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garysumpter needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
I am a website designer, have been for over 10 years. Sitewonders Limited has been running for about 3 years.
Businesses seeking web work and related services
My website is http://www.sitewonders.co.uk - my NEW site is in development at http://www.sitewonders.co.uk/dev/
I dont like my logo, never have really. I want something much more eyecatching and professional.
The logo will be used on the web, on stationery (which I need designed after this project) and on marketing materials. I will more than likely have the printing done with Spot UV so bear that in mind when designing.
Sitewonders is a play on words, I am heavily involved in magic (tricks etc) and the tagline is 'Put the magic back into your business'
Up to you if you want to use that!
I want the new logo / branding to look more corporate / professional but to still have a creative feel
I am COMPLETELY OPEN in terms of starting from scratch.
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From live blog to stream to iTunes download to YouTube in 5 days flat.
That's right, Apple has now made the WWDC 2012 Keynote, including Tim Cook's bookends, Phil Schiller's Retina MacBook Pro, Craig Federighi's OS X Mountain Lion, and Scott Forstall's iOS 6 presentations, available in handy YouTube format.
Watch it -- or re-watch it! -- above.

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Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Wordless Wednesday - 11 November 2009 - Remembrance Day
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What a great moment in time for them! You can see the love between them. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Great photo. You can definitely tell they are brothers. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Who Wants to Trade for Some Old Tracks?" Someone has just stolen Ruff's garden gnome and he's determined to get it back! In fact, he's so obsessed that he hasn't bathed in several days and is covered in flies-prompting Charlene to send him some fly swatters. Ruff sends Emmie and Marco to the Amherst College Museum of Natural History to analyze the footprints left behind by the perpetrator who stole the garden gnome; while Rubye and Shreya try to barter the flyswatters for something better that Ruff can give to Charlene. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, should the Federal Reserve start to put the brakes on its stimulus program sooner rather than later? NBR will talk to Columbia University's Glenn Hubbard. And, have you seen the back-to-school sales? Yes, it may be early July, but retailers are already pushing deals on things like notebooks, pens and erasers - and there's a big reason why. D
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Note for babysitters:
This recipe contains milk.
Ask parents about any food allergies
before making this recipe for kids.
Prep time: about 1 to 2 hours
Serves: 3 to 4
Serving size: 1 pop
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
127 calories
5 g protein
2 g fat
21 g carbohydrate
0 g fiber
7 mg cholesterol
73 mg sodium
262 mg calcium
0 mg iron
Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.
If you like, you can make this recipe using plastic ice-pop molds instead of the paper cups and popsicle sticks.
For a cool-looking snack, fill your cups only halfway with one flavor of yogurt in Step 1. Follow Steps 2, 3, and 4. Remove your pops from the freezer, take off the plastic wrap, and spoon in another flavor of yogurt that's a different color. Put the plastic wrap back on and freeze once more. When your pops are frozen, you'll have two-colored treats!
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With the deployment of IP-addressable devices on the shop floor, plant machines can now communicate with one another without human interaction.
Communication between these devices results in decreased down-time due to proactive notification of equipment malfunctions, improved product quality, and a greater visibility of the end-to-end production process.
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IslandVal needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Turks & Caicos Reservations
We are a reservation agency for the Caribbean island of Turks & Caicos. Our current site is http://www.discovertci.com. The company is changing it's name to Turks & Caicos Reservations. new logo attached. We are like hotels.com but just for the Turks & Caicos. We offer a comprehensive listing of all hotels in the destination , plus villas, attractions, tours, etc. We are the only locally based service providing this to tourists (most other services are not based on the island - or are large on line travel agencies like Expedia and Travelocity).
We sell to tourists who want the ultimate in Caribbean/beach vacations. We are different because we are actually based on the island and have all the 'inside info' to plan a great vacation! Plus we have great deals and even offer 'travel rewards' -- extra perks if you book with us (free rental car, free scuba trip, photo shoot on beach)
Anyone interested in a tropical, island Caribbean vacation. The site must be visually appealing (large colorful photos) and really show off the natural beauty and luxury of our islands! Clear aqua blue water. White sandy beaches. Great water sports. Luxury hotels, spas and restaurants. Family fun, Couples, Weddings, etc. Tropical colors.
Secondary audience is general management in local hotels and villa rental agencies.
We have 3 different page types:
• homepage layout http://www.discovertci.tc
• internal page layout http://www.discovertci.tc/Turks-and…-FAQs.html
• hotel page existing (most important, this is how we earn $$$) http://www.discovertci.tc/special--…aicos.html ---- or hotel page new (we started this redesign, could use more suggestions) http://www.discovertci.tc/hotel-template
Main nav will stay about the same. Home page: We need to work in 7 main elements to the design of the site which we feel will help us to be more successful (i.e. make more bookings)
In order of priority
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2) Why book with us: we'll be putting a page together with info on why people should choose to book with us instead of our competition.
3) meet our agents: creative way to highlight our team of locally based agents
4) Video collection: we will be shooting a series of videos
5) Island bloggin: a way to promote our blog which resides at http://www.discovertci.tc/blog where we post Insider type info for the destination
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More than 50 contributors offer moving, insightful personal essays about interfaith experiences in My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation. Edited by Jennifer Howe Peace, Or N. Rose, and Gregory Mobley. Orbis Books
Women Rising
On Oct. 1 and 2, PBS will air the two-part special Half the Sky. Inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's best-selling book of the same name, the film follows the authors through 10 countries to meet people challenging extreme gender inequality and the poverty, trafficking, and violence it perpetuates. pbs.org/independentlens
Caring for Creation
Katharine K. Wilkinson explores the growing movement of evangelicals engaged in environmental activism in Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change. Oxford
Rebuking the Gun Empire
James E. Atwood is a pastor, avid hunter, and longtime activist against gun violence. In America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé, he writes thoughtfully about how American gun culture has become a kind of idolatry and how people of faith can—and must—challenge it. Cascade Books


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Doesn't the claytor have a similar system?
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The Lady Bison golf team will travel to Clarksville, Tenn., to take part in the 36-hole Austin Peay Intercollegiate on Monday and Tuesday.
The tournament will be played at the Clarksville Country Club. It is a par-72 that covers 5,960 yards. The field will include 14 teams and 11 individuals.
The Lady Bisons' last tournament was Sept. 23-24 in the SIUE DoubleTree Invitational where they finished second out of 10 teams with a total score of 642.
Sami Khan finished as the medalist with scores of 79-75 for a 154. It was Khan's first career win and also the first win by a Lady Bison in Lipscomb's NCAA era. Khan is the team's stroke average leader at 78.
In the APSU Intercollegiate last season, the Lady Bisons finished sixth and was paced by Savanna Schubert who finished 13th overall.
Schubert has a scoring average of 79.6 with a low-round of 78 in 2013.
