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Please bear with me because I am writing about something I am unsure about.
Karate is for self-defense. It is not used for attacking, only in response to an attack, usually a surprise attack. These principles are very clear.
So is a Karate student supposed to become very good at fighting so that he will be able to fight better than an attacker? Should a Karate student become a skilled fighter?
When I think about a "fighter," I think about someone who "fights," someone who is aggressive. In my view, if someone attacks me, I would defend myself, not fight. He is fighting, I am defending. This may sound like a word game, but I feel that the difference is important.
A fighter has the attitude of a fighter. A defender has the attitude and objectives of a defender.
One who fights seeks to defeat someone. One who defends seeks to protect himself or loved ones. From a defense perspective, once the threat is ended (either by defending or escaping), the conflict is over.
Now I realize that there are many definitions of "fight." One is to resist, and self defense is a form of resistance. But in general usage, I think that when we speak about a Karate fighter, we mean a Karate student who excels at fighting skills.
Can a Karate student be a good fighter and still value and pursue peace and the avoidance of conflict? Does the process of becoming a good fighter affect the values of a Karate student?
Again, I do not know the answer to this. I am just thinking out loud.
It does seem to me that at least some Karate students (by this I mean a person who practices Karate, whether beginner, advanced or instructor), become tougher than the fighters who might attack them.
Imagine a deer. It might be attacked by a wolf. So should the deer seek to become a wolf? Of course, a deer cannot become a wolf! Its best defense is to be aware of its surroundings and threats, to hide or run when danger is present, and to kick or gouge as a last resort. A deer has pretty good defenses, but it is still a deer. It will avoid wolves and other predators.
My own view of Karate is somewhat like this -- like a deer. I do not like fighting. I do not like injuring anyone, even an attacker. I am very passive and prefer flight to fight, if it is possible. If there is no way to escape or reason with the attacker, then that is another story. Then Karate should be used as a last resort. But it is a last resort, a reluctant last choice.
I think that some Karate students are waiting for a fight, and at such time, will turn into a "fighter" rather than a defender. Some Karate students are ready, willing, and quite able to kick the... poop out of most attackers.
I remember the words of Bushi Matsumura that "Karate teaches one how not to use the hands and feet in a fight." How not to. It sounds to me that Matsumura Sensei was teaching a Karate in which students are not fighters.
I realize that becoming a good fighter creates a certain deterrent effect. Most people would not like to mess with a Karate student who is obviously good at fighting. But is this the image the student want to project?
I used to study Aikido with Sensei Sadao Yoshioka. Somehow, without remembering his exact words, I recall a feeling he projected that you cannot create peace by projecting a fighting attitude. You create peace by acting in a peaceful way. An attack represents an imbalance of sorts. You do not fight fire with fire.
And I do not quite feel that the goal of Karate is to create students who are good at fighting. I feel that the goal or Karate is create students who seek peace and possess the skill necessary to escape or terminate a fight. I wish that I could articulate this as well as Yoshioka Sensei.
In my training with Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato, I cannot recall him saying, "if someone attacks you, this is what you can do, here is a technique." Instead, his explanation of the techniques contained in or suggested by kata is presented more in terms of something that "you might do." It is a possibility. If the situation arises, you will know what to do instinctively because of your training. But it is not exactly as if you are preparing for it.
Somehow I get this impression that in a strange way, preparing for an attack with a certain mindset invites the attack, almost creates an energy seeking to be fulfilled.
I remember what Sensei Noboru Akagi told me about drawing the sword. I studied Iaido with Akaki Sensei briefly. He said that as you begin to draw, you think, "Don't draw, don't draw, don't draw." You project the thought that you do not want the attacker to draw his sword. Only when he does and there is no other way, do you draw your sword and cut him down.
I feel this way in Karate. When I osae (press), I think "Don't hit, don't hit, don't hit."
A Karate student should not be thinking, "bring it on and I will kill you!"
My Karate is passive and negative. It is reluctant. I am not a fighter -- I am a non-fighter who, as a last resort, might kick and gouge... like a deer.
Charles C. Goodin
Karate Fighter?
Please bear with me because I am writing about something I am unsure about.
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UK Power Networks Customer Story
Electricity distribution company powers its content generation and distribution with Alfresco
- Currently 2,500 users use Alfresco for fast information retrieval and effective collaboration across business units, and externally with partners
- Powerful document management facilitates a 'single source of truth', enabling better decision-making, productivity improvements and a reduction of paper in the field
- Approval workflows along with full lifecycle audit trails deliver robust Health and Safety capabilities in a demanding, safety critical environment
- Alfresco powers an efficient and robust process for bid and project management that has significantly cut delivery times
- Powerful version and configuration controls have cut document production overheads and delivered increased flexibility and agility for staff
- Delivery of comprehensive business and technical information via the company's external website has helped customers do more online (such as finding out why they have a power cut or sending an online enquiry), and improved information sharing with third parties — an important regulatory requirement
- Improved mobile access to documentation has boosted field and remote worker productivity while minimising office visits, cutting both fuel usage and carbon emissions
- Winner of the 2013 Best Consumer Website award (CorpComms Magazine)
- The corporate website, powered by Alfresco WCMQS, has delivered self-service and improved customer satisfaction
UK Power Networks
UK Power Networks is responsible for the infrastructure that brings power to homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and other public services, delivering reliable, safe and sustainable electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Covering London, the South East and East of England, UK Power Networks manages three licensed distribution networks which together cover an area of 30,000km2 and approximately eight million customers. In total it owns and manages more than 160,000km of underground cables and overhead lines used to distribute electricity — about four times the circumference of the earth.
Alongside its three distribution arms, UK Power Networks also operates UK Power Networks Services which develops and maintains electrical networks for clients like London Underground, Heathrow and Stansted airports, Docklands Light Railway and Canary Wharf.
Three principles underpin the culture of UK Power Networks: to be an employer of choice, a respected corporate citizen and sustainably cost efficient. Regulated by the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), UK Power Networks is the most reliable, most innovative and lowest cost of the Electricity Distribution Network Operators. In delivering it's regulatory obligations, UK Power Networks has a duty to share information with third parties — and the general public — in an open, timely and transparent manner.
Business challenge
UK Power Networks began operations in October 2010 following its purchase of EDF Energy Networks from EDF Group. As part of the IT and business separation programme, a consolidated enterprise content management (ECM) solution was required to replace three legacy Documentum (web content and document management) and Stellent systems.
Robust and cost-effective, the new consolidated ECM solution had to surpass the expectations of customers and staff. As part of its communication vision, UK Power Networks wanted to deliver enhanced efficiency and productivity for staff and partners and real-time information to customers accessing its website, enabling powerful self-service features for online information seekers.
Alongside agile web content and document management capabilities, the new unified ECM solution needed to make seamless collaboration across the business a reality. Alongside making 19 million documents accessible to staff, the platform needed the flexibility to meet projected future UK Power Networks requirements, such as records management.
Minimising total cost of ownership was a key requirement. UK Power Networks needed an ECM solution that could accommodate evolving business processes with ease and without the need for resource-consuming customisation.
Having evaluated a number of technologies, including Documentum and Sharepoint, UK Power Networks selected Alfresco as the solution that best met its varied and demanding requirements. Thanks to Alfresco, UK Power Networks has been able to start to improve staff access to 19 million (12TB) documents from any location — even in the field — and ensure due diligence and governance is maintained and managed at all times. Integration with MS Office and Outlook is undertaken using ConxOffice and ConxMail from SynApps Solutions.
