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A visit to a spa is considered a luxury: indulgent, extravagant, and pricey. But spa-savvy Angelinos know there are cost-conscious ways to get that fresh-from-the-spa look and feel without having to spend money like a starlet. Since owner and aesthetician Tanis is a former cellular and molecular biologist, you might think this Eagle Rock spa would be overrun with highfalutin—and expensive—services. You'd be wrong. The spa's signature custom facial will run you $89—not bad considering the hour-long treatment kicks off with a thorough skin analysis before turning to a custom-blended mask, a choice of acid, enzyme, or manual exfoliation, and a shoulder and arm massage. But the real value comes in the add-ons; clients can opt for more intense exfoliation in the form of a $15 enzymatic peel or a $25 fruit acid peel. The spa also sells four different skincare lines, from Eminence Organics and Lotus Moon to Pharmaskincare and a set of signature house formulas—each of which hits a different budgetary sweet spot. The financial appeal of Westlake Korean spa, Wi Spa, isn't in the massages or skincare treatments; it's in simply entering the spa itself. For $25, visitors gain access to hot and cold tubs, dry and steam saunas, and the jimjilbang, a coed floor complete with five mineral saunas. Since the spa is open 24 hours a day, one entry can go a long way; spend an interlude between sauna sessions on the rooftop terrace or in the computer room, relax with a comic book in the library, or visit the gym, which is equipped with treadmills, ellipticals, bikes, and weights. Thanks to the spa's specials, the entry fee drops to $15 on weekdays between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m., all day Tuesday, and any time during the week of your birthday. One way to cut spa spending is to pick a treatment that takes care of multiple needs at once. That's just what the $75 botanical back treatment does at Purity Organic Spa—which, incidentally, is helmed by Carol Zubrin, a celebrity facialist to Ashlee Simpson and Missi Pyle and a featured expert on Style Network's What I Hate About Me. Primarily a skin treatment—it includes botanical sugar grain exfoliation, extractions, and a mineral mud mask with steamed towels to purify the pores—the 45-minute session also includes light kneading of the back with warmed oils and hot stones. Skip the full massage and save at this Universal City spa. For many, spray tans, like mani-pedis and waxing, are a frequent habit, but the cost can add up quickly. Santa Monica sunless tanning salon Chocolate Sun has seized on this insight, offering not only reasonable prices for full-body spray tans ($55), but also a $30 upper-body tan for times when clients aren't concerned about how they look in bikinis. Each spritz also functions as a nourishing skin treatment because Chocolate Sun's in-house sunless solutions leave bodies with a streak-free tan and moisturize the skin with an organic blend of botanicals, herbs, and antioxidants.
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The Leadership Symposium grew out of a need for Senior ROTC Cadets to gain a better appreciation
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Kuala Lumpur Climate & Weather
Kuala Lumpur Climate and Weather
The climate of Kuala Lumpur is typically tropical, which means simply that it is hot and humid all year round, with very little variation in temperature and no distinct seasons. The mercury hovers in the region of 86°F (30°C) all year, but can reach around 95°F (35°C). Rainfall in the city is heavy and storms occur year-round, usually in the late afternoon. The showers often come as a relief to visitors who are unaccustomed to the heat, and don't generally disrupt itineraries very much - just be sure to carry a lightweight rain jacket at all times. Another balm for the heat is the amount of air-conditioned buildings that visitors are likely to spend time in; Kuala Lumpur is a modern city well-equipped to handle its tropical climate. June, July and August receive slightly less rainfall on average and for this reason many recommend them as the best months to travel to the city.
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Without a doubt, this is Costa Rica's premium rafting adventure. Pacuare offers paddlers 18 miles of Class III and Class IV rapids amidst some of the most gorgeous scenery possible.
From its base at night, see the glowing lava flowing down frequently
This cone-shaped volcano exploded violently in 1968 and since then its activity has been constant with regular surges now and then for the delight of visitors coming to see it from all around the world.


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Jeremiah's new bike
Another Southby moment, my friend Jeremiah Owyang and I saw each other while stopped at an intersection. We were riding in the cold-ass rain, David was doing a semi track stand and Jeremiah walking pasts says, "Hey Byron, what's that you're riding?"
A month or so later, he's got a Tern and loves it. He just posted on Facebook.
Anyone into the Transformers? No, not the Michael Bay version, the bicycle version.
Thanks to my bud Byron Dl, bike evangelist, who I've known for over a decade, he connected me with Tern Bicycles to borrow on loan this 24 lbs (10 kilo) folding 9 speed bicycle that can be tucked under a desk, in a Caltrain luggage rack or in the back of the two door car or in an Uber. Other features include dual brakes, removable pedals, and Shimano gears.
It takes four steps to collapse it, which I'm sure I can do in seconds once I get used to it.
Discussing riding, and getting in shape, Jeremiah also said, "Something changed in me, maybe I had a baby, maybe I care more about things over me, maybe I want to get healthy. It's about freedom really."
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When: Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The KOMA Beef Cattle Conference begins at 4 p.m., January 16, 2018, at the Springfield Livestock Marketing Center in Springfield, Mo.
The KOMA (4 – State) Beef Cattle Conference is a joint effort by the Extension Services in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. It is designed to provide the latest information on beef cattle production, marketing, economics, nutrition and forage utilization.
Presenters and presentations at the meeting include:
Dr. David Lalman, Professor – Harrington Chair Extension Beef Cattle Specialist Oklahoma State University, will be discussing "matching genetic potential to forage resources"; Dr. Jared Decker, Assistant Professor of Beef Cattle Genetics Extension and Computational Genomics at the University of Missouri – Columbia, will be discussing "genetics for cow efficiency and profit"; Dr. Craig Payne, University of Missouri – Columbia Associate Extension Professor Veterinary Medicine, will be discussing "current thinking on parasite control in cattle"
The evening meal will be catered by Mingles in Springfield, Mo.
"That same evening, agriculture businesses that have supported the event will have booths set up. Attendees can visit and learn how their products can help improve your beef cattle operation," said Dr. Patrick Davis, county program director for Cedar County Extension.
