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Astronomy and Night Photography are closely linked. Both can be great fun, offer unique views of the stars, and they require specific tools. Whether one is looking to spend a romantic evening under the stars, or if one is simply fascinated by the night sky, astronomy and night photography are great activities. Before heading out however, it is a good idea to have some of these tools:
Firstly, flashlights are essential. It may sound surprising; after all, astronomy and night photography work by being in darkness. However, Flashlights are very important for both. Even if it is just a glowstick, having a light helps one to navigate the area, check/change filters, and adjust settings on the camera or telescope. This may seem like a minor tool, but it is actually very important. In particular, it is a good idea to use red lights, as they do not effect night vision as much, and is one of the dimmest forms of light.
In addition to flashlights, it is a good idea to make sure you have all the filters you need. The filters can be great for blocking others kinds of light, while bringing the light of the stars more into focus. Filters are especially important for astronomers, as they will bring greater focus onto constellations.
Lastly, bring multiple star charts. No one become an expert overnight, and it is likely that there will be many constellations or star clusters that seem unrecognizable. Furthermore, the star charts can help one to find specific stars, some of which are only visible at certain times of the year. Star charts are very important, and they can be purchased online or at many bookstores.
With these tools, astronomy and night photography will be far easier.
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Healthy North Carolina 2020: Annual Data Updates
Each year, the N.C. Division of Public Health will produce an annual data report measuring progress towards the targets of improving population health through our Healthy North Carolina 2020 objectives. The report is compiled by the N.C. State Center for Health Statistics.
Healthy North Carolina 2020: A Better State of Health
Healthy North Carolina 2020: A Better State of Health (PDF, 7.3 MB) - These are the final 2020 focus areas, objectives and targets for our state. Each of the 13 focus areas is presented in a two-page section. Each section lists the objectives for the focus area, briefly describes the rationale for the selection of each objective, shows data on where North Carolina currently ranks regarding each objective, and provides the 2020 target.
Healthy NC 2020 serves as our state's health improvement plan, which will address and improve our state's most pressing health priorities. The Healthy North Carolina 2020 health objectives address all aspects of health with the aim of improving the health status of every North Carolinian. Through Healthy NC 2020, we hope to mobilize the state to achieve a common set of health objectives, which are available in the report, Healthy North Carolina 2020: A Better State of Health (PDF, 7.3 MB), and on the objectives page of this site. Also see the Healthy NC 2020 Technical Report , a companion publication with more details about each of the 13 focus areas and 40 objectives.
Did you know North Carolina ranks 32nd among U.S. states in terms of our overall health according to America's Health Rankings?
Healthy North Carolina 2020 aims to move us to "A Better State of Health." It's a big job, but with your help, we can get there.
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Sorry, this week's episode yet again lacks any girl time with Shoshanna. But to cheer you up, you do get to see Ray flip out on a neighbor of the coffee shop, Hannah get some sexytime with said neighbor, an unfortunate incident with a shower sauna and a naked ping pong session.
Season 2, Episode 5"Even Hannah is surprised when she's attracted to a fortysomething doctor and his life of unspectacular stability."
Memorable quotes"OK, I'm pretty sure I invented it, and I'm kind of freaking out...sexit." —Hannah
"You're making a sexy exit, that's a sexit." —Hannah
"Neighbor to neighbor. What a world we live in when we can just talk to each other, neighbor to neighbor, just leaning against the fence and crack open a frosty one and cup each other's balls and sing kumbaya!" —Ray
"There was a police officer in attendance, third row, right in front. You know why he came? Because he likes to see me play the fuckin' body drums...corporeal percussion!" — Ray
"What the fuck are you guys looking at? Go back to your panda videos before I turn off the wifi." —Ray
"I could be putting myself in a Ted Bundy situation. He also looked handsome, clean and probably had a brownstone." —Hannah
"I'll see you around, but not by your trash cans." —Hannah
"I always thought that was a cool sports guy name, like Trent or Riley." —Hannah
"Were you planning for guests?" —Hannah "No, but I was planning for steak." —Joshua
"Not like you're in Toy Story. Do it." —Hannah
"What happens if a doctor calls in sick?" —Hannah "10 or 20 people die." —Joshua
"I thought I was a gummy worm for like 7 minutes." —Hannah
"One time, I asked somebody to punch me in the chest and then come on that spot." —Hannah
Best sceneIt's not the naked ping pong scene or even the scene where Hannah spills her guts to Joshua as he strokes her wet hair while she wears a bathrobe. Stay with me for a second.
It's the very brief scene on the patio, with Joshua reading the newspaper and Hannah eating an orange. Here, we can see Hannah starting to go over the edge after this whirlwind sexcapade she's had with a married (separated) doctor in his brownstone. We can actually see the wheels of self-doubt, of panic, of confused bliss working their way around that brain of hers before they send her off the cliff in the next scene (keep reading). She had a seemingly good thing going with Patrick Wilson and his rock-hard body, but the minute she succombs to her true feelings and expresses them to a total stranger, she's feels as if she's left out to dry. (But she couldn't even get his name right, so is she just desperate to express out loud without much care to whom? Probably.)
In this scene, everything is both possible and extremely scary for Hannah: This man in front of me wants me, and despite the many years of fighting this very scenario of perfection off, I think I might want him, too. It's something every woman--and most men, actually--can relate to at some point in life.
Winner: HannahLena Dunham's sobby monologue in the arms of hot hot Joshua, while not the best-acted moment of her life, was one of the most poignant parts of the show for me so far. This, it seems, is what Lena has really been wanting to say all along. While Hannah's full of creativity and art, and may be the most self-involved 20-something currently walking the planet, she also wants exactly the same thing as the rest of us—to be happy and to be loved, and she doesn't feel either. "Please don't tell anyone this but I want to be happy. Yeah, but I didn't think that I did. I made a promise such a long time ago that I was gonna take in experiences, all of them, and tell people about them and maybe save them. But it gets so tiring trying to take in all the experiences for everybody, letting anybody say anything to me." She's lonely and really unhappy—but for the first time, she finally really gets it. This could be a really amazing turning point for her.
Loser: RaySince this oddball episode only featured three characters, one of them had to get the shitty end of the stick. This week finds Ray in an especially grumpy (har.) mood at Grumpy's, and doesn't deal well with his trashcan confrontation with Joshua. We do, however, learn that he likes to play the body drums.
We'll be back next week with another "Girls" recap. What's to come? The return of Adam! Adam and Ray go on an unexpected adventure in Staten Island! We see Shoshanna for about two minutes! Marnie thinks she's entering girlfriend territory with Booth Jonathan! And Hannah lands an e-book deal.
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Bambrey Tells Students Change Inevitableby Howard Hewitt • March 18, 2010 Share:
Athletics Director, and former Dean of Students, Tom Bambrey '68 delivered Thursday's Chapel Talk with a little bit of history and advice.
