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Apple in Education Profiles
RDFZ XISHAN in Beijing is the first school in China to participate in a Mac one-to-one program and has transformed learning into a collaborative and engaging experience — without sacrificing test scores.
The inspiration
Traditionally, Chinese education has focused on obtaining core knowledge and undergoing rigorous testing for admission to the best schools. However, pursuing these goals often sacrificed personal growth, creativity and innovation, according to Principal Shu Dajun of the Renda Fuzhong (RDFZ XISHAN) School, a public middle school in Beijing.
In 2010, the Chinese Government released a national plan for education reform, acknowledging that Chinese education is 'lagging behind' the needs of the nation, and that the country's teaching philosophy and methodology are outdated. The Government then challenged local schools to conduct experiments in education reform, declaring that "the destiny of our nation rests on education".
"Results are not as important as the process. I think the challenge is not the problem, but how to find the solution."
— Xinran, student,
RDFZ XISHAN stepped up to the challenge. Since its establishment in 1950, RDFZ XISHAN had made tremendous achievements in secondary education. Over the past two decades, the school consistently ranked among the highest in Beijing for entrance rates into higher learning institutions.
Despite this success, the leadership of RDFZ XISHAN believed that they could do even better. In 2010, Principal Shu launched RDFZ XISHAN as an experimental school for seventh, eighth and ninth graders. The school's goal is to push the boundaries of traditional Chinese education by equipping its students with the skills to adapt to the challenges of the 21st century.
The school collaborated with researchers at Beijing Normal University in designing the program. According to Beijing Normal University Professor Yu Shengquan, the majority of schools in China already use multimedia in their classrooms, but technology is mostly used by teachers to present lectures. When it came to RDFZ XISHAN, it was important to Professor Yu not to use technology simply for technology's sake. To him, the challenge was implementing technology as a cognitive tool for students and ultimately promoting learning at a higher level.
The implementation
For Principal Shu, the first step was obtaining Apple products for the students and teachers. When RDFZ XISHAN first started introducing computers to the school, Apple was not on the government purchasing list. But Shu felt that Apple was the right partner for the project. "Apple's creative spirit deeply melds with our teachers' and students' educational philosophy," he says.
RDFZ XISHAN became the first public school in China to participate in a Mac one-to-one program, which provides each student with a MacBook Pro. The teachers use iPad for teaching and iPhone for communicating. And in a new pilot program, the school provides 200 iPad devices for students to use in the classroom.
Across every discipline, teachers and students at RDFZ XISHAN use Apple products to discover new ways to learn. The English language class uses iMovie to shoot and edit newscasts to allow students to practise speaking English aloud. In music class, teachers and students use GarageBand to create music and original scores. In Chinese language class, students use Mac computers to write blog posts and share work and materials on wikis. Students use programs like Keynote to present their work to the class. And teachers have embraced using iBooks Author to create dynamic iPad textbooks, allowing students to engage with rich 3D imagery and audio and video content.
"The students like what they make with Apple products. Their work can express their thoughts and personalities, so they have a lot of fun with their schoolwork."
— Jin Zhengguo, Mathematics teacher, RDFZ XISHAN
Because everyone — teacher and student — is equipped with Apple devices, the result is a partnership in the learning process that is quite revolutionary for the Chinese educational system. "It's no longer simply the teacher teaching and students studying," says Shu. "It's become equal. Everyone is equal in the creating and sharing of knowledge." Yu views it as a balance of Eastern and Western teaching philosophies: the Chinese emphasis on the system of knowledge and the Western focus on the student's development.
Once a month, RDFZ XISHAN hosts an open class, where teachers from other cities come to observe how the school is innovating by using Apple technology in its classrooms.
The results
Since the program started, students, teachers and administrators have seen remarkable results. Based on surveys and qualitative data, RDFZ XISHAN students have shown better independent thinking skills, improved autonomous learning abilities and greater confidence than students not participating in the program.
"We hope to produce the type of students who can make a difference, can be outstanding, can have the desire and the courage to change the world."
— Shu Dajun, principal,
In the classroom, students are more willing to express themselves, to speak up, to ask questions. And they are completing assignments at a much higher level of complexity compared with the nonexperimental school.
This was all achieved without sacrificing test scores. Students at RDFZ XISHAN have much higher GPAs and better test scores in mathematics and Chinese than those in the nonexperimental programs at RDFZ XISHAN.
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In China, schools traditionally have not empowered students to be active participants in learning. So independent thinking and taking initiative are key values at RDFZ XISHAN. Maths teacher Jin Zhengguo assigned his student Xinran an independent project on polygons. Xinran chose the problem herself: how to fold a piece of origami paper into a regular pentagon with equal angles. She used Keynote, video clips from iMovie, and photos taken with Photo Booth to give an interactive presentation to her fellow classmates.
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The case for tele-emergency services
New research from the University of Iowa supports the claim that tele-emergency services can successfully extend emergency care in rural hospitals. A summary of the research was published in the new February edition of Health Affairs.
Tele-emergency is the urgent care component of telehealth, a term used to describe services consisting of diagnosis, treatment, assessment, monitoring, communications, and education of medical conditions via digital technologies like videoconferencing. Telehealth can deliver important medical services where they are needed most, and remove barriers of time, distance, and limited health care providers. This includes remote, rural areas and medically underserved urban communities.
"Tele-emergency improves patient care through integrated services that deliver the right care at the right time and the right place," says Keith Mueller, professor in the UI's College of Public Health and the study's lead author. "Our country's health care system is in a massive state of change, and it's through services such as this that we'll be able to address patient need and assist in the financial concerns of smaller medical care units."
As part of the research, the authors conducted an evaluation of a widely implemented tele-emergency service in the upper Midwest that provides 24/7 connection between an urban "hub" emergency department (ED) and 71 remote hospitals. At any time, clinical staff members at the remote hospitals can press a button for immediate, synchronous audio/video connection to the tele-emergency hub ED.
Through surveys, phone interviews, and site visits, Mueller and his team found that 95 percent of respondents felt that "tele-emergency improves the quality of care at my facility." In addition, tele-emergency services served as a forum for physicians to seek second opinions and improved adherence to evidence-based clinical protocols.
