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4 Career Lessons from American Olympians
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Shaun White: Be Fearless, Be Driven
As famous for his skateboarding as he is for his snowboarding, Shaun White has already achieved gold medals in back-to-back Olympics.
Not content just to be better than everyone else, he constantly challenges himself. He pushes beyond what he—and everyone else—thinks is possible. And while the results speak for themselves, it's important to remember that he—like the rest of us—doesn't always land on his feet.
White is so successful because he doesn't allow fear of failure to stop him from trying new things or pushing himself out of his comfort zone. When White suffers a devastating wipeout, he doesn't shy away from ledge. Instead he goes harder, bigger, and faster.
Your career will have its ups and downs, but the downs can be shorter and the ups more meaningful if you charge into the unknown with confidence.


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I love cheeseburgers, but I always feel guilty that it's not a "good Jewish food." What is behind this whole idea of not mixing milk and meat?
The Torah commands us: "Do not cook a kid in its mother's milk" (Exodus 23:19). The Torah forbids eating meat and milk in combination, and even forbids the act of cooking them together (as well as deriving benefit from such a mixture). As a safeguard, the Sages disallow the eating of meat and dairy products at the same meal, or preparing them with the same utensils. Therefore, a kosher kitchen must have two separate sets of pots, pans, plates and silverware – one for meat/poultry and the other for dairy foods.
Even more, one must wait up to six hours after eating meat products before eating dairy products. However, meat may be eaten following dairy products (with the exception of hard cheese, which also requires a six-hour interval). Prior to eating meat after dairy, one must eat a solid food and the mouth must be rinsed.
One possible explanation for this separation is that meat represents the finite, physical body, which ultimately ends up in death. Milk, on the other hand, is the quintessential life-giving force, the substance through which a mother can sustain her infant. Milk, therefore, can be compared to spirituality, which sustains our connection with the ultimate, eternal life.
Judaism wants us to be aware on every level of the difference between that which leads to life and that which leads to death. Even though we must nourish our physical bodies – indeed, God allows us to eat meat alone in order that our bodies be healthy – we must not mix in milk. We must never make our physical bodies the goal of living. We must never blur the difference between the physical, mortal world, and the world which is our ultimate goal, the world of spirituality, of eternal life. That is why meat and milk must remain separate.
Maimonides (12th century Spain) offers a rational view that ancient idolaters had the practice of mixing meat and milk together for ritual purposes. In order not to appear as if we are involved in pagan worship, the Torah forbids bringing these two items together.
There is yet a third approach. Why does the Torah use such strong imagery in the verse, "Do not cook a kid in its MOTHER'S milk"? The Rashbam (12th century France) explained that although there is nothing wrong with slaughtering animals in order to eat them, the Torah wants us to realize that there are certain acts, such as boiling a lamb in its mother's milk, which engender cruelty.
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If you've been visiting here for a while you would have surely bumped into my best friend K in and around these posts. She popped up first here, during my first year of blogging and her move into a new apartment. Since then, she's made many appearances. It's inevitable really. Someone who is as much a part of my life as K will certainly find her way into the stories I tell.
She dropped in to try my first ever attempt at soufflé. She is the mother of my awesome godchild Z. We've gone off on adventures together. She knows what I like and brings me lovely gifts. She tastes the stuff I make even if they don't turn out as good as they should. She tastes the stuff that does turn out good! We try to save the Earth together. She recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and we celebrated with a tea party.
K and I met in high school, and though on the surface we may seem very different (she is a gung-ho athlete who loves the smell of competition and I am a slow moving nap-lover who shies away from organized sports), it was the best friend version of finding your soul mate. Heck, forget versions, it was finding a soul mate! There are friends you bond with over common interests, friends due to some sort of proximity (same school, course, neighbourhood, family), and those serendipitous ones that happen by happy accident. Then there are those that you know are no accident…those who you know you were heading towards from birth and that become such an integral part of your life that you cannot imagine one without the other. That's K.
Some people have masses of friends, hundreds, even thousands if you check here and here. But a true best friend is worth ten million times that in my book. And for her birthday you'll want to try your darnedest to give her something really special – even if it's just one of your favourite cookbooks and an Apple Bread baked from its pages.
Apple Bread With Sugar & Cinnamon Topping
(from Apples For Jam by Tessa Kiros, page 350)
- 150 grams sugar
- 150 grams butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 120 grams all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 400 grams apples (about 2), peeled, cored, and coarsely grated (I didn't bother peeling them…I just took them to the grater unpeeled and this worked fine…and much quicker)
- 60 grams walnuts, lightly toasted and roughly chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 60 grams walnuts, finely chopped
- 60 grams brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
– For the topping, mix together the walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon. Set aside.
– Beat together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and beat them in well.
– Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon into the mixture and add a pinch of salt. Mix until just incorporated. If using a mixer I just give this a couple of turns with the paddle and then scrape down with a spatula, mixing the rest of the way by hand.
– Add the apples, walnuts, and vanilla and mix through until just incorporated evenly. I did this with a spatula by hand as well. Scrape into a buttered and floured loaf tin (12×4 inch).
– Sprinkle topping generously over the batter. Bake in a pre-heated 180C oven for 45 minutes or until at cake tester poked in the center of the cake comes out clean. My loaf took about 50 minutes.
– Cool slightly before turning out carefully…the topping will scatter a bit! So do this over your serving plate so you don't lose any.
– Serve slightly warm or at room temperature…plain or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
I have spoken about my love for Tessa Kiros before, and Apples For Jam is even more proof of why I am such a fan. Her enchanting "voice" draws me into her recipes like no amount of chef-cred, fame, or restaurant ownership could. So I wanted to share a bit of this with K on her birthday, along with Tessa's delicious Apple Bread. This cake is beguilingly moist and laced with the spicy scents of apple and cinnamon – one of the best smells you can have coming out of your oven (if you live in a flat like me, this is a great way to get rid of fried fish smell)! The crunchy sugar-nut topping is the perfect foil to the cakes softness. A scoop of vanilla ice cream will not go amiss here. The only thing I have changed is forgoing the ground cardamom used in the original recipe. I have already made this two times, and both times everybody loved it…so despite its simple looks it is a definite crowd-pleaser.
K's birthday was two days ago but I wanted to celebrate it here too (and share this lovely recipe with all of you) — Happy birthday again my friend! 🙂


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I read on Wookieepedia that if Star Wars episode 4 was a financial failure Lucas was going to make Splinter of the Minds eye(A famous Star Wars book) the Low budget sequel. But if it was a succes he would do Empire Strikes Back and the rest of the Star Wars films we know so well today.
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:35
In April, 19 human rights organizations condemned Bahrain as one of the world's leading terror states, the Al Khalifa monarchy having lost all legitimacy.
In a joint press release, they said:
The undersigned "severely condemn the authorities' crackdown on prominent human rights defenders Abdulhadi Al Khawaja and Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain. We are gravely concerned for the safety and well-being of both human rights defenders who are being targeted for their human rights work."
Both were lawlessly arrested, beaten, detained, and brutally tortured as were hundreds of others for supporting democracy, human rights and equal justice.
On June 6, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) denounced Bahraini authorities for brutally repressing protesters, demanding an immediate end to violence. So far, they said, international community silence reflects complicity in horrendous crimes against humanity.
