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hotelicopter needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 109 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
We're a new hotel search engine with a unique name looking for a creative logo to kick-start our brand identity. Please read on!
Who are we?
We are hotelicopter, and we are a hotel search engine.
What exactly do we do?
Our goal is to help travelers easily research and book hotelsonline. We use meta-search technology to aggregate prices andavailability for over 140,000 hotels worldwide. This helps consumersfind the right hotel at the best available price. We have partnershipsin place with some of the largest online travel agencies and hotelchains in the world.
What is a hotelicopter?
We think our name is personable and unique. We chose hotelicopter because we want to create a brand identity that:
- is relevant to hotels- is memorable
- has personality
- is not too limiting
Brand attributes we want to personify:
- approachable
- helpful
- smart and savvy
- innovative
Our target audience:
Frequent online travelers - generally those people that booked at least 5 hotel stays online last year.
The key attributes we are looking for are a design that is:
- unique- easily understood
- immediately recognizableWe want to afford a lot of flexibility in your design and color choices, but here's a few points of guidance:
- we prefer our name in all lowercase
- we prefer sans-serif fonts
- we prefer modern designs
- the use of ".com" is completely optionalFinal art to be provided in vector format.
And finally, it's really valuable to us if you provide a short summary of your concept with your submission.
- a 'corporate' look
- a complex design
- a design that is more illustration than logo
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Chickpea Cilantro Dip
This is a nice variation on hummus. The cilantro adds a fresh, grassy-in-a-good-way flavor to the chickpeas and yogurt lightens the whole thing up.
2 cups canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
In a food processor, purée the ingredients until smooth. Let the dip sit for at least an hour to let the flavors meld. Serve with crackers, toasted pita wedges, crudités, or all three.
Make-Ahead Factor
The dip can be made 2 days ahead and kept covered and refrigerated. Remove it from the fridge at least an hour before party time—it tastes best at or near room temperature.
From Cocktail Parties, Straight Up! Easy Hors D'oeuvres, Delicious Drinks and Inspired Ideas for Entertaining with Style by Lauren and Anne Purcell.

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text: Tony Travis wrote on Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:39: > I've used Red Hat Linux for a long time, and I like it. I used FC-1 on > the desktop and considered it to be the best distribution I'd ever used, > but I lost faith in FC-2. Not just because the Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI > drivers were broken, but that it was generally unstable on the same > (IDE-disk) desktop that I'd run FC-1 on without any problems. The FC-2 > Intel ethernet drivers were also unstable on our DNS server: The same > server hardware runs reliably under RH-9. I *know* these problems are > fixable, but at this point my perception of Fedora changed... Hi Tony, Have you tried FC3? Might it be suitable for your applications? I ask because my perception is that FC1 was very good, FC2 brought too many new technologies to be all that good, but then FC3 is again polished. I anticipate that FC4 may again be on the hairy edge, if only because of gcc changing to 4.0. If in the old days the mantra was "stay away from RHL x.0 releases", maybe it's now "stay away from FCx releases, for even x". :) David


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BlackBerry 10 was launched today with two new handsets running the new mobile operating system, while the company previously known as RIM also announced a new name - BlackBerry.
The new operating system brings the BlackBerry platform a desperately needed update and helps put it on the same functional level as Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8. But after falling behind for a couple of years, the big question is whether the company can catch up.
"Today represents a new day in the history of BlackBerry," said Thorsten Heins, CEO of BlackBerry, in front of an audience of journalists and analysts in New York. The company used the event to reveal its name change from RIM.
He said: "Our customers use the BlackBerry, our employees work for BlackBerry, and our shareholders are owners of BlackBerry. From today on, we are BlackBerry everywhere in the world.
"Two years ago, we had to make a very serious decision: adopt somebody else's platform or build a whole new one," he said. "And we made the tough call to go it alone."
BlackBerry based the new operating system on QNX, a real-time OS that it acquired in 2010.
At the heart of the new platform is the BlackBerry Hub, a message centre that brings together email, Twitter and Facebook messages, BlackBerry messaging, and just about any other means of communication. The hub is accessible from anywhere within the phone with a rightward swipe of a finger.
It goes beyond a notification center or icons by providing direct access to incoming messages without launching external applications. And users can also respond to messages from within the hub. It's intended as a time-saver and serves as proof that RIM continues to see fast and efficient messaging as a key concern of its target users.
BlackBerry's core messaging platform, BBM, is also getting an upgrade with the addition of video chat. The same system also makes screen sharing possible, in which one BlackBerry user can share their screen with another user via a BBM session.
And in a nod to corporate users, RIM's most stalwart customers, there's BlackBerry Balance. It divides the phone into personal and work sides, with a company able to set policies and maintain security on the work side of the phone, but allowing the user freedom on the personal side. A virtual firewall between the two sides means confidential corporate data can't be copied or shared to the personal side.
Underpinning the new platform will be around 70,000 applications - what BlackBerry says is the largest launch lineup of any smartphone platform. The number is largely thanks to incentives offered to application developers to port their software to the BlackBerry 10.
RIM revolutionised mobile messaging with its BlackBerry handsets and is hoping it can regain some of that momentum with today's launch.
The launch handset lineup will consist of two phones: the BlackBerry Z10 and the Q10. The Z10 is a touchscreen handset and the Q10 features the familiar BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard.
On the Z10, users will type on a virtual keyboard that features an innovative interface. As words are spelled out, the system predicts likely words and they appear above keys on the keyboard. Users can select words with a flicking motion that sends them toward the text being typed. Because the predicted words appear above keys, users don't have to move their thumbs to a separate area of the keyboard and can type more quickly.
The Z10 will launch first in the UK, where it will go on sale tomorrow through EE, O2, Vodafone and other carriers. It will launch on February 5 in Canada and in March in the US through AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.
Many countries won't see the phones quite so soon. BlackBerry said it plans to complete testing with 110 carriers around the world in February ahead of local launches.
Launch details for the Q10 were not immediately announced.


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Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan, officially Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakh Qazaqstan Respublikasï, country of Central Asia. It is bounded on the northwest and north by Russia, on the east by China, and on the south by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, and Turkmenistan; the Caspian Sea bounds Kazakhstan to the southwest. Kazakhstan is the largest country in Central Asia and the ninth largest in the world. Between its most distant points, Kazakhstan measures about 1,820 miles (2,930 kilometres) east to west and 960 miles north to south. While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet Union to be a part of Central Asia, it does have physical and cultural geographic characteristics similar to those of the other Central Asian countries. The capital is Nursultan (formerly Astana, Aqmola, and Tselinograd), in the north-central part of the country. Kazakhstan, formerly a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R., declared independence on December 16, 1991.
Kazakhstan's great mineral resources and arable lands have long aroused the envy of outsiders, and the resulting exploitation has generated environmental and political problems. The forced settlement of the nomadic Kazakhs in the Soviet period, combined with large-scale Slavic in-migration, strikingly altered the Kazakh way of life and led to considerable settlement and urbanization in Kazakhstan. The Kazakhs' traditional customs uneasily coexist alongside incursions of the modern world.
