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Fancy Food NYC Recap
By Ray Latif
Bustling with delicacies, deals and debuts, the Fancy Food Show returned to New York City's Jacob Javits Center after a two-year stint in Washington D.C. — and, let's face it, there's no place like the Big Apple. Following an equally vibrant winter show in San Francisco, the three-day event mirrored New York's energetic and dynamic vibe with winding swaths of attendees and suppliers from all parts of the world.
Beverage exhibitors, which numbered about 60, seemed pleased at the overall flow and interest from retailers and distributors, and those that featured new products and line extensions indicated a significant amount of traffic at their booths. Visiting with industry stalwarts and new players alike, BevNET spoke with a number of beverage executives at the event, with many offering news and insight that might prove to have a significant impact on the second half of the year — and well beyond.
Honest Tea co-founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman told BevNET that sales of Honest Fizz, the company's line of zero-calorie sodas, are now projected to reach 180,000 cases by the end of the year, doubling its expectations for the brand, which launched nationally in March. Goldman said demand for the drinks has been tremendous, to the point that the company was out of stock of Honest Fizz for the entire month of June. Goldman also said that although cost considerations have prevented the company from releasing an organic formulation for three of the brand's four SKUs, Honest Tea is getting closer to releasing an all-organic line-up. He noted that cost savings from a move to shrink wrap packaging for 4-packs of the soda — which will take place within the year — would likely contribute toward its goal of achieving an organic formulation for all Honest Fizz products.
Goldman also hinted at upcoming deals with three national restaurant chains that will begin selling Honest Tea's fresh-brewed food service line of tea. While he declined to name the chains, he said each had over 100 locations and are all well-known brands. Honest Tea also launched an unsweetened lemon tea variety at the show. The new zero-calorie flavor, which debuted in the New York City market, is packaged in the brand's 16.9 oz. PET bottle and will be distributed nationally.
Meanwhile, Goldman's old partner was back in the game: co-founder Barry Nalebuff and packaged goods entrepreneur Ariel Glazer were showing off KomBrewCha, a new line of low-alcohol, sparkling kombucha drinks that come in five varieties.
Ayala's Herbal Water introduced a new line of organic, zero-calorie herbal teas. Ayala's Herbal Tea contains no caffeine and no sweeteners and comes in four varieties: Rooibos Cinnamon Rose Petal, Nutmeg Cacao Nibs Cardamom, Chamomile Bergamot Vanilla and Peppermint Melissa Spearmint. Packaged in 14 oz. glass bottles, the brand will be sold exclusively at two natural grocery chains from July 31 to Nov. 1, when the drinks will launch at a variety of other retailers.
blk Beverages launched a four-SKU flavored line extension to its brand of high-alkaline, fulvic trace mineral-infused waters. Named blk+, the new drinks will be positioned as alternatives tosports/multifunction beverages and coconut water products, according to vice president of marketing Albie Manzo. Manzo said that while the hot-fill process required to package the drinks results in a slightly lower alkalinity, the products give the blk brand name greater versatility and a more approachable feel for new consumers. blk+ comes in four flavors — Lemonade, Mango, Tropical Punch and Blueberry Acai — and is packaged in 16.9 oz. grip-type plastic bottles. Manzo said that while the company is attempting to establish new DSD distribution for its products, blk+, like the company's flagship product, will be initially be distributed by UNFI, Kehe and Haddon House.
As of March, Q Drinks sparkling beverages gained placement in three natural grocery chains: Sprouts, Earth Fare and The Fresh Market. Sales of the brand, which is also sold in Whole Foods, Amazon.com, and a variety of independent retailers, are growing at 60 percent annually, according to founder Jordan Silbert. Silbert also noted that Q Drinks, which is distributed nationally via UNFI, is gaining momentum with the liquor channel and that the company is evaluating opportunities for new direct store distribution (DSD).
Mountain Valley Spring Water is planning to launch its first flavored sparkling water varieties by the end of the 2013 or the beginning of 2014. The company, which markets a range of packaged still and sparkling water products, will introduce lime and blackberry pomegranate flavors in 1 L glass bottles for a suggested retail price of $2.89-3.49.
Oatworks has revamped the packaging and introduced a tweak in the formulation of its ready-to-drink oat-based beverages. Now positioned as an "oat-powered natural smoothie," the three-SKU drink line moved from a 10.8 oz. squarish bottle to rounder 12 oz. plastic package with a light brown label with clear sections at the top, bottom and middle, enabling consumers to see the liquid inside. Oatworks, which comes in three flavors — Strawberry Banana, Pomegranate Blueberry and Peach Mango — also adjusted the formulation of the drinks to create a slightly more viscous mouthfeel. CEO David Peters said that Oatworks, which was scheduled to debut last year in the Boston and San Francisco markets, is now concentrating on New York City, where the brand launched with Exclusive Beverage Distributors. Peters also said that Oatworks will be available for sale on Amazon.com.
With its sleekly designed, slim glass bottles and an extensive range of natural juices and flavored sparkling waters, Australia-based Found Beverage Co. certainly turned quite a few heads at the show. Launched seven years ago, the gourmet and specialty foods expo was the U.S. debut for Found, which markets its products with the tagline "The Age of Artificial is Over." Made with natural mineral water sourced from Turkey, Found sells five varieties of its sparkling water with a few uniquely flavored varieties, including Apple & Cinnamon, Cucumber & Mint and Elderflower. Found's juices are also sourced from Turkey and packaged in the brand's proprietary 8.45 oz. glass bottles. Sweetened with 14 grams of beet sugar and containing 65 calories per bottle, the juices come in five varieties: Pomegranate, Orange, Apple, Grape and Peach & Apple. Co-founder Onur Kece said that Found saw a great deal of interest from distributors and retailers at the show, but had yet to formalize any agreements
Runa has added "Zero" to the labels of its Clean Energy line of bottled guayusa drinks. The company has also secured a new distribution deal with Whole Foods' Southwest region, where its products will land on store shelves by the end of July.
In August, FOCO will launch a new 1 L Tetra Pak to its line of coconut waters.
RealBeanz is revamping the labels for its line of nutrient-enhanced iced coffee drinks. The package will feature greater emphasis on the brand's all-natural formulation and calorie count of the products.
New Beverage Showdown 5 finalist Jin-Ja, a functional beverage made with ginger, cayenne pepper, green tea, mint and lemon, took home the show's top "sofi" (specialty outstanding food innovation) award for best cold beverage in a tie with Brands of Britain's Fever-Tree Premium Sparkling Lemon. In the hot beverage category, Bhakti Chai was awarded gold for its line of chai tea drinks.


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CRESTVIEW � You can�t smooth-talk a Christian country girl, but if you�re Central Baptist Church, you can attract her to perform a concert with her sisters.
CRESTVIEW � You can�t smooth-talk a Christian country girl, but if you�re Central Baptist Church, you can attract her to perform a concert with her sisters.
At least, that�s the case for the Red Roots, who will visit the Hub City next weekend before releasing their third album of inspirational music in October.
Nika, Natalie and Nicole Taylor, the 22-year-old red-haired triplets from Mississippi � known for �Christian Country Girl,� their hit anthem on spurning womanizers� advances� will perform Saturday, Sept. 14.
Learn more about the Libby and Friends concert series>>
See the Red Roots' home page and their hit music video for "Christian Country Girl">>
The group, which primarily sings pop, rock and country music, also records songs with a �grassy� feel, Natalie said.
Each month, Libby and Friends presents a public gospel concert along with refreshments and door prizes. Red Roots will headline next weekend after impressing concert series coordinator Libby White, who had attended a performance in their home state.
"The way they present themselves is amazing," White said. "If your youth group is looking for good role models, they are it."
Nashville-based Red Hen Records, Daywind Music Group�s country music division,agrees that the Red Roots have that �it� factor. The company signed the group to a long-term recording and publishing agreement last month.
Performing in Crestview is a first for the trio, Natalie said.
