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Everyone knows that I was adamantly opposed to the passage of Obamacare.
Everyone knows that I was adamantly opposed to the passage of Obamacare. At the time it was being debated I felt that it didn't do anything to really address the issue of healthcare reform, but rather just addressed who was going to pay for coverage within a broken system with spiraling higher costs. And, I still feel the same way. We haven't treated the problem, but merely the symptoms.
But, our president has made it abundantly clear that elections have consequences and he won. And, since the Supreme Court ruled that the legislation was really a tax – something the administration vehemently denied right up until the decision – Obamacare is now the law of the land. So, in all fairness I thought that I should give you a current snapshot of how the government is doing in implementing this new law.
Then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was very prophetic when she stated that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." And now we are finding new things out every day. The biggest parts of the bill were supposed to be in place starting Jan. 1, 2014 – ironically enough after the 2012 election. Now, some of those provisions have already been pushed off for at least another year.
I get asked questions by a lot of people about insurance issues so I have been trying to find out just where we are on several provisions of this new law and quite frankly I haven't had much luck. I have talked with a variety of individuals that are intimately connected to the insurance industry and who are experts in their fields and they just don't know what to tell me.
They all say the same thing – no one really knows what is going to happen. And, that is extremely troubling. The health insurance exchanges (the system where uninsured individuals can purchase health coverage) are supposed to be set up by October of this year. The problem is that over half the states have refused to set up state-run systems which means that the federal government has to have one in place by that time.
It is now May and the October deadline is less than five months away. Do you really think that the federal government is going to be able to develop this new system in that amount of time? If you do then you are much more optimistic than I am.
And then there is this little issue of cost. The Congressional Budget Office, which is a non-partisan federal agency that provides analysis of the federal budget, estimates that it will cost anywhere from $5 to $10 billion just to implement the law. Nothing like giving yourself plenty of "wriggle room." Now remember, that's not the cost of the program itself – that's just the cost to put it in place.
I don't think that most CEOs of businesses would give their folks that kind of leeway in estimating costs. Otherwise they could never accurately control costs. Oh, I forgot, the government doesn't have to worry about that – it's a government program and the government can just print more money.
So, just to recap, we have a law that no one really understands that is supposed to be ready to go in less than five months and the implementation cost is anywhere between $5 and $10 billion. And, on top of that, we are hiring thousands of new government employees called "navigators" at salaries up to $100,000 a year to tell people how to access a system that may or may not be in place when it is supposed to be and that no one even really understands.
I think that this is a fair snapshot of where we are at with Obamacare. It's not a pretty picture but it is what it is. I am at a loss as to what to tell people when they ask me about this new law but when things do get a little clearer I will give you another update. I do have to agree with the president on one point – elections do have consequences. And, we are seeing those consequences play out in a very real manner.
Kevin Wilson writes a weekly column for the Daily News.


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In this edition of the All-In Podcast, Jeff and Eunice talk another come-from-behind victory in Saturday's 2-1 win over Toronto, controversy with the U.S. Women at the Olympics and remember former Fire PDL player Kirk Urso. Then they welcome Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson to talk what's responsible for his impressive run of form, thoughts on replacing a roommate and the FIFA fraternity among MLS players.
Join Chicago Fire Team Writer Jeff Crandall and co-host Eunice Kim as they go ALL-IN with Chicago Fire players, staff and others to talk about the goings on of the club and the soccer world.
Be sure to subscribe to the All-In Podcast on iTunes or on Stitcher Radio.

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- $19 for an online Smart Health: Best Practices to Help You Quit Smoking course ($89.85 value)
This three-hour course helps smokers understand nicotine addiction and clues them into how various smoking-cessation methods work. Students will learn about nicotine addiction's effects on their health, find a cessation method that may work for them, and make a personal plan for quitting, which will include how to deal with smoking triggers.
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CWU Equality Through Queers and Allies (EQuAl) is partnering with the Center for Diversity and Social Justice (CDSJ) to host numerous events to celebrate CWU Pride Week from May 28 to June 1. Events will be occurring all week across the Central campus and Ellensburg community, all of which are free and open to the public.
Pride Week is a celebration of sexual diversity and gender variance and is all about taking a positive stance against discrimination toward the gay community. EQuAl and CDSJ hope to erase homophobia completely by uniting the hetero and homosexual communities with various fun events.
To learn more about Pride Week and to view a list of events, visit www.cwu.edu/diversity/pride-week-2013.


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I've started offering otedama sets again. The first of the improved sets is a cute spring green, white, and eggplant purple with tiny flowers, geometric shapes and ginkgo leaves. If you're not familiar with otedama - it's a traditional Japanese juggling and jacks type game.
Otedama set available for sale here [1].
I made small sets for my child's class, and found making the sets and playing the game quite addictive.
Traditionally the bean bags are filled with beans, but I used stone in case the bags got wet. (Case in point - I gave a set to a friend. The first time trying her set, she plopped a bean bag into her drink. So to make sure the bags last and can be gently washed, I used a natural material that could get wet.)
Other colors and patterns available upon request. <(^.^)>
Blog and Shop: http://ojami.etsy.com [2] and http://ojamiya.com [3]
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Robotics Trial Class(Ages 6-14)
Robotix Institute
Saturday, February 17, 2018 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM (PST)
Event Details
Students try building robots from scratch using Lego WeDo, Lego Mindstorms, VEX and other sets. They will try a visual programming software that will control their robots. Students will develop strong logic thinking and problem solving skills while working on individual projects and taking part in hands-on demonstrations. Parents can see if your kids really like robotics and which class they should take. If you sign up our classes on site, you can get special discount.
Please contact us at email@example.com if you have any questions.
You are welcome to bring your kids to this open house and have fun with them.
机器人学园将在每周六周日在我们的Temple City校区举办机器人体验课活动,活动将呈现机器人学园的教学成果和研发成果。小伙伴可以在我们的学校试玩机器人和体验机器人编程,测试水平及选择适合的课程级别。开放日现场报名课程将享受特殊优惠。
如有问题咨询,请联络邮箱:email@example.com 或致电626-741-5555
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Robotix Institute(Temple City)
5570 Rosemead Blvd, Unit 150
Temple City,
Saturday, February 17, 2018 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM (PST)
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Robotix Institute
"Equip our kids with innovation spirit!"
Who we are
We are a team from Silicon Valley. We bring the spirit of innovation and creative to the little angeles.
Why we do
We dig kids' potential using robots. Robots ignite the mind of kids everywhere. They open the door to the world of science and technology for our kids in a way full of fun.
We set up this school – Robotix Institute, not only because we're engineers but also because the achievement we get from our kids when they discover their gift and get so much excited about turning their imagination into reality.
Our Mission
Our mission is to plant the innovation and creative into kids' brains. We want to inspire generations of big dreamers and great doers. Our dream is that one day in the future these kids will look back and appreciate these robots helping them grow up.
What kids learn
We build step-by-step learning programs for different grades. Each student will start with some basic circuits and structures before advancing to more advanced concepts, such as designing structures and programming. They will be armed with the skills and minds needed to make them go further in their lives.
We offer a variety of workshops from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Python, Minecraft modding, LEGO, Scratch, Darwin Mini, NAO and much more. These interesting workshops are very entertaining, enriching, and inspirational for kids.
Students will even have the option to join our Competition Team, where they can meet and interact with other bright young genius and apply their skill set in a innovative and creative learning environment. We are offering several forms of memberships to meet the needs of different families.
Our Goal
Our goal is to get kids excited about technology with the hope that many of them will become producers of technology in future. We conduct variety of hands-on workshops where children build build circuits, program micro-controllers, program robots, develop mobile apps and etc. We want them to experience and explore technology.
Our Locations
We have chapters in San Gabriel, Irvine (coming soon), and Diamond Bar (coming soon). And what more, we have mobile classroom. Yes! We deliver robotics classes to your locations.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Nov 2007 19:49 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"The leading question most of you are likely wondering is why there hasn't been anymore ATI GPU specifications released in over two months. Well, as we have shared in earlier articles, AMD has had limited staff devoted to sanitizing the documentation and getting it cleared by their legal department for release. However, that is about to change. AMD's John Bridgman has confirmed that they are in the process of hiring new people to do all of the planned documentation and support work that will help the open-source community. Within a couple weeks, these new AMD employees will begin this crusade."