Lowlands make up one-third of Kazakhstan's huge expanse, hilly plateaus and plains account for nearly half, and low mountainous regions about one-fifth. Kazakhstan's highest point, Mount Khan-Tengri (Han-t'eng-ko-li Peak) at 22,949 feet (6,995 metres), in the Tien Shan range on the border between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China, contrasts with the flat or rolling terrain of most of the republic. The western and southwestern parts of the republic are dominated by the low-lying Caspian Depression, which at its lowest point lies some 95 feet below sea level. South of the Caspian Depression are the Ustyurt Plateau and the Tupqaraghan (formerly Mangyshlak) Peninsula jutting into the Caspian Sea. Vast amounts of sand form the Greater Barsuki and Aral Karakum deserts near the Aral Sea, the broad Betpaqdala Desert of the interior, and the Muyunkum and Kyzylkum deserts in the south. Most of these desert regions support slight vegetative cover fed by subterranean groundwater.
Depressions filled by salt lakes whose water has largely evaporated dot the undulating uplands of central Kazakhstan. In the north the mountains reach about 5,000 feet, and there are similar high areas among the Ulutau Mountains in the west and the Chingiz-Tau Range in the east. In the east and southeast, massifs (enormous blocks of crystalline rock) are furrowed by valleys. The Altai mountain complex to the east sends three ridges into the republic, and, farther south, the Tarbagatay Range is an offshoot of the Naryn-Kolbin complex. Another range, the Dzungarian Alatau, penetrates the country to the south of the depression containing Lake Balkhash. The Tien Shan peaks rise along the southern frontier with Kyrgyzstan.
Kazakhstan's east and southeast possess extensive watercourses: most of the country's 7,000 streams form part of the inland drainage systems of the Aral and Caspian seas and Lakes Balkhash and Tengiz. The major exceptions are the great Irtysh, Ishim (Esil), and Tobol rivers, which run northwest from the highlands in the southeast and, crossing Russia, ultimately drain into Arctic waters. In the west the major stream, the Ural (Kazakh: Zhayyq) River, flows into the Caspian Sea. In the south the waters of the once-mighty Syr Darya have, since the late 1970s, scarcely reached the Aral Sea at all.
The torrent of the Irtysh River pours some 988 billion cubic feet (28 billion cubic metres) of water annually into the vast West Siberian catchment area. In the late 1970s Soviet authorities developed extensive plans to tap the Irtysh River for use in irrigating the arid expanses of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, but the scheme was killed in 1986 because of the large investment required and concern for the project's possible adverse ecological consequences. This left southern and western Kazakhstan, as before, greatly in need of additional water resources. Kazakhstan also suffers from the disastrous depletion and the contamination (by pesticides and chemical fertilizers) of the Syr Darya flow, on which the republic depends greatly for crop irrigation.
The Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water in the world, forms Kazakhstan's border for 1,450 miles of its coastline. Other large bodies of water, all in the eastern half of the country, include Lakes Balkhash, Zaysan, Alaköl, Tengiz, and Seletytengiz (Siletiteniz). Kazakhstan also wraps around the entire northern half of the shrinking Aral Sea, which underwent terrible decline during the second half of the 20th century: as freshwater inflow was diverted for agriculture, the salinity of the sea increased sharply, and the receding shores became the source of salty dust and polluted deposits that ruined the surrounding lands for animal, plant, or human use.
Kazakhstan's climate is sharply continental, and hot summers alternate with equally extreme winters, especially in the plains and valleys. Temperatures fluctuate widely, with great variations between subregions. Average January temperatures in northern and central regions range from −2 to 3 °F (−19 to −16 °C); in the south, temperatures are milder, ranging from 23 to 29 °F (−5 to −1.4 °C). Average July temperatures in the north reach 68 °F (20 °C), but in the south they rise to 84 °F (29 °C). Temperature extremes of −49 °F (−45 °C) and 113 °F (45 °C) have been recorded. Light precipitation falls, ranging from 8 to 12 inches (200 to 300 millimetres) annually in the northern and central regions to 16 or 20 inches in the southern mountain valleys.
Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the more infertile, alkaline soils of the middle and southern areas. The vast stretches of arable land in the northern plains are the most intensely cultivated and productive. Other cultivated areas fringe the mountains in the south and east; irrigation and reclamation, when feasible, extend along river valleys into the deserts. Nuclear bomb testing conducted during the Soviet period near Semey (Semipalatinsk) contaminated the soils in the vicinity.
Plant and animal life
The vegetation on plains and deserts includes wormwood and tamarisk, with feather grass on drier plains. Kazakhstan has very little wooded area, amounting to only about 3 percent of the territory. Many animals, including antelope and elk, inhabit the plains. The wolf, bear, and snow leopard, as well as the commercially important ermine and sable, are found in the hills. Fishermen take sturgeon, herring, and roach from the Caspian Sea. In parts of northeastern and southwestern Kazakhstan, where commercial fishing collapsed as a result of industrial and agricultural pollution, efforts to revive fish populations have shown some success. In 2008 Kazakhstan's Naurzum and Korgalzhyn state nature reserves were named a UNESCO World Heritage site; both are important habitats for migrating birds, as well as for many other animal species.
Settlement patterns
Just over half the population is considered urban, while just under half the population remains rural. The extremely wide dispersion of population in Kazakhstan is reflected in the large number of small settlements. In the late 1980s fewer than 100 settlements fell into the category of city or town and fewer than 300 were worker settlements, while well over 2,000 were auïls (small farm villages).
Kazakhstan's distinct regional patterns of settlement depend in part on its varied ethnic makeup. Slavs—Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians—largely populate the northern plains, where they congregate in large villages that originally served as the centres of collective and state farms. These populated oases are separated by wheat fields or, in the more arid plains to the south, by semideserts and deserts where sheep breeders live in temporary quarters, usually yurts (round tents with sturdy pole frames covered by heavy felt).
Kazakh nomads formerly obtained their schooling and manufactured goods from Russian towns such as Troitsk, Orenburg, and Omsk, or, in the south, from the ancient cities of Transoxania, the Fergana Valley, and eastern Turkistan. After the Russian conquest established military governors and administrators in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Uralsk (Oral), Yaik, and elsewhere, Kazakhstan began in the 19th century to develop its own cities. Qaraghandy (Karaganda), Öskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and Rūdnyy (Rudny), which are typical Soviet planned towns, have straight, wide streets and multistoried buildings and accommodate industry around their fringes.
Ethnic groups
Fewer than one-fifth of the more than eight million ethnic Kazakhs live outside Kazakhstan, mainly in Uzbekistan and Russia. During the 19th century about 400,000 Russians flooded into Kazakhstan, and these were supplemented by about 1,000,000 Slavs, Germans, Jews, and others who immigrated to the region during the first third of the 20th century. The immigrants crowded Kazakhs off the best pastures and watered lands, rendering many tribes destitute. Another large influx of Slavs occurred from 1954 to 1956 as a result of the Virgin and Idle Lands project, initiated by the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, himself a Slav. This project drew thousands of Russians and Ukrainians into the rich agricultural lands of northern Kazakhstan. By 1989, however, Kazakhs slightly outnumbered Russians.
In the early years of independence, significant numbers of ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan emigrated to Russia. This emigration, along with a return to the country of ethnic Kazakhs, changed the demographic makeup of Kazakhstan: by the mid-1990s the Kazakh proportion was approaching half the total population, while that for the Russians was closer to one-third.