To register or for details on this event, contact the Cedar County MU Extension Center at (417) 276 – 3313 or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Also contact the office immediately if you need accommodations because of a disability, need to relay emergency medical information or need special arrangements if the building is evacuated.
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Dr. Paul Rose appears on CBS Miami explaining revolutionary robotic hair transplant procedure.
High-Tech Transplant Procedure For Hair Loss
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Two-thirds of American men experience hair loss by age 35. However, there's a new high tech hair transplant procedure coming to the rescue and Miami is one of the few cities that have it.
There are only 15 ARTAS Robotic System machines in the U.S. and Dr. Paul Rose of the Hair Transplant Institute of Miami has one of them.
ARTAS provides hair restoration with a less labor intensive procedure allowing more follicular units to be transplanted in less time. The robotic system plucks out healthy hair follicles and puts them back into areas of the head that are going bald.
A patient named "Jose" is 26-years old and decided to undergo the procedure.
"I noticed that I started losing my hair when I was 22 or 23. If I lose it when I'm 50 60, it's okay. It's the natural process. But not so young," Jose said.
All the hair on the back of Jose's head was graphed out; the healthy hair follicles are chosen at random. After they are individually cleaned and prepped, those hairs are then implanted on the top of his head.
The patient remains under local anesthesia the entire procedure.
"Actually throughout the process I didn't feel any pain at all," Jose said.
Hair transplant procedures are usually tedious and done by hand but ARTAS speeds it up significantly.
"It can take three to four hours to harvest 15-hundred graphs, with the robot that could be half the time," Dr. Rose explained.
In the traditional procedure, a piece of the scalp is cut off and sewn back together. With the ARTAS, there are no scars.
"I've always liked to wear my hair short and I have that possibility with this procedure without any scars," Jose said.
Jose's hair should grow back thicker in the next 6 months.
"I'm sure that when I have my full hair back I'm going to feel better about myself," Jose said.
The ARTAS system is an expensive choice, it can cost anywhere from $6,000 to $15,000.
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Reverse Trick or Treating Prank Takes Candy to the Street
Here's a nice, friendly Halloween prank. (We promise there's no Slender Man involved.) A friendly group walked around with candy and a door with a sign on it (advising people to knock, we guess).
Once people knocked, they were treated like Trick or Treaters and given candy and compliments. Perhaps the real prank was that the guy opened the door backwards almost every single time and nobody noticed. Awwwww, snap! Now *that's* a prank!


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Rita Rocks' Nicole Sullivan only gave birth to her second baby boy a few months ago, but she's already off to a good start with losing the baby weight and she plans to keep it that way through the holidays!
Nicole talked to reporters at The Hollywood Reporters Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast on Friday about her upcoming plans for the holidays.
With the new addition to her family and working on Rita Rocks, Nicole has had a very busy year and is looking forward to a little R&R.
"We are going to go up to Santa Barbara for New Years and sort of nestle up in a cozy cabin," Nicole told OK! "So that will be very exciting!"
So what's Nicole's holiday wish list?
"That my two-year -old not have a melt down!," she told reporters.
Hopefully her two year old will make that milestone, while her newborn sons makes his own too!
"He is doing really good," Nicole told OK! "He is smiling away and holding his head up on his own. We are getting some little giggles, too!"
Her newborn son is doing well and so is she with losing the baby weight!
"I am doing Jenny Craig now," Nicole explained. "I am the Jenny Craig spokesperson now so it's going great and it's been a slow and steady pace with a couple of pounds a week and it's been awesome."
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"We have a whole plan," Nicole dished to OK! "My counselor has a whole book on it and it's great because Christmas week the goal is to maintain and she says that you don't have to lose anything Christmas week. That's going to be a win."
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Europe Week Ahead: Currency Wars at G-20
Currency wars are likely to dominate the G-20 meeting in Moscow even if most countries will try not to make any explicit accusations. Dow Jones's Andrea Tryphonides and Market Watch's Sara Sjolin look at whether the euro zone is joining the war and whether Japan is trying to step back.
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The issues which had the most direct impact on U.K. consumers came from high street banks, where workers were driven by sales targets towards actions like the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, now the most costly bank mis-selling scandal in U.K. banking history.
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I just finished Portal 2 Co-Op.It's fun, and challenging!
The challenging part is finding a friend, establishing dominance so he or she doesn't hog the food and listens to your orders, and then getting him or her to cooperate right?Inkidu's Co-Op code circa 1995.
Actually no. Some of the puzzles would be challenging even if you were doing them alone.Plus you have to coordinate together and get timing down as well. :p
New Mortal Kombat is fun and good, the story-mode is nice.Only.. seriously F Shao Kunt in his ass with a rusty rake. Hammer-Throw, Stun, Spear, Get up, Hammer-Throw, Stun Spear. Etc. Etc. 2 rounds of this, YOU LOSE.Gonna get a night's sleep and try his big ass tomorrow again. So glad he isn't playable.
Is the X-ray shatter things as awesome as it looks? @_@
Mortal Kombat has always excited me... not for what it's done, but what it can do. First Konquest Mode was shit, then the next iteration showed some promise, then the next was an actually competent third person brawler.I think to myself, with all the effort they're putting into MK9, the Konquest Mode must be great!...No. Its pretty much the old kind of Konquest, only replace the pre-fight text with cutscenes.Thanks guys, thanks for aliening all except your tourny goer fans >.> Hope you're happy with them, because you've lost me and many others.Mortal Kombat is dead to me.
Nether Realm Studios needs to fire whoever came up with boss immunity. He or she is not a human being.
