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The HSC is the country's only academic health center with six health-related colleges located on a single, contiguous campus. Our colleges, major research centers and institutes and clinical enterprise focus on building collaborative specialized clinical services centered on quality and innovation.
Our vision as a preeminent academic health center is to optimize our collective expertise to improve patient care, education, discovery and the health of the community. Our success is predicated on research-based, multidisciplinary, cross-college programs. The colleges teach the full continuum of higher education from undergraduates to professional students to advanced post-doctoral students.
The HSC is also a world leader in interdisciplinary research, generating 52 percent of UF's total research awards. Seven major health-related research centers and institutes are designed to create synergies and collaborative research opportunities. Research activities at the HSC reflect a depth of purpose by focusing on the translational nature of biomedical research, following the continuum from fundamental research to clinical research to patient care.
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Affairs includes several administrative units that provide leadership and support to all HSC colleges, centers and institutes. Among these are Academic and Administrative Affairs, Finance and Planning, HSC Libraries, Information Services & Technology and the Student Health Care Center. The HSC includes two primary campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville as well as numerous educational, clinical and research affiliates across the state.
Select HSC Initiatives
- The University of Florida Cancer and Genetics Research Building adds to Florida's biotechnology efforts and is a prototype for interdisciplinary research. The 280,000-square-foot facility houses the UF Genetics Institute, the UF Health Shands Cancer Center, the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research and the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory.
- The UF Health Proton Therapy Institute (UFHPTI), located at UF Health Jacksonville, opened and treated its first patient in August 2006. UFHPTI is a 98,000-square-foot facility providing conventional radiation cancer treatment and proton therapy. UFHPTI includes clinics for the pre- and post-therapy and on-treatment evaluation of cancer patients, planning suites, an infusion and anesthesia suite, psychosocial and dietary services, a research office and faculty offices. At capacity, the facility can treat up to 200 patients.
- The UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital opened November 1, 2009, and supports the academic medical services offered by Shands and UF. The new hospital houses 192 private inpatient beds for a variety of patients, including those receiving diagnostic and therapeutic oncology services. In addition, the UF Health emergency department and trauma unit and a critical care center for emergency- and trauma-related services are located there.
- The newly opened University of Florida Biomedical Sciences Building serves as a center for animal research into genetics and cancer. The $85 million facility opened in September 2009.
- UF, HSC and UF Health Shands programmatic priorities include the areas of cancer, brain, genetics, biotechnology, aging, children, transplant, heart and diabetes.
- Also see selected interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Colleges in the HSC
- College of Dentistry
- College of Medicine
- College of Nursing
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Public Health and Health Professions
- College of Veterinary Medicine
HSC Goals
Continually strive for the highest-quality educational experience for our students. Bring innovation, passion and excitement to education. Bring our search for knowledge and our focus on excellence to the educational process.
Increase research awards, through the creation of research-based, multidisciplinary, cross-college programs.
Patient Care
Create specialized clinical services centered on quality, innovation and market dominance.
Directions to HSC Gainesville
- From I-75, take exit 384 (Archer Road) east approximately 3 miles.
- From 441 (13th Street), travel west on SR 24 approximately 0.3 miles.
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May 17, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), opened in Geneva today with director-general Dr Margaret Chan praising the accomplishments of global partners with diseases such as smallpox and polio but noting that health officials got lucky with the pandemic H1N1 virus because it has not overwhelmed medical systems and is a good match with the vaccine.
"Schools closed, but borders remained open, and disruptions to travel and trade were far less severe than feared," she told assembly members today. The WHO also published her speech on its Web site. "Had things gone wrong in any of these areas, we would have a very different agenda before us today."
The group is slated to hear an interim report from a 29-member independent WHO panel that was set up earlier this year to review the organization's pandemic response. The report will reflect the group's first meeting, a 3-day session that was held in mid April.
One of its missions is to review how the International Health Regulations (IHR) functioned. Designed to guide response to global health threats, the IHR, passed by the WHA, took effect in 2007, and the H1N1 pandemic is the first major test of the rules.
Several elected officials, such as some members of the Council of Europe's Social Affairs Committee, have criticized the WHO's pandemic response as being an overreaction that wasted countries' resources on a vaccine that they say was pushed by pharmaceutical companies. About 200 elected officials who are members of the European Parliament have also signed a petition asking for an inquiry into the world's response to the flu pandemic.
However, during today's WHA sessions, representatives from some nations, such as France, India, and the United States, publicly defended the WHO's response, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. French health minister Roselyne Bachelot called criticism of the WHO's response unfair, according to AFP.
"The vaccine, which was the answer to a real danger, turned into a source of risk in the collective mind," Bachelot said, according to AFP. "The effects of this smear campaign are potentially devastating."
Chan said during her speech today that she welcomes the review. "This has been the most closely watched and carefully scrutinized pandemic in history. It is normal that every decision and action, especially on the part of WHO, will likewise be closely scrutinized and critically assessed. We welcome this process," she said.
Also on the agenda this year are such topics as sharing of influenza viruses, access to vaccines, intellectual property rights, progress of the WHO's Millennium Development Goals, food safety, and eradication of variola stocks, a component of smallpox eradication.
This year's meeting is the 63rd gathering of the group, which will wrap up its week-long meeting on May 21.
See also:
May 17 text of Margaret Chan's speech
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Hughes goes distance, takes tough loss at Fenway
BOSTON -- Given its history as a hitter's park, it's no easy task to give up just three combined runs over two games against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
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BOSTON -- Given its history as a hitter's park, it's no easy task to give up just three combined runs over two games against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
But the Twins have been able to do just that, and to make things even more frustrating for them, they have nothing to show for it.View Full Game Coverage
Phil Hughes continued his run of recent success with another solid outing and his first complete game of the year, but the Twins' offense was held in check by the Red Sox for a second straight night in a 2-1 loss on Tuesday.
After a 1-0 defeat in the series opener, the bats were again quiet for Minnesota against Boston left-hander Jon Lester, who outdueled Hughes with 6 1/3 strong innings to pick up his eighth win.
"If you give up two runs in this ballpark, you can't ask for much more than that," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "But Lester was filthy, just like we've seen before. Unfortunately, we're not swinging well and that's probably because of the pitching on the other side. Our guy gave us every opportunity to win, but we couldn't get any big hits."
Hughes was a hard-luck loser, as he gave up just two runs on eight hits over eight innings. He also struck out six and didn't walk a batter for the ninth time over his last 11 starts. The right-hander has 10 quality starts over that span, with a 2.27 ERA, 61 strikeouts and three walks over 75 1/3 innings.
He entered with a 6.56 ERA in 10 appearances in Boston while with the Yankees, but was stuck with his third loss of the year despite his impressive effort in his first Fenway start with the Twins.
"In years past, it was usually a feat to come in here and pitch a good ballgame," Hughes said. "But unfortunately tonight, it just wasn't in the cards. We couldn't do enough to beat them. They're a dangerous team, especially at home, so to give a quality effort is big, but at the end of the day it's about wins."
The Red Sox scored in a hurry against Hughes, as Brock Holt opened the bottom of the first with a single before coming around to score on a one-out double from Dustin Pedroia.
Boston added a run in the third with Holt sparking another rally with a leadoff double. Holt stole third base before scoring on a sacrifice fly to center field from Xander Bogaerts.
"He's a good player," Hughes said of Holt. "He had two hits in his first two at-bats and was aggressive on the basepaths, especially with nobody out. He can run and obviously I didn't do a good enough job of making him stop."
It was enough for Lester, who settled down after throwing 33 pitches in the first inning to give up just one run over 6 1/3 frames with six strikeouts.
"I don't think there was a big adjustment," Lester said. "It was a long inning, a lot of foul balls, a lot of good pitches that got fouled off. ... It wasn't like I was throwing the ball all over the place and had to adjust to get back into the zone."
Minnesota didn't get on the board until the sixth. Danny Santana led off the inning with a double down the left-field line before scoring on a one-out double to left from Joe Mauer. It was the first RBI for Mauer since May 27, and snapped a streak of 79 at-bats without an RBI.
"I didn't know I had one going," Mauer said of his dubious streak. "The way it's been going for me lately, whether they're on base or off base, it hasn't been going too well. So it was good to get a run in, especially with the way those two guys were pitching tonight."
After the double, Mauer was stranded at second base as Minnesota again couldn't deliver with runners in scoring position. The Twins went 1-for-4 with RISP and stranded five.
Lester departed after getting one out in the seventh, and the Red Sox used four relievers to finish off the game, including Edward Mujica, who closed it out in the ninth. For the Twins, it was their fourth straight loss as they dropped a season-high five games under .500.
"It's tough," Mauer said. "They've pitched well, too, and have a good ballclub. But that's what's frustrating. When you get a pitching performance like we got from Phil, you want to support him and we weren't able to do that."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.


