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Educational services available at Fylingdales Moor
North Yorkshire schools are being offered educational visits to Fylingdales Moor led by Hawk and Owl Trust outreach and education officer Tanya Eyre – call or email her today for more information.
School visits| Thanks to funding through Natural England's Higher Level Stewardship Scheme (HLS), visits are free for school groups, so the only cost is transport.
While the very nature of birds of prey such as merlin means school groups rarely see these elusive birds, they can enjoy their wonderful wild moorland habitat.
A Moorland Experience Guided Walk|The best period for moorland visits is April to October. Visits can take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Fridays. They can be tailored to individual school needs, including a moorland experience guided walk incorporating wildlife, plants, adaptations and food chains, as well as pond and stream dipping if you are visiting for the day.
Pond Dipping| Pond dipping is available March – June, and a three and a half hour session taking packed lunches, can include a walk on the moor.
Clues in the Landscape walk| A "Clues in the Landscape" primary school walk (geography and history) with views across to Robin Hoods Bay . A student from the local Fylingdales Church of England Primary School is holding a journey stick. Their teacher has asked them to stick on loose finds on our walk- spot the heather sprig at the top, and somewhere further down is a short eared owl pellet!
"A fantastic day. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it. I asked the children to tell me what they had learnt about and every feature you covered was mentioned-fox holes and lizard being the most popular but also appreciation of the view which surprised me." Jenni Straw Year 2/3 teacher
Our Education and Outreach Officer for the North York Moors area is Tanya Eyre. Tanya is also available to organise visits for pupils and their teachers, especially in the winter months, either linked to Fylingdales trips or separately. Among subjects available for outreach visits are wildlife adaptations to moorland conditions and owl pellet dissection.
Tanya also runs workshops. A request to pay for craft materials can be made and at public activities either a small cover charge made or donation box is left out.
Workshops at events These have included Countryside Days at Harrogate Showground and here (right) running a childrens workshop called "A Kestrels Eye View" at Wild About Woods, Arboreteum Castle Howard.
Guided walks for groups of all ages and abilities| Left: the Robin Hoods Bay Cubs on a moorland explorer walk one wet September afternoon 2012- enjoying the star moss
Guided family activities during the holidays | A participant enjoys a close up view of the ringlet butterfly she caught at Stoupe Brow 2012
Contact |Tanya Eyre about a school visit to the North York Moors, or for a preliminary meeting, by email Click Here or telephone 01653 691698 during office hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Fridays.
Click Here to download the North Yorkshire County Council Provider Statement for Off-site Visits


