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March 1, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – The 25th-ranked Florida State softball team lost two close ballgames on Friday, falling to Southern Miss and Troy in day one of the Renegade Classic at JoAnne Graf Field.
The Seminoles (10-8) were hurt by their inability to take advantage of run-scoring chances, going 4-for-33 with runners on base and 3-for-22 with runners in scoring position. Florida State left seven runners on base against the Golden Eagles and eight runners were stranded against the Troy Trojans (7-8). Florida State lost to Southern Miss, 2-1, and fell to Troy, 6-3.
Overall, Florida State batted .245 (13-for-53) and was paced by the hitting of redshirt sophomore Maddie O'Brien. After recording her big grand slam in Thursday night's win over Troy, O'Brien finished 2-for-4 on the day with one double, one RBI and two walks. Freshman Victoria East went 3-for-7 with a double, including a multiple-hit performance against Southern Miss.
Against Troy, Florida State lost its first game of the season when leading after six innings. The Seminoles surrendered five runs in the top half of the seventh in its 6-3 loss. Versus Southern Miss, Florida State tried to battle back from its one-run deficit with a rally in the seventh, but went three up and three down to fall late.
Southern Miss crossed the plate first in the top of the fourth inning in game one. Leadoff batter Caroline Walker led off with a slicing triple to left field, and Morgan McKeever followed with an RBI groundout to second baseman Kaitlin Allen to give the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead.
Morgan Bullock had a big at-bat with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning. She came to the plate with runners on first and second base and pulled a 1-0 pitch for a double to the right center gap to bring home Alex Kossoff and tie the game at 1-1. Kossoff reached base on a fielder's choice bunt and Kaitlin Allen added a walked, but was thrown out by shortstop Caroline Walker on the relay of Bullock's hit to end the inning.
The Golden Eagles responded with a big two-out hit of their own in the top of the fifth when Walker recorded another big base hit, a run-scoring single through the right side to make it 2-1 Southern Miss.
In game two, Troy notched a run in the top of the second inning when Caitlin Ortiz hammered a 1-2 pitch over the right field wall to give the Trojans an early 1-0 lead. Two errors by the Seminoles in the same inning nearly gave Troy more runs, but Monica Perry (6-5) struck out Ebony Wright to end the frame with runners on first and third base.
Florida State missed a golden opportunity for runs against Troy in the bottom of the second, loading the bases with no outs. O'Brien started the inning with a double to left center and advanced to third base on a single from Celeste Gomez. After Kossoff walked to load the bases, the Seminoles recorded three consecutive fielder's choice grounders that all went to home plate.
Gomez came through in the bottom of the second with a two-out, two-run lining double to the right center gap to put the Seminoles back on top at 2-1.
Troy loaded the bases in the top of the fifth off Perry after she walked dangerous hitter Hannah Renn with two outs. With Ortiz to the plate, Perry made a few smart pitches and jammed the hot-hitting first baseman into a pop-out to East at third base to keep the lead at 2-1.
O'Brien provided an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth when she recorded a sacrifice fly to left field to advance the Seminole lead to 3-1. O'Brien's fly ball scored Courtney Senas from third base, who led off the inning with a single through the left side.
The Trojans battled back and mounted five runs off Perry and the Seminoles in the top of the seventh. With the bases loaded and one out, Renn recorded a line-drive double to right field that landed just over the glove of right fielder Erika Hoffner to score two runs and tie the game at 3-3. Two batters later, Amanda Winters had the game-winning two-run single to right center to help the Trojans to victory.
Florida State looks to get back on track with a 12:15 p.m. matchup against Appalachian State on Saturday. Tournament will then proceed with the No. 1 and No. 4 seeds playing at 2:30 p.m., followed by the second and third seeds at 4:30 p.m.
Every game at this weekend's tournament is slated to be on CBS GameTracker. Follow updates for all Florida State games on the team's official Twitter handle – @FSU_Softball.

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Matt Shepley didn't expect to see homeless veterans in their mid-20s at the Veterans' Restoration Quarters in Asheville.
Matt Shepley didn't expect to see homeless veterans in their mid-20s at the Veterans' Restoration Quarters in Asheville.
After returning from service with the Marines in 2009, the Marshall native said he was taken aback by how many young soldiers were returning from war with nowhere to go. Bothered by it and wanting to find a way to help, Shepley reached out to Veterans Helping Veterans founder Ted Stevens, who served as a combat medic with the Air Force during Vietnam. He was also homeless for two years while living in California.
"I had been very successful in my life and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, it was like one day I was living quite well and the next thing I was homeless; for two years I stayed homeless," Stevens said. "I realized that all of the blessings that I had received in my life, I didn't share them with anybody; I just hoarded them, and that's why they were taken away from me."
Stevens now runs Veterans Helping Veterans, a shelter and resource center in Durham that offers retraining and therapy programs. It was created as a "one-stop resource center" for veterans returning from war who are having trouble navigating the different resources available to them.
Shepley wants to offer the same services to veterans in Western North Carolina by creating a Veterans Helping Veterans satellite campus in Asheville. He's purchased 3 acres of land in West Asheville, which he plans to develop into a sustainable community for veterans who lack permanent housing. In addition to housing, an education center will help men and women gain skills in renewable energy and agriculture.
Shepley teamed up with local consultant Tim Sadler, who said he sees Veterans Helping Veterans as a way to set right what the country got so wrong with Vietnam veterans such as his father.
"They were shunned by society with no quality opportunities. Here, I see the opportunity to be a part of a better solution," Sadler said. "We've been able to get a couple of sponsorships from the community and are looking for a law firm to advise us and be a part of our board of directors. We have an architect and engineer working with us, and got out first grant from the Home Depot Foundation to begin building our community center."
Shepley and Sadler plan to break ground in mid-January on a veterans' workshop, where veterans will be primarily building rain barrels for the community. They have been raising money at the Asheville Mall for the satellite project and will be there until Christmas.
Jeff Miller, founder of HonorAir, said he's been working with the Veterans' Restoration Quarters and found that many of the veterans served there are from Henderson County.
"To have another group in (the area) has got to be good because there's 250 men in that one facility, and I think there's about 60 on a wait list," Miller said.
Veterans Helping Veterans of Western North Carolina is working with Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministries and local Veterans' Administrations to provide additional permanent supportive housing.
"Our dream is to have the community center up or at least nearing completion by this time next year," Sadler said.
Stevens said he hopes the satellite campus Asheville will be successful.
"(Matt Shepley) is doing really great down there and he's really determined and he has a good head on his shoulders; he is a very fine young man," Stevens said. "I am here to help him in any way that I can."
During his time in th Marines, Shepley was never deployed.
"I feel like I am trying to make up for that, I guess," he said. "I don't have a lot of PTSD issues or any real injuries, so I kind of came out of it in a position to do something so that's what I am doing just using the skills and thing that I have acquired over time."
For more information on Veterans Helping Veterans of Western North Carolina, call 828-458-9426.
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Since 1979, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has been developing and distributing the BRL-CAD constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling package for a wide range of military and industrial applications. The package includes a large collection of tools and utilities including an interactive geometry editor, raytracing and generic framebuffer libraries, a network-distributed image-processing and signal-processing capability, and an embedded scripting language.
Since the late 1950s, computers have been used to assist with the design and study of combat vehicle systems. The result has been a reduction in the amount of time and money required to take a system from the drawing board to full-scale production as well as increased efficiency in testing and evaluation.
In 1979, the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) (now the U.S. Army Research Laboratory [ARL]) expressed a need for tools that could assist with the computer simulation and engineering analysis of combat vehicle systems and environments. When no existing computer-aided design (CAD) package was found to be adequate for this purpose, BRL software developers began assembling a suite of utilities capable of interactively displaying, editing, and interrogating geometric models. This suite became known as BRL-CAD.
Now comprising almost a million lines of C code, BRL-CAD has become a powerful constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling package that has been licensed at over 2,000 sites throughout the world. It contains a large collection of tools, utilities, and libraries including an interactive geometry editor, raytracing and generic framebuffer libraries, a network-distributed image-processing and signal-processing capability, and a customizable embedded scripting language. In addition, BRL-CAD simultaneously supports dual interaction methods, one using a command line and one using a graphical user interface (GUI).
A particular strength of the package lies in its ability to build and analyze realistic models of complex objects using a relatively small set of "primitive shapes." To do this, the shapes are manipulated by employing the basic Boolean operations of union, subtraction, and intersection. Another strength of the package is the speed of its raytracer, which is one of the fastest in existence. Finally, BRL-CAD users can accurately model objects on scales ranging from the subatomic through the galactic and get "all the details, all the time."
Although BRL-CAD has been used for a wide variety of engineering and graphics applications, the package's primary purpose continues to be the support of (1) ballistic and (2) electromagnetic analyses. Accordingly, developers have found CSG modeling to be the best approach in terms of model accuracy, storage efficiency, precision, and speed of computational analysis.
