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2013年8月15日星期四

Kingsport Ballet turns flood clean-up into restoration job

Following the July flood that inundated downtown Kingsport in two and three feet of water, Kingsport Ballet staff,He saw the bracelet at a indoortracking store while we were on a trip. volunteers, and hired hands went to work to extract, clean up, dry up and restore affected areas.The Kingsport Ballet facility was renovated into the current arts center in July of 2010. The original building housed the Dixie Maid Bakery in the 1930s and 1940s, and various businesses since then. 

Kingsport Ballet renovated over 15,000 square feet of space into five studios, spacious waiting areas, dressing rooms and offices, a wellness lounge and additional studios sublet to arts instructors. Some of the front rooms which serve as reception areas and waiting rooms were covered in old vinyl tile, which was repaired and cleaned but not replaced in 2010. The recent flood saturated the front half of the building under 2 inches of water and the vinyl tile became loose in areas and buckled in others. 

Faced with various options for re-flooring, it was determined that the two layers of tile would need to come up to determine if ceramic tile, sealed concrete or other appropriate high-traffic flooring would be best in the approximately 900 square-foot area. In the process of removal, workers exposed large areas of original porcelain tile laid during the original construction of the bakery. The tile covers 90 percent of the floor affected. 

During the 2010 renovations, some of the same tile was exposed in another area, but due to large spots of subfloor disrepair, only a small portion of the original tile was restored into a framed area about 4 feet by 10. 

The recent flooding forced the exposure and subsequent restoration of the original hexagonal one-inch tile, typical during the 1930s and 1940s. Kingsport Ballet volunteers and staff have been stripping and cleaning the tile for several weeks in order to open doors for fall classes on Aug.We sell bestsmartcard and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. 19. 

In addition to restoring the waiting area floors, workers have repaired buckled subfloors in carpeted areas, ripped out and replaced base molding, repaired and patched walls that became wet during the flood and are replacing some furniture damaged by water. 

The non-profit company supported in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission,Are you still hesitating about where to buy bestparkingguidance? the Kingsport Community Foundation, the City of Kingsport and various area sponsors is seeking donations to offset renovation and restoration efforts as a result of the flood. A T-shirt commemorating the restoration has been created, and will be for sale on the corner of Cherokee and Market streets on Saturday, Aug. 17,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an parkingmanagement. during a downtown celebration event, and at Kingsport Ballet after that. Proceeds will help offset renovation and restoration expenses. 

Kingsport Ballet is funded for general operations by the Tennessee Arts Commission under an agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts. Outreach programs are funded in part by the City of Kingsport, the East Tennessee Foundations Arts Fund, the Funds for At-Risk Youth with the Tennessee Arts Commission, Holston Medical Group, among others. 

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Only some of the collisions that may occur in low earth orbit can be reproduced in the laboratory. To determine the potential impact of fast-moving orbital debris on spacecraft and to assist NASA in the design of shielding that can withstand hypervelocity impacts Fahrenthold and his team developed a numerical algorithm that simulates the shock physics of orbital debris particles striking the layers of Kevlar, metal, and fiberglass that makes up a space vehicle's outer defenses. 

Supercomputers enable researchers to investigate physical phenomenon that cannot be duplicated in the laboratory, either because they are too large, small, dangerous or in this case, too fast to reproduce with current testing technology. Running hundreds of simulations on the Ranger, Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Fahrenthold and his students have assisted NASA in the development of ballistic limit curves that predict whether a shield will be perforated when hit by a projectile of a given size and speed. NASA uses ballistic limit curves in the design and risk analysis of current and future spacecraft.
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2011年3月7日星期一

Keeping quiet for Lent

It's 2011, and if I want to hear music I don't have to be deprived for a single

split-second.  I just pop in one of the 400 CDs I own. After an entire morning of one

CD after the other  I decide to go get some exercise at the gym, but first I go

online and download a couple of new songs from iTunes for 99 cents each and upload

them to my iPod Nano which already contains nearly an entire gigabyte of music.

Driving along, I turn on my radio and casually sift through every musical genre known

to humankind, via AM, FM, or satellite. Arriving at the gym I go inside and am

immediately engulfed by classic rock playing on the overhead speakers, which I hear

only up to the point that I don my iPod. After my workout I stop by a coffee shop and

order a cup of slightly overpriced joe to the sounds of 90s alt rock, served by a

barista with one ear bud in her ear and an iPod tucked in her jeans pocket. 

Employees back in the kitchen are standing around a small battered disc player

singing along to "Paradise City" by Guns 'n' Roses, which is entirely different from

the song being played in the store, which is not the song on the barista's iPod, and

none of them are the same as the song playing in my head, which has been lingering

there ever since my workout.

You want music? Yeah, we got music (pardon the slang). What we don't have is any sane

sense of balance.

It is understandable that we inundate ourselves with music. Music is infinite and

mysterious; it speaks to our souls in a direct and unique manner, and the

accompanying rush is highly addictive. As a composer, I can sympathize with anyone

adrift in the ecstasy of music, listening to its meter and tones, studying its forms,

reveling in the emotions and passions it inspires. It's a very tempting substitute

for God in a society that wants a god with no moral expectations or doctrinal

entanglements.

But the time has come for Catholics to turn off the music.

One reason is that so much of the music we all hear every day is of poor quality. It

is badly written, mindless, repetitive, dull, and therefore unedifying, and it can be

a near occasion of sin.

As much as my wife and I try to laugh it off, "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle is a song

about prostitutes. "Love the One You're With" by Stephen Stills is a song about

promiscuity. "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel — perhaps one of the catchiest

pop songs ever written — is a song encouraging young Catholic virgins to fornicate.

A deeper reason to hit the "off" button is because music, even the very best, can

distract us from God. This is not only a problem of listening to too much music too

much of the time, but can simply be a matter of listening to a little music at the

wrong time.

God loves silence. In the 19th chapter of the first Book of Kings, the prophet Elijah

falls into a state of despair that only God can relieve, but Elijah is too vexed and

angry to hear him. Elijah experiences in succession a blasting wind, an earthquake,

and a roaring fire — they may have just as well been a Foo Fighters song, a symphony

by Beethoven, and a Nelson Riddle arrangement of "Something's Gotta Give" with

Sinatra on vocals. None of them are God, as awesome as these gifts from God are. It

is not until Elijah listens to the "tiny, whispering sound" that he can finally

discern what God is trying to tell him.

This Lent, let's do without music at least part of each day. Identify times and

places where you might invite silence in. For instance, on your way to work, don't

turn on the radio. Be still; let your mind be at rest; pray. You already know that

your work day is going to be a riot of noise and activity. Why start early? Maintain

a little silence. When you're exercising, try doing it without music. On Sunday

mornings, definitely guard the quietude. That is the way par excellence to prepare

for the holy sacrifice of the Mass.