"We are super-excited about coming to Crestview,� Taylor said."The crowd can expect high energy on stage with electric guitar solos, rockin' banjo and violin sawin.' All mixed in with a little keyboard, drums, bass and mandolin."
Doors open at 5 p.m.; show starts at 6 p.m. at 951 S. Ferdon Blvd. Tickets cost $10 per person; $15 per area youth group.
See links to the Libby and Friends concert series, Red Roots' home page and the "Christian Country Girl" music video at www.crestviewbulletin.com/faith.
WHAT: The Red Roots concert
WHEN: Doors open at 5 p.m. Concert starts at 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 14.
WHERE: Central Baptist Church, 951 S. Ferdon Blvd.
COST: $10 donation per person; $15 per area youth group
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This was the first ever road car to be equipped with the innovative F1-style gearbox management system, available on all three versions: berlinetta, GTS and spider.
Derived directly from Formula 1, where it made its debut in 1989 winning the Brazilian Grand Prix, the electro-hydraulic system was operated by paddles behind the steering wheel using the F355′s conventional 6-speed manual gearbox. The new transmission guaranteed lightning-quick gear changes, with the additional advantage that both the driver's hands could stay on the wheel at all times.Read more
The design of every new Ferrari model is, by definition, heavily influenced by the Marque's culture and experience combined with innovations developed as a result of both active experimentation and research. The result is a melding of style and engineering that delivers superb performance across the board. In the case of the Pininfarina-designed 355 F1 GTS, the fusion of familiar elements with more powerfully innovative ones resulted in a truly unprecedented car that guaranteed the same signature Ferrari emotions as ever.
The 355 F1 GTS was a masterful piece of engineering as its 109 hp/litre specific power output attests. The latter value and its impressive torque were achieved by adopting a new five-valve cylinder head. The car's 3496 cc engine punched out 380 hp. Its blistering performance figures were the result of aerodynamic honing that focused specifically on the underbody.
With respect to the F355 GTS, the 355 F1 GTS had an F1-style gearbox management system. Just like the one used for the single-seater, the electro-hydraulic system controlled the manual gearbox using sophisticated software. It was itself operated via two paddles, one on each side of the steering wheel, which meant that the driver did not have to take his hands off the steering wheel whilst changing gears either.
The two-seater 355 F1 GTS had an aluminium and steel body. Its styling was moulded around an aerodynamically severe design that included a full-body undertray designed to equalise downforce (Cl) between the two axles.The cabin was designed with both safety and driving pleasure in mind. The seats and trim were Connolly leather. Composite racing seats were also available to order.
The chassis was a steel monocoque with a tubular steel rear sub-frame for the engine-suspension assembly. Both front and rear suspension used independent unequal-length wishbones and coil springs over gas-filled telescopic electronic dampers with two settings. The car also has anti-roll bars. The steering was rack and pinion with power-assist, and optional mechanical gear. The brakes had self-venting discs and excludable ABS ATE. The 18" wheel rims were magnesium.
The mid-rear 3496 cc 90° V8 was longitudinally mounted and punched out 380 hp, giving it a specific power output of 109 hp/l. Distribution was by means of twin overhead cams with five valves per cylinder. The con rods were titanium, while the control unit was the Bosch M5.2. Dry sump lubrication and a six-speed plus reverse mechanical gearbox completed the picture along with a dry single-plate clutch. It had an F1-style gearbox management system.
Careful selection of the best shots of the 355 GTS F1 in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1997, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
Careful selection of the best shots of the 355 GTS F1 in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1997, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
|rear, longitudinal 90° V8
|85 x 77 mm
|Unitary displacement
|436.94 cc
|Total displacement
|3495.50 cc
|Compression ratio
|11 : 1
|Maximum power
|279 kW (380 hp) at 8250 rpm
|Power per litre
|109 hp/l
|Maximum torque
|363 Nm (37 kgm) at 6000 rpm
|Valve actuation
|twin overhead camshafts per bank, five valves per cylinder
|Fuel feed
|Bosch Motronic M5.2 electronic injection
|Bosch Motronic M5.2 static electronic, single spark plug per cylinder
|dry sump
|steel monocoque with tubular steel rear sub-frame
|Front suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over gas-filled telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|Rear suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over gas-filled telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|electro-hydraulic F1 6-speed + reverse
|Fuel tank
|capacity 82 litres
|Front tyres
|Rear tyres
|two-seater targa-top
|4250 mm
|1900 mm
|1170 mm
|2450 mm
|Front track
|1514 mm
|Rear track
|1615 mm
|1350 kg (dry)
|Top speed
|295 km/h
|Acceleration 0-100 km/h
|4.7 sec
|0-400 m
|12.9 sec
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The decision to learn Scheme was not a result of a need to solve any practical problem. Professionally, I have mostly worked with imperative programming languages such as C++, Perl, JavaScript, C#, and wanted to learn something radically different in my spare time. Scheme seemed to be a good choice: a minimalist functional, dynamic, Lisp-based language, used mostly in academia for teaching purposes.
The interesting thing about IronScheme is that it runs on top of the .NET runtime. It has been developed by a single person: Llewellyn Pritchard, better known as leppie. leppie originally started developing IronLisp, a non-standard dialect of Lisp, but then decided to switch to Scheme which is a simple and standardized version of Lisp. IronScheme attracted me mostly because I expected to be able to access the functionality of the .NET framework, and ideally use Scheme not only as a learning instrument, but also as a useful scripting language. Another potentially interesting aspect of using IronScheme - embedding Scheme scripts into .NET applications - was not something I wanted to explore at this point.
leppie was kind enough to review this article and give me some useful suggestions.
To get IronScheme Beta 2, go to the IronScheme page at CodePlex, currently at http://www.codeplex.com/IronScheme, click the "Downloads" link, and pick the download labeled "IronScheme-1.0-beta2-setup.exe". That results in a pretty much standard installer that installs the package under "Program Files\IronScheme" and a nice "Lambda" shortcut on the desktop. No file associations or changes to environment variables seem to be introduced by the installer. Another option is to download the source and build IronScheme with Visual Studio, but I did not take that route.
Double clicking the "Lambda" shortcut opens a REPL (read-eval-print loop) window. REPL is an interactive environment familiar to anybody who has tried languages such as BASIC, Python, or SmallTalk. Type "Hello, World!" and press "Enter"; REPL will respond with "Hello, World!".
Now, let's stop cheating, and make a real "hello world" app with Scheme. Fire your favorite editor, create a file called HelloWorld.ss, and insert the following text:
(display "Hello World!")
Save the file, and from the command line, type:
"\Program Files\IronScheme\IronScheme.Console.exe" HelloWorld.ss
Of course, adding "\Program Files\IronScheme" to the system path would save you some typing here.
We wrote a standard Scheme program. Let's do the same thing with a .NET library. Change your HelloWorld.ss to look like this:
(ironscheme clr))
;Define a function write-ln
(define (write-ln fmt . args)
(clr-static-call System.Console WriteLine (clr-cast System.String fmt)
(clr-cast System.Object[]
(list->vector args))))
; And invoke it!
(write-ln "{0}" "Hello World!")
Here, we may start explaining what we are doing. First, we import the standard Scheme libraries - "rnrs" stands for "Revised N Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme", where "N" is currently 6. Next, we import the IronScheme CLR library which is really a file "CLR" in the directory "IronScheme" of your IronScheme installation. In that file, we have several useful macros such as clr-static-call and clr-cast defined. Then, we have a comment, starting with ";" and extending to the end of the line. In the block after the first comment, we define a function write-ln that takes a "dotted pair" as an argument. The function evaluates to a static call to System.Console.WriteLine, the first value in the pair evaluates to a System.Object, and the second value in the pair to a vector of elements of unspecified type. list->vector is a conversion procedure that converts a list to a vector. Finally, we invoke the new function with two arguments: the first one is the format, and the second one the "Hello World!" string we want to get printed.
IronScheme is an R6RS conforming implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is beyond the scope of this article to give any serious introduction to Scheme, but I will try to describe some experiences I have had learning it so far. While definitely subjective and incomplete, this description may be useful to developers who mostly use imperative static languages such as C, C++, Java, C#, and VB to get some taste of Scheme and help them find good resources to learn it.