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Photo Coverage: Meet the Cast of Playwrights Horizons' THE GREAT GOD PAN
Playwrights Horizons presents THE GREAT GOD PAN, the World Premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Amy Herzog (After the Revolution at PH, 4000 Miles), directed by Carolyn Cantor (After the Revolution and Essential Self-Defense at PH, Pumpgirl, Orange Water Flower).
The cast will feature Becky Ann Baker (Good People, All My Sons, Assassins), Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Peter Friedman (Ragtime, PH's The Shaggs, After the Revolution, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Heidi Chronicles), Olivier Award nominee Sarah Goldberg (Clybourne Park in London and the PH production on Broadway, The Dark Knight Rises), Keith Nobbs (Lombardi, columbinus, Lortel Award and Drama Desk nominee for Four), Joyce Van Patten (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rumors) and Erin Wilhelmi (The Girl from Nowhere, Likeness). Due to a scheduling conflict, Ms. Van Patten will assume the role for the previously-announced Judith Ivey.
Playwrights Horizons' season productions are generously supported in part by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
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Momentum Business Solutions Ltd
We provide small to medium sized businesses with a variety of accounting functions including payroll processing, daily transaction processing, compliance requirements for Inland Revenue and monthly financial reporting. The focus is on professionalism, timeliness and good communication with clients. Types of businesses include real estate sales offices and their independent salespeople, vineyards and wineries, other small businesses consisting of engineers, journalists and horse racing people. We do this so business owners can focus on what they do best in their businesses therefore freeing them from the mundane stuff like accounting, which we love to do. We are a small team providing a great service to those small businesses. "Accounting By Design" is about the business owner choosing what services they require based on modules with modular pricing ie. payroll of 1-5 employees = $30 per payrun, processing creditors and paying monthly accounts = $150 per month, reconciling business bank transactions and producing GST returns = $200 per month etc. The focus of this business is on absolute professionalism. We also do some software training if businesses want a solution for them to be able to process their own accounting information.
Small to medium sized businesses that require a professional and timely service which will be at very competitive rates compared to employing someone in house. We can do this at approximately half the cost of an employee without the risk of only one person knowing how to process the information. We like real estate offices as the income from them per annum is around $25k. An in house person will be in excess of $50k +. There are daily requirements with contracts to pay to salespeople and solicitor trust accounts. There is also a salaried payroll plus debtors and creditors and monthly management reporting and budgeting. One of the largest components is managing the marketing funds for each property, along with trust account management. Currently have 3 real estate offices. Income from these vary from $26 - $36k which is dependent on the numbers of salespeople. Salespeople operate their own businesses as they are on commission only. These people would also be good to add to the mix. We like to quote a fixed fee per month for processing the accounting information. The business owner then knows exactly what they are up for from a cost perspective and we know how much income we will receive. Not into charging on an hourly basis - too time consuming and unproductive.
We are wanting a very professional, clean looking brand which can be used for stationery and website. Businesses need to look at it and say "wow - I want to contact these people because they know what they are doing"
Included is current branding which was done in 2003 - now completely outdated and too cartoonish.
I have added some files below - sorry my copier doesn't colour scan but I have provided current colour letterhead. Files attached are:
MBS Ideal Logo - a logo I found which depicts momentum or movement - without the red centre piece. I like the 3-D circle and it could be a bit more 3-D. Colours in the circle are good. Open to new colour options - black and red would be good. It needs to look clean, simple and professional.
MBS Current Branding - my current business card front and back - things have changed somewhat since these were created
Website Information - link to current website - thank goodness it's not active!!
Example of what new website is likely to look like
Colleagues' website (Business Support Services) who I do contract work for and don't want to look like a copy cat
My Business Card for Business Support Services - Copy of my BSS card front and back
Current MBS Letterhead and Colour Scheme - shows the colours now. This was never really what I wanted and everytime a print run is done, the shade changes. The logo was never created as a jpg file to upload as each piece was a different component. This was a real pain so the the letterhead has been done using Snag-It. Looks really bad as it's fuzzy.
My colleagues, Business Support Services, provide very similar services to Momentum Business Solutions. The point of difference is that it will be a fixed fee rather than an hourly rate.
I like the tag line - " Accounting by Design" for Momentum Business Solutions
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Learning disorders can make it hard for a child to read, write or do simple math. Understand the signs and what you can do.
Many children who have learning disorders, also known as learning disabilities, struggle for a long time before being diagnosed. This can affect a child's self-esteem and motivation. Understand how to recognize signs that might signal learning disorders and what you can do to help your child.
A learning disorder is a disorder that affects a person's ability to acquire and use academic skills, such as reading and calculating. Learning disorders aren't the same as mental or physical disabilities, and don't reflect a child's intelligence. Instead, learning disorders affect a child's ability to complete a task or use certain skills, particularly in school.
The most common learning disorders include:
Some children might have more than one learning disorder.
Factors that might influence the development of learning disorders include:
Identifying a learning disorder can be difficult. Your child might have a learning disorder if he or she:
Early intervention is essential because learning disorders can snowball. For example, a child who doesn't learn to add in elementary school won't be able to tackle algebra in high school. Children who have learning disorders can experience performance anxiety, depression and low self-esteem — and lose motivation. Some children also might act out in an effort to distract attention from the real issue.
If you or your child's teacher thinks your child might have a learning disorder, consider having him or her evaluated by a child psychologist or neuropsychologist. Many schools offer tests to identify learning disorders.
First, your child will likely undergo tests to rule out vision or hearing problems or other medical conditions. A psychologist or learning specialist will then use tests, as well as talk with you and your child and look at your child's school history, to determine if your child has a learning disorder. In many cases, further assessment is needed to make a diagnosis.
Keep in mind that some children are naturally slower learners and might need time to develop reading, writing and math skills. Others, however, have disorders that affect their ability to learn.
If your child has a learning disorder, your child's doctor or school might recommend:
Before your child's treatment begins, you and your child's doctor, teachers or therapists will set goals for your child. If, over time, little progress is made, your child's diagnosis or treatment plans might need to be reconsidered.
While learning disorders can cause long-term problems, there's hope. Early intervention and treatment can fully remediate some learning disorders. Family and teachers can also help children who have persistent difficulties achieve success in school, as well as in other areas of life.
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/learning-disorders/ART-20046105
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Some of you may have heard that Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, known best for it's conversion of decommissioned rail lines into biking and hiking trails, began circulating a petition to call on AAA to support funding for biking and walking. This all came about when the CEO of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of AAA called for Congress to kick bike and pedestrian path projects out of the surface transportation bill. Projects which presently represent an anemically minuscule portion of that total funding.
AAA did not specifically state to not fund bike projects, but to make those projects compete for some other funding dollars. Rails-To-Trails contends that these funding channels within the transportation budget have already existed for quite some time for these kinds of projects, and have their own criteria for funding selection. They argue that to kill those funding streams with no alternative funding currently in place, could kill or significantly delay the future of the kinds of projects Rails To Trials advocates for.
One of AAA's points is that they claim the surface transportation bill is a user fee for drivers and should only fund auto projects. Except that it's not. As any transit nerd following all this stuff knows, the federal gas tax has not been adjusted for inflation in more than a decade and the transportation bill stopped being covered by gas taxes long ago. It is already loaded with money appropriated out of the general fund to stay solvent, money we all pay into. That includes bicyclists, pedestrians and transit users, not just motorists. To make the federal surface transportation bill be completely auto-centric in spending without first increasing taxes on drivers to actually fund the thing without general funds, would essentially be robbing money from every other mode of travel to subsidize driving.
Given how little bike and pedestrian trail funding is actually included in the federal budget, making us a target to cut funds reeks of a mode bias agenda. This is hardly the first time AAA has tried to advance automobile interests by trying to kick other modes of travel out of the picture. When D.C. was recently planning bike lanes on famous Pennsylvania Ave., AAA released an op-ed piece calling it a "War on motorists", and actively lobbied against the proposals. Lon Anderson of AAA called this "war" a huge concern for their "80,000 DC AAA members". I don't think most members who only know of AAA as the company that helps change their flats and gives out maps, are aware these kind of lobbying efforts are being done on their behalf.
Closer to home, there have been a number of streets going through speed limit increases in the L.A. area, mostly in the Valley. Many residents were outraged at some of the speeds proposed, but had almost no input in the matter. That's because state law dictates that speed limits can only be enforced with radar if they be set by the 85th percentile principle. Which essentially means that if 85% of drivers are speeding, than the speed limit goes up. Since L.A. drivers generally find it's always okay to go a little bit over the limit (unless congestion is forcing them to stay far below it), usually these periodically mandated changes push the limits upward.
Streets Blog LA has been covering the whole topic pretty closely, and a reform bill, A.B. 766 was introduced with local support to change the law. It would have added an exception to speed limit increases on radar enforced streets if it presented a danger to pedestrian and bicycling traffic on a street.
So what does this local speed limit issue have to do with AAA? They were there lobbying in Sacramento to help make sure A.B. 766 was dead on arrival. So if you're a AAA member, your membership dues may sometimes be paying for lobbying efforts you may not agree with.
If you dig a little deeper, AAA has historically been involved in numerous lobbying efforts. Some seem genuinely nice enough but they are not always benign. They were involved in various capacities in efforts restricting pedestrian rights in the city, a necessary step to ensure auto dominance in urban planning at the dawn of the automobile. They were lobbying to give private autos the same priority as trolley car systems, which killed the efficiency of the electric trolley lines in many cities like Los Angeles. AAA was constantly pushing for land development patterns that favored the car over other modes, aka sprawl.
If you think our currently highly automobile dependent urban design is a bad thing, you can thank AAA for being there every step of the way to push our cites to be car, car, car. Closer to modern history, they've been involved in fighting landmark environmental protections like the Clean Air Act, and fought almost every bill introduced to improve emission standards in cars. Of the Clean Air Act, AAA wrote, it would "..threaten the personal mobility of millions of Americans and jeopardize needed funds for new highway construction and safety improvements."
I used to be a AAA member as did my wife. I got rid of AAA when I got rid my car, but was mostly clueless then how involved they were in advocating for automobile dependence in America. My wife has been considering selling her car, but for the moment we still have it. She had AAA, and was a long time member, but I convinced her to get rid of it after I read books like Fighting Traffic and Republic of Drivers, which describe in detail how our country became so car dependent. It is an appealing service they provide with their convenient road side assistance, but the thing is, they aren't the only game in town anymore, so there are choices. Signing a petition is a way to call attention, but I think a louder message is to ditch AAA for a competitor that doesn't have an anti-bike agenda.
Enter Better World Club. Better World Club was co-founded by Mitch Rofsky who started his career working for Ralph Nader at Public Citizen. Nader of course was first launched to fame by his tireless fighting against the carelessness of the automobile industry starting with his infamous book Unsafe At Any Speed, before going on to be involved in numerous safety and environmental regulation efforts on a variety of issues. Rofsky saw the fights environmental groups were having with AAA, and thought there was room to compete with a similar service but a different message.
BWC makes a point of being the socially responsible road club, and not only does it not lobby against alternative transportation modes, they encourage them. They are for tougher environmental regulations on automobiles and improving air quality. They support transportation dollars being allocated for public transit service. The best part is they also provide road side assistance for bicyclists nationwide, something AAA does not offer, though the local AAA branch in Oregon is now flirting with bike service. Especially as someone who is interested in long distance bike tours, a nationwide bike assistance service is a great peace of mind, even if you hopefully never have to use it. So as readers of my Twitter feed already know, I have been encouraging people to make the switch from AAA to BWC recently.
That first twitter to encourage people to switch from AAA to Better World Club is partially how I was spiraled into being compelled to write all this up. In reply to my suggestion to @BikeSwarm to look at Better World Club instead of AAA, I got a tweet from the PR wing of AAA back at me and a number of others who re-tweeted my tweet. To which I wrote back a number of stinging replies and rants without further response on their part. If they thought they could win me over with a tweet and some PR fluff that's not reflected in their real lobbying efforts, they have another thing coming.
facebook page, linked to in their tweet.
AAA's little denouncement of bicycling funding in the transportation bill is perhaps some of the best marketing for Better World Club yet. I think I've converted a handful of people yesterday my self already with a few tweets. I encourage any readers still with AAA to look into Better World Club, or other road side assistance alternatives. AAA has over 50 million members, who they evoke when lobbying government, with little outreach to inform their membership what they are up to in their name. They don't need your help to advance their anti-bike agenda, and you don't need their help with road side assistance if you sign up with another group.
If you need a little more convincing, I suggest reading the following articles that summarize some of the lesser known activities of AAA:
The Secret Life of AAA - [The Amicus Journal]
Smitten with a Club - Your AAA dues fuel pollution and sprawl - [Harpers]


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Perfect picnic
When Dennis and Jennifer Peterson started saving for their first home, "There was no question where we wanted to live -- in the country," says Jennifer, a freelance food stylist. For three years they searched for the perfect place -- one with trees, privacy, close proximity to town, and a nice neighborhood of other acreages. They finally found their dream property on 2 acres north of Des Moines, Iowa, and built a home into the trees.
The first thing friends notice when they visit, says Jennifer, is the park-like yard. "You hardly notice we have neighbors," she says. "We can enjoy the breeze and afternoon shade anywhere, and the children have tons of room to play."
Jennifer loves to entertain outdoors. Sometimes she hangs strings of lanterns or streamers from the trees and creates an outdoor room. One year their daughter, Alena, 6, had a Happy Camper birthday party in the backyard, complete with a tent, scavenger hunt, camping foods, and an old-fashioned tug-of-war.
If the weather doesn't cooperate, they move to the back porch, which has floor-to-ceiling screens. "It's just like being outside, but without the bugs," she says.
The beauty around
Their yard is home to many types of wildlife. "To me that's what living the country life is all about," says Jennifer. "It's not changing our property into something else, but blending in and living in peace with the beauty around us." Most of their landscaping stock came from the Department of Natural Resources and from Dennis' home farm. "Since our yard was once woodland, I'd like it to stay that way," says Jennifer.
Last spring, after Dennis succeeded in removing a large stump in the front yard, they celebrated with a hot dog and marshmallow roast. "The kids remember their first real bonfire. Dennis remembers he conquered that stump! I remember the beautiful sunset," says Jennifer.
Make guests feel at home
As a food stylist, Jennifer's job is creating beautiful and often fancy food for photography (including the photos in this story). However, her style of entertaining at home is casual. "I want our guests to feel at home. I even ask their assistance sometimes, for instance, watching the ice cream maker or putting ice on the table."
She gathers flowers from around the yard for a casual centerpiece; an old watering can makes a good vase. Mason jars become fun water glasses.
"One very important party ingredient is music," says Jennifer. "It really helps set a mood and relaxes people."
Her final tip: "I have fun at my own parties. When the guests arrive, it's time to stop working and enjoy the occasion. That's when I focus on them and their needs and not on how things look."
Here are a few of Jennifer's favorite recipes for a country picnic in your yard. Enjoy!
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When it comes to work life balance and being family friendly, employers prove themselves on Halloween night. I brought back this blog post from the past that reflects my thoughts on this important day for working parents.
If you're a working parent, chances are high you are nervous right about now. You are stressing over making it home in time to enjoy Halloween night with your kids. Any small obstacle to leaving your workplace at a decent hour becomes a giant source of frustration.
Halloween is the make or break it night when it comes to expecting flexibility and understanding from the boss. If you miss out on trick or treating and you will be resentful for the rest of the year. I know because it has happened to me.
As a news reporter, Halloween has always terrified me. What if a news story were to break out in the late afternoon? Would I get stuck tracking down sources and miss out on trekking through the neighborhood with my Thomas the Train or Indian Princess?
A friend of mine, a high powered lawyer, told me she once cried all the way home at 9 p.m. on the Halloween night after getting stuck at the office with a partner who demanded she stay and work with him on a legal brief. She quit a few months later to go to a smaller, more family-friendly firm. This year, she took the day off, just to make sure she would be home at dusk.
My two older kids are teens. They no longer want to go door to door in costume, especially with mommy trekking along. I now realize how little time we have to enjoy the trick or treat experience with our kids. I am thankful that I spend those Halloweens past with my kids –rather that at the office.
For all you parents stuck at work tonight, you have my sympathy. For all of you bosses, your behavior tonight toward working parents speaks volumes about how much you value them. Behave wisely.
Happy Halloween!