Three Alfresco partners undertook deployment. SynApps Solution delivered programme management, governance, architecture design and quality assurance, while Accenture was responsible for the high level architecture design, systems integration and data migration for the Internet platform. Meanwhile, Tata Consulting Services managed system architecture and data migration for the company intranet and document management. Built on a low-cost LAMP stack (Red Hat Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), today Alfresco powers the new UK Power Networks external website (www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk) and a newly evolved internal intranet.
To streamline business processes and enable more responsive customer and partner-facing operations, the UK Power Networks programme team, in partnership with business content owners, took the opportunity to simplify and standardise the company intranet's look and feel. The ongoing introduction of document management and collaboration capability is being initiated on a targeted case-by-case basis; collaboration sites are requested by business users and site and folder governance is managed by IS.
"The ability to deliver collaboration in an agile manner and reduce the time of project delivery represents a significant benefit, but not one we have individually costed," explains Gillian Higgins, Head of IS Projects at UK Power Networks. She continues; "Our collaboration sites now deliver an effective link between UK Power Networks and its partners, improving project delivery while reducing cost and cycle times."
Currently around 2,500 users have access to Alfresco, and in the coming months a further 2,500 users will be benefiting from ECM enabled information access and collaboration efficiencies.
"The improvements we've made to the internet, along with the introduction of metadata enabled search, have significantly boosted the number of customers using the website which is an important measure for us. Awareness of our company is low so this investment meant that customers could find our website easily through search engines," says Toni Kinslow UK Power Networks Marketing Communications Manager.
By selecting Alfresco as its ECM platform, UK Power Networks has attained a cost avoidance of £1.5 million in licence fees and achieved productivity and efficiency gains resulting from improved information sharing and enhanced collaboration between internal teams, external partners and stakeholders.
As a regulated industry, UK Power Networks needs to meet stringent customer satisfaction targets. Powered by Alfresco, the company's new website delivers real-time information to members of the general public — for example, visitors to the site can check a power cut postcode information checker. New self service features, which include a fast-search library resource and 'ask the expert' facility, make it easy for online information seekers to find what they need fast.
The success of the newly integrated online presence has seen the www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk website recently win a Best Consumer Website award in the 2013 Corporate Communications Digital Awards.
Improved DMS and external collaboration has enabled UK Power Networks to achieve tough efficiency targets and realise significant CAPEX savings while boosting the ability of the company to deliver against statutory information sharing requirements.
UK Power Networks is starting to realise significant operational benefits too. With improved mobile access to documents, field-based engineering teams will be able to stay in the field longer and work more effectively. This will minimise the number of journeys engineers make to offices, and in turn will directly reduce fuel usage and carbon emissions.
The improvements in document centric processes has also reduced timeframes for quotations and bids, and speeded up the deployment of new low carbon initiatives such as smart meters and smart grids."The Alfresco ECM implementation plays a key role in UK Power Network's quest to continually improve the service we offer our customers while driving down operational costs," states Andrew Bilecki, Chief Information Officer of UK Power Networks.

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Hello boyz & girlz, you are new to Company of Heroes and want to play the game with blitzkrieg mod in it?
First of all, Don't use a non original Company of Heroes game copy, the original game cost nothing on Steam and will work 100% of the time when updated, do not seek help here if your game is not an original Steam/Relic/Sega product, if you have a cracked game, you will get some bugs, glitches, incompabilities, game errors, crashes etc... we just can't help you with that.
1)- Get Company of Heroes from Steam, you need a Steam account for that, if you don't have a Steam account, you will need to create one.
Which Company of Heroes do i need to buy in order to play Blitzkrieg mod?
The best is to buy the complete Company of Heroes collection from Steam, or at least the extension "Tales of Valor" who regroup the 4 Company of heroes factions, U.S.A., Commonwealth (brits), PE (Panzer Elite), WH (Wehrmarcht) and all the reward units models, the minimum required is the Company of heroes "Opposing Fronts" extension or DLC.
2)- You already bought Company of Heroes but from a CD-Rom?, well, its very simple, go to your steam account and add the Game CD-Rom # key to Steam and you will be able to download for free the latest version of your game on Steam.
3)-Once you have installed the Steam client, launch the client and enter your login credentials. When you are logged into your account, click the button in the bottom left corner that says "+ ADD A GAME…" to register the product key to your account.
In the pop-up window, select the "Activate a Product on Steam" option. This will open up a new window.
Follow the prompts, and paste or enter the numerical key you copied from your download page into the "Product Code" field.
Hit "NEXT>." If your key is valid, Steam will accept it and you will be taken to your library where you will be able to download and play your newly registered game!
Note: If the key extends beyond the reach of the key field on your download page, simply double-click inside the field to select the whole key. This way, regardless of how much of the key looks to be cut off, you will copy the whole thing!
From your LIBRARY tab you can see all games registered to your Steam account. You can then select a game and it will bring up a splash page with a large INSTALL button you can click on to install your games. Once your games are installed, the Install button will change to a PLAY button!
The correct installation path by default of your Company of Heroes Steam version in your PC will be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes Relaunch
1) Download the Blitzkrieg full version V 18.104.22.168.
2) Download the Blitzkrieg latest patch, currently its the V 4.9.6, but this will change and you will need to always pick the newest one, so Bk full game + newest patch update, thats all.
3) Download the 2 Blitzkrieg map packs 1 & 2.
The first time you will launch the Blitzkrieg mod installer MAKE SURE you have the right installation path in it! which is your COH Steam new version: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes Relaunch otherwise it will not work, so make sure you are installing Blitzkrieg mod in your Company of Heroes Steam version.
If your install isn't located in the Steam default path make a "right click" on COH in steam, properties, LOCAL FILES tab, BROWSE LOCAL FILES... it will open on correct path, that has to be the same as in installer.
You will need to do the same for ALL Blitzkrieg mod contents like Map packs, patch updates or if you add the Historical add-on (D-Day June 1944/ Afrika 43) to it.
Your Company of Heroes Steam version default installation root game folder must look like that in your PC files.
Always use the Blitzkrieg mod shortcut icon to play Blitzkrieg, double click on it, PLAY!
C-INSTALLING HISTORICAL ADD-ON FOR BLITZKRIEG MOD (optional)
Its exactely the same way you installed Blitzkrieg mod, same thing, same path, in order to play Blitzkrieg mod with D-Day June 1944 and Afrika 43 addon you will need to use only the Historical add-on shortcut icon and the Historical add-on launcher.
More informations regarding the Historical add-on for Blitzkrieg mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/historical-add-on-for-bk-mod
[FAQ] How to install Steam COH & BK mod, read before posting!
Do you have a problem with the mod? Ask here for help. But read the pinned topics, so that your request can be dealt quick with.
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The longest weather-related shutdown of U.S. stock trading since 1888 ended Oct. 31 without incident, while underscoring how vulnerable the world's biggest financial market remains to disasters.
Duncan Niederauer, the chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext, said trading went smoothly as American equity markets came back to life after a 48-hour hiatus forced by Hurricane Sandy. Trading was suspended three days earlier when concerns about human safety and how well the New York Stock Exchange's backup plan would work convinced executives that moving ahead was too risky.
