On a series of canals near the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman’s Blue Tip golf course, and near Seven-Mile Beach in West Bay, Crystal Harbour, is a gated residential community of about 50 luxury homes.
Beyond a circular cobblestone driveway, this four-year-old cream-colored concrete and stucco villa with four-zone air-conditioning and a gray tile roof sits on a 0.48-acre waterfront property. Its $2.795 million asking price does not include the furnishings, although they are negotiable.
The double front door with sidelights opens onto a vaulted two-story foyer with a Turkish marble floor that continues throughout the house. To the right, the formal dining room has French doors leading to the front “cigar patio” enclosed with a balustrade. An office to the left of the foyer opens onto a similar “bistro patio.” Under the staircase to the left, the master suite, with its spalike bath, opens via 12-foot sliding doors to the yard patio, also of Turkish marble.
Sliding doors stretch across the back of the house, linking the patio to the living room, the den and the breakfast room; all have water views. One wall of the living room has a granite-topped wet bar with an ice maker and a wine fridge. Beyond the den, a kitchen has a three-foot-wide Sub-Zero refrigerator and a separate three-foot-wide Sub-Zero freezer. An L-shaped island with a granite countertop houses the main sink on one side and a smaller sink on the other. Frosted glass cabinets above a porcelain plank tile backsplash span the walls. Appliances include a microwave, dual ovens, a Wolf gas cooktop, a pot filler, a KitchenAid dishwasher and a trash compactor.
Off the hallway between the kitchen and the three-car garage is the laundry room; nearby is a guest bath with an outside door for party use.The second floor has the other bedrooms, all but one with en-suite baths, as well as a gym and a den.
The backyard has a multilevel 32-foot infinity pool with built-in tanning beds submerged in three inches of water. There is also a spa for eight, as well as an outdoor kitchen and bar pavilion, and access to the 58-foot-long dock and Jet Ski lift.
An outdoor shower is mounted outside the pool equipment house. In case of a hurricane, a cistern provides 9,000 gallons of emergency water. Grand Cayman is the largest and liveliest of the three-island archipelago known as the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Western Caribbean.Along Seven-Mile Beach, the market starts at around $300,000, for a condominium, and tops out in the eight figures.
Jeanette Totten, the president of the Cayman Islands Real Estate Brokers Association, said there had been a “slight improvement” in the market this year, with more interest among expatriate second-home buyers. The increase is centered along Seven-Mile Beach, for condominiums, and Cayman Kai on the north side of the island for single-family homes.
According to Kel Thompson, a developer and an owner of Century 21 Cayman, “Prices have softened significantly since 2008, and the rate of sales has decreased.” The market remains “tilted much in favor of buyers,” he said.
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2013年8月29日 星期四
2013年8月27日 星期二
Cobb ready to head
Cobb residents are putting the finishing touches on their superhero costumes in anticipation for the weekend extravaganza known as DragonCon, a multimedia pop culture convention focused on science fiction and fantasy.
DragonCon runs for four days from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 through five hotels in downtown Atlanta and features thousands of hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, workshops, costume contests, celebrity guests and a parade for fans of sci-fi, fantasy, video games, comic books and other elements of fan culture.
Among the more than 52,000 in attendance will be cosplayer John Strangeway in his steampunk Boba Fett costume and the Kell High School robotics team as they host a robotics workshop from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Sheraton hotel in the Atlanta room.
Cosplay is an activity in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea from a work of fiction. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered on role play. Boba Fett is the villainous bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader from the “Star Wars” franchise. When Strangeway attended his first DragonCon event in 2008, he knew he wanted to develop a costume that was both different and paid homage to his love of “Star Wars.”
“I wanted a unique Boba Fett,” said the Marietta resident. “I’ve always been a ‘Star Wars’ fan and I was like, ‘Well, I wonder what would happen if it was modified.’”
Strangeway works at Crestron, a company in Alpharetta that makes commercial and residential touch screens and keyboards.