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Photos: Gov. Paul Cellucci
Photos: Gov. Paul Cellucci
Boston, MA - State House - 4/10/01 - Staff Photo: Barry Chin. Departing Gov. Paul Cellucci prepares to hand over a gavel to new Govenor Jane M. Swift as part of a State House transition Ceremony today.
Boston, MA - State House - 4/10/01 - Staff Photo: Barry Chin. Departing Gov. Paul Cellucci embraces his wife Jan as he prepares to leave the State House following a transition ceremony there today.
11-7-2000:Woburn:At the Massachusetts Republican Party party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Governor Paul Cellucci, speaking about the victory of referendum question #4.
U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, are escorted by a Canadian mountie and the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci (back left), after stepping down from Air Force One at the Quebec City airport upon arrival to attend the third Americas Summit, April 20, 2001. The heads of 34 Western Hemisphere nations will meet from April 20-22 to discuss the creation of a free trade zone. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
SPECIAL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE U.S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci on Friday afternoon, Dec. 14, 2001 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Cellucci was keynote speaker at a luncheon held at the Ciociaro Club for the Windsor District Chamber of Commerce. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)
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3-15-12 Boston, MA: Former Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci, right, smiles as he glances at his former boss, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld (left) as Weld cracks a joke during a press conference held at the Seaport Boston Hotel prior to a fundraiser for the University of Massachusetts Medical School's UMASS /ALS Champion Fund. Cellucci has been diagnosed with ALS. (Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis) section:metro slug:16cellucci


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Girls in Tech's CODE GIT is a Python coding school designed specifically with professional women in mind. If you find yourself obsessed with problem-solving, are naturally curious, or have just always wanted to learn a new skill—you're in the right place! Girls in Tech's curated, eight-week program aims to arm women at all levels of their career with the skills they need to let their inner programming badass self shine.
Read on to learn more about CODE GIT and what this workshop can do for you.
Why: Why not? Girls in Tech's core mission is to empower and educate women. We want to make it easy, accessible and affordable for women around the world to learn, gain a competitive edge and shape their career in technology. And, women gaining knowledge and new skills is paramount to see more and more women take up careers in tech.
What: We cram it all into eight weeks, from the basics to the weeds. This is an intensive in-person program, which includes lectures, hands-on labs, coding projects, opportunities to work one-on-one with mentors and more. Once you graduate from CODE GIT, you'll be well-prepared to apply with one of Girls in Tech's tech industry partners for the job you've been waiting for.
Where: Girls in Tech will be announcing pop-up CODE GIT locations around the world! Keep an eye out for a course coming to your city!


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OK Action News & Good News, Oklahoma!
I'm a TV writer (for WHITE COLLAR on USA) and I'm shooting a short film with our White Collar editor that takes place at two competing TV news stations. One, a Fox-news-like local news show, and the other, cable access. It's a comedy. A very sarcastic one.
We'll be sending the short around the Hollywood and New York entertainment industry and into a lot of festivals so it would be a lot of exposure
We need a set of TV News ID's made for each show and we need them done by the 14th or 15th. As you can imagine, these should at least resemble legitimate TV news intros/outros and Lower 3rds, but no one expects the graphics to be "3D." Basically, we need to have some movement with a few lens flares and stuff like that. The nice thing is the entire short will be highly branded, and there's room for irony in creating these.
The first will be for a mainstream local news program called "OK Action News" that should be a little on the flashier side, but still relatively simple as we'll be playing this on a loop. Here's an example (at about 11 seconds in) of an animated logo we'd like for this:
The second graphic will be the opening news logo for the second news program called "Good News, Oklahoma!" that should feel like a Public Access/PBS news program. And at the top of this clip is an example of the PBS/Public Access news logo we'd like for this:
We would also love to have (if there's time) an "OK Action News Special Report" graphic that we can use when one of the news casters is speaking. 44 seconds into this clip is a good example of that:


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The European Central Bank said it may cut Cypriot banks off from emergency funds after March 25 as the island nation's president, Nicos Anastasiades, pursued options at home and in Russia to stave off financial collapse.
The ECB's Governing Council said today that so-called emergency liquidity assistance, or ELA, "could only be considered" after Monday if an aid program from the euro area and International Monetary Fund "that would ensure the solvency of the concerned banks" is in place, the central bank said today in a statement.
In Nicosia, the Cabinet will meet at 6 p.m. today to discuss a proposed "investment solidarity fund," according to a statement. The fund is intended to help raise the 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) needed to trigger emergency loans, Athens News Agency reported. Finance Minister Michael Sarris said in Moscow that while Russia won't lend money to Cyprus, it's looking at investment in the energy industry.
Cyprus in June became the fifth euro-area nation to request a rescue after Greece's debt restructuring, the largest in history, trashed the financial health of lenders including Bank of Cyprus Plc and Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, the nation's two biggest.
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"With this statement, the ECB put even more pressure on European finance ministers and the Cypriot government to come up with a deal," said Juergen Michels, chief euro-area economist at Citigroup Inc. in London. "But we'll have to see whether they'll actually follow through with their threat if there's no deal by Monday and policy makers decide to further extend the bank holiday."
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads meetings of euro-area finance chiefs, said he didn't think the ECB was threatening Cyprus.
"That just stresses the point of the urgency, first of all on the Cypriot government," he told European Union lawmakers in Brussels today. "We need to reach agreement on a program very, very soon. I think the ECB has a valid point there."
Euro-area finance ministers on March 16 agreed to an unprecedented tax on Cypriot bank deposits as officials unveiled a 10 billion-euro rescue plan for the country. The government amended an initial proposal to exempt deposits of up to 20,000 euros, but failed to win support in parliament as popular dissent mounted.
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dogboy needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We are an online retail pet store looking to market our products to current and new subscribers of our newsletter. We have been in business for 3 years and focus mainly on dog owners. We offer a wide variety of dog related products from collars to doghouses.
All of our customers are dog lovers and loyal to our business. We want a fresh look each week and want to be able to market all of our products in a way that will not offend our current customer base no matter what product is being prmoted to them.
We are looking for an email creative that will feature up to six different dog related products with a brief description or set of bullet points for each product. We would like the colors to correlate with the current website design and colors. The creative design and html must work in all the web based email providers like yahoo, msn, gmail, etc.
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Please note, due to construction we are not able to accept in-kind donations at our Pacific Heights Campus. Please take your generous in-kind donations to our Mission Campus at 201 Alabama Street. Thank you!
We accept lightly-used towels, blankets, pet toys, natural chewies, kennels, crates, leashes and other practical goods. We do not accept pillows or items that cannot be laundered. If you're in doubt about whether we need an item, call us at 415.554.3029. Please note that we do not pick-up donated goods; they must be delivered to the San Francisco SPCA's Mission Campus or Pacific Heights Campus during business hours.
You can drop off in-kind donations at any of the following locations:
- Mission Campus Pet Adoption Center
250 Florida Street (at 16th Street)
Monday - Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday/Sunday 10am - 6pm
- Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center
201 Alabama Street (at 16th Street)
Open seven days a week, 8am - 6pm
You can also donate dog beds and cat towers by going to kuranda.com and choosing one of the items. It will be sent directly to the shelter. If you're a mountain climber with used rope, drop it off at the Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center to participate in the Ropes for Rescues program.
What We Need
Tiny BART Tickets Program
Donate those BART tickets with just a few cents on them to the San Francisco SPCA! Through the Tiny Tickets Program developed by the East Bay Community Foundation and BART, tickets with residual value are redeemed and the proceeds given to local nonprofits. Drop off your tickets at our hospital (201 Alabama St) or Adoption Center (250 Florida) during regular business hours.
Community Thrift Program
For all those items you'd like to put to good use, but are not suitable for the SF SPCA, we've partnered with Community Thrift San Francisco. Donate your used, saleable items to the Community Thrift Store in San Francisco and designate the SF SPCA (#63) as beneficiary. When the store sells your items, a percentage of the proceeds come to us. For details, visit Community Thrift of San Francisco or contact the store at 415.861.4910. Be sure to ask for a receipt, and check to make sure the proceeds of your donation are going to the SF SPCA. Please note, we cannot assist in pickup or delivery of items to Community Thrift.
Recycle your old climbing rope through the Ropes For Rescues Recycling Program here at the San Francisco SPCA.
Ropes for Rescues is a San Francisco-based recycling program that donates 20% of the dog leashes made from each rope to over 80 different Animal Rescues and Shelters. Where has your rope been?


