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Three Giant Leaps
Three Giant Leaps is a movement. It's about leveling the playing field for
anyone who's ever dreamed of making a serious living doing what they love. It's about valuing passion as much as prosperity and pursuing both with zest. It's about coming alive in all areas of your life.
Through 13 years of research and development Three Giant Leaps has developed programs and products that help you discover the work you were born to do.
Imagine loving your job. Now imagine if everyone left school/university passionate about the career they were about to begin.
Imagine if -when sports stars retired - they had a way of identifying what to do next with their lives.
This is what we do...and it really works. We teach people about themselves and through this discovery process we/they discover their life calling.
Our programs are curriculum based which means they can be used in schools all over the world. Our mission is to make sure that every child leaves school with a clear idea of the work they what to do and why.
We have run programs in schools, prisons and in major Fortune 100 companies.
We currently enjoy a 99% Client Satisfaction rate and 2010 is the year when we plan to expand rapidly both in the US and into new territories.
We are re branding from our old name The New World Institute to "Three Giant Leaps". To read more about us go to our old site http://www.thenewworldinstitute.com
B2C - 30-55 year old professionals. Men/Women 50/50
B2B - Schools, Colleges, Large Corporations, Media Companies
We will also soon be launching our scholarship program which will allow everyone to apply to take our program for free.
We are currently in discussions with several TV companies about filming our process.
The core of our programs is our 3 Stage/12 step Methodology which provides the back bone for all our programs...hence the name "Three Giant Leaps".
The 3 leaps are a deep study of your past, your present and your future to uncover the answer to 'What was I born to do".
You can see our model (attached) in the how we do it section here: http://www.thenewworldinstitute.com…alling.php
This model needs to rebranded and redesigned keeping these things in mind:
The Model has three sections that are broken into 4 parts each. (12 parts in total) (See Attached) or go to "How We Do It" section here
In addition to the model being kept intact, it will sometimes be necessary to depict one section or 1 part at a time.
The New World Method becomes: THREE GIANT LEAPS. Please see the other brief we posted here for a logo. That will give you an idea of the direction the brand is headed..
Old World becomes:
II. Leap To The Past – Be Connected
II. Current World becomes:
II. Leap To The Present- Be Yourself
III. New World becomes:
III. Leap to The Future – Be Your Best
For now the name of each 12th section remains the same. (including the numbers 1-12 in the old model.)
The shape and flow of the model is up to you. Go wild with your ideas!.
One idea is that each of the 4 parts has a feeling of a small step with in the leap.


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SSL is the gold standard in Internet encryption technology, which is a fancy way of saying that it's a highly sophisticated method of scrambling data as it travels from your computer to our website's servers.
Q: How secure is the encryption used by SSL?
A: It would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.
SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server; this session key is used to encrypt the http transaction (both request and response). Each transaction uses a different session key so that even if someone did manage to decrypt a transaction, that would not mean that they would have found the server's secret key; if they wanted to decrypt another transaction, they'd need to spend as much time and effort on the second transaction as they did on the first. Of course, they would have first have to have figured out some method of intercepting the transaction data in the first place, which is in itself extremely difficult. It would be significantly easier to tap your phone, or to intercept your mail to acquire your credit card number than to somehow intercept and decode Internet Data.
Servers and browsers do encryption ranging from a 40-bit secret key to a 128-bit secret key, that is to say '2 to the 40th power' or '2 to the 128th power'. Many people have heard that 40-bit is insecure and that you need 128-bit to keep your credit card info safe. They feel that using a 40-bit key is insecure because it's vulnerable to a "brute force" attack (basically trying each of the 2^40 possible keys until you find the one that decrypts the message). This was in fact demonstrated when a French researcher used a network of fast workstations to crack a 40-bit encrypted message in a little over a week. Of course, even this 'vulnerability' is not really applicable to applications like an online credit card transaction, since the transaction is completed in a few moments. If a network of fast computers takes a week to crack a 40-bit key, you'd be completed your transaction and long gone before the hacker even got started.
Of course, using a 128-bit key eliminates this problem because there are 2^128 instead of 2^40 possible keys. Using the same method (a networked of fast workstations) to crack a message encrypted with such a key would take significantly longer than the age of the universe using conventional technology. Remember that 128-bit is not just 'three times' as powerful as 40-bit encryption. 2^128 is 'two times two, times two, times two...' with 128 two's. That is two, doubled on itself 128 times. 2^40 is already a HUGE number, about a trillion (that's a million, million!). Therefore 2^128 is that number (a trillion), doubled over and over on itself another 88 times. Again, it would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.
|Key Size
|Possible Key Combinations
|= 1 trillion (1,097,728,000,000)
|= 72 thousand quadrillion (71,892,000,000,000,000)
|2 multiplied by 2 128 times over.
|= 339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(give or take a couple trillion..)
