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Sprouts Farmers Market, a fast-growing specialty grocery chain, has set an opening date for its first Memphis-area store.
Phoenix-based Sprouts, which replicate the look and feel of an indoor farmers market and specialize in fresh, organic and healthy food, will open a 28,000-square-foot store in a former Kroger at 9050 U.S. 64 in Lakeland on May 13.
The Association for Women Attorneys will host its 35th annual banquet and silent auction Thursday, Jan. 29, at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Cost is $60 for AWA members, $70 for nonmembers and $40 for law students. RSVP to Keating Lowery at email@example.com or 901-844-4438 by Wednesday, Jan. 21.
The Downtown Memphis Commission Design Review Board will meet Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
3150 Village Shops DriveGermantown, TN 38138
Project Cost: $1.5 million
Applied: Oct. 14, 2014
Sprouts Farmers Market is moving ahead with developing its new Germantown grocery store.
Sprouts, one of the fastest growing grocery chains in the country, has filed $1.5 million building permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement.
1432 Kimbrough Road and 1468 Kimbrough RoadGermantown, TN 38138Project Cost: $2.6 million
The Gardens of Germantown, an assisted living and Alzheimer's care facility, has been sold.
The Gardens of Germantown LLC sold the facility at 3179 Professional Plaza in Germantown to SHP IV Germantown LLC for $10.7 million, according to a Sept. 29 special warranty deed.
The Gardens of Germantown LLC sold the facility at 3179 Professional Plaza in Germantown to SHP IV Germantown LLC for $10.7 million, according to a Sept. 29 special warranty deed. The Gardens of Germantown LLC acquired the property in 2009 for $4.2 million.
Sprouts Farmers Market, a fast-growing specialty grocery chain, has confirmed it will open two Memphis-area stores in 2015, one in Germantown and another in Lakeland.
Sprouts will turn the 30,000-square-foot former Schnucks location at The Shops of Forest Hill at Poplar Avenue and Forest Hill-Irene Road in Germantown into one of its stores, which replicate the look and feel of an indoor farmers market and specialize in fresh, organic and healthy food.
Sprouts Farmers Market has applied for a building permit to turn the old Kroger store in Lakeland into one of its upscale grocery stores.
Sprout applied for a $650,000 building permit to renovate the former Kroger at 9050 U.S. 64 in Lakeland. The building permit application lists AAD Fitch Inc. as the architect on the project.
8920 Walnut Grove RoadCordova, TN 38018Sale Amount: $27.9 million
Sale Date: Aug. 28, 2014Buyer: IRT Walnut Hill Apartments Owner LLCSeller: 30 California-based limited liability companiesDetails: The 324-unit Walnut Hill Apartments in Cordova has sold for $27.9 million to an entity affiliated with Philadelphia-based RAIT Financial Trust.
The 324-unit Walnut Hill Apartments in Cordova has sold for $27.9 million to an entity affiliated with Philadelphia-based RAIT Financial Trust.
IRT Walnut Hill Apartments Owner LLC bought the complex at 8920 Walnut Grove Road in an Aug. 28 special warranty deed from 30 related California-based limited liability companies.
A "high-end" grocery store chain not currently serving the Memphis market has leased the shuttered former Kroger store at 9050 U.S. 64 in Lakeland and should open in the spring, according to a Lakeland official.
A Memphis contractor is planning a new office building park in the city, according to a news report.
Memphis-based construction contractor Dan Walker Associates Inc. plans to develop up to 240,000 square feet in seven buildings on nearly eight acres at 3923 Forest Hill Irene Road, according to the report in the Memphis Business Journal.
Two weeks after approving changes in health insurance plans for city employees and retirees, the Memphis City Council meets Tuesday, July 1, to talk over a companion set of changes to the city's pension plan for employees.
Shelby County Commissioners consider a start Monday, June 16, toward a new disparity study as a way to changing the county's efforts in increasing minority business participation in government contracts.
375 N. Graham St.Memphis, TN 38117Sale Amount: $3.6 million
Sale Date: April 30, 2014Buyer: Summit Hedgemoor Square Apartments LLCSeller: Hedgemoor Square Apartments GPLoan Amount: $2.7 millionLoan Date: April 30, 2014Maturity Date: N/ALender: Pulaski Bank
Six office condominiums in the Corporate Gardens complex at 9040 Garden Arbor Drive in Germantown have sold for $1.5 million.
3860 Forest Hill-Irene RoadGermantown, TN 38125Sale Amount: $5.2 million
Sale Date: March 31, 2014Buyer: 3860 Forest Hills Irene LLCSeller: BACM 2007-1 Irene Road LLCLoan Amount: $5.6 millionLoan Date: April 17, 2014Maturity Date: N/ALender: First Tennessee Bank NA
Iberiabank has announced branch managers for the new bank branch locations it got as a result of the recent Trust One Bank acquisition.
An affiliate of Nashville-based real estate investment company Anchor Investments LLC has paid $5.2 million for the Forest Hill Technology Center at 3860 Forest Hill-Irene Road in Germantown.
Ballet Memphis will present "Peter Pan," a world premiere from the choreographer of "Cinderella" and "Wizard of Oz," Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13, at The Orpheum, 203 S. Main St. Buy tickets at balletmemphis.org.
Rhodes College will host Gary Schmitt, co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Thursday, April 10, at 4 p.m. in the Frazier Jelke Science Center on campus, 2000 North Parkway. Schmitt will present "In the Wake of Edward Snowden: Security, Civil Liberties and American Intelligence." Cost is free. Visit rhodes.edu.
The Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County will host the "All in for Animals" Texas Hold 'Em charity poker tournament Saturday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. at 935 Farm Road. The poker tournament will feature prizes, food, and a beer and bourbon bar. Cost is $50 before Friday, Feb. 21, or $60 at the door. Visit memphishumane.org.
Shelby County Schools board members got their first detailed look Wednesday, Feb. 19, at a set of more than two dozen changes in student attendance zones in the 2014-2015 school year that could affect nearly 7,000 students in the school system.
The Mid-South Sports and Boat Show will be held Friday, Feb. 14, through Sunday, Feb. 16, at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road. The event will include boat and tackle vendors, and seminars for both children and adults. Visit midsouthboatshow.com for hours and ticket prices.
The National Hispanic Professional Organization, Memphis chapter will meet Thursday, Feb. 13, at noon at the Hilton Memphis, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd. Rafael Durand, director of human resources at International Paper, will speak. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Cost is free for members and $20 for nonmembers. Email nhpomemphis.us.
TruGreen LP, the lawn-care services business formerly under the umbrella of the Memphis-based ServiceMaster Co., has purchased a 73,144-square-foot mixed-use office building at 3839 Forest Hill-Irene Road from ServiceMaster Acceptance Corp. for $2.1 million.
The 330-unit Miller Creek at Germantown apartment complex in Southeast Shelby County has sold for $43.8 million.
TS Miller Creek LLC, an affiliate of Aventura, Fla.-based real estate investment trust Trade Street Residential, bought the relatively new apartment complex in a Jan. 21 special warranty deed from the developer, Miller Creek Residences LLC.
The Memphis City Council approved Tuesday, Jan. 21, a set of six alley and street closures on parcels totaling 28 acres in the Poplar Avenue-Cleveland Street area. The area, once known as Washington Bottoms, was cleared of buildings in 2008 in anticipation of redevelopment by a Memphis division of WSG Development Co. of Miami Beach, Fla.
Memphis City Council members got a first and at times conflicting look Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the hard decisions they could make about city spending on public safety.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. walked the council through some ideas for cuts in city spending beyond larger changes in city retirement and health benefits. Those obligations are the "cornerstone" of the efforts to get the city's financial house in order, said city Chief Administrative Officer George Little.
