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Brussels, 28 June2007
USA to take account of EU data protection principles to process data received from Swift
Following a joint undertaking by the Commission and the Council Presidency, the European Union has got a set of unilateral commitments ("Representations") of the United States Treasury Department regarding their handling of EU originating personal data received from SWIFT in the United States under compulsion of administrative subpoenas. These "Representations" take account of EU data protection concerns.
Vice President Frattini, Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security, stated: "The EU will have now the necessary guarantees that US Treasury processes data it receives from Swift's mirror server in USA in a way which takes account of EU data protection principles. I welcome the United States' Treasury Department's unilateral representations and the opportunity the Treasury has given the European Union to have its views and concerns duly reflected in the representations. As well as SWIFT joining the Safe Harbour and its compliance with the Safe Harbour privacy principles, we now look to SWIFT and to the financial institutions which use its services to ensure that they fully comply with their information obligations under European data protection law. We urge them to take all the necessary steps to ensure their quick compliance with European data protection law".
Today the Commission and the Council of the European Union have taken note of the "Representations" of the United States Treasury Department regarding their handling of EU personal data received from SWIFT.
The text of the Representations, that the Commission considers to be adequate, was finalised by the U.S. Treasury following discussions between the U.S. Treasury on the one hand and the Council Presidency and the European Commission on the other. The Representations take account of EU concerns about the protection of EU originating personal data which may be subpoenaed in the United States by the U.S. Treasury under the U.S. Treasury's "Terrorist Finance Tracking Program".
The Representations include the following important safeguards:
• Commitments by the U.S. Treasury to use any data received from SWIFT exclusively for counter terrorism purposes – an obligation which applies also where such data are shared with other U.S. agencies and with third countries. Any other use of SWIFT data is therefore excluded, including for example use of those data for commercial or industrial purposes.
• The U.S. Treasury commit to analyse data subpoenaed from SWIFT on an on-going basis in order to identify and delete any data which are not necessary for counter terrorism investigation.
• The Representations impose strict data retention obligations, namely to retain dormant data (i.e. data subpoenaed by US Treasury which have not been identified as necessary for counter terrorism purposes) for no more than five years from the date of receipt of data or, in the case of data received before publication of the Representations, to retain those data for no more than five years from the date of publication of the representations. This means for example that if the Representations are published on 1st September 2007, data that might be received on 15th September 2007 and which remain dormant would have to be deleted by no later than 15th September 2012.
• The Representations further provide for appointment of an "eminent European" who will carry out annual oversight of the U.S. Treasury commitments contained in the Representations. The eminent person will be appointed by the Commission in consultation with the President of the Committee of Permanent Representatives and of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee. The eminent person will report to the European Commission which will report to Parliament and Council.
• To ensure transparency and legal certainty the Representations, together with U.S. and EU letters of transmission and receipt, will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union in all official languages. In the United States the Treasury Department will endeavour to ensure publication of the Representations in the U.S. Federal Register.
The U.S. Treasury's unilateral Representations will be transmitted by the Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department to the Council Presidency and to the European Commission. The Commission, and the Council Presidency, will jointly reply to the Treasury to acknowledge receipt of the Representations.
The Representations constitute one of three main components to address the infringement of European data protection law due to SWIFT's transfer of data to the United States and possible access to some of those data by the U.S. Treasury under the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program on the basis of subpoenas served by the U.S. Treasury on SWIFT. To make lawful the transfer of SWIFT data for commercial purposes to its server in the United States, SWIFT is in the final stages of discussions with U.S. authorities regarding entry into the "Safe Harbour". SWIFT and the financial institutions which use SWIFT's services are working to ensure that bank customers will be properly informed, including that their personal data will be transferred to the U.S. and could be accessed by U.S. Treasury under the "Terrorist Finance Tracking Program".
The EU letter of reply to the U.S. Treasury notes that, if the necessary information obligations are met by SWIFT and the financial institutions which use its services, and if SWIFT respects the Safe Harbour principles, SWIFT and the financial institutions which use its services will be in compliance with their respective obligations under European data protection law. The European Commission considers that the legal framework resulting from the above mentioned elements is sufficient to guarantee respect for and the enforcement of European data protection rights.
To find out more about Vice President Frattini's work please visit his website: http://www.ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/frattini/index_en.htm
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Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), better known as Tony Hawk, is an American professional skateboarder. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision. He is widely considered one of the most successful and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding.
Raised in San Diego, California, Hawk was described as being "hyperactive" as a child. His parents supported his skateboarding because it served as an outlet for his excessive energy, and as Hawk's skills developed, he became a professional skateboarder at age fourteen. In 1999, he became the first skater to land a 900 in competition. In 2002, he created the Boom Boom Huck Jam, an extreme sports competition in Las Vegas. Throughout his career, Hawk has made numerous appearances in films and other media, as well as his own series of video games. He has also been involved in various philanthropic activities, including collaborations with other athletes in the charity Athletes For Hope.
Hawk was born in San Diego, California, to a retired U.S. Navy officer, Frank Hawk, and his wife Nancy, a part-time business teacher. Hawk began skateboarding at age eight after his older brother Steve bought him a used skateboard and his father constructed a ramp in their backyard. When Hawk was young, he was described as being "hyperactive," and his mother says that he was "so hard on himself and expected himself to do so many things." One time, Tony struck out in baseball and was so distraught that he hid in a ravine and had to be "physically coaxed out" by his father. His frustration with himself was so harsh that his parents had him psychologically evaluated at school. The results were that Tony was "gifted," and school advisors recommended placing him in advanced classes.

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It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that most notably stated, "all progress is precarious and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." I had never contemplated my personal success as precarious progress, or that my success to this point could bring any non-materialistic problems, but I now find myself, like many of my fellow successful, young, black men, in a moment of crisis.