Morgan Bucher is third on the team with an average of 81.4. In a dual match versus Belmont, Bucher claimed the medalist after shooting 75.
Miriam Parker finished in a tie for sixth after shooting 159 (78, 81) in the DoubleTree Invitational.
MacKenzy Carter, Sabrina Ferreri and Sarah McFarlin round out the rest of the squad. The Lipscomb squad has plenty of experience with three seniors, three juniors and a sophomore.
The APSU Intercollegiate will be played over two days and everyone will play 18-holes each day.
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|Today it all comes to an end!
|Nice Neighborhood #5 by Laura Wasilowski
|Ann Fahl, Frieda Anderson, Caryl Fallert, Stacy Michell
|Today it all comes to an end!
|Nice Neighborhood #5 by Laura Wasilowski
|Ann Fahl, Frieda Anderson, Caryl Fallert, Stacy Michell
Hey, the number one "hot quilting babe" is missing from the photo!
you are such an inspiration to me, Miss laura.ONE more chance to have your beautiful book =]
Thanks, Laura, for bringing so much fun to quilting and for sharing it with us all.
I'm a big fan of your! I would LOVE that last copy of your book!!!
*yours! Oops, I'm so excited about the possibility of winning the last copy, I can't even type clearly :)
There should be one more hot BABE in that photo -
Where is that fun and witty Dean of the Chicago School of Fusing, The Queen of Fused Art Quilts, Laura Wasilowski? Probably she is behind the camera - but the photo is clearly "missing a hot quilting babe."
I will be visiting the quilt show later today. I look forward to seeing the "hot quilting babes" and all the other wonderful things the show has to offer. I spoke to you at last years show when everything was spread out due to the flooding. I would love to win a copy of your book. I love the free style you have and there is nothing better than hand embroidery embellishments!
It must be wonderful to be surrounded by such creativity! I hope you're enjoying yourself. (I would much rather be there with you than here where it is snowing again--where is spring?)
Love your book, so I need to give it another go. And eh... hot babes... although I don't know any of you, you look great and have great quilts hanging behind you!
Thanks so much for all inspiration. I would love to win your book!
I have all your other books...would love to win this one. Can't buy it because medicine for old, sick dog (real dog, not husband) keeps me broke. Love your work!
Cheery wave from
Congratulations on a fantastic year!
I love you stuff, Sure would like to win this book!
You make quilting so much fun and have given me the inspiration (and know how)to try something new. Would love to win your book!!
I would enjoy having your book. Congrats on the sale of your quilt.
I know you will be hot when it is time to take down your booth - please send congrats to Frieda on her win - saw the quilt you shared the other day in the winners video! Thanks for your generosity and congrats on the anniversary of your book!
Right there in that one pic we have two HQBs who are coming home from Paducah with prizes......
That would make them PWHQBs. Well deserved too.
Does having hot flashes count as a "hot quilting babe"? Then I know some people to nominate! I'd love the copy of your book to learn how to make something approaching your wonderful, whimsical quilts.
OH It would be my pleasure to win your book. So much inspiration!!
A Happy bunch of Hot Quilting Babes!A great name for a group, HQB.
Thanks for the chances to win this great book! It made my birthday month even more fun. Great blog.
Looks like a bunch I would love to quilt party with!
I know 3 of the 4 pictured and they are HOT BABES! Was the camera burning in your hands, you hot babe?
The Hot Babes should not be standing so close to those flammable quilts!
Would love to have this book. Hopefully have better luck for this drawing. Have entered all 4.
Oh, I, too, would love to have this book. The designs are soooo charming, even I might accomplish them. ;) I enjoy your blog and your lovely quilts. I'm more of a doll-maker, myself, but I really do appreciate the time and talent shown in your work. Have a great day!
Would love to win your book! Am loving your posts of the Show, someday I will be there to experience it.
I thank that all babes who quilt are hot and you are the number one inspiration.
You are definitely hot quilting babes. Keep at it.
Your quilts are so great they are intimidating to a beginner like me. I love the touch of whimsy in some of them.
Your small houses on the quilts spread joy and humor around the world. I am always delighted to see them. Of course being this far away I can only enjoy pictures of them.
I just discovered your delightful work thanks to the Quilt Show, and had to track down your blog. What a day brightener!
Love your work. Your blog brightens every day!
Would love to learn more from your book.
Thanks, Joanna
Thanks for having the book giveaway, whether I win or not, it was so nice of you.
Y'all are hot quilting babes - and famous, too. I'd love your new book to help me with stitches....
Hi Laura,
I saw you on the Quilt Show and loved your quilts.
Would love a free copy of your book as well.
Ruth Quinn
ruthq @rogers.com
Hot quilting babes that know how to have fun! Glad Paducah was a success. Thanks for the chance at winning your book.
Okay if I don't win this book I guess I will just take it off my wish list and buy it myself. I have been checking your class list regularly trying to figure out how to get to one. I just love everything you do! Also am enjoying the quilt show pictures.
I love my copy! Thank you, Laura! And good luck to all of you!
That's a lot of talent in that photo.. nice you have them as friends.
My last chance to win your book! I hope I hope!
Oh how I miss Paducah. Waaah..you lucky duck.
How wonderful to have your piece, so admired and it will be treasured by someone for years to come. Not feeling like a hot babe today, lol. Got my hair cut and not too thrilled with it;)
I would absolutely love to win your book! Thank you for doing the giveaway.
I've recently entered the world of quilting arts and crazy quilts and artful stitching and this book would be a wonderful learning tool!
thank you for your inspiration!
I'm trying again.... Good luck everyone!!
I would love, love, love to have a copy of your book. Love your site and check it every day. Lesley
I just watched your show, Laura,
online on The Quilt Show and loved
your quilts!! I would love to
learn more and would love to have
a copy of your book!
Your book has been number one on my wish list for a while. I'm feeling lucky....or is that the lovely side effect of Friday Relief! Have a great day. Denise;)
Throwing my (un)embroidered but colorful hat into the ring and crossing my fingers (but that makes it hard to stitch! Please say I win and can go back to stitching....)
I just watched you on The Quilt Show and have your previous book. Today is the day my student final projects come in and then once I grade them, the time is ready for me to quilt. I would love to take your book along on this journey too since I love hand quilting.
I would love to own your book, it looks like lots of fun.
Hot quilting babes sizzle! If I win a copy of your book I will use it as inspiration to make my quilts sizzle with more colors and fancy stitches
Watched you on The Quilt Show this morning. Love your little quilts.
I have done applique but never thought to put stitching along with it. Would love you win your book.
ohhh I would love to win your book. I bought it about 3 months ago but accidently left it on a plane on the way home from CA - boo hoo. You quilts and color combinations are just the best!
I'd love to have this book to inspire and motivate me. thanks for the chance.