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Interview With Lori Loughlin: 90210 Star Dishes on Meals
Sitting down for a family meal is a time honored tradition that still exists — even in Tinseltown! We recently chatted with Lori Loughlin, the actress best known for her role as Becky Donaldson on Full House and more recently, as Debbie Wilson on 90210, about her partnership with Barilla pasta.
Loughlin and Barilla are encouraging families to involve tots in mealtime planning and preparation through the use of their Piccolini line of miniature classic pasta shapes. The mother of two daughters — Isabella, 10, and Olivia Jade, 9, — has long been a proponent of the family meal. She said:
"Dinner is a really important meal in our household, it is a time that we make a real effort, my husband and I, to be home. We have dinner every night with our kids. My mom cooked every night, his mom cooked every night and now I cook every night for my family. We do eat a lot of pasta in our family. Their favorite shape pasta is penne - we do penne with vegetables, broccoli, diced chicken. We also do turkey meatballs and penne, we do traditional marinara and penne and Bolognese sauce and penne. My kids love the lasagna that I make."
On both Full House and 90210, the actress' characters have made the family dinner central to facilitating conversation about the children's activities.
"At the time when Full House was on, family dinner was more common in America. As your kids are getting older and have their own lives like the teenagers on 90210 — where and when do you have the time to reconnect with your kids? Well, it's over dinner.
To see what Loughlin had to say about how she handles body image issues with her daughters amid rumors of eating disorders in her 90210 costars,
The waif-like stars of the 90210 cast have led to rumors about eating disorders on the set. To instill healthy body images in her two tween daughters, Loughlin focuses on health over diet.
"I say to my kids that you have to really think about what you put in your body because it's your fuel. I always take the approach of health, not weight. We want to start eating healthy now to take care of our heart and our internal organs so we can be strong, so our brains can develop.
One thing I will say that I disagree with in LA, or some of the diets that are [out there] is people cutting out carbs. I don't think you should cut out carbs. I think you need to have that in your system. You can't just be protein and just vegetables. It's not good for you.
The Piccolini Smiles contest invites parents to send photos of their kids preparing, or eating, their pasta as part of a meal, to see all the details, and learn how to win $25,000 in tuition money, visit www.piccolinismiles.com.


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You always hear "boots are the most important." And it's true. When it comes to gear, they're the key piece that can make or break the day. When it comes to your body, feet are the most complex structure of bone, ligament and muscle. Those hooves also have more sweat glands than anywhere else in your body. So, happy shredding from the ground up means your feet need to move comfortably and they need to breath. Staying warm is a plus, too. These boots cover all those bases and offer the best fit and feel money can buy.


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KellyBLSC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a small, boutique public relations firm that is just branching off from a larger firm. The company name [Blue Line Strategic Communications] is a hockey reference and is based on the principle that for effective public relations sometimes you play on offense and sometimes you play on defense and you need to have a strategy for both.
We specialize in crisis communications and inside the beltway earned media efforts. BLSC has experience providing media training to candidates and developing short and long term communications strategy. The team has more than 40 combined years of experience working on the hill in Congressional offices and political campaigns on every level.
We laugh a lot and all of our group meetings are highly entertaining. It is a relaxed work environment until 2 hours before deadline when the real work gets done. The two principles of the group are long time DC insiders who can't walk to a meeting in town without running into someone they know.
Much of our work will be targeted at organizations, companies, and associations who have a presence in Washington, DC. Most of our business will come from referrals and preexisting relationships the team has. We will collaborate with other firms in DC to round out our offerings. Although we do not currently, we may target political campaigns in the future. Presently we are focused on associations and smaller companies. General markets include Boston, New York, Washington, and Chicago.
Two potential variations of the logo. For both we want the "L" in Line to look like a hockey stick. We envision the main color being the blue of the actual blue line on a hockey rink - but you are the designer.
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As Blue Line Strategic Communications as a horizontal logo is really long we need something that doesn't just look like it should be a header on a piece of letterhead.
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text: Joseph William "Joe" Janson, a former resident of Hill House in Chestnut Hill, died May 30 at an assisted-living facility in Decatur, GA, following a short illness. A native of Chicago who earned a journalism degree at Northwestern University, he had been associate creative director at J. Walter Thompson in Chicago. He pursued lifelong interests in photography, Asian art, book collecting, wine making and traveling, and he was a member of the Confrerie de Vins Chaine des Rotisseurs and Les Amis du Vin. In Chestnut Hill he and his wife, Jane, enjoyed visiting the Woodmere Art Museum, attending plays at Allens Lane and Stagecrafters theaters, and participating in many other aspects of the community's cultural life. Before moving to Chestnut Hill in 1997 he and Jane restored an 1838 house in eastern Jackson County, MO, and collaborated in writing a cookbook, Travel Your Taste, for Kraft, Inc., published in 1978 by CBI, Boston. After Jane's death in 2004 Joe returned to Chicago before moving to the Atlanta area three years ago. He is survived by three children from his 37-year marriage to Ursula Heurich Janson, who died in 1973: Gilbert Janson, Chicago; Laura Waddick, Decatur; and Jennifer Fuller, Atlanta. His elder son, Ramsey, died in 1956. He also is survived by his stepdaughter, Nancy Saunders Steele, Philadelphia; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He has donated his body to Emory University's School of Medicine. A private memorial service will be held. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions in his memory be made to the charity of the donor's choice.


