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In the last decade and a half, the share of women in the National Assembly has been declining. Only one out of nine chairs of National Assembly Committees is female. Women's representation remains low in key bodies of the Communist Party: the Politburo (two out of 16), the Central Committee and the Secretariat. In Government, the civil service has a large percentage of women but their representation in leadership is small and tends to be at lower levels: 11 percent at the division level, 5 percent at director level and only 3 percent at ministerial level (UNDP, 2012).
But should we be concerned about getting higher levels of women in leadership? Is this just about "political correctness" or can having more women in leadership in business, government and politics benefit Vietnam's development?
Women's leadership matters because of the critical importance of good leadership for development success. Leaders should therefore be selected from the entire talent pool a country possesses—men and women alike. Almost half of Vietnam's population is female so limiting leadership roles overwhelmingly to men means that the country is unnecessarily restricting itself to a smaller leadership talent pool. Opening leadership more to women can enhance Vietnam's leadership in support of its development.
Women also bring different perspectives from men to several issues. Promoting their full participation in leadership and decision making will allow policy decisions to be informed by a more diverse range of viewpoints and understanding of different issues. Policy decisions could become more inclusive and relevant, especially on policies affecting women.
While these arguments are intuitively appealing, there is still little focus on the issue in Vietnamese society. A first step towards actively promoting more women in leadership roles is to build greater consensus on its importance as a development issue. Responsibility extends beyond Government. Parents and teachers can play important roles in the emergence of strong women leaders by encouraging girls as much as boys from an early age to recognize their leadership potential and create opportunities for them to lead.
And businesses, Government and the Party can do a lot. In the work place, it is important to promote and create an environment that is friendly to women's leadership. Childcare support, training opportunities, extension of the retirement age for women would all help. It is equally important to actively identify potential women leaders early in their careers and groom them. Government may want to consider setting up such a special program for women's leadership in the public service.
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Easter weekend features fine weather
The weather will generally cooperate with people planning outdoor events for the Easter weekend, with mostly clear skies and seasonable temperatures.
While all of the region is well-above freezing this morning, there is a chance of a passing shower or two later today, said WTNH meteorologist Gil Simmons. "Today won't be as pretty a day as Wednesday, but if you forgot your umbrella you'll be okay,'' he said.
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Court Denies Broadcasters' Motion to Close Aereo
An appeals court denied broadcasters' request for a preliminary injunction of web-TV startup Aereo, dealing a major setback to their efforts to shut down the service. Shalini Ramachandran reports.
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HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County shrugged off a 10-0 Pulaski County run to open the second half and took a brief lead in the fourth quarter but couldn't complete the comeback, falling to the Cougars 57-54 in a nondistrict girls' basketball game Friday night.
Though the defending Region IV Division 4 runner-up Cavaliers have started the year 0-2, coach Marc Motley was encouraged by Friday's showing.
"We didn't quit," said Motley. "That's not something we did our first game. I don't think we played hard against Patrick. We played hard tonight."
A steal and layup by Maleah Neely tied the game at 49 with 3:31 to play but Raiven Patterson gave Pulaski County (2-0) the lead for good, first connecting on a driving layup and later hitting two fouls shots for a 53-49 advantage with 1:41 to go.
Neely converted a three-point play to cut the gap to 55-54 with 27 seconds left but Kelli Duncan's drive to the bucket gave Pulaski a three-point spread, and a hurried 3-point attempt at the buzzer wouldn't fall for the Cavaliers.
Pulaski County turned a 28-26 lead into a 12-point bulge by scoring the first 10 points of the second half, holding Carroll County scoreless the first 3:32 of the third quarter on 0-for-6 shooting with six turnovers.
"We didn't come out of the locker room ready to play in the second half," said Motley, who was hit with a technical foul that was converted into four Pulaski County points on two Kasey Holcomb free throws and a Patterson lay-in at the 4:46 mark of the third. "A few things didn't go our way and I got a little fired up, and I hope it motivated them a little bit."
The 'T' energized the Cavaliers, who closed the period with a 15-5 run to pull back to within two points, 43-41.
Shyann Dalton scored twice underneath and Rachel Dalton added a couple of driving buckets, and Shyann Dalton capped the rally with a three-point play for her ninth point of the period.
Lindsey Martin rattled in a 3-pointer from the left corner as Carroll County edged out in front 47-45 with 5:58 to play, but the Cougars answered with a 4-0 run fueled by turnovers on six of Carroll's next seven possessions and Pulaski wouldn't trail again.
Carroll played more than eight minutes in the second half without its starting point guard as Rachel Dalton left the floor with her fourth foul with 56 seconds to go in the third. Dalton returned midway through the fourth but was whistled with her fifth just 12 seconds later.
"When you play the entire fourth quarter without your point guard, you've got to like where we were," Motley said. We defended enough to keep ourselves in it. We gave ourselves a shot."
The Cavaliers played catch-up most of the night, falling behind 14-6 in the first seven minutes before a 10-0 run stretching into the second quarter gave them their first lead on a tying bucket by Neely followed by a drive by Rachel Dalton for a 16-14 advantage.
Pulaski used a Nikki Shay 3-pointer to take a 28-26 lead into the half.
Neely (15 points, 12 rebounds) and Shyann Dalton (11 points) led the Cavaliers, and Neely added some solid defense on Patterson.
"I don't think I've ever seen anybody play the Patterson kid as tough as she did tonight," Motley said. "She did a tremendous job."
Pulaski County got 16 points from Patterson and 11 each from Holcomb and Shay.
Pulaski County........... 14 14 15 14––57
Carroll County............. 12 14 15 13––54
Pulaski County (2-0)
McCloud 1 0-1 2, Holcomb 2 7-8 11, Patterson 7 2-5 16, Anderson 3 1-5 7, Chaffin 2 0-0 5, K.Duncan 2 1-4 5, Shay 5 0-1 11. Totals 22 11-24 57.
Carroll County (0-2)
Alderman 1 0-0 2, R.Dalton 4 0-0 8, Neely 5 5-8 15, T.Martin 0 2-4 2, Caldwell 1 0-0 2, Scott 2 0-0 4, L.Martin 3 1-2 8, S.Dalton 5 1-1 11. Totals 21 11-17 54.
Three-point field goals – Pulaski County 2-8 (Chaffin, Shay), Carroll County 1-9 (L.Martin). Rebounds – Pulaski County 37 (Anderson 14), Carroll County 38 (Neely 12). Turnovers – Pulaski County 23, Carroll County 29. Team fouls – Pulaski County 17, Carroll County 20. Fouled out – Anderson, R.Dalton. Technical fouls – Carroll County bench.
JV – Pulaski County 37-28.
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Wrestling with Competitive Give-BackBy Doug Bartholomew | Posted 2008-03-28 Print
Think open-source software is ready-made for your infrastructure? Baseline gets real with open-source customers to find out the challenges and successes in working with vendors, customization, documentation and licensing.
