text: Vancouver trips up Fort Collins in opener - The Coloradoan May 31, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next LOVELAND - Playing against one of her childhood idols, Tiffany Milbrett, was pretty special, Emmalie Pfankuch said. Losing to the former U.S. National Team standout and her Vancouver Whitecaps teammates despite outshooting them 11-6 and generally outplaying them in the second half Friday night wasn't so hot. But that's the fate Pfankuch and her Fort Collins Force teammates suffered in their W-League opener before about 400 fans at Loveland Sports Park. Jonelle Filigno, a 17-year-old who plays for the Canadian National Team, shouldered in a corner kick by Milbrett in extra time at the end of the first half to give the Whitecaps a 1-0 victory. "Emily Zurrer touched it, she headed it. I was trying to head it, too, but it got my shoulder," explained Filigno, a high school senior from Mississauga, Ontario, who is headed to Rutgers next fall. "I thought the first half was just about to finish, so it's good that we got that in just before it was over." The Force controlled the second half of play, wearing down the Whitecaps (2-0-2), who had played to a 1-1 tie with Real Colorado a night earlier in Littleton. Five of Vancouver goalkeeper Erin McNulty's six saves came in the final 20 minutes, including a punch save to knock a high shot by Jenni Annicchiarico just over the crossbar in the 80th minute. "At the end, we pushed really hard," said Pfankuch, who graduated last weekend from Fort Collins High School and is headed to perennial national champion North Carolina on a soccer scholarship. "I wish we could have played that way the whole first half, too." If so, the Force might be celebrating a special victory instead of lamenting their missed opportunities. Vancouver won W-League titles in 2004 and '06, while Colorado was a combined 7-14-3 over the past two seasons. "We hung on for sure those last 30 minutes," Vancouver coach Bob Birarda said. "It was a good performance by them." Kara Linder, a University of Colorado player, made just one save for the Force and got plenty of good defensive support from Cayla Deacon, the coach's wife, and Northern Illinois' Mo Smunt. Milbrett, who is in her third season with the Whitecaps, was one of the stars for the U.S. National Team when it won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics and won the 1999 Women's World Cup. "She and Mia Hamm were our idols," said Pfankuch, who has worn No. 16, the number Milbrett wore for the national team, since she began playing competitive soccer shortly after the United States' World Cup victory. "It's cool to play with her, and it's even better to play at her level. It kind of makes me feel like I've gotten to a spot where I've always wanted to be." Playing against a Vancouver team that lost 16 players to Canada's World Cup and Olympic teams this year and filled the gaps with members of the country's junior national teams, Pfankuch, University of Colorado player Nikki Marshall and Northern Illinois' Katie Eriksson pushed the pace throughout the second half but couldn't break through. "This is our second game in two nights here up at altitude, where we're not adjusted, and it showed," Milbrett said. "That last 20 minutes our fatigue definitely showed. They did a good job of keeping the ball, Fort Collins did. We held tight and had to batten down the hatches. "We definitely held on, and we got one." Previous Next


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Animal Suicide
Recently published research suggests that animal suicide can help explain why humans take their lives, writes Larry O'Hanlon in Discovery News.
There's a long history of animals behaving suicidally — think of whales beaching themselves. There have even been cases of forlorn family pets drowning themselves.
If animals can be self-destructive, they could also then help us to better understand the same behaviors, according to researchers at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and the University of Manchester.
"It's incredible how actually pervasive (suicide) is in nature," said psychologist Thomas Joiner of Florida State University, author of the book Myths of Suicide. He said organisms of all sorts are known to self-destruct in one way or another, usually in order to protect their relatives — and so to save their genes.
Pea aphids, for instance, when threatened by a ladybug can explode themselves, scattering and protecting other aphids and sometimes even killing the ladybug. They are literally tiny suicide bombers, Joiner told Discovery News.
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The five movie palaces of Weiser Street in Alton were Loew's, the Embassy, the Warner, the Astor, and the Ritz. I went to the Warner and saw "Young Man With a Horn," starring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, and Lauren Bacall. . . . My best piece of luck for the day, I came in on the cartoon. . . . The cartoon was, of course, Bugs Bunny. Loew's had Tom and Jerry, the Embassy Popeye, the Astor either Disney, the best, or Paul Terry, the worst. I bought a box of popcorn and a box of Jordan Almonds . . . The sidelights were soft yellow and time melted. At the end, when the hero, the trumpeter who was based on Bix Beiderbecke, had finally fought free of the rich woman who with her insinuating crooked smile (Lauren Bacall) had been corrupting his art, and the good artistic woman (Doris Day), her lover restored to her, sang, and behind her own transparent voice Harry James's trumpet pretending to be Kirk Douglas's lifted like a silver fountain higher and higher into "With a Song in My Heart"--only here, on the last note, an absolutely level ecstasy attained, did I remember ........"
Raw Deal (1948) / Part 1 - Correcting Misstatements about the PlotPosted by Dan Hodges on 11/9/2009, 8:44 amA great deal has been written about Raw Deal, in books, articles and web-posts. So two things, but only two, are easily accessed summaries of the plot and commentaries on the spellbinding cinematography by John Alton. Interpretations of the movie, however, are far less available.Whats uncanny is that plot summaries so often have at least one inaccurate assertion. These errors arent about trivia, but key aspects of the story.Below are a selection of the most frequent (and bewildering) misstatements about the plot, followed by my explanations of what really happens. Its reasonable to conclude that if events in a film can be so erroneously described so often, it means theres something questionable indeed, troubling about how critics/historians see the film.A gangster, Joe Sullivan, is framed by his associates and vows revenge when he is released from prison (Carl Macek, Film Noir: An Encyclodpedic Reference to the American Style); Intent on getting revenge against the men who framed him (Michael L. Stephens, Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons); Prison escapee gets caught between two women on his way to confront crime boss that had him framed (Spencer Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir); The tale of framed gangsters quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison (All Movie Guide); O'Keefe who breaks jail to pursue a vendetta against the confederates who framed him (The BFI Companion to Crime); "On the run from prison, seeking revenge on the gangster who framed him (Paul Duncan, Film Noir: Films of Trust and Betrayal); A standard revenge yarn (Back Alley Noir, official forum for the Film Noir Foundation); A desperate man breaks out of prison and begins a relentless and bloody pursuit of those who framed him (Elliot Lavine, Roxie Theater program, May 16, 2009).Joe is not framed. Jeanine Basinger correctly explains, As the film opens, Joe is in prison, sent up because he agreed to take a rap for Rick, with the understanding that Rick would get him out and pay him $50,000 for the favor (Anthony Mann).Revenge is not the mainspring of the plot. After Joe escapes from prison and gets by a police dragnet, he goes, as planned, to Grimshaws Taxidermy shop in Crescent City. He expects to meet Rick and collect $50 Gs. He brings Ann into the shop, and they make small talk with Grimshaw. Then Grimshaw tells Joe that Rick is in the backroom waiting for him.The film has run over 47 minutes before Joe discovers hes walked into a trap. Joe has no idea that Rick sent Fantail to the taxidermists to kill him.After more than 57 minutes in the film, in a scene in a San Francisco hotel room just before theyre supposed to take a ship to South America, Joe tells Pat hes going to kill Rick. Although Pat strenuously argues with Joe, she cant convince him to forget about the money, avoid the risk of getting killed and stay with her. Then, her anger rising, she says, If Ann asked you, I bet youd do it. Joe slaps Pat hard in the face, and she leaves the room. Joe pours himself a drink, downs it and throws the glass against a wall.Soon Pat comes back. Shes upset because, in her jealousy about Ann, she almost betrayed Joe to the police. Joes unsettled because he knows its his fault, yet he cant say to her what he should. He grouses, Youve forgiven me a thousand times before without my asking. After a pause, as they sit silently next to each other on a bed, she presses his hand to her cheek. Suddenly, he stands up and tells her to get ready to go to the ship.The conflict between Pat and Joe is ultimately about Ann, not Rick. Joe gives in to Pat because resolving his complicated romantic situation becomes more important than upholding his sense of an-eye-for-an-eye manliness. At the start of their argument he tells Pat that hes got to get revenge. When the scene ends, Joes willing to forget about Rick and, though shes not his first choice, to start life anew and abroad with Pat. The total run-time about vengeance the repeatedly but incorrectly cited theme of the film is less than five minutes.Rick sets up a prison escape for Joe which is, in fact, designed for his capture (Jeanine Basinger).On the contrary, early in the evening before Joe makes his break, Rick explains to Spider, citing one reason after another, that the odds of Joe not being killed by the police are greater than 10,000 to 1. Rick is setting up Joe to be cut down, not sent back to his cell.Coyle has arranged for Joe to be killed during the break-out in order to avoid confronting him (Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, RAW DEAL: The Case of the Flamin Man); Rick has arranged for Joe to be killed during the break-out (Wikipedia).Rick has only helped arrange for Joe to break out by opening up three doors and letting him take his chances. Hes confident that, either when Joes still inside the prison walls or while hes on the lam, the police will kill him.Do-gooder Ann Martin is kidnapped by Joe Sullivan and eventually kills Fantail to protect him (Alain Silver & Jim Ursini, Film Noir); Joe Sullivan
