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LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to "root out" cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon.
"We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain," Obama said at a town-hall style meeting at a renewable energy plant in Reno, Nev.
The town hall was sandwiched in between Obama's four fundraising events in California on Thursday — one in San Francisco and three in Los Angeles. The president was holding six fundraisers over the course of his three-day West Coast trip, aimed at high-dollar donors and young people, both of whom will be integral to a campaign that could set fundraising records.At Facebook HQ, Obama again touts deficit plan
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
"This is going to just as hard, if not harder, than 2008," he said of his re-election bid during a small fundraiser at Sony Pictures Studios.
Probing traders and speculators
With the 2012 campaign in mind, the White House is anxious to show the public it's taking action to address rising gasoline prices. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.84 on Thursday, about 30 cents higher than a month ago and almost a dollar higher than a year ago.
Obama, decrying such levels as yet another hardship "at a time when things were already pretty tough," said Holder was forming the Financial Fraud Enforcement Working Group.
The task force will focus some of its investigation on "the role of traders and speculators" in the oil-price surge, Obama said, and will include several Cabinet department officials, federal regulators and the National Association of Attorneys General.
In Washington, Holder said he would press ahead with the investigation, even though he did not cite any current evidence of intentional manipulation of oil and gas prices or fraud.
"Based upon our work and research to date, it is evident that there are regional differences in gasoline prices, as well as differences in the statutory and other legal tools at the government's disposal," Holder said in a memo accompanying a statement announcing the task force. "It is also clear that there are lawful reasons for increases in gas prices, given supply and demand."Story: Obama mixing politics and policy on West Coast
"Nonetheless, where consumers are harmed by unlawful conduct that has the effect of increasing gas prices, state and federal authorities will take swift action," Holder said.
He promised to "be vigilant in monitoring the oil and gas markets for any wrongdoing so that consumers can be confident they are not paying higher prices as a result of illegal activity."
There's not much Obama can do to affect the price of gasoline in short term, something he acknowledged in his remarks. Gas prices have risen steadily as a result of tensions in the Middle East and northern Africa and rising demand from China and other emerging economies.
Given that no evidence has yet surfaced of actual fraud or price manipulation in oil markets, Obama's remarks appeared, at least in part, as more of an attempt to assuage public anger over rising gas prices.
Other presidents have also launched similar inquiries at times of rising oil prices and widespread public suspicions of market manipulation by the oil industry or by speculators.
In an Associated Press-Gfk poll last month, 51 percent of adults said they thought recent increases in gas prices were due to "oil companies that want to boost profits" rather than changes in the global oil market. Nine percent said higher prices stemmed from a combination of both, 37 percent from changes in the market.Story: Obama's pulpit is bully, but GOP keeps charging
Obama renewed his proposal to end roughly $4 billion annually in various government subsidies to oil and gas companies "at a time when they're making record profits and you're paying near record prices at the pump. It has to stop."
Asked by a member of the audience about prospects for advancements in clean energy, Obama predicted that, with time, prices of now-expensive devices such as electric cars would come down.
"Having a flat-screen TV used to be a big deal," Obama said. But he said now such TVs are commonplace because prices have dropped so much.
While acknowledging he doesn't spend much time these days behind the wheel, Obama said, "I've been in one of these Chevy Volts. This is a nice car. It drives well."
He said when such vehicles become more affordable, "those of you out there driving that 8-mile-a-gallon SUV" should consider a purchase. Otherwise, by buying gasoline that likely came from imported oil, Americans "are putting money in the pockets of people who do not like us at all," he said.
Change 'tougher than expected'
Before the Reno event Thursday, Obama told supporters in San Francisco that he was pressing ahead with his agenda in a difficult political environment and that "change turned out to be a lot tougher than expected."
Obama addressed about 200 people who paid up to $35,800 apiece for the fundraiser at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel, the first of four for the day.Protesters at Obama fundraiser: "Free Bradley Manning"
Obama was interrupted by a small group among the paying guests who protested the detention of Bradley Manning, an Army private accused of leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website.
"We paid our dues, where's our change?" the protesters sang to the president.
"We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true. Look at the Republicans — what else can we do?"