The Securities and Exchange Commission may consider whether exchanges' emergency regimens need to be bolstered, according to a person familiar with the regulator's thinking who asked not to be named because the matter is private. The industry's decision to halt equities and bond trading shows the challenge of maintaining markets when a catastrophe threatens New York City, home to 168,700 securities industry workers.
"One of the purposes of having electronic exchanges and basing them away from New York City is for the market to be more robust and stay open," Charles Jones, a finance professor at Columbia Business School in New York, said in a phone interview. "This is what the back-up plans were designed for. But the markets didn't open."
The SEC will also assess whether lessons from this week's events should lead to new requirements as the agency works to convert guidelines adopted 20 years ago to ensure the stability of exchange technology and systems into a rule, the person said.
"Deciding in advance to close the market when there's a great likelihood things will be bad is a good decision," former SEC Chairman David Ruder said in a phone interview. "Later on, regulators will probably ask, 'Are the back-up facilities sufficiently strong to handle unexpected events?' It will be a laborious and time-consuming process."
The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center prompted the securities and banking industry to begin an examination of whether financial markets could withstand a terrorist attack or other catastrophe, Robert Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., said in an Oct. 31 interview on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" with Dominic Chu. The effort expanded after Sept. 11, 2001. While the decision to shut markets to protect employees this week was right, it showed that too much infrastructure may be concentrated in New York, he said.
'Hurricane, Tornado'
"We cannot be locked into this geography," he said. "The key point is to be ready no matter what happens, whether it's a hurricane, tornado, terrorist attack. It's our job to make sure the markets are ready to function."
Brokers began preparing for Sandy last week, instituting contingency plans and moving staff in case communications networks failed and the bridges and tunnels into New York City were closed. Discussions between primary dealers in the bond market, officials at the U.S. Treasury Department and New York Federal Reserve, and executives at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association took place over the weekend before an auction of Treasury bills scheduled for Oct. 29, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
While banks and dealers were prepared to handle the sale and expected broad participation, plans for another auction the next morning were moved up a day because of the weather. Just before 7 p.m. on Oct. 28, Sifma, a trade group for banks, brokers and asset managers, recommended that bond markets close at noon the next day.
Stock exchanges and brokers built or augmented back-up plans to operate during a disaster over the last decade. NYSE Euronext proposed an arrangement in 2009 that involves shutting down the trading floor in its headquarters at 11 Wall Street in New York and carrying out Big Board trading over NYSE Arca, the all-electronic market it acquired in 2006, the year the company had its initial public offering.
Shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, as Sandy sped toward the American Northeast with winds of 75 miles per hour, prompting a mandatory evacuation of parts of New York, executives of NYSE Euronext said they would put that plan into action for the first time. The New York Mercantile Exchange, which trades natural gas and crude oil futures, had already said it was shutting its trading floor in lower Manhattan.
Executives took the step out of an "abundance of caution" for the lives of employees, market makers and traders at the Big Board, and clients, Larry Leibowitz, chief operating officer at NYSE Euronext, said in a phone interview at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 28. He cited reservations about opening during what might be a "100-year storm," saying that only time would tell if it was the best decision for securities firms and the capital markets.
More Competition
The role of the NYSE floor in American equity markets has diminished since September 2001 as the exchange ceded market share to competitors. While 83 percent of trading in NYSE companies occurred on the Big Board then, only about 21 does now following the growth of Nasdaq OMX and rise of new electronic rivals run by Direct Edge Holdings LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Lenexa, Kansas-based Bats Global Markets Inc.
Still, the prices generated by the main exchanges that bring corporations public remains vital for calculations used by many mutual funds and vendors that sell market data.
While trading has become more fragmented, New York and New Jersey remain the heart of the American securities industry. By invoking its contingency plan for trading, the NYSE would have effectively forced banks and brokers to send programmers into the city Sunday night to code and test systems, five people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Not all brokerage members of the exchange participated in the system's last test in March.
"They could have left the electronic exchanges open," Mark Turner, head of U.S. sales trading at New York-based Instinet Inc., said in a phone interview. "But with people unable to access their offices, it could have been like the Friday after Thanksgiving where volume would be extremely light, which opens the door for volatility.
At 6:30 p.m. on the eve of Sandy's arrival, the NYSE held a conference call in which its biggest customers opposed the backup plan, saying the prospect of malfunctions was too great, according to four people with direct knowledge of the discussions who asked to remain anonymous because the talks were private. Danger from the worsening weather fueled anxiety about having to send employees into the city, the people said.
"All of these disasters are a tough call," Leibowitz said. "If you overreact, people say after, 'They acted like a bunch of babies.' If you underreact and don't take enough measures and something bad happens, you've got an even bigger problem. Finding that line is always really hard."
Ensuring the accuracy of technical changes and software updates is increasingly critical to the operation of markets transformed by electronic trading over the last five years, said Ruder, now a professor at Northwestern University's School of Law in Chicago. Brokers and exchanges told the SEC in early October that systems must be properly tested before they're implemented in the markets to avoid disruptive trading.
Brokers preparing for NYSE's contingency trading using Arca wouldn't have faced many technical hurdles, Leibowitz said on Oct. 28.
"For the most part there's not anything new required by the industry," since most orders would be redirected to the electronic venue behind the scenes, he said.
NYSE's member brokers disagreed on the 6:30 p.m. conference call. Participants questioned the judgment of requiring them to switch to systems that hadn't been recently or adequately tested, people familiar with the discussions said. Callers warned of technical glitches, confusion and the threat of disorderly trading because of the last-minute change to opt for the back-up plan when brokers were functioning with skeletal staff, the people said.
The conference call was followed by three more arranged by Sifma. Regulators from the SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority joined executives from the Investment Company Institute, exchanges and brokers as consensus grew that the markets should close, people familiar with the discussions said.
On a 7:30 p.m. Sifma call, which one person said had at least 100 attendees, banks and brokers unanimously pressed for markets to shut, the people said. Joe Mecane, head of U.S. equities for NYSE Euronext, attended, along with executives from Nasdaq OMX, Bats and Direct Edge.
SEC Informed
Two smaller Sifma calls followed at 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Robert Cook, the director of the SEC's division of trading and markets, and other officials from the unit, participated, along with executives from CME Group Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc., which offer trading in equity-index futures, the people said.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro was informed of discussions throughout the evening, according to a person familiar with the matter. Officials at the SEC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, New York Fed and Treasury Department that were consulted about shutting the markets didn't object to the decision for equities by the stock exchanges and Finra and the recommendation by Sifma for fixed income, the people said.
Opening the markets on Oct. 31 was critical to all the parties, they said.
The suspension of equities trading was announced at about 11 p.m. on Oct. 28, after predictions for storm damage worsened and almost seven hours after NYSE said it would invoke its contingency plan. The markets closed Oct. 29 and 30, the first time they've been shut for consecutive days due to weather since a blizzard in March 1888. They were last closed for four days including a weekend and the national day of mourning for President Gerald Ford in 2007.
Equity and fixed-income markets began trading Oct. 31, with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, ringing the opening bell at the NYSE. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose less than 0.1 percent from Friday's close to 1,412.16 at 4 p.m. in New York. Volume was 6.33 billion shares, or 7 percent above the three-month average. Futures on the S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1 percent at 8:24 a.m. in London today.