enchants Ann so much that she kills for him (Bruce Crowther, Film Noir); Ann shoots Joes attacker in the back. After this act of murder (Wikipedia); After this act of murder, Ann decides shes in love with Joe (Carl Macek); A fight with a vicious thug ends when Joe convinces Ann to shoot his attacker in the back. After this act of murder (allexperts.com).Joe doesnt convince Ann to shoot Fantail. In fact, he doesnt appear to even see that shes entered the taxidermists back room. As Joe and Grimshaw fight, Fantail comes up behind Joe with a large iron pipe. Ann picks up Joes gun from the floor and, standing in back of all three men, she takes aim at Fantail and fires.In the next scene, on a beach outside the taxidermists, Joe comforts Ann because she thinks that shes killed Fantail. Joe tells her that she didnt, and shes relieved.The next day Fantail is at a gas station and he sees Ann. After he kidnaps her, he brings her to Rick. When Rick learns Joes on his way to rescue Ann, he sends Fantail and Spider outside to kill him. In a shootout in the fog across the street from Ricks apartment building, Spider and Fantail accidentally kill one another, each thinking hes firing his gun at Joe. In other words, Fantail has lots of screen time after Ann shoots him.When they return to the motel in the morning, Joe knows it can't work out with Ann and gets her to take one of the cars back to San Francisco while he and Pat go their separate way to San Francisco (Dennis Schwartz).Joe doesnt send Ann away at a motel. Instead, they split up elsewhere, in an exquisite scene of filmmaking and nonpareil noir. As Basinger writes, Ann takes Pats place in Joes affection, but Joe sends her back to her own world. This is beautifully realized in a scene in which Joe and Ann [after theyve spent the night together] drive up to meet Pat on a flat stretch of deserted road along the costal highway. Joe stops his car at frame right, a goodly distance from Pat in her car at frame left. A long shot stresses the distance between the two cars, the isolation of all three characters, the hopeless, fatalistic sense of their situation, and the relationship of the two women vis-à-vis Joe. After Joe pushes Ann out of the car, another long shot shows the two women walking silently past each other as they change positions. Pats voice on the track says, I suppose I should feel some kind of victory, but I dont. Walking past her this way
She, too, is just a dame in love with Joe. The image of the two women passing without speaking, set against the loneliness of the barren highway, is the equivalent of a bleak modern poem. Years before the alienated European films of the 1960s, Mann captured the same feeling in a cheapie for Eagle-Lion.The following quotes refer to the penultimate scene when Joe, trying to rescue Ann, fights Rick. Rick inadvertently starts a fire. He jumps out of a window to his death (Michael L. Stephens); Rick trips over the candles which sets the place on fire as he tries to pull Joe into the fire with him. Rick then jumps out the window in a ball of flames (Dennis Schwartz).Its misleading to say inadvertently, and its mistaken to say Rick jumps. Rick shoots Joe first. Joe fires back and the impact of the bullets pushes Rick backward, overturning a candelabra. The candles fall on the floor, setting some draperies on fire. Joe and Rick struggle until Joe spins Rick away and Rick falls backward through the flaming draperies and out a window. The camera shows him on fire, falling toward the street, face up, and screaming.This final scene doesnt exist. Pat, back at her apartment, is resigned to a life of loneliness (Michael L. Stephens).In the actual final scene, Pat steps out of police car in handcuffs just in time to see Joe, mortally wounded by Ricks gunshot, come out of the front door of Ricks apartment building. Anns with him. Joe dies on the sidewalk, in Anns arms. The camera shifts across the street to show the street sign for Corkscrew Alley, the poor neighborhood where Joe, Pat and Rick grew up. Raw Deals ends with the symbolism of Joe and Ann united because above Corkscrew Alley is another sign that says, Jane St.
Raw Deal (1948) / Part 2 - Correcting Misinterpretations of the PlotPosted by Dan Hodges [User Info] on 11/9/2009, 8:45 amMessage modified by user Dan Hodges 11/9/2009, 8:56 amAlthough there are many published (and Internet-posted) summaries of the plot of Raw Deal, which often contain one or more factual errors, there are only a few interpretations of this pantheonic film noir.Carl Macek says, Joe Sullivan exists as a homme fatale seducing Ann Martin into a world filled with violent action and murder, enticing her with a promise of sexual fulfillment that goes beyond the realm of normal relationships. She surrenders completely to Joe, committing murder as the ultimate expression of her love (Film Noir: An Encyclodpedic Reference to the American Style).And Jeanine Basinger says, In forming her relationship with Joe, Ann undergoes a moral change. After idealizing him as a former child hero gone wrong
, she learns the situation is more hopelessin film noir terms, more predeterminedthan that. She has to reform her understanding of him along newer, more realistic lines (Anthony Mann). To prove her point, Basinger also cites Anns decision to fire a gun to save Joes life.Macek and Basinger are wrong because its Ann who gets Joe to change.Joe, Ann and Pat break the rules in a state park by building a campfire. As Ann sweet-talks a park ranger into letting the two women off with just a warning, Joe hides behind a tree, with his pistol drawn. After the ranger leaves, Joe thanks Ann. But Ann berates him, Thanks? I didnt do it for you. I did it for that kid. Youd have shot him down. I saw you with that gun. I saw the look on your face. Youre a murderer. I may have romanticized you before, but now I know you. Youre something from under a rock. You dont have to worry about me turning you in anymore. I dont have to. Youll get yours. Somehow, sometime, somewhere!As they drive through the night to a mountain lodge, Joe doesnt say a word. Pat thinks it means Ann was getting under his skin.Outside the lodge, Joe tries to flirt with Ann, but she rebuffs him. He says, Youre right. I am something from underneath a rock
that famous rock that hits you in the back of the head after youve tried to help someone
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until I reach the top. She asks, To what end? More crime? He grabs her and forces a kiss on her. Holding her arms tightly, he says he wanted to see how shed react when she got kissed by something from under a stone. Suggesting that hes ashamed of his class background, she says, That bothers you, doesnt it? He answers, Oh, what do you know about anything? Youve probably had your bread buttered on both sides since the day you were born. Safe! Safe on first, second, third, and home.Ann breaks free of Joes grip and retorts, Thats what you think. Just because I own a collar and a tailored suit and my nails are clean, you think I havent had to fight? I got a good education, sure. I suppose that means I was born with a silver spoon, doesnt it? My father was a schoolteacher. He died in the war of the Depression. Only he didnt get any medals or any bands or any bonus. He left three children. You think you had to fight. The only way you know how to fight is that stupid way with a gun. Well, theres another way you probably never even heard of. Its the daily fight that everyone has to get food and an education, to land a job and keep it, and some self-respect. Safe? I never asked for anything safe. All I want is just a little decency, thats all. Ann rushes back to the lodge, and Joe follows, brooding. Ann goes to Pats room and tells her, Joe means nothing to me. Not now.Soon after, a man pursued by the state police runs up to the lodge, shouting and banging on the door. Oscar (the lodge owner), Joe and Ann are on the other side of the door in a hallway. Pat is behind and above them, on the lower steps of a stairway. Afraid the police will come to the lodge and find Joe, Oscar and Pat dont want to let the man in. Ann begs Joe with her eyes. Joe says to Oscar, Let the poor slob in. Pat cries out, Joe, use your head! Dont be a chump! Joe, you cant! You cant! Ann looks at Joe again, and he says, Open it up, Oscar.The man bursts in. Everyone moves toward the camera, from the hallway into the living room. Except Pat. Shes seen on the stairs, in deep focus, far away and isolated. Joe tells Oscars wife to get the man a drink, but she refuses to serve a wife murderer. Then Joes startled to see Ann pouring a glass.Wracked with remorse, the man runs outside, fires his pistol in the air and is gunned down by the cops. Ann looks at Joe and says, That could be you. Crucially, her tone of voice is serious and not spiteful, as it was at the state park and outside the lodge. This is because Joes changed. By helping the fugitive, he showed he could be unselfish. Ann showed her gratitude by doing what Joe asked and pouring the man a drink.Just before a state trooper enters the lodge, Joe pulls Ann out of the living room and into a small closet under the stairs where Pat still stands. In previous scenes, to prevent Ann from alerting anyone hes an escaped convict, Joe or Pat held a gun on her. Standing close together in the dark closet, they look at each other, and their gaze is romantic.Therefore, what happens at the taxidermists is because of their new relationship. When Ann sees that Joe is about to get his, instead of standing by and letting it happen, she saves his life. Shooting Fantail doesnt mark Anns change in attitude toward Joe. Its the consequence of a change thats already occurred. It didnt come about because Joe seduced her or because she reforms her understanding of Joe. When Anns distraught that she might have killed Fantail, Joe says she did it to save his life, adding, I know Im not worth it, but then
