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The Hunger Games finally comes out today, but already the movie's been analyzed from every angle: its potentially huge box-office numbers, why Katniss Everdeen is a female role model, whether or not it's the new Twilight, and, perhaps most importantly, whether or not Lenny Kravitz's stylist character Cinna is gay.
But one thing that hasn't been talked about enough is how this teen-killing mainstream entertainment depicts its bleak post-apocalyptic world. Like a lot of books and films before it, The Hunger Games has to imagine what a dark future world will be like. And while watching the movie, I thought about how the future is always presented so ... stupidly. Listen, I'm not saying The Hunger Games is wrong about what The Future will be like—I haven't arrived in the future yet—but it is funny how the film (based on Suzanne Collins's novel) basically imagines The Future in all the ways we're used to seeing it. And all those ways are really silly.
1. In The Future, bad guys will be easy to spot because of their bad hair
Anybody who's looked at his parents' wedding photos knows that hairstyles come and go—and that lots of them are terrible—but future-set movies seem pretty confident that while technology will continue to make our lives easier, our hairdos are gonna be really awful. Well, if you're the hero in the movie, your hair will be fine—unless you're Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux, which doesn't count because it's terrible—but if you're a villain, hoo boy, you're gonna be sportin' a ridiculous look. In The Hunger Games, Donald Sutherland's evil President Snow luckily gets off relatively scot-free, but Effie Trinket, Seneca Crane, and Caesar Flickerman all have hilariously dumb 'dos. At some point in The Future, baddies decided that the best way to distinguish themselves from other people is by advertising their villainy on top of their heads. Wesley Snipes, I apologize now for laughing at your goofy yellow mohawk thingy back in Demolition Man: If only I'd known.
2. In The Future, everybody has clothes designed by people who hate them
This is sort of like the hair thing, but different. Apparently, at some point in The Future, people decided that although they liked traditional outfits, they wanted to jazz things up too. Unfortunately in a movie like The Hunger Games, this usually means characters wear lots of stuff with glitter on them. Or things are skintight. Or stuff doesn't have zippers or buttons. (As film critic Matt Singer pointed out, "I like how in the world of THE HUNGER GAMES everyone dresses really weird, except Lenny Kravitz, who dresses like Lenny Kravitz.") It appears that in The Future we're gonna spend a lot of time wearing the equivalent of close-fitting Snuggies ... with sparkles on it. Call it "The Fifth Element Rule." (Note: This applies only to futuristic films in which society has devolved into hedonistic chaos. If per chance your future society has become a totalitarian, dehumanized hellhole, then everybody wears prim-and-proper outfits because we've lost the ability to feel, man.)
3. In The Future, someone's taken Ridley Scott's Apple Super Bowl commercial to heart
Arguably the most famous commercial of the last 30 years, director Ridley Scott's "1984" Super Bowl spot introduced the world to Apple's Macintosh computer. Of course, it was inspired by George Orwell's 1984, but Scott's visual aesthetic can still be seen in gloomy near-future films like The Hunger Games that always have to contain a scene in which the huddled, colorless masses are subservient to a big monitor above them barking orders. I'm no futurist, but doesn't it make more sense to think that in The Future we're each gonna have individual eye-screens from which a cruel overlord tells us what to do? Nope, in The Future, Big Brother will still prefer treating its citizens like they're at one tedious high school assembly.
4. In The Future, the cops are scary
The Hunger Games suggests that, in The Future, law enforcement officers will dress like riot cops. Clearly, this is supposed to make them scary in a faceless, bureaucratic way, and it's a style we've become accustomed to since THX 1138. But unlike George Lucas's 41-year-old movie, too many recent sci-fi films seem to think our police force is still gonna be staffed with humans. That can't be right, can it? In these super-high-tech futures where everything else is handled by machines, we're really gonna let people handle that sort of unpleasant stuff for us?
5. The Future will feature everything you hate about the present—but it'll be worse
Sci-fi films will sometimes throw the audience a comforting bone—Look, we've cured cancer!—but the downside is that a dark future world almost always exaggerates something you can't stand right now. For instance, Minority Report lets us know how ubiquitous ads become. (By the way, it's scary how close that's getting to being reality.) And in The Hunger Games, the target is reality television. And so we get Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flickerman, who's part Regis Philbin, part Ryan Seacrest, which is to say he's basically Liberace. Inevitably, this also means that society is mostly a bunch of thoughtless, obnoxious morons who love all this base entertainment. Oh my god! Don't you see! Their version of American Idol is teens killing each other! That's where we're heading! The problem with The Hunger Games is that it's so ridiculously serious about its satire that it's not really compelling. Give me Idiocracy any day, which at least understood that the proposition of the world's metastasizing stupidity was, when you think about it, almost frighteningly funny.
6. In The Future, despite our technological achievements, being true to our nature is most important
The Hunger Games is set largely at the Capitol, which is bustling with cool gadgets and impressive technology, but like lots of futuristic movies—which spend tons on top-of-the-line effects—we're meant to understand that, really, those tools can't compare with the elemental nature of existence. No, Katniss is our hero in part because she's from Panem's poorest district, where everybody lives like Appalachian mountainfolk. But her heart is pure! She isn't suckered in by technological advancement! Hell, she uses a bow and arrow! This has been a familiar trope since H.G. Wells suggested that simple germs could defeat all-powerful invading Martians, or Luke Skywalker turned off his tracking computer to destroy the Death Star by relying on the Force. So, good news, present-day people: The Future will have lots of cool things, but they won't make you happy. As usual, Louis CK got there first.
7. In The Future, we're still gonna have dopey love stories
One of the major things to look forward to in the sequels to The Hunger Games will be the developing romantic triangle between Katniss and Teen Boy Who Was In The Kids Are All Right and Dude Whose Brother Is Thor. You would expect that a dystopian future wouldn't allow for much romance. Well, you should shut up, because you're totally wrong. The Future is all about finding love as a balm from the general terribleness of everything else around you. Blade Runner, Fahrenheit 451, Strange Days, the Star Wars movies, The Matrix ... it's not enough to take down the evil society; you'd better get laid, too.


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BRIDGEPORT -- A New York University graduate student from Stratford was in court Tuesday on charges he threatened to post naked photos of six young women on a porn site unless they sent him more nude pictures of themselves.
Film student John Lisi was in Superior Court court accused of 17 counts of attempted first-degree larceny by extortion for trying to force photos from the women, two who are Fairfield University students and a third who is a student at Seton Hall University, through a phony Facebook account.
Lisi, 22, pleaded not guilty and elected a jury trial.
"Lisi stated he was `just a perverted kid that was looking for something and didn't realize he was doing anything illegal,' " police said.
All six women had some prior contact with Lisi either in high school or college. One of the women told detectives she had turned him down when he had asked her out on a date at Fairfield University, police said.
The student at Seton Hall told police that nude photos ended up on the pornographic website when she refused to send photos of herself to the Facebook site. She said she was under 16 in some of the nude photos.
"We are looking forward to examining the state's evidence in the case," said Lisi's lawyer, Edward Gavin, as he and his client left the Main Street courthouse.
Lisi graduated last May with honors from Fairfield University and is pursuing a master's degree in film studies at NYU. He also writes a blog entitled "The Moviegoer."