While polygonal and boundary representation (B-rep) modeling often focuses on just the surfaces of objects, CSG modeling focuses on the entire volume and content of objects. This gives BRL-CAD the capability to be "more than skin deep" and build objects with real-world materials, densities, and thicknesses so that analysts can study physical phenomena such as ballistic penetration and thermal, radiative, neutron, and other types of transport.
In keeping with the UNIX philosophy of developing independent tools to perform single, specific tasks and then linking the tools together in a package, BRL-CAD is basically a collection of libraries, tools, and utilities that work together to create, raytrace, and interrogate geometry and manipulate files and data. The basic data flow structure of the package is provided in Figure 1.
The BRL-CAD libraries (designated by the prefix "lib") are designed primarily for the geometric modeler who also wants to tinker with software and, perhaps, design custom tools. Each library fits into one of three categories: (1) creating and/or editing geometry, (2) raytracing geometry, or (3) image handling. The following is a list of the major BRL-CAD libraries and descriptions of their functions.
The application side of BRL-CAD also offers a number of tools and utilities. They primarily concern (1) geometric conversion, (2) geometric interrogation, (3) image format conversion, and (4) command-line-oriented image manipulation. The following is a list of the major BRL-CAD tools and utilities.
As changes are implemented in BRL-CAD, ARL developers run a standard set of computationally intensive image files (shown in Figure 2) on a common machine in order to benchmark and compare raytrace performance. In addition, these images are provided with each source distribution of the package so that users can also test performance on their machines, if desired.
To run the benchmark images, run the script run.sh in the "bench" directory of the source directory tree.
The authors would like to thank the members of the Advanced Computer Systems Team, who reviewed this document in a timely manner and made many helpful suggestions to improve its accuracy and presentation. At the time this document was prepared team members included John Anderson, TraNese Christy, Bob Parker, Ron Bowers, and Sean Morrison.
In addition, the authors would like to especially acknowledge Mike Muuss, a team member and the original architect of BRL-CAD, who passed away in the fall of 2000. Without his vision, this work would not have been possible. Therefore, the BRL-CAD Tutorial Series is dedicated to his memory.


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i have always a problem choosing typefaces that work well together. this is sad.
any recommendations on how to go about doing this? vauge question of sorts, but anything would help. thanks!
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i have always a problem choosing typefaces that work well together. this is sad.
any recommendations on how to go about doing this? vauge question of sorts, but anything would help. thanks!
One way to get around racking your brain is by picking typefaces from the same designer can help. Its the easiest way for me.
Also from the same period/style/source can help but that's not a guarantee. For example Mantinia and Galliard go very well... by the same author.
Mikey :0)
Or Univers with Egyptienne F by Adrian Fruitger, or Gill Sans and Joanna by Eric Gill, etc..
A lot of designers build their letterforms upon the same skeletal structure, even if not on purpose. So I'd say that is a good direction to start for sure. Even Bringhurst recommends that approach.
Here is another way... find printed literature- magazines, books, manuals, etc. and see how others combine different type. I keep a note pad at all times with me when I'm out and about.
Soaking yourself into issues of How, STEP & Print will have raring to go.
The Font Shop virtual newletters combine type nicely too.
browse all the past months with the pull down menu at the right
Mike Diaz :-)
Looking at the structure of the typefaces is another (related) method of choosing typefaces. For instance, Bodoni is very geometric and has a very vertical stress that matches well with the grotesques and neo-grotesques like Helvetica.
But neither of them match something like Galliard because of it's diagonal stress and humanist shape.
That's one reason to look at the period in which a typeface was designed, because the era greatly influenced the methods and/or structures on which the letters were built.
The best advice, in my opinion, it that of SUF, which is to say, find examples you like. Take them apart and see how they work. For instance, if you think Frutiger is a perfect marriage for Caslon, then you know you can always invite them together to the party. But try to understand for yourself WHY you think they belong together, and you can apply this to other faces.
I would avoid any advice that says,"This face and that must never be used together," or "These two faces are perfect together," or even "Just combine faces by that designer."
Designing with type has to be a reflection of your own tastes, not prescribed rules.
Sure, but that taste has to come from somewhere. Rules can help quite a bit and as long as you can step outside of those rules I don't think there is much harm in them.
I agree to avoid the advice that says never do this or always do that...
This question often arises and I hope I don't sound like a robot as my answer is always the same: don't worry so match about compatible typefaces. Nearly any two types can work together. Pick typefaces that fit your subject and audience. If they are right for the project, they are right for each other.
An exception: when using two distinct typefaces within a single line or paragraph, try to match general proportions (asc/descender length and x-height). Or, pick a font suite.
If you're creating the impression of simultaneous conversations, then I would suggest choosing faces that represent, at least in your own mind, the different characters of the quadralogue.
kostal: certainly. I wasn't saying that no training or understanding of type is necessary. I guess I was suggesting to get the training and the understanding and then let your own vision be the guide. So often, "Never" and "Always" guides are offered as help, when I think that kind of view can be detrimental to good design.
I'll add my voice to those who recommend considering the structure of the font, as Robert Bringhurst advocates in The Elements of Typographic Style.
Consideration of the structure involves looking at such characteristics as:
art/design movement (renaissance humanist and neohumanist/lyrical modernist forms [Venetian, Garalde, etc.], baroque/rococo form, neoclassical/"transitional" form, romantic/"modern" form, realist form [Victorian, clarendon & Swiss gothic forms], geometric modernist form [such as Futura, Memphis and the like], various postmodernist forms, etc.)
aperture (degree of openness or closedness of forms such as "c", "e", "a", "s", etc.)
direction of axis (humanist [oblique], rationalist [vertical] or variable),
Other characteristics less relevant to structure, but still worth considering when choosing compatible fonts, include:
stroke (modulated or monolinear),
terminal shape (pen-formed, modeled, lachrymal [teardrop-shaped], round [ball-shaped]
A great place to start in choosing compatible typefaces is to choose serifed and sans-serifed fonts with basic structural characteristics in common, such as:
Geometric modernist fonts: Beton, Candida, Marathon, Memphis, Rockwell or Stymie, etc.
or romantic/"modern" fonts: Bodoni, Bulmer, Didot or Walbaum, etc.
paired with: Avenir, Futura, or Kabel, etc.
Or, Realist-structured fonts: Belizio, Clarendon, Glypha, Serifa, Volta, etc.
paired with: Akzidenz-Grotesk, Folio, Helvetica, Imago, Univers, etc.
Or, Renaissance-based humanist and neohumanist fonts: Albertina, Aldus, Bembo, Berling, PMN Caecilia, Chaparral, Dante, Garamond, Golden Cockerel, Joanna, Minion, Palatino, Plantin, Poppl-Pontifex, Scala, or many others,
paired with: Frutiger, Gill Sans, Myriad, Linotype Projekt, Scala Sans, Syntax, etc.
As has been said already, these cannot be hard-and-fast rules. Even within similar structures, some pairings will work better than others, so use your own creative and critical judgement. However, once you have a good grasp of similarly-structured font pairings, you will be better-equipped to try your hand at effectively pairing fonts with contrasting structures.
David Thometz
A few "rules" of things not to do.
a) don't choose faces that are "too similar" like Helvetica and Univers, for instance.
b) don't choose faces that are "too different" like a very fine body text (sans) with a super heavy fatface heading -- basically, you don't want the fonts to fight each other. Different slants on the italics can also do this, if there will be a lot of italics happening.
c) Don't mix your focus ... using a grunge heading with a formal script body, for instance. (Unless this is the statement you are trying to make)
Set your samples with the options you like ... then put them away for 48 hours. Come back to them and the bad ones will probably stand out and say "Ick".
Advertisement vs. book typography
What can work in one field does not automatically work in another.
Some types which don't seem to work together at similar sizes may work fine when one is much larger than the other.
Just remembered: Jonathan Hoefler wrote a pretty good article on this in CA. Forgot which issue.
"Some types which don't seem to work together at similar sizes may work fine when one is much larger than the other."
Yes. Often, you will be able to nudge one font up or down several points in size to compensate for different apparent sizes or x-heights/body sizes.
You can also find surprising compatibilities between otherwise dissimilar types. For example, Joanna (a neohumanist slab-serifed font) looks beautiful when set with Fournier Italic (a neoclassical/transitional font). And the expressionist Post Mediaeval Italic makes a nice companion for Marathon, a more geometrically structured expressionist roman. And Centaur Roman (or Jenson) works beautifully with the blackletter San Marco used as a contrasting type for emphasis. The pen script El Greco, with adjustments made for size, makes an interesting italic companion for Raleigh, and so forth.
Experiment and try new and unexpected combinations, but do it as knowledgeably as you can for the best results.
