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Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand
- Shandong, Shandong, China (Mainland)
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|Sunflower Oil
|Oil refining
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|LD-sunflower oil making machine
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Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand Supply 1-1000T/D vegetable oil refinery equipment /oil milling machine/sunflower oil processig machine with CE-LD Brand
Vegetable oils are obtained from a variety of oil bearing seeds, grains and nuts, such as soyeans, sunflower seeds, corn (maize), rape seeds, peanut (groundnut) kernels, coconut, palm kernels, canola, safflower, castor, mustard etc.
Vegetable oil refining is necessary for vegetable oils & fats so they can be used for cooking and frying foods. Usually there are two ways of refining vegetable oil, they are Physical Refining & Chemical Refining.
1. Pretreatment and pre-pressing process
Meal solvent extractor machinery include several section as below a.cleaning section b.breaking section c.flaking section d, softening section e.cooking section f,oil press section
2. Solvent extraction process
Solvent extractor machinery include: extraction, desolventizer, Evaporative system, condenser.
Oil extraction, can be regarded as solid - liquid extraction. Its use solvent has different solubility for different raw material to separate oil from the cakes.
3. Oil Refinery process
Solvent Extractor Machinery is refining crude oil generally are Physical and chemical refining include Deodorization, degumming, deacidification, decoloring, dewaxing
Craft flow:
solvent steam
↓ ↓
extraction → mixed oil → evaporation→ steam-stripping → crude oil
Extractor types:
Level rotation extractor, loop type extractor, chain extractor
Extraction methods:
Use organic solvent through soaking or spraying contact methods to extract oil from oilseeds.
Advantages of extraction craft:
1. High oil yield, low residual oil in meal;
2. Low labor intensity;
3. Good working environment;
4. Good meal quality.
Cooking Oil Extraction:
1.Adopt stainless steel fixed grid plate and increase the horizontal grid plates, which can prevent the strong miscella from flowing back to the blanking case, so as to ensure good extraction effect.
2.The rotocel extractor is driven by rack, with unique rotor of balanced design, low rotating speed, low power, smooth operation, no noise and quite low maintenance cost.
3. The feeding system can adjust the rotating speed of airlock and main engine according to the feeding quantity and maintain a certain material level, which is beneficial to the micro negative pressure inside the extractor and reduce the solvent leakage.
4. The advanced miscella circulation process is designed to reduce the fresh solvent inputs, reduce the residual oil in meal, improve the miscella concentration and save enerLD by reducing the evaporation capacity.
5. The high material layer of the extractor helps to form immersion extraction, reduce the meal quality in miscella, improve the quality of crude oil and reduce the evaporation system scaling.
6. Specially suitable for the extraction of various pre-pressed meals.
Dewaxing/winterising process are as follows:
The oil is cooled in crystallisers and gradually the crystal formation takes place. Here filter aid is also added.
The oil is then transferred to a maturator where the crystals are allowed to grow. The oil is continuously cooled by the help of glycol water flowing through the coils.
Finally the oil is filtered on hermetic pressure leaf filters to remove the waxes.
For Rice bran oil, LD has developed P P Filters which are more suitable for high wax oil.
The major advantages of this process is :
Single plant can be used for Dewaxing and Winterising.
Optimum care is taken to maintain the formed crystals till filtration.
Minimum filter aid consumption.
What We Do Now In Oil & Grain Industry:
1) Oil Seeds or Fruit Screen, Drying, Storage Engineering, 5-2000T/D
2) Edible Oil Seeds or Fruit Pretreatment, Oil Milling, Oil Filtering, 5-3000T/D
3) Edible Oil Solvent Extraction, 3-2000T/D
4) Senior Cooking Oil Physical/Chemical Refining, 1T/D--800T/D
5) Oil Dry Fractionation, 5--800T/D
6) Corn Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Sunflower Oil Winterization Dewaxing Production Line, 5--1200T/D
7) Palm Fruit Oil Mill, Oil Refining and Fractionation, 1T/D--1800T/D
8) Coconut Oil Mill, CNO Refining, 10T/D-1800T/D
9) Soybean, Peanut Protein Concentrate, Active Protein Powder, 5-300T/D
10) Tea Seed Squeezing, Tea Saponin Extraction, 3--500T/D
11) Cottonseed Dephenolizing Protein, 50--1000T/D
12) Chickens, Ducks And Other Animals Skeleton, Waste Squeezing Preparing Meat And Bone Meal Powder, 5--50T/D
13) Animal Oil Low-Temperature Concentrated Extract, 5--600T/D
14) Bio-Diesel, 5--300T/D
15) Grain Seeds Drying, 10-2000T/D
16) Animal Feed Pellet Production Plants
We can provide Cooking oil production line from 1 ton to 600 tons. The popular capacity is mini crude oil refinery from 1-5 tons, small scale oil refinery from 5-20 tons and other oil refinery from 20-600 tons. Our Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand suitable for various edible oil refining machine. For example, rice bran oil refining machine, palm oil refining/refinery machine, palm oil fractionation machinery, soybean oil refining machine, sunflower oil refining machine, cotton oil refining/winterization machinery, corn oil refinery machine/winterization line, peanut oil refinery machine and others crude cooking oil refinery line.
There are 30%-40% oil and 50% water in fresh coconut,while ,there are 60%-70% oil in copra,just 4%-7% water,coconut oil possess sepcial fragrance.Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand is extracted by crusher or screw persser,it recoveried residual oil from cake with the second extraction as a supplemnt by solvent .
Mechanical extraction process of Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand :To transgfer the copra which contain 10%-12% water to automatic balance and magnetic speration to remove junk iron, and grind Supply Edible Oil Seeds Pretreatment, Oil Milling Machine, palm kernel oil refining machine with CE-LD Brand to particles that the diameter is about 0.3cm.
Put the embryo in the 115°C horizontal cooker with 20min,under this condition,fat cell crack,phospholipid sedimentation,water containing down to 3%.To transfer the same size embryo after cooked to presser for continuous extraction.Grease discharge with uniform decline curve at the most of time.Generally speaking ,coconut cake residual oil is 7% after processing.
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For those of us who care for an earth not encompassed by machines – a world of textures, tastes and sounds other than those that we have engineered – our task is that of taking up the written word, with all its potency, and patiently, carefully writing language back into the land. Our craft is that of releasing the budded, earthly intelligence of our words, freeing them to respond to the speech of the things themselves – to the green uttering-forth of leaves from the spring branches. It is the practice of spinning stories that have the rhythm and lilt of the local soundscape, tales for the tongue, tales that want to be told, again and again, sliding off the digital screen and slipping off the lettered page to inhabit these coastal forests, those desert canyons, those whispering grasslands and valleys and swamps. Finding phrases that place us in contact with the trembling neck-muscles of a deer holding its antlers high as it swims toward the mainland, or onto the ant dragging a scavenged rice-grain through the grasses. Planting words, like seeds, under rocks and fallen logs – letting language take root, once again, in the earthen silence of shadow and bone and leaf.
The rain surrounded the cabin…with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hillside…Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, the rain. As long as it talks, I am going to listen.
~~ Thomas Merton
Our strictly human heavens and hells have only recently been abstracted from the sensuous world that surrounds us, from this more-than-human realm that abounds in its own winged intelligences and cloven-hoofed powers. For almost all oral cultures, the enveloping and sensuous earth remains the dwelling place of both the living and the dead. The "body" – whether human or otherwise – is not yet a mechanical object in such cultures, but is a magical entity, the mind's own sensuous aspect, and at death the body's decomposition into soil, worms and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one's ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.
This cycling of the human back into the larger world ensures that the other forms of experience that we encounter – whether ants, or willow trees, or clouds – are never absolutely alien to ourselves. It is, paradoxically, this perceived kinship that renders the difference, or otherness, so eerily potent.
Gradually, then, our senses awaken to the world. We become aware of the thoughts that are thinking all around us – in the bushes, under the tumbled stones. As we watch the crows, our own limbs begin to feel the intelligence of feathered muscles adjusting to the wind. Our toes listen to roots sending capillaries in search of water, and our skin replies to the lichens radiating in slow waves across the surface of the upthrust bones of the hill. Walking along the pebbled beach, we notice the ground itself responding to our footfalls – the hermit crabs all diving for cover – and sense the many-voiced forest listening to us as we speak. And so we adjust our own speaking, taking new care with our gestures and actions…
Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner – what is it?
if not intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming
~~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpted from The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram.