Different people use different methods to learn, but if you like on-line books, let me recommend three of them:
To try out most samples and exercises from the mentioned books, REPL can be enough. However, my advice is to use a good text editor instead. It is pretty hard to match parentheses from REPL, and I even had problems distinguishing "<" from "(". An editor that recognizes Lisp syntax will help you indent code correctly, which is very important if you don't want to end up counting closing parentheses, which is a pretty frustrating experience. My personal choice is Vim (see the screenshot). Other editors, such as Emacs apparently have a pretty good support for Scheme as well, but I haven't tried them. If you like using an IDE, I would expect xacc.ide, developed by the IronScheme author leppie, to be the best choice; also, there is an IronScheme plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
One of the first things a newcomer will notice with the Lisp syntax is the prefix notation. For example:
> (+ 2 3)
> (* 4 3 2)
> (* (+ 2 3) (- 6 4))
Most people find it is more natural to read (2 + 3) * (6 - 4), than (* (+ 2 3) (- 6 4)). However, the prefix notation combined with parentheses does not allow any ambiguities, there is no need to worry about operator precedence rules, and it is easier to write meta-programs that generate code if the prefix notation is used. In fact, metaprogramming with macros is a very important concept in Scheme, which allows programmers to extend the minimalist language according to their needs. For instance, the "clr-" macros we saw earlier are a language extension that allows us to access .NET objects from Scheme. Another example would be object oriented programming - standard Scheme does not come with built-in support for OOP, but it is possible to add such support with macros.
(2 + 3) * (6 - 4)
(* (+ 2 3) (- 6 4))
Scheme is a functional programming language. More precisely, it supports functional programming although it is not a pure functional language, like Haskell. Anyway, for a functional programming language, a real "Hello world" program is more likely to compute a factorial. Let's try it:
(import (rnrs))
(define (factorial x)
(if (<= x 1)
(* x (factorial (- x 1)))))
(factorial 3))
Obviously, factorial is a recursive function. It takes one parameter, x, and if x is less or equal to one, we return 1. Otherwise, it multiplies x with factorial of x decremented by 1. The function works because for a positive integer x, each recursive call to factorial will be invoked with a smaller parameter until it reaches 1. Then, we go up the stack and perform all outstanding multiplications.
Scheme has a dynamic type system. There is nothing in factorial that would make a caller pass a positive integer value to the function. If we call it as: (factorial "foo"), the parameter will still be passed, and only at run time, the error will be caught. This is a general problem with dynamic typing, and although it is often argued that Unit Tests catch this kind of errors anyway, in my experience, dynamic typing becomes a problem for moderate and big projects. For smaller programs and scripts, benefits of dynamic type systems usually outweigh these kind of problems.
(factorial "foo")
Another issue with the above code snippet comes from the use of recursion. In each recursion step, the state of the stack needs to be preserved because the multiplication operation is deferred, and that leads to performance problems or a stack overflow. In an imperative programming language, we would initialize a variable to 1 and then iteratively multiply it by numbers in the range (1, x). Something like:
(1, x)
unsigned int factorial(unsigned int x)
unsigned int prod = 1;
for(unsigned int i = 1; i <= x; ++i)
prod *= i;
return prod;
In a functional language, we replace variables with function arguments. Therefore, we can try replacing the loop with another function to achieve the same effect:
(import (rnrs))
; The "loop" part of the factorial function
(define (fac-loop prod i loop-end)
(if (> i loop-end)
(* prod i)
(+ i 1)
; Just execute the "loop" with the right parameters
(define (factorial x)
(fac-loop 1 1 x))
(factorial 3))
Here, fac-loop is said to be tail-recursive. Tail recursion is often explained as a type of recursion where the last call in the recursive function is the recursion itself. I prefer to think of it as a type of recursion where no state needs to be stored on return from a recursive call. A conforming Scheme implementation is required to support the tail-recursion optimization, which removes the overhead of recursion. IronScheme uses the fact that CLR supports tail calls to implement this optimization.
If you think that our Scheme version was longer, less readable, and less elegant than the C++ version, I don't blame you. However, we can do better:
(import (rnrs))
(define (factorial x)
; The "loop"
(define (fac-loop prod i)
(if (> i x)
(* prod i)
(+ i 1))))
; Call the "loop" with the right parameters
(fac-loop 1 1))
(factorial 3))
We used two Scheme language features not found in C++: nested functions, i.e., the ability to define fac-loop within factorial, and lexical scoping, which enables x to be visible by fac-loop even if not passed as a parameter. Such nested functions are also known as closures.
The "Iron" prefix is common to several programming languages built on top of Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) which is a layer on top of CLR that provides support for dynamic languages. One exciting aspect of this fact is that we are able to use Scheme as a consumer of the .NET class library and all its functionality.
The easiest way to consume .NET functionality from IronScheme is by using the ironscheme library. Here is how we can display a list of directories in the root folder C:
(ironscheme files))
(get-directories "C:\\"))
At this point, the ironscheme library offers only a subset of the .NET functionality, but there are some very cool pieces. For instance, the linq2.ss file contains the LINQ implementation written in native Scheme. Also, we can access .NET BCL objects directly. Let's write a function that displays the fully qualified assembly name, given the assembly file path:
(ironscheme clr))
(clr-using System.Reflection)
(define (get-fq-assembly-name file-path)
(clr-prop-get Assembly FullName
(clr-static-call Assembly LoadFile file-path)))
As you can see, for interaction with CLR, we use a bunch of macros whose names start with "clr". For instance, (clr-static-call Assembly LoadFile file-path) would correspond to Assembly.LoadFile(filePath) in a language such as C#. Personally, I like the syntax used in IronScheme to access .NET libraries, but it is not clear whether most C#/VB.NET programmers would agree. Maybe, it would have been a good idea to adopt something like Java Dot Notation from JScheme.
(clr-static-call Assembly LoadFile file-path)
IronScheme is surely an impressive piece of work. For learning Scheme on Windows, even as a first language, I can definitely recommend it. Based on my limited experience, it can also be very useful as a .NET scripting language - I don't see any reason for preferring IronPython or IronRuby over it.
The real question to which I don't have an answer yet is - can IronScheme be the implementation that pulls Scheme out of academic circles into the industry? We are seeing some renewed interest in the Lisp family of languages. Clojure, a dialect of Lisp that runs on Java VM, is getting a lot of attention these days, and IronScheme has some obvious advantages over Clojure: it is a fully standard Scheme implementation, which means there are many CS students that already know the language; Scheme tools work fine with IronScheme, and there are published Scheme books. The main obstacle is the lack of documentation - both references and tutorials. My hope is that this tutorial fills at least some gap in this area.
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sam.hill wrote:Why would one choose IronScheme over F#?
sam.hill wrote:Nice article -- thanks.
tonyt wrote:The CLR does not natively support tail-recursion optimization
(mainly because the security model relies heavily on call stack
introspection to determine who is calling a given API).
tonyt wrote:The CLR does not natively support tail-recursion optimization
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This morning's session at the Demo 2012 conference focused on social networks, with a number of new networks and tools for managing them. Many look interesting, though I wonder how many social networks people need. Still, the concept of specialized social networks that just exist for particular tasks—job seeking, following sports teams, setting up play dates for children—sounds like it might be quite useful. A lot of these are variations on social networks designed for mobile networks.
Tellagence has a visual system for following a topic across a social network. The demo showed the company's Web service connecting with Twitter to reveal a visual of the topics you are interested in, who else is interested in the topic, and the relationships among people in the social network. The idea is to be able to predict who will pass on a message, when, and where, so marketers can better disseminate their message.
Barrel of Jobs is a new recruiting website that pays people who help the company find the right candidate. It lets a company that has an opening post it onto the site, and then lets the individual post be shared via email or social networks. People who get these messages then can forward or repost them, and this can happen repeatedly. When someone gets the job, the employer pays the company, which in turns pays a commission to everyone in the chain. The idea seems to be bringing gaming concepts to recruiting, which sounds fun. The concept is "helping friends, earning money, and putting America back to work," which is a great tag line.
