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A quiet but steady revolution is taking place in the environmental movement which is having profound implications for the business community.
Environmentalism in the first half of the 20th century was characterised by two main responses to the rapid intensification of man's impact on the natural environment. The first was targeted protection of endangered species; the second was the designation of specially protected parks and nature reserves. These remain the two pillars on which the foundations of modern conservation movement are built, and have led to many notable successes from the return of the once critically endangered otter to every county in the United Kingdom, to the protection of now world-famous national parks like Yellowstone or the Serengeti.
Yet, these conservation successes represent minor skirmishes in a war being lost on almost all fronts. Despite targeted species conservation projects backed by legal protection in most countries and around 13% of the world's land surface now designated as protected areas, the global species extinction rate is running at around one thousand times the background rate as calculated from the fossil record. A quarter of all plant species are considered by the United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity to be threatened with extinction and these are the same plants we rely on for our medicines, food and other raw materials.
In the latter part of the 20th century, we built on the two pillars and began to deepen our understanding of our impacts on the delicate balance of environment as a system on which we are ultimately dependant for our health, well -being and prosperity. A new wave of environmental NGOs campaigned as much about the plight of humanity on a failing planet, as they did for the plight of nature.
The 21st century has seen a further evolution of systems thinking to the point where we now at least understand that to restore the 60% of those ecosystems already degraded worldwide, we need a radical overhaul of economic and social policy, not just environmental policy. In effect , we are now working on building a third pillar – an ecosystems pillar – which if we succeed in getting right, might just mean we can accommodate 9 billion people on earth by the year 2050.
What then does this system's thinking mean in practice, and why is it revolutionary?
The difference now is that we are getting serious about quantifying the value of nature's stocks (natural capital) and nature's flows (ecosystem services) in a way we have never attempted in the past.
By valuing natural capital in a similar way to financial, manufactured, social and human capital, we can make decisions on the stewardship of the natural environment based on hard-nosed economics, and not just on the vitally important moral case for saving nature for nature's sake.
Not all conservationists are comfortable with this quiet revolution. Opponents suggest such 'commodification of nature' could lead to our remaining natural resources being sold to the highest bidder. They argue that the intrinsic value of nature must take precedence and a price cannot be placed on the priceless.
It's hard to disagree, but my view is this should not become a polarised debate, it is not an either/or question. Even among traditionalists, there is a broad acceptance that as long the value of nature remains invisible in economic decision making, we will simply continue to generate financial profits through running up a massive natural capital overdraft.
There are parallels to be drawn with the bursting of the 'debt bubble'. Globally, we underestimated, or ignored, the risk of bad financial debt and, aside from a few enlightened states and businesses, we are currently largely ignoring the risk of runaway natural capital debt.
Early adopters in natural capital accounting include the sports-lifestyle company Puma who, through their Environmental Profit and Loss methodology calculated an impact of €51 million resulting from land use, air pollution and waste along the value chain, which when added to a previously calculated €94 million for carbon emissions and water consumption amounts to €145 million worth of unaccounted for environmental externalities every year.
It was both brave and smart of Puma to undertake this analysis. Brave because they are one of the first and now have a huge challenge to bring that figure down to as close to zero as possible; smart because they now have invaluable data to enable informed risk planning and strategy development.
At the government level, several countries around the world are developing or considering legislation on natural capital, including Botswana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Georgia, Germany, Peru, Philippines and the United Kingdom who recently met in Berlin at a Globe International summit to share ideas on how best to implement state level natural capital accounting. In the UK the government has set up a high-level Natural Capital Committee to look at where, when and how natural assets are being used unsustainably.
For the corporate world, natural capital accounting is part of what might be called 'second generation' corporate social responsibility (CSR). This is a move from a project-based approach to CSR where good-news case studies are presented in the annual report, to a more systematic appraisal of the whole business and its impacts on social and environmental systems.
Second generation CSR will undoubtedly remain useful in ethical marketing of products and services, but more importantly, it will also improve decision making and business competitiveness. Why, for example, continue to source a raw material such as cotton from an agricultural ecosystem where soil is eroding and aquifers are dying up when there are sustainably managed ecosystems in other parts of the world as alternatives?
The simplistic answer might be that it is cheaper and in the short term this may be the case but in the medium to long-term, the risk of ecosystem collapse and subsequent supply insecurity and price volatility could have profound effects on the bottom line.
For governments the process of natural capital accounting will have even more profound consequences for decision making. To give an example, the TEEB for Business Coalition and Trucost have calculated that cattle ranching and farming in South America has a natural capital cost of $312.1 billion but the revenue following from this activity is a mere $16.6 billion.
Logically, the governments of South America should be investing more in the protection of undamaged ecosystems, particularly forests, rather the converting these to monocultures which realise far lower net present values for the continent and its nations.
This would mean restricting opportunities for some landowners, loggers and farmers to make often substantial private profits on the back of public natural capital – a choice many politicians might consider tough to sell to the electorate.
Yet, embracing such nature-based solutions is a course of action rapidly becoming an imperative if we are to secure a healthy, prosperous and peaceful future for humanity. It is common sense ecologically, socially and economically, but as so often with common sense, it is going to take some explaining.
Jonathan Hughes is Programme Director for the World Forum & Global Councillor at the IUCN.
This article first appeared on the Sustainability portal of thomsonreuters.com which combines insight from across the company, and from a valued community of external partners.
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I have two related questions as to what happens when a user tries to log in to a website
If the entered password is wrong what should happen?
I have two ideas:
- Redirect to a page saying "wrong username/password, click here to try again"
- Always redirect to the members section since it checks already if the variable session has been set and if not the user would see "You are not logged in. Click here to sign in".
How does it work when the page does not need to reload to tell a user the password they entered was wrong?
It must use Ajax/JavaScript but anyone could mess with that using Fiddler or Charles. Is this feature just for convenience purposes and even if the JavaScript says the password right, on the server the entered password is double checked and if it matches the session is created?