Orangetheory Fitness has signed a lease at Stonecreek Centre at Poplar Avenue and Forest Hill-Irene Road in Germantown.
Orangetheory Fitness will occupy 3,167 square feet at the location. Orangetheory Fitness is a workout method that is broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training while using heart rate monitors to keep heart rates in a targeted zone to stimulate metabolism and increases energy.
The Downtown Memphis Commission will hold the Downtown Howl-iday pet and family parade Saturday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m. from Court Square to AutoZone Park. Registration begins at 2 p.m. at Court Square. Cost is free. Visit downtownmemphis.com.
Ballet Memphis will present "Nutcracker," featuring more than 100 dancers and 70 musicians, from Friday, Dec. 13, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at The Orpheum, 203 S. Main St. Buy tickets at balletmemphis.org.
Sales and Marketing Society of the Mid-South will hold its holiday "friend raiser" Thursday, Dec. 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at LRoss Gallery, 5040 Sanderlin Ave. Cost in advance is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers; cost at the door is $20. All attendees are also asked to donate a teddy bear. Visit sms-midsouth.org.
If you blink, you might miss a new restaurant opening along the Poplar Avenue corridor in East Memphis.
Over the last few months, several new restaurants have opened or are on the way around the heavily traveled Poplar corridor between Perkins Road and Kirby Parkway.
The Shelby County Trustee's Office will host a "Home Sweet Home" workshop for seniors Thursday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Frayser/Raleigh Senior Center, 3985 Egypt Central Road, and Friday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to noon at the J.K. Lewis Senior Center, 1188 North Parkway. Trustee staff will provide information on senior property taxes and how to effectively pass property to heirs. Cost is free. Visit shelbycountytrustee.com.
ULI Memphis, the local chapter of the Urban Land Institute, will host its 2013 Mid-South Real Estate Outlook Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Memphis Bioworks Foundation auditorium, 20 S. Dudley St. Cost is $65. Visit memphis.uli.org.
The Vesta Home Show kicked off over the weekend, with large crowds turning out to explore six new homes in a gated Germantown community.
Don Glays, executive director of the West Tennessee Home Builders Association, said attendance during the opening weekend of the show was strong.
This West Tennessee Home Builders Association is launching the VESTA Home Show Saturday, Nov. 9.
This year's home show, which runs through Dec. 1, features six homes, built by Bryce Homes, Ruch Builders, The Dave Moore Cos., D&D Custom Homes, David Clark Construction LLC and Darin K. Halford.
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. began construction this week on a new pediatric emergency department at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women.
6020 Shelby Oaks DriveMemphis, TN 38134Sale Amount: $2.1 million
Sale Date: Aug. 6, 2013Buyer: Champion Regional Development LLCSeller: BRE/LQ Properties LLCLoan Amount: $2.1 millionLoan Date: Aug. 7, 2013Maturity Date: N/ABorrowers: Sunny Management LLC; KNSB LLC; Jansa LLCLender: InterBankDetails: An affiliate of Oklahoma City-based Champion Hotels has paid $2.1 million for the 103-room Baymont Inn & Suites Memphis East hotel at 6020 Shelby Oaks Drive in Northeast Memphis.
The 7,465-square-foot shopping center at 9125 E. Shelby Drive in Collierville has sold for $1 million, helping its owner avoid foreclosure.
Memphis Botanic Garden will host The 19th Hole Wine Tasting at the Garden, part of the Tuesdays on the Terrace wine-tasting series, Tuesday, July 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the garden, 750 Cherry Road. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers; reservations are required. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
Germantown Community Theatre and the Salvation Army Kroc Center will present "Peter Pan" Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28, at the theater, 3037 Forest Hill-Irene Road; and Friday, Aug. 2, through Sunday, Aug. 4, at the Kroc Center, 800 East Parkway S. For more information, visit gctcomeplay.org or call 937-3023.
The Downtown Memphis Commission will meet Thursday, July 25, at noon in the commission's conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
The owner of the 7,465-square-foot shopping center at 9125 E. Shelby Drive in Collierville is in default, according to a first-run foreclosure notice in the Thursday, July 11, edition of The Daily News.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will host free tours of the St. Jude Dream Home Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 45 Dalton Cove in Eads. The house will be raffled June 23; tickets are $100. Visit dreamhome.org.
The Black Business Association of Memphis will meet Thursday, May 23, at 8 a.m. at the Renaissance Business Center, 555 Beale St. Jack Sammons, chairman of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, will discuss what new developments at the airport mean for small businesses. R.S.V.P. to email@example.com.
Germantown Community Theatre will present the musical "Ruthless" May 17 to June 2 at the theater, 3037 Forest Hill-Irene Road. Visit germantowncommunitytheatre.org.
The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will be held Thursday, May 16, through Saturday, May 18, at Tom Lee Park, on Riverside Drive Downtown. Tickets are $9 at the gate. Visit memphisinmay.org.
The new Germantown Fire House 4 at 30301 Forest Hill-Irene Road, designed by Renaissance Group architects, has earned the status of being the first LEED Gold building for the city of Germantown and the first LEED Gold municipal facility in West Tennessee.
ArtsMemphis will present the Stax to the Max music festival Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. outside the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 E. McLemore St. Admission to the festival is free; discounted museum tickets are $2 between noon and 5 p.m. Visit staxmuseum.com.
Bobby Meadows has joined Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab as executive director. Meadows, a licensed nursing home administrator, has 13 years of nursing home experience, including 11 as an executive director. Most recently, he served for six years at Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Memphis.
1670 Sycamore View Road Memphis, TN 38134
Sale Amount: $1.8 million
Sale Date: April 8, 2013
New Ballet Ensemble will present Springloaded Friday, April 12, through Sunday, April 14, at Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper St. The annual event fuses ballet, contemporary and urban dance with works by local and guest choreographers. Visit nbespringloaded13.eventbrite.com for times and tickets.
An affiliate of Houston-based Moody National REIT I Inc. has paid $11.3 million for the Hyatt Place hotel at 9161 Winchester Road in Germantown.
Memphis' oldest continuously practicing law firm is expanding its presence in Triad III.
Apperson Crump PLC added 2,037 square feet to its seventh floor space in a vacant adjacent area between Silverleafe Capital Partners LLC.
The Brew Movement Against Multiple Sclerosis will hold the fourth annual Beauty in the Eye of the Beer Holder fundraiser for the Mid South Chapter of the National MS Society Thursday, March 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Central Ave. Attendees can sample unique homebrews created for the event, craft beers and microbrews. Tickets are $30. Visit msbrewmovement.org.
HopeWorks will hold its fifth annual A Morning of Hope fundraiser Saturday, March 2, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Woodland Hills Event Center, 1000 Woodland Hills Drive. Bill Courtney, entrepreneur and the former coach featured in "Undefeated," will present the keynote. Tickets are $50. Visit whyhopeworks.org or call 272-3700.
Make-A-Wish Mid-South will host Wine for Wishes Thursday, Feb. 28, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at The Cadre, 149 Monroe Ave. The fundraiser will include food and wine pairings, a silent auction and live music by The Will Tucker Band. Visit midsouth.wish.org.
Soul Fish Café has selected a prime piece of real estate in East Memphis for its third location.
The catfish and Southern-inspired restaurant has signed a lease for the old Wolf Camera space in the Poplar Avenue/Perkins Road corridor. The 3,100-square-foot freestanding building at 4720 Poplar Ave. will mark Soul Fish's third location in Memphis, behind its original spot in Midtown's Cooper-Young district and its Germantown location near Forest Hill-Irene Road.
The catfish and Southern-inspired restaurant has signed a lease for the old Wolf Camera space in the Poplar Avenue/Perkins Road corridor. The 3,100-square-foot freestanding building at 4720 Poplar Ave. will mark Soul Fish's third location in Memphis, behind its original spot in Midtown's Cooper-Young district and its Germantown store near Forest Hill-Irene Road.
