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The Phillips Community College District is a multi-campus, two-year college serving Eastern Arkansas. The college is committed to individual, organizational and community development. It provides accessible, affordable education, training, and public services that are consistent with the goals and objectives of its students and the communities it serves. Through its numerous programs and partnerships, the College provides high quality education opportunities and supports the economic growth of Eastern Arkansas. Phillips Community College is a member of the University of Arkansas System.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
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Special Learning Opportunities
- Distance learning opportunities
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- Career Services available upon completion
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- Credit for life experiences
- Advanced placement (AP) credits
- The acceptance of credits for work experience or military experience are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.
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Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
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- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
- Associate's degree
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A legal stoush between two Auckland gym owners has finally been resolved with three fought-over gyms set to be transformed back to their original state.
Club Physical owner Paul Richards received an email "out of the blue" on February 8 to say three of his franchised gyms were being immediately renamed.
Without any warning to staff or gym members, Stuart Holder pulled out of the Club Physical franchise and re-branded his Three Kings, Botany and Westgate clubs as "Jolt Fitness".
New signs and classes were put in place, staff were fitted with new uniforms, and instructors arriving up to take their regular classes were turned away.
Many members of those gyms were upset the move came without warning and that classes they signed up for no longer existed.
Richards took the dispute to the High Court, claiming Holder had breached franchise agreements that had years to run on them.
Justice Helen Winkelmann granted an injunction requiring Holder to close the gyms immediately but then allowed Jolt Fitness to keep trading while the two parties negotiated an amicable handover.
An agreement has now been reached for Richards to take over the leases and reinstate the gyms as Club Physical, with original branding and classes.
Jolt Fitness will close for good at 3pm today and the clubs will re-open under the Club Physical banner on Saturday.
Richards said he was relieved to finally have the matter resolved and was looking forward to getting things up and running this weekend.
"I feel tired from eight weeks of this and I am very, very happy. I'm hoping I am able to sleep better now.
"There have been a lot of people's lives involved in this."
The next few days would be spent re-branding the gyms, carrying out any maintenance work required, and training up new staff.
Club Physical would be purchasing all of Jolt Fitness' equipment, for an undisclosed sum, Richards said.
In a message to members on Facebook, Richards asked that they hold "no bad feelings" towards any of the people involved in the dispute.
"We've learned lessons and now personally 'look forward'," he said.
"We're sad for those working at the clubs who were caught up in something not of their personal choice. So, let's just leave this behind us."
Richards said he and wife Tina would not be rushing into any new franchise agreements.
"We're not franchising these ones. We just want to put a lot of love into them and get away from this issue."
Holder has also posted a heartfelt message to members via Facebook.
"We do humbly apologise for any inconvenience this process may have caused for anyone of our valued members, this was certainly not the intention," he said.
"We would like to take this opportunity to thank our members for their support and to wish all of you the very best with your personal health and fitness goals for the coming year."
Richards said all but four of the Jolt Fitness staff that had applied to carry on working at the gyms under Club Physical had been offered positions.

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The company that runs the popular Pitchfork Music Festival has until the middle of next week to turn over the complete footage recorded of teen rapper Chief Keef holding a rifle.
Pitchfork TV several months ago decided against using any of the footage, shot for a feature on the rapper, but prosecutors want the video to see if the teen violated his probation by holding the weapon.
Judge Carl Anthony Walker made his ruling Wednesday, saying prosecutors had successfully argued they had no other way of seeing the footage, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Chief Keef, whose real name is Keith Cozart, was convicted last year of pointing a gun at a Chicago police officer, and as part of his probation is banned from holding or using weapons.
Pitchfork Media must surrender the footage by next Wednesday, Dec. 12. Walker said he would make a decision as to whether Cozart violated his probation the following Monday, one day before the rapper makes his debut on a national label with his CD "Finally Rich."
Cozart came under fire in September for joking on Twitter about the shooting death of an 18-year-old rival rapper, Joseph "Lil JoJo" Coleman. He later claimed his Twitter account was hacked.
Police have been looking into whether Chief Keef or anyone he knows had anything to do with Coleman's death.


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Algeria: President had a full stroke, recovering
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's president had a full stroke, not a mini-stroke as
originally reported, but he is recovering with the help of physical therapy, his office said Tuesday.
Previously, the government had said that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, had a transient ischemic attack, a so-called mini-stroke. But the latest statement says it was a "cerebrovascular accident," or a full stroke.
Bouteflika has not been seen in public since the April 27 stroke, and he was flown to France for treatment at the military hospital of Val-de-Grace. On June 2, he was moved to another French hospital for therapy.
Algeria's evening news also reported Tuesday that Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and the army chief of staff, Gen. Gaid Salah, visited Bouteflika and briefed him on the situation in his country.
The report said Bouteflika was in good condition and gave orders to ensure markets have adequate food supplies ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan set to begin July.
The television report did not include any images of the president.
A mini-stroke is a brief constriction of a cerebral artery and results in a short period of disorientation that can be quickly recovered from. Full strokes, however, require a longer period of therapy.
"This kind of therapy indicates that his motor or neurological functions were affected by the accident," said Dr. Mohammed Said Amokrane, a cardiologist in Algiers. "Functional rehabilitation, especially in the elderly like the president, can take months."
At the time, the Algerian government said that none of his vital functions had been affected.
French media have been carrying increasingly grim reports about the leader's condition, suggesting he won't be able to continue carrying out his duties.
There is increasing speculation in Algeria that Bouteflika won't run for re-election in April as planned, setting off a succession struggle in the oil-rich nation — Africa's largest by area.


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FULLERTON, Calif – The Cal State Fullerton offense got an early jump on the UCSB pitching staff on Saturday night, earning a 10-2 victory to clinch the series after Friday's 4-3 win.
UCSB starter Justin Jacome suffered the loss after allowing six earned runs over three innings pitched. It was the shortest start of the year for the freshman lefty, who failed to throw a quality start for just the second time in his last eight starts.
With the loss, UCSB fell to 17-16, 3-5. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton improved to 31-4, 8-0.
The Titans parlayed three straight hits to open the game into three runs, including the eventual game winner. Richy Pedroza led off with a base hit up the middle before Carlos Lopez followed up with a double. J.D. Davis then stroked an RBI single before Cal State Fullerton skied a pair of sacrifice flies to make the score 3-0.
The Gauchos answered back with a run in the top of the second when Robby Nesovic scored on a double play ball after doubling to lead off the inning to make the score 3-1.
From there, however, it was all Titans, as the home team scored six runs over the next four innings to push the score to 9-2.
