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Tips for Creating a Memorable Logo for Your Food Truck
Establishing a logo for your food truck helps people remember your business and think of it when they're in the mood to order something from a food truck. For some people, designing a logo is an exciting task that allows them to tap into their creative side. For others, it can be a dreaded chore with too many options to choose from.
When creating a logo to use for your business, think about how you want it to be perceived, because every element in it matters. It's like developing the perfect recipe. Everything needs to be of high quality (the colors, fonts, background, image, and so forth) and in the right quantity. Make sure your logo is completely authentic and infused with your personality. It needs to also convey your concept.
So where do you begin? Whether you're designing your logo yourself or are hiring someone to help, having a clear idea of what you're looking for will help you get to the finish line in no time. Here are some tips:
Keep it simple. The simpler your logo, the easier it will be to recall. After all, being memorable is the primary purpose of your branding for a food truck business. So hone in on your brand's core message, pair it down to two or three key phrases, and then use these phrases as starting points for conceptualizing relevant shapes, colors, or actions.
For example, the color yellow can define cheer, happiness, joy, playful, sunshine, and warmth, or you can choose to use concentric circles to represent continuity and shelter. If you get too fanciful and complicated, your logo's meaning may get lost, and customers may not be able to identify it. You don't want people looking at your logo and asking whether it's supposed to be a hamburger or some sort of plant.
Don't be too literal. Subtlety is the key to an effective logo design. The fundamental goal of the design is to spark recognition by the viewer as quickly as possible, and that relies on simplicity. Don't use fancy fonts or complicated images. No one likes logos that take several minutes to understand their meaning.
Stay away from trends. Your logo can be with you for years, whereas what's cool today can be tired and dated tomorrow. Trends come and go, but a timeless logo needs little tweaking to adapt to new ages.
Select size carefully. Keep in mind that what matters is not how big your logo is, but how big its elements are in relation to each other. If your logo is poorly proportioned, important parts may become hard to recognize when it's shrunk down for smaller usage (such as on your website or business cards).
Similarly, when you blow it up for the truck, other elements may dominate. Keep your logo design to a logical ratio.
Stick with a limited color range. Try to use a maximum of three or four colors. This tactic helps ensure that you're using each color for a specific reason.
Make your logo easy to describe. The golden rule of branding your food truck is that a logo must be describable. Like Nike's "swoosh" or McDonald's "golden arches," your logo needs a simplicity and uniqueness that can be conveyed by description. Clear colors and describable shapes make your logo more memorable for those seeing it, which, after all, is its primary purpose.
Now that you understand the basic principles of good logo design, you're on your way to designing the perfect logo for your food truck business. Let your creativity flow and start by brainstorming many different designs. Try out a few of the final contenders with friends and family to get their feedback.
If you have problems coming up with a logo design you're excited about, hire a professional graphic design agency to assist you with this task. The main benefit of hiring an agency is that you get a team of designers who have industry experience and know what type of colors, fonts, and graphics work best for the mobile industry.
You can find many graphic design firms by getting referrals from food truck owners who have already developed their graphics. Or another resource may be food truck builders in your area who typically use one or two different graphic design companies to help them design the graphics for their clients.

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Gilad Atzmon gets globetrotting at the Queen Elizabeth Hall – EFG London Jazz Festival 2013
Gilad Atzmon's performances inspire a quirky and contradictory set of adjectives not usually applied to other jazz musicians: exuberant, belligerent, droll, generous, unapologetic, outrageous, exquisite, tragi-comic, edgy, folksy, caricatured, tumultuous… should I go on? It's that edge-of-your-seat quality that I like so much; never quite knowing either in a solo, a setlist or his guest line-up, what's going to happen next to deliberately disrupt the flow.
Tonight's show was no exception, beginning with a whistle-stop tour of a few favourite cities: 'Paris', 'Tel Aviv', and 'Moscow'. Yaron Stavi (bass), Frank Harrison (keys) and Eddie Hick (drums) who make up the other three quarters of the Orient House Ensemble, know how to conjure up a sense of place that's vibrant and dynamic. But the OHE were just the opening act in terms of what Gilad had up his sleeve. Having warmed up his instruments (accordion, clarinet, soprano, alto), wound up his audience with some nicely non-PC jokes, and chatted up the very fine Sigamos String Quartet, arranged and led by Ros Stephen, 'the hippies' – Jennifer Bennett (violin and viola de gamba) and Yair Avidor (theorbo) – joined him on stage for the deconstructed and expansive 'Scarborough (Fair)' and 'Leipzig', a rendition of a portion of Bach's St Matthew passion. The set ended impeccably with a tour through sleazy, carnivalesque 'Berlin'.
Having reminded us of his credentials as a ridiculously good musician and bandleader, Atzmon risked turning set two into a variety show, were it not for the caliber and authenticity of his chosen acts. Opening with the wonderfully gritty songstress and collaborator Sarah Gillespie, he successfully interlaced raucous bluesy rock and roll with highly tasteful schmalz (is that a contradiction in terms?). Towards the end of a run of gorgeous ballads performed with strings à la Bird ('I Didn't Know What Time It Was', 'Laura'), I found myself longing for something rough and abrasive, when on came Norman Watt-Roy, the unstoppable rogue who ploughed around the stage while his hands moved at lightning speed over the neck of his electric bass for 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'. Atzmon's body language subtly changed to become the Blockheads' sax sideman, reserving his tenor and his intervalic effects-pedal for this moment, so he could rock out as a complete horn-section. By the time Wilko Johnson joined them on stage, I felt like I was at a stadium gig, and judging by Asaf Sirkis' grinning and drumming behind them, they were all having an unexpectedly good time.