The Midtown real estate market has long been an anomaly compared to its Bluff City counterparts, with fundamentals as diverse as its demographics.
"The types of real estate that you'll find in Midtown can be some of the most expensive or some of the most modest when it comes to prices and facility," said Gary Myers of Gary Myers Co. "Retail in particular."
The Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County will host Vaccination Station, a low-cost pet vaccination event, Saturday, Dec. 15, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the southwest corner of Linden Avenue and Lauderdale Street. Visit memphishumane.org for a list of vaccinations and costs.
LightWave Solar will host a lunch & learn titled "How Solar Can Work for Your Home or Business" Friday, Dec. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. in the River Tower at South Bluffs clubhouse, 655 Riverside Drive. R.S.V.P. to Grace Robertson at firstname.lastname@example.com or 615-641-4050, ext. 104.
Talk Shoppe and the Small Business Chamber will present "The Mastermind Principle: Based on the Book 'Think & Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill" Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Better Business Bureau, 3693 Tyndale Ave. Cost is free. Visit smallbusinesschamber.com or talkshoppe.biz.
Three Class A speculative office buildings have broken ground in Germantown at McVay Road and Poplar Pike.
The $3.5 million development, named McVay Station Professional Center, is by Jason Speed, local developer and contractor whose claim to fame was Corporate Gardens, a $24 million, 148,000-square-foot retail and office park delivered in 2001 on 14 acres at Forest Hill Irene Road and Poplar Pike.
CBIZ MHM Thompson Dunavant and The Daily News are presenting a seminar in a few weeks that will take a broad look at topics including estate and gift tax issues, business and personal investments, health care reform and an update on the mergers and acquisitions market.
LaunchMemphis and MemphisConnect will host Ignite Memphis 5, a series of quick-hit presentations on a variety of subjects, Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. at the Memphis Bioworks Foundation office, 20 S. Dudley St. Cost is free, and doors open at 5:30 p.m. Visit launchmemphis.com.
Don Glays, executive director of the Memphis Area Home Builders Association, has three words to describe how the past few days of the Vesta Home Show have performed:
"Beyond our expectations."
The 2012 Vesta Home Show will showcase its first-ever home that is heated and cooled with geothermal heat pump technology, produced by Ruch Builders and Engineered Comfort Inc.
Families of Incarcerated Individuals Inc. will hold its small-business startup fair for ex-offenders Friday, Sept. 14, at 11 a.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave. Visit familiesofincarcerated.org.
The Memphis Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, June 26, at noon at the University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. James Rogers, director of Memphis Animal Services, will speak. Cost is $18 per person. Email Taylor Hughes at firstname.lastname@example.com for reservations.
The Tennessee Beta Unit of Parliamentarians will hold its monthly meeting and education program Monday, June 25, at 5:45 p.m. at the Poplar-White Station branch library, 5094 Poplar Ave. Call Jennifer Thompson at 324-5184.
Black Business Association of Memphis will meet Friday, June 22, at 9 a.m. at BBA, 555 Beale St. Andre Fowlkes of Launch Your City will speak. Visit bbamemphis.com or email email@example.com.
Memphis-based entity Enclave 5 & 6 Joint Venture has bought land in Enclave Planned Development in Germantown from Magna Bank for $2 million. The land, which is on the north side of Wolf River Boulevard west of where Forest Hill-Irene Road would run if extended, is proposed as Enclave phases five and six, according to documents filed with the Shelby County Register of Deeds.
The Daily News' offices will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. Offices reopen at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, and will remain open during normal business hours.
The Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs will host a Memorial Day service Monday, May 28, at 11 a.m. at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, 4000 Forest Hill-Irene Road. Visit tn.gov/veteran for details.
The Gavel Club of Memphis will meet for a Dutch treat lunch Friday, May 25, at 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Rebekah Sudduth, development coordinator for Make-A-Wish Foundation, will speak. Call Bob Gray at 494-8639.
Miller Creek ApartmentsGermantown, TN 38125
Permit Cost: $17.2 million (20 permits)
Permit Date: Applied May 2012
Owner: Miller Creek Residences LLC
Miller Creek Residences LLC has filed more than $17 million in building permit applications with the city-county Office of Construction Code for work at Miller Creek Apartments in Germantown.
Memphis Botanic Garden will hold its Spring's Best Plant Sale Friday, April 13, through Sunday, April 15, at the garden, 750 Cherry Road. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.
The past few years have been among the toughest ever for interior designers, but Lynne Catron chooses to view the downturn as an opportunity, not a hardship.
2615 Channel Ave.Memphis, TN 38113
Permit Cost: $1.4 million
Permit Date: Applied March 2012
Mike Murphy Builders LLC has filed a construction loan for three lots in Germantown's Enclave planned development, phase 3, through Financial Federal Savings Bank for $1.1 million. The sizes of the financed lots are 6,759 square feet fronting Enclave Hollow Lane East, 7,032 square feet fronting Terrene Lane and 6,760 square feet fronting Enclave Green Lane West.
CSI Memphis Chapter will meet Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Agricenter International Banquet Hall, 7777 Walnut Grove Road. The social will begin at 5:30 p.m., dinner will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., and the program will start at 7 p.m. Greg Maxted, executive director of the Harahan Bridge Project, will speak. Cost is $25. For reservations, contact Charlotte Cooper at firstname.lastname@example.com or 377-8063.
Cannon Wright Blount certified public accounting firm will continue its series of seminars about QuickBooks accounting software Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the firm, 756 Ridge Lake Blvd. Each two-hour class costs $75. Seating is limited. To reserve a place, visit www.cannonwrightblount.com/resources, and for more information, call Debbie Bossé or Cathy Russell at 685-7500.
A $20 million upgrade of the Memphis Pink Palace Museum tops the Tuesday, Feb. 21, Memphis City Council agenda that also includes two items key to Overton Square redevelopment and $510,000 in capital appropriations for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Literacy Mid-South has kicked off a Twitter campaign to get Memphians talking about their favorite books.
"What are you reading, Memphis?" encourages people to tweet about books they're reading, using the hashtag #ReadMemphis.
Memphis City Council members take up the first of three readings Tuesday, Feb. 7, of an ordinance to annex the Grays Creek area that is in the city's annexation reserve area.
The ordinance is a reaction to pending state legislation in Nashville that would remove part of the area from the Memphis annexation reserve.
460 Tennessee St.Memphis, TN 38103
Sale Amount: $3 million
Sale Date: Dec. 1, 2011
Greater Memphis Pentecostal Assembly Inc. has bought a 2,823-square-foot residence on East Shelby Drive at a foreclosure sale for $1.9 million. The seller was David A. Kirkscey, substitute trustee appointed by First Alliance Bank.
The Tennessee Minority Development Council will hold a membership luncheon meeting Friday, Dec. 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Regions Bank, assembly room one, first floor, 6200 Poplar Ave. For more information or registration, contact Joyce Tabb at 830-8242 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Despite a dearth of overall construction throughout town, one local construction firm is erecting retail in Olive Branch at an impressive clip.
Linkous Construction Co. Inc. is in the midst of building 108,000 square feet of retail space in the Wedgewood Commons shopping center, 5070 Goodman Road.