Four Cal State Fullerton batters recorded multiple hits on the night, including Pedroza, Lopez, and Davis. Third baseman Matt Chapman also added a pair of hits, including a double and home run.
Freshman lefty Domenic Mazza had a positive outing on the mound in relief, allowing just one run over 3 2/3 innings pitched. His only run came off a home run from Chapman, but otherwise he gave up just three hits while striking out three.
Sophomore second baseman Woody Woodward led the way with the bat for the Gauchos, going 2-4 with a home run – his first of the year – in the sixth inning. Cameron Newell and Tyler Kuresa added base hits for UCSB, with Newell extending his hitting streak to 12 games. Robby Nesovic had the only other base hit for the Gauchos with his second inning double.
Cal State Fullerton starter Justin Garza pushed his record to 7-0 after his seven inning, two run effort. Tyler Peitzmeier and David Birosak each added a scoreless inning of relief.
The Gauchos and Titans will wrap up their series on Sunday afternoon, with first pitch set for 1:00 p.m. Nesovic will take the ball for UCSB.


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Perhaps those that practice elemental magic begin to take on characteristics associated with their chosen element. For instance, an earth elementalist might be prone to agoraphobia, while air and possibly fire elementalists might have problems with claustrophobia. Water elementalists might always seek the path of least resistance. A fire elementalist might have a cat's opinion of water. This could also apply to physical differences. Fire elementalists might have a freakishly high metabolism and a permanently high body temperature. Water elementalists would probably never get dehydrated, but might slow down a lot when it's cold. Etc, etc.
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"The read-aloud in my classroom is the center of the day. It's a time when we have cried together. It's a time when we have laughed together. It's a time when kids have said, 'This is how life is for me.'...And to me those moments where one child says, 'I had no idea about what you're going through,' that's what education is all about..."
Katherine Bomer, 5th-Grade Teacher
Pleasant Hill Elementary School
Austin, Texas
As you watch, pay particular attention to the ways in which Ms. Bomer models, encourages, and supports genuine conversation. She has taught students to use some explicit methods for effective conversation such as naming the person they are responding to and explaining what they are thinking in response. Additionally, her use of informal response writing to prepare for meetings between Conversation Partners encourages rich, thoughtful talk. She encourages her students' learning by explicitly celebrating what she observes them doing well, and, in so doing, gives them the confidence to continue to grow as envisionment-building readers.
The interactions between teacher and students reflect an interesting balance as well. Clearly Ms. Bomer is "in charge" and directing instruction. At the same time, she is genuinely receptive to learning from her fifth graders, asking for help with the pronunciation of a Spanish word from one youngster and enlarging her understandings of the text from the observations of others.
Additional core components of Ms. Bomer's literature program (not portrayed on this video) are independent reading and Reading Clubs. Students are asked to read for 35 minutes a night and may choose whatever they wish to read for this independent reading. Ms. Bomer notes that at the beginning of the year, her students choose a lot of comic books to read during this time, but by the end of the school year, they progress to reading more appropriate texts.
On a typical day, read-aloud time is followed by Reading Club meetings where students meet in groups of five or six to discuss one of five novels from which they could choose. It is expected that they will apply the interpretive and conversational strategies demonstrated and learned during read-aloud time in these small groups as well. Formal evaluation is typically based on their work in these groups.
For resources that can help you use this clip for teacher professional development, preservice education, administrative and English/language arts content meetings, parent conferences, and back-to-school events, visit our Support Materials page. There you will find PDF files of our library guide, classroom lesson plan, student activity sheets, and other Teacher Tools.
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(Cinet)- National young talented choreographers competition 2016 organized by the Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnam Association of Dance Artists, Ho Chi Minh City Culture, Sports and Tourism Department and related agencies and institutions will be taken place at the end of June in 2016 in Ho Chi Minh city.
(Cinet) – The five – day course on expanding the knowledge of State Administration of cultural and sports mechanism at local levels for leaders and officials from the cultural and sports sectors in 28 provinces in the southern region will be taken place from June 13th to 17th, 2016.
(Cinet)- The Xoe Thai Arts of Tay ethnic minority is building dossier to submit UNESCO for recognizing as a Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
(Cinet)- On June 8th, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Nguyen Ngoc Thien had a meeting with leaders of Ha Giang provincial People's Committee to direct the organization of the Second Mong (H'Mong) Ethnic Culture Festival in Ha Giang province in 2016.
(Cinet)- The Prime Minister has issued Decision No. 23/2016/QĐ-TTg on transport of national treasures abroad in three cases as follows:


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San Francisco Giants 6, Philadelphia Phillies 5: Giants squeeze out a win
In the top of the eighth inning with Buster Posey on third and one out, Gregor Blanco looked down at third-base coach Tim Flannery.
After watching Flannery's gyrations, Blanco must have thought: "Either Flan wants me to put down a suicide squeeze or he has an itch on his face."
Given manager Bruce Bochy's disdain for putting on the suicide squeeze play this season, it's no wonder that Blanco decided on the latter.
It wasn't until Buster Posey came charging down the line that Blanco was corrected.
Blanco didn't bunt and Posey was hung out to dry.
Bochy said: "We weren't trying a kamikaze play with Buster."
Posey explained it this way: "A sense of dismay is a good way to put it, I guess. I know Blanco feels worse about it than anybody and I'm sure it won't happen again."
It won't, because Bochy won't put the suicide squeeze on again.
Luckily for Blanco and the Giants, the Phillies weren't able to score and the game went into the 10th tied at 5-5.
And Blanco found himself again at the plate with the go-ahead run (this time in the person of Melky Cabrera) at third base and one out.
Bochy did not put on the suicide squeeze this time. But Blanco had the good sense to take matters into his own hands.
"I said to myself, 'I'm going to have another opportunity to win this game,' " Blanco said. "When the count got to 3-1, I thought that was the right moment to bunt it. I did, and it worked."
It did indeed, and the Giants find themselves with another series win on the road.
The Giants are assured of — at worst — a 4-2 road trip, with a chance to make it 5-1 when Barry Zito takes the mound Sunday against Joe Blanton.
Like Thursday's game in Atlanta, a win Sunday would be gravy as the Giants return home Monday for a 10-game homestead against the Padres, Dodgers and Mets.
They did it with the longball early Saturday with homers by Matt Cain (yes! Matt Cain), Buster Posey and Melky Cabrera. And small ball late.
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To the Antiques Roadshow treasure twins, Leigh and Leslie Keno, old age is nothing to brag about. What moves them to go back in time is good design. And increasingly, the Americana experts are reaching back a mere 50 years to collect such mid-century classics as the set of four white wire side chairs made by sculptor Harry Bertoia that they recently bagged for two Benjamins.