Ironically, those kinds of competitive worries are yet another potential barrier for some companies considering adopting open source. Some companies fear that, once they cobble together a new Web application or e-commerce solution whose functionality suits their business' needs, if they put it in the public domain, their competitors may use it.
"We're still struggling with the question of how much code to give back to the open- source community—especially to our competitors," says Jon Williams, CTO at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a $2 billion division of the Washington Post Company with 200 test preparatory locations for people taking the SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and many other standardized tests. Kaplan, which derives 50 percent of its enrollment online, used open-source software from Alfresco for its Web site platform.
But some companies are less worried about the proprietary downside of open-source. "We're a newspaper company, not a technology company," says the New York Times' Gottfrid. "We weren't nervous about our open-source database layer being used by the Washington Post for a competitive advantage."
Others are even less concerned about things proprietary.
"We are at the point where we are ready to start contributing software back," says Julian Lambert, global e-business director at Shimano, the Japan-based sporting goods manufacturer. "I've been drinking the Kool-Aid."
Yet another obstacle to many businesses adopting open source is that the software often requires customizing, meaning that expertise is needed to write fresh code to make an open-source program work the way a company wants it to.
"Open-source is not do it yourself," says Williams of Kaplan.
Even though Kaplan had already built a team of open-source veterans led by executive director of architecture Gautam Guliani (coauthor of the book, Open Source for the Enterprise), Williams brought in the vendor Rivet Logic for help.
"We actually code-built our Web site with them, using Alfresco and JBOSS," Williams says.
Therein lies another potential rub for organizations looking to deploy open source—the vendor relationship.
"A relationship with an open-source vendor is a very lean relationship," Williams cautions. "They're not going to jump on a plane and meet you at 8 a.m. the next day. It's a trust relationship. They stand behind their product. There is no spin. It's a frank, two-way relationship."
Generally, though, with that relationship comes greater freedom to switch.
"The relationship is renewable on an annual basis," William says. "The open-source vendor would probably like to lock me in (for more than one year), but I am more likely to renew when I know I have a choice. Red Hat wanted me to sign a three-year agreement, and I asked why, because I felt that was counter to the open-source mentality. As open-source vendors get larger (like Red Hat has), we may see more of this."
All too often, another drawback to using open-source software is a relative dearth of documentation.
"I'd say one of the biggest challenges for us is the documentation—or lack thereof," says Johnson of the Los Angeles Times. "The documentation is rather weak in a lot of open-source products."
Besides poor documentation, many companies are concerned about support for the software. With software that is community based, there is the perception that getting support will be tough.
For Shimano, the Japan-based maker of sporting goods, the solution was to use a vendor for one open-source program and depend on its own IT staff for the rest.
"With Alfresco, we go with vendor support," Lambert says. "With other open-source software, it's a matter of keeping the staff we have—they are our support."
An alternative source of support is the open-source community.
"We do have some support contracts with vendors, but we go to the community user boards to search for solutions to problems," says Johnson of the Los Angeles Times.
With the surge in open-source popularity, finding IT staff who understand the open-source concept and can work with this software is not an issue, many companies have learned. In fact, the reverse is true—companies using open-source have found it easier to attract and retain talented IT staff because they have embraced the open-source concept.
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A good choice of vegetation not only increases the real estate value but also improves its curb appeal. I realize that this can be costly but is realistically achievable in stages.
The first thing to do is to remove the lawn in front of the foundation to build a flower bed. The curve of the existing walkway can be mirrored on the left side to obtain a nice flowing line while keeping the shape thinner in the centre.
Under the upper left window, a deep flower box could be installed on two white supports replicating the extruding beams under the slanted roof.
To frame the house, I propose planting tall ornamental grass on the left side. To inspire movement, texture and define the walkway, a series of smaller Pennisetum perennial grasses would contour one side of the path.
A small Caragana tree on the right and a climbing Lonicera on a trellis would complete the planting for this year. Everything else can be done the year after. This landscaping is low maintenance except for the burning bush that needs to be trimmed annually to keep its density and shape.
The door and windows have recently been replaced with white ones. It is a typical choice but paired with the same coloured siding, the overall appearance is humdrum and looks even more two dimensional.
If ripping out the old aluminum siding is too big an investment for now, changing its appearance can be easy and affordable with an exterior acrylic paint in a matte finish. This is a good alternative at a fraction of the cost.
Most people resent painting this material. There are extremely efficient, good quality exterior paints on the market right now. I recommend painting because I've done it myself 10 years ago and it still looks marvellous! No chipping and no staining, looks brand new.
First, wash the surface thoroughly with the all-purpose heavy duty cleaner T.S.P. and rinse well with a hose. Then apply two coats of paint in a light beige khaki tone.
For a nice contrast, paint the shutters black in a semigloss finish or, even better, replace them with new and wider ones already available on the market in the desired colour.
The front of the slanted cornice with its two posts on each side and the four extended beams should undeniably be white and in a matte finish.
Now, since the door is brand new, this next suggestion will probably make the owners cringe. For a classic colour scheme, a rich pop of warm and deep ''sang de boeuf '' colour would give it presence using an exterior acrylic product in a semigloss finish.
Renting a spray gun would make your door look absolutely perfect.
Vegetation (from left to right):
- Thuja Occidentalis 'Smaragd' (evergreen)
- Miscanthus Sinensis 'Varie-gatus' (ornamental grass)
- (3) Bergenia Cordifolia (perennials, red flowers)
- Euonymus Compactus (dwarf burning bush)
- -Polygonum Affine (perennial ground cover)
- Lonicera Dropmore 'Scar-let' (climbing ivy on trellis)
- (5-7) Pennisetum Alupecuroides (ornamental grass hedge)
- Catharanthus Roseus Syn. Vinca Rosea (annuals in planter and flower box)
- Potentilla Fructicosa 'Red Robin' (shrub)
- Caragana Arborescens Pen-dula (decorative tree)
Most homes can use a little help when it comes to warming up their curb appeal. If you'd like some inexpensive ideas on how to improve the appearance of your home, send a clear photo of your house with your commentary to: Suzanne Rowe, Designer, email@example.com. Because of the volume of email she receives, it is not possible for her to individually reply to each correspondent.


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kelvintham needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 238 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
We have been freelancing for some time during our student years and are now making Tinkerbox our full time jobs. We want to rebrand ourselves and a good first step is shedding our quick and dirty logo.
We stay up to date with the latest web trends and want to project a modern vibe to our customers. Our website hasn't been updated in a while but that will be another job altogether.
Image conscious companies looking for quality and professional web advice and implementation.
The design should be modern, innovative but not too elegant.
It should reflect our company as vibrant, young, reliable and professional.
The box in our current logo is optional and preferably stay with orange.
We would need the files to be in vector format, preferably openable in fireworks.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Just a note to all designers.
