Apparently you are more credible as an oral presenter at the joint
review panel hearings if you are wearing a suit and tie and are
middle-aged; anyone else is labelled an “eco-hippie.”
Jack Knox
should cover fashion events and leave community events to journalists
who report on what people say, rather than what they look like. He
should also get out of his Victoria mainstream bubble to keep up with
what has transpired at other hearings throughout the province.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
Middle
Canada is not the foe of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. It is
the First Nations whose territories will be directly affected by this
proposal who are the foes. Most are opposed to this project and will not
have it forced upon their lands by the prime minister, even if it means
litigation.
I am registered to speak at the hearings on
Wednesday and am more concerned about the public being banned from the
Victoria hearings than what I’m going to wear. I’ll focus on what’s
important: sharing with the panel my personal experiences of working in
my beloved Kitimat valley for almost 30 years and the reasons why I
oppose this project.
Usually, I thoroughly enjoy Jack Knox’s
take on situations. He brings a point of view that is somewhat different
and puts in words what many others are feeling. However, his front-page
article on Saturday missed the mark and was short-sighted in the
interpretation of “treehuggers.”
It was truly typical media
perspective. It is a shame and unworthy of him as a writer and the Times
Colonist to paint all environmentalists the way he did. I remind him
and everyone else that without the “environmentalist” perspective on
many huge and not-so-huge initiatives, the “middle” Canadians, including
those in B.C., would continue to sit on their bottoms and do nothing
and really have no opinion on this project.
The environmentalist
approach on many issues from the G20 to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
reviews certainly could be questioned, but not the fact that they made
people stop to think. We know that governments of all stripes would just
as likely allow any project proposed to quietly gain approval and pay
taxes for their own benefit.
If I am to be categorized as
anything other than a female Canadian, I would choose
“environmentalist,” because I am proud to look forward to the future,
and protect the only real resource our country has — fresh water and
clean air.
If Jack Knox had read his own newspaper more
thoroughly, he would have seen that the Keystone pipeline has been given
favourable comments by the state regulator concerning the revised
routing (“minimal ecological effects”) in Nebraska.
Thus, it is
most likely that the project will be given Nebraska approval. This is a
major hurdle that was a requirement for the Obama government’s blessing,
which now is almost a certainty, given the positive impact of jobs and
taxes generated by the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Knox also
referred to a Northern Gateway intervener’s comments that there are
“many, many other less-risky and less-toxic ways to generate economic
growth.” I would be curious to know what those projects might be and why
they are not being pursued. How did he evaluate the bitumen as being
risky and toxic?
It should be noted that the Trans Mountain
pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver has been in operation for 60 years
without any catastrophes, other than a construction accident unrelated
to Kinder Morgan.
On one hand, we hear passionately about
environmental risks to the headwaters of fish-bearing rivers and from
tanker traffic in the coastal zone. We might consider such huge risk if
there were greater reward on the other side.
But, in fact, the
other side poses no reward at all. The pipeline and tankers would serve
to sell cheaply a Canadian resource that will become precious, indeed
essential, to transition from dwindling fossil carbon energy to
sustainable future energy. We race recklessly, seeking to extract,
export and burn as fast as possible the fossil carbon that might
dangerously upset poorly understood climate change.
The hearing into the Northern Gateway pipeline at the Delta Ocean Point was unbelievably arrogant.Interlocking security cable tie
with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. No
riff- raff wanted! Members of the public, residents of B.C. and elected
members of Parliament have a right, even if not registered, to attend.
We
live in Canada, a free democratic society. This meeting appears to be
controlled by politicians and big business and is not democratic. If
there is nothing to hide, a free discussion should be welcome.
During this time of year, as I walk to work, I wear a bulky sweater underneath a large finger-length coat.The term 'hands free access
control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a
pocket or handbag. Over that I wear a large orange reflective safety
vest with yellow reflective tape. I carry a large white nylon bag which I
swing while I am walking. I am 5-foot-9 and weigh about 160 pounds. I
think this suggests that I would not be an easy figure to miss. However,
on numerous occasions, I have just missed being hit by motor vehicles.
Recently,
I stopped before crossing at a Cloverdale intersection while a vehicle
stopped at the stop sign. A good sign. Most vehicles stop well past stop
signs. I tried to make eye contact with the driver. Although I couldn’t
see her eyes, I did see her face. I saw her look in my direction. Her
car did not move. I started to cross the street and then the vehicle
started. I was within inches of the passenger side of the vehicle as she
drove by me. I raised my hands as she went by. She stopped, rolled down
her window and said she was sorry. I said, “Didn’t you see me?” She
said, “No.”
Sure, political corruption exists. Like Peter McKay
and his use of Canadian Forces helicopters to fly him to his vacation
home, or like any number of non-aboriginal MPs called on the carpet
every year for abusing expense accounts, housing allowances, travel
allowances,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring
that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. parliamentary privilege or running afoul of conflict-of-interest laws.
Spence
is a figure around whom to rally support to address the larger issues
that some media and government representatives strive to obfuscate: the
way in which the government has passed omnibus bills that allow the
minister of aboriginal affairs and northern development to override band
councils on decisions concerning commercial use of reserve lands.
Effectively, the minister could force surrender of reserve lands to the
Crown for commercial (read: extractive industry) uses, even if the
council opposes such action and if such actions would damage the quality
of life of reserve residents.
This is in contravention of the
Indian Act, the amendments to which have in past required full and
informed consultation. The larger issues are removing environmental
assessment and protection laws from a variety of water bodies on
indigenous lands or lands still under negotiation without necessary
consultation with indigenous peoples.
Most importantly, it’s a
completely inappropriate location, being a few hundred metres from
George Jay Elementary School. There is real danger to children here. The
physical danger of attracting meth addicts to a residential
neighbourhood is bad enough, but the long-lasting message these
inner-city kids are receiving is that they just aren’t as important as
kids in other areas.
Imagine a Vancouver Island Health
Authority-sponsored needle dispensary and injection site in Rockland;
this, of course, would not happen.Purelink's real time location system
protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA
interventions. These children are being told they are second rate, as
are their parents.
Coun. Marianne Alto and VIHA’s Cheryl
Dunstetter’s myopic and wrong view is that this sacrifice is warranted
to serve this group of clients. It is obvious they need this assistance,
but not in a residential area.
A reasonable compromise would be
moving the resource to Rock Bay near Street Link, where there is less
chance of interaction with impressionable children, and it’s a much
shorter walk to get a free crack pipe.
2013年1月7日 星期一
Words more important than speaker’s attire
Apparently you are more credible as an oral presenter at the joint
review panel hearings if you are wearing a suit and tie and are
middle-aged; anyone else is labelled an “eco-hippie.”
Jack Knox should cover fashion events and leave community events to journalists who report on what people say, rather than what they look like. He should also get out of his Victoria mainstream bubble to keep up with what has transpired at other hearings throughout the province.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
Middle Canada is not the foe of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. It is the First Nations whose territories will be directly affected by this proposal who are the foes. Most are opposed to this project and will not have it forced upon their lands by the prime minister, even if it means litigation.
I am registered to speak at the hearings on Wednesday and am more concerned about the public being banned from the Victoria hearings than what I’m going to wear. I’ll focus on what’s important: sharing with the panel my personal experiences of working in my beloved Kitimat valley for almost 30 years and the reasons why I oppose this project.
Usually, I thoroughly enjoy Jack Knox’s take on situations. He brings a point of view that is somewhat different and puts in words what many others are feeling. However, his front-page article on Saturday missed the mark and was short-sighted in the interpretation of “treehuggers.”
It was truly typical media perspective. It is a shame and unworthy of him as a writer and the Times Colonist to paint all environmentalists the way he did. I remind him and everyone else that without the “environmentalist” perspective on many huge and not-so-huge initiatives, the “middle” Canadians, including those in B.C., would continue to sit on their bottoms and do nothing and really have no opinion on this project.
The environmentalist approach on many issues from the G20 to the Northern Gateway Pipeline reviews certainly could be questioned, but not the fact that they made people stop to think. We know that governments of all stripes would just as likely allow any project proposed to quietly gain approval and pay taxes for their own benefit.
If I am to be categorized as anything other than a female Canadian, I would choose “environmentalist,” because I am proud to look forward to the future, and protect the only real resource our country has — fresh water and clean air.
If Jack Knox had read his own newspaper more thoroughly, he would have seen that the Keystone pipeline has been given favourable comments by the state regulator concerning the revised routing (“minimal ecological effects”) in Nebraska.
Thus, it is most likely that the project will be given Nebraska approval. This is a major hurdle that was a requirement for the Obama government’s blessing, which now is almost a certainty, given the positive impact of jobs and taxes generated by the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Knox also referred to a Northern Gateway intervener’s comments that there are “many, many other less-risky and less-toxic ways to generate economic growth.” I would be curious to know what those projects might be and why they are not being pursued. How did he evaluate the bitumen as being risky and toxic?
It should be noted that the Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver has been in operation for 60 years without any catastrophes, other than a construction accident unrelated to Kinder Morgan.
On one hand, we hear passionately about environmental risks to the headwaters of fish-bearing rivers and from tanker traffic in the coastal zone. We might consider such huge risk if there were greater reward on the other side.
But, in fact, the other side poses no reward at all. The pipeline and tankers would serve to sell cheaply a Canadian resource that will become precious, indeed essential, to transition from dwindling fossil carbon energy to sustainable future energy. We race recklessly, seeking to extract, export and burn as fast as possible the fossil carbon that might dangerously upset poorly understood climate change.
The hearing into the Northern Gateway pipeline at the Delta Ocean Point was unbelievably arrogant.Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. No riff- raff wanted! Members of the public, residents of B.C. and elected members of Parliament have a right, even if not registered, to attend.
