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seven GPs, plus internists, OB/GYN, dentists, a medical supply company
and RemedysRx, a full-service, 4,000-square-foot pharmacy.
Michael
Roney, managing broker of MLR Real Estate Services, says the building
is already 70 per cent occupied after just four months. He oversees the
Sterling ownership group, which is comprised mainly of medical
professionals who are also tenants.
Its a credit to the
physicians who have assisted with introducing me to other physicians,
and to the hard work Colliers (leasing agent) has done, said Roney,
noting the project has already attracted a number of out-of-town
physicians and other medical professionals.
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Roney
helped the group acquire the land and go through the development
process, and he is now assisting with marketing and property management
until the project gets off the ground.
We have been really
patient in the people we have attracted to it to make it complementary,
said Roney. Its a huge benefit for the community.
Ideally, Roney
would like to add an audiology lab and optician to the smorgasbord of
medical offerings. He is also looking for other complementary practices
such as physiotherapists and chiropractors.
The $3.9 million
project broke ground in August 2011, and the buildings design utilizes
the natural light and offers plenty of parking, over-sized conduit to
house special wiring for medical equipment and other modern amenities.
We
have more plumbing in here than a Turkish bath, laughed Roney,
referring to the availability of public washrooms on each floor.
The
Sterling buildings location is ideally situated as doctors are within
walking distance of Vernon Jubilee Hospital. It also offers impressive
fourth-floor views of Greater Vernon, including Mission Hill, Turtle
Mountain, East Hill, Polson Park and Okanagan Landing.
Designed
by Vernons MQN Architects, the building site backs onto Vernon Creek,
which proved a challenge with respect to riparian regulations. Since the
creek is a fish-bearing stream, it triggered a report by Fisheries and
Oceans Canada to establish setback requirements.
The states
largest health care provider gave the Green Mountain Care Board a
heads-up last week, since the power to issue a certificate of need for
health care facilities was transferred to the board on Jan. 1.
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inpatient building. The multi-storied building would begin three stories
above the centers Emergency Department parking lot, creating a canopy
over the area.
David Keelty, Fletcher Allens director of
facilities planning and development, said that the companys stock of
inpatient buildings is aging, with numerous structures dating back to
the 1940s and 1960s. Right now, Keelty said, less than 60 percent of
Fletcher Allens inpatient beds are private rooms.
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beds with single-room environments.
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research center. The facility plans to move its mother-baby unit from a
50-year-old space to an area that has been occupied by the University
of Vermonts General Clinical Research Center for decades. Fletcher Allen
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would be converted to a laboratory with necessary facilities for
voluntary human studies.
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data centers, which it currently leases, with a new center priced at
about $8.5 million. Fletcher Allen also plans to invest $7.4 million in
Central Vermont Medical Centers new $20 million information technology
(IT) system, which would mesh with Fletcher Allens. CVMC is a
participating member of Fletcher Allen Partners, which is an
organization that brings four of the regions largest hospitals under one
umbrella.
This project would allow us to integrate Fletcher
Allen Partners system and will greatly improve the coordination of care
so that were all working from the same platform or system, so that when
our doctors leave Fletcher Allen and walk into Central Vermont Medical
Center, theyll be walking into the same IT system, Keelty said.
Fletcher
Allen is planning to replace imaging equipment in two catheterization
labs, which will total roughly $4.6 million, and the hospital has
already filed an application with the Green Mountain Care Board for a
certificate of need to buy a $2.36 million MRI unit to replace a
nine-year-old machine.
2013年3月31日 星期日
2013年1月7日 星期一
ELNC's first 'Little School' opens to get vulnerable
A ribbon-cutting was held on Monday, Jan. 7 with ELNC partners, parents and community member in attendance.
ELNC, a nonprofit organization, has designed and is currently implementing an intentional preschool service system aimed at providing, expanding and sustaining the capacity of high-quality early care and education programs to low-income children living in predominately black and Hispanic communities.
In 2011, ELNC received a $5 million, four-year grant, from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to increase the number of children ready for kindergarten living within targeted neighborhoods, by providing resources and technical assistance to its neighborhood partners that would enable them to increase existing or create new capacity.
ELNC is currently providing financial resources for 110 children to attend quality pre-school programs. Ezeh, who is also associate professor of education & director of Early Childhood Education Faculty of Education at Aquinas College, said resources coming into Kent County too often are not reaching children and families most in need.
"This is definitely a program that I was looking for," said Kendra Bitner, who said she lives in walking distance to the preschool program her sons, Xavier, 4 and Zaiden, 3, attend the preschool class in the SECOM building.
"They were going to attend a paid program over on 44th Street, but I would have had to get them up very early to catch the bus there. I am glad the class is small so that each child's needs get attended to.
Teachers Lynnelle Mulder and Araceli Ojeda today was just trying to get the students used to being in a structured learning environment and learning the daily routing. After a breakfast of cereal, the students gathered on the carpet as Mulder read the book, "The Kissing Hand" to them. The story features Chester the raccoon, who is starting school and has some fears.
Most parents, like Bitner and Velasquez, stayed in the classroom, which has everything written in English and Spanish, for 10 or more minutes after dropping off their children.
"The children are not used to being in school, so we are getting to know them today and teaching them to raising their hands, to listen and follow instructions, and helping them get used to the routine," said Ojeda.
In addition to the SECOM site, the other ELNC programs slated to open in the coming weeks with its partners are at Wellspring Church of Grand Rapids, 811 Wealthy St. SE, and the Hispanic Center of Grand Rapids. The preschool classroom will be at San Juan Diego Academy, 1650 Godfrey Ave. SW.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings?
“We are trying to get as many schools as possible going because of the need in these communities,” said Ezeh, who said rehab work was required to create the preschool classes. “If the program needs to run through the summer to get children, we are prepared for that.”