You are such an inspiration - I would love to have this so maybe I could be one-fourth as good!
Would love to win your book. Already have a couple of them and this one would add to the charm.
glenna in TX
gfcsailor at yahoo dotlcom
all quilters are "hot babes"! You are such an inspiration and I would love a copy of your book, I've been drooling over the cover quilt.
How wonderful to have the chance to win this book. I saw The Quilt Show and was inspired. Thanks for the opportunity.
When I opened my iPad this post was sizzling! Too many hot babes in one pic! If you had been in the pic my iPad could have gone up in flame! Thanks for one last chance to win! :0)
I thought I caught a shot of hot, hot, hot babes... I did! I did!


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These cookie bars are a yummy treat and super easy to whip anytime you're craving something sweet!These bars are soft and buttery and can be made with any combination of your favorite chocolate chips, dried fruit and nuts.
I divided the dough in half and made one dark chocolate and cherry batch and one white chocolate, toasted pecan and cherry batch.
Both variations were delicious!
Try this recipe and use it as a base to add you favorite chips etc., I'm sure you'll love them!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon molasses (opt.)
1/4 teaspoon molasses (opt.)
2 eggs
1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (opt.)
Preheat oven to 375* Grease a 15x10-inch jelly roll pan. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, both sugars and vanilla in large mixer bowl. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in molasses. Gradually beat flour mixture into butter mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Spread into prepared pan.
Bake 10-13 minutes or until golden brown. Start watching these at about 9 minutes and make sure they don't brown too quickly! Pull them out of the oven when they are golden on top.
* 1/4 cup peanut butter, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips
* White chocolate chips, dried cherries
* Dried cherries, toasted pecans and dark chocolate
* Butterscotch chips and toasted pecans
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ROCKFORD — Bishop Emeritus Arthur O'Neill's love of the church and its people resonated among Catholics on Sunday as news of his death spread quickly among parishioners.
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ROCKFORD — Bishop Emeritus Arthur O'Neill's love of the church and its people resonated among Catholics on Sunday as news of his death spread quickly among parishioners.
He was "a people's bishop," they said, his care and concern for their well-being often expressed in his friendly demeanor and a multitude of interactions that went well beyond church walls.
O'Neill, who served as bishop of the Diocese of Rockford from 1968 to 1994, died Saturday. He was 95. He was a Roman Catholic priest for 70 years.
Funeral arrangements are pending, said longtime friend and fellow priest Monsignor Thomas Brady.
"He was a very intelligent, very compassionate man," Brady said. "He gave his suit to a family who needed one to bury a loved one. ... It was things like that. He cared about people."
Priest since 1943
O'Neill, born Dec. 14, 1917, in East Dubuque, became a priest in 1943.
Sam Di Raimondo of Rockford was 14 at the time.
"I sang in the choir at his ordination. Then, I sang in the choir at his installation as bishop," said Di Raimondo, 81.
O'Neill always remembered him, greeting him by name on many occasions.
"He liked to talk to his parishioners," Di Raimondo said Sunday at Holy Family Catholic Church. "Many times, he'd see you and recognize you and want to know how you were doing. He knew you."
Over the years, area Catholics came to learn that O'Neill was like that with everyone. He had a knack for names and faces, even later in life. He remained active in the church after his retirement, speaking to groups and serving where needed.
Howard and Pat McCarthy, longtime members of Holy Family Catholic Church, said O'Neill offered spiritual support for the church's evangelization team.
"He would talk to us about faith and how to express it," Howard McCarthy said. "He was humble, always active."
Pat McCarthy, like many, spoke of O'Neill's friendly demeanor, recalling a time she bumped into him in the store and had a nice chat.
"He was easy to talk to," she said. "He cared deeply for people. ... You could see it in his face."
Time for young priest
The Rev. Gerard Christianson, associate pastor at Holy Family, became a priest less than a year ago.
Even though O'Neill had been retired for nearly 20 years, Christianson met him a handful of times as he prepared to enter the priesthood.
He recalled a story O'Neill told him about how he and Bishop Doran were at the same church at the same time — Doran was a second-grader and O'Neill was the school priest.
"He was very generous with his time," Christianson said. "That means a lot to a young priest."
O'Neill was a strong leader for the diocese, said the Rev. Edward Seisser of Holy Family, often advocating for strong schools and parishes.
"He was always there supporting us and parishes, working to make sure our parishes stayed open and vibrant," Seisser said. "He visited them often, and if you know how many there are in this diocese, you know how difficult that is."
The Diocese of Rockford oversees 105 parishes and one oratory in 11 counties.
Loved music
Few knew O'Neill as well as Brady and the Rev. David Beauvais, a retired priest from St. James Catholic Church. Both worked in O'Neill's administration as bishop.
"He was very down to earth," Beauvais said. "A common guy who was very accessible."
O'Neill loved music, Beauvais said. The two attended the symphony often.
Trips out became less frequent in recent years. Still, he managed to attend his 95th birthday party at Forest Hills Country Club in December, Beauvais said.
Beauvais last saw O'Neill on Friday. Their last "good" conversation was Good Friday at Rockford's Provena Cor Mariae Center, where O'Neill had been living the past five years.
"We talked about how fortunate he had been all of these years," Beauvais said. "He had quite good health. He never had any major health problems. ... People would ask me, 'How is Bishop O'Neill?' and I would tell them, 'Well, he's slipping. But you're supposed to be slipping when you're 95."
Brady said O'Neill "just slept away" Saturday night.
"I asked him if he was in pain, and he said, 'No. I'm just very tired,'" Brady said. "He told me a few weeks ago he was ready to go home. ... He went home."
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Rockford Diocese bishops
Peter James Muldoon: Installed 1908, died 1927
Edward Francis Hoban: Installed 1928, died 1966
John Joseph Boylan: Installed 1942, died 1953
Raymond Peter Hillinger: Installed 1954, died 1971
Donald Martin Carroll: Appointed June 1956, resigned September 1956 because of illness, died 2002
Loras Thomas Lane: Installed 1956, died 1968
Arthur Joseph O'Neill: Installed 1968, retired 1994, died 2013
Thomas George Doran: Installed 1994, retired March 2012
David John Malloy: Installed May 2012
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ATTLEBORO (Reuters) - Former National Football League player Aaron Hernandez was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Massachusetts on a charge of first-degree murder and five firearms violations for the June killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight end, appeared briefly in Attleboro District Court after being indicted in the shooting of Lloyd, whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial area near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough, Massachusetts.
Hernandez, who did not speak during Thursday's brief hearing, has pleaded not guilty to six criminal counts, including murder and weapons charges tied to Lloyd's death.
"Aaron Hernandez is an innocent man as we stand here today," Michael Fee, one of his attorneys, told reporters after the hearing. "There has been an incredible rush to judgment in this case ... It has been based on innuendo, misrepresentations of facts, hearsay and opinion has been represented as fact."