Eclectic is an understatement: everyone knows Atzmon's not a catholic, but he has catholic taste, enjoying a broad musical church in his pleasingly defiant way that brooks no valid criticism, being far from indiscriminate. Music remains Atzmon's escape valve, where he can work off any pent-up political turmoil and iron out residual identity issues in the most effective way possible. He's a very compelling thinker, writer and comedian, but I sincerely hope he never stops playing jazz.
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Listening to the speech of Newfoundland, Ireland, and Newcastle upon Tyne I can hear certain similarities. For example the word 'time' and words with the same vowel as 'time' tend to be pronounced with a long vowel, almost like "tie'eem" in all three different accents.
The Newfoundland accent sadly probably is starting to sound more like your generic Ontario or British Columbia sort of speech but a really broad Newfoundland accent sounds pretty much identical to certain accents in the British Isles and I notice commonalities with Ireland, West Country, Welsh and Geordie accents.
I find the grammar and lexicon of Newfinese, Irish and Geordie very similar as well. For example the Geordie "why aye man" is very similar, and means the same thing as the famous Newfinese "yes by" - more or less a statement of agreement though often used in a dismissive and sarcastic way. Originally "yes by" actually was "aye by" or "aye boy".
All three accents pronounce "my" as "me" and follow the northern subject rule. It's common to say things like "You knows yourself" in Newfoundland, a form which is pretty typical of the north of England and was actually typical of the south of England too as recent as Victorian times.
I'm not sure about Ireland but I know in Newfoundland and North East England it's common to refer to people by terms of endearment. Like I know Geordie women will refer to children and even other adults as 'hinny' and 'pet' and Newfinese men will call female friends 'ducky' even if their relationship is totally platonic. I'm not sure how much modern political correctness is changing that.
My theory is that the similarities have to do with the fact Irish people make up around 40 percent of Newfoundland's ethnic makeup and quite a few of them migrated to Newcastle Upon Tyne in the 19th century for work, so they probably had a significant influence on Geordie speech and perhaps this possible Irish influence are part of what make Tyneside speech different from Mackem or Northumberland dialect.
Many Americans would mistake Cheryl Cole for being Irish and some people in Newfoundland kind of talk like she does on certain words. A Newfoundlander might say something like "you knows yerself how bad waysps get this tame of year" which is pretty much how Cheryl would probably say it.
The majority of the non-Irish 60 percent of Newfoundland's makeup came from South West England, which is the opposite side of England to Geordieland. But at the same time, the South West shares with the North a strong Celtic influence on the colour of the local speech, and Geordieland and the West Country both retained archaic features of the English language later into history than South East England and the Midlands did.
And come to think of it, Geordies call Newcastle 'The Toon' and Newfoundlanders call St. John's 'Town', lol.
But yeah basically I think the reason I'm making this connection is because
1) Newfoundland and Newcastle are both primarily English but with a large share of Irish heritage
2) Hiberno-English, Geordie and Newfinese all have heavily Celtic-influenced grammatical structure
3) The cultures of these regions are all very 'down to earth' as opposed to posh
4) All three accents have retained many old features that have died in standard Estuary, American and Canadian speech
5) The broadest examples of these accents are practically languages unto themselves and Newfinese and Geordie occupy roughly the same place of imagination in Canadian and British society, respectively
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Moore, Roger
August 1694–1751
Roger Moore, colonial official, was born in the Goose Creek section of Berkeley County, S.C., one of ten children of the prominent planter James and Margaret Berringer Moore, the stepdaughter of Sir John Yeamans. One of his brothers, James, served as governor of South Carolina. As befitted his station in life, Roger married a daughter of William Rhett, a leader in South Carolina society.
In 1724 Roger Moore began taking a notable interest in development of the Lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, joining with his brothers, Colonel Maurice and Nathaniel, to seek land grants in the area. By 1727 Roger had accumulated more than seven thousand acres and had built a fine plantation house called Kendall on the Cape Fear River; four years later he owned nearly twenty-five thousand acres. Moore was instrumental in the establishment of Brunswick town and was a staunch supporter of that community in its struggle with Newton (later Wilmington) for supremacy as a port of entry on the Cape Fear. As a member of the royal Council, he engaged in the fierce political intrigue that surrounded this matter in the late 1730s.
Moore held a number of provincial and local offices in the colony. He was assistant justice of the General Court in 1732, a justice of the peace for New Hanover County in 1734, a commissioner for the boundary with South Carolina in 1735, and a member of the royal Council from 1734 until his death. Because of his grand manner and his reputation as a generous host, Moore was often referred to as "King Roger." By 1748 he had built a one-story plantation house called Orton at a magnificent site overlooking the river near Brunswick town. He was buried on the grounds.
At his death in 1751 (his will was probated in May), Roger owned more than 250 slaves and nearly 60,000 acres of land. He was survived by his wife and five children.
J. Bryan Grimes, ed., North Carolina Wills and Inventories (1912).
Lawrence Lee, The Lower Cape Fear in Colonial Days (1965).
