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SHANGHAI -- A tall Chinese model draped herself over a cobalt blue Chevrolet Cruze. Two finalists in a popular TV singing contest, "The Voice of China," belted out songs for Buick. And the night before, the designer of a GM Riviera concept car talked of drawing inspiration from water spirits and the color of Chinese jade.
This was the kickoff for General Motors' portion of this week's Shanghai auto show, the biggest, most extravagant expo of its kind in the world. Throngs of Chinese consumers and dealers have been packing the Pudong exhibition center's 17 cavernous halls, each nearly as big as the National Air and Space Museum, where they ogled about 1,300 cars.
"In North America, it's all about the product. Here, it's more about glitz and glamour," said Tim Lee, president of international operations for GM.
The stakes are huge. China is the fastest-growing, biggest new-car market in the world, with 19.4 million vehicles sold last year, easily outstripping sales in the United States. And that means that the future of GM, and virtually every other major automaker, lies here, where consumers are retracing U.S. patterns from the 1960s through today. The competition is fierce, with GM and Volkswagen vying for the title of most popular car company, while automakers such as Hyundai, Chinese giant Geely and high-end Maserati take aim, too.
Although a slowing of Chinese economic growth could cool the market here, automobile sales are up 10 percent this year, and analysts say they could hit 30 million annually in a decade or so -- which was the size of the global auto market in 1970.
That's good news for the industry, but the boom in sales also carries some perils for Chinese modernization: China's cities are choked with traffic and pollution, and car exhaust accounts for the most lethal small particles in the air. Increased car ownership is driving up gasoline demand at double-digit rates, boosting China's oil consumption to about 10 million barrels a day, most of it costly imported crude.
The government has offered incentives for buying smaller cars and has imposed registration restrictions in four major cities. Shanghai started auctioning new license plates, and the price hit $14,480 in March, according to China Automotive Review.
Yet despite those barriers to ownership, car sales keep surging as people's incomes rise. The Chinese want more cars -- and bigger ones at that. Sales of sport-utility vehicles are "white-hot," said one auto executive, and the consulting firm McKinsey says they will triple to 5 million a year by 2020. GM offers five SUVs in China but will introduce nine new or refreshed SUV models within five years, said Bob Socia, president of GM China. That will drive the need for more capacity and four new plants.
"In China . . . a bigger car is a message -- and a positive message -- about my own success and my own family's success, which is rather in line with what we see in the U.S.," said Axel Krieger, managing partner of McKinsey's Greater China automotive practice.
Companies are trying to cater to those tastes. GM has pushed the "passion for dreams" theme for Buick and "Be Dramatic" for a new Cadillac campaign. China's BYD, the lithium ion battery and conventional-car maker in which Warren Buffett is an investor, has a "build your dream" slogan. Mercedes-Benz appealed to national pride, promoting a line of vehicles that an executive declared were "made in China, for China."
Although China's per capita income is less than $6,000, even luxury car makers are vying for a piece of the action. McKinsey says China could pass the United States in 2016 and Europe in 2020 as the world's largest luxury car market.
"In China, if you have money, you sit in the back seat and have a driver," said Ulrich Bez, chief executive of Aston Martin, which has 14 dealerships in China and sold about 250 cars last year for about $200,000 or more each. "To sit and drive yourself is new, to experience mobility and speed and dynamics." Although urban congestion keeps traffic slow, the company is promoting its four-door Rapide S, which can go about 190 miles per hour. The recommended price: about $575,000.
Socia said GM would introduce one locally made Cadillac model a year through 2016, with the average buyer 10 years younger than the U.S. luxury car buyer.
With China's huge appetite for new brands, big U.S. automakers are being pulled in a direction opposite to where they were headed just four years ago. In 2009, when GM went bankrupt and the fortunes of other car companies plummeted, many U.S. analysts put part of the blame on inefficiencies caused by having too many brands. The Treasury Department, after pouring money into GM, urged the company to kill its weakest brands, including Buick.
But in China, Buick has a long history and an appeal to modern consumers, and GM argued successfully to keep it. Now, it's one of the three best-selling makes here, after VW and Hyundai. It's just one of seven GM brands, counting the company's Chinese partners, giving the carmaker about 15 percent of the overall market.
Each nameplate appeals to a different niche: Cadillac is aiming for the luxury buyers, Buick for the young middle-class consumer, and Baojun for the low-end market where Chinese firms sell cars, including one called the Panda, for as little as $6,000.
On Sunday, the show was teeming with those consumers, amid blaring music and flashing giant video screens. Many of the people, who paid $16 each and waited in long lines to get in, were young couples. Sophia Yu, who works in the service department of China Merchants Bank, and her husband, Zhen Ning, an airline employee, were looking for a car to replace their seven-year-old blue Buick Excelle.
Noting that they have a 3-year-old child, Yu said she likes the safety features of their Buick and is eyeing the new Buick Regal. Zhen said he likes all sorts of American products and would be willing to try a Ford. She likes blue; he likes red. He drives to work; she takes public transport.
What to do with the old car? They plan to sell it rather than give it to a family member, because their retired parents don't know how to drive anyway. That decision reflects a new development in China, where there haven't been enough cars until now to develop a used-car market with predictable prices. Although GMAC and other finance firms are expanding here, Zhen and Yu plan to pay cash, the same as about 85 percent of Chinese car buyers.
Like VW and other major competitors here, GM has nearly doubled its dealership network since 2009, according to Richard Choi, the sales and marketing director.
For all the rapid growth, potential pitfalls remain for foreign companies, which must partner with local firms to manufacture in China. The government is still trying to shape the industry, pressing, for example, for more plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles.
Although hybrids would limit emissions, the electric-vehicle push will do little as long as coal-fired plants account for 75 percent of China's electricity. Indeed, recent studies suggest that with coal so dominant, electric vehicles might be worse from a climate perspective than gasoline-powered ones. Premium prices for electric vehicles also could hurt sales, as they have in the United States.
China's government is eager to promote national champions and has set a goal of boosting local firms' market share from 30 percent to 40 percent. But if anything, independent Chinese companies are losing market share, said Yale Zhang, managing director of Auto Foresight, with only Geely firmly in the top 10.
Then there are the knockoffs. In 2004, GM Daewoo Auto & Technology filed a lawsuit against Chery Automobile for violation of intellectual property rights. The two reached a settlement in 2005. But the exhibition this week still features cars that bear striking resemblance to one another. BYD is displaying cars that look a lot like the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla and the Toyota Aygo. Luxgen is showing a car that looks like a small Buick GL8. And the Roewe SUV resembles a BMW model. One international executive marveled at "the sheer audacity."
But one thing is certain: China's automobile market will remain the world's largest and, perhaps, its most competitive.
"Before, a car was a luxury thing, a dream for young people," Zhang said. "Now, it's not a Gucci, but it's not a necessity yet. It's in between. People still worship a car, but, at same time, you better have a competitive price."


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Stories of witches and witch-hunting in early modern Europe have captivated us for centuries. During the early modern period of European history, stretching from roughly 1450 to about 1750, about 100,000 people—most of them women—were tried for the crime of witchcraft. About half of these people were executed, in most cases by burning at the stake. But witchcraft is more than just a Halloween story–for the men and women involved it was a very real, very frightening aspect of daily life.
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When scientists make a discovery, they often get first dibs on how it should be named or referred to. Usually they'll—rather arrogantly—choose their own name, but not a team of researchers from Duke University: instead, they chose Lady Gaga's.