Obama paused while security removed some of the protesters, then joked, "That's a nice song. You guys have much better voices than I do."
Manning, suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks while serving as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, was transferred this week to an Army prison in Kansas from the Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia, where he has spent the last nine months.
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The fragile truce that followed Lewis Hamilton's departure from McLaren at the end of 2012 was always unlikely to hold, and the cracks are now appearing on the eve of the new season.
On Tuesday Hamilton said he was enjoying the new freedom he has at Mercedes and made some thinly-veiled swipes at his old team. "I am comfortable with who I am," he said. "I don't need someone telling me. If someone doesn't accept me for who I am, that is their problem. You need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are.
"I have come from a place where there was a lot of control, where you had to do and say what you were told. While you have to remain respectful and polite, you can still be who you want to be."
Asked about the comments, Button admitted to the Press Association he was "very surprised" to hear what his former team-mate had said and gave McLaren his full support. "The freedom I have in this team is phenomenal," he said. "It is so not like that. It is a very open team, free team, and a team that will do anything for you."
He agreed that the demands on his time from sponsors was considerable but that was part of the job. "You learn to understand, you learn to adapt and realise it is part of this job, and you need that to succeed. It is not about just working with the sponsor, it is about doing a great job with the sponsor because you want them to work with you for a long time, you want to move forward with them.
"So I understand from that point of view it is very busy here, your time is restricted because you are flying around, travelling more and doing more sponsor events."
However, Button said the team was fully behind the drivers. "I've heard so many rumours and read so much in the media about the way this team is, and it's so far from the truth. It's such a big family and they will do anything to make sure we are comfortable and that when we go racing we are totally focused."

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Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: Use Cases and Identify Hot Spots
written by David Rousset
Previously we introduced HTML5 Web Workers, showed you how to post messages using JSON, and discussed web browsers support, non-accessible elements, and error handling & debugging. This week we will look at use cases and specific scenarios for the use of Web Workers, and will show you how to locate hot spots within your code.
Use Cases and How to Identify Potential Candidates
When you browse the Web looking for sample usages of the Web Workers, you always find the same kind of demos: intensive mathematical/scientific computation. You'll then find some JavaScript raytracers, fractals, prime numbers, and stuff like that. Nice demos to understand the way Workers works, but this gives us few concrete perspectives on how to use them in "real world" applications.
Web Workers for Which Scenarios?
It's true that the limitations we've seen above on the resources available inside Web Workers narrow down the number of interesting scenarios. Still, if you just take some time to think about it, you'll start to see new interesting usages:
- image processing by using the data extracted from the <canvas> or the <video> elements. You can divide the image into several zones and push them to the different Workers that will work in parallel. You'll then benefit from the new generation of multi-cores CPUs. The more you have, the faster you'll go.
- big amount of data retrieved that you need to parse after an XMLHTTPRequest call. If the time needed to process this data is important, you'd better do it in background inside a Web Worker to avoid freezing the UI Thread. You'll then keep a reactive application.
- background text analysis: as we have potentially more CPU time available when using the Web Workers, we can now think about new scenarios in JavaScript. For instance, we could imagine parsing in real-time what the user is currently typing without impacting the UI experience. Think about an application like Word (of our Office Web Apps suite) leveraging such possibility: background search in dictionaries to help the user while typing, automatic correction, etc.
- concurrent requests against a local database. IndexDB will allow what the Local Storage can't offer us: a thread-safe storage environment for our Web Workers.
Moreover, if you switch to the video game world, you can think about pushing the AI or physics engines to the Web Workers. For instance, I've found this experimentation: On Web Workers, GWT, and a New Physics Demo which use the Box2D physic engine with Workers. For your Artificial Intelligence engine, this means also that you will be able in the same timeframe to process more data (anticipate more moves in a chess game for instance).
Some of my colleagues may now argue that the only limit is your imagination!
But in a general manner, as long as you don't need the DOM, any time-consuming JavaScript code that may impact the user experience is a good candidate for the Web Workers. However, you need to pay attention to 3 points while using the Workers:
- The initializing time and the communication time with the worker shouldn't be superior to the processing itself
- The memory cost of using several Workers
- The dependency of the code blocks between them as you may then need some synchronization logic. Parallelization is not something easy my friends!