"Given the weather and that the entire Northeast corridor was going to be closed, there wasn't a big reason to risk the viability of the marketplace and add to the confusion," Sang Lee, managing partner at Boston-based Aite Group LLC, said in a phone interview. "It would have been much worse had they opened and something went wrong."
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|On either side of the Great Cross of Sacrifice, two large weeping willow trees
add to the beauty and peace of Prowse Point.
|Messines, Belgium
|The simple entry gate for Prowse Point Military Cemetery.
|Three comrades together.
William Dunne's marker is on the far right.
All three markers note the date of death as 20th November 1914.
|William Pell
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
7th January 1915 Age 23
|Plaque acknowledging the perpetual gift
by the Belgian people of the cemetery land.
Transcription of the English plaque:
The land on which this cemetery stands is the free gift of the Belgian people for the perpetual resting place of those of the Allied Armies who fell in the war of 1914 - 1918 and are honoured here.
Translation of French plaque:
The ground of this cemetery was graciously offered by the Belgian people to serve in perpetuity. Field of the heroes of the armed Allied graves during the Great War of 1914 - 1918 and whose memory is honoured here.
Translation of the Dutch plaque:
The Belgian population gave this land as perpetual resting place of the fallen heroes of the Allied armies of the World War 1914 - 1918 and whose memory we honour here.
William Dunne and William Pell gave their lives. They are the only ones who truly knew exactly why they volunteered to go, but they did. They gave their lives for an imperative, meanwhile back in Dublin, Ireland, their respect families awaited their return, not knowing they would never again see their William.
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causevox needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 159 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We're rebranding an existing online platform that mobilizes people who care about non-profit organizations. We make these individuals advocates for the causes they are most passionate about by providing simple, yet effective, tools to give them a voice, generate awareness, and raise money.
We chose the name causevox so that we could give causes a voice in the world.
Cause - A principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated
Vox - The word origin of voice.
Here are some words that describe us:
- contemporary
- game-changing
- strong/confident/bold
- alive/moving/active
- engaging
We've attached some examples of logos we like to this project brief.
We have three target audiences:
1. Non-profits // organizations with a mission to better the world in some way
2. Advocates // people who identify with and champion the causes they most believe in
3. Donors // people that the advocates recruit to donate money and spread the word about a cause
* Color: We're not tied any color palette, but the color should evoke a call to action.
* Visuals: We'd like an image to represent causevox, but don't need it to be too elaborate. We like flat images that have meaning and tie to our mission.
* Wording/Typography: Sans Serif fonts would follow the contemporary nature of our product. Variations of typography can include but is not limited to: causevox, CauseVox, CAUSEVOX, causeVOX.
* Overall: Logo must look good in color as well grayscale and be okay on black or white backgrounds
* Format in CMYK: .psd (layered), .ai, .jpg
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 21, 2012) - 360 VOX Corporation (TSX VENTURE:VOX) - 360 VOX Corporation (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, through its wholly-owned subsidiary 360 VOX (Croatia) Inc. ("360 VOX Croatia"), it has entered into an agreement with, among others, Mosaic Finance (Luxembourg) SARL ("Mosaic") to purchase outstanding secured loans to Clearpoint Resort d.o.o. (Croatia) ("Clearpoint Resort") and its subsidiaries in respect of the resort development being pursued by Clearpoint Resort on over 100,000 m2 in Cavtat, Croatia, near Dubrovnik (the "Resort Development"). The Resort Development is to be a master-planned hotel, marina and recreational residential development.
The purchase price for the loans is EUR750,000. The principal amount outstanding in respect of the loans is approximately EUR2,400,000. The loans are secured by three properties near Dubrovnik (the "Properties"), owned by Clearpoint Resort and relating to the Resort Development. As part of the purchase, 360 VOX Croatia will acquire all of Mosaic's rights and obligations under the loan and related security agreements and be registered as a new mortgagee in respect of the Properties.
The purchase will extend the financing relationship between the Company, Clearpoint Resort and its parent company Clearpoint Resort Limited (Malta), with which 360 VOX Croatia has in place existing financing arrangements.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors Robin Conners, President and CEO
About 360 VOX Corporation
The Company is a publicly traded company, incorporated under the laws of Ontario and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "VOX". 360 VOX manages and develops international hotel, resort, residential and commercial properties through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 360 VOX Asset Management Inc., 360 VOX Developments Inc., and in Cuba through its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilton Properties Ltd., in joint venture with Grupo Hotelero Gran Caribe S.A.. 360 VOX is also engaged in the sales and marketing of real estate through Sotheby's International Realty Canada and Blueprint Global Marketing.
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Anyone know their names?
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The majority of work on asymptotically anti-de Sitter
spacetimes, much of it motivated by the AdS/CFT correspondence, assumes
configurations which are either at or close to equilibrium.
Recently it has been discovered that genuinely dynamical
spacetimes with AdS asymptotics can exhibit some surprising behaviour. In
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The Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition is a science fiction fanzine by Suzanne Tompkins and Jerry Kaufman.
The Spanish Inquisition was edited and published in the 1970s in New York, U.S.A. Contributors included Ginjer Buchanan, Michael Carlson, John Curlovich, Michael Glicksohn (Energumen), Gary Goldstein, R. A. MacAvoy, Loren MacGregor, Patrick McGuire, Peter Roberts (Speculation), Elliot Shorter, Jon Singer, and the editors.
Contributions of art work were from Randy Bathurst, Harry Bell (Grimwab), Grant Canfield, Vin DiFate, Connie Faddis, Ken Fletcher, Phil Foglio, George Foster, Alexis Gilliland, Gary Goldstein, Bill Kunkel, Wendy Lindboe, Sam Long, Tim Marion, Andy Porter, William Rotsler, Stu Shiffman, Marc Shirmeister, Jim Shull, Al Sirois, Dan Steffan (Boonfark), Steve Stiles, Reed Waller, and Jim Young.


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This is where Singapore stand-up comedy fans and Singapore open mic comedians come to unwind, relax and make you laugh.
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Rhinoceros Mini-Beest Kit
Like old NES cartridges, you blow on it
- Powered by wind - no batteries required
- Includes fully-illustrated assembly instructions
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On Holland's beaches you don't have to worry about getting your stuff nicked or sunburn as much as you have to worry about being trampled by a runaway Strandbeest. Okay, not really (but that would look awesome in an obituary). Although Theo Jansen's "new life forms" are wondrous, there's also something amazingly creepy about them. Maybe it's the combination of organic and robotic that's giving us a slight uncanny-valley feeling? Ah. We're probably overthinking it. We, for one, welcome our new Strandbeest overlords.
Build your own mini-version of Theo Jansen's Animaris Rhinoceros Transport with this kit. Containing over 80 parts, it snaps together in just over an hour and a half and produces a Mini-Beest whose size is about a 6" cube. Blow on it, and it'll take off on its own, exploring your desk.
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- Powered by wind - no batteries required
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- Materials: Lightweight plastic + 2 steel rods
- Includes fully-illustrated assembly instructions
- No special tools needed - just scissors or a utility knife
- 80+ parts
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BEIRUT — A Syrian government air raid struck a high school in a rebel-held city in the country's north on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, most of them students, activists said.
The airstrike took place in the city of Raqqa, which is located on the Euphrates River and is the only provincial capital under rebel control in Syria's civil war, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Right said. President Bashar Assad's regime has relied heavily on its air force to strike opposition-held areas, including Raqqa.