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The competition for a share of gamers' time is getting tougher. Games must be customized to individual preferences, seamlessly connected with the gamer's environment and technologies and immersive enough to pull the gamer into the experience and away from other activities.
It is critical for game companies to be disruptive if they want to survive and thrive in an environment of increasing consumer demands, proliferation of gaming-capable devices and lower barriers to entry for low-cost alternatives.
Game companies need capabilities that provide captivating content, intelligent game design and rapid engineering to adapt to consumer insights. They will need to design an operating model that not only addresses the demands for today, but also provides strategic agility to prepare for the capabilities needed for tomorrow.
Accenture believes that four major shifts are driving disruption in the gaming industry. These are:
An evolving customer base: Video game consumers are increasingly diverse and gaming behaviors are less homogenous than in the past. Delivering to the right screens with the right content will determine success.
Evolving definition of games: Lower barriers to entry drive growth in successful content from indie game development, while innovative technologies enable immersive gaming experiences.
Digital delivery: Digital distribution is becoming the norm across technology platforms and personalized gaming experiences. Downloadable content is the new norm and will continue to evolve as endpoints proliferate.
Proliferating business models: New business models are shifting how revenue is devised. Flexible models that provide numerous ways to pay for a game experience will allow game companies to capture more consumer value.
Adapting in an industry ripe with change requires an evolution in the way major game companies currently think and operate. It requires rethinking content and developer relationships, creating captivating gamer experiences, delivering content where gamers want it, and innovating both business model and franchise intellectual property (IP).
Accenture proposes:
Rethinking content and developer relationships: Content is only as good as the talent that develops it; game companies must define their relationships with developers as well as the content itself.
Creating captivating gamer experiences: Best games are experiences, and developing rich, connected and personalized experiences enable gamers to be captivated and immersed.
Delivering content where gamers want it: Distribution has become a portfolio management function; pricing control, level of customer interaction and ownership of gamer-related data are important variables in determining channel strategy.
Innovating business model and franchise IP: To create sustainable revenue and growth, companies must identify the pricing and monetization strategies that best fit each game and branch out of existing franchises with innovative new intellectual property.
In the battle for gamer mindshare, digital entertainment share of leisure time and overall game revenues, if game companies cannot beat the disruptors, they should be nimble enough to join them.


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The clamp size - Woodwork projects are not the same and therefore have different requirements. The bench clamps are made in different sizes and it is important to consider the extent of the projects you get so that you can choose a clamp size that won't disappoint with both small and larger projects.
A person once sold off all the articles of a workshop by advertising each article or tool separately. At the end of the first day, the person received a barrage of requests for the clamps. This goes to show how important the clamps are for woodworking and that these two go hand in hand and clamps are indispensable when it comes to woodworking. It is just that sometimes we fail to understand or realize the importance of these humble woodworking tools.
Clamps are considered as one of the most useful unpowered tool. One can never have enough of these, it provides one with 'extra hands' when dealing with wood pieces because it helps to hold them together, just like how a friend would be able to do it; but if you are alone and you need someone to hold the wooden pieces together but there's no one available to help you then you can always rely on your trusty clamps.
Once the wood is clamped into place, spread wood glue along the seal where the wood will need to connect at a joint. Spread the glue with your finger or a piece of card stock to ensure there is an even distribution and the glue won't cause warping while it cures. Follow the instructions for the glue about curing time, and then you can release the pipe clamps. If using more than one clamp, it is best to incrementally loosen pressure on each clamp as opposed to removing them one by one. If the curing process went smoothly and pressure was distributed correctly, the wood should be firmly connected.
While it is true that gluing the pieces together does the same job of holding the pieces or fastening them together with a clamp, but what happens after you are done working with the piece and you need to detach the pieces? It would not be pleasant or easy to remove the glue and even if you manage to remove them, they might leave behind some sticky and stubborn residue which mars the beauty of the wood. Hence woodworkers appreciate clamps a lot and they understand their importance.
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The Collegiate Chorale Presents New York Premieres by Glass and Golijov, 2/27
The Collegiate Chorale announces the New York Premieres of two works by major composers: Symphony No. 7 "Toltec" by Philip Glass and Oceana by Osvaldo Golijov, featuring international jazz vocalist Biella Da Costa and the American Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC. The Collegiate Chorale's Music Director James Bagwell will conduct. Tickets are $20-115 and are available at www.carnegiehall.org.
In this pairing of contemporary choral compositions by Osvaldo Golijov and Philip Glass, The Chorale turns its attention towards Latin America with the New York premieres of Symphony No. 7 "Toltec" and Oceana. Composed in 2004, Symphony No. 7 - A Toltec Symphony is Philip Glass's personal homage to the ancient traditions and beliefs of the peoples of Mesoamerica, circa 700-1100 BCE. Although often cited for their accomplishments in mathematics, calendar making, building and architecture, Glass is concerned with Toltec personal spiritual development: "The Toltecs emphasized the relationship with the forces of the natural world (the sun, earth, water, fire and wind) in developing their own wisdom traditions." In his symphony, scored for full orchestra and large chorus, Glass does not use any of his trademark electric keyboard sounds, but instead explores musical textures and phrases within the realm of a strictly acoustic, natural world. In using pure, natural acoustic instruments, he gets closer spiritually to the natural world the Toltec culture worships. This musical exploration results in extended yet constantly changing harmonies, textures, and rhythms.
Commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival in 1996, Golijov wrote Oceana in the spirit of a Bach cantata but with a Latin American musical style that features a jazz/pop vocalist, percussion, and guitars. Set to the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Oceana, in Golijov's words, is the "transmutation of passion into geometry". He describes his work such that "water and longing, light and hope, the immensity of South America's nature and pain, are here transmuted into pure musical symbols, which nevertheless should be more liquid than the sea and deeper than the yearning that they represent." Golijov juxtaposes rolling, cascading arcs of sound (giant rain sticks in the percussion, choral and orchestral writing that sweeps forward and back in extended phrases) and the unique sound of Brazilian jazz with the technical precision of classical oratorio and symphonic structure. The result is an astounding and exciting rush of sound, drama and emotion; waves of text overlapping waves of sound; jazz merging with classical; and cinematic cascades of texture upon texture. Popular Venezuelan Jazz vocalist and Golijov specialist Biella Da Costa joins The Chorale in the performance of this powerful musical work.
"The Chorale has been privileged to work with Philip Glass several times in the past few years, and so it is with great pleasure that we present the NY premiere of his Toltec Symphony," said James Bagwell, Music Director of The Collegiate Chorale. "Philip wrote this work in 2005, but it has not been heard in New York - we want to rectify that." He continued, "Osvaldo Golijov is a wonderful and deservedly celebrated composer of today. His music is evocative, powerful, and sensual; and an exciting, deeply satisfying amalgam of the musical styles of his own experience - Argentinian, Latin, Israeli, Hebrew, American, classical, and jazz. We are thrilled to be able to present the NY premiere of his beautiful work, Oceana."