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It was the speech to save his leadership. Or condemn it. David Shearer stood before the party faithful and got a rousing reception on Sunday. But was a new vision unveiled?
David Shearer can start these crucial weeks in his leadership knowing that he did enough in his speech to Labour's annual conference. Enough to give himself a fighting chance. He had enough convincing moments to give the TV networks the grabs they need and enough zip to energise a hall of the faithful. What's more he did enough to give his allies something to spin and satsify a gallery pack – who have low expectations of his speeches – that he's got some fight left in him yet.
But therein lies the rub. Because if that's the best he's got, if that's a man fighting to save his political life, it's not going to be enough in the long run without significant improvement.
All the talk of the past week had made it clear – this was do or die for Shearer. David Cunliffe still backs himself for another shot at the leadership. Soon. And if it wasn't clear before the weekend, Cunliffe's refusal to endorse Shearer and his talk of welcoming an early vote to clear up "these issues" spelt it out in neon. There are only "issues" if Cunliffe wants the leadership for himself.
So the jumping off point this weekend past was that we had to see Shearer at his best, Shearer the visionary, Shearer as something more than a top bloke, Shearer – in his own words – as a bit of a mongrel.
So what did we get? From my point of view at the back of the room, we got clear evidence Shearer is still not a frontman. Much of this can be learnt, given time. And maybe the gallery folk are right to say he's improved. But it was pretty weak tea being served.
Shearer got better as he went along, but the speech overall was pedestrian and used too many cliches to tick too many boxes. His mannerisms were luke-warm, he didn't sell his three-point lists, when the opportunities to ab lib and connect with his audience came, he baulked. Conference speeches have a job to do, both with the party and the public, but surely we deserve more than the tired lines about can-do-give-it-a-go-Kiwis-backing-smart-businesses-so-that-everyone-gets-a-chance-like-I-did-growing-up.
In the name of all that is political, why would a leader facing an imminent challenge not put himself at the centre of his speech and his party. One lovely story about building a boat with his night school-attending father aside, he made the case for the party without making one for himself. He even ended on a rallying cry for a Labour victory in 2014... but not a Shearer-led Labour victory.
And surely a speech-writer with any nous wouldn't have served up the sort of lines that simply begged critics and opponents to turn them back on Shearer himself.
Shearer began saying "two paths lie before us". He was talking about the country, but it was an invitation consider about Labour's own dilemma. He spoke about "decline and constant struggle" and about another path, a path of change. Gun. Foot. Shoot.
It was fairly pointed out to me that John Key wasn't too impressive in his early speeches as leader. But then Key was up against a third-term government, not heading into a neck-and-neck race against a governing party with 45% voter support and with the task of persuading the electorate that the party with the most votes shouldn't get to govern.
So much for the theatre. How about the content? Did a bold new Shearer vision appear, as was being demanded by the columnists last week?
The high point naturally was the housing policy promising 100,000 new starter homes in ten years. The detail was light, but the argument is that it unleashes the power of capital investment by government without adding to our debt. It's a powerful message. It's in Labour's sweet spot. It works for individuals and the country. It creates jobs and homes, to necessities, not nice to haves. It appeals across generations.
Much of the rest of the speech was rhetoric and rehashings. Two moments stood out. Shearer's folk had gone back through the history of Labour and National governments and had discovered something. Average GDP growth under National has been 2.9%. Under Labour it's been 3.7%. Argue what you like about historical luck and length of time in power, but it's a full frontal attack on the public assumption that National is a better keeper of the books than Labour.
The other highlight was Shearer saying that most of the products New Zealand exports were known about before the industrial revolution. Amidst a parade of well-worn rhetorical soldiers, that point stood out like a newly minted medal.
At the heart of the speech was the idea that New Zealand needs "big change" because of National's mismanagement. Essentially, Shearer wanted to make the case for government intervention rather than laissez-faire economics.
Which would work if he was attacking the National party of Jenny Shipley or Don Brash. But John Key's party just isn't that hands-off.
Shearer railed against National's unwillingness to "do its bit" for the economy, without recognising that Bill English has run limited deficits to offer some stimulus and has resisted calls for him to go further down the free-market line. The two parties are only a year or two apart over when they'll return to surplus.
He pointed out that Norman Kirk's super scheme would have created a savings pool of over $200 billion by today if Muldoon hadn't smashed it, damning National's record on savings. Yet that fact is Labour has followed National's lead and given up on its previous policy to re-start contributions to the New Zealand Super Fund.
And he damned National for not understanding that the housing market has failed, even though just last month English said precisely that... that the property market "isn't working properly" and rising prices were "dangerous".
At least twice he promised "a new direction". But the housing policy was the only thing new. I like David Shearer. Just like Key, Cunliffe and everybody who meets him. I wanted to hear how his Labour party would be distinctive. I wanted to hear his own "new vision for New Zealand", as his wife promised in her introduction. I'm no clearer.
But I did come away with one thought firmly placed in my mind: National needs John Key to lead it. Labour doesn't need David Shearer.
That is arguably a strength for Labour, but a weakness for Shearer. That speech could have been given by any Labour MP. The policies it mapped out don't need Shearer to get them through. The vision is one from the party's heart, but lacks a personal touch.
Shearer did a great job for Labour today. He flew its flag proudly and launched one new big idea. But he did nothing for himself. Maybe that reflects a quality that lies at the heart of strong, ego-less leadership. Or maybe it's naive.
Yet in truth, all this has very little impact on who winds up in charge. That's a numbers game. At the last count Cunliffe lost because most of his fellow MPs don't seem to like him terribly much. But there's one thing that can make a politician Mr Popular in the school-yard – the whiff of victory.
Politicians, reasonably enough, want to win and govern. If Labour's MPs think Shearer can get them there, if they think this weekend's effort was enough, they'll prefer to back him because they like and respect him. But as Shearer said in his speech, two paths lie before them. And if they think Cunliffe's path leads to government, they'll suck up their personal issues and convince themselves they've always liked him really, deep down.