"Telehealth technology, including tele-emergency, addresses shortcomings in health care delivery and facilitates improvements in patient care," says Marcia Ward, professor of health management and policy and a co-author on the evaluation. "If its potential is realized, telehealth will be integral to transforming the delivery system in ways that are consistent with an emphasis on increasing value and reducing the total cost of care."

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10 Things You Might Not Know About 'Jaws'
Welcome to Jaws Week! When it was announced that Steven Spielberg's Jaws was arriving on Blu-ray, we thought it'd be perfect to dedicate an entire week to the movie that created the summer blockbuster. Every day this week we'll be posting an assortment of really fun features tied to the film, its production, its legacy, its fans, its merchandise and so much more.
Steven Spielberg's Jaws has become a bonafide pop culture phenomenon since it was released back in 1975. It's been the subject of books, documentaries, countless Internet articles, and millions of discussions held on beaches around the globe.
The film has been dissected and analyzed so thoroughly and so often that it's hard to find new tidbits about the production that weren't already common knowledge. Everyone knows Spielberg named the mechanical sharks Bruce after his attorney Bruce Ramer and that they rarely worked like they were supposed to. Most people know the shoot was incredibly difficult and went way over schedule and budget. That being said, there are still some interesting bits of Jaws lore out there that perhaps not everyone knows, and we've gathered up ten of them for your consideration.
1. Jaws' First Victim Was a Mermaid
Actress Susan Backlinie isn't instantly recognizable by name (unless you're a hardcore Jaws fanatic), but she'll always have a place in cinematic history for playing the killer great white's first victim – skinny-dipper Chrissie Watkins.
What few people know is that Backlinie's scene in Jaws wasn't the first time the actress performed in the water. The future thespian honed her skills as one of the fabled mermaids at the Weeki Wachee Springs attraction in Hernando County, Florida. Backlinie donned a tail and performed up to three shows per day in the crystal-clear spring, delighting audiences with choreographed underwater gymnastics. The spring is fresh water, so there was never a mermaid vs. shark showdown, but clearly the time spent underwater helped her prepare for her biggest and most important role.
Oh, and contrary to popular belief, Backlinie did not break her ribs while being tugged back and forth in the opening scene. Despite the popularity of that rumor, the actress and director Steven Spielberg have never once mentioned her being injured during the shoot.
2. Jaws Was a Last-Minute Title
It's hard to imagine Jaws with a different name after all these years – it's really the perfect title for the book and the film. It's short, it's catchy, and it captured the terrible essence of the monster shark that serves as its antagonist.
However, author Peter Benchley talked at length about how he struggled to come up with a title for the book. He had multiple options – including The Stillness in the Water, Leviathan Rising, The Jaws of Death, and The Jaws of Leviathan – but he wisely rejected them all as being too "pretentious, melodramatic or just weird."
The author finally settled on Jaws roughly 20 minutes before the book was scheduled to start production – and the rest is history.
3. Author Peter Benchley Has a Cameo in the Film
Speaking of Peter Benchley (who passed away in 2006), the author not only wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's film (and earned a screenwriter's credit for his work on the script), but he also turns up in front of the camera.
Benchely makes his big-screen debut as a reporter covering Amity's reopening of the beaches on the Fourth of July. He's suitably pretentious in the sequence.
4. Robert Shaw Was not Spielberg's First Choice to Play Quint
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw as Chief Brody, Matt Hooper and Quint – but there were other casting ideas floating around before those actors were cast in the film.
While it's become fairly well known that Spielberg initially considered tough guy Lee Marvin to play the role of shark-hating Quint in the original Jaws, Marvin wasn't the only actor on the shortlist for the part. Spielberg also expressed interest in casting actor Sterling Hayden as the salty fisherman.
Hayden had to decline because he reportedly had tax problems and any income from acting went to the IRS. A plan was hatched to pay the actor the guild minimum for his performance and purchase one of his written works for an exorbitant amount to circumnavigate the government, but it was eventually decided that this wouldn't fool the IRS.
The actor didn't get the part – and it instead went to Robert Shaw, who'd previously worked with producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown on 1973's The Sting. We think it's interesting to imagine Marvin and Hayden as Quint, but it's really impossible to envision anyone topping Shaw's masterful performance in the part. Things worked out for the best, it would seem.
5. Hooper Wasn't Supposed to Live
Jaws is one of the rare exceptions where a movie is actually better than the book that inspired it. Peter Benchley's novel is a pretty decent summer thriller, but it had several subplots and scenes that were wisely cut from the shooting script. One involved Hooper (who was the younger brother of an old flame of the chief's wife) having an affair with Ellen Brody and was wisely jettisoned before the first draft was written – as was a plot strand linking Mayor Vaughn to the mafia as well.
That being said, Hooper died in Benchley's novel after entering the cage with hopes of killing the shark once and for all. This carried over into the script and was even storyboarded, but fate had different plans for Dreyfuss' character.
Shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor were hired to shoot second unit footage of real great white sharks in Australia, but unfortunately, there were no real sharks quite as massive as the mechanical Bruce. To keep things to scale, a smaller cage and a tiny actor (4'11" Carl Rizzo) were brought in. The Taylors spent weeks trying to goad a great white into attacking their miniature cage – and it finally happened when a 14-foot shark got stuck in the cabling.
The creature went ballistic, thrashing about in an attempt to free itself and the finished footage wound up in the film. There was just one problem – Rizzo wasn't in the cage when the footage was shot, and the stunt performer had no intention of ever getting in the cage again once he saw it.
Without a person behind the bars, Spielberg couldn't properly sell Hooper's demise to audiences – so Hooper instead escaped the cage, hid on the ocean floor, and only returns to the surface in the aftermath of Jaws' climax.
6. Some Very Famous Voices Provided Additional Dialogue in the Film
Back in the days before Jaws, whenever a filmmaker needed background chatter for his film he'd basically pull a stock library track for the sound department to use so that the audience could hear the surrounding inconsequential extras talking but not understand what they were saying. According to The Jaws Log author Carl Gottlieb, this was called "Walla" – because it was usually made by a group of people saying nonsense like "walla-walla" or "rhubarb, sassafrass" over and over and then distorted until it was unrecognizable as anything other than background noise.
