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johnmiles2 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are a startup company which provides online lease signing solutions. Traditionally when one wants to lease an apartment, and application is completed, guarantor and payment forms must be processed, and finally a lease agreement signed. This whole process must be done in person or via fax, and is very time consuming and creates a lot of paper to file. We have taken this whole process and put it online, so that a lessor can fill out the required forms from the comfort of home, and the landlord has all of the tenant information transmitted to them quickly and cleanly via their computer.
Our process has proven extremely useful in saving the landlord time and money with all who have used it thus far.
The image we are trying to convey is a reputable, cutting edge online business. By cutting edge, I do not mean futuristic, but rather 'web 2.0' to use the term loosely. As our business is all online, it is of the utmost importance that we convey an image of a clean, user friendly website which embodies the latest in web design.
Our target audience is broken up into two main parts:
1) The customer - These are the landlords and property managers who will pay for the service as a means of streamlining their lease signing process and saving vast amounts of paperwork. They can be anywhere from aged 25-75, but are typically in the 40-60 year old range.
2) The users - The users of the site will be the landlords (described above) and the tenants who are renting a unit. They can be anywhere from aged 18-75, but we feel that users in the younger half of that age range are more likely to use the service, so would like to focus a bit more on them.
Our market is North America at this point, with possible expansion to Europe and Asia in the future. Both customers and users will have the potential of being not tech savvy at all, so an image of professionalism is important as they may be intimidated by the site in the first place.
We do not have any set corporate colours yet, but are a fan of something crisp with possibly a bright colour incorporated in.
A logo which includes fairly basic and modern lettering along with some sort of simple graphic (possibly one which relates to leasing or real estate in some sense ie. a feather, a stack of paper, a building or house) will likely be best.
We very much like logos where the two words in the name have differently weighted font, or are a different colour ie. black and gray.
Logos we like:
We will not provide any examples of logos we do not like so as not to stifle creativity, but logos which are too complex will probably go amiss.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered vector (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Find your way out of the station and you see something else, and the suffocating Festival crowds become irrelevant. A Victorian-futurist high bridge soars overhead, and it plunges bisecting two tall towers, masonry on steel frames, baroque in theory, Gothic in practice. It's a scene as excitingly metropolitan as anything you'll find in Scotland's de facto rather than de jure capital in Glasgow, and it instantly replaces the initial feeling of irritation and dread with one of expectation and anticipation. Look to one side of this amazing mise-en-scene and you find a brutally craggy acropolis; look to the other side and there's a planned neoclassical city of great urbanity. Familiarity with Edinburgh might well breed contempt, but these first impressions are of awe. And awe also, at how this unusual and dramatic form of urbanism can have become so popular, with the teeming crowds all around. Take Edinburgh and make it into a list of things people like in cities, and you'll find it highly counter-intuitive. What people like, apparently, is highly coherent and even authoritarian town planning, steep and melodramatic topography, very tall buildings, the total dominance of flats, with hardly any single-family houses to be seen - and sombre, dark colour everywhere, with only tiny hints of the rustic or the twee. While with other places that it might be compared to – a Bath, a York – there's the sense that if tourism was taken away the whole thing might disappear, in Edinburgh you feel that it could get along very nicely without all this unseemly bustle, thank you very much.
I received a quick lesson in Edinburgh topography by travelling through the coherence of the New Town, watching it gradually devolve into tenements that could be easily relocated to Glasgow (although their settings could not be), then past a large (and here, especially incongruously crap) PFI school to Fettes College, who are hosting a public art event of some description. Tony Blair's alma mater has a darkling presence on the skyline in this end of Edinburgh. David Bryce's blackened, gory design towers domineeringly over an area of privilege as marked as anything in Mayfair. Yet it is also an area of flats, and flats built as flats. The axis leading away from it is lined by interwar tenements, showing the basic components of Scottish mass housing – the stone, the dignity, the high windows, the scraggy backsides – beginning to accommodate a few cosmetic features from the modern movement, such as moderne typography, glazed stairwells and the elimination of previous tenements' already minimal ornament. You wonder what might have happened if this minor reform had been taken as a model for post-war urban mass housing in Scotland rather than a botched revolution (or at least, until you find their much less attractive working class equivalents elsewhere in the city).
Edinburgh has within it a planning tradition which is the opposing force to all grands projets – the legacy of Patrick Geddes, the late 19th/early 20th century planner who recommended 'conservative surgery' to repair slum districts – such as the tall late medieval/renaissance tenements of the Old Town were when he started writing. One of the things about Edinburgh that makes it charming rather than merely impressive is the results of this at the bottom end of the Royal Mile. Here, tiny council estates, designed alternately in an unpretentious grey and brown Scottish Brutalist-Vernacular or in a arcaded neo-classicism evocative of reconstructed post-war Central Europe, are as dignified and undemonstrative as their repaired and renovated pre-modern forbears. The Gorbals or the East End of Glasgow should have been treated like this in the 1960s. However sensible Geddes-style incremental planning might be for these sorts of dense, highly developed areas, they also rest on a certain degree of architectural skill that, for some unfathomable reason, has been absent in recent additions. It isn't as if Edinburgh doesn't have the architects fit for the task – small-scale gems like Richard Murphy's Fruitmarket Gallery, or other small-scale interventions by the likes of Murphy and Malcolm Fraser prove otherwise. Yet the new housing around Holyrood is fine as planning and disappointing as architecture, as cheap as a new stunning development in the Thames Valley. The stone-clad bank offices nearby are even worse.
On brief acquaintance, there are two large-scale structures in Edinburgh after Geddes that abandon conservative surgery and instead go for the drastic and risky operation, one high-end, one low. The latter is 'St James' Shopping', the sort of structure to bring out the antimodernist in even your correspondent *, a complex whose ability to have received planning permission even in the 1960s is truly extraordinary, straggling as it does in front of the unforgettable symmetrical vista of Waterloo Place. Its recent redevelopment compounds the injury, labouring under the twin misapprehensions that it can all be made better via wonky shapes (iconic!) and stone-cladding (contextual!). Turn from that back to Holyrood, to the other non-conservative piece of surgery – EMBT's Scottish Parliament. This is not an easily dismissed building. Spreading into fragments at the foot of the hill, its complexities defy glib analysis, although on short acquaintance the most striking aspect is how Miralles and Tagliabue specifically tried to design the ubiquitous security features of a contemporary government building. Rather than leaving it to the Council, the architects helpfully provided bristly organic high fences and sensually curved concrete blast walls.
For all the local references, it does not grow out of the site in the same way as Edinburgh's other acropolis, the former Scottish Office of St Andrew's House. Thomas Tait's very '30s design has a nod here to Constructivism and there to Italian Novecento, but it feels organic to the landscape in a corporeal, non-rhetorical way.
Its grandiose planning is continued in the other Scottish Government building in Leith, but not much else. RMJM's paranoid panorama of business park misery is an example of how the derelict port has been transformed via all manner of pepper-potting, of luxury flats, bistros and the like. Not much of it seems to have trickled down into the later tenements, miserable Presbyterian things compared with their predecessors, nor into the port town's Brutalist blocks. These are sometimes fine, heroic architecture, like the famed, sinuous 'Banana Flats', but sometimes less impressive as urbanism, with the Banana block's car park a barrier between itself and the rest of the city. Otherwise, Leith is abundant in evidence that 'conservative surgery' in and of itself is not much better if the architecture is devoid of presence, elegance, or often even competence.
Now and again in Leith you find an infill site between warehouses and tenements that has a genuinely worthwhile building lodged in, but mostly it's a matter of will-this-do, shameful in a city with an architectural legacy like this. It's no use blaming it on the context - Leith itself can nearly hold its own with the city centre, with several hard, dark classical buildings that are fittingly muscular and robust, lasting as far as the spectacular Americanist concrete atlantis of the Flour Mills.
Yet the rest of Leith Dock is, and no exaggeration here, one of the worst new developments in the UK, and that it should have come to this here is unforgivable. Reading or Southampton can boast little worse than Conran's exurban, introverted Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, some awful regen-cliché flats, or the pitiful Mint Casino. In any city this would be a scandal, let alone one as rich as this, with architects as talented, in a capital that has not exactly been short of investment. There is no excuse for this other than philistinism, stupidity, desperation and graft. The site is now pockmarked with wasteland, and Edinburgh Council need to be publicly shamed into clawing back at least some pride by starting over with something that is at least slightly worthy of its location.
* (on second viewing, the back side by the bus stop is pretty good)
Originally published in Building Design, 25/8/11