David Thometz
This topic recently came up with a colleague of mine who was trying to find a good supplementary face to work with Bembo. At the same time I was designing a new edition in a series, and the publisher had supplied me with a PDF of a previous edition in that series, which I thought was problematic. Here's what I responded with, which may be useful here:
General typographic principle is that serifs don't mix well with other serifs. (For instance, my "problem" with the supplied PDF sample was the combination of Warnock [for body copy] and a clearly Modern type [used for display] -- mixing Renaissance and Romantic proportions = bad news).
Such a combination is like mixing a contemporary rendition of classical Italian architecture with some Victorian gothic furniture. Some might call this "eclectic," but to my mind it's just a mess. Thus, in looking for a secondary face for a serif, my instinct (based on the typographic theory that I've read and absorbed) is to go for a sans face (which is what I normally do for supplementary copy [notes, etc.]).
But, it can't just be any sans, of course. In my redesign of the series I've stuck with Warnock for the body copy, and selected Quadraat Sans as the second face, because both share similar proporations and also make use of some unconventional hooks and beaks. For instance, here's a comparison of a few glyphs from each where you can see the distinctive "hooks" in a few letters. (The fact that Quadraat will be used at a smaller size [for notes, etc.] will balance the fact that it is quite a bit darker than Warnock.)
In [my colleague's] case, you're working with Bembo, another classic Renaissance font, yet one that has become somewhat faceless due to over use. That said, it does have some distinctive shapes to it, and is based on classical proportions, so what you want is a sans that has the same. For my money, if I want to find a partner for something like Bembo (or Garamond or Jenson, etc.) I head straight to Legacy Sans. Here's a glance at Bembo & Legacy:
Note some if their similarities, such as a connector of the "g," the bracketed crossbar and curled tail of "t," the understated "J" and "Q". These are just a few glyphs scrutinized, but from here you can see that the two have enough in common to likely work well together.
Now, you may not be a fan of Legacy, but this sort of process tends to help for me. I just make a sample (like above) and plunk in a few possibilities to go with my body type, then look to see if they have anything in common both in terms of proportions and quirks.
Nice mixes, made nicer still since we can know and see WHY they were chosen, and WHY they work so well together. It wasn't an arbitrary process, or a case of, "Ah -- these look okay together." That's what non-designers do.
David Thometz
I often look at sans and serif faces from the same designer - there's usually some sort of unconscious similarity in the letterforms between two faces.
- Lex
Picking agreeable typefaces isn't all that different from choosing wines -- there are some basic rules ("red with beef, white with everything else" and "pick a simpler meal with a complex wine, and vice versa") and the experience to know when you should just pick what you like and tinker a little with each. ;-)
I'm with Linda (and others). It is nice to sit down and find similarities in fonts and match them in that way. The sample above is good and those faces do work together. But, if you stick to such a strict way of doing it you will miss out on so many others pairings. A lot of it is experience, as Linda mentions. Until you actually work with the fonts, and play with them, you won't find your own sense of style.
Another good technique, if you want to get your eyes dirty, is to pair typefaces side by side using:
Gabocse escobaG
(Trade Gothic with Filosofia and Gotham with Didot)
You can get a good sense for how letters look side by side and how the x-heights, widths, etc. match up.
Wow! nice suggestions here!
Recently I have been designing a website for a silkscreen studio in Milan and I wanted to merge the two spirits of the city: the slick, commercial fashion-oriented one and the traditional old spirit of Milanesi craftmanship.
So I came up with a choice of these two fonts:
Maybe for some will be a punch in the eye, but I found the coupling quite agreeable.
SCHOOL PROJECT SELL ATYPEFACE AND TELL THE BLA BLA BLA ABOUT IT THE ONLY THING i CAN'T GET ANSWERED FOR MY DESIGN PROJECT IS WHAT OTHER TYPEFACES OR FONTS IT WORKS WITH EXAMPLE IS IT GOOD WITH TAHOMA OR ARIEL i WANTED TO USE ADOBE PRO GARAMOND PUT i CANT FIND WHAT WORKS WITH IT . oh caps sorry= and by the way i can't find the page it was on dut some one wanted the adobe pro garamond for free and you guys jumped on him ! I got it for free on a frre fonts site. Two shool students only want them so they can fininsh projects and are not making a profit and thrree My teacher gave us a project with the optio n of only six type familiys which he had to assume we as non profesionals would have on our computers -I had only two of them and one of them I got from the free down load so i would of been stuck with one font choice which i think i used any ways arieal was boring font. I had helvetica on my computer at my old job I do not know how it got on ther but it is not on my home computer nor optima, and many other that many seem to have and i don't have a bunch of money to buy bunch of fonts . its not stealing when you are not making money of it or are you going to tell me you never lent a book to a friend or gave it to them when you were done or a music cd so they could listen to it or how about a food reciepe that you liked and gave some one -did you make that person go out and by the book or did you write down the recipe. I hope whoever was asking for that font sees this so he knows he has someone on his side the professionals that are making big bucks should willing pay for non free fonts because they can afford it and are using profesional sets. but let us minors learn some stuff withuot giong broke trying to go to school and are laid off and can barely feed ourselfs. get of your fracking high horses. I bet you guys down loaded (which I did not) all that free music when you could before they changed the law Oh but thatwas just file sharing..
How about we send Adobe your info and tell them you ripped of one their fonts:
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Rene's post reminds me of this. (Shame I can't find the typical image that would go with it.)
Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.
Good rant, though. And the passion of the misspellings, but then oh caps sorry=, that sort of lets it down, ain't it?
this is surely old news to the vets here but for those who need help:
the font finder on linotype looks like a great resource and tool.
i particularly liked the find fonts by inspiration, and the form finder seems like the perfect thing to help you (but obviously they're not going to be showing fonts from other foundries, and i wish you could narrow the search more by things for text, display, and exclude certain things, like italics)
One feature of super-families that contain both sans and serif, quite apart from any stylistic matching, is that they will generally have matched vertical metrics--which means that if you insert, say, a couple of words of Bold Sans into a phrase of Regular Serif, there will be a nice alignment.
Agree with Stephen Coles about not worrying about matching type, to a point. Experiment, yes, but really look at the results. Are they to your liking - or not?
We get paid to have opinions.
Paul you are right. If you look at that example with Belwe and Helvetica; you'll those two are pretty ugly together (Well, Belwe is permanently ugly)
Mikey :-)
There was a time when I would have called Belwe ugly too -- back when it was so overused as to make a designer cringe at the very sight of it. But now I see it as it is -- a very late Arts-&-Crafts-era (1926) type that was designed as a creative interpretation of Jenson, and revived in the 1970s when such styles were popular again. As such, it can be a useful choice for period work.
It may not be fashionable right now, but I wouldn't call it ugly, any more than I would call other Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau styles ugly. It's all in how they're used in a design.
Believe it or not, young designers, there will come a time when many of today's stylish types will be derided by a new generation. :)
Having said that, however, I wouldn't have thought of pairing Belwe with Helvetica. The two have some definite structural incompatibilities, although the x-heights and proportions work together better than I would have guessed.
Instead of the Swiss neo-grotesque Helvetica, I might look to other Arts-&-Crafts-era grotesques, such as Monotype Grotesque, Venus, AG Old Face, or Akzidenz Grotesk. Or, since Belwe has a relatively open, somewhat geometric structure, look to other geometric sanserifs like Kabel or even Peter Bruhn's Mercury to pair with with Belwe (those stylized lower-case "g"s look like they were made for each other). Barmeno, Legacy Sans or other Jenson-derived sanserifs might be other options.
David Thometz
I thought I'd pass this along:
I created a set of combinations as a launching point from only in wide use, so that it would be helpful.
I have a resource book about about 300 combinations coming out in 2010, as well as an iPhone app called "Font Combos".
Visit the above link for more info on the book or the app. I hope it's helpful!
Doug, your recommendations in "19 top fonts" are safe, easy and boring.
The typefaces you recommend were almost all designed long ago, (none this century) and are published by corporations.
I declare my bias: I am alive, design original typefaces, and own the foundry that publishes them.
Get with the tour!
Just out of curiosity; what about typefaces that are not the same, but have the same ancestors?
- Sabon (Body) and Garamond Premiere Pro (Display/Headline)
- Baskerville (Body) and Mrs. Eaves (Display/Headline)


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GCM Music and Alka Record Label, in cooperation with Black Widow Records and Desert Dreams Productions (USA), are proud to introduce you to the new release by dark rockers THE MUGSHOTS: "LOVE, LUST AND REVENGE ".
2012: The Mugshots gave life to a collaboration with DICK WAGNER, legendary guitar player for Alice Cooper and Lou Reed, plus composer/performer for the likes of Peter Gabriel, Ray Manzarek, Kiss, Aerosmith, Meat Loaf and many others. The artist produced, arranged and performed on five songs for The Mugshots, the first european band ever produced by Dick Wagner, supported by associate producer Susan Michelson, formerly working as backing vocalist with Michael Jackson.