"Bertoia was clearly thinking outside the box when he developed these incredibly airy, nearly transparent chairs that almost appear to float," enthuses Leslie Keno. Not that he or any other antiques addict would turn down a chance encounter with a Goddard kneehole desk, but the likelihood of bumping into a mahogany masterpiece at your local garage sale is next to nil. Not so for Bertoia (1915–1978), whose modern mesh regularly appears at flea markets.
"There's so much Bertoia furniture out there," observes Leigh, pointing out that the wire-grid side chairs they scored at a shop in Stamford, Connecticut, have been in continuous production since 1952, when Knoll first rolled out the wire wonders. While not calendar-crunching collectors, the Kenos strongly prefer the early Bertoia chairs, based on construction methods, materials, curvier shape, and patina.
Shown here are a vintage Bertoia chair with an original orange foam-rubber seat cushion and a newly made Bertoia with a white seat cushion. Note that the vintage chair has a black base.
Vintage Bertoia, one of a set of four chairs that Leigh and Leslie Keno recently found for $200.
A new Bertoia chair. The following five slides point out details that can help you to differentiate vintage Bertoia from new.
Vintage: The formerly snow-white wire mesh has turned vanilla with age. Compare, also, the cross points on this slide with the next one.
New: The wire mesh is bright white. The cross points are crisp and clean in contrast to the clumping found at the cross points in the previous slide.
Vintage: Bolts join the rod frame to the seat bottom.
New: The frame is welded to the chair seat.
Vintage: Tags on original foam-rubber cushions are inscribed "H.G. Knoll Products, East Greenville."
Bertoia's "Experimental Sonambient," courtesy of photographer Matthew Regula of Lost City Arts in New York City; 212/375-0500; www.lostcityarts.com.
And the Kenos' infatuation with the Italian-born Bertoia doesn't end with furniture. In fact, both brothers first encountered the artist back in 1992 in the entryway at Mount Cuba, an 18th-century brick manor house owned by the grande dame of Delaware society, the late Pamela du Pont Copeland. "Mrs. Copeland ran her fingers through a Bertoia sound sculpture, and this incredible chime resonated through a cavernous hallway lined with Chippendale furniture," recalls Leslie, who later managed the Sotheby's auction of Mrs. Copeland's furnishings (minus the Bertoia, which the family still owns).
Bertoia moved to America in 1930 and attended high school in Detroit. He won a scholarship to study at the esteemed Cranbook Academy of Art, where he later taught metalwork and printmaking. Of his musical sculptures, such as the one pictured here, Leigh enthuses: "You can't look without touching."
"Harry Bertoia is really an artist who also designed six or seven chairs," Leigh says. "The furniture is a very small, but affordable, part of his entire output."
Photography: Bryan McCay
Produced by Leigh Keno and Leslie Keno


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|February 15, 1999, 06:52 AM
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Posts: 7,413
"Wormholes" are what I call crosslinks between two or more threads, often with click-links back. Over on Handguns you'll find a new "Tactical Mousegun" thread that has a jump to an existing thread on the subject on the Bladeforums "Tactical" forum. On the "Bladeforums" side there's a link back.
In this fashion, threads can span forums on a single UBB site or even span multiple sites. I know there's cooperation going on between BF and TFL already, so this kind of fun shouldn't be controversial? It's also useful if a moderator wants to redirect a thread over to, say, politics because it really doesn't belong where it starts yet you don't want to "kill the conversation", the answer is to start the new thread then redirect the "wrong one" that way.
Anyways, it's a "cool tool" and simple HTML. In case anyone doesn't know, you can hit "edit" for any post that contains the trick and extract the obvious-to-use code, you just won't be able to save changes unless it's your post. This works for everyone, not just moderators.
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|February 15, 1999, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: October 10, 1998
Posts: 665
To tell you the truth, it's really just basic HTML and UBBCode.
You type in the appropriate code, link to the other site, and viola!
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|February 15, 1999, 02:22 PM
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For the moderators/administrators:
I just learned the hard way that you have to put the Wormhole in BEFORE you close the misplaced thread.... I forgot that you cannot edit any posts on a closed thread. But this should be a good trick for taking threads out of general and restarting them where they belong, with or without the original posters participation.
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How many phone calls does it take to kill the internet? It seems like an odd question to ask about a network once thought to be strong enough to withstand a nuclear attack. However, first-strike mushroom clouds aren't the biggest threat to the internet anymore. Just ask the citizens of Libya, Egypt and Syria: nations whose connections have been recently severed, albeit temporarily.
But if you think that the internet's most vulnerable regions correspond to autocratic regimes or civil war zones, think again. Following the Syrian blackout in late 2012, Renesys, a consultancy that specialises in monitoring and mitigating risks to connectivity, created a map ranking every country's "risk of internet disconnection". They found resilience has little to do with the presence or absence of jackbooted thugs: Belarus is at "significant risk" of internet disconnection, while China – which blacked out the entire province of Xinjiang for ten months in 2009 and 2010 – is rated at "low risk".
How can this be? Renesys simplified the question of global internet resilience by tracking one metric: the number of so-called "frontier" internet service providers (ISPs) that a country has. A frontier ISP is one that maintains connections or gateways to the global internet at large, not just to its own domestic network. "Not all ISPs have or need connections to the outside world," says Jim Cowie, chief technology officer and co-founder of Renesys. "Comcast, for example, only sells internet service in the United States."
It's this number of international gateways, then, that captures how difficult it would be to snuff out a country's internet pulse. Disable them, and the global web goes dark. The more gateways there are, the more difficult it will be to neutralise all of them.
Even sophisticated, highly networked countries can be at risk of a blackout if their digital frontier has a paucity of global connections. "Iran is a good example of this," says Cowie. "Iran was one of the countries that came to networking really early – they have nearly 100 ISPs all over the country. But very few [of those] are internationally connected ISPs by design." Renesys's map places Iran in the "significant risk" category, one of 72 countries and territories with "fewer than 10 service providers at [the] international frontier."
One advantage in using frontier ISPs as a proxy for internet resilience is that it cuts through any biases from news reports about blackouts in developing world nations. "It doesn't matter whether the damage comes from politics or war or a meteor strike hitting the wrong building," Cowie says. "Vulnerable is vulnerable." Any country with just one or two connections to the global internet has a clear point of failure. By this measure, Syria and Libya are as much at "severe risk" of disconnection as Greenland.
'Leaky bucket'
But mere physical connections don't paint a full picture of a country's disconnection risk. Outside of a massive solar flare or electromagnetic pulse, unplugging a country from the global web may be an organisational problem more than anything else.