The attack appeared to hit the yard in front of the school early Sunday morning, which is the first day of the work week at public schools in Syria.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said at least eight of the dead were students, and that the death toll is likely to rise because many of the wounded are in critical condition.
Amateur videos posted online showed at least nine bodies, some of them missing limbs, lying on pockmarked-pavement strewn with rubble. At least four of the bodies appeared to be of young people. Another video shows pools of blood on the ground and a concrete-block wall destroyed in the bombing.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the events depicted.
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Boys basketball: Winthrop routs Traip in C South semifinals
Thursday's college roundup: St. Joseph's women reach fourth straight league final
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Lizorr is a reptilian mutant warrior serving under Flogg. Lizorr is a capable fighter and can extend his slimy tongue in battle to grab his enemies. He was not a vocal underling, but was present in battle on a number of occasions. He is cold blooded and is from the Gorn Desert on Denbria, a hot unforgiving place. He relies on climate controlled radiation respirator to keep him going.
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Kentucky Derby Hat "Run for the Roses" is a perfect hat for the Derby or for a Downton Abbey Tea Party. It's a gorgeous wide brimmed crystal organza base; it has an iridescent, but subtle sparkle in the sunshine. Beautiful organza roses; one full rose and two buds are accented with red organza ribbon and embroidered red organza lace as a rosette and also as the band around the crown of the hat. FOUR luxurious red ostrich feathers hand dyed sweep across the front and then cascades over the edge of the brim. This hat will shade you in pure elegance as you sit in the grandstands at the Kentucky Derby. Excellent choice for a red hat event.
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The diminutive son of Hear No Evil has been turned out since early September at Brei's farm in Reddick, Fla., where he was sent following a last-place finish in this year's Forego. Three weeks before the race, Jackson Bend was involved in a collision with another horse on the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga, and although physically unharmed, Brei felt the 5-year-old was slow to recuperate mentally from the incident.
Brei, who co-owns Jackson Bend with Robert V. LaPenta, said the horse will stand at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla.
The homebred Jackson Bend began his career in Florida, where he finished second in his 2-year-old debut before winning five straight at Calder Race Course while in the care of trainer Stanley Gold. Prior to his 3-year-old campaign, Brei sold a half-interest in Jackson Bend to LaPenta and the colt was transferred to the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito.
Under Zito, Jackson Bend ascended to graded stakes competition as a 3-year-old, finishing second in the Grade 3 Holy Bull and the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, second in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and third, beaten less than a length, in the Preakness.
After wintering in Florida with Gold, Jackson Bend returned to Zito at Saratoga, where he won the 2011 James Marvin prior to his first Grade 1 victory in the Forego. Subsequently second to Uncle Mo in the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park, Jackson Bend closed out his 4-year-old campaign with a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Sprint.
This year, Jackson Bend won the Grade 3 Hal's Hope at Gulfstream Park and notched his second Grade 1 with a thrilling victory over Caleb's Posse and Shackleford in the Carter at the Big A.
"I don't know if one horse has ever given me such thrills and excitement in all aspects of the game," said Zito of Jackson Bend. "His Preakness, the Carter, the Forego – you can't put a price on the thrills this horse gave me."
For his career, Jackson Bend was 9-6-4 from 28 starts, with earnings of $1,613,450.


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Tips for U.S. Taxpayers Living Abroad
President Obama spoke about his strategy to eliminate the deficit and increase revenue, but what does that mean for expatriates? International tax consultant Laurence Lipsher provides tips for taxpayers abroad.
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The sale of WNED-AM 970 by Western New York Public Broadcasting Association to Crawford Broadcasting Company will be effective on Friday, Nov. 30, at midnight.
"Our listeners will continue to enjoy the same award-winning programming by only switching the dial to WBFO-FM 88.7," said Donald K. Boswell, WNED president and CEO.
WNED will receive $875,000 from Crawford Broadcasting Company for the station. Proceeds of the sale will be used to pay down the debt incurred by the purchase of WBFO-FM 88.7, which was acquired from University at Buffalo in March for $4 million. The sale has no impact on station staffing, on-air programming on WBFO-FM 88.7 or the 24-hour jazz service, JazzWorks, on WBFO HD-2.
The stations have been simulcasting their program lineup, which originally offered many of the same NPR programs, such as "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered" and "On Point." WBFO also retained blues programming on 88.7 FM and jazz programming on WBFO HD-2.
Through WBFO-FM 88.7, Classical 94.5 WNED, WNED-TV and ThinkBright and Well/WORLD TV, member-supported WNED Buffalo-Toronto provides high quality programming and services to local, regional and national audiences that enlighten, inspire, entertain and educate the Western New York and Southern Ontario communities. Additional information about WNED can be found at www.wned.org.
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Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world's most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, finance & financial services and energy & natural resources.
Our growing European network of offices supports an international client base alongside our Silicon Valley, Beijing and Shanghai teams. Among our clients, we count social media sites and high street coffee chains through to pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices companies, energy suppliers, banks and FTSE 100 companies.
Clients choose to work with us because we deliver commercial, pragmatic and innovative solutions through our exceptional legal expertise and experience, on time and on budget.
We have more than 600 lawyers spread over nine locations, all providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of our clients' needs. We operate across our offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, China, Paris, Germany, Italy, UK, and the US - Silicon Valley. In the UK, we have approximately 700 people working in the London, Manchester and Birmingham.
The firm is growing rapidly and its revenue for 2016/17 was £165 million. The UK accounts for approximately 70% of the headcount.
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The U.S. wind energy industry is already painfully aware of the consequences stemming from a possible expiration of the production tax credit (PTC), but now the White House is re-emphasizing those ramifications.
This week, the White House released a report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that warns of dramatic job losses that would occur next year if the PTC is not extended beyond Dec. 31.
Although the wind industry has reason to be optimistic, the report notes, the sector faces a period of great uncertainty – a fact played up by the White House as part of an effort to spur Congress to extend the PTC before the federal incentive expires at the end of the year.
The report finds that 2013 could be a year of dramatic job losses. According to a White House fact sheet, as many as 37,000 positions directly and indirectly related to the wind energy industry – roughly half the total number of people currently employed by the wind industry in the U.S. – could be eliminated if the PTC is allowed to lapse.
In a conference call, a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said extending the PTC is 'a top priority' for President Obama.
And while Congress delays to act, wind industry job losses are already happening. On the same day that the White House held the conference call to discuss the report, wind turbine manufacturer Vestas announced it was laying off 3% of its workforce in the U.S. and Canada.
Recently, wind turbine component manufacturers, such as LM Wind Power, have also made job cuts attributed to PTC uncertainty.
While the White House remains hopeful that Congress will extend the PTC this year, the anonymous administration official acknowledged the difficulties that lay ahead in Congress.
Earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee passed the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012, which includes a one-year extension of the PTC, as well as a one-year extension of the investment tax credit. A full Senate vote is expected to take place in September. However, it is unlikely that the Republican-led House will take up the bill until after the November election.
'Now is not the time to turn our backs on this industry,' the administration official said. 'Congress needs to act as expeditiously as possible.'
Although the Obama administration clearly supports wind energy – the White House says renewable energy generation is now double what it was in 2008 – the president's opponent, Mitt Romney, has come out against such an extension.