The tip to beating Shao Kunt is this: Play Dirty.My tips for the boss character fights:Liu Kang vs Goro: I wanna ride mah bicycle I wanna ride mah bike all day long.Liu Kang vs Samsung: see above.Kung Lao vs Kintaro: Spam Square, seems to be something he has a hard time blocking.Liu Kang vs Shao Kunt: Jump away from him, spam low fireball, if he gets close, jump away rinse & repeat.Stryker vs Kintaro: Combo the shit outta him.*special* Sub Zero vs Goro&Kintaro: Square Triangle Square, combo spam that and they'll go down.Raiden vs Shao Kunt: Jump away, wait for Taunt/Spear throw, teleport, uppercut rinse & repeat.
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When life is fair, all municipal and county entities in both Beaufort and Jasper counties will heed the words of Alexander Graham Bell and apply them to intergovernmental cooperation when he said "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
With the recently closed door as it applies to economic development between the two counties, when Jasper County opted to pursue a more favorable alliance with the Southern Carolina Economic Development Alliance, another opportunity for pooling their resources for the greater good is on the horizon in the form of the federally mandated Metropolitan Planning Organization, MPO.
Now this MPO is designed to deal primarily with transportation issues and projects proposed within its yet to be approved boundaries and funding for it will come from the Federal government through the South Carolina Department of Transportation, a scary thought indeed to have those two bloated bodies determining funding for anything.
However putting that concern aside, the most recent proposed area for this MPO to control includes almost all of Southern Beaufort County, the municipalities of Beaufort, and Port Royal, plus some areas of unincorporated Jasper County along the important Interstate 95 corridor and Hardeeville. These areas have the most potential for city like growth in the next 20 years thus increasing the pool of money that could be received from the feds.
The key to this would appear to be once again who gets a vote on where the funds are spent, control, control, control. This issue alone was prominent in the demise of the economic alliance between the two counties.
Nevertheless, lo and behold, the proposal being circulated would give almost equal voting rights to all of the municipalities and the two counties. Since based on population alone, which was the defining factor in having to create this MPO; Hilton Head could rightly claim they should have more than one vote thus greater influence in the distribution of funded projects in the future.
To their credit they appear to be receptive to the heretofore-unacceptable notion to most governmental entities that as Mr. Spock stated, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."
If this spirit of cooperation was to continue and the guidelines were approved by all involved parties, the newly formed MPO could begin to address and support important transportation issues that affect all of us such as the repaving and widening of I-95. With the new redistricting structures in all of the legislatures and our increased representation in Columbia and even Washington, perhaps presenting a united front under a common cause to the benefit of all parties would begin to dissolve the current atmosphere of distrust among local governments.
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ProPublica's prize-winning ways, and more questions about Ryan's role
1. How does ProPublica do it? Can it scale?
I received an intriguing email alert last week from ProPublica – the non-profit organization that, according to its mission statement, does "journalism in the public interest." The email announced that ProPublica's "nursing home inspection" tool now has a completely searchable database of "140,000-plus" reports from government inspections of these facilities for seniors, many of which have been plagued by charges of poor or even abusive care.
That reminded me that as its fifth anniversary approaches, ProPublica deserves full-blown feature treatment.
The small, New York-based organization, which has already won two Pulitzer Prizes, has done a slew of amazing reporting projects that have combined old-fashioned shoe leather with ingenious use of modern technology to gather and present compelling stories and provide ongoing resource materials. It has tackled subjects ranging from political ad spending to doctors getting payments from drug companies to presidential pardons to this nursing home project. And that's all in addition to an array of killer one-off stories, such as its report on speaking fees paid to Chicago Tribune editorial board member and syndicated columnist Clarence Page by a group lobbying to be removed from a State Department terrorist list, or the story about Magnetar, the secretive financial firm.
ProPublica was founded in late 2007 with a $10 million grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler, the former Golden West Financial Corp chief executives who made a fortune when they sold the giant savings and loan to Wachovia Bank just before the mortgage bubble burst. Under the leadership of Paul Steiger, the former Wall Street Journal managing editor who conceived the project with the Sandlers, ProPublica has since attracted grants from other major foundations, as well as several hundred smaller individual donations.
Steiger now deploys 34 reporters, researchers and what he calls "data journalists." Their impact is magnified not only by how cleverly they mine and present data related to important issues but also by the partnerships Steiger and his team have forged with other news organizations, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR and Politico. These outlets, which often contribute reporters to supplement ProPublica's resources, co-publish the resulting work through their own channels.
I'd like to see a story about how Steiger and his team conceive projects, use technology (especially data mining and social media), assess the impact of their work and control quality. I'd also like to know how they divide editorial responsibility with their publishing partners and what mechanisms, if any, they have built in to hold themselves accountable to those who dispute their reports. After all, a non-profit that focuses on targets like nursing homes, major financial institutions or hydro-fracking (the alleged dangers of which have been a near obsession at ProPublica) could easily develop a God complex and consider itself infallible.
Beyond that, I'd like to know how ProPublica manages its finances and what its long-term business plan is. According to ProPublica's website: "We spend more than 85 cents out of every dollar on news – almost the exact opposite of traditional print news organizations, even very good ones, that devote about 15 cents of each dollar spent to news."
Of course that's in large part because ProPublica doesn't print or deliver physical products or pay squadrons of ad sales people.
Equally important, ProPublica can pick its spots rather than cover everything a typical newspaper feels compelled to report on. There's a lot more I'd like to know about that model. Its reporters are paid well, so I suspect the discipline of targeting carefully is the key. That could suggest important strategic lessons for more conventional news publishers who, at a time of declining resources, have typically chosen to spread those resources lightly across all beats, even-lighter news and news covered by everyone else, rather than focusing on harder reporting that counts and that people will remember.
ProPublica's annual report says it runs on a yearly budget of about $10 million, and the funds seem to come mostly from year-to-year donations. Are there plans to build an endowment to ensure that the organization will be more than a passing trend subject to the whims and fortunes of annual donors?
With that in mind, how about a sidebar or another story exploring why, in light of ProPublica's success in supplementing the dwindling resources and resolve of for-profit news organizations to do ProPublica's high-octane reporting, someone like Steiger couldn't scale this model dramatically. Why not try to go to 20 or 30 billionaires and remind them that democracy, good government and free markets depend on the honest-broker information that good journalism provides and get them to endow an average of $1 billion each to create a $20 billion "Democracy Through Journalism" Fund? Assuming a 5 percent annual return, that would allow for a billion dollars a year – 100 times what ProPublica now spends – and put 3,000 to 4,000 serious journalists on beats across the country. Could that work?