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—Winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
—A Finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction
—A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection
—Listed as one of Ten Brilliant Books That Will Grab You from Page One in Kirkus Reviews and The Huffington Post
—Selected by Hector Tobar as his Favorite Book of 2014 in Publisher's Weekly and Salon.com
—A Library Journal Best Books of 2014 Selection
—A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 Selection
—A Hudson's Books 2014 Booksellers Favorite
—A Book Club pick for April 2014 on The Nervous Breakdown
—A #3 Denver Post Bestseller
About the Book
Justin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift—he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain a faltering long-distance relationship. As a man whose brand of therapy has always been motion, whether in a skate park or on a snow drift, Hocking needs an outlet for his restlessness. Then he spies his first New York surfer hauling a board to the subway, and it's not long before he's a member of the vibrant and passionate surfing community at Far Rockaway. But in the wake of a traumatic robbery incident, the dark undercurrents of his ocean-obsession pull him further and further out on his own night sea journey.
With Moby-Dick as a touchstone, and interspersed with interludes on everything from the history of surfing to Scientology's naval ties to the environmental impact of the Iraq War, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is a multifaceted and enduring modern odyssey from a memorable and whip-smart new literary voice.
"As generous as it is smart, as intimate as it is grand, as illuminating as it is dark. With grace and guts, Justin Hocking dares to go where few men have gone before: not only out to sea, but also into the depths of the human heart."
—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
"In this appealing memoir, the young author finds salvation from a dead-end Manhattan office job in an activity not often associated with New York City: surfing. . . . The passages about surfing and the relationships it fosters are filled with excitement and tenderness. It's hard not to cheer for [Hocking].
—The New Yorker
"A lovely, measured, and complex examination of how we manage to heal ourselves amidst the messy tumult of the world around us—a quiet and brilliant achievement of both emotion and technique."
—John D'Agata, author of About a Mountain and judge of the 2015 Oregon Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction
"Searching, gutsy, and vulnerable, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is a deeply felt account of a young man's aching coast-to-coast search for an emotional home in the world. The settings and quasi-romances couldn't feel more contemporary—anti-depressants and underground New York skateparks, sleeping pills and cold water surf breaks in the Pacific Northwest. But the journey couldn't be more universal, painful, and worthwhile."
—Daniel Duane, author of Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
"Through stylistic understatement and perfect tonal pitch. . . . Hocking ultimately transcends 'the dark Ahab force.'"
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"With nearly pitch-perfect tone, Hocking impressively builds [Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld] around a series of tension-and-release vignettes that roll through the narrative like waves. . . . Hocking's journey will prove relevant and immediate in its exploration of maturation and experiencing both spiritual collapse and, eventually, renewal."
—Boston Globe
"Hocking is earnest and candid, and he writes well about nature . . . invigorating."
—The New York Times Review of Books
"Hocking is an enormously talented wordsmith, and this account of a cash-poor but culturally rich New York life is funny, self-effacing and unfailingly erudite. He is a writer's writer, a master of drop-dead gorgeous similes and metaphors . . . The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is as original a New York writer's memoir as you're likely to read. Rarely has modern day New York been captured so viscerally and sensually."
—Hector Tobar in Publisher's Weekly
"Hocking doesn't dwell on his misfortunes, or cast himself as the hero. Instead, Wonderworld focus on a more common, less headline-catching narrative: the small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair. . . . [The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld] is reflective and honest, with charm and just the right amount of innocence."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
"One of the most satisfying memoirs I have read in years, a book both moving and sagaciously written."
—David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy
"A graceful, insightful, candid and charming coming-of-age story unlike any other."
—Barnes & Noble, Discover Great New Writers selection
"Funny and heartbreaking by turns, Hocking's memoir is a masterful work of confusion and clarity, of obsession and letting go."
—NPR Books
"Melville-haunted, surfing-imbued, and wisdom-packed, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is a lucid and moving memoir. Hocking's laid-back erudition and narrative generosity take us by the hand down a winding path at the end of which lies a new openness to the world's wonder."
—Antoine Wilson, author of Panorama City
"The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is transcendent. Justin Hocking explores what it means to be a skateboarder, a surfer, and a writer, and he lays bare the pains and joys of each, the surprising ways the endeavors mirror one another. The book is thrilling in its structure and moving in its emotion and conviction. The chapters roll like waves, carrying you along and breaking over you, washing you in revelation after revelation."
—Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
"It's so refreshing to see authors—especially those making their debut—shoot for the moon. Hocking's Wonderworld is deliciously ambitious in its goals: in the course of this memoir, Hocking not only tells us his story, but also manages to educate us on the history of surfing and, even more compelling, Herman Melville's life and the writing of Moby-Dick. Despite these lofty goals, there's zero sense of pretense to this book. I'm not sure how he pulls all this off, but I suspect it has to do with the stellar quality of the writing: conversational, yet poetically rhythmic and precise, funny, heartbreaking, subtle, and always just enough."
—Kelly Luce, author of Three Scenarios
"This nightshade journey reflects on the inner Ahab inside all of us. . . . Melvillian arcana abounds, leading to a profound journey into Moby-Dick's infinitude of meanings, mixed with inopportune break dancing, a harrowing carjacking, and a meditation on the redemptive power of skateboarding and surfing, the allure of waves and the sea, and life itself."
—Jocko Weyland, author of The Answer Is Never
"In this elegant hybrid of homage to Melville and memoir, Hocking examines timeless archetypes and questions their pertinence in his own life . . . Hocking's lack of vanity in describing his tough years in New York is noteworthy, as is his devotion to Moby Dick. His admiration for Melville's opus does not prevent him from telling a compelling story of his own."
—Library Journal, Starred Review
"Our society doesn't often make space for men to talk about their messy inner emotional lives; Hocking's memoir, The Great Floodgates of The Wonderworld, does just that through a thumping mix of surfing and Moby-Dick."
—Everyday e-Book
"Melville called Ishmael a 'dreamy, meditative man.' So is Justin Hocking. From his modern masthead, he sees a capacious and generous world, one he brings to life in this erudite and introspective memoir."
—Shelf Awareness
"This is a book about obsessions. . . . and anxieties, which, in some ways, makes it a perfect memoir for our times. Hocking collects the seemingly disparate experiences of his life and uses deftness, humility and humor to create a readable, relatable story of one life well examined."
—Kathleen Holt, Oregon Humanities
"Let's be honest: literary memoirs detailing New York's bohemian underbelly are not in short supply, and the prospect of yet another can easily divide any crowd of seasoned readers. So I must urge you to banish these preconceptions from your mind. On the rare occasions Justin Hocking retreads familiar ground, he does so with such elegance and endless sincerity you'll struggle to remember it being done better. More likely, he'll surprise you."
—Book Riot
"Hocking's tone is reassuringly down-to-earth. The frequent references to Melville, which might have been tedious in another writer, in his hands feel unpretentious, and helpfully bind together the book's nonlinear vignettes."
"Hocking's obsessions always expand on rather than detract from his story, and by the end of the book we learn almost as much about Herman Melville as we do about Justin Hocking. In a genre often oversaturated with writers offering familiar brands of experience and redemption, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld stands out for its unique blend of formal innovation, graceful prose, and unusual take on a familiar narrative."
—Brenna Kischuk, The Angle Magazine
"Hocking's genius is in his sincere, un-self-conscious performance of the countervailing dynamism of literature, the paradoxical way that a work of narrative art can give a sense of closure while denying that same satisfaction to its own characters."
—Cleaver Magazine