As a result, both organizations called on UN Human Rights Council members "to take immediate action by adopting a strong resolution condemning" government attacks on civil society.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Bahraini violence "no accident," saying:
Since mid-March (actually since mid-February and earlier), "state security forces (as well as Saudi ones) brutally quashed the largely peaceful protests for democratic reforms that began a month earlier, shooting to death a score of people. Since then, the government has conducted (a reign of terror) to punish all manner of pro-democracy activism, a situation (Washington) has yet to unequivocally condemn" publicly.
Amnesty International (AI) condemned Bahrain's excessive force, killings, mass arrests, detentions, and torture, including beatings, electro-shocks, threatened rape, as well as other abuses to extract forced confessions despite no crimes committed.
Police state show trials are being held. Those affected are guilty by accusation. On June 12, student/poet Ayat al-Qarmezi was sentenced to one year in prison for publicly reading a poem criticizing the regime. In detention, she was brutally tortured, AI's Malcolm Smart saying:
"By locking up a female poet merely for expressing her views in public, Bahrain's authorities are demonstrating how free speech and assembly are brutally denied to ordinary Bahrainis."
Her message included:
"We are the people who will kill humiliation and assassinate misery. Don't you hear their cries, don't you hear their screams?"
On March 30, she was forced to submit to arrest after masked police raided her parents home repeatedly, threatening to kill her brothers if she resisted. Brutalized ever since and now convicted, she, like other prisoners of conscience, face hard time confinement very likely including more torture and abuse.
On June 12, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said at least two former Shia MPs (who resigned in protest against police state lawlessness) went on trial Sunday. Matar Matar and Jawad Fairooz were charged with "spreading malicious lies in an attempt to overthrow the government" Information Affairs Authority official Sheikh Abdul-Aziz bin Murarak announced. Both men, of course, pleaded not guilty.
On June 12, the UK based Morning Star said:
"Bahrain received over $200 million in military equipment from US companies in the 12 months from October 2009....It was more than double the $89 million approved over the previous US financial year."
Washington actively supports Bahrain's repression. Weapons, munitions and other military equipment have been used to murder nonviolent Bahrainis protesting for their democratic rights. Information on this and much more is omitted in the report below.
So were recent comments by Rodney Shakespear, Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, saying:
"I'm afraid that" Israel largely dictates US Middle East policy "which demands that the situation be as it is in respect of Bahrain....The facts on the ground are such that genocide is actually being committed." It's gotten so bad that security forces actually "beat up little girls."
"Something has happened. They are out to destroy a culture and yet apart from the torture and the physical effects and the genocide, the world is not standing up against this. And this, of course, it's because (Israel) controls all the media organizations," especially in America and Britain.
State Department Report on Bahrain
Each year, the State Department publishes human rights reports for over 190 countries, omitting a critical self-assessment of the world's leading human rights abuser.
Yet, in its recent "Report of the United States of America Submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights In Conjunction with the Universal Periodic Review," it shamelessly said:
"The story of the United States of America is one guided by universal values shared the world over - that all are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights. (These) values have grounded our institutions and motivated the determination of our citizens to come ever closer to realizing these ideals."
We remain committed "to help build a world in which universal rights give strength and direction to the nations, partnerships, and institutions that can usher us toward a more perfect world (based on) a just peace (and) inherent rights and dignity of every individual."
In fact, America spurns human rights, civil liberties, peace, justice, and democratic values as the world's leading rogue state, lawlessly terrorizing millions, making the world safe for capital. Shameless rhetoric changes nothing, including downplaying the worst of Bahrain's human rights practices in its 2010 report.
Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
"There were no reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings," despite clear evidence they occurred last year before the current uprisings began.
Politically motivated disappearances were also ignored.
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment of Punishment
Prohibited by Bahrain's constitution, "there were multiple allegations during the year (by human rights organizations and victims) that security forces employed them."
Authorities "asserted in December that" torture claims were investigated. "At year's end, neither the court nor the government had released the findings of any such investigation."
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
Authorities said "prison conditions met international standards." A March UN report, however, described 'suboptimal health conditions....' " Moreover, detainees "alleged" security personnel physically abused them, including withholding medical care.
"Authorities generally permitted inmates reasonable access to visitors and religious observance." In fact, political prisoners have no rights and face brutal torture and other abuse.
Role of the Police and Security Apparatus
Despite maintaining a hotline for citizens to report police abuses, Shia community members "believed the government condoned police misconduct and, therefore, did not report allegations of abuse. In practice, (temporary) investigation committees" responded to public complaints, but didn't issue reports on their findings, suggesting serious abuses were whitewashed.
Arrest Procedures and Treatment While in Detention
From August through December, authorities arrested about 200 men, including children. Human rights groups accused them of abuse and torture in detention. Show trials followed. Attorneys prevented from meeting with detainees withdrew in protest in December. New lawyers were appointed. At year's end, cases were unresolved.
"Human rights activists and attorneys alleged that the detainees' right to a fair, public trial was undermined by (their clients') limited access to legal counsel and the presiding judge's failure to rule on the defense attorneys' requests."
Political Prisoners and Detainees
Human rights organizations "alleged that some of those arrested on security changes....were targeted (for) their political activism."
Throughout the report, the State Department stressed that Bahrain's constitution prohibits abusive practices authorities, in fact, commit. At the same time, it summarized harsh conditions Bahrainis face, including:
"Citizens did not have the right to change their government. Trafficking in persons and restrictions on the rights of foreign resident workers continued to be significant problems. There were numerous reports of abuse against foreign workers, particularly female domestic workers. There were many reports of domestic violence against women and children. Discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, nationality, and sect, especially against the Shia majority population, persisted."
"There were multiple allegations of mistreatment and torture, especially of Shia activists associated with rejectionist and opposition groups. Authorities arbitrarily arrested activists, journalists, and other citizens and detained some individuals incommunicado. Some detainees did not always have adequate access to their attorneys. At least two of the detainees were dismissed from their public sector jobs prior to the commencement of judicial proceedings."
"The government restricted civil liberties, including freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, and some religious practices. There were instances of the government imposing and enforcing official and unofficial travel bans on political activists. The Shia are underrepresented in positions of leadership in the civil service, police, and security forces."
Despite constitutionally affirming freedom of speech and the press, national security laws limit or suppress them. "Both censorship and self-censorship took place."
The Information Authority reviews all books and publications prior to issuing printing licenses. While nominally respecting Internet freedom, draconian restrictions apply, including prohibiting information critical of the government as well as banning opposition web sites.
In addition, online activities are monitored and blocked in cases considered to be anti-government or anti-Islamic. Academic freedom, peaceful assembly and association are also compromised in violation of constitutional provisions. In fact, Bahraini freedom and basic rights are nonstarters except for the privileged few.
Those speaking out against repression face severe recrimination, arrest, detention, torture, and show trial justice automatically convicting those charged by accusation.
Anyone may be detained indefinitely, denied access to legal counsel and family members, and tortured to sign forced confessions used to convict.
Moreover, King Hamad appoints judges. Jury trials are denied. Authorities control the major media. Opposition publications and web sites are threatened. Print and online journalists face stiff fines and imprisonment for criticizing official policies. Public demonstrations are prohibited without official permission. Human rights organizations are harassed.