The trend persisted into the 21st century, as the Kazakh population neared two-thirds of the country's total population while the Russian community represented just over one-fifth. Other ethnic groups in Kazakhstan include Uzbeks, Uighurs, and Tajiks, along with Ukrainians, Germans, Tatars, and Koreans.
The urban areas of Kazakhstan are still home to more Slavs than Kazakhs. Kazakhs constitute about half the inhabitants of Almaty, the country's largest city and, until 1997, its capital. About three-fifths of Kazakh families live in rural areas. Urbanization in Kazakhstan involves much more immigration of foreigners than movement of Kazakhs from the countryside into the cities.
Kazakhs speak a Turkic language of the Northwest or Kipchak (Qipchaq) group. Russian, an official language, functions widely alongside Kazakh, which is the state language. Russian is the most widely understood language in the country.
The Kazakhs are a nominally Muslim people. During much of their long nomadic period, the Kazakhs' adherence to Islam remained informal and permissive. When they moved into settlements or sent their children to towns such as Sterlitamak or Bukhara for an education, that situation changed. There, young Kazakhs entered Muslim maktabs and madrasahs, where religion supplied the main subjects and ideology. Thus, the younger generation of intellectuals turned into urban-style Muslims before the Soviet communists took over in the early 1920s. Thereafter, the authorities actively suppressed or discouraged religious life in Kazakhstan until the U.S.S.R. disintegrated. Since independence, Kazakhs generally have enjoyed freedom of religion. About one-fourth of the population is Eastern Orthodox.
Demographic trends
The population of Kazakhstan is young. About half the population is under 30, and one-fourth is under the age of 15. The birth rate is marginally below the global average, while the death rate is slightly higher than average. Life expectancy for men is 66 years, though life expectancy for women is much higher at 76.
Kazakhstan possesses abundant natural resources. Its major exports include agricultural products, raw materials, chemical products, and manufactured goods. Privatization of state-owned industries was undertaken during the 1990s. In 1994 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan formed an economic union, later joined in 1998 by Tajikistan, that enabled free movement of labour and capital among the countries and established coordinated economic policies. The union gradually gave way to what became the Eurasian Economic Union, consisting of Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan.
Among the most important minerals are copper in the central areas and in Aqtöbe (Aktyubinsk) province; lead, zinc, and silver in the Rūdnyy Altai area and the Dzungarian Alatau and Qarataū (Karatau) spurs; tungsten and tin in the Kolbin Ridge and southern Altai; chromite, nickel, and cobalt in the Mugozhar Hills; titanium, manganese, and antimony in the central regions; vanadium in the south; and gold in the north and east. Processing facilities at Aqtaū produce large quantities of uranium mined in the Mangghyshlaq area. Much iron ore comes from Qaraghandy and Qostanay (Kustanay), and coal from the Qaraghandy, Torghay (Turgay), Ekibastuz, and Maykuben basins. In 1993 Kazakhstan finalized a contract with the Chevron Corporation to exploit the reserves of the Tengiz oil field, one of the world's largest. In the mid-1990s agreements also were sought with foreign investors for the development of oil and natural gas from the Tengiz, Zhusan, Temir, and Kasashyganak wells. The profitability of such ventures rested principally on the establishment of new pipelines.
Farming occupies some one-fifth of the labour force, largely the Kazakh portion plus the Slavic wheat farmers of northern Kazakhstan. Kazakhs raise sheep, goats, cattle, and swine. The country produces cereal crops, potatoes, vegetables, melons and other fruits, sugar beets, and rice, as well as fodder and industrial crops. Nuclear contamination of soils near Semey—the result of Soviet weapons testing—has hindered agricultural development in the northeast.
Industry constitutes a prominent sector of the Kazakh economy, but it employs fewer than one-tenth of the indigenous Kazakhs. Manufacturing industries employing primarily Russian and Ukrainian workers produce cast iron, rolled steel, cement, chemical fertilizer, and consumer goods. Plants in Temirtaū and Qaraghandy produce steel. The country, with its nonferrous metallurgy concentrated in the east, is a major lead and copper producer. Kazakhstan's fuel production has increased with the extraction of coal from the Qaraghandy and Ekibastuz basins.
Meatpacking plants operate in many areas, but creameries exist chiefly in areas settled by Slavs in the north and east. Sugar refineries are located in the south in the Taldyqorghan (Taldy-Kurgan) and Almaty areas. Fruit and vegetable canning, grain milling, brewing, and wine making are among the light industries. Synthetic fibres come from a factory at Qaraghandy and pharmaceuticals from a plant in Shymkent (Chimkent).
Kazakhstan's main export commodities include oil and natural gas, various metals, and chemicals. Its primary export destinations are Italy, China, the Netherlands, and Russia. Imports include machinery, metal and chemical products, and foodstuffs. Russia and China are its main sources of imports.
Railways carry most of the freight going long distances. The Trans-Siberian, South Siberian, and Kazakh (formerly Turkistan-Siberian) trunk lines cross Kazakhstan east to west, and the Orenburg line extends as far as Tashkent in the south. Air transport carries the bulk of passenger traffic, both domestic and regional. The international airport at Almaty offers service to Frankfurt (Germany), Istanbul, and other cities. The republic has an extensive network of oil pipelines between Atyraū and Orsk and Shymkent and Tashkent, as well as the Uzen-Zhetibay-Aqtaū pipeline from the west.Edward Allworth
Administration and social conditions
Kazakhstan's first postindependence constitution was adopted in 1993, replacing the Soviet-era constitution that had been in force since 1978; a new constitution was approved in 1995. The 1995 constitution provided for legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government dominated by a strong executive. Amendments to this constitution in 2017 reduced executive authority and granted the legislature additional checks on executive power.
Kazakhstan is a unitary republic with a bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and an Assembly (Mazhilis). Working jointly, the two chambers have the authority to amend the constitution, approve the budget, ratify treaties, and declare war; each chamber also has exclusive powers. Legislators serve four-year terms. Two members of the Senate are elected from each oblast and major city by all legislative members of that administrative unit, with the exception of several appointed by the president. Ninety-eight members of the Assembly are elected from population-based constituencies by universal adult suffrage; nine members are elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, a president-appointed body intended to represent the interests of the several ethnic groups in Kazakhstan.
The president is the head of state and is directly elected for a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms. The president appoints the prime minister and other ministers of the cabinet, as well as the chairperson of the National Security Committee, most of whom are then confirmed by the legislature; the foreign minister, minister of defense, and minister of internal affairs are appointed without requiring legislative consent. The president serves as commander in chief of the armed forces and is responsible for the country's foreign relations.
The highest judicial body is the Supreme Court, and there also are a number of lower courts; a Constitutional Council, the members of which are appointed by the president and legislature, reviews constitutional questions. Judges serve life terms and are appointed by the president, with those of the Supreme Court also subject to confirmation by the legislature.