As a result, Lady Gaga now has 19 different species of a newly discovered fern genus to her name. Talking to the Guardian, the team of researchers justified their decision, explaining that it was inspired by the singer's outfit at the 2010 Grammy awards. She wore a heart-shaped Armani Primé outfit which was, apparently, reminiscent of—ahem—the bisexual reproductive stage of the new ferns.
There is, however, a deeper scientific link to be made, too, claim the scientists. Research leader Kathleen Pryer explained to the Guardian that, upon analyzing the ferns further, the team found the sequence "GAGA" among their DNA base pairs. Please, please nobody tell her that's not too big a deal given the lengths of DNA strands. I beg you. [Duke via Guardian]
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Belarusian Presidential Elections: A Disgraceful Conclusion (PERSPECTIVE)
By David R. Marples
The 2010 Belarusian presidential elections had been relatively peaceful prior to the day of voting. Ten candidates had gathered the requisite 100,000 signatures and had been allowed to campaign in relative freedom around the country. The tolerant nature of the campaign reflected President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's wish to assure the European Union that he was meeting the conditions for closer engagement and a promised substantial loan of around $3.9 billion.
On December 9, the situation changed after a surprise private meeting between Lukashenka and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. To that point in the campaign, Russia had been an angry critic of the Belarusian leader and his methods. A documentary on NTV called The Godfather, had described the kidnappings and elimination of his opponents in the past, and the two neighbors were at odds over a number of issues, including has prices, plans for the Customs Union, which also includes Kazakhstan, Lukashenka's refusal to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetiya, and others.
After the meeting, that impasse ended. Customs duties were removed from imported oil to Belarus and the danger of a massive increase in the price of Russian gas in 2011 ended. Lukashenka agreed to a common economic space, meaning that the Russian ruble will become the sole currency of the two states on January 1, 2012. Lukashenka could approach the coming election with new confidence in the knowledge that Russia would recognize it as free and fair. In brief, the need to satisfy the Europeans receded.
The consequences of this change in status quo were soon evident. The presidential agency EKOOM, which poses as a research institute conducting opinion polls, began to speak of a sweeping victory with about 80% of all votes cast for Lukashenka, a figure picked up quickly by supposedly responsible Western agencies. Other polls had suggested a more realistic figure was between 30 and 38%, with votes for the opposition totaling about one-third of those polled and the remaining one-third undecided.
Most of the nine opposition candidates had agreed to meet on October Square in Minsk at 8pm on December 19, when polls closed. The authorities turned the square into a skating rink with music blaring from speakers, and Uladzimir Makey, chairman of the presidential administration warned that a gathering on the square would face criminal proceedings. Two of the leading candidates, Uladzimir Nyaklayeu, a poet and leader of the 'Speak the Truth' campaign, and Andrey Sannikau, leader of European Belarus and a co-founder of Charter-97, were the main coordinators.
Prior to the vote, a third opposition candidate, economist Yaraslau Ramanchuk, announced that he had been approached to join the government after the election. He appeared noncommittal about the proposal. Vital Rymasheuski, candidate of the unofficial Christian Democratic Party, was also committed to action on the square.
On Sunday, the voting appeared to go smoothly, though observers noted a number of violations. About 25% of the voting had taken place early, with the encouragement of the government. Many factories pressured workers to vote for Lukashenka. The subsequent events are only now being pieced together with the assistance of reports from Minsk, mobile phone videos, and reports from foreign news services. My comments represent an attempt to put these together.
The number of protesters at October Square gradually increased. At some point, a decision was made to march to Independence Square, a distance of about one mile down the main street of Minsk. The latter square houses the parliament building, which serves as the headquarters of the Central Election Commission (CEC). Nyaklayeu did not get that far. En route to join the main demonstration with some 70 supporters, he was attacked by riot police and beaten senseless. He had to be carried to a van, which had been badly damaged, and taken to hospital.
Eventually some 40-50,000 demonstrators had assembled on Independence Square, a large Stalinist complex with a large statue of Lenin as its main feature. Sannikau, Statkevich, and several other presidential candidates were present. A few protesters tried to break into the parliament building. Some observers maintain that they were agents provocateurs working for the government, perhaps KGB agents. The response was brutal: hundreds of arrests, thousands beaten and badly injured, including Sannikau who was left injured on the ground. It was the worst violence seen in Minsk in the independence era.
EU leaders and the US Embassy roundly condemned the brutality. President Medvedev decided it was an internal affair of Belarus and said he hoped that the country would progress on a democratic path. The OSCE clearly took it into account when it declared that the election had not been free or fair. Many European statespersons were clearly shocked by the events. But there were several more shocks to come.
Lukashenka was declared the victor of the election with an implausible vote total of almost 80%. No other candidate broke 2%, according to the CEC. Ramanchuk blamed the excesses on Sannikau, Statkevich, and Rymasheuski, whom he claimed, had staged a provocation to ensure that Belarus-European relations were broken. Reaction to his statement on Facebook indicates that many of his "friends" regard his statement as a crass betrayal of his principles.
Nyaklayeu was forcibly removed from his hospital bed by security forces and taken away. The offices of Charter 97 were raided. Sannikau's apartment was broken into by the KGB—his wife Iryna Khalip, had also been arrested during the protests. Seven presidential candidates were in detention the morning after the election.
What has changed in Belarus? Essentially, it seems, nothing. The regime has engineered another victory for the president, quashed opposition with exceptional ruthlessness, and cajoled an opposition leader to switch sides. Belarus under Lukashenka is neither in the camp of Europe nor Russia, though it has inclined clearly once again toward the latter. The main opposition candidates, badly beaten, are in the hands of the KGB. It is a disgraceful end to an election, by any standards.
The opposition has begun a campaign for new elections "without Lukashenka." But the anti-government movement is obviously in turmoil. The beacon of light in this dark picture is the courage of the demonstrators: on a -12C (10.4F) night, over 40,000 people came out to protest their lack of choice, despite official warnings, the imposing presence of police vans and Spetsnaz troops, and the unlikelihood of success.
The EU now faces a decision whether to continue its policy of engagement with a leader who has only contempt for his opponents, for freedom of assembly, and indeed for anyone who dares to challenge his authority. By 2015 an entire generation in Belarus will have grown up knowing only one leader, the former state farm chairman and KGB border guard who is the only European statesperson with an apparent mandate of 'president for life.'
David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta and President of the North American Association for Belarusian Studies. The opinions expressed here are entirely his own.


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Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the disease -- are pointing to ways to target cancer treatment.
In two papers released Wednesday, researchers working on the National Institutes of Health's Cancer Genome Atlas Project detailed new discoveries about two deadly types of cancer: acute myeloid leukemia and endometrial cancer (which arises in the uterine lining.) Both studies revealed subtypes of the diseases -- the different sets of genetic mutations that seem to cause cancers in different groups of patients. Physicians hope someday to be able to look at such subtypes to select the most effective treatments, on a case-by-case basis.
"Developing therapies for each subtype independent of the other may improve outcomes," said Elaine Mardis, co-director of the Genome Institute at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., in a statement.