Shawnte' Williams, ELNC project/compliance director, said the organization is moving with a "sense of urgency" to address the access issue in inner-city neighborhoods. She said their parents face financial, transportation and other challenges to getting their children in structured learning environments.
In September, ELNC plans to open a preschool that would allow them to serve 84 children. The Grand Rapids school board approved a lease for four years at $30,000 per year for ELNC to operate the school in its old Roosevelt Child Development Center, 644 Cordelia St. SE. The school was initially planned to open this month but rehab work on the building, vacant for three years, is still underway.
More than 80 percent of Grand Rapids schools students enter kindergarten unprepared. There are a few efforts targeting that problem, including First Steps, Grand Rapids Public Schools, and the Great Start Collaborative opening Early Learning Communities hubs.
"We want to these schools to become a part of the fabric of these neighborhoods," said Nadia Brigham, program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. "We are trying to provide access to preschools across the city, so that these kids have the same access to a quality education as those in middle and upper income families."
Ezeh said her group will measure their success, not just by children being prepared for kindergarten, but by parents in the neighborhoods they target becoming more engaged, understanding and embracing the importance of early childhood education.
Sorry, but this kind of apology should come standard-issue from all 30 teams, especially those like the Flames and Bruins, who certainly led the charge for a lockout despite having massive fanbases, popularity, and most importantly, war chests.
Never forget this was a lockout. Never forget this was put upon you and the players and the sport by the owners. Never forget the two biggest engines in all this weren't poor, put-upon teams in tough markets, but rather financial giants whose sole motivation was greed and the desire to squeeze just an extra dime or two out of every dollar spent. They certainly accomplished their goal.
The fact that as far as I can tell the majority of the league's 30 teams haven't so much as considered apologizing is beyond irrational. Obviously, not every team wanted this lockout to happen, but those that stood idly by, hands in their pockets, while Gary Bettman, Jeremy Jacobs, Murray Edwards,If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses, and the rest of their villainous cohorts did this are as guilty through their inaction as any actual negative actors in this process.
They should be down on their hands and knees, groveling for the fans to return to their arenas to buy seats and concessions and jerseys after all this. Everything should be half-price. Every purchase should come with the warmest "thank you" imaginable. But of course, they don't. Because the league doesn't give a rat's ass about its fans, no matter how much free Center Ice they throw at us.
Oh yeah, fans are excited to have the NHL back in their lives and, if you like hockey, you can't really blame them. I know many fans have already started buying tickets in a blind scramble to turn over more of their money to the oligarchs who just robbed them of their favorite sport for four months, and I know that all across the league, games will be played before packed houses sometime in the next few weeks. It disgusts me, obviously, but that's the way of the world. I'm sure the "Thank You (Again) Fans!" that's painted at both blue lines will more than make up for it.We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. That's bridge-building for the NHL in 2013.
This league, which seems content to have itself reduced to a national sports punchline every seven or eight years (clock's ticking on that opt-out work stoppage!), has never cared about you, and will do so. Not really. Not as long as you're willing to throw wads of cash at it the second it gives you what it should have been giving you all along.
Everyone's giddy now. Many have lost any sense of reality they had throughout the process. I still can't believe I'm seeing legitimate hockey reporters — and not just the dummies in the owners' pockets — saying stuff about how the NHL gave the Players' Association concessions at the 12th hour.
Did it really? Almost everything the players once had still got rolled back,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. just not as much as the NHL would have liked. They didn't make concessions, they backed off absurd demands only when a federal mediator told them to stop being ridiculous, and even then, it took a pair of back-to-back days of 13 to 16 hours. That's near-indomitable malevolent will, eroded on a timeline not dissimilar what desert sands do to the pyramids.
This joyous celebration of hockey's return will only cause the owners to double down on their resolve next time around. They now know, absolutely and unequivocally, that they can treat you like garbage, not even think about apologizing for it,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. and you'll still cut them a blank check every single year.
That is, unless you remember how October, November and December felt. How mad it made you. How the vote to lock out the players for the second time since 2004-05 came unanimously. How the owners lied to you at every opportunity about Donald Fehr's intractability. How they used so-called "moderates" to defame him with absurd press releases. How they had the gall to compare him to a suicide bomber because he would not let the union be broken by their demands. How their steadfastness that the CBA needed to provide better protection for all 30 teams came without a meaningful improvement to revenue sharing. How they tried to move the goalposts the second the NHLPA's ability to file a disclaimer of interest expired. And especially how you swore you'd never give them another cent of your hard-earned dollars.
ELNC, a nonprofit organization, has designed and is currently implementing an intentional preschool service system aimed at providing, expanding and sustaining the capacity of high-quality early care and education programs to low-income children living in predominately black and Hispanic communities.
In 2011, ELNC received a $5 million, four-year grant, from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to increase the number of children ready for kindergarten living within targeted neighborhoods, by providing resources and technical assistance to its neighborhood partners that would enable them to increase existing or create new capacity.
ELNC is currently providing financial resources for 110 children to attend quality pre-school programs. Ezeh, who is also associate professor of education & director of Early Childhood Education Faculty of Education at Aquinas College, said resources coming into Kent County too often are not reaching children and families most in need.
"This is definitely a program that I was looking for," said Kendra Bitner, who said she lives in walking distance to the preschool program her sons, Xavier, 4 and Zaiden, 3, attend the preschool class in the SECOM building.
"They were going to attend a paid program over on 44th Street, but I would have had to get them up very early to catch the bus there. I am glad the class is small so that each child's needs get attended to.
Teachers Lynnelle Mulder and Araceli Ojeda today was just trying to get the students used to being in a structured learning environment and learning the daily routing. After a breakfast of cereal, the students gathered on the carpet as Mulder read the book, "The Kissing Hand" to them. The story features Chester the raccoon, who is starting school and has some fears.
