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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is the number one tourist attraction in Alabama. Visitors can experience dozens of demonstrations, hand-on exhibits, simulators, and movies in an IMAX theater, all of which focus on the past, present, and future of space exploration.
Just some of the many rides and simulators at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center include the Space Walk, which is a motion-based simulator that makes participants feel as if they are on a mission to complete the International Space Station. The Space Station is another motion-based simulator that blasts participants 140 feet (43 meters) into the air with four Gs of force. The G-Force Accelerator lets participants experience three times the force of gravity while spinning on the accelerator. At the Mars Climbing Wall, participants can climb a mock-up of a cliff face on a Martian volcano, or on Olympus Mons.
The grounds of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center include Rocket Park, the world's largest collection of rocketry. Other exhibits include an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and an actual space shuttle where visitors can stand behind a "full stack"--the space shuttle, external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.Add to your Trip Planner
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Occupying 67 acres (27 hectares) among the rolling hills south of the downtown area, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a nice place to visit in order to relax and enjoy plants, flowers, and landscape design. It is the most visited free attraction in Alabama.
The botanical gardens contains more than 12,000 plants and features over 30 themed gardens with different categories of plants classified into one of three types: Gardens of Collections, Gardens of Nature, and Gardens of Culture. Gardens of Collections focus on plants from one genus, family, or other identified group. Gardens of Nature feature trees and plants native to the southeastern United States. And Gardens of Culture showcase particular styles of landscape design or aspects of human culture.
There are miles of walking trails that wind through the gardens and trees, more than 30 works of outdoor sculpture, and benches and swings conveniently situated to offer a place to rest or just enjoy nature. Visitors can also visit the Garden Center, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens Library (which is the largest public horticultural library in the United States), the Conservatory (which is the largest glass greenhouse in the Southeast), the Gatehouse Gift Shop, and the Café de France.
One of the most popular places on the garden grounds is the Japanese Garden (pictured here) which includes a Japanese tea house and Zen garden.Add to your Trip Planner
The Southern Museum of Flight
Founded in 1966, the Southern Museum of Flight is one of the largest and most comprehensive aviation museums in the South. Its main focus is on civilian, military, and experimental aircraft, as well as the history of early aviation and the pioneers who made flight possible.
The museum's exhibits are housed in a 75,000-square-foot (6,966-square-meter) facility which contains more than 90 aircraft, 38 engines, 200 models, artifacts, and hundreds of photographs and paintings. Some of the more noteworthy aircraft include a Fokker D-VII and a MiG-15. The collection of artifacts includes pieces from the Red Baron, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the light bulb used by the Wright Brothers on their first night flights.
Major exhibits feature certain aspects of aviation history and include Korean War Jets, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Lake Murray B-25 (a Second World War-era craft that was recovered from the depths of Lake Murray in South Carolina after being submerged for 62 years), Vietnam War Helicopters, and Huff- Daland Crop Dusters.
The Southern Museum of Flight also houses the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, which contains over 65 biographical plaques honoring inductees who have made significant contributions to aviation.Add to your Trip Planner
The Twickenham Historic District
The Twickenham Historic District is just one of three historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville. Twickenham, which was an early name for the City of Huntsville, was named after a London suburb where the poet Alexander Pope lived. He was a relative of one of the early settlers in Huntsville. Twickenham is the largest antebellum district in Alabama, with many fine examples of early nineteenth-century homes in Federal, Italianate, and Classical architectural styles. Many were designed by Virginia-born architect George Steele. The oldest home in the district dates from 1814, and most were built around 1818.
The city's early attorneys, bankers, and merchants built fashionable brick homes in the area, many of which were seized by the Union army during the American Civil War. This probably saved them from being destroyed during the war.
The Twickenham Historic District is roughly bounded by Randolph Avenue on the north, Lowe Avenue on the south, California Street on the east, and Franklin Street on the west.Add to your Trip Planner
The SR-71 Blackbird
One of the exhibits at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center is the SR-71 Blackbird. Developed for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks more than 30 years ago, it is still the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft. Able to travel three times the speed of sound at 2,000 miles per hour (3,200 kilometers per hour), the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest aircraft in the world able to take off under its own power. Its maximum ceiling is 85,000 feet (26,000 meters), and maximum range is 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) unrefueled.Add to your Trip Planner
The Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art is the largest municipal museum in the Southeast, with over 24,000 works of art from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Its collection is housed in a building that was designed by the architectural firm of Warren, Knight and Davis. Completed in 1959, the building has since undergone several major expansions, giving it its current total of 180,000 square feet (16,723 square meters) of space.
