet hurting, your back hurting, your voice sore, and your sexual organs stimulated!' ", which is how you talk dirty at Whole Foods.
Remnick lauds him also for his "exuberance", which is indeed preternatural. I was twice at The Bottom Line in August 1975 and I have never been in a happier room. But there is nothing daft or insouciant, nothing crazy free, about Springsteen's exuberance any more.
The joy is programmatic; it is mere uplift, another expression of social responsibility, a further statement of an idealism that borders on illusion. The rising? Not quite yet. We take care of our own? No, we do not.
Nothing has damaged Springsteen's once-magnificent music more than his decision to become a spokesman for America. The wounded workers in his songs do not have the authenticity of acquaintance; they are pious hackneyed tropes, class martyrs from Guthrie and Steinbeck.
Springsteen's sympathy is genuine but his people are not. His 9/11 and recession songs are bloated editorials: "Where's the promise from sea to shining sea?" His anger that "the banker man grows fat" is too holy: "If I had a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight" is not a "liberal insistence".
A few minutes with one of Johnny Cash's last records and it is impossible to take Springsteen's vernacular seriously.
When was the last time Springsteen wrote a song as moving and true as Alejandro Escovedo's Down in the Bowery?
Springsteen worship is a cry against the clock. But rock 'n' roll has played another role in American life, which is to prove that Herbert Marcuse was right. There will be no revolution in the US. This society will contain
its contradictions without resolving them; it will absorb opposition and reward it; it will transform dissent into culture and commerce.
Marcuse's mistake was in believing that this is bad news. It is good news, because we will be spared the agonies of political purifications. It is also comic, as protest songs become entertainment for the rich, and Springsteen the idol of the elite. The New Yorker clinches it: he is the least dangerous man in America.
2012年8月1日星期三
Mobile Science Museum Visits Homeless Children
The Cal State Long Beach Mobile Science Museum paid a visit to more than 100 children of homeless Long Beach families Tuesday as part of a free, two-week science education camp.
The museum on wheels arrived at the Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center at the Villages at Cabrillo around 9 a.m. Tuesday, where about 120 children kindergarten through 8th grade gathered to experience the wide world of science.
Wrapping up the a two-week summer program dubbed See Us Succeed, the MSM presented more than 40 exhibits devoted to sciences ranging from astronomy to zoology. The hands-on displays, which include a marine touch tank and a motion chair, are designed to bring a museum experience to those unable able to visit them.
Started in 1980, the MSM has since grown into one of Cal State Long Beach’s most successful community outreach programs, according to the university.
“It’s one of the more exciting things that I do because it’s something that these kids would never have the opportunity to take part in,” said Laura Henriques, chair of the CSULB Science Education Department, in a statement. “It gives parents time to seek employment or more permanent housing or do things without having to worry about their kids being in safe programming,” she said.
Another one of the many challenges facing families in the homeless community is where to go during the day when shelters close their doors. Adressing that need and more, the program and the credentialed teachers and students of the MSM are ensuring that of all the things local underpiveleged youth lack, a memorable museum visit won’t be one of them.
Made possible by a grant from the Verizon Foundation, the program is a partnership of the Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center for Homeless Students, which serves more than 300 students a year, and the Long Beach Unified School District, which serves more than homeless 5,000 students a year, according to their web sites.
The center is named for its founder, McLeod Bethune, who was born to slaves in 1875 and committed her life to ensuring that others had the access to education that she did not as a child.
Adrian, a 23-year-old largely overshadowed by American stars such as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, made a name for himself by winning the 100-meter Olympic freestyle Wednesday. He lunged to the wall to edge James "The Missile" Magnussen by one-hundredth of a second — the slightest margin possible — and again deny Australia its first individual swimming gold of the London Games.
Adrian pounded the water, then put his hands over his eyes while dangling over the lane rope, as if he couldn't believe the "1" beside his name. Magnussen hung at the end of the pool, staring straight ahead at the wall in disbelief, the wall he got to just a fraction of a second too late.
"It's not who swims the fastest time this year," said Adrian, a not-so-subtle dig at Magnussen posting the best time ever in a textile suit back in March. "It's who can get their hands on the wall first here tonight."
The Aussies took another bitter defeat in the final event of the evening, again to their American rivals as Schmitt chased down Alicia Coutts for gold in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
Schmitt dived in the water about a half-second behind but passed Coutts on their first return lap and won going away in 7 minutes, 42.92 seconds. The Australians settled for another silver in 7:44.41, while France took the bronze.
Schmitt is turning into one of the biggest American stars of the games, picking up her second gold to go along with a silver and a bronze. Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin also claimed her second gold swimming the leadoff leg, and Dana Vollmer now has two golds in London. Shannon Vreeland rounded out the gold medal-winning quartet.
The museum on wheels arrived at the Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center at the Villages at Cabrillo around 9 a.m. Tuesday, where about 120 children kindergarten through 8th grade gathered to experience the wide world of science.
Wrapping up the a two-week summer program dubbed See Us Succeed, the MSM presented more than 40 exhibits devoted to sciences ranging from astronomy to zoology. The hands-on displays, which include a marine touch tank and a motion chair, are designed to bring a museum experience to those unable able to visit them.
Started in 1980, the MSM has since grown into one of Cal State Long Beach’s most successful community outreach programs, according to the university.
“It’s one of the more exciting things that I do because it’s something that these kids would never have the opportunity to take part in,” said Laura Henriques, chair of the CSULB Science Education Department, in a statement. “It gives parents time to seek employment or more permanent housing or do things without having to worry about their kids being in safe programming,” she said.
Another one of the many challenges facing families in the homeless community is where to go during the day when shelters close their doors. Adressing that need and more, the program and the credentialed teachers and students of the MSM are ensuring that of all the things local underpiveleged youth lack, a memorable museum visit won’t be one of them.
Made possible by a grant from the Verizon Foundation, the program is a partnership of the Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center for Homeless Students, which serves more than 300 students a year, and the Long Beach Unified School District, which serves more than homeless 5,000 students a year, according to their web sites.
The center is named for its founder, McLeod Bethune, who was born to slaves in 1875 and committed her life to ensuring that others had the access to education that she did not as a child.
Adrian, a 23-year-old largely overshadowed by American stars such as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, made a name for himself by winning the 100-meter Olympic freestyle Wednesday. He lunged to the wall to edge James "The Missile" Magnussen by one-hundredth of a second — the slightest margin possible — and again deny Australia its first individual swimming gold of the London Games.
Adrian pounded the water, then put his hands over his eyes while dangling over the lane rope, as if he couldn't believe the "1" beside his name. Magnussen hung at the end of the pool, staring straight ahead at the wall in disbelief, the wall he got to just a fraction of a second too late.
"It's not who swims the fastest time this year," said Adrian, a not-so-subtle dig at Magnussen posting the best time ever in a textile suit back in March. "It's who can get their hands on the wall first here tonight."
The Aussies took another bitter defeat in the final event of the evening, again to their American rivals as Schmitt chased down Alicia Coutts for gold in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
Schmitt dived in the water about a half-second behind but passed Coutts on their first return lap and won going away in 7 minutes, 42.92 seconds. The Australians settled for another silver in 7:44.41, while France took the bronze.
Schmitt is turning into one of the biggest American stars of the games, picking up her second gold to go along with a silver and a bronze. Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin also claimed her second gold swimming the leadoff leg, and Dana Vollmer now has two golds in London. Shannon Vreeland rounded out the gold medal-winning quartet.
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