Doing the math, you can see that using the same method that was used to break 40-bit encryption in a week, it would take about 72 million weeks (about 1.4 million years) to even break '56-bit medium' encryption and significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key. Of course the argument is that computers will keep getting faster, about doubling in power every 18 months. That is true, but even when computers are a million times faster than they are now (about 20 years from now if they double in speed every year), it would then still take about 6 thousand, trillion years, which is about a million times longer than the Earth has been around. Plus, simply upgrading to 129-bit encryption would take twice as long, and 130-bit would take twice as long again. As you can see, it's far easier for the encryption to keep well ahead of the technology in this case. Simply put, 128-bit encryption is totally secure.
The bottom line is that your credit card information is secure.
To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial information, look at the lower left or right hand corner of your browser. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser), then SSL is active. To double-check for security, look at the URL or Location line of your browser. If you have accessed a secure server, the first characters of the address in that line should change from "http" to "https."
Some browser versions and some firewalls don't permit communication through secure servers like the ones we use to process orders at https://www.theprunerwarehouse.com/. If for any reason you cannot access the secure server, please feel free to place your order with us by phone at 707-259-1507. Our Customer Service representatives will be happy to assist you.
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Dimitris Michalakos necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Greek Evangelical Church of Peuki
We are a small evangelical church located in the northern suburbs of Athens, Greece. We preach the bible, sing christian songs, baptize people in water, etc. Pretty much what every church does.
Our church members are mostly youths, thus we are a bit more joyful than the typical evangelicals.
Recently we moved in a new building. We are very proud of it's vitro windows, which defer from the "angels and crosses stuff" that people are used to see.
We don't sell stuff. Christianity is not a product. That said, our audience is Greeks, Christians or not. If we had to choose an age group, it would be 25-40.
Dear designer, you are most welcome to create logos inspired by our church's vitro windows (see attached pictures). It is the one thing that separates us from other evangelical churches, but also connects us with the whole church mentality.
You could propose something different, but most likely we will reject it. Please, try to avoid using crosses and hearts - we are not Americans!
Logos we like:
http://www.aeee.gr (1st Greek Evangelical Church)
The logo will be used in creating a website and various leaflets.
It would be nice to write our name in Greek: "Ελληνική Ευαγγελική Εκκλησία Πεύκης" or (shortcode) "ΕΕΕ Πεύκης" or (capitalized) "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΠΕΥΚΗΣ". If not, stick with "Greek Evangelical Church of Pefki".
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Watch the fun pour into bath time with Jungle Waterfall. Suction cup each pieces to the tub or tile wall and pour water from the container through the funnel to create a cascade of moving parts. Switch up the pieces for different scenes!
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text: Apparently, egg beaters are more than just a tool for making tasty omelets—these cheap contraptions can also be used as a quick and dirty centrifuge in developing countries. According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, taping a bit of plastic tubing to the end of a standard egg beater and a little elbow grease is all that is needed to separate plasma from blood. According to George Whitesides and colleagues at Harvard University, the plasma obtained in the procedure is perfectly fine for conducting tests for diseases like Hepatitis B and cysticercosis. I can't believe it took chemists and Harvard-educated doctors all this time to figure that out. [Eurekalert via Crunchgear]


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In a forum today marking the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration, former US President Bill Clinton spoke about his favorite devices, the grim outlook for newspapers and the need for policies to improve Internet access.
It was a wide-ranging assessment by Clinton, whose administration (1993-2001) played a largely hands-off role when it came to e-commerce. The forum was organized by VeriSign Inc. to mark the anniversary of the March 15, 1985 registration of Symbolics.com, a computer company. The anniversary event ranged from sweeping to whimsical, all of which characterized Clinton's talk.
Clinton offered a grim take on mainstream media when asked by VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin about his favorite Web sites. In response, he ticked off several political sites, including Politico , The Daily Beast and Huffington Post , as well as a few "right wing ones" to get both sides of the political debate. . But Clinton said that many of the political sites "don't have to do what a newspaper does every day," which is why he is "really worried about our ability to maintain any newspapers" or anything that "serves as a standard of objectivity."
"It's almost impossible given the economics of the modern world for newspapers to continue...," said Clinton.
Asked by VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin what his favorite device is, Clinton named the iPhone, "because I can get so much stuff on it." The former president also has a Blackberry, but no e-reader .