However, in Jaws, Gottlieb and his wife Allison assembled a group of actors and made a track that's original to Spielberg's film. Even more impressive is that they got some people to record the dialogue who would go on to big careers in their own right.
Amongst the talent assembled for the ADR looping was Michael McKean (This Is Spinal Tap, Laverne & Shirley), Howard Hesseman (WKRP in Cincinatti), and Harry Shearer – who provides the voices of Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner and many other characters on The Simpsons.
Spielberg's idea to use his own team of voice actors to record this background sound quickly caught on – and Gottlieb's wife Allison formed the Allison Caine Group – the first postproduction ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) and looping group in film history.
Meanwhile, in another scene onboard the Orca, Ellen Brody radios to check in on the men – and the radio operator who connects Mrs. Brody with the boat is none other than Spielberg himself – a surprise vocal cameo that most people are unaware of.
7. Spielberg Wasn't Impressed with the Jaws theme
John Williams' music is an integral part of Jaws – and Bruce's theme has become one of the most recognized pieces of music in modern culture, used to denote danger (either real or imagined) in films, television shows, commercials… well, pretty much anywhere.
In a strange twist, that music almost wasn't used. Spielberg relates that the first time he heard Williams play the iconic tune on a piano, he thought it was a joke. The music, comprised of just two notes, was "too simple" in the director's estimation. Williams kept playing it – and Spielberg kept listening and "suddenly it was right."
We're glad Spielberg gave Williams' composition another shot – it's impossible to imagine Jaws without it, particularly since that music (along with some yellow barrels) often served as a stand in to let audiences know the shark was around when the finicky animatronic beast wouldn't work.
8. Quint Was Based on Two Real People and One Appears in the Film
Robert Shaw's crusty old sea-dog Quint remains one of our all-time favorite film characters – but the shark-hating sailor in Benchley's novel was inspired by Frank Mundus. Mundus was a fisherman who hunted great whites for sport in the waters off of Long Island (he holds the record for largest fish ever caught on rod and reel for a 3,400+ pound great white he caught years ago), and Benchley found the story of Mundus' earlier encounter with a great white (reportedly 4,500 pounds, but never officially weighed) fascinating. He built Jaws around the idea of a shark that size coming into a community and not going away. Mundus served as a perfect inspiration for Quint – a man who was no stranger to hunting sharks himself.
The film's version of Quint, meanwhile, bears more than a passing resemblance to Craig Kingsbury, a local fisherman who plays the ill-fated Ben Gardner in the film. Some of Quint's best lines (including his statement to the town "It's not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods…") were direct quotes from Kingsbury – who also ad-libbed much of his own dialogue.
Still, perhaps his best quote was in response to the famous scene where his corpse pops out of a hole in his boat after Hooper has just pulled a giant shark tooth from the wreckage. Kingsbury would later say, "Now, how the hell that shark spit the head back in the boat after he bit it off, I'll never know."
Kingsbury was hired to teach Shaw how a character like Quint would speak – which led to him spending weeks with the actor regaling him with stories about killing sharks. Kingsbury's efforts were integral in making Shaw's Quint one of cinema's most memorable – and quotable – characters.
9. The Film's Most Famous Line Wasn't in the Script
Jaws is filled with memorable dialogue – from Hooper's infamous "well this was not a boat accident" to pretty much everything Quint says, the film is eminently quotable. However, there's one line that stands out above all the others – a line that even people who aren't particularly huge fans of the film know well.
When Bruce pops his head up out of the chum slick just off the stern of the Orca, Roy Scheider is stunned – so stunned that he backs up into the ship's cabin and tells Quint "You're gonna need a bigger boat." It's a perfect conclusion to a great scene (we've just gotten our first real good look at Bruce the Shark – and we're thinking the exact same thing as an audience), and the best part of all? Scheider improvised it on the spot.
10. Richard Dreyfuss Originally Passed on the Film
The casting of Jaws was almost as challenging as making the actual film. We've already talked about all the various choices for Quint before Robert Shaw landed the part, but now let's take a second to talk about marine biologist Matt Hooper.
Spielberg's first choice for the part was actor Jon Voight, but actors such as Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Joel Grey were also considered for the role. Eventually, George Lucas suggested Richard Dreyfuss. The actor had made a favorable impression on Lucas after he appeared in American Graffiti. Spielberg approached the actor, but Dreyfuss initially rejected the part, saying it sounded like a film he'd rather watch than make.
Dreyfuss soon had a change of heart, though. After attending a screening of his film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Dreyfuss became convinced that his performance was dreadful and that no one would ever hire him again. He immediately called Spielberg to ask if the part of Hooper was still open and agreed to take the gig with the idea that he'd have at least one more chance to impress the world.
In a funny twist of events, Dreyfuss was also convinced that Jaws would bomb after they finished filming. He was completely wrong on that one.
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BOSTON (AP) — Jonny Gomes hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, completing a doubleheader sweep.
Daniel Nava was aboard on a leadoff walk when Gomes followed with a towering shot off Joel Peralta (1-3) that cleared the Green Monster and bounced off the sign just to the right of the foul pole.
It was a dramatic ending to a very long day, which started at 1 p.m. with Boston's 5-1 win in the opener, which was delayed almost three hours by rain.
Felix Doubront pitched eight shutout innings for Boston in the night game.
For all their struggles over the years against Tampa Bay, the Red Sox may never have had such a wait for a victory over the pesky Rays.
Two months, six days after this game was originally scheduled, New England's whimsical weather added a rain delay of nearly three hours Tuesday before the Red Sox got the win in the opener.
"If you really put the hours into it, from the time it was first scheduled until the last out today, that's a pretty long game," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
Long enough that Maddon grabbed a nap in his office after the downpour began and the field was cleared at 2:58 p.m. EDT. The next pitch was delivered at 5:57 p.m. in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Boston led 4-1 entering the delay and added another run on back-to-back triples by Jacoby Ellsbury and Shane Victorino in the sixth.
The only fans there to see it were a stout rooters who rode out the storm and were joined by others who showed up early for the second game, scheduled to start a little after 7 p.m.