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How to dress for the summer heat and keep your cool
Even the most savvy fashion lover is tested when the temperatures reach triple digits, as it has now four — and soon to be five — days in a row.
It's time to look into the deep recesses of the closet and pull out the lightest, breeziest clothes you can find and still look presentable – or in the case of office workers with dress codes, professional.
There is also the issue of going from 90-degree heat to offices that are the temperatures of meat lockers. Here are some ways to make it work:
Wear dresses that are sleeveless or have cap sleeves and pack a lightweight scarf or sweater to put on when you're in a chilly office or restaurant.
"What's nice about a cardigan in a rayon/nylon blend or some other light material is that you can roll it up and put it in your handbag," says Rachel Lefort, a fashion and image stylist.
A scarf can serve the same purpose and has added versatility because you can toss it over your shoulders, knot it around you neck or even put it across your lap.
Some other ideas: it's obvious, but avoid dark colors because they absorb the heat. Also avoid clingy or heavy fabrics and silhouettes, like denim and leggings. Instead, wear light, airy, linens, cottons and some rayons, Lefort says.
Think of wearing less — a dress is likely to be cooler than a skirt and blouse that will catch around your waist.
The same is true of shoes: instead of pumps, wear a peep toe, slingback or design with open sides. You don't have to be in flip-flops or barely-there sandals to convey a summery mood.
Lefort recommends carrying a roomy work bag that will hold your papers and laptop, a sweater, scarf and even a smaller clutch bag that you can pull out when you go to lunch or a meeting.
As you head out the door: add a spritz of a light fragrance.
What's your favorite way to dress cool for summer? Please share your ideas!


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Springboarding from Lincoln's insight, I cluttered Domenico Bettinelli's Blog hashing out the distinctions necessary between a natural right to do wrong, which is perposterous, and a political right to do wrong, which is an idea tolerable but poorly phrased. Truthfully, it is only a right to be immune from coerced belief that has any real logical traction.
David S. Oderberg has crafted a fine analysis of the incoherence of a strictly-phrased "right to be wrong." His essay, "Is there a Right to Be Wrong?"(PDF format) begins with some choice quotations on the topic of truth:
'Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.' -Chaucer
'Truth is treasure, the best tried on earth.' -Piers Plowman
'Truth is the most pleasant of sounds.'-Plato
'Veracity is the heart of morality.' -T.H. Huxley
'No one who lives in error is free.' -Epictetus
'A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting
himself with all men that believe in truth.' -Thomas Carlyle
'Driven from every corner of the earth, freedom of thought
and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience
direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.'-Samuel Adams
'Love truth, but pardon error.' -Voltaire
'The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.' -Harry Weinberger, NY Evening Post 1917
He adroitly explores the tension between the first six and last three quotations. Here he is taking on the movie catchphrase of Batman Begins, "we fall so that we can learn how to get up again":
"The thought proposed by the defender of the right to error is that there is something inherently good, by which he means life-affirming, personality-developing, education-enhancing (pick your favourite New Age buzzword) in the making of mistakes. But how can this be so if it is also good to acquire truth? If it is good to acquire truth it must be good to eliminate error, since the latter is necessary for the former. But if it is good to eliminate error it cannot also be good to fall into it, any more than it can be good to be healthy but also good to be unhealthy. This tension, if it is real, means either that acquiring truth is not good after all, or what is more likely, that the idea of there being something inherently good in making mistakes is an illusion."
Oderberg does not shrink from noting the deleterious effects that error has on the rational life:
To take an analogy, although this is disputed by experts, my own experience tells me that the more I use glasses, the less able I am to focus correctly without them—I have to learn to focus correctly again, within the limits of my inherent optical defect. A person whose sense of balance is distorted by an inner ear infection has to overcompensate by feeling she is standing at an angle in order to be sure of standing straight. When she recovers, she will have lost her ability to recognize what her normal sense of balance is telling her, and will stagger about for a while until she relearns how to recognize and interpret the impulses from that sense. Similarly, a person who is cavalier about whether her intellect is directed at truth or falsehood ends up—again under various influences such as desire and emotion—forcing herself to believe what her intellect is naturally inclined to tell her is false; as a result, she will tend to become literally incapable of facing up to any unpleasant reality. Her intellect will be damaged, and repairing it by using her already-damaged intellect itself will not be much easier than using a broken telephone to call the telephone repairman.


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Hi Arturo,
just playing with enigform & mod_auth_openpgp.
Very interesting, thanks for them.
Seems enigform works like a charm, I download
http://enigformtest.buanzo.com.ar/enigformtest.tgz and updated to my box, works perfectly.
(I had only "big" problem with permission of keyring .)
I would like to try mod_auth_openpgp, I installed it. I can see it in phpsysinfo().
I updated httpd.conf according to README and nothing .
Please, how can I test it. Should I expect something similar as with enigformtest.tgz?
Firefox should show new window with enigform and I write passphrase?
Seems in enigformtest.tgz enigform is triggered by ##ENIGFORM_Sign## in HTML, how is enigform triggered with mod_auth_openpgp?
Where should be located keyring.pub for mod_auth_openpgp, is there some config file?
Ladislav Hagara