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A quote we saw on Drewb.org gives an explanation for why people have been drawn to Instagram's filtered photos, and why your friend's face will brighten when they hear the Mario theme song.
The quote argues that the key to future nostalgia is in the imperfections, the limitations of a medium.
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
- Brian Eno, from "A Year With Swollen Appendices"


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CameronRogers necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Lucidity Business Boards
We are a professional business advisory firm. We provide advisory and consulting aimed at helping privately owned and growing businesses to find direction or solutions to strategic issues.
To do so we bring together experts from a wide range of areas including business coaches, accountants, retired executives, retired business owners and other professionals with business skills to form advisory board for a particular business for a contract period. Using their experience and knowledge and our frameworks to base the process on we provide a "board of Directors " for growing business on a project basis.
Our Name means:
lucidity (as in "clarity") n. : free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression .
lucidity (as in "sanity") n. : a lucid state of mind; not confused
Target Audience:
Small and medium privately owned businesses between $5m - $80m turnover. Not large enough to have a full time professional board of directors but looking for more advice from experts.
I would like the logo to look professional, clean, sharp and shiny. We deal in the professional market and must reflect this. Please do not copy designs already submitted.
We are open to suggestions on colours.
Our primary use of the logo will be on:
• Business cards
Ideally a black and white version would be great for watermarks, and resource documents etc,
We are not looking for old style lawyer/accounting firm approach. Our logo should reflect professionalism, performance and a dynamic style.
Please provide the following formats:
A print file format (ie CMYK)
Web File format : .jpg and layed .psd (RGB)
Scalable vector format - .eps in color & black and white
Native illustrator format, so the images/logo can be expandable to any size.
Also please provide each type with a transparent background.
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StefanL needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
Swedish import export machine company wants a professional logotype to be used on the web and in printing. Agricultural tractors, motorcycles, cars will be imported/exported.
Pellboda maskin AB
Colors: At this time, we're somewhat yellow and blue to reflect the swedish colors.
Fonts: Clean and streamlined - no serif fonts -more 'helvetica' types. Open to caps or lower case or combination – we'll know it when we see it. No retro or cartoonish please.
A cool and cocky design wanted.
- Logo must work in all formats for many media outlets. Most importent is logo for the website. Also to work from business cards to full banner displays (ball caps, t-shirts, packaging, cars, airplanes, space shuttles etc.;-) Meaning I will need vector format.
- 'cartoonish'
- Clip-art
- generic
- Photographs
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BozWreck II exclusive photographer Bob Plumb prepared a well rounded photo gallery that will give you VIP access inside of the wild style scene of the BozWreck crew. From dogpiled hotel rooms to the travels these guys encountered searchn' for urban terrain, it's covered here on TWSNOW.com
See the BozWreck II gallery below…
To stay in touch with the photography and travels of Bob Plumb visit his blog by clicking on this live link:
1st trick of the season, Cale Zima gets this ollie over the ledge to flat.
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Thank you for visiting Rohaya bakery. Our passion and quality of home made recipes delighted neighbors and fostered their loyalty. Thank God as today our home made recipes serve many neighborhoods. And we've continued our family's tradition of personal service and ingredients of the highest quality.


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By MEGHAN McCOY
A hairdresser of 47 years is retiring this weekend after owning Salon LA for 20 years in St. James City.
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Lena Lippmann said her passion for hair began as a young child.
"I was always doing hair as a little kid," she said. "I used to get in trouble for it."
Her career began in New Jersey as a hairdresser before moving to Pine Island and opening her own shop in 1993.
"It's been a lot of fun," Lippmann said. "You meet a lot of people."
The best part of the last 47 years, she said, is it did not feel like work.
June 15 is Lippmann's last day as the owner and hairdresser of Salon LA.
"It's time, it's time to do other things," she said of the reason she decided to retire.
She plans on filling her retirement with traveling, going out on the boat, going fishing, as well as going kayaking. Lippmann said she wants to fill her time with the reason why they live on Pine Island - the perks of having the water close by.
The salon was sold to a new owner, making the transition smooth while keeping the doors open between owners.
On Tuesday, June 18, new owner Patricia Mackenzie will take over Salon LA with hairdresser Christine Karon.
"She's really good," Lippmann said of Karon.


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There is something about the '20s that attracts me in a special way, no matter what small obsession I may have for other past decades in certain moments, I am constantly being drawn to that era, an era with nonchalant attitude, with freedom of movement, with jazz, with laughter without being constrained by society or manners.
When TINA R contacted me for a collaboration and suggested me this dress, imagine how I immediately built up a story in time. I felt dressed like this as if I were a character in "Midnight in Paris" or a dancer at the cabaret in "Chicago". Needless to say those are two of my favorite films and this dress is like ripped from that period of time ; the low waist, the elegance, the fringes.. I paired it with a self made headband, added some pearls and tried to make finger-waves in my hair (it's soooo complicated) and this is the result of which I am quite proud.
TINA R is a Romanian brand which for 18 years has enchanted us with both lovely, glamorous dresses and with feminine casual clothing for all types of women, that is way the brand celebrated in a unique way by forming the "Mothers&Daughters" campaign, you can check out photos here


