Vail Resorts’ entire season pass line-up offers something for every type of skier and snowboarder, including four different season pass options in Colorado ranging in price from $419 to $659. These pass prices are only guaranteed through September 3.
This unparalleled mountain resort access on one pass features 30 bowls, 29 terrain parks and 23,610 acres of the best terrain in the world at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in California and Nevada. Ski or ride six days in one season and, priced at $659, the Epic Pass pays for itself, then ski or ride for free the rest of the season.
The Epic Local Pass, for $509, pays for itself in less than five days and is perfect for locals who can navigate a few more restrictions. The Epic Local Pass offers unlimited and unrestricted skiing or riding at Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin with limited holiday restrictions at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood. It also includes a total of 10 days at Vail or Beaver Creek with holiday restrictions. $50 pass holder tickets are also available for purchase during blackout dates at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood.
Summit Value Pass pays for itself in less than four days and is a great option for people who only plan to ski and ride Summit County. The Summit Value Pass is available for $419 and provides unlimited and unrestricted lift access to Keystone and Arapahoe Basin, as well as access to Breckenridge with limited holiday restrictions. Pass holders can purchase access to Breckenridge on restricted days for $50 per day.
Epic 7-Day pays for itself in less than five days and is ideal for people who don’t plan to ski more than seven days. The Epic 7-Day gives skiers and snowboarders a total of seven unrestricted days of skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar, plus Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season for a price of $509.
The Epic Pass, the best season pass deal in the ski industry offering unlimited, unrestricted skiing and riding at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood and Arapahoe Basin is available for $659. It pays for itself in less than six days.
While the camera does a fine job of simply converting the note to a digital note for filing away in Evernote, what I really like are the stickers. Inside the app, I can customize each sticker by selecting the notebook to which a new note will be added. I’ve got a DIY notebook that I keep in Evernote, and the app not only files it automatically into the DIY notebook, but it also adds tags that I can configure in the app to be applied to notes for future searches.
The Smart Notebook comes in a two sizes — 3.5″ x 5.5″ and 5″ x 8.25″ – each size comes in either Ruled format or Squared format paper and the prices are $24.95 and $29.95 respectively. The price is a bit higher for these than the basic Moleskines, but remember that it comes with 3 months of Premium membership. Premium membership runs $5 per month , so figure you’re getting $15 of Premium membership that’s included in the price. They’ll be available October 1, but you can pre-order them here.
If you’re an Evernote Premium user as well as a Moleskine fan, this is a pretty slick deal, especially if you can fill up a notebook every three months or so. If you’re not a Premium user, be sure to check out all the benefits of converting your free account here. For me, the upload size increase,larger allowable note size and the ability to access my notebooks offline makes the Premium account worthwhile.
As someone who just isn’t that big a fan of paper, I’ve got to admit that I love the look of the Smart Notebook and after a number of tests taking photos of old engineer notebook pages and comparing them to the ones taken using the Smart page, there’s no arguing that the scanned pages from the Smart Notebook just look better. I could achieve the same thing by doing some photo manipulation, but I hate photo editing, and the Smart Notebook camera feature is just faster. Add in the fact that the Evernote servers will take my images and apply OCR to them so that I can later use keywords to find them fast… and I’m sold.
And please don’t take offense that I refer to pen and paper as old school. I’m using it as just a figure of speech here. My 5 year old has graduated from crayons to a real pencil and he’s quite proud of that and the little Moleskine sketchbook that I’ve provided to him. I’m a long-time fan of Moleskine and have filled many up over the years and hope to fill many more.
Well, that’s it for my little Efficiency Ninja series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and maybe discovered something that can make your work and/or personal life a little more efficient, organized, less-stressful, or all three. I’m always on the lookout for new software, new tips, new techniques, and new products and services that exist to make my work and home life operate more smoothly. I’d love to hear from you about your own Efficiency Ninja solutions, so please leave a comment if you’ve got something to share!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
GOP Belvedere Takes Hard Line on China Trade
While the affair belvedere adopted actuality Tuesday espouses the allowances of chargeless trade, there arise to be banned if it comes to the world’s better appearance and bolt manufacturer.
The platform, which constitutes a set of attempt for a Republican admiral and was accustomed by assembly at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, placed a focus on arise down on China’s bill abetment — a axle added accepted in Democratic platforms — and annexation of bookish property.
“This common admission of barter has had a downside, however, as some governments acquire acclimated a array of arbitrary agency to absolute American admission to their markets while burglary our designs, patents, brands, ability and technology — the ‘intellectual property’ that drives innovation,” the belvedere stated. “The arch blackmailer is China, which has congenital up its abridgement in allotment by piggybacking assimilate Western abstruse advances, manipulates its bill to the disadvantage of American exporters, excludes American articles from government purchases, subsidizes Chinese companies to accord them a bartering advantage and invents regulations and standards advised to accumulate out adopted competition.”
The China bill abetment altercation has bounced about Capitol Hill for several years and legislation aimed at backbreaking the Asian nation for the convenance has anesthetized in one alcove but adjourned in the other. It was aswell a above affair aloft by Admiral Obama on the attack aisle four years ago.
Critics of China’s budgetary behavior affirmation the country keeps its bill artificially low, by as abundant as 40 percent, which in about-face makes Chinese imports cheaper and puts U.S. manufacturers at a advancing disadvantage.
Mitt Romney, set to acquire his party’s choice on Thursday, has targeted China on the attack trail, adage he would characterization China a bill architect his aboriginal day in the White House, which could ultimately advance to castigating tariffs accepting placed on Chinese imports. Romney has aswell criticized the Obama administering for not demography added advancing accomplish to authority China answerable for its undervalued bill and the belvedere reflected that bulletin — “The accepted administration’s way of ambidextrous with all these violations of apple barter standards has been a basic surrender,” the belvedere said.
The Obama administering has prodded China to ameliorate its bill practices through high-level dialogues, which acquire yielded some success, as China’s bill has accepted somewhat, but it has. His administering has aswell filed several arbitrary barter cases adjoin China at the Apple Barter Organization for tires, acclaim agenda companies and chemicals. Showing the political acuteness of China barter relations, Obama has again beneath to name China a bill manipulator, nor did his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Apparel firms that alien $101.5 billion in appurtenances in the year concluded June 30 and U.S. bolt producers that acquire absent tens of bags of jobs over the years acquire a lot at pale in the behavior of the presidential candidates. For retailers and a lot of U.S. appearance brands, accepting boxy on China would be a above cephalalgia back that is area they antecedent the majority of their appearance products. For calm manufacturers, the attitude would be a acceptable addition for the growing Made in America movement to abate U.S. manufacturing.
President Obama has addled a counterbalanced access to trade, accumulation barter negotiations in a Trans-Pacific Partnership acceding with a college amount of barter administering action adjoin countries that breach barter rules. Romney has championed chargeless trade, aswell acknowledging the TPP, but he has criticized Obama for declining to be added advancing on China.
“We acquire absolutely a bit of ascent affirmation to advance that China doesn’t play by the rules. They are not captivated accountable,” said Sarah Pierce, chief carnality admiral at the National Council of Bolt Organizations. “This belvedere absolutely reflects the actuality that we acquire a applicant [Romney] absorbed in aggravating to authority China accountable. The added allotment of that agitation is: ‘Can we as a country ascendancy the accomplishments of addition country?’ If we can’t, what are the assessable accomplishments we can take? What we are seeing in this belvedere is absolutely a applicant aggravating to lay out absolutely what it is his administering will do to actualize accountability in this arrangement of all-embracing trade.”
The platform, which constitutes a set of attempt for a Republican admiral and was accustomed by assembly at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, placed a focus on arise down on China’s bill abetment — a axle added accepted in Democratic platforms — and annexation of bookish property.
“This common admission of barter has had a downside, however, as some governments acquire acclimated a array of arbitrary agency to absolute American admission to their markets while burglary our designs, patents, brands, ability and technology — the ‘intellectual property’ that drives innovation,” the belvedere stated. “The arch blackmailer is China, which has congenital up its abridgement in allotment by piggybacking assimilate Western abstruse advances, manipulates its bill to the disadvantage of American exporters, excludes American articles from government purchases, subsidizes Chinese companies to accord them a bartering advantage and invents regulations and standards advised to accumulate out adopted competition.”
The China bill abetment altercation has bounced about Capitol Hill for several years and legislation aimed at backbreaking the Asian nation for the convenance has anesthetized in one alcove but adjourned in the other. It was aswell a above affair aloft by Admiral Obama on the attack aisle four years ago.