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Chocolate Bread Pudding
3 cups fat-free milk
1 cup semi-sweet baking chocolate
½ cup sugar
½ cup Splenda or sugar substitute
2 tablespoons margarine
8 slices white bread (day old, cubed)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 eggs, lightly beaten
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 1½ quart baking dish and set aside.
In a large saucepan, combine 2 cups milk, chocolate, sugar, sugar substitute and margarine.
Stir over medium heat until chocolate and margarine are melted. Remove from heat and stir in bread crumbs, vanilla, cinnamon, and remaining 1 cup of milk.
Stir in eggs then let the mixture stand for five minutes. Then pour into the greased baking dish.
Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm.
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Can someone explain to me why people say the Golden Age Arc is the pinnacle of Berserk's storyline? [...] Aside from just jumping on the bandwagon and letting other people's opinions influence their appreciation of the story, do they just not understand the purpose for certain changes in the dynamic of the story?
I thought the arc was amazing but I actually like the Mozgus arc better.
I know a lot of people say it is too lighthearted now that schierke and isidro are on the team, but I think it's pretty inevitable that the story is going to become extremely dark again.
That aside, I don't believe there's anything "inevitable" about the story "becoming extremely dark again". I don't think it's going to happen, and I don't think the series as a whole was ever as "extremely dark" as some would like to believe.
Millenium Falcon Arc>>But to answer your questionBerserk never went downhill after the golden Age, it got even BetterArt Wise, Writing Wise and Plot WiseMiura improved throughout the Series in many Aspect's, nobody can deny thatThe world Builduing was amazing after Guts Flashback ended, and Miura introduced many many new amazing Plot points in to the Series including ReligionWe got amazing Scenes like the reincarnation of Griffith, Hill of Swords, the Berserker Armor and the list goes onMost of the Berserk reader's love the golden age arc so much because most of them got into Berserk, because of the Original Anime I thinck
For starters, the Golden Age is about 10 volumes long and the story progresses quickly (you get to see a ton of Guts' life) and so you can see a lot of character development take place.
Plus the Golden Age builds up to one of the biggest climaxes in the story (The Eclipse) and so it may be seen as a very well-thought story from start to finish and is full of interesting, exciting, and romantic moments.
On one last note, maybe some see the Golden Age as having less demon fights as a plus to the series. Zodd, Wyald, and the Eclipse are still some of my favorite encounters with apostles when compared to some of the later demon fights and there is a lot more demon-killing later on. Guts having to fight demons all the time may be too exhausting for the reader?
Well it's a flashback, so it's bound to progress relatively quickly. And yet ten volumes isn't all that short. Besides, the Golden Age arc didn't feature more character development than the rest of the story.
As is the rest of the series.
See what I said in my previous post about not understanding what Berserk is about. Resenting the presence of supernatural elements in a fantasy series seems quite foolish to me.
Whether it's a flashback or not is irrelevant. The aspect of length is fairly subjective, but in terms of why the Golden Age may be seen as more enjoyable is possibly because of the pacing.
Foolish to you, but not to those who think the Golden Age is the best. From their perspective, they like the Golden Age more just by the fact that Guts wasn't branded till the ending of that arc. By being branded, it demanded for the story to have demons hunt Guts down for sacrifice. They may not understand what Berserk is truly about, but even if they do understand, they can still like one aspect of the story (where Guts is not yet branded) more than another aspect (Guts being branded).
I suspect a lot of people who started on the Golden Age Arc (particularly some of the people who started with the anime, or started the manga or anime after the Golden Age arc flashback had started) felt like the Eclipse was a bait-and-switch. I've heard people who only watched the show say the Eclipse "felt like it came out of nowhere". So "all of a sudden" this cool show about this band of medieval style mercenaries they were digging becomes a supernatural story.
One could certainly argue that this is the wrong way to approach Berserk because it's not how the story was intended to flow, we meet Femto before Guts' flashback after all, but again there's no accounting for taste. The mostly mortal military stuff was what attracted some section of people to Berserk.
And some people are probably pissed their favorite characters died and were later "replaced" with ones they didn't like so much.
Why do people say it went downhill after the Golden Age Arc?
The same people who say there's a dip in quality are probably the same people who despise waiting so long between episodes.
I know this has probably been answered before but I couldn't find the thread. Can someone explain to me why people say the Golden Age Arc is the pinnacle of Berserk's storyline? I've seen people even go as far as saying it starts to suck after it. I thought the arc was amazing but I actually like the Mozgus arc better. Aside from just jumping on the bandwagon and letting other people's opinions influence their appreciation of the story, do they just not understand the purpose for certain changes in the dynamic of the story? I know a lot of people say it is too lighthearted now that schierke and isidro are on the team, but I think it's pretty inevitable that the story is going to become extremely dark again. Overall, I just don't understand these people's complaints...
I don't thinck so at all. Overall Miura improved in many aspects. Wether it being his massive improvement in Art or plot constructuring and story telling. Many people who say that have an bad Understanding of the overall story. Miura always added something interesting to other characters wether it being the Beast of Darkness to Guts Character or the demon Child to Femto's. Besides that we got an side cast which got well developed and greatly handled in many ways, such as with Farnese or Schierke. The world buildung in volume 24, the great battles and plot, and the way everything was symbolized and written was what made the story just become better.
They probably miss the characters that died. It's pretty devastating. Some people think that Breaking Bad didn't become good until season 3, and then some also say it wasn't good after season four.I think that has to do with the epic saga that was contained within that time. When it ended, people didn't see how it could continue. I've heard some opinions about how the fantastical elements don't fit, that Berserk is based in realism, even though there are fantastical elements throughout this part of the story.
Opinions that make no sense considering the Blackswordsman arc, the introduction arc, showed that Berserk was a full on fantasy.
One thing that really annoys me is when people say post-Golden Age arc it meandered a lot with the pseudo-elf apostles, the trolls and the Sea God storyline, because it wasn't relevant to the overarching Guts vs. Griffith thing.
I've noticed a general structure to each post-Golden Age arc in which it always starts off with Guts fighting a monster thats largely isolated from the larger plot of the arc, while setting up several core concepts and character development journeys that become integral to the arcs endgame.
I was fully prepared to hate the boat/Sea God stuff due to fan complaints, but as with the rest of the manga, it's actually really good, and I recognised several of the same structural elements in it that I did in the pseudo-elf and troll chapters in their role as the first chapter of the arc, just that this time I don't yet have the whole arc to see what its setting up.
I think one could only say it meanders and has bad pacing from the myopic perspective of someone reading the series release-to-release without any consideration for how the pacing is going to flow when the arc is finally complete.
Indeed, and that's been a consistent problem among casual readers ever since there's been an online Berserk community. The slower pace of releases merely exacerbates that problem. But brighter days are ahead!