We are looking for creative designs. If possible 3D and gradient effect would be great!
At this point, designers that have participated, try to come up with different concepts instead to revising your current designs. Thank you
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proto123 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 271 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
proto investment partners
proto : Prefix denoting the early development stage of some phenomenon
proto investment partners: early stage venture capital funding & angel seed investment
professional investors
we currently plan to use a dandelion seed head with some of the seeds blowing off as the logo/image - but happy to see interesting alternatives
Proto Investment Partners (PIP) - "pip" acronym for seed
We are an angel investment firm providing seed capital funding to early stage ventures/start ups - we want to convey this message in logo
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text: However this was a photo I took recently at nearby Steveston. A huge flock of geese had chosen as a resting place this pond in the field where a small herd of Belted Galloways spend their summer. I suppose they are on their way south for the winter. The field is pretty wet year around and the cows are usually pretty muddy as is this one. The birds were swirling above and taking off and landing constantly in a flurry of activity.


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JAGS is an alternative to BUGS (WinBUGS or OpenBUGS) for conducting a Bayesian Analysis. It stands for Just Another Gibbs Sampler, and like WinBUGS, it is essentially an MCMC machine that employs a Gibbs sampler so you don't have to write your own for every analysis. JAGS code is very similar to the more popular BUGS so it is an easy transition. JAGS has the advantage of running on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). It is also open source and based in C++ so it will likely have more continued development than the more well established BUGS software. Unlike WinBUGS, JAGS has no user interface and you will not see it in your Programs/Applications folder. It has to be run from another program, most commonly R using rjags. R2JAGS is an R wrapper for JAGS and rjags that provides some additional features.
I have not yet updated my operating system or all of my software, and as such, I've had some difficulty installing and running JAGS/rjags. I finally got it working after two long days and thought I'd post my solution in case anyone finds themselves in the same situation. Hopefully when I do update to Snow Leopard in the next month I don't have any problems just using the most up to date versions. For now, here is a solution using:
Mac OS 10.5.8
rjags 2.2
1. Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files/ and download JAGSdist-2.2.0.dmg. Follow the normal install procedures.
2. From the same site download the rjags_2.2.0-1.tar.gz file to your desktop
3. Install the rjags package. I tried install.packages('/Users/Dan/Desktop/rjags_2.2.0-1.tar.gz', repos = NULL, type = "source") and it seemed to work, but when I typed library(rjags) I got the following error message:
Error: package 'rjags' is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'
4. If that happens, I found that installing from the Terminal with additional instructions worked like a charm. If like me you are not experienced with the Mac Terminal and command line entry, I will provide explicit instructions that I found:
- Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
- Navigate to where you downloaded the source package. In my case the desktop, so I typed, "cd /Users/Dan/Desktop/" (without the quotes). You should notice that the cursor is now indicating that directory.
- Now that it knows where to find the file, have the Terminal tell R to install the package as a 64-bit version by typing the following into the Terminal: R –arch x86_64 CMD INSTALL rjags_2.2.0-1.tar.gz
5. Open R64 back up and rjags should be installed. Load the library with "library(rjags)" and it should work. At least it worked for me. Good luck!
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New Caterham chiefs to axe ugly 2014 nose
The distinctive nose at the front of Caterham's 2014 car could be the popular victim of a development push by the backmarker team.
"New management, new nose, new hope," read a report in the German-language Speed Week, as it referred to Caterham's plans to press ahead in the wake of the Tony Fernandes era.
Caterham is currently last in the constructors' standings, after its traditional backmarker rival Marussia finally broke into the points in Monaco.
Finishing last in 2014 - a statistic new bosses Colin Kolles and Christijan Albers are determined to avoid - could mean the loss of about $20 million in official prize-money.
And so it seems Caterham's mysterious new Swiss-Middle Eastern owners have approved a timely development push.
Italy's Omnicorse claims departed backer Fernandes had essentially 'blocked' the further development of the uncompetitive CT04 car while he contemplated selling the Leafield based team.
The new management has now 'unblocked' that programme.
The report said that, on Tuesday, a 60 per cent model of the car entered the state-of-the-art Toyota wind tunnel in Cologne, with the fruits of the work scheduled to debut at the Belgian grand prix after the summer break.
The headline improvement will be a "more efficient nose", Speed Week claims.
The curious 'double nose' on the CT04, arguably one of the ugliest innovations in F1 history, is tipped to be gone at Spa-Francorchamps in August.
But, before that, the new nose would require a new FIA crash test.
"We obviously have a lot of work to do," said team boss and former Minardi driver Albers, "but we're prepared for the challenges ahead."
In 2015, it is expected that every car on the grid will feature much more aesthetically-pleasing nose designs.
Next year's rules have addressed the issue of the unseemly and unpopular 'anteater'-style noses.
"We can't legislate against ugly cars," said the FIA's Charlie Whiting, "but what we can do is to try to get closer to what was originally intended."
The 2015 rules mandate larger minimum cross-sections of the noses, he confirmed.
"They (will) have to be a certain height and a certain width and they must be symmetrical about the car centre line," said Whiting.


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Don Byron's fourth Blue Note album is a belated follow-up to 1995's Music for Six Musicians. Six musicians are once again featured here, but they're joined by a large number of guests, bringing the cumulative total to 20. As always, Byron looks to unlikely sources for inspiration, beginning with Henry Mancini's theme from the 1962 John Wayne flick Hatari. (The artist is a diligent student of Mancini's music in general.) The rest of the tracks are originals, save for "Shake 'Em Up," a calypso party song that features Don Byron, Sr. on bass and Designer on vocals. Byron emphasizes an Afro-Carribean vibe throughout, often setting up dense, harmonically ambiguous vamps for group interplay, as on "Klang," "B-Setting," the extended piece "Dark Room," and the fragmentary "You Are #6," the last of which is reprised later in the program as "You Are #6.5." By the time we get to "A Whisper in My Ear" the sonorities are a bit more consonant and familiar, though no less evocative. Pianist Edsel Gomez and trumpeter James Zollar turn in strong solos. This being Latin music, the percussionists also loom large; they are Milton Cardona and Ben Wittman, along with guests Johnny Almendra and Mauro Refosco. The clarinet/piano duet "No Whine," hauntingly beautiful but a bit out of place, recalls what Byron andUri Caine did with Puccini and Schumann on 2000's A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder. There are also the requisite Byron-esque oddities, like "Dub-Ya," a 58-second taunt directed at President Bush the younger.Julie Patton's vocalizing toward the end of "B-Setting" is quirky in the extreme, yet strangely compelling, as is the sample of seemingly overheard conversation that interrupts and ends the title track. Here Byronevinces an interest in album programming as sound collage, in the manner of a hip-hop artist (compare 1998's Nu Blaxploitation). In this light, it's all the more fitting that he concludes the record with a DJ Spooky remix of the infectious bossa nova "Belmondo's Lip."