Workers have few rights. No minimum wage exists. Rights to form unions, collectively bargain, and strike are severely limited, majority foreign workers denied them entirely. Some, in fact, face forced labor, their passbooks and wages withheld, as well as their movements restricted. Instances of child trafficking for domestic service and sexual exploitation have also been reported.
Sunnis dominate Bahraini politics. Majority Shias face widespread discrimination. Women overall are marginalized in a male dominated culture. Spousal and child abuse are common.
While detailing widespread lawless abuses, especially against majority Shias, the State Department's report stresses rights included in Bahrain's constitution without condemning authorities for systematically denying them or explaining severe repression against anyone challenging monarchal rule.
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One of the most influential British females of the rock era was born Susan Janet Dallion in London, England, on May 27, 1957. The music of this pioneering punk princess married gothic tones to world rhythms within a chilly new romantic framework. At age 19, Siouxsie Sioux appeared at the 100 Club Punk Festival, singing the Bay City Rollers' "Young Love" and an elongated version of "The Lord's Prayer" (with bassist Steve Severin, future Ant guitarist Marco Pirroni, and Sid Vicious on drums). The immediately assembled band hurriedly named themselves for the gig -- Sioux christened such because she hated cowboys, with the band honoring Vincent Price in Cry of the Banshee. Sioux and Severin also ran with the notorious Bromley Contingent, a nasty clique among the first to follow the Sex Pistols. She verbally sparred with Bill Grundy before the Sex Pistols swore at him on the Today show. Following the broadcast, Sioux put together her own working band, with Severin, Pete Fenton on guitar, and Ken Morris playing drums. Sioux at first dabbled in Nazi imagery, highlighted by black makeup and peek-a-boo breasts. In 1977, John McKay replaced Fenton and Siouxsie and the Banshees recorded a John Peel session and supported Johnny Thunders on tour. Scream, produced by future perfectionist Steve Lillywhite, was recorded in seven days, but set the standard against which all subsequent Banshee releases would be measured. In 1981, Juju hit the U.K. Top Ten, and Budgie (Peter Clarke) from Big in Japan and the Slits now played the skins permanently. Sioux and Budgie formed a percussion-crazed off-shoot called the Creatures. A cover of the Troggs' garage staple drives the Wild Things EP by the Creatures. The full-length Feat attempts Hawaiian and marimba. Back with the Banshees, Sioux and company covered "Dear Prudence" and snagged another U.K. smash, featured on 1984's Hyaena. The album's lyrics remained sour with cuts like "Bring Me the Head of a Preacher Man" and "Pointing Bone," but her singing reached surprisingly sublime plateaus (as on the haunting "Dazzle"). The music now courted a sophisticated gloss corresponding with Sioux's detached image of splendor. Her frigid sexuality and Brechtian aloofness created a vampiric dominatrix who struck a cord with the hip and the alienated. As the icy video age dragged on, soon anyone with a TV screen knew of Sioux. Moonlighting Cure mastermind Robert Smith, ex-Magazine member John McGeoch, and John Carruthers, formerly of Clock DVA, all played guitar through the band's extended commercial and artistic renaissance. At the dawn of the '90s, Sioux married Budgie, and the Banshees performed in the inaugural Lollapalooza tour. Siouxie and the Banshees still embraced many Eastern nuances, but configured all eccentricity into a complex commercial capacity. the Banshees even supplied sonics for Batman Returns. Sioux now evolved into an unreachable Hollywood starlet. The long-delayed Rapture appeared to sellout accusations in 1996. With the Sex Pistols reuniting for purely monetary reasons, Siouxie and the Banshees folded in an effort to disappear with dignity. the Creatures became the primary focus of Sioux and Budgie. In addition to 1989's Boomerang, since the Banshees' demise, the Creatures released another EP, Eraser Cuts, the full-length Anima Animus, and a remix collection, Hybrids. Us Retrace, dropped in 2000, collects unrecorded Creatures' scraps. It wasn't until years later, however, that the iconic frontwoman finally released her solo full-length debut, Mantaray, which dropped in 2007.
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What we used to believe: Children are born "blank slates" and we can mold them as we wish.
What we now know: Fetal brains are growing at an amazing rate and already have formed many billions of neural connections based on received input prior to being born. We also know that the first three years of life see more growth in the brain than at any other time in life. In fact, the brain that is "built" prenatally and in infancy is the brain a child is left with for his or her life. Parents should work hard to ensure that it is the best brain it can be so that their child can handle all of life's challenges.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass (1817-1895).
All of the senses begin to function before birth. The early activity of the senses in the prenatal period helps shape the development of the brain and nervous system. There are six states of consciousness present in the newborn — deep sleep, light sleep, semi-awake/drowsiness, calm alertness, active alertness/fussiness and crying. All but one of these states (crying) is also present in the fetus. A mother is typically very aware of her baby's states before birth. This recognition is part of attachment. Since attachment provides the foundation for future mental health and resiliency, it is important that parents (and society) make sure that attachment happens for the baby.
Maternal stress affects the fetus adversely. The womb environment is varied, noisy, bumpy, dimly lit and full of different tastes and smells. The fetus actively responds to all this sensory stimuli, actively building the brain. The prenatal period is characterized by a constant interaction and exchange between the mother and the fetus. Prenatal development is not a passive unfolding of life; it is a dynamic, interactive process.
As the fetus grows and moves, the mother becomes increasingly aware of and engaged by the fetus. A mother also uses the baby's movements to help other important people attach to the baby. The baby becomes more real to the people who are his or her family.
Humans have five senses — touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision — that help us monitor the environment. All of an infant's sensory systems begin to function before birth and the sensory experiences the fetus has are very important to the development of the brain. Amazingly, the senses begin to function in some basic way even before the structures, such as the nose or the eyes, are fully formed. They begin to function one at a time, developing in a specific order. This ensures that the fetus is not overwhelmed with new sensory stimuli coming all at once and allows the brain to effectively process and understand the input. By the time a baby is born they are familiar in some way with the stimuli in the postnatal environment. A fetus hears its mother's voice more than any other. At birth, it prefers its mother's voice, seeks it out, and is calmed by it. A baby's ability to recognize his mother's voice before birth primes the attachment behaviors of the infant to seek out and respond to the mother. The mother reciprocates.
Maternal stress can affect how aware the mother is of her baby's distress prenatally as well as after the birth. When a mother's stress levels are too high for too long, or too frequently, problems for the fetus can result. High levels of maternal stress also can affect fetal brain development. Maternal emotions can affect the fetus's capacity to regulate its behavior before and after birth.
The brain is not finished at birth; however, the prenatal period provides a unique opportunity for supporting parents and supporting healthy brain development.
Supporting information was obtained from "Early Development and the Brain: Teaching Resources for Educators," Linda Gilkerson and Rebecca Klein, Editors, Erickson Institute 2008.
Lindsay Havran has over 30 years experience working with young children and currently teaches parenting classes through The Pinon Project, coordinates a social/emotional program in 32 preschool classrooms in Montezuma and Dolores counties, and teaches an infant/toddler course for caregivers. She is a member of the Montelores Early Childhood Council and serves on the Pyramid Model Partnership Team.


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Your family and guests won't confuse their white towels if you color-code them with hanging loops. Suspended from pegs, the towels will dry quickly and stay neat.