The EP has been mixed at prestigious Chaton Studios (Phoenix, Arizona) by Platinum Award Winning Producer & Engineer, Otto D'Agnolo. Such studios have been the location where masterpieces from the likes of Neil Diamond, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soulfly, Kenny Rogers took shape.
Mastering has been done in Massachusetts by dr. Gil Markle, who worked with Stevie Wonder, Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones among the others. Dr. Markle is famous for having been an associate professor at Clark University while collaborating – at Long View Farm – with people such as John Belushi.
The cooperation between The Mugshots and the above situations will endure in the future, as further projects are about to take life.
The new release by The Mugshots will see the light on March, 29th 2013: it will be available worldwide through Black Widow Records, released by GCM Factory along with Alka Record Label as digital distributor.
The model featured on the cover will be Suzi Lorraine, american actress in international horror movies and model for the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street" gloves.
The songs of "Love, Lust And Revenge" are featured in the original soundtrack of "Reversed", a movie by canadian director Vince D'Amato, produced by Brivido Giallo / Creepy Six Films, to be released Spring 2013.
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Al-Anzoor needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 124 designs submitted by 53 freelance designers.
Al-Salam Hospital And Diagnostic Complex
Al-Salam Hospital and Diagnostic Complex is a new small hospital located in the kingdom of Bahrain still under construction. It will be a diagnostic center to provide a full diagnostic services for men and women of different ages. It also will provide basic medical care and services in the hospital and to the community.
Public men and women and children
A unique conservative and innovative logo consist of four parts:
1. Al-Salam: The word (Al-Salam) Should be larger and more prominent than other words.
2. The word (Hospital) should be little smaller than (Al-Salam).
3. The phrase (And Diagnostic Complex) should be smaller the the word (hospital) and placed underneath the other two words.
Two different fonts may be used one for the word (Al-Salam) and the other for the remaining parts (Hospital) and (And Diagnostic Complex).
4. Other than the above three parts we should have a logo that suitable for the three words and for health and wellness.
The four parts of the logo (Al-Salam), (Hospital), (And Diagnostic Complex), (Logo) should be complementing each other and each could be separated and used alone in some cases.
Do not use classical health symbols as snake or glass or the sign + or the color red.
Green and blue are the preffered colors but we are open for other colors.
You may provide more than one design.
We would like to thank you in advance for participating in this contest.
Dr Mohamed Maki
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with no updates i believe the spring.net is dead.
with no updates i believe the spring.net is dead.
if you look at the GitHub repository you will see that the Spring.Net is not dead.
I would also be very interested in the status of the Spring.Net project and future plans - as far as I can tell ever since VMWare bought SpringSource the .Net side of the equation has gotten lost.
My entire application architecture is based on the .Net version and far exceeds anything that anyone else has brought to the .Net world - all the goodies that .Net is missing and has been part of the Java mindset for a while is what I get as part of this framework. We are doing things in the .Net world with this framework that frankly I don't we could otherwise do with the speed and agility that Spring affords us.
I'm in the exact same boat as you Whatty.
Not sure where to go from here. A re-write in another framework is just out of the question....
What are people doing?


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APS Council is effectively utilizing a continuous strategic planning process for making decisions and deploying resources to meet member expectations. This page provides an array of documents including the current Constitution and Bylaws and the Manual of Operations (MoO) that provide direction for APS Council and all subsets of APS Leadership.
APS Strategic Plan
APS Constitution and By-Laws
APS Code of Conduct
APS Sexual Harassment Policy
APS Manual of Operations (MoO)
APS Position Statements
APS Annual Reports (Archives)
APS Council Minutes Archive
APS Leadership Listing
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Hey everybody!
its so nice to finally be apart of the forum! ive been trying to find the way to register for about a little over a year and here i am!
My name is Joel, i currently live in Denver, CO and will be moving to Los Angeles at the beginning of june. As of last weekend i used to drive an 85 Celica Supra, it was my second Supra and a beautiful car, but it was time to move onto my next bucket list car, the 1st gen. when i was a young kid i always loved old muscle cars, and as i started to buy and drive cars i realized my heart was really into old japanese stuff. My mom used to own an 84 Celica Supra, and my dad owned an 85 Celica Coupe back in the day. Ive heard stories and seen pictures and i knew i always wanted the mk2 supra. But there alot of cars i want to own and drive throughtout this life... so here we go
I traded my 85 Supra for a 77 RA29 Liftback
as you can see by the pictures it is in rough shape, but since i was trading over such a clean mk2 supra the owner and i are going to be building the 1st gen.
Were putting in a 20/22 hybrid, W58 and i believe we decided on a weber 32/36... i wonder if it will be hard to get this to pass emmisions in california
Keep your eye out for a build thread, i hope to be putting up progress pics and what not of this thing. i also need some parts so hopefully i can find some local guys to bug for parts
also would like to know where the best place is to find reproduction parts? are there a couple of big recognized vendors out there or what? i hear parts are hard to find! thanks
when the previous owner had the car together
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How Would You Like to Be a Professional Fart-Sniffer?
If you think your job stinks, just remember; things could be worse -- At least "professional fart-smeller" is not printed on your business cards.
While the thought of some poor schmuck sniffing other people's butt biscuits for a living seems absurd, there are actually a number of alternative medical practices in China which argue that the source of a person's ailments can be immediately diagnosed by examining the odor of their flatulence.
According to Chinese medicine experts, a well trained fart-smeller can detect illnesses based on whether farts smell bitter, savory, sweet, fishy or even meaty - all of which indicate various problems.
Doctors who study traditional medicine say that the idea of a fart diagnosis is not as crazy as it sounds. Previous studies indicate that dogs have the ability to discover diseases like prostate and colorectal cancer simply by taking a big whiff of a patient's urine and stool.
Incidentally, professional fart-smellers do not earn a bad living ($50,000 a year), but it takes a lot more than a twisted disposition and a keen sense of smell to land a job in the field. Potential candidates must be non-smokers, between the ages of 18 and 45, have no nasal defects and no dependency on alcohol. Most importantly, though: those with shaky gag reflexes need not apply.
We're certainly not going to be applying for this position anytime in the near future; while the thought of breathing in funky, human gas fumes all day makes us cringe, the thought of sobriety is down right spooky.


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The Key to Understanding Consciousness – Part 2 of 2Sunday, October 10th, 2010
3. Higher Consciousness
This is also known as the super-conscious mind – your higher self. It is the least understood and least accessed aspect of Consciousness because it does not belong to the physical or mental realm. Its domain is the spiritual realm. It is the You that is All-Knowing and All-Powerful and is the same in kind as the One Universal Mind.
It is the You that is beyond not only the physical world but also the emotions of your mental world. Your higher self does not distinguish between good or bad, wrong or right, happy or sad – not because it is unable to but because it has no need to. It is the You that only knows balance. It is the You that is only Love. It is the eternal observer. It is absolute stillness.


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About RBC > Community & Sustainability > News >Wired! taps into youth to keep them out of crisis
Imagine you have a 15-year old daughter who doesn't want to go to school. She complains of stomach aches, headaches and is so stressed by the idea of public speaking, taking a test or her classmates that you can't understand or help her. Is this a phase or something more serious?
Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in children under the age of 18. In fact, anxiety-based crises are one of the most frequent causes of emergency-room mental health visits by youth in Canada.
"Emergency room visits are often used to stabilize crises and to help the child and parents gain access to resources," says Dr. Amanda Newton, Clinician Scientist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stollery Children's Hospital. "Most youth receive some counselling during their visit to emergency, but they don't get the ongoing help they need. Treatment needs to continue after the visit to ensure the youth can overcome their challenges."
To fill the gap, Dr. Newton and her team are developing a program called Wired!, designed to help youth manage anxiety, before it escalates to the emergency room.
Wired! is a first-line treatment for youth who are managing mild or moderate anxiety. It's based on cognitive behavioural therapy, a proven, effective approach for reducing anxiety symptoms and improving a child's daily functioning. Wired! offers self-paced, online learning through interactive videos, games, a therapist-moderated discussion board, comic strips and more, giving patients useful tools to manage anxiety themselves. It also offers resources for parents on how to support their children and ensure they're coping.
"The Wired! program will help us reach more families than we ever could through traditional clinic-based treatment," says Newton. "Ultimately I hope to see this program grow and become part of the school curriculum across Canada. We want to reach kids before a crisis even occurs. With the funding we have received from RBC, we have the resources to expand the program further than we imagined possible."
Wired! is currently begin developed and will undergo testing in fall 2013.