Mardis was study co-leader of the report about endometrial cancer, which was published in the journal Nature. Analyzing tumor DNA from 373 patients with the disease and comparing it to the DNA in healthy cells, Mardis and her colleagues found four new cancer subtypes -- each distinguished by different types of genetic mutations. They found previously-unknown similarities in the DNA of some high-grade type I endometrioid tumors and type II serous tumors. In the past, those two types of cancers would have been treated differently, but the findings suggest that they may benefit from a similar course of treatment, the researchers said. The team also found similarities between some endometrial cancers and breast and ovarian cancers.
The leukemia study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and was also coordinated at Washington University. Looking at genetic data collected from 200 patients with acute myeloid leukemia, researchers discovered that on average, each leukemia had mutations in only 13 genes -- a smaller number than in most cancers -- but they found more than 1,800 genes mutated at least once in the 200 samples, suggesting that there are "many different routes that lead to AML," according to a statement from the university.
The team identified nine subtypes for the disease, and suggested that future research could take advantage of the data, which are publicly available, to learn exactly how specific mutations drive the disease and to pinpoint treatments.
The new papers mark the sixth and seventh cancers analyzed by the Cancer Genome Atlas Project, which has also published tumor genome information on breast, lung, colon, ovarian and brain cancers. (Read more about the breast cancer genome effort here.) Before the effort winds up in June 2014, organizers said, its researchers hope to analyze genomes from 20 cancers.
And the work won't end there, wrote Harvard Medical School professor Dr. David P. Steensma in an editorial, also published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Noting that most of the common genetic alterations associated with acute myeloid leukemia have probably now been found, Steensma wrote that "within two years, the door to major new genetic findings will also close."
At that point, he added, it will be time for researchers to dig into the details and unearth practical applications for the knowledge. Steensma compared the effort to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's explorations of the American West. Less than 100 years after they set out to survey the American West, "the western frontier was declared closed," he wrote. "But land surveyors did not disappear; today they focus on construction projects and property boundaries."
Likewise, he added, "the use of genomics in quotidian practice is just beginning."
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NEW ORLEANS - Some athletes and celebrities headed to New Orleans for Super Bowl weekend are picking up hammers and packaging food for the homeless in the big game's host city.
The downtown area where most Super Bowl festivities will take place has arguably never looked better, with a renovated Superdome and resurfaced streets and sidewalks. But a closer look reveals homelessness, crime and outer-lying neighbourhoods that still bear the scars of 2005, when levees collapsed during Hurricane Katrina and inundated more than 80 per cent of the city with floodwater.
One of the city's biggest areas of need is housing. In some areas, flood-damaged houses remain untouched, gutted homes have been abandoned, and many lots are overgrown with weeds where houses once stood.
While in town, some athletes and celebrities are working with Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together to help the city's rebuilding effort. Others are working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Second Harvest, a New Orleans-based non-profit community food bank.
"Every ounce of support helps," said Jon Luther, vice-president of the Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans, which has been working with the NFL Players Association for months to build homes in the city's Lower 9th Ward neighbourhood, which saw some of the worst flooding after Katrina.
"For them to show such interest and generosity of their time to our city, we are so grateful," Luther said.
Through the NFL's Touchdown for Homes program, three homes have been built not far from actor Brad Pitt's Make It Right houses. A ribbon-cutting will be held Friday.
This week, more NFL players are getting to work on homes in other parts of the city. Some are working Thursday with Habitat for Humanity to build a new home for a New Orleans resident in the Central City area. On Friday, they'll work on another home in the same area for a local family.
But not all the goodwill is labour intensive.
On Friday, country music star Garth Brooks will join Saints players Mark Ingram, Darren Sproles, Curtis Lofton and Deuce McAllister to help the Starkey Hearing Foundation fit more than two dozen local children with hearing aids.
On Saturday, NFL players Larry Fitzgerald, Tommie Harris, Chris Doleman, Craig Stevens, Greg Jennings, Kyle Rudolph and Brian de la Puente will help the Starkey foundation provide about 100 hearing aids to residents, including 12 local musicians.
"Because music is the heart of New Orleans' vibrant culture, and hearing is so vital to music, I can't think of a more perfect setting," said Brady Forseth, the foundation's executive director.
This is the fourth year in a row Starkey has conducted a mission in the Super Bowl host city. The group will fit residents at the Musicians Village, a rebuilding effort in the city's Upper 9th Ward headed by New Orleans native jazz musicians Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis.
Portions of proceeds from some of the big Super Bowl weekend concerts also will benefit locals.
The NFL's Super Bowl Gospel Celebration, headlined Friday night by Grammy-winning rhythm and blues singer Fantasia, was launched in 1999 and each year donates a portion of proceeds and hundreds of tickets to local and national charities.
This year's benefactors will include the Malcolm Jenkins Foundation, founded by the New Orleans Saints player, and The Sharper Kids Foundation, founded by Darren Sharper — a former Saints player and brother to former Seattle Seahawks player Jamie Sharper.
Proceeds from the DIRECTV Super Saturday Night concert with Justin Timberlake and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots as DJ will benefit the Shriners Hospitals for Children. It is co-hosted by Mark Cuban's AXS-TV.
"Giving back should be natural," said Questlove, who lives in New York but has played in New Orleans with The Roots for decades. "It shouldn't be like a big event or a special thing. It should be natural."


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My whole life, I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by artful and inspiring people. The truth is, we all have: Listening to the radio. Watching movies. Playing Nintendo or even having creative friends and family. For some of us, this inspiration set us on our own path.
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We are a medium sized company that provides consultancy service for software solutions using Oracle. We provide software and service based solutions. We are very technical but we know our clients are not as it is hard to understand what we do. We aim to be approachable for the non-techie, so they are not scared by jargon or too much information, but at the same time appreciate we are technical and we can help with areas they dont understand. We then liase with the techies within their own company to run the project forward. We have been around for nearly 10 years and are growing rapidly.
We need a good attractive homepage, content page and a dictionary page to help people understand what we are talking about!
Our audiences are the large companies like Laura Ashley. They have internal systems that require our help.
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The sales directors are not technical and are scared by too much text, jargon, excessive information and lack of imagery
The techincal people like everything the sales directors do not.
Our company is professinoal and need to show we can play with the big boys, but at the same time small enough that we can develop personal relationships and people should feel at ease when talking to us.
We found that sales directors have their software to help run their business, but have no idea how to make it run or who can do it for them. They are non-technical and then look for someone like us. When they find us, we want them to understand quickly we are the ones for the job. We do not want to scare them by flooding them with jargon. Just enough info to bring them into the site and some light material to put them at ease. Once they find us, they pass our details to the techies. They then will study the more technical parts of the site to appreciate we are teh right people for the job.
- So the site needs to be light
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WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for 15 businesses in 10 states to create or retain jobs and expand economic activity. USDA remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
"The lifeblood of any successful business is access to capital," said Vilsack. "USDA Rural Development's Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan program plays a major role in helping qualified firms and organizations in rural areas gain access to the capital they need to start or expand their enterprises," Vilsack said.
The Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan program aids rural businesses by bolstering private credit through loan guarantees for quality business ventures. A borrower may be an individual, a corporation, public body, partnership, cooperative organization, or other legal entity organized and operated on a profit or nonprofit basis; an Indian tribe on a Federal or State reservation or other federally recognized tribal group. For more information on USDA's Business & Industry program, please visit http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/BCP_gar.html.
The announcements made by Vilsack today include conditional commitments totaling $37.6 million. Secretary Vilsack made the announcement as part of the Department's celebration of National Small Business Week.