In May 2009, Strangeway became interested in the steampunk genre after attending a steampunk conference in Atlanta and making friends with a group of steampunk cosplayers and enthusiasts. Steampunk is an artistic and cultural cosplay movement that merges modern day technology and fantastical fiction with Victorian style.
Strangeway communicated with members of the group via phone and Skype and began trading ideas for steampunk costumes. The Boba Fett costume was created by Whitestone Productions, a company that produces short films where Strangeway was formerly employed. He wore the costume for the first time in 2009 at DragonCon and received widespread cheers.
“The reception was insane. I started a Facebook page … ” the 33-year-old said. “I just go around having fun. I’ve made a lot of friends throughout the community.”
He attends about one or two conventions a month throughout the country and rotates wearing about 10 costumes. Strangeway wears costumes based on characters such as the Jedi knights from “Star Wars,” Beast from “X Men,” a coal miner from the “Silent Hill” video game, the fifth “Doctor Who,” and more. He is currently developing a costume for Sean Connery’s character Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez in “Highlander.”
At DragonCon, Strangeway will be working as a staff member for the Alternate History track, a set of programming and panels catering to steampunk. He’ll also be walking as Boba Fett in the DragonCon parade on Saturday at 10 a.m. in downtown Atlanta.
Costumes are made with the help of artistic friends, area fabric stores, production companies and Strangeway’s wild imagination.
“I find material on websites, thrift stores,” Strangeway said. “I’ve never been to so many fabric stores in my later life. (I go) to Joanns and Hancock’s and Hobby Lobby and Michaels. There’s a Fabric World over by Stone Mountain. … That’s where I got most of the Jedi outfit. The robe is multi-layered and some of it’s made from upholstery.”
Over the years, Strangeway has made a name for himself in the steampunk community. His Steampunk Boba Fett Facebook page has almost 32,000 fans to date. But even after visiting ComicCon in San Diego and various other conventions throughout the U.S., DragonCon is still No. 1 for him.
“It’s my favorite because it’s for the fans,” Strangeway said. “You still get to meet celebrities. But you get to go to panels of any of your interests in the genres of sci-fi/fantasy and they’ve got it there.”
Robot fans and Leomaniacs can get their fix of machine fun at DragonCon as well with a workshop presented by the Kell High School robotics team called Lego FIRST Challenge. The students will direct participants on how to build and program a Lego robot from a kit.
This is the second DragonCon the 10-year-old team has attended, said program director Ed Barker.
Students range from ninth-graders through 12th-graders and also hail from Sprayberry High and other Cobb schools.
The robotics team is a program lead by mentors from the science and engineering industry with participation from teachers. Barker worked for 30 years as an electrical engineer for a defense contractor named Raytheon.
“You know from thousands of years of history that’s really the way how people learned a lot of things was through mentors,” Barker said. “In the modern era, everybody just kind of sits in a classroom and studies stuff and takes tests and they really don’t get the chance to get their hands on something and actually do it. … We allow the students to take the stuff they’re learning in school, the math and the science and the writing and everything else, and actually apply it to work on real-world problems.”
During the workshop, the team will also be showing off two 150-pound robots that play Frisbee and basketball.
“Each one is about the size of a washing machine,” Barker said. “We have a fleet of about a dozen robots but we’ll only bring about three or four … The bigger robots will be more for demonstration. The little robots will be things people can do. They can build them, program them, drive them around — that sort of thing.
With about 32 students on the team, 15 or 16 will attend the DragonCon workshop, Barker said.
“The mission of our team is to get kids excited and get them fired up about what they’re learning and go off and have a great career,” Barker said. “The robotics thing is a way to hook them in.”
The team program is affiliated with a nonprofit organization called FIRST which emphasizes the STEM careers of science, technology, engineering and math. FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. They design programs and lead international science competitions with 300,000 students participating, Barker said.
