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LuckyP needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 108 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
LuckyP is trying his hand a racing in the British MR2 championship this year after a couple of years trackdaying his Ultima GTR. He'd like your help to design a logo that can be used on his black MR2, his black Ultima GTR and on the pit crew's black shirts. A large one accross the sholder blades and a small one on the breast pocket.
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Hi, I'm LuckyP (known to my mum as Pete!)
For the past 5 years I've been known on the PistonHead Ultima Forum as LuckyP - don't ask - these things just happen!!
After a good couple of years track daying the 550bhp Ultima GTR I'm going low cost racing. An MR2 MkII in the British MR2 Championship:
I'm a fan of black cars and this logo will be used on the black MR2, on the front, roof, sides and rear,and if it's cool enough as a descrete logo on the Ult.
It'll also be used on the pit late shirts (if I can get any crew!!).
I like the Bentley logo and think that silver and fluro orange (or like the Mclaren orange/red) as an accent colour.
I'd like the shirts embriodered, and the logos on the cars will be in vinyl.
Here are a few efforts from my chums on Pistonheads.........you can see why I'm keen to seek for a design!!
And to see what I get upto in the Ult, get a flavour from some of the bottom vids here:
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- Strong recognisable logo
- good for a black backround
- The P could be the central part with LUCKY above and Racing below?
- silver with contasting other colour (orange/fluro red/lime my fave)
- I like the Bentley wings but please explore other ideas!!
- I like the Goodyear 'Racing' script
- I don't like it too jokey
- I like brads like TAG, Bentley, Porsche, Aston, Wally etc
- LUCKY and P in caps - Racing with a cap R and lower case 'acing'if in 'hand written' script - or RACING in caps if text? Clear??
- LUCKY and P can be split up - not precious!
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- Gimicks
- Checkered flags
- Shields
- Wheels
- MR2 or Ult reference
- Speed lines
- complicated designs that can't be embroidered or cut vinyl!!
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Denny2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Now energy is the umbrella brand for our solar power, solar hot water & water saving products businesses. http://www.hotwaternow.com.au http://www.solarenergynow.com.au & http://www.savewaternow.com.au. This umbrella brand will create consistency with our external communication. We are a young dynamic team & our passion is for honest, no fluff salesmanship.
Our target audience in general is 'nearing' empty nesters, with an interest in the environment but are most likely to buy our products because of their interest in reducing their fixed outgoings as they move into retirement.
We require a logo that represents our positioning. In our sub brands we have used a very simple typeset in Myriad pro font, this is so that the sub brands look like a 'part of the whole'. In essence we believe that all things are about NOW so we really want to create emphasis on that word. You may choose to use Myriad pro or not this is up to you. We like to use cartoon style clouds & grass on our cars etc. So the logo in my mind needs to look fun, yet trustworthy
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It's not uncommon for veteran rock stars to play down their wealth, the better to connect with many of the much less affluent fans who helped make them rich and famous in the first place. Kiss co-founder Gene Simmons — he of the famously large tongue and even larger bank account — is certifiably not one of them.
"I have been part of the 1 percent for the past 30 years," declared the bassist and periodic singer in Kiss, which performs here Sunday night at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. (See below for ticket information.)
What's it like being part of the 1 percent?
"It's fantastic!" he replied, before invoking some questionable statistics. "The 1 percent pays 80 percent of all taxes. Fifty percent of the population of the U.S. pays no taxes. The 1 percent provides all the jobs for everybody else. If the 1 percent didn't exist, there would be chaos and the American economy would drop dead. Try being nice to rich people. I don't remember the last poor person who gave me a job."
As one of the co-founders of Kiss, which was launched in 1973 and has since undergone 10 lineup changes, Simmons helps oversee a unique, music-fueled business empire. It includes Kiss T-shirts, Kiss M&Ms candies, Kiss lunchboxes, Kiss coffins, Kiss condoms, a Kiss golf course in Las Vegas and much, much more.
Kiss has licensed more than 2,500 products bearing its name. Merchandise sales at each Kiss concert average $600,000 to $700,000, according to the band's manager. In 2011, Simmons told CNN the Kiss brand was worth between $1 billion and $5 billion.
"I also have TV shows, a film company and a restaurant chain," he said, speaking by phone from a recent concert tour stop in Denver. "There's an awful lot, and it all has to complement what Kiss does. It may sound cocky, but Kiss is not enough."
Other rock stars might object to being called shameless, but Simmons embraces that description.
"You know how I spell shameless? P-r-o-u-d", he said.
"People often confuse, at least in my estimation, my pride and self-confidence with arrogance. Because they are not used to people who have an in-your-face, 'take it or leave it/this is how I am' point of view. I'm more like an animal in the jungle that (urinates) on the ground and doesn't ask your permission. 'This is me, this is my territory.' It's simply defining who I am and what I stand for.
"That's called full disclosure, before the facts. Others simply hold their opinions to themselves and never say who they are to you. You will always know who I am. You don't have to like it; that's OK if you don't."
A 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his work with Kiss, Simmons is a quintessential American success story — albeit a far more flamboyant and outspoken one than most. The son of Jewish Hungarian parents, he was born Haim Witz in Haifa, Israel, in 1949. He and his mother moved to Queens, N.Y., eight years later.
Before Simmons achieved success beyond his dreams as a fire-breathing, blood-drooling rock star who sang about rocking and rolling all night and partying every day, he attended Jewish seminary school and earned a bachelor's degree in education. He briefly taught sixth grade in Spanish Harlem, then was an assistant at the Puerto Rican Interagency Council. His other jobs ranged from deli cashier to editorial assistant at Vogue magazine.
"America is astonishing," he said, "because it welcomes immigrants and gives them all the rights that native sons and daughters have … all the opportunities someone who was here for generations has had. For that, I'll be forever grateful.
"There's no question there's cultural pressure to assimilate, and that's good. Because the better you speak English, the more money you'll make. It's such a simple idea. Even though I come from Israel and can speak a few languages, when I call IBM, I don't want somebody who answers the phone who I can't understand. Everybody has to speak a common language."
A proponent of cultural assimilation, Simmons worked hard to lose his Israeli/Hungarian accent as quickly as possible.