On our side, we've recently published the demo named Web Workers Fountains:
This demo displays some particles effects (the fountains) and uses 1 Web Worker per fountain to try to compute the particles in the fastest way possible. Each Worker result is then aggregated to be displayed inside the <canvas> element. Web Workers can also exchange messages between them via the Message Channels. In this demo, this is used to ask to each of the Workers when to change the color of the fountains. We're then looping through this array of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink, thanks to the Message Channels. If you're interested in the details, jump into the LightManager() function of the Demo3.js file.
Also, feel free to launch this demo inside Internet Explorer 10, it's fun to play with!
How To Identify Hot Spots in Your Code
To track the bottlenecks and identify which parts of your code you could send to the Web Workers, you can use the script profiler available with the F12 bar of IE9/10. It will then help you to identify your hot spots. However, identifying a hot spot doesn't mean you've identified a good candidate for Web Workers. To better understand that, let's review together two different interesting cases.
Case 1: Animation inside <canvas> with the Speed Reading demo
This demo comes from IE Test Drive and can be browsed directly here: Speed Reading. It tries to display some characters as fast as possible using the <canvas> element. The goal is to stress the quality of the implementation of the hardware acceleration layer of your browser. But going beyond that, would it be possible to obtain more performance by splitting some operations on threads? We need to achieve some analysis to check that.
If you run this demo inside IE9/10, you can also start the profiler within a couple of seconds. Here is the kind of results you'll obtain:
If you're sorting the time-consuming functions in decreasing order, you'll clearly see those functions coming first: DrawLoop(), Draw() and drawImage(). If you're double-clicking on the Draw line, you'll jump into the code of this method. You'll then observe several calls of this type:
surface.drawImage(imgTile, 0, 0, 70, 100, this.left, this.top, this.width, this.height);
Where the surface object is referencing a <canvas> element.
A quick conclusion of this brief analysis is that this demo spends most of its time drawing inside the Canvas through the drawImage() method. As the <canvas> element is not accessible from a Web Worker, we won't be able to offload this time-consuming task to different threads (we could have imagined some ways of handling the <canvas> element in a concurrency manner for instance). This demo is then not a good candidate for the parallelization possibilities offered by the Web Workers.
It's well-illustrating the process you need to put in place, however. If, after a profiling job, you're discovering that the major part of the time-consuming scripts are deeply linked to DOM objects, the Web Workers won't be able to help you boost the performance of your Web app.
Case 2: Raytracers inside <canvas>
Let's now take another easy example to understand. Let's take a raytracer like this one: Flog.RayTracer Canvas Demo. A raytracer uses some very CPU-intensive mathematical computations in order to simulate the path of light. The idea is to simulate some effects like reflection, refraction, materials, etc.
Let's render a scene while launching the script profiler. You should obtain something like this:
Again, if we sort the functions in decreasing order, 2 functions clearly seem to take most of the time: renderScene() and getPixelColor().
The goal of the getPixelColor() method is to compute the current pixel. Indeed, ray-tracing is rendering a scene pixel per pixel. This getPixelColor() method is then calling the rayTrace() method in charge of rendering the shadows, ambient light, etc. This is the core of our application. And if you're reviewing the code of the rayTrace() function, you'll see that it's 100% pure JavaScript juice. This code has no DOM dependency. Well, I think you'll get it: this sample is a very good candidate to parallelization. Moreover, we can easily split the image rendering on several threads (and thus potentially on several CPUs) as there's no synchronization needed between each pixel computation. Each pixel operation is independent from its neighborhood as no anti-aliasing is used in this demo.
This is then not a surprise if we can find some raytracers samples using some Web Workers like this one.
After profiling this raytracer using IE10, we can see the important differences between using no Worker and using 4 Workers:
In the first screenshot, the processRenderCommand() method is using almost all of the CPU available and the scene is rendered in 2.854s.
With 4 Web Workers, the processRenderCommand() method is executed in parallel on 4 different threads. We can even see their Worker Id on the right column. The scene is rendered this time in 1.473s. The benefits were real: the scene has been rendered 2 times faster.