Former Kell High robotics team captain Alex Epstein graduated from Kell two years ago. Now as a Virginia Tech student, he studies industrial systems engineering and is currently doing research on STEM and engineering education. He considers his robotics education at Kell to be essential in giving him a solid background for his studies at Virginia Tech.
“It was vital,” Epstein said. “I think I already wanted to get into engineering before I got onto the team but it helped to reaffirm that. … So I was already a little bit ahead of some of my peers coming in.”
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DragonCon runs for four days from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 through five hotels in downtown Atlanta and features thousands of hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, workshops, costume contests, celebrity guests and a parade for fans of sci-fi, fantasy, video games, comic books and other elements of fan culture.
Among the more than 52,000 in attendance will be cosplayer John Strangeway in his steampunk Boba Fett costume and the Kell High School robotics team as they host a robotics workshop from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Sheraton hotel in the Atlanta room.
Cosplay is an activity in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea from a work of fiction. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered on role play. Boba Fett is the villainous bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader from the “Star Wars” franchise. When Strangeway attended his first DragonCon event in 2008, he knew he wanted to develop a costume that was both different and paid homage to his love of “Star Wars.”
“I wanted a unique Boba Fett,” said the Marietta resident. “I’ve always been a ‘Star Wars’ fan and I was like, ‘Well, I wonder what would happen if it was modified.’”
Strangeway works at Crestron, a company in Alpharetta that makes commercial and residential touch screens and keyboards.
In May 2009, Strangeway became interested in the steampunk genre after attending a steampunk conference in Atlanta and making friends with a group of steampunk cosplayers and enthusiasts. Steampunk is an artistic and cultural cosplay movement that merges modern day technology and fantastical fiction with Victorian style.
Strangeway communicated with members of the group via phone and Skype and began trading ideas for steampunk costumes. The Boba Fett costume was created by Whitestone Productions, a company that produces short films where Strangeway was formerly employed. He wore the costume for the first time in 2009 at DragonCon and received widespread cheers.
“The reception was insane. I started a Facebook page … ” the 33-year-old said. “I just go around having fun. I’ve made a lot of friends throughout the community.”
He attends about one or two conventions a month throughout the country and rotates wearing about 10 costumes. Strangeway wears costumes based on characters such as the Jedi knights from “Star Wars,” Beast from “X Men,” a coal miner from the “Silent Hill” video game, the fifth “Doctor Who,” and more. He is currently developing a costume for Sean Connery’s character Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez in “Highlander.”
At DragonCon, Strangeway will be working as a staff member for the Alternate History track, a set of programming and panels catering to steampunk. He’ll also be walking as Boba Fett in the DragonCon parade on Saturday at 10 a.m. in downtown Atlanta.
Costumes are made with the help of artistic friends, area fabric stores, production companies and Strangeway’s wild imagination.
“I find material on websites, thrift stores,” Strangeway said. “I’ve never been to so many fabric stores in my later life. (I go) to Joanns and Hancock’s and Hobby Lobby and Michaels. There’s a Fabric World over by Stone Mountain. … That’s where I got most of the Jedi outfit. The robe is multi-layered and some of it’s made from upholstery.”
Over the years, Strangeway has made a name for himself in the steampunk community. His Steampunk Boba Fett Facebook page has almost 32,000 fans to date. But even after visiting ComicCon in San Diego and various other conventions throughout the U.S., DragonCon is still No. 1 for him.
“It’s my favorite because it’s for the fans,” Strangeway said. “You still get to meet celebrities. But you get to go to panels of any of your interests in the genres of sci-fi/fantasy and they’ve got it there.”
Robot fans and Leomaniacs can get their fix of machine fun at DragonCon as well with a workshop presented by the Kell High School robotics team called Lego FIRST Challenge. The students will direct participants on how to build and program a Lego robot from a kit.
This is the second DragonCon the 10-year-old team has attended, said program director Ed Barker.
Students range from ninth-graders through 12th-graders and also hail from Sprayberry High and other Cobb schools.