(Conflict note: ProPublica, uses Press+, the publishing e-commerce system that I co-founded and of which I am co-CEO, to solicit donations on its website.)
2. Defanging Ryan:
This important story by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin and Jake Sherman published in Politico over the weekend is the best of many raising questions about Paul Ryan's role in the Romney campaign. Rather than Ryan becoming the guy who offers conservative policy specifics to supplement Mitt Romney's more general stump speech appeals, "the congressman's supporters fear just the opposite has happened … The congressman's role now is … a dutiful No. 2, tossing out attack lines … [M]any Republicans believe the solution is not more Mitt, but more Ryan."
Well, I hope some campaign reporter is not going to make me wait for "Game Change II" or the next installment of the Politico e-book series about the campaign to take me inside and tell me who in the Romney campaign (or was it Romney himself?) had what conversations with Ryan before (or was it after?) he was chosen and told him he was going to have to lose all that wonky specificity because specifics were not the campaign's strategy.
This is not only a matter of curiosity – of wanting to be a fly on the wall during what could have been some dramatic conversations. Knowing what happened here will tell us a lot about Ryan. There's been much written and said by Ryan's critics that what he epitomizes more than ideological determination is a Washington-style careerism that saw him arrive at the Capitol as an intern and make all the right moves and connections to become a leader of the congressional Republicans. How he reacted if he was told before he was chosen that he would have to change his act to get the number two spot is likely to shed some light on that, as would how he handled it, and continues to handle it, if he was only given those orders after he was chosen.
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I agree we need ProPublica-and as a avid consumer of news it's my opinion we need more objective reporting, rather than less, and far less opinion-oriented presentation of "facts" skewed to whatever. It's not just how the information is gathered, it's the presentation and the tone of that presentation. But ProPublica needs more than millionaires and billionaires to support it in order to be credible.


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Incompetence in Psychiatry: Readers Weigh In
Eight-nine readers responded to the poll. The poll makes no claim to scientific validity, but I know you're sure as hell interested in the answers ...
The major finding: 32 percent of you - nearly one in three - thought that more than two-thirds of psychiatrists were incompetent. One in five of you (19 percent) pegged psychiatric incompetence in the 51 percent- 66 percent range (more than half, up to two-thirds).
So - more than half of you think that more than half of psychiatrists are incompetent.
Over on the other end of the scale, just one in four of you (25 percent) thought that a third or less of psychiatrists were incompetent. Only one third of this twenty-five percent (less than one in ten overall) regarded ten percent or less of psychiatrists in the incompetent range. One in five overall (19 percent) responded in the one-third or more to one-half incompetence range.
Okay, how much incompetence in the field are we willing to tolerate? One-third? How comfortable would you feel about boarding a flight if you thought one-third of the pilots were incompetent? How about another branch of medicine, say brain surgery? Nope - doesn't cut it. Neither does 10 percent, nor, for that matter, does one percent.
So here is what I hear you saying: Three-quarters of you (75 percent) are telling me that you think that a full one-third or more of the people we entrust our lives to have no business practicing psychiatry. More than nine in ten of you (92 percent) are telling me that you think at least one in ten psychiatrists is incompetent.
Mind you, this poll is about your perceptions rather than reality, but your perceptions are what's important. And if your views are even the slightest bit representative of a wider patient-family member population, then - truly - interventions of biblical dimensions are called for.
Before we get carried away, the practice of psychiatry hardly lends itself to objective judging criteria. In my own field of journalism, a 2010 Gallup Poll reports that only 25 percent of the American public has confidence in newspapers and only 22 percent in television news. (I'm not sure which is the more frightening interpretation - that so many have lost confidence in my profession or that an uncomfortably high percentage of the public actually believes the crap they come across in the media.)
Thus, to be fair to psychiatry, any discipline that operates in the subjective realm is bound to draw a lot of heat, justified or not.
But there is another factor involved: Most incompetent people do not know they are incompetent. A 2000 NY Times article cites research in support of the proposition that the incompetent lack the skills to monitor and evaluate their own performance, thereby perpetuating their clueless behavior.
Research shows that the vast majority of people rate themselves as "above average" across a broad band of abilities. In one study that tested subjects for grammar, for instance, those who had scored around the bottom guessed that they had scored well above the mean. Conversely, the highly skilled are likely to underestimate their competence.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson: "He who knows best knows how little he knows."
Is your psychiatrist aware of that?
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- indigorhythms said...
I am personaly judging them as deficient based on the lack of efficacy of antidepressant medications. I wonder if others are doing the same?
- January 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I think this represents our dissatisfaction with our psychiatrists more than true incompetence.
Here is how I would answer the question:
I've had experience with roughly 10 psychiatrists. 1 was part of the Yale Psych hospital which I believe to be an evil place and in which it would be nearly impossible, because of the limitations of the institution to do a good job as a doctor. He was, however, terrible.
Of the rest, I'd say about or 4 seemed pretty bad - one quite bad. Now, if we look at this and give me and the docs equal benefit of the doubt, then I would say two were bad. So, out of 10, 3 were bad. This is still not great and even the psychs I've liked I haven't loved but, I think it has a lot to do with the way the psychiatric profession limits them and shapes their hands-on practice.
So, 3 out of ten bad. It's bad, but I think it's the inverse of what the poll found.
- January 18, 2012 at 4:40 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Indigorhythms. Your reason is a very good reason. I'm with you all the way.
- January 19, 2012 at 1:17 AM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Anonymous. You are absolute correct. The poll is a measure of our dissatisfaction. Your 3 out of ten is perfectly consistent with the poll findings. Other responders may have made higher estimates, but your estimate is a damning one, and your in the overall majority if we use 3 in 10 as the cut-off for a damning estimate.