That was about 20 minutes after Game 1 actually ended and with a light turnout expected, the Red Sox invited the fans from the opener back for the nightcap free of charge. But first, Fenway Park was cleared during the brief interim of about 45 minutes.
"I was worried that it was going to rain out the whole time, but so far they've been really good," fan Alex Cole said while packed tight in a crowd of people waiting outside the Yawkey Way gates to get back into the ballpark.
Cole and his fiance, Kim Serulneck, were in town from Winter Park, Fla., and had tickets for the second game, but were able to get in to catch the end of the opener. He was wearing a Rays jersey and she — originally from Framingham, Mass. — was in Red Sox gear for Cole's first visit to Fenway.
"It was a little weird seeing it empty because of the rain. It was really cool," Cole said. "I was excited just to go in."
Security got the fans turned around and back inside before the first inning was over and Fenway was about three-fourths full despite the cool, soggy conditions.
David Ortiz drove in three runs and Ellsbury finished with a single, double and triple, scoring all three times he reached base.
Highly touted Rays prospect Wil Myers went 0 for 4 in his major league debut. The 22-year-old rookie played right field.
Alfredo Aceves (4-1) overcame early control problems and won his third straight start, allowing one run and three hits. He did not return after the delay, which was actually his second of the day. Manager John Farrell said Aceves was stuck in traffic on his way to the park, but made eventually made it.
"He's not a guy that reports to the clubhouse early to begin with and was a little delayed," Farrell said. "He had plenty of time to get loose."
The Red Sox had lost four of six, including two of a three-game series at Tampa Bay last week. The Rays have lost five of six.
Chris Archer (1-3) took the only loss for the Rays last week, and Boston beat him again. He struck out five in 4 2-3 innings, but also walked five while allowing four runs and five hits.
Archer walked Daniel Nava to load the bases with two outs in the fifth and that was it for him. Josh Lueke came in from the bullpen and had just started warming up when the rain arrived and the game was delayed. Almost three hours later, Lueke struck out Jarrod Saltalamacchia to end the inning.
Ortiz hit a two-run single in the third after Ellsbury and Victorino opened the inning with singles.
Myers had little time to savor his debut. He was starting again in right field for Game 2.
"It was awesome. First time in the big leagues was really cool," he said. "I tried to soak it in a little bit. It was a very cool experience. It was everything I thought it would be."


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A chimp has freed itself from Belfast Zoo less than a month after a red panda escaped, raising questions over the safety measures in place.
The zoo is now facing mounting pressure for a safety review following the two incidents, which took place within two weeks of each other.
'Highly unusual'
The chimpanzee escaped from its enclosure after creating an improvised ladder from tree branches which were propped up against a wall.
Some of the zoo's other chimpanzees remained on the wall above the enclosure, while one jumped out and walked along a path where members of the public were standing.
It is believed that the trees in the enclosure had been weakened by recent storms, making them easier for the chimps to break up.
Incredible footage has emerged showing how the Chimpanzee's escaped from Belfast Zoo today – using lose branches left by Storm Erik to get over their enclosure wall. 🐒🙊 pic.twitter.com/8sQf6YIJvo
— Stuart Robinson (@stuartrobinson1) February 9, 2019
Belfast Zoo described the incident as "highly unusual", and said additional checks were being carried out.
A spokeswoman told the BBC, "We would like to reassure the public that Belfast Zoo is fully committed to providing a safe and enjoyable experience for all our visitors.
"Zookeepers carry out a range of checks as part of their daily duties, including ensuring enclosures are free from objects which could pose a security risk to animals or visitors.
"Zoo management is assessing whether the tree branch used in the escape fell after morning checks had been completed."
'An urgent review'
The recent incident has renewed calls for a safety review at the zoo, to identify where improvements can be made.
This is how close it came to my grandchildren. Belfast Zoo trying to make out it wasn't a big deal pic.twitter.com/J38lBJyef4
— Elaine Monaghan (@1607_elaine) February 9, 2019
Alliance councillor Nuala McAllister said she had contacted Belfast City Council, who run the zoo, about a conducting a review.
"I have contacted Belfast City Council to ask for an urgent review into the containment of animals, with a particular focus on safety measures after extreme bad weather conditions, as we saw at the weekend and which helped create conditions for this escape," she commented.
"The council has a duty of care around the welfare of animals at the zoo, but we also need to ensure the safety at all times of the public."


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FMF necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
I'm starting a new blog carnival titled "Best of Money Carnival." It will be a carnival where the host selects the ten best blog posts on money for the week. If you who don't know what a blog carnival is, check out this post: http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/200…ices_.html
Best of Money Carnival
Design Goal: Best of Money Carnival needs a logo for the header of it's site (http://www.bestofmoneycarnival.com), still in development, as well as various other places where the brand might appear.
Tagline: Featuring the top ten money posts each week
The tagline should be incorporated into the logo, though it should be small and unassuming.
Guidelines: A few thoughts from me:
- I want a logo that has both a symbol of some sort as well as the name of the brand. While not a great example, see the design here http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/. Notice how there's both a star image as well as the name of the site? (I know, it's not great, that's the source for a future contest, but you get the idea.) I'm looking for both a unique image (like the star, though I realize the star isn't unique) as well as the name of the carnival in the logo.- The image should be simple, not be clipart, and convey either "best" (like a trophy or ribbon) or "money" (like a unique monetary sign, bag of coins, etc.)- I'm partial to a green (dollars) or yellow (coins) color that says money, or a bluish "IBM" sort of color that says "trust", though I'm open to ideas/suggestions.- The logo should look good in color, white (on color background), and black.- I'm looking for a high quality vector format that works with Adobe products and includes standard fonts. I'll also need jpeg, png and gif versions of the complete logo, the logo symbol alone, and the complete logo without the tagline. I'll need these all in the colors noted above. I may need a few others. I realize this could be a bit of a hassle and have thus priced the contest a bit higher than I would otherwise to compensate the winner.- The ultimate logo for the web needs to be lightweight to minimize page load time.Design Style: I'm looking for something bold, yet classy. Try to avoid cartoonish styling and florescent colors. The design should ultimately look good on not only a web site, but in print, on t-shirts, mugs, etc. The total number of colors used should be kept to a minimum. The overall design size/shape should be rectangular in format that's roughly the height and width of the logo at the top of http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/ (the portion that has the horizontal green bars behind it.)