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The Carthage College football team (3-6, 1-5 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) closed out its home schedule on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 3 with a 41-24 loss to CCIW-opponent and No. 27 Elmhurst College (8-1, 5-1 CCIW) at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis. The loss was the fifth in a row for the Red Men, who close out their season on Saturday, Nov. 10 with a 1 p.m. game versus Millikin University (4-5, 1-5 CCIW) at Frank M. Lindsay Field in Decatur, Ill.
Elmhurst took a 7-0 lead on its opening drive of the game, going 80 yards on six plays. Scottie Williams, whose 55-yard run set up the score, scored on a two-yard carry at 11:44. Carthage tied the game, 7-7, at 8:18 first period on an eight-play, 69-yard drive that ended with a 19-yard keeper by Red Men quarterback A.J. Simoncelli. Carthage took a 14-7 lead with 1:09 to play in the half when outside linebacker Sean Cleveland (Fr., Wheaton, Ill./North) returned an interception 40 yards for a touchdown.
Elmhurst scored 17 unanswered points to take a 31-14 lead. A nine-play, 56-yard drive in the third period ended with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Joe Furco to Scottie Williams at 9:15 third period that tied the game, 14-14. The Bluejays took the lead, 17-14, on a 43-yard field by Michael Leiva at 7:18 third period. A seven-play, 91-yard scoring drive came next, with Furco completing a 13-yard pass to Corey Thonn with five seconds to play in the period. The Bluejays made it 31-14 at 9:56 fourth quarter on a nine-play, 66-yard drive that ended with a 22-yard carry by Furco.
Carthage's Brett Bukari booted a 35-yard field goal at 8:02 fourth quarter to make it a 31-17 game. The Red Men pulled to within a touchdown, 31-24, with 5:31 to play on six-play, 54-yard scoring drive that was capped by a 12-yard TD pass from A.J. Simoncelli to Nick Gremley. Furco then came up with a backbreaker, scampering 42 yards for a touchdown with 2:34 remaining, putting the Bluejays up by 14, 38-24. Leiva closed out the scoring with a 25-yard field goal with 19 seconds to play, and Elmhurst won, 41-24.
The Bluejays rolled up 527 total offensive yards, 251 yards rushing and 276 yards passing, while Carthage had 316 total yards, 89 on the ground and 227 in the air. Elmhurst running back Scottie Williams ran for 170 yards on 20 carries. Joe Furco completed 29-of-41 passes for 276 yards and two touchdowns, while running for 62 yards on four carries. Corey Thonn caught seven passes for 57 yards and Vince Gabrys six passes for 54 yards. Carthage quarterback A.J. Simoncelli (Fr., Downers Grove, Ill/South) completed 26-of-50 passes for 227 yards and rushed for 52 yards on 12 carries. T.J. Trepanier (Sr., Winthrop Harbor, Ill./Zion-Benton Township) had eight catches for 43 yards and Nick Gremley (Sr., Niles, Ill./West) seven for 95 yards. Bluejays cornerback Jamall Lane collected 12 tackles and intercepted two passes. Carthage strong safety Chris Jacobson (So., Machesney Park, Ill./Harlem) had a game-high 13 tackles, including one tackle-for-loss.
The Red Men played without the services of cornerback Mickey Johnson (So., Chicago, Ill./St. Rita) whose father, Capt. Herbert Johnson of the Chicago Fire Department, died battling a fire on Chicago's south side Friday night.
"We played great in the first half," said Carthage interim coach Mike Yeager. "Except for one great run by Scottie Williams in the first half, we contained them. The second half was a different story. They came out and made plays. We also turned the ball over too many times, and when you do that against a good team, you're going to be in trouble. We thought if we could contain Scottie Williams, we'd have a chance. A.J. Simoncelli gets better and better each week, as are a lot of our younger players. The future is bright, even though that didn't help us today. It's frustrating right now, but we're building something here. All we can do is keep battling."


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A Sussex Police officer based in Lewes has been dismissed from the force after he was found guilty of gross misconduct for accessing computer systems without good reason.
PC Knight claimed to have done so to input information about contacts associated with his estranged, now divorced, wife and believed that his doing so was a lawful policing purpose. However, he was given advice on the first occasion that he did so, but continued to access the systems with specific searches connected with his private life.
In April 2015, he made a false report to Sussex Police that his then partner was a 'cause for concern' as she had failed to respond to his text and phone contact.
He then went on to access this record on the force's command and control system on three occasions and, in doing so, noted her car had been caught on an ANPR camera. He phoned her the following day and told her this information.
The officer denied passing this information and claimed she must have obtained information about the location of the camera from a police documentary. This explanation was not accepted by the panel.
He was found to have committed gross misconduct on four counts involving access to police information and systems and was also found guilty of misconduct with regard to having entered incorrect duty times in his computer record.
A challenge from PC Knight's solicitor that the first of the breaches had been dealt with by management advice by his supervisor at the time and in effect resulted in double jeopardy was dismissed by the panel.
However, ACC Smith did note that the management action taken at the time was incorrect and he was 'disturbed' that the incident had not been referred immediately to the Professional Standards Department. However, he accepted that the full facts had not been available to the supervisor at the time.
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry said: "Sussex Police expects the highest personal and professional standards of anyone who works for us and any allegations of behaviour that do not meet those standards are rigorously investigated.
"Despite being warned that the action he was taking was not authorised, PC Knight continued to access systems drawing himself deeper into the trouble that was entirely of his own making.
"We accept that he was under pressure in his private life, but he had shared this with force and was receiving the support of his colleagues. However, the panel felt that his actions did amount to gross misconduct and he has been dismissed from Sussex Police.
"It is important to show that the force has the ability to fairly investigate its own staff and this highlights our determination not to allow the name of Sussex Police to be tainted, nor bring into disrepute the enormous amount of good work carried out day-to-day by thousands of hard-working and enormously dedicated police officers and staff."
Tagged with: Dismissal | Misconduct | Sussex Police


text: Would it be possible to manipulate a breathalyzer and attach it to a lock such that the lock would not open/ or would open when someone breathed a certain BAC. If so, how would one go at this? What would i need besides a breathalyzer???? I own a breathalyzer if a picture of it is needed just ask


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The Laurel Canyon neighborhood in Los Angeles has been the stomping grounds of countless drug-addled bad drivers (including such crashy legends as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Moon), so the locals are probably accustomed to scenes like this one.
I've just finished reading Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story Of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood, and so these photos- sent in yesterday by loyal reader Aaron- fit in nicely with the traditional theme of Excess In The Hollywood Hills. According to Aaron, his friend's car and three others (all parked) got rearranged by the errant Lambo. Note the effectiveness of the Gallardo's wedge shape at lifting the
SUV Saab 9-5 wagon, and the sturdiness of its structure. Good work, Lamborghini! Badly done, Gallardo driver!


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Audi India sales up 10.5% in January1 min read . Updated: 07 Feb 2013, 05:03 PM IST
Leading the growth for Audi in India are the Audi Q3, new Audi Q5 and Audi Q7
Leading the growth for Audi in India are the Audi Q3, new Audi Q5 and Audi Q7
New Delhi: German luxury car maker Audi AG on Thursday reported 10.5% growth in sales in India during January at 737 units as against 667 units in the same month last year. Leading the growth for Audi in India are the Audi Q3, new Audi Q5 and Audi Q7, Audi India said in a statement.
"Our sale of 737 cars in January signifies our growing appeal amidst the luxury car customers. This was possible despite the price hike on our India model range starting January this year," Audi India head Michael Perschke said. He said the company has set a sales target of 10,800 units, for 2013 which will be a growth of 20% over 9,003 units sold last year. Bullish on the Indian market, he said: "Like the global market, Audi is at No 2 and based on our current performance we are well on track to achieve the No 1 position in the luxury car market in India by 2015." So far this year, the company has launched the new Audi Q5 and the new Audi R8. "We are constantly enhancing our product line, network growth and creating wider brand awareness. This is creating a larger customer base and is reflecting clearly in our sales," Perschke said. Audi India plans to expand its network to 34 dealerships by the end of 2013 from its existing 25 centres. The company recently opened new showrooms in Mumbai South and Lucknow.


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Fair enough, Glass Bottom Games. Coming soon to iOS, Android and possibly PC and Mac from there, Jones on Fire is the ultimate evolution of a game that came to life during BlazeJam, a benefit for those affected by the 2012 Colorado wildfire season.
Now it's about kitties and the saving thereof. This is good.
You can read more about Jones on Fire here. You can play it eventually as well. I'll keep you posted.