Before I dive into what exactly this 21st century identity crisis is, what it is caused by, and what it ultimately means, I need to get some preliminaries out of the way to open some critical minds. First, this article is not intended to be braggadocious, I will discuss some of my personal success as I explicate this issue, but I will also share the success of several other young black men that I am close with. Neither their stories of success nor mine are expressed from a place of haughtiness, but instead from a place of humility. I fear that it is out of concern for being perceived as arrogant or out of touch that this side of the young black male's story is so rarely told.
Next, this article is not intended to complain about success. I recognize that success is usually not a word associated with black men and I spend most of my article writing time trying to shed light on the crisis in our inner city schools. It is not lost on me that most young black men will never be in a position to engage in the dialogue that I am about to embark on, because their potential success has been stifled.
Finally, I recognize that much of what I will discuss at length not only applies to successful young black men, but also to successful young black women, and young successful minorities generally. I have consciously chosen to focus on the young black male success crisis because I understand it best first hand. It would be disingenuous of me to attempt to articulate the myriad of different pressures that other minorities or women experience as they climb the ladder of success. Therefore, for risk of speaking on that which I know little about, I have chosen not to explore those topics, but I hope that my fellow successful young minority colleagues and female colleagues will soon treat us with their own version of this crisis.
Now that preliminaries are out of the way, let's get down to the issue; what exactly is the young successful black male's 21st century identity crisis?
What is the crisis?
The crisis is epitomized by questions like: What am I going to do next? Where should I go from here? What should I aspire to? Do I have to choose between money and my commitment to my community? If I stay where I am in my career, am I settling? What do the people I am surrounded by expect from me? Do I want to meet their expectations? If I do not meet their expectations, have I failed?
At first glance, these seem like the types of questions that every twenty-something year old with boundless potential and opportunities are asking themselves. But when coupled with the pressure of constantly being an anomaly, these questions take on a different level of intensity. Young, successful black men in our society are just as easily defined by their accolades as by their status as an outlier.
For me, like many other young, successful black men, the reality of being outside of the mainstream started very early in life. I was no more than nine years old when the path of divergence started. Having transferred from a black Christian private school, where I had been a student from daycare to second grade, to a local public school, I was initially placed in a remedial third grade classroom, despite the fact that my records demonstrated I was doing work several years ahead of my peer group. Because my parents have been and continue to be my strongest advocates, they pressed the administration to put me in a classroom where I would not be bored and the work would actually be challenging. A few weeks into the school year, I was transferred into a more rigorous third grade classroom, where I was still bored and probably not the least talkative student. Again due to my parent's pressure, I was tested for the school's gifted program and admitted.
This point was the beginning of an academic path that would lead me to my present day success. In the gifted curriculum, I was the only black male. I formed my friends from my peer group, mostly white females, and matriculated with this group of peers up to high school. The academic impact is best illustrated by the progression of math courses I took through the end of high school. In middle school, I took pre-algebra, algebra I, and geometry, while all of the other black males in the school took two years of general math, finishing middle school with pre-algebra. In high school, I took algebra II, advanced trigonometry, advanced placement (AP) calculus, and by my senior year the school created a new math course called analysis taught by a local university professor, for me and a group of classmates, none of whom were black men, who had opted not to spend our senior year at the local college. On the other hand, the majority of my black male peers finished high school having matriculated through trigonometry.
All of my classes were predominated with white and Asian students, even at my 97% African-American, inner city high school, where I was in a magnet program (school within a school). The feeling of being an anomaly was my normal. Desiring to be surrounded by other brilliant African-American minds, I decided to attend Howard University. I achieved academically and otherwise, and met some of what I am convinced are the best minds in our generation. I left the haven, that alumni affectionately call the Mecca, because of its centrality for the black community since its inception, and joined Teach For America. I taught third grade in inner city Atlanta, where I came face to face with the students who were not in my classes as I matriculated from K - 12th grade. My students were educationally deprived and living in economically deprived communities.
Teaching was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, and also some of the most meaningful work I have done to this point. I finished my Teach For America commitment and reluctantly left the classroom to attend the Georgetown University Law Center, where I am presently a 2L. I did well my first year in law school, where there were no more than fifteen black men in my 1L class of nearly 600, and now every possible opportunity one might imagine is open to me. This is the beginning of my crisis.
The exact contours of my story do not parallel every young successful black male's life, for some their path diverged in high school or college, for others they did not feel like an anomaly until they took their first job after school, and still for some the crisis has yet to make itself apparent. By way of example, I have several black male friends who recently graduated from law school and are trying to figure out what their impact will be with their newly attained degree. At the same time, I have black male colleagues who work at major Wall Street firms and are now trying to figure out where they should be spending their time and energy. Yet, despite the differences, the common threads of educational attainment, exceptionalism, and ambition are apparent. And now many of us have realized that we are in a metaphorical no-man's land, where no one can guide us or point the way.
We are now forced to make it up as we go along and for many of us this is a nerve-wracking reality. Up to this point, we simply did the next logical thing, graduated from high school, went to college, took a career-oriented job track where we would be an associate for a few years before trying to move up, or went to professional school where we would pass the requisite exams and enter our professional careers. But now that we are here, where there is no next logical step, simply a vast number of opportunities, many of us find ourselves trying to answer the larger questions of life, like what I am supposed to do while I am alive, in order to gain a sense of direction.
What makes this crisis unique to young, successful black men?
I am sure that everyone who continues to be ambitious and pursue ever far-fetched goals eventually comes to the place that I just described. So, what makes it a crisis for young, successful black men, but simply a part of life for some others? The short answer is that it is a crisis because there are so few examples of high levels of success from which black men can mold a path.
Over the last 200 years of American history, there has been one African-American male President, one African-American male Attorney General, one African-American male Secretary of State, and two African-American male Supreme Court Justices. There is currently one African-American male governor, there have only been four in American History. Five (0.83%) of the Fortune 500 CEOs are African-American men. Approximately 1% of all law firm partners are African-American men. There has been one African-American male Surgeon General in American history. And fewer than six percent of all high-ranking military officers are African-American.