The collection, which dates from ancient to modern times, includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, decorative arts, and textiles. The museum contains one of the finest collections of Asian art in the Southeast, and its collection of Vietnamese ceramics is arguably the most comprehensive in the nation. And it houses the world's largest museum collection of Wedgwood china. The museum also has an impressive collection of paintings, ranging from Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the thirteenth century to the 1700s, to contemprary American works. Some of the more notable artists whose works are represented in the museum's collection include Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederic Remington, and Andy Warhol.
Other features of the Birmingham Museum of Art include its multi-level Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden and the Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. Library, one of the leading art-research libraries in the Southeast.
The Birmingham Museum of Art also hosts over 15 traveling exhibitions and more than 250 special events per year.Add to your Trip Planner
The Huntsville Museum of Art
The Huntsville Museum of Art is northern Alabama's premier visual arts center, and has been named as one of the state's top ten destinations by the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel.
The museum was established in 1970, but did not put on its first gallery exhibit until 1973. Its collection was first housed in the Von Braun Center in 1975, and it was moved to its present location in 1998. The museum's new building has a total of 52,000 square feet (4,831 square meters), including 15,000 square feet (1,394 square meters) of gallery space.
The museum's seven galleries house a 2,300-piece permanent collection divided into two categories: American art and regional artists, and other arts from Europe, Asia, and Africa. Notable artists represented in the American collection include Andy Warhol and James Whistler. Examples of works from around the world include European and Japanese prints, Chinese glassware, and African sculptures. The museum also features the world's largest collection of silver animal figures and a Southern photography collection which contains over 200 works.
In addition to is permanent collection, the Huntsville Museum of Art offers a variety of temporary exhibitions throughout the year, including traveling exhibits and the works of regionally and nationally known artists.
Visitors can also shop in the Museum Store and even take classes in the Museum Academy.Add to your Trip Planner
The Weeden House Museum
What is now the Weeden House Museum was built in 1819 by Henry Bradford. The two-story brick home was built in the Federal style, a type of of architecture popular at the time. It was later owned by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John McKinley. However, the house is better known as the birthplace and home of poet and artist Maria Howard Weeden, whose poetry and paintings captured the essence of nineteenth-century Southern culture. Dr. William Weeden purchased the house in 1845, and Maria Howard Weeden, the youngest of the Weeden children, was born in the house in 1846. She later went on to become a noted watercolorist and poet.
During the American Civil War, the house was requisitioned for use by Union officers, which probably saved it from being destroyed.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Weeden House is now a fine museum that depicts Southern life in the 1840s. It is furnished with period antiques from the mid-1800s, and prints of Maria Howard Weeden's watercolors and books of her poetry are on sale in the gift shop.Add to your Trip Planner
The Sloss Furnaces
Ironmaking was one of the first industries to be developed in Birmingham because the raw materials needed for making iron--iron ore, limestone, and coal--are found in abundance in the hills and mountains surrounding the city.
For over 90 years, those raw materials were turned into pig iron at the Sloss Furnaces. The heart of the Sloss operation was a pair of blast furnaces used to melt down the raw materials into iron. In addition to the blast furnaces, the ironmaking process involved blowers to pump blasts of air; stoves to heat the air; boilers to produce steam to drive the equipment; and a network of pipes to carry steam, water, and gas.
The Sloss Furnaces closed in 1971, but have since been developed into a unique community center, hosting concerts, dramas, and special events, with the east cast shed having been transformed into an amphitheater.
Since the facility closed, there have been numerous sightings of apparitions and reports of unexplained voices and sounds. This prompted three popular televisions programs, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Ghost Asylum to film episodes here, making the Sloss Furnaces a must-see destination for those interested in the paranormal.
The Sloss Funaces have been designated a National Historic Landmark.Add to your Trip Planner
The EarlyWorks Children's History Museum
The EarlyWorks Children's History Museum is the largest hands-on history museum in the South. Exhibits portray Alabama's early history in ways that are fun, and at the same time educational, for children.
All the exhibits are designed for touching and learning. Older children can explore The Gallery, where they can hear stories told by the Talking Tree, play giant instruments at the Alabama Grandstand, build a house at the interactive architectural exhibit, explore a 46-foot (14-meter) river keelboat, buy and trade at the General Store, sign Alabama's constitution at the courthouse, learn facts about the state from the Talking Clock, and try on clothing from the 1800s at the Federal House.