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Some people have just taught me how to play a new game, like wink murder, but better, and much more complicated. We could give it a try, if you all wanted to.
Each person playing is a villager in a town. The person in charge (who isn't playing, but will take care of most of the game) selects any two villagers and informs them they are werewolves, any three people and informs them they are protectors, and any one person and informs them they are the seer. Each of these people have powers that effect the game. All the remaining people (the normal villagers) have no power whatsoever.
The Seer:
The seer acts like a physic. Every "night" (the game is divided into a day/night cycle which is controlled by the person in charge) theSeer will inform the person in charge who they want to use their power on. The person in charge tells the Seer the status of that person (werewolf, normal villager or protector). The seer has a deadline to decide upon who.
The protectors:
After the deadline of the seer's descision, the protectors must email each other and decide on one person to protect from the werewolves. They can protect anyone other than themselves and the person in charge, and also have a deadline to decide upon who.
The werewolves:
When the protectors have finished, the werewolves email each other and agree on which villager to eat. They can pick anybody other than themselves and the person in charge. Once they have decided they will tell the person in charge, who will post the result the next "morning." If the person they have chosen to eat was the protectors' choice for protection, the werewolves will have no effect.
The next morning, after the seer has used his/her power, the protectors have protected someone and the werewolves have eaten somebody, the town panics after the mysterious death of this person and everyone votes to who they think
did the crime (is a werewolf). Whoever recieves the highest vote, regardless who it is or what powers they have, is banished from the town and is out of the game. The game ends when either: there are no werewolves left, or: the only people left are werewolves.
The normal villagers don't know who the protectors, werewolves or seer are.
The protectors don't know who the werewolves, villagers or seer are (this way they can protect a werewolf without knowing it and this will have no effect).
The werewolves don't know who the protectors, villagers or seer are.
The seer doesn't know who the protectors, werewolves or villagers are until he/she uses his/her power to determine one person per night.
The person in charge will set the deadlines for everyone, and control the night/day cycle. The person in charge will also keep everyone updated on who has been banished, and who is still in the village.
I may have missed some stuff out, but I think that's the rules unabridged. If you have any questions, ask, please. Don't worry, it took me ages to understand the whole thing myself!
And, if we are playing, I would be in charge.
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School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
If I had thumbs, I'd give you the thumbs up.
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
I've got a few questions.
When the people get told who they are, do they also get told who shares the group with them? I'm just wondering how the werewolves would decide amongst themselves who to eat if they didn't know who the other werewolf was.
Are votes for banishment made in public or private?
If the werewolves are stopped by the protectors, is there still a vote?
If the werewolves aren't stopped by the protectors, is everyone told who they were protecting?
Isn't this going to involve lots of emailing? Would it be possible to set up different topics that only the protectors and werewolves are allowed in instead? That would obviously open up the opportunity for cheating, but hopefully the people here are trustworthy enough to keep out.
How long does each day and night last? It can't be too short, because of the forum spanning different time zones and stuff.
If you're offering to be in charge, does that mean that you're back here on a more regular basis?
Apart from not understanding the rules completely, it seems like a good game. Wink Murder was getting a bit old anyway.
If I gave you the thumbs up, then I'd have thumbs.
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Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
1. Yes, they do. The one in charge says something along the lines of: Mathsyperson, you are a werewolf with justlooking! You have until 7 o'clock GMT to decide who you will devour...
2. Votes for banishment are made in public. Even the werewolves must vote to avoid suspicion.
3. If the werewolves are stopped by protectors, yes, there is still a vote. And, I think I missed out, when someone is saved by the protectors, they are not told that it was them who was saved.
4. When the werewolves kill someone, the person in charge puts a note next to their name on the list the next "morning," so everyone knows who has died. The protectors know they have failed, the werewolves know they succeeded. Nobody ever knows who is protecting who apart from the protectors themselves.
5. I've been thinking of that myself. That's probably the biggest problem. Maybe power can be assigned to certain people to view certain threads? I don't know if that's actually possible. I hope it is, then it would be solved.
6. I have that sorted out. The "day" lasts as long as it takes for the update of the players (about two minutes) and for everyone to vote (one or two days). In fact, I think it'd be better if there was a deadline to vote, in case people are busy and don't have the time.
The "night" depends on how fast the protectors, werewolves and seer decide how to use their powers. In this case I'd make a deadline for all and if they don't respond by that time, they don't get to use their power that night.
7. Yes, I've taken a break.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Hmm...interesting! I think I'll just have to read over the rules again to fully understand.
I also have a couple of questions:
Can a person be two roles at the same time, eg. a seer and a protector?
What if only six (or less) people are playing? Does everyone get a role or do we cut down the parts?
I think that's all for the moment. It should be great once we get started!
1. That is a good idea actually, if we were short of people, which we probably will be.
2. I think it would be good to either cut down the parts, or give people more than one part, like you suggested. It really depends on how many people sign up.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
That's a good idea. Might take a game or two to get used to the rules. Do you know how hard it is to type with cold hands?
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly
Do you know how hard is it to type with sticky, sweaty hands?
Do know how easy it is to type with perfectly normal hands?
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
But with cold hands they hit the wrong keys
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly
And with sticky, sweaty hands they hit the keys but slide off. Mind you, it's now bucketing down, with a grey sky and it looks like thunderstorms are coming. That's Melbourne weather.
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School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
hey justlooking did you here the thunder yesterday?? And guess what I was under the tree's holding Metal!!!!!!!!!! SO SCARY!!!
To jU, no I didn't hear the thunder. While I was away... did something happen to Rora?!! Just a strange post, that's all. Also, should we try and start a game?


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A winner was selected from 89 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
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60% of our projects are based on Drupal (http://www.drupal.org). All of our projects have something to do with PHP and databases.
Conclusion: we are nerds.
We basically want to tell the world how cool our work is and attract new work with that.
Our clients are companies and governmental organizations with technical internet projects (value $5000 and up). We also work often with agencies (advertisement, communication) to assist them in their projects.
We are looking for a brand new (fresh and light), 2011, design for our website (http://www.vdmi.nl). It is a portfolio website for work we have done in the past. we also want to add a blog and some pages about the company and/or technologies we use.
We did an attempt ourselves, but we are just not satisfied. It reflects not who we are and basically... it is boring (and we are not).
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Attached is our logo, letters some screenshots and an invoice example we use in the off-line world. The logo will not change, and we expect a design that connects to our offline communications.
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Standing on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, Cruz began a lengthy speech urging his colleagues to oppose moving ahead on a bill he supports. The measure would prevent a government shutdown and defund Obamacare.
Cruz's quixotic approach is designed to prevent Majority Leader Harry Reid from stripping the health care provision from the bill. But Cruz faces opposition from his Republican leaders, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn, as well as other Republican senators.
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LCHR established an annual Human Rights Award in 2000 to recognize outstanding achievements in furthering human rights and relations in the City. In 2003, the award was renamed to honor the late Gerald Henderson, the first LCHR Director and longtime civil rights activist. Nominees for the award will be judged for their achievements in improving human rights based on activities implemented, services performed, or programs operated in Lincoln.
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Manchester City now face an uphill struggle to retain their league crown, despite Sergio Aguero scoring a fabulous late equaliser to help Roberto Mancini's side draw 2-2 with an impressive Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium.
City took the lead midway through the first half through Edin Dzeko, before Daniel Sturridge notched against his former club to restore parity. Then, with less than 20 minutes remaining, Steven Gerrard scored a blistering effort from range to put the visitors on course for victory - but Aguero evaded Pepe Reina and then turned home from an acute angle to eventually ensure the points were shared.
Both sides had chances in the opening phase of the contest - after less than a minute David Silva forced an acrobatic save from Pepe Reina - but it was Liverpool who had the best opening, Sturridge unable to find the target after a wonderful touch had taken him around Joe Hart.
After 23 minutes, however, City took the lead. Dzeko scored the goal but in truth the forward owed everything to James Milner, who did well to create space down the left before firing in a cross that had Dzeko needing to do little more than simply turn home.
Controversy surrounded Liverpool's equaliser. With Dzeko lying prostrate on the ground with an injury, City players and fans alike were screaming for referee Lee Mason to blow the whistle - but the Reds played on and, after Javi Garcia had failed to clear properly on the edge of the box, the ball made its way to Sturridge.
Twenty-five yards out, the City academy graduate took a touch before hitting a pure left-footed strike that roared low and hard beyond Joe Hart's reach - a fine goal that the England man did not celebrate out of deference to his first professional club.
Just prior to half-time City were perhaps lucky not to go behind, to a goal that would have been entirely of their own making. As the ball dribbled back into the City box Pablo Zabaleta latched onto it and, not seeing that Hart had moved off his line, kept his head down as he rolled a backpass that wrong-footed the England man. Luckily for all concerned, however, the ball trickled just wide of the near post.
It was the visitors who again started the second half the brighter - although they had nothing to show for it, bar a yellow card for Sturridge after the forward had gone down theatrically in the box under minimal contact from Joleon Lescott.
City, for their part, moved forward with ease but found it harder to create genuine openings in the final third - with Gareth Barry, perhaps to Roberto Mancini's disappointment, spurning two openings of note.
With just under 20 minutes remaining, Liverpool then took the lead through their talismanic captain. It was a trademark long-range effort from Gerrard, who glided into position 25 yards out before unleashing a laser-guided half-volley that left Hart with no chance as it nestled right in the corner.
Liverpool were perhaps worth their advantage, but they wastefully handed it right back soon after. Reina was the culprit - running from his line but failing to get to the ball - but the Spaniard still left Aguero with plenty of work to do wide on the right. Unfortunately for him the Argentinian was up to the challenge, hooking a first-time effort from a fairly acute angle that remarkably found the corner of the unguarded net 20 yards away.
The strike set up a pulsating finish, but a goal to top things off would not come. Gerrard saw a chance at a second goal blocked by a brave defender, before Maicon headed over wildly from an inswinging corner.
Sturridge then saw a potential second goal denied by Hart, but that was as close as either side came as the final whistle eventually came.
Earlier in the afternoon, Gareth Bale's superb strike earned Tottenham victory over 10-man West Brom at the Hawthorns - and closed the gap to third-placed Chelsea to just one point.
The Wales international struck his 11th league goal of the campaign mid-way through the second half to end a run of three successive draws for Andre Villas-Boas' team, as Albion played the final 42 minutes with 10 men after defender Goran Popov was sent off for spitting in the direction of Spurs defender Kyle Walker.
Tottenham took full advantage of their numerical advantage to dominate the second period despite the loss of leading scorer Jermain Defoe with an ankle injury.
Bale was a constant threat with his pace and power as he followed up his mid-week equaliser at Norwich with another crucial goal.
Popov's red card was the last thing Albion would have unwanted after all the controversy surrounding striker Peter Odemwingie's aborted move to QPR. Odemwingie was not part of Albion's matchday squad but it did not stop the Tottenham fans chanting a series of taunts aimed at the Nigeria international.
But of more concern to head coach Steve Clarke will be the fact they have now won only two of their last 14 games in all competitions.
The Baggies started well, with Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris doing well to bat away probing attempts from Romelu Lukaku and Graham Dorrans, but were undone by the dismissal of Popov. From that point Spurs were in the ascendancy and, after 68 minutes, a stunning strike from Bale put Tottenham in front.
The winger, playing in a more central role, received a pass from Walker, brushed off the challenge of Brunt and his 20 yard shot flew past the despairing dive of Foster into the top corner of the net and, ultimately, secure all three points.