Most parents, like Bitner and Velasquez, stayed in the classroom, which has everything written in English and Spanish, for 10 or more minutes after dropping off their children.
"The children are not used to being in school, so we are getting to know them today and teaching them to raising their hands, to listen and follow instructions, and helping them get used to the routine," said Ojeda.
In addition to the SECOM site, the other ELNC programs slated to open in the coming weeks with its partners are at Wellspring Church of Grand Rapids, 811 Wealthy St. SE, and the Hispanic Center of Grand Rapids. The preschool classroom will be at San Juan Diego Academy, 1650 Godfrey Ave. SW.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings?
“We are trying to get as many schools as possible going because of the need in these communities,” said Ezeh, who said rehab work was required to create the preschool classes. “If the program needs to run through the summer to get children, we are prepared for that.”
Shawnte' Williams, ELNC project/compliance director, said the organization is moving with a "sense of urgency" to address the access issue in inner-city neighborhoods. She said their parents face financial, transportation and other challenges to getting their children in structured learning environments.
In September, ELNC plans to open a preschool that would allow them to serve 84 children. The Grand Rapids school board approved a lease for four years at $30,000 per year for ELNC to operate the school in its old Roosevelt Child Development Center, 644 Cordelia St. SE. The school was initially planned to open this month but rehab work on the building, vacant for three years, is still underway.
More than 80 percent of Grand Rapids schools students enter kindergarten unprepared. There are a few efforts targeting that problem, including First Steps, Grand Rapids Public Schools, and the Great Start Collaborative opening Early Learning Communities hubs.
"We want to these schools to become a part of the fabric of these neighborhoods," said Nadia Brigham, program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. "We are trying to provide access to preschools across the city, so that these kids have the same access to a quality education as those in middle and upper income families."
Ezeh said her group will measure their success, not just by children being prepared for kindergarten, but by parents in the neighborhoods they target becoming more engaged, understanding and embracing the importance of early childhood education.
Sorry, but this kind of apology should come standard-issue from all 30 teams, especially those like the Flames and Bruins, who certainly led the charge for a lockout despite having massive fanbases, popularity, and most importantly, war chests.
Never forget this was a lockout. Never forget this was put upon you and the players and the sport by the owners. Never forget the two biggest engines in all this weren't poor, put-upon teams in tough markets, but rather financial giants whose sole motivation was greed and the desire to squeeze just an extra dime or two out of every dollar spent. They certainly accomplished their goal.
The fact that as far as I can tell the majority of the league's 30 teams haven't so much as considered apologizing is beyond irrational. Obviously, not every team wanted this lockout to happen, but those that stood idly by, hands in their pockets, while Gary Bettman, Jeremy Jacobs, Murray Edwards,If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses, and the rest of their villainous cohorts did this are as guilty through their inaction as any actual negative actors in this process.
They should be down on their hands and knees, groveling for the fans to return to their arenas to buy seats and concessions and jerseys after all this. Everything should be half-price. Every purchase should come with the warmest "thank you" imaginable. But of course, they don't. Because the league doesn't give a rat's ass about its fans, no matter how much free Center Ice they throw at us.
Oh yeah, fans are excited to have the NHL back in their lives and, if you like hockey, you can't really blame them. I know many fans have already started buying tickets in a blind scramble to turn over more of their money to the oligarchs who just robbed them of their favorite sport for four months, and I know that all across the league, games will be played before packed houses sometime in the next few weeks. It disgusts me, obviously, but that's the way of the world. I'm sure the "Thank You (Again) Fans!" that's painted at both blue lines will more than make up for it.We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. That's bridge-building for the NHL in 2013.
This league, which seems content to have itself reduced to a national sports punchline every seven or eight years (clock's ticking on that opt-out work stoppage!), has never cared about you, and will do so. Not really. Not as long as you're willing to throw wads of cash at it the second it gives you what it should have been giving you all along.
Everyone's giddy now. Many have lost any sense of reality they had throughout the process. I still can't believe I'm seeing legitimate hockey reporters — and not just the dummies in the owners' pockets — saying stuff about how the NHL gave the Players' Association concessions at the 12th hour.
Did it really? Almost everything the players once had still got rolled back,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. just not as much as the NHL would have liked. They didn't make concessions, they backed off absurd demands only when a federal mediator told them to stop being ridiculous, and even then, it took a pair of back-to-back days of 13 to 16 hours. That's near-indomitable malevolent will, eroded on a timeline not dissimilar what desert sands do to the pyramids.
This joyous celebration of hockey's return will only cause the owners to double down on their resolve next time around. They now know, absolutely and unequivocally, that they can treat you like garbage, not even think about apologizing for it,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. and you'll still cut them a blank check every single year.
That is, unless you remember how October, November and December felt. How mad it made you. How the vote to lock out the players for the second time since 2004-05 came unanimously. How the owners lied to you at every opportunity about Donald Fehr's intractability. How they used so-called "moderates" to defame him with absurd press releases. How they had the gall to compare him to a suicide bomber because he would not let the union be broken by their demands. How their steadfastness that the CBA needed to provide better protection for all 30 teams came without a meaningful improvement to revenue sharing. How they tried to move the goalposts the second the NHLPA's ability to file a disclaimer of interest expired. And especially how you swore you'd never give them another cent of your hard-earned dollars.
2012年9月2日 星期日
Residents Aren’t as Sure
It has been more than two years since officials in this
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At the beginning of the program, 42 of the city’s roughly 9,000 on-street spaces were sacrificed to a city car-sharing program, known as Corner Cars, leading many residents to decry the arrival of new vehicles on their blocks, where claims to curbside space have long been regarded as sacrosanct.