"I don't even own a Kindle, yet," said Clinton, who still prefers physical books.
As for his administration's role in shaping Internet policy, Clinton said that its most important discovery was the realization "that this was going to be the dominant mode of the communication in the 21st Century," he said. "Realizing (the Internet's) importance led to everything else," he said.
The Clinton administration set out a federal role for the Net in a 1997 report, "Framework for Global Electronic Commerce." Its overarching conclusion: that "for electronic commerce to flourish, the private sector must continue to lead."
Even so, he said that the broadband access framework proposed by the Federal Communications Commission may be needed. The deregulation approach helped the U.S. move ahead quicker than some other nations, "but a lot of our competitors now have better cell phone coverage than we do because they had some regulation to guarantee a framework of universal access.
"In general, our entrepreneurial approach is the best one," said Clinton, but "there are limits to it and sometimes we need a framework to make sure the markets can continue to grow by having more universal access. So I'm hoping the FCC proposals will do that."


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Alto saxophonist and educator Pete Yellin is a native New Yorker who has toured and recorded with many of the seminal names in jazz, among them Joe Henderson (a member of Henderson's sextet in the 60s and 70s), Tito Puente, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Mario Bausa and Maynard Ferguson.
Pete also leads his own groups, releasing three CDs in the last three years with another in the can that features Eddie Henderson, Peter Leitch, Harvie S, Carl Allen and special guest Chick Corea.
In 1984, Pete Yellin founded the jazz program at Long Island University -- New York's first serious full-time degree program in jazz--and continues to be involved in its leadership as Coordinator of Jazz Studies.
He started playing music seriously in the late 1950s after hearing the great altoist Art Pepper. On a basketball scholarship at Denver University ar the time, Pete was so impressed with the music he had just heard that he borrowed an alto saxophone from the University's music department and his life changed! Yellin's father was an NBC studio pianist in New York, so he went home, and under his father's guidance, began his music studies; first privately with Julliard's clarinet specialist Augustine Duques, then at Julliard in saxophone under the the tutelage of the great Joseph Allard. After graduation he also took flute, clarinet and theory.
At that time, Pete remembers, there were a lot of acoustic music opportunities and the young saxophonist was able to work in big dance bands, Latin big bands, Broadway shows and do studio gigs as well as pursue his main goal; to play jazz. By the late 1960s he had met Joe Henderson, with whom he was to work for a number of years as well as record "Pursuit of Blackness" on Milestone with him. He also met, played and recorded with Sam Jones and Charles Earland.
Over the ensuing years, Pete was a frequent player in the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band among others, but found himself doing more Broadway work to survive in the 70s. He says that this was the period when he first became interested in jazz education--as a way to create opportunities for students and players alike. He got a Master's degree in Saxophone at Brooklyn College and the LI Jazz Program was soon to follow.
Pete continues to be found in a variety of musical situations, appearing as a sideman or leader in most of New York's "major and minor" jazz venues and recording as a featured soloist with such groups as the Bob Mintzer big band and Tito Puente's band, giving clinics and concerts around the world.
In 2008 Pete played at Yoshis with Sheila Jordan at the San Jose Jazz Fest with Bob Mintzer as a featured soloist with the San Francisco State Big Band and at Orinda House with Jamie Davis.


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The press freedom climate continued its sharp decline under President Rafael Correa. In September, a CPJ special report concluded that Correa's policies had transformed the country into one of the hemisphere's most restrictive nations for the press. In March, Correa brought a criminal libel complaint against senior managers of El Universo, the country's leading critical daily. The case, which centered on a biting opinion column that condemned Correa's actions in a 2010 standoff with police, resulted in convictions, prison sentences, and multimillion-dollar fines against the managers. The managers were free on appeal in late year. Other government officials also used the nation's archaic criminal defamation laws to try to silence journalists. The president made frequent use of cadenas, presidential addresses that pre-empt all private broadcast programming nationwide, to smear individual journalists and news outlets. Although cadenas have traditionally been used to deliver information in times of crisis, they have become a forum for political confrontation under Correa. The administration used other tactics to supplant independent voices with its own perspective, repeatedly ordering individual broadcasters to give over portions of their news programming to government "rebuttals." In a May referendum, voters approved ballot measures that would allow the administration to regulate news content in vaguely defined areas and force media owners to divest other holdings.
When Correa took office in 2007, state media consisted of a single radio network. Since then, the administration has built one of the region's most extensive state media operations, which serves largely as a presidential megaphone.