Ann interrupts, Oh, yes, you are! Once again they look at each other, and this time they kiss. Joe became worthy when he heeded Anns unspoken plea to help the fugitive. For that, Joe didnt get a rock thrown at his head; he got Anns respect and love.Why would Macek and Basinger fail to recognize Joe is changed by Ann? Why would they believe Ann accommodates herself to Joe instead of the other way around? Both authors views are based on a hardboiled framework for interpreting film noir. Accordingly, they analyze Ann in terms of Joe, because hes the central character and hes a tough guy. In fact, however, both Ann and Pat convince Joe to do as they wish. Pat stops Joe from seeking revenge on Rick. Ann gets Joe to be decent to the hunted man.Furthermore, its right that Joe does what the women want. The fine person he was as a kid is still within him as a man. He was a poor boy, and those life circumstances were a raw deal. But when Ann tells Joe about everyones daily fight, she profoundly affects him. She gets even deeper under his skin.After Fantail calls him a jerk, Joe says, thinking of Ann, Called that a lot lately. Much better language. Joes love for Ann and her influence on him are what change him into a different man. On the ship he tells Pat he wants to start fresh, decent. As Pat listens to Joe talk about having a business
a house
[and] kids, she realizes his dreams are meant for Ann. (In a moment Pat reveals to Joe that Anns with Rick!)When Joe sends Ann away after they spend the night together, she thinks he prefers Pat. So until he rescues her, she doesnt know how much he loves her. Dying in her arms, he tells her not to cry, I got my breath of fresh air. You
. Joe knew hed changed the way Ann wanted, which is why Pat sees theres a kind of happiness on his face.Macek and Basingers views fail because to interpret Raw Deal, based on what really happens, requires jettisoning a hardboiled framework.Macek finds faults with Raw Deal when he contrasts it to a normative ideal of film noir, which he derives from a hardboiled framework. He says, The ironic narration provided by Pat develops the romantic undercurrent evident in many noir films. It remains for the true noir film to debase any sense of pity or love that may be present, replacing it with a tough, cynical nature.Similarly, Robert Ottoson complains, The only thing that keeps Raw Deal from being an exemplary film noir is its soft center. The love that OKeefe has for Hunt is not only far-fetched, but Hunts excessive moralizing is not in keeping with the films overall quality of brutality and pessimism (A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir, 1940-1958).Although theres no happy ending in Raw Deal, the love story is a deal-breaker for Macek and Ottoson, preventing it from being true or exemplary film noir.Yet moralizing is an inaccurate term to describe Anns criticisms of Joe at the state park and outside the lodge. Furthermore, its the agonizing romantic triangle that makes Raw Deal so extremely noir. Joes physical conflict with Rick (and his henchmen, like Fantail) comes in a distant second to Joes emotional struggles with Ann and Pat. Indeed, the film packs a greater wallop by showing Joes repudiation of a tough, cynical nature.Macek, Basinger, Ottoson, and many others still today, hold fast to a hardboiled framework about film noir. Raw Deal is a far better film than strict adherents to a hardboiled framework are able to acknowledge. Through a crime and love story that is the equal in its adultness with the best of French poetic realism, not to mention American film noir, Raw Deal shows the heart-wrenching despair men and women endure and the soul-deadening compromises they give in to. Not only the extraordinary visual style but also the exceptionally tense interplay of mature romantic relationships place Raw Deal among the best cinema, as well as film noir.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)Something seems to be missing here; it's a solid Noir with one of Humphrey Bogart's best performances, yet once they all meet in the same room I soon get disinterested from all the talk. Forgive me but I wouldn't call it a full-blown masterpiece.7.6/10
As we seem to find ourselves in the season of the LIST, best of.....worst of.....longest.....shortest.....etc. I thought I would add one more (just for the craic).My all time favorite TWO-PERSON screen exchange is the following:....
Interestingly this whole scene was not in the original 1945 cut of the movie, but was added for the 1946 theatrical release. There's a DVD release with both versions and a discussion of the differences.... the original 1945 cut is clearly the better version in my opinion.
I find it hard to choose between them. I'm glad they gave us a DVD with both.
The DVD contains two versions, the superior theatrical cut, with necessary re-shoots and tightnings as well as the pre-release version. The differances are llarge between the two, and these are documented on the disk and as a curiosity piece and a look at the art of filmmaking its interesting. But don't go expecting and Alien 3 in which the pre-release was much better. Of course this is this reviewers opinion and I invite owners of this disc to give their own opinions.
You are forgiven, although I wouldn't give it more than a "6." Too talky by half! And everything is shot on those boring sets. Move along folks, there's nothing to see here.


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The following column was written by Tom Stienstra, outdoor writer for The San Francisco Chronicle.
The new state parks director will discover some troubling realities as he tries to bail out a leaky ship.
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Anthony Jackson to plug those leaks. In a scandal uncovered this year, a mid-level administrator hid $54 million in two special funds at the same time state park administrators threatened to close 70 parks because of lack of money.
When Jackson was sworn in a week ago as parks chief, Gov. Brown told him that his No. 1 mission was to restore integrity to state parks.
He might find other problems equally daunting:
- Budget hole: The amount of money from the state's general fund for parks has been reduced from 91% of the State Parks' budget, to29%. That type of cut makes it impossible for the parks to run the way rangers and the public have come to expect.
- Cost to public: In 10 years, the price to camp in a tent has gone from $12 to $35 per night. Many perceive $35 as a gouge job, when it costs $20 per night at Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park and many forest service campsites cost less. In the same time span, entrance fees have gone from $2 to $10, when access to many nearby regional parks is free and county parks rarely top $5.
- Ranger image: Although sometimes it's necessary, a lot of rangers project a cop image rather than that of the helpful naturalist.
- Public interest ignored: It's a disgrace that the local district closed all 52 backpack campsites in the Santa Cruz Mountains for six months, November through April. And at Lake Tahoe last summer, boat-in campsites at Emerald Bay weren't opened until July 1, even though conditions were great in May and June, and all other campgrounds at Tahoe were long open.
- Public partnerships: In light of the budget scandal, high prices and crying wolf over closures, can you imagine anybody organizing a fundraiser event for state parks, or a wealthy donor writing a big check?


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Your skies are fabulous!!!! and you always know when to stop. Sometimes it's easy to get carried away and overdo it...but you don't! Lovely draw!
I admire again Pammie, very peaceful, a real watercolor!
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Wonderful!!! Love the clouds and the lake!!!
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Rob Allen has a new post today about the upcoming Zend Framework 2 release and how, with a little convincing, you can get ZF1 and ZF2 to play nicely alongside each other with Zend_Tool.
If you want to play with the development versions of Zend Framework 2.0, then it's handy to be able to create ZF2 projects using the ZendTool command line tool. Rather unhelpfully, ZF2's ZendTool uses the same ini file (~/.zf.ini) as ZF1's Zend_Tool and the same zf.sh script filename, so you can't just put zf2 on to your path and it'll all just work. I am assuming that you're like me and have production sites using ZF1, so you probably don't want to mess up your current zf.sh usage. This is how I implemented side-by-side ZF cli scripts.
His is a three step process that involves the install of a copy of the Zend Framework 2 somewhere on your system, creating a new ini file for it and create a new bash script (called "zf2") that defines the new ini file location as a command line variable.


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DUI Programs
Don't Drink and Drive in Contra Costa County
Notice to former participants in county-operated DUI programs
All county-operated DUI programs closed in 2004.
Records from the former county-operated DUI programs are destroyed after 48 months as permitted by Title 9, California Code of Regulations. Therefore, the ability to confirm completions is now very limited. The county no longer gives transfer credit for participation in a county-operated DUI program.
- Licensed DUI Programs - Information about the Driving-Under-the-Influence Program that you have to complete to fully satisfy the requirements of the Court and DMV.
- State DUI Program Directory - gives the locations of all licensed DUI programs in California by county
Licensed DUI Programs - Central Contra Costa County
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council of Contra Costa, Inc.