William S. Price, Jr., "'Men of Good Estates': Wealth among North Carolina's Royal Councillors," North Carolina Historical Review 49 (1972).
William L. Saunders, ed., Colonial Records of North Carolina, vols. 3–4 (1886).
Additional Resources:
"CSR Documents by Moore, Roger, 1694-1751." Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/creators/csr10232 (accessed June 27, 2013).
"History." Orton Plantation. http://www.ortonplantation.com/orton_history.htm (accessed June 27, 2013).
Talty, Peter. "Orton Plantation and Rice Fields Study List Application." N.C. State Historic Preservation Office. http://www.starnewsonline.com/assets/pdf/WM24711323.PDF (accessed June 27, 2013).
DeRosset, William Lord "Roger Moore." Pictorial and historical New Hanover County and Wilmington North Carolina, 1723-1938. Wilmington, N.C.: 1938. 26-27. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/fullview.aspx?id=phn (accessed June 27, 2013).
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Friesel, Rob. "Orton Plantation: tombs." Photograph. Flickr. May 15, 2007. https://www.flickr.com/photos/28555778@N00/505474727/ (accessed June 27, 2013).
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The Sevilles; Are one of the best variety dance bands in Minneapolis, Minnesota! They have been nominated Best Live Band year after year by Minnesota Bride Magazine's readers poll, shared the stage with national acts, president's, celebrities and visiting dignitaries. A quick glance at their superlative and gushing Client Testimonials, however brings home that this band has a special talent for bringing people together, and putting their event in the spotlight, front and center. Whether it is a wedding reception or the Governor's Inaugural Ball, there is that special something that great entertainment can unlock to bring the evening to a beautiful culmination. You can relax and let The Sevilles make the magic happen!
The Sevilles are much more than a top shelf variety band the play the big hits spanning from the 1940's to the present….they are seasoned entertainers who just love interacting with people. At a typical engagement, you may see the horn section leading a conga line on the dance floor or doing Motown chorography with the singers and guests. The Sevilles offer many band sizes to accommodate your function and budget; The smallest size is 6 pieces; bass, drums, keys, sax/wind synthesizer, a male vocalist who doubles on guitar and a female vocalist. (Note:The wind synthesizer has the capability of sounding like horns, horn sections, strings and even percussion!) The 7 piece is; bass, drums, keys, sax/wind synthesizer, guitar, male vocalist and female vocalist. You can build the band to 10 pieces by adding two more horns and a second male vocalist. The Sevilles look forward to taking your party to the next level!
Services and Options included when you book The Sevilles as a dance band:
* High quality p.a. system and stage lighting
* Room enhancing lighting; this puts colored lighting patterns and pulsating lights (as per your wishes) on the walls and ceiling
*Prerecorded music played during the band breaks; We can feature our collection of break music or play any I-Pod playlist or burned cd your provide us. Room enhancing lighting is provided during band breaks. This means you can get everything a DJ could provide plus giving your guests the magic that can only be provided by live entertainment!
* Consultation with the Group Leader to plan your song list, announcements and flow of the evening
* Discounted Optional Services: such as Cocktail or Dinner music featuring 1-3 pieces or cds/or ipod playing additional time
Services The Sevilles offer other than Dance music:
* Solo sax with back-up tracks and cds; The perfect solution for background music when you only have the budget or space for one musician
*You can book select musicians from this group for background music or for wedding ceremony services. See The Michael Kay Combo page for more information. Usually 2-4 musicians from the band. Usually playing instrumental music, but it is possible to book the group in 4 or more pieces making it a highbred group to perform dance music, depending your needs. Great for small corporate and private gatherings!
* Sound Reinforcement: Upon availability, our state-of-the-art p.a. and lights along with a technician are available for your function


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Ramadan Calendar Ras Bayrut
Ramadan Calendar > Asia > Lebanon > Ras Bayrut
Today : Monday 18 November 2019
Here are the fasting breaks times (iftar) at Ras Bayrut . Imsak time corresponds to the adhan time and begins at AM according to the Muslim World League and the fasting break time (maghrib) at PM.
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Ramadan Calendar for the city of Ras Bayrut
Imsak = Fajr
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Originally published March 28, 2011.
June 1988. I stood on the front porch of my friend Patty's Arlington, Texas, home with suitcases in hand, not unlike Felix Unger in the opening credits of "The Odd Couple." Like him, I was being thrown out–not out of a tiny Upper East Side classic six–but rather a sprawling six-bedroom casa, complete with pool, three-car garage, automatic sprinkler system, and, what I would miss most, a freezer full of corn dogs. As Patty's lawyer–a bowling ball with legs who had skin like tobacco-colored crepe paper–put it, I was an "unnecessary risk."
Patty and her husband, Dan, were getting divorced. While he was shacking up with his dental assistant, I was living non-conjugally with his wife and three kids after I had, for the nth time, denounced New York City. The greater Dallas area was my new home, I told myself, and I embraced it with all the excitement and innocence of Kennedy in 1963.
I chose Dallas because Patty and her two friends, Laverne and Maxine (clearly, not their real names), were planning to open a spiritual center and wanted me to join as advisor. (This was during the time known as the Great Shirley MacLaine Epoch, so forgive any star-blinded lapse in judgment.) I was no more qualified to rope and brand a Texas longhorn that I was to advise these under-sexed, overpaid housewives. But we had met at a conference for the great spiritually unwashed and took a shine to each other. Plus, I'd sublet my apartment for three months as a first step in escaping my strangled existence in NYC.