A brief summary of animism at Anthropik.

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If any single City Council district epitomizes the changes in New York over the last 10 years and the uncertainty of the economic future, it is District 33. Sweeping along the waterfront from Greenpoint to Carroll Gardens, and including northern Park Slope, District 33 has more than 65 percent white residents, the most affluent population in Brooklyn and one of the densest sets of active Democratic voters in the country. But it also includes some of the poorest residents.
Not surprisingly housing and development dominate debate in the crowded race to replace David Yassky, who is running for comptroller. Seven candidates are vying in the Democratic primary on Sept. 15, which will likely decide the winner of the Nov. 3 election. An eighth contender, Elizabeth Tretter, is waging a quiet campaign solely on the Conservative ticket. She has not appeared in any of the major debates hosted this summer.
The Democrats are a diverse crew, ranging from a recent college graduate backed by a party boss to a Lexus driving Hasidic Jew who dislikes bike lanes. Most observers view Jo Anne Simon, Stephen Levin and Evan Thies as the front-runners.
Simon, 56, a disability rights attorney, holds the post female Democratic district leader, an influential political stepping-stone. Her experience as a community leader converts into a solid voter following in the southern end of District 33, which is divided geographically by the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thies, 29, is Yassky's former chief of staff and a public policy consultant.
Levin, is the recent college graduate backed by his former employer, State Assemblymember and machine party boss Vito Lopez. Levin, who often invokes Lopez's name, has picked up a list of high profile endorsements, including support from Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
Making the race tighter, the four other Democratic candidates aggressively frame important issues that the other candidates overlook. Kenneth Diamondstone, 60, the only openly gay candidate, campaigns on his record as a community advocate and affordable housing developer. Doug Biviano, 40, is an engineer and Brooklyn Heights building super and the newest face to politics. Isaac Abraham, 59, a hardware store owner and tenants' rights advocate, is the district's only Hasidic Jewish candidate. He has called for replacing bike lanes with parking spaces on the major bike commuter thoroughfare, Kent Avenue, and recently announced a plan to cut $1.2 billion from the city budget, the specifics of which he will unveil soon.
Ken Baer, an accountant, speaks mostly on environmental and quality of life issues, gained from his experience as the head of the local Sierra Club. Unintentionally entertaining audiences in debates, he often runs over time limits or misses his cue to speak.
A District Rezoned
The campaign is being waged in a district shaped by 14 rezonings since 2001. This is the highest concentration of rezonings to affect any council district, and they have quickly altered its physical and social landscape.
All seven Democratic candidates call for increased funding for community-based plans, also known as 197a plans, which the City Charter allows to accompany all rezonings. Simon, Abraham, Diamondstone and Thies all showcase their experience with these plans when discussing development in the district.
Simon advocated for open space and affordable housing in the Park Slope and Downtown Brooklyn rezonings, and lobbied against the Atlantic Yards project as chair and cofounder of the Boerum Hill Association. Building on what he learned in the 2005 rezoning of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, approved when he worked for Yassky, Thies campaigns for his "360 Degree Planning" proposal, which changes the city's land use review process to require input from major city agencies on how development might affect the whole array of municipal services. "We need to have all agencies weigh in on what we are planning for -- education, police, fire," he said.
Diamondstone also targets the limits of the current planning process. "The role of city planning has been to make way for luxury housing -- and we don't need more luxury housing," he said. "There has been no planning -- for schools, parks and infrastructure." He sees the Department of City Planning as "a real enemy of the people." Diamondstone is concerned that large developers too often outweigh the community when large-scale zoning changes take place.
Abraham, who helped develop the mixed income Schaefer Landing apartments on Williamsburg's waterfront, stresses the need for more affordable housing. Although he sports Dolce and Gabana glasses and glides down Kent Avenue in a Lexus SUV, Abraham is a well-versed tenant advocate in Williamsburg.
After the Boom
Of course the spate of luxury housing construction in the area may be over -- at least for now. Vacant, stalled, devalued or foreclosed luxury real estate now spots District 33 neighborhoods like the plague. Diamondstone, Biviano, Simon and Thies want the city to buy vacant or stalled new developments, and auction them off at more affordable rates.
Diamondstone, a lead developer on the affordable Schermerhorn House, argues that the city should offer tax abatements under the 421A program to developers anywhere in the city who designate 30 percent of all new homes as affordable -- 10 percent above the current level required.
Levin ran a tenant relocation program for Vito Lopez's Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council that assisted residents while lead paint was removed from their apartments. Now, seemingly oblivious to the housing crash, he maintained that real estate prices in Brooklyn are still "still hot." He wants the government to require affordable housing, especially senior housing.
With the economy in recession, Thies seeks to bring city-run incubators to aid freelance businesses into the district. In 2007, Thies helped repeal the Unincorporated Business Tax, a double tax held over freelancers making less than $100,000. He now favors repealing it for people making less than $150,000. On these issues, Thies has worked with the Freelancers Union, which has endorsed his candidacy.
Campaign Cash
The winner from Democratic Primary on Sept. 15 will likely win the council seat. Whatever Democrats emerges from that contest will then face Levin who can run on the Working Families ticket, regardless of how he fares in the Democratic primary, and Tretter on the Conservative ticket in November.
In a Democratic Primary where 70,329 possible voters will have so many choices, the winner may result from a margin of fewer than 1,000 votes. So every campaign donation hints at that margin. As of this date, Simon has amassed the largest purse, at $103,383. Levin has raised a close second with, $90,738. Thies has brought in $64,399. Diamondstone totaled $51,424 with Abraham at $45,466. Baer has raised only $23,511 and Biviano has collected $20,830. Tretter is not listed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board.This article was written under a partnership between Gotham Gazette and the Baruch College's Department of Journalism and Writing Professions.
When first published, this story said candidate Isaac Abraham was 65 years old. He is in fact 59 years old. The story has been updated to reflect the correction.


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Jérémie Bélingard
Amandine Albisson
Stéphane Bullion
Émilie Cozette
Mathieu Ganio
Dorothée Gilbert
Marie-Agnès Gillot
Mathias Heymann
Josua Hoffalt
Hervé Moreau
Myriam Ould-Braham
Ludmila Pagliero
Karl Paquette
Benjamin Pech
Laëtitia Pujol
Alice Renavand
"Classical ballet is not something antiquated, if it's real and modern"
Benjamin Millepied, Director of dance of the Paris Opera, world-famous choreographer and author of numerous short films, loves to provoke encounters between different artistic universes, such as dance, cinema, photography, drawing and digital arts. His arrival has marked a new era at the Paris Opera Ballet. Together with Dimitri Chamblas and Christian Longchamp, he has conceived the "3e Scène".
The idea of the project ? Make opera, music and dance accessible to a larger audience and give artists a new platform to express themselves. Therefore, Benjamin Millepied's contribution showcases the Principal Dancers in his company, in order to demonstrate that they are not only talented interpreters with an accomplished technique, but also unique artistic personalities. In his films, the dancers express their passion through gestures, by sketching extracts from their favourite ballets, and – an unusual practice for them – through words. Thus, they reveal a more personal side than that which is exposed to the look of the audience every evening.


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Catalyst Arts: fundraising and match funding workshops
Monday, 12 December 2011 from 09:00 to 16:30 (PST)
Event Details
Catalyst Arts: fundraising and match funding workshops
Event details:
Date: Monday 12 Dec
Venue: mac
Cannon Hill Park
Times: 9.00am - 4.30pm
These workshops will support arts organisations keen to plan a step change in their existing fundraising and match funding activities. They will run in six locations between November and December 2011 and will feature a range of renowned national speakers and those drawn from exemplary regional and local fundraising organisations.
Participants will be required to share their knowledge and experience, working collaboratively to identify creative new opportunities for fundraising.
Discussions will centre on the latest trends and issues around giving, including:
• digital giving
• crowd sourcing
• venture philanthropy
• flash giving
• spirited fundraising
• endowments
• major donors
• legacies
Further activities will interrogate ways of implementing change within organisations to equip them for embedding fundraising as core to their mission and purpose and will challenge participants around their current donor care principles and practice.
Participants will be encouraged to identify new opportunities for fundraising within their organisations and strategies for embedding good fundraising practice within their long-term planning. They will also be asked to share new ideas for working collaboratively with others to achieve success.