Toddlers and younger children will enjoy Biscuit's Backyard, which features touch-and learn exhibits, including a general store, barn, garden, post office, treehouse, water table, and even karaoke.Add to your Trip Planner
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame was founded in 1978 to honor great jazz musicians with ties to Alabama. The museum opened in 1993 in the historic Art-Deco Carver Theatre, one of the few theaters in Birmingham that allowed blacks as patrons before desegregation.
The museum contains 2,200 square feet (204 square meters) of exhibit space, and features jazz memorabilia that includes instruments, paintings, quilts, and personal effects from such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, W.C. Handy, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Nat "King" Cole, Erskine Hawkins, and Sun Ra, to name but a few.
One of the missions of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame is to educate and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz and its history. To that end, some the programs it sponsors include jazz performances in its 504-seat theater and around the Birmingham area, school visits by jazz musicians, free jazz classes every Saturday, the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Student All-Star Band, "Fun with Jazz" educational programs, and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Jazz Band Festival.Add to your Trip Planner
The Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens
The two-story Greek Revival Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens is a fine example of the antebellum plantation houses that were once a common sight in the South. Unfortunately, many of these beautiful homes were destroyed during the American Civil War. The Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens is the only antebellum mansion left in Birmingham.
The house was built between 1845 and 1850 by Judge William S. Mudd, one of the ten founders of Birmingham. It was originally located in the town of Elyton, the former county seat of Jefferson County. As nearby Birmingham grew and expanded, it eventually enveloped and incorporated Elyton, which no longer exists as an independent municipality.
During the American Civil War, the mansion was used as a regional headquarters by Union troops as they planned the burning of the University of Alabama.
Nowadays, the Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens serves as a decorative arts museum and features a collection of nineteenth-century furniture, silver, textiles, and paintings. It is situated on six acres (two hectares) of landscaped grounds in a pleasant neighborhood west of downtown Birmingham.
The Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Add to your Trip Planner
The Birmingham Zoo
Opened in 1955, the Birmingham Zoo is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Alabama. It is situated on 122 acres (49 hectares) of wooded land south of the downtown area and features over 800 animals representing more than 200 species from six continents.
Special habitats include the Alligator Swamp; the Savannah, which recreates the African veldt and includes giraffes, greater kudus, gazelles, and ostriches; the Flamingo Lagoon; the Macaw Plaza which features these large, colorful parrots; the Children's Zoo; and an interactive aviary where visitors can feed and pet lorikeets and parrots. Another popular attraction is the sea lion show that is staged at different times throughout the day.
In addition, situated among the grounds of the zoo are different buildings which house exhibits restricted to certain families or categories of animals, including the Predator House, the Primate House, and the Reptile House.Add to your Trip Planner
The Statue of Liberty
No, this is not New York City. Birmingham prides itself on having the "other" Statue of Liberty. The 31-foot (nine-meter), ten-ton (10,160-kilogram) statue was commissioned by Frank Park Stamford, the founder of the Liberty National Life Insurance Company, to serve as a company symbol.
The bronze replica is one-fifth the size of New York City's more famous statue. It was created by sculptors Archer and Lee Lawrie. Casting was done in Sommerville Haute Marine, France in 1959, and was placed on top of the insurance company's home office in Birmingham shortly thereafter. In 1989, the Statue of Liberty was moved to its present location.Add to your Trip Planner
The Saturn V Rocket
Approaching Huntsville on Interstate 565, one of the first things visitors will see in the distance is the 363-foot (111-meter) Saturn V rocket, which towers over the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The Saturn V rocket was built for NASA and used by the Marshall Space Flight Center for dynamic testing before being used to transport astronauts to the moon.
The Saturn V rocket, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark, is the centerpiece of Rocket Park, the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of rocketry. Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn called Rocket Park "the finest rocket collection in the world."Add to your Trip Planner
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A bill that would require swift notification for HealthCare.gov users whose personal information is compromised by hackers won bipartisan House passage Jan. 10, despite opposition from the White House.
The Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee, would require notification by the Department of Health and Human Services within two business days of any breach.
Sixty-seven House Democrats backed the measure, which passed 291-122. However, it was something of a free vote because the Senate is unlikely to consider the bill.
Democratic opponents argued that the legislation is unnecessary. "There have been no successful security breaches of HealthCare.gov," said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). "Nobody's personal information has been maliciously hacked." He suggested that the intent of the bill was to scare people away from using HealthCare.gov.