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We are an aluminum replica wheel manufacturer specializing in the BMW market and looking to expand to Audi/VW, Mercedes and Porsche. We have been in the market for about 3 years now. The company name is AluFelgen Company although we are doing-business-as AluFelgen only.
Males in the 18-45 range. Main markets are US and Canada.
- We are looking for a written name logo type although we are open to new ideas.
- The logo will also be used as a wheel center cap so if you can place it on a centercap to give us a better idea it`ll be highly appreciated.
- We are looking for something simple yet elegant and sporty.
- VERY IMPORTANT: We would like to see concepts using the "Pirulen" font-type ONLY or you could mix and match.
- Colors could be red,black & white or Blue, Silver & white. You are welcome to explore any ideas but please stay within blue, red, black, silver, grey and white. No yellow, purple or green.
Please be creative and do not be afraid to submit your original concepts. We`ll be providing constant feedback.
Thank you.
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Leah Gallin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 97 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
The SoundLab
We distribute Gibson Guitars for Australia & also have 8 retails stores - Gallin's Guitars and the Musician's Pro Shop across the country. This is a side project, interactive tutorial sessions and workshops with top Australian Artists. A creative space for artists to join together and further develop their talents.
18-35yr olds - Typically Guitar/Bass/Drums/Keys players. Beginners & Industry. Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal & Jazz style playing.
I need a logo that is suitable for all purposes. I want the logo to have an edgy rock feel to it, could even be Reto style. I like the colors Black & Red and would probably prefer logo on a darker background.
As a reference think Christian Audigier tattoo style graphics with the use of skulls. But I don't want it to be to cartoony or contain too much in the way of graphics as this may make it difficult to use. The name SoundLab probably conjurers up ideas of something scientific with test tubes! I'd like perhaps Gothic lettering but I don't want it to be too "GOTHIC" as this wont appeal to other styles of playing ie. Jazz. See also: http://www.rockschool.com.au/splash.html. I like this it's quirky.
To be honest I'm really not that definite on what I want. I guess that's why I wanted to put it out there and see what sort of ideas turned up! Your effort is much appreciated.
Art to be supplied in a vector format Adobe Photoshop file.
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text: Disability Services Breadcrumb Home Offices A-Z About Disability Services Kean University has a strong commitment to full inclusion and equal opportunity for all persons with disabilities. This University adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Every effort is made by our friendly and professional staff to provide every student with the opportunity to participate in all areas of college life. The Office of Disability Services is here to provide assistance and accommodations for all students with documented physical, medical, learning, emotional and/or psychological disabilities, both temporary and permanent. Such services are rendered in the form of: Academic assistance. Classroom and testing accommodations. Adaptive technology and accessible resources. Residence Hall accommodations. Please call (908) 737-4910 to schedule your first appointment. See the "Eligibility for Services" link for additional information helpful in this process.


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by David Baum
SaskTel develops Identity as a Service Offering with Help from Oracle Enterprise Architecture
Part of the Oracle Experiences in Enterprise Architecture article series
Published November 2012
More than 52 percent of organizations that responded to an IDC Cloud Security Survey said that one of the barriers to adopting cloud services involved trusting an outside third party with user authorization, access, and identity management issues. Approximately 41 percent of these organizations feared a security breach from the use of SaaS applications and 40 percent expressed concerns about complying with industry regulations regarding user roles, privileges, and the trusted use of data.
In order to alleviate these concerns, SaskTel, the leading full service communications provider in the Province of Saskatchewan, is working with Oracle to offer cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IDAM) technology to bridge this security gap across various cloud deployment scenarios. SaskTel has partnered with Oracle to introduce a Cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IDAM) service that uses Oracle's Identity and Access Management suite of products to provide functionality normally affordable only to the world's largest enterprises.
John Hill, CIO and Executive Vice President at SaskTel, shared his story at the 2012 Oracle Enterprise Architecture Summit, recounting the challenges, the opportunities, and the role of enterprise architecture in creating SaskTel's cloud-based IDAM service offering.
"Identity Management is a key component of any IT strategy," Hill said. "We knew that our customers would welcome the low cost and rapid turn-up of a SaaS-based identity management solution. Traditional identity and access management infrastructure requires a significant amount of upfront capital and on-going operational expenditures."
SaskTel and its wholly owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 4,800 employees. The Canadian company offers a wide range of communications products and services including voice, data, Internet, entertainment, security monitoring, messaging, cellular, wireless data and directory services. Saskatchewan's northern latitude is ideal for data centers, hosting, and cloud-based services, since cooling costs are minimal for most of the year. SaskTel has two production data centers in the province and is about to build a new Tier-3 data center as well.
To ensure its leadership and leverage its evolving data center infrastructure, Hill and other business-development experts are charged with identifying and creating next-generation services for SaskTel's evolving customer base. Many of these new initiatives are centered on cloud-based services. Both internally and externally, SaskTel needed a new identity management solution.
"Organizations that move applications into the cloud must bridge a security gap between on-premise and off-premise applications by providing comprehensive user administration, application authorization, authentication, and compliance reporting to address regulatory mandates," Hill explained.
In partnership with Oracle, SaskTel gathered a core group of business and IT experts to define and develop the IDAM solution. They augmented the team with Enterprise Architects from Oracle Consulting Services. Their objective was to align the team's functional business objectives with an IT strategy and execution plan, as well as to guide the creation of the new solution.
"Technology is the easy part for us," Hill said. "What we lacked was business architects-people who can translate the concept and value of technology into terms that business people understand.
"SaskTel is surrounded by innovative technologies, Hill added. "Turning 'potential' into 'reality' is often the job of enterprise architects."
Previously SaskTel utilized a mix of identity and access management solutions from Computer Associates and Sun Microsystems. Internal auditors recommended that the company adopt a single identity and access management platform for internal use to eliminate duplicates and redundancies. Hill and his colleagues decided to develop a solution that could be resold commercially as well.
Oracle worked with the SaskTel IDAM Centre of Excellence to define the architecture and establish the multi-tenant design of the new cloud solution. The primary development task involved reconfiguring Oracle Identity Management Suite 11g to function as a multitenant environment. Hill described the new architecture as "an identity management breakthrough-a first for SaskTel as well as a first for Oracle."
Based on Oracle Identity Management technology, the solution enables small and midsize organizations to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources, both within and beyond the firewall and into the cloud. The high availability architecture, hosted in the SaskTel data center, is fully redundant and utilizes Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Database 11g.
All of the IDAM technology and infrastructure was created and delivered through the SaskTel Center of Excellence, a business unit that includes enterprise architects and subject matter experts. Today the Center provides a consolidated suite of services to solve a number of identity access and governance challenges. Customer benefits include the following:
Hill said the new SaaS solution is ideal for the SMB market, which he defines as organizations with less than 2,000 employees. The SaaS platform delivers enterprise-caliber solutions for identity governance, access management and directory services to help organizations strengthen security, simplify compliance and capture business opportunities around mobile and social access.
SaskTel also offers private identity management instances for large companies in healthcare, finance and other industries that must adhere to specific regulatory mandates regarding access to trusted information.
By partnering with Oracle to deliver its IDAM solution through a SaaS platform, SaskTel can include the cost of the hardware, software and on-going operation of infrastructure in the price of the service. Guided by the EA team, SaskTel will continue to invest in product evolution as the market demands, particularly with respect to security.
"There are always new threats and technologies that will try to undermine this type of environment," concluded Hill. "We will continue to leverage complementary solutions such as Oracle Exadata, Oracle Identity Management 12c, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Siebel. Enterprise Architecture best practices will be essential as the IDAM suite starts to expand."


