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(HONG KONG) The first Dragonair walk-in cabin crew recruitment day of 2012 will be held on
3 and 4 March (Saturday and Sunday). The airline welcomes jobseekers interested in the aviation industry to join the team.
The walk-in recruitment session will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on both days at Dragonair House, subject to a quota of 500 interviewees per day. Applicants are required to register in person and present their resume during the interview. Those who hold the right of abode in Hong Kong, meet the recruitment requirements and pass the arm-reach test will be immediately invited for a first-round interview (See Appendix for the recruitment advertisement).
Dragonair General Manager Inflight Services Cecilia Leung said: "The travel market in the Asia-Pacific region continues to grow and we plan to expand our fleet as well as our network in 2012. As Dragonair grows, our cabin crew members will be offered tremendous opportunities and a promising career path."
Ms Leung said that Dragonair will resume services to Guilin, Xian and Taichung this year and is looking to add more destinations to its network. "This means our cabin crew will definitely have more exposure and more opportunities to broaden their experience," she said.
The airline aims to recruit an additional 450 cabin crew members this year to cope with its growing operational needs. All successful applicants will be provided with seven weeks of professional training covering aircraft knowledge, inflight safety and security, food and beverage as well as grooming. The career prospects are broad and, based on seniority and performance, a cabin crew member can be promoted to supervisory positions or even senior management.
Dragonair Flight Attendant Recruitment Advertisement
Dragonair is an award-winning airline and a member of the Cathay Pacific Group. We provide premium services to travellers on a growing network of passenger routes throughout Asia, with a particular focus on Mainland China. The airline has been voted for two consecutive years "World's Best Regional Airline" in the annual World Airline Survey run by Skytrax 2010 and 2011. To meet the needs of our expanding operation, we are looking for enthusiastic candidates to fill the following position.
- Hong Kong permanent resident and passport holder with right of abode in Hong Kong
- Minimum age of 18
- Grade E in 5 HKCEE subjects (including level 2 or above in English language) or equivalent
- Fluency in English and Cantonese is required (Mandarin is preferable)
- Minimum arm-reach of 208 cm and physical fitness to pass the pre-employment medical assessment
- Polished interpersonal skills with a positive and customer-orientated attitude
- Previous experience in service industry is an added advantage
3 & 4 March 2012 (Saturday & Sunday)
Multi-Purpose Hall
G/F Dragonair House
Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited
11 Tung Fai Road
Hong Kong International Airport
Chek Lap Kok
Ticket Distribution:
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
(500 tickets will be distributed on each day)
Interview Time Schedule:
3 March 2012 (Ticket No. 001 - 500 applicants)
4 March 2012 (Ticket No. 501 - 1,000 applicants)
Upon registration applicants are required to present their resume.
Individuals who have applied but have been rejected within the last six months need not apply.
For more details, please refer to our website at www.dragonair.com
We offer an attractive remuneration package, generous fringe benefits, as well as free and discounted travel for staff and their eligible family members.
Dragonair is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our personal data policy and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within six weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. All related information will be kept in our file for up to twenty four months. A copy of our Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request by contacting our Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sky's the limit: New towers for the rich soar in New York
The new generation of very tall, very expensive residential towers remaking the Manhattan skyline comes at a time when the city has a growing number of homeless families and a critical shortage of middle and low-income housing.
The very tall, very skinny residential buildings popping up in Manhattan are being built for the world's richest people
NEW YORK — Here's how a 1932 guide to Manhattan describes the view of Central Park from the 43-story Essex House: "an unbroken vista — unequaled anywhere in the city. ... Few apartment buildings in the world are more ideally located."
Today, here's how visitors typically describe the park view from One57, an apartment building a block south of the Essex House and more than twice its height: "Wow!"
The same can be said of the building itself. One57 exemplifies a new type of skyscraper — very tall, improbably slender, ostentatiously opulent — that is reshaping a famous skyline composed mostly of bulky office buildings.
One such apartment tower under construction, 432 Park Avenue, will have a top floor higher than the Empire State Building's observation deck. Another will have a top floor higher than any in One World Trade Center, which is officially (by virtue of its spire) the nation's tallest building.
The 432 Park penthouse has sold for $95 million; two duplex apartments at One57, now nearing completion, also are under contract, each for more than $90 million. Even a studio apartment on a lower floor at 432 Park (designed for staff — a maid or butler) costs $1.59 million.
Such prices seem incongruous in a nation that has yet to recover from the 2008 financial crisis; that lost its lead in skyscraper construction decades ago; and that suffered a terrorist attack in 2001 that seemed to dampen enthusiasm for high-rise living.