"My philosophy is: 'Dress British, think Yiddish'," he quipped. "You're judged by how you sound, how you walk, how you look. People are judgmental whether you like it or not. People are prejudiced. It doesn't necessarily mean people are racist, (although) people are sexist, maybe in a benign way. And I didn't want anybody's preconceived notion of me holding me back from succeeding."
Like Kiss guitarist and singer Paul Stanley, Simmons credits The Beatles' 1964 debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" as a life-changing epiphany that compelled him to make rock music his life. But the Fab Four paled in comparison to his biggest inspiration in life.
"The biggest motivation was, and continues to be, my mother. And that's not a sound bite," he said. "She was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and saw our entire family wiped out there. My mother is not a sophisticated woman, and she's not highly educated. But she has the kind of wisdom they don't teach — the pragmatic, 'enjoy life now, you have nothing to complain about' wisdom. And she's right.
"Every day, people complain about the Kardashians, or about having a bad hair day — which, in my case, is every day — or the Republicans, or the Democrats. Well, you have to shut the (expletive) up! You have nothing to complain about. In America, you have the right to say and do as you please. You can demonstrate and do anything you want, and you have (more) opportunities than anyone in the history of this planet has had.
"So we have nothing to complain about. And having someone like my mother espouse that philosophy is the most inspirational and motivating force in my life. Nothing impresses her."
Including him?
"Yeah," Simmons agreed. "What impresses her is her beloved bread and butter. It's a good thing to take note of the small pleasures in life. If you can appreciate them, you have it figured out. It's true I can buy planes, mansions and all that stuff. But if you don't appreciate getting up in the morning and having a muffin with jam on it — just smear it on there, with some cream cheese! — and coffee, and some quiet time … if you don't appreciate the little stuff, you won't appreciate the big. I'm what's considered rich. But if you don't appreciate the pennies, you can't appreciate the dollars."
Does music mean anything to Simmons that it didn't, say, 20 or 40 years ago?
"Well, it's celebratory now," he replied.
And when Kiss started?
"Well, when we first started it was sort of a fantasy, something aspirational and ambitious, an 'I have a dream' kind of a thing," he said. "It's like climbing Mount Everest; you're at the bottom, looking up, and going: 'Wow!' And, then, you take your first step. In your mind, you have this 'take-no-prisoners' attitude, so the entire experience is exhilarating. And, as you get higher, the air gets thinner.
"When you get to the top, it's same the same air... You spread your arms out, Christ-like, and say: 'I'm king of the world!' It's celebratory and we've been on top for a few decades. And the highest compliment we can give ourselves is that we always get on stage and perform that show as if it's the only show we'll ever play. That's why we continue to introduce ourselves as: 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world, Kiss!' We throw down the gauntlet, and say: 'No cruising, this is all rock 'n' roll, all night.' I hope that, with the very last show we ever play, we will continue to live up to that introduction."
The induction of Kiss into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April came 15 years after the band was first eligible.
Simmons and Stanley lobbied to have the current lineup of Kiss perform alongside the band's original four members, but the Rock Hall insisted only the band's other two co-founding members, guitarist Ace Frehley (now a San Diego resident) and drummer Peter Criss, would be allowed to play on stage with Simmons and Stanley, and that only the four co-founders would be inducted.
Current Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer were not inducted and were not allowed to play. As a result, no iteration of Kiss performed at the induction ceremony and concert, which was held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
"I'm happy for Ace and Peter to get closure," Simmons said. "Because they couldn't (before)..."
"So I'm glad for them. I'm glad for the original lineup and that we got the kudos from the fans. Because the rock hall means nothing to me. Once you induct hip-hop and disco acts into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the words 'rock and roll mean nothing. Or I'd like to know on what date AC/DC is being inducted into the hip-hop Hall of Fame. Just tell me the date. And if you think that's ridiculous, how about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducting Run-DMC (in 2009)? Are you (expletive) kidding me?
"The only reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction meant anything to us is because it meant something to our fans, and I'm happy for Ace and Peter. But Tommy and Eric should have been in there. So should every lineup of Kiss, because every lineup helped bring the band to where it is today."
Simmons' third book will be published this fall. Entitled "Me, Inc.," it is billed as a how-to primer for aspiring entrepreneurs.
"It's a kind of 'Art of War,' army-of-one life and business book, kind of like the 'books for dummies,' " he said.
"I'm duly diligent. I do a better job of balancing my budget than the U.S. government does with its budget. America is in debt for almost $17 trillion. I've never been in debt."
Not even when Kiss was struggling to make it back in 1973?
"I've always had more money than I spent, which is Rule No. One, which is what I'll talk about in my book," Simmons said. "You are your own business."
Is there any business proposition Simmons won't consider?
"I turn down things all the time," he replied. "But if you tell someone, 'I want you to run down Fifth Avenue, naked, at rush hour,' and they say 'No, I'd never do that, not for any amount of money,' well, that's not true. If I tell them: 'Here's a billion dollars,' they'll run down Fifth Avenue, naked, all day. It's all relative; even God passes the hat around."
Simmons chuckled. "I'm giving you really good stuff!" he crowed.
When it is suggested he could write editorials for U-T San Diego, his response was immediate.
"How much," Simmons asked, "will it pay?"
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Eastern standard: Tai Chi works wonders
We were the only Asian people in the small town in Ohio where I grew up. In fact, many of the people thought we were Mexican because they weren't used to seeing Asian people. Ole!
So when my classmates learned I ate exotic foods like sushi, seaweed, and squid (aka calamari, which I think is just a euphemism Americans use instead of saying squid), they all pretended to become nauseated– long before Californians came up with the expression, "Gag me with a spoon."
Today, however, Americans seem to be realizing the benefits of Asian culture. Sushi is almost as common as tacos, which in my hometown would go together since they thought we were Mexican. Chai Tea might become the next double half-caff skinny mocha latte with a raspberry shot and a lemon twist.
According to Dr. Lee Litvinis and Dr. Alex Schult– who gave me information on Tai Chi– Tai Chi means, "The Ultimate Fist." You know the movies and commercials in which a bunch of people are moving gracefully in a park (not like the Diana Ross Central Park concert fiasco)? That's probably Tai Chi. Tai Chi is a kind of martial art, but instead of kicking someone's butt, you kick out stress and pain. Tai Chi is like Bruce Lee on Valium, Jackie Chan sleep-walking, Jean-Claude Van Damme Un-plugged.