Whatever they decide, they need to act quickly if they want to win in 2014. National is struggling and this civil war is simply putting fragile voter support at risk and buying the government more time to steady its own ship.


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What's not to love about John C. Reilly? Sure, he has the tendency to play the over-the-top shlubby guy a lot, but it never seems to get old and he can flip the Oscar switch whenever he needs to. Whats more, the guy has an awesome voice that perpetually sounds like a drunk who's run out of breath. Have that voice in your head yet? Good, because you're going to need it for the rest of this article.
As part of a viral campaign for Cedar Rapids, which was given rave reviews when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week, a "Deanzie's Guide To 'Business' Conventions" has been released. For those uninitiated, Reilly plays a character named Dean Ziegler who is a convention/party machine. In the guide, he dispenses some very wise tidbits, including:
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having a bit of an issue with getting audio to go through HDMI. Here are the base specs:
OS: Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 x64 CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.8G 4M FM2 R Mobo: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 OS: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Vid Card: (integrated on CPU) AMD Radeon HD 7660D
HDMI sound works fine under Win7 (after mobo and vid drivers are installed), so it's not physically broken. Audio through the normal headphone jacks works fine under Ubuntu.
Looking at the audio panel, there is no HDMI output at all. aplay -l also reports only:
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
In additional drivers there are two versions:
ATI/AMD PROPRIETARY FGLRX GRAPHICS DRIVER (post-release update)
The first installs, but problem persists. I do get more resolutions to pick from. Second version does not, reporting it failed installation and to find details at: /var/log/jockey.log
Looked at the log, and it's insanely long, if necessary I can get it to you guys.
Did more research and some had luck by manually installing the drivers, so tried to give that a shot by following this:
starting at 3.1 Manually installing Catalyst 12.6. I immediately had 2 issues, (1) the AMD website does not provide any drivers for Linux, and (2) the following command did not work:
sudo sh amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise
sh: 0: Can't open amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
Some other posts stated to update "alsa-drivers", but that also did not work as install command for the new version of them did not work. I forget the exact issue, but similar to above, cannot open / cannot find.
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Faced with increasing electricity prices (as well as brownouts in some areas) and higher prices at the pump, Americans are calling for solutions that would result in affordable electricity and gas prices. The easiest way to do that is to increase supply to offset rising demand. The federal government's role should be not to pick winners and losers among energy technologies but set the rules in place to allow companies to produce energy if it's in their interest to do so. Rep. Devin Nunes (R–CA) released new legislation that provides an efficient path forward to increase energy supply, create jobs, and grow America's economy while preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from stifling economic growth with senseless regulations.
Nunes's legislation would open access to domestic oil and gas exploration both onshore and offshore, streamline the process to permit new nuclear power plants, and attempt to remove the special-interest politicking behind renewable energy subsidies. The bill would also prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Offshore Access
Many of America's offshore areas are off-limits to energy production. Beginning in 1982, Congress restricted more and more offshore areas through annual Department of the Interior (DOI) appropriations, denying funding to conduct lease sales. Nunes's bill would improve access to America's resources in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) by removing unnecessary and restrictive delays in the implementation of the Draft Proposed OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2010–2015, which was put forth by the Bush Administration. The bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a lease sale 30 days after the bill's enactment and every 270 days after that in each OCS planning region where a commercial interest exists to purchase the lease.
Some 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are beneath America's waters, and while those resources wouldn't immediately be available, we should move forward to access those resources.
Opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
For the past few decades, the federal government has been a hindrance rather than a help in expanding America's domestic energy supply. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is likely the most infamous case. ANWR is the largest single untapped source of American oil. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that it contains 5.7–16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil. Assuming the middle of this range, ANWR could provide nearly a million barrels per day, every day it is in operation, for several decades.
This drilling would occur on only 2,000 acres of ANWR's 19 million-acre expanse and only during the time of year when the ground is frozen. Wildlife migration typically occurs during warmer periods, so drilling would not be disruptive to animals, most notably caribou. Only an act of Congress can open up ANWR to leasing for oil and gas production.
Stopping EPA's Global Warming Regulations
The EPA's endangerment finding gives the EPA justification to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (CO2), under the CAA. The EPA already began targeting motor vehicles last year and will start regulating emissions from new power plants and major expansions of large greenhouse-gas-emitting-plants this year.
Reining in the EPA's regulatory excesses with respect to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions is long overdue and is a critically important title in the Nunes legislation. The American people made it clear last year that they had no appetite for cap-and-trade legislation that would inflict serious economic damage while providing no environmental benefit. The EPA's CO2 regulations would do no less.
Moving Forward with Nuclear Energy
Of critical importance, the Nunes bill creates a pathway to determine whether or not Yucca is suitable as a repository and puts forth a plan to find an alternative site if one is necessary. It also directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to report back to Congress on the feasibility of establishing an organization outside of the DOE to manage the Yucca repository and removing the fee that ratepayers pay to the federal government to used-fuel-management services. Removing the fee would allow a market-based system to emerge for used-fuel management.
The proposal also would reform how new reactors are potentially permitted. The current permitting process to build new reactors is a product of a streamlining effort established by the Energy Policy Act of 1992, but it is still proving to be slow and unpredictable. The Nunes legislation would create a second permitting track that would allow for a permit to be issued in approximately two years.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Construct a reactor in which the design has already been certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC);
- Build the new reactor on or adjacent to a site where reactors already operate;
- Not be subject to any NRC actions to revoke operating permits; and
- Have submitted a completed combined construction and operating license permit application that has been docketed by the NRC.
The expedited process would entail the issuance of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) within 12 months of the application being docketed and the final EIS within 18 months. Further, hearings over contested application issues would begin once the draft EIS is issued rather than after the final EIS. This would allow the NRC and applicant to resolve contested licensing issues within 24 months of the application being docketed. The bill also calls for the Safety Evaluation Report—NRC's application technical review report—to be completed within 18 months of the application being docketed. While such timeframes would be tight, with close coordination between the applicant and the NRC, it should allow for a significantly shortened process.