Critics of China’s budgetary behavior affirmation the country keeps its bill artificially low, by as abundant as 40 percent, which in about-face makes Chinese imports cheaper and puts U.S. manufacturers at a advancing disadvantage.
Mitt Romney, set to acquire his party’s choice on Thursday, has targeted China on the attack trail, adage he would characterization China a bill architect his aboriginal day in the White House, which could ultimately advance to castigating tariffs accepting placed on Chinese imports. Romney has aswell criticized the Obama administering for not demography added advancing accomplish to authority China answerable for its undervalued bill and the belvedere reflected that bulletin — “The accepted administration’s way of ambidextrous with all these violations of apple barter standards has been a basic surrender,” the belvedere said.
The Obama administering has prodded China to ameliorate its bill practices through high-level dialogues, which acquire yielded some success, as China’s bill has accepted somewhat, but it has. His administering has aswell filed several arbitrary barter cases adjoin China at the Apple Barter Organization for tires, acclaim agenda companies and chemicals. Showing the political acuteness of China barter relations, Obama has again beneath to name China a bill manipulator, nor did his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Apparel firms that alien $101.5 billion in appurtenances in the year concluded June 30 and U.S. bolt producers that acquire absent tens of bags of jobs over the years acquire a lot at pale in the behavior of the presidential candidates. For retailers and a lot of U.S. appearance brands, accepting boxy on China would be a above cephalalgia back that is area they antecedent the majority of their appearance products. For calm manufacturers, the attitude would be a acceptable addition for the growing Made in America movement to abate U.S. manufacturing.
President Obama has addled a counterbalanced access to trade, accumulation barter negotiations in a Trans-Pacific Partnership acceding with a college amount of barter administering action adjoin countries that breach barter rules. Romney has championed chargeless trade, aswell acknowledging the TPP, but he has criticized Obama for declining to be added advancing on China.
“We acquire absolutely a bit of ascent affirmation to advance that China doesn’t play by the rules. They are not captivated accountable,” said Sarah Pierce, chief carnality admiral at the National Council of Bolt Organizations. “This belvedere absolutely reflects the actuality that we acquire a applicant [Romney] absorbed in aggravating to authority China accountable. The added allotment of that agitation is: ‘Can we as a country ascendancy the accomplishments of addition country?’ If we can’t, what are the assessable accomplishments we can take? What we are seeing in this belvedere is absolutely a applicant aggravating to lay out absolutely what it is his administering will do to actualize accountability in this arrangement of all-embracing trade.”
Monday, August 27, 2012
Jawbone Jambox Portable Speaker
A few years back the Bluetooth portable speaker market was a small one that mainly consisted of tiny, underpowered speakers with mediocre sound. Then along came the original Jambox by Jawbone and consumers realized it was possible to get high quality sound in a small, yet stylish, package. Since then, the company has continued to refine the product, offering new features and updates. Their latest innovation even allows customers to personalize the look of their Jambox by selecting from literally hundreds of different color patterns.
Starting tomorrow, Jambox customers are invited to Remix their speakers by selecting from a variety of grill colors and styles, and matching them with their choice of body color. This allows you to choose exactly how your Jambox will look and gives you the option to create one using the colors of your favorite sports team, alma mater or what ever else appeals. The process is fun, easy and doesn't add any additional costs to the Jambox's $199 price. Once you've selected your personal look, Jawbone will custom build your Jambox and ship out in about a week.
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the new Remix process and after spending a little time on the Jawbone website, I was able to order my own custom Jambox. It took just a few days to get it in my hands and like previous models, the speaker features great build quality and sounds fantastic. The diminutive device is just 6 inches in length and weighs about 12 ounces, which makes it an excellent travel companion. An included soft case helps to keep the speaker well protected when not in use.
For those who haven't used a wireless speaker like the Jambox before, it pairs via Bluetooth with your smartphone, tablet or laptop and allows you to stream audio from any source. That means you can listen to music, podcasts, movies or just about anything else. Considering its size, the Jambox is capable of putting out an impressively big sound and it can easily fill a room with your favorite tunes. While putting the device through its paces, I enjoyed listening to Pandora, Last.fm and Spotify, both at home and on the go, and was constantly impressed with how loud and clear the audio was. In fact, be careful when using it for the first time. When I started jamming tunes on mine it actually scared the heck out of my cat.
The Jambox has built in voice cues that are actually quite helpful. For instance, it'll let you know when it has powered on, when it's in discovery mode for Bluetooth pairing and even how much battery life remains. The pre-programmed voice works well, but Jambox users can download a number of other unique voices from the Jawbone MyTalk website. MyTalk also has some installable apps to extend the functionality of your Jambox, and when connecting to the site, it'll even check to be sure you're running the most recent firmware.
As if being a great portable sound system wasn't enough, the Jambox also works as a hands free speakerphone too. While testing it in this mode, calls were clear both on my end and those that I was chatting with, which isn't always the case with similar speakers from competitors. Speakerphone mode not only works with your favorite cellphone, but also Skype, Facetime and just about anything else that uses a microphone. A round button on top of the device not only activates the mic but also grants access to Siri.
All in all, the Jambox is a great portable speaker that travelers will love to have with them. Its ability to wirelessly play back audio of just about any type makes it a great option for entertainment on the go and its ability to act as a quality speakerphone is a welcome addition. With a battery life of about ten hours, you won't need to worry about charging it often and its rugged construction makes it more than road ready. The fact that you can now order one custom built in your favorite colors is simply icing on the cake. It makes an already excellent product even better.
Starting tomorrow, Jambox customers are invited to Remix their speakers by selecting from a variety of grill colors and styles, and matching them with their choice of body color. This allows you to choose exactly how your Jambox will look and gives you the option to create one using the colors of your favorite sports team, alma mater or what ever else appeals. The process is fun, easy and doesn't add any additional costs to the Jambox's $199 price. Once you've selected your personal look, Jawbone will custom build your Jambox and ship out in about a week.
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the new Remix process and after spending a little time on the Jawbone website, I was able to order my own custom Jambox. It took just a few days to get it in my hands and like previous models, the speaker features great build quality and sounds fantastic. The diminutive device is just 6 inches in length and weighs about 12 ounces, which makes it an excellent travel companion. An included soft case helps to keep the speaker well protected when not in use.
For those who haven't used a wireless speaker like the Jambox before, it pairs via Bluetooth with your smartphone, tablet or laptop and allows you to stream audio from any source. That means you can listen to music, podcasts, movies or just about anything else. Considering its size, the Jambox is capable of putting out an impressively big sound and it can easily fill a room with your favorite tunes. While putting the device through its paces, I enjoyed listening to Pandora, Last.fm and Spotify, both at home and on the go, and was constantly impressed with how loud and clear the audio was. In fact, be careful when using it for the first time. When I started jamming tunes on mine it actually scared the heck out of my cat.
The Jambox has built in voice cues that are actually quite helpful. For instance, it'll let you know when it has powered on, when it's in discovery mode for Bluetooth pairing and even how much battery life remains. The pre-programmed voice works well, but Jambox users can download a number of other unique voices from the Jawbone MyTalk website. MyTalk also has some installable apps to extend the functionality of your Jambox, and when connecting to the site, it'll even check to be sure you're running the most recent firmware.
As if being a great portable sound system wasn't enough, the Jambox also works as a hands free speakerphone too. While testing it in this mode, calls were clear both on my end and those that I was chatting with, which isn't always the case with similar speakers from competitors. Speakerphone mode not only works with your favorite cellphone, but also Skype, Facetime and just about anything else that uses a microphone. A round button on top of the device not only activates the mic but also grants access to Siri.
All in all, the Jambox is a great portable speaker that travelers will love to have with them. Its ability to wirelessly play back audio of just about any type makes it a great option for entertainment on the go and its ability to act as a quality speakerphone is a welcome addition. With a battery life of about ten hours, you won't need to worry about charging it often and its rugged construction makes it more than road ready. The fact that you can now order one custom built in your favorite colors is simply icing on the cake. It makes an already excellent product even better.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
AParis backs Syria no-fly breadth as angry grows
France signaled Thursday that it was able to yield allotment in administration a fractional no-fly breadth over Syria, axle burden on President Bashar Assad's active administration as it widens a above abhorrent adjoin rebels in Damascus and surrounding areas.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian apprenticed the all-embracing association to accede abetment a no-fly breadth over locations of Syria, but cautioned that closing the Arab nation's absolute air amplitude would be alike to "going to war" and crave a accommodating all-embracing affiliation that does not yet exist.