All of these statistics are an attempt to paint the picture that these laudable successes reinforce the crisis. The rarity of these accomplishments sends the message to similarly aspiring black men that getting into these positions comes with no guidebook, nor general path. Some might suggest that for many of the positions I cited there is no general path for anyone because so few people ever rise to those levels of success. However, this critique misses the point. For each position I named, there is a more or less common route, but those routes have not applied to African-American men who attained those positions.
For example, most presidents are governors before running for president, Obama was a U.S. senator. Most Supreme Court justices appointed directly from a seat as a court of appeals judges prior to becoming a justice, Thurgood Marshall was a solicitor general at the time of his appointment.
If I were a white male and I wanted to be a Fortune 500 CEO, it would make the most sense for me to get my undergraduate degree and possibly my MBA from Harvard, Stanford, U. Penn., or Columbia, which account for over 25% of all Fortune 500 CEOs. However, of the five black male Fortune 500 CEOs, three of the five went to one of the four named schools at some point, but the low sampling size makes it insufficient to call it a pattern, or even more, a potential path. For the white male CEO aspirant, the patterns is set, go to one of these schools and then have a one in four chance of being CEO. For the black male CEO aspirant, going to one of these four schools is probably a good idea, but in no way dispositive of increasing your likelihood of achieving your goal.
Before delving into suggestions for how young, successful black men should deal with the crisis, I want to deal with an issue that some who are reading this article closely may have noticed: I have purposefully avoided discussing industries where successful black men predominate; this was not a mistake.
When many Americans think of successful black men, besides President Obama, most think about NBA stars, NFL stars, black actors and music moguls. I have avoided these industries because more often than not, despite the fame and wealth of these black men, their team owners, record label owners, production companies, and movie studios are attaining more wealth. In fact, the dearth of black men in the ultimate decision-making positions in these industries simply reinforces the crisis previously articulated. If you consider athletes, actors, and musicians pay as a percentage of their respective company owners' profits, they start to look a lot more like mid-level associates in large firms far away from the CEO suite.
Dealing with the crisis
1. Accept and acknowledge that you are now writing history
As we continue to wrestle with the question of where to go from here, we need to accept the reality that whatever we do will be historical. Therefore, we should be inclined to make it a story worth reading. This reality comes with a certain sentiment of adventure and a simultaneous pressure of responsibility. The adventure is derived from a sense that you can really go anywhere, do anything, and become anybody. But, the pressure results from a simultaneous reality that wherever we go, whatever we do, and whoever we become, everyone will watch us. We owe it to little black boys to give them something to strive toward and we owe it to our communities to continue to defy the common stereotypes.
2. Do good
Money cannot be our only motivating factor. Many young, successful black men, like myself, come from mid to low income families, we are often the first members of our families to graduate with any kind of degree, and we have the opportunity to gain wealth that no one related to us has ever been able to fully contemplate. However, this is not an excuse to selfishly seek personal wealth with disregard for doing good, especially for our communities. I cannot say what doing good means, it is subjectively different for everyone, but it should be a goal nonetheless.
3. Surround yourself with other young, successful black men
Once many of us graduated from our undergraduate institutions and attained our first job, we had surpassed every expectation placed on us by close relatives. Not because they do not want more for us, but because they have no idea what to want. This is the time to surround yourself with like-minded, and similarly successful black men who will keep pushing on you. The main question that you should be asking and that should be asked of you is: what am I/are you going to do next? There must be a visceral aversion to settling or getting too comfortable.
4. Mentor other young black men
Being a resource, confidant, and friend to several young black men attempting to climb their own ladders is one of the most fulfilling parts of my life, but it is a requirement for every young, successful black man. If we are going to ever see a day where we are not the anomaly, then we have to coach other young black men to the point that we have achieved. This does not mean waiting until you are CEO, president, or attorney general to start mentoring. You can start by helping someone just below your current position. If you made it to college, mentor young black men from your high school who are trying to get there. If you have already graduated from college, then mentor young black men are trying to get through their undergraduate years. If you are in professional school, mentor young black men that are trying to get into your profession. This is community uplift at its essence, everyone reaching back just a little bit to pull at least one person up to their level.
In sum, the 21st century identity crisis for young, successful black men is an inevitable reality of black men achieving greater levels of success than previously attainable, but still in extremely small numbers. The crisis will continue until enough black men have attained high enough levels of success from which a pattern or path of success can be forged. We are decades away from such a moment, and perhaps even further away if black men continue to be the least educated, most imprisoned, and generally least successful group in our country. It is this sobering reality that makes the crisis so poignant, if those of us in a position to get there, wherever our individual there are, don't reach our fullest potential, it could be decades from now, or maybe never, before a black male ever has the opportunity to reach for it again.


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Interactive: Mapping the World's Friendships
"Technology bridges distance and borders. Individuals today can keep in touch with their friends and family in completely new ways — regardless of where they live. We explored these international connections through Facebook and found some trends — some predictable, some wholly unexpected, and some still inexplicable.
Who can explain the strong link between the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries in the heart of Africa, and Ecuador? The reason the Central African Republic might be good friends with Kazakhstan is likewise mysterious to us." READ MORE


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The developers of the Fish Gate 100 On-board Electronic Fish Scale believe this product will change the way you approach and enjoy fishing. We have developed an on-board scale that will revolutionize the sport of fishing. The Fish Gate 100 contains multifaceted, must have technology that every serious fisherman will want in their boat.
The Fish Gate 100 will mount to the underside of the lid of your storage locker, recessing inside the locker less than 5 inches for minimal use of storage space. An additional lid is added into the existing locker lid, providing easy access to the Fish Gate 100.
The added lid, when opened, will reveal this remarkable scale. You will place your latest catch on an 8" x 30" aluminum tray marked for measuring the length of your fish. The scale will take multiple readings and lock-in to an accuracy of 0.02 oz.
The moment the weight locks in, it is immediately stored in the Fish Gate 100's memory. At that same moment, it will also store information from your fish finder such as time, date, GPS location, water depth, and temperature. The Fish Gate 100's memory can store all this information for up to 150 fish. You will then be able to download this information onto your laptop or home computer. After downloading you can then add other pertinent information such as sunny, cloudy, raining, lure or bait used, etc...