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Shell Guides
The Shell Guides were originally a 20th-century series of guidebooks on the counties of Britain. They were aimed at a new breed of car-driving metropolitan tourist, and for those who sought guides that were neither too serious nor too shallow and who took pleasure in the ordinary and peculiar culture of small town Britain. In the three decades after the Second World War the Shell Guides provided a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside.[1][2]
The series started in June 1934, with Betjeman's Cornwall,[3] and continued until 1984, by which time about half the country had been covered. The series was sponsored by the oil company Shell. The original guides were published on a county-by-county basis, under the editorial control of the poet John Betjeman and (later) the artist John Piper. There were three publishers involved in the publication of the 13 pre-war titles : The Architectural Press, Batsford and finally, in 1939, Faber and Faber. In 1939 all the previous twelve titles were re-issued and one new one in the same format : David Verey's Gloucestershire. The next one planned was Shropshire to be co-written by Betjeman and Piper. However the Second World War intervened. Interestingly only one non-English area was covered : The West Coast of Scotland by Stephen Bone, arguably the most political of all the Shell Guides. Post-war however every bit of Wales was covered in five different titles. It was not until 1951 that the next Shell Guide was produced. Jack Beddington's involvement in the Shell Guides and Shell advertising in general cannot be underestimated and it is because of him, that from the outset, artists were invited to produce Shell Guides ; John and Paul Nash for instance and of course John Piper.
During the early 1960s a series of 48 cheaper Shilling Guides[4] appeared, much to Betjeman's annoyance, especially as they sold in greater numbers. Published by the Shell-Mex and BP joint venture, each had just 20 pages with a full colour card cover, representing highlights of the county covered, and included a two colour map of the area, preceded by an essay on the history and landscape, and followed by a short gazetteer of main towns and tourist attractions. The original artwork for this series was sold by Shell in 2002 at an auction held by Sotheby's. These images by such artists as Keith Shackleton and David Gentleman also featured in the (now collectable ) Shell Posters that were published for use in schools. These appeared between 1959 and 1965.
From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, a series of general titles under the Shell Guide banner were produced, covering most of the countries in northwest Europe. Guides to subjects such as rivers, islands, viewpoints, archaeology, gardens, flowers, history, wildlife and museums were also published.
In 1987, Shell issued a final series of New Shell Guides, published by Michael Joseph and generally covering rather larger areas (e.g. Northern Scotland and the Islands) than in the earlier series. Whilst the original Shell County Guides are now highly collectible, the later titles (published by Faber & Faber, Ebury Press or Michael Joseph) tend to be shunned by collectors and book dealers alike, as supply exceeds demand.
Selected books[edit]
- Of the original pre-war guides, it is generally thought the best include Betjeman's Devon (1935), Paul Nash's Dorset (1936)[5] and John Piper's Oxfordshire (1938). Bizarrely, the latter excluded the City of Oxford, though this had much to do with Betjeman's An Oxford University Chest (also 1938) which included a gazetteer of the city.
- The more interesting and/or collectable post-war guides include Betjeman and Piper's Shropshire (1951), David Verey's Mid-Wales (1960), W.G. Hoskins' Rutland guide (1963) and James Lees-Milne's Worcestershire (1964). In her biography of John Piper (2009), Frances Spalding highlights Henry Thorold's Derbyshire (1972) as one of the best later titles. Thorold also wrote the last book in the series, Nottinghamshire in 1984, published the same year that Betjeman died. The last few titles were published in small numbers (no more than 2-3,000) and these made them scarcer almost from the outset. Norman Scarfe's Cambridgeshire published in 1983 in hardback and softback is now one of the more difficult tiles (in hardback) as is Thorold's hardback Nottinghamshire as the spine fades to white so one with a legible title is scarce indeed now. Since the demise of the original series in 1984 two further titles have been published; Peter Burton's North Yorkshire published in 1996 by Michael Russell and William Glossop's West Yorkshire published in paperback only by the Canterbury Press in 2012. This latter book contains colour photos.
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's South-West and Mid-Wales is a good example of the 1987 New Shell Guides series.
- The Shell Guide series is remarkable for its photographs. John Piper was a superb black and white photographer, as was his son Edward. Peter Burton took many of the photos for the last titles. Paul Nash took 100s of photos for his pre-war guide and whittled them down to those that made it into the finished product.
- ^ Exhibition on Shell Guides
- ^ Guardian article on Shell Guides exhibition
- ^ Mawson, Chris (2010). "A History of the Shell County Guides". Retrieved 2011-01-24.
- ^ Shilling Guides.
- ^ "Mixed Gallery of Shell Art Collection Images". nationalmotormuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
External links[edit]
- Shell County Guides website (from 2010)
- Shell and BP Shilling Guides to the counties of Britain
- David Heathcote's A Shell Eye on England


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Be Careful with the -a Team
The first letter of the alphabet is also a common English word that is virtually synonymous with one. As a word, a is the very antithesis of plurality.
This might help explain why there's so much confusion about a group of words that I call "the -a team." Here they are: bacteria, criteria, data, media, phenomena, Sierra. As you can see, all end in the letter a, which just sounds so darned singular that these words continue to confound even careful writers and speakers. Because the fact is, they're all plural.
Bacteria Staphylococcus is a virulent form of bacteria. No problem there, but Staphylococcus is a virulent bacteria, well, now we have a problem. The singular is bacterium. So a sentence like The bacteria in the cut was infecting it is flawed—the bacteria were infecting it.
Criteria It's the plural of criterion, a standard used for judging, deciding, or acting. The sentence Honesty is our chief criteria is ungrammatical; there can't be only one criteria. Make it Honesty is our chief criterion or Honesty is one of our chief criteria. Your criteria are your standards, plural.
Those who know that criteria is plural aren't out of the woods yet either: many believe the singular is "criterium." And there are some who will reveal to you their "criterias."
Data John B. Bremner, in Words on Words, states unequivocally, "The word is plural." This one is thorny, because the singular, datum, is virtually nonexistent in English. Many people see data as a synonym for information, and to them, These data are very interesting sounds downright bizarre. Maybe, but it's also correct. English scholar Theodore M. Bernstein says, "Some respected and learned writers have used data as a singular. But a great many more have not."
Media Among the language's most abused words is media, a plural noun; medium is the singular. A medium is a system of mass communication: The medium of television is a prominent component of the mass media.
Every day we hear and read statements like The media is irresponsible or The media has a hidden agenda. In those sentences, media should be followed by are and have.
There are some who prefer and defend the media is and the media has. To them, the various means of mass communication—newspapers, radio, TV, magazines, blogs, etc.—make up one "media."
But writers should insist on the media are. It's important that people think of the media as many voices, opinions, and perspectives rather than one monolithic entity.
Phenomena This troublemaker baffles even articulate speakers. Phenomena is plural; phenomenon is singular.
"Management is a universal phenomenon," declares a business website. But a commentator on national television had it exactly backward. He spoke of "the phenomena of climate change" and later used phenomenon as a plural. Others say "phenomenas" when they mean phenomena.
Sierra Avoid "Sierras" when the topic is the vast California mountain range. An online camping guide says, "Translating from Spanish, sierra is plural in itself." The Sierra Nevada Alliance, a conservation organization, elaborates: "The Sierra Nevada is a single, distinct unit, both geographically and topographically, and is well described by una sierra nevada. Strictly speaking, therefore, we should never pluralize the name—such as Sierras, or Sierra Nevadas, or even High Sierras …"
"Strictly speaking," you say? What a concept!
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at 5:05 pm
The Case of the Missing Hyphen, Part 2
We thank all of you who took the time to respond to the question we posed two weeks ago: Should it be e-mail or email? There were eloquent arguments for both sides, but email won decisively. "Time to join the 21st century," wrote one gentleman, who added, "and I'm 61 years old."
Many of you chose email for pragmatic reasons, like this respondent: "In all practicality, email will win. On my smartphone, anyone typing the word e-mail has to shift to a second, then a third screen to complete the word."
What this amounts to, said another reader, is that "texting is creating a whole new language." We find ourselves rattled by that thought.
If, as one of you wrote, "The only quick punctuation mark I have on my smartphone is the period," then this helps explain the indifference to hyphens, commas, apostrophes—and capital letters after periods—that we nitpickers are noting with ever-increasing dismay. Why should advances in technology have to come at the expense of the English language?