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For all but the contrarians, uncertainty over a deficit-reduction deal and the economic recovery, combined with certainty about the Fed's liquidity efforts,will make the fixed-income market a familiar place in the year following a national electionthat preserved the status quo in Washington.
U.S. Treasurys, high quality corporate bondsand to a lesser extent select high-yield bonds are the investments of choice, even if their already unattractive — and in some cases unprofitable — yields budge a little bit in either direction, analysts say.
Investors looking to broaden their portfolios with an aggressive foray into junk bonds or even dabble in municipal bonds or sovereign debt will probably have to wait for better times.
"What you see is what you get," said James Awad, managing director at Zephyr Management. "Slow growth, regardless of who's president; low inflation, for the time being; in Europe, a modest contraction; in emerging markets, a bottoming in the de-acceleration of growth; the U.S. deficit kicked down the road with maybe a modest package — some tax hikes, some spending cuts; and the Fed's liquidity. None of that will change the character of the fixed income market."
Not that those circumstances make fixed income investing any less challenging than it has been in the past two years, when interest rates defied almost everyone's expectations, hitting new lows.
"This is a very difficult environment because of the low rates and the potential risks," said Howard Kaplan, a financial planner in Tenafly, N.J. "When is safe money going to get some payment? I don't think anyone has the answer."
For contrarians such as Ram Bhagavatula, managing director of the hedge fund Combinatorics Capital, the interest rate equation is about to change. He believes the cyclical economic recovery will become the driver of the fixed income market — not the fiscal cliff, when automatic tax hikes and spending cuts are set to kick in on Jan. 1.
"The bear market in fixed income is here," he said. "The last piece of the puzzle — housing — is turning around. Loan demand is picking up. The temporary [economic] slowdown is done. Interest rates are too low given all the economic indicators."
Strategies: What and Why
So what's a retail investor to do? We asked strategists, money managers and financial planners to share their outlook and investment choices.
Bulls or bears, all of them say the short end of the market is where to be. But some also like aspects of the long end.
For Bhagavatula, it's the front end of the market because investors can afford to hold their Treasurys until maturity while not losing any principal. "Recovery risks and inflation risks show up first in the long end," he said.
For Awad, the "sweetest" time frame is bonds of two to five years.
For Lon Erickson, portfolio manager of fixed income at Thornburg Investment Management, it's three to seven years.
For Scott Kimball, a portfolio manager with Taplin, Canida & Habacht, it's three-year high yield debt, along with investment-grade corporate bonds.
Differences in strategy, however, emerge in allocation, with some portfolios more diverse than others.
Kimball's barbell approach is based on the assumptions that "the GDP concern, the growth concern, is going to drive the bond market in 2013" and that "political gridlock is going to be one of the banes of the market."
His firm's fixed income portfolio involves being overweight in long Treasurys and high-quality industrial commercial paper, along with some long-maturity Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), for the sake of inflation risk.
"You could see longer-term rates come down," Kimball said.
Kimball said the firm uses corporate bonds for shorter-duration assets.


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The Final Fantasy XIII team will present a "new direction" for Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning on September 1, Square Enix has announced.
A teaser website, titled A Storm Gathers, states: "The Lightning Saga that started with the release of Final Fantasy XIII, has achieved a cumulative shipment of over 9.6 million units; and in May 2012 Final Fantasy XIII-2 was brought to conclusion with the add-on content entitled Lightning's Story: Requiem of the Goddess.
"Key members of the Final Fantasy XIII development team including the producer, director and art director, are in preparations to present new information about the direction of Lightning's story. This presentation will take place at an event in Tokyo to celebrate Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary, on 1st September 2012."
Talk of a new direction suggests we'll be seeing some form of Lightning-fronted spin-off next week.


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Ryan.p.orr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
We consult businesses on complex real estate building projects, i.e. we provide construction project management services
We want a clean looking, simple design We want it to be something like facebook blue. I have attached a shape of a house that can be used as loose framework. Keep it simple though and get creative!
Please pace this at the bottom of the logo:
"The [logo.png- see attachment below] Solution"
In other words, write "The (place second logo)Solution". This should go under "the way construction should be".
Does this make sense? If not let me know. Please conform the swoosh in the Orr Partners logo to match the blue in the Buildzip logo.
Demographics Age 25-55, male and female, caucasian, Americans, highly educated
Psychographics: Interests in business, saving money, real estate, keeping things organized and efficient, homeownership, business owners
Slogan: "The Way Construction Should Be"- please make this so we can choose to incorporate slogan or not- i.e. maybe place it somewhere we can crop out of image if need be.
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What's better than getting a brand new road bike? Getting a brand new road bike for free.
We're giving away a 2011 Fuji SL1 Pro road bike to one lucky winner in May. Just stop by one of our stores, fill out an entry form, and this $2999 carbon fiber dream could be yours.
- Monocoque C4 carbon frame with 12K weave carbon strands and C-4 carbon curved stays for incredibly fast and lightweight performance
- Fuji bonded carbon fork smoothes out road vibrations
- Shimano Ultegra 20-speed drivetrain with FSA Gossamer Compact crankset blends race-proven technology with perfect ergonomics to give you a new level of shifting performance
- Shimano Ultegra STI levers put quick and efficient shifting right at your fingertips
- Alloy handlebar, stem and seatpost for a lightweight, high-performance cockpit
- Tektro dual-pivot brakes deliver efficient braking power and smooth modulation throughout the entire range
- Vittoria Zaffiro II tires for comfort and responsive handling


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GLENDALE, Ariz. — A 15-year-old Glendale girl ran away from home on Tuesday because she feared further sexual abuse by her stepfather, police said.
The girl was located by officers about 8:30 p.m. and told them she left home because her stepfather, Patrick Connaughton, had been sexually abusing her for 10 years.
"When they began interviewing her, it was disclosed that her 12-year-old sister was also a victim of sexual abuse by the same suspect," said Phoenix Police Sgt. Steve Martos.
Police said both girls are the biological daughters of Mary Connaughton, 33. It is believed that she knew of the abuse and failed to report it.
The couple was arrested Wednesday. Patrick Connaughton, who allegedly admitted to the crimes, was charged on several felony sexual abuse counts. Mary Connaughton was charged with one count of child abuse.