Police said in August they received a complaint from a 22-year-old Fairfield woman who said she had received a Facebook email from a Tim Billards.
The email states: "A friend of mine told me about you, and how you used to send him naked pictures of yourself. He sent me the pictures and I really like what I see. I'd like to see more. I don't want to release the pictures that I have all over the Internet, but I will if you can't help me out. I'm just asking for about five pictures. I'd like a variety, I'd like to see your face in all of them, and I'd like them to be in color. I trust that you'll do this."
When the woman continued to ignore the messages she got one last one, police said, a link to the pornographic site. On it had been posted a nude photo of her, police said.
Stratford Police Detective John Therina traced the computer account to Lisi's father, George Lisi Jr., of Summersweet Place in Stratford.
The information showed the account had been sending similar emails to five other young women. In addition to the three college students, police said another woman is a recent graduate of Fairfield University.
Police said Lisi admitted creating the phony Facebook page under the name Tim Billards and demanding nude photos from the women.
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Chris Brown Admits He Doesn't Like Drake + Had a Hard Time Splitting from Karrueche Tran [Video]
In news that will surprise no one, Chris Brown revealed that he isn't really a fan of Drake -- and that he had a hard time saying goodbye to his ex Karrueche Tran, who he infamously (and publicly) ditched in favor of Rihanna.
Brown dropped a mildly homophobic diss verse against Drake recently in a remix of Young Jeezy's 'R.I.P.,' a move which many believe is in retaliation to Drake insulting Brown's record sales on '5AM in Toronto.' (Brown's lyric: "And if you started from the bottom gon' and come out the closet." Drake's: "A couple albums dropped, those are still on the shelf / I bet them s---s would have popped if I was willin' to help.")
When Breezy was asked about Drizzy in an interview with Power 105.1, the 'Fine China' MC and singer kept it simple. "People just don't like certain people," he quipped. "He don't like me. I don't like him."
As for his ex, Brown wants to keep things friendly -- but with one condition: he doesn't want Tran dating other recording artists. "Yeah, that would be a little close to home," Brown admitted. "At the end of the day I think it should be a respect boundary." Interestingly, when he was allegedly hooking up with Rihanna behind Tran's back, respect didn't seem like much of an issue.
Brown also admitted that Tran was there during his darkest hours, so he'll always have a place for her in his heart.
"She was my friend through it all," he explained. "It was a friendship more than a relationship. I still love her, but at the end of the day, it's like I got love for her. She's gonna always be my homie. All the best to her. We still have a clothing line. I only want her to progress. I don't want to stop her blessings."
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Galloway Student Charged with Having Explosive Device
A 16-year-old student has been arrested and charged with having an explosive device after police found electronic parts and chemicals at his home they say could have caused an explosion if mixed together.
Cedar Creek High School Administrators called Galloway Township police to Cedar Creek High School around 2 p.m. Tuesday because of concerns about a student's behavior. Police say they took the youth to the police station, but that there were no indications he'd made threats or was a danger to anyone at the school.
When his home was searched, the electronic parts and several types of chemicals were found. Bomb sniffing dogs later were taken to the high school but nothing was located.
The student was charged with possession of a weapon, an explosive device, and placed in a youth detention center.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's tennis team recorded its second Atlantic Sun Conference win on Saturday when they pulled out a 4-3 victory over USC Upstate at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
"For a match to started at 2 p.m. and end just after 7:30 p.m. shows the amount of fight it took to get this win today," head coach Andrew Harris said. "We spoke to the team about having a sense of desperation, and I am glad the guys exhibited that tonight. This was a tremendous win for the guys tonight, and we are looking forward to heading south to Jacksonville for the next conference match."
The Bison got off to a quick start with an early 1-0 lead after picking up the doubles point 2-1.
Junior Tanner Brown and freshman Stuart Tierney pulled out a tie-breaker win over Tyler Grove and Jacob Darling, winning 9-8 (5) at No. 2.
At No. 3, sophomore David Salazar and junior Colby Shaw endured through another tie-breaker deciding match to record a win over Gonzalo Blanco and Yvon Haessig 9-8 (4).
The Bison's only doubles loss came at No. 1, where junior Oliver Strecker and sophomore Miguel Cortez fell to Ramiro Blanco and Matthias Kidler 8-4.
The Bison entered singles action with a 1-0 lead, but went on to pick up three of the six matches at No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5.
Salazar pulled out a three-setter at No. 2, beating Kidler 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, while Hernandez took down Blanco 6-4, 6-3 at No. 3.
At No. 5, Brown posted another three-set math, and secured the match for the Bison with his 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 win over Pierre Vernin.
Strecker fell at No. 1 to Blanco 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, while Shaw dropped a three-setter to Haessig at No. 4, losing 5-7, 6-1, 6-0.
At No. 6, Cortez was defeated by Grove 6-1, 6-0.
The win improves the Bison's A-Sun record to 2-3. The men will return to action when they head to Murfreesboro to face Middle Tennessee on Wednesday. Match play will begin at 2 p.m.
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2) Salazar vs. Kidler -LU Won 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
3) Hernandez vs. Blanco-LU Won 6-4, 6-3
4) Colby Shaw vs. Haessig USC-Upstate Won 5-7, 6-1, 6-0
5) Tanner Brown vs. Vernin LU Won 6-7, 6-4, 7-5
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I am curious how often ligher guys (140lbs ) can use a 5m at Waddell. During the recent outings I often have to depower my 7m Switch Method v1 quite a bit. Even when depowered, I can't go upwind as much I want to (I get dragged downwind with high gusts) and highspeed carving becomes almost impossible as the kite generates way too much thrust. By the way, I am riding a Litewave Quad 5'8''. So I am thinking that a smaller kite would work better. However, I don't want to get a 5m and then find out that it is useless most of the sessions.
On a related note. Is there a technique to maximize upwind on the surfboard? I would imagine that it would involve keeping the board somewhat flat, putting most of the weight towards the center, and then using the backfoot to point the board more upwind. I feel that when everything is right and the bar is not being yanked out of my hands, I can accomplish this. As soon as I start getting over powered, it becomes much more difficult to point the nose upwind and I start losing ground.


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In the 1960s and '70s, if you were in a doctor's office, or a funeral home, or a motel in Florida, chances are a landscape painting hung on the wall. Palms arching over the water, or moonlight on an inlet. Tens of thousands of paintings like this were created by a group of self-taught African-American artists, concentrated in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The Highwaymen, as they're called, didn't earn that nickname until the 1990s, but it refers to their early days: Following the years of Jim Crow segregation, they churned out lush oil landscapes four and five at a time, and sold them from their cars along Route 1 — often before the paint had even dried. After all, they weren't allowed in galleries.
Those paintings, which once sold for $25, now go for thousands, and owners include Michelle Obama, Shaquille O'Neal and Jeb Bush. But as the reputation of The Highwaymen has grown, so has something else: tension on their native turf.
Gary Monroe, professor and author of The Highwaymen, Florida's African-American Landscape Artists, counts 26 original Highwaymen. That's how many were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2004 — 18 of whom are still living.
Mary Ann Carroll, 71, is one of them — a tall, formidable woman who keeps a Bible handy. She's a pastor, and to this day, the only female painter of the group.
As a young woman, Carroll picked citrus and cotton, and had seven children to raise on her own. Like many of The Highwaymen, she got her start because she needed the money.