The bill also begins to break down one of the primary obstacles that new reactor technologies have in entering the marketplace: a lack of regulatory support. The current NRC does an outstanding job of regulating large light-water reactors, 104 of which operate in the U.S. today, but it performs inadequately in developing regulations that would allow new technologies into the marketplace.
Without this regulation, new technologies are effectively banned because customers are hesitant to buy reactors that the NRC will not regulate, and the NRC does not want to put its resources toward a reactor technology that has no customers. The result is that new nuclear technologies are at a severe disadvantage.
To begin changing this, the Nunes bill would direct the NRC to develop a set of guidelines for technology-neutral nuclear plant designs. Instead of mandating that a specific nuclear technology be wedded to a specific plant design, the new guidelines would allow for other nuclear reactor technologies to be used in a nuclear power plant, creating a significant step toward building a more diverse and competitive nuclear industry.
Finally, the proposal allows for the provisional certification of new reactor designs. While the provision does not eliminate or reduce any requirements for reactor design approval, it would allow for a reactor plant permit applicant to move forward with the permitting process. To get provisional certification, the legislation would direct the NRC to consider such factors as whether a design is commercially viable in other markets or if it has been certified in other countries.
Reverse Auction for Renewable Energy Subsidies
The goal of Congress should be to allow all energy sources to compete subsidy-free in an open market. Such an approach would yield innovation and cost reductions and maximize energy supplies. The massive infrastructure of subsidies, set-asides, restrictions, preferences and mandates that currently plague America's energy policy is at the heart of most of America's energy policy problems. Part of that is because special interests, lobbyists, and parochial agendas have largely determined how energy subsidies and preferences are distributed.
Nunes's bill introduces a better way to distribute energy subsidies by creating a system where renewable energy producers would bid on subsidies. Those with the lowest costs would get the subsidy. While The Heritage Foundation remains committed to its position that all energy subsidies should be abolished, we do recognize that the Nunes idea for distributing subsidies through a reverse auction is a better mechanism than is currently in place. It could be improved even further if, instead of using royalty funds from new gas and oil exploration, it took funding from current subsidy payments.
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Schramm's T130XD mobile drilling rig, equipped with Rexroth AA11VLO pumps.
Last year, the world watched the drama unfold in a Chilean gold mine, as 33 miners worked together to survive for more than two months whiled trapped underground. As rescuers put plans together to dig down and save them, it was clear that hydraulics would play some part. So it's no surprise that variable displacement pumps from Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., were used to power the Schramm Inc. T130XD mobile drilling rig that eventually bore through the earth and reached the men.
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Gold mines are some of the deepest mines in the world. When disasters such as mine collapse occur, the challenge of rescuing anyone trapped below can be monumental. On Aug. 5, a cave-in occurred at the San Jose gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile, trapping 33 miners about 2300 ft below the surface.
They waited for 17 days until a small bore hole drilled from above reached their location, and the miners attached a message informing the world above that they were still alive. Thus began what would be one of the most thrilling and technologically innovative mine rescues in recent history.
Immediately following the collapse, Chile's government called in drilling professionals from across the country, and ultimately worldwide, to determine appropriate steps.
Examination of the mine's layout suggested one possible area where survivors (if any) might gather: a mechanics' room measuring approximately 538 ft2 — the equivalent of a small apartment — situated 2300 ft down. Drilling a bore hole that deep, with that level of accuracy for the endpoint, was compared to "hitting the head of a pin with a 20-ft pole."
The mining authorities were also concerned with the local geology: it was known that granite structures at the site were at least 20% harder than granite typically found in the U.S. Drilling consistency would be varied, with densities ranging from low to very high.
Multiple rescue plans
When the Chilean government sent out the call for assistance, it was determined that the T130XD rig, equipped with Rexroth hydraulics, offered several potential advantages for the rescue.
The initial rescue plan, called "Plan A," developed by the Chilean authorities focused on using a complex drilling rig called a raise borer from another manufacturer, to drill a vertical rescue hole.
The raise borer vertical rig took time for arrival and set up, and required vertical placement precisely over the location of the miners. When the Plan A vertical hole was started on August 30, the miners had been underground for close to a month. It was estimated that drilling would progress at about 66 ft per day, and require 80 days to rescue them — if uninterrupted.
Although they were supplied with food capsules and other supplies through the initial pilot holes, estimates of their release ranging from "60 to 90 days" and "around Christmas" led to alternative plans for drilling rescue holes.
At the time of the San Jose collapse, a Schramm T130XD drilling rig was being operated about 1000 km away, drilling large-diameter bore holes for water extraction at another deep Chilean mine site.
The T130XD is a heavy duty, heavy hoist carrier mounted drill rig designed to provide powerful drilling performance in a compact, all-in-one carrier mounted rig. It features a 760-hp deck engine, and was designed by Schramm for heavy-duty deep drilling applications with up to 130,000 lb of pullback capacity. The T130XD was designed for drilling applications such as shallow oil and gas, deep water wells, geothermal exploration, and deep mine rescue.
A key component of the hydraulic system that powers the Schramm drill are the Rexroth AA11VLO variable displacement axial piston pumps, supplied by local Rexroth distributor Airline Hydraulics Inc., Bensalem, Pa. Schramm selected the Rexroth AA11VLO130 pumps when designing the T130XD because of their proven performance, particularly in deep drilling applications requiring the high pressure capacity and pullback force delivered by the rig.
Schramm's drill uses four Rexroth AA11VLO130 pumps, which supply hydraulic pressure to the top mast head and mast cylinders. The top mast head is the mechanism at the top of the drill mast that provides the pullback force to manipulate thousands of feet of pipe down the hole; the mast cylinders support this function.
When the Chilean government sent out the call for assistance, it was determined that the T130XD rig, equipped with Rexroth hydraulics, offered several potential advantages for the rescue.