License #07-002-01-120 "ADAC"
2020 North Broadway, Suite 101
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Programs in English
Bi-Bett-Future Solutions
License #07-003-01-120 "Future Solutions"
560 Lennon Lane, Suite 200
Walnut Creek, CA 94598 925-932-7791
Programs in English
OHS, Inc
License #07-008-01-120 "OHS"
2600 Stanwell Drive, Suite 100
Concord, CA 94520
Programs in English and Español
Licensed DUI Programs - Eastern Contra Costa County
Bi-Bett-Dawn Center
License #07-003-02-120 "Dawn Center"
1251 California Avenue, Suite 600
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Programs in English and Español
Bi-Bett-Pueblos Del Sol Education Program
License #07-003-03-120
121 Sand Creek Road, Suite A
Brentwood, CA 94513
Licensed DUI Programs - Western Contra Costa County
Neighborhood House of North Richmond
License #07-005-01-100 "Neighborhood House"
3065 Richmond Parkway, Suite 114
Richmond, CA 94806
Programs in English and Español
OHS, Inc
License #07-008-02-120
11299 San Pablo Avenue, Suite W
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Programs in English and Español
Each licensed DUI program in the county provides the following DUI-related programs
- Wet and Reckless
- 3-month first offender (BAC below 0.15%)
- 6-month first offender (BAC = 0.15-0.19%)
- 9-month first offender (BAC = 0.2% and above)
- 18-month multiple offender


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AUSTIN, Texas—The Harvard women's sailing team finished eighth at the Sperry Top-Sider/Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women's National Championships, which concluded Saturday on Lake Travis.
The Crimson, which qualified for the national semifinals with a seventh-place New England finish, placed sixth in the ICSA women's semifinals Wednesday and Thursday on Lake Travis, one of nine teams to advance to the final regatta. Harvard proceeded to finish in the top half of the 18-school field.
"I'm proud of the girls for working as hard as they did and for playing their best regatta of the year in the most important one," head coach Mike O'Connor said. "I'm really proud of the way they performed against such tough competition. They worked hard and were focused in preparation for this regatta, and they really improved."
Boston College claimed the national championship with 142 points over 13 races in two divisions. Harvard placed eighth in each division to total 218 points, just eight back of College of Charleston and Navy, who tied for sixth before the Cougars' tiebreaker win. The Crimson finished 18 points ahead of ninth-place Brown. Yale, Rhode Island, Georgetown and Connecticut College followed BC in the top five of the overall standings.
Senior skipper Emily Lambert and sophomore crew Isabel Ruane teamed up in the A division, registering 105 points, 14 fewer than ninth-place Charleston and 18 more than Yale and South Florida. Georgetown won the division with 51 points. Lambert and Ruane finished in the top half of the field in eight of 13 races, placing fourth on four occasions and sixth in three races.
"Emily and Ruane did a nice job in A division," O'Connor said. "They were able to rebound in some key situations and make some really good comebacks, which is what kept us in contention for a top-six finish right until the end."
A lineup switch heading into the national semifinals yielded strong results, as senior crew Alexandra Jumper joined sophomore skipper Morgan Russom in the B division. The duo placed recorded 113 points. They placed in the top eight on seven occasions, including a win in the division's second race Thursday afternoon. Russom and Jumper edged Dartmouth for eighth in the division standings and trailed seventh-place Georgetown by eight points. Yale totaled 49 points in a division-winning effort.
"Moving Alex made a big difference, and Morgan had her best regatta of the year by far," O'Connor said. "Our execution was more consistent."
The Crimson stood second after just six total races were sailed on the first day of the regatta and sixth at the end of Friday. Harvard nearly pulled off the top-six finish, but a good start by Charleston and Navy in the final race allowed the Cougars and Mids to edge ahead of the Crimson.
Team Standings
Boston College 142
Yale 146
Rhode Island 150
Georgetown 156
Connecticut College 187
College of Charleston 210
Navy 210
Harvard 218
Brown 236
South Florida 242
Eckerd 248
Dartmouth 249
Stanford 277
St. Mary's (Md.) 278
Hawaii 302
Michigan 373
Texas 409
Western Washington 413
Harvard Women's Sailors Place Eighth at National Regatta
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harvard women's sailing team finished eighth at the Sperry Top-Sider/Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women's National Championships, which concluded Saturday on Lake Travis.


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Tis' the season for gift giving with Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays coming up soon. California Delicious offers a fantastic selection of gift baskets, gift towers and more for any recipient who will be delighted upon receipt. What I love about gifts such as these is that no extra wrapping is required!
The Suitcase Stack Gift Tower is a great choice for a chocolate lover because it has an assortment of white and milk chocolate dipped sandwich cookies, cookie brittle toffee, a bag of Godiva creme brûlée dessert truffles, Godiva chocolate covered almonds, and chocolate truffle cookies. The packaging itself is pretty awesome because they can reuse or even display in their home.
If you are looking to gift wine, check out the California Delicious Red Duo Gift Box which features a duo of Regalo Valley Ranch wines - smooth Cabernet Sauvignon and a hearty Merlot. This is a great choice for Secret Santa at work, gift for clients and more. It arrives safely wrapped in bubble wrap tucked inside a red box with a gold bow.
If you want a great mix of the two above, pick up the Elegant California Wine and Chocolate Gift Tower which is a impressive gift. There are three gold boxes neatly stacked with fabulous surprises inside: crisp Napa Valley Raymond chardonnay, full bodied, smooth Raymond cabernet sauvignon, decadent chocolates, including Vintage Reserve wine truffles, cafe mocha petite cookies, chocolate covered espresso beans, Godiva white chocolate truffles, milk chocolate almond toffee, chocolate salted caramel cookies and a Godiva dark chocolate sea salt bar. Are you drooling yet? This would make a wonderful hostess gift for the holidays don't you think?
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Yoenis pulled with bruised right heel
OAKLAND -- A's left fielder Yoenis Cespedes left Sunday's 4-1 win over the Astros after six innings because of a bruised right heel.
Cespedes has been bothered by discomfort in the same heel off and on this season, but it's yet to keep him out of the starting lineup. That could potentially change when the A's open up a three-game series against the visiting Rangers on Monday night.
"We'll see how he is tomorrow," manager Bob Melvin said after Sunday's game. "He's had some sore feet before. It wouldn't surprise me if he's able to play tomorrow. If not, we'll go one day without him."
Cespedes, replaced in left by Craig Gentry to start the seventh, was 0-for-1 with a walk on the day but went 5-for-9 overall in the weekend series. His average sits at .254 after 18 games.


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Running the Colorado Relay lets you feel like a kid again
About midway through this past weekend's Colorado Relay, it hit me why I like these relays so much — beyond the obvious joys of competitive running, that is.
It's like a sleep-over for adults.
For 24 hours we got to forget about frustrations at work, obligations at home and play with our friends. We ran hard when it was our turn but got to act like kids playing hookey when we weren't running. We got to be around hundreds of like-minded strangers who, we could plainly see, were having just as much fun as we were.


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MindFire necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 163 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
We're looking for a new brand image and site design for our offer comparison site that will emphasize our new internal site search capabilities. The look must be clean, colorful, modern, and simple.
Desired Color Scheme:
Wide open.
Desired Style:
Modern, simple, clean.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We will be having two contests. 1.) Logo design for "Keycode.com", and 2.) a 5 page template un-coded web design for the website.
For the logo, we are looking for an easy to read font with possibly an icon or design element attached to the lettering - though not necessary if the lettering is attractive enough. We DO NOT want any typical savings icons such as money, coupons, scissors, $, shopping carts, shopping bags, etc. The logo needs to be friendly and inviting to people of all ages. The color spectrum is wide open, yet we prefer to stay away from neon or overly bright and light colors. We also like depth in the logo as opposed to flat, one dimesional type.
Since we deal and present a lot of data, we would like to keep it light, clean, and fairly simple in feeling.
For the website pages, we will need: 1.) A home page design that uses the same data groups we currently display on Keycode.com, but with a new color scheme, some new graphical elements/buttons - possibly nice photos, and emphasizes our search box prominently at the top of all pages. We syndicate our content out to other websites, so the layout of the basic sections has to remain fairly ridgid and similar to what it is today. We will also need variations fo 2.) A Search Result Page, 3.) a Merchant Page, 4.) Category Pages, and 5.) General Info "ABout Us" type pages.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Web Page Design
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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691-1983-A,,QTVR Authoring Studio. Disc v1.0 1998 (CD)
691-4304-A,2Z,iLife v1.0. iTunes 3,iPhoto 2,iMovie 3,iDVD 3. Install Disc 2003 (DVD)
691-5169-A,2Z,iLife '05 v5.0 Install Disc 2005 (CD)
691-5672-A,2Z,iLife '06 v6.0 Install DVD
691-5844,A,1Z, iWork 06 v2.0.1 Install / Not for resale (DVD)
691-5868-A,2Z,iLife 06 v6.0.3. Install (DVD DL)
691-5996-A,2Z,iLife 08 v8.0. Install DVD (DVD)
691-6109-A,2Z,iLife 08 v8.0.1. Install DVD (DVD)
691-6251-A,2Z,iLife 08 v8.3 Install Disc (DVD)
691-6328-A,2Z,iLife 09 v9.0. Install DVD (DVD DL)
691-6677-A,2Z,iLife v1.1 Install (DVD)
iLife is the consumer software bundle for multimedia management and creation. You can organize your photos in iPhoto verry well, cut videos in iMovie relativ professionally, burn your own DVDs in iDVD and create and publish your own personal...