The indictment means the case will move to state superior court in Fall River, said Bristol District Attorney Sam Sutter.
"The investigation is ongoing," Sutter told reporters outside the court. "This was a very grave case. My heart goes out to the Lloyd family."
Hernandez, 23, was cut from the Patriots on June 26, shortly after police arrested him for purportedly orchestrating the execution-style murder.
Lloyd, 27, had been dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée. Prosecutors said Hernandez soured on him a few nights before the body was found, and that the two had argued after Lloyd socialized at a nightclub with people Hernandez disliked.
Two other men have been arrested in connection with the case. Ernest Wallace, who turned himself in to police in Florida, has been accused of being an accessory after the fact, and Carlos Ortiz was arrested in Connecticut on charges of being a fugitive from justice.
Before his arrest, Hernandez had been a rising star in the NFL with a $41 million contract with one of the league's top teams.
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Stieg Larsson and the Millenium Series
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Professionally, Larsson was a graphic designer for Tidningarnas Telegrambyra, a Swedish news agency, but he devoted much of his time to investigative journalism, political activism, ethics causes and (to throw a curveball here) the promotion of science fiction. A member of the Communist Workers League and editor of a Trotskyist journal, Fjarde internationalen, Stieg Larsson put his political beliefs into action by founding the Expo Foundation, a Swedish organization formed to counteract racist and extreme right-wing Swedish groups. He was the editor for this foundation's magazine, entitled Expo, which is more than a coincidence as the character, Mikael Blomkvist, also publishes a magazine, Millenium, in Larsson's books.
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson was born in the northern town of Skelleftea, Vasterbotten, Sweden in 1954, but changed the spelling of his name to Stieg as an adult. He was intimately familiar with the culture, landscape and "personality" of the north, having been raised in the country by his grandparents. This knowledge is apparent in his descriptions of the towns and countryside in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. As a young man he pursued interests in photography, and he enjoyed reading science fiction and mysteries.
His efforts to expose racism, neo-Nazism and extremist groups active in Sweden garnered him numerous death threats. For self-protection, he and Eva Gabrielsson, his partner of 32 years, sought to hide their personal information and address as much as possible, and this is why they never married because under Swedish law a married couple must publish their address. The fact that they were not married became a legal issue after Larsson died of a sudden, massive heart attack. Swedish law did not recognize Gabrielsson as his wife, and Larsson's estate went to his father and brother, neither of whom were close to him nor had the intimate understanding of Larsson's writings as did Eva Gabrielsson. The Guardian Observer just published an interesting interview with Gabrielsson which provides further insight into Larsson's life and literary pursuits through Eva's eyes.
Stieg Larsson died having completed three books which he had hoped to turn into an exended series. Known as the Millenium series, they are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish title being Men Who Hate Women), The Girl Who Played with Fire, and finally The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Swedish title being The Aircastle that Blew Up.) The first book has been released in film form by Swedish and English companies and the next two books are to be turned into television productions. The poster for the Swedish film illustrated above gives you some sense of how the book's characters have been portrayed on film.
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Norma,Those new signs look great. Using them yet? If so are sales up?
I got to pick up the A-frame sign and the posters today. As can be seen when my pizzas are transferred onto a sign the pizzas look somewhat blurry. I have to laminate the posters before I can use them.I also found these coupons while I was at market today. I didn't know if I had thrown them away or not. My oldest daughter and my granddaughters boyfriend tried to give them to people in the main midway, in the main market buildings and hung some in the bathrooms a few years ago. The only people that used the coupons were standholders. No one would take any of the coupons that were not standholders. I made the coupons on my computer. I was trying to sell more items back then.I brought the big A-frame sign home and am going to work on it Sunday if I find time.Norma
now you are cooking Norma! The signs look great. You might want to check out a print shop for laminating. They have big roller machines that will seal them all in one shot vs. the small laminate pieces you get at Walmart. Make sure you go a 1/4" or so past the edges of the posters. This will help keep them from delaminating in humidity and such. I laminate all our recipe cards this way and they never wear out. We even wash them in the sink when they get gunked up with batter and such. Walter
How about a nice big orange/red arrow pointing to the right attached to the top of the A-frame sign Norma?
Sounds like you're really determined and staying after things on your rejuvenated marketing campaign Norma...that's great! Yes, I am talking about the new sign on Lititz...I realize it has a small direction arrow at the bottom but if you could attach a nice big bright(dayglow color)onto the top of your sign it might stick out/attract more attention. I think those big arrows really attract the eye whenever I see them in parking lots like at the State Fair.
Here you go Norma. Place the sticker on a piece of plastic/plexi-glass....two screws through the face of this arrow into a stick behind it and then attach the stick to your sign. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BVWZS6/?tag=pmak-20


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Ruiz developed his compassion for kids through the school of hard knocks. "I was once a lost soul who was taken under wing by a real chef who gave me my first real chance through chef training at La Louisiane in San Antonio," he said.
The Tibideaux's New Orleans Kitchen menu offers affordable New Orleans-inspired cuisine, including muffalettas, boudain, po'boys, and a root-beer float with smoked ice cream. But Tibideaux's will also offer IEA/Ben's Kids much-needed job training and career opportunities.
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The mission of IEA-Inspire, Encourage, Achieve is to initiate and support educational programming and rehabilitative services for at-risk youth in Southeast Texas by inspiring and encouraging them to achieve. The program was started by the family of Ben Rogers to perpetuate his legacy of helping young people achieve dignity and respect through knowledge, compassion, understanding and love, all in partnership with the Jefferson County Juvenile Probation Department.
For more information, contact the IEA office at (409) 839-8778.
James Shannon can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 249, or by e-mail at james [at] beaumontbusinessjournal [dot] com.


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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Read All About It!
by Fiona Bayrock
Sound is air molecules bumping together. Simple, huh? Every sound we hear—every piece of music, every noise—results from the patterns formed by these moving air molecules. Inside and out, the ear is designed to capture and process those patterns into electrical signals the brain can use to identify and interpret what we hear.
All sounds begin with something vibrating back and forth. Let's say you strike a cymbal. Every back-and-forth motion the cymbal makes as it vibrates pushes nearby air molecules, setting off a chain reaction: They bump into the molecules next to them, which bump into the next ones, which bump into the next ones, and so on. If you could see the air around the cymbal, you would see the same pattern repeating over and over again: circles of air molecules squished together, alternating with larger circles of air molecules spread out—in other words, waves. These sound waves travel away from the cymbal in the same way that motion travels through a Slinky.
Your pinnae, the outside ear flaps on either side of your head, are specially shaped to "catch" sound waves and funnel them into the ear canal, where they travel to the tympanic membrane (eardrum). The eardrum is a thin piece of skin about the size of your smallest fingernail that covers the opening to the middle ear. Sound waves hit the eardrum, which vibrates easily when nearby molecules give it a push. It doesn't take much to get the eardrum vibrating. For a very quiet sound, it can move as little as the width of a hydrogen atom.