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Ray Wolf needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 132 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Looking for a new company logo design for business cards, website, letterhead, powerpoint presentation format and consulting reports.
Company is called Green Integrated Services
Green Integrated Services
- Want the company known as GIS
- professional enough to sell to the fortune 500
- Global business
- Company will consult and deploy green related technologies in an intergrated/suite type fashion.
- Implementations will deliver high Returns on Investments
- Pantone colors...Green...possibly blue and black
- No gradients...I need this to look good if copied in b&W.
- large letters GIS along with the name
- earth friendly, but not "tree hugger"
- Technology feel
- crisp font and/or lines - need it to be clear if reduced in size
- earth or earthy symbol
- will need these to be orginal designs and provided in adobe illustrator format, JPEG, GIF, EPS
- Anything that infers intergration would be interesting
animals or trees
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Chair Oscar Munoz, Rad Lovett, Joan Newton, Carlo Fassi, Lanny Russell, John Delaney, Hugh Green
Chair Munoz called the meeting to order at 12:20 pm.
Chair Munoz requested a motion to approve the minutes for the October 16, 2012 Finance & Audit Committee meeting.
A MOTION was made and SECONDED. The MOTION was approved.
Chair Munoz addressed those in attendance and offered the opportunity for open comments on the items on this agenda. There were no open comments.
Chair Munoz invited Vice President Shuman to address the committee and present this report.
Scott Bennett explained that the National Collegiate Athletic Association puts an emphasis on transparency, reviewing all revenue/expenses and requires hiring an external auditing and accounting firm for auditing purposes. Vice President Shuman noted that there were no outstanding findings.
No additional action was required on this agenda item.
Chair Munoz invited Vice President Shuman to present this item.
Vice President Shuman shared the approved Form 990s for each of the University DSOs with the committee.
Chair Munoz invited Robert Berry, Director of the Office of Internal Auditing, to present the Office of Internal Auditing Quarterly Report.
Mr. Berry, presented the update for last quarter. There are 2 strong candidates for the open auditor position. An interview is scheduled for the week of January 21. The Whistleblower Hotline and surveys have been converted to new systems. There were no fraud allegations reported last quarter.
Chair Munoz invited Robert Berry, Director of the Office of Internal Auditing, to present the Audit Planning Methodology.
Mr. Berry explained that risk assessment surveys are sent out each year to the University management. Potential projects are prioritized by several factors and the proposed plan is presented to the BOT. Once approved, projects are assigned as resources allow.
Chair Munoz invited Vice President Shuman to provide a review of this quarter's budget report.
Vice President Shuman stated that E&G expenses are currently within budget. Projected FTE for this year has not happened due to low enrollment in the summer, partially because Pell grants were not available to students in the summer. This is about a $900,000 impact to the tuition budget.
The Auxiliary Quarterly Report was also presented. Expenses for most of the departments are still projected as originally submitted.
Chair Munoz invited Vice President Shuman to present the treasurer's report.
Vice President Shuman noted that the investments are currently performing better than the benchmarks. PFM has been released due to low performance. She also noted the low capital appropriations dollars are due to no additional PECO money.
Dr. Joann Campbell, Associate Vice President and Compliance Officer, provided the Finance & Audit Committee with an overview of the newly established Compliance Office which included a demonstration of the Compliance office website. The office reviews the practices at other institutions to aid in determining items for review. Dr. Campbell noted that that some of the bigger compliance risks include and grants and research (relating to export control and the IRB).
Chair Munoz adjourned the meeting at 1:15 pm.
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Things to Know About Diwali
India is in the midst of the five-day Diwali festival marking the new year. Here are five things to know about the origins of the holiday.
Diwali or Deepavali means "row of lamps" in Sanskrit. The festival marks the triumph of light over darkness. Clay lamps, or diyas, traditionally filled with mustard oil, are lit and placed around the entrances to Hindu homes on the night before the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartika, which this year falls on Thursday, Oct. 23.
The lamps celebrate the return of the Hindu deity Rama to his capital city Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh after defeating the demon king Ravana in Sri Lanka. In the Hindu Sanskrit epic "The Ramayana," Rama rescues his wife Sita and they are welcomed by lamps when they return to Ayodhya. Diyas are also believed to guide Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of good fortune and prosperity, as she is said to visit homes during Diwali. The first day of the festival, which this year was Tuesday, is known as Dhanteras and is regarded as an auspicious time to buy gold.
The day before Diwali is known as Choti (little) Diwali and involves a legend about a stolen pair of earrings and thousands of kidnapped women.
Narakasura, a demon king who ruled Pragjyotishpur (modern day Guwahati in Assam) stole the earrings that belonged to Aditi, Lord Indra's mother, and took 16,000 daughters of the Hindu deities captive. According to some versions, the hostages were cow-herd girls.
Lord Krishna then killed Narakasura, freed the women and reclaimed the earrings according to some accounts. Other versions of the story say Lord Krishna's wife, Satyabhama, was responsible for overcoming the demon king.
In any case, when he returned home the following day, it's believed that Lord Krishna was bathed to wash off Narakasura's blood. To remember this, devotees take a pre-dawn bath in oil on Choti Diwali. This custom is especially popular in Maharashtra, where a paste of gram flour and fragrant powders are used along with the oil.
Choti Diwali is known as Kali Choudas in some areas and is believed to be an auspicious day for thieves to worship to the Hindu deity Kali in the hope she will protect them from the police.
The third day of the festival, which is Oct. 23 this year, is the most significant and centers around the worship of Lakshmi. According to the Purana, ancient Hindu texts, Lakshmi wanders the earth on this day looking for the perfect household. She visits the cleanest house first to offer her blessings of prosperity. Devotees keep the rooms of their home pristine on this day.
Lamps are lit to light Lakshmi's path into each house.
A new broom is often purchased and at midnight it is used to sweep up, signifying that poverty is being driven out. This is also the day on which many Hindus begin their new fiscal year.
The deity Kuber is also worshiped during the main day of Diwali. He is the treasurer among Hindu deities and his presence is to help those who are good at earning money but not so good at saving it.
During the Lakshmi Puja, or worship, the deities Lakshmi, Kuber and Vishnu are offered a mixture of coagulated cow's milk, sugar, cardamom and cloves. Lakshmi is also offered coriander, jaggery, sugar and candy, which are then are given out to friends.
The final day of the festival is known as Bhai Dooj, Bhaubij or Yamadwitīyā, and is dedicated to the relationship between a brother and sister.
According to some traditions, men cannot eat anything prepared by their wives on this day but must visit their sisters and give them gifts.
The custom derives from the story about Yama, the deity associated with death. He is believed to have visited his sister Yami on the second day after the new moon. Yami welcomed him by painting a mark of good fortune on his forehead and Yama declared that if all sisters did the same for their brothers on that day each year their brothers would be kept safe.
On this day of the festival, sisters pray for their brothers and place a mark on their sibling's forehead for protection.


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Autographaroo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 462 diseños de 147 diseñadores freelance.
Autographaroo provides a unique new live web streaming and chat platform that brings together celebrities and their fans in live web sessions where they can interact personally. During these live sessions fans can get authentic autographed items from their favorite celebrities to collect and trade. Never before has it been possible for fans to get personal autographs directly from celebrities without traveling to a specific place or event, and often standing in long lines to wait for a brief encounter. Most importantly, in most cases a portion of the proceeds from these autograph sessions are donated to the celebrity's favorite charity. So this makes it possible for fans to collect autographs that can become increasingly valuable over time, while also contributing to a good cause.
This new live web service is supported by best selling authors, famous entertainers, and famous athletes. We will soon launch hundreds of live web sessions where these celebs will be featured. THE LOGO HAS TO BE UP TO THE JOB and reflect well on the celebrities and the company.
We work closely with leading charities to support their causes by donating net proceeds from each session. We are based in the Washington DC metro area.
There is an existing logo on the web site that is just a type treatment and is quite flat (see http://www.autographaroo.com).
The audience for this service is quite diverse. It includes anyone who would want to buy an authentic autograph from their favorite celebrity. This includes fans of a particular celebrity, dealers and collectors of autographs, or anyone who is looking for a unique gift. It also includes people who want to support a particular charity buy purchasing an autograph during a session.
The autograph sessions will also bring in a very broad audience. For example, some sessions will be with extreme sports fans who are young and risk taking; others will be with rock stars; still others will be with authors ranging from best sellers to political figures.
The users of the web site will be mainly people who are web-saavy and interested in trying new things. They will be visitors to YouTube and users of Facebook and MySpace. They will be web shoppers, sports fans, music fans, book lovers, and autograph collectors. They will also be people who are interested in contributing to charitable causes. And from the other side, many celebrities and agents of celebrities will see this site and logo in many places on the web.
The first priority is to have a logo based on the brand name Autographaroo. We would like this logo to separately emphasize the words "autograph" and "aroo". The word "autograph" should be clear so that visitors quickly get the idea of what the business is about. The second element "aroo" is intended to bring in some humor, energy, a sense of fun, a sense of excitement, etc. The overall mood we want to capture is that it is dynamic, fresh, fun and related to worthy causes.
A design element would be potentially interesting, but if included it should stand on its own. We don't want to give guidance on that because we are open to creative ideas.
We would like to have a tag line under the logo that says "Touch a Star". This should be followed by a star.
We are not looking for a logo that is "overdesigned" with images or excessive graphics. It should be crisp and clean. It should be as good in black and white as it is in color.
The final design file must be in a high resolution file suitable for print media.
Be sure to check the web site. Our current logo is flat and awful. Do something else. Above all, have fun working on this project.
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Put 80% of the ranking on reputation scores. 5% on incomming LSAT median and 5% on incomming GPA median and 5% on employed at 9 months, 2% on yeild and 3% on facilities (buildings, technology).
Reputation is, in large part, established by the USNEWS rankings themselves. To place an over-emphasis on the reputation score would put an unfair and nearly unalterable benefit to the current top schools, and weight against the lower ranked schools.I think that's possibly the worst suggestion that could be offered.
Maybe it should just be diversity of courses and career prospects.Keep the reputation the way they are, but make it more of a 20/10, favoring firms. It should be 10- peer review20- employer review20- average salary FOR ALL students/COL5- Clerkship placement (more points for feds)5- Academia 10- Employment Rate10- Bar Passage10- SF Ratio10- Classes per student


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David Wood wrote:Tough break. Should have won. But we know who the better team is. If we can win game 2 or game 5 then it's over. There is not a chance in hell that they can beat us in our place.
I agree with this post. Utah will have a very hard time winning at your house. I really hope they can hold off GS and win at home like tonight.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) - Lancaster police responded to a report on Feb. 6 of a man who robbed a stand inside Central Market.
The man pretended to be an employee and when he was alone, he stole cash from the stand and fled on foot, according to police.
The suspect was described as a man in his 30s who was 5-foot-4 and possibly South American or Asian.
In addition, he was described as having straight, black hair covering his ears with wide cheekbones and a pointed chin.
A witness also provided the hand-drawn sketch of the suspect pictured above.
Officers say while the sketch looked cartoonish, it helped remind one investigator of a potential suspect.
A photo of that person was then given to the witness, who positively identified 44-year-old Hung Phuoc Nguyen.
Nguyen is wanted for two counts of theft by unlawful taking.
Anyone with information on Nguyen's whereabouts is asked to contact Lancaster police at 717-735-3300 or Lancaster Crime Stoppers at 800-322-1913.