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It's Not often that farmers and their farm groups have the opportunity to put on a big party for politicians. So the AgNite celebration held in Minneapolis, MN, in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in St. Paul was a splashy, one-time deal. Plenty of agricultural leaders, companies and journalists attended the one-million-dollar-plus event. It featured products from ice cream to pork chops to grain vodka to showcase Midwestern farming.
Unfortunately, the Republican Party didn't treat agriculture quite as well that day. That afternoon the party endorsed Republican presidential nominee John McCain's opposition to ethanol in its national platform. McCain has been opposed to tax breaks and tariffs that support ethanol. But in its 2004 platform, the Republican Party endorsed ethanol, and President Bush has been a big supporter as well.
Clearly, the Republican Party's strike against ethanol does not bode well for the industry. The growth in ethanol production and the growing world demand for corn and soybeans have helped boost commodity prices. Without these higher prices, farmers would not be able to weather the meteoric rise in fertilizer, steel and other input costs. Survival would be the only subject on farmers' minds.
What does the future hold for ethanol after this fall's presidential election? The answer is uncertain. Although Barack Obama has been an advocate for ethanol, support for ethanol has become an unpopular position. Perhaps the one group that may still be in ethanol's corner after the election is Congress. It passed the Renewable Fuels Standard in the 2007 energy bill.
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March 18, 2007
The Bisons could not avoid getting swept for the first time this season, as they were defeated by Georgia Southern 6-2, on Sunday, March 18.
The Eagles wasted no time getting on the board, scoring three runs in the first inning to jump out to an early 3-0 lead.
The Bisons pulled to within one, with two runs in the fourth, but it was as close as they would come.
Kevin Gavigan led off the fourth inning with a double to left. Caleb Joseph followed with another double to left, scoring Gavigan for the Bisons first run of the game. One out later, Shane Simpkins recorded Lipscomb's third double of the inning, plating Joseph, to bring the score to 3-2.
However, from that point on, four Eagles' pitchers, combined to shut the Bisons offense down for the remainder of the game.
Bisons' starter, Brandon McClurg, recorded the loss, his first of the season, to drop his record to 2-1. In 5.1 innings, he gave up four runs on seven hits. McClurg leads the Bisons with a 2.23 ERA.
With the loss, the Bisons' record dropped to 13-10.
The Bisons will take the field again on Friday, March 23, when they travel to Bowling Springs, NC, to take on Gardner-Webb in their first conference series of the season. The game is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.


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J.R Creative Group needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Donate Zone
Hello Designers!
We are in need of advertising on our computer screens located in Gas Stations. The main objective is to advertise and promote the products in the store. (6 pack beer, bag of ice, large bag of chips, 1 liter soda, milk , bread) Go to http://www.thedonatezone.com to view our machines and notice the computer screens located on the front of them. These are the screens we want to create advertising on. (new website up next week)
Customer receive 25 tokens every time they purchase beer or ice etc.. (MILK, BREAD, 1 LITER SODA, BAG OF CHIPS WORTH 25 TOKENS)
Tokens are used to play games at the Donate Zone. The Donate Zone gives away $160,000 in cash prizes every 90 days.
I hope this helps!
People walking into Gas Stations. People who would purchase beer, ice, chips, soda, milk or bread. Our machine is called the Donate Zone and is found in Gas Stations.
Your designs will be used on our computer screens to promote selected products sold in gas stations. The ads will run on a loop. The main objective is to advertise and promote the products in the store. Also use money in your design.
size: 800 x 600 png
Logo: Donate Zone & Skyeward Bound
Use existing psd files for the basic design. We want the ads to look like the Donate Zone machine. You can find them on the ftp site.
Download at:
Username: spoonftp
Password: ftp$!
In FTP go to HEST then BROSHURE
From the psd's use the purple, blue, stars and stuff. We want the promotional ads to be consisant with the Donate Zone design.
For text content use the example ad. Words do not have to be in the same order as the example ads.
Please let me know if I can make this brief better in any way.
Thank you so much for your designs!


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Available on select AMD Radeon™ R7 series, R9 series and HD 7000 series graphics cards, the visionary
Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture is a radically new approach to the design of a consumer GPU, making it a top choice for gamers who expect the best.
Designed to push not only the boundaries of DirectX® 11 gaming, the GCN Architecture is also AMD's first design specifically engineered for general computing. Representing the cutting edge of AMD's graphics expertise, GCN GPUs are more than capable of handling workloads-and programming languages-traditionally exclusive to the main processor. Coupled with the dramatic rise of GPU-aware programming languages like
C++ AMP and OpenCL™, the GCN Architecture is the right architecture at the right time.
In simple terms, increasing the number of transistors in a GPU has a big impact on the potential performance of a graphics card, but transistors alone are not enough. It takes a truly great design, like the GCN Architecture, to effectively use that potential and turn it into real-world performance.
Performance is not enough for today's demanding gamers. Image quality, or the clarity and accuracy of textures and effects, is equally important. The GCN Architecture is equipped with three key technologies that dramatically raise the bar in this regard.
Even in the latest titles, gamers may have noticed that games often reuse or repeat textures, particularly on the ground or in background scenery such as mountains or trees. This is because increasing the physical size or number of textures in a game can have a negative impact on the performance of a GPU. PRT is a radical technology that hopes to break this cycle.
PRT can utilize absolutely enormous texture files, up to 32 terabytes large, with minimal performance impact. PRT accomplishes this by streaming small bits of these massive textures into the GPU as needed, giving compatible games a virtually endless supply of unique texture data it can apply to the game world. The GCN Architecture in AMD Radeon™ products is the first GPU design to feature a hardware implementation of this technology.
Partially Resident Textures (PRT) enable future games to utilize ultra-high resolution textures with the same performance as today's small and often repetitive textures.
Available on every modern GPU, anisotropic filtering is a technique that assists the GPU in making sure textures in your favorite games remain razor sharp, even at a distance. Most games now offer the ability to enable this feature, and the AMD Catalyst™ driver suite has long provided players with the option to force enable anisotropic filtering for all of their games.
Where every GPU design differs, however, is in the way the anisotropic filtering is actually executed. The GCN Architecture has been specifically optimized to produce superior results when AF is enabled.
Improved anisotropic filtering enables gamers to get sharper, better textures when this technology is enabled.
As DirectX® 11 titles become more mature, game developers are naturally pushing the envelope of realism by utilizing a greater degree of special rendering effects. One such effect is tessellation, which can dynamically generate additional detail in a scene on the fly.
Here is a wireframe scene of a rally car in DiRT 3 driving through water. On the left, notice there are no ripples. On the right, after tessellation, there is new and dynamic detail in the game.
As with anisotropic filtering, tessellation is not new to GPUs, but the manner in which tessellation is executed can have a large impact on the gaming experience. Because of this, the GCN Architecture has again been optimized to deliver a measureable tessellation performance boost over previous-generation GPU architectures.