Although she paints quickly, she says she puts her heart into every canvas: "It might just be a drop of water, you know? But in my mind, I'm working on a masterpiece."
"Some of them are really horrible, ugly paintings," says Kathleen Fredericks, executive director of the A.E. Backus Gallery and Museum in Fort Pierce. Her attitude stems from a belief that The Highwaymen owe an unacknowledged debt to the work of regional painter A.E. "Beanie" Backus.
Born in Fort Pierce in 1906, Backus painted romantically, masterfully, inspired by Florida's wild coastal beauty. He was the first native Floridian to paint Florida year-round, capturing the subtle way the seasons changed, the gusts of wind that came off the ocean and curved the palm trees like sabers arching over the water.
He was exceptional in other ways, too. Jim Crow was in force in Fort Pierce, which was, in his youth, literally segregated by train tracks and was the site of Ku Klux Klan marches. And yet Backus kept his studio doors open to anyone of color, and everyone came.
He gave jobs to students like Alfred Hair, a young, black aspiring artist whose art teacher took him to the Backus studio on a field trip in the 1960s. Hair started building canvases for Backus, and was soon painting on his own. A smart man in a hurry to make money, he took the landscape techniques and reworked them, painting faster and faster; by today's standards, they went viral.
Fast, cheap and appealing: That would become the business strategy behind the whole Highwaymen enterprise — and it did become an enterprise. Hair wasn't the only painter of his kind. Harold Newton had figured it out. So had James Gibson.
Fredericks would also hang out at Backus' studio. And today, she defends his reputation fiercely, believing The Highwaymen have made cheap reproductions of the paintings that hang in her gallery. "There's a reason why they were viewed as motel art," Fredericks says.
Her words hint at a broader divide in Fort Pierce. Not just an art spat, but perhaps vestigial racial tension from Jim Crow to the present. Fort Pierce recognizes The Highwaymen, but doesn't seem to know how to include them. One particular sore point is a monument that was built in their honor: The commission went to a white artist from Miami.
"We had a struggle, and we still have a struggle here in St. Lucie County, kid you not," says Mary Ann Carroll.
A festival the Backus museum gave The Highwaymen in recent years devolved into acrimony and accusations. Yet nearly everyone says The Highwaymen and Backus are intertwined. So where is the spirit of tolerance and inclusiveness that everyone remembers from Beanie Backus' home studio?
The Highwaymen don't all tell their story the same way, see it the same way, or paint their own history in the same hues. But Mary Ann Carroll says no matter what, she knows her life is better for having been an artist.
"My life," she says, "no matter how bad it might have been, I took joy out of it. I took the bad and reframed it. You know like you take a bad painting and put it in a beautiful frame? It makes a difference."
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
In the 1960s and '70s, if you were in Florida at, say, a doctor's office or a motel, chances are you'd see a painting on the wall of palms arching over the ocean or moonlight on an inlet. Tens of thousands of paintings like that were created by The Highwaymen, a group of African-American artists based in Fort Pierce, Florida. Today, their works are highly sought after. Michelle Obama and Jeb Bush own them.
But NPR's Jacki Lyden reports that The Highwaymen's success has created tensions on their home turf concerning race, money, and the meaning of art.
A little white pillar with hand-painted lettering tells you, outside her modest home, what Mary Ann Carroll does and has been doing for decades: Mary A. Carroll, Artist. She started here in her carport.
MARY ANN CARROLL: And I'd take about 10 boards at a time and I'd paint - sometimes I paint all during the night. And some of the people would get up and go into work the next morning, I'd still be out there painting.
LYDEN: A tall, formidable 71-year-old who keeps a Bible handy, she's really a Highwaywoman who paints billowing trees that fill the frame.
CARROLL: There's a jacaranda, that lavender one, golden trumpet tree; yellow, the tabebuia is yellow. And I don't know if there's another. I think it's three different yellow trees.
LYDEN: Carroll was one of the young African-Americans who started painting in Fort Pierce in '60s. To this day, she's the only female member of the group. She was young, divorced, with seven kids. She'd picked cotton and oranges, mowed lawns, done carpentry. And then one day, she saw a black man painting those beautiful scenes and her eyes fell on his car.
CARROLL: Flames print on the side, on the fender. Then he looked in the back and showed me he had a painting in there. I guess to prove that he was an artist. And so, I said will you show me. He tacked me up a little 18-by-24 board. And so, when I got through it looked all right but it was just naked. So what he did, he put two palm trees in it. And I sold a painting. I don't know where I sold it, don't remember how much I sold it for.
LYDEN: The paintings were cheap - 25 bucks or less. The Highwaymen had stumbled on something and they went, by today's standards, viral.
CARROLL: People started going after these paintings like wildfire.
GARY MONROE: They had no rules, no dues, no organization - nothing.
LYDEN: Gary Monroe is a biographer and historian of The Highwayman.
MONROE: It was just sort of this spontaneous combustion of these guys came together at night. And each of them working individually under big trees with light bulbs dangling and beer flowing and barbecues aflame, and socializing with young women, knocking out these paintings. And framing them and taking them on the road to sell the next morning, 10, 12, 20 at a time. And it seemed to work just magically.
LYDEN: By the time Monroe and others came along in the '90s, the painters had all but stopped. You could find these pictures at yard sales. And Monroe, a yard sale fanatic and documentary photographer, played a leading role in their rediscovery. He published the first book on them in 2001, identifying 26 original painters, 18 of whom are still alive.
JAMES GIBSON: This the mangroves.
LYDEN: One of the most prolific is artist James Gibson. We caught up with him in a park, where he pulled the paintings out of the back of his Cadillac Escalade.
GIBSON: And this, that's the sunset. You get all the brilliant colors, bright orange, yellow. And when you get cold, you look at these colors and warm you up, mentally.
LYDEN: If you want yellow, Gibson will paint for you in yellow, or blue or orange. It'll cost you though - thousands. Stephen Spielberg and Shaquille O'Neill own Gibson paintings, as do many others.
But The Highwaymen weren't the first to paint these Indian River vistas, as Gibson himself would say. The first was an artist named A.E. Beanie Backus, born in Fort Pierce in 1906. And at a time when segregation was the norm, Backus opened to his home to one and all. He taught the founder of The Highwaymen group and encouraged others, including James Gibson.
GIBSON: Mr. Backus was a famous white artist. At this particular time, his door was open to anybody who was interested in art - black, whatever, white, anybody. And if you're interested, he'll teach you.
LYDEN: The Highwaymen reinvented the Backus landscape, painting with a palette knife not a brush, on drywall not canvass. And fast, of course. The Highwaymen would come to Backus himself to get his advice.
Mary Ann Carroll.
CARROLL: I went down there one time and I took a couple of paintings for him to cue them up for me and tell me what was wrong. And he said, oh, that's nice, that's nice. But he never told me I need to put a limb here, a piece of grass there, or bird. He never said anything like that. He just said it was nice. And so, I took for granted that it was nice.
LYDEN: Back then, they were in a different leagues. Backus was considered the dean of the Florida Landscape School, and had commissions years ahead: wealthy patrons, yacht club, banks. The Highwaymen hit the tourist trade on U.S. 1. Now, art world demand has them in competition. There are those who say that The Highwaymen have overstepped, that it should be Backus's vision that predominates in the old, unblemished Florida landscape of savannah, ocean and cypress.