Would you expect Afghanistan, sundered by war for decades, to be at less risk than its relatively stable neighbour Iran? Probably not, but it is as likely to lose the internet as India, the world's largest democracy. It turns out that the very circumstances that make Afghanistan a near-failed state – regional fragmentation and a central government unable to control local warlords – also make it impossible for Kabul to systematically clamp down on Afghanistan's motley hodgepodge of globally-connected ISPs, which are powered by "various satellite providers, as well as by Uzbek, Iranian, and Pakistani terrestrial transit," according to Renesys.
This organisational inertia is also what makes Renesys deem China at "low risk" of internet cutoff. Beijing's autocrats would have to make too many phone calls to too many frontier ISPs across their vast domain, says Cowie, to make a bona fide internet blackout very practical. And that's just the official global connections. "There are a lot of independent, unlicensed connections; foreign companies [doing business in China] have VPNs" that connect them to their home countries, Cowie says. "I'd have to believe it'd be a leaky bucket."
Not everyone agrees with Renesys's sanguine assessment of China's disconnection risk. "It doesn't seem to be accurate," says Adam Segal, an expert on Chinese technology and cybersecurity at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Given everything we know, there's no reason to believe the [Chinese] ISPs wouldn't fall into line if the government said to shut down."
Segal cites the blackouts in Xinjiang and Tibet as evidence of China's ability to flex its organisational muscle over its frontier internet connections. Chinese ISPs are already accustomed to constantly filtering and censoring all global web traffic; "they know that if they don't do it, they won't be in business any longer," Segal says. "Unless society has completely broken down there, it's hard to imagine that a company would balk [at a cutoff order]." So while it might take a lot of phone calls to cut China off from the web, those calls could go through rather quickly.
What's more, the result probably wouldn't even look like a blackout at first. "The Chinese don't want to be considered in the same category as Syria and Egypt," Segal explains. "They have to maintain a story to their users that they have an open internet, so what they get instead are incredibly slow load times. They very rarely will get blocked."
Postcode problem
The organisational nature of resilience extends into the purely digital realm, as well. After all, at its most fundamental level, the internet is just information: a set of open, mutually agreed-upon standards called TCP/IP. Those protocols connect the "autonomous systems" that make up the so-called "network of networks" we call the global internet. This is made up of tens of thousands of these autonomous systems; countries have them, and so do large organisations and companies. "If IP addresses are like street numbers for individual computers, autonomous systems are a bit like postcodes," explains John Graham-Cumming, an author, programmer and cybersecurity expert at Cloudflare. "They are how one network says to another, 'I am the place to go if you want to reach Belarus, or the BBC."
In the case of Belarus – the only country in Europe marked "at significant risk" of internet disconnection according to Renesys – "there is a single 'postcode', controlled by a state-owned telecom company, that connects to the rest of the world," says Graham-Cumming. "If you had control of that, you could cut the country off." These "postcodes" aren't secret, either – the internet wouldn't work if they were. Belarus's is 6697.
To the other autonomous systems and routers connecting the global internet, this single four-digit number represents Belarus's entire existence. And removing it would be trivial, says Graham-Cumming: "You'd go to the telecom company, and a command would be typed into the routers, saying 6697 doesn't exist anymore, or that it's empty. Because the internet operates by cooperation, the other routers would say, 'OK, thanks for the update.' And you'd be gone."
Much like a neutron bomb wiping out life while preserving physical property, neutralising an autonomous system's address can "delete" portions of the internet without making costly or irreversible changes to network infrastructure. "If any country wants to cut [itself] off, it's all done on the command line, and you can leave it all running," Graham-Cumming says. He suspects this is what happened in Syria – although, as Jim Cowie adds, "we won't know for sure until the war's over and we can talk to the network engineers."
Which brings us to a mirror version of the question posed at the beginning: how many phone calls would it take to strengthen the internet? In the case of Bahrain, a tiny island monarchy in the Persian Gulf, it took several decades. "For many years they had a single telephone company largely owned by the government," says Cowie. "But they wanted to become the financial centre of the Gulf, so they started a 30-year plan to open up the ISP market and bring in as many competitors as they could."
Today, Cowie says, Bahrain has "about 10 providers that can all connect to international ISPs." That's not anywhere as resilient as the United States or United Kingdom, but it is enough to put Bahrain at "low risk" of internet disconnection alongside India, China, Mexico and New Zealand.
In Africa, where much of the continent is at severe risk of disconnection, similar network robustness could develop even faster. "Africa is the fastest-growing continent in terms of internet presence: more autonomous systems are joining every year, and countries that once only had satellite connections [to the global internet] are investing in fibre-optic cables," says Cowie.
In another 30 years, will a world map of internet resilience show every country at low risk? That's about as likely as world peace breaking out. But knowing how many phone calls it would take to kill the web – and where – can at least help point out where this "network of networks" still needs more shoring up.
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Cederleüf and Svenheimer
Eco consciousness reflected in the design
The traditional cafe and bakery Cederleüf and Svenheimer show how sustainable solutions and food goes hand in hand. The interior design company Studio Streck came up with a new concept for their cafe at Allum Shopping centre outside of Gothenburg and Fagerhult delivered new LED lighting.
"Fika", the Swedish concept, to enjoy a coffee together with pastries, has become increasingly a larger part of a swede's every-day life. The time we spend in cafes is increasing and today it is a place to socialise, study and work.
Cederleüfs & Svenheimer is a family cafe business in Gothenburg, Sweden. With knowledge of three generations they produce locally baked products.
When they decided to upgrade their shop at Allum Shopping Mall it was important that knowledge and eco consciousness were reflected in the store, from materials and colours to luminaires. The interior design company Studio Streck came up with a new concept and presented an open cafe closer in which you come closer to the products.
Fagerhult delivered a lighting concept with the LED spotlight Marathon with a medium beam. The luminaries provide general light and highlight the displays and cashier area. To avoid glare in the cashier area honeycomb accessories were used. 3D-programs were also used to visualise the result.
Switching from traditional fluorescent lamp to LED lighting made important energy savings. The redesign stimulates sales and makes the pastries and bread look even better. Cederleüf and Svenheimer is now a cafe where it is easy to grab a coffee or just buy something tasty to bring home after the shopping spree.


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Serious Twitter heads might be rejoicing that @mentions now get pushed to your phone via text - but some of us don't want to be bothered. Here's how to easily opt out of the potentially aggravating service, if you so please.
1. Head to Twitter. Surprise!
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VALDOSTA - Georgia Southwestern starting pitcher Matthew Suggs held Valdosta State to a pair of runs over 6 2/3 innings in a quality start that went unrewarded as the Hurricanes dropped a 2-0 midweek decision to the Blazers at Billy Grant Field.