Adobe After Effects 3.0
Adobe After Effects v3.0
Adobe PageMaker 6.5
Adobe PageMaker 6.5C (Simp. Chinese)
Adobe PageMaker 7
PageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus,[2] initially for the Apple Macintosh and, in 1987, for PCs running Windows 1.0. As an application relying on a graphical user interface, PageMaker helped to...
Aldus FreeHand 1.0
Aldus FreeHand 1.0
AppleWorks v5.0.4 (CD)
Artisto 1.4.1 (DA)
Artisto is a desk accessory of the "Paint Cutter" variety. Artisto allows you to open up a MacPaint document from inside any program that supports desk accessories and select any portion of the image and copy it to the clipboard....
ClarisWorks 2.0Bv1 (British English)
ClarisWorks 2.0 British English
Crozzle is a crosswords puzzle design tool that lets you build crosswords. Crozzle also has support for drag and drop to copy/move portions of the grid around, which facilitates the design. You can also mark spots as black...
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|Portrait of Antoine Paris, Conseiller d'Etat, 1724
Hyacinthe Rigaud
French, 1659-1743
Oil on canvas
58-1/2 x 45 in. (148.6 x 114.3 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
© The Norton Simon Foundation
On view
Following his provincial apprenticeships in Montpellier and Lyons, Rigaud moved to Paris, where he met with great success. Like his friend and rival, Nicolas de Largillière, he became a prominent portrait painter. Indeed, he was a perceptive interpreter of the human face. The sumptuous pomp and artifice that he created to surround his subjects demonstrate Rigaud's affinity for the robust qualities of the Flemish Baroque.
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The study, by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, The University of Manchester, and Monash University, examined whether anti-fat prejudice against women persisted even after they had lost significant weight and were now thin.
The researchers asked young men and women to read vignettes describing a woman who had either lost weight (70 pounds/32 kilograms) or had remained weight stable, and who was either currently obese or currently thin. Participants were then asked their opinions about this woman on a number of attributes, such as how attractive they found her, and their overall dislike for fat people.
The team found that participants in the study – published in the journal Obesity – expressed greater bias against obese people after reading about women who had lost weight than after reading about women who had remained weight stable, regardless of whether the weight-stable woman was thin or obese.
"We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed differently depending on their weight history," said Dr Janet Latner, study lead at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, US. "Those who had been obese in the past were perceived as less attractive than those who had always been thin, despite having identical height and weight."
One of the more disturbing findings from the study, the researchers noted, was that negative attitudes towards obese people increase when participants are falsely told that body weight is easily controllable.
Co-author, Dr Kerry O'Brien, from the University of Manchester's School of Psychological Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said: "The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment suggests that one's physiology and genetics, as well as the food environment, are the really big players in one's weight status and weight-loss.
"Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of one's willpower, knowledge, and dedication. Yet many people who are perceived as 'fat' are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma. We need to rethink our approaches to, and views of, weight and obesity."
The findings, say the authors, demonstrate that residual obesity stigma persists against individuals who have ever been obese, even when they have lost substantial amounts of weight. Obesity stigma is so powerful and enduring that it appears to even outlast the obesity itself.
Dr Latner added: "Descriptions of weight loss, such as those often promoted on television, may significantly worsen obesity stigma. Believing that obese people can easily lose weight may make individuals blame and dislike obese people more.
"The findings demonstrate that residual obesity stigma persists against individuals who have ever been obese, even when they have lost substantial amounts of weight. Obesity stigma is so powerful and enduring that it may even outlast the obesity itself. Given the great number of people who may be negatively affected by this prejudice, obesity discrimination clearly needs to be reduced on a societal level."
Notes for editors
A copy of the paper, ''Residual Obesity Stigma: An Experimental Investigation of Bias against Obese and Lean Targets Differing in Weight-Loss History,' is available on request.
For further information contact:
Aeron Haworth
Media Relations
Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences
The University of Manchester
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Tracy Hahn manages criminal justice research that is sponsored by ICJIA. She has overseen research and program evaluations conducted by experts in the field and has worked with the Authority's Federal and State Grants Unit to develop program performance measures, identify evidence-based practices and document program effectiveness. Prior to her work with the Authority, she assisted in program development under the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Ms. Hahn earned a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.(312) 793-8550
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text: Whitecaps claim first win in Africa March 12, 200912:00AM PDT Previous Next By Simon Fudge/whitecapsfc.com Vancouver Whitecaps FC recorded their first-ever win on the African continent following a 2-1 victory over Tanzanian Premier League outfit Simba Sports Club on Thursday afternoon. Two goals by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines captain Marlon James helped Teitur Thordarson's side to victory in the second match of their historic preseason trip to Tanzania, with all three goals coming before halftime. Forward Haruna Moshi scored Simba's consolation goal in the friendly contest at the Tanzania National Main Stadium in Dar es Salaam. The result was a positive reply by the Blue and White following the disappointment of Monday's 3-0 defeat to Simba's arch-rivals Young Africans FC. Thordarson made four changes to his side for Thursday's game. Brazilian Diego replaced Jay Nolly in the Whitecaps goal, while Justin Thompson and Wes Knight earned starts in the Vancouver backline. Ansu Toure took the place of Vicente Arze in midfield, while Charles Gbeke partnered James in the Whitecaps attack. It was the 'Caps that claimed an early advantage when James scored the opening goal after just three minutes. Toure's cross from the left-hand side allowed James to neatly lob the ball over the Simba goalkeeper for 1-0. The goal came during a bright early spell of play from the Canadian visitors, but the late afternoon heat soon started to take a physical toll on the 'Caps, with Simba eventually dominating possession during the opening 45 minutes. On 24 minutes, substitute Moshi made it 1-1 after eluding three Whitecaps defenders before striking home the equalizer for the Dar es Salaam club. Though the first half proved to be hard work for Thordarson's squad, they would claim the winning goal just before the break. Toure freed Takashi Hirano down the left-hand side before the Japanese defender's cross found Gbeke at the far post. His downward header found an unmarked James, who easily converted his second goal from two yards out for a 2-1 halftime lead. As evening descended on Dar es Salaam, the heat of the late afternoon sunshine disappeared, with the stadium covered in shade by the time both sides restarted the friendly contest. The conditions contributed to an improved Whitecaps performance after the break, as they created several more chances to seal the win. Ten minutes into the second half, however, Simba were handed a chance to level matters again when they were awarded a penalty after Whitecaps captain Martin Nash was adjudged to have handled the ball in his own box. Diego, however, would deny the Tanzanian side, as the South American dove to his left to deflect Mussa Mgosi's spot kick off his own post and away to safety. In fact, it was Vancouver that looked the more likely to score before the final whistle, with Gbeke releasing James on the break for a chance to score his third goal of the match with five minutes remaining. The Simba keeper, however, was equal to the striker's finish by making a good save to his right. The chance did not affect the final outcome, as the Whitecaps secured the one-goal victory. Thordarson was pleased his team worked through the hot conditions to get the result on Thursday. "Though it was a tough first half for us in the heat, we scored two good goals through Marlon and had several chances to score more goals," he told whitecapsfc.com. "Simba were a very good side to play against. Like Young Africans, they had some individual qualities that caused us some concern, but I felt we deserved the victory today." With less than a month before the USL First Division season opener versus Charleston Battery, Thordarson feels his side have progressed well since starting preseason in January. "I feel that our shape defensively and offensively is getting better," he said. "Though these games have been physically very taxing for our players, I've tried to give them plenty of playing time to help improve their match fitness. It is particularly important for our most experienced players that they play as much as possible at this stage of preseason. We still have a ways to go, but I feel things are coming together." The Whitecaps will complete their three-match schedule in East Africa when they take on Tanzania's national team on Saturday. Thordarson expects the weekend match to be their most challenging of the trip. "It will be a tough game for us, as the kickoff will again be in the late afternoon, when it is usually very hot here," said the former Iceland international striker. "The fact that it is their national team means it will be the toughest task of this trip for us. It will be important for us to rest and recover well over the next 48 hours before that final game." Vancouver Whitecaps FC Diego; Takashi Hirano, Justin Thompson (Mason Trafford 65'), Wesley Charles (Alex Semenets 86'), Wes Knight (Luca Bellisomo 65'); Ansu Toure (Vicente Arze 53'), Martin Nash, Kenold Versailles, Tyrell Burgess (Gordon Chin 52'); Charles Gbeke, Marlon James Subs not used: Simon Thomas; Gagandeep Dosanjh Previous Next


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I have been purchasing another manga in Borders published by Tokyo Pop called Tenshi Ja Nai ("I'm No Angel"), but it's not by Yazawa-sensei. It's by another mangkata, and I just so happened to be doing a search on it, and came across your site.