Givingtrax has a cloud-hosted site for tracking business giving to charity. This creates a microsite for each business that allows it to receive requests from local charities. It also lets the business track the gifts it has given as a business, both in kind and cash; gifts given by employees, including things like corporate match programs; and time spent by employees at charities. Individual employees get their own view of charitable giving, one that is portable if they change jobs. It looks like a good solution for smaller businesses, particularly things like franchisees where the data can be collected among multiple outlets.
DreamWare showed an application called iSocialite, an iPhone app designed to help you and your friends meet for short coffee breaks and happy hours. You can create the event, select venues, and invite either individual friends or entire social networks. It was pitched as a networking app, though it looks like a dating app.
Apparent is an iPhone app for planning activities for your children. It creates a small social network for parents, organized around setting up play dates and inviting kids' friends. It also allows for a photo diary of the events. It looks fun, though a little narrow. I'm just not sure how many parents want to manage another social network.
Hapoose has an interesting Android app designed for helping people discover even more apps. It lets you share your favorite apps with your friends over your existing social networks and see your friends' recommendations. It also sorts through the Google Play store to give you recommendations based on the apps you already run. This is in beta for Android now. It looks fine, but I'm not sure how many people need a personalized tool for finding more apps.
RecBob is aimed at recreational sports teams, particularly team captains. It lets you manage the group and send out messages to everyone on the team to organize practices and games. It helps you collect money from the players and send out schedules and reminders (via social networks or text messages). It also lets you find sports to play in other markets. It looks simple, but quite useful.
Vilynx has a solution for managing personal videos captured on multiple kinds of devices and stored in many locations, including multiple cloud services. What's nice here is that it aggregates all the videos (even though they continue to reside in the cloud accounts) into an interface that shows summaries of the videos, making it easier to figure out which clip you want. It is currently an iPhone and Android app, with a Facebook app coming. Neat features let you upload and manage your videos among the multiple cloud systems, and even move videos among these services. It looks quite nice.
Social Bet Inc. showed Youbetme.com, a Web-based platform that allows people to easily create a bet with their friends. You can create a sports bet or a custom bet (the Demo was a dinner bet as to when the next Zynga executive would quit) and set the amount. You send the bet to the person you want to challenge via text message and they can accept or decline. It keeps track of these bets, and if you don't pay up, it sends nasty messages to your social network. It is a very interesting idea.
MyPref is another app for personal shopping, available on both iPhone and Android. You put in the name of a product and see who has it near you. If you're in a store and see a product you want, but it isn't in stock, you can list it. When you return to the store later, it can show you which of your preferences is around. It also includes preferences for local restaurants by pulling in suggestions from your friends. It uses a point system to figure out whether your friend's tastes match up with yours. It looks very ambitious as a local and social shopping service, but a bit complex.
Blipboard is a mobile app designed to show you interesting things that are around you. It has a "map of things" that shows you places and events that are near you, based on your friends' interests. You can tune it to "blips" from people and places, somewhat like "likes." The company likes to think of the app as "Twitter for nearby." It looks very simple and easy to use, though of course it will depend on finding a critical mass of users. It will be in the App Store shortly.
Go Factory showed a mobile app called GoMatic designed to help groups of people create their own "micro social systems," by inviting people to events, creating shared photo libraries, and "journals" with memories of various events. It seems to do a lot, but isn't particularly focused. It's on iPhone now and will be on Android soon. The company seems to be more focused on the Go Machine platform features, which it plans to offer to brands trying to create their own apps.
Itography is an iPhone and Android application designed to help marketers create games where they place virtual game pieces in real-world locations. Players can "pick up" items in one location and "drop" in others, and can connect to services like Foursquare, Facebook, and Twitter so players can see how others are doing. This is focused on combining social marketing and gaming. It's not for me, but it's interesting.
Seekly offers video speed dating, with the idea of finding out whether you should be dating someone in five minutes or less. You enter your sex, age, and city; upload a reference photo; and answer some "icebreaker" questions. It doesn't have profile pictures or questionnaires because it thinks people do better when they actually talk to more people. If the two people both agree they'd like to date, then data is exchanged and you can arrange a meeting in person; otherwise, your personal information is hidden. (Even then, there isn't much of that on the system to start with.) I'm not in the market, but it does a fun twist on the dating site concept.
Sustainable Reference showed SurePlanet.com, which lets you see sustainable people, businesses, and cities near you. A point system awards discounts to people who are more sustainable. At the moment, it only has Bilbao, Spain listed, but the company hopes to expand. I like the concept, but in practice, this is going to be difficult to scale.
KLIQ Mobile is a mobile app that allows you to mix and match friends across social networks and share videos. You connect your social networks to the app, then create "Kliqs" that involve a few of your friends (who may be on different networks). You can easily share with just that group. This uses the concept that we all have small groups that we want to share relevant content with. This is an Android app that should be out shortly.
Gnzo would like to be "Twitter for videos." It lets you take videos with your iPhone and upload them to the site, then view a feed showing tiny thumbnails of all sorts of videos playing at once, either on the mobile device or on the Web. Videos are limited to six seconds. The iPhone app launched today, along with a blog widget that lets you post the thumbnail screens into a blog. It looks neat, but I'm not sure that will make people really need another site.
Flinja is a college-centric job finding service. It only allows registrants who have .EDU emails and is aimed at helping alumni post job offerings just to people who are affiliated with their school. The idea is that people would like to hire within their college networks. It's a different twist on recruiting. This is currently only opened at a few universities, with more coming. I'm sure that students will like it, and it should work well for internships and piece work. I'm skeptical this will work for more permanent employment and standard recruitment, but I can see lots of colleges and alumni liking this a lot.
InTooch tries to help you manage your contacts and keep in touch with people you meet at places like conferences. You select the person's email or phone number, and it sends a message via text or email; if they accept, you can exchange social media information, but just as much information as you'd like to share. It gives you a personal match score to let you know how likely you are to keep in touch. It looks like a clever app, but I'm not sure it's really something I need.
PieceWise has a way of managing projects by dividing them into tasks or "pieces." The demo revolved around making a pizza. The actual focus of the PieceWise service is to work on public projects where individuals can charge for products and services that go into creating some larger project. In other words, you can post your idea for a project and get vendors who can explain all the steps you need, and then bid on the parts they want. I suppose I can see this for things like planning weddings, but it seems like a niche market.
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Demonstrating Confidence during your Job Interview
Having a high degree of confidence in yourself goes a long way towards impressing companies and interviewers. Consider how your level of confidence shows in these ways:
Direction and values: You know what you want, where you want to go,and what's really important to you.
Motivation: You are motivated by and enjoy what you do. In fact, you're likely to get so engrossed in what you're doing that nothing distracts you.
Emotional stability: You have a calm and focused approach to how you are yourself and how you are with other people as you tackle challenges. You notice difficult emotions such as anger and anxiety, but you work with them rather than letting them overcome you.
A positive mind-set: You have the ability to stay optimistic and see the bright side even when you encounter setbacks. You hold a positive regard for yourself as well as other people.
Self-awareness: You know what you are good at, how capable you feel, and how you look and sound to others. You also acknowledge that you are a human being, and you don't expect to be perfect.
Flexibility in behaviour: You adapt your behaviour according to circumstances. You can see the bigger picture as well as paying attention to details.You take other people's views on board in making decisions.
Eagerness to develop: You enjoy stretching yourself, treating each day as a learning experience, rather than acting as if you are already an expert with nothing new to find out. You take your discoveries to new experiences.
Health and energy:You're in touch with your body, respect it, and have a sense that your energy is flowing freely. You manage stressful situations without becoming ill.
A willingness to take risks: You have the ability to act in the face of uncertainty, and will put yourself on the line even when you don't have the answers or all the skills to get things right.
A sense of purpose: You have an increasing sense of the coherence of the different parts of your life.You have chosen a theme or purpose for your life.