Feedback: I'll be very active in the design process. I will be checking submissions multiple times a day and will be rating all designs. I'll also provide regular feedback and answer questions and help designers brainstorm if I see something that catches my eye. Initially, I'm trying to limit the restrictions and requirements as much as possible so I can let the creativity flow since I don't have a particular design theme in mind just yet. As I begin to see design elements that I like or dislike I'll provide the guidance needed to ensure you're focusing your efforts on where I see the end result going.
- Professional design that will look as good 10 years from now as it does today.
- Original content.
- Simple color scheme.
- Formats as noted above.
- Rectangular in overall shape.
- Too many colors or a rainbow scheme.
- Serif or other "frilly" fonts.
- Reflection under the logo.
- Generic clip art.
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Star in making, Puig ready for encore performance
After eventful rookie season, Dodgers outfielder still has room to grow
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- On a back field at the Camelback Ranch complex, the Dodgers took their first real workout swings of the spring on Friday. They're steering toward Australia and, they hope, eventually the World Series that slipped out of their hands last October.
Clustered around one batting cage were Hanley Ramirez, Matt Kemp, Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Ethier and the guy who kept everyone hanging on each of his 30-plus swings -- old No. 66, Yasiel Puig.
The guy christened as the Wild Horse by Vin Scully, last seen making two crazy throws in the deciding game of the National League Championship Series in St. Louis, launched some long home runs to left field and some hard line drives to right field. He stopped and signed autographs with fans on his way back to the clubhouse afterward, but followed the pattern of his rookie season by declining an interview request in the clubhouse afterward.
For the most part, that's okay with the Dodgers, at least as long as he continues to crush baseballs like he did when he was at his best last season. Don Mattingly still shakes his head thinking about how Puig hit last spring before he was sent to Double-A, where he quickly proved his .517 spring average had been no fluke.
"He was lighting it up,'' said Mattingly, the Dodgers' manager. "You've seen enough springs that you're cautious about young guys tearing it up. If you've seen enough baseball, you've got a pretty good feeling he's not going to hit .600 over the course of the season, as time goes. Then he came up [in June and got 44 hits for the month] and you're thinking, 'Well, maybe.' He was exciting to watch. It's going to be an interesting year for Yasiel.''
From the glimpse Puig provided last season, when he hit .319 and played with a fearless, passionate style that sometimes left him looking foolish, it's hard to imagine there will ever be many dull ones.
"He can do it all,'' said Kemp, the 2011 MVP runner-up who flashed his power in BP, but hasn't been cleared to start running after a tricky ankle surgery. "Not a lot of players can do that. There's only a [small] percentage of players that have all five tools. He's one of those guys. Those guys are tough to come by.''
With Kemp's power absent while he tried to play through a shoulder injury that changed his swing, the Dodgers were nine games under .500 and 8 1/2 games behind Arizona when Puig was called up from Chattanooga. They finished 22 games over .500 and won the NL West by 11 games. He was runner-up to fellow Cuban Jose Fernandez for the Rookie of the Year Award and was disrespected in the MVP vote, finishing 15th.
Clayton Kershaw, the Cy Young winner, and Ramirez were wire-to-wire impact players for the Dodgers, so it wasn't a surprise they ranked ahead of Puig in MVP voting. But it was Puig who changed the team's dynamics.
"He gave life to the team,'' Kemp said. "He gave the team life we didn't have, were lacking. I guess when he made the team younger, he made it a better team. We're happy to have him.''
Puig faces some questions as he enters his first full season. High among them are these:
• Can he remain such a dynamic hitter with pitchers knowing more about him?
It's a normal question for any player who has a huge rookie season, and Puig did hit only .214 in September. There's also the possibility that teams -- especially the Giants and others in the NL West -- will study how the Cardinals attacked him with their power pitchers in the NLCS. Puig was 5-for-22 with 10 strikeouts.
But I haven't talked to anybody who thinks Puig is a flash in the pan. His talent and drive are clear. It's also fair to note that Puig's NLCS showing came against some of the best pitchers in baseball. Give the Cardinals credit for that.
• Will he continue to come up firing every time a runner advances on him and sometimes running the bases until he's out? Will he be true to his own character or pay heed the keepers of baseball's ancient rules of etiquette?
Yoenis Cespedes made the point late last season that Puig's hair-on-fire, cutoff-man-be-damned style is unusual for players in Cuba, as in North America. It's fascinating to watch, but painful for the Dodgers when his aggression leads to mistakes, like in Game 6 of the NLCS.
"Donnie and the staff, we talk about the baserunning, the overthrowing and things like that,'' team president Stan Kasten said. "But you know, the last game of the season was a bad game for all of us, including Yasiel. Before that, we had seen development even over the course of the season that was better than when he first came up. I think that will all fall into place. I wouldn't tell him to do anything different other than keep listening to his coaches, who are on him full-time about the way he can get better.''
Mattingly plans no special clinics for Puig this spring. He'll be treated like every other Dodger as the team works not to take away any of the joy that Puig demonstrates when he plays, even when it sometimes offends others.
One of the turning points of the Dodgers' 2013 season was the tit-for-tat exchange and brawl that followed Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy drilling Puig in the face with a pitch last June.
"I think you always like when your guys stand up for each other, protect each other,'' Mattingly said. "That's what we saw there. Yasiel gets hit, we feel like it was intentional, we retaliate and in a sense just protect Yasiel. That's what I like, that we protect each other.''
Puig spent the winter in Miami, and was in the headlines when he was stopped by police driving his Mercedes 110 miles an hour on I-75. He's consistently expressed remorse and turned the keys of his car over to a friend. The Dodgers believe this is all part of a maturing process.
• How big of a star does he want to be?
Puig was one of baseball's brightest lights last year and he seemed to never go out of his way to find a microphone or even a television camera. Imagine how big he could become if he is a batting leader and decides to sell himself a little bit?