Finally, it's important that great performance and great image quality don't come at the expense of a high power bill. Products with the GCN Architecture feature reduced power consumption in the "idle state," better known as the time when you're doing desktop work. But there's more, too.
AMD ZeroCore Power technology leverages AMD's leadership in notebook power efficiency to grant our desktop GPUs the ability to power down when your monitor is off, also known as the "long idle state."3
This is great for those times when you've stepped away from your PC to take a call, watch TV or pop down to the store. Furthermore, AMD ZeroCore Power technology allows additional GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration to shut off when they're not in use-even the fan stops spinning.
An AMD-exclusive technology, AMD ZeroCore Power ensures that unused or idle GPUs are as efficient as possible.
Even the most hard-core gamer with an AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU configuration benefits from AMD ZeroCore Power technology. Unused or idle GPUs are shut down until needed to conserve power.
OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission by Khronos.


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- Green
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Electronic calculator uses 18,000 tubes to solve complex problems ["Scientific American" headline, June 1946]
Amadis de Gaula ... set a fashion: all later Spanish writers of books of chivalry adopted the machinery of Amadis de Gaula. Later knights were not less brave (they could not be braver than) Amadis; heroines were not less lovely (they could not be lovelier) than Oriana; there was nothing for it but to make the dragons more appalling, the giants larger, the wizards craftier, the magic castles more inaccessible, the enchanted lakes deeper. Subsequent books of chivalry are simple variants of the types in Amadis de Gaula: Cervantes made his barber describe it as 'the best of all books of this kind.' This verdict is essentially just. Amadis de Gaula was read everywhere, especially in the French version of Herberay des Essarts. It was done into Hebrew during the sixteenth century, and attracted readers as different as St Ignatius of Loyola and Henry of Navarre. Its vogue perhaps somewhat exceeded its merit, but its merits are not inconsiderable. [James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, "Spanish Literature," 1922 edition]Where Montalvo got the name and what it means, if anything, is a mystery. Californian is attested from 1785. The element Californium (1950) was named in reference to University of California, where it was discovered.


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Tonight's post is inspired by Yuna's Lullabies. Something about this song makes me crave a night drive down a long empty highway…. you know? But in all seriousness, give it a listen.
Lullabies by Yuna (Adventure Club Remix)
Song writing:
Temporary Lovers
We keep holding on, finger between each finger, woven together better than the phonics of our favourite song. Darkness gives rise to technicolour lights to match our neon dreams, we see only the best of what was once a blurred haze of the ordinary. As the emptiness of still life turns up to a hemisphere of joyfulness, we know it doesn't matter whether we are temporary lovers or enduring soul mates because for the time being, we have the entire curve of the earth within reach. And we keep holding on.
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Nintendo's Wii U Aims to Court Casual and Hardcore Gamers
Today will either go down in gaming history as the point at which Nintendo performed a spectacular return to form and defiantly placed itself back on top of the video game console food chain, or the moment that the historic game company made a spectacular mistake.
I don't mean this in terms of the initial sales of its newly-released Wii U console, which are already expected to exceed retailers' capacity to meet feverish demand. But Nintendo is making a pricey gamble to reinvent its iconic console shortly after the revolution it inspired in home entertainment and gaming with the original Wii in 2006. The bet could just as easily dump the Wii in the pile of abandoned Nintendo gadgets like the Virtual Boy or even the Game Boy.
It's easy to see why Nintendo is feeling to pinch to uproot itself. The company recentlycut its full-year profit outlook by a staggering 70 percent due to weak sales of its current devices. And besides commercial powerhouses like Call of Duty and Halo 4, developers across the game industry are feeling pressured to either evolve to an increasingly "casual" and mobile marketplace or go extinct.
The big three console developers—Nintendo itself Microsoft MSFT -0.53%, and Sony 6758.TO +3.28%—are all meeting this newfound pressure in different ways. Microsoft is buying up top talent or poaching ideas from everything from Hollywood to cloud storage firms to integrate the Xbox 360 (and its successor, expected to come out sometime next year) within the rest of the company's large inventory of gadgets and software programs. Sony invested heavily in producing a tremendously powerful mobile gaming console, the Playstation Vita. Like all recent gaming devices made by Sony, its release was overpriced and poorly timed even though many critics fawned over its many stunning qualities.
Of the three, Nintendo's strategy with the Wii U is by far the most surprising. Seeing casual mobile gaming and "core" console gaming circle each other warily, the company decided to simply mush the two together. And it did so by creating the GamePad, a new controller that feels like a combination of an iPad Mini and an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 controller.
The GamePad has all the standard features of a console controller: two nub-like joysticks, a directional pad and four alphabetical buttons. But they now rest on either side of a 6.2 inch touchscreen tablet surface. It's a big change, both literally and figuratively. The GamePad feels cumbersome in my hands compared to the sleek efficiency of something like the Playstation 3 Dualshock controller, and it weighs a little over a pound. This isn't heavy by any means, but it still puts the controller in a new weight class—it's more than twice the weight of the Nintendo 3DS, the company's mobile console (the 3DS XL, which was released earlier this year, is slightly heavier but still lighter than the GamePad). And that's not even considering how the GamePad will fit in the hands of the many children clamoring for the device.
But all that aside, touchscreen devices are enormously popular, and tablets like the iPad have already opened up unique possibilities for a new breed of videogames. So what's the problem with just building that into a new console? Because the GamePad is also oversized in another way—one that has already influenced the design of Nintendo's next generation of games.
What made the original Wii Wand (or Wiimote) such a bold controller was the fact that it threw away the dual-stick standard entirely to focus on revolutionary motion-controlled gameplay. It seemed simple and pared-down compared to the 360 or PS3, but that was its unique charm. And compared to the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube controllers of Nintendo's past, it was a breath of fresh air that left Sony and Microsoft scrambling to create rival products.
That innovation set the Wii apart from the repetitive offerings of its competitors. As the videogame scholar Jesper Juul wrote in his book "A Casual Revolution," Nintendo realized that Sony and Microsoft were locked in an arms race to win over the entrenched market for "hardcore" gamers with a predictable set of features—better graphics, faster processing speeds, longer and more blockbuster movie-like games. Rather than chipping away at this demographic, Nintendo created a new market entirely.
With the GamePad, Nintendo instead seems to have caved in to pressure, perceived or real as it may be. And the company now finds itself in awkward position of trying to recast itself as a serious, gaming-centric company that can make its own "hardcore" titles just a few years after it proved that there was another was another, equally valid way to make consoles.
Some launch titles continue the Wii's tradition by using the GamePad to its best potential, particularly the "asymmetric gameplay" that allows users to juggle the events unfolding on the main TV screen with additional material displayed on the GamePad alone. The new Super Mario Bros. U gives the player holding the GamePad a macro perspective of a level to assist other players, for instance, while Madden NFL 13 lets you sketch out plays with a stylus instead of punching in buttons.