Rexroth's AA11VLO series of axial piston variable displacements pumps are designed for hydrostatic drives in open circuits. They offer high power capacity and displacement in a compact design, with nominal pressure of 5100 psi (350 bar) and maximum pressure of 5800 psi (400 bar.) The AA11VLO130 is equipped with a charge pump enabling high input speeds, which is especially important at high altitude operation, like Chile. Its 130 cc/rev (7.93 in3/rev) can operate at engine speeds up to 2500 rpm.
When the Chilean government sent out the call across the country for assistance, it was determined that the T130XD rig offered several potential advantages for the rescue:
- The T130XD is well-suited for drilling with reverse-circulation down-the-hole hammers, making it especially ideal for drilling through the Chilean granite.
- Schramm's rig was designed to drill off a vertical axis, enabling it to utilize one of the existing pilot holes to drill a rescue portal, and would not have to be emplaced directly above the miners.
- The T130XD in Chile was equipped with Schramm's highest capacity top head, capable of drilling holes up to 28 inches in diameter.
- The T130XD is designed for fast teardowns and relocations, enabling it to make the 1000 km trip in relatively short time.
Given the advantages offered by the T130XD, the Chilean mining authorities developed a "Plan B" rescue plan: the T130XD would enlarge one of the 5.5-in. diameter initial probe holes, drilled with two passes. The first pass would increase its diameter to 12 in. and the second pass to 28 inches diameter, to allow a rescue rig to be lowered.
Putting Plan B into action
The variable displacement pumps on the T130XD supply hydraulic pressure to the top mast head for manipulating thousands of feet of pipe.
T130XDAction4.jpg The AA11VLO130 pumps on the T130XD enable high input speeds, which is especially important for high-altitude operation.
Arriving at the San Jose mine on September 30, the T130XD was quickly set up and drilling on the first pass hole proceeded 24/7. The Schramm rig quickly outpaced the Plan A vertical bore hole rig, and had widened the pilot hole from 5.5 in. to 12 in. along the entire 2260-ft length in a little over two weeks.
According to Schramm officials, the reliable performance of the Rexroth AA11VLO130 pumps was crucial to the speed of the drilling.
"The pumps are mission critical to the T130XD — if the pumps are out of commission, there is no hoist or rotation," said Brian Brookover, Schramm control systems team leader. "It's important to note that the Schramm T130XD used for the rescue had zero down time directly attributable to the rig throughout the rescue process. The Rexroth pumps did their part," he said.
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Because the Plan B hole being drilled by the Schramm rig was going so much faster than the Plan A hole (which still had not completed its first pass), it appeared increasingly likely that the T130XD hole would be the rescue hole — and that instead of taking until "around Christmas," the process could be completed by mid-October.
In preparation for its second pass, the T130XD was outfitted with a 12- to 28-in. expansion boring tool. The drilling would continue just as quickly with this larger down-the-hole hammer, which took full advantage of the rig's high-capacity top head.
Most of the hole drilled by the T130XD was through solid rock; however, the top 300 ft was looser material. It was decided that this would be lined with 24-in. steel casing, to prevent loose rock from falling down the hole and jamming the rescue capsule. The T130XD's flexible tilt-out head easily handled both the drill pipe and the casing for this safety step.
On October 9, just 33 days after the T130XD began its drilling, the second pass was completed; four days later, as a worldwide audience estimated in the hundreds of millions watched, all 33 miners were safely re-united with their families and communities, and Chile celebrated a miracle under and above the earth.
For more information, visit Bosch Rexroth at www.boschrexroth-us.com; Schramm Inc. at www.schramminc.com, or Airline Hydraulics Inc. at www.airlinehyd.com.


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This is a difficult post for me to write. I think starting a company is one of the most valuable things that anyone can do. I've started a few and helped some other people do the same. But the suggestion by the Irish Times that older people should consider angel investing as a retirement activity is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
"What's the difference between me and you?/About five bank accounts, three ounces and two vehicles"
Xzibit, 'What's the difference?'
Angel investment is a critical part of any startup ecosystem. None of the tech success stories in Ireland (or anywhere else) would exist without it. Hell, Mark Suster's first company was angel-funded by an Irish pig farmer. But angel investing (like venture) is a high-risk business. Like lending-money-to-a-crack-head-risky. Yes, there are huge opportunities but in reality most companies fail. It's not something which anyone even half-sane should advise normal retirees to invest in.
Here's the reality:
1. Yes, you can make money from angel investments but you'll almost certainly lose it. No, that's not pessimism, that's the mathematical reality. Ron Conway's second fund produced an IRR of precisely 0%. And that was the fund which had a Google investment.
2. To actually be in with a chance of making a return, you need a portfolio. Data varies but at a minimum this should be 10-15 investments. So you need to be active and full-time.
3. A portfolio approach has zero relevance unless you have access to the very best dealflow. This is one of the reasons why Kevin Rose's track record is so good-the very best come to him (he's also extremely smart).
4. The very worst kind of angel investor is someone who's doing it as a pet project. Unless you've built a company it's unlikely you'll comprehend just how insane the startup rollercoaster can be. The very last thing a founder needs is a panicky angel investor. Do not be that person. Startups, do not take that person.
I'm convinced that the only route to economic growth in Ireland (and many other countries) is in the creation of new equity through startups. Retirees should certainly look at opportunities in funds which invest in this sector. But encouraging a class of amateur investors to get directly involved is precisely the reason we're in this mess. We weren't all property developers and we're certainly not all angel investors.
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I'm having a bit of a confused time understanding what a file descriptor is and if I even need one! I am trying to spawn a process in nodejs and have its out put be written directly to an out put file.
I understand my question is specific to a language outside the scope of the unix family but I believe my problem is coming from me not understanding some thing about the system and not the language.
This is the function I am calling from my script. I assumed I could call it in such a way
require('child_process').spawn('./my_script.bash 1>out.txt')
No luck though! I know that the script is executing and that its working.