In a Jan. 9 policy statement, Obama administration officials said a notification system is already in place for breaches of personal information, and the bill would "create unrealistic and costly paperwork requirements that do not improve the safety or security of personally identifiable information" in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Republicans countered that the fact that no breaches have occurred does not mean none ever will.
"While there has been no malicious breach, data has been improperly handled and accidentally disclosed," Pitts said. "With the messy rollout of HealthCare.gov, there is great risk that the website could be hacked. Identity theft is devastating to individuals and families. In the event of theft, we have to make sure that people are protected."
HealthCare.gov collects personal and financial information from users, some of which is fed to other government websites via a data hub to verify individuals' eligibility for coverage. The site does not ask applicants for medical information, and it does not store or transmit medical records.
Passage of the bill was hailed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a leading critic of HealthCare.gov.
"The truth is that actual interviews and depositions taken of the highest-ranking people [who] helped develop this website, both public and private, show there was no end-to-end testing," Issa said during debate on the House floor. "It did not meet the spirit of any definition of a secure website."
The Obama administration also opposes a bill by Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) that would require detailed weekly reporting on the use of HealthCare.gov, including account creation and enrollment. The Exchange Information Disclosure Act, which the House is expected to consider next week, would add "extraneous, costly, and unprecedented reporting requirements on states and the federal government," White House officials said in a statement. HHS currently releases some information along those lines on a monthly basis.
Terry's bill also calls for a detailed accounting of the money spent on repairs and improvements to the site's functionality and information on the government officials charged with overseeing the process. Such an accounting would include information on contractors involved in the "tech surge" led by White House official Jeffrey Zients, which featured an around-the-clock operation to implement software and hardware fixes in the wake of the failed launch of HealthCare.gov last October.
According to a Jan. 10 report in the Washington Post, Accenture will take over for one of those contractors -- CGI Federal. The latter company's main job was building the federally facilitated exchanges, which allow users to sign up for accounts, compare plans and shop for insurance. According to the Post, the pace and quality of the work contributed by CGI Federal during the effort to fix the troubled site played a key role in the decision to remove it from the project. Government information cited in the report indicates that the replacement code CGI Federal supplied failed about half the time.
Accenture's one-year sole-source contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reportedly worth $90 million and is expected to take effect when CGI Federal's contract expires at the end of February.
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Before joining the editing team, Mazmanian was an FCW staff writer covering Congress, government-wide technology policy, health IT and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining FCW, Mr. Mazmanian was technology correspondent for National Journal and served in a variety of editorial at B2B news service SmartBrief. Mazmanian started his career as an arts reporter and critic, and has contributed reviews and articles to the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, Newsday, Architect magazine, and other publications. He was an editorial assistant and staff writer at the now-defunct New York Press and arts editor at the About.com online network in the 1990s, and was a weekly contributor of music and film reviews to the Washington Times from 2007 to 2014.
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"There have been no successful security breaches of HealthCare.gov," - There is no IDS (Intrusion Detection System) installed. How could they possibly know that there haven't been any breaches? That site has been hacked and is continually being hacked even now.
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Here's the good news: for the past 30 years we've all enjoyed watching the value of our homes skyrocket. Now the bad: the housing boom is about to end, and for many Australians – both homeowners and investors – it's going to end in tears. While you think you've heard this all before, remember we now have the highest household debt in the world. Worse still, we have become so blasé about the way we borrow money, we've forgotten the consequences – most importantly, that we need to pay it back. So if you have a home loan and you want to stand any chance of surviving a wipeout, you need to be very, very careful.
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Thursday, 18 February 2016:
At the Commonwealth Bank, we are committed to securing the financial wellbeing of the communities where we operate and one key aspect of this is to ensure we act as a responsible lender. There is no incentive for any bank to lend money to a customer who we do not believe can make repayments. We recognise that among the millions of customers who take loans with us there can be instances where they fall into difficult financial circumstances that neither we nor them could be expected to foresee. When this happens, it is very upsetting and stressful which is why we always encourage customers to speak with us early and to access our comprehensive arrangements for hardship.
In both cases referenced, we have kept the lines of communication open and in the case of the Moloneys we have been in discussions since late 2014. Both the Moloneys and the James' have had the opportunity to take their concerns for independent review by the Financial Ombudsman Service whose findings have confirmed our lending practices were appropriate.