The robotics team is a program lead by mentors from the science and engineering industry with participation from teachers. Barker worked for 30 years as an electrical engineer for a defense contractor named Raytheon.
“You know from thousands of years of history that’s really the way how people learned a lot of things was through mentors,” Barker said. “In the modern era, everybody just kind of sits in a classroom and studies stuff and takes tests and they really don’t get the chance to get their hands on something and actually do it. … We allow the students to take the stuff they’re learning in school, the math and the science and the writing and everything else, and actually apply it to work on real-world problems.”
During the workshop, the team will also be showing off two 150-pound robots that play Frisbee and basketball.
“Each one is about the size of a washing machine,” Barker said. “We have a fleet of about a dozen robots but we’ll only bring about three or four … The bigger robots will be more for demonstration. The little robots will be things people can do. They can build them, program them, drive them around — that sort of thing.
With about 32 students on the team, 15 or 16 will attend the DragonCon workshop, Barker said.
“The mission of our team is to get kids excited and get them fired up about what they’re learning and go off and have a great career,” Barker said. “The robotics thing is a way to hook them in.”
The team program is affiliated with a nonprofit organization called FIRST which emphasizes the STEM careers of science, technology, engineering and math. FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. They design programs and lead international science competitions with 300,000 students participating, Barker said.
Former Kell High robotics team captain Alex Epstein graduated from Kell two years ago. Now as a Virginia Tech student, he studies industrial systems engineering and is currently doing research on STEM and engineering education. He considers his robotics education at Kell to be essential in giving him a solid background for his studies at Virginia Tech.
“It was vital,” Epstein said. “I think I already wanted to get into engineering before I got onto the team but it helped to reaffirm that. … So I was already a little bit ahead of some of my peers coming in.”
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2013年8月25日 星期日
Nevada football preview
If the Napoleon Complex is the curse of the short man, then the Polian Complex must be the curse of the man who shuns privilege.Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian and who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
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Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian and who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
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Polian's road to head coach
If the Napoleon Complex is the curse of the short man, then the Polian Complex must be the curse of the man who shuns privilege.
Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
“I’ve had a chance to watch him coach, and every place he’s been, he’s been successful. He has an excellent personality for recruiting. People just gravitate to him.”
As Brian was finishing up his senior season as a linebacker at John Carroll University, a Division III school near Cleveland, in 1996, he and his dad began to map out a plan. Bill was the GM of the expansion Carolina Panthers, and Kevin Steele was the Panthers’ linebackers coach.
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Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
“I’ve had a chance to watch him coach, and every place he’s been, he’s been successful. He has an excellent personality for recruiting. People just gravitate to him.”
As Brian was finishing up his senior season as a linebacker at John Carroll University, a Division III school near Cleveland, in 1996, he and his dad began to map out a plan. Bill was the GM of the expansion Carolina Panthers, and Kevin Steele was the Panthers’ linebackers coach.
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2013年8月20日 星期二
My daughter and I stood and stared
Not to scare anybody, but our washing machine may be possessed.
Of course, washers and dryers in general tend to attract a bit of paranormal activity. Where do you think that one missing sock actually goes if not to another dimension?
Ours though, at times, goes full-blown supernatural. Just last week, squeaks, clanks and boinks shook the mighty devil across the laundry room like a bronking bull in a rodeo. Each shift brought it closer to the door, a walking Frankenstein with dials. Then magically, the monster came to a halt without even a lasso or a lit torch and promptly spilled out the liquid from its guts all over the floor.
My daughter and I stood and stared. When I broke my gaze and she didn’t, I became worried.
“Do you see washing machine people?” I whispered, remembering what household appliances were harnessed by the spooks in Poltergeist. “Are they here?”
Sissy looked up strangely. “No, but daddy will be soon and he is not going to be happy.”
The kid had a point. For some reason, my husband never acknowledges the existence of this pesky laundry ghost. While Tim may resemble Fox Moulder, he just doesn’t believe. Only I bear witness to the spook’s terror.