BUD ALTO ADAMS: Come here and I'll show you something.
LYDEN: All right.
It all goes back to the land. One of Backus' favorite places to paint is a spectacular ranch, virtually unspoiled, long stretches of grassland, punctuated with islands of scrubs and scruffy pines.
Wow. Oh, my gosh. Bud, it's just achingly beautiful. This is like a Beanie Backus painting come to life.
ADAMS: My backyard is hard to beat.
LYDEN: Eighty-year-old Bud Alto Adams has a 17,000 acre spread, full of the views Backus loved to paint; from dappled groves to luminous thunderheads.
ADAMS: He was a faithful painter of Florida. He did not invent pink clouds. If you saw a pink cloud, it was really a pink cloud.
LYDEN: Beanie Backus's ashes are scattered on this ranch. He died in 1990.
ADAMS: Beanie was a fixture in Fort Pierce. He was absolutely unselfish and too good to take care of himself, really.
LYDEN: Beanie Backus was addicted to rum and everyone knew why: to take his mind off the death of his young wife. Some of his most loyal pupils feel The Highwaymen have absconded with the master's vision.
Jackie Schindehette was with him on the day he died.
JACKIE SCHINDEHETTE: I really do feel strongly that Backus is not better known. And it is because there is nobody out there shouting his name like The Highwaymen.
LYDEN: The Highwaymen have lots of followers who enjoy their breezy style. And even though Mary Ann Carroll paints quickly, she still puts her heart into every canvas.
CARROLL: In my mind, I'm working on a masterpiece. It might just be a drop of water. You never know. But in my mind, I'm working on a masterpiece.
KATHLEEN FREDERICK: Some of them are really horrible, ugly paintings.
LYDEN: Kathleen Fredericks is the executive director of the Backus Museum and Gallery, one of the major cultural institutions in Fort Pierce.
FREDERICK: The Highwaymen paintings need their story to carry them forward. Viewed naked, so to speak, the vast majority of people would be taken aback. There's a reason that they were viewed as motel art.
LYDEN: Once, as a member of the young Backus brats gang, Kathleen Fredericks watched Backus paint. Now, she's watching as his legacy is overshadowed by The Highwaymen.
FREDERICK: They couldn't go out on the Adams Ranch and paint paintings on the Adams Ranch. They'd have been run off and shot. So a lot of those images were conceived of because they came to Backus's studio and they said, oh, ponsienna trees. That - look, he's selling a lot of those; palm trees, these ranch scenes.
LYDEN: Inflammatory words that hint at a broader divide in Fort Pierce. Not just an art spat, but perhaps vestigial racial tension from Jim Crow to the present. Fort Pierce recognizes The Highwaymen, but it doesn't seem to know how to include them. A particular sore point is a monument put up to honor them. The commission went to a white artist from Miami.
Again, artist Mary Ann Carroll.
CARROLL: But we had a struggle and there's still have a struggle here in St. Lucie County. Kid you not. And, rather like the Bible said, a prophet is not without honor except in his own home town.
LYDEN: A festival the Backus Museum gave the Highwaymen devolved into acrimony and accusations. So where is the spirit of tolerance and inclusivity that everyone remembers from Beanie Backus's home studio?
CARROLL: I mean, I can tell you I love you. You, shake your hand, hug your neck. But deep within am I telling the truth? It's going to show.
LYDEN: Recently, The Highwaymen have unified, forming a nonprofit group to protect their interests. They're a business now and others have eagerly been exploiting the brand. White collectors dominate the market, while The Highwaymen travel to art festivals around the state. In other ways, though, The Highwaymen have splintered, seemingly more interested in their individual careers. While some, like James Gibson, have opened their own small galleries, others live vicariously.
As for Mary Ann Carroll, You can still catch her at the festivals with a brush in her hand. But she's retreated. Her passion now is a tiny church she's created at the edge of town. We asked her to take us there the night of a Biblical deluge and couldn't even tell where we were.
LYDEN: I got to say, I think we're at a - mainly, these looks like storage unit. Actually, it's three storage units, knocked together to make space for her congregation of grands and great-grands. Mary Ann has painted the room in vibrant colors and the walls echo as she belts out a verse.
MARY ANN CARROLL: According to the glorious gospel of a blessed God, which was committed to our trust...
LYDEN: God knows the Highwaymen don't all tell their stories the same way, see it the same way or paint it in the same hues. But Mary Ann Carroll says no matter what she's better off for having been a painter.
CARROLL: I took the bad and reframed it. No, like you take a bad painting and put it in a beautiful frame. It makes a difference.
LYDEN: And that transformation is the story of art and of young black painters who once drove up and down Florida's U.S. 1 selling wet-to-the-touch landscapes out of the trunks of their cars, shining like the American dream. Jacki Lyden, NPR News.
SIEGEL: And you can catch the final part of Jacki Lyden's story about the Florida Highwaymen painters tomorrow on MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Questar Fueling has signed an agreement to build, own and operate a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility in Houston, Texas, that will serve up to 200 natural gas-powered trucks operated by Swift Transportation and Central Freight Lines. These trucks are projected to use about 5 million gallons of natural gas per year. The majority of the trucks will use a private time-fill facility in which the trucks fill overnight. The remainder will use a five-lane, high-speed-fueling facility that will also be open to the public.
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Aliens are among us needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Aliens are among us
We're Aliens are among us, we're currently just a small start-up but with great aspirations. We develop extra-ordinary solutions for normal problems. We conceptualize crossmedia ideas to complement traditional tv-commercials, advertisement campagnes and real life events. The concepts often make use of new technology, but only as a means and never as a purpose.
- business to business
- mid-size to large companies
- The target audience is looking for a creative services
- Our customers vary a lot and could be : Adveristement agencies, government agencies (Tax office, Post office, etc...), Product based companies (Clothing, Antique Auctioneers, etc ...).
Our brand name has multiple explanations. These should be incorporated in our logo:
- we're alien because we're different from "others" in the field, we stand out
- we're trying to make technology feel less alien, blend in
- we like Science Fiction to be less fiction
The logo should consist of typography ("Aliens are among us") and a graphic element. It should be possible to use the graphic element on it's own (like an icon).
Style can be graphical but not cartoony.
Think USA 50's and early sf-movies
We are a serious company targetting serious customers but we really like what we do, a small "fun"angle can be incorporated in the logo.
We also attached some initial sketches to indicate our line of thinking. People can elaborate on these.