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VCP programme benefits referees in Comoros
The VCP Referees Level 1 course was run by instructor Mr. Emile Jabbour from Lebanon, with collaboration of the National Federation of the Comoros and the FIVB.
A total of 20 native referees, including 9 national referees who are working actively within the national championships, took part in the course. Participants included physical education students, referees and coaches – were given theoretical instruction about the latest addition to the Rules of the Game and other technical aspects of the game.
During the course, there was also an organised tournament with three teams to allow the referees to referee under instructions from the course director who was accompanied by the NF president M. Madiane Mohamed Issa, who was active during the whole course.
The closing ceremony attended by the president of the National Olympic Committee, together with the representative from the Ministry of Sports, including other invited guests from the Federation and the Olympic Committee.
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I think what this article is really saying is that the effective population size of Europeans might have dropped to as little as 30 after the LGM peak. If so, that's pretty close to a genetic precipice for most animals. In any case, it looks like there are more hunter-gatherer genomes on the way, including from Denmark and Switzerland, courtesy of Ron Pinhasi's team, which brought us the ancient Hungarian genomes last year (see here).
'As an archaeologist and anthropologist, I was quite shocked to see how limited, how small the population numbers were. You know, shockingly small,' said Prof. Pinhasi, based at University College Dublin, Ireland.
'I think that what happened, it's on a catastrophic level of demography for a long time in human evolution,' he said.
The impacts of this are significant for understanding the origins of many Europeans today, as it is forcing researchers to reconsider models of human expansion and colonisation of the continent, as well as our genetic ancestry.
By analysing the genomes of human remains, the researchers are able to gather demographic data and clues to potential population sizes.
Prof. Pinhasi's team has found that the genomes sequenced from hunter-gatherers from Hungary and Switzerland between 14 000 to 7500 years ago are very close to specimens from Denmark or Sweden from the same period.
These findings suggest that genetic diversity between inhabitants of most of western and central Europe after the ice age was very limited, indicating a major demographic bottleneck triggered by human isolation and extinction during the ice age.
'We're starting to be able to reconstruct the actual dynamics of migrations and colonisation of the continent by modern humans and that's never been done before the genomic era,' explained Prof. Pinhasi.
He believes that early humans crossed the continent in small groups that were cut off while the ice was at its peak, then successively dispersed and regrouped over thousands of years, with dwindling northern populations invigorated by humans arriving from the south, where the climate was better.
Source: Francesca Jenner, Ice-age Europeans roamed in small bands of fewer than 30, on brink of extinction, 26 March 2015, Horizon Magazine


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Matt took a little flight up to Montana last weekend and picked up our new home. It's a rig that we've had our eye on for months...and right at the last minute, all the pieces fell into place. We sold the Safari to the amazing and brilliant Makenna Johnston during a serendipitous late night FaceTime chat. Matt was on his way north a few days later!
Why a different RV? Well...let's just say that after owning so many (this is #11) we have refined exactly what we are looking for in a rig. Especially in an RV that we will be traveling in full-time with 3 kiddos and 2 dogs. If you're still trying to catch up with our life plans...we rented out our mountain getaway for the next 9 months while we travel and spread the love of essential oils! Our renters are fantastic...a couple of park rangers. One that happens to be a bear tracker, which is perfect since Mr. Friendly Neighborhood Bear is very fond of our house.
This is a 2003 Alpine Coach. Yep! Our third Alpine. We absolutely LOVE these coaches. This one is barely broken in with an odometer reading of 24,000! The key selling points were the full-size washer/dryer, full-size residential fridge, and the huge family bedroom area. The closet that we will turn into bunks is super wide and long. Perfect for 3 growing girls. Speaking of 3, it has 3 slides as well. Two in the bedroom and one up front. We will make it cozy for now...but won't be doing the full remodel until this spring when we park in Texas for a spell.
So there ya go! We've been a bit busy around here. So many details take care of before we head down the road. We have 72 hrs before our renters move in and we still aren't fully packed up. But we do work well under pressure. If you need us this weekend, we'll be taping boxes, drinking coffee, and playing in the snow (yep! it's snowing up here as I type!).
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For nearly six weeks, the Toronto Maple Leafs were just a memory.
How had that band of young upstarts, in the playoffs for the first time since 2004, come within 52 seconds of eliminating the Big Bad Boston Bruins? For weeks after, those frantic moments when the Bruins scrambled back to win Game 7 after being down 4-1 with 11 minutes left seemed merely a first-round hiccup.
The Bruins, after all, had found their stride since. They had roughed up the New York Rangers and then, with delicious impudence, sent the prima donnas of Pittsburgh packing in four games.
Even in the first four games of the Stanley Cup final, the Bruins seemed on even keel, playing the Chicago Blackhawks into overtime in three of them and managing to take two of the four.
Then the Blackhawks came out for Game 5 as though coach Joel Quenneville had brandished a cattle prod in the pregame speech, and something shifted. The Blackhawks, who are quite well equipped to match the Bruins' wrecking-ball style of hockey, found a new gear – almost as though they had forgotten they had it – and the Bruins could do nothing about it.
For a moment, it looked like the Maple Leafs all over again.
There can be something mesmerizing about Bruins hockey. For a sport played mostly by big, angry boys with sticks, it can be a default mode. The crowd loves it. North American players have been raised in the Cult of Don Cherry to believe this is "real hockey." You hit me, I'll hit you. And again. And again. It is the endlessly repeating integer of Boston's Stanley Cup equation.
In truth, the real genius of Boston hockey is that it is about making opponents pay an enormous price for every goal. Often, that price is physical. Sometimes, it is mental. The Penguins, for instance, must have wondered when they were ever going to score.
But at its core, Boston hockey is mostly about fundamental hockey.
We will dump the puck into your zone to keep it away from our goal. We will forecheck ferociously to make it as hard as possible to get the puck out of your own zone. We will build a defensive wall around our goaltender. And then, in those rare times when everything breaks down, our spectacular goaltender will stop you.
In Bruins hockey, goals are like the planets aligning – they come only rarely and usually only with a symphonic coincidence of fortuitous circumstances. In Bruins hockey, a team with no clear superstar can become far more than the sum of its parts.
So the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011. So they are in the Stanley Cup final this year.
Yet in the Blackhawks, the Bruins have met a team that can play "Bruins hockey" – fundamentally sound, physically taxing, emotionally draining – yet is more talented than they are. The result, as became clear Saturday, is that no matter how long the two teams play, the Blackhawks will always create more and more dangerous scoring chances when they are at their best.
The Maple Leafs are not as talented as the Blackhawks. But they are young and fast. At times against the Maple Leafs, the Bruins played as though someone had pulled the fire alarm.
Though not as pronounced Saturday, the same impression was inescapable. For all their gristle and hustle, the Bruins could not cope with the Blackhawks' skating.
After spending much of the series flitting about on the edges of the action, Blackhawk Patrick Kane has figured out that it is not his muscle but his movement that is needed. He scored two goals Saturday by ceaselessly seeking the empty patches of ice near the goal that open and close with the speed of a camera shutter.
There's never been much of a doubt that the Blackhawks could put together a game like Game 5. Consider that they are up 3-2 in the series despite the fact that Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask has been guiltless in virtually all of the Blackhawks' 14 goals. That is a testament to the Blackhawks' ability to create offensive chances.
This is not to say that the Blackhawks must win the series. Teams don't always play at their best. Moreover, as solid as Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford has been at times, his glove has been a weakness; Rask could still steal a game or two for the Bruins.
But on Saturday, it was clear: The Blackhawks took Bruins hockey to another level.