There is also a monitor that displays the weights of up to 7 fish to make culling easier and faster. It also displays the total weight of up to 7 fish in the live well.
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Mountain Jam 2013 Lineup Announced
The lineup has been announced for Mountain Jam 2013, and given the assemblage of talent, we're guessing there are going to be a lot of happy campers at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Hunter, N.Y. Scheduled for June 6 through 9, this year's festival features Phil Lesh & Friends (featuring Warren Haynes, John Scofield, Joe Russo and Jeff Chimenti), Widespread Panic, Govt Mule (back for the ninth straight year), Primus, Dispatch, the Avett Brothers, Gary Clark Jr., Soulive with the Shady Horns, Jackie Greene, Deer Tick, ALO, Rubblebucket, the Amy Helm Band, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, the Revivalists, David Wax Museum and Simo.
Early-bird tickets go on sale this Saturday, Jan. 19, at 10AM EST, offering fans a discount of up to 25 percent off day-of prices. Options include three- and four-day passes -- with and without camping -- as well as an all-new Super VIP Press Package, which gets you catered meals, free massages and access to the artists.
Known for its eclectic lineups and scenic environs, Mountain Jam has seen some killer performances since launching in 2005. Presented by Radio Woodstock and Govt Mule singer-guitarist Warren Haynes, the festival is perhaps best known for its jam bands, but the inclusion of such genre-blurring artists as Austin guitar slinger Gary Clark Jr. and indie-Americana favorites the Avett Brothers and Deer Tick are testament to how well-rounded an event this has become.
The fest is also known for camping, though as we previously reported, this year's go-round will offer alternatives for those not into sleeping under the stars. Buses will run from the resort to surrounding hotels, so folks who like showers and continental breakfasts will be covered. And those who prefer roughing it won't have things too rough, as for the first time ever, Mountain Jam is offering a limited number of car-side camp sites, which save fans the trouble of hauling their gear up the mountain.
Whether they sleep in tents or hotels, Mountain Jam 2013 attendees will have their pick of tasty treats from some of the area's best food trucks -- yet another reason to make the trip Upstate.
Watch the Mountain Jam 2013 Official Lineup Video


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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the ones you're seeing in the slideshow above are worth much more than just talk. They were taken at a dinner hosted by Secretary Clinton in honor of Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), where the leaders pictured all came together last week to discuss new projects that will create economic opportunity and improve thousands upon thousands of lives.
At this year's U.S.-Islamic World Forum, Secretary Clinton stated that the leaders involved in PNB would "convene a summit at the end of May to connect American investors with partners in the region's transitional democracies, with an eye to creating more jobs and boosting trade." PNB involves three types of partners -- Steering Committee Members, Local Chapters, and Members-at-Large -- and each of them announced new commitments at last week's summit that will accomplish just that.
While many summits will typically involve lots of talk (and, yes, lots of nice photos), this gathering was action-oriented and there are stories of real, on-the-ground investment behind each and every picture.
First and foremost, PNB has developed local chapters across eight different countries that will be the real driving force for this flagship public-private partnership: Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, the Palestinian Territories and across the Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). PNB Local Chapter leaders in attendance at the dinner included Abdelmadjid Fechkeur from Algeria, Asep Sulaeman from Indonesia, Omar Chaabi from Morocco, Asad Umar from Pakistan, Zahi Khouri from the Palestinian Territories, and Rifat Hisarciklioglu from Turkey.
In addition, PNB Steering Committee Members announced a number of new commitments, including:
Cisco has committed to invest $20 million dollars in the MENA region through two new $10 million venture capital investments, one in Jordan and one in Egypt, which aim to create a sustainable model of job-creation and economic development in these two countries, with a particular focus on high-potential small businesses.
Coca-Cola announced that it will dedicate $6 million to its Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) with a focus on water and sanitation projects designed to improve the lives of 250,000 women and girls across Africa, including Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is working on the Peacebuilding Program, with a budget of $2.8 million for 2011, and has begun an exploratory effort to support the forces for democracy and economic reform in Egypt, which will support Egyptian civil society organizations working to ensure a successful transition to democratic governance.
PNB's work is not just limited to the local chapters and the Steering Committee. Over 20 organizations joined the partnership last week, including:
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) and The MasterCard Foundation launched a new partnership, Egypt Works. This project will directly assist 10,000 Egyptian youth in increasing their employability skills, while supporting 4,000 young people to obtain jobs or start new businesses. Youth will also build networks and participate in learning exchanges that will help to take these programs to scale with the support of additional stakeholders. The MasterCard Foundation is providing $5 million towards the implementation of the partnership, while IYF provides overall management for the Egypt Works program. The project will be locally implemented by an Egyptian youth-led NGO, Nahdet El Mahrousa (NM).
In joining PNB, Souktel developed JobMatch Egypt to connect job-seekers to employers through Souktel's mobile-based JobMatch technology. In cooperation with PNB partners, Souktel will work with major corporations active in Egypt to improve their national hiring processes through innovative mobile technology solutions, while collaborating with Egyptian mobile operators on donations of SMS, voice, and connectivity services to match more jobseekers with jobs, career guidance, and workforce readiness training throughout Egypt.
IBM committed to extend their innovative Executive Service Corps to bring best practices to improve public service and drive local economic development in Jakarta, Istanbul and Cairo over the next nine months. This investment of more than $1.2 million in business and IT consulting is in addition to ongoing Corporate Service Corps teams deployed across growth markets, including seven Muslim Majority countries.
As the only effort of its kind that seeks to leverage diaspora communities in support of the Arab Spring, Dr. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute and Ahmed Chabani, Chairman of the Michigan Arab-American Chamber of Commerce, will convene a new network of business leaders who attended the White House Arab-American Business Roundtable for a meeting in July to encourage investment abroad at this critical time in the Arab World, while creating jobs in the United States as markets in the region open to new U.S. investment.