The city’s mayor, Dawn Zimmer, said that the aim of the car share, which is operated by Hertz, was not to separate residents from their vehicles.Wholesale Agate beads from Low Price agate beads,
“There are people who need to drive every day,” she said, “and we want to make it easier for them to find parking.”
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As of July 2012, nearly a quarter of the program’s roughly 3,000 members said they had given up their cars or decided against buying one because of the car share. Since 2009, the number of people with residential parking permits has decreased by about 1,000, to 16,000 total parking permits.
And in the process, Hoboken has attracted the attention of city officials from Buffalo to San Francisco, prompting a question that might have seemed fanciful not so long ago: Can a city nudge its residents from car-owning to car-sharing to no cars at all?
“People are seeing the value of it,” Mayor Zimmer said of the program, which is based on a rent-by-the-hour model popularized by companies like Zipcar. “We’ve created something that I think will carry on in Hoboken.”
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Transit advocates say the model is worth emulating for any city hoping to coax some drivers off the road. Robert J. Pirani, the vice president for environmental programs at the Regional Plan Association, said the program appeared to be transferable to New York City or “any city that has limited parking and access to transit.”
Hoboken officials said 56 percent of its roughly 50,000 residents used public transportation, often the PATH train or New York Waterway ferries.
“It’s such a smart way to handle a limited resource,” Mr. Pirani said of the car share. “It makes urban living much more affordable if you don’t have to pay for a car that you don’t use that often.”
In September 2010, New York City’s Transportation Department began a pilot car-sharing program for its employees. After removing a quarter of the vehicles from its Lower Manhattan fleet and training 350 employees to participate in the program, the department said its on-street parking presence was reduced by 14 percent on weekdays and 68 percent on weekends. The program’s success, the department has said, could hasten the spread of car sharing to other agencies or potentially spawn a citywide municipal car-sharing system.
Paula Rivera, a spokeswoman for Hertz, said the company had used Hoboken as a model for similar programs in San Antonio and Miami Beach.
In Hoboken, though, some residents and elected officials remain skeptical. Despite the numbers cited by Ms. Zimmer’s office, they said, a drive through the city is at least as taxing as before for a motorist in search of a space.
Councilman Tim Occhipinti said he was concerned about residents who “lost on-street parking because of this for-profit company’s program.”
The city said that Hertz had paid $100 per car, per month, for each of the cars, totaling about $50,000 annually. Renting a vehicle costs up to $16 per hour.
“People need to feel that parking has become easier in Hoboken,” Mr. Occhipinti said, adding that he has used the program.
He said that some constituents were also frustrated that car-share vehicles do not have to be moved for street cleaning, as theirs do.
“It’s taking away parking spaces,” said Maria Espinosa, who commutes from Bergen County to her job as a receptionist in Hoboken. “Not everybody’s going to use a bicycle like our lovely mayor.”
Ian Sacs, who helped spearhead the car share as the city’s director of transportation and parking, said the concerns were predictable despite the city’s statistics.
“This was a very visible change to the community,” he said. “It was a tough change for people to swallow.”
Indeed, quarrels over parking have been known to ensnare residents and city officials alike. Last year, Mr. Sacs was arrested after a tussle with a bus driver in the lobby of City Hall, though the charges were later dismissed.
Mr. Sacs said he had driven an unattended bus to a municipal lot before being followed into City Hall by the driver,Airgle has mastered the art of indoor tracking, whose personal keys were on the same key ring that Mr. Sacs had grabbed. The driver then accosted Mr. Sacs, he said, before the two were separated.
At the beginning of the program, 42 of the city’s roughly 9,000 on-street spaces were sacrificed to a city car-sharing program, known as Corner Cars, leading many residents to decry the arrival of new vehicles on their blocks, where claims to curbside space have long been regarded as sacrosanct.
The city’s mayor, Dawn Zimmer, said that the aim of the car share, which is operated by Hertz, was not to separate residents from their vehicles.Wholesale Agate beads from Low Price agate beads,
“There are people who need to drive every day,” she said, “and we want to make it easier for them to find parking.”
And according to survey data from the city,High quality Wholesale gemstone beads, the experiment may be working.
As of July 2012, nearly a quarter of the program’s roughly 3,000 members said they had given up their cars or decided against buying one because of the car share. Since 2009, the number of people with residential parking permits has decreased by about 1,000, to 16,000 total parking permits.
And in the process, Hoboken has attracted the attention of city officials from Buffalo to San Francisco, prompting a question that might have seemed fanciful not so long ago: Can a city nudge its residents from car-owning to car-sharing to no cars at all?
“People are seeing the value of it,” Mayor Zimmer said of the program, which is based on a rent-by-the-hour model popularized by companies like Zipcar. “We’ve created something that I think will carry on in Hoboken.”
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Transit advocates say the model is worth emulating for any city hoping to coax some drivers off the road. Robert J. Pirani, the vice president for environmental programs at the Regional Plan Association, said the program appeared to be transferable to New York City or “any city that has limited parking and access to transit.”
Hoboken officials said 56 percent of its roughly 50,000 residents used public transportation, often the PATH train or New York Waterway ferries.
“It’s such a smart way to handle a limited resource,” Mr. Pirani said of the car share. “It makes urban living much more affordable if you don’t have to pay for a car that you don’t use that often.”
In September 2010, New York City’s Transportation Department began a pilot car-sharing program for its employees. After removing a quarter of the vehicles from its Lower Manhattan fleet and training 350 employees to participate in the program, the department said its on-street parking presence was reduced by 14 percent on weekdays and 68 percent on weekends. The program’s success, the department has said, could hasten the spread of car sharing to other agencies or potentially spawn a citywide municipal car-sharing system.