Other readers took the long view. "When the use of a particular prefix with a particular word is new, the hyphen is a useful link," wrote one. "Once people become used to the new combination, the hyphen will be dropped." History bears out this astute observation. Let's look at some other familiar words that have followed the same pattern.
Goodbye: In 1968, Random House's American College Dictionary demanded a hyphen, and preferred good-by to good-bye. The 1980 American Heritage dictionary agreed. But by 2006, American Heritage preferred goodbye, although it also listed the hyphenated choices.
Passerby: It started out as passer-by. The Associated Press Stylebook still recommends the hyphen, but that probably won't last. The American Heritage dictionary already gave passerby top billing eight years ago.
Fundraiser: After years of recommending fund-raiser, the Associated Press's manual dropped the hyphen seven years or so ago.
Baseball: The one-word form we have today did not prevail until less than 100 years ago. It was base ball in the early nineteenth century and base-ball in the early twentieth century.
Grass-roots (adjective): The American Heritage dictionary, Webster's New World (fourth edition), and the Associated Press all agree on the hyphen, but grassroots is coming on strong.
So who are we to flout the inevitable? From now on, we'll grit our teeth and write email.
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Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014, at 8:08 pm
Christmas 'Log Review
Every year, for six weeks or so, I get a taste of what it's like to be a superstar.
From late October to early December, I am accosted daily by an aggressive mob of stalkers who know where I live. Their urgent need for my attention seems to be their only reason for being. No, they're not paparazzi or obsessed fans. I'm talking about Christmas catalogs. Every day brings a new swarm—they burst out of my mailbox, entreating me to behold them in all their holiday finery.
Well, even a six-week celebrity has an obligation to his public. I checked out every last one. None was turned away. Here, then, is my Christmas catalog review.
For big spenders there is the stately Gump's catalog, so tasteful you want to take a nap; or Neiman Marcus, with its sullen, stubbly, pasty pretty boys modeling $390 sneakers; or the gaudy Hammacher Schlemmer, for taste-challenged high-rollers: I've got to have that animatronic singing and talking Elvis, or more accurately, Elvis' head and shoulders—the King has been mutilated, I guess, to spare the embarrassment of pelvic thrusts in mixed company. How about spoiling your child rotten with Hammacher's "6½-foot teddy bear" for $500. If that's too sissified, the NFL Shop will warp the values of your little tough guy with a personalized 12-minute CD of a football game in which the announcer says the kid's name 30 times. It's never too early to learn that it's all about you.
Frontgate offers a machine that enriches your oxygen as it plays music. An up-and-comer called X-treme Geek has caffeinated soap, a talking toilet-tissue holder, and, for the guy whose girlfriend doesn't hate him enough already, a Wild West revolver-shaped TV remote, which makes a loud gunshot as it changes channels. It comes with a "super-cool official-looking sheriff's badge."
The Signals company tempts pet lovers with the "I kiss my dog on the lips" T-shirt, but I have my eye on the coat rack with three duck tails for hangers. Not to be outdone, What on Earth offers a "cat butt magnet set," to go with its flatulent toy puppy ("squeeze his belly") and a Bill Clinton figurine with a corkscrew coming out of his pants.
Wolferman's offers 44 pages of … muffins?! Fahrney's offers 56 pages of … pens!? Don't miss the Marlene Dietrich model ("sensuous curves in all the right places"), a bargain at $880, or the $3,000 "pen of the year" (who voted?).
From high-end catalogs on down, the one constant is the writing, which is excellent across the board. (Is this what good writers have to do to eat these days?) Oh, some are better than others. Fahrney's thinks the plural of entry is "entrys"—a store devoted to writing can't make such a dumb mistake. National Geographic's otherwise classy mailer misfires with the awkward "spiders are one of the creepiest crawlers out there." Spiders, plural, are "one"? Why not "a spider is"? Sahalie's writes "completely waterproof." How is that different from just "waterproof"? Orvis Men's Clothing says, "Crafted in New England, you'll appreciate the comfort." This sentence, taken literally, means "you" were crafted in New England. Herrington's high-spirited but sloppy catalog spells minuscule "miniscule." Herrington is also one of many catalogs that can't get the subject to agree with the verb: "Every one of our vintage Ferraris are parked …" No, every one is parked. Subject-verb agreement is a big problem nowadays, and reflects the carelessness and short attention spans this era will be remembered for.
When you read as many of these things as I did, you come to realize that catalogs have their own language, rules, and customs. Numbers are almost never spelled out, not even leading off a sentence. That's against all civilized rules of writing, but merchants want to be direct, not correct. They're targeting our eyes, not our brains. Capitals are thrown around extravagantly because anything capitalized looks Important and Impressive. Hyphens are avoided wherever possible because advertisers will always choose two simple words with a clean space between them over one long, confusing word with an ungainly bar right in the middle.
Many companies sell jewelry made with "Swarovski crystals," a fancy term for rhinestones, which is in turn a euphemism for phony gemstones. And countless catalogs feature "nutcrackers," so called because they were inspired by the popular Tchaikovsky Christmastime ballet. The 21st-century versions look to be useless, charmless statuettes, tackier than tin soldiers. You can get them wearing uniforms of your favorite pro sports team or branch of the military. Despite the name, I doubt they could even crack a moldy peanut. Their heads don't even bobble.
Finally, see if you can figure out what this list of words culled from several catalogs refers to: chianti, chili, dirt, dragonfly, dusk, espresso, grasshopper, mineral, nutmeg, ocean, persimmon, raisin, root beer, sesame, spa, sweet pea, sweet potato, toast.
You might as well give up, because you'll never guess. They're … colors?! "Oh, sweetheart, you look fabulous in that root beer muumuu!" "Thank you, darling, and that dragonfly-and-dirt sweater goes so well with your spa-and-dusk striped tie and those toast trousers."
—Tom Stern
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Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 7:12 pm
Media Watch
Several weeks ago, a Vatican-endorsed medal honoring Pope Francis had to be recalled because Jesus was spelled "Lesus." Just last week, a political placard at a Washington, D.C., press conference spelled filibuster "fillibuster" and against "againts." In light of these disgraces, it seems the right time to reopen our Media Malfeasance file…
• "They have arrested two suspects, neither of whom are British." This decades-old problem is only getting worse. To journalists it may concern: The pronoun neither, like either and each, is always singular. Make it "neither of whom is British."
• "Prop. 32 is an initiative to curb union's influence." Ah, apostrophes. Note that one could also say "to curb the influence of unions"—that's unions, plural. Plural nouns ending in s show possession with the apostrophe after the s, not before. So make it "curb unions' influence."
• "Guess who's coming to dinner?" Looks all right, you say? The problem is the unnecessary question mark. "Guess" is an imperative—a direct order, not the first word in a question.
• "Rebecca Solnit's book, Unfathomable City, was celebrated last week." Remove the commas. This is slipshod editing. With the commas, the sentence means that Unfathomable City is the only book Solnit has ever written. In fact, she has written over a dozen.
The rule is that commas set off nonessential information. If the author has written only one book, its title is not essential to the sentence: "Rebecca Solnit's [only] book, Unfathomable City, was celebrated last week." But since she has written several, we must be told which book directly—no commas. Similarly, The actor, Robert De Niro, was there is incorrect with commas. But The president of the United States, Barack Obama, was there is correct.
As writers' skills decline, so do readers' standards. The acerbic avant-garde musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) once described a rock 'n' roll magazine as "written by people who can't write for people who can't read." Were he alive today, Zappa might not limit his assessment to rock-music journalism.
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See if you can spot the flaws in these actual quotations from the media.
1. "…shot himself with a riffle."
2. "Is it fair to compare the two crisis?"
3. "It does so many other things that drives up the cost."
4. "Everyone has come out looking badly."
5. "Dow closes at new record high."