Bambrey actually tackled the recent campus controversy changing the Cultures & Traditions class to something new and not-yet-defined.
You can watch Wabash Chapel Talks on the Wabash College YouTube page.
He quoted the College's first president Baldwin Elihu, along with President's William Kane, George Mackintosh, Lewis Hopkins, and Warren Shearer. In each case he used excerpts from speeches of the Presidents discussing the curriculum and curriculum changes.
He noted the college has long had some sort of 'Common Intellectual Experience" for all students. In the last century such a class often lasted about 30 years before being reinvented.
"And now here we are in 2010 and we're re-imagining the class," Bambrey said. "What's the point? "Things change. Things change for the benefit of students whether they agree or not."
Bambrey said the important thing was reading great text, discussing it with your classmates, in classes led and directed by engaged faculty. "Let's hope this new idea runs as long as the previous versions," he said.
The second part of his speech was his advice to Wabash students. He ran through a list of 10 suggestions ranging from working hard to "keeping your share of histrionics to a minimum." He urged students to become avid readers of great books, recommended books, and books "that just delight you."
He added a list of things he really likes about Wabash and encouraged students to do the same. The personal, humorous, and insightful list ended the Chapel Talk on a real high note.


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Commission to consult European public on provisions in EU-US trade deal on investment and investor-state dispute settlement
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht today announced his decision to consult the public on the investment provisions of a future EU-US trade deal, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The decision follows unprecedented public interest in the talks. It also reflects the Commissioner's determination to secure the right balance between protecting European investment interests and upholding governments' right to regulate in the public interest. In early March, he will publish a proposed EU text for the investment part of the talks which will include sections on investment protection and on investor-to-state dispute settlement, or ISDS. This draft text will be accompanied by clear explanations for the non-expert. People across the EU will then have three months to comment.
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said: "Governments must always be free to regulate so they can protect people and the environment. But they must also find the right balance and treat investors fairly, so they can attract investment. International investment agreements like TTIP should ensure they do both. But some existing arrangements have caused problems in practice, allowing companies to exploit loopholes where the legal text has been vague. I know some people in Europe have genuine concerns about this part of the EU-US deal. Now I want them to have their say. I have been tasked by the EU Member States to fix the problems that exist in current investment arrangements and I'm determined to make the investment protection system more transparent and impartial, and to close these legal loopholes once and for all. TTIP will firmly uphold EU member states' right to regulate in the public interest."
In June 2013 EU governments instructed the European Commission to negotiate a new EU-US trade and investment agreement, the TTIP, on their behalf. This included measures on the treatment of investors known as investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS).
The Commission wants to use the opportunity to improve investment provisions already in place to protect investments by EU-based companies in the US, and vice versa. In practice this would mean referring explicitly in the deal to states' right to regulate in the public's interest. It would also see new and improved rules, including a code of conduct, to ensure arbitrators are chosen fairly and act impartially, and to open up their proceedings to the public.
No other part of the negotiations is affected by this public consultation and the TTIP negotiations will continue as planned.
Since June 2013 the Commission has held three rounds of stakeholder consultations, both before and during talks on the agreement, to gather the views and wishes of the public and interested parties across Europe. The Commission has also done public consultations before the start of the TTIP negotiations.
The EU is the world's largest foreign direct investor and the biggest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world. Investment is essential for growth, for jobs and for creating the wealth that pays for our public services, our schools, our hospitals and our pensions.
So the EU must ensure our companies are well protected when they invest in countries outside the EU, including the US. Most investments go ahead smoothly and benefit both the state where the investment is made and the investor. But sometimes investors face problems in the country in question. The government might seize the company's property without compensating it. Or it might give local businesses an unfair advantage, or stop foreign companies from using the justice system when things go wrong.
For such cases, companies count on bilateral investment agreements. These offer them protection, including the chance to use another option – Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) - if they haven't been able to find an amicable solution with the government of the country concerned.
European Union (EU) countries already have some 1400 such agreements in place with countries outside the EU, including the United States. Some date back as far as the 1960s. These include investment protection provisions and ISDS. They are an important protection against these unfair actions by governments. And they can be necessary: European companies were behind every second investment case launched in 2012.
The EU's international investment policy, including its policy with the US, seeks to retain the value of the current system for protecting international investors. But it also aims to make these rules clearer, more transparent and impartial than they are today. That means ensuring that non-discriminatory regulation in the public interest will not be subject to successful challenges.
So since 2010 the European Commission has been working on clarifying and improving the international investment protection system – the rules themselves, and the way they're enforced. In future, all EU investment agreements, including the TTIP, will set out new rules, including a code of conduct, to ensure arbitrators are chosen fairly and act impartially. And they'll open up arbitration proceedings to the public.
The EU-US negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) started in July 2013 and aim at removing trade barriers in a wide range of economic sectors to make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between the EU and the US. The third round of negotiations took place in Washington DC in December 2013 (press release) and the next round is scheduled for March 2014.
Further information
This factsheet summarises the EU's changes to existing investment protection rules and the ISDS system.
For more information on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
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As teenage Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) longs to hop a bus to "adult-ville," I couldn't help but think of "Arrested Development" and what Michael (Jason Bateman) tells his son George Michael (Michael Cera) when dad thinks the boy refers to sex as "Pop Pop:" "The mere fact that you call making love 'Pop Pop,'" he says, "tells me that you're not ready."
Without much guidance from single mom Grace (Eva Mendes) and her two jobs, Ansiedad desperately wants to fast-forward through childhood and arrive at the point kids think exists—when adulthood hits and everyone understands everything. So she researches adolescent rites of passage and maps them out on her bulletin board, planning to demonstrate potential and blow it and infiltrate the popular crowd and betray her best friend and lose her virginity in the course of a couple weeks.
She's had it with this youth thing and believes doing everything at once, before experience comes at random and by accident, will give the learning curve a steeper incline.
At times recalling a tamer version of "Mean Girls," "Girl in Progress" fares best when focused on Ansiedad, largely due to Ramirez's terrific performance that underscores Ansiedad's newfound confidence with her hidden frailty. She's crying out for help and knows it, but that's not enough to make her cry any softer.
Mendes, on the other hand, struggles to find the confused effort underneath Grace's frantic schedule that leads to selfishness, whether it's finishing the milk and cereal or neglecting her daughter to see a married gynecologist (Matthew Modine, I kid you not).
Writer Hiram Martinez goes amateur with bluntly articulated themes from Ansiedad's English teacher (Patricia Arquette) and Grace's lowly restaurant colleague (Eugenio Derbrez) with a crush. The lessons find their voice regardless. Frankly tackling young girls' self-image issues, "Girl in Progress" possesses strong messages for kids as Ansiedad, who'd rather be named An because "some of us are trying not to be such immigrants," struggles through a period that even supposed self-awareness can't solve.