GSW opened with a solid first inning as a one-out single by John Duran followed by a Michel Coffey double left the Hurricanes with two runners in scoring position. Both men would be stranded, however, as VSU starter Steven Groves settled down and retired the next two hitters.
Groves didn't stop there. He retired 15 of the next 17 GSW batters and would have had five-consecutive 1-2-3 innings if it wasn't for a pair of errors.
The Hurricanes committed only one error in the game, but it was a costly one as a two-out throwing error in the third inning led to the Blazers' first run.
Gabby Ramirez singled for the 'Canes to open the seventh inning. With one out, Randall Sheffield was walked to put the tying run at second but back-to-back ground outs ended GSW's scoring threat.
VSU (4-4) added a run in the seventh on a Brent Nelson RBI single.
Suggs (0-1) struck out six and walked one. He surrendered one earned run and held VSU to four hits. Justin Lott and Gray Carden combined for 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Groves (1-0) held GSW to three hits in six innings of work. He struck out five and did not walk a batter. Benjamin Weil tossed the final three innings to earn his second save of the spring.
Neither team had a batter finish with multiple hits.
GSW (1-6) continues its seven-game road trip on Saturday with a 1 p.m. Peach Belt Conference doubleheader at UNC Pembroke.


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A warm, romantic glow is suitable for any season. Thankfully, pro makeup artist Pat McGrath shows and tells us how to recreate it on model Kate King, using Dolce & Gabbana's gorgeous new Spring/Summer 2014 Collection — along with some other beautiful must-haves from D&G — in this exclusive Cosmopolitan.com video.
1. Ace your base. Start with Perfect Liquid Luminous Foundation and the Perfect Luminous Concealer. "Take the foundation and use one shade that's a little warmer around the cheek area for this gorgeous, Sophia Loren, sun-kissed feel," McGrath says.
2. Accentuate your eyes. Take a gold eyeshadow and sweep it across the lids and dab a little bit on the inner corners of the eyes. "It's nice also to do this with a little bit of a wet brush so that you get that real intensity," McGrath says. Then, take The Eyeshadow Smooth Eye Colour Quad in Desert and use the medium brown tone under the eyes and a little bit in the socket for a soft golden eye.
3. Line your eyes. To make the eyes brighter and take away any redness, McGrath applied a nude pencil to the waterline. Then she drew a small line on the outer corners of the eyes with The Eyeliner Crayon Intense in Chocolate and went over it with the Glam Liner in Baroque Bronze.
4. Fake flirty, flushed cheeks. McGrath dusted The Blush Luminous Cheek Colour in Rosebud, Apricot, and Peach on the cheeks, the hairline, and the chin for an all-over glow.
5. Swipe on a subtle pink lip color. "We have these fantastic new lip colors, Bellisima and Traviata, and I literally mix them together on my hand and then just pat it on the lips to give this fantastic, beautiful, kind of spring fresh color," McGrath says.
Now you have a natural, sun-kissed glow just like Sophia Loren. Thanks, Pat!
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UCR ARTS opened to the public in 2010, bringing together the California Museum of Photography (founded in 1973), the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery (1963), and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts (2010). Located three miles from UCR's main campus, UCR ARTS is located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings along the pedestrian mall in downtown Riverside. Housed in two renovated department stores from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, UCR ARTS' adaptive reuse enlivens the city's downtown core.
By merging the already established photographic museum and university art gallery with the new, multi-disciplinary Culver Center, UCR ARTS serves as a cultural anchor for both the University and the broader Inland Empire communities. UCR ARTS organizes provocative and timely art exhibitions, performances, screenings, and other programs with the aim of invigorating the cultural life of artists and residents of Southern California, nurturing creative and critical thinking on campus and in the community, and promoting the importance of the arts for a healthy society. UCR ARTS offers innovative programs that engage diverse audiences, nourish the imagination, and challenge assumptions.
The extensive art, photography, and research collections of the CMP and Sweeney Art Gallery make UCR ARTS an important destination for audiences as well as researchers working in a wide range of fields.
UCR ARTS' activities embody UCR's commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. As a university museum and art gallery, UCR ARTS is committed to offering students opportunities for professional museum work. Students from UCR and elsewhere are involved under the aegis of independent course status, internships, work-study, and as volunteers.
California Museum of Photography
The California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS is devoted to showing the work of contemporary artists who use photography, collaborating with UCR faculty and students to bring their varied expertise to the public in exhibitionary form, and to preserving and making accessible its vast holdings of photography and related apparatus.
Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery
The Sweeney Art Gallery presents significant regional, national, and international art, and hosts annual MFA and Senior Show exhibitions for students in UCR's Department of Art. As an artistic laboratory, the gallery engages diverse audiences with exhibitions committed to experimentation, innovation, and the exploration of art in our time. Since 2010, the Sweeney Art Gallery is located in the Culver Center, and exhibitions frequently expand into the Culver Atrium.
The Sweeney's permanent collection focuses on work produced since 1990.
Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts hosts art installations, a weekly film program, and musical, dance, and theatrical performances in a dynamic setting. Recognizing that artists play a crucial role in society, the Culver Center also hosts a robust program of lectures, symposia, and community forums with artists, filmmakers, playwrights, dancers, and musicians. The main level is home to an expansive atrium gallery beneath a 40' high skylight, the Sweeney Art Gallery, a 72-seat screening room, and a forthcoming café. On the second level, the Culver Center houses a Media Lab, two dance studios with sprung wood floors, a black box equipped with green screen, and a sound recording studio. In the lower level, the California Museum of Photography's important Keystone-Mast Collection of stereographs is preserved in state-of-the-art seismically isolated cabinets.


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Everyone knows how exciting camping in a truck can be. National Removal Companies in Rivonia nothing can be better than enjoying the nature by yourself. Having your own spacious ride further supplements the experience. Sleeping in your own truck while enjoying the fresh air is an amazing thing to do if traveling is in your blood. However, it is imperative to have a truck bed tent to ensure a pleasant camping experience. Often we consider securing the tent on the ground using ropes. Setting up such tent can be inconvenient.
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Aluminum poles are the most common option since they can withstand heavy winds. In today's day and age, we have a plethora of options to select from when it comes to purchasing Tacoma bed tents. There is a wide variety available each of them coming with its own set of features. However, consider the options above and make sure you choose it from a reputable retailer. Selecting the right option would enhance the overall experience. Conclusion: If you want to buy a new truck bed tent then you must have to follow the above-mentioned things in this way you will get a good truck bed tent that will fit your needs.