Who are these workshops suitable for?
The Catalyst Arts: fundraising and match funding workshops are open to chief executives, relevant board members and/or senior executives of arts organisations interested in developing their existing capability around fundraising and match funding. Up to two staff per organisation will be welcome to attend.
Attendance at the workshops is not a Catalyst Arts application requirement; nor is intention to submit a Catalyst Arts application an attendance requirement.
Heritage organisations should not attend; the workshops are for arts organisations only.
Other workshop dates
23 November Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
2 December Sadler's Wells, London
7 December Centre for Life, Newcastle
9 December M Shed, Bristol
12 December mac, Birmingham
15 December Imperial War Museum, London
For more information on the Catalyst Arts investment programme and the wider Catalyst investment programme visit www.catalyst-artsandheritage.org.uk
If you cannot attend you can still get involved by viewing video content after the event on the Arts Council website.
When & Where
mac Birmingham
Cannon Hill Park
B12 9QH Birmingham
United Kingdom
Monday, 12 December 2011 from 09:00 to 16:30 (PST)
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The Lost And Damned
Grand Theft Auto 4 and its DLC on sale through Xbox Live Marketplace
Grand Theft Auto 4 is on sale through Xbox Live alongside its DLC: The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.
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If you live in North American, you may now run out and purchase the Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition at your local shop.
GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City sees slight delay on PC and PS3
Rockstar has revealed that GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City will be delayed into April.
GTA IV's "massive" size may put punters off DLC, says analyst
GTA IV may be simply too large to succesfully carry DLC, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter's told VG247, as the majority of owners never actually finish the main game.Pachter was talking in response to comments made earlier by AmTech analyst Ben Schachter (via Industrygamers and Joystiq), who expressed "concern" about the state of the GTA franchise […]
Rumor: The Lost and Damned heading to PC per GFWL Achievements page
Looks like The Lost and Damned may be heading to PC if an Achievements page over on GTA4.net is to be believed.Shown through the link there, is a screen grab of the Achievements listed for GFWL.The Lost and Damned is only available on Xbox 360 as per an agreement with Rockstar, for the present at […]
Play GTA IV multiplayer this weekend on Xbox Live for free
To celebrate the launch of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City and The Ballad of Gay Tony, Rockstar has announced a weekend filled with multiplayer mayhem on Xbox Live.From Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1 players can experience multiplayer in Liberty City with special guests from Rockstar North and singer/composer Henry Santos Jeter […]
Second trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City released
Rockstar has released the second official trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, titled "There's Always a Girl". Episodes From Liberty City will contain The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony in one package when released October 29 for 360.Head on past the break for the video, complete with music […]
All Take-Two games "need to have a download component," says Feder
During the Take-Two Q3 2009 financial call tonight, company CEO Ben Feder told investors that while retail is important, downloadable content is a main component to the company's game releases."It's clear that retail is the channel for the foreseeable future. Nonetheless, there is a download component to a lot of our games, and there'll continue […]
Xbox Live Deal of the Week is The Lost and Damned
Microsoft has announced that next week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week will be Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.Original price for the add-on was 1600 MS Points ($19.99/£13.60/€18.61) but you'll get it for 1200 MS Points ($14.99/£10.20/€13.96) instead.Basically you'll be saving a five spot. Great. We just downloaded this two days ago.Thanks, […]
Microsoft shoots down PS3 Lost and Damned rumors
Microsoft says that The Lost and Damned is not headed to PS3.Responding to rumors that surfaced over the weekend from a PSW article, Gamespot contacted Microsoft for comment and were bluntly told by a rep that "the [GTA IV] episodes are exclusive to Xbox 360."Sony and Take-Two both refuse to comment on the rumor, so […]
Rumor: The Lost and Damned heading to PS3 in August
PSW Magazine has stated in its latest issue that The Lost and Damned DLC for GTA IV will land on PS3 in August.The article said that Microsoft only had a 6 month exclusivity deal for the content, which is where PSW came up with an August release window.Take this as a rumor until official word […]
Sony: Microsoft "writes cheques" for games thanks to first-party line-up insecurity
SCEA hardware marketing boss John Koller has told VG247 that Microsoft's apparent need to pay for exclusivity on certain products – such as the Lost and Damned – is borne from a self-perceived lack of strength in its first-party line-up."Microsoft has had a much more lenient policy to writing cheques than we do," he said."We […]
GDC: Rockstar should have had more 'realistic expectations' for The Lost and Damned, says Pachter
We met up with Michael Pachter at GDC yesterday. In return for us showing him where to pick up his badge and sneaking him into the Luminaries Lunch, he told us why he thought Rockstar and Microsoft have yet to release any concrete download numbers for GTA IV DLC, The Lost and Damned. The Wedbush […]
Patcher: The Lost and Damned has sold one million so far
Rockstar may not have released download numbers for The Lost and Damned yet, but that hasn't stopped Michael Patcher from throwing around a "1 million" figure.The analyst has estimated that Rockstar's DLC has sold into seven digits so far, and will reach 2 million by the end of the year.While he was peeking into his […]
Rockstar: No exact Lost and Damned figures "at this point"
Rockstar said today that exact figures for day one The Lost and Damned downloads are not to be released. Yet."We don't plan on releasing numbers at this point", a Rockstar rep told us. "But [we] will certainly be in touch if and when that changes".Microsoft announced last week that The Lost and Damned set a […]
Rockstar: DLC is the "future of gaming"
Fat pipes are the way forward, Rockstar said this morning, claiming that downloading game content is the "future" for the medium."I think people are seeing this as the future of gaming, and we see it," GTA dev chief Jeronimo Barrera said in the latest Major Nelson podcast."Obviously we're going to continue to create more games, […]
Rockstar: The Lost and Damned plot "exceeds what's out there is all other mainstream media"
Rockstar dev head Jeronimo Barrera has said he believes The Lost and Damned script "exceeds" writing currently available in all forms of media."If you put The Lost and Damned up as a movie script, man, it'd be crazy," he said, talking in the latest Major Nelson podcast."We want the gamers to realise that there's a […]
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Asked by Serene, Sacramento, California
How can I lose weight when I have hypothyroidism and I can't do strenuous exercise? My doctor is still adjusting my thyroid medication, so my TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) is still high at 22. Added to that, I've got heart problems and have been told by my cardiologist not to do strenuous exercise! I do a lot of walking and typically do 10,000 steps a day. I've been doing a low fat 1,400 calorie diet with no result. I was thinking about a low-carb 1,200 calorie diet and upping my steps to 15,000 a day but I'm wondering what else I can do when I can't exert myself.
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Hi Serene,
It sounds like you are in a frustrating situation. First of all, until you are taking the appropriate dose of thyroid medication and your TSH is in the normal range (I like to see it in the mid-normal range for my patients, around 2, for those that are struggling with their weight), it will probably be very difficult for you to lose weight.
The thyroid gland plays an important role in metabolism, and if your thyroid hormone levels are low, as indicated by a high TSH (thyroid hormone normally suppresses TSH when present at normal levels), your metabolism will be low and you will not burn as many calories every day.
When your TSH gets into the normal range, however, don't expect the weight to just fall off without continued effort. I find that most of my patients have to continue working very hard to lose weight even when their TSH is in the normal range. Without knowing your age, height, weight (especially where you tend to carry your excess weight -- in the hips and thighs or in the belly), it's hard to make specific recommendations.
I think trying a nutrient-dense 1,200-calorie diet with fewer starchy carbs like bread, crackers, pasta, rice, cereal and baked goods might be useful, especially if your waist is greater than 35 inches (40 inches for men). Try to eat lean protein with most meals and snacks as this can give you a slight metabolic boost and having a cup or two a day of green tea (decaf is OK if you can't tolerate caffeine) could give you a slight metabolic boost as well, especially before exercise (check with your cardiologist regarding the caffeine since I don't know the nature of your heart problem).
As far as exercise, 10,000 steps a day is terrific. If you have the time and energy to increase to 15,000 steps per day, that could help. The latest government guidelines suggest that some people may need 90 minutes per day of exercise to lose weight. If your cardiologist approves, you might consider adding in hills on a regular basis to work your muscles differently and burn more calories.
In addition, I would definitely add strength training at least twice a week to build calorie-burning muscle. If you begin a strength training program, the scale may not move right away, but it should in the long run and it will help you keep the weight off.