There is no magical or new concept linked to the Web Workers in the way to review/architect your JavaScript code for parallel execution. You need to isolate the intensive part of your code. It needs to be relatively independent of the rest of your page's logic to avoid waiting for synchronization tasks. And the most important part: the code shouldn't be linked to the DOM. If all these conditions are met, think about the Web Workers. They could definitely help you boost the general performance of your Web app!
Additional Web Worker Resources
Here are some interesting additional resources to read:
About the Author
David Rousset is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, specializing in HTML5 and web development. Follow him @Silversurfeur on Twitter.
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Have Analysts Given Up on H-P?
Hewlett-Packard's shares sank to the lowest levels in ten years on as the company took an $8.8 billion charge on its Autonomy acquisition. S&P Capital IQ senior analyst Angelo Zino joins digits to discuss. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... HP shares taking a dive today in which every man that he used to problems the company taking an eight billion dollar shots will have back and mall ... right and right now on Digits good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... so this age the news is that it's dominating the headlines with Angela zero up SNP Capital IQ is a senior analyst analyzes that they can to ease into it ... tells about a somewhat what it means when you finish off as the rest of us when he sold us this morning ... well we weren't necessarily too shocked about the breakdown with autonomy to mean we we as he anticipated some type of rate down to occur ... I will go on as the company they purchased our nine it was controversial when that when HP it but just as the U K company ... that anyone surprised that was ... written down but this is a lot to ... write it is a large amount money and in comes just after ... the breakdown of bite you know from the EDS acquisition so you looking at ... the two quarters of the loss of seventeen billion right now ... SOEs a significant dollar amount ... it is an asset as absolutely it's huge ... is this company a sinking ship is this is this the integration ... HP is it isn't going down it seems to because they have CEO ton of ... they keep having ... some problems with acquisitions ... I know both of them ... well the link I'll look at the company right now is their deftly into an accounting situation you look at most of the core markets whether it be PCs printers ... out what had near their core markets and the plane a sharp decline ... um that said ... we view God in you mention to its new CEO in May and then when I was an amazing things with the bank rather than about it and you know you hope to see Thomas stays on long enough doesn't necessary cost restructurings ... and Conover starts to emissions from the right direction ... now you hope that not even if the company is is a good going down like it like it like it should still times when you multiply because it's actually worth more than the stock prices of oil would have to happen for you to ... to break the supply side you rate now on hold right which was that need new final most out ... of sodium in order for us to come get more optimistic on the shares ... we would be the time to see some slight type of stabilization in some of the bull market ... that we needed to start seeing them show some type of success in the mall while space something that they haven't done yet ... aam until that happens but despite the four percent note north of one percent free cash flow ... or didn't deal does well substantial free cash flow generating ... 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Greg Brady gets Community
I last wrote on online community, and how too often, the social media "gurus" just look to one community, and do not move beyond that community. I can name a couple examples this week alone, of product launches and video conferencing that just applies to the circle ... and barely moves beyond it.
Part of what I wrote about, though, was the communities that I was involved with. And, well, that left out a lot of communities that I have done SOME work with, but would not consider myself a hardcore member. But, that does not mean that they aren't out there, and I am trying to talk to them for my blog.
And, Jonathan Trenn touched upon this recently, as well - that the community is insular, and lacks diversity. And, just look around, and you will notice that he's not wrong.
So, in preparation for my community post, I was approached by MyLifeBrand. They ping me often on their latest communities and updates, and I usually flag them for future use, or to use in my pitch blog. So, when they reached out to me about Barry Williams taking his community to MyLifeBrand, I took the opportunity to speak to him. Come on, it's Greg Brady!
No, I didn't ask him about the sexual escapades on The Brady Bunch (although we did talk about the passing of the Al the Butcher). But, here's an actor (not what we expect to be on the cutting edge of social media) that is older (and, for some people, older than 25 is old in social media) but who probably gets it more than a lot of the companies and social media gurus out there. Or, he's been trained really, really, really well.
I think he gets it, IMHO.