Today when pain-killers are associated with so many problems, including bleeding ulcers and heart attacks, Americans are turning to the East for some help (just don't go East of Eden). In Annals of Internal Medicine 2004, a study showed that Tai Chi relieved symptoms of arthritis, improved balance and strength, and helped the cardiovascular system.
Tai Chi is exercise. Exercise is the best anti-oxidant out there. Exercise helps your flexibility and joints. For those with arthritis, stiffness can be a bear, so what is better than getting out and moving the body like Beyonce? Arthritic joints need strong ligaments, tendons, and muscles for support, so if you're a flabalanch with arthritis, your poor joints are going to be stressed by gravity, movement, and use.
The Journal of American Geriatric Society 2004 showed improvement in energy and sleep with Tai Chi. I've heard a thousand elderly people say, "I go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 3am. I don't feel like I'm sleeping well."
Well, it's still eight hours of sleep– but then again, who wants to be awake at 3am? There are only bad infomercials on TV at that time. It's true the pineal gland of the brain ages and older people don't sleep as much or as well. But people doing Tai Chi have less daytime sleepiness and the quality of their sleep is much better.
Though not proven at this point, Tai Chi might help slow down the process of osteoporosis (probably because it's a weight-bearing exercise). For the elderly, falling down and breaking a hip, wrist, etc. can be a sign of bad things to come. Tai Chi has been shown to improve balance which makes sense, since the movements are like doing "low impact ballet."
In one study, Tai Chi was shown to reduce blood pressure in middle-aged women. When you exercise, your muscles suck up blood, which in turn reduces your blood pressure. Also, exercise is great for relaxation. "On a clear day, you can see forever," so a clear mind can make you more productive and can help you feel happier.
You know something is big when it appears in a Dummies book. I wonder if the people in my home town will think this book is still for Mexicans: "I would like to tai Chi Chi's. I hear their fajitas rock!"


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Study: Climate change will cut habitats by 2080
Climate change leaves many plants and animals only a few decades to adjust. A study warns that losses of living space will afflict plants and animals worldwide, raising extinction worries.
Global warming will destroy more than half of the habitats of most plants and a third of animals by 2080, biologists conclude, unless steps are taken to limit greenhouse gases.
Over the past century, average global surface temperatures have increased about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Academy of Sciences. This global warming is largely due to burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, which retain heat and warm the atmosphere. Temperatures worldwide are expected to rise roughly 7 degrees by 2100 if the use of fossil fuels continues without attempts to mitigate their effects.
Without mitigation, "large range contractions can be expected even amongst common and widespread species," concludes the study led by Rachel Warren of the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia. It was published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
In the study, biologists and climate researchers looked at the effects of these increasing temperatures on the living space of 48,786 animal and plant species worldwide. "With no mitigation, the climate becomes particularly unsuitable for both plants and animals in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Amazonia and Australia."
Overall, the study finds that 57% of plants and 34% of animals will see their habitats cut by 50% or more by 2080, as temperature changes make them unsuitable for the species. Given warming that has already occurred, some of those losses are locked in already, but they could be reduced by 60% if greenhouse gas emissions were to peak in 2016, the study shows.
"The terrifying loss of biodiversity predicted by this study shows that climate chaos will fundamentally transform our planet," Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, says in a statement on the study. "We need to cut emissions now, before our ecosystems suffer catastrophic damage."
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report had estimated that more than 20% of species worldwide are at "high risk" of extinction if temperatures rise more than 3.6 degrees in this century.


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It's hard to mention American-made cars and trucks to an SUV enthusiast and not think of Chevrolet.Chevrolet is one of the forerunners of the American automotive industry and was started in 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant in answer to Henry Ford's company.At the time, Ford was the unchallenged leader in automotive design, sales, and engineering.It only stood to reason that competition was on its way.
Like many Chevrolet products, the Colorado is known for its appearance and diverse package options. This truck was first introduced to the public in 2004 and was created to replace the Chevy S-10 compact truck line.The new version of the Colorado is characterized as a midsize pickup truck.
With its various models and available styles, this truck is known for its use as a family vehicle, industry truck, such as in the construction field as well as farming, and is even used by some law enforcement agencies.It is incredibly popular for its attractive appearance and features.
There are detractors of the Colorado, however.Many car experts believe Chevrolet has not made the necessary attempts to update the Colorado to match other midsize trucks of its caliber.The complaints mainly consist of comments to the Colorado's outdated instrument panel and limited new features.
Much like the Colorado series in its past, the 2012 edition has only a few changes to the design and options.In this year, there are three options to choose from in the series including the regular cab, extended cab, and crew cab styles.
With the crew cab Colorado, drivers can expect options in the LT series or work truck choices.The crew cab features fourfull-size doors and five-foot cargo boxes as opposed to the six-foot ones in other models. The LT style offers a variety of trim
options to suit the consumer's specific needs. It's important to note that all versions of the regular cab except the L3 are offered with four-wheel drive as an option.
The extended cab Chevrolet Colorado has many features to look forward to as well.This truck offers two full-size doors in addition to smaller, rear access doors.It is available with different engine sizes including 2.9-liter four-cylinder and 3.7-liter five-cylinder.The biggest of them all, however, is a V-8 with a 300 horsepower capability, which didn't become an option until 2009.
The new Colorado series is also known for its comfortable standard extras such as privacy glass, air conditioning, and OnStar and Bluetooth capabilities, as well as AM/FM stereo.Certain models also feature automatic locks and electronic windows.
The Chevrolet Colorado was in production since 2004 and is currently in its first generation.In the past, this truck offered both manual and automatic transmission systems.It also is available in rear or four-wheel drive.These trucks fall in the midsize pickup truck category and can be found in every model year in the traditional two-door styles as well as extended cab and crew cab designs.
Certain feature packages have received a great deal of positive attention.The ZQ8 package was among the most popular options, which included a lower suspension to give the truck a sportier feel when driving.The wheel base was modified to provide additional support to the truck's unique suspension system. The bumper and grill are painted to match the rest of the body, and it features 17-inch wheels and tires.
In 2007, Chevrolet decided to make drastic changes to the Colorado and began manufacturing the trucks with new engine options.The 2.9-liter LLV 14engine as well as the 3.7-liter LLR 15 engine became the new options for the Colorado. Exterior paint changes were also implemented allowing consumers to add Imperial and Pace Blue, as well as Deep Ruby to the color choices offered.