We live in Canada, a free democratic society. This meeting appears to be controlled by politicians and big business and is not democratic. If there is nothing to hide, a free discussion should be welcome.
During this time of year, as I walk to work, I wear a bulky sweater underneath a large finger-length coat.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Over that I wear a large orange reflective safety vest with yellow reflective tape. I carry a large white nylon bag which I swing while I am walking. I am 5-foot-9 and weigh about 160 pounds. I think this suggests that I would not be an easy figure to miss. However, on numerous occasions, I have just missed being hit by motor vehicles.
Recently, I stopped before crossing at a Cloverdale intersection while a vehicle stopped at the stop sign. A good sign. Most vehicles stop well past stop signs. I tried to make eye contact with the driver. Although I couldn’t see her eyes, I did see her face. I saw her look in my direction. Her car did not move. I started to cross the street and then the vehicle started. I was within inches of the passenger side of the vehicle as she drove by me. I raised my hands as she went by. She stopped, rolled down her window and said she was sorry. I said, “Didn’t you see me?” She said, “No.”
Sure, political corruption exists. Like Peter McKay and his use of Canadian Forces helicopters to fly him to his vacation home, or like any number of non-aboriginal MPs called on the carpet every year for abusing expense accounts, housing allowances, travel allowances,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. parliamentary privilege or running afoul of conflict-of-interest laws.
Spence is a figure around whom to rally support to address the larger issues that some media and government representatives strive to obfuscate: the way in which the government has passed omnibus bills that allow the minister of aboriginal affairs and northern development to override band councils on decisions concerning commercial use of reserve lands. Effectively, the minister could force surrender of reserve lands to the Crown for commercial (read: extractive industry) uses, even if the council opposes such action and if such actions would damage the quality of life of reserve residents.
This is in contravention of the Indian Act, the amendments to which have in past required full and informed consultation. The larger issues are removing environmental assessment and protection laws from a variety of water bodies on indigenous lands or lands still under negotiation without necessary consultation with indigenous peoples.
Most importantly, it’s a completely inappropriate location, being a few hundred metres from George Jay Elementary School. There is real danger to children here. The physical danger of attracting meth addicts to a residential neighbourhood is bad enough, but the long-lasting message these inner-city kids are receiving is that they just aren’t as important as kids in other areas.
Imagine a Vancouver Island Health Authority-sponsored needle dispensary and injection site in Rockland; this, of course, would not happen.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions. These children are being told they are second rate, as are their parents.
Coun. Marianne Alto and VIHA’s Cheryl Dunstetter’s myopic and wrong view is that this sacrifice is warranted to serve this group of clients. It is obvious they need this assistance, but not in a residential area.
A reasonable compromise would be moving the resource to Rock Bay near Street Link, where there is less chance of interaction with impressionable children, and it’s a much shorter walk to get a free crack pipe.
Jack Knox should cover fashion events and leave community events to journalists who report on what people say, rather than what they look like. He should also get out of his Victoria mainstream bubble to keep up with what has transpired at other hearings throughout the province.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
Middle Canada is not the foe of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. It is the First Nations whose territories will be directly affected by this proposal who are the foes. Most are opposed to this project and will not have it forced upon their lands by the prime minister, even if it means litigation.
I am registered to speak at the hearings on Wednesday and am more concerned about the public being banned from the Victoria hearings than what I’m going to wear. I’ll focus on what’s important: sharing with the panel my personal experiences of working in my beloved Kitimat valley for almost 30 years and the reasons why I oppose this project.
Usually, I thoroughly enjoy Jack Knox’s take on situations. He brings a point of view that is somewhat different and puts in words what many others are feeling. However, his front-page article on Saturday missed the mark and was short-sighted in the interpretation of “treehuggers.”
It was truly typical media perspective. It is a shame and unworthy of him as a writer and the Times Colonist to paint all environmentalists the way he did. I remind him and everyone else that without the “environmentalist” perspective on many huge and not-so-huge initiatives, the “middle” Canadians, including those in B.C., would continue to sit on their bottoms and do nothing and really have no opinion on this project.
The environmentalist approach on many issues from the G20 to the Northern Gateway Pipeline reviews certainly could be questioned, but not the fact that they made people stop to think. We know that governments of all stripes would just as likely allow any project proposed to quietly gain approval and pay taxes for their own benefit.
If I am to be categorized as anything other than a female Canadian, I would choose “environmentalist,” because I am proud to look forward to the future, and protect the only real resource our country has — fresh water and clean air.
If Jack Knox had read his own newspaper more thoroughly, he would have seen that the Keystone pipeline has been given favourable comments by the state regulator concerning the revised routing (“minimal ecological effects”) in Nebraska.
Thus, it is most likely that the project will be given Nebraska approval. This is a major hurdle that was a requirement for the Obama government’s blessing, which now is almost a certainty, given the positive impact of jobs and taxes generated by the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Knox also referred to a Northern Gateway intervener’s comments that there are “many, many other less-risky and less-toxic ways to generate economic growth.” I would be curious to know what those projects might be and why they are not being pursued. How did he evaluate the bitumen as being risky and toxic?
It should be noted that the Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver has been in operation for 60 years without any catastrophes, other than a construction accident unrelated to Kinder Morgan.
On one hand, we hear passionately about environmental risks to the headwaters of fish-bearing rivers and from tanker traffic in the coastal zone. We might consider such huge risk if there were greater reward on the other side.
But, in fact, the other side poses no reward at all. The pipeline and tankers would serve to sell cheaply a Canadian resource that will become precious, indeed essential, to transition from dwindling fossil carbon energy to sustainable future energy. We race recklessly, seeking to extract, export and burn as fast as possible the fossil carbon that might dangerously upset poorly understood climate change.
The hearing into the Northern Gateway pipeline at the Delta Ocean Point was unbelievably arrogant.Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. No riff- raff wanted! Members of the public, residents of B.C. and elected members of Parliament have a right, even if not registered, to attend.
We live in Canada, a free democratic society. This meeting appears to be controlled by politicians and big business and is not democratic. If there is nothing to hide, a free discussion should be welcome.
During this time of year, as I walk to work, I wear a bulky sweater underneath a large finger-length coat.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Over that I wear a large orange reflective safety vest with yellow reflective tape. I carry a large white nylon bag which I swing while I am walking. I am 5-foot-9 and weigh about 160 pounds. I think this suggests that I would not be an easy figure to miss. However, on numerous occasions, I have just missed being hit by motor vehicles.
Recently, I stopped before crossing at a Cloverdale intersection while a vehicle stopped at the stop sign. A good sign. Most vehicles stop well past stop signs. I tried to make eye contact with the driver. Although I couldn’t see her eyes, I did see her face. I saw her look in my direction. Her car did not move. I started to cross the street and then the vehicle started. I was within inches of the passenger side of the vehicle as she drove by me. I raised my hands as she went by. She stopped, rolled down her window and said she was sorry. I said, “Didn’t you see me?” She said, “No.”
Sure, political corruption exists. Like Peter McKay and his use of Canadian Forces helicopters to fly him to his vacation home, or like any number of non-aboriginal MPs called on the carpet every year for abusing expense accounts, housing allowances, travel allowances,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. parliamentary privilege or running afoul of conflict-of-interest laws.
Spence is a figure around whom to rally support to address the larger issues that some media and government representatives strive to obfuscate: the way in which the government has passed omnibus bills that allow the minister of aboriginal affairs and northern development to override band councils on decisions concerning commercial use of reserve lands. Effectively, the minister could force surrender of reserve lands to the Crown for commercial (read: extractive industry) uses, even if the council opposes such action and if such actions would damage the quality of life of reserve residents.
This is in contravention of the Indian Act, the amendments to which have in past required full and informed consultation. The larger issues are removing environmental assessment and protection laws from a variety of water bodies on indigenous lands or lands still under negotiation without necessary consultation with indigenous peoples.
Most importantly, it’s a completely inappropriate location, being a few hundred metres from George Jay Elementary School. There is real danger to children here. The physical danger of attracting meth addicts to a residential neighbourhood is bad enough, but the long-lasting message these inner-city kids are receiving is that they just aren’t as important as kids in other areas.
Imagine a Vancouver Island Health Authority-sponsored needle dispensary and injection site in Rockland; this, of course, would not happen.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions. These children are being told they are second rate, as are their parents.
Coun. Marianne Alto and VIHA’s Cheryl Dunstetter’s myopic and wrong view is that this sacrifice is warranted to serve this group of clients. It is obvious they need this assistance, but not in a residential area.
A reasonable compromise would be moving the resource to Rock Bay near Street Link, where there is less chance of interaction with impressionable children, and it’s a much shorter walk to get a free crack pipe.
Vancouver the perfect soggy setting for reimagined Hitchcock tale
First of all, Bates Motel is not your grandfather’s Psycho, the new, updated series’ makers want you to know.
This filmed-in-Vancouver version of the Norman Bates tale is part prequel, part sequel, updated to the modern day but going back in time to speculate on what Norman Bates must have been like as a teenager.
Secondly, when making a spooky horror story set in 2013, the Universal back lot may be fine for tourist trams and Hitchcock purists.
But if you want a really atmospheric setting and that creeping sense of dread that only a grungy motel surrounded by evergreens smothered in fog, sleet and rain — well, it’s hard to top Vancouver for sheer misery.
Bates Motel hails from Lost co-executive producer Carlton Cuse and Friday Night Lights writer-producer Kerry Ehrin, and features an eclectic international cast that includes 20-year-old London, England, ingénue Freddie Highmore as the 15-year-old Norman Bates and Ukraine-descended indie film actress Vera Farmiga as the intelligent, ravishingly beautiful but ill-fated Norma Louise Bates.