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|Artist: Le Sidaner, Henri 1 of 1
|Small Village: Gerberoy, 1937
Henri Le Sidaner
French, 1862-1939
Oil on canvas
49-3/8 x 59 in. (125.4 x 149.9 cm)
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon
© Norton Simon Art Foundation
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Although Henri Le Sidaner was studying painting under the staunchly academic Alexander Cabanel by the age of twenty, he soon abandoned the tight rigidity of his master's technique for the loose expressions of the contemporary Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Well-traveled in Europe and even America, Le Sidaner finally settled in the small village of Gerberoy in 1900. It is in this picturesque medieval town where the artist found the subject for many of his most charming landscapes. This vision of the village enveloped in lavender hues punctuated by the occasional sparkle of warm yellow brilliantly captures the poetic shifts of light in the gloaming.
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Lavender Graduation
Date and Time
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:30 PM
Kirkhof Center » RM 2204 Pere Marquette
Mission: Celebrating the personal and academic achievements of our students and recognizing their contributions to our campus.
Program: Welcome and remarks, Awards, Keynote Address, Recognition of Graduates, Reception with hors d'oeuvres and music.
Cultural Context
Lavender Graduation is a cultural celebration that recognizes LGBTQIA+ students' contributions to the university and acknowledges their achievements during their college experience. Students are officially recognized by the institution for their leadership, success and achievement.
Historical Context
Lavender Graduation began in 1995 at the University of Michigan to honor the accomplishments of LGBT and ally graduates. Ronni Sanlo, the director of the resource center at that time, believed LGBT students needed their own graduation ceremony like that of other racial and ethnic minorities on campus. Since 1995, campuses across the country have hosted their own Lavender Graduations to honor the accomplishments of LGBT graduates.
The color lavender is important to LGBT history and culture as it is a combination of pink and black: the colors of triangles gay men and lesbians, respectively, were required to wear as prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. The LGBT rights movement reclaimed these symbols of hatred to create a color symbolizing pride and community.


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San Lorenzo have risked the wrath of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) after putting a picture of the new Pope, Francis I, on their shirt for their 1-0 win over Colon.
Fifa rules forbid clubs from having any political or religious comment on playing equipment, which encompasses shirts.
But the club went ahead and left the photo of the new Pope smiling and waving above on their kit for their game on Saturday, which featured its own bit of 'divine intervention' when Ruben Ramirez headed into his own net to give the visitors the victory.
The Holy Father, whose name prior to being elected as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Wednesday went by the name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is from Buenos Aires in Argentina and is a longtime fan of San Lorenzo.
Pope Francis joins the Hollywood actor Viggo Mortensen among the legion of famous fans of San Lorenzo, who are coincidentally nicknamed the Saints.


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Bitcoin price forecast
International stocks are somewhat more cyclical and a whole lot more inflation sensitive. Stocks that seem like a bargain today can have their values halved in a brief time period. Along with unit bias, in addition, it makes it more challenging to see the method by which the price of a single Bitcoin could possibly go up more. The industry price per DCN is forecast to exceed the true bitcoin value as time passes. If you would like to preserve value, you can put money into gold bullion by heading to First Fidelity Reserve. Anything less and your return is going to be diminished by commission expenses. Such returns are also rather plausible.
In the event the economy cannot manage the rise in rates, and the Fed is made to reverse their decision, the cost of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will probably respond positively. The last, dizzying increase of the exchange rate might have been predicted. A rise in value will actually lead to less volume of bitcoins necessary for the transaction. Just a few cents will receive a bitcoin transaction confirmed, and sent to any country in the whole world. In any event, an individual can forecast a bullish dollar during the next several months ahead. By way of example, say if you`ve sent money abroad, you`ve used aSWIFT support. In virtually all economies around the Earth, the money is merely printed without even statistics and economics model.
Investors typically begin searching for some nation or business to carry out well, but for the very first time in 20 decades, there are reduced correlations between different markets act in relation to one another. It`s still too uncertain for the majority of the investors to have a call. A lot of the investors are only holding their holdings patiently in order to learn whether the cryptocurrencies resume their uptrend or not. The reality is that currently, lots of the investors are concerned about putting new money into Bitcoins. Considering that it`s still so relatively affordable, that makes it even more attractive to investors who might be intimidated bybitcoin`s huge price tag. While the investors shall not have the ability to expect exceptional growth in the event of the bull market, they have a tendency to attain stable returns and make wealth in the future with least risk in the equity industry. In addition, the valuations are somewhat more appealing.
If you`re in search for virtual currencies with good return Smart is an excellent option. Through web portals you can readily find out all info required. Although the variety of Bitcoins composed of a block reward is all about to be split into half, Bitcoin value has more than doubled in the last few decades. There are a lot of theories to explain the sudden price boost in 2017 and a number of them have valid merit. Thus individuals that are searching for trading in the share market must make sure they are mindful of the conditions and the mechanism of the share market till they invest their money.
Human Design is a process, which we`ve used for bitcoin price astrological forecast, and it`ll also be on the platform. The creation and performance of futures markets, for example, is anticipated to tilt the price either manner. Business development is never as simple as technologists think. If you obey the strategy as outlined you`ll be able to buy a stock at a discount to the present market price and if not still earn a return that`s above average expectations. Stepping into the investing business you have to be experienced. There can not be any doubt many companies benefit from reduced energy expenses, but a lot of others in the oil company will pay a dear price. What`s more, the providers and manufacturers of the ATM machine are distinct benefits in support difficulties and not as efficient ATMs that is also anticipated to hinder the business.


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Trolloc wrote:Never know what to expect from this team...but a great win considering the circumstances surrounding the trade.
Its a relief to see them able to step up when they need too. A loss tonite would have had alot of haters coming out of the swamp.
We definately got the better of the trade based on tonites play, hopefully they can keep that focus agaitnst the T'wolves.
Xrays negative on Monta.....whew....I was sweating that one, when he was face down on the court.
If they can get this roadtrip to .500, and rally before the all-star break, we could get some momentum heading down the stretch
And. Both Minny and Denver lost today. We're actually ahead of the T-Wolves now.


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Friday afternoon I decided to remove the crosspieces on my roof rack. Using the instructions from http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=5194 and the pictures from http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/303649/3 I set about the task. I'd like to start off by saying I am not the handiest person in the world. I'm maybe a step above Red Green, but that's about all I could safely claim. It seems easy enough, but there are a few pitfalls that can get you if you're unlucky or not careful, especially if you don't have the practical experience to know better. I know a lot of you are more handy than I am, and if you are then this guide is probably uneccesary, but for the rest of us this is what I learned. Without further ado, here is a guide for the technically-challenged like myself on how to (and how not to) remove the cross-pieces on your Vibe's roof rack.
What you will need:
flat-head screwdriver or similar object
phillips screwdriver
two rags, or a rag and some tape
a stool or stepladder
Step 1: Remove the plastic covers at the rear of your car. This can be real easy or it can be real hard. After reading about other people's experiences, I'm convinced it's just luck how easy it will be on your car. The driver's side one was a mighty struggle to remove, while the passenger side one popped right off.
Be sure to wrap your tool of choice (probably a flathead screwdriver) in tape or a rag or something to avoid scratching your paint if you slip. It also wouldn't hurt to lay a clean rag down over the paint itself. Also, do not use a magnetic screwdriver, no matter how tempting it may be. Your body panels are steel and your magnetized screwdriver is naturally attracted to them. It will even go through your paint just to be close to them. I'm planning on ordering some touch-up paint on monday.
First, pry up the outside edge of the plastic cover (the side away from the antenna). Once you get a good grip on it, carefully pull out the tab in the front (see the circle on the first picture). The plastic is flexible enough that you shouldn't damage it. Just don't put all your force in one location or you could snap it. Fortunately this did not happen.
A few notes about this. The yellow body clip that holds the part on is located in the center of the cover, where the X is. There is another tab on the inside, just beyond the edge of the rail on the near side. Pulling the front tab out will help keep this tab from catching while you remove this panel. See the second image for the location of this tab.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the panels popped right off without any fuss. The other one was a lot more work. I tried dmitri's technique (see the link at the top) to no avail. Eventually good old brute force won out, and the piece came off. However, there was a complication.
Remember that yellow body clip that holds on the panel? It is supposed to stay on the panel, and not on your car. If the piece looks like this after you've removed it ...
... you have a bit of a headache ahead of you. That yellow plastic clip will have to be removed and placed on the cover where it belongs before you can put your car back together. If you're lucky then you won't even have to go back to the dealer for another one. If this didn't happen to you then you can go on to step 2.
If your car does look like this, you will need to pry up the clip. I was told after the fact that there is a specialized tool for removing body clips. If you don't have it you can try what I ended up doing. This can be a lot of work, as that clip is a lot stronger than it looks. I ended up using a screwdriver to pry it partway up, then I put the screwdriver through the hole in the side, visible in this picture:
Then, I pried the damn thing loose. It's probably not the smartest way to do it but it worked for me without breaking anything.
After you get the clip out (assuming you don't break it in the process), put it back in the cover. The top and middle rings slide into the mount on the cover. Set it aside until you are ready to reassemble.
Step 2: After you have removed both rear covers, remove the antenna by unscrewing it. Set it aside with all your other parts. You can do this first if you really want to, it doesn't matter. This step is so easy I'm not going to provide a picture of it.
Step 3: Make sure your rear hatch is closed. Using a phillips screwdriver, remove the retaining screws that keep the cross-pieces from coming all the way out. It is located about here:
Step 4: Loosen all 4 bolts holding the rear cross-piece in place. Don't loosen them too much, or the metal plates that push against the rail to hold the cross-piece in place will come out when you remove it. If one of those metal pieces does come out, slip it back in as shown, and tighten the bolt through it so it won't come out.
Standing behind the car on a stepstool, pull the crosspiece back using even pressure on both sides. If you pull just one side you won't get very far. It will catch on the antenna mount, but the roof is flexible enough that it won't be a problem. Just pull it across it, and out the back of the rail. Oh, and watch your balance. Repeat for the front rail. Set them aside for later storage. Under the bed is a good, safe place for them.
Step 5: Replace the rest of the parts you just took off. Screw back in the retaining screws (I know they're not holding anything in anymore, but they won't get lost this way), screw back in the antenna, and replace the rear covers. The easiest way to put the rear covers back on is to insert the front tab first, then, making sure it is lined up properly, press down on the cover until it snaps back into place. (If you were unluck enough to have broken something taking it off then obviously this isn't going to work. Go see your Pontiac dealer.) If it goes down outside the rubber trim, then raise the rear hatch, and pull the trim into place starting from the inside of the car. After this, sit back and enjoy your car's new look. Maybe take a few pictures or something.