And these mansion-size apartments with 30-mile views will go unoccupied much or most of the time. Not since the Gilded Age, when Vanderbilts and Astors spent only a few months each summer at their marble Newport "cottages," will so much expensive space be so little inhabited.
But what's most striking about these towers is their shape. The boxy old World Trade Center twin towers had a ratio of base width to height of 1-to-7 (209 feet-to-1,368 feet); an apartment house about to begin construction next to the Steinway piano showroom on 57th Street will be a feathery 1-to-23.
That kind of skinniness, also found in skyscrapers in Hong Kong and Dubai, is shifting the focus of high-rise construction. Twenty years ago, only five of the world's 100 tallest buildings were at least partly residential, compared with 31 today. They include the Princess Tower in Dubai, at 1,358 feet the world's tallest apartment house.
These towers are shaped by their clientele: a transnational nouveau riche looking for a second (or third or fourth) home. Having made fortunes in nations less regulated economically and less stable politically than the USA, these buyers want a safe investment as much as, or more than, shelter. And they don't want to pay New York resident income taxes.
Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum here, says there is nothing particularly irrational or exuberant about this pencil-thin phase in high rise building. It is dictated, she says by "the logic of luxury."
View now rivals location as the most precious element in high-rise urban real estate. (Willis calls Central Park "the money shot.") The higher you build, the less everything else — the neighborhood, cultural attractions, social cachet — seems to matter. And the more you can charge.
To be sure, these towers offer more than views: bath tubs and counter tops carved from one piece of Italian marble; common rooms for performances and receptions; built-in kitchen coffee makers and wine coolers; 10- to 12-foot ceilings.
One57 also has an "arts and crafts atelier room" and a "pet wash room" for dogs after a muddy romp in the park. (Warning: The condo board must be provided with a photo of any pet in residence, and said pet may not be a pig, hen, rabbit or gerbil.)
For all this, residents never stop paying. Monthly charges (taxes, maintenance) are about $4,600 for a three-bedroom apartment on the 41st floor, and $13,000 for a six-bedroom unit on 87 with views of the Empire State Building to the south and Central Park to the north.
One57 says more than 70% of its 94 units are under contract, with the first closing expected this month; 432 Park, which will not be finished until 2015, says about half its apartments are sold.
And more buildings are either under construction or permitted and ready to rise:
30 Park Place, which will have about 60 floors of apartments atop a Four Seasons hotel, shares a block with the Woolworth Building (once the world's tallest), which it will dwarf by more than 10 stories.
56 Leonard Street, now rising in Lower Manhattan, has a unique stacked arrangement of apartments and balconies that have earned it the nickname "the Jenga Building" (after Parker Brothers' block game). The penthouse is under contract for $47 million.
221 West 57th Street, one of several towers planned near Central Park, will rise a residential record 1,423 feet — 27 higher than 432 Park — and house a Nordstrom department store in its base.
Could this boom be a bubble? Richard Wallgren, 432 Park's marketing director, says that given the global demand, it's hard to overbuild in Manhatan: "We're on an island, in a tight geographic location. There just aren't many developable sites."
Buyers in such luxury buildings often hide behind limited liability corporations and confidentiality agreements, but One57 says that more than half of ts buyers come from outside the USA, including 15% from China. A Chinese couple bought a small, $6.5 million apartment for their daughter to use when she's in college — around 2030.
Here's what it takes to make an apartment tower rise:
Engineering. Super-strong concrete stiffens these skinny towers in the wind, and dampers counteract building sway. Some of 432 Park's upper floors have openings for wind to pass through. The tower also has a new kind of staircase that takes up 10% less space, and, because many floors have just one apartment, only five elevators. (Each World Trade Center twin tower had 99.) That means more floor area for sale.
Finance. Global capital is not afraid of heights. Although One57 has a U.S. developer (Gary Barnett's Extell Development), it is one of several towers built partly with Asian money. Plans for a 1,000-foot tower next to the Museum of Modern Art recently were revived thanks in part to an infusion from a family in Singapore.
Permits. New York zoning laws allow developers to purchase unused construction "air rights" from adjacent low-rise buildings to build high on a site the size of a suburban yard. Willis calls it "the invisible game of New York Monopoly."
Design. Most of the towers are designed by a "starchitect" such as Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc (One57); Robert A.M. Stern (30 Park Place); or Rafael Vinoly (432 Park). The city's tallest apartment house, 8 Spring Street, calls itself "New York by Gehry" — an attempt to trade on the reputation of its designer, Frank.