text: Attention Seventeen readers: You're invited to hang with the editors of Seventeen for a fun (and food-filled!) discussion about love and relationships ! We want to hear all about what's going on in your love life and how we can help you in the pages of the mag, so grab your besties and get ready for some girl talk. Here are the details: When : Tuesday, March 5, 6 P.M. Where : The Seventeen Offices, located at 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019


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Radical Renderings - Colter O'Dell
While many of our featured artists tell us that they knew from an early age that automotive design was their passion, this was not necessarily the case for Colter O'Dell. Growing up in Kansas, he didn't have much exposure to vehicle renderings or the influence they had on projects. However, he soon realized the importance of renderings after walking through shows full of builds that lacked direction or a unified theme. "Looking back, it's hard to believe I didn't make the connection sooner," he writes. With this in mind, he attended a local technical college, got a degree in graphic design, and developed a growing interest in designing custom vehicles. Since then, he has worked to develop his own art style, and has continually gained inspiration from his brother, who he describes as "a certified grease monkey." When Colter isn't designing trucks or working in the shop alongside his brother, he enjoys spending time in the great outdoors, shooting, hunting, writing, and exploring other outlets for his art. To see more of Colter's work or commission a rendering of your own project, visit www.odellstudios.com.


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2006 Winners
2006 Winners
Since their creation the awards have become the most prestigious awards in CTC. They celebrate the best of cycling – the people who make it happen at a local and regional level. Whether it's organising the rides or fighting the cause of cyclists at the local council CTC's volunteers are a symbol of the largest, most passionate group of cyclists in the country who come together to improve lives through cycling.
All the winners have been recognised for their achievements by fellow CTC members who nominated them as the Volunteer of the Year for their region. Ten individual winners and two groups went forward for recognition as the CTC National Volunteer of the Year and Voluntary Group of the Year which were announced at the CTC Annual Dinner and Prizegiving on 28th April in Guildford.


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Thanks everyone who attended the "L10n build process" presentation at the Summit 08.
This the presentation that was used for the session, please contact me if something does not make sense:
These are some of the notes/feedback that I got from the discussion with the rest of the localizers:
- No back check-in to locale's repository
- Generate installer with missing string so the installer does not break
- Modify the branding if the locale is missing entities
- Add Source Stamp in "About" for better litmus testing
The last two notes/suggestions are not at hand right now and they will be worked on in due time
This blog mainly contains posts about Mozilla release engineering projects that I am working on and some personal insights.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Make our nightly builds identical for each platform - part 1
The way we do nightly builds every night for Firefox 2.0.0.x and Firefox 3.0.x have few problems that will be good to have them fixed.
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- The build for each platform happens AFTER a determined hour BUT whenever the build slave can start it. Therefore, the build start time is different from platform to platform. This will be even more obvious when the buildID will capture minutes and seconds. This is not a big problem but it is not a correct behavior and it would be good to have the same buildID for all 3 platforms.
- The build for each platform is NOT build from the same source code. You knew it or not, this has been happening for many years. This is a big problem specially when a commit to the source code happens around the time that the nightly builds are to happen and this change might be captured by one platform and not by the others. This problem affects when you want to see if a bug introduced in one of the platforms is part of the other two platforms
- Separating the generation of nightly builds from generating dependent builds
For years, we have generated dependent and nightly builds from the same slave running the exact same code all day. We generate nightly builds after the last dependent build that gets finished after 3AM PDT. Each platform finishes at different time and each platform checks out different source code. To be more precise a nightly build is started if 1) it is passed the $build_hour and 2) twenty four hours have passed since the last nightly build. To stop the dependt builds process to generate nightly builds we need to set $OfficialBuildMachinery to zero in the tinder-config.pl
- Use Nightly scheduler to trigger nightly builds
Using a nightly scheduler will allow us to add more steps after an en-US nightly build like trigerring L10n repackages and/or trigger other schedulers as needed
- Setting the checkout time before the build starts
If we set up the same MOZ_CO_DATE for the 3 different platforms before the build start they will check out the same source stamp no matter when the slave will start the build
- Remember the checkout time
Saving the SourceStamp inside of the application.ini file will allow us to know which SourceStamp was used for that build even if the log for that build gets removed from the tinderbox logs
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- Our nightly builds will not depend on previous dependent builds
- The nightly builds will be triggered when we say
- The nightly builds will check out the same source code
- From a binary we will know which source stamp was used to generate the build
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DOVER — Baby Ben's Coffee House has been in Dover Point for just six months and already has plans to open more shops in the Seacoast — starting with Durham.
Co-owner Matt Airey said he and his brothers have an expansion plan set to have twelve shops by the end of 2014 from Stratham to Rochester, hoping to take on competition.
"We know BB's will succeed if we put the customers and communities first," Airey said. "Every day."
The establishment relies on local customers, according to Airey, who enjoy their "best tasting coffee this side of Seattle."
One loyal customer, Cheryl Monsein from Portsmouth, said, "After a few minutes of being in the brightly (lit), very upbeat Dover location, I knew these guys were going to compete well ... The coffee here, the service and the overall atmosphere is a place you want to stop at everyday."
No location or opening date has been set for their newest proposed shop in Durham, but Airey said it will look identical to the original Baby Ben's in Dover point.
" ... With small differences playing to its surrounding community," he added.
The Durham location will not be disclosed until it's secured, but Airey said they are "in talks" with a potential landlord.
The coffee house at at 42A Dover Point Road prides itself on being community based, and according to Airey, they host a number of school study groups, community action and real estate meetings.
"The schools around us and this community continue to back us," General Manager Chris Bourbon said. "They believe in our vision and continue to support us through daily transactions."
Airey said their service, espresso and breakfast sandwiches bring customers back, typically in the mornings and late afternoons, but that the atmosphere of Baby Ben's is what sells.
"We just wanted to open a store to be an extension to your living room," he said.
Baby Ben's operates from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday- Friday and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.


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No. 80,5771
When a workers compensation administrative law judge considers and enters a decision involving an employee's request for medical benefits and the employee's request for medical benefits occurs after a final order or award has been made in the case, the order or decision of the administrative law judge shall be subject to review by the Workers Compensation Board under K.S.A. 44-551(b)(1).