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Regardless if you hire professional movers or do it yourself, it is good to know how to wrap the furniture and what to expect. We sell moving supplies and often hear questions: - How many moving blankets do I need? Which moving blanket should I use and how do I wrap my furniture?
The way to wrap furniture for moving depends on specifics of your move. Is it interstate move, across the country, or local moving around the block? Loading PODS or international shipping container, or moving to long term storage?
If you are getting ready to move and concerned about safely moving your household goods this series of articles will show in details how to wrap your furniture for any large or small move. People sometimes underestimate amount of packing required for a moving job, but it is important to pack your personal belongings properly. I have been in the moving business for over 20 years, moved hundreds of families personally as a foreman and driver, and then thousands more as an owner of a moving company, both moving locally and moving interstate. I was teaching my movers the best and most efficient ways of handling and wrapping furniture, wrapping with blankets, crating, boxing, you name it.
Movers. Contrary to some statements I came across in other articles, Movers do care about your shipment, in most cases foreman is personally responsible to pay for your damages and movers also know that if something gets broken it is unlikely that they get any tips. At the same time movers do not have any sentimental attachment to your belongings and treat precious to you items as anything else. Their main goal is to secure the goods in a way that it will not break and will be easy to load. Therefore it is important to make a foreman (moving crew leader) which items require special care.
Do not expect movers to see your household goods the way you see it. The movers simply do not have time to consider how delicate each and every item might be. For example a bottle with exotic sand, layered by the color or even in a special design, will be ruined if simply laid on its side. Movers will make sure to pack the bottle that it will be safe, but they might not realize that the sand layers inside the bottle are not fixed and might mix into an ugly mess from vibration in the truck. It is true that most damage occurs while carrying, loading and unloading, but it is also true that if movers (or yourself) do not load the truck properly some items will get damaged in transit.
Plastic Covers. Plastic covers for moving would include Shrink wrap or stretch wrap and Plastic mattress cover, plastic sofa cover or plastic chair covers. Shrink wrap - is widely used in shipping to keep a load on a pallet together as one unit and not to allow it to fall apart or items disappear from shipment. In moving furniture shrink wrap was originally used to keep items with small parts or opening doors or drawers together. Then it became a substitute for plastic covers to wrap mattresses. It is not at all better than a plastic mattress cover, but it is more profitable for a moving company: it cost much less to buy a roll of shrink wrap, but it takes longer to wrap plus mover can charge more for each item wrapped. Movers might even wrap shrink wrap on top of furniture already wrapped in blankets. It looks good, but it is very expensive and absolutely useless. If you put your items to storage shrink wrap is actually damaging to the furniture, because it traps the moisture and the furniture can actually rot under the shrink wrap if stored long enough. I would strongly recommend using mattress covers, because even if it will be wrapped in a blanket - you do not know what was wrapped in that blanket before. And mattress is what you sleep on. Also sofas with light colored upholstery would be better off if you cover it with plastic sofa cove before wrapping in the furniture blankets. Sometimes the color bleeds off the moving blanket onto upholstery.
SUMMARY: When preparing for the move consider specifics of your move and consider the furniture you want to wrap. Need to save space? - Get space savers or paper blankets, need better protection - get premium quality thick moving blankets. Want to keep your fragile safe - pack them in double wall strong boxes with a lot of cushioning materials Want your keep furniture clean - use Plastic furniture covers. In the next article we will go over specifics of wrapping various items of furniture.
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Having spent more than 30 years of my life in the household goods moving industry, I have a lifetime of experiences. Recently, one of my kids asked me: what was the funniest thing that ever happened to me during my years as a mover? Well, I did not even have to think about it . . . I remember it like it was yesterday.
Interesting things can happen to movers and they can meet some "special" people along their journey. Once, while I was at a storage facility in Los Angeles, California, I sat down beside the owner of the company to take a little break. This particular storage facility looked run down and in very poor shape. It was in a bad part of town and basically looked like it needed to be torn down. There was a reason it had this appearance.
From the outside, one would think that it was a meaningless, worthless building . . . but this storage company actually held the belongings of the rich and famous. Celebrities stored their items at this business because of the way it appeared. It was an ingenious concept by the owner of the company. While we sat together chatting, his warehouse guys were "digging" out a very nice automobile for its owner who was on her way down to pick it up. If my memory serves me correctly, it was a black Porsche. Shortly, a young lady came in and walked up to the owner and me. She politely looked at me and said, "hello," and began visiting with the owner. Later, she hopped in the Porsche and drove away. Looking at the owner, I made the comment that she looked very familiar, but I couldn't place her. He just laughed and said, "That was Christina Applegate!" Now, how cool is that? Little did I know that three years later I would be back at this same storage building and it would be the site for the funniest thing that ever happened to me as a mover.
Then, without skipping a beat, she extended her arm and in her hand was my tip . . . a banana. Yes, that's right . . . a banana. Caught in a moment of utter confusion, I was still able to reply with a soft spoken, "Thank you," and with that . . . she was gone. I turned to the owner of the company as if to cry out for help and he did the only thing he could do . . . he just bursted out laughing!
I said my goodbyes and walked out to my Freightliner and made my way back onto Route 110, then Highway 101 to Interstate 210, and finally Interstate 15. As I settled in for my journey out of California toward my next pick up, I just could not stop laughing.
I reached over for my cooler and pulled out a nice, cold soda. I had to admit that I was feeling very tired and a little hungry. I glanced over to the passenger seat and saw my "tip" staring back at me . . . a bright, yellow banana.


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I'm trying to convert a shapefile into a raster within R. My approach is to read in the raster as follows:
library(rgdal) # Loads SP package by default
demo <- readOGR('F:/data/', 'shapefile') # Creates a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame class (sp)
This works fine, and I can plot it. However it is a large shapefile and I want to convert it into a raster. I've tried the following:
r <- raster(ncol=180, nrow=180)
Demo_ras = rasterize(r, demo, 'pop') # pop is an integer here
Error message:
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I'm slightly confused which is the correct order of the arguments. I've also tried this:
Demo_ras = rasterize(demo, r, 'pop')
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Error in .polygonsToRaster(x, y, ...) :
polygon and raster have no overlapping areas
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Step into a signalman's shoes and have a go at controlling the trains - 1960s style!
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Yesterday on the official World of Warcraft forums, a poster brought up the fact that the word "transsexual" gets censored by Blizzard's mature language filter. Almost immediately after, another poster brought up the fact that the word "homosexual" is censored as well. The obvious follow-up question has stirred a hornet's nest of controversy: Why are these considered bad words?
Predictably, that forum thread quickly spun out of control. It was ultimately locked by a moderator, but not before Blizzard Community Manager Bashiok chimed in:
So case closed, right? Well ... hold on. Before we simply close the books on the matter, there are some important questions to be answered. Namely this: Why was "transsexual" censored in the first place?