Not everyone loves these towers, especially neighbors who must endure years of construction noise, congestion and sometimes worse.
During Superstorm Sandy, One57's construction crane came loose and, as the world watched on TV, dangled like the Sword of Damocles over 57th Street. A year later, another crane malfunction closed 57th Street for four hours as a counterweight dangled in midair.
Some critics don't like the towers' looks. Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times describes One57 as "a blight on the skyline." Justin Davidson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for New York magazine, calls it "tall and clunky, preening yet graceless" and 432 Park "a genuine clunker," with its "unrelenting" grid of 10-foot-square windows.
And at a time when more than 51,000 people — 21,000 of them children — spend the night in city homeless shelters, the contrast between penthouse opulence and street-level poverty is as dizzying as any view of Central Park.
One57, which broke ground during the recession, will receive tens of millions in tax breaks designed to encourage construction, which critics say would have occurred regardless.
"We're used to inequality in New York," says Benjamin Dulchin of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, an advocacy group. "We're not used to it being subsidized by the taxpayers."
Willis says there's no connection between the high rise housing boom and the affordable housing crisis. "I make no moral judgments about these buildings," she says. "We've always had wealthy people in New York. It's not the place it would be if we didn't."
Sky High: The logic of luxury is an exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City through April 19.

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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > November 2002 > Much time, work, sweat goes into setup for BGCT Convention
Much time, work, sweat goes into setup for BGCT Convention
The later it got on Monday morning, the higher the noise levels in Baylor University's Ferrell Center rose. It was Nov. 11, the first day of the Baptist General Convention of Texas' annual meeting. Messengers from churches all over the state were wading through registration lines, picking up information and filing into the arena for a seat before the meeting officially started.
What visitors saw was an array of chairs, a platform stage with screens, curtained-off backstage areas and numbered microphones standing at attention throughout the arena. During the action, screens showed video clips and projected speakers for those with far-off seats, while amplifiers blared the music and messages to each corner of the room. What they did not see was the hours of work that went on beforehand to make all those things possible.
Steve Long knows firsthand. Not only has he seen the process, he's also been part of it for the past 13 years. As assistant professor of mass communications at Wayland Baptist University, Long has served as one-third of the audio crew that assembles and operates sound equipment for the convention. Jeff Davidson, minister of media at First Baptist Church in Dallas, and Steve Storie, director of audiovisuals at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, round out the crew.
Long said Davidson and Storie - who had been his supervisors while working on a master's degree at Southwestern - recruited him to be on the audio crew during his first semester teaching at Wayland. He agreed, and said the experience has been enjoyable, while admittedly tiring.
For one thing, the effort always involves travel. First the equipment must be gathered from storage at the Broadcast Center of the North American Mission Board, located in Dallas, and hauled by semi-truck to the host city. Then the truck must be unloaded at the convention site and prepared for set-up, which typically takes about two days, Long said, though that might come in chunks of hours depending on others involved.
The convention typically subcontracts a company to do lighting and set up the stage area, phones, screens and video components, so Long and the audio crew have to work around those groups and in sequence with them.
Many hours later, the main sound board, along with speakers, amplifiers and microphones galore are all in place. A sound check and walk-through is typically planned for Sunday evening. But then on Monday when the convention actually kicks off, the crew slips into operator mode, with Davidson assuming duties on the soundboard and Storie on the headset to receive any cues or last minute changes. Long hovers just off-stage to keep microphones and lavaliers in the right places and on the right people. After the event has ended, the equipment is unhooked, repacked and driven back to Dallas.
Long said the crew's work is not difficult, especially since all three are experts in audiovisual equipment and troubleshooting.
"By now we all know what we have to do when we get there. We may do some first or later, but there's a long list of things to do," he said. "No one has to tell anyone else what needs to be done, because we all know. That's the magic of how this all comes together."
He said the key to the crew's success is their familiarity both with one another - all three grew up together in Oklahoma - and their equipment. The cooperative effort among the crew and others with whom they must work also makes for a smoother show. For example, the audio equipment all belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention and is used at their annual meetings as well. But there have been years when things were a bit more hairy.
"In 1991, when the convention was in Waco and there were more than 10,000 people in attendance, we had to hook microwave links (from Ferrell Center) to the convention center and to First Baptist Church to create overflow spaces," Long recalled. "People were at all those places making motions and speaking, so we had to have the microphones and everything in place. That was kind of crazy."