Industry progress
The DOE report, authored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, found that wind turbines are increasingly being made in the U.S. In 2011, nearly 70% of wind turbine components were produced domestically – up from 35% in 2005.
The report also corroborated several recently reported wind industry trends, such as technical advancement that allows for larger wind turbines with longer, lighter blades, as well as a movement to taller towers. In fact, the report finds that 128 turbines installed in 2011 had a hub height of 100 meters – up from just 17 turbines in 2010.
Taken in tandem, the advancements have steadily improved wind turbine performance and increased the efficiency of power generation from wind energy, the report notes.
However, policy stability at the federal and state levels is critical to the advancement of wind energy in the U.S. Many industry watchers have counted on renewable portfolio standards (RPS) – which are in place in 29 states and the District of Columbia – to sustain the wind industry in a post-PTC environment.
While RPS programs will still play a role in wind energy development, the existing mandates alone will not able to support development at the levels previously enjoyed by the wind industry, the authors warn.
According to the report, RPS programs are expected to drive roughly 4 GW to 5 GW of renewable energy generation between 2012 and 2020, but not all of that generation will be from wind power.
The authors contend that that amount is not only less than the amount of wind energy capacity added in recent years, but also 'demonstrates the limitations of relying exclusively on state RPS programs to drive future deployment.'


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legalgrinder necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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Our nationwide law firm is dedicated to helping people who are required to fight the rich and powerful in courthouses across the country. Our firm ios involved in litigating cases, going to trial and attempting to seek justice for the disadvantaged.We take all cases on a contingency fee and we advance all costs. We fight Fortune 500 companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and take as many cases to trial as possible.
One unique fact about our firm, we have 5 attorneys who have practiced law at least 25 years and have litigated thousands of cases. The experience in litigation gives our firm the ability to use experience to make better suggestions and decisions on how to proceed in cases.
Lawyers who refer cases out to trial lawyers.
People who want justice against the rich and powerful.
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October 2005
Monday, October 31, 2005
See's Scotchmallow
Name: Scotchmallow
I've mentioned the See's Scotchmallow a few times as being the epitome of fine marshmallowyness. So I figured I should probably detail it for folks who have never had one.
First, there are two kinds. There's the one you can buy pre-packaged like a candy bar, pictured above. It's 1.5 ounces and clocking in at 113 calories per ounce, for a chocolate treat, it's pretty low on the calories per ounce. I'll credit the marshmallow for that. The second kind is the little round one that you can get at the counter by the piece or in the mixed boxes (comes in both the standard mix and the nuts & chews). Not only is it smaller, but it is also cloaked in semi-sweet chocolate, not milk chocolate as the bar is.
Second, See's makes one of the best caramels available in stores. What is it about them? I think it's that they actually have carmelized sugar in them. Caramels are rather time consuming and though the ingredients are simple (sugar, corn syrup, milk and butter), they need to be boiled slowly and brought up to temperature. If you don't boil it long enough or to the right temp, you end up with gooey caramel without much flavor. If you go too long, you get toffee (which is good in its own right). Basically, a good caramel is a chewy toffee. The marshmallow though, is what makes this candy special. And the best thing about the marshmallow is that it has a flavor. It's not just foamy, gelatinized sugar and egg whites. It has a wonderfully rounded flavor of honey in it which sets off the toasty taste of the caramel and sweet creaminess of the chocolate. Often I'll eat off the chocolate and caramel and just be left with a honey of a marshmallow heap. Ahhhhh! (I wish the just sold the marshmallows, maybe they have a version of a Peep I should look out for at Easter.)
Third, they're great quality. They use real ingredients (except for vanillin) and they're not that expensive. I prefer See's far and away over Godiva as boxed chocolates from the mall go. Though they're antiseptic stores, which resemble the school nurse's office more than a candy shop, they're a plain old hoot. And when you go into the store, whether you buy something or not, they give you a free sample. (I had a raspberry truffle when I was there on Saturday.)
Stores are found only in the West and Midwest, but you can always mail order.
Rating - 9 out of 10
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:39 pm Candy • Review • See's • Caramel • Chocolate • Marshmallow • 9-Yummy • United States •
Happy Halloween
I know I've mentioned before about Halloween being the start of candy season, and I think I need to clarify what candy season is:
Candy season is the time of year when candy is not only widely available to people under the guise of celebrating a particular holiday, but it's also packaged for said holiday. Because of this seasonal packaging, it all goes on sale the day after the holiday is over. As I spent a great deal of my young adulthood devoting my finances towards my education, keeping up with the sugar habit without breaking the bank was very important. The fact that candy season mirrors the school year is especially important.
The day after Halloween, I'd always go to the store and stock up on half-off candy, the same with Christmas, Valentine's Day and finally Easter. The holiday candy would get cheaper and cheaper, and of course would be less and less desirable. But who can resist at 15 cent bag of candy corn?
Even though I have a good job now, I still shop the half-off sales (though I don't necessarily go out the day after). But now I'm not the only one who does that, so the discounts right after the holiday are no longer as deep.
So, if you come to my door tonight, you'll get this fine candy that I paid full price for (well, some from the 99 cent store and some from Target's sale with "lowest prices of the season"). I'm giving out assorted Hershey's fun sizes, 100 Grand bars, Tootsie pops, Smarties (American) and Skittles. I like to give out a variety, with some chocolate items (which are coveted) but a fair share of non-chocolate/nuts for the kids who can't have it for some reason.
I don't expect to have much left tomorrow morning as I start getting more generous as the night goes on in order to make sure I have as little left as possible. I don't want people to think that I'm selfish with my candy!
Friday, October 28, 2005
Equal Exchange Chocolate
Name: Equal Exchange Organic Chocolate
I was really excited about doing this review. While I enjoy candy of all kinds, especially chocolate, it's hard sometimes to balance that with not destroying the earth and human lives. Fair Trade is only recently developing as a mainstream option for many products. For those of you not familiar with the concept, first you have to remember that cocoa pods from which chocolate is made are grown in tropical regions all over the planet and require a large amount of space and time to cultivate. Those regions also happen to be ones where farmers are particularly poor and have fewer economic opportunities. I cannot claim to be an expert on this subject, but it seems to me that the folks growing cocoa, which is not necessary for life, should at least be paid a living wage for it and not be exposed to terrible working conditions. Since chocolate and candy is a luxury item, it seems to make the most sense to start with it and coffee and teas as a way of changing the lives of those in these areas.
Of course the most important thing about sending a message with your pocketbook is that the product be good. Good intentions are nice, but if the chocolate isn't good enough for me to want more, I'm not going to buy it just because it's the right thing to do because wasting food is also bad. (The next step, of course, is to have it easily accessible, too.) So, instead of skipping to the bottom for the verdict, I'll say that these are worth the trouble of finding them.
The bars are not only fair trade, but made from all organic ingredients, including the sugar (which is organic raw and unrefined cane sugar) and nuts. Also, for those who are wondering, it's certified Kosher. Inside the plain wrapper (which has some wonderful information inside about Fair Trade and Equal Exchange) the bar itself is sealed in a mylar like white plastic wrapper that seals out odors and keeps the chocolate fresh. The chocolate is made it Switzerland.