The RBC Foundation has donated more than $750,000 to Stollery Children's Hospital through the RBC Children's Mental Health Project since 1991. The RBC Children's Mental Heath Project is a multi-year philanthropic commitment to support community-based and hospital programs that reduce stigma, provide early intervention and increase public awareness about children's mental health issues. Since 2008, the RBC Children's Mental Health Project has donated over $16 million to more than 200 organizations across Canada.


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Lesley - Emys needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Emys Capital
Emys Capital is an asset management firm owned by a former military officer. The focus is on investing in companies with a Value focus. We look for companies that the market doesn't want and sells for cheap and benefit when those stocks come into favor. We are a young company (<1 year and avg age ~30). We invest in a lot of military equipment manufacturers, a market that we know well from our military experience. Emys was started by a West Point / Columbia Business School alumni
Emys is Latin for spotted turtle
Institutional investors (pension funds and endowments), high net worth individuals, fund of funds
It should have the Latin phrase "Per Providentia Victoria" , which means through prudence victory.
The viewer should look at it and think stability and intellect.
I prefer the colors in the logo be sky or dark blue, white and black.
It should have an image of a turtle as part of it.
It will be printed on business cards and presentations so it should look good whether it is small or large and whether it is in gray scale or color.
It needs to look very professional.
The words Emys Capital should be very visible in the logo
A subtle tribute to West Point / the Army would be nice but isn't necessary
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A progressive and evolving texture of synth pads and orchestral strings. Designed with a scene in mind of a calm, emotional sacrifice, ultimately lingering with a tail of fading memories through a mild overdriven sound print.
Both .wav and .mp3 versions included.
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May 20, 8:49 PM EDT
U.S. Bans Canadian Beef on Mad Cow Case
By TOM COHEN
Associated Press Writer
TORONTO (AP) -- The United States banned all beef imports from Canada after a lone case of mad cow disease was discovered in the heart of Canada's cattle country on Tuesday.
The discovery raised concern because Canada and the United States had put in place feeding practices authorities thought would prevent the infection from spreading in North America. Still, officials stressed it was an isolated case.
"Information suggests that risk to human health and the possibility of transmission to animals in the United States is very low," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said in a statement.
The infected cow, an 8-year-old from a farm in northern Alberta, was slaughtered on Jan. 31, Canadian Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief told a news conference in Edmonton. He said it was killed because it was believed to have pneumonia, and testing in England confirmed Tuesday it had bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.
It was the first case of BSE in North America in a decade.
He stressed the diseased animal never reached human or animal consumption, the known method of spreading the infection. It cannot be transmitted between live animals.
"The herd has been quarantined," Vanclief said. "A trace on the animal is being done. The animal did not go into the food chain."
The only previous known North American case of BSE, also called mad cow disease, was in 1993 involving an animal born in Britain, he said. That herd was destroyed and there was no further spread of the disease, he said.
Beef imports to the United States were not banned at the time because officials said it was just one cow and the source of the disease was Britain.
It was not immediately clear where the cow in the new case was born.
Reaction to the announcement was immediate. Canada voluntarily stopped issuing certificates that declare its cattle free of BSE, officials said, and U.S. authorities banned imports of Canadian cattle, beef, beef-based products and animal feed.
Shares of big U.S. hamburger chains fell sharply following the news.
Shares in McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant company, fell $1.02, or 5.6 percent, to $17.14 in late afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Also sinking were fast-food rival Wendy's International, Jack in the Box and Tyson, the world's largest meat company. Outback Steakhouse Inc. also fell.
U.S. companies quickly tried to put any potential consumer fears about their meat to rest.
"McDonald's worldwide has the highest beef safety standards and will continue to strictly enforce them," the Oak Brook, Ill., company said. "McDonald's Canada only purchases beef from facilities federally inspected and approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency."
The company said it does not import beef from Canada. Outback Steakhouse said its restaurants serve only USDA top choice or prime U.S. Midwestern grain-fed beef.
No case of mad cow disease has ever been found in U.S. cattle. The U.S. government routinely bans the import of meat and livestock from countries where mad cow disease is found.
In Hereford, Texas, John Josserand of AzTx Cattle Co. said the fact that Canadian safeguards detected the BSE case was encouraging. He said U.S. and Australian cattle producers could benefit in the short run from a ban on Canadian exports, "although that's not the kind of competitive advantage I want."
A note to investors from John Ivankoe, restaurant analyst for J.P. Morgan, was more cautious.
"The discovery of one cow is concerning, even though it did not enter the food chain, as the discovery of other cases is possible," Ivankoe said. If only the Canadian industry is affected, he added, then it is a "relatively minor issue."
However, an industry trade goup called for tighter U.S. checks on Canadian products, saying that the integration of North American economies puts all consumers at risk.
"In this day of industrialized beef production and liberalized trade, it is disingenuous to say this is about one isolated cow," said Mark Ritchie, president of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Mad cow disease first erupted in Britain in 1986, and is thought to have spread through cow feed made with protein and bone meal from mammals.
The human form of mad cow disease is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which causes paralysis and death. Scientists believe humans develop new variants of Creutzfeldt-Jakob when they eat meat from infected animals.
Both Canada and the United States outlawed the feeding of meat and bone meal to cattle, sheep and goats in 1997, a rule believed to be the main defense against the disease. The incubation period for BSE can be eight years, so the cow in Canada could have been infected by feed predating the ban.
Authorities will trace the origin of the cow as part of an investigation into any possible spread of the disease, Vanclief said. They have also quarantined the farm and will slaughter the herd of the infected cow, along with any other herds that come into question.
Alberta controls about 40 percent of Canada's cattle industry, and the oil-rich province is one of the country's wealthiest. It draws millions of visitors each year to the Canadian Rockies.
Canada is the top foreign supplier of live cattle to the United States, exporting 1.7 million head last year, or 75 percent of the total U.S. imports. About seven percent of beef consumed by Amercians is from Canada, said Michelle Peterson, a spokeswoman for the National Cattleman's Beef Association, which represents U.S. beef producers.
The FDA and U.S. Agriculture Department are working with Canadian officials to get more information about the sick cow, including records concerning its past ownership and what animal feed it was given.
It is the second time this year a disease outbreak is threatening Canada's economic well-being, after severe acute respiratory syndrome from Asia killed 24 people in the Toronto area in the past two months.
The World Health Organization removed Toronto from its list of SARS hotspots earlier this month.
Mad Cow Disease closing in on U.S.
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Mad Cow Disease closing in on U.S.
"Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other." -Baha'u'llah
Re: Mad Cow Disease closing in on U.S.
Yet another over-blown media caused scare.
Biggest Risk To Meat Eateries: The Media
(Dow Jones 05/21 10:20:30)
Smith Barney's restaurant analyst Mark Kalinowski feels
pretty good about the way he chose to spend yesterday afternoon. "We
participated in a two-hour conference call with the Canadian government on
Tuesday afternoon. We may have been the only sell-side firm to do so." As
such, he says his information in may be more detailed - maybe even more
accurate - than the information that may be provided by rivals. As a result,
he thinks the biggest risk to burger chains and steakhouses is negative
near-term media attention. But yesterday's fall in MCD, WEN, OSI and JBX
aren't buying opportunities, as newsflow is likely to remain negative.
Biggest Risk To Meat Eateries: The Media
(Dow Jones 05/21 10:20:30)
Smith Barney's restaurant analyst Mark Kalinowski feels
pretty good about the way he chose to spend yesterday afternoon. "We
participated in a two-hour conference call with the Canadian government on
Tuesday afternoon. We may have been the only sell-side firm to do so." As
such, he says his information in may be more detailed - maybe even more
accurate - than the information that may be provided by rivals. As a result,
he thinks the biggest risk to burger chains and steakhouses is negative
near-term media attention. But yesterday's fall in MCD, WEN, OSI and JBX
aren't buying opportunities, as newsflow is likely to remain negative.
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Re: Mad Cow Disease closing in on U.S.
Oh no! Its mad mosquito SARS West Nile Disease!! Run for it! It must be true. The media says so! Oh well, lets face it. Life is a terminal condition.
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Re: Mad Cow Disease closing in on U.S.
And now Monkey Pox. After all the flap about Chronic Wasting Disease, no one even suspected that animals were being imported (prairie dogs).
"Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other." -Baha'u'llah
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LEGO Education WeDo
John and his family were at the zoo collecting information and taking photos for his
science project. It was John's second time visiting the zoo and he is very excited!
"Mum! There is a performance going on in 10 minutes time!" John exclaimed.
The family purchased their tickets and John rushed to get the best seat at the gallery to
view the animal parade. Being a passionate drummer, John was amazed by the monkey's
performance and its ability to create different beats!
Back home, John took out his LEGO Education WeDo set and tried assembling a drumming
monkey. He followed the instructions closely and everything seems to be on track.