- January 19, 2012 at 1:26 AM
- Smitty said...
There has to be some incompetence, because the good docs are practicing in a vacuum, don't get much feedback, don't ask for it, and receive almost no quality control!!!!
I don't know how we as patients can be giving you a good data set, as each of us sees only one of these good doctors at a time.
But, I do know that a very well respected psychologist in my university town, had told me point blank, Smitty, there are NO good psychiatrists in our town!
- January 19, 2012 at 8:42 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Smitty. I'm very glad you brought this up. There is absolutely no feedback loop in psychiatry. Who is going to tell a practicing psychiatrist he or she is doing a bad job? How would a pdoc even know if he or she needs to make some course corrections? In almost every other line of work there are reality checks. I can't think of any in psychiatry, other than someone will notice if you don't show up.
- January 19, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Amy Karon said...
Terrific poll and post. I'm so glad you're addressing this issue. Makes me think of Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker last fall (discussed here on NPR) about why doctors, unlike writers and professional athletes, don't have someone commenting on their work and pushing them to improve. The best psychiatrists I've seen -- and they're a minority -- have been at teaching hospitals, where this is more likely to happen. But such environments also tend to select for the best.
What to do about the rest? Psychiatrists need to be better regulated -- in Wisconsin, serious disciplinary actions against doctors is rare, with some severe consequences (see: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/111767079.html).
I think another answer is educating patients about what they should expect from psychiatrists. A friend recently told me that her psychiatrist plays music and brings animals with him to sessions, doesn't ask her about her symptoms or side effects, and refills her prescriptions for benzodiazepines and Ambien without comment. She had no idea that this was inadequate treatment.
- January 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I think a second poll might be interesting if it looks at the reasons people think psychiatrists are incompetent. For me, it has to do with personality and attitude towards patients, as well as the thoroughness (or lack thereof) of their investigation/questioning.
- January 21, 2012 at 6:11 AM
Your doc can tell you that he, or she, graduated in the 3% range. You can see all the accolades, diplomas, certificates upon their walls. Yet what many do not understand is; there is the TOP 3% and the bottom 3% and all those accolades, diplomas, and certificates are all the same regardless of which end they measured.
When all the time you get is 15 minutes, they scribble the entire time you speak, you have to repeat yourself because they didn't hear you from the get go, and they are too eager to up a med or hand a new one as you go out the door... then they aren't truly treating you.
Also, when every live long thing is "illness related" but no 3 can agree on your illness and 2 argue over 1's diagnosis or decide that you really have maybe 2 more illnesses in addition to - that warrants 1-2 more meds... then really.. really... really
- January 21, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Corinna West said...
Hey, thanks for the blog on not using the term, "antispychiatry." For some reason my Google alert didn't pick that up yet.
I was one who voted for 10% or less incompetent. As I think back, all of my psychiatrists were smart, educated people doing the best they can. However, medical literature and medical education is so corrupted that docs aren't taught the truth anymore. 1boringoldman.com does an excellent job of explaining this. Doctors can only find truth through their own off the clock efforts. Med students and practicing doctors usually have very intense schedules that limit their off the clock reading into the kind of things we've learned.
Plus it's emotionally difficult to read that you've been harming people you wanted to help. Many more people in recovery know the true story on meds because it's a good news story to us, so it's much easier to read and keep reading on our free time. It tells us we can be free again. It takes a lot of digging to come a place of intellectual honesty about deciding what is true. I read about 150 research articles, 15 books, and went to two conferences before I was sure that Whitaker was right.
Docs have strikes against them for that kind of intense and rigorous digging: the number of hours they work and the pain they must go through to see that conclusion.
- January 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Amy. Excellent points. Funny thing - when I was facilitating a DBSA support group, we the facilitators sought out feedback from the other facilitators, especially if confronted with a novel situation. We wanted to be able to handle the next situation better. We also needed the moral support that a coach can give.
So here we were - not professionals but with a very strong feedback loop, one that allowed for even novices to jump in at the deep end and improve exceptionally fast.
Psychiatrists don't have this. Their patients are the only feedback they get, and - guess what - the incompetent pdocs son't listen.
- January 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Anonymous. This is an old mantra of mine: sending a patient out the door with a prescription is not treatment. :)
- January 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Corinna. It was your feedback that got me to swear off using "antipsychiatry." (Ah, the feedback thing!) Re "off-the-clock." I used to joke that I went to more psych conferences than psychiatrists, and it was true. Plus I kept current with the research, which they didn't, plus I had constant contact with individuals in the real world, plus my own lived experience. Not only that, I researched outside of specialities - different illnesses, different disciplines, on and on.
Often my best insights come from reading stuff way outside of psychiatry. Like you said, pdocs don't have this luxury.
So yes, by the time I read Whitaker's book, like you I knew he was speaking with a lot more authority than the top people in the field.
Pity. As you say, the pdocs you have encountered are very smart people.
Re the good news/bad news angle: I hadn't thought of it that way. I wish pdocs could do more for us, but I've always felt empowered by the fact that they can't and that it is up to us.
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I read in the Butler Eagle recently that the Butler County commissioners are seeking a state grant to pay for the development of a trail in Alameda Park. The commissioners are submitting an application to the state Department of Community & Economic Development for $250,000. The county would be obligated to spend $50,000 to receive the grant.
If commissioner Bill McCarrier wants a trail, he should write a check out of his own checkbook and leave the taxpayers alone. Commissioner Jim Eckstein said the cost of the project was too high, even with state funding. Eckstein also said the state is in poor financial shape, so the county should keep the cost of the trail down.
I agree with Eckstein. Too few people would use this trail anyway.