Paula Rivera, a spokeswoman for Hertz, said the company had used Hoboken as a model for similar programs in San Antonio and Miami Beach.
In Hoboken, though, some residents and elected officials remain skeptical. Despite the numbers cited by Ms. Zimmer’s office, they said, a drive through the city is at least as taxing as before for a motorist in search of a space.
Councilman Tim Occhipinti said he was concerned about residents who “lost on-street parking because of this for-profit company’s program.”
The city said that Hertz had paid $100 per car, per month, for each of the cars, totaling about $50,000 annually. Renting a vehicle costs up to $16 per hour.
“People need to feel that parking has become easier in Hoboken,” Mr. Occhipinti said, adding that he has used the program.
He said that some constituents were also frustrated that car-share vehicles do not have to be moved for street cleaning, as theirs do.
“It’s taking away parking spaces,” said Maria Espinosa, who commutes from Bergen County to her job as a receptionist in Hoboken. “Not everybody’s going to use a bicycle like our lovely mayor.”
Ian Sacs, who helped spearhead the car share as the city’s director of transportation and parking, said the concerns were predictable despite the city’s statistics.
“This was a very visible change to the community,” he said. “It was a tough change for people to swallow.”
Indeed, quarrels over parking have been known to ensnare residents and city officials alike. Last year, Mr. Sacs was arrested after a tussle with a bus driver in the lobby of City Hall, though the charges were later dismissed.
Mr. Sacs said he had driven an unattended bus to a municipal lot before being followed into City Hall by the driver,Airgle has mastered the art of indoor tracking, whose personal keys were on the same key ring that Mr. Sacs had grabbed. The driver then accosted Mr. Sacs, he said, before the two were separated.
2012年5月17日 星期四
Man in the Middle
Last week — more than two months after Mayor Michael Nutter called a
hasty press conference to announce a ban on giving away free meals in
city parks — a task force of city officials and homeless advocates he
belatedly appointed to come up with new meal solutions finally met.
That effort, according to several accounts of the meeting, did not get off to a roaring start. Arthur Evans, who directs the Department of Behavioral Health, offered a note of reconciliation to the several task-force members who represent the very feeding efforts being banned — but this was somewhat overshadowed by the crashing of the party by the uninvited Brian Jenkins, director of meal provider Chosen 300 Ministries and a leading critic of the mayor's ban.
The administration and homeless advocates have been clashing publicly for weeks, and worked together not much better behind closed doors.
"It seemed like a room where there wasn't a lot of trust," acknowledges the Rev. Bill Golderer, a Presbyterian minister who heads the Broad Street Ministry on Broad Street between Spruce and Pine and sits on the task force. "And without trust, there's very little progress to be made.We are professional canada goose jackets for women online sale shop."
Since the initial outcry over the ban, and a different regulation requiring Health Department permits to serve free food, things have only gotten uglier. A Board of Health hearing drew hundreds in opposition. A second hearing was so heated that the entire Board of Health left the room and holed up in another one, shutting the door and letting in only a few reporters and representatives. Recently, a third hearing was inexplicably rescheduled at the last minute. And,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design as City Paper reported earlier this week, the Philadelphia law firm Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg is now investigating a possible federal lawsuit against the city on behalf of feeders who claim the ban violates their freedom of religion.
But sometimes, conflict begets opportunity — and Golderer gets that. Forty-two years old, with slightly boyish looks and a youthful energy that sometimes manifests in torrents of words and probably explains how he can also double as senior pastor at Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Golderer has largely stayed out of the feud between feeders and the city.
But he hasn't been idle.Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen. For months now,Award Winning solarpanel and heat pumps for electricity and heating. he's been busy positioning himself and his church smack-dab in the middle of what he hopes will be something new in the city's homeless-service landscape. Rather than taking sides, he's quietly expanded his church's services — the first steps, he hopes, in a radical experiment to reimagine Philly's tattered homeless safety net. Broad Street Ministry already hosts a city-funded "cafe" shelter for the homeless during cold months and serves two meals a week in its spacious sanctuary — a free lunch on Thursdays and an after-service dinner on Sundays. Golderer is preparing to increase that to six per week within the next 90 days. His goal is to get to nine.
That, he hopes, is just the beginning: "The 'more meals' part of this could well be the least interesting part to mention of what I hope will unfold," he tells CP.
Golderer sees in the current uproar — along with the (almost certainly related) opening of the Barnes Foundation and the pouring of money into other public spaces on the Parkway; along with the slow, grinding decline of the city's shelter system; along with the disaster of poverty likely heading our way if Gov. Tom Corbett's budget proposals are realized — a "moment" that he intends to seize.
"We're working toward this world-class Philadelphia, anchored by the Barnes — and I'm excited about that. It's a good thing. I want the Barnes," he says.The concept of indoorpositioningsystem (RTLS) is fast catching up in industries. "But do you know how much money it took to raise the Barnes? If we're going to be stepping up to support things like this, then the do-gooders need to make sure this indoor-meal system will happen. When this city wants to do something, it can do it."
His plan is not without risk: namely, the risk of pissing off the city, his wealthy Center City neighbors and his religious and secular colleagues. But it's a necessary risk, and if his plan pans out he'll have helped bring them all a little closer together.
That effort, according to several accounts of the meeting, did not get off to a roaring start. Arthur Evans, who directs the Department of Behavioral Health, offered a note of reconciliation to the several task-force members who represent the very feeding efforts being banned — but this was somewhat overshadowed by the crashing of the party by the uninvited Brian Jenkins, director of meal provider Chosen 300 Ministries and a leading critic of the mayor's ban.
The administration and homeless advocates have been clashing publicly for weeks, and worked together not much better behind closed doors.