For example, with today's announcement, USDA selected KMI Group, Inc., in Kenton, Tenn., to receive a $1 million loan guarantee to purchase machinery and equipment and provide working capital to increase the capacity of this global manufacturer of plastic resins for molders, extruders and compounders.
To help cope with a severe housing shortage, Killdeer Mountain Park, LLC, in Killdeer, N.D., is selected to receive a $4.2 million loan guarantee to finance housing development sites for 78 mobile homes, office space, and a recreational building for the large number of energy and oil field workers moving into the area due to the rapid growth of the Bakken Oil Field.
Since 2009, USDA has provided more than 15,000 loans and grants through its business programs, helping more than 60,000 rural businesses. For more information on USDA's business and cooperative development programs, visit http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Business.html.
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USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as USDA implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act. USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.
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Who are the smartest people in the world? Toddlers.
They have to be. They face the daunting task of programming their own brains to create order out of chaos. They have to learn cause and effect, up and down, in and out, hot and cold, light and dark and thousands of other abstract concepts. These are the make-or-break years. If they don't learn all they need to learn, they'll play catch-up for the rest of their lives.
Sadly, there are precious few resources for children younger than 5 — the age by which child development experts say you've learned more than you'll learn the whole rest of your life. One shining exception is the Habitot Children's Museum in downtown Berkeley, where little ones can play at their own pace in a variety of stimulating environments. Among them:
And all this is for a modest admission fee: $8 for kids, $10 for grown-ups. But Habitot also has free programs for the families who need them the most — the poorest of the poor. They include families in homeless shelters, recently incarcerated mothers trying to regain custody of their kids, teenage parents who are still children themselves and special-needs kids who never go outside because people stare at them and make them feel uncomfortable.
"More importantly, while the parents see their kids playing in the museum in a social way with other kids, they get tears in their eyes because they didn't realize what was possible for their children," said Gina Moreland, Habitot's founder and executive director.
"One mother with a 13-month-old baby carried it around 24/7 because there was no safe place to put it down, which meant the baby was missing out on crawling, which in turn is crucial in developing hand-eye coordination. She was thrilled to be in our infant/toddler area with clean mats for the baby to crawl on."
Habitot will celebrate its 15th anniversary on April 20 with a birthday party featuring a giant birthday cake, children's songs in both Spanish and English, and a dance party. Admission for the day is free, thanks to a donation from ScholarShare.
There is no way Habitot could provide all these desperately needed services without our help. Yes, it could raise admission fees, but that would price it out of the reach of the very people it is trying to serve.
Government and foundation donations are both down. That leaves you and me. You can donate online at firstname.lastname@example.com or mail a check to Habitot Children's Museum, 1563 Solano Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707.
Get creative! If your service club, church group, fraternal organization or just plain friends want to invent your own fundraising project, call Moreland at 510-647-1111 ext. 11.
"We even take tiny BART tickets," she says. "Last year, we raised more than $1,000 that way. There are so many ways to support us, even if you don't have a lot of money."
It's up to us, folks. So what if you don't have any small children of your own? These kids are the only future we have.
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Brent Ozar necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 196 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
We're building tools for Twitter power users who follow hundreds or thousands of people, and for groups of people who want to communicate together without following everyone individually. We're looking for a light, airy logo that conveys simplicity and friendliness.
We're a young, vibrant group of guys winging it and building our first online company. We're looking for a fun, easygoing, relaxed logo that uses a feather, or a group of feathers, or a zoom of feathers on a bird, or whatever.
- A feather (or more than one). Can be completely stylized or literal.
- White background
- Convey simplicity, friendliness, airiness
- Scale down well to 300x100 or 100x300 pixels (can be horizontal or vertical, or square if it looks good scaled down to around 150x150 max)
- San serif fonts.
- Working in an RSS-style logo (but not the official RSS logo, since that's copyrighted) or something that conveys large numbers is worth bonus points, but totally not required
- Text overlapping the logo - unless the text IS the logo by itself, or like if the feathers were somehow integrated into the word "Pheathr".
- The Twitter font or the Twitter birds, or anything copyrighted about the Twitter experience
- The fail whale (don't jinx us, hahaha)
- Arial or Helvetica (if it looks like I built the logo myself in MS Paint, that's a bad sign, heh.)
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Fox Sports apologized yesterday for making a "Welcome to the Pac 12" comedy video that demeaned and insulted Asian students.
The video — which originally appeared on the Fox Sports website, according to the Boulder Daily Camera — depicts "investigative reporter" Bob Oschack going up to Asian students at USC and asking them to give Utah and Colorado an "all-American welcome" to the Pac 12.
The video then mocks their responses and accents.
Here's the Fox apology:
"We sincerely apologize to President Nikias and the entire USC community for the production and posting of the video. The context was clearly inappropriate and the video was removed as soon as we became aware of it. We will review our editorial process to determine where the breakdown occurred, and we will take steps to ensure something like this never happens again."
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Right now, the two people I want to question the most are Jozette Loves Grell and Albear.
@Jozette Loves Grell
In the last phase, you said to Xey that "playing favorites is dirty", yet today you're playing favorites with Xey, huh? :3
I think we went through this enough times in past games that there's no benefit in lynching someone on the verge of being modkilled. Your voting for an inactive player does not sit well with me at all. On top of that, you didn't even offer a reason of any sort.
Half hour! Still need votes from @Scruffy @CrimsonMoon @Kona Chan @Sepherene @animeyay @-Ro- @Kagami Sama @.Sev @Darkfire Knight
Deathblade: 1 [Arbacyk ]
Arbacyk : 2 [ Shini, Deathblade]
Kona Chan: 1 [Albear]
DenjaX: 3 [Ryutama, Arbacyk, Jozatte Loves Grell]
Ryutama: 1 [Denjax]
@Jozette Loves Grell . Says the one who can't even say why they're voting. >_> I'm guessing you're either a) scum voting for fellow scum to gain town-cred, or b)bandwagoning on the scummiest player so you don't look suspicious.
Oops, didn't notice there are two other roles that don't die the first time. Well, I think I'm starting to have a better idea of who DenjaX might be now (if he is indeed who he claims to be), which explains his composure. lol
@MaruDashi Wasn't Sepherene killed? xDDD
MaruDashi ?
me to stay alivethe town. ;.;
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So neither of them is answering my questions. In that case,
[Vote Lynch Jozette Loves Grell]
Pretty self-explanatory I think. She's being too jolly and wishy-washy, which makes her look 10 times more scummy than most. :/ that, and also I'm not convinced about either DenjaX or RyuTama. I think I need more time to get a better feel of them.
Deathblade: 1 [Arbacyk ]
Arbacyk : 2 [ Shini, Deathblade]
Kona Chan: 1 [Albear]
DenjaX: 3 [Ryutama, Arbacyk, Jozatte Loves Grell]
Ryutama: 1 [Denjax]
JLG: 1 [animeyay]
'K, so we can create a wolf and then kill it. Only problem is that it still leaves us with the original three. Worth exploring/testing or not?
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[Change Vote Lynch Kona Chan]
Since Konachan will receive a self vote, it will be 3 votes on me and 3 votes on him. I don't want to lose yet. I will push my luck with this despite being unfortunate. xDD
You two asked me the same question though worded differently.
I voted for Kona-chan because avoiding the LD would be a obvious for the wolves. And keeping yourself inactive would probably insure that. And also, not saying much makes other people suspicious, like in previous games. I just think Kona-chan is wolf. And darn it all if ia.m wrong.