When Dan, who was looking for any reason to unseat Patty from the house he financed, discovered a "light-in-the-loafers city slicker" mixing with his impressionable children, I was on the porch within an hour.
No home. Few prospects. Little money.
Of the three Lone Star Andrews Sisters, Laverne was the most compassionate.
"Let's move you in with CarolJean," she said, patting the seat of her pickup as I tossed my bags into the back. CarolJean was her 21-year-old daughter trying the living-on-my-own gig, and none too successfully. She was a retired high school baton twirling champion, who, after the glittery sequins unraveled from the costumes that I later discovered she still wore around the house, gave up and took to life on the couch.
When we entered her apartment, she was, as predicted, prone on the sofa–in each fist a baton twirling like a propeller. The slam of the door startled her and, misjudging the height of the ceiling, she scuffed it. Apparently, she must have suffered from significant depth-perception problems: the ceiling everywhere was punctuated with a riot of eraser-gray commas.
"Well, I have to get buffed and fluffed!" Laverne said loudly for CarolJean's benefit, then she gathered me close. "Bless you, David," she whispered. "Bless you." I was left with the eerie feeling that it wasn't me who was on the receiving end of the goodwill baton.
CarolJean led me to my room, which was empty. "You'll need a bed, I guess," she said, knocking off the thermostat cover with a horizontal figure eight of one of her propellers. In the kitchen: "The top two shelves are mine," she said of the empty fridge, "and you can have this here left side of the freezer." On the right, nothing but an opened wholesale-size container of frozen fat-free Cool Whip. "Oh, and there's no gas, either, so you have to cook everything in the microwave."
With that, she retired to her room, only the occasional thunk of rubber hitting plaster to be heard late into the night.
Life careened downhill after that. Within a week all of CarolJean's rented living room furniture was repossessed. A month later, so was her BMW, a belated gift to herself for her crowning twirling achievements. After a few more weeks, I'd grown desperate. Patty, Laverne, and Maxine moved on for good. Their token visits petered out (phone calls were out of the question because the line was turned off). They had turned their attention from the spiritual center to an aerobics studio–wedding planning venture. "Drop one sack of lard and pick up another–all in one place!" Patty liked to say.
I meted out my money, trying to budget until I was able to return and reclaim my so-called life. With no car to borrow, I was forced to walk three miles to and from the supermarket once a week to shop for food. One Friday, so depressed by my reduced means, I copped out and walked to the nearest convenience store. And it was there, in front of the frozen foods, with a month left before I flew home, that I had my version of the Epiphany. The very same corn dogs that I'd enjoyed with abandon with the kids at Patty's house were on sale. And not just on sale–but deeply discounted. Woozy from lack of sustenance, I calculated that if I bought several boxes, and limited myself to three dogs a day (four on Saturdays and Sundays), I could make it through.
Back home, I ripped into a package and slid two dogs (an extra ration, I know, but it was worth it) onto a plate and into the microwave. I knew they wouldn't have the just-fried crunch of the ones Patty made in the oven for the kids and me, but no matter. As I bit through my joy on a stick, I silently thanked all the pork and beef by-products that went into the making of my meal. The cornmeal coating, which I nibbled off a bit at a time to enjoy the different flavors and textures (yes, a corn dog can have different flavors and textures), was pleasantly mealy and had that slightly chemical sweet taste of Bisquick pancakes that were slathered with butter but bereft of syrup. The hot dog itself was juicy and, well, meaty enough to balance its cornmeal shroud. When I was done, I washed the plate (the water hadn't been turned off yet) and returned it to the cupboard. Sated, I curled up under a blanket in what I deemed my bed and fell contentedly to sleep.
Over time I took to thinking of corn dogs as my own personal savior, which I know can–at first blush–appear blasphemous. But I meant it with all the reverence and fervor of a tent revival convert. It's not that I was seeing the face of Jesus fried into the cornmeal coating. Rather, ever since that moment of awakening in front of the frozen food case at the convenience store, I knew I'd be okay. I knew that I'd make it through the long, dark days before returning home.
One breakfast while sitting on the kitchen counter dunking a corn dog into a jar of mayonnaise (by this time the only furniture that wasn't either repossessed or smashed by CarolJean's increasingly aggressive displays of indoor twirling was her bed), it dawned on me someone should write a country song called "Savior on a Stick." It's not as crazy it is sounds. If Jesus can be on board a car, in a marriage bed, in schools, in a church–why can't he be on a stick in my corn dog? (Of course, if you're of a different religious persuasion, feel free to substitute your god's name here.)
The bottom line is, something or someone caused to me to zig to that convenience store rather than zag to the local Tom Thumb, where prices were significantly higher and I didn't have a shopper's card. And that someone was my own personal savior–on a stick or not.