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Social Change, Not Profit, Is Winning Innovator's Aim
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
U-T San Diego -- For a certain breed of entrepreneur, the next big thing is not always about money. It is about applying their skills to find sustainable and innovative ways to change the world and make it better, and the University of San Diego is taking a lead role in this important trend with its recent Social Innovation Challenge competition.
This year's winner, Eat Better Today, is a mobile food-catering truck that will provide healthy food to homeless individuals. Eat Better Today's founder Teresa L. Smith, who is studying for a master of arts degree in nonprofit leadership, beat out 51 other teams for the $10,000 first-prize award. The service will begin in late May, and the homeless will be able to pay with Cal-Fresh benefits (formerly known as food stamps). (Full Story)
Contact Information
Changemaker Hub
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
Phone: (619) 260-4600


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1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Grand Master FlexPosted in Project Vehicles on September 18, 2006
It's not every day you run across an extreme Grand Cherokee that's also as well-built as Kevin Guthrie's '94. We saw Kevin in Moab during this year's Easter Jeep Safari and hounded him all week until he agreed to meet up with us for this shoot.
It wasn't the actual photo shoot that got him, it was taking time out of his wheeling schedule that he wasn't too keen on, so we gave him the 23-page form for homework and a promise to catch up with him later for pictures. As it happens, we caught him on Kane Creek while we were wheeling and shot the photos on the spot.
At first glance, it looks like a prerunner ZJ that was crashed into a rock buggy. From the front bumper to the rear trussed Ford 9-inch, it just looks like it should be in the desert. But then you take into account the stance, the Dana 60 front, and the full internal 'cage stuffed around a stock interior (not a stripped-out racer's interior), and you start to understand there's more here than first meets the eye.
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Chassis and Driveline
On the surface, a Dana 60 high-pinion front Rockcrusher axle with obvious aftermarket axleshafts (35-spline chromoly shafts) shouldn't be in the same Jeep with a Ford 9-inch rear. And, really, the seemingly malapropos axles are what started us talking to Kevin in the first place.
OK, the front axle is a high-pinion Dana 60 with chromoly shafts, 3/4-ton Chevy calipers, 4.88 gears, and a Detroit Locker. With a Rockcrusher differential cover on it, full hydraulic steering with a double-ended ram on a custom tube/plate mount, the last thing we expected out back was a dirty, once-painted-red Ford 9-inch. Of course, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, and this Summers Brothers-built unit has 40-spline chromoly shafts, custom thicker tubes, internal gusseting, a Currie high-pinion centersection, wildwood six-piston calipers, 4.88 gears, and a Detroit Locker. That ratty red paint sure is good camouflage for a really built axle.
The engine is largely stock internally with a 3-inch exhaust, Spintech muffler, and a turndown in front of the rear axle, roughly under the passenger seat. It also has a K&N air filter, a three-core all-metal radiator, a 160-degree-F thermostat, and a Barry Grant electric fuel pump to feed it. The automatic transmission still hangs under the Jeep just like the day it left the factory, but it's now feeding power into a 4.1:1 Klune-V underdrive and a 3.8:1 Atlas II. From there, it goes through the 1350 series yokes through a long-spline rear driveshaft and two-piece front shaft all done by JE Reel.
The front axle is moved forward about 6 inches with custom five-link suspension (think TJ long-arm kit) and Race Runner dual-rate spring coilovers while the rear axle went back about 8 inches with a custom three-link setup and another pair of Race Runner coilovers. The lower links of the suspension started as 0.120-wall tube, which then got sleeved with 0.250-wall chromoly tube. The body side of the shocks and links tie in at or near the 'cage or 'cage-mounting points for strength and rigidity.
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With all this high-end race tech, seeing a set of 37-inch Super Swamper Boggers on Allied bead locks putting power to the ground is yet another idiosyncratic thing that just flat-out works.
Body and Interior
The rear quarters got cut in a rock-avoidance technique. A fuel cell was mounted through the rear cargo floor area and tubing bent up to protect what was left of the rear quarters and the custom 22-gallon aluminum fuel cell. That tubing also serves duty as a rear bumper, with plate added and a couple of shackle mounts poking through. The rear wheelwells were modified for clearance so the coilovers could poke through.
Inside, a full rollcage was bent up around the factory seats and tied into the body and uniframe through the use of large weight-distributing plates. Underneath, most of the uniframe was plated over with 1/4-inch steel for rigidity and to facilitate 'cage mounting points. The floor under the driver seat and the mount were cut and modified to clock the Atlas II up as high as possible.
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The rear sports two child-safety seats for Kevin's kids while the front leather-covered power buckets have five-point harnesses added for stability during extreme off-road maneuvers. The CB was mounted into the center console, upside-down for ease of use and visibility from the driver seat.
Tubular rock rail/nerf bars protect the rocker panels and keep the doors opening and closing the way they were meant to. The rockers were cut a little so the bars would tuck up nice and tight. Out front, the bumper is something right off a Trophy Truck. Triangulation and frame bracing were tied through the grille back to the shocks and integrated into the 'cage. This is one slick setup.
Good, Bad, & What's it For
This Jeep combines race tech with good ol' Jeep tech for a package that works very well together. There is something about picking up a Jeep with a V-8, auto, and just adding what is needed to get it out there. Kevin is a machinist by trade, and the meticulous and clean nature of the work he's done with this Jeep shows through.
We would like to see the Jeep a little lower to the ground, as would Kevin, but as he says, "It works like this, so why go through all the work to change it?"
Why I Featured It
I've been looking more and more at building a Grand Cherokee, and there are a lot of cues in this '94 that I've been wanting to use. The full 'cage inside the Jeep, with the factory power seats in the front, and stock seats in the rear are good examples. Most of the guys I see building these get rid of the rear seats or make it so hard to get to through the jungle gym of tubes that they might as well be gone. Not so here. The front and rear bumpers and rock rails tied back into the frame, suspension, and 'cage are another one.
All in all, it is a Jeep that's capable of hitting some serious trails, but keeps a lot of the everyday comfort and driveability it left the showroom with.
-Pete Trasborg
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Hard Facts:
'94 Grand Cherokee
46RH automatic
Transfer Case:
4.0:1 Atlas II
Custom link setup with coilovers
Rockcrusher high-pinion Dana 60 (front), Summers Brothers Ford 9-inch (rear)
17x9.5 Allied Chrome Steel Rock 8s
13/37-17 Super Swamper Boggers
Built For:
Carrying the kids and wheeling anything Kevin wants to wheel
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A.mexis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Mitchell Group
Mitchell Group is a holding company and sits atop a number of other companies, including:
Mitchell Drilling International
Mitchell Energy Services
Mitchell Equipment Hire
For additional information on the company, please visit our website at: http://www.mitchellgroup.net
The personality we are trying to portray is: Professional, crisp, clean and corporate.
The general target audience is anyone is viewing a Mitchell Group presentation. This may include potential clients, current partners, internal staff, etc.
We require identical PowerPoint presentation templates (which include a front cover/title page, 2 different content page layouts, and a final 'thank-you'/conclusion page) for the following entities:
Mitchell Group
Mitchell Drilling International
Mitchell Energy Services
Mitchell Equipment Hire
Mitchell Energy
The only difference in the presentation templates will be the logo and colours used. I have attached logos for each of the entities to this brief - you will see that they are all the same except for the wording and colours. Each entity has a stacked logo and a landscape logo - both of them do not need to be used, just whichever looks best.
We do not want a template that is too cluttered - ideally we are something that is professional and crisp yet will still stand out in presentations.
Please take into consideration the use of images in the template - we do not want image rich backgrounds/frameworks because when we add images to the presentations they will ruin the overall slides.
Many Thanks,
Alexandra Mexis