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@ Karim & Easton : Thanks for your comments. May be I am biased against National Institutes of Health ever since they took Francis S. Collins as their Director. This man says there is no contradiction between science & religion. But then what NIH says doesn't contradict what I said. Yet. There are other methods like Pilates, Tao chi chuan and the stretching routines prescribed by physiotherapists which stretch contracted muscle fibers and build flexibility and mobility of the spine & joints. Without the mysticism of chakras & kundalini and other spiritual crap, Yoga as a stretching routine is Ok by me, not as a stand-alone but post- cardio or post aerobic exercise. If you have the time please read " The Science of Yoga" by long time Yoga practitioner William J. Broad of USA wherein he deals with the positives & negatives of Hata Yoga. I have spent 12 years out of my 75 years doing Yoga asans without much benefit.
Thank you for the informative post. There is a lot of information here that I wasn't aware of before and it's motivated me to research most of what you wrote.
I like that professionals are scientifically researching exercises and martial arts outside of traditional western experience. A lot can be gained once we determine what is beneficial and what may be useless or actually harmful. I've personally been attracted to Tai Chi Chuan and meditation which has helped me with balance and relaxation but what I actually use from them is limited because the studies about their real-world benefits is pathetically limited as well. I won't pursue anything relating to this unless I know I'm not wasting my time and my health.
Despite saying all of this, I take your wife's side(even considering your informed scientific arguments; women like to be lithe and flexible in my experience) until she mentions that she heard Yoga cures cancer. That is ludicrous. Whether the teacher is being genuine or not, to me that is a red flag indicating the Yoga instructor is either misinformed about their practice or, worse, an evil opportunist. Something like that can easily turn into a cult, something I've personally been subjected to when I was a kid. I hope nobody has flocked to that Yoga instructor as a result of that lie.
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On Saturday, families who qualified will receive food during the 25th annual Newton County Food Basket Brigade, to be held at the former Auto Tech building, 629 N. College St., Neosho.
On Saturday, families who qualified will receive food during the 25th annual Newton County Food Basket Brigade, to be held at the former Auto Tech building, 629 N. College St., Neosho.
"We are seeing well more than 1,000 families this year," said Terry Cook, president of the food basket brigade.
This year's goal was to collect 120,000 pounds of food to feed up to 1,200 families. The food baskets are actually several sacks of food.
"It is enough food for a traditional Christmas dinner plus basic staples to last up to two weeks for Newton County residents certified as low income, disadvantaged, disabled, and/or elderly in need of assistance," a food basket brigade press release stated. "Virtually all individuals and families certified to receive food through the Basket Brigade are also receiving assistance from D.F.S., Economic Security Corporation, Neosho Crosslines, the Help Center and other relief agencies. This assistance is minimal, at best, and provides nothing extra for the holidays. The basic premise of the Basket Brigade is that in this land of plenty, nobody should have to go hungry at Christmas."
Families will start coming in on Saturday at 8:30 a.m., with the last family coming in at 1:30 p.m.
Organizers are asking for anyone who would like to volunteer to help pass out food to the families who come in, can do so Saturday morning.
"You can be there by 8 a.m. but if you want to come later, to release some of the other people, you can. We will take anybody, anytime."
Any food and cash leftover will be given to the Neosho Help Center for distribution to clients in 2013.
For the last few weeks, businesses, individuals and others have donated either non-perishable food or monetary donations for this worthy cause. Cook and the food basket brigade organizers are grateful for the support.
"Donations are coming great, people are awesome, they are so awesome," he said. "You couldn't ask for better people, this is the best place in the world to live. They always come through for their neighbors. My hats off to everybody, I can't express my appreciation for everyone around here."
Now in its 25th year, the annual community food collection effort has collected and distributed more than 5 million pounds of food.


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NEW ORLEANS -- Momentum in Super Bowl XLVII swung away from the Baltimore Ravens in the second half, and it didn't help that they had to play most of the last 30 minutes without Haloti Ngata.
The Ravens went on to beat the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, on Sunday even though the star defensive lineman suffered a sprained knee on Frank Gore's 6-yard touchdown run for the Niners in the third quarter. Niners right guard Alex Boone fell into the back of Ngata's left leg. Ngata was initially listed as doubtful to return.
Ngata grabbed his knee as he collapsed to the turf, where he stayed down for several minutes. Accompanied by trainers, Ngata was taken to the locker room.
UPDATE: NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Ngata said after the game that doctors were unsure if ligaments had been torn.
Haloti Ngata: "I feel a lot better now. My knee is numb. But doctors don't really know if any ligaments are torn. We'll know in Baltimore"â Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 4, 2013
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CDs packaged in three panel digi-pak with digital mini documentaries
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Please Please Me
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DVD of all 13 mini-documentaries (Running time: 40 minutes)
After more than 22 years of having The Beatles' albums on CD, we are finally treated to the definitive box set of Beatles music. This time, the folks at EMI and Apple finally got things right for a change. While having Beatles CDs is a thrill, it is now even more-so with this brilliant audio collection. For the very first time, their entire recorded output has been remastered for the 21st century, complete with unique liner notes and special digipak-packaging to boot. With the exception of the "Past Masters" set, each disc also contains a brief mini-documentary about that album. These short bits can only be utilised with the assistance of a computer's disc drive. However, the box set does include a bonus DVD disc featuring all of these short sequences together so you can enjoy it on your very own DVD player. What you have here are the original British Beatles albums just like what had been released before; only now, the listener can enjoy the first 4 albums - "Please Please Me". "With The Beatles", "A Hard Day's Night", "Beatles For Sale" - available in true stereo for the very first time. Combined with the remaining 9 albums recorded by the group between 1965 and 1970, this is a masterpiece set, and a special treasure trove of timeless, classic songs that changed the entire structure of popular music as we know it today.
Each CD is carefully and painstakingly put together in a very special 3-border fold-out, which allows the CD to be housed in a slot on the far right-hand side (except for the double discs, which have their CDs fitted inside the packaging). Each title also comes with a special CD booklet containg many unreleased photographs that represent the time when each album was originally released, plus well-written liner notes (including the original notes from the first 4 albums). The "Yellow Submarine" booklet contains both the original UK and US back cover notes together for the very first time. And, what a thrill it is to finally be able to have the photo/comic-strip booklet from "Magical Mystery Tour", that was initially issued in the American LP in 1967, in an official CD release for the very first time. The "White Album" packaging includes the original poster, in a CD sized reproduction, that features the photo collage on one side, and the album's song-lyrics on the other side. This marks the second time that this poster was made available in a "White Album" CD release, following the 30th anniversary reissue from 1998.