The middle ear is an air-filled space containing the smallest bones in the body: the hammer, anvil, and stirrup (guess what they look like!). These delicate bones are arranged as a series of levers. Each bone pushes or pulls the next to pass the vibrations mechanically from the eardrum to the much smaller membrane at the entrance of the cochlea (inner ear). This membrane acts like a piston, setting the fluid of the cochlea moving in waves. The cochlea, about the size of a pea, is made up of three tubes about 4 cm long, stacked on top of one another and coiled to resemble the shape of a snail (cochlea is Latin for "snail"). A membrane embedded with tiny hair cells runs through the middle of the coil, like jelly in a jelly roll. Sound waves rippling through the fluid-filled chambers shake this membrane, causing the hair cells to bend and release electrical signals. These signals travel to the brain as nerve impulses, and there the sound is analyzed and identified.
Whew! Hearing is a delicate, complex process, isn't it? Your ears are amazing!
- What does an eardrum do when a sound wave hits it?
[anno: An eardrum vibrates when a sound wave hits it.]
- Why might a very loud sound be dangerous to the eardrum? What might happen to the eardrum?
[anno: A very loud sound might cause the eardrum to vibrate to the point at which it tears or ruptures.]
- Imagine that two people are standing side-by-side. Why might one person be able to hear a sound that the other person cannot hear?
[anno: Answers will vary but could include that one person might have a damaged ear and cannot hear as well as the other person.]
- Hold your hand up to your ear. Rub your thumb and your forefinger together. Now hold extend your arm. Rub your thumb and your forefinger together. How are the sounds different? How do the sounds affect your eardrum differently? Why? Write a few sentences to explain your answer.
[anno: Answers will vary but could include that the sound is much louder when the hand is held next to the ear. The sound is softer when the hand is held away from the ear. When the hand is held next to the ear, the eardrum vibrates more because the sound waves reaching the ear when the hand is held close to the ear are larger than the sound waves that reach the ear when the hand is held farther away.]


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Discover treats, tricks, magical mischief and spooky surroundings as you celebrate Halloween on the High Seas! This new experience is available on most itineraries departing late September through Halloween.
Thrills and chills await you at every turn with Halloween-themed parties, lively entertainment and elaborate décor—including an evolving Halloween Tree that eerily transforms throughout your cruise.
Sail Dates
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|Disney Magic
|September 27, 2014 – October 26, 2014
|Disney Wonder
|September 26, 2014 – October 31, 2014
|Disney Dream
|September 07, 2014 – October 31, 2014
|Disney Fantasy
|September 06, 2014 – October 25, 2014
Other special experiences include:
- Mickey's Mouse-querade Party, an atrium party scare-a-bration (in addition to Pirate Night) with ghoulish games, trick-or-treating*, dancing and some favorite Disney Pals in their Halloween attire
- Halloween-themed activities for all ages, including mask-making and pumpkin-carving**
- Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Sing and Scream, an interactive movie experience where you're part of the action, followed by a meet-and-greet with Jack and Sally
- Haunted Stories of the Sea – a campfire-style storytelling experience on the deck
- Halloween Isn't Just for Kids – an adults-only party that includes a costume contest
And more spooky surprises await you onboard!
With so much to see and do, you won't want to miss this Halloween celebration at sea, now offered fleetwide. Be sure to pack your favorite costumes and get ready for happy haunts.
Book Your Halloween Cruise
To celebrate Halloween with Disney Cruise Line, call (888) 700-8747 or click here to contact us.
* When trick-or-treating, be aware that some candies may contain peanuts or traces of peanuts.
** Pumpkin carving activities subject to change based on the availability of pumpkins during the growing season.
Holiday activities and offerings are subject to change and may vary by ship and itinerary.


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The future of weight loss may be a gelatinous glob the consistency of tapioca.
A Cambridge startup has designed a pill made of particles derived from food that, when swallowed with water, swell into a blob of gel that fills the stomach and curbs the appetite for several hours, before dissipating harmlessly in the digestive system.
Although pumping iron and downing broccoli will always be the gold standards for weight loss and health, Gelesis and other innovative companies are exploring novel ways to help people shed pounds without relying solely on willpower or more radical interventions such as surgery.
Other recent inventions include a sleeve-like plastic barrier made by Lexington-based GI Dynamics that is inserted over a portion of the small intestine to limit the absorption of food; a balloon device from ReShape Medicalof San Clemente, Calif., that is inflated inside the stomach to promote fullness and discourage overeating; and a system that uses electrical impulses in the digestive tract to simulate fullness.
Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the new devices add an important dimension to the growing arsenal in the war against fat.
"What we'll ultimately get to is a whole toolbox of different therapies — devices, lifestyle modifications, medications and surgery — that will have a real benefit," he said.
The four devices are all less invasive than bariatric surgery, which can involve removing a portion of the stomach or other rerouting of the body's plumbing.
Though shown to be effective, surgery is also expensive, can have serious side effects, and often isn't reimbursed by insurance.
None of the four new approaches works through chemical means, like a medication, so they have a lower burden of evidence needed to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
The Gelesis100 pill as well as EndoBarrier from GI Dynamics could be ready for consideration by the FDA in 2017, according to executives from the companies.
Meanwhile, earlier in June an FDA panel voted to recommend premarket approval for a therapy developed by EnteroMedics, of St. Paul, that uses electrical impulses to inhibit an abdominal nerve that regulates the digestive system. The FDA itself is expected to rule on the system, called vagal blocking therapy, or VBLOC, by the end of this year.
Also this year, the FDA is expected to review the ReShape Duo balloon device, which was approved for use in Europe in 2007. The balloon is usually left in place for six months.
EndoBarrier, from GI Dynamics, is also installed in the body for a short period of time — up to about a year.
It too has been approved for use in overseas markets: Europe, Australia, South America, and Israel.
Gelesis100 'looks like an interesting concept, [but] we need to wait for a bigger trial.'
The barrier is installed through an endoscopy in the first 2 feet of the small intestine; since the small intestines are about 20 feet long, the device doesn't affect the body's ability to draw nutrients from food.
The barrier attempts to mimic the same effects of one form of bariatric surgery that reduces the size of the stomach to a small pouch. Dr. David Maggs, an endocrinologist and chief medical officer at GI Dynamics, said EndoBarrier appears to change the molecular signaling from the gut to the rest of the body, altering hormones and improving symptoms of Type 2 diabetes along with promoting weight loss.
"Without anybody truly understanding the exact mechanisms at play, the device was designed to replicate that simple bypass, and we do see some replication of the bariatric surgery effects," Maggs said.