Puig spends time in Miami with LeBron James, who isn't exactly a wallflower when it comes to cultivating and marketing an image. Kasten says Puig has talked to Dodgers part-owner Magic Johnson and others involved with the Lakers about building his brand, which he put into action by flying to Los Angeles for community events during the off-season.
"He's talked to Magic a lot about the kind of person he can make himself into if he's smart about it,'' Kasten said. "That's why he was more disappointed than anyone about the setback he had, and that's how he viewed the Florida incident, as a setback. He's worked hard to go past that.''
Cuban baseball players rarely interact with reporters, which leads to a suspicion about the media. Puig had critics in both languages during his rookie season, but may now have the perfect platform to unveil his smile.
The Dodgers are about two weeks away from launching SportsNet LA, which will be the first 24/7, 365-day a year American channel devoted to one sports team. There is no shortage of Puig content being planned for it, said Kasten, although his cooperation is an unknown.
"This is the best possible vehicle players could have, if they want to express themselves, if they want to portray themselves in a way,'' Kasten said. "Or if they want to back off. We can do it at whatever level works for an individual player because all of it works for the Dodgers and Dodger fans.''
How wild of a ride will Puig take the Dodgers and those fans on this year? If it's anything like the one he's coming off of, it will be must-see TV.


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Persuasion involves providing sound reasons for doing something and getting others to take action on your request. Sales professionals use persuasion to sell products, medical professionals use persuasion to sell healthy lifestyle choices, managers use persuasion to sell ideas, parents use persuasion (but often default to the old standard, "Because I said so!") to get their children to do things. In other words, most of us frequently find ourselves in situations that call for us to persuade others of something.
Yet most of us have had little or no formal training in the process of successfully persuading others.
Of my 17 years of formal education, the closest I got to any kind of persuasion training was during a speech course in college. We were required to prepare and deliver a five-minute persuasive speech. It was the 1970s and my assignment was to persuade my classmates not to smoke marijuana – a challenging assignment in that era, to say the least.
I got a decent grade on the speech from my straight-laced, nerdy speech professor and a lot of chuckles from the pot smokers in the class. I doubt if anyone flushed his or her stash because of my dazzling grade-A rhetoric. Cheech and Chong apparently provided much more convincing arguments on the pro side countering any and all of my cons.
Five minutes out of 17 years; not what you might call comprehensive coverage of the topic.
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle articulated some pretty sound ideas related to persuading others with his ethos, logos, pathos model. He referred to these three techniques as modes of persuasion. In a nutshell, you do things to establish your credibility as a speaker (ethos), things to appeal to your audience's sense of logic (logos) and then do things to appeal to or stir their emotions (pathos).
Translated into practical action, that would be do your homework (know your topic, product, cause, etc.), make specific and compelling logical connections illustrating why your audience should take action on your request, and relate your request to something the audience feels strongly about experiencing or avoiding.
Use one of these modes of persuasion; you increase the odds that you will successfully persuade others. Use all three and maximize your chances of success. It seems that ethos and logos do a pretty good job of getting someone up to the edge of making a decision, but pathos seems to trigger the tipping-point-moment for deciders. Who knew the deciding structures of the brain were more like Dr. McCoy than Mr. Spock?
Think about the three modes of persuasion when you set out to persuade someone of something.
Establish your credibility, explain your logic, make the connection to something you know your audience wants to happen or wants to avoid happening, and then switch to the standard sales model for getting a decision: Ask for the order and then use the silent closing technique – be quiet.
Or, if none of this makes sense to you, try saying, "Because I said so!"
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Let's just say, going by these Twitter response to fans since DmC's unveiling, he's not a fan. And why would he be? Despite being long gone from Capcom, the company that owns the rights to the Devil May Cry series, Kamiya still created the character and didn't have a moody, rebellious, dark-haired young man in mind when he did so.
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As expected, the NFL has laid down a formal law banning the use of Twitter during games, providing fans with at least one safe haven in the ongoing war to see who can be the league's most obnoxious player.
Players and coaches are still allowed to use social media networks, but will not be allowed to post updates from 90 minutes before kickoff until after the traditional postgame press conferences. (Please let the media print your banalities first.) So, no "@ the coin toss. should i take tails?" or "@carsonp: I WAS OPEN!" and mercifully, no one pulling a BlackBerry out of their sock in the endzone. Of course, if the penalty is just a fine that may not stop some.
One other tidbit from the article that I was not aware of—referees are forbidden from using social media at all times. I guess it's because no one would want to have to explain to Jeff Triplette that those 5,000 Facebook "friends" only became fans so they could tell him he sucks.


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Your doctor may want your goal to be less than 70, based on your risk factors.
People who have diabetes have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke than people who don't have diabetes. Heart disease is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes.
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Tuesday, Senator Marco Rubio blocked the appointment of Judge William L. Thomas, the first African-American openly gay judge to the federal bench. The decision comes a year after Senator Rubio's initial support of the nomination. Judge Thomas received a "majority well-qualified" grade from the American Bar Association. The following statement was issued by Adora Obi Nweze, President of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP: "Judge Williams L. Thomas is a well-qualified nominee for the federal appellate court. His proven discernment and decorum pushed him to the top of the list of nominees where he should rightfully stay. Senator Marco Rubio's dubious decision to block the nomination is an affront to the court that Judge Thomas would have proudly served. It is also an affront to the time and effort Senator Rubio himself dedicated during the careful selection and vetting process leading up to the official recommendation. As the first black openly gay judge to the federal bench, Judge Thomas was poised to make history. For over one hundred years, the NAACP has supported diversity throughout the court system in order to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for all people. We urge Senator Rubio to issue a 'blue slip' and allow for the continuance of the nomination process. We oppose any practice or ideology that would unjustly block a qualified candidate from serving his country due to political pressure or discrimination."
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The global HIV/AIDS epidemic has taught, or retaught, us many important lessons. It has confirmed the importance of socioeconomic and cultural factors in health. It has shown that when human rights are not protected, people are more vulnerable to disease. And it has reminded us that, although infectious diseases once seemed to be on the wane, a new worldwide epidemic can break out at any moment.