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Clady is NFL's highest-paid blocker in 2013
There are richer overall contracts among offensive linemen than the five-year, $52.5 million deal the Broncos gave left tackle Ryan Clady earlier this week. Well, make that one other. Cleveland's Joe Thomas got an eight-year, $92 million deal in 2011.
But money paid out strictly in 2013? Clady is tops, even with rookie tackles Eric Fisher, Luke Joeckel and Lane Johnson getting enormous signing bonuses as the No. 1, 2 and 4 overall picks in the 2013 draft. The eight highest-paid offensive linemen in 2013:
Lineman, team …………. 2013 payout
1. Ryan Clady, LT, Broncos …. $15 million
2. Eric Fisher, RT, Chiefs ….. $14.9 million*
3. Luke Joeckel, RT, Jaguars … $14.2 million
4. Lane Johnson, RT, Eagles …. $13.2 million*
5. Andy Levitre, LG, Titans …. $13 million
6. Jason Peters, LT, Eagles …. $10.75 million
7. Joe Thomas, LT, Browns …… $10.2 million
8. Brandon Albert, LT, Chiefs .. $9.82 million
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Sandy forces anti-politics politics
For all the talk of how the presidential campaigns would be frozen by Hurricane Sandy, the reality is this: They've simply shifted gears.
As wind and driving rain began to whip the East Coast in earnest Monday, President Barack Obama hunkered down in Washington to attend briefings — but dispatched Michelle Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton to continue campaigning without him.
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( Also on POLITICO: During hurricane, Clinton, Biden pick up campaign slack)
Republican Mitt Romney's campaign canceled some events Monday and Tuesday "out of sensitivity for the millions of Americans in the path of Hurricane Sandy," a campaign advisory said. But Romney is headed to Dayton, Ohio, where at he plans to devote an event to hurricane relief. Paul Ryan will collect donations at a campaign center in La Crosse, Wis.
When it comes to natural disasters, neither side can afford to get tagged as overly political. So both campaigns tried to show they were putting the needs of storm victims first.
The reactions to Sandy reinforce the notion that every move in a presidential campaign is viewed through a political prism — by the candidates, by the strategists and by the voters they seek to sway.
( Also on POLITICO: Candidates scramble ahead of Sandy)
Romney, in particular, finds himself in a box: He can't campaign or raise money in states affected by the storm while the president's every move, from calling governors to visiting Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters to convening meetings in the Situation Room, wraps the trappings of the Oval Office around his campaign.
But Romney has one big advantage: He is free of the risk the president bears in failing, or even appearing to fail, to pull the levers of government to effectively respond to the expected devastation. And he has little choice but to limit his campaigning.
"It's a very difficult situation for the challenger to strike the right note to not look too political but to also [be] empathetic with the victims," said Mary Kate Cary, who was a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. "I don't think there are any points to be scored right now."
Romney canceled a slate of campaign events late Monday. A campaign aide said there was fear that the media would look for ways to criticize the campaign if it had gone on with a full schedule.
Earlier in the day in Iowa, Romney said he had been briefed by officials at the National Weather Service and FEMA and asked supporters to join him in praying for folks on the East Coast.
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What do you think? Is this still in practice?
The Blue Shop Towel Method
for Tracheal Mite Control in Honey Bees
What do you think? Is this still in practice?
The Blue Shop Towel Method
for Tracheal Mite Control in Honey Bees
"The blue light special"
Is that goverment approved...... of course not, that's why it works.
I have recently seen some hives that looked a lot like the photo.
Nice article, thanks much
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Hello Allen & All,
I believe it is written up by the USDA but not sure the location. What Blane
is saying is you can always use less then label but not more than label. I
use approved food grade menthol. George is using a essential oil. The
peppermint spirits might work but are not approved method. I don't know the
rules for Canada.
I use the 1 lb.(by weight) menthol to canola oil and haven't had dead brood.
I did get dead brood and bees driven from the hives with the 2 lb. mix from
the article. I do not measure the amount of canola and only top off the 3
lb. coffee can. I do everything exactly like the 1 lb. formula presented in
the ABJ article. In your case making a larger batch you might have to guess
at the amount of canola.
I have always used the second dose. My thoughts were to keep the treatment
on as long as menthol would normally be on the hive. I have never treated
only once and then checked. Maybe I should have. I find many of the problems
associated with various treatments we use are not successful because we do
not follow instructions and timing. Resistance to Terramycin could have
developed because beekeepers were not appling properly. Dose one week. Dose
ten days later.
Timming is very important in using chemicals or antibiotics.
Jim Amrine, at West Virginia University.
This is his writeup, in part. The last I saw, he was testing the amounts
and also the effect on Varroa.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, ME
1): Measure and mix the following:
Place two standard packs of menthol crystals (3.4 oz. or 100 grams) in
an 8-oz. (118.3 cc) measuring cup, and then add canola oil to fill.
Microwave for 4 minutes at 50% power. Check to see that all crystals
dissolvedif not, microwave for an additional minute at 50% power. Must
be used while warm otherwise crystals will reform.
2): Add to paper towels:
Remove 30 paper towels from one roll; fold in half and stack. Put stack
of paper towels into a large zip-lock bag and add 1 cup of warm
Zip the bag shut then squeeze the towels in the bag until all towels are
evenly saturated. If one end of towels is somewhat dry, turn the bag
sideways putting dry end downin about 10 minutes, all will be evenly
Thus, one cup of menthol-canola mix will treat 30 paper towelsusing 2
towels per colony, this will treat 15 colonies.
Towels can be stored at room temperature indefinitely if the bag is
zipped closed.
3): Add to colonies:
Do not add to colonies while a honey flow is on. Place one paper towel
over the top bars of each brood chamber. Best time to treat is
September. (Tracheal mites are usually not a problem from May to
September, so no menthol needs to be used until the time that mites
begin to build up in late August or September). Colonies can be treated
anytime during the winter when temperatures rise above about 45 F. We
recommend this treatment whenever tracheal mites are found; additional
treatments can be made in December, January and February. The bees will
chew up the paper towels and discard them at the entrance in 3-4 days
(or longer in winter). This mix caused no harm to our bees but
definitely reduced or eliminated the tracheal mites.
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Regards, Barry
I knew if I got out the down rigger something would happen.
I have given up on worrying about such items awhile back, and have no reason any longer for such treatments. But I do use paper towels for testing various hives for selection of queens.
So the unknown of home brews don't concern you Keith?
Regards, Barry
Here is the ratio for one cup of the menthol-canola.
Place two standard packs of menthol crystals (3.4 oz. or 100 grams) in
an 8-oz. (118.3 cc) measuring cup, and then add canola oil to fill.
1.0 Place two standard packs of menthol crystals (3.4 oz. or 100 grams) in
2.0 an 8-oz. (118.3 cc) measuring cup, and then add canola oil to fill.
So, I applied the above ratio to make a gallon.
One gallon
= 4 quarts
= 8 pints
= 16 cups
100 grams/cup X 16 cups = 1,600 grams
1,600 grams/454 grams per pound = 3.45 pounds
3.45 pounds of menthol goes into a one gallon container and then you top it off with the canola oil.That's it. Pure and simple!
"I knew if I got out the down rigger something would happen."
What are you saying? Or is this some code for an insider jab at something or someone?
I think getting out the down rigger is sorta like climbing out from under the bus.