This week we have been in touch with both the Moloneys and the James' to organise a meeting with a specialist from our Customer Assist team. We are committed to better understanding their full circumstances, particularly where we may not be their main banking partner. As part of our discussions we are seeking to explore all options including how we can help them stay in the home in which they live as we work through their particular circumstances.
As Australia transitions from the mining boom, we know there are towns that are experiencing worsening economic conditions however, the vast majority of our customers continue to meet their home loan repayments.
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The statement below is attributable to the General Manager for NAB Assist, Joseph Seychell:
"NAB is absolutely committed to lending responsibly and sustainably to our customers. Due to privacy reasons, we cannot comment on individual customers.
Lending applications are considered on a case by case basis, taking account of individual circumstances. We continually review our risk settings, considering a range of economic factors to get the balance right and manage the risk for our customers and our business.
Valuations in mining and related towns have fallen significantly in recent years from the peaks of 2011-13 as the economy has transitioned, leading to reduced demand for housing and lower rents in these areas. This has in turn impacted residents, investors and communities.
Our NAB Assist teams of specialist bankers have been travelling to many of these areas, talking to local residents, businesses and our customers to gain a first-hand appreciation of the situation.
We are committed to supporting our customers, with our NAB Assist team specially trained to understand their situation and assist based on how we can get the best outcome for them."
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You could say that most Asian films are about the nobility of futile struggle, and my favorite, the grand Korean epic Musa the Warrior, emblematizes this in the best CinemaScope tradition. In coherence if not in sound quality, Wang Guangli's second feature, Go for Broke, is an improvement over his 1998 Maiden Work, as it turns from the latter's Beijing slackers to laid-off state workers who start a private remodeling business against the sci-fi skyline of Shanghai. The six principals play their nonfiction selves as if to add one more commandment to the Dogme tablets, and the result is so authentic and so heartening that the line between documentary and drama is erased. The briefer-titled Go, which took No. 1 in Japan's Kinema Junpo magazine's Best Ten for 2001, is important simply for dealing with being second-generation Korean in Japan, but it ultimately wimps out by treating its hero's status as a badge of cool.
For silliness taken to extremes, Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai's Fulltime Killer is a Japanese vs. Chinese hit-man saga starring Andy Lau as a jealous, epileptic, Clinton-masked exhibitionist who won't settle for less than a gold medal in murder. The two competing assassins bounce around every conceivable Asian capital as it slowly dawns on a dim young woman that she loves both hit men -- but can she keep them from killing each other? Japanese tales of hit-man hegemony include the too-prolific Miike Takashi's Ichi the Killer, which uses imaginatively gruesome means of clearing a room of living beings.
The materialistic desires of an implausibly sweet Bangkok whore and her drug-dealing lover in One Take Only, the festival's only Thai entry, doom them to that "one last job and we're out of here" syndrome. I'm not spoiling anything for you, since their fate is witlessly foreordained. Another entry brain-dead on arrival is The Princess Blade, a live-action story (based on a manga) set in a future North Koreanized Japan, where a lethal young princess avenges her noble mother against a power-hungry group of government collaborators. The sword-fighting scenes (choreographed by Blade II's Donnie Yen) are great fun when you can't see the obvious male doubling of the princess' stunts, but the action is halted midfilm by a simpering romance from an alien genre.
Subtler films reward patience (and maybe a little coffee). The 40-ish couple in Ann Hui's July Rhapsody haltingly attempts to make up for an old decision that now threatens their marriage. As for more obvious bids for your tears and money, the Korean Failan can't seem to decide whether to make you cry for its love story or exasperate you for the record number of beatings inflicted upon its unkempt thug hero. The latest Zhang Yimou, Happy Times, is definitely worth seeing for its ensemble engaged in fanatical endeavor, and a hilarious gag involving a massage table.
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Funding iPad keyboards on Kickstarter is one thing. But equity crowd funding is pretty hot right now. And today OurCrowd out of Israel has closed a $25 million Series B funding round – a pretty big one for this sector. Terms of who led the investment were – unusually – not disclosed, but we understand Geoff Levy, former CEO and Chairman, Investec Bank Australia, invested… Read More
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We all know that chat apps are pretty hot right now and there are plenty of companies hoping for a WhatsApp-like exit. For the most part, all of those apps are pretty similar, but FireChat, which is launching today, adds a new and fun twist to this genre. It's a hyperlocal chat network for iOS that even works when you don't have an Internet connection. Read More
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Not a lot is known about Amen, a stealth-mode startup out of Berlin.