Barry Williams from the Brady Bunch
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So, below are the notes from the conversation:
The whole point of the community is that is the anchor for The Greg Brady Project (hence forth GPB) - and we went with MyLifeBrand because they seemed to have the kind of social networking technology that we were looking for. At GPB, you can go into the community, and aggregate all your social network sites that you are involved (MySpace, LinkedIn) and pull them into the community. It lets you import your friends, message friends, all within the community we are creating at the GPB.This is what I loved about the interview: The one thing that I have run into is that this is a time demand, and I knew that it would require a partnership with my fans. That's how I look at The Greg Brady Project - it's a powerful tool for social networking, and it's about caring about the relationships, and keeping and growing those relationships.
One central point, though, is making the site a way to be a centralized social network. We brought in other tools that we like, such as MyBlogLog and Flickr, and put them into the community to help assemble the Greg Brady Project as a fan community portal with a blog, a blog that's written by me [Barry Williams] and co-authors and guest authors.
The co-authors are a big part of the fan base, and by sharing the platform of the GBP, we are giving the fans a voice within their own community. It's an actual conversation with my fans, and an authenticate conversation. We also have guest authors, who are usually other celebrities that come to share and give their perspectives on celebrity, working with me (or being my friend) through the years, and other fun anecdotes.
The whole idea of the GPB was that I was looking for a place to meet the fans. I had a Web site for 8 years, but it was a one-way street and I was looking to create and maintain and foster relationships, so I transitioned the site into a blog and a community. Now, it's more real-time than a static Web site.
And, now all kinds of interesting things have happened by creating the community to speak with fans, and also business partners and communities. It's a big world to explore with community, and it's a way for me to have a current voice that allows me to be real with the fans, share what I am doing and grow the community. And, I wanted to make sure that it was no another Brady Bunch fan site (but still Brady friendly). It's not for the minutiae of Brady fans, but a personal and current journey. This is an active site, where I am part of the community and active in the upkeep.
In the 42 years I have been in the business, I have met interesting and great people, I have great memories. And, people have asked me about those over the years.
I did not design GPB to be self-serving, but to give back and be part of the community. We did research, and we discussed how we were going to create the community. It took some time (about 9 months) to think through the layers, visit other sites, and found that the celebrity blogosphere ... well, there were a lot of elements lacking.
For example with a lot of other celebrity / Hollywood blogs, you don't typically have regular contributors. It's not usually interactive. We came to the idea of co-authors through an essay contest to the community. We were looking for enthusiastic people, and we found some great ones for the community.
The one thing that I have run into is that this is a time demand, and I knew that it would require a partnership with my fans. That's how I look at GPB - it's a powerful tool for social networking, and it's about caring about the relationships, and keeping and growing those relationships. Social media helps that, and it is always evolving.
The generation that really is on top of this is the younger crowd, the late teens and 20-somethings. And that fan-base is pretty large for Greg Brady, and I would not have had a way to reach them without these tools. This is about conversations with me and the fans. I bring in other celebrities for first-person experiences. And, with the MyLifeBrand partnership, the unique platform has allowed me to do more with the community, and gave me channels of interactivity with the fans.
Think about that - so many social media gurus and experts don't even get that it's about the community and the conversation, and yet here we have a 70's child star that gets it. He understands that it's about conversations, that it's about the community, he understands that it's about engagement and keeping them interested enough to coming back.
Why can't more corporations get that?
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Greg Brady definitely gets it. I did an interview with him a month or so back, and he definitely demonstrated a good understanding of the space:ReplyDelete
Thanks Mark - it was great speaking to him, and see how he really is doing better than most corporations (or, well, social media "experts").ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/01/2008 02:31:00 PM
Thanks Mark - it was great speaking to him, and see how he really is doing better than most corporations (or, well, social media "experts").ReplyDelete
me too.


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I've been incredibly busy these last few days as you may have guessed from my slower blogging schedule. As a result, I didn't have a chance to share my Thanksgiving recipes with you, but I did want to post this one dish I made– and loved– as fast as I could.