This subject is one of those touchy ones that potentially could lead to the divisiveness between commercial and hobbyists that none of us want, let's try not to go there.
Some look at a home brew as not being "by the book". This is the safe way and the way many beeks feel is the only way. Many commercial beeks don't go by the book, due to necessity.
I'll make the analogy of a neighborhood over run with bad guys. If the police do their job and get rid of the bad element, no problem. When everything is going well it is easy to make the case that vigilantism is a bad thing. That is easy when nothing is at stake. When your life or your property is at stake, the bad guys are over running your neighborhood and the police aren't doing the job what ya gonna do? You try whatever you hear others have done that might work. In the case of fighting the bee pests, if a possible solution is approved in other countries but not here because it is too cheap for a company to make money on, you make it yourself anyway. If a "labeled" solution works, but costs $$$ a colony, and you can make the solution yourself out of the cheap readily available ingredients, many will. $$$ a colony isn't much to someone with a couple colonies, but when you have a couple thousand it adds up. You might try whatever you can think of to solve the problem, to keep your bees alive and still make a living. It might not be the best route but sometimes necessity forces you to do things that in a perfect world you would not. We don't see the ag world, the chem companies, the government, or the universities falling all over each other to see who can solve the problems first, that is for sure.
I took the materials and method from a scientist and transfered it to a larger batch/application.
Is their something wrong with my method?
I agree Sherri. But when some of the same (those with home-brews) who then pass of nucs, packages, and queens, to the beekeeping industry, then it goes way beyond your analogy.
Research has shown over and over, the problems with queen quality and comb contamination. But yet, I can pick up the state newsletter, or B.C and ABJ, and the advertisements are there for the same ones that are known to use homebrews, have serious CCD problems, etc.
If this was an in-house thing, without it effecting the bee industry, to include unsuspecting beekeepers who "thought" they were buying colony, and NOT all the associated contamination and problems that obviously do not come on the "label", then who cares?
Personally, I'm tired of local, state, and other meetings being dominated because a few beekeepers are having problems. There openness of 30 year old comb, home-brews, and there management is their problem. Unfortunately, it is also being passed onto others.
And I'll say again......To use chemicals that are not approved or standard within the bee industry, and then sell off nucs, hives and bees, to consumers, should be something to stop.
A few years ago, anyone suggesting what was going on, was shouted down, or the claims were outright denied. Now, claims are being proven, but some sort of "justification" is trying to be applied out of necessity. That's fine, as I said. You can not stop that. But I will also keep mentioning that beekeepers should be aware that this has gone on for a long time. And some of those who are now "justifying" their use of many chemicals, are those who have, and continue, to sell queens, nucs, hives, and packages. And since not one of these operations are going to include this in that they use illegal chemicals, (and it is now known that some of these chemicals contaminate comb with impacting consequences) then it must be the consumer that needs to be educated.
I'm just glad that more and more, whether it be Ernie or Keith or anyone else, are willing to mention what goes into their hives. Thus the bee industry and potential consumers can at least see what they are potentially buying.
I've never seen an advertisement from a beekeeper mentioning he treats with this illegal chemical or that one. Wonder why?
For the record...its not a commercial or hobbyist thing. Its a beekeeping thing....that crosses both categories. And this may not apply for the ongoing conversation regarding Menthol. But I think your comments were meant for more than menthol...
FYI: The reasons for my research is to become informed about the bee industry and share it with others.
For example: I get phone calls from queen buyers that said that their hive count droped from 1,200 down to 400 hives and the onley pollination is almonds. They said that they had been using un-registered chemicals in their hives like Tactic mixed with Crisco and blue food coloring. I explained to them that Dr. E. Mussen at U.C.D. said that the grease patty has no value to the bees. No wonder that the wintering cluster is smaller than the years prior to Tactic! The active ingredient in Tactic is a larvacide which means that the queens eggs do not hatch.
The other problem we have is that a lot of people do not understand measurements. There is a 3 fold difference between a Tbs and a tsp.
That is enough for now.
Regards, Barry
I can't talk for every outfit out there but the commercial folks I know, for the most part, are very conscientious about how, when and where they apply any treatments. As to the honey, ask the big packers who receive the commercial lots about the cleanliness. Many (most? all?) do analysis of the honey coming into their plants for chemical contamination and give their producers feedback on purity. We (speaking personally here)know our honey is pure, which is more than some who are NOT tested can say. Personally I wince every time a newbee on these boards asks about pulling the "honey" from his (maybe treated) syrup fed bees. Remember the video of the guy pulling honey, then the camera backs up and it shows the feeder on the front? Purity isn't just a commercial concern.
As far as using home brews of approved treatments, those doing it for a living on a mass scale are probably less likely to use more than is recommended, due to costs of larger scale. The labeled treatments have just as much chance of being misused as the home brews, especially by some of the weekend warriors who might or might not be up to speed on recommendations. They are the ones most likely to think "if 1 is good, 3 is better", especially when cost wouldn't be such an issue.
..."If this was an in-house thing, without it effecting the bee industry"<<<
The "bee industry" is probably 99%+ consistent of beekeepers who use treatments of one sort or another on their bees.
As for bees being bought that have been treated with something, this is the norm and will continue to be the norm until a solution is found that doesn't require treatment. There are some who sell totally untreated bees and queens, but they are a minuscule amount of those needed annually in the real world of big commercial honey production/pollination in this country. Indeed, they are a minuscule amount of those sold to the hobbyist market, which is a small part of the industry. Realistically, at this point in time, if no treatments of any kind were given to any colonies there would be a massive die off of bees and resultant crop failures. The cost of bees would be prohibitive to most, as would be the cost of the bee pollinated dependent produce.
(It is another argument altogether whether this would be a good thing, long term.)
I do think commercial beekeepers are constantly trying to find a viable point at which we can keep our bees healthy and productive with the least "harmful" and smallest amount of treatments necessary, hence the move towards the more holistic seeming "home brews". HBH, menthol, oxalic acid, etc vs the various harsh chemicals we have been legally offered in the past might be a more viable long term means to fight these terrible recent plagues on our bees. Unfortunately we as an industry don't have much of anyone working on our problems but ourselves.


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Dossier - The Professor part 6
Walkthrough - Dossier - The Professor part 6
Before you track down Dr. Mordin Solus, the Salarian doctor you've been frantically looking for, be sure to explore his makeshift clinic in its entirety. You'll find plenty of items to acquire from the various rooms of the clinic when you begin looking around. You can find some armor upgrades, plenty of credits, Medi-Gel, and even Palladium, Iridium, Platinum and Element Zero. Be thorough here, as finding this many valuables in such a contained place is a rarity, indeed. Then, when you're ready, seek out the eccentric Dr. Mordin Solus, and begin speaking with him to continue on your quest. (If you're interested in speaking with anyone in the clinic, don't bother. No one has much of anything to say to you at this point.)
As you'll quickly find out, Dr. Mordin Solus is a fast-talking Salarian. His time in the quarantine zone seems to have brought out both the best and worst in him, as he frantically tries to help the sick and dying, while ruthlessly and brutally protecting the turf his clinic is set up on. Solus will go on and on and on when you first speak with him. Eventually, both Renegade and Paragon quicktime options will show up on-screen, allowing you to, one way or the other, bring Solus back to some semblance of reality. As you speak with him and explore all options on the conversation tree, you'll learn that he thinks the Collectors could be behind the disease currently ravaging the Quarantine Zone, and that they're using the immune Vorcha to move the disease around, test it, and to collect other data and information. Ultimately, you can offer to bring the cure Dr. Solus has brewed up to the environmental plant nearby. If you're kind, you can also offer to help the doctor's missing assistant, someone named Daniel. The latter will open up a side quest called Omega: The Professor: Missing Assistant; more information on it can be found in the Side Quests section of the guide. If you spoke to the downed Batarian back at the entrance to the quarantine zone, you can also request the doctor send someone out for him, if you want.