Pop Quiz Answers
1. "…shot himself with a rifle."
2. "Is it fair to compare the two crises?"
3. "It does so many other things that drive up the cost."
4. "Everyone has come out looking bad."
5. "Dow closes at record high." ("new record" is a redundancy)
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Posted on Monday, November 25, 2013, at 1:36 pm
Words Can Be Bullies
Words that start with the letter h don't always act like it.
Consider "herb," when it means "an aromatic plant used for seasoning in cooking." Americans dump the h, whereas many Brits pronounce it. So we say "an 'erb," but an Englishman says "a herb."
A different sort of h-confusion happens when self-important speakers and writers say "an historic occasion" or "an heroic soldier." Ever notice that "an" only precedes a few highfalutin h-words like "historic(al)," "hypothetical," "hallucinogenic"? And they tend to have three or more syllables: "An heroic soldier" is also "a hero."
About 20 years ago, Time magazine ran a front-cover headline beginning, "A Historic…" and misguided word nerds raised a furor, insisting Time should have said "An Historic"—but the magazine never budged, stating flatly that "an historic" is wrong.
In everyday conversation, would you describe a wailing brat as "an hysterical child"? I sincerely doubt it. But what makes "hysterical" so different from "historical"?
A Google check yields tips from various websites, which only reinforce common sense: "You should use 'an' before a word beginning with an 'H' only if the 'H' is not pronounced" (from the website wsu.edu/~brians/errors/anhistoric.html).
Or this: "you use an before vowel sounds…Following this rule, we would say 'a historic,' not 'an historic' " (betterwritingskills.com).
Or this one, which ought to seal the deal: "I'd love to hear a reasonable argument, based on logic and not convention, in support of 'an historic'…given the prevalence of such similar constructions as 'a hotel downtown' and 'a high bar' and 'a hitman killed my dog' " (ask.metafilter.com).
Pomposity often leads to tortured language. I remember lawyer-turned-sportscaster Howard Cosell, rest his troubled soul, and the way he regularly subjected professional athletes to his cruel and unusual polysyllabic punishment. In general, jocks are spoiled, semi-educated boors, and they know it, so the tug-of-war between them and Cosell was great theater.
At its most sublime, it involved boxing champion Muhammad Ali. He and Howard made a great team, and there was genuine love and trust there. Whatever his faults, Cosell, perhaps at the risk of his own career, had taken up for the draft-evading Ali when the champ was something of a national pariah. (YouTube.com has many wonderful sequences of these two through the years.)
Although there was a good Cosell, all too often we got Bad Howard, neurotically insecure, the one who knew he was kept at arm's length by these great physical geniuses—and resented it. He knew they mocked him, not caring that Cosell had more knowledge of more subjects than all of them put together. So he would sometimes do perverse things, like the time he bullied a poor rookie football player from some Deep South ghetto. Bad Howard said something like: "So, my young friend, in your estimation, did the immensity of the task assigned you, juxtaposed with the metaphysical certainty of your callow demeanor, effectuate a lessened or heightened capacity on your part?"
I'm not kidding. That's pretty close to what Howard said. As the kid listened, his eyes widened with terror and confusion, as if he were being swarmed by a raging horde of ruthless linebackers. I don't recall his answer.
—Tom Stern
Pop Quiz
As we discussed last time, the great writer Elmore Leonard, who died August 20, deplored adverbs. Experienced writers like Leonard prefer strong nouns and verbs. In this quiz, try rewriting each sentence with greater precision and economy. There are no correct answers, but our suggestions may be found in the Answers section.
1. Avoiding wordiness is basically a simple principle of good writing.
2. He went into the room quickly.
3. She was incredibly thrilled by the experience.
4. He said things about us that were viciously harmful and insulting.
5. The committee strongly expressed disapproval of them.
Pop Quiz Answers
1. Avoiding wordiness is a fundamental of good writing.
2. He hurried into the room.
3. The experience elated her.
4. He vilified us.
5. The committee censured them.
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MIT Developing New Thermophotovoltaic System for Vehicle Power
17 May 2006
|Essential parts of a TPV system. Source: MIT LEES
MIT researchers are working to improve an old concept—the thermophotovoltaic (TPV) conversion of heat into electricity using photovoltaic (PV) diodes—to power vehicle electric subsystems.
The new TPV system would use a small amount of fuel to heat an emitter to approximately 1,500 Kelvin (1,227° C), shine the resulting intense light on new types of photo diode cells to generate electricity, and bounce any excess light back to the light source to help keep it glowing-hot.
Such a light-based system would not replace the car's engine, but it would consume far less fuel than currently required to keep a heavy, multi-cylinder engine running, even at low speed. In theory, TPV system efficiency could be as high as 40% or 50%.
The system consists of a vertical-cavity enhanced resonant thermal emitter, a spectral control component and PV cells. The PV cells, made of a new material such as gallium-antimonide, would surround the glowing emitter picking up the radiated light.
A highly specialized filter—the spectral control component—set between the two, would let the most useful light wavelengths pass through to hit the photo diodes, while reflecting light of less useful wavelengths back to the heating element, pumping up the temperature.
What's new here is the opportunity for a much more effective energy system to be created using new semiconductor materials and the science of photonics.—Professor John Kassakian, director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES)
The relatively high efficiency compared to photovoltaic systems in use today is expected to come from the ability to fine-tune all three main parts of this system: the light emitter, the photo diode cells, and a way to scavenge light at wavelengths that might otherwise be wasted.
The concept of TPV systems is not new. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, much research was done on TPV and light-harvesting technology, first to create solar energy systems for spacecraft, and then in response to energy shortages that spurred an intense burst of research into various alternative energy technologies. It is the advances in the various constituent technologies that now makes this more viable.
This new technology is what makes it a very attractive system. There are the new materials that let us build more appropriate photo diodes. There's our new understanding of photonics that lets us build the selective emitters. And there's the photonic band-gap filter, made of thin silicon and silicon-dioxide layers that act as selective mirrors, letting the desired wavelengths through and reflecting back the rest.—John Kassakian
Cooling remains an issue to be solved, and the team is working with different materials to see which work best in terms of light emissions, light harvesting and light reflection.
The researchers are focusing on developing an automotive system that will take excess heat from the TPV system and use it to drive the car's heating and air conditioning systems. This would replace both the alternator and air conditioner, both of which are now run by the engine.
TPV systems could mesh with hybrid vehicle technology, and be applied to providing auxiliary power for long-haul trucks.
Initial funding for the research was from the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems. The work is presently funded in part by Toyota, but Toyota has made no decision to develop this technology for automobiles.
MIT LEES Thermophotovoltaics project site
Photonic Crystals for Thermophotovoltaic Applications (poster)
"Resonant-cavity enhanced thermal emission"; Ivan Celanovic, David Perreault, and John Kassakian; Phys. Rev. B 72, 075127 (2005)
"Optical characteristics of one-dimensional Si/SiO2 photonic crystals for thermophotovoltaic applications"; Francis O'Sullivan, Ivan Celanovic, Natalija Jovanovic, John Kassakian, Shoji Akiyama, and Kazumi Wada; J. Appl. Phys. 97, 033529 (2005)
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They need to make a longer-wavelength version which can operate on engine exhaust heat.
Actually, I believe the A/C in the hybrid Camry runs of electric power.
If Toyota is partly funding this, you can bet they have a real interest in this technology, so expect to see it show up in some form on production vehicles.
There is potential for using this for co-generation in a lot of different places - from wood stoves to nuclear reactors.
Fantastic if it scales and is not too expensive.
I assume you could burn the fuel in a very clean way and so get a cleaner electric car running on Gasoline !
(or diesel) or any biofuel.
No hydrogen required !