First of all, I am an AVID Ai Yazawa fan, both of her manga and the anime: Nana (most especially), Paradise Kiss, and Gokinjo Monogatari. I know that Para-Kiss and Gokinjo have the some of the same characters in them, and I couldn't help but wonder if this manga you're working on, Tennai is a predecessor in any way to Gokinjo... b/c the Ken-chan character and Midori characters look VERY much like the main characters in that manga.
Anyone know?
Ok, now secondly, I want to thank this group for your hard work on ALL of your projects. You truly have your hands full working on so many. I am just glad you picked the best of the best here. I am so happy I stumbled on this site!
Thank you EVERYONE for the hours you spend doing this for us!
Lubu Lubu!
hmm... i'll check 'tenshi ja nai' out next time i go to borders. :]
haha, i'm also an AVID ai yazawa fan. her art, stories, style, characters, etc, are all so amazing and touching! 'tenshi nanka ja nai' is really an excellent manga, too. ^^
tennai is sort of a 'predecessor' to gokinjo, you might say. since there is a cameo appearance by tennai characters in gokinjo (miniSPOILER:
when midori and akira, the main characters in tennai show up at akindo's club fair in gokinjo, they buy one of mikako's happy berry items
), you can tell that tennai and gokinjo are taking place in the same 'world,' just at different times. miniSPOILER2:
also i think that midori's friend in tennai, nakagawa ken, is the famous singer that tsutomu is often mistaken for in gokinjo
_________________Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
moofii: I'm pretty sure that you're correct on spoiler2. I vaguely remember seeing that mentioned somewhere, maybe in the side notes in Gokinjo?
Also, I think the same side notes also said that they are taking place at the same time. That and the Sudosaurus being used in Gokinjo is just funny.
AH! Thanks so much for responding!
It does make sense now! I think Yazawa-sensei likes to make cameo tie-ins on each project she does! I appreciate the spoiler info! I knew I wasn't crazy! LOL (Ok, maybe just not in *this* instance)!
Another tie in:
[spoiler]Another funny repeat she did is of the Sudosaurus that ezpoang mentions: Did anyone else notice that it's the EXACT same one that is used in Nana, when Takumi takes Hachi to a Hotel Suite for their first, erm, *rendevous*? He is in the elevator and she says maybe he should wear a disguise so that no one recogizes him, and he imagines himself in the Sudosaurus suit! LOL [/spoiler]
Thanks for responding~!
I wanted to say thanks for this project
It is a really cute story
I've just seen that ch.20 was done by another group called, Yaza World. Wanted to ask what you gonna do? Do the next ch or go on as before? I think it would be sad if you wouldn't go on at all, cuz i really like your work.
I noticed that too, so I wondered if you guys would be releasing soon to counter(?) it. I thought it was a little silly of them: if they wanted to release faster they could have just joined the DV team or somethin. And I really want to read Yazawa's other works that no other groups are releasing yet! Alas...
Anyway, thanks so much for this release!! I've been looking forward to it!
This is Emurii - I'm co-founder and senior translator/editor of YazaWorld... I'd sort of like to address the way that our release of ch. 20 was met.
Dragon Voice, who I have emailed about the issue, has not contacted me about the project. We have received no request to stop translating.
You guys, we're a scanlation group, not thieves! Our decision to take TenNai's slow release calendar into our own hands was reached only after polling showed the demand for it, and was in no way intended to "undermine" DragonVoice.
If DragonVoice really is going to be releasing TenNai in a timely manner, and would like us to move onto a different project, then by all means, let us know. It certainly doesn't make sense for us to be scrambling to release 2 chapters/month while another group does the same exact thing. (Well, with the exception that we don't erase the Japanese sound effects... which is, generally speaking, much preferred by manga fans)
I guess over-all, though -- you guys! Fans!
Chill out!
We're providing the same service as DragonVoice, and there's no particular reason to be hatin'.
I really adore Ai Yazawa sensei's work, my favorite now is NANA. Dying to know more about it, so when I found out you were working on Tenshi nanka ja nai I was soo happy!
Thank you, thank you for everythin and all the hard work!
oh~~ i just finished reading tennai 22! i am soooooo loving it!! cant wait for next chapters!! thank you very much for doing this project! keep up d good work!! love ur other works too!!
People love Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai so much they have to post two threads on it I LOVE Yazawa's work to pieces, she's one author who I know I can always count on to read a great piece of manga. She knows how to hit all the right places, and I have literally cried in every single one of her series (well, that I've read so far). Her work is so good, I don't know how she does it and still keeps coming out with more, and just such good stuff. I fall in love with all her characters, and her sense of style.
Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, at first, I was sort of put off with the drawings because they're just so different from her recent works (well, it's be 15+ years, so I can't say I'm surprised); she's definitley improved her drawing skills. But, soon, the fact that the drawing gets better doesn't even matter- you get so engrossed into the story, and you're just downloading chapter after chapter that you realized you read the whole series in one sitting. It's def. one of my favorites, and although I'm in agony for the next chapter, I'm so happy and really grateful that you guys picked this up as your project- you guys seriously rock my world.
(Haha, this post is more on Yazawa than Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, but I'm just so happy, and my eyes are so swollen, that I just kinda blabber.)


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The ruling Chinese Communist Party continued in 2010 to suppress dissent and strengthen its security apparatus while neglecting institutional reforms that would address the root causes of citizens' grievances. During the year, internet censorship and forced evictions increased; judicial procedures in commercial cases showed signs of political intervention; leading human rights lawyers were harassed, disbarred, and "disappeared"; and new regulations made it more difficult for civil society groups to obtain funding from overseas donors. While China's activist community was encouraged by the decision to grant the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to jailed democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese government responded with a crackdown on Liu's associates and widespread censorship of related news. Despite the repressive atmosphere, many citizens continued to defy government hostility and assert their rights to free expression and association.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in mainland China in 1949. Party leader Mao Zedong subsequently oversaw devastating mass-mobilization campaigns, such as the Great Leap Forward (1958–61) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), which resulted in tens of millions of deaths. Following Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping emerged as paramount leader. Over the next two decades, he maintained the CCP's absolute rule in the political sphere while initiating limited market-based reforms to stimulate the economy.
The CCP signaled its resolve to avoid democratization with the deadly 1989 assault on prodemocracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and surrounding areas. Following the crackdown, Jiang Zemin replaced Zhao Ziyang as general secretary of the party. Jiang was named state president in 1993 and became China's top leader following Deng's death in 1997. He continued Deng's policy of rapid economic growth, recognizing that regime legitimacy now rested largely on the CCP's ability to boost living standards. In the political sphere, Jiang maintained a hard line.
Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang as CCP general secretary in 2002, state president in 2003, and head of the military in 2004. Many observers expected Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao to implement modest political reforms to address pressing socioeconomic problems, including a rising income gap, unemployment, the lack of a social safety net, environmental degradation, and corruption. However, while it proved moderately more responsive to certain constituencies—especially the urban middle class—the government continued to exercise tight control over key institutions and intensified repression of perceived threats to the CCP's authority.
In March 2008, the National People's Congress bestowed additional five-year terms on Hu and Wen, while Shanghai party boss Xi Jinping was appointed vice president, setting the stage for him to succeed Hu in 2012. Xi's position as heir apparent was reinforced in October 2010, when he was appointed as deputy chair of the Central Military Commission. Intraparty power struggles related to the upcoming 2012 leadership transition appeared to strengthen hard-liners, contributing to a trend of heightened political repression that had begun in 2008.
In October 2010, jailed democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; he was the first Chinese citizen to receive it. In response, the government engaged in systematic censorship to prevent news of the prize and Liu's activities from circulating inside China. It also harassed and detained dozens of other activists, and refused to allow anyone to travel to the Oslo award ceremony in December to accept the prize on his behalf.
Growing anger over corruption, abuse of power, and injustice fueled tens of thousands of protests during the year, particularly in rural areas. The CCP committed more resources to internal security forces and intelligence agencies, and continued to tighten political control over the judiciary, expand the use of surveillance equipment, and employ a network of extralegal taskforces to coordinate the suppression of grassroots discontent. Conditions in Tibet and Xinjiang, both home to restive ethnic and religious minorities, remained highly repressive in 2010.
Despite government hostility, a growing nonprofit sector provided crucial social services and increased citizens' rights awareness. In addition, bloggers, journalists, legal professionals, workers, and religious believers tested the limits of permissible activity, sometimes effectively asserting the rights to free expression and association. Citizens managed to challenge local-level abuses of power, obtain higher wages, and force the government to acknowledge certain rights violations, like the extralegal detention of petitioners. According to reports by activists and references on official websites, banned political texts continued to circulate, especially online.