Now it's time to leave the clinic, and head towards the environmental plant. This is where we'll get to use the good doctor's cure, in an attempt to heal all injured and sickly parties. Seek out the previously-locked door in the clinic -- it will now be open. Head up the stairs on the other side of the door, and immediately swing leftward. Hide behind the first piece of cover you find, and initiate hostilities on the Blood Pack Troopers standing around. They should be completely oblivious to your presence until you open fire (unless you get too close). Then, sit tight. A plethora of Blood Pack Troopers will assail your position, so pick them off as they draw near. Your party members should maneuver to areas that will serve them best, so worry only about yourself. Stay protected, revealing yourself to return fire on various foes as the opportunities reveal themselves. At the top edge of the room, begin working leftward towards another staircase leading upward. More enemies will occupy that staircase, as well as the area around it, so stay alert! Before heading up the stairs to proceed onward towards the plant, be sure to scour the area for ammunition, as well as a medical kit full of credits, and even a gambling machine you can hack and pillage.
Once up the stairs, you will see a corridor spanning off to your left, and a locked door ahead and on your right. Successfully hacking the door's lock on the right side won't open the door, but it will give you a healthy amount of credits, so be sure to do that before swinging leftward. The left side pathway will ultimately open up into another room, with doors leading off from the right and left. Ignore the door on the right for now, and head through the door on the left. You'll see a quick cutscene with some Batarians holding a human male at gunpoint. When you get involved here, you'll realize that this human male is the doctor's assistant, a man named Daniel. This whole scene is associated with the side quest entitled Omega: The Professor: Missing Assistant. More information can be found, of course, at the Side Quests section of this guide. No matter what happens here, be sure to raid the medical kit within the room before heading back out.
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Teamwork Seals the Deal!
Simply put, Team RadioShack rode a fantastic Dauphine, fighting through huge obstacles to bring home the overall win. After the crash in first stage, we were already down one rider when Haimar broke his wrist and had to leave the race, not to mention that Markel, G4, and Ben were hurt in the crash and spent the rest of the week racing below their best fitness as a result of those injuries. When half the team was already either down or out after stage one, it really showed what the team was made of and how much we all really like each other in the constant sacrifice and work that was given through each difficult stage.
All week long, I saw the team suffering to keep Jani in yellow. With each climb we would lose anywhere from 2 to 4 riders by the summit, only to have them fight back to peloton to immediately take another pull on the front time and again. It hurt me to see Tomas, who didn't make the time cut yesterday, feeling bad this morning. He spent more time on the front then anyone in the race, working day after to day to keep the rest of the team that much fresher for the later part of each stage, and yet still felt bad about being unable to help today.
At the start of today's stage, it was once again all out when a group of 8 escaped. Three teams chased the break with everything they had, going through the valley before the first and only big climb of the day, which began 30 miles into the stage. As we hit the climb, the break was only 45 seconds in front of us, and every team was trying to send riders across to it.
For Team RadioShack Paulinho was putting on a show. We had lost everyone on the team except Paulinho, myself, and Jani, who of course needed to stay protected and save energy for the general classification fight. Paulinho drove the pace steadily up the entire climb, while I would follow any attacks that might put the team in danger of losing the jersey. After each attack was neutralized, Paulinho would just continue riding his tempo past everyone that had attacked us, while I would return, tucking back onto his wheel until the next attack came. Finally, we got the break we wanted established, allowing us to ease off the pace and recover just a little.
Markel, G4, and Ben fought to return to front once again to take over the work from Paulino and I. When the break gained too much time, the other teams began pulling on the front to protect their own leaders' places on general classification, or perhaps, thinking about the one last shot at winning a stage in this year's race. The Dauphine was nearing its end, but not before they threw one last obstacle at us.
We entered the 7 mile circuit that we would do 5 times, with everyone on the limit from the pace of the teams chasing. The weather was unpredictable – with rain on the descent and dry on the climb, making the day even more difficult. And the circuit itself was not going to be an easy one. It had a mile and a half long climb that averaged 9%, but the second half had to be closer to 11 or 12% - in other words, HARD.
As we hit the climb each lap, the pace would increase, decreasing the size of the field at the same time. The descent wasn't any easier, with each wet turn causing the field to split apart even further. And, at the bottom, it was a full sprint out of the last corner to hold the wheel in front of me as we crossed the finish line each lap. I can't image how hard it must have been for the non-climbers to close the gaps to the field after each descent, since it was hard enough in the group – all I could think was "Thank God I can climb!"
As we hit the climb for the last time, riders started attacking immediately right from the bottom. Astana took over the front and set a blistering pace that allowed no one to get very far. Just as we neared the summit, one final hard attack came, and what was left of the field blew apart. I had to pass 4 riders to stay in contact with the front group. As we flew down the descent, an AG2R rider was taking every risk possible to catch the break that was only seconds ahead of us at that point. After a few turns, I hard a big crash just behind me, while Tejay van Gardener came flying by me to close the gap that was just front us. From there on out my job was done for Jani, and I could ease up just a bit and take it safe to finish line.
It was a fantastic race, and I can't be happier to see Jani win. He has been my teammate and roommate now for three years, and I can assure you no one works harder or deserves it more! So congratulations Jani and Team RadioShack - overall winners of the 2010 Criterium du Dauphine!


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Fit & Fueled
My name is Sarai and I help women get into amazing shape by holding their feet to the fire and making them 100% accountable for their actions and decisions
I help women find their sexy and be confident .
Fitness minded women ages 28-45
I need to target a high-end group of women. These are women who have discretionary income and are willing to pay for what they want. OR, the women who may not necessarily have the money but wants what she wants and will find a way to pay for it. My company and brand is high-end but should still appeal to the average women.
They are pretty confident in general about themselves except when it comes to their bodies.
This is a feminine woman attracted to elegant looks but not frilly and has a tough edge to her.
My program is called: Fit & Fueled (can be written out as and as well)
It is a program that combines workouts with food delivery to make the total diet and exercise combo. This is an intense body transformation program and the logo should convey the feeling of fitness combined with food to make them sexy.
I'm thinking something with fire or to show energy from food. Maybe a gas pump with food? Be creative in how you convey the total package concept.
Maybe gas pump is way off target. I want to see your ideas and creativity.
I like feminine fonts so something with curve to it, nothing blocky. However it needs to be bold enough; not so thin that it gets lost (see Sexy in 6 header). I am ok with a more block font mixed with a feminine font (i.e. a stencil font with a Lucida handwriting).
If you choose to use a female form, I prefer a more confident stance as opposed to the dance feel that a lot of silhouettes have (see tshirt.jpg file)
I prefer a 3 color (or less) logo for ease of screen printing.
Colors: I Like Purples and Greens. Do not care for Primary colors alone but can be accents in other color schemes. I have attached one of my company logos (see web header file). I am definitely open to colors other than purples and greens and would like a fresher lighter feel than my current logo colors.
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Sounds fantastic!