Bates Motel debuts in March on A&E, but many of the early episodes have already been filmed. The production wraps at the end of January under producers Justis Greene and Tucker Gates, working with Emmy Award winning cinematographer John Bartley,Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, formerly of The X-Files, and Tom Yatsko.
Bates Motel may take a lot of liberties with the original story — “The idea of an homage was just not that interesting to me,” Cuse said at the winter meeting of the TV Critics Association — but that doesn’t mean it will end with Norma Bates living happily ever after.
“Making that fundamental decision to make the story contemporary gave us the freedom to take these characters wherever we wanted to,” Cuse said.
“There’s a certain amount of baggage, obviously, that comes with working within the Psycho universe. I really think, though, that setting it up this way gave us the licence as storytellers to tell a really interesting, character-driven psychological thriller.One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. Making it contemporary liberated us from the original movie.”
Cuse also dashed cold water over fanboys’ expectations that, because of his association with Lost, Bates Motel might become Lost by any other name.
Vancouver’s reputation for rain caught Highmore by surprise — even by London’s soggy standards.Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.
“It rains the whole time,” Highmore said. “But it’s quite nice for the show, in a way, because it gives you a nice dark, moody quality.
“The first scene, when we arrive at the motel, it’s all sunny and you think everything’s going to be great. And then the rain arrives, and it’s not going to be great.”
Ehrin recently took the back-lot tram tour at Universal Studios in Burbank, Calif, where the original Psycho house still looms large on a hill overlooking the Jaws shark pond.
“It’s still iconic,” Ehrin said of the original Psycho house. “It’s very cool. That’s why it’s still there. They made that movie a long time ago, but people still like to go by it because it’s evocative and disturbing.”
The Vancouver design crew, under location manager Abraham Fraser and production designer Mark Freeborn, tapped their inner Hitchcock in trying to outdo the original, Cuse said.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale agate beads from china,
“It’s kind of awesome that we managed to rebuild the motel and the house in Vancouver,” Cuse said. “It’s on this road that goes to one of the public dumps. People drive down this road all the time.
“You see them and all of a sudden the brakes come on. It’s, like, ‘Whaaat?’
“The big Bates Motel sign being right there, and the house on the hill — it’s pretty funky. That was an element we wanted to preserve from the original.High quality mold making Videos teaches anyone how to make molds. It’s such an iconic image.
“Even if the storytelling is contemporary and, I like to think, somewhat original, we wanted to maintain the iconographic quality of that motel and house.”
Ehrin admitted the story — with its intimations of dark obsessions and sexual violence — required a delicate balance.
“The basis of Norma and Norman’s relations is Oedipal and, obviously, that’s a dark subject,” she said.
“I think once you create an emotional landscape where you delve into that kind of story material, while at the same time you’re trying to keep it grounded and real, you’re bound to end up with all these people who are harbouring dark secrets, where there’s this sense of fear and dread.
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Experts estimate drivers searching for a parking space accounts for 30 per cent of all urban traffic congestion[3]. A global survey of commuters in 20 international cities conducted by IBM found that nearly six out of 10 drivers has abandoned their search for a parking space at least once and drivers often spend an average of nearly 20 minutes in pursuit of a coveted spot.[1]
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This filmed-in-Vancouver version of the Norman Bates tale is part prequel, part sequel, updated to the modern day but going back in time to speculate on what Norman Bates must have been like as a teenager.
Secondly, when making a spooky horror story set in 2013, the Universal back lot may be fine for tourist trams and Hitchcock purists.
But if you want a really atmospheric setting and that creeping sense of dread that only a grungy motel surrounded by evergreens smothered in fog, sleet and rain — well, it’s hard to top Vancouver for sheer misery.
Bates Motel hails from Lost co-executive producer Carlton Cuse and Friday Night Lights writer-producer Kerry Ehrin, and features an eclectic international cast that includes 20-year-old London, England, ingénue Freddie Highmore as the 15-year-old Norman Bates and Ukraine-descended indie film actress Vera Farmiga as the intelligent, ravishingly beautiful but ill-fated Norma Louise Bates.
Bates Motel debuts in March on A&E, but many of the early episodes have already been filmed. The production wraps at the end of January under producers Justis Greene and Tucker Gates, working with Emmy Award winning cinematographer John Bartley,Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, formerly of The X-Files, and Tom Yatsko.
Bates Motel may take a lot of liberties with the original story — “The idea of an homage was just not that interesting to me,” Cuse said at the winter meeting of the TV Critics Association — but that doesn’t mean it will end with Norma Bates living happily ever after.
“Making that fundamental decision to make the story contemporary gave us the freedom to take these characters wherever we wanted to,” Cuse said.
“There’s a certain amount of baggage, obviously, that comes with working within the Psycho universe. I really think, though, that setting it up this way gave us the licence as storytellers to tell a really interesting, character-driven psychological thriller.One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. Making it contemporary liberated us from the original movie.”
Cuse also dashed cold water over fanboys’ expectations that, because of his association with Lost, Bates Motel might become Lost by any other name.
Vancouver’s reputation for rain caught Highmore by surprise — even by London’s soggy standards.Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.
“It rains the whole time,” Highmore said. “But it’s quite nice for the show, in a way, because it gives you a nice dark, moody quality.
“The first scene, when we arrive at the motel, it’s all sunny and you think everything’s going to be great. And then the rain arrives, and it’s not going to be great.”
Ehrin recently took the back-lot tram tour at Universal Studios in Burbank, Calif, where the original Psycho house still looms large on a hill overlooking the Jaws shark pond.
“It’s still iconic,” Ehrin said of the original Psycho house. “It’s very cool. That’s why it’s still there. They made that movie a long time ago, but people still like to go by it because it’s evocative and disturbing.”
The Vancouver design crew, under location manager Abraham Fraser and production designer Mark Freeborn, tapped their inner Hitchcock in trying to outdo the original, Cuse said.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale agate beads from china,
“It’s kind of awesome that we managed to rebuild the motel and the house in Vancouver,” Cuse said. “It’s on this road that goes to one of the public dumps. People drive down this road all the time.
“You see them and all of a sudden the brakes come on. It’s, like, ‘Whaaat?’
“The big Bates Motel sign being right there, and the house on the hill — it’s pretty funky. That was an element we wanted to preserve from the original.High quality mold making Videos teaches anyone how to make molds. It’s such an iconic image.
“Even if the storytelling is contemporary and, I like to think, somewhat original, we wanted to maintain the iconographic quality of that motel and house.”
Ehrin admitted the story — with its intimations of dark obsessions and sexual violence — required a delicate balance.
“The basis of Norma and Norman’s relations is Oedipal and, obviously, that’s a dark subject,” she said.
“I think once you create an emotional landscape where you delve into that kind of story material, while at the same time you’re trying to keep it grounded and real, you’re bound to end up with all these people who are harbouring dark secrets, where there’s this sense of fear and dread.
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"INRIX is connecting the car to the apps and services people need now to enhance the driving experience," said Bryan Mistele, president and CEO of INRIX. "By making it easier for people to find a place to park, we help reduce traffic congestion for everyone."
Kenwood will be the first consumer electronics manufacturer to implement INRIX Parking in its new in-dash DVD entertainment receivers debuting at CES. As the industry's first aftermarket receivers with built-in WiFi communication capabilities via Kenwood's cloud services, INRIX provides owners of the Excelon DNN990HD and DNN770HD receivers with up-to-the-minute traffic information, parking, fuel and weather services designed to help drivers save time, fuel and frustration wherever their travels take them.
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Madison County Commission resolution opposes quarry
It unanimously passed a resolution requesting the state Legislature
provide county commissions with the authority to approve quarries and
similar land use activities.
"This is a step in the right direction," said Celia Dear, a 12-year Gurley resident working to get a grassroots campaign against locating a quarry near her community.
She described the language of the resolution the commission approved Monday as much stronger than a similar resolution passed by the previous commission when the community faced a separate quarry proposal in 2004.
The newest resolution notes "a quarry necessarily involves heavy equipment, blasting, dust, noise and other conditions which have the potential to negatively impact the health, safety and welfare of citizens . . ." and "also has the potential to negatively impact county roads, drainage facilities,The oreck XL professional air purifier, utilities, ground water sources and other public infrastructure . . ." The resolution goes on to say a quarry "carries with it the long term potential for expenditure of public funds to support quarry operations."
The resolution points out that because the county commission has no zoning authority allowed by the state, it and its citizens lack "an adequate voice in the approval process."
Commission Chairman Dale Strong said District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk deserves credit for taking the lead on presenting the resolution. Sisk thanked fellow commissioners for supporting him on the issue.
The Gurley Town Council passed a resolution opposing the quarry on Dec. 18 and asked for the county commission, Huntsville City Council and Madison County Board of Education to follow suit. State Rep. Wayne Johnson, R-Ryland, and state Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, vowed their opposition to the quarry at that meeting and said they would seek legislation preventing quarries from locating near schools.
Dear said quarry opponents are working to establish wider support from the community,High quality stone mosaic tiles. particularly Hampton Cove, from which the excavated mountain would be visible.
To help overcome the misconception that the quarry is solely a Gurley issue, she said her opposition group is calling it the Hurricane Creek quarry because it's adjacent to the creek. The group also has formed the East Huntsville, Madison County Civic Association to give it a stronger voice that includes all residents impacted by the quarry.
The basic user interface is familiar enough.Klaus Multiparking is an industry leader in innovative parking system technology. Tap the lower left button to bring up your current location and compass direction. Tap the bottom right corner, and the map will curl up to the left,High quality stone mosaic tiles. showing buttons for dropping a pin, displaying traffic, or activating hybrid and satellite views. The satellite view is weird; it animates smoothly, but everything looks a little crunched and distorted, at least in Manhattan. The standard road display is better, but even then, the app has a curious way of highlighting strange neighborhood names and landmarks, rather than the big ones you'd expect it to.