The constitution specifies a number of rights of the citizens of Kazakhstan, including freedom of speech, religion, and movement. Citizens have the right to work, to own property, and to form trade unions. Despite the democratic language in the constitutions of 1993 and 1995, in the early years of independence Kazakhstan became increasingly authoritarian. The country's first parliamentary elections (1994) were declared illegal by what was then the Constitutional Court. This precipitated the drafting of the 1995 constitution, which expanded the already substantial powers granted to the president by the 1993 constitution. In 2017 a set of amendments reduced the role of the presidency and granted greater authority to the parliament.Edward Allworth The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Armed forces
Kazakhstan possesses a small army, air force, and navy. In 1995 it agreed to partially unite its military with that of Russia, establishing a joint command for training and planning and for border patrols. During the Soviet period, a vast nuclear arsenal was stationed in Kazakh territory. Kazakhstan ratified the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1993, however, and by 1995 it had dismantled or returned to Russia all of its inherited warheads.
Kazakhstan moved to profoundly influence the future course of education in 1989 when it declared Kazakh the official language of the republic, though in the 1995 constitution Russian was also officially acknowledged. Prior to independence, Russian generally served as the language of government and of education in the Kazakh S.S.R. Many younger Kazakhs, educated entirely in Russian, scarcely knew the traditional language of their people. The shift to the Kazakh language affected classroom instruction, textbooks, newspapers, and such media as television and cinema, all of which contribute to public education. The process of conversion to Kazakh-oriented communication began immediately and greatly affected the educational system. Few Russians speak and write Kazakh well. Implicit in the change has been the necessity for teachers to have a fluent knowledge of Kazakh, a requirement that tends to remove Slavic personnel from the elementary and secondary classrooms for Kazakh children. In addition, the number of schools dedicated to education in Kazakh has increased, while the number of Russian-language schools has declined. Nevertheless, Russian remains widely in use.
A major reorganization of the curricula and redesign of textbooks began in the years after 1989. The study of Kazakh history, literature, and culture, long slighted in general education, now receives appropriate attention in school curricula. The institutes in the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (founded 1946) focus their research on subjects important to Kazakhstan, in science as well as in the humanities. The renunciation of Marxist-Leninist ideology in Kazakhstan has freed scholars from the restrictions that hampered their research and interpretation of findings. Many serious works long proscribed by communist censors have appeared in print for the first time or after many years of being out of print.
In addition to the Academy of Sciences, higher educational institutions include the Kazakh al-Farabi State National University, Qaraghandy State University, and a number of polytechnical, agricultural, veterinary, and other facilities in Almaty. Medical and teachers' institutes function in Qaraghandy, and different institutions can be found at other regional centres. A network of vocational schools offers specialized secondary and technical training.
Health and welfare
Housing, medical care, and other services are inadequate, despite large outlays by municipalities and the republic to keep up with the expanding population. Housing and other shortages exacerbate ethnic tension between Kazakhs, Russians, Uighurs, and other city dwellers, tensions that equitable distribution can partly alleviate.
Rates of infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, though lower than in other Central Asian republics, are far higher in Kazakhstan than in Western countries because of an unbalanced diet, environmental pollution, and inadequate prenatal care. Life expectancy is low compared with the West. Although sanatoriums and hospitals exist in many locations, they dispense a level of medical care far below that considered standard in the West.
Public health suffers greatly in heavily industrialized areas, such as Qaraghandy province, because Soviet authorities never seriously made environmental protection a high priority. In the vicinity of the Aral Sea, and especially in Qyzylorda (Kzyl-Orda) and Aqtöbe provinces, Kazakhs suffer from the pollution and salinization of the sea. Its waters are contaminated with pesticides, especially DDT, and with chemical fertilizer fed into it by various rivers. The contraction of the Aral Sea has left a toxic dust in the newly formed salt flats, leading to respiratory disorders and other health problems. In Qyzylorda province the toxic emissions from rocket launches and related activities in the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam introduced additional industrial pollution into the area. But the most serious general health problems in Kazakhstan arise from the widespread radiation poisoning of the soil, food products, and water sources of eastern Kazakhstan, especially Semey province, where the Soviet military command for decades exposed almost one million people to nuclear weapons testing. Birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses related to radiation poisoning occur with unusual frequency among people in the region. These severe health hazards led the cultural and medical intelligentsia of Kazakhstan to organize mass demonstrations to protest the continued poisoning of Kazakhstan by nuclear testing and development in adjacent sites in Lop Nor in northwestern China after Soviet nuclear tests in eastern Kazakhstan had ceased.
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As President Barack Obama is considering offering refugee status to thousands of Honduran child migrants, photographer Ross McDonnell travelled to the Central American country on assignment for TIME to document the growing humanitarian crisis that has forced thousands of people to seek a better life in the U.S.
"To try to understand life in Honduras is to begin to understand the vast exodus from that country and the population's strong desire to migrate North," McDonnell tells TIME. This exodus is not only fed by a desire to find refuge with family members who successfully made it to the U.S., but also by a desire "to escape poverty, unemployment and the effects of lawlessness that pervades in Honduras," the Irish photographer adds. "It is the desire for a better life."
McDonnell visited Honduras' second largest city, San Pedro Sula, also known as the "Murder Capital of the World". "San Pedro Sula and other parts of the country are seemingly locked in a downward spiral, driven by an impunity towards violent crime and a culture where human life has ceased to be valued," McDonnell explains. "The blame for this level of violence is laid at the feet of two warring groups of 'Maras', the Mara Salvatrucha and the M18, both gangs that began life among Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles, California and have now come to dominate swathes of Central American barrios."
While McDonnell encountered Honduran immigrants who had lived a tranquil life and were just "following the well-trodden path North," others spoke of unimaginable heartbreaks -- "victims of relentless extortion, individuals forced from their homes by gangs, lives touched by crimes that would make national news were they to happen in our comfortable suburbs," he tells TIME. "One young man I met had been robbed at gunpoint on his way to the bus station as he was leaving the country."
For many Hondurans, the prospect of gaining refugee status in the U.S. is the only solution to a growing humanitarian crisis. "The $3.7 billion aid package that has been [proposed by President Obama] is often met with skepticism by those Hondurans who have made up their minds to flee their homeland. It is money that they will never see themselves… The only thing giving Hondurans hope just now is the chance of immigration papers and the prospect of a new life in the U.S."
Ross McDonnell is is a photographer and filmmaker born in Dublin. LightBox has previously featured McDonnell's work on the Ukrainian protests, the 'Auto Defensa' anti-criminal uprisings in Mexico, Irish public housing projects and Enrique Metinides.
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Occupation: Model, dancer, actress, bartender….I should just say hustla!
Current crush: My shower head.
Stats: Huh?
Heroes: My mommy and daddy.
Gets me hot: Witty banter, food and CSI.
Favorite position: I want to invent it.
Fantasy: I think I'm to realistic to have one…how sad.
Most humbling moment: Falling at a Go-go competition…whatever, I still won!
I lost my virginity: At 17 to my high school sweetheart… how cliche.
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Sure, we want our kids and grandkids to go to college. But not every family, including mine, has been able to save enough to cover four years' worth of tuition expenses. Consider this: In the next five years, college costs at a public institution are likely to be $99,125 for four years, and $203,114 at a private institution. Who can afford this?
It's no wonder, then, that many of us parents are doing the worst thing we could be doing: tapping into our retirement savings plan or taking a loan against it to pay for our kids' higher education. And that trend is only getting worse. Three in four parents with teens at home say they plan to use their retirement nest egg to help pay for their kids' college costs in the next few years, according to a recent survey of some 1,600 people by Sallie Mae, a financial services company specializing in higher education loans.