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Kids give their stuffed animals crazy names. When I was little, I had a stuffed bunny named "Ted Kennedy." So maybe I shouldn't be too shocked that this young fan, interviewed in Pittsburgh before last night's Pens-Flyers matchup in the Stanley Cup playoffs, has a bear named "Miller Lite." Some shame, though, should go to her parents—couldn't they at least point her toward the preferred beer of the region, that esteemed brew known as I.C. Light? [KDKA]
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The Romantic Herb Garden
Universe, 2004 - Gardening - 160 pages
The must-have ingredient of any garden, herbs have long been the stalwarts of the cottage garden, imparting fragrance and health as well as flavor to beds and borders. However, today's garden designers have realized that herbs can also help to shape or be a key visual element in a garden.The Romantic Herb Gardenshows how you can design with herbs, using these plants in an innovative and bold way as either a backdrop to or even the star of any garden scheme. In recent years the adaptability of herbs has enabled them to be used in healing gardens, herbaceous borders, paving, grazing gardens, walls and raised-bed planting, containers, and window boxes. This book shows how they can be used to great effect in gardens large and small, either smartly clipped for formal effects or allowed to go wild for a relaxed, been-there-forever look. In larger gardens herbs can give instant effect, providing color and texture while shrubs and herbaceous perennials settle in. In small gardens herbs can transform paving, walls, and flowerbeds, in full sun or shade, within a few months. After looking at the many ways to use herbs, author Caroline Holmes discusses schemes that show herbs to their best advantage while working in harmony with the environment; she then inspires the reader with a number of practical and low-cost garden schemes that include herbs. Finally, a directory of herbs enables you to identify and select the rights ones for your garden, giving you a renewed enthusiasm and zest for planting.
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The Best Vita and PSP Homebrews for March 2014
Every month we publish a list of the best Vita and PSP homebrews as voted by our community over the previous month. You can add your own homebrews to our /downloads Database, and vote for your favorite ones. This doesn't require any login.
This month's votes feature many long time favorites, but also a few new entries that you might want to check:
10. Open CMA
A patch by Virtuous Flame to prevent the PS Vita Content Manager Assistant from connecting to the internet.
The PS Vita comes with a system to copy save files that requires you to be connected permanently to the internet. This system is here to force you to update the Vita when a new version is available. In addition, it might be inconvenient for you to be constantly connected when you want to copy your files from and to the Vita. This patch is here to help you with this situation
Open CMA can be downloaded here
9. pyMenu
Features: Compatibility with TN-V, PRO and VHBL; Boots Homebrews, ISO, CSO games, PSN Apps, PS1 games; includes an MP3 Player, a Picture viewer, a plugin Manager
8. Pro CFW
Unleash the full power of your PSP with the most popular Custom Firmware on the scene! Compatible with all PSP models on firmwares 6.20, 6.35, 6.39, and 6.60
If you don't know what Pro CFW is yet, here's what their google code page has to say about it:
- Homebrew Compatible ? Run your own unsigned applications, both user and kernel mode.
- Plugin Compatible ? Add new features to your PSP via kernel mode background plugins.
- ISO / CSO Game Dump Playback ? Backup your own UMD discs via USB and play them from Flash Storage.
- 2g+ Memory Range Unlock ? Use the previously locked RAM range within your own homebrews.
- NODRM Engine ? Use your bought DLCs, no matter on which PSN account you are currently logged in.
- PSX Emulator Unlock ? Play your PSX classics, yes ? all of them. Not just PSN titles.
- And a lot more…
Pro CFW can be downloaded here
7. Silveredge
Adrenaline packed space shooter!
If you enjoy games such as Tyrian, or Rrootage, Silveredge is for you. AndrewYY worked on this game for one year before submitting it to the Genesis competition, and it shows. The graphics, audio effects, music, menus…everything is really polished and very impressive. From the very beginning of the game, you get into the action, the controls are explained as a quick element in the story, and, well, that's a detail but it's the kind of stuff that gives us the impression of playing a professional game.
Silveredge can be downloaded here
Custom Emulator Firmware 6.60 TN for PS Vita, with XMB support, by Total_Noob (individual game exploits by various hackers). The exploit that made my Vita TV interesting 🙂
– Features: The whole PSP environment, Recovery menu and VSH menu (many options to set), Support of plugins, Install Addon, Network update, 1.50 kernel homebrews compatibility, High PSX compatibility (without sound), High backups compatibility, Support of prometheus patched backups
Custom Emulator Firmware 6.60 TN can be downloaded here
5. Asteroids
In Asteroids you control a small spaceship facing a slew of aggressive asteroids. Your goal, if you accept it is to destroy the spheres while avoiding being crushed by the latter.
Asteroids can be downloaded here
4. Lamecraft
If you know the PC game Minecraft, you will feel at ease with this genesis entry which reuses the same concept: allowing grownups to play with blocks like little kids. LameCraft is for now just a sandbox that allows you to build a 3D world to your liking, but is already pretty impressive. This is a must-have in your homebrew library.
Lamecraft can be downloaded here
3. Wagic, The Homebrew
Often compared to commercial games for its replay value and quality, Wagic is a heroic fantasy card game, in which you fight as a wizard against the computer. As you win battles, you unlock new game modes and earn credits that allow you to improve your army. Wagic is community driven, entirely customizable (you can create themes, mods, even new rules), available in several languages (English, French, German, spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian), and open source. It currently runs on the Sony PSP, Windows, Linux, and N900 (maemo).
Personal note: I love playing it on the Vita TV 🙂
Wagic, The Homebrew can be downloaded here
2. DSonPSP
Nintendo DS emulator for PsP
This hasn't been maintained for a while and does not play many commercial games, but is technically impressive.
DSonPSP can be downloaded here
1. Ubuntu 12 PSP Shell
Ubuntu 12 PSP Shell can be downloaded here
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The entries below didn't make it to the ranking this month, but were close, check these out:
- Cave Story
- Minicraft
- DaedalusX64
- FTP For PS Vita
- gpsp
- Naruto Ultimate Ninja Battle
- Mad TV
- TN Savestate plugin
Also check our huge list of emulators for your PSP/Vita, and our top 50 Vita / PSP homebrews in 2013!
What would you recommend to fellow PSP/Vita owners? Feel free to add your homebrews in our database and vote for your favorite ones!


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BGTerrier wrote:Poor result on Tuesday after playing well over the weekend. Lost 12-7 to Upstate.
shortstop02 wrote:BGTerrier wrote:Poor result on Tuesday after playing well over the weekend. Lost 12-7 to Upstate.
poor result? who cares! beating upstate doesn't get us into the tournament. These guys just played their butts off this past weekend and winning against buttstate is the last thing on their minds. For those of you who don't understand the modern day midweek non conference game let me lay it out for you.
1. a chance to get some pitchers some work wether it be a good or bad outing it doesn't matter
2. A waste of time for position players who have already played just about every inning of every game this year and know in the back of their mind it doesn't matter if you win or lose this game except to the people on this forum.
3. Its also a chance for some guys who don't get to play get a few at bats or plays in the field.
The last part is where I have a problem with the coaching. If it were me I would have sat my starters or at least a few of them to give them a break. We need these guys fresh for the weekend and the following series. Thats just my opinion and Coach I isn't the only one that does things this way.
A midweek game against a team that doesn't matter isn't a game that I care about. Not now and not when I was a player did I give a flip about playing someone outside the conference except the fact that I had a chance to rest and give a guy who doesn't play an opportunity. Let's just take care of business this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!