I first stumbled upon this recipe on Sanjeev Kapoor's website. I've written about this popular Indian chef before, and I am a huge fan of his recipes. I am also a huge fan of kofta curries– Indian-style vegetable balls (they look like meatballs but taste better) floating in a spicy, often creamy sauce. So when I saw the words "Soya malai kofta" among Kapoor recipes, I couldn't wait for an occasion to make this delicious-sounding dish and Thanksgiving seemed perfect because the curry has a lovely, festive, orange color.
Since "malai" is cream, I left that out, of course, and substituted instead with some Silk soy creamer. You could leave the creamer out altogether and use more cashew paste instead.
I made a few other changes too, like adding kasoori methi to the koftas, so I am posting my version of the recipe below.
Bye for now, and I'll be back with more soon. Until then, enjoy this!
Tofu Kofta Curry
- For the kofta:
- 1/2 cup crumbled soft tofu
- 1/4 cup Bengal gram dal (chana dal). Cover with water and soak at least a couple of hours. Cook until the dal is tender and most of the water has evaporated. Using just enough water to keep the blender blades moving, grind to a puree.
- 2 potatoes , boiled and mashed
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- Salt to taste
- 4 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp kasoori methi , crushed between palms
- Oil to deep fry.
- For the curry:
- 1 large large onion
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 1- inch piece of ginger , finely grated
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 12 raw cashews , soaked in water for about 30 minutes, then blended to a paste
- 1 cup tomato puree or crushed tomatoes
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/4 cup soy creamer
- 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves , for garnish
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Make the kofta:
- Heat the oil in a skillet or a kadhai (a small, Indian-style wok).
- Mix all the ingredients together and shape into 3/4-inch balls.
- Deep fry, a few at a time, until each kofta turns golden-brown. Remove to a dish lined with paper towels and drain. Set aside.
- Make the curry:
- Heat the oil in a skillet.
- Add the onions and saute until golden-brown.
- Add the coriander, cumin, chilli and turmeric powders.
- Immediately add the ginger and garlic and saute for a few seconds.
- Add the cashewnut paste and cook, sauteing, for a couple of minutes.
- Now add the tomato puree and cook, stirring often, until the oil surfaces.
- Add 2 cups of water or vegetable stock, bring to a boil, then simmer until you have a fairly thick gravy, about 10 to 15 minutes.
- Add the salt and garam masala. Stir everything well, then add the soy creamer and stir in. Turn off the heat.
- Pour the curry over the kofta balls and garnish with the coriander.
- Serve hot, preferably with delicious
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Phil & Nikkea necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Successful husband & wife entrepreneur team want to create a personal brand online & in the media. This logo will be used on our website, blog, information products, & as a branding tool for online & offline media & social networks. Our colors are forest green & gold (shimmery metallic). We'd like a clean, professional, high-end looking logo that gives a sense of power, integrity, elegance, & inspiration. We help entrepreneurs grow their businesses (& themselves) quickly, sustainably & profitably.
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We want a logo designed for our personal brand. We are professional speakers/trainers/consultants who help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. We combine proven, effective strategies to build profitable businesses with integrity & spirit based laws of attraction. We provide ways for clients to attract ideal clients, increase their sales conversion, build and lead a strong team, be client-centered, systemize their business for sustainable, scalable growth. We also have personal growth tools for them to transform their limiting beliefs and create and organize ideal living and working environments. Health, ecology & sustainability on all levels are important principles to us in business & personal life.
Our current website is http://www.philandnikkea.com - it needs a major overhaul of design and we're starting with the logo. We don't like anything in the visual design.
Logo Must Include Name: "Phil & Nikkea"
Must Include Tagline: "Where Entrepreneurs Go To Grow"
We are positioning ourselves as the high end leaders of the speaking/training/consulting industry, so it must have an elegant, sophisticated, prestigious, quality, luxury, classy, even royal feel that's fresh, clean & professional. Like the Rolls Royce/ Rolex/ Ritz Carlton/Diamond level of our industry.
We like clean, simple, elegant lines.
Relationship of logo graphic & name:
It might be nice to have the logo be the "&" sign of "Phil & Nikkea", but not attached to that. Since we're husband & wife, it would be nice if the graphic showed a physical closeness or connection between the "Phil & Nikkea" names somehow, as well as a balance between masculine and feminine.