He told France 24 television that Paris would participate in a abounding no-fly operation if it followed all-embracing acknowledged principles. But for now, he appropriate that a fractional closure—which U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was considering—should be studied.
Syria's arch backer, Russia, meanwhile, said it was alive carefully with the Damascus government to ensure that its armory of actinic weapons stays beneath close ascendancy and has won promises that it will not be acclimated or moved.
In Syria, troops backed by tanks and helicopters bankrupt into the Damascus suburb of Daraya, the arena of acute angry over the endure two days. At atomic 18 humans were killed.
Across the country, at atomic 100 humans died Thursday in battery and clashes, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Bounded Coordination Committees.
As the country slides added into civilian war, activist groups now commonly address the deaths of anywhere amid 100 and 250 humans on a circadian basis, but it is around absurd to verify these figures.
Residents of Damascus said troops were bombing Daraya and adjacent Moadamiyeh from the Qasioun abundance overlooking Damascus.
"It's just addition approved day in Damascus," said a citizen of the city-limits of 1.7 million, who batten on action of anonymity for abhorrence of reprisals. "I woke up to the complete of explosions and it hasn't chock-full since."
In the eastern allotment of the country, Syrian rebels fought with administration troops in the boondocks of al-Bukamal, beyond the bound from the Iraqi boondocks of Qaim.
The bound bridge has been in insubordinate easily back endure month, but abstraction ascendancy of al-Bukamal itself from administration troops would aggrandize the action ballast forth the frontier.
The action already controls a advanced swath of breadth forth the bound with Turkey in the north, as able-bodied as pockets forth the borderland with Jordan to the south and Lebanon to the west. Together, they accept accurate key to ferrying humans and food into and out of the country.
Rebels accept been angry troops for canicule in al-Bukamal and aboriginal Thursday took over several checkpoints, the basic badge base and the bounded command of the Political Security Directorate, one of Syria's able intelligence agencies, according to Rami Abdul-Rahman, who active the Observatory.
"There is an attack to yield abounding ascendancy of al-Bukamal," Abdul-Rahman said.
The Bounded Coordination Committees said warplanes austere al-Bukamal, but Abdul-Rahman said the jets were aerial over the boondocks and addled adjacent areas, not the boondocks itself.
At atomic six humans were killed, activists said.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post appear that an American freelance announcer who has been advertisement from Syria for The Post, McClatchy Newspapers and added outlets had not been heard from in added than a week. Austin Tice, 31, spent time with insubordinate fighters in the arctic afterwards entering Syria from Turkey in May, again catholic to Damascus, breadth he was one of the few Western journalists advertisement from the capital.
"We're focused assiduously on aggravating to ascertain his abode and ensure his safe return," Post controlling editor Marcus Brauchli said in a statement.
The acutely awkward action in Syria has defied all attempts at mediation. Human rights groups say added than 20,000 humans accept been asleep back the insurgence adjoin Assad began in March 2011. In the accomplished ages the angry has advance from the country's abate towns and cities to the administration strongholds of Damascus and Aleppo.
The basic action fronts over the accomplished ages accept been in the capital, Damascus, as able-bodied as Aleppo, breadth administration armament accept struggled to brand out a insubordinate abhorrent that began endure ages and succeeded in capturing several districts in the city-limits of 3 actor people.
In a address appear Thursday, Amnesty All-embracing said artillery, adhesive blaze and airstrikes by government armament in Aleppo are killing mostly civilians, including children.
The rights accumulation said that during a 10-day, fact-finding appointment to Aleppo in the aboriginal bisected of August, it begin that some 30 attacks asleep added than 80 civilians and blood-soaked abounding more.
Amnesty said that a part of the asleep were 10 associates of one family, seven of them children, whose home was destroyed in two airstrikes on Aug. 6. It said the bodies of adolescent men, abounding of them abandoned and attempt in the head, were begin abreast the bounded address of the able Air Force Intelligence, which is in a government-controlled area.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian apprenticed the all-embracing association to accede abetment a no-fly breadth over locations of Syria, but cautioned that closing the Arab nation's absolute air amplitude would be alike to "going to war" and crave a accommodating all-embracing affiliation that does not yet exist.
He told France 24 television that Paris would participate in a abounding no-fly operation if it followed all-embracing acknowledged principles. But for now, he appropriate that a fractional closure—which U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was considering—should be studied.
Syria's arch backer, Russia, meanwhile, said it was alive carefully with the Damascus government to ensure that its armory of actinic weapons stays beneath close ascendancy and has won promises that it will not be acclimated or moved.
In Syria, troops backed by tanks and helicopters bankrupt into the Damascus suburb of Daraya, the arena of acute angry over the endure two days. At atomic 18 humans were killed.
Across the country, at atomic 100 humans died Thursday in battery and clashes, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Bounded Coordination Committees.
As the country slides added into civilian war, activist groups now commonly address the deaths of anywhere amid 100 and 250 humans on a circadian basis, but it is around absurd to verify these figures.
Residents of Damascus said troops were bombing Daraya and adjacent Moadamiyeh from the Qasioun abundance overlooking Damascus.
"It's just addition approved day in Damascus," said a citizen of the city-limits of 1.7 million, who batten on action of anonymity for abhorrence of reprisals. "I woke up to the complete of explosions and it hasn't chock-full since."
In the eastern allotment of the country, Syrian rebels fought with administration troops in the boondocks of al-Bukamal, beyond the bound from the Iraqi boondocks of Qaim.
The bound bridge has been in insubordinate easily back endure month, but abstraction ascendancy of al-Bukamal itself from administration troops would aggrandize the action ballast forth the frontier.
The action already controls a advanced swath of breadth forth the bound with Turkey in the north, as able-bodied as pockets forth the borderland with Jordan to the south and Lebanon to the west. Together, they accept accurate key to ferrying humans and food into and out of the country.
Rebels accept been angry troops for canicule in al-Bukamal and aboriginal Thursday took over several checkpoints, the basic badge base and the bounded command of the Political Security Directorate, one of Syria's able intelligence agencies, according to Rami Abdul-Rahman, who active the Observatory.
"There is an attack to yield abounding ascendancy of al-Bukamal," Abdul-Rahman said.
The Bounded Coordination Committees said warplanes austere al-Bukamal, but Abdul-Rahman said the jets were aerial over the boondocks and addled adjacent areas, not the boondocks itself.
At atomic six humans were killed, activists said.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post appear that an American freelance announcer who has been advertisement from Syria for The Post, McClatchy Newspapers and added outlets had not been heard from in added than a week. Austin Tice, 31, spent time with insubordinate fighters in the arctic afterwards entering Syria from Turkey in May, again catholic to Damascus, breadth he was one of the few Western journalists advertisement from the capital.
"We're focused assiduously on aggravating to ascertain his abode and ensure his safe return," Post controlling editor Marcus Brauchli said in a statement.
The acutely awkward action in Syria has defied all attempts at mediation. Human rights groups say added than 20,000 humans accept been asleep back the insurgence adjoin Assad began in March 2011. In the accomplished ages the angry has advance from the country's abate towns and cities to the administration strongholds of Damascus and Aleppo.
The basic action fronts over the accomplished ages accept been in the capital, Damascus, as able-bodied as Aleppo, breadth administration armament accept struggled to brand out a insubordinate abhorrent that began endure ages and succeeded in capturing several districts in the city-limits of 3 actor people.
In a address appear Thursday, Amnesty All-embracing said artillery, adhesive blaze and airstrikes by government armament in Aleppo are killing mostly civilians, including children.
The rights accumulation said that during a 10-day, fact-finding appointment to Aleppo in the aboriginal bisected of August, it begin that some 30 attacks asleep added than 80 civilians and blood-soaked abounding more.
Amnesty said that a part of the asleep were 10 associates of one family, seven of them children, whose home was destroyed in two airstrikes on Aug. 6. It said the bodies of adolescent men, abounding of them abandoned and attempt in the head, were begin abreast the bounded address of the able Air Force Intelligence, which is in a government-controlled area.
Monday, August 20, 2012
German and Greek Officials Play Down Expectations
The foreign ministers of Germany and Greece sought Monday to scale back expectations that a series of high-level meetings this week would produce significant decisions over Greece’s future in the European currency union, calling instead for a “climate change” in tone between the two countries.
Dimitris L. Avramopoulos’s visit to Berlin for talks with his counterpart, Guido Westerwelle, was intended in part to lay the groundwork for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.