That's a risky prospect. Financial planners often warn parents against tapping their retirement savings to pay for college because the possibility of running out of money in retirement carries more dire consequences than for students who rack up student loans. To put it another way, if you can't cover your living expenses in retirement, you may wind up looking to your children for support. And if they can't help you financially, then what happens?
Some families are heeding experts' warnings. Of those who aren't saving for college, 47 percent say they're socking money away in an emergency fund and 42 percent are putting their savings into a retirement plan.
Click here to use AARP's retirement calculator and here for our college savings calculator.
The effects of the prolonged economic recovery no doubt put a damper on our ability to save. Families saving for college stashed away an average of $11,781 in 2013, nearly half the $21,615 they saved in 2010, the survey found.
On the flip side, nearly one in 10 families say they're expecting to pay the full cost of college from their savings for their kids.
Here's a breakdown of how the rest of us anticipate paying for college:
- 32 percent of the cost will come from grants and scholarships.
- 32 percent will come from parent income and savings.
- 16 percent will be from student borrowing.
- 8 percent will come from student income and savings.
- 7 percent will come from parent borrowing.
- 5 percent will be from relatives and friends.
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- Tap online benefits calculators to see what your monthly retirement income might look before making decisions about education expenses.
- Talk to college funding experts to identify perhaps lesser-known avenues to pay tuition.
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The brown d:Screet Necklace Microphone 47cm Length and TA4F Hardwire Connector for Shure Wireless Transmitters from DPA Microphones is for capturing audio. It is used in various audio applications where convenient mounting and consistent output are required to capture performances such as in stage plays, reality TV show settings and more. It features a 4061 miniature omnidirectional condenser microphone capsule and has a frequency range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz. The microphone is built with a soft rubber necklace offering fast, repeatable and do-it-yourself mounting.
The necklace microphone is built with a 3.6' cable that terminates in a MicroDot connector. This mic includes a high boost protection grid to allow you to acoustically modify the microphones response. There is an optional soft boost grid that can be purchased separately. The response will vary according to the placement of each grid. The 4061 omnidirectional miniature microphone capsule has a low noise floor and can handle high SPLs. A high boost protection grid and durable cardboard carry box are included.
|Directional Characteristics: Omni-directional
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Typical: 38 dB
Maximum: 40 dB
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|Peak Before Clipping: 144 dB
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Directions: Use 1-2 Tbsp for a regular load in a top loader and half that for a front loader.
Sample-1 oz (4 loads*) $2 ; Small -8oz (35 loads*) $3.75 ; Regular-1 lb (70 loads*) $6.50 ; Large- 2 lbs (140 loads*) $12
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Pail Deodorizing Powder
This powder help keep your diaper bag smelling fresh and when added to the wash with your diapers will aid in cleaning and freshening. Choose from any essential oil or fragrance below.
Sample-1 oz $1.75 ; Small 8oz $3.50 ; Regular - 1lb $6 $ ; Large 2lbs $11
100% Pure Lanolin (Solid) Balm - 1oz-$3; 2oz-$5
This lanolin balm is perfect for lanolizing all your woolies, as a 100% natural nipple balm or as extra protection for baby behinds.
Choose any fragrance below (we recommend unscented for use as nipple cream or bottom balm.
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Tea Tree Oil
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Fragrance Oils
Abercrombie & Fitch - (A&F Type) A youthful, sporty cologne type with a citusy grapefruity-apple and rum top-note, a lavendaceous sage and jasmine middle-note and a mossy, vetiver and sandalwood base-note
Almond Cherry - (Jergens Type)
Amazingly Grace - feminine fragrance! Italian bergamot & sparkling lemon are sweetened with citron and neroli. A white floral jasmine, orange blossom and rose are blended with sheer musk and cedarwood
Ambrosia - Tropical fruit and honey notes
Baby Powder -A fresh balsamic floral type with top notes of bergamot and almond, middle notes of jasmine, rose-geranium and sweet heliotrope, and a sweet musky, woody vanilla base note
Baby Bee Buttermilk - (Burt's Bee Type) cocktail of luscious fruits such as peaches, mandarin oranges, coconut pulp, bergamot, grapefruit, tropical guava, and tangy lemons
Basil Sage Mint - A refreshing blast of unique herbal fusion!
Bird Of Paradise - A calming tropical blend of sweet strawberries, juicy pomegranate, creamy vanilla, and coconut milk with hints of rose petals and soft jasmine
Black Raspberry and Vanilla - blend of blackberries and raspberries, with middle notes of white floral greenery, and bottom notes of musk and vanilla
Butt Naked - medley of granny smith apples and honeydew melon, middle notes of strawberries and pears, with hints of spice
Caribbean - blend of coconut, fresh sliced pineapple, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Chanel #5 - A characteristic elegant Chanel #5 type with rich aldehydic orange blossom top notes, a floral rosy, violet, ylan middle note and rich sandalwood, musky, amber-vanilla base note
Clean Cotton - (Yankee Type)A fresh clean cotton blossom type remeniscent of breeze-dried linens, with a subtle citrus top-note, a sweet floral apple-blossom, geranium middle-note and a soft amber, jasmine musk base-note
Citrus Splash - grapefruit, tangerine, kumquat and strawberry surrounded by sweet apple blossoms
Coconut Bay - (Yankee Type) Intoxicating scent of wind-swept palms and coconut milk
Coconut Lime - The ultimate summer scent!
Comfort & Joy - A minty, spicy chocolate type with a minty blend of spearmint and peppemint leaf top-note, a spicy cinnamon bark middle-note and a creamy-chocolate/vanilla and woody musk base-note.