The bell in the lift pings as the doors open onto the empty hotel reception. The only sound whilst I cross the hall is the tick of my bike's freewheel and the clip of my cycling shoes on the tile floor. I look at the clock on my bike computer, 01:00. Again I ask myself what I am doing riding out into the dark Italian summer night, my body willing me back to the warmth of my bed. This is part of the deal, a 24 hour race is never easy and part of the fun is riding when you should be asleep; that is what I told myself as I clipped in and rode to my shift at the Castelli 24 hour race.
24 hour racing has always been popular with mountain bikers. A closed course, laps and arena away from populated areas makes for straight forward organisation. It has never really taken off with the road racers, the logistics of closing roads for a whole day the first of many major challenges which face any organiser wanting to put on such an event.
Pedale Feltrino and Italian clothing company Castelli have found a solution. Each year during the first weekend in June they close down the centre of Feltre, a small town in the foothills of the Dolomites, 10 kilometres from the Castelli factory, for their unique event. From 10pm on Friday until 10pm on Saturday this 2 kilometre circuit is the venue for their 24 hour team relay race, the Castelli 24.
Riding to the start through the empty streets, the sleeping world around me bathed in a tungsten glow, I was one of 12 journalists riding as Castelli Media and off to ride the grave yard shift. The Castelli 24 saw 100 teams of 12 riders take part. Each of them had their own tactic for the race, amongst those riding for the victory, measured in total number of laps, were some of Italy's top amateur teams. For them the Castelli 24 is a prestigious event and one of their season goals. For other teams the personal challenge to take on the difficulties of racing for 24 hours was their main competition. There were even some corporate teams racing as a team building exercise and just to enjoy the carnival atmosphere. This means that on course there were a multitude of groups of different speeds, with the leaders averaging 45 kilometres an hour over the 24 hour period, making the race tricky to watch as I arrived for my first turn on the course.
Castelli Media was broken down into 4 different groups of 3 riders; with each triad being the team on track during a 3 hour window twice in the 24 hours. These trios were then broken down further, with one rider on track for 20 minutes, one waiting in the pit were the changes had to take place and the third man resting at the Castelli hospitality tent.
One the key rules of the Castelli 24 is that only one rider is allowed on the circuit at once. If broken a time penalty is given to the team, which can be very costly. With this in mind I waited, focused on my team mate who was riding, looking for the signal that he was going to change. At the end of his last lap he would pull off to the right and exit the course through the pit, normally hands in the air to show his team mate he was finished. Then the next rider would enter the circuit at full sprint, hopefully back into the group that their team mate was riding in. Many of the larger teams had a spotter in the stands opposite the pit; they would give a signal, that it was time for the rider waiting to head out. This tactic could easily gain them 50 metres each lap, which over a 24 hour period soon added up.
As I sprinted out of the pit, chasing the group that my team was riding in, my body was shocked into action. The course had a 400 metre climb after the start. Though not brutal, it was enough to be a launch pad for attacks, which normally came each lap, by the top riders were at 100% and gaps would appear. The pace was very high reminding me of my days racing as an elite in France. After the climb there was a short technical descent, on which it was necessary to keep focused on the slower lapped riders. Approaching them in the darkness, all that could be seen was their compulsory rear light and a quick decision on how to pass had to be made. Following the descent there was a straight blast on the opposite side of the circuit before heading back into the centre of Feltre and the start-finish over their famous cobbles.
As the laps passed I was soon engrossed in the world of racing, sticking with the leaders. These teams were riding much shorter legs than mine which meant that when they changed, with their 50 metre advantage, it was a full sprint at the bottom of the climb to get back up to their group. Consumed by the 20 minute interval of racing it was all too soon time to change, my trio's shift coming to an end. Tired but elated I rolled back to my hotel for a welcome break before taking on my second shift later in the day.
Unfortunately the weather was out of the control the organiser. Early morning rain forced a halt in the racing. Being civilised Italy and not an early season Classic the riders' safety was paramount and the race was put on hold until the cobbles in the centre of Feltre were dry. Even with no racing the party atmosphere continued. Walking around the teams' tents during the rain storm it felt more like a music festival, all the teams had music, food and plenty of energy to keep themselves entertained during the break in racing.
In the early afternoon, sadly after my allotted shift, the race was restarted. As the clock counted down to 10pm and the finish, the racing became much more serious. The celebrities, ex-professionals and current professionals all came out to add to the build up towards the finish. Paulo Bettini, Ivan Basso, riders from Liquigas and Colnago–CSF Inox were all present, either racing or supporting.
The final 30 minutes of the race saw all but the teams in the top 20 positions pulled off of the circuit. Adding to the crescendo end to the event and allowing the leaders to race unhindered by lapped riders; the perfect finish to this truly unique event. Not quite a six day, similar to a Madison and faster than a road race the thrill of the Castelli 24 is unmatched. It is an event which is open to all and everyone should ride at least once.
For more information on the event and entries (either a whole team or single riders looking for a team), go to www.24orefeltre.it/.


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Lisa C necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 523 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
Darim Online
Darim Online is a nonprofit organization working with other nonprofits to help them learn how to use social media to build community. Our programs include knowledge sharing, community building and networks.
We have re-opened this contest for 3 additional days as we did not feel any of the entries were exactly what we wanted. Please do not reference previous entries -- start with new concepts.
Over the past 10 years, we built web sites and helped our clients establish their online presence. After a recent strategic plan, and selling our web site business to another firm, we are focused more on education, training, consulting and coaching. Thus, while we are not going to change our legal name, we want to downplay the "Online". Thus, we'd like to see concepts where "Darim" is the main focus of type treatment, with "Online" less emphasized.
The word "Darim" comes from the Hebrew root "To dwell". While this meaning isn't important to weave into the logo, it could be a source of inspiration.
Our client based is made up of Jewish organizations -- small, local organizations like synagogues and schools, and large national social justice organizations and foundations. While many of our clients come to use to learn about social media tools and strategies, our work also encompasses new models of leadership, business models, open source culture, and more. Participants include staff (executive directors, program directors, etc.) and volunteers (board members, etc.). They tend to be highly educated, but are NOT techies. They are people dedicated to the nonprofit sector, making the world a better place. Ages range from 30-70.
Our previous logo was the @ tweaked to be a "d" instead of an "a". We will entertain designs that take this concept and freshen it up, as well as totally new designs. Must be classy, 2, 3, or 4 colors, and clever. Please include a color palate that we can use to apply to web site design and other graphic assets.
While technology is clearly a component of our work, mission, goals, business strategy and leadership are also defining characteristics. The logo and type treatment should NOT look like a technology company with very modern or techie fonts.
We are looking for something that is fresh, and has a sense of movement and energy. It should feel exciting and inviting, classy but casual. It should not be cluttered, corporate or too modern. We do not want something that looks like a tech start up. While our work is specifically in the Jewish community, we do not require that there be anything Jewish related represented in the logo.
Logo will be applied to web site, letterhead, business cards, etc.
Old logo is attached, to see what we've been using. If you want to innovate with this concept, you're welcome to use the file, or start from scratch. Other online assets to learn about us:
http://www.darimonline.org (about to be redone)
http://www.jewpoint0.org (best place to catch our vibe - will redo this logo too when main logo is completed)
Questions are welcome -- feel free to be in touch if we can be helpful. Winner of this logo design may have opportunities for other program logos and/or application to other branded materials too.
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