In joining the PNB network, the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists will work with PNB partners to support innovative programs to alleviate poverty and promote entrepreneurship and good governance. In the initial phase, they will raise $3 million for Pakistan over the next three years to assist smallholder farmers and landless laborers, mostly females, to achieve sustainable agriculture production.
We are thrilled to welcome these new members to the partnership. If you are interested in joining the PNB network, I invite you to review the steps to join and fill out the application. You are also welcome to e-mail Rob Lalka, who coordinates the partnership for us, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
What really makes this partnership work so well is our commitment to work in tandem with local communities. Everything we are doing involves the pursuit of common goals based on mutual respect and mutual interests, so it's only fitting that I end with a great quote from Secretary Clinton about PNB's locally-driven model.
As the Secretary of State said at the dinner: "I believed in this vision and it has developed into something that is now ready to just take off. This entire effort is moving in the direction we need: partnership, not patronage. Rather than work on the premise of 'what we would do to someone,' we're pursuing an approach of 'what we would do with someone.' We are reorienting our thinking and PNB is really such an impressive example of just that."
Buket E. in Turkey writes:
I feel very proud to see our TOBB President Mr.HisarcıklıoÄŸlu in these slides.I want to add his quote from a press release which I find really impressive .'Turkey has come to the point where it can produce project, strategies and policies. We have had the chance to express all of this to Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright as well as the rest of PNB. The American government has expressed full support for our project. This is very important, the will is very important.â€I do agree with Mr.HisarcıklıoÄŸlu on the point of our country's achievements.We are plannig,proposing and implementing projects at schools with our students and this is a great achievement for us in the following years.The importance of entrepreneurial efforts and skills with tools of implementations are being offered to young students,leaders of future,through exchanges programs or collaborative projects done in our schools.We are optimistic,enthusiastic and hopeful for the future improvements.Leaders are important examples for our students when they are deciding on their future careers.Thanks for this great photo ,a good example for world unity and peace.Thanks to your contributions to Global Partnership.
Best regards.
Teacher of English and Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovations Project Mentor
Buket E.
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DaveRobinson83 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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We are a property listing company whos website takes property listings and displays them as links to property. Each property has a benefit to purchase (ie discounted, good equity, etc) The purpose of the website is to display a corporate fun feel, similar to realestate.com.au, but instill confidence in the brand, so not to comical please
25+ males and females. Corporate professionals.
Crisp sharp design representing corporate fun professionalism and platinum property status for website (Joomla). Needs to be bold, clear and to the point that we produce premium quality stock. Represent property, wealth, equity and finance.
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Mercantis needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 177 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
We are DESTINITY an exclusive private online travel club. We have exclusive deals on vacations and travell at very competitive prizes for our members-only,
We need a logo for an exclusive private online travel club that users will only be available to register through invitation only.
The website is a private site for Members Only, which aims to provide its members with exclusive deals on vacations and travelling through special offers, at very competative prices.
Destinity sales are valid for a limited time only.
The company is very similar to http://www.jetsetter.com or http://www.voyage-prive.es/
The target users are Internet shoppers that have advanced knowledge in on-line shops of this kind. They are looking for travels in internet at very competitive prizes. They have participation in Social Networks.
The logo has to identify with:
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• High quality of offers and oportunities.
• Exclusive travels available
• Profesialism
• Elegance; Chic
The logo has to incorporate the "destinity" expression in the design. If the designer feels it neccesary, he/she could use a anagram along with the main frase "destinity".
Three or two colours maximum. (We have attach the Interface design for reference.)
The typography is open. We´ll apreciatte a modern and no-serif typography.
The website interface typo will be Helvetica.
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For 80 years, we've been a leader in insulation, roofing, and composites. And our global presence, with 20,000 people in 33 countries, helps us keep a pulse on the needs of customers around the world.
Our commitment to market-leading products and innovations has kept our Company on the Fortune 500® list for 64 consecutive years.


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Apr 28,2009
Federal 'two-fleet' rule drives up costs of U.S. automakers
by The Detroit News
If the Obama administration has its way, pressure will increase for cars sold in this country to be smaller and more fuel-efficient. But federal rules also say that only vehicles manufactured in North America can be counted toward federal mileage standards. Imported cars must be counted separately. This needlessly increases the cost of making small cars here.
The federal administration, in its analysis of the February survival plans submitted by General Motors Corp., stated that the company is too reliant on the sale of "high-margin trucks and SUVs, which are vulnerable to a continuing shift in consumer preference to smaller vehicles."
So far, that shift is more apparent than real. Sales figures show consumers still preferring larger vehicles from the Detroit Three manufacturers.
But the government is working to push smaller cars through regulation. Last month, it increased the fuel efficiency requirement for light vehicles sold in 2011 to an average of more than 27 miles per gallon. The requirement is a step on the road to a congressionally-mandated fleet wide average fuel efficiency standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, adopted as part of a 2007 federal energy bill.
Part of that bill includes the requirement that only vehicles made in North America can be counted toward meeting that standard. The regulation is known as the two-fleet rule, and it has been in existence for years. It was almost dropped out of the 2007 energy bill, but it was resuscitated at the behest of the United Auto Workers union.
The fact that since 2005 vehicles made in low-wage Mexico as well as Canada can count toward the rule should give the U.S. automakers some relief, but the manufacturers, as Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins has pointed out, haven't done much with it.
Part of the long-simmering troubles of the domestic carmakers is that they have been willing to pay a very high price for labor peace, and pushing small car production out of the United States would have disrupted that peace.
But conditions are very different now. Abolition of the rule would give the automakers more bargaining power in dealing with their labor costs, assuming they survive in the next few months.
One of the rationales for the discussion of a Chrysler arrangement with Fiat would be its access to smaller Fiat auto platforms. But they would have to be brought to the United States and manufactured here. While Europe's wage structure wouldn't provide any labor cost relief, the proposed arrangement illustrates the possible benefit of ending the two-fleet rule.