Natural wrote:OMG....Wednesday night the Citadel LOST to Upstate! Appy LOST to High Point! Western LOST to Kennesaw State! THE HORROR
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The Greatest Trick The NYTimes Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World Its Paywall Exists
from the paywallonomics deptIt's no surprise that we've been pretty big critics of the NYTimes' paywall strategy -- not because we don't want the NYT to make money, but because we don't think it's a particularly good strategy. However, people are now claiming that it's undeniable that the NYT's paywall has been a huge money-making success. And looking at the numbers, I'll admit that they're way more impressive than I expected -- by a lot:
The Times introduced digital subscription packages on NYTimes.com and across other digital platforms in Canada in mid-March and globally at the beginning of the second quarter. Paid digital subscribers to the digital subscription packages totaled approximately 224,000 as of the end of the second quarter. In addition, paid digital subscribers to e-readers and replica editions totaled approximately 57,000, for a total paid digital subscribers of 281,000 as of the end of the second quarter.This is definitely more than I expected, and it does show a much faster trajectory to get to those results than its last paywall. The Forbes account of this notes that, as a conservative estimate, this could mean an additional $40 million per year for the NYT's topline. Separately, it also points that the loss of traffic from the paywall might not even be noticeable, claiming that it received 33 million unique visitors per month which was "in line with its average for the preceding 11 months."
In addition to these paid digital subscribers, as of the end of the second quarter of 2011, The Times had approximately 100,000 highly engaged users sponsored by Ford Motor Company's luxury brand, Lincoln, who have free access to NYTimes.com and smartphone apps until the end of the year, and approximately 756,000 home-delivery subscribers with linked digital accounts, who receive free digital access.
That's all impressive. And once again, I'll say that it's much better than expected and, perhaps, I misjudged the potential for the paywall. That said... digging into the numbers, I'm still skeptical for a variety of reasons. First up, this is a drop in the bucket. Even if the company earns an extra $10 million per quarter from this, the paper also lost $114 million. But, that's a little misleading on its own, as it includes a giant writedown.
But, the real question is what could the NYT be doing instead. It made $84.6 million in the quarter from digital advertising alone, way more than it made from subscription fees. But the growth there was tiny -- only 2.6% at a time when I know companies are looking to do really interesting digital promotions and will pay for them. And while the company says that its unique visitors were "inline" with previous 11 months, what you want to hear is that the traffic is growing. The use of unique visitors is interesting, since most ad campaigns work on a CPM basis, where views are what counts -- and other estimates suggest that pageviews have dropped noticeably. This would make sense, actually. Since the "paywall" still lets people view up to 20 pages before it sorta stops you from seeing any more, you could see how the same number of people would go there, but actual pageviews would decrease.
But what if, instead of focusing on the paywall, the NYT had focused its efforts on adding more direct value to the site itself, to (a) get more visitors to the site and (b) to keep them there longer, viewing more pages and doing more? At the same time, if they started looking at more creative, premium sponsorship/ad campaigns, I could see how they could have spent the same resources in a much more scalable growing arena, rather than having it go into a more limited paywall. That is, if they'd focused on continuing to grow traffic and creative ad campaigns, that's something that will continue to grow. How many more subscribes will they get with the paywall? If people haven't subscribed yet, how much more will it take to get them to subscribe, when it's pretty clear that anyone can get around it. I have to admit I've never even noticed the paywall at all in all my surfing.
Early on, I called the NYT paywall the Emperor's New Paywall, but perhaps a more interesting point is that, as with the Emperor, the NYT's has done an amazing job convincing lots of people that the paywall is really there and that they have to pay to view articles on the site. It's a great trick. But can it last? People, who aren't paying now, don't have much reason to start paying, so I'd expect that the subscribers will plateau at some point relatively soon. I'd imagine that the younger generation is barely paying at all. The strategy brings in some money now, but it seems like a pretty small amount for selling out future growth opportunities.
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Definitions of repeat
v. t. - To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. 2
v. t. - To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. 2
v. t. - To repay or refund (an excess received). 2
n. - The act of repeating; repetition. 2
n. - That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.). 2
n. - A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance. 2
The word "repeat" uses 6 letters: A E E P R T.
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Words formed by adding one letter before or after repeat (in bold), or to aeeprt in any order:
d - adepter predate retaped tapered h - preheat i - peatier l - petrale pleater prelate replate m - tempera o - operate p - pretape r - pearter taperer s - repeats retapes z - trapeze
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Microbrew is a versatile retro display family with 14 individual styles, plus retro banners, ornaments, and symbols. The more detailed styles work well at large sizes, and the cleaner styles add legibility at smaller sizes.
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Four UMass Lowell students won a national competition in June for their design of an app that helps soldiers learn nutrition so they can take care of themselves when in training or overseas. The Department of Defense is picking up their idea, for which they won $3,000 as a prize.
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LOWELL -- Justin Mayhew, an Iraq War veteran and college student who served two deployments overseas, says he knows a fighter can easily forget to eat while on the job.
Mayhew, of Leominster, served from 2005-09 in the Marine Corps. He said he's seen military personnel become so devoted to battle and survival, they forget to take care of themselves.
"When you're in a combat situation, where you could pretty much be dead at any point, you don't care about any of that stuff," he said. "I didn't care about my health. Hell, no. I was smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, just waiting to die.
Now 26 and a nutritional-science senior at UMass Lowell, Mayhew is one of four students who have developed a new application to help the military. The Department of Defense is even looking to develop it further. The team's Android app is called MARTEE -- which stands for Mobile Access Ration tracker and Energy Expenditure -- and it's designed to help military members in training learn how to eat and maintain their weight stateside, before heading into combat.
Mayhew joined local computer-science juniors Jeremy Poulin, of Hudson, N.H., and Michael Stowell, of Tewksbury, along with Lowell senior Nick Ver Voort, in a "hackathon" competition last year to design the new application. Mayhew said he remembers how his "combat buddies," with up to 100 pounds of equipment on their backs in the hot desert, lost so much weight eating their limited MREs (meals, ready-to-eat), their performance dropped, too. He hopes an application like this could help the military from now on.
"The whole idea around MARTEE is to kind of combat that (weight loss and fatigue)," he said.
The Department of Defense spends about $600 million on rations to feed more than 36 million meals to U.S. troops each year. For purposes of the competition, the government recognized that nutritional information for MREs is not easily-accessible so it looked for a program that would steer military members in the right direction. MARTEE helps military personnel plan meals by logging their intake of calories, carbohydrates, fat and protein and measuring it against the weight of their gear and anticipated physical activity, to help maximize their ability to fulfill missions.
Mayhew fully admits he is not a tech-savvy guy -- the three coders he worked within the 24-hour grueling coding marathon in Cambridge last June threw themselves into writing the program from start to finish. Mayhew was at their side, playing the role of a consultant, helping them understand the lifestyle of a soldier or Marine on-the-go.
The MARTEE team beat out nine other teams in the competition, taking first place and winning $3,000 last summer. The Department of Defense, through the agreement of the competition, took over the rights to the application and the students have heard the government is interested working with the students further to develop the technology. The competition was hosted in part with the U.S. Army's Soldier Systems Center in Natick.
Poulin, 20, said the team couldn't have won without Mayhew's unique perspective.
"We had Justin's idea of using stateside training as opposed to pretty much every other team who assumed the soldiers will have their smartphone out in the field to use," Poulin explained.
Poulin said he and Stowell and Ver Voort, both 21, have learned coding through Professor Fred Martin's Engaging Computing Group at UMass. The department put them in touch with Mayhew in time for the competition.
Martin said these four guys were a "dream team" for the assignment and he was proud his students took home the grand prize.
"It's like a match made in heaven," he said. "You cannot match a better team. ... They all have such complementary expertise."
The group met together for the first time on the competition day and pounded energy drinks to stay up for all 24 hours. The coders said they didn't sleep a wink, while Mayhew said he took a two-hour break to nap in his car.