2018 Chevrolet Colorado
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2017 Chevrolet Colorado
2016 Chevrolet Colorado
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Colorado's Changes are sparse for 2011. There's a new front headrest design, Aqua Blue Metallic replaces Inferno Orange and OnStar is upgraded to Generation Nine. Until mid-'09, Hummer built its H3 off the same platform in the Colorado's Louisiana assembly plant. The plant will be shut down. By 2013, Chevy will either launch a new Colorado or discontinue the truck.
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2009 Chevrolet Colorado
The 2009 Chevrolet Colorado is a stylishly compact, light-duty pickup truck that offers a wide variety of configurations.
2008 Chevrolet Colorado
The Chevrolet Colorado is a midsize truck that was first introduced in 2004.
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2006 Chevrolet Colorado
If you are seeking out updates, the 2006 Chevrolet Colorado may disappoint although there are plenty of trim and package levels.
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The Chevrolet Colorado was introduced in 2004 as the replacement of the S10.
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CHAPEL HILL – UNC takes on Delaware at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in Newark, a home game for the Fightin' Blue Hens who are riding high on a 26-game winning streak.
And it'll be a hostile environment in the Bob Carpenter Center. Delaware's first round match up against West Virginia was a sell out.
Delaware (31-3) has only dropped three games this season, were perfect in conference play, and claimed the Colonial Athletic Association title.
UNC (29-6) barely escaped No. 14 seed Albany on Sunday. Carolina gave the Great Danes 18 points off turnovers, shot 34.5 percent from the field, and struggled from three-point range, making 4-17.
Senior Tierra Ruffin-Pratt carried the Heels to a 59-54 victory over Delaware, scoring more than half of UNC's points. She posted a career-high 30 points, made two crucial free throws in the last 10 seconds of play, and scored 17 of the Tar Heels' final 21 points.
Ruffin-Pratt is just the third player in UNC history to score 30 points in an NCAA tournament game.
The star watch is also on Delaware's leading scorer, Elena Delle Donne, who put up 33 points in the victory against WVU. The 6 foot 5 senior center is going into the game knowing it will be her last appearance in her home gym.
By the numbers, it should be a fairly even-matched game. Carolina averages 69.1 points per game to the Blue Hens' 66.8. The Blue Hens allow an average of 51.2 points per game to UNC's 59.8.
On the season, Carolina is 9-0 in games decided by five points or less.
That's good to know if the Heels take it down to the wire again.


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Re: Old Republic RPG
Territ had to gaurd Shion's back while she faught the jedi master. He was wearing down and getting tired fast, he spent to much time travling in a tank and not walking. He did a quick jab into a republic trooper but the repbulic trooper got a stab into Territ's leg, Mandolorain troopers were taking over the much weaker Republic troopers. Soon the only battle was the jedi and Shion fight in a ring of Mandolorains cheering on Shion.


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Global Imagination needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
MSL Champs or Championships
We are a Swim League in Marin California and will be hosting the league championship in 2010. We will host over 2000 swimmers and their families in July 2010. Swimmers are ages 5-18. We are a non-profit group and all of the proceeds go back to the teams to support the kids. For these kids this is like the Olympics and some of these kids me in fact be future Olympians.
Kids who love swimming and their parents who are extremely proud. The logo has to appeal to young children while not appearing juviniel. It should appeal to the sense of accomplishment, like most athletes that make it to the Olympics - they won't win a metal - but walking the parade and representing their country makes them extremely proud. These kids will be representing their respective teams and will want a Tee-shirt, fleece or hat to remember it by. This will be for Kids who love swimming and their parents who are extremely proud. We have recieved several excellent crest designs to date. I would like to see some more modern approaches to the project. See the attacged design for inspiration but fee free to be creative.
The art needs to be able to work on navy blue, heather grey and white. MSL or Marin Swim League must be listed. Championships or CHAMPS must be a focal point. All10 teams must be represented; visit http://marinswimleague.org/teams
for more details and logos. It could be a simple wallpaper effect as the background of the 10 teams - Seals - Lightning - Sea Serpents - Swim Marin - Orcas - Sea Lions - Riptide - Water Devils - Stingrays - Tidal Waves. There are two concepts available - very different interpretation but might provide inspiration. Using one color versions of the team logos is a big plus. Be creative and modern. We have several good classic designs to choose from.


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Ronnie Tomaszewski was skipping yet another of his classes at North Park University when he remembered it was Thursday already and he was a bit short on cash for what was sure to be a big weekend of partying. A few of his fraternity brothers had testified to the easy money of that old college standby, donating plasma, and Ronnie recalled seeing a place called Chimera BioLabs a few blocks away on Lincoln Ave. He tugged on his Cubs jacket with the worn, shiny suede sleeves and marched down from the house he and a few other guys rented on West Wilson.
After filling out some paperwork in a blindingly-white and bleached-clean waiting room, an unmarked door next to the receptionist's desk opened and a nurse beckoned. Ronnie grabbed the clipboard binding together the documents and followed her down a hallway into your standard examination room, where he sat down in a recliner and relaxed.
An hour later Ronnie—his blood-sans-plasma returned to his body and $25 in his pocket—skipped briskly back down Wilson and immediately crashed out on the broken sofa his buddies kept on the front porch. He woke to the noise of Skrillex blasting from inside the house, where a dozen people were already getting the night started with a session of flip cup. Ronnie took his usual place as anchorman and pounded Old Style by the can in between rounds.
As the group took a break to do Jäger shots, he found himself clinging to the table, unable to balance enough to walk but certain he couldn't be drunk—not yet, at least, not before doing shots.
"Hey, uh, Ron. You okay there bro?" came a voice from the kitchen.
And that's when Ronnie vomited black ink in a torrent that splashed across the table and dripped onto the hardwood floors.


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Word is out that this season will be Matt Smith's final Doctor Who season: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2 ... octor-who/
Surprising he spent so long as the doctor in comparison to some of the other ones. He's a great doctor, but I kind of like looking forward to "the next" doctor every couple of seasons or so. It makes that show a little more interesting: same exact character, completely different guy.
So how cool would this be?


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In a rare case of reversals, two proposed credit union mergers–one an interstate pact in the Northwest and the other involving Louisiana CUs–were called off last week as a result of member opposition.