The sound quality of the songs are, without a doubt, the very best that I have ever heard before. For the first time, the audio quality of each track is sharp, crisp, crystal clear and truly an audiophile's dream come true. It should also be noted that the songs "Love Me Do" (both versions), "P.S. I Love You", "Only A Northern Song", "She Loves You", "I'll Get You" and "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" are all presented in their original monaural mixes, whereas the remaining songs are all in true stereo. Even "I Am The Walrus" still has its orignal mix of half-stereo/half-duophonic, just like the first time around. All in all, this box set far surpasses all other box sets that have come before.
And, the bonus DVD of the mini documentaries is also well-produced. Each segment features audio comments from The Beatles themselves along with George Martin. This DVD gives a fascinating insight into why these classic albums have stood the test of time so well, and continue to be so popular, even into the 21st century.
Many current and legendary artists have called The Beatles a major influence. One listen to this music and you too will see why. Beatlemania will live on forever!


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Date: April 14 and 15
Mileage: 23 and 27
April mileage: 171
Temperature upon departure: 28 (Friday) and 33 (Saturday)
On the iPod: "Modern Romance" ~ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yesterday was Geoff's 30th birthday. Today is tax day. Tomorrow is Easter. Talk about a strange holiday weekend.
I sure do get lazier on the weekends. I blame stressful weekdays. And late Friday nights. And disconcerting weather. I'm starting to understand why many Alaskans, even us soft-skinned southcentral types, start to become a little, well ... touched ... as time goes by. I mean, we do live on the edge of the world amid vast amounts of uninhabited space. But I think it's the whole nine months of winter that really gets to our collective psychological health. Pretend for a minute you're a person from California, approaching this place on a plane. Outside is a brilliant, burning sun, still hours from setting at 7 p.m. On the ground, you see people milling around in shirt sleeves, which makes sense to you because, well, it's April and it's an incredible sunny day. Then you see this crazy cyclist bundled to the nines in full winter gear and face mask, and that makes sense to you too, because, well, Alaska is known for its crazies. After the plane lands, you step outside to the full blast of gale-force winds whipping freezing spray off the ocean, the temperatures hovering in the low 30s, the 25 mph wind driving the chill to bone-freezing depths. Suddenly, your entire first impression is flipped.
What's the deal with those short-sleeved pedestrians? The answer: It's the driest, and therefore sunniest time of year in these parts. They've been bundled up in Carharts and flannel for seven months. So as far as they're concerned, it's summer. They'll thaw out their digits when they get home.
So what's the deal with that cyclist? She's fighting this freezing blast of headwind with just about every piece of gear she remembers using during some of her tougher December rides. Now that it's April, she has to admit that she's a little tired. She's learning to adapt to this cold place. She even thinks she's doing a good job of it, but she has to admit it's gotten to her, just a bit. She hasn't seen an outdoor thermometer reach 50 degrees since her first month in Alaska, in September. She came from a place where April meant new life, tons of green, chirping birds ... the whole package. Then she moved to a place where April means dry wind and dust and crusty snow that refuses to melt beneath a glaring sun that refuses to give warmth.
Maybe she just needs to get used to it. Maybe she, too, will be tooling around in minimalist clothing within the year. Maybe her problem is she's just not crazy Alaskan enough.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We are a web and software agency based in Leeds, UK. Our speciality is development which we do really well. Where we stuggle is on the design front. We need to find somone that can help us on a regular basis for web designs and software layouts. Is it you?
This particular requirement is for a web application.
I would like a fresh, modern, web 2.0 design for the application. The color scheme needs to be neutral as the company logo will change depending on the customer.
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There are two pages that I need designing.
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Apparently the first US Phoenix Wright game has gone out of print, making the odd lawyer themed DS game somewhat of a collectible. I never got a chance to pick it up, I was too busy saving lives in Trauma Center when both games came out.
Anyhoo, it seems as if the game was actually a translation of one of the titles in a long running series in Japan called Gyakuten Saiban, which apparently translates into "Turnabout Courtroom." I'm all for any game that allows you to yell "Objection!" into your DS. You get some crazy looks on the bus, that's for sure.
This writeup at Hardcore Gaming 101 has some good information on the series, as well as breaking down the slightly sharper humor from the Japanese versions. Puns abound, and it's a shame so much was lost in translation. If you find a copy of this game floating around, you could do worse for quirky DS titles.


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Recently, I was at a friend's house when they handed me their BlackBerry® smartphone and asked why they had received a message from blackberry.com stating that their email account required re-confirmation. The message they received stated the following in the opening paragraph:
"You must confirm your email account password on your BlackBerry device by July 1st, 2010 to continue sending or receiving email messages for this account. Microsoft Corporation requires Windows Live email account users who use mobile devices to validate their accounts every 360 days. Other email accounts on your BlackBerry device will not be affected."
My friend wondered what this message meant exactly, and why they had received it. Here's what I told them, to help clear up any confusion:
If you are using a Windows Live™ (Windows Live Hotmail, MSN or Bell Sympatico, for example) email address with the BlackBerry® Internet Service, you must re-validate your account every 360 days for security purposes. Three days prior to re-validation, Research In Motion® (RIM) will send a PIN message to your BlackBerry smartphone to let you know that re-validation is required.
The steps to re-validate your account are listed below:
- Locate and click on the Setup folder.
- Within the Setup folder, click on Email Settings.
- Highlight your Hotmail email account, click the Menu key and select Edit.
- Enter your Hotmail password and press Submit.
Completing these steps will re-validate your account and allow you to continue sending and receiving your Hotmail email messages on your BlackBerry smartphone.
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Snoozles Hostel Galway
Snoozles Hostel Galway is a brand-new hostel located just off Eyre Square, Galway - the capital of the West of Ireland.
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All of our rooms are of the high standard, boasting modern ensuite bathrooms with showers.
We offer free Wi-Fi. All rates include a light continental breakfast. We offer discounted car parking next door.
Why not unwind in our brand-new, fun common room and avail of TV, DVDs and a games area, our internet cafe, have a game of pool or simply relax after an eventful day exploring Galway.
We have a very strict no-smoking and no-alcohol policy.
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We have a no smoking policy in Snoozles Hostel. Any guest found to be smoking indoors will be asked to leave immediately, with no refund.
For group bookings, there is a deposit of €20 per person. This is payable by cash at check-in and will be refunded in full at check-out provided that house rules and other guests are respected.
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Upon leaving the station building, exit left and continue to the end of the road (approx 20 metres); you will be facing Eyre Square and Kennedy Park. Turn right onto Forster Street, proceed straight through traffic lights and Snoozles Hostel is situated 20 metres on the right, adjacent to the new coach station.
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By Matthew Heimer
Americans now hold $11.8 trillion in 401(k) plans and other tax-deferred retirement accounts, according to the mutual-fund industry's trade group. But that large number masks the presence of a huge number of nest eggs that are going to be too small to give savers the income they need in retirement. That's one reason that companies are rolling out more calculators, auto-enrollment features and other tools that are designed to nudge their employees into saving more money.