Poulin and Stowell say they're hoping to continue their careers in coding and web development this summer with prestigious internships. Mayhew and Ver Voort are set to graduate soon -- Ver Voort already has his own game in the App Store, and Mayhew plans to continue his training in the field of nutrition.
He's looking to earn a Ph. D. in the field, and noted UMass Lowell's Veterans Affairs office helped him get to this point in his life.
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This is it. Today we find out. Did the President hear us? Does the President stand with us? Do we retain our freedoms? Or did Big Tobacco get to the White House, too?
Good morning and hello Friday, July 6, 2012. Today, President Barack Obama continues his campaign bus tour in Ohio and Pennsylvania. There are reports that after he's done this afternoon, he'll amble back to the White House and sign the highway bill (HR4348) into law. In that highway bill is the poisonous, barbaric and corrupt attack on free enterprise, Section 100122.
Today's Message: IMPORTANT Use signing statement to VOID SEC.100122 of HR4348. #BigTobacco is stealing our jobs! http://bit.ly/NewTax
Mr. President, we are the faceless fighting for our jobs. We are fighting for our freedom to roll our own smokes. We are American entrepreneurs and enterprising individuals fighting for our niche in the marketplace, to provide a service where no one else has succeeded. We are moms and dads, veterans and retired couples, people who've been laid off in a bad economy, and we've invested everything pursuing the American Dream.
President Obama, we call on you to do the right thing. When you see our signs today in Ohio and Pennsylvania "We Are Retailers, NOT Manufacturers," know that we are talking directly to you. We require your action. This is the pressure moment. This is it. Do the right thing.
President Barack Obama and advisors: Please exercise your power to interpret SECTION 100122 of H.R.4348 as unconstitutional and an unbearable burden on a particular group of small businesses across the United States, and therefore you will instruct your Administration to avoid the unintended consequences of implementing this portion of the law, and work with Congress to find redress focused on a real solution to the perceived underlying issue.
SECTION 100122 of H.R.4348 is unconstitutional because it singles out one group of individuals for punishment. It arbitrarily reclassifies small retail tobacco shops as tobacco product "manufacturers" and by doing so it subjects them to an unbearable number of new taxes and regulations. This isn't the closure of a perceived tax loophole; it's the complete destruction of a legal business model that happened to be in competition with the biggest, multi-billion dollar corporations in the world. Our U.S. Constitution won't stand for this. Article I, Section 9 specifically prohibits using the power of the Federal government to arbitrarily crush people or groups. But we need someone to raise their hand. We need someone to speak up. We must have a President willing to tell Congress, "I see what you did there…"
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Position description
The assistant senior patrol leader is the second highest-ranking youth leader in the troop. He is appointed by the senior patrol leader with the approval of the Scoutmaster. The assistant senior patrol leader acts as the senior patrol leader in the absence of the senior patrol leader or when called upon. He also provides leadership to other youth leaders in the troop. He is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader under the guidance of the Scoutmaster.
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- Helps the senior patrol leader lead meetings and activities.
- Runs the troop in the absence of the senior patrol leader.
- Helps train and supervise the troop scribe, quartermaster, instructor, librarian, historian, and chaplain's aide.
- Serves as a member of the patrol leaders' council.
- Sets a good example.
- Enthusiastically and correctly wears the Scout uniform.
- Lives by the Scout Oath and Law
- Show Scout spirit.
- Lends a hand controlling the patrol and building patrol spirit.
- Wears the uniform correctly.
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am-ny necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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our investors: relatively conservative, but forward thinkers.
UPDATE: to clarify the requirements, let's move away from the "green images" (i.e. tree, plant, leaf, etc). Thanks!
UPDATE2: further clarification - gradients are OK for an image, although I do not prefer them in the text .. my reference to four colors refers to four distinct colors, but allows for the shading of a gradient ..
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The morning air was cool and crisp. Volunteers for this year's Mississippi River Revival bundled up in stocking caps, work gloves and layers upon layers of shirts and coats. But after hauling dozens of 200-pound railroad ties out of the woods, the layers were coming off.
Saturday marked three decades for the nonprofit corporation, and this year's crew in the annual cleanup did more than just pick up trash. About 40 volunteers lugged dozens of polluting railroad ties stranded in wetlands along the Mississippi to clear habitats of Blanding's turtles, red-shouldered hawks and rusty blackbirds.
"By helping these (species), you help everything in habitat," said local environmentalist and cleanup coordinator Richie Swanson. "And hopefully, you improve the water quality in the river a little bit."
Swanson said red-shouldered hawks hunt frogs where the land is littered with the soggy railroad ties. Rusty blackbirds also feed on aquatic insects in the affected land.
Last week, Swanson flagged spots scattered with the 200-pound wood slabs, which are coated in the preservative creosote. High water had pulled ties from the tracks and floated them down from Sam Gordy's Slough. And as levels decreased, the ties became wrecked in the wetlands.
"If these were just untreated logs, there would be no problem," said environmental consultant Scott Carney of the Emergency Management and Response in Duluth, Minn. "But these have creosote in them. That's a pollutant."
With no trace of a dated nail in the ties, there's no telling how old they may be.
"Who knows how long these have been here?" he said. "But this is the natural collecting point for them. It's the primary reason we're doing this today."
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Acey-deucyUneven stirrups, popularized by Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode with his left (inside) iron lower than his right to achieve better balance on turns.
Across the BoardA bet on a horse to win, place and show. If the horse wins, the player collects three ways; if second, two ways; and if third, one way, losing the win and place bets. Actually three wagers.
Action1) A horse's manner of moving. 2) A term meaning wagering -- The horse took a lot of action.
AcupressureUtilizing stimulation on acupuncture points to treat an animal.
AcupunctureA centuries-old means of treating an animal or human through the use of needles, electrical current or moxibustion (heat and herbs) to stimulate or realign the body's electrical fields.
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Added WeightA horse carrying more weight than the conditions of the race require, usually because the jockey exceeds the stated limit.
AdequanBrand name for polysulfated glycosaminoglycan, used in the treatment of certain arthritic conditions.
AgeAll Thoroughbreds celebrate their birthday on Jan. 1
AgentA person empowered to transact business for a stable owner or jockey, or empowered to sell or buy horses for an owner or breeder.
AiringNot running at best speed in a race.
All Age RaceA race for two-year-olds and up.
All OutWhen a horse extends itself to the utmost.
Allowance RaceA race for which the racing secretary drafts certain conditions to determine weights to be carried based on the horse's age, sex and/or past performance.
AllowancesReductions in weights to be carried, allowed because of the conditions of the race or because an apprentice jockey is on a horse. Also, a weight reduction female horses are entitled to when racing against males, or that three-year-olds receive against older horses.
Also EligibleA horse officially entered for a race, but not permitted to start unless the field is reduced by scratches below a specified number.
Apprentice AllowanceWeight concession given to an apprentice rider usually 10 pounds until the fifth winner, seven pounds until the 35th winner and five pounds for one calendar year from the 35th winner. More rarely, a three-pound allowance is allowed to a rider under contract to a specific stable/owner for two years from his/her first win. This rule varies from state to state. Apprentices do not receive an allowance when riding in a stakes race. All jockeys going from track to track must have a receipt from the clerk of scales from their track verifying the jockeys' most recent total number of wins. Also known as a "bug," from the asterisk used to denote the weight allowance.