Appeal from Workers Compensation Board. Opinion filed April 16, 1999. Affirmed.
Robert G. Martin and Richard J. Liby, of McDonald, Tinker, Skaer, Quinn & Herrington, P.A., of Wichita, for appellant.
W. Walter Craig, of Law Offices of Prochaska & Scott, of Wichita, for appellee.
Before GREEN, P.J., ROGG, S.J., and JAMES P. BUCHELE, District Judge, assigned.
GREEN, J.: U.S.D. No. 259 (U.S.D. 259), the employer, appeals from an order of the Workers Compensation Board (Board). The Board determined that the administrative law judge (ALJ) had not exceeded her authority when she granted Alice Bryant, the injured employee, her request for a change of treating physician. Further, the Board determined that it lacked authority to review this post-award of medical benefits. On appeal, U.S.D. 259 contends that the ALJ exceeded her jurisdiction by granting Bryant's request to change doctors. We disagree. In addition, U.S.D. 259 contends that the Board wrongly determined that it lacked jurisdiction over this appeal. We agree but affirm.
Bryant was employed by U.S.D. 259 when she sustained a work-related injury to her back in 1994. Dr. Sparks had treated Bryant for back problems before and after her work-related injury, and Dr. Ekengren was her family physician. In his deposition, Sparks testified he had released Bryant from his care in 1995 and was no longer treating her. Although he released Bryant at maximum medical improvement, Sparks testified Bryant would need future medical care, including prescription medication.
Bryant was awarded compensation, which included future medical care. In addition, U.S.D. 259 was ordered to pay the costs of pain medication prescribed by her authorized physician. The authorized physician was not designated in the award.
When Bryant went to Ekengren for pain medication, he referred her to Dr. Manasco for epidural steroid injections. Bryant informed U.S.D. 259 that she had gone to Ekengren and asked U.S.D. 259 to reimburse her for the outstanding bills. U.S.D. 259 responded by letter, stating: "It is obvious that this does not conform with such treatment being recommended or prescribed by the authorized treating physician in this case, i.e., Dr. Sparks. Thus, please be advised that the bill is considered by USD #259 to be unauthorized medical and thus, subject to a limitation of $500."
Bryant filed an application for a preliminary hearing. A hearing was held before the ALJ. After the parties presented arguments, the ALJ found Bryant was in need of post-award medical care and ordered U.S.D. 259 to provide Bryant with a list of three physicians. The physician selected by Bryant was to be deemed authorized. The ALJ also ordered U.S.D. 259 to pay Ekengren's outstanding medical bills as unauthorized medical, up to the statutory limit.
U.S.D. 259 appealed the order to the Board. The Board dismissed the appeal, finding it lacked authority to review the order because the ALJ had not exceeded her jurisdiction in granting Bryant's requested preliminary hearing benefits.
This court does not have jurisdiction to review the Board's dismissal of appeals of preliminary orders. Under K.S.A. 44-556(a),
"[a]ny action of the board pursuant to the workers compensation act, other than the disposition of appeals of preliminary orders or awards under K.S.A. 44-534a and amendments thereto, shall be subject to review in accordance with the act for judicial review and civil enforcement of agency actions by appeal directly to the court of appeals." (Emphasis added.)
Furthermore, K.S.A. 44-551(b)(2)(A) provides that if the ALJ enters a preliminary award under 44-534a, the Board shall not conduct a review unless it is alleged that the ALJ has exceeded the ALJ's jurisdiction in ruling on the relief requested at the preliminary hearing. See Shain v. Boeing Military Airplanes, 22 Kan. App. 2d 913, 914, 924 P.2d 1280 (1996). This issue involves interpretation of the Workers Compensation Act. Interpretation of a statute is a question of law. An appellate court's review of a question of law is unlimited. Foulk v. Colonial Terrace, 20 Kan. App. 2d 277, 283, 887 P.2d 140 (1994), rev. denied 257 Kan. 1091 (1995).
On appeal, U.S.D. 259 argues that this court has jurisdiction to review the Board's order because the order entered by the ALJ was not a "preliminary" order or award arising from a "preliminary" hearing as described in K.S.A. 44-534a. It claims that although K.S.A. 44-534a gives the ALJ the authority to order medical treatment pending a full hearing on the claim, a full hearing on the claim had already been conducted by the Director and a final award entered. In addition, U.S.D. 259 contends that because the hearing was not preliminary, the Board erred in declining to review the ALJ's order for lack of jurisdiction.
As indicated, K.S.A. 44-534a sets forth the procedures applicable to preliminary hearings and awards. K.S.A. 44-534a(a)(1) authorizes an employee or employer to apply for a preliminary hearing "on the issues of the furnishing of medical treatment and the payment of temporary total disability compensation." K.S.A. 44-534a(a)(2) provides that the ALJ, after making a preliminary finding that the injury to the employee is compensable, may "make a preliminary award of medical compensation and temporary total disability compensation to be in effect pending the conclusion of a full hearing on the claim."
"Under the plain language of 44-534a, the term 'preliminary award' refers to an award arising out of a preliminary hearing which provides for medical benefits and/or temporary total compensation. [Citations omitted.]
"The purpose of a preliminary hearing 'is to make a summary determination whether the claimant should be receiving temporary total compensation and medical treatment under the worker's compensation act.' [Citation omitted.]
. . . .
"The purpose for foreclosing appeal from a preliminary award is 'to afford the injured employee immediate access to medical and necessary living expenses pending a full hearing.' [Citation omitted.]" Shain, 22 Kan. App. 2d at 915.
Turning our attention to the present case, the order issued by the ALJ is not a preliminary order as described in K.S.A. 44-534a. For example, the order did not precede the Director's final order but followed the final order. The record contains no evidence that a full hearing was scheduled or was going to be scheduled as described in the statute. Nothing in the order indicates it was temporary; rather, it appears to be final. Although the order states that the hearing was a preliminary hearing, it does not specify that it was a preliminary order. The proceedings were more like the review and modification proceedings described in K.S.A. 44-528 and the change of physician proceedings described in K.S.A. 44-510(c)(1).