Finally, for optimal heart health, a low-fat diet is not the best approach. A better idea would be to follow a moderate fat diet (about 25-30%) and substitute healthy fats like nuts, seeds, avocado, fatty fish, olive oil and canola oil for saturated fat like butter, cheese, cream and sugary and refined carbohydrates (Choose whole grains, which are heart healthy.).
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To my loyal readers – apologies for my absence but I am currently trying to engineer a move…
Now, I know I am a little neurotic about water quality. But water is critical to survival and wellness. The more I study what's in various cities water, the more determined I am to educate everyone about the importance of water filtration. And when I say filtration, I mean filtering every tap in your house – from shower to kitchen to bath. It's going to take research and time, but once that system is set up you can rest assured you are doing something meaningful for your and your family's health.
Your skin is your largest organ. When you sit in a hot bath or shower under hot water your pores are wide open because they respond to the heat. During that time, your skin is absorbing the water and every chemical, pharmaceutical and toxin in it. I read recently where London water has a high quantity of both pre-digested cocaine and hormones from the pill. Wonderful. What else is in there?
From an early age, I have acclimatized my daughter to loving cold water. I did this with great calculation as cold water closes pores. Sounds crazy right?
Once you read the below article from Dr. Mercola you will think differently about that hot bath and shower you once took for granted. In an age of increasing over-population – where people are living longer and taking more pharmaceuticals – where furniture is riddled with flame retardants and chemicals that enter the ground water once that furniture is put in a land-fill – the quality of water, our greatest resource, is hugely impacted. Start thinking twice about buying windex or chemical cleaners for your house. Buy vinegar. Re-think how you live every day and ask yourself what you can do to lower the chemical dumping on our planet. If everyone thought like this we could all enjoy hot baths well into the future.
What do I suggest?
- Read the below report
- Order a water report from your city – research those chemicals
- Look on ewg.org or start reviewing whole-home water filtration systems. Mercola sells them but I am still actively comparing them. I found a fascinating site written by an ecologist who makes water filters. He asked me to order my city water report so he can look at it and then he customizes the system. http://www.cleanairpurewater.com/
- Put filter on the pipe going into your house and at every water exit point. Not just your kitchen – get the bath and shower set up as well.
- Take a hot bath in peace.


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Something tasty in keeping with the recent Zombie theme.
World War Z is a novel by Max Brooks which chronicles the fictional "World War Z" or "Zombie World War". It is a follow-up to his previous book, The Zombie Survival Guide. The book was released on September 12, 2006, with a movie based on it scheduled for release in 2008.
The book charts the war against the undead from global pandemic to mass panic, and then to the eventual armed struggle to reclaim the planet. Rather than a grand overview or a single perspective, World War Z is instead a collection of individual accounts, each revealing an aspect of the larger plot and simultaneously presenting a very personal tale. These different accounts take the form of interviews. The book draws from post-apocalyptic and zombie literature. "The Great Panic" chapter describes the rout of civilization in a similar manner to H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. The tales cover many genres -- the story of a Chinese admiral who spent the war on a submarine would fit easily among techno-thrillers. The viewpoint is not exclusively American, but focuses on the global nature of the struggle. This use of small personal tales creates a patchwork tapestry of the larger events unfolding in the book. Brooks addresses current issues such as environmentalism, the War on Terror and international health care. He also offers an interesting juxtaposition between the modern world and that of postwar Earth. For example, Cuba becomes the world's leading economy, Great Britain becomes a major producer of oil, and Tibet becomes the most populous country. This vision of a postwar Earth is startling in its contrast to that of today. It is implied that tribal groups such as South American Indians, Zulu of Southern Africa and Māori of New Zealand fared surprisingly well. One character relates an anecdote about the Māori taking on half of the Auckland horde, using traditional tribal weapons, did much better than the world's various military forces or Western civilians. Wikipedia


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Seventy 5 Curlew Urban Towns will be a collection of 240 units of 2 bedrooms divided across 6 four storey blocks. The estimated completion date for 75Curlew Urban Towns is still unknown.
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Located in the Parkwoods-Donalda neighbourhood in TorontoHas a walkscore of 83/100: walkable EVERYWHERE9 minute drive to Don Mills Subway Station & Fairview Mall6 minute drive to CF Shops at Don MillsShort drive to the Oriole GO StationEasy access to the DVP and Highway 401Close to shops, restaurants and schoolsMany nearby public transportation optionsNearby parks include Ranchdale Park, Sweeney Drive and Anewen Greenbelt
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Coast Guard Fireman Zaarvoni Simanu plots a position on a nautical chart at Sta. Crisfield, Crisfield, Md., Aug. 4, 2013.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1693?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12730003#action_12730003 ] Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1693: ------------------------------------- Token is still deprecated in the latest patch - we are not going to deprecate it though, right? > AttributeSource/TokenStream API improvements > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1693 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1693 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Analysis > Reporter: Michael Busch > Assignee: Michael Busch > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.9 > > Attachments: LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, lucene-1693.patch, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java > > > This patch makes the following improvements to AttributeSource and > TokenStream/Filter: > - removes the set/getUseNewAPI() methods (including the standard > ones). Instead by default incrementToken() throws a subclass of > UnsupportedOperationException. The indexer tries to call > incrementToken() initially once to see if the exception is thrown; > if so, it falls back to the old API. > - introduces interfaces for all Attributes. The corresponding > implementations have the postfix 'Impl', e.g. TermAttribute and > TermAttributeImpl. AttributeSource now has a factory for creating > the Attribute instances; the default implementation looks for > implementing classes with the postfix 'Impl'. Token now implements > all 6 TokenAttribute interfaces. > - new method added to AttributeSource: > addAttributeImpl(AttributeImpl). Using reflection it walks up in the > class hierarchy of the passed in object and finds all interfaces > that the class or superclasses implement and that extend the > Attribute interface. It then adds the interface->instance mappings > to the attribute map for each of the found interfaces. > - AttributeImpl now has a default implementation of toString that uses > reflection to print out the values of the attributes in a default > formatting. This makes it a bit easier to implement AttributeImpl, > because toString() was declared abstract before. > - Cloning is now done much more efficiently in > captureState. The method figures out which unique AttributeImpl > instances are contained as values in the attributes map, because > those are the ones that need to be cloned. It creates a single > linked list that supports deep cloning (in the inner class > AttributeSource.State). AttributeSource keeps track of when this > state changes, i.e. whenever new attributes are added to the > AttributeSource. Only in that case will captureState recompute the > state, otherwise it will simply clone the precomputed state and > return the clone. restoreState(AttributeSource.State) walks the > linked list and uses the copyTo() method of AttributeImpl to copy > all values over into the attribute that the source stream > (e.g. SinkTokenizer) uses. > The cloning performance can be greatly improved if not multiple > AttributeImpl instances are used in one TokenStream. A user can > e.g. simply add a Token instance to the stream instead of the individual > attributes. Or the user could implement a subclass of AttributeImpl that > implements exactly the Attribute interfaces needed. I think this > should be considered an expert API (addAttributeImpl), as this manual > optimization is only needed if cloning performance is crucial. I ran > some quick performance tests using Tee/Sink tokenizers (which do > cloning) and the performance was roughly 20% faster with the new > API. I'll run some more performance tests and post more numbers then. > Note also that when we add serialization to the Attributes, e.g. for > supporting storing serialized TokenStreams in the index, then the > serialization should benefit even significantly more from the new API > than cloning. > Also, the TokenStream API does not change, except for the removal > of the set/getUseNewAPI methods. So the patches in LUCENE-1460 > should still work. > All core tests pass, however, I need to update all the documentation > and also add some unit tests for the new AttributeSource > functionality. So this patch is not ready to commit yet, but I wanted > to post it already for some feedback. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Gov. Fallin Comments on Common Core Legislation
March 21, 2014
Release from Gov. Mary Fallin
Governor Mary Fallin today commented on plans by the Oklahoma Senate Education Committee to consider House Bill 3399 on Monday. The measure's intent is to provide for the development and adoption of new English and math standards and assessments while prohibiting the state Board of Education from entering into any contract or agreement with any federal agency or private entity that would cede or limit state control.
"As a state, we must continue to raise education standards and increase accountability in public schools. Nothing is more important to the long term success of our children, nor as essential to our ability to compete in a competitive global economy that demands a highly skilled, highly educated workforce," said Fallin.