But for every creative use, there's a potential pitfall. I recently previewed two of Namco's launch Wii U titles, Tank! Tank! Tank! and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, both of which compromised on game quality to fit in the Wii U's new 6.2-inch framework. Tekken is essentially a re-skinned version of the existing game with some Nintendo-friendly stickers taped on, and the only touchscreen feature I noticed was a list of the most complicated moves that you could complete with the press of a single icon. As a fighting game, the entire challenge of Tekken rests on pulling off these same moves, so one would think that the touchscreen shortcut defeats the entire purpose of playing. If anything, including a pseudo-cheat-sheet seems to admit that the size of the GamePad impinges on the requisite dexterity to actually play the game. Simply put, I don't see a lot of veteran Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 fans rushing to compete in Wii U's multiplayer environment any time soon.
Tank! Tank! Tank! is an addictive arcade-style game in its own right. But when I played with another writer, I ran into the oddest GamePad dilemma I've seen so far. Instead of splitting the television screen in two (split-screen gaming, previously the standard for local multiplayer console games), it shunted me to viewing solely on the GamePad. This created an uncomfortable audio effect, since both the GamePad and TV were voicing the same excited cheers and explosions at the same time. And it left me wondering why, with a giant flat-screen television sitting a few feet away from me, I was consigned to tinkering with a tiny tablet in the first place.
Prior to the explosion of game consoles, PC gamers who wanted to play multiplayer with a close friends rather than wade into the ferociously competitive and often hostile environment of online multiplayer had to set up elaborate multi-computer gaming rigs through a local area network (LAN). So-called "LAN parties" are certainly fun, but the experience of being glued to a PC screen for hours at a time doesn't seem like a party to many but the most dedicated gamers. The Wii, in large part, was what changed that—building games and controllers that were simple enough for grandparents and children alike to enjoy, and enjoy together. The Wii U's gamepad doesn't exactly return to the cult status of LAN parties, but it does the next best thing by asking an already distracted audience to stare in different directions.
If anything, this very concern is probably why Nintendo only made the Wii U compatible with a single GamePad. But as a tablet and a game controller, it still forces a compromise on the strength of both devices. The short battery life and wireless range keep it from being a full-fledged mobile unit—especially when compared to something like the Playstation Vita, which you can use as a controller for certain PS3 games at home and still take with you on the subway for your commute.
Wedding consoles and tablets has never been an easy task. One botched attempt by THQ to create a drawing tablet almost singlehandedly destroyed the company with$100 million in lost revenue. The Vita and Xbox's new Smartglass mobile app are stepping gingerly into the field, but the Wii U has embraced it wholesale.
It's an interesting experiment, no doubt. But part of the fun of playing games has always been the fact that they demand one's full attention compared to the incessant multi-tasking that increasingly sophisticated mobile devices so often encourages. The GamePad may make the second screen (or third or fourth, more realistically, if the player already has a smartphone and tablet) a core part of the gaming experience, but in doing so it risks forsaking the very screen that made the Wii U's production possible in the first place.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on the eve of the Wii U's launch, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata insisted that creating this new hardware will ultimately encourage developers to create exclusive games that make use of the GamePad's unique potential. And there is incredible untapped potential in the GamePad, just as there is in Smartglass and the Vita. As Kotaku's editor in chief Stephen Totilo argues in the New York Times, "wise" gamers do not buy new consoles for their starting line-up but "for the games in the future." The question is just how to support such an expensive venture until that promise can be realized.
But exclusivity is not as important for gaming hardware at this point as the quality of its service and the character of the community each console fosters. With the Wii, that community was the family itself—something far more powerful than Xbox Live Arcade or the Playstation Network could ever hope to create. The Wii U may still be built with the family in mind, but it's now a family more interested in looking at their iPhones than actually making eye contact at the dinner table. A nod to a changed market, to be sure. But what was beautiful about the original Wii was the way it invited people to play with each together both physically and virtually, even if we were all still staring at the screen.


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By the early 1920s the following four parties recognized the benefits of making Bryce Canyon accessible for public enjoyment: 1) the National Forest Service; 2) the newly-created National Park Service; 3) the Union Pacific Railroad Company; and 4) Utah's state government. Each group had different reasons for wanting to develop the area as a park, but they agreed to enter negotiations to construct roads, develop auto tours, and build structures to accommodate tourists.
As early as 1916, National Forest Supervisor J. W. Humphrey recognized the need to provide lodging for the people who would undoubtedly come to witness the scenic beauty of Bryce Canyon. Nothing was done at first to carry out his idea, however, so the earliest motor tourists who arrived at the rim of the canyon left before nightfall. In 1919, local homesteaders Ruby and Minnie Syrett set up a tent and began serving meals to friends who came to see the canyon. The following year they built a permanent lodge called Tourist's Rest to accommodate the growing number of visitors to the rim of Bryce Canyon. Guests stayed in nearby tent cabins and enjoyed meals in the lodge. Tent camps such as this were popular with auto tourists of the time as an alternative to hotels.
In 1922 the Union Pacific Railroad Company announced plans to promote the scenic attractions of southern Utah by investing about $5,000,000 to complete railroad branches to Cedar City and construct lodges at Bryce Canyon and nearby Zion National Park. The company created a "Grand Circle Tour" that allowed tourists to visit several parks in one trip. After arriving in Cedar City, Utah, by train, tourists could take motor buses on the loop connecting Cedar Breaks, Zion, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon.
The Utah Parks Company was created to handle accommodations and other services at the parks in southern Utah. The company purchased prime property in the middle of the canyon from the state of Utah to establish a tourist center and build a lodge. In 1923 an arrangement was made with the Syretts allowing them to operate Tourist's Rest until the Union Pacific's lodge was completed. The couple then received $10,000 and permission to operate accommodations outside of the park boundaries. The Syretts continued to house summer visitors who could not afford to stay at Bryce Canyon Lodge and winter visitors who wanted to enjoy the canyon when the lodge was shut down for the season.
In the spring of 1923, Gilbert Stanley Underwood, a Los Angeles architect, was hired to design the buildings for Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Cedar Breaks. At Bryce Canyon, Underwood wanted the lodge to be close to the edge of the plateau but not interfere with the view from the rim. He designed the buildings in the "rustic" style favored by the National Park Service because it blended well with the natural surroundings and did not detract from the scenic settings in which the structures were placed.
Rustic style buildings are built of local materials and have a hand-crafted appearance. Accordingly, the stone for the Bryce Canyon lodge and cabins was quarried a short distance from the site and logs were cut from the national forest. Half logs, some with the bark left on, were used as exterior siding. Large, whole logs became structural supports at major entries. Peeled logs were used for elements such as interior stairway railings; on the exteriors they were used as supports for the porches of smaller buildings. Native-stone foundations and fireplaces, as well as the use of wood shingles on steeply pitched roofs contributed further to the rustic design.