Expectations are running high that the two visits, along with others this week that mark a return to business for European leaders after their summer vacations, will lead to firm proposals to help resolve a debt crisis that has been plaguing the Continent and unsettling markets for months.
Mr. Avramopoulos played down reports that the Greek prime minister was expected to ask for more time to meet fiscal targets set by the country’s international lenders in return for two bailouts. Mr. Avramopoulos said that within weeks his government would introduce a package of measures that would satisfy the lenders’ demands.
Representatives of the “troika” of lenders — the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — are scheduled to submit a report next month on how successful Athens has been in meeting its commitments in areas like reducing government spending, cutting its budget deficit and selling state-owned assets.
Greece has been slow to implement the changes demanded by the troika. If it fails to uphold its commitments, it faces the prospect of having its bailout funding cut off, leading to a debt default and the possibility that the country would be forced to leave the euro zone.
The foreign ministers sought to shift the focus to what they said was a larger threat: the rise of populism fueled by angry rhetoric and frustration over the debt crisis and the measures that have been adopted to deal with it, including deep spending cuts.
Mr. Samaras was able to build a fragile coalition government after elections in June when Syriza, a far-left party, drew 27 percent of the vote and Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party, won 7 percent. As the crisis drags into its third year, other European countries, including Austria, the Netherlands, France and Poland, have also experienced a rise in extremism.
“At this time, especially, it is very important that we cultivate a dialogue based on trust and closeness,” Mr. Westerwelle said. “It is very easy to tear down the house of Europe with the pickaxe of criticism. Is much more difficult to reconstruct such a house of Europe. We are aware of our responsibility.”
In addition to Ms. Merkel’s visit with Mr. Samaras on Friday, she is scheduled to meet with President Fran?ois Hollande of France on Thursday. Mr. Hollande is expected to urge the German chancellor to soften her stance toward Athens to ensure that the country is able to remain a member of the euro zone.
On Saturday, Mr. Hollande is to meet in Paris with the Greek prime minister. In addition, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who presides over meetings of the euro zone’s finance ministers, is scheduled to visit Athens on Wednesday.
In an interview published Monday by the German newspapers Berliner Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau, a top European Central Bank official, J?rg Asmussen, said he wanted Greece to remain in the currency union, but added, “Securing that is in the hands of Greece.”
Dimitris L. Avramopoulos’s visit to Berlin for talks with his counterpart, Guido Westerwelle, was intended in part to lay the groundwork for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.
Expectations are running high that the two visits, along with others this week that mark a return to business for European leaders after their summer vacations, will lead to firm proposals to help resolve a debt crisis that has been plaguing the Continent and unsettling markets for months.
Mr. Avramopoulos played down reports that the Greek prime minister was expected to ask for more time to meet fiscal targets set by the country’s international lenders in return for two bailouts. Mr. Avramopoulos said that within weeks his government would introduce a package of measures that would satisfy the lenders’ demands.
Representatives of the “troika” of lenders — the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — are scheduled to submit a report next month on how successful Athens has been in meeting its commitments in areas like reducing government spending, cutting its budget deficit and selling state-owned assets.
Greece has been slow to implement the changes demanded by the troika. If it fails to uphold its commitments, it faces the prospect of having its bailout funding cut off, leading to a debt default and the possibility that the country would be forced to leave the euro zone.
The foreign ministers sought to shift the focus to what they said was a larger threat: the rise of populism fueled by angry rhetoric and frustration over the debt crisis and the measures that have been adopted to deal with it, including deep spending cuts.
Mr. Samaras was able to build a fragile coalition government after elections in June when Syriza, a far-left party, drew 27 percent of the vote and Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party, won 7 percent. As the crisis drags into its third year, other European countries, including Austria, the Netherlands, France and Poland, have also experienced a rise in extremism.
“At this time, especially, it is very important that we cultivate a dialogue based on trust and closeness,” Mr. Westerwelle said. “It is very easy to tear down the house of Europe with the pickaxe of criticism. Is much more difficult to reconstruct such a house of Europe. We are aware of our responsibility.”
In addition to Ms. Merkel’s visit with Mr. Samaras on Friday, she is scheduled to meet with President Fran?ois Hollande of France on Thursday. Mr. Hollande is expected to urge the German chancellor to soften her stance toward Athens to ensure that the country is able to remain a member of the euro zone.
On Saturday, Mr. Hollande is to meet in Paris with the Greek prime minister. In addition, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who presides over meetings of the euro zone’s finance ministers, is scheduled to visit Athens on Wednesday.
In an interview published Monday by the German newspapers Berliner Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau, a top European Central Bank official, J?rg Asmussen, said he wanted Greece to remain in the currency union, but added, “Securing that is in the hands of Greece.”
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Tennessee Titans' Kendall Wright works on blocking
As the Titans watched Kendall Wright on blur arch up to the NFL Draft, several things stood out.
He was a accustomed receiver. He’s what coaches alarm a “hands catcher” because he snatches the brawl out of the air afore it hits his body.
He was awfully quick. At Baylor he consistently angry abbreviate plays into connected ones by authoritative the aboriginal apostle absence — a accomplishment that aswell fabricated him an able acknowledgment man.
So how was Wright’s blocking? Afterwards all, it’s a claim for NFL wideouts.
“Of all the plays I watched,” Titans receivers drillmaster Dave Ragone said with a smile, “I was added absorbed with him communicable the football.”
Stating the obvious, the Titans didn’t abstract Wright in the aboriginal annular to be a blocker. They best him to be a playmaker afterwards a 4,000-yard, 30-touchdown academy career.
But now he’s allotment of a aggregation that has invested heavily in active aback Chris Johnson and is traveling to run the brawl plenty. How bound Wright is able to advance his blocking abilities will play a role in the offense’s potency.
“(Receivers) absolutely didn’t block at Baylor,” wideout Damian Williams said with a cackle as he glanced in Wright’s direction. “In the NFL, it’s not what we get paid to do, but I anticipate we all apperceive we accept to be able to advice accomplish activity easier for the active aback to accomplish plays. It’s allotment of the job for sure.”
Coaches like Wright’s advance so far, but they accept his blocking abilities are still evolving.
“He is not traveling to go in there and annihilate anybody, but he is accommodating to get in the way, and that is what you want,” drillmaster Mike Munchak said. “He has an attitude that he is not abashed to do it, not an attitude of ‘that’s not what I am actuality for.’ I don’t anticipate you’ll be seeing a lot of replays of big blocks he has, but I anticipate he’ll be accommodating to do what he is declared to do.”
At Baylor, the 5-foot-10, 196-pound Wright was far added acclimated to authoritative big plays than blocking. Communicable passes from Heisman Trophy champ Robert Griffin III, the advanced receiver racked up 1,663 yards and 14 touchdowns as a senior.
“I like blocking,” Wright said. “We just didn’t accept abounding passes area we blocked. But it is abundant to block, abnormally if you accept a abundant active back, aback there.”
During training camp, Wright has been a apprentice in Blocking 101. Ragone, a above academy and NFL quarterback, has talked with the amateur about the accent of duke placement, how to yield acceptable blocking angles, area to aim on defenders.
Wright’s accomplishments as a basketball amateur — he was all-state in top academy and played for Baylor as a apprentice — should advice him, Ragone said.
“Blocking is about two things: angles and effort. And he is such a abundant amateur that he understands area he needs to be. You don’t necessarily wish to drillmaster effort, you wish to advance it, and it is all about want-to at that point,” Ragone said.
“In agreement of Kendall’s basketball background, in my opinion, one of the toughest things to do is to be able to block in space. And with his basketball accomplishments and with his crabbed quickness, it allows him to break aboveboard on defenders. It is just a amount of time afore he abstracts it out here. He has done a appealing appropriate job so far.”
The Titans accede Williams and adept Nate Washington to be their best blocking receivers.
Williams was a well-schooled acquaintance if he accustomed in the NFL. During his apprentice division at Arkansas, the Razorback active backs were approaching NFL players Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hillis. Williams connected to hone his blocking abilities afterwards appointment to USC.
Washington accepted he was raw advancing out of a casual breach at Tiffin University, but with his aboriginal NFL team, the Steelers, he bound abstruse the accent of getting a acceptable blocker. Teammate Hines Ward was one of the best blocking wideouts in the game.
For a advanced receiver, Washington said blocking is beneath about technique, added about demography on the appropriate guy and accomplishing so with an attitude.
“I accept been watching Kendall and … it is absolutely just authoritative abiding he is blocking the appropriate guy, because if he gets next to his guy, he is accomplishing a appealing acceptable job,” Washington said.