"As we work to increase classroom rigor and raise the academic bar in our schools, I have been clear that Oklahoma must take the lead in developing and implementing our own standards and assessments. To protect the principle of local control, and to resist federal overreach from Washington and the Obama administration, I signed last year an executive order outlining Oklahoma's independence in implementing higher standards and student assessments.
"Since then, I have listened to growing concerns from parents across the state concerning Common Core, the standards currently in the process of being implemented. In light of these concerns, I have worked directly with our legislators to accomplish the goals of increasing classroom rigor and accountability while guaranteeing that Oklahoma public education is protected from federal interference. My hope is that House Bill 3399, which is soon to be heard by the Senate Education Committee, will accomplish these goals. If it does so, without creating unintended consequences that would hamstring educators or invite more federal influence in education, it will have my support."


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Hello guys,
I am a Dallas based actor/improviser who is planning to move to Roundrock next fall.
I've taken classes at the Dallas Comedy House, Four day weekend and currently I'm in a student troupe at Alternative Comedy Theater!
I'm planning to study at the Institution and Coldtowne:)
I am in the love with your guys scene after attending OOB in '13 and seeing the local PBS doc
I'm wondering if anyone knows what the job scene in Austin in Roundrock for Admin Assistants or any kind of entry level consulting or film editing positions.
And what the housing (Studio or shared apartments with clean, no druggies and no crazies roommates are ideal.)
Any help would be great!
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It's That Time of Year Again — The Erie County Fair is Here!
The Erie County Fair is a staple of life in Western New York. It's the third-largest county fair in the nation; last year, the Fair drew a crowd of over one million people.
This year, we're sure it'll be more of the same. Oh, sure, you have to do a lot of walking in August heat — but after polishing off a full piece of fried dough (or fried Oreos, fried butter or fried anything else), a little exercise will do you good!
Check out the video below for a little taste of the Erie County Fair's 2012 opening day. The Fair runs until Sunday, August 19. Drop by our booth in Slade Park and say hi!


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What are Vibram FiveFingers and other Minimalist Shoes fans doing "almost barefoot?" Everything.
Vibram FiveFingers and barefoot or minimalist shoes enthusiasts are doing just about everything under the sun while being just a little bit closer to barefoot. From running any race out there (5Ks to 100 mile ultramarathons), to working out, playing, going to work, hang-gliding, sky-diving, or even playing golf.
Part of the mission here at BirthdayShoes has been to document these fan experiences in the words and photos of the wearers of toe shoes, minimalist shoes, or barefoot shoes (or whatever you call these things) — if you've got some great photos of you doing what you do in your Vibram FiveFingers, NB Minimus, huaraches, VIVO BAREFOOTS, or whatever, consider sending them in (learn more) and sharing with the community!
Below you'll find pages and pages of Vibram Five Fingers user photos and stories that display just what you can do when almost-barefoot as with everyone's favorite five-toed shoes. If you want to see the posts below listed out by model, check out the comprehensive list of Vibram Five Fingers fan photo stories here.


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They may not be a household name on a global scale yet, but in their native Thailand, Cadson Demak are a high-profile typographic consultancy. Clients they've designed custom Thai faces for include Wallpaper*, Federbräu Beer and Nokia. They recently had a big hit on MyFonts with Kondolar, designed by the studio's team member Ekaluck Peanpanawate. Their collection of well-made yet affordable fonts — small but versatile text families as well as witty icons — is growing. This interview is a double bill: for our conversation with Ekaluck, scroll down. First we're giving the floor to Cadson Demak's co-founder Anuthin Wongsunkakon. A warm welcome to our men in Bangkok.
Anuthin, you are based in Bangkok, but received part of your design education in New York. Could you tell us a little more about your background?
During my undergraduate years in Thailand, I experienced a transition from pre-computer to computer-based, or more precisely Macintosh-based, design. Technology was evolving, even though it was quite slow when compared to the West, and living in this development phase allowed me to benefit from both sides of the design process. Nevertheless, I already owned a Mac at the time so it wasn't difficult for me to work with this emerging tool.
The newer generations of designers might not be able to imagine how amazing it was to actually leap forward from the pre-computer era. The availability of font menus can even be considered a revolution in typography in the 1980s, and that change certainly fascinated me. Additionally, studying in the US broadened my perspective on design and I began to see it more as a culture.
Having worked within the graphic cultures of both Thailand and the United States, what are the main differences when it comes to the day-to-day working environment?
At Cadson Demak, we tend to work quite swiftly, taking advantage of modern technology and the internet. Other companies in Bangkok are also starting to do the same, especially the smaller ones, since their size allows them to adapt to these changes more easily. In the US, this is nothing extraordinary. In Thailand, however, working and communicating online is not entirely common yet. We still need to talk face to face and attend all those unnecessary meetings. Anyway, I don't think it's something permanent. It's just that our work culture evolves at a pretty sluggish pace.
The Thai language has a beautiful script of its own, which dates back to the 13th century. In your practice as graphic designers, do you work with both Thai and Latin scripts simultaneously? Does Thai have special requirements or difficulties?
We actually use both Thai and English on a daily basis, sometimes because it's a requirement of the project. We tend, however, to promote the use of Thai in lettering whenever possible. For me it comes naturally, but many Thai designers find it difficult to use Thai type. Many believe that it's harder to make things beautiful using Thai alphabets. It's an odd belief but it's still present in our design community. One of the reasons may be that changes in international design trends don't align with the local ones, and that includes typography. It's getting better, though. Now the problem basically lies with the act of using Thai typefaces and not the lack of fonts.
In fact, you'd be astonished at how seamlessly modern Thai letterforms blend with the international layout style. I think for many foreigners, Thai alphabets still give them the impression of those old traditional scripts, but we have gone past that. Our ability to comprehend new and more simplified letterforms has improved. Thus, new typefaces are more responsive to global design trends than some would expect.
Sharp and assertive, Amino is a great tool for packaging and signage designs as well as editorial work, while its character is comfortably softened by its rounded detailing. Available in two weights and an italic, Amino's bold will bring a marked contrast to screen layouts, where it would make an interesting companion for the standard system fonts.
After all the modern, international-style sans serifs that comprise the bulk of Cadson Demak's library, the serifed Bangkokean is like arriving in a remote country and finding your favorite daily newspaper it's an unexpected but welcome touch point with more familiar territory. Which is not to say that Bangkokean is only old world traditionalism; its finely engineered lines and ample x-height mark this as a product of the screen age as much as its sharp contrast has its origins in a more classical era.
How would you describe your attitude to type design, especially when it come to making Latin faces?
Many Thai typographers perceive Thai and Latin alphabets as two entirely different forms. I tend to see them as part of the same landscape. Perhaps it's because I started learning typography with Latin alphabets and later on worked with Thai the way I understood it, not how it was traditionally taught. It gave me an alternative way of approaching it as well as solving the problem of bringing Thai alphabets into contemporary design styles. As a result, Cadson Demak's fonts usually have similar structures to Latin letterforms. Now, whenever I turn back to design a Latin typeface, there are often some Thai essences that come along with it. When you don't distinguish between the two alphabets, you are likely to see things differently.
You have done a lot of custom typefaces for Thai editions of international magazines and media, from Wallpaper* and Arena to MTV and Men's Health. Is this common in Thailand? What's the process like when you translate a magazine's 'look' into a language and culture that is so typographically different?
A decade ago, custom typefaces were just toddlers in the Thai design and business industries. For me though, it wasn't that they were new but more like forgotten and rediscovered. We used to have custom typeface projects in design school, but that has somehow been lost, both in education and business. The lack of demand from businesses and the lack of promotion from typographers and foundries may also have cut their growth short, and instead of collaborating, type designers work individually, slowing down the development of our type industry as a whole. The consequence? Designers, and design itself, got stuck with just a few good typefaces. That's why talking about custom fonts now seems like a brand new concept.
Localizing the brand, whether it's communication design or typography, requires a rather competent art director. Although we work with type, this kind of process demands more than just designing fonts. We have to assist with translating the original typographic direction of the brand into a local one. Just having a font is seldom enough.
On a side note, we have actually designed custom Thai typefaces for many other international brands such as Nokia, Tesco-Lotus, and Telenor/dtac.