"It seemed like a room where there wasn't a lot of trust," acknowledges the Rev. Bill Golderer, a Presbyterian minister who heads the Broad Street Ministry on Broad Street between Spruce and Pine and sits on the task force. "And without trust, there's very little progress to be made.We are professional canada goose jackets for women online sale shop."
Since the initial outcry over the ban, and a different regulation requiring Health Department permits to serve free food, things have only gotten uglier. A Board of Health hearing drew hundreds in opposition. A second hearing was so heated that the entire Board of Health left the room and holed up in another one, shutting the door and letting in only a few reporters and representatives. Recently, a third hearing was inexplicably rescheduled at the last minute. And,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design as City Paper reported earlier this week, the Philadelphia law firm Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg is now investigating a possible federal lawsuit against the city on behalf of feeders who claim the ban violates their freedom of religion.
But sometimes, conflict begets opportunity — and Golderer gets that. Forty-two years old, with slightly boyish looks and a youthful energy that sometimes manifests in torrents of words and probably explains how he can also double as senior pastor at Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Golderer has largely stayed out of the feud between feeders and the city.
But he hasn't been idle.Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen. For months now,Award Winning solarpanel and heat pumps for electricity and heating. he's been busy positioning himself and his church smack-dab in the middle of what he hopes will be something new in the city's homeless-service landscape. Rather than taking sides, he's quietly expanded his church's services — the first steps, he hopes, in a radical experiment to reimagine Philly's tattered homeless safety net. Broad Street Ministry already hosts a city-funded "cafe" shelter for the homeless during cold months and serves two meals a week in its spacious sanctuary — a free lunch on Thursdays and an after-service dinner on Sundays. Golderer is preparing to increase that to six per week within the next 90 days. His goal is to get to nine.
That, he hopes, is just the beginning: "The 'more meals' part of this could well be the least interesting part to mention of what I hope will unfold," he tells CP.
Golderer sees in the current uproar — along with the (almost certainly related) opening of the Barnes Foundation and the pouring of money into other public spaces on the Parkway; along with the slow, grinding decline of the city's shelter system; along with the disaster of poverty likely heading our way if Gov. Tom Corbett's budget proposals are realized — a "moment" that he intends to seize.
"We're working toward this world-class Philadelphia, anchored by the Barnes — and I'm excited about that. It's a good thing. I want the Barnes," he says.The concept of indoorpositioningsystem (RTLS) is fast catching up in industries. "But do you know how much money it took to raise the Barnes? If we're going to be stepping up to support things like this, then the do-gooders need to make sure this indoor-meal system will happen. When this city wants to do something, it can do it."
His plan is not without risk: namely, the risk of pissing off the city, his wealthy Center City neighbors and his religious and secular colleagues. But it's a necessary risk, and if his plan pans out he'll have helped bring them all a little closer together.
8 Unforgettable Experiences In Kerala
Once a hub for spice traders hailing from Europe, Asia and the
Arabian peninsula, Kerala now lures travelers from across the globe with
its hill stations peppered with tea and spice plantations, palm-fringed
backwaters, and cosmopolitan history of colonial trade preserved in the
old city of Fort Cochin.
In English, Kerala translates to "land of coconuts," and indeed this breezy tropical plant coats the region's interior giving this part of India its distinctly "green" landscape. Beautifully serene settings coupled with a culture as vibrant and warm as the very sun that shines on Kerala's verdant land make a trip here unforgettable.
On the northern shore of Fort Cochin, a stroll to the Chinese fishing nets reveals a way of life that has survived for centuries. Operated by a team of up to six fishermen,Bathroom floortiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. the massive contrivances comprise a cantilever with an outstretched net suspended over the sea, and large stones strung from ropes (used as counterweights) at the other end. Watching fisherman hoist the magnificent nets from the water is as mesmerizing as being among a perfectly coordinated ballet.
Just a few minutes walk from the Chinese fishing nets rests the Old Harbour Hotel. Once a Portuguese hospice, this luxurious 300-year-old property is home to 1788, (arguably) the best restaurant in Fort Cochin. The airy indoor-outdoor setup is a lovely space to take in the nightly live performances by tabla players while dining on inventive Indian cuisine. The seafood platter -- grilled portions of lobster, squid, cuttlefish, prawns, crab and the fresh catch of the day -- Cochin shrimp curry and pumpkin olan, a typical Kerala dish made with semi-ripe pumpkin and lentils, are just a few of the incredible dining options at this top heritage hotel.
East of Fort Cochin, in Jew Town, lies the Paradesi Synagogue, a historic Judaic monument dating back to 1568.About 1 in 5 people in the UK have recurring coldsores. Situated behind the Mattancherry Palace temple, the building can be easily identified by its 18th-century clock tower and white exterior. Cameras are not permitted inside, and you may find yourself wishing they were once you take notice of the elegant hand-painted blue-and-white Chinese porcelain tiles (no two are alike), which coat the floor of the synagogue. Beautiful Belgian glass chandeliers, in a variety of shapes and sizes, adorn the ceiling,The core of an indoor positioning system.Ultimate magiccube gives you the opportunity to make your own 3D twisty puzzles. and several gold crowns and Scrolls of the Law are kept in sacred areas of the synagogue. Only a very small community of Jews (approximately 10) remains in Cochin, but this historic site brings people from all corners of the globe to admire its antiquities and rich history.
On the windy way up to the mountainous landscapes of Cardamom Hills, a stopover at Serenity at Kanam Estate is a must. Part of the boutique collection of Malabar Escapes properties, this glorious redesigned 1920s bungalow is nestled deep in a belt of rubber plantations and fragrant spice gardens. Each of the six eclectically designed rooms is fixed with period furniture, Indian artwork and spacious verandahs. Admire the lush sea of cocoa and rubber trees that envelop the property while lazing by the pool, or request a personal tour of the expansive spice gardens and rubber plantation. The innovative Indian cuisine here is healthful and overwhelmingly delicious. Most dishes are prepared with coconut milk, local spices and fresh fruits and vegetables. Try the prawn curry -- it will have you wishing you could take the chef back home.