Possible image for "&" sign - the koru (unfurling fern) - found in New Zealand (not attached to this)
Font: prefer san serif w/ rounded vs. sharp edges
Primary Color: Gold (shimmery mettalic)
Reason why: gold represents purpose, spiritual love, divine gold glows and radiates, it's a desire for power and spiritual mysteries, attainment, wealth, opulence, success, riches
(see an example of a shimmery, metallic gold at http://www.lindazander.com)
Secondary Color: Forrest Green (a rich, deep jewel tone green - Pantone color: 3305C - 343C )
Reason why: green represents sustainability, healthy lifestyle, freshness, growth, renewal, harmony, diplomacy; green is the color of money, prosperity
Tertiary Color: Black
Reason why: black represents power, elegance, strength, authority
Fourth Color: White
Reason why: want lots of white space because white represents purity, truth, union, divinity, peace; it renews the soul's experience of the moment
Additional notes about color:
Our plan is to have each course offering and info product (including book & product series) keep the gold and black brand colors, and each will have a different tertiary color in exactly the same location, like a template.
This will provide a sense of continuity through a curriculum.
See an example of this at: http://www.lindazander.com with her book series – has a feeling of continuity throughout
Language: Final Four Walk-Away Impressions: (unspoken words – will be felt by clients)
1. Power (Purpose)
2. Elegance/elegant (Approach)
3. Authentic (Trait)
4. Inspire (Belief)
Our chosen symbol for this brand is either:
1. an upward arrow at a 45% angle
↑ - correct arrow, but at a 45 degree angle
♂ - correct arrow at a 45 degree angle, but without the circle
We've chosen this because:
The sign of the archer symbolizes the projection of self toward new horizons both literally (long voyages of exploration) and metaphorically (deep or far reaching)
2. Circle with a dot in the center: a circle with center point represents the creative spark of divine consciousness that exists in every individual, linking him or her to the source and origin of life, and making him or her the co-creator of the world. In astrological psychology, it stands for the desire to live and the individual's life energy. In the body, it symbolizes the heart, the blood circulation, and the backbone.
Final Four Keywords: (spoken words in copy materials)
1. Freedom/free (What – Intangible)
2. Success/Wealth (What – Tangible)
3. Lead/leadership (Way – How)
4. Sustainable/sustain (Way - Why)
Impact Word: (What- Intangible – The intangible impact of what they get)
Freedom/free Synonyms:
independence/independent, emancipate/emancipation, release, autonomy, carte blanche, privilege, free reign, liberty/liberate, sovereignty, clear
Imagine the freedom you'll enjoy when you have the confidence and the tools for success that will make you unstoppable.
Delivery Word: (What- Tangible – The tangible result that they get & what we deliver)
Success Synonyms: Fulfillment, accomplishment, achievement, attainment, triumph, victory, win, prosperity, wealth, riches, sensation, winner, fame & fortune, smash, hit, big time, arrival, reaching one's goals, realization, good fortune, easy street, blockbuster, advantage, abundance
Wealth Synonyms: money, riches, resources, plenty, fortune, security, affluence, opulence, prosperity, abundance, luxury, capital, property, assets, means, holdings, financial security, financially free, financially independent.
(P.S.: runner up words: advantage, profit, wealth, growth)
Concept Word: (Way – How – the way and how we deliver our products/services)
Lead/leadership Synonyms:
Command, control, direction, guidance, influence, domination/dominance, sway, mastery, charisma, potency, supremacy, authority, counsel, management, supervision, rulership, government, shepherding, pace setting, trailblazing
(P.S. : runner up words: catalyst, mentor, integrated)
We will lead you through step by step proven systems designed to expand your business, "add a zero"™ to your revenues, and multiply your profits so you can have the life of your dreams.
Philosophy Word: (Way – Why – why we deliver our products/services the way we do)
Sustain/sustainable Synonyms:
Keep up/keep going, maintain, continue, support, nourish, nurture, endure, withstand/stand, uphold/hold, feed, provide for, carry the weight of
Having sustainable and scalable systems in place in all three areas is the only way you'll have the wealth and success you want…and the freedom to enjoy it.