Appretice Rider who has not ridden a certain number of winners within a specified period of time. Also known as a "bug," from the asterisk used to denote the weight allowance such riders receive.
ApronThe (usually) paved area between the grandstand and the racing surface.
Auxiliary Starting GateA second starting gate used when the amount of horses in a race exceeds the capacity of the main starting gate.
Average Earnings IndexA breeding statistic that compares racing earnings of a stallion or mare's foals to those of all other foals racing at that time. An AEI of 1.00 is considered average, 2. 00 is twice the average, 0.50 half the average, etc.


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In a survey conducted in 1931 by Professor Joseph X. Healy of the College of the City of New York, 11 justices of the Supreme and City Courts (including Supreme Court Justice Edward S. Dore) were asked three questions: "What are the objectionable habits in the speech and delivery of lawyers in court? What do you consider the basic requirement of trial attorneys? What preliminary training should a pre-law student have to fit him for trial work?" The overwhelming response was that "verbosity and rapidity of speech" are the cardinal faults of practicing attorneys. Justice Dore stressed the value of the study of the classics and recommended an education in that field as "a sufficiently thorough mental and spiritual training." (Lawyers Too Wordy, 11 Justices Declare, New York Times, December 8, 1931, p. 35.)
Edward S. Dore was born in New York City in 1884. As a young man he graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1907. He attended Columbia and New York University for graduate studies and pursued a teaching career. He became an English instructor at Stuyvesant High School in New York and Newark Junior College. He then attended Fordham Law School, graduating in 1920, and was admitted to the Bar the following year.
Dore practiced law at the firm of Williams & Saxe (later Worcester, Williams, Saxe & Dore). During those years, he was active in Democratic politics. In 1926 he became Chairman of the law committee of the New York County Democratic Committee, and in 1930 became Chairman of the Democratic State Law Committee. Dore also served as Chair of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on State Legislation. Well known as a Roman Catholic layman, he served as President of the National Catholic Alumni Federation.
Governor Roosevelt appointed Dore to the Supreme Court in 1931 to fill a vacancy. He was elected later that year to a full, 14-year term. In 1936 Justice Dore was designated to the Appellate Division First Department by Governor Lehman. He was redesignated in 1941 by Governor Lehman and in 1946 and again in 1950 by Governor Dewey.
In 1935 Justice Dore upheld the right of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses to oust the Dieppe Corporation from the former Central Park Casino, which had been a favorite gathering place of city VIPs for years. In 1954 he granted the Chase National Bank of New York the right to issue a proxy for 800,000 shares of New York Central Railroad stock to two friends of the late Robert R. Young, who later gained control of the railroad.
Justice Dore retired from the bench in 1954 at age 70 to resume practice at Saxe, Bacon & O'Shea, the successor firm to Worcester, Williams, Saxe & Dore. He passed away on April 2, 1958 at age 73.
SOURCES Constantine N. Katsoris, Commemoration: A Tribute to the Fordham Judiciary: A Century of Service, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 2312 (2007).
Lawyers Too Wordy, 11 Justices Declare, New York Times, December 8, 1931, p. 35.
Obituary, New York Times, April 3, 1958, p. 31.


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The year 2008 comes to a close, ushering out a mostly fine year at the movie theater. This summer, Marvel's Iron Man and DC's Dark Knight duked it out in a giant-sized crossover for superhero supremacy. The winner? Moviegoing audiences, who got two great films. Pixar delivered another winner with the adorable WALL-E. Three-dimensional movies had their best year since The Creature from the Black Lagoon terrorized audiences back in the '50s. Among the new, higher-tech wave of 3-D flicks: Hannah Montana, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Bolt. Sex and the City made the leap from the small screen and scored a $150 million payday, proving it's not just teenage boys who buy movie tickets. And a rush of Oscar contenders packed December theaters with critical faves (Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road).
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"Blimey! This 'ere's a right cock up, I'd say. Innat right, Mr. 'itler?"
If nothing else, the historical action drama Valkyrie proves that Tom Cruise isn't necessarily a bad actor--but he's often very poorly cast. Even before it hit theaters, people were starting to suspect something was off about Valkyrie. For starters, director Bryan Singer's glossy take on Col. Claus von Stauffenberg's failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler during the waning days of World War II cast celebrated couch-jumper Tom Cruise in the lead role.
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Cradle-to-grave romance looks at life in reverse
"Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get," intoned Forrest Gump with all the accentuation of a character reciting the tag line from his movie's poster. Displaying more succinctness and less phony Southern drawl, Benjamin Button says of this mortal coil, "You never know what's coming for ya." Though equally obvious in their philosophical tone, both fictional narrators are aiming at the same sweeping, self-actualizing message: That life is an unpredictable affair intended to be lived day to day with much gusto and little regret. ... Hey, as mottos go, it beats "Life sucks, kill yourself."
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So, it's Dec. 31, 2008. Aside from getting wicked drunk on cheap Champagne, eating way too many stuffed mushrooms and trying to steal an awkward midnight kiss from your next-door neighbor who has two screaming kids but looks surprisingly doable in the glow of your still-standing Christmas tree, what is there for you to look forward to this New Year's Eve?


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WATERLOO, Ontario, June 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that North America 3PL LLC (NA3PL) is using Descartes' OneView Warehouse Management System (WMS) to automate and improve the efficiency of its Centralized Examination Station (CES).
NA3PL operates the CES that serves the Port of San Francisco/Oakland Seaport. A CES is a government authorized, privately operated facility where imported merchandise identified by US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) for physical examination is made available for inspection.
"Descartes' OneView WMS is a state of the art solution that provides us with the ability to better manage and track shipments as they move through our facility," said Clement Chin, Executive Partner for North America 3PL, LLC. "We chose Descartes because of the expertise of their team, understanding of our processes and requirements, and potential for rapid return-on-investment."
Descartes' OneView WMS enables users to effectively manage warehouse operations through enhanced visibility and control of all receiving, stocking, shipping and loading processes. It is capable of handling a broad variety of warehouse environments. At NA3PL, the solution's advanced integration engine enables incorporation of barcode scanning technology to automate tracking of all shipments entering the facility for examination and clearance.
"CES operators, like NA3PL, use Descartes' OneView WMS solution to help enable Customs to clear higher volumes of cargo in a timely fashion improving the flow of goods into the US," said Scott Sangster Vice President Global Logistics Network at Descartes. "We are pleased that our WMS solution supports NA3PL's efforts to make the cargo inspection process at the Oakland Seaport more productive and secure."
About North American 3PL
North America 3PL, LLC (NA3PL) is a privately held, premier third party logistics services provider for domestic and multi-national companies. In addition to operating the U.S. Customs Centralized Examination Station, NA3PL provides warehousing, transload, cross-dock, fulfillment, drayage, rail intermodal and general transportation services for cargo moving through the Port of Oakland and Northern California. Launched in 2012 by logistics industry veterans Clement Chin, Kevin Shimamoto and Tom Henderson, NA3PL is committed to supporting best practices of supply chain management throughout its operation. For more information, please visit www.na3pl.com
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Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Descartes has over 173,000 parties using its cloud based services. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multi-modal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com.
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