So far, he added, EndoBarrier is "relatively well tolerated" by most patients.
GI Dynamics is currently enrolling volunteers in a pivotal trial of EndoBarrier at 25 sites in the United States, including Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Maggs said he expects the trial to be completed in early 2016, with the company hoping to ask the FDA for review shortly thereafter.
Gelesis100, meanwhile, is a little easier to swallow. The food-grade particles combine with water to expand a hundredfold into tapioca-like gel. Within a few hours of being inside the stomach, the gel partially degrades, releasing most of its water, and then passes through the digestive system.
Gelesis released a study of the pill this month that said participants safely lost about 6 percent of their body weight over 12 weeks, slightly more than those taking a placebo.
Well over half of those who had been prediabetic at the start of the trial had normal blood sugar levels at the end, said Gelesis's chief executive, Yishai Zohar. That effect, in particular, shows Gelesis100 has benefits beyond simply making people full, he said. Like fiber-rich foods, the gel takes a long time to digest, slowing down the gastrointestinal process and causing fewer spikes in blood sugar.
Dr. Osama Hamdy, medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center's Obesity Clinical Program, said the idea of Gelesis100 is appealing, though he's not yet convinced.
"It looks like an interesting concept," Hamdy said. But, "we need to wait for a bigger trial." Gelesis intends to start a larger research trial soon in the United States and abroad.
Hamdy also worries about the safety of such devices, saying they "are still speculative, and side effects are still high."
He's no fan of surgery, either, instead advocating lifestyle change for weight loss such as one that Joslin pioneered, WhyWAIT, in which more than half of the patients have lost 9 percent of their weight and kept it off for five years.
But Kaplan, who has consulted to both GI Dynamics and Gelesis, said the United States, where one in three is obese and 29 million people have Type 2 diabetes, could use more help losing weight.
"The more of these therapies we have," Kaplan said, "the more likely it is that each patient is going to have a successful approach."


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sbrattla necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
BNT is a small company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. We develop websites for small and medium sized companies, and a great deal of our services are based around the open source CMS Drupal. However, even though we present ourselves as a full service provider of websites, we do not have any in-house designers.
One of our current projects is to develop a website for a cooperative building association. We are therefore in need of a clean and calm design for a website which will represent the cooperative. The primary purpose of the website is to offer the cooperative's residents a single place for accessing information about parking regulations, internet connection, caretaker services and other practical details.
As mentioned above, clean and calm are important keywords with regard to the design. However, it would not hurt if the website also could reflect a subtle sense of exclusivity. After all, the website will represent the cooperative in the public (including future potential apartment buyers), and should thus be appealing and communicate some sense of desirability. However, it should be noted that the primary focus of the website is offer residents a single place for accessing practical details about the cooperative.
Primarily the residents of the cooperative. However, potential future residents may also visit the site to get details about the cooperative. It should be noted that the cooperative is regarded as being in the more expensive end price wise, and also in the better end with regards to both its geographical location and the quality of the apartments.
Please also have a look at the attached documents, which goes a little bit more into details on each of the below points. An overview of what the page structure should resemble has also been enclosed.
We need a one page design. However, please observe the following when you consider the design:
1. There should be an image bar at the very top of the page
The reason for having this image bar is that the cooperative has emphasized that the site somehow should incorporate some of the image material that has been provided.
2. A menu bar containing shortcuts should be located just beneath the image bar.
This bar will be used to access the main categories on the website such as "practical details" or "the board".
3. A main content area should be located beneath the shortcuts menu bar
4. A context bar positioned to the right of the content area
This area might display elements such as contextual menus for a given section, a list of related pages for a given page, or just some plain text. An important point is that this area can contain one or more of these elements, and the area can contain any combination of the elements. We call each of these elements a "block", which each should have a header and a content area. It is up to you to design how a block should look.
5. We kindly ask you to use fonts which are as close to the standard web safe fonts as possible


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Pharmaceutical Leader Boehringer Ingelheim Selects Republica as Cross-Cultural Marketing Agency
As Agency of Record, Republica will handle several brands, product lines through multicultural effort
Feb 21, 2013, 12:59 ET
MIAMI, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Republica, a cross-cultural advertising, digital and communications agency, announced today that it has been selected by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Inc. (BIPI) to serve as the pharmaceutical company's first cross-cultural advertising agency of record, executing marketing communications strategy for the company in the U.S.
Republica will partner with BIPI, the nation's fastest-growing pharmaceutical company, to develop and execute a total market strategy that will tap into multiple divisions of the agency including research, advertising, media, branding, public relations, social media, community relations and promotions.
"We're proud to partner with Republica, one of the fastest-growing agencies representing the fastest-growing consumer segment in America," said Christopher Kaplan, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Inc. "Republica's passion, creative acumen, cultural insight and impressive track record of success really sets them apart. They are cross-cultural to the core."
The multi-phase campaign will focus on introducing and raising awareness for BI and several of its brand portfolios within America's multicultural markets, with an initial effort focused on the U.S. Hispanic community. The first initiative led by the agency is expected to launch in mid 2013.
"We are extremely honored to have been selected by Boehringer Ingelheim as the partner to execute its first, fully integrated cross-cultural marketing campaign," said Jorge A. Plasencia, Chairman and CEO of Republica. "Our team is thrilled to have the opportunity to build deep connections for BI and its portfolio of respected brands within the vibrant multicultural communities in America."
About Republica (@RepublicaWorld)
Founded in 2006, Republica is one of the nation's fastest growing, cross-cultural marketing, digital and communications companies providing advertising, branding, promotions, interactive and communications services. In 2012, Republica was recently honored with four Telly awards, 17 Addy awards, a PRSA Silver Anvil and an Anvil Award of Excellence, reflecting its leading work for some of the world's most reputable brands. The company is based in Miami with satellite offices in Orlando, New York, Cleveland, and Puerto Rico. For more information, visit www.republica.net or fb.republica.net.
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What's wrong with o32, n32 and n64?
Linux/MIPS (up to now, Autumn 2005) has made progress using recognisable dialects of standards defined originally by MIPS Corporation and SGI:
- o32 is for 32-bit CPUs, or 64-bit CPUs running only a 32-bit subset of the instruction set.
- n32/n64 are for 64-bit CPUs only. n64 has 64-bit pointers and long integers, whereas n32 has 32-bit pointers and long integers. (Other than that they're pretty much the same and will be considered together).
o32 is fairly different from n32/n64, so we'll pull out individual problems in separate sections. But it's certainly true that o32 is much more obviously troublesome than n64...
These problems motivated us to propose a new ABI, NUBI.
What's wrong with all of them?
- Inefficient PIC code is resistant to optimisation.
- No general-purpose register available as a thread pointer for efficient thread-local storage.
- Not enough "saved" ("callee-saved") registers, limiting the compiler's ability to keep variables in registers.