Perhaps the most sobering lesson of the past 15-plus years is that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has not turned out to be a disease outbreak that science can quickly bring under control. Both a vaccine and a cure remain elusive. There are no quick fixes, technological or otherwise, to prevent new infections or eliminate the lingering societal impact of millions of AIDS deaths among individuals in their peak productive and reproductive years.
The most hopeful lesson is that, even though our approaches are imperfect, we are not powerless against the epidemic. Communities in the developing world, and even some industrialized nations as a whole, have managed to stabilize or reduce the rate of new HIV infections, provide care and support for those infected or affected, and combat fear and rejection of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Scientific advances hold out even greater hope for the future. Combined antiviral drugs promise longer and higher quality survival for HIV-infected people. Antiviral treatment for women and their newborn babies has been shown to reduce mother-to-child transmission. Progress is being made in developing vaginal creams and other "barriers" to HIV that women can apply. Insights for both vaccine and drug development are emerging from the study of individuals who appear resistant to HIV infection or who remain remarkably disease-free years after becoming infected. Yet with more than 20 million HIV-infected people alive and facing an unpredictable and generally fatal course, and with more than 7,500 new HIV infections occurring each day, it is premature to claim that we have turned the corner.
Difficulties and obstacles abound. Denial has diminished since the early years of the epidmic but continues to block political commitment and individual action. Those most affected -- the people who are infected with or at risk of HIV -- still often have no voice in designing and planning action and services. Harm reduction measures, such as access to condoms or sterile needles, continue to be controversial despite their effective track record. In countries with resource-starved or poorly managed health services, people with HIV/AIDS suffer for lack of the simple drugs that could ease their pain, itching, or nausea, not to mention a total lack of access to antiviral drugs.
Prevention is still divorced from care and support, and measures are geared to outbreak control instead of lifetime HIV risk management. Moreover, in the context of people's lives, many key prevention messages are irrelevant. Where homosexuality is criminalized or heavily stigmatized, gay men may have no realistic way of obtaining condoms to prevent HIV infection or health care once they have HIV or AIDS. To take another example, mutual sexual fidelity may protect from HIV, but it is something over which many married women have no control. The lack of realistic options for self-protection -- whether because of poverty, power imbalances, or denial of human rights -- results in appalling vulnerability for billions of men, women, and children.
Only an expanded response to the epidemic gives us a chance of grappling with these problems. The response needs to be of greater duration, in keeping with the permanent nature of the AIDS challenge; of greater quality, bearing in mind the ineffectiveness of technically inappropriate and poorly managed action; and of greater scope, encompassing but reaching far beyond the health sector.
The fact that HIV and its repercussions will be with us for generations implies the need for a sustainable response, one that encourages openness about the epidemic among individuals and communities and that builds up their coping capacity. Among other things, coping means lifelong acceptance and inclusion of people with HIV/AIDS in the household or community and the adjustment of personal behavior to the lifelong risk of HIV infection.
But while the action required must always be viewed through the lens of human needs, it cannot be limited to the personal or individual level. We must act on the broad structural context of prevention, care, and impact alleviation.
At one end of the spectrum, we need to tackle the underlying socioeconomic and structural factors that make people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and by giving them few realistic options for self-protection. Empowerment for action is one obvious remedy. To return to the example of women, vulnerability could be lessened through increased education, access to credit, and equitable rights in the event of divorce. Clearly, such action could simultaneously diminish women's vulnerability to other ills with similar socioeconomic roots, including violence and unwanted pregnancy.
At the other end of the spectrum, we might want to reduce risk options, for example by raising taxes on risk-related products such as alcohol or through "seat-belt" constraints such as the Thai policy of obligatory condom use in brothels, which eliminates the client's risk option of unprotected sex and at the same time "empowers" the sex worker to insist on condom use.
We must be wary of venturing too far into structural or coercive risk reduction, however, and not only for human rights reasons. Government coercion is rarely neutral, because it tends to constrain the powerless rather than the powerful. For example, although sexual HIV transmission is obviously a two-way risk, far more coercion is typically applied to sex workers than to sex work clients, increasing the power imbalance instead of leveling the playing field.
Like prevention, the provision of care and support for people affected by HIV and the alleviation of the epidemic's impact necessarily involve a wide range of actors, processes, and sectors. Not all the links are obvious, however. For example, in high-prevalence countries, the interface between AIDS and schools is not limited to introducing lifestyle skills or sex education into the curriculum but involves training extra principals and teachers to replace those dying of AIDS. The implications of AIDS for agriculture are not simply that children are taken out of school to weed fields that their sick parents cannot tend but also the threat that parents will not live long enough to pass on their precious knowledge of soil conservation and crop rotation. In sum, an expanded response also means weaving AIDS issues and implications into social and economic development.
Realistically, what can an expanded response achieve? A smaller epidemic involving a more tolerable level of suffering. Expanded response will not, however, stop the epidemic. Short of universal population coverage with a highly effective HIV vaccine, we cannot expect all transmission to cease.
In terms of future challenges, what we do about AIDS depends on how we look on the epidemic -- as a mere disease, a failure to respect religious codes, an outcome of differentials in sexual behavior and sexual decision-making between men and women, a human rights issue, or another tragic correlate of poverty and deprivation, to name but a few of the paradigms that have evolved since the start of the epidemic. It is illusory to think that these competing paradigms can ever be reduced to a single world view. The overlaps, such as between the human rights and the poverty paradigms, and even the frank contradictions, for example between biomedical and religious models, mirror the complexities of real life. Sometimes we are at a loss even to understand why a particular community has been successful in lowering transmission. Humility will help us avoid the straightjacket of AIDS orthodoxy and narrow-minded political correctness.
Nevertheless, there do appear to be some universally applicable principles. One is the need for the simultaneous use of multiple approaches that can work together. Another principle is never to lose sight of the epidemic's disproportionate focus on individuals and communities already facing other health, social, and economic challenges, such as women, young people, sexual and ethic minorities, refugees, drug users, and economically disadvantaged populations. It is no coincidence that more than 90 percent of all new infections now occur in the developing world. An expanded response from the industrialized countries is essential today but also tomorrow, as more effective drugs, HIV barriers, and hopefully vaccines are developed and access by people in the developing countries becomes an ever-greater moral imperative.