Corn Dogs
The corn dogs that I consumed by the box while living in Dallas can't hold a match to these homemade little lovelies on a stick. What I like about this corn dog recipe—well, one of many things that like about this corn dog batter—is that you can control the quality of the ingredients. Think about it: You can use organic cornmeal, all-beef kosher hot dogs, even tofu dogs for the vegetarians among us. Bet you won't find those at the state fair.–David Leite
LC Contemplating Corn Dogs Note
Clearly the corn dog is all—or very nearly all—about the dog's crunchy, corny coating. But Beth Price, our Director of Recipe Testing, recently drew our attention to how not all corn dogs are created equal, though not for the reasons you may think. She finds the most compelling part of a corn dog to be the crunchy little blob of fried batter at the base of the hot dog. You know, that part that seemingly secures the corn dog to its prehistoric yet practical eating utensil, the stick. That little blob exists only when the dog is fried on the wooden skewer, whereas this recipe inserts the skewer into the corn dog after frying, for what we think are fairly obvious safety reasons. Still, even minus the coveted blob, Beth and her sons swooned to this recipe. For Beth's fellow blob devotees—or those of you who are just curious or drawn to danger, here's the scoop on how to make those little love handles.
Corn Dogs
- Quick Glance
- Makes 8 to 12
Special Equipment: wooden skewers
IngredientsEmail Grocery List
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for coating the hot dogs
- 2/3 to 1 cup finely ground cornmeal (the exact amount depends on how thick and corny you like your corndog coating)
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar (or substitute honey)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Generous pinch salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 to 1 1/4 cups whole milk or buttermilk
- 8 to 12 hot dogs
- Vegetable or peanut oil, for frying
- Mustard, for serving
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar (if using honey, don't add it quite yet), baking powder, and salt.
- 2. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the egg and 1 cup of the milk or buttermilk. If using honey, add it now.
- 3. Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, mixing just until combined. The batter will be quite thick.
- 4. Heat a couple of inches of oil in a deep pot or ample oil in a deep fryer to 360° to 365° F (182° to 185°C). Scatter some flour on a plate. Using tongs or your fingertips, roll a hot dog in the flour to coat. This will help the batter cling to the hot dog. Then dip the hot dog in the batter and coat it evenly. If you find that the batter is way too thick, add up to 1/4 cup more milk or buttermilk, stirring in just a little at a time. Add the corn dog to the hot oil and quickly repeat, frying only a few corn dogs at a time and being careful not to crowd them. Cook, turning as needed, until the batter is golden brown and the dog is warmed through, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels or a brown paper bag to drain for a minute or two. Skim any bits of batter from the oil, return the oil to its proper temperature, and repeat with the remaining hot dogs and batter.
- 5. Insert a wooden skewer in the end of each corn dog and serve immediately, with mustard if desired. And napkins. Lots of napkins.
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Darius is the leader of the Galactic Council. It was his memory of ancient legend that prompted Icarius (Flipshot) and himself to travel back through time to Eternia to find He-man. His energy mace is a powerful weapon which can strike terror into the hears of Skeletor's goons.
Darius appeared in the 1989 Mattel retailers catalogs in Europe and he was a central figure in He-Man's new series storyline, which was significantly different from the story presented in the US.
This figure was not mass-produced but prototypes do exist of him.
Recently a test shot surfaced and was auctioned on eBay, indicating that steel molds had been created for the figure. According to the seller, Darius was not mass-produced due to complications with his actionfeature, which didn't work correctly on the finalized figure.


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Jack Culolias: Clairvoyant Joins Search for Missing Arizona State University Student
(TEMPE, Ariz.) -- A psychic has offered her services to help locate missing college student Jack Culolias, whose family is desperate to bring the 19-year-old home in time for the holidays.
The Arizona State University student was last seen being escorted out of the Cadillac Ranch bar at Tempe Marketplace on Nov. 30 during a fraternity event.
Melinda Vail, a Tempe psychic, heard about the case and offered her services to the Culolias family, she told ABC News' Phoenix affiliate.
Vail said she has been able to provide Tempe police with specific information, but she declined to publicly say whether she believes Culolias is dead, out of respect to his family.
"I'm getting names of people both living and dead," Vail said. "They are pieces to a puzzle."
The investigation into Culolias' disappearance has proven to be frustrating for his family and friends.
Culolias' friend, Alec Pinto, was with him the night he disappeared. They were both pledging the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) and were there as part of a fraternity social -- a bit of fun before they would go through initiation the following week.
"It had nothing to do with hazing at all, it was purely for fun," Pinto said.
Culolias got drunk and was apparently seen urinating off a balcony, which caused bouncers to escort him out of the bar, Pinto said. He has not been seen since.
On Saturday, Dec. 1, Pinto got worried after not hearing from Culolias, who he normally talked with or saw every day.
"I was worried that no one had seen him and that he hadn't contacted me," Pinto said.
Pinto called Culolias and went to his dorm to no avail. He later discovered that Culolias' phone had been found at the bar.
The following day, as his worry mounted to fear, Pinto decided to try to get a hold of Culolias' family in Orange County, Calif. He eventually reached Culolias' mother, Grace Culolias, and urged her to file a missing person's report.
She filed a report with the ASU Police, but later reached the conclusion that the force was short staffed. So she drove down to Arizona herself to try to discover where her son was and how to bring him home.
"I felt like I was the one in charge of the investigation," Grace Culolias said.
On Monday, while searching a nearby river basin, an area Tempe police described as "desolate," she found a single red Vans sneaker, one that she knew belonged to her son.
She alerted the Tempe Police Department, which had taken over the investigation.
Culolias said the ASU Police told her the department had searched the area last Sunday night with flashlights, but she was critical of the department's actions during the first crucial hours when her son was reported missing.