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BALTIMORE – A quartet of UMBC track and field athletes head back to the Sunshine State this weekend to represent the Retrievers at the 2014 NCAA East Preliminaries at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. The meet, which will be held at UNF's Hodges Stadium, will begin on Thursday, May 29 with the javelin competition, and run through Saturday evening.
The top-12 finishers in each event will earn an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. which will be held on June 11-14.
Sophomore Vincent Rentzsch (Oranienburg, Germany/Elite Sportschule Potsdam) will compete in the opening event, trying to make it back to Oregon for the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. Last year at the prelims meet at North Carolina A&T, Rentzsch saved his best for last, recording a school record toss of 70.88m (232'6) in his final throw to finish fifth and book a trip west where he finished 21st in the nation. The sophomore has rested over the past month, but his top season throw of 66.09m (216'10") at the season-opening FSU Relays in Tallahassee earned him a spot at the regional meet.
Two-time America East Most Outstanding Male Track Athlete Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU) makes the trip south to compete in the 100m and 200m sprint events. The senior swept the sprint competitions at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and then took the top prize in the 100m event at the IC4A Championships at Princeton less than two weeks ago. Long has recorded career-best times in both events this season to jump up to second in the UMBC record book, trailing only head coach David Bobb. He ranks 26th in the 100m dash (10.36) and 27th in the 200m dash (20.86) in the East Region going into the weekend meet.
Classmates Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) and Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) also head to Florida to represent the Black and Gold and will compete in the 110m hurdles and 800m run, respectively. Both won their event at the America East meet, with Smith going on to win the 800m at the IC4As, and both enter the weekend in the top-20 in the region.
Smith is attempting to become the fourth Retriever athlete in program history to reach the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships in the same season. He competed in the 800m run at the indoor meet in New Mexico back in March and is now looking for another trip to the national stage. He has broken the UMBC school record three times this spring, including during the prelims at the IC4A Championships, and sits 19th in the east with his top time of 1:48.72.
Long currently ranks 17th in the region in the short hurdle event after breaking his own school record at the Mason Spring Invitational in April with a time of 13.88. He successfully defended his conference championship in the event at Vermont in early May by breaking the America East record in both the prelims (14.06) and finals (14.01). He placed fourth in the event at the IC4A meet.


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #287
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place
In ev'ry generation;
Thy people still have known thy grace,
And blessed thy consolation:
Through ev'ry age thou heard'st our cry
Through ev'ry age we found thee nigh,
Our Strength and our Salvation.
Our cleaving sins we oft have wept,
And oft thy patience proved;
But still thy faith we fast have kept,
Thy Name we still have loved;
And thou hast kept and loved us well,
Hast granted us in thee to dwell,
Unshaken, unremoved.
No, nothing from those arms of love
Shall thine own people sever;
Our Helper never will remove,
Our God will fail us never.
Thy people, Lord, have dwelt in thee,
Our dwelling place thou still wilt be
For ever and for ever.
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BEAR Scotland's winter maintenance services are fully underway on the trunk roads it maintains in Scotland; with 56,600 tonnes of salt in stock ready to tackle the wintry conditions.
Met Office yellow 'be aware' warnings are in place for snow and sleet across parts of Scotland including the Highlands, Grampian and Central areas, particularly on higher ground, from Tuesday 3pm until Wednesday at 10am and BEAR Scotland teams are on stand-by to tackle the wintry weather.
A new, online 'gritter tracker' is now available on the Traffic Scotland website giving the public live data on the location of BEAR's winter vehicles.
BEAR's winter maintenance team will also work around the clock to analyse detailed weather forecasts and information from 86 roadside weather stations to ensure treatments are carried out as necessary.
The forecasts and data are used to decide when routes require salt treatment on the trunk roads BEAR maintains in the North East and North West of Scotland.
There are 94 vehicles involved in carrying out precautionary winter treatments, patrols and snow clearance on the 2,448km of trunk roads maintained by BEAR in the north of Scotland.
Brian Gordon, BEAR Scotland's Managing Director, said: "We have over 180 dedicated, trained and experienced employees ready to deal with winter across the trunk roads that we maintain in Scotland. Our winter control room monitors road conditions on a 24/7 basis meaning we can act quickly to changing winter weather conditions.
"Tuesday night into Wednesday morning is likely to see the first forecasted snow and sleet across some higher-up routes in Scotland.
"As ever, we ask members of the public to ensure their vehicle is well maintained, that they pay close attention to local and national media and information to help plan journeys during inclement weather and that they carry equipment to help themselves should conditions deteriorate."


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Jones Belezza Trimming Flanged Cord in Turquoise. Jones Belezza Tieback and Trimming Collection is simple in styling with Matt yarns to give a contemporary look. Exclusively designed by Jones Interiors, this stylish range includes Tiebacks, Key Tassels, Pom Pom Fringe, Braiding, Beaded Trim, Flange Cord, Cord, and Pleated Ruche trims. * Available in a range of stunning colours.* Co-ordinating tiebacks, trimmings and tassels available to purchase separately.* Sold per metre or in 25 metre pieces. Please note trims are non returnable as they are cut to length.If you are unsure of colour or finish please request a sample, this will then be added to the basket.
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Here at NaturallyCurly, it's only natural that we dress up our curls for a big night like New Year's Eve! Get enchanted (we are!) by these elaborate accessories worn by your favorite celebs. Pair them with an awesome updo and a party dress and you'll be all set for that New Year's Eve.
Celebrity Headpieces
Alicia Keys
We're fallin' for the jeweled sparkler this singer wore to the Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week. Chic, non?
Charlize Theron
Fashion critics went crazy when this South African stunner showed up at the Oscars practically glowing. Decked out in Dior couture, she decorated her undone chignon with pretty glitter.
Rose Byrne
This Aussie is no stranger to being a Bridesmaid and we're thinking this fancy topper would be perfect at an evening wedding!
Amber Rose
Kanye's bootylicious ex got playful at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills in this gold chain accessory.
Ashlee Simpson
We're loving this blondie's subtle approach to the often over-the-top trend. Crowned in ethereal flowers and leaves (à la Kate Moss on her wedding day), the pixie looks totally hip.
Emma Stone
At "The Amazing Spiderman" premiere in Moscow, this rising fashion icon adorned her blonde locks with a thin gold bauble.
Kirsten Dunst
At the Cannes Film Festival, this "On The Road" actress stepped up the whimsical factor with this floral piece.
Leighton Meester
Blair Waldorf always brings down the house with her ladylike selections. In this case, her pick is like a crystal-embellished breath of fresh air against her dark brown locks.
Nicole Richie
As one of the first leading ladies to rock this trend, this reality-star-turned-designer still dons the raddest pieces. At the HALO Awards in Hollywood the stylish mama added a trendy addition to her classic look.


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So from that example you can see how bad posture of the neck can create bad posture in the low back. This means nerve pressure and that means pain...
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Norris Dam State Park
Construction of Norris Dam began in 1933 as the first project by the Tennessee Valley Authority, a Great Depression-era entity created by the federal government to control flooding and bring electricity and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees were sent to build the park. Many of the facilities at the park were constructed by the CCC and are still in use. Norris Dam State Park was named for Nebraska Senator George William Norris, who lobbied intensively for the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 1930's.
Located on the shores of Norris Lake with more than 800 miles of shoreline, Norris Dam State Park offers recreational boating, skiing, and fishing. The park offers a fully equipped marina with boat ramp available to the general public. House boats and pontoon boats are available for rent along with other types of boats. For boat information contact Norris Dam Marina at 865-494-8138. Norris Dam State Park sits on more than 4,000 acres located on Norris Reservoir.
The park has 19 rustic cabins and 10 deluxe cabins. All are located in quiet, wooded settings and are completely equipped with electrical appliances, cooking utensils, and linens. The park also has two campgrounds. The east campground has 25 sites with water and electric hook-up and 10 primitive sites for tents only; the west campground has 50 sites with water and electric hook-up. All of the sites have tables, grills, and fire pit.