The tiny Search bar is difficult to activate, but once you do, you can input a street address or type in search terms. Typing "pizza" brought up 10 places scattered across the city; I zoomed into the map and ran the search again, which was much more localized. It always missed my favorite pizza place on Madison Avenue three blocks away, even though it's been there for over 20 years. This type of missing data was par for the course; the same went for various pathways in northern Manhattan. It doesn't know where my dad's old storefront is in Brooklyn, and like MapQuest, it assumes a search for East 15th Street should default to Brooklyn even though I'm standing in Manhattan.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents.
On the other hand, POI data pages look great, with slowly panning, Ken Burns-style photo display and access to Yelp reviews. And with a single tap, you can navigate to any POI you searched for—something that Google Maps actually gets wrong, as it requires shifting to a different mode (Directions) and takes several extra taps.
Once en route, the app really shows its stuff. The 3D buildings look gorgeous, and map animation is super-smooth. I really like the way the camera panned around to follow what I was doing; this single trick makes other GPS apps look dated. During navigation, Apple Maps presents the next one or two steps using giant green road signs; it's easy to read at a glance. That said, the font in the top bar is really small, so it's tough to read your ETA or distance remaining for the whole trip. You can also tap a button to open a list of step-by-step directions.
I didn't run into any actual navigation issues during testing; once on the road, the app seemed to work well. On the audio side, voice prompts were exceptional: Loud, clear, and well-timed. I couldn't believe how loud the iPhone 5's speaker sounded with this app. Text-to-speech also worked perfectly; I didn't hear any weird pronunciations during testing.
Lots of stuff is missing, though. There are no road speed limit signs or current speed indicator. There's no lane assistance for exiting or entering highways, either in 2D or 3D. You can't tap the display to repeat a voice command in case you didn't hear it. And as has been widely reported, there are no photorealistic street views like there are with Google Maps, and there's no public transit information for pedestrian navigation. The much-touted, photo-realistic flyovers are fun, but you can only get them in major cities, and I'd gladly trade them for some of the more useful missing features I just listed.
Traffic reporting, while present, is sporadic and lacks detail; all you get are dotted lines on the map representing areas of congestion. While Apple Maps has real-time traffic data with the ability to reroute around jams, you can't see it at a glance across your whole trip during actual 3D navigation, so you can't plan ahead the way you can with, say, TomTom for iPhone.
All told, Apple Maps feels more like a tech demo rather than a navigation application that's meant to be used often. The inaccurate POIs and missing features only reinforce that impression. Simply put, this is a gorgeous app that needs better data. If that were a regular con, it would be a 3.5 or 4 star app, based on its other features. But the POI and address inaccuracies are so serious, and so hamper your ability to use the app, that we're rating it much lower. For now, Google Maps is the app to beat when it comes to free, accurate driving and pedestrian directions for your iPhone, and Google's own vector-based mapping engine also looks great, even if lacks the visual pizazz of Apple Maps.
Drawing its power from TI’s ARM Cortex A-15 processor, K2 is capable of rendering 3D cities and buildings in real-time when the navigation feature is active. The navigation function also provides users with real-time traffic, weather, fuel prices, the location of nearby traffic cameras and parking conditions.
Garmin says the system is so advanced that it will automatically locate the nearest gas station when it detects your vehicle is low on fuel and display directions to the station on the 10-inch display. A handy to-do list feature lets users create location-based reminders for things such as a grocery lists that K2 will automatically pull up when you are near a grocery store.
"This is a step in the right direction," said Celia Dear, a 12-year Gurley resident working to get a grassroots campaign against locating a quarry near her community.
She described the language of the resolution the commission approved Monday as much stronger than a similar resolution passed by the previous commission when the community faced a separate quarry proposal in 2004.
The newest resolution notes "a quarry necessarily involves heavy equipment, blasting, dust, noise and other conditions which have the potential to negatively impact the health, safety and welfare of citizens . . ." and "also has the potential to negatively impact county roads, drainage facilities,The oreck XL professional air purifier, utilities, ground water sources and other public infrastructure . . ." The resolution goes on to say a quarry "carries with it the long term potential for expenditure of public funds to support quarry operations."
The resolution points out that because the county commission has no zoning authority allowed by the state, it and its citizens lack "an adequate voice in the approval process."
Commission Chairman Dale Strong said District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk deserves credit for taking the lead on presenting the resolution. Sisk thanked fellow commissioners for supporting him on the issue.
The Gurley Town Council passed a resolution opposing the quarry on Dec. 18 and asked for the county commission, Huntsville City Council and Madison County Board of Education to follow suit. State Rep. Wayne Johnson, R-Ryland, and state Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, vowed their opposition to the quarry at that meeting and said they would seek legislation preventing quarries from locating near schools.
Dear said quarry opponents are working to establish wider support from the community,High quality stone mosaic tiles. particularly Hampton Cove, from which the excavated mountain would be visible.
To help overcome the misconception that the quarry is solely a Gurley issue, she said her opposition group is calling it the Hurricane Creek quarry because it's adjacent to the creek. The group also has formed the East Huntsville, Madison County Civic Association to give it a stronger voice that includes all residents impacted by the quarry.
The basic user interface is familiar enough.Klaus Multiparking is an industry leader in innovative parking system technology. Tap the lower left button to bring up your current location and compass direction. Tap the bottom right corner, and the map will curl up to the left,High quality stone mosaic tiles. showing buttons for dropping a pin, displaying traffic, or activating hybrid and satellite views. The satellite view is weird; it animates smoothly, but everything looks a little crunched and distorted, at least in Manhattan. The standard road display is better, but even then, the app has a curious way of highlighting strange neighborhood names and landmarks, rather than the big ones you'd expect it to.
The tiny Search bar is difficult to activate, but once you do, you can input a street address or type in search terms. Typing "pizza" brought up 10 places scattered across the city; I zoomed into the map and ran the search again, which was much more localized. It always missed my favorite pizza place on Madison Avenue three blocks away, even though it's been there for over 20 years. This type of missing data was par for the course; the same went for various pathways in northern Manhattan. It doesn't know where my dad's old storefront is in Brooklyn, and like MapQuest, it assumes a search for East 15th Street should default to Brooklyn even though I'm standing in Manhattan.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents.
On the other hand, POI data pages look great, with slowly panning, Ken Burns-style photo display and access to Yelp reviews. And with a single tap, you can navigate to any POI you searched for—something that Google Maps actually gets wrong, as it requires shifting to a different mode (Directions) and takes several extra taps.
Once en route, the app really shows its stuff. The 3D buildings look gorgeous, and map animation is super-smooth. I really like the way the camera panned around to follow what I was doing; this single trick makes other GPS apps look dated. During navigation, Apple Maps presents the next one or two steps using giant green road signs; it's easy to read at a glance. That said, the font in the top bar is really small, so it's tough to read your ETA or distance remaining for the whole trip. You can also tap a button to open a list of step-by-step directions.
I didn't run into any actual navigation issues during testing; once on the road, the app seemed to work well. On the audio side, voice prompts were exceptional: Loud, clear, and well-timed. I couldn't believe how loud the iPhone 5's speaker sounded with this app. Text-to-speech also worked perfectly; I didn't hear any weird pronunciations during testing.
Lots of stuff is missing, though. There are no road speed limit signs or current speed indicator. There's no lane assistance for exiting or entering highways, either in 2D or 3D. You can't tap the display to repeat a voice command in case you didn't hear it. And as has been widely reported, there are no photorealistic street views like there are with Google Maps, and there's no public transit information for pedestrian navigation. The much-touted, photo-realistic flyovers are fun, but you can only get them in major cities, and I'd gladly trade them for some of the more useful missing features I just listed.
Traffic reporting, while present, is sporadic and lacks detail; all you get are dotted lines on the map representing areas of congestion. While Apple Maps has real-time traffic data with the ability to reroute around jams, you can't see it at a glance across your whole trip during actual 3D navigation, so you can't plan ahead the way you can with, say, TomTom for iPhone.
All told, Apple Maps feels more like a tech demo rather than a navigation application that's meant to be used often. The inaccurate POIs and missing features only reinforce that impression. Simply put, this is a gorgeous app that needs better data. If that were a regular con, it would be a 3.5 or 4 star app, based on its other features. But the POI and address inaccuracies are so serious, and so hamper your ability to use the app, that we're rating it much lower. For now, Google Maps is the app to beat when it comes to free, accurate driving and pedestrian directions for your iPhone, and Google's own vector-based mapping engine also looks great, even if lacks the visual pizazz of Apple Maps.
Drawing its power from TI’s ARM Cortex A-15 processor, K2 is capable of rendering 3D cities and buildings in real-time when the navigation feature is active. The navigation function also provides users with real-time traffic, weather, fuel prices, the location of nearby traffic cameras and parking conditions.
Garmin says the system is so advanced that it will automatically locate the nearest gas station when it detects your vehicle is low on fuel and display directions to the station on the 10-inch display. A handy to-do list feature lets users create location-based reminders for things such as a grocery lists that K2 will automatically pull up when you are near a grocery store.
2013年1月5日 星期六
Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and
cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the
earth, erecting a formidable set of defences to protect what has
essentially become al-Qaida's new country.
They have used the bulldozers, earth movers and Caterpillar machines left behind by fleeing construction crews to dig what residents and local officials describe as an elaborate network of tunnels, trenches, shafts and ramparts. In just one case, inside a cave large enough to drive trucks into, they have stored up to 100 drums of gasoline, guaranteeing their fuel supply in the face of a foreign intervention, according to experts.
Northern Mali is now the biggest territory held by al-Qaida and its allies. And as the world hesitates, delaying a military intervention, the extremists who seized control of the area earlier this year are preparing for a war they boast will be worse than the decade-old struggle in Afghanistan.