Kelly Greene, retirement columnist at The Wall Street Journal, has been a diligent chronicler of these tools as they've rolled on to the market, and she offers an interesting roundup of the most widely used innovations in a story that ran this weekend.
Greene doesn't delve into employers' motives, but there are some important ones in play: Information about 401(k) plans' strength and weaknesses is becoming easier for the public to track, and a good or at least not-horrible plan can be a strong employee-retention tool. What's more, if the "defined contribution" savings system were to prove to be largely inadequate as the wave of retiring boomers crests, corporate America might face pressure to revert to a defined-benefit pension system or to accept higher payroll taxes to shore up Social Security – neither proposition an attractive one.
Greene organizes the new generation of tools into four categories:
Savings incentives: At this point, a large percentage of companies already have a default "opt-in" for their 401(k) plan, meaning new employees automatically see a chunk of their salaries diverted to retirement savings unless they choose otherwise. Growing in popularity is "auto-escalation," which automatically increases the amount saved each year: 21% of employers surveyed recently by J.P. Morgan Asset Management have auto-escalation as a default setting for new hires.
Coming soon: Keeping up with the Joneses. Greene describes asset manager Putnam Investments' "social-comparison" tool, which can compare each employee's savings rates with the top 10% of his or her peer group; it's due out in April.
'Time machines': As a goad to better savings habits, employers are introducing calculators designed to give employees an estimate of how much money they'll need to live on in retirement. The Holy Grail here is a calculator that gives investors both a sense of how far their current dollars will stretch and an estimate of how much they'll have saved for retirement if they hew to their current path. Putnam and BlackRock Inc. /quotes/zigman/249424/delayed /quotes/nls/blk BLK have been leaders in this arena, Greene says; it's also an approach that the Department of Labor (which offers its own income calculator) has been trying to encourage.
Encouraging unity: In an economy where most people hop from company to company several times over the course of a career, many savers have multiple retirement accounts littered behind them like Hansel and Gretel's bread crumbs. Some employers are now touting account consolidation as a perk for their workers, helping them navigate the sometimes cumbersome paperwork.
Going back to class: Employers have historically been a little leery about offering investment education to their workers (in part for fear that they'll be liable if their education is construed as "advice" and leads to investment losses). But some have now decided that teaching basics about, say, asset allocation, rebalancing and the importance of lower fees is a safe bet. Greene says some employers are considering offering bonus 401(k) matching payments to workers who attend the classes. Sign me up!
Also worth reading:
To retire, many need a '401(k) for life'
America's best and most generous 401(k)s
The downside of a popular 401(k) feature
Commentary: 401(k) income projections are a good idea
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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Together, they create a new word, which means for someone to notice that you, ohmigosh!, bought your clothes at Uniqlo. This spells social death in Japan, but at the same time, with a bad economy and freeter lifestyles abounding, getting the cheap clothes of Uniqlo is a good way to survive. [source]
Here's Uniqlo, trying to act all cool in a video, but we know they be posers:
It's like Japan is one big junior high, making fun of you for wearing the wrong brand clothes. When I was in the 7th grade, I remember asking a guy if one could buy Stussy at K-mart. All the cool kids had Stussy shirts. This naive bumpkin question of mine became hot gossip around the school, and I was mortified. Why the hell did we all care about fashion at that age anyways? Normal teen anxiety? Or was it just my odd town?


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Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 27 July 1929.
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The Convention on the wounded and sick of 1929 represents the third version of the Geneva Convention after those of 1864 and 1906. It was based on the experience of World War I. The alterations which were adopted were of lesser importance than those of 1906. The division into chapters and articles remained essentially unchanged. New provisions were inserted concerning the protection of medical aircraft and the use of the distinctive emblem in time of peace. Furthermore, the emblems of the red crescent and of the red lion and sun were recognized for countries which already used those signs in place of the red cross. The provisions concerning repatriation of the seriously wounded and seriously sick prisoners were transferred to the Convention on prisoners of war. The Convention of 1929 was replaced by the Geneva Convention (I) of 1949.
The 1929 Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field was replaced by the first Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 (Geneva Convention I). It is no longer in operation following the universal acceptance of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
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Diplomatic Conference convened by The Swiss Federal Council with a view to the revision of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field of 6 July 1906, and the elaboration of a Code relating to the Prisoners of War
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Stephen LendmanMore About: WAR: About that War
A Decade of America Ravaging Afghanistan
by Stephen Lendman
US imperial wars treat civilians like combatants. To facilitate killing, soldiers are taught to dehumanize enemies, especially darker-skinned ones and Muslims.
Training involves instilling Groupthink hate. Individuality and free thought are erased. Recruits are intimidated to go along. When America goes to war, scoundrel journalism hardens support.
So do politicians, academics, religious and other leaders. They euphemize killing to justify lawlessness. At issue is conditioning public opinion to accept imperial policy like military trainers brainwash young recruits.
Massacring 16 Afghans, including nine children, reflects state-sponsored murder.
On March 11, eleven family members were shot at home. Their bodies were then set ablaze. Away at the time, only the father and one child survived. Multiple gunmen continued rampaging.
They killed another five civilians and wounded unknown numbers of others. Media scoundrels won't say. Neither will Pentagon commanders and political Washington.
Enraged over 10 + years of war, occupation, death squad and drone killings, appalling depravation levels, and repeated Koran desecration incidents, Afghans want those responsible punished and Americans out of their country.
On March 14, thousands rallied in Jalalabad. Displaying banners denouncing imperial occupation, they chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Obama."
Afghan senators walked out of session in protest. They began chanting anti-American slogans. Senate speaker Fazel Hadi Moslemyar said:
"We do not need foreign forces in Afghanistan. All the problems which we are facing are created by them. If they leave, the neighboring countries will leave us alone, and we can settle our country's problems on our own."
They also demanded soldiers responsible for the latest massacre be prosecuted locally. Names of those responsible are suppressed. A BBC report mentioned an unnamed Special Forces staff sergeant.
Others with him comprised one of many US death squads deployed to kill ruthlessly. Few incidents are headlined. This one circulated widely.
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Special Mission Units (SMUs) perform counterinsurgency death squad duties.
Special Forces include Army Delta Force, Navy Seals, and Air Force 24th Special Tactics Squadron. Training produces cutthroat assassins.
No crime's too great to commit. They specialize in war crime atrocities against anyone while they sleep. Children, the elderly, and pregnant women aren't spared. Collateral victims are murdered like targeted ones.
Siasat Daily, a popular Indian newspaper, headlined, "20 US soldiers involved in Kandahar killings," saying:
An Afghanistan fact-finding committee said up to 20 US soldiers were involved. The incident occurred in Kandahar's Panjwayi district.
According to Seyed Ishaq Gilani head of mission, "after probing the circumstances and speaking to witnesses and locals, it was concluded that the crime could not have been committed by a single soldier."