The member rejections at the targeted CUs in Montana came from a Washington State CU and the other involving two Louisiana CUs arose in a coincidental pattern and appear unrelated.
Still, those who monitor financial mergers agreed that the ballot defeats at the hands of apparently disgruntled members were extraordinary and put added pressure on expansion-minded credit unions to ensure that their public relations strategies are in good order.
The four CUs involved in the canceled mergers were the $63 million Montana First CU of Missoula, which rejected a bid by the $432 million Horizon CU of Spokane Valley, Wash., and in Louisiana, the $96 million Main Street Financial FCU of Baton Rouge rejected a takeover by the $260 million Jefferson Financial CU of Metairie.
CU executives at the participating CUs blamed the member defeats on a variety of factors, ranging from wariness over losing a hometown brand to anticipation of less personal service in addition to feared personnel layoffs. Montana First managers insisted there would be no firings.
At the Missoula CU, the Horizon proposal was rejected by 249 votes, with only 18% voting of the 7,200 eligible members on a base of 9,000. Following the vote, there were suggestions that there could be a revote at a later date.
Montana First executives insisted their own exit interviews at the special meeting held Jan. 5 showed a large number of members would have favored the merger bid had they been given more details early regarding improved tech-related products, including new mobile and home banking services.
"It is unfortunate that the turnout is so small but could affect the membership at large," lamented Christie Sisco, president/CEO of Montana First, stressing that the name of the organization was not going to change following the merger and that all of the employees were guaranteed a job.
In Louisiana, the issues were slightly different, with sources privately blaming missteps by the board of Main Street Financial in handling the communication process on merger benefits.
"There were also some threats that members might lose their jobs," said one source asking for anonymity. There was also reported member resentment at the planned closing of a branch in Lake Charles prior to the merger taking effect.
John Lyon, Main Street Financial's chairman, said in a statement, "The board of directors is taking the merger vote under advisement, and further action is still being determined at this time."
The vote to kill the deal, held at a special membership meeting Jan. 17, was by an overwhelming margin of 1,000 votes, confirmed a spokeswoman for the CU. The CU has 15,300 members. The merger had been in the works for nearly a year.
For two years, the Baton Rouge CU had been struggling under the weight of corporate bailout costs, said Cary Anderson, the former president/CEO of Main Street who retired Dec. 1.
Main Street, formerly known as LA DOTD FCU serving employees of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, lost $2 million in 2010 related to corporate costs, said Anderson. He added that the CU belonged to three corporates and that factors associated with the weak economy also took a toll.
Main Street, with 7.9% net worth, had been on the rebound, said Anderson, now an Asheville, N.C., consultant. He said he was surprised at the defeat of the merger bid, which he had supported. Since his departure, the CU has been headed by an interim CEO, Pat Duhe.
Remarked one insider, "This is a day of information overload, and I think people are able to get much more online information on a subject like this than they might have been used to in making judgments, but sometimes those interpretations can be wrong."
Meanwhile at Montana First, the chairman of the CU, Mark Lodine, said he also agreed with Sisco on problems in educating the membership on merger advantages. Lodine was one of the authors of a column in the city's major daily, The Missoulian, supporting the merger while other members and a former CEO criticized the pact in letters to the editor.
"The members have now spoken and there is no use now getting into any kind of sour grapes," said Lodine. He said the credit union is well run and will continue to serve its members productively and profitably.
As for Horizon in Spokane, its management did not spell out what its next step might be in expanding into Montana following the Missoula miscue. The credit union has branches in the Idaho panhandle and in western Washington and wants to expand throughout this part of the Northwest.
Sisco of Montana First acknowledged mistakes may have been made in dealing with government employees, who make up the Montana First membership and are used to a heavy advance meeting procedure.
"Having our core membership as the U.S. Forest Service, in their daily work lives, they have public meetings on an on-going basis, and so going forward, we will keep their needs at the forefront," Sisco concluded.
In a brief statement, Horizon's CEO Jeff Adams noted that Members First members at the Jan. 5 meeting had asked for more time to consider the measure and possibly more meetings.


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Last week, Mark and I taught a five-day seminar series on Social Media for the Zajel Summer Program at An Najah University.
We focused primarily on how to use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Blogs to promote your campus club, business, non-profit organization and even yourself online. Our approach to teaching these workshops was to not only provide more information about popular social networking tools but to also offer a chance to practice using them with guidance from teachers who use these applications on a regular basis.
Our students had a great time practicing creating Facebook pages and blogs dedicated to a range of topics, including a fake campaign to create an artificial sea in Nablus (the "We Need a Sea in Nablus" Facebook page). As a Twitter enthusiast, I most enjoyed sharing my love of tweeting with my students. Twitter was a site that everyone in the class had heard of but didn't know much about. They were keen to learn more about it and we helped them to set up their own accounts. We also offered tips on how to link different social media accounts to each other in order to maximize your online audience. Continue reading
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During my very exciting talk at Computers In Libraries last week, I made a statement specific to the conversation we were having, that certainly has the potential to be taken and misunderstood in other contexts. The conversation was about what will libraries be if the books go away? if the physical, shelved content that is often perceived to be "library" goes away.
In that context, I said it doesn't matter if we own the content or not, we will continue to do what we have always done, which is to facilitate access to content. Libraries have relied upon networks to share resources not locally owned for ages, and we can happily continue to do so. None of us needs to own it all.
Within this context, our ownership or not of the content does not matter.
In other contexts, it matters a great deal
The future of libraries is of course a complicated thing, a Hope diamond of facets of possibility. And, as Margret Mead said, we shape that future with the decisions we make today. I was looking at one set of decisions –are we a library if there aren't physical artifacts? (and I say, yes. Hell yes. Of course. And went on in detail as to why i believe that to be a self-evident truth
Can we be a library if we don't own content, but only lease and license?
That's a very different question.
And the answer is no. I want to go on the record. If the question is to own vs. license or lease, we must own. We must stop licensing and leasing. And if we feel compelled and declare we must keep leasing and licensing, we must stop sacrificing our budgets on half-hearted ill-suited mission-destructive licenses as if we were buying.
In the context of perpetuity, and in the context of first sale: We. Must. Own.
In the context of my ownership or yours, in the context of interlibrary lending and loaning agreements, my ownership does not define me as a a library, not does yours. We can happily library in a shared collection environment. A shared collection of content we as libraries own.