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Whatever it is, sources tell us it's caught the eye of investors in the shape of celebrity tech investor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, who just happens to be Madonna's manager. This is quite some quota of fame right there, so clearly Amen is onto something that could be pretty mainstream.
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The average price of a home in New Orleans continued to skyrocket last year with a 14 percent hike, an unprecedented increase for the metro area over the past decade, according to the latest report from the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors.
While homebuyers in New Orleans' historic neighborhoods continued to feel the squeeze of rapidly escalating prices, the suburban housing markets also strengthened last year, although at a more moderate pace, a sign that buyers are broadening their search for an affordable home.
The increase in New Orleans last year means average prices in the city since Hurricane Katrina are now nearly 51 percent higher. The average house sold for $356,000 in the last half of 2015.
In Jefferson Parish, the average home price per square foot was up 4 percent in 2015. The average house there sold for $201,000. St. Tammany Parish home prices had sustained growth of 3.6 percent last year -- on the heels of a 5 percent bump in 2014 -- with the average house selling for $234,800.
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It did so for complex reasons, few of them, in Kirsch's account, having to do with purely technological issues. Enter the "burden of history," a fruitful notion that reminds us that deterministic ideas of why things are the way they are--for example, that the lead-acid battery held insufficient power to carry cars over long distances without recharging, thus ensuring the victory of the more easily replenished internal-combustion engine--are often only half-right, if that. Kirsch urges that those concerned with analyzing the wherefores of the past take into consideration multiple causes, and not always the most apparent ones. The automobile, he continues, is not simply a machine, but "a material embodiment of the dynamic interaction of consumers and producers, private and public institutions, existing and potential capabilities, and prevailing ideas about gender, health, and the environment." In short, the automobile is a system unto itself, and how it came to take its present form--unchanged in many respects for a hundred years--is a story that involves many episodes.
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I don't feel it an exaggeration to say that, the day she died, I died.
Every week, I come back to her grave, to visit her, to remember her. The cemetery is silent, and I am always here alone. I don't know what to do with my life except wait for us to be together again.
I was rich, once, but it took all of my fortune to have her interred here. It was somewhat fortunate – inside, I feel a bitter laughter – that she died when she did. I had recently qualified as a doctor and begun to earn a wage. I had no debts from my time as a student, so, once I had sold my family house and property, I was still able to live. I learned quickly, had to, to survive in my unfamiliar, impoverished circumstances.
This cemetery is reserved for the very rich, and, even then, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Few people in the world could afford to use it more than once.
The cemetery is protected by security guards, by gates, and by alarms. I show my ID five times before reaching her, ignoring the snide glances of the guards as I grow increasingly shabbier, week by week.
Her coffin is above ground, like an old-style tomb. There are no markings to show what she meant to people; no 'Beloved Daughter', no 'Rest in Peace'. I couldn't afford to add such things after paying for her interment. All that is marked on her coffin is her name, Helen Flaxman, and her dates.
We were twenty-five, then. I am thirty now.
My visits to the cemetery continued unabated. How could I possibly leave her, knowing that, one day, we will meet again? How could I tell her that, after her death, I abandoned her, lived a life free from her, free from the pain of losing her?
I couldn't. I can't. I am hers, and it makes no difference to me that she is interred in this coffin.
The cemetery has gained only two new residents over the past half-decade. Despite advancements in technology, the price has not dropped. The price, after all, is not to cover the cost of interment; it's simply a deterrent. This cemetery is not for the majority.
Helen explained that to me once. She'd been an economics student, though she'd left before finishing her degree. Her parents had blamed me for that. They'd never realised that, of the two of us, Helen was the more rebellious, the more alive. The irony does not escape me.
Helen and I had met as children. Our parents had been of similar income levels, had discussed stock exchanges on their yachts while we behaved like the five-year-olds we were.
We were fifteen when it struck me that she was beautiful. Until then she'd simply been my friend; suddenly, she was my love. Despite this, we did not become a couple until we were twenty-one. Every day, I was amazed that she had chosen me. She, Helen Flaxman, beautiful, wild, impossible, had chosen me.
Her parents did not approve. By that point, both of my parents had died, and I lived alone, with only my guardian for company. They seemed to view this state of affairs as debauched, something that would corrupt me, and through me, her daughter. As we grew older, it had become apparent that freedom was not something Helen's parents approved of. They had kept us apart until university, when we had both attended Oxford.