"They did not do a good job," she said. "It they would have, they would have found the shoe on the second day instead of the fourth. ... They should have immediately turned it [the investigation] over."
The Arizona State University Police Department did not respond to several ABC News calls or an email request for comment.
The Tempe Police Department said it has launched a complete investigation, employing a helicopter, K-9 unit and specialty equipment to search underwater. Investigators have found no evidence of foul play.
Culolias noted Jack was worried about initiation week, or "hell week," as she calls it.
"There is no sign of foul play," she said. "I'm hoping he may have hid because he didn't want to go through hell week. It may have had something to do with the fraternity but, at this point, I don't see any physical evidence."
SAE has a strict no-hazing policy and even condemns excessive drunkenness, Pinto said. The fraternity has started a fund to pay for the Culolias' out-of-pocket expenses while they stay in Arizona to search for Jack. In less than two days, the fund raised $2,712.
On the phone, Grace Culolias spoke of her undying resolve to find her son.
"I am all cried out," she said. "I'm a wreck but I can't sit in a ball and cry; that's not going to bring my son home. I'm at the search site because I want to make sure they [the police] are out here. It's giving me the peace of mind."
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So yesterday I was faced with a big dilemma, both as a man living in a patriarchal universe and as a feminist. I was out tonight with some of my friends to watch a play, after which all of us decided to go out for a quick detour for some drinks, before dinner. After the end of the "detour", it was decided that I would accompany one of my friends (an adult woman) to the train station in a cab, even though both of us were high if not drunk.
We had to walk for a couple of minutes, to get to a corner of one of the arterial roads, so that we will have a better chance at hiring a taxi that would be willing to take us to the station that my friend had to get to. While we were walking, my friend (a feminist herself) made it very clear that she was both annoyed and offended by my attitude. The fact that I felt it was my responsibility to accompany her to the station at 10:30 pm, was very clearly something that she did not appreciate. All the while she had a very straightforward question: "Do you not trust me in taking care of myself?". The answer was very obviously that I do trust her to take care of herself (and neither do I believe her to be someone who needs a man to protect her or accompany her late at night). But then the question also had multiple implications, because if I had complete trust in her ability to be self-reliant, what is it that made me feel insecure about her boarding a taxi all alone, at night.
The answer then became very clear to me at that moment. I did not trust the working class, the taxi drivers in this case, enough to not inflict violence on my friend. Neither did I trust them to be human and not opportunistic sex offenders. I realised the prejudice in my reasoning, at the same time I also realised the patronising attitude that I exhibit quite often towards women around me. I realised that while my elitism did not make me trust the rest of the world to be decent human beings, I was also at the same time guilty of making public spaces inaccessible and insecure to women.
At the end of the road, where we got a taxi that was willing to go to the station, I finally decided that I had to trust both my friend and the taxi driver. At the same time, I had to convince myself to not be an apparatus in perpetuating patriarchal norms and practices, the ones which I so fervently oppose in public. It was very difficult to do and I was restless till she called me from her home, and I am still not convinced that I should have left her alone in the taxi. I will be faced with the same dilemma, the next time a female friend tells me she would be using public transport to reach home without any company. But I keep telling myself that things need to change if we aspire for a better tomorrow.


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A construction crew sliced through the main at Surrey Memorial Hospital on Nov. 19, unleashing a flood of muddy water into the ER, forcing its evacuation.
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Fraser Health Authority spokesman Roy Thorpe-Dorward says clean up and infection control inspections have been completed and the ER is ready for business again, except for its MRI machine, which was damaged by the water.
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A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
Robert Emmet Horn, of Sour Lake, pleaded guilty Nov. 22, 2010, to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone.
According to information presented in court, on Feb. 12, 2010, law enforcement officers executed a federal search warrant at horn's sour Lake residence and seized a personal computer and two laptop computers. A forensic analysis of the computers revealed over 1,000 images of child pornography, some of which depicted minors engaged in sadistic, masochistic or violent sexual acts, and some depicted children less than 12 years of age engaged in sexually explicit conduct. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Oct. 29, 2010, charging Horn with child pornography violations.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.


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Happy New Year! In a few short hours most of us will gather with family and friends to ring out 2010 and welcome the new year. Thanks to the wonder of technology, we can literally celebrate the new year as it makes it way around the world. As I reflect back on the 2010, I find myself counting the many blessings that I have been given and thinking about the moments that were, well, feeling anything but a blessing. And yet, I realize that even these moments were in my life for a reason, a lesson that I have yet to realize.
As we make our way towards that new page in the calendar it is inevitable that we feel the need to make resolutions that will make our lives - and ourselves - better: kicking the tobacco habit, losing weight, eating better, engaging in regular exercise. Amy Coffin encouraged family historians in The We Tree Genealogy blog to look beyond our immediate horizons and stretch our researching muscles with 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy all designed to help make us better family historians. In week 51 she challenges us to think about our goals for 2011 and to write them down.
2011 is designated as the year I stop collecting and begin organizing, writing and sharing.
While there are several members of my family tree who are on my Most Wanted list, my most pressing goal for 2011 is to organize, scan and share with my family the wealth of family photographs in my possession. Some of them need to be identified with family members, several of them will require some serious work in Photoshop but all of them have a story to be told and I look forward to sharing these stories.