Norris Dam State Park has 15 hiking trails ranging in difficulty which provide spectacular views of Norris Lake and the surrounding hills and valleys.
The Lenoir Museum has a diverse collection of many artifacts which depict life in Southern Appalachia from 12,000 years ago to present day. The Rice Gristmill, originally constructed in 1798 in Union County, was dismantled and rebuilt on Clear Creek in 1935. The Caleb Crosby Threshing Barn was originally built on the Holston River in the 1830's and relocated to its present site in 1978. It displays old farm tools, plows and a horse drawn wagon.
Norris Dam State Park has two meeting rooms located in the west section on the park that can accommodate 10 to 75 people. These meeting rooms can be reserved up to one year in advance. The Tea Room is also a very popular venue for weddings, reunions and receptions. For more information, please contact the park office at 865-426-7461 or toll free at 1-800-543-9335.
Civilian Conservation Corp. Structures Restoration
We plan to restore 19 historic CCC cabins originally constructed in the 1930s. This project is currently in the planning phase and the construction schedule has yet to be determined.
For more information, please contact the park directly at 865-426-7461.


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SOPHOMORE (2012): Knocked an RBI double and scored a run vs. Illinois-Chicago … went 2-4 with 1 RBI vs. Brown.
FRESHMAN (2011): Appeared in three games and received three at-bats … scored a run and had first at-bat of season vs. Brown … recorded two at-bats after coming in a pinch-hitter vs. Brown on Mar. 28.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Calif...played both baseball and basketball for Mitty... his 2009 batting average was .486... his high school baseball team won West Catholic Athletic League title, Central Coast Section title and named #1 in the nation his senior year... the team record was 31 – 3.... hit 3 HRs his senior year. Also played for basketball team which also won the CCS title...named first-team WCAL All-League in Basketball, Cal Hi Sports Scholar Athlete of the Year and Senior of the Year by San Jose Mercury News....named Athlete of the Year for 2010 at Archbishop Mitty.
Personal: Son of Art and Susan Meade of San Jose, Calif... one older brother, Ben... majoring in Business.


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Due to a program error in the CCMS, payments to home providers had union dues/fair share deductions calculated incorrectly.
Some payments withheld too much and some payments did not withhold enough. DHS will begin to correct those errors with payments that are processed beginning March 24.
We apologize for the hardship this has caused our home providers and we are working to correct the errors as quickly as we can.


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ABSTRACT: Information from vital records is critical to identify and quantify health-related issues and to measure progress toward quality improvement and public health goals. In particular, maternal and infant mortality serve as important indicators of the nation's health, thereby influencing policy development, funding of programs and research, and measures of health care quality. Accurate and timely documentation of births and deaths is essential to high-quality vital statistics. This Committee Opinion describes the process by which births, maternal deaths, and fetal deaths are registered;...
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In late October, I got the idea into my head I wanted to play with long exposure photography and light. This is hardly new as a concept but I'd never done it before and wanted to try.
However, I had no interest in light painting as its traditionally thought and instead chose to encapsulate the light and let it do what it wanted randomly.
To that end, I ordered my materials. Firstly, I ordered 100 bright blue LEDs from SparkFun. Next up were 150 3V watch batteries from Cheap Batteries. Last but not least, I sourced 100 1" vending machine balls from Wholesale Vending Products. Total cost with taxes and shipping was about $60.00 USD.
Turns out a 3V watch battery can reliably and safely power an LED. I figured out a good bend to the anode and cathode of the LED and used electrical tape to hold it in place. Then I just placed the battery and LED into a ball and closed it up.
since that initial post I swapped the bends so the anode (positive lead) has the greater bend. A watch battery's positive side curves around the negative, you see.
We own a Nikon D70s and it's a quietly solid camera. It has manual focus and you can set the shutter speed so why not? Fortunately my son loves fooling around with anything mildly noisy or bright so he became a willing participant in my experiments. Namely, throwing the balls at me "gently".
Or letting them bounce down the stairs.
The next night, I played with longer exposure alone leading to some interesting "selfies".
That's when I started thinking this might be an interesting activity for kids. My son (8) definitely enjoyed it. When I got my daughter (3) involved, she had a blast. I took the LED balls and the camera with us to Great Wolf Lodge and we used the hotel room for an "epic" shoot.
So I pitched the concept of a workshop for kids to my son's teacher. It's a small class so it would be feasible for a test run. At any rate, she loved it. I brought the LEDs, batteries and balls with me. We set up around a table and I showed them a battery. Showed them an LED. Gave them each one and explained a basic circuit to them (Positive to positive, negative to negative, light turns on). Watching them play with the batteries and LEDs was so much fun. Hearing "Mr. Elliott, my light doesn't work… oh, never mind…" as they switched from one side to the other. As you'll see below, each kid had their own interpretation of what to do when the shutter opened, but they had a blast. Coaching each other when the kid was up.
And then I did a group shot.
So much fun. For me, too! As a bonus, each kid got to keep their light ball!
I've written a proposal for creating an interactive installation out of this concept. Will see who might bite on that idea. If you have an event you'd like to have me set up within, let me know. I think it'd be awesome! In my proposal is even a plan for a small photo screen. Anyway, that's out there.
In the meantime, I am looking at assembling an air cannon to shoot the balls into the air. Possibly roll them down a hill. Throw them at stuff in general. You know, play with them. THEY'RE BALLS!


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The world of professional tennis has come a long way since the beginning of its open era in the late sixties….only fifty years ago. And, almost at the same time, a professional men's tournament was emerging in the Southern California desert. Located in the second largest market in the country, it has evolved into the 5th most attended tennis tournament in the world including the four Grand Slams. The BNP Paribas Open is a two-week combined ATP Masters Series and Sony Ericsson WTA Premier event featuring the top men and women professional players competing in a 96 singles draw and 32 doubles draw. The event is hosted at the magnificent Indian Wells Tennis Garden, located in the beautiful Southern California desert. Of the 22 sessions played, attendance is taken from only 20 sessions and in 2008 the event attracted over 330,000 tennis fans. The event provided over $5.5 million in prize money in 2008 and in 2009 it will offer equal prize money totaling $9 million.
"If you are a fan of the sport of tennis or just sport it is difficult not to be seduced by Charlie Pasarell's dream in the desert. If this is not tennis Camelot, you can see it from here."
-Bill Dwyre, Past Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times
Indian Wells Tennis Garden: Charlie Pasarell's vision together with his partner Raymond Moore, the late Mark McCormack and former partners, IMG to build a $78 million, 89 acre state-of the-art tennis stadium with private funding in 2000. Considered to be one of the most spectacular settings in the world, it is the second largest tennis stadium with 16,100 seats. The site includes a total of (22) courts, a year-round tennis club membership and is the host site for USTA and collegiate events outside of the professional tennis tournament. The beautiful landscaped grounds and stadium has also been the host site for musical artists Pavarotti, Bocelli, the Boston Pops, The Who, Tom Petty and the Eagles.
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1949 Ford F1 - Into The Wild
With A North Dakota State Of Mind
If a national poll was taken for favorite vacation destinations within the United States, the great state of North Dakota would probably fall a little short. Let's face it, how many people can picture Jimmy Buffet singing about being whisked away to a magical weekend in Bismarck? In fact, most Americans' idea of the state probably starts with the movie, Fargo, and ends with a vision of that oh-so-creepy Steve Buscemi being fed through a wood chipper. But what North Dakota lacks in sandy beaches and over-tanned, orange citizens, it more than makes up for with good people and plenty of old trucks. For Randy Nelson, a native North Dakotan, he fits the criteria to a T.
One day after work Randy stopped in to get a drink with a couple buddies. What started out as a casual get-together quickly became a negotiation when a friend mentioned that his daughter was looking to sell her '49 Ford pickup. After an unsuccessful low-ball attempt, Randy went back for round two the following day and made her an offer she couldn't refuse. By day's end he was the new owner of a '49 F-1 Ford. Upon further review, Randy quickly realized that his new acquisition was a long way from perfect-and that it epitomized the term "fixer upper." He decided the only logical starting point was to strip her down to the bare metal and start from scratch.