Tools and Materials
Colorfast, cotton-twill ribbon (1-inch wide) in several colors, each cut into 8-inch strips
White towels
Needle and thread
Towel Tags How-To
1. Fold a ribbon strip in half so the cut ends align, making a loop. Fold cut ends under 3/8 inch.
2. At midpoint of one long side of a towel, sew ribbon strip to towel twice, with folded-under edges facing inward: Stitch once about a 1/4 inch in from towel's edge, and again, about 1/8 inch in from that.
3. Repeat on additional towels, varying ribbon colors.
Stress-Free Pegs
Shaker pegs are functional and stylish, but they can be a hassle to install. To make the job easier, look for ones that screw in (americanwoodcrafterssupply.com); the deep threads anchor pegs securely with minimal effort.


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3d animation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Brief Overview
Our company is one of the leading 3D animation studios in the United States. Our company created 3D Walkthroughs, 3D Renderings, 3D Floor Plans and Interactive 3D products for a variety of industries.
Our site has not been updated in several years and we feel it is time for a facelift.
We are looking for a very clean (WEB 2.0) interface that contains all the elements listed below in the requirements. The main image will have a subtle transition which will loop through about 4-5 panels. The goal is to maximize the size of this main (transitioning) image while allowing room in the design for the rest of the required elements.
In addition to the top part of the design, the bottom area shown in the attached mockup should be neatly divided with some sort of nice looking border, box or line.
We'd like the website to look professional, user-friendly(functionality is paramount), cutting-edge since are about technology, cool, clean and crisp.
Our current logo has been attached in a jpeg format. We would like to keep this logo so the color scheme of the design should be based around it.
We tried doing it ourselves but could not seem to nail it as we are not web designers. The attached design looks unfinished but should give some idea of what we are looking for.
The target audience is architects, hotels, property developers, real estate companies, marketing/advertising agencies.
NOTE: PSD of final design are required.
The overall design should give off a web 2.0 look and feel as much as possible. Big buttons, big text fields, etc.
1. A Quick Contact form needs to be included for people to submit their name, email and project description.
2. A prominent position to display a phone number incase people are uncomfortable with submitting their information via the web.
3. Use the logo attached at the bottom of this brief.
4. Prominent Display of our social media badges
5. Three dynamic areas will be added below the main transitioning image (Latest Blog Headline, Case Studies, This Week's Deal)
6. Top navigation should include: About Us, FAQ's, Contact Us
7. Design needs to include a space for 6 thumbnails with titles. This will showcase the products we create and take the viewer to the inner pages describing those products.


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Power outage snarls Cambridge
NStar failure stalls travel, commerce, leaves campuses dark
CAMBRIDGE — Large swaths of Cambridge were plunged into darkness and gridlock at the height of rush hour Thursday after an NStar transmission line failure flicked traffic lights off, jolted building elevators to a stop, and forced Red Line trains to a crawl.
Most of the lights were restored by 6:30 p.m., some two hours after the outage first hit, but the line failure cast vibrant parts of the city, including Harvard University, MIT, and some shops, into an eerie darkness.
Workers and pedestrians used smartphones as flashlights to get out of buildings and guide them on darkened streets as drivers largely waited patiently while police or passersby directed traffic across darkened intersections.
About 17,000 customers were affected, an NStar official said. No injuries were reported, but police received numerous calls from people trapped in elevators, said Cambridge public safety officials.
NStar spokeswoman Caroline Pretyman said the blackout happened while the utility was conducting upgrades on a transmission line in Cambridge. While the work was being done, the main transmission line was taken out of service, and power was routed through a backup line.
NStar's preliminary investigation showed that the second line lost power when a piece of equipment called a relay "incorrectly sensed an abnormality'' in the electricity flow and shut the line down, Pretyman said. NStar restored power by disabling the faulty relay.
"We were able to isolate the problem, and we will investigate further,'' she said.
Thursday's outage was reminiscent of the March power failure that plunged nearly 22,000 NStar customers into darkness after a fire at a substation in Boston's Back Bay. It also comes at a time when NStar and other utilities are facing more scrutiny after a widely criticized response last year to Tropical Storm Irene and a rare October snowstorm.
The outage in Cambridge caused delays on Red Line trains from Park Street to Alewife Station, as commuters trekked home.
"It took me 20 minutes to get from Harvard Square to Central Square,'' said Tomi Uyehara, 26, of Allston. The train "didn't move for five minutes and then it stopped in the middle,'' he said.
Uyehara said that while the delay caught him off guard, "you can't get upset.''
Outside the Central Square T stop, co-workers Becca Robie, 24, and Steph Phenix, 33, said it took about an hour to get from Broadway Station to Central Square, a trip that normally takes about 20 minutes.
Robie, of Cambridge, said it was unnerving to see the lights out and smoke rising when they left the Central Square Station. It was unclear where the smoke was coming from.
"Like zombie apocalypse, post-apocalypse,'' she said of the scene. "Thinking about walking through smoke and possibly fire to my completely dark apartment was scary.''
Phenix, of Arlington, said they helped a woman carry her child's stroller out of the train station because the escalators were disabled.
"When we got to Central Square and saw that all the lights were out, it was a little bit scary,'' Phenix said.
The outage prompted the cancellation of a forum focused on recapping the 2012 presidential election at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
David Axelrod and Jim Messina, top figures in President Obama's winning reelection campaign, and Stuart Stevens and Eric Fehrnstrom, two senior advisers in Mitt Romney's campaign, were scheduled to speak for about 90 minutes in a forum moderated by David Gregory, host of the NBC News program "Meet the Press.''
At MIT, police said a "major power outage'' had affected the campus. The police there said they responded to outage- related emergencies, including people trapped in elevators. During the outage, all critical services operated normally, but on backup power, said MIT spokeswoman Kimberly Allen.
The CambridgeSide Galleria closed because of the outage, according to its Twitter feed.
Some areas had power restored quickly. Around 5 p.m., in some areas of East Cambridge, near the Twin Cities shopping plaza, the lights went on. The outage briefly left the Cambridge Rindge & Latin hockey team in the dark as it wrapped up practice.
Boston officials also said during the blackout that they had closed the Gilmore Bridge, which links Cambridge and Charlestown, to Cambridge-bound traffic. They also reported that traffic was clogged at Leverett and Charles circles.
A Globe reporter driving into Cambridge during the blackout found traffic signals out just over the Massachusetts Avenue bridge from Kendall to Central squares, with police directing traffic.
For NStar, the blackout comes at a time when the utility, and others, are waiting to hear about fines related to their poor response to Tropical Storm Irene and an October 2011 snowstorm.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, the state's ratepayer advocate, recommended fining NStar $9.7 million for its performance in those storms. She also requested a record $16.3 million fine for National Grid and a $4 million fine for Western Massachusetts Electric Co. However, state utility regulators have not yet acted on those requests.
NStar has also been under a microscope in recent months because of its nearly $20 billion merger with the larger Northeast Utilities in Connecticut. The partnership, approved in April, was heralded as a deal that would give NStar more money to invest in system improvements and more crews to fix power outages.


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Friday Farm Fotos: Celebrating a Life
- Isla Paschal Richardson
Sorry Paula.
I do like and agree with the quote by Isa Richardson.
I'm sorry you lost your Baby, Paula. It is a hard thing but, we can always thank the Lord for giving us the pleasure of caring with love for any animal He puts into our hands.ReplyDelete
Saying goodbye to a beloved animal is soooo difficult. At my age, I should be getting better at it but I'm not. Hugs to you. Beautiful picture of the light streaming through the trees.