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NFL Week 9: The Biggest Busts in Football
Kevin Clark and Geoff Foster discuss the biggest disappointments of the season including the Steelers, Texans, Falcons and Ravens.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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For many families, there can never be too many events promoting practices that keep children safe. Parents who have lost children, seen them injured or rejoiced in their survival—all are the focus of the Safe Kids Blast scheduled on Tuesday, May 3 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at The Salvation Army, 27th and Potter Streets. The event is coordinated by Safe Kids Lincoln-Lancaster County (SKLLC). The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department serves as the lead agency for SKLLC. This program works to reduce the incidence of unintentional childhood injury, a leading cause of death nationally and in Lancaster County to kids 1 to 14 years of age. The public is invited to attend this free event.
From 2008 to June, 2010, 6,676 Lancaster County children 14 years old and younger received treatment at local hospitals for an unintentional injury. "We don't just hand out fliers at these events; we engage families in activities which teach them how to be safe and what can happen if you don't use safe practices," states Julie Anderson, with Safe Kids Lincoln-Lancaster County. The event offers exciting hands-on demonstrations and activities in seven key areas: child passenger safety, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, sports safety, fire and burn prevention, water safety, and home safety.


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The 'Visual Programming' Silver Bullet
App Inventor is a tool from Google Labs that is intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. What's missing in this is the word "good", as in " make it easy for non-programmers to create good mobile applications."
Not that you need a degree in computer science or mathematics to create mobile apps, but it does help at times. Far too often, as reader James Kosin correctly points out, "easy" translates too easily to sloppy and bloated, as in code I write. But then high-level tools like App Inventor are supposed to prevent that as well.
Instead of writing code with App Inventor, you visually design the way the app looks and use "blocks" to specify the app's behavior. Blocks are available for storing information, repeating actions, and performing actions under certain conditions. Even blocks to talk to services like Twitter.
The concept of blocks that encapsulate functionality isn't anything new. LEGOs MindStorm, for instance, implements similar functionality but in "bricks." Similarly, Apple Computer, led by Smalltalk guru Dan Ingalls, developed Fabrik ("Fa-brick," get it?), a kit of computational and UI components that you "wire" together to build new components and applications.
And when your talking about visual programming with blocks, you should, as Ron Martin reminded me, mention what is probably the most mature such system -- LabVIEW.
The blocks editor that App Inventor uses is the Open Blocks Java library for creating visual block programming languages. Open Blocks is distributed by the MIT and derives from thesis research by Ricarose Roque. OpenBlocks lets developers build their own graphical block programming systems by specifying a single XML file. Open Blocks visual programming is closely related to the Scratch programming language, another MIT Media Lab project.
The compiler that translates the visual blocks language for implementation on Android uses the Kawa Language Framework, a framework written in Java for implementing high-level and dynamic languages and compiling them into Java bytecodes, and Kawa's dialect of the Scheme programming language, developed by Per Bothner and distributed as part of the Gnu Operating System by the Free Software Foundation.
When it comes to software development, there's something gripping about the word "visual". It's routinely used in instances that are not visual in any sense of the word, although some uses are more visual than others. One of the true visual programming languages is Cube developed by Marc Najork. As Marc has pointed out, "a true visual-programming language can be considered 'executable graphics,' with no hidden text." So is App Inventor a true visual language that will enable programming for non-programmers? That remainds to be seen. What do you think?
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Thanks for the info on the tumbling. Next question. A lot of the original wheels we have are date code senitive and some of the stamping can be very lite at times. Has anybody had problem with blasting or tumbling and loose any of the stamping? Also once your ready to powder coat and paint that coud make the stamping very hard to read and maybe not see it at all. Is anybody doing anything special to prevent this?
The only such tumbler I've personally seen was quite a large one which a friend of mine had in his auto electric repair shop (they did alternators, starters, generators,etc). Their tumbler was pretty large and had a 'rotating bracketry inside it which made the media and the parts move around as it rotated. Their tumbler used like steel shot (beads) and a solvent, and they used it mostly to clean aluminum housing parts. He once volunteered to do an aluminum manifold for me, and what I remember most is that it made a hell of a racket as the manifold tumbled around in there, but I also recall the manifold coming out very clean and nice. I think a manifold would be about the largest item that would have fit inside the one he had...
BULLITT65 Have you tried soda blasting ? I've heard nothing but good , but would like to get some opinions from guys on this site before I pick a portable one up to do the rear end. Also heard if some of the media does find it's way in it will dissolve.
*L*.. thanks Darrel!~ (IMO GM Reconditioning black, which is a satiny, semi-glossy, semi-flatty black)..


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Not everybody loves those food-truck rallies. Residents in Little Italy received a sarcasm-laced flier in their mailboxes, from parties unknown, protesting the Friday night event in their neighborhood. The letter is written as if from (fictional) greedy and thoughtless promoters of the event. "Please support us, instead of your local residents." the letter concludes, "Sincerely, non-property owners/non-renters, non-residents."
Since the first Baltimore food-truck rally was held in Harbor East in July 2011, the Friday night events have moved to a more-or-less weekly schedule, rotating among three main venues -- Keswick Avenue and 36th Street in Hampden, McHenry Row in Locust Point and the parking lot of the Stratford University campus in Little Italy, where the first of three September Gatherings is scheduled for Friday night.
Stratford's address does fall into Little Italy's official boundaries, although it's several blocks away from High Street, where most of the neighborhood's restaurants are located.
That's not far enough for whoever generated the letter.
"The event will profit the promoters and Up to 18 food concessions. Parking will be on the Streets of Little Italy and the Little Italy Parking Garage. One thousand people are expected to attend this fun Street festival. Live Music will end at 11 pm. We will make a donation to Stratford University only, for the use of the VALET Parking Lot. Too bad that valet and Little Italy customers will have to park elsewhere. We wish to thank the residents of Little Italy, without whose support, this event would not be possible. Because of the great success of our last couple of events in Little Itlay we plan to do more events at your expense in the near future."
Damian Bohager, who organizes the Gatherings on behalf of the Maryland Mobile Food Vendors Association, said that he's aware of little opposition to the food truck rallies, other than concern about music interfering with the Little Italy film festival. "The only thing I've heard from restaurant owners in the nieghborhohod is that they'd like more of a heads-up about the event," Bohager said. "They get slammed with customers when it's over."