Cool Water - A clean fresh transparent, ozone marine type with top notes of bergamot, lemon, fir and juniperberry followed by a ginger-rose and sage heart-note and a woody, sandalwood-musky base note
Cucumber Melon - A sweet honeydew, cucumber melon type with top notes of crisp green cucumber, middle notes of vine ripened melon and sweet base notes of casava blossoms and earthy musk
Hawaiian Ginger
Island Spa - (Yankee type) Enjoy a revitalizing escape with the sunny citrus aromas of crisp, juicy mandarins and vibrant lemon verbena
Jamaica Me Crazy - A refreshing blend of banana liquer and tempting tropical fruits with a twist of citrus and a hint of coconut
Juniper Breeze - A mild green, floral, tropical-fruity fragrance having a fresh, fruity-citrus top note, a middle note bouquet comprised of jasmine, cyclamen, and fresh juniper, with a spicy musky-woody base note
Lemon Pound Cake - Rich sweet cake with lemon zest notes
Lick Me All Over - base notes of raspberry, cantaloupe, and watermelon, middle notes of jasmine and violet, and fresh top notes of grapefruit and kumquat
Lime Basil - burst of Persian Lime, grapefruit and sweet mango. Notes of basil, leafy greens & black currant give a natural appeal, while nutmeg, clove and cinnamon add warmth & spirit. The base note is a long lasting vanilla
Monkey Fruit AKA Monkey Farts - top notes of fresh bananas and juicy grapefruit, middle notes of kiwi, juicy bubblegum, and strawberries; and a hint of vanilla as a base note
Oatmeal Milk and Honey - fresh aroma of hawthorne, with nuances of creamy French vanilla, soy milk and a base note of nutty almond
Orange Sherbert - very crisp, clean mandarin orange aroma with very faint hints of vanilla
Passionate Kisses - (VS Type) A warm fruity raspberry-chocolate type with a vine fresh berry top note, a floral orange flower middle note and sweet cocoa vanilla white musk dry out
Pearberry - A fresh sweet-green pear fragrance with nuances of ripe-raspberry, cranberries, and a touch of pineapple for tartness. The scent is supported by floral pear blossom middle notes and a soft white musky woody-twig base note
Pina Colada - Pineapple & Coconut w/ hint of rum
Pink Sugar - fruity blend of cotton candy, lemon drops, caramel and raspberry jam on a dry down of musks
Plumeria - An exotic tropical sweet fruity floral type with a cala-lily, freesia top note, a warm night blooming jasmine-tuberose body and a woody white-musky base note
Sandalwood Vanilla (WB Type)
Satin Sheets - A clean sensual rosy floral type with a nuance of lemon a fresh rosy body and a sweet chocolate, musky base note
Sensual - A subtle floral herbaceous type with top-notes of orange, lime and lavender, middle-notes of jasmin, rose and ylang, and a sandalwood/cedar base-note
Storm Watch - (Yankee Type) The floral bouquet of rose, cyclamen, jasmine and carnation with backgrounds of apples, cedar and oakmoss
Sun & Sand - (Yankee Type) A fresh-floral tropical breeze type reminiscent of summers at the beach with top notes of lemon, lime and rose middle notes of tuberose and violet, and a soft muguet, sandalwood dry-out
Sweet Pea - (BBW Type) A green spring-fresh bouquet with a top note reminiscent of watery-green-leaves, lily of the valley, and summer melon and apple. The middle note is a floral medley of jasmine and rose with zesty blend of orange and lemon oils and a base note of white musk and vetiver
Sweet Pea & Cream- spring blend that has hints of juicy peaches and fresh greenery, musk and sandalwood with dominate tones of tea roses and sweet peas.... balanced & softened with hints of creamy vanilla
Tranquility - A citrusy, light floral, lily of the valley type, with a green, orange top-note, middle-notes of jasmin, rose, ylang and lily, with a woody cedarwood and white musk base-note
Tuberose - A sultry and intoxicating fragrance. The exotic scent of this aphrodisiac flower has notes of sandalwood and tree moss
Vanilla & Fresh Berries - A creamy blend of sweet berries and vanilla
Vanilla Lavender - combination of fresh lavender, fresh vanilla beans, with orange zests and patchouli
(Dont see what fragrance you are looking for? PM me and I can get it!)
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This past summer I found a couple of wonderful pieces of Crystal at Goodwill, and since then my collection has really grown. All of these pieces were found at the same GW. It must have been someone else's collection and it all wound up being donated. I love it, so as each piece made it's way to the counters, I grabbed them. They were all under $10, that is soooooooooo cheap for real crystal.
I think it is all so pretty when it is grouped together. Love all the sparkle.
The crystal pitcher with the beautiful pewter spout and the decanter in the back were the only pieces I've had for years. The pitcher belonged to my MIL. The silver and crystal pitcher I found at a Thrift-Resale store for $20, it has an insert for ice to keep the drink cold. Fabulous piece.
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tHe_pEsTiLeNcE wrote:migya wrote:This is one of those cases where stats don't tell the story. Garnett and Duncan are about even but Duncan does what he has to to win. Garnett has had decent teams with Wally and Brandon alongside him, Hudson (had a great first season there) with Wally, Billups (also had a great season there) and Wally and has also had solid role players like LaPhonso Ellis. Duncan has had better teams but not a whole lot better. David Robinson was not much of a superstar after Duncan's first season and Duncan had to make do with players like Avery Johnoson and Jaren Jackson, who were solid at best. Parker and Ginobili have risen now but they are still not great stars
Dude, you're putting guys like laphonso ellis and troy hudson at the same level as michael finley and bruce bowen. Look at the roster the spurs had this year.
G - Tony Parker/Nick the Quick
G - Manu Ginobili/Michael Finley
F - Bowen/Barry
F - Duncan/Horry
C - Mohamed/Nesterovic
Now how does that team not win a ring? I'll tell you how, because Dirk outplays TD. KG is dirk's cryptonite, he does similar things to dirk, but better. TD is not close to the leader KG is. Who gets the ball in the clutch? Not TD usually, it's bob, or even Manu. KG would have willed himself to win those clutch games because he has more desire and guts than anybody in this league save maybe AI and Kobe. He just has never had his backup five look like a starting five.
don't know, dude - as far as end of game, there are about 11 players (at least) more clutch than KG at the end of a game as far as I can see...
Kobe, D Wade, Lebron, Nash, Iverson, Arenas, Ray Ray, Carmelo, regular season Dirk and.....TD


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It's incredibly cold outside. It is the kind of night where you rush home from the office, change into something cozy and park yourself on the couch for some TV and comfort food - the more carbs the better. Before going gluten free, my idea of the perfect meal for tonight would have been a big hunk of crusty bread to dip in a hot bowl of hearty soup. As you may have noticed, traditional gluten free bread is sadly lacking on the crusty and chewy front.
Cornbread is a great alternative and with its hearty quality, it's perfect for dipping but still moist enough to be eaten on its own.
I like a fluffier texture as opposed to the grainy traditional kind, because of this; you'll notice the ratio of flour to cornmeal is higher than other recipes.
1/4 cup butter (room temperature)
3 tablespoons sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup All Purpose Gluten-Free Flour
¼ cup potato starch
2/3 cup yellow cornmeal
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 Strips of bacon (cooked and chopped coarsely)
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 425°F. Combine butter and sugar in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add eggs; mix well. Stir in sour cream and milk. Reduce speed to low; add all remaining ingredients. Beat just until mixed.
Pour batter into greased muffin tins and top generously with bacon and cheddar cheese. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm with butter.
Like it spicy? Finely chop a medium Jalapeno pepper and stir into batter before scooping into the muffin tin.
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quote: Originally posted by oldguyIn addition to answering your questions, I might as well make it a learning experience. In life, it is ALWAYS expensive to hire someone else to carry your risk. So whenever you can afford to self-insure that is better. (Remember insurance companies make a profit - and you are the one who pays them). Eg - when I buy a Disposal or a TV or a Washing Machine, the store always tries to sell an extended warranty (insurance). That's cuz insurance is a high-profit item for the store. But I can afford to self-insure those items - if a wash machine fails, (1 time in 25) I'll buy a new one, I'll take that 1 in 25 risk myself, and save the money.
CPO - So, don't pay an extra $1000 or $2000 for a CPO, pick the car yourself, inspect it, have a shop inspect it if you're unsure, and get a CARFAX report (that tracks accident history)
Extended warranties - Again, risk. Buy a make & model that is known for quality/reliability and self-insure the repairs.
Cosign - no. Definitely don't stick a relative or friend with this. It puts them in a position of feeling bad about turning you down. But most successful people need to turn you down. If you happen to wreck and some people get killed, the lawsuit gets into the millions (more than your insurance covers). The cosign opens the window to the co-owner - so he also is part of the lawsuit. Without a cosign you are what is known as lawsuit-proof, ie you have no money so there is n point to suing you. Besides, you want this car to build YOUR credit, not your co-owner's.