The first step was to separate body from chassis. With the body detached, Randy could begin restoring the frame. The frame and body were stripped and sandblasted down to bare metal. Next, he replaced the floorboards and any pieces sporting signs of rust with new metal. He then sealed all exposed pieces with etching paint. Up front, the frame was cut to accommodate a one-piece bumper. The front axle and springs were turned around to make the front lowering job easy. Out back, the frame was notched and boxed, in order to bring the rear down as far as possible. The original flathead motor remains the Ford's powerplant-however, it has been completely warmed over back to stock. As for the transmission, Randy had to build a custom trans crossmember to accommodate a C4 tranny to back the flathead. For the finishing touch, the stock wheels were removed and Randy slapped on a set of 20-inch Center Lines. Once the frame was complete, the project steamrolled from there.
The next order of business was the body. Over the years the Ford's outer shell had received multiple battle scars and required extensive body work, therefore Randy wasted no time and had at them. Once the repairs were made the '49 was put in the expert hands of good friend Stan Saylor. Stan chopped 3 inches out of the cab and converted the stock doors into suicides. Once back from Stan, Randy installed a custom rear roll pan with built-in LED taillights. Randy also modified the hood by welding up the vents and replacing the existing hood latch with a Cadillac slow-release trunk latch. After sealing up the hood and molding in the rear roll pan, it was only fitting to shave the door handles to achieve the sleek appearance Randy was striving for. With the body intact, Randy needed a perfect paint scheme and a skilled painter to highlight both his body and frame modifications. He decided that there truly is a first time for everything and elected to spray the Ford himself. He decided to stay traditional and shot the frame with a traditional Ford Blue, and hit the body with PPG Black. To finish off the exterior, he installed a custom-built hickory wood bed from Creative Cabinet.
On the inside, Randy wanted a theme that could pass as both street and show. He replaced the stock seat with a pair of 3A Racing seats wrapped in black and white leather. He also installed a stainless Grant steering wheel with a black leather wrap. He then passed the Ford on to the boys at Billy's Custom Upholstery. They quickly added a custom headliner with raised Ford lettering, and finished upholstering the rest of the interior to match the seats.
After the interior was finished, the truck entered the final, and perhaps most tedious, stage: reassembly. For the final phase, Randy turned once again to a good friend, Keith Smith, to help piece together the classic Ford. When the F-1 was finally put back together, all that was left was to wait out the snowy winters of the Midwest and unleash the new-and-improved '49 on the North Dakota countryside, giving us all a new perspective on what our northern neighbors are all about.


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On top of these recurrent pitfalls, banks and households in Europe are still shedding debt, several big emerging economies are slowing and markets are struggling to decode the Federal Reserve's policy signals.
No wonder that words like 'modest' and 'moderate' pepper many of the latest growth outlooks. Yet there is a guarded confidence at some banks that a recovery, not powerful but worthy of the name, might finally be within reach.
Credit Suisse, for instance, is pencilling in 3.8 percent global growth for 2014, up from 3.0 percent this year and surpassing what it sees as the trend rate of 3.5 percent.
A lessening of fiscal headwinds will be important in allowing the hoped-for pickup in the United States, said John Calverley, head of macroeconomic research with Standard Chartered Bank in Toronto.
"So you should start to see growth moving up well into the 2.5, 3.0 percent range, maybe more, over the next couple of years," he said. The U.S. economy has expanded at an average pace of less than 2 percent in the last four quarters.
But that view could be sorely tested in coming days.
In Washington, a government shutdown from Tuesday drew nearer after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to delay Democratic President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law for a year as part of an emergency spending bill.
The White House, in its fourth major budget standoff with Congress since 2011, has vowed to veto the bill.
Congress also needs to raise the federal debt ceiling to avoid an unprecedented default in mid-October.
The notion that the issuer of the world's main reserve currency might be unable to meet its obligations is simply unthinkable for most in the market.
"Our basic view is that we will get through it as we've got through it time and time again," Jim McCormick, head of asset allocation research at Barclays, said.
Italy's political instability has also revived concerns about its stagnant economy. Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi effectively brought down the government of Prime Minister Enrico Letta by pulling his ministers out of the cabinet on Saturday, further delaying agreement on changes intended to reduce debt and revive growth.
President Giorgio Napolitano signalled that he would like Letta to try to forge a new coalition rather than call elections, but the uncertainty risks a further damaging rise in Italian bond yields, which hit a three-month high on Friday.
"We are paying for our political instability," Labour Minister Enrico Giovannini said.
To date bond investors have been largely reassured by the conditional promise that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi gave a year ago to buy the bonds of struggling euro member states if necessary to keep the single currency afloat.
Draghi could use the power of the pulpit to send a message to Rome's feuding politicians when he holds a news conference after an ECB meeting in Paris on Wednesday.
With the eurozone economy gathering modest momentum, no change in interest rates is on the cards.
But the ECB chief is likely to reaffirm his readiness to provide a new round of cheap, long-term funding if need be to prevent an unwanted rise in money market interest rates.
Some reckon the ECB could act in December, which is when the Fed might start to reduce its bond buying from $85 billion a month.
'Might' is the operative word because markets are no longer sure how to anticipate the Fed's reactions since the central bank shocked them by deciding this month not to start withdrawing monetary stimulus yet.
The Bank of England, and the ECB to a lesser extent, have also struggled to provide clear 'forward guidance' of how economic developments might shape their policy thinking.
"The most visible risk at the moment is the learning curve associated with new central bank procedures. The process of their learning how to talk to us and our learning how to listen to them is fraught with risks to financial stability," the Credit Suisse report said.
With Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke emphasising that his timetable for reducing stimulus depends on the economy, investors could start to price in an October start if Friday's employment report is strong.
The economy is forecast to have added 180,000 non-farm jobs in September, above the latest three-month average of 148,000.
In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected on Tuesday to confirm that sales tax will rise in April to 8 percent from 5 percent, the first significant effort in 20 years to rein in the country's galloping debt.
To cushion the economic blow, Abe is preparing a stimulus package that will include tax breaks for companies that increase wages or capital expenditure.
Abe's announcement will follow the Bank of Japan's closely watched "tankan" business sentiment survey, with economists polled by Reuters expecting a bullish report.
If they are wrong, BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is likely to redouble his efforts to expand the monetary base and so banish 15 years of deflation, said James Malcolm, a foreign-exchange strategist with Deutsche Bank in London.
"Disappointing results would almost certainly bring forward expectations of additional central bank easing," he said in a note, suggesting that such a move "might even become a live option" when policy makers conclude their next meeting on Friday. A more realistic date, however, was the BOJ's Oct. 31 meeting.
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The Falaki theatre was abuzz with chatter before the play started. The familiar sound of a Spanish rolling 'r' was everywhere as a sea of European and Egyptian faces peered intently at the stage. Suddenly, the room was filled with music; no doubt familiar to the Spaniards, no doubt exotic to the Egyptians. The play had begun.
El otro, or The other, is the creation of Spanish director and actor Marco Magoa. The play was produced by the Spanish embassy in Cairo and is completely in Arabic to emphasise cultural exchange. The play was inspired by the poetry of Spaniards Ángel González and José Hierro, which Magoa said helped him to create, with the support of the embassy, El otro, in which he challenges audiences to let him take them on a "journey".
Magoa said both poets had special significance for him. "González is from Asturias in northern Spain where I am from. So I am bringing to Egypt a part of my culture and my childhood, with its music, its people and its ocean. Both poets have lived through the Spanish civil war and their lives were difficult but their poetry is never sad; it is uplifting and optimistic, just like Egyptians after the revolution."
Magoa added that this was a "gift" to Egyptians from him and that this was part of the idea behind the name. "The name comes from accepting the other. Everyone is scared of one another in different parts of the world and relations are not good. This is my gift to the Egyptian people."