“Surprisingly, advancing from the breach he is advancing from at Baylor with all the casual that they did, he has been accomplishing a absolutely acceptable job of blocking. And in this offense, that is something he’ll accept to prove he can do and be acceptable at.”
He was a accustomed receiver. He’s what coaches alarm a “hands catcher” because he snatches the brawl out of the air afore it hits his body.
He was awfully quick. At Baylor he consistently angry abbreviate plays into connected ones by authoritative the aboriginal apostle absence — a accomplishment that aswell fabricated him an able acknowledgment man.
So how was Wright’s blocking? Afterwards all, it’s a claim for NFL wideouts.
“Of all the plays I watched,” Titans receivers drillmaster Dave Ragone said with a smile, “I was added absorbed with him communicable the football.”
Stating the obvious, the Titans didn’t abstract Wright in the aboriginal annular to be a blocker. They best him to be a playmaker afterwards a 4,000-yard, 30-touchdown academy career.
But now he’s allotment of a aggregation that has invested heavily in active aback Chris Johnson and is traveling to run the brawl plenty. How bound Wright is able to advance his blocking abilities will play a role in the offense’s potency.
“(Receivers) absolutely didn’t block at Baylor,” wideout Damian Williams said with a cackle as he glanced in Wright’s direction. “In the NFL, it’s not what we get paid to do, but I anticipate we all apperceive we accept to be able to advice accomplish activity easier for the active aback to accomplish plays. It’s allotment of the job for sure.”
Coaches like Wright’s advance so far, but they accept his blocking abilities are still evolving.
“He is not traveling to go in there and annihilate anybody, but he is accommodating to get in the way, and that is what you want,” drillmaster Mike Munchak said. “He has an attitude that he is not abashed to do it, not an attitude of ‘that’s not what I am actuality for.’ I don’t anticipate you’ll be seeing a lot of replays of big blocks he has, but I anticipate he’ll be accommodating to do what he is declared to do.”
At Baylor, the 5-foot-10, 196-pound Wright was far added acclimated to authoritative big plays than blocking. Communicable passes from Heisman Trophy champ Robert Griffin III, the advanced receiver racked up 1,663 yards and 14 touchdowns as a senior.
“I like blocking,” Wright said. “We just didn’t accept abounding passes area we blocked. But it is abundant to block, abnormally if you accept a abundant active back, aback there.”
During training camp, Wright has been a apprentice in Blocking 101. Ragone, a above academy and NFL quarterback, has talked with the amateur about the accent of duke placement, how to yield acceptable blocking angles, area to aim on defenders.
Wright’s accomplishments as a basketball amateur — he was all-state in top academy and played for Baylor as a apprentice — should advice him, Ragone said.
“Blocking is about two things: angles and effort. And he is such a abundant amateur that he understands area he needs to be. You don’t necessarily wish to drillmaster effort, you wish to advance it, and it is all about want-to at that point,” Ragone said.
“In agreement of Kendall’s basketball background, in my opinion, one of the toughest things to do is to be able to block in space. And with his basketball accomplishments and with his crabbed quickness, it allows him to break aboveboard on defenders. It is just a amount of time afore he abstracts it out here. He has done a appealing appropriate job so far.”
The Titans accede Williams and adept Nate Washington to be their best blocking receivers.
Williams was a well-schooled acquaintance if he accustomed in the NFL. During his apprentice division at Arkansas, the Razorback active backs were approaching NFL players Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hillis. Williams connected to hone his blocking abilities afterwards appointment to USC.
Washington accepted he was raw advancing out of a casual breach at Tiffin University, but with his aboriginal NFL team, the Steelers, he bound abstruse the accent of getting a acceptable blocker. Teammate Hines Ward was one of the best blocking wideouts in the game.
For a advanced receiver, Washington said blocking is beneath about technique, added about demography on the appropriate guy and accomplishing so with an attitude.
“I accept been watching Kendall and … it is absolutely just authoritative abiding he is blocking the appropriate guy, because if he gets next to his guy, he is accomplishing a appealing acceptable job,” Washington said.
“Surprisingly, advancing from the breach he is advancing from at Baylor with all the casual that they did, he has been accomplishing a absolutely acceptable job of blocking. And in this offense, that is something he’ll accept to prove he can do and be acceptable at.”
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Survey Says Hindus Thrive
A abstraction of the lifestyles and attitudes of Asian-Americans based on their adoration has appropriate that Indian-American Hindus are the a lot of accomplished and best-paid accumulation in the country.
“In agreement of apprenticeship and income, Hindus are at the top of the socioeconomic ladder – not alone a part of Asian-American religious groups but aswell a part of all the better U.S. religious groups,” the Pew Forum on Adoration and Accessible Life, based in Washington, D.C., said in a report.
The advisers said it was the aboriginal absolute abstracts accumulating from Hindus active in America, the all-inclusive majority of whom are of Indian descent.
But Vinay Lal, assistant of Asian-American Studies at the University of California and columnist of “The Added Indians: Politics and Culture of South Asians in America,” has criticized the abstraction for presenting a narrow, “naive and inaccurate” assuming of the bearings for Indians active in the U.S.
Mr. Lal told India Real Time that the analysis provided a “comforting annual of the attributes of the American clearing experience” that was “highly inaccurate” and masked the absoluteness for bags of Indian Americans who plan in low paid and low accomplished jobs in the country.
“As able-bodied as a able elite, we accept cogent numbers of Indians who plan in places like Dunkin’ Donuts or alive area they are exploited, for instance in some address yards,” Mr. Lal said.
“The botheration with these letters consistently is that they don’t get into those differences… it disguises some of the struggles aural this community,” he added.
Mr. Lal aswell questioned the apriorism of a analysis that uses adoration as the capital chic for anecdotic respondents, calling it a “colonial” estimation of the Asian community.
“It goes aback 200 years, they [colonialists] captivated to the appearance that in the Indian Subcontinent adoration was by far the a lot of important character – afore you are American you are a Hindu or a Muslim. Afore you are annihilation else, your adoration is what differentiates you.”
In his book, Mr. Lal gives examples of groups of Indians abrading a active in America, such as auto drivers in New York who accept to acquire at atomic $250 a day just to awning costs of petrol and renting their cab.
In the Pew Forum survey, those who articular themselves as Indian-American Hindus were decidedly added acceptable to accept advised to post-graduate akin compared to 36% of non-Hindu Indian-Americans and 12% of the accepted public.
Over bisected of Hindu Indian-American adults reside in households earning at atomic $100,000 annually, compared with 34% of non-Hindu Indian-Americans, the abstraction said.
Some commentators appropriate that the abundance of Hindus in the U.S. was a aftereffect of the success of college degree Hindus in India who had confused away as awful accomplished migrants.
But Mr. Lal acicular out that although Indians who came to America afterwards acceptance reforms in 1965 did so to accompany college education, they after brought their families who were not so able-bodied educated.
“These humans go into added businesses such as owning motels,” he said.
“There ability be eight to 10 ancestors associates who are in fact alive in the motel, abounding of them are not accepting accomplishment just lath and lodging. These complications are not captured by admirable statistics in this report,” Mr. Lal said.
“The abstraction is giving the ample ambit of this association and aggravating to appearance that this is the ability of America – that humans can appear actuality from anywhere in the apple and they can achieve,” he added.
Cary Funk, a chief researcher on the Pew Forum’s study, said it was a “representative analysis of all U.S. Asians, which is appealing rare.”
“We were allegory the after-effects a part of the better religious groups… With any accumulation boilerplate it’s consistently accurate that there is a assortment of adventures abaft the average,” Ms. Funk said.
“The address doesn’t try to go into data of the affidavit [behind the statistics] but we do try to admit some of the above factors, for instance careful immigration,” she added.
The admeasurement of Asian Americans in the U.S. has added from 1% of the citizenry in 1965 to 5.8% in 2011, according to the latest census.
Over bisected of Hindus surveyed (59%) admired themselves as “very different” from the archetypal American, compared to 53% of all Asian Americans questioned.
The Pew Research Center begin that Christians accomplish up 42% of Asian Americans, followed by 26% who chic themselves as unaffiliated.
Buddhists annual for about one-in-seven Asian Americans (14%), followed by Hindus (10%), Muslims (4%) and Sikhs (1%), the abstraction said. Followers of added religions accomplish up 2% of U.S. Asians.
Hindus were the accumulation with the accomplished assimilation amount - 81% of those aloft as Hindus told the advisers they remained Hindus, 12% were now agnostic, agnostic or annihilation in particular, and the blow had switched adoration or did not accord a accepted faith.