When Helen left, halfway through her third year, to live in a commune and plan protests, her parents had assumed this was due to my influence. Helen had never had a problem with how the world worked in their house, they had argued. She'd never expressed an interest in joining the street gangs of activists before she'd come under my undiluted influence, they believed. Of course, they never realised quite how good Helen had been at fooling them.
She'd asked me to go with her, but had had to forgive me for staying. I had decided to become a doctor upon my parent's death, vowing to, one day, invent something that could have saved them. I loved Helen, but not enough to give up on my vow if I didn't have to.
I am forty now. Helen's sister, Claire, has children of her own. I see pictures of her family in the newspapers, and I try not to think of the children we might have had by now. A little boy with her grey eyes and my blond hair; a dark-haired daughter who looked just like her.
By the time I am sixty, I have moved on from doctoring. Now, I work on coffins, like the one Helen is interred in. Her coffin, as I notice afresh each week, is large, bulky, and, worst of all, slow. If only I'd worked harder, qualified sooner, then perhaps...but no, that thought is torture. There is nothing I could have done about that.
Every week, when I visit, I replay the accident in my mind; piece it together from what I read in the news, what I heard from her friends. It had started because of a disagreement between activists; all agreed that our current system was wrong, but opinions differed greatly over what to do about that. Groups splintered and fractured, and lost contact. It was only a matter of time before they began targeting the same organisations, trying to fix the same problems, getting in each others way.
That's how Helen died. She got in the way. She'd entered a building, a building that was supposed to be empty, shortly before a bomb went off. There was scarcely enough of her left to inter.
I had convinced the media and the government that Helen had been an innocent victim, covered over her own nefarious purposes in being in that place at that time. The names Flaxman and Hurrell still carry some weight, which greatly helped our case. Without the permission of our leader, I could never have had her interred here, even with the money I raised from selling everything I owned.
The once opaque coffin has cleared slightly, and I can see her sweet face. Her eyes are closed, and she appears to be asleep. Her dark hair is shorn, shorter than it was, but that will grow.
Only fifteen more years to wait.
Finally, it is time.
I am so tired, so broken from waiting for this day. My hair is white, my joints hurt, and I cannot see a thing without my glasses, despite my perfect vision of fifty years ago. I am hunched over. But, more than that, I am lonely. I am so lonely.
As the clock on the coffin ticks down its last few seconds I tremble. My entire life has been built on this moment.
The last second ticks away, and the coffin opens, with a burst of dry ice. Her eyelids flutter, and my heart beats so fast that I fear it will burst through my frail ribs. She shivers, sits up. I wrap a blanket around her shoulders and urge her to drink the water I have brought. I wonder what dreams she has had in her long sleep of death.
I find myself gazing at the lid of her coffin, the wires crude and obvious, much lower quality than the ones I have built since, the ones that can rebuild a person in less than five years.
Her eyes focus on me. I smile at her, as nervous as a teenager, as I was when I was fifteen, and first realised she was beautiful.
"Hurrell," she reads from my name tag. "Dr Hurrel; what year is it?"
"3083," I reply. It has been a long fifty years since she was first interred.
She looks at me again, examines my face. "I used to know a Hurrell," she says. "Is he here? Is Joe here?"
There is no recognition in her eyes.
I look down at the liver spots on my wrinkled, arthritic hands, and start to cry.
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I also hope that it is clear why Joe cannot get over Helen. At first, I hope that the reader will find him strangely obsessive, with a very strong belief in an afterlife in which they will be reunited, but, I hope, it becomes clear at the end that he can't get over her because he knows shell be revived.
I'd also like to know if you liked the story, or found it intriguing. Or dull. Please don't feel pressured to try to explain exactly why you feel that way if you find it difficult - I know it can be hard to explain feelings.
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I used these speakers in two different music cooler builds. They are very well built and produce a surprising amount of bass for their size. Being Marine grade speakers, they are built to withstand the elements and the grill protects the speaker cone as well as they look good too. Mainly though, the sound they produce is really good, but you need to have a good amp to drive them.
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This figures to be the last season in the sun for South Kitsap's Fairweather family
This figures to be the last season in the sun for SK's first family of sports.
One of the courses Jim Fairweather teaches at South Kitsap High School is U.S. History, so perhaps it's natural that this story begins with a lesson in the subject.
In the late 1950s, Fairweather and his future wife, Nancy, were stationed in Northern California — him in Petaluma and her in Vallejo — with fathers serving in the Air Force.