"Al-Qaida never owned Afghanistan," said former United Nations diplomat Robert Fowler, a Canadian kidnapped and held for 130 days by al-Qaida's local chapter, whose fighters now control the main cities in the north. "They do own northern Mali."
Al-Qaida's affiliate in Africa has been a shadowy presence for years in the forests and deserts of Mali, a country hobbled by poverty and a relentless cycle of hunger. In recent months, the terror syndicate and its allies have taken advantage of political instability within the country to push out of their hiding place and into the towns, taking over an enormous territory which they are using to stock arms, train forces and prepare for global jihad.
The catalyst for the Islamic fighters was a military coup nine months ago that transformed Mali from a once-stable country to the failed state it is today. On March 21, disgruntled soldiers invaded the presidential palace. The fall of the nation's democratically elected government at the hands of junior officers destroyed the military's command-and-control structure, creating the vacuum which allowed a mix of rebel groups to move in.
With no clear instructions from their higher-ups, the humiliated soldiers left to defend those towns tore off their uniforms, piled into trucks and beat a retreat as far as Mopti, roughly in the centre of Mali. They abandoned everything north of this town to the advancing rebels, handing them an area that stretches over more than 620,000 square kilometres. It's a territory larger than Texas or France - and it's almost exactly the size of Afghanistan.
Turbaned fighters now control all the major towns in the north, carrying out amputations in public squares like the Taliban did. Just as in Afghanistan, they are flogging women for not covering up.
Since taking control of Timbuktu, they have destroyed seven of the 16 mausoleums listed as world heritage sites.
The area under their rule is mostly desert and sparsely populated, but analysts say that due to its size and the hostile nature of the terrain, rooting out the extremists here could prove even more difficult than it did in Afghanistan. Mali's former president has acknowledged, diplomatic cables show, that the country cannot patrol a frontier twice the length of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, operates not just in Mali, but in a corridor along much of the northern Sahel. This 7,000-kilometre long ribbon of land runs across the widest part of Africa, and includes sections of Mauritania, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Burkina Faso and Chad.
"One could come up with a conceivable containment strategy for the Swat Valley," said Africa expert Peter Pham, an adviser to the U.S. military's African command centre, referring to the region of Pakistan where the Pakistan Taliban have been based. "There's no containment strategy for the Sahel, which runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea."
Last year, the 15 nations in West Africa, including Mali, agreed on a proposal for the military to take back the north, and sought backing from the United Nations. In December, the Security Council authorized the intervention but imposed certain conditions, including training Mali's military, which is accused of serious human rights abuses since the coup. Diplomats say the intervention will likely not happen before September 2013.
In the meantime,Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, the Islamists are getting ready, according to elected officials and residents in Kidal, Timbuktu and Gao, including a day labourer hired by al-Qaida's local chapter to clear rocks and debris for one of their defences. They spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety at the hands of the Islamists, who have previously accused those who speak to reporters of espionage.
The al-Qaida affiliate, which became part of the terror network in 2006, is one of three Islamist groups in northern Mali. The others are the Movement for the Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, based in Gao, and Ansar Dine, based in Kidal. Analysts agree there is considerable overlap between the groups, and all three can be considered sympathizers, even extensions, of al-Qaida.
The Islamic fighters have stolen equipment from construction companies, including more than $11 million worth from a French company called SOGEA-SATOM,Find detailed product information for howo tractor and other products. according to Elie Arama, who works with the European Development Fund. The company had been contracted to build a European Union-financed highway in the north between Timbuktu and the village of Goma Coura. An employee of SOGEA-SATOM in Bamako declined to comment.
The official from Kidal said his constituents have reported seeing Islamic fighters with construction equipment riding in convoys behind 4x4 trucks draped with their signature black flag. His contacts among the fighters, including friends from secondary school, have told him they have created two bases, around 200 to 300 kilometres north of Kidal, in the austere, rocky desert.
The first base is occupied by al-Qaida's local fighters in the hills of Teghergharte, a region the official compared to Afghanistan's Tora Bora.
"The Islamists have dug tunnels, made roads, they've brought in generators and solar panels in order to have electricity," he said. "They live inside the rocks."
Still further north, near Boghassa, is the second base, created by fighters from Ansar Dine. They, too, have used seized explosives, bulldozers and sledgehammers to make passages in the hills, he said.
In addition to creating defences, the fighters are amassing supplies, experts said. A local who was taken by Islamists into a cave in the region of Kidal described an enormous room where several cars were parked. Along the walls, he counted up to 100 barrels of gasoline, according to the man's testimony to New York-based Human Rights Watch.
In Timbuktu, the fighters are becoming more entrenched with each passing day, warned Mayor Ousmane Halle. Earlier in the year, he said, the Islamists left his city in a hurry after France called for an imminent military intervention. They returned when the UN released a report arguing for a more cautious approach.
"At first you could see that they were anxious,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory." said Halle by telephone. "The more the date is pushed back, the more reinforcements they are able to get, the more prepared they become."
In the regional capital of Gao, a young man told The Associated Press that he and several others were offered 10,000 francs a day by al-Qaida's local commanders (around $20), a rate several times the normal wage, to clear rocks and debris and dig trenches. The youth said he saw Caterpillars and earth movers inside an Islamist camp at a former Malian military base seven kilometres from Gao.
The fighters are piling mountains of sand from the ground along the dirt roads to force cars onto the pavement where they have checkpoints, he said. In addition, they are modifying their all-terrain vehicles to mount them with arms.
"On the backs of their cars, it looks like they are mounting pipes," he said, describing a shape he thinks might be a rocket or missile launcher. "They are preparing themselves. Everyone is scared."
A university student from Gao confirmed seeing the modified cars. He said he also saw deep holes dug on the sides of the highway, possibly to give protection to fighters shooting at cars, along with cement barriers with small holes for guns.
In Gao, residents routinely see Moktar Belmoktar, the one-eyed emir of the al-Qaida-linked cell that grabbed Fowler in 2008. Belmoktar, a native Algerian, travelled to Afghanistan in the 1980s and trained in Osama bin Laden's camp in Jalalabad, according to research by the Jamestown Foundation. His lieutenant Oumar Ould Hamaha,Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. whom Fowler identified as one of his captors, brushed off questions about the tunnels and caves but said the fighters are prepared.
"We consider this land our land. It's an Islamic territory," he said, reached by telephone in an undisclosed location.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. "Right now our field of operation is Mali. If they bomb us, we are going to hit back everywhere."
He added that the threat of military intervention has helped recruit new fighters, including from Western countries.
arrested on terrorism charges, accused of planning to fly to Morocco and travel by land to Mali to wage jihad, or holy war. Two French nationals have also
been detained on suspicion of trying to travel to northern Mali to join the Islamists. Hamaha himself said he spent a month in France preaching his fundamentalist version of Islam in Parisian mosques after receiving a visa for all European Union countries in 2001.
Hamaha indicated the Islamists have inherited stores of Russian-made arms from former Malian army bases, as well as from the arsenal of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gad-hafi, a claim military experts confirmed.
They have used the bulldozers, earth movers and Caterpillar machines left behind by fleeing construction crews to dig what residents and local officials describe as an elaborate network of tunnels, trenches, shafts and ramparts. In just one case, inside a cave large enough to drive trucks into, they have stored up to 100 drums of gasoline, guaranteeing their fuel supply in the face of a foreign intervention, according to experts.
Northern Mali is now the biggest territory held by al-Qaida and its allies. And as the world hesitates, delaying a military intervention, the extremists who seized control of the area earlier this year are preparing for a war they boast will be worse than the decade-old struggle in Afghanistan.
"Al-Qaida never owned Afghanistan," said former United Nations diplomat Robert Fowler, a Canadian kidnapped and held for 130 days by al-Qaida's local chapter, whose fighters now control the main cities in the north. "They do own northern Mali."
Al-Qaida's affiliate in Africa has been a shadowy presence for years in the forests and deserts of Mali, a country hobbled by poverty and a relentless cycle of hunger. In recent months, the terror syndicate and its allies have taken advantage of political instability within the country to push out of their hiding place and into the towns, taking over an enormous territory which they are using to stock arms, train forces and prepare for global jihad.
The catalyst for the Islamic fighters was a military coup nine months ago that transformed Mali from a once-stable country to the failed state it is today. On March 21, disgruntled soldiers invaded the presidential palace. The fall of the nation's democratically elected government at the hands of junior officers destroyed the military's command-and-control structure, creating the vacuum which allowed a mix of rebel groups to move in.
With no clear instructions from their higher-ups, the humiliated soldiers left to defend those towns tore off their uniforms, piled into trucks and beat a retreat as far as Mopti, roughly in the centre of Mali. They abandoned everything north of this town to the advancing rebels, handing them an area that stretches over more than 620,000 square kilometres. It's a territory larger than Texas or France - and it's almost exactly the size of Afghanistan.
Turbaned fighters now control all the major towns in the north, carrying out amputations in public squares like the Taliban did. Just as in Afghanistan, they are flogging women for not covering up.
Since taking control of Timbuktu, they have destroyed seven of the 16 mausoleums listed as world heritage sites.
The area under their rule is mostly desert and sparsely populated, but analysts say that due to its size and the hostile nature of the terrain, rooting out the extremists here could prove even more difficult than it did in Afghanistan. Mali's former president has acknowledged, diplomatic cables show, that the country cannot patrol a frontier twice the length of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, operates not just in Mali, but in a corridor along much of the northern Sahel. This 7,000-kilometre long ribbon of land runs across the widest part of Africa, and includes sections of Mauritania, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Burkina Faso and Chad.
"One could come up with a conceivable containment strategy for the Swat Valley," said Africa expert Peter Pham, an adviser to the U.S. military's African command centre, referring to the region of Pakistan where the Pakistan Taliban have been based. "There's no containment strategy for the Sahel, which runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea."