Wait, the laundry spook, not my husband.
For instance, when all of Agent Beam’s white dress shirts turned a rather lovely shade of pink, he blamed me for washing them in hot water along with a brand new flaming red scarf.
Preposterous! Obviously the specter was trying to gives us clues as to how he passed from this living world and so he added the red scarf to symbolize his bloody death. That makes perfect sixth sense.
Or, say, when a pen gets left in a pocket — normally my husband’s pocket, mind you — and somehow it bursts during laundering and leaves giant blue stains on pants. Once again, it’s the ghoul.
You can’t write really well when you’re vapor, you know. Poor thing was trying to tell us something. Maybe his nickname or how he liked to watch reality shows, so if we could leave the telly on, that would be great. He’s an English spirit, by the way.
However, this time the old chap had really gone too far. After grabbing some towels and a crucifix, I entered the room. Tiny dots floated around in the spillage, small white orbs created not in this world. And then I opened the washing machine’s door.
Dang it. A pillow had been defiled, and its contents were strewn about the inside barrel. Some remnants may have even clogged up the hoses and machinery. That poor ghostly bloke must have been tired and wanted to sleep. It would have been an uncomfortable rest given the belt that somebody forgot to remove from some dirty pants.
Instead of cleaning it up, I decided to leave it as testament so my husband could have his ectoplasmic proof. Unfortunately, solid semi-scientific evidence doesn’t always lead him to the right conclusions.
“The washer broke. Again. Pillows can’t be washed at high speeds. The repair man has told you this before,” he said in his huffy-puffy way.
Rational arguments always win against nonbelievers, I have found.
“Maybe you need to do all the laundry.”
I wanted to add the ghost doesn’t like men, but thought that might be pushing my luck.
So now, after having to dry ourselves with newspapers for a week after the clean towels ran out, we own a new washing machine. Our specter has stayed away so far. But if he does return, we have the best ghostbusting tool around — a new warranty.
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Of course, washers and dryers in general tend to attract a bit of paranormal activity. Where do you think that one missing sock actually goes if not to another dimension?
Ours though, at times, goes full-blown supernatural. Just last week, squeaks, clanks and boinks shook the mighty devil across the laundry room like a bronking bull in a rodeo. Each shift brought it closer to the door, a walking Frankenstein with dials. Then magically, the monster came to a halt without even a lasso or a lit torch and promptly spilled out the liquid from its guts all over the floor.
My daughter and I stood and stared. When I broke my gaze and she didn’t, I became worried.
“Do you see washing machine people?” I whispered, remembering what household appliances were harnessed by the spooks in Poltergeist. “Are they here?”
Sissy looked up strangely. “No, but daddy will be soon and he is not going to be happy.”
The kid had a point. For some reason, my husband never acknowledges the existence of this pesky laundry ghost. While Tim may resemble Fox Moulder, he just doesn’t believe. Only I bear witness to the spook’s terror.
Wait, the laundry spook, not my husband.
For instance, when all of Agent Beam’s white dress shirts turned a rather lovely shade of pink, he blamed me for washing them in hot water along with a brand new flaming red scarf.
Preposterous! Obviously the specter was trying to gives us clues as to how he passed from this living world and so he added the red scarf to symbolize his bloody death. That makes perfect sixth sense.
Or, say, when a pen gets left in a pocket — normally my husband’s pocket, mind you — and somehow it bursts during laundering and leaves giant blue stains on pants. Once again, it’s the ghoul.
You can’t write really well when you’re vapor, you know. Poor thing was trying to tell us something. Maybe his nickname or how he liked to watch reality shows, so if we could leave the telly on, that would be great. He’s an English spirit, by the way.
However, this time the old chap had really gone too far. After grabbing some towels and a crucifix, I entered the room. Tiny dots floated around in the spillage, small white orbs created not in this world. And then I opened the washing machine’s door.