In many cases, the crew must work their schedule around the facility itself, such as holding off on set-up until a basketball game is over or tearing down equipment right after the closing session in order to free up the facility for other events. In those cases, Long said being flexible and allowing plenty of time is typically all that is necessary.
Literally hanging on every word of the convention might seem to make the crew ultra-aware of the meetings' proceedings and messages. But their technical role often means they're watching and making sure others can hear and enjoy the convention. Their attention is not always on content, and Long said that can make actually being a participant in the worship a bit difficult.
"I have a different perspective when I'm the support person. I know I have to make it worshipful for myself as well, so I have to consciously make sure I'm part of the service," he said. "If the worship succeeds and others have had a worshipful experience, I feel I've had my part in worship as well.
"I compare it to the story of Mary and Martha," he adds. "We'd all like to be out front just enjoying the worship. But there are those behind the scenes that have to help make it happen."


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I finally have my first NetBSD box running although it was not a standard install with the Via C3 cpu. I found that version 4.0.1 needs the 1.6.2 boot block. Version 5.0.1 had to be loaded on another machine but the 5.0.1 boot loader worked fine when the hard drive was transferred back to the Via C3 box with IDE drives. The other Via C3 box with SATA hd and dvdrw would only use the viaide driver in a raid array (only 1 hard drive) and the DVDRW would not work. 5.0.1 had the viaide driver and 4.0.1 used pciide.
I had a mobo go bad on another machine and was wondering if any chipsets were preferred for NetBSD boxes? I only need a single hard drive and dvdrw and would prefer SATA I like systems that have a low power draw and are quiet (Atom or Via C7).
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Nino is responsible for the overall investment strategy, execution, operations and performance of SAP Ventures. He currently oversees our investments in Krux, Marin Software (MRIN), OpenX, Vendavo and Zend. After nearly 20 years in various investing and operating capacities, Nino has been involved with investments in more than 60 private companies and has held numerous board seats. Before SAP Ventures, he was a partner with meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IVF Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Nino worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Robertson Stephens. He has a BA in economics and psychology from Williams College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nino was born in Croatia, is an Austrian citizen and has also lived in Italy and Germany before settling in the San Francisco Bay area more than 15 years ago.


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Environmental Health Section
209 N. Graham-Hopedale Rd.
Burlington, NC 27217
Phone: 336-570-6367
Fax: 336-570-6362
Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm, Except Holidays
Environmental Health Director: Terri N. Craver, REHS
Email: [email protected]
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To report a non-emergency environmental health issue such as an illegal wastewater discharge send an email to: [email protected]
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Take a moment to complete our Client Satisfaction Survey and Community Opinion Survey
Do you drink water? Does your child attend day care? Do you eat in restaurants? Does your child eat in a school cafeteria? Do you ever stay in a hotel? Do you swim in a public swimming pool? Do you have a dog or a cat? Do you purchase hamburger from a grocery store? Does your home have peeling paint? Do you flush your toilet? Do your neighbors dispose of their garbage properly? Are you considering a tattoo? Do you have a family member or a friend in a nursing home? Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? Have you ever had a problem with mosquitoes?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then the work that is done by the Environmental Health Specialists at your local health department touches your life.
Public Health has been called the silent miracle. The health of the citizens of Alamance County is affected every day by the environmental health programs.
The Environmental Health Section of the Alamance County Health Department is committed to protecting and improving the public's health in Alamance County. Environmental Health Specialists enforce state and local laws, rules, and ordinances in more than ten program areas. Specialists also provide science-based education about local environmental issues to residents who rely everyday on safe food, land, water, and air.