❤♡ Olá!
Passei para admirar suas fotografias.
Bom fim de semana!
Bless her heart! I am so sorry & sad for your loss.
What a PRECIOUS face.
She was a beauty, that's for sure.
i am very, very sorry. poor little sweet thing...ReplyDelete
Paula I'm so sorry. She truly was a gorgeous girl.ReplyDelete
Really love that top images, which is one of my most favorite type of pictures, well done. RichardReplyDelete
Oh dear friend~I'm sorry....she was very beautiful, and I'm glad you have lots of sweet memories-that's the best part...You are right to focus on that.
Love you,
I'm sorry for your loss, Paula. Seems that just goes with being the caretaker of farm animals. A lot of the time we keep cows that are old and they die on the farm.
I love the quote.
Paula, this was a beautiful tribute to your dear Baby. She was beautiful. Sorry for your loss, {{hugs}} dear blogger friend.ReplyDelete
So sorry for your loss, she will be in your hearts forever..I love the quote, the post and quote brought tears..SusieReplyDelete
Your photos are beautiful. I'm sorry for your loss. She looks like she was a pretty lamb! Enjoy your weekend!ReplyDelete
What a pretty girl she was! I'm sorry, Paula!ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for your loss.
How sad.
Sending {{hugs}}...
I can't think of a better way for a sheep to die than in the pasture of her youth and her life. For her and for you.I am sorry for your loss of a beloved sheep.ReplyDelete
So sad about your ewe, Paula! I'm so sorry you lost her. She was a beautiful animal! It's always hard to have to say goodbye to an animal that has captured our heart!ReplyDelete
Aw, so sad to hear about your Baby, Paula. I think she must have been a favorite of yours - you have such sweet things to say of her... Hard to let them go, I know, and we get attached to our livestock animals just like we do our dogs and cats. So sorry...ReplyDelete
Ahh Paula this post made me tear up. I hate hearing that you lost her, cause I know you are so close to all your "babies". She had the best life ever, being on your farm.ReplyDelete
Paula, I firmly believe our beloved animals will be waiting for us in heaven. He created them first and loves them dearly.ReplyDelete
Oh Paula! I'm SO Sorry! Sweet Baby girl...
OH! how I relate to this Post, Paula, and I am so sorry for your loss of Baby. The photos indeed tell of a happy ewe, and I am so glad she was yours.
So sorry, it is hard to lose an animal.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry. I love your thoughts and will tuck them in my heart for when I know I will need to remember them. Bless you.ReplyDelete
ps...your morning photo is soooo beautiful.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your info on the bees, Paula. It was so kind of you to look up the bee skeps. I seem to have plenty in the yard but I tend to worry about them, and would love to have a hive (not sure how that would go over with my neighbors, though) I want to get a few more flowering plants for both the back yard and the front. I'm sure that will help. Sometimes there are fifteen or twenty on my hummingbird feeder! :-)ReplyDelete
I was so sorry to hear about your loss. It is always so hard to say good-bye to any of our fur-friends.


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Thanaka and Umbrella
Dominick M. Dimacale 4/20/2007 9:43:27 PMGreat composition here and the details are amazing Manuel...Dominick #641559
Cathy Stancil 4/20/2007 10:25:43 PMOutstanding portrait as usual, Manuel... Bravo ! #4192534
Carol Teal 4/21/2007 12:54:32 AMBeautiful portrait, great colors and details! I think this is perfect! #4192691
Kyaw Kyaw Winn 4/21/2007 1:21:12 AMMy country is MYANMAR not BURMA.Thank you for you's describe. Your picture is great.I like it.But the color of umbrella is red. #4192761
Manny L. Librodo 4/21/2007 2:33:35 AMSorry Kyaw...it should have been Myanmar. Please take a look amore pictures from that recent trip. BTW, the the gallery is "Myanmar: the heartbeat of gentle people".
BTW, the colour of the umbrella is green, not red. That I am sure of.:) #4192854
Vishal Sharma 4/25/2007 11:57:12 AMExcellent Composition and colors. #4212441
Lynn Haack 4/27/2007 10:17:49 PMThis is a beautiful and very creative protrait! Congrats...saw this on Editor's First Picks! Lynn #4223141
Graeme yew Chow 4/29/2007 6:55:03 PMOutstanding portrait and the lighting is superb, Manuel. #4228884
Sharon King 5/23/2007 4:52:19 PMWow, fantastic color, wonderful portrait! Congrats! #4318897
Lynn Haack 5/23/2007 5:21:35 PMI knew this would be a winner! Congrats! Lynn #4319190
Su Sana E. P 5/24/2007 8:25:51 PMManuel, Huge Congratulations on this well deserving Winner!! #4326658
Dominick M. Dimacale 5/24/2007 9:14:37 PMI congratulate you Manuel on your win...Dominick #4326874
Carol Teal 5/24/2007 10:51:23 PMCongrats on your win Manuel! I really love this portrait! #4327089
Mykl Mabalay 5/25/2007 12:21:39 AMsir manny, congrats! mabuhay ka! #4327210
Su Sana E. P 5/25/2007 12:27:31 AMWow!! What a Winner!! I missed this earlier. Anyway... Huge Congratulations again, Manuel!! Your gallery is just awesome!! #4327217
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 5/25/2007 3:25:29 AMImpressive portrait work, great impact. A big congratulations!!! #4327719
Milan Banik 5/25/2007 4:57:44 AMexcellent portrait ,congratulations #4328162
Kay E. Mahoney 5/25/2007 6:23:58 AMManuel,Congratulations on your wonderful second place winner. #4328668
Tarun Bose 5/25/2007 9:58:48 AMBig congrats on your winner, Manuel. #4329421
Rakesh Syal 5/25/2007 2:28:57 PMCongrats on your win Manuel! #4330031
Janine Russell 5/25/2007 10:43:09 PMManuel, excellent colors, clarity and lighting; BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your SECOND PLACE WIN! #4331232
Algernon N. Ong 5/30/2007 7:59:37 AMOutstanding!!! You are an inspiration to a lot of photographers. You capture the human soul in your photography. #4346920
Terrill Province 6/1/2007 6:35:44 AMA truly superior image in every way. A very deserving win ~ CONGRATULATIONS!!! #4354365
Aisha A. Rahman 6/13/2007 7:29:35 AMgreat : ) #4393146
Patrick R. McMullen 6/13/2007 8:31:59 AMCongratulations Manuel! Great simple composition..
A boy I met in Burma...
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We're Obsessed: This Flat Iron Actually Improves the Health of Your Hair
We've tried out our fair share of cutting-edge hair tools, but rarely do we find one that completely changes our every day routine for the better -- until now! Enter the GHD Eclipse Flat Iron, which is one of the smartest stylers we've seen to date. The iron is equipped with the brand's patented Tri-zone technology, which uses a trio of sensors in each plate to maintain a temperature of 365 degrees from root to tip, and allows you to style your hair in half the time without compromising its health. While temps under 365 fahrenheit are often sought out to style dry, damaged, or color-treated hair types, this may do more harm than good -- you may find yourself going over the same section multiple times which dehydrates your hair further, and alternately, temperatures above 420 degrees melt the keratin proteins in your strands.