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I have been a maths teacher. I have conducted a series of thought-experiments with kids and adults which has opened up a new direction in mathematics. It is often seen as "philosophy", and this was the response by the maths stack community, but I have little interest in playing word games.
I then pursued this in the meta maths stack, and attempted to explain the alternative methodology I have been using, thinking I was simply involving myself in a discussion, and then I was banned for 7 days. This came as somewhat of a shock.
I have been a maths teacher for over ten years. Must I swallow my pride, and just slink off without being able to share my thoughts? Seems a pity, since I really like the interface here provided by stack exchange.


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In the last year, Barack Obama has learned a thing or two about running for president, and Reggie Love has learned a thing or two about Barack Obama.
Mr. Love now knows that when it comes to food, Senator Obama "eats pretty much anything, from chicken wings and barbecue and ribs to grilled fish and steamed broccoli." But when he is campaigning in a small town with limited options, a cheeseburger is always a good bet. ("Cheddar is the cheese of choice," Mr. Love added.)
He knows that "the boss," as he calls Mr. Obama, likes MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew — Black Forest Berry Honest Tea. He keeps a supply of both on hand.
And he has learned that all campaigns have their superstitions — Senator John McCain has a penchant for heads-up coins — and that Mr. Obama is no exception. That means that Mr. Love and Mr. Obama, for luck, play basketball every primary day.
Mr. Love, 26, is Mr. Obama's body man, the personal aide who shadows the senator and anticipates everything he needs — and everything he does not need. He is not a bodyguard (security is provided by the Secret Service), but rather the ultimate assistant, rarely more than a body length away from the candidate.Continue reading the main story
Young, eager campaign aides are stock characters in movies and on television, but few have quite the élan of Mr. Love, who, at 6-foot-5, is about three inches taller than the tall candidate, fitter than the fit candidate (he can bench press more than 350 pounds) and cooler than the cool candidate.
"There's no doubt that Reggie is cooler than I am," Mr. Obama said, laughing, in a phone interview. "I am living vicariously through Reggie."
Mr. Love, who played football and basketball at Duke, usually starts the day with Mr. Obama with a dawn workout in the hotel gym. They end the day more than 15 hours later, often unwinding before bed by watching ESPN's "SportsCenter" or that night's big game. (Mr. Obama sometimes flosses his teeth to ESPN while lying down.)
What a body man does depends on the politician. Senator John Kerry's aide for his presidential race in 2004 was dubbed "part butler, part buddy." Bill Clinton's aide when he was president said their relationship sometimes felt more like that of an old married couple. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has a body woman, the efficient and glamorous Huma Abedin. On NBC's "The West Wing," President Josiah Bartlet treated his body man, Charlie Young, like a son.
Mr. Obama said he regarded "my guy, Reggie," as the kid brother he never had. "But maybe I'm saying that just because he technically could be my son," the Illinois senator said. "I don't want to admit my age."
Mr. Love said he had been hired with "no job description whatsoever."
"It was just like, 'You just go out there and — Take. Care. Of. Stuff,' " Mr. Love said, taking his time with each word.
Some of the "stuff" Mr. Love takes care of: When Mr. Obama makes calls to woo superdelegates, Mr. Love is at his side with a briefing book, dialing the numbers. When an outdoor speech ended on a windy day in Noblesville, Ind., he appeared behind Mr. Obama as he shook hands on the rope line. "Jacket?" he asked, a coat draped at the ready over his arm.
When Mr. Obama dropped food on his tie while eating in the car between stops, Mr. Love was ready with a Tide pen. He always carries one, along with ballpoint pens, and has turned himself into a walking dispensary of Sharpies, stationery, protein bars, throat lozenges, water, tea, Advil, Tylenol, Purell and emergency Nicorette, not to mention his ever-present iPhone, BlackBerry and Canon Rebel XT digital camera. (Mr. Love keeps a photo journal of the campaign, and has more than 10,000 pictures so far.)
Compared with the even-tempered and self-controlled Mr. Obama, Mr. Love is raffish, always joking with the Secret Service, offering closed-fist high-fives to members of the news media and making frequent appearances in the daily pool reports. At a V.F.W. hall in Indiana, he helped out when the senator did not want a second Budweiser, taking it off Mr. Obama's hands.
Mr. Obama often mentions that Mr. Love was a wide receiver on a football scholarship at Duke who also walked onto the basketball team. At a rally a few weeks ago in Mr. Love's hometown, Charlotte, N.C., the candidate led the crowd in a chant of "Reggie, Reggie, Reggie!"
After the Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia in April, Mr. Obama borrowed a move from the rapper Jay-Z and mimed brushing off his shoulders, but it was Mr. Love who had uploaded his music to the senator's iPod in the first place — a silver Nano that he bought the senator for his 46th birthday.
"So I've gotten pretty fond of Jay-Z," Mr. Obama said. "He's broadened my horizons in the hip-hop world."
In turn, Mr. Obama said he had gotten Mr. Love into "everything from John Coltrane to Frank Sinatra."
"I think he's got the most eclectic music of any 26-year-old," the senator said.
Along the way, some unofficial rules have emerged between the candidate and his aide. From Mr. Obama: "One cardinal rule of the road is, we don't watch CNN, the news or MSNBC. We don't watch any talking heads or any politics. We watch 'SportsCenter' and argue about that."
And from Mr. Love: Expect to be grilled about everything as if you were a first-year law student.
When Mr. Obama hits a rough patch in the campaign, Mr. Love is sympathetic. In college, embarrassing pictures of an inebriated Mr. Love from a fraternity house party surfaced on the Internet. "You make mistakes and you learn from them, and you try to use them to make you a better person," he said. After graduating with a degree in political science and public policy, Mr. Love had summer try-outs with the Green Bay Packers in 2004 and the Dallas Cowboys in 2005 before being cut.
Which is how, in 2006, after applying for an internship on Capitol Hill, Mr. Love ended up interviewing with Robert Gibbs, Mr. Obama's communications director, for a position in Mr. Obama's Senate office. "It's the only time I've ever interviewed somebody whose work experience included the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys," Mr. Gibbs said.
Sports these days, for the candidate and his aide, are limited to morning workouts. And, of course, the primary day basketball games.
"He's quick and he's strong," Mr. Love said of Mr. Obama. "A lot of people still don't know that he's left-handed, so he can get to the basket and get his shot off, even though he's not the most explosive or tallest player on the court."
If Mr. Obama thinks Mr. Love is dogging it on the court, he can come down hard, shouting at him to hustle, said someone who has played basketball with the two of them.
But on the day of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Mr. Love and Mr. Obama played at noon and kept up an easy rhythm. "Sorry, Reg, I missed you," the senator said after a pass to Mr. Love was intercepted. Later, on a fast-break, Mr. Obama dribbled up the right side of the court and passed the ball ahead to Mr. Love, who slam-dunked it.
Later that night, after the senator gave his victory speech in Raleigh after winning the North Carolina primary, Mr. Love rode to the airport with Mr. Obama, who was flying to Chicago. Mr. Love was staying behind in his home state to catch up with friends. (His parents now live in California, and Mr. Love managed to squeeze in a visit there last weekend.)
"Michelle was like: 'Where are you staying? Don't get into too much trouble,' " Mr. Love said of Mr. Obama's wife.
Waiting ahead, after all, were more early mornings in the gym and more long days on the road.Continue reading the main story