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Worthy Eating and Drinking
One of our Scottish preachers used to say that the believer has three looks at the Lord's Table. There is, first, a retrospective look. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a commemoration, a celebration of an event …Read More
God-Centered Sacraments
In considering the ways in which the persons of the Trinity operate in the sacraments, we need to be clear on how the doctrine of the Trinity has led the church to understand the works of our three-personed God. We …Read More
A Visible Word
Robert Bruce (1551–1631) is not a household name, even among knowledgeable Reformed Christians. He was at one time, however, one of the most important leaders in the Church of Scotland. He was the successor of John Knox and James Lawson and …Read More
The Marks of the Church
Is a small group Bible study a church? Is the Roman Catholic Church a church? Many people are confused today about what a church is. How do you know if what calls itself a church is indeed a church? Christians …Read More
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The hard driving forces of individualism do not yet stand astride the culture like a colossus. We have divided our homes into mini-apartment complexes and our churches into age and gender- segregated shopping malls. We break the ties that bind …Read More
The New Covenant Meal
One of the great insights of the Reformation was the recovery of the biblical concept of "covenant." This recovery was fueled by the "new learning" of the Renaissance humanism, the return ad fontes, "to the sources," of theology …Read More
Worthy Partaking: Examining the Heart
Participation in the Lord's Supper is serious business. At least it is to God. That is not, however, the impression that is given by the way many churches approach this sacrament today. Too often the observance of the Lord's Supper …Read More
Given For You
The Last Supper is often thought to be the Passover meal, with a direct connection following between the Passover and the Lord's Supper. However, this is not entirely clear. According to John, the Last Supper was on the night before …Read More
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After launching the careers of several young, talented, relative unknowns, Fox has announced a talent search for aspiring "Glee" stars, ages 16 to 26, to fill three new roles in the show's newly announced second season. The search will be documented in a multi-part reality special, culminating in the unveiling of the new cast members on the show's second season premiere this fall.
"We were going to do a nationwide search regardless," Fox president Kevin Reillytold reporters Monday, revealing that some of the original cast, like Chris Colfer who plays fabulously fashionable, outed teen Kurt Hummel, were discovered that way. "We decided to let the audience in as a part of that. There will not be formal voting. The audience will not decide, but the audience will certainly participate. They will give us their opinions on who they want and who they like."
New cast members are great, but what will happen with the storylines Gleeks have been salivating over for months? Now that choir director Will (Matthew Morrison) and OCD guidance counselor Emma (Jayma Mays) have shared their first kiss, will their romance be game-on?
Nope, says Mays. "[Series creator] Ryan Murphy said that it's his job as a writer to keep us apart. I was like, 'Actually, you know what? That's right and that makes sense.' Otherwise people won't have anything to root for. Emma's a smart girl and she's a practical girl, and so she wouldn't jump into a relationship with a man that's technically not even separated."
Sigh. Well, it took McDreamy and Meredith almost five seasons to finally make it work, Sam and Diane kept their on-again-off-again relationship going through eleven seasons, and Felicity and Ben didn't fully commit until the last minute of the last episode of J.J. Abrams' first series.
Providing welcome distraction from the stunted romance between Will and Emma will be a flurry of glittering guest stars, including the return of Kristin Chenoweth as a boozy former glee club star, an appearance by Olivia Newton-John, who will perform a duet of "Let's Get Physical" with the suddenly-ubiquitous Jane Lynch, and the introduction of a new character played by Broadway star Idina Menzel. Will Menzel be playing the birth mother of Rachel (Lea Michele), who she bears a striking resemblance to in both visage and voice? According to insiders, no. All they promise it that "It's going to be interesting."
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When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family's legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer.
For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch's discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript's secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans-and will certainly transform Diana's world as well.
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LETTER- Microbes not so benign
At the risk of starting a flame war with Marlene Condon, whose writing I typically enjoy, I'd like to call attention to the fact that many people would disagree with the statement, "The reality is that the majority of microbes (probably about 99 percent) pose no harm at all to humans" [Letter, "Plain soap will do," July 31].
In lectures at the UVA Medical School, Paul W. Ewald (author of The Evolution of Infectious Disease and Plague Time) pointed out that microbes may turn out to play a major role in heart disease, many cancers, and a number of other chronic illnesses.
Infection is now considered as good if not a better predictor of heart disease than cholesterol. The Epstein-Barr virus– the germ that causes the highly infectious mononucleosis– is associated with naso-pharyngial cancer as well as multiple sclerosis. The EB virus causes respiratory disease symptoms that are easily confused with a cold.
Ewald's research suggests that people concerned about health issues would be better served to consider the role of microbes in all sorts of diseases, including the mysterious, intractable "psychological disorders," "allergies," and perhaps even certain forms of autism.
The reality is that our relationship with microbes (which some estimate outnumber the cells of our body 10-1) is extremely complicated. Yes, introducing antiseptics appears to have unfortunate effects, but there are other– perhaps more crucial– variables no one seems to be considering, such as the rhythmic nature of the immune system, its susceptibility to stress, and whether its rhythms can be maintained or restored through behavior.
One thing is certain: crowding large numbers of people into a single space is going to give germs plenty of evolutionary elbow room to do what they were designed to do: reproduce and feed on us. Just check out the literature on infection in nursing homes. Granted, school children aren't nursing-home residents, but school children are under chronic stress, which can dampen immunity.