Credit New/Used - A dealer will allow more credit on a new car than on a used car. ('New' has less risk for the dealer, everything is covered by the factory.)
Financing - This may be advance for you, might not make sense at your age. When we buy a new car, I finance the entire thing, I put no down and I even finance the tax/license. And I keep the loan for the full 60 months. Here's the deal - I have several $100,000 in stocks. I could sell $28,000 of stock, use $3000 to pay the capital gains tax on my profit, and buy the car with $25,000.
Instead, I leave that $28,000 in stocks, and I sell the old car privately for maybe $4000 - so there is $32,000 in stocks. My stocks double about every 7 years - so I expect to double that $32k to $64k in about 7 yrs.
'The Millionaire Next Door' - This book written over 15 years ago, it's in every public library. One section explains why most millionaires drive older cars - our newest car has 171,000 miles on it today.
Reliability/Quality - The Japanese design cars to start evry time you turn the key, never need tuning or repairs, just proper maintenance of the 'wear items' - tires, brakes, belts, battery. Euro performance cars - BMW, Merc, Jag, VW, are designed to give super performance, great cornering, but they need lots of tuning and they cost big-bucks to maintain (my DD&SIL have a Jag & a BMW, great fun to drive, not so fun to fix). And Domestic cars are in the middle, fair quality & fair performance.
What kind of car are you looking at? Whatever you get, enjoy it. I've always found that it's important to get a pretty color, a color that you'll like for 10 or 12 years. And that's probably an odd thing for a mechanical engineer to say?
quote: The car I'm after is a mercedes GLK 350. I love german cars and I can finally afford to own one. They can also be reliable but pricey with maintenance.
quote: Originally posted by WinoI'll give you the other side of the coin.
You don't have $25K in an investment, so oldguy's advice does not apply to you. The best way to get $25K in investments is not to spend it. You want a shiny new/used car that you can't afford right now. You should buy a cheap and reliable car (all of oldguy's carfax, warranty, and reliabilty advice is applicable and correct in most respects; there are some reliable American cars as well as Japanese and I don't fit in a Subaru), and save up the money for the Mercedes.
Once you have enough to buy the car outright, you can decide whether to invest it or to use it to purchase the car for cash. Personally, I suggest you buy the car for cash and invest the payments you won't be making.
Oldguy's method is called leveraging, and it basically means you're borrowing money to invest. If the investment goes sour and you need the money - emergencies happen - then you could be faced with bankruptcy or severe financial loss. When the economy goes south and investments tank is also when financial emergencies tend to happen to people. In other words, if things do turn down in the economy, that's the most likely time you're going to need the money. If at the same time you need money for the emergency and the money to pay for the car, you won't have money for both.
The safe and sure way is to have no debt and owe no money, then invest the rest. You have $6500 per month to invest. At 19, if you invest $3000 per month until the age of 49 (30 years), you'll have $4.5 Million at only 8% interest, which is pretty much what you can count on in something like an S&P500 index fund (nothing is guaranteed, but the track record is long and consistent).
So, my suggestion is that you don't buy the car now. You save up for the car and buy it for cash, all the while putting $3K per month into first any company 401K-type fund (for the match), followed by a personal IRA (until you reach the annual maximum), and that followed by taxable mutual funds with low turnover (such as the S&P 500 fund mentioned earlier).
Building credit is only good for getting lower insurance rates in States that allow the insurance companies to use credit scores to determine risk. As zero-credit-score people tend to actually have lower risk, this is unfair. The Congress is thinking about changing this on a federal level by making the credit bureaus take wealth into account for the score.
You don't need credit to get a home loan, and any other borrowing is stupid, especially at your income level. You don't need to borrow money, and you can easily save and buy anything (even a house, if you wait longer). Don't try to keep up with the neighbors. Buy what you need. Buy used. Don't buy stuff you don't need. "Wants" are not "needs."
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quote: Originally posted by littleroc02usMan if I could change anything stupid I did when I was younger is to have never have leased a stupid Dodge RAM 1500, that almost got repossessed after I got laid off from my good paying job. Luckily I had a father who gave me a no interest loan to buy the truck and then I paid it off. That silly mistake set me back with compound interest I could have been accruing. Luckily it made me more wise by making such a huge mistake and I am doing well financially now.
Car fever can get anyone if they don't watch it. We now buy Japanese and good American cars that have around 100k for cash and I immediately put a new timing belt and timing belt in them. We easily get well over 200k miles on them before we sell them. No one ever got rich on buying cars for transportation, they got wealthy by buying used vehicles that are 3-4 years old and driving them into the ground. What that does is frees up cash to invest with. If you took that car payment and put it into a good index fund for 25 years you'd have a million dollars.
quote: the Dodge Ram 1500 is a really nice car espcially for a teenager. I could only imagine how much fun it could have been to own.
quote: I'm now looking at investments and I was looking at ING or Capital One 360. Their saying you get a .19% interest rate and .20% APY. I still don't quite understand how this works and what these two rates mean.
quote: I removed your link that had nothing to do with the topic.
quote: Originally posted by stillthinkingHi,
I've been working for 6 months now at a full time job. I make about $2,500 a week and after taxes, medicare, SS, and retirement savings it comes down to $1,630 per week.


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My addiction to eBay has hit an all time high! Does anyone else get scour the site for random things to buy?
Well I was looking for a compact way of carrying creams and foundation for when I go away on a short break, and found these cute Hello Kitty Contact Lens cases for £4 each including shipping.
Its funny – when you go to Asia, there is a lot of Hello Kitty stuff, but half of it is bootleg, the other half is genuine.
You have to check for a Sanrio label on the back to see if its genuine. The fake items don't usually bother with that. The genuine stuff also costs more – I guess its supposed to.
I've seen some really bad Hello Kitty rip off designs in my time though like:
I'm sure her eyes don't look like that…and….
I'm sure she doesn't have a mouth?
You catch my drift.
I am very particular about my Kitty.
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Some of the new Western ideas about acupuncture are quit radical and may represent the beginnings of a completely new approach. Acupuncture points are now being stimulated by variety of techniques. Both Chinese and European firms has produced small electrical stimulators that allow small amplitude pulsed electrical currents to pass between sets of paired acupuncture needles. In China these electrical machines are used to replace prolonged manual stimulation of acupuncture needle in activities such as acupuncture anaesthesia. In the West electrical stimulation is often used as part of standard acupuncture therapy. The voltage used is small and painless and passed between acupuncture needles that have already been inserted into the skin.
As yet not enough is understood about electrical stimulation to give a clear answer as to exactly how it should be best use. There are also no clear guidelines about the frequency or intensity of electrical current that should be used on patients in any particular condition.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Text messages sent by the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers to Prime Minister David Cameron, published on Sunday, have further revealed their close personal relationship.
Rebekah Brooks, who is awaiting trial on charges related to a phone-hacking scandal that prompted a public inquiry into media ethics, congratulated Cameron a "brilliant" pre-election speech in 2009 that she said had moved her to tears.
"I cried twice. Will love 'working together'," Brooks said in one text message sent months before Cameron's Conservatives formed a coalition government.