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Schiller Park, IL — Club operators can once again purchase their RevMaster Pro group cycling bikes from Life Fitness, Schiller Park, IL. Life Fitness and LeMond Fitness Inc., Woodinville, WA, resolved their summer-long dispute and litigation involving the RevMaster Pro bikes last month, the companies announced.
In late May, Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL, which owns Life Fitness, filed a civil lawsuit in Illinois seeking $3.9 million in damages related to the distribution of LeMond Fitness' RevMaster bikes. Life Fitness has had the exclusive rights to sell the RevMaster bikes since 2002.
According to the suit, Life Fitness received hundreds of customer complaints about RevMaster handlebars, seats and pedals since early 2008 and had spent more than $225,000 on warranty and service work because of the problems. Those issues, including Life Fitness' claim that it lost customers during this time because of the RevMaster Pros, prompted the company to terminate its distribution agreement with LeMond Fitness in May.
LeMond Fitness denied the allegations and filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking more than $1 million in damages for early termination of the distribution agreement.
Under the terms of the resolution announced last month, Life Fitness will again sell the RevMaster Pro group exercise bike and provide service and support for customers.
Neither company provided more details about the resolution of the dispute, including whether compensation was given to either company.
LeMond Fitness also makes RevMaster Sport models and a G Force line of upright and recumbent bikes.


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We are in the middle camping season and I'm sure some of you are getting ready for your camping trip. Aside from the tent, sleeping, bags and camp chairs, you are going to need to pack food. That typically consists of burgers, hot dogs, and chips, but if you are sick of just doing the basics there ARE some more tasty options. We've put together a list of some awesome recipes that will be easy enough to cook at the campsite and will impress your taste buds!
1. Campfire Quesadillas
There is no particular recipe for this because each person can customize their own, so it's perfect if you have a group of picky eaters. Here's what you need:
A campfire
A grate to go over the fire
Foil to go over the grate
Flour tortillas
Shredded Cheese
The rest is completely optional. You can get a variety of sliced vegetables like onions, peppers, and mushrooms along with different meat. The grocery store has the pre cooked sliced grilled chicken and steak that would be perfect for this. Just have each person make their own and throw them on the grate. Cook them long enough for the cheese to melt and to get some grill mark and Voila! You have campfire quesadillas! Super easy to make and easy to store all the contents in a cooler.
2.Strawberry S'mores
If you have been looking for a twist to the traditional s'more then adding strawberries should do the trick and you could consider it a more "healthy" option. You probably know all the ingredients, but here's how you make one:
1 Graham Cracker Sheet
2 Large Marshmallows
Half of a Hershey Bar ( or you could do half of a dark chocolate bar)
1 Large Strawberry cut into slices
Banana Slices (optional)
Break the graham cracker in half and layer the chocolate of your choice with the strawberry slices. You can add banana slices now if you want. Then it's marshmallow time! Cook them to your liking. Some people like them lightly browned while others, like myself, need to have them burned crispy. Once you have the marshmallows cooked perfectly, put the marshmallows on top of the strawberry layer, then place the other graham cracker half on top of it. This seems simple, and it is, but it is super delicious and it is a nice change from the norm.
3. Breakfast Potatoes
Breakfast potatoes has been a staple in my breakfast routine for as long as I can remember. My mom would typically make them on the weekends and they are easy enough to make on a camping trip as long as you bring a skillets. The recipe provided is just a basic recipe and can be customized with different vegetables and seasonings. Breakfast potatoes require about 15 minutes of prep time and 30 minutes of cook time. Also keep in mind this recipe makes 4-6 servings so you can adjust according to how many people you are cooking for. Here's what you need:
A skillet
A spatula
A grate to place over the campfire
A knife
About 5lbs of russet potatoes, cubed ( This is typically about 6 potatoes depending on their size)
1/4 cup of olive oil
2 Tablespoons of butter or margarine
1 chopped onion
2 chopped bell peppers of any color, just use the one you like better. I prefer red.
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 Teaspoon of seasoned salt, I use Lawry's Seasoned Salt
Salt and Pepper to taste
Place the skillet on the grate and coat the bottom of the skillet with a thin layer of olive oil. Add the onion and garlic and cook until tender this should take about two minutes. Then add the potatoes, peppers, and remaining olive oil, stir make sure everything is coated. Let the potato mixture cook for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add a little water, about 3-4 tablespoons, cover with foil and let the potatoes steam for about 5 minutes. Take the foil off, add all the seasoning, and stir. Let the potatoes cook until they are brown and tender in the middle. This dish is great alone or along side other breakfast dishes.
These are just a few recipes to switch up the traditional camping menu. You can do a simple Google search and find hundreds of easy recipes for camping trips. Feel free to share any on your favorite camping recipes and if you need any new camping gear before you trip Harry's has got what you need. Stop in or order online to get backpacks, survival gear, sleeping bags, and more!