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From 12th to 16th August the PKRA Worldtour 2009 takes place in Barra do Cunhaú direct in front of our beautiful Blue Dream Resort (www.bluedreamresort.com.br) with our IKO Kiteboarding Center Brazil Kiteboarding (www.brazil-kiteboarding.com)
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New 4Wheel Products - January 2014Posted in Product Reviews on November 21, 2013
AEV 3.8L Supercharger
The 3.8L V-6 found in '07-'11 Jeep Wrangler JKs is no powerhouse, but AEV can help remedy that situation with the new Eaton Twin Vortices Series supercharger. In testing the Twin Vortices Series supercharger provided 40 percent more horsepower and 37 percent more torque at the wheels, with a conservative 5 psi of boost. The system is self-contained and nearly maintenance free, includes a liquid-to-air intercooler and Diablo handheld programmer, and is 50-state emissions compliant.
Information: American Expedition Vehicles
248.926.0256, www.aev-conversions.com.
Baja Rack SPY Light System
The ability to adjust auxiliary light angle on the fly has been something reserved for Baja 1000 race vehicles—until now. New from BajaRack is the SPY Light System for LED light bars, which is incorporated into Baja's line of flat utility racks for Jeep and FJ Cruiser vehicles. With the flip of a dash-mounted switch, the SPY actuator rolls the light from a prone to driving position. The SPY accommodates Baja Designs, Rigid, and Vision X LED light bars and comes with mounts and stainless steel hardware. Light bar not included.
Information: Baja Rack
888.538.0588, www.bajarack.com.
MetalCloak Overland Fenders
MetalCloak has incorporated some of the features of its extreme-clearance JK Overline tube flares into the new street/trail Overland model. It's a one-piece tube flare, in contrast to the two-piece Overline high-line model. The Overland is 6 inches at its widest point and provides more aft tire coverage than the Overline. What's more, the rear flares are contoured to clear full-width rear bumpers. Options include replacement aluminum inner front fenders and a choice raw metal or black textured powdercoat.
Information: MetalCloak
916.631.8071, www.metalcloak.com.
Nitro Super Duty Gears to 4.30
Nitro Gear gives owners of '11-current Super Dutys the axle gearsets they need to run 40-inch tires. A 4.10 ratio is recommended for 35- to 36-inch tires, and 4.30s are great for 37s-40s. Installation kits for the 37-spline, 101⁄2-inch axles are also available.
Information: Nitro Gear & Axle
916.673.6464, www.nitro-gear.com.
Performance Accessories Premium F-150 Lift
The Performance Accessories Premium Lift System for '13 Ford F-150 pickups allows the vehicle to run up to 35-inch-diameter tires without affecting the factory ride, traction controls, or warranty. This system consists of a leveling kit and body lift that includes nylon-reinforced body blocks, aluminum upper coil spring spacers, polyurethane intermediate spring spacers, powdercoated steel brackets, high-grade hardware, and a CNC-machined steering extension. The system also includes urethane wheelwell Gap Guards.
Information: Performance Accessories
928.636.7080, www.p-a-g.net.
Smittybilt Trail Tank
Smittybilt's new CompAir Trail Tank uses a 10-pound CO2 bottle. It is equipped with an adjustable regulator for a maximum pressure of 250 psi. The system is capable of providing 32 cfm, enough to run small air tools in addition to quickly inflating tires. Completely portable, this CompAir comes with a heavy-duty carry bag.
Information: Smittybilt Inc.
888.717.5797, www.smittybilt.com.
ARE Overland Shell
ARE's new style of shell is designed to complement fender flares and other blackwork common on today's trucks. It is a cab-high style that features flat black protective coating from Bullet Liner in high-wear areas. Underneath the coating the cap is painted using OEM color-match codes; the paintjob is backed by a limited lifetime warranty. Applications are available for popular current-model pickups. Options include roof racks, windows, and lighting.
Information: ARE
800.649.4ARE, www.4are.com.
OMC XJ Rock Krusher
OMC Offroad intro- duces a high-approach-angle winch bumper for '84-'01 Jeep XJ Cherokees and '86-'92 MJ Comanches. The Rock Krusher includes 1⁄2-inch-thick D-ring tabs and two notches for Hi-Lift jacking. The bumper's 3⁄8-inch-thick winch plate accommodates popular winches. The bumper is CNC manufactured from 3⁄16-inch steel and shipped in raw steel. Grade 8 and L9 mounting hardware is included, as are replacement steering-box bolts. A stinger hoop is optional.
Information: OMC Offroad
951.534.4843, www.omcoffroad.com.
Ballistic 3-Link Brackets
Ballistic Fabrication offers adjustable three-link towers manufactured to fit a variety of tube sizes and lift heights. They are laser-cut from 1⁄4-inch-thick mild steel and contoured on a CNC press brake. The brackets are coped for axle diameters ranging from 21⁄2 to 4 inches. Custom sizes can also be made.
Information: Ballistic Fabrication
520.888.4441, www.ballisticfabrication.com.
Rugged Ridge All-Terrain Floor Liners
Rugged Ridge has taken a completely new approach to floor protection. Unlike most floor liners, which are constructed from an extruded sheet of plastic, Rugged Ridge's All-Terrain Floor Liners are injection molded for superior performance and durability. Injection molding, though more expensive to develop, enables Rugged Ridge to create a floor liner with a precise fit and a deeply formed perimeter wall for maximum coverage.
Information: Rugged Ridge
LRG103 Radial 12-SpokeRim
The Large Rim Group has created a new one-piece, cast aluminum, 12-spoke rim with simulated rivets and covered lug nuts that are available in either chrome or a black milled finish. 48 part numbers are available in 17-, 18-, 20-, and 22-inch diameters and 9-, 10-, and 14-inch widths, with multiple backspacing and bolt pattern options.
Information: Large Rim Group
855.577.5633, www.lrgrims.com.
Zone Ram 1500 Body Lift
Zone Offroad Products now offers a 11⁄2-inch body lift for '09-'13 Ram 1500 trucks. The lift works on both 4WD and 2WD Rams. High-strength grade 10.9 body bolts are provided for all body and bed mounts along with Zone Offroad's crushproof body blocks. Ground strap extension and bed support spacers are included along with all the necessary hardware to safely lift your truck 11⁄2 inches.