Gilani also said local religious and tribal leaders confirmed more than one. Pentagon officials claim otherwise. They blamed a lone sergeant. Throughout US wars, they whitewash repeated war crimes. So-called investigations absolve guilty parties. Occasionally, low-level troops are held culpable so responsible higher-ups get off scot-free. It's standard US policy.
Relatives of dead villagers, other Afghans, and parliamentary members want responsible soldiers tried locally under Afghan law and punished. So far, the Pentagon only named a sole violator. Whisked out of the country to Kuwait, he's now in detention awaiting disposition of his case.
According to Lt. General Curtis Scaparrotti, (Commander, International Security Assistance Force - ISAF - Joint Command and Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan):
"This is really about being able to ensure that we can execute this investigation and the judicial proceedings fairly and properly."
America's vocabulary excludes these ideals at home or abroad. Real ones reflect imperial dominance, favoritism shown Wall Street, other corporate favorites, and super-rich elites, as well as suppressing vital truths so people don't know.
Visiting Kabul at the time, Defense Secretary Panetta told reporters that "(W)e we are proceeding with a full investigation here and that we will bring the individual involved to justice."
Obama duplicitously said the incident "does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan."
If America cared about Afghans, it wouldn't have bombed, invaded, occupied their country, remained for over a decade, and continued daily combat, death squad, and drone killings.
Afghans responded to the Kandahar massacre by targeting Panetta during his visit. According to Press TV and other reports, a man drove a bomb-laden vehicle onto the runway where his plane landed.
An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement confirmed the incident. Panetta's spokesman George Little said he crashed into a ditch before emerging from the vehicle "ablaze." He later died. One ISAF service member was injured.
Downplaying the incident, Panetta said he had "absolutely no reason to believe that this was directed at me....This is a war," he added, "and we are going to get these kinds of incidents."
Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain John Kirby claimed no explosives were found in the vehicle. Panetta's visit went on as planned. Afghans want no part of him and US forces he represents.
Partners in Crime Plan Their Next One
On March 14, two unindicted war criminals met in Washington. Obama and Britain's David Cameron pledged unity on Afghan policy. In a Rose Garden news conference, Obama said "I don't anticipate at this stage that we're going to be making any sudden additional changes to the plan we currently have."
In other words, status quo occupation and tactics continue. They include daily death squad and drone killings.
Unstated was that permanent US occupation's planned like in Iraq. Troop drawdowns conceal repositioning them and Washington's intent to stay. They'll remain on small town-sized super-bases built for permanency. Leaving's not an option, though Afghans and Iraqis may have final say.
Obama and Cameron also concurred on Syria and Iran. They're committed for regime change by any means, including war. It defines the "special relationship" based on ravaging the world one country at a time or in multiples. No policy change is planned.
Asked about progress in Afghanistan, Obama duplicitously told reporters:
"If you compare where we are today with where we've been two, three years ago, the situation is considerably improved."
An Honest Afghanistan Assessment
In fact, the situation's much worse, according to army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis after returning from his second Afghan tour. Assessing the war in an 84-page unclassified report, as well as another classified one, he described conditions as disastrous. Pentagon commanders suppress how bad. "How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding," he asked?
His report's damning opening lines said:
"Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America's credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan."
His classified report is more explicit. "If the public had access to these classified reports they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is actually true behind the scenes. It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified material in an open venue, and thus I will not do so."
Last month, Davis headlined an Armed Forces Journal article, "Truth, lies and Afghanistan," saying:
For months, he traveled over 9,000 miles, spoke with US forces in numerous areas from low-ranking ones to commanders and staff members at every echelon. He also talked at length with Afghan security officials, civilians and village elders.
What he saw "bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground." He heard accounts "of how insurgents controlled virtually every piece of land beyond eyeshot of a U.S. or International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base."
"I saw little to no evidence the local governments were able to provide for the basic needs of the people. Some of the Afghan civilians I talked with said the people didn't want to be connected to a predatory or incapable local government. From time to time, I observed Afghan Security forces collude with the insurgency."
He hoped to find positive trends. "Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level."
One senior enlisted leader told him soldiers hope only to get out alive in one piece or at worst losing one limb. It's that bad.
"In all of the places I visited, the tactical situation was bad to abysmal. If the events I have described — and many, many more I could mention — had been in the first year of war, or even the third or fourth, one might be willing to believe that Afghanistan was just a hard fight, and we should stick it out. Yet these incidents all happened in the 10th year of war."
"As the numbers depicting casualties and enemy violence indicate the absence of progress, so too did my observations of the tactical situation all over Afghanistan."
In February 2011, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) assessed Afghan failure across the board, saying:
"Since June 2010, the unclassified reporting the U.S. does provide has steadily shrunk in content, effectively 'spinning' the road to victory by eliminating content that illustrates the full scale of the challenges ahead."
"They also, however, were driven by political decisions to ignore or understate Taliban and insurgent gains from 2002 to 2009, to ignore the problems caused by weak and corrupt Afghan governance, to understate the risks posed by sanctuaries in Pakistan, and to 'spin' the value of tactical ISAF victories while ignoring the steady growth of Taliban influence and control."
When waging war, changing strategy, or "clos(ing) off a campaign that cannot be won at an acceptable price, our senior leaders have an obligation to tell Congress and American people the unvarnished truth and let the people decide what course of action to choose."
"That is the very essence of civilian control of the military. The American people deserve better than what they've gotten from their senior uniformed leaders over the last number of years. Simply telling the truth would be a good start."
A Final Comment
Davis didn't explain that lies define all wars. They reflect duplicity, dishonesty, and suppressing truths. If people knew why Washington wages them, they'd demand ending them or vote out of office politicians who refuse.
They're not about good vs. evil, security, liberation, democracy, or self-defense. They're for dominance, colonization, exploitation, resource control, and other imperial motives important to conceal because few people would accept them.
Whoever first said it, the first casualty of war is truth, and then some as John Pilger observed saying: "Journalism is the first casualty." It's also "a weapon of war, a virulent censorship....by omission," denying the public the right to know.
Vital issues aren't explained properly. It's hard imagining one more important than war. Men and women fight for lies. Davis saw appalling Afghan horrors. He revealed what he could and condemned top officials for suppressing vital truths Americans deserve to know.
They won't as long as political hawks and Pentagon planners look for new targets to strike. America's permanent war policy demands them.
It's one of many vital issues to change. It starts with full disclosure on them all. It's everyone's right to know and high they demand it.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.


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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us," Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, famously once said.
Every year, the art and influence of architecture throughout our urban, rural and personal spaces is celebrated at the World Architecture Festival.
The results of this annual event reverberate throughout the world of architecture for the rest of the year, and help to inspire the young designers of tomorrow. Since its Barcelona debut in 2008, it has rapidly developed into one of the most prestigious dates in the architecture calendar.