Much, if not most, of the play has a serene dream-like quality, with a mix of performance, acting, choreography, and music. The music is from the Asturia region of northern Spain. Coupled with the choreography of the lone dancer, Zizo, and the perfect classical Arabic recital of translated Spanish poetry (an art in and of itself), the play takes us on a journey that barely lasts 45 minutes but fills us with the sincere power of the poems.
"The music is a mix of traditional 17th and 18th century Spanish music and the later composed violin piece by Bach, who wrote it after witnessing Spanish dance and wanting to compliment it," said Mogoa.
The play consists of four actors and a dancer. Of those only one is a woman and they are credited simply as 'Man 1', 'Man 2', 'Man 3', and 'A Woman', with the dancer Zizo as 'the soul'.
The theatre was packed with everyone from aficionados to those who had come to see a free play, and included the local Spanish community and a few representatives from the different embassies.
Of the people who had come to see the play, most were well-behaved, though understandably some could not help themselves when the actress (and there is only one), slipped and fell right on the stage. The actress had slipped on account of the water used in a previous scene which was left on the floor. Whether or not the fall was part of the performance was irrelevant as the women in front of me started giggling uncontrollably before finally regaining composure. For the actress' part, the fall did not deter her from a most dramatic and graceful rise, following the fall, and a subsequent exit from the theatre.
El otro is a melancholy but ultimately life-affirming meditation on life and its serene, hypnotic execution is definitely worth your time especially given that the entrance is free and the play is just shy of an hour.


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Last month, an abandoned printshop at 2120 Dwight Way was reborn as Lindgren's, a bright and trendy café-restaurant featuring house-roasted coffee and homemade pastries. The arrival of Lindgren's was part of the larger restoration of the historic Williamson Building but it didn't take long for graffiti to appear on the 1905 City Landmark. On March 20, the previously pristine wall bore three fresh tags. But there's much more to this story….


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Upon leaving the governor's mansion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasted no time in tweeting his desire to get back to acting, immediately making "Terminator 5" a hot property.
Universal Pictures (our corporate cousins) are interested in putting the franchise in the hands of Justin Lin, who's directed the last three "Fast & Furious" films for the studio, reported Deadline.
"Terminator Salvation," which was directed by McG and starred Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin, was so bad that when James Cameron was asked last summer about the idea of taking back control of the franchise he'd launched, the director dismissed the idea by saying, "Frankly the soup's kinda been pissed in by other filmmakers." Ouch.
But as bad as "T-4" was, it didn't stop William Wisher, who helped Cameron write the first two films, from writing a treatment for "T-5" and an outline for "T-6." Whether anyone is interested using them is another question.
One has to wonder how much longer Lin is going to be happy picking up the pieces of other people's franchises. Since making a name for himself with the "Fast" movies, he's been attached to the upcoming "Highlander" and now is being mentioned in connection to "T-5."
"Terminator Salvation" left us in a foul mood, and we're not sure Arnold is the answer to what ails the franchise, but we'd love for it to regain its lost glory.


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Swedish fashion model Elsa Hosk, who has worked for a number of leading brands including Dior, Dolce & Gabbana and Victoria's Secret, is seen in the gallery above photographed by Kalle Gustavsson. The mood and technique of the shoot really compliment the overall look, check out the images and let us know what you think in the comments.
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A Look at Dekalb Market in Brooklyn
Brooklyn's Dekalb Market isn't like all the other markets that opened this summer—it's open 7 days a week, year-round. It's a collection of semi-permanent store fronts created from salvaged shipping containers. (On the weekends, there's a flea and craft market, too.) Boasting a small but delicious collective of local food shops, it's a great place to stop by for a meal, a drink, an indulgence, or all of the above.
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|Some changes of Articles of Incorporation
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - John McAfee's odyssey on the run opened a new chapter on Wednesday after Guatemala deported to the United States the former Silicon Valley entrepreneur wanted for questioning in Belize over the murder of a fellow American.
McAfee, 67, had been held for a week in Guatemala, where he surfaced after evading police in Belize for nearly a month following the killing of American Gregory Faull, his neighbor on the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye.
A Reuters witness saw McAfee's plane bound for Miami leaving Guatemala City just before 3:40 p.m. (2140 GMT). The flight is scheduled to arrive in Miami at 7:10 p.m. (0010 GMT Thursday).
The goateed McAfee has led the world's media on a game of online hide-and-seek in Belize and Guatemala since he fled after Faull's death, peppering the Internet with pithy quotes and colorful revelations about his unpredictable life.
"I'm happy to be going home," McAfee, dressed in a black suit, told reporters shortly before his departure from Guatemala City airport on Wednesday afternoon. "I've been running through jungles and rivers and oceans and I think I need to rest for a while. And I've been in jail for seven days."
Police in Belize want to quiz McAfee as a "person of interest" in Faull's death, although the technology guru's lawyers blocked an attempt by Guatemala to send him back there.
Authorities in Belize say he is not a prime suspect in the investigation. McAfee has denied any role in Faull's killing.
Guatemala's immigration authorities had been holding McAfee since he was arrested last Wednesday for illegally entering the country with his 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend.
The eccentric tech pioneer, who made his fortune from the anti-virus software bearing his name, has been chronicling life on the run in a blog, www.whoismcafee.com.
He said he had no immediate plans after reaching Florida.
"I'm just going to hang in Miami for a while. I like Miami," he told Reuters by telephone just before his plane left. "There is a great sushi place there and I really like sushi."
Residents of the Belizean island of Ambergris Caye, where McAfee has lived for about four years, said McAfee and Faull, 52, had quarreled at times, including over McAfee's unruly dogs.
McAfee says Belize authorities will kill him if he turns himself in for questioning. He has said he was being persecuted by Belize's ruling party for refusing to pay some $2 million in bribes.
Belize's prime minister has rejected the allegations, calling McAfee paranoid and "bonkers.
Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez said the country still wanted to question McAfee about the Faull case.
"He will be just under the goodwill of the United States of America. He is still a person of interest, but a U.S. national has been killed and he has been somewhat implicated in that murder. People want him to answer some questions," he said.
Martinez noted that Belize's extradition treaty with the United States extended only to suspected criminals, a designation that did not currently apply to McAfee.
"Right now, we don't have enough information to change his status from person of interest to suspect," he said.
Residents and neighbors on Ambergris Caye said McAfee was unusual and at times unstable. He was seen to travel with armed bodyguards, sporting a pistol tucked into his belt.
The predicament of McAfee, a former Lockheed systems consultant, is a far cry from his heyday in the late 1980s, when he started McAfee Associates. McAfee has no relationship now with the company, which was sold to Intel Corp.
McAfee was previously charged in Belize with possession of illegal firearms, and police had raided his property on suspicions that he was running a lab to produce illegal synthetic narcotics. He said he had not taken drugs since 1983.
"I took drugs constantly, 24 hours of the day. I took them for years and years. I was the worst drug abuser on the planet," he told Reuters before his arrest in Guatemala. "Then I finally went to Alcoholics Anonymous, and that was the end of it."
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TAHOE CITY, Calif. and#8212; On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, more than 200 community members turned out at the Tahoe City Golf Course to honor the Bechdolt family and the legacy they have created for the community and to celebrate the new public ownership of the Tahoe City Golf Course.
The Transfer of Ownership Ceremony for the Tahoe City Golf Course was held with a signing ceremony to transfer ownership and an official presentation of a ceremonial key to Tahoe City's Future.
The direct descendants of Carl Jr. and Elsie Bechdolt all received special plaques honoring the family's contributions and legacy to the Tahoe City community. All funding partners, Placer County, North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, Truckee Tahoe Airport District and Tahoe City Public Utility District (TCPUD) were recognized for their contributions to the acquisition of the golf course property. The ceremony concluded with a community toast to the family and speeches from Bechdolt family members.
The Tahoe City Golf Course is now under ownership of the TCPUD and they have entered into a five-year lease with Duncan Golf Management to operate the golf course, bar and restaurant. The 9-hole public course will open this spring, when weather permits and there will be a North Lake Tahoe Chamber mixer on May 24 where the community can meet the new operators.
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