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U.S. crude futures may test $100 a barrel this week - possibly breaching triple digits - after an attack against a gas facility in OPEC member Algeria on Wednesday escalated into an international hostage crisis, leading to renewed fears that supply may be disrupted in other politically-unstable parts of North and West Africa.
Algerian troops found 25 bodies of hostages at the bomb-littered In Amenas gas plant deep in the Sahara desert on Sunday, a day after ending a four-day siege, a security source said, raising the death toll of militants and their captives to at least 80, Reuters reported.
Around 30 foreigners - including American, British, French, Japanese, Norwegian and Romanian citizens - are among those missing or confirmed dead after the siege, one of the worst international hostage crises in decades. One-eyed veteran Islamist fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed responsibility on Sunday for the attack on behalf of al Qaeda, Reuters said.
The militants seized the base on Wednesday, capturing a plant that produces 10 percent of Algeria's natural gas exports, and demanded an end to French air strikes against Islamist fighters in neighboring Mali that had begun five days earlier.
(Read More: Miners in Mali Dodge Conflict, Risks 'Manageable' for Now)
"On the risk premium, we're likely to see Brent edge up a bit - bearing in mind that there's already a 10-15 percent perceived political risk premium in a price of $111-ish," Alastair Newton, senior political analyst at Nomura said.
In the aftermath of the hostage crisis, Tom Price, global commodity analyst for UBS said $100 a barrel was "a possibility" for U.S. crude futures this week and any move higher may spill over to Brent crude, lifting that benchmark possibly beyond $115.


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1960s Weekend Trolleyday
Sunday, May 28 11:00AM
Open Spring Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 11.00am to 5.00pm each day (last admission 4.00pm)
This weekend's events are presented by the British Trolleybus Society
What's happening this weekend:
A special 1960s-themed weekend presented by the British Trolleybus Society, with a range of events and activities spread over the three days - and a good selection of trolleybuses to ride on.
Please be aware that circumstances beyond our control may necessitate the cancellation or closure of any activity, facility or attraction.
Special features for the weekend (Note: different events and activities happen on different days)
On Saturday, 27 May 2017:
It is planned that Glasgow trolleybus no.TB78 will be in use as a tribute to that city's trolleybus system, which closed exactly 50 years ago today.
A group of visitors will enter into the spirit of the weekend's theme by dressing in a 1960s style. Why not join in? We encourage visitors on any of these days to wear something or bring something which recalls the 1960s.
On Sunday, 28 May 2017:
It is planned that Walsall trolleybus no.872 will be re-launched into service and will then be in use, for visitors to ride on, for the first time in many years. It is also planned that single-deck Wellington trolleybus no.82 will also be in use to recreate a scene "When 872 met 82", based on no.82's operation on trial in Walsall on 25 November 1963 prior to being exported to New Zealand.
Dave Hall will be in the Regal Cinema presenting a range of shows with the subjects Glasgow trolleybuses, Walsall trolleybuses and the histories of the British Trolleybus Society and the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft.
We encourage visitors coming today to wear something or bring something which recalls the 1960s.
On Bank Holiday Monday, 29 May 2017:
It is planned that the "When 872 met 82" scene (as done on Sunday) will be repeated.
Dave Hall will again be in the Regal Cinema presenting a range of shows with the subjects Glasgow trolleybuses, Walsall trolleybuses and the histories of the British Trolleybus Society and the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft.
We encourage visitors coming today to wear something or bring something which recalls the 1960s.
To support the 1960s theme over the whole weekend, Bob Ashton will be giving presentations about pirate radio.
Visit our Facebook page for the latest information about this weekend
Our normal attractions include:
- Selection of trolleybuses in operation to ride on
- In-house 5-rated cafe serving made-to-order meals, delicious home-made cakes and hot and cold drinks
- Vintage motorbus guided tour of surrounding local area (the Isle of Axholme) **
- "The Trolleybus During the First Wold War" exhibition
- Trolleybus displays
- 1950s/ 60s shop window displays
- The period Sunbeam cycle shop exhibition
- 1950s Prefab "home" display
- Audio-visual presentations in the "Regal" lecture theatre
- Children's full-sized trolleybus "Have a Go at Driving" simulator (located in the café)
- Guided tours of vehicles in the main depot building
- Souvenir shop
- Gardens & nature trail
** These motor bus tours operated by the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft are provided free of charge and admission to the Trolleybus Museum is neither required nor granted by the use of these tours or any other free bus service provided by the Trolleybus Museum and payment for admission to the Trolleybus Museum is not a condition of carriage.
Ample FREE parking (including for coaches)
Admission prices this weekend:
Note: Our admission prices include a 10% (rounded up) gift aid donation
Adult: £8.00 - "Adult" is defined as a person aged 17 to 60 inclusive and who is not eligible to be classified as a "Concession" (see below).
Senior £7.00 - "Senior is defined as a person aged 61 or over and who is not eligible to be classified as a "Concession" (see below)
Concession £6.00 - "Concession" is defined as the following:
- a child aged 5 to 16 inclusive
- a person who is registered as disabled
- a person acting as a carer for a (or a group o) disabled person(s) also visiting the Museum
- a university student (student union ID must be produced)
Under-5s Free
Family £25.50 - "Family" is defined as a party of 2 adults (they may be either "Adults" or "Seniors") accompanied by up to 4 "Concessions"
THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL CHARGES! Our admission prices are all-inclusive, so it include ALL trolleybus and motorbus rides, and will admit visitors to ALL available exhibitions and attractions.
Dogs are welcome but must be kept under control and on a lead. Please note that (apart from guide and other assistance dogs) they are not permitted in certain buildings, including the café and the souvenir shop. For the security and comfort of passengers, it will be at the discretion of the conductor whether a dog may be allowed on a trolleybus or motorbus. We endeavour to provide bowls of water for dogs – please ask a Museum official if these are empty or not obviously available!.
Public transport links
We regret that there are NO public transport links to the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft today.
Note: There is a FREE link to a scheduled bus service at Epworth on SATURDAY and a FREE bus service from Doncaster Interchange direct to the Trolleybus Museum on B ank Holiday MONDAY.
Advertised free bus services are operated by Sandtoft Transport Centre Limited. Payment for admission to the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft is not a condition of carriage.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft this weekend!Location: The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft


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The AIDS Generation
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has promised an AIDS-free generation. HIV-AIDS might no longer be the death sentence it used to be, but many millions of people are still living with the virus. Rear Vision looks back on the origins of HIV-AIDS and the struggle to contain it.
Hillary Clinton (archival): So many people all over the world have not been satisfied that we have done enough. And I am here to set a goal for a generation that is free of AIDS.
Ian Townsend: Since AIDS was discovered 30 years ago, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes it, HIV, has infected more than 60 million people and killed nearly half of them.
Recently, at an international AIDS conference in Washington, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, promised that an AIDS-free generation was around the corner.
Hillary Clinton (archival): This is a fight we can win. We have already come so far, too far to stop now. Let me begin by defining what we mean by an AIDS-free generation: it is a time when, first of all, virtually no child anywhere will be born with the virus. (Applause)
Ian Townsend: Hello, I'm Ian Townsend and welcome to Rear Vision on RN, Radio Australia and the web.
Around the world, 34 million people are now living with HIV/AIDS. Two-thirds of them are in Africa and one in ten is a child, and so a final push is underway to get the new generation of anti-HIV drugs to every person known to have the virus.
Thanks to those new drugs, HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence it used to be in developed countries such as Australia. The remarkable advances over the years in drug research have helped a former teacher from Melbourne, David Menadue, live with HIV for three decades.
David Menadue: My estimate may be that it was 1982 I picked it up, because I had a strange flu-like thing happen to me when I was in Sydney for Mardi Gras. And so I think probably that means, you know, seven years; '89 I developed a pneumonia that's peculiar to HIV called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and I was told I probably had about a year to live. But fortunately that wasn't the case.
Ian Townsend: The HIV virus, too, has been a great survivor. It originated in chimpanzees in central Africa, from a virus called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, and new research has now discovered when the chimpanzee virus, SIV, jumped to humans, evolved into the human virus, HIV-1, and started one of the world's deadliest pandemics.
Professor of infectious disease at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, Dr Jacques Pepin, has traced it all back to one hunter in central Africa nearly a century ago.
Jacques Pepin: And we believe that the first case, the one who started the pandemic, was probably a hunter, or if not the hunter maybe the hunter's wife. This person probably injured himself or injured herself while cutting out the chimpanzee meat and then the virus was transmitted from the chimpanzee to the first human being.
This event, the first cross-species transmission event, occurred at some point in the first three decades of the twentieth century, so somewhere between 1908 and 1921.
Ian Townsend: Those dates come from mathematical modelling, based on the time it takes for genes in the virus to change and then working back from today's HIV and SIV viruses to see when they had a common ancestor. It's a calculation based on what's called a molecular clock. Dr Pepin's molecular clock says the most likely date for the crossover was the decade or so before 1921.
After that first person was infected, a series of unfortunate events helped the virus spread. In the 1920s and '30s, the colonial powers in Central Africa, particularly the French and the Belgians, began big public health campaigns, going from village to village, identifying sick people and injecting them with drugs.
Jacques Pepin: And these injections were done with syringes and needles that were constantly reused without proper sterilisation. So I believe that that first, very first, case—the hunter or maybe the hunter's wife—was treated in the village for some tropical disease and through the injections there was transmission to other patients who were receiving similar treatments at the same place at the same time.
And then at some point an infected person managed to reach one of the emergent cities of the region, of central Africa. In these cities, and especially so in Leopoldville, which was the capital of the Belgian Congo, for a number of reasons there was a very substantial excess in the number of adult males compared to the number of adult women and that drove the development of prostitution within these cities.
When an infected person reached the city and managed to transmit the virus sexually to a prostitute that would set the stage for the second component of the amplification, and this time it was the sexual transmission.
Newsreel voiceover (archival): Violence and chaos in the Congo. Barely eleven days after official independence from Belgium, Congolese troops mutinied and began a wave of attacks and looting throughout the far-flung sectors of the former colony.
Jacques Pepin: From the Congo it eventually managed to spread to Haiti. It was a consequence of the chaos that followed the independence of the Congo in 1960. So basically the health system, the school system and so on collapsed and they had to be replaced with Haitians. And about four-and-a-half thousand of them went to work in the Congo for several years.
Newsreel voiceover (archival): …reign of terror, a harsh awakening to reality from golden dreams of independence.
Jacques Pepin: We think it probably arrived in Haiti at the end of the 1960s, maybe '67 or '68, and about three years later it travelled from Haiti to the US. It probably arrived in the US around 1971. And then on average, after you get infected the incubation period for the development of AIDS is about ten years on average. So cases of AIDS started developing in the late 1970s, but by 1981 they were accumulating to such a point that some doctors in California recognised that there was a new disease going on over there.
Journalist (archival): A newly discovered form of cancer which affects male homosexuals is causing concern in the United States. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, the disease appears to affect those who take drugs and is sexually transmitted. Terry Hughes in New York is speaking to the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Duke University in North Carolina, Dr Durack.
David Durack (archival): The Centers for Disease Control received a surprising number of case reports of young homosexual males who'd previously been perfectly healthy…
Ian Townsend: Dr David Harrich, now an HIV researcher at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, was in Los Angeles when doctors first noticed clusters of rare cancers.
David Harrich: Dr Michael Gottlieb in 1981 had identified five men and termed the disease as AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, because nobody knew what was causing this. And one thing they noticed was that these people got pneumocystis pneumonia, which is really unheard of in the general population. And all these men were getting very sick and nobody knew what was the cause.
David Durack (archival): Some of them developed a very unusual skin tumour called Kaposi's sarcoma, while others developed pneumocystis pneumonia, which is a rather rare type of pneumonia that usually occurs in compromised patients; that is, patients whose first defences have been debilitated in some way. Now, what we don't know is whether all homosexuals are at risk for it, and our guess is probably not. We feel that probably it is a subgroup who are predisposed in some way, possibly by their genetic makeup, possibly by drugs, possibly by a virus.
Ian Townsend: Back in Australia, the virus was already infecting people, but no one knew it at the time. David Menadue was living in Melbourne in the early 1980s.
David Menadue: The first Australian case occurred in 1983, an American tourist in Melbourne. And we in the gay community particularly—because we knew we were the most at risk for whatever reason, we didn't know why—but people in the gay community felt, 'Oh well, we haven't been to America,' or you know, 'We haven't had sex with an American. We must be okay,' which was rubbish of course, because it was circulating in our society in the early '80s. And we know people who picked it up in the early '80s. Their blood tests have shown that they've had it since the early '80s, maybe even the late '70s.
Journalist (archival): The French team, working at the Pasteur institute in Paris, announced last week what it believes is probably the cause of AIDS, a virus they call 'LAV', short for lymphadenopathy virus. Now the Americans have come up with their own candidate, a virus they call 'human T-cell lymphotropic virus 3' or HTLV-3.
One of the questions now is whether LAV and HTLV-3 are actually the same thing. Independent scientists say there's a fair chance they are. Assistant Secretary for Health in the Reagan administration, Edward Brandt:
Edward Brandt (archival): That will allow us to do two things. One, it will allow us to screen for transfusions. Second is that we should be able to develop a vaccine over the next few years; it's not something that's going to happen right away.
Ian Townsend: That was 1984. While that vaccine is still eluding researchers, a test for the HIV virus came out fast. In Melbourne, David Menadue wasn't feeling well and decided to get the test.
David Menadue: So I went in in October and I got the positive result and I thought, 'Oh well, if I am everybody else must be.' And that was the rude shock I got, because not only were quite a lot of my friends who tested negative, a whole lot of my friends wouldn't get tested because they thought 'What's the point? There are no treatments, I'm just going to experience this huge amount of stress knowing I'm HIV positive and I might lose my job or I might be discriminated against. So I won't test.' Because I was one of the first people, I felt very lonely.
Ian Townsend: Over in the United States, though, the number of AIDS patients was growing more rapidly and sparking a lot of frantic research. David Harrich was in Los Angeles working as a research assistant at UCLA, looking at this newly discovered virus under a microscope.
David Harrich: And at that time there were no therapies for HIV, there were no drugs, and we really didn't know very much about the virus or how it was transmitted or what it could do. And so I started in a lab that at the time was pretty risky. By 1985, Dr Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier in the Pasteur Institute and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi had identified the virus. And so we knew what it was, but we really needed all the tools to get at how it grew in people; you know, what it required.
Ian Townsend: What was it like back then? There must have been a great element of uncertainty about what on earth this was.
David Harrich: Well, it was an open book. We didn't… as a molecular biologist we want to know… These viruses are parasites, essentially. They have to get into a cell and use the cellular machinery so that they can replicate themselves. And we needed to find out what the cellular factors were and how they helped the virus and what were the essential… We didn't even know what the essential viral genes were at the time. So we were nutting those out one at a time and figuring out how they all worked. So that took quite a few years.
David Menadue: My doctor said I was diagnosed and I didn't know whether to be shocked or what. I mean, everybody knew that AIDS killed people and I said, 'What do you think my chances are?' And he said, 'Well, we think at this stage it'll be a bit like hepatitis B, you know, where you can develop antibodies and never actually go on to get the illness itself.' And I thought, oh well, ten per cent chance is what he was saying of me actually getting AIDS. I thought 90 per cent; I was in my early thirties and I was feeling a bit impervious to disease or anything that was going to bring me down. And I felt, oh, that'll be all right.
But of course as the '80s unfolded we discovered that possibly more like 100 per cent of people were going to get AIDS, because the virus didn't… antibodies didn't work to the virus in your body.
David Harrich: I think there was a sense of urgency. There wasn't a fear among the research workers, because we knew how to protect ourselves, so that was not a problem. And there had been very few incidences of research workers becoming infected—there's been a couple of cases, but it's very rare. So we knew what we were doing at the time, yeah.
Ian Townsend: So what were the treatments available back in '85?
David Harrich: None. Zero. It wasn't until 1986, and I think it became FDA-approved in 1987, that we had the first drug, which was AZT.
David Menadue: The later '80s, early '90s was what I'd call a period of desperation, because doctors just could not save people and people were dying every month and I was going to a funeral every month. And… 'People were dying every month'—what am I saying?—every week, sometimes every day, in hospitals.
And the community didn't quite know how to get the level of response they needed. Like, we needed a drug called AZT funded, we thought. We thought it was going to be a great saviour drug—it turned out to be quite flawed. But…