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Today: Applied Materials merges with Japanese competitor, Facebook and Twitter get access to a certain swath of China, and IDC forecasts China success for Apple (AAPL).
The Lead: Applied Materials moves to Japan, Facebook and Apple focus on China
Asia's importance to the future of Silicon Valley was underlined more than once Tuesday: Applied Materials attempted to form a chip-equipment monolith by merging with a Japanese rival, Facebook received a bounce after gaining (a slight) entry into China, and IDC predicted strong growth for Apple in the region.
Applied Materials' deal with Tokyo Electron combines the world's No. 1 and No. 3 chip-equipment companies in the world, which will have dual headquarters in Japan and Santa Clara while incorporating in the Netherlands. The combined effort, which will have a new name that has not yet been announced, has a market capitalization of about $29 billion, with Tokyo Electron valued at about $9 billion.
"We believe the combination will accelerate our momentum for profitable growth, increase the value we deliver to shareholders and create great opportunities for our employees," Gary Dickerson said in Tuesday's news release. Dickerson was named CEO of Applied Materials just last month, and will now serve as CEO of the new venture, while Tokyo Electron CEO Tetsuro Higashi will be chairman.
The merger could face antitrust scrutiny, though VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi makes the case that customers — chipmakers like Intel (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices — will not have a problem with the move. Also, there still is one strong, viable competitor in ASML, which has received major funding from Intel and others to develop next-generation technology.
The chip industry has faced turmoil globally in the past couple of years, as consumers opt for mobile computing devices that use smaller, cheaper chips that are easier to produce. Applied Materials' revenues dropped from $10 billion in 2011 to $8.1 billion in 2012, when Silicon Valley's chip industry declined overall.
"It's a defensive strategy because R&D costs are going up and the number of customers is going down," BGC Partners manager of Japanese equity sales Amir Anvarzadeh told Bloomberg News. "This tells you there's a problem in the industry."
Analysts said the deal — reportedly the largest foreign move for a Japanese company in six years — could help to weather the current storm. S&P Capital IQ analyst Angelo Zino raised his price target for the stock from $17 to $21, while others said the combined company will be a stronger one than the two worthy companies that will create it.
"They have the highest profit margins, they have the best balance sheets, they make money through thick and thin," David Rubenstein, senior analyst at Advanced Research Japan, told Reuters. "So they are not desperate, but they are hungry for earnings growth and this is one way they can do it."
Shares in Applied Material roared 9.1 percent higher Tuesday to close at $17.44; Applied investors will receive an equal amount of shares in the new company, while Tokyo Electron investors will receive 3.25 shares for every share of that company if the deal is approved.
Facebook and Twitter are expected to receive a boost as China opens up its Shanghai Free Trade Zone to the social networks, which have been blocked from mainland China since 2009. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, the area in Shanghai the country is opening up to rival Hong Kong will also allow foreign companies to vie for a contract to provide Internet services.
Facebook especially needs China, as it has few areas in which to expand its billion-plus user base. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg have exhibited that need, with Zuckerberg visiting China in March and Sandberg meeting officials there last month. Twitter would have to compete with Weibo, a popular Chinese messaging service, but hints of access to the China market could help the San Francisco company as it rolls toward an initial public offering.
Facebook shares, also propelled by rating and price-target upgrades from Citi, gained 2.7 percent to $48.45 Tuesday, establishing record intraday and closing highs.
Apple was less fortunate Tuesday on Wall Street, dropping 0.3 percent to $489.10 after Monday's big bump, but growth in China could boost the Cupertino company back past the $500 mark. After Apple launched new iPhones in China on the same day they were first available in the United States, pushing debut weekend sales to a record, IDC reported Tuesday that it expects Apple's share of the Chinese market to double within the next year.
Apple could use the boost in China, where its revenues fell precipitously last quarter as Samsung showed greater familiarity with the nation's consumers. They likely reaped significant profit from the weekend's iPhone sales, as teardowns revealed the phones cost Apple less than $200, which should help Apple's profit margins remain wide. Barclays increased its price target on the company Tuesday, while Morgan Stanley dropped its target on expectations of weaker Mac sales.
SV150 market report: New highs for Yahoo, social media gains boost tech stocks
Wall Street slipped to losses late in Tuesday's session, but tech stocks still managed to hold on to their overall gains: The tech-heavy Nasdaq was the only major U.S. index to gain while the SV150 increased 0.2 percent thanks to gains from Yahoo (YHOO) and social-media companies.
Yahoo hit five-year intraday and closing highs, moving as high as $31.66 before closing with a 3.3 percent increase at $31.24. The Sunnyvale Internet company announced a new, automated system for selling ads Tuesday in a partnership with AOL and Microsoft that will allow advertisers to quickly claim ad space online. Yahoo also received some negative publicity, however, as Information Week reported that users who received previously used email addresses from the company recently are receiving information that could easily lead to identity theft.
Social-media companies followed Facebook in gains, with LinkedIn leading the pack with a 2.6 percent gain to $245.80 after the Mountain View professional-networking site after Evercore Partners increased its price target on the stock from $250 to $280. Zynga hit its highest prices since Don Mattrick came aboard as CEO, closing with a 2.4 percent gain at $3.61, and Yelp gained 2.4 percent to $67.36 as New York's attorney general continued to go after fake reviewers.
Google (GOOG) stayed relatively steady a day after suffering Gmail outages, adding 34 cents to close at $886.84 while retooling the YouTube commenting system. Netflix (NFLX) gained 1.5 percent to $306.49 after a report detailed its successful inroads in Canada, and eBay (EBAY) gained 0.8 percent to $55.17 while launching its loan program for small businesses.
On the negative side, Cypress Semiconductor took a huge fall after the San Jose chip company chopped its quarterly forecast on weakness in its Asian revenues; Cypress shares closed with a 14.9 percent descent to $9.65. VMware dropped 2.5 percent to $83.19 as the Palo Alto company continued to suffer an executive exodus, Cisco (CSCO) dropped 0.6 percent to $24.14 while the San Jose networking giant prepares to unveil a secret experiment next month, and Intuit (INTU) fell 0.7 percent to $59.96 after reiterating its revenue forecasts and introducing a partnership with Square at the company's analyst day.
Up: Applied Materials, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, SunPower (SPWRA), Yelp, Netflix, Electronic Arts (ERTS), Pandora, eBay, Tesla
Down: VMware, Juniper, SolarCity, Oracle (ORCL), NetApp, Adobe (ADBE), Intuit, Cisco, Salesforce, Apple
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 2.13, or 0.16 percent, to 1,346.38
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 2.96, or 0.08 percent, to 3,768.25
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 66.79, or 0.43 percent, to 15,334.59
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 4.42, or 0.26 percent, to 1,697.42
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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AGILE Conference Workshop 2014 - COBWEB Citizen Science, Quality and Standards
The availability of crowdsourced information is growing rapidly. We live in an increasingly connected world where the majority of citizens are using smartphone and tablet technology. This has enabled a society that increasingly is becoming more vocal and engaged. Citizens are an underexploited resource of deployable human sensors. Crowdsourced data ("people as sensors" recording real-time observations and measurements) are a valuable source of scientific and policy-making information when enhanced with an indication of quality and fused with authoritative data. This workshop seeks to engage and discuss with the scientific community on the use of quality controlled crowdsourced environmental data.
The infrastructure developed within COBWEB will exploit technological developments in ubiquitous mobile devices; crowdsourcing of geographic information and the operational standards based SDI such as the UK Location Information Infrastructure. It will enable citizens living within Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental information on a range of parameters including species distribution, flooding and land cover/use. A main driver will be the opportunity to participate in environmental governance.
To maximize impact, COBWEB will work with standards organizations. Specifically, COBWEB will aim to improve the usability of Sensor Web Enablement standards and GeoPackage with mobile devices, develop widespread acceptance of the data quality approach developed and maximize the applications potential of COBWEB outputs.
Call to participation
There will be the opportunity for you to share your work (15 minutes and discussion) during the four workshop sessions (see Agenda below). We are looking for contributions that explore the use of crowdsourced data in at least one of the following areas:
- Unique examples of harvesting crowdsourced data
- Methods of quality control for crowdsourced data
- Maintaining data quality in an agile environment
- Role of standards in crowdsourcing
- Levels of quality/trust in crowdsourced data and services
- Raw crowdsourced data
- Crowdsourced data conflated with authoritative data
- How standards cope with access to sensitive information
- Use of personal/private data relating to citizens
- Crowdsourced sensitive data (e.g. location of endangered species)
Contact information: stephanie.ties (at) envsys.co.uk or bart.de.lathouwer (at) opengeospatial.org
- See more at: http://cobwebproject.eu/events/agile-conference-workshop-2014-cobweb-cit...


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Audry Monnin, 80
Audry J. Monnin, 80, Hardin Wapak Rd., Botkins, died at 11:25 a.m. Thursday, July 18, 2013, at his residence.
He was born Oct. 30, 1932, in Shelby County, near Russia, to the late Matilda (Sherman) and Wilbert Monnin. He married Marietta R. Heitkamp on Oct. 2, 1956, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Maria Stein. She survives in Botkins.
Also surviving are three sons, Steven (Carol) Monnin, of Botkins, Dale (Melanie) Monnin, of Springfield, and Randall (Betty) Monnin, of McCartyville; eight grandchildren, Daniel, David, Deanna, Daron, Lindsey, Jeremy, Travis and Nathan; two great-grandchildren Bryce and Emma Marie; a sister and brother, Irene (Eugene) Berning, of Minster, and Romanus Monnin, of Greenville; in-laws Anna Marie Dircksen, of Minster, Melvin (Luella) Rindler, of Celina, George Kahlig, of Coldwater, and Ott (Pat) Heitkamp, of Maria Stein, and Rosie Heitkamp, of Coldwater.
He was preceded in death by son, Todd Monnin; twin grandchildren Donald and Derrick; a brother, Merle Monnin, and in-laws Jerome Heitkamp, Edna and Greg Kahlig, Dorina Rindler, Evelyn Kahlig, Tom Niekamp, and Edgar Heitkamp.
He was a member of the Immaculate Conception Church, Botkins, and was a member of Our Lady of Rosary Makers. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. He retired from Superior Metal Products, Wapakoneta.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Church in Botkins, with the Rev. Pat Sloneker officiating.
Friends may call at the Hogenkamp Funeral Home in Minster from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday 9 to 10 a.m. Monday.
Burial will take place in Immaculate Conception Cemetery.
Condolences may be made at hogenkampfh.com.