Dang it. A pillow had been defiled, and its contents were strewn about the inside barrel. Some remnants may have even clogged up the hoses and machinery. That poor ghostly bloke must have been tired and wanted to sleep. It would have been an uncomfortable rest given the belt that somebody forgot to remove from some dirty pants.
Instead of cleaning it up, I decided to leave it as testament so my husband could have his ectoplasmic proof. Unfortunately, solid semi-scientific evidence doesn’t always lead him to the right conclusions.
“The washer broke. Again. Pillows can’t be washed at high speeds. The repair man has told you this before,” he said in his huffy-puffy way.
Rational arguments always win against nonbelievers, I have found.
“Maybe you need to do all the laundry.”
I wanted to add the ghost doesn’t like men, but thought that might be pushing my luck.
So now, after having to dry ourselves with newspapers for a week after the clean towels ran out, we own a new washing machine. Our specter has stayed away so far. But if he does return, we have the best ghostbusting tool around — a new warranty.
Can stuffed animals be washed in a machine, by the way?For more information, please visit aulaundry.com.
2013年8月16日 星期五
Joy as wind turbine plans near Bridgnorth
It follows a two-year battle over the plans to put up the turbine at the Old Hall Barn in Kenley, between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth.
Residents who campaigned against the plans today hailed the decision as a victory for people power after they successfully challenged a decision to give the proposals the go-ahead in the High Court last year.
Gavin Lloyd had wanted to build the turbine to provide energy at his home and farm, while it was also intended the equipment would power holiday let accommodation at the property.
The application was first made in June 2011 and was refused by Shropshire Council in September that year.
Mr Lloyd appealed and in March 2012 was given the go-ahead for the scheme by a planning inspector.
But that decision was then quashed in the High Court last December, resulting in a new inspection being ordered.
The findings of the second inspector David Rose were today published by The Planning Inspectorate.
Mr Rose said the three-blade turbine would have been able to generate 25,000kWh of energy in a year. But he said its benefits were outweighed by the harmful effects of the turbine on the look and character of the local area.
“Such benefits would only be achieved by causing a very serious loss to the overall character of the landscape and comparable visual harm to the appearance of the landscape from nearby public vantages,” he said.
“Whilst the landscape does not have special status or protection, the combination of these elements, which could not be mitigated, would be of sufficient magnitude to convincingly tip the balance away from granting planning permission.”
Resident Paul Jarrett was delighted with the decision. He said the decision to fight the case in the High Court could have personally cost him $40,000 if the original inspector’s ruling had been upheld.
“The bottom line is that it is unsuitable for the surroundings. That is what we have been saying for years,” he said.
Mr Lloyd could not be reached for comment today.
Nakamura explained that 80 to 90 percent of the power generated would come from the large wind-catching turbine floating over the sea, with another underwater turbine expected to produce the rest.
At first, the turbine units will be tethered to shore by cables which also transport the energy produced onto land storage facilities. The technology to effectively store it on the turbines at sea doesn't exist, yet.
"We can start the operations and we will learn from that one, and in the future, the battery cost will be less. Maybe 10 years later we will be in a very good shape for the business," he told CBS' Seth Doane.
He admits that he's dedicated his career to creating technology which, at least for the next decade, isn't going to bear its full economic fruit.
But Nakamura wasn't always a renewable energy guy. In fact, recently he'd worked to develop a way to produce liquefied natural gas at sea.
When the powerful earthquake rocked northeast Japan in March of 2011, triggering a tsunami that destroyed parts of the Fukushima Dai-Itchi nuclear power plant, Nakamura took it as a wake-up call.
"After the earthquake, it was a very big shock for the people like us in Japan," he explained to Doane, adding that his nation -- and its energy infrastructure -- had been inadequately prepared for a disaster of such a magnitude.
His company allowed him to transition into a department to work on dreaming up the next generation of power generation.
With 70 percent of the Earth covered by ocean, ever increasing demand and decreasing space on land to produce power, Nakamura believes that, just as the oil business looked offshore for opportunities, the renewable energy side will also look to the sea.