For example, GM's Chevy Aveo, a subcompact made in lower-wage South Korea, could help GM with its fuel requirements if it could be counted as part of its total fleet.
If either a spike in oil prices or a further ratcheting of auto mileage requirements create more of a demand for smaller cars, the two-fleet rule could prove a larger impediment to the economical production of smaller cars.
It will be interesting to see if the federal government, which has assumed so large a role in the affairs of domestic automakers, will continue to support this rule.


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Growing up in my childhood home I don't recall ever being too excited about my standard wooden bunk bed–unless you find falling out of the top bunk exhilarating. Now remembering how much of a Star Wars geek I was when I was younger, if the above pictured bunk bed was mine, not only would the envy of all the other grade school kids in the neighborhood, you would bet I would be having some pretty awesome Star Wars dreams each and every night I slept in it.
Created by Jonathan, a Star Wars fan and skilled woodworker, this incredible looking Star Wars AT-AT bunk bed was built for his mother's new home in Ohio for her grandchildren. As the home was small in size and lacked a sizable yard, Jonathan used home's tall ten foot ceilings in his design for the Imperial Walker to give the bed plenty of room for not just two beds, but for three bunks. As for details – this Star Wars bunk bed nearly has it all including a completely assembled Lego Hoth Playset built into the bed on the second level.
It's no wonder this bunk bed bed took nearly 300-400 hours of Jonathan's labor to complete it. I'm sure his kid thinks it is completely worth it, though.
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Marshall, S.E., McLaren, A.J., McKinney, E.F., Bird, T.G., Haldar, N.A., Bunce, M., Morris, P.J. and Welsh, K.I. (2001) Donor cytokine genotype influences the development of acute rejection after renal transplantation. Transplantation, 71 (3). pp. 469-471.
Marshall, S.E., McLaren, A.J., Haldar, N.A., Bunce, M., Morris, P.J. and Welsh, K.I. (2000) The impact of recipient cytokine genotype on acute rejection after renal transplantation. Transplantation, 70 (10). pp. 1485-1491.
Hampson, D.J. and McLaren, A.J. (1999) Experimental infection of laying hens withSerpulina intermediacauses reduced egg production and increased faecal water content. Avian Pathology, 28 (2). pp. 113-117.
McLaren, A.J., Trott, D.J., Swayne, D.E, Oxberry, S.L. and Hampson, D.J. (1997) Genetic and phenotypic characterization of intestinal spirochetes colonizing chickens and allocation of known pathogenic isolates to three distinct genetic groups. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 35 (2). pp. 412-417.
Stanton, T.B., Trott, D.J., Lee, J.I., McLaren, A.J., Hampson, D.J., Paster, B.J. and Jensen, N.S. (1996) Differentiation of intestinal spirochaetes by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis and 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 136 (2). pp. 181-186.
McLaren, A.J., Hampson, D.J. and Wylie, S.L (1996) The prevalence of intestinal spirochaetes in poultry flocks in Western Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 74 (4). pp. 319-321.
Trott, D.J., McLaren, A.J. and Hampson, D.J. (1995) Pathogenicity of human and porcine intestinal spirochetes in one-day-old specific-pathogen-free chicks: an animal model of intestinal spirochetosis. Infection and Immunity, 63 (9). pp. 3705-3710.
Park, N.Y., Chung, C.Y., McLaren, A.J., Atyeo, R.F. and Hampson, D.J. (1995) Polymerase chain reaction for identification of human and porcine spirochaetes recovered from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 125 (2-3). pp. 225-229.
Lee, J.I., McLaren, A.J., Lymbery, A.J. and Hampson, D.J. (1993) Human intestinal spirochetes are distinct from Serpulina hyodysenteriae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 31 (1). pp. 16-21.
Conference Paper
Hampson, D.J. and McLaren, A.J. (1997) Prevalence, genetic relationships and pathogenicity of intestinal spirochaetes infecting Australian Poultry. In: Proceedings of the 1997 Australian Poultry Science Symposium pp. 108-112.
Park, N.Y., Chung, C.Y., McLaren, A.J., Atyeo, R.F. and Hampson, D.J. (1994) PCR for identification of spirochaetes associated with intestinal spirochaetosis. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress, 26 - 30 June, Bangkok, Thailand p. 197.


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Apply patch from Ryan Hill to font.eclass to support multiple FONT_S directories (bug #338634)
Droped media-libs/fontconfig dependency, bug 446012.
Do not require fontconfig at runtime, it isn't necessary for many purposes, thanks to Nikoli for the original patch
font.eclass needs RDEPEND=$DEPEND, bug 446012
trim useless trailing whitespace
fix random bugs in eclass documentation, and convert to new @AUTHOR tag
Minor cleanups, eclass-manpages updates.
When cleaning up generated files leave any fonts.alias from media-fonts/font-alias alone. Add documentation. (bug #315369)
Improve documentation.
Add new function font_cleanup_dirs, called in pkg_postrm, to clean up font directories that only contain generated files (bug #315369). Based on code taken from xorg-2.eclass. Note that due to portage caching pkg_postrm, currently installed font packages will not trigger this code until the second time they are reinstalled.
Introduce fonts.eclass supporting eapi up to 3. Per disscussion on -dev.
Allow variables to be defined before inheriting.
Tell the user if we've installed any config files and how to use them.
Fixed unquoted variables, bug #258164, thank Markus Meier for report.
Remove seemingly stray comment
remove fonts.dir/fonts.scale if they exist before we create them (in case they have funky read-only perms)
Fixed merging with custom ROOT, bug #247968, thank Łukasz Mierzwa for report.
Added media-fonts/encodings into DEPEND as it's required for x11-apps/mkfontdir to work correctly.
Make eclass-manpages ready, bug #210933, thanks mren.
Add FONTLOG.txt to commondoc.
Third stage of fixing bug #201834.
First stage of fixing bug #201834.
Misquoted FONT_CONF prevented use of multiple fontconfig files. Bug #201834 by pva.
BSD xargs doesn't do -r.
Handle ${ROOT} and whitespace, suggested by vapier.