By May 1925, the building was ready for its first tourist season. In addition to the main lodge there were several smaller cabins nearby. Accommodations at the lodge were luxurious and meant to appeal to wealthy tourists who could afford to travel by railroad and motor bus. The lodge had a comfortable lobby with a large fireplace and a radio set. The spacious dining room seated 200 guests. The main floor also held retiring rooms and shower baths for men and women. The lodge even boasted a barber shop and an ice cream parlor. During their stay guests of Bryce Canyon Lodge could hike in the canyon, go horseback riding, attend talks by park naturalists, and participate in social events. Additions and improvements continued to be made, and by 1928, the year Bryce Canyon earned its status as a national park, the lodge complex was nearly complete.
During the Forest Service's administration of Bryce Canyon National Monument from 1923-28, tourism increased dramatically. In 1927, an estimated 24,000 people visited Bryce Canyon. Forty percent of visitors arrived in Utah Parks Company vehicles and stayed at Bryce Canyon Lodge. The remaining tourists traveled in their own cars and camped. Under the National Park Service, visitation still increased, but more and more tourists arrived by private car. The quality of roads, trails, and amenities in the park continued to improve. In 1941, a record 124,000 people visited Bryce Canyon National Park. Today the park receives close to 1.75 million visitors annually.
Questions for Reading 3
1. What four major parties were interested in the potential of Bryce Canyon as a scenic park? Why do you think each party was interested in promoting it?
2. What is the "rustic" style and why is it seen as appropriate for structures in national parks?
3. What comforts did guests find at Bryce Canyon Lodge? What activities could they participate in?
Reading 3 is compiled from Janene Caywood, "Bryce Canyon Multiple Property Submission" (Garfield County, UT) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1994; Nicholas Scrattish, "Historic Resource Study: Bryce Canyon National Park," U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1985; and "Bryce Canyon National Park: The Early Years, 1916-1946," an unpublished manuscript by Patti Bell.


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P4 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 107 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Exemplar Trading, LLC
After 25 years on Wall Street I lost my job. I saw this as an opportunity for me to start my own thing. My professional experience has taught me the importance of corporate identity which is why I'm reaching out to you.
I am the sole proprietor of a limited liability firm that trades foreign currencies - Euros, Pound Sterling, Aussie dollars, Canadian dollars, Yen.
My target audience would be people I consider prospective investors. They are generally upper middle class to affluent individuals who are sophisticated investors and have some understanding of forex trading.
Forex trading is by nature a risky business so my goal is to develop a brand identity that is conservative but also a little edgy.
My first project is to create a logo and a font type for the company name. My preferences are modern, sans serif type fonts - angular, thin lettering. I've uploaded a couple for files with font examples I like. I like the small caps.
Logo ideas should incorporate the foreign currency symbols. Something highly stylized is what I'm looking for as just plain symbol representations might make the company look too much like a bank.
I choose the name Exemplar in part because I thought the 'Ex' combination might make for some interesting design ideas. Not a requirement just a suggestion.
Colors should be dark. There are two color example files uploaded which show deep blue and grey. Dark red would also work.
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Wank Party 2011 #7 features Pavol Zbynek, Ivan Cakovsky, Honza Copak, Jan Pribyla and Sascha Borodin. Pavol, Ivan and Honza are walking by the lake and find Sascha and Jan Sunbathing on an air bed. They run into the water and tip them off, and the fun begins, the guys get naked and enjoy a good time laughing, joking, mock fighting and playing with a ball before they leave the water and walk back to where they are staying. Dropping their towels the guys start to get hard and soon Ivan is sucking Sascha while Jan sucks on Pavol's hard cock. Before long they switch and Ivan sucks on Honza and Sascha and Pavol gets to grips with Jan's dick. The guys move to another room for more sucking, this time with Ivan rimming Jan's ass. Pavol wants some too so he starts to rim Sascha as well, taking the opportunity to jam his thumb up his ass. Meanwhile Ivan is fingering Jan's ass, so we know that more is going to find its way in there soon. Our expectations are met swiftly as Ivan fucks Jan while Pavol fucks Sascha real deep. Then they switch with Pavol shoving his dick deep into Sascha, and Ivan doing the same to Jan, who also gets a mouthfull of Honza's rampant cock. Another change sees Honza sitting on Ivan's dick and Sascha fucking Jan, with Pavol waiting his turn to fuck Honza. Which he does very soon, doggy style. Then Honza sits on Ivan again and Pavol moves back to have another go at Jan's tight ass. All too soon the cumshots start to flow, with Pavol, Sascha and Ivan cumming in quick succession, all over Jan's face, and he dutifully sucks the dicks dry, before he also shoots a nice load and finally Honza drops his load over Jan's head to bring the scene to a wonderful ending.
Rado Zuska is aged 30 and lives in Melnik, where he works as a driver. He enjoys Fitness, Cycling and Swimming in his spare time. What a stunning guy Rado is, With a very handsome face and a magnificent body. He is so toned, that every muscle stand out, glistening as he adopts a series of beautiful poses. That is not all either, as Rado shows us his huge dick, which looks great as it is hard and rampant. But that almost outdone by the most beautiful ass you might hope see, and when it is spread it reveals the tightest of sweet pucker holes. This a glorious stills shoot with Rado, which augurs very well for his erotic video.
Lukas Bursik is aged 18 and lives in Prague, where is a student of economics. He enjoys computers and tennis in his spare time. This is his erotic video, and I must say he looks very good. He starts by removing his shirt and caressing his body before opening his jeans and dropping themto the floor, revealing his engorged member. He wanks himself and we see that his dick grows to quite size, and he sits to continue wanking. Then with his dick nicely aroused he lifts his legs to show us a nice hairy hole too. changing position allows Lukas to bend over and stretch the hole open some more. this time it actually opens up very nicely indeed. Laying face down on the wooden beam gives us a great view of Lukas' ass again, this time it opens even further. Then it is time for a cumshot, so Lukas wanks himself to a massive erection and spurts a nice big load, which splatters the floor. He then finishes up in the shower to refresh himself after his exertions. Lukas really looks great in this video. I would love to see him do more.
Mykola Petruskov is 19 years old and hails from Russia. He is in the Czech Republic for work and in his spare time he enjoys playing football. Mykola is a cute looking guy who photographs very well, as you can see in this stills shoot. He does some very nice poses, and shows a very good, upstanding qualification as well a a most inviting ass. It would be great if we could persuade him to come back and do something with another guy.


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In the midst of the California energy crisis, it's no surprise that more large power users are rethinking their power usage needs and patterns.
To West Group, a leading provider of electronic information and solutions to the United States legal market, few things are more important than quality power. "Our business runs on electricity," explained Tom Walrath, senior director of facilities management at West Group. So when West Group prepared to install a new power generation facility on its 300-acre campus in Eagan, Minn., it set out to design and build a world-class facility. The result is one of the largest corporate-campus distributed-generation systems in the world.