So you had a group called ACT UP, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, which was doing a lot of stirring, shall we say, in the community. I mean, in Melbourne they ripped up the floral clock and put little crosses there. And that sort of thing, that sort of activist protest, which of course brought the ire of a lot of the press for the irresponsibility but actually kind of worked, because the drug laws in this country were very restrictive and people were dying. We didn't accept that.
So people got to the streets and said, 'No, you'll have to overhaul this, you have to change it and try and save lives.' And fortunately the government did.
Ian Townsend: And you mentioned that AZT was flawed?
David Menadue: Absolutely. There was a huge backlash against it, because people started to think that AZT was actually causing people's deaths rather than helping people. Because it was being used at a really high dose—it's still used in some places; not in Australia very much but in developing countries, but at a much lower dose. What we didn't realise is it was stripping the fat and muscle off people. It was contributing to that. I mean, HIV does that anyway, but it was accelerating the process.
Ian Townsend: This is Rear Vision on ABC RN and Radio Australia. I'm Ian Townsend and we're looking at the origins of HIV/AIDS and the struggle to deal with the pandemic.
Back in the mid 1980s, as researchers were pulling the virus apart to see how it worked, out in the community there was ignorance and fear.
David Menadue: You know, I remember a headline in the Melbourne Truth, 'Die you deviant', because a gay man had gone into a blood bank—I think it was actually in Queensland—and donated blood, not knowing he was HIV positive. And then it was later discovered that that infected a number of babies. And, you know, the suggestion that the person himself was the villain became part of that kind of 'us and them' thinking that a lot of positive people had, that everyone thought we were the vectors of transmission, so therefore we had to be stopped in our tracks.
And I was really distressed and highly stigmatised to hear, see front page stories from some of the more unenlightened commentators saying that we needed to be quarantined, and hospital workers refusing to give food to patients, to actually walk in their rooms. And that sort of overreaction in society, it needed leadership to hose that down and I'm very glad that we got that. I'm very glad that the government at the time saw fit to take a practical view of this, try and educate the community about what the actual risks were. I mean, it was the Grim Reaper campaign, of course, I'm particularly talking about that took the public's imagination or fear or whatever, but it took their attention.
Grim Reaper advertisement (archival):'At first only gays and IV drug users were being killed by AIDS, but now we know every one of us could be devastated by it. The fact is, over 50,000 men, women and children now carry the AIDS virus, that in three years nearly 2000 of us will be dead. But if not stopped, it could kill more Australians than World War II. But AIDS can be stopped and you can help stop it. If you have sex, have just one safe partner or always use condoms. Always.'
David Menadue: We would sit in front of the Grim Reaper campaign and laugh at it, because that was our way of treating it with black humour, because we felt the Grim Reaper was us. It wasn't a virus; it was representing positive people with our little skeletal cheeks and our skinny arms and legs. And so we would make a joke about it.
And that was a good thing for our mental health, but then people in my group—and we had about 30 in it at one stage—started to die. And so every funeral you went to you thought, 'Well, am I going to be next?' And it's an awful factor, I suppose, but you would look around and say, 'Well, who's looking well today?' It was that sort of stuff, and I knew people were thinking the same thing for me. And many years later people told me they thought many times I was going to go. And that's… that was just the way it was. There was no real way of stopping what was going on until the mid-'90s when we had a whole new lot of treatments.
David Harrich: Over the years, I would say in the last ten years, there's just been an explosion of HIV drugs and combination drugs. So there's still a lot of research into various combinations, trying to get the anti-viral drugs down to a manageable number and a manageable number of pills a day. So it used to be you had to have an entire cabinet and organise your pills as to what you… whether you took it… you might have 20 pills a day and some in the morning and some in the afternoon, some with food some not on food. You almost needed a bachelor's degree of science to understand how you took all these pills.
David Menadue: Literally every four hours. I would have to get up at 4am in the morning and then again at 8am and so forth all through the day. And I was overdosing myself on this drug, because they didn't understand the drug troughs meant there were times during the night, for instance, that it didn't matter, that your drug levels were high or that they've carried on through your blood system in different ways than they understood.
So a lot of us ended up with blood transfusions and really low blood counts from taking these toxic drugs. And really all through the '90s there were some incredible side effects, like problems with your pancreas and extreme diarrhoea. And a lot of people didn't want to take the pills because they saw how awful the side effects were.
Ian Townsend: Why does it take so many drugs to keep it under control?
David Harrich: Well, HIV can become resistant to a single drug in days if not a week because it grows so rapidly. And it's a virus that is known to be error-prone, so what that means is as it's copying the RNA, occasionally it makes a mistake. HIV will make one, two or three mistakes each and every time.
But when it's making ten to the tenth virus particles… so that's an astronomical number—in each day if you're untreated, HIV is making ten to the tenth copies of itself—ten to the tenth. If it makes a change once in every position, eventually it will come up with a way or a mutation in a protein that makes it resistant to the drug.
Ian Townsend: So it was evolving?
David Harrich: Oh, HIV, that's what HIV is very good at. It's a very adaptive virus. It's very adaptive with respect to drug therapy, it's very adaptive with respect to immune responses, and so it's a very tricky customer. So as it comes across obstacles to replication it comes up with solutions and it's very good at it.
David Menadue: In 1996 we had a group of drugs called protease inhibitors and even today they are called the nuclear bombs of anti-HIV treatment. Most people don't go on them first, because they have certain side effects, which we discovered later. You know, in the '90s as we started to develop little pot tummies and high cholesterol and high triglycerides and a lot of diarrhoea and so forth, these drugs were flawed as well, but they were much more effective at keeping people alive.
So, I'm still on some of those protease inhibitors, but they've improved so much. And now we have a whole new lot of generations of drugs that are completely different and virtually side effect free. The longer you're on them of course you need to monitor things like your kidneys and your liver and so forth, but as a general rule it's a chronic manageable disease now and the HIV drugs have made it so.
Ian Townsend: But an actual vaccine or cure has remained elusive. For many years people stopped talking about a cure because the virus managed to beat every attempt to eradicate it.
So it came as a surprise when one man was cured in 2007, after having a bone marrow transplant. His case has recently come to light, and he's now known as 'the Berlin Patient'.
Journalist (archival): His name is Timothy Ray Brown, a 45-year-old man now living in the Bay Area who tested positive for HIV back in 1995 but who now has entered the scientific journals as the first man in world history to have his HIV completely eliminated from his body. It's what doctors call a 'functional cure'.
He was living in Berlin, Germany, in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukaemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant that had astounding results.
Timothy Ray Brown (archival): I quit taking my HIV medication on the day that I got the transplant and haven't had to take any since.
Journalist (archival): It's amazing.
Timothy Ray Brown (archival): Yeah. The leukaemia came back…
David Harrich: The Berlin Patient; this is the first and only person cured from the disease. He had HIV and he came down with leukaemia. And his German doctor fortunately didn't know a lot about HIV at the time and just thought, 'Well, you know what, he needs a bone marrow transplant; let's give him bone marrow from a person that's a match, that has this gene mutation…' So this gene mutation makes your cells resistant to HIV.
And they gave him a bone marrow transplant from such a person, treated him, and five years later now, without drugs for five years, he has no HIV at all. He's the first person to be cured of HIV. But this is along the lines of gene therapy, except that it's natural gene therapy because it's a natural mutation. Probably one… you could think one downside of this therapy is that he's now on immunosuppressive drugs, because he has a bone marrow transplant. So it's not a perfect solution at all, but it's encouraging that there is a possibility to cure HIV.
Ian Townsend: David Harrich at QIMR is part of a worldwide effort looking for a cure for AIDS, using new tools in gene therapy and stem cells. The idea is to modify human cells with a gene mutation that makes those cells resistant to HIV infection.
David Harrich: And then when you have enough of these cells and you reintroduce them back into the patient—so it's the patient's own cells—they then develop into an entire immune system or immune cells that are now resistant to the virus that they harbour. So it gives them a chance actually to be cured of HIV, or if HIV remains it still allows you… HIV doesn't necessarily kill you. What happens is it's immune depletion and you become susceptible to a lot of other infectious diseases and cancers. So that would allow you then to deal with those potential threats and presumably HIV would slowly disappear anyway because it couldn't grow. So that's sort of a… that's a future aim of ours and we're working on that today in the lab.
Ian Townsend: Meanwhile, David Menadue has, remarkably, survived for almost as long as the virus has had that name, HIV.
David Menadue: Twenty-eight years. Look, I don't have any particular reason to ascribe to that, but I do think good medical advice over the years, good fortune, really, to be able to stay alive long enough to take those treatments in the mid-'90s. They were the things that really saved me. I was up to about six AIDS-defining illnesses then and, look, everyone said, 'Your next one is going to be too much.' And, look, so many of my friends went in that period and they still live with me and that period and that grief still lives with me. But some of us were lucky and unfortunately some of us weren't… and anyway…
Ian Townsend: AIDS survivor David Menadue ending today's Rear Vision. Our other guests were Dr David Harrich of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, and Professor Jacques Pepin from Sherbrooke University in Canada.
Today's sound engineer is Peter McMurray and I'm Ian Townsend. Thanks for listening.
- David Menadue
- Has been living with HIV/AIDS for 28 years.
- Dr David Harrich
- Leader of the HIV Molecular Virology Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
- Dr Jacques Pepin
- Professor of microbiology and infectious diseases at Canada's Université de Sherbrooke.
- Title
- The Origin of AIDS
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- Jacques Pepin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Title
- Positive
- Author
- David Menadue
- Publisher
- Allen and Unwin
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- Producer
- Ian Townsend.
Comments (2)
Peter Gerard :
12 Aug 2012 6:41:10pm
I listened with interest to this program on HIV infection. Your interviewee made a couple of comments which I'd like to reply to:
Fisrt, It is my understanding that HIV was introduced into Australia[ index case] by an homosexual Australian returning home after a trip to San Fransico in 1982.
Second, he briefly referred to the case of an homosexual[ unknownly a HIV carrier ] who donated blood which subsequently infected several infants. He excused this act on the basis that the person in question hadn't been tested[ that is hadn't bothered] for HIV infection. The interviewee mentioned the fact that he, himself, had been tested and found to be HIV positive at around the same time, so the test on an individual basis was available. At that time, because there was no effective screening test for HIV in donated blood, the Red Cross Blood Transfusion service asked all potential donors to fill out a questionnaire which asked, among other questions, if the donor had been involved in same-sex relationships. I remember well publicised reports of gay men, who obviously lied when filling out the form, donating blood which, in some cases, resulted in the transfusion of infected blood and HIV infection in the recipients.
Back in the early 1980's, I found this 'in your face' attitude of some gay men to be repugnant, reflecting a reckless disregard for the well being of other people. It still colours my view of homosexual and gay marriage issues.
Michael Barnett :
21 Aug 2012 11:54:56pm
You're entitled to your opinion about "homosexual and gay marriage issues".
There may be some repugnant homosexual people in the world.
More than likely though, there are significantly more repugnant heterosexual people.