If you can stomach the ascending three-hour drive from Kanam through a swirl of roads that twist and turn around stunning green-capped hills, you'll arrive in the enchanting hill station of Vagamon. Situated approximately 4,000 feet above sea level, this tiny plantation township is brimming with tea gardens, small waterfalls, flower-coated meadows and towering pine trees. Here, you can take a tour though one of the many tea factories, or kick off your shoes and enjoy a picnic lunch among a majestic arboreal landscape in the Pine Tree Forest. The cooler, crisp air creates the perfect conditions for hiking along Vagamon's spectacular chain of three hills --Thangal, Murugan and Kurismala, an ethereal experience in its own right.
Enveloped by a network of lush waterways, Kumarakom provides the quintessential backwater experience. Located six miles west of the bustling town of Kottayam, the peninsula is spread over a cluster of islands on the great Lake Vembanad making it home to dozens of traditional houseboats. It's easy to spend days cruising along palm-fringed canals absorbing the peaceful ebb and flow of life on the ledges as locals tend to quotidian tasks, washing clothes, bathing and spending time with family and friends. If you can't afford the houseboat experience, opt for a canoe cruise. It's an inexpensive and authentic way to explore all the lake has to offer without the rumble of an intrusive motor.
For a more local experience in Kumarakom, stay at Purity,UK chickencoop Specialist. a beautifully redesigned villa boasting four deluxe rooms and two suites. Another member of the Malabar Escapes collection of boutique hotels, Purity has all the ambience and typical charm that owner, Hanna Drechsel, incorporates into each of the Malabar properties. There are plenty of opportunities to soak in the local culture during you stay here starting with the exquisite art collection by Abdul Kalam, a photographer turned artist who is known for reaching the core of Kerala's composite culture.
A leisurely bike ride around Muhamma, the village that surrounds Purity, reveals the rituals of daily life in this area of Kerala. If you take the time to say "hello" along the way, locals will willingly invite you into their homes for a meal, or ask you to join a family celebration. If biking is not your thing, request a sunset cruise along Lake Vembanad, with Sabu, a local fisherman who will escort you around in his personal canoe. Ask him what it's like to operate a Chinese fishing net, and he'll gladly take you to the one he owns and provide a demonstration of how to operate the massive contrivance.
In English, Kerala translates to "land of coconuts," and indeed this breezy tropical plant coats the region's interior giving this part of India its distinctly "green" landscape. Beautifully serene settings coupled with a culture as vibrant and warm as the very sun that shines on Kerala's verdant land make a trip here unforgettable.
On the northern shore of Fort Cochin, a stroll to the Chinese fishing nets reveals a way of life that has survived for centuries. Operated by a team of up to six fishermen,Bathroom floortiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. the massive contrivances comprise a cantilever with an outstretched net suspended over the sea, and large stones strung from ropes (used as counterweights) at the other end. Watching fisherman hoist the magnificent nets from the water is as mesmerizing as being among a perfectly coordinated ballet.
Just a few minutes walk from the Chinese fishing nets rests the Old Harbour Hotel. Once a Portuguese hospice, this luxurious 300-year-old property is home to 1788, (arguably) the best restaurant in Fort Cochin. The airy indoor-outdoor setup is a lovely space to take in the nightly live performances by tabla players while dining on inventive Indian cuisine. The seafood platter -- grilled portions of lobster, squid, cuttlefish, prawns, crab and the fresh catch of the day -- Cochin shrimp curry and pumpkin olan, a typical Kerala dish made with semi-ripe pumpkin and lentils, are just a few of the incredible dining options at this top heritage hotel.
East of Fort Cochin, in Jew Town, lies the Paradesi Synagogue, a historic Judaic monument dating back to 1568.About 1 in 5 people in the UK have recurring coldsores. Situated behind the Mattancherry Palace temple, the building can be easily identified by its 18th-century clock tower and white exterior. Cameras are not permitted inside, and you may find yourself wishing they were once you take notice of the elegant hand-painted blue-and-white Chinese porcelain tiles (no two are alike), which coat the floor of the synagogue. Beautiful Belgian glass chandeliers, in a variety of shapes and sizes, adorn the ceiling,The core of an indoor positioning system.Ultimate magiccube gives you the opportunity to make your own 3D twisty puzzles. and several gold crowns and Scrolls of the Law are kept in sacred areas of the synagogue. Only a very small community of Jews (approximately 10) remains in Cochin, but this historic site brings people from all corners of the globe to admire its antiquities and rich history.
On the windy way up to the mountainous landscapes of Cardamom Hills, a stopover at Serenity at Kanam Estate is a must. Part of the boutique collection of Malabar Escapes properties, this glorious redesigned 1920s bungalow is nestled deep in a belt of rubber plantations and fragrant spice gardens. Each of the six eclectically designed rooms is fixed with period furniture, Indian artwork and spacious verandahs. Admire the lush sea of cocoa and rubber trees that envelop the property while lazing by the pool, or request a personal tour of the expansive spice gardens and rubber plantation. The innovative Indian cuisine here is healthful and overwhelmingly delicious. Most dishes are prepared with coconut milk, local spices and fresh fruits and vegetables. Try the prawn curry -- it will have you wishing you could take the chef back home.