State media operations:
5: Television stations
4: Radio stations
3: Newspapers
4: Magazines
1: News agency
Ecuadoran television was pre-empted more than a thousand times for cadenas since Correa came to power, according to Fundación Ethos, a nonpartisan Mexico-based research organization.
The press group Andean Foundation for Media Observation & Study, known as Fundamedios, documented nearly 150 press freedom violations as of November 2011. They include physical and verbal attacks, threats, harassment, arbitrary lawsuits and judicial decisions, coerced pre-emption, and obstruction.
At a May referendum, voters narrowly approved a series of administration-backed ballot questions, including two that harm press freedom. Voters approved in concept a communications law that would, in turn, create a media regulatory council. The precise text of the law was being debated by the National Assembly in late year. The other ballot measure barred private national media companies, executives, and main shareholders from holding assets in other companies.
Ballot measure breakdown:
5: Members of the regulatory council, out of seven in all, who would be appointed by the executive branch or chosen from groups with close ties to the executive.
2: Years granted for principals in media companies to divest.
47: Percent of vote that approved measure regarding divestment. (The measure passed with a plurality; some voters did not cast a vote on that question.)
45: Percent of vote that approved the creation of a regulatory council through the drafting of a communications law. (The measure passed with a plurality; some voters did not cast a vote on that question.)
El Universo executives Carlos Pérez Barriga, César Pérez Barriga, and Nicolás Pérez Barriga, along with opinion editor Emilio Palacio, were sentenced to prison and multimillion-dollar fines in July. Palacio, who resigned, later fled to the United States.


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Timo Salminen, Model IT
Insurance market regulation will take a giant leap at the beginning of 2013 when the European Union begins to enforce the Solvency II regulation. Insurance companies are required to model and price insurance contracts to the most granular detail, a major challenge for all insurers. This is particularly challenging for life insurance, where policies include many possible capital market relations and optionalities.
To simplify this problem, Model IT developed mSII toolbox for MATLAB, providing companies with a simple and efficient modeling platform to calculate insurance risks. In this presentation, we demonstrate mSII and share our experiences working with Fennia Life, a Finnish insurance company that successfully ran an authority reporting test (QIS5) in October 2010 using mSII.
Recorded: 1 Jun 2011


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Microsoft May Put an Attractive Price Tag on Win 9: Free
Aug 4, 2014 3:29 PM PT
The "free Windows 9" rumor once again is making the rounds. The buzz over Microsoft's supposed plan to offer users of Windows XP, Win 7, Win Vista and Win 8 a free upgrade to Windows 9 began in June, sparked by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, who just amplified it with more hints from her sources.
The second Windows 8.1 update will be delivered Aug. 12, which is Patch Tuesday, but it will be a low-key offering, she said.
If Microsoft does indeed offer a free upgrade to Windows 9, it will reflect the company's determination to leverage the cloud, Mukul Krishna, global director of the digital media practice at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Where people store more and more data on the cloud and use more and more applications on the cloud, that's where Microsoft is going to make the most money," he explained. "Everything is centered to [Microsoft's] Azure platform, and if it is able to get more people on the latest OS, there is a good chance that more people will use [OneDrive] (previously SkyDrive) -- and the more the cloud is used, the more it boosts Microsoft's Azure cloud strategy."
Where Windows 9 Is Headed
"At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world," CEO Satya Nadella said in a July 10 memo outlining his vision.
Microsoft's cloud OS infrastructure, device OS and first-party hardware will build on a "core focus" of using technology for work or school, as well as in personal lives, and "enable broad ecosystems," Nadella said.
Expect features in Windows 9 that support this vision.
"Windows 9 will be a flexible platform you can configure whichever way you want," Krishna suggested.
How Microsoft Will Benefit
Offering a free upgrade to Win 9 might remove one of the biggest thorns in Microsoft's side -- the large number of businesses continuing to use Windows XP despite Microsoft's having pulled support for that OS -- while enhancing the competitiveness of the Windows OS, said Al Hilwa, program director of software development research at IDC Seattle.
"Many users of Windows XP are in embedded settings like point-of-sale and field-force settings, where tablets are making inroads. Removing price barriers would help maximize the chances that these applications stay in the Windows fold," Hilwa told the E-Commerce Times.
On the other hand, "while Microsoft will surely offer some sort of incentive, as they often do with new OS releases, I'd be quite shocked if it was free as far back as XP," Wes Miller, senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, told the E-Commerce Times.
Granted, developers would have to rewrite the apps "but there may be a value in incumbency, and much of this is Microsoft's base to lose," Hilwa remarked.