But… The pair of lever arms are not working! John tried to fix it but he broke down in
disappointment. Let's help John to fix his drumming monkey! Shall we create an orchestra
of drumming monkeys?
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Long Way Home
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Tim Horton's - one of the best memories of a few weeks in Montreal a few years ago...that and seeing Rush at the Bell center (and the Habs vs. the Leafs the next night ;^)
Of course, the rest of your trip home looked O.K. ;P
- September 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- RunSueRun said...
Hey Mongo, I saw Rush in Montreal, too... around 1982 or 83. Too funny!
- September 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- ultrarunnergirl said...
Sounds like another fun adventure. Great photos. I grew up just 10 miles south of the Nebraska border and I did NOT realize it had redeeming qualities, so thank you for enlightening me!
Hooray for the Element - we adore ours. Every time we go to a trail run, someone else has a new one.
- October 4, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Michael Caton said...
Scottsbluff is pretty cool, I stopped there back in 2008. I think the Black Hills were an even bigger pleasant surprise. That's a neat part of the country that not enough people get to see.
- October 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM
- Sunshine Girl said...
2 months and 10,000 miles?!?
Ohmygoodness, ohmygoodness. That's my kind of vacation! And 48 summits? Damn, girl!
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Selling: Programmed PRO-197 and Mag Mount Mobile Scanner Antenna (25-1300mhz coverage)
Asking: $375 OBO
I'm selling a practically new Radio Shack PRO-197 base/mobile scanner. The scanner is in beautiful condition and has barely been used. I have it programmed with most of LAPD's frequencies (through their digital system, so you hear all sides of the conversation), as well as some LASD, LAFD, Beverly Hills PD...etc. This radio is priced mainly for someone living in the Los Angeles Area that doesn't want the hassel of programming those freqs. I would prefer to sell locally, but that is not a requirement. We can discuss shipping options/price if you are not local
I'm also selling a mobile scanner antenna that covers 25-1300mhz.
Always be in the know with this digital desktop scanner. The PRO-197 stores up to 1,800 frequencies in main memory and features 21 virtual scanner (V-Scanner) folders. It lets you search for nearby frequency transmissions and automatically jump to a found transmission. Plus, it lets you hear storm reports and more before they are broadcast on TV or radio. Signal Stalker™ II enables you to lock on to nearby transmissions without programming or even knowing the frequencies and permits lockout of undesired frequencies.Free scanner programming software download
what is the least you will take for it. also i am in hopkins minnesota 55343. for shipping
Hi...if this is still available and your wiling to drop down as GRE America is out of business, please call me at 914-652-7853. I will ONLY take this off your hands at a MUCH lower price as I am a dealer and my distributor had nothing but problems with GRE America. Uniden Bearcat is MADE much better Matt!
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Pbodensteiner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Stance & Speed is a start-up publishing company, focusing on book publishing and a blog-centric website designed to inform enthusiast readers about our products while entertaining them with interesting transportation-related content. The goal of the company is to attract and serve the world's tribe of automotive, motorcycle, and aircraft fanatics. Unlike traditional publishers, Stance & Speed will seek to develop an identity and following among these enthusiasts, who will trust us to deliver valuable, useful, and entertaining content.
Stance & Speed needs a bitchin' logo that car guys, motorcycle riders, and aviation enthusiasts will understand and identify with at a glance. This is a mostly male audience with an interest in high performance, vehicle styling, and transportation history. They collect totems of their passion to display in their homes, on their vehicles, in their garages, and on their clothing. Our customer is the true enthusiast who likes anything that goes fast and looks good--thus "Stance & Speed."
The logo should take cues from classic hot rodding, performance, and racing logos, icons, and visuals. It should convey speed, performance and deliver the message that this company is owned and operated by and for true enthusiasts.
Specifically, I'd love to see something like the winged Indianapolis Motor Speedway's "winged wheel" logo, with STANCE on one wing, SPEED on the other, and the & in the middle inside the wheel and tire.
However, I am not wedded to that idea. It's most important that the logo takes inspiration from classic performance icons, publications, and so on, primarily from the 50s and 60s. See http://www.atomicindustry.com/categ…velopment/ for examples of the kind of thing I'm talking about.
The logo (or a variation of it) should work well on books of course, but it should be versatile and exciting enough to raise the desirability of anything that it graces, whether that is a sticker, T-shirt, website, keychain, etc. A horizontal configuration would probably be better, but a condensed or alternative version would be needed for book spines and other uses.
I need something that is readable at a small size, meaning prominent type, and that will also work in a single color (no gradients please).
The logo should be delivered in a digital format that allows easy resizing to any size, large or small, along with specs for the colors and fonts used.
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Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu
Cebu holds historic as well as economic significance. This oldest city of the Philippines is currently the economic nerve centre of the southern and central part of the country thereby attracting tourists for business as well as leisure.
Cebu City's only 5-star hotel, the Marco Polo Plaza,Cebu hosts 329 spacious and comfortable guest rooms and suites. Every room provides internet access among other amenities. Guests seeking privacy will enjoy the Continental Club rooms which come with privileges like private check-in and check-out and complimentary all-day refreshments and evening cocktails.
The Marco Polo Plaza,Cebu is also home to some of the finest restaurants of Cebu City, each unique in flavour and ambience. The cuisines served in these restaurants comprise Mediterranean, South-East Asian, Western and Filipino. Guests can even relax in the Lobby Lounge where they can relish the signature Flambe as they sip their favorite drink.
Busy business executives can send that urgent fax from our business centre or moms can get that new hairdo at our salon while the children are busy playing in the playroom nearby. Marco Polo Plaza,Cebu provides these and many other facilities to keep boredom at bay.
For guests headed to Cebu for business, the Marco Polo Plaza,Cebu will be keen to host your meeting, cocktail or that gala event in one of its state-of-the-art and versatile function rooms, ballroom or even on the garden terrace. You can also approach our team of event organizers to conduct your event.
The hotel is accessible from the airport by:
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Must hear Scarjo
Scarlett Johansson was on Letterman last night. I love this swirl she wears in her hair once in a while. She can do it and still come off exactly in her time – modern and sophisticated. She talked about living in Paris and talked about the Parisian rudeness thing. And she lives in the "artists" area. She likes to walk around – Letterman's pressing her on talking about her life there and she's trying to be cagey and whatever, I don't want to talk about her personal life for a change because she was there to talk about Her and she's SO F-CKING GOOD in Her and this is the point: Go see her in Her.
Some are saying that Scarlett's performance in Her – it's her voice, you never see her because she's the phone – is worthy of a nomination. And then others are saying it's not eligible. It should be. If you consider that she was on her own in a booth making this happen, with no one to react off it, pure ACTING, and not being able to rely on her face… it's quite an accomplishment. Like, I came out of there in love with her too. And really hot for her.
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One issue, among many, with Ian Stewart and Luis Valbuena platooning at third base is their left-handedness.
Valbuena, interestingly, actually hit better last season vs. lefty starters (.235) than he did vs. righty starters (.215). However, it's not that much better and Valbuena did have 163 fewer at-bats against southpaw starters.
Nonetheless, I'm suggesting it would be more ideal if the Cubs had a right-handed hitting third baseman to fill out the platoon role with either Stewart or Valbuena, not to mention an available right-handed bat to come off the bench.
For a time that player appeared to be Josh Vitters, but unfortunately the kid was completely over-matched offensively at the big league level last season. Ultimately we had to come to terms with the fact Vitters is still too green for The Show and destined to begin next season with Triple-A Iowa.
Meanwhile, aside from Dave Sappelt (bats R) and Dioner Navarro (bats S), the Cubs' likely bench/platoon players for 2013 are all left-handed hitters: Tony Campana, Brett Jackson, Nate Schierholtz and David DeJesus.
A right-handed bat at third could help the cause, but an already thin free agent market at the hot corner has dried up rather quickly now that Kevin Youkilis succumbed to the Evil Empire and the White Sox swooped in to land Jeff Keppenger.
Of the few remaining names on the list only one makes much sense for Chicago–Brandon Inge. He's a good fielder, has power and hits right-handed.
Check, check and check.
Detroit released Inge last April after his slow start but he quickly bounced back with Oakland to hit .226/.286/.389 in 74-games. Not great by any stretch, but there's value found in his 11 HR, his above average fielding and his right-handedness.
Clearly no longer a full-time player, Inge turns 36 in May and likely wouldn't bring back more than a bag of peanuts in a July trade. Still, it wouldn't hurt the Cubs to add a veteran presence on its youthful roster (especially if Soriano and Marmol are both traded) and a guy who could straighten out a lefty-lefty platoon at third.
I'm hard pressed to believe any team offers Inge more than a one-year deal this offseason or anything close to his $5.5M price tag from 2012. In fact, it seems Inge is ripe for the taking if the Cubs care to give him a closer look, which might only require a minor league contract and invite to spring training.