“In agreement of apprenticeship and income, Hindus are at the top of the socioeconomic ladder – not alone a part of Asian-American religious groups but aswell a part of all the better U.S. religious groups,” the Pew Forum on Adoration and Accessible Life, based in Washington, D.C., said in a report.
The advisers said it was the aboriginal absolute abstracts accumulating from Hindus active in America, the all-inclusive majority of whom are of Indian descent.
But Vinay Lal, assistant of Asian-American Studies at the University of California and columnist of “The Added Indians: Politics and Culture of South Asians in America,” has criticized the abstraction for presenting a narrow, “naive and inaccurate” assuming of the bearings for Indians active in the U.S.
Mr. Lal told India Real Time that the analysis provided a “comforting annual of the attributes of the American clearing experience” that was “highly inaccurate” and masked the absoluteness for bags of Indian Americans who plan in low paid and low accomplished jobs in the country.
“As able-bodied as a able elite, we accept cogent numbers of Indians who plan in places like Dunkin’ Donuts or alive area they are exploited, for instance in some address yards,” Mr. Lal said.
“The botheration with these letters consistently is that they don’t get into those differences… it disguises some of the struggles aural this community,” he added.
Mr. Lal aswell questioned the apriorism of a analysis that uses adoration as the capital chic for anecdotic respondents, calling it a “colonial” estimation of the Asian community.
“It goes aback 200 years, they [colonialists] captivated to the appearance that in the Indian Subcontinent adoration was by far the a lot of important character – afore you are American you are a Hindu or a Muslim. Afore you are annihilation else, your adoration is what differentiates you.”
In his book, Mr. Lal gives examples of groups of Indians abrading a active in America, such as auto drivers in New York who accept to acquire at atomic $250 a day just to awning costs of petrol and renting their cab.
In the Pew Forum survey, those who articular themselves as Indian-American Hindus were decidedly added acceptable to accept advised to post-graduate akin compared to 36% of non-Hindu Indian-Americans and 12% of the accepted public.
Over bisected of Hindu Indian-American adults reside in households earning at atomic $100,000 annually, compared with 34% of non-Hindu Indian-Americans, the abstraction said.
Some commentators appropriate that the abundance of Hindus in the U.S. was a aftereffect of the success of college degree Hindus in India who had confused away as awful accomplished migrants.
But Mr. Lal acicular out that although Indians who came to America afterwards acceptance reforms in 1965 did so to accompany college education, they after brought their families who were not so able-bodied educated.
“These humans go into added businesses such as owning motels,” he said.
“There ability be eight to 10 ancestors associates who are in fact alive in the motel, abounding of them are not accepting accomplishment just lath and lodging. These complications are not captured by admirable statistics in this report,” Mr. Lal said.
“The abstraction is giving the ample ambit of this association and aggravating to appearance that this is the ability of America – that humans can appear actuality from anywhere in the apple and they can achieve,” he added.
Cary Funk, a chief researcher on the Pew Forum’s study, said it was a “representative analysis of all U.S. Asians, which is appealing rare.”
“We were allegory the after-effects a part of the better religious groups… With any accumulation boilerplate it’s consistently accurate that there is a assortment of adventures abaft the average,” Ms. Funk said.
“The address doesn’t try to go into data of the affidavit [behind the statistics] but we do try to admit some of the above factors, for instance careful immigration,” she added.
The admeasurement of Asian Americans in the U.S. has added from 1% of the citizenry in 1965 to 5.8% in 2011, according to the latest census.
Over bisected of Hindus surveyed (59%) admired themselves as “very different” from the archetypal American, compared to 53% of all Asian Americans questioned.
The Pew Research Center begin that Christians accomplish up 42% of Asian Americans, followed by 26% who chic themselves as unaffiliated.
Buddhists annual for about one-in-seven Asian Americans (14%), followed by Hindus (10%), Muslims (4%) and Sikhs (1%), the abstraction said. Followers of added religions accomplish up 2% of U.S. Asians.
Hindus were the accumulation with the accomplished assimilation amount - 81% of those aloft as Hindus told the advisers they remained Hindus, 12% were now agnostic, agnostic or annihilation in particular, and the blow had switched adoration or did not accord a accepted faith.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Paid leave for O'side teacher suspected
A special-education teacher at Oceanside High School has been placed on paid administrative leave after police arrested her Thursday on suspicion of having an unlawful sexual relationship with a former student, a school district spokesman said Friday.
The teacher, Kelly McKenzy Watson, 34, met the teenage boy at New Haven Youth and Family Services in Vista, where she worked from September 2010 to August 2011, according to San Diego police Lt. Anastasia Smith, of the department's Sex Crimes Unit.
"They met when he was a student of hers, and they later forged a relationship which was inappropriate and illegal," Smith said.
The lieutenant said it appears the relationship started after Watson left her job at New Haven last August. New Haven is a residential school that works with at-risk and troubled teens.
Although the teacher and student first met in North County, San Diego police investigated the case because the suspected crimes took place in San Diego, Smith said. Police opened the case after receiving a tip about Watson and the teen on July 30, she said.
Watson posted $45,000 bail and was released Friday; her arraignment is set for Aug. 20, according to the San Diego County district attorney's office.
She was arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and oral copulation with a minor.
Oceanside Unified School District spokesman Steve Lombard said Friday that the district placed Watson on paid administrative leave Thursday pending the outcome of the criminal investigation. Watson was hired in August 2011, he said.
In an emailed statement to the North County Times, New Haven's executive director, Doreen Quinn, said the staff and supporters of her organization were "shocked and saddened to learn of the alleged relationship."
"However, we are confident, based on our own investigation and the information we have received from law enforcement, that no sexual relationship occurred during the teacher's or student's time at New Haven," Quinn wrote.
According to the organization's website, New Haven Youth and Family Services provides "academic, social, emotional and behavioral intervention as well as career technical education and life skills development for youth 12 and up and their families."
Quinn did not respond to a request for the number of students at New Haven's operation in Vista. However, a profile of Quinn on the San Diego Daily Transcript website states that New Haven and its sister school, North County Trade Tech High School, provide education, job training and housing to more than 100 adolescent males.
The teacher, Kelly McKenzy Watson, 34, met the teenage boy at New Haven Youth and Family Services in Vista, where she worked from September 2010 to August 2011, according to San Diego police Lt. Anastasia Smith, of the department's Sex Crimes Unit.
"They met when he was a student of hers, and they later forged a relationship which was inappropriate and illegal," Smith said.
The lieutenant said it appears the relationship started after Watson left her job at New Haven last August. New Haven is a residential school that works with at-risk and troubled teens.
Although the teacher and student first met in North County, San Diego police investigated the case because the suspected crimes took place in San Diego, Smith said. Police opened the case after receiving a tip about Watson and the teen on July 30, she said.
Watson posted $45,000 bail and was released Friday; her arraignment is set for Aug. 20, according to the San Diego County district attorney's office.
She was arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and oral copulation with a minor.
Oceanside Unified School District spokesman Steve Lombard said Friday that the district placed Watson on paid administrative leave Thursday pending the outcome of the criminal investigation. Watson was hired in August 2011, he said.
In an emailed statement to the North County Times, New Haven's executive director, Doreen Quinn, said the staff and supporters of her organization were "shocked and saddened to learn of the alleged relationship."
"However, we are confident, based on our own investigation and the information we have received from law enforcement, that no sexual relationship occurred during the teacher's or student's time at New Haven," Quinn wrote.
According to the organization's website, New Haven Youth and Family Services provides "academic, social, emotional and behavioral intervention as well as career technical education and life skills development for youth 12 and up and their families."
Quinn did not respond to a request for the number of students at New Haven's operation in Vista. However, a profile of Quinn on the San Diego Daily Transcript website states that New Haven and its sister school, North County Trade Tech High School, provide education, job training and housing to more than 100 adolescent males.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Afghan Army Remains Far From Accessible to Go it Alone
Among the huge challenges it faces in demography over from the abandonment U.S. and NATO armies, Afghanistan’s new army is up adjoin the allegory that its troops aren’t Muslims.
Taliban advertising has approved to bulb the angle that because it works with adopted forces, the Afghan National Army accept to be a agnostic one. So if villagers see his soldiers bead to their knees in mid-patrol and recite the circadian prayer, they’re surprised, said Lt. Col. Abdul Wakil Warzajy, a army commander. “Until they see us praying,” he said, “they anticipate that we are like the foreigners – infidels.”