Last year, the 15 nations in West Africa, including Mali, agreed on a proposal for the military to take back the north, and sought backing from the United Nations. In December, the Security Council authorized the intervention but imposed certain conditions, including training Mali's military, which is accused of serious human rights abuses since the coup. Diplomats say the intervention will likely not happen before September 2013.
In the meantime,Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, the Islamists are getting ready, according to elected officials and residents in Kidal, Timbuktu and Gao, including a day labourer hired by al-Qaida's local chapter to clear rocks and debris for one of their defences. They spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety at the hands of the Islamists, who have previously accused those who speak to reporters of espionage.
The al-Qaida affiliate, which became part of the terror network in 2006, is one of three Islamist groups in northern Mali. The others are the Movement for the Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, based in Gao, and Ansar Dine, based in Kidal. Analysts agree there is considerable overlap between the groups, and all three can be considered sympathizers, even extensions, of al-Qaida.
The Islamic fighters have stolen equipment from construction companies, including more than $11 million worth from a French company called SOGEA-SATOM,Find detailed product information for howo tractor and other products. according to Elie Arama, who works with the European Development Fund. The company had been contracted to build a European Union-financed highway in the north between Timbuktu and the village of Goma Coura. An employee of SOGEA-SATOM in Bamako declined to comment.
The official from Kidal said his constituents have reported seeing Islamic fighters with construction equipment riding in convoys behind 4x4 trucks draped with their signature black flag. His contacts among the fighters, including friends from secondary school, have told him they have created two bases, around 200 to 300 kilometres north of Kidal, in the austere, rocky desert.
The first base is occupied by al-Qaida's local fighters in the hills of Teghergharte, a region the official compared to Afghanistan's Tora Bora.
"The Islamists have dug tunnels, made roads, they've brought in generators and solar panels in order to have electricity," he said. "They live inside the rocks."
Still further north, near Boghassa, is the second base, created by fighters from Ansar Dine. They, too, have used seized explosives, bulldozers and sledgehammers to make passages in the hills, he said.
In addition to creating defences, the fighters are amassing supplies, experts said. A local who was taken by Islamists into a cave in the region of Kidal described an enormous room where several cars were parked. Along the walls, he counted up to 100 barrels of gasoline, according to the man's testimony to New York-based Human Rights Watch.
In Timbuktu, the fighters are becoming more entrenched with each passing day, warned Mayor Ousmane Halle. Earlier in the year, he said, the Islamists left his city in a hurry after France called for an imminent military intervention. They returned when the UN released a report arguing for a more cautious approach.
"At first you could see that they were anxious,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory." said Halle by telephone. "The more the date is pushed back, the more reinforcements they are able to get, the more prepared they become."
In the regional capital of Gao, a young man told The Associated Press that he and several others were offered 10,000 francs a day by al-Qaida's local commanders (around $20), a rate several times the normal wage, to clear rocks and debris and dig trenches. The youth said he saw Caterpillars and earth movers inside an Islamist camp at a former Malian military base seven kilometres from Gao.
The fighters are piling mountains of sand from the ground along the dirt roads to force cars onto the pavement where they have checkpoints, he said. In addition, they are modifying their all-terrain vehicles to mount them with arms.
"On the backs of their cars, it looks like they are mounting pipes," he said, describing a shape he thinks might be a rocket or missile launcher. "They are preparing themselves. Everyone is scared."
A university student from Gao confirmed seeing the modified cars. He said he also saw deep holes dug on the sides of the highway, possibly to give protection to fighters shooting at cars, along with cement barriers with small holes for guns.
In Gao, residents routinely see Moktar Belmoktar, the one-eyed emir of the al-Qaida-linked cell that grabbed Fowler in 2008. Belmoktar, a native Algerian, travelled to Afghanistan in the 1980s and trained in Osama bin Laden's camp in Jalalabad, according to research by the Jamestown Foundation. His lieutenant Oumar Ould Hamaha,Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. whom Fowler identified as one of his captors, brushed off questions about the tunnels and caves but said the fighters are prepared.
"We consider this land our land. It's an Islamic territory," he said, reached by telephone in an undisclosed location.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. "Right now our field of operation is Mali. If they bomb us, we are going to hit back everywhere."
He added that the threat of military intervention has helped recruit new fighters, including from Western countries.
arrested on terrorism charges, accused of planning to fly to Morocco and travel by land to Mali to wage jihad, or holy war. Two French nationals have also
been detained on suspicion of trying to travel to northern Mali to join the Islamists. Hamaha himself said he spent a month in France preaching his fundamentalist version of Islam in Parisian mosques after receiving a visa for all European Union countries in 2001.
Hamaha indicated the Islamists have inherited stores of Russian-made arms from former Malian army bases, as well as from the arsenal of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gad-hafi, a claim military experts confirmed.
Home of the future is now
No one lives in Microsoft’s model home in Redmond, Washington, but it
is a template for the future. Indeed, many houses throughout the USA
already have hints of Microsoft’s model home. Might this be a working
blueprint for better things, of a life that just decades ago seemed
possible only in the world of science fiction?
What once seemed conceivable only on The Jetsons is a real prospect in the next few years. If you’ve heard these utopian and futuristic promises before, only to be disappointed, this story is for you. Because as Americans embrace 2013 and the new year that is upon us, know this: The future of American homes is now.
The rise of intelligent devices, ongoing breakthroughs in robotics, cloud computing and other newfangled technology promise to usher in a new phase in luxuriant and wired home living. Hyperbole of years past has quickly melted away as a pantheon of tech titans -- ranging from Apple and Google to Samsung and Microsoft -- vie for home-field advantage. Home increasingly is where billions of dollars are expected to be spent on technology as consumers nest in their living rooms and bedrooms on smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles.
Elements of the future home -- smart TVs and newfangled sound systems -- will be on display next week at the sprawling International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Since The Jetsons’ animated TV show -- which touted a life-size in-home robot, a computerized kitchen and flying cars -- automated homes have been a staple in American culture, from TV’s Futurama and the big screen’s I, Robot and Blade Runner to the pages of Wired magazine.
For more than a decade, Bill Gates has rhapsodized about homes of the future. But he was able to achieve his digital dream home through his enormous wealth and contacts. Gates’ 66,000-square-foot mansion on the shores of Lake Washington near Seattle took seven years and $63 million to build. It houses a computerized server system and a digitally controlled climate.
“If this stuff was easy, it would have been in our homes years ago,” says Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Fanhattan, an iPhone and iPad app that helps users find and watch movies and TV shows on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. “Wow technology doesn’t always pass the test for practical use, such as smartphone control of TV.”
“The office is (an environment) for lean-forward experience for smartphone apps and total concentration, but home is lean-back, where you want to relax and don’t want to think too much,” he says. “This stuff takes time to develop for simple use.”
Because there is no standard building code in the U.S., “This gets in the way of ambitious automation systems,” says Paul Saffo, a respected futurist in Silicon Valley.
Complicating matters, the average life of a home in the USA is about 55 years, which means anything new has to be back-compatible and easily added as a remodel. By comparison, the life cycle for an appliance is about 10 years; for a laptop, two years; and for a smartphone, 18 months.
“Today’s hot new automation is hopelessly antiquated in two years and has to be replaced,” Saffo says. “This is why, for example, I never put a built-in cellphone in my car. The car would stay current for five years, but the phone would be obsolete for three of those years.”
What this means for architects and building contractors is a renewed look at how they design and build homes, with the inclusion of new gadgets designed to blend into living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Architect Tom Kinslow, who has designed homes and commercial buildings in the U.S. and abroad, says changes are often incremental. “It’s no different than (home additions) for people interested in art,” he says. Tech-based entertainment centers will lead to the installation of sound systems and screens within walls. Smart windows will be bigger than traditional windows. And increased use of shared, driverless cars will eliminate the need for garages or dramatically reduce their size, he says.
Yet these nagging complications from the past have not slowed the inevitable -- and inevitably thrilling -- march into the future.
Some 821 million smart devices -- smartphones and tablets -- are estimated to have been sold last year and 1.2 billion are expected to be sold in 2013, according to Gartner.
“There are smarter phones, so why not smarter homes?” says SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung. “It’s perhaps natural that the phone is a remote control for a lot of things. Touch-screens are replacing buttons.”
Sprinklers, kitchen appliances, washers,We are pleased to offer the following list of professional mold maker and casters. dryers, lights, windows,We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale agate beads from china, pools -- all could be controlled from a phone or tablet, Saffo and others say.
Jo De Boeck, chief technology officer of Imec, a Belgium-based think tank that specializes in smart electronics and renewable energy, envisions homes festooned with robots, smart meters and lighting, magic mirrors to view how you might look in your ensemble, and smart-device hubs. He sees digital refrigerators and interactive medicine cabinets that will be able to monitor what you eat as well as your energy management.Argo Mold limited specialize in Plastic injection mould manufacture, Oh, and a driverless car or two in the garage.
“It’s kind of Big Brother, yes,” says De Boeck, though he notes that perhaps that’s the cost of keeping you healthy while saving money.
And what futuristic home would be complete without a robot of some sort? Well, robots are slowly marching into homes in the form of toys and servants,Installers and distributors of solar panel, acting as modern-day R2-D2s of Star Wars fame.
Bossa Nova Robotics is developing a robot maid modeled after The Jetsons’ Rosie for less than $5,000. Sarjoun Skaff, co-founder and CTO of the San Francisco company, predicts that within 10 years, general-purpose robots -- at $25,000 to $30,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.000 per unit -- will perform house chores while people are at work.