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You are correct, the US will need an additional 50% increase in electrical power in the next 20 years. Thermoelectrics can provide a very large contribution (80-95% of projected demand increase) without increasing emmisions of GHGs. Further implementation/improvements of thermoelectrics/votaics will improve the efficiencies of heat engines like automobiles, ships, Strerling engines, etc. Add in technologies like plants with co-generation, coal gasification (also eliminates Sulfur oxides and heavy metals), sequestation, algae oil/biomass production, you can start moving away from fossil energy and towards susutainable energy.
You have to pick the materials you use to build the P-N junction, this determines the band gap
To tune it for a longer wavelength (lower energy photon) you need a lower band gap.
This is all fine and good however we are limited in the materials we have, and a photon with more energy than the band gap energy does not produce more power it just produces more heat.
"Why can't we choose a material with a really low band gap, so we can use more of the photons? Unfortunately, our band gap also determines the strength (voltage) of our electric field, and if it's too low, then what we make up in extra current (by absorbing more photons), we lose by having a small voltage."
nothing is ever easy
Allen Zheng, I like your thinking. Even better would be to choose to target a 25% reduction in consumption in the next 20 years. Can you imagine that?
This looks like a candidate for use with reflective solar concentrators as the energy source. Interesting!
How does this technology compare to the technology behind the old vacuum tubes?
The Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University did some work with a thermophotovoltaic powered electric car starting in the mid 90s. It used a 10 kWhr battery as a buffer between the thermophotovoltaic power plant and the electric motor.
They only claimed 7% efficiency for the thermophotovoltaic power plant, though. Not 40-50%.
Layman's comment; A similar technology is currently being marketed and run in diesel long haul rigs to eliminate the alternator for fuel efficiency. It replaces the muffler on the exhaust stacks. Probably not nearly as efficient, of course
There was a story on here about engine heat and thermoelectric semiconductors a while back. The impression I got was that the efficiency was in the single digits. Even though most of the energy used in an ICE goes out as heat, until the conversion efficiency goes up, it may not be very cost effective.
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Where can I read about this similar technology that is currently being used on long haul stacks?
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It seems they MAY use it in their automobiles. I live in Tokyo and I will attend a press conference at Toyota Head Office on the 16th of June (2006) to discuss it. I will do more research to be sure. If anyone is interested or can give me additional information please feel free to contact me ;)
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Interesting, where can I learn more? I would like to study pv concepts. I'm currently an engineering student with a devoping fondness of physics.
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Remograph Releases OpenGL-based Remo 3D v2.5
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Remograph today announced the release of Remo 3D v2.5. This new version 2.5 of Remo 3D brings a new Modify UV tool, improvements to the script and macro support and other various fixes. The full list of new features and improvements can be found in the release notes on our website. Remo 3D was developed using OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, FLTK and Lua.
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CryEngine 3 now fully supports Linux and OpenGL
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CryEngine, the game engine developed by Crytek that is used by a number of large games including Crysis, Homefront: The Revolution, Ryse, and Star Citizen, now officially supports Linux. As a rather pleasing side effect of Linux support, CryEngine now also has a full-featured OpenGL rendering implementation.
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Mesa 10.6.0 adds support for several new OpenGL extensions to various video drivers. It's a lengthy list, so you'll need to check it out in the release notes. As well, it looks like OpenVG support has been removed.
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There is no doubt of the success of Lululemon, the go-to store pricey athletic apparel. They rarely put items on sale, and when they do they are in very limited quanities. Is that all about to change?
According to Business Insider, a financial update from the company reveals that profits are down, making some investors raise eyebrows. So will they change up their game plan? Maybe putting a tank or two on sale? No, not at all.
Lululemon's CEO Christine Day explained her stay-the-course methods:
People thought we were going to start playing that game, which absolutely isn't true. You can't blink. The consumer sees Black Week, which is what we call the week of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the consumers are savvy and they're waiting for retailers to discount. You'll either offer promotions or not, and we're in the "not" category. You've got to shape your buying patterns to respond to that. If you're not going to discount you've got to have some bold and unusual things planned, which we do here.I can't wait to see what that means!
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Internet Matchmaking is ready for Partnership
Usage in the online dating category might be down, but revenues are up. Why? Because most of the prominent sites are subscription based with members paying up to $30 a month to use their service. With advertising revenues dropping over the course of this year, any subscription based business that provides true value to their customers will be in better position to weather the storm ahead. Still, what most online dating sites have not done is developed a Partnership Strategy to acquire new customers or members aside from using traditional direct marketing channels and leverage other sites with large and relevant demographic profiles to do so. It starts with understanding who your demographic profiles are and looking to effectively target those users somewhere else. Here is a recent study from emarketer on who is using online dating sites:
Given that the demographic of online daters is now pretty evenly spread from 18-64, it does provide the online dating service provider with many options for partnership. Partnering with other sites to acquire a new customer by way of a special offer and promoting their proposition in return is certainly more cost effective than advertising on your own. I know that Lavalife is looking more and more in to this strategy - should be interesting to see how this plays out.
Ron Kunitzky, an expert in strategic business affiliations and partnerships is the founder of Geyser Marketing Group, and has successfully brokered partnership marketing programs for companies as varied as Coastal Contacts, Dell Computer, NASDAQ, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
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$30/month is way too much. I can't believe people pay that.
I don't use online dating, but I would assume that services like this would be among the first hit – $30/mo back in your pocket is hard to pass up during times like this!!
$30, as if people pay that! I thought these would be hit pretty hard to be honest.
Well, one must realize that they are all giving up a certain amount of server load and bandwidth to "tease" the internet dater into the mouse trap. The join!
Once the join happens, there are upsells all over the place. Now, from a business stand point, rock on…if you can upsell your existing customer base, power to you.
The power of online dating has grown tremendously and from a partnership standpoint, dating sites will convert traffic that traditional sites may not be able to monetize for a variety of reasons.
But I would negotiate with each prospective dating company you are entertaining and they will all cut deals based on volume and even conversion.
The answer is always "No" unless you ask!"
Also, if anyone needs to question weather or not Internet Matchmaking is ready for partnership or not…should check out a conference that's been around now for about 2 years called "iDate". It's thrown by a guy who gets the dating space and is seeing it grow exponentially.
Once the join happens, there are upsells all over the place. Now, from a business stand point, rock on…if you can upsell your existing customer base, power to you.
Some people are really paying that $30 just for online dating. Sounds different.
If you take adult dating sites for example, they can afford to pay their affiliates up to $130 per signup so I guess $30 is very cheap for certain types of dating sites.


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The ruling could affect bison in Wyoming, and its implementation and impact will be watched closely in Wyoming, where buffalo sometimes stray from the park as well.
District Judge E. Wayne Phillips issued a 78-page ruling siding with state officials and conservation groups that have sought to ease restrictions on bison movements.
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There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:7
Martie and I recently traveled to some major cities in several countries. We were struck with how lost our world is and grieved over the millions who have never heard the message of the saving grace of Jesus. The thought of reaching our world for Christ felt overwhelming.
Until I remembered the story of the boy walking on a beach. Encountering hundreds of starfish dying under the heat of the burning sun, he started throwing them back into the sea. A passerby asked, What are you doing? Saving their lives, the boy replied. Forget it, the man said. You cant possibly save all these starfish. Right, replied the boy, but it makes a big difference to each one I do save.
I love the boys perspective. When the wave of sin threw us onto the shore to die, God sent His Son to walk on the beach to rescue all who would repent. And, as Jesus told His listeners in Luke 15, each time someone is rescued, heaven throws a party. I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance (Luke 15:7).
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Proposal: Our topic is bullying. It is important because it happens at schools, on the playgrounds and if continues, then it can lead to bullying workers and co-workers, or it can lead to abusing someone else like family members. A bully can affect the school environment in a negative way. If you have a positive leader at the same place they could reduce the negative impact of a bully.