Information: Zone Offroad Products
888.998.ZONE, www.zoneoffroad.com.


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Nevertheless, the Hofstra campus is abuzz with talk about the upcoming debate. "It's really exciting," said Chris Remington, 21, a senior from central New Jersey who is majoring in radio production and economics. "I haven't seen the campus so politically motivated. To be part of the national discussion is empowering."
No doubt, the presidential race is keeping Hofstra's student journalists on the move. WRHU sent teams of reporters to the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Bill Goddenough, 21, of Mamaroneck, in Westchester County, covered the Democratic convention and interviewed Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, both of whom have previously run for president. "It's a busy season for us at Hofstra," Goddenough said.
Kayla Rivara, 21, a political science and global studies major from Shoreham, in Suffolk, who is also with WRHU, said she was pleased to see West at Hofstra. "I'm hoping to hear from Cornel West what we won't be hearing during the debates," Rivara said minutes before the speaker's arrival. The candidates, no matter their political party, will talk about "Wall Street and Main Street," said Rivara, but "they will not talk about the people living on the streets."
"Americans don't want to reflect on the system," she continued. "It's easier to say, 'You're poor because you're lazy.'"
Sondra Townsend-Browne, deputy executive director of Nassau County's Economic Opportunity Commission, came to hear West speak. "Poverty isn't sexy," Townsend-Browne said. "The war on poverty wages on, [but] it's not a priority on anyone's agenda."
The keys to overcoming poverty in America are education and activism, said West, who has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard and Princeton, and who most recently authored "The Rich and the Rest of Us," one of his 20 books.
"Greatness has to do with the quality of [your] service to others," he said during his address.
Prof. Kelly Fincham, the adviser to the Long Island Report, said Hofstra's student journalists will blog and tweet from campus during the debate. Her hope, Fincham said, is that students become engaged in the political process because of the debate.
For more on Hofstra presidential debate events, check out www.hofstra.edu.


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Charles Orlando needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Looking for VERY cool icons to be developed. There are 16 icons in total, but this contest is for the first three. The winning artist will have a second project for the remainder of the icons for an additional $300.
Redesign three existing Application icons to assist in easy identification in the Vendio Application Marketplace.
First three to be redesigned: Vendio Counters (http://www.vendio.com/services/counters.html); Vendio Research (http://www.vendio.com/services/research.html), and Vendio Image Hosting (http://www.vendio.com/services/imag…sting.html)
Target Audience: Small to medium-sized organizations looking to: 1) Extend their brick-and-mortar business online; 2) Automate and/or build out their online selling; 3) Leverage multiple channels to sell their products (eBay, Amazon, comparison shopping)
Style/Tone: Approachable, accessible, reliable, bold, innovative
- iPhone-ish look/format- Perhaps block-ish to match the rest of the new site (not live, to be launched)- Elegant, yet friendly- Other companies we like: Volusion, Constant Contact
- Nothing 3D, too polished, or too flashy)- Nothing too grey- Nothing too cartoon-ish


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In 2011, James Blake'˜s self-titled debut gave listeners something they didn't know they wanted. As producer and songwriter, Blake laid his delicate falsetto over a mixture of reverb-laden U.K. dubstep and ambient music to captivating effect. With one foot in the old songwriting tradition and another in cutting-edge electronic sound craft, this became the 21st century singer-songwriter album that folks from an earlier time could only dream up in a pulpy sci-fi novel.
Since then, Blake has released two EPs, each showcasing opposite halves of his musical duality: "Enough Thunder,' featured some of his sparest ivory-tickling to date, while "Love What Happened Here' has him favoring the computer keyboard, unloading a veritable SD card of field recordings and synth lines into an overstuffed 15 minutes. Both striking, each suggested Blake treading down a different path toward his next major project.
The question for his sophomore LP was not which Blake would show—he has a dedicated side project for his producer-only endeavors—but in what ratio.
With "Overgrown,' Blake has arranged his talents in their most potent amalgam yet. Though it's most closely related to his debut album, "Overgrown' is more dynamic than the self-titled. He's switched out the doomed, ambient beats he once leaned on for layered rhythms that range from soul to house to hip-hop—or the James Blake version of them, anyway.
There is a through line in terms of tone on the album, but it isn't as pronounced as you may initially think. If Blake's debut felt like spending 40 minutes in a digital ice cave, "Overgrown' explores the snowy woods around its mouth. It's still blue, but more organic, expansive and in its own way, lush. These qualities are apparent from the get go of the album, as Blake hums a simple melody over the keys of a distant but recognizable piano. When the synth do come in the track's pre-chorus, it's with swells of light and endorphin, not binary-coded gloom. "Retrograde,' the album's deserved single, pulls a similar trick, but to a disorienting effect.
These moments of glee on "Overgrown' are underscored because of the relative cloudy atmosphere surrounding them. Even if Blake drops a ripe freestyle beat, on "Life Round Here,' for example, his deft songwriting won't betray the emotion he's after: "Part time life is the life round here / we're never done / everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day.' (Pretty sure he's not talking about football there.) When the RZA shows up on sore thumb "Take A Fall For Me' with comparatively ham-fisted verses, he isn't rapping about getting women, but losing one.
Still, even in the album's most dizzying and anxious moments (the Brian Eno-collab "Digital Lion,' hands down) there's always an inviting beat or mesmerizing soundscape to catch you. As both skilled songwriter and dub step maven, Blake has always been after your mind or your body. On "Overgrown,' he captures them at the same time.


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- INTERPOL Accra
Member since :
15 septembre 1958
Ghana Police Service
Law enforcement services in Ghana are provided by the following agencies of the Ministry of Interior:
- Ghana Police Service (GPS);
- Ghana Prisons Service;
- Ghana National Fire Service;
- Ghana Immigration Service;
- Narcotic Control Board;
- National Disaster Management Organization;
- Refugee Board.
Headed by an Inspector General of Police, and with a strength of more than 23,000 officers, the GPS is made up of regional and divisional commands across Ghana which each report directly to the Accra-based headquarters.