The kitchen, in particular, will be a model of futuristic living. Flexible displays will be built into ovens, refrigerators and dishwashers to tell consumers everything from the optimum temperature to cook certain dishes to whether leftovers in the refrigerator are spoiled.
What once seemed conceivable only on The Jetsons is a real prospect in the next few years. If you’ve heard these utopian and futuristic promises before, only to be disappointed, this story is for you. Because as Americans embrace 2013 and the new year that is upon us, know this: The future of American homes is now.
The rise of intelligent devices, ongoing breakthroughs in robotics, cloud computing and other newfangled technology promise to usher in a new phase in luxuriant and wired home living. Hyperbole of years past has quickly melted away as a pantheon of tech titans -- ranging from Apple and Google to Samsung and Microsoft -- vie for home-field advantage. Home increasingly is where billions of dollars are expected to be spent on technology as consumers nest in their living rooms and bedrooms on smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles.
Elements of the future home -- smart TVs and newfangled sound systems -- will be on display next week at the sprawling International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Since The Jetsons’ animated TV show -- which touted a life-size in-home robot, a computerized kitchen and flying cars -- automated homes have been a staple in American culture, from TV’s Futurama and the big screen’s I, Robot and Blade Runner to the pages of Wired magazine.
For more than a decade, Bill Gates has rhapsodized about homes of the future. But he was able to achieve his digital dream home through his enormous wealth and contacts. Gates’ 66,000-square-foot mansion on the shores of Lake Washington near Seattle took seven years and $63 million to build. It houses a computerized server system and a digitally controlled climate.
“If this stuff was easy, it would have been in our homes years ago,” says Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Fanhattan, an iPhone and iPad app that helps users find and watch movies and TV shows on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. “Wow technology doesn’t always pass the test for practical use, such as smartphone control of TV.”
“The office is (an environment) for lean-forward experience for smartphone apps and total concentration, but home is lean-back, where you want to relax and don’t want to think too much,” he says. “This stuff takes time to develop for simple use.”
Because there is no standard building code in the U.S., “This gets in the way of ambitious automation systems,” says Paul Saffo, a respected futurist in Silicon Valley.
Complicating matters, the average life of a home in the USA is about 55 years, which means anything new has to be back-compatible and easily added as a remodel. By comparison, the life cycle for an appliance is about 10 years; for a laptop, two years; and for a smartphone, 18 months.
“Today’s hot new automation is hopelessly antiquated in two years and has to be replaced,” Saffo says. “This is why, for example, I never put a built-in cellphone in my car. The car would stay current for five years, but the phone would be obsolete for three of those years.”
What this means for architects and building contractors is a renewed look at how they design and build homes, with the inclusion of new gadgets designed to blend into living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Architect Tom Kinslow, who has designed homes and commercial buildings in the U.S. and abroad, says changes are often incremental. “It’s no different than (home additions) for people interested in art,” he says. Tech-based entertainment centers will lead to the installation of sound systems and screens within walls. Smart windows will be bigger than traditional windows. And increased use of shared, driverless cars will eliminate the need for garages or dramatically reduce their size, he says.
Yet these nagging complications from the past have not slowed the inevitable -- and inevitably thrilling -- march into the future.
Some 821 million smart devices -- smartphones and tablets -- are estimated to have been sold last year and 1.2 billion are expected to be sold in 2013, according to Gartner.
“There are smarter phones, so why not smarter homes?” says SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung. “It’s perhaps natural that the phone is a remote control for a lot of things. Touch-screens are replacing buttons.”
Sprinklers, kitchen appliances, washers,We are pleased to offer the following list of professional mold maker and casters. dryers, lights, windows,We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale agate beads from china, pools -- all could be controlled from a phone or tablet, Saffo and others say.
Jo De Boeck, chief technology officer of Imec, a Belgium-based think tank that specializes in smart electronics and renewable energy, envisions homes festooned with robots, smart meters and lighting, magic mirrors to view how you might look in your ensemble, and smart-device hubs. He sees digital refrigerators and interactive medicine cabinets that will be able to monitor what you eat as well as your energy management.Argo Mold limited specialize in Plastic injection mould manufacture, Oh, and a driverless car or two in the garage.
“It’s kind of Big Brother, yes,” says De Boeck, though he notes that perhaps that’s the cost of keeping you healthy while saving money.
And what futuristic home would be complete without a robot of some sort? Well, robots are slowly marching into homes in the form of toys and servants,Installers and distributors of solar panel, acting as modern-day R2-D2s of Star Wars fame.
Bossa Nova Robotics is developing a robot maid modeled after The Jetsons’ Rosie for less than $5,000. Sarjoun Skaff, co-founder and CTO of the San Francisco company, predicts that within 10 years, general-purpose robots -- at $25,000 to $30,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.000 per unit -- will perform house chores while people are at work.
The kitchen, in particular, will be a model of futuristic living. Flexible displays will be built into ovens, refrigerators and dishwashers to tell consumers everything from the optimum temperature to cook certain dishes to whether leftovers in the refrigerator are spoiled.
Andy Reid gives Kansas City Chiefs a proven winner
When I ranked the open head coaching openings from one through seven
before the process began, I viewed the Kansas City Chiefs as No. 7. In a
strange twist, Chiefs fans were not pleased. Nor should they have been.
There were three main reasons for my ranking. One, instability at the
general manager position with Scott Pioli still hanging on. Two, no
quarterback. Three,We mainly supply professional craftspeople with crys talbeads wholesale
shamballa Bracele , lack of talent on the roster, aside from the
big-name Pro Bowlers. And yet, with the hire of Andy Reid, at least two
of those questions got answered. Pioli is out, having negotiated a
buyout with the Chiefs after a delay of several days of the general
manager declining to resign. And as far as on-the-field, Reid brings his
quarterback skillz to Kansas City.
In Philadelphia, anyone who traded with the Eagles for quarterbacks were sorry. Kevin Kolb's debacle-filled career in Arizona speaks to that, and it's not the only example. Reid propped up mediocre QBs, made them desirable, then dealt them. What Reid does is make whoever is under center better. Simple as that. It's what he did for years in Philly, with Nick Foles being the most recent one. The Chiefs could draft a QB in the second round or so, have Reid work with him and then suddenly have stability at a low cost. That's what history tells us will happen.
As far as talent on the roster, Reid will have significant say, and it'll be interesting to see if he's learned from his personnel mistakes with the Eagles over the past two years. If he starts signing a bunch of big-name free agents from different systems, we can assume he hasn't. If he makes wacky assistant choices, we'll assume he hasn't. The Chiefs will have the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, which gives them plenty of fuel to rebuild. Either way, I like this marriage between Reid and the Chiefs. Kansas City got a proven winner who makes them immediately better to play in front of a fan base that will appreciate him. Reid got a head coaching job, which is big since there were only seven, and a chance to start new.
Sometimes, it's the decisions that aren't made that stand out. The Tennessee Titans entered the 2012 season on the heels of a surprisingly impressive 2011. They had a winning record, a second-year quarterback they thought highly of, and plenty of weapons. Instead, Jake Locker was injured for much of the year, the defense was abysmally abysmal, and Tennessee slumped. And yet, owner Bud Adams decided to retain coach Mike Munchak for the coming season. And as I look at the landscape of the coaching carousel, with teams wandering hopefully into the unknown, I like this decision.
Tennessee has always believed in Munchak, and there are reasons to do so even after a down year. Locker will now have offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains for the whole year, albeit with a new quarterback coach. Running back Chris Johnson will have a new position coach. And defensive coordinator Jerry Gray will almost certainly be on the unemployment line, with someone new assuming the responsibility of coordinating their guys. It's clear Munchak didn't have a favorable staff last year, which is his responsibility. But the team believes in him as a leader and it's on him now to choose more wisely when it comes to his assistants. But in my eyes, this is a team that needs tinkering, not an overall makeover. Had Munchak been replaced, it would've triggered a rebuilding. Again. Sometimes, it's the moves that you don't make. This weekend, teams like the Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Texans felt the rewards of that in the playoffs. My hunch is the Titans will, too.
When Monday comes around, don't be shocked when Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians is the name that dominates the week. The Colts' offensive coordinator will interview with the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, and the San Diego Chargers have also expressed serious interest. When San Diego hires a GM, Arians might be the first call they make. The love for Arians is two-fold. His knowledge of the quarterback position stands out. From making life simple for Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, and essentially teaching him the position from scratch when he was a younger player, to Arians' work with Andrew Luck in Indy this year.
Arians would be a perfect fit to fix Philip Rivers. When I ask scouts about Rivers' apparent lack of arm strength, this is the response I get: "He's never had a strong arm." That makes me think he's more fixable than if he'd suddenly lost arm strength. The other, and more important, thing about Arians is how he handled the Colts in the absence of Chuck Pagano.Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. He showed poise, leadership and humility. That's desirous for teams.
Want some other Arians facts? He developed six drafted rookies who contributed on offense this year. His 2009 Steelers became the first unit in team history to have a 4,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard receivers, and a 1,000-yard running back. While he was in Cleveland as an OC, the 2002 Browns scored more points than they had since 1987 and went to the playoffs(!). In other words, he's a guy who fixes things. Listen to this one: In his last four NFL stops as an assistant, every team has reached the playoffs by the second year.
One hot name all season has been Washington Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who is just 33 years old and already has a creative new offense being run by Robert Griffin III. When teams talk about vacancies, Shanahan's name will come up. Publicly, the younger Shanahan hasn't sounded too interested in other jobs, and I'm told privately he hasn't, either. Based on talking to people around the league, the view from many is that he's just a bit too young and not quite ready to be a head coach.