K.SA. 44-551(b)(1) states that "[a]ll acts, findings, awards, decisions, rulings or modifications of findings or awards made by an administrative law judge shall be subject to review by the board upon written request of any interested party within 10 days." U.S.D. 259 appealed the ALJ's order within 10 days. Because the order was not preliminary, the Board had authority to review it. In summary, dwhen an ALJ considers and enters a decision involving an employee's request for medical benefits and the employee's request for medical benefits occurs after a final order or award has been made in the case, the order or decision of the ALJ shall be subject to review by the Board under K.S.A. 44-551(b)(1). As a result, the Board erred in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds.
Merits of the Case
Next, we must ask ourselves if we need to remand this case to the Board for determination of the merits. U.S.D. 259 only takes issue with the ALJ's order requiring it to provide an authorized physician other than Sparks. U.S.D. 259 presents this court with the same issues it presented to the Board and specifically asks that this court review the decisions of the Board and the ALJ. Thus, in the interest of judicial economy, we will address the merits of U.S.D. 259's appeal. See Winters v. GNB Battery Technologies, 23 Kan. App. 2d 92, 97, 927 P.2d 512 (1996).
U.S.D. 259 argues that the ALJ exceeded her jurisdiction in granting relief not requested in Bryant's notice of intent. Specifically, U.S.D. 259 claims Bryant did not request a change of authorized physician, but rather limited her request to the authorization of Ekengren and reimbursement for incurred medical expenses. U.S.D. 259 argues it was prejudiced by the ALJ's characterization of Bryant's request for a change of benefits as a motion for change of physician, because it did not receive proper notice.
U.S.D. 259 also claims that the ALJ exceeded her jurisdiction in ordering U.S.D. 259 to provide the names of three potential authorized physicians because there was no showing that Sparks' treatment was unsatisfactory. U.S.D. 259 argues it has the right to designate a treating physician and Bryant must return to Sparks before she can demonstrate his treatment is unsatisfactory. The issue of whether an ALJ had jurisdiction to enter an award is a question of law subject to de novo review. Bradford v. Boeing Military Airplanes, 22 Kan. App. 2d 868, 871, 924 P.2d 1263, rev. denied 261 Kan. 1082 (1996).
K.S.A. 44-528 provides the procedures for review and modification of an award. Under the statute, an award, whether it provides for future compensation or not, may be reviewed by the ALJ for good cause shown by any interested party. K.S.A. 44-510(c)(1) describes the change of physician proceeding. It is the duty of the employer to provide the services of a health care provider. K.S.A. 44-510(a). Under K.S.A. 44-510(c)(1), the employee may ask the ALJ to authorize the appointment of some other health care provider after finding the services provided by the employer are unsatisfactory. In such a case, the employer must submit the names of three physicians. The employee selects one name from the list, and that physician is deemed authorized.
Although Bryant's filing under the preliminary hearing procedures in this case was improper, Bryant's failure to follow proper procedures does not automatically require reversal of the ALJ's order. Under K.S.A. 44-534(a), any party may apply in writing to the Director to have an ALJ resolve a dispute. In reviewing cases, the ALJ "shall not be bound by technical rules of procedure, but shall give the parties reasonable opportunity to be heard and to present evidence, insure the employee and the employer an expeditious hearing and act reasonably without partiality." K.S.A. 44-523(a).
The award entered by the Director allowed Bryant to seek future medical treatment upon application and review. When U.S.D. 259 refused to pay for medical costs she incurred from seeing Ekengren, Bryant applied in writing for a review. Approximately 2 months before the hearing, Bryant furnished U.S.D. 259 with notice that she intended to ask the ALJ to authorize Ekengren. At least 1 year before the hearing, U.S.D. 259 had knowledge that Sparks had released Bryant and was no longer treating her.
The ALJ did not recharacterize Bryant's request for a change in benefits as a motion for a change of physician as U.S.D. 259 suggests. Sparks' status as the authorized physician was in dispute. The ALJ simply resolved the dispute by utilizing a method similar to that set forth in K.S.A. 44-510(c)(1).
U.S.D. 259 was provided with sufficient notice that Bryant was not receiving treatment from Sparks and wished to have Ekengren authorized. It was afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard and present evidence. Nothing in the record indicates the ALJ acted unreasonably or with partiality. The ALJ neither authorized Ekengren nor required U.S.D. 259 to pay the outstanding medical bills as Bryant requested. Although this case was procedurally irregular, the ALJ did not exceed her jurisdiction in ordering U.S.D. 259 to submit the names of three physicians for authorization.
1REPORTER'S NOTE: Previously filed as an unpublished opinion, the Supreme Court granted a motion to publish by an order dated, September 28, 1999, pursuant to Rule 7.04 (1998 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 44).


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Rajesh Kanaparti necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
RIA Mobile Solutions
I'm an independent consultant, working in Rich Internet Applications Software development. The technologies that I'll be working in are Silverlight, Flex, and Mobile (iPhone applications) just to name a few.
My target audience are: software development organizations that have technology teams or organizations that work to create products in technology.
Creative/Fun Businesses
I'm looking for a logo to represent "RIA Mobile Solutions" in every sense of the Name.
We would love to have the logo consists of an iPhone like device highlighting the Mobile Part of the Company Name (RIA Mobile Solutions). But here are a few things to consider:
1. No Cartoons. I want it to be professional
2. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out. Again being careful not to be too fancy.
3. Some logos that I've liked: Simply hired, Windows Live Logo, Pando, Skype, Silverlight or Qwell (Organic 3D - My first preference) or Chicago 2016 Olympics Logo (Transparent).
3. I want to use the same logo in the website, business cards, letterheads, envelopes and anywhere else I want to brand the business to get the point across
4. I want to own the copyrights of the design/logo
I'm envisioning our website will look similar to apple (white/silver background), Please feel free to experiment with colors!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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