Bullying can feel upsetting, offensive, hurtful, revengeful, or if you are at work or school, you may not be able to concentrate as well, or you might not give as much effort as you can. It can affect your self-esteem, for life. The purpose of the project is to show the effects of bullying on people and we are trying to lower the number of bullying situations. We hope that by educating people on the effects of bullying, they can see how harmful it can be.
We plan to do a tree computer model or an epidemic type model using Star Logo. We plan to show the negative impact a bully can have on others, but we also hope to show how a positive person can have a good impact on others. We are going to create an outdoor simulation of our model at our school. We plan to talk with Mrs. Lauritzen and Dr. Csanadi about bullying.
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A PERSON called Sara from an organisation called the Institute of HeartMath seems to know something that the rest of the scientific world doesn't. Geraldine Goon directs us to an article in the online publication Care2 entitled "Can You Change Your DNA?" The answer, Sara seems to think, is: "Yes, you can".
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When I first found this recipe, I could not see how it would work. I mean, does chocolate & lemonade really go?
Well, I am here to say, YES IT DOES!!
This is based on an old Tupperware recipe, {a long time ago, I was a Tupperware Lady!} & it is very quick & easy. Did I mention that I made it in the microwave? Well, I did! From start to finish, you will have a cake in around 15 minutes. It also has only a few ingredients.
- 1 packet of chocolate cake mix
- 1 packet chocolate instant pudding mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup lemonade
I just used a "no name brand" of chocolate cake mix & a Packet of chocolate pudding that was on special.
Place all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl & mix together with a whisk.
Add the rest of the ingredients & stir with a spatula or wooden soon until all combined.
Pour the mixture into a microwave safe cake pan. I used a siliconcake pan from Tupperware {to go with the Tupperware recipe of course!}
Make sure to give it a good spray with oil so that the cake does not stick & comes out easily.
Place on top of an upside down microwave safe dinner plate in the microwave & cook on high for between 7-9 minutes (microwave times may vary)
Let sit in the pan on a cake cooling rack until completely cool then turn out onto a plate.
Ice with icing & serve with a dollop of whipped cream.
This cake is light from the lemonade but very chocolaty (yes, it is a word, spell check even said so!) & it is so quick to make. It does not taste like a microwave cake. It is perfect!
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A Look at NY Fashion Week: Weird and Wonderful
NEW YORK—There was a wall that oozed chocolate, a streaker on the runway, a gallery turned into a freaky fashion cathedral, an entire armory outfitted with fake puffy clouds, and so much snow—real snow—that even dedicated fashionistas traded in stilettos for boots. (Well, some fashionistas.)
There were celebrities galore, from newly minted fashion star Lupita Nyong'o to David Beckham to Katie Holmes to Chelsea Clinton. And of course there were the clothes: from jewel-encrusted gowns destined for the Oscar red carpet to huge, comfy sweaters—which, given the weather, were frankly much more inviting. There was much to admire fashion-wise, and some head-scratchers, too.
But here are some of the non-sartorial moments—weird, wonderful, or otherwise notable—that caught our eye during Fashion Week:
The Show Goes to Brooklyn
It was the year of the great trek. Even more top designers than in the past left the tents at Lincoln Center, like Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors, both traveling downtown to Tribeca. But what really got attention was Alexander Wang's decision to have his show in, gasp, Brooklyn. At the Navy Yard, yet. Given the buzz surrounding Wang—who's only 30 but already a big name in fashion—it was a no-brainer that people would come. The question was only how annoyed they'd be, especially on a frigid Saturday night. Luckily, Wang put on a show, with leather that changed color on the spot when heated, a rotating stage, and a set that resembled a post-apocalyptic world—which was where, frankly, many Manhattan-centric guests felt they were.
Weather, Weather, and More Weather
There was snow, sleet, freezing rain, and slush, melting into huge brown puddles. Nature was least kind to Ralph Lauren, whose show took place during the worst of Thursday's snowstorm, but hey—everybody came, even one woman in heels who hitched a ride on her boyfriend's back. This was Ralph Lauren, after all.
Can We Get Some of That?
The design house Opening Ceremony had the yummiest show of the week. Chocolate oozed down a massive white wall. Some guests dipped their fingers in it or even lapped it up. "My mind is blown," said Joe Jonas—yes, of the Jonas brothers. "It does smell like something is baking," said singer Kelly Rowland, a judge on "The X Factor."
Don't Step on the Mulch!
That was the unusual warning from a guard to guests at the Tommy Hilfiger show inside the cavernous Park Avenue Armory, with a set that evoked a winter's day in a place far more idyllic than slushy Manhattan. It included a log cabin, fir trees, and fake snow mixed with, yes, mulch.
At Least He Was Fit
Like all designers, Prabal Gurung prepped for months to put on a show that lasted less than 15 minutes. The show got a lot of attention, but not just for the clothes. A streaker wearing an animal-print G-string, a party crown, bright red tube socks, and loafers ran onstage and knelt before a model, who never broke her model stare. At an after-party, Gurung responded with humor, handing out similar crowns to his friends.
Celebs and More Celebs
Celebrity sightings are a major part of Fashion Week. Here are some we saw:
Carrie Underwood at Peter Som and Rebecca Minkoff. Oscar supporting-actor nominee Jared Leto at Jeremy Scott. Supporting actress nominee Lupita Nyong'o at Calvin Klein (alongside Naomi Watts). Michael Douglas, Blake Lively, and Freida Pinto at Michael Kors. "Orange is the New Black" actress Samira Wiley—in an orange jumpsuit!—at BCBG Max Azria. David Beckham, taking a selfie with his toddler daughter, at Victoria Beckham of course. Chelsea Clinton alongside rocker Bono at Edun.
Others: Katie Holmes and Hugh Jackman at Donna Karan. Jon Bon Jovi at Kenneth Cole. Lil' Kim at The Blonds, with a baby bump! Actress Anna Kendrick, everywhere.
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn missed the Sochi games because of a knee injury, but she walked the runway at the Red Dress Collection, a show that promotes awareness of heart disease. She raised her crutches in the air like ski poles.
Oh, and Kanye West didn't show up at Wang, as expected. But there was a Kardashian link: Young model Kendall Jenner, daughter of Kris and Bruce Jenner and half-sister of Kim, walked the runway at Marc Jacobs. In a see-through top. People noticed.
Real People on the Runway
In a populist touch, Donna Karan brought everyday New Yorkers onto the runway at her DKNY show (along with the models, of course). They included a DJ, a biologist, a "night life hostess," and a "tattoo artist/ pro skateboarder." Some even had (gasp) gray hair. Karan explained: "DKNY really is about the streets of New York."
Speaking of Karan, the influential designer marked 30 years of her signature line with a tear and a wave. And Diane von Furstenberg, with a splashy show that ended in a shower of gold confetti, celebrated the 40th anniversary of her famous wrap dress, now getting renewed attention in the '70s-themed Oscar-nominated film "American Hustle."
Strange Color Names
Every year designers seem to come up with more inventive names for colors. Examples this year: Anthracite, from Zac Posen. Cement, from Richard Chai. And the winner, Soy Chai—as in the latte—from BCBG Max Azria.
Oscar Wishes
Designers are coveting spots on that Oscar red carpet March 2. Michael Kors and Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig explained that they won't know if anyone's wearing their designs until the moment that star steps on the red carpet. Whom would Kors like to dress? Cate Blanchett, for one. Vera Wang said she's always ached to dress Tilda Swinton.
A Cloudy Finale
A fashion show is often not just about clothes, it's about the show. And so the Jacobs show was a fitting finale to the week. The designer outfitted the enormous Lexington Avenue Armory with clouds—actually pillows hanging from the rafters. Each guest had a pod to sit on, a single flower placed on each. When it was over, everyone left the fake cloudy sky—to step out into the real, rainy one.


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