Hopefully the last permission handling change - now reports when changing a file's permissions, emulates chmod -c, and is all pretty-like. Thanks to dberkholz for the suggestion.
Move permission checking to postinst/postrm, and check everything in /usr/share/fonts rather than just the current package.
Forgot to remove -v flag from chmod.
Do permission setting in ${D} rather than ${WORKDIR}.
Force proper permissions on font files to prevent application segfaults. Bug #187774
Force cache regeneration.
Allow FONT_CONF to work outside of FILESDIR.
Implement support for FONT_CONF, a space-delimited list of fontconfig files to install into /etc/font/conf.avail/.
Check for existence of common docs before attempting to install them. (Johannes Weiner, Bug #148804)
Remove virtual/x11 depends in some eclasses
Simplify fonts.scale and fonts.dir generation a bit -- stop using ttmkfdir, always use mkfontscale. Also, run from the build system since they are in DEPEND and not RDEPEND.
Some initial changes so x-modular.eclass can start using this: Allow for DOCS to not exist without errors, and don't remove fonts.cache-1 if it doesn't exist.
update eclass for fontconfig 2.4
Provide FONT_PN to override font.eclass using /usr/share/fonts/PN always - this is for migration of old fonts.
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QA: Apply whitespace checks from repoman to eclasses.
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We're back, to wrap up the 19th Annual Fall Fonts Fest with this madness of yet more text effects -- even a retro one that's actually not, and one from the cleaned-up Photoshop Planet guys . . . ENJOY:
* Beautiful Glossy Text Art Using Photoshop
* Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art
* How to Design a Retro Style Text
* Elegant Text Effect for 2013
* Glowing Rusty Text Effect
* 3D Sliced Text Effects
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Beautiful Glossy Text Art Using Photoshop
This tutorial will explain how to create a luxurious glossy metallic marble textured text effect, using Layer Styles, and a simple pattern. It utilizes downloadable patterns and textures.
(Text Tuts didn't list the author, and we cannot rely on the credits. The site boasts of being created by a person calling themselves, simply : Rose -- but the domain is registered to a "Brent Oxley" from somewhere near Houston, TX )
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Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art
In this tutorial, 3D artist and illustrator Craig Minchington demonstrates how to create elegant 3D type without using a CG suite such as Cinema 4D or Maya. Instead, he'll use the 3D tools in the Extended version of Photoshop CS6
Caution : we listed this madness because the finished results is so good ... but "Digital Arts Online" has programmed the site with a poorly implemented sort of slide show interface to step through the steps one at a time... difficult scrolling, and type that is about 8 point. Good tutorial, bad presentation.
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Pakistan rejects Musharraf's request to go abroad
ISLAMABAD (AP) — State-run television in Pakistan says the country's Interior Ministry has rejected a request from former President Pervez Musharraf to go abroad for medical treatment and to see his ailing mother.
Irfan Sadiqui, the prime minister's adviser on national affairs, told the PTV on Wednesday that the government rejected Musharraf's request as it could make it difficult for the government to bring him to court once he leaves the country.
The move came days after a court indicted Musharraf on five counts of high treason, charges that potentially carry the death penalty.
Musharraf, 70, took power in a 1999 coup but was forced to step down in 2008.
The high treason case stems from his decision to suspend the constitution on Nov. 3, 2007, and detain a number of judges.
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A standard approach for deducing a variational denoising method is the maximum a posteriori strategy. Here, the denoising result is chosen in such a way that it maximizes the conditional density function of the reconstruction given its observed noisy version. Unfortunately, this approach does not imply that the empirical distribution of the reconstructed noise components follows the statistics of the assumed noise model. In this paper, we propose to overcome this drawback by applying an additional transformation to the random vector modeling the noise. This transformation is then incorporated into the standard denoising approach and leads to a more sophisticated data fidelity term, which forces the removed noise components to have the desired statistical properties. The good properties of our new approach are demonstrated for additive Gaussian noise by numerical examples. Our method shows to be especially well suited for data containing high frequency structures, where other denoising methods which assume a certain smoothness of the signal cannot restore the small structures.
In recent years, convex optimization methods were successfully applied for various image processing tasks and a large number of first-order methods were designed to minimize the corresponding functionals. Interestingly, it was shown recently by Grewenig et al. that the simple idea of so-called "superstep cycles" leads to very efficient schemes for time-dependent (parabolic) image enhancement problems as well as for steady state (elliptic) image compression tasks. The "superstep cycles" approach is similar to the nonstationary (cyclic) Richardson method which has been around for over sixty years. In this paper, we investigate the incorporation of superstep cycles into the gradient descent reprojection method. We show for two problems in compressive sensing and image processing, namely the LASSO approach and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model that the resulting simple cyclic gradient descent reprojection algorithm can numerically compare with various state-of-the-art first-order algorithms. However, due to the nonlinear projection within the algorithm convergence proofs even under restrictive assumptions on the linear operators appear to be hard. We demonstrate the difficulties by studying the simplest case of a two-cycle algorithm in R^2 with projections onto the Euclidian ball.


text: Author Blog Jack Solomon The coeditors are successful textbook authors who, between them, have over fifty years of teaching experience in the college classroom. Sonia Maasik, a lecturer in the UCLA Writing Programs, has taught writing from developmental to advanced levels, and coordinates training for UCLA writing programs' teaching assistants. Jack Solomon, a professor of English at California State University, Northridge, teaches literature and critical theory, along with his graduate and undergraduate classes on popular cultural semiotics, and is often interviewed by the media for analysis of current events and trends. He is the author of The Signs of Our Time (1988) and Discourse and Reference in the Nuclear Age (1988). The two together have published Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, Sixth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009) and California Dreams and Realities, Third Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005).