Organic Dark Chocolate with Almonds: a wonderful aroma arose when I opened this package. The chocolate is shiny and smooth and has a great snap and smelled chocolately, a little sweet and perfumy. Inside are lightly crushed (chopped?) almonds. The chocolate itself is 55% cocoa mass and has some wonderful fruity notes like you'd find in a good red wine. Not overly smoky or dry, it has a nice smooth finish was the cocoa mass is exceptionally smooth. For me, this bar rivals the Chocovic Ocumare.
Organic Very Dark Chocolate: incredibly dense, with immediate earthy tones, this is a very dark bar with 71% cocoa mass. The bar has a good snap and an incredibly smooth melt. There's a noticeable acid note as it yields on the tongue and gives up more fruity flavors like apricot and cherry. The finish is dry and not at all sticky or sweet. But like I experienced with the Chocovic Guaranda, there are no middle notes to round out the flavor.
Organic Milk Chocolate: for fans of dairy milk chocolates, such as Cadbury, you'll be very happy with this bar. It's very much in keeping with the traditional Swiss milk chocolate. The first ingredient is not chocolate (that's 38% though), it's Whole Milk Powder. So, this is milky stuff, kind of sticky and though not overly sweet, it's not a good association for me. That aside, this chocolate is exceptionally smooth and has nice cocoa undertones give the whole bar a toasty feeling. I think what does that is that one of the ingredients is ground hazelnuts ... not a lot of it, but it's a nice nutty complement.
Ratings: Milk & Very Dark - 7 out of 10
More about Fair Trade on Equal Exchange's site & Wikipedia.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:09 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Equal Exchange • Chocolate • Ethically Sourced • Nuts • Organic • 7-Worth It • 8-Tasty • Switzerland •
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Name: Terry's Chocolate Orange
When I was a kid, Santa used to bring Chocolate Oranges to us in our stockings. This bar is like that, but not sectioned and spherical, but a heck of a lot easy to stow in your handbag or backpack.
Like many holiday products, it's the packaging and associations of the season that make them special. Most chocolate Easter bunnies I ate as a child were horrible waxy chocolate but as big as my arm; they were part of the holiday and any holiday that had a large container of candy involved was obviously good. Easter, as the last candy holiday of the year meant that all jelly beans and peeps must be eaten, because there will be no more candy until Halloween. I pretty much feel the same way about chocolate oranges, they're not necessarily good when you look at them with the analytical eye of sophisticated adult tastes, but nostalgia makes up for a lot of that.
Here are the ingredients: Sugar, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, butterfat, emulsifier (Soya lecithin), flavorings (orange oil, vanillin). See ... it's sugar and some powdered milk ... then you get to the chocolate part. Terry's is very sweet, very milky chocolate, and not milk in the sense of that deliciously smooth and creamy stuff, I'm talking that powdered stuff. You know, the stuff you drank when you couldn't afford real milk. The stuff that reminds you of not being able to afford milk, let alone candy.
All that said, the taste of this is Christmas. It's sweet and has the wonderful essence of orange (which is a really good complement to chocolate). The bar is delightfully shaped like a bunch of orange sections in a row and you can snap them off almost like the round orange. So just like I can't help but gnaw on the waxy ears of chocolate rabbits, I can't help but eat this whole bar even if it did make my teeth hurt.
Rating - 7 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:59 pm Candy • Review • Kraft/Mondelez • Chocolate • 7-Worth It • United Kingdom •
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Cha-Cha-Cha Choxie
Name: Choxie Chocolates
I was planning on making jokes about what Choxie meant, but then I saw a commercial for it and they said it was "Chocolate with Moxie." Not to be confused with Mockolate. And it's not Chalk that's Toxic or as my neighbor pronounces it ... Choke-see. The other weird thing besides the name is that it's not on the Target website. You search for Choxie and you get some CDs.
At the urging of several readers I went there this past weekend and bought a variety of the new chocolates. A little tub of Warm Spiced Caramels (9.45 oz for $5), a Hot Chocolate Bar (2.5 oz for $1.80) and a small box of the Artisan Truffle Tiles (3.5 oz for $5). There's lots more variety there with round truffles and other chocolate covered goodies
Warm Spiced Caramels: I'm in love with these little buggers. They're smooth caramel with a little spicy flavor. No heat to them, just a little bit like a spiced rum or mulled cider. Very fall-like. The chocolate is smooth and not the slightest bit waxy and not to sticky sweet or milky. I think I'd like them with semi-sweet as well.
Artisan Truffle Tiles: The tiles are all the rage, as far as I can tell. They have that retro styling to them, with the painted tops. The flavors in the 3.5 ounce box are: chili limon, jasmine tea, orange mango, key lime, lemon rose, apple pie, cafe latte and cinnamon praline.
I didn't try the truffles, but I can see the truffles having the advantage of a better ratio of chocolate to filling. Here the filling is about 1/4 of the total of the candy. The chocolate is smooth, but because all the flavors are in the same box, there's a weird sort of jumbled infusion in the chocolate shell ... chocolate is an excellent flavor absorber, and in this case it's absorbed all of them. Perhaps the wrapped truffles don't have this issue. The centers are pretty divine though. The flavors aren't quite as robust as I think I've had at some places like Boule, but for a pre-packaged candy it's rather nice to have the option of something like Lemon Rose or Chili Limon. Some of the other flavors like apple pie and latte were a little ordinary, but the creaminess of the centers is really the star.
If I were decorating a cake or something, these could be a great, edible addition.
Hot Chocolate Bar: The last, and probably most cost effective pure chocolate candy I found were the bars (the caramels are cheaper by the ounce but not all chocolate). At 2.5 ounces, it's not a bad deal as candy bars go. If you've ever had a Frango, the "truffle" center of this is very similar. Rather firm, but a good instant melt. The flavor is rich with a lot of cinnamon with a little heat from both ginger and chipotle. I wish there were more fire to it and less spice graininess.
Overall, as a hostess gift the packaging is super cute and the quality is good. As fine candy goes, I think I'd still stick with See's Candies, as they're quite a bit cheaper though lack those trendy flavors (but their key lime truffle is pretty awesome).
Rating: 7 out of 10
Note: I have a sneaking suspicion that Trader Joe's 'Slate of Bliss' is made by the same people who make Choxie, so I'm digging for more info on that ... maybe I'll have something later this week.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:22 am Candy • Review • Choxie (Target) • Caramel • Chocolate • 7-Worth It • United States • Target •
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"Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States..."
Drawn by Edwin Hergesheimer and engraved by Thomas Leonhardt.
Published by Henry S. Graham, 1861.
Library of Congress, Geography and Maps Division [G3861.E9 1860 .H4 CW 13.2]
This map shows the percentage of slaves in the population of each of the counties of the southern states. It was sold to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers in the Union army, and was drawn based on information from the census of 1860.
These notes appear on the map:
[lower left-hand corner] "Census Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, Sept. 9th, 1861. After a careful examination of the above very interesting map I am prepared to state that it not only furnishes the evidences of great care in its execution, but can be relied on as corresponding with the official returns of the 8th Census. [Signed in facsimile] Jos. C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent."
[center right-hand side] "NOTE. It should be observed, that several counties appear comparatively light. This arises from the preponderance of whites and free blacks in the large towns in those counties. . . The figures in each county represent the percentage of slaves. . ."
For a zoomable version of this map, please go to http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3861e.cw0013200.