If you can stomach the ascending three-hour drive from Kanam through a swirl of roads that twist and turn around stunning green-capped hills, you'll arrive in the enchanting hill station of Vagamon. Situated approximately 4,000 feet above sea level, this tiny plantation township is brimming with tea gardens, small waterfalls, flower-coated meadows and towering pine trees. Here, you can take a tour though one of the many tea factories, or kick off your shoes and enjoy a picnic lunch among a majestic arboreal landscape in the Pine Tree Forest. The cooler, crisp air creates the perfect conditions for hiking along Vagamon's spectacular chain of three hills --Thangal, Murugan and Kurismala, an ethereal experience in its own right.
Enveloped by a network of lush waterways, Kumarakom provides the quintessential backwater experience. Located six miles west of the bustling town of Kottayam, the peninsula is spread over a cluster of islands on the great Lake Vembanad making it home to dozens of traditional houseboats. It's easy to spend days cruising along palm-fringed canals absorbing the peaceful ebb and flow of life on the ledges as locals tend to quotidian tasks, washing clothes, bathing and spending time with family and friends. If you can't afford the houseboat experience, opt for a canoe cruise. It's an inexpensive and authentic way to explore all the lake has to offer without the rumble of an intrusive motor.
For a more local experience in Kumarakom, stay at Purity,UK chickencoop Specialist. a beautifully redesigned villa boasting four deluxe rooms and two suites. Another member of the Malabar Escapes collection of boutique hotels, Purity has all the ambience and typical charm that owner, Hanna Drechsel, incorporates into each of the Malabar properties. There are plenty of opportunities to soak in the local culture during you stay here starting with the exquisite art collection by Abdul Kalam, a photographer turned artist who is known for reaching the core of Kerala's composite culture.
A leisurely bike ride around Muhamma, the village that surrounds Purity, reveals the rituals of daily life in this area of Kerala. If you take the time to say "hello" along the way, locals will willingly invite you into their homes for a meal, or ask you to join a family celebration. If biking is not your thing, request a sunset cruise along Lake Vembanad, with Sabu, a local fisherman who will escort you around in his personal canoe. Ask him what it's like to operate a Chinese fishing net, and he'll gladly take you to the one he owns and provide a demonstration of how to operate the massive contrivance.
2011年5月8日 星期日
“Swiss cheese” Design Enables Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells Higher Efficiencies
A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon – and may boost their efficiency – is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland and the Institute of Physics' photovoltaic group at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
One long-term option for low-cost, high-yield industrial production of solar panels from abundant raw materials can be found in amorphous silicon solar cells and microcrystalline silicon tandem cells (a.k.a. Micromorph)—providing an energy payback within a year.
A drawback to these cells, however, is that the stable panel efficiency is less than the efficiency of presently dominate crystalline wafer-based silicon, explains Milan Vanecek, who heads the photovoltaic group at the Institute of Physics in Prague.
"To make amorphous and microcrystalline silicon cells more stable they're required to be very thin because of tight spacing between electrical contacts, and the resulting optical absorption isn't sufficient," he notes. "They're basically planar devices. Amorphous silicon has a thickness of 200 to 300 nanometers, while microcrystalline silicon is thicker than 1 micrometer."
The team's new design focuses on optically thick cells that are strongly absorbing, while the distance between the electrodes remains very tight. They describe their design in the American Institute of Physics' journal Applied Physics Letters.
"Our new 3D design of solar cells relies on the mature, robust absorber deposition technology of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, which is a technology already used for amorphous silicon-based electronics produced for liquid crystal displays. We just added a new nanostructured substrate for the deposition of the solar cell," Vanecek says.
This nanostructured substrate consists of an array of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocolumns or, alternatively, from a "Swiss cheese" honeycomb array of micro-holes or nano-holes etched into the transparent conductive oxide layer (ZnO) (See Figure).
"This latter approach proved successful for solar cell deposition," Vanecek elaborates. "The potential of these efficiencies is estimated within the range of present multicrystalline wafer solar cells, which dominate solar cell industrial production. And the significantly lower cost of Micromorph panels, with the same panel efficiency as multicrystalline silicon panels (12 to 16 percent), could boost its industrial-scale production." The next step is a further optimization to continue improving efficiency.
One long-term option for low-cost, high-yield industrial production of solar panels from abundant raw materials can be found in amorphous silicon solar cells and microcrystalline silicon tandem cells (a.k.a. Micromorph)—providing an energy payback within a year.
A drawback to these cells, however, is that the stable panel efficiency is less than the efficiency of presently dominate crystalline wafer-based silicon, explains Milan Vanecek, who heads the photovoltaic group at the Institute of Physics in Prague.
"To make amorphous and microcrystalline silicon cells more stable they're required to be very thin because of tight spacing between electrical contacts, and the resulting optical absorption isn't sufficient," he notes. "They're basically planar devices. Amorphous silicon has a thickness of 200 to 300 nanometers, while microcrystalline silicon is thicker than 1 micrometer."
The team's new design focuses on optically thick cells that are strongly absorbing, while the distance between the electrodes remains very tight. They describe their design in the American Institute of Physics' journal Applied Physics Letters.
"Our new 3D design of solar cells relies on the mature, robust absorber deposition technology of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, which is a technology already used for amorphous silicon-based electronics produced for liquid crystal displays. We just added a new nanostructured substrate for the deposition of the solar cell," Vanecek says.
This nanostructured substrate consists of an array of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocolumns or, alternatively, from a "Swiss cheese" honeycomb array of micro-holes or nano-holes etched into the transparent conductive oxide layer (ZnO) (See Figure).
"This latter approach proved successful for solar cell deposition," Vanecek elaborates. "The potential of these efficiencies is estimated within the range of present multicrystalline wafer solar cells, which dominate solar cell industrial production. And the significantly lower cost of Micromorph panels, with the same panel efficiency as multicrystalline silicon panels (12 to 16 percent), could boost its industrial-scale production." The next step is a further optimization to continue improving efficiency.
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