Both later graduated with education degrees from Washington State University; Nancy in 1979 and Jim in '81.
Despite those connections, it took a chance meeting for them to get together.
Fairweather, who played baseball and football at South and later tried out as a catcher at WSU under legendary coach Bobo Brayton, was at Seattle's F.X. McRory's Steak, Chop & Oyster House in 1985.
While there, he spotted Detroit Tigers first baseman Darrell Evans, who led the American League with 40 home runs that year.
It wasn't easy for Fairweather to break off that conversation, but he felt compelled when he saw Nancy.
"I had to go meet this girl," he told Evans, as she walked in with a friend and sat down across the restaurant. "(It) was totally out of my character."
Nancy Dunlop was raised by a single father in Clarkston, a small town along the Idaho border, in a house where a game always was on.
When they met, she was the tennis coach at East Valley High School in Spokane.
Three years later, the couple had settled in Olalla and had their first child, Alex.
The Fairweathers decided they wanted Alex to have a younger brother or sister, and on Sept. 6, 1990, she gave birth to Brad — and Tori.
"Originally, it was a shock and a half," Jim Fairweather said. "Everyone plans two kids — zero population growth."
Fairweather said he decompressed by mowing the lawn frequently. Issues, such as a house that was constructed for four people, were a concern. Eighteen years later, he views it as a blessing.
"They've been really good," he said. "I wouldn't trade them for anything."
In a sense, fall marked farewell to the Fairweather family as the community knows them.
Sure, Nancy still will teach family and consumer science as Jim carries on with social studies and his role as baseball coach.
And Tori will play basketball this winter, while Brad swings the bat for the Wolves in the spring.
But the end of the fall season marked the last time Jim and the twins all are simultaneously involved with sports at South. Some might view that as depressing, but the Fairweathers agree that they've been grateful for the opportunity.
"Probably one of the best things about all of us being here is we haven't had to miss too much," Nancy said.
Tori, who hopes to attend WSU, said she's excited to begin the next stage of her life.
"I think it's time for me to go out and live on my own," she said. "I owe a lot of gratitude to my parents for what they've done."
Brad is interested in pursuing a career as a firefighter at Central Washington University. It's a career he says that will keep him close to the action.
Of course, he'll miss some elements of having his parents nearby.
"I love having my parents at school because it's easy access to everything," he said.
Just not on the field.
Jim always has been sensitive to allegations of nepotism. Many coaches who are parents of students in athletic programs complain that parents perceive that they favor their own children.
"We all feel we're in a position where we have something to prove," he said. "We always try and make sure we do the right thing."
Tori, who earned first-team, all-Narrows League Bridge Division honors in basketball last season and was a second-team selection in league as a forward in soccer this year, said the critics only propel her to "put forth not just 100 percent, but 110 percent. When we set our mind on something, we go after it."
One instance where Tori said some tried to dismiss an achievement came when she was named homecoming queen and Brad was selected as king. It's believed to be the first time siblings have held that honor the same year at South.
"We had people saying that we only got it because our parents work here and because we're brother and sister," Tori said.
Despite that, all were happy with the experience.
And no, they didn't do the traditional king-and-queen dance.
"No way," Brad emphasized.
Still, the twins said they were proud and happy for each other. Tori, who describes herself as an alpha female, said, "The running joke is that I shoved him out of the way" during birth.
Brad retorts that he's a gentleman and allows "ladies first."
As adolescents, the children were involved in several activities. Tori took piano lessons and Alex sang at her graduation in 2006. Since entering high school, Tori also has been involved with Future Community Leaders of America, acting, as student-body vice president, and other activities.
"I'm very fortunate to have what I have and I want to give back to others," she said.
Jim, who has guided the baseball program to a pair of state-playoff appearances in five seasons since replacing Elton Goodwin, also has coached linebackers under D.J. Sigurdson.
"I consider Jim and his family close friends," Sigurdson said. "They're a proud South Kitsap family."
Sigurdson said Brad is "less outwardly verbal" than his sister, but he's never questioned his intensity. The coach said one look at his blocking from the tight-end position would show that.
"Bradley is quiet as far as speaking goes, but he's a very intense competitor," Sigurdson said. "You see it in his play. I think they have similar personalities."
And the legacy they'll leave behind with their parents?
Besides the historical ramifications of their work on the field and this year's homecoming dance, Sigurdson said it comes down to trust.
"They're very loyal South Kitsap people," he said. "They definitely bleed South Kitsap maroon."
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