What I do know is Inge is no worse than what the Cubs already have at third to open spring camp, and at worst he's gone before the end of spring training.
There's a real uncertainty whether Stewart will work out…or Valbuena…or Vitters for that matter. So with a roster chalked full of stopgaps, what's one more in 2013?


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PlayStation 4 Update to Add Share Enhancements
A new update for the PlayStation 4 will add some much-requested features culled from feedback from players.
Scott McCarthy, Director of Product Planning & Software Innovation at SCEA, posted the news of the update on the PlayStation Blog. The software update will include a rich video editor that will let you personalize your video clips. You'll also be able to export them with the Share button to a USB drive. The update also adds an HDCP off option for capturing gameplay over HDMI. This means you can record and share longer clips to a second device to really show off your mad skills online.
In a future update, the ability to archive Twitch broadcasts will be added. All in all, it looks like good news for PlayStation 4 fans looking to spam the Share button in order to show off their experiences online.


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Brunch and Social Hour in the 6th floor school cafeteria follows each Sunday meeting. This offers time for sharing a meal, socializing and participating in ethical action activities.
Ethics for Children, our version of Sunday School, is designed for youngsters from four to 13 years of age and takes place concurrent with our Sunday Meeting. Sessions raise issues of personal identity and integrity, appreciation and respect for others, and knowledge of religions, philosophies, and social concerns. Topics are explored in an age-appropriate way through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips. more
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Activities at NYSEC are often scheduled for every day of the week, but the main community activities occur on Sunday. Unless otherwise noted all events are free and open to the public.
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Tom Mazanec wrote:I don't mean foibles which come from his lack of maturity. But I mean actual ethical failings, or at least struggles with temptation. I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Tom Mazanec wrote:he also committed mega-vandalism, literally collapsing a building (a rickety building, but still...).
The JAM wrote:I don't know if this is from a lack of volunteers (or very non-attractive volunteers that he met in the Tumbledowns) or low self-esteem or just being totally turned off by the thought of it, but I find it commendable that he's not actively trying to disperse his DNA.
Tom Mazanec wrote:He didn't exactly "assault" the doctor, although he could have phrased his criticism a bit more diplomatically.
like Noah, he did not know the strength of what he was drinking.
kchishol1970 wrote:Well, I thought he was out of line assaulting the doctor about his bad parenting advice.
That was clearly a self-righteous over reaction.
RHJunior wrote:Personally I find it extraordinary that people have gotten so Humor Impaired and Politically sphincter-clenched that stealing a kiss rates as high as assault or rape.
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Dreaming about the summer with the help of a blueberry tart
New photo: June 2009
I know blueberries are not in season yet, at least not here in Scotland, but the sun was shining rather brightly the other day and I realised I was desperate for the summer to arrive already. This is a wee bit too optimistic, I guess, as even the spring hasn't reached its prime yet. However, in the hope that cooking something strongly summer-influenced might just tempt the summer to arrive earlier, I baked a blueberry tart. And yes, for a moment - eating a slice of this cake, basking in the sun shining into my room - summer did definitely feel more like an achievable reality as opposed to just a dream..
I hadn't tried this particular recipe before, but it had got a positive comment on my Estonian recipe site, plus it seemed easy to make. I was very pleased with the result - the crust was beautifully crumbly and coarse, the filling creamy and light, with intense blueberry flavour and colour. Not much sugar, and the porridge oats add some healthy fibres. I was expecting to have a layered tricolore cake - a golden brown base, blue layer of blueberries and white creamy topping. But no - as you can see from the picture, the blueberries have all burst into the cream during baking, beautifully colouring the whole tart intensely blue(berry).
I will definitely be making this one again.
An intensely blueberry coloured and flavoured blueberry tart
(Mõnus mustikapirukas)
Recipe from Valio
Serves 8-10
The crust:
100 g butter, softened
75 ml sugar
1 medium egg
200 ml plain flour
100 ml porridge rye flakes or four cereal flakes or oats*
1 tsp baking powder
400-500 ml blueberries
(2 tsp potato or corn starch - if using frozen blueberries)
200 ml sour cream or cream fraiche
1 medium egg
75 ml sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Cream the butter with sugar, add the egg and the dry ingredients (mix the baking powder into the flour first). Bring the ingredients together and press into the base and sides of a buttered 25 cm loose-bottomed baking tin (this can be a bit messy, but persevere).
Spread the blueberries on top (less the few handfuls that go straight into your mouth:) If using frozen berries, mix them with some potato or cornflour first.
Whisk the sour cream with sugar, egg and vanilla and pour on top of the berries.
Bake at 200˚C for about 30 minutes, until the filling has set and the cake is slightly golden on top.
Let it cool a bit, then take out of the tin and cut into slices.
* I do NOT mean these sugar-coated cornflake type of things. I mean various flaked cereals that are used to make breakfast porridge in the Nordic countries. I used 4-cereal flakes (50% rye, 30% oats, 10% barley, 10% wheat).
18 comments:
- valentina said...
This recipe is lovely.I really like blueberries. I might use buttermilk instead of sour cream as I have none in the fridge. Fantastic recipe.I have prepared another blueberry recipe from Kitchen Space and will be doing yours in the middle of the week. ; o )
- 6:55 pm, April 09, 2006
- Alanna said...
OH I so love this pie! It was featured in one of my first Kitchen Parade columns but I haven't made it in forever: SOON to change, thanks to this reminder!! BTW I use whole wheat for the second flour. And I wouldn't think buttermilk would be a satisfactory substitute without additional thickener.
- 7:11 pm, April 09, 2006
- Alanna said...
PS I also have done raisin, dried apricot (soaked in liqueur for awhile to plump up) and raspberry versions - along with the traditional lingonberry / cloudberry.
- 7:13 pm, April 09, 2006
- Antti said...
Looks divine. My mom makes similar, but with quark as the topping for the berries.
- 10:10 pm, April 09, 2006
- paz said...
What a great pic! I love all the blueberries sticking out of your tart! Looks absolutely delicious!
- 2:24 am, April 10, 2006
- Betul said...
Gorgeous colour...Hope it's warmed you.
Must be really cold there.It's snowing here.They say
it's coming from Scotland...
(Hi, Pille.This post was deleted accidentally by my son yesterday and I couldn't recover it at that moment.Thanks for the mail.Please do lurk in my blog and feel free
to leave comments.
all the best
Betul )
- 3:29 pm, April 10, 2006
- keiko said...
Hi Pille - I know what you mean by desperate for the summer to arrive... even though it's freezing cold here today! I can almost taste the intensity of the blueberries, lovely recipe indeed.
- 8:26 pm, April 10, 2006
- Karin said...
This looks amazing. Don't you find, though, that the blueberries here (in the UK, which at the moment means imported, I suppose) are much less blue than the ones in Finland or Estonia? They turn a nice purple shade when you cook them, but they're quite pale on the inside.
Also, where did you find the four-cereal flakes that you used instead of ruishiutaleita? I've not seen anything like it in the shops... Thanks for a great blog!
- 10:36 pm, April 10, 2006
- Nefritite said...
Hei Pille!
this recipe just screams of home, thank you for posting it :))
I think I have tried a similar blueberry pie recipe, but for some reason the topping has always ended up way too sweet. Your recipe seems good. I will definitely give it a go!
- 10:57 pm, April 10, 2006
- alexander said...
I used june berries; it was delicious. Thanks.
- 4:11 am, April 11, 2006
- bea at La Tartine Gourmande said...
Nice colour and just looking at the pic, I know I would love this tart! Hope Spring will come soon for you!
- 2:08 pm, April 11, 2006
- Zoubida said...
We can't wait for blueberry season! It's such an event here in Québec (they say the Saguenay region blueberries are the best in the world...)
This tart looks absolutely yummy!
- 6:51 pm, April 11, 2006
- MM said...
Oohhh ... ahhhh .... gibberish ...
I can't even talk for all that drooling! That is just too phenomenal!
- 3:50 am, April 12, 2006
- mia said...
i just found your blog yesterday, though checking nami-nami quite often.
i tried to make this blueberry pie, only one difference, that instead of blueberries i had to use raspberries as it appeared quite last minute that we didn't had those at home. but with raspberries it was good as well.
- 11:05 am, April 12, 2006
- Thredahlia said...
Mustikatega on vist nii, kui ma nüüd õigesti mäletan (Eestis vähemasti), et metsas on mustikad ka seest "mustad" ja määrivad käsi, kultuurmustikas aga on suurem, natuke magedam, seest ei ole must ja käsi ei määri. Need olevat aretatud Põhja-Ameerika looduslikest liikidest.
- 6:13 pm, April 13, 2006
- Pille said...
Valentina - as Alanna mentioned, buttermilk wouldn't be a suitable replacement for sour cream, unless you use any thickeners as well. Creme fraiche would be good though. And I can see you like blueberries - two different cakes in one week already!