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Rehhagel picked to make Germany popular in Greece
ATHENS, Greece He pulled off one of soccer's greatest historic upsets. Now Otto Rehhagel has been handed a task equally challenging: to make Germany popular again in crisis-hit Greece.
Germany is widely seen here as the country pressing hardest for the toughest cuts in Greece. Germany is the lead creditor in Greece's financial bailout program, but its reputation has been devastated by successive austerity measures, which have caused a rapid increase in poverty and unemployment. Greece is receiving emergency loans from the eurozone as a whole, as well as the International Monetary Fund.
Rehhagel, a German, coached Greece to a stunning victory in the 2004 European Championships, building a team that went on to qualify for two other European tournaments and the 2010 World Cup. Germany hopes to use his national hero status in Greece as a diplomatic tool. Rehhagel, 74, will visit Greece this month as a goodwill ambassador, traveling with officials in a regional government cooperation program, the German Embassy said Friday.
A visit to Greece in October by German Chancellor Angela Merkel triggered mass protests in Athens.
Rehhagel is due in Greece on March 25, the country's Independence Day.
"The purpose of the visit is to make clear the deep bond between Greece and Germany ... He will visit Greece with the slogan `We encourage the Greeks, our friends!'" a statement from the German Embassy said. "There will be no political review of the current situation. The visit is aimed at encouraging the Greeks."
Rehhagel coached Greece for 107 matches between 2001 and 2010, rising from 61st to 12th place in the world rankings.