Another text, published by the Mail On Sunday newspaper, showed Cameron effusing about a horse ride he had taken with Brooks' husband, underlining his close ties with Murdoch's British operations.
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Cameron, who hired the former editor of Murdoch's now defunct News Of The World tabloid as the party's communications director until he resigned in January last year, has told the inquiry there was no conspiracy deal between the Conservatives and the Murdoch press.
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Aveo Pharmaceutical's Tivozanib, an investigational renal cell carcinoma (RCC) drug, has a date with the FDA's Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC) on May 2, 2013 (morning session). A panel of cancer experts will discuss the efficacy and safety of Tivozanib and then vote for or against approval. In most cases, the FDA follows the recommendation of the ODAC panel.
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Aveo's stock has fallen from a high of around $20 to close to $7.50 as of April 26. The collapse in the stock price began when the FDA expressed 'concern' about the overall survival (OS) data. Aveo has since submitted additional OS data to the FDA.
The concern was that in the TIVO-1 Phase 3 study, Sorafenib (Nexavar) posted an OS of 29.3 months versus Tivozanib's 28.8 months. Close, but maybe no cigar. At first glance, it would appear Tivozanib underperformed the comparator, a second line therapy, already approved for RCC. A deeper dig strongly suggests something else is going on.
Meanwhile, short sellers, sensing blood in the water, have shorted roughly 10% of the outstanding shares in a bet the ODAC will vote against approval. We believe shorts (who borrow and sell shares in hopes of buying them back later at a lower price) are worthy of respect, however, in this case we think they are wrong.
The Tivo-1 study was designed so patients who were on Sorafenib could cross over to Tivozanib at disease progression. For the first 6 months, OS was comparable between the two arms, but then the OS trend line shows a slow separation occurring with Sorafenib outperforming, though not by a statistically significant amount.
But at 6 months, 15% of patients in the Sorafenib arm had already switched to Tivozanib. At 18 months, 53% had switched, and by 26 months 67% were on Tivozanib. So was Sorafenib's OS of 29.3 months mostly a result of the efficacy of Sorafenib or Tivozanib?
If Tivozanib reached OS of 28.8 months with minimal crossover compared to the Sorafenib arm, we believe a strong case can be made that Tivozanib contributed the lion's share of Sorafenib's TIVO-1 OS result.
In the TARGET study, Sorafenib was compared to placebo. The primary endpoint was overall survival. The final median OS for Sorafenib was 17.8 months. A second survival analysis of TARGET performed in November 2005 pushed Sorafenib's OS data up to 19.3 months.
So, if Tivozanib reached OS of 28.8 months versus Sorafenib's 19.3 months, yet they reached overall survival of 29.3 months when combined on crossover, we think we know where the extra months of survival are coming from. We think the ODAC will too.
OS is not even the primary endpoint for FDA approval but we'll dig deeper.
Pfizer's (PFE) Sunitinib (Sutent) and GlaxoSmithKline's Pazopanib (Votrient) are the current standards of care in RCC. In the COMPARZ study, Pazopanib was compared to Sunitinib. OS data came in at 28.4 months for Pazopanib and 29.3 months for Sunitinib.
In a separate phase 3 study Sunitinib reached an OS of 26.4, while Pazopanib, in a different phase 3 study, attained an OS of 22.9 months. These results suggest Tivozanib's 28.8 is as good as the best when it comes to OS.
But progression free survival (PFS) is the primary endpoint for FDA approval. In the TIVO-1 study, in treatment naïve patients, Tivozanib had the highest PFS ever recorded at 12.7 months (in a subgroup with hypertension—a marker of efficacy— PFS was 18.3 months).
Pazopanib's best was 11.1 months in a phase 3 study, and 8.4 months in the COMPARZ study. Sunitinib's best was 11 months in a phase 3 study and 9.5 months in the COMPARZ study. Tivozanib appears to be best in class when it comes to PFS.
That said, in our view, the real superiority of Tivozanib comes not only with its PFS data but with its tolerability and safety. RCC patients on Sunitinib endure a wide range of toxic side effects. In the COMPARZ study, patients reported a preference for Pazopanib over Sunitinib because of a more favorable side effect profile.
In the PISCES study 70% of patients preferred Pazopanib over Sunitinib. Yet, when the ODAC reviewed Pazopanib for approval, the main concern of the panel was for toxicity—specifically liver toxicity. Indeed, the current labeling for Pazopanib contains a box warning regarding episodes of fatal hepatotoxicity.
As the FDA point out in the Pazopanib briefing document "drugs possessing less hepatotoxicity than pazopanib in other settings (non-cancer therapeutic areas) have been withdrawn after being marketed because of fatal hepatic failure."
In the COMPARZ study, 44% of patients on Pazopanib required dose reductions and 24% dose discontinuations due to adverse events. In the TIVO-1 study 12% of patients on Tivozanib required dose reductions and only 4% required dose discontinuation.
When we look at PFS and OS, RCC patients are now living a longer life than a few years ago. But as survival lengthens, the quality of that additional life becomes more relevant. The treatment related adverse event data suggests Tivozanib may offer the best quality of life yet.
For the investor, global RCC pharmaceutical sales are running around $2 billion a year and climbing. They rose 17% from September 2011 to September 2012. In the US, sales grew 33% over the same period. The sales growth drivers include expanded treatment options, price increases (in the US), general population growth, and an increase in RCC incidence.
According to Pfizer's 10K filing with the SEC, Sunitinib (Sutent) had sales of over $1 billion in 2012. Decision Resources, a research and advisory firm, forecasts that Pazopanib will reach annual sales of $640 million by 2018 as it takes market share from Sunitinib.
But we have a different view.
In our opinion, the ODAC, after careful and diligent review of the efficacy and safety data (including the OS data), will vote for approval of Tivozanib. Sometime before July 28, 2013, we expect the FDA to approve Tivozanib for RCC.
Once approved and on the market, we believe Aveo's Tivozanib will become accepted as the new best in class for RCC and over the next five years expect annual sales to ramp to over $500 million as it takes market share from both Sunitinib and Pazopanib. Tivozanib also has potential for use in breast and colon cancer.
Aveo anticipates ending 2013 with around $60 million in cash. That works out to about $1.15 a share. Aveo is also eligible to receive roughly $1.3 billion in potential future milestone payments equal to about $25 a share. $30 million of that (about $.60 a share) is payable upon FDA approval for RCC in the US. Thereafter, up to $780 million in milestone payments are due upon hitting specified sales targets.
A recent article by Adam Feuerstein of The Street.com attempted to lay out a bear case for why Tivozanib will not get a favorable ODAC vote. Meanwhile, ahead of the vote, Aveo and its Tivozanib partner Astellas are busy interviewing sales reps. They will be driving a company supplied Volvo S60.
At a share price near $7, with an extremely close event catalyst, we consider AVEO a bargain. We own AVEO. Our money is firmly where our mouth is.
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The Statements of Membership Obligations form the basis of the IFAC Member Compliance Program. They serve as a framework for credible and high-quality professional accountancy organizations focused on serving the public interest by adopting, or otherwise incorporating, and supporting implementation of international standards and maintaining adequate enforcement mechanisms to ensure the professional behavior of their individual members.
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