- The calling and register conventions make it very hard to build gaskets to allow 32-bit code to intercall 64-bit code and vice versa. MIPS Technologies thinks such gaskets would help embedded systems builders make the transition to using real 64-bit code.
What's wrong with o32?
o32 has been an orphan for a long time. Somewhere in the mid-1990s SGI dropped it completely, because all their systems had been using real 64-bit CPUs for some time.
- Committed to the obsolete MIPS I floating point model, which hides 16 of the FP registers.
- Only four argument registers, which means arguments are too often passed on the stack.
- Many recent improvements to the o32 standard as used by GNU tools and Linux are undocumented: DWARF debug format, for example. So a great deal of undocumented folklore is required to build a compatible implementation. In practice, few implementations are compatible at debug level. Historically, many are incompatible even for interlinking object code.
What's wrong with n32/n64?
- The GNU dialect is probably not quite the same as SGI's, but any differences are undocumented. There are dozens of ill-documented object code section types and other magic numbers.
- n64's history (and its fate as the product of pioneering by SGI, who were so early with 64-bit work) has made it complicated and very different from other ABIs. That means an awful lot of effort has been put into making it work as well as it does now with GNU tools and Linux - but that probably also means it will be expensive to maintain going forward.
- n32/n64 have only ever been Irix/Linux standards. There's no established "bare-iron" version of the object code for embedded use.
- n64 as defined by SGI used their own (early, unique) extensions to DWARF debug information.
- n32/n64 are annoyingly different from each other for reasons which probably made sense at the time, but certainly don't now. That last bullet point has led to some people asking "do we need n32 (or equivalent) at all?"
Why not keep n64 but replace o32?
This seems to be a plausible approach. Currently, MIPS Technologies incline to the view that it would be horrible to do this work and end up with wholly incompatible 32- and 64-bit ABIs, so to do this we'd have to make NUBI32 something like "n64 but 32-bit".


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This is an online lesson associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun. Outside of Solar Week, information, activities, and... (View More) resources are archived and available online at any time. This is an activity about measurements of solar activity. Learners will observe an image of the Sun and sketch major features, plot data to begin to recognize patterns of solar activity, look for long-term patterns in graphed data, compare X-ray and visible light images of the Sun to find solar features common to both sets of images, and make a prediction of what the Sun will look like in a visible light image after observing an X-ray image taken on the same day. This activity is scheduled to occur during Monday of Solar Week. (View Less)
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Some people work a second job and call it moonlighting. John Nagelschmidt '66 means it literally.
Since 1961 — summers as a SUNY Oswego student, and on the side throughout a 30-year career as a teacher — Nagelschmidt has been screening stars while working under the stars at the Midway Drive-In. In 1987, he bought the outdoor theatre, halfway between Oswego and Fulton, on Route 48 in Minetto. This year marks his 50th anniversary at Midway.


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Based on true story of the wife of Ando Momofuku, the businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd. and the inventor of instant ramen, the 99th Asadora follows the life of Tachibana Fukuko, a young woman who tries to survive tough times in Osaka with her husband from before WWII to the rapid economic development era. Together they overcome various setbacks before they succeed in creating instant noodles.
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I got up my nerve and called Mrs. Myrtle on a Sunday evening. She didn't sound nearly as alert as the last time I talked to her, and I had to tell her who I was all over again. Not good. But when I asked about the DNA, and told her she'd just have to swab her cheek and send the kit back in the mail, she said yes!
All I had to do next was visit the bank and cash in the bond. I went to my hidey place and... no key. I searched all over, and even found the little envelope that the bank gives you to hold it. I hadn't used it in at least a year, so I emptied out an old purse to see if it had been left in there. No luck. I searched in other likely places, and looked underneath my bills. Nada. I found a couple of sturdy-looking keys in a drawer and eagerly showed them to the teller at the bank. She shook her head. "Nope." (Anybody know what these keys go to?)


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With the popularity and feedback on my previous article on the top 10 financial crisis documentaries, here's my take on the top 10 trading documentaries. In the list that follows, the topics covered range from quantitative trading, getting started as a trader, a day in the life of a famous trader, the demise of trading pits, a look at the global foreign exchange market, and a history of market bubbles. These documentaries are a great source of inspiration as well as learning, and anyone who has traded in the markets knows that inspiration and learning are critical inputs to success.
1. Trader - Paul Tudor Jones
This documentary follows famous hedge fund trader Paul Tudor Jones, giving an insight into how a typical day looks, but also some of the unique personality traits and thoughts the man has. The documentary is somewhat dated, but is long on entertainment and inspiration, but perhaps a little short on education, but definitely worth a watch.
2. Million Dollar Traders
This 3 part reality TV show is an experiment by hedge fund manager, Lex van Dam, to see whether he can train a handful of ordinary people into becoming successful traders. Basically this is The Apprentice meets financial markets. Perhaps the most interesting learning that this series gives is the psychological aspects of trading, you see some of the traders blowout, some of the get caught like a deer in the headlights, while others keep their cool. This one is long on inspiration, entertainment, and insights.
3. Rookie Trader
This is one for the beginners, it follows a CNN news anchor as he attempts to learn how to trade. He speaks with some trainers, coaches, and experts in trading to learn the basics e.g. market terminology, risk management, psychology, and basic operations. Informative for the beginners, and likely entertaining for the more advanced traders.
4. Billion Dollar Day
Here's another oldie but a goodie, this one follows a day in the life of three foreign exchange traders/dealers in New York, London, and Hong Kong. While the fashion and the technology have certainly moved on, it's still an interesting watch from the perspective of understanding the various players in the forex market, particularly in terms of the commercial banks - who largely rule the market.
5. Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
Some traders rely on luck, some on their instincts, some lucky ones use their employer's balance sheet, but another breed of traders takes the psychology and luck aspect out, instead focusing on the more scientific side of making money in the markets. The quants develop sophisticated algorithms and use highly advanced computing and connectivity technology to exploit statistical anomalies and patterns in the market. This documentary provides one of the best insights into this arcane corner of Wall Street.
6. Trillion Dollar Bet
But market scientists are not infallible; this documentary looks at the rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund founded by PhDs and Nobel prize winners; the big names of financial theory. While their meteoric rise and profitability were astounding, equally astounding was the fundamental flaws in their trading thesis and underlying assumptions that lead to their subsequent demise. A fascinating documentary and a good reminder that so-called 'long-tail' events can have a nasty habit of derailing the best laid plans.
7. Floored
With the rise of technology came the fall of old ways of doing things, Floored is a documentary movie that chronicles the demise of the pit trading, or "open outcry" markets (the old days where markets were not trading engines housed in server farms, but a rowdy crowd of individuals shouting out and hand signalling orders to each other). Very interesting look at how the pits used to work, and an interesting look at how the old traders are adapting (or otherwise) to the new world of technology based markets and trading.