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Izzy Rogers (guest star Tricia Helfer), one of a gang of serial killing bank robbers in holding up a Washington, D.C. tries to avoid capture by the BAU as the the team tries to negotiate the tense situation inside the bank, on the two-hour seventh season finale of CRIMINAL MINDS. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. #GoodbyePrentiss


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Mid-Pacific Institute's Athletic Director, Scott Wagner arranged a special Chapel where each team was presented with a $500 prize and award plaque to commend them for their accomplishments in the community. Read their Life matters stories below. Life Matters Moment: Mid-Pacific Institute Girls Softball "Our softball team helped the athletes at the State Special Olympics last year at the end of May, 2013. We will all participate again this year as a team in 2 weeks. We work so hard all year at practice but working with these athletes really reminds us what hard work is. It is a very motivating experience and reminds us what is really important in life. We get to coach and referee and interact with the athletes and their families again. Thank you for considering our team. If we win, you can donate our $500 to the Special Olympics with our aloha." Coach Alan Inaba and Girls Softball Team accept Life matters Award and $500 check from HawaiiUSA's SVP of Marketing and Community Outreach, Scott Kaulukukui. Life matters Moment: Mid-Pacific Institute Boys Varsity Soccer "Over the past few years, Mid-Pacific and Honoka'a have become rivals in Division II soccer. Despite many hard-fought contest, both programs have developed a great deal of respect and friendship for one another fueled by a unique father-son coaching connection of the past. Before I took over the Mid-Pacific soccer program in 2009, Marc Miranda was the head coach and program director. His father Maurice Miranda, was the head coach over at Honoka'a HS. Even to this day, both Marc and Maurice Miranda remain great friends of mine and huge supporters of the Mid-Pacific soccer program. Recently, the captains of the Mid-Pacific boy's varsity soccer team decided to raise money for the victims of the Pahoa lava flow and hurricane iselle disasters. After recently completing a trip to the Big Island for a pre-season tournament, the Mid-Pacific Boy's Varsity soccer team donated $845 to Maurice Miranda (Honoka'a Soccer Coach) who accepted the donation on behalf of the Grassroots Church of Pahoa." HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union presents a $500 check to award Mid-Pacific Institute's Boys Soccer Team led by Coach Jayson Abe. HawaiiUSA and ScoringLive have partnered to recognize high school sports teams that are making a difference in the life of an individual or organization in their community. The HawaiiUSA Life matters Award is about the spirit of giving back to others. Your team plays hard for school pride. How does it show "heart" away from the game? Share your most meaningful Life matters experience and you could win a $500 contribution to your school's athletic department. Two winning teams will be selected at the conclusion of the Fall and Spring sports seasons. To nominate a team, complete the HawaiiUSA Life matters Award online form. HI Achievers Each day Hawaii keiki overcome personal challenges to achieve success in their classroom and in life. Along with making a difference in our community, these students represent our bright future. HI Achievers is a homegrown project which brings statewide recognition to deserving students, sharing their stories and inspiring more young minds to take action. Every other week, a new student will be selected as the featured HI Achiever on a Hawaii News Now Sunrise segment and presented with a $200 cash award from HawaiiUSA FCU to honor their achievements. HI Achievers also receive a unique opportunity to earn Certification in HawaiiUSA's Life Events Assistance Program (LEAP), which will train them in financial fitness and lifelong money management skills. Total prize is valued at $700. Nominate your HI Achiever today! 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pov603 wrote:Re: the CNN interview, strange how the Correspondent says words to the effect that the interviewee 'was on a bus when the incident took part..er...place..'
Part as in Role or Play? Freudian slip?
I refute the idea there are, or were, any French troops in Mali
if you think that any actual bladed article attack took place in Woolwich, then I can only with all sincerity wish you all the best,
I believe nothing happened [in Woolwich]; therefore even if the French Army were pillaging their way across Africa, the motivations for something that did not happen cannot by definition exist.
If you were meaning that the long-term narrative may include false stories of the motivation [for whom to do what?] being (to me also false) Military activity in Mali…
If the J.France quote predates the French invent then it did indeed foretell of the 'french connection', but in my mind only as a debatable, as to intentional or not, sign among many that the fix is in.
beyondafringe wrote:The retrospective image improvement seems to be underway.
Glowing with the horror
http://exchangegoldforcash.com/money/u- ... ror-links/
Fading fast
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/internatio ... ernational
For future reference, surely when buffoonery is your only talent, try this;
http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/21781/ ... lajo-.html
Less impact potential, but avoids the mockery by colleagues, friends and family of the glowing red hand men.
Just this pretty clear 'no blood' shot, plus something/shape on ground by the crashed cars door - kind of at a right-angle to long engine fluid leak...?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/m ... -1.1352903
same page has a vivid pre-toned down red hand image;
Regarding the 'leaking fluids' from the car, I seriously doubt the impact of a person would, at a feasible city-centre speed, cause the damage seen to the car or rupture the radiator or hoses to cause such fluid loss.
Other hydraulics or oil systems are even harder to breach, and the post holding the sign does not show significant depression to account for it either.
I've seen dozens of those types of signs post-impact (heh) and they are quite sturdy but even when they don't buckle, there is compression of the cylindrical structure. The thick, grey paint, almost a coating, is liable to 'pop off' when this compression occurs, and an impact that does the damage seen to the blue car would see a large area of exposed, compressed tube - in my albeit limited experience.
A small point I know, but just another real-world defying characteristic to note.
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So here's something funny and obscure that a reader just pointed out to us. This week, Sports Illustrated subscribers — like ourselves — were treated to a special promotion with Callaway Golf. Basically, you send in a contest card, and if you win, you get a X460 Driver and two X Fairway Woods. We don't play golf, so we don't have the foggiest idea what those are.
But that's not the fun part. It's the fine print, with its strange requirements of our neighbors to the north, that gave us pause.
"Any Canadian winner will also be required to correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question in order to receive a prize.
Uh, what? Wethinks someone in the Time Warner promotions department was a little bored this week. Either that, or Canadian golf fans need to finally get off the Metric system.
(UPDATE: Amazingly, there's a logical answer to this. Canadians are so weird.)


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In this next movie we filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Massoud Hassani presents his device for seeking and destroying landmines.
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