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Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic together with Eric Bina in 1992 and 1993. Mosaic was the first browser to really bring the internet to the masses, thanks to its easy installation and usable interface; an interface which has remained more or less unchanged ever since. Mosaic was also the first browser to render images inline. Contrary to popular belief, however, Mosaic wasn't the first graphical browser.
Still, Mosaic became popular, and in the end formed the basis for Netscape, whose parent company was founded by Marc Andreessen. As we all know, Netscape played a major role in popularising the web, a role it had to relinquish to Internet Explorer. Netscape still lives on though through Firefox, the browser which reignited the browser wars thanks to being a better product than Internet Explorer 6.
So, Marc Andreessen knows his browsers. He was a key player in the history of two of the most important browsers, so when he decides to put his weight behind a new browser project, you can be sure people will notice. RockMelt, as the project is called, is currently nothing more than a web page, and Andreessen is very reluctant to say anything about it. What we do know is that several people from one of his former companies - Opsware - are involved, and that at least one of them worked at Netscape too, back in the day.
Just yet another browser project to keep an eye on.


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1844Enter the King [and Gloucester, meeting Bedford].
1845King Henry
Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
1846The greater therefore should our courage be.--
1847Good morrow, brother Bedford. God almighty,
1848There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
1849Would men observingly distill it out.
1850For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,
1851Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
1852Besides, they are our outward consciences
1853And preachers to us all, admonishing
1854That we should dress us fairly for our end.
1855Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
1856And make a moral of the devil himself.
1858Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham.
1859A good soft pillow for that good white head
1860Were better than a churlish turf of France.
Not so, my liege. This lodging likes me better,
1862Since I may say "Now lie I like a king."
1863King Henry
'Tis good for men to love their present pains.
1864Upon example so, the spirit is eased,
1865And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt
1866The organs, though defunct and dead before,
1867Break up their drowsy grave and newly move
1868With casted slough, and fresh legerity.
1869Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. -- Brothers both,
1870Commend me to the princes in our camp.
1871Do my good morrow to them, and anon
1872Desire them all to my pavilion.
We shall, my liege.
Shall I attend your grace?
1875King Henry
No, my good knight,
1876Go with my brothers to my lords of England.
1877I and my bosom must debate awhile,
1878And then I would no other company.
The lord in heaven bless thee, noble 1880Harry.
Exeunt [all but King Henry, who disguises himself in Erpingham's cloak].
1881King Henry
God-a-mercy, old heart; thou speak'st 1882cheerfully.
Enter Pistol.
Che vous la?
1884King Henry
A friend.
Discuss unto me: art thou officer, or art thou 1886base, common, and popular?
1887King Henry
I am a gentleman of a company.
Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
1889King Henry
Even so. What are you?
As good a gentleman as the emperor.
1891King Henry
Then you are a better than the king.
The king's a bawcock and a heart of gold, a 1893lad of life, an imp of fame, of parents good, of fist 1894most valiant. I kiss his dirty shoe, and from 1895heartstring I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
1896King Henry
Harry le Roy.
Leroy? A Cornish name; art thou of Cornish crew?
1898King Henry
No, I am a Welshman.
Know'st thou Fluellen?
1900King Henry
Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate upon 1902Saint Davy's day.
1903King Henry
Do not you wear your dagger in your cap 1904that day, lest he knock that about yours.
Art thou his friend?
1906King Henry
And his kinsman too.
The fico for thee then.
1908King Henry
I thank you. God be with you.
My name is Pistol called.
Exit [Pistol].
1910King Henry
It sorts well with your fierceness.
Captain Fluellen.
'So! In the name of Jesu Christ speak fewer! It 1915is the greatest admiration in the universal world when 1916the true and aunchient prerogatiffs and laws of the 1917wars is not kept. If you would take the pains but to 1918examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, 1919I warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-babble 1920in Pompey's camp. I warrant you, you shall find 1921the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and 1922the forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty 1923of it, to be otherwise.
Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all 1925night.
If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a 1927prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should 1928also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating 1929coxcomb, in your own conscience now?
I will speak lower.
I pray you and beseech you that you will.
[Exeunt Gower and Fluellen.]
1932King Henry
Though it appear a little out of fashion,
1933There is much care and valor in this Welshman.
Brother John Bates, is not that the morning 1937which breaks yonder?
I think it be, but we have no great cause to 1939desire the approach of day.
We see yonder the beginning of the day, 1941but I think we shall never see the end of it. -- Who goes 1942there?
1943King Henry
A friend.
Under what captain serve you?
1945King Henry
Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
A good old commander and a most kind 1947gentleman. I pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
1948King Henry
Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to 1949be washed off the next tide.
He hath not told his thought to the king?
1951King Henry
No, nor it is not meet he should. For though I 1952speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am. 1953The violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element 1954shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but 1955human conditions. His ceremonies laid by, in his 1956nakedness he appears but a man, and though his 1957affections are higher mounted than ours, yet when they stoop, 1958they stoop with the like wing. Therefore when he sees 1959reason of fears, as we do, his fears out of doubt be of 1960the same relish as ours are. Yet in reason, no man should 1961possess him with any appearance of fear, lest he by 1962showing it should dishearten his army.
He may show what outward courage he will, 1964but I believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish 1965himself in Thames up to the neck. And so I would he were, 1966and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.
1967King Henry
By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the 1968king: I think he would not wish himself anywhere 1969but where he is.
Then I would he were here alone. So should he be 1971sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.
1972King Henry
I dare say you love him not so ill to wish him 1973here alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other 1974men's minds. Methinks I could not die anywhere so 1975contented as in the king's company, his cause being just and 1976his quarrel honorable.
That's more than we know.
Ay, or more than we should seek after. For we 1979know enough if we know we are the king's subjects. 1980If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes 1981the crime of it out of us.
But if the cause be not good, the king 1983himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those 1984legs and arms and heads chopped off in a battle 1985shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, "We 1986died at such a place," some swearing, some crying for a 1987surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, 1988some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children 1989rawly left. I am afeared there are few die well that die 1990in a battle, for how can they charitably dispose of any1991thing when blood is their argument? Now if these men 1992do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king 1993that led them to it, who to disobey were against all 1994proportion of subjection.
1995King Henry
So if a son that is by his father sent about 1996merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the 1997imputation of his wickedness, by your rule, should be 1998imposed upon his father that sent him. Or if a servant, 1999under his master's command transporting a sum of 2000money, be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled 2001iniquities, you may call the business of the master the 2002author of the servant's damnation. But this is not so. 2003The king is not bound to answer the particular endings 2004of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master 2005of his servant, for they purpose not their death when 2006they purpose their services. Besides, there is no king, be 2007his cause never so spotless, if it come to the 2008arbitrament of swords, can try it out with all unspotted 2009soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt of 2010premeditated and contrived murder; some of 2011beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, 2012making the wars their bulwark, that have before 2013gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and 2014robbery. Now if these men have defeated the law and 2015outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip 2016men, they have no wings to fly from God. War is 2017his beadle; war is his vengeance. So that here men 2018are punished for before-breach of the king's laws in 2019now the king's quarrel. Where they feared the death, 2020they have borne life away; and where they would be 2021safe, they perish. Then if they die unprovided, no more 2022is the king guilty of their damnation than he was 2023before guilty of those impieties for the which they are 2024now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's, but 2025every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should 2026every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in 2027his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience. And 2028dying so, death is to him advantage, or not dying, 2029the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was 2030gained. And in him that escapes, it were not sin to 2031think that, making God so free an offer, he let him 2032outlive that day to see his greatness and to teach others 2033how they should prepare.
'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon 2035his own head; the king is not to answer it.
I do not desire he should answer for me, and 2037yet I determine to fight lustily for him.
2038King Henry
I myself heard the king say he would not be 2039ransomed.
Ay, he said so to make us fight cheerfully, but 2041when our throats are cut he may be ransomed and we 2042ne'er the wiser.
2043King Henry
If I live to see it, I will never trust his word 2044after.
You pay him, then! That's a perilous shot out 2046of an elder-gun that a poor and a private displeasure 2047can do against a monarch. You may as well go about 2048to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a 2049peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word after! 2050Come, 'tis a foolish saying.
2051King Henry
Your reproof is something too round. I should 2052be angry with you if the time were convenient.
Let it be a quarrel between us if you 2054live.
2055King Henry
I embrace it.
How shall I know thee again?
2057King Henry
Give me any gage of thine and I will wear it 2058in my bonnet. Then if ever thou darest acknowledge it, 2059I will make it my quarrel.
Here's my glove. Give me another of 2061thine.
2062King Henry
95.1[They exchange gloves.]
This will I also wear in my cap. If ever thou 2064come to me and say, after tomorrow, "This is my glove," 2065by this hand I will take thee a box on the ear.
2066King Henry
If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
Thou darest as well be hanged.
2068King Henry
Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the 2069king's company.
Keep thy word. Fare thee well.
Be friends, you English fools, be friends! We 2072have French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to 2073reckon.
[Exeunt] Soldiers.
2074King Henry
Indeed, the French may lay twenty French 2075crowns to one they will beat us, for they bear them 2076on their shoulders. But it is no English treason to cut 2077French crowns, and tomorrow the king himself will 2078be a clipper. --
2079Upon the king! "Let us our lives, our souls,
Our sins lay on the king." 2082We must bear all.
2083O hard condition, twin-born with greatness,
2084Subject to the breath of every fool whose sense
2085No more can feel but his own wringing.
2086What infinite heart's-ease must kings neglect,
2087That private men enjoy?
2088And what have kings that privates have not too,
2089Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
2090And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
2091What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
2092Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
2093What are thy rents? What are thy comings in?
2094O ceremony, show me but thy worth.
2095What? Is thy soul of adoration?
2096Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
2097Creating awe and fear in other men,
2098Wherein thou art less happy being feared
2099Than they in fearing?
2100What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
2101But poisoned flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
2102And bid thy ceremony give thee cure.
2103Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
2104With titles blown from adulation?
2105Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
2106Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
2107Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream
2108That play'st so subtly with a king's repose.
2109I am a king that find thee, and I know
2110'Tis not the balm, the scepter, and the ball,
2111The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
2112The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
2113The farcèd title running 'fore the king,
2114The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
2115That beats upon the high shore of this world --
2116No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
2117Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
2118Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
2119Who, with a body filled and vacant mind,
2120Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread;
2121Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
2122But like a lackey, from the rise to set,
2123Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night
2124Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn
2125Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
2126And follows so the ever-running year
2127With profitable labor to his grave.
2128And but for ceremony, such a wretch,
2129Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
2130Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
2131The slave, a member of the country's peace,
2132Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots
2133What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
2134Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
2135Enter Erpingham.
My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
2137Seek through your camp to find you.
2138King Henry
Good old knight,
Collect them all together 2139at my tent:
I'll be before thee.
I shall do't, my lord.
2141King Henry
[Kneeling] O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts.
2142Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
2143The sense of reck'ning, ere th'opposèd numbers
2144Pluck their hearts from them. Not today, O Lord,
2145Oh, not today -- think not upon the fault
2146My father made in compassing the crown.
2147I Richard's body have interrèd new,
2148And on it have bestowed more contrite tears
2149Than from it issued forcèd drops of blood.
2150Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay
2151Who twice a day their withered hands hold up
Two chantries 2154where the sad and solemn priests
Sing still 2155for Richard's soul. More will I do,
2156Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
2157Since that my penitence comes after all,
2158Imploring pardon.
2159Enter Gloucester.
My liege.
2161King Henry
My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay,
2162I know thy errand. I will go with thee.
2163The day, my friend, and all things stay for me.