Soap and water will help, but it's a band-aid on a much bigger problem that will probably be thrown into sharper relief in the coming years as we learn more and think more realistically about our relationship with "nature."
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Bill Beattie
Dana Point, California
1928 Model A Roadster
Bill Beattie sent me a couple of pictures he'd taken of old photographs of the '28 A roadster he's had for more than 50 years. After emailing back to request larger-resolution images, it transpired we live in neighboring towns. So, I swung by his local Saturday morning doughnut shop meet for the skinny on his car and the opportunity to photograph it as it is today.
Purchased at the Buffalo Ranch swap meet in April 1959 (which for those in Southern California is now the location of the high-end shopping mall South Coast Plaza), Bill drove the roadster to Santa Monica High School during the early '60s. The fuzzy picture hereabouts of it painted red with skinny wires is when Bill found it. It didn't stay stock for long, however, and with Bill's dad helping hot-rod it, it provided transportation to numerous car shows, as well as El Mirage, Bonneville, and even the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Memphis in 1971. Continually updated, it still runs the same Chevy drivetrain it has for most of Bill's ownership, though the most recent addition was an independent front suspension.
In addition to the roadster, Bill and his brother, Bob, campaigned a belly tank Lakester, Bill taking the season's Fastest Driver award in 1966, presented by Hot Rod magazine, as well as the Grant Piston Ring award for the season's fastest entry (Beattie brothers), for his 199.11-mph blast. How's that for getting so close to the 200 MPH Club? With Bob driving, the Lakester eventually went 220 mph at Bonneville. The brothers also ran a '32 roadster at El Mirage, running a best of 196 mph against a 202 record, coasting through the lights with a busted driveshaft! By the way, that's Bob's '32 five-window sneaking into the background in a couple of the shots, a car he also still owns.
Looks like the Beattie brothers have done more than their fair share of hot rodding, with no plans to let it out of their system just yet! Indeed, Bill's regular passenger on his Saturday morning doughnut jaunts is his father, still enjoying a weekly early morning roadster blast! It was a pleasure to meet them both.
Lee Martin
Arlington, Virginia
1933 Ford Coupe
After seeing the movie The Choppers, featuring Tommy Ivo's Buick-powered T, Lee Martin Jr. needed a hot rod with a Nailhead. His dad had been dreaming of building a Nailhead-powered Ford coupe since seeing one as a teenager in the '50s. They eventually got a '62 401 from a friend, and an N&N 'glass '33 body from HB Classics and built this. The body has a 3 1/2-inch chop and 2-inch channel, and rolls on a chrome-accessorized Pete & Jakes chassis. The 401 was bored 0.060 over with compression bumped to 12:1, breathing through dual Edelbrocks on an Offy high-rise. There are no baffles or mufflers in those straight pipes, "so it's loud". The trans is a B-W Super T-10. The coupe was built and painted in Lee Jr.'s late-grandfather's garage. "The last thing to go on was an original Buick tachometer my dad found in my grandfather's storage room. He remembered it because he'd snagged it from a '63 Wildcat my grandparents were trading in. He figured he may need it someday. Forty years later he did."
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Madonna reunites with Sean Penn in Haiti, as seen in this photo snapped today. Sean has been working with the Haitian Relief Organization in rebuilding homes after the 2010 earthquake.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Madonna Reunites with Sean Penn in Haiti
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Glad to see that they're still friends. Lola and Rocco are welcome to see Sean anytime. Good fortune and Thanksgiving to Sean and Madge!!ReplyDelete
Madonna needs to get rid of that 5th child of hers (Brahim) and get back with a real man!ReplyDelete
I love seeing them together. Maybe "true love" will play it's part with them eventually!ReplyDelete
Major public relations coup, hahahaReplyDelete
Two old has-been trying to get attention. Irrelevant. Hello!! It's not 1985 any moreReplyDelete
Yes and the snap told him!ReplyDelete
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Things to do in the Berkshires
Looking for a culture-packed autumn trip? Consider these sure-to-please historic homes, museums, and art collections.