Bohager points out some inaccuracies on the flier. The event, he said, is scheduled to stop at 11 p.m., not 10 p.m. There is not an open bar, Bohager said, although guests can purchase a $15 wrist-band for beer and wine. A donation is being made not Stratford University, Bohager said, but to American Heart Association.
Live music has been part of the event in the past, he said, but he's switching to a disc jockey. "We had little kids up front dancing to the music," Bohager said, "and then some people started a line dance. It was so much fun, I had to try it again."
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I mean these people have as much right to believe as I do to not, however I guess it's because the g-d fearing have had more freedom to speak about it than the g-d-eschewing. It just makes me want to lash out, but what I do instead is just hide posts or block feeds.
My dissent post on Xmas, and even Santa was not popular, and I did get a few likes, but more so the response was icy like I am some sort of a freak. Santa is still wrapped up in the Xtian rituals in some Euro countries...Santa Claus is a cross of Dutch and Greek (Sinterklaas/Saint Nicholas) with Sinterklaas meaning "old saint".
So it was bad enough to disagree with Xmas, but Santa? Oh no. What kind of Scrooge are you? To me if you are going to be Atheist, include all the things.
What say the good folks here? To late, or still open for discussion?
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More often than not I just block them on my news feed. If you really want to get someone's goat, you can reply to annoying post or just instigate things with links to atheist videos. I personally like "Cult of Dusty" and Darkmatter2525. I know that this is immature. But ridicule tends to change behavior on a large scale faster than any other tactic.
If you want something particularly offensive, I suggest "God Vlog" by Darkmatter2525.
I am not sure I do care, but at the same time I do not want to be as bad a zealot as they are with my Atheism...the old "two wrongs don't make a right" or "agree to disagree" things come to mind. So it's a matter of not being a jerk yet making sure people understand I am not where they are and why.
I finally joined facebook to catch up with old friends. As I have posted here before, I have been an atheist for many years. It is troubling to me that many of my old friends who were also atheists so many years ago have "found jesus." They post their garbage and then act like I am an idiot for not agreeing with them.
I have found facebook to be an exercise in restraint on my part because their minds are not going to be changed easily. I try to use "teachable moments" with some of my friends. With others, I just ignore their posts. I would "unfriend" some of these people, but I have to admit, I still care about them. Many of us still have more in common than not. They are still going to post their garbage because they feel this need to do so. Their garbage has been instilled in so many people that we are still fighting a losing battle. Teachable moments are great. Do it with love and respect. Otherwise, ignore their posts.
That said; there are a couple of people I have "unfriended" because they became sooooo confrontational with their jesus garbage--bullshit--that it was obvious they were just trying to pick a fight. They were being bullies.
Oh, I forgot. Right now, If you fight jesus garbage with malice--most of the time--you will be seen as the "Dark Lord" whom they fear more than their "hell." Many of them do not believe in the jesus garbage in their hearts and are afraid you just might change their minds. Linus fought to keep his blanket, no matter what.
Aside from caring about my privacy (which is why I am not on Facebook), those I would stay in contact with know that I will never be there. If they are unwilling to honour my privacy by either writing letters, calling, or sending E-mail, I really do not care to share with them.
Of note, my supervisor (and wife's ex-hub) added me to LinkedIn without my knowledge. That resulted in my stalker ex-wife finding me and harassing me (and him). That ended when I wrote a letter to LinkedIn demanding they remove me, and moved to get away from the ex (again).
Facebook is nothing more than a giant marketing opportunity that you volunteer your information to freely. Those that value your privacy will not require you to contact them that way. If they do not value your privacy one wonders how much of a friend they really are.
Those who know me also know I am an atheist. They also know that I am uninterested in any religious proselytisation, which automatically gets them this video from The Thinking Atheist:
I've never even had a facebook account, so I don't have much to add to this conversation - but I have a question to ask you: why do you write g-d instead of spelling it out? I have only ever seen that from certain theists, and I assumed it was just part of their whacky paranoid mysticism ... like god won't know they are writing about him if they don't spell it accurately or something. Just curious.
In our desire to eschew all things religious, we should be reluctant to cast aside metaphorical mythology which transcends religion . . . or non-religion for that matter.
I've always viewed the myth of Santa Clause as a metaphor for a human trait that encourages dedication to not simply "Christian gift giving", but to a life of dedication, sacrifice, self denial, work, and to our own "spirit of giving".
These traits rise above the Christian's custom of dragging them out of the closet once a year, and lighting them up as witness to their own piety.
These are our values . . . values which we atheists should share year round, for no other reason beyond our own humanity. Santa Clause is a great metaphor we can use to demonstrate real human values to children, and help them learn a lesson about their own humanity and the "spirit" with which their lives should be lived.
And Facebook is a great tool.
Hi Asa,
I am not in disagreement about gift giving, but I am against being obliged to at a set time based on a myth. We will not even get into the disgusting consumerism. I like giving random gifts that are a surprise and a delight to the recipient. Gatherings are important too.
My thing is that since I am in a minority I have to face the cruddy flack from those who aren't. Facebook is as much a weapon as it is a tool, and if I keep hiding feeds I will miss some of the nice things that are not g-d related.
To whomever asked, I hyphenate and lower case the "g" word because I do not acknowledge it, and since it is a noun will not capitalize because of the former reason.
Make more sense?
Theists can keep their faith with themselves, they have right to have faith, no problem as long as they keep their mouth shut. Or they can say it to public only if they do so with a clear disclaimer that their faith is strictly a subjective matter, has nothing to do with objective facts or the reality, and that it may be harmful to some people if they copy their faith. Remember, cigarette cases carry warning.
Littering in the public areas like streets and parks is illegal. Littering people's mind with wrong information, harmful ideas, fraudulent claims, etc cannot be praised: it is a nuisance, pollution, and harm. 911 terror is not the only way to harm public. Polluting people's mind is harmful, and cleaning cost is incalculable.
I cannot give you sound advice on how to handle social media. In my opinion there is more theist than atheist and theist are not reading text that tells them to not challenge you.
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I was speaking to a student tonight after class and I said to him, "Right now, I am more powerful than you."