The innovative sensors in GHD's styler automatically detect any fluctuations in temperature, so the plates won't cool down midway through your hair shaft, and since the heat remains uniform throughout your primping process, you can tackle a large section in one pass with minimal damage. Less heat (and passes of the iron) means your hair maintains its natural moisture, making it stronger. Even better, your days of guessing whether or not you remembered to turn off your flat iron are officially over! While the GHD Eclipse heats up in under 20 seconds, it automatically switches off after 30 minutes of no use, so you'll never have to run back home to double-check. Find the GHD Eclipse styler for $245 at ghdhair.com now.


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How to get involved in Sustainability at UAF
There are many ways to get involved in sustainability at UAF. For many, the easiest and quickest is to start recycling, look for ways to reduce energy consumption, and utilize mass transportation. Other options include taking the time to learn more about sustainable living and taking an active role in developing policies that help the University reduce its carbon footprint.
Here are some places to start:
UAF Office of Sustainability Newsletter
This quarterly e-newsletter features information on sustainability-related projects, news and events of interest to the UAF community. It also provides tips to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Respect. The UAF Office of Sustainability Newsletter is e-mailed to all faculty, staff and students on non-essential e-mail listservs, as well as community members who subscribe to the UAF Sustainability e-mail list (UAFSustain-L).
Employment opportunities at: http://careers.alaska.edu/.


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Google Fined For Wi-Fi Privacy Violations, Grandstanding German Regulators Not Satisfied
from the perspective dept
Google really screwed up when its Street View cars accidentally collected data from open wi-fi networks around the world, and it's a good thing that the practice came to light and people called them on it—but that's where the good sense of the situation seems to end. It's really important to keep some perspective here: Google collected open wi-fi data and didn't do anything with it. In terms of potential breaches of privacy permitted by the user's own lax security, I'd say the "victims" got off easy in this case. But from the way lots of politicians and news outlets tell the story, you'd never know it.
Though Google has mostly wrapped up the issue in the US, it is still dealing with the governments in other countries, and the latest news is that it has been fined €145,000 in Germany. Since that's pocket change to Google, frustrated regulators are calling for bigger weapons with which to slay the giant:
The country's data chief called it "one of the biggest known data protection violations in history".
But the regulator admitted the amount was "totally inadequate" as a deterrent to the company.
Under European regulations, the maximum fine for an accidental violation is 150,000 euros - but data protection supervisor Johannes Caspar called for that amount to be increased in future.
In a statement, the regulators said: "Among the information gathered in the drive-bys were significant amounts of personal data of varying quality. For example, emails, passwords, photos and chat protocols were collected."
Like so much of the response to the situation, a lot of this is political grandstanding spread by media outlets that are perfectly willing to make people paranoid about Google. Scrutinizing Google's privacy practices is definitely a good thing—this is a company a lot of people trust with a lot of data—and when they screw up, as they did here, they should face the consequences. But assuming they have villainous intentions in everything they do is foolish, and misrepresenting what happened here is wrong.
For starters, people love to list off the things Google collected—emails and passwords and the like—to imply that this was some sort of organized spying scheme. What they leave out is that the Street View cars were just arbitrarily recording bits of data they picked up from the open wi-fi networks, and while it certainly did include sensitive bits and bytes, there was no system or plan for actually looking through the contents of this data or making use of it. You might as well say the garbagemen have been collecting financial and government information, since there are plenty of sensitive documents in the trash.
Note the careful choice of words in calling this "one of the biggest known data protection violations in history." Maybe it is the biggest, in terms of sheer scale, but it earns no further superlatives. It's not the worst, nor the most damaging, nor the most secretive, nor even the most technologically advanced. Just the "biggest" in the most technical sense, which doesn't really mean much at all.
Then there's this idea that the fine is inadequate to deter Google. While any law based around fines is going to face the potential problem of rich people ignoring it, things are once again being blown out of proportion here. The regulators want to tell the story of the big, bad, deep-pocketed company that can defy the law with impunity, so that they can level bigger fines with more impressive headline dollar figures in the future—but that leaves out any discussion of whether the fine itself is appropriate. You can't tailor a fine to the richest potential violator of a law... What if it had been a small German startup hoping to create a local competitor to Street View that had made this mistake? Would privacy regulators still be calling for higher fines? For that matter, would they have pursued it at all, or just told them to knock it off?
Conversely, if Google or another company had actually made use of all that sensitive data—if they had read people's emails, or stolen anyone's credit card info ,or even made a text-file list of logins and passwords that was clearly intentional—then there would be other things to go after them for. You can bet they'd be facing big lawsuits and much more serious charges if there was even a hint of genuine fraud or hacking—but despite the best efforts of investigators in several countries, no such hint has been found. Google is facing a limited fine for the limited charge of collecting data because that's all it did. And let's still not forget that this was data on open wi-fi networks—no more secure than a CB radio, despite the tech-mystique that may surround it.
So let's keep holding Google to the highest standards of privacy, but let's not turn it into a witch-hunt. Accusing them of flagrant data-theft for what was in fact a technical oversight is bad for everyone. Apart from the fact that disinformation is always bad, placing all the blame on Google means failing to teach people about the nature of open wi-fi, meaning many of them are probably still leaving their data out there for anyone to see. And if nothing else, we certainly don't want to provoke that "well, if they're going to say we did it anyway...." mentality in Google.
Filed Under: germany, street view, wi-fi
Companies: google


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MM88 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
A new hotel bookings portal is under development. Focusing only on 4 and 5 star hotels around the world, aimed at wealthy Russian tourists.
Luxury Resort Collection
In the spirit of our previous contest (http://99designs.com/contests/17950) we need anoter logo for trade mark. This will be the actual name of the portal. Portal will use different suffixes, so no need to include them in logo. Also logo should be flexible, so that Resort can be changed to Carribean, Asian, etc. if needed. Again go for expensive, high-end looks.
- each entry should consist of 2 versions, one on dark, one on light background
- some use of golden colour
- cleaner look (than previous contest entries), no ornaments
- no 3d effects
- mentioning wealthy russians, was more to the point that they like shiny and glamorous, using their national emblem is overkill, so no russian themes this time
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Muslim spells: Muslim astrology is also known as the Islamic astrology. Most of religions have its own astrology. Muslim astrology is consider one of the most powerful astrology. Earlier only Muslim people take the help of this astrology. But now other religion people also take the help of this astrology. Once the Muslim spells caste on any person it is very difficult to revert that. There are many dua, Wazifa, ibadat, ilms that are use in the Muslim astrology. Muslim astrology is very pure and it is the prayer that perform in front of Allah. Allah then removes all kind of the negativity from the life of a person. It will fulfill the wish of the people.
There are many Muslim spells for the love, money, marriage and various others. All those spells should be perform under the guidance of the Muslim astrologer. These spells end all kind of the issues in the life of a person. Muslim astrology is make for the goodwill of the people. If you take the help of Muslim astrology then you will feel the change into your life. The Muslim spells should be perform with good intentions. There is not any problem that does not have any solution in Muslim astrology. Every Muslim spell should be recite. There should not be any mistake because it is very difficult. Only the Muslim astrologer can perform the Muslim spells.