GPS objectives:
- Life and property protection;
- Crime detection and prevention;
- Disaster prevention and response;
- Regulation and monitoring of the entry, stay and exit of non-Ghanaians and travelling public;
- Development of an efficient and humane custodial reformatory system;
- Development of a good public relations system.
The Inspector General of Police is assisted by two Deputies – one responsible for administration, the other for operations:
- Human Resource Development;
- Welfare;
- Research, Planning and Information Communication and Technology;
- Strategic Direction and Monitoring;
- Finance.
- Legal and Special Duties;
- Logistics and Support Services;
- Operations;
- Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau;
- Criminal Investigation Department, which comprises the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Ghana.
INTERPOL Accra
An active member of the West African Police Chiefs' Committee (WAPCCO), Ghana was also the first African country to host an INTERPOL General Assembly (in 1976). Through INTERPOL Accra, the GPS cooperates actively both with other national law enforcement services but also regionally and internationally, in the fight against terrorism, internet fraud, money laundering, and trafficking in drugs, stolen vehicles, human beings, small arms and light weapons.
Staffed by nearly twenty police officers, INTERPOL Accra is part of the GPS Criminal Investigation Department and is therefore directly accountable to the Inspector General. Located at the national headquarters, the NCB performs all INTERPOL and international related assignments on behalf of GPS, and is its exclusive platform for all national investigations which need to go beyond the Ghanaian borders.
The NCB is responsible for the extradition and deportation of fugitives to other INTERPOL member countries and enjoys regular and effective cooperation from its partners both in the region and across the world.
INTERPOL Ghana conducts regular field operations in cooperation with the INTERPOL General Secretariat and other member countries, particularly in the areas of combating child trafficking and in the illegal trade in ivory, stolen vehicles and counterfeit medical products.
As part of a strategy to boost national security and prevent criminal activity in Ghana, INTERPOL Accra recently connected some of its national law enforcement partners to INTERPOL's I-24/7 network and databases, thus giving police across the country instant and automated access to INTERPOL's criminal databases. Kotoka International Airport and the two sea ports, in Tema and Takoradi Harbours, now have hands-on access to critical data on wanted persons, vehicles and stolen and lost travel documents in a matter of seconds. With this new capacity, Ghanaian police officers in the field can quickly determine if a person is a potential threat to national security.
Contrefaçon : des individus arrêtés et des marchandises saisies lors d'opérations menées dans le monde entier
Les hauts responsables de la sécurité régionale soutiennent le programme INTERPOL visant à renforcer l'action policière en Afrique de l'Ouest
INTERPOL lance une initiative pour renforcer la sécurité en Afrique
Tackling regional crime through global cooperation focus of INTERPOL meeting
Red Notices 1
ASAGBEKE Age today: 42 years old
Nationality: Ghana
Yellow Notices 5
RUTH Age today: 18 years old
Nationality: Ghana
PRISCILLA Age today: 21 years old
Nationality: Ghana
- 18th African Regional Conference - 2005 - Accra
- 45th INTERPOL General Assembly - 14-20 October 1976 - Accra
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Ken222004 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
xRM3 (pronounced xRM cubed)
We are starting a new Consulting and Development firm focused on Microsoft Dynamics CRM design, implementation, development, and project management. We primarily provide consulting and development services to Microsoft Partners but we will also acquire direct clients.
We focus primarily on providing consulting and development services to Microsoft Partners although we will also acquire direct clients. We market and sell directly to businesses, not consumers. We will be delivering these services to the cloud.
Looking for a new logo that reflects the concept of our xRM value. Meaning - it's not just CRM (Customer Relationship Management) but the 'x' can represent anything. X = Partner, Membership, Realtor, Accountant, Anything. The '3' is the cubed aspect - a 360 degree view but in 3d almost.
This logo will be the base for our branding and will be incorporated in our website, business cards, and deliverable project documents.
The logo should be:
1 - multi-color but the primary color should be a Robins Egg Blue
2 - Incorporate a cube that is slightly rounded at its points, like dice
3 - The '3' should be raised (higher than the letters) as you would see in a math formula or like the 'th' in 4th would be
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Not even 12 hours old, President Barack Obama's proposal to hike the minimum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25 was quickly rejected by House Speaker John Boehner.
"When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. At a time when Americans are still asking the question 'Where are the jobs?' why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people," Boehner asked Wednesday at a press conference.
That doesn't mean the proposal is completely dead in the water, though such an item stands a slim chance of being passed out of the Republican-controlled House as a stand-alone measure. It could get enacted as some sort of element of a package on the sequester or the budget that will inevitably need compromise.
— Steve Goldstein
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maartenvr brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 27 Designs von 15 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I need a nice, clean website designed for a construction company. I needs to be very nice, clean and elegant.
This is a website for a contruction company providing framing of houses, barns, patios, concrete work etc.
The website needs to have a clean look. It will be relatively simplewith only 3 menu items: Home, Projects, About/Contact. Note that the projects menu will have a drop-down coded in so best would be to have a horizontal menu bar, and no sidebar but feel free to show different ways of how it could be done.
I have placed a ZIP file with pictures that can be used, as well as the logo files at http://www.visualdevelopments.net/Oneel.zip
- Clean and easy on the eyes
- The background on the sides of the static layout should resemble a blueprint.
- Needs to include the National Home Warranty logo: http://www.nationalhomewarranty.com
- Could have some wood grains worked in somehow, but please be careful with this as I want to keep a real clean look.
- I'm looking for something unique, but don't know what, so if you can think of something, it would be welcome!
- Please included rollover colors/images etc for the menu, as well as the colors for the drop down.
- No dark/black backgrounds.


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Top Reasons to Live in Atalanta
- Shop Til You Drop: Atlantans have great shopping opportunities. There are plenty of one-of-a-kind boutiques, high-end stores and vintage shops in this city. To take in a variety of shops while enjoying the scenery, visit the Virginia Highlands or the Vinings Jubilee shopping districts.