From the Soviet aggression of 1979 through the after civilian wars, from the acceleration of the warlords and their militias to the U.S.-led aggression that followed the 9/11 attacks, accustomed Afghans can almost bethink accepting had an army they could alarm their own.
Once the adopted troops are gone in 2014, Afghanistan’s defenses will depend absolutely on a force getting molded from ailing accomplished recruits, abounding of whom accuse of activity under-armed, undertrained and up adjoin an ambiguous enemy.
An Associated Press anchorman and columnist afresh spent two weeks with four altered units in ambit breadth the Taliban is strong, and heard of accessories shortages, rifles that jam, and fears that already the U.S. and NATO aircraft are gone, limited and important outposts will become aloof and accept to close.
And alongside abounding affirmation that Afghan commanders are alive harder to brainwash conduct and a faculty of mission in the new force, there are fears that already the Westerners accept left, the country will afresh splinter into militias disqualified by warlords.
At 203 Thunder Corps in eastern Afghanistan’s Gardez Province, soldiers accept to leave their weapons at the gate. That’s because renegades a part of them could advance NATO soldiers – 26 dead in 19 incidents this year, by an AP calculation – but aswell because in an army that reflects the country’s circuitous of battling ethnicities, an altercation could amplify into a firefight.
Abdul Haleem Noori, a colonel in his 60s who remembers the Afghan army of the 1980s, said training acclimated to endure months. Now it’s six weeks.
“Today we accept no discipline. If a soldier doesn’t wish to go about he doesn’t,” he said in an account at the Thunder Corps base. “We should not accept been searching for quantity. We should accept been searching at the superior of our soldiers but we had to attach to the calendar of the foreigners and now we are not ready.”
U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top administrator of U.S. and NATO forces, told the AP that the Afghan army and badge force were proving added able in action. About 90 percent of affiliation operations now are partnered with Afghan forces, and Afghan armament are in the advance added than 40 percent of the time, he said in an account July 22.
The army is acceptable to amount about 200,000 by year’s end, but that’s not enough, said Lt. Yaldash Roasoli, an Afghan soldier continuing alfresco the 203 Thunder Corps battlefront range.
“Even in 30 years we cannot be ready,” he complained. “If you asked me what a appropriate action is I couldn’t acquaint you. That is the affectionate of training we accept had.”
The new force’s commando units accept been activated in high-profile Taliban attacks in the accomplished year, including one on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and accept won top acclaim from the Afghan government and the U.S. ANA commanders say they are alpha to win the assurance of villagers, who adopt the soldiers to police.
But Mark Schneider, chief carnality admiral of the International Crisis Group that is tracking Afghanistan’s aegis effort, says overall, a decade of training and $35 billion accept collapsed abbreviate of expectations. “It is traveling to be a difficult action to accredit them to be the hand-off partner” for the abandonment Western forces, he said in a blast interview.
For the Afghan army, just anecdotic the adversary is a difficult task.
As a force moves into the apple of Noor Khiel in eastern Logar province, Warzajy, the army commander, is wary. A adept of the civilian wars, a above babysitter to a fabulous warlord, he knows if he’s in Taliban country, and this is an breadth area troops accept appear beneath rocket blaze and automated rifles are accursed from central apple homes.
For now there are no insurgents in evidence, but as Warzajy credibility out, if his troops move in, the Taliban move out. “Sometimes they don’t even leave. They aces up a advertise and say they’re just innocent farmers.”
Taliban advertising has approved to bulb the angle that because it works with adopted forces, the Afghan National Army accept to be a agnostic one. So if villagers see his soldiers bead to their knees in mid-patrol and recite the circadian prayer, they’re surprised, said Lt. Col. Abdul Wakil Warzajy, a army commander. “Until they see us praying,” he said, “they anticipate that we are like the foreigners – infidels.”
From the Soviet aggression of 1979 through the after civilian wars, from the acceleration of the warlords and their militias to the U.S.-led aggression that followed the 9/11 attacks, accustomed Afghans can almost bethink accepting had an army they could alarm their own.
Once the adopted troops are gone in 2014, Afghanistan’s defenses will depend absolutely on a force getting molded from ailing accomplished recruits, abounding of whom accuse of activity under-armed, undertrained and up adjoin an ambiguous enemy.
An Associated Press anchorman and columnist afresh spent two weeks with four altered units in ambit breadth the Taliban is strong, and heard of accessories shortages, rifles that jam, and fears that already the U.S. and NATO aircraft are gone, limited and important outposts will become aloof and accept to close.
And alongside abounding affirmation that Afghan commanders are alive harder to brainwash conduct and a faculty of mission in the new force, there are fears that already the Westerners accept left, the country will afresh splinter into militias disqualified by warlords.
At 203 Thunder Corps in eastern Afghanistan’s Gardez Province, soldiers accept to leave their weapons at the gate. That’s because renegades a part of them could advance NATO soldiers – 26 dead in 19 incidents this year, by an AP calculation – but aswell because in an army that reflects the country’s circuitous of battling ethnicities, an altercation could amplify into a firefight.
Abdul Haleem Noori, a colonel in his 60s who remembers the Afghan army of the 1980s, said training acclimated to endure months. Now it’s six weeks.
“Today we accept no discipline. If a soldier doesn’t wish to go about he doesn’t,” he said in an account at the Thunder Corps base. “We should not accept been searching for quantity. We should accept been searching at the superior of our soldiers but we had to attach to the calendar of the foreigners and now we are not ready.”
U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top administrator of U.S. and NATO forces, told the AP that the Afghan army and badge force were proving added able in action. About 90 percent of affiliation operations now are partnered with Afghan forces, and Afghan armament are in the advance added than 40 percent of the time, he said in an account July 22.
The army is acceptable to amount about 200,000 by year’s end, but that’s not enough, said Lt. Yaldash Roasoli, an Afghan soldier continuing alfresco the 203 Thunder Corps battlefront range.
“Even in 30 years we cannot be ready,” he complained. “If you asked me what a appropriate action is I couldn’t acquaint you. That is the affectionate of training we accept had.”
The new force’s commando units accept been activated in high-profile Taliban attacks in the accomplished year, including one on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and accept won top acclaim from the Afghan government and the U.S. ANA commanders say they are alpha to win the assurance of villagers, who adopt the soldiers to police.
But Mark Schneider, chief carnality admiral of the International Crisis Group that is tracking Afghanistan’s aegis effort, says overall, a decade of training and $35 billion accept collapsed abbreviate of expectations. “It is traveling to be a difficult action to accredit them to be the hand-off partner” for the abandonment Western forces, he said in a blast interview.
For the Afghan army, just anecdotic the adversary is a difficult task.
As a force moves into the apple of Noor Khiel in eastern Logar province, Warzajy, the army commander, is wary. A adept of the civilian wars, a above babysitter to a fabulous warlord, he knows if he’s in Taliban country, and this is an breadth area troops accept appear beneath rocket blaze and automated rifles are accursed from central apple homes.
For now there are no insurgents in evidence, but as Warzajy credibility out, if his troops move in, the Taliban move out. “Sometimes they don’t even leave. They aces up a advertise and say they’re just innocent farmers.”
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Boston Children’s Museum Introduces New Discount
Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) is introducing a new affairs that invites all Massachusetts association with Electronic Allowances Transfer (EBT) cards to appearance their agenda to get a discounted $2 per being banknote admission. The abatement applies for up to four humans per card, per visit. The Museum does not action EBT transactions; banknote or added transaction accept to be provided for admission.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
Boston Children’s Museum Introduces New Discount
Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) is introducing a new affairs that invites all Massachusetts association with Electronic Allowances Transfer (EBT) cards to appearance their agenda to get a discounted $2 per being banknote admission. The abatement applies for up to four humans per card, per visit. The Museum does not action EBT transactions; banknote or added transaction accept to be provided for admission.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
Boston Children’s Museum Introduces New Discount
Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) is introducing a new affairs that invites all Massachusetts association with Electronic Allowances Transfer (EBT) cards to appearance their agenda to get a discounted $2 per being banknote admission. The abatement applies for up to four humans per card, per visit. The Museum does not action EBT transactions; banknote or added transaction accept to be provided for admission.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
Boston Children’s Museum Introduces New Discount
Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) is introducing a new affairs that invites all Massachusetts association with Electronic Allowances Transfer (EBT) cards to appearance their agenda to get a discounted $2 per being banknote admission. The abatement applies for up to four humans per card, per visit. The Museum does not action EBT transactions; banknote or added transaction accept to be provided for admission.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
BCM hopes to accompany acquaintance to this action which allows all families and their accouchement to adore one of the region’s a lot of important aboriginal adolescence educational and cultural institutions at an acutely affordable price. The Museum is an invaluable ability in that it provides alluringly alternate arts, science, bloom and multicultural adventures that appoint the accomplished family. Accouchement ages 0-10 with their developed caregivers explore, discover, and acquisition blithesome adventures that brainwash an acknowledgment of our world, advance basal skills, and atom a constant adulation of learning.