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Residents who campaigned against the plans today hailed the decision as a victory for people power after they successfully challenged a decision to give the proposals the go-ahead in the High Court last year.
Gavin Lloyd had wanted to build the turbine to provide energy at his home and farm, while it was also intended the equipment would power holiday let accommodation at the property.
The application was first made in June 2011 and was refused by Shropshire Council in September that year.
Mr Lloyd appealed and in March 2012 was given the go-ahead for the scheme by a planning inspector.
But that decision was then quashed in the High Court last December, resulting in a new inspection being ordered.
The findings of the second inspector David Rose were today published by The Planning Inspectorate.
Mr Rose said the three-blade turbine would have been able to generate 25,000kWh of energy in a year. But he said its benefits were outweighed by the harmful effects of the turbine on the look and character of the local area.
“Such benefits would only be achieved by causing a very serious loss to the overall character of the landscape and comparable visual harm to the appearance of the landscape from nearby public vantages,” he said.
“Whilst the landscape does not have special status or protection, the combination of these elements, which could not be mitigated, would be of sufficient magnitude to convincingly tip the balance away from granting planning permission.”
Resident Paul Jarrett was delighted with the decision. He said the decision to fight the case in the High Court could have personally cost him $40,000 if the original inspector’s ruling had been upheld.
“The bottom line is that it is unsuitable for the surroundings. That is what we have been saying for years,” he said.
Mr Lloyd could not be reached for comment today.
Nakamura explained that 80 to 90 percent of the power generated would come from the large wind-catching turbine floating over the sea, with another underwater turbine expected to produce the rest.
At first, the turbine units will be tethered to shore by cables which also transport the energy produced onto land storage facilities. The technology to effectively store it on the turbines at sea doesn't exist, yet.
"We can start the operations and we will learn from that one, and in the future, the battery cost will be less. Maybe 10 years later we will be in a very good shape for the business," he told CBS' Seth Doane.
He admits that he's dedicated his career to creating technology which, at least for the next decade, isn't going to bear its full economic fruit.
But Nakamura wasn't always a renewable energy guy. In fact, recently he'd worked to develop a way to produce liquefied natural gas at sea.
When the powerful earthquake rocked northeast Japan in March of 2011, triggering a tsunami that destroyed parts of the Fukushima Dai-Itchi nuclear power plant, Nakamura took it as a wake-up call.
"After the earthquake, it was a very big shock for the people like us in Japan," he explained to Doane, adding that his nation -- and its energy infrastructure -- had been inadequately prepared for a disaster of such a magnitude.
His company allowed him to transition into a department to work on dreaming up the next generation of power generation.
With 70 percent of the Earth covered by ocean, ever increasing demand and decreasing space on land to produce power, Nakamura believes that, just as the oil business looked offshore for opportunities, the renewable energy side will also look to the sea.
Read the full story at aulaundry.com web! Shanghai Xunduo Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. is one of the leading industrial laundry equipment manufacturers of washer extractor, tumble dryer,flat work ironer, washer extractor, industrial washing machine, dry cleaning machine ect., which is integrating designing,researching, manufacturing, sales and service all within the company to ensure the highest level of quality and service.
2013年3月26日 星期二
CAW turbine fully operational
A Canadian Auto Workers' wind turbine that has sparked protests, petitions and a strong public backlash is now in full operation in Saugeen Shores.
The turbine, at the union's Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, was turned on and the blades began spinning at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, according to Ken Bondy, the CAW's national health, safety and environment co-ordinator.
"It was a long time coming for us, about nine years from the initial thought process," he said Tuesday in an interview.
He said the turbine is expected to generate enough "green energy" to offset 350 tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
While the union is celebrating the "milestone" — it is the first union-owned and operated wind turbine in Canada — opponents of the project are still fuming.
Karen Hunter, spokeswoman for Saugeen Turbine Operation Policy (STOP), said the group is "extremely disappointed" the CAW has decided to "roll the dice and take a chance on our health and their own employees' health.