(P.S.: runner up words: integrated, viable)
Character: Idealist
Character Temperament: authentic, inspiring, enthusiastic,
Character Style: harmony/balance, ultimate win-win, universal greater good; applied wisdom, optimism, passionate
Character Areas of Interest: education, personal growth,
Business Character Type: It catalyzes positive thought and action
The Benefit Of My Business Character Type Is: It inspires people to see a bigger vision for themselves and the world
Character Design Targets: logo could be featured in
Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes or Inc, Selling Power
• We hate anything with a cartoony, cutesy or caricature look.
• We don't want anything busy or cluttered.
• We don't want anything that looks low end, cheesy, or cheap. It can't look low budget.
• If it doesn't look high end, elegant, classy, or sophisticaed, we won't like it.
• If it's too dark with not enough white space, we won't like it.
• We don't like informal, sloppy, cartoony fonts or images that look hand drawn
• We don't like the design of our current website landing page which is http://www.philandnikkea.com
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Wednesday morning started with our daily weather briefing. The day's outlook for storms was not very promising, as most of the severe weather would be far to the east of where we were in Independence, Mo. The distance was formidable, but more important was the Missouri landscape -- full of trees and limited roads for viewing any storms that may develop.
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I guess our van's ritual of sharing a bag of "magic carmel popcorn" as we hunted for tornadoes turned out to be our lucky charm.
We then stopped in Poplar Bluff, Mo., for the night. We held a Tempest Tours tradition of having a group steak dinner to share our "war" stories of our tornado-chasing experience.
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She became interested in storms after surviving a deadly tornado in Belvidere, Ill., in 1967. Now she is a severe weather spotter, storm chaser and occasional storm tourist.
"It's important to me to help protect my community," she says. "I train annually, to keep myself familiar with the language of sky. The more storms I predict, reach, and document, the more effective I can be when spring and summer weather turns ugly."
She has a specially outfitted chase van, which is part communication center, part film studio and part forecast center. Her travels cover a five-hour radius from Chicago and an annual trip to Tornado Alley.
She joined Tempest Tours for the seventh time and is just completing a busy chase tour during one of the most active severe weather seasons in recent memory.


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Just in time to justify the new wave of unaccompanied immigrant "children" of uncertain age that May and Macron have agreed on. I wonder if they'll put the age limit for marriage up to 24 as a quid pro quo?writing in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, scientists from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne argue the timings needs to be changed.
They point to the fact that the brain continues to mature beyond the age of 20, and many people's wisdom teeth do not come through until the age of 25.
And people are also getting married and having children later, with the average man entering their first marriage aged 32.5 and women 30.6, an increase of eight years since the 1970s.
Lead author Prof Susan Sawyer, said delays in young people leaving education, settling down and becoming parents, showed adolescence was now longer and argued that policies that support youth should be extended beyond teenage years.
Countries such as New Zealand already treat children who have been in care as vulnerable until they are 25, allowing them the same rights as youngsters
"Age definitions are always arbitrary," she said, but "our current definition of adolescence is overly restricted."
"The ages of 10-24 years are a better fit with the development of adolescents nowadays."
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CAREERS AT PGi
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How do we help our customers get a collaborative advantage? It's all about the people at PGi. Our employees are passionate, creative, driven by innovation and obsessed with providing best-in-class customer care. We also believe in giving back to the local community and participate in a variety of philanthropic activities. Join us and work for the best collaboration company in the world.
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PGi offers great benefits for our employees. Some items or levels vary depending upon employment status. Most benefits begin the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
We also provide tuition assistance, adoption assistance, cash and non-cash incentives, free parking (where available), employee discount programs and generous paid time off plans (in addition to eight paid holidays per year). Additionally, PGi provides on-site wellness programs and activities, as well as opportunities for professional development.
Our benefits package includes:
- Medical, prescription, dental and vision plans (including spouse, dependent and domestic partner coverage)
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Basic and supplemental life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- Business accident insurance and travel assistance
- Flexible spending accounts (Section 125)
- Critical illness and accidental plans
- Employee assistance program
- Legal assistance plan
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Identity theft coverage