In the midst of the California energy crisis, it's no surprise that more large power users are rethinking their power usage needs and patterns.
That certainly was the impetus for West Group, which operates a computer-assisted legal research service known as Westlaw, to take on this project. With attorneys needing to tap into legal information 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world, Walrath characterizes the project's power requirements as "zero tolerance for downtime."
With its mission-critical energy needs in mind, West Group embarked on a two-year, $5.5 million project in 1997. Its goal was to install the most reliable distributed power system it could find. The 14MW West Group facility represents the largest single-site generation installation undertaken by the turnkey installation firm Energy Alternatives to date.
Meeting Project Requirements
Although power redundancy was a primary requirement, there were other key factors, including the ability to peak shave and sell power back to the grid. West Group also wanted to receive cost savings from the local co-op utility (Dakota Electric Association), which services the Eagan area and the facility's 5,400 employees.
Dakota Electric offers its customers an "interruptible rate" on their power. This means West Group receives a reduced rate on its power throughout the year as long as the utility can "pull the plug" on campus power for as long as a peak demand exists.
Walrath said the rate savings should provide an approximate four-year return on investment and an excess of $1 million annual electric bill savings.
Energy Alternatives' first step was working with building engineers to design a sound-sensitive 7,620-sq-ft building that would eventually house seven 2MW generators, supplied by Caterpillar. In addition, West Group had to calm the "not in my backyard," concerns in the neighborhood over the installation of the equipment.
"The community knew that whatever we were going to do, we were going to do right," Walrath said. "We are located 500 yards from a residential area. We have been in this location for 25 years, and we have an excellent relationship with the community. They trust us."
Minimizing Noise
West Group's power generation facility is located next to the local substation on the perimeter of the campus. This strategic site helps the company save on feeder installation costs. Noise, however, was still a concern. To achieve a sound-minimizing structural design, Energy Alternatives hired a sound engineer to ensure the generators did not exceed a preset decibel level of 55 dBA.
Custom pads — each a different depth and shape — were installed under each gen-set so that each unit would emit a different frequency. When the frequencies of each generator emit randomly, they do not multiply and may cancel each other out. Technicians tuned the generator's exhaust pipes for minimal decibel output and installed 7 ft of sound attenuation on the facility's residential side.
When operating, the sound level in the engine room is 120 dB, which is comparable to the sound level of a jet engine at full throttle. Outside the facility, the sound level does not reach more than 55 dBA at the property line.
Ensuring Power Flow
With smaller engine gen-set installations, there is typically one generator per transformer. Not here.
The seven generators are aggregated through ASCO Power Technologies' switchgear to provide 12.8MW of prime power or 14MW in standby mode. This is roughly enough power to supply 4,000 large homes. The power is then sent to a single transformer that resides on the Dakota Electric side of the fence.
Different codes applied to each side of the substation fence increased the amount of engineering required on the project. The National Electric Code (NEC) applies to the customer side, while the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) applies to the utility side.
The custom switchgear arrangement makes all modes of power transfer possible. The switchgear comprises nine sections holding seven 5000V generator breakers, one 5000V main breaker, and one utility tie-in section where a bus duct connects the switchgear to the step-up transformer. The switchgear has four modes of operation: export, demand, isolate, and standby.
Two separate substations that rely on an automatic switching configuration serve West Group. If one substation or transmission line fails, the other automatically takes over. If both of those power sources fail, the generators automatically start to pick up the load and isolate the campus from the rest of the utility system.
Total time to complete gen-set backup after a severe outage is two minutes, which includes time delays for substation switching. During that time, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and other small gen-sets power West Group's lighting and critical loads. All the switchgear equipment has a battery backup system for operation during a power outage.
Since the project's completion in 1999, Walrath said the system has been periodically put through its paces. It is typically in operation for peak shaving during the summer months, but in 2000, the system was run in the winter months in response to increased demand placed on the grid by community homes during the holiday season.
"I think the concept of distributed power is a great use of equipment," Walrath said. Apparently, many others think so as well.
For the past year and a half, engineers, hospital administrators, city administrators, and data center operations managers from around the country have bombarded West Group with requests for visits. Groups have even flown in from overseas to tour the facility and obtain more information on the setup.


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A critical deadline is approaching for New York State property owners. Very soon, more than 2.6 million New Yorkers who receive the School Tax Relief exemption will need to re-apply as part of the state�s efforts to combat fraud within the system. Last week, the State Department of Taxation and Finance began mailing letters to homeowners, providing instructions on how to reapply for the STAR Program. If you currently receive the STAR exemption from your school taxes, you must re-apply to continue receiving the exemption in 2014 and beyond. Homeowners will only need to go through the re-application process one time. This does not impact seniors in the enhanced STAR program because they are required to register every year. The deadline to re-apply for the STAR program is December 31. Letters should be arriving in mailboxes soon. However, homeowners may apply online before they receive their letter by visiting http:www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/star13/default.htm. Homeowners can also re-apply by telephone by calling (518) 457-2036, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Lizbiz748 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Order Restorers
i am a professional organizer. i just passed my Certification exam and will be able to use that CPO registered trademark logo on my website, etc. in about 3 weeks, however, that is NOT what defines MY BIZ, it is an accessory if you will. I do residential organizing for clients. i organize kitchens, pantries, closets, wardrobes, memorabilia/scrapbook items/photos, garages, and i do public speaking! i am speaking at the Southern Womens Show in Nashville in April. Topic is "Getting Organized & Staying That Way!" I stage homes after i declutter them. I also design closets, home offices, garages, etc I also rearrange rooms using what the homeowner has on hand! (See videos attached below. couldn't get videos to attach below so if you wanna see 'em i can email them to you)
PLEASE CHANGE THE TAGLINE TO READ ...helping you organize your life
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I want to communicate Order Restoring but I do everything with a Flair! I was Liz Custer, Organizer Extraordinaire!...helping people organize their lives. WE can keep that tag line or replace it with a 3 word concept. I just want something fabulous that says ORDER RESTORERS! Target audience is anyone who has the motivation to get organized and the money to pay for help! Typically that is about age 40 & up, educated, professional or at least 1 of the couple works and maybe 1 stays home with kids. This Nashville area is somewhat conservative, typical affluent suburbia. (This county is richest in Tennessee) Also, check out my current website, please. http://www.lizcuster.com. It has lots of pics of what i do! :)
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Any CCRI student with a library account can visit the library circulation desks and check out a laptop for up to three hours. The computers are equipped with the full Microsoft Office suite and provide Internet access. Students should bring a USB flash drive if they want to save their work.
Students are not allowed to remove the laptops from the library but, otherwise, there are no restrictions; students are free to use them for anything from writing an essay to updating their Facebook pages.
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