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The Mavericks sent disgruntled power forward/Kardashian sweetheart to the Los Angeles Clippers in a deal including four teams. The Clippers sent Mo Williams to the Utah Jazz who in turn received the draft rights to Shan Foster from the Mavericks. Dallas received the draft rights to Tadija Dragićević, who is not the man pictured on ESPN's player profile page—that's Mavericks forward Brandan Wright, from Utah and cash considerations from Houston. Houston received the draft rights to Furkan Aldemir from the Clippers.
That's a lot of moving parts for essentially an Odom-Williams trade, so we can't really blame ESPN for the profile picture snafu (but let's do it anyway).


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This past summer Hope College senior communication major Jaclyn (Jackie) Smith of Lake Forest, Ill. worked at a film production agency in Chicago where she made her own commercial (produced, edited, and even acted in).
She and three other interns submitted it to a commercial competition mofilm.com and won first place for the brand they chose, Susnsilk, a hair product.
She attended an awards ceremony where the MoFilm staff (a company finding new talent in video-making) and Unilver (owns many of the world's consumer brands) staff joined them. Also, a representative from each product was there and spoke as to why they chose the winners.
To top this all off, they were invited to the 54th BFI London Film Festival and got to walk the red carpet with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo for their premier of the movie, "The Kids are Alright"!


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More than just Red
Maranello, 27 June – The colour red has been used to identify Italian cars and drivers since the very earliest days of motor racing. After sponsor-inspired liveries were introduced to Formula 1 in the 1960s, Ferrari remained the only constructor to stick with tradition and continue to clothe its single-seaters exclusively in the classic red. Consequently, its production cars and sports cars were identified with that colour for quite some time thereafter. In fact, there was a saying around Modena that went 'cinc sghei püssè ma russ' (a few liras more so long as it's red). For a long while, red was seen as the almost obligatory colour choice for Ferrari owners. In fact, during the early 1990s, 85 per cent of all Ferraris built sported red liveries.
That dynamic has now changed radically, and clients can choose from a vast range of colours and types. Purchasing a Ferrari is an exclusive experience, the first step of which is, of course, choosing the bodywork colour. This is one of the personalisation areas that has developed rapidly in the last few years, not merely in terms of the number of colours available but also the technologies used.
Of late, there has been something of a surge in the popularity of two-tone liveries – as the name implies, these usually involve two contrasting colours being used, one for the roof and the other for the bodywork. Two-tone liveries were extremely fashionable in the past too, the most notable example being the 1957 250 GT. This beautiful sports car has a white body and a green roof, and won the 2009 Villa d'Este and the 2010 Palm Beach Cavallino Classic Concours d'Elegance amongst other high-profile classic car plaudits. Ferrari has been offering its clients the option of two-tone liveries for several years now, a choice that underscores both the elegance of its GTs and the power and aggression of its extreme sports cars.
Ferrari doesn't just use technology to build cars that are increasingly powerful and exciting to drive. It also applies its high tech skills to "clothing" them. The Prancing Horse recently developed and introduced an advanced painting technique that lends its cars an even glossier sheen than ever. In the so-called "three-layer" technique, the paint is applied in three separate coats to give the bodywork a deeper, more vibrant colour than a traditional metallic one could achieve. The paintwork also has an iridescent finish that comes to the fore when sunlight catches it from various angles. When this three-layer technique is used with a two-tone livery, the result is extremely striking and adds even more character to any Ferrari.
That is still not the end of the livery story, however, as Maranello's personalisation programmes also ensure clients have yet another option available to them: the possibility of providing a colour sample from which their car's paintwork will be copied. This colour sample can be taken from any item the client owns or is very much attached to. It's a very popular option indeed now and really does mean that the colour choices for Ferraris are truly unlimited.
Since 2004, the Ferrari complex in Maranello has been home to a sophisticated water-based paint facility which allowed the Prancing Horse to comply with new EU emissions and energy reduction requirements three years in advance of their introduction. Ferrari also simultaneously launched a special research project focused on extending the colour range to meet the increasingly sophisticated and diverse requests of its clients. By combining leading-edge application techniques with invaluable materials retrieved from the company archives, Ferrari can now also offer a unique catalogue of 10 sophisticated and exclusive "historic" colours inspired by the classic cars of the 1950s and 60s. That list includes evocative names of the likes of Blu Scozia, a chic dark pastel blue typically sported by cars competing in the Tourist Trophy, Avio Met, a bright, ultra-sporty blue, and Vinaccia, a colour that brims with character and personality.
Contemporaneously, Ferrari also began making what it calls its "Challenge" liveries. These mimic the paintwork stripes sported by covered-wheel racing cars. First launched as a signature look for the 430 Scuderia, the Challenge liveries were an instant hit for all the mid-rear-engined sports cars, and now encompass everything from the stripes inspired by classic racing cars used to help identify the various drivers competing, to the Italian tricolour. The latter solution, in fact, has captured the imaginations of our clients abroad who choose it to underscore the Italian character and quality of their cars.
Ferrari created its personalisation programme to offer clients all over the world a vast array of options that would ensure their cars were truly unique. Thanks to the tens of thousands of possible combinations it affords, it is now genuinely is the case that no two Ferraris are identical.
As a result of these developments, the cars constructed by Ferrari now come in an unprecedented variety of colours. Needless to say, traditional red continues to predominate, accounting for about 45 per cent of all cars built over the last few years. That aside, however, the colour choices being made by owners have diversified radically in that same period. Special order finishes, for instance, went from just 1 per cent of output in the early 2000s, to over 10 per cent in 2010. The message being, of course, that it doesn't have to be red to be a Ferrari anymore.


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Looking to launch your career designing marketing or identity pieces for large companies or small businesses? The Marketing Design Online Training course focuses on helping you develop technical skill and creative artistry using applied marketing principles. You'll complete a variety of projects, including marketing concept development, retouching, compositing, illustration, advertising design, logo design, and corporate branding.
You'll learn in-demand software programs that a marketing designer needs to know: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You will build a skill set in digital image preparation and vector illustration while applying foundation design concepts in color, typography, and identity design. Hands-on projects focus on essential skills and provide you with experience in business-focused design scenarios.
This program consists of eight required modules. Module descriptions are as follows:
Photoshop Basics
Get a thorough grounding in Adobe Photoshop, the premiere digital imaging program for graphic and digital designers. Hands-on projects show how to select, enhance, distort, color, scale, and manipulate images and artworks—or create them from scratch. Every designer must tame this creative powerhouse of a program.