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Published by T–26, Anuthin Wongsunkakon's Coupe has been one of his most successful fonts for years. The four-weight Option Sans is a drastic reworking of that earlier typeface, in the process becoming a more human, legible text face than its squarer predecessor.
A commissioned reworking of the earlier Carbon (like Coupe, published by T26), CarbonPlus updates the original's OCR stylings with the addition of light and bold weights to the existing regular, making it into a solidly usable font for both web and print.
In some of your custom work you have worked with Christian Schwartz. How did this collaboration come about? Do you still work together occasionally?
As a matter of fact, we were introduced to each other by Cyrus Highsmith 15 years ago and continue to remain friends. It was only when Wallpaper* (Thai Edition) needed a Thai version of Amplitude that we got to collaborate. We also worked together on a font called Reform for Psy/Ops. He pretty much suggested and directed on how the italic of Reform should be. Recently, our collaborative activity has been more in the vein of last year's BITS (Bangkok International Typographic Symposium), which Cadson Demak organized in association with Alliance Française, Goethe Institut, and Japan Foundation.
You published a number of fonts with T-26, then began publishing fonts yourself. What made you switch to that model?
When you are just starting out, you have to begin somewhere. T-26, with all their great designers, gave us that opportunity. But it's not like we ever actually switched to a new model. In addition to T-26, we have worked with Psy/Ops and TypeTrust for many years now. So I think it's a matter of what fonts we have and in what way they should be managed, and not about setting up a common model for everything.
Cadson Demak was established to satisfy a group of graphic designers who wanted to do product design. It's a long story, so just consider it history. Today, we design types and that is what we are known for, both internationally and locally.
Among the T-26 fonts, there are quite a few dingbat and icon fonts, all very simplified, some on pixel grids. Did you make them for a specific purpose? Do you still find them interesting?
Our pi fonts usually have a story behind them. It may be sarcastic or something that requires a little tangential thinking, like Symbloc. This little set of icons should be credited to our designer Supisa Wattanasansanee who was mainly responsible for the project. Occasionally, we just create them as auxiliary graphics for our work, but sometimes we get carried away.
You've also worked with another successful young foundry, TypeTrust. Could you say something about that collaboration?
Both Neil Summerour and Silas Dilworth are exceptional type designers. When you get to work with them, you know how much effort they put into their designs, trying their best to push on to the next level. I knew them from before TypeTrust was founded, so collaborating isn't something new for me. Moreover, we are usually on the same page.
You've seen your fonts used by major media, both in North America and your home country. Does it still excite you to encounter your fonts in use? What real-life uses are you most proud of?
Naturally, whenever we see our fonts put to good use, we are excited. From time to time, we are even amazed by how graphic designers adapt it for their designs. Frankly speaking, being a type designer might cause my outlook to be narrower in some situations.
In Thailand, Cadson Demak's typefaces can be seen in numerous brands, whether they are our two leading mobile service providers, national institutions (CAT - Communication Authority of Thailand), discount stores, food products and restaurants, alcoholic beverages (Chang), and whiskies (Mekong). However, the one thing that we are most proud of is seeing our types being accepted by the design community in Thailand. Last year, Computer Arts (Thai Edition) placed us among the most influential designers/firms of the decade.
When Dutch designer Donald Beekman visited Thailand about ten years ago, he took dozens of photos of election posters, in which all the candidates were shown in colorful military attire. It was explained to him that these people weren't soldiers, but lawyers, professors, businessmen — that the uniforms simply appealed to the Thai sense of decorum. Is it still like that now, and does this love of decorum transpire into design?
I believe the answer he got was only partially correct. Some of the candidates are former government officials and their uniforms are quite similar to military attire. Or some might have previously been elected as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives, and they might wear their formal uniform, which also shares several common features with military wear. This attire signifies experience, that's why they are so popular among the candidates.
Actually, this is not the first time someone has approached me with a question like this. Max Kisman asked me the same thing before. Election posters here are really loud and when a person screams, the other screams more noisily. This approach to design is also evident in commercial districts and even the local bookstores. It's true that most Thai people cannot distinguish between design and decoration. Or you can just look at it as design from another set of values.
Clean, contemporary sans serif fonts with small understated details and touches of Asian script are clearly Cadson Demak's modus operandi. A cursory glance over Enzyme's pleasingly curvy glyphs would reveal nothing too far from this philosophy, but the occasional unexpected tail tells a story of a designer raised in a more elaborate culture.
PalPack & PawPack
It's not hard to see how the designers at Cadson might carried away creating these sets of characters, icons, creatures and many others there must be something compulsive in the repetitive making of such simple, unified yet endlessly variable shapes.
Keystone State
Keystone State is one of Anuthin's early fonts published at T-26. Inspired by license plates, the font (and its little brother, Keystone State Relative) has several cheeky details to give a page of text a subtle grunge look: rounded stroke endings, a certain unsharpness, minuscule slab serifs, and those missing dots on i and j.
Ekaluck Peanpanawate worked for several advertising agencies and independent graphic designers before joining the Cadson Demak design team in 2006. Like Anuthin, he is a faculty member and teacher of Typography and Communication Design at Bangkok University. Ekaluck's Kondolar has been very successful at MyFonts these past two months — and there is more where that came from.
Ekaluck, unlike Anuthin you have never studied or worked abroad. How did you develop your feeling for Latin letterforms? Who are your examples?
In Thai schools, English is taught as a second language even though we don't use it on a daily basis, so the Latin alphabet is pretty common for us. Moreover, in design schools, typography courses, and the design community, the use of English type is considered normal. Being so ubiquitous, I don't see it as any more difficult to approach than Thai. By the way, please note that this conclusion does not mean we Thai can use English flawlessly.
As a teacher of typography, I have to constantly study and be interested in its history. When my students learn classification, they have to draw the types of each class, and I have to illustrate them with good examples, both old and new. Sometimes, I have to make sketches in class to critique and communicate with them. So basically, I tend to see type as type itself, and less as type from a designer.
Nevertheless, I have a long list of typographers whom I appreciate, but only because I'm intrigued by their typefaces, and not because of who they are. Just to name a few: Erik Spiekermann, Adrian Frutiger, Matthew Carter, Christian Schwartz, Jean François Porchez.
When designing a Latin font such as Kondolar, which has some rather unusual solutions, were you influenced by Thai letterforms at all?
I'm not exactly sure whether my solutions are that unusual. I feel they appear that way because it's most appropriate. Perhaps it's because whenever I design a contemporary Thai font, it's usually based on Latin letterforms. This approach of basing one language on another might also be present in Kondolar. A couple of characters really emerged from how I draw Thai letters so it might be different from how others approach their design. Since I have been designing type for many years now, I would say these solutions come naturally without having to think about them.
Do you look at specific models? For instance, was the Aachen typeface something you were balancing your design against when making Kondolar?
When we design, we often base it on something while trying to find a new and different solution. As for Kondolar, it can be traced back to Kridpages, also a font of mine. I took its modular characteristics and combined it with features that I thought would make it more readable.
I basically found those in DIN's geometric capsule-like forms. While drafting it out, I continued to recheck its readability. In the final stages, some humanist features were added to make it more unique.
In fonts and lettering, which are the cultures and styles you are most inspired by?
Personally, Japanese culture appeals to me. I love its minimalism and calligraphy; the contradiction between quiet, Zen-like graphics and the city; the space; the explosiveness of emotion at the tip of the paintbrush; manga characters and otaku. They all unite together as one.
For Western design, I'm pretty much similar to other Thai designers in terms of absorbing the culture through the Internet, award-winning projects, and other media. I may have to know more than a typical designer because, as a teacher, it's my job to know the history of typography, and most of it came from the West. There may be times when I am intrigued by certain designs of the past but all in all, I don't think it has inspired me that much.
Outside typography, what feeds your work as a designer? Music, gaming, sports, street art, film/video?
I love all kinds of movies except horror. I love to read all those imaginative and story-rich manga. And I'm addicted to Japanese TV series. I'm fascinated by the way they promote the values of the characters and their professions. In each series, the protagonist must have a profession and the story doesn't revolve around him/her fighting a villain but rather the struggle against himself/herself, both in life and work. I believe it raises some issues worth thinking about. Nevertheless, it doesn't mean I'm crazy about everything Japanese. I see Japanese culture as a Thai, and I appreciate it from an easygoing and carefree Thai perspective.
Thank you very much, Anuthin and Ekaluck, for your insights!