Though, few doubt the impressive job he's done with RG3. And talking to people close with Shanahan, it doesn't sound like he's in a hurry to go anywhere. It would be hard to turn down a firm offer for a head coaching job if one came. But Shanahan -- who has excelled with the Texans and with the Redskins -- might want to continue learning from his father. And, of course, he might be considering the possibility that he is part of the succession plan in Washington. That is not the craziest of thoughts. Anyway,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. my point is that for a few reasons, I'd be surprised if Kyle Shanahan pops up in the middle of this coaching carousel in a serious way, though it's no way a reflection of the job he's done.
Whoever takes over the Arizona Cardinals job will have a really stout defense, some major quarterback questions, and a team to rebuild from the middle out. They'll need plenty of help from the new GM, who may in fact be Steve Keim. Yet, as always final say comes from the team's top dog, Michael Bidwill. It's a dynamic that did not always serve coach Ken Whisenhunt well. Like when the team signed Derek Anderson a couple years back and then Marc Bulger became available in June, and Bidwill was not amenable to paying for both QBs. That stings for a coach who saw a player who could help, then didn't get to use him.
The Cards,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. in fact, would like to keep Kevin Kolb for how much they've invested in him. It's why had Reid interviewed with the Cardinals, he would have told them, "I can fix Kevin Kolb." For the new coach, there will be times when the personnel side wants a guy and is told, it won't work financially. It's one reason why final say wasn't written into Whisenhunt's contract, though many assumed he had it.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. He did not. The Cardinals will likely benefit from this year's draft. No, there is no top five quarterback (or maybe top 10 quarterback). But I hear there might be three top 10 left tackles, which would surely help the Cardinals, as well as the Chargers. The building can begin there.
A couple assistants dominated this week, with guys like Broncos OC Mike McCoy, Cardinals DC Ray Horton and Falcons OC Dirk Koetter being the names we heard the most. McCoy interviewed at about 30 places (give or take a few), Horton talked with the Cardinals and Browns, and Koetter interviewed with the Chiefs and eventually signed a contract extension to stay in Atlanta.
So, who are the assistant coach names we'll hear this week? I already mentioned Arians. A few others are: Cincinnati Bengals OC Jay Gruden and DC Mike Zimmer and Seattle Seahawks OC Darrell Bevell. Why those guys? First of all, good reputations. Secondly, good products on the field. Gruden has always been a hot name, and he had opportunities last year. What's intriguing about him is that he has personnel experience from his time in the AFL and UFL. For Zimmer, he's a defensive guru who pieced together one of the NFL's nastiest units this year, leading the league in sacks. It's all about getting to the QB, and his scheme is attractive. So is he as a person. As for Bevell, yes he's all the way out in Seattle. But people paid attention this year when he chose a rookie QB over the prized free-agent signing in Matt Flynn. And more people noticed when Russell Wilson improved throughout the season, becoming dynamic by December. Who wouldn't want a guy who can mold their QB into a winner? It's the same model we keep coming back to. Teams either need to have a QB or a guy who can develop them. By the same token on that Bengals staff, don't be shocked if Hue Jackson gets some looks as an OC.
In Philadelphia, anyone who traded with the Eagles for quarterbacks were sorry. Kevin Kolb's debacle-filled career in Arizona speaks to that, and it's not the only example. Reid propped up mediocre QBs, made them desirable, then dealt them. What Reid does is make whoever is under center better. Simple as that. It's what he did for years in Philly, with Nick Foles being the most recent one. The Chiefs could draft a QB in the second round or so, have Reid work with him and then suddenly have stability at a low cost. That's what history tells us will happen.
As far as talent on the roster, Reid will have significant say, and it'll be interesting to see if he's learned from his personnel mistakes with the Eagles over the past two years. If he starts signing a bunch of big-name free agents from different systems, we can assume he hasn't. If he makes wacky assistant choices, we'll assume he hasn't. The Chiefs will have the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, which gives them plenty of fuel to rebuild. Either way, I like this marriage between Reid and the Chiefs. Kansas City got a proven winner who makes them immediately better to play in front of a fan base that will appreciate him. Reid got a head coaching job, which is big since there were only seven, and a chance to start new.
Sometimes, it's the decisions that aren't made that stand out. The Tennessee Titans entered the 2012 season on the heels of a surprisingly impressive 2011. They had a winning record, a second-year quarterback they thought highly of, and plenty of weapons. Instead, Jake Locker was injured for much of the year, the defense was abysmally abysmal, and Tennessee slumped. And yet, owner Bud Adams decided to retain coach Mike Munchak for the coming season. And as I look at the landscape of the coaching carousel, with teams wandering hopefully into the unknown, I like this decision.
Tennessee has always believed in Munchak, and there are reasons to do so even after a down year. Locker will now have offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains for the whole year, albeit with a new quarterback coach. Running back Chris Johnson will have a new position coach. And defensive coordinator Jerry Gray will almost certainly be on the unemployment line, with someone new assuming the responsibility of coordinating their guys. It's clear Munchak didn't have a favorable staff last year, which is his responsibility. But the team believes in him as a leader and it's on him now to choose more wisely when it comes to his assistants. But in my eyes, this is a team that needs tinkering, not an overall makeover. Had Munchak been replaced, it would've triggered a rebuilding. Again. Sometimes, it's the moves that you don't make. This weekend, teams like the Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Texans felt the rewards of that in the playoffs. My hunch is the Titans will, too.
When Monday comes around, don't be shocked when Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians is the name that dominates the week. The Colts' offensive coordinator will interview with the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, and the San Diego Chargers have also expressed serious interest. When San Diego hires a GM, Arians might be the first call they make. The love for Arians is two-fold. His knowledge of the quarterback position stands out. From making life simple for Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, and essentially teaching him the position from scratch when he was a younger player, to Arians' work with Andrew Luck in Indy this year.
Arians would be a perfect fit to fix Philip Rivers. When I ask scouts about Rivers' apparent lack of arm strength, this is the response I get: "He's never had a strong arm." That makes me think he's more fixable than if he'd suddenly lost arm strength. The other, and more important, thing about Arians is how he handled the Colts in the absence of Chuck Pagano.Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. He showed poise, leadership and humility. That's desirous for teams.
Want some other Arians facts? He developed six drafted rookies who contributed on offense this year. His 2009 Steelers became the first unit in team history to have a 4,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard receivers, and a 1,000-yard running back. While he was in Cleveland as an OC, the 2002 Browns scored more points than they had since 1987 and went to the playoffs(!). In other words, he's a guy who fixes things. Listen to this one: In his last four NFL stops as an assistant, every team has reached the playoffs by the second year.
One hot name all season has been Washington Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who is just 33 years old and already has a creative new offense being run by Robert Griffin III. When teams talk about vacancies, Shanahan's name will come up. Publicly, the younger Shanahan hasn't sounded too interested in other jobs, and I'm told privately he hasn't, either. Based on talking to people around the league, the view from many is that he's just a bit too young and not quite ready to be a head coach.
Though, few doubt the impressive job he's done with RG3. And talking to people close with Shanahan, it doesn't sound like he's in a hurry to go anywhere. It would be hard to turn down a firm offer for a head coaching job if one came. But Shanahan -- who has excelled with the Texans and with the Redskins -- might want to continue learning from his father. And, of course, he might be considering the possibility that he is part of the succession plan in Washington. That is not the craziest of thoughts. Anyway,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. my point is that for a few reasons, I'd be surprised if Kyle Shanahan pops up in the middle of this coaching carousel in a serious way, though it's no way a reflection of the job he's done.
Whoever takes over the Arizona Cardinals job will have a really stout defense, some major quarterback questions, and a team to rebuild from the middle out. They'll need plenty of help from the new GM, who may in fact be Steve Keim. Yet, as always final say comes from the team's top dog, Michael Bidwill. It's a dynamic that did not always serve coach Ken Whisenhunt well. Like when the team signed Derek Anderson a couple years back and then Marc Bulger became available in June, and Bidwill was not amenable to paying for both QBs. That stings for a coach who saw a player who could help, then didn't get to use him.
The Cards,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. in fact, would like to keep Kevin Kolb for how much they've invested in him. It's why had Reid interviewed with the Cardinals, he would have told them, "I can fix Kevin Kolb." For the new coach, there will be times when the personnel side wants a guy and is told, it won't work financially. It's one reason why final say wasn't written into Whisenhunt's contract, though many assumed he had it.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. He did not. The Cardinals will likely benefit from this year's draft. No, there is no top five quarterback (or maybe top 10 quarterback). But I hear there might be three top 10 left tackles, which would surely help the Cardinals, as well as the Chargers. The building can begin there.
A couple assistants dominated this week, with guys like Broncos OC Mike McCoy, Cardinals DC Ray Horton and Falcons OC Dirk Koetter being the names we heard the most. McCoy interviewed at about 30 places (give or take a few), Horton talked with the Cardinals and Browns, and Koetter interviewed with the Chiefs and eventually signed a contract extension to stay in Atlanta.
So, who are the assistant coach names we'll hear this week? I already mentioned Arians. A few others are: Cincinnati Bengals OC Jay Gruden and DC Mike Zimmer and Seattle Seahawks OC Darrell Bevell. Why those guys? First of all, good reputations. Secondly, good products on the field. Gruden has always been a hot name, and he had opportunities last year. What's intriguing about him is that he has personnel experience from his time in the AFL and UFL. For Zimmer, he's a defensive guru who pieced together one of the NFL's nastiest units this year, leading the league in sacks. It's all about getting to the QB, and his scheme is attractive. So is he as a person. As for Bevell, yes he's all the way out in Seattle. But people paid attention this year when he chose a rookie QB over the prized free-agent signing in Matt Flynn. And more people noticed when Russell Wilson improved throughout the season, becoming dynamic by December. Who wouldn't want a guy who can mold their QB into a winner? It's the same model we keep coming back to. Teams either need to have a QB or a guy who can develop them. By the same token on that Bengals staff, don't be shocked if Hue Jackson gets some looks as an OC.
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