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Permanent Collection | Special Exhibitions: Current / Upcoming | Traveling Exhibitions
The collections of the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University span the globe and the centuries. Housed in a distinguished building by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is also home to collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day.
The Carlos Museum works with Emory faculty members to develop unique special exhibitions that draw on collections from around the world to engage the public and contribute to current scholarship. The Museum also mounts exciting traveling exhibitions developed by other institutions and makes them available to its community.
Permanent Collection
Special Exhibitions: Current September 15, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Rauschenberg's Currents: Features and Surface Series
9 - August 31, 2008
Organized by by the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston in conjunction with
the Carlos Museum, Lost Kingdoms of the Nile features some of
the most significant archaeological treasures ever found in Africa. This
exhibition—consisting of over 250 objects in gold,
silver, bronze, ivory, stone, and ceramic ranging in date from 7000 B.C.
to modern times—provides
unprecedented insight into ancient Nubia, the extraordinary African civilization
that has often been overshadowed by ancient Egypt.
|Traveling Exhibitions:
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
August 24, 2007 - January 6, 2008: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
January 24 - June 8, 2008: Columbia Museum of Art
June 28 - November 2, 2008: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
March 14 - June 14, 2009: University of Kentucky Art Museum
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is sharing its critically acclaimed exhibition with a national audience. The exhibition, organized by Carlos Museum curator Dr. Peter Lacovara from the holdings of the historic Petrie Museum in London, will visit several venues through 2008. In addition, the Carlos Museum-published companion catalogue will be available at each venue.
The exhibition invites you to experience the adventurous spirit of the early days of Egyptian archaeology through the discoveries of British pioneer and "the Father of Modern Archaeology," Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942). More than 200 objects drawn from the London museum named for the legendary figure are featured, including one of the world's earliest surviving dresses (ca. 2400 BC), mysterious mummy portraits, and royal art from the pharaoh Akhenaten's famous city at Amarna. Rare archival photos and documents illustrate Petrie's brilliant innovations, which continue to inspire and inform great discoveries.
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Francis and Jane Create from Scratch for Growing Family
Location: Civic Center (south of Canal Street, east of Tribeca), New York City Room Size: Lucas — 15'x7', Anais — 7'x12', Nicholas — 15'x12'
Francis is an internationally recognized architect and Jane is a talented children's clothing designer. Not surprisingly, they've excelled at carving out mini-kingdoms for each of their three children, out of what was once a hallway, an alcove, and part of the dining room.
Having long ago rented a loft in an overlooked neighborhood, Jane and Francis have a lot of square footage with which to work. Still, it requires creativity and patience to figure out how to create private spaces that make each child feel special and well-cared for. Each of the children's bedrooms bursts with color. The hand of the two older children is evident in key areas. They have been given the opportunity to make their mark and that's what stands out the most.
How would you describe the look and feel of this room/these rooms?
Soft, Cute, Fun, Cozy, Sweet; Fun and Boyish.
What is your favorite piece or element?
Mine will be all the paintings by my daughter, hers will be flowers hanging from the ceiling. For Lucas — the floating boxes on the wall and he likes the rabbit night light. For Nicholas, I like the wall drawings and he likes his skull and animal collection.
What was the biggest challenge decorating this room?
The size of the room for Anais and Lucas and light for Nicholas.
What do friends say about the room?
"Very cute and sweet", they want Lucas' room, and they "loooooove the mural" in the Nicholas' room.
Do you have any advice for parents creating a room for their child?
Think long term and simple. Never make it too themed, and for older kids, let them have some input (but not too much).
What, if any, are your additional plans for the room?
None for the moment for the two younger kids, but perhaps a bunk bed with desk underneath for Nicholas.
If money were no object, what would be your dream source?
My imagination.
- Most furniture and shelving in kids' rooms built by Francis D'Haene
- Lucas' crib by Oeuf
- Tree wallpaper by Inke Heiland
- Nicholas' desk by IKEA
- chair by Maarten Van Severen for Vittra
Thank you Francis and Jane! For a tour of the rest of Francis and Jane's loft , check out Francis and Jane Adapt a Loft to a Growing Family on Apartment Therapy.
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Ireland's abandoned equine issue has reached crisis level. With thousands of unwanted and unregulated horses roaming the Isle and being easily targeted by unscrupulous meat processing practitioners, it begs the question: have abandoned Irish horses entered the food chain? And, more importantly, have those horses contained bute (phenylbutazone)? Bute causes cancer in humans.
While horses are only accepted into the human food chain with "clean" passports – that is having had no prohibited medications like the horse painkiller drug bute, it is difficult to confirm that Irish horses, which have been slaughtered for human consumption, had the required "clean" passport.
Irish horses do not wear ear tags, individually identifying them, which makes their "passport" history questionable. Joseph A. Collins et al., while doing research on Irish equine welfare, claimed, "Dealers openly admitted that they did not necessarily seek horse identification documents (in contravention of the law) when sourcing horses as they could apply to a Horse Passport Issuing Authority of their choice for a new set.")
Last year Stephen Philpott, spokesperson for the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) stated, "Hundreds of unwanted horses are being rounded up and sold into the food chain using false paperwork. We have been following lorry loads of horses to abattoirs in Ireland, Britain and Europe for months now. We have watched abattoirs being opened up late at night so people can deliver lorry loads of horses and have them slaughtered in the middle of the night." And, several days ago, British MP, Mary Creagh, reported that she "..... is in receipt of evidence showing that several horses slaughtered in UK abattoirs last year tested positive for phenylbutazone, or bute. It is possible that those animals entered the human food chain."
While the issue of illegal horse meat processing needs to be addressed, it seems that the underlying deeper issue that is culminating into this crisis is Ireland's unregulated and overpopulation of equidae. As a result of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland's equine ownership increased to the highest horse population per capita in Europe. During the boom, the horse, along with a golf club membership, a Mercedes Benz, and a sprawling house, became a symbol of status. Thousands of horses were purchased, some as pets, and some for racing. Ordinary farm lands were acquired as stud farms, and breeders turned out thoroughbreds that fetched as much as €1 million. The number of registered foals shot up 40 per cent between the years 2000 and 2007.
However, when the global recession hit, the sale price of horses plummeted. Top-class thoroughbreds sold for as little as €300,000, and non-thoroughbreds became almost worthless. According to Seán MacConnell of the Irish Times, "Horses have become so devalued in Dublin they have been swapped for a mobile phone….."
The low sale price coupled with the cost of upkeep made the horse a liability for many cash-strapped owners. They faced a conundrum: keep a horse they couldn't afford to feed, stable, and provide veterinary care for, or abandon it. Many owners chose abandonment, evidence of which quickly became widespread throughout the island. For example, 70 horses were rescued from appalling conditions at an Antrim farm. "The horses were confined in a tarmac yard and left wallowing in two feet of their own mess. It was unable to drain. It was saturated. There was not a blade of grass on it," charity spokesperson David Wilson told U Television. This was the largest equine rescue operation in the 174-year long history of the USPCA, who had to call in other organizations to assist in the effort.
At Dunsink, a former landfill near Dublin, 86 horses were abandoned in the winter and left to starve. When the horses were rescued by The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) in the spring, many had to be put down. Twenty-seven were removed to the pound and 14 were found dead. DSPCA said that they "have encountered equine dying in horrific pain and numerous dead horses decomposing all round Dublin. Some dying and dead horses have been simply dumped by their owners, dragged from trailers or horse boxes and left so that the owner won't have to deal with veterinary costs or the risk of prosecution." DSPCA claims that it noticed a direct increase in numbers of abandoned horses following fairs such as the one in Smithfield, which is unlicensed and unregulated. "Markets like the one in Smithfield means anyone can easily buy equine for as cheap at €8, irrespective of a person's lack of resources and knowledge of equine care."
To make matters worse, Irish animal welfare societies are unable to cope with the tremendous number of abandoned horses. Welfare experts estimate that since the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, as many as 20,000 horses have been abandoned. "We have a huge problem," said Conor Dowling, an inspector for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA). ISPCA has seen a several-fold increase in the numbers of equine related calls and the numbers of animals taken into care in recent years.
The first step to solving this equine issue some suggest is a cull. "Horse slaughter is a contentious issue for horse people because in Ireland we have a tremendous affinity with the horse. Unfortunately, there may not be a more practical solution," said James Murphy, of the Irish Farmers' Association to the Irish Times.
But, ultimately, to eliminate the likelihood of horse meat and, more importantly, tainted horse meat from the Irish food chain, experts purport that a central system of governance -- a comprehensive, integrated system for the registration, identification and tracing of equidae in Ireland -- is required.