I explained to him him that power depends on strength, speed, and timing (along with such factors as proper body alignment, weight shifting, technique, etc.). I told the student that he was certainly stronger than me, but that his timing was not there yet. With proper timing, he would be more powerful than me.
My second son, Charles, was also there. I mentioned that Charles is more powerful than me. Even though I might be a little faster than him, he is much stronger and has better timing than me.
We are always working on body dynamics in the dojo. There are a number of factors. But for me, strength, speed and timing are key when it comes to power.
It is difficult to become stronger. It takes hard work and time. It is difficult to become faster. Generally, I think that people have a certain maximum speed. Once you are efficient, you cannot move faster. You can move smarter, but not faster. But timing is something that we can work on and improve without too much effort. Better timing is largely a matter of eliminating wasted movement. It is hard to become much stronger when you are older. It is not that hard to develop better timing, even as one becomes older.
I mentioned that my son Charles has better timing than me. Because I usually teach beginners or young yudansha, I almost always move in a way that is appropriate for them. I move in a way that they can see and copy. As a result, I am not moving in my natural way, and my timing is thrown off. In particular, I tend to throw my techniques late. I also enlarge the lines of my koshi movements, again so that the students can see and copy me. But this throws off my own timing, which reduces my overall power. My son tends to move in his natural way, and does his best to break it down for the students.
How powerful are you? How are your strength, speed, and timing? Are these things that you are working on?
Charles C. Goodin
About Power: Strength, Speed, and Timing
I was speaking to a student tonight after class and I said to him, "Right now, I am more powerful than you."
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Crown Point National Bank Targets Summer Opening
BEND, Ore. - The organizers of Crown Point National Bank (in organization) announce that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted Conditional Approval of its application for a national commercial bank charter. Crown Point is presently targeting a summer opening and intends to raise between $30 and $40 million in capital to fund the bank's formation and opening.
Crown Point National Bank hopes to open this summer and intends to raise between $30 and $40 million in capital to fund formation and opening.
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The proposed bank will be led by an experienced team of Oregon banking executives, each of whom has an exemplary record of serving privately owned businesses and the middle market in the Bend and Portland metropolitan areas. The executive management team will be led by Andrew J. Gerlicher as the proposed President and Chief Executive Officer of the bank. Gerlicher has over 25 years of banking experience in the Portland and Bend markets. William F. Henle, the proposed Chief Operating Officer, has more than 30 years of banking experience at both large banks and community banks. Jesse D. Averette is the proposed Chief Credit Officer and has over 35 years of experience in corporate and middle market credit-related positions in the state of Oregon with First Interstate Bank of Oregon and more recently with Umpqua Bank. Donald Kalkofen is the proposed Chief Financial Officer. Kalkofen has been actively engaged in banking and financial consulting for more than 22 years and has over 12 years of experience as a bank Chief Financial Officer.
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Gerlicher adds, "We have received preliminary OCC approval in what may be the toughest period of regulatory scrutiny of new bank applications in U.S. history, and I attribute that to the strength and depth of our team and our solid business plan. We will focus on small to medium sized businesses in Portland, Bend and their surrounding communities by providing business loans, lines of credit and other financial support with a heavy emphasis on personal service and putting the customer first." Gerlicher continues, "Our core objective is to help strengthen our local communities through building relationships and lending to qualified business owners and entrepreneurs seeking credit to support and grow their businesses. Our select team and state of the art technology will provide the high level of personal service our marketplace desires. "
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Traditional Mongolian gers and the artisans who produce them
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By Amber Barger, KF12, Mongolia.
If you browse Mongolian borrower profiles on Kiva.org, you'll notice that most of them say that the borrower lives in traditional Mongolian housing named a ger, more commonly known as a yurt. Over the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to visit borrowers who live in traditional gers and who work in ger-producing workshops. In addition, I have the personal experience of living in a ger for a year as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
In Mongolia many types of artisan specialties are needed in order to produce the items that make up a ger. Kiva entrepreneurs that produce ger-related items include carpenters, painters, felt-makers, welders, seamstresses, etc. The felt-makers produce the outer coverings of the ger. The welders produce the stoves that sit in the center of the ger. The carpenters produce the skeleton of the ger including wooden lattices, poles, and beams. The carpenters also produce traditional ger furniture like chests, dresser drawers, tables, and stools. The painters turn the carpentry work into beautiful pieces of brightly-colored art. The seamstresses create the inside wall hangings of the ger, plus other decorative items.
I've visited several small-scale furniture-producing carpenters and painters. Nasandelger is a painter who buys unfinished wooden ger products from carpenters. She paints wooden items, like chests, poles, chairs, and doors, with the traditional bright orange base color with green, blue, and white accents. Nasandelger said she sells more items in the wedding season of fall and spring than in the winter. In Mongolian tradition, when a couple is married they will buy a ger in order to live together. Check out this short video tour of Nasandelger's painting workshop that she shares with five carpenters:
When I interview borrowers and ask what their future goals are, many of the borrowers say that they would like to own the land that their ger is built on, and then after that they would like to build a brick house on their land. Living in a ger is a lot of work, I know this from experience: fetching water from the well, chopping wood, keeping a fire going for 8-9 months of the year, using an outhouse, bathing in a bucket, etc. Even though some people want the stability of a brick or wooden house on their own private land, these houses, especially in the countryside, are still in the same neighborhood as the gers, which means the houses aren't connected to central heating lines or running water.
So many borrowers I interview say that their future goal is to move out of a ger, and yet so many small business entrepreneurs are involved in producing ger products. I hope Mongolia can find a balance between its traditional past and likely booming future.
Read a post by a previous Kiva Fellow about Mongolian gers.
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Amber Barger is currently serving as a Kiva Fellow in Mongolia. She has lived for the past two years in rural Mongolia as a community economic development Peace Corps Volunteer. Along with her Kiva Fellowship, she is extending a third year with the Peace Corps as a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader.
Entry filed under: KF12 (Kiva Fellows 12th Class), Mongolia. Tags: Amber Barger, future goals, ger, ger districts, ger-making business, microfinance artisans, mongolia, traditional housing ger, yurt.
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Great post. I'd love to hear more about your experience living in a ger, sounds like a lot of work!
As someone who lived in a rural area in a brick house I have to say that heating, water, ect. is not assured with the brick house. I've lived two years in a "brick" house having to do all of those things, except only 5 months of feeding a fire instead.
Great post though.