From 16-18 November, architects, commentators and journalists alike will gather at the Berlin Arena to catch a glimpse of the emerging trends for the coming year.
A diverse international festival
This global celebration prides itself on its international scope and inclusion, and this year's festivities in Berlin promise a diverse collection of designs from all over the world.
Nominees for awards in 2016 reach far and wide, from Brazil to Bhutan. And yet it's not just geographical diversity on show, as the selected buildings also hugely vary in their style and application. Expect everything from luxury apartments to happiness centres and jungle properties.
An array of categories
The World Architecture Festival sees the distribution of awards for more than 30 different categories, with both plucky young start-ups and established industry giants both able to compete and take home a prize or two. Awards are handed out both to contemporary builds and projects for the future, recognising both realisation and imagination.
World Building of the Year
The main event at this year's World Architecture Festival (as ever) will be the announcement of the World Building of the Year. With some 350 projects lucky enough to receive a nomination, it's anybody's guess who will be this year's winner.
Notable entrants for 2016 include the late Zaha Hadid's ambitious alpine project, which is dedicated to Reinhold Messner. The Dutch architectural firm MVRDV is another of the prominent nominees, for their glass house design for a Chanel store in central Amsterdam.
Previous winners
The list of previous winners at the World Architecture Festival is star-studded with a selection of the best known names in the industry, and equally comprises some of the most breathtaking past architectural projects of the 21st century.
Last year's World Building of the Year winner was 'The Interface', a Singapore structure known more commonly as the 'Vertical Village'. As is tradition, last year's winner set the pace for design over the past twelve months, and no doubt this year's winner will do the same.
Engel & Völkers are one of the biggest names in international property. Visit our website for more updates on the fast-moving world of architecture and international property.


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A limited number of tickets is still available for the 2012 Mayor's Arts Awards, which will be presented the evening of Monday, June 18 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Reservations will be accepted until 5 p.m. Monday, June 11. Tickets are $50 each, and they are available at artscene.org or at the Lincoln Arts Council, 1701 S. 17th St. The theme for the event is "Destination: ARTS." It begins at 5:30 p.m. and includes a reception, dinner and awards ceremony.
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Looks like Niklas will replace Recchi on the first line. I like this move; he's got the most potential of the guys the Pens got at the deadline. It will be interesting to see how he does with a highly skilled player.
Another article mentions the other line combos: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06070/668755.stm
Colby Armstrong-Sidney Crosby-Niklas Nordgren; Jani Rita-Ryan Malone-John LeClair; Konstantin Koltsov-Eric Boguniecki-Andre Roy; Michel Ouellet-Andy Hilbert-Tomas Surovy.
So now we have Boguniecki centering a line. I'm glad to see Rita moving up, as he's looked pretty impressive since the Olympic break.


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Ou're on your way to town. Driving along, you notice that all the cars and trucks sharing traffic time with you all have only the driver inside, and every single driver stares at you as you drive past.
The reason is because you are driving a new car called the Smart for two — "Smart," because that's the brand name, and "for two," as in just for two occupants.
The car is less than 9 ft. long and about 5 ft. tall. It comes in two models: the Pure and the Passion, and you can get the Passion in a convertible. Base price is $11,590 for the Pure, $13,500 for the Passion coupe, and $16,590 for the Passion Cabrio with all the trimmings.
Your initial thought of how small the car is vanishes as soon as you climb inside. The two bucket seats are comfortable and supportive, and you sit up tall, with a commanding view down the steeply sloped nose to the roadway. Headroom? You could be 6-foot-3 and wear a sombrero inside. Legroom? You probably won't want the seat pushed back all the way.
Power is not great, but it doesn't need to be. At just over 2,300 lbs., the Smart car will take about 13 sec. to go from 0 to 60, but its 70 hp and 68 ft.-lbs. of torque let you zip away from stoplights. The fact is, it feels quick and agile.
The engine is a 1-liter, 3-cyl., dual-overhead-camshaft jewel. Fuel economy ranges from about 40 mpg to reports of more than 50 mpg. The car is an ultralow-emissions vehicle. The engine is at the rear, with rear-wheel drive.
The car has a five-speed manual transmission with an internal electronic clutch. You can put up with slight hesitations as it shifts, or you can click it into manual mode and use the thumb shift buttons on the steering wheel.
Opportunity for change
"Driving alone doesn't make sense in a big car," says Dave Schembri, president of Smart USA. "It's like going to a restaurant alone and ordering dinners for five."
Mercedes built the Smart cars with some clever coordination with Mitsubishi and have sold them with great success in Europe for the last decade. Mitsubishi is exceptional at making small cars with highly efficient small engines.
Mercedes redesigned the car entirely for the U.S., cutting down to the single two-occupant model and rebuilding it to exacting safety standards with a combination of high-strength steel in the frame and occupant capsule and corrosion-proof plastic body panels. The body panels have molded-in color and are recyclable.
Mercedes also had to try to determine how to market, promote and sell the cars. But Roger Penske stepped forward and made Mercedes a deal it couldn't resist. "We're the distributor — the connection between the manufacturer and the consumer," says Penske, who linked up his own rental-truck empire to form a customer-service network. "The whole concept is a low cost of ownership, but we're offering features people don't expect in a small car. We expect positive earnings the first year, with 20,000 to 25,000 sales."
The cars will only be in the largest metropolitan areas at first. Visit www.smartusa.com to find a dealer.


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My latest batch of book reviews – in the Spring issue of Women's Adventure Magazine – includes two of my all-time favorite memoirs: The Source of All Things and Faery Tale. I was also lucky enough to meet both authors in person when we hosted book signings with these amazing women at The Next Page bookstore in Frisco, Colo. Definitely check these out!
The Source of All Things: A Memoir By Tracy Ross
She was a toddler who lost her father, then an eight-year-old sexually abused by her stepfather, then a teenager pulled between a family's love and their corrosive secret. Even as a precocious little girl growing up in Twin Falls, Idaho, author Tracy Ross had guts. She still does, and the former staff editor at Skiing and Backpacker magazines proves it in a chronicle of her own hardcore life lessons delivered with a combination of biting honesty and understated drama.
Ross' love of the outdoors serves as the narrative's backbone: The wilderness exposed her as a child, helped her escape as a troubled teen, and now it frees her from the past. From Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, to Alaska's Denali National Park, to Colorado's high country-where today she's settled with her own family-the rugged backdrops of Ross' life have helped to ground her, while her time spent backpacking, hiking glaciers, and skiing untracked wilderness is what makes her tick.