There are many of my ancestors stories that I have discovered that need to be put down: Lizzie Goldrick's trip to England to make a withdrawal on a reported bushel of gold, my uncle Earle Bergeron's military service and time spent as a Flying Sergeant and there are several of Grandma Space's journals waiting to be transcribed.
To quote Edith Lovejoy Pierce: We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
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The breath is a reflection of our mental state and vice versa, yet often this connection goes unnoticed, even when it is ruling our behavior. If you have ever realized that you were holding your breath then taken a few full breaths, you may know the feeling of softening places you weren't even aware were becoming tense. The connection between our breath, body, and mind is beautiful, fierce, fragile, and sometimes less under our control than we would like to believe.
Have you ever noticed that becoming aware of your breath almost instantly begins to change it? Attempting to simply observe the breath can be as challenging as practicing breathing exercises that intentionally alter it. Even with the clear and calm state of mind we attempt to cultivate in order to practice pranayama, these practices are challenging. Now imagine having no control over your breath. You can't take a full breath in or out, you can't slow the breath down, or you can't stop coughing long enough to really breathe. While many of us are fortunate to not experience asthma, panic attacks, or hyperventilation, these phenomena illustrate how tenuous our connection to breath can be.
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Even if you aren't prone to these conditions, you have most likely experienced breath-related fear at some point, perhaps due to choking while swimming, eating or drinking. Even the most experienced practitioner of meditation and/or pranayama may find themselves panicking in these situations. Yet, as one yogini and mother of a child with asthma recently wrote, the more you panic about not being able to breathe, the harder it is to breathe. This cycle can be hard to stop once it begins; the best prevention is to become mindfully aware of the breath and to practice slowing the breath before a crisis arises.
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contextual. I have been looking for some more graphics/news on the the Church design; being that the 'Architectural Design' has not been finalized there is a least the possibility of seeing a 'modern greek orthodox' church built on that site.
I think thats a placeholder, the church hasn't been designed yet.
contextual. I have been looking for some more graphics/news on the the Church design; being that the 'Architectural Design' has not been finalized there is a least the possibility of seeing a 'modern greek orthodox' church built on that site.
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Church Destroyed at Ground Zero Is Still at Square One
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: March 18, 2009
The tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is once again at the forefront of the myriad disputes that plague the rebuilding effort at ground zero.
The fate of the church, a narrow whitewashed building that was crushed in the attack on the World Trade Center, was supposed to have been settled eight months ago, with a tentative agreement in which the church would swap its land for a grander church building on a larger parcel nearby, with a $20 million subsidy from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. This would have allowed work to begin at the south end of the site.
But the two sides never came to final terms. After months of negotiations, the Port Authority, which is overseeing reconstruction at ground zero, ended its talks with the church on Monday, saying that the church had sought increasingly costly concessions.
Complaints, of course, abound on both sides.
The authority now says that St. Nicholas is free to rebuild the church on its own parcel at 155 Cedar Street, just east of West Street. The authority will, in turn, use eminent domain to get control of the land beneath that parcel so it can move ahead with building foundation walls and a bomb-screening center for trucks, buses and cars entering the area.
"We made an extraordinarily generous offer to resolve this issue and spent eight months trying to finalize that offer, and the church wanted even more on top of that," said Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority. "They have now given us no choice but to move on to ensure the site is not delayed. The church continues to have the right to rebuild at their original site, and we will pay fair market value for the underground space beneath that building."
Last July, the Port Authority and the Greek Orthodox Church announced a tentative plan to rebuild the church just east of its original site, at Liberty and Greenwich Streets. The authority agreed to provide the church with land for a 24,000-square-foot house of worship, far larger than the original, and $20 million. Since the church would be built in a park over the bomb-screening center, the authority also agreed to pay up to $40 million for a blast-proof platform and foundation.
In recent negotiations, the authority cut the size of the church slightly and told church officials that its dome could not rise higher than the trade center memorial. The church, in turn, wanted the right to review plans for both the garage with the bomb-screening center and the park, something the authority was unwilling to provide. More important, authority officials said, the church wanted the $20 million up front, rather than in stages. Officials said they feared that the church, which has raised about $2 million for its new building, would come back to the authority for more.
The termination of negotiations is a major setback for the little church, a parish of 70 families that is nearly 90 years old. St. Nicholas officials had hoped to build an impressive structure, with a traditional Greek Orthodox dome, and a nondenominational center for visitors to ground zero. That will not be possible on the church's original 1,200-square-foot lot, although church officials say they hope for reconciliation.
"We consider the rebuilding of the St. Nicholas Church a sacred obligation to the victims of 9/11, to the city of New York, to the people of America and in fact to the international community," said Stavros H. Papagermanos, a spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. "We will continue to discuss in good faith and we believe that all parties involved are well-intended, and ultimately we will overcome any obstacles that have arisen."
One person who was involved in the negotiations on behalf of the church, and who insisted on anonymity so as not to inflame the situation, criticized the Port Authority, saying it had made constantly shifting demands on St. Nicholas. Still, he said, the remaining issues were relatively small.
But it does not appear that the Port Authority is posturing. And while the Bloomberg administration expressed regrets about the impasse, officials said it was far more important to proceed apace with building a memorial, a transit center and other projects at ground zero.
St. Nicholas, a four-story church, became a symbol of resilience after it was destroyed, with George E. Pataki, then the governor, and Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, vowing that it would rise again.
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The Cordoba House controversy is being picked up by the "Rebuild St. Nicholas Church" coalition.