The Chinese government showed a growing penchant for strong-arm tactics in its international relations in 2010. Among other actions, it engaged in maritime confrontations near disputed island groups, and used threats of economic retaliation to dissuade foreign governments from participating in the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. Relations between China and Taiwan continued to thaw, however, and the two governments signed an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement aimed at reducing trade barriers.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties:
China is not an electoral democracy. The CCP has a monopoly on political power, and its nine-member Politburo Standing Committee sets government policy. Party members hold almost all top posts in the government, military, and internal security services, as well as in many economic entities and social organizations. The 3,000-member National People's Congress (NPC), which is elected for five-year terms by subnational congresses, formally elects the state president for up to two five-year terms, and confirms the premier after he is nominated by the president. However, the NPC is a largely symbolic body, meeting for just two weeks a year to approve proposed legislation. The country's only competitive elections are for village committees and urban residency councils, which hold limited authority and are generally subordinate to the local CCP committees. The nomination of candidates remains tightly controlled, and many of these elections have been marred by fraud, violence, corruption, and attacks on independent candidates.
Opposition groups like the China Democracy Party (CDP) are suppressed, and members are imprisoned. Democracy advocate and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in December 2009 to 11 years in prison for his involvement in drafting and circulating the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08. Over 100 other individuals associated with Liu were harassed or detained in 2010 after his Nobel award was announced. In October, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China published a partial list of over 1,400 political prisoners, while the San Francisco–based Dui Hua Foundation estimated that 985 new arrests for "endangering state security" were made in 2010. Tens of thousands of people are thought to be held in extrajudicial forms of detention for their political or religious views.
Corruption remains endemic despite increased government antigraft efforts, generating growing public resentment. The problem is most acute in sectors with extensive state involvement, such as construction, land procurement, and banking. There is no independent anticorruption agency, but according to official figures, at least 113,000 officials were investigated and punished by government or CCP entities in 2010. However, prosecution is selective, with informal personal networks and internal CCP power struggles influencing the choice of targets. In May 2010, Huang Guangyu, formerly China's richest man, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery. A series of other cases in 2010 exposed local officials or their children who committed homicides or caused fatalities while driving drunk, then sought to use their privileged position to escape punishment.
CCP officials increasingly seek input from academics and civic groups on pending legislation, though without relinquishing control over the decision-making process. New open-government regulations took effect in 2008, but implementation has been incomplete. Some agencies and local governments have been more forthcoming in publishing accounting details or official regulations; in 2010, authorities in Guangdong published the previously secret provincial budget and expenditures for 2009.However, courts have hesitated to enforce citizens' information requests. Local officials continued to hide vital information on topics including mining disasters, tainted food products, and polluting companies. China was ranked 78 out of 178 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Despite relative freedom in private discussion and journalists' efforts to push the limits of permissible speech, China's media environment remains extremely restrictive. Routinely taboo topics include calls for greater autonomy in Tibet and Xinjiang, relations with Taiwan, the persecuted Falun Gong spiritual group, and any criticism of CCP leaders. Specific party directives in 2010 curbed reporting on the Nobel Peace Prize, public health issues, environmental accidents, tainted food, foreign policy, and other matters. Journalists who fail to comply with official guidance are harassed, fired, or jailed. In 2010, investigative journalists also faced punishment by powerful economic actors, who used connections with local authorities to prompt police intervention on their behalf. Growing violence against journalists is often met with little or no official investigation. This trend culminated with the brutal killing of Sun Hongjie, a reporter from the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post, in December; he had recently reported on the demolition of a factory to make way for government officials' housing, but police claimed the murder was unrelated to his work.
According to international watchdog groups, China tied with Iran in 2010 for the largest number of jailed journalists; the 34 identified were mostly freelancers. In addition, at least 70 cyberdissidents remained imprisoned at year's end for disseminating proscribed information, though the actual number is likely much higher. Throughout the year, particularly harsh punishments were meted out to Uighurs who hosted websites or otherwise circulated information that was critical of the government regarding ethnic violence in Xinjiang in July 2009. In April 2010, two individuals were sentenced to life in prison after a secret trial for translating and posting to the Uighur website Salkin information about a peaceful protest that had preceded the violent outbreak. In July, Uighur webmaster Gheyrat Niyaz was sentenced to 15 years in prison for comments made to a Hong Kong media outlet.
Local officials continue to block, harass, and sometimes assault foreign reporters while intimidating their Chinese sources and assistants. In March 2010, numerous foreign correspondents had their e-mail accounts hacked, and the website of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China was disabled by a denial-of-service attack shortly thereafter. In July, two Polish journalists were denied visas, apparently as punishment for previous reporting that was critical of the Chinese government. Some international radio and television broadcasts, including the U.S. government–funded Radio Free Asia, remain jammed. Foreign outlets including CNN experienced periodic blackouts in 2010 when they reported on Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize or certain content of U.S. diplomatic cables released by the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks.
The population of internet users in China remained the world's largest, reaching 450 million by December 2010, according to official figures. However, the government maintains an elaborate apparatus for censoring and monitoring internet use and personal communications, including via mobile telephones. The authorities block websites or force deletion of content they deem politically threatening and detain those who post the information. In early 2010, the U.S.-based search-engine company Google announced that it was no longer willing to censor the search results on its China version according to CCP instructions, and began redirecting China-based users to its uncensored Hong Kong site instead. In November, activist Cheng Jianping was sentenced without trial to one year in a "re-education through labor" camp in Henan province for sending a message over the banned microblogging platform Twitter in which she jokingly suggested that anti-Japanese nationalists attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. Also during the year, authorities systematically blocked international social-networking and microblogging sites, amended the state secrets law to reinforce service providers' responsibility for policing content,increased restrictions on anonymous communication,and cut off the personal internet and mobile-phone connections of dozens of activists at the time of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. Despite the government's controls, factors including the technology's flexibility, circumvention tools, and the large volume of online communications have allowed many users to access censored content, expose official corruption, mobilize protests, and circulate banned political texts.
The number of religious believers, including Christians, has expanded in recent years. Nevertheless, religious freedom is sharply curtailed, and religious minorities remained a key target of repression during 2010. All religious groups are required to register with the government, which regulates their activities and guides their theology. Some groups, such as Falun Gong and certain Buddhist and Christian organizations, are formally banned, and their members face harassment, imprisonment, and torture. Other unregistered groups, such as unofficial Protestant and Roman Catholic congregations, operate in a legal gray zone, and state tolerance of them varies from place to place. Unregistered Buddhist temples were targeted for demolition during the year. Signs of a potential escalation in the persecution of Christians emerged towards the end of 2010. Prominent Christian activist Fan Yafeng was detained in December, and remained in custody at year's end. Surveillance of Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai increased in advance of the World Expo and dozens of adherents were reportedly detained, with some sentenced to labor camps and prisons. According to Amnesty International, Guo Xiaojun, a former lecturer at Jiaotong University in Shanghai, was taken from his home in January and later sentenced to four years in prison for possessing and distributing Falun Gong-related materials. In early 2010, the CCP also launched a three-year nationwide campaign to intensify efforts to "transform" Falun Gong adherents, a coercive process typically involving physical and psychological torture aimed at forcing them to renounce their beliefs.
Academic freedom remains restricted with respect to politically sensitive issues. The CCP controls the appointment of university officials, and many scholars practice self-censorship to preserve their positions and personal safety. Restrictions on scholars' ability to travel abroad increased in 2010.Political indoctrination is a required component of the curriculum at all levels of education.
Freedoms of assembly and association are severely restricted. Local officials face penalties if they fail to limit the flow of petitioners traveling to Beijing to report injustices to the central government. As a result, petitioners are routinely intercepted, harassed, detained in illegal "black jails," or sent to labor camps. Detained petitioners are reportedly subject to beatings, psychological abuse, and sexual violence. In September 2010, private security firm Anyuanding was found to have been hired by local governments to abduct petitioners and return them to their home localities. After the scandal was reported in the media, several Anyuanding executives were detained and faced criminal charges. Despite such repression, workers, farmers, and others held tens of thousands of protests during the year, reflecting growing public anger over wrongdoing by officials, especially regarding land confiscation, corruption, pollution, and fatal police beatings. Security forces and hired thugs often use excessive force to put down demonstrations. In several instances during 2010, this drove protesters to violently attack symbols of authority, such as police cars and government buildings. In January 2010, thugs armed with machetes and sticks reportedly attacked villagers in Jiangsu who had complained of land grabs, killing a 22-year-old resident. Thousands took to the streets the next day to protest the death, sparking beatings by riot police. In other cases, officials tolerated demonstrations as an outlet for pent-up frustration, or agreed to protesters' demands.
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are required to register and follow strict regulations, including vague prohibitions on advocating non-CCP rule, "damaging national unity," or "upsetting ethnic harmony." Many groups seeking more independence organize informally or register as businesses, though they are vulnerable to closure at any time. While the number of organizations whose work is not politically sensitive continues to expand, restrictions have tightened on those engaged in human rights advocacy or previously tolerated activism on issues like public health. In 2010, the authorities increased harassment of Aizhixing, a Beijing-based group known for its work with HIV/AIDS patients, leading founder Wan Yanhai to flee to the United States in May. A new set of regulations that came into force in March increased the obstacles for grassroots Chinese NGOs to receive donations from abroad, prompting concern that some would be forced to shut down.