"They've chosen to ignore the massive evidence that turbines located too close to people destroy health. Their decision to start the turbine shows that the CAW's priorities are money first, people second."
She said STOP will continue to be involved in "noise monitoring and legal action."
STOP and other opponents of the CAW turbine say it is too close to homes and, as a result, threatens the health and safety of many people and reduces the value of nearby residential properties.
About 100 homes are within 550 metres of the turbine, which is the minimum setback in the Green Energy Act. The turbine is exempt from the act since approval was granted before it became law.
Bondy said complaint forms were distributed to every home within a 1,500-metre radius of the turbine, which he said is more than double what was required by the province.
"If there are any complaints, we will deal with those on an immediate basis," he said.
He said he is confident concerns will dissipate once residents experience the turbine in operation.
The turbine was built despite attempts to stop its construction.
Saugeen Shores council tried in 2006 by voting down a rezoning application to permit turbines. The CAW appealed and won at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing in 2007. Council also approved a 2,000-metre setback for wind turbines in 2011, but the rule has no teeth since turbine approvals rest with the province under the Green Energy Act.
Last fall, Saugeen Shores council formally asked the CAW to postpone activating the turbine until Health Canada completes a planned study on the relationship between turbine noise and human health. Results of the study are expected in 2014.
The CAW said it followed all legal and regulatory requirements for new turbines and would not delay turning it on.
Bondy said Tuesday the union plans to develop other ways to reduce its carbon footprint, including investigating the installation of solar panels at the Family Education Centre.
But a second turbine is not in the plans, he said, adding the union did not anticipate the level of opposition or "anxiety" it would create in the community.
The turbine, at the union's Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, was turned on and the blades began spinning at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, according to Ken Bondy, the CAW's national health, safety and environment co-ordinator.
"It was a long time coming for us, about nine years from the initial thought process," he said Tuesday in an interview.
He said the turbine is expected to generate enough "green energy" to offset 350 tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
While the union is celebrating the "milestone" — it is the first union-owned and operated wind turbine in Canada — opponents of the project are still fuming.
Karen Hunter, spokeswoman for Saugeen Turbine Operation Policy (STOP), said the group is "extremely disappointed" the CAW has decided to "roll the dice and take a chance on our health and their own employees' health.
"They've chosen to ignore the massive evidence that turbines located too close to people destroy health. Their decision to start the turbine shows that the CAW's priorities are money first, people second."
She said STOP will continue to be involved in "noise monitoring and legal action."
STOP and other opponents of the CAW turbine say it is too close to homes and, as a result, threatens the health and safety of many people and reduces the value of nearby residential properties.
About 100 homes are within 550 metres of the turbine, which is the minimum setback in the Green Energy Act. The turbine is exempt from the act since approval was granted before it became law.
Bondy said complaint forms were distributed to every home within a 1,500-metre radius of the turbine, which he said is more than double what was required by the province.
"If there are any complaints, we will deal with those on an immediate basis," he said.
He said he is confident concerns will dissipate once residents experience the turbine in operation.
The turbine was built despite attempts to stop its construction.
Saugeen Shores council tried in 2006 by voting down a rezoning application to permit turbines. The CAW appealed and won at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing in 2007. Council also approved a 2,000-metre setback for wind turbines in 2011, but the rule has no teeth since turbine approvals rest with the province under the Green Energy Act.
Last fall, Saugeen Shores council formally asked the CAW to postpone activating the turbine until Health Canada completes a planned study on the relationship between turbine noise and human health. Results of the study are expected in 2014.
The CAW said it followed all legal and regulatory requirements for new turbines and would not delay turning it on.
Bondy said Tuesday the union plans to develop other ways to reduce its carbon footprint, including investigating the installation of solar panels at the Family Education Centre.
But a second turbine is not in the plans, he said, adding the union did not anticipate the level of opposition or "anxiety" it would create in the community.
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