“As allotment of Boston Children’s Museum’s charge to the community, we are bent to accumulate acceptance affordable for all. To do this, we accept adapted and bigger our Abatement acceptance program,” said Carole Charnow President & CEO.
The Massachusetts Department of Capricious Abetment (DTA) administers allowances through EBT cards to advice low-income individuals and families accommodated their basal needs, admission their incomes and advance their superior of life. Serving one out of every eight humans in the Commonwealth, DTA is an bureau aural the Executive Office of Bloom and Human Services and ensures that the emergency and capricious needs of the individuals and families of the Commonwealth are met through a aggregate of accompaniment and federally-funded programs.
“This abatement is a abundant befalling to accomplish the Museum’s admirable exhibits and activities attainable for the humans we serve, including families accepting capricious assistance,” said Bloom and Human Services Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby.
Boston Children’s Museum welcomes about 600,000 visitors annually, including added than 29% who acceptance the Museum through chargeless or discounted programs.
Boston Children’s Museum aswell offers a chargeless Sponsored Visits Program. This affairs opens the Museum’s doors to kids who would not be able to allow a appointment so that they, too, can yield advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning. The programs and exhibits allure kids to appoint with the apple they reside in through programming and exhibits in beheld and assuming arts, science, math, concrete fitness, and assortment in Boston as they play with their accompany and families. As schools and after-care programs face allotment challenges, Boston Children's Museum continues to aggrandize the amount of chargeless visits to kids in charge with an according arena field.
The Sponsored Visits Affairs is fabricated accessible with the advice of donor companies whose constant charge to the Museum’s mission, programs and accessories accompany calm the best assets of aboriginal adolescence apprenticeship and a different burghal ambiance to account Boston's kids. This accomplished year 19,288 individuals and 333 groups abounding the Museum for free, acknowledgment to our Sponsored Visits Program.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Art while you wait
Durham has come a long way from its “Amshack” days. City Councilman Howard Clement coined the phrase, combining “Amtrak” and “shack,” to describe the spare and uninviting passenger shelter that sat next to the railroad tracks on Pettigrew Street.
Now Durham has a true transit station, and Tuesday the city unveiled two new bus passenger shelters on the Bull City Connector route, complete with public art. Visual artist David Wilson’s shelter at Oldham Towers on East Main Street was unveiled in an official ceremony on the lawn of the towers. Wilson’s art takes images from historic Durham photographs and intersperses them with a map of downtown Durham.
To create his art, Wilson said he looked back into the history of transportation in Durham. “I did a lot of research to tie in the history,” Wilson said. His idea of public art is to make a connection with history, and when riders are waiting for the bus at the Oldham Towers site, they can perhaps learn something about Durham’s history, he said. Wilson’s art has images of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, the Durham Hosiery Mill Band and many downtown buildings.
Farther north on Main Street, artist Chris Vespermann’s tribute to blues icons Rev. Gary Davis, Sonny Terry and Blind Boy Fuller also opened for the public Tuesday.
In the next year, nine more shelters with public art will dot the Bull City Connector route, a free bus that connects Duke University with Golden Belt and other areas downtown. The shelters are part of Durham’s Public Art Program. In August 2010, the nonprofit group Durham Area Designers, which advocates for better public spaces, teamed with the Durham Arts Council and issued a call for artists to design shelters with art. The artists’ charge was to reflect in some way Durham’s history and culture.
A selection committee picked artists Wilson of Apex, Vespermann of Cary, Sharon Dowell of Charlotte and Al Frega of Durham to create the shelters. Future shelters will be at Ninth Street, Duke Street, Brightleaf Square, West Village, Five Points and Durham County Human Services Complex.
Lisa Hemingway, a resident of Oldham Towers who also is vice president of the building, had high praise for Wilson’s design. “I think it’s beautiful,” Hemingway said. Too often visitors vandalize bus shelters, but with the art work “hopefully people will think of it as the city giving back, that we have a chance to grow, that better days are coming,” she said.
Vespermann’s design takes three photos of Davis, Terry and Fuller, who made the Bull City a center for the blues, and gives them an op-art effect. Vespermann was inspired by the musicians, who not only had to contend with being African-American in the 20th century with its segregation laws, but also in the case with Davis and Fuller, dealt with blindness, he said. They did not have benefit of formal lessons or music theory, he said. “These gentlemen, never having access to that, were able to express themselves unbridled,” Vespermann said.
He is still working on the sun shade part of the courthouse shelter. It will have a Braille translation of a song that Davis, Terry and Fuller recorded together: “I’ve got fiery fingers/I’ve got fiery hands/And when I get up in heaven/Going to join that fiery band.” Vespermann calls the technique “painting Braille with light.” Vespermann is working on a shelter for Duke’s East Campus commemorating President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 speech there.
Dowell has two shelters in design – one for Brightleaf and one for Golden Belt. Some photographs of her concept were on view at the unveiling. The Brightleaf design takes advantage of the district’s architecture. The Golden Belt art will have images of the tobacco bags that were once manufactured there, along with the building’s wooden beams. “I like to work with architecture a lot,” Dowell said. “My art is about place.” Dowell added, “This is really fun to work on.”
Now Durham has a true transit station, and Tuesday the city unveiled two new bus passenger shelters on the Bull City Connector route, complete with public art. Visual artist David Wilson’s shelter at Oldham Towers on East Main Street was unveiled in an official ceremony on the lawn of the towers. Wilson’s art takes images from historic Durham photographs and intersperses them with a map of downtown Durham.
To create his art, Wilson said he looked back into the history of transportation in Durham. “I did a lot of research to tie in the history,” Wilson said. His idea of public art is to make a connection with history, and when riders are waiting for the bus at the Oldham Towers site, they can perhaps learn something about Durham’s history, he said. Wilson’s art has images of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, the Durham Hosiery Mill Band and many downtown buildings.
Farther north on Main Street, artist Chris Vespermann’s tribute to blues icons Rev. Gary Davis, Sonny Terry and Blind Boy Fuller also opened for the public Tuesday.
In the next year, nine more shelters with public art will dot the Bull City Connector route, a free bus that connects Duke University with Golden Belt and other areas downtown. The shelters are part of Durham’s Public Art Program. In August 2010, the nonprofit group Durham Area Designers, which advocates for better public spaces, teamed with the Durham Arts Council and issued a call for artists to design shelters with art. The artists’ charge was to reflect in some way Durham’s history and culture.
A selection committee picked artists Wilson of Apex, Vespermann of Cary, Sharon Dowell of Charlotte and Al Frega of Durham to create the shelters. Future shelters will be at Ninth Street, Duke Street, Brightleaf Square, West Village, Five Points and Durham County Human Services Complex.
Lisa Hemingway, a resident of Oldham Towers who also is vice president of the building, had high praise for Wilson’s design. “I think it’s beautiful,” Hemingway said. Too often visitors vandalize bus shelters, but with the art work “hopefully people will think of it as the city giving back, that we have a chance to grow, that better days are coming,” she said.
Vespermann’s design takes three photos of Davis, Terry and Fuller, who made the Bull City a center for the blues, and gives them an op-art effect. Vespermann was inspired by the musicians, who not only had to contend with being African-American in the 20th century with its segregation laws, but also in the case with Davis and Fuller, dealt with blindness, he said. They did not have benefit of formal lessons or music theory, he said. “These gentlemen, never having access to that, were able to express themselves unbridled,” Vespermann said.
He is still working on the sun shade part of the courthouse shelter. It will have a Braille translation of a song that Davis, Terry and Fuller recorded together: “I’ve got fiery fingers/I’ve got fiery hands/And when I get up in heaven/Going to join that fiery band.” Vespermann calls the technique “painting Braille with light.” Vespermann is working on a shelter for Duke’s East Campus commemorating President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 speech there.
Dowell has two shelters in design – one for Brightleaf and one for Golden Belt. Some photographs of her concept were on view at the unveiling. The Brightleaf design takes advantage of the district’s architecture. The Golden Belt art will have images of the tobacco bags that were once manufactured there, along with the building’s wooden beams. “I like to work with architecture a lot,” Dowell said. “My art is about place.” Dowell added, “This is really fun to work on.”
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