Pittsfield's Berkshire Museum wows visitors with a Native American exhibit of contemporary artworks and historic objects. The show runs until January 6.Ventfort Hall in Lenox offers a bonus for fashion lovers: an exhibit of haute couture dolls. The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge showcases the artist's works; the studio was relocated to the museum from his nearby home.Contemporary art fans should set aside a few hours to explore Mass MoCA in North Adams; those interested in older treasures can visit the 1885 mansion Naumkeag in Stockbridge.The Mount photograph by David Dashiell; Native American photographs from Berkshire Museum; Ventfort photograph by Jonathan Wiggs/Globe staff/file; Norman Rockwell Museum exterior photograph by Art Evans; Norman Rockwell Studio photograph by Jeremy Clowe; Mass MoCA photograph by Mark Wilson/Globe staff/file; Naumkeag photograph from The Boston Globe/file
LESS GRANDIOSE THAN NEWPORT AND MORE CIVILIZED THAN THE ADIRONDACKS, the bucolic Berkshires have been home to artists, writers, and wealthy society folk since the mid-19th century. Visiting the historic residences of its famous denizens is quite an eye-opening experience. Throw in a variety of crackerjack museums and drool-worthy art collections, and you have yourself one culture-packed fall weekend.
If you can leave work early on a Friday afternoon, head straight to Edith Wharton's home The Mount (edithwharton.org, 413-551-5111) in Lenox. In addition to the splendid mansion and beautiful gardens of the Age of Innocence author, the Friday night ghost tours at 5:45 and 7 will really get you in the Gilded Age "spirit." (And for movie fans, don't miss the entertaining exhibit of movie clips and other materials called "Dramatic License: Wharton on Stage and Screen.")
Ghosts give way to authors on Friday evening September 14, when the literary Berkshire WordFest weekend commences at The Mount. This year's theme is, appropriately enough, "Channeling Edith Wharton," with acclaimed writers like Adam Gopnik and Francine du Plessix Gray set to speak.
Another noted author's home is nearby Arrowhead (mobydick.org, 413-442-1793), the 18th-century Pittsfield farmhouse where Herman Melville and his family lived for 13 years. Inside the beautifully preserved home is Melville's study, where Moby-Dick sprang to life. Keeping with the whaling theme are two intriguing exhibits: one of historic artifacts, the other a life-size contemporary art installation, Ahab and the Whale.
Considering the breathtaking views, it's not surprising that numerous artists were drawn to the Berkshires. Celebrated sculptor Daniel Chester French (creator of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Minute Man statue in Concord) spent more than 30 summers in the same Stockbridge spot, continually expanding and modernizing his property. The high-ceilinged studio is a wonder, with a 45-foot set of railroad tracks on which French's enormous works in progress could be moved outdoors, for the light and to gain perspective. Visit Chesterwood (chesterwood.org, 413-298-3579) and the magnificent sculpture-filled grounds through October 8.
Stockbridge also boasts the Norman Rockwell Museum (nrm.org, 413-298-4100), a testament to the artistic talents and astute observational skills of the quintessential American artist, who lived and worked nearby. In addition to many iconic images — and Rockwell's working studio, relocated from his home — all 323 of the artist's famous Saturday Evening Post covers are currently on view, along with a sports-themed show with plenty of guy appeal.
For abstract art lovers, the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio (frelinghuysen.org, 413-637-0166) in Lenox is a mid-century-modern masterpiece of architecture, furnishings, and paintings. The husband-and-wife owners, George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen, were part of the talented patrician painters' group known as the "Park Avenue Cubists." The couple filled their strikingly original summer home with paintings by themselves and other artists such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Leger.
For anyone with delusions of grandeur, Naumkeag (thetrustees.org, 413-298-3239) in Stockbridge is what you might call a manageable mansion — less ostentatious than the Newport "cottages" — but pretty darn grand, with rooms luxuriously furnished much as they were when the Choate family of New York summered there. Designed in 1885 by renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, the house has killer views of the surrounding hills and gardens. We can all dream, can't we?
Though probably once as impressive, Ventfort Hall (gildedage.org, 413-637-3206) in Lenox is still undergoing restoration to its Gilded Age magnificence. (The Jacobean Revival estate served as the exterior set for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules.) Already brought back to its original splendor is the charmingly quirky first floor featuring rich, carved wood and Victorian finery. A bonus for fashion lovers: "Les Petites Dames de Mode," an exhibit of 59 haute couture dolls wearing historically accurate gowns.
Got some restless kids along for the weekend? Head to Pittsfield's Berkshire Museum (berkshiremuseum.org, 413-443-7171), home to an aquarium, dinosaur fossil room, and mesmerizing "World in Miniature" wildlife dioramas. For hands-on fun, check out the interactive exhibits "Alexander Calder: An Artist at Play" (cool toys) and the "Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation" (a 3,000-square-foot exploration of the past, present, and future). A Native American exhibit of contemporary artworks and historic objects is another highlight.