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Just one thing, should probably scale all attributes back to values out of 20 as opposed to values out of 100. In EFM we used values out of 20 and it worked fine. The problem was that the sim didn't scale it at all. So players with a shooting skill difference of say 20 (i.e one player 40 and one 20) is the same as 0-20 on the scale out of 20 (i.e one player 20 and one 0)
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ok this is just my view but imo 2 people is enough to sim matches etc.
I would not mind talking over a communication/organisation role that gets messages to members and also organising captains etc what is everyone's opinions?
I could be then used as a back up simmer or a International/Representative simmer or something if one person wanted a break?
Edit : The idea to keep International Matches active etc so that they are a decent part of our schedule.
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^ The idea have having simming responsibilities and communications and research seperate is a good 1.
An automatic back up for each position and someone that you can deal with over a particular issue.
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Hrm, as my name has been thrown around (complimentary as it may be),I do have to mention upfront that I don't have time for the football aspect of CW as well as the cricket side of things with final year uni and all.
Would rather not be affiliated with any behind the scene role in CW Football due to a lack of time.
The idea Matteh and co have put to the front looks awseome, though.
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As for the structure, it looks good. Also, it's not like I'm demanding any sort of role on the board or the selection committee, I'd be quite happy to work behind the scenes too. However, I'd take on any added responsibility gladly.
yer nice work guys
i would be more than happy to put my hand up if noone else wanted to for board member or behind the scenes work.
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Any further progess?
I'm currently at home and have barely been online much the last 24 hours. Get back to Uni about 5:30pm tomorrow (which is where my version of ESMS is anyway) so tomorrow night i'll be back to my normal active state.
Also Goughy, i'll need a word with you on MSN at some point soon.
A first draft of the structure is probably where we should go from here. Thoughts?
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I'm most likely going to be offline and out of contact for the next 5-6 weeks, so Alex would have to take my seat on the Board until I will be able to become more active.
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Sriram, i'll need to catch you on MSN at some point soon to discuss how it'll work etc.
Pretty sure i've got your MSN but i'm not 100% sure.
Nah, don't have you on my list.
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Scientists from the CERN Laboratory near Geneva are expected to make an announcement on July 4, 2012 that either the Higgs Boson (God) particle has been discovered or extremely strong evidence of its existence has been gathered. The existence of the particle has been theorized for some time on the assumption that the so called Standard Model of Physics is a valid explanation of the properties of the universe. The particle is sometimes referred to as the God particle because it is supposed to assign size, shape and mass to all of the matter in the universe. Additionally, its existence would provide for the existence of multiple universes.
Update: The awaited announcement was that a new subatomic particle has in fact been discovered that, upon thus far shallow investigation, shows similarities to the theorized Higgs Boson.
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Well, first a couple questions have to be asked:
Thing is, if this ISN'T the Higgs Boson, that may mean that the Higgs is still out there, waiting to be discovered ... OR it may mean that the standard model is out the window and time to start with a clean sheet of paper.
Whatever they've discovered at the LHC, my guess is that they'll be a while quantifying exactly WHAT they've discovered before any earch-shattering conclusions are arrived at. The very fact that they referred to it as "Higgs-like" is a strong indicator, I would say.
I think the point of the article was that the discovery of a variation of the Higgs that was originally predicted could be more exciting than the discovery of a Higgs that was totally consistent with the one that was originally predicted. That is, a Higgs that is totally consistent with the originally predicted one would leave a lot of unanswered questions that a variation of the originally predicted Higgs might resolve. No doubt a lot of investigation of the new particle is in order before it can be called a type of Higgs but in that we don't know it is not a type of Higgs I think that anybody who isn't excited about it isn't enthusiastic about science in the first place.
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[Updated: Fox moved Fantastic Four to June 19, 2015]
Twentieth Century Fox - taking a page from the Marvel Studios playbook - hired comic creator Mark Millar as a consultant in September 2012 to offer ideas and help oversee the development of their Marvel properties. That hiring came on the recommendation of director Joe Carnahan who at the time was attempting to revive Daredevil before Fox gave up and let the rights revert back to Disney.
Millar's job is to make Fox' remaining Marvel properties embrace a consistent and cohesive, shared universe that takes full advantage of Marvel Comics history, and it begins with two X-Men films over the next two years, followed by Fantastic Four a year later.
James Mangold's The Wolverine hits theaters next summer followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past the summer of 2014. In the spring of 2015, Josh Trank's Fantastic Four will release before that summer blockbuster season kicks off and after all of that, well, we'll just wait and see.
ERC shared the info that Fox has selected
March 6, 2015 (Update: Moved to June 19, 2015) as the release date for the Fantastic Four reboot, a film that almost was pushed into development two years ago when X-Men: First Class, fast-tracked thanks to the return of Bryan Singer, became their focus. By comparison, the first Fantastic Four released July 8, 2005 and its sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer June 15, 2007 .
There were rumored castings at the time, and we learned from a special effects artist at the studio that they were already planning out a CGI version of Thing. But it all came to a halt until Fox's low-budget Chronicle became a hit and the director, Josh Trank, became a highly sought-after director brought in to develop and helm the reboot.
And just like The Amazing Spider-Man was rebooted (successfully, mind you) only a decade after Sam Raimi first brought Peter Parker to life on the big screen, the new Fantastic Four will hit theaters 10 years after Tim Story's adaptation starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis released.
With this date selection, Trank will likely be shooting in early 2014, which makes us wonder when he'll begin shooting on Shadow of the Colossus, Sony's video game adaptation. It also means that Fox has one Marvel movie a year for the next three years.
We know that Fox wants to (re)establish the Fantastic Four before doing something more ambitious, like crossing them over with the X-Men, but that absolutely is the next logical step if Bryan Singer can do something special with his time travel tale, X-Men: Days of Future Past.
If however, the modern day X-Men films come to an end with that film and producer Lauren Shuler Donner doesn't get her wish of an X-Men 4 & 5, then it's possible that Fantastic Four could later team up with an X-Men reboot... Hugh Jackman won't play Wolverine forever.
Sharing 2015 with Fantastic Four in the comic book movie/superhero genre will be The Avengers 2, Ant-Man and (potentially) Justice League. No pressure.
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SEATTLE (AP) Shawn Kelley and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to a $935,000, one-year contract that avoids salary arbitration.
The team announced the deal Wednesday.
Kelley gets a raise from $610,000 last season, when the right-handed reliever went 2-4 with a 3.25 ERA in 47 appearances. He had asked for $1.2 million this year and was offered $750,000 by the Mariners.
The 28-year-old Kelley is 10-9 with a 3.52 ERA in four major league seasons, all with Seattle. He can earn an additional $41,250 each for 60, 90, 120 and 150 days on the active roster, not including time on the disabled list.
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A Florida judge Monday ruled against a libel lawsuit brought by George Zimmerman against NBC Universal, saying the network did not maliciously seek to portray him as a racist when it edited a phone call he made to police before shooting an unarmed black teenager.
Florida Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson said Zimmerman, acquitted of second-degree murder last year, has no right to money from NBC, according to court documents.
"Because Zimmerman is unable to demonstrate that the editing choices at issue resulted in a materially false change in the meaning of what he actually said, he cannot pursue his defamation claims," Nelson, who also presided over Zimmerman's murder trial last year, wrote in her summary judgment.
Zimmerman claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, in February 2012, when he was a neighborhood watch volunteer. His acquittal last year prompted civil rights rallies and drew international attention to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.
In the lawsuit, which was filed before his acquittal, Zimmerman said NBC intentionally edited and repeatedly aired a phone call he made to police before he fatally shot Martin "to create the myth" that he was a racist.
The edited audio aired in March 2012 on the network's "Today" morning show, a nightly newscast and on a Miami affiliate station. Zimmerman contended it made it appear that he told police that Martin was black without being asked.
The full tape revealed that Zimmerman did so in response to a dispatcher's question.
But Nelson said Zimmerman was a public figure at the time and therefore would have to prove that the broadcasters acted with malice in an effort to defame him.
The network apologized to its viewers in a statement and fired at least two NBC News employees.
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Zimmerman's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment on Nelson's ruling. The network released a statement saying: "NBC News is gratified by the court's dismissal of this lawsuit, which we have always believed to be without merit."
Zimmerman had been seeking an undisclosed amount in damages. The judge's ruling on Monday ends his lawsuit, unless it is overturned on appeal, a court spokeswoman said.
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Prior to 1990, the Clean Air Act required EPA to set standards for each individual air toxin based on its particular health risks. This approach was difficult and not very effective at reducing emissions. As a result, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments directed the U.S. EPA to use technology-based and performance-based approaches in order to significantly reduce air toxics emissions from major sources of air pollution. This approach would be followed by a risk-based approach to address any remaining risk ("residual risk.")
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Introduction of 56nm 8-Gigabit (Gb) Multi-Level-Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Chips Begins This Quarter, with 56nm 16-Gb MLC Planned for Q207
56nm Transition Enables Continued Cost-effective MLC Flash Memory
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, January 23, 2007 - SanDisk Corporation® (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that it expects to see the launch of the next generation of NAND flash memory this quarter as it begins the transition from 70 nanometer (nm) to 56nm multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory chips at Fab 3, the 300mm wafer fabrication facility that is located at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations near Nagoya, Japan. In the first half of this year, SanDisk intends to start shipping products with the industry's highest available density of single-chip MLC NAND flash memory.
After qualifying limited engineering samples, SanDisk plans to introduce 8Gb (1 gigabyte) single-chip MLC NAND flash memory on 56nm process technology in the first quarter. In Q2-07, the company expects to introduce 56nm 16Gb (2 Gigabyte) NAND, which doubles the memory density per chip when compared to 70nm technology. Architectural innovations and improved programming efficiency in 56nm technology are expected to enhance product performance. The adoption of 56nm process technology allows SanDisk to continue its leadership in providing cost-effective flash memory-based products.
"With commencement of the 56nm technology, SanDisk is rolling out its fifth generation of MLC NAND flash memory," said Dr. Randhir Thakur, SanDisk's executive vice president of technology and worldwide operations. "The technology and design advances will help enable SanDisk products to offer approximately twice the improvement in write performance compared to the 70nm generation. We are pleased with the joint development of 56nm advanced technology with Toshiba, and expect it to become a production workhorse in Fab 3 during the second half of this year. We are executing according to plan and continue to make the captive Fabs highly cost-effective sources of flash memory for our expanding array of consumer products," he added.
SanDisk and Toshiba share output from the Yokkaichi facility and have co-developed many of the designs and technologies in MLC NAND flash. The new 56nm flash will be produced initially at Fab 3, the first 300mm wafer facility that SanDisk and Toshiba opened in 2005. By the end of this year, Fab 4, the new 300mm facility now under construction in connection with Flash Alliance, Ltd., a venture between the two companies, is expected to add to the 56nm flash production.
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Every Christmas I try not to fill my wish-list with books, but all I ever do is try… and fail. But, aren't book the best gifts? These are the one I got for being such a good girl and reader:
Our Kind of Traitor (John LeCarré) – After reading his wonderful The Constant Gardener, I thought his last book, that takes places during the economic recession in England, must be great as well. It promises social criticism, love, crimes and intrigue.
Lamb (Christopher Moore) – I am such a big fan of Christopher Moore! He is a wonderful and hilarious writer plus, he answers fan emails back. This is about the teenagers years of Jesus Christ and it looks as as light and funny reading.
Tamara Drewe (Posy Simmonds) – I have already read this graphic novel because I really loved the film. It is quintessentially English and it reads very quick. The main character, Tamara is a complicated and manipulating young woman who comes back home after her mother's death. But she is no longer the ugly duckling her neighbours remembered and she turns the whole town upside down.
London Fields (Martin Amis) – One of my favourite actresses is starring in the movie coming out next year, so I thought I'd better read the original work while waiting. There is a woman, Nicola Six, who knows when, how and why will kill her, but she doesn't really know the man, her muderer. On the other hand, a man enteres a public house and finds a stage ready to follow his orders.
The Cemetery of Prague (Umberto Eco) – Umberto Eco is basically a god when it comes to literary theory and his last novel, published 20 years after The Name of the Rose looks very interesting: a 19th century forger in Paris tries to remember his life. But his life is not that simple, specially when you meet people like a doctor called Froïd and the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi. Historically interesting.
What about yours? Which books did you get? Have you discovered anything new to read in this first month of 2011? Let me know!


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Memory Loss & Headaches caused by Wireless Internet in Schools Part 2
In recent years, as Wi-Fi technology has been introduced into classrooms – together with the explosion in popularity of cell phones – Philips said he has received reports of short-term memory loss, constant headaches and lethargy among students.
He conceded that these symptoms may in part be caused by poor diet and lack of exercise but said he also wondered whether wireless Internet in classrooms were not also to blame.
Unlike the case with radio and television, which involve continuous wave transmissions, Wi-Fi relies on pulsed transmissions to transmit data. As a result, Philips said, the system is exposing people to types of radiation they haven't had to deal with before.
He could not say that Wi-Fi is actually dangerous but believes it may be a health time bomb set to explode years or even decades from now.
"I'm really worried," Philips said. "I think it's disastrous. I think it's a lot bigger than passive smoking."
The World Health Organization established an international EMF project in 1996 to study long-term health effects of the radiation.
"Electro-magnetic fields of all frequencies represent one of the most common and fastest growing environmental influences, about which anxiety and speculation are spreading," the agency says on its website. "All populations are now exposed to varying degrees of EMF, and the levels will continue to increase as technology advances."
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