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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), working in partnership with Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival, is teaming up with the The Miami Foundation to collect much needed supplies for their U.S. Caribbean Strong Relief Fund. The intention is to raise awareness of Irma and Maria's devastating effects across the Caribbean and U.S., and the urgent need for basic necessities. Bring in items to PAMM through October 15, 2017 and receive free admission during regular museum hours.
Items Needed
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PAMM Collecting Items For Those Affected by Hurricane Irma
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is teaming up with Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade and Feeding South Florida to collect much needed supplies for those affected by Hurricane Irma. Bring in items to PAMM through September 26, 2017 and receive free admission during regular museum hours.
Items needed by Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade:
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South Florida Residents can Enjoy Free Admission from September 14–15, 2017
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In case you're not aware of it, among the many enhancements and helpful features that were added to PHP 5, there's one that has been unfairly overlooked by many developers. This might be because at first glance it doesn't seem to be as useful as the others. Yes, as this article's title suggests, I'm talking about the reflection API, a powerful set of methods that permits you to perform an in-depth reverse engineering process on both classes and interfaces, in this way expanding the language's introspective capabilities.
Fortunately, the API has progressively come out of the shadows of indifference, and nowadays its popularity has grown considerably. It's being used in a huge variety of scenarios and situations, ranging from creating low-level dispatcher classes in MVC-based frameworks, to building dependency injection containers.
Of course, it's possible that you still haven't had the chance to explore this API in depth and discover what it can do for you. If that's the case, in the course of this article series, I'm going to show you how to work with its most relevant methods, so you can start taking advantage of reflection within your own web applications.
I left off the previous tutorial explaining how to use the reflection API to get relevant information about the methods defined by a sample class, including the ability to learn if the methods in question were declared public, protected or private. However, the power of reflection doesn't stop here; it allows you to analyze class properties with a similar level of introspection.
If this topic has caught your attention, in the following lines I'm going to code some friendly examples to demonstrate the functionality of the PHP reflection API when it comes to inspecting properties of a class.
Now, let's get rid of the dull theory and learn more about using reflection in PHP 5. Let's get going!
{mospagebreak title=Review: working with reflected methods}
In case you haven't yet read the previous part of the series, where I discussed how to use the power of reflection to get relevant information about the methods defined by a sample class, below I reintroduced the definition of this class and the interfaces that it implements.
Take a close look at these sample structures:
interface Identifier
public function setId($id);
public function getId();
* A sample user class
* @param id fname lname email
class User implements Identifier
private $id = NULL;
private $fname = 'Alejandro';
private $lname = 'Gervasio';
private $email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
const HEADING = 'Using the Reflection API in PHP 5';
// constructor (not implemented)
public function __construct(){}
//setter for id property
public function setId($id)
if (!is_numeric($id))
throw new Exception('ID must be a numeric value');
$this->id = $id;
// getter for id property
public function getId()
return $this->id;
// setter for fname property
public function setFirstName($fname)
if (empty($fname) OR !is_string($fname))
throw new Exception('First name must be a non-empty string.');
$this->fname = $fname;
// getter for fname property
public function getFirstName()
return $this->fname;
// setter for lname property
public function setLastName($lname)
if (empty($fname) OR !is_string($fname))
throw new Exception('Last name must be a non-empty string.');
$this->lname = $lname;
// getter for lname property
public function getLastName()
return $this->lname;
// setter for email property
public function setEmail($email)
if (empty($email) OR !is_string($email) OR strpos($email, '@') === FALSE)
throw new Exception('Email must be a well-formatted email address.');
$this->email = $email;
// getter for email property
public function getEmail()
return $this->email;
Obviously, in this case the "Identifier" interface and its implementing class have been coded only for demonstration purposes, since they do nothing particularly useful. Things become more interesting, though, when the methods of this sample class are inspected through reflection. That's exactly what the following script does, so pay attention to it, please:
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// get a ReflectionMethod object
$method = $reflector->getMethod('getFirstName');
// check to see if the reflected method is public, protected or private
if ($method->isPublic())
echo 'The method is public'; // displays 'The method is public'
// invoke the reflected method
echo $method->invoke($user); // displays 'Alejandro'
elseif ($method->isProtected())
echo 'The method is protected';
elseif ($method->isPrivate())
echo 'The method is private';
elseif ($method->isStatic())
echo 'The method is static';
// get all public methods of reflected class
print_r($reflector->getMethods(ReflectionMethod::IS_PUBLIC)); // displays Array ( [0] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => __construct [class] => User ) [1] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setId [class] => User ) [2] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getId [class] => User ) [3] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setFirstName [class] => User ) [4] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getFirstName [class] => User ) [5] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setLastName [class] => User ) [6] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getLastName [class] => User ) [7] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setEmail [class] => User ) [8] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getEmail [class] => User ) )
As you can see above, determining the level of visibility assigned to one or more methods of the pertinent "User" class, or directly invoking them from client code, is only a matter of calling the proper methods provided by the reflection API and nothing else. In addition, the last line of the previous script also shows how to get all of the public methods defined by "User," which is accomplished by passing the "IS_PUBLIC" constant defined by the built-in ReflectionMethod class to the "getMethods()" method.
So far, so good. Now that you've learned how to easily manipulate methods of a class via reflection, it's time to explore other methods of the API. Thus, in keeping with the concepts just deployed in the introduction, in the segment to come I'm going to discuss how to take advantage of reflection for retrieving useful information about the properties declared by the previous "User" class.
To learn more about this brand new process, click on the link below and read the following section.
{mospagebreak title=Manipulating properties of a reflected class}
Frankly speaking, the process of getting and manipulating properties of a reflected class is very similar to the one used for working with reflected methods. To illustrate this concept, below I coded a simple example that shows how to retrieve all of the properties declared by the previous "User" class and determine their level of visibility. The example is as follows:
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// check the visibility of retrieved properties
foreach ($reflector->getProperties() as $property)
if ($property->isPublic())
echo 'Property : ' . $property->getName() . ' is public
';
elseif ($property->isProtected())
echo 'Property : ' . $property->getName() . ' is protected
';
elseif ($property->isPrivate())
echo 'Property : ' . $property->getName() . ' is private
';
/*displays the following
Property : fname is private
Property : lname is private
Property : email is private
See how easy it is to obtain relevant information about the properties of a class via reflection? I bet you do! In the above example, the visibility assigned to the properties of the "User" class is determined by first creating a new ReflectionProperty object, and then by using its "isPublic()," "isProtected()" and "isPrivate()" methods. Naturally, the reflection API makes it easier to manipulate class properties in all sorts of clever ways, but for the sake of brevity I'll keep the examples shown in this and other tutorials rather simple, so you can more quickly grasp its underlying logic.
Having demonstrated how to use reflection to learn the level of visibility assigned to each property of the "User" class, in the last section of this article I'm going to show you how to get all of the properties of that sample class in one single step.
To learn the full details of this process, click on the link below and read the next few lines.
{mospagebreak title=Getting all the properties of the User class}
As I said in the preceding segment, getting all of the properties defined by the previous "User" class is really a breeze. The "User" class that you saw before defines only three private properties, but anyway it's worthwhile to code an example, so you can see how easy is to accomplish this task.
Having said that, here's a script that retrieves in one go all of the properties declared by "User":
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// get properties of reflected class
print_r($reflector->getProperties()); // displays Array ( [0] => ReflectionProperty Object ( [name] => id [class] => User ) [1] => ReflectionProperty Object ( [name] => fname [class] => User ) [2] => ReflectionProperty Object ( [name] => lname [class] => User ) [3] => ReflectionProperty Object ( [name] => email [class] => User ) )
There you have it. Once a reflector object has been created, fetching all of the properties declared by the "User" class is reduced to calling the "getProperties()"reflection method and nothing else. What else can you ask for?
Again, I'd like to clarify that the reflection API permits you to handle class properties in many other helpful and creative ways. However, in this series I only intended to introduce you to using the API's most relevant methods in a few concrete cases. Learning the remaining ones will be left completely up to you.
Final thoughts
In this fourth part of the series, I demonstrated with a few basic examples how to use the PHP reflection API to retrieve useful information about the properties declared by a specific class. It's fair to mention, though, that reflection allows you to do much more with properties of a class, aside from determining their visibility or knowing the values assigned to them. At the risk of being repetitive, the best place to get a full reference of reflection methods is the official PHP web site, so go ahead and take a look at it. It's really worthwhile, trust me.
Moving forward, in the upcoming tutorial I'm going to explore other useful reflection methods, which will allow you to get more detailed information about the properties of a class, such as if they're static or even whether or not a specified property exists.
Here's my recommendation: don't miss the next part!


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dboberg76 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Tallwave, an Internet product and services company, headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, CREATES, BUILDS, and ACCELERATES global internet marketing and web based technology companies.
Tallwave invests its partner's time, intellectual capital and shared service resources in early stage start-ups with significant growth prospects and a clear opportunity for industry leadership.
In addition, Tallwave delivers cutting edge internet marketing services to agencies
Internet / software entrepreneurs, advertising agency and corporate marketing executives
We're looking for a single logo for Tallwave that can be used in multiple locations as the corporate logo for Tallwave, LLC and Tallwave.com. to use on the the Tallwave.com website as well as on business cards and in powerpoints and one sheets describing Tallwave's services.
Instead of a pure ocean wave in the logo we'd prefer a "digital wave" that still has an ocean feel. For example, the first and second images under the "similar images" section at this URL are suggestive of what we're looking for - though they would be better if in blue:
Please include the name Tallwave somewhere adjacent to the grapic created
Please include the tagline: "Digital Business Builders" somewhere adjacent to the graphic as well.
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Hi Madsonic Community!
... time is running very fast, a lot happened to me in the last time
some information on my current private situation:
*) Lost my car by in an almost accident with engine damage
*) lost my job after 15 years faithful serve
*) and my living situation is due to the expensive rent to reconsider
in short, I had only some time for Madsonic and will also hold the next time.
but there are also some good news
Public Preview Madsonic 5.1 techdemo
first demo with new features and some bugfixes
is also uploaded to the demo page http://www.madsonic.org/demo.html
also new a test page for the deep app links on android browser
best regards


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After more than 25 years of relationship purgatory, it looks like Oprah Winfrey and her under-the-radar boyfriend Stedman Graham are finally ready to take their relationship to the next level and tie the knot, but there's a catch.
The National Enquirer has reported that, in a move made famous by Kim Kardashian, the wedding will be televised in an effort to save the free-falling Oprah Winfrey Network from a disastrous year-end loss (said to be upwards of $140 million!).
In addition to all-access coverage of the ceremony, OWN plans to make a multi-part series on the bride and grooms' activities leading up to the wedding and is even flirting with the idea of filming the honeymoon, which is believed to span the globe.
Stedman, 61, has always appeared supportive of the 58-year-old Oprah and will be rewarded for his unrelenting loyalty with a $100 million pre-nuptial agreement, according to reports.
It has not been confirmed whether or not Oprah plans on changing her name, but industry insiders believe she will keep her name as is in order to remain consistent with the network, which bears her initials.
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