And why not give the youngsters a taste of pre-technology life? The pastoral Hancock Shaker Village (hancockshakervillage.org, 413-443-0188) in Pittsfield features 18 restored or replica buildings, including a meetinghouse, school, laundry, and the only circular barn ever built by the Shakers. Artisans and docents are on hand to demonstrate Shaker crafts. The village's annual country fair will be held September 29 and 30.
Clearly, you could spend the entire weekend in the Lenox/Pittsfield/Stockbridge area, but a day trip to Williamstown is a must for art enthusiasts. It's about a 50-minute drive from Lenox to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (clarkart.edu, 413-458-2303). Thanks to the Singer sewing machine family fortune, Sterling Clark amassed an outstanding collection of paintings — from European old masters and Impressionists to Americans Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. Also on view are fine examples of period silver, along with special exhibitions like the current "Unearthed: Recent Archeological Discoveries from Northern China."
A short drive takes you to the Williams College Museum of Art (wcma.williams.edu, 413-597-2429) with its own exceptional and wide-ranging collection. The galleries are set up to teach and broaden understanding of the diverse holdings, everything from ancient Egyptian and African artifacts to modern works by Picasso, Maurice Prendergast, Andy Warhol, and Cindy Sherman. Five special exhibitions examine the role museums play in shaping our understanding of art.
Last, but certainly not least, Mass MoCA (massmoca.org, 413-662-2111) in North Adams provides 110,000 square feet of exhibition space (one gallery alone is the size of a football field) dedicated to showcasing avant-garde and cutting-edge contemporary art — including some rather colossal pieces — all sure to engage, enrage, or just puzzle. A multidisciplinary performance center is also on site.
The Williamstown museums are open year-round, but note that many of the Lenox attractions close for the season after Columbus Day. And be sure to check out the various budget-friendly combined-admission tickets.
Tina Sutton is a freelance writer in Brookline. Send comments to email@example.com.


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Apple-Pecan Tenderloin Medallions
From: National Pork Board
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Servings: 4
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 10 min.
Total: 20 min.
Ann Council
With comforting aromas of warm apples and pecans, this quick dinner from Ann Council is perfect for a fall week night.
- 1 lb pork tenderloin
- 2 Tbs butter
- 1 16 oz can sliced apples, drained
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Trim fat from pork. Cut pork into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until it sizzles. Reduce heat to medium. Arrange pork slices in skillet. Cook for 2 minutes; turn slices. Spoon apples over pork. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans. Cover and cook for 4 to 6 minutes more until internal temperature on a thermometer reads 160° F.
Recipe courtesy of the National Pork Board
Nutrition Facts
Calories 484
Calories from Fat 174 (36%)
(30%)Total Fat 19g
(29%)Saturated Fat 6g
Polyunsaturated Fat 4g
Monounsaturated Fat 9g
(30%)Cholesterol 89mg
(3%)Sodium 63mg
(15%)Potassium 520mg
Total Carbohydrate 53g
(16%)Dietary Fiber 4g
Sugars 14g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(50%)Protein 25g
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The man accused of shooting three Havelock police officers in February was in Craven County Superior Court on Monday for an arraignment and bail hearing, according to officials.
The man accused of shooting three Havelock police officers in February was in Craven County Superior Court on Monday for an arraignment and bail hearing, according to officials.
Richard Jules Berry entered pleas of not guilty to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and to three counts of assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm in connection with the Feb. 14 incident in Havelock.
Berry�s bond was modified to $250,000 secured. As of Monday afternoon, he was still in custody, according to officials.
If Berry makes bond, he will be subject to several conditions: He will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device; he can�t possess firearms; and he cannot possess or consume alcohol or any controlled substance unless lawfully prescribed.
Berry is due back in court on Nov. 5 and is being represented by New Bern lawyer Michael Mills. District Attorney Scott Thomas and Assistant District Attorney Karen Hobbs are prosecuting the case.
According to investigators, Berry�s longtime girlfriend called 911 on Valentine�s Day when she heard a gunshot from the bedroom after Berry fell out of bed. She asked Berry to put the gun down, but he refused.
When Havelock police officers arrived at 407 Webb Blvd., they believed they were on an attempted suicide call, according to Thomas.
As three police officers entered the bedroom where Berry was located, they each were shot in the hand, investigators said. The three officers were identified as Sgt. Jim Fahnestock, Lt. Brian Borton and Officer Loren Boone.
Borton and Boone were treated and released from CarolinaEast Medical Center the same day of the incident. Fahnestock had to undergo surgery, but was released the next day.
None of the officers shot at Berry, investigators say.
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