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Fourth Chi Mei Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty and Serve Jail Time for Participating in Global LCD Price-Fixing Conspiracy
WASHINGTON – A former executive from Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation has agreed to plead guilty and to serve jail time in the United States for participating in a global conspiracy to fix the price of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, the Department of Justice announced today.
According to a one-count felony charge filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Chen-Lung Kuo conspired with others to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing the prices of TFT-LCD panels. Kuo, a resident of Taiwan and the former vice president of sales of Chi Mei, participated in the conspiracy from as early as April 2004, to on or about Dec.1, 2006.
Under his plea agreement, which is subject to court approval, Kuo has agreed to serve nine months in jail, to pay a $35,000 criminal fine and to assist the department in its ongoing TFT-LCD investigation.
TFT-LCD panels are used in computer monitors and notebooks, televisions, mobile phones and other electronic devices. By the end of the conspiracy period, the worldwide market for TFT-LCD panels was valued at $70 billion. Companies directly affected by the LCD price-fixing conspiracy are some of the largest computer and television manufacturers in the world, including Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard.
The department charged that Kuo participated in a conspiracy in which the participants met and agreed to charge prices of TFT-LCD panels at certain predetermined levels. The participants in that conspiracy also issued price quotations in accordance with the agreements reached and exchanged information on the sales of TFT-LCD panels for the purpose of monitoring adherence to the agreed-upon prices, the department said.
As a result of this investigation, more than $890 million in criminal fines have been obtained to date. Including today's filing, 19 executives and eight companies have been charged in the department's ongoing investigation into price fixing in the LCD industry.
Kuo is charged with violating the Sherman Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.
Today's charge is the result of a joint investigation by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division's San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco.
Anyone with information concerning illegal conduct in the TFT-LCD industry is urged to call the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Field Office at 415-436-6660 or visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm.


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Letter, E. S. Whitney to Dear Uncle Hiram [Hill]
Author: Whitney, E.S.
Date: August 20, 1856
E. S. Whitney wrote from Sumner, Kansas Territory, to her uncle, Hiram Hill. Whitney apologized for the long delay in communicating with him, and explained that her husband, Thaddeus Whitney, had been very busy lately and was doing his best to complete Hill's home. She also described her experience watching the border ruffians invade Lawrence, and her friends' and neighbors' reactions to the situation. Despite the violence and uncertainty, she was "not sorry yet" that she had come to Kansas, and told Hill that her husband would write him shortly to discuss business matters.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 5
Item Number: 102157 Number of images: 6
Keywords: Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Construction; Funerals; Hill, Hiram; Sack of Lawrence, May 1856; Skirmishing; Sumner, Kansas Territory; Violence; Whitney, E.S.; Whitney, Thaddeus L.
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If it wasn't clear enough from the recent price drops on both NVIDIA and ATI video cards our review today should put it all in perspective, it's time for another round of new video cards. Today we've got NVIDIA launching their latest bit of high-end technology, the GeForce GTX 295. This is the successor to the late 9800 GX2 and 7950 GX2 before it in the dual GPU, single video card segment. It promises to be the fastest video card to ever grace a single PCI-E slot, trying to outpace the reigning heavyweight champ, ATI's Radeon HD 4870X2.
While NVIDIA had a great single card solution in the GeForce GTX 280, the existing design and production technology behind it didn't lend itself well to doubling up the GPU's into a single card. Today NVIDIA has finally caught back up in the war to shrink its GPU's into the smallest manufacturing process currently available, 55nm. With the die shrink they were able to reign in power consumption and with just 289W TDP (Total Dissipated Watts) I'd say they've done a great job.
The front of the GeForce GTX 295 is covered by a black metal front cover for no reason other than to offer protection for the components located behind it. What makes this cover different than say the one found on the GeForce 9800 GX2 is the fact that soft touch paint is used for a matte look and feel. Looking at the GTX 295, I have to say that its more appealing than the 9800 GX2.The upper exhaust area is larger on the GTX 295 as well which should help keep this monster cooler. The fan looks to be a carryover from the old GX2 and does a great job staying quiet, yet keeping everything cool.
The two GPUs used in the GeForce GTX 295 have specifications that sit between the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280. Each GPU features the full array of 240 processing cores and 80 texture filtering units. The processor cores and filtering units operate at 1242 MHz and 576 MHz respectively. Each GPU features seven ROP and framebuffer partitions. Each ROP partition contains four ROP units, providing each GPU with 28 ROP units. Each framebuffer partition is connected to 128 MB of memory, totaling 896 MB of video memory for each GPU. That brings the overall memory on the card up to 1792 MB, which is no doubt a strange amount of memory. The total number of processing cores would be 480 and that makes this card one that should perform with the best of them.
The back of the card is not covered at all, which is strange considering the GeForce 9800 GX2 was covered by a metal casing on all sides.
At an MSRP of $499 for reference models, we have a great looking card that should have the power to back up the price tag. Is it enough to give the ATI Raedeon HD 4870X2 a black eye? Let's take a look.
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Heading out on my next trip in a few weeks and I have a problem.
My current sleeping bag just isn't keeping me warm at night. Admittedly, this was a cheap purchase but this time I'm looking to spend a little more, say up to $200, to ensure a comfortable nights sleep!
I've found the Hyke & Byke Quandary from this list https://professionalcamping.com/best...sleeping-bags/ which looks like a pretty good option but I've also heard good things about Rab bags.
Ideally I'd love the bag to be able to deal with temperatures below -10 F.
Would you have any recommendations for bags or manufacturers? Any advice would be much appreciated!


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A price tag on our veterans?
To the Editor:
While I was aware of the veteran's exemption on school taxes and the Lynbrook Board of Education's decision denying this exemption, I was greatly saddened when I read the article in last week's Herald about this issue ("Vets get a break in East Rockaway").
The more I read, the more upset I became. The school board said that more non-veteran homeowners would pay approximately $37 more per year in school taxes. I became more perplexed and angry as I thought about that number over and over again. Does this mean that the Lynbrook school board thinks that our veterans, some of whom are now disabled, are not worth $37 a year? Isn't that figure less than what the average family spends at a McDonald's or at the movies in one shot? Can any amount of money ever be put on what our veterans have done for us and our country?
I grew up at the end of World War II. My uncles, cousins and neighbors served our country, and we're extremely proud and thankful that they've kept us safe.
I cannot fathom that a price tag could ever be put on the ultimate sacrifices that our veterans made for this country. You read in the newspapers every day about Wounded Warriors foundations that have cropped up to help our returning veterans. I wonder if board trustees would have voted differently if their son, daughter, husband or wife were a veteran, or if their family had ever lost someone in a war.
I have been told since I moved to Lynbrook 50 years ago that I lived on the wrong side of the village, and that the Lynbrook schools were the best — but I guess my husband, Don, who was a veteran, and I made the right decision buying our house on the wrong side of town.
Think of what they have just taught the students of their district: that if they join the military and serve their country, they're not even worth $37.
God bless America and God bless the men and women of our armed forces and the veterans who were lucky enough to come home.
Anne Conway
Shorting our veterans
To the Editor:
Regarding the veteran's school tax exemption denied in Lynbrook, but approved in East Rockaway: I am a Lynbrook resident, and I am ashamed of my village — no, I'm disgusted. Why are we always shorting those who offer their lives in exchange for our freedoms?
Thank you, East Rockaway, for doing the right thing.
Alice M. Johnson


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