If you are facing love problem, financial crises and various other problems all those can be solve with Muslim spells. Some people do use the Muslim astrology for bad purposes but they should not do that. Astrology is make for good will of the people. These spells are very beneficial for the love life of a particular person. Some people have lost their love. They can get their love back into their life with the help of Muslim astrology. Few people sometimes use these spells to harm someone. At that time it will get reverse on the practitioner itself. So, if you want to get promotion, best job do take the help of muslim spells. It will bring positivity into your life.


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April 8, 2012, FRA, Road - WorldTour
Paris-Roubaix 2012
The 2012 staging of Paris-Roubaix will be as keenly contested as ever, with the peloton eager to test themselves in a gruelling race that is illustratively nicknamed 'The Hell of the North'. With a history dating back to 1896 it is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the spring classics and is famed for its cobbles and the numerous incidents that those sectors often produce.
Last year, it was Belgium's Johan Vansummeren won ahead of 2010 winner Fabian Cancellara, whose victory twelve months prior was part of an astonishing run of form.
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By Andria Cheng
Jen Seron, a 45-year-old artist from New York, walked into a Midtown Manhattan Staples store with her son on Thursday afternoon, eager to check out something he had spotted one day earlier: 3-D printing machines and services.
She was excited about the possibility of having 3-D copies made of a ceramic mug she had created. Before the visit, she had only seen a 3-D printer at the Museum of Modern Art.
Is 3-D printing finally coming to a store near you?
Staples Inc. /quotes/zigman/78299/delayed /quotes/nls/spls SPLS , which needs to reinvent itself as sales of office supplies decline, and 3D Systems Corp. /quotes/zigman/5280737/delayed /quotes/nls/ddd DDD have partnered to outfit a Staples store on New York City's Fifth Avenue with a $65,000 printer aimed at serving small businesses. Two other 3-D printers are for sale, one priced at $1,300 and another at $4,000. As part of the partnership, 3D Systems will have its staff on site and Staples is training the graphics artists in its own copy and print business to help customers with design requests.
Staples is running a second test of the concept in a Los Angeles store.
The Manhattan test includes a photo booth where consumers can have their pictures taken that can then be turned into a $69.99 3-D-printed Star Wars or NBA action figure that will take a few days to finish. Shoppers also can design and have a personalized phone case printed in 15 minutes for $29.99. The cost of other items will range from $4 for a small ornament to thousands of dollars for a guitar. Also read: 8 examples of 3-D printing at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show.
"If you think of the world of 3-D printing, it's this amazing burgeoning new technology," said Damien Leigh, Staples' senior vice president of business services, in an interview. "But small business customers and consumers really don't understand en mass how to access it. The key is to demystify it. We'll make significant investments. We realized there's an opportunity."
Leigh said Staples is using these tests to learn more about the 3-D printing business. It has been selling 3-D printers since last May.
"We have to prove it out and make the economics work," he told MarketWatch, adding 3-D printing could grow to be "a multi-billion industry." At Staples, "it's a two-store pilot with a lot of promise. Now it's just high-end business. We are going to make the market."
Staples has received a lot of customer inquiries on 3-D printing services, he said. Since the service was introduced in the Manhattan store 10 days ago, it's piqued the interest of many customers, he said. For instance, a small jewelry company nearby has expressed interest in having 3-D prototypes made, Leigh said.
"Every design firm is trying to figure out 3-D printing," Leigh said. The new technology lends itself to everything from furniture and shoes to promotional souvenirs and party favors such as customized mugs.
For 3D Systems, the partnership means it has its first "experience center," Ash Martin, the company's director of product management, told MarketWatch. Sales at the company, founded by 3-D printing inventor Chuck Hull, are forecast to more than double to as much as $720 million this year, from $353.6 million in 2012. It named singer will.i.am its chief creative officer this year to help promote the mainstream use of 3-D printing.
Also read: 3-D printing goes to the toy fair in New York for the first time
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Donny Stew's city song "Mother Of Exile for New York City, was written for the 4TH of July reopening of the Statue of Liberty after the Super Storm Sandy debacle.
The song, a catchy anthem is dedicated to the historic American tradition of welcoming immigrants to our shores with open arms.
The song includes lyrics from the legendary Emma Lazarus poem:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
The poem is on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
The music video features the Donny Stew Band along with an original animated Statue of Liberty singing and dancing to the song with a backdrop of 4th of July celebrations in the NY harbor.
By a twist of fate, Stew's NYC rehearsal studio below the West Beth Theatre in Greenwich Village was also flooded out during the Super Storm Sandy. "We lost everything. It took us till now to recover."
Donny Stew's City Songs & Videos released to date:
2013 "Indy Indy Indeed," released for this years 2013 Indianapolis 500 Memorial Day Race.
2010 anthem for Dallas called "Texas Big" for the Dallas Cowboy's owner Jerry Jones hosting the superbowl.
2011 "59 Miles to Jacksonville," a song that appeared in Drew Barrymore's Hollywood Roller Derby movie "Whip It."
2012 Halloween release, "La Llorona - Ghost of Santa Fe" for a Latin American female ghost features original animated 3D ghost characters.
2013 "St. Louis Brew"
2013 "Denver Christine"
2013 "Sedona"
"Seeing my "59 Miles to Jacksonville," song and name up in lights in Drew Barrymore's Roller Derby movie "Whip It," was the genesis for the "Donny Stew City Songs project," said Donny. "It seemed to me that only the big city's like N.Y., L.A. and Chicago get the great city songs."
"My city songs unveil many unknown city legends, people, places, and events, both good and bad. I decided to have a special release for each city with a song and video in the appropriate genre. I've toured the cities I write about and personally shot city footage with my Camera."
"As my city song project progressed, the length of the songs and videos varied. Some songs and videos were the standard three minutes or so, while other cities got multiple songs and some regional cities have been joined together to form city rock operas."
In the meantime, Stew's been busy shooting mixing and editing the videos of the latest cities sessions & rehearsals. "Once they're ready I will let them out with the red carpet treatment, with 110% personal touch for each one."
Next is a Multi City, twenty song "Pirate Rock Opera" extravaganza with songs for Tampa Bay, New Orleans, Miami, Key West, Saint Marteen, Nassau, Cancun, Seville and more.
The Donny Stew City song collection is available at all the major digital outlets including itunes & Amazon.
Donny Stew is a recognized music composer / content provider for TV and film clients including: NBC, CBS, ABC, HBO, MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, Comedy Central to name a few, as well as productions in 20 nations worldwide.
As a songwriter and musician, he has written and recorded with members of rock bands including Springsteen's E Street band, Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, The English Rock Band - Nektar, toured with the Lester Lanin Big Band.
As a band leader with his own original Rock & Pop songs he was the opening band act up for Rick Derringer, the late Ritchie Havens, Return To Forever, Chick Corea and The Turtles.
His music productions (licensed by Sonoton APM Sony & Universal EMI / Zomba) were used in Drew Barrymore's Roller Derby movie "Whip It," with Ellen Page. Reese Witherspoon's Disney movie "A Far Off Place," Jim Carey's "In Living Color" spoof of "The Bodyguard," Budweiser's "Take it Outside" ad campaign with the Hanson Brothers from the "Slapshot" hockey movie, "Theme song for Nickelodeons "Nick News," Comedy Central's "Tosh-O" & "Strangers with Candy," HBO's "Dream On," ABC's "Monday Night Football," "Good Morning America, and NCAA College Football," to name a few.