It's easy to let Kondolar's occasional swooping descender trip you up, but that shouldn't distract from what is essentially an uncomplicated, multi-purpose text-and-display slab serif. The four styles (three weights and an italic) will suit most display contexts, while there are a few under-reported variations, particularly in the numerals. And although those extended Ks, Qs and Rs may seem an unexpected detail, considered along with the discretionary ligatures, they make perfect sense for display contexts where their flourish adds a dash of adventure to the workman-like slab serifs.
Ekaluck's source for Kondolar was an earlier font of his called Kridpages, and while there is clearly a relationship between the two in their shared slab aesthetic, both fonts really have their own destiny — with Kridpages finding several niches to call its own in the worlds of editorial, packaging and branding in particular.
Knight Sans
With a rounder overall character than some of Cadson Demak's other sans faces, Knight Sans would be a good candidate for public facing corporate publications and websites, where it holds up well as a varied, extensive text face possessed of enough character and individuality to escape bland conformity.
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Creative Characters is the MyFonts newsletter dedicated to people behind the fonts. Each month, we interview a notable personality from the type world. And we would like you, the reader, to have your say.
Which creative character would you interview if you had the chance? And what would you ask them? Let us know, and your choice may end up in a future edition of this newsletter! Just send an email with your ideas to [email protected].
In the past, we've interviewed the likes of Michael Doret, Laura Worthington, Jonathan Barnbrook, Rob Leuschke, David Berlow, Ronna Penner and Jos Buivenga. If you're curious to know which other type designers we've already interviewed as part of past Creative Characters newsletters, have a look at the archive.
This newsletter was edited by Jan Middendorp and designed using Nick Sherman's original template, with specimens and type desciptions by Anthony Noel.
The Creative Characters nameplate is set in Amplitude and Farnham; the intro image features CarbonPlus, Kondolar and Knight Sans Italic; the pull-quote is set in Option Sans Light; and the large question mark is in Farnham.
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As Promised, Here's Yahoo's 8-K to the SEC About the Microsoft Deal: The Full Document!
As BoomTown promised earlier today, here's the first of many filings related to the Yahoo-Microsoft online search and advertising deal announced last week.
The 8-K filing was made with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Yahoo.
Some highlights, although most of them are not that new:
* No termination fee.
* There is a $50 million annual payment to Yahoo (YHOO) by Microsoft (MSFT) for three years, for unspecified "transition and implementation costs" beyond the agreement.
(Personally, I think it's for extra Advil needed for the headaches engendered organizing this circus.)
* At least 400 Yahoo employees will be hired by Microsoft, which will also provide funds for retention packages to keep 150 more Yahoos motivated during the transition.
* The "Definitive Agreement" between the Silicon Valley company and the Redmond, Wash., software giant needs to be sketched out by October 27, 2009.
But why don't you read all the niggling details yourself, including about Google (GOOG), below (I stripped away only minor SEC legalese and fill-in-the-blank details):
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Binding Letter Agreement–General Terms
On July 29, 2009, Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Yahoo!"), and Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation ("Microsoft"), entered into a binding letter agreement (the "Letter Agreement"), pursuant to which the parties will negotiate and execute a Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and a License Agreement (the "Definitive Agreements"), each reflecting and supplementing the provisions of such Definitive Agreements as set forth in annexes to the Letter Agreement, the material provisions of which are summarized below.
Negotiation and Execution of the Definitive Agreements
Pursuant to the terms of the Letter Agreement, the parties will negotiate and execute the Definitive Agreements as soon as practicable but in any event by October 27, 2009 (the "Negotiation Period"). If the Definitive Agreements are not executed during the Negotiation Period, the parties will submit any disputes regarding the final terms of the Definitive Agreements to an arbitration panel. The arbitration panel will render its decision based upon the terms of the Letter Agreement, the nature of the commercial relationship to be created thereunder, and the submissions and presentations of the parties at a hearing conducted by the arbitration panel. The arbitration panel will render a decision by choosing the final proposed contractual language of either Microsoft or Yahoo! without modification, subject to a final review process to resolve any potential inconsistencies. The decision of the arbitration panel will be binding on the parties, and the parties agree to execute Definitive Agreements as determined by the arbitration panel within three (3) days of the receipt of the arbitration panel's final decision.
Regulatory Review
Microsoft and Yahoo! agree to use their respective best efforts to cooperate in connection with all necessary regulatory filings. In addition, as soon as practicable after July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! will make all filings required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 as amended (the "HSR Act") and by any applicable foreign antitrust laws. Microsoft further agrees to use its best efforts to obtain any consents, clearances or approvals required under or in connection with the HSR Act or any other applicable antitrust law, including offering, negotiating or committing to any restrictions on the activities of Microsoft and its subsidiaries in search and paid search and contesting and defending any threatened or pending litigation, investigation or proceeding under applicable antitrust laws.
Conditions to Commencement and Termination Prior to Commencement
The obligations of each party to commence performance of their obligations under the Definitive Agreements (the "Commencement Date") are only subject to (a) termination or expiration of the HSR Act waiting period and receipt of certain required foreign antitrust approvals and (b) the accuracy of the party's representations and warranties in the Letter Agreement as of the time immediately prior to the Commencement Date and performance by the other party of its obligations required to be performed by it in connection with the Letter Agreement and the Definitive Agreements at or prior to the Commencement Date, except where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and accurate or the failure of such performance would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect with respect to such party.
Prior to the Commencement Date, the Letter Agreement and Definitive Agreements may be terminated only by (a) mutual consent, (b) if a breach renders a condition incapable of being satisfied by the Termination Date (as defined below), or (c) if the conditions to commencement have not been satisfied by July 29, 2010 (the "Termination Date"); provided that Yahoo!, in its sole discretion, has the right to extend the Termination Date by six (6) months if the required antitrust approvals have not yet been obtained.
Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement
Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, the parties have agreed to enter into a global Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement ("Search Agreement"), which will include, among other provisions, the terms summarized below.
General Services
For a period of ten (10) years beginning on the Commencement Date (the "Term"), Microsoft will be Yahoo!'s exclusive technology provider for algorithmic and paid search services and Microsoft will provide contextual advertising to Yahoo! on a non-exclusive basis. Yahoo! will be the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for Yahoo!'s and Microsoft's premium search advertisers.
The services provided by Microsoft under the Search Agreement will be provided on all web sites, applications and other online digital properties owned or operated by or on behalf of (a) Yahoo!, Yahoo! subsidiaries and Yahoo! joint venture relationships, as well as on software applications developed or distributed by Yahoo! or Yahoo! subsidiaries that provide access to or enable algorithmic search services or paid search services ("Yahoo! Properties") and (b) Yahoo! Syndication Partners (as defined below), as well as software applications developed or distributed by Yahoo!'s Syndication Partners that provide access to or enable algorithmic search services or paid search services from Yahoo! ("Syndication Properties"). "Syndication Partner" means a third party with whom Yahoo! has contracted to provide algorithmic search services or paid search services.
Subject to certain specified restrictions, Yahoo! will have full flexibility with respect to the user experience, content and look and feel on all of its web pages, and will also be entitled to use the paid search services and algorithmic search services for non-internet search queries with minimal restriction.
The scope of the services to be provided by Microsoft under the Search Agreement are limited to web sites, applications and other online digital properties designed for use and consumption on personal computers. In addition, Yahoo! may at its option elect to receive Microsoft's mapping services and mobile search services. Yahoo! may implement each of the mapping services and the mobile search services on a non-exclusive or an exclusive basis. Yahoo! also has the option to work with Microsoft to implement the services on other platforms. If Yahoo! elects to receive services for other platforms, it must receive such services on an exclusive basis.
Revenue Share Payments and Other Payments
During the first five years of the Term, Yahoo! will be entitled to receive 88% of the net revenues generated from Microsoft's services on Yahoo! Properties (the "Revenue Share Rate"). Yahoo! will also be entitled to receive its share (at the Revenue Share Rate) of the net revenues generated on Syndication Properties after the Syndication Partner's share of net revenues is deducted. For new Syndication Properties during the Term, and for all Syndication Properties after the first five years of the Term, Yahoo! will receive its share (at the Revenue Share Rate) of the net revenues generated from Microsoft's services on Syndication Properties after the Syndication Partner's share of net revenues and certain Microsoft costs are deducted.