The Source of All Things rivals Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle in portraying a dysfunctional family with compassion and wit. Ross' writing is sensitive and sharp, full of raw emotion and painstakingly researched detail. She will win over readers with her story of survival, keen observations of the people and places surrounding her, and an ability to recognize and capture her conflicting emotions. "The desert killed people who didn't know how to find shade or water," she writes, describing her work for a youth program in Utah's Escalante Desert, before hitting hard with a painful gem of truth: "But it didn't hate them or prey upon them, the way dads sometimes preyed on their daughters."
Like Into Thin Air, the first-person account of the 1996 tragedy on Mount Everest that helped cement Jon Krakauer's writing career, Ross' reflective first book will likely set her on the path toward becoming the new voice of adventure journalism. She delivers a memoir that's both a vulnerable portrait of a childhood ripped apart and a liberating adventure story that you won't want to put down. Long after closing the book, you'll ponder her pain, her courage, and her strength. (Free Press, $26.00)
What's it like to bare your soul in a tell-all memoir? Read our Q & A with Tracy Ross and find out.
Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World By Signe Pike
You don't have to believe in faeries to be drawn into the spell of Signe Pike's frolicking memoir of finding enchantment. Her adventures across England, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Scotland offer a perfect antidote to what Pike calls "emotional deforestation"-the loss of magic and innocence-that, along with the death of her father, inspired her trip. She drops by-the-book research in favor of "faery journalism" and allows herself to find enchanted people and places, which she approaches with equal parts skepticism and childlike wonder. She relays her travel tales (navigating roundabouts and finding ancient faery bridges) with warmth, curiosity, and a sense of humor while also sharing her emotional journey as she copes with her father's death. This book is a whimsical travel companion in itself, but Pike's wit, wisdom, and wide-eyed view of the world will help you to develop your own sense of traveler's whimsy. (Perigee Trade, $24)


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14 dead, at least 100 hurt in Mexico oil co. blast
MEXICO CITY — An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company in the capital killed 14 people and injured 100 on Thursday as it heavily damaged three floors of a building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.
Another 30 people remained trapped in the debris late Thursday, according to the Interior Ministry, as teams of military with rescue dogs showed up to extract the victims. The blast occurred in the basement of an administrative building next to the iconic, 51-story tower of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, one of the tallest buildings in Mexico City.
"It was an explosion, a shock, the lights went out and suddenly there was a lot of debris," employee Cristian Obele told Milenio television, adding that he had been injured in the leg. "Co-workers helped us get out of the building."
Ana Vargas Palacio was distraught as she searched for her missing husband, Daniel Garcia Garcia, 36, who works where the explosion occurred at about 3:45 p.m. local time, when many workers were just returning from lunch. She said she last talked to him a couple hours earlier.
"I called his phone many times, but a young man answered and told me he found the phone in the debris," Vargas said. The two have an 11-year-old daughter. His mother, Gloria Garcia Castaneda, collapsed on a friend's arm, crying "My son. My son."
There was no immediate cause given for the explosion in a busy commercial and residential area. Pemex first said it had evacuated the building because of a problem with the electrical system. The company later tweeted that experts from the Attorney General's Office were analyzing the explosion and any reports of a cause were speculation.The tower, where several thousand people work, was evacuated following the blast but not damaged, according to Gabriela Espinoza, 50, a Pemex secretary for 29 years who was on the second floor when the explosion next door occurred."There was a very loud roar. It was very ugly," she said.The explosion occurred in the basement of a 13-story building across from the tower in five-building the Pemex complex, according to Emporis, which collects construction data worldwide.Espinoza's co-worker, Tomas Rivera, 32, worked on the ground floor and was knocked to floor, fracturing his wrist and jaw.A reporter at the scene saw rescue workers trying to free several workers trapped. Television images showed people being evacuated by office chairs, and gurneys. Most of them had injuries likely caused by falling debris."We were talking and all of sudden we heard an explosion with white smoke and glass falling from the windows," said Maria Concepcion Andrade, 42, who lives on the block of Pemex building. "People started running from the building covered in dust. A lot of pieces were flying."Police landed four rescue helicopters to remove the dead or injured. About a dozen tow trucks were furiously moving cars to make more landing room for the helicopters.Streets surrounding the building were closed as evacuees wandered around, and rescue crews loaded the injured into ambulances. The injured were taken to Pemex's hospital in Azcapotzalco and the Red Cross hospital in Polanco, where relatives huddled in the waiting room for news of their loved ones. Some walked out of meetings with the hospital social worker joyous, while others came out crying."I profoundly lament the death of our fellow workers at Pemex. My condolences to their families," President Enrique Pena Nieto said via his Twitter account.Shortly before the explosion, Operations Director Carlos Murrieta reported via Twitter that the company had reduced its accident rate in recent years. Most Pemex accidents have occurred at pipeline and refinery installations.A fire at a pipeline metering center in northeast Mexico near the Texas border killed 30 workers in September, the largest-single toll in at least a decade for the company.


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drmatsu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Need a catchy logo to relay what the site does and differentiate it from other job sites. Something memorable.
Faculty Internships OR FacultyInternships.com
Site is a place where professors can find internships for themselves...they will use this site to find an internship at a company where they might work during a sabbatical, summer, or even an entire year to get work experience. Company gets the expertise cheaper than hiring the faculty member as a consultant. Faculty members get additional work experience to take back to classroom and use towards further consulting.
Tag line can also be used: Connecting Experts
- It should be eye catching.
- not a whole lot of other requirements at this point.
- I'll know it when I see it!
- I'll give feedback throughout...as I see things. Do not want anything cute...should be cool, eye-catching, and memorable.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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RAIDS Online is the free public crime map that connects
law enforcement with the community to help reduce crime and improve public
safety. You can view and filter crime data in an interactive map and analytics
dashboard to become better informed about crime activity in your area. You can
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We had two BIG order arrive in the last few days. These boxes are overflowing with all sorts of new zines, and new issues of your most loved titles. Be prepared for a whole lot of new stuff to be hitting the shelves soon!
Also, you may have recently just heard about us from the July 27th Folio Weekly cover story. We hoped you liked it.
Many thanks to John Citrone for writing article, and all the Folio staff for the support. I couldn't think of a better way to share information about our efforts with such a large number of people at once. It was truly surreal.
You can read the article online, in .PDF format, here.


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Rrossi needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
EnvisionEMI, LLC
I am the founder of P/HAC. I believe the well behaved high achieving student often gets the short end of the stick because folks assume she will be "just fine". We are dedicated to providing valuable information and resources to parents so they can raise their high achiever to be happy and successful.
Our target audience is parents (probably 80% female) of high achieving children in middle school and high school. Think of this as an Association or advocacy group of likeminded individuals who all get benefits, kind of like AARP, but for a completely different audience.
Parents are 40-55
I want this to be a dignified and established look, like we have been around for many years.
We want to convey we are serious,.
So nothing that has children in the logo. We don't want to look like a middle school or high school.
Maybe an ivy league look.
Gold, deep blue, purple, green are all good, but use your imagination.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.