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New Video Game Releases – February 2013
February is shaping up to be one hell of a month for new video game releases. Literally. There are so many fantastic titles coming out this month that your wallet, and you, will be running scared when it sees the list below.
Dead Space 3 is going to cause you, and a co-opted friend, to make a necromorph induced deposit at the First National Bank of Your Pants. Please, oh please, let there be no eye surgery.
Shooter and computer tech fans are going to be psyched for Crysis 3 so they can blow things up and then compare PC framerate benchmarks for the flying shards of shrapnel.
An often overlooked gem of a shooter, Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, has been given a face-lift and console release. This is an old school shooter that will remind you of days where your view was not mired by chest high walls and your weapons shot electrified ninja stars.
New Video Game Releases – February 2013
Feb. 3
Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)
Feb. 5
Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear (PC)
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (PS3, Vita)
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (Xbox 360)
Weird Park: Scary Tales (PC)
Dead Space 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Feb. 8
Wii Sing:80's (Wii)
Feb. 10
Brain Age: Concentration Training (3DS)
Feb. 12
Omerta: City of Gangsters (Xbox 360, PC)
Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Bonus Edition (3DS)
Naughty Bear: Double Trouble (Xbox 360)
MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship (PS3, Xbox 360)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 (3DS)
Feb. 15
Painkiller: Hell and Damnation (PS3, Xbox 360)
Feb. 19
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (PS3, Xbox 360)
Crysis 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Feb. 26
Young Justice: Legacy (PS3, Xbox 360, 3DS, DS)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus (Vita)
Scribblenauts Collection (DS)
Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi (PSP)
Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (3DS)
Rayman Legends (Wii U)
Feb. 28
Monster High: Skultimate Roller Maze (3DS)
What video games are you buying in February? Let us know in the comments below.


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How To: Build a Simple Indoor Swing (for winter)
This past Saturday I woke up and was suddenly seized with the notion of making a swing to hang in our apartment for Ursula. It's January. It's cold. What would be more invigorating or entertaining than building a swing for a two year old? As a person with many sudden enthusiasms, I was fully prepared NOT to finish this in one day, but it turned out to be as easy as I had hoped. Here, then, is a quick how to in swing building, that can be adapted for children of any age...
Seriously. If you've got a strong enough beam or point of contact in your ceiling you should have one of these in your living room for swingin' on cold winter nights! Doesn't Lenny Kravitz have one of these?
How To Build a Simple Swing
• 1 piece of wood. Mine was pine and about 1"x10"x14" - $7
• 22' of rope. Mine was thick, white nylon - $25
• Hardware: 2 clips and 2 ceiling screws - $10
(my prices are all NYC hardware store prices, ie. more expensive than usual)
I started by doing a quick bit of research and found these two sites helpful:
>> Prairie Rose House: How to build a tree swing
>> AOL Home Improvement: How To Swing Set
Both were for outdoor swings, but the ideas are the same.
1. Went shopping and bought all the supplies I needed. I even bought a small saw, because we didn't have one.
2. The board I bought wasn't cut, so I measured Ursula's butt and found that 14" was the right width for her.
3. Cut the board in the hallway.
4. I bought a 5/6" bit to drill the holes with and spaced them @ 2" off of both edges. Two holes on each side is the way to go. One hole and it's too tippy. My swing had no braces. I guess big kids and adults would need a brace on the bottom side.
5. This is a key point and one the photo doesn't show well enough. I used two screw eye bolts and was able to find a really strong part of framing in this doorway (I went towards the edges). Ursula doesn't weigh too much, but to really secure a swing you want this point of contact to be firm. Getting a good bite of a 2x4 or going through a beam is a must.
6. The knots with the rope are all pretty simple, but it helps to have this one to join the swing rope to the rope hanging down from the ceiling. This is a Beckett bend knot above which works really well for joining the two. At the ceiling, I used a simple overhand knot, but if you have more room or are going over a rafter, this knot below, a Bowline Knot, is a good one to use.
7. Getting the seat even isn't too hard, but requires patience. At this point, I was ready to be done, but I held on and worked a little more till it was just right.
8. All done! The wood seat is waxed (didn't show that) and I may paint it. The clips that clip to the ceiling are great for quickly taking the swing up and down. The swing is compact enough that it fits into a drawer in our closet.


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The European Central Bank could use its new supervisory role from next year to single out weak banks and make it harder for them to get its financial support, people familiar with the matter say.
Such a hardening of approach would keep ECB funding flowing to Europe's most important lenders but compel laggards to beef up their capital buffers, prod national central banks to take on the problem or even force some banks to go to the wall.
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The thinking denotes a growing concern at the ECB, which bankrolls much of the financial system, about the risks of backing banks with often only weak collateral as security.
It follows an unprecedented public threat by the euro zone's central bank to cut emergency financing to Cypriot banks, in the middle of the Mediterranean island's crisis which led to the closure of one as part of a stringent bailout.
"Central banks provide liquidity against collateral. But what do you do for addicted banks?" said one person familiar with ECB thinking.
"If a bank returns continuously to get liquidity, (the ECB) will make it more difficult. You will have to pay a higher price. You will have to change the rules for provision of liquidity."
The ECB declined to comment. It gave 1 trillion euros of cheap three-year loans to banks last year and has offered further unlimited support since.
The possible use of such tactics is also a response to the constraints the ECB may face when it takes on bank supervision next year. German opposition could mean there is no separate agency to close problem banks although it is unclear if the ECB would accept this and take on supervision nonetheless.
Currently, the ECB relies on national regulators for information about banks that borrow from it but that will change when it takes over as overarching regulator next year.
Once it has this power, the ECB could use its knowledge to identify banks with threadbare capital, demand they beef up this cushion or face expulsion from its financing operations, said another person familiar with the new supervision scheme.
Such a move could effectively close a bank, putting a question mark over the notion that there will be a strict division between ECB's role as supervisor and as guardian of monetary policy.
"The supervisor can say this bank's collateral is not of the required standard and that it needs more capital," said that person, adding that a bank could be disqualified from ECB finance if it did not recapitalize within months.
Such a step would not erode wider support for the banking sector but would mark a shift to a more targeted approach, focusing help on those strong enough to thrive.
"Being supervisor allows the ECB to discriminate between zombie banks and those that are sound and make sure that its lending targets those banks that lend to the economy - not to the zombies," said Daniel Gros of think tank, the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Many at the ECB are concerned about the problems lurking in banks, which have piled up billions of euros of bad loans during years of runaway lending.
And yet the necessity to support the sector has led to a loosening of collateral rules which means that banks are often allowed to borrow with second-rate security - sometimes as little as a car loan.
This leaves the ECB with threadbare cover should any sizeable chunk of the almost 850 billion euros it has lent not be repaid.
As it stands, any euro zone bank that has the collateral required qualifies to borrow from the ECB. But this could change if it were to penalize certain banks, by charging them more.
The move would reinforce the ECB's stamp of authority as supervisor, the first step to creating a banking union or system for policing, controlling and supporting banks in the euro zone.
In its new role, the ECB may have to slug it out with national regulators over whether troubled banks should be kept alive. By choking off liquidity, it can avoid a protracted political tangle and shut the bank or force national central banks to shoulder the burden of financing it.
(Additional reporting by Paul Carrel and Annika Breidthardt. Editing by Mike Peacock)