8. Tricks With Risk
As anyone who deals with financial markets should know, to make money you have to take on risk. How you manage or package the risk makes a great degree of difference as to how much you will make or lose in various scenarios. Indeed, some say the role of traders is to take on risk from those who do not want to hold the risk themselves; risk is a key stock in trade of a financial market participant. But as this documentary reveals, dealing in risk can get you burnt - and in the worst of times e.g. AIG, mismanaging risk can burn the entire system!
9. Betting on the Market
Anyone who was around during the late 1990's can attest to the euphoria of the massive bull market. Valuations went to extremes, everyone was talking about the new economy, and of course everyone was an expert! There will certainly be another massive bull market at some point, and this euphoria will return, so take a look at this documentary for a glimpse at what will be to come. Brilliant little documentary for stock investors.
10. Tulipmania
Speaking of bubbles, why not look back in time to see one of history's most infamous bubbles, the dutch Tulip bulb trading bubble. Perhaps nothing illustrates best the excesses of crowd psychology than the tulip bubble, so this one makes the list as a reminder that all markets are ultimately driven by the thoughts and emotions of the people that are buying and selling.
Hopefully these documentaries help your trading, or at least entertain you during the holiday period. Please be sure to point out any I might have missed, or that should be in the top 10. Best wishes for 2012, may it be a year of profits and prosperity!
Thanks to www.financedocumentaries.com for finding all these documentaries (and others!)
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EVER SINCE Sept. 11 made the safety of liquefied natural gas tankers in Boston Harbor a prime concern, there has been no agreement on the extent of the destruction that a successful terrorist attack on a tanker might cause. Now a yearlong, 166-page study done for the US Department of Energy by Sandia National Laboratories has resolved the issue. The fire would be horrific, causing major injuries and significant damage to buildings a third of a mile away and second-degree burns on people more than a mile away.
The study leaves public officials and representatives of the natural gas industry no choice but to reexamine their plans for protecting the densely populated corridor through which LNG tankers pass on their way to the Distrigas terminal and storage tank complex in Everett. The study also raises new questions about proposed LNG terminals in Providence and Fall River and puts a premium on future offshore delivery of LNG to the region.
In recent years, with natural gas replacing dirtier coal and oil as the preferred fossil fuel for electricity generation, LNG has become indispensable in New England. In the winter, the region simply cannot get enough of the fuel through pipelines from the American Southwest, the Canadian west, and the Maritime Provinces. Distrigas estimates that it supplies 35 to 40 percent of the region's winter gas demand and 20 percent year-round.
The liquefied gas -- which is cooled to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit and occupies one-600th the volume of the fuel in its gaseous state -- would not explode if terrorists managed to pierce one of the holds on a tanker. But the liquefied gas would leak out, convert to gas, and almost certainly ignite. The report says burning gas from one tank on a ship could cause others to rupture, adding to the conflagration.
The industry has an outstanding safety record, and since Sept. 11, Distrigas has worked with local, state, and federal officials to improve security. But the new study makes clear the dire consequences if terrorists manage -- through a missile assault, onboard sabotage, or a suicide airplane or speedboat attack -- to puncture one of the tanks on a ship.
Earlier this year a Texas company. Excelerate Energy, unveiled plans for an LNG terminal 10 miles off the coast of Gloucester. The president of Excelerate, Kathleen Eisbrenner, said yesterday that the firm has been meeting with federal officials on the proposal, which could be in service in early 2007. Early next year Excelerate will start operating a similar offshore terminal in the Gulf of Mexico.
The offshore terminal off Gloucester would, of course, have to pass environmental muster. But right now it appears to be the safest long-term answer to meeting the region's gas needs beyond what can be supplied by pipeline.


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Worldwide, Metropolitan Regions are changing rapidly to absorb the urban growth expected over the next 20-30 years. While urban transformations in the global south will be dominated by irregular processes of urbanization, the formal regulatory frameworks operating in the global north must also be interrogated to ensure a more sustainable, just and vibrant urban future. Framed by the paradigm shift of the digital revolution, the anticipated impacts of climate uncertainty, and the aftermath of the post-industrial socio-economic regimes, time calls for innovative strategic responses. The complexity of these challenges requires an integrated and transdisciplinary approach that allows for diverse, inclusive and multi-scalar strategies. With an emphasis on urban integration, this symposium approaches the agglomeration of the Ruhr Region as a breeding ground for urban experimentation through the consideration of four principals:
From a spatial point of view, polycentric structures of urban agglomeration - like the Ruhr Area - are a promising model for sustainable urban and regional development. Rather than focusing on individual cities, polycentrality emphasizes the connectivity and synergy between urban centers, and the role of smaller units such as neighborhoods and urban quarters. It also requires innovative approaches in land management and land use. An integrated urban development, therefore, must develop strategies to strengthen the identity of - and connectivity between - cities, urban quarters and neighborhoods on different spatial and functional levels.
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Uneven Growth simultaneously occurring at regional and neighborhood scales requires a new model for integrated design able to negotiate a multiplicity of nested scales. Multi-scalar systems are marked by locally divergent development speeds and perspectives within the same agglomeration. Multi-scale models, therefore, need to integrate diversity in spatial and functional dynamics and responsiveness to address the effects of growth and depopulation, centralization and peripherization, and a range of environmental, socio-political and economic dynamics, and break it down to the topic of settlement space management. A new multi-scale model requires innovative mechanisms to link legal frameworks, facilitate new forms of knowledge creation at every planning level, and promote exchange among all stakeholders. The discussion of best practice case studies will expand the knowledge base, and provide further insights for the development of new strategies.
The resilience of cities depends upon the flexibility and adaptive capacity of their strategic infrastructure and planning systems and their socio-ecological components. Key conditions are: redundancy, social cohesion, cultural diversity, and governance transparency and responsiveness. Until recently, the guiding principle of sustainable development has been to achieve stable ecological function. However, profound changes to the human, environmental and technical systems, and its functions, are affected now by heterogeneity, disturbance, and conditions of uncertainty - new parameters for the future institutions of civil society.
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The phenomenon of migration is accelerating change and generating new social formations. In an increasingly complex urban realm, how can urban design processes, policies and regulations guiding development support integration? From the perspective of the individual and the formation of new community structures, designing inclusive mechanisms and novel institutions to enable the representation and participation of diverse publics. A starting point for new ideas and interventions is a local example - the 2017 "Modellquartier Integration" project in the Ruhr Area.
The International Symposium 2018 "URBAN INTEGRATION: From Walled City to Integrated City" will be held at Zollverein Essen and TU Dortmund University. It will facilitate international cooperation among schools from Asia, Europe and North America. During the symposium, participants will share knowledge through presentations contemplating interdisciplinary and multi-scalar design strategies.
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