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A winner was selected from 305 designs submitted by 72 freelance designers.
TO anyone entering at this time: we have brought things down to a field of three contestants. it is very unlikely that we will consider any additional or new entries!!!!!!!!!!! best, patrick
Create a modern and serious logo for our web-based enterprise app that will replace excel spreadsheets in the process of planning events. The specialized project management software manages event participants/delegates and matches them with resources (travel, hotels, passes, rides). First application case are exhibitions/trade fairs - hence "EXPOeasy".
The service has been described in detail for the contest we ran for our application design (see: http://99designs.com/contests/8008)
- Easy - we want our service to be almost as easy as using excel spreadsheets. Ease-of-use is an overriding topic in our communication policy. The logo needs to reflect that: easy to read, easy to recognize, easy for us to use
- Serious – we are not a consumer brand and while we want to look fresh and modern, the logo should be not too playful or even funny
- Modern - colors are free, but colors and overall logo have to fit with the winning design for our application (see winning design: http://99designs.com/contests/8008/…es/549169)
- The logo/text can be in either upper case or lower case – ExpoEasy, expoeasy, Expoeasy, EXPOEASY, expoEASY… anything goes
- The logo does not need to be the brand name (i.e. text) only. i would very much like to see something figurative, whatever you associate with expos and/or easiness, simplicity, convenience. Or maybe even something completely unrelated that just looks nice
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Saying iPhone specific websites are bad is like saying iPhone specific apps are bad. You take advantage of what each platform has to offer and tailor make the experience for a specific audience.
Media Queries are great for creating a general mobile site, however a client of mine recently wanted a site that looked and felt like a native iPhone app, this was entirely possible with everything pointed out in this article.


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Mugglechops wrote:norbs wrote:'tis very quiet in here.
Intervals for me this morning. Lets see how long this lasts.
Singlespeed MTB will give you some interval training
What's your plan for the 160km ride this weekend? I am thinking very early start Saturday morning and riding up to Thirroul again.
Weather isn't looking good. Will decide on Thursday. Not too bothered if I don't do it. Not even sure I have 160kms in me.


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