Color Theory
Focus on developing appropriate color systems for graphic design projects. Projects explore the principles, terminology, and applications of color theory, with an emphasis on manipulating color. A working knowledge of the expression and perception of color, and color interaction, lends credibility and sophistication to a designer's work
Illustrator Basics
Build a working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, the graphic designer's vector program of choice. You'll explore selection tools, drawing tools, layers, the pen tool, transformations and distortions, type tools, and modifying paths and shapes. Tapping into the power of vector software allows you to produce detailed and scalable art for almost any application.
Fundamentals of Typography
Explore the critical role of typography in graphic design. Course projects build an understanding of the anatomy of the letterform, the distinguishing features of different typefaces, and creative applications of type. An assured grasp of typography is essential in any visual communication project.
Intro to Marketing
Lay a foundation for a career in business marketing design by studying marketing concepts and how they impact the design process. Students learn design principles and explore design case studies from the world of marketing communications design. Focus of the class is building a basic understanding how marketing ideas translate into an effective design.
Fundamentals of Logo Design
Explore the philosophy and process behind designing a logo. Students learn the importance of corporate identity and the different stages in a typical logo design project. The course establishes a solid conceptual and practical grounding for anyone interested in pursuing a career in visual identity, from a design or a marketing perspective.
Marketing Design
Learn the rules of advertising design from both a creative and a business perspective. Case studies from print, Web, and TV media showcase advertising concepts at work: persuasion, color psychology and composition, copywriting and typography, and brand communication. You'll create ads for newspapers, magazines, subways, and transit and outdoor applications, as well as a multi-part ad campaign.
Branding and Identity
Develop essential skills for designing logos, marketing materials, and advertising programs to establish and promote corporate identities. Case studies focus on giant corporations such as CBS, BMW, and Sony and how they established their corporate images and business strategically. Projects require you to design or redesign corporate identities for both existing companies and newly established businesses.
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The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
The course is open admissions: you must be 18 or over and provide high school or college transcripts prior to starting classes.
Jeremy Bratt is a graphic designer, design coordinator, and teacher with thirty years' experience. He has worked recently as a design coordinator for corporate identity, branding, and packaging projects. He managed the re-branding and packaging for French cookware manufacturer Tefal when at Lewis Moberly. At Siegal & Gale, he designed and coordinated a number of corporate identity projects for the Spanish market. Currently, he is a partner at a design and communication consultancy, designing and coordinating all corporate, print, and packaging work.
Bruce Bicknell is an instructor, illustrator, animator, web and graphic designer, and video editor. In his career, he has worked on projects for Adobe Systems, ATI, PhotoShop Elements Techniques, MacTribe, Yellow Machine, and Mac Design, to name a few. Bicknell holds degrees in Computer Animation and Web Development from the International Academy of Design and Technology.
Michael Hamm is a freelance designer and Web developer with over a decade of experience in the creative field. Based in Washington state, Michael provides design solutions for clients across the country through his company ClayEdward Design. Prior to working on his own, Michael worked for JPMorgan Chase in Houston, Texas as an interactive designer. His work has been published in various Web design books and magazines and he is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine. In addition, he has served as technical editor on several design books published by Friends of Ed. Michael recently co-authored Introduction to Web Design Using Dreamweaver published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Adobe Illustrator and has a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Houston. Michael is the founder, designer, programmer, and writer of PointsandPaths.com, a Web site that grew from his passion for illustration software and all things vector.
Boris Margolin is a graphic designer with 10 years of experience. He earned a BS in Graphic Design at Mount Ida College and has worked as an in-house designer for several international corporations including CIGNA, MetLife, and Nypro. His work has ranged from advertising to identity design, brand development to web administration. In his spare time, he runs a niche design company catering to unconventional companies and emerging markets.
1. Can I register for programs if I am an international student?
Yes, because ed2go programs are online you never have to actually travel to the school. Most schools offer telephone or online registration.
2. How long does it take to complete a program?
Upon registering, you're given twelve (12) months to complete this program.
3. Do I have to buy additional materials?
In order to participate in the program, you must have Adobe Photoshop CS5 or CS6 and Adobe Illustrator CS5 or CS6 installed on your computer.
4. Can I get financial assistance?
ed2go courses are non-credit courses, so they do not qualify for federal aid. In some states, vocational rehab or workforce development boards will pay for qualified students to take our courses.
5. What happens when I complete the program?
Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded a certificate of completion.
6. Am I guaranteed a job?
ed2go programs will provide you with the skills you need to obtain an entry-level position in most cases. We don't provide direct job placement services, but our facilitators and career counselors will help you build your resume and are available to give advice on finding your first job. Facilitators will also be available to use as a professional reference upon completion of the program. Potential students should always do research on the job market in their area before registering.
7. Who will be my instructor?
Each student is paired up with a facilitator for one-on-one interaction. The facilitator will be available (via e-mail) to answer any questions you may have and to provide feedback on your performance. All of our facilitators are successful working professionals in the fields in which they teach.
8. What do I have to have in order to take an online program, and what are the system requirements?
In order to take our online programs, you must have access to a computer and the Internet (a normal dial-up connection is fine). You can access the program contents from any web-enabled computer. There are no necessary plug-ins. You do not have to use the same computer to log-in to the program every time. We recommend that you have a word processing program (Microsoft Word is best) and the latest version of Internet Explorer.
9. What software or hardware do I need in order to take online programs and what are the system requirements?
In order to take our online programs, you must have access to a computer and the Internet. You can access the program contents from any Web-enabled computer. You don't have to use the same computer to log-in to the program every time. We recommend that you have a word-processing program (Microsoft Word is best) and the latest version of Internet Explorer.
10. Can I use a Mac?
Yes, you can use a Mac for this program.
11. How can I get more information about the program?
If you have questions that are not answered on our website, please feel free to contact us via LIVE chat (click the button toward the top of the page). If you are visiting us during non-business hours, please feel free to send us a question using the "Contact Us" form to the right. You may also call us at 1-855-520-68061-855-520-6806 FREE. We will answer your questions promptly.
12. When can I start the program?
Our programs are all open enrollment. You can register and start the program as soon as you are ready.
Please note: Once the program curriculum is accessed online or through submission of a material shipment confirmation, refunds cannot be issued.
13. How many hours per week should I spend studying?
As a general rule, we suggest allocating an average of ten hours per week. However, this will vary from individual to individual. If you're just getting started and have little to no experience, certainly try to put in as much time as you can and try to maintain a consistent schedule. Ultimately each student will find a pace that is comfortable for them.
14. Do I have to buy additional materials?
This program may require additional software. Please refer to the PC Requirements/Materials Included page for details.
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