As people increasingly demand to know their HIV infection status, a further challenge will be to provide them with voluntary counseling and testing. This can open the way to new ways of coping with the epidemic. Counseling and HIV testing, followed by mutual agreement and trust by the partners to protect each other from HIV, may become the standard prelude to a long-term relationship, with or without procreation. It might be particularly useful in communities where any prospective partner has a high likelihood of being infected, such as parts of Africa where 20 percent of 20-year-olds have HIV. A related challenge will be to offer more effectively tailored support for the real needs of people diagnosed with HIV infection, not only their right to nondiscrimination in areas such as housing, employment, and travel, but their right to care and their needs for intimacy during the decade or more that they can expect to live with the virus.
In conclusion, the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic has become a permanent challenge to human integrity and solidarity. Given the scale of suffering, given the proven effectiveness of several approaches, and given the prospect of furthering other human goals through the fight against AIDS, an expanded response makes ethical and practical sense. Instead of letting AIDS turn back the clock, let us use our response to the epidemic to turn humanity's clock ahead.
Peter Piot, a Belgian physician and microbiologist, is executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. A co-discoverer of Ebola virus in 1976, he later launched and expanded a series of collaborative projects on AIDS in Africa. This essay was written in collaboration with Suzanne Cherney of UNAIDS.
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A database has been developed to centralize the collection of information related to needs of the Parties to implement the Conventions. The database allows for analysis of data on a regional and thematic basis. The needs are clustered into different areas such as convention specific details, technical, legal, coordination and cooperation, and information exchange. The database also allows the comparison of identified needs with those technical assistance activities that have already provided to each party, to monitor the progress and impact of the Technical Assistance programme.
The database has been developed with funding provided by the European Union.
Identifying priorities is a challenging and important aspect of the needs assessment. The priorities selected may be convention specific or may cover elements of a national chemicals management system in general. In selecting an appropriate approach for priority setting, Parties with strong chemicals management infrastructures may consider focusing on specific chemicals or groups of chemicals causing concern. However, Parties with weak infrastructures may consider it more important to focus on developing the infrastructure elements of a national chemical and wastes management system.
The assessment of the technical assistance needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition and the technical assistance available from developed countries and others was developed as a follow-up to decisions (RC-7/7; BC-12/9 and SC-7/16) adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in 2015.
The results of these assessments have been taken into account by the Secretariat in the development of its technical assistance plan for the period 2018-2021 in order to better respond to the needs of developing country Parties and Parties with economies in transition, also taking into account the technical assistance available from developed country Parties and others.


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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization aiming to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, said on Wednesday it has received a $16.4 million grant from the foundation of U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
With a budget estimated at $36 million, the Israeli scientists and engineers building the shuttle - temporarily named "Sparrow" - believe it will land on the moon by the end of 2015, a feat only the United States, Russia and China have managed so far.
SpaceIL, which is backed mainly by philanthropists, was founded to compete for Google's LunarX Prize, unveiled in 2007. The $20 million prize will go to the first team to land a spacecraft on the moon, make it jump 500 meters and transmit images and video back to earth.
Thirty-three teams started out in the running and they are now down to 18, including competitors from the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Canada, India and Chile.
SpaceIL said it aims to show that space exploration is no longer limited to global superpowers with vast space programmes. It also hopes its technological breakthroughs spur a new wave of commercial space-related industries in Israel.
"As an entrepreneur, nothing is as thrilling as supporting a group of people who have been told that their dreams cannot be realized," Adelson said.
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Barickman Votes to Stop Automatic Electric Rate Hikes
State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) voted to stop customers of Commonwealth Edison and Ameren from facing steep, annual electric rate hikes.
Barickman joined ten other Senators who voted against Senate Bill 9 May 21. The measure passed the legislature initially in March, but was vetoed by Governor Pat Quinn on May 6. The legislation essentially overrides an Illinois Commerce Commission decision to stop $100 million dollars in rate hikes for ComEd and $50 million for Ameren customers.
In his veto message, Governor Quinn said, "Senate Bill 9 continues a troubling pattern of departing from more than a century of regulatory oversight of utility company monopolies in our state."
Barickman agreed and on Tuesday he voted to uphold the veto when the bill came back before the Senate.
"There is a process in place for utility companies to go to the ICC, ask for a rate increase, prove their case, and hold public hearings, all before increases can be granted," said Senator Barickman. "Essentially, the legislature just decided to strip the ICC of its oversight authority. This will cost consumers dearly."
The retroactive rate hikes are tied to a 2011 bill to override the ICC and allow the power utilities to drastically increase rates to pay for a new "smart grid" power system.


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We sell quality products from: Toro, Ariens, Ferris Industries, Scag, Mantis, Cub Cadet, Kawasaki, Stihl, and Little Wonder. These products include riding lawn mowers and tractors, walk-behind (push) mowers, zero-turn mowers, edgers, trimmers, chain saws, and much, much, more!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 17 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
This contest is to design the look for a video sharing site for PowWows.com.
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PowWows.com is an online Native American community.
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We are going to be upgrading that site to a full video sharing site using Clip-Share.
The winner will need to integrate this new design into Clip-Share. If you have questions about how the templates in Clip-Share work, please let me know.
We are looking for a design that reflects that this site is part of PowWows.com but it does not need to be a copy of that design. The design for this site needs to be created in a slick, professional, Web 2.0 style. In addition the design needs to reflect a Native American theme.
Please include in the design places for a leaderboard ad, rectangle ad, and 2-3 Google Adsense ads per page.
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For many cheap clothing brands, you might wonder if the low price means that the environment and labour conditions of labourers in low wage countries will suffer. In general this seems to be the case. Sadly, this does not mean that when you pay a premium price for a piece of clothing, it automatically means […]
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|SAGE Raleigh Drop-In Thursday Mornings
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- Event date:
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Update: Matthew Avery (from the USA) suggests altering the API and semantics of the functions involved so load_widget returns a shared_ptr with a custom deleter that removes the stale map entry as soon as a widget is destructed. If this idea can be made to work then it would be the only deterministic solution to have been proposed to date.


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