The only legal labor union is the government-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Collective bargaining is legal but does not occur in practice, and independent labor leaders are harassed and jailed. Nevertheless, workers have increasingly asserted themselves informally via strikes, collective petitioning, and selection of negotiating representatives. In 2010, workers staged a series of strikes to demand higher wages, primarily at the plants of foreign companies. The strikers made use of social-networking technology and sought help from legal experts. Following the strike actions, provincial governments across the country raised minimum wages. Three labor laws that took effect in 2008 were designed to protect workers, counter discrimination, and facilitate complaints against employers, while also empowering CCP-controlled unions. However, implementation has been undermined by the lack of independent arbitration bodies, a growing backlog of complaints, and the authorities' increased use of informal channels of negotiation. Dangerous workplace conditions continue to claim lives. The official number of workplace accidents during 2010 declined compared with 2008 figures, but the death toll for the year was still high at 79,552. Forced labor, including by inmates in "reeducation through labor" camps and juveniles in government-sanctioned "work-study" programs, remains a serious problem.
The CCP controls the judiciary and directs verdicts and sentences, particularly in politically sensitive cases. Judicial autonomy is greater in commercial litigation and civil suits involving private individuals. However, in 2010, there were several high-profile convictions of people who had obtained seemingly ordinary commercial information related to state-owned enterprises, but were imprisoned for mishandling "state secrets." An annual survey by the American Chamber of Commerce found for the first time that "inconsistent interpretation and application of laws" was the top challenge cited by members. A CCP veteran with no formal legal training was appointed as chief justice in 2008, and he subsequently issued a doctrine emphasizing the "Supremacy of the Cause of the Party" over the law. Multiple observers have noted that previous minor progress toward the rule of law has since stalled or been reversed.
In 2010, the government continued its crackdown on civil rights lawyers, law firms, and NGOs offering legal services. In March, Beijing University cut its ties with the Center for Women's Law Studies and Legal Services, a prominent women's rights advocacy group and public interest law organization. In April, Beijing lawyers Tang Jitian and Liu Wei were permanently disbarred after they represented a Falun Gong practitioner and challenged the basis of the CCP's campaign against the group. Their punishment was a step up from the practice in recent years of temporarily disbarring human rights lawyers by rejecting their annual license renewals. Prominent lawyer Gao Zhisheng remained "disappeared" and at severe risk of torture following his abduction by security forces in 2009. In September 2010, self-trained lawyer Chen Guangcheng was released from serving a four-year prison term for helping victims of forced abortions to file a class-action suit; he remained under tight surveillance following his release.
Despite recent criminal procedure reforms, trials—which often amount to mere sentencing announcements—are frequently closed to the public. Torture remains widespread, coerced confessions are routinely admitted as evidence,and there is impunity for suspicious deaths in custody, prompting a growing public outcry in 2010. In response, judicial authorities in May released a new set of guidelines that prohibit the use of evidence obtained from torture to convict defendants; the extent of their implementation remained unclear at year's end, but credible cases of severe torture continued to be reported. Endemic corruption exacerbates the lack of due process. Many suspects are deprived of court hearings altogether, detained instead by bureaucratic fiat in "reeducation through labor" camps. A 2009 study by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group found that in addition to petty thieves and drug addicts, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, and petitioners constituted a significant percentage of those incarcerated in the camps. The use of various forms of extralegal detention has increased in recent years, including secret jails and psychiatric arrest of petitioners and dissidents. Overall, detention facilities are estimated to hold a total of three to five million people. Conditions are generally harsh, with reports of inadequate food, regular beatings, and deprivation of medical care; the government generally does not permit visits by independent monitoring groups.
Some 68 crimes, including nonviolent offenses, carry the death penalty. Legislative amendments proposed in August 2010 would reduce the number of capital crimes to 55, but the changes had not been adopted at year's end. The number of executions is a state secret but was thought to be close to 5,000 in 2009. Recent reforms requiring the Supreme People's Court to review capital cases have reportedly led to a modest reduction in executions. In 2009, state-run media reported that executed prisoners "provide the major source of [organ] transplants in China." Some experts have also raised concerns over the possible use of those imprisoned for their religious beliefs or ethnic identity as sources for organs.
Security forces work closely with the CCP at all levels.During 2010, the CCP continued to expand its network of extralegal "stability maintenance" offices, including at the neighborhood level and in some enterprises. These agencies are tasked with maintaining the party's monopoly on political power, including by suppressing the peaceful exercise of basic civil liberties. One study by scholars at Tsinghua University estimated that the government had spent 514 billion yuan (US$80 billion) in 2010 on "stability maintenance," nearly equivalent to the country's military budget.
In the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, tightened restrictions that followed violent clashes between Uighurs and members of China's ethnic Han majority in July 2009 remained in place for much of 2010. In the 2009 unrest, police forcibly suppressed a peaceful demonstration in Urumqi by Uighurs seeking justice for Uighur factory workers killed in a brawl with Han employees in southern China. The violent police action sparked clashes between Uighurs and Han residents, and state-run media reported that 197 people were killed, though state censorship and intimidation of witnesses made it difficult to verify such figures. Xinjiang's internet access and international telephone service remained at least partially severed until May 2010, and the number of police and surveillance cameras in the region increased. The crackdown following the clashes included large-scale "disappearances," imprisonment, and executions of Uighurs. Existing political indoctrination programs, curbs on Muslim religious practice, policies marginalizing use of the Uighur language in education, and government efforts to alter the region's demography continued throughout 2010, and in some instances grew worse.
Minorities, the disabled, and people with HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis B face severe societal discrimination. A hukou (household registration) system remains in place, mostly affecting China's 150 million internal migrants. Some local governments have experimented with reforms to allow greater mobility, but citizens continue to face restrictions on changing employer or residence, and many migrants are unable to fully access social services, such as education for their children. In March 2010, a group of 13 newspapers published a joint editorial criticizing the hukou system as corrupt and calling for urgent reforms. The article was deleted from websites within days, and one of the editors involved was forced to resign. Among other restrictions on freedom of movement, dissidents, scholars, and human rights defenders are prevented from traveling abroad or placed under house arrest, particularly at politically sensitive times. Law enforcement agencies continue to seek out and repatriate North Korean refugees, who face imprisonment or execution upon return.
Property-rights protection remains weak in practice, and all land is formally owned by the state. Tens of thousands of forced evictions and illegal land confiscations occurred in 2010, increasing in scale and violence compared with the previous year. Local officials and developers were attempting to take advantage of weaker protections before the anticipated promulgation of implementing regulations for property-rights legislation passed in 2007. Confiscated land was generally used for private development, state-led infrastructure projects, or international events such as the World Expo in Shanghai. Residents who resist eviction, seek legal redress, or organize protests face violence at the hands of local police or hired thugs. Reforms to rural land-use rules announced at the end of 2008 remained on hold in 2010.
China's policy of restricting population growth remains in place. In urban areas, only one child per couple is permitted, while many rural families are limited to two children. Although compulsory abortion and sterilization by local officials are less common than in the past, they still occur fairly frequently. According to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, regulations in 18 of 31 provincial-level administrative units explicitly endorse mandatory abortions as an instrument for enforcing population-control policies. Officials who fail to meet birth and sterilization quotas risk disciplinary action, and relatives of unsterilized women or couples with unapproved pregnancies were subjected to high fines, job dismissal, and detention in special "study sessions" in 2010. These controls and a cultural preference for sons have led to sex-selective abortion and a general shortage of females, exacerbating the problem of human trafficking.
Domestic violence and sexual harassment affect one-third of Chinese families, according to statistics published in 2008 by the CCP-controlled All-China Women's Federation. The government has taken steps in recent years to improve the legal framework related to violence against women, but implementation remains weak. Although several laws prohibit gender discrimination in the workplace, a survey of college graduates published by the China University of Political Science and Law in July 2010 found that nearly 70 percent of the employers encountered by respondents had specific gender requirements.
Explanatory Note:
The numerical ratings and status listed above do not reflect conditions in Hong Kong or Tibet, which are examined in separate reports.


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osi66 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
The "Ideen-Salon" (http://www.ideen-salon.de) is a germany-based non-profit event that helps people to realize their ideas, to help transform their thoughts into words, and then into action.
After two years we are now looking for a new logo that will help to promote the event.
The Ideen-Salon stands in the tradition of 18th/19th century gatherings (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)).
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The "Ideen-Salon" is based in Hamburg, the second-biggest city in Germany. Hamburg is known for being a "port to the world" and lies at the "Elbe" river. Although we do not want to be limited to Hamburg it may be an idea to make a visual connection to the city. But this does not have to be.
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