The previous deal between the Port Authority and the Church fell apart last year (see Post 48, above) ...
George Demos Appears on Fox News –
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August 2, 2010
George Demos, the Conservative Republican Candidate for Congress in the First District of New York, appeared on Fox News today and called on the Executive Director of the Port Authority Chris Ward to immediately stop his bureaucratic roadblocks and to make the rebuilding of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero a top priority.
Demos stated that it was disgraceful that the Port Authority of New York/ New Jersey reneged on a deal with Church officials and for over a year has refused to meet with the leaders of the only house of worship actually destroyed on September 11, 2001. Demos noted that our government is spending billions of dollars to rebuild the infrastructure of Ground Zero, yet no plan exists for rebuilding the Church. Demos reiterated that our Judeo-Christian values are under attack in our nation and that rebuilding the Church transcends any particular denomination.
Demos also renewed his call to investigate the sources of funding for the newly proposed Mosque near Ground Zero given the serious questions about the background of the Mosque proponents.
Demos concluded that we owe it to the memory of the 3,000 victims of September 11, 2001, including the 168 from Suffolk County, many of whom prayed at St. Nicholas, to rebuild the Church.
The authority will, in turn, use eminent domain to get control of the land beneath that parcel so it can move ahead with building foundation walls and a bomb-screening center for trucks, buses and cars entering the area.
the little church, a parish of 70 families
The Port Authority agreed to provide the church with land for a 24,000-square-foot house of worship, far larger than the original, and a $20 million subsidy
Since the church would be built in a park over the bomb-screening center, the authority also agreed to pay up to $40 million for a blast-proof platform and foundation.
$20 million subsidy for a church with only 70 families? that's $285,000 per family, plus I guess the up to $40 million they agreed to pay for a blast proof platform and foundation. Suddenly this little hole in the wall church with barely 70 families is somehow worth 24,000 sq ft plus $285,000 per family, plus up to $571,000 per family for the pro rated platform/foundation cost.
I'm wondering where the church's INSURANCE was, and why the Port Authority should be paying a dime of money let alone land and $20 to $60 million on top!
The Port Authority I don't see has eminant domain, that is for a court to decide.
As far as the design of the facade, what's wrong with replicating what was there before, it was a unique facade, and nothing about it would even be the slightest bit difficult or above normal masonry construction costs to build. It didn't have carvings, cornices or anything like that.
At the least, the above should not be one sentence.Demos reiterated that our Judeo-Christian values are under attack in our nation and that rebuilding the Church transcends any particular denomination.
Somehow this issue got caught up with the whole GZ mosque thing. Whatever one thinks of that, the two issues are wholly unrelated. The church existed pre-9/11, was destroyed as a result of Port Authority incompetence, and the PA has since kept the parishioners from rebuilding for the past nine years, by seizing their land and using it to build an underground garage which did not exist pre-9/11. (There was an underground garage, but it was somewhere else.) The PA originally promised a land swap, so the Church could be rebuilt, but then quietly (so quietly, even the Church did not know about it) backed out of the deal when the Governor in favor of the deal left office. Now, the PA is saying, sorry, you will have to wait another decade or so until we finish the garage (as with everything else the PA does, it is in no particular hurry to finish), after which, if you have any parishioners left, and still want to rebuild on your original site (which will now abut a truck ramp), we will cut you a small check -- not for the value of the church our buildings fell upon and destroyed, nor for decades-long expropriation and use of your plot of land, but only for the "value" of the space underneath. In short, this is a story of state-sponsored malevolence.
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Nothing new under the Sun here. The WTC was a well-known terrorist target since at least 1993. Even before the terrorist era, there were appreciable concerns that the towers could be felled by an accidental airline collision. The PA promised everyone that the towers would hold up. Turns out, they screwed up the tests, they inadequately fireproofed the steel beams, etc. While foremost blame for 9/11 goes to the terrorists, and secondary blame belongs to that band of idiots known as the federal government's intelligence, law enforcement and immigration authorities, much if not most of the tragedy (principally loss of life, the Church being, at the end of the day, only a building) could have been prevented had the PA taken proper precautions. Anyway, this is a little off point here, and will properly be the subject of numerous lawsuits heading for trial in the years ahead. My only point being, if you don't properly fire-proof your building, and then it falls over and crushes the building next door, you at least should properly compensate the next door building owner, even if you are a huge government agency.
The church owned the land that was located in the parking lot; the rest of the parking lot [West, Liberty, Washington, Cedar Sts] was owned by the Millstein family. An office or mixed-use tower was planned for the site. That's why the South Pedestrian Bridge from the WFC was built with a stub end; it was to connect to the second floor of a building.
I don't remember the dollar amount, but the church was offered several times the value of its land by Millstein; they refused to sell.
For their part of the land swap with the LMDC/PA, Millstein did quite well. They got the rights to build at 2 sites in BPC.
Maybe Governor Paterson can work out a deal to allow St. Nick's and Cordoba House together to construct a joint building on the site.
In theory, how great would that would be: Christians and Muslims come together on Liberty Street!
On the other hand: The site is directly above the Vehicle Security Center. That might cause some supposedly reasonable folks to bust a gut.
Seems like the church should be getting rental on anything built below the surface of their land.
No doubt giving up that "rental" income was part of the proposed deal whereby they could re-build larger than what was there before, plus gain the additional cash.