On the fifth anniversary of the Commencement Date, Microsoft will have the option to terminate Yahoo!'s sales exclusivity for premium search advertisers. If Microsoft exercises its option, the Revenue Share Rate will increase to 93% for the remainder of the Term, unless Yahoo! exercises its option to retain its sales exclusivity, in which case the Revenue Share Rate would be reduced to 83% for the remainder of the Term. If Microsoft does not exercise such option, the Revenue Share Rate will be 90% for the remainder of the Term.
Microsoft will also pay Yahoo! a payment of $50 million annually during the first three (3) years of the Search Agreement. Yahoo! may use these payments to partially cover transition and implementation costs not otherwise covered under the Search Agreement.
Microsoft will provide in each country an 18-month guarantee for the gross revenue per search (the "RPS") for Yahoo! Properties. The guarantee will be based on the RPS average for the trailing 12-month period prior to the initial implementation of paid search services in such country.
Termination Provisions
In addition to the termination rights described in the Letter Agreement above, the Search Agreement may only be terminated as follows (each, a "Termination Event"): (a) either party may terminate upon repeated material breaches of material provisions of the Search Agreement such that it is unlikely that the breaching party is willing or able to continue to perform its obligations under the Search Agreement without continuing to materially breach it; (b) Yahoo! may terminate if Microsoft attempts to exit the business of algorithmic search or search monetization, either by ceasing to offer the services or by selling or attempting to sell all or substantially all of either its algorithmic search services business or paid search services business to an unaffiliated third party; (c) Yahoo! may terminate the Search Agreement if the trailing 12-month average of the RPS in the United States (the "U.S. RPS") of Yahoo! and Microsoft's combined queries falls below a specified percentage of Google Inc.'s ("Google") estimated RPS measured on a comparable basis or if the combined Yahoo! and Microsoft query market share in the United States falls below a specified percentage; (d) on the fifth anniversary of the Search Agreement, and any time thereafter, Yahoo! has the right to terminate the Search Agreement if the trailing 12-month average of Yahoo!'s U.S. RPS is less than a specified percentage of Google's estimated RPS; or (e) subject to exceptions, either party may terminate if a law, regulation or order would have a significant, adverse impact on a primary aspect of such party's intended benefit of the Search Agreement.
If a Termination Event occurs in the United States, the entire Search Agreement may be terminated. If a Termination Event does not occur in the United States a party's termination right is limited to the specific country or countries in which the event occurs.
If Microsoft proposes or attempts to sell all or substantially all of either its algorithmic search services business or paid search services business to an unaffiliated third party, Yahoo! will have a right of first refusal and right of last offer to purchase such businesses.
Service Level Agreements
The Search Agreement will provide (a) for service parity under which applicable application programming interfaces ("Microsoft API") will be made available to Yahoo! at full parity with that which is made available to Microsoft's internal teams; (b) for ranking and content parity under which Microsoft will provide the same algorithmic and paid search results in the same order as would be provided in response to the same inputs on web sites that are owned or operated by or for Microsoft, its subsidiaries and its joint venture relationships ("Microsoft O&O Properties") in a particular country, including any content that is included in Microsoft's algorithmic index; (c) for prioritization parity, under which Yahoo! will have full visibility into Microsoft product roadmap and parity with Microsoft's internal teams in the product update prioritization process; and (d) for advertising parity under which neither party will allow advertisers to designate paid listings from Microsoft's paid search or encourage advertisers to designate paid listings from Microsoft's contextual advertising services to be displayed exclusively on Microsoft's or Yahoo!'s respective results web pages. Furthermore, Microsoft will not treat Yahoo! or Yahoo!'s Syndication Partners less favorably than Microsoft and Microsoft's partners in connection with its delivery and operation of the services.
Microsoft will optimize the delivery of paid listings by evaluating performance across all Microsoft O&O Properties and the Yahoo! Properties. The paid listings provided by Microsoft for Yahoo! will be optimized at parity with Microsoft's optimization for Microsoft O&O Properties. Yahoo! may further optimize based on its own desired implementation.
Yahoo! may, at its option, elect to have Microsoft deliver the algorithmic search services and paid search services through a search results page hosted by Microsoft (the "White Label Solution") on a country by country basis (if the United States is also a White Label Solution country), instead of through the Microsoft API. The White Label Solution will be in all material respects the same as Microsoft's search results pages. Yahoo! may substitute Yahoo! applications or services for Microsoft applications or services within the White Label Solution.
Data Provisions
Microsoft will provide Yahoo! all data it collects as a result of its implementation of the services on Yahoo! Properties and Syndication Properties and, subject to Yahoo!'s privacy policies and applicable law, Yahoo! may use such data without contractual restriction in connection with its businesses. Microsoft will also use commercially reasonable efforts to enable Yahoo! and its Syndication Partners to obtain any other data that Yahoo! currently collects with respect to its own algorithmic search services and paid search services. Microsoft may obtain and use the data it collects as a result of its implementation of the services (including any derivative information that results from this data) only for the purpose of operating and enhancing the services and not for other Microsoft products and services.
Transition and Implementation Plan
As promptly as practicable, Yahoo! and Microsoft will agree on a detailed transition and implementation plan and schedule for implementing Microsoft's algorithmic search services and paid search services on all Yahoo! Properties and Syndication Properties. The transition and implementation plan will be for a period of no longer than 24 months from the Commencement Date, subject to an extension for up to three additional months if the end of the 24-month period ends during the fourth quarter of a calendar year. The parties intend that the transition and implementation plan will be either set forth in a separate transition services agreement or as part of the Search Agreement.
Following the Commencement Date, Microsoft will hire not less than 400 Yahoo! employees (the "Transferred Employees") and will offer the Transferred Employees market competitive compensation packages. In addition, Yahoo! and Microsoft will mutually agree on a retention plan to be paid for by Microsoft to assist in retaining the Transferred Employees and an additional 150 Yahoo! employees to be mutually agreed upon between Microsoft and Yahoo! to assist with providing the transition services.
License Agreement
Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, the parties have agreed to enter into a License Agreement (the "License Agreement"), which will include, among other provisions, the terms summarized below.
Exclusive Technology License
During the Term (as defined in the summary of the Search Agreement above), Yahoo! will grant to Microsoft a worldwide license (the "Technology License") under copyrights and trade secrets relating to specified Yahoo! algorithmic and paid search technology for Microsoft to use in connection with providing specified algorithmic search, paid search and contextual advertising services (the "Field of Use"). The Technology License will be exclusive (even as to Yahoo!) as to certain algorithmic search and paid search services in the Field of Use. Upon termination or expiration of the Search Agreement, the Technology License will remain in effect but will become non-exclusive.
Limited Non-Exclusive Patent Cross License
During the Term, Yahoo! will grant to Microsoft a worldwide, non-exclusive limited patent license solely for Microsoft to provide services in the Field of Use to Yahoo!; and Microsoft will grant to Yahoo! a worldwide, non-exclusive limited patent license for Yahoo! to use and implement the services provided by Microsoft, as contemplated by the Search Agreement (the "Limited Patent Cross License"). The Limited Patent Cross License terminates upon the termination of the Search Agreement.
Patent License Option
Microsoft will also have an option to obtain from Yahoo! a worldwide, non-exclusive license under Yahoo!'s patents for Microsoft to provide online services in the Field of Use both with Microsoft's owned and operated websites and to third parties ("Patent License"). The option will expire upon the earlier of July 29, 2011 and the date six (6) months following the Commencement Date. Should Microsoft exercise its option to obtain the Patent License, Microsoft will pay for such Patent License at a specified discount from fair market value. Such Patent License will also terminate upon termination of the Search Agreement.
Yahoo! may terminate the Patent License if Microsoft files an infringement action against Yahoo!, Yahoo! subsidiaries or Yahoo! joint venture relationships. Termination of the Patent License does not affect Microsoft's obligations under the Search Agreement.
Assignment and Transfer
Microsoft may not assign the License Agreement without Yahoo!'s permission. Assignment or transfer of the licensed technology will be subject to the licenses. Neither party is prevented or restricted from licensing, selling or otherwise disposing of any of its patent assets, and Microsoft's option to obtain the Patent License will not apply to any patents sold or otherwise disposed of by Yahoo! prior to the exercise of the option.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
YAHOO! INC. (Registrant)
By: /s/ Michael J. Callahan
Name: Michael J. Callahan
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Date: August 4, 2009


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