AK - couldn't find this in your Kitchen Parade columns - could you give me the URL please? All the versions you mention are lovely - I'd personally go for raspberry one probably.. It's also quite similar to the creamy rhubarb pie (http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/2005/06/creamy-rhubarb-pie.html) I made last summer.
But I'll stick with the porridge flakes - I really liked the extra crunch they gave to the pastry.
Antti - sounds like a cake that lends itself to endless variations.
Paz - thank you for your ever kind words!
Betul - the cake definitely cheered me up, but the weather is as chilli as ever:(
Keiko - I was actually very pleased with the intensity of those blueberries. Doesn't happen often with out-of-season berries..
Karin - I totally agree! I was very baffled in the beginning to find blueberries that weren't blue inside, but greyish-white at the most! This particular lot, however, was blue inside as well. Go figure..
The cereal flakes were "imported" from home - "Heleni neljaviljahelbed":)
Anita - the relatively small amount of sugar was what I liked about this recipe. However, it does require ripe and flavoursome fruit, as otherwise the tart can turn out rather bland..
Alexander - have never cooked with juneberries, I must admit. Aren't they rather tart? Glad you liked the cake though!
Bea - yep, the colour of this cake was _almost_ as appealing as the ones on your blog - I'm learning from the masters, you see:)
Zoubida - Saguenay blueberries? Are they small and dark blue and juicy inside? Mmm. I'm sure they're lovely, although nothing beats the ones I've gathered myself back home, obviously;)
Stephanie - I know, this is a very drool-worthy cake:)
Mia - welcome to my blog, and glad to hear that you use my Estonian site quite often. And thanks for the picture of your beautiful raspberry version!!
Thredahlia - just nii ongi. Kahjuks siin neid looduslikke mustikaid eriti ei liigu, saada on ainult neid kultuurmustikaid. Peab vist ikka kiiremas korras kodumaale naasma:)
- 6:18 pm, April 14, 2006
- shuna fish lydon said...
this looks too yummy for this time of night. can one have a virtual midnight snack?
I love the idea of adding a bit of pre-emptive thickener for the frozen berries-- brilliant!
- 10:12 am, April 19, 2006
- Abra said...
My blueberry bushes are laden with fruit so tonight I made Pille's blueberry tart.
I used a few more berries than the recipe indicates, and yogurt instead of sour cream, since that's what I had, plus a drop of lemon in the topping. I can't imagine how it could have been any more delicious.
- 12:27 am, August 06, 2006


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What does the new Google privacy policy, YouTube and Trueview metrics all have in common? They form the foundation of Google's latest AdWords platform change which brings video advertising out of the realm of huge budgets and TV ad campaigns and into the hands of small to medium sized businesses all over the world.
Google aims to bring the analytical power of paid search advertising to video content and use the same type of bidding model to make video advertising available, affordable and measurable for everybody. The most significant change for experienced video advertisers is that campaigns will now be able to demographically target 10x more users on YouTube.
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It's really simple to get started. All you will need in advance is a YouTube account. All you have to do is go to AdWords.Google.com/Video and link up your YouTube account. To celebrate the official launch of this product Google is also giving away a total of $50 million in free advertising credits worth $75 per account.
New Features in AdWords for Video
Now that AdWords for Video is out of beta, Google has released a slew of new features for users to target and analyze the impact of your video ads. Here is a quick overview video of the AdWords for Video features and an explanation on how to get started (the key points in the video describing new features are linked below).
TrueView Format Selector – Now with the four TrueView ad formats you can opt out of specific types. For example, disabling in-search ads will be denoted as a partial opt in to the Google Display Network.
Demographic Targeting – Google's new all-in-one privacy policy for all Google accounts means that advertisers can now target video ads by age and gender across all Google properties. This actually represents a fairly significant change according to SEW Video expert Greg Jarboe.
"Last year, about 2 to 3 percent of the people who visited YouTube had YouTube accounts which meant that they were the only ones that YouTube could target by demographics," Jarboe said. "Now, with the linking of Google and YouTube accounts, 5 to 10 times more people can be targeted by demographics. What was just an interesting capability has now become a significant opportunity."
Interest/Topic Targeting – Not a new feature per se, but with Google's all-in-one privacy policy now applicable to YouTube, interest/topic targeting is likely to also have a broader reach then it previously did. What used to be hosted separately as the YouTube Video Targeting Tool has now been decommissioned and re-emerges in the AdWords for Video interface.
Downstream Video Analytics – the AdWords for Video reporting interface also has a cool new feature which shows you what videos users watched on your YouTube channel after arriving via a video ad. AdWords for Video product manager Lane Shackleton told SEW that the aim of this metric is to show advertisers that "paying for video views can drive follow on viewership on their YouTube channel". The downstream analytics tool will show many further free views to your channel video advertising can generate.
Advanced Bidding – Unfortunately we don't have too much information on this feature but it looks like advertisers will be able to optimize their bids against "engagement" metrics such as video shares and +1 button clicks.
Advanced Video Marketing Tactics
In tandem with the launch of AdWords for Video, YouTube will be launching a playbook for advertisers which follows the techniques and strategies of some of their most successful video advertisers.
Shackleton shared some tactics that seemed to be working for some of their advertisers.
Some products, such as the make and model of a camera, are easy to describe in text. But others need sight, sound and motion to fully communicate their value. These products are ideally positioned to be advertised on YouTube and can generate significant direct sales.
The TrueView video metric means that video ad plays count as true play counts on your video and YouTube channel. Use your video ads to highlight the interesting content you have on your channel in general. Make the ad a teaser for your YouTube channel and aim to generate more downstream clicks on your channel.
Think about placement and optimize the length of your video to work for the best placement. For example, In-Search ads might suit longer and more informational content whereas in-stream ads might need to be much shorter (bite-size) and instantaneously engaging.
The winners in the competitive bidding landscape of AdWords for Video will be those advertisers who engage most effectively with placement, ad timing and demographics. Focus on view rate (like CTR in search) to get the best price for your video views.
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Quarter-Life CrisisSunday, July 13th, 2008
In other words, what are you going to do over the next four to five decades to earn a living that is meaningful? I heard this question echo from twenty talented, motivated, and ambitious Gen Y's this past week. It's the never ending nagging question that shows up when considering a possible college major. Graduate school program. Or career path. It's the question that ignites panic. Fear. And depression. Why does it trigger such scary feelings?
Because your answer may differ from your parents' idea of what you should be doing. From your friends. Or from other important influencers who think you should be choosing something practical. Something that pays well. Provides status. You have friends following the straight and narrow. They know what they're doing. Their certainty makes you feel inadequate. Ashamed of lacking the certainty they have. What makes it harder is you feel there is no room for a mistake. Opportunity knocks once. Make a mistake now and you will be too old. Too old for that graduate school. Too old to get on the right career track.
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SMS student wins Grace Museum contest
A Sweetwater Middle School (SMS) sixth grader recently won a contest sponsored by the Grace Museum of Abilene.SMS sixth grade history teacher Shaunna Cleckler presented the contest--naming the brahma bull mascot of the Grace's upcoming Children and Art Literacy Festival (CALF)--to her students. Among the student entries, the name "Mini Moo" from sixth grader Reese Dahl was chosen.The submission was then entered into the official contest, which consisted of over 40 districts. Reese and "Mini Moo" won the entire contest, and "Mini Moo", a miniature horse named Bitsy, and representatives from the festival were at SMS on Wednesday morning, Dec. 21, 2011.The chairman of the Children's Art and Literacy Festival, Beverly Guthrie said that the brahma bull, also known as a zebu, was purchased to compliment the festival's acronym, CALF."This adorable miniature cow will never be more than 42 inches tall, and will be making appearances throughout the year to help promote the festival and greet our festival goers next summer," stated Ms. Guthrie."We were very excited to have Sweetwater Middle School participate in the Naming Contest and Reese Dahl picked the name Mini Moo, which fits this small guy perfectly."Echoing that same sentiment was Ms. Cleckler, who was not only proud of Reese but the entire campus as well. "I was so excited that one of my students won the contest! Way to go SMS!"The celebration consisted of cupcakes given to all sixth grade students, and students were able to pet Mini Moo and Bitsy. Following the festivities, Reese, fellow student Garret Ehlert, and Ms. Cleckler were presented with t-shirts promoting the festival.The Children and Art Literacy Festival will kick off in downtown Abilene starting on Thursday, June 14, 2012. It will highlight the inventive world of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) through his books, films, art and other creative works from the author in various Abilene outlets.Reece also received a stuffed "Cat in the Hat" from the titular book, as well as a copy of the Dr. Seuss book, "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?". Also, Reese, Garret, and Mini Moo posed together for photographers. The photo of the trio will grace the cover of the regional AT&T phone book.


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