How Win 9 Can Help Microsoft
Windows is facing "a lot of minor but significant competition from open source applications, especially with people integrating all their devices with the same look and feel," Frost's Krishna said.
Further, it's extremely expensive for Microsoft to have to maintain multiple versions of the Windows OS, especially the older ones.
Add the hope of resolving issues that elicited heavy criticism for Windows 8 from people used to traditionally looking at their desktop, attempting to maintain both consumer and corporate customer loyalty, and trying to be the most ubiquitous platform out there, and "Windows 9 will be a very significant OS," said Krishna.
If users are upgrading from XP and want to use the touch UI, they will need to upgrade to new PCs with touchscreens and -- possibly more horsepower.
However, "I expect [Windows 9] to be less assertive about requiring touch, yet maintain the low system requirements we've come to expect with Windows 8 and 8.1," Miller suggested.
Microsoft "is in a position now to use its existing base of older OS users to strengthen its ecosystem," he said, "and would be smart to think out of the box on how it might do that."


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Billy Crocker (Erich Bergen) is a simple guy who's life gets complicated quick fast and in a hurry. As the right hand man of the wealthy business man Elisha Whitney (Dennis Kelly), Billy's prospects are looking up. So much so that he plans to ask the girl of his dreams, debutante Hope Harcourt (Alex Finke) to marry him. However, upon delivering passport and tickets Mr. Whitney onboard an oceanliner for his boss's impending intercontinental cruise, Billy finds that his true love is betrothed to another, Lord Evelyn Oakleigh (Edward Staudenmayer). In a frantic effort to stop the wedding, or at least find out why Hope has taken up with this Englishman, Billy becomes an accidental stowaway.
Also in board the cruise is night club performer Reno Sweeney (Rachel York), on the lamb gangster Moonface Martin (Fred Applegate) and his girl Erma (Joyce Chittick). Moonface Martin, who is actually public enemy number twelve, dons the disguise of a minister to evade capture long enough to make it to Europe. Billy inadvertently aids Moonface, for which the mobster gives him a cruise ticket and help with other disguises. Reno takes the cruise fresh off of Billy's decline of her offer to allow him to propose to her. Did you get all that? Despite being rejected by Billy, she conspires with Moonface to help Billy secretly woos Hope, while dodging his boss Whitney, Hope's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt (Sandra Shipley) and the ship's crew who now think that Billy is public enemy number one, Snake Eyes Johnson.
If it is one thing I had expected from the Cole Porter classic musical, it was the nostalgia and the pageantry that accompanied musicals of its era. However, Anything Goes is much more in league with the screwball comedy a la A Fish Called Wanda. With the silly series of subplots to link all the musical numbers together, the show is goofball comedy and musical numbers, laughs and lyrics in equal measure. This production does a great job in maintaining that balance, making the comedy king. in a genre that often puts the musical numbers on a pedestal, Anything Goes was great fun thanks to terrific performances by all; in particular by the supporting cast members Edward Staudenmayer, Dennis Kelly, Joyce Chittick and Fred Applegate.
Rachel York is extraordinary, from the very first notes of "I Get a Kick Out of You." York's Reno Sweeney is funny, glamorous and even vulnerable. She leads one of the most ambitious and brilliantly entertaining tap dance numbers I have had the privilege to witness with the spectacular Act One finale of the title song "Anything Goes." For both a clever execution and musical charm, high marks must also be awarded to Fred Applegate and his Moonface Martin jail-cell rendition of "Be Like the Bluebird."
The dance company of this production was truly great. Director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall scores high marks for musical numbers that garnered a nod of nostalgia to a very classic style with movement that felt very modern and effervescent. The asymmetrical choreography of "It's De-Lovely" was both interesting and elegant, quite lovely indeed. This company of dancers is simply terrific, every last one of them. Well Done.
Finally, this production definitely deserves a nod for the individual elements themselves. Kudos to Martin Pakledinaz for costume design that singlehandedly transports the audience to the 1930s after a single glance. Similarly, Derek McLane's chameleon-like scenic design is simultaneously majestic and simplistic, while being endlessly versatile and exciting. Howell Binkley's light design is a character all its own in this production, wonderfully integrated and interactive without being intrusive or showy. To all production department heads, Well Done!
Anything Goes is one of those classic musicals that translates to the 21st century because it is about a boy chasing a girl, and all the inevitable goofiness that ensues when colorful characters join forces towards that goal. This show truly is an entertaining pleasure cruise for the whole family. Check it out!
The Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anything Goes is running now through